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The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
NJ ADOO WILL
CUT TPAYROLLS
OF RAILROADS
Thousands Of Men Will Be
Eliminated Under the
New Plan.

The permanent organization of
the railroad administration will be
today by Director Gen
.eral McAdoo. Thousands of men
will be eliminated. throughout the
country. by consolidation of de-
partments.
Director General McAdoo. win es-
tablish these departments:
Transportation, which will gov
ern operations.
Traffic, which will have change
of the handling of cars of both
freight and passenger service.
Finance.
Law, which will coordinate the
work of the hundreds of legal bu-
reaus all over the country.
Labor, to take under considera-
ton all the grievances and adjust
ments for the workmen.
Maintenance of way and equip-
ment. to do all the purchasing and
eliminate waste.
Public service accounts.
The heads of these departments
will form a personal stan to the Di-
rector General Their recommended
tions will be carried out through
the three regional directors already
appointed for the East, West and
South.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
Gas Makes Men Laugh.

POISONOUS gases arising from a
coke heater in a box car in which
they were working overcame four
men at the Western brewery. The
lives of the men were probably saw
ed by the presence of mind of Fred
Fuller, one of the men in the car.
The four were engaged in placing
beer cases in the car and were US
ing a heater in which coke was
burned. FalleF. standing near the
partly closed door of the car. MOTTO
ed his companions were acting pc
culiarly and at the same time he
felt that he was being overcome.
He retained his senses long enough
to throw open the door of the car
and then pitched headlong outside
to the ground.
Other workmen around the plant
saw Faller fall and ran to his side.
Three other men were in the car.
Two OF them had been seized with
laughing fit and were holding
their sides and laughing. while the
third man was crying bitterly.
Physicians were called and the
lung-motor at the Jackson street
hre department summoned, but the
men were resuscitated without its
use. No serious results are ex-
pected.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
You, Over There!
Same Sweet Voice | Know
There's a Girl You 'Ust" to Talk to When
, You Called Up Home
"Over There"

The first contingent Of fifty OF the
women's telephone unit OF the United
States army leaves America for
France sometime this month"
They are enlisted for the duration
Of the war and wear a uniform They
will be under the command Of a man
captain, a retired wire chief OF one Of
the big telephone companies, who al
ready is with Gen. Pershing. super
vising the present telephone force Of
the American exneditionary army.
This present force will be supple
mented by the specially selected and
highly trained American girls who
have been admitted to the army serv-
ice only after the most rigid examins-
tons as TO physique and mental and
moral qualifications.
They are, primarily. not telephone
operators, but interpreters, and they
are not girls To qualify for enlist
ment in the Signal Corps they must
be able to speak French fiuently, and
this is determined under the same
conditions that would apply to actual
service. which requires that each
operator be able to 'cut in as inter
prefer at the switchboard.
The antecedents Of every applicant
are investigated thoroughly - how
thoroughly the applicant herself never
knows-by the cooperation Of every
telephone company in the country.
She is traced from town to town. II
she has left her birthplace. TIL IN
Quiry' has been made Of every signi-
ficant period Of her career. And all
this is done. through wide co-opera-
ton. very quickly.
II her character is found satisfac-
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
JAMMED PLOWS
CAUSE DELAY
ON W.R.&E.LINE
Car Service Held Up by Ac-
cident in Fourteenth
Street.

Street car service on the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company
tr9eks on G street was suspended for
Ons hour and fifty minutes yesterday
afternoon while employees Of the COM
pany worked to extricate two car
plows that had been jammed together.
Cars stood on G. street in a solid
line from Fourteenth street to
Seventh.
For several minutes north and south
bound cars of the same 'companw on
Fourteenth street also were held UP
by the jamming of the second plOw
into the one that had been dropped
by the first car
just across the intersecting Fourteenth
street tracks. Another car coming
close behind attempted to cross and
jammed its plow.
Current was cut off the entire line
in order that workmen might get ou.
the jammed plows that had fallen be-
low the tube.
One hour and fifty minutes work
was necessary to get the 'plows out
and resume service,
Service on the Washington and Old
Dominion line between here and Great
Falls, Va, company officials said
last night, probably will. be normal
again today. Burning out of two
Of the three transformers of the COM
pany's power plant at Rosslyn, Va.
demOralized the service yesterday and
the day before.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
KAISERS BOOK
Is" "REVIEWED"
BY MINISTER
DR.. Gordon Gives Forecast
of Me Und Gott
Masterpiece.

In his sermon yesterday morning
DR.. James L. Gordon. pastor Of First
Congregational Church, predicted be-
fore a large audience that the Ger
man ruler will write q book after the
war, and even went SO far as TO fore
cast most Of its contents.
'The Kaiser's New Book on the
War" was the subject OF Rev. Cor
don's discourse. Taking for his text
Job s1:35, 20. that mine adversary
had written a book" he speculated on
what the Kaiser would have to say.
According to DR.. Gordon, there are
to be four volumes Of the new literary
EFFORT, each equipped with seven chap
tiers. and of course, the Kaiser is to
be the hero. For instance: Chapter
one, volume one, viii be devoted ex-
clusively to the Kaiser; chapter two
will relate to the Kaiserin: chapter
three to the Kaiser and his sons: chap
ter four to the Kaiser and his palaces;
chapter five to the Kaiser and his
uniforms; chapter six to the Kaiser
and his titles. and chapter seven to
the Kaiser and his ancestors.
Worse stiIl. from the masculine point
Contents Of Book.
Volume two will be a continued
story OF the Kaiser's greatness. The
first chapter will handle him as an
orator, the second as a theologian,
the third as a prophet, fourth as a
warrior. fifth as a diplomat, sixth as
sailor and seventh as an artist and
poet.
Volume three will take a different
turn and give the Kaiser a chance to
talk about some Of the achievements
of other Huns besides himself. Chap
ter one will relate TO the great war:
chapter two will discuss the value OF
treaties and state documents from the
standpoint of scraps of paper"
chapter three will tell about German
chivalry and womanhood; chapter
four will parade the German soldier
as the incarnation of high ideals;
chapter FIVE will indulge in a pipe
dream about the conquest of the air
and the sea-by Germany-and chap
ter six will tell how Berlin is going
to become the center OF the art
trophies OF the world. Chapter seven
OF this volume will discuss peace
terms" as a factor in the promotion
Of military designs.
About the time the Kaiser gets down
to volume four. a change comes o'er
the spirit of his dreams. and as he
gets along in the various chapters he
is subjected to a rude awakening.
The first chapter starts out about
The Kaisers Dream of a World EN-
pire;" chapter two gloats over THE
German War Wheel Crushing Obscure
Nations" chapter three is a contin-
uous round of pleasure about Ger
man Victories and German Conquests,"
but about that time things are be-
ginning to get shaky and chapter
four will have TO portray the story of
"Armageddon-the Rising OF the Ma
tions." Chapter five has reference to
THE Last Great Western Drive"
wherein 1t appears the Kaiser is a vic
tim Of misplaced confidence, and to
the air Of slow music. chapter six re-
cites the beginning Of the end with
these headlines: Revolt in Germany,
the Sad Awakening" The curtain
rings down with chapter seven, which
gives graphic details of The Great
Silence; and A Great World at Peace"
The Rev. DR.. Gordon pronounced
the benediction and closed his book.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
Mary Tries to Stop
Coal Famine; Gets
Spanking for Reward

Imagine anyone being spanked
for bringing coal home! Yet that's
what happened to a little. girl
yesterday.
On her way home from Sunday
school. 6-year-old Mary -. eve
promised her not to tell her name).
all dressed up in her Sunday
clothes saw a little perfectly good
coal lying in an alley OFF Four,
teenth street. Mary had heard the
fuel shortage discussed at home.
What more natural and praise
worthy for her to do than to pick
up some of the precious Jumps and
carry them home in the front of
her coat,
LOOK, mother. See what I've
brought home" she called as she
skipped up the steps of her home.
But her mother. didn't seem to
hear. She merely stared at her
with an expression of horror.
Your white corduroy coat! Mary
Elizabeth!
Curtain.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
COAL CLEARANCE
PLAN TO COME UP
Dealers to Confer with Colladay on
District Supply.

Whether a central bureau of coal
dealers proposed by Edward F. Cola
day, acting fuel administrator for
the District. will be established prob
ably will be decided at a conference
Of dealers with Mr.. Colladay tonight.
1t is proposed to establish a deal
ers' clearing house through which all
untitled orders will be sent. Should
the plan be adopted. the emergency
fuel bureau of the Fuel Administra-
ton will be abandoned.
District public schools will remain
closed today and tomorrow under an
order issued Saturday.
Most coal dealers kept their Offices
open yesterday and handled coal from
the tracks to householders.
Mr.. Colladay said only one large
wholesaler had refused to help. This
dealer. he added, could have aided the
situation materially by allowing
smaller retail dealers to haul coal
from his dump.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
FLAY BORLAND BILL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

NUN EAOE ONE-
tracted to a service in which stability
is so lacking that Borland changes
may be made overnight?
The heads of departments already
have ample authority TO extend the
hours of employment. and in every
department where war emergency
work is being done the clerks are
now, and have been for a long time,
cheerfully working overtime without
additional compensation. Consequent
ly. as before stated, the Borland
amendment is entirely unnecessary.
Further. since 1t is not limited to the
duration OF the war. the claim that 1t
is a war measure is without founda-
ton.
"A consideration which applies
with special force to the Washing
ton of today should not be over
looked. Any lenEthening of the
working hours inevitably means
that the employees will be compelled
to live as near as possible to the
Offices in which they work. a factor
which will measurably add to the
congestion and confusion which
even now constitute a serious men
ace to the efficiency of the depart
ments.
THE committee deems it unneces-
sary TO refute any attack, from
whatever source, on the patriotism
and loyalty of the Federal en-
ployes. There is not the slightest
hesitation on their part to give
freely to the government their
time and energy and substance, as
they have done and are doing. The
opposition of the employees 20 leg
islation of the type of the Borland
amendment is based on far broader
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
Dr.. Tchlenov, Zionist
Leader, Dies Abroad

New York, Feb. Sword was re-
ceived here today telling of the death
in London of DR.. Jachiel Tchlenov,
one OF the leaders OF. the Zionist move
ment. He recently gave up $25, 900
practice in Moscow. where he was the
leading physician TO devote his whole
time TO help the Jews regain Pales-
tine.
He was stricken in London while
trying to obtain the sanction of the
British government to The Zionist plan.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04

There is an increasing demand for
American raisins in Brazil, reports
Consul General A. L. NJ. Gottschalk,
Rio de Janeiro. He suggests that a
market could be developed for candy
and fruit. Raisins, candies and can
died fruits are popular gifts among
the Brazilians and the trade would
be profitable one.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04

Last year $500 murders were COM
mitted in the United States The cities
with the highest homicide record are
Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nash
vile and Charleston; the five lowest
Newark, N. j.; Providence, r. l.:
Rochester, N. Y; Milwaukee, Wis,
and Reading, Pa.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
PASSION PLAY
TO BE GIVEN
DURING LENT
Capable Cost Selected for
Presentation of Religious
Drama in Capital.

A group Of the most talented and
experienced players in the city OF
Washington has been training for
months on the forthcoming produc-
ton Of passion play, which is to be
presented on each Sunday Of theNLent-
en- season.
Passion plays have proved popular
of late years in many OF our larger
cities OF the East and West. Every
one has heard OF the worid-famed OBJ
erammergau production. and while the
play to be produced here does not
pretend to the colossal scale of
Oberammergau. yet it lays claim to
having caught in a much more linn
tied space of time all the outstand
ing dramatic and tragic elements OF
the worlds greatest tragedy.
The version of the passion play to
be produced by a thoroughly COM
petent and trained troupe is entitled
ION the slopes of Calvary and was
written by Rev. A. Palmieri, o. S.
A, of Philadelphia. The play is un-
der the auspices of the Gonzaga Col
lege.
Matinees for children of the elenlen-
tary and high schools will be given on
Sunday. February 10. and Sunday,
February II. at 800 p. m. Regular
performances for adults will take place
on the following Sundays in Lent:
February "a, March 3, 10. Il and "a. at
500 p. m.
Appropriate vocal music will be rem
cred throughout the play under the
'irection of Glenn w. Ashley.
The following excellent cast has been
cured for the first production of the
ssion play in Washington.
he Blessed Virgin Mary.
........M Miss Teresa Connen
'aiphas, the high priest. ....
.................. Maurice Jarvis
fudas. Arthur b. White
late. .....................H F. Dolan
.aCchaeus. Francis J. Cleary
!zar. an influential Pharisee
................ E. B. O'Brien
Eachel. his daughter.
...........M Miss Estelle Murray
Peter, the apostle. Finley Hayes
John, the beloved disciple. ....
.H.............A. Edward Hall
Esther. sister of Judas. ....
...........M Mrs. L. J. Deeds
Mason. priest and supporter of
Caiphas. s........... John S. Pellen
Mary Magdalen. Observation-Disclosures.
....... Miss Charlotte V. Pairo
Martha. Miss Rose Healy
Veronica. a........... Miss Anna Ford
Lydia, Pilates wife e...........
................M Miss Martha Ford
Pulvia, Pilates daughter. ....
........ Miss Madeline OBrien
Abigail. ............M Miss Nina Pairo
alfalfa. ...... Miss Virginia Ford
Companions of RacheD
Mob of priests and people.
The play will be staged by
Messrs. John F. Luitich, Arthur b.
White and Denis Z. ConnelI.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04

tory. some French citizen is dele-
gated 10 call her by telephone, OF she
is asked TO call him by number. That
is all the preparation she has for the
test OF her French, and she must
qualify Immediately.
The final examination is a physical
one, made by examining physicians OF
the telephone companies, with special
instructions from the Signal Corps
The successful applicant. besides
passing these tests, must be between'
Is and s5 and not married 10 any
army or navy enlisted man or ofiioer.
II the requirements are high. the
pay is commensurate: four dollars
day for all on temporary duty.
and salaries UP TO sl25 a month
when billeted. with nothing TO
furnish but a uniform.
Each operator wears a blue felt
campaign hat Of the regulstiOn
army type; a blue jacket OF Nor
folk style. modelled after the Eng
lish ofhcer's Jacket: blue walking
skirt, OF plain cut and fairly short.
and high boots Of tan leather.
They will hold rank through the
non-commissioned grades. The SER
geants, who act as wire superinten-
NthN1s NN nIdEchIQ
Carm band) showing. in white en-
broidery, a conventionalized tele-
phone transmitter. with q wreath
below and conventionalized light4
ming shafts above. The corpOrals
wear the same brasssrd without the
lightning shafts and act as chief
operatop. The operators wear bras
sards showing the transmitter only.
Get Good Pay.
When on duty in permanent bi1ets
with the American army abroad, The
sergeants will receive SIS a month.
the corporals So and the privates SEQ!
They will have rations and two rooms
each. or the monetary equivelanr
thereof, the same as army nurses.
All they will be obliged 20 furnish
will be their clothing outfit.
Gen. Pershing has been barely
struggling along with the telephones
operators he has now. French girls
who said they knew English and the
few English speaking girls who said
they knew French, and were hired
for that interpreting value. are not,
more than slightly bi-lingual. Close
observers are enthusiastic over the ED
ficiency OF the army's first enlisted.
women. The first fifty are 70 be more
or less Of an experiment The Signal
Corps men are confident. however, that.
the experiment will be swiftly sue,
cessful.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-04

companions OF RacheD
Mob of priests and people.
The play will be staged by
Messrs. John F. Luttich, Arthur b.
White and Denis Z. ConnelI.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-23

London, Jan. 22.--Darkness be-
clouds the situation in Austria Hun
gary today.
An Amsterdam dispatch tonight
says that owing to the vigorous Gen.
sorship there was no news and that
the German papers. at Austria's re-
quest, were printing no news from
Vienna.
On the Amsterdam bourse, there
were rumors of renewed labor riots
in Vienna, and Austrian shares fell
heavily. There is no confirmation as
yet of the report that the Austrian
cabinet, headed by DR.. Won Seydler
has resigned.
Food Problem Serious.
The pressure of the food problem
now is adding its force to the desire
for peace which has been uppermost
in Austria ever since the new emper-
or mounted the throne. The food
difficulty always has been more acute
in Austria than in Germany, and
has been the cause of much friction
between the Teutonic allies. Pallia-
tion of Austrian discomfort was found
for a time in the successful offensive
against Italy but that having failed
to give the promised results, hope
was again founded on the Brest-
Litovsk negotiations The present out.
break in Austria Hungary seems to
be a reflection Of intense disappoint.
ment in the attitude Of the German
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-23
CLEVER GERMAN SPY Is
CAUGHT IN PORTO RICO


New York, Jan. 22--Weiner X. r. W.
Sturzel, a young German spy who op-
Grated chiefly in Porto Rico and was
regarded as one of the most danger
Gus and elusive enemy aliens with
whom the federal authorities had to
cope, was taken from here today to
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, under an armed
guard. He was brought here yester-
day from Porto Rico.
Sturzel was trapped when he en-
trusted confidential mission to a
government agent. He admitted that
he was special intelligence agent of
the German government assigned to
get information to Berlin.
What is believed to be his most
Ingenious trick is to get secret infor-
nation to Germany via Spain was in
the form of line and wash drawing
he made for Porto Rican society pa
per, which appeared as the cover de-
sign in the issue of January 8. This
paper has a large circulation in Spain
and Sturzel was aware that his cryptic
illustration would fall into proper
hands in Barcelona, Valencia or Car
tagena and eventually reach a Ger
man destination, secret service men
declared,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-23
Newspapers of Dual Monarchy
Allowed to Print Govern
ment'S Declaration Favoring
Democratic Peace,
GERMAN CENSORSHIP
Is EXTREMELY SEVERE
More Than Million LaborerS
Said to Have Quit Work
Throughout Empire Of
HapSburg Dynasty,
tsv sosa,na JouRa.l SPECIAL Ls.sso ~,ssl

While the bitter internal political
situation in Austria Hungary seems
to have abated somewhat the latest
indications are that discomfort is
merely smouldering and that at no
distant date it again may break out in
veritable conflagration.
The politicians apparently with op-
timistic utterances have quieted sit
uation that admittedly is fraught with
grave possibilities so far as the dual
monarchy is concerned but the known
weariness OF the populace and the
food shortage are likely soon again to
bring the people into sharp discord
with the authorities.
Strike Virtually Ended.
The general strike which, 1t is as
serted, took more than a million men
and women from their work--a large
proportion OF them engaged in war in
/ dustries vrtuaiy endtd Mondas
morning, but at last accounts the peo-
pie still were camoring for food and
for cessation of hostilities.
At the moment of the outburst of
public discomfort, and throughout the
days when the dfscord was strongest,
the government of the dual monarchy
showed it was keenly alive TO the
necessity of calming the unrest. I'M
mediately the cry of Peace" arose,
there came from the halls of the gov
eminent the answer:
"We are ready for peace without
anneXations or indemnties, and 1t
was added that this feeling was shared
in to the utmost by the emperor king
Peace Desires Published.
The Austrian press heralded broad
cast the alleged peace desires of the
government and the emperor, and it's
utterances likely had much to do with
the subsidence of the popular clamor.
With the return of the people to work.
however, the newspapers apparently
| have felt the stern hand OF the censor,
for nothing concerning the situation
in Austria or Hungary has since been
permitted to creep through.
Likewise in Germany the censorship
seemingly Is holding the newspapers
ternal affairs in that country The
only inkling of the still tense situa-
tion is contained in a Leipsic news
paper, which announces tho impend-
ing rcs'gnation of Vice Admiral Won
Mueller, chief of Emperor william $
naval cabinet, who Is declared to be
out of harmony with the pan-Ger-
mans because of his desire for peace
| by understanding with Great Brit
ain
Tirpitz Tours Germany.
| Meanwhile, Admiral Won Tirpitz,
| father Of Germanys submarine cam
paign, one of the leaders of the pam
Germans and Great Brrtain's arch
enemy, continues to tour the country
tContinusd on Page Two,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-23
American Soldiers in France
Lead Cleanly and Exceedingly
Wholesome Lives-Pershing
By Morning journal Special Leased wirc.)

1hey nave entered TINS war WIN tne
highest devotion to duty and with no
other idea than to perform these du-
ties in most efficient manner possi-
ble. They fully realize their obliga-
ton to their own people, their friends
and the country.
"a rigid program of instruction is
carried out daily with traditional en-
thusiasm. Engaged in healthy inter-
esting exercises in the open air with
simple diets, officers and men like
trained athletes, are ready for their
task. Forbidden the use OF strong
drink and protected by stringent reg
ulations against sexual evils, and sup
ported by their own moral courage,
their good behavior is the subject of
most favorable comments. especially
by our allies.
American mothers may rest as
sured that their sons are credit to
them and to the nation. and they will
look forward to the proud day when
on the battlefield these splendid men
will shed new luster on American
| manhood