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Evening star., 1916-09-21
CAREFUL STUDY GIVEN
NAVY YARD PROBLEMS
Commission Of Five Officers Under
Rear Admiral Helm in Ses-
sion Today.

The commission of I'VE naval officers
,, under Rear Admiral James NJ. Helm.
appointed to study the question OF
additional navy yards or stations on
the Pacific coast and on the Atlantic
south OF Cape Hatteras. was in ses-
sion at the. Navy Department today
beginning careful review Of the prob
lens involved
The commission will spend several
weeks at work here reaching its con-
clusions as to whether new stations
are necessary. If it's decision is af-
firmative the board will inspect both
coasts and determine the sites at which
it will recommend the new yards be
established.
Under the provision OF the naval ap-
preparation bill authorizing the ap-
pointment of the commission it is di-
rected, also, to report on the advfsa-
bility of establishing submarine and
aviation bases on the Pacific, gulf and
Atlantic coasts or in the insular pos
sessions.
A full statement OF the military;
strategic and industrial reasons which
led to the selection of sites recommend
ed for yards or bases must be submit
ted to Congress with the boards re-
port. The commissioners expect to
make an exhaustive investigation both
as to the necessity for, new yards and
as to the best sites, devoting several
months to their tasks.
Associated with Admiral Helm are
Chief Constructor w. l.. Capps, Civil
Engineer Harry H. Rousseau, Capt.
George w. McElroy and Commander
Charles l.. Hussey.
Evening star., 1916-09-21
WHITE HOUSE UNDERGOING
THOROUGH CLEANING UP
Absence Of Presidential Household
Permits Renovation and Repaint-
ing Of All Rooms.

During the abeancs OF President and
Mrs. Wilson and the members OF the
presidential family from Washington.
tho White House and executive of,ces
are to undergo renovation and repaint-
ing. Practically all tho roema In the
executive Offices are to bs rspainted.
The furniture throughout the main
White House and executive onicos 10
receiving an overhauling. carpets are
being given careful attention and
everything made ready for comfort and
cleanliness the coming winter.
The absence Of all the members OF
the presidential household has permit
tad the opening of a number Of rooms
In the White House to the public, which
privilege Is seldom enjoyed.
Ordinarily, the portions OF the White
House open to tho public are the east
room, the basement. containing paint
ings. china. etc. and the east wing Of
the building.
The red, green and blue parlors, tho
state dining room and the yestibule Of
the White House are now open and
large numbers Of visitors troop through
the historic rooms each day without
having to show special cards Of adnais-
sion, as is the case when the President
and his family are In Washington.
Evening star., 1916-09-21

Nichols avenue. from %xh 10 UpAl
streets; Portland street. frcD Hichois
avenue to 4th street. Northwest
Sixth, from Aspen to Butternut stresta;
6th. from Aspen to Rutternut sereSts:
DAhlia. from 5th to 7th strspte: Ksh-
nedy. from sth to Sth streets; Cofuralo
avenue, from Montague to Georgia
avenue: EIlicotf, from Belt rosd 10
Wisconsin avenue; <1st from Daven-
port to Ellicott streets: Keokuk. frcsn
Connecticut avenue 70 37th street: leth.
from Montague 70 Alaska avenue; MAJ
sRchusstts avenue, from Nebraska ave-
nue. to District line; 3eth. from Wood
ley Rad to Maconb street.
Granite block roadways, VIII be laid
on u street from Nichols avenue to
Shannon place. ana Shannon plaes from
y to W streets southeast
Evening star., 1916-09-21
MRS. HAMEL MURDERED,
cORONER'S JURY FINDS
Holds John W. Chim, Suicide, H.
spondhle, Despite Ante-Mortem
Statement Woman Shot Sslf.

A ooronsrs Jury today decided that
kra Blanche Hamel. 1o11 NJ street.
who was shot to death at 10th and NJ
streets southeast, only few doors
from hsr homo. about 10 o'clock Tues
day night. was murdered by John ".
chtsm. who later committed suicide at
TOO SIN strsse southeast, where he sp-
Dsared shortly after tho shooting and
rantsd . room. The jury did not take
any stock In tho statement contained
in Chism's note to the effect that Mrs.
Hamel shot herself
Mrs Annie Anholt. mother Of the
dead woman. and Charles Hamel, a son,
were witnesses at the inquest. which
was held At tho morgue. Other Wit
nesses were members Of the police de-
partment Funeral services for Mrs.
Hamel will be conducted at her late
homo At 2:3o o'clock tomorrow after
noon. 1nterment will be in Congress
sional cemetery.
The body of Chism was removed to
the homo Of his parents. 2310 ! street.
whore funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at the same hour
at which services will be held for. Mrs.
Hamel. His body will be inferred In
Rock Crock cemetery.
Evening star., 1916-09-21
B|DS0N ROADWAY
WORK TO Be ASKED
Commissioners Plan to Have
Construction Begin
About October Is.

Bids for laying . number Of cement
and macadam roadways provided for
by tho current District appropriation
act will be invited within few days.
and work on the improvements. 1t Is
expected. will start about October Is.
The following streets are to be inn
proved:
Cement roadways (northwest)-Ho-
bart street, west Of Mount Pleasant
street: Lamont, from sth to park place;
Perry place. from Holmead place to
Spring place: Paskwood place, from
Holmead place to 14th street: Holmead
place. from Otis street to Spring road;
warder street, from Kenyon street to
Columbia road; Princeton place. from
Georgia avenue to Rock Creek Church
road; varnum, from 7th to 9th streets;
7th street, from varnum to Upshuf
streets; Hall place, north Of W place;
W place, Wisconsin avenue to Hall
place. Northeast-Ffrst, from Todd
place to U street.
Evening star., 1916-09-21
One Bridal Couple Backs Out.

Paul Brewer Schweitzer OF 1893 r
street northwest married Miss Dorothy
Eolta Buckley Of 1o1l II street north
west yesterday at Rockville. Nd. The
groom Is twenty-three years old and
his bride eighteen. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. 8. r. White.
The contracting parties went to Rock
VILE in an automobile. accompanied by
four friends. Two Of these friends had
planned to be married at the same time.
but later decided not to take the step,
at least for the present.
Evening star., 1916-09-21
Short Ballots Due to Paper Shortage.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, September FL
At a meeting yesterday the Iowa state
executive council took cognizance of
the shortage in print paper. Newspa-
pers throughout the state in various
county seats where the specimen ballot
for tho next general election VIII be
printed have requested the council that
the ballot be held down to the least
possible space, on account Of the short
age of paper. | ..-a.......
Evening star., 1916-09-21
For Macadam Roadways.

Macadam roadways (northeast)--
Quarles. from Kenilworth avenue to
Minnesota avenue; Olive. from Polk
street to Eastern avenue; Ord. from
kenilworth avenue to 44th street; Law
renee, from 18th to 22d streets: 18th.
from Brentwood road to Irving street: !:
South Dakota avenue. from Carlton
avenue to Vista street; Rhode Island
avenue. from South Dakota avenue to
District line. Southeast-Naylor road.
from Good Hope road to District line;
Evening star., 1916-09-21
WEATHER.
Overcast Tonight and Tomorrow,
Possibly With Showers Tonight.

POSSIBLY With Showers Tonight.
For the District OF Columbia and
Maryland, overcast tonight and tonor-
row: possibly with showers tonight;
warmer tonight; moderate south and
southwest winds.
| For Virginia, probably fair tonight
and tomorrow; warmer in the interior
tonight; moderate variable winds.
For West Virginia. partly cloudy and
warmer tonight. Tomorrow, fair and
somewhat cooler.
central this morning over Lake Su-
perior and moving eastward. 1t has
| been attended by local showers and
thunderstorms in the uppei lake region
and the upper Mississippi and lower
Ohio valleys. Fair weather prevailed In
other parts of the country.
The temperature has risen in nearly
all districts east of the mississippi
ern plains states and the northern
Rocky mountain region.
There will be showers tonight or to-
| morrow in New England and New
,onight, followed by fair weather to-
morrow in the middle Atlantic states,
the upper Ohio valley and the lower
AXE region; otherwise the weather will
1T
states east of the Mississippi rive
The temperature will rise tonight in
the middle Atlantic and souti. .i..e
states, except Florida, and 1T will fall
of the great lakes, the Ohio valley and
Tennessee.
The winds along the New England
Ind middle Atlantic coasts will be mod
the south Atlantic coast, moderate
! variable, mostly northeriy; on the east
gulf coast. gentle variable.
Steamers departing today for Euro
| and west winds and generally fair
weather to the Grand Banks.
Tide Tables.
| Compiled by United States coast and
geodetic sudvey.)
| Today-Low tide, 1902 am. and 1919
pm; high tide, 3:o9 am. and 3:42 pm.
TomorroW-Low tide, 10 54 Am. and
11:lI pm; high tide, 04 am. and :3B
pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose 5:5s am, sun sets
TomorroW-Sun rises 5:54 am, sun
sets sos pm.
Moon rises 1913 am, sets 3:25 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the Thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
Thermom eter--Yesterd I pm, II;
pm, 59; IL midnight. 49. Today.
am. 46; am. 81. Maximum, "a, at
$3.50 pm. yesterday; minimum. A.. at
7 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum. rs; minimum, 80.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS p.m.,, 30.14;
pm, 30.15. IL midnight, 30.13. Today,
am. 1910; s am, 1910.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition of water
at am: Great Falls-Temperature.
6S: condition, So. Dalecarlia reservoir
Temperature, 6s: condition at north
connection, so; condition at south con-
nection. 100. Georgetown distributing
eservoir-Temperature 81: condition
at infiuent gatehouse, 55; condition at
effiuent gatehouse, 10.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. W. Va. Septem-
ber 21-The Potomac river was clear |
and the Shenandoah river cloudy this !
morning.
Weather in Various Cities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
Straw Hat Time

Some very good men look
rather ridiculous by wearing
straw hats that do not become
them at all. Only a conscien-
tious, experienced hat man can
tell to the thousandth of an, inch
the exact style you ought to
have. Our hat man understands
very well what he is about. Let
him assist YOU in choosing from
our stock of those new flexible,
self-conforming Sennit Straws,
with the perforated sweat
Ddnus ............ $500
or from our large assortment of
plain and fancy braids in all
the newest shapes ..... $500
An elegant showing of Ladies'
and Mems Panamas .... $500
All GLOBE STRAWS are
guaranteed - Crowns will not
sag, brlms will not droop-we
give a new hat if they do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

son assigned for the lateness is that
there has been very heavy drain upon
the treasury because of the appropria-
tion.
Prothonotary Resigns. - Prothono-
tary s. B. Drake. of Montgomery
county, has resigned. There was a
row over some fees and Yesterday he
placed his resignation in the hands Of
the Governor.
Cfon1n OH Wafpath. John c.
Cronin, the Philadelphia labor leader
who resigned as a member of the State
Industrial Board at request of the
Governor, is showing a disposition to
go on the warpath. Cronin intimates
that he will combat any statements
made about him.
Governor to Speak. - Cover
Brumbaugh will be the commence
ment speaker at Pennsylvania College
at Gettysburg on June L.
VIII Return Monday. - Governor
Brumbaugh is expected to return to
this city some time on Monday to
clear his desk. He will vote in Phila-
delphia on Tuesday.
Hazieton Organizes. The Halle
ton Motor Club has organized for
proper observance of Good Roads Dav
this month. The club will do work on
the roads and lend automobiles.
To Meet Monday. - The Public
oVA NAIN Will meet Monday
for hearings and will hold an executive
session on Wednesday.
Name Judge Next Week. - II ia
understood that Governor Brumbaugh
will name a judge for Philadeiphia
next week. Public Service Commis-
sioner John Monaghan is the man
most generally mentioned.
Prepare For Meeting. - Prepara-
tions are being made at the DEPART
ment of Labor and Industry for n hip
meeting on industrial hygiene here
next Thursday. Noted medical men
will attend.
Watching Contest. - CapitoI Hill
people are closely watching the con-
test between Senator A. f. Daiz and
Representative Patrick Connor for the
Republican Senatorial nomination in
their home district in Philadelphia.
Both men are we'll known here.
No Camp For Artillery. = An
nouncement was made last night by
Adjutant General Thomas ]. stewart
that the proposed camp of instruction
for artillery officers and enlisted men
1t Tobyhanna has been abandoned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

post office, Representative George s
Graham, of Philadelphia, introduced
in the House a bill appropriating So,
100000 for the construction of a new
post office. Congressman Graham has
estimated that 100000 may be saved
to the government each year if the en-
tire postal force should occupy a
building of it's own, thus obviating the
necessity of paying heavy yearly rent
ais.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

State Commission of Agriculture and
Charles f. Patton, of Curwensville.
Clearfieid county, present secretary of
agriculture. A week ago ]. Denny
O'Neil, of Allegheny county; Chief En-
gineer w. ID. Uhler and First Deputy
Commissioner Joseph w. Hunter were
much talked of.
Mr.. Black is a close personal friend
of the Governor. a well-to-do farmer
and much interested in roads and their
improvement. Mr.. Patton has been
connected with some road building
enterprises.
It is understood that the Governor
intends to allow Good Roads Day on
May 20 to pass before naming any
commissioner. Mr.. Cunningham es-
tablished the first good roads day last
year.
School Payments.-With exception
of two or three districts whose papers
are not in from the State school au-
thorities for 1918 has been paid. the
last checks having gone out yester-
day. This is the latest known in
years. The payment of the s225. 900
to the borough and township high
schools was started to-day. This is
also much later than usual. The rea-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

must pay for them in blood and sweat
If we get them. Something for some
thing, and nothing for nothing-that
is the inexorable law of life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
INTRODUCES BILL FOR NEW
s.. 1000, 900 PHIIA POST OFFICE

Washington, ID. c., May IL. - With
n view to effecting large annual saw
ing to the government in rentals for
buildings occupied by the Philadelphia
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
BLACK OR PATTON
AS HIGHWAY HEAD
Governor Said to Have Somer-
set and Clearfield Men Under
Consideration
Mention of names

Mention of names
of men considered
as within range of
appointment a S
highway commits
sioner to succeed
the late Robert J.
Cunningham seems
to have simmered
down to Frank S.
Black, of Garrett,
Somerset county. a
member of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
THOSE WIN WHO
PAY FULL PRICE
Too Many Want TO Dance
Without Paying Fiddler,
Dorothy Dix Says

Dorothy Dix Says Too Many Want to
Dance Without Setting With the Fid-
dler-Persons Dependent in Old Age
Generally Have Only Their Own Ex-
travagances to Blame.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
Early Frost.

Some people, who got up early
enough last Friday morning. say
that there was Il light frost in
some parts of the county. hut not
enough to do any damage, how
ever, it was warming that winter
was approaching and cleaning out
furnaces and getting them ready
and putting up heating stoves has
been the order of the day for the
last few days. FrOsts were report
ed all along the eastern border of
Kansas and the western border Of
Missouri. which according to the
records Of the weather bureau in
Kansas City, is the earliest in ii
years. The freezing point was
nearly reached in some places in
Kansas, the temperature dropping
to 80 degrees.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
CAN A HEN MAKE SOME
THING FROM NOTHING?
A Mistake Which Often Causes
Failure.

In an experiment conducted at
the Missouri State Poultry Expert
ment Station, twenty hens in each
of two pens were cared for exact
ly alike, except one pen was sup
piled with crushed lime rock and
oyster shell, while the other was
not. The pen which was supplied
with lime in some form laid 1900
eggs in the same time that the pen
without lime laid 161 eggs, which
is almost ten to one. This indi-
Gates that the feed and water con-
tains only about enough lime for
one shell for each ten other parts
Of the egg.
There are many farms which do
not contain enough lime to shell
a dozen eggs, and in such case, the
farmer must either supply the lime
in some form or be content with
small yield of eggs. :.
The writer has talked with
many farmers who said their
chickens were no profit and the
words spoken were true, but the
hens were not to blame, for hen
cannot make. something out of
nothing, and if she doesn't have
enough lime in her system to make
the shell, nature does not permit
her to make the egg, soft shelled
eggs being produced from other
causes than a lack of shell-forming
material.
While this is not the only mis-
take made which causes low egg
production, yet it is a very import
ant one.
No one can afford to feed high
priced feed without first supply
ing the equally important but
cheap material for building the
egg shell.
The lime may be supplied in
the form Of crushed oyster shell.
crushed lime rock, or a mixture
of lime. sand, and water, then let
dry and crush. Fowls need grit
besides this lime. Crushed flint
sand, etc, does not supply the
lime, but they are good to grind
the food.
For further information on
poultry subjects, address, Mis-
souri, State Poultry Experiment
Station, Mountain Groev, Mis-
souri,.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
Wilson Pays Anyway.

Long Branch, N. j., Sept. 16.-
Congressman Thomas j. Scully
of the Third New Jersey district
announced today the receipt of a
check for $500 from President
Wilson. The money is to be di-
Nided among Monmouth county
hospitals in accordance with the
president s agreement in accept
ing Shadow Lawn as his summer
home.
When a committee of Mon
mouth county citizens, headed by
Congressman Scully, made ar
engagements for the engagement of
Shadow Lawn, Colonel Greenhut,
the owner refused to accept rent
al. The president, however, in
sisted on contributing the sumo re-
quired to charity and refused the
tender of the place under any 9TH
err conditions.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
Ball Players Make Good Soldiers

Port Royal, S. G., September 16
Americans are latently the best
bomb and grenade throwers in the
world and are capable of waging
wonderful trench warfare in case
of hostiliticS. say United States
Marine Corps officers in charge of
recruit training at this place.
THE average American youth
early learns to throw a baseball
with speed and accuracy and it
is because of that, we, as a nation,
are especially fitted to wage the
modern war of the trenches. Base
ball is encouraged at all our sta
tons and the skill displayed by
unframed recruits
in the bomb and grenade throw
ing practice is really remark
able" said Drill Sergeant Moore
today.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
Pellagra Cure Discovered.

Washington, ID. c. Sept. IAN
experiment just concluded by the
United States Public Health Ser
vice at two orphan asylums at
jackson, Miss. has demonstrated
that the disease known as pellagra
can be cured by proper dietary
measures and has shown apparent
ly that it's appearance is not due
to any one article of food, but to
an unbalanced diet.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
Appleton City Won.

Butler lost another base ball
game Sunday and it was mighty
poor game at that. The manage
ment in order to insure good
game had imported a shortstop
and an outfielder in addition to
their regular players, but it was
no use, they proved to be the
worst kind Of gold bricks, espe-
"lally the shortstop, who mussed
up every play that he had any
thing to do with. Hupp pitched
good game and with any kind of
support should have won easily,
hut it was an off day for every
body and so we lost When it
was all over and the score was
counted up it was found that APP
plet6n City had the long end. of a
4 to l3 score. The Appleton City
boys are nice bunch of fellows
and some of them are good ball
players but they were lucky Sun
day. 1t is to be hoped that the
boys have all of the errors out of
their system and will now settle
down and play the game that they
are capable of playing, as they
have two fast teams booked for
this week. Friday the All Ma
tons, team composed of Japa-
nesc. Chinese, Hawaiians and
other nationalities will be
the, attraction. They claim to
have lost but two games out of
he last sixty played. Sunday the
last Pleasanton team will come
Tor another game.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
10 to 7 Offered on Gardner.

Odds of 10 to 7 are being Of
fered by Democrats in st. Louis
that Col. Frederick D. Gardner
will be elected Governor. Even
with these liberal quotations it is
hard to find Republicans who
will take the I.amm end.
Tom 'kcarney, turf broker of
that city has Il commission of $1O,-
600 to wager against $1,000 on
Gardner.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
Sheriff's Sale in Partition.
Ingeline Brown, Plaintiff.

Daisy L. Fancelor, Martha Gibbs,
Thomas Judson, Charlotte Wal
ters, Lafayette Gillaspie, Joel
Gillaspie, U. S. G. Gillaspie,
Milt Hodge and The Walton
Trust Company, Defendants.
In the Circuit Court of Bates
County, Missouri.
By virtue and authority of a
decree and order Of sale made by
the said Court, in the above en-
titled cause, and of a certified
copy thereof, dated Aug. 18th,
1916, I will on Friday, Oct. 9th,
1916, between the hours of nine
o clock in the forenoon and five
o'clock in the afternoon of that
day at the east front door of the
Court House, in the City of Butler,
in Bates County, Missouri, sell at
public vendue to the highest bid
der, the following described real
estate, viz:
A part or portion of the east
half Of the west half Of frar-
tional section number four
(4), township forty-two (425,
Range thirty-one (31), begin
ming at the southeast corner
of the west half of said frac-
tional section thence running
north with the east line of the
said fractional half section
118 7S-1OO rods to the north
line Of Bates county, thence
west with said county line fiji
ty-sevcn rods, thence south
118 78-1O0 rods to the south
line of. said fractional half
section, thence east with the
said fractional half section
line fifty-seven (57) rods to
the place of beginning, con-
tanning AZ 2523-SOOO acres
more or less; in Bates coun-
ty, Missouri;
subject to two trust deeds one for
100000 and one for $4,000.
Terms of sale as follows, viz:
Cash in hand.
4s-4t HARvE JOHNSON,
Sheriff of Bates County.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-21
Cutting Trees.

The right of a telephone COM
pany to chop down trees along the
road is questioned in a suit down
Rockville way, where a farmer
sued the manager of a telephone
exchange for cutting down the
trees in front of his place so that
a line of poles could be put up
and wires strung. The jury in a
Justices court allowed the farmer
500 damages for the loss of the
trees and S. because they were
piled in the road. The telephone
company appealed to circuit court.
Clinton Democrat.