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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-26

A Pleasanton Hotel Dinner-Danee.
Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Trotter chaper-
oned party of young people at q
dinner at the Pleasanton on Friday
night and afterwards at the Directors
ball. The table was very prettily or
namented, russell basket being grace
fully filed with blazing Transvaal
daisies and asparagus vine. The din
ner was given in honor of Miss Luz
ellie Rogers and DR., L. Z. Hooper.
whose engagement was announced last
week. The dinner guests were Dr..
and Mrs. f. E. Trotter. Miss Lucille
Rogers. Miss Florence Hoffman. Miss
Ruth Richards, Miss Ruth Anderson.
Dr. L. E. Hooper. Mr. Douglas Young.
Mr.. Ebert Bolts, Lieut. Eberie. Lieut.
George r. o'Connor
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-04-10

Il submits all its circulation figures,
books and records of every nature
pertaining to circulation TO the rigid
scrutiny Of the auditors Of the Audit
Bureau Of Calculations, and gives its
unqualified support TO the Audit Bu-
reau Of Calculations.
AS a result Of therigid audits Of news
paper and periodicalcirc made
by the Audit Bureau of Calculations,
every advertiser in America can raov
buy his advertising space with def1n-
tie and detailed knowledge of JUST
whot circulation he is getting.
The buying Of advertising space has
been raised at one stroke to plane
of efficiency never known before.
We want them to get this information
from an authoritative and unbiased
source-in such standardized form as
will enable them to make fair COM
parsons Of this paper with other
newspapers Of the same class.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-04-10

We want our advertisers to pay US.
not for the circulation we think we
have or hope we have or guess we
have but for the circulation that
the trained accountants of the Audit
Bureau of Calculations FIND WE,
HAVE.
We do this because the Audit Bureau
of Calculations is the biggest forward
step that has been taken in years, in
either The newspaper or the aduer-J
Using field.
We want the advertisers who buy
space in this paper to know exactly
how much circulation they are pay
ing for and vhere that circulation is,
Over a thousand of the leading News
papers, Periodicals, National Adver-
Users, Retail Store Advertisers and
Advertising Agents in America COM
prise the membership of the Audit
Bureau of Calculations, and this
newspapers proud to be one of them.
2 Jour nal
Of Calculations
Re Circulation OF This Newspaper to Any
Evening star., 1916-09-19
TELLS OF CIVILIZATION
WHICH FOLLOWED DEL LUGE
Epic Discovered Depicting Fall Of
Man and the Succeeding Re-
construction Events.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, September 49,
A Sumerian epic that tells the story
OF the reconstruction Of civilization
after the deluge has been discovered on
one of the famous Nippur ia blets in the
University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Announcement of the discovery and the
completion of the translation of the
epic has been made by Dr. Stephen H.
Langden, distinguished Sumerian schol
ar and assistant curator of the museum
here.
The epic, according to DIR. Langdon.
takes up the history of civilization after
paradise, the fall of man and the food,
and is a sequel to the Sumerian epic
which he translated a year ago. The
fragment which contains the latest
STORY Is four and one-half inches long
and one inch thick. 1t contains about
800 lines of inscriptions. 1t dates from
about 1850 B. c., and hence represents
literature older than that of the
Babyloniaus and the Chaldeans. A
search for other fragments will be in
stituted at once among the university's
collection
The boat or ark is mentioned" DR..
Langdon said "as we'll as Lahama, the
god of the deluge. 1t describes the re-
generation of the ancient land of Su-
mera at the hands of the god OF Wis
dom, who decreed that it should be the
center Of civilization and the Sumo
rians the rulers OF the world"
Evening star., 1916-09-19
Germany Requisitions Crops.

The German general staff has under
taken in order to prevent speculation
and to secure rigid distribution of the
harvest in the north of France. to requi-
sition the entire cereal and potato crop,
and to guarantee to the relief commits
sion. for the use of the civil population.
minimum supply of 200 grammes Of
-four and 400 grammes of potatoes per
capita, per diem, from the harvest. Mis-
cellaneous vegetables. poultry, etc, are
free from requisition by the Germans
and are reserved for the use of the civil
reputation, but no system of control OF
the distribution of these products is
possible.
The arrangements with regard to ma
tive wheat and potatoes involve fur
nishiug from these crops about $4,000
tons of wheat and $4,000 tons of pota-
tees per month, and the commission
expects TO import about 10000 tons per
month of wheat, bacon, lard, meat, rice.
beans, sugar. coffee, etc. The combined
native and imported supplies will pro-
vide {. ration equal to about three
quarters of normal human consump
tion, but yet sufficient to maintain the
population in health.
Evening star., 1916-09-19
ARERMANUFACTURERS
SUGGEST CONFERENCE
Would Meet Publishers to Discuss
Methods of Observation-Disclosures
Commission Plan.

Notification was given the federal
trade commission by the executive COM
nittee Of the News Print Manufac-
turers' Association that it was ready to
meet committee of newspaper pub
fishers to discuss means of regulating
the distribution of white paper so that
small publishers may suffer no injustice
and may be relieved of the prospect of
suspending publication, which many of
them are said to face because of the
paper shortage.
suggestion by the trade commission
that manufacturing machines now en-
gagged on other grades of paper be
transferred temporarily to newsprint
was rejected by the executive commit
tee as impracticable, and to a further
Evening star., 1916-09-19
TAKOMA PARK CITIZENS
ELECT THEIR OFFICERS
Mai. D. S. Fletcher Is Chosen Presi-
dent at Fall Meeting in Branch
Public Library.

The annual election OF officers of the
Takoma Park Citizens Association took
place last night at the fall meeting OF
the association. held in the Takoma
Park branch of the Washington Public
Library. 5th and Cedar streets. The
result of the election was: President,
Maj D. S Fletcher: vice. president, II. c.
Gore; secretary. c. c. King tre-elect-
ed: assistant secretary, William Steu-
art: treasurer, J. B. Kiefer (re-elected): !:
delegate to the Federation of Citizens
Associations, DR. d. y. Shoemaker; al
ternate c. A. Reed.
On motion of H c. Gore, the town
council of Takoma Park, Md. will be
requested to modify the ordinanre, re-
Gently adopted. forbidding children to
coast on the streets and walks within
the corporation limits. A hearing on
the subject will also be asked.
The committee on schools. composed
of H. c. Gore, chairman; Mai. D. S.
Fletcher and DIR. D. \. Shoemaker. pre-
sented a request to the board of educa-
tion yesterday afternoon, requesting
an eight-room addition to the Takoma
School In the report of the committee
last night Chairman Gore stated that
facts and figures were presented TO the
school authorities showing that the
school has been more than filled for
several years past; that the seating ca
pacity is 364 and the average attend
ance is now 3S1.
The largest enrolment was 432 in
one year. No additional ground will
be necessary. as land adjoining the
present building was purchased two
years ago. 1t was urged that a build
ing with an assembly hall be incor-
porated in the estimates for 1915 The
association approved the action of the
committee.
w. G. Platt, the retiring president,
suggested that the town council be re-
quested to make an appropriation for
improving and beautifying the new
public park in North Takoma, Md
Homer Skeels said that the Horticul-
tural Club of Takoma Park would as
sist next year, and that he hoped to
see a swimming pool and other i'm
provements provided.
Members of the association and resi-
dents of the park were urged to par
ticipate in the flower show the first
week in October in the Library build
ing. c. H. Spencer is chairman OF this
committee.
The District Commissioners will be
requested to spread fine macadam over
several of the thoroughfares now con-
structed with rough stones.
Mrs H. c. Gore and Mys. c. A. Reed
were elected members of the association.
Evening star., 1916-09-19
Garfield Died 35 Years Ago Today

Today is the thirty-ffth anniversary
Of the death of James A. Garfield, one
Of the three Presidents Of the United
States to be assassinated. President
Garfield was shot July 2, 1881. by
Charles ]. Guiteau, while in the old
Pennsylvania railway station, 9Th and
B streets northwest, where he was pre-
pairing to take a train
Evening star., 1916-09-19
Commission Announces Ar
rangements Completed With
All Interested Governments.
INCREASE IN THE RATlONS
TO THE CIVIL POPULATION
<>ss;sion Made for 100000 People
- Occupied Provinces Two
Other Divisions in Need.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Associated Press.

Correspondents Of the Associated Press.
LONDON, September s.-The commas
sion for relief in Belgium announces
that arrangements have been completed
with all the interested governments for
the augmentation during the coming
wear of the relief to be provided to the
100000 civil population in the occu-
pied provinces of northern France The
steady exhaustion of food reserves and
the diminishing vitality Of the popuia-
ton has necessitated a considerable IN
crease in the ration hitherto provided.
especially for the industrial populations
In the Lille and yaienciennes districts.
The allied governments have facili-
tatsd financial arrangements by which
the monthly resources of the commits
sion exclusively for the French popula-
tion are to be increased from $3,40o,ooo
month to s6.ooo,o0o month. This
cum, will be used to provide increased
imports from the seas and from Hol-
land.
Evening star., 1916-09-19
In Other Political Divisions.

Negotiations are not yet completed as
TO the food supply and finance for the
two other political divisions occupied by
the German army which the commission
looks after. that is. first. the two Flan-
ders. with a population Of 100000 peo-
pie. which is under the German general
staff and with regard to which, like north
ern France. the commission deals directly
with the general staff. and, second. the
remaining part of Belgium. which is un-
der Gen. Won Bissing. comprising $3.50. 900
people. and where the commission carries
on it, negotiations with the German au-
thorities through Minister Whitlock.
Increased Importations Required.
In these areas, also, because Of the
steady depletion of the native food sup
plies and the increase in the number Of
the destitute. the importations must be
largely increased. With all the resources
which the Belgians and the Belgian gov
ernment can bring to bear. a considerable
part of the cost of the support Of the des-
titute population must depend on public
charity from abroad. This load has lately
been increased by the necessity, on ac-
count Of falling health conditions. of CIV
ing q supplementary ra ton to all school
children, which makes an added drain on
the resources of the commission of one
million dollars month.
Evening star., 1916-09-19

that it would be useless TO ask the
mills to sacrifice those profits to make
a grade in which most Of them are not
particularly interested At this time.
Many Of these mills have lived on
starvation diet for many years. and
now, that they have the opportunity
to leave a grade SO utterly Improbable
and undesirable as the manufacture Of
Evening star., 1916-09-19
Gen. Gorgas 1t San Juan.

SAN JUAN, p. r.. September 1S.-
Maj. Gen. william C. Gorsas. surgeon
general Of the United States Army. and
other sanitary experts, who are study
ing health conditions in South Amer
lea, have arrived here from Venezuela.
Evening star., 1916-09-19
Reply to Commission.

In reply to the comission's plan for
Sunday operation and for the transfer
Of machines temporarily from other
grades to newsprint paper, the execu-
tive committee wrote:
The executive committee. speaking
for themselves, and with much GER
tainty for most of sthe members of the
association. have announeed that they
would be perfectly willing to run their
mills to the extent that it was pos
sible to run them with due regarf to
the upkeep of machines in the mills.
but that all efforts that had been put
forth heretofore by the newspaper
publishers to induce the labor unions
to agree to operate the mills with
which they have contracts had utterly
failed
Evening star., 1916-09-19
Commerce Department Changes.

In the Office OF the Secretary of the
Department of Commerce John P. Rose,
clerk. at $1,000, and Edwin C. Tomlin.
messenger boy, at $3.50, have resigned,
and Martha E Burton has been tempo
rariIy appointed as clerk at 5000.
Evening star., 1916-09-19
The commission will proceed nezt te
Brasil.

Mrs. NJ. A. Fenno. si1ty-seven. of
Phoeous. Va. was fatally hurt and fv.
other passengers slightly injured when
an automobile overturned near Lynch
burg. Va.
Evening star., 1916-09-19
Other Paper More Profitable.

'Tn regard to the suggestion that an
effort be made to transfer machines
to news-print paper that are now op-
Grating on other grades of paper, it
was shown that the profit on the other
grades is SO much greater than is
being. obtained on news-print paper
Evening star., 1916-09-19

news-print paper. they are taking ad
vantage of. the opportunity. hoping
never to return to the manufacture of
that grade of paper"
Evening star., 1916-09-19

proposal that factories be operated on
Sundays to relieve the shortage the
committee replied that efforts to induce
labor unions to sanction Sunday opera
tion had failed. Tho commission VIII
endeavor to secure appointment Of a
committee Of publishers to take up
these and other suggestions with the
manufacturers.
Evening star., 1916-09-19

Lieut.. Col. Edwin W. Owens. sixty
one, retired, of the 4th Virginia Regi-
ment, died at Portsmouth, Va.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-11-06

TRY A HERALD WANT AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been re-
norted 10 the health depa rtment in the
la st twenty-four hours:
Dieu dome Celestin Leroux, 80 years.
Emergency Hospital.
William Miller. 60 years. Washington
Asylum Hospital
Henry Hurt, 70 years. 1925 street
northwest.
Fred Heitmuller. So years, Emergency
Hospital. . ne
Hugh Orchard. 81 years. 226 9Th
Robert p. Stillions. As years. United
States Soldiers Home Hospital.
Walter Higgins, 80 years, $40 Massa-
chusetts avenue northwest.
Elsie NJ. Minder, 10 years, 40 10th
Ellen W. Kent, 40 years. Homeopathic
Hospital.
street northwest
Clara l.. Smith, Z months, 1140 North
Capitol street.
Harry Anderson, months, -ooo n
street northwest.
Howard H. Updegrove, Fl days, 712
q street southwest.
Mary NJ. Russell, 43 years. 144S Cor
coran street northwest.
Ike Campbell. % years, Georgetown
University Hospital.
Sarah Allen. 95 years, 1913 Florida
avenue northwest.
Ernest Brown, As years, washington
Asylum Hospital.
Cornelius Coates, 6o years. 6lS K
street southwest.
Leila Kenney, 20 years, tuberculosis
Hospital.
Anna K. Parker II years, s23 v
william Pryor. 40 years. go street
northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
LEAP-YEAR GIRL GETS
LICENSE IN ADVANCE
But Bridegroom-Select Takes Docu-
ment Back and Has It
Cancelled.

Bachelors and young men are eau
toned against the -dateness of the
1915 girl. When she pops the cues
ton" they ought to be sure she has not
already procured the marriage license.
A young man who today returned for
cancellation a license. while not claim
ing that the young woman in the case
had exercised the prerogative of her
sex during the leap year. told Col w.
A. Knoll, the genial license clerk, that
the license had been procured without
his permission.
The young woman. giving her age
as nineteen years. visited the city hall
late yesterday afternoon to get the
license. She told the clerk that the
age Of her fiance is twenty-one years.
What can do about this?" anxiously
inquired the groom that was not to be.
Pressed for an explanation, he stated
that the young woman had surprised
him by showing him the license when
he called last evening. He declared
that he had never requested her to per-
form this customary duty of the groom
or best man. He seemed pleased when
the clerk told him the license could be
cancelled. and eagerly asked that red
lines be drawn across the record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
WAR CONSERVATIVES FIND
A HAVEN IN SWITZERLAND
German and French Prisoners Will
Be Treated at Leysand
and Davos.

BERN. Switzerland. January &c, via
Paris. January 27-Two hundred con-
sumptive prisoners of war arrived in
Bern today. Half of them are French
prisoners from Germany and the re-
mainder German prisoners from France
They are the first soldiers to be
brought to Switzerland under the
agreement recently made for the treat
ment of consumptives at health resorts
of this country. The French prisoners
are bound for Leysand and the Ger
mans for Davos.
The French and German govern
ments have given orders to the men to
make no attempt to escape, and if any
should do SO they would be treated as
deserters and be subject to court-mar-
tial. They will not be watched by the
Swiss authorities. Each nation will
pay the cost of maintaining its own
soldiers.
1t is expected that about 10000
Frenchmen and as many Germans will
be permitted to take treatment in
Switzerland. Three hundred rheumatic
prisoners of war from Germany and
France will be cared for at Baden, near
Zurich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
Births Reported.
ATLANTTC CITY. N. }.

The following births have been re
ported to the health de partment in the
last twenty-f four hours:
Howard and Nina Watkins. girl.
Luther c. and Estelle +. Sykes, boy.
Walter A. and Matte $. Smith. boy.
Frederick f. and Katherine NJ
girl
William and Mable c. Scott, boy.
Harry and Nellie Rozzene. boy.
Joseph and Katie Rosendorf, boy.
Alessandro and Lucia Marucci. girl.
William c. and Cora Miller, girl.
David and Annie Keppell. boy.
Lewis and Mary Hurst, girl.
Morris and Esther Friedman, boy.
Charles Nick. and Louise Eiker. boy.
Joseph w. T. and Efva Duvel boy.
Joseph E. and Louise A. Draley. boy.
lie Roy and Cecilia d. Drake, BOY.
Lewis and Edith Cohen. boy.
Amos and Mary Culp. girl:
Albert and Alice Bratnard, girl
John and Ethel Alden. girl.
John and Ethel Uhf, boy
John l.. and Gertrude Thorn. boy.
lanes and Mahala Taylor. boy.
Robert E. and Prudence Starke. girl.
Phillip and Eva Rideout, girl.
frederick and Susie Mais. boy.
James and Mary Mickey. girl.
James and Josephine Jones, boy
Benjamin E. and Annie C. Brent, boy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
SANATORIUM'S DEBTS PAID.
Announcement Made at Annual
Meeting of Takoma Park Institution

At the annual meeting of the Wash
ington Sanatorium. held yesterday at
Takoma Park, members of the con-
stituency were present from the south
eastern coast states, middle Atlantic
and New England states. Elder W. T.
Knox. treasurer. announced that the
institution has been cleared of its in
debtedness and that the receipts last
year showed net gain of $8,O4S.9O
DR.. Harry w. Miller, medical super
intendent. gave a comprehensive re-
port Of what has been accomplished
and made suggestions for the better
ment of the institution. asking that
authorization be given for the con-
struction of swimming pool and gym
nasium.
C. Z. Hammond. business manager;
DIR. l.. e. Elliott. medical superintend-
ent of the Washington Sanatorium
Mission Hospital. and DR.. Margaret
Stewart. superintendent of the branch
treatment rooms located ON I street,
also submitted reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
{. CLINTON JAMES. Attorney.

N THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
of Colunihia.-Samuel Williams, plaintiff. VS..
Geneva Williams, Frank Ball, Defendants
Equity No 3233i-The object Of this suit is TO
Obtain a divorce from the defendant, Geneva
Williams. the ground of adulty with the
correspondent Frank Ball. On motion OF the
plaintiff IL is this 10th day Of January, AID.
1916 ordered that the defendant Geneva Will
1ams, her appearance to lie entered herein
or before the fortieth day, exclusive OF sun
Of the first publication of this order; otherwise
The will he proceeded with as in case OF
default. provided copy of this order De pub
lishei week for three successive weeks
10 the Washington Law Reporter and The
Evening Star before said date. BY the court:
THoS. II. ANDERSON. Justice tSeall A true
copy. Test; J. Il. YOUNG. Clerk BY z.
CUNNINGHAM ASST Clerk ialO, 14,2I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
JOHN ". DAVIDGE, Attorney.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF co.
mmbia. Holding Probate Court.-Estate OF
Mattie Edwards. deceased-No. o225s Admins
tration Docket 52.-Appcation having been
made herein for probate of the last Will and
testament Of said deceased and for letters tesla
Inentary said estate by Kate Burgess II is
ordered This 18th day of January. AID. 1916.
that Mary Jones. Getney T. Jones' Minnie
Campbell. Carsie Rhodes. Enoch Jones and
Theodore Jones. and all others concerned. ap-.
pear in said court on Monday, the 18th day CT
February. AID. 1916. at 10 O'Clock am. TO
show cause why such applica ton should not be
granted. Let notice hereof he published in the
Washington Law Reporter and The Evenng
Star once in each OF three successive weeks be-
fore the return day herein mentioned. the first
publication to be not less than thirty days he
fore said return day. WALTER ]. Mccoy,
Justice. tSeal.I Attest: JAMES TANNER.
Register of Wills for the District of Columbia,
Clerk of thp Probate iaon p fe3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
RELATIVE WARSHIP COST
UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM
Paymaster General Says None Can
Find Difference at Navy Yards
and Private Plants.

Two learned men, on opposite sides.
could talk intelligently and honestly
for two weeks and never make head
way toward settlement of the oues-
ton of whether the cost of warship
construction is greater at a navy yard
or at private plant. Paymaster General
Gowan of the navy told the House
naval committee yesterday. Representa-
tive Butler of Pennsylvania announced
that he had spent part of his life trying
to figure out the problem and he was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27

going to devote his attention to some.
thing else.
Admiral MCGOWAN said there were so
many differing Characterization OF
government investment in the yards.
salary and wage conditions. upkeep
for other purposes. and SO on, at the
yards. and la Dor conditions. tax, In
surance and other questions at the pri-
vate plants that it was still a mooted
question which is the more economical
policy to the government in the long
run.
Surgeon Gen. BREASTED discussed med
zeal preparedness before the committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
FOR BUSINESS ARBITRATION.
u. S. Chamber of Commerce to Act
on Question February 5.

The Chamber of Commerce of the
United States will act February on a
pan-American commercial arbitration
agreement proposed at the recent pan
American financial conference. The
Buenos Aires Chamber of Commerce has
just approved the agreement with
commercial bodies already had ac-
cepted II.
The agreement would have all COM
mercial disputes between American
business houses submitted to arbitra-
ton. 1t would become effective after
exchange of notifications within one
year from July ]. 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
NAVY LACKS MEDICAL
RESERVE SUPPLY, CLAIM
Surgeon General BREASTED Urges
House Committeeman to Au-
thorize Large Appropriations.

Surgeon General BREASTED told the
House committee on naval affairs yester-
day that the Navy Department is abso-'
lutely without any medical reserve supply
and that it would be a serious problem
for the government if an emergency
should happen.
He said that recently there was a call
for 5000 ounces of quinine to be used
in Haiti where naval forces have been
stationed for months, and that all the