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The militants are expected to give
Occoquan an air OF refinement it has
not ordinarily possessed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18
Exception.

"Bliggins wants to run everything"
Except the lawn mower" rejoined
Bliggins' wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18

The Ensured in Germany" mark is not
regarded any more highly than the
"made in Germany label.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18

Russia Is having a few retirements
from Office, but none as precipitate as
that of Nicholas Romanoff.
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July Clearance Entire Stock of Summer
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Extra Special Lot of
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18

Washington is growing at a rate that
makes the city impatient for the next
census
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18

Obstructionists are in danger Of com
plicating food control by introducing
considerations of temper control
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At last Uncle Sam is not only willing
but anxious to recognize American mill
tary inventions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18

Reports Of the sinking Of German sub
marines are intensely interesting, but
not sufficiently numerous or authentic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18

The kaiser's abdication rumor at least
got far enough to be remarkably popu-
lar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18
SHOOTING STARS.
By PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Disappearance.

"What has become of the political
bosss"
"Out- of date out our way" replied
Senator Sorghum. anybody with brains
enough to be political boss is too smart
to take a chance on the consequences"
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The Evening Star Newspaper Company
11th ST. and Pennsylvania Avenue.

New York Office: Tribune Bldg.
Chicago Office. First Nat. Bank Bldg.
European Office: 3 Regent ST.. London.
South American Office: La Vale 34l,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-18

The Evening Star. With the Sunday
morning edition, is delivered by carriers
within the city at As cents per month:
daily only, 25 cents per month, Sunday
only, 20 cents per month. Orders may be
sent by mail, or telephone Main 244o.
Collection is made by carrier at the end
of each month.
Subscription by mail-Payahle in az vance.
Daily, u n " C | u d Coo per month.
Daily. v d 4oc per month.
Saturday Star, 81 year: Sunday Star. $40 year.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
TURKEYS AND GIFTS
FOR U. s. WARRIORS
Soldiers and Sailors to Be
Remembered.

Washington, Dec. 24.-Turkey din.
ner, with all the "trimmin's" and
thousands of Christmas gifts will be
the lot of the American soldiers in
France tomorrow.
No soldier or sailor-in trenches,
training camps, or distant seas or in
in home ports-will find an empty
stocking. The government will pro-
vide the Christmas dinner and the
merrymaking; generous relatives and
friends have supplied an abundance
of gifts. No nation in the world ever
has done more to brighten the Christ
mas morning of its fighting forces.
1t IS the nations first Christmas In
the world war, and while there cannot
be peace: these will be good will for
all. The war Christmas will be OBJ
served with feasts. gifts, religious OBJ.
servance and merry-making by Amer
lean soldiers and sailors at every
camp, home and abroad. and on every
ship flying the Stars and Stripes.
The quartermaster's department
stated positively that the delay to
supply ships carrying turkeys, report
ed in dispatches Friday, was not such
as to prevent their arrival in Europe
in time to reach the men in General
Pershing's forces tomorrow.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
STORIES OF DEATH
ANGER ARMY OFFICERS
Rumors on u S. Camps Are
Branded as False.

Washington, Dec. 24-War depart.
ment officials issued vigorous and
sweeping denials of rumors in circu-
lation purporting to reveal distressing
conditions at various army canton.
ments.
Members of virtually all the war
service and administrative depart
ments also join in denouncing these
reports.
The most sensational of these
stories to attrack the attention of the
officials was a report from Camp
Wadsworth, at Spartansburg, S. c.,
purporting to be conveyed in letters
from soldiers there, declaring that the
men were freezing to death in the
camp.
This report, now denounced as false
stated that three or four military
funerals took place at the camp daily.
Colonel H. H. Bandholtz, chief of
staff of the division, has transmitted
a complete denial of these assertions.
Colonel Bandholtz hints at enemy ac-
tivity in the circulation of the rumors.
These reports are attributed largely
to persons having malicious intent.
1t is declared such stories of death,
hardship and widespread evil without
a scintilla of real fact could not come
from innocent sources.
The evidence is taken to indicate a
well laid, systematic effort to cast
5dief5t and in the minds Of the
American public.
Soldiers at the camps in question
are loud in their protests, as false
reports cause anxiety to their rela.
tives and friends.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS
FIND spy MAIL ROUTE
Traffic in Invisible Ink and
Code Unearthed.

Washington, Dec. 24.-An extensive
traffic in written communications to
Germany, Austria and the northern
European neutrals, involving. use of
invisible ink and code systems, has
been discovered and stopped by Gus.
toms officials within the last few
weeks. treasury officials disclosed.
The traffic, it was disclosed, was
carried On largely by Swedish ship
and marine men.
Scores of persons now are under
surveillance and a number of arrests
probably wild be made soon. Evi.
dence that the channels of communi
cations have been open ever since the
United States entered the war has
been uncovered, and officials suspect
that much of the information which
the German government is known to
have received concerning war sprepara
lions in America have been transmit
ted under a well-organized scheme d.
rected by subjects of neutral coun.
tries assisted by some Americans.
Twenty per cent of the letters wit
ten in the United States or .on shiS
board and heretofore sent to Europe
by messenger or by a member Of tn
ships crew, have been found to be4
messages in invisible ink, or to go
tain code or crytic phrases suspected
Of holding hla.,, anirs.
The discoveries were made by Gus
toms officials after PRONUNCIATION, sew.
eral weeks ago, of regulations under
the trading with the enemy act, for.
bidding transmission Of communities
tions to or from the United States en-.
cept through the regular course Of the
mails, or under license of customs
authorities and the war trade board
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
FEW LEFT AT ALLENTOWN
Holiday Passes All But Empty the
Bio Ambulance Camp

Allentown, Pa. Dec. 24-Owing to
the departure for their homes to
spend Christmas of almost 5000 sol
diers, the camp at the Allentown Fair
grounds presents a deserted appear
ance
Those living in the east received
ten-day leaves and those in the far
west twenty-one days. Those remain
ing in camp are mostly casuals and
men from the south who found it in.
advisable to go home on account OF
railroad congestion. An elaborate
Christmas dinner is being arranged
for the stay-at-homes. The grounds
have been decorated with Christmas
trees that were the gift Of Colonel
Harry c. TreXler.
The 200 soldiers Of the camp who
are members of the Mystic Shrine
will be among the guests at ALLEN
town Night" to be celebrated by Lu
Lu Temple, of Philadelphia. January
2, according to arrangements made
by Potentate Kendrick. A special
train will be run to Philadelphia early
in the afternoon, and the isaac Shrin-
ers will be accompanied by the camp
hand.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Mile in Alps Recovered.

Headquarters of the Italian Army in
Northern Italy, Dec. 24.-In a success.
sion of brilliant attacks the italians
succeeded in dislodging the enemy
from great part of Monte Asolone
and driving him back more than two
thirds of a mile along a three-mile
front. The enemy's occupation of
Asolone was regarded as serious
menace, because it gave him control
in part of the San Lorenzo valley lead
ing to the Venetian plain and Bassa.
no.
determined effort. therefore. was
made to redeem the position The
first attack was in darkness al tw,
o'clock in the morning, when a
small detachment of the Seventh in.
fantry climbed Monte Asolone and
made a furious charge on the sleep
ing garrison. For a time the little
band was beyond the summit, but
was finally driven back by superior
numbers.
The main attack began at ten
o'clock in the morning, when the A.
phi anu lHe oSfoHlu leSlHcHlS au'
vanced on a three-mile front, having
Asolone as its center. The left and
center moved straight ahead, while
the right executed a turning move
ment which partly enveloped the enc
my position on Asolone. The fighting
was furious all through the day and
into the darkness of the night, when
the Italians again had mastered the
strategic points Of Asolone and tn
enemy was pushed back for nearly a
mile.
The enemy's effort to cross the Old
Piave at the nearest point to Venice
has been thrown back by the italian
sailors and marines. The enemy used
armed fat boats carrying stormins
party. The Italians landed a party
from the fleet and engaged the enemy,
driving them back and sinking one OF
his armed boats.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
RUSS PEACE ENJOYS RETURN
Will Not Bend Knees to Kaiser.
z =s4=sz;- --SS33ssseit5sres--1l

London. Dec 24-Delayed des-
patches from Petrograd report that
Russia's peace delegates are return
ing to Petrograd from Brest-Litovskl
and quote a speech by Leon Trotzky.
Bolsheviki foreign minister, threaten
ing to continue the war against Ger
many
The speech was made at the special
session of the central executive COM
mittee of soldiers and workmens
delegates, the Petrograd delegates and
the peasant congress, called to con-
slider the peace negotiations. Trotzky
suggested a plan by which military
opposition might be offered if there
were an attempt, by the central pow
ers to force Objectionable peace terms
upon Russia.
1--WE have called you here to ask
your support" Trotzkv said. "You
must help us in our efforts to make
peace with nations and not with Ger
man militarism. If our delegation will
meet eye to eye Representatives of the
German emperor without the people
then peace will be impossible. If dead
silence should continue in Europe, II
the German emperor should be en-
abled to offer offensive terms of peace,
we would fight against it. go.
81 do not know whether we could
fight because of economic conditions,
utter exhaustion and the disorg anized
state of the army. But I think we
would fight We could release all ell.
derby soldiers and call the youth Of
the country to fight to the last drop
of their blood. The allies must under
stand we did not overthrow czarism
to bend our knees before the kaiser.
They know our game is not yet end.
Cd
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
leach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure ca
,arrhal deafness. and that is by a
constitutional remedy. Catarrhal
Deafness is caused by an infiamed
condition of the mucous lining Of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is
inflamed you have a rumbling sound
Or imperfect hearing. and when 1t is
entirely closed, Deafness is the re-
suit. Unless the inflammation can
be reduced and this tube restored to
its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh which
S an inflamed condition of the mu
,ous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine acts thru the blood On the mu
cous surfaces of tibet system.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Catarrhal Deafness
that cannot be cured by Halls Car
tarrh Medicine. Circulars free. All
Druggists, 75c.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Adv.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
CAT IN RED CROSS
Horse and Pony Is Also Registered In
Lexington, Mass.

Boston, Mass, Dec. PA cat,
horse and a pony have been registered
as, members of the Red Cross in the
town of Lexington, during the "driv y
which has been conducted by sixt
men and women and which resulte
in more than the maximum allotmen
for the town being enrolled.
The cat and the horse are owned
by Mrs. Charles C. Goodwin, OF Mfr-
Ram street, and the pony. Major FIJI,
is owned by Hollis Webster, 536 M
sachusetts avenue.
A prize of barrel of apples mas
been offered to the person obtaining
la largest number Of memberships
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Runninu Down War Liars.

Easton, Nd. Dec "A 1t is believed
hat a numher of arrests soon will be
made in Talbot county by the national
secret service. of a number OF persons
accused of disloyalty to the govern.
ment in spreading malicious state
ments and otherwise hindering wal
plans. list of such persons, with
affidavi-s srnn"~ting the charges, have
been ec~ &c. "Shington by the loca'
defense society
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Bullet For TARGET Hits Boy.

Scranton, Pa, Dec 24-Jesse Judge,
twelve years old, was shot and per
haps fatally wounded, while in the
woods near his home at Dunmore,
Joseph Dieter, aged eleven, compan-
ion of the victim, is accused Of having
done the shooting. The boys were
shooting at a target. when Judge is
said to have walked in front of the
tree on which the target was fastened.
The bullet just missed his heart.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
FOOD SCARCE IN AUSTRIA
Letter From Soldier to Brother Tells
of Starvation Conditions.


Allentown, Pa, Dec. 24.-Lewls Sy.
pers. an Allentown tailor. who is
native of Austria. but loyal Amerl.
can, has just received from his broth
or, who is soldier in the Austrian
army, a letter that was on the way
just one day less than year.
The writer states that he fought one
year in Galicia, seven months in Rus
STA, and when he wrote was in Ru
mania.
He was allowed to go home twice a
year to see his family, consisting OF
q wife and six children, the oldest OF
whom is only fourteen. He said the
situation in Austria was bad, with
shoes at eighty kronen, or $40 pair.
and wheat 200 kronen for measure
Of less than three bushels. He said
food was so scarce that people were
on the verge of starvation. The gov.
eminent had seized all farm products
and put the farmers and their fami.
HIS on rations.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
TOOK BETHLEHEM
WITHOUT 4 SHIT
British by Night Advance Out.
Witted Turks.
SHIPPING THROUGH THE HILLS.
Mount of olives. Overlooking the Jor
dan, Afforded Clear View Of the
Fighting.

London, Dec. PHONE Of the mos1
brilliant pieces of work duti the
recent operations in Palestine was the
capture of Bethlehem" says Reuters
correspondent at Bethlehem. tele
graphing under date of December Is
The Turks had strong fortified
tions here with numerous field guns
on the outskirts of the town. The
troops which had been ordered 20 take
the town deploved by night far to the
left, threatening the Turkish line OF
retreat and compelling the Turks tc
withdraw.
welsh troops then entered Beth'e
hem at daybreak.
Since the Turks were driven out
of Jerusalem they have been conduct
ing guerrilla warfare to the north and
east of the city splitting up into MI
merous small bodies to attack British
outposts, to snipe patrols and gener
ally to make themselves unpleo SAINT.
"Such tactics are greatly fac 'litated
by the fact that the country is SC
billy and intersecte1 by so many IA
vines and small rivers. To improve
the British position the taking OF Ger,
tain ridges has been ordered so thai
there may be a wider range of de-
Tense. All these moves have been
successfully carried ont.
"a remarkable opportunity to view
this fighting is afforded by the Mount
80 hot ic, - llD
ably the most wonderful observation
post in the world. In the clear atmo :
phere of Palestine objects 5000 to 500
yards away look as if they were with,
in pistol shot The winding course o.
the Jordan is clearly visible and mo-
torboats may be seen Swimming the
surface of the Dead Sea-"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Express Kills Two in Auto.

Hazleton, Pa, Dec. 24.-Arthur
Swab, forty-two years old. of Eliza
beth, Pa, a foreman on a road build
ing contract near White Haven, and
Thomas Smith, forty-five years cd, OF
White Haven, one Of his employees,
were instantly killed when the auto
mobile in which they were riding to
work was struck by Lehigh Valley
railroad express train. The car was
demolished.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Disabled Canadians on Way Home.

Mauch Chunk, Pa, Dec. 24.-With-
in the last few days several thousand
crippled and disabled Canadian sol.
diers from France went over the Lee
high Valley railroad to Canada. AT
Lehighton one of the engines became
disabled. and an opportunity was Civ
en- people to speak to them. Many OF
the soldiers were armless. others leg
less, many with crippled faces and
heads, while many of them were blind
as a result of deadly gases used by
She Germans.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
SHENANDOAH SOLDIER LOST,
chicaeoan Also Drowned Off frame
port. Pershinu Reports e. :,

CniCaQOdn Also OFOWnSO vi tFdUO-
port, Pershing Reports. =.
Washington, Dec. 24.-GSneral Per-
shing reported the loss of two soldiers
swept overheard and drowned from .
transport at sea December II, and the
death of two others from gunshot
wounds.
The men lost at sea were:
Corporal Samuel H. Kehl, engineer.
mother. Mrs. Lefty Andrews, Shenan.
doah, Pa.
Private William F. Smith, engineer,
aunt, Mrs. Amanda Taylor, Chicago.
Those who died of wounds were:
Sergeant Grover Goodall, headquar
tiers train, December 10; mother, Mrs
Ellen GoodaN, Sharon, Pa.
Corporal William Fauntleroy, steve
dore regiment, December 90; father
George Fauntleroy, Kingsdale, Va.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Kaiser's Terms Vague.

Geneva, Dec. 24.-German represen
tatives in neutral countries have al
ready received the kaiser's Christmas
proposals or peace. which will be di
vulged to the world Christmas eve
according to a report in diplomatic
circles in Berne.
The conditions reported in the pro
posals are said to be far more con-
ciliatory than previous documents on
the subject have been, but are vague
and elastic and with no explicit decla
-ation of Germany's terms.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
HE CURED
CHRONIC COLD
With VINOL
Mr.. Bagley's Letter Printed Here as
Proof.

Dunn, N CT suffered with
chronic cold for four months. cough
ed day and night. Had to keep on
working when i was not able to.
saw Vinol advertised and tried lt.and
I want to tell you it just cured that
cold in short time. j. c. Bagley,
Dunn, N. c.
That's because Vinol is consItu-
tional cod liver and iron remedy
which aids digestion, enriches the
blood and creates strength. Then
chronic coughs and colds naturally
disappear. Your money will be re-
turned if it does not help you.
C. P. Craig & Son, Druggists, Cam
bridge, and at the best drug store in.
every town and city in the country.
ADV
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Snow BalIed Man Mains Bow

Pottsville. Pa. Dec. 24-John Sag
arus, of Mt. Laffee, is at the Potts
vile hospital with a fractured skull
which he sustained when hit with a
hammer by an unknown man. Saga
rus, who is but a boy, was THROWING
a snow ball at companion, and ii
hit the man, so angering him that he
retaliated with the hammer Sagarus
will recover.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
BACK PAY A WELCOME GIFT
Thousands Of Dollars Come Unexpect-
edty to Mine Workers.


eddy to Mine Workers.
Hazleton, Pa, Dec. 24-An unex.
pected Christmas present of many
of dollars of back pay was
given to the stripping hands of the
hard coal regions in a decision hand
ed down here by Charles P. NeiH, UNI.
pire Of the federal Cancellation board,
who ruled that the wage agreement
between operators and the United
Mine Workers establishing the eight
hour day also protected those employ
ed in strippings.
daylight miners" work nine and
ten-hour shifts. They will get one
eighth and one-fourth more Of the
thirty-six cents a day given as war
bonus April 25, 1917, to company
hands at the collieries with whom
they are elassed. The decision ear.
ries back pay from April 25.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Turkeys Reach Hiohest Figure

Harrisburg, Pa. Dec. 24.-Turkeys
were held at sixty cents pound in
Harrisburg markets, breaking all rec.
ords for cost. In numerous instances
farmers had to take their fowls HON :
again, as purchasers refused to buy.
and in some instances became abusive
10 the men in the stalls.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Ronob in Rubber Plant,

Newark, N J., Dec. 24.-Four men
were reported missing after what Is
believed to have been bomb explo'
sion in the Newark Rubber company's
plants where raincoats were being
made for the United States govern
ment. A number of employees we're
injured by flying glass.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Much Money at Greensbura.

Greersburg, Pa. Dec 24.-More
than 100000 constituted the Christ,
mas pay in the Greensburg district,
and the mines will have exceptionally
heavy pays.
The only industry to fall behind is
the glass business, hurt by shortage
Of gas.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Ten Per Cent More For 500.

Scranton, Pa, Dec. 24.-Five hun
dred employees of the Lackawanna
railroad were notified that, beginning
the first of the year, their wages will
be increased 10 per cent.
The men are employed in the audit
ing and car record departments.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-24
Find Where TURKEYS Are Cheaper.
cerman Documents Stolen

Geneva, Dec. PA valise contain.
ing diplomatic papers, en- route from
Berlin to Berne, was stolen at the
Basel station. The German legation
at Berne is said to be greatly con.
rerned at the loss