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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
MR.. P(QNDEXTER CLAIMS
CREEL men DEFEND HUN
Senator Suspects Sinister Aim in
Statements That Atrocities
Have Been Abandoned.

The committee on public information
was vigorously criticised yesterday in
the Senate by Senator Poindexter of
Washington, republican, for what he
declared was an effort by the committee
in its publication matter to spread the
belief that German atrocities have been
discontinued The committee, Senator
Poindcxter asserted, is thus spending
money in defense of Germany in con-
Quoting it's propaganda.
Citing President Wilson's structures
in his recent note to Germany regarding
shelling Of lifeboats by German sub
marines and destruction Of property in
territory evacuated, Senator Poindexter
added:
'Yet in the face, of this the committee
on public information is attempting to
create tho Improvisation purpose,
it seems to me, rather sinister-that the
Germans have abandoned these prac-
tees"
Unspeakable outrages and inhuman
atrocities have been proved against the
Germans, Senator PoindeXter declared,
in charging the committee with "sedu-
lous propaganda in favor Of the Ger
MANS
Senator Poindexter referred to the
committees denial of crucif1Xion by the
Germans of Sergt. a. =. Cole of East
dian forces, and presented a letter from
DIR. T. H. Howard of the st. Louis
Chamber of Commerce submitting proof
from Coles brother that the latter had
been crucified to q door with German
bayonets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
GRAND DUCHESS. WITNESS
AGAINST BOLSHEVIK HEAD
She Is Honored Guest of Swedish
Royalty After Being Robbed and
Insulted at Home.
BY BAssETT. DIGBY.


CabIesram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1918.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. October 10
Not many hours ago Grand Duchess
Elizabeth, widow of Grand Duke Con-
stantine, was being searched, robbed,
hustled and insulted by Lenin's red
guards in Petrograd. Now, with her
son and daughter, she is an honored
guest of the King and Queen of
Sweden in the majestic royal palace
in Stockholm. In competent quarters
to say about the bolshevik will have a
stimulating effect on Scandinavia's
determination to deal sternIy with
their subversive activities here.
Swedish passengers on the liner that
brought the grand duchess to this
city report that all factories in Petro-
grad are closed down. The living
conditions were so bad that the work
men deserted to the country regions
where they get enough to eat. They
say that the great majority of the
officials in the bolshevik administra-
ton are Jews. Most of them are not
Russian Jews, but Polish, Lettish and
Galician. with strain of German.
The same preponderance of foreigners
is observable among the non-Jewish
officials. Genuine Russians repre-
sentative of considerable sections of
people or otherwise are scare.
am able to report that information
in diplomatic circles here is fully
confirmatory of and gives fresh con-
viction to our belief that the Russian
nation will emerge in a healthy con-
dition if the sister democracies will
assist. her to make her own voice
heard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22

A life strangely brief, yet replete
with experience, closed with the death
of Lieut.. Wilbur lie Roy Boyer, who
was buried at Arlington this after
| noon. He was the son of Mrs. Frank
n. Grigg of this city and was little
more than twenty-four years old. He
was typical of the American boy; de-
termined to be in the fight regardless
of obstancles and discouragements.
Undaunted by failures to pass the
physical tests for Army service at the
outset, he managed by indomitable
persistence to turn his eXpertness- as
a machinist and engineer to account
as an ambulance driver. While in this
line of work he was twice a victim of
gas attacks which the boches directed
SO ruthlessly against hospital service.
He became associated with the
French Field Artillery School. and
this relationship was the means of his
obtaining the coveted croix de guerre.
The pressure of an emergency became
so great that he found himself with
group of men suddenly assigned to
tank duty. The tank was struck by
a shell. Boyer was standing beside
the gunner, who was killed by the
premature explosion of the gun. Fire
was scattered all about the inside of
the tank, and the body of the dead
gunner lay beside wounded man on
the pile of ammunition. Boyer scat
tered and eXtinguished the blazinz
material and thereby prevented the
tank from being blown up. He then
carried the wounded man to safety.
This engagement left him permanent
ly blinded in one eye.
He was on the Antilles on his way
home to recover his health when that
vessel was sunk by torpedo. He
was picked up. returned to France
and remained in Paris long enough
to rest and secure a new outfit. Re-
turning by way of England. he added
an air raid to his extraordinary list
of experiences and observations.
He reached home on the St. Louis
and again made the effort to get into
the American Army. He was finally
allowed to enlist as a private and
lost no opportunity to contribute any
thing that lay within his capabilities.
He was an officer and valued in
structor at Camp Colt. Gettysburg.
and delivered liberty loan speeches
from aetank in New York.
With all his adventurous nature. he
was a tenderly devoted son and mod
est in the mention of his own chiev"-
ments. His letters, although writ
ten in the intimacy of deep affection,
show a remarkable alertness of OBJ
servation and facility of expression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
WAR STORES AT BRUSSELS
F.. MOVED BY GERMANS

AMSTERDAM. Monday, October
21-German forces at Brussels are
working necessarily to remove war
material from that city. according to
the Roosendaal correspondent of the
Handelblad.- He says that many regi-
ments of German troops are leaving
the city and that there is much ex-
citement among the people there. On
the other hand, Antwerp is very calm
ADD has not been affected by recent
events.
The same newspapers correspond
ent at Boermond says that hundreds
of refugees from northern France
are arriving there. These people,
who are of all ages. have been on
the road for three weeks. They were
given only two hours notice to col
lect their belongings by German Of
ficers at Douai. Cambria and other
cities in the war zone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
ESCAPE TO GERMAN PORTS.
Hun War Craft at Zeebrugge and
Ostend Elude Allied Net.

LONDON. Monday. October IL
Speaking in the house of commons
today James Thomas MacNamara,
financial secretary of the admiralty,
said there was good reason to believe
that all German destroyers and tor
pedo boats which had their bases at
Ostend and Zeebrugge have escaped
to German ports.
Every possible step was taken to
intercept them, he said, but he added
that, seeing that passage could be
made at night and that Dutch terri
torial water could be used. there was
10 certainty that the measures taken
would be efficacious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
CALLS on CATHOLICS
TO RALLY AROUND KAISER
Archbishop Of Cologne, in Pastoral
Letter, Says Germany's Dark
i Hours Have Come.

BASEL, Switzerland. October q:
(Havas).-Cardinal Hartmann. Arch
bishop of Cologne. has issued a pas
toral letter in which he says dark
hours have come for Germany. threat
ened by an enemy SUPERIOR in num-
bers, and shaken to the foundations
of the state by internal changes. He
calls upon his people to offer public
prayers.
Deep discomfort is spreading every
where among the German people, the
cardinal writes. and they not only
give expression to their state of mind
by what they say. but write disheart-
enIng letters to the men at the front.
impairing their courage and power of
resistance. The cardinal invites all
Catholics to rally around the emperor.
In all Protestant churches of P.uS-
STA public prayers have been ordered
for the protection of Germany from
the mfsfortunes which threaten her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
|SAy THE GERMAN ARMY
| IS NOT DEMORAL|zED
Military Experts Who Helped
Frame Kaiser's Note Assert Con-
ditions Are Improved.

BERN, Switzerland, October FL
German military experts, especially Gen.
Ludendorff and Admiral Won Scheer,
chief Of the admiralty staff. took a
large part in the deliberations on the
reply to President Wilson's note. ac-
cerding to Berlin dispatches received
here. They argued that the German
military situation, in consequence of
the withdrawal and shortening of the
front, was considerably ame1iorated,
and added that the German army was
not in the least demoralized.
The liberal newspapers of Germany
suggest the sending of the newly ap-
pointed democratic ministers to the west
ern front to acquaint the troops with the
actual situation in the interior and the
changes in the government.
Points Out Germany's Mistake.
Regarding disappointment over the
outcome of negotiations with the United
States. an Austrian journalist writes to
the Swiss National zeitung of Basel that
Germany's great mistake has been to
consider President Wilson as a neutral,
after having herself driven him from
neutrality.
1t was believed in Germany, the
journalist declares. that it would be
sufficient to appeal to President Will
son and forthwith a satisfactory peace
would arise. 1t evidently was expect
ing the impossible from President
Wilson to refuse his mediation when
it was believed better terms could be
got by force and then when the game
was lost to believe that President
Wilson would patiently await the mo-
ment when it pleased the Germans to
demand peace.
Reason for Delay of Note.
BASEL, October 21-Advices from
Berlin show that it was really on ac-
count of difficulties arising at the last
moment that the dispatch of the Ger
man reply to President Wilson was
The reply was submitted first to a
committee of the federal council, then
to meeting at which the leader, or
one influential member of every group
in the reichstag, except the Poles, was
present. A discussion lasting an hour
followed the reading of the text by
Friedrich Won Payer. the vice chan
cellor. The war cabinet met again in
the evening to revise the text.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
LONG LIVE POLAND, CRY
|DISTURBS P0sEN COUNCIL
Speakers Sympathy Expression
Brings Him a Sharp
Reprimand.

BERN. Switzerland, October %
(Havas).-The German authorities
have under consideration vigorous
measures for the suppression of
Polish propaganda in the Polish
provinces of Prussia. Some light is
thrown on the state of affairs there
by a violent scene in the municipal
council of Posen.
The demand was made by Councillor
that a Pole be appoint
ed to a municipal office. The coun-
cilor made speech in which he ex-
pressed complete sympathy for his
'countrymen" of Warsaw.
Long live Poland" the councillor
exclaimed. Poland is not yet lost"
The speaker was reprimanded in the
sharpest language by the president of
the council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
LESS FREIGHT AT PORTS.
Accumulation for Export October
Shows Large Reduction.

Accumulation Of export freight at
Atlantic ports was reduced from A.
go carloads last December to 1896
carloads October /. the director gem
eral of railroads announces.
Director General McAdoo states
that the amount of freight now
awaiting shipment is only As per cent
of that which congested the wharves.
piers and docks ten months go. His
efforts to obtain more effective CO..
operation between the shippers and
the handlers of freight made possible
these improved conditions, it was
stated.
The War Industries Board is also
given credit for the part it played in
making things run smoother and in
causing curtaiment Of the output OF
nol-essential commodities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
British Los.e. 81. $50 in week.

LONDON, Monday. October. a1.-
British casualties- reported for the
week ending today numbered 37,I50.
compared to. 35,71O for, the previous
week. They are divided as follows:
Killed or died. of wounds-Omcers,
517: men, 4.971..
Wounded or missing-Of1cers, ], AGA
men 3019S -s'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
DENVER AmMAnAfTERw WAR

Aerial mail service will be extend
ed to Denver and probably farther
west after the war. Postmaster Cen
te1a1ram 10 senator Shafroth, who is
in Colorado. the Postmaster General
said he would do all possioie 10 !
promote such service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
Washingtonians, Listen!

The present disastrous epidemic is bringing
out all kinds of cures and preventives.
kRETOL, Americas greatest and first cleans
er=purier, has a record at home to be proud of,
and wish each family to whom Mrs. E. L.
Parmlee sold KRETOL during the past five years,
and if it has been used directed to write
at once if there has been case of Influenza in
their homes. We have something of importance
to tell them we'll as others interested here and
elsewhere.
THE KRETOL COMPANY,
1349 Street NV, Washington, D. 6.
All druggists sell Kretol -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22

The proprietor of big laundry in
the south has installed blue bulb
lights for the reason this light makes
yellow stains in the cloth show up
plainly and therefore enables the
workers to do better work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22

NURSING MOTHERS MUST KEEP
ft to avoid Influenza. Take Imperial Granum
Food at least thrice daily. It is all nourisi-
ment. benefits both mother and baby. % cents,
any Observation-Disclosures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22

Gen. Edouard Fernand lament of
France is dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
Pennsylvania Situation Worse.

Conditions apparently were worse
in Pennsylvania, where it is estimated
100000 cases have occurred with
probably 10000 in Philadelphia. For
the first eighteen days of october
14,s05 deaths were reported in the
state.
The public health service announce
ment said it was estimated that $780,
900 cases had occurred in Connecticut
up to yesterday. with 1926 deaths re-
ported. In New York thirty-seven
cities out Of sixty-one, exclusive of
New York city. have registered L.
81 deaths from october 1 to 1s. while
in New York city there were 646
deaths yesterday.
In California $4,000 cases had been
reported to October 10; Nebraska re
ported 2,758 cases and sixty-six deaths
in sixty-six towns on Saturday. while
many new cases were reported in
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado. Florida,
Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas. Ken
tucky. Louisiana, Missouri: New Mex
leo. Nevada. North Carolina. Ohio,
oregon, South Dakota, Virginia, Wis
consin, Utah and Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22

Nothing you can do will % eject
ually protect you against the Influenza
or Grippe epidemic - keeping your
organs Of digestion and elimination
active and your system free hun
poisonous sccumulations.
Doctors and health anthorities
everywhere are warning people Of
the danger Of constipation, and
advising, and urging everyone Y
to zee that the bowels and other A
eliminative organs act freely
and regularly.
Ordinary laxstives, prges and
cathartics, salts, oils, ealomel and the
like, are goo. enough to clean out the
system, but do not strengthen tho
weakened organs; they do not build up
vitality.
Why don't Jon begin right today
TO overcome constipation and get your
system in such shape that you en- feed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
Epidemic Still Spreading.

Among the civilians. those commune
ties which have suffered from the dis
ease for an extended period are show
ing Improvement, according to the
public health service reports The
epidemic continues to gain ground in
other places and continues to spread.
Mining regions are becoming more af-
fected each succeeding day.
Army camps had 3.O07 influenza
cases and 76S pneumonia cases yes
terday. For the forty-eight hours end
ing yesterday new influenza cases to-
tailed $3.50; pneumonia, 2,079, and
deaths. 91s. These figures brought the
total of influenza cases since Septem-
Der 10 to 2S0,447; pneumonia cases of
46,055, and deaths for all causes to
1902.
Improvement in the situation among
civilians is shown in six states, but
twenty-seven others reported the dis
ease still spreading with many addi-
tional cities and rural districts af-
fected.
States reporting improved condi-
lions today to the public health serv-
ice were Delaware, Georgia. Maine.
Massachusetts,, South Carolina and
Tennessee. New cases in all these
states are decreasing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
FOR ANE|MERGENCY
CORPSE DOCTORS
Senate Adopts Bill for Off
GERS Reserve in Public
Health Service.
EPIDEMIC STILL SPREADS

Legislation authorizing the establish
ment of an officers reserve in the pub
lie health service was completed yester-
day by the adoption of the conference
report by the Senate. The bill now goes
to the President.
The reserve was proposed in view
of the object lesson provided by the
influenza epidemic, to provide an
emergency corps of physicians to meet
extraordinary occasions.
While the report from the Office of
the surgeon general of the Army
showed that on Sunday the influenza
situation was a little worse in camps
throughout the country than on sew
eral previous days, yesterdays records
were again heantening. The camps re-
ported the lowest figures since the
epidemic became general.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
How To Avoid
INFLUENZA

reesoaabiy sure Ct resisting disease.
You can do % il you will Just get .
&c. box Of Natafo's 2s6ely (NR
Tahlets) and take ono each night
for . while.
Mr. Tablets do much mocs than
merely canse pleasant, easy bowel
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-05
HENRY STARR WANTS
TO GET INTO BATTLE
Former Bank Robbcr Ser, Ing Term
tn,prIsOD Asks To bc Given
Shot Mt Germans

Henry Starr, ono of oklahoma
famous bank robbers who urycr nJf
had n chance tn "hon. haOk." wants
to get into the foreign legion Ind
help the ren,h bang the bochSs.
Starr now il IN the state pcuN,uutry
serving 2b-yoar eourcuCo tDu his
part in the Stroud bank robbery OF
1915.
81 cRn do. nav country more good
handling a machine gun against th"
Germans than / can running this
kitchen" starr said Yesterday 20
an Oklahoma City WIj.cr us he
waved his hand around the prison
kitchen. There isn't much differ
ence between the handling VI riflo
and Browning machine gun. /
know th.nL or two about the rlfv
and believe ne ! would IKE TO DO
turned loose ~ith Browning
starr has not allowed prison
walls to affect his patriotism nor TO
keep him Jut OF touch with world
affairs Ne IN one ~ - prisoners
at the pen.tontirrv who own Liberty
bonds and partly through his efforts
tho Red Cross has more than 800
members among the convlcts who
have paid their dollar membership
fee.
A stop has been put 10 seditipus
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-05

ed--the third you can leave to
Venus for the time being. EnCour-
age the magic of drama music, lit
erature, architecture and dress to
wave It's wand over you. And when
they have become hosts, they VIII
speedily arrange a soiree of beauty,
with painting and sculpture as the
guests OF honor
| have heard OF the activities of
your clubs and societies have
witnessed one Of your civic and pa
triouc luncheons. Your zeal In So
cial and federal service is magnifi-
cent. Tulsa Is cosmopolitan; make
1t really universal in every sense of
he word, with an eternal compre-
tension Of life's values. Tulsa can
learn much from the majestic dig
Lty OF some OF the Indians in its
purlieus. Some day this city will
have every color OF the old Navajo
blanket Would TO heaven my soul
pnssessed them aJl Your soil is the
future IHausoleum Of the feathered
poets of the prairie. Your future ar
ustic and spiritual life will be gor-
seously and pathetiCally affected
merely
This summer | shall spend in Cali
rornia making Il hygian fight whore
the salmon streak the moonlit
midnight. shnll try To
remember oklahoma in poetry and
song. | may return to Tulsa in The
early Fan. II | do. and still find
you all dressed up and no place to
go, I may take OFF my coat and build
a Temple of the Muses. Just to make
q home for my dream of your Won
derful future
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-05
American Soldiers Are Being Taught
Art of Going|Over Top While Singing

1t all came about when our bud
dies found they had mud and snow
and weariness TO conquer Germans
are conquered easily enough with
the bayonet and rifle. but all the
firearms in the would are of no avail
against the crouch that comes with
hunger and fatigue. the depression
that relentless weather and dusty
marches bHng 10 the men in camp
and trench.
The boys in khaki have found the
weapon with which the subdue that
evil genie. Song comes like a friend
ly spirit TO cheer them Are they
silent? Are they glum? They
bursNinto glad harmony and all the
snap and pepper is back in their
eyes.
Singing In our army IS no hap
hazard thing. Uncle Sam has re-
allied its Importance as part Of the
soldiers training, and he has packed
the power of song into every army
hit along with blankets and good
warm clothes.
The commissions on training camp
activities OF the war and navy de-
partments began last July to give
systematic training TO the soldiers In
singing Song leaders have been
put into every camp by Lee +. Han
mer, and halfway measures have
not sufficed for Uncle sam. Many
Of those leaders are famous musi-
clans. Men like Perry llemus Geof-
frey O'Hara, the young composer;
Kenneth S. Clark. music critic and
composer Of a large number of
Princeton songs, Robert Lloyd, a
NJ al L n d. of al
foruia are teaching the boys in blue
and khaki tho 10Y of cheerful mel
ody.
At Camp Gordon, where Warren
kimsey is song leader singing ush-
ers in each uew"day The company
commanders are held responsible
for this part of the training Just as
they are for any other activity
II is not so easy as IT might seem
TO teach these vast cities OF men
the art OF singing. Not every man
has voice nor is every man uu-
steal. Yet every man learns how %
sing before Uncle sam gets through ,
with him. Song leaders have now |
learned how to reach the 900 men :
under them. Warren Kimsey holds |
special classes for officers. and these .
become the song leaders for their .
companies.
Pep squads are another device
for getting tha men lacked up to
concert pitch. As the name sug-
gests, the pep squads" are com
posed of pepper boys" four or eight
IN each company, who are allowed
Pl reasonable requests in carrying
out their program to inspirit the rest |
Of their comrades.
There are other more common |
place difficulties Bare singing is .
one OF them. This is an expression .
coined by Augustus u. Zanzig, song (
leader at Camp sherman, when the /
song leader is sans band. sans cor
netist or any other form OF musical /
He must depend |
upon his unaidod efforts to evoke
live singing from two to three thou
sand men. Another song leader who
gets results without props" is Jer-
Jme Swincford, leader at the Nor
ok navy yard. He has found that3
mems musical taste has improved
'or the boys display more enthus-
asm for the folk song" type than
'or the rag"
Although he soldiers and sailors
ire being. taught in little squads all \