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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-04-13

A box of loneliness opened up
late yesterday in the form Of
exquisite rose-pink crepe de
chine combinations at $2.95,
1896 and So - and some still
finer at $3.50 to $40.
These garments are of that
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-04-13

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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-04-13

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New-York tribune., 1917-08-02

Washington, Aug. 1.-The Admins
tration food control bill, stripped OF the
features opposed by President wilson.
was reported out of conference to-day,
lust one month after the date the Presi-
dent had hoped to see it enacted into
law.
Enactment some time next week now
is predicted. House conferrees Will
make their report tomorrow, and IA
vorable action probably will be taken
on it Friday Senate approval prob
ably will follow early next week, al
though extended debate is expected in
the Senate owing to elimination OF Sem
ate amendments which would have pro-
vided for Congressional war expen-
ditures committee and three-member
food control board.
The weeks deadlock in conference
was broken by Senator Warren, of
Wyoming, a Republican, in agreeing to
vote with the Democrats to strike out
the war expenditures committee
amendment, particularly Objectionable
to the President.
Senator Warren is understood to
have been influenced by tacit under
standing that the Senate Rules Com
mittee will report favorably as a sepa-
rate measure a resolution to provide
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
Conferrees Agree On Food Bill;
Wilson Wins All His Demands
Senators Drop Plan for War Expenditures Committee mad
House viii Accept Less Drastic Prohibition
and Control Clauses

for a joint Congressional committee on
the conduct of the war, introduced by
Senator Weeks, Of Massachusetts.
Whether this resolution can be put
through both houses is problematlcal.
Administration leaders will wage Bit
ter fight against it.
Conferrees from each house tonight
declared they had emerged from con-
ference victorious. The result resem-
bled a draw. The Senate conferrees
sacrificed their war expenditures COM
mittee and three member food control
board amendments while the House
conferrees accepted greatly restricted
price fixing and control provisions, a
81 minimum for wheat and less dras-
tic prohibition section. Under the lat
ter the manufacture Of distilled liquors
would be prohibited and the President
given power to limit the manufacture
of light wines and beers, if necessary,
and to commander for military or other
public purposes such distilled liquors
in or out of bond as he may deem ad-
yisable.
Steps TO finally enact the first Ad-
ministration food bill, proposing a ma
tionaI food survey and containing pro-
visions to stimulate production, were
taken Immediately after the agreement
on the control legislation. The con-
ferrees agreed TO meet tomorrow, when
it is expected that their differences will
be promptly adjusted.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
Tuesday d BeeRess Day,
Hotel Men Propose

WaWshington, Aug. 1.-Resolutions
TO make every Tuesday beefess day
and TO inaugurate systematic measures
to curtail consumption of wheat bread,
butter, sugar and young animal meat
were adopted to-day by the food ad-
ministration's hitel and restaurant com
mittee, whose membership includes the
proprietors of many of the country's
leading hotels and restaurants.
The steps decided on include use Of
at least 10 per cent of some other kind
of -four besides wheat in making wheat
bread and rolls, featuring Of corn and
rice cakes In place Of wheat cakes,
substitution Of fish, fowls, vegetables
and fruits for heavy meats wherever
possible and elimination when prac-
tlcablo Of the icing of cakes and of
cube sugar.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
Milk Up Another
Cent; Distributor
Blames Farmer

Milk went up another cent yesterday.
Both the Borden and the Sheffield Farms
companies put into effect the increase
of which they had previously warned
their customers. The Sheffield company
in its public announcement stated that
it was paying the producers an advance
of one cent, and therefore was not max
ing anything by the increased price.
The Borden company is selling milk
in bulk over the counter at S12 cents.
The best grade of Sheffield milk is
now IA cents a quart to the consumer.
The Borden price for its best grade is
1914 cents, while its certified Grade A
milk is Is cents a quart. The Sheffield
price for a pint of its best quality milk
Is Q cents. Sheffield's Grade pas
teurized is 121s cents q quart, or
cents a pint. Those who can afford it
will have to pay 20 cents for half
pint bottle of pasteurized cream and
% cents for half pint Of the best
cream.
In announcing its changes in price
the Sheffield Farms company makes the
following statement:
Last spring thousands of farmers
were selling their milk cows and young
stock because of high prices for beef.
This threatened seriously TO reduce the
New York City mIls supply. To con-
serve the animals the milk companies
guaranteed the farmers one cent per
quart advance August 1; otherwise the
rate of slaughter, if maintained, would
in a short time have made milk a lux
ury beyond the means of the average
household. Please note that the change
in prices, effective August 1, includes
only advance payable to farmers"
This last statement was disputed yes
terday by John J. Dillon, State Com
missioner Of Foods and Markets, who
said the farmers were receiving only
quarters Of a cent advance in
price per quart, while the dairy COM
panies, which maintain practically a
uniform schedule of prices, added the
other quarter of a cent to their cal
ready handsome prohts."
Mr. Dillon added that during the
summer farmers had reduced their milk
prices, while the dairy companies had
not followed suit in dealing with the
consumers.
Last January tha distributing dairy
companies were paying the farmers
$500 per 100 pounds of milk containing
8 per cent Of fat" said Mr.. Dillon.
"They arc now paying S2.55 for 100
pounds Of milk guaranteed to be of the
same grade. The price to the consumer
last January was IL cents a quart. Now
that the farmers have raised their price
35 cents per 100 pounds, the price is ii
cents a quart to the consumer. One
hundred pounds Of milk make about 46
quarts of milk.
THE farmers are actually getting
81 cents per quart for their best milk.
and the distributing companies are get
ting 8.3 cents for delivering it.n
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
Jere ]. Cohan,
OF Minstrel Fame,
Is Dead at 90

Jere j. Cohan, oldtime minstrel man,
one of the originators of vaudeville in
this country and one of the most popu-
lar American comedians of all times.
died yesterday at his summer home in
Monroe, n. Y, at the age of sixty-nine.
Death was caused by arterio sclerosis,
from which Mr.. Cohan had been a suf-
ferer for more than a year. His wife
and his son, George NJ. Cohan, were at
his bedside when the end came.
Mr.. Cohan's was a long and pictur-
esque stage career. He was a drummer
boy in the Civil War, and came out of
that struggle veteran at seventeen.
His first success as an entertainer was
achieved in the army. where he was
always the life of the camp. After the
war he went to Pittsfeld, Mass, and
became a saddler's apprentice.
He never got very far along at this
trade, however, for a few months after
he started a minstrel troupe came to
Pittsfeld, and when il left Jere Cohan
left with il. A few years later Cohan
married and, with his wife, Helen, en-
tered vaudeville, or variety, as 1t was
called then. When George and his sis
ter Josephine were old enough TO ap-
pear "The Four Cohans,' Americas
most famous family quartet, came into
being. -. -.
Josephine Cohan, then the wife OF
Fred Niblo, was the first Of that COM
pany to CO. She died July II, 1916.
Just as George NJ. Cohan made his
first appearance in his fathers Produc'
tons, the elder Cohan made his last ap-
pearances in a production Of his sons
lie retired after completing a tour to
the Pacific Coast and back with The
Yankee Prince" about nine years ago
In 1915 he played for a week with the
"Friars' Frolic."
Funeral services will be held to-mor-
row morning at 10:30 in the Church
OF the Blessed Sacrament, Seventy-hrst
Street and Broadway. The Rev. Will
lam ]. Guinan will offciate. The pail
bearers. will be +. r. Proctor, Sam X
Harris, Dennis F. o'Brien, Walter j.
Moore. Francis X. Hope, Or. Oscar
Lesser, Bert Fiebleman and Thomas
o'Brien. Irterment will be In Wood
lawn Cemetery.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02

JUN 29-Up by times; and to breakfast, not very
good forasmuch as new cook Benigno Morales hath
less aptitude for making coffee than anybody else
knew which is costly to me- for do later in the morn
ng to inn and coffee there costs 35c beaker which
can not in conscience charge to the office legitimate
expense. All day at my DESK working at verses, which
find JOY in doing albeit the fashionng of them takes the
whole day. Played few tunes my harmonicka which
delighted F. Keppe greatly D. Lawrence to call for
in his petrol Wagon, and rode out into the country,
and D. told me some merry tayles of Will Shepherd the
scrvener To dinner, and met Will Hard and Anne and
| had not seen her in fourteen years, and glad of
being with her again. Home then, and played game of
hearts vapid effort at diversion but there is casino
player here who can put up a contest against me.
3OEarly to the office and for visit to II. HOovers
Office very interesting To lunch, with many members Of
the Food Administration, fine unch too; OF asparagus
soup and radishes and lamb stew, and beans and poa-
toes and cottage pudding, and coffee The heat con-
tinueh So with T. Dorgan the comick artist to the ball
park and rejoced to T. Cobb make five hits, albeit
/ lost 81 to Tad wagering on the Washngtons Home,
and all the hot evening at work.
31-To the Senate, and did little else all day. save go
here to see this man. and there to that and finding
none of them in, for which am not one to blame them
Washington has one point of similarity to New York.
II you take car block from it's starting point you have
TO stand here too
There is something to be said for Washngtonian
apathy,
New Yorks crowded. bustling place;
| like il.
It's people go furious pace;
] like it.
Il cares too much for bunk renown,
Its people fume and fuss and frown,
1t is frantic, frightful town
, like it. +. 2. A.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02

line of its peace terms, which could
only be announced at the time of the
peace conference. Consequently, he
said, the Japanese government saw no
necessity for making public any views
bearing on the matter
The government, however, was taking
questions relating to Tsingtau and the
South Sea Islands under consideration,
and it believed the Entente Powers
would raise no objection to the meas
ures Japan would take to protect her
interests on the conclusion Of peace.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
Hartigan Aids Loan Campaign

Joseph Hfrtigan, who retired as
Commissioner of Weights and Meas
ures yesterday, will become associated
in an executive capacity with the Lib
erty Loan campaign committee, l20
Broadway.
Mr.. Hsrtigan, however, will resume
tho practice Of law and have Offices
with the law firm Of Pickney d. Robin
son, WoolyoTth Building.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
Baseball Player Dies

Columbus, Ohio, Aug. William A.
Tony James, Columbus attorney and
former professional baseball player,
died last night of Bright's disease at
Magnetic Springs, Ohio, where he had
gone to attempt to recover his health,
which had been failing for the last
year.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
No White Bread for
Week in Massachusetts

Boston, Aug. Housewives through
out Massachusetts were asked to elimi-
rate white bread from their tables dur
ing the week beginning next Monday
in a letter issued to-day by Food Ad.
ministrator Henry b. Endicott.
The plan has already been adopted
by hotel men and managers Of restau-
rants and clubs,
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02

Washington, August l.

a
The climbing roses are a burst of pink
Over the tresed arch that makes gate
Ont of nv garden to the little spot
That have cleared behind the sumach hedge,
About rough-made summer house entwined
With creeper like ruin; the pool
water lily hoats-the first this year
And yields its heavy fragrance to the SUM-
The Canterbury bells are family stirred;
And browse the larkspur spires in loveliness,-
And | must pause to look before pass
Under the arch and settle to my toll
Alas the interruptions of mankind
Are nothing to the soft insistencleS
OF life about nv summer house world
OF little things, of bumblebees and birds,
OF bugs and vagrant flower scents, and of clouds
Fantastic on a summer sky; and songs
That whisper in the grass-this world is mine
Behind the sumach hedge, and, being mine,
Assumes quaint priority try as
/ will to keep my mind chained down to work
Two wrens have nested in box half hid
Beneath the vines that canopy my seat:
The father calls, and mother wren darts out
Her pretty head looks right and left, then leaves
The nest while he comes in with provender;
I note that he can sing with bill tight closed,
Calling his mate, yet keeping fast his bug.
Out in the grass chipping sparrow hops
Seeking dandelion gone to seed;
He settles to the task, and one by one
Strips all the seeds down to the naked CROWN
A brave protector of the lawn! The bees
Are busy in flower cup, and their hum
Sings all around me with rythmc pulse;
goldfnch swoops into the plants
To sway there like a japanese design:
Along the boarding at my feet two ants
Are tugging home a caterpillar skin;
Across the rye behind my house wind
Goes wandering, and suddenly see
The green sea surges marching on the shore
And hear their long-drawn thunder in the trees
The far-of echo of memory.
Beyond the rye, beyond the brook, hill
Domes up, and over it the west wind piles
The high Himalayas of the cumuli,
Mount Everests of shadowed white against
The summer skys serenity. watch
Their SUBMITS shift and roll, day dreaming still
Like any boy of heights cerulean
The bees hum on hundred tiny sounds
Proclaim universe below the grass
Naught but the cries of children far away,
So sweet and shrll only playtime breeds,
Disturb with the thought of human folk.
Still on my table blankly stares the pad
came here to blot black with inky words
While in their nest the little wrens complain,
And languid summer flows in fragrant tide
Across the green Sargasso of the grain.
WALTER PRIcHARD EAror,
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
The Tribune S
Fresh Air Fund

Contributions to the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund took a jump yesterday, the
receipts up to noon being S727.77, as
against an average of about 5000 for
the preceding few days.
Two causes contributed to this re-
suit. One of them was the extreme
heat; the other was the pitiful story
Of the family of fifteen motherless
children printed in this column on
Monday.
Everybody believes in the Fresh Air
campaign inaugurated by the Tribune
Fund forty-one years ago, but it takes
something extraordinary to vitalize that
belief in the hearts of many people
Tuesday and Wednesday people who
live outside the tenenentS suffered al
most to the point of prostration be-
cause of the heat. Their own suffer
ings made them think of the greater
sufferings of the poor herded in the
tenements-and they gave to the fund
in the hope of relieving those greater
sufferings.
No Comfort in Tenements
But it is not only when the mercury
has passed the 100 degree mark that
tenement dwellers suffer. On the days
of ordinary summer heat their homes
are sitting and there is no comfort in
them. On such days they probably
endure as great discomfort in proper
tion as fell to the lot of the well to do
in the city yesterday and the day be-
fore.
There are few days in the summer
when the children of the poor, the
proteges of the Tribune Fund, can
find comfort or pleasure either in their
homes or the streets which constitute
their only playground.
And so also of the "motherless ff..
teen" Here was SPECIFIC case OF
great deprivation which grew into a
vivid picture before the minds eye OF
those who read it, Immediately the
means for the relief of the needs de-
scribed were Forthcoming.
But is there any one IN or near Ne"
York who believes that this family is
the onlv one whose case Is desperate !
The Tribune Fund has been askeu 10
provide outings this summer for over
| 25 900 children and grownups. Ana
for every one of the $4,000 there IS
conscientious social welfare worker
who stands willing to swear that MS
need of a country vacation is real.
Thousand in Bitter Need
Among the 25,OO0 there are probably
900 whose need is just as biting as
that of the "motherless fifteen" For
the relief of the youngsters Of Mon,
day's story $500 has been contributed
| to date. If The Tribune could collect
and print the stories of the other 1000
no doubt 100000 would food into the
| fund for their relief. But their stories
would fill whole issues Of The Tribune,
and they cannot be printed.
The public which is interested IN the
problems of New York and its popula-
tion knows that these other. cases ex.
/ ist. Will it wait until the histories OF
them are laid bare in print; must 1t
wait for the vivid picture? While IL
waits the summer days will pass and
| the children will still be without the
vacations which little thought, little
imagination, on the part of those who
have money and TO spare would assure
to them in the near future.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02

Contributions, preferably by check or
money order, should be sent to The
Tribune Fresh Air Fund, The Tribune,
New York.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02

1t may interest Mr.. Joseph P. Tumuy, Secretary to
the President to learn that the letter addressed to Mr.
Francis P. Adams has been delivered.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02

"a game lot, these Washington FANS" commented,
as with two out in the ninth and the 16 to against
the home team, nobody rushed for the exits Game
nothing" said Tad "These birds haven't anywhere else
to go when the game is over"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-02
Peace Terms. Doubtful

Whether the mission and this gov
ernment will touch upon peace terms,
beyond reference to the South Sea ISL
snds, in their discussions, is not known.
About the time the mission to America
was decided upon the japanese Foreign
Minister stated in the Japanese Diet
that so far as his knowledge went, no
country had yet published even an out
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-03
AN AGREEMENT ON
MINERS DEMANDS
Coal Operators in Central Fields to
Grant Wage Increase Ask
Higher Mine Prices.

WASHINGTON. oct 3.-Coal operators
and miners OF the central competitive field,
meeting here to discuss a readiustment cf
wage scales reached full agreement
last night as to the amount OF increases
10 be- gwen. They Will discuss further to-
day the length OF time the new contract
will run.
Pick and machine miners, who demanded
Is cents a ton increase in pay, viii get 10
cents. and unsklled labor which sought
q wage raise of & 90 Il day. viii get 81 80.
lardagr and dead work viii be paid ior
ON a basis of straight ~ per cent IN
crease.
The wage increases were granted by the
operator, contingent on an advance in
coal prices. which they expect tile fuel
administration TO give them on presenta-
ton next week oi their cost production
figures.
The miners are seeking a contract for
two years, but the operators insist on a
provision for it, termination go days after
the end ot the war. Miners representa-
ttycs said tonight they would not yield
On this point Provisions will be in
serted IN the contract to prevent either
side from breaking it ion any cause This
was demanded by TIE operators because
the miners Iu asking tine present increase.
are ignoring contract signed last April.
toal mine wage scales throughout the
country are based On the central field
scale. and If today'- agreement Is ratified
wages viii be raised accordingly IN other
districts.
Operators OF the central field are ask
iug the fuel administration tor increases
ot about 50 cents "a ton in the price tNcd
for coal at the mines ia a recent order by
President Wilson. Many mines, they in.
sjsi viii be forced To- shat down unless
prices are revised. Already Dr Garfield
the tuel administration, has granted in
c,oasps in outlying districts where ton the
most part coal veins are thin. making the
cost 0i operation high.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-03
WEST HALIFAX.
Good Exhibit by School Children.

On Monday, October !, the boys and
girls of the village school under the
management of their teacher, Musa +.
Dalrvmple, had on exhibition i'll the
schoolroom of specimens of their yege-
tables and canned products. The Judges
made honorable mention of the exhibit
of each child in the school, The two
first vegetable exhibits were made by
Paul Pierson and Archie Whitney; the
two seconds by Robert Allen, Kenneth
and Grace Sumner; the two thirds by
Raymond Ouelette and Clara Crosier.
The judges made mention of few
exhibits and it would have been hard to
of told which were the best, for all
were good. The canning was all done
by the children. We noticed several cans
of fruit canned by John Bowen, Alice
Pierson and Clara May, and special men
tion should be made Of several cabbages
exhibited by Pauline Stanley. AL
vegetables shown were raised by those
who exhibited them. The vegetables
would have been credit to any coun
ltv fair.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-03
TENTH ANNIVERSARY
OF TWO COUPLES
Mr. and Mrs. w. 3. Douglas Given Par
ty by Douglas Sisters-Mr. and
Mrs. Viele Guests Of Honor.

IN honor of their 10th wedding an
niversary Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Douglas
were given pleasant party last evening
by Misses Winifred. May, Edith and
Lillian Douglas at their home, II Spruce
street Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Viele,
the latter a cousin Of Mrs Douglas, were
guests Of honor, it being also the 10th
anniversary of their marriage. Supper
was served to a family gathering of
20, at which time Mr.. and Mrs. Doug
las were presented handsome parlor
chair. In the evening a few invited
friends called and the couple was given
a tin shower. The rooms of the home
were decorated with autumn leaves and
cut flowers and refreshments of waters
and punch We're served.
Music and games provided very en-
iovablc evening for all present. One of
the pleasant features was the reading OF
la letter from Rev. George B. Lawson,
now located in Pittsburg, Pa, who mar,
ried Mr. and Mrs Douglas
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-03
SCHOOL BOY GIVES
STRONG TESTIMONY
Says Wakelin Told Him of Daughter S
5 Death Before Her Disappearance
Was Reported.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct 3,-John
Henry Higgins, nine-year-old school
boy, testified today at the trial of Jo-
SCI Ia Wakelin and Sarah Ann Wakeln.
his wife, charged with manslaughter in
connection with the death of their
seven-year-old daughter, Loretta, that
more than an hour before the child 5 dis
appearance was reported TO the police
Wakelin told him she was dead.
The boy. schoolmate OF the dead girl,
went on the stand and in plain
straightforward manner, explained that
on his way home from school he saw
Wakelin at work in his garden. He
asked him. he said why Loretta had not
returned to the Melrose school after
being sent home by the teacher for a
book, and the father, he testified, said
Tootsie is dead. Tell the teacher to-
morrow. School had been dismissed
at 1890 and the boy said it was about
$3.50 when he passed the Wakelin home
/ Wakelin telephoned the Mal.oSe DO.
/ lice that his daughter was missing inst
before clock, according to police
records, and sometime later reported
the finding of the body