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The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
PLANS WOMANS
congress HERE
John Barrett Proposes Pan
American Feminist Con-
ference for 1920.
TALKS TO CLUB WOMEN
General Club Federation of Country
Will Discuss Project at Meeting
in New York.

Club women of the National Capital are
eyincing a deep interest in the plan ad-
vanced by John Barrett, director-generaI
of the Pan-American Union, for a big
gathering of women as a pan-American
conference to be held in Washington or
New York in 1920. Mr.. Barrett first told
of the plan in an address before the
New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs
in annual session at Ocean Grove, N J.
Mr.. Barretts proposal was indorsed by
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker. president of
the National Federation of Women $
Clubs. who also suggested that the con-
ference be held in Havana, Cuba, in
1920.
The duo-continental feminine conven-
tion was brought up at the Pan-Ameri-
can Scientific Congress during its ses-
sions here the first OF the year, and the
plan was given impetus by wives of at
tending delegates. Many Washington
women then indorsed the plan.
The speech of Mr.. Barrett. in which
he urged the holding of a pan-Ameri-
can woman's congress. aroused the
liveliest interest among the club men,
bers, and the idea will be presented by
the federation before the general fedora
tion at its meetings in New York, begin
ming May % There should be considera-
ton of ways and means OF the fedora
ton getting into closer touch with the
women of Latin-America, possibly ex-
tending their organization into each of
these countries, and eventually plannipg 8
and holding a great pan-Amerlcan con-
ference OF women, which will he an inn
measurable power and practical influence
for advancing not only the level OF the
sex, but of all humanity of the western
hemisphere and thereby of the world.
Il believe that it would be entirely
feasible. practical and wise" he said, ito
now lay the first plans for a great pan
American woman's conference, which
might be held in Washington or New
York in 1890. and another one possibly in
1925 in some great capital of South
America"
Mr.. Barrett paid a high tribute to the
moral character and intellectual attain
ments Of the woman of Latin-America,
declaring the upper classes were highly
educated and that the divorce evil was
practically unknown. There are more
| divorces in Chicago in eighteen minutes
than in Argentine in eighteen years" he
| asserted.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
TWO COUPLES ELOPE
Together FROM CITY
Miss Blackburn and J. N Brewer and
Miss Woodruff and 7. P. Nor
gan, Jr., Welded.
Open $3.50 A. M.

Somewhere in the Shenandoah Valley
there are motoring two young bridal
couples who recently slipped away to
Upper Marlboro. Nd. and were married
without anybody in the Capital being
told of the coming ceremonies. The
youthful brides were Miss Alya Black
burn, daughter Of DR.. Ernest Cecil Black
burn, of Memphis, Tenn, a niece of
former Senator J. C. Blackburn, and
Miss Helen Woodruff. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. W. B. Woodruff. Of Thomaston,
Conn Miss Blackburn married now is
Mrs. J. Newton Brewer. and Miss Wood
ruff was married to Thomas P. Morgan,
jr.
Senator Blackburn stated that there
were no objections to these marriages,
that both the girls had been engaged for
some time. and that their only object
In being married privately was to escape
all the "flUb-dUb" Of the ordinary So
ciety ceremonies They will return to
Washington this week.
Both the young men are widely known
among the younger Washington set, and
are in business in this city.
Miss Woodruff and Mr. Morgan were
married by Rev. Francis E. McManus, of
Trinity Episcopal Church, at Upper MARI
boro, and Miss Blackburn and Mr. Brew
er by Rev. Francis ]. Loughren, of st.
Mary's Catholic Church, Of that place.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
TASK TO FEED vERDUN GUNS.
French Driver Describes Perils of
Transporting Shells.

London, May IA vivid picture of
the road leading to Verdun is given in
letter from a Frenchman serving on
the lines of communication along which
thousands of shells are being sent up
by day and night to feed the monster
guns at the front. The letter says in
part:
Hardly had we arrived in this region
on February % when my motor section
began its service for the transport of
shells into the region which you can well
guess. These shells, which we fetch from
a neighbOring station, are transported a
very great distance in uninterrupted con-
voys. making an endless chain on wide
road reserved exclusively for automo-
biles.
"On the return journey we take wound
ed, emigrants or come back empty, and
each outing represents for US from fif-
teen to twenty-five hours at the wheel
when it is not thirty-aRd for our lor-
res $50 to 200 kilometers. This, night
and day.
"On arriving here we did the journey
twice almost without stopping; that is
to say. forty-eight hours without sleep
and almost without eating.
1T was so fearfully hard that it was
decided that there should be only one
chauffeur per lOrry, and that we should
take II in turns. You know that We
are supposed to be two on every lorry. I
do not know if you can imagine what it
means to drive one Of those lorries
weighing five tons and carrying an equal
weight in shells, either during a descent
of Il or IA per cent, and with a lorry
just in front and one just behind, or
driving during a frosty night, or with
out lights for short intervals when near
ing the front
Can you see a driver alone on his
lorry, whose eyes are shutting when
shock wakes him suddenly, who is
obliged to sing, to sit very upright, to
swear at himself so as not to sleep. not
to throw his lorry into a ravine nor to
get it stuck in the mud nor to knock to
pieces the one in front? And then the
hundreds and hundreds of cars coming
in the contrary direction whose lights
blind him! II you can imagine all this.
be happy that you cpn spend your nights
comfortably asleep in a bed
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
THREATENS HER
after ROBBERY
Thief Tries to Blackmail
Woman After HoldUp
on Club Grounds.
SAYS HE HEARD "TALK"
Robber Phones He Eavesdropped on
Conversation Between Mrs. Zeigler
and Penn Fotball Star.
!p.d,I to The w.shinrton Hr.Id.

Special to The Washington Herald.
Philadelphia, May I.-Not content with
holding up and robbing big BIZ" Hollen-
back, former University Of Pennsylvania
football star. and his companion, Mrs.
Walter L. Ziegler. Of $500 in money and
tewelry on the grounds Of the White
marsh Country Club late Friday night,
the society burglar threatened Mrs. ZieE-
Ter over the telephone at her home yester-
day afternoon with blacknail unless she
comes through with some dough"
In highly nervous state from her ex-
perience Of the night before. Mrs Ziegler
was alone in her home, 5G55 Schuyler
street, Germantown, shortly after 5
o'clock when her telephone rang. She
answered II.
A coarse voice demanded.
rs this Mrs. ZiegIer?"
Yes" replied the young woman
How do you feel after your experience
Of last night" demanded the voice.
Who are your" asked Mrs Ziegier be-
lieving that some Of her friends were try
ing to poke fun at her on account OF her
thrilling experience.
I'm Bill HolIenback," answered the
voice.
'oh. no. you're not" said Mrs. zies-
Ter. It's not Mr.. HoIIenback's voice
Well. I'm the guy that turned the
trick last night. and I'm not through
either
Il heard all that talk you and the big
fellow had, and unless you come through
with the money, III tell your husband
You know all that stun about that mar
ried couple you were talking about"
I've got the goods on you" said the
stranger. and unless you come through
III tell your husband. II will be no more
happy home but a divorce for yours.
Now, don't finch, I'm going to show you
up"
Mrs. ziegler dropped the telephone re-
ceiver. ran to a neighbor. and asked him
to come over and answer the man on
the telephone. When he attempted to
talk with the stranger he had gone.
The neghbor then called up Mr. ZieEler
who was downtown at the time, and he
asked then to send their special officer
down to protect his wife until he could
get home. This was done and Mr.
Ziegler hastened to his residence where
he found his wife almost Frustrated.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15

ing to the Constitution. which defines the
term of President as -four years" his
tenure of office will be over at noon on
March and, even IL he is elected to
succeed himself, he cannot take the oath
OF office until noon on the following day.
Vice President Marshall, OF course, is un-
der the same disability as the President
Therefore the Secretary of State, Mr..
Lansing. will be President of the United
States for the twenty-four hours and
some minutes elapsing between noon on
Sunday, March l. and the time that the
new President takes the oath OF office on
the following day.
This brief term Of office is not mere
formality. 1t is an actual occupation of
the power Of President, with all his au-
thorities and prerogatives. Mr.. Lansing
President Lansing" for the day-wfll
be empowered to occupy the White
House, to issue pardons. to attend to all
the other business of which the Chief
Executive has control"
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
CANCER DURABLE, BUT
KILLS $4,000 YEARLY
Society Formed to Control Disease De
clares Most Persons Neglect
First Synntons
First Symptoms.

Cancer Is a durable disease, yet cancer
Is gaining rapidly as fatal disease In the
United States. This Ia the statement
made by the American Society for the
Control Of Cancer.
Figures collected from every part OF the
country show that the rate Of death from
this malady has increased from 62s per
cent for every 10000 OF this country's
population, to 7s.s per cent in 1914
DR.. Leroy Broun, OF Washington. one
Of this country's leading experts in the
treatment for cancer, stated that 60 per
cent Of the 5000 annual deaths are un-
necesssry and preventable. Records
show that the majority Of persons neglect
TO seek the advice Of their physicians for
at least one year after noticing the suS-
picious symptoms
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
AUSTRIAN VIEW OF BELGIUM.
TeutOn Sword to Bring Freedom
Socialist Paper Says.

Socialist Paper Says.
London, May 14-Austria does not
always see eye to eye with her ally Ger
many. While the Austrian censorship
sympathiZes with the anti-Russian ten
denotes of Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, it does not permit discussion of
the Polish question. As to Belgium, the
Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung Is permitted
to write as follows:
Matters are. of course, quite different
IN the west. Even the widest pettifog-
ger cannot assert that there is a work
of liberation to be accomplished in Bel
gium and in France; that there are here
peoples groaning under foreign rule, and
that freedom must be brought to them
by the German sword. In the west the
principle which the chancellor rightly
proclaims for the east would sig
nifty not liberation but conquest-not the
freedom of peoples from foreign rule but
their subsection to foreign rule. The
artificial reference to the long oppressed
Flemish races cannot deceive one about
the true state OF affairs. The question
of the national development of the Flem-
ings is Belgian domestic question,
which the Flemings themselves regard as
such, and for which they seek no help
from abroad. Whether walloons OF
F1emings, both races feel themselves 10
oS DSASihiAS eHN SSo lhSir Salvation only
within the framework Of an independent
BeIgium!'
The Arbeiter zeitung criticises further
the, ambiguity of the chancellor's refer
ences to Belgium in his recent Reichstap
speech, and says: 'The sentences which
look like anexation" are balanced by
sentences which do not exclude the DOS
sibility of "a friendly agreement II
lnfers that the speech offers no prospect
of peace. except upon the assumption that
It was intended to produce an effect upon
the enemy, which there seems no indica-
ton that 1t Is hkely-to produce.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
BRITISH FLEET AT HENLEY
Wonderful Reports of German Sue
cess Reach British Prisoner.

London, May 1.-THE popular belief
that the Germans know almost more
about the topography Of England. than
Engiishmen themselves is not borne out
by the following story:
AN English prisoner. just exchanged.
related that German officers daily gath
cred English prisoners round them 70 RE
late wonderful TeUtonic victories. At
last a quite decent German major came
and announced that the whole OF the
British fleet was bottled up in the
Thames.
'Where7' inquired an Englishrnan-
I do not remember the name Of the
place, though Il Is one quite familiar to
me- was the German answer.
Was Il at Henley asked a prisoner
Yes, that's the place. Your new re-
gattR now is a disaster
And probably still that German Is pom
dering why the idea Of the British navy
being cooped up at HeEley aroused such
uproarious happiness among the de-
lighted csptives.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15

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The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
NJ. P. CRoNN OUT FOR VOTES.
House Bill Clerk Nominated for
Congress in Iowa District.

Micheal P. Cronin has been nominated
by the Democrats in the Second Iowa
District for their Representative in Con-
gress. Now. Mike" Cronin has been 80
busy attending to his duties as private
secretary to Representative Tom Steele,
Of Iowa, and as assistant bill clerk of
the House that he was taken completely
by surprise when a telegram came tell
ing him to hustle back to Iowa and take
up the fight which his party brethren
have showed him into.
Mr.. Cronin came to Washington as the
private secretary to Representative Irwin
S. Pepper, of Iowa.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
Falls Church "Drys" to Meet.

Falls Church, Va. May 1L-The citizens
OF Falls Church on Tuesday night will
hold an appreciation service for State
Senator R. E. Thornton and State Repre-
sentative Franklin Williams, jr. These
men in the recent session Of the State
legislature were leaders for the ''drys" "
George Hawkhurst will preside. Wal
ter Moore, OF Fairfax and Washington,
will be the speaker. Floral tributes will
be given both Mr.. Thornton and Mr.
Williams.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
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The Washington herald., 1916-05-15

Newton d. Baker, the new Secretary
of War, was once student under Presi-
dent Wilson when the latter was an in.
structor at Johns Hopkins University.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-15

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The Washington herald., 1916-05-15

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
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Bulbs and roots

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 Named Varieties, each. 5c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
Roses 1Sc
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12

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