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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-05
SHIP MEN
THREATEN STRIKE
Merchant Marine Recruiting
Dispute Set Forth to Ship
ping Board.
ALIEN MASTERS OPPOSED

Ship union leaders in conference with
the Shipping Board here yesterday said
the seamen are ready to strike because
of the refusal Of the Lake Carriers
Association to join the Shipping Board
and the union in conferences to con-
slider means of recruiting new men for
the merchant marine. Another reason
given was the bitterness growing from
the reputation by the association OF
an agreement made with the union
last year.
Nothing is left for us to do but to go
back and clash" said Thomas Conway,
representing the marine firemen. we
want it understood that we have Of
fered our government our cooperation
in every way, and that we are not re-
sponsible for what will happen In the
near future.
Men Favor Atlantic Policy.
Victor Olander of the Lake Seamen's
Union said the unions demanded that
the Lake Carriers Association follow
the example of Atlantic ship owners In
permitting the training of new men.
Until that is done the lakes Will not
develop their own men ana VIII con n
said. 1.-The kaiser captures some OF the
seamen going east, the Lake Carriers
Association gets them going west
TelegTams from Seattle saying that two
American ships were about to sail for At
lantic ports under command Of alien Off
GERS drew renewed protests from union
men against the practice OF giving Tor
eigners provisional licenses. Capt. John
H. Pruitt of Seattle told the conference
he had been assured by President Wilson
that the executive order permitting pro-
visional licenses was not intended to per-
init the replacement of Americans or the
use of foreigners when Americans were
available.
Board Pledges Consideration.
surance that all the questions raised would
have the immediate consideration of the
shipping board.
Conway asked the shipping board to
keep hands Off, in any trouble that
eventuates on the lakes.
last October" he said, I'VE called the
strike off at the request of the shipping
board to help the country. We have
been ready to do anything we could
to get together with the Lake Car
riers Association and they have re-
to cooperate. they have defied the
government To US they have thrown
down the gauntlet and we are going
to take 1t up.
eff the board had allowed the clash
last fall. the companies in that assoc
here, working with US and the other
maritime forces Of the country, for the
nations common welfare. 1t is only
fair. then. that we should be allowed
Robert P. Bass. the shipping boards
labor expert. said that the unions
views would be considered carefully by
the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-05
BUILDING UP CASE
AGAINST THE |. v. v.
Government Collects Evidence
Covering Alleged Violation
of the Espionage Act.
112 LEADERS ARE ON TRIAL

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 4.-Laying Of the
foundation in the governments case
against 112 leaders of the Industrial
Workers of the World. accused of vio-
lating the espionage act. virtually was
completed today, with admission into
the records of statements covering ex-
penditures for alleged seditious litera-
ture soon after America entered the
war.
Claude r. Porter. special prosecutor.
stated tonight that the government
would place it's most important wit
nesses on the stand probably early next
week. These witnesses, some of whom
are reported to have been planted In
the secret councils Of the I. w. w. by
the government, will be questioned con-
corning meetings of the general execu-
tive board just prior to the declaration
of war against Germany.
Publishing Firms Heard.
Representatives of publishing con-
the literature prepared by l. w. w.
writer's testified today that the volume
of business increased more than 100
per cent from early in the spring OF
the governments nationwide raid took
place.
In cross-examining these witnesses.
George F. Fanderveer. chief counsel Tor
the defense, brought out the fact that
all periodicals published by outside
firms were submitted three days in ad-
vance. This. he contended. gave the
publisher sufficient time in which to
decide whether the matter was i'm
proper.
turn out any seditious matter for the
l. W. VIZ" he asked one witness. OBJ
lection was entered by counsel for the
government and sustained by Judge
Lands.
The prosecution saw in the line of
questioning an attempt by the de-
tense to place on the publishing firms
responsibility for the printing of mat
ter that may be held to be seditious, 1t
was stated.
Points Already Developed.
In preparing the groundwork Of its case.
the prosecution has brought out that
board were frequent during the period
covered by the Indictment, and an at
tempt will be made to show that the
entire anti-war activities from coast
secretary-treasurer. William D. Hay
wood. and his associates.
Following circulation in the courtroom
and corridors today Of leaflets calling a
mass meeting for defense funds May 10.
the Department Of Justice stated that any
attempt to criticise the government would
be vigorously dealt with.
A H. Bird, said to be one Of the gov
ernment's important witnesses because of
his knowledge of I. w. w. activities in the
publishing line. disappeared two days ago
and all efforts to locate him had been un-
successful tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-05
WILL TRY TO SETTLE STRIKE.
Labor Conciliators to Take Up Labor
Grievance in Schenectady.

H. ]. Skefhngton and John ]. Casey.
federal labor conciliators. were ordered
to Schenectady, n. Y. yesterday by the
DEPARTMENT Of Labor to undertake
settlement of the strike of cranemen
at the plant there Of the General Elec-
trio Company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-05
Channel Possibilities.

On the other hand. the German army
may already have reckoned that he
cannot achieve the results he hoped for
at the south. He may recognize the al.
lied counter concentration has made
this impossible. Then he will strike in
the north for the channel in the ex-
pectation that II he gets to the coast
he will have won a victory suficient
to bring Britain to terms and provide
the basis for peace by negotiation
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
TALK PEACE AFTER
FOES ARE BEATEN
ENGLISH AND FRENCH PAPERS.
DO NOT TAKE KINDLY TO
KAlSER'S PROPOSALS.
Opinion is Expressed That Germans.
Have Set a Cunning Trap in
Which They Hope to Catch
the Allies.

LondOn.-"Achievem Of the purA
poses for which the allies are fighting
Is essential to the future freedom and
peace of mankind" said Premier Lloyd
George in a letter which he sent Friday
to the labor congress. The statement
is regarded as the British reply to
the German peace offer.
The premier said that a statement
on war aims could only be made in
agreement with Great Biftain's allies.
The question of issuing a fresh joint
declaration, he added, was constantly
kept in view by the entente allied gov
ernments.
Newspaper opinion here on the reply
of the central powers to the Bolsheyi5i
peace terms follows two main lines.
On one hand it seems to be felt that
the central powers have made per-
fectly sincere offer to end the war I'M
mediately, while on the other hand it
is declared they have set a cunning
trap in which they hope, although vain.
ly, to catch the allies.
The former view is supported strong
ly, for instance, by the conservative
Daily Express, which stands uncom.
promisingy for victory over the cen
trail powers and is an ardent apostle
of Prussianism. In all the papers
taking this view the statement of the
central powers is regarded as being
addressed less to Russia than to the
allies collectively, and the offer made
through Count Czernin is assumed to
be an initial proposal, which the CEN
trail powers probably are prepared to
modify in the course of bargaining,
for nowhere are the terms of the CEN
trail powers regarded as entirely ac-
ceptable in their present form.
The new Austro-G German peace Of
fensiye is freely commented upon by
the Paris press. All the newspapers
realize its gravity and all present Il
strong front
I'm reality" says L'Homme Lbre,
'the Germans seek, through the Rus
sian delegates, to influence the entente
by means of attractive words, such as
democratic peace They content them
selves with opening pourparlers on par
ticular and profitable points without
the faintest intention of honOring their
signature when it ceases to be their
interest to do So"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
HOW TO BUY POULTRY
Government Warns Against Ice
Packed Chickens.
Worth 10 to 13 Per Cent Per Pound
Less Than Those Properly
Handled.

Washington. Paying the same
price for wet-packed chickens as for
dry-packed involves heavy money loss
to the consumer, according to the
dressed poultry specialists of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
Government experiments have shown
that wet-packing a broiler and sending
It to market on ice causes 1t to lose 10
per cent Of It's value and fowls lose
about 10 per cent. If dry-packed broil-
ers are worth 40 cents wet-packed are
not worth more than 80 cents; If dry
packed fowls cost 30 cents, wet-packed
one should not cost over % cents.
A chicken thrown into ice water to
remove animal heat and sent to market
In q barrel In direct contact with
cracked Ice, 1t is pointed out, absorbs
water for which the consumer has to
pay chicken prices. The water also
dissolves out from the chicken valua-
BILE havoring and nutritive substances.
These go into the water at the bottom
of the barrel along with filth that is
washed from dirty feet and bloody
heads, and trickles downward over the
poultry.
With dry-packed chicken the ami
NAL heat is removed by hanging the
bird in an artlficlally cooled room
maintained at nearly freezing tempera-
ture. The chicken is then packed into
box containing IL birds and sent TO
market. The box Is hauled in refriger-
ator cars and is kept by good retailers
in good Ice boxes until sold. The bird
is never wet, has no chance to absorb
water or becomes washed out. A bird
should never be wet until it gets a
final quick rinsing off in the house
wife's kitchen. The practice of some
housewives Of soaking a chicken after
1t is dressed, in pan Of water, even
for an hour or two, helps to leach out
valuable qualities.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
ASKS STATUES FOR LONDON
Harvard Professor Would Make Brit
ons Familiar With Great
Americans.

London.--A plea for the erection of
more statues of great Americans In
London was made here recently by
Professor Sumlschrast of Harvard,
speaking before the American Lunch
con club.
.we who have the chance" he said,
must do all In our power TO make
England better known to Americans
and America and its people better
known In England. ANY misunder-
standing that may exist between the
two countries is purely the result of
Ignorance Of one another. would have
statues of every great American set up
In London, so that every Englishman
us he walks through these streets may
learn to know the features and story
Of Benjamin Franklin. George Wash
Ington, Abraham Lincoln and many
others who stood up for liberty and
made II possible for Great Britain.
France and the United States 10 stand
together today In the battle for human
ity."
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04

This great big human doll is most
successful as an agency of gathering
funds for relief organizations. The
costume is most unique and attractive
and Will prove to be of the same good
purpose everywhere if young ladies in
the many cities will take to wearing II
at the many bazaars throughout the
United States to raise funds for the
soldiers and for many other worthy
purposes.
The costume is made on full lines
and is something on the style of rid
ing habit, except for the curiously
shaped hat.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
Government Begins Final "Comb
OUT for Men to Swell
Military Ranks.
WOMEN MUST DO SHARE
Those Unable to Fight Are Called for
Other Necessary servlce-Econ-
omy Of Effort, Expense and
Material Demanded.

London.--With 100000 men In uni
form, and with other millions, both
men and women, engaged in occupa-
tons hardly less directly concerned
with the wars prosecution, England
Is organizing one more comb out" to
find men for military service, and both
men and women for other essential
smpiavmsnts. The appeal for men to
don uniforms and for workers is ac-
companied by renewed inslstence
upon the utmost economy of every eff
fort, expense and material. Economy
Is the watchword of the new national
service campaign under the direction
Of Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of
national service.
"Woman's clothes are the grave Of
an enormous amount of human ener-
gy," he said. New hats alone absorb
the work of millions Of fingers, and
whatever effect they may have that
effect certainly does not include help
ing TO beat the enemy.
IF we are to make the great eff
fort that we should make, II we really
are going TO make the greatest effort
In our history, our imagination must
be qulckened to understand the effect
of our smallest actions. Everywhere,
in practically every home, we ere vast
ing something. am sorry to say that
we have great organizations which ex.
lst to encourage waste"
only Necessities Of War.
Sir Auckland Insists, the govern
ment Is beginning to insist, the people
are beginning TO understand, that con
sumption to great extent has got tC
stop. The producing capacity OF the
country has got to be saved to turr
out the absolute necessaries Of lifI
and of war.
The case is being laid before th'
| British people now In the very sim
plest terms. Not only is everybody
urged to eat the least possible amount
| OF food necessary to maintain goot
physical condition but everybody Il
| told that he must wear his clothe:
longer, must be satisfied with patched
boots, must cut down his expenditure:
for every kind Of luxury, Cor amuse
ment.
But that is only the beginning. Th'
hands that would have been occupied
In making the new dress that my lad.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
AMERICANS LEAVE RUSSIA.
Railway Commissioner Takes His Men
From Revolution-Tor Country.

Tokio.-John f. Stevens, chief
American railway commissioner to
Russia, arrived at Nagasald on De-
cember 10 from Vladivostok, with 800
members of his staff
In statement Mr.. Stevens said he
expected soon to return to Russia to
assist in the reorganization of Russian
rail communication. He denied the re-
port that he was returning to America.
Mr.. Stevens regards the Russian situ-
alton as one of the most important in
he world.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
ALL BR|TONS TO DO THEIR BIT

is not going to buy and that therefore
Will not be made; the fingers that
would have employed themselves pre-
pairing the CONNECTION of hat that is
going to be forsworn; the skill and
handlcraft that would have found oc-
cupation producing suits of clothes
that are not going to be bought or
worn all these must find employment
of another kind; employment at pro-
ducing the things necessary, and abb
solutely necessary, to national life and
national war.
Domestic Service ProbI m.
Particular attention is being given
to the problems of domestic service,
which represent immense wastes Of
human energy. Nowadays woman is
likely to lose her social standing If
she advertlses for servant, especial
ly II she mentions in the advertise
ment, as many English housewives do,
that her establishment is based On the
butler and three maids model. o the
butler, houseman and four maids
model, or something of that sort. For
her advertisement Is likely to become
the basis of derlsive comment by folks
who wonder why the butler is not in
uniform and some of the maids at
least in munitions factory.
While the authorities who are hunt
ing for man power and woman power
insist that altogether too much of 1t
is wasted In domestic service, house
| holders declare that 1t is becoming
practically impossible to get service
at all. Moreover, 1t is likely to con-
tlnue so for long period, because
women, young and old, who have
tasted the satisfaction of that more
independent existence that is vouch-
safed to other workers are almost
without exception determined that they
will never go back into domestic serv-
ice.
Here is the formula for the mobili-
cation of national man power and ma
tlonal financial resources: Discharge
your servants and see that they get
enlisted In national service. Save the
money that you would have paid them
In wages and buy war bonds. The
government win pay that money to
your former servants as wages for
making munitions. The rest of the
money that you save by reason of cir
cumscribing your domestic establish,
ments will be deftly taken away from
you by the government through It's in,
strumentallties of taxation and used
to maintain the armies in France and
In almost all the other quarters of the
world. Another energy that is being
tapped is the great class of women
who have never imagined that 1t was
part Of their life to engage in gainful
occupation. There are fewer of then
In England by good many hundreds
OF thousands than there were before
the war. But there are still many Of
them, and the effort is to enlist then
for useful service.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
FREIGHT Given Preference.

New ork.-Announcement of the
curtailment of passenger train service
was made here Friday by the New
York Central Railroad company and
the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
The New York Central will discon-
tinue after December 81 all tourist car
service. More trains will be taken off,
1t was stated, and there will be an eX-.
tensive transfer Of this equipment to
freight service.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04

The return cards show these totals /:
Number of men favorable. 4,6o1.
Number of men opposed, 1856.
One side of the card was left blank
for further information or remarks"
What was written there showed the
reasons for the vote. The emphasis
was about equally divided between the
benefits to the men receiving the train
ing and the protection OF the nation.
The geographical source OF the unit
whether It came from the congested
areas Of Chicago or the open hills of
Wisconsin-seemed to make no diff
ference.
The question was put before the
men on It's own merits and without
argument.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
Reds seize Private Banks.

Observation-Disclosures acting under
orders of Finance Commissioner Men
shinsky on Friday surrounded and
seized all private banks of Petrograd,
including the branch of the National
City Bank of New York. The man
ager, r.. II. Stevens, was arrested and
detained for a short time.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
FOR UNIVERSAL DRILL
National Army at Camp Grant
Favors Measure.
vote A,eoi 20 fs6 for the Military
Training OF All Boys Of
Nineteen.

Rockford. nl.-The Eighty.sixth d.
vision OF the National army emphEt-
ically advocates universal military
training for young men. BY the "di-
vision Is meant not Its officers but
It's enlisted men-its priyates, ser
gcants. and corporals-men taken from
civil life In the last three months un
der the selectiYe service act.
The first sergeants OF 80 companie,
and batteries have polled their meI
on the question and hive reported th,
results.
The question asked was:
40 you think all young men shoul,
have az least six months milltRr.
training when they reach nlneteel
years of agef'
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
Old People Elop.

Minneapolis, Minnie escape what
they characterized as "the small town
gossip" Charles f. Mayo, seventy
years old, and Mrs. Louise Young.
ffty-eight years old, eloped from Ne
vada, Ia. and were married here.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
Pneumonia Takes Heavy Toll.

Washington.-De from disease
in the national army during the week
ended December u numbered 11S,
against 81 the week before, and in the
national guard 100, against 165 as
shown in summary made public by
the war department. OF the national
army deaths, seventy-seven We're due
to pneumonia and of those in the ma
tional guard eighty-seven.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
Americans Capture U-5oats.

Boston.-Four German submarines
We're captured recently by twelve
American destroyers, according TO an
American seaman who reached his
home here from French port, The
prizes were taken to French port.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
Bradford sets Life lmprlsonment.

Laconia, n. H,-Morris p. Bradford,
who shot and killed Miss Alice b.
Richards and wounded two other
teachers at the New Hampshire school
for the feeble-minded ON June %,
pleaded guilty on Friday to tirst-de-
gree murder and was sentenced to
prison for life.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
Oil shales Contain Petroleum.

Washington.-The geological survey
announced Friday that its examina-
ton of oil shale regions Of the cost
show that the oil Shales of Utah and
Colorado contain enormous quantities
of petroleum.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04

The Alabama output OF graphite dur
Ing the present year will double that
of the previous record.