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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Success Extended, II Claim.
Wonderful Spectacle
When British Guns
B0mbard the Germans

Especial CabIeEram to The Sunday Star
and New York Worldly
Copyright, 1017, by Press Publishing Company,
New York World.)
LONDON. June 30.-Perry Robinson,
describing in the Daily News the bonn
bardment of German defenses before
Lens, says: TT was a stupendous spec
tacle. A thousand guns broke the still
ness all at once. and above the deafen-
ing roar of gun fire and bursting shells
the air shrieked and walled as it was
torn by projectiles overhead.
"As far as the eye could see to the
right and left the whole earth flick
cred and twinkled with FREELY flashes
of our guns.
Fumes of bursting shells arose al
most like a solid bank. in which the
stab of bursting shrapnel grew redder
as a cloud thickened, and here and
there dazzling white flares and signal
lights arose out of the dark to hang
in incandescent points against the sky.
Suddenly another roar mingled with
the clamor of the guns, and lightning
flashed. Flashes of bolts from the sky
grew almost continuous and the thun-
der rolled and crashed overhead, mix
ing with and hardly distinguishable
from the uproar of guns. as IL the ar
tilleries of heaven and earth strove
each to outvoice the other. Then be-
gan the rain, at first slowly, then in
sheets, followed by a tropical down.
pour, through which twin thunders OF
gun and sky went on. and lightning
flash and shell burst flickered inextri-
cably through the veil Of water. 1t
was an extraordinary scene"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
INTERNATIONAL SUED AGAIN.
Philadelphia Public Ledger Charges
Pirating Of War News.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 3o-Suit
to enjoin the International News serv-
ice from pirating war news and other
related matter has been begun in the
United States district court here by the
Public Ledger Company. The suit is
similar to that successfully instituted
In New York against the defendant
organization by the Associated Press.
The bill OF complaint alleges that the
Ledger company held a contract with
the London Times to furnish certain
articles with the privilege of reselling
the matter to newspapers in other
cities. 1t is alleged that the defendant
pirated these articles. principally by
copying them from early editions Of
the Ledger and other eastern news
papers and telegraphing them to sub
scribers Of the International News Serv-
ice in the west. availing itself Of the
difference in time and enabling its
western subscribers to publish the ar
ticles simultaneously with the news
papers to whom the Ledger had sold
the service. and, in some instances, in
advance Of such publication.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01

Plans by which canning demonstra-
tions are to be given in Washington
public schools. and arrangements
whereby persons having vegetables or
fruits to be canned may use the equip
ment in schools for this purpose, will
be announced following a meeting at
the rooms of the central garden COM
rlittee, room 304, Star building, at 4
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Permission has been asked to use the
Thomson School domestic science
kitchens for this work. Promise also
has been obtained from owners of Con-
vention Hall to install apparatus there
II the demand is too great to be met
in the schools.
A. J. Driscoll has been working on
this plan in conjunction with Mrs.
Charles w. Wetmore. president of the
Capital Garden Club: Mrs. P. p. Clax-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
u. S. LOAN To AUSTRIA
AND PEACE RUM0RED
Count Won Reventlow Says Germany
Must Watch Developments in
Dual Monarchy.

BY the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. June 30.-Discussing
rumors of a large American loan to
and separate peace,
Count Won Reventlow writes in the
Tages Zeitung of Berlin:
That lively communication and very
active cooperation exists today more
than ever between the Polish element
in the United States and Europe is well
known. Neither is it chance that just
at the moment when the Poles and
Slavs in Austria have effected the fall
Of the MARITIME cabinet rumors
of a separate peace offer and negotia-
tions appear. nor that at the same time
an Interpolation of Polish or Slav
origin aggressively directed against
the Austro-German alliance must be
discussed in Austria. These are things
which we in Germany must follow with
the closest attention"
While rejecting the idea that Aus
trian statesmen would consider such a
course. Count Won Reventlow declares
the acceptance of such a loan with its
logical consequences would he looked
upon as a victory Of the elements in
Austria hostile to the alliance and
would be the monarchy's ruin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
OBDURATE WATCHMAN is
NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS
Attorney General Gregory Denied
Admission to War Department
Until He Is Vouched For.

Attorney General Gregory seldom visits
the War Department, but he had occasion
to go there yesterday afternoon to see
Secretary Baker. He had no pass. but
thought he could get in without much
trouble without one. When the watch
man at the door barred his way he pro-
tested: ''Why, I'm the Attorney Gen.
eral."
"rhat may be So" said the watchman.
but don't know you and cannot admit
any one without q pass"
Doesn't any one here know the At
torney General?" asked that functionary.
appealing to the small crowd Of other
visitors awaiting admission and several
other watchmen who had gathered around.
There was no recognition. however. and 1t
finally became necessary to telephone to
the office of the Secretary Of War for
some one to come down to the main
entrance. One of the Secretary's mes
sengers was sent down and at once estab-
lished the identity of the distinguished
visitor and escorted him to the Secre-
tary's Office.
Secretary Baker appreciated his col
leagues dilemma, for the reason that he
had himself been denied admission to the
Treasury Department a short time be-
fore. when he had business with Sec
retary McAdoo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Proposed Graduated Rates.
E graduated rates proposed by

graduated rates proposed by the
iittee. exempting $1,000 in each
=, are II per cent on excess profits
.-ss than Is per cent: 16 per cent upon
hose between Is and 25 per cent: 20
per cent on excess between 25 and so
eer cent over normal: 25 per cent
Xxes on those between so and IS per
c,nt: 80 per cent between rs and 100
Fer cent; IS per cent between 100 and
$50 per cent. and a maximum levy of
per cent upon excess profits exceed
$ss $50 per cent.
The house rate on excess profits was
Proposed at 1s per cent double the
= resent rate.
in greatly increasing the tax levy on
excess profits. the committee also pro-
yided for such taxation on corporations
nndistributed surplus. That earned in
1917 will be allowed a general tax ex-
emption Of 20 per cent and that earned
srior thereto would be taxed. when dis
l-ibuted. according to the revenue rates
6xfsting In the year when earned.
All Spanish war stamp taxes would be
Virtually reimposed under the bill, the
committee adding a new tax Of / cent
each on bank chacks over So From
Stamp taxes .33. 900. 900 revenue was pro-
poseL -irael' the House bill and $50. .00O.-
900 unae- the committee revision
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Used to Food Surplus.

1--WE have had surplus so long that
we fail to grasp the Significance of the
present situation" DR.. Wilbur asserted
Think how difficult it is for any one
living in Chicago, with the produce OF
the whole surrounding country pouring
through in abundance. to grasp that
there can be want of food in any part
Of the world.
with the limitations now in evidence
upon our commerce, we are mucir more
sensitive in America and in Europe
than ever before to the amounts of food
available. Everything that we do in
the food question has to be considered
from the standpoint of this country, the
prices Of food here, the distribution of
food here. and also from the standpoint
of our allies"
The food administration believes that
women are anxious to serve their coun-
try Their registration will show that
But to be of any material aid they must
act in unison, and the instructions sent
to those who register, II carried out,
will bring about such a uniformity.
After a careful survey of existing
supplies of given products. directions
can be given that are effective" DR..
Wilbur explained. These directions
will have to be somewhat different in
different parts Of the United States. be-
cause of the varieties Of products of
different regions and because of the
difficulties of transportation. By a
general adoption of the plans of the
food administration. both in saving and
in proper use of existing food, we can
make enormous savings that will go far
to win the war"
Details of how the registration will
be carried on, largely through the state
Continued on Fourteenth Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Canning Demonstration Plans
TO Be Announced Tomorrow
Garden Committee Aims to Use Schools to Aid Apart
nent DuOellers to Prepare Next
Winters Supplies.

ton, wife OF the L. S. commissioner of
education, and Charles F. Nesbit, chair
man of the committee on food supply
and conservation Of the District council
Of defense.
The tentative plan is to install facili-
ties at the Thomson, and at other
schools. If need be. for canning vege-
tables and fruits. so that apartment
dwellers and others who have not suffi-
cient equipment at their homes for the
work may provide themselves with
winter gardens
The nine domestic science teachers of
the schools. six white and three col
ored. will be utilized in giving the DEM
onstrations IN the work. The committee
will seek to cooperate with the woman
canning and drying demonstration
agent to be appointed ,1or the District
Of Columbia by the department of
Agriculture as soon ~ she is desig-
mated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Agreement Only Apparent.

Karl Kautsky. the principal spokes-
man. told the conference that the pres
ent agreement Of the Independent mi
nority and the majority socialists on
the remuneration peace program was
in appearance only. Quoting from the
peace plan of Philip Scheidemann. the
majority leader. Kautsky charged that
the majority socialists peace ideas did
not rest on the principles of the inter-
national social democracy. but that in
reality the scheidemann faction was
animated by the militaristic spirit. with
the result that thei.. attitude toward
any individual peace problems was de-
pendent upon the military situation.
To substantiate the charge that the
German majority socialists are i'm
perialistic. Kautsky quoted their reso-
lutions regarding Austria. Turkey. Bel
gium. Poland and Alsace- Lorraine. op-
posing all other socialists from the CEN
trail powers.
Herr Bernstorf. speaking for the
radicals, pleaded for the inclusion of
the question of blame for the war in
the program Of the general socialists
conference, arguing that only when an
agreement was reached among social
lists here would 1t be possible for So
cialists Of all countries to agree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
CURIOUS CROSS-ANGLE
Is 2oLISH SITUATION
Especial Cablegram to The Sunday Star
and New York World.)

Especial Cablegrnm to The Sunday Star
and New York WORLDLY
Copyright. 1917. by Pres. Publishing Company
New York world.)
sTA-tN1PoL. Galicia. June % delayed
e. transmission).-A characteristic of
le reorganization of the Russian
tnies is the fact that their PaIIsh SOL
J. frs are wearing a distinctive uniform.
8 for ther future action. these Poles
tait the decision of the Polish ma
'onal organization of Russia. The try
Ss>S problem 10 them is to know if they
all take the offensive against their
l%ilow Poles of Austria and Germany.
This is curious cross-angie of the
revolution, as the Poles are aristocratic
rather than democratic in their ma
tIonai spirit. The Polish military di-
'isions are SO strong they are not dis
RAISING the problems troubling the
russians, but are waiting whatever de-
sssion the Poles OF various countries
maze necessary to reconstitute the
Polish kingdom. Galicia here is q
,untry of great Polish estates. and the
-uiing classes. being Polish. cause
curious complications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
JOB FOR OHIO AIRMAN.
Sergt. Walter Hinkle May Command
Buckeye Aero SQUADRON.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. June 30.-Sergt.
Walter Hinkle of Cincinnati. now with
the Lafayette escadrielle in France, will
be given a commission in the Ohio Ma
tional Guard aero squadron. which Is to
be organized, Gov. Cox announced to-
day. The Cincinnati man may be given
command of the squad.
Gov. Cox has asked Orville Wright
of Dayton. who. with his brother, Will
bur. invented the airoplane. to assist in
raising the Ohio aero squadron.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
COURT FINDS FOR EDITOR,
New Orleans City Officials Lose Suit
for Libel Damages.

NEW ORLEANS. June 3O.-The
Louisiana supreme court today refused
Mayor Behrman and members Of the
city commission council q rehearing in
the case of Hugh A. ODonnell. former
~. editor Of the New Orleans American.
whose conviction by lower court of
Havfns libeled the mayor and council
zen In an editorial. asking II city funds
ssre used by officials in the purchase
race track by the Business Mems
aoang Association. was recently re-
ssrssd by the higher court. The case
vas hnally dismissed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
AUSTRIAN EMPEROR
WORKING FOR PEACE

AMSTERDAM, June 30.-It is re-
ported in advices from Vienna that
Emperor Charles in audiences given to
reichsrath several times stated that he
was striving actively and untiringly
for peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Noted German Flier Is Killed.

COPENHAGEN, June 30.-Lieut. ALL
manroeder. German aviator. who was
one of the brightest stars of Lieut..
Baron Won Richthofen's battle squad
ron, has been killed in aerial combat.
Lieut.. Allmanroeder had a record OF
thirty victories. although he passed the
Dilet examination only last January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
AID OF ALL SOUGHT
IN FOOD CAMPAIGN
Organization of American
Housewives Merely Initial
Step in Movement.
EFFECT IS SEEN ALREADY

Not only housewives. but cooks. walt
handling Of food will be urged to sigr
food registration cards between today
and Jrly l5. and thus become member:
Of the food administration.
Plans for accomplishing this enor.
nous mobilization Of American women
and reasons for desiring 1t. were ex.
planned last evening by DR.. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, named by Herbert c. Hoover
as a volunteer worker in charge OF
food conservation, following the re.
quest Of President Wilson that such q
voluntary organization of women be
formed.
THE importance of the food supply
was not grasped by any one OF the
great nations at the outset of the war.
DR.. Wilbur said. Even Germany early
in the war exported a million tons OF
sugar which she had in excess. 1t wa.
not until the war had been on si1
months that Germany grasped the sig.
niflcance of the control of the foot
supply and because of this and of hel
superior organization she now is able
to confront her enemies.
Profit Through Belgium.
Early in the war Mr.. Hoover hat
the unique opportunity of studying the
problems Of nation, the food supply
Of which had suddenly become insuf.
f1cient It was necessary in Belgium
to institute promptly the most thorough
measures In order to distribute the foot
on hand equitabiy among all of the peo.
pie of Belgium"
In Germany. DR.. Wilbur said. the food
supply is divided into twelve parcels
and one parcel per month is distributed
to the people. This distribution is made
along scientific lines. on the basis Of The
most careful study Of nutrition.
"The experience Of the Belgian relief
commission in handling the food ques.
ton Of the Belgian people has been made
use of by other nations" DIR. Wilbur con.
tinued. AS the war progressed the food
question has become one Of paramount
Importance in France, Italy and in Eng.
land.
THE supply of foodstuffs is short, and
will be short during the next twelve
months. considering as whole the ma
tions who are opposed to Germany.
Before we feel the necessities of war
it is required of us that we show proper
foresight and conserve our food supply
in the best way possible
The plan of the enrolment of women
as voluDtee. members of the food ad-
ministration, DIR. Wilbur explained, is to
apply the volunteer spirit of America
to a prompt solution of the food ques-
ton. Women are asked to come in first
he said. because the largest percentage
of food passes through their hands
children and the men. The conservation
office is undertaking no less a task than
the educating anew of 100, 900, 900 people
in their eating habits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
"omen Full of Hope and Promise. ,

Its arrival is sign to all men, an
omen full Of hope and promise to the
friends Of ordered freedom, and por-
tent of defeat and ruin to her foes,
None, we believe. can fail to read the
sign Alright. 1t means that within a
few months great armies. drawn from
the hundred millions of free American
boundless resources which that repub-
lie can supply will begin to follow this
first detachment across the Atlantic.
and it means that these armies will be
increased by successive reinforcements
until a democratic peace has been
wrung from defeated Germany.
"Eut the unfurling of the Stars and
Stripes in Europe beside the union jack
and the tricolor means more than a
more than an earnest victory, more
even than a democratic peace. 1t is
an earnest of all these, but II is also a
symbol of that union OF mind and feel
ing between the ordered democracies
of England. France and the United
States which promises to play the
greatest part in mo1ding the future
ideals and future destinies of the world.
This union bids fair to rank forever
marks in the moral and political his,
too near q thing for the boldest
amongst US to gauge. In character. in
extent and in duration its results are
past finding out"
The Daily Mail followed on Friday
with an editorial along similar lines.
The Manchester Guardian hailed the
American advance guard as "of i'm
mense Importance. though we must not
CONTINUED on Sixteenth PaSs.S ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Washingtonian Heads Fraternity.

washington. d. c., today was elected
president of-the Kappi Phi fraternity
Of North America. A telegram pledg-
ing their loyalty was sent TO President
Wilson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
CONGRESS IS LOATH
TO LEAVE CAPITAL
Wants to Quit, But Hesitates
to Let Go 0verseership
of War.
FEARS PRESIDENTS POWER

Congress wants to finish the war
Legislation. wind up the special session
and go home; and yet
Congress is 1oath to let go its over
seership of the war preparations and
hesitates to depart, leaving the ex-
ecutive vested with autocratic powers
to an extent never before dreamed OF
in this country
These two statements are frequently
heard in gossip around cloak and COM
mittee rooms at the Capitol, and repre-
sent the yearning entertained and the
disinclination which qualities it among
the rank and file.
AS the war legislation has progressed
into enactment many senators and rep-
resentatives have commented upon the
responsibility and the authority with
which the President is charged and
invested by the several measures. Tho
food control bill now pending goes
further in this direction than all the
some statesmen on the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Greatest Power Since Tiberius Caesar


contradiction" said Senator Hardwick
of Georgia, in open debate in the Sen
ate last Friday, that not since the days
of Tiberius Caesar himself was any
such power ever given to dictator
much less to the President of a sup
posedly free people,"
Senator Hardwick, a member of the
Presidents own political party. was
referring particularly to the section o1
the bill authorizing the President to
license business. The senator contend
ed that no business in this country
great or small, could Tive, except by
executive favor and that the effect
of the bill would be to constitute a
vast dictatorship over American busi-
ness everywhere"
touched one feature Of the vast extension
Of executive power. presidential and de-
partmental, contemplated by this and
other bills. The fact is that many sena-
tors and members Of the House are seri-
ously pondering the tidal wave of cen
traliZation of power which Congress
has set in motion. Democrats. as well
as republicans, are taking cognizance
of 1t daily.
solicitous for Legislative Branch.
There is no mistak.ng the fact that
solicitude Is earnest over the question
of the legislative branch Of the govern
ment yielding its rights and unloading
responsibility. Neither is it to be ques-
toned that the sentiment is on the in
crease that Congress should stay at its
post during these early days of the war
and keep in close touch with develop
ments.
This feeling Is expected to gain in
strength after the draft goes into affect
and the sons of the people are actually
erable numbers. It is argued by some
OF the statesmen that the homes Of
every legislators constituency will then
have a very vital stake in the issue
Of the war-a boy on the firing line or
advancing to it-and that they will look
to Congress to see their boys taken
care Of and protected.
I'VE passed the selective draft law.
which sends those boys to war" said
a member yesterday, in discussing the
sponsible by our votes for their being
drafted to the colors, and we ought to
stay here and participate in everything
relating to the conduct of the war
with which we have right to deal.
and to see to 1t ourselves that things
go well as we have planned"
Some Mutterings Are Heard.
Some mutterings are heard at the Capt.
tol over the secrecy which the depart
ments are alleged to be throwing
around all their movements. 1t is diff
cult. 1t is complained. for the legis-
lators to get information of what Is
going on. There have been many COM
plants as to the Withholding Of in
formation about contracts, especially.
In the House, recently. it was sug-
gested on the democratic side that the
standing committees on expenditures
in the departments should keep in
touch with departmental actions, but
the idea was overruled on the ground
that it would but harass the govern
ment at this time for Congress to be
inquiring and investigating. Due
notice was served that later the COM
mittees will look into departmental
procedure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
VIENNA PAPER CHARGES
INTRIGUE TO Mr.. ELKUS
Explains Labor Disturbances by
Claim That American Ambassador
Was Active in Austria.
Especial Cablegrnm to The Sunday Sta1
and New York TimeS.)

and New York TimeE.)
THE HAGUE. June 30.-Just as in
Germany, Anglo-American spies were
invented to account for labor disturb
ances. so now intrigues by Ambassador
Elkus in Vienna are being invented by
part Of the Vienna press to explain the
anti-German demonstration in Bohe-
mia, Moravia and other agricultural
and Industrial districts Of Austria. The
pan-German Viennese paper. the Ost
Deutschen Rundschau, says:
For some time past reports of in
trigues have been received from differ
ent parts which can no longer be
ignored because they are Of nature to
disturb the relations Of Germany's al
lies and to create feeling that may
influence the general political and war
situation. There is an organized plan
to spread the rumor. especially in in
dustrial districts, that Austria Hungary
could long ago have had peace if 1t
had not been allied with the German
empire. The Prussans alone, it is said
in these districts. are to blame for the
continuance of the war. This nonsense
meets with credulity."