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WOULD RENT HAUNTED HOUSE.
London Advertiser Wants II on
Ten or Fifteen Acres OF Ground.

Fpccid' Cojls Despatch 10 TUE srN rom the
London 7i,aes Service.
Copyright. 1918; al rights reSerred.
LONDON, Dec S0.-The Times pub
l:shed an advertisement to-day for a man
seeking - haunted house to rent or TO
purchase.
Besides its supernatural association
the house must have ten or fifteen acres
Of ground and DO within nifty miles Of
London.
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"conrlaints are coming to us now
that ,he war has been won and our sons
and brothers and husbands are coming
hack 10 America armless and legless and
,veless that America ts unprepared TO
take care oC them now lust as America
was unprepared properly TO conduct this
war in such way as TO conserve life,
energy and health.
God knows how many Ewes nave been
uselessly sacrificed by our unprepared
condition even up 10 the time the armss-
t.ce was signed"
Senator Chamberains speech was In
terrupted repeatedly by Senators from
every quarter Of the United states who
wanted to corroboratc his statements
with letters and kilograms from constit-
uents. Hospital trOubles, pay troubles,
the aIlotments of money TO dependents,
the Seyeritles of the courts-mlrtial, the
sio;hful system OF rehabilitation and
throughout all the lack Of Hlan. the ab-
sence Of any concrete system of de-
mobilization was deplored and con-
dcmned.
Senator Chamberlain concluded with
q tribute tc the men who on the bloody
fields OF the Argonne had engraved
"anls" upon KaiSersn with their bayo-
nets. and he pleaded that in the months
to come there might be consideration of
the men who had won the war.
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Receives Great Ovation i'll
Manchester as lie Puts
Humanity First.
TOURS THE SHIP CANAL
All Lancashire Turns Out
to Give Him HOmely and
Informal Welcome.
CHEER HIS UTTERANCES
In Heart of England He Lays
Down His Dictum for the
Peace Of All Nations.
CHEER HIS UTTERANCES
by LAURENCE HILLS.
Stu1 Correspondent Of THE SrH.
N1.n....lzAf nals all S-.nhfs EERlEIhd

Copyright. 1918. az f1DhS feSeTpeu.
MANCHESTER, England, Dec. 80
I'VE are with you. Mr.. President"
was the cry that resounded in the
streets of Manchester to-day as Presl.
dent Wilson drove from his inspection
Of the ship canal. built 10 facilitate
The landing of American cotton, tU
the City Hall, where he received the
freedom Of the city.
No incident of the Presidents visit
was as impressive as his welcome in
the heart of England's industrial dis
trict.
The reception accorded him by
British wOrkmen was made the occa-
sion by the President for the great.
est speech Of his visit. 1t was hard
to believe the scene wasn't an Amer
lean opera house during Il campaign
trip. No city yet visited by the
President Is SO intimately connected
with America as Manchester and the
President was struck by this intimacy.
He talked and acted as If he were nj
home. His speech evoked typicaly
American demonstrations. which We're
kept going several minutes at time
''Partncrship of Rights"
In his speech in Free Trade Hail
the President emphasized his earliel
declarations that right must be tn
sole guide in framing the peace treaty
and laying the foundation for the
league OF nations.
The President also pointed out that
the United States in no sense had de
parted from her traditional aloofness
from European political questions,
hut that She was, however. deeply
interested in what he termed "the
partnership of right between America
and Europe" America. the President
said. would join no combination Of
Powers to insure q balance unless the
combination included all the Powers
The United States. the President said.
is not interested in the peace Of Eu
rope. but in The peace of the world.
l. was all very Interesting to the
President. particularly az cotton, q
great American product, has become
the industrial foundation of Mau
chester. Here American cotton j.
being hauled from steamships. and rs
the President looked on gigantic
cranes were swinging the bales from
ships 10 warehouses.
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Hotel Men HoncfuI.

Mr. Sweeney sad IN the hotels that
have had to face strike conditions affairs
nave been restored to normal He as
serted the extending OF the strike for
New Years eve added an element of
difficulty for the proprietors that was
not present in the earlier efforts Of the
union but that the hotel men arc h62eful
The union walters demand minimum
wage of SIS a week Cooks are asking
an increase OF SO week. The wages Of
both classes now vary greatly, those OF
cooks running from SoJ to 5000 4 month
The men also demand recognition of
their federation. The hotel men arc
standing out obstinately against this.
Not all of the proprietors Of rCstau-
rants gave in 10 tho demands Of the
strikers. Among tho places that went
through difficulties for a couple of DAYS
when their walters luit Verc Snerry's.
Churchill's Luchow's. Murray's and
KeeH's Chop House.
Among the restaurants that gave In
were Relsenweber's, Rectors, Moulin
EouGe, Palais Royal. PeLin, Healys and
Wallicks. Representative Of these we're
tounced out OF an impromptu strike body
formed from the hotel and restaurant
mtn MS associations.
In explaining the call 10 extend the
strike Secretary Wagner said: I'VE do
not wish to inconvenience the public on
this day of celebration, the most Won
derful New Years eve the world has
ever seen. The patrons of hotels and
restaurants are our best friends, but the
employers have refused TO bargain col
lectiveiy with US, They have announced
that they are conducting a war to de-
stroy our organization. our only move
IS to fight them and the best day TO hit
them and to hit them hard is on New
Years eve"
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DANIELS FOR BIGGESTNAVY.
FLLMI7.A 7IONS ARE NOTSET.
CUTS BUDGET $I,668, 8,4O3,424
Principal Slashes in Daniels's Estimates;
Some Big Items Entirely Eliminated
Special DespatcA to The sux.

WASHINGTON Dec 30Beore The Ndvol Affairs Committee
Secretary Daniels made public the
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Canal Lined with Factories,


Along the whole length OF the canal
which has made Il seaport of this city
thirty miles inland. the President saw
American tlag> tutlcring everywhere
The rrrS'deu, made ,he trip up the
canal on small steamship fying thp
American flag. ON either side of the
canal were frright"rS, all crowded
with cheering people. The President.
fur coated. waved his hand first to
onH sid" and then The other. Thou.
sands of cotton mill workcrs-men
and wDmen-pourcd out to shout II
welcome. Onc group Of girls SANG
over There" which delighted the
President and Mrs. Wilson. How
a"r yr, Wil@ou:" rang ont repeatedly
from both sides of the canal in the
Lancashire dialect aS the Presidents
steamship moved along The canal
Passes the Mystery ship.
Anchored IN the canal was Eng
'and's famous mystery shin, and n>
the President passed the vessels in
oifrnsiv" sides droppcd away land
ak big guns l"kcd ont their usl,
SHOUTS.
~ The Presidents vessel entered
one hiG basin To- turn around shin
from Galveston cmWyng her cottou
cargo engaged the attention Of tn,
President and members Of his party
The President asked many questions
during the trip
When the canal trip was finished
the Presidents carriage drove
through 'hr Manchester poorer quar-
trrs. thousands Of people hockin.
after the carriages. with man,
pinch faced children among them.
A red coated mace bcar"r met the
President Mt the entrance Of the Cit,
Hall and escorted him inside. This
was the only unfawilar incident.
The Mayors speech, extending tho
freedom of the city 10 the President
was loudly chcrrcd, his reference To-
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The reductions include appropriations yards maqnne
only selection
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LIBERALIZATION
SCHAOTIC, C,SAYS
CHAMBERLAIN
Senator Accuses War De-
partment of Lack of
Preparedness.
HOSPITAL WORK SLOW
Says Congress Is Flooded With
Letters of Protest From
All Parts Of U. s.
HOSPITAL WORK SLOW
Special Despdtch 10 THE SrN.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.-Shortconings
Of the War Department furnished the
topic to-day for a new review by SEN
ator George +. Chapberlain (Ore)
chairman OF the Military Affairs Com
mlttee, before the Senate and crowded
galleries. A year had elapsed since
Senator Chamberlain, taking his very
political life in his hands, called the at
tention OF the nation Mt large to the
delinquencies in that branch of the
Government.
His criticism then was directed to-
ward the War Departments faiiings in
the preparation for war. To-day he
asserted the War Department was pre-
pairing to meet the problems Of peace
with exactly the same hit or miss
methods.
Senator Chamberlain charged the
War Department with lack OF pre-
paredness to meet the problem OF de-
mobilization and the return OF the vast
army of 100000 men to civil pursuits.
He contrasted the confusion with the
complete preparation with which
France and Britain and even Italy
were meeting similar problems.
He criticised sharply the sloth which
had characterized Americas preparation
of hospitals 10 receive the thousands OF
wounded men now being transported
back to the United states.
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Denounces Military Justice.

Mr.. Chamberlain denounced the system
OF military justice which had been per-
mitted to exist in the War Department
and expressed the opinion that Congress
must in the immediate future design re-
forms OF the military laws.
He assailed the inequities which. he
charged. had been permitted in the mat
ter OF pay and allowances OF the mar
overseas and In the camps and canton
ments in the United States Refusing TO
lay the whole blame at the door OF the
Secretary of War, for whom he pro-
fessed a profound affection, he never
the!ess admitted that in the final analysis
the blame must lie at the doors OF the
Commander in Chief Of the Army and or
the man whom he had chosen TO assume
the stupendous duties of Secretary OF
War
The riddle of the delayed publication
OF casualties was only touched upon b.
Senator Chamberlain lie told the Sen
ate that Senator Weeks CMass.) intended
a an early day 10 address the Senate on
this subject.
Senator Chamberlain said in opening
his speech:
Conditions to-day, after the armistice
has been signed. are not unlike condi-
tions which existed before Congress con-
vened in December. 1917. Congress then
was flooded with letters of complaint
from men of practical Affairs all over tho
United States. from mothers who had
sons either In France or on the way.
from wives whose husbands had gone
over. They called attention to the fact
trst industrial life was not doing Is
duty under the direction of the War De-
pnrtment. whose duty It was to see that
industrial life was So mfiTnaiied; that
those things necessary 20 the sate con-
duct oil the war should be carried out ef-
fectively.
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WATERS QUIT;
OLD 1918 MAY
GO OUT HUNGRY
Citywide Strike Called to
Cripple Joy of New
Years Eve.
5000 TOLD TO RESIGN
Broadway Restaurants and Big
Hotels Send Out SOS
for Mattresses.
5000 TOLD TO RESIGN

Walters in all hotels and restaurants
not already affected were called out
yesterday on strike. effective to-day,
the walters union hoping to make its
tull power felt by wrecking New
fork's New Years eve celebration.
The committee OF five that has been
directing strike of the International
Federation Of Hotel Employees decided
that the holiday would be tho right
time to attempt to make the guerrilla
warfare that has been directed against
separate hotels and restaurants for
two months a general contest to deter
mine whether the serving of food in
New York is to become n Job for
women only.
strike call was sent out to the
5000 men the federation asserts it has
as its members among the 10000 en-
ployed in the hotels and restaurants of
the main and lesser Broadways be-
tween Twenty-third and Seventy-sec-
ond streets. The call was addressed
also to cooks and organized kitchen
help.
II the general strike is anywhere near
as effective as Otto Wagner secretary
OF the Federation says It will be. II will
put big kink in affairs in the White
Light district.
Most OF the proprietors of the restati-
rants gave in TO the walters when they
manifested the restlessness that has
been their habit for the past five years
two months ago. But in the hotels
where walters have quit. their places
were filled by women and the employers
nave announced that they are satisfied
and don't care II they never see a male
waiter in their places again.
Women Help Win Victory.
Some of the biggest hotels have ad-
,us,ed themselves 10 service by wait
resses. mong Them the Waldorf where
Oscar has come TO great peace and con-
tentnent after years OF two-fs;ed rule
over male help; the McAipin. Astor.
knickerbocker, Vanderbilt. Plaza. 81
Regis. Belmont and Imperial
Among the hotels which will face the
emergency created by the extension of
the strike Tonight will be the Bntmore,
Manhattan. Ritx-Carlton. Savoy. Neither
land. Great Northern, Marie Antoinette
and Bresln
George Sweeney. chairman os the ex-
ecutive committee OF the Hotel MEMS
Association, said last night the employ
ers are pinning their hone Of being able
10 do their part In welcoming the New
Year to their loyal employees. He said
that he believed the estimate os the
union leaders as to the number Of their
members to be much exaggerated.
II the walters do develop as union
members in large numbers, AIr Sweeney
said that 700 women who had been reg
istered for emergency calls by the Hotel
Associations Employment Bureau would
be called and the proprietors would do
the best they could. He said there were
no legal restrictions against employing
women as Mattresses for "a far into the
night as they may he needed. Tho SER
vice OF wine would be in the hands Of
wine boys who are regularly em2Ioyed
and that important part of the celebra-
iion will not be greatly hamrered no
matter what the walters may do. No
effort has been made to organize the
boys.
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mig ships Now Being Pushed.

"Sow the construction of the big ships
~! be pushed as rapidly as possible.
'f' number OF small craft being ample
III more dreadnoughts and other big
. IS are added TO the nayai force. As
CARDS these smaller vessels a general
" "-lhorzation Is required in order that
: r3y cf all types produced by all ma
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Continued on Third Rage,
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WEATHER FoRECAs1

Increasing cloudiness to-day; tom
row snow and colder.
Highest temperature yesterday, 40; lowest.
Detailed weather reports on last page
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-18
U BOAT CAMPAIGN DECLINES.
Moe Submarines Destroyed Past Few
Months Than Being Built.

Paris.-The effectiveness of the Ger
man submarine campaign Is declining
The German government Is aware OF
this fact, declared Georges Leagues,
minister of marine, before the naval
committee OF the chamber of deputies
Tuesday. but has made the greatest eff
forts to conceal it. He said the stu.
alton was most favorable and that the
slnkings of submarines in the first
three months of 1918 through allied
measures was greater than the mum
Der built by the enemy.
Minister Leagues referred to the
statement made in the relchstag April
II by Vice Admiral Won Capell, minister
of marine. in which he said COCOON
tons OF allied shipping were sunk
monthly. This figure, the minister
said. was incorrect
II was reached and passed in April,
May and June of 1917. In July 1t de-
cllned and In November it fell below
400 1000 and since has diminished con-
tinuously.
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ginning" she said In French, II nod
three sons. They hurried off to get
their uniforms and rifles. Then
waited. One day our soldiers came
pouring into the town They had been
driven back by the Germans. Many
were injured. l took as many as
could in my house and made coffee for
them. You see my house was better
before it was struck by shells.
while l was making coffee a big
shell struck this house and killed
some of the soldiers. Another ono had
both legs taken off. helped them all
| could, but they went away and the
Germans came. They are cruel, but am
old, so am alive. Then our boys came
again and made my house a hospital
1t was struck twice more and l was
hurt little, too, but not much. don't
want to leave. / have lived here all
my life and here is where l shall die"
= The eyes Of the old lady glowed un-
der the spell of thought she had not
yet expressed.
"A French general came and thank
ed me for what did for our soldiers"
she said. 'Then. long after, he wrote
me a letter saying l was brave wom-
an and had brave sons. l have the
letter you may see It,"
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-18
TEST OF TIRES ON HIGHWAYS
Results Obtained by United States o.
flee Of Public Roads After Pc
riod Of Years.

In its testing of tires on country
roads during a period of several years
the United States office of public roads
has prepared the road prior to each
test by blowing, grading and rolling
thus, with further consideration Of
moisture and atmospheric variations.
giving conditions as nearly identical as
possible for each Of the trips compared.
It was found that the draft decreased
with. increase of tire width 20 a GER
tain limit. beyond which IT increased.
AS a result Of the experiments, 1t is
recommended that for ordinary farm
work and general trucking. the stand
ard width Of tire for one-horse
wagon. with gross load of 1000 pounds,
should be two inches; light two-horse
wagon, $500 pounds. two and one
half inches; medium twO-horse wagon,
1900 pounds, three inches: standard
two-horse wagon, $500 pounds, four
inches; heavy two-horse wagon, 1900
pounds. FIVE inches.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-18
WORK OF THE Y. M. c.. A.

both in the United States and In
France. At the present time there are
1900 Y. NJ. G. A. workers with the ex-
peditionary forces in France and Eng
land and 5000 other workers in Ameri-
can camps.
The Y. M. c. A. has been asked by
General Pershing to take over the en-
tire canteen system with the American
army in France. and this will require
the services of more than 5000 volun-
teer workers alone. An effort Is now
being made to secure at least 1000
business and professional men of high
standing who will go to France for all
sorts of Y. NJ. G. A. service before
July 1.
1t is estimated that 100000 feet Of
film are being exhibited weekly to the
soldiers at home and abroad. A re-
cent shipment of athletic equipment
for the troops In France consisted of
79,6S0 baseballs, 10000 bats, 10000
gloves and mitts, boxing gloves, volley
balls and various other kinds of apa-
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-18
Lone, Aged Woman Is Sole Inhab-
liant Left in French VII
lage.
All Who Survived Hun Carnival Of
81 Rage and Rapine Which Swept
the Place, Left Long, Long
AGO. d.

American Army Headquarters in
France.-In the charred village they
call her La Dame Indomitable. Not
bad name for her, either, There Is a
great gun in the French army called
lndomitable. The enemy has trained
Its heavy weapons on this giant cylin-
der of destruction, but old Indomitable
still belches it's deadly hail upon the
Huns, and so the old lady of -. was
named after this famous gun, writes
Don Martin in the New York Herald.
saw her the other day in the recon-
structed ruins Of her once comfortable
house. Two artillery offioers-Ameri-
can-have billets with her. She takes
care of their rooms. shines their boots
and leggings and puts on button now
and then when they know nothing
about 1t.
Then, when she Is not busy at home,
she washes dishes for the Salvation
Army canteen or performs more labori-
GUS service. for all of which she re-
ceives ten cents an hour. That is
enough. She doesn't need much. She
begins her, daily routine at five in the
morning and finishes at seven in the
evening. Then she walks two miles
70 q Shop to get her allowance of
bread, and after ten o'clock, when her
"boys" are in bed and asleep, she
throws herself on bed of boxes and
old clothes. with one blanket for COW
ering. and sleeps.
Villages Only Inhabitant.
La Dame Indomitable is the only in
habitant left in the village. 1t is DO
place for women. Children-all who
survive the Hun carnival of rage and
rapine-left long, long ago. The old
folks dragged weary way from the
humble, aged stone buildings in which
they and their ancestors had lived for
many generntions-yes, for hundreds
Of years. Soldiers occupied the town.
Then the Germans came. Three times
the quaint village was taken and re-
taken. The gaunt remnants of the
old dwellings could tell frightful stor-
les of slaughter and magnificent tales
of valor. So can La Dame Indomit-
abb But she says little. She just
works. She wants to help France. Of
fcers told her long time ago she
could go anywhere she wished. Even
the grandeurs of Paris were pictured
10 her in the hope that she might be
lured from the abode of danger in
which she resides.
Rut whv Should che poo
mo. I'm not DID," she says. I'm
only sixty-five or maybe seventy. I'm
a strong woman yet, but when l carry
water this long, long distance and then
walk to the boulangerie for bread some
times my heart beats too fast maybe,
but that's all"
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-18
RAILROAD RATES
TO Be INCREASED
RAISE FOUND NECESSARY IN on
DER TO MEET HIGHER COST OF
FUEL AND WAGES.
railways Of Nation Will. Spend This
Year ssoo'ooo,ooo More for Wages
Than Last Year and Vast Sums
for Fuel and Equipment

ACCOMPLISHMENTS moda Mon
day by railroad administration off,o,oI,
Indicate that an increase of at leas,
% per cent in freight and passengo,
rates Will be necessary. this wear +,
meet the higher costs of fuel wages
equipment and other operating evnons
'es, now set at between 5000 900 600 onf
'S15o'O0,OO0 more than last year
Recommendation that rates be raised
by approximately this percentage has
been made by Director General Nc
Adoo by his advisers He is expected
TO act within the next six weeks, and
TO put increases into effect Immediate.
~. Shippers will be permitted TO an
peal to the interstate commerce cam.
mission under the railroads act. and
final decision will be with President
Wilson.
such an increase as is proposed will
be the biggest In the history of Ameri.
can railroads, as the percentage is
larger than any ever sought by the
railways under private management.
and would apply alike to the entire
country. Both class and commodity
schedules would be affected.
Passenger fares would be raised, un.
der the plan suggested, to about 3
cents mile from the existing general
rate of little less than 21a cents.
The proposed Increases, 1t is est.
mated. would yield about $4,000 600
-$70O000,O00 in freight and 100000,
900 In passenger revenues,
II Is roughly estimated by railroad
administration officials that the roads
this year will spend between $500 600.
900 and $350.0O0,000 more for wages
than last year; between S120,OOOOOO
and $l50,000,000 more for coal, and be-
tween $iS0,0OO0O0 and S250,0O0 900
Inore for cars, locomotives, rails. ties
terminal facilities, barges for inland
waterways and other supplies and
equipment. These figures may be
lowered by later developments. but of.
ficials who have studied the situation
closely are inclined to believe they are
more likely to prove higher.
The estimate of increased wages Is
based on the probability that the dl-
doctor general will approve n general
scheme Of higher pay for workmen,
an accordance with the railroad wage
commissions recommendations, which |
called for an addition of S300,00O,O00 |
to the S2O00,0O0,000 payroll of last
year.