Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-04
NEWS OF THE DAY

/ by Prince Won BueloW from LucerN'
ito Berlin, upon summons from TN
Kaiser. Returning to Lucefnc
where he makes his headquar
ters as Germany's chief "sounder'
on peace, the former chancellor con
ferred with two SO far unidentified
!. ,.crsonages. There is much specula
ton as to whether the Prince Is tc
he recalled to the chancellorshlp oil
whether new Teutonic peace move
is Forthcoming.
A new wage scale for navy yard
workers has been agreed upon by
the Wage Adjustment Board and
the presidents Of twenty-five unions
now in Washington. Contracts I'M
der the new scale will be signed to-
| day, when the schedules will be
made public, and labor troubles III
navy yards which have caused some
! interference with the governments
building program will be settled. The
new schedules grant increases OF
from two to twenty-five per cent
over the scale adopted in January of
this year. The average IS about
ten per cent. The new scale super
codes that recently adopted by the
Wage Adjustment Board and which
failed to satisfy the workers. Under
the new agreement the navy yard
workers are grouped by trades in
the awards.
1t may be said with confidence
that none of the many petitions to
Congress, praying--even acrimonious
~ dcmandng-thc expulsion of Ger
tain pacifistic statesmen therein m
yidiously named, will be followed by
the punitive doings desired 1t is
greatly to he doubted whether they
will escape the waste basket Of tn@
Committee on Privileges and Flee
tons Of the Senate, which meet to-
day to consider the uncomplimcntary
documents relating to Senator La
Toilette, of Wisconsin,.
Tho proposal to examine for mill
tary service all men registered for
Tic army draft and not yet called
was killed for the present at leGs
yesterday whom the House and Son
atc confcr2cs eliminated ar appro-
priation Fl" thc purpose from the
war deficiency. bin.
Dr.. p. x. Ncacgnal,s. prcs:,;en:
OF Defiance College. Defiance, Oh.o,
died CT injuries, a:al his wife was
killed yesterday near Curlyviilc,
Ind. southeast Of Fort Wayne, Ind,
when their automobile was struck BY
l. westbound passcngc rtrain on the
Clover Leaf Railroad.
The Chilean government has pr
CHASED al! the nitrate Of German COM
panics ami sold ii to an American
firm. By this operation It was posi-
bic to acquire frGm Germany nearly
GG,G90,000 pesos Of Chilean gold de-
rcsitcd there a guarantee Of paper
money.
News G. a naval fight in the Al
Ratio. in which acropiancs took part
was given out in Rome yesterday.
The Italian scout cruiser AIGlla,
while cruising off the Dalmatjan
coast encountered two Austro-HJn-
"arian dcstroycra and gave chase to
them. After signaling the Italian
squadron the Aruila started toward
Cattarc. the Austro- Hungarian naval
base. Off Durazzo fire broke cut !"
The .AGUiI&;s oil tanks and the
Austro-iiungarians, seeing hcr plight
gignalc.. to land. anil Austrian sea
pianes rose up and dropped bombs
upon The burning ship. Three AIS
,r,;an cruisers nut cut ard at:acEc@
the hqIiIa, but before they could
scriocsly damage the Italian vessel
the Italian squadron appeared and
the Austrians fled. The fire on the
.tn1ia was put out.
Belgian newspaper correspondents