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Evening star., 1918-03-24

Recommendations that the United
States Army at once be doubled in size,
with the probability OF increasing the
advanced age, were made in the Senate
yesterday afternoon.
+ The Senate had under consideration
a number of bills to increase the eff
cheney of the Army. Members of the
military affairs committee were fresh
from a conference with the war coun-
Gil at the War Department Senators
also had heard with concern of the op-
erations of the Germans against the
British line on the western front.
II think as speedily as possible we
should prepare to double the present
Army" declared Senator Hoke Smith of
Georgia, Il believe, too. that We must
raise the draft age limit
II hope the committee on military
affairs will recognize the fact that the
present provision for an army must
be doubled. and doubled just as speedily
as it can be doubled.
Would Double Arms and Powder.
IT hope, furthermore. that the COM
mittee on military affairs and the Sem
ate will realize that our provision for
all our ordnance provisions should be
at least doubled. and that drive, and
force, and real administrative power
should be put back of the organization
that is to create this supply of ordnance
and this increase of fighting men.
Il know that in the Senate there are
men with broad executive experience
and administrative capacity, and I be-
lieve it to be the duty of Senators with
that capacity to keep their eyes open
as to what is taking place, and to help
see that our country is speedily pre-
pared for war under much more Wig
orous and much more complete condi-
ton than anything we have up to this
time contemplated in our legislation"
Suggests 1S to As as Draft Age.
Senator Chamberlain. chairman of the
military affairs committee. gave assent
to these proposals. declaring that 1t
might be necessary not only to increase
the draft age to forty-f1ve years, but
also to lower it eighteen or nineteen.
The Senate was discussing an amend
ment proposed to the bill which would
provide for the registration of men who
have become twenty-one years of age
since June 5, the registration day un-
der the draft act, offered by Senator
Hardwick of Georgia He proposed that
men who have become thirty-one and
Evening star., 1918-03-24

/, Foreign telegraph rates have been in
the deprecia tion of italian money. a
dollar bringing an exchange of lire
and a half instead of lire before the
war.
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Certain members of the Ant1-Saloon
League are considering the advisable
ity OF suggesting the appointment of
a prohibition commissioner to take
charge Of the enforcement Of the Shep-
pard prohibition law. Under the pro-
visions OF the law that duty devolves
police department, while in Virginia
there is special commissioner. who is
not connected with the police depart
ment, in charge of such Investigations
1t is not contended that the local po-
lice are not exacting compliance with
the law. a member Of the Anti-Saloon
League pointed out, but shifting the
burden to an individual who could de-
ne stated, would relieve the police de-
partment of work that claims much
time OF a number of its members. The
police department he said, already is
purdened with many extra duties
brought about by the war.
Police have arrested many bootleg
gers and keepers of "speak-easies''
from time to time and also numerous
intoxicated persons. 1t is thought the
number of intoxicated persons arrested
the past week-11S in all-suggests the
probability that all such violators of
law nave not been arrested, members of
Doth the Anti-Saloon League and police
department being disposed to believe all
the intoxicated persons did not get their
supplies OF intoxicants direct from Bal
tmore.
Liquor Shipments From Baltimore.
1t is known that numerous large ship
ments of liquor have been made to this
city from Baltimore. most of 1t in trucks
and automobiles. and police officials are
SATISFIED it is not all for personal use,
as the law contemplates such shipments
70 be. What is becoming OF much of it,
tney stated, is explained in the arrests
OF some OF the "bootleggers" and those
VINO are disposing of it in other ways
IN virginia the past week Gov. Davis
suggested that $4,000. the amount
asked Tor expenditure under the super
vision of the prohibition commission,
was entirely too much. He pointed out
10 the legislature that in this city and
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TO SET FORTH NEED
OF THE RED CROSS
Finance Committee Win Meet
Friday to Hear Reports on
Work Accomplished.
TO ASK FOR s1oo,ooo,ooo

A special meeting. wholly for sin
formation and inspiration" of the
finance committee OF the District
Of Columbia chapter Of the Red
Cross is to be held next Friday evening
at 8 o'clock. The meeting. called by
Henry B. F. MacfarIand, chairman, is
to assemble in the small ballroom of
the New Willard Hotel. and number
Of speeches are to be made All mem
bers of the finance committee are urged
to be present.
Among the speakers announced for
the meeting are the solicitor general
OF the United States, John, W. Davis.
Henry White. former ambassador to
France, and Potomac division manager
OF the Red Cross; Representatives of
the British, French, Italian and Bel
glan war missions. and. il he returns
in time to Washington, as is expected,
Cornelius n. Bliss, jr., of New York.
member Of the war council Of the
American Red Cross, who recently has
visited all Red Cross centers in west
ern Europe. New motion pictures of
Red Cross activities at home and
abroad will be shown for the first time
in Washington. ..,-.,
Will Answer Two Questions.
The addresses and pictures" said
Chairman Macfarland, will answer
the two questions. which everyone is
asking and for which there is a won
derful reply of great service done and
to be done-frst, what was done with
the hundred million dollars raised by
the Red Cross last year, and, second,
what is the need for the hundred mil
lion dollars to be raised by the Red
Cross in May, next?"
Members of the finance committee
Will be able with the first-hand infor-
nation given at this meeting to salts
fy themselves and others that the
money given last year has been of
tremendous benefit to our soldiers, sal
lors and marines and their dependents
here and abroad, and to the allies, in
cluding not only the military forces,
but the helpless women and children.
The facts show the most marvellous
service to humanity ever rendered in
show that the Red Cross has so greatly
strengthened the morale as to aid pow
erfully in winning the war.
'The striking illustration is the ser
vice to all Italy in it's most critical
hour. when the Red Cross did what our
country could not otherwise do, as. 1t
had no troops to send to Italy. The
Red Cross was the first official Amer
lean organization to go to France,
Belgium and Italy, preceding any Of the
troops and giving. the first practical
demonstration that the United States
was in the war, and men and women
Americans to be killed or wounded;
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Start Today

Have The Star delivered to your home at
so cents per month, both daily and Sunday, or
40 cents per month (about ~ cents per day.
for The Evening Star.
'FIofne Delivery About ~ Cents Day"
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Committee to Hear Gen. Wood.

Gen. Leonard Wood will appear be-
fore the Senate military committee to
relate his experiences in France. The
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12
SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK MARKET

Sioux City, Aug. 12.-Only a very
light supply of cattle arrived for the
weekend trade and nothing new or
startling developed, prices being
quoted as about steady with the pre-
|vious day. Weighty steers nave
about held their own this week, but
the drift to almost everything else
has been lower, with big losses re-
ported on cows and heifers and the
medium light grassy steers. Fed ma
tives scarce and steady. Upper
classes of feeders steady, others
weaker, feeding she stuff lower for
period.
There appeared to be a touch of
strength in the market for hogs the
closing day of the week and while
the better classes did not show inn
provement the packers droves cost
a little than on yesterday. Top
for the day was reported at $1,000.
with the bulk of the mixed and pack
ing grades selling from $4,000
1920.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12
ENEMY IS IN QUANDRY
Germans in Tight Place on the
Somme Line.
Must Strengthen Their Lines at Once
or Retreat on Big
Scale.

Washington, Aug. 10.-The surprise
offensive operation begun by British
and French forces on the Picardy
front, and which, according to official
and unofficial reports, was progress
ing in a most satisfactory manner,
has, in the opinion of military observ-
ers here, forced upon the German
high command the necessity. of
strengthening his lines ON that front
Immediately or of ordering another
withdrawal similar to that brought
about on the Aisne-Marne front.
Further developments in the new
blow struck by Field Marshal Foch
were awaited eagerly by officials, who
plainly were elated at the progress
made ON the first day where the
Franco-British forces are reported to
have reached a depth at some points
of eleven miles. The new offensive
demonstrates clearly. 1t was said.
that through American aid the Allied
forces are masters of the situation
on the Western front. That Field
Marshal Foch has been able to take
the offensive in Picardy while still
maintaining a steady pressure along
the Aisne-Marne line, was considered
as meaning that the supreme com
mander has reached the stage in
which he is considered a great leader
that of offensive warfare.
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so l a do my house work without any
difficulty. | advise any woman who is
afflicted with female troubles to give
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound a trial and it will do as much for
them."-Mrs MARIE BOYD, 1421 5th
St., N. E., Canton, Ohio.
Sometimes there are serious condi-
tons where a hospital operation is the
only alternative, but on the other hand
so many women have been cured by this
famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after
doctors have said that an operation was
necessary every woman who wants
to avoid an operation should give it a
fair trial before submitting to such a
trying ordeal
If complications exist, write to Lydia
E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass,
for advice. The result of many years
experience is at your service.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12
is AT WAR WITH ALL ALLIES
Lenine Says Declaration Includes all
Entente Powers.

Washington, Aug. 1O.-The state de-
partment has received confirmation
of the declaration of a state of war
between the bolshevik government
and "the Allies"
In a message from Moscow, Ameri-
can Consul Poole said Lenine, in a
speech before soviet members, de.
clared a state of war existed.
Later, when the Allied consuls called
on the commissary for foreign affairs
for an explanation, they were told
Lenine's declaration implied a state
OF defense rather than of offensive
war He said only Russia wished to
continue relations with the Allies IN
der similar circumstances as that
which existed at one time with Ger
many.
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Philadelphia, Aug. 10,-Representa-
tives of shipyard workers of the Pa.
cific coast, who are in conference here
with officials of shipbuilding companies
and the Emergency Fleet corporation
over labor conditions, went on record
as against drafting of mechanics and
semi-mechanics employed on wal work
or who will accept war work. The
furlough system is also condemned
BY this system mechanics from the
army and navy are granted furloughs
to work in the yards
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Share OUR SUGAR
WITH The ALLIES
British Get Two Pounds a Month.
French Pound and Half,
Italians One Pound.
GERMAN SUPPLY PLENTIFUL.
All Nations Permit Use OF sweetenlng
fer Home Preserving Purposes.

Americas new sugar ration OF two
pounds q month per person is equita-
Bile when compared with the sugar ra-
ton enforced by rigid governmental
order In England, France and Italy. ma
lions with which we are sharing sugar.
Each Allied nation-in the matter of
sugar consumption-is sharing on near
est possible equal terms the hardships
imposed by greatly altered conditions
In the world sugar situation.
Formerly classed as a luxury. sugar
II now q war time essential. The fair
and Just division OF this essential Is
In the hands Of the various Allied
food controllers.
The United States Food Administra-
don has asked this nation to observe
= voluntary sugar ration of two
pounds per person q month.
In the other countries at war with
Germany sugar is one OF the scarce
articles on every menu-whether IN
the households Of both rich and poor,
or In the hotels.
England today has a sugar raticn
VI lWV RQ1hAo Gtl tatAih RNt RCi SUI
In France the ration Is a pound and a
half and In Italy it Is N pound a
month And the prices In allied coun-
tries are from two to three times as
high as In America.
II you 60 to a hotel In England or
France these days and order tea or
coffee they serve absolutely no sugar
-HkA ~ xvnxx xran sro ~, xaatrf
bring II with you.
In England 1t Is allowable to use
one-seventh Of an ounce of sugar in
the preparation of each luncheon. In
France many persons carry little sac
charine tablets about with them for
use In hotels and in England rich and
poor must take their sugar with them
while visiting friends.
Before the war started France had
o25,O0O acres devoted to sugar produc-
tion. BY 1917 the French sugar acre
age had decreased to 10000 acres,
Today the French man or with a
sugar card has no assurance whatever
that he or she will be able to actually
buy sugar. To buy It, one must first
md It.
italy Has Estate Sugar"
Especially drastic regulations govern
the use OF sugar In Italy. Its manu-
faeture, distribution and sale are close
II controlled, and In part actually
taken over by the state.
Saccharine Is permitted to be sold
and used AZ q substitute for sugar and
ne government manufactures a mix
ture q saccharlne and sugar called
estate Sugar" which Is largely used.
German Sugar Ration Adequate.
Germany, before the war, produced
= great surplus Of sugar and exported
large quantities. Today the Germans
havo virtually gone out of the export
nu1lnoos. but have plenty OF cheap
ooGar tor home use.
Wholesale prices prevalent In the
Allied nations, according to informa-
tlou resolved BY the United States
DoQd Administration are as follows
Dnotand, 10 cents q pound; France,
n ccntp ; italy, rs cents.
While these high prices are being
sssid abroad the American wholesale
vsice = being held at 7h cents.
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WILL BORROW $780, OO,O Oc
Bethlehem Steel Corporation to Elk
tend Its Operations

Newark, N. J., Aug. 10.-To finance
extension of its operations, incident
to the war, and to discharge obliga-
tions already incurred, the stockhold-
ers of the Bethlehem Steel corpora
tion voted to mortgage the entire
property as security for a $500. 000, 00c
bond issue.
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Airplanes Harass Foe Towns.

London, Aug. 10.-Allied airplanes
are making 1t hot for German towns,
according to advices reaching London.
Their activities have increased within
the last 10 days, forcing the enemy to
detach a large number of fighting MA
chimes from the front to protect the
menaced towns.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12
Louisiana Ratifies Prohibition.

Baton Rouge, La, Aug. 10.-Louisi-
n has ratified the federal prohibit
ton amendment. Ratification was
voted by the House, SO to 81, following
favorable action early in the week by
the Senate.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12
HOW MRS. BOYD
AVOIDED AN
OPERATION
Canton, Ohio.-"I suffered from a
female trouble which caused me much

o0AANAiiS, oiiA SWO
doctors decided
that | would have
to go through an
operation before |
could get well.
my mother, who
had been helped by
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound, advised me
to try it before SUBJ
hitting to an opera
ton. 1t relieved me
from INV
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12
SIS GERMAN PLANES DOWNED

London, Aug. 12.-Sixty-ive German
airplanes were destroyed by British
aviators, or driven down out of con
troll in the fighting Of Aug. s when
the Allied offensive in Picardy opened,
an official statement OF aviation oper
atoms shows. Fifty British machines
are missing, the British losses being
due chiefly to fire from the ground
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12

half cup of syrup and about one-half cup of corn sugar.
One-fourth of a cup of sugar is equal to about one-half
cup OF syrup or one-third cup of corn sugar. One table
spoon of sugar is equal to one tablespoon of honey, about
one and one-half tablespoons of syrup and one and one
third tablespoons of corn sugar.
Sugar may be saved by the use of raisins, dates, figs,
dried pears and fruit pastes used on the breakfast cereals.
Fruit marmalades, buffers and jellies should be used
to take the place of the ordinary sweetening at a meal and
not as accessories to it. Fruits may be preserved without
sugar. 1t may be added when sugar is more plentiful.
Preserving demands this year a thin syrup instead of a
heavy syrup.
by another sweetener.
Drying is a means of preserving (without sugar. APP
Piles, cherries, strawberries and black caps.
When ready to use they may have added the needed
sugar in the form of a syrup. When sugar is more plentiful
fruit juices may be made into jelies or may be used as
fruit juices with or without sugar. as beverages, fruit
gelatins and frozen desserts.
Fresh fruits supply the place of sugar in the diet. They
should be used freely. Desserts where sugar is scarce
may be made of geatins, junkets, custards, buildings and
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-12
War Time Sweeteners

has several excellent war time sweet
eners that will be used largely during the
shortage in the sugar supply.
They are maple sugar, syrups, honey and
molasses and may be used in preparing des-
serts and other dishes requiring sweetening.
When a cup of syrup or honey is used
to replace a cup of sugar the liquid in the
recipes should be decreased one-fourth.
One-third of a cupful of sugar is equivalent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-10-14
NEWS OF THE DAY

Gustave Herve, the former revolu-
tionary writes in La Victoria OF Paris:
"The Dutch authorities feel that the
German Flanders armies are sufficient
" exposed to warrant massing OF
Dutch troops along Hollands fror-
tiers prepared to capture and disarm
those that may flee across the border.
"Since September Is, including the
Bulgaria German troops surrendered
according to the armistice" A French
War Office statement says "the allies
have captured 10000 prisoners, in
Guiding 1000 officer. Among the off,
GERS are five generals. Two thousand
guns and enormous quantities of ma
tcrial also have been taken"
An American boy working with the
French artillery on the Champagne
front, and who has been twice de-
corated says in private letter to
friend in Paris: eve are still very
busy in spite of the Germans de-
handing an ar1nistice. We will give
him an srmistice after knocking hell
out of him and not before"
Darmstadt has "a, lyngching, society: of
fcrty-fve members which takes it up.
on itself to punish food hogs. Six of
it's members beat into Inconsistencies
with clubs, a man who had boarded 4
,.nantity of eggs, bacon and pota-
toes.
Of the first 10000 prisoners taken
by the British in their recent often
sive, check-up now shows that about
r;nety per cent of them had in their
pockets some Of the allied propaganda
literature, dropped behind the Ger
man lines by airplanes.
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LEGAL NOTICES


tlRGlNlA.
In the Clerks Office Circuit Court
Of the City of Alexandria, on the loth
dav CT September, 1918.
Rena A. Rohr Paxton, VS.. Jerome
w Paxton. In Chancery.
Memo:
The object of this suit IS TO obtain
al absolute divorce from the defen-
dont upon the grounds of wilfui de-
sertion and abandonment for more
than three years prior to the instltu-
ton of this suit, r.. g.,
It appearing by an affidavit iileG
IT, this cause that the defendant
Jerome w. Paxton is a nonresident OF
this State: It is Ordered, That said
defendant appear here within fifteen
days after due publication Of this o.
der, and dc what is necessary to pro-
tect his interests in this suit.
VIM. P. Woolls, P. 9.
A Copy -Teste
Newell S. Creenaway, Clerk
221-4w.
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VIRGINIA.:

In the Clerks Office Of the Circuit
Court of the City of Alexandra, on
the 23rd day of September 1918.
E-a Rosetta Jordan, vs., Thomas
Jordan, In Chancery.
Memo.
The object Of this suit is 70 obtain
for the complainant from the defend
ant q divorce vinculo ma.rlmonll On
the ground of desertion and for gen
eral relief.
It appearing by an affidavit filed IN
this cause that the defendant Thomas
Jordan is nonresident of this State:
It is Ordered, That said defendant ap-
pear here within fifteen days liter
,lue publication of this or Ter, and do
what is necessary to protect his m
terest in this suit.
A. w. Gray and Edmund Hill, ir. 2.
@.
A Copy-Teste
22S-4w. Newell S. Grecnaway, Clerk.
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VIRGINIA..

In the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court of the City of 4 lexandria, on
the 21st day of September 1918.
Bessie Ewell, VS.. George EWell. in
Chancery !:
Memo.
The object of this suit is to obtain
from the defendant, divorce q viz :.
cUlo matrimonii on the grounds of
desertion and an abandonment for a
period of more than three years and
Tor special relief.
It appearing by an affidavit filed in
this cause that the defendant George
Ewell is nonresident Of this State:
1t is Ordered, That sail defendant ap-
pear here within fifteen lays after
due publication of this order, and do
what is necessary to protect his III
terest in this suit.
Edmund Hill, Jr., P. Q.
A Copy -Teste
Newell S. Greenaway, Clerk.
22e-4w.
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221-4w.
VIRGINIA..

In the Clerks Office of the Circuit;
Court of the City of Alexandra, on
the goth day of September, 1918.
Adelaide Lavender Pocock, VS.:
Thomas Stockton Pocock. !.
The object. of this suit is to obtain a
divorce a vincuio matrimonii for the
complainant from the defendant on
tie grounds of wilful desertion and
abandonment, the restoration of her
maiden name to the complainant, and
for general relief.
That said defendant appear here with
in fifteen days after due publication
OF this order, and do what is necessary
to protect his interest in this suit.
It appearing by an affidavit filed
in this cause that the defendant
Thomas Stockton oocock is a nom
resident of this State: 1t is Ordered,
c. T. Jesse and J. 7. McHale, P G
A copy-Teste !
Newell S GreenaWay, Clerk,
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VIRGINIA.:

In the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court Of the City c. Alexandria, on
the II day of September, 1918.
John H. Jackson, VS.. Shellie NJ.
Jackson. In Chancery.
Memo.
The object of this suit is to obtain
decree granting to the complainant
z limited divorce from the defendant,
en- the grounds of wilful descrtion and
abandonment and for general relief.
1t appearing Dy affidavit filed in this
cause that the defendant She!!ie NJ.
Jackson is a nonresident of this
State: 1t is Ordered, That said de-
PENDANT appear here within fifteen
days after due publication of this or
der, and do what is necessary to pro-
tcct her interest in this suit.
Thomas NJ. Watson P. Q.
A Copy -TesUe
Newell S. Greenaway, Clerk.
221-4w.