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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
"POLLY" HALL IN HOSPITAL
Techs Star Tackle Heard From mt
Metx-Wns In Flying
Especial to The times Disl

Especial to Tn, times Dispatch.l
BLACKSBURG VA, November 23.-
In n list of officers and enlisted men
i'm German prison camps announced by
tho War Department yesterday APP
peared the name of Lieutenant l.. G
Hall, of Charlottesville. Va. This is
Polly" Hall. star tackle of the 1916
football team. Hall left Virginia Tech
at the outbreak of the war and en-
listed with the university ambulance
unit. After remaining in the training
camp at Allentown, Pa, tor several
weeks he entered the flying corps.
finishing his training at one of the
Texas flying schools. Hall is a giant
in stature. and PLYING" the avia-
ton publication. carried his picture
some months ago MS representing the
type OF aviator the army was sending
tolthe fighting front. Lieutenant Hall
is ut n hospital in Metz. The theory
here Is that he had TO make a forced
landing while flying over the German
lines and WAS imprisoned. Hall will
return to Virginia Polytechnic lnsti-
tute as soon as he gets his discharge.
He has two years TO play on the
varsity eleven.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT /
RECEIVES UNIQUE OFFER
Asked to BE Sole Member OF Ma
tional Commission Of Two
Big Leagues.
EASTERN MCGULs APPROVE
Presidents of New York Nationals
and Boston Red SoX Reported to
Have Submitted Proposal to Ex-
President OF United States.
IN. Associated Press !

NEW YORK. November % Former
President Taft has been offered the
tionai Commission Of the National and
American Leagues, according to an
nounccment here tonight by II. ~
Hampstead, president of the New York
dent of the Boston Americans. Mr.
Taft is said to be considering the Of
fer.
the passing OF the present National
Commission. which is composed Of the
two presidents and a third member.
The offer to MIR. Taft is said to have
been made without the knowledge Of
western presidents OF the two leagues.
All of the Eastern club presidents are
said to have approved the offer and
this would give the originators OF the
idea sufficient votes to carry the pro-
poSal.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
NATIONWIDE STRIKE
AGAIN THREATENS
HALLWAY Photographers. Levcrmen and
Agents Say VIII Quit on
wednesday,. j.
TBy Associatcd press.1

fBy Associated Press1
BALTIMORE. November 23.-Unlcss
their demands for Increased pay and
improved working conditions are
granted by a. NJ. next Wednesday,.
approximately $4,000 telegraphers.
lcvermen and agents employed on rail-
roads all over the country will leave
their positions and seek other work.
according to officials of the division OF
the Order of Railroad Photographers
whose headquarters arc in Baltimore.
Action threatening the walkout was
taken at Il meeting held here last We'd
nesday night. attended by 900 members
of the order employed on the Pennsyl-
vania. Baltimore and Ohio. Western
Maryland, Richmond, Frederick sburg
and Potomac and Washington Termi-
nal Railroads. The same authority de-
clarcd that similar action was taken
at meetings of the order held in every
section of the country during the last
week. Resolutions were passed at
these meetings. ii was said. which will
be transmitted TO Director-General OF
Railroads McAdoo. setting forth the
dissa It's faction of the employees with
present conditions. which. they declare
were not improved by the concessions
announced by the railroad adminis-
tratiou recently.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
FUNDS FOR WAR VICTIMS
Cuban Commission Divides None,
:. Among Organizations OF Several
Allied Nations.
TBy As-oclntcd Pre-.

~ BY Associated Press.
HAVANA. November 23.-Thc Cuban
national commission OF propaganda for
the war and aid of it's victims has
divided among several allied relief or
ganiZations as follows:
Is seventy thousand dollars sent to
Premier Clcmcnceau OF France for
French soldier victims; British Red
Gross, SG0,O 600: for Belgium. TO be
delivered TO the belgian Queen on her
entry IN Brussels, 100000: to the
Queen of Italy, 100000; Canadian Red
Cross, $4,000; Australian Red Cross
$4,000: New Zealand Red Cross, $40
900; French Sisters OF Charity. $40
900; French doctors association $40
900; war orphans. 10000 and S2O 900
each TO the Serbian. Greek and Portu-
Isucse governments.
j THIS is in addition TO the $1,000 con
tributed by the commission to the
United States soldier relief fund
\ Tfnies-Dispntch Want td
VIII return that lost article To YOU i'm
record time. "
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
Two Children Dead.

Two children of Darlington J. and
Fannie T.. Rhodes, of 209 Short q
Street. are dead from influenza. Yer
nell NJ. the daughter, aged twelve years,
died Thursday night. and the son. Fra
sia Jones, aged three years, died Fri
day night. The bodies are at Henry
w Wrody'E undertaking establish
ment. Ruria. will be in lakewood this
afternoon.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
NEW YORK HARBOR MEN
MAY 60 OUT DECEMBER

7 BY .ASSoclhted Press.
NEW YORK. November 23.-Unless
an eight hour day and increased wages
recently granted harbor transport
workers here by the Federal railway
wage adjustment board are conceded
along with overtime pay. by boat own
ers and railroads. all harbor craft
in this port will be tied up December
l. the marine workers utilization an
nounced here to-day. Fifteen thousand
men would go on strike. and in ad-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
FUNERAL in WASHINGTON
Service for Dead Daughter OF Confed-
crate Lender to he Held ut
Nations Capital.

Funeral services for Miss Mary Gus
It's Lee will be held tomorrow after
noon at 4 o'clock in the Church of the
Epiphany. Washington. ID. G. The in
tcrment will be private. Confederate
organizations in the city with which
Miss Lee has been closely identified
have all met to pass resolutions of
respect to the memory of the daugh-
ter of the great Confederate chieftain.
Miss Lee died at the Homestead Hotel,
Virginia Hot Springs, Friday.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
dition $4,000 longshoremen would be
thrown into idleness. the statement

BUlU.
y strike by members Of the United
carpenters and Joiners OF America and
or the Marine Woodworkcrs Of tho port
OF New York. totaling many thousand
next month Of Thomas j. Mooney, the
California labor leader. convicted of
murder. has been recommended by
delegates from forty Brooklyn wood
workers unions. according to an an
nouncemcnt to-day by their secretary.
The delegates also urged an appeal
to Governor Stephens OF California, to
pardon Mooney.
Resolutions were adopted advocating
the calling of general strike and a
parade OF organized labor on or about
December s.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
NIcIton-Anthony,

Mrs. NJ Is. Anthony. of Glen Allen,
announces the marriage of her daugh-
te". Eula Richerson Anthony. to Rob-
ert Hunter Melton. of Glen Allen. which
TOD: pi?sc Wednesday at o'clock in
tn. home OF Rev. Q. a. Deitz. at Gin
.cr Park
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
SUFFERED TERRIBLE PAINS;
WAS CRIPPLED And CONFINED
TO BED With RHEUMATIC ISM
After Il Brief Treatment by The
United Doctors, Mr.. Fletcher
Was Back at Work, and Says
He Feels as Well as Ever.
Read His Statement Below.

Mr.. Jet Fletcher. who lives at 91o
Beverly street, a well-known and pop
ular employee of the Virginia Rail
way and Power Company, made the
following statement:
81 had suffered from rheumatism for
some time. but last spring it got much
worse. had to stop work, and for
weeks at time | would be laid up i'm
bed. ! couldn't move without suffer-
ing terrible misery all through my
body and in my legs. | could hardly
raise my head. Then when ! got up
would be SO drawn up and crippled
from the rheumatism had to use two
sticks to get about. ! heard the United
Doctors treated bad cases OF rheu-
natism, so / went to them, and after
a few weeks treatment was almost
as we'll as ever before. My pains left
me. threw away my canes aid / can
now walk and do my work as we'll as
ever before. I've gained flesh and
feel fine and people tell me | look
years younger"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
AntisuTrngists' Meet.

There will be meeting Of the execu-
tive committee Of the Virginia Associa-
ton Opposed to Woman's Suffrage to-
morrow morning at IL o'clock with
Miss Maria Blair in Apartment 40l,
THE Chesterfield"
Evening star., 1918-02-24
DANGEROUS PATH TAKEN
TO ESCAPE U+B0AT FLEET
Three Other Italian Vessels Con.
tinue Course and Fall Victims
to German Torpedoes.

AN ATLANTIC PORT. February 2s.-
How the master of an Italian pas
senger liner. the Dante Alighieri,
lodged a fleet of submarines lying In
wait for him in the Mediterranean by
venturing a midnight passage through
an uncharted channel between small
island and the Spanish coast was re-
lated by passengers Of the ship on her
arrival here today.
The wisdom of the captains move
was demonstrated the following morn
ing, they said, when lifeboats were
sighted carrying passengers and crews
of three torpedoed vessels out OF
convoy of five, which the Dante ALI
ghieri had passed only two hours be-
fore the captain decided to risk wreck
ing his ship in the channel rather than
take chances with the u-boats:
The names of the three ships sent
to the bottom were the Duca di Geneva,
a passenger vessel; the Vile de YER
dun and the Caprera, all Italian The
presence of the submarines in their
path was learned by the master of the
Dante Alighieri through wireless
warning. The lifeboats were not pick
ed up, as they were within a few miles
of the Spanish coast and the occu-
pants signaled that they preferred to
land.
Passage through the unlighted and
dangerous channel. only 800 feet wide.
was made after the master of the
liner had notified all his passengers OF
the danger. The steerage passengers,
comprising the majority. We're brought
to the cabin decks, lifebelts were dis
tributed. boats partly lowered and all
preparations made to abandon the
vessel should she strike the rocks.
Capt. d. NJ. Nicoll and several men,
bers of the crew of the American
steamship Suruga, torpedoed December
20 off the Italian coast, were among
the Dante Alighieri's passengers. He
said his ship was one of four torpe-
doed within twenty minutes out of a
convoy of five. He succeeded in beach
ing her. and when he left Italy the
task of relocating her was under way.
The captain brought home the pro-
peller blade of the German torpedo as
a souvenir.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Wide Range of the Reports.

These reports range from those on the
means for restoring highly localized in
dustries like the pottery trade, made
famous by Arnold Benefits stories OF
the Five Towns to those containing
programs for the postwar development
of agriculture. forestry, education, GER
tain manufactures and commerce all
over the United Kingdom.
Two volumes recently have been re-
ceiyed here containing the comprehen-
sive final report of the departmental
committee on juvenile education in re-
lation to employment after the war.
This report is typical.
The first volume deals with children
who have been abnormally employed
during the war. with those who will not
be able Immediately to find advantage
Gus employment. and with those who
will require special training for en-
nloyment, Now this is only special
report of a committee on one phase OF
the broad subject of education, which.
in turn. is only one of the great prob
lens with which committees of the re-
construction committee are dealing.
evidence of the way the committee
went to work is to be found in the in
PRODUCTION, which states:
"In the great work of reconstruction
which lies ahead. there are aims to be
set before US which will try, no less
sesrchinely than the war itsef. the
temper and enduring qualities of our
race: and in the realization OF each
and all Of these education, with its
sti1nulus and discipline, must be our
standby, -" We have to restore the
natural relations between the foik
and the soil from which the folk de-
rives it's sustenance; to revivify with
Evening star., 1918-02-24
CZECH-sLOVAK ARMY GROWS.
Number With Allies in France
Reaches 10000, Says N. Y. Report.

NEW YORK, February 23.-The state
ment that the army of Czechs and
SIovaks training in France to fight
with the allies now numbers 10000
was made at the closing session here
today of the convention of the Slovak
League of America, in connection with
the adoption of resolution to cable
the conventions greetings to the Slo-
walk armies in France.
1t was stated that Czechs and Slovaks
are leaving this country on every avail
able ship by the hundreds to become
members of the new army.
Other resolutions pledged the unqual-
ified support of 'all the Slovaks of the
United States to the American govern
ment and confidence in the leadership
of the Czccho-Slovak national council
in Paris.
Albert Mamtey, Pittsburgh. was elect
ed president of the league: the Rev.
Paul Siska, Bridgeport. Conn, vice
president, and Matthew Gazdik, Pitts
burgh, secretary.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
CZECH-SLOVAC COUNCIL
TO PRESS PROGRAM HERE
Insists Peace Terms Shall Include
Disintegration of Austria
Hungary.

Proposing that no peace shall be es-
tablished which does not mean the dis
integration of Austria-Hungary, the
Czech -Slovac national council has
moved headquarters from New York to
Washington, conceiving the National
Capital a point of attack closer to the
engine room of the worlds progress. A
location in Washington is yet to be
found.
The organization has 120 900 members
in the United States. 1t is representa-
tive, it contends. of 100000 Czech
Slovacs and of 100000 Bohemians. In
the organization all claim kindred in
origin and aspiration.
Charles Pergler of Cresco. Iowa. law
yer, a member of the American Bar
Association. who has been in charge OF
the publicity end of the New York
propa ganda, is to control the campaign
to be engaged in from Washington. He
is vice president of the Bohemian ma
tfonal alliance. general director of the
Czech-Slovac press bureau. and a mem
Der of the executive council of the
Czesh- Slovac national council.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
THE VEPY REST TIME +,


Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery is now, if you feel that your
blood is out of order. Don't wait
until you have to cure disease; it's
easier and better to prevent it.
With the first blotches or erup-
tions, or the dullness, WEAKNESS and
depression that are some of the
symptoms, you need this medicine.
1t will rouse every organ into healthy
action, thoroughly cleanse and re-
pair your system, and build up need
ed flesh, health and strength. It's
the only reliable blood remedy. In
the most stubborn Skin or Scalp al
fections, in the worst forms of Scrof-
ula, in every disease caused by a
torpid liver or impure blood-it never
fails to benefit or cure.
The machinery of the body needs
to be we'll oiled, kept in good condi-
ton just as the automobile, steam
engine or bicycle. Most people
neglect themselves. To clean the
system take pleasant laxative, such
as DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. For
ss3e by druggists cents vial
Evening star., 1918-02-24
REFUSED IN U. S. ARMY, :.
JOINS FRENCH; DROPS HUN

Of Chicago Of the Lafayette Flying
Corps brought down . German air
plane in a tight several miles inside the
German line.s
Booth was on patrol duty when he
sighted his adversary. in q two-seated
machine and attacked him at q height
Of a mile. Several rounds were ex-
changed. and soon the German began
to descend. Booth followed the hostile
airplane down until 1t dropped into a
forest just inside the German line.
CHICAGO. February 23.-vernon
Booth. reported in dispatches from
Paris today as having brought down q
Evening star., 1918-02-24
TRAITORS FATE IN DOUBT
Austrians Accused of Treason Await
u, s. Decision

CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma. Wash, Feb
ruary 23.-Whether four Austrians, of
the National Army. accused of threat
ening to shoot their officers and be-
traying their comrades to the enemy
at the first opportunity in France. will
be interned or tried on a treason
charge depends on the outcome of an
investigation by the judge advocates
office, it was announced today.
At the time of the arrest the office
recommended that the men be interned
because of insufficient evidence for a
court-martial trial. In the meantime
further investigation is being made and
Army officers said they expected that
by Monday sufficient evidence would be
obtained to make a decision concerning
disposition of the case.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
MILLION MORE SHOES NEEDED
Army Must Have Them This Year,
Secretary Baker Saws,

Although the War Department has on
hand and contracted for a total of 49,
437, 900 pairs of shoes, Secretary Baker
says that more than 100000 additional
pairs of shoes will have to be obtained
for the Army this year
For troops in this country after the
initial issue of 100 per cent, II per
cent per month is required for upkeep
and 72 per cent rs reserve stock. At
the embarkation concentration camps
$50 per cent is the ratio for equipping
a given number of men, with 325 per
cent as the ratio for reserve stock. In
France the upkeep is placed at rs per
cent for given number of troops with
rs per cent for the reserve supply.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
BRITISH REGARD WAR PERIOD
AS THE TIME TO LOOK AHEAD"
Committee Formed to Deal With Economic
Conditions Following Conflict Lilened
to u. S. Council of Defense.

fresh scientific methods and better
economic conditions the outworn
practice OF our agriculture; to learn
over again that there is no greater
public benefactor than the man who
makes two ears of corn to grow where
but one grew before.
Further Duties Outlined.
we have to bring research to bear
upon the processes Of our manufac-
turers. to overhaul routine and elimi-
nate waste. to carry our reputation for
skillful workmanship and honest and
intelligent traficing into new mar
kets and to maintain it in the old"
Among the scores of aspects of child
education dealt with are statistics of
employment, conditions of juvenile em-
ployment. blind alley employment, diff
ficultfes of local option. compulsory con-
t1nuation classes, curriculums for vary
ing ages. the attitudes of employers
and parents, buildings, teachers, pos
sibi1ities of special training and kin
dred points.
The second volume Is taken up with
verbatim reports of hearings on all
these subjects. before which specialists
in all the fields testified and gave their
expert opinions upon which the vari-
Gus recommendations of the committee
were based.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Won TIRPITz FORECASTS
BELGIAN PROTECTORATE

ders, retain protectorate over Bel
gium and destroy an Anglo-American
economic coalition was voiced by Won
Tirpitz, according to an official dis
patch last night
Speaking at Mannheim Won Tirpitz
said that Germany need not over
estimate the American war organiza-
tion, but must prepare for the eco
nomic war to come. If Germany COM
pletely gave up Belgium, Won Tirpitz
said, she would be the laughing stock
of the world, and she must, in addi-
Evening star., 1918-02-24
TO INTERN LAX TEUTONs
Government Will Be Lenient With
Some Who Failed to Register

Preparations are being made by the
Department of Justice for internment
of several hundred Germans who failed
to register at the nation wide census
Of German enemy aliens three weeks
ago. A few arrests already have been
made. and these will continue in in
creasingly greater numbers during the
next ten days or two weeks
Internment will be imposed onIy on
Germans who appear to have refused
deliberately to register. United States
marshals and attorneys have been in
structed to deal leniently with Germans
who show evidence of having failed to
register because OF carelessness. and IN
permit their enrolment even at this.
late time.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Appoints Bituminous Distributor

a, w. Galloway, a Baltimore and
Pittsburgh coal man, has been appoint
ed by Fuel Administrator Garfield di-
rector of bituminous coal distribution in
the United States fuel administration.
He will build up an organization of
practical coal men to assist him.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Conference on Allied Spring Drive

MONTREAL. Quebec. February 23.-sir
Robert Borden, prime minister of Can
ada, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, leader of
the opposition party, will attend an inn
perial conference to be held in London
in March for the purpose of consulting
representatives of the overseas do
minions in connection with the allied
spring drive on the western front. ac-
cording to La Patrie. local newspaper.
on the authority Of high political
parsonage"
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Is Named TRANSPORTATION Director

C. Z. Spens, vice president in charge
of traffic of the Chicago. Burlington
and Quincy railroad burlington route).
has been appointed director of trans
portation for the United States food
administration. He succeeds Edward
Chambers, who was recently made
director, division of traffic United
States railway administration.
Evening star., 1918-02-24

|csfpea aisplsa& xas refused aA.Iks.
sion t6>4AA-<kmerioaas Army because -
non Booth. formerly head Of the Booth
fisheries and prominent In Chicago
business circles. Some years ago the
family moved to Baltimore and then
to New York. where they now reside.
When young Booth was refused ad-
mission to the American Army about
q year 60 he went to France and en-
listed in the Lafayette escadrille.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
BY EVA ZAINTZ,
A Soldier In the Ranks.

the first of fouar b n
the Battaio of
who bled and led o n
eofthi sseries
dowinap nextS
vH7E ARE emotional people, impetuous and warm
" booded and fataistic Russians There
inconsistencies patriotism, which
eouaed: kndlness which is chldlike; hates
and class rvalries cruel Only from daughters of
blood coud the Battalion Death have been formed.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Approve Enlisted,s Moratorium.

Senate and House conferees on SOL
dies and sailors civil rights or mora
torium bill virtually reached an agree
ment yesterday. and this week the bill
will be presented to both Houses of
Congress. with prospects of prompt
final approval.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Question of Reabsorption.

Next it was apprehended that reab-
sorbing these men into the national
life of peace was not merely matter
of finding adequate employment for
them. Such employment bore the in
evitable connotation of housing. well
fare. outlets for the products of their
labor. distribution in the worlds
terprises to meet the changed demands
son for the committee which grew into
ministry of reconstruction.
AS originally created-for the clear
back on her feet after the war-this
parable with the English ministry of
that the Council of National Defense.
gradually transformed into just such
ell has undertaken work which will
reach it's apex in value when peace
comes. and may make of it perma-
nent institution. But that is another
story.
The ramifcations of the English re-
construction ministery are almost as
the Council of National Defense here.
No complete list of it's committees is
available, but reports of its various
committees have come to this country.
and already have been studied by gov
ernment officials, with a view of adapt
ing the English work to the needs OF
the United States.