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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-07

Frederick \. Fulton, merchant
doing business at 20 South Elm Street.
Yesterday filed a petition in voluntary
trict Court. listing his liabilities at
s2.iGG.io and his assets at S7.017.6o
Tho homestead exemption was claimed
Tor "a large amount OF the assets. and
insurance policies make up a good
part Of them
Benjamin Brockenbroueh. book
Keeper, whose place Of business
Is at l3.l East Main street also
filed petition. placing his debts
at xl.JSS36 and his assets ~ S3..
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Graham Captains Team.

Especial TO The Times Dispatch.T
LEXINGTON. VA, March 6.--Merccr
Graham, Of Lexington, Va, center on
the Washington and Lee basketball
team, has bccn unanimously chosen
for captain of the Generals quintet
for 191T-tatS. succeeding al" Pierotti.
Graham will play his fourth season
on tho i've next year. He also plays
end on tho football team and pitches
f,p tho baseball team.
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vishop Dar.t at CITY Point.

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch
CITY POINT, VA. March G.-Eishop
Thomas G. Darst. of East Carolina
will preach and have confirmation ser
vices in the new St Johns Episcopal
Church. at City Point, on Thursda ).
night, at o'clock. the public is cor
daily invited to be present.
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HESRICO TRANSFERS.
Four Dccds of Bargain and Sale
AmOuntiuu IN "a IN,

49,. 70 Sf.IVI.
Anna ;. Jones to j. s. Jones. 81 .
acres. about ten miles below Richmond
March > 1917 tax $40, $40.
Norma Stewart to Elmer F. Affeldt
lots .. 10 and Il. plan Of jefferson
$40.
Thomas II. Farrand 81 ux 10 w. r.
Penick ct ais. lots -. 1872. 40. lIa
II. l5l, -. rs and 203. plan OF
800.
Old Dominion Real Estate Company
10 William II. Crutchfie s acres. near
the Long Bridge Road. about nine
miles southeast of Richmond. Dcccm
Der "a. 1915, 5lnn
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Tn" following marriage licenses were
ISSUED Yesterday by the clerk Of the
liuStiugs Court:
i'hon l.. Morton aud Alice f. Meador.
George stevens aud Clara Wade.
William III. Crooks and Bertha Elan-
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cHANcEnY DEEDS OF TRUST.
Three Deeds OF Trust. Amounting I,


1905.
Land Company of Virginia Inc. to
north line OF BrootIaud Park Bouic-
ward. 81 IL feet east OF Fourourcan
Avenue. February IL. 1917. $3.50
John ROSS ct uS. to Bosheu and Rose.
trustees, 36xl4l feet youth line OF
Chafiin street. 80 feet west OF Ritchie
Street also 3oxl41 feet south line OF
Chaffin Street, 80 feet west of Richie
street: also l5X1il feet south line OF
Chaftin street. PSI feet east of Meadow
street. March !. 1917, $3.50.
Ida Yale Priddy ct ais. to Richard
w. Jones, trustee. 20xl55 feet, known
as ESQ., East Marshall Street March
/, 1915, So,24o
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HUsTINGs TRANSFERS.
Three Deeds OF narEain and SoIc.
Amounting To SS.35O

G. n. Knight ct ux. to .Joseph G.
Nunnally. 70XlT5 feet south line OF
Forest Hill Avenue, PSI 5-S feet west
or Forty-third Street. March ], 1917
S2.1eO.
John A. Wilson to Clara A. Wilson
lots and o. square \, Burfoot's Adj
dit!on. March >. 1917. tax 81 81.
Alma q. Womack TO William r. An
drews, 54Nl55 feet. known as oleo
Stockton Street. September 90. 1916
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HENRICo DEEDS OF TRUST
Two Deeds of Trust. Amounting Ia

Elmer +. Afcldt ct ux TO Gordon
T.. Strausc. trustee, lots 3. Is and Il,
plan OF Jefferson Gardens. January
II, 1917, s1i21.
Wesley Smith, Jr ct ny TO T. Sit
tcrdinS ct ais. lot 3. plan Of West
wood. january 81. 1917. 5000.
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Ono Decd OF Nclcnsr. Amounting to

L. ID. .tdamson. trustee. to Marin,la
\. coaltcr. lots IL and IL. square ~.
Burfoots Addition. August -. 1916.
Sl.unn. =
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HUsrINGs DEED OF TRUST.

Ono Deed OF Trust. Amounting 10
$1,000.
Joseph c. Nunnally OF uS. to T. D.
Adanson. trustee. FONTS feet south
line OF Forest Hin Avenue. PSI IS
feet west OF Forty-third Street March
/, 1917, $1,000
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nusrINGs RELEASE DEED.

at south line of Franklin street Jan
F., uary :, 1917, Si2.5I7.0g.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.

No. 54--T.iplett ct ais. vs. Second
National Bank OF Culpeper
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Style C-l72 Fashion is
turning toward The laced,
front Corset again. Of this
type the C>.l72 is the chief
exponent
Pric. $500
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
TRY Making Your OSCtl
Cough Remedy
Tou can save about 81. and have
a better remedy than the ready
made Kind. Easily done.
S15a5l57575l5l5l57515l

If YOU combined the curative proper
tics of every known "ready-made" cough
remedy, YOU would hardly have in them
all the curative power that lies in this
simple homemade" cough syrup which
takes only a few minutes to prepare.
Get from any druggist 2l5 ounces Of
PineX 60 cents worthl, pour It into q
pint bottle and ill the bottle with plain
granulated sugar syrup. The total cost
is about C5 cents and gives you a full
pint Of really better cough syrup than
YOU could buy rcady-made for $500.
Tastes pleasant and never spoils.
This Pinex and sugar syrup prepara-
ton gets right 0t the cause Of n cough
and gives almost immediate relief. 1t
looscns the phleem, stops the nasty
throat tickle and heals the sore, irri-
tated membranes that line the throat.
chest and bronchial tubes, so gently
and easily that it is really astonishin-.
A days use will usually overcome tie
ordinary cough and for bronchitis,
Group, whooping couTh and bronchial
asthma, there is nothing better.
Pincx is a most valuable concentrated
compound of genuine Norway pine ex.
tract, and has been used for generations
10 break up severe coughs.
TO avoid disappointment, be sure to
aek YOUR DRUGGIST for "21k ounces of
rinex" with full directions, and don't
accept ANYTHING else. A guarantee Of
absolute satisfaction or money prompt
" refunded, goes with this preparation,
Ihe Pincx Co., 1T. Wayne, Ind.
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
British Embassy in War Time
By The United Press.

BY The United Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ga medieval
castle. transplanted bodily from the
middle ages or reproduced faithfully
from Canterbury Tales-n nttingly de-
scribes the British embassy in Wash
ington. It's wark red brick walls,
weatherbeGten and disintegrated by
rains and SHOWS Of more than two
score years, form a striking contrast to
the modern structures surrounding it
out on Connecticut avenue.
The interior Of the embassy lives up
to outward impre sions. Long, high
ceilinged halls with walls darken<"
with age, and a dank, musty CHARGER
ian atmosphere peryading everything.
Even the CHEEKY SOFT coal fire burning
in the numerous ~ fashioned CRATES
gives off the odor o. bog fuel.
Although it is the property Of the
richest nation on earth, the British
embassy is perhaps the most unpre-
tentously furnished in Washington.
Carpets, worn and thread-bare cover
the floors, while the wall paper in
rooms accessible TO visitors is Of the
VINTAGE Of "S6
But despite us appearance the en-
bassy is perhaps the busiest diplomatic
center in Washington.
Specialization is the watchword Of
Ar'',ossedor Cecil Sprmg-Rice and his
stan. International experts head every
I1-. . ,u4.... .nOmas Beaumont Hohler
representative of the COWdray and
Pearson interests--knows more about
Mexico and Mexicans than the best
We sed official in our own State depart
ment What he thinks Of Carranza
alone would take two hours TO relate,
he nonchalantly informs a quesiioner
And hould you seek knowledge Of
the Balkans. there's Coyllle Barclay.
counselor, at your service. while Lord
Eustace Percy quotes 'contraband" by
the hour. China and the Orient is the
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
RY @ IL LYnN

Special STAFF Reporter OF THE EVENING
JOURNAL Who Went TO France With
Pershing's Army
WITH THE BELGIAN ARMY IN
WESTERN BELGIUM, Dec. 27.-The
Belgian army in Flanders has given me
the biggest surprise ! have had In my
six months stay on the western battle
front
Somehow I had got the idea they
were mere handful, poorly clothed
and fed, possessing inferior guns and
artillery, and not counting for much
from a military standpoint.
For some days have been visiting
the troops of King Albert I've gone
from one end Of their battle front TO
the other.
can truthfully say that Belgium now
has a magnificent body Of troops in ac-
ton.
MAN FOR MAN. THE BELGIAN Is
THE BIGGEST SOLDIER. PHYSICALLY,
NOW FIGHTING IN THE ALLIED LINE
IN THE WEST.
With the possible. exception Of the
Americans, he is also the best dressed
soldiers.
His lighting equipment is Of the same
high quality as that Of the French and
English and Americans
The c0mmander-in-chief Of the Bel
gian army. in a hrlcf official history Of
The memorable days Of the fall Of 1914.
after all Belgium except a narrow strip
in the west had been oyerrun by The
'~"~ ho~des states that al that lime
the Belgian forces were reduced % 80
-yJ nI,h.
Today. Belgium has vastly larger
army in the held; the exact size, OF
course, being a military secret.
Wonderful" I exclaimed with ad-
miration TO a former editor Of an Ant
werp newspaper who was plotting me
from place TO place.
"Ilnw is this present larger army pos
sible, when you are cut off from the
great bulk OF your population 2"
"fTO understand that you must know
the Belgian character he replied.
Nobody viii ever know how many
Begians have been killed by German
bullets while trying TO get through the
German lines TO Join their own army.
But in spite of German watchful-
ness our men have come-tens of thou
ands Of them You used TO have 'un-
derground railroads in America in your
slavery days, yes?"
saw the point instantly.
ANY able-bodied Belgian who has
not tried TO get out of eastern Belgium
10 join our army will never be able
to hold his head up after our country
has been restored to US he added
The Belgians have anything but de-
sirable part Of the western battle line
to hold. Flanders mud is historic The
country is low and swampy and mile
after mile OF the trenches have been
artifcially constructed with bags Of
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
Editorial Opinion
SUGAR.

SUGAR.
From the New York sun.
There viii soon be enough sugar in
the market to supply eveNybody S
wants, according to Earl D Babst, pres
ident OF the American Sugar Refining
Company The new crop is coming in,
and the shortage that has annoyed us
will be relieved when IL reaches the
market. The period Of enforced reslric-
tion on consumption viii be ended, and
all Of us may put as many Jumps in
our cups Of coffee as we like.
Meanwhile we may gloss over the fev
days or weeks of continued low stocks
by ilgurins out how much harm 3b-
stenlion from a part of our usual al
lowance has done us i'm certain trades
real hardship has resulted from the ah-
normal conditions through which we
have passed, but outside of them no
body can complain that grave injury
has been done 10 him Persons who
never before knew there was a bottom
to the sugar bowl have learned that i5
is not ineXhaustible; a lesson in econ
omy has been taught in the notoriously
hard school of experience; ihe sweeten-
ing in products Of the bake shop has
been reduced and some millions Of
Americans have learned that they can
get along with much less sugar than
they have been in the habit Of using.
The truth is that Americans have used
a great deal more sugar than they need
ed probably considerably more than
was good for them They have come TO
regard the luXuries made from it as
nece saries Sugar is an invaluable an
essential, food so is beef, but 1t harms
nobody to desist from consuming too
much OF either Of them. 10 may De that
the economies adopted under compul-
sion will In a measure survive the cir
cumstances that imposed them If they
do. there will be national gain from
the inconvenience we have lately ex-
perienced.
How trivial were the effects Of the
sugar shortage as it affected the ordin-
AIRY man the coal famine has fully dis
closed That imposed actual suffering
it brought 10 the town and its popula-
ton an acute realization Of the differ
ence between a necessary Of existence
and a luxury Of life While coal was
lacking nothing was heard about sugar
The community had an actual cause for
alarm II quickly suppressed its howls
about the empty SUGAR barrel Thus we
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
CHEER THAT'S NOT FLAwLEss.

Z OTIS Of caterpillars last fall Hornets built their
l. nests high the trees. A printer in Chester,
has two singing bluebrds IN his yard early every
morning Of late Chpmunks' storage plants are only
half nned An Omaha has four hens already pre-
pared TO set.
This what they're giving TO cheer us up to what's
called "a short open winter" and bite at all Of
it, save the prophecy presented by the Chester printer
What Chester printer sees early in the morning
doesn't signify. 70 Is Just apt 10 be pair Andes
condors warbng the family clothes line a couple
Of gentle buebirds that he or IL may be pair Of
red and green algaors nyng down to pick up crumbs
white gila monster perohed the garbage can
tapping his wings and whstling to his mate In a whole
coloratura Of delicious, tinkng notes.
We're wide open TO the cheer that's in caerpillars
hornets. munks and premature hens but there's nothing
but cold, olammy shudder in what Chester printers
arc seeing early these mornings.
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
FARMINGloN ANp hALIFAx.

the corporate body Of Pennington Delaware were as
big is the heart Of its little Methodist Episcopal
sunday school would be Of the largest towns in
State.
The children Of that Sunday school had saved eight
dollars with which 10 finance their Christmas festival
Some OF them read in THE EVENING JOURNAL Of the
distress Of the survivors Of the Halifax explosion.
Did they content themselves with saying Poor souls
Not at all
The boys got together and their leader exclaimed:
Say fellersl There's lot Of people up in Halifax
a-sunerin on account Of that there explosion Let's
give our Sunday school festival money to them instead
OF blowing II in down here in Farmingtonw
A chorus Of Sure greeted the proposal.
And the girl pupils put their dainty little heads together
and their leader said:
Now, isn't it just awful Those poor men, women and
children in Halifax cold and hungry and homeless and
think ought to help them"
Subsequently boy sentiment and girl sentiment met and
the result that their joint Christmas celebration fund
OF IS was voted to THE EVENING JOURNALS Halifax
Relief Fund.
AS we said before II the corporate body OF Pennington
were as big the heart Of IFS little Methodist Episcopal
Sunday school would be Of the largest in our
Statei
Evening journal., 1917-12-27

T 90 many alien enemies OF the United States and its
allies being permitted to wander about almost at
Will n this country. We have them right here in our
own city and state They mngle with people, hear
what they have TO say practically everything there is
to be seen in their local environments and except
the German and the Austrian governments know how
much Of the information they obtain is forwarded to
Hun spy centres in York and elsewhere for trans
mission TO Berlin and Vienna.
Why wouldn't it be a good thing TO compel all such
alien enemies TO conspcuously distinguishing
badge so that all true Americans might know them at sight
and govern themselves accordingly?
sleeve-bandl brass or nickel badge In short any
practical that win lead TO prompt and unmistakabe
recognition wherever t may be seen
This country. like Great Britain at the outset Of. the
war. has been too lenient with enemy aliens. II has
suffered much in consequence thereof. II will suffer
much unless t makes a change OF policy in dealing
with them
What we need is Enemy Alien Tag Day
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
LIEUTENANT cORKRANs HONOR.

- ENERAL PERSHING has recommended for promotion
" to a captalnoy Lieutenant Wilbur S Corkran. Of
this city, in France with Company A. First United
States Engineers.
Young Corkran is of the Rev. Dr. Wilbur f.
Corkran, pastor Of Union NJ E. Church, and graduate
of Delaware College. When at college he won a medal
for military efficiency.
The honor which has to him gives much
pleasure not only to his parents and other relatives
but also to the people OF Delaware at large. It also
should be pleasing 10 present and former students at
his class.
When in college young Corkran was conspicuous FOR
his fine outstanding and thorough-gons character II
is serving him in good stead in his present sanglnary
environment.
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
Lyon Finds King Albert Is What
We in u. S. Call a Irregular Fellow

sand and dirt.
A Belgian soldier at night. pairolling
his post, has to keep his eyes open or
he is likely TO fall from the paths into
one Of the thousands Of pools mat dot
the countryside
lie must be a marine as well as a
soldier
In the Belgian sector, for the first
time In Europe, saw boats being used
for land" warfare
Water separates nearly the entire
Belgian first line trenches from the op-
posing German iirst line trenches.
I'VE make many Of our night raids
in boats" a Belgian officer told me.
I'VE mount our machine guns in the
prows and manys the tiEIe we've taken
the Boche completely by surprise. It's
one very different way Of going over
the top"
The Belgians hate the Germans with
a ferocity that is terrible
Practically every husband and father
in the army is cut Off completely from
his family and many Of them know
too well that their wives and daughters
are undergoing uhmentionable indigni-
ties at the hands of their German mas
ters.
For this reason. the Belgian. once at
grips with his German foe, fights like
mailman.
There are no halfway measures. It's
kill or get killed.
one story VIII suffice.
4 few days before ! visited certain
part Of the Belgian front line there
had been a raid into o German trench
and a rGiddle-aged Belgian, hand gren-
ade in hand, had caught seven Germans
unaware in concrete dugout.
They threw up their hands to sur
render but as they did so there ap-
peared several armed Germans at the
door
Il looked like certain capture for the
Belgian.
There was a terrific explosion and 20
minutes later when the trench was
completely in possession Of the Bel
gians. his fellow soldiers entered the
dugout-and found him dead in the
midst of seven dead Germans.
"And there was a smile Of satisfac-
tion on his face" said the Belgian SOL
der who told me the story.
The dead Belgian, before he was able
TO escape from the Germans to his OWL
army. had seen his wife die Of fright
and his two daughters assaulted by
German officers.
This intense hatred Of the German
invaders probably accounts for the faci
that in a single days lighting in the fall
Of 1914 the then little Belgian army
suffered nearly 10000 casualties.
The world must never forget the
heroic sacrifices Of the Belgian army
As famous French general observed
to me once
"The Belgians saved Europe in Au
gust. 1914"
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
Zoe ISLAND SHIP PLANT
TO Be LARGEST IN WORLD

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 27.-"Hog Is
land is another Panama, according to
Meyer Bloomfield, head Of the Indus
trial Service Bureau Of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. After an all-day in
spection Of the site Of what is to be the
largest shipbuilding plant in the world,
Mr. Bloomsheld said:
In the erection OF the Hos Island
plant the government has assumed one
OF the biggest projects ever under
taken. It compares in importance and
the amount Of work involved in SO
short time 20 the Panama canal. But
the government must have ships, and It
expects to spend si000OOO,OO0 this
year in order to get them"
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
THURsDAY, DECEMBER q. 1917.


EXTRAORDINARY STEPS FOR EXTRAORDINARY lhEe'
Sx, HETHER the action Of President Wilson in taking
w over for the Federal Government the railroad,
steamship telephone and telegraph lines and the appoint
meni. OF William G. McAdoo Secretary Of the Treasury
Railroad Administrator will result In improving the
transportation and communication services Of our coun
try time alone win tell It is a big job for any man
TO assume If he have competent aides There is
question that at the outset there will be much confusion
Patriotic Americans however will allow for that and do
what they can aid McAdoo and his associates in
their work.
While there may be question in the minds Of some
men whether the interests Of the owners of the lines
taken have been protected amply under the plan,
many experienced transportation already have
out and asserted that the plan compensate them the
Of for three years ended last June
fair.
Commenting upon the new order of things. the New
York sun says today:
We believe that the Presidents choice Mr.. McAdoo
Railroad Administrator during the period Of financial
control and operation by the Government Of the entire
land transportation system of the country will not only
welcomed by the vast Interests directly concerned but
also commend itself to the good sense Of the people
generally
The appointment ought to be reassuring It puts ascer
tanned qualities undoubted ability and recognized eX
perience place Of the greatest possible importance Tor
work OF supreme difficulty and deNcacy wherein the
Introduction Of unknown factor OF personality would
mean an uncertainty productive Of mischief mmeasurabe
The proposed guaranty Of railway net income on the
basis Of the last three years will carry the details of the
compensatory arrangement back 20 Congress for further
legislation Although the law Of 1916 enables the pres
ient TO take any all Of the railways for war pur
poses does not provide method OF determining the
compensation for the Of the property thus
ieered and neither the Executive nor Congress itself has
constitutional power prescribe finally the rate of that
compensation
The proclamation published this morning begins the
most stupendous experiment Government railroadng
undertaken the broadest expansion Of Executive
authority civilian business IN the history Of the Re
public. With the loyal cooperation Of both capital and
labor with wise employment OF the personnel already
istng and with considerae treatment of the property
interests involved the unoation Of the American rail-
roads under Government dictator ought TO be effected
with a minimum Of financial disturbance. The necessity
Of this momentous step Is already apparent.
Certain It is that if the is 10 he the Federal
Government the transportation communication lines
and the American public must work in accord for the
national interest These are extraordinary times and
extraordinary steps required to deal with them
Evening journal., 1917-12-27
DRAFT AND HIGH WAGES
increase Child LABOR

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 27.-Child labor
is on the increase in Massachusetts.
according TO the report Of the Child
Labor Committee, which is watching
the situation closely.
In 1916 approximately l2,26S children.
between the ages Of a and l6 years.
were given certificates to work. The
figures up to November Of this year
show the number has greatly increased.
The number Of adult workers taken
by the draft and high wages, are given
as the chief causes for the number OF
children leaving school TO work.
Evening journal., 1917-12-27

For many years Glider D. Jackson has been recognized
Of the substantial and useful citizens Of Kent
county. His death is regretted by everyone who knew
nfn farmer, near Magnolia, and business in
Dover Politically he Democrat who stood 50 well
with his party that he honored by it with an
election 10 the House Of Representatives Of the General
Assembly. lie possessed Of mild and genial per-
sonaty which endeared him to the members Of his
family and also to many friends One Of his closest and
best friends former United States senator Harry A.
Richardson