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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
M STOCK

A special meeting of the stOckhold-
ers of the United States Realty Conl-
many. of Washington. u. c.. lncorpo-
rated, will be held at the principal OF
flee of the Company III s. Fairfax
ST.. Alexandria. Virginia; at . o'clock
P. AZ. on the 18th day OF June 1911
to act upon the recommendation ii
the Board of Directors az expressed
IN preamble and resolution adopted
bv the Board Of Directors at meet
ing held on the 25th day CT MAY 1917,
as follows:
"yVhercas, in the opinion Of the
Board of Directors it is advisable AM
necessary that paragraph Sd of the
Charter Of this Corporation, granted
on the 18th day Of July 1908, by TIE
Hon. Louis c. Barley, Judge of tie
Corporation Court CT the City Of
Alexander, Virginia, and lodged n
the office OF the Secretary of the
Commonwealth Of Virginia, July
23rd 1903, should be amended as
hereinafter set forth, therefore,
Be it resolved, that paragraph Sd
of the said Charter be stricken cut ana
the following para graph be su5st!tu-
! ted in lieu thereof, to-wlt:
Cd "The purposes for which tbs
corporation is formeH are as follows:
(a) To buy, sell, lease own, held,
cucumber, mortgage, rent, suhdIvldc,
improve and deal in real estate situa-
ted in the State of Virginia and other
States and possessions Of the United
States and to lay out and open streets
and alleys thereon, to build houses
tenements and apartments and to SCI!
or rent the same, provided, however
that the said corporation snail not he
authorized by this Charter 10 exer'
else any of the powers aforesaid with
in the District of Columbia.
(b) To transact the business ordln'
arilv carried on by real estate agent:
or brokers in the State of Virginia
and other States and poss essions Q;
/ the United tSates. including the Dis
trict of Columbia, y
BY order Of the Board Of Directors
! L. E. BAYNE.
i126-td. Secretary
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
REQUEST GRANTED.
Southern Railway Will Discontinue
Samc of its Passenger Train Ser

Southern Railway Will Discontinue
Same of its Passenger Train Ser
vice.
Atlanta, Ga, June 3.-Thc Rail
road Commissions Of South Carolina
ard Tennessee have granted the re-
quest made by the Southern Railway
System for permission to discontinue
some Of its passenger train service
as necessary war measure accord
ing to advices received here today by
Vice President Z. 4. Coapa,aa, who
announced that these arc The first
states to act on Tie petition. The
adviccs stated that the commissions
granting the petition in full upon the
showing made by the Southern that
the step was essential to the inter-
ests of the government during the
VIZ.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
Mary Pickford.

When Mary Pickford left New York
for California, she announced that
she had big surprise in store for
her mar frieads end shortly there
after Inc significance Of her promise
became apparent when it was learn
ed that she had enlisted Cecil 3. De
Mile to direct her new Aircraft pic
ture, "a Romance Of the Redwoods".
The photoplay is heralded as the last
word in the cinema art aside from
the fact that it displays Little
Mary" in role entirely different
from anything in which she has ever
appeared. The production will
be seen tonight and tomorrow at
the Richmond Theatre.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
GERMAN PLAN FAILS
Venezuela Promises U. S. She Viii
Not Sell Coveted Island.

Vcnezeula Promises U. S. She Will
Not Sell Coveted Island.
Germany's plot to plant foot OF
empire on American soil has failed
utterly. Her attempt to straddle
the Atlantic and establish sub
marine base off the coast of Vcna-
zeuela for raids on American ship
ping has come TO naught after
months of underground intrigue am!
labor.
Disclosure of the plot whereby
German government agents were at
tempting to get hold of the island Of
Margarita, off the northern coast Of
Venezuela, was followed yesterday
by the news that American repre-
sensations to p resident Gomez, of
Venezuela, had brought the attempt
to sorry ending.
The propaganda, developed after
work Of months in Venezuela, has
been offset, and Venezuela has given
official assurance to the United States
that island will not be sold and that
no concessions of any character
whatever will be granted to Ger
mans or their representatives.
Senior Don Santos A. Dominica,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
Charters Granted.

The Michael A. Weller Company,
Inc, is the name of new corpora
ton which has just been granted a
charter By the State Corporation
Commission. The capital stock is
$4,000. The company will do a
general construction business. Mich
ael a Weller is president and Ida
Withowski, secretary. Both officers
reside in Washington but the main
Office Of the company vii! De in this
city.
The State Corporation Commits
sion has granted charter to the
General Shpibuilding Company, Inc,
Of this city, which is TO engage in a
general shiphuilding business. The
company will haze a capital stock Of
$2G0,@@j Fred S. Swindcll is presi-
dent, and L;eze +. Sasscer, secre-
tary
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
NOTICE

Having qualified as the admins
TRAITOR of the estate Of Sarah n. Lane,
deceased, all persons to wncm sail
estate is indebted are requested to
present their claims to the under.
signed, properly certified, for pay
ment. All persons indebted TO said
estate arc requested to make prompt
settlement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
AUCTION SALE.

The undersigned will offer Tor sale
at auction at its banking house or
Monday, June II, 1917, at 10 o'clocl:
a. II. eighty (80) shares CT tic
capital stock of the Rosslyn Dcvel-
opment Company, Incorporated, OF
the par value of four thousand dol
lars ($4,00O), default having been
made in the payment of the note for
which said stock was given as col
lateral security.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK Or
ALEXANDRIA. VIRGINIA.
BY GARDNER L. BOOTHE,
129-td. President
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04

The Alexandria National Bank without charge
q. commission offers it's services to the public IN the
purchase Of Liberty Bonds.
The Alexandria National Bank has already SUD-
scYitcd and paid for between one and two hundred
thousand dollars Of Liberty Bonds for its friends and
customers and has been informed that its customers
will probably subscribe for from one to two hundred
thousand dollars more Of Liberty Bonds
The Alexandria National Bank in addition to
this offers to every man, woman and child IN Alex
andria the opportunity to buy fifty dollar Liberty
Bond on small weekly payments. Pay Sl.OO down
and S1O0 per week for fifty weeks, and fifty dol
lar Liberty Bond will be delivered to you with one
years accrued interest at 32 per cent, making the
Bond TO
Buy a.Li5crty Bond, and thus%lnake your contr'-
button to Human Liberty and The glory OF the Amer
can Flag, and at the same time secure gilt edged
investment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04

in a statement issued in Berlin,
Baron Won Bussche-H addenhausen
under secretary for foreign affairs,
reiterated Germany's desire to facili-
tate the departure of Americans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
BEACH & WOOD

NIeNandfII, va,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Fish, Oyss.ss. CLANS and Crabs
Corner Of kiIg and Union SITS. :.
Fish received daily from our nets ana
prices lower than the lowest.
To be convinced give us
call
.ConrtrS: orders solicited and promp-
tlv attended to-; Our tcrms--bcst re.
ferences, or money orders:
Bell 400 Both Phone Home 81
S. Stiff
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
r. II. cox,
Sergeant, Administrator

The annual meeting Of the Stock
holders of The United States Really
Company of Washington. D. c. In
corporated, will be held at its prin-
cipal office, III S. Fairfax Street,
Alexandria, Virginia. on Monday
June 4, 1917 at $50 p. NJ, at which
time the election OF officers ard d.
rectors will be held and such other
business transacted as will properly
come before them.
124-7t. L. z. BAYNE. Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
12G-IGss Sergeant, Administration

Ting g:a!ifcd aa administrator.
Ct ! estate Of Aaron c. Lane. de-
ceased, all pcrs2as to whom said cs-
tate is indebted are requested 60 pre-
sent their claims to the undersigned,
properly certified, for payment. All
persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make prompt settle
ment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04

clare that the attitude OF the Vene.
zuelan government in its present
neutrality is that of the greatest
friendship to the United States.
"Venezuela will never do anything
to endanger in the slightest the
friendly relations she enjoys with
the United States"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04

Strike leaders in Newport News
announce that the 500 machinists
who left the shipyard last tuesday
morning will return to WORK To-Day,
officials of the yard and the strikers
being brought together by govsrn-
mcnt labor conciliators. The men
will be paid wages as good as are
paid in any yard on the coast.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04

Venezuelan Minister here, last night
issued the following statement:
81 am authorized by my govern
ment to say that Venezuela will never
sell or concede an inch of her soil
to any foreign government, especial
ly Germany.
81 am further authorized to de-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
POLICE COURT NOTES.

Several Unimportant Cases Disposed
of This Morning.
Eugene Gibson and Edward ROBIN
son, both colored, charged with the
larceny of wire, forfeited their col
lateral by failing to appear.
Latham Jackson, colored, charged!
with assaulting Ollie Bowman. col
ored, was dismissed.
J. H. Dempsey. charged with being
drunk, was fined So.
George Price, who said he was
from Covington, KY, and that he had
been British sailor, charged with
being drunk and disorderly, was
fined S..
Sadie Jackson, colored, charged
with disorderly conduct towards
Lizzie Anderson, colored, were dis
missed.
Harry Petit and George Dove,
charged with assaulting a boy named
W. II. Simmons, We're dismissed.
Harold Stevenson, arrested seve-
RAJ days ago on the charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses
by soliciting subscriptions to a peri
odical, was dismissed after being
warned of the consequences of con-
tinuing in such occupation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
NOTICE

There will be a called meeting. OF
Potomac Lodge, No. IS, I. O. o. F.,
tonight at eight o'clock, to make ar
rangements for the funera! Of our
late brother, st. Elmo Davis.
By order OF the Noble Grand.
133-1t. G. r. GAINES
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-04
WOMEN CARRY MAIL.

Wear Dark Blue Uniforms and
2 Glazed Straw Hats.
Paris, June 3.-Wearing trim
dark uniforms and glazed straw hats
with the French :Tri-color ribbon the
first wcmcn letter carriers made
their appearance on the streets Of
Paris yesterday.
They arc paid five franc so cent?
mes per day, with extra allowances
for the high cost of living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
so LOSE LIVES!
Big Transport Minnehaha Vic
tim of German U-Boat.
Was TOrpedOed Off Irish Coast
-12 Officers Lost.

New York, Sept. 13.-The Minneha-
ha- Atlantic transport liner of 13. ia
tons. has been sunk by a German sub
marine off the Irish coast. according
to word received here today thru sur
vivors of the Italian liner Verdi. Fifty
men were lost thru the explosion and
by drowning when the big American
ship went down, it was stated
Twelve officers were among the lost.
A $4,000 race horse, Maiden Ehr-
lergh. owned by Solly Joel, went down
with the ship.
Officers of the company here had
received only a garbled, undecipher-
able cablegram today.
Two other steamers in the group
were also reported to have been torpe-
doed by the U-boat The report did
not state whether they were sunk or
not.
The report stated that the Mime
haha was struck in the engine room
on the starboard side. The explosion
killed several of the engine crew as
well as seamen- on deck.
The Minnehaha carried a crew of
40. She was commanded by Capt.
Frank ,Claret, of the naval reserve.
The U-boat fired only three torpe-
does says the report, all of which
found their mark. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
INCREASEPENS
Dependents of Private and OFF,
Ger To Get Same Amount.
New Rate: Widow $35 a Month,
With One Child S45.

Washington, Sept. 13.-The same
compensation for dependents of Off
GERS or enlisted men in death and dis
ability cases was provided in an
amendment to the soldiers and sailors
insurance bill adopted today by the
house over the protest of the commit
tee in charge of the measure. The bill
also was amended to increase COM
pensations for all dependents about Is
per cent The new rates per month
adopted were:
Widow $35. one child $45, two chill
dren $3.50, and an additional So for
each child up to four
One motherless child $40: two $35;
three $45 an5 $40 additional for each
child up to five.
A widowed mother would receive
$50 a month and no family allowance
would exceed SIS a month. Under
the original draft of the bin the COM
pensation for officers dependents
might go as high as 5000 a month. The
change in the measure was marked by
great enthusiasm by every member on
the floor except a few committeeman.
An amendment to provide that wild
ows marrying soldiers or sailors within
ten years after date of injury should
be entitled to the regular compensa-
ton also was adopted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
IN LAST GOODBYE
Farewell Party Tonight for
Men in Ambulance Corps.
Affair Will Be Given by Stu
dents, Faculty and Alumni.

WaShburn students, alumni and
faculty will bid farewell tonight to
the Washburn Men enlisted in the
Red Cross ambulance corps that is
soon to leave for Fort Pike, Arkansas.
1t will be the last glimpse the
Washburn goods will have of the
members o. the company before they
leave for real ambulance and medical
training. It will perhaps be the most
exciting part of the years social ac-
tivities-on account of the shortag
of men in college this year
The program starts at $50 o'clock,
when picnic supper will be served
to the men by the students and alumni
of the college. Later college good
time will conclude the program,
after several intermissions that will
permit the SWANS to bid "a private
farewell to the girl of ''yesteryear."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
SCAR WAS A JINX
Alleged Pickpocket Exposed in
Crowds at Fair.
LabOrer's Shouts Led to Movie
Chase on Seventeenth.

There's the man, with a scar on
his face, who tried to pick my pock-
ets,at Junction City,"
Those words from Walter Coleman,
Wednesday night, as he stood in front
of the gates at the Big Free Fair
caled for an exciting chase up and
down Seventeenth street and thru the
alleys near the grounds ending with
the arrest of G. H, Jones of st. JOS
eph, by Bert Miller, a motor cycle of
ficer. Jones is being held at police
headquarters awaiting the arrival of
Coleman told Sheriff Hugh Larimer
today he was willing to swear to a
warrant against Jones.
Coleman is a laborer living at the
Baltimore hotel on the north side. He
worked on the cantonment at Fort
Riley last week and started to Topeka
Monday with $50 in his pockets.
Fought on Train.
81 had climbed on the train at
Junction City and was just sitting
down when two men ran into me and
one reached under the seat saying he
had left a grip there" Coleman told
Sheriff Larimer this morning. =" LAS he
Strengthened up l felt a hand in my
pocket l grabbed the fellow by the
throat and his companion told him to
get out of there as quick as he could.
He got away from me and ran
out onto the depot platform. The
train had started and L followed to
the steps and shouted to some soldiers
to catch the fellow, telling them he
was a pickpocket. l didn't lose my
money and so didn't get off the train.
got good look at the fellows face
and noticed, in particular, long scar
extending from his lip across the left
side of his face nearly to his ear"
Chased Several Blocks.
AS Coleman a1ighted from a car in
front of the fair grounds Wednesday
evening he saw the face with the scar
in the crowd. He shouted to Bert
Miller, the motorcycle officer. who
was near. Miller says the fellow ran
for several blocks before he was cap
tured. Miller finally caught him at
Tenth and Tyler streets.
Altho Jones is six feet in height
and well built his hands are as small
as those of a child 2 years old. He
says he is a printer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
FIVE CENTS EACH
KansanS Will Subscribe That
Amount for Soldiers Books.
Topeka Will Be Asked To Give
$4,000 Week Sept. "a.

Every Kansas town and county will
be asked to give sum equal to five
cents for every man, woman and
child in the campaign for books for
the soldiers. James l.. King, chair
man of the Kansas auxiliary library
war council, today announced the plan
for raising funds for the national
troops in France and at the military
environments.
While no definite sum has been as
signed to Kansas. the state will be
expected to give an amount equal to
five cents for every citizen. Topeka
with a population of $4,000. will be
asked for a subscription of $2,500.
Chairman King believes there will be
little difficulty in raising the required
sum, altho a strenuous campaign will
be conducted by the committee in
charge of the work. A national fund
of one million dollars is to be raised.
The cents per capita plan is ex-
pected to prove popular. Thousands
of Kansans are expected to give a dol
lar. Hundreds of men and women
will subscribe IS and many others will
give larger sums. Thus the man who
give dollar will take the burden from
persons who by reason of limited in
come cannot subscribe to the fund
In each town where a public library
is located, the work will be in charge
of the library organiZa ton. The work
will also be extended to clubs. fra
ternal bodies, patriotic societies and
public schools. Each organization
will be permitted to make campaign
in such manner as local conditions
warrant. All books will be accepted.
Under a special proclamation Gov
ernor Capper designed the week of
September "a as library week for rails
ing the required fund.
One Topeka family gave 40 books
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13

were any better than a similar sized
bunch from New York.
How many saloons have you in
this city?' l asked him"
" About fifteen thousand 1 believe,
he replied"
Saloons Tear Down Men.
Z" That's the answer l said. 1T has
been twenty years since there was an
open saloon in Kansas. There are
hundreds of thousands of young men
in kansas who never saw a place
where liquor is soldI' T"
Governor Capper also quoted from
a letter written to the war departmen
by Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood, in COM
mand at Camp Funston He quoted
General Wood as stating that he found
Fort Riley the cleanest, most whole
some looking military camp in the
United States.
Mrs. Mulvane, state chairman of
the women's committee of the national
council of defense, explained the need
for the registration by women. She
pointed out that the women were not
asked to deny themselves or their
families of anything but merely to
make substitutions that would save
flour and meats for the men in the
trenches.
w. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson, lieu
tenant governor, spoke on Canada
and the World War" He has recent
ly returned from a visit along the
states border.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
GIVE ALL FORTUNE


Minneapolis. Sept. 13.-The board
of regents of the University of Min
nesota today ratified by unanimous
vote the permanent agreement maxi
ing the Mayo foundation at Rochester
the absolute property of the University
to be used perpetua1ly for higher med
ical education, research and investi-
CATION.
Securities totalling s1,650,345, rep
resenting the fortunes of Doctors Will
]. and Charles H. Mayo, were turned
over to the university.
We turn over to the regents the
bulk of our savings of a generation,
as an outright gift" said DR.. Will ].
Mayo, who is a member of the board
of regents, but who did not vote on
the proposal. THE money came from
the people and we feel it should re-
turn to the people-a continuing fund
that shall serve this state for genera
tions to come"
Expenses of the foundation will be
paid by the Doctors Mayo until a fund
of 100000 has accumulated. There
after the income fund fro mthe fund
will maintain it, regents explained.
Ten per cent of the yearly income
will be expended outside the state and
another ten per cent to investigate cpl
denies inside and outside the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
Heart and Beauty
Problems
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Ever since can
remember l have been going to the Baptist
church and all of my family are Baptists-
have been married for three years aud
since my marriage my husband has been
very insistent that / go to his church with
him He is of another religion opposed %
him to his church. 1t would hurt me very
much TO give up. my. church, because
don't like his belief, but l want to Keep
peace In the family. What should do
about it MARRIED
going to your own church. but you should
not insist on your husbands going with
you. Tell him firmly that you viii not
give-up your church and that he must give
up hope of your doing so. Since he has
already taken steps with the child. there
is not much yon can do about that s,no bqt
is your right to do so.
telephone what should you say firstf
Shonld you say, Hello, or repeat your
number what2 f. n. H.
In answering the telephone there are a
good many ways that are correct. The
telephone company has hdvised that when
you take down the receiver you say. This
is Main 772. whatever your number is.
It is also good form to say. This is the
store or whatever the name OF the estab-
lishment is. In small town where there
are not many telephones. II Is all right TO
take down the receiver and say. Hello
Dear Mrs Thompson: l have a young
quite often. As there are not great many
asks me to go TO picture show with him.
The picture show is quite ways from
where live and have to take car
and when get off the car ] am often
curious to know just how il should be done
% should the boy the girl go firstg
~ Should he help her off the car or
should he stand aside! "
"a The boy should get on the car last
and off the first.
(2) He should help her on the car, fol-
lowing her himself, and when they get off
he should get off first and help her off
the
Dear Mrs. Thompson: az Should girls
ever paint?
(2) Is it harmful TO the flesh TO use
powder?
60 Should a girl of seventeen go out
more than four times a week, less?
"a Is it proper for lady to meet a
gentleman at some appointed place or
should he call for her at her homer
90 Should / ask him to be seated II
am not quite ready?
go What should l say when we are
MISS RUTH V. F.
(2) Powder used after cold cream is all
right; otherwise It dries the skin and
makes it rough.
(3) -Four times a week is entirely too
many.
al She should not meet him at an ap-
pointed place, but should have him come to
her home for her.
(5) Yes.
(0l Say, Tn ready now"