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The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
WHITE NICE START FIRE

New York. Dec. 26.-some practical
joker turned loose twelve white mice In
the hallway Of z Liberty street, Brook
lyn, yesterday. As a result there was
a nre. Twelve families were hurried to
the street and one man was nearly sur.
focated.
The first floor is occupied by James
Rigsby.' cigar dealer. He slept in the
rear of the store. When the mice. scam
pering across beds. awoke sfeepers, wom-
en- screamed and ran into the haIls,
Somebody outside heard the yelling and
summoned policeman. 1t was then the
nre was discovered. Rigsby was found
unconscious. He was revived by DR.
Harper, Of the Brooklyn Hospital. The
fire did $500 damage.
The police believe mice gnawed a box
Of matches In the cigar store.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
SPECIAL NOTICE,

PURSUANT 10 SECTION /, AKIILE Vrn. on
bg,LNs nocce hersby given that ths annral
meeting Of ths stockholders a ths O.ut.l rr.~<Io1
company for the election of Dtrectos for ths u-u.nf
year and such other buanes a. msT bs hroarnf -
io1e me meeting win be held at ths of1ss q M
oomIsny. Thirty-EKth and N er.sn north-sa
Mashinston, ID. C.. on WEDNESDAY, JGnaarJ nj
I'LL az pe o'clo5 a m Ths poIls NH Be- 90
Iom u O'Clock a m. until Il o'coek Noon h n
CHAMPION, Secretary.
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BIRTHS REPORTED.
WHITE.

WHITE
ALVIN NJ and Ella NJ. whttxpth. rrL
James J. and Jane A T06in, Ein.
Clyde and Helen Phelps. boy.
LGErsnes md Ssranna MEtt, boy
John B. and Mary Moore. girl
DHnisl L and Mary q Leans. ph
william W. and Margzrst @. Hardy, boy
Anthony T. and Nadine N. DuBuskJ. bog.
Ralph H and Erwin OAss. girl.
COLORED.
Jsss Z. and BlSnGhs Wright, girl.
COllou L. and Maud A. Smith, girl
Addison ". and Essis Scuriock, boy
William r End BesEs MeAbee, bog.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
DR.. Naomi Noteworthy Dead.

New York, Dec. B.-Dr. Naomi Nors-
worthy. associate professor Of education
al Psychology at Teachers College, Co
Iumbda University. and author Of several
books on psychology. is dead here. She
was connected with the stan OF Teachers'
College for sixteen years.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
LEGAL NOTICES
osTERMAN a MARBLE, Attorneyx.

u IhE SUPREME COURT OF TIE DSsTRHI
OF Columbia holding Equity CS1.ty "a II
snlhN1n. Plaintiff. ". Naomi Sullivan Cla-vo~,
Ohed, Defendants Equity No HSS-TSs 49,
o. this suit % for the plGintf 70 seoIrs an shsoluf
oi'orce irom The defendant Naomi Sullivan. upun
statutory cause. the defendant ClArencs olosad h.
ing named co-respondeut; that he be Irardsd o.
ootooy o. his child. William Wate-s surrvant -
A. ne nave such furtbT and Other reliS a. mzT
Cpon motion n the complainant n q tfis oc
qS ot NoFanoer. A. d. fsls, ordered that chs a.
IeDohnt cme his appearznce to Be sutsred herr1n.
and leFll holiday occurring sft.T n, dsy ~ -
hlst punhcnon Of this orteT; otherv1ss tAs s-.
Ein be pooeeded With in cass o< damn Pr-
noeo opy q his order b pubished uncs q vs>a
ior tnres successive weekB In the waaafnrtoo IHs
heporter and Ths washington Herald newasp~n
oefore said day. W. p. STAFFORD gu.anH
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Three Aged Citizens Die.

New York. Dec. B.-Mount Vernon has
suffered the loss Of three Of Its Oldest
residents In space of twenty-four hours.
Augustus Hayward was 81 years old.
Joseph Mayer was born here IN 1855.
william A. Anderson was II years old.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
MUST BRING LUNCH FOR TWO.
Guests VIII Share Unusual Ho.pi
tality at Party.

tality at Party.
Lincoln Woman's Relief Corps No 4,
Auxiliary to Lincoln Post, Grand Army
Of the Republic, did not hold its regular
meeting Monday night but will give a
box party on Friday evening
Past Junior Vice Chief
LeVant Dodge and his wife, Mrs. Mary
H. Dodge. national senior vice president,
Woman's Relief Corps. will be guests of
honor. with the department president,
Mrs. Jennie T. Thomson. who, with her
stan will be present All the women
who expect to attend are invited to
fix up a box Of luncheon. in which there
will be enough for two people.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27

JOSEPHINE YOUNG, one of the
leading women of Spiegel Revue
at the Gayety this week, who was
trained for music teaching, bat
preferred the stage.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
PoSTMAsTER's DOG STOLEN,

Postmaster Merritt o. Chance report
ed to the police yesterday that a very
valuable bull dog was stolen from the
rear yard Of his home. 1910 New Hamp-
shire avenue.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
PERSONALS.

WE INTEND TO LET RBSUDS SPEAK nm
ny DO any man that has sod sutnA jana -
shoes etc. 70 u 10 nrSt-clAs Hduers1sur fur a.
noosa a thsy tel fnsnd and ths nsvs tzz-rk
IAs eno1sh 20 hep o'r oash csr1uIkfang yU6r7rS
OLD STAND. 6ls D.
NOTICES Artificial teeth and SSoo6E-
hand Diamonds and Jewelry bouEbf
Leuia AbrahAms. Sis G, ep. Pst- offs..
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27

bSS4l-Milford o. Jarvis (appellanD Va
Peoples Mutual Benefit Insurance Co. i:
appeal: plaintiffs attorneys, w. G. Gardi-
ner and n. c. Cox.
59S42-Augusta P. Tomlinson VS.. Capital
Traction Co.: damages S2o, 900; plaintiffs 8
attorneys, John G. Capers and Rice Hooe.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
Equity Suits.

34s25-Emma w. Adams vs. Charles NJ.
Forrest ct al; specific performance:
plaintiffs attorneys, NJ. N. Richardson
and C. g. Shreve.
34S26-Mary Barry VS.. Helen F. Barry;
partition; plaintiffs attorney, George c.
Gertman.
34s77-Bertha L Owens VS.. unknown
heirs of Susanna Fowler ct al; to quiet
title; plaintiffs attorneys, George w. Of
fltt and Charles V. INLAY.
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mouths Old; ansseu 30 name Of 'Mun." Ln
reward n returned 10 POSTMASTER W.-hSo-1.u
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REAL ESTATE TRANoFERs.


ct ux- Martha D.. to Clara NJ. Giles and
IDA J. v. Bronaugh; lots s. and 90, square
5l52: SO.
Longfellow Terrace-National Capital
Realty Company to R. J. Dunham; lot
10, square S155; $3.50.
Twenty-second street between X and L
streets northwest-John =. Hammersley
to George Henderson; lots 1s and Is.
square IS; 80
Columbia Heights and sO6 New Hamp-
shire avenue northwest; 716 Twenty-third
street decentralization Carusi to
George Henderson; lot 20. Columbia
Heights, block 81; part lot s. square 70;
south part original lot IS, square u: SO
Barry Farm-Thornton Carusi to George
Henderson; part lot 3, section 9; SO.
11S4 Columbia road northwest-NeIlie I.
Bradford to David A. Baer: lot S11, Wash
ington Heights, square 1853; SO.
419 A street northeast-Alzona G. Lord
to Mary f. Allen; east part lot T. square
SIS: so.
s1s G street southeast-Francis Hughes
to Mamie Hughes; part lot g. square
80; so.
Addition to Ledroit Park-Joseph Paul
ct ux. Elva A. to John C. Parker; lot
4S, block "a; 80.
wolpe to F1lippo Capuano and Antonina
Terregrossa; part lot IS, block IS; SO
DEEDS OF TRUST
Square S1S7, lots 4S and 4e-Mary B. Mil
Ter to Percy H. Russell and Thomas H
Banes; to secure Erskine r. Miller, $1,000;
| five years, per cent semi-annually. Same
to same; to secure Mary A. Sutch. s, 800;
two years. per cent semi-annually.
Square 5152, lots s. and 66-Clara NJ. Giles
and Ida ]. V. Bronaugh to Harvey T.
Winfield and Alfred B. Baker, to secure
Thomas P. Newbold, 8, 200; one year, 6
per cent semi-annually.
Square 1075, lot 47-William Repettl ct
uI. Annie E. to George NJ. Emmerich
and Douglass 8. Mackall to secure
Washington Six Per Cent Permanent
Building Association, $500.
Peters Mill Seat, part tract described
Moses W. Reynolds to Walter G. Eisin-
ger and William E. Eisinger, to secure
Morris Levy. $780, to u months.
! Square 3121, lot 4s-John C. Parker to
Arthur Carr and Marvin A. Custis. to
secure Perpetual Building Association,
$500
Columbia Heights. part lot 10, block
| 36-Antonina Terregrossa and F1lippo
Capuano, to Hayden johnson and Thorn.
as H. Patterson. to secure Morris L. and
Annie Wolpe, 5000; three years, 8 per
cent semi-annually. Same to same; 81. 500:
1 to 30 months, per cent.
Friendship and Mount Airy, parts lots
Q to 8, block 3-Frederick W. Parks ct ux
Mazello L. to Emory H. Bogley and John
W. Bogley. to secure CapItola V. Bog.
| ley; 1850; two years, per cent, semi
annually.
Square 1220. lots s. and S6-Babette Dick.
erson to Henry H. Bergman and Charles
Schafer, to secure Northern Liberty Ger.
man-American Building Association, No
6, d,600.
Square 1o51. part lot 1o9-Mary B. Raw.
mond to Charles P. Stone and Charles W
Fairfax, to secure Cora o. Woodward
800; three years. per cent semi-an.
nually.
Square 1f, original lot IA and narts
original lots Is and 1S-Henry r. Webb
substituted trustee, ct al. to Washington
Loan and Trust Company, to secure
Union Trust Company; 5000; three years
. l-2 per cent semi-annually.
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COURT PROCEEDINGS
Law SUITS.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE EIGHT.
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Mechanics Lien.

MO. R. Evans & Bro, Ino, VS..
Ralph z. Walker and American Security
and Trust Co., trustee; part lot & square
q, 16l1 Twenty-second street northwest.
$SSs; attorney, E r. Colladay.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27

Funeral services for Mrs. Harriette
Taliaferro. who died in Berkeley. Cal,
were held today at Christ P. E. Church,
conducted by Rev. w. J. Morton, rector,
and Rev. S. A. Wallis, D. D., Of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary
Palloearers were Thomas H. Taliaferro,
G. l. Boothe. W. R., Taliaferro, Seddon
: TaIiaferro, Arthur Taiaferro and q. L
Boothe, jr.
total of one arrest was Alexandria'r
Christmas record in police circles and
that was the arrest Of q negro for dis
orderly conduct He was fined $ today.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27

Last rites for Alexander j. wedder-
burn, who died in Washington Sunday,
ere held this afternoon at Christ P. e.
Church. and were conducted by Rev W.
J. Morton. rector Of Christ P. E. Church
and Rev. S. A. Wallis, d. D., OF the
Episcopal Theological Seminary. Burial
was made IN Christ Church Cemetery
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27
MONEY TO LOAN,

MONEY TO LOAN ON APPROVED CITY REAL
estate At lowest current rstss: special privileess
With respect 70 prior pAyments. TYLER RUTH.
ERWoOD. Inc, 81 18th st
MONEY TO LoAN-soo 10 ssp!m ON D. O.
real estate. Several trust funds ~ 70 Q per cent.
Al uansacdons conducted with economical eousid.
rauon for borrower WIN. Il. SAUNDERS q
CO.. Southern Building @ lSth q NV
The Washington herald., 1916-12-27

Robinson MOncure. Z. E. Iawler and
clinton 5. Balfenger have been reap
pointed members of the local board Of
lax review for the third consecutive year
by Judge l.. C. Barley of the Corpora
lion Court. Newell s Greenaway clerk
"f the courts. is clerk OF the board.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.

The Wilmington Dispatch is soon to
issue Sunday edition.
Raleigh township, Wake county, has
just sold 100000 bond issue for
school buildings in Raleigh.
A Newbern shipbuilding yard has
arranged to construct four large
scows for a Baltimore company.
w. A. Broadway, who built the
splendid system of good roads in
Cleveland county, has gone to Green
vile county, S. c., to build network
of roads.
More than 500 physicians are ex
pected to attend the state annual con
vention in April at Durham.
Forty parents and guardians at Kin
ston have been indicted for failing to
comply with the compulsory educa
tion law.
Stirring addresses by returned mis-
sionaries and missionary experts NOV.
ed the men of the North Carolina Con.
vention at Greensboro of the Laymen's
Missionary Movement and at the de-
nominationa1 conference plans were
put on foot to carry into the church
boards and local organizations the
enthusiasm aroused BY the meeting,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
White HOUSE AT PEACE
PREPAREDNESS ADVOCATES NOW
ABLE TO COOPERATE IN
THEIR WORK.
Members for Compression Committees
Agree That Resignation of Garri-
son Has Clarified Situation.

Washington.-A new note of har
mony and cooperation on national de-
tense problems was struck in the
house military committee as a direct
result of the resignation of Secretary
Garrison of the War Department. It
found expression in the adoption of a
resolution declaring the committees
appreciation of the confidence Presi-
dent Wilson reposed in it and in the
senate committee as disclosed in his
correspondence with Mr.. Garrison.
Members of both the congressional
committees declared that the War
Secretary's withdrawal had brought
out sharply the Presidents desire that
congress should work out its army
problems in the light of its own best
judgment, despite his personal pref
erence for the continental army
scheme advocated by Mr.. Garrison
result, they agreed was a clarifica-
tion of the congressional atmosphere
and the assurance of support for the
bills that will be drafted from ele.
ments of both the Democratic and Re
publican sides that had heretofore
been counted against the measures.
In substance, it is believed, the bills
will represent an effort to make effec
tive virtually all of the plans of the
war department with the exception
that liberalization of the natiOna
guard will be sought as a substitute
for the continental army plan.
Steps toward beginning the drafting
of the measures were taken by bott
house and senate committees. BOtf
will take up the work Monday and i
is planned to hold all-day sessions
whenever the business of the two
houses will permit
The house committee brought to {
close public hearings on army plan:
and ordered an elaborate indev of thu
voluminous testimony prepared, 81
there would be as little delay as pos
sible either in committee considera
tion or the coming struggle on th'
floor. Similar steps were taken b.
the senate committee.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
Report Not Made Public,

Washington.-The naval court of
inquiry which Investigated the recent
explosion on the submarine E-2 in the
New York navy yard in which five
men were killed and nine others Sc
riousiy injured submitted it's report
to Secretary Daniels. Beyond the an
nouncement that the court had been
unable to report who was responsible
for the explosion, Secretary Daniels
declined to discuss the document. His
decision not to make the report pub
lie is said to have been reached after
a conference with high officers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
LANSING STUDIES NOTE.
Berlin Note on Armed Merchantmen
Reaches Department.


Washington. Secretary Lansing
studied at his home the text of the
memorandum from Berlin announcing
the intention of the German Govern
ment to regard armed merchant ships
Of the Entente Allies as war vessels
after February 20. He will discuss the
subject with President Wilson at
once.
The text of the memorandum from
Austria, similar to that issued by Ger
many was momentarily expected.
1t is considered doubtful that an
announcement of the position the Uni
ted States will take in the matter will
be defined until both documents have
carefully been digested and consid-
cred. Between now and that time the
attitude of the government is made
known, the state department may no.
tify the representatives of the En-
tente Allies here of the receipts of
the documents from the Central Pow
ers; so that their government may be
completely informed on the subject.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
Ford to Fioht Preparedness.

Detroit, Mich.-It has been an.
nounced that Henry Ford is preparing
to launch a countrywide campaign of
newspaper and magazine advertising
against the program for huge naval
and military expenditures now before
congress- It was said Mr.. Ford in.
tends soon to carry out his announced
intention to devote millions Of dollars
to an educational campaign against
war and preparedness which he de-
clared to be the first step toward
actual war.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
SEC'Y GARRISON RESIGNS
FAILURE OF CONGRESS TO ADOPT
THE CONTINENTAL SCHEME
is CAUSE.
President Wilson Accepted Resiqna-
ton and Will Probably Take Per-
sonaI Charge Of Affairs.

Washington.-Secret Garrison
resigned because President Wilson
would not 'irrevocably" support the
continental army plan, and because he
opposes the administration program
of setting definite time for Philip
pine independence. &szss s---.--.s--z--,- s--z-
President Wilson accepted the res
ignation but has not selected a sue
cessor. The president himself prob
tbly will take personal charge of the
Administrations national defense plans
in Congress.
Assistant Secretary Breckenridge
also resigned as a mark of loyalty to
his chief, whose views he shares. The
president accepted his resignation
1t is known that one of Secretary
Garrison's principal reasons for his
conviction that only a Federal CONT
mental army instead of a reorganized
National Guard should be the main
military dependence of the nation was
his belief that some day the United
States may be called upon to defend
the Monroe doctrine and in that event
he foresaw that the National Guard
might not be available for use outside
of the United States before a declara-
ton Of war.
The acute differences of opinion
which led to the break began early in
the year when opposition to the con-
tinental army plan began developing
in congress. There had been indefi-
mite rumors of the possibility of the
secretary of war leaving the cabinet,
but they never were countenanced in
official quarters. The secretary every
where was regarded as one of the
strong men of the administration upon
whom the president leaned in the diff
| cult situations, both domestic and in
! ternational, which have marked his
administration.
| The circumstances which led up to
secretary's correspondence with the
president which was made public by
| the White House. The president, the
letters disclose, believed that the
| training, organization and control of
military reserve should be under i'm
mediate Federal direction, but is not
''irrevocably or dogmatically commit.
ed to any one plan" He wrote Mr.
Garrison that he could not force any
specific plan on Congress and added:
81 must welcome a frank inter.
change of views and a patient and
thorough comparison of all the meth
DDS proposed for obtaining the object
we all have in view"
| Mr.. Garrison's contention that only
the plans of the war department could
be considered seemed to the presiden!
wholly unjustifable." Mr.. Garrison
considered reliance upon the militia
for national defense an unjustifiable
and imperiling of the nations safety.
In resigning he wrote the president:
"It is evident that we hopelessly
disagree upon which 1 conceive to be
I fundamental principles"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
COTTON is KEPT DOWN.
Objects to Foreign Buying Clause Of
Futures Act.


Washington.-B. G. Thompson OF
Goldsboro, N. c., in writing to Rep
resentative George Hood relative to
the proposed discussion by Southern
members of cotton exchange conspir-
acy believes that the present law is
responsible for cotton being kept
around II and IL cents in the past
80 days.
In speaking of this matter, the
writer urges the Importance of
Southern representatives advising
their constituents to cut the acreage
this season down to last year or be-
low, cut the use of fertilizers to SO
per cent of last year and hold on to
every bale of cotton on hand.
1t is understood that Chairman
Lever of the House Committee OF
Agriculture is planning to offer an
amendment to section eleven of his
cotton futures bill, which is the sec
ton complained Of This section has
been objected to by cotton exporters
in several places because they have
experienced considerable embarrass
ment under the present law, which
imposes prohibitive tax on hedg
ing on foreign cotton exchanges.
The proposed amendment woult
permit parties selling cotton at Liver
pool to protect themselves by buying
futures there to cover the amour
sold
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
Wilson Close to CONGRESS.

Washington.-SeG Garrison's
resignation last week has had three
far-reaching results upon Congress, in
the opinion of administration leaders.
When the excitement following the un-
expected development had subsided 1t
was apparent that it had clarified the
legislative atmosphere with regard to
two important issues. National de-
tense and Philippine independence,
and had served almost magically to
bring congress and the president
closer together than they had been
for many months.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
President to Business Men.

hington.-President Wilson told
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States that America needed a
real scientific tariff board and he
thought it was going to get it; that
it NEEDED a real merchant marine, and
that it was absolutely necessary some
beginning should be made at once to
get that too; and that had it not been
for the effectiveness of the Federal re-
serve law as business preparedness
measure there was no telling what
commercial disaster would have over
whelmed the United States.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
Must help Paw For Roads.

Asheville-There is weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth, plenti-
fully 5esprinkled with certain words
generally deleted by censors, along the
new Weaverville road since the an
nouncement that the county commits
sioners will shortly appoint jury to
assess damages and benefits along
the road in question. with view OF
making the property owners pay .
large percentage Of the cost Of tho
splendid asphalt road just being COM
pleted toward Weaverville. The road
is the finest in the county.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-17
TROUBLE FOR UNCLE SAM.
No Matter Which Way He Decides
Matter He Will Offend.

Matter He Will Offend.
Washington. = Diplomatic negotia-
tions of various characters soon will
confront the United States as the re-
suit of the expressed intention of the
German and Austrian governments to
treat armed merchant ships of the
Entenate Allies as war vessels after
February 20.
Apparently It is certain if the tenn
per Of the Allied Governments can be
judged by the feelings Of their dip
lomatic representatives here, that any
attempt by the United States to
change the present rule permitting the
use of American ports by merchant
ships armed for defensive purposes
will be met by strong protest. Cor
respOndence also Is likely to follow If
the United States assumes a position
which coinc1 1des with that of Germany
and Austria regarding the right OF
submarines to sink armed ships with
out warning.
On the other hand, the United
States itself may take the initiative
should the Entente Allies impose a
virtual boycott on American ports in
the event of this government decid
ing that armed merchant ships enter
ing American waters are ships OF
war, and therefore subject to intern
nent.