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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
|. HOOVER DECIDES ON
STANDARD LOAF
One Pound he Smallest At Baker.
les After December 10.
FANCY ROLLS ARE BARRtD
President To Proclaim Licensing Today
And Bread Formula Will
Be Giyen0 ut.

The baking industry of the country
is to be put on war basis on Decem-
ber 10 under government regulation.
After that date loaves OF standard
sizes only may be baked, and the in
dustry must accept a formula pre-
pared by the Food Administration.
There will be no more fancy rolls. i'm
the making of which large quantities
of sugar are used
While the Food Administration will
not demand the mixing OF other
cereals with wheat a policy adopted
in France and England-the new war
load will differ i'm many essentials
from that which is baked at present
Herbert C. Hoover, the Food Admins
traitor, believes that saving of I0O.-
100000 pounds of sugar and an equal
amount of lard will be effected with
ing year
The acceptance of returns by bak-
ers also will be forbidden. and II has
been estimated that this action will
mean the saving of at least 100000
barrels of flour. Investigators have
found that many thousands of loaves
Of bre7d have been a total loss be-
cause of this practice
Seven cents pound for bread un-
der the new conditions is the present
mark set where elaborate delivery and
credit systems are abandoned. The
people will be asked to cooperate in
an effort to reduce these overhead
charges to minimum.
Authority to proceed under a licens-
ing system which will make possible
putting these regulations into effect
viii be given to the Food Administra-
tion in proclamation by President
Wilson to be made public tomorrow.
Bakers will be classed as manufactur-
ers, thus bringing them within the
scope of the Food Control Law. The
bakers viii thus have a month I'm
which to adjust their plants to the
new conditions.
Appeals To Families.
While the Food Administration has
no way in which to control baking in
The homes which represents GO per
cent Of the total, ell will be asked TO
voluntarily accept the formula which
has been prepared It Is expected that
there will be a hearty response.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12

lict penalty, and this was against
Georgetown for an off-side offense
The contending teams played all va
rieties of football The Middies tried
the aerial attack only two times. and
completed the play once for a gain Of
yards. Georgetown exploited this
means on six occasions and was sue
cessful in only the one that terminated
in their touchdown. Georgetown's
forwards could do little against their
opponents, and the backs, though they
got under way with much speed, we're
for the most part downed before they
cot beyond the line of scrimmage.
Cilroy, star halfback of the visitors,
made q few short gains, but he could
not shine as he has before at Annapo-
lis. Wall and McQuade played a
strong game for Georgetown, while
Martin and Ingram were the bright
stars in the Navy line-up.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
WILSON ADVOCATES
SPEEDING Up WAR
Said To Favor Active Operations
On Land AS Well As Sea
OUR NOTE IN WAR COUNCIL
Pressing Home of Allied Superiority
Over Foe On Western Front
One Step Suggested.

The German victories IN Italy have
brought the United States and the
other allied governments to a fuller
realization of the task that .confronts
them in the effort to make the world
safe for democracy This being so,
the feeling is growing that the German
success has measure of blessing in
1t, one phase of which is found in the
quick organization of central allied
military control of the western front,
with France, Great Britain, and Italy
represented in the high strategic COM
mand
The allied military and economic
conference in Paris this week, in
, which the United States will partici-
\ pate, affords the opportunity for
bringing this government into closer
relations with the other powers en-
saged in fighting Germany and Aus
lria.
While authoritative comment is
withheld. the opinion is ecoming gem
sral in well-infromed circles that one
outcome OF this important conference
viii be a declaration by the United
states Congress that a state of war
Exists between the United States and
he Government of Austria-Hungary
There are reports which seem to have
ONE foundation that when Congress
assemblies three weeks from today
President Wilson will contend that
he United States has sufficient cause
,or engaging in hostilities with the
Dual Monarchy
Austrian troops, in cooperation
with those of Germany, are pressing
. back the forces OF Italy's, Americas
ally, and are seeking a position which
viii enable them to threaten the al
lied lines in France that are in part
held by the American Expeditionary
Forces Subjects of Austria Hungary
IN this country are assisting Germans
IN the attempt TO cripple the resources
Of The nation so that the Central
Powers may be successful in their
conquest German U-boats that seek
American merchant vessels in the
Mediterranean, are operating from
Austrian bases The whole energy of
the Austro-Hungarian Government is
being directed as much against the
United States as against any of its
official enemies whenever opportunity
affords Taken altogether, it is held,
the situation shows Austria actually
engaged in war against America.
That the United States delegation at
the Paris conference will make known
in an emphatic manner its views con-
cerning the military situation, is gen.
orally recognized in Washington
President Wilson has sent to the con-
ference the highest ranking military
officers, General Tasker II. Bliss,
Chief of the Army General STAFF. and
the highest ranking naval officer, Ad-
miral William s. Benson, Chief of Ma
val Operations. They have both made
a study of the strategy of the Eu-
ropean war situation in their respect
i've fields. and both are represented to
be anxious to bring the United States
into the actual warfare in a way that
will count Behind them they have
the determination of President Wilson
to go to the limit of Americas re-
sources in men, material. and money
to bring success to the cause in which
the country has engaged.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
ON TRIAL FOR ROBBERY
OF W., B. & A. TICKET OFFICE
Robert Clark, Former agent, Is Alleged
To Have Made Confession To
Detectives.

Robert +. Clark, formerly employed
as the night ticket agent at the West
street terminal of the Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railways, was placed on trial before
Judge Robert Moss and jury in the
Anne Arundel County Circuit Court
here this morning on the charge of
robbing the ticket Office at the West
street station.
II is alleged that Clark, who is a
crippled young man, rified the cash
drawer OF more than $500. His ar
rest, it is said, resulted from his be-
ing traced through three tickets which
he is also alleged to have taken from
the drawer.
The case was well under way be-
fore the Court took the usual recess
for luncheon. A point that was pre-
sented to the Court for consideration
was the admissibility OF evidence of
a confession which Clark is alleged to
have made in the presence of Detec-
tive Dougherty, who arrested him, and
Detective Lieutenant Schanberger and
Detective Lancaster, of Baltimore.
While the testimony along this line
was being gathered, the members of
the jury retired to their room In the
alleged confession, it is said that
Clark made statements concerning the
circumstances of the robbery, and the
disposition he made of the money,
some Of which it is claimed, he spent
in purchasing two suits of clothes, an
automatic revolver, and other things
The case probably will be given TO
the jury late this afternoon Attor-
neys Benson and Kerr of Baltimore
County, are counsel for the accused
man
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
FOR SALE.

one Chandler car, 1917 model, in
first class condition.; can be seen at
Capital Garage.
Lot OF ground at Spa View Heights
S0xISS feet on waterfront and has
upon it a quantity of building mater
ial. Lot can be bought with material
or separately.
Lot of ground on Duvals c eek,
south River, 696 feet deep, los feet
water front; shanty and stable.
Fer further particulars apply to
CHARLES II. HEROLD,
nS-w 1s7 West street.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
City Council Meets Tonight

The Mayor and City Council of the
city will hold their regular weekly
meeting in the Municipal Building to-
night. The usual amount of routine
business is slated to be disposed of.
but apsrt from that il is not expected
there viii be any matters Of great
public Importance to come up for con-
eideration.
The City Fathers will De without
the services of their Clerk, Captain
Philip E. Porter, VINO Is confined to
his residence on Shipwright street
with en- illness, which it is said, bor-
ders on pneumonia.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
To Pack Christmas Packets For
Soldiers.

After The Capital had gone to press
Saturday afternoon. this office was
called up by the Red Cross Head
quarters asking the paper to make a
call for volunteers" to help pack the
Christmas packets for soldiers and
sailors that must be sent from here
by November Is.
Mrs. A. B. Cook, chairman of the
committee on Christmas packets for
enlisted men. desires all women and
girls willing to help pack these
Christmas packets to report tomorrow
morning at o'clock at Red Cross
Headquarters. the Moose Building, 45
Maryland avenue.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
St. Anne's Vesiry To Meet.

A meeting Of the Vestry OF st.
Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church
has been called fo- tonight at 8
o'clock. The meeting will be held in
the Guild room Of the Church and the
members are urged to be present as
several matters are to come up for
consideration.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
Removed From Hospital To Home.

Removed From Hospital To Home.
Mrs. Wilson, wife of Mr. William
Wilson, a member of the force in the
composing room of The Evening
Capital, who has been a patient at the
Emergency Hospital for the last three
weeks, where she was operated upon,
was removed yesterday to her home at
No. 26 Madison street.
Mrs Wilson is reported today as
slightly improved.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12

Substitutions- Navy: skinner for
Scaffe, Whelchel for Martin. Navy
scoring -Touchdowns. Butler, 2; Mar
tin. 2. Goals from touchdowns-In-
gram. A. Georgetown scoring-Touch-
down. whelan. Goal from touch
-Maloney-
Referee. HolIenhach, University OF
Pennsylvania: umpire, Eberly, OF
swarthmore: head linesman, Eckels,
washington and Jefferson. Time OF
periods-15 minutes each
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12

Superb Pauline Frederick st her
best in a splenoio perturbation of
Davio Graham Phillips novel "a
Hungry Heart" Colonial, Tuesday.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
On The Mend.

Prof d. NJ. Garrison, U. S. ~, who
was recently operated upon at the
Naval Hospital. is reported to be do
ing nicely His canvalescenee, how
ever, will be slow and tedious.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12

Touchdowns Fletcher, Arthur
Goal from touchdown Goal
from field - Semler. Referee ~ Mr..
Hoskins Umpire-Mr Morse Head
linesman-Mr. Metzler Time of per-
iods.15 minutes each
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
WANTED.

A steady boy to drive wagon. APP
ply A. ]. Scala, Green Grocery, 35
MARYLAND Avenue. n121-1t
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12

Colonial, Monday Montagu Love
June Elvldge ANA Henry Hoil in a
tense and powerful drama, Rasputisn
The Black Mouk" adv. .nl02t
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
Mothers Circle.

Regular monthly business meeting.
TUESDAY, NOV. 18th, 3 p. NJ, Gram
mar School Assembly Hall Members
are urged to attend Others invited,
n112-11t1
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
WANTED

WANTED-Young Man as collector.
salary and commission. Steady posi-
ton TO right party.
nest ISAAC BENESCH & SON.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
EHE CAPITAL

is like a letter from home.
See that 1t follows you where
ever you go. 3Octs. a month
by mail
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
rH4 WEATHER.

For Maryland
Cloudy tonight and Tues
day; probably rain, except
east portion tonight.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16

70 zee that twenty stout men slept
around hts bed. . ..:. go
M avail. al one in the morning the
adiutant was called out quietly to see
the remains Of Sher Gul. His head
was wing on the edge of the bed,
ratchet imbeded in the skull. he
had been killed with hfty men sleep.
in ground him. They had a!l sleps
like the dead. and nobody nad neara
sne;n.t ene Sher Khan whatever; public
nninion was on his side.
"Zam. Zan and Zar"-land. women
and goid-according to the Persian
nroverb. are at the bottom OF all out.
ra9e. and with nine Khattaks out OF
'e'1i The K Khattak thinks no end Of his
nersonal appearance. He dresses 20
xiii. and loves to 60 and parade IN
the bazaar in his gala XII. he VII
spend hours over his toiiet, peonMs
at himself in the glass all the Wniie
thomeh his neighbors may be almost
as Interested in the performance ~
S he Then, with his hair neatly oiasd
ord train to the level Of the lobe or
his his ear. he will stride forth in his
anwerv waistcoat Of plum color or
naroon velvet with golden braid.
snotless white baggy trousers. mower
hehind his ear, a red handkerchief IN
his pockct, a cane in his hand. ana
for headgear a high Kohat lungiplack
with yellow and crimson ends. ana
a kula covered with gold.
Every Khattak is bit OF 2 blood.
Tn his country snowy exterior bez
tokens the gallant in both senses OF
the word. A woman Of arts Will not
look at a man unless he has served
in the army or is at least sometnine
Of a bucaneer.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16
GERMAN PATROL
REPAIRS WIRES
OF: BR|T|ShfRS
Then are Taken Prisoners by
''Tornrnies" Troops In
termingle in the Dark.

London, Feb. 16.-Barbed wire was
once looked upon as an invention OF
the devil by attackers out at the fir
ing line in France. That time has
passed Germany's great prepara--
tions for wire defences have proved
more troublesome TO themselves than
to the British forces in many cases
and iii one instance provided little
party that is one Of the great jokes of
the Somme fighting.
It might be explained that Germany
before the war had not been satisfied
with the usual wooden stakes for
stringing wires in front of intrench-
ments. German ingenuity had invent
ed an iron stake with three loops for
stringing the wire and q corkscrew
end which allowed of its being drilled
into the ground noiselessly. Sooner
or later England adopted the same
device, but for many months the
troops that repaired the wires out in
no mans land were wont to find their
way about in the dark by feeling the
posts and acting accordingly.
Hailed as Blessing.
When the new stakes made their
appearance they were heralded as
blessinp by the 420th Field company
Of Royal Engineers under command
of Lieutenant Billie b. He
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16
khATTAKS ARE
ARMY DAND|ES
But Proneness to Trouble
Makes Them Terrors
to Officers.
British Headquarters in Meso

British Headquarters in Mesopo-
tamia, Jan. 22.-(British Eyewit-
ness. -(Correspondence of the AS
sociated Press 1.-The Khattaks are
the dandies of the Indian army. They
reckless, generous, improvident. mer-
curial, altogether a friendly and re-
sponsive sort of people, but with the
queer kink that one finds in all
Pathans, that primitive sensitive point
of honor or shame which puzzles the
psychologist
The Khattaks kept their spirits up
all through the hot weather. They
are too lively sometimes. AS soon as
the drum and oboe sound they start
cat-calling and make their work fly.
The Khattaks are as responsive to the
oboe as the Highlanders to the bag
pipe, but they are more demonstra-
tive. 1t is a good thing to be near
when the Khattak' rifles leave camp.
At the first sound of the drum and
oboe. they break into wild treble
shrek, failing off, perhaps, with the
balbala, the Pathan imitation Of the
gurgling of the camel
These tribesmen are easily excited.
seldom dispirited. and if SO. only for
a short time. Their eagerness is
sometimes a positive danger during
an attack. At Sheik Saad it was diff
f1cult to hold the Khattak company
back while the regiment on their left
was coming up; they were all for go
ing ahead and breaking the line; and
in the end it was a premature sortie
of the. .Khattaks that precipitated the
assault.
Old shere Khan, a typical Khattak,
the other day killed right inside the
regimental lines a rival for his wifes
affections, and he could not have done
anything else. The mans offense
carried its own sentence in the minds
OF all decent-thinking Khattaks. Be-
fore. the deed the subadar-major beg
ged the adiutant to get the rival
Sher Gul. we'll away before the night;
otherwise, he said, there would be
! trouble, but the adjutant could not
look into the case until the next
morning. In the meantime. to safe
guard Sher Gul, he told the subador
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16

led his section up through the COM
munication trenches and after re-
porting to the infantry officer in
charge CROPPED his way out through
sap to no mans land. where he was
to repair whatever damaged en-
tanglements he found
Its mighty dark" whispered Billie
to Sergeant Armstrong. II wonder
why they don't put up some lights" :"
Both sides wiring, sir" Armstrong
answered. "and both got out covering
patrols" =.
"Of course that's it: come along"
Out there in the dark and mist you
can never be certain of what happens,
but later events proved that the two
hostile patrols must have met unex-
pectedly and actually become inter-
mingled before the situation was re-
allied. 1t was a fine little melee, men
feeling each other for Identification
and stabbing with the bayonet at the
first shadow of certainty.
Attacks His Comrade.
A German wiring party bluedering
along attracted Billie's attention and
he turned to see a wounded British
private hump into Armstrong and at
tempt to stab the sergeant. taking
him for a German That made the
situation clear. The British patrol.
followed by wiring partv. was creep
ing south and the two had become
mixed.
bring the section up here" ordered
Ellie. land detail some one to get
this man home"
A few minutes later No. section Of
the 420th Field company came steal
ing up the wire single file with fixed
bayonets and Billie led them north
through the mist until he was sure he
had them in the rear Of the enemy
patrol. Then east they went until he
knew he was far into no mans land {;
then south until he bumped into some
one whom he promptly bayoneted.
Its no use going further" whisper
ed Armstrong, I'VE are wiring party
and there isn't man in the section
has compass. If they get separated
they are as likely to go east as west" "
"All right" said Billie. lets pull
out and get back to work"
Crawl Back to Work.
Armstrong blew two very low notes
on his whistle and out of the mist in
ones and twos the sappers gathered
around and the section wormed its
way back to work A few yards and
every man halted his crawl, for ahead
came the unmistakable sounds Of men
working wires.
Sapper Bells. unnoticed. crawled
out to investigate, while Billie wormed
back to Armstrong.
What do you make Of it?" he ask
ed the sergeant.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16
British Trench Raids Help to Make
Life Miserable For Germans; Plan
Was First Inuented By Canadians

With the British Armies in France.
via London by a staff correspondent
Of the Associated Press, Feb. 16.-
The past thirty hours have witnessed
three Of the British raids which are
carried out daily and nightly with the
object Of making life unbearable to
Germans In the trenches. Two Of the
dians. who really invented the prac-
tice Of trench raiding which has now
spread throughout the British armies.
These raids, added to the steady
progress by tho British on both sides
of the Ancre, are evidence that the
coldest weather Of the war on this
front has not stopped the constant
worrying pressure which the British
seek to exert upon the Germans.
Keep In Trim.
Old soldiers say that there is moth
ing quite so valuable as these minor
operations for keeping the troops in
pressing and injurious to moral as
the constant defensive which the Ger
mans have endured all winter oppo-
site the British lines. In this respect
the British are very unlike tho French
in their methods Of winter war. Cen
eral Haig's policy has been one Of un-
ceasing bombardment punctuated by
daily RAIDS ana minor 4tt3cke, Idctlc6
which have brought In constant
stream Of prisoners, and inflicted a
heavy toll of casualties on the Cor
mans. The French. on the other hand,
prefer lying quiet in their trenches for
long periods and then attacking sud
denly on wide front in q fierce sharp
combat. The British have not the
same appreciation Of tho dramatic as
the French but believe implicitly. in
the efficiency Of the steady grinding
down process which they are carrying
out.
Wrecked Trenches
In their biggest raid the Canadians
captured ~ prisoners Of the 11th Ba-
varians, who only came into tho lines
yesterday. The Canadians remained in
the German trenches for moro than an
hour and left them completely wreck
ed. Their most important work prob
ably was the blowing In Of four mine
shafts, by which they sealed in living
tombs scores Of Germans who were
tunneling toward the British lines.
The Germans tried to cut OF the Ca
nadians with double fire and then
attack but they only succeeded In in
hicting few caSualtiooL
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16

Mrs: Ladd. whose home is in Bos-
ton. has been chosen to design the
bronze tablet that will be set up in
Serbia to mark the retreat in which
a hundred thousand Serbian men,
women and children lost their lives,
rather than surrender to the Austro-
Germans.
The motto on the bronze is Serbia
Surrenders Only to Cod" The me-
dallion shows the veela, or legendary
spirit Of Serbia, which Is supposed to
appear to heroes at the hour Of death.
Copies Of the medallion are to be
sold In the United States to assist the
Serbian hospitals fund which Madame
Slavko Grouitch. the American wife
Of Serbian statesman, has founded
for the relief Of the orphans and
widows Of those who died on the Ser
bian retreat.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16

Minneapolis. Mimi. Feb. 15.-eey:
eral hundred workmen employed py
the terminal elevators Of Minneapolis
were notified today that It may be ne
cessary soon to close all the big stor.
age houses in Minneapolis because OF
the car shortage. Elevator Il" OF the
Cereal Grading company. was closed
It is estimated that there are So
0o0. 900 bushels Of grain in the Mill
city elevators and moro In the coun-
try waiting to be forwarded here. It
cannot be moved because Of the lack
of cars.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16
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