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The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
ARKANSAS CALLED ON
 FOR MORE LIMITED MEN
ONE. HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN ARE ORDERED TO REPORT
 AT CAMP PIKE SEPT. 7.

Washington, Sept. 2.-To provide clerical assistance for local district and medical advosory boards in connection with the registration and classification of those subject to military service only were today called today by Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder to entrain September : for various military camps from which they will be assigned to the different draft boards requiring their services.
 It Is planned to keep the men h this employment until January when they will be assigned to other duties,
 Some of the state allotments and concentration points follows
 Louisiana: S9, Camp Beauregard, La.
 Arkansas. 11S, Camp Pike, Ark.
 Oklahoma: 131, Fort Sill, Okla
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
MANY GATHERED AT
 LABOR DAY OUTING
WHtTTlNGTON PARK WAS THE SCENE OF THE ONLY PRO- GRAM RENDERED ABOUT
 CITY

Labor Day q 1918 fin Hot Springs
 passed into history with more quIeuoe
 than perhaps any other in years The
 stores closed for the afternoon, as
 a rule. and the court house and city
 hall showed the holiday, while the banks of coursc were closed all day but there was little else to mark the holiday. At Wilmington park there was gathered most of the holiday crowd, and the ball games in the af- ternoon. and the musical program ln the evening, were greeted by preten- tious audiences Out in the country there were very few public gatherings At the Saline river park in Saline county big two day picnic and cele- bration had been advertised, but par ties returning from that scene last evening said that but few people gath cred there and that it did not have theI of an ordinary picnic crowd The reasons were easily as- most of the men had goaeI 10 war or into camps. or were too busy with other affairs to indulge in the| holiday spirit at this time
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN
 IS IN ERUPTION
COLUMNS OF DENSE BLACK SMOKE RISE 5000 FEET AND STROUD THE SURROUND
 ING COUNTRY

Yreka, Siskyou County, cal, Sept 2.-Preston peak, a mountain 73Jl feet high, situated in remote tim bered section of this county, broke into violent activity shortly after noon today, emitting a column of dense black smoke that rose 5000 feet and shrouded the surrounding country.
 Confirmation of the eruption was made here by Louis Carrigan, deputy United States forest supervisor. who received the reports from two diffe9- ent lookout stations in the immediate vicinity of the peak. No warning was manifested by the peak before it burs, into smoke.
 Description of the phenomena tele- phoned by the lookout observers agreed that column of dense sfoke shot into the air and then slowly set tied over the lower foothills.
 If Preston peak proves to be an az tive volcano such as it's present action indicates, it would be the second of it's kind in continental United States. The other volcano is Lassen peak, about 15 0mies southeast and became active May 30. 1914. and has since intermittently erupted smoke, lava and steam
 The peak is near the oregon boun- dary and about s miles from the Pa cific ocean.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
SUBMARINE VICTIMS
 ARRIVE IN PORT
COMMANDER OF THE u-6oAT SPOKE EXCELLENT ENGLlsn AND HAD AMERICAN
 MAGAZINES.

Gloucester, Mass, Sept. 2--The Ger
 man submarine operating among the fishing fleet off the Nova Scotia coast is eamouflaged with large waye-iiHe Iines.according to Captain Manuel Quadros, of the American fishing schooner. Rush. sunk by the Uboat & week ago
 Captain Quadros. who. with the l9 members Of his crew. reached his home here tonight, said that the under se1 craft was painted dark grey and that for several feet above the water line the diseusing marks were visible. The boat, he said was about 25G feet in length. Captin Quadros and three of his men were aboard the enemy craft for about three hours and had a. lengthy conversation with it's com mander who spoke excellent English and portugese He told the fishermen that there were American magazines on the U-boat and he accused the newspapers of distorting the truth about the submarines He said that when his vessel left Germany it was under instructions to sink only thres masters, but that because of the atti- ture of the American press, orders had come to sink everything in sight
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
ARMY MEN RESENT
 INCREASED BARBER PRICES

Little Rock, Ark, Sept. 2-ln a letter made public today Colonel Charles Miller. commander at Camr Pike, announced that if Little Rock barber shops put increased prices in- to effect tomorrow as they have an- nounced, he will advise all officers and soldiers to boycott the local shops.
 w IT. Brown, secretary of the local barbors union. tonight said that the increased prices of 30 cents for a hair cut and % cents for a shave will go into effect tomorrow as scheduled
 Colonel Millers letter said that he would at once take steps to provide adequate barbering facilities within the comp If the new prices are put in force He declared that he consider ihe new prices unreasonable.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
HARMLESS" LETTERS
 CARRY INFORMATION
TON SENT TO GERMANY MADE PUBLIC BY FEDERAL
 OFFICIAL,

New York, Sept 3.-lnformation is being transmitted to the enemy in apparently harmless letters of SO cial and personal character sent by persons in this country to home of fices in Germany according to d state- ment tonight by Frederick L. Becker deputy United States attorney gem ,ral
 While asserting that "at the pres ent time it would not be consistent with the interest of justice to make public most of the communications under investigation" by his depart ment. Mir Becker cited on example of a style which he said was in vogue discovered by comparison of scores of other letters
 The example made public is that a letter from the Pennsylvania Car company of Pittsburg to Ornstein and kCppel of Berlin. of which, according to Becker the American company is a branch The communication takes the form of @ purely personal letter from Erich Rotherburg" and is ad- dressed care "A Bruce, Stockholm most messages being sent through Scandinavian countries.
 "The foreign office is active" now although on physicians advice, '" said by Mr Becker to mean a lawyer. instructions, letters arc not desir- able shipments of cars are referred as train rides every day enjoyed by the patient and the regularity of such shipments, Mir Becker stated, was implied by patients health"
 Mir Becker added that thousands of cover" names and addresses are used in sending communications via Stockholm.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
Personals

Dr. A. R. Rhine and family returned from Camp Pike where he had been doing war "Y' work He will be here throughout the holiday season and will conduct the holidays services as usual.
 Dr and Mrs Mcconnell and son Heibert motored over from Little Rock yesterday, where they had spent Sunday, and visited Camp Pike. Horace Mcconnell, brother of Dr. Mcconnell came over to this city with them on the trip, and is on a furlough from the aviation field at Memphis, Horace Mcconnell left Hot Springs seven years ago, and before his departure was connected with the Sentinel Record and New Era de- livery departments. Now he is a young man. and who has made an anyiable record in the aviation work, which he chose as his favorite branch of hte service when te war was de- clared
 Hamilton Moses of Little Rock is ere on 4 visit ol some weeks.
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 Miss Eva Welshbillig who has been visiting in the North and East for the past four months has returned She will reopen the New York Mill linery store at $26 Ouachita Avenue in a few days, and will be pleased 10 meet all of her old customers as well as the new ones
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 Hon. w. H. Martin returned from visit to New York, Washington and Cleveland
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 Colonel George w. Murphy is in the city on brief business visit.
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 Walter NJ l9bel of the publicity department of the state food admins tration is here on visit MT. Ebel will soon be connected with an auxnl- liary on the war department and be overseas on business.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
MEXICO TO BE NEUTRAL

Mexico City, Sept 2-President Car ranza in his address to congress last night on the occasion ot tle convening of th e2Sth session of 5helesiSlative body dwelt at length on internal and foreign questions as they affert the republic He declared it was the de- termination of Mexico to maintain the strictest neutrality in the world war and that neutrality had been religious ly observed in the past.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
MRS. NETTLEroN, PHONE 1903.

Formerly of Buckstaff Beauty Shop, wishes to announce that she will be found at her shop in the Thompson Bldg. the tntire summer and pleased to serve new as well as old patrons. First-class work, sanitary methods only. 7-2-f
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
FERRIS STEAMER LAUNCHED

Jacksonville. Fla, Sept 2.--The G. 800 ton Feerris type steamer Harish, built by the J. M Murdock company. was launched here today in connection with the Labor Day celebration. It was the second ship launched in the fourth district Thousands of spec tators and workmen witnessed he
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03

Don't buy until you have seen the latest styles in Ladies Ready -to-W Wear and Millinery at Halls Quality Shop.
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The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
AVIATION MAcHlNIsT DROWNED

Montgomery, Ala, Sept 2.-Russen Boner, enlisted from Lockport, New York, as a machnist and assigned to a repair department at Taylor aviation field, was drowned while swimming today in the Tallapoosa river, several miles north of Montgomery. At a late hour the body had not been recovered.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
BAPTiSTS OBJECT TO
 ARMY ORDERS

Atlanta. Ga, Sept. Apr. B D. Gray corresponding secretary of the south ern Baptist convention and George Green director Of war camp activities. left here today for Washington to at tend meeting of the Protestant churches War Time commission called to protest against a recent war de- partment order barring pastors and voluntary chaplains" not members of the military establishment from train ing camps. ~S .sEf
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The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
GIVING ONLY USEFUL
 PRESENTS IS URGED

Washington, Sept. 2.-Retail inter ests represented at a conference called
 agreed not to increase their working force or normal working hours for the holiday trade and to urge in news paper advertisements that Christmas giving, except in tho case of children, be confined to useful articles. Reports from all section indicated it was an nounSnd tonight that the manufacture of g pHssivery of holiday goods to tho
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
BO-KO

Bo-ko Co, Jonestown, Miss. 6-30-2w
 Guaranteed to kin more trees quicker and cheaper than old way.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03

Our new fall stock will please you in Ladies Cloaks. Suits and Hats Halls Quality Shop. 9-1-tf
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03

ELECTRIC FANS FOR RENT OR SALE AT RUSH BROS. PHONE 936.
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The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
YOUNG MEN CHARGED
 WITH ASSASSlNATlNG FARMER R

Nashville. Tenn, Sept 2-Twelve young men have been arrested in Put nam county in connection with the murder of Roland NiJeto. who was shot from ambush while riding to his home from a party in the community the night of August 22.
 The young men are members of prominent families They we're given preliminary hearings and were bound over under bond to the next term of criminal court.
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 MAKE A HIT-Hall's Quality Shop sells the clothes that will 9-1-tf
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03

Sentinel-Record classified advertis. ns brings rasults
Evening star., 1918-07-11
BIG STOCK BROKERS
SUSPENDED BY CHANGE

NEW YORK. July 1l.-Announce-
ment of the suspension for one year
OF John Muir. Edwin r. Muir and
Charles A. Burbank Of John Muir d
Co.. the largest dealers in the coun-
try in what are known as odd lots"
of stock under 100 shares. was made
today by the New York Stock Ex-
change.
The three members of the firm are
charged with entering into partner
ship which. in the opinion of the board
of governors. was not q genuine part
nership and which nullified the ex-
changes commission law,
1t is understood the suspension was
due to the belief by the stock ex-
change authorities that Mr.. Burbank
was not genuine partner. but only
a subordinate.
In a statement to their customers,
Der, John Muir, more than a year ago
was made chairman of the liberty
loan bond committee. and that Edwin
H. Muir had entered the Army. This
made 1t necessary, It was said. to
have another member on the floor of
vanced $4,000 to Mr.. Burbank to
purchase seat.
This done. Mr.. Burbank, the state
ment says, was announced as a general
partner with, full authority to act as
such. According to stock exchange prec-
edent member must have bought his
seat with his own money.
The firm explained that instead of re-
ceiving a percentage of tho profits he
(Burbank) received minimum guar
antee and outside commissions, course
disapproved Of by the exchange.
mo criticism has been made of orr
relations with our customers" the state-
ment concludes, land we have made the
necessary arrangements to have their
orders efficiently handled"
Evening star., 1918-07-11
DEATH TOLL OF WRECK
NOW STANDS AT NINETY

NASHVILLE. Tenn, July 1.-THE
fatality list resulting from the col
lision Tuesday on the Nashville. Chat
tanooga and st. Louis Railway near
Nashville. was swelled this morning
by the death In a hospital of William
Luker. Kingston Springs, Tenn. negro.
making the total ninety. Elvin Ken
nedy. mall clerk. of ashville. is at
deaths door and J. w. Smith. Abb
line. Tex. Is In a critical condition.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. July 1l.-Five
Navy recruits. accepted by tho Mem
phis Navy recruiting station. were
killed in the Nashville. Chattanooga
and St. Louis wreck near Nashville
Tuesday. according to information re-
ceived here. They had been sent to
Nashville for second examination and
were en- route back to Memphis to
await call.
The recruits said to have been killed
were Frank Troy Payne and Wilson
B. Harris of Covington. Tenn; Will
liam A. Scammerhorn Of Jackson.
Tenn; Floyd Richard OF Newbern.
Tenn, and Newton N. Wander Brooks
of Jackson, Tenn.
Evening star., 1918-07-11
REACTIONS ARE RULE IN
STOCK MARKET TRADING

NEW YORK. July 11.-Stocks were
irregular at the dull opening of to-
days market. but soon became active
and heavy on selling of industrials.
prompted by reports from Washington
that some of the leading Steel COM
panies had applied to the government
for financial assistance.
United States Steel declined IL
points on very large transactions.
Bethlehem Steel broke III and Cruel
BILE Steel IN.
Nails. equipments. motors. coppers
and tobacco lost l to 8 points in the
first half hour and Royal Dutch Oil
fell points.
Some Losses Extended.
Further unsettlement was mani
tested during the first hour, a few
stocks extending their early losses.
while others rallied l to / y points.
Bethlehem Steel, old stock. react
ed 5M points; Baldwin Locomotive.
3a: Sumatra Tobacco. az: General
Motors. 2l2: Distillers. Coppers and
including Union Pacific and Reading.
an average of point.
Trading was suspended from II to
IL o'clock as a tribute TO the mem
ory Of the late Mayor Mitchell.
Liberty 3hs sold at 1852 to 1864 {:
first IS. at 94.04 TO 94.10: second As. at
s4.04 to s4.0s. and ANS. at 1884 to
95.9S.
Heavy Selling Is Renewed.
Heavy selling of leading industrials
was renewed at midday. United States
Steel being again offered in large
lots at an extreme setback of / u points.
points.
Other equipments. as we'll as rails.
reflected further heavy liquidation.
Evening star., 1918-07-11
Reconnaissance in Rain.

LONDON. July 10.-The official state
ment on aerial operations tonight
says:
Work in the air was interrupted on
July . by showers of rain and low
clouds, but photographing and recon-
naissances were carried out by US as
usual and many hostile batteries were
engaged with airplane observation.
Enemy aircraft were active on the
northern part of our front and a
number of combats took place. In
which nine German machines were
destroyed and one was driven down
out of control. In addition, a hostile
scout was brought down by anti-air-
craft Are.
Evening star., 1918-07-11
THE WEATHER.

The District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia, fair tonight and tomor-
row; little change in temperature:
gentle shifting winds.
West Virginia, fair tonight and to-
morrow: little change in temperature.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at
the weather bureau for the twenty
four hours beginning at pm. yes
terday:
65; pm, 73: IL midnight, 66; today.
4 am. 60: am. 81. Maximum, rs.
at noon yesterday: minimum, 81. at
a m. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum. 76: minimum. 90. -
pm. 2ss2; IL midnight. 2s.s5: to-
day. am. 1896: s am. 1904.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water
72: condition. IS. Dalecarlia reser-
voir-Temperature. IL: condition at
north connection. 20: condition at
south connection, rs. Georgetown
distributing acknowledgements
"A; condition at inf1uent gatehouse.
"a; condition at effiuent gatebouse. 26.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. W. Va, July IL.
The Potomac and Shenandoah
rivers were very cloudy this morning.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1918-07-11
IA Tons of Bombs Dropped.

In the course of the day we dropped
fourteen tons of bombs on selected
targets over the line. two tons falling
with good effect on the Lille Junction
and IN tons on the Bruges docks.
Three of our machines are missing.
During the following night three
tons of bombs were dropped on enemy
railways and camps: without loss TO u.s."
U.s."
Evening star., 1918-07-11

1s2.6a4. The national banks reported
$75.57s.531.9s on June 20. which was
drop of $2.267.620.o7. Trust COM
psnies reported a total Of $<o,2sa,-
423.97. which represented a loss Of
$2,1S0.528.59.
was $2l.35O.628.95, Compared with
$21. ops, ,83277 on May 10.
Frank B. Devereaux of the National
Savings and Trust Company's Office
STAFF compiled these figures:
Evening star., 1918-07-11
". R. &E. Co. As LEAD
ON LOCAL EXCHANGE

Brisk selling in Washington Rail-
way 4's marked the days antivities
on the Washington Stock Exchange.
This security opened strong and
certificates to the face value of $4,000
changed hands at 6s. Tho preferred
stock of this public utility was mao
tive at 66 bid.
Potomac Electric cons. SIS figured
prominently and sold for ssh.
Capital Traction seemed to be in
fuenced by the general trend of the
market and was more or less active
throughout the days trading.
Evening star., 1918-07-11
GEN. PERSH|NG REPORTS
. ONLY NORMAL ACTIVITY

Gen. Pershing's communique for to-
day was as follows:
Section A-The day again passed
troops.
Section B-For our troops in the
Chateau Thierry region tho day Of
July to 8 was uneventful The
enemy continued to direct much rifle
and machine gun fire on our new line
in the vicinity of Vaux and north of
Vaux and also on Bouresches. The
activity Of the German artillery was
not abnormal for so active a sector
and consisted mainly of harassing fire
on our front lines.
Gas was. as usual. employed in the
shelling of the Marette, the Belleau
and other woods. The number of
German airplanes in operation again
decreased. In the German rear areas
those Of men In groups of small or
moderate size. Our own troops were
active in patrolling and in artillery
fire.
Hun Artillery Fire Lighter.
I'm the Marne sector from July Z
to 8 the day passed almost without
incident. The enemy's artillery fire
was lighter than on the preceding
day and only few of his planes were
seen. His trench mortars were active
for time during the evening. There
was little activity on our side. Our
batteries exploded one of the enemy's
ammunition dumps.
I'm the Woevre there were no
notable events between July 3 and
July except the attempts of parties
OF the enemy to penetrate our lines.
especially in the region Of Xivray. On
the night Of July a German patrol
was driven back in this region by
one of our patrols after an exchange
of fire. On the night Of July one
Of our outposts In this region was
fired on by a German patrol. but
sustained no Casualties. On the night
of July 8 a strong German patrol
attacked a weak outpost at xivray
with the intention OF taking prison.
ers.
Our outpost exchanged hand gre
made fire with the assaulters. The
Germans, having failed in their pur-
pose, withdrew from the outpost,
which was then reoccupied. On the
same night there was an exchange of
grenade fire between another of our
outposts and q German patrol, and at
another point a patrol encounter.
Only Normal Activity.
During all three days the enemy's
artillery maintained a rate of fire
which Is normal for quiet sector,
distributing his shells over our front
and rear arreas and our lines of COM
municatton. Only q small amount of
gas was used.
His atrplanes and balloons did lit
tie work between July 3 and July 4.
but were moderately active between
July 4 and s. Our own forces were
active mainly in artillery work. The
German lines were heavily shelled
with gas on the morning of July S.
'In the Lorraine sector the out
standing incidents of July and Z
were the activities Of the enemy pa
trolling parties and of our own. Dur
ing the night three German patrols
approached our lines, two coming un-
der our fire. One Of them used light
machine guns. but was thrown back
by our rifle and grenade fire after
fight lasting twenty minutes.
IN the Altkirch sector on July and
Z no unusual acts Of any description
were reported"
Evening star., 1918-07-11
Pushing Into Hun Lines.

The work of bombing sQuadrons has
been growing steadily and tho British
flhave been reaching farther and farther
into German back areas in search of
military objectives. There has been
no let-up. Day apd night. sQuadrons
of British planes have kept up an al
most endless bombardment of impor-
tant positions. and their accuracy in
bomb dropping Is testified to in scores
of photogra phs OF destructive hits.
Not only have railways, airdromes
and other vital objectives been ef-
fectually bombed. but the loss of life
among German troops in concentration
camps has been exceedingly heavy.
Captured documents bear testimony to
this and prisoners admit ii.
Evening star., 1918-07-11
o. 8. CONSUL Is SAFE.
Gordon Paddock Reports Arrival at
Teheran From Tabriz.

Safe arrival at Teheran of Gordon
Paddock, United States consul at
Tabriz, was announced today by the
State Department. Paddock left
Tabriz more than a month ago with
a party of Americans and Europeans.
when Tabriz was threatened by Turks.
who afterward seized the American
consulate there and sacked an Amer.
loan hoaultaA
Evening star., 1918-07-11
SUPREMACY IN AIR
IS WON BY BRITISH
Germans Now Surpassed,
Both in Combat and
Bombing Work.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE. July 10.-Superiority in the
air. clean cut and unquestionable,
rests with the British flying men to-
day. There have been periods in
times past when 1t seemed that a very
slight addition of strength to either
one side or the other might tip the
balance temporarily, but no such Pc
riod exists now. British airmen are
supreme.
Not only have the kings fiers been
maintaining a decided upper hand in
the intense fighting in the air. but
the work of British bombing squad
rons has far exceeded that Of the
enemy in vigor and results. In the
more spectacular field of operations.
aerial fighting. the British have
bounded hostile pilots until the great
er part of their battles have occurred
east of the German lines. and in nu-
merous engagements staged every day
when the weather permitted. great
numbers of hostile machines have
been destroyed, One British aviator
alone has sent twenty-five crashing
to the earth in the last few months
and others of his comrades are not
far behind in their total.
Evening star., 1918-07-11
Lichnowsky May Be Ousted.

PARIS, July 10.-A secret session
will be held by tho Prussian house Of
lords on Friday, even functionaries
and ushers being excluded. 1t Is ex-
pected that the dismissal of Prince
Lichnowsky from the body will be
discussed and decided at the meeting.