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Deaths Reported.

Tho following deaths have been reported to the
health department In the last twenty-four hours:
Mary O. Nally, 90 years. sos q street north
John D. Earle. "a years. b41b Illinois avenue.
Mary e. Hancock, IS years. 944 Rhode Islanti
avenue northwest.
nue. northeast.
Alice B. King. 81 years. st. Elizabeth Hospital.
Mary J. Huber. 8 years. 731 Sd street north
George E. Muller. 81 years. st. Elizabeth Hos
Matte L. Ogden. 81 years. 1889 9Th street
Philip NJ. Ashford. 81 years. 1896 Park road.
Margaret B. Hay, 81 years. 1917 10th street
James H. Delaney. SO years. 1914 Sd street
Melter E. Thompkins, ee days. eol II street
Fannie Simon. 1o2 years. St. Elizabeth Hos
pital.
avenue northwest.
John d. Turner. 40 yesrs. s1s sth street north.
Pauline G. Banks. 50 years. AS Hollidse court
Iennis sattsraeld. 81 years. 1889 18th street
csariss Chase. - ysars. 22so eth street north.
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BY COMMITTEE
Resolution Permitting Notification
to Friends Of Soldiers Illness
Reported to House.

The Rogers joint resolution directing
the Secretary 81 War Immediately upon
admission of an enlisted man or onicer
to any Army hospital to telegraph
notification to the nearest relative, Civ
ing the patients condition and the ma
ture of the malady. was favorably re-
ported to the House yesterday by the
military committee. The War Depart
ment has announced that such reports
now are being made.
The committee also favorably report
ed. with the War Departments ap-
proval. bills authorizing furloughins
of enlisted men without pay upon
their own application SO that they may
do farm work: authorizing condemna-
tion Of lands for nitrate and munitions
plants; authorizing appointment of Of
ficers of the Philippine Scouts as Of
ficers Of the Philippine militia drafted
into United States service. and author
iZing details of officers and men OF the
National Army and National Guard to
do duty at military training schools.
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TO MAKE MANY SHIPS
AVAILABLE FOR WAR SERVICE

the plan for reducing exports and i'm
ports. yesterday created a division of
planning and statistics. with E. F. Gay
of Harvard at it's head. This division
will work with the war trade board In
determining what imports and exports
can be reduced or eliminated.
1.-THE division" said shipping board
statement. will keep a daily record of
the movement of ships and will plan
voyage schedules 1t will obtain from
available figures and through business
men who are familiar with every
branch of our trade knowledge of all
commodities imported. their essential
uses, substitutes and possible sources
of supply and relation to the pros
perity of other nations.
THE purpose is to determine what
ships may be withdrawn from the i'm
port trade in order to increase tho num-
Der available for Army service. 1t is
the intention to inform those interested
in any trade in advance of any pro-
posed reduction in imports that they
may have chance to be heard, and
that no hasty action may result in en-
barrassing Americas business inter-
eStS"
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Secretary Baker Asks
Friends of Soldiers
to Aid Shipping Board

Pointing out that the number of SOL
diers the United States can place and
maintain in France depends upon the
number of ships available for their
transport and supplies. Secretary Baker
last night called on the friends and rel
atives of the men in the Army to ''lend
their support in every way to the ship
ping board, that the necessary efficient
labor may be enrolled in the United
States shipyard volunteers.
They are doing a work of vital inn
portance to the defense of the nation"
Mr.. Baker said, land the men who en-
roll in the shipyards are undertaking
a patriotic service as great as any that
can be performed behind the firing
line"
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MAJ. WILLIAM S. MARTIN
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA
Great-Grandson of First West Point
Graduate Dies at Fort
Travis, Tex.

Maj. Williams Swift Martin, 4th
monia at Fort Travis, San Antonio,
Tex. on Monday. He was born in New
York February 4, 1874. a son of the
late Capt. John w. Martin. U. S. A..
His grandfather was Commodore j. w.
Swift of the United States Navy: his
great-grandfather was Gen. Joseph
G. Swift. the first graduate of West
Point. Another ancestor was Col will
liam Fitzhugh Of Washington's stafr in
the revolutionary war, and another, D.
Foster Swift, military surgeon in the
revolution.
At the beginning of the war with
Spain Maj. Martin was appointed SER
geant-major in the I'd New York Vol
unteer Infantry. In June, 1898, he be-
came first lieutenant and battalion ad-
jutant in that regiment, and was mus
tered out in November of that year. In
July, 1900. he enlisted in the 1st United
States Cavalry. accepting a commission
of second lieutenant in the 1st United
States Infantry four months later He
was transferred to the 4th Cavalry in
1901. was made a first lieutenant in
1906. captain In 1916. and major last
year. He was sent to the French Cav
airy Scnool at Saumer in the fall of
1913, and finished his course there on
July 81. 1914. He observed the French
mobilization and wrote a report on 1t
for the United States War College.
Ordered home, he Joined his regiment
in Hawaii, and remained with it until
sent to Texas last year to instruct
troops.
His widow, q daughter Of the late
Charles Francis Stone of New York,
survives him with two children.
He will be buried at Arlington tomor-
row.
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Births Reported.

The following births have been reported to th
health department in the last twenty-four hours
John n. and Daisy Weber. girl.
George A. and Agnes NJ. Totten. boy.
Arthur and Ruth E. Shaw. girl
Milton and Evdokia Panagos. girl.
James r, and Josephine E. Peed. boy.
Raymond and Margaret Owens. boy.
Thomas W. and Nellie North, girl.
David and julia T. Miller. boy.
Thomas P. and Elware 4. Mayhew. girl.
q. Allen and Anna B. Macrae. girl.
Joseph and Mary +. Long, boy.
william d. and Jennett Kelly. boy.
Moses H. and Ruth Jacobs, hoy.
August W. and Agnes M. Hagermann, girl.
samuel and Mary Hais,, girl.
Joseph d. and Mary NJ. Christie, girl.
Mouton and Olive i. Cornnell, boy.
Raymond J. and Gertrude c. Campbell, boy.
James NJ and Edna NJ. Brooks, girl.
Benjamin and Genevieve Buck, boy.
Thomas j. and Hattie Bowen, boy.
Harry and Emily w. Blake, boy.
Louis and Lula Vessels. boy.
John H. and Emma l.. Terry, girl.
John w. and May A. Shields. boy.
Madison and Louisa Simms, girl.
Andrew c. and Clara Price, boy.
William and Susie johnson, boy.
William and Bertha Crump. boy.
Howard and Cora A. Brice, boy.
Frank and Mary F. Baker, girl.
John T. and Florence Bayliss, boy.
Thomas and Clara Banks, girl.
Evening star., 1918-02-10

Plans for reducing the country's less
essential foreign trade to release ships
for the transport OF troops and sup
plies to Europe will be completed
within a few days and President Will
sons proclamation. putting all exports
and imports under license as a pre-
liminary step will be issued probably
February IS.
The program. it is understood. calls
for a considerable enlargement of the
war trade board and its functions, and
contemplates larger representation on
the board Of other government depart
ments. The allies. too, probably will be
given representation in some manner,
inasmuch as they also intend a further
reduction Of their foreign commerce.
All the countries fighting Germany
are preparing to put their ships. inso-
far as possible, directly to war uses.
eliminating services which cannot be
regarded as essential.
The shipping board. which originated
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

card party Is to be given for the
benefit of the free wool fund by Mrs.
Edmund ]. Brennan tomorrow after
noon at the Hotel Harrington. This
fund was started by Mrs. Brennan in
September. Women interested in this
work are invited to the card party. All
sweaters and helmets are being de-
livered to soldiers most in need in
camps in and around Washington.
More than 300 worth of war savings
stamps are to be purchased by No. 9
precinct of the Home Defense League.
cided to appropriate S2O6.5O to pur-
chase stamps An entertainment and
dance is to be given on George Wash
ington's birthday anniversary, the pro-
ceeds of which are to go toward de-
fraying the expenses of uniforms.
Mrs. Robert Dickinson, a member of
the war work council of the Young
speak before the Howard University Y.
W. c. A: tomorrow afternoon, in the An
drew Rankin Memorial Chapel, on
What the University Girl Can Do in
the Present Crisis"
William Cushing Camp. No. 10. Son.
OF Veterans. U. s. A. will take part in
the Lincoln memorial exercises at First
Congregational Church Tuesday, to be
conducted by the Dspartment OF. the
been appointed to act as ushers: Com
mander J. Clinton Hiatt. Junior Vice
Commander James s. Jones. Patriotic
Commanders silas E. Robb. Gurnon R. r.
Scott. Herbert W. Rutledge, Capt.
Chauncey o. Howard. Capt. Francis E..
Cross. Charles S: Davis. William F.
Barringer. Maj. Frederick S. Hodgson.
Gustave F.. Beckman, Leo A. ONeili
and William Rosser.
A musical for the blind will be given
at the Library of Congress at S:15
o'clock Tuesday night. Mrs. Charlotte
g. Lippett has arranged the program.
T. Reed will sing and A. NJ. Blair will
speak on war conditions in England
Songs will be given by the Rubinstein
Club Double Quartet. composed Of
Miss Edna sheehy. Miss Aileen Miller.
Mrs. Albert Johnson, Mrs. E. c. Brown,
Mrs. William T. Reed and Mrs. Char
lotte G. Lippett. Claude Robson will
be the accompanist.
The regular meeting of the Legion Of
Loyal Women will be held at o'clock
tomorrow night in the lodgeroom of
War relief work will be discussed.
warrington Camp, NO. SO6, Sons OF
Confederate Veterans. will meet Tues
day night at Confederate Memorial
Home. 1922 Vermont avenue. A his
torical program will be given. under
direction of Mai. E. W. r. Ewing, his
torian in chief. J. Roy Price, past
commander will deliver an address.
A war relief workroom has been
opened in headquarters of the National
American Womans Suffrage Associa-
tion, 1926 Rhode Island avenue. by the
Red Cross Auxiliary of the Equal
Franchise League. The room will be
open from 10 to 1 o'clock and from 9
to o'clock on Tuesdays and Thurs
days. knitting machine will be in
stalled and free wool supplied.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. president
of the Woman's Bar Association of the
District. will leave this week for At
lantic City to attend the meeting of
the National Council of Women Deans,
which meets in connection with the
convention of the National Education
Association. Mrs. Mussey will remain
in Atlantic City until March 2.
Representative I. r. Sherwood Of
Ohio will tell the story Of the life Of
|A4E1Aat9 AAooa0 ut &emn1sAA Day en-
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LIVING COST SPECTER DRIVES
FIELD OFFICERS TO DESPAIR
Men of Various Army Ranks Tell Secretary
Debts Steadily Grow When They Are
on Duty With Troops.

tive analysis. that a colonel occupying
a chair in one of tho carpet-covered
rooms of the War Department receives
a salary of $444.14 a month. while a
colonel serving with the troops at Camp
Meade, spending whole days and nights
in the trenches and constantly striving
to whip into shape the raw recruits
that will play the big part in the night
for democracy are receiving a salary
of $333,33 a month.
Claim They Are Penalized.
These officers declare that they are
penalized $111 a month for field service.
They charge that 1t is a penalty be-
cause they have to keep the same es-
tablishment in town for their families
as the officers serving in swivel chairs"
and also keep up a small establishment
in the field. Other officers face similar
conditions.
This, it is said, already has compelled
the resignation of large number of
officers, and unless there is an ameliora-
ton others will follow. 1t also is
claimed that large number of men
whose services would be of inestimable
value to the country in the present
crisis are prevented from entering the
service for that reason.
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SHIP WORKERS TOLD TO WAIT.
Pennsylvania Committee Warns
Them Against Rushing to Yards.

PHILADELPHIA, February 9.-The
Pennsylvania committee of public safe
ty issued a statement today urging
workmen at present engaged in other
industries to refrain from seeking work
at eastern shipbuilding yards without
official notification. The committee,
which is registering labor throughout
the state. is working in conjunction
with the federal Department of Labor.
"Workmen should be impressed with
the fact" said Secretary Beitler of the
committee. that the labor situation
must not be disturbed While the gov
ernment has announced that 100000
shipworkers are needed for the ship
building program. this does not mean
that industrial employees throughout
the country should leave their employ
ment and seek the. Atlantic seaboard.
'Workmen are now only being reg
istered. When workers are to be trans
ferred to shipbuilding plants they viii
be officially notified"
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Prominent in Society and Church.
STRICKEN FROM ROLLS.
Lieutenant Is Charged With Embez.
element at Camp Pike.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, February 9-An
official announcement from headquarters
at Camp Pike today stated that Lieut..
Robert H Hall had been stricken from
the rolls az a deserter and that should he
be arrested he will be tried for embezzle-
ment. Lieut. Hall formerly was mess off,
statement said that a shortage OF several
thousand dollars exists in the mess fund
of which he was in charge. The state
ment said that he has been missing since
January 2S. He was a graduate Of the
first Officers Training School at Fort
Roots. Ark, and gave his address as AS
18th street, Brooklyn, n. Y
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ercises in honor of the martyred pres
ident in the First Congregational
Church Tuesday night. The exercises
will be under the direction of the Grand
Army of the Republic. A. E. Lang will
lead the audience in singing civil. war
songs.
Representative DAN v. Stephens Of
Nebraska, who spent two months in
specting the western battle front. will
give his opinion of the military situa-
tion in an address Tuesday night at the
Y. NJ. C. A, at the meeting Of the Me-
braska State Association. Ohicers will
program has been arranged. H. A.
Harding 10 the present head Of the as.
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mrs. MARY c. GREGORY
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Was the Mother Of Attorney General
and Widow Of Civil War
Officer.

Mrs. Mary c. Gregory. mother Of At
torney General Thomas W. Gregory. died
at $40 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the
homo of her son. 1882 10Th street north
west. Her death was due to an attack
Of pneumonia, from which she had suf-
fered since Christmas. Mrs. Gregory
was seventy-nine years old.
The body will be taken to Columbus.
Miss. at S:45 o'clock tomorrow morning.
where funeral services will be held We'd
nesday. Mrs. Gregory will be buried in
the family cemetery by the side Of her
husband, Capt. F. r. Gregory Of the Con-
federate army. who died shortly after the
close Of the civil war. Attorney General
and Mrs. Gregory will accompany the
body to Mississippi.
Resident Here for Several Years.
Mrs. Gregory was well known in Wash
ington. where she had lived since her son
came here early in the first Wilson ad-
ministration to accept an Office in the
Department Of Justice. Subsequently he
James c. McReynolds when the latter
was appointed a member of the United
States Supreme Court.
Besides her son. Mrs. Gregory is sur
VlNeQ ny one sister, MRS. william "A.
Fits of Sanford, Fla. Mrs. Gregory
was a native of South Carolina, but
moved with her parents to Mississippi,
where she attended school and was
later married to Capt. Gregory. A sec
ond son, Paul Gregory. died six months
after the death of his father.
Prominent in Society and Church.
A few years later Mrs. Gregory
moved to Austin. Tex, where she
lived the greater part of her life. She
was we'll known in Austin in social
and church circles. From Austin she
accompanied her son to Washington.
Mrs. Gregory was a member of the
Southern Presbyterian Church and
transferred her affiliation with that de-
nomination to the Central Presbyterian
Church. here, the church attended by
the President.
Evening star., 1918-02-10
FOUND DEAD IN HOME.
Daniel Brown Succumbs to Fireless
House and Self-Neelect.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
ELLICOTT CITY. Md, February o.
Daniel Brown. seventy years old, who
lived alone on a farm near Ellicott
City. was found dead in his homo at
noon today by John Baggott. There
was no fire in the house. The coroner
decided that death was due to expo
sure and self-neglect. Browns wife
and daughter live in Washington.
Evening star., 1918-02-10
ENDS CABLE EMBARGO.
British Professionally Lift Restric-
tions on Communications to Holland.

LONDON, February .9.-The British
foreign Office announces that tho en-
barge on Dutch cables has been pro-
visionally raised.
Great Britain in October last stop-
ped all commercial cable communica-
ton with Holland.
Evening star., 1918-02-10
DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL
EAvORABLY REPORTED
House Committee on Interstate
Commerce Approves Measure by
Unanimous Vote.

The daylight saving bill was reported
favorably to the House yesterday in a
unanimous report from the House COM
mittee on interstate commerce. The
measure as reported is the Calder bill.
which has passed the Senate. but amend
ed in the House committee to make the
term Of daylight saving seven months
instead of five. The House committee
amendment proposed to set the clock
forward on the last Sunday in March
instead Of April. and to set it back again
on the last Sunday in october instead Of
September.
The daylight saving bill carried the
support of the President. who realizes
that II put into effect in the early spring
1t will effect many savings in resources.
public utilities and will bring about in
creased industrial and agricultural pro-
duction.
Advocated by Fuel Administrator.
Fuel Administrator Garfield is also a
strong advocate Of the measure because
he estimates that the saving OF time
and labor in mining and transportation
will bring about the saving Of at least a
million tons of coal a year. Chairman
members of Congress to support the
measure on account of the longer period
of activity 1t will provide for ship
building.
Representative Rogers of Massachus-
etts who recently returned from Eng
land and other countries, declared in the
House that the war workers in the fac
Of the daylight saving plan in vogue
there.
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Advocated by Fuel Administrator
Others Who Favor Measure.

The bill has the active support of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. which is in, touch with the lead
ing business interests of the nation and
of the American Federation of Labor.
Members Of Congress from the agri-
cultural districts are particularly active
in support of the bill.
Evening star., 1918-02-10

A6E1WooD. We Win to exprsss our sincere
thanks TO- our relatives and friends for their
sympathetic kindness and beautiful floral Of
ferings At the death Of our dear husband and
father. BIZ THE FAMILY.
Evening star., 1918-02-10
WOULD DIVIDE US.
into 6 SHIP zones
Competent Builder In Charge
of Each, Is Fleet Cor
poration's Plans.
PURPOSE IS TO SPEED UP

Division Of the country into six ship
building zones. with a competent ship
builder in charge OF each as zone di-
rector. is planned by the Emergency
Fleet Corporation as a means Of speed
Ing up shipbuilding operations. There
viii be two zones on the Atlantic coast.
two on the Pacific coast. one on the
gulf and one on the great lakes.
The plan calls for an almost complete
decentralization OF shipbuilding work.
Construction in each zone will be put
into the hands Of the zone director. who
will be given full authority to act for
the feet corporation. The directors
in each instance will be chosen from
the heads of the large shipbuilding
companies in the particular zone.
The three government fabricating
steel shipyards near Philadelphia will
be left as at present in charge of F. A.
the fleet corporation. who has head
quarters at Philadelphia.
1872 Yards Total in Country.
with 1872 yards established in all
sections of the country" said Chairman
Hurley of the shipping board last night.
the question of concentrating the
SiAol Is VI d SoiHpoCt anu Vi
ganization in each zone should produce
greater degree of efficiency and a
more rapid development in the work of
shipbuilding."
The decentralization plan has been
given full approval by the Atlantic
Coast Shipbuilders' Association COM
mittee comprising Homer L. Fergu-
son. president of the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company;
Joseph Powell, vice president of the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation,
and Wallace Downey of the Downey
Shipbuilding Company. which was
named by builders to advise the feet
corporation.
Zone Directors Soon to Be Named.
The zone directors will be named
within a few days and General Man.
ager Piez Of the fleet corporation.
hopes to have the zone system in oper-
alton within two or three weeks.
Mr.. Bowles is centering his attention
now on the fabricatfng plant under
construction at Hog Island. Pa, by the
American International Corporation.
There has been considerable delay in
getting the plant under way, but in
his reports to the feet corporation Mr..
Bowles indicates the belief that once
started the yard will produce ships rap
idly.
Construction in many yards is lag
ging because of labor shortage, accord
ing to reports to the fleet corporation.
To meet the situation the corporation
is forming a reserve of 250,000 ship
yard workers.
Evening star., 1918-02-10

Invaluable to Singers ana Speakers.
Browns Bronehial Troehes clear the throat,
sese ,Ssdss.GsaaagseeaiaSaE aEeaaGtisg@AA1s1tiesl
u1 -
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Representative I. r. sherwoed Of
Ohio will toll the story Of the life Of
AAE4AAaa Anoean ut kAmpy3a& AaZ- s1s
Evening star., 1918-02-10

More than 5000 worth of war savings
stamps are to be purchased by No.
precinct of the Home Defense League.
At meeting Friday night it was de-
cided to appropriate s2O6.5O to pur-
chase stamps. An entertainment and
dance is to be given on George Wash
ington's birthday anniversary, the pro-
ceeds of which are to go toward de-
fraying the expenses of uniforms
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1918-05-14
DRAFT CALL
THIS MONTH
Names viii Be Selected BY Local
Board and Men Will Be Notified
Shortly.

The official notification has been
received by the local board that
Montgomery county will furnish AZ
men for the next draft call and that
of this number 10 will be called be-
tween the 25th and 30th, the others
to follow shortly thereafter. As yet
the names Of those to go have not
been selected by the board. There
are 70 white and Al colored men
left in Class Al and if the agri-
cultural deferment order is still ad-
hered to the city will furnish prac-
tically all the men for this call. 1t
is estimated that there are now one
million, three hundred thousand
men in France, in camp or under
call to go into the service by June
1st, and there is every indication
that a larger increment will be sum-
moned in June than was summoned
for this month and a progressive
monthly mobilization will be con-
tinued throughout the summer and
fall months as the cantonments are
expanded. 1t is expected that the
army will reach a full strength of
three million within the next twelve
or thirteen months. 1t is possible
some officers say that the number
will be closer to five than three mil
lion.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1918-05-14
OLD FASHIONED AUCTION

There will be auctioned ~at the
Red Cross Room on Court street on
May 29th from to O'Clock all
old fashioned articles given for Bel
gian Relief Fund. Among the col
lection is 40 coins in U. S. and for
eign money, ladies' gold watch,
sterling and gold plated watches in
good running order, 4 gold Alaskan
nuggets suitable for charms, boys
watch, A solid gold rings, bracelets,
clocks, antique silver tongs, lettuce
forks, salt spoons, silver plated ar
ticles, buckles, ladies, match boxes,
etc. Everyone invited. The Flower
Sale will begin the same day at 9 80
o'clock. All kinds of hardy plants,
peppers, tomatoes, vines and althea
hedge. Anything will be gratefully
received.