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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-08
Active Part in Opposing johnson Bill

The Board of Trade has taken an active
part in opposing the Johnson anti-rent
protteering bill. At its last meeting in
the Willard, February 10. a lengthy re-
port was adopted. setting forth why the
board believes the Johnson bill is unfair
to Washington. The report was submit
ted by George R. Linkins. chairman of a
special committee, and concluded with the
following recommendations:
That any legislation on this subject
shall be applied to the whole country and
not to the District of Columbia alone;
that the legislation should be along the
lines of criminal statute and not taxa
ton legislation; that the legislation shall
be so passed that the burden shall fall
equally and fairly upon all classes of
property, and that no class be exempted,
as is the case under the Johnson bill;
that the law should not be retroa ctive;
that no action to fix rentals should be
taken except in cases where complaints
are actually made; that a rent admins
traitor and such assistants as are neces-
sary should be provided for. with power
to fix rentals during the period of the war
and for a reasonable time thereafter"
The committee expressed the belief
that the Johnson bill does not strike at
the heart of the rent question because
it assumes that the landlords are the
offenders. whereas, the committee as
sertS, nearly all rent increasing in the
last year has been done by subtenants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-08
Would Amend Tinkham Bill.

Your committee further reports and
recommends that the Federation of
Citizens Associations, by proper res
olution, indorse the bill H r. 10202
introduced by Mr.. Tinkham. being the
second Tinkham bill, with one amend
nent, as follows:
provided that the order of the rent
administrator deciding any case upon
complaint filed with him shall take
effect as of the date of the filing of the
complaint"
"a correct statement of this amend
ment as applied to the bill itself by
page and line IS as follows:
Page 4, line 6. strike out the words
relate back to and and line Z, strike
out the words approval of this act by
the President and insert in lieu there
Of the words the application to the
rent administrator
Your committee further report that
they have. by motion duly passed by
unanimous vote of the committee, ap-
pointed subcommittee, consisting of
the chairman, Edward F. Colladay, the
president of the federation: Charles S.
Shreve and Herman A. Phillips. to pre-
sent the report Of the committee, if it
shall be adopted, to the Congress, and
take all proper steps to have the bill
H. r 10202. with the proposed amend
ment as above stated. enacted into law
Your committee requests the federation
to approve the action of the COMMITTEES
in creating the said subcommittee"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-08

Always a little more than the
moneys actual worth-that's our aim
and our assurance to you. Tomorrow's
offerings emphasize it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-08

5-Piece Aluminium Saucepan Sets, set,
SII9.
20c a hundred Hardwood Clothespins,
special tomorrow, I5c-
Good Quality Toilet Paper, special,
rolls, 25c. Delivered only with other
merchandise
Heavy Brush Cocoa Doormats. special
79c.
$50 Carpet Sweeper. very easy run
ming. Special, S.6o.
sl25 Mahogany Serving Trays, glass
center, &c.
White Porcelain Tops for Kitchen Ia
bles, special, SL9S
$1,000 Washing Machines, very easy to
operate, $3.50.
sc Quality Inverted Gas Lights, COM
plete, 49c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-08

Swift's Borax Laundry Soap, special,
5 cakes, 25c. Delivered only with
other merchandise.
S275 Heavy Tin Washboilers, No. 9
size Special, Sz35.
$l.50 Fine Quality Long-handled Bristle
Floor Brushes csc.
S125 Lambs Wool Wall Brushes, short
and long handle, 79c.
Wonder Cedar Polish, S1.00 size, Csc;
SOC size, 34c.
Square Piece of Tile, attractively dec
GRATED, for under hot teapots, 25c.
English Rockingham Teapots. choice of
several sizes and decorations, 49c.
Blue Enameled Corner Sink Strainers,
special, 15c-
Pyramid Gas Stove Toasters, holds 4
slices, &c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
RENDERS PROGRAM

The Woman's Missionary Society
met Monday afternoon at the First
Methodist church at four thirty
o'clock. Mrs. John Taylor was the
leader for the occasion, and a splen.
did literary program was rendered
The opening song was sung by the
entire body, and spirit of martial
enthusiasm stirred the patriotic wo-
men present as they sang Onward
Christian Soldiers" Mrs. John SILVER
read a splendid paper upon the ChaI-
lenge of a Time of Great Crisis and
Perplexity This was discussed among
the members, and Mrs. Annie Walker
read a paper on a Challenge of a Big
Task
A sketch was given of the foul
missionaries who are to be sent out
this year, and the names of the mis-
sionaries read. They are Miss Jes-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20
TO FNTERTAIN TONIGHT.

One Of the most enjoyable affairs OF
the week Will be that of the very in
formal gathering at the home of Mr..
ana Mrs. Will c. Sullivan at their
home on Church street tonight of
about ten Souther Field young men,
and the young people of the immedi-
ate neighborhOod to join in an even
ing of simple enjoyment. Since the
Inauguration of the camp here, Mr.,
and Mrs. Sullivan have entertained
five young men from Souther Field
for dinner every Sunday, the name
of these being Mr. Edwin Roberts,
who sings in the Methodist choir;
Mr.. Michael. Sergeant Harry Preston,
Mr.. Labrade and Mr.. Propella, the
last of whom is now in France serv-
ing his country on the Dattlehelds.
Games, music and bright converse
ton will be enjoyed until the ten-forty
train. when the young men return to
the camp. About twenty young peo-
pie will be present,
Mrs. Charley Goodroe and Misses
Adgie and Jessie Vincent, of Buena
Vista, are visiting Mrs. G. w. Martin,
at Aries.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20
NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that the Cen
trail Of Georgia Railway has made ap-
plication to the Railroad Commission
Of Georgia for the authority to dis
continue parlor cars on trains Nos. 5
and 10, and IA and 6, between Macon
and Albany, Georgia. This applica-
ton will be heard by the Railroad
Commission Of Georgia at its offices in
the State Capitol, Atlanta, beginning
at 1000 o'clock A. NJ, August 18th,
1913.
All parties desiring to be heard in
connection with this application
should communicate with this Com
mission on or before the date above
mentioned.
This notice is given in accordance
with the requirements of the Rail
roan COMMISSION of Georgia.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY.
By H. D. Pollard, Gen. Mgr
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20

sic Gill, who is supported by the
Alabama Conference, and will be sent
to Mexico for field work Miss Paul
inc Randle of the louisiana confer
ence who goes to Korea. Miss Pearl
Hicks of the East Oklahoma confer
ence who will be sent to Brazil. and
Miss Mary Lamar of the Texas con-
ference who also goes to Brazil.
These women have already completed
their courses and are ready for ac-
tive work in the foreign fields The
one who will be sent as deaconesse'
to work in America are Miss BERTHE
Breeder who will work from the Bal
timore department of home mission
airy activity, and Miss Emma Ohm
stead who goes to the Louisville field.
The society then sang Il Gave My
Life For Thee" after which Mrs. Lee
Council read sketch concerning the
life and work Of these missionaries,
Splendid work is being done by this
missionary society Of the church, and
many enthusiastic members attend
the regular sessions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20
HARRIS ATALPHARETTA.
DEFENDS HIS BROTHER

ALPHARETTA, Ga, August 20
In his speech to the voters of Milton
county here Monday, William ]. Har-
ris, candidate for United States sena-
tor, followed his customary attack
upon the record of Senator 7. w.
Hardwick, with defense of his bro
Their, Capt. C. d. Harris, now fighting
in France who has been attacked by
Emmett R. Shaw, and by certain sup
porters of Willim Schley Howard,
notably in one of the Marietta papers
which is controlled by Mr.. Howard's
friends.
Mr., Harris came here from At
lanta by automobile, and was most
cordially greeted by Milton county
friends on his arrival His reception
was an enthusiastic one, and his adj
dress was heard by splendid audi
ence here this morning.
Mr. Harris declared the lines in the
senatorial race are now more close
ly drawn than ever between himself
as loyal supporter of President
Wilson's administration, and Senator
Hardwick who has persistently OPP
posed the President at every point
He presented the various measures
upon which Mr.. Hardwick has taken
a position of antagonism to the pres
ident and his war program,
''The other candidates who are now
as effectively eliminated from the
race as if they had already with
drawn" Mr.. Harris said, ARE holding
on simply in the effort to help Sena-
tor Hardwick. Their recent actions
show they will descend to any infa-
mours depth in order, of they can, to
defeat me. They have even attacked
members of my family Emmett Shaw
has printed in his paper and it has
been copied in Cobb county paper
that is supporting Howard, a scurri-
lous and false attack upon my broth
ers who are in the army.
THE charge that had anything to
do with getting a commission for my
brother Capt. C. D. Harris, now fight
ing in France, is absolutely false.
Capt. Harris graduated with honors
at West Point. That is what gave
him his commissioning own effort
and his own merit. He was recently
wounded on the firing line by a shell
explosion He has been right in the
thick of the fighting and has probably
done more of it than any other Geor-
gia boy now over there.
That's the record of the boy
through whom they are seeking to at
tack me And Emmett Shaw is the
man for whom l secured position
in the census bureau when he was
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20
RED CROSS FAMILY REMEDIES

Many peeng this
line of Red Cross Remedies.
This Specialists while distinguished achieve
something
each
Each formula with precision
depended that Remedy That's NEUROT0NE
repairs BUCHU
your kidneys in a normal and Healthy condition.
Red Cross Remedies Patent Medicines The formula printed
plain English what they
what taking than hundred Red Cros Remedies and
Toilet Preparations sold and guaranteed only by
looks
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20
MRS. H0FFMAN'S
SOLO ENJOYED,

A feature of the evening service at
Central Baptist church Sunday even
ing was the violin solo contributed
by Mrs. Adolph Hoffman, who is a
recent addition to musical circles in
Americus Mrs. Hoffman Souvenir, -
by Drdla, and the congregation great
ly enjoyed the musical treat thus af-
forded
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20

out of a job Two of Towards bro
theirs have practically life time jobs
under the administration of President
Wilson, and one of these was placed
by me-"
Mr.. Harris said there could be no
doubt as to the outcome of the issue
between loyalty and disloyalty. Geor-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20

gia, above everything, he declared, is
loyal
Mr.. Harris was cordially appiauded
throughout his address. In the after
room he went to Roosevelt where he
was equally we'll received and given
many assurances of support in his
race. .
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20

Miss Gladys McKibbon, of Colum i?
bia, Tenn, is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. D. G. Smith, at her apartments
with Mrs. Gaines on Church street. A
number Of informal affairs are plan
ned for Miss McKibbon, who will be
here about two weeks.
One of the pretty features of the
building epidemic which seems to
have struck Americas, is the wide We
randa now being added to the pretty
home of Miss Sarah Wheeler on
Church street.
Miss Adelaide Galloway, who has
been the guest of her sister, Mrs. J.
W Harris, Jr., has returned to her
home in Atlanta. Later she will re-
turn to conclude her pleasant visit in
Americas.
Motoring down to Blue Springs for
dinner and a swim were Miss Mary
Hawkes. and her house guests Mrs.
Patsy Doering, Miss Mildred and
Katherine Bivins, Miss Sarah Tower,
Lieutenants Keough, Baxter Snod-
grass, Norris and Vandenberg.
One of the prettiest affairs at Sou
ther Field was staged Monday night
when Miss Mary Hawkes. presented q
number of the young girls of Amert-
Gus in little playlet called IAN At
ternoon at Home"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-20
Notice TO NV
Customers

EFFECTIVE September first,
- | will discontine the prac-
tice of sending out a bill col
lector. Labor being so scarce,
it is necessary for me to use
all my employees inside of the
store, and | cannot spare a
man for street collecting. Here
after, therefore, all bills will be
out on the first, and
my customers are expectee to
settle not later than the tenth
of each month, in person or by
or make satisfactory
arrangements otherwise with
me.
S. /. SillS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
VERNON CASTLE DEAD
Killed While Trying To Avoio
Collision in Air.
Former Famous Dancer was INSTRUCT
ing American Cadets in Texas
Served on Flanders Front.

Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 18.-While
flying Is miles west of Fort Worth.
Captain Vernon Castle of the English
Royal Flying corps has been killed.
Captain Castle in trying to avoid a
cadet swerved his machine beyond his
control, fell and was unable to right
himself. The cadet was an American,
but was being instructed by the Brit.
ish. The accident happened close by
Benbrook field. The cadet was unin-
jured.
Over Foe Line $50 Times.
Captain Castle as made over $50
flights over the German lines and
was the hero of many exploits in the
war zone. His work had been es-
pecially on the Flanders front and
covered period of nine months. He
came to Fort Worth last October
along with Lord Wellesley.
His friends in Texas declared
when they heard he had been killed,
''That is the way Castle wanted to
die He had said many times, I have
had honors enough; | want to die in
the flying service of Great Britain"
The plane was only so feet above
the ground and was going rapidly.
The plane with which the collision
was threatened was just rising.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
KEEPS ENEMY GUESSING
Pershing's Sudden Shifts BeWil.
dering to Hindenburg.
No Matter Where Germans Strike,
Americans Are There To Meet
Them-Fine Strategy.


New York, Feb. 18.-By transferring
part of his artillery to the Champagne
front General Pershing has caused
further bewilderment to Won linden
burg.
Won Hindenburg is now undoubted-
ly trying to determine whether this
new Pershing move means the Amer
lean offensive will not be launched
against Alsace-Lorraine at all, where
heavy German reserves are concen-
trated, but will strike at weaker sec
ton Of the German front. Tahure,
where the American artillery gave
such valuable help to the French. is
about rs miles measured along the
trenches, west of Xivray, the previ-
Gus point at which German raiders To-
Gated American troops
No better preliminary strategy has
been shown by any belligerent since
the beginning of the war than is
marking General Pershing's sudden
shifts of his forces.
1t is now totally impossible for
Won Hindenburg to be- even reason
ably sure whether General Pershing
has his main eye on Metz and the
Rhine or whether he hasn't.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
Statement From Berlin Says
Kaiser Reserves Free Hand
In Every Direction.
GERMANS FIGHT SELV ES
Petrograd Dispatch Indicates 30 ches
Have Refused To Obey Conn
manders To Move To
French Front.

London, Feb. 19.-According I'd an
official communication issued il
Berlin the armistice between the Ger
mans and Bolshevik1 govern nent
has been declared off, This
communication contains the grave
statement that Germany reserveB a
free hand in every direction. Whd Their
the Germans anticipate an immediate
attack on the Russians has not de-
veloped but undoubtedly there is
tense feeling between the Ger man
military officials and the Bolshe viki
by reason of the fact that Leon T rotz-
ky, the BolsheviKi foreign mini ster,
has not met the desires of Germany
10 frame a separate peace treaty with
that country.
Germans Fight Selves.
Dispatches from Petrograd indi-
cate that German soldiers have de-
clined to obey their commanders to
move to the French front and even
have given battle to brothers in q rms
who endeavored to force them to do
so. In Petrograd, at last accounts,
marked disorders were still pre- vail
ing. there being indiscriminate shoot
ing and looting.
An Amsterdam dispatch says that
Roumania intends under conditions
to enter into peace negotiations with
the Teuton powers.
Gives Two Days Notice.
Amsterdam, Feb. 18.-An official
statement issued by the German i'm
perial government states that the
Petrograd government by its conc uct
has renounced the armistice w ich
had been in existence on the Rus
sian front. This announcement is re-
garded as having occurred February
10.
in conformity Herewith, the state
ment says, the German government
must, after lapse Of seven days. give
notice of the termination as provided
for under the treaty and reserv a
free hand in every direction.
Trotzky Makes Protest.
London, Feb 18.-A Russian gov
eminent wireless dispatch received
here gives message from Leon TrotZ-
ky to the German government, dd ted
February II. 1t asks whether the
statement received, to- the effect that
General Hoffman on February 16 de-
clared that a state of war would be
resumed at noon the 18th betw cen
Germany and Russia was corr ect,
because it seems a provocative act
to give only two days notice inst cad
Of seven, as stipulated in the arr MIS-
tice agreement"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
S. TOTS PERISH
IN NUNNERY FIRE.
Charred Bodies of 43 Children
Taken From Ruins of Mon
treaI institution.
VALIANT WORK BY NUNS
Heroically Try To Save Lives of
Charges In Their Care-Returned
Wounded Soldiers All Es-
cape Flames.

Montreal, Feb. Fifty4ive f0a-
bies, founding orphans, are now
known to have lost their lives in the
fire that swept through the west wing
Of the Grey Nun asylum here
Firemen have taken 43 blackened
little bodies from the ruins. Twelve
more have been sighted.
1t is feared that the death list will
reach at least 70, for the work of
checking over the living babies has
not been completed.
The wing was occupied partly by
returned wounded soldiers and partly
by the orphaned children. All of the
soldiers, about 200, are believed to
have escaped the flames. Inmates of
the other parts of the building, inc1ud.
ing nuns, aged, sick or crippled men
and women to the number of more
than a thousand were saved.
The children were housed in that
section Of the building where the fire
started and the flames spread so rap
idly it was impossible to rescue
them.
When the flames were discovered
in the west wing the alarm was
quickly given and all those able to
help themselves fed to places of
safety. The heroic nuns and nursing
sisters strove valiantly to save the
sick and wounded as we'll as the in
fants under their charge.
The ages of the inmates of the
nunnery ranged from two or three
days to almost a hundred years.
Many of the infants who died in the
fire and smoke. were only few days
or a few weeks old.
The elderly inmates were housed
in another section of the nunnery,
and were not Immediately menaced
by the flames.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
Leading Artist Held DfsIoyaI.

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 1S-Joseph
Pennell, considered the leading black
and white sketch artist in America,
resigned from the Art club while pro-
ceedings were pending for his expul
sion, So bitterly do the majority of
officers and members feel about the
whole matter that the University of
Pennsylvania has been asked to re-
frain from giving Mr.. Pennell a de-
gree, and Secretary of the Navy Jo-
sephus Daniels has been requested to
rescind a commission to make sketch
es Of the navy IL war
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
LABOR ENDORSES WAR AL M:
Says Common People Must DIN
Fight to Finish.

Fight to Finish.
Washington, Feb. 19.-Ameri can
Iabor's Endorsement of war aims as
stated by President Wilson, and rec
ignition that the war against Pfus-
sianism is a wOrkingman's war, is
recorded in a declaration issued by
the executive council of the Ameri can
Federation of Labor at the close of a
seyen-day session at headquarters
here.
The declaration says the peace par
legs between Russia and Germany
have shown the futility of diplomatic
negotiations until the German mill
tarists are convinced they cannot
superimpose their will on the rest OF
the world, and that spontaneous up
risings in Germany have dem on
strated that the militarist government
still is stronger than the movement
there for emancipation.
A gigantic struggle lies ahead a nd
now is a time when all workers must
soberly face the grave Importance OF
their daily work, says the decla ra-
ton, and it adds:
Either the principles of free de-
mocracy or Of Prussian militarist tic
autocracy will prevail. There can be
no compromise. So there can be no
neutrality among nations or 1nd1vl
uals-we must stand up and be count
ed with one cause or the other. F|oI
labor there is but one choice"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
IL FOES PLANES ARE DOWNED
British Also Disable Seven More In
Days Fighting.

London, Feb 19.-Great aerial ac-
tivity by British airmen is the subject
of an official report just issued.
More than five tons of bombs were
dropped on various targets" it says.
There was much air fighting. Four
teen German machines were brought
down and seven others were disabled,
while British anti-aircraft guns shot
down two other machines, one of
which, large bombing machine, fell
inside the British lines. It's four oc-
cupants were taken prisoners.
Another German airplane, making
the seventeenth accounted for during
the day, in addition to those disabled,
landed near British airdrome and it's
occupants were captured. Five British
machines are missing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
To Direct Lake Shipping.

Washington, Feb. Is. = Coastwise
md Great Lakes steamship lines op-
Grated by railroads have been placed
by Director General McAdoo under
the supervision of w. H. Peasants
Of New York, president of the Ocean
Steamship company, designated man,
ager of the marine section Of the
railroad administration. Special atteh-
ton will be given to organization of
water transportation facilities to in
sure greater movement Of coal 10
Jew England next winter and better
lse of lake shipping in coal hauling.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-21
First Prisoners Exchanged.

Geneva, Feb Is. = The first ex-
change of prisoners of war between
Austria and the Allies has taken
place near the Austrian frontier at
Buchs. Three hundred and twenty
four of these prisoners have arrived
at Geneva. They include two Ameri-
can volunteers, one English officer, and
70 British colonials, who were cap
tured on the Turkish and Bulgarian
fronts. The others were largely Eng
lish and Scotch. Seventeen OF the
exchanged men were Carried from the
train on stretchers.