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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10

score. and that il was even less men
acing than the formidable extension Of
the use of women in mechanical labor.
The kabyles, Indo-Chinese and Moors.
it is held, viii. after they have laid ur
little money. be glad enough to go
back home. where their savings will
enable them to play the 'nabob.'
Nearly every ship arriving from AL
geria now brings more of the kabylees,
who are more and more counted upon
to solve the question of labor. They
are taller than the average Algerian.
with features resembling som ha :
those of the peasants of central France.
They are not uniform in complexion.
some being dark and some light. with
fair hair. Their language is the Berber
although they use the Arabian letters.
The possibilities of the experiment may
be judged from the fact that kabylie
is the most populous part of North
Africa, having 15S inhabitants per
square mile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
NO SPECIAL TAX EXACTED
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys
at Post Exchanges Exempted

Billiard and pool tables and bowling
alleys in post exchanges under control
or the army or navy are not subject to
special tax, under the laws enacted to
supply revenues to the government
This Is the ruling of the internal rev.
enue bureau. charged with collection
OF all internal revenues
If the post exchanges are under the
complete control of the Secretary of
the Macy. as governmental agencies,
ey are not liable to tax in account OF
! :srd and pool tables or bowling
- ea's o.,erated in them" says the de-
s.r-od by David A. Gates, as act
- --,.i ,ssioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
More Woman Drinkers Noted.

Advocating the Senate bill to prohibit
liquor advertising and solicitation in
the mails entering dry territory. Rev
James Cannon of Richmond. Va. told the
House post office committee yesterday
that there had been great increase
in drinking in public places by fash
ionably gowned women over thir-
ty years ago He spoke as national
chairman of the legislative committee
of the Anti-Saloon League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
Disease Cheats the Electric Chair.

OSSINING, N. Y, February 10.-The
state will not take the life of John Carni-
vale. murderer. tuberculosis Thursday
night anticipated death in the electric
chair. Records available at Sing Sing in
dictate Carnivale is the first man to die
from natural causes in the death house
Carnivale was under sentence of death for
killing Michael Carrano in Brooklyn, in
quarrel over a woman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
Rang Hotel Fire Alarm.
German Seamen on Shore Leave.

NEW YORK, February 10-Under in
structions from Washington, onieers
and members of the crews Of the Ger
man merchant ships tied up here since
the beginning OF the war were given
shore leave yesterday under certain re-
strictions. They will be allowed to
leave their vessels on passes signed by
their commanders, but must return be-
fore midnight Of the same day. Since
the severance of diplomatic relations
with Germany the German seamen
have been confined to their ships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
FLAMES DRIVE GUESTS
BOSTON HOTEL
All Get Out Safely, But Not Until
Several Have Suffered Minor
Injuries.

BOSTON, February 10.-The Hotel
Lenox. at Exeter and Boyleston streets, in
the Back Bay district, was severely dam
aged by fire early today. All Of the ESQ
guests and the employees were able to get
out. but several sustained minor injuries.
The elevator wells were filed with smoke
most Of them came down the stairways
Of the tenrstory structure. A few were
taken down ladders by dremen.
Edwin c. Tew Of New York, II. Cheshire
Mitchell Of Seattle, Wash. and Mrs
Mitchell were taken to a hospital. Mr.
iTew and Mr.. Mitchell were slightly
burned. Mrs. Mitchell suffered from
shock. Mr.. Mitchell and his wife were
taken down ladder by nremen from the
eighth floor.
Loss Probably $eo, 600.
The loss was estimated by ire depart
ment officials at $50. 600.
Joseph Collins Of Revere, whose room
on the tenth story was cut Off from the
stairway, improvfsed ladder from
blankets and sheets and lowered him
self from his window to the seventh floor,
whence he made his way to the street
Edward NJ. Horton Of New York in whose
u,
was badly burned in trying to quench
the flames. Horton said that he had been
smoking. He went to the bathroom and
on his return found a brisk fire In his
room. After a hasty attempt to put it
out he notified the telephone switchboard
operator, William Conlon. Of the fire and
escaped.
Rang Hotel Fire Alarm.
Conlon rang the hotel fire alarm and
then ran from floor to floor pounding on
doors to awaken the guests, but the flames
reached the elevator wells SO quickly that
lit was impossible for all to get to the
street unassisted
Many guests were given shelter in the
Boston Athletic Association building
nearby. Most OF them had ded with little
clothing and without trying to save their
personal belongings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
Mooney to Appeal Case.

Attorneys for Mooney discussed plans
today for appealing from the verdict,
which carries the death penalty for
their client. W. Bourke Cochran of
New York, who was Moneys chief
counsel, will remain for a few days to
aid in perfecting an appeal to the high
er court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
NEW LABOR BILL
NOW NSENATE
Measure Eliminates Suspend
ed Strikes and Lockouts
During investigation.
SUPPLEMENTS 0-HOUR LAW

Elimina ting the proposal to suspend
strikes and loclsouts pending an investisa-
ton by the government into controversies
between railroads and their employees.
bill supplementing the Adamson eight
hour law was reported to the Senate to-
day from the committee on interstate and
foreign commerce.
The bill. however, does provide for an
investigation of such controversies and
gives the President authority to take over
railroad, telegraph and telephone lines in
times Of military necessity.
There is also a provision to prevent
obstruction of the mails or of the inter
state commerce.
Meets Administration View.
Chairman Newlands expects to call the
bill up as soon as possible. 1t is much
like that introduced in the House earlier
in the week and may be passed at the
present session. 1t is expected to meet
the views of the administration since it
has become apparent that a more stringent
bill virtually would have no chance of
getting through before adjournment.
Under the terms Of the bill when the
present federal mediation and concilia-
ton board fails to settle a railroad labor
controversy the President shall enlarge the
board by the addition of one representa-
tive of the carriers and one of the men.
The enlarged boards report shall be
made within three months and contain
recommendations according to the
merits and substantial justice of the
case" which shall be published.
Provides Against obstructing Trains
The prohibition section makes it
misdemeanor punisha ble with six
months Imprisonment for any person
who knowingly and willfully by physi-
cal force, or threats or intimidation
obstructs or retards the passage of the
United States mail OF the orderly move
ment of interstate or foreign COM
merce. or the makeup or disposition of
any train.
The military necessity section pro-
vides that in case OF actual, or threat
ened war. instruction or invasion or
any emergency requiring the transport
and supplies of the United States" the
President, when the public safety re-
Guires. may take possession of neces
>ary parts of telegraph and telephone
lines and railroads and draft their Of
fcers and employees into the federal
service. Any damage sustained in this
connection would be assessed by the
interstate commerce commission.
Any person refusing to be drafted or
who injuries or destroys such property
or interferes with it's use when in fed
eral hands would be subject to five
years Imprisonment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
Not Regarded as Menace.

The question was raised in the cham
Der Of deputies recently as to what com.
plications might develop from the pres
ence of so many colonial laborers in
France at the end of the war. The
general sentiment was that no appre-
hension need be entertained on this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10

More than geo public astronomical OBJ
servatories are in the northern hemi-
sphere and less than twenty in the
southern.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10

The average nowadays finds every
hour of the twentyour crowded to the uttermost and
has constantly postpone important affairs from sheer
lack of time. Owing to this evergrowng pressure and
the multiplicity of magazines and periodicals published
people able to get only sketchy and tnsatls-
factory idea of what is going the world about them
and that the of much precious time that could be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
|ONCE-PROuD BERBERS
SCAVENGERSO OF PARIS
Hardy Algerian Mountaineers Will
ing to Do Mental Work
for France.
or-espondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 6.-Sixty tall Ka-
hyles, mountaineers from eastern AL
geria, descendants from the hardy and
redoubtable race of Berbers. have lent
a useful hand to the solution of the
Paris street cleaning problem.
Garbage, boxes that are now set out
of doors in some quarters as early as
10 o'clock in the evening, to the dam
age Of a great many shins in dimly-
lighted streets. are encountered in other
quarters as late as 3 o'clock in the aft
ernoon. all on account of the lack of
help. Paris thus has been enjoying
seventeen hours of continuous con-
temptation of city refuse that is stirred.
shaken and overturned in the meantime
for rags. paper and bones. The Kabyles
have done SO well toward remedying
this situation that 800 more of them
will be utilized in the work.
10000 Work for France.
There are now 10000 of our people
working in France for the national de-
fense," says 81 Salah ST Ahmed, caid or
governor of the Douar Maatkas of TIKI
Ouzou in Labylie. Neither the climate
nor the connect dauntS them, he added.
81 Salah was sent by the 5000 inhabi-
tants Of his douar to tell the French
government 1t may count upon them for
any thing it wants.
The experiment of Algerian help in
the field and factory in France has been
great success. These men, particular
ly those from the mountain regions
have wonderful endurance, are very in
dustrious and easily contented. They
are working alongside other Mussul-
mans from Morocco and Tunis, while a
great many others are in the ranks OF
the Algerian riflemen at the front. They
have proven a great deal more effective
than the Senegalese in this climate;
they have shown quite taste for farm
ing. have learned, quickly the use OF
machine tools in factories, and their ap-
premiership in municipal work has
perhaps been the greatest success OF
all
The Annamites from the French col
ony OF 1ndo- China, also unskilled, have
been quick to learn and are probably
| more fastidious in their work than the
kabyles; as cleaners in the harvest
Held last summer they We're said to
have never overlooked a spear
The Moors are better fighters than
they are farmers. yet they are taking
to agriculture, and French observers
who are watching the experiment look
to the result Of a most beneficial infiu-
ence- upon the future agricultural de-
velopment of Morocco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
Second Man to Be Convicted.

Moneys conviction was the second
in connection with the bomb cases, for
which five persons We're indicted for
murder. Warren X. Billings, the first
to be tried, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment. District
Attorney Charles NJ Fickert ANNOUNCE
ed that the trials of the remaining al
legged conspirators, Israel Weinberg, a
chauffeur: Edward Nolan and Mrs. Rena
Mooney. wife of Thomas J. Mooney. would
follow Immediately.
The district attorneys statement that
he had received a confession from a
man who had participated in seventy
two felonies, ranging from murder to
dynamiting, in which the alleged con-
spirators participated, was being dis
cussed today. Mooney will be sentenced
February 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10
IT,. MOONEYIS CONVICTED
OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER
Labor Agitator Held for Connection
With Bomb Explosion Which
Cost Ten Lives.

SAN FRANCISCO. February 10
Thomas J. Mooney. labor agitator, was
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree by a jury in the superior court
here last night for a bomb explosion
costing ten lives during a preparedness
parade July %. 1916.
When the jury announced their YER
dict MONEYS mother began to scream,
and the courtroom was thrown into vio-
lent confusion. Miss Anna Mooney.
sister of the prisoner. collapsed, and
was carried out in a faint. The mother
then became so violent that the judge
ordered her removed. Screaming and
lighting, she was dragged from the
courtroom.
Mooney received the verdict unmoved.
His wife Rena was not in the court,
room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-10

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The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24
THE NEGRO IN THE WAR.

The course Of the Negro race has
been highly creditable in this war.
Upon barren soil fell the seeds of Sc
dition and instruction disseminated
by German agents and pro-German
newspapers in an attempt to incite
the Negroes to uprising against the
United States. So far as we have OBJ
served, Negro leaders have been con-
spicuously free from reasonable ut
terances. Drafted Negroes have gone
to the front as cheerfully as any other
set of men and, If history repeats it.
self, they will fight with signal brav.
cry. German bullets will send as
much torture and agony into black
bodies as into white. Death will not
discriminate against the Negro sol.
der. The patriotism of these people
will not be forgotten and should ever
be kept in mind and taken into 40
count for full credit in the adjustment
Of racial problems.-Greenville, s. c.,
News.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24

Number of Arrests Made Following
Bio Baze,

Mobridge, s. D., Nov. 23.-What ap-
pears to be a wholesale plot to de-
stroy elevators and feed warehouses
in the Northwest may be revealed
after an investigation is made of a
100000 fire at Lennon, s. D., when
two grain elevators and an entire bust
ness block in the heart Of that city
was destroyed by a fire supposedly
of incendiary origin.
Phosphorus plants were found i'll
several parts of the city and several
arrests have been made. A vigilance
committee has been organized and is
pat-olling the streets with orders to
shoot all providers first and investigate
afterward.
The city is also menaced by an exA
tensive prairie fire from the north.
west.
Sixty-flve guests in the Palace no.
tel at Lennon are believed to have
escaped. although a travelling man
from st. Paul was unaccounted for.
The fire loss in the business section
of Lennon is estimated at $11o,000.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24
NATIONAL PROBLEM.

Press reports show that America
will, face the problem of educating
many of the Negroes drafted for war
service. 1t may be problem" now,
but it is a long neglected debt which
she must pay with compound interest.
Other problems" will follow in rapid
succession. America will learn tho
lesson of patriotic economy at the
school of bitter and expensive expe.
rience. Natures centrifugal forces
are working, and she rigidly enforces
the laws of compensation. The Negro
is. and always has been, loyal to our
Nation. The war has caused many
heretofore Indifferent Americans to
become pro-Negro in this critical hour.
The conservationists and economists
have found that their neglect Of the
health, morals and rights of the Ne
gro has been a willful waste-now a
woeful want. Now that the handwrit-
ing on the wall Is seen, the race will
come into its own. The Negro will
suffer side by side with the other
Americans and by so doing will de-
liver the destinies of the race.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24
FROM CAUSE TO EFFECT,

The Negro is in, the war at home
and abroad. He must be true to him
self to be true to his country. He
cannot afford to surrender his man.
hood for position. or his birthright
for finance; no more right here than
he can afford to act as spy or quit
as a coward-Over there. Let us
not be led astray by those friends
who want us, because we give the
most, but pay due tribute to those
who treat us as men. And as a
warning to St. Paul Negroes, let the
white citizens accept the Negro in
their own gatherings. Minneapolis
sets the example. The boys here
were given every consideration like
the other races; and one of our black
boys can do more among the white
people by showing his loyalty and
willingness TO go, to advance us in
their estimation as a race, than q
thousand Negroes, by listening to the
bull" shot at us by few white
persons of prominence, who have
done. comparatively nothing for U.S.
according to their positions and pow.
err; although they have been material.
ly benefited by us.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24
W0MANS SUFFRAGE
KNOWS NO COLOR LINE

The Seth Annual Convention of tho
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton was held in the Palm Room of
the st. Paul Hotel Friday and Sat
urday, Nov. 10Th and 18th ending with
a luncheon in honor of Mrs. Nellie
McClung, well known Canadian SUI
fragist at which there were nearly
five hundred guests. The Every wo-
man Suffrage Club was well represent
ed at each session of the convention
by its full delegation and many of the
members. The delegates were: Mines
w. T. Francis, VIM. B. Tandy, w. V.
Howard and B. N. Murrell. Others in
attendance at the sessions were Mines.
Saml. Wright, C. H. Miller, ORR Hail..
VIM. Hood, F. A. Scott, T. Erwin, w. B.
Walker, Chas. Sharp, A. H. Lealtad,
Julia Moore, and Miss Katherine
Tandy who was introduced to the con.
vention as the youngest suffrage
speaker in the state, Miss Tandy
having delivered splendid address
trum of the Mechanics Arts High
School, in which she is junior,
last winter.
Those who were guests at the
Luncheon were Mines. Sam1 Wright,
w. T. Francis, b. NJ Murrell, w. q.
Tandy, c. H. Miller, VIM. Hood, F.. A.
Scott, T. Irwin, Orrington c. Hall.
w B. Walker, A. H. Leatad AMI
Julia Moore.
Mrs. Andreas LELAND was reelected
president of the Association, Mrs. Chas
P. Noyes first vice-president, Mrs.
Maud c. Stockwell secretary. Mrs.
". It. Francis was appointed a mem
Der of the local Committee on Ar.
rangements.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24
PROGRESS AND THE NEGRO.

1t takes years for great improve
ments to produce visible results. In
the South gregarious, pleasure-lov-
ing, improvident race has seemed to
be but slightly affected by the econom-
ic and industrial changes of the times.
The Negro has been the unskilled la
borer, the poor tenant former, raising
his bale or two of cotton and turning
it over to the local buyer in Lydia.
ton Of his debt for the years living
expenses. The teachings of institu.
tions like Tuskegee, Calhoun and
Hampton are producing class trained
in trades, efficiency and initiative,
whose influence is leaven slowly
permeating the mass for industrial up
lift and awakening in the Negro. a
sense Of his economic value. The Ia
Dor shortage has been an advantage
to him. Seven thousand Negroes ap-
piled to the Federal Department of La
Dor last year in regard to opportuni-
ties for employment; testimony to the
spread of Industrial education.-De.
troit Free Press.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24

There is a great demand for labor.
ers now and Negroes are being EN-.
ployed where before they were mot
wanted" AS a rule, they are making
good and their efficiency will over.
come much of the general prejudice
against them. The Negro has been
denied the privilege of employment
mostly because of the ignorance of
many employers. Since the Negro la.
borer has better opportunities. he will
be better citizen. The so-called race
problem will soon be solved because
there is no Negro problem; it Is the
white mans; and its only solution is
an intelligent consideration for the Ne
gro as a man and an acknowledgment
of his right to earn his living on equal
footing with other citizens.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24
WALTERS WANT MORE WAGES.

The walters, who have been doing
extra work at the various hotels, are
asking for more wages. The increased
cost of living and the salaries paid to
laborers in other employment justifies
their demand. They should get at
least $500 for a days services, even
II employed only one meal. The prep
aration for the job, the time lost for
other work, the advance protection
given their employers by booking a
day or so ahead" with the services
rendered, are we'll worth a few dol.
lars. An extra walters expenses can
not be met with dollar a meal, and
that only about twice week. There
are too many. places for working men
now, where good salaries obtain, and
good walters will be wanted, II they
are not paid better wages.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24

The American government, founded
on the simple plan of the colonist,--
"that they should take, who have the
power. and they should keep, who
can'-whose purpose was to extermi'
nate the Indian and enslave the Ne
gro; will reap what it has sown and
work out it's salvation with fear and
trembling. America must win and the
Negro will play the important part.
There will be no question about his
ability or desire to exercise his proven
right as a real American citizen dur
ing and after the war. ..., ...
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24
On Trial for Staying Husband.

Mineola, l.. L.. Nov. 22.-For the
first time since her murder trial op-
ened, Blanca De Saulles seemed al
most animated Wednesday as she
entered court, smiled at her sister,
AM gio, and looked shyly at the eight
jurors in the box. Defense council
Henry A. Uterhart, declared the
prospect of seeing her child, Jack,
after court adjourned, had made a
marked change in Mrs. De Saulles.
The sister, Amalio, looked even sadder
and more weary than Mrs. De Saul
les.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24

We have some among our advertis-
ers and subscribers who are a credit
to our race for their business-like
methods. They pay promptly in ad-
vance and expect nothing unreason-
able in return. Others want to know
why we can't trust them?" or send
a bill, and then collector, and finally
censor Negro editor because he can't
run his paper like the white man."
Few persons realize that it pays to
pay as yot 60. The Star is not an
installment plan proposition. 1t is a
real newspaper run under many diff
culties mostly due to the foolish no.
tons and, ignorant whims of those
whom it serves and protects and from
whom 1t should get its support and
their consideration.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-11-24

Hon. Ralph w. Tyler, ex-auditor of
the Navy, is the logical man for Sec.
rotary of the National Negro Soldiers
Comfort Committee. He is the best
newspaper man Of our race, having
long experience on white publications
and is an expert on publicity. Mr..
Tyler will have the confidence of a
mass of friends in his work, and his
selection by the committee is very
wise one. ..