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Evening star., 1917-09-23
WAR PROFITS TAX
!. SPLITS coNfEREES
Compromise Reached on Capt.
.-taI. But Deadlock Develops
a
on Rates.
DISAGREEMENT is FEARED

compromise definition of invested
capital, said to provide a system of al
lowance for borrowed funds and also
intangible assets. including good WILL
trade marks, copyrights, patents and
similar inchoate property. was ap-
proved by the conferees on the war tax
bill yesterday after several days dis
cussion.
With this basic dispute compromised,
the conferees turned to exemption and
graduated tax rates, developing the de-
mand of House representatives for rad
ical increases of the Senate rates and a
much greater total levy on war profits.
II was understood that the House men,
bers insist upon adding between $250-
ooe.o 900 and s50o.00O.000 to the Sl.O6o,-
eee, 600 Senate levy.
Disagreement Is Feared.
Senate conferees were reported to
have expressed the fear that higher
total assessment on war excess profits
would impair business and after yes
terdays session they met separately and
We're said to have agreed to Withstand
the House demands. even TO reporting
daal disagreement. sRepresentativ tive
Kitchin and other House conferees,
however. were understood to feel that
the House membership is supporting
them in urging greater taxation Of war
profits.
The new deadlock dissipated earlier
confidence for complete agreement
and several conferees last night pre-
dicted that the fight would be thrown
back into both houses. though some
members We're more optimistic. believ-
ing an ultimate complete agreement
would be reached.
A Sunday session of the conferees was
arranged. largely to clear up miscel-
laneous miner questions. with q final
decision expected tomorrow on the en-
tire bill. including the profits question.
II the conferees fail to agree then, it
was believed further negotiations would
be futile and partial report would be
made to both houses.
Differ on Exemption Basis.
Another factor in the new deadlock
was refusal of the Senate to accept the
exemption basis of S per cent. proposed
by the House. Reports that the con-
ferees had approved tentatively an s
per cent exemption were denied official
" last night. The Senate is said to in
sist upon a maximum exemption of 10
Der cent. with a 6 per cent minimum, a s
provided in the bill.
Among the miscellaneous matters to
be cleaned up today are items of the
marufa cturers sales. tobacco and liquor
sections. with probable further negotia
tions on the automobile tax provision.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
BRITAIN SEXES MAIL ON
SWEDISH ENJOYS SHIP
Pouches Taken as Lundbohm Comes
to This Country to Discuss Short
age of Food and Fuel.
By the Associated Press

by iHe Associated Ffeas. -
AN ATLANTIC PORT, September
22.-Dr. Hjalmar Lundbohm. recently
named by Sweden as a special envoy to
the United States in connection with
shipments of foods. etc. who arrived
today from Christiania. stated in the
course of an interview that Sweden
must obtain breadstuffs from America
or some other country. that factories
would have to close unless fuel was
obtained. and that wood was being used
in his country for locomotive fuel,
heating purposes, and to supply light
ing plants.
DR.. Lundbohm was accompanied by
First Secretary Patrick Reuterswerd of
the Sw wedish foreign office.
A quantity of mail matter, said to
consist mainly of statistics on con-
sumption. Importation and production
of food supplies of Sweden. was seized
by British authorities when the ship
put in at a Canadian port for examina-
fion
Evening star., 1917-09-23
FIRE AT CAMP BOWIE.
Hospital Building Destroyed When .
Laborer's Lantern Explodes.

FORT WORTH. Texas September -.
One small building of one of the
fifty-nine units of the base hospital at
Camp Bowie was destroyed by fre to-
night The flames were confined to the
one building. Laborers were working
in the building by lantern light and
the fire started when one of the
lanterns exploded. A soldier helping
put out the fire. was slightly injured.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Wise Precaution.

From the Buffalo Express.
Visitor-When writing about China
do you refer to 1t as a republic or a
monarchy?
Editor-AIways the opposite to what
it is at the moment. It's bound to be
the other by the time the article gets
into print.
Evening star., 1917-09-23

Mcdowell came here several years age
from Florida, where, 1t 10 stated. ne
has wealthy relatives. Coroner hewitt
will hold an inquest at the morgue to-
morrow morning.
Evening star., 1917-09-23

There is no doubt that profits are go
ing to be pinched hard. Let us pray tina t
the Lord Will temper the government $
tentacles to the shorn wad-Houston
Post.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Value of "Smoke Box"

The smoke box device to be
thrown overheard from a vessel when a
submarine appears, has proved highly
successful in some cases. A great
smoke rises instantly when the chem
icals in the box come in contact with
the water. and under the screen Great
cd the vessel has opportunity to chan~e
her course and elude the C-boats.
Experimenting continues with many
other devices. Thomas a. Edison is
still at work on an investigation to
which he devoted himself at the out
break of war. Even without the dis
covery of any new implement for use
against the U-boats. however, the di-
minishing rate of destruction of mer-
chant craft impresses many officials
as showing that the submarine menace
can be held in check sufficiently to
make certain the ultimate defeat of
Germany
Evening star., 1917-09-23

naval operations, and acting Secretary
in the absence of Secretary Daniels.
indicated the departments purpose to
make known more Of its accomplish
ments hereafter than in the past. No
formal announcement was made, how
ever.
Admiral Benson said the department
had been unable to find any support
for reports that German submarines
either had begun operations on the
American coast or were preparing to
do 80. The department., however, is
ready for any emergency. and is trac-
ing every report from incoming mer-
chant craft that submarines have been
sighted. Amusing results have some
times followed investigation of these
reports, most of which apparently
have been founded on sounds of gun
fire from merchantmen and warships at
target practice off the coast
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Request by Foreign Once.

ITO complete this statement it ought
TO be mentioned that the request was
made by the royal foreign Office at
Stockholm that one of the pouches con-
tanning statistics should be at the dis
posal of the commission during the
voyage in order to enable them to pro-
pare certain answers to Mr.. Hoover. AS
no answer was obtained before the de-
parture of the commission it was de-
cided that mono Of the pouches should
be opened during the voyage, and the
British legation at Christiana was in
formed to this effect.
Consequently, all the pouches were.
as usual, given in a sealed condition,
into the custody of the captain of the
ship and remained there until the ship
reached Halifax. where they we've
taken off by the British authorities"
In discussing informally the situation
in Sweden, DR.. Lundbohm asserted that
while there was no actual suffering
from food shortage at this time, it was
necessary to secure breadstuffs from
America or some other country to re-
place what was imported, previous to
the war, from Germany and Russia
THE people of Sweden are now getting
one-fourth less bread that they are get
ting in Germany" he asserted, "and a
strict rationing system is in effect"
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
BUILD RAILROADS IN CHINA
Merchant. and Manufacturers Look.
ino Forward Eagerly to Opening
Of Chinese Markets

ut Is the American determination
saws Asia's writer In speaking OF the
mart the United States can play In the
situation in China, ito provide rail-
roads which will return operating
profits In developing traffic. railroads
we'll built at modest cost. Our mer-
chants and manufacturers, our lumber
and shipping men on the Pacific coast
who believe In China's possibilities are
looking forward with eagerness to the
opening Of the Chinese market. IL
should mean NOT only an immediate de-
mand for steels rails and bridges, cars
and locomotives, but the beginning OF
demand for mills and machinery for
industrial plants possible along the
railroad lines"
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

How would You like To be able -
breakfast in New York city and Iunch
in san Francisco on the same day:
This is one of the possibilities Of
the day that science may soon make
Il reality by enabling engineers to con-
struct an electric railway over which
trains will rush at the unprecedented
speed Of 800 miles an hour, which Is
nj the rate Of eight and One-third
miles per minute.
An electric railway capable of CO
veloping such marvellous speed Is
one OF the problems that IS engross-
ing some of the master minds OF the
science Of engineering OF two CONT
nents. This matter was broaChed by
Prof. Boris PetrOvik Weinberg, In
structor in mechanical engineering at
the Imperial university Of Petrograd'
nj the recent New York meeting OF the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science. Professor
Weinberg has even built model OF
! his proposed OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
railway.
Ultra High Speed System.
Az a matter Of fact. scientists have
evolved system for ultra high speed
railway locomotion, as great as ON
miles an hour. by utilizing the LITTLE
! known method Of eliminating friction
| by what electrical engineers cal
"uectro-mdgnrtic deviation" whici
was developed by Emile Bachelet,
former resident of Mount Vernon. \
y, but now engaged in reaSearc
work in England.
The underlying principle of electro
magnetic deviation. as followed gu
by the Bachelet floating railroad sy'
TEN. is readily understood by refe'
rim 10 the accompanying illuStri
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

in some of the schemes developed In
this direction. the opening and closing
of the solenOid circuits as the car prog
resses on its way, Is functioaed or
cared for by the movement of the car
itself. In other words the car. as II
moves along. passes over set OF cleo
trical contacts placed between solenoid
points. so that the sOlenoid is de-
energized just as the car approaches
IL: the momentum of the car carrying
Il forward owing TO the powerful RAG
netic Dull of the solenOid which had
acted on the car u brief instant De
fore.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
Joarr Ia Mathematician.

General Joffre, had he not chosen
the army as a profession. might have
been a professor Of mathematics, ana
the new French war minister. NJ. Pain
leye, Is one of the most brilliant OF
contemporary mathematician. AS a
how. indeed he was a mathematician
prodigy, and before he entered poHucs
he had written several books on ad-
yanced NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mathe-
NAUTICAL calculation and applied science
will probably prove the most Important
factors in ending the world war. ana
the allies have now galaxy OF scleh
tific brains in their service.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

Electrical Expc~impu,rr IS being pat
termed after the modern Zeppelin ny
in. machine having the front end
in the form of hyuerho!I and IN"
rear end taprrrd of. ~ * Ia ot"r
the least possible resistance 10 the
air as the car shoots forward at the
rate of 800 miles per hour.
\ series of powerful levitatinE cleo
tro-macnetS are mounted under the
floor and within the she'll Of the car a.
shown. A hiGh-tenSlOn alternating
current is supplied over feed wires
carried on cross arms at the top or
the tubular track system, and tAls
current could be taken into the car
through special contact shoes or
wheels on either side of the car body;
this alternating current being used to
excite the leyitating magnets for mt
| ing the car from the track.
Material for Road Bed.
The road bed IS built up OF spe-
cialIy designed aluminium inductor
rail with a lower sub-rail Of iron IT
station approaches. \ small storage
battery could be carried AT the rear
Of the car 50 that in slowing down or
stopping. instead OF exciting the
levitating magnets with alternating
current they could be charged with
direct current from the storage bat
terry. and thus q greater FRACTIONAL et'
feet produced between the moving OH
o,1 .bo ruiI Tho fink from the elpC
tro-magnetS within the car would, II
! this case. react on the iron suh-rail
The car would be propelled forwaI7
by means of powerful electric sole
I noids placed along the track. The de
= tails of switching. etc, are not given
: as there are several different ways Il
= which this could be taken care or. ou
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
BLOCK SIGNALS ARE PRECISE
Only Once in $4,000 Times Do Auto
matte Devices Fail to Indicate IN
Proper Manner.

Once in $4,000 times have automatic
block signals on the Southern Pacific
failed on the average to indicate prop
crly to the locomotive engineer, &C
cording to recent records of the rail
road company. This failure to record
is not when danger is ahead. but when
the track is clear and the engineer Is
held back. The record covers the pc
riod of one year. There are about
1000 block signals in use on the syS-
TEN, representing an investment OF 81
800 900. In 1916 they performed about
Il ,OOO.O 900 separate operations.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

lions In which are shown in Fig. =
an electromagnetic coil NJ ana an
aluminium ring K.
Scientists have discovered that
nasSing an alternating rapuIy
changing from positive To negative
and vice verSa) current through the
magnet coil will produce, in turn an
alternating or constantly changing ,
magnetic field. Such a field will re-
pel sheets or rings of copper or alum
mum. owing TO the eddy currents !
which are set up In them. the phase
of these eddy currents being retarueu
hy their self-induCtiOn. Hence II the
electro-magnet NJ Is excited by an al
+ernatIng current as In Fig. ,, and II
rho aluminium ring r is held lightly
lust above the pole of the magnet lne
alternating magnetic field Will react III
the manner Just described. ana Tor
chilly propel the ring upward CAUSING
II 70 assume the position indicated
| by the dotted ring.
Again. If the aluminium ring is held
nv four cords and the alternating cur
rent passed through the magnet COLL
tho ring will remain floating In space
above the magnet as shown. Scien-
fists also know that II Is possible 10
arrange an electromagnetic OF proper
nronortions between two horizontal
aluminium plates, and that when eA-
cited by an alternating current the
reaction of the magnetic fiux set up
will lift the magnet coil above the
lower aluminium plate. and also cause
the upper aluminium plate to be levi
tated. or raised above the coil.
RevoIutionizIng Idea.
According to wrfer IN Eiec-
trical Experimental. this Is the germ
Of the notwithstanding idea In rallroau
locomotives. This authority says that
bv s,mply placing the levitated mag
nets within the car and CONSTRUCTING
rho lower rail of properly spaced
aluminium inductOr sections II Woulo
hacona feasible to construct sucn
, Ievitated railroad. ut various poin''
: along which suitable ring-shaped sole
D.. noids or hollow tubular electro-IhaS
J, nets could be placed TO propel or pul
,, the car forward.
= The accompanying diagram, Fig I
elbows several details of the levitate'
electric railroad which, II Is believed
= would work out successfully II IN
:. engineering details are proper
!, taken care Of.
The car itself is described l
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

War fashions for women who WORK
have invaded the industrial manufac-
turing plants of the whole country
and have carried conservatism hrst
line of trenches. After much hesita-
tion the women have donned the serv-
iceable. unadorned Overalls, and now
YOU couldn't get them to change back.
The photograph shows a young wom-
an worker in an industrial manufac-
turing plant at Bloomfield, y. j., at
fired In the costume worn by the wom-
en- who work there.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

Lobbying and politics and stump
snaeches - having campaigned for
suffrage from coast TO coast. and In
New Zealand, and can cook for %
man logging crew without muSsing up
her shiny brown hair. She is as good
looking as the hats she makes for her
self and she's good milliner.
"Of course. I'll make speeches" she
saws. 1--WE been making them for
the last eight years. for suffrage and
for prohibition and for myself. More
especially. however. am concerned
about social welfare legislation
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
Electric Locomotives.

With the aid Of q miniature electric
railroad one packing establishment
handles half million pounds Of meat
daily. Nine hundred cars, driven oy
seven electric locomotives, are used
popular Science Monthly.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
Use Of Motor Trucks.

Traffic congestion on the railroads
hos ox+anded the use and sale OF mo-
FOR trucks during the past year, anu
n-osnacts are that IL will require sew
eral wears TO build enough freight cars
and locomotives to make up the pres
ent shortage.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

500 Mile anHou the Future viii Be Of the
in EectroEagn Within the Car
Raise II Above Properly Spaced sOend Pull the
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
Court Protects Old Family Name.

The petition of a man with foreign
name for permission 10 change 1t 70
Russell was denied by Supreme Court
Justice GiegeriCh of New York with
this comment: 81 have the greatest
objection TO foreigners who take UP
their residence in this country assum'
ing the names Of old American fam
lilies of New York. Ii causes embar'
rassment to men Of standing In the
community who take pride in theii
family names
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05

had something to do with chi!dren's
home society In Washington and l
know the needs Of the youngsters.
That work gave me an insight into
the needs of babies, children and young
adults, and it's for them that l shall
work especially.
mo. I'm not nervous about going to
congress. l think that shall be able
to take my place in Washington and
do my part"
Suffraget.as throughout the country
will watch with much interest Miss
Rank,n's career In con2resA
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
Electric Headlights.

Some European railroads are expert
mentlng with electric locomotive head
lights so mounted that engineers csn
direct their rays IL any desired direc-
ton.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
FIRST WOMAN IN CONGRESS
ennette Rankin Of Montana Will
w Down In History as Pioneer
Of Her Sex.

psouia, Mont, Nov. l2.-Jeannette
an ann, the first congresswoman, is
yuVe years old and makes her
Az. uaa She is more interested IN
-. tnan In anything else In the
- Win the possible exception OF
s-for women.
SHOWS Ill about the tarin and
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-07-05
Given Increase in Pay.

Railroad shop employees at San
Imam. Porto Rico. have procured an In
crease in pay and better working con-
itiops.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-08-23

Unions in long and short
sleeves, up to So grade, at
81. 18. The famous Three
Seasons grey shirts and
drawers, a corking 75c value,
Sale price
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-08-23

For men. Made of longcloth,
cut full and roomy, neatly
trimmed, we'll made. Military
and plain collars. Figure or
binary muslin, then buy these
$1C25 shirts at
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-08-23
Shoe "RemnantS'

takes choice of several hundred
pairs Mems and Women's Low
Shoes worth to $500. But high
shoes, too, are remnants"
The Alaska citizen., 1917-02-05
TWO NEWSPAPER MEN, WASH. lNGToN RESPONDENTS, Ao- MT THAT THEY ARE REspoN. Si8LE FOR LEAK OF PEACH NOTE.
BOTH TESTIFY IN
 BEHALF OF FRIENDS
NO GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL I0 RESPONS FOR THE LEAK, DUCED SITUATION FROM CEN. ERAL CONVERSATION.
Associated rress)

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. a. The rules committee of the house of representatives which Is investigat- ing the alleged leak of President Wilson's peace note to the belliger- ents of Europe, has pinned the fault for the distribution of the informa- ton contained in tue rote down to two men. They are both newspaper men-J Fred Essary. head of tho Washington news bureau of the Bal timore Sun, and w. V. Price. the White House correspondent of tho Washington Star
 Both men were on the stand to- day, and both admitted that they supplied advance forecasts of Presi- dent Wilson's peace note on De. cember 20, regarding the peace note of December T, which eventually found distribution on the New York stock exchange. Both completely ex. onerated any federal official for com. plication in the leak, Essary tesu- flying that he gained the information purely as a matter of conversation and through deductions from his knowledge of the international sit. uation.
 Essary also swore that 1t was solely through his friendship for Francis W. Connolly, head of Con- nelly & Co.,, brokerage concern in which R. W. Boiling. brother-in-law of President Wilson, is interested. that he turned the information se- cured by him over to Connolly. who later turned it over to E. F. Hut ton & Co.,, of New York. He says that he did it entirely without thought of financial gain, and that he prepared the telegram which Con. nelly previously testified that he wrote and sent to Hutton & Co. over 8 private wire.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-02-05
CREW SCUTTLES
 GERMAN STEAMER
Associated press)

BOSTON. Mass, Feb. 3.-The North German Lloyd liner Kronprin- xess Cecilia, seized here tonight by federal officials. was discovered to be in what practically amounted to a scuttled condition. In fact, she Is crippled beyond all possibility of an early usefulness. There is but little doubt that her injuries were inflicted by her crew, all of the members of which have been taken into custody.
 When the officers descended into the boiler room of the big ocean leviathan they found the boilers clear of water, although the fires were burning fiercely to their top capa- city. Countless valves in the en- zine room of the ship were found to be mutilated. transferred or re moved entirely.