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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30
Contract Stations Closed.

Labor conditions, insufficient COM
pensation, lack of space and interfer-
ence with other business have been re-
sponsible for the closing of many con-
tract stations for the sale of stamps
throughout the city, according to Mr..
Chance.
On July 1. 1916, there were nine
classified and seventy-nine contract
stations. On July /. 1918, the number
of classified stations had increased to
fifteen, but contract stations had been
reduced to fifty-one. From July 1 to
the writing of the report in Novem-
Der there were twenty-one adj
ditional designations of clerks in
charge of contract stations. Com
menting on this situation, the post
master states:
The discontinuance of contract sta
tions has materially added to the
work of the classified stations and the
parcel post and stamp work, money
order and registry business at the
main office. In 1916 one or two stamp
windows were sufficient at the main
office, but at the present time six win
dows are now often required to &C
commodate patrons. For the purpose
of providing postal facilities in lieu of
the contract stations it has been
necessary to establish classified sta
tionS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30
Motor Truck Service.

Mr.. Chance commented upon the
development of the motor truck serv-
ice to Leonardtown, Md: Gettysburg,
Pa. and Bel Air, Nd. He said that
while they were established prima rily
to promote the farm to- table move
ment, they are now being patronized
by merchants dealing in farm produce
and afford a means for expediting i'm
portant mail to these rural districts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30
Yes, Jim, Until You Kick In.

FROM Cartoons Magazine.
Jim-Your wife does know how to
dress. old man. You have to hand 1t
to her for that
Eim-Ees and Alen fnot.sthR Ana~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30

Reserve Your Table Now
Or New Year eve at Wardman Park
[otel. Special supper II o'clock.-Ad-
ertiSement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30
POSTAL RECEIPTS
IN D. C. 3 MILLIONS

CONTINUED from First Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30
New Evening
Slippers

Cloth of Silver Slippers,
with a graceful slender vamp,
side seams. beyel edge. hand
turned sole and high French
Louis heels. Sll.00.
White Satin Evening Slip
per, with vamp modelled along
slender lines, hand-turned sole
and high French Louis heels,
5000.
White Kid Sycamore Slip
per, its vamp perfectly plain,
long and slender: square at
the throat: with hand-turned
sole and French Louis heels,
$l4.00.
Third floor, Tenth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30

Natural Fox Set, for misses and
small women, full animal shape scarf,
with fold and lining of taupe crepe
meteor, and animal muff, the set for
$3.50; was $1,000.
Australian Opossum Set, animal
scarf, beautifully shaded, and lined in
taupe crepe meteor, with fold; and
canteen shape muff, with ruffiing at
ends; scarf ri -d for sa7 s,ooo was RSeSo;
Brown Fox Set, animal scarf button
ing in front, and full animal muf; the
set for $3.50; was $110.
Natural Lynx Set, handsome large
animal scarf, artistically blended, and
lined in tan satin; and large fluffy ball
muff; scarf for S50.00; was $500; muf
for $500; was $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-30
The Yearly Clearance
of Furs

Offers Opportunities Unexpected This Season
Important priceuts every fur piece Womens Fur
those that follow and others not
mentioned.
Evening journal., 1918-08-02

stallatlon as Bishop OF the Catholic
Diocese yesterday by ri. Rev Thomas
j. Walsh, accompanied by several
prominent Catholic clergymen. IL was
the bishops first view OF big war
camp. and he expressed his delight at
what he saw in a tour conducted by
General Secretary Frank Wandle. OF the
Knights Of Columbus. At camp head
quarters, in the absence from camp Of
Major General Scott, the bishop and his
party were received by Lieutenant Col
onel G. s. White, chief Of staff.
At a celebration OF Y. NJ. c. A. Hut
No. 3. where since the first OF the year
he has been building secretary, fellow
workers presented a testimonial OF es-
TEEN to the Rev. Charles o. Wright, OF
Ridgewood, n. j., who returned today
to his psstorste. When the first con-
tingent OF drafted troops from South
Jersey arrived last year Secretary
Wright was here TO receive them. and
his work since has been largely centred
among the Jerseymen. Before becoming
building secretary, he was religious
work director Of the camp.
A further reduction OF weekend
passes from to 5 per cent. Of the
camp enrolment where train service is
involved was announced by Major Cen
eral Scott This will not apply 10
soldiers who leave camp by auto for
weekend visits 10 nearby towns.
Evening journal., 1918-08-02
American Scientists Make Gas
10 Beat Huns at Own Game

private formulas supplied by the army
chemists they are now turning out
quantities OF toxic gases The army
has also just completed here a great
new plant, which will be entirely man
ned by enlisted men and officers OF
the gas service, and which will pro-
duce the most deadly gas known
"phosgene."
Gases are reckoned by their "toxici-
ty," or poison power The "lethal
dose" is the standard Of measurement ;
lt is that number OF grams per cubic
metre Of air which will kill a man Cor
an snimal) In five minutes. The "leth-
al dose" OF phosgene is two-tenths Of
one gram.
OF course, it Is impossible 10 expert
ment on human beings with these dead
ly gases Equally, IL would be too ex-
pensive 10 use animals Of high value TO
man for food purposes. The ideal an
imal to use would be the pig. since.
curlously enough, the respiratory ap-
paratus and the general reaction OF the
pig TO gases. approach nearest TO that
OF the human. Pigs are too valuable
for food, however, so the goat was Sc
lected-most appropriately.
The goat was picked after a study
OF the embryology OF various animals
TO select that animal whose young in
the embryonic stage most resemble the
human offspring before birth.
The goats used for experimental pur-
poses are subjected TO the various
gases under the same conditions the
soldier Of the battlefield encounters;
the air is saturated at different inten-
stiles with the particular gas under
experiment, and the results noted.
Nine great factories producing toxic
gases are under the control Of the gas
service officer stationed at Niagara
Falls. Technically this district is part
of the great EdgewOod arsenal, built
At Edgewood. Md, by the gas service.
From the Niagara plants go the cylin-
iers filled with the deadly poison 10
Here the shells manufac-
tured by the Ordnance Department for
holding gas are filled and slipped over
seas.
Six months ago practically nothing
had been done In gas manufacture, ex
'ept experimental work. Today the
gas service Is grabbing every select
service man whose previous occups- |
.oln record shows that he has had |
wen a smattering OF chemistry. Such |
/ man has no chance at all 10 get over |
Evening journal., 1918-08-02
BY FREDERICK NJ. KIRBY

~ r. y. ClhM AuIIf~UOnutli.
Passed by the United States Censor.)
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 2.-The
newly organized gas service OF the Ord
nance Department Is preparing to beat
the IIun at his own game.
Allied manufacture o. toTlo gases has
never so far equallel the German sup
ply. Since the Huns hoiIlled the civ
llzcd world by rei'as ne their flrst
poisonous gas cloud at Ypres, they
have had a distinct advantage in this
mode 0f warfare.
But tng tables arc - be turned. The
vast machinery for the production OF
various forms Of gas is now fully or
ganlzed, and shipments Of gas shells
in quantity will soon be going over
seas.
Much secrecy must continue 10 sur
round the operations Of the gas service,
now a separate branch OF the Ordnance
Department under Major General Sibert.
But certain facts can be told which,
even n they reach enemy ears, can
only stimulate the lively desire which
the German general staff has recently
evinced to eliminate gas from the list
OF allowable weapons-now that there
is prospect Of the Allies bestlng them
al their own game
OF the secret experimental work that
has been going on in the laboratories Of
the bureau OF mines at Washington
now transferred TO the control Of the
army nothing can be said, except that
several new and extremely deadly types
Of gas have been evolved by the sclent-
lists, against one OF which at least II
Is believed that the gas mask will af-
ford no protection.
Aside from these experiments the gas
service is manufacturing now every
kind OF deadly gas that the Germans
have produced and several others In
addition.
Niagara Falls is the center OF gas pro-
iuction. This Is because the principal
producing plants were
located here on account Of cheap cleo
irlcal power. A number OF these large
Evening journal., 1918-08-02
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Gidsl Make bleaching lotion
If skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled

Squeeze the juice OF two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces Of
Orchard White. shake well, and you
have a quarter pint Of the best freckle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion
beautifler, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces OF Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands each day and see how
freckles, sunburn, windburn and tan
disappear and how clear, soft and white
the skin becomes. Yes Il is harmless
Evening journal., 1918-08-02
r Z d c r o s 8

STONE ROOT AND BUCHU COMPOUND
OF unexcelled value for the treatment
of kidney diseases. Pains in the back
and burning sensations are symptoms
of kidney troubles, which are quickly
overcome by use Of this remedy. This
and more than one hundred other Red
Cross Remedies sold and guaranteed
only by
HaTmonson Drug Co. sis Maryland Ave
OthO II. Miller. 22nd and Pine.
Evening journal., 1918-08-02

there at present; but his work Is likely
TO be much more important than II he
were shoulderlng a rifle.
Not a few men have already yielded
their lives in experiment and handling
Of deadly gases. And not a few more
have been "gassed" more or less Sc
verely three thousand miles away from
the Hun. These men are an example
Of the intricate network OF organization
behind the lines" that is necessary In
modern warfare.
Evening journal., 1918-08-02

Frederick NJ. Kirby. manager OF the
New York bureau OF the Newspaper
Enterprise Association, is now on
swing around the country, getting new
er-pu5lished facts about the war activi-
ties Of this United States at home. He
Is armed With credentials from the war
department, which admit him behind
The scenes in many war plants where
the ordinary reporter Is barred. This
is the first OF a series Of articles telling
what Mr.. Kirby has foundl
Evening journal., 1918-08-02

from the Second Representative district
Of New Castle County.
Evening journal., 1918-08-02
(GPf:01fSNAj
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PALS

V-beonldas, 4S7 B. C.
Leonidas, old pal, you were some sport. q
Twenty-three centuries have fvvered by and stu
! read your name and get backbone thrill.
You were a king, not only in your court
But az ThermOpylae. There was a stand
Which advertised you and your little band
And ground the face Of NerXes in the sand.
Here's howdy, Leo, let us grab your hand.
Leonidas you ought to know King Al.
lie lives out Belgium way and he's your kind.
True he's not dead yet, but you mustn't mind;
Take It from me- he's lt TO be your pal.
lie and his little kingdom met the grunt
or the foul Prussian beast and. bore the bUlnt
While Civilization formed It's hasty front.
Some stunt old pal Leonidss, some stunt
Copyright, 1918. n. +. Al
Evening journal., 1918-08-02

Search the Want Ads for good posi-
tions in the mercantile world.
Evening journal., 1918-08-02
A.E. COLE, JR., FOR REPRESENTATIVE

Andrew E. Cole. Jr.. OF the Ninth
ward, a former constable. is a candl-
date for the Republican nomination for
Representative in the General Assembly
Evening journal., 1918-08-02

THAVE been using Doctor CaId-
i Wells Syrup Pepsln for more than
seven years. believe it saved my little grand
daughters life, as she had such terrible spasms,
caused by the condition of her stomach, until
we gave her Syrup Pepsin. Our family thinks
there is no remedy like DR.. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin for the stomach and bowels"
From sletter Dr. Caldwell written byl
II Mu c. f.. Brown, 1912 Garfield Ave,
Kansas City Mo.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-04-19

The day Liberty Bonds become worthless everything else
in America will have lost its value, for everything we have
is behind them
If you can't pay cash for your bonds, you can borrow
part of the money your bank using the bonds security
you buy them your bank on easy partial payment
plan. 1t is trouble to buy Liberty Bonds-it is no
trouble to pay for them. See your banker today.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-04-19

Buy them today Pledge yourself for every penny you
wiring from your daily needs. Don't make our men
over there feel what the Russian soldiers felt that the
very people they fighting for had abandoned them
And from money standpoint you buying the safest
hind these bonds Every railroad, every factory, farm and
homestead, every income salary stands for collateral
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-04-19

NOTHING else matters now. We are face to face
y with the burning, vital question, uM the line hold?
Civilization hangs upon the The very life of
our Republic is at stake fofaEHaAs7a >@as$e=stsa
They there boys-he thed the brothers
loved the lads worked with and played WITH In that hide
raging hell of and flame and poison they sndthe
all worth the having
Contributed for the benefit Of the Third Liberty Loan by
A. NJ POWERS, MERCHANT, REAGAN, TENN.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
Victoria Cross Is Simple Thing;
But 1t Means Glory and Wearers
Are Heroes, Private Peat Says

they have described his torn, twisted
and mutilated right hand they have
told how sIis Majesty of Britain pinned
the cross to his tunic they have told
how the soldier man spoke not Of "T
but Of I'VE" when he mentioned what
was done in France and the newspapers
have further recorded two sentences
which we're spoken by the corporal
Here they are,
Mother was pleased-"
And as regards the fighting iuelf-
you Just 70 along and tackle every
thing that comes"
In the Cray Dawn.
II was the gray dawn Of early morn
ing that zero hour struck for a par
ticular section in a particular platoon
of the Goth A bombing raid was TO be
carried out Every man held himself
tense as he waited the signal to go
over.
The bombers stood shoulder to shout
der while the bayonet men took ono
last rub with flap Of an oyereoat
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
PERSHINc'S men
KILL SCORES N
DEFENDING 'FRONT.'
Entire Tip Of Enemy's Wedge
Cut OFF by Operations, Y
CHEzY VILLAGE RETAkEN
Vital Point In Defense Of locre
Sector Also Rega|ned, /
BY The Associated Prsss.

BY The Associated Prsss. :
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY
IN FRANCE, June 8.---Ths sees
ond Franco-American attack
In the neighborhood Of veuillyss
la-Poterie and Boureschss wsa
q brilliant success to the allied
arms. II was continued yesteysl
day with an advance In IT,
Chezy sector, further norths
west on the line.
American troops on the front.
northwest Of Chateau .Thisfry
moved down the enemy with.
machine gun and rifle fire a.
midnight last night 4whsh tie
Germans made an attack on
their position. They fousht
like demons and at one point
killed 100 Germans.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
.nickensRoost
On Roofs of
Moated Keeps
Riverside Park Negroes Revive
the Moat and Drawbridge
Of Medieval Days,

The drawbridge and moat Of medieval
days still survive IN Oklahoma City.
II you don't believe II take ride
through the flooded bottom lands in
the neighborhood of Rivetside park.
When the negroes OF this section want
to go 10 the main land these flood days,
they let down the drawbridge--two
planks rather perilously supported on
three soap boxes and cross from the
front door step TO the higher ground
along the car line.
Doubtless after nightfall they take
the drawbrdge in or pull 1t up--whieh-
ever is correct, and thereby protect the
chickens that are marooned on the
ridgepoles of the chicken houses in the
rear.
Further out at sea in the bottom lands
the water is up TO the level Of the
window ledges and the empty houses
would indicate that their inhabitants
have sailed away to visit some OF theii
higher and drier neighbors until water
subsidies.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
STATE APPROVES
PLAN TO SELL
MARYLAND LEASES
Present Owner Given Prefer
enCe Right In Sale,

At meeting Of the state school land
commission Saturday morning resolu-
tion was unanimously passed authorir-
ing for sale certain school lands, among
which are the much discussed Marland
leases.
The resolution affirms the right OF
the present holder of the land to re-
gain it under what is known as the
preference right" Under this rule, il
the present holders bid is not as high
as some other bidders, he has the right
to raise his bid, thereby reganing the
land.
Minimum Price Set.
II is further stipulated in the reSolu-
ton that no bids will he considered
which are not equal to or more than the
minimum price set on the land in the
advertisements Of it.
The original leases covered about
10000 acres of land, but all OF this
except 10000 acres was given up Be-
fore the action of the board today the
original lessees gave up almost 5000
more acres so that the preference
right will be exercised on only approx
mately 5000 acres.
No date has as yet been set upon
which the bids are to be opened. AS
soon as the necessary material is gath
cred the lands will be advertised, and
thirty days after this the leases will
be awarded
Five years ago, under the Cruce ad-
ministration, the land was leased to
f. w Marland of Ponca City, Okla.
Much of the land was subleased by
Marland to various people, so that
many were involved in the case,
Compromise Ends.
About a year ago the former lease
expired and the question Of the disposal
of the land came up before the new
school land commission, The board
advertised the leases under the prefer
cnce right but this was contested and
taken to the courts by Governor Will
lisms, who was against the preference
right rule.
The case has never been settled, but
the action of the board today may be
considered as a compromise between
the two parties and as closing the case,
since the matter of the preference right
and minimum bids were both included
n the resolution which Saturday passed
the commission unanimously
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
VICTORIA CROSS
GIVEN SERGEANT
FOR sLAY|Nc 100
NOn-Com and Ten Men lnflict
Great Losses ON Huns,

LONDON, June 8, via Ottawa--An-
nouneement OF the award of a Victoria
Gro" to Sergeant Albert Mountain,
West Yorkshire, was made in the Of
fetal gazette. Mountains company
was compelled TO fall back before the
advancing enemy mas" Volunteers fof
a counter attack were being called when
Mountain and ten men stepped forward
He advanced on the flank with Lewis
machine gun and enfiladed an enemy
patrol, OF which about 100 we're killed.
Mountain rallied aud organized the
party for defense and covered the re-
tirement OF the rest OF the company.
With one non-commissioned officer
and four men he successfully held al
bay 600 Germans for half an hour.
Later he took command Of flank
post and held on for n hours, unit
finally surrounded
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08

up and down the cleaning steel point
Zero
Up--over-across- The enemy
cringed a moment, then gathered him
self in an effort 10 repulse the on
slaught. A couple Of our men fell
three shook blood from their eyes,
whether their own or another mans
they could not tell They were not
down, that was the only sure thing.
Along the enemy trench, step by step,
inch by inch tripping over the dead
body Of a Hun, smashing a bomb into
a dugout doorway. The task was nearly
complete Almost time to go back
then tragedy
lust One Chance
A heavy mob of the Boche rounded
traverse. bombs were running peril
ously short in British hands Were
there even enough to fight a way back
ward, out-up-over-and across again
II was John Chipman who saw the
imminent disaster first Not a second
Continued on Page ,, Column a.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
BY PRIVATE HAROLD r. PEAT.
Late Of the Third Battalion, First Cana
dian Overseas Contingent.

Corporal John Chipman Kerr was the
first of the Alberta boys to win the
Victoria cross. As decorations go, that
cross is the simplest of any To the
British mind It conveys all of heroism,
honor, glory, self-sacrifice
The cross itself is fashioned OF
brcnze-the material is supposed to be
taken from one OF the guns which we're
used at he Crimea On one side OF the
cross there are two wordS-two words
only
For Nalor.
Corporal Kerr has come home Not
many who win the V. {. reach home
again In Edmonton, his adopted home
town, civil welcome was given to the
soldier and to his little bride. won in
the old country also bare year ago.
Newspapers interviewed the corporal
They have recorded his appearance,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
Dinner PALES
AS ATTRACTION
BESIDE ECLIPSE
The Roast Probably viii Burn
at Home Tonight,
GUTHRIE CLAIMS BIG SHOW
Parties Go From Here to View
Phenomenon,
Eclipses and War

Battle between MedeS and Lydians
stopped by eclipse of May 2S, S8S
B. {.
Eclipse of August B. AL r. C.,
marked first year of Peloponnesian
war.
PersianS defeated near Cnidus i'm
mediately after eclipse of 3o4 B. c.
Tyrant of Syracuse aided in war
against Carthaginians by eclipse Of
6l0 B. {.
Alaric, the Visigoth, appeared be
fore Rome "in a great gloom"
probably eclipse of June l8, 4l0 B. C..
Eclipse occurred February "a, 4Sj
A. d., when Atiila, the Hun, was
ravaging Italy.
In 733 A. D. "Aethelbald captured
Somerton, and the sun was eclipsed,
and all the suns disc was like
black shield" reports the Anglo
Saxon chronicle.
Olav, king of Norway, was killed
at the battle of Stiklastad during the
eclipse Of August 30, 1880
And the famous battle OF Crecy
was not fought during an eclipse,
as its historians proudly boast
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
French Push on
To Northeast

PARIS, June s--New progress wss
made by the French last night in ths
region between the Mane and the
Ourcq, northwest OF Chateau. Thierry.
the war office announced today. IN
In this sector French troops have
pushed their way through Chexy TO its
eastern outskirts and have reached Tho
western edge OF Dammard village,
In the district south of Veuilly-la.
Poterie the Germans made two violent
attacks along the Boureschcs -le- -Thiolek
front The enemy was repulsed VIII
heavy losses in each case. n
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08
French Recapture
Point Near Locre
By The Associated Press

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, June 8.--Locre Hospice.
which the Germans captured on We'd
nesday night. was retaken by the French
yesterday. They battled their way Ia
this 'uch contested position and com-
pletely established their originN Ina
The French have thus removed more
or less serious threat to the village q
Locre, which itself is an important A..
tense for Mont Rouge and other hiIlo'
lying Immediately to the west