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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05


So he argued and argued with himself
until at last he made up his mind what
he would do.
well, I've settled 1t. anyway I've
made up my mind Just what I'll do
said he right out. forgetting that he
might be overheard.
What will you do?" demanded Chat
terer the Red Squirrel from the very
next tree, where he had been watching
Sammy. though Sammy didn't know 1t.
''If told you then you'd know.
But instead l think III CO."
retorted Sammy. swapping his sharp
eyes at Chatterer. You know, these
two scamps are forever quarreling.
"All right, Mr.. Smarty,' barked Chat
terer. but if you really do know what
you'll do I guess it will be the first
time such thing ever happened
Right away Sammy's temper fiared up
and he half spread his wings to fly at
Chatterer. Just in time he remembered
that Chatterer really was bubbling over
with curiosity to know what was in his
mind, SO instead of flying at Chatterer
he chuckled and replied: Il really do
know, and If you knew what I know YOU
would know what no one else but Reddy
Fox and Mrs Reddy knows. Can you
guess what 1t is?
NO" replied Chatterer. What is 1t?
His sharp face was very eager, for
Chatterer likes to know all that is going
on.
That would be telling" retorted
Sammy saucily. ASK Reddy Fox
With that Sammy flew away. chuckling
to himself, while Chatterer flew into
rage and barked all the bad things he
could think of after him. Sammy flew
straight over to the dear Old Brier Patch
to look for Peter Rabbit. He had made
up his mind to tell Peter and Danny
Meadow Mouse and a few others about
Reddy's babies, that they might keep
a sharper watch on their own babies
but that he wouldn't tell where Reddy's
babies were. In this way he would be
doing Peter and the others service and
at the same time would be doing Reddy
no harm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
NATIONAL.

Bread famine caused rioting in the
ghetto district of Chicago. following a
walk -out of bakery employees Rt. Rev.
Mgr. j. p. McClosky of Pennsylvania
was elevated to the bishoprlc of Fam
boanga. p. l. Prof. c. f. Eawter of
v. P. l.. Christiansburg, Va, indicted
for the murder of Stockton Heth, jr.,
was placed on trial; the unwritten law
and temporary insanity We're the pleas
of the defense More than 100 miners.
all supposed to have died, were en-
tombed in the explosion of mine at
Hastings, Col. Three persons in an
automobile were killed when the car
was struck by train at Mansfield,
Ohio. Among those who died during
the week was Rear Admiral S. J.. p.
Ayres, U. S. n, retired. veteran of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
RELIEF SHIP CONFISCATED.
Germans Said to Have Seized the
Steamer Carmetta.

Germans of the Belgian relief steamer
Carmetta is reported in a Central News
dispatch from Copenhagen. Danish
sailor who was member of the crew is
authority for the report. He says the
Germans ordered the crew to leave the
ship and placed prize crew on board to
take it to a German port. The men from
the Carmetta, In two small boats, asked
for provisions, but the Germans refused.
After six days of terrible suffering the
men in one of the boats reached the Nor
wegian coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
AMERICANS REGARDED
AS HOSTILE IN BERLIN
Must Remain at Homes During Ger
tain Hours and Report
Daily to Police.

By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN. May Sword has
been received here from Americans in
Berlin that the German military au-
thorities have issued orders that Amer
leans now are to be regarded as hostile
foreigners and are required to report
daily to the police stations. They may
not leave their homes between 10
o'clock in the evening and 6 O'Clock
in the morning. nor, in case they are
residents of Berlin, quit the police
limits.
The Berlin order principally affects
a number of American dentists and the
small colony of American business men
who remained there to look after their
interests in Germany. together with
number of individuals to whom the
authorities refused permission to de-
part after the severance of relations.
Most of the American residents except
teutonized German-Americans have
already departed from Berlin.
This action by the German govern
ment is regarded here as virtually the
first recognition by the government of
the existence of state of war with the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
MCINTYRE TO CENSOR WIRES.
Insular Bureau Chief Placed in
Charge of Telegraph to Mexico.

Direction of the censorship over tele-
graph lines between the United States
and Mexico has been placed in the hands
Of Brig. Gen. Frank Mcintyre. chief of
the insular bureau Of the War Depart
ment. who has chosen a group Of civilian
telegraphers for the actual work.
The telegraphers. commissioned as off,
GERS in the Signal Corps reserve, have
been sent to half a dozen points along the
border. with detailed instructions as to
how they shall carefully censor all mes
sages and news reports crossing the inter-
national line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Funds of c. F. Birdseye Attached.

NEW YORK, May Certain funds
belonging to Clarence F. Birdseye, in
surance promoter, on deposit with a
trust company here, have been attach
ed in favor of the Pittsburgh Life and
Trust Company by a supreme court
order in proceedings to recover $780,
600. The attachment was granted on
the ground that Birdseye is non-resi-
dent. The complaint alleged that the
capital stock of the Pittsburgh COM
pany, recently placed in receivership in
Pennsylvania, had been impaired and
rendered insolvent by reason of Clar-
ence F. Bir6seye having fraudulently
and unlawfully distracted from the
assets and funds of the company and
converted to his own use or other per-
sons the sum of $1.970,0Q0."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Reserve Engineers at Fort Myer.

The fOIIOW1ng-named Objects OF the
Engineer Section Officers Reserve
Corps are assigned to active duty at the
training camp to be held at Fort Myer,
Va: Maj. John H. Finney, Capts Ed
win C. Eckel. Arthur A. Reimer, John s.
Doyle. Leon E. Lyon, Walter c. Allen,
Frazer c. Hilder, George F. Hob
son, Harry Barker, Irving r.
Kane, Elihu H. Ropes, John j. Swan,
Warner I. Risley, Charles J. Tilden,
Robert B. H. Begg and Joseph T. Kelly,
jr., First Lieuts. Paul F. Rossel, Viii
liam Burton, Samuel H. Sherrerd, How
ward H. George, John L. Desch, Jacob
Schlessinger, Walter H. Dunlap, Edward
L. Bandy. George B. Du Bots. Evan w.
Scott and Albert E. Crane, and Second
Lieuts. Claude G. Benham. Alexander
H. Schlotterer. jr., Levi D. Coles, Quincy
C. Ayres. Edwin c. Burt and Albert
Holmes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
TO WIDEN BUREAUS SCOPE.
House Committee Increases Appro-
priation for War Risk Insurance.

Acting upon a Geographic recon-
mendation of Secretary McAdoo and
testimony by William c. De Lancy. di-
rector Of war risk insurance. the House
interstate commerce committee yesterday
considered the administration bill to
widen the war risk bureaus scope by
including insurance for masters, off,
GERS and crews of American merchant
vessels. and for reinsurance of vessels
and cargoes of the allies.
The committee amended the bill to
increase the appropriation it carries
from $25,000.000 to $50,000,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
GREAT HERoISM Is SHOWN.
Patrol Ships Go to Rescue of Tor
pedoed Arcsdian, Saving Many.

PARIS, May "a Marseilles dispatch
to the Mat:n says that the ktrol ships
which went to the rescue of the torpe-
doed transport Arcadian showed great
herosm ard determination in saving
the victims of the submarine. Both Of
ficers and men leaped overheard and
held UP drowning soldiers. One patrol
saved 236 men in an hour and 4 hall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
FOREIGN.

Venustiano Carranza took oath of Of
fee as President Of Mexico. w. H
Page, American ambassador to ST
James. was accorded the degree of doc
tor of laws by Cambridge University
Many lives We're lost when an ava
lanche overwhelmed a train in Switzer-
land. Among those who died during
the week was H b. Wheatley, British
author.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Steamer Pontiac Is Sunk.

NEW GLASGOW. N. S.. May 5.-The
loss of the British steamer Pontiac
is reported in a cablegram received
by her owners. J. w. Carmichael & Co.
Capt. Sprague and crew were said to
have been saved. The Pontiac. Of 3.345
tons gross, had been in British adj
miralty service for eighteen months.
1t is believed she was sunk in the
marine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Hearings by Finance Committee.

Limited hearings before the Senate
finance committee will be held on the
war revenue bill after it has been COM
pleted by the House ways and means
committee. Opportunity will be given
for fling written statements, and a
limited time will be given for oral ar.
gunoAnl - - .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Another Commission Nav Come.

COPENHAGEN. May 4. via London.
May 5.-The Socialdemokraten says
that a Danish commercial bureau will
leave shortly for Washington under the
auspices of the Merchants Guild and
the Industrial Council Norway also is
expected to establish a bureau in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
To Discuss Railroad Problems.

W. NJ. Acworth of the British COM
mission which recently completed an in
vestigation OF Canadian railroads will
appear Monday before the joint congress
sional committee investigating general
transportation problems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Little Friction With Labor.

Lord Percy said there had been ex-
traordinarily little friction with labor
because most of the restrictions had
been voluntarily adopted by labor. He
cited one factory where all effort to
prevent an enormous wastage of time
among the men failed until the man.
agement posted summary of the time
lost and asked the men themselves to
take hold of the questions.
England would stand far more re-
strictions than have been set up, Lord
Percy said. because practically all of
them were voluntary and enforced by
public opinion operating through
local committees rather than imposed
from above as in Germany. Perhaps
the hardest thing to enforce was a cur
tailment Of confectionery. just as It
was almost impossible to prevent Bell
gians from wasting flour in pastry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
IRISH MEETING ENDS
IN A REAL IRISH FIGHT
Attempt to Introduce Home Rule
Resolution in New York Causes
Many Broken Heads.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 5.-When TIE chair
man of a mass meeting held last night in
Cooper Union, by thirty-two orgapiZa-
tons, composed of Americans of Irish
birth or descent, refused to receive a reso-
luton calling upon President Wilson and
Congress to intercede in behalf of Irish
independence a riot broke out which re-
suited in the election of more than
thirty persons from the hall and which
was not quelled until 200 policemen
made free use of their clubs.
The trouble began at the close of a
speech by former United States Senator
James, +. OGorman, when Richard F.
Dalton, young Long Island City law
yer. arose and addressed the chair.
Il have listened with attention to what
has been said by the previous speakers
said about home rule" Then he drew a
typewriter paper from his pocket.
You cannot read that" declared Chief
Magistrate William McAdoo. the chair
man, but the young man was persistent
and had started to read his resolution
when he was seized bodily by two de-
tectives and carried to the nearest exit.
Clan CallS Ring Out.
Instantly cries of Free speech :" Gag
rule!" I'VE want home rule," and Down
with England .' came from all parts of
the hall. These shouts were drowned
out with clan calls" and the entire au-
dience arose. Flags of the Irish repub-
lie were waved by hundreds in the au
dience.
The disturbers were charged by seventy
policemen who had been stationed at the
hall in preparation for possible trouble
Men and women were elected. but the dis
order increased. Chairman McAdoo was
unable to make himself heard, although
he shattered the desk in front of him with
blows from hickory cane.
The policemen on duty no sooner check.
ed the rioting in one part of the build
ing than it broke out afreSl in some other
section of the hall Not until the reserves
arrived did they restore a semblance OF
order.
The meeting was called to demonstrate
the loyalty Of Irish Americans to the
United States and the rioting did not be-
gin until after resolutions had been adopt.
ed pledging support to the government in
prosecuting the war to successful termi-
nation and commencing universal mill
tary service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05

JESUS THE SERVANT OF ALL
John, 13.1-11.
Golden Text: "Whosoever would
be first among you, shall be serv-
ant of aIl''-Mark. 1914.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
TELLS HOW THE WAR
UPSET BRITISH TRADE
Lord Eustace Percy Discusses Eco
nomic Changes as a Result
of Conflict. II

Normal business conditions proved
impossible in England after her entry
into the war. Lord Eustace Percy. Brit
ish trade expert, said today, discuss
ing the economic upheaval that hos
tilities had brought that country. In
dustry, he said. could not keep going as
in peace times owing to Fundamental
change in demand, but the immediate
dislocation of labor that followed
proved not serious, as it was all short
ly absorbed into other lines of work
built up by war needs.
The war had proved for England. he
said, great economic leveler. The es-
sential restrictions, he said. operated
about equally on rich and poor.
Rich Poorer; Poor Richer.
The rich, however, lost large part OF
their wealth by income taxes running
as high as 33l- per cent, while the
poor showed unusual prosperity be-
cause of increased wages. large sep
aration allowances and the influx OF
about 100000 women of the lower
classes into industry.
Lord Percy said England not only
found business as usual impossible, but
also that great restriction in output
soon resulted. The foreign trade, he
said, had been chung to desperately at
first, not only because of expected con-
ditionS after the war. but also to, keep
up exchange. 1t developed shortly,
however, that considera BILE trade had
to be given up, owing to pressure OF
munitions needs. Then effort was CEN
tered on maintaining the so-called re-
served occupations, possessing military
Importance.
To do this 1t was necessary to with
draw from the front many men who
had volunteered at first and to exempt
many others who were later con-
scripted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Regulars to Command.

In general the plan will be to pro-
vide a regular army officer to COM
mand each new regiment, with an ade-
quate number of regular or National
Guard officers of experience to carry
on efficiently the administrative duties
and to supervise instruction.
During the interval between the reg
istration and the calling out of the
new army the regular and National
Guard divisions will be at work pre-
pairing the mobilization camps. and
also with their own training. To them
also will continue to fall the duty of
protecting public and private property.
The commander of each training dis
trict probably will direct this work
under the orders of the commander of
the military department in which his
camp is located.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
Coast Artillery Promotions.

In the coast artillery, thirteen lieu
tenant colonies must be promoted to
coionels; twenty-five majors become
lieutenant colonies; all captains will
become majors and the first go lieu
tenants will be examined for captains.
All second lieutenants become first
leutenants.
In the infantry. the first fifty lieu
tenant colonels will be examined to
become colonies. Majors down to No
80 go up for lieutenant colonies: the
first 200 captains are slated for majors
and all present first lieutenants and
second lieutenants, including the first
153 will become captains.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
(RIBBAGE AND, PINNyHI.E
 PLAYERS, ,GO ON STRIKE.

BUTTE, Mont, Dec 4.--The high cost of living took new turn in Butte today when cigar stores announced that solo, cribbage and pinochle play CTS who infest many of these places will have to pay 20 cents an hour for their chairs instead of IS cents as heretofore. Many of the card experts have not missed their social games in years. but today they. have organized strike" against the cigar stores, and one man. who says he. has played solo every evening for the last. ten years. declares not card. has been turned in the cigar stores during the last two days. .,..
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
GREAT sihkrHiSR FEfse
 ERECTED FOR HENRY FORD

. DETROIT, Dec, f;-As ;idsa of the vastness of the. great smelter plant in the course of erection by Henry Ford & Son Co.,, can be gained when it is said that an automobile speed moter: shows 1t to be exactly one mile from one end of the works to the oth- CT.
 The present program is to have the monster building. calculated to pro- duce 3.O0,000 tons of steel a year and give employment to 30,Q00. men, in operation on. New Years. day. 1920.
 None of this steel is to be market ed. as Ford will be obliged to work the smelters to their utmost capacity to produce a sufficient output to sup ply it's own needs for automobiles and trucks.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
MsDIRECTED ENERGY

Out of the war situation there has grown what might almost be called a mania for starting and conducting movements for aiding. the soldiers, the army. the navy. the hospitals, the destitute of Europe, the orphans, the returning soldiers, etc., all of which movements are commendable in their purpose but apparently have too lit- tie co-ordinated and intelligent di- rection.
 Where ill-directed movements of this kind are likely to lead is illus trated, by an account given by the New York Times showing the result of an Army and Navy Bazaar" held in New York. The gross receipts were over $75,00O. out of which there was $755 net for expenditure in the pur- chase of comfort kits for the men on the firing line. About one cent out of every dollar put into the enterprise was expended for the real purpose in view
 These facts were not stated by the Times for the purpose of discrediting every movement for the aid of the soldiers, nor are they repeated here for any such purpose. But the people who contribute money have a right to know, and it is their duty to know, that the money they contribute goes for the real object intended. This is their right and duty not only as to private. voluntary, contributions, but in no less degree as. to the money they are compelled. to contribute thru Federal taxes. Knowing these facts will insure a more intelligent and ef- fective use of money and labor giv- en by loyal and unselfish people for the great. task in which we are en- gagged. Only by publicity can we hope to check waste.-Exchange
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04

there Is only . small part of them that gets much wear; but that part being worn, all that expanse of hosiery that is not .iptendsd to; se sAass, apd ,yhffh Is iS4act. nut be 1fscasdea, HSs iai ment oyer the Mste q mffiioHl ip stockinEs ofirrspfoso sohahlss legs bsl deplogable feet, his set earnest peo- pie to thinking, and the last step of economy has been taken.
 The problem was naturally solved by woman-possibly by million women 1t would certainly never have occurred to a man. And yet it concerns the men; it concerns them very close ly. It has occurred to a-womah that when the feet of the stockings, more -or less mutilated by friction with the shoe, are deftly amputated, the re- maining portion is about the length
 of a mans necktie.
 Here is a chance to plug a leak Tn the family resources. This long tube wrought of sea island cotton, and col ored with scores of hues that were not invented when rainbows were made, can be utilized as the hus- bands necktie when the wife finds a hole. Darning is too troublesome and has gone out of fashion, and it would n,t do at all. because with the pres ent style of gowns it would show. Millions of dollars worth of stocking legs. can be used as mems neckties, Nothing could be more. sentimental! than for an engaged girl to give all her disabled stockings to her fiance, or a more overwhelming proof of his his passion. for her than his willingness to wear them,-Ex.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
isrlAaEcRXFf Nor srArEscRAFT

One of the, disconcerting and pug zling features of the many strikes and
 threatened strikes is that after the strike has developed to a certain stage and has attracted the tense interest and aroused the, anxious concern of the people of the country, the proper government ohicial intervenes, the controversy ends, the men go back to work, the situation is saved, and the laurels are placed upon the brow of the man who. has ayerted a catastro- phe. It is, getting to. look too much like play where the stage is set, the william is about to murder or abdHct his fair and helpless victim, and the hero rushes forth at exactly the right
 moment to accomplish a daring res. cue. Too, much repetition of this sort
 of thing is likely tq arouse suspicion
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
T1 - rt'-tF'! -'' TRIPLE EXECUTION
 IN BUTTE SOON


 |, BUTTE. Mont. Dac. 4:.Brtte is soon to witness a triple execution when Sherman A. Powell, colotsd i: Frank Fisher and John O'Neiil. all convicted of murder in the first de- gree. will be put to death. Judge John v. Dxyst. Of the district court, son. fenced the men anu 1t was announc- ed from Helena" today that his tudE- Ment ahds the vsfttet' or the turie. Ehaa been upheld the court of last fesott. The men will be re-sentenced within 2 few days. Powell: a railway porter. was convicted of killins ancr ther porter in a Great Northern. din- tng car: Fisher and Q'NsiH were con- eietsd of' sisyinE Th6mM: Higgins when ths latter atteapssd to- inter {srss as they were, K9p1 x. another man in this city: Hhx sSsEaficas viii take piece ih the taRssYd' here.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04

IT IS announced from Chicago that unless potatoes are reduced to fifty cents per bnshel, one hundred million bushels of the new crop will either rot or be fed to live stock. The announcement declares that, with po- tatoes at the present price, $1.4O per bushel. the, new crop, which is one hundred and fifty-four millions greater than that of last year. will never be consumed as. at that price. the average consumer uses them very sparingly. Here is a suitable occasion for government regulation.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04

ONE of our local. organa of misin- formation undertook to define for its readers tho various. Russian factions Ths. AeximAifs.S yA, were told,, can ftituted1a psfty, thst Insisted on ";the mazinfam p,osramnae of'extreme So, cialism," !" That seemed the limit of radica1ism. but apparently it was not for we were informed immediately that the Bolsheviki were Maximal- ists raised to the nth degree" The plain truth Is that. :Bolsheviki is the Russian equivalent for "Maximalists, '
 which is a curtailment of Maximum alist. the meaning of which is ob- vious.-M Mining and Scientific Press.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04

EVEN the pictures of Santa Claus being sent out. by type founders and holiday advertising firms have lost that German look the old boy former ly wore. He now looks something like an American farmer. There is no use talking, it will be many a long day before Germany can swing on our gate or slide down our cellar door. And even then, if a a nail is found in the toboggan, she will be accused of putting 1t there.-Exchange.