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Evening star., 1916-08-24
CHANGE IN VOTING LAW.
Recent Enactment in Maryland Gov
ems Declaration of Intentions"

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Augut 24.--Chief Clerk
James E. Hubert of the board of cleo
tion supervisors yesterday discovered
an act of the last legislature which
changes the laws relating to declaration
of intentions in several sections of
the state. Apparently. few. il any, per.
sons interested in politics knew about
the changes.
Hitherto persons moving into the state
have been required to go before the su :
perior court OF Baltimore city or the
circuit court in the counties and file
declaration Of their intention to become
residents Of the state one year before
being permitted to register The
amendment to the law made by the
legislature Of 1916 permits persons com
ing into the state TO file declarations
before the registry boards instead of
before the courts in the following sub
divisions of the state: Baltimore city
and Hartford. Montgomery. Garrett
Frederick, Carroll. Cecil. Caroline and
Prince Georges counties.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
TAKES UP RED CROSS WORK.
Eliot Wadsworth to Establish Head.
quarters in This City.

Word has been received of the cleo.
ton Of Eliot Wadsworth OF Boston as
vice chairman, and so the acting head,
Of the central committee OF the Ameri-
can Red Cross. with headquarters in
this city. The choice was made at =
special meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Red Cross held at Mon
treal, Canada, yesterday.
Mr.. Wadsworth is a Boston lawyer.
1t is announced that he will move to
this city to give his whole time to the
work. which carries with II no COM
pensation. He will take up the duties
Of the Office after September /.
At the meeting in Montreal yesterda Y
were former President Taft. chairman
of the central committee: Miss Mabel
Boardman Of this city: Robert W. de
Forest of New York; Surgeon General
w. c. Braisted. u. S. N; Charles II.
Norton of New York and Alfred T.
White of Brooklyn.
Mr.. Wadsworth was chosen to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray. u. S, A.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
LAUNDRY INDUSTRY GROWING.
Power Plants in District Received in
1914, $1,023,476 For Work Done

The first Of . series OF bulletins pres
senting statistics compiled by the bu-
reau OF the census, Department Of ComA
merce. and dealing with the power
laundry industry for the calendar year
Of 1914. together with comparative sta
tistics for 1903. has been issued. It Will
be followed by similar publications COW
erins sixty OF the principal industries
of the country.
The report shows that the District OF
Columbia has gained one such laundry
during the period covered. that 1.2l7 is
the average number of individuals en-
gagged in the industry wage earners.
as contrasted to ss3 in 1903. and that of
these Ills per cent are females and only
LILO per cent under sixteen years of
age. The capital tied UP in the indus
try in the District in 1914 is shown to
have been $s71.336, and $21.771 is stated
to have been the total annual rental
paid by these establishments: $1,o23,4s5
is given as the total amount received
for work done.
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TO DISCUSS CONDITIONS.
Conference With Lumbermen to Pre-.
cede Trade Commissions Report.

That final conference will be held
with the leading Iumbermen of the
country before the drafting of the re-
port on the cause of the present unset
tied conditions in the lumber industry.
together with recommendations as to
what should be the federal policy. was
announced this morning at the federal
trade commission.
That the commission has for some
time been investigating conditions in
the ownership of timber. together with
bad competitive practices which have
brought disaster to the industry in some
sections of the country. has been known
for some time. and 1t is believed that
all obscure points can be cleared up at
the coming conference, which will be
held in the near future.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
OPTIMISTIC AS TO AUSTRIA.
Ambassador Penfeld Says Nation
Will Survive Test of War.

LONDON. August 24.-Reuter's Am
sterdam correspondent forwards a dis
patch received from Vienna outlining
an interview purporting TO have been
given The Vienna Neue Freie presse by
Frederic ccu-tland Penfeld. the Amer
al ambassador 10 Austria Hungary.
The s,nba ssador is quoted as having
said he was convinced that Austria
Hungary would survive the test Of the
war without loss of territory.
Mr.. Penieid Is declared to have
added that the battles were being
waged with such intensity that the COM
batants would be compelled before long
TO pause for breath, and that this in
terruption in the hghting would be en-
ployed by favorably inclined factors
growing stronger in all countries to
discover a means for bringing about
peace.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
SODA "PoP" MEN ACT.
Go to Court in Effort to Destroy Al
legged Traffic in Bottles.

Efforts to destroy the alleged traffic
in pop" bottles were made today by
four local dealers who fled suits in
the District Supreme Court in replevin
against Albert Taylor. who is said to
have in his possession bottles bearing
the names of the plaintiffs. The suits
were instituted by Attorneys Tobriner
& Graham on behalf of August G. Herr
mann. the Samuel c. Palmer Company,
the Arlington Bottling Company and
the Washington Coca Cola Bottling
Works.
The defendant is alleged to have
possession of $500 bottles and 800
boxes used as containers which are
alleged to belong to the dealers. A
deputy United States marshal served
the writs Of replevin and took possess
sion of the goods
Evening star., 1916-08-24
NATIONAL MILITARY TRAINING.

negative This VIII
legislation which VIII place
in the Constitution of the United States
making all young
who mentally ht liable for military training 0'
reaching the of twenty-one
the force OF
would
Of the
d.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
VOTE MAY DETERMINE
DANISH ISLAND SALE
Landsthing Decides on That Alter
native if Matter Cannot Be
Postponed.

COPENHAGEN, August "a. via Lon
don, 1908 p.m.-The landsthing sat in
committee this afternoon and adopted
a resolution that if the sale of the Dan
ish West Indies cannot be postponed
until after rCthe war the question shall
be settled by general elections. The
resolution was adopted by 80 to Z.
Three members refrained from voting
and thirteen were absent. This resolu-
tion will be submitted formally to the
landsthing tomorrow at an open meet
ing.
King Christian received the leaders Of
the various parties today and thanked
them for their efforts to form a coali-
tion cabinet, although he said he re-
GREETED they had been unable to do SO.
COPENHAGEN, August %. via Lon
don. August 24.-Negotiations for for
nation of a coalition cabinet failed
definitely this afternoon because the
Left and Conservative parliament par
ties could not accept the demands of
the Radicals and Socialists. 1t was
claimed by the latter that the question
of the sale Of the Danish West Indies
to the United States should be consider
ed Immediately before the formation
of new cabinet. They also insisted
they be represented by seven members
in the cabinet as against six represen-
tatives of the Left and Conservative
parties.
The Landsthing, or upper house. is
expected to reject the treaty tomorrow.
This probably will postpone the sale
until autumn. The Left party refused
to accept the demands of the govern
ment that Erik de Scavenius. minister
of foreign affairs. be retained in the
hfnA haf
either he or Premier Zahle should be
premier The sale played a negligible
part in the political crisis just ended.
Premier Zahle announced that con-
ferences between members Of the vari-
Gus parties and the cabinet had demon
strated that general elections were un-
avoidable and that a coalition minis
try was impossible.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
HIT WITH BOTTLE; DYING.
Edwin Friends Skull Fractured in
Encounter at Wharf,

Edwin Friend. thirty-four years old
Elm apartments. is dying at Emer-
sency Hospital, physicians this after
noon told the police. as result of a
fracture of the skull. Tuesday he par
ticipated in an encounter with Oscar
Shipley, coiored, on the wharf at the
foot Of 30th street aud the latter Is
charged with haviUs fractured his
skull with a bottle.
Both men We're employed az chauf-
feurs on motor trucks, and the police
were informed that they had trouble
about the movements of their vehicles
on the wharf. Shipley was arrested by
Detective OBrien and the police OF the
seventh precinct.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
Sign Haitian Protocol.

A protocol amplifying the financial,
economic and administrative treaty
with Haiti was signed today by Sec
retary Lansing and Minister Menos
The most important addition to the
treaty Is the provision that the native
police force is to be off1cered by Amer
leans. The chief purpose is to provide
for internal peace, and make possible
of the marines.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
TO MEET SEPTEMBER 4.
u. S. and Mexican Conferees to Hold
Preliminary Session in New York.

MEXICO CITY. August 24-James
Linn Rodgers. the American represen-
tative of the Carranza government.
formerly made it known to the foreign
Office here today that the preliminary
conference of the representatives of
the United States and Mexico for the
settlement of international difficulties
will be held at the Biltmore Hotel. in
New York city. Monday, September 4.
The Mexican representatives prob
ably will leave here Saturday.
The final conference, II was an
nounced, will be held at some place on
the New England coast.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
Wife Makes Cruelty Charge.

Alleging cruelty. Mrs. Bessie Young
Johnson has filed suit for a limited
divorce from Lewis r. johnson, an
automobile salesman. They were mar
ried in Baltimore. January 22. 1914. and
separated a short time ago. During
the past six months Mrs. johnson
charges that her husband treated her
in "cruel and inhuman manner" She
In represented by Attorneys T. L. JET
fords and Joseph Salomon.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
Shock Much Less Felt.

Farm boys ordinarily work al homs
FOR their parents, Substantially with
out pay, till twenty-one. after which
they receive money II they remain a,
home. or they go elsewhere to work
II the military training is deferred
until time when the boy will be no
longer available for free labor at the
home. the shock of his removal will be
economically much less felt. II will
BE Fastening little. or not at all a
sEork which is bound to come and
therefore this provision would er.atiy
rsoEec me objections of the farming
'ids', hich Is the largest single class
heiSNr that conscriDted military
tTairiHg VIII not be beyond our reach
u Ne - AT the matter with consi,.r-
'ttc"eSs ana in spirit of accommoas
t.o.t, 50 that it's demands may be made
as little onerous as possible. witbou,
sacrificing the necessary degree Of a.
fectiVeness"
Evening star., 1916-08-24
Sanity of Alleged Thief Questioned.

John W. FARRELL. twenty-five years
old. SIS A street southeast. was charged
in Police Court today with houssbreak-
ing. il being alleged that he robbed
Berberich's store, sl3 Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. Of several pairs of shoes. The
young man was committed to Wash
ington Asylum Hospital for examina
tion to his mental condition He was
Evening star., 1916-08-24
Transport Hancock on Her Way.

NEW ORLEANS. August 24.-The
transport Hancock grounded on a bar
at the mouth of the Mississippi last
night, but was fioated early today and
proceeded on her voyage to Tampico.
according to the commandant of the local
naval station. The damage to the
transport was of no consequence, the
reported.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
Permanent Chinese Premier,

PEKING, August 24-The parliament
has unanimously approved the appoint
ment by President Ii Yuan-Hung Of
Tuan Chi-jui as permanent premier of
the Chinese republic. This action is
taken as an indication of a growing
disposition to accept the compromise
cabinet appointed by President Ii
Yuan Hung last June.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
TURKESTAN SITUATION
DECLARED TO BE WORSE

BERLIN. August -. by wireless to
Sayville.-Reports received through
Stockholm. indicate that the situation
in Turkestan is growing worse, says
an Overseas News Agency statement
today. Gen. Kuropatkin. who was re-
Gently appointed governor general of
Turkestan has been compelled to issue
severe orders to cope with the condi-
tions. the advices declare
Evening star., 1916-08-24
RAILROAD GETS A CHARTER.
$3.50, ,0o0, 900 Capital for Reorgan
lied St. Louis and San Francisco.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, August 24-
Articles of incorporation for the reor
ganized st. Louis and San Francisco Rail
road Company were filed in the Office of
the secretary Of state here today and A
charter imme d'ateiy was issued.
The capital stock Of the company is
S45O, 900 900, of which 5000, 900. 900 is to be
in preferred shares and the remainder
common stock. All directors Of the re-
organized company are from St. Louis.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
PLAN T0PUN|SH
WAR MURDERERS
Allies Committee Gathering
Evidences of Heinous
Offenses.
TRIAL OF THOSE ACCUSED
TO AWAIT UPON PEACE
First Process of Sort Ever to Be In
stituted-"War Not Cloak for
All Things"
Copyright. 1916.b
BY HERBERT COREY.

PARIS, August S.-"Murder is mur-
der and shall be punished as murder.
Arson is arson. Theft is theft. War
for ALL"
This statement briflely outlines the
program which the allied governments
propose to pursue after the war. Evi-
dence is now being gathered against
the German soldiers who, under cover
OF war. broke the most elementary
laws. If it is possible they shall be
punished when the victory is gained.
Murderers shall be hanged: not every
murderer. because there are too many
of them; not even every murderer
against whom full proof has been
found, but a sufficient number of mur-
derers that the world conscience shall
be stamped with the knowledge that
murder is murder, even in war
Committee Gathering Evidence.
A committee armed with full power
to collect evidence is now sitting in
Paris. 1t is not striving to make
propaganda 1t is highly unlikely
that any indication of its labors will
be given to the press before the vic
tory has been won and the peace nego-
tiations entered upon.
It's sole duty is to gather evidence
evidence that will stand up in court
evidence upon which conviction can
certainly be gained. Doubtful cases
thrown aside.
Cases In which proof Is difficult to
obtain are not at present occupying
the attention Of the committee. Its
mission Is to present facts of legal
nature upon which many indictments
may he drawn by the criminal courts.
Precisely the same thing was done
Evening star., 1916-08-24
HEAVY FIRING IS HEARD
FROM NORTH SEA ISLAND

AMSTERDAM, August ~. via London.
80 p.m.--Advices received here today
from the Dutch island Of Ameland. in the
North sea. say continual and heavy gun
firing from the north has been audible
all morning.
Evening star., 1916-08-24
Reason for Recommendation.

My reasons for this recommendation
are:
Physiological. All boys are not
equally mature at eighteen. OF course
they are not equally mature at twenty
one either, but the relative difference
is very much less, and at twenty-one
all are mature enough to serve, If they
are ever likely to be able TO serve at
all ] do not think this is true al
eighteen. In addition TO the question
Of physical strength. stature and hardi-
hood, there comes also the psycholoei-
cal maturity ] think the average city
boy ~ as mature at eighteen as the
average country boy at twenty He
certainly is In sophistication. | believe
the average city boy could absorb the
intellectual training at eighteen where
country boy or mechanic who has
been in factory from fourteen up
would profit more at nineteen or twen-
~ than he would at eighteen To make
a really good soldier. man must be
old enough intellectually to be able 10
assimilate the real mental training in
volyed. and yet be young enough to he
reached by and susceptible to the emo
tional appeal of patriotism, etc The
younger class is. the more they would
respond on the emotional side. bur the
weaker the% would be on the intel
lectuai side. requiring steadiness. f,,de
Ineht and sEf-control An adolesceot
- rot ut material for a soldier
Evening star., 1916-08-24

Louis P. Clark, a lawyer. was badly
injured when an Ellicott City, Nd.
street car struck his automobile and
turned it over on him.
Evening star., 1916-08-24

first BY tho Germans A commission
which had been ravaged by the Russians
and reduced its findings to evidential
form. The German intention. however.
was to demand reparation from the Rus
sian government.
The plan Of the allies is to mako this
a matter between the individual German
offender and the law. When the evidence
has been prepared action will be taken
precisely as though there had been no
war.
1--WE charge this man with murder.
Here are the witnesses. The fact that a
state of war existed need not be taken
into account by the court. Murder Is no
less murder If the murderer be a soldier
and the victim an innocent and unresist-
ing civilian"
First Process Of Sort.
The possibility Of action Of this sort
has long been in contemplation. although
to the best Of my belief nothing Of the
sort has been attempted after any pre-
vious war. The allied governments were
appalled, by the magnitude of the task
placed before them. and for time there
was certain hesitation manifest 1t
seemed impossible that evidence that
would hold good in court corid be OBJ
tanned.
In fact. however. this has been uneS-
peetedly easy. Perhaps this may be ac-
counted for by the enormous number of
cases submitted to the committee, and
from which those most readily suscep-
tible of proof have been selected.
I'VE would not dare to prosecute the
man who is in position to know pre-
cisely what Is being done. Our people
have forgotten their material losses for
the moment They speak Of the burning
Of their farms and the destruction of their
homes as though all this had happened in
the previous century. But they will not
forgive the murder OF their men and
women folk and the outraging of their
daughters
Recompense for Losers.
The French government has already
admitted in principle that those who have
lost materially by the war shall be recon-
pensed for that loss by way of indemnity
extracted from the Germans when VIC
tory comes. 1t is not therefore, in a
position to say to its citizens that the
bricks broken shall be paid for, but that
blood that has been spilled must not go
unsatisfed. The pressure upon the gov
ernment for action of this sort will be SO
enormous that no government will be
able to resist.
mo deputy who did not support this
demand would dare go back to face his
people," said one. I'VE do not ask re-
venge. We ask justice"
Awaits End of War.
No effort will be made to punish the
guilty men during the war. 1t is recog-
nized that this would merely lead to re-
prisals. and for every German soldier
hanged by France and England Ger
many would hang two prisoners.
There Is no hallucination here as to
the nature of the resistance Germany
would make to the punishment Of her
soldiers held as prisoners of war, no
matter how overwhelming may be the
evidence against them. Practically,
Evening star., 1916-08-24

taken win depend upon the nature and
extent Of the allied victory.
IT we are completely victorious. We
will be able to punish the guilty men
precisely as We should do IL equally
strong evidence Of similar crimes were
offered against them In times Of peace.
They will not be released. II they are
prisoners Of war. II they still live and
are free in Germany they shall be ex-
tradited."
A victory of a lesser degree may
merely mean that indictments may be
brought against men charged with
crime. they may be tried in their abb
sence. and If the evidence supports the
charge may be found guilty. In that
case a warrant would be issued for
their arrest whenever found in an allied
country. It would mean the conflnine
to the empires of central Europe Of tho
men who burned and plundered and
Evening star., 1916-08-24
How It May Work Out.

To view the plan cold bloodedly and
from without. It seems moro likely that
both adversaries will be so completely
exhausted. not in men and resources,
perhaps. but in spirit, by the time that
peace comes, that this plan of prosecu-
ton will not be carried out upon the
scale contemplated. In that case the
allies may demand and Germany may
grant without protest that a certain
number of the men against whom
crushing proof is offered shall be pub
licly executed or otherwise punished.
This would establish a new principle
upon which fighting men of the future
must keep their eyes.
War is war. But murder is always
and at all times murder"
Evening star., 1916-08-24
KING LUDWIG STRICKEN.
Bavarian Monarch, II Years Old, a
Victim of Apoplexy.

PARIS, August fixing Ludwig III
of Bavaria has been stricken with
apoplexy and his condition is grave. ac-
cordfng to report from Switzerland
says Rome dispatch to the Petit
Parisien
Evening star., 1916-08-24

King Ludwig is seventy-one years
old He married the Archduchess Marie
Therese OF Austria and ascended the
Bavarian throne in 1918. He was ap-
pointed field marshal of the Bavartan
army last year and visited the Bavarian
troops on the battle line in France in
January last
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-26
MORE ARRESTS
IN THE CASE.
Three Men and a Woman to be Taken
Up Today After Story
is Told,

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Three men
and a woman, concerned in the ma
ton wide Matchmaking schemes by
which scores Of prominent people are
said to have been fleeced out of
thousands of dollars, may be arrested
here today, coincident with the ar
rival of William Butler, alleged ring
goods buyer Of Philadelphia
Butler, who is being brought here
by a deputy United States marshal.
sprang a surprise by waving extra
dition and agreeing to stand trial
here on a charge of obtaining $500
from Mrs. Regina Klipper, a dry
goods buyer of Philadelphia.
The men and women whose arrest
seems imminent are accused of
swindling A. f. Wesley out of S12,.
500 One of the men is said to have
worked with Jimmy" Christian and
Homer French, who were arrested in
Chicago Sunday on charges of imper
sonating federal officers.
Certain government officials today
expressed the belief that Buffers
presence and trial here would lead
to the placing of certain information
greatly desired by the government
and hitherto unavailable in the hands
of federal officers.
John G. Knox, federal attorney
who is prosecuting the cases, will &c
to Chicago, tomorrow or Thursday t.
bring to New York DOC" Donahue
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-26
wanted in connection with the frauds
and Matchmaking.
GERARD MAY
STAY OVER
American Ambassador to Germany
Postpones Return Home at
Last Minute.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BERLIN, Sept. 26.-Ambassador
Gerard who was to leave for Copen-
hagen today TO take passage for the
United States, may change his plans
at the last moment. Several mem
bers of the German ministry called
at the embassy last night. Their
visits followed call by Foreign Sec
rotary Won Jagow in the forenoon and
Gerard's conference with Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg on Saturday.
The ambassador refused to discuss
these visits, but it was learned at the
embassy that he may even change his
plans after reaching Copenhagen to-
day and return to Berlin.
Mrs. Gerard who has entirely re-
covered from the shock she suffered
in an auto accident yesterday, will
accompany her husband.
Gerard told reporters that he GER
tainly expects to return to Berlin
even though he should decide to go
to the United States.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-26
Taxi Driver Murdered,

lonely road three miles east Of Jack
son the body of Roy Bassett, 3S, a
taxi driver, was found today by
sheriff's deputies. Two bullet wounds,
one in the head and one in the bacN
indicated murder.
Bassett's body was found about
twenty feet from his abandoned car
partially covered with grass and
weeds.
Lansing and Jackson police are CO.
operating In a search for a man and
woman who employed Bassett Sunday
night to drive them from Lansing to
a point near River Junction, north
of here.