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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
SHIPS WHICH COLu|DED
ARE REPORTED AFLOAT
Steamers Takata Maru and Silver
Shell Reported Safe at 4 AM.
Today Of Cape Race.

HALIFAX, N. s., February 2.-The
Japanese steamer Takata Maru and
the steamer Silver Shell, which were
reported to have been in collision zoo
miles southeast of Cape Race last
night, were afoat at o'clock this
morning, at which hour a wireless wa
received at Cape Race, N. F., from the
Takata.
The message addressed to the agent
of the marine and fisheries department
by the Cape Race wireless station
read:
AT 4 am. received wireless Takata
Maru. Reports engine room and stoke
hold flooded Takata Maru also re-
ported that she had been sending out
numerous calls for assistance, and that
the steamer Silver Shell was standing
by The Silver Shell reports all well.
Sailed for New York January 81.
NEW YORK, February 1.-THE Ia
kata Maru sailed from London for New
York January 22 in ballast. She was
owned by the Nippon Shipping Com
pany, which operates fleets off both
the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Accord
ing to local agents of the line, lie
Takata Maru was the last word ll
xteamship construction. She was a
boat of 6,719 tons gross. built year
ago. and was on her second trip q
New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
ENGLAND TO ANSWER us.
WITHIN NEXT TEN DAYS
Note on Blockade Policy to Be Ap-
proved by Other Allied
Powers.

LONDON. February Great Britain's
reply to the American note on the
British blockade is expected within
ten days. The note recently presented
to Ambassador Page by the foreign
office. which explained that a reply to
the American note on the detention of
mails would be delayed while the other
allied powers. especially France, were
being consulted, is equally applicable
to the British note on the blockade
policy. which is now in the hands of
the French government. 1t is not ex-
pected that any noteworthy changes
will be made on this note. as the Brit
ish and French foreign Offices have
been In close touch during its prepara-
ton.
Nothing new has developed in the
mail situation, but representatives of
the owners OF parcel post matter which
has been detained have arrived here to
protect the interests of their clients
No step has yet been taken to throw
these parcels into the prize court, but
owners of the goods in question will
insist, II is understood. that some early
action in this direction be taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
INJUNCTION IS REFUSED
AGAINST 'HACKETT SALE
Justice Anderson Rules That Appl-
cants Are Not Damaged by
Use of the Name.

Frank w Hackett, former assistant
secretary of the navy, and his son,
Chauncey Hackett, today applied to
the District Supreme Court to enjoin
the auction house of c. G. Sloan &
Co. from using the designation the
"Hackett sale" in connection with an
auction of colonial furniture. Persian
rugs. draperies and bric-a -brac Justice
Anderson cited the auctioneers to show
cause at once why the request should
not be granted. Mr.. Chauncey Hackett
appeared as counsel for his father and
himself.
Attorney E. 8. Bailey appeared for
Sloan & Co, and suggested to the court
that the plaintiffs had no monopoly
of the name ''Hackett" as was shown
by the statement of Mr.. Hackett that
there are fifteen persons OF that name
in the city directory.
In refusing the injunction Justice
Anderson pointed out that the sale was
not advertised as the goods of Mr..
Frank W. Hackett or of Mr.. Chauncey
Hackett and that while the use Of the
name may be embarrassing to the
plaintiffs he thought they were need
lessly disturbed" about it.
eff the sale had been advertised as
the Anderson SALE" concluded the
court, II should not give myself any
uneasiness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02

that he committed himself to that extent.
A. Fitzmaurice, the foreign editor of
the Figaro, says: col. House is certainly
not talkative. and does not seem to care
fore useless discourses This short,
slender, unsmiling man is lover Of
silence. He answers by monosyllables,
and I doubt whether he pronounced to any
German journalist a phrase so long as
that attributed to him by the Berliner
Tageblatt.
Col. House has too high an idea of
the confidential mission intrusted to him
by his friend, President Wilson. to take
the trouble to deny such idle talk AS he
has only visited the capitals of the bel
hgerent nations most directly interested
in the questions of blockade and sub
marine warfare, one would not be far
wrong in believing that those questions
form the principal object of his journey
That he did not go to Vienna, and that
he is in a hurry to return to America
may be due to the fact that the Lusitania
situation has been growing more acute"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
THIRTEEN DEAD, 48 INJURED.
Latest Report From Train Wreck at
Station Near Paris.

PARIS. February --latest reports
of the wreck Of the Calais express
yesterday at the ct. Denis railway sta
ton. near Paris. show that the num-
Der Of casualties is larger than at first
reported. Thirteen dead and forty-six
injured have been taken from the
wreckage. 1t is thought there may be
other victims, but the total death list
probably will not exceed sixteen.
Nine OF the dead were women. Among
the injured Is Mile. Ellie Level, a Red
Cross nurse.
A majority Of the passengers was
made up Of soldiers returning to their
homes on leave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
OF PARIS FIND
COL. HOUSE A GREAT MYSTERY;
TERMED "SPHINX IN SOFT HAT''

PARIS. February 1.-The Paris press
comments upon the discretion Of Col. E.
M. House, which is described as being i'm
penetrable and admirable.
The Excelsior publishes an article on
Col. House, and uses, as an illustration
for it, composite photograph of the
colonel and the sphinx. 1t heads the
article: "A Sphinx in Soft Hat"
1t says that the most experienced in
reviewers admit that Mr. Wilson's envoy
has baffied them as they had never before
been baffied. All of them had asked him
to confirm or deny the phrase attributed
to him by the Berliner Tageblatt to the
effect that his love for Germany grows
greater every time he visits it. The
questioners obtained no satisfaction, but
admit that. in view of their own expert
ence, they do not believe for a moment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
WAR OFFICIALLY REPORTED

artillery has assumed great activity
in some sections of the Champagne
and east of st. Die in the Vosges.
The town of Lens was again shelled
by the enemy.
A large French aeropIane was hit nv
our anti-aircraft fire and brought
down southwest of Chauny The oc-
cupants, who were wounded, were
captured.
Eastern theater of war: A strong Rus
san detachment was attacked by a
Wiesielucha. south of Kuchockae
Eola between the Stochod and the
Styr, and was wiped out.
baikan theater OF war: Our airmen no.
tlced great fires in the port of Salon
Xxi, obviously caused by our air
ships attack.
TURKISH STATEMENT.
CONSTANTINOPLE. February 2. VI.
Amsterdam and London:
caucasian front: An enemy battalion
attacking one of our outposts at the
center was repulsed. with a loss of
200 killed and wounded.
FRENCH STATEMENT
PARIS. February 1, via London. F.h-
ruary 2:
In Artois there was rather spirited
artillery engagement south of hill
1ls. North of the road between st.
Nicholas and st. Laurent. northeast
OF Arras, an enemy detachment at
tempted an attack which was check
ed Immediately by grenades.
Our artillery bonn barded enemy posi-
tons on the road to Lille, south of
Thelus. which caused a fire followed
by explosions.
Between the Avre and the Disc our
batteries shelled the German trench
es at beauvraignes and Fresnieres,
as well as covnoys near Lassigny
Effective artillery actions were or
ried out against the hostile works
at Bea ~ re- and the cholera farm,
east of st. Die, in the region of The
Fave river VI 'he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
GERMAN STATEMENT.
FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.
Mrs. Craigie Says More Attention
Should Be Paid to It in u, S,

More attention should be paid to vo-
cational education in this country. ac-
cording to Mrs. Charles OHara Craigie
in an address before the Excelsior Lit
erary Club at meeting yesterday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. c. N
Chapman, sos 9Th street southwest. Mrs.
Craigie told of the work in vocational
training being done in other countries.
Frank A. Woodward, principal of the
Smallwood Vocational School. told of
the work being done at that institu-
ton. Mrs. Frank Fuller outlined the
work being done in the schools of
Philadelphia.
Mrs L. H. Windsor and Miss Gladys
Price sang, accompanied by Mrs. A. l..
Cummings Mrs. Court F. Wood. pres
ideut Of the District Federation of
Women's Clubs, was present. Mrs. D. l..
Norris, president of the literary body,
presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
Sailed for New York January 81.
PRESIDENT WILSON ENDORSED.
Milwaukee Democrats for His Re-
Election-Favor Brandeis.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. February q
Wisconsin democrats gathered in state
conference here yesterday named five
delegates at large to the national con-
vention in st. Louis and ratified the
list of district delegates chosen pre-
~ nrimaries in April for election.
The conference Endorsed the admin
;stration of President Wilson, declared
for the Presidents reelection and ap-
nroved his nomination of Louis d.
BRA ndeis to be associate justice Of the
tinted states Supreme Court. United
states Senator Paul o. Husing was in
dorsed as one of the candidates for
delegate at large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
Mine Workers Adjourn Sessions.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, February a.
rhe biennial convention of the United
Wine workers of America adjourned
Yesterday to meet in Indianapolis in
1918. ana the attention of the interna-
tional officers will now be concen-
trated in having written into new con-
tracts the demands adopted by the
delegates. representing nearly 100000
anthracite and bituminous miners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
2oO Middies Fail in Examinations.

ANNAPOLIS. Md. February 1T
IL learned on reliable authority here
today that go midshipmen, or about
one-fourth Of the entire membership
at the Naval Academy. will be asked
to resign soon because of their failure
to pass the half-yearly examinations.
Many midshipmen claim that these ex-
aminations were much harder than
usual, but this Is denied by the in
structors. The number Of failures in
each class IL said to be as follows:
First or graduating class. 20; second,
20: third. so; fourth. 50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.


VIENNA. February 1, via Berlin and
wireless to sayville. February ?:
The situation in Montenegro and the
district of Scutari is calm. The at
titude of the Inhabitants of these
districts leaves nothing to be desired.
RUSSIAN STATEMENT.
PETROGRAD, February 1, via London.
February 2.
A lively artillery duel continued yes
terday in the Riga region. In the
Oyer district the enemy developed a
violent machine-gun fire.
Friedrichstadt a detachment of
Germans in white uniforms. which
tried to cross the frozen Dvina. was
dispersed by our fire.
Near the village of Goduschischki, east
of Sventsany, our aviatorS bombed
enemy conveys and a train. Near
Lake Narotche the Germans fired
shells of large caliber emitting a
pungent odor.
On Cen Ivanoff's front we had a sue
cessful artillery action on the Stripa.
resulting in the defeat of the enemy's
offensive in the wooded region north
east of Bouchatche.
In the Caucasus our troops are pursu-
in the region of Lake Tortum and
Khryskala.
ITALIAN STATEMENT.
ROME, February I, via London, Febru-
airy 2s
In the upper Cordevole region there
has been a lively artillery duel in
the Lionallongo zone. In the Campo
PIezzo district enemy detachments
which tried to approach our posi-
tions south of Monte Romebon were
repulsed.
On the Isonzo front enemy artillery
threw shells on the Commons railway
station and on the Moraro country,
there being some victims among the
population.
GERMAN STATEMENT.
BERLIN, February 2, via London. $3.50
pint
western theater of war: The enemy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
DR.. Waterbury to Sing Sing.

NEW YORK, February 2.-"Dr.''
Jules Waterbury. widely known as a
confidence man. was today sentenced
to Sing Sing prison for term of from
one and a half to two and half years.
He pleaded guilty. week ago to
swindling a local physician out Of
5000 on the promise of procuring him
membership in the Gridiron Club at
washington. Waterbury was recently
arrested in Montreal, Canada, and
brought here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
KS AT KEY WEST.
U. S. Submarine, Recently Reported
Missing, Safe in Port.

KEY WEST. Fla. February 2.-The
United States submarine KS, which
became detached from her tender OFF
the south Carolina coast last Sunday,
arrived here last night. All on board
were reported well. The KS left
January Fl for Key West In company
with three other K boats and the sub
marine tender Tallahassee. After the
KS was missed naval vessels searched
In vain for her until last night she
was reported of the east coast of
Florida.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
Wound Alleged Result of Row.

Raymond Dorsey. colored. twenty-one
wears old, 1888 Cd street southeast, was
treated at Homeopathic Hospital this
morning for a bullet wound in his
risht hand. He was shot. it was said
nv an unidentified colored man with
whom he had q row in Goat alley. The
polfcc are looking for his assailant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
British Ayiator's Injuries Fatal,

LONDON, February Lieut.. J. s.
Reed of the Royal Flying Corps. died
today as a result of injuries sustained
at Aldershot by the fall of new aero
plane on which he was acting - OBJ
server. Lieut.. Browning, the p1le<Bes
injured badly. l~0DL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
ZEPPELIN RAIDERS p.
ALL HOME SAFELY
Official Statement bv German
Admiralty Explains OBJ
jectives of Attack.
NOT MEANT TO AVENGE
THE BARALONG MURDERS
Midland Counties Selected Because
They Are Center of NUM-
lions Industry.

BERLIN. February .. by wireless to
Sayville. n. Y.-The German admiral
tvs report on the Zeppelin raid on
England says that incendiary bombs
were dropped on and near Liverpool,
Birkenhead. Manchester. Nottingham
Sheffield and Great Yarmouth.
Violent fires occurred. All the air.
ships returned in safety.
Official German Statement.
The text of the official statement
reads:
"A German squadron during the night
of January S1-February l dropped
large number of incendiary bombs on
and near the Liverpool and Birkenhead
docks. harbors and factories; also on
the Manchester iron works and Black
blast furnaces, and on the nottingham
and Sheffield factories and blast fur
naces. and, finally. on a large number
Of industrial establishments in the
Humber and near Great Yarmouth
(Norfolk). At all these places a power
full effect was observed from heavy ex-
plosions and most serious fires. On the
Humber one battery was silenced.
THE airships were heavily fired upon
the airships. in spite of the enemy's ef-
forts, returned in safety.
Not Baralong Reprisal.
Rumors have circulated here that the
Zeppelin raid on England was in re-
prisal for the Baralong affair. but the
Associated Press correspondent is as
sured In authoritative quarters that the
attack did not come under that head
It is stated that the midland section
Of England was selected for the raid
because it is the center of the mum 4
lions industry and because Liverpool Is
the center of England's commerce. and
that there was purpose to bring home
to the people of Great Britain the fact
that the boosted defenses of London do
not avail against Germany's air craft.
and 1t was intended also to interfere
England for the carrying on of the
British operations in France and Elan
ders.
Zeppelin Reported Lost.
LONDON. February "A Zeppelin
airship was sighted today or the coast
of Ameland. an island of the Neither
lands in the North sea- says a dis
patch from Amsterdam to the Reuters
Telegram Company. The dirigible bal
loon was flying low and probably had
lost her bearings. owing to the fog.
The coast guard bombarded the Yep
pelin, the dispatch adds. more than fifty
shots being fired. and it Is believed that
some hit the airship, which finally dis
appeared to the northward.
Early Tuesday morning the Zeppelin
air fleet returning from its raid on the
English provinces was heard in the
vicinity of Amsterdam. Officers Of ships
arriving at the Dutch port say that five
Zeppelins travelling westward were
sighted shortly before the raid took
place Monday.
German Statement Disputed.
Commenting on the German Official
statement of the Zeppelin raid on Eng
land. the morning papers deny that any
bombs were dropped in Manchester.
Liverpool, Birkenhead or Nottingham.
Neither these places nor the counties
in which they are situated were even
visited by the raiders" says the Daily
Chronicle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
National Retail Liquor Dealers,
in Session Here, to Adopt
Resolutions.
.H0BSON PROHIBITION BILL
ALSO WILL BE ATTACKED
'Stricter Regulation of Saloons, With
Abolition of the Cabaret,
Championed.

Resolutions strongly condemning the
Sheppard bill prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of liquors IN the Dis
trict of Columbia are now being
drafted and are expected to be passed
either late this afternoon or tomorrow
by the National Retail Liquor Dealers
Association of America. now holding a
three-day conference in the National
Hotel.
While the sense of the 100 delegates
from all over the United States is in
favor of strict regulation of the liquor
traffic. they feel that the bill now I'M
der consideration by Congress is too
drastic and will work an injustice on
many.
Resolutions are also to be passed de-
cIaring that the Hobson bill is uncon-
the secretary of the association, r. j.
Halle Of Chicago. He contends that the
Constitution says nothing about the
manufacture and sale of liquors. and
that to prohibit the manufacture and
sale an addition, not amendment to the
Constitution, is necessary. This would
require the unanimous consent of the
states. He points out that " such &C
ton is taken ten or one hundred years
ally declared for prohibition in the mean
time will lose any opportunity to change
their minds, as after the passage any five
states can oppose reconsideration, and
thus thwart any reconsideration OF the
subject. He argues that there are fve
dry states with smaller population than
one large dry city, quotes statistics, and
contends that this IL infringement Of con-
stitutional rights.
Figures Are Cited.
In this connection hs says in his an
nual report:
Attention Is called to the fact that
q number of the states in the pro-
hibition column have populations that
cannot be compared with the average
large city of the United States, for
example: Arizona dry, 204.354: Colo
rsdo tdry). 7ss.oe4; Idaho dry. ses,-
So: Maine dry; 74s,s71: North
672.7s5.
.1The wet city of Cincinnati has
greater population than Arizona and
idaho. both dry states.
In all Of the other states in the dry
column. there is no certain one which
One wet city. New York. alone has a
population Of 4,7sS.ss0, which is great
er than the combined population Of
Arizona, Colorado. Idaho. Maine, North
Dakota and Oregon. all dry states
When we remember that there are al
most oo.ooo, 900 people in the United
states. the Inhabitants in dry territory
do not loom up to a very great extent
The population of Chicago Is nearly
equal to the combined population Of
the states of-Matne. New Hampshire,
Vermont Rhode. lslafid ana South Da-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02

Jared L. Wamsley. sixty-two, a mem
Der of the Randolph county bar, died
at his home in Beverly, w. Ma. He had
four years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02

DR., J. w. Blackmer. twenty eli ht,
of Salisbury, N. c.. graduate Of the
medical school Of the University of
Maryland, died in Salisbury. He was
well known in Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
Willard and Jack Dillon Matched.

NEW YORK. February Jess Will
lard and Jack Dillon were matched
hsfSNtoday for q ten-round bout. to be
held in. this city some time between
April 10 And g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02
Officers of National Guard
Criticise Continental Army;
Secretary Garrison Replies

The executive committee of the Ma.
tional Guard Association and secrete.-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-02

Of War Garrison Joined issue squarely
yesterday over the plan for a continental
army as proposed by the administration.
The guard officers who appeared before
the Senate and House military affairs
army as proposed was not practical BILE.
They said that the government should
take steps to federalize as far as posi-
BILE the National Guard of the states.
The Secretary Of War at the same time
gave out a letter addressed by him to
Senator Chamberlain, criticising Senator
Chamberlain militia pay bill.
After declaring that the guardsmen al
ways had stood in the way of the organ
ization of purely federal volunteer force
on sound lines, Mr.. Garrison wrote:
Parting of the Ways, He Says.
Having arrived at the consideration
of a measure involving pay of the Ma
tfonal Guard. we have come to the final
parting of the ways. The passage of
such a measure would fully and ire
trievably commit us to system that
has utterly failed in the past, which
menaces our safety now; a system in
which the people justly have no con-
fidence.
IF we put the organized militia firm
" in the saddle. as is contemplated in
this bill, the opportunity for adopting
a sound military policy for the nation
will have passed beyond recall
The proposals of the guardsmen were
well received in both committees. They
were invited by the Senate committee
to draft their plan in the form or
bill, and several members of the House
committee took occasion to congratu-
late Adjt. Gen J. C. r. Foster and Maj.
Gen. John F. Organ of the New York
National Guard, who also spoke on the
showing they had made in behalf of the
state troops.
State Forces to Be Increased.
With the conviction that the federal
government has ample power under
the Constitution to control the Ma
tional Guard, Senator Cummins ex-
planned to the Senate military commit
tee a bill he has introduced to increase
the peace strength Of the state forces
to 100000 men The plan. he said. would
lion men with the military training
necessary to recruit a first-class army
TO war strength whenever wanted.
Senator Cummins explained the pur-
pose of the guard to supply large
number of men with military training
as volunteers, rather than to provide
a fully equipped secondary line of de-
tense in time OF war. Concerning pos
sibie constitutional difficulties, he said
public sentiment would make the Con-
stitution mean just what 1t was for the
best interests of the nation to have 1t
mean.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-29
CHICAGO HOSE TO
PLAY At MOLINE
Sex Baseball Aggregation Will Invade
Plow City April 11-Old Roman
to Send First Team.

Moline is to be invaded next spring
by Chicago White Sox team No. / for
the purpose of doing battle with the
Pillow boys on the Thirty seventh
street lot. Comiskey'spennant chasers
will arrive in the neighboring city ON
the morning of April II and at that
afternoon the big game will commence.
The diamond contest will begin at an
early hour in order to permit the visi-
tors to catch the 5:23 train, as is re-
quested by the white-thatched master.
The Old Roman has assured the secre-
tary of the Moline club that it will be
his first team which will play in that
city. This means that many Sox stars
will be seen in action.
The Chicago baseball aggregation
will play in Davenport April 10, leav-
ing after the game for Moline Last
year the Khite Sox were humbled by
Hughes youngsters and the fans of
that sity are dipping that the trick will
be repeated by the Plow Boys next
spring.