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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-08
TRUSTEES SALE
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
BY virtue of certain decd oil
Trust duly recorded in Liber ", M.
Z, folio 7. ct seq, of the land records
Of Fairfax County, Virginia, and at
the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Trustees
viii sell at public auction, on the
premises, on SATURDAY. FEBRU-
AIRY II. 1917, at $3.50 o'clock, p. M,
the following described Lots or par
cells of GROUND, situated in Mount
Vernon MaGisteral District, Fairfax
County, Virginia, known as lot num-
her SO, containing seven and four
teen-hundrcdth (7.14 acres, and lot
! number 80, containing seven, and
y-two-hundredths (7.72) acres,
as shown on a plat and subdivision
of Springfield Park, recorded in
| I.iber n, No. Z, page 425 ct seq, OF
the land records Of Fairfax County,
Virginia.
Terms Of Sale:--- One-third cash,
balance in two equal instruments pay
able in one and two years with IN
terest at six per centum per annuIp,
| payable senitannually, from day Of
sale, secured by Deed of Trust upon
the property sold, or all cash at. tie
option of the purchaser. A deposit
Epf 500 will be required at the time
l"of sale. All tonveyancing, recording
ETC.. at purchasers cost, Terms Of
sale to be complied with within Il
days from day of. sale, otherwise the
Trustee reserves the right to reset,
the property at the risk and cost spi
the .,defautting purchaser after
fdays'i advertisement : in some 'i1ews.
paper published in the City of Alex,
itaudria. HOWARD w. SMITH,
Alexandria, Va, Trustee
SSsS-td.
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by the government that they may re-
ceive wireless messages at sea or
dering them to proceed to Guanta-
namo, Cuba, to coal the Atlantic
Fleet now at that place. An Ameri-
can captain stated that all American
ship-owners have been notified by The
government to have their ships ready
for government service at any
minute. !
Companies in the proposed opera
tions Of which there is the slightest
suggestion of irregularity and which
/ do not extend to their stockholders
every privilege they have a right to
demand, will not be granted articles
of incorporation in Virginia, accord
ing to lengthy opinion handed down
by Judge Christopher B. Garrett,
chairman Of the state corporation
commission. The opinion is primarily
TO explain why the commission re-
fused to grant the charter first
sought by the promoters Of the Su-
perior Steel Corporations.
Four German seamen on the
American steamer Cacique at the
shipyard at Newport News, were
taken in charge by the immigration
authorities yesterday and will be
given hearing. immigration IN
spector Morton states that the meT
are accused of having escaped from
war-boum German ships in Chile
and signing on the Cacique. The,
American owners of the steamer OBJ
jcctcd to their presence on the Gael
que and instructed the captain to
bring the matter to the attention OF
the immigration authorities.
3. A. Banks, Norfolk attorney,
who recently applied to Governor
Stuart for the dismissal of Prohbi-
ton Commissioner J. Sidney Peters,
last night declares that his action is
the first step in the formation of
the Virginia Liberal league, with
the >scc purpose to secure the repea!
of existing state prohibition laws or
their modification to prevent alleged
infringements on personal liberty. !
The league will apply for a charter
before the end of the week. Branches
are to be established in every city in
the state.
The State of Virginia will expert
ment in the development and produc-
ton of elk herds. The first consign- !
ment of sixteen c!ks has just been
received at Arcadia, Botctourt county, |
and will be cared for there until |
spring, when the animals will be
turned loose in the mountains of the
region. They were captured in the
Yellowstone Park reservation by !
Howard Eaton, a veteran hunter and /
ranchman John H. Parsons, State !
game commissioner, has arranged for
bringing another consignment of 100
head to the Virginia mountains.
Miss Nancy Kccnc Perkins, daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. T. Mon
cure Perkins, of Virginia, WAS mar
ricd yesterday afternoon to Henry
Field, son Of the late Marshall Field,
Jr, of Chicago, at the home Of her
aunt, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. The
bride is a granddaughter of Chiswell |!
D. Langhornc, of<,Richmond, and a !
niece not only CT Mrs. Gibson. tho !
original "Gibson girl" but of Mrs. !
Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Paul Phipps, !
Of London, and Mrs. Phyllis Brooks.
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Fl G ad ach e S

due to stomach, liver or kidney-arc per-
n,ancn'ly relieved by Shivar Mineral Wafer.
Positively guaranteed by money back offer.
Tas.c7 inc; costs trflc Delivered any.
where b. our Alexandria Distributors, +. S.
Harper, Irr phone them.
Evening star., 1917-11-25

ably near future. and when It comes q
will come with the same startling sfs
feet a. when the U-53 put into New.
port-out Of q blue sky"
Discussing the development Of tho
carrying capacity Of airplanes. Admiral
Peary said:
Perhaps before this war is over. but
certainly in the next war. II we have
another, these airplanes will carry a.
heavy artillery as the famous French
-millimeter guns. and when that time
comes the airplane will be invulner-
able. 1t win be able to soar over any
field, water or mountainous country
carry enormous numbers of troops far
behind the enemy lines. and do the
work OF cavalry. infantry and artillery
combined"
OF ali branches of military service
aviation is the safest, Admiral Peary
said. The hospital service is the most
dangerous, and the artillery. infantry
and cavalry follow In the order OF com.
parative hazard. This opinion was
founded. he said. on a per capita basis
of computation and was authentic on
the casualties suffered in the war.
Evening star., 1917-11-25
COUNT LUXBURG'S ARREST
CLASSED AS "DRAMATIC"
Argentine Police Officials Found
Him Heavily Armed and in
Belligerent Mood.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina, November
5.-Count Karl Won Luxburg. the former
German minister to Argentina, who ad-
vised the German government to sink Ar
gentine vessels without leaving a trace
to tell of their fate. was armed with two
revolvers and carried 400 cartridges when
he was arrested by Argentine police be-
for Germans on the Island OF Martin
Garcia He had in his possession 10000
pesos.
His fight from Buenos Aires to a ranch
in the southern part OF Buenos Aires
province and his arrest there were almost
melodramatic. On the day Count Lux
burg left the capital an order was sent
to the police commissioner of the district
him The commissioner found the count
at the ranch La Merced. where he was
guarded by a major domo and twenty
poems. The police arrested the entire force
under guard. after which they went to
Luxburgs room and knocked at the door.
Upon hearing the summons Luxburg call
ed out:
The commissioner replied that he was
a police official OF the province and had
come to arrest him, to which Luxburg
replied;
ANCitAicT d commissioner NOT 1UU COM
missioners can arrest me, as am immune
from arrest I am the minister Of Ger
many"
Despite his protests. Luxburg was forced
to leave his room and the police immedi-
ately began their return trip. He was
then sent to the Island of Martin Garcia,
which is considered a national fortress
The guard there was increased by $50
men on the day Count Luxburg arrived
there.
Soon after his internment Luxburg at
tempted to obtain his release by writ Of
haexAs corpus on the ground that he was
uneenstituconally detained as q political
prisoner: The application was overruied
by a federal judge
Evening star., 1917-11-25
TO USE FRENCH METHODS
IN BAND ORGANIZATION
Bandmasters Of American Army
Gather in Town in France
for Special Study.
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.

Cablegrnm to The Sunday star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1e17.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, November 24.-American Army
bands are to be organized according to
French methods. Following instructions
from Cen Pershing. all the bandmasters
have gathered in a town where a French
division is quartered to study French
methods. Each French regiment has
forty-two authorized musicians although
the regimental commanders often raise
the number to fifty. There are also, in
addition. twelve trumpeters and twenty
four drummers, raising the total from
seventy eight to eighty-six.
Musicians StretchGr Bearers,
When in the trenches the players be-
come stretcher bearers A French band is
commanded by a commissioned officer
with the rank Of captain or lieutenant
Each band is allowed 400 francs ($sO) a
month for the purchase Of music. 1t must
practice six hours a day and have a
repertoire for the field or for concerts
Constant practice gives perfection, and a
fanfare Of trumpets or the strains from
strings and brass fill the soldiers with
vim and life.
American bands are limited to
twenty-eight men. with twenty drum
mers and trumpeters, and sergeants
are in command. The government al
lowance for the purchase of music is
IS month. The difference in favor of
Evening star., 1917-11-25
FAvORs THE NIGHT SCHOOLS.

A recommendation that the night
schools Of the District of Columbia be
continued until such time as they no
longer are amply filled in all vocational
subjects probably will be introduced at
the next regular melting of the Board
Of Education, December s, Ernest L.
Thurston, superintendent OF schools.
Mr.. Thurston yesterday explained that
the present courses in vocational SUD
jects sometimes close without the stu
dents being thoroughly acquainted
with the subject, and that the carrying
on of the schedule would permit those
who cannot under the present system
resume their course until the succeed
ing semester, to finish the course in the
subject pursued at least two months
earlier than is ordinarily the case
The night schools, said Mr.. Thurston'
are now very much overcroWded. par
ticularly in the classes in typewriting g
and stenography at the Business High
school. The classes in radio operation
for the men within the selective dra1t
age and in machine shop work at the
Mckinley Manual Training School are
rapidly filling. A number OF new
teachers have been added to the nignt
force of the Mckinley school IN THESE
SnhiecfS
Evening star., 1917-11-25

three years of quarter-fare. You are
possessed of more than your permitted
allowance of underwear. shirts. shoes
and socks and suit. You have an over
coat and a hat. You have your four
handkerchiefs. You have no right to
more.
Stay. There is one more thing the
well dressed man must have IL he is
to remain we'll dressed. By irony or
forgetfulness. that is the one article of
apparel you may buy in Germany now
without a card. Your trousers may be
in holes and your coat falling apart
and your shoes ingenious combinations
of antagonistic materials. and you may
in general present the appearance of
the wrecks of gentility one sometimes
sees in a downtown street. but there
is one thing you must have and can
buy without a permit-that is a necktie.
Evening star., 1917-11-25
$2oe.77 IN RED CROSS SHE'LL.
Union Station Proves Mecca for
Coins to Aid Work.

The Red Cross finance COMMITTEES has
received from Joshua Evans. jr., chair
man Of the committee on special re-
ceptacles. a report of the contents OF
the Red Cross sixteen-inch shell in
the Union Station at its latest open
ing yesterday. when the amount was
s2os.77. There were 1862 separate gifts
ranging from one cent to ten dollars
and there was one dollar in foreign
coin.
This week Mr.. Evans is to open the
Red Cross silver offering boxes, which
are in number Of public places.
Evening star., 1917-11-25
JEWISH COLONY SLAIN,
ASSERT REFUGEES WHO
FLEE PALESTINE TURKS

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, November
24.-Refugees from Palestine re-
port that the Turks. in co-opera-
tion with the Germans. are COM
mitting the most fearful atrocities
upon the Jewish colonies in Pales-
tine.
Last month all the leading men
of the Jewish colony at Jaffa were
accused OF espionage and, on false
evidence or on confessions extorted
by torture. were convicted by a
German court-martial and hanged
with many members Of their fam
lilies, refugees declare.
In order to extort confessions. it
is added, many men and women.
including some American citizens.
have been stripped and beaten in
public, some SO severely as to cause
death.
Evening star., 1917-11-25
GASTON B: MEANS TRIAL
TO BEGIN TOMORROW
Charged With Death Of Mrs. Maud
A. King, Widow Of Chicago
Millionaire.

| By the Associated Press.
| CONCORD, n. c.. November 24oGas-
ton B. Means will be placed on trial here
| Monday charged with the murder of Mrs.
| Maude A King of New York, widow OF a
| Chicago millionaire.
Mrs. King was killed near here August
| % last. while visiting relatives of Means
| who was her business agent. A local
shot herself. After the body was taken
to Chicago for burial suspicious were
aroused which caused an autopsy to be
performed, and the Chicago coroner's s
physician announced that the bullet
wound In the back of the woman's head,
which caused death. could not have been
self-infiicted.
Means. Mrs. King and several friends
of Means had gone out for target prac-
ttce and Means and the woman were
alone for a short time at Blackwelder
spring. near the field where Mrs King
expected to learn to shoot with pistol
Means told the coroner's jury that before
bending over to drink at the spring he
placed a small pistol in the fork of a
tree. A moment later. he said, he heard
shot and Mrs. King fell, dying almost
instantly. The pistol lay near by. He
called the other members OF the party.
but Mrs. i>4ng was dead before they ar
rived.
The investigation started In Chicago
was carried to New York and search OF
Means apartments there disclosed evil
dence which representatives of the dis
trict attorneys office said indicated Means
had planned to get 100000 for Mrs.
King through an alleged second will Of
her husband. The latter In his first will
had left her more than $1,000, 900 and
had bequeathed the remainder of his for
tune to charitable institution near
Chicago.
Statements that Means had been con-
nected with German agents also were
made by New York officials. and a fed
eral agent attended the preliminary hear
ing here in September. At this hearing,
which was the formal reopening of the
case by North Carolina officials, counsel
for Means consented to his being bound
over after failure Of litigation by which
they sought to recover the documents
seized in Means home in New York
Means was indicted November l in the
superior court of Cabarrus county and
the trial was set for November Is Coun-
sci for Means successfully resisted at
tempts of the state prosecutor to have
the court grant change of venue.
Evening star., 1917-11-25
SAYS GERMAN AIRPLANES
WILL ATTACK U. S. COAST
In Address to Woman Voters Rear
Admiral Peary Predicts Blow
Will Come Soon.

NEW YORK. November 24-German
attacks in the near future on American
coast cities were predicted today by
Rear Admiral Robert Z. Peary in an
address here before a large gathering
Of newly enfranchised women on the
topic Of aerial defense.
'I speak Of no secret" he said. "and
am giving no Information that has
not already been known or discussed
when 1 say that a blow will be struck
on some one or more of our Atlantic
coast cities by Germany within a prob
Evening star., 1917-11-25
Use Unfamiliar q. 8. Music.

One of the means used WAS to fur
ntsh the French bands with unfamiliar
American music and noting the man
.ner in which the French players
learned 1t. Genuine results are ex-
.pected along broadly improved lines
in all branches Of work, despite the
fact that the American commanding
officers being non-commissioned pre-
cludes the same discipline as in the
French bands
Evening star., 1917-11-25

Many prosperous German business
and professional men in New York
will be forced into retirement as a re-
suit Of President Wilson's proclamation
forbidding enemy aliens to approach
within 100 yards Of water fronts.
Evening star., 1917-11-25

Max Linder, a soldier in the quarter
masters department at Fort Logan,
near Denver. and said by federal Of
fcers to be a German naval reservist,
was arrested Thursday by federal Of
ncers. suspected Of being a spy
Evening star., 1917-11-25
VIII Not Sell Old Clothes,

But no man in his senses will sell
old clothes in Germany now No more
would you, IL you were there. No man
knows what another year will bring
forth. Instead of getting the legal
right to peacock In new garments. your
visit to the new clothing bureau re-
suits in your being definitely con-
demned 70 wear out all that closetful
Of old clothes. some of which date
from the first Balkan war. At that
time yDu were more voluminous and
impressive than you are now. after
Evening star., 1917-11-25
NECESSITY. FOR TWO
CAUTIONS IN GIVING
C. J. Columbus Says Con-
sumner Is Contributing Dou-
BILE to Many Funds.

ssThfs is not the time to raise money
for purposes other than for things that
will directly help this country win the
war;" said Charles ]. Columbus. secre-
tary Of the Retail Merchants Association.
1.-THE pressure that has been brought to
bear on the business men OF Washington
with respect to money-raising campaigns
has been simply terrific, and unless this
practice is stopped it will have very
serious economic effect. Proprietors and
managers of business houses have been
made the object OF even abuse In order
to pull over a contribution for a CLASS
enterprise. OF course. the same old ar
gument is used by committees that they
are customers. lifelong and otherwise. OF
the respective houses solicited and the
demands have become SO enormous and
so big in volume Of money and goods de-
manded that we are in the midst OF a
downright evil.
Would Not Be Necessary.
TN normal times such an appeal as this
would not be necessary. but these are not
normal times. 1t is a period when this
country must complete an organization
Of its own to fight this war and there
should be no other consideration what
soever.
THE public generally is vitality In
terested in the elimination OF such
money-raising campaigns where corpo-
rations, firms and individual merchants
subscribe as such. As salarted man.
with exceptional opportunities to view
and know the inwardness Of business. ]
can say that donations on the part OF
business operate as one Of the big
practical reasons for the great increase
in the prices of all commodities.
TT has always been my notion that
donations Of goods or money do not
constitute a legitimate charge against
business. because. as every one must
realize goods are priced and sold on the
basis OF the cost of operation. AS do
nations are charged to general ex-
penses, business has found this depart
ment growing to an enormous extent
While a Arm. through donations of this
kind. can have an opportunity for ad-
vertising its own magnanimtty-and
trust my own members will pardon this
very frank expression-ft is the buyer,
after all. who pays the toll of this mu
nificence.
Injustice to Consumer.
"It is probably essential that practi-
cally all Of the undertakings that have
in mind should be carried on, but 1t is an
injustice to the consumer that Smith &
CO. should make a check or donate goods
to appease Mr.. Smiths desire to appear
in the role OF benevolent or philanthropic
individual Such donations should come
from Mr.. Smiths own check book en-
tirely.
There is nothing that exceeds the Joy
Of giving. but believe that il the pub
lie demands that this menace in trade
be eliminated more Of US will have an op-
portunity to participate as givers.
Right now there Ii a two-fold neces-
sity, that Of eliminating money-raising
ing in helping to win the war. and the
other to eliminate the practice Of firms
giving money and goods as donations. for
in this matter 1t is the ultimate con-
sumer and not the merchant who actually
performs the philanthropic act"
Evening star., 1917-11-25

the French bands 10 marked. Hinos the
regiments are being reorganissd and
made larger Gen. Psrshings aim II to
make as great an improvement as
possible. The men viii havs more
practice and full instructions in tho
musical part Of their work. as we'll as
in their duties as stretcher bearers In
the field. For some weeks the band
masters have been studying carefully
the methods of the French ana have
received all the aid possible.
Evening star., 1917-11-25

GERMANS WEAR old
CLOTHES TO SHREDS.
One Suit, One 0vercoat, Three
Shirts and One Pair of
Shoes Is Limit.
NECKTIES ONLY LUXURY
BY HERBERT COREY.
tCopyright, 1917

tThis is the seventh of series of nine letters
by Herbert Corey conditions in Germany. The
eighth will appear tomorrow.)
BASEL, Switzerland. October 23.-
Suppose that you were living in Ger
many today and you were tired of
wearing your old clothes. Maybe your
wife had begun to comment bitterly
on the indirect angles of your trou-
sers, or maybe your best girl tried to
brush the dust of your coat collar
and you had to stop her. for fear the
collar would be brushed on with the
dust. Suppose that you said to your
self:
Il shall buy me some new clothes"
This is the way you would go about
II. III you wanted to make a thorough
job. you would begin with your pri-
meyal man and seek to put new un-
derclothes on him. You would go
down to the police station OF your
district and explain your need and
then you would be turned over TO the
new clothing bureau, the German name
of which is too complicated and ab-
struse for publication. The new cloth
ing, bureau is manned by ladies of sus-
picious temperament and a brusque
turn OF manner. Those who have SUI
fersd from their inquiries declare that
they have been chosen from the walk
of life in which the head OF the house
has. two shirts-one for work and one
for Sunday and the bierhalle-and two
shirts only. The ladies look with posi-
tive hostility upon the patrician who
bcaSts of three shirts.
!" Inspectress Is Ofhcious.
II wish to buy some underclothes."
yoH say. blushing, to the inspectress
who is assigned to your case.
She Is as officious and overbearing
and unpleasant as all German sub
officials are always supposed to be. My
own experience with German subof-
dctAls has been very pleasant, but
other people have described them as
something meaner than poison ivy.
The herewith included description of
the, inspectresses of those who want
new clothing comes from purely Ger
man sources Good, loyal, Vaterland-
loving and kaiser-worshiping Germans
have blown themselves up to the form
ana color of ten-cent balloons In de-
scfSbing these inspectresses and their
high, insolent overbearingness. At any
rate, the inspectress desires to see
yofif present stock of underclothes-
s1 have four suits" you admit
*But you are only permitted to have
twS suits" says the inspectress
lis the truth, too Under the new
regulations the German citizen is en-
tilted to have two suits OF underwear,
thickness, material and condition not
stated, and no more If there are
holes in them 1t is your business to
see that the holes are darned. Not
until you have definitely less than two
suias can you get q card enabling you
to purchase the missing links In your
arHor against the bitter wind of
German winter.