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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
BY LOUIS II. JAFFE

HNAEE your choice, fans. There's four Of
i 'cm. and all programs Of six bouts each.
As on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas
afternoon the olympia, National Ryan and
Nonpareu clubs have arranged matinee
boxing programs Capacity ruled at each
of the arenas on the two previous holidays
and the same Is predicted for this after
noon
Benny Kaufman and Louisiana meet in
the contest thar carries the most interest
OF the twenty-four bouts scheduled. The
bantamweights, although they will weigh
in around the featherweight limit. will meet
in the sixth and final scrap on the Olym-
piaE card. l.ouisi is being boosted for
match with champion I(id Williams, and
In order TO assure himself of this encounter
he must win from Kaufman While Louisi-
ana Is quoted the favorite, boxing, like
any other branch OF sport, is uncertain.
and kaufman may upset the dope
Morgan VS.. Mayo
Cleverncss usually overcomes sluggng in
ring artiEcc, and bout in which boxing
will be pitted against fighting is scheduled
with F't .ie Morgan and Johnny Mayo the
principals Mayo has been punching with
much force in his recent bouts, but in tack
ling Morgan the Italian bucks up against
righty elusive proposition, Unless Nor
gan succeeds in making Mayo miss his trip
hammer WallOpS the ILl6Ishhldh may go
down to defeat
Little Bear the Indian bantam who has
appeared here in two matches and made
good. pairs off with Joe Tuber Tuber IS
a terrific puncher for q little fellow, Heap
Much InJun boxer has no soft job against
Tubel. and the Redsliin may mop up some
of t,e rosin In the Olympia ring.
A boxer who comes from New York and
appeared here before n bantamweight
will make his featherweiEht debut in the
third setto. lie is Battling Reddy. Young
Chaney. of Baltimore, will be Reds op'
ponent, and the BaItmorean is clever fist
finger.
Johnny AIoloney and Gussie Lewis should
put up a fast siX-roundel. while Tommy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
Virginia to Play Yale. Not Harvard

LTNCHBCRG, VA, Ian. 1.-The University
Of Virginia 1917 football schedule Includes a
game with Yale AT New Haven, October q. IIar-
list.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01

AIeyedO Face WCGOvern
A brace OF battlcrs from the hard-punch-
ing school OF boxing will appear In the fea-
ture fracas of the Nationals special show
They are Terry McGuvern who In a year
has placed himself in PhiladeIphia's hstic
spotglare, and Joe. Azevedo. the Portuguese.
Both are aggressive and ever-punchng
wielders of leather Eighteen minutes of
real, torrid sam-swapping is in store for
each, as well the fans.
Since invading Philadelphia from Mil
waulSee, Billy Kramer has proved soma.
what of sensation in 150-pound competi-
ton. For this afternoon Billy win have to
bring all Of his ring craft into play when he
encounters Steve Lat2o. LatZo's last two
bouts we're victories over Jack Britton ana
Marty Cross. Steve is good puncher: so
is Kramer, thus great doings are looked for
Johnny Gill, welterweight from York,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
Lord Succeeds Gross as coach

WATERVILLE. Ne, Jan, l--HsTrX Lord,
former Chicago star, VIII coach the Colby col
iFze baseball squad this spring. LORD sue
cesds Alonts Cross the former Athletic short
stop.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
Adam Rydn'S Half Dozen
Bouts for the Ryan club
Azcyedo Face McGovern

Barrone a visitor here, opens the show
with Whitley Fitzgerald
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
STATISTICS OF HOBART -VLNCOME GAME
VINCOAIE
HOBART

ReereeDr Keough u Of P UmpreEsi Pauztns u OF r.
Head lnman-Daye Walsh c. H. s. Time OF peioosS2 minutes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
TYRONE COSTELLO
Bout Between Louisiana
and Kaufman Is Fea-
ture of Afternoons
Quadruple Bill
Boxing Program Scheduled
This Afternoon at Olympia
rRELINIINARIES

rRELINIINARIES
Tommy Barrone vs.. Whitley FITZGERALD.
JuhnnS MOlnneN ys. Gussle Lewis
Battling Reddy vs.. Young ChuneI
Joe Tuber vs.. Little Bear.
SEMININD-UP
Eddie Morgan vs.. Johnny Mayo.
NlND-JP
Louisiana vs.. Benny kaufman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
PHoTOPLAYS

Louise Glaum, who has been 'yamping''
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Ger1nan-Hmerican War

General Bell in statement which
he says is his "last word on the sub
iect" declares that Mrs. Humiston's
charges of immortality among the
troops at Camp Upton are baseless
The wastage of Teutonic man pow
er is the significant feature of the
British victory near Cambria and Of
the fighting in Italy, Secretary Baker
declared in his weekly war review.
Declaration Of war by the United
States against Austria-Hungary and
possibly against Germany's other al
lies, Turkey and Bulgaria, is inti-
mated by the State Department.
New England is seeking recruits
for the coast artillery.
The war department will submit to
Congress estimates for an army OF
100000, and the possibility of rails
ing 100000 men already is in sight.
American business men employing
Germans seek modification of Pres
ident Wilson's alien enemy order,
saying it is working a hardship on
them by injuring their business.
The American military authorities
in France have ordered all one-time
ambulance volunteers either to enlist
in the American forces or return to
the United States.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
PlTH OF THE
WAR NEWS

Belief is expressed at Italian head
quarters that the Teuton offensive
on the Italian front has failed. Con.
fronted by the combined British,
French and Italian armies, it was
thought they would be unable to
pass to the Venetian plain.
Polish and Czech Austrian regiments
attacked and nearly exterminated
each other in battle back of Asiago.
se!gians have repulsed German at
tack on their positions, London re-
ported, and British took prisoners
south of the carpe. French beat
off raids in the Champagne and the
Meuse sectors.
Italians repulse five furious assaults
os the left wing Of their army, in
flicting heavy losses OH the Teutons,
and at headquarters it was stated
that the battle has proved the ItaI-
ian forces able to halt the invasion
of the Huns from the north.
French forces have cleared the last
of the Germans out of the positions
north Of Hill 344, in the verdun sec
tor, which were captured on Sunday.
British troops have worked their way
to the centre Ct Fontaine Notre
Dame and fighting has been renewed
between that village and Bourbon
Wood.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Sporting

Joseph Giorgio of the Paulist A. G..
won the eleventh annual Yonkers Mar
athon race.
Pennsylvania whipped her old foot
ball adversary, Cornell, in Philadel-
phia, by 81 points to 0.
Johnny Dundee of New York knock
ed out Eddie Shannon of California in
seven rounds at Lawrence, Mass.
Fred Fulton of Minneapolis made
the best showing of his career in his
native state when he won from Gun-
boat Smith of New York by tech
nical knockout in the seventh round
of a bout in Minneapolis.
Fred Anderson, the Giants pitcher,
has been exempted from service.
Manager Mathewson of the Reds
says he will take his regular turn in
the box next season. He intends to
carry only six pitchers in 1918 and
says that he will help to share some
of the burdens himself.
Leslie Mann is in charge of the
athletic training of the soldiers in
Camp Logan, near Houston, Tex.
Newport Naval Reserves eleven met
defeat at the hands of superior foot
ball machine from Rutgers College by
a score of IA to 0.
James Henigan of the Dorchester
Club of Dorchester, Mass, won the ma
tional senior cross country champion
ship.
Nearly hundred major league
players already have been exempted
from national army service.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
General

Senators and representatives return.
ing to Washington reported that the
greatest loyalty and enthusiasm fol
the war are manifest everywhere.
Oil field workers in southern Cali
fornia will receive Sd a day.
Dr. William Burmeister of Chicago,
testifying as an expert in the trial Of
CASTOR B. Means in Concord, N. c.,
says it would have been impossible
for Mrs. King to have killed herself
accidentally or Intentionally with the
shot that caused her death.
Sweaters for soldiers and seamen
knitted by women are in enormous
demand, says the Red Cross, dealing
heavy blow to proragandists.
Senator Lewis of Illinois urged that
a few German bomb plotters be shot
to stop the outrages.
T. B. Hobler, counsellor to the Brit
ish ambassador, in an address at the
Zero Land War Spectacle, in New
1-erl;; s; said that thirty-nine German
+ baa1incs were sunk in fifteen days.
&c German fire insurance compa.
is:f cp2-;ssiag in eEev York city are
s. tlY to. iie. iis.lsasa 80 gladly will meet
eS-.,..-i5- sz-l,~ zcd " the government
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
BRIEF CHRONICLES
BYLAND AND SEA
Ticks and Flashes Which Bul.
Ietin in Condensed Style the
News of the World.
photographic WAR HISTORY
Events at Washington Which Loom
Large as Crucial Happenings
Industrial Activities at
Home and Abroad.
War Bulletins

The Allied Council in Paris is pre-.
pairing to conduct the war with more
vigor than ever, leaving to a Supreme
War Council, composed of representa-
tives of the United States, Great Brit
ain, France and Italy the final deci-
sion regarding the direction of the war
on the western front, which now in
cludes Italy.
The high Russian army command
will keep the troops facing the enemy.
Outraged by submarine barbara
ties, Norway is said to be considering
giving a naval base to England and
the United States, in which case Ger
many would occupy Denmark. The
latter possibility was confirmed in
Berlin and resulted in hurried jour-
ney of the King of Sweden to Copen-
hagen to confer with Danish states
men in an effort to avert the peril to
Scandinavia,
Anglo-French troops have arrived
on the northern line in Italy between
the Piave and the Brenta ready to re-
Del the invaders from the mountains.
A fiat denial was made in-1taly
that the Pope intends to make new
peace offer.
The British capture Bourbon village
on the Cambria front and Bourbon
wood, including all its high ground.
With extreme bravery and irresist-
ible dash the Italians are holding the
enemy and inflicting huge losses upon
him.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
POOL EASTERN RAIL LINES
STEP ORDERED TO END lNcREAs.
ING FREIGHT CONGESTION.
Officials Believe CurtaiIment OF ln'
dustries viii Solve Itself With
out Governmental Orders.

Washington.-Drastic changes In
the operation Of all railroads east of
the Mississippi and north Of the Ohio
and Potomac rivers were announced
by the Railroad War Board to take
effect at once. A committee made UP
of the operating vice presidents OF all
railroads concerned in the new order
will direct their operation as one
railroad system under the authority
and cooperation Of the Railway War
Board. The roads involved have Is
per cent of the mileage and do GO per
cent of the entire railroad business;
One step in the drastic readjust-
ment of railroad operation is the
changes announced in the hours Of
mail departure. The new schedule,
which applies to trains north, west
and south, will necessitate the for
warding of New York morning news
papers from rs minutes to an hour
earlier than has been the custom.
Seventy changes in all mails, in
elusive of newspaper mails, were di-
rected and will affect deliveries to all
parts of the United States, Canada
and those seaports on the Pacific
which forward American mails to the
Orient. The changes are due to the
war time situation of the railroads,
which have found it necessary to cur
tail the number Of trains.
It is estimated that the present un-
exampled congestion at or near New
York, Boston and Philadelphia has
lowered the efficiency of all the East
ern roads at least rs per cent. This
tie-up at a time when it is impera-
tive that every wheel in the country
should be turning at its maximum
capacity has created situation view
ed as intolerable by the national adj
ministration, and the merger an
nounced is directed at sweeping
away all red tape ana aeidys III
strengthening the trouble out.
The pool is expected to result in
using every surplus freight and pas
senger car and every idle locomotive
of the Western roads in ending the
present congestion in the East. The
first move will be to direct shipments
of foodstuffs intended for Europe to
Southern and Gulf ports, while New
York and the other north Atlantic
ports will be reserved as far as possi-
BILE for munitions and other forms Of
war materials. The establishment Of
further war industries in the New
England states will be avoided in an
effort to relieve the railroads.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
ALLIED COUNCIL
OPENS IN PARIS
Sixteen Nations, With United
States, Begin the Task of
Uniting War CoDtrOI.
CLEMENCEAU IN THE CHAIR
More Than Nine-tenths of Globes Area
Represented When First Congress
of Its Kind, Formally Attended
by American Delegates, Opens.

Paris.-Sixteen nations, represent
ilg more than nine-tenths of the area
of the globe, Joined hands here at the
first session of the interallied confer
ence. Promptly without pomp they
set down to work. Their task is to
put unity of action definitely into the
drivers seat Of democracy's chariot
of war.
1t is the first conference of the kind
to be formally attended by the Unit
ed States. On top of Frances minis
try, together with the flags of all the
nations fighting the central powers,
futters Old Glory.
The 16 nations are the United
States, Roumania, Great Britain,
Montenegro, France, Portugal, Italy,
Brazil, Russia, Cuba, Japan, Siam,
Belgium, China, Servia and Greece.
Down below, in the historic Salon
de L'Horloge, the epoch making con-
ference was opened by Premier Gle
menceau of France with speech
that was inspiring by its very brief
ness and precision. The premier So ::
"In the greatest war the world has
known the sentiment Of the supreme
solidarity of our peoples reunites us
in this hour to win on the battlefield
the rights of a humanitarian peace.
"We are all in accord for any sac
rifices the allied high command may
require.
"The high spirit animating us must
be transformed into acts. Our watch
word is work Let us get to work. "
= Surveying this vast distinguished
assemblage of eminent men charged
by their countries with the task Of
paving the path to victory one could
see the fire Of enthusiasm spring into
all eyes as they beheld the venerable
French premier define with the fervor
of youth the cause and the task of
democracy.
Immediately after the French prime
minister's speech the conference ap-
pointed five committees-on finance,
imports and transports, armament,
munitions and aviation, food supplies
and blockade.
These committees will report back
to the conference when it reconvenes
in its entirety. They began their
work Immediately after the confer
ence took a recess.
General Pershing arrived at the
Hotel Crillon. Together with the
American delegates, headed by Colo
mel Edward M. House, he was well
coined by Premier Clemenceau, and a
general introduction followed.
Diverse questions pertaining to dip
lomatic, military and naval problems
will be treated under the direction of
the ministers heading the respective
departments.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Foreign

Thieves entered the Kaiser's resi-
dence, Wilhelmstrasse, at Cassel, Ger
many, and carried off valuable objects
of art. Some of the booty was dispos
ed of before the robbery was discov
cred.
The Broadway Limited" on the
Pennsylvania has been withdrawn
from service.
The Netherlands government will re.
main strictly neutral"
Samuel Gompers led the labor ele-
ment in the Victory Loan parade at
Toronto, Canada.
Buenos Aires business men are de-
batting in, convention the question Of
breaking with Germany.
Count Won Luxburg is in Buenos
Aires. He arrived in the capital city
from the island of Martin Garcia.
The Bolsheviki government in Rus
sia has announced that all titles would
be abolished
DR.. Ami Jacques, Magnin, chief sur
geon of the Ameyiean hospital at
Neuilly. is dead.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Pork available for immediate del,

Pork available for immediate DER
cry commanded $50 a-barrel in Chi
!cago, the highest on record.
Maryland bootblac!zs are -ciasse3
legally as fdlers and subject to arrest
Six sailors from Dutcn ship at
anchor near Baltimore were droTne]
when a launch capsized.
The New York Woman Suffrage
party expended $279, 174 in their cam
paign to win the vote.
A committee from the, Red Cross
and the Y. M. c. A. raised $4,000 to
supply soldiers and sailors abroad
with apples.
Twenty-Five militant picIets of the
Woman's party were released from
Jail in Washington.
New dead line placed 100 feet back
of New York piers in war order bar
ring all enemy aliens from water front
Soldiers guard streets with loaded
rifles.
The Federal Economy Board has
reformed women's styles to erect
saving Of twenty-five per cent. in ma
terials.
Tobacco reached top price when a
louisville firm sold 950,000 pounds
of hurley at 80 cents a pound. Inc
upward trend Of hurley prices is IN
dicated by the statement that IL cents
a pound was considered fair price
in 1916.
A jury at Fort Smith, Ark, in the
case of the Bache-Denman syndicate
against the United Mine Workers OF
America awarded the company $780,
600 damages in connection with a
strike, which, under the Sherman act
makes the union liable for $780, OOO.
The union will appeal.
Legislation to give the food admin
istration full power to stop the extor-
ton widely complained of on the part
OF food retailers will be introduced at
the coming session of Congress.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Washin9fOn
nllHIlHInInIlIIIRIlIanlIRlaIAHllllllIaIl!llIil

Secretary McAdoo called a confer.
ence of Representatives of Liberty
Loan committees, including the wo.
mans organization, to make perma-
nent for the period of the war ar.
rangements for future issues of bonds.
Secretary Baker stops practice OF
according army commissions to men
Of draft age in non-combatant capaci.
ties.
Washington has established new
council uniting all the war making
federal branches in close cooperation
to increase efficiency and speed.
Appropriations of 12,701,000,000
to meet the war needs of the United
States for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1919, will be asked of Congress
at the forthcoming December session.
Washington orders liquidation OF
all German cor ally of enemy coun-
tries" fire, marine and casualty in
surance companies doing business in
the United States.
officials are considering seriously
federal operation of all railroads in
the United States for the duration OF
the war.
That the United States is deter
mined to protect the Tampico oil
field, which supplies the American
and British navies, in event the wells
are imperiled by Carranza troops or
German agents was revealed when It
was learned force of marines was
ready to embark at an hours notice
for Mexico.
President Wilson is confident that
the railway wage controversy will
not develop strike and is counting
on the loyalty of the employees to do
nothing that will hamper the prose
cution of the war.
Bishop Hayes is appointed by the
Pope as chaplain general to head the
Catholic priests serving as chaplains
with the American army and navy.
Danger of an immediate natior
wide railroad strike was removed a.,
a conference of President Wilson with
the heads Of the four brotherhoods.
The Signal Corps needs thousands
of chauffeurs and mechanicians.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
U. S. MERGES WAR AGENCIES
CO-ORDINATED IN BODY TO HOLD
WEEKLY MEETINGS.
Cabinet viii, Under Direction OF
the President, Unity All Activl-
ties in the United States.

Washington.-Mar probably the
greatest stride toward complete CO.
ordination of the war making forces
of the country, the Council of National
Defense at a special conference an
nounced the practical formation of
what is termed officially the American
War Council. 1t will supervise all
the war industries and allied utilities,
exercising priority authority to manip-
ulate them for the best practical sery-
ice to the allied armies.
The members are to be: Secretary
of War Baker, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, Secretary of the Interior
Lane, Secretary of Agriculture Hous-
ton, Secretary of Commerce Redfield,
Secretary of Labor Wilson, Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo, Edward N.
Hurley, chairman of the United
States Shipping Board; Herbert c..
Hoover, food administrator; Harry A.
Garfield, fuel administrator; Daniel
Willard, chairman of the War Indus
tries Board and transportation mem
Der of the advisory commission; Wal
ter S. Clifford, director Of the Council
of National Defense.
This is to be war council. 1t is
more sweeping than the Council Of
Defense, six of whose original cabinet
members are included. 1t will sit
weekly. 1t will coordinate all the
war making industries and allied ne.
cessities. 1t will bring these together
so that men, food, fuel, supplies and
equipment may be sent to the war
zone in the order most demanded.
The council will be vested with au.
thority to move these things through
priority orders.
In addition to the Council of De.
fense members who are to sit with it
are these added "dictators:" Secre-
tary McAdoo, finance; Chairman Hur-
lev, ships to move the men and sup.
plies; Administrator Hoover, to see
that food goes in endless supply; Ad-
ministrator Garfield, to furnish the
fuel for transportation, and Chairman
Willard, to see that the transporta,
ton is provided.
President Wilson, 1t is understood,
will sit with the conference when any
great question is to be considered in
volving the diplomatic affairs of the
nation.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
GERMANY THREATENS DENMARK
Norway May Join Allies, Bringing il
All Scandinavia.


enhagen.-Behind the meeting
of the Scandinavian monarchs and
ministers at Christiania lies the fear,
unfounded though it may be, of Nor
ways entry into the war and of the
German threat that in such a case
she would feel called upon to occupy
Denmark as counter measure.
The proceedings of the conference,
which was arranged in consequence
of an intimation from Germany that
the growth of anti-German sentiment
in Norway, particularly after the
sinking of conveys in the North sea
by German cruisers, are being fol-
lowed with concern by Germany, and
it is feared that Norway may be i'm
pelled either by excited public opin-
ion or pressure from the allies to en-
ter the struggle at least to the point
of granting naval base to England
and the United States, in which event
Germany would hold it imperative to
seize corresponding base in Den
mark.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
FIRST MOTOR TRAIN EN- ROUTE.

Pennsylvania Keeping Main East
West Highway Open All Winter.
Washington.-The state of Pennsyl-
yania is keeping its main east and
west highway open all winter for mil,
itary motor truck trains. The frs: OF
these trains IS already en- route.
The Council of National Defense
made this statement and expressed
hone that osher states will follow the
lead of Pennsylvania, so railways may
be relieved of every POUND of freight
possible to transport by highway.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
HUNDRED ITALIAN REDS TAKEN.

Federal Agents Charge Worldwide
Pro-Teuton Conspiracy.
Seattle, Wash.-More than 100 Ital.
ians, most of them miners and ship
yard employees, said to belong to the
Corcola Studi Social, an alleged an
archistic society, were arrested in
Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Tacoma
and other northwest cities by federal
agents in raids which lave low end
ed. The society is said to have q
membership of 2O1,oCo IN the Unitel
States.