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The Washington times., 1917-05-08
GERMANY NOW HUNTS
SPIES WHO PLOT PEACE
Government Takes Measures 10
Repress Anti-War Talk.

COPENHAGEN. May s.-Ths Ger
man government started peace talk
for its own ends. but now II Is con-
fronted with q distinct and decidedly
growing movement among its people
for peace which it Is taking measures
to repress-
Private advicss received from Ger
many today showed this new develop
ment in the German governments
apeaee plotting" They detailed an
empIre-wide hunt for peace spies.
The hunt has been transferred from
the civil authorities and placed In the
hands Of the military government.
with rewards offered for arrest Of
peace propagandistA
Very few German newspapers are
being received here now. but an
which DO pass the censorship contain
enthusiastic articles rejoicing in the
success Of the German submarine
warfare. All feature widely stories
from British newspapers detailing
food shortage in England and discus
sions in the British Parliament, as
well as OF plans for American aid. a.
indicating England is sorely stricken
The Washington times., 1917-05-08

others performed from the back of
one mount to Gnother while both are
on the gallop. she is the feature OF
a great galaxy OF riders numbering
fifty which include Ian MACPHERSON
and his clan OF Highland horsemen
and Romoffsky's daring Siberians.
Though still in her teens, Miss Wirth
has surpassed all others in her
branch OF the profession. Though
she has many accomplishments as
rider. her amazing somersaults out
shine all the rest She rarely ex-
periences a fall. This is because she
has what circus people term per
feet time"
81 start to spring through the air
at just the second or part OF q second
when the little watch inside OF me
says it's time to CO." says she. That's
the only watch we riders have, and
the only one we ever need. And then
keep right on smiling, even when
things sometimes go wrong. When
the face is relaxed in a smile all the
rest of the body relaXes, too. And so
you see, / always land on my feet"
More than 400 arenic artists will ap
pear on the program following the
fairyland spectacle cinderella" when
Ringing Brothers exhibit here, next
Monday and Tuesday. These will in,
clude Hillary Long, the man who
leaps the gap" with skates at
tached to his head: Australian wood
choppers in amazing contests. the
Joseffson troupe OF Icelandic giants.
in remarkable feats, the Tamaki COM
pany OF jiu-jitsu champions. whole
companies OF world famed aerialists.
including the Clarkonians and the
Nelson's and scores of other eNcep-
tional artists OF ring. hippodrome
and tent-top achievements.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08

couldn't be permitted to interfere
with an edlfylng hypothesis. and 20
the originator OF this theory IL now
coming to the front to announce that
he told us SOL He points out that he
did warn Europe that II II allowed
the Panama Canal to be opened tts
climate would very soon become much
more severe: and hasn't the climate
done exactly that? Post hoe. ergo
propter hoe!
Apparently the diminishing supply
OF white paper IL never going to sup
press the ambitions OF people deairous
OF getting their funny theories ex-
plotted. Quite q debate has been
going on in the press about the rea-
sons for the bad weather that has
prevailed since the war began. Ever
since the war started the weather in
western Europe has been unconscion-
ably bad: anybody can see that the
war must have something to do with
II. So the old theory OF the Kansas
rain makers that they could reform
the climate by shooting on lot OF
high explosives Is gaining converts
here faster than the Mormon mis-
sionaries, and II the alarmist church
authorities are to be relied upon. the
Mormon missionaries are gettin6 20
be a real menace.
The only trouble is that In the mat
ter Of the weather. as In that OF the
Mormons. when one looks TO statis-
teal testimonies to prove these fan
tastic theories they can't be found
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
ENCLAND'S WINTER
SEVEREST In YEARS
Nothing Like It Since Norman
Days, Says Inhabitant.

LONDON, May s.-The Oldest In
habitant in England has a memory
that Is worth while. He has lust
come forward In a letter to the news.
papers announcing that the longest
and coolest winter in $40 years Is
the one that recently ended.
No matter whether he remembers
quite that far back. he assures US
that he has looked up the statistics
on all the famous old winters, and
that the last one that even deserved
comparison with the one now ended
happened in 1917. Since then until
the winter OF 1916-l7, he says, there
has been no season when snow and
extreme cold began so early and con-
tinued so far into the spring.
Several years ago an enterprising
American promulgated an interesting
scheme to build a great artificial bar
rier somewhere opposite the mouth
Of the st. Lawrelhce to defect the
course Of the Gulf Stream. so that In
stead Of squirting out northeasteriy
across the Atlantic IL would have to
go on flowing north and warm up
Grow Bananas In Labrador.
He was sure that Labrador could
by this procedure be annexed to the
banana belt. 1t might be q little
tough on England, Norway and
Sweden, which are presumed to be
habitable only by the grace OF the
Gulf Stream, but he didn't care about
that; what he wanted was TO reclaim
and Western Europe. IL II
found itself frozen tight, might move
over and live in Labrador so far as
he was concerned
This proposal to turn the Gulf
Stream into a sort of climatic irriga-
ton ditch didn't greatly excite any
body in America, but some folks In
Great Britain took the idea quite Sc
riously. One of them promptly wrote
a letter, which was widely comment
ed upon. protesting against such In
reference with the processes of ma
ture, and added that already the ell
mate OF western Europe was greatly
menaced by the construction OF the
Panama Canal. He overlooked, Of
course, the trifiinE detail that the
canal does not in fact start q stream
of water from the Pacific flowing into
the Atlantic to muss up the arrange
ments OF the Gulf Stream. Because the
summit level Of the canal Is eighty
ave feet above sea level
But that was a minor incident; II
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
ENOCH ARDEN WIFE
QUITS MODEL HUBBY
Asks Court to AnnuI Her Sec.
Ond Marriage.

Petition for annulment OF her mar
riage to Meade Marlborough, though
she has found him IAN exemplary
man, loving and dutiful in his rela-
tions to her and her children" was
filed in the District Supreme Court
today by Mrs. Carrie r. Paar-Hans-
borough, whose first husband, John
H. Paar, is alleged to have return
ed after an absence OF thirteen years.
The filing Of the petition today Is the
second step in the readjustment Of the
affairs OF this modern Enoch Arden.
the first having been taken in the Mary
land courts in Baltimore last Friday
when Mrs. "Paar-Hansborough" applied
for an interest for herself and her two
daughters in 5000 inheritance said to
be due Paar in that State.
The petition for annulment, filed
through Attorney Charles V. INLAY,
sete forth that the Paars were mar
ried in this city January 10, 1900,
and alleges that the wife and her two
daughters were abandoned by Paar
in August, 1904. In Decembe-, 1915,
Mrs. Paar was married 20 HaSabor-
ough, having consulted counsel as to
the legality OF such q marriage, and
filing an affidavit with the marriage
license clerk saying she had not
heard from Paar for eleven years.
Nothing happened to disturb the
second union until last September,
when Mrs. Marlborough learned that
the mother and sister Of her first hus-
band, living in Baltimore, had receiv-
ed postcards purporting to be from
him, dated at Allentown, Pa. Later
his mother received another card from
Nd, and thereupon the wife
advertised for Paar in Washington. Al
lentown, and Frederick. Receiving no
reply she asked the District Probate
Court to declare him legally dead
and give her letters OF administra-
ton.
On May 1 last Mrs. Paar learned
that Paar had been seen in Baltim ore
and Immediately left HansboroIgh.
Her petition says Paar called on
George s.. Yost in the latter's office in
Baltimore last week. and that Mr..
Yost Informed Mr.. Inlay of this by
telephone.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08

cents for letters and cents for postal
cards-S70. 900. 600
second Class Mail Goes Up.
Second class mail rate increase to 2
cents per pound as minimum charge and
institution OF zone system-S2o,0Oo.OOo
Cigars. graduated tax up to s. a thou
sand.-S1o.OOo.O 900.
Cigarettes. increase to $50 a thousand
-S7.oO0.0OO.
Manufactured tobacco. increase to 16
cents a pound-s25. 10000
Wholesale tobacco dealers. IS a year
81 so. 900.
Sporting goods, per cent Of price at
factory-S15,000.00 900.
Total. s.. 500. 10000
In addition. the committee tomorrow
will consider putting into the bill the
following taxes:
Inheritance tax, increase OF one-third
UP to inheritances Of 100000 and more
thereafter-slOO.OO0 10000
Income tax, making individuals pay
tax for calendar year of 1916 as well as
l917-S20O. 10000.
Refined petroleum. 10 per cent of
wholesale price-S75 0O0. 0O0
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
INCOMES TO YIELD
S6OO,OOO,OOO TAX
War Revenue Bill Prepared Is Wide
IN Its Scope.

The following taxes have been
agreed on to go in the war revenue
bill which will be introduced by the
Ways and Means Committee in the
House today:
Incomes, individual and corpora
tion: Increase from to per cent
on corporation incomes, an increase
TO . per cent on individual incomes
over 81, 900 for single men and $4,000
for married men and up to a total
OF so per cent on incomes OF $500. 900
and over. to yield $500, OOO, 900.
Other taxes and what they are ex-
pected TO yield follow:
Excess profits, increase to 16 per
cent on profits over S per cent and
5000: $3.50. 1000, 900.
SI5O,OOO. 900 on Train Tickets.
Passenger tickets, 10 per cent: $780,
Freight bills, per cent; S7o.OOO.-
600.
whisky. $500 a gallon; sos, OOO,-
600.
Beer. S2.75 a barrel: S3T 900 900.
Miscellaneous stamp taxes, $780,
oOO. 1000.
Rectihed spirits, 25 cents a gallon:
S12.5OO,OOO.
Wines, present rates doubled; 81
600, 900.
Soft drinks, mineral waters. near
beers, etc, . cents a gallon and up;
$4,000. 900
Automobiles. 5 per cent OF price
20 dealers at factory: ST5, 100000
Musical instruments, per cent of
price TO dealers at factory; s. 900 900.
Pipe lines, 5 per cent OF transport
tation charges: $1,000, 900.
Advertising. except in newspapers
and periodicals.. per cent Of amount
earried-S. O00OOo.
Playing cards. 10 cents a deck SlO.-
oO0OOO.
Baseball. theater and other amuse-
ment tickets. 10 per cent-S7b. 10000.
Pullman and parlor car tickets. 10 per
eent-s7. 100000.
Jewelry. 5 per cent Of price at fac
tory-S7000.0O0.
Proprietary medicines. stamp tax-ss.-
bo0.0oo
First class mail rate increase to }
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
RUSS VOLCANO MAY SMASH
Prof. Petrunkevlteh Fears Separate
Peace With Kaiser.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. May S.-Prof
Alexander Petrunkevitch. of Yale,
who is the son of the first floor lead
er OF the Russian Duma, said today
that IL is the duty of every American
to do all in his power to bring about
the fall Of Prussian militarism. He is
fearful lest the socialists OF Russia
may force that country into a sepa-
rate peace with Germany.
"They think that the offer Of no
annexation and no indemnity would
be an effective one" he said. 81
think that this way Of thinking is
likely to start trouble for the gov
eminent as soon as IL dissents from
their views There will be no Ger
man republic or anything of the
kind. The Teutons are not ripe for
any such government as yet. II Rus
sia does conclude n separate peace It
will be n world calamity. Russia at
the present moment is like a volcano.
II may go this way, 1t may go that
way: IL may blow up or it may do
nothing"
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
BY ROBERT b. hermann.

CHRISTIANSBURG. Va. May s.-A
double case of personality presents it
self today in the amazing physiolog-
ical problems contained in the case OF
Charles E. Vawter as brought out in
evidence at his trial for the murder
Of Stockton Heth. jr.
The problems involve the only two
living actors in the most amazing
human triangle drama that has ever
been enacted in Virginia-vawter and
his wife.
Here you. have a man who out
Jekylls Jekyll at times, and out
Hydes Hyde at others more fantas-
tic creature than even the pen of
Stevenson could paint And by his
side stands his wife, embodying the
some phenomena in the feminine
way.
Picture IL you can a savant-a man
who is recognized as one OF the au-
thorities Of the country on physics
and mathematics, a renowned profess
scr at q renowned Institution, q social
leader in the close, select set OF the
college, q loving husband and an in
dulgent father, and above all. q gen
tleman in every sense that the word
implies. That is.what you see in Vaw-
ter today. But go back for just a
year. You have a sodden drunkard,
a pitiful coward, from whom wine and
passion have driven every vestige of
manly decency, a man who sinks SO
far down in his cups that he out
does even the white SLAYER. The white
SLAYER sells women whom he does not
know for money. This man would
have sold his wife for liquor.
Drunkard or Savantg
These two pictures have been pre-
scented forcibly, indisputahy, to the
jury, and upon what they gather
from them rests the fate OF Charles
Vawter.
Here is the question that they must
| decide: Which of these two men was
he when he shot his best friend to
| death II he was the savant, he
must rely upon his plea of self-de-
Tense, intermingled with the unwrit-
ten law. to save himself. II he was
the drunkard, he will probably be
found not guilty because OF insanity.
While this is the only side of the
double case that the jury must pass
upon, the personalities of the wife
are just as interesting. II not more so.
As you see her today she is a great
woman-a woman who has braved a
worlds scorn to save her husband,
an ideal mother, and a true wife. As
you look at her. calm and brave for
all her pallor, can you conceive that
/ she Is the abandoned creature who
lived for a year the wife OF two men,
their joint companion on drinking
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
sHEFFERMAN TO LECTURE.

DR.. N. w. Shehferman win deliver
a lecture in the assembly hall OF the
Public Library on Thursday evening
at s o'clock, under the auspices OF the
Washington Society of Character
Analysis. The subject will be THE
Job-what Must We Consider in the
Selection of 4 Job" DR.. Shefferman
is an expert on vocational analysis
and on experimental psychology.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
FRANCE GIVEN 500, 900, 900
Much Formally Attends Transfer
OF First War Loan.

Americas first loan to France,
500 900, 900, was turned over to the
French ambassador and members OF
the French commission by Secretary
OF the Treasury McAdoo today.
There was much formality in con-
nection with the transfer. Speeches
were made by members OF the French
mission and by the Secretary. Motion
pictures were taken OF the signing OF
a Treasury warrant by the Secretary
and Comptroller of the Treasury War
wick, and of its receipt by the French
authorities.
Like other transactions OF the kind,
the transfer was made in the office OF
Secretary McAdoo, with a host of of.
ficials present.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
WOULD BAN ST0P.WATcH
Bill to Prohibit Device In Postal
SerXlce Offered.

A bill prohibiting the use OF stop
watches sand other time-measuring
devices in the postal service was
offered in the House today by Con.
gresham Van Dyke OF Minnesota, a
former postal clerk.
The stop-watch system OF speeding
up Government work is now forbidden
in Government arsenals and navy
yards, organized labor having been
successful in its fight against the so
called Taylor system"
The Van Dyke bill makes II unIaw.
full for any Postoffce Department OF.
ficiAl to use time measuring devices
cor other system TO determine what
amount OF labor il to be performed in
a given time 6SrenpioyeE- =
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
HOLD MURDER SUSPECT
Inquest On Slain Negro Girl Set
For Tomorrow.

Although no formal charge has
been placed against him, the police
are still holding Joseph Y. Sanders,
colored. on Investigation in connec-
ton with the murder of Eleanor
Taylor, colored. seventeen years o,d.
whose body was found in the woods
hear Fifty-ninth street and Field
place northeast last Wednesday.
Coroner hewitt will hold an inquest
in the case at the Morgue tomorrow
morning.
Bertha Sims. colored. who Identified
the girls body as that OF her niece
on the day after IL was found, also is
being held for investigation" at the
House of Detention.
The girls throat was cut.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
Jury Faces Psychic Problem
Vawter and His Wife Present Amazing Case
of Double Personalities in Human
Triangle Drama.

bouts? Yet either she must be both
women or else she performed a
greater sacrifice even than the one
for which she has been credited.
When court was reconvened this
morning there seemed to be the i'm
preston that Vawter was nearer to
acquittal than he had been at any
time since the first day of the trial
The reason was rather vague. Yes
terday's testimony was undoubtedly
in favor Of the defense, but there
was nothing crushing about 1t. Some
suggest that there may have been
hidden in it that which will allow
the prosecution to get in a surprise
in its summing-up today. But the
feeling was as apparent as it was
vague.
All together yesterdays evidence
was the hardest to analyze in the
whole trial.
When DR.. Jarnette and DR.. King.
expert witnesses of the prosecution,
were allowed to testify that Vawter
was sane when he offered TO share
his wife with Heth and dismissed
with only perfunctory cross-examina-
ton every one felt that something
was up. But no one knows yet what
II was.
AEkuA4CnNn
The testimony was certainly
blow. But the lawyers for the de-
Tense are far too shrewd to have
allowed it to go unchallenged with
out a reason. What that reason is,
their arguments are expected to dis
close
Then came the expert testimony for
the defense, by Drs. Hall and Pedtgo'
in direct contradiction OF the proceed
ing statements. Hall and Pedigo
were by far the most convincing eX-
pert witnesses yet heard, and their
testimony was mistaken by the severe
grilling at the hands Of Jack Lee.
Yet, on this side, too, there was that
cryptic quality about some OF Lees
questions which could but lead one
to believe that the aIienists had said
something from which he would be
able to make capital when he has the
last word to the jury.
All in all, DIR. Hall was the most
entertaining witness OF the day.
A savant Of the idealist type, a man
who knows the human brain as a
child knows his letters, he made a
/ profound impression on the jury. and,
incidentally, furnished some good ma
terial for a popular treatise on mental
disorders
Here are two of the brilliant
flashes from his testimony: Yes. we
send degenerates to jail-and 1t was
only a few years ago that we sent
men there for debts"
oscar wilde was undoubtedly Of
unsound mind, the son OF father
and mother both mentally unbalanced
in spite Of their brilliance."
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
PLAN POTATO CORNER
Pennsylvania Farmers Report e.
forts Of Commission Merchants.

READING, Pa, May S.-Agents OF
New York and Philadelphia commits
sion merchants are focking into the
vast potato belt OF Lehigh and Berks
counties in an effort to buy up the
crop of this year. Exorbitant prices
are being offered by these agents, &C
cording to farmers reaching Reading
with their products, but very few
have been accepted. One firms
agents, II Is said, offered as high as
81. 80 a bushel-and this q wholesale
price.
This offer was made to farmers
around Kempton. a small town, but
not one was accepted.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08

killeo MS friend IN sudden ourst OF
passion.
Questions Warming.
As soon as the instructions were
read, Commemorative Attorney Roop
opened the argument for the State.
Beginning with a scathing denuncia-
tion OF Vawter, he went into the evil
dence in the most minute fashion,
trying to make capital out of every
point.
One of his most stressful points
was the fact that each OF the three
original Vawter letters introduced in
the evidence contained a postscript,
while there was none in the carbon
copy of the June 10 letter, warning
Heth away from Mrs. Vawter.
1t has been evident that the State
Is trying to prove that this letter was
written after Heth's death instead OF
eleven months ago.
Refers To POtIphar's Wife.
Roop attempted to arraign the de-
fense's expert witnesses of yesterday.
by pointing out that DR.. Hall thought
degenerates should be treated instead
of punished, and that PeddIgo had
been a "bellyache" doctor for twelve
years.
The prosecutor went all the way
back to the days OF Joseph, in com
pairing Rachel Vawter to Potiphar's
wife.
Roop brought out an interesting.
though trivial. point when he showed
that Vawter had violated the law on
the night of the shooting by giving
whisky to Bull" Williams, the
young student who made his home
with the professor.
Roop laid stress on Mrs. Vawter's
admission that she had smutted the
character of an innocent woman
guest to save her own. He was call
ing a spade a spade and the morbid
crowd which thronged the courtroom
leered viciously as he badly dis
cussed the wife's conduct.
Roop painted a graphic picture OF
the Vawter home as "a den of
iniquity" whose presence was a shame
to the county, and his vitriolic ar
raignment OF Mrs. Vawter was grue-
somely personal
He brought out the bitter burden
which father and mother have placed
on the backs OF their two little chill
dren.
After speaking for nearly two hours,
Roop closed by re-reading the instruc-
tons TO the jury. celebrating upon
them. Following this court recessed for
luncheon
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
C. OF C. WILL MEET.

The regular monthly meeting Of
the Washington Chamber OF Com
merce is to be held tonight at
Congressman Montague
of Virginia is to be the principal
speaker.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08

with the United States army on the
Mexican border. DR.. Pelzman has
been assisted in organizing the class
by David Herzmark and Julius
Lansburgh.
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
LEARNING FIRST AID
Young Jewish Women Organized for
Instruction.

A. class OF young Jewish women
has been organized for instruction In
first-aid to work in connection with
the District Red Cross.
The work will be under the dirsc-
ton OF DIR. 1. A. Pelzman. who served
The Washington times., 1917-05-08
PROSECUTOR FLAYS
VAWTER HOME LIFE
lnimates Professor Was
Trying to Kill Wife.
Questions warning.
Continued from First Page.)

wife to Heth, he cannot plead that he
killed his friend IN a sudden burst OF
passion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-01-25
WHERE? EVERYWHERE

Certain press circles seem more or
less involved III an earnest discussion as
to why newspaper subscribers are
peculiarly indisposed to the payment of
their subscriptions. First catch your
hare before you debate the various
styles of cooking it. That is to say, any
discussion of why folks fall to pay for
their paper" seems to US trife
previous-until you have first settled
the fact that they DO. At least that
they are any more lndisposed to pay a
newspaper bill than to pay other bills.
Of course there ARE folks who do
not pay for their paper, just as there
are folks who do not pay for food
and clothing and fuel, and what
not. In other words, we are inclined to
think that the bad play" brigade
is not confined to newspaperdonl-
by darned sight. We suggest to our
friends of the Press circle that thew
have heart-to-heart, strictly-under
the-bonnet chat with the groceryman.
and the haberdasher and the coal dealer,
and the rest; and it's dollars to dough-
nuts that the newspaper man will find
all the company which misery is said to
love. We are not justlfying the bad
pay bunch';.we are only locating it;
that is to say locating it everywhere.
That thought doesn't add to anybody's
comfort; but it interferes with any par
ticular line of business monopolizlng
the martyrs crown. All dogs haven't
fleas; but most have. It's very ex-
ceptional line Of business that can re-
joice in exemption from the dead
beats. No, no, my brethren of the
Press, we can heartily share YOUR dis
gust with the "bad-pay bunch" but
we cannot share your opinion that news
papers alone suffer from their presence.