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The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
LEAVE
CAPITAL SOON
French and British Commis-
sioners to End Confer
ences This Week.

The present week will see the end Of
the conferences between the French and
British high commissions and the Unit
ed States government
With hearts warmed and spirits glow
ing from the receptions accorded them.
the French and British missions returned
TO the Capital yesterday, the former from
a triumphal tour of the country, the lat
ter with the cheers of Manhattan still
ringing in their ears.
Immediately they got down to the hard
work which will mark the final sessions
with American officials. Vice Premier
Niviani and Marshal Joffre both had
long conferences with President Wilson
in the course of the afternoon. The
marshal also was closeted with Secretary
of War Baker.
Visits Soon Must End.
Demands for their presence in France
and England respectively have increas sed
to such an extent that M Viviani, Mar
shall Joffre and Mr.. BaIfour feel their
visits must soon end. No ARRANGEMENTS
for their departure have vet been made
and none will be made public. The visi-
tors will depart as quietly and unos-
tentatiously as they arrived.
Each mission will leave behind a group
VI eApeTls WHO VIII CdTry on further con-
ferences with officials of this govern
ment. These will deal with details.
however. The main results of the meet
ings have been or will be reached before
the departure OF the three leaders.
Complete military and economic CO.
operation between the United States and
the entente powers will be the outgrowth
of the sessions here. President Wilson
and his Cabinet officers and war chiefs
were told what part the United States
could best play in the winning of the
war. That part was to supply the allies
with ships and food; with men to fight in
the trenches and vessels to fight sub,
marines
Already the machinery is under way
whereby the United States will supply
these requirements. The conference of
the French leaders at the White House
yesterday Is said to have been for the
purpose Of again urging on the Presi-
dent the necessity of an early military
expedition to France.
Despite the opposition of general STAFF
officers, It is possible that American
troops will be sent overseas within six
months.
definite decision has not been
reached, 1t was indicated yesterday. but
the Cabinet is declared to be fayora BILE
to any plan within reason which will aid
the morale of the French as their officers
nave declared the presence of the Stars
ana Stripes on French soil viii do.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
COMMERCE BODY
BEGINS CAMPAIGN
TO FREE DISTRICT
BELIEVES RUSS
WILL QUIT WAR
Illinois Senator Thinks Mus
covites Will Sign Sepa-
rate Peace.

Unless Germany can be beaten, Wash
ington will be laid in ashes as an eK-
ample to a presumptuous democracy that
sought to challenge the imperial might Of
autocracy, James Hamilton Lewis. Sen
ator from Illinois, told $50 members OF
the Chamber OF Commerce, gathered at
a New Willard dinner last night
In one Of the grimmest war pictures
ever drawn in the Capital the Illinois
Senator declared his belief in the fact
that Germany had already offered Russia
separate peace based on equal rights
at the Dardanelles. and he expressed the
belief that Russia might accept these
terms at any time. Then, he said. Rus
sis would become the supply depot and
ally OF Rossis.
In biting speech. Senator Lewis at
tackled the business men OF the nation
for submitting 10 a wave Of fear and
thereby producing a condition in the ma
tons internal affairs which closely bor-
dered on panic. Let business continue
he shouted. and there will no longer be
any cry Of panic"
Senator Lewis was the last spea ker on
the program OF the Forward Washington
dinner OF the Washington Chamber Of
Commerce. Beginning with a frank dir
cussion OF poor relations between the Dis
trict and Congress, the Senator suddenly
turned serious.
America Must Choose.
What are Re here for" he demanded
To hear speeches? To hear ourselves
praised? We have never lived in 50
solemn an hour Of the worlds history
We will never live again in 50 solemn
hour Try Fg
you prepared"
America today is preparing for fEht
that will place her as an example OF
nobility 10 the world. or as an abject
thing. Washington is one OF the places
that our common enemy plans 20 humiIi-
ate-if they win. Washington Will be
laid in ashes as an example 10 dcmoc-
racy-if they win.
suppose Russia comes to peace with
the enemy which already, I fear. has
been offered on the terms of even rights
al the Dardanelles. Already the cry Is
spreading through Russia: The Gar is
dePosed. why hCht a Cars war; We
may he preaching the cry OF democracy
TO Russia all in vsin-preachinE it to ears
that cannot understand
When that peace is arranEed-if Il fs
arranged-what is 10 prevent Germany
from march OF conquest toward India
and Persia What is to prevent he-
from centerinE her mighty resources
against the west front? What is TO stop
Russia from becoming her gigantic sup
ply depot?
Then look at the situation: Here is
America. 5000 miles away. with no ships
10 transport her soldiers and the sea SOW
ed with submarines. France already is
weakened and vitiated trembling with
the thought that again. perhaps must
she refght the battle OF the Marne
AT any time. we may find France and
England beaten. leaving the United States
to face alone the most powerful foe that
ever arrayed itself Have you thought
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
Adopted by Vote of II to 6
After Five Weeks of Stub
born Fighting Press
Gag" Item Killed, 48 to "a.

Stripped of censorship. and prohi-
bition, the administration espionage
bill was passed by the Senate late
yesterday afternoon by vote of II
to 6 after approximately FIVE weeks
of the most stubborn fighting the
Upper House has seen in recent
years
Before the final roll call was
taken, the administration made a fl
nal effort to restore the censorship
provision to the bill, but was defeat
ed, 4S to 81
The provision was stricken from
the bill by a vote of 80 to 3S last
Saturday and the administration
hoped to win over enough votes on a
final roll call to carry the censorship
section.
Yesterdays roll call, however,
showed that many Senators who had
formerly supported the section voted
against it.
Senators Lodge, Pittmann, Shat
roth, Smith of Arizona, Smith OF
South Carolina, and Trammell made
up the list of those who favored cen
sorship on Saturday, but who voted
yesterday against its incorporation
in the bill. Senator Martin, of Vir-
ginia, the Democratic leader, voted
for censorship yesterday, although
he opposed it Saturday.
Denounees Censor Board.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, ex-
planning his reason for changing his vote,
denounced the censorship board recently
appointed by the President 7 voted on
Saturday to retain the censorship section
with some hesitation" he said "Since
then / have been studying the publica-
tions of the Bureau Of Information and
{ have come to the conclusion that II
would be better to have no censorship
at all than to permit that bureau to sup
press virtually everything from the news
papers Of the country. This measure
would leave the newspapers entirely at
the mercy of the board and l am op-
posed to it."
BY vote Of Al to 81 the Senate unex-
pectedly reversed its action of Saturday
in accepting the Cummins amendment
prohibiting the use Of grains, cereals,
sugar and syrups in the manufacture
Of alcoholic liquors.
The motion to strike out the Cummins
amendment was made by Senator King,
OF Utah who took the position that It
was strictly a food measure and that
Il had no place In the espionage bill.
Many other Senators voted to kill the
amendment On the ground that it had
not been sufficiently considered in view
Of its Importance 1t is probable that
the measure will be brought up in con-
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
Pastor, Once D. c. Patient,
Accused of Killing Seven

(By the international News SeryIee.)
Red Oak. Iowa, May A-Rev. Lynn
George Kelly, Presbyterian minister, to-
day surrendered to the authorities to an
swer to an indictment charging him with
killing seven persons with an ak
The preacher is accused Of having slain
Joe Moore. of Villisca, Iowa, Mrs. Moore,
and the three Moore children, and two
young women guests of the Moores, while
they slept on the night of May 8, 1912,
at the Moore home.
Rev. Mr.. Kelly, it is alleged, committed
the murders while a guest of the Moores
and left Villisca before dawn the fol-
lowing morning. Suspicion was directed
toward him because il was alleged he
had told details of the crime at Mace
donia, Iowa, where he was preaching, be-
fore the bodies were discovered in VII
lisca, fifty miles away
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15

Kelly left Macedonia shortly after the
murder and preached at Carroll, Iowa,
adm Sioux Falls, S. Oak, where he was
arrested on the charge of sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails to wom-
en-. He was found guilty and spent some
time in the Government Hospital for the
CriminalIy Insane at Washington, d. c.
Upon his release he held charges at SUIT
ton, Nebr., Alto Pass, ILL.,, and st. Louis
The preacher has engaged A. L. Sut-
ton, Of Omaha, candidate for governor
Of Nebraska on the Republican ticket last
fall, to defend him. He was taken to Des
Moines for safekeeping tonight.
The Moore ak murder kept Iowa in
turmoil for years because of the efforts
of private detectives to prove that ex-
Senator F. F. Jones, Of Villisca, wealthy
and now a member of the State board OF
educators was guilty of instigating the
crime.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
Roeux Captured by British
After Months Hard Fighting

(By the international News SeryIce.)
London, May 4.-The Germans lost
Roeux today.
For nearly a month a savage battle
had been raging in this village, small in
size but big in strategical Importance.
1t forms the central bulwark in the Teu-
ton defense system guarding the wotan
line Since Saturday. when they took
the cemetery and the chemical works, the
Australians had been ploughing forward
with bomb and bayonet yard by yard.
Tonight Sir Douglas Haig reported the
village captured. 1t lies just north Of
the River Scarpe, a few miles below the
Arras-Douai Road. In its defense the
Bavarian crown prince used up many
divisions of reserves, in addition to some
of his best front line troops.
A little more than two miles to the
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north, on the other side of the highway
that leads to Douai. the HindenbUrg line
pivot, the British today resumed their
drive above the village of Gravelle, regis
tering appreciable headway.
In the ruins of Bullecourt, near the
southern extremity OF the Wotan line,
the Teutons still clung to the two posts
they have been holding throughout the
last three days battle. But the British
succeeded in gnawing their way forward
today.
The British yesterday shot down six
German airplanes and drove two others
out Of control. Three British machines
are missing.
Official news came from Petrograd to-
day that Hindenburg already has sent
forty divisions-sOO, 900 men-from the east
ern front to the west to check the entente
drive.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
Trade Boards Meet Today
To Check Grain Gambling
U-Boat Bases Crippled
By Blaze and Attacks

Amsterdam. May 1L-Germany's
submarine activities may be re-
stricted as the result Of heavy
damage inflicted upon Zeebrugge
by British warships and upon
Wilhelmshaven by fire. These
are two of the chief German naval
bases from which U-boats have
been operating.
Dispatches from the frontier to-
day said that British shells had
played havoc with harbor works
at Zeebrugge and that fire, which
broke out in Wilhelmshaven last
Wednesday, ragged for seven hours
on the imperial wharyes before
being checked.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
WASHINGTON FREEDOM
OPENS DRIVE SEAT CONGRESS
CAPITAL. LAID ASHES SENATOR
EVERY BUSINESS MAN
CALLED UPON TO-DAY
By Any of the Membership Committees
of the Chamcer of Commerce

should sign the application blanks for membership as soon as
they presented
The ciy highest business and professional men have VOL
uneered for this work and giving their first consideration
SIGN and let them hasten the prospective
Der, whom they will honor with their call.
If added assurance necessary that you making no
mistake signing these applications from the standpoint of your
personal benefit well the benefit of the whole COM
munty-and such benefits be mutuaI-ths paper will
undee such applications and the end of the calendar year
refund the whole years dues any member who so signs
and does not at the end of this time feel the same toward this
movement that do right now.
THE WASHINGTON HERALD
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15

He held many foreign honors, among
them being that of Fellow OF the
Royal Society. He was at one time
president of the Union League and
Harvard clubs of New York. He was
also president of the Harvard Alumni
Association at one time and held the
post of trustee of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
He was noted as a speaker. and was
the author of Addresses on Abraham
Admiral Farragut," Rufus
Choate." and others
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15
French Mail Boat Sunk
After Battle with "Subn

Buenos Ayres, May l4-In a running
battle with submarine, the French mali
boat Tarragona was sunk Oft Cane
Torrosa between oran and MarseilIss
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15

and only seventeen of the $50 passengers
abroad were saved. according to reports
received here today.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15

$500 to New York and Return,
Baltimore and Ohio, from Washington,
1920 q. m, Sunday. May 20. Return
ing same day.-Adv.
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-15

The Herald has by far the largest
proportion of home delivered circu-
lstion (mornins or evening" of any
paper In Washington.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15

The Herald has BY many
thousands the largest morning
home circulation.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-15

CONTINUED on PAGE Two.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-04
Texans Hail Birthday.

Texans celebrate their own private
Independence day, cOmmemOrating the
signing of the declaration in 1896,
which freed their ancestors from Mex
lean rule.
Texas was in all probability a part
of the ancient Aztec empire, and since
then it has been under six flags. Spain
claimed the country by right of its
conquest of the Aztecs, and France,
too, claimed it as part of the ter
ritOry of Louisiana, with the Rio
Grande as the southwestern boundary
of French possessions. When the
Mexicans gained their freedom Texas
became part of their republic, and
so remained until 1886, when the Lone
Star banner of the republic Of Texas
was raised. In 1915 the Stars and
Stripes were raised over Texas. to be
temporarily replaced by the stars and
bars of the Confederacy during the
Civil war.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-04
Its Chief Functions.

"The councils chief functions are !:
The coordination of all forms of
transportation and the development of
means of transportation to meet the
military. industrial, and commercial
needs of the nation; the extension Of
the industrial mobilization work of the
committee on industrial preparedness
of the naval consulting board. Com
plete information as to our present
manufacturing and producing facili-
ties adaptable to many-sided uses of
modern warfare would be procured,
analysed, and made use of.
zone of the objects of the council
will be to inform American manufac-
turers as to the part they can and
must play in national emergency. 1t
is empowered to establish at once and
maintain through subordinate bodies
Of specially qualified persons an aux
Hilary organization composed of men Of
the best creative and administrative
capacity, capable of mObilizing to the
utmost the resources of the country"
The details of what the council of
national defense Is doing or will do
probably never will be made public.
The means which a nation takes to
prepare itself for warfare are not to
be publicly proclaimed lest the enemy
profit by the information.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-04
SECRET NOT LOST
Composition of Greek Fire Of An
cient Days Still Known.
Ingredients Are Said to Be Identical
With Those Of Liquid Used in
Modern Times by Some of
Warning Powers.

1t is common error to suppose
that the secret of the composition Of
the Greek fire SO jealousy guarded by
the emperors Of. COnstantinOple is
lost. On the contrary, it is set out at
length in an Arabic manuscript OF
the year 1925, now in the Royal mu-
scum at Leyden, as well as In the bet
ter-knOwn "Liber Ignium ad COmbur-
endum HOstes" of Martin Graecus.
written five years later and repub-
lished in 1912. Its ingredients are
there given as naphtha, pitch, resin
ing to a scientific writer, with those
of the liquid used today by some Of
the warning nations.
The well-knOwn passage In the Sire
de JOinville's Memoirs about it com
ing flying through the air like a
winged dragon, about the thickness
Of hOgshead, with the report of
thunder and the speed of lightning so
that the darkpess of the night was dis
PEELED by this horrible illumination"
has misled scholars as to the way 1t
was projected. Pots containing it
were undoubtedly hurled by engines
on board ship resembling the modern
which was also the ancient-cata-
pult; but the Greek sailors of the
Middle Ages also used cheirosiphOn,
or hand tube, worked by an officer,
called siphOnatOr, which enabled
him to direct 1t on any point he
pleased of the enemy's vessel. This
was undoubtedly the parent of the
modern method.
How the liquid in question was
forced out of the tube may still be
doubtful but Professor Bury, in the
notes to his edition of Gibson, thinks it
was done by gunpOwder the compost
ton of which was, according to him,
already known to the Greeks of De
JOinville's time. This would, perhaps,
get over the difficulty of igniting the
liquid before it was pumped on the
enemy. The Germans, for example,
seem to have improved on their model
by using compressed air. The ignition
was also arranged by mixing with the
naphtha an organic substance which
will spontaneously take fire when ex-
POSED to the atmosphere. But this
was found to have its disadvantages.
The liquid, once inflamed, was liable
to blow back upon its projectors, and
had the inconvenience of revealing the
carrier of the engine and thereby ex-
posing him to the attention of snip
ers" of the other side. Hence it was
found to be more prudent to separate
the burning fluid itself from its means
of ignition. Attacks are now begun
by throwing fireballs into the enemy's
trenches, with fuse which lights
them as soon as they touch the ground.
Louisville Courier Journal.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-04
Mobilization of the Industries OF
the Country Is Its Princi-
pal Function.
MADE up OF LEADING EXPERTS
Will Lay Down a Policy of Industrial
Preparedness for the Nation-To
Point Out to Manufacturers
the Part They Can Play.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.

Washington Correspondent of the West
ern Newspaper nlon.)
WashingtCn-Some time ago the
United States congress created a cOun-
ell of national defense. The body owes
its creation to the fact that the law
makers held that the country which
best Is prepared for peace is also best
prepared for war. Whether peace
broods over the land or war strides
through it, it is necessary that the in
dustrial fabric of n nation ''be organ
lied In the most effective way"
The council of national defense con-
sists of six members OF the presidents
cabinet, the secretaries of war, of navy,
of agriculture, of the interior, of COM
merce and of labor. An advisory COM
mission of seven persons each of
whom shall have special knowledge of
some industry, public utility or the de-
velOpment of some natural resource, or
be otherwise specially qualified" has
been appointed. Its members are Dan
iel Willard, Samuel Gompers, Howard
+. Coffin, julius ROsenwald, Bernard +.
Baruch, DIR. Franklin Martin, and DR..
Hollis Godfrey.
The council of national defense has
two lines along which it must pro-
gress. Its endeavOr is to lay down q
complete policy of industrial prepared
ness for the nation, and it is now en-
deavoring to determine facts concern
ing the personnel, the material. and
the economic and industrial resources
to give effect to its policy and to be
able to maintain it. The members of
the council are determining facts con-
corning nitrates. All things necessary
to make powder in abundance are to
be found within the United States ex-
cept nitrate salts.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-04
A Mans Work,

The distinction and end of sound
ly constituted man is his labor. Use
Is inscribed on all his faculties. Use
is the end toSvhich he exists. AS the
tree exists for its fruit, so man for
his work. A fruitless plant, an idle
animal. does not stand in the universe.
They are all tOiling, however secretly
or slowly, in the province assigned
them, and to use in the economy of
the world, to higher and more catholic
service. And the man seems to play
by his instincts and activity, GER
tain part that even tells on the gen
raj face of the planet, drains swamps
leads rivers into dry countries for Their
irrigation. perfOrates forests and
stony mountain chains with roads,
hinders the inrOads of the sea on the
continent, as if dressing the globe fol
happier races.-EmersOn.