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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
GIVES PIANO RECITAL.

The Friday Morning Music Club
program at the Willard yesterday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
ACTRESS DIES IN
CASTLE GIVEN HER
BYFRANZ Josef

LONDON. Jan. 1.-THE death in
Austria. OF the actress, Katherine
Schratt, for years an intimate OF the
late Emperor Franz Josef. is reported
in German newspapers. TIE late en-
peror left S25O,OOO in his will TO the
actress.
For thirty years the emperor
.LvweTed fortunes upon the actress.
He gave her numerous castles and
country homes and equipped palaces
Tor her in various cities. For many
years it was customary Tor the act
ress TO breakfast with the emperor.
Shortly after Katherine became the
emperOr's intimate, Empress Elizabeth
began extensive travels and was
scarcely seen with her inI erial hus-
band for nearly two score-years.
Upon the death of the emperor
Katherine was barred from the Aus
trian court. She retired 10 enc OF her
castles and began to mourn her life
away.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
NJ ADOO TO MERGE
COMPETING RAIL
AGENCIES IN CITIES

Director General McAdoo delivered
his first great economy stroke In
railroad operation today when he or
deI.d an immediate investigation
looking to elimination OF railroad
connective agencies.
Railroad presidents were requested
to report at once what part Of their
respective orgsnizs ton can be elimI
mated as purely competitive"
Virtually the entire fabric of in
dividusI freight and passenger So
Letting agencies will go. it is de-
clared
the saving in this move at S35 OOO. 900.
It is planned 70 retain only that
part OF the manifold ticket agencies
and information bureaus which is
necessary to serve the public. The
competitive system built up by the
railroads has become very elaborate
each big road maintaining costly
bureaus With highly paid solicitors.
Ticket officers have been invaris bly,
located I'm high rent districts. easily
accessible to the public: while freight
Solicitors-now unnecessary - have
roRmed the country.
Other radical economies are ex-
pected to follow
Fifteen loaded ships were towed
from Baltimore late yesterday by a
United. States bsttleship. which Di-
rector General McAdoo had borrow
ed" TO clean the Baltimore channel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
WARIDEA CRANKS
SEEKING PRESIDENT
KEEP DOCTORS BUSY

Cranks with sure-thing schemes for
winning and ending the war have been
coming to Washington 10 see President
Wilson at the rate OF one a day ever
since this country entered the conflict.
The records OF the Washington Asylum
show that there has never been such a
tremendous amount Of advice lost to the
President before in the history of the
country. The situation has BECOME 80
acute that special policemen are now
constantly on the lookout for cranks al
the Union Station. Some days as many
as half a dozen turn UP to put the world
straight again.
Great care is being taken al the White
House to prevent the President from
being annoyed. Members Of the Presi-
dents Cabinet are not wholly immune
from the visits OF these would-be saw
iors of the world.
They are dealt with automatically
by the officials and, where possible,
sent honm.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
FAIR FOOD PRICE
LIST TO Be MADE
PUBLIC TUESDAY

A fair price" list for the benefit
OF washington's housewives will be
published by Federal Food Admins
traitor Clarence r. Wilson, beginning
neat Tuesday.
The prices will not be prices fixed
by the Government or by the Food
Administrator. but they are to serve
only as a guide to the housewives Of
the city In doing their mark citing.
The list will cover practically all
of the staple commodities. as well
as seasonable articles.
The list has been compiled after a
long series OF conferences with Mr..
Wilson's advisers, including grocery
and market men, as well as repre-
sentative consumers.
Mr.. Wilson has started a campaign
to obtain the cooperation OF board
ing housekeepers in the observance
OF meatless and wheatless days.
Marty cases of failure to observe
these DAYS in the boarding houses of
the city have been reported to him.
and the Food Administrator wants
to get the name OF every boarding
housekeeper who is serving meat on
Tuesday and wheat bread on We'd
nesdsy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
Food SOuringin
Stomach Causes
Indigestion, Gas
rPape's Diapepsin" ends all
stomach distress in five
minutes.

Wonder what upset your stomach
which portion of the food did the
damaEe-do you? Well. don't both
er. II your stomach is in a revolt;
II sick, gassy and upset, and what
you just ate has feTmented and
turned sour: head dizzy and aches;
belch gases and acids and eructate
undigested food; breath foul, ton
que coated-iust take a little Pape's
Diapepsin TO help neutrsliZe acid
ity and in five minutes you wonder
what became OF the indigestion and
distress.
Millions Of men and women today
know that IL is needless to have
dyspepsia A little Diapepsin 90
cBsiOHally keeps the stomach sweet
ened and they eat their faVorite
foods without fear.
II your stomach doesn't take care
Of your liberal limit without re-
bellion; If your food is a damage
fnstead of a help, remember the
quickest, surest, most harmless re
Def is Pape's Diapepsin. which costs
only 80 cents for q large case at
drug stores. ms truly wonderful
81 stops fermentation and acidity
and sets things straight, so gently
and-easily that it is really aston
fshing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
BRAKEMAN KILLED
BETWEEN CARS At
B. AND D. YARDS

Jacob p. Boyer, thirty-three years
old, a brakeman at the Baltimore and
Ohio yarus at Second and / streets
northeast, was crushed between two
railroad cars early this morning while
working in the yards and died fifteen
minutes later at the Casualty Hospital
nom internal Injuries.
Boyer. who was married and lived
at los Fourth street. was brought to
the Casualty Hospital by some OF his
tellow-work men in an automobile.
The efforts OF DIR. George II. Rawson
TO save his life were fruitIess.
Boyer was killed by what old rail-
readers call being rolled" that is.
caught between two moving cars
That are not far apart enough to al
low the width Of mans body. Most
railroads are required to lay their
tracks to conform with State laws
regulating the width and aimed at the
prevention OF deaths OF this kind.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
WIDOW Of IRISH
MARTYR HERE TO
HELP FREE ISLE

Mrs. Hanna skeffington, wife OF
the late Irish editor, shot by the Eng.
lish during the Irish rebellion in
1916, is in Washington working in
the interest of the freedom of Ire
land. She appeared personally before
President Wilson yesterday, and pre-
scented him a petition from Irish WON.
en-. copy OF the petition was also
presented Speaker Champ Clark.
I'VE do not want ireland left out
when peace is discussed" said Mrs.
Skeffington. sour case should be
ranged side by side with those of
Poland and Belgium"
Most OF the women whose sigma
lures are on the petition are widows
of men who were shot during the
Irish rebelIions OF the past two years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
German Spies in U. S.
Report Draft RiOting
Raging Through Nation

Germsny's paid agents within
this nation sre sending false in
formation TO the Teuton war
lords.
American Secret Service agents,
II became known today. have in
tercepted letters destined for
Hamburg in which the informers
told OF draft mobs raging
throughout the United States.
Particular stress was laid on l.
W. W. activities in OKLAHOMA, but
the whole information was such
as to misinform Germany Of the
true state Of feeling toward the
draft.
The draft law, according 70 the
Secret Service. is proving an ef-
fective weapon against German
agentsl for families of those
drafted men are growing i'm
patient with the anti-American
agitators, and. frequently present
information against them
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
SHE IS THE ONLY
'ENGINEERESS' IN
us. COAST GUARD

The girl engineer. the first ever
appointed in the history of the Coast
Guard Service, made her debut in
Washington today.
She Is Mrs. Myrtle r Hazard. a
pretty Baltimore girl of twenty-four
years, and she makes her home with
her husband and parents at 1901 Oak
avenue. Baltimore. Mrs Myrtle Haz-
ard was appointed to the service last
Monday when she was awarded n
first grade commercial license by the
Baltimore Custom House
Il just love my work, and ! am
so proud to feel that ! am helping
Uncle Sam. said Pretty Mrs. Hazard
"You see l just sit at this desk all
day and press this button. This one
on my right sends out messages"
she explained as her finely modelled
hand pointed TO a telegraphic ap-
paratus. This button on my left re-
ceives messages"
Only ApPOIntee.
Out OF a class OF fifty OF the Bal
timore Y. NJ. c. A Telegraphic and
Radio School, Mrs. Hazard was the
only one appointed to the service.
There she pursued a course in the
Morse Geographic code system. She
travels daily back and forth from
Baltimore, her home, to her office
In Washington.
81 have to get UP at 5 o'clock ev-
cry morning to get to work by s.
she said smilingly. "Of course the
travelling part of II is a little tire
some, but / am sure l will soon be
come used TO it."
Mrs. Hazards office is in the Nun
sey building on the fourth floor. A
suite of rooms on this floor is occu
pied by a section OF the coast guard
service.
Only Woman In OnIee.
She is the only woman in the whole
office. all the others being Uncle
Sans bluejackets. Mrs. Hazard said
that the men are lawfully nice" to
work with.
II am the only woman who is an
acting engineer in the service" she
said
Mrs. Hazard H. the wife of Caud
Hazard. a member OF a Baltimore
contracting firm. She has been mar
ried for about six years. She has
little son four years old.
THE only thing ] don't like about
my work is that it takes me away
from my little son." she said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
SAYS SLAVS HAVE NO
NATIONAL SPIRIT

One OF the greatest handicaps I'M
der which the Russian people are la
boring at the present time Is an alb
sence OF truly national spirit, accord.
ing to DR.. William T. Ellis. world
traveller who lectured before the
members OF the National Geographic
Society in the auditorium of the New
Masonic Temple yesterday afternoon
and evening.
While expressing little hope for
the rehabilitation OF Russia in time
to play any part in the present war
against Germany, DR.. Ellis paid a
glowing tribute TO the Roumanie n
army and, especially TO the Roumanian
queen whose presence at the front
and in the hospitals is a constant
source OF inspiration to her people.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
Capital
$75O,OOO.OO

OFFICERS
Frank p. HGrmaa,
President
Arthur Lee,
Vice President
James A. CGhM,
Vice President
Tucker K. Sands,
Vice Pres. q Cashier
Frank E. GhiseHi,
Asst. Cashier
II. v. Hunt,
Asst. Cashier
Robt. A. CisseI,
Asst. Cashier
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
The Bank of Personal
Service

Deposits Dec. 81, 1917 :. $22,S7O,349.7
Deposits Dec. 81, 1916. 7,5lO,O36.73
Increase in year 1917 .. ST., 36O,313.O4
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12
BRAND WHTTIOCK
NOW AN IMMORTAL

NEW YORK. Jan. brand Whit
lock. former minister to Belgium. and
Hamlin Garland were yesterday elected
TO seats among the fly ''ifnmortais" in
the American Academy OF Arts and Let
tiers.
"Ar. whitlock wins his seat among
the great authors" says a statement
given out after the election. due to his
wonderful novel, The Thirteenth Dis
trict,' which Mr.. Howells called our
greatest political novel. and his glorious
service to humanity as minister to Bel
GUM" He is the author OF a number
Of other books.
Mr.. Garland is described as an active
man OF letters, a story teller. and a poet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-12

forenoon consisted OF a piano recital
by Miss Mabel Linton and talk by
Kenneth Clark, song director at Camp
Meade. Mr.. Clark told interestingly
how, from a mere diversion, singing
had become a regular part in the
days program OF the boys in camp.
1t is now looked upon as a vital fac
tor in the ol-round making OF a SOL
der
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04

Rundell Brothers. mfrs. of creamery
butter, need your butterfat. Try us.
We pay 49c this week. Open Saturday
nights.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
BUTCHER CITES BIG PROFITS
Meat Dealer Points Out Pills, Mineral
Water and False Teeth as Pro-
ducers Of Immense MARGINS.

'Talk about food profiteers growl-
ed the butcher, as he charged up O
two-pound rump steak at 60 cents a
pound. "Why know people whose
profit has been from time immemorial
5000 per cent and more. Yet you
don't jump on them. Why, then, jump
on me2
stake Junck's liver pill, for instance.
know Otto Junck's bookkeeper, and
the man tells me that this Junck pill
sells wholesale at exactly 5000 per
cent profit.
'TTake mineral water-plain soda.
You can make and sell plain soda at
profit of 10000 per cent. And, mind
you, no kicks.
"Take false teeth. They used to
make false teeth out Of ivory, and in
those days 1t was right to charge 500
set for them. But now false teeth
are made Of porcelain. They cost 10
cents apiece. Dentists profit, 10000
per cent.
$50 could 60 on. And you ask me
II my conscience isn't sore about this
60-cent rump steak. Obi"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
PLAN SURVEY OF
STATE COAL NEED
RAIL COMMISSIONER SUGGESTS
REouisITION FOR 1918 BE
FILED BY EACH TOWN.
HAVE SHIPMENTS MADE EARL
Each Community Could Make Estimate
Of This Years Need and ForestaiI
Shortage Now Experienced.

Lansing.-A state coal survey 1.
now being considered.
The plan which originates with Rail
road Commissioner A. Keiser of Lud
tngton. almost came into being late
last spring. but 1t was finally decided
that 1t was too late then to start it.
Mr.. Keiser wants each town and vii
lage to give an estimate of just how
much coal is needed for next winter
Then the fuel can be brought into the
state and so placed to avoid a recur
renee of the present near-famine.
"The conditions now existing" says
Mr.. Keiser, will show the head OF
each municipality about how much
coal his community can get along
with. If he makes a report before the
shipments start as to his needs and
then the state officials make it theii
business to help him in transporta
ton way, l think the winter of 1918
1919 can be made much different fol-
Michigan. I would exempt the larger
cities from the survey because they
can, in most cases, take care of them
selves through their larger number OF
dealers.
Reports show larger shipments OF
soft coal moving into Michigan. Much
of the government coal, diverted from
congested yards to Michigan points
has been received.
Barring the high price which cannot
be controlled by the administration, II
seems to be improving matters.
In some few instances the coal has
been refused because of the price. The
price has to be figured at the highest
possible rate for the reason that no
body knows what the original contract
price was.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
WEST MICHIGAN GETS RATE CUT
Federal Commission Allows Reduction
on Freight to East.

Lansing-What are called the Mich.
cided by the interstate commerce com
mission at Washington in favor OF
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Battle
Creek, Marshall, Lansing, Cadillac
Petoskey and other cities in the lower
peninsula which alleged that the
freight rates between these points and
points in the east are unreasonable
and are unjustly discriminatory as
compared with rates allowed to com
peting points in Ohio and Indiana and
also to Detroit.
The cases are called percentage
cases because they are based on the
claim that the Michigan cities in the
complaint did not get a fair percent.
age Of the New York-Chicago rate IL
comparison with Ohio and Indiana
points. The commissions decisio
does not recognize the percentage sys.
tenn as the ruling criterion in this ter.
ritory and does not award such heavy
reductions as the compliments asked
but does allow a reduction of from 2
to per cent.
The following reductions were
made: Points in the present "a per
cent group to so per cent, Jackson,
Saginaw, Bay City and other points in
the 92 per cent group to SS per cent,
Lansing and other points in the 95 per
cent group to 81 per cent, Grand Rap
ids, Kalamazoo, Marshall Battle
Creek and other points in the So per
cent group to 90 per cent, and uniform
reductions of four points in the per
centages assigned to the groups north
of the present 100 per cent group.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
Center Of Fashion.

Paris, the center Of the worlds fash
ions, has no fewer than 10000 women
dressmakers, not counting designers
and filters, which would bring the
number up to close on 100000. The
designers, who sketch out their ideas
In pen and ink or with water-colors.
and often originate the fashions that
prevail throughout the world, earn
easily over four figures year, OBJ
serves correspondent.
Good mannequins are the most diff
cult to obtain. Some of the largest
Partisan houses employ twenty or thir.
ty, whose whole time is passed In try
ing on dresses before the eyes Of fash
ionable French women. Naturally the
numbers are fewer nowadays, and
many Of the most famous mannequins
Of Paris are now nursing in the hos
pitfalls or employed in the French NUM-.
ton works.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
Forty Miles Of Jam.

So enormous has the business of
jam making become In Dundee, Scot
land, since the great firms there or
ganized to supply preserves to the
British army and navy that, according
to report sent by e. R. Pottle, U. s.
vice consul there, to the department of
commerce, the tins in which they put
up one weeks supply alone would, If
stood end on end, form a column fully
40 miles high. It Is no unusual thing
for this firm to deal with 100000, 900
loranges, and oil kinds Of fruit are
bdealt with on similar SCALE"
The Dundee manufacturers are
about to give up the use of earthen-
ware, glass Jars and tins, for a stout
cardboard container Is now being
made and experiments with It have
proved highly successful.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
REJECTED ALIENS INTeRNED
Subjects Of Germany and Austria A
Waco VIII Be Held.

Camp Macarthur, Waco, Tex.-NC
more alien enemies will be discharged
from this division on surgeons cert
ficates of disability. Hereafter nation
ais of Germany and Austria-Hungary
will be sent from the base hospital to
their organizations and then to an in
ternment camp.
Fifty or more nationals of enemy
countries were discharged before the
order was issued. Most of these men
are from Detroit and vicinity and all
were from the selects sent here from
Camp Custer.
Following the order, q search of the
list of men reported for discharge on
that day showed 10 Austrians, one Ger.
man and one Hungarian.
Among the 1000 or more men await.
ing discharge because of disability
are number Of Austrians and Ger.
mans.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
Public Health Notice

An epidemic of chickenpox prevails
in Owosso, mostly in the Washington
school district. All children having il
must not attend school, but be kept
strictly at home and reported to the
health officer by phone, mail or in per-
son. Children who have had it may
attend school, but others in the same
house with case cannot.
Whooping cough is also quite pre-
valent and is dangerous to infants
This disease must also be reported
the same as chickenpox, and children
kept strictly at home and off the pub
lie walks.
w. E. WARD,
Adv. Health Officer.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
WITH THE B0YSAT CAMPCUsTER

]. w. Van Brook, of Kalamazoo,
prominent figure among Michigan
Gideons, has arrived from Kalamazoo
to take charge of Y. M. G. A. work al
the base hospital.
Residents of Washtenaw county
Who were exempted after being draft
ID, raised fund for Christmas for
81 men who were accepted. Each
one gave as he could afford, and to
this was added an amount sufficient
10 give each man IS.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
THOUGHT WILL RULE WORLD
Scientist Asserts Ships at Sea Will BE
Controlled From Shore and Gasoline
Will BE Grown Like Corn.

In the lobby Of big Fifth avenue
club one evening recently, group Of
scientific men were discussing the war
as being the necessity that will bring
about some startling inventions, notes
q New York correspondent. If the
sprinkling Of intellectual luminati
were not stamped by genius, 1t is prob
able that an ordinary bystander would
have tapped his forehead knowingly.
One Of them was telling about a SCI
enlist who is already telephoning to
airplanes without wires. And another
quoted a famous inventor who said
that 1t would only be short while
until all telephone wires would be abol-
ished as unessential.
'The fact u.s." he said, "that tele-
phone wires do not In reality carry
our messages. Every scientist knows
that. Back Of 1t all is the great proc
ess Of thought which we are only be-
ginning feebly to understand.
"The more we delve into this proc
ess Of Observation-Disclosures 1t is-the
more we come to the conclusion that
the material phenomena Is the pro.
lection of thought. We konw that ev-
cry material thing comes from a
thought or an idea.
1--WE are arriving at the conclusion
that even space Is thought, for we are
Iannihilating space every day through
a thinking process. 1t will not be
many generations before every ship at
sea Is controlled by thought from
shore. Our trains are going to be run
without fuel, and we are going to grow
gasoline lust like we rinse corn"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04
Notice Of Annual Meetini

The annual meeting of the members
of Oak Hill Cemetery Company OF
Owosso, Mich. will be held at the Office
of E M. Miller, Secy Treas, 2O2 Citi.
zens' Savings Bank Building, Owosso,
Mich, on Tuesday, the 9Th day of Jan.
uary, 1918, at ten o'clock in the fore.
noon.
Dated, December 2Sth, 1917.
E. M. MILLER, Secy. Treas.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04

Board Of County Road Commissioners.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04

When war broke out q young man
who was every kind Of rogue sud
denly acquired a brand-new con
science, and worked Il overtime, says
London Tit-Bits. When he came be.
fore the tribunal he had got his con.
scientious objections all cut and dried
The chairman listened gravely for q
little while, until the bogus @. O..
warming to his subject, began to get
dowery.
EYES," he cried, lifting his eyes to
heaven, "in 1905 was born again r.
I'm that case" broke In the chair
man. quietly. ''have you any objec-
ton to Joining the boy scoutsT
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-04

SALE OR EXCHANGE 2, $50 acres cut
over hardwood land. grsvelly clay loan
soil. Good productive farms adjoining
near Rose City, Ogemaw county, Mich
Address, John York. 1O2 Belmont Ave.
Detroit, Mich, -Ady
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-16

which will engage In sham battle.
At South field another biz contest
IL scheduled when Columbia univer
atty will meet the Wesleyan eleven.