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The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
SENATOR FLAYS
DRY OPPONENTS
Charge that Prohibitionists
Block Food Bill Infu-
rates Jones.

lnfuriated by a suggestion that
prohibltionists had blocked legislation
on the food control bill, Senator wes-
ley Jones, Of Washington. late yes
terday afternoon, made a fierce at
tack on opponents OF the dry forces.
Slamming his hands together with
vehemence, he shouted at the top OF
his voice:
Il resent the suggestion made on
the floor that the friends of temper
ance have been delaying the passage
Of the bill! 1t is false: We are ready
for a vote at any timei We would
vote without any debate"
After Jones stopped his speech, Nor
ris Sheppard, of Texas, author of the
national prohibition amendment and
a devout prohibitionist, said:
II think all the Senators have made
up their minds on the liquor question.
1 ask unanimous consent to take a
vote of these amendments tomorrow
afternoon at / o'clock"
Il object" tersely said Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania
1t was the giant Pennsylvania who
reused Jones to such a white hot
pitch. Penrose had said:
"Thhe delay was due to ill-advised
methods pursued to put drastic pro-
hibition amendments in the BILL"
And what had provoked Penrose to
make his remark was a remark by
Senator Chamberlain, of Washington,
that sufficient signatures had been
occurred to invoke the cloture rule and
stop unnecessary debate, thus ex-
pediting the passage of the bill.
Cloture Rule Argument.
This action looking to a cloture
was taken yesterday after several
friends of the bill charged filibuS-
tering was being conducted by the
opponents. In making his an
nouncement, Senator Chamberlain
also said that the Senate would
hold night sessions beginning to-
day. 1t is probable the Fourth of
July will be used, too. in discus
sion of the measure. But yester-
day, Senator Penrose resented the
idea that the cloture rule might
be imposed.
"Cloture is meant to suppress fill
he said.
10 q Ddu udy 1OE tHt
country when cloture is used to
shut of Illuminating debate"
Little was done with the bill on
the floor of the Senate until late
The Senate Agricultural Commit
tee surprised everyone in the fore
noon by rejecting the Chamber
lain amendment abolishing whisky
mentioning beer and wine.
and instead adopting the Gore
which kills whisky, but
leaves beer and wine to the direc-
ton of the President. The Cham
berlain amendment was killed by
a vote of s to 3 and the Gore
substitute adopted by 6 to 5.
Late yesterday, by q vote of 10
to 16. the Senate passed the Sec
ton of the bill giving the Presi-
dent authority over all sorts of
.'necessaries" from petroleum to
fertilizer.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
DAVIS RECOMMENDS
Price OF ALUMINIUM
Product of National Defense Mem.
ber's Company Causes Furry.

The country yesterday was treated
to a picture of one man recommend
ing to the government, through his
position as chairman of a subcom-
mittee of the Council of National De-
fense, the price It should pay for a
product of which he is in sole con-
troll.
The man Is Arthur v. Davis, presi-
dent of the Aluminium Company Of
America. The picture was painted by
Senator Reed. of Missouri, in the de-
bate on the food control bill.
When the text Of Senator Reeds
remarks reached the Navy Depart
ment an inquiry was started to de-
termine just what the government
has been paying for aluminium. 1t was
discovered that for the last year the
navy has, been paying Q price almost
three times as great as Mr.. Davis has
announced. as chairman of the sub
committee, he is willing, as aluminium
magnate, to sell aluminium to the gov
ernment for.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
Wants Japan to Trade
For Philippine Islands
(By InternatienaI. News seryice)

(By International News Service)
Tokyo. July 2--The proposal that
Japan exchange the captured Ger
man possessions to the United
States in return for the Philip
pine Islands was made today by
Kotaro Mochizuki. a member of
the opposition, during a meeting
of the committee OF the house of
representatives.
Mochizuki declared that this
proposal would appeal to the
straightforwardness of all Ameri-
cans, and would solve many pres
ent issues affecting the relations
Of the two countries.
Premier Motono heard the pro-
posal made and members turned
/ toward him for a reply. He made
only brief, noncommittal state
ment.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
PERSHING PLEASED
With OVERSEAS TRIP
Declares Conscript Forces Will
Measure Up to Regular Army.
? c. p. BERTELLI,

star Correspondent Il the international Ns-s
SJrvice.
A French Seaport. June % (paSxed
by the censcr).-Maj Gen. Pershing,
commanding the American erpedi-
tionary forces in France. today de-
scribed TO the correspondent Of the
International News Service his COM
plete satisfaction over the successful
transportation OF the first contingent
of American trops TO France.
The American public should know.
at once he said. that the operation
was an unqualified success. We did
not lose a man. There was no sirn-
ness with the exception Of -
cases Of mumps. L
The officers Of my stan went "a
the point of disembaI kstion IN ad-
vance Of the first landing OF troops
They found all arrangements very
satisfactory. The disemharkntfon
went along with clocklike precision.
The men marched OF the tran ports
in the finest spirits Imaginable
have never seen a finer lot Of boy
Big. stand-up young troops Of mag
nifcent health; they were a credit 20
the nation which It is their privilege
to represent on the battlefield.
'Our navy deserves the highest
praise for the part IL played.
The succeeding drafts which will
be sent over will not be a less cred
liable body of men. Every able
bodied young American should feel
II a precious privilege to be able to
serve with such an army and for 80
fine a cause
our conscription force will not Tan
short Of the regular army tp any re-
kpect"
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
SENATE APPROVES
war REVENUE BILL

e. BY vote of II to the Senate FL
nance Committee yesterday agreed to
the big war revenue bill. As 1t now
stands, 1t carries s1,6V, ,ooo, 900. Eigh-
teen million was added to the excess
profits tax. Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo asked for $2,s2s, 900, 900.
With some yet unsold bonds and the
total of the bill, he will have a total
Of s1,sss, 100000.
Yesterday the committee adopted the
bill by! vote of Il to 8. Senators
Thomas, of Colorado; La Toilette, Of
Wisconsin. and Gore, of Oklahoma,
voted no" The document may be
introduced In the Senate today.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
F Fourteen Companies Of Militia Un-
able to Halt Mad Mobs Who
Shoot and Hang Colored
People on Sight. :
"
FIRES ARE BEYOND CONTROL
BULLETIN.
CBy International News servtee1

BULLETIN
East St Louis July m-The ions has soread to Vepes
Madison County, ILL.,, where the negroes nobizins TO CONE t
the aid Of those East St. Louis Venice about fifteen mSe, ou
East St. Louis.
Last St Louis, July I'm city lighted by incendsy fires the
police and National Guard of Illinois endeavons at midnight 10
count the dead in today's riots.
No estimate of the number of negroes s official or otherwise
runs lower than lOO the police claiming that the number $50
Numerous outright ynchgs took place tonight One victim wa,
hanged to telegraph pole the city hail. large percentage of
the fatalities occurred the business district of the city,
lhe torch was freely used the efforts the black
population Fire apparatus from St LOUIS but from 81.
eight city blocks laid in ruins.
The black valley the negro segregated district is mass Of
embers beneath which lie the bodies of many dead Flame. which
swept block of dwellings Fifth street spread to white resi-
denes and stores on Broadway and destroyed property than
mob intended to ruin.
telephone and electric light soon after the wild
nights work began and the city left darkness except in the dozen
spots where the fires ragged The authorities handicapped hand
ling the soldiers and police because with the CITY hall
off,
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
Pretty Suffrage Worker
Found and Clears Mystery

New York. July Miss Velma
Pomeroy, the beautiful young suf-
frage worker. who disappeared
mysteriously from her apartment here
last Tuesday night, was found today
in Philadelphia rooming house. w.
E. SCHNEIDER, head of a private
detective agency announced.
SCHNEIDER was hired by Charles w.
Pomeroy, former justice of the
Montana state Supreme Court and
father Of the girl, to make the search.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
Won Hindenburg Visits
Austro-Hungarian Army

Berlin (via London), July 2-officiaI
announcement Is made that Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg and Gen.
Won Ludendorff. quartermaster gem
eral. have arrived at the headquar-
ters Of the Austro- Hungarian army,
thus returning the visit which the
austrian field marshal. Artur Arg Won
Straussenburg, made to the German,
headquarters March IL Conferences
wiz be held at yilnna later. y
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
WAR RISK PLAN
TURNED down
Decline Government Prop
osition to Insure Men
Going to Front.

Life insurance interests Of the coun-
! try declined yesterday afternoon to
take any part in President Wilson's s
| plan TO insure the lives and limbs OF
the men who go to the front. They
voted almost unanimously at a meet
ing Of more than 80 representatives
Of the leading life and casualty con-
Germs of the United States to refuse
such business, preferring to have the
government enter the insurance field
as a competitor.
The government will, therefore. in
sure the men under special legisla-
/ ton, which Secretary McAdoo an
nounced would be passed by Congress
before it adjourns for the summer.
The plan involves figures that are
staggering, but the details are yet to
be settled. The action of the insur-
ance men in declining to have any
/ thing to do with the case leaves the
| Secretary with an enormous PROPOSE
| ton on his hands. He himself had no
idea last night just how the prob
lens. which are unprecedented in
schemes to provide compensation and
| indemnity, can be worked out.
Taken as a whole. the plan presents
so many angles new to insurance
| dnanciers that they quickly decided
not to become mixed up with it. They
made it plain that it was the cou1ph-
cations they feared rather than the
losses which might pile up against
their treasures.
| The plan to provide protection-or,
rather, compensation. for that was
the word the insurance men declared
applied 10 the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
with the Assistant Secretary Of Com
merce, who, after obtaining the Presi-
dents approval, took it to the Coun-
Gil of National Defense. The council
was for 1t, and inasmuch as the
Treasury Department had organized
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance,
the plan was turned over to Mr.. Nc
Adoo TO put into execution.
VIII Give Others Aid.
His first step was to call the
meeting which was held yesterday
afternoon. His object was to gain
the expert opinions of the insur-
ance men and at the same time
give them a chance to indicate
whether they favored taking all
or any part Of the business when
the country was ready to place
policies against the lives of the
men in the trenches.
The insurance men. who an
swered the call willingly, were in
accord with the idea, and they ap-
plauied all the speeches in which
1t was urged that the United
States must take care of the men
who fight the nations battles, but
they could not see IL as a busi-
ness proposition for themselves.
They did. however. pledge Mr.. Nc
Adoo all the assistance in their
power. Clerical forces, actuaries'
tables, and all other statistics are
at the disposal of the government
insurance bureau when IL is
formed.
Mr.. McAdoo was quick to accept
the offer. Within the next two or
three days he will appoint u COM
mittee of from seven to twelve
men from the leading life and ac-
cident companies to come to Wash
ington and work out with him and
his assistants all the details for
sending soldiers into camp, whether
abroad or in this country. secure
in the knowledge that their de-
pendents will be taken care of in
case Of death or Rermanent dis
ability. L
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
White Men Killed.

The shooting was not all on the SIDE
Of the whites. Wherever a white
man appeared alone he was fired
upon. usually from ambush. Thomas
Moore. Of Granite City Was shot down
a Ninth street and Broadway. HIS
bead was blown off with a charge
OF buekshot.
Hundreds Of arrests have been made
but the police do not pretend thar
they have any Of the ring leaders.
One difficulty in estimating the
cead is due 10 the fact that many
blacks were shot and their bodies
thrown into the creeks and the Mis-
sissiprL Many were drowned BY be-
ing driven into the water. Scores OF
charred bodies are in the ruins Of the
burned homes
Other bodies are being continually
discovered in alleys and back streets.
BY $50 O'Clock il appeared that the
entire neSro settlement in the Black
Valley covering about two square
miles was doomed by flames. -Four
white men were killed by negro
snipers at Ninth street and Missouri
avenue about 9 O'Clock. Their names
We're not learned. Fire is now at
NoSHliik Aut International Harvester
Company and other valua BILE property.
Soldiers PowerIes..
All afternoon crowds Of whites de-
led the soldiers patrolling the streets.
Negroes were dragged from street
cars and interurbans and beaten. One
negro was kicked into hslplessness in
the street near National Guardsmen.
who were powerless to protect him
A man rushed up and fred six shots
at the fallen negro. Two struck him
and he died.
At meeting this afternoon the
chamber of commerce besought Col.
5. o. Tripp, representing Gov. Low
den. to declare martial law. The plea
was denied on the ground that the
city authorities would be shunting the
burden on the State. Col. Tripp, how
ever, agreed to bring enough troops 10
the city TO restore order. Eight COM
panies are now here. including the
two companies OF the Sixth Infantry
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
French Capture Trenches.

Paris, July 3.-The recapture of
trenches along the Aisne River front
from the Germans was announced by
the French war Office today. The
trenches fanked the Ailles-Paissy
road and were the scene of savage
fighting.
South of st. Quentin the Germans
tried to capture a small French out
post, but were driven off. Between
Cerny and ALLIES a gigantic artillery
duel was in progress all night.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
Italians Bombard Trieste.

Rome. July 2.-In reprisal for an
Austro-Hungarian air raid on Venice,
Italian airmen have bombarded
Trieste, 1t was officially announced to-
day. Project!les were thrown down
upon the railway station in Trieste
and upon Austro-Hungarian military
works.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
HUNS Retreat
ON RUSS front
Ally Uses 100000 Men in
Pressing Ferocious
Offensive.
OBy International New. serrree)

London, July "A flash in the pan?
If that's what this new Russian drive
is. it is of the kind that will burn a
large hold in the pan" along the
Teuton front in Galicia.
But over the wires and cables from
Petrograd, which monopolized the at
tention of an electrified world today.
came buzzing all night long terse but
significant bulletins. They indicated
that the flash is growing into a
holocaust
Two hundred miles Of front, from
the Stokhod in Volhynia down TO the
Dniester in Southeastern Galicia, are
bathed in fre-Russian fire. Every
where the Russians are the aggTes-
sors. 1t is a typical Brusiloff drive;
no halt, no counting of dead, only one
thought. one command: Forward"
The Russians nipped in the bud a
Turkish attack on the Caucasus front.
promptly wrested the initiative from
the Sultan's forces and swept ahead
in vital sectors, recording substantial
gains.
Here are the net results of the first
days fighting. Sunday.
They captured Koniuchi. a strate-
gical point forty-seyen miles south.
east of Lemberg, and a series of
strongly fortified positions to the
southwest of Brzezany, which lies
forty-six miles southeast of the Ga
lician capital and eight miles below
Koniuchi.
They took In that one day 10000
prisoners. Among them were some 800
officers.
Seven heavy guns have been counted
so far among the booty.
The Kaiser's war Office comedies the
loss OF Koniuchi. It asserts that there
the Muscovite onslaught stopped,
caught In barring position" which
frustrated a new attack. 1t pays in
direct tribute to the gallantry and
dash of the Russians. 1t says the lat
ter's losses surpassed any measure
hitherto known"
The drive is the greatest surprise OF
the war. England and her allies are
jubilant. The impression it has made
On the Teutonic empires is not yet
crystallized.
Today's Berlin statement SAYS:
Sixteen Russian divisions. constant
ly employing fresh troops. assaulted
our positions" Sixteen divisions num-
Der $4,000 men.
Take S.564 Prisoners.
Petrograd, July 1.-The first day OF
the Russian offensive on the Galician
front resulted in the capture of S.56i
Austro- German prisoners, the war Of
fee announced today.
The official statement said that the
latest drive against the Austro-Ger-
man armies was launched on Sun
day and that today the artillery is
laundering all along the line. pre-
pairing the way for fresh infantry as
saults.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
Jap House Votes Confidence.

Toxic, July 1.-The house of rep
resentatives tonight gave the govexp.
ment vote Of confidence. 2sl to nj
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
BEERBOHM TREE DEAD.

New York. July 2-Theatrical cir
cles received the report tonight that
Beerbohm Tree. the famous English
actor, died suddenly today in London
Of heart disease.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03
Lens in Ruins.

Berlin, July 2.-The French city Of
Lens, about which fighting has been
raging for months. is a heap of ruins,
said a semi-official statement issueo
here today.
The capture of Koniuchi, in Galicia
by the Russians was admitted by the
German war Office today.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03

Today <s almost the last chance TO
get into the District cavalry
And its your chance TO go QUE with
the fellows you know.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03

Men who appreciate the best sport
Ir articles read Grantland Rice's
-Sortlight." which appears In The
Rrald daily.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03

CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-03

Oficers Of the United States and
Of the several States, Territories,
and the District Of Columbia.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-23
RED CROSS "NEUTRALITY"
Is DEFENDED BY Mr.. TAFT
Meets ProNIsIons OF the Geneva Treaty.
Former President
Explains.

WASHINGTON. April o2-Former
President TAFT. an officer OF the Red
Cross. has issued "A statement uphold
ing the organization in not removing
tho word neutrality" from the Rcd
Cross emblem. Following the dcclara-
ton OF war with Germany several
chapters struck the word from tho
design.
Tie emblem OF the American society
is rcd cross within a circle. the word
neutrality" appearing above the cross
and the word humanity" below it,
Mr.. TAFT explains that the neutrality
Of the Red Cross is not political neu-
trality, as many OF the society's mem
bers have evidently believed. but a
technically in international law,
which tonfers certain immunities upon
every Red Cross organization In time
of war. His statement follows:
The neutrality to which our en-
blcm refers is not that Of political In
difference. but the naturalization Of
the sick and wounded under the treaty
Of Geneva 1t guarantees humane
treatment TO the wounded and confcrs
certain immunity upon the personnel
and material employed in the sanitary
service.
The medical staffs of armies wear
the Red Cross in war, but they not
only care for the sick and wounded
they preserve the health of tho COM
batants. help to return promptly the
wounded to the ranks. and In many
ways contribute powerfully to the eli.
cheney OF the troops.
The Red Cross flag should not be
used to protect people or supplies not
entitled to protection under the treaty.
but the Red Cross Association can
legitimatcly do for our soldiers many
things which are not specifically pro-
vided for by ii. Thus the contributions
of warm clothing. delicacics and COM
forts, both for sick and we'll, arc le-
Ultimate Red Cross activities. though
only in a general way correlated with
the primary objects of the society"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-23
DOCTORS IN WAR SERVICE
MUST HAVE EXPER|EN nee
legcs to Graduate Their Stu
dents Prcmaturely.
EVERY CARE is TO BE TAKEN
Recruits May 80 Required to Have
One Years Hospital Training Be-
fore Being Admitted to Army
Ranks-No Lack Of Material.

WASHINGTON. April 2c.--Medical
problems created by tho war were
taken UP here to-day by the general
medical board OF the Council Of Ma
tional Defense. Under direction of DR.
Franklin Martin. the board Is serving
as AN advisory body TO the coGncirs
medical section. Its membership com
prjscs some Of the country's foremost
physicians and surgeons.
Plans are being worked out to give
the country an efficient wartime med-
cal service. not only in tho military
and naval establishments, but in civic
lines as we'll.
Recon- m eudations of the medical
board that medical schools OF the coun-
try do not graduate their students pre-
maturelE as an emergency measure
and its suggestions for continued OBJ
scrvance Of the army's regulations re-
curing that medical recruits have "a
years hospital experience. are strong
ly Endorsed in statement given out
o-day by DR.. John NJ. Badly. of Phi,a-
delphia.
The country needs medical men for
tho new army said Or. Baldy. but IL
needs medical men of proper education.
We had AN experience in tho Spanish
War OF the disastrous results OF an
incompetently conducted medical SER
vice. Every care should be taken that
such an experience be not repeated.
that the policy Of the Council of Ma
tional Defense be supported and that
the service of our home hospitals be
not ruined. and that our civilian popu-
lations remaining in the shops and
fields be not neglected.
With the political paciffsts releGated
to their proper places and with selec
tive Consumption in force. by drawing
on the medical graduates of recent
years and without injur!nE our future
supply. there will DO no lack of COM
petcntly educated medical men In the
army and navy"