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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-16
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ISSHOWN IN REPORT
Health Officer Woodward
Charges 1t to Production
Cost and High Price.
OTHER FISCAL YEAR ITEMS

There was an increase in the amount
Of low-grad- milk and cream and water
ed milk sold in the District during the
past fiscal year, according to the annual
report of Health Officer William c.
Woodward, which went to the Commits
sioners today. He attributes it to the
high cost Of producing milk and to the
high price for which it was sold dur
ing the year.
The greater the price of milk" de-
clares the health officer. 1.-The greater
Is the temptation to water and to skim
It. since the returns thus obtained for
every gallon of water added to milk or
cream distracted is greater. Another
factor in leading to a deterioration of
the milk supply of the District is prob
ably the difficulty that has been expert
enced by the health department in en-
forcing the laws and regulations re-
1ating to milk"
Under the legal ENHANCEMENT holding G
up prosecutions which is now being un-
raveled in the courts. much milk and
cream has been brought into the Dis
trict from unknown sources. the report
states. "and with history that the
vendors of such milk and cream prefer
to conceal rather than disclose"
Work OF Sanitary Inspection.
Discussing the work of the bureau
Of sanitary inspection of the depart
ment, the report states that 1851 sani-
tRry inspections were made during the
year. Violations of laws and regula-
tions for the prevention and abatement
Of nuisances were reported in 11,SS5
instances. and compliance was procured
in 1856 instances, Two hundred and
thirty-three informations charging vio-
lations of the sanitary laws and regu-
lations were filed in Police Court Fines
and collaterals collected amounted to
$64.
Eight-hour law inspectors. whose
work comes under the jurisdiction of
the health department, made total of
11.140 inspections Fines were imposed
in nine cases. amounting to $50. The
cost for enforcing this law for women
during the year was $4.574-67.
Pound Service Figures.
passed through the pound service.
which also comes under the depart
ment. was 7.o13, of which 3.029 were
dogs, 3,9S4 were cats and three were
horses, while one COW was lmpounded.
OF the impounded dogs 2.464 were
killed.
vital statistics presented by the re-
port show a total of 7,25S live births
recorded for the year, equivalent to a
birth rate Of 2018. Live births among
the white population numbered 5,O42,
and among the colored 2,216.
Deaths during the calendar year 1916
numbered 6.494. as compared with 6.505
during the preceding year. The death
AL IN he
relatively high death rate in the col
ored population. as compared with the
death rate for the white population,
prevailed for the year.
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J. A. O'LEARY'S "BULL"
SUSPENDS PUBLICATION

NEW YORK. October 16-The publica-
ton known as Bull, Of which jeremiah A.
O'Leary, mentioned in German official
dispatches made public by recent State
Department disclosures, has been the d.
recting head, has suspended, it was an
nounced here today by its publishers
Postmaster General Burleson had ex-
cluded it from the mails.
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D. c. MEN ORDERED
TO CAMP GORDON
Eighty-Five of Machine Gun
Battalion Soon to Leave
Admiral, Md.
1000 MARYLANDERS GO

| From Stan Correspondent.
| CAMP MEADE. Admiral. Md, Octo-
ber 16.-Eighty-five men from the 312th
, Machine Gun Battalion will make up
the quota from the District of Columb bia
| to go to Camp Gordon. The men will
| board the train at Disney Saturday.
! Orders to this effect were received at
| battalion headquarters this morning,
| but have not yet been transmitted Of
| ficially to the captains of the District
companies. The men to make UP the
squad of eighty-ive have not yet been
designated. 1t is expected the quota
will be chosen equally from the three
companies.
About 1000 Maryland men started for
Camp Gordon today. They were drawn
from the 313th Infantry, and were from
Baltimore county. Prince Georges, Gar
| rett, Allegheny. Washington, Frederick
and Carroll counties. AS the regiment
now is constituted it is made up wholly
of Baltimore city men.
Plea for Liberty Loan.
Announcement was made this morn
ing that the entire division is to be
paraded Thursday to hear Secretary
Baker speak in behalf of the second
liberty loan.
Subscriptions to the loan by the Dis
trict machine gunners to IL o'clock last
night total s24,150, divided thus: Com
pany A, 129 men, s6,750: Company B,
13o men, $3.50; Company c, 154 men.
se.25O.
Rejected Men Sent Home
Nine more rejected men from the
battalion were returned to their local
boards this morning. They were:
Israel KRISTEN, Company A, and Calvin
G. Holkend, Frank A. Umsoltz, Theo-
dore c. Crump. Martin Mendelsohn.
Vinton U. d. Pierce and Alexander B.
Helbig, Company c; Claude E. Thomp-
son and Mihran Nakkashian, Com
pany B.
Supply Sergt- w. H. Bladen, Company
A. was transferred today to the ord
nance department, Washington. Private
Magnus P. Wood of the same company
was transferred to the 301st Stevedore
Regiment, @. NJ D., at Newport News,
and left today; Private Joseph P. Amin
has been transferred to battalion head
quarters. Office of the adjutant, for
special duty
Arrivals Total 1,79s.
It was stated today that last weeks
arrivals of selected men, chiefly for the
signal service. totaled 1,79S men.
Under orders from the War Depart
ment work necessary for completion of
barracks and other buildings and the
camp system of roads was speeded up
this morning. the purpose being to have
all barracks finished and steam heating
plants installed and in operation be-
fore arrival of really cold weather.
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u. S. WAGING WAR ON GERMANY
WITH TRUE AMERICAN SPIRIT
Despite Carping Critics, Nation Is Organ
izing Its Hundred Millions With
Victory Alone In View.
Now to wage war upon Germany; war in earnest!

Now wage upon Germany in earnest! T
With Congress out of the the government<equipped with
wide and drastic administrative demanded with the military
supplied with the with every from the
President the hgh private in the rank on his
Washington has entered upon its full stride preparing
launch an aggressive campaign against the enemy.
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Numerous and Adaptable.

Especially numerous and adaptable
are such roads in the Anacostia section.
including Anacostia road, Ridge road.
Good Hope road. Wheeler road, Benning
road. Central avenue, Hamilton road.
Giesboro road and Sheridan road
To be found along the roads named
east of Rock Creek Park are such points
Of historic interest as Fort Thayer,
Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Slemmer. Fort
Totten and Fort Stevens. Not only have
these sites q historic value but, when the
region il built up. they give space for
ueighborhood parks.
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Little Of the activity is apparent
upon the surface<or visible in even a
broad survey. In every town in the
war material Training camps are fill
ing up with soldiers. Aviation fields.
twenty-four in number, are getting
ready to give the United States mill
tary mastery in the air. Shipyards are
hurrying to gain conToi Of the carry
ing power on the seas.
Like Building Skyscraper.
In a recent statement Lord Northclife,
an English visitor. tersely described
Americas preparedness" plan. He
likened the situation to the construc-
ton of a modern skyscraper building.
First is seen. he said, men swarming
around a cavity and then the founda-
ton appears. Next a steel skeleton
rears itself. Half way up may be sew
eral tiers of bricks; on intermediate
landings men are working on floors, cell
inKs walls, plumbing and heating ap-
uaratus. Painters and plasterers are busy
on an upper floor while the second floor
NAV not be yet walled in. Suddenly,
presto! the completed structure stands
forth.
From the National Capital all this
mighty undertaking is being directed
1t is a magnificent system. The best
brains Of the land have been drawn
upon for directing energy. In cramped
ONCE quarters men labor without re-
gard to hours meals, personal COM
fort, even Indifferent to health, to ac-
complish their individual tasks. Thou
do ~ and ranging down
the line of clerical assistant to the
humblest messenger are busy Who
can say that one cog In the wheel Is the
most important, since every cog helps
to run the machinery?
But one thought seems to animate
them ALL win the war and win Il,
quickly" With true Yankee spirit. once
a task has been imposed upon them.
they drive to it's speediest accomplish
ment. Mark Hanna used to say: The
Lord hates a gutter" If he were here
now he would add. land everybody
damns q Stacker" In the vernacular
it may be truly said now. however.
there amt no such animal
Germans May Lose Palm.
Never before has this country witnessed
such mastery coordination of effort. Who
knows but the Germans may lose the palm
Of their boasted efficiency" after the Yam
KEGS have shown what real efficiency is?
Standardization is the rule OF the hour and
the master gauge is patriotism.
That in the street, in the every day walk
of life, there Is small evidence of all this
industry and endeavor pointing to a vis-
ible state Of war must not be taken as
indicative OF what really Is going on.
Business as usual is part of the general
plan Of efficiency. and the employe in bust
ness who gives the best that is in him to
his employer and his work is Indirectly
aiding in winning the war
One needs only to step from the street
into Office buildings to come into imme-
diate contact with the whirring machinery
of administration and 'see the wheels go
round" In industrial centers. go behind
the barbed- wire stockade and high picket
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Fatal Accident Verdict.

The inquest held yesterday afternoon
into the accident that resulted Satur-
day night in the death of two members
of a Philadelphia regiment at Severn
crossing, on the Pennsylvania railroad
between Camp Meade and Baltimore
resulted in a verdict that the accident
was made possible by the failure of the
railroad to have proper safety appli-
ances or to take proper precautions for
the safety Of the public at the cross
ing.
The jury found that the men, who
with other soldiers. were riding in an
Army truck between Baltimore and
camp, did not see an approaching train
until the truck was on the railroad
track; that no gates or warning de-
vice was located at the crossing. that
the trucks motor probably became
stalled because Of the drivers excite
ment at the imminence of danger, and
that the accident would not have oc-
safeguarded.
Fire Drill of District Selects.
The District selects had their weekly
fire drill yesterday. being instructed in
the proper manner of laying hose lines
attaching hose to the fire hydrants and
working on fire.
mammoth clock dial was installed
at division headquarters yesterday, on
which is shown daily the figures of the
liberty loan subscriptions. The dial is
fully fifteen feet in diameter, and the
figures are large enough to be read at a
distance of several hundred yards
Private Henry Ziles. a Aegular Army
man al Camp Meade, whose home Is in
Washington. painted the clock dial.
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Says Peace Is Necessary.
Will Not Renoune

At socialist meeting in Berlin Philipn
Scheidemann. leader Of the socialist MAJ
5ority in the reichstag. deplored the fact
that Germany's enemies had '.scofHod" q
the German desire for peace.
I'VE will not renounce q square foot a
German soil," he added.
DE. Michaslis, Hsrr schsidamann -
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WEATHER.

Fair and somewhat cooler tonight and
tomorrow: gentle northwest winds.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending pm. today: Highest, Is, at,
$40 pm. yesterday; lowest. 81, at 1880
am. today.
Full report on page 16.
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GERMANS BEARING
 HARD ON ITALIANS
BERLIN REPORT CLAIMS THAT SINCE NEW OFFENSIVE ON
 15,ooo PRISONERS TAKEN
Bomb Dropped by German Aviator Slightly lnJures TWO American Aviation mechanicans and Driver.

Now York, Dec. That the Ttal !ans are being hard pressed by the enemy in greatly superior numbers ana in gun power is indicated ey the latest official communication
 Additional gains have been made by the invaders in the Asiago plateau re- zion, but again a heavy price in men killed or wounded was participated ir by the attacking force. At last ac. counts the Italian line was still in tact and the way barred against the enemy dehou hing on the Venetian plain
 The Berlin office in the announce ment of fresh victories achieved aga,nst the Italians asserts 4.00o ad- ditionai men have been made pris- oncr bringing the total since the new offensive began up to 15.000
 The cessation of hostiliues along the eastern front has now extended to that part of the line by the Ruman- ians. An official communication from Jassy, the Rumanian capita. says that as result of the Russians having proposed an armistice to the enemy. | has been decided that the Rumaniaus should associate themselves with the Russians.
 The Rumanians, however, have de- clined all enemy attempts to frater- nize
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GAS1ON B. MEANS
 TELLS HIS STORY
JURY GAVE CLOSE ATTENTION TO RECITAL OF DEATH OF MRS.
 MAUDE A. KING
Defendants Testimony Has Carrier
 As Her Financial Agent

Concord, N. C., Dec. 7.-Gaston B. Means today told the jury trying him l for murder that he was getting d drink of water at Blackwelder Spring when Mrs. Maude A. King was shot with a 25 calibre automatic pistol ! which he had placed In the fork of a sycamore tree nearby before going down to the spring. He had warned her not to fool with guns, he said, after she had taken it out of the tree and she had replaced it at his direc- tion.
 When he saw Mrs. King put tho pistol back in the tree, he went on to the spring, Means declared. He got the dipper, filed it, struck a match to see that there were no bugs in the water, and was in the act of raising the dipper to his lips, when he heard the shot.
 q looked and saw her falling" said the witness. "She was about two and half feet from the tree. I rushed right up to her. When l first saw her she was getting nearer the ground in a wobbling motion-just crumbling up.
 q got to her quickly and took hold of her, thinking to ascertain whether she was wounded"
 Means then told of calling to Cap tain w. S. Bingham, and his brother. Alton Means, who were nearby and of taking the body In an automobile to a hospital. He did not say where the pistol was when he reached Mrs. King. The state expected to develop this and other points, which it is considers material, on the cross -ex- animation of the witness which began today by Assistant District Attorney Dooling, of New York, but which was opposed by adjournment of court.
 When he picked Mrs. King up and put her in the automobile in which the party had come to the spring rabbit hunting after supper, he did not know she was dead, Means told the jury That was not established until the body had been examined by physicians at the hospital. He arranged for tic burial, first sending the body to Asheville where Mrs. Kings mother Mrs. Anna l.. Robinson. was, and then taking to Chicago at Mrs. Robinsons request.
 Means testimony today carried him through the two years that he had known Mrs. King and had acted as her business agent, to the time of the burial of CT body in Chicago.
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two hours and forty minutes in the house.
 Also in sharp contrast to the dis cussion which preceded the war ds- claration against Germany last April, 1t was almost devoid of spectacular features in spite of the dramatic set tings furnished by the crowded gall leries.
 Members apparently acted in con- mon accord to expedite action, tho few who spoke refraining from ex-- tended discussion
 Tho senate acted first on the re- | solution, presented by Chairman Stone with the unanimous endorse ment of the foreign relations commit tee, soon after the senate concluded routine business.
 After brief addresses by Senators Stone, Lodge and Hitchcock, Owen and Vardaman, the roll call followed. When the document was transmitted to the house 1t was substituted there by the unanimous consent for the more lengthy resolution reported by the house foreign relations committee after conferences with state depart ment officials.
 Senator Stone, who had change of the resolution; Gronna, of North Dakota; Norris. of Nebraska, and Vardaman of Mississippi, who voted against the German declaration to- day joined the majority. A fifth, former Senator Lane, of Oregon, has since died.
 Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin who also opposed the war with Ger many was absent when the roll call was taken and did not vote. Later he addressed the senate explaining that he did not hear the summons to vote, which was taken while he was at his viding that the United States should not observe any agreement of the entente allies to deprive of controi any territory of Austria held August T, 1914. The Wisconsin senator said with inclusion of this amendment hs would have voted for the war resolp- ton, but against it without his beiated proposal.
 Necessity for cooperative military action Of the allies was the principal reason advanced in debate for i'm mediate passage of the Austrian re- solution.
 Senator Stone sad that American troops might soon face the Austrian forces through extension of the west ern front to Italy by the inter-alEed war council. He pointed out that the two nations actually have been at awr for months.
 House debate was led by Chairman Flood of the foreign relations com mittee, and acting Republican Leader Gillett, both of whom recited Austria's aggress;ons against this government and it's citizens.
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1 of the disaster increased, rather than diminished
 , Hundreds of bodies were taken to the morgues and rescue squads were constantly finding new victims buried 1 under tons of debris until the blizzard tonc ed them to cease work
 There is every reason to leMege that many more will he re oyercd
 No concerted effort has been made ! as yet to compile list of the dead as every effort is being made to iden- tify those who perished
 The condition of many bodies makes l this exceedingly difficult and large proportion of those who lost their lives will be buried as nameless dead"
 There is no reason, however. to change the estimate of 2.O00 dead and 5000 injured,
 The fires which had been raging for twenty four hours in the north end were brought under control early to- day and the city is no longer menaced by a conflagration While soldiers. sailors and vomn- teers were searching the ruins of the north end today, business was entire ly suspended The leading ,iu2ens devoted their efforts to organizing work of relief and substantial progress was made in this respect
 An emergency meeting of the citi- zens of Halifax was held at the city hall today Lieutenant Governor Grant and Deputy Mayor Colwen pre- sided No words were wasted and the large audience listened with intense interest and ringing applause to the sheaf of telegrams from far and near which have poured in with messages Of sympathy ana promises of assist ance, much of which is on the way and some already here
 Two telegrams came from the Du&e of Devonshires governor general of Canada, who is in Regina He said in one.
 Regret news, hope for eXa9gera- ton tender sympathy and offer all aid
 Calls to all the nearby towns which were sent yesterday for medical sup plies, doctors and nurses, were an swered immediately
 The American ship in port offered 150 blankets The managers of the terminals offered food and shelter for two hundred persons. A registry has been organized al the ity hall, where all the homeless are asked to leave their names so that the missing may oe found if possible
 All homes sheherins' straneers arc asked to assist in this work.
 Tic Bank of Nova Scotia will pro- vide all necessary funds to the vari- GUS commissions now organized A committee of women is being or eaniaed 10 assist in relief work at the homes of the injured with headquar- ters at the city hall The women CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO
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Halifax, Dec. 7.--Strjcken Halifax was swept tonight by raging bliz- zard. So fierce was the storm that rescue workers were forced to suspend their operations in the devastated sec ton. 1t IS believed certain that all the injured buried under the ruins of shat tered buildings have perished of cold and hunger.
 Battered by bitter wind and blind ing snow, the plight of the survivors of yesterdays holocaust is little short of desperate.
 The windows and doors of virtually every house in the city were shattered by the explosion. which wrecked the Richmond section and devastated a large part of the water front.
 lmprovised barricades of boards give little protection against the ele- mcnts and attempts to heat buildings into which the snow is steadily drift ing, are hopeless.
 The city is again fin darkness to- night. except for the illumination af- torded by scant supply of oil lamps and unless these had been carefully screened they were extingmshed as soon as lighted by the gale which whistles through the crude shutters. Only a small percentage of the build ings have even this slight protection from the storm.
 The sufferings of those who es- capped injury have been increased by the fact that every availa 3le blanket, quilt and comfort has been requisi- toned for the hundreds of injured in the temporary hospitals. Many of these are so gravely wounded their only hope lies in the best of care
 Serious fears arc held that cold and exposure will result in an outbreak of pneumonia
 4 single telegraph wire, hendine dangerously in the storm. offered Halifax only preca~:ous means Of communication with the outside world, and it was feared momontarily that this line would snap Al best il. gave only a hsltins connection with the other points.
 Telegraph and telephone companies are making desperate efforts to pro vide a makeshift service, hut the work is besct with great difficulties
 While many generous offers of ma terial relief have been received and trainloads of supplies are on the way tbe spectre of famine was broad to- q night for if the storm continues it may seriously interfere with railroad traffic
 There is enough food on hand for immediate needs. but it will last only 4 short time unless additional sup < plies are received
 As the day wore on the immensity
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AMERICANS INJURED

With the Amer an Army in France. Dee. "A bomb dropped by a Ger man aviator during d recent flicht at night struck in the streets of a town through which two American aviation mechanicans were passing The De troit man was wounded in the shoul- der and the Missourian's nose was broken
 An ambulance driver from Hanni- al, Mo, was struck on the back by d flying brick
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FAIL TO AGREE

Houston, Texas, Dec. 7.-After a conference of several hours between leading oil operators and sixteen dril- lers representing the strikers. the meeting adjourned without results. The strikers expressed willingness 10 waive recognition of the union but stuck out for $4 per day for rough neck" labor in the fields which is now drawing S360. The operators posi- lively refused to make this conces- sion at the meeting.