davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
TO PROVIDE JACKIES
FOR winters RIGOR
Comforts Committee Will Make
More Garments for Sammies.

Officials of the comforts commit
tee of the Navy League of the
United STATES stated that the COM
mittee would continue its work
throughout the country. Those
garments designated by their maxi
ers as being for blue jackets will
be sent to the navy while all
workers will be urged for the time
being to work to equip the soldiers
in the trenches for the rigors of
Northern France winter.
1t was also stated that the COM
forts committee is a committee of
I the Navy League of the United
States and under the direction of
that body. The committee member
ship, however, is not confined to
members of the Navy League of the
United States. but has affiliated
1 with 1t in the special comforts
work, d. A. r., and other patriotic
| organizations.
Special attention is called to the
| fact that since the comforts COM
| mittee began its labors last Janu-
ary it has furnished 440, 900 knitted
| garments to the men of the navy
and Marine Corps. The conserva-
tive estimate of the monetary value
OF these garments is 1000 900 in
! round numbers. OF this amount
more than 100000 was directly
contributed by the Navy League of
the United States.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
SALESMANSHIP CLASS
PROVES SUCCESSFUL
Business High School Principa
Comments on New Course.

Tn craftsmanship class which was
formed at Business High School last
week has proved successful from the
attendance standpoint. according to
Allan Davis, principal Of the school.
Although the attendance Is COM
paratively small" said Mr.. Davis, lit
is past expectations. as we did not
expect large class owing to the small
number of pupils that have enrolled
this semester
The number of boys that have Joined
the cadets is also causing much IA
vorable comment among school off,
cials. Seventeen out Of seventy boys
that enrolled at Business the first day
have Joined the cadets.
School officials have decided that
the old Central High School must be
used as an annex to Business High
School in order to accommodate the
vast number of pupils expected to
enroll in February.
Supt. Ernest l.. Thurston said yes
terday that the opening of night
schools will probably be delayed until
it is learned just what action Con-
gress would take on the legislation
affecting the night schools in the war
deficiency bill.
The existing law prohibits any
teacher in the public schools from re-
ceiying two salaries aggregating s., ,OJO
year and as many of the night
school teachers are drawn from the
ranks Of the day school force it is
feared that many will not be availi-
bic for use in night schools.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
SPEAKERS DO HONOR
To REV. DR.. M'GLYNN
Laud Man as Priest and Anti-Pov.
erty Worker in New York.

Louis F. Post. Assistant Secretary
OF the Labor Department: II. Mar
tin Williams, and Edward King were
the principal speakers at the celebra-
tion of the eightieth anniversary OF
the birth Of Rev. DR.. Edward Nc
Glynn, held under the auspices of the
Single Tax Association and Woman's
Club at Hickman Hall, 1910 New York
avenue northwest.
Strong tributes to DR.. McGlynn's
life and work both as a Catholic priest
and as a worker in the anti-poverty
movement started in New York BY
the publication of Henry Georges
book entitled Progress and Poverty"
were paid by speakers.
Secretary Post, in the course of his
address, declared that there were re-
forms of all sorts. but that DR.. Nc
Glynn's democracy was of the funda-
mental kind with no sham in 1t. King.
who was associated with DIR. McGlynn
for many years in New York. has
very intimate and interesting ac-
count of the lattor's fight to i'm
prove conditions among the poor of
New York City.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
WAR REVENUE BILL
STILL IN CONFERENCE

No report was made yesterday
upon the war revenue bill. The
conferees were closeted together all
day. while in another room experts
worked upon the draft of the re-
port Senator Simmons said no.
thing was to be given out.
The Senate and House members
of the conference committee had
one or two rather heated inter-
changes of words this morning.
Nevertheless. the report will be
made by noon today. and the House
may begin discussion upon its pos
sible acceptance.
The increase of the bill to some
s2,7t0, 100000 met with more or less
general approval yesterday among
House and Senate members.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
Will CREATE
war LIBRARY
Col. House Plans to Inform
on Coming Peace
Questions.

Col f. NJ. House, the Presidents
closest friend and advisor, has en-
gagged on new career in the in
terests Of the government. For the
moment he has laid aside his char
acter as personal emisarry of Mr..
Wilson on errands of peace and has
branched forth as a combination his
torian and card-indexer
He, with expert assistance from a
STAFF Of college professors, historians,
and other experts yet to be selected,
is about to create for the use of the
State Department-and for the Amer
lean peace commissioners when the
time comes to assemble around the
green table-a war library.
1t is to be a who's who and
What's What" of the European war
and the personages connected with 1t.
1t will contain historical, geographic
cal, commercial. territorial, personal
and other data necessary for the ref
erence OF the American commission
ers in order that they may be COM
pletely Informed on every question
which will arise in the conclusion of
peace treaty.
Quick Card Index.
The fact that Col. House is starting
to do this is no indication that the
United States expects an early peace.
1t is a work on which expert COM
mittees, with the full confidence of
the European chancellories. have been
engaged upon ever since the begin
ming of hostillties.
Col. Houses labors will be to pro-
duce a ready-reference library a
quick card index system-to which
the American peace emissaries can
refer in a moment, and get complete
data on all sides of any question
which may arise.
1t is generally accepted that Col.
House will be one OF these emissaries
when the time comes. so 1t is especial
/ ly fitting that he should be the man
who should arrange the information
system. The originator of an index
system always is better acquainted
with its peeuliarities than the casual
layman.
The probability is, that Col. House
will not come to Washington to carry
on the work. and 1t is practically as
sured that there will be no necessity
for any investigation abroad. The
State Department is cooperating in
the work, by putting at the House
committees disposal all Official in
formation on various subjects which
have come up during the war.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
Miners STRIKE NOW
TEMPORARILY HALTED
Department of Labor May Cause
Arbitration at Clifton, Ariz.

A short telegram from Secretary
Wilson, Of the Department of Labor.
TO s a. Heath, secretary Of the
Arizona Copper Miners Union, which
was sent to Clifton. Arizona. yester-
day morning, resulted in the return
10 work Of several hundred employees
who have been on a strike several
days.
Heath wired the Secretary that con-
ditiOns were such that il the special
committee recently appointed by the
President to investigate industrial
conditions. with regard to labor
would agree TO come to Clifton
promptly he was sure he could per-
suade the men to return to work and
await the results of arbitration. The
Secretary wired Mr.. Heath that the
committee would leave Washington
sunday evening and proceed direct
to Clifton. An hour later a message
was received from Heath announcing
that the strikers had returned to
work.
From Clifton, the committee will
proceed to San Francisco, after which
il will visit Seattle and Portland.
Oregon, where recent disturbances in
the shipbulldtng industries have been
Of some magnitude and concern to
the government. The committee has
been impOT;uned to visit many places,
and has decided to include about a
dozen cities in widely separated sec
tions.
The itenerary at no time will be de-
finite. but will be booked en- tour and
regulated by conditions effecting in
dustry. They expect TO make a COM
plete tour Of the United States dur
ing the two months they will be in
the field, incidentally calling upon the
governors Of States and other Off
Cials for cooperation.
The individual members are spend
ing their time in research trips about
the city, visiting departments and
bureaus for information of enlight-
ment of vital questions which will
arise in their work
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
N. E. CITIZENS URGE
new SCHOOLHOUSE
Petition Commissioners to Build
Structure at Eighteenth and
Newton Streets.

Petitions were prepared and sent to
the District Commissioners by MEM
bers of the Rhode Island Avenue
Suburban Citizens Association urg-
ing an immediate start on construct
ing new school edifce at Eighteenth
and Newton streets northeast. At a
meeting in the Sherwood PRESBYTERIAN
Church resolution was adopted ask
ing the Commissioners TO take the
necessary steps towards actual build
ing of a new structure. which is de-
scribed as crying need"
Congress recently appropriated So
600 for this scheme, and the pro-
crastinatlng policy pursued by the
District solons is keeping the Lang
don and Sherwood section schools in
a continually overcrowded condition.
owing partly to the rapid growth Of
those suburbs. At the church meet
Ing a vote was pOlled on the subject
of recommending the adoption of the
"stagger system of street car stops,
whereby 1t claimed greater speed
could be obtained for the trolley
schedules through stops at alternate
corners only, which resulted in a tie.
This subject will be referred 10 the
utilities committee for investigation
and report at the next business meet
ing.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
Patent Attorney Denies
He Promised to Marry
Widow of Baltimore

George II. Chandlee. a promi-
ncnt patent attorney. defendant
in a sl00.VJ0 "heart-balm" suit,
filed the first of this month by
Mrs. Bessie Richardson, a Balti-
more widow. denied emphatically
yesterday in his answer that he
ever promised to marry her.
The answer is very brief, and
states that no such understand
ing existed between himself and
Mrs. Richardson, whereby they
were to be married.
Mrs. Richardson states In her
declaration that Chandlee prom
ised to marry her in June of last
year, the date to be set by mu-
tual agreement. She stated that
the lawyer has persistently refus-
ed to live up to his end of the
agreement, thereby causing her
much suffering and mental an
guish.
Attorney Mason N. Richardson
appears for Chandlee.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
.SPUDS ARE Cheaper,
SO EAT YOUR Share
Agriculture Department Promises
Bumper Crop of Potatoes.

Welcome back, Mr.. Potato,
"spuds" or "Murphys" as you may
call them. no more a-plutocratic
delicacy. but once again the staple
article of food for the working man.
The Department of Agriculture
announces that with the coming of
the bumper crop of potatoes this
year every patriotic American is
expected to do his bit in the eating
of the apple of the earth.
Are you eating your share of the
country's potato crop?" asks the
Department of Agriculture in a re-
cent statement. Now that the
tubers are once more plentiful and
cheap they may be well given a
prominent place on the DINNER
table"
Suggestions as to the manner of
serving potatoes most enticingly
and economically have been sent
out to Americans all over the
country by the Bureau of Informa-
/ tion of the Department of Agri-
culture.
| Potatoes need not be only boiled
or baked to get the best results
for the palate. The department ad-
vises cooking "spuds" with baked
| meats. and boiling the tubers in
their jackets in preference to the
way of pairing the potatoes before
boiling.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
Grandson Seeks Estate
Of Belva Lockwood

De Forrest l.. ormes, grandson of
Belva Lockwood, the only woman
who ever ran for President. and who
died May ls last, filed an application
yesterday in the Probate Court for
letters of administration on the estate
of the deceased.
Mrs. Lockwood died without max
ing a Will. Attorney Mary O'Tooie
appears for the grandson. Mrs.
Lockwood owned an interest in a
tract of 500 acres in Wyoming and
held judgment for $50 on which an
appeal is rending. Her debts amount
ed to y595.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
common PEOPLE"
PUNISHED enough
Interstate Commerce Commission
Backing Up American Consumer.

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion evidently believes that patriotism
should be manifest in all its deci-
sions during these days of national
peril, and accordingly is making it.
self heard upon the subject with some
emphasis.
Hundreds of petitions for increases
of freight rates on commodities and
carload lots of foodstuffs and other
nece ssities which were docketed for
suspension or set for hearing during
the month of September and October
are being further suspended every day
to dates in January and February of
next year.
So far few protests from the rail-
roads of the country are being receiv-
ed. They seem to take the view that
this is a rather poor season when the
liberty of the world is threatened TO
qUibble over such small items as in
crease in transportation rates.
1t was suggested yesterday that
even the big corporations were be-
ginning to realize that the dear COM
mon people have been punished enough
by the high cost of living. The COM
mission is fully conscious of the fact
that the public pays the freight"
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29

Green uniforms have replaced white
ones among British hospital surgeons,
ara British hospitals are also being
fitted in green. instead of white, be-
cause this color is easier on the eyes
of patients.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
FOREIGN SHIPS MAY
ENTER COAST TRADE

The House yesterday passed the
Alexander bill suspending the laws
barring foreign vessels from coast
wise trade. the suspension to hold
until 10 days after the end Of the
war. FOreign-built vessels and vessels
Of foreiGn registry may take part in
ooastwise trade. except with Alaska
or between Alaskan ports.
Permits will be required. shippers
TO obtain them from the United States
Shipping Board. This board asked
for power 20 suspend the laws, be-
cause it believed considerable tonnage
could be gained for coastwise ship
ping
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
GIFTS
FOR RED CROSS FUND

Organizations and individuals
added to the Red Cross war serv-
ice fund by their gifts yesterday,
showing the continual interest in
the city in the maintenance of Red
Cross activities at home and abroad.
Some of the gifts. like that Of the
Washington Navy Yard Branch OF
the American Society of Marine
Craftsmen, were in addition TO
what the donors had given before.
Nothing is more encouraging to the
finance committee than such ad-
ditional gifts.
Contributions announced yester-
day were: American Society OF Ma
rine Craftsmen, Washington Navy
Yard Branch (additionaD, $29.65:
Mrs. William Phillips, SIS: Edward
F. Pickford. $40; Walter T. weav-
er. IS: L. S. Nicholson (dividend)
50; Miss Jennie Biron. $5; Samuel
5. Rider. 81: Arthur F. Sievers. 81:
Harry Solheim. 81; Ladies' Aid So
ciety. Grace Reformed Church, IS.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-29

In the parable of the sower the Lord
refers to grains of wheat which in
good open ground produced a hun
dred-fold (Matthew xiii. 81. The COM
mon triticum vulgare will sometimes
produce 100 grains TO the ear.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
VOTERS OPPOSED TO WAR
Majority at Monroe and Sheboygan
Against Declaration "Under
Existing Circumstances"

Monroe Monroe, by proportion OF
more than 10 to 1, voted against a
declaration of war at the election here
on Tuesday. One thousand forty-nine
ballots were cast against declara,
ton under evisting circumstances"
and ninety-six favored aggressive &C
ton by the United States. Nine hun
dred ffty-four opposed any action by
congress.
Sheboygan- Sheboygan, one of the
first cities in the United States to vote
publicly on the question of the United
States entering the European war, on
Tuesday voted negatively. Of slight
~ less than ten thousand registered
voters, Att cast ballots. Seventeen
voted in favor of this country entering
the war.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
ARMED AMERICAN
SHIP !ORPED0ED;
ELEVEN MISSING
U. S. Steamer Aztec Attacked
by Submarine at Night.
SURVIVORS SAVED BY FRENCH
Captain and Others in Small Boat
Picked Up by Cattle Ship
Search Is Being Made
for Others.

Washington, April 3.-French adj
miralty dispatches to the French en-
bassy here announcing the sinking
without warning Of the first armed
American freightefs Aztec, by Ger
man submarine, said apparently Lieut..
Fuller Graham and IL American blue
Jackets constituting the armed guard
of the vessel, had been saved, but that
IL, Of the crew were reported missing.
Washington, April 3.-Eleven of the
crew of the armed American steamer
Aztec torpedoed without warning off
the French coast are missing, accord
ing to dispatch received at the
French embassy. No complete list of
the survivors of the ship was con-
tanned in the dispatch, which was
garbled in transmission, and which
mentioned two missing boats, after re-.
ferring to the II men missing. The
dispatch as given out by the French
embassy read:
Gas Follows Explosion.
''The French ministry of the navy
has given the foreign Office the follow
ing information:
1.-THE steamer Aztec, 2,7OO tons,
armed, bound from New York to
Havre, has been sunk without warn
ing April / off Ouessant. The torpedo
struck amidships, destroying the wire
less apparatus and generating great
quantities Of asphyxiating gas. The
first boat broke in two while being
lowered. The second boat took off the
captain and Lieutenant Fuller Graham,
the naval officer in charge of the ships
guard. and 10 men of the crew.
French Rescue Survivors.
"Fhe third boat took off the sec
Ond officer and Is men. Eleven men
are missing. The boat with the cap
tain was sighted by the French cattle
ship Sirius and the Sirius took the
survivors aboard. Searching for the
Others"
Secretary of the Navy Daniels said
he had no official information as to
the sinking of the Aztec, but he would
make. public the names Of the gun
crew aboard as soon as a complete
list of survivors is received. The state
department has asked for an imme-
date report on the sinking.
First Armed Ship Sunk.
The Aztec was the first armed
American ship to be sunk since the be-
ginning of the German ruthless under
sea boat campaign. Sixteen Americans
were in the crew Of the vessel and it is
believed several of them persisted.
The vessel had cargo of the value
Of more than half a million dollars.
The Aztec was formerly in the serv-
Ice of the Pacific Mail line.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
HELD FOR THREAT TO WILSON
A. E. w. SINNERS of New Jersey. Said
To Be German, Taken for Plot
ting to Kill President.

Camden, N. J., April 3.-Adolph q.
w. SINNERS of Woodbine, N. j., said to
be a German, was held today under
$4,000 bail for a further hearing on
Wednesday by United States Commits
sioner Joline on charge of threaten
ing the life of President Wilson. No
testimony was taken by the commits
sioner. Acting on instructions from
Washington not to discuss arrests
made during the international crisis,
federal agents refused to make public
any details in the case. SINNERS was
arrested by a Philadelphia agent Of the
department of justice Saturday.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06

put in five hours of drill and four of
instruction every week. In spite OF
this, the course has the biggest men,
bership of any in the university.
The object is to train men for more
than to handle rifle. The wish is to
turn out officers President Lowell
said in an address to rockies" "On
you, as officers, will depend the lives
of other men, and it is your duty to
become as expert as possible, for the
pages Of history are thickly strewn
with the plumbers OF commanding Off
GERS.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
FAVOR MILLIONS FOR WAR
Resolution Approved by House Appro-
priations Committee Asks House
to Act on Big Revenue Bills.

Washington, April 3.-Within ten
minutes after President Wilson had fin
ished his address to congress Chair
man John Fitzgerald Of the appropria-
tons committee introduced a resolu-
ton, which Immediately was passed,
calculated to give millions of dollars
to the administration for war pur-
poses.
His resolution provides that within
the next ten days the house shall, I'M
der a suspension Of rules, take action
on four great revenue bills-the sun
dry civil, general deficiency, army ap-
preparation and military academy APP
propriation-all of which failed to pass
the Sixty-fourth congress.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
Advises Energetic Measures


81 advise that the congress de-
clare the recent course Of the I'M
periaI German government to be
In fact nothing less than war
against the government and peo-
pie of the United States; that it
formally accept the status Of bel
Ifgerent which has thus been
thrust upon it and that it take
immediate steps not only to put
the country In more thorough
state of defense, but also to ex-
ert all its power and employ all
it's resources to bring the govern
ment of the German empire to
terms and end the war;"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
GREAT ACTIVITY AT HARVARD
Hundreds of Students Preparing
Themselves to Take Up Duties of
Officers in Event of War.

Cambridge, Mass, April 3.-Har-
ward is probably doing more to pre-
pare for war than any other American
university. There are LOO men en-
rolled in the department of military
science and tactics. The work makes
this by no means what the collegian
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
EInne in a Box Car.

La Crosse - William Parker, aged
.27 years, said to have wife and two
children in Peoria, H., and Grace
Sturgis, 81 years old, also married.
were taken out of box car here.
Parker was sentenced to jail.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
Duluth Gusts All saIoona.

Duluth Returns from 40 out of 40
districts here give prohibition ma
jority of slightly more than 1000
votes. Dry forces claim a victory by
1900 majority.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
ORDER OUT MORE GUARDS
Second Regiment, West Virginia,
Fourth Virginia, and Battery Vir-
qnia Field Artillery Called.

Washington. April 3.-The follow
ing National Guard units were ordered
out by the war department for general
police duty: Second regiment West
Virginia: Fourth regiment Virginia;
Battery D. Field artillery, Virginia.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06
PREPARE FOR WORK IN NAVY
Yale Students in Training to Serve in
Motor Boat PatroI-St. Louis
Organizations Busy.

New Haven, April 3.-More than
hundred have volunteered for the Yale
Naval Training Unit, which is the lata
est preparedness activity added to the
Reserve corps and Aero corps units
already established. Plans for imme
date work for the motor boat patrol
have beer adcnted a cn-trib'- top -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-06

81 900 from a graduate has been made
to begin the financing of the undertake
ing, and permanent committee chos-
en- to direct the work of training. Sew
eral graduates have volunteered their
services as instructors.
st. Louis, Mo-, April 3.-All civic
ard national organizations in this city
have banded together in a gigantic
campaign to enroll 10000 new mem
'bers in the st. Louis chapter of the
American Red Cross. Recruiting head
quarters have been established in all
no IT'S of the city.