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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-29

Mrs. George W. McLanahan has ar
rived from New York and reopened ner
Washington residence for the remain
der of the winter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-29

Mrs. Thompson and Miss Hilda Sykes
will join them in February.
Miss Mary Garland will go over to
Annapolis tomorrow to attend the New
Year hop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-29

Senator lie Baron b. Colt and mrs.
Colt will return to Washington for the
winter on Tuesday from Providence,
Z. l.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
TRADE FACTS ARE
SAFE, He ASSERTS
David Lloyd George Denies
That Business Secrets Are
Being Used For Brit
iSh Gain.

London. Sept. IS. = David Lloyd
George, British secretary for war;, to-
day gave the Associated Press the fol-
lowing statement:
There appears to be a deliberate
campaign set on foot in the United
States by German agents to throw
doubt upon the good faith of his
majesty's government in regard to the
use of information obtained through the
censorship.
These German agents appear now
to have ~resurrected my statement in
the house of on August s, al
though that statement was fully ex-
planned by Lord Robert Cecil, minister
of war trade on August 9, and most OK
plicit assurances on the same subject
We're given by him in Il later interview
on August %.
In spite of this, these propagandists
are trying to dress out my statement as
something ncw, multiplying Lord Robert
CecilS assurances which followed 1t.
Let me now say on behalf of the mill
tary authorities that when information
is passed on by the censorship to other
departments, it is for the sole purpose
of guiding the action of the government
in the conduct OF the war.
For instance when we get informa-
ton that an American firm TO whom
the foreign office his given a permit for
the export of certain goods from Rot
terdam on the ground that the goods
had been paid for before the war, is us
ing that permit ~fraudulcntly as fire.
quently has been the case, we pass the
information on to the foreign office in
order that they may cancel the permit.
Again when we find that a neutral
firm is using British banking facilities
for the purpose Of trading with
enemies and is d~eceivjns The British
banks in question as to the real pur-
pose of the transaction, we pass that
information on to the proper depart
ment in order that they may refuse 10
license the transaction or again e We
learn that a shipment of cortr&hand
~oStensibly from M neutral FRA 10 am
other is really destined fer tae eaamv
We see that the c~ontraband committee
gets that information.
That, frankly stated, is What We do
But we affirm and challenge al.Veae 10
deny il, that honest business interests
n trade secrets of III American 1ncr
chant or manufacturer arc as SAFE in
the hands of the military cenaesa am
of every other government department
as they are in the hands OF the Amer
1can ~pOStoflice."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
CONFERENCE IS BEGUN
Prominent Laymen and Church
Heads From All Parts of
Country Attend.

Washington, Sept. 16.-Prominent
Catholic laymen and church men from
throughout the United States began ar
irving here today for the fourth bien-
NAL meeting of the conference of Cath
bic charities, beginning tomorrow and
continuing through Wednesday. 1t is
expected that the attendance Will be
larger than two years ago.
All general sessions of the confer
ence win be held at the Catholic uni
versity and problems to be discussed
include institutional care of children,
he placing of dependent children in
private homes, teaching of social work
n Catholic colleges, modern methods
f treating defective and delinquent
hildren and minimum wage and social
insurance.
First on tOmorrow's program will be
oontifical high mass, with Bishop
Thomas Shahan, of the Catholic uni
versity, as c%elebrant. The sermon will
'>e preached by the Rt. Rev. j. Henry
Then, bishop of Lincoln, Neb.
After mass n preliminary meeting of
7~eleeates will be held at which Bishop
Shahan will make the address of well
come. Later in the day the apostolic
'~ele"ate. the Most Rev. Archbishop
Ronzana, will receive the delegates in
formally. The first general session will
ne held tomorrow night.
A preliminary meeting of the wom-
ans section of the conference was held
today.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
FEDERAL INQUIRY
INTO HIGH FLOUR
Formal Application For lnves-
tigati0n By Trade Commits
sion Fi!ed-Wheat Jug
g|ers Are Blamed.

New York. Sept. 1S.-An appeal to
the federal trade commission ut WASH
ington for relief from high flour and
bread prices was made last night by
Commissioner Hartigan, of the mayors
bureau of weights and measures. The
commissioner in a letter said it was
generally understood that wheat price
fiNers' in Chicago We're mainly respon-
sible for the situation.
1T is generally accepted as being
true by those in the bread making
trade that prevailing high prices OF
wheat are the result of manipulation
and Juggling of the prices,' Commits
sioner Hartigan wrote. 1T is respect
fully submitted hat the public is en-
titled to know whether the prevailing
high prices on flour are based upon
normal and staple conditions or are the
result Of artificial price raising through
manipulation OF the Chicago board of
trade. 1t is the general belief that il
an investigation was conducted by the
federal trade commission into the
causes leading to the present high
prices it would be found that the law
of supply and demand is a negligible
factor in the establishment of prices
on wheat"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
WILSON'S SISTER,
MRS. HOWE, DIES
Only Sister of President Sue.
Cumhs to Peritonitis After
Lingering For Many
Weeks.

New London, Conn, Sept. 16.-Mrs.
Anne Howe, only sister of President
Wilson. died at her apartments in a
local hotel early today. Mrs. Howe had
been extremely i'll for about a week
with peritonitis and the end had been
expected at any moment for the last
two days. The president came here
last Monday, returning Wednesday to
Shadow Lawn Mrs. Howe was too
weak to recognize MIN.
Mrs. Howe came here from her Phila-
delphia home in the carly summer with
her niece, Miss Margaret Wilson,
daughter of the president. Her health
had long been impaired.
With her We're her two sons, George
Howe, of North Carolina, and Wilson
Howe. Of Richmond. Va. and a daugh-
ter, M"s. Cochran, of Philadelphia, be-
SIDES Miss Wilson.
There will be no funeral services
here. the body being taken later in the
day to Columbia, S. c., where it will
arrive about noon on Monday. Presi-
dent Wilson will join the funeral party
at some point not vet determined.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
HEAVY LOSSES
IN POWDER EXPLOSION

Pittsburgh. Pa. Sept. 16.-The fact
that six men have been missing since
an explosion last night at the plant Of
the Aetna Chemical company, in Oak
dale, a suburb, today prompted a hur-
ried investigation by the ~coroner's Of
flee. Officers Of h company declared
they did not know the humble Of casu-
alties, but expressed the belief that all
at work in the building had been killed.
A large party of worltrnen is search
ing the ruins for bodies. TIL plant
where the explosion occurred was said
to be ENGAGED in the manufacture of .
high explosive.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
WOMEN POOREST RISKS
INSURANCE MEN FIND

st. Louis. Mo-, Sept. 16.-Wh.le NOR
tality among women is lower than
among men, insurance companies have
tound risks on the ives Of the former
Jnprofitabie, and write policies on
women i've only for limited amounts
and at higher rates or under r~estric-
lions, according to 7. A. Phillips, Of
st. faul, Mimi, in an address before
the American Life convention here.
The losses suffe, ed by conn anies on
women's lives are greater during the
first five years of the existence of pol
icies,' Phillips SAID, and the risks are
reater on young married women;
among spin3ters the mortality rate is
lower then that of men: among mar
ried women it is higher, while widows
and divorces die at about the same
rates as men"
according to Phillips, as women
row older they become more desirable
risks.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
BULGARIAN LINES
ARE DRIVEN BACK
Berlin Admits Retirement In
Macedonia Where Serbs
Have Won important
Victory.

Paris, tvia London), Sept 16.-Ser.
bian troops have put the Bulgarians to
route in the fighting on the western
end of the Macedonian front, the war
office announced today. The Serbians
have advanced six miles northeast of
Florina and have captured go cannon
The Frenc and Russian forces also
nave defeated the Bulgarians.
Berlin, (via London), Sept. 1S.-Bul-
sarian forces on the Macedonian front,
says the official statement issued by
he German army headquarters staff.
nave occupied a new position, after
losing Malka Nidze in a battle with
troops of the entente allies.
Saloniki. Sept. 1S.-(via London.)-
The Bulgarians are falling back in dis
order toward Mcnastir, pursued by the
ictorious Serbians. according to an
official statement issued at Serbian
headquarters. The text of the state
nent follows:
After two days artillery ~preparat-
ion ana the occupation of the enemy's
advanced posts our infantry carried out
l decisive attack on the principal Bull
Earian positions in the direction of
'~lorina, which was crowned with COM
olete success. The ~Bulgarians at
'~IalkanidZe and Malareka are now in
our IdnCS anu General 6OyadJclf1 $
2rmy is retiring in disorder toward
Nonastir pursued by our victorious
troops.
w made a large number of prison.
ers and captured 20 guns, including sew
eral Of heavy caliber. The Bulgarians
losses are enormous. One Bulgarian
regiment lost 1900 mon. Our troops
l2ave already descended into the plain
of Florina.
London. Sept. 16.-British troops are
ENGAGED in active operations alo1-g the
Struna front on the right flank of The
allied position at %Sa'oniki. but appar-
entity are not making any forward
thrust in force in this region, accord
ing to today's war office announce
nent on the fighting in Macedonia,
which follows:
ION the Struma front our raidinc de-
tachments crossed the river and at
tackled Dzami Nah and Komaia, cap
turing some prisoners. Our mounted
troops raided VILLAGES of the upper and
lower Gudeli, in the Lake Tahinos re-
gion.
"On the Dorian front our artillery is
maintaining a steady bombardment Of
enemy positions"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
HOTEL GUESTS FLEE:
IN THEIR nNIGHTIESSO
Fire, Believed Started BY Some
Tramps, Causes $500, 900
Loss In Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Mimi. Sept. 18.-Firo
starting iii an u~noccuDicd building to
day caused a loss estimated at 5000. 900,
endangered the lives of guests of two
small hotels, who We're forced into the
street thinly clad and for a time threat.
ened to sweep the entire Wholesale dis.
trict. One building was destroyed and
several nearby structures badly dam
aged.
The police believe tramps sleeping ip
the vacant building started the fire.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
CARRIED ON COT
TO ATTEND INQUEST

Chicago, Sept. 16.-J. Maurice Petit,
the former bank teller of Cedar Rapids,
IA, vas carried On a hospital cot to-
day to attend the inquest into the death
Of his 1~S-year-old bride, whom he ad-
mitted killing to keep her pure"
Mrs. Carrie Scilraihncr, mother OF
the slain girl, tainted when she faced
Petit.
Petit has been in a hospital since
ne attempted to escape b" leaping from
a railroad train Us he was being re-
turned to Chicago. He was seriously
injured.
The ~coroner's jury recommended that
Petit be held to the grand jury on a
charge Of murder without bail.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
TROOPS BEGIN
o3-MIlE PRACTICE HIKE

San Antonio, Tex, Sept. 16.-Four-
teen thousand and aixty-three officers
and men OF the regular army and ma
tional guard started out Of san Antonio,
today for the biz est practice march in
the history Of the American army, an
a. mile hike" to Austin.
Light days will be consumed in the
Eaich to Austin. There will be three
days of camping at Camp Mabry.
lz-sht Gays VIII be spent in the return
to San Antonio. The division is made
Up OF Wisconsin, Illinois. Kansas, Texas
and Missouri ~suardGnen and is com
laanded by Brig. Gen. Henry A. Green
An $1,000 grlf K Hreal gold) Tor
~arde1 by az. = . / recently. att0su
it'l ~ - Htal eaaplo. 81 t.
80 mimi
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
SHIP HIT MINE.

Washington, d. c., Sept. 16.-Consul
Frost. at Queenstown, reported today
that the British admiralty believes the
British Harrison liner Counsellor.
which sailed from Seattle, the middle
of last month, and sunk southwest Of
Galley Head, September IA, without
loss of life struck a mine. Frank Call
ingham. an American fireman on he
snip was reported in London dispatches
as having made affidavit that the ship
was torpedoed.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
UNIONS VOTING ON
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
Outcome of Ballot That May
Tie Up New York to Be
Known Monday.

New York, Sept. 1S.-Several trade
Unions voted today for the purpose OF
determining their response to the call
for a sympathetic strike to back up the
striking street car employees. BY Mon
day labor leaders expect to learn the
sentiment of the longshoremen, team
sters, tide water boatmen, coal barge
men. stationery engineers, and firemen.
They assert 10000 men will be called
out.
The union leaders announce the ma
jority of the members of the machinists
union totaling $4,000 have voted to
strike. Should the longshoremen, boat
men and coal barge workers go out the
strike leaders say virtually all work
along the water front will be tied up.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
BANKER SLATED FOR
PREMIER OF GREECE

Athens, Sept, 10, (delayed).-King
constantine this afternoon called Mich
ota Caliagvyeropoulos, a lawyer and
president of the board of directors Of
the oman bank, to Tatoi to discuss the
possibility of forming a cabinet. Nj.
Callagvyeropoulos is a supporter of the
entente cause.
London, Sept. 16.-Reuter's dispatch
rom Athens today indicates that NJ.
CallagVyeropoulos summoned to Tatoi
ny KING Constantine, has been en-
trusted with the formation of a new
ministry in succession to the Zaimis
ministry.
M. Callagvyeropoulos was a member
OF the Theotokis cabinet.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
MOTOR TAXES MESSAGE
FROM COAST TO COAST

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 16.-yHar de-
partrnent message from Plymouth,
Mass, to Puget sound, relayed across
the continent hy automobile in a race
AGAINST time was delivered at 1912 a.
m, to 5ay to the commanding officer
at Lawton, its destination. The mes
age eft Plymouth at noon Mon5av.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
URGE INVESTIGATION
OF PACKING HOUSES
Cattlemen Want Federal Com
mission to Look Into
Industry.

Denver, Colo, Sept. 16,-Resolutions,
hrging an Investigation of the packing
and live stock industries by the federal
trade commission, were adopted here
today at the concluding session OF a
three-day conference of the market
committee of the American National
Live Stock association with prominent
live stock men OF the west and outh,
west.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
OMAHA WOMAN lNcINERATEp.

Omaha, Neb.. Sept. 16.-Mrs. Carl F.
Malmberg, aged As, of 3047 Evans
street, died early today from injuries
received in a fire which destroyed the
family home. Her husband was SO
badly injured that he is expected to die
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
ARMOREDT
M0WS SWATH FOR
BRITISH INFANTRY
Yesterdays Smashing Gain on
Six Mile Front Is Largely
Made Possible BY New
Battle Motor.
ARMY GREATLY IMPROVED
Fridays Advance Most Skill
full Yet Made-2,3oo Pris-
oners Taken-Third Line
OF Trenches Broken.
ARMY GREATLY IMPROVED
CoMBLEs HOLDS OUT.

Berlin, Sept. is. (via London).-
After severe fighting on the Somme
front yesterday, says today's Off
clal German report, the German
troops Were forced back through
the villages of Courcelette. Martini
puich and Fiers. The town of
Combles, the statement adds, was
held by the Germans in the face of
strong British attacks.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
A CALL

Washington, Sept. 16.-The comptrol-
Ter of the currency today issued a call
for the condition of all national banks
at the close of business on Tuesday,
September y.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
LITTLE DAMAGE AT MITCHELL

Mitchell, S. D.. Sept. 16.-Late corn,
erreeenting a small rercen+s ~ 80
I9 @fei from tie est
Ehui n ght. Tho q If
G g. Ea2 il this ser trl1
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21

The United States yearly spends
500, 000, 900 in building public schools.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21

London. Sept. 1S-As a result of their
offensive north of the Somme, begun
yesterday morning along the siX-mile
front from north of Combles to beyond
the PoZiere-Bapaume road, the British
are holding the villages OF Courcelette,
MartinDutch NJ Flers, the war office
announced this afternoon.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21

the army through all its ranks into a
festive mood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06
Not a Fish Story

One of the most remarkable travelling men in the south is Donald Benjamin who represents a New Jersey insur- ance company. He says that he is the only man of whom he knows that ever refused a $1o0 a month raise, but has his reasons for it.
 The president of the company wrote me and suggested that I add $1O0 a month to my expense account" Col oneF Benjamin said. T did not reply to that letter, so he sent me another. This l did not answer, so he finally addressed a communication to me and stated that, inasmuch as he was presi- dent of the company. he felt ought to be polite enough to answer it.
 "fn answer, I wrote that I had hoped that he might overlook my negligence, inasmuch as it was my concern for my health that had caused me to refuse the raise. l told him that I had to stay up until o'clock every morning to spend my present salary With the ad- ditienal s100, I would be forced to re- main up until 5 o'clock. This I was sure would wreck my health, so I spurned the raise"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06
DOWNTOWND

Simeon Strunsky in Harpers Magazine.
 There is a region of mystery into which the metropolitan husband and father vanishes between 7;9O and 8:45 a, m six days in the week and from which he emerges in the late afternoon. He is welcomed, after the manner of all re- turning warriors, with a tender solici- tude. Downtown is the trackless jungle into which father plunges to stalk the family's living. Aften 10000 years of civilization it is still the same. Anxious eyes follow him from the wigwam till he turns the corner to the railroad sta ton, and fond eyes greet him as he staggers out of the elevator door with his prey, so to speak, on his shoulder. Wives will never be reconciled to down town. It swallows up the man of the house when he would much rather stay at home and play with the children-so he pretends-and it sends him home at night too tired to be agreeable-as he asserts. Thus the little game goes on. The primitive hunter. I imagine, made fly and go off into the dark forest; and on his return he threw himself before the fire, too tired to speak. Actually, believe, the primitive hunter, as soon as he was out of sight of home, broke into cheerful whistle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06

From the New York Tribune.
 GTlHE best of New York is against the
 sky. We have not an eauabiy
 = arrayed town like Paris or Lon don, with a tolerably even roof line and only a few monuments here and thess rearing heads above the ruck. Every thing in New York tries to be higher than everything else. The profile of the city is as jagged as a second growth forest. city of towers is the name that has been used to describe Manhat- tan. But 1t is far too polite We are much more like colossal factory town with an intending variety of workshops topped by the tallest of marble chimneys
 Restlessness and activity are its watch words. Even our private houses are stood on end. A few millionaires can afford to buy a block and spread out their homes so as actually to look rooted to the ground. The rest of the world must live on end in tree-house, connect ed by many ladders, that might walk off down the street at any moment. Our few monumental structures. like the custom house and the library and the Metropoli- tan museum, are simply noteworthy ex- captions whose placidity makes the sur rounding upheavals all the more turpu- lent.
 Mere change, in the manner of the ban dar-log, is not the real spirit of New York's sky line. however. It is turbulence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06
AMERICAS ENGLISH

despite the enormous area covered by the United States. That a man from Arizona can converse so easily with a man from Maine, instead of finding him. self as much at sea as Tamil or Malabarese attempting to talk with an Indian who speaks Panjabi or Dakhni; that a Californian Is not as much for eigner in New York as a man from Kashmir would be in speech, In southern India, is due, of course, to the youth of our country, to the excellence of our means of communication, to the national habit of going about. in addition to the use of the common tongue in print. If America was as old as England Ksn- tuexian in Chicago might have as hard a time making himself understood as a Yorkshire farmer in a London drawing room, but because America was settled so recently the English spoken in one part of the country IS very much like the English spoken in England it is not because it is not approximately uniform in an area greater than that in which one language has been spoken at any time during the history of civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06
DELIGHTS OF FALL VACATIONS

By Kathleen Hills In Leslies
 Summer always will be the most popu- lar vacation season. The great majority either prefer to take their annual out ings at that time. or find it best suited to their circumstances. Winter vacations, at one time mere fads that only the wealthy could enjoy. are now recognized institutions of modern life. People, like the birds, are fast becoming migrants as the seasons change, and each year finds a greater number sojourning in the milder climes of California and the south during the colder months, but these periodic travellers most always will be found at the popular resorts where pleas ure and gaiety abound.
 The fall has Its own distinct charms that lay claim to ones attention as a vacation period. Its wealth of richly tint ed foliage, it's brilliant sunsets, invigo- rating atmosphere, bright sunshine, cool, health-giving nights are all restful to jaded nerves and tired spirits. He who drives away dull care and rests when the days are in the yellow leaf' is sure to be amply repaid. Only the true lover of nature takes his vacation in the fall and hies him to com equiet spot on a lake or river, and. weep in the woods, finds rest and relaxation after arduous work Then is no time to stick to the artificial pleasures of hotel or re- sort life. One wants to get out into the open in the bracing atmosphere and let nature work it's miracles while he tramps, rides, drives, hunts, fishes or golfs.
 To nen-the great lovers of the simple life-fall seems to be particularly dedi- cated, and in that season mans two great primitive outdoor pastimes, fishing and hunting, are most attractive. Throughout the woods of the northern states and Canada In the far west, and along the ginia and Maryland to New Jersey and Long Island, any day from October to the end of December one can hear the sharp crack of the rifle ring out on the crisp, where in the woods one sees the smoke spirals from the hunters campfire Women, too, are learning the real pleas ures of a quiet back to nature" vaca- number as devottes of the rod and gun.