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booksellers and Stadonecs.
.t20 King Street.
Washington E3ouZ:ie&n ~,
Schedule IN effect Jan. -. 1918.

Schedule IN effect Jan. II. 1918.
For Washington and points north
daily SOS, 9:l3, 9:2S, 1888, i. m,
1918, lis. 1873, 2:05, (Through
train for New York, Via P. +. R.
.l:3333, 9:13, 1!:333 p. m.
Week days only Cos p. m, SatuT-
days only 4;45 p. m, and Sundays
only SIS p. n.
Tor FREDERICKSBURG, Ei:nrncnc aE'
points youth at 4:37, 1852 (local> ard
9:47, Il. M. 1907. 2:I1, 5:l7 tlocaO
GIT, 1902, SIT, 9:17, 7. N. daily.
Accommodation for QuantIco a.
1903 Il. m. daily and 2.28 p. ia. SAT
urlavs. Night train leaves lbs p
m. daily for fredericksburg and IL
tcrmcdiatc stations.
NOTE-TI:gne. NJ aTrI7A' an. ~
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limiting the rate OF speed over Hum
ing Greek bridge to siS}miles; joint
session Of the councilmen and alder
men was held at which Kenneth ".
Ogden was unanimously elected csHei
of the fire department, and the res
ipnatio nof Carroll Pierce as school
trustee in the third ward was read
and accepted. Some other matters
were also given attention after which
the council adjourned.
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Washington, Feb. lS.--Ihat France
and England arc III agreement cor
corning the establishment Of "a
tional home for the Jewish people ii
Palestine is affirmed BIZ Foreign
Minister Pichon in Paris. according
to an Official dispatch. ". Pichon
gave this assurance to NJ. SoI:oIca-.
the representative of the Zionist or-
CARNATIONS.
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Maryland, Delaware md
Nirg;aia Railway %.

Steamers OF this Inc leave Alex
audr;a every Monday, "Wednesday,
and Saturday. g, 4:45 ,, IN.
FOX BALTIMORE AND ALL TIE
USUAL RLTEH LGNDiNG5
Cuisine and appointments une&cei.-
cd
Freight for Baltimore, Phi'ata!-
pni: and Ncw ycrk solicited and
banded with care. Through rates
and bills Of !ading issued.
Single fare to Baltimore. $3.2e:
,Y;t1 return trip $3.50. Stats ROOMS
cne way SEQ aud 70.
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LOST-Bctwccn Alexandria ami Lin
coma, Va, on Friday afternoon
Feb. s. l,unch Of keys CONSISTING
of house. auto and paddock keys.
also check with namc and address
attached. Finder will please return
sane and receive reward. L. Wc.-
ley Garter. Alexandria K. f. T..
No. >. Box - 3i-5t.
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Classified Advertising

Rubbcrs of all Kinds still 10 be had
Ut Katz's. ioo King street 26-i;,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Declares Heney, Trade
Commission Counsel, Is
Trying to InAu-
ence Public
Resents Receiver Talk
lnnaendo Injuring Credit, Is
Charge; High Cost of
Meat Unavoidable

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-J. Ogden Armour,
head Of Armour Co., meat packers, to-
night made statement in regard to
remarks made in Philadelphia Satur-
day by an official connected with the
Federal Trade Commission, asserting
that the Federal government might
seize packing industries through re-
ceivership. Mr.. Armour, after resent
ing what he called "the insdious meth
DDS of Mr.. Hcney, counsel for the COM
mission, of prejudicing and inflaming
The public" said:
Under an act of Congress passed a
few months ago, authorizing the United
States Food Administration so to do,
the government has in effect already
assumed practical control of the pack
ing business.
Through the affairs of corporation
in Philadelphia, which has no connec-
tion whatever with the packing business
and whose operations have not the
slightest influence on the cost of meat
the press dispatches scatter all over the
country interviews with M. Heney,
which both by innuendo and anonymity
coupled with Mr.. Heney's innocent dec
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Mild Weather Brings
Baseball to Upton
Soldiers Enjoy Games a.
Temperature Climbs
to 44 Degrees

CAMP UPTON, Long Island, Jan. G..
With a per cent of the troops
away for the week end. the thirty thou
sand who remained enjoyed a warm.
sunshiny day.
BY noon the temperature had
climbed to al degrees, and on the pa
rade ground we're many football and
baseball games. The first morning
train crawlcd in at / o'clock this after
noon, carrying visitors who came in
response to kilograms that, on account
Of dsordcred railroad conditions, few
men would be given leave.
Even in corners unreached by the
sun and where fresh breeze was
blowing, the thermometer registered
39 degrees, as against ID below zero
last Sunday. The nocnday mess was
eaten with the windows Of the great
halls wide open, and most of the sol
dcrs went about without their over
coats.
Regimental commanders reported
that there was very little fault-fnding
among the men at their inability to
secure passes home.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07

linatons to be personally interviewed,
charge that the United States is plan
ning to have receivers take over and
run the packing business.
Says Heney Assumes Powers
Mr.: Heney is the paid attorney Of
the Federal Trade Commission. and as
such he should occupy and discharge
his official duties in fair way He
has. however, assumed the powers not
only of the Federal Trade Commits
sion. but of the Department of Justice,
and, in fact of the government itself.
:" shall not at this time comment on
the manner in which the hearings. are
conducted. nor shall I refer to the fact
that the packers are not represented
and are not permitted to cross-exam-
inc witnesses or to introduce testi-
mony or otherwise explain the motives
to develop the truth of the witnesses
selected by Mr.. Hcney to lend color
to his pre-announccd opinions
Each day there isues from the in
quiry room dispatches that refer to the
meat trust the food combine which
has the public in it's grip and similar
unfair catch phrases which can only be
construed as appeals to stir up the pas
sions and prejudces of the people.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
5 Major Generals on
c. c. N. Y. Honor Roll
College Publishes Names and
Rank of Alumni in Ma
tion's Service

Seven alumni Of tho College Of the
City of New York are general officers
in the United States army. Five are
major generals and two are brigadicrs.
This is announced in the Honor Roll"
published yesterday by the institution
and giving the name and rank Of each
present or former member of the col
lege now in the service Of his country.
Among the alumni there are also two
colonels. fifteen captains, forty lieu
tenants, five scrgeants and six COR
porals. Six are with the naval reserve
and fourteen are in civil service.
Enlistment among the undergrad
yates has also been frequent, consider
ing that the average age of graduates
is under twentyone. SO far, 1875 have
joined the colors. The faculty Of the
college has a credit Of twenty-five en-
listments.
Prominent alumni now serving the
nation in civilian positions include
Bernard Baruch, 'S9, of the Council of
National Defence; Albert Straus, 'S4
personal representative of Secretary
McAdoo on the War Trade Board; !;
Charles f. Lucke, 'S4, director Of the
Naval Training School for Reserve Of
ticers and Machinsts at Columbia, and
Meyer Bloomfield, head of the indus.
trial service department, United States
ShippinC Board
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Roosevelt Appeals
For Chamberlain Bill
Says Unpreparedness Is Max
ing War Much More Costly
to the United States

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. Elm an
editorial entitled "Thc Cost of Unpre-
paredness," published in "The Kansas
City Star" to-day, Theodore Roosevelt
writes:
Senator Chamberlain, in order to
minimize the chance of future war and
to insure us against disaster in the
future, II in the future war should un-
happily come, has introduced bill for
universal military training of our
young men under the age of twenty
one.
"The Administrator declares against
universal training, and therefore for q
continuance of the policy of unpre-
paredness, the fruits of which we are
now enjoying. Some of these fruits are
as follows:
according to the statement of Mr..
Fitzgerald, chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations of the House, Con-
gress appropriated during the last year
$l8,o80,O0O,000, and provided author
lzatlon for which cash must be sun
Piled before next July of s2.110,o00 900,
making our years war expenses a
grand total of s21 ,s90, 900, 900
Had we started to prepare in time
one-half this cost would have been
saved. The tremendous pressure COM
ing suddenly caused an immense in
crease in expenditures, even aside
from the futile waste, extravaganza
and misdirection.
Had we gone into the war when the
Lustania was sunk we would have
saved a third Of this sum, for we have
loaned our allies about seven billions
Our delay in going into the war, and
above all, delay in preparing, have re.
suited in huge increase in the money
chest and in the length of the war anc
in the terrible total of avoidable
human suffering
"The lack of preparedness is rcspon
sble for the sickness among our sol
diers."
(Copyrght. 1918 Kansas City Starl
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Women to Ask House
To Gust La Guardia
Pacifists of 18th District Want
Fighting Representatives
Seat Vacated

Women of the 14th Congress Dis
trict, led by Mrs. Edith Shatto King,
of Greenwich House, manager of the
National Social Workers Exchange,
will present to-day to Champ Clark a
petition signed by 5000 voters asking
that the seat of their Representative
in Congress, f. II. La Guarda, be de-
clared vacant because of his service as
a military aviator with the United
States Expeditionary Forces.
The document bears the signatures
of many of the radicals of this, the
most radically pacifist district in the
city. 1t embraces the lower East Side
and includes among it's voters pacihsts
who are quoted as saying that the mill
tant La Guardia would be punished for
his attempt to represent non-hghting
constituency from the firing line in
Europe.
A movement recently was started to
send a woman representative to Wash
ington in the event that the vacancy is
declared. Representatives of the Wo-
mans Peace party, who were active in
the fight against La Guardia, refused
to name their candidate, but admitted
several weeks ago that such plan was
being considered.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
China Feeds Children
To Stop Sale as Slaves
Government Takes Babies
From Starving Refugees
in Flooded Districts
[Staf Correspondence

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Thousands
of babies arc being fed by the Chinese
government this winter, says a report
from Peking, to prevent the sale
of children into slavery by homeless
and starving food refugees.
Proclamations have been posted by
the authorities in affected districts pro-
hibiting child traffic, and offering to
feed the children Of those who are un-
able to support them and to return
them after the period Of distress shall
have passed. The prospect of starva-
ton has driven thousands of Chinese
parents to sell their children.
Temporary institutions for feeding
babies of destitute parents are being
established throughout the devastated
districts and in Peking and i'll Tien-
tsn. The proclamation says: "Our
deep sympathy goes forth to the par
ents who are compelled to part with
their dear ones for paltry sum OF
money, with themselves lying under the
shadow of DEATH"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Signal Corps Still
Open to Drafted Men
Many "Ground Positions" in
the Division Have Not
Yet Been Filled

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Drafted men
may apply at once for "ground posi-
tions" in the land division of the Sig
nal Corps, according to an announce
ment from the War Department to-day
which reads:
ut is believed that there are a large
number Of men within the draft age
who are suitable for Signal Corps work
but who will delay applying for induc-
tion under Section $50 of the selective
service regulations. for the reason that
they are unaware that the trade or pro-
fession in which they are qualified
could be used to advantage in the land
division of the Signal Corps.
"The land division of the Signal
Corps is in need of men qualified for
the following duties:
"Chauffeurs, motorcycle drivers and
gas engineer repair men for duty in
field and telegraph battalions.
photographers, both wire and radio
"Ielephone men, including switch
board operators, telephone repair men
and men skilled in testing and repair
ing telephones in lines.
"Linemen, telegraph and telephone.
Photographic still and moving.
"Homlng pigeon men.
Radio men who are familiar witt
installing radio apparatus
ALSO men qualified as cooks, clerks
telegraphers, blacksmiths, meteorolo
glSts, cObblers, cable men. etc"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Y. M. c. A. Official, Back
From Front, Calls 1t Coun-
try's Greatest Danger
All but Ruined Italy
Propaganda Worked Havoc
Among Officers as Well
as Rank and File

CAMP DIX, NJ. j., Jan. 6.-"Amcr-
ica's gravest danger is being 'gassed'
at home by German propaganda of the
type that has wrecked the Russian Of
fence and brought defeat and near
ruin to the second Italian army in the
recent great drive" declared James
Whitmorc, American War Council rep
rcsentativc of the Y. M. C. A., Just
back from Europe. who addressed
Camp Dix men this afternoon. He
told an amazing story of the cause
OF the Italian collapse.
"The second Italian army was honey
combed with German-Austrian propa-
gandists," he said; "even the officers
fell for their diabolcal perversions of
the facts. A few days before the big
drive began ! was talking with an
Italian officer near the front. He was
a former contractor from New York
City.
How Italians Were Fooled
HE assured me that by January
the war would be over and he would
be back in America. Representatives
of all the Allies and the Central
Powers were even then meeting in
Switzerland and arranging peace
terms, he assured me, nor could
convince him otherwise.
"This story had permeated the whole
Italian army and seemed to be accept
ed as truth, despite the fact that il
was brought in by hundreds of Austri-
ans who deserted to the Italian lines
declaring they were discontented with
their army conditions.
The day before the big drive begar
copies of what purported to be 1taliar
newspapers, so cleverly faxed" ever
news that they deceived every one
were circulated by thousands through
the Italian lines. They bore glarinf
headlines to the effect that there wer,
terrible bread riots in Italian cities
that the wives and children of soldier!
at the front were battling for thei
lives, and that English, French ant
Australian troops had been called il
to settle the trouble and were shoot
ing the women and children down il
cold blood
Something of this same kind hap
pened at the Russian front. We il
America arc up against this same sor
Of poison. We should be on our guart
! to check this gassing process whercvc
it appears.
At a great union communion servic,
this morning. attended by Major Gen
eral Scott and one thousand Of his Off
GERS and men, an innovation was intro
duced when the communion was serves
/ by fifteen majors who were leadin,
church officials at home. A militan
sermon was preached by the Rev. DR.
Charles A. Eaton, of the Madison Ave
nue. Baptist Church, New York. Massc
were held in the Knights Of Columbus
halls and several huts conducted b.
Catholic chaplains.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Kiss Betrays Draft Dodger
Tailor Hailed to Court Has No
Registration Card

Charles Thompson, busy tailor in
Jersey City, had no time to bother with
the draft law last June, but leisure
overwhelmed him yesterday when Miss
Dorothy Murphy entered his shop, at
456 Jackson Avenue, to get "a suit she
had left to be pressed.
Immediately, according to the &C
count of the meeting which Miss
Murphy gave to the police, the tailor
began to press his own suit ardently
and likewise pressed kiss against her
lips and her will. Five minutes laHr
Thompson was in the hands Of the 10
lice on Miss Murphy's complaint, Ad,
on giving his age as eight ,ywas
answering embarrassing questions con-
cerning his lack of a registration card.
He is still locked up to reflect upon tho
perils Of yielding to impulse.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
New York Girl Sues
Banker for $25O,OOO
Miss Amy O'Connor Declares
Evansville Man Promised
to Marry Her
Especial Correspondence

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 6.-Thc
love Of Allen Gray, millionaire banker,
Of Evansville, Ind, which Miss Amy
O'Connor, of New York, says she once
enjoyed. is worth $35o,ooo, according to
her two suits filed in the Federal Dis
trict Court in Indianapolis yesterday.
One suit is against Allen Gray and asks
s25O,oo0 for alleged breach Of promise;
the other is against his brother, Will
lam, also an Evansville banker, and is
affections. Gray met Miss O'Connor
in London in September, 1911, accord
ing to the complaint, and Immediately
began paying attentions to her. He
continued to pay such attentions until
last September, it is charged.
In November, 1914, at the urgent soil
citation Of Allen Gray, Miss O'Connor
says, she left her home and came to
visit her sister. The defendant met her
at the boat upon her arrival in New
York and continued his attentions to
her, expressing his love and esteem fol
the plaintiff, the bill recites. In Sep
tember, 1917, it is alleged, Allen Gray
asked Miss O'Connor to marry him at
date to be fixed within a few weeks
and she consented, believing him to be
trnthful and sincere.
Relying on his promise, the com.
plant says, the plaintiff notified hel
relatives and friends of her betrothal
But during the month of September the
affections of the defendant underwent
change, with the result that Miss
O'Connor was cast aside and has been
so ever since. According to the bill
the woman declares that she is ready
persists in refusing, thereby causing
her great humiliation and pain. Hel
health has been impaired, she asserts
She also states that the banker wrongee
her.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Cause of High Meat Cost

"The cost Of meat is high, but there
are controlling economic reaons there
for which can be readily ascertaimed
and should be by some governmental
agency explained to the people. An ex-
stock to-day as compared with those
paid a year ago discloses an increase
of about 40 per cent.
"The packers to-day are uniformly
straining every effort efficiently to aid
the government in winning the war;
:. No greater injury can be done to
the packers then to affect their credit
by fomenting public discomfort and
spreading statements cloaked with ap-
parent official authority that Federal
receivers are to be appointed of the
properties and businesses of the pack
ers ;"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Six Truck Trains to Start
One a Day Will Leave Detroit,
BEGINNING January 10

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Ihe War De-
partment announced to-day that begin
ming January 10 and continuing for six
weekdays truck trains will start each
day from Detroit for the Atlantic sea-
board.
A great utilization of the highways
FOR freight traffic is forecast by the
success of the initial Detroit-to- sea-
board trip recently completed. The
ouartermaster's department is preparing
to bring thousands of trucks on their
own wheels to the Atlantic coast, there
by relieving to an extent the freight
congestion. The laying out Of other
military routes for the movement OF
trucks and supplies may result.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
"Ex-Czar's Daughter" Who
Came Here Is Russian Dancer

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. Glow
the widespread reports that the Grand
Duchess Tatiana, second daughter Of
the ex-Czar. was on her way or had
arrived in this country to lecture on
Russia originated seems to have been
solved.
T. Kobayashi, editor of "Nichi Del, >
a local Japanese newspaper, disclosed
to-day that in his edition Of December
27 he published cablegram from To
kio stating that Tatiana had arrived IL
TIE Japanese capital. AS he has re
ceived no further advices on the sub
ject, he believes the news was false
/. is possible a Russian dancer nance
Romanoff, who later arrived here, was
mistaken for Tatiana. At any rate, the
dancer was not eager to explain th'
mistake in identity, which resulted il
a lot of publicity for her.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
500, 900 Books for
Soldiers in Camps
Library Association Has Pro-
vided Reading Matter at
Home and in France
TStof Co,respondence] |


WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The war SER
vice committee of the American Library
Association has sent more than 50O,0 900
books to the training camps and to
France, has erected complete library
building in every army cantonment ex-
cept one. where local conditions have
delayed the work, and has placed
trained men in charge of all libraries
Buildings are in course Of construction
at the sixteen National Guard camps
and at two special camps.
In a memorandum to the. Commission
on Training Camp Activities of the
War Department., DR.. Herbert Putnam
Librarian of Congress and director of
the American Library Associations wal
service, announces that there are now
in service in the various training camps
$4,000 books, and that an additional
22O,O 900 have been shipped and are on
the way.
The campaign for funds during Sep
tember and October last netted some
thing more than 81 100000 for this SER
vice. Of this sum $320,0O0, grant
from the Carnegie Corporation, is
being applied to the erection of the
library buildings at thfrty-four car ps
The American Library Association
will not attempt to administer directly
the books it will send to France. The
work abroad will be handled by the
Y. NJ. c. A., the Knights of Columbus
and the Red Cross. Two representa-
tives of the association are, however
starting to supervise all the work there
OF the 100000 books sent to the sol
diers by the association, 100000 were
purchased. The rest were gifts.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
200 From Camp Merritt
Hike Across Hudson on Ice

PIERMONT. n. Y, Jan. Ga detach-
mcnt of 200 soldcs from Camp Merritt
marched across the Hudson on the ice
to-day from Alpine, three miles south
of here, to Yonkers. In their hike
they traversed the route which Cen
eral Washington followed when he re-
tired from New York after the Battle
of White Plains to begin his desperate
and brilliant campaign in New Jersey.
At Alpine they set sout upon the ice
opposite a cottage which once was the
Headquarters of CORVALLIS.
After eating luncheon in Yonkers
the soldiers marched back again. They
were members Of the 148th Infantry.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07

should be regarded as essential. In
snch units 1t is possible to give girls
the protection of home and many os
its advantages, at the some time lcav-
ing them independent and sclf-rcspect-
ing.
"lf the committee on housing OF the
National Council of Defence will adopt
these standards of living for women
they will render service to the
women of this country the value of
which it is impossible to measure
MRS. JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER. JR ~
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Christian Endeavor Sends
Prohibition Orator to Europe

BOSTON, Jan. 6.-Daniel A. Polling
is on his way to Europe as the repre-
sentative of the Worlds Christian En-
deavor Union. 1t was said at the So
ciety headquarters in this city to-day
that he would speak in the interests OF
prohibition in leading cities in England
and would study social and war condi-
1tions in France. On his return he will
speak at mass meetings in different
cities, ..
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Plan to Send Portrait of
Washington to Argentina

WASHINGTON, Jan. Gas mark
of esteem for the Argentine people, the
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07

House Foreign Affairs Committee has
favorably reported bill for por-
trait of George Washington to be pre-
sented to the Military College Of the
Argentine, at a cost of $4,000.