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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
HAS SIXTY-F00T CRUISER.
F. c. Menemacher Adds to Local
Fleet Of Pleasure Craft.

Among the recent additions to the
feet OF pleasure craft on the river is
a handsome sixty-foot cruiser which
Capt. A. H. Gregory of this city brought
down last week from New York for
F. C. Menemacher of this city. The
new craft will make her headquarters
at Alexandria, and will be used by her
owner on the river. The vessel is com
pletely equipped, and those who will
travel aboard her will be as COM
Portable as they could be ashore. It
Is probable the new craft will fly the
pennant of one of the local yacht
clubs.
The bridge deck cruiser Almarn. be-
longing to Herbert e. F. Allen. for
merly of this city, but now residing
In Bridgeport, Conn. has left here in
charge of Capt. Gregory for Bridge
port to be turned over to her owner.
About seven days will be required to
make the trip through the inland water
ways. Mr.. Allen will this summer use
the craft for cruising on Long Island
sound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
TEN ATTACK A THOUSAND.
Bluejackets Try to Lynch Pacifsts,
But Are "Beaten Up.n

PHILADELPHIA, August 25.-With
cries of Lynch the traitors" ten
United States sailors in uniform charg-
ed a crowd of nearly 1000 here last
night in front of a theater, where ths
police had forbidden the holding of
an anti-draft meeting. The sailors
were badly beaten before the police
rescued them and ordered them away.
The seamen arrived as several men
attempted to make ,curbstone speeches
after finding police on guard at the
theater where they expected to par
ticipate in a meeting under the aus
pieces of the peoples council of America
for democracy and peace. Prior to this
three men and a woman were arrested
for stating their views as "conscien-
tious directors to war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
ACCUSED OF PERJURY.
Former State Senator W. H. Rey-
nolds Indicted in New York.

NEW YORK. August 25.-Former
State Senator William H. Reynolds,
one of the largest real estate dealers
in New York. has been indicted on a
charge of perjury in connection with
certain real estate transactions with
the city.
The indictment charges that Reynolds
perjured himself when he testified be-
fore a condemnation commission June
4. 1912, that he had no interest in the
Neponsit Realty Company. which at
that time owned the Seaside Park land
at Rockaway, and sold 1t to the city
for more than $1,000.000 Charges of
gross profits in the deal were made by
William Bullock, formerly a city en-
ploye and head of so-called bureau
of city inquiry
Reynolds testified before the con-
demnation commission, 1t is alleged
that $4,000 an acre was a reasonable"
average for the Rockaway Park site,
while the city's appraisal expert testi-
fed the land was worth from $4,000 to
$4,000 an acre.
Reynolds entered plea Of not guilty
and was released under $4,000 bonds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
DIVISION NO 4,

The exemption board of the fourth divi-
sion has had a human interest case in
William B. johnson. who lives at 1908
I'd street southwest. His mother came
around to the quarters of the board in
the fourth precinct station house to tell
that Johnson Is in a bad way. He weighs
only seventy pounds, and has trouble
with his lungs that may be pneumonia
or may be tuberculosis. The board has
exempted him as too i'll to take examine
ton
six young men have been certified as
accepted for the National Army Just be-
cause they did not show upfor examine
ton. They are: Lewis Parker, 30S X
street southwest; Edward Wilson, SIS eth
street southwest: John Floyd Brown, Sc
" street southwest; Edward Eimore
Chase. 1912 LIST street southwest: Sandy
Lewis, 302 I'd street southwest, and James
Luke McHaffy. 1925 Robinson street
southwest.
Twenty-seven men have been certified
as fit for service without claim for ex-
emption. They are: Moeris Michele
2os AZ street southwest: Bernard
Aloysius Johnson. PA G street south
west: Jerry Sewell. 232 L street south
west; James H. Butler. 914 LIST street
southwest: Ernest Ellsworth Moulden.
SIT K street southwest; Charles Har-
rison Lewis. 116 I'd street southwest
David William Gabbett, 1907 r street
southwest; William Stansberry Smith,
1918 Delaware avenue southwest. Tony
Smith. ala d street southwest; Albert
Edward Peyton. AT Clark court south
west: Jesse James Hughes, GIG LIST
street southwest: Lewis Harry Wilson.
4S7 School street southwest; Hinton
Davis, 344 Armory place southwest
James Kenny. 43S Delaware avenue
southwest: Philip Clarke. 81 K street
southwest. Richard Arthur Penn. 1904
Delaware. avenue southwest; Mack
Camp. 227 Az street southwest; Her
bert Wesley Greene, sos G street south
west: Bruce Wallace Cole. s07 Sd street
southwest: Austin Grisby, s32 " street
southwest: Asa Abraham. s25 Az street
southwest; Paul Francis Mockabee, 344
Mclean aversue southwest: George RAN
dolph Williams, 324 r street southwest;
John Roundtree, 339 + etreet so4th-
west; Joseph Lawrence Garner, 2s1 18th
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No Ships Hit, Says London.
MELON PRICES TUMBLE.
Increase in Receipts at Market Cause
of Decline.

Sudden and unexpected increases in re-
ceipts of watermelons from river and
bay points at 18th street wharf market
in the past thirty-six hours has had
the effect of sending melon prices tum-
bling down. Wednesday the TOP of the
market reached $40 a hundred. the high
price of the season. Yesterday after
noon and today the same melons sold at
s2s a hundred, and culls. which were
selling at $40 hundred early In the
week can today be bought as low as SO
a hundred.
This morning IT was estimated that
there were about 5000 aboard the YES
sells at the wharf market with additional
cargoes looked for ito arrive at any
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
FACES CONTEMPT CHARGE.
Former Motorman Cox Is Cited by
Justice Siddons.

Levi c. Cox, the former motorman,
whose infatuation for a New York
woman. who was frequently a passen-
ger on his car, led to the filing of a
suit for divorce by his wife, Edna Cox,
was cited today by Justice Siddons of
the District Supreme Court to show
cause Wednesday why he should not be
adjudged in contempt of court for al
legged arrears of alimony payments. He
is also to explain why the allowance to
the wife should not be increased.
Mrs. Cox tells the court that when
alimony of $50 per month was fixed for
the support of herself and child the
husband was motorman and made
only $50 per month. He is now en-
ployed as a brakeman by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company and makes
s11G per month. she asserts. He owes
her s45 back alimonys which she says
he declines to pay.
Attorneys u. w. Baker and ]. W.
Staggers appear for the wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
ARE DOING THEIR BEST
TO MAKE REAL TITLES
BESTOWED By PARENTS

Hoping to win their way to the
top Of their profession by be-
coming bona fide officers. General
A. Reed. Colonel Oscar Williams
and Lieutenant" Goddard McCabe
are now serving as privates in
the ranks of the United States
Marine Corps. They were given
their official names by their par
ents. and not through any mill
tary service or appointment.
Maj. Gen. George Barnett, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, re-
Gently made the announcement
that future officers in that Or
ganiZation would be chosen from
men in the ranks. It may be that
the martial pref1xes of these well
named sea soldiers may serve
them later as designation of
their rank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
CAPT. MCKINNEY PROMOTED.
Made Major and Ordered to Report
to Commander at Camp Meade. :

Capt. Henry ]. Mckinney of the Reg
ular Army. In charge of recruiting for
the Regular Army and the National
Guard in the District of Columbia,
Delaware and Maryland. has been pro-
NOTED to the rank of major in the Ma
t.onal Army and ordered to report to
the division commander at Camp
Meade. Admiral, Maryland.
Although Maj. McKenney has been or
dered to report at Camp Meade today,
he will still retain control of the re-
cruiting district until August 81, di-
viding his time between Admiral and
his office in Baltimore, Md. until the
end of the month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Lightkeepers Enter Naval Service.

Chester A. Van Hooter, keeper of the
Greenbury Point light station in An
napolis harbor. and David w. Cullison.
keeper of the Baltimore light station.
Patapsco river, have resigned to ac-
cept berths as warrant officers in the
United States Navy. They have been
assigned to duty at the Naval Academy.
Oscar p. Olson, who was Capt Guilt
sons assistant at the Baltimore light,
has been promoted to keeper and
placed in charge of the station, and
Robert Kuhn has been transferred from
the Love Point station to the Balti-
more station to be assistant keeper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
To Fix Prices Soon as Possible.

This International price-fixing pro-
gram viii be put into operation az
soon as possible The American gov
eminent viii start with food and fuels
over both of which il has assumed
cohtroi under acts recently passed by
Congress. Coal prices already an.
nounced and wheat prices about to be
nxed viii apply alike TO the American
and allied governments. The Ameri-
prices
In the case of other materials the
government is moving more slowly
nrst- because 1t wishes to arrive al
proauclion costs. and. second. because
under existing laws to force producers
TO sell to the American public and the
allies at the prices the American gov
ernment can obtain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT
Food Administrators in Four States
Assume Their Duties.

Federal food administrators in four
states announced today by the food
administration as having been approved
by President Wilson and taken their
oath of Office are:K Kansas, DIR. Henry
]. Waters of Manhattan: Maine. Leon
S. Merrill of Orono; North Dakota, Dr.
Edwin F. Ladd of Fargo, and South
Carolina. David r. Coker of Harris
vile. Administrators for thirty-two
states now have been appointed and
those for the remaining states will be
announced soon.
They will administer the food con-
troll law as it applies to internal state
matters and coordinate state food
activities. serving without pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Reports Show 1,24s Accepted.

Figures obtained from the eleven
local division boards show that a total
of 1853 men have so far been accepted
for the Districts quota of the new Ma
tional Army. Out of total of 4,119
summoned there have been 3,3sO actu-
ally examined A total of 1857 have
been rejected. leaving 342 cases pend
ing The detailed figures of each board
are as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
DIVISION NO. 7.

A letter was received today by the ex-
emption board of the seventh division
headquarters at Western High School
from man who has been accepted as a
member of the new National Army, re-
questing that he be sent with the first
80 per cent to camp. He says he Toes
not know, whether he will be included In
the first lot of men or not. but he hopes
that he will be one of the first called
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Seek Release of Drafted Internes.

NEW YORK, August 25-Medical
authorities in Boston. Baltimore, Gin
cinnati. Cleveland. st. Louis, Syracuse
and Charlottesville. Va. 3have Joined
with Mayor Mitchers committee on ma
tfonal defense to obtain temporary
exemption of medical students and
hospital internes drafted for the Ma
tional Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Bomb Plotters Sentenced.

NEW YORK, August 25s-Conv1uksd
Offices Of J. p. Morgan q Company IN
the hope OF producing q panic In the
stock market here last May. Wolf
Hirsch and George Meiringer have been
sentenced to from four months TO tour
years in the penitentiary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Drinks Carried Into Trenches.

The canteen is placed in or near the
second line. and refreshing drinks are
carried right into the front trenches.
Each station can keep about 125 gallons
of hot drinks at the boiling point and has
several thermos containers holding six to
twelve gallons apiece. -Four thousand
portions-coffee, tea, cocoa, bouillon, lem
onade, mint-are sometimes served from
one canteen in single day.
Here. too, American workers will be
found. The .convoyer' in charge of the
canteen will be a Red Cross man, with
French soldiers to help him. Many OF
the poilus will get their first glimpse OF
the American uniform in this way. Just
the cup of coffee, or the cold drink, may
make all the difference between sagging
morale and spirited fighting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
CARDS TO Be SENT
D. C. DRAF TED men
Special Delivery Messages
Will Notify Them of Their
Selection.
MUST BE READY TO REPORT

Men of the District of Columbia final
Iy selected as part of the Districts
quota in the new National Army in a
few days will receive a green postal
card notifying them of the fact.
1t will be handed to them by a spe-
cial delivery boy from the city post Of
fee. who will take a receipt for 1t. This
receipt will be filed as a part of the
records of the boards.
Postmaster Merritt o. Chance. chair
man Of exemption board No. 8, is to
provide the special facilities for the
boards, which will assure them of the
fact of the delivery of the notices to
the persons for whom they are in
tended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
New Rule Governing information.

After a lengthy hearing yesterday the
board of appeals announced the adoption
Of a policy to govern the giving out OF
Information concerning its action in in
dividual cases. This policy Is set forth In
the following resolution:
Resolved. That no member of the
board shall, in response to inquiries or
otherwise, communicate to any person
not an official of the United States or
of the District of Columbia any in
formation concerning the causes OF
reasons for any decision of the board
or the vote by which such decision was
reached: but shall refer all inquirers
to the board.
provided, That this rule shall not
IN any manner abridge or curtail the
right of any person to receive from the
board, or from the secretary thereof.
access to the records and information
which such person may be legally en-
titled"
Four Appeals Granted, IL Denied.
The board announced that it had
granted four additional appeals and
denied eleven, as follows:
Appeals denied: George H. Brooks
lii, 1923 r street northwest; John Sam
uel Morrison. 1918 1 street northeast;
Giuseppino De Grazia, 1411 H street
northeast; John Brown. Ills 22d street
northwest: Ralph L Eonnell, 1920 r
street northwest; Isiah Thompson. Ais
New Jersey avenue northwest: William
L. Smith. 119 Hickman street south
east; Charles Carroll Rouse. 1404 Girard
street: Charles Harrison Lederer, 124s
H street northeast; Frank A Kros, 3451
14th street northwest.
Appeals granted: Samuel Rosen-
blum, 1541 c street southeast; Thomas
Brittin Powell. 1415 South Carolina
avenue southeast; James Edward
Nolan. 1895 W street northwest: Eva.
risto Oculto, IS Dresden apartments.
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Coal Wanted

Will give 5000 Cash for 1000
tons of high-grade Bituminous
Coal, or $500 per ton for any part
of 1000 tons dumped at our
Center. Market boilers. To be de-
livered within 90 days.
The Washington Market COMPANY
Center Market Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Instructor Killed, Pupil Unhurt,

PARIS. August 25.-while Mai. Jacouin.
head Of an aviation school, was giving a
lesson in an airplane 1000 feet in the
air yesterday a pupils machine coIIided
with his The major was struck a., ii. :
head and killed instantly. The pupil was
unhurt va
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Notice May Be Short One.

while as much time as possible will
be allowed you, you are hereby eau
toned that the necessities of the serv-
ice may require you to be called on
very short notice. You should, there
fore. put your affairs in orSer to re-
port upon twenty-four hou.s notice.
The local boards have all received
their cards and await only the certifica-
tions from the District board showing
sending the cards out. Practically all
of the boards are up with their work
and are marking time while waiting
to receive cases back from the District
board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25

The Hospital Corps of the United
states regulars from Madison barracks.
\. Y, under command of Sergt c. A,
Parrish. with 120 men, has arrival a.
Camp Sewer. near .Greenville, S. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Important Change In Schedule,
Southern Railway System,
Sunday, August 20, 1917.

Train No. 40, leaving Washington 1880
am. daily. will be operated through to
Harrisonburg. arriving there 2:30 pm,
making all Observation-Disclosures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
Cautioned to Be Ready.

The cards, which will be sent to Post
master Chance for delivery by his messen-
ger force. instruct the man regarding his
selection, telling him in bold black type
that from the date specified for you to
report you will be in the military service
of the United States and subject to mill
tary law" and cautioning the men to be
ready TO report on twentyfour hours
notice.
You are hereby notified" the card
says, that you have been selected for
military service as part of the quota
from local board for -. You will
therefore hold yourself in readiness to
report for military duty at the office of
the local board at time to be specified
by notice posted at the Office of this
board in the near future. Notice will
also be mailed you. but the posting of
notice at the office of the board will
charge you with the obligation to re-
port. From the date SO specified for
you to report you will be in the mill
tary service OF the United States and
subject to military law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
BRITISH VESSELS BOMBED.
Berlin Says Hits We're Scored, But
London Denies Claim.

AMSTERDAM, August PA state
ment issued in Berlin regarding the
attack by airsh:ps on the northern
coast of England says bombs were
dropped with good effect on British
naval forces. The statement supple
ments the official report on the raid
in which the loss of one. airship off
Jutland is admitted. 1t says:
ION approaching land bombs were
dropped in large numbers on outpost
vessels At 2 am. bombs were dropped
on Hull. causing fires. The airships
also dropped bombs with good effect on
Lincoln and on the southern bank of
the Humber. near and east of Grimsby.
above brightly illuminated factories.
Extinction OF lights showed that build
ings had been hit On their return
the airships dropped bombs with good
effect on naval forces"
No Ships Hit, Says London.
LONDON, August 25.-The admiralty
states that no British ships were hit
by bombs dropped In the Zeppelin raid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-25
STATIONS AND CANTEENS
FOR TROOPS IN France
Establishment at Once Will Be Un-
dertaken by American Red Cross.
100000 Appropriated.

Rest stations and canteens for
French and American troops will be es-
tablished at once IN France by the
American Red Cross. it was announced
today. The war council has appropriated
hot and cold drinks will be furnished
men in the trenches.
At railroad functions and depots rest
stations will be established for the
comfort of soldiers going on furlough.
They will be equipped with dormitories.
shower baths. laundries. disinfecting
and mending rooms and quarters for
social diversions. Small stores will be
opened. where tobacco and various deli
cacies may be purchased at a reason
able price.
The war council has been trying to
find out just what the Red Cross could
do. most effectively to hearten the
French army and to give TO French
soldiers token of the fact that Amer
lea is with her ally with all her power
The French army officers have told the
Red Cross that canteens and rest sta
lions would do more for the immediate
welfare and contentment of the SOL
diers than anything else that could be
done. Therefore the problem is going
| to be met thoroughly and at once.
To Change Present Conditions.
| The poilus come out of the trenches
to go home on leave. mud-stained. ver-
min-covered, reeking with infection
They are marched to the nearest rail-
| head in that condition, where, perhap
| they find little station with scanty
accommodations for a dozen passen-
gers. The American Red Cross plans
1 to reyolutionize this.
| Nearly $4,000 soldiers are passing
through eleven of these stations every
| day. They will have a convincing proof
! of American friendliness when they
| find American women-the woman's
| bureau is now recruiting fifty of them
for such service-ready to help them
| Just behind the firing line. the Red
| Cross will put field canteens. Extend
| ing the work already begun by the
| French Red Cross. we shall see that
every corps of the French army. and
\ ultimately our own, has one of these
stations. which will supply hot and
cold drinks to the men who are fight
| ing. Many of them now have nothing
1 to relieve their thirst except their days
ration which they carry in containers
| which may be smashed at any minute.
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Division

Ttls.I.os4 Ais 1850 1893 1857 ..
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ACTIVITIES OF
BOY SCOUTS

The competitive patrol drill for the
Daniels cup is to be held Saturday
afternoon, April 2s, at O'Clock on the
White House ellipse. 1t will be held
this year under the same conditions
stipulated last year. The judges will
be selected from the board of inspectors
Of the police department.
Any boy who desires a plot of ground
on which to raise vegetables this sum
mer may obtain one by applying to
the treasurer of George Washington
University, 2024 G street northwest.
The university has several small pieces
of land in the District which it will be
glad to turn over to any boy who de-
sire to use it for this purpose.
James ]. Lee, formerly scoutmaster
Of Troop SO, was recently appointed to
Evening star., 1917-04-08
To Consider Supply of Raw Material

TO deal with problems of brass and
aluminium supply for the army and
navy the council OF national defense yes
terday created two committees to act in
conjunction with the raw materials
committee Of the civilian advisory COM
mission, which acts with the council.
The two new committees are expected
10 bring highly valuable technical in
formation to the army and navy. Com
mittees relating to other raw materials
vital to the conduct of the war are
being formed and will be announced
later.