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The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
FOG And Shell HOLES
stop SOMME DRIVE
Big Offensive Not to Be Resumed
Before Spring.

(By the International News Service. ]
London. Dec. @-Fog and shell holes
were chiefly responsible for stopping the
Anglo French Somme offensive ana will
probably prevent is resumption until
March,
This statement was made today by Mat
Gen. Frederick B. Maurice, chief direc-
tor of military operations at the war Of
fee. No real battle has been offered on
the Somme since October, said Mai. Gen
Maurice.
He admitted that the allied high COM
mand had underestimated both the effect
Of the artillery shelling which left the
fcountry 'thickly sprinkled with shell
holes filled with water and the fog In
The Somme Valley.
Maj. Gen. Maurice announced for the
first time that the British have taken
over another sector OF the French front
This next best thing" he said, kept
them busy for the last ten days" He
added he would be glad to reveal the
extent Of the line taken over when I am
sure the Germans know the point of juno
ton"
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
l2O FLAT TENANTS
join "HEAT STRIKE"
Janitor Starts Argument and Tenants
Hold Back Rent.
Special to rhs was1instou Henid.


New York, Dec. ga row that took
place between A. Paper, janitor of 1423
wilkins avenue. the Bronx. and Mrs. A.
Fisher, who has an apartment there,
called attention today to the fact that
the 1oO tenants of the dwellings at 14l0,
1872, 1919, and 1923 Wilkins avenue and
$50 Jennings street have gone on strike,
refusing to pay rent unless hot water
and steam are supplied copiously and a
written promise entered into that the
rents will not continue to increase In
inverse ratio to the heat
The janitor was summoned to Nor
risania Police Court by Mrs Fisher, who
declared he bit her when she took sides
with her husband in an alteration over
the amount of steam heat they were get
ting. He was found guilty and gave a
$500 bond for his future good behavior.
At a mass meeting of the tenants
Christmas night in conjunction with the
Tenants League, 1t was decided that the
rent for the present month. amounting
to $500, should be placed in a bank and
not paid until the landlords sign an
agreement to satisfy all complaints.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
FIVE GIRLS ACCUSE MAN
AS "JACK THE HUGGER"
So George Modoc Is Held Under
$1,000 Bail.
Special to The Washington Herald.


Philadelphia. Dec. 2S.-George Mo-
doc, rs, believed to be the mysterious
Jack the Hugger." who terrified girls
of the northwestern section so they
wouldn't go out of nights recently, was
held under $4,000 bail for court by
Magistrate Collins today. after facing
five of his alleged victims.
Modoc is a well-dressed young man
of good appearance, and he loudly
protested his innocence He had only
been in the city two months. the pris-
oner said. and was a married man
But five girls still burning with the
memory of merciless hear hubs said
they positively identified Modoc as the
man who gave them.
In each case the hugger's tactics
were the same. He approached the
prospective victim as she was walking
somewhere and asked to be directed
to an address on Natrona street.
After hearing her directions the
hugger usually asked to have them
repeated. BY that time he had sized
up his prey. II the girl were pretty
he caught her in his arms and hugged
her. If he found her lacking in pull
chritude, the hugger has been known
to pass them by.
When one of the young women told
Magistrate Collins that Modoc had
treated a 10-year-old girl in this fash
ion, the prisoners bail was jumped
from $500 to $4,000.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
High Cost Of Illness
Jumps IN Boston as
Doctors Raise Prices

Boston. Dec. 2s.-The high cost of being
sick is going to strike Boston with the
new year. After January the medical
fraternity plane to boost prices. and II
will cost 81 instead OF 81 just to drop
In on a physician and have him feel a
patients pulse.
The medicos are also to make it more
expensive to be sick at night than by
day. This Is the new schedule Of house
calls: Between s a. m. and D. m, 50;
between p. m. and p. m, 81; between
p. m. and s a. m, s..
What 1t will cost to die has not been
figured out
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
Voices Of Caruso, Amato
And Tetrazzini Dance"
Before Audiences Ewes

New York, Dec. 2a-Delegates to the
Congress Of Scientists today saw the
voices Of Caruso. Tetrazzini, and Arnatc
dance before their eyes on the walls
Of darkened room in the university
building at Columbia
The demonstration was given by Prof
Dayton c. Miller, Of the Case School
OF Applied Science. at Cleveland, Ohio,
inventor Of the phonodeik.
This apparatus eventually may save
those who aspire to become grand opera
or concert singers thousands of dollars
for Prof. Miller Is hopeful of developing
1t 50 that 1t will be possible to determine
whether the singing voice of any person
has artistic possibilities.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
Burglar Attempts to Burn
Woman's Home After An
Entrance with False Key

While Mrs. L. II. Beverly was busy in
the second floor OF her home. his Fifth
street northwest, last night. an uniden-
tined intruder opened the front door
with a duplicate key and deposited a
bundle OF oil-soaked rags under the steps
lsading upstairs and applied a match and
repeated the act in a cupboard.
Before the fire had gotten any head.
way, Mrs. Beverly, smelling the smoke,
rushed down stairs and extinguished the
flames before they gained much head
way. The incendiary has not been iden-
titled, as he had made his escape before
the fire was discovered.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
ONLY ALLOWED ONE NAPKIN

Philadelphia, Dec. 2.-Like a thunder
bolt a notice, written on little slips Of
paper appended to the menus in a laree
Market street restaurant. broke the news
today that the starchy lunchroom nap
kin had become a luxury.
Henceforth only the opulent can have
more than one The high cost OF Iaunder-
ing and the terrible rarages of the om-
nivorous napkin hog are twin reasons
for the new rule.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
DENIES HE SAW GIRLS ANKLE

Chicago, Dc. 8.-Peter Zyla today de-
MED that he eyeF-saw the ankle of pretty
Hazel Daily. movie actress, and hopes
TO win 1850 BY proving that he did not
Peter Is asking an Insurance company
10 pay him that amount on the ground
that he was blinded by an accident. A
movie film taken by the company on the
street and purporting to show Peter gaz-
ing adoringly as Miss Daily lifted her
skirts, is a fake" says Peter.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
TWO SHOT FOR TWO CENTS

New York, Dec. 2s-Except the fact
that two men were shot, all the police had
learned today Of a Harlem card game was
that some one missed 2 cents. Nicolo
polara. "a. was shot in the abdomen and
died in the Metropolitan Hospital on
BlackwelPs Island. Augustine Bordnora
81. is In the hospital with a bullet wound
in his lung. and is expected to die.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
STARVATION GROWS COMMON

London. Dec &-Death from starvation
IL becoming common in Germany.
says a dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Paris.
1t quotes a traveller, who recently re-
turned from Germany, to the effect that
the food shortage has reached the cli-
max Of its seriousness. This traveller de-
clared that he saw many persons in Ger
many fall to the street from sheer ex-
haustion, due 70 the lack Of food
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
SIX KILLED IN WRECK

Montreal Dec. Ask passengers were
killed and several injured early TODAY
when the westbound Cornell local pas
senger train was hit by the Montreal
Toronto Express on the Canadian Pacific
line at St Polycarpe Junction, according
to reports made to railway headquarters
here today
The engineers and iremen on both
trains miraculously escaped death or
serious injury.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
DYNAMITE GANG ACTIVE.

Oakland, Cal, Dec 2L-Dynaniters
early today wrecked the house until a
few years ago occupied by Charles T.
Huchison, manager of a mining and scien-
thc Journal. who for months has been
the recipient of blackmail letters.
The police and postal authorities de-
clare the explosion was the work Of the
sang which demanded that Gov. Hiram
johnson deposit $4,000 In gold coin IN a
certain place under penalty Of having his
home blown upL
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
T. R. TO VISIT ORIENT,

New York, Dec. 3.-CoL Roosevelt
starts for his Oriental trip from San
Francisco on February Z. He will be
accompanied oy Mrs. Roosevelt The
Colonel first goes to Honolulu. After a
visit to the Marshall Island group he pro
ceeds to Samoa.
The Colonel will be absent about four
months. He wishes it understood that
the tour is merely for pleasure ana that
he is not in quest of more whiskered
birds or unknown rivers.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
FROST HITS ORANGE CROP.

Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 8-Frost has
damaged the orange crop OF California
more than S5.O00,Oac. according 10 con-
servative estimates today
orchardists are spending s7O.Ooo nightly
for oil with which to keep going stoves
about the trees Some, In edition 20
stoves, are employing European war
methods by running a curtain of IRE a
mile long
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
FIVE KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH

Montreal, Dec. S.-Fiye men were kill
ed and six others were injured early to-
day In Q rear-end collision, when the
Canadian Pacific Railways Toronto train
Tor Montreal ran into the local train
from Cornwall to st. Polycarpe.
IT Is supposed the engineer of the train
from Toronto either failed to see the sig
mails or misread them In q heavy fog.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
RUTHLESS SUB WAR COMING

New York. Dec. 2s.-Germany will inau-
gurate 1871 with ruthless submarine war
fare on all shipping. according to Arm
gard Karl Graves, the self-styled former
German spy VINO recently was arrested
on charges OF blackmailing Counties Won
Bernstorfr
The pledges given this country will be
Forgotten" said Graves. He declined to
say where he received his information.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
BUT HE FIRED HER!

Philadelphia, Dec. 2S.- Capt. Joseph
r. De Lamar answering a $4,000 suit by
Katherine O'Byrne, who says she was
employed for life as his assistant house
keeper. told the Supreme Court yester-
day that the plaintiff bullied his servants
and wore his daughters clothing without
permission.
Katherine O'Byrne says she was en-
gagged. for so long as her life should
last, as assistant housekeeper.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
MRS. W. E. COREY I'LL

New York. Dec. @.-Mrs. William e.
Corey, wife Of the former president of the
United States Steel Corporation, arrived
here today on the French liner Rocham-
beau. the victim of a mysterious malady.
which seized her shortly after the liner
left Bordeaux.
Mrs. Corey, who was Mabelle Gilman.
an actress, has been nursing French
soldiers at her French chateau, /.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
CANAL SLIDES CEASE.

The slides in Culebra Cut in the Pana-
ma Canal have practically been overcome,
according to information made public by
the Panama Canal Board yesterday. It
is announced that the channel In the cut
now has a minimum depth of thirty-three
feet, enabling the largest merchantmen
b paAs throush
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
VIRGINIA MAN WOUNDED.

Ottawa, Dec. 2S.-Lieut. Bynum, who is
serving overseas with the Canadian
Mounted Rifles and whose home is In
Richmond, Va, is reported wounded In
the overnight casualty list
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
DENY PERSONAL GOD.

Philadelphia, Dec 2S-Prof Leuba, a
well known psychologist of Bryn Mawr
College, has ascertained by a canvass
of $500 American scientists that the
greater part Of them deny both a personal
God and the Immortality Of the hui
IMAM soulr .aa.. ..
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
Sleeping Cur TO Fairmobt,
RaIfImore ana nhIa R.El-s

For the accommodation OF patrons TO
Fairmont and Eorgantown, a sixteen
section Pullman sleeping car leaves
Washington at SOS y. m, arriving
Fairmont 5:l5 a. m. Passengers NAV
remain in sleeper at Fairnont until
6:45 a. m; arrive AorgzzkoNa 7sGs
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29

A IL over town you'll hear the
~ expression, "The HERALD
is growing" The public sees
It; the advertiser knows it; competi-
tors admit il. It has the largest cir
eulation ever enjoyed by a, morning
newspaper In Washington.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29

more and more it is becoming
IfA evident that the morning news
paper best serves both subscriber and
advertiser. The phenomenal growth Of
The Herald attests this in Washington.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29

Pennington, n. j., Dec, S.-John Nc
Loughltn alias William McLoughlin was
today sentenced to life Imprisonment at
hard labor by Judge Thomas w. Tren-
chard for the murder of Richard ].
Wyckoff last February.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29

Los Angeles. Cal. Dec. 2S.-David Cap
Ian, convicted of completely in the dyna-
miting OF the Los Angeles Times build
ing IN 1870 was sentenced to ten years
in San Quentin today.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29

Amsterdam, Dec. 2s-Austrian Privy
Councillor Rudolf Siegbart, governor of
the Austrian land bank, has resigned and
has been succeeded by Ritter Won 10th,
says dispatch from Vienna
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29

Amsterdam. Dec. 3.-The order OF
Merit has been conferred on Captain
Nalentiner. commander Of a German sub
marine, for sinking 12S ships, according
to dispatches received here today.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29
Telegraph Tips

Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 2s.-Nine directors of
The Grocers' and Butchers Association
this afternoon were indicted by the Lu-
cas- county grand fury for conspiracy in
restraint OF trade.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-29

Paris, Dec. 2s.-Lieut. Guynemer, of the
French air service. has brought down
lis twenty-fifth aeroplane, the war office
announced today.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04
PRUNING OF SMALL FRUITS
Cutting Of Raspberry and Blackberry
Bushes Should Begin in Summer
Cut Out Old Canes.

Pruning is more essential I'm the case
of bush fruits than IL is with fruit
trees. IL the bushes are left unpruned
a single season, they become a mass
OF tangled growth that bears little
fruit. and this of poor quality.
The pruning of blackberry and
raspberry bushes should rightly begin
in summer. when the canes are
through bearing. The canes that have
borne the crop should be cut away, 10
give the new shoots better chance to
develop into vigorous canes. II the
old canes were not removed last sum-
mer they should be cut now. But
three or four new stalks should be
permitted to grow from a clump. TIE
tips OF these new canes should be
pinched off when they have reached a
height of four feet. This pinchinx
back is TO develop a strong. vigorous
lateral growth, since the fruit forms
on growths that start from the later
ais. Spring pruning consists I'm cut
ting out all wood that has borne ber-
ries and the shortening Of laterals on
new wood to Is to 20 inches. The new
plants that develop between the
clumps should be kept down, IL these
are not wanted for planting.
The currant bush requires little
pruning during the first two or three
years, other than slight shortening
of the ends Of the canes. This short
ening is done TO increase the fruit buds
along the cane. Currants do not form
on new wood, and In order to have
good crop each season 1t is advisable,
in pruning, to leave an equal number
of the one-year and two-year-old canes
TO each bush.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04
FROM RIBBONS AND BEADS
Dainty Necklets I May Be Made at
Home Just the Thing for
Simple Blouse.

Dainty necklets fashioned from rib
bons and beads can made at home
easily. For the simple blouse or frock
of today they are exactly the thing.
Many women have odd lengths of mar
row ribbon laid by. remnants secured
at the last sales. Anything in ribbons.
velvet or MORE from one 10 three
yards will come In useful.
Pearl drops can be bought for five
or ten cents. The expense of the neck
lace may be obtained by the use of
imperfect trinkets. such as pair of
earrings or an old cameo. A simple
form of necklet is green velvet one
with amber drop. 1t is merely n length
OF half-inch-wide velvet ribbon. 40
inches long. turned back at each end
10 form a point. To each of these
points is fastened a long, narrow yell
low drop, quaint and graceful. The
ribbon is flung around the neck of the
wearer and knotted loosely in front.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04
CHILD'S "BANK" EASILY MADE
Article of This Description Will IncuI-
cate Habits of Thrift in the
Little Folks.

There was never time when it was
so important that the little folks should
save as many of their pennies as pos
sible, and we give a sketch of bank
for this purpose that they can quite
well make for themselves from an old
cigar box. Some quiet fun and amuse-
ment will also be derived in prepar-
ing the bank and in decorating it after
1t has been completed.
First of all cut slit in the lid of
the box for the coins to pass through.
Not too large, or else you will be able
to get the pennies out again, and then
they will soon be spent
Next nail the lid securely down. and
then cut out pieces of white paper to
tit the sides and top of the box, and
paste them in their places. When the
paste is quite dry you can draw ami
mails or butterflies or anything else
you fancy, and then color them with
paints or chalks.
Another good way of decorating q
bank" of this kind is to save all the
old postage stamps, soak off the paper
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04
HINTS FROM PARIS

A Worth model, for afternoon wear
at the seaside. is made of flesh pink
tussah. with very beautiful embroid-
cries in washing silks appearing on
the hem of the skirt and on the revers
and collar of the short coatee, writes
n Paris correspondent. These en-
broideries are done In pastel tinted
silks, pale blues, pinks. yelIows and
clever touches of dead white. The
coatee is fastened with small. ivory
balls IL opened over a blouse made
of cobweb muslin and real valen-
ciennes lace. According to Worth, and
Doucet also, the pannier craze has died
out.
Premet is, as usual, making a spe-
cialty of dressy gowns intended for
afternoon wear. This dressmaker Is
very fond of combining taffeta, chiffon
and very fine metallic embroideries
The skirts chez Premet are fuller and
Worth or Doucet, and / notice that
Premet Is remaining faithful to the
full, gathered flounce which appeared
on so many evening gowns at the be-
ginning Of the summer season.
A pretty Premet model was COM
posed Of cornflower-blue taffeta, blue
chiffon and very fine metallic embroid-
cries, the latter showing delicate iri-
descent tints in strong light. The
skirt was arranged In a series of gath
cred flounces of graduated widths, but
there was plain panel in front.
Then there was a quaint little fchu
bodice which crossed at the waist, and
which was almost covered with fine
embroidery. There was narrow cein-
ture which cut the waist rather high
up. and then shaped flounce formed
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04
HATS OF PINK AND BLUE
Touch Of Purple Properly Applied
Gives Just the Right Appear.
ance to the Millinery.

Pale pink Is everywhere in millinery
as In frocks, and there are pale pink
hats I'm every imaginable material from
felt to malines. Pale pink in combina-
ton with dark blue velvet, is popular
Wide brimmed hats of flesh pink ba-
tiste are among the pink millinery usu-
ally trimmed In big soft bows of rib
bon or nosegays or wreaths OF tiny
flowers.
A crown of black or dark blue velvet
or dark blue silk, very wide brim Of
pale pink and band of pink covering
two-thirds of the crown side, a stiffly
charming little bunch of small flowers
in pink and purple and citrOn posed
primly on the front of the crown and
extending little way above it-there
is a hat individually modish and ex-
tremely pretty too, which is more than
one can say for all things modish.
A touch of blue on pink hat is chic,
but the blue is the French blue of
Louis XIV and Louis XVI, and the COM
bination is never the wishy washy pink
anu piuc VI Tic imp DioiIue luedl.
Take hat of fully plated pink ma
lines with an inch or two of it extend
ing beyond the wide brim and falling
to soften the frame of the face. Run
blue ribbon around the crown,
through four heavy rings of violet
beads, and let fine plating of the
malines soar high above the crown
from under this ribbon, and the result
is a pink and blue hat unquestionably
sophisticated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04
SILAGE BEST DAIRY RATION
1t Is PaiatabIe, SuccuIent, Beneficial to
the Digestive Tract and Is
Cutie Economical

Silage has been used more especial
ly for feeding dairy cows than any
other class of live stock. No dairy
farm is completely equipped without
a winter silo and also silo of small
diameter for summer feeding, unless
soiling crops are used.
Good silage possesses several OF the
desirable characteristics of a good
dairy ration. 1t is palatable, succulent,
bulky, beneficial TO the digestive tract
and economical. A ration must have
these characteristics as we'll as have q
balance of nutrients I'm order TO be con-
duciye TO large and economical milk
production.
Experiments have shown that but
terfat was produced s cents per pound
cheaper and 100 pounds OF milk ~
cents cheaper where silage replaced
corn fodder in dairy ration.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04

Farmers Can Save Immense Amounts
Of Money by Utilizing All Manure
Produced on Farms.

When the farmers of our country
thoroughly appreciate the actual
amounts Of fertillzlng constituents
which are contained in farm manures,
and intelligently care for and utilize
the manure produced on their farms,
they can save millions Of dollars I'm
fertilizer purchases; and the necessity
of depending upon the purchase OF
these fertilizers, followed by the oc-
currences Of crises I'm the fertilizer sit
uation such as now exists I'm some sec
tons, will be largely decreased.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04

n sort of pannier-basque which just
reached the hip line. The sleeves were
tight and exaggeratedly short, almost
like the sleeves of a dinner dress; very
long black kid gloves were to be worn
with the dress.
Ii Is said that long, black kid gloves.
like those worn by Yvette Guilbert
when she made her debut, are again to
be fashionable for day as well as eve
ming wear. This is good news, for
these long, black gloves are as becom-
ing as they are economical. and we all
have To consider ways and means in
these terrible days.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-04
PROJECT CORN FIELDS
PioW Land in Midsummer to Era.
dicate CutWorms.
Vegetation Suitable for Moths to lay
Eggs Upon Is Removed-Pastur-
ING Hogs on Infested Land Is
Good Practice.

Land to be planted to corn the fol-
lowing spring, especially such land as
has laid In grass for considerable
time and is likely to contain cut
worms, should be plowed in midsum-
mer or early fall about the time the
eggs are laid, or better, before the
eggs are laid, for then vegetation
which is suitable for the moths to lay
their eggs upon Is removed. The
earlier the preceding year grasslands
to be planted to corn are plowed, the
less will be the probability that the
cutworm moths will have laid their
eggs thereon, and the less, consequent
IT,. will be the danger Of injury by cut
worms the following year.
Late fall and winter blowing of
grasslands, although not as effective