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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

Los Angeles. cain. July 6.-KaIvIn
X. Wilmington. held for the murder
Of Mrs Frances Harrison. who was
found dead i'm her home in the fash
ionable Adams street district two
yesterday and the charge against him
dismissed IN tho superior court upon
the states motion Tor lack of evil
deuce- Wilmington was arrested in
Texas.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06
COMMISSION no MEET.

The civil service commission will
meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the
council chambers. Only routine busi-
ness viii be transacted
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06
TheBig
Market
House
Is Open Sunday 4. ".
FROM $50 UNTIL $500 A. NJ
w. r. Conroy
STALLS 10 AND II
PHONE 2576

Pure Denver Creamery Butter,
pound .--- .--- ---.------- 4Oc
Veal Shoulder Rolled, per 10. 2oc
Veal Shoulder, Plain, per ID. 15e
Veal Steak or Chops, per ID. -.1sc
Veal stew. per ID. --.-.-.....11e
Loin Steak, corn fed. per b. zoe
7. B. Steaks, corn fed, ID. p lie
Fresh Valley Eggs, > doz- ---.-75e
Fresh Valley Hens, per b. .z5e
Special Sugar Cured Picnic Hams,
pound -.-- -------.- -----.----- re
Pork Shoulder Roast, per H. ..2se
A Complete Line Of Cheese and
Lunch Meats on Hand at eli Times
"EVERYBODY
KNOWS BUTCH"
Open Sundays Until $50 a. m
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

81. Denver, Colo, JIly 6--Iaj- Patrick
C. Hamrock has been appointed colonel
OF the Second regiment Of infantry.
Colorado national guard Mai. Ham
rock now is iu command OF a battal-
ION that IS IN federal service. His re-
tentlon OF The new rank in federal
service is subject TO an examination
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

Hay fever and Catarrhal deafness
Osteopaths. 5o3 y. oregon.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06
sToonIirht Picnf-. the vogue.

Engage our Big sight Seeing car
for Moonlight Picnics. IL is comfort
able and safe. A Trailer for Refresh
meuts.
city Service Co., II. ID. Camp, Mgr.
Autos. BagaEEe- TaNis.-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

Learn French. We have the books.
Ideal Book Store. sos s. FL Paso St
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

" Ross. who was arrested Wednes-
uay afternoon charged with fnsultinr
= woman, was fined S25 in Corporation
eolIt oy police judge Charles Pollock.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

LOngwell-Be careful OF your baggage
checks. Leave at Lougwelrs. Tel. J.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

Dr.. J. D. Stevens. 4O7-s Martin
Bldg has gone on a vacation. will
return July goth
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

Ohio women have organized 70 enter the
various fields OF labor made possible by
war.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

All afternoon and night trains for
To-Day are reported on time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06

Counellsviiie Pa July Cooke
production in the CouueilsviIle dis
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-06
HEADACHE -DEPRESSION?
FROM KIDNEY DISORDERS

Iudiscretions in eating and drink
ing bring on such troubles very grad
ually, sometimes-at other times
quickly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
HALF HOLIDAY MONDAY
FOR MANY US. CLERKS
Despite Rush of War Work Nearly
All Executive Branches Will
Close at l O'Clock.

The majority Of government CLERKS
,u;,, raceive a half holiday Monday as a
sort of Christmas present. Despite the
rusb of war work, the departmental
wbea,s in nearly all the executive
branc,es will cease moving 1 o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Enployes of the bureau OF engraving
and printing and of the government
nrintjng office will be given the whole
dav Monday. In return for this whole
day they will work all day December
Al. when employees in the other depart
ments will get another half holiday.
Whether or not employees of the War
State and Navy Departments Will get
the half holiday Monday before CHRIST
mas and New Year is undecided
There was some talk of closing all
the government departments all day
Monday, in order to present a three
day stretch, Sunday through Iuesday,
in which coal might be saved through
banked furnaces.
The half holiday Monday peiore
Christmas will afford opportunity Tor
federal employees to do a DIT o.
eleventh hour" shopping, and the
streets and stores that afternoon
should present lively scene.
With the exception of celebration
at the forest service tomorrow a1tef-
noon little is being done this year IN
the way of Christmas celebrations In
the departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
ASKS S12O, $40 DAMAGES
OF FLEET CORPORATION
National Timber Company Says Con
tract Was Cancelled Without
Legal Excuse.

The United States Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation is named
as defendant in suit to recover s120.-
97o80 in damages for alleged breach
Of contract filed today in the Supreme
Court of the District OF Columbia by
Maurice H. Eichberge of Mobile, Ala,
trading as the National Timber Com
pany.
The suit is said to grow out of the
decision of the shipping board to sab-
stitute steel vessels for the proposed
wooden ships for the emergency feet.
Ernest w. Roberts, former representa-
tive in Congress from Massachusetts,
and Attorney John B. Daish of the To-
cal bar represent the plaintiff.
According to the declaration the
plaintiff at the request of the defend
ant submitted, August 2 last, writ
ten proposal to furnish about 1900. 900
feet Of lumber and the offer was ac-
cepted, it is stated. Two weeks later,
after he had spent more than $4,000 in
connection with the contract, Mr..
Eichberg says the contract was can
any legal excuse.
NEW YORK METAL MARKET.
NEW YORK. December 21-Matal ex-
change quotes lead firm; spot, $40 bid
spelter f1rmer; East st. Louis spot, 7.5O
bid.
At London-Copper. spot, f110; fu-
lures, FLO: electrolytic, fl25. Tin spot,
f30s, les; futures. 1929, los; lead. spot.
f30. los; futures. f29 los. Spelter, spot,
f54; futures. ESQ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
CHARGES REF|NERS
COULD FIX PRICES
Senator Reeds Accusation Is
Denied by G. N. RoIph,
Sugar Director.
HOOVER TESTIMONY CITED

Charges that the food administra-
tion's plan of handling the sugar sitn-
alton gave the refners chance to com
bine to fix purchasing and refining
prices were made by Chairman Reed or
the Senate sugar investigating com
mittee today and emphatically denied
by George NJ. Rolph. director OF the
sugar division of the food administra-
ton. The Attorney General agreed to
the plan before it was put into opera
ton, he added.
These refiners met and agreed they
would buy only through one committee
which would control the supply and
fixed a good fat price for their refining
work." said Senator Reed.
"Ehy didn't you arrange to buy the
Cuban sugar and then go to the refiners
and say that the one that bids the lowest
for refining gets the work.
1--WE didn't have the power. but / ap-
prove of fixed refining price, as with
out it some refneries would have all
the supplies and others nothing, re-
piled Rolph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
URGE MUNT|ON DIRECTOR
Government Officials Feel Pressure
Is Strong to Follow the Sys-
tenn Of Allies.

Pressure for the appointment Of a minis
ter Of munitions Is stronger just now than
1t ever has been before. in the opinion of
officials Of the government, and men in
close contact with the administration have
been giving considerable thought to the
proposal.
Some of them have gone over carefully
the English plan in this respect, and it is
considered likely that IL one is named
here that the allied plan will be followed
The British ministry of munitions
does not include the handling of food
and clothing, but does deal with the
purchases of shot, shell, guns and all
material relating to ordnance supplies
II such minister were appointed here
II is probable that he would take over
many of the functions now held by the
war Industries board OF the Council oil
National Defense. as well as the pur-
chasing functions of the heads of the
quartermaster and ordnance heads OF
the Army and the corresponding officials
in the Navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
PRIVATE U. S. GRANT, 4TH,
PROMOTED TO CORPORAL


sPARTANBURG. S. c.. December
21.-Private U. S. Grant, 4th. of the
Headquarters Company of the 1o2d
Ammunition Train has been pro-
NOTED to be corporal in the 27th
Division. stationed at Camp wads-
worth.
Corp. Grant is the great-grandson
of the famous general and former
President of the United States He
is a Harvard graduate. and. after
getting his diploma. entered a Wall
street business house. When the
President called for volunteers he
realized that he was not fitted for
commission and enlisted in the
old 7th Infantry. but later got
transfer to the artillery and was
assigned to the ammunition train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
MONUMENT FUND IS STARTED
Nancy to Honor American Soldiers
Buried in That Citv

Cablegrnm to The Evening Star md
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. December 21.-The city of
Nancy. which has been "adopted' bv
Philadelphia, has started a fund to
erect monuments on the tombs of the
American soldiers who fell while our
troops were holding a part of the front
line. They are buried in graves marked
by wooden crosses in a sheIl-swept
corner short distance back of the
trenches where they laid down their
lives.
The municipal council of Nancy has
called upon all the citizens to sub
scribe. 1t is said that Emperor viii
ham was determined to have that CITY
harassing the inhabitants with regular
air raids.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
$50 PR0PAGANDIsTs HELD.
Government Agents Arrest German
Strike and Riot Inciters

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, December 21-,for,
than loo pro-German propagandists have
been arrested during the last two months
In southern Illinois. where they have
been active among coal miners. accord
ing to government agents who reported
to headquarters here today.
| According to the reports. rumors of
the activity of German propaeandists
came to federal officials late in the srn,-
mer. and government agents were sant
to the mining camps. the result hetnt.
the arrest and detention of scores nf
persons who are charged with melting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21

The rattle of machine guns has been
heard all night
The soviet commissaires threaten
that unless the vodka distilleries are
evacuated the buildings will be dyna-
mited without previous notice. For
nearly a week the streets have been
unsafe after dark because large num- :
bers Of drunken soldiers have been mr.
ing their rifles promiscuously wnile
continuing their debauch.
The whole business started in the
winter palace, where the guard broke
tbe seals of the royal cellars. Many OF
the soldiers drank themselves into a
state of insensibility- Others carried
sway rare wines and cognac. which are
now secretly sold about town. Fresh
attachments of soldiers sent to the pal
ace to quell the rioters hred rev
shots and then eagerly participated IN
the orgy. .ho
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
FORTY WORKMEN ROBBED
BY FIVE ARMED NEGROES

ALTON. ILL.,, December 21.-Forty
white workmen at the plant Of the Fed
eral Lead Company here were held up
and robbed by five armed negroes as
they were leaving work this morning.
The men were paid yesterday and
said that they had been robbed of sums
ranging from so cents to $40.
As the white workmen were going
single file down a narrow pathway
leading from the gate Of the plant
they were halted by the negroes. As
each man roundd a curve the negroes
pointed reyolvers at him and ordered
him to stand against a fence, out of
signt of those approaching. In this
way forty were lined up.
The negro workman was permitted
to pass unmolested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
HEAR PACKERS TROUBLES.
Presidents Labor Mediators Open
Session in Chicago Today.

CHICAGO. December 21.-President
wilson's board of labor mediators
headed by Secretary of Labor William
B. Wilson. who have been in the west
for several weeks assisting in the adj
justment of labor problems, opened a
hearing here today for the purpose Of
bringing about settlement of certain
differences between packing house en-
ployes and the packers.
Recently the heads of the unions,
composed of packing house workers,
requested strike vote by some $4,000
members regarding, an increase In
wages and the adjustment of working
hours. 1t was announced by the union
men that favorable vote wsuia not
necessarily mean strike. as neg3tia-
tions were still in progress with the
packei over their differences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
GERMANS REJECT
RUSS PEACE TERMS,
SAYS ONE REPORT.
Won KuehImann Leaves Berlin
for Brest-Litovsk-Turk to
Preside Over Negotiations.
BRING US STRONG PEACE"
TEUTON PEOPLE SHOUT
Kaiser Authorizes Move Toward
Ending War. Chancellor von Hertz
ing Tells Reichstag Members.
TERMS RDICULED;
RUSS WITHDRAW

(cablegram to The Evening Star and Chi
cago Daily News, Copyright. l9i1.t
PETROGRAD, December II.
There is an unconfirmed re-
port here that the Brest liz
tovsk peace conference has ter
minated in quarrel.
1t is said that the Germans
ridiculed Russia's. peace terms,
whereupon the Russian delega-
tion was recalled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
NEW YORK METAL MARKET.
LIGHT ORDER IGNORED.
Ssme New York City Sections Bril-
liant. But White Way Is Dark.

NEW YORK, December 21.-While
Broadway's famed lights have been
darkened under the ''lightless night"
edict. the order has not been uniform
iy observed in other parts of New York
and it was said today that vigorous ac-
ton would be taken by fuel admins
traitors against the offenders.
At Columbus Circle, in upper Broad
way and at places on other streets, elec-
trio lights blazed with their usual bril-
lance last night. but the gay white
way was shrouded in gloom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
NO LINE ON Berlin OFFER
Secretary lansing Says q. S. Atti-
tude Toward Peace Negotiations
Is Unchanged.

Secretary Lansing said today that no
information of the terms of Germany's
expected christmas peace" offer has
reached the State Department and that
the attitude of the United States to-
ward "a peace negotiation was un-
changed.
What purports to be an outline of
the peace terms has been received here
through neutral diplomatic channels.
The attitude of the United States on
peace accords with that of the co-bel-
liEerents-reparation and restoration
II Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
Gift Apples for Boys soyer Tb.r. ),

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. December 21.-Amer-
ican soldiers in France soon win re-.
ceive a shipment of 100000 Missouri
apples. the gift of produce dealers Of
st. Louis. Assembling of the apples
was completed today. and 1t was an
nounced that the shipment would 70
forward as soon as transportation
can be arranged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21

cellar full Of water and many Of the in
toxicated soldiers, unable to help them
selves. were drowned.
Seize Raw Alcohol.
The fire brigade pumped the water
out of the cellar and then destroyed the
remaining, wines. With this source Of
supply removed the soldiers turned
their attention to private wine cellars.
and during the week fifty-one cellars
in private houses, restaurants included,
were looted. Three days ago the gov
ernment's stores of raw alcohol in the
vodka dfstilleries. which had been seal
ed since the first week of the war, were
entered The Petrov distillery was set
on fire and when fire brigade arrived
It was driven away with great volleys
of rifle fire. The distillery is yet burn
ing. Groups of intoxicated soldiers,
reeling over the sidewalks and carrying
helpless comrades, is common sight
Rife firing in some sections of the CITY
is almost continuous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
DRINK MAD SOLDIERS SPREAD
REIGN OF TERROR IN RUSSIA
LIQUOR Maniacs Seize Wines In Royal Cellars
at Petrograd, While Troops Sent to
Curb Orgy Join Debauch.
EDGAR BROWNE.
to Ii


PETROGRAD, Russia December (de1ayed-For ten days
Petrograd has the of drunken Most Of the
city have been looted and crazed soldiers
of the stores OF spirits At o'clock
morning declared and aored patrol the streets
under orders machine guns without warning the crowds
- 4La ri
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
Need /. G. c. Consent to withdraw

Railroads desiring to withdraw from
joint agreements must obtain specific
approval Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission II the withdrawal WouId
mean an increase II rates. the commis-
sion ordered today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
Rumanians Have Joined
Ukrainian Forces in
War on BolShevik, Claim

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. December 21.-The Ru-
manians on the southwestern Russian
front have Joined the Ukrainians, and
Lieut. Gen. D. G. Stcherbatcheff. COM
mander of the Russian forces in Ru-
mania, has been appointed commander
in-chief of the whole Ukrainian front.
according to a report received in Petro-
grad and transmitted by the Exchange
Telegraph Company. The bolshevik
and Ukrainian troops are reported to
be advancing on each other, being
three versts apart.
A Petrograd dispatch to the Daily
News says that the staff of the Russian
army on the Rumanian front has Joined
the Ukrainians, which report is de-
clared to be more problematical than
that the Rumanians have taken such
action The Daily News reports con-
firms the appointment OF Gen Stcher-
batcheff as the Ukrainian commander.
Germans in Command.
bolshevik force commanded by re-
leased German and Austrian officer
prisoners has defeated the anti-bolshe-
Wiki at Tashkent. capital of Russian
Turkestan, according to Petrograd
dispatch to the Morning Post. The dis
match also says that it is believed that
a force of released enemy prisoners
to two army corps. COM
manded by their own officers, is now
within striking distance of Petrograd.
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from Haparanda reports that
Kerensky, with an army, is now march,
ing against Moscow. while Grand Duke
has gathered a great army Of
royalists in the Caucasus.
Civil War Spreading.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21
Output Will Increase.

'Tt is hardly fair to say that the
newly created facilities shall from tie
very day they have been put into oper-
alton produce ships at maximum capac-
ity. The output will increase pro-
gressively as experience grows and man
power is increased.
"The work thus far has been in many
cases preparatory and it has carried
with it the usual amount of annoyance
and disappointments, but this period of
preparation is getting rapidly behind
US and the period Of actual ship con-
struction in full accordance with our
plans is Immediately before u.s."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-21

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 21.--It is report.
ed unoficially that the Germans have
rejected the Russian peace terms, the
Petrograd correspondent of the Ex-
change Telegraph Company wires, under
date of Thursday.
Dr., Richard Won Kuehlmann, the Ger~
man foreign secretary. with an impor-
tant staff of officials, left Berlin yes
terday for Brest-Litovsk. amid scenes
Of enthusiasm. the crowd singing the
national anthem and raising shouts OF
Bring us strong peace.
It is said that the peace negotiations
will be under the presidency of Ibrahim
Hakki Pasha, the Turkish ambassador
to Berlin and dean Of the Berlin diplo-
matte corps. The Bulgarian delegates
include Minister of Justice Popon and
NJ. Kossen chief of the foreign Office.
Heart-Burnings Caused.
While the peace delegates are assem-.
bling the activity at Petrograd OF .
| number of German and Austrian OFF,
GERS apparently, is causing heart-burn-
ings Circulars have been spread al
leKiuK IHaI inc COuULii VI Sol0tcfS aA4
workmen's delegates is in negotiation
with the officers. The Pravda, the bol-
shevik organ, prints an unqualified de-
NAL, and makes counter charge
against the constitutional democrats.
claiming that they are trying to UNDER
mine Trotzky and Lenine-
The Prayda further appeals to the
workmen to defeat the attempt Of the
constitutional democrats to place Rus
sia under the control of German inn
1 nario he hnlShevitSi alS0 accuse
the constitutional democrats of being
responsible for the looting of Wine
shops, which caused serious riots In
Petrograd. and claim the possession OF
documentary evidence, winch tney
threaten to publish later.
Kaiser Authorizes Peace.
AMSTERDAM, December 21.-Count
Won Hertling, the imperial German
chancellor, yesterday received repre-
sentatives of all the reichstag parties.
with whom he had confidential dis
cussion on the situation caused by the
opening of peace negotiations Win
Russia
to a Berlin official dispatch, that the
emperor had authorized him to conclude
peace. and he had charged Foreign Sec
retary Won Kuehlmann to conduct the
negotiations The governments plans
for future negotiations were reviewed
by the chancellor, and all the deputies
are said to have. approved the guiding
lines laid down.
According to the newspapers the In
dependent socialists were represented at
the meeting by Deputy Haase. This is
the first time since the foundation Of
the party that it has had direct inter-.
course with the German government.
Czechs and Slavs Want Peace.
A dispatch received here from Vienna
saws the unterhauS has adopted by a
small majority a resolution introduced
by the Czechs and south Slavs in favor
of a general peace on the basis Of no
annexation or indemnities and for
using Russia's good Offices to convey
such a proposal to the entente govern-