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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
PRESIDENT IS WORKING
ON ANNUAL MESSAGE
Although He Will Receive More Wis
itors Than Last Week, Number
Will Be Small.

President Wilson will see more Wis
itors this week than he did last week.
but the number will not be large, ow-
dress to Congress and to the considera- :
tion of questions growing out of the
European war and the Mexican muddle.
The President at noon today received
Dr. Belisario Porras, the newly ap-
pointed minister of Panama. who pre-
sented credentials and exchanged felici-
tations with the chief executive. DR..
Porras was formerly president of the
South American republic. Several
friends making personal calls also saw
the President, and at o'clock this
with Representative Adamson. chair
man of the House committee on in
terstate and foreign commerce, the
legislation regarding railroad and in
dustrial strikes the President hopes to
put through Congress to complete the
legislation passed at the time of the
projected strike last summer
President and Mrs. Wilson left the
White House at 8 o'clock this morn
ing and went to the golf links of the
returning just before noon.
1t is expected at the White House
that President and Mrs. Wilson, DIR.
and Mrs. Grayson, Mrs. Boiling and
Miss Bones will attend the Army-Navy
foot ball game at the Polo Grounds in
New York Saturday. They will leave
Washington early Saturday morning.
returning after the game. The party.
VIII SIT for half the game on the Army
side and the last half on the Navy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
LITHUANiA TO BE FREE;
KAISER'S SON FOR KING

PARIS, November 20.-Germany is
about to follow up her declaration Of
Polish independence with a similar
announcement regarding Lithuania,
according to dispatches from Switzer-
land to the morning newspapers. The
dispatch says that the new state will
probably receive Prince Eitel Fried
rich, second son of the emperor. as it's
sovereign ,and will form a state Of the
German empire with d similar status to
that of Bavaria or Saxony.
AS in the case of Poland, the dis
patches add, the first step in the crea-
ton of the new state will be the for
nation of q Lithuanian army to fight
under Field Marshal Won Hindenburg.
1t Is estimated that Lithuanta could
raise 10000 men.
AMSTERDAM. via London. November
2O-A dispatch from Berlin says the
conservatives. independent conserva-
tives and national liberal members Of
the Prussian diet have asked the gov
ernment to guarantee that no portion
of Prussian Poland shall be incorporat-
ed into the future kingdom Of Poland.
Among the signers of the petition is
Herr Won Kries. at present civil COVER
nor at Warsaw. The petition will be
discussed in the diet Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
RUTH LAW MAKES
NEW AIR RECORD
Flying Time From Chicago to
New York, Nine Hours
One Minute.
FIRST TRIP OVER rs MILES

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 20.-The rec
ord-breaking airplane flight of Ruth
Law. begun yesterday in Chicago. ter
minated at Governors Island here at
$40 am. today after stops at Hornell
and Binghamton. \. Y, The final 152
miles from Binghamtou to this city was
covered this morning in . hours and 20
minutes. and the entire journey. S3e
miles in an airline, in the actual flying
time of s9 hours and l minute
Miss Law was greeted on her ARRIVAL
at Governors Island by Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Leonard Wood. who congratulated
her on her achievement. She was con-
siderably chilled and was taken to the
house of one of the officers at the post
to recuperate.
She had little to say about her night
except that she had to fly much lower
than she wanted to. on account OF the
haze. 1t was the cause of remark
among those who examined her ma
chine that its structure was such as to
expose her to the air more than in the
case in most modern airplanes. The
pilots seat is placed on a projection in
front of the machine SO that the avia-
triX gets the full force of the wind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
CANNED GOODS SCARCE.
Retail Groeers Say Supply Is Far
Below Normal

NEW YORK, November, 2O.-Retai1
grocers complain of shortage of can
ned goods and some predict that only
one-third of the normal supply will he
available in New York this winter.
Many grocers are running out of their
supplies of standard, widely advertised
canned products, declared trustee of
the Retail Grocers' Association, and are
unable to replenish their stock
One reason advanced for the shortage
is that many of the big canning fac
tories, especially on the Atlantic sea-
board. have contracted to send their
entire output to the warning nations
in Europe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
TWO KILLED AT CROSSING.
Three Others Are Seriously Hurt by
Pennsy Train at York.

YORK, Pa. November 20.-Two men
were instantly killed and three others
seriously injured when Pennsylvania
railroad express train bound for Phila-
delphia struck an automobile near here
today. The occupants of the car were
York county farmers from the vicinity
of Stewartstown, bound for Lancaster
to buy cattle The dead are Henry
Lanius. sixty-five years, and William
Leib, fifty years. Conrad Lanius will
probably die.
The farmers composing the party on
the way to the cattle market occupied
two automobiles. The driver of the
first machine heard the crossing bell
and saw the light of the trains head
light, but realized that he could clear
the tracks. The safe passage of the
frst machine is believed to have led
the other on to the crossing directly
in the path Of the trains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
TEUTON ENJOYS ORDERED
TO QUIT GREEK CAPITAL
Anglo-F French Fleet Commander Also
Demands Surrender of
Greek Arms.

LONDON. November 20, 1890 pm
An Athens dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company says the German. Austro-
Hungarian. Bulgarian and Turkish minis
ters to Greece have been informed by Vice
Admiral Du Fournet, commander of the
allied fleet. that they must depart from
Greece by Wednesday.
ATHENS, November IS. via London.
November 20 (Delayed). Vice Admiral
Fournet, commander of the Anglo-French
fleet in the Mediterranean, last night pre-
sented to the Greek government a note
demanding the surrender to the entente
allies of all arms, munitions and artillery
of the Greek army, with the exception of
some $4,000 rifles now in actual use by
the forces remaining after the last step
of rehabilitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
SUGGESTS THE LENDING
OF THE POSTAL SAVINGS
Federation Of Labor Urges Govern.
ment> Thus to Aid Building
of Homes.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, November 70
Congress will be urged to pass legisla-
ton whereby money on deposit in the
postal savings banks may be loaned
to municipalities for the purpose of
building model homes for it's citizens.
in accordance with resolution unani-
mously adopted by the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor convention today. An
alternative suggestion contained in the
resolution is that the government shall
establish such system of credits that
the people may borrow money for a
long term of years. at n low rate OF
interest, to build their own homes.
I'VE believe it is an easy natter for
the government to take such steps to
relieve the working people in the i'll
dustrial centers of the insanitary homes
that are now unfit for habitation," the
resolution says
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
BIG SOMME DRIVE
REPORTED At END
Berlin Says Anglo-French Of
fensive Has Come to Com
pIete StandstilI.
HEAVY PRICE FOR GAINS

BERLIN. November 20, by wireless to
Sayville, N. Y.,-Attacks were made by
the British yesterday on the Somme
front between Serre and Beaucourt and
south of Miraumont. The war office
announces that these assaults failed
with heavy losses to the attackers.
The British were driven from the
western part of Grandcourt.
At a Complete Standstill.
The military critic of the Overseas
News Agency writes:
1.-The great thrust on the Somme has
come to aFcomplete standstiIl. Last
week the general battle was split into
isolated attacks. The small local sue
cesses of the enemy could not be devel-
oped and for the most part were nulli-
fed by counter attacks. The fact that
for several weeks the same villages
have been mentioned again and again
in the official German reports and those
of the entente is the best proof that the
general battle on the Somme has come
to a standstill and that the British as
well as the French are limited to i'm
proving their positions.
although the British won small To-
cal successes near Grandcourt, and the
Germans were again driven from Serre,
the coveted heights of Serre remained
in German hands after desperate
battle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Bapaume as Objective.

Three fresh army corps were brought
up by the British for the great attack
of November 1914, the objective of
which was not merely Beaumont
Hamel and Beaucourt, but Bapaume, as
is proved by orders that were found.
After the failure of the mass thrusts
isolated attacks were continued by the
were without success, and on Saturday
the British again made a general at
tack on both sides of the Ancre. This
new attempt to break through our line
was a complete failure On the twelve
kilometer front the enemy was repulsed
almost everywhere, and his inSignifi-
cant successes at some places required
the heaviest sacrifices. Local success
at the bend of the Ancre was paid for
the front. The Butte de Warlencourt, a
hill which bars the road to Bapaume.
which was captured by the British No
vember IA at the expense of enormous
sacrifices, was recaptured by the Ger
mans on the 18th. A surprise attack was
made by the Germans without artillery
preparation and the opposing troops
fed.
only two on-commissioned officers
and seventeen men could be captured.
The prisoners bore no arms. They
were Australians, who were most
weary of war, and they declared that
all the Australian troops on the Somme
front were kept up only by the hope
of speedy relief.
isolated attacks by the French were
equally unsuccessful. Near St Pierre
Vaast wood a French attack broke
down with heavy losses, and near Pres
soire little was gained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
In Behalf of Dismissed Teachers.
HIGH LIVING COST REMEDY,
Chicago Official to Feed Twelve Per.
sons on SEQ a Week.

CHICAGO. November 20-Twelve per-
sons. who. after eating full meals of
chicken. turkey. roast beef and vege-
tables last night. and then prepared to
go on short rations in the diet test of
the municipal health department, were
given a two-day respite today.
John Dill Robertson health commits
sioner. had announced that he expected
to feed the twelve-six men and six
women-for two weeks for $50 a week,
or at a rate of a little more than s
cents a meal. He said today. however,
that he had been forced to postpone the
beginning of the experiment until
Wednesday because he has found that
the kitchen which Is to be used must be
specially prepared.
The experiment is to be made in an
effort to demonstrate method of re-
ducing the cost of living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
CITY OFFICIALS ENTERTAINED.
Inspect Munition Activities and
Other Places in New York.

NEW YORK, November 2O.-Officials
of forty-two cities which have dis
placed mayors for city managers and
who are here on their way to Spring
field, Mass, to attend the annual meet
ing of the City Managers Association.
inspected local munition activities to-
day. They were shown a routine drill
of a fire company, the fire departments
repair shop, the incinerator plant, the
Brooklyn navy yard and listened to
an address by Mayor Mitchell.
Tonight the city managers will be
the guests of the City Club at dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Farm Loan Board in Albuquerque.

ALBUQUERQUE. N. NJ. November 20.
-Four members of the federal farm
loan board are here today to hold a
hearing on land credit conditions. and
to gather information which will aid
the board in defining the twelve federal
land bank districts authorized under
the rural credits act. William G. Nc
Adoo, Secretary Of the Treasury. who
has participated in other hearings. did
not accompany the board here, having
gone To- Cala1UsQia for q rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Chicagoans Raise Price of Beer.

CHICAGO. November 20.-Practically
all of the bars in the downtown district
of Chicago today raised the price of
beer by serving 1t in glasses two-thirds
the. size of those used heretofore. A
number of downtown lunchrooms also
an increase of 5 cents each
on such orders as ham and eggs. bacon
and eggs and small steaks. while pies
formerly cut into Ave sections here.
after are to be divided into six.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Jury Finds F. ]. Richards Guilty.

PORT ANGELES, Wash. November
20.-The jury in the case of Frank J.
Richards. formerly of Lincoln. Neb.
charged with attempted blackmail of
David f. Thompson of Nebraska, for
mer ambassador to Mexico, returned a
verdict of guilty today. after being out
twenty -one hours. Richards was charg-
ed with threatening to publish
biography of Thompson in the event
that he refused to pay $4,000. which
Richards alleged was due him on a
partnership account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
PRESIDENT TO ATTEND
CENTENNIAL OF CHURCH

President Wilson will attend the GEN.
tennial celebration of the founding of
st. Johns Church January 13 and make
an address. The President today re-
ceiyed committee from the church,
consisting of Rev. DR.. Roland Cotton
Smith, Admiral Charles II. Stockton
and Ralph Jenkins. They told the
President that the centennial of the
church would be most interesting and
that the congregation would be greatly
pleased to have him present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Australian General Is Dead

LONDON, November 20.-Brig. Gen.
Duncan J. Glasfurd died in France
November IL as result of a wound
from a shell. He was one of the lead
ing Australian commanders and was
director of military training in Aus
tralia for four years preceding the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Dutch Sympathy for Belgians.

LONDON. November 20, 11:15 am
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Wire
less Press says the Dutch government
has instructed its representative at
Berlin to notify the German govern
ment that a painful impression has
been produced in Holland by the de-
portation of Belgian civilians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
British Seek Egyptian Recruits.

BERLIN, November 20, by wireless
to Sayville.ABritish officials are seek
ing recruits among the natives of
Egypt, according to the Overseas News
Agency. which adds that the town OF
Cairo has been declared in the war
gone, i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Conservation of Paper

Every citizen is called upon to see
that not pound of paper Is wasted.
Demand from every clerk that any
unnecessary wrapping OF packages
be dispensed with.
II you have no further use for to-
days newspaper save 1t for Z the
school .Qhilaren's playground fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Germans Are Reinforced.

BERLIN. November 20. By wireless to
SayvilIe.-New German formations have
reached the Macedonian front, it is an
nounced officially. The new positions
north Of Monastir were taken up with
out pressure from the allies. Serbian
advances in the Moglenica region were
repulsed. .-s - =.
The announcement follows: 1.-THE new
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Unchanged, Says London.

LONDON, November 20. 1915 p.m.-
The war Office announced today that
the situation on the Franco-Belgian
front is unchanged.
Today's French war Office report, as
telegraphed from Paris also is brief.
It says merely that the night passed in
relative quiet on all fronts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Investigation Is to Include
All Transportation Lines,
Senator NeWIandS Says

In opening the first session Of the
Joint congressional committee to in
vestigate railroad problems today.
Senator Francis G. Newiands Of Nevada.
the chairman. explained thPt ths in-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Restriction Hurts Business.

To American business men a most
aggravating restriction is that which
prohibits the importation into this
country of raw materials except unuer
guarantee that they will not reach Ger
man firms In this way England prac-
tically takes control of many Ameri-
can industries and obtains vaiuab BILE
trade secrets.
As a last resort for obtaining justice
from the allies against their restric-
tions the administration can turn to
the retaliatory legislation passed by
the last Congress. The President has
broad powers in applying this legisla-
ton, which might bring trouble with
the allies II used to an extensive de-
gree.
Morgan J. OBfien. president Of the
New York State Bar Association. in
vited President Wilson today to speak
before a meeting of that organization
in New York city January IL. The
President took the invitation under ad-
yisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Serbs Follow Up Success.

''On the evening OF November IS
Serbian forces. continuing their victo-
rious offensive. occupied the village of
Grunishte. east of the Cerna. The same
night Yarashok, in the bend of the
river. fell into the hands of Franco
Serbian troops. Following up their
success with energy during the night
Of the 1s-Isth our allies. after bril-
liant engagement took possession of
Hill No. 1873 and at daybreak of No
yember 1S they drove the enemy out Of
Nakovo.
During the day of the 18th several
lines Of Bulgarian trenches located in
by Serbian forces This determined ad-
mano-Bulgarians to evacuate the last
of their positions protecting Monastir.
French cavalry, pursuing closely the
g rear guard OF the enemy. entered Mon
astir November 1s AZ $50 o'clock in the
i. morning They were followed by 4
column Of Franco Russian infantry.
During the day our troops working
out directly north Of Monastir took pos
session. successfully. of hill No. S21
and the village of kirklina (two miles
north of Monastir). and they reached
the outskirts of karaman and Orizar
Respectively, four miles to the north
east and two miles to the north OF
Monastir). These towns were at once
attacked, and the pursuit OF the enemy
is continuing without respite. Six hum
dred and twenty prisoners and a con-
siderable quantity of war material re-
mained in our hands"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
MEXICAN PARLEY
ON FINAL PHASE
American Commissioners Max.
ing Last Effort to Reach
an Agreement.
MAY ABANDON CONFERENCE

Secretaries Lansing and Baker today
declined to discuss the Mexican question
in any phase and referred all inquirers
to Secretary Lane, chairman of the
American delegation to the joint com
mission. which Is to resume the sessions
at Atlantic City this afternoon. During
Secretary Lanes visit to this city Satur-
day and yesterday he received President
Wilson's complete approval of his course
in the negotiations with the Mexican
commissioners, and returned to Atlantic
City with instructions to bring the ses-
sions of the commission to an early con-
clusion.
Although officials here are hopeful that
a satisfactory agreement may yet be
reached. it is admitted that the joint
conference is entering on its final phase,
agreement or no agreement
II the commissioners find it impossible
to formulate plan, the view taken here
is that the prospect OF settling border
disputes through diplomacy will be re-
mote. Officials make no prediction, how
ever. as to what steps the Washington
government may find it necessary to take
in that event to insure the safety of
border towns and ranches.
Look for Withdrawal of Troops. -.
The American commissioners have
about abandoned the effort to frame an
agreement satisfactory to the Mexicans
in every detail. and will renew their
original suggestion, that each govern
ment patrol its own side Of the line in
dependently. but with the understands
ing that American troops will pursue
into Mexico on a hot trail any bandits
who attack border towns. Coupled
with that suggestion presumably was
the statement that Gen. Pershing S
forces would be withdrawn gradually
from Mexico and that no large force
would be sent across the line again
unless the de facto government permit
ted raiders to assemble in such force In
Mexico that strong expedition was
necessary to prevent a serious attack
Army officials believe that the Ameri-
can expeditionary force soon will be
moving toward the border. regardless
of the turn events may take at Attain
tic City. In its present position, many
officers hold, the expedition would be
of no strategic value should general
hostilittes break out. while the long
line Of communication with the advance
bases is constant source of danger
and more or less vulnerable at several
points.
Official advices from the border TODAY
Parral had made their escape, and will
Y~ na1o-.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Conference Is Delayed.

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j., November 20.
Resumption of the conferences Of the
Mexican american Joint commission
was delayed today by the failure of
Secretary of Interior Lane, chairman of
the American commission, to arrive this
forenoon from Washington. He was ex-
noon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
Still Under German Guns,

The Germans and Bulgarians occu-
pied positions on the hills north of
Monastir, from which they dominate
the basin of the Cerna. Monastir is
under the range of our guns, which
means that its position is insecure.
'The occupation of Monastir does not
In the least change the strategical
situation in the Balkans. Gen. Sarrairs
task, which was to accomplish a juno
tion with the Russo-Rumanian army
advancing from Dobrudja, has failed,
and now never can be accomplished.
The broad strategical plan of the en-
tente would have been complied with if
Gen. Sarrail had advanced on his east
ern fnak. but as he was unable to
break up the Bulgarian pressure in
this sector. his principal attacks were
carried out more and more to the west
ward. Although he thus obtained mi
nor local successes. he thereby made
open avowal of the fact that the orig
inal plan for Joining hands with the
Russo-Rumanian armies had been en-
tfrely abandoned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
To Be Serbian Capital,

SALONIkI. November 10. via Athens to
London November 20.-The temporary
capital OF Serbia will be Immediately es-
tablished at Monastir. Considerable
forces of Serbians are with the entente
allied troops who have occupied that
town.