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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-06

Mrs. John Thompson Brown, Of Ivy
Cliff" Bedford, is the guest OF her
daughter. Mrs. John S. Wingo. at 902
lark Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. a. Ezekiel arc
spending week at Old Point.
Mrs. Robert L. Adams. or West Grace
! street. Is leaving next week TO visit
her son. Charles Taylor Adams. in
New York City.
Miss Bessie Herbert Cottrell who
has been visiting Miss Elizabeth
Clements. in Norfolk. has returned TO
the city.
Miss Kate Crawford. Of Salisbury,
y g., IS the guest Of her sister. Mrs.
Murray Franklin Massey. at the Ham
ilton Apartments.
Miss Sue Crenshaw. Of this city, Ia
visiting Mrs. William Dickson. in
Norfolk.
miss Stuart Blanton. OF Ashland has
bean visiting friends In Richmond this
week.
Mrs. Ii. ?. Harris, of Fredericksburg,
is in Richmond for stay of several
,days..
Miss Nancy Miller. who has been the
guest OF Mrs. r. c. l.. Moncure In
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-06
WoMI:N.s MEETINGS.

Til" Girls Social Service Cluh o:
Gintcr Park Viii hold it's regular
monthly meeting TINS afternoon "a, /,
o'clock with Miss Jean Kelly, TO-
seminary Avenue. ali mcUh-rs are
urged 10 attend.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-06

Newport News. has returned to Rich
mond
Miss jamie Gaines. Of this city. is
visiting Mis-. Arthur Wightman in
Ashland
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

We must admit dreading one of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
Not All "Fnghtulness" Is Made in Germany,
O0n Setback, von Brincken and Bobb
Concede And, Once Again.
Woman Did 1t

late. Enter Louis J. Smith, broke, out
of iob-and dynamite mixer"
At this point the German Consul
leaned forward and cupped his ears, ac-
cording to the reporter for "The San
Francisco Bulletin" DR.. Adams was
quietly ignoring the trio of distin-
guished malefactors. She walked lit
tie closer to the jury box and continued
in the same calm, even voice.
Vice-Consul Won Setback fidgeted
with some papers. Lieutenant Won
Brincken, officer of the Kaiser, looked
straight ahead. His monocle slipped
from his eye and ratified to the table.
The scowls were transformed into in
dignant wonderment, for there was
nothing feminine about this womans
talk. There was no attempt at oratory,
there was no vindictiveness in the wofn-
ans tone or attitude. 1t was just pure
logic that she seemed to set forth, logic
that was almost German in its sim
plicity and thoroughness.
That was the cruel and unusual part
of it. that a woman, to whom logic Is
absolutely verboten in Germany, was
hopelessly trapping three officers of the
Kaiser with logic as cold and as relent-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

be home darning soX for her man. HIM
mel, A woman in law court. 1t is the
most foolish thing that have seen in
this foolish country"
The United States Court in the San
Francisco Postoffice Building was
packed to the doors when DR.. Annette
Abbott Adams rose to sum up the case
for the United States Government.
There was plentiful sprinkling of Ger-
man sympathizers. men with closely
cropped heads and upturned mustaches.
The local society was represented by
smartly dressed women, for Won
Brincken was something of social ia
vorite. 1t was far from sympathetic
audience that DR.. Adams faced.
The slender young woman patted her
wavy brown hair and quietly rose to ad-
dress the Jury. She began in a calm,
we'll modulated voice, fixing her atten-
ton upon the jury. One San Francisco
reporter said that her attitude was that
of a schoolma am talking to class Of
twelve attentive pupils. The Portia Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

"The New York Times is rejoicing
over the defeat in the Tennessee Senate
of bill granting partial suffrage to
women. THE Times fears that liberty
is not truly democratic unless given by
the voters. But to the women of Ten
nessee their condition seems pretty
much the same, whether enfranchise-
ment is denied by the man in the Leg
islature or the man in the street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

the Pines had taught Sierra Mountain
school after graduation from the Uni
versity of California to pay her way
through the law college.
Consul General Bopp, seated at
table with two aids, pompous and
self-confident, began to look annoyed.
He scowled as Dr. Adams turned and
seemed to look through him for the first
time with her clear, steely blue eyes.
I'm March. 1915, gentlemen of the
jury" said DR.. Adams, the German
Consulate here received 100000 from
Berlin for its war fund. On March -
Franz Bopp returned. Bopp testified
that Won Papen gave him carte blanche
to spend the 100000.
I'm Bopp's own language he is a
little ambitious" Here Consul General
Bopp looked intensely annoyed. He had
made this admission.
Business at the consulate was slump
ing. Nothing had been accomplished
for the glory of the Fatherland or the
distinction of the San Francisco consul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

less as steel. To these three Germans
the schoolma' am, the coed of the Uni
versity of California, became an Anna
zon, Valkyrie, welding efficiently, but
without brandishing, the pitiless weapon
of logic.
At the conclusion of her summing up
Dr.. Annette Abbott Adams dropped to
a conversational key, such as was used
by volunteer prosecuting attorneys IN
the primitive courts of the gold days in
California, where justice was swift and
based more on common sense and neces-
sity than upon Blackstone. Apparently
she had clinched her case. The jury
returned verdict of guilty. The three
German officials were sentenced to two
years each and fine of $4,000.
When it was over DR.. Adams felt that
she had earned little rest, so she set off
for trip to the Pines of Plumas.
Plumas County is one of the Cow
counties" of California. It is one of
those counties that turn in their election
returns about week after the vote has
been Tailed everywhere else. Plumas
was one of the counties from which they
were very anxious to hear Immediately
after the last Presidential election. But
Plumas County is never in hurry.
The county is scattered through the
northern Sierras and is standing on end
most of tile time. If you have a hun
dred and sixty acres there on the fiat it
is likely to be two hundred acres or
more when you count the slopes. Mount
Lassen, which decided without notice TO
become an active volcano few years
ago, is large part of the county.
The inhabitants are for the most part
descendants of Southerners who went
into Plumas County in the days of 40
to dig out fortunes. Some of them
found their fortunes and went back t.
"the States" But many Of them re-
manned stranded under the Pines of
Plumas.
DR.. Annette Abbott Adams was born
in Plattville, Plumas County. She
learned her three RS in a mountain
school which was ten miles from cher
folks place In the winter she had 70
travel to and from the school on snow
shoes escorted by the half breed Indian
letter carrier She was 'Nette to every
body in Plumas County. She still Is
that to the old families there, though
the men are beginning to fall into the
habit of calling her Judge"
From PlattvilIe DR.. Adams made the
wonderful trip to Berkeley, CAL, to at
tend the State University. The folks"
had decided that she should become a
teacher, which was the acme of culture
and success for a woman, according To
the notions of the mountain folk.
'Nette did become teacher and she
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

The Board of Superintendent of the
New York Board of Education has rec
commended that in future any appointee
for teaching position shall immediate
ly take steps to become an American
citizen. And The Tribune adds: IF
any teacher does not care enough about
this country, its spirit. its institutions,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
Smefhing Concerning a Qmet Woman ana the
Ome Wqy in Which She Con0icted
Three Pro-kaiSer COnSbirators
in California
in California

|TNHIS is the story OF Portia OF
the Pines. the story of American
feminism triumphing over a
Mastering, suffering trio of Prussians.
.isptical to the last as to feminine in
eIect in any country. The trio, con-
rieted of conspiracy to violate the nett
raHy Of the United States-specifi-
ally with promoting a number of at
mps to dynamite American ships
ne under sentence of two years.
Unless the Supreme Court of the
United States intervenes. they viii serve
sntence in the same California pene-
atary where Abe Ruef, the dethroned
pitical boss of San Francisco, did pen
ace. One of them is Consul General
3pp, of San Francisco another is Vice
Consul Won Setback; the third is Lieu
snant Won Brincken, late of the I'm
kral German Army and said to be
'kinsman of Won Hindenburg
When the same gate that was swung
saT to admit Abe Ruef opens to receive
TAsss distinguished subjects of the
Aaier they will not goosestep their way
o heir cells proudly as Germans perse-
ziedfor fidelity to the Fatherland. They
vi enter haltingly as shamed men, for
tAy we're convicted by a woman. They
I'll admit that they were convicted by
q POrtia Of the Pines.
Her name is DR.. Annette Abbott
saans. Her title-and any Californian
SoTney will tell YOU that she has
&ned it's Assistant United States
'1omey for the district which en-
ices California.
10 appreciate the humiliation Of the
Tree Germans one must consider the
ennan idea as to the status of women.
Etainly not even in German night
'zte would the notion of woman at
Nney in the service Of a government
Tur. Emphatically woman's place
Y not in the law court. The educated
tfman knows the English Shake
eSre, Of course, and the story of Por-
But that was one Of Shakespeare's
sa'e English drolleries, to have a wom-
ny a case at law. A droll English
a mat Herr Shakespeare!
out out there in the unkultured west
: aooe Of the United States they per
N'sIed an outrage which to the Ger
It mind is more barbarous than the
~'oing Of munitions TO England. They
united woman, hausfrau, TO make
peech which sent three Of the Kaiser
.<ess to Jail II was cruel and un-
a Punishment.
I, Dnsul General Bopp and his two
IN company with woman, a pri-
detective and retired dynamite
/, VT were charged with placing bombs
's'ps bearing munition cargoes des-
- 'N~ Allies. The evidence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

terrors of war-the innocent announce
ment on the part Of certain men that
they have discovered traces of courage
and patriotism in women.
We recall Mr.. Asquith's statement at
the time of Miss Cavells death-that
England had probably thousands OF
such brave women, only Englishmen
had not known it before.
Why had they not known it?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

against them at first seemed superficial
and entirely circumstantial. The three
German officers were highly indignant
when they were first accused of the
crime, One Of them had married into
wealthy and influential San Francisco
family. All sorts of pressure were
brought to bear in their favor.
United States District Attorney John
w. Preston was convinced that he had
a case, that the three German officers
were working in conjunction with Cap
tain Won Papen. He selected DIR. An
nette Abbott Adams from his entire
corps of assistants to work on the case
with him.
There are not great many men who
can think on their feet said the Dis
trict Attorney. Or Adams is the only
woman ] know who can think on her
feet, and she thinks with remarkable
clearness and alacrity."
The three German officers regarded
the presence of the woman who sat be-
side the District Attorney with particu
lar German disfavor The lieutenant
surveyed her quizzically through mon
ocle. These ridiculous American wom-
en-. he seemed to register. "She should
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
He Never Thought of That

He Never Thought of That
Women ar. showing themselves no le,, patriotic
than men."-Press Clipping.
Thank you, brother, for your praises,
Though ] must admit your phrases,
With their note of simple wonder, have
patronizing ring,
What" you seem TO say, our mothers,
Sweethearts, sisters and the others
Love their country just as men do What an
unexpected thing
Women, sec, arc patriotic,
Are not silly and hypnotic.
Are not cowardly and clinging, as we say IN
time of peace.
But they feel the obligation
OF service to the nation;
They are loyal and devoted Wen, WELL
wonders never cease
All, dear sir, we were not strangers
Ever 10 the risks and dangers.
TO the pcris and the tcrrors that for freedom
YOU have run.
Nor did You forbid our sharing
Any burdens you were bearing
We were only thought unequal to the freedom
that you won.
W. uo,,4 .Jo,it draadino one of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

Sir Robert Borden, Premier of Can
ada, said the other day, in praisin9
the work of the women of Canada: mo
wonder four provinces have given such
able women the vote.
What is the matter with the women
of the other Canadian provinces :?
Aren't they able? Or hasn't the war
gone on long enough for their men -
find it out?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

A somewhat obscure dispatch from
Berlin seems to indicate that German
women may receive some sort of mu
nicipal franchise. 1t appears that GER
tain kinds of municipal work are open
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

If voter alone were permitted to bake,
If only voter laundress could be,
If children kept only the voters awake
Oh, who do you think that the voters
would be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
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ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
By Alice Duer Miller
r. -ys y,

only to voters; and there are no more
voters available. So, votes for women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

The women of the Danish West
Indies, being now transferred in nation
atty to a country conceived in liberty
and founded on the principle that gov
ernments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed, seem like
ly to lose the rights of self-government
which they have hitherto enjoyed.
yes" we can imagine them saying,
I'VE used to believe in government by
the people, but since we have become
Americans we are going to lay aside
those old ideals and give this govern
ment by sex aristocracy fair chancA-'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

to become citizen, that teacher should
not be pocketing public money"
But, gentlemen, the great majority
of teachers, being women, cannot be-
come citizens in the full sense. When
they take steps to become so, many peo-
pie call them sexless termagants mixing
in politics which does not concern them.
Probably the best way to encourage
them to become citizens would be TO
alter the law which forbids their exer-
cising the privileges of citizenship.
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Continued on Page Seren
The Washington herald., 1917-08-11
LEGAL STAFF QUITS
FLEET CORPORATION
Lawyers Refuse to Perform Work
for New Regime.

The entire legal staff of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation has severed
it's connection with the corporation, it
became known last night. All are
well-known lawyers and were serving
voluntarily. The official expla nation
given is that they came in with the
Denman-Goethals administration and
when Gen. Goethals resigned, simply
ceased their work.
The legal staff was composed of
Joseph P. Cotton. of the firm of Spoon
er & Cotton, of New York; George
Rublee, of New York, nominated for
the Federal Trade Commission by
President Wilson; George Burling, a
weH-known Chicago lawyer; Charles
P. Rowland, of New York, and c. H.
Savage, also connected with the firm
of Spooner & Cotton.
As soon as IT became known that
the legal staff was no longer per-
forming it's functions, rumors were
started that the men had left be-
cause of sympathy for Gen. Goe-
thals, because the generals ship
building program was not being
carried out by his successor and
because the shipping board had fail
ed to put through the plan to build
two government steel fabricating
plants.
High officials in the shipping
board and fleet corporation denied
there was any friction with the re-
firing lawyers and stated that their
action was considered as only con-
sistent with the manner in which
they accepted service. No success
sors have been named.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-11
BOARD THREATENS
To SEIZE PLANTS
Row Over Steel Prices May Lead
to Drastic Action.

Every steel plant in the United
States may be Communicated by the
government in the event a disposition
Is shown by the steel companies TO
question the authority of the War In
dustries Board to fix prices for ma
terials sold to the allies as well as
those purchased by the United States.
The breach over the Bethlehem Steel
Company contracts has given rise to
reports that the steel men will resist
every effort to have the prices fixed
on goods sold to the allies. The War
Board is prepared to meet the situa-
ton with its Communicating power.
The authority of the War Board to
commander steel plants has been
questioned by men in this industry, II
became known yesterday But thS
Board is standing pat. and it was
stated authoritatively that a fiat re-
fusal on the part of the steel interests
to come to terms would be relished-
should the cooperative plan fail-be-
cause il would once and for all set
tie the question.
The War Board feels so secure in its
position, II was stated yesterday, that
it does not even expect a small per-
centage of producers to question its
authority.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-11
SEIZE nine BELGIANS
FOR ILLICIT TRADE
Accused of Smuggling Rubber and
Platinum to Germany.
cial to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
New York. Aug. 1O.-Nine citizens
of Belgium, six of them firemen on a
Belgian relief ship chartered to con-
vey food and grain from this country
to their destitute countrymen, were
locked up in police headquarters to-
day charged with smuggling rubber
medical goods and platinum into Ger
many by way of Holland and Bel
GUM.
According to acting Capt. Tunney,
of the police bomb squad, these ar
rests are the elimination of a years S
investigation of the underground
method by which Germany has been
able to obtain much needed supplies
from this country.
Further arrests are expected. he
said, as both his department and the
Department of Justice have positive
information that merchandise valued
in this country at from S25,e00 to
$4,000 has been smuggled weekly from
Atlantic ports. The value OF such
articles in Germany is fivefold, he
said
The prisoners described themselves
as Louis Timex, 80 years old; Frank
Bollart, 80; John Martens, %. and the
following firemen on the Belgian re-
lief ship: Anton Darns, 30; Alphonso
Francois, 30; Cornelius Nieulatt, 26;
August Bollart. Al; John Bollart, 81,
and Arthur Moyar, 20.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-11
Plan AIRCRAFT BOARD
IN SENATE MEASURE
Army and Navy to Cooperate in
Aeronautical Work.

America must win the war
through the air. and following this
slogan, the Senate Military Commit
tee decided yesterday to favor the
creation of an aircraft board to
supervise the Industrial activities
relating to aviation.
The aircraft board is proposed in
bill introduced by Senator Shep-
pard. of Texas. who says it would
be formed for the purpose Of ex-
panding and co-ordinating the indus
trial activities relating to aircraft
produced for any purpose in the
United States and to facilitate gen
orally the development Of air SER
vice"
The chief signal officer of the
army the chief constructor of the
navy, and mot more than seven
other members of recognized capac-
ity and achievement along indus
trial lines" form the body. The
civilians must be appointed by the
President with the approval of the
Senate and will receive $500 each.
One of the civilians acts as presi-
dent Of the organization.
The purpose of the board as set
forth in the bill is ito supervise
and direct, in accordance with the
requirements prescribed or approved
by the Departments of the War and
Navy, respectively. the purchase,
production, and manufacture of air.
craft engines, and all ordnance and
instruments used in connection
Herewith, and accessories and ma
terials therefor. including the pur-
chase, lease. acquisition or con-
struction of plants for the manu-
facture. g..
The sum of 100000 is appropri-
afed
The Washington herald., 1917-08-11
BRITISH LABORITES
VOTEFOR CONFERENCE
Labor Wins Fight to Send Repre-
sentatives to Peace Meeting.
(By the international News Service

tby the international News Service.D
London, Aug. 10.-British organized
labor won its fight today for participa-
ton in the Socialist peace congress at
Stockholm, to be held early next
month.
The victory consisted In the adop-
ton, by a majority of $50, of resolu-
ton to send delegates to the Stock
holm conference.
Only one condition was stipulated:
That the international conference be
consultative, not binding. British labor
holds, in contradistinction to the view
of the Russian Socialists, that the
discussion Of peace terms and the
actual conclusion of peace are the
tasks of governments. not of parties.
The meeting of the British Labor
party, which took place at Westmin-
ster, was the stormiest held anywhere
in Great Britain since the outbreak
Of the war. At times the uproar aris-
ing from the wide divergence of views
on details. threatened to break up
the meeting. Charges and counter
charges, calumnies and threats flew
thick and fast. Two eminent labor
leaders engaged in fisticuffs-James
Ramsay Macdonald and Will Thorn.
The card vote of the 600 delegates
was 1,046,O00 to 5000
With today's result at Westminster,
the working elements of three great
belligerents-Russia, Germany and
England, in the order named-have
now subscribed to the Stockholm plan.
French organized labor is not yet
definitely agreed. The Italian So
cialists were today reported as hav-
ing decided against sending delegates.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-11
"BABY" CONGRESSMAN
WOULD KNOW WAR aim
Youngest Member of House Asks
Peace Terms of u. S.

Just after John NJ. Baer. the
baby" of the House was sworn in
yesterday and took his seat, he is
sued a statement, saying:
In our country the National Nom
partisan League. on whose platform
was elected in North Dakota,
stands without reserve upon a de-
mand that our government make
specific declaration of its terms Of
peace. so that we as a people may
know the ideal for which we war is
an expression of true Americanism.
Even now the German people are
of their government that
1t declare specifically the terms up
on which it will make peace.
TO continue war when the
peoples of the nations engaged are
at agreement, is an international
crime"
Baer is 81 years old. and so the
youngest member of the lower body
of Congress.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-11
gems. WOOD and BELL
MAY serve AT Home
War Department Order Likely to
Keep Them from Front.

Army department commanders, by
War Department orders issued yes
terday, are relieved Of the national
army cantonments and National
Guard camps within their departments
and will devote themselves entirely to
the regular troops within their juri5-
dictions.
The effect of this order. unless there
are changes in the high commands.
will be to keep some of the best known
commanders such as Maj. Gen. Wood,
Maj. Gen. ]. Franklin Bell ana others
in department commands at home, m
stead of sending them with the armies
to Europe.
There are to be more than 800 new
generals appointed within the next
few days. 1t Is, Of couse, possible
that some Of these or others might be
assigned to the regular departments
to permit sending the high line officers
with the fighting army.