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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-05
400 PAIRS OF MEMS OXFORDS
Black or tans, ali styles, big values, small
sizes, $1.95 to $685.

Mems Black or Brown English Lace Shoes.S5.4
Mems Sc Black English Lace Shoes. S4.45
Mems So Black English Lace Shoes. $685.
Mems Dress Shoes, button or blucher. .$2.95
Mems Welt Dress Shoes ............ S3.45
Mems Low Shoes, good makes 49, S3.45
1Ien's Heavy Work Shoes. So. .$2.45 and $2.95
Boys Shoes in Button style ............S 1.95
Boys Shoes, good quality feathers ..-. .S2.45
Rows, Fix Scout Shoes ......S1.95 to $2.95
Bows Dress Shoes. special at $40
Mems So Brown English Shoes. $6-45
Mems White Canvas OXfOrds. ......... 81. SS
Mems White Tennis Balls .............. 9Sc
Bows White Tennis Balls. .............. .SSc
Evening star., 1918-04-14

The House merchant marine commit
tee is canvassing the views Of the gov
ernors Of the New England seacoast
states and tho fishing organizations OF
that section regarding an administra-
ton bill to prohibit importation Of lob
sters taken in waters adjacent to. but
during the closed seasons. The bill Is
aimed to protect the catch OF Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick. and was ap-
proved at meetings held by the Ameri-
can-Canadian fisheries conference held
at Boston. Gloucester. Mass. and at st.
John, New Brunswick.
The merchant marine committee has
held hearings on the subject in this city.
and the other day decided to refer the
matter to the governors Of New York.
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachu-
setts, New Hampshire and Maine, who
have been asked to ascertain and report
the sentiment among the fishermen.
action on the bill. despite it's advocacy
by the joint fisheries conference of the
United States and it's northern neighbor
and by Secretary of Commerce Redfield.
Chief Justice Hazen of New Bruins
wick. according to Secretary Redfeld.
contends that Canadian fishermen are
irritated by the fact that while their
laws prohibit them from taking Holsters
during the closed season. they have to
stand by and watch United States
smacks catch the Holsters just outside
the Canadian waters and carry them
back to the American market.
In United States waters the fisheries
are conducted every day in the year. In
some counties of Nova Scotia there is
protracted closed season which covers
the time when the lobster eggs are
Matching. The object of the closed-time
regulations in Canada is to curtail the
catch during that period. Most of the
Holsters caught on the Nova Scotia and
Brunswick coasts have to be canned.
The communities are remote from trans
portation lines. and there are practi-
cally no local sales. There is Virtually
no size limit of Holsters that may be
caught for canning. The Holsters are
caught principally in shoal water, SO
that most of the lobster ground is in
territorial waters, but it is possible to
get them as far as twenty miles from
shore.
The closed season in Canada is about
Evening star., 1918-04-14
$50. .OOO. 900 HOUSING BILL TO
BE FAVORABLY REPORTED
Senate Committee to Submit Tomorrow
Modified Measure, Which Allots $10,0 ,000,-
OOOt District-Expect Early Action.

The housing bill, carrying $50, 900 900,
of which $40 100000 is to be used in
the District Of Columbia to provide
housing facilities for government war
workers, will be reported favorably to
the Senate tomorrow by Chairman
Swanson from the public buildings and
grounds committee. Senator Swanson
said last night that he would seek
action upon the bill at the earliest op-
portunity, this week IL possible.
The operation of the proposed meas
ure is left IN the hands of the Secre-
tary of Labor, with a provision that
he act under the direction of the Presi-
dent.
The Senate committee struck from
the bill all reference to local trans
portation facilities, which under the
House bill could have been taken over
when needed. It was urged by Secre-
tary Wilson of the Department of La
bor that by taking over street railways
and ferries and interurban railroads 1t
would be possible to aid the situation
greatly.
The committee also eliminated from
the bill all reference to "other com
munity facilities" Thus the bill is
left to do strictly with housing ia
cilities.
A Senate amendment to the bill pro-
Evening star., 1918-04-14
LUMP SUM CLERKS
Members Of Senate Appropriations
Committee Would Not Discrim-
mate in Granting Raises.

Members of the Senate appropriations
committee are seriously considering
the advisability of striking from
the legislative appropriation bill as re-
ported to the Senate the committee
amendment which eliminated from the
benefit of the $120 increase employees of
the government paid from lump-sum
appropriations.
Since the bill was reported it has
been called to the attention of the COM
mitteemen that many employees in prac-
tically all of the departments and bu-
reaus of the government are paid from
lump sum appropriations, and that In
justices might be done them II the in
crease were denied them.
1t is Senator Martins plan to call up
the legislative bill in the Senate tomor-
row and try to dispose Of it that day.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
CALIFORNIA G. O. P. RANKS
REPORTED HARMONIOUS
Will n. Hays, National Committee
Chairman, Says All Factiona1 Diff
ferences Have Disappeared.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13-will H
Hays. chairman Of the republican ma
tional committee, announced here to-
day that factions in the party in Cali
fornia, which attracted national atten-
ton in the presidential election of 1916
when Woodrow Wilson carried the
state. had disappeared.
Raymond Benjamin, chairman of the
republican state central committee
called upon Mr.. Hays; so did Percy v
Long, who said he could properly be
designated q republican, although still
holding the office of chairman of the
progressive state central committee
and w. H. Crocker, national commit
teeman from California, who was found
in the conservative wing of the party
in 1916.
A Nevada delegation, including Whit.
man Symms, chairman of the state re.
publican executive committee; w. H
simmons a former progressive leader ir
the state, and Col. H. B. Maxon. forme,
national committeeman from Nevada
also called upon Mr.. Hays ito assure
him that we are with him." they said
Evening star., 1918-04-14
MAY RESUME CUSTOM
President Wilson Considering Re.
quest to Have Daily Conferences
With Newspaper Men.

President Wilson may resume his con-
ferences with newspaper men.
This suggestion has been placed be-
fore the President by officials high in
his esteem. and he is giving the matter
serious consideration. ....
The argument offered for the resump-
tion of these conferences. suspended
about two years ago. in view of critical
international matters which required
his constant attention. was that the
correspondents in Washington could be
made a channel of expression for the
viewpoint Of the President on many
points upon which the American public
now is uninformed.
1t has been pointed out to him that
many of the representations Of the
Presidents attitude on important ques-
tions. which later have been shown to
be inaccurate, would be avoided by q
resumption of the conferences.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
DELAY IN MAIL CRITICISED
ON FLOOR OF THE HOUSE
Experience of Washington Merchants Given
by Representative Gillett-Forced to
Use Special Delivery Stamps.

SO asked my secretary to mail it to
me. When I left in the evening I asked
him If he had mailed it, and he said that
he had; but, conscious, possibly, of the
uncertainties Of the Post Office Depart
ment, he told me he had put a special
delivery stamp on it.
Letter Long En- Route.
THE letter started in the morning
and I left at night. When I reached
my destination the next noon I asked
for 1t. but it had not arrived; in fact,
1t had not arrived the next morning,
but 1T did reach there the next evening,
thirty hours after my arrival. And
then on Thursday I desired to send a
letter to my secretary, which 1 wanted
him to get on Saturday morning, and,
mindful of my previous experience,
but foolishly still trusting the Post
Office Department, 1 mailed it on
Thursday morning. with special de-
livery stamp on it. That letter was
delivered to my secretary not on Fri
day or on Saturday. but on Monday
morning. 1t did reach Washington on
Saturday evening, according to the
stamp on 1t. but arrived after the Of
flee had closed. If / had sent tele-
gram the Western Union would have
looked up my secretarys address ana
have delivered the message to him. but
probably that was too much to expect
of the Post Office Department. At any
rate, that letter did not reach the post
Office in Washington until Saturday
evening.
$50 / could have left where I was
stopping several hours after that let
ter left; I could have come to Wash
ington by train and spent whole day
here, gone back and had half day
there before that letter, mailed by
special delivery, had reached its des-
tination here in Washington.
"A friend of mine, to whom l alluded
in regard to the delay in my first letter.
told me that he had telegraphed to New
York for the letter that l wanted par
ticularly. and it had been mailed to him
by special delivery. and it took exactly
one week for that letter to go journey
Of twenty-four hours.
"Now. gentlemen. when such things
happen, when the merchants Of Wash
ington are compelled to send their Or
binary business mail by special delivery
to New York so that it can be secure
and think no doubt your experience is
like my own, and do not remember the
time when my mail was so uncertain and
unreliable as it has been of late-when
these things are constantly occurring. the
gentleman from Indiana should not be
surprised when gentlemen of this House.
rejecting the ordinary criticism which the
business world feels. do occasionally vent
their complaints here in this body"
Evening star., 1918-04-14
HARD WORK AHEAD
FOR LAWMAKERS
Congress Confronted by Busy
Week-D. C.. Money Bill :.
Soon Due.

| Work and yet more work Of hard and
routine nature confronts both houses of
Congress in the coming week. AS one
member said, its just going over one
top after another" Appropriation bills.
conference report and committee grind
will fill the days. and the days won't be
long enough at that. it would seem.
After concluding the resolution amend
ing the draft law the House will finish
| the rivers and harbors bill and take up
the naval appropriation bill which has
been waiting for some time. Before that.
however. the conference report on the
agricultural appropriation bill will be dis
cussed and sent back to conference with
the disposition of the House toward the
price Of wheat indicated by vote
D. c. Appropriation Bill Next.
The District of Columbia appropriation
bill will follow the naval bill on the floor
and in turn will be succeeded by the sun
dry civil bill in time, but probably not
this week. In committees the water
power bill and the oil land leasing bill
| will be taken up and discussed, though
probably not completed.
The Senate probably will pass upon
the disputed points in the agricultural
appropriation conference report early
in the week and send it back to the
oonferees. Debate is expected which
may run over a day. Then the legis-
lative appropriation bill will be taken
up on the floor and may occupy a day
or two.
Post Office Bill to Follow.
1t will be followed by the post office
appropriation bill. which may lead to
considerable debate. the item for the
pneumatic tube service being expected
to cause trouble.
By the end of the week the sec, ,00o, 900
housing bill is expected to come along
from committee and is scheduled to
provoke discussion.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
CHANGES ARE MADE
SABOTAGE BILL
Conferees Omit Sections Pc
naIizing Obstruction of War
Material Manufacture.
LABOR CLAUSE ALSO OUT

Provisions in the sabotage bill, penal
izing acts obstructing production of
war materials, were eliminated from
the measure yesterday by Senate and
House conferees.
The 'conferees also struck out the
clause permitting labor to strike for
higher wages, which the Senate re-
jected.
In removing these provisions the con-
ferees eliminated all penalties for OBJ
structing the manufacture of war ma
terials. but retained provisions to Pc
naliZe damaging supplies.
The agreement was regarded as q
compromise made in expectation that
tions in Congress and to prevent death
of other important legislation in the
bill by deadlock.
No Further Changes Made.
No other changes in the measure.
which provides penalties of thirty
years Imprisonment and $4,000 fines
for damaging a great number of es-
sential war materials, including rail-
roads, bridges, live stock and factories,
were made.
One of the clauses eliminated by the
conferees-an amendment offered by
Representative Cannon of Illinois in
those who wilfully "injure, interfere
with or obstruct the United States or
any associate nation in preparing for
or carrying on the war, or who shall
conspire to prevent the erection or pro-
duction of such war premises, war ma
terial or war utilities
The other clauses eliminated-an
amendment by Representative Lunn of
New York, and around which the con-
troverSy was centered because senators
+ k-{Ir
on war work-provided that nothing
herein shall be construed as making it
unlawful for employees to agree to-
gether to stop work or not to enter
thereon with the sole and bona fide
purpose of securing better wages or
conditions Of employment"
The Senate Friday refused to re-
consider it's action in rejecting the con-
ference report on the sabotage bill be-
cause of the provision which would
1egaliZe strikes in war munition plants.
Senator Jones of Washington moved to
recall the papers which had been re-
jected. A point of order by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts against this
motion was overruled by the chair,
Senator Jones of New Mexico presiding.
Senator Gallinger appealed from the
ruling Of the chair. and the appeal was
sustained. 35 to 29.
Senator Hollis of New Hampshire
said that Samuel Gompers, president
u IAo <AIcilSaH T eucTdtlOH Oh La
Dor, opposed any legislation that
would prevent peaceful strikes, and
was opposed to the passage of the bill
now pending, providing punishment for
interfering with the manufacture Of
war materials, unless a provision was
included exempting labor strikes
Senator Hollis declared President
Gompers had tried periodically and
earnestly to keep labor at work" dur
ing the war, but said peaceful strikes
were the only weapons labor had to
secure its rights.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
MISS ALICE WILSON ENGAGED,
Niece Of President to Wed Rev. ]. S.
McElroy. Jr.. of Georgia.

BALTIMORE, April 13.-The engage
ment OF Miss Alice Wilson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph B. Wilson of this
city and niece of President Wilson. to
Rev. /. S. McElroy, jr., of Columbus. Ga,
was announced today. No date has been
fixed for the wedding. Miss Wilson is a
Tennessee girl. the family moving to
Baltimore from Nashville in 1919.
Mr.. McElroy is the son of the Rev l. 8.
0cElroy of Columbus, a widely known
Presbyterian minister. He will graduate
from the Richmond (Va-) Union Theo-
logical Seminary next month. He has
been assigned by the Southern Presby-
terian board of foreign missions for work
in Japan, the appointment being effective
in 1920.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
NAVIGATOR GRADUATE AT 50.
Edward P. Weaver of Bangor Claims
Record for Age.

BOSTON. April 13.-Edward p.
Weaver. formerly of Bangor, Me-,
claimed the distinction today Of being
the Oldest officer yet graduated from
the free government navigation schools
conducted by the United States Ship
ping Board recruiting service He is
sixty-nine years old.
Mr.. Weaver. who had many years
experience as a seaman. decided while
It New Orleans, some weeks ago, to
enter one of the schools and train for
deck officer for the merchant marine
He passed the rigid physical test with
out difficulty and today completed his
course
Evening star., 1918-04-14

cording to word received here by the
family today.
Young Howell a first lieutenant In tho
aviation section Of the Signal Corps went
to France with American forces last
with a French balloon corps he and .
French lieutenant persisted in making
observations above the German lines, al
though attacked by a German aviator
while they were in a balloon. A shot
finally brought the balloon down, but
Lieut. Howell and his companion escaped
by jumping.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
DOING EMERGENCY WORK.
Smith College Girls in France Un-
daunted by German Offensive.

NORTHAMPTON. Mass, April 13.-
Members of the Smith College relief
unit in France. driven out of Grecourt
by the German offensive. now are at
Beauvais where they are conducting an
emergency canteen, according to a
cablegram received at the college to-
day.
The dispatch says all of the party are
well. They are quartered in a girls
school. Many of the supplies needed
by the unit are being furnished by the
Red Cross. the cablegram says.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
QUAKER CITY MUST CURB VICE.
Navy Department Threatens Drastic
Action to Bring Relief.

PHILADELPHIA, April 13.-Unless vice
conditions are improved in Philadelphia
by the city. government the federal
authorities will take drastic action. This
is indicated in a statement issued today
by Lieut.. Col. Charles B. Hatch. repre-
senting the Navy Department, after a
conference with Mayor Smith.
The mayor. the statement said. assured
Col. Hatch that measures had already
been taken to meet the wishes of the
federal authorities in protecting sailors
and others in the military service station
ed In Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
BAND CONCERT.

Concert by the U. S. Soldiers
Home Band at the bandstand to-
morrow afternoon, beginning at
5:45 o'clock. John S. NJ. thinner
mann, director.
MY Country. IT'S of Thee"
March, THE Indomitable". Fulton
Overture, King Mydas."
Eilenberg
Suite. IAN Episode in Birdland."
Bendix
(a) THE Magpie and the Par
rot" (b) The Gentle Dove"
(c) THE Merry Lark" (d) The
Broken-hearted Sparrow"
Excerpts from "Katinka". .Friml
Fox trot. "In Old Brazir'. Spencer
Waits suite. Lure Of the Night"
Braham
Intermezzo. "on Desert Sands"
Allen
Finale. Gypsy Life. .Trinkhaue
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1918-04-14
Coal Operators Coming Here.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. April IA COM
mittee representing the coal operators
will leave Sunday for Washington, where
they will hold a conference with Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield Tuesday regarding
the wage situation in Alabama, according
to an announcement made this afternoon.
1t Is understood that wage increases are
contemplated.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
MR.. GERRYS VOTE WANTED.
Rhode Island Legislature Requests
Him to Support Woman Suffrage.

Resolutions requesting that Senator
Gerry Of Rhode Island vote for woman
suffrage were unanimously adopted by
the legislature of that state yesterday,
according to information received here
Copies of the resolutions. it was stated,
were forwarded to Senator Gerry and
to President Wilson and Vice President
Marshall.
Senator Colt, republican. the other
senator from Rhode Island, has already
been listed as supporter OF the equal
suffrage amendment
Evening star., 1918-04-14
WANT NEW ENGLAND OPINION
ON PROPOSED LOBSTER BILL

half the year. It varies at different
coast points. but in most cases begins
in Juno or July and continues to No
vember. December or January.
The fisheries commission has advised
the House committee that Holsters can
be caught in water as deep as 250
fathoms. at least. although most Of the
Holsters caught on the United States
and Canadian coasts come from water
less than 100 fathoms deep.
Evening star., 1918-04-14

vides that no contract of more than
$4,000 shall be let except to the low
est responsible bidder.
The bill is made specifically to in
clude navy yards in it's provisions, as
we'll as arsenals and munition and
other war supplies plants.
Provision for Furnishings"
The committee wrote into the bill a
provision that the furnishings in no
private dwelling shall be acquired ex-
cept by contract. nor shall any dwelling.
college building. museum, library build
ing. or state and municipal building
under provisions of this act. except by
contract. unless necessity therefor shall
be determined by a judge OF the cir
cult or district court of the United
States exercising jurisdiction in the
locality The determination of the
judge shall be final.
The committee struck out the provision
which directs the improvement of the
Maltby building for living purposes. Other
buildings owned by the government now
unoccupied as dwellings may be fitted up
and used for the purpose of housing the
government employees.
In the case of the Maltby building it
was estimated it would take about S125.-
600 to fit it up for living purposes, il
having always been used for offices, and
that it could house only about 200 per-
sons when fitted up.
Evening star., 1918-04-14
MINORS FREEDOM
SHOCKS kEAT|NG
Representative Says Boys and
Girls Run Too Loosely
in District.
SEES AID IN W0MEN's VOTE

Representative Keating. speaking on
American Standards" before members
Of the Consumers League of the Dis
trict of Columbia at its annual meet
ing at the Y. NJ. c. A. assembly hall
last night, declared that he was
shocked at the manner in which boys
and girls are allowed to run loosely
about Washington"
For the most part he confined his re-
marks to the proposed minimum wage
bill. and it was while talking on this
point that he gave his opinion on the
manner in which the young are allowed
which. he said, should be left to older
persons.
Keep Standard Up, He Says.
THE American standard the country
wants." he said, 'fs one worthy of de-
mocracy. Though the men fighting
overseas are doing SO for political
freedom, yet this freedom is hollow
without industrial freedom as well. I
want to see the boys come back and
ind the standards no lower than when
they left u.s."
He declared that an awakened public
sentiment is needed to push legislation to
safeguard the women and the children.
Woman suffrage, he asserted, is the rem
edy. Women. in the opinion of the rep
resentative, must appeal for government
they do not organize into labor bodies as
IN hn mo
Evening star., 1918-04-14
Miss Kelley Adds Objection.

Miss Florence Kelley of New York, Sec
retary of the National Consumers
League. speaking on "The Shopping Pub
lie and the Young Wage Earners." op-
posed the employment of young girls as
telegraph messengers and of young
women as elevator, subway and trolley
workers. Referring to young girls being
employed as messenger girls, she char
acterized the work as "odious' and de-
moralizing.
I'VE give all the power to the public
service commission, which does not
serve" she said.
She asked the cooperation of the
members toward doing everything pos
sibie against the misuse of young wom-
en- and girls of the country by the pub
lie service commission.
Miss Mary O'Sullivan Of the District
repeated her talk on How 1 Lived on
Seven Dollars a Week." her experience
being gained in the capital. Associate
Justice Siddons presided.
At the business meeting the following
officers were elected: President. Mrs.
Laurence Todd; vice presidents, Mrs.
Robert Sold. Mrs. v. Everett Macy,
Mrs Walter S. Unord; treasurer, Mrs.
Henry S. Graves; recording secretary.
the executive committee, Miss Edith ].
Goods. Mrs. Newton D. Baker, DR..
Charles p. Neill. A. J. McKelway, DR..
Frank O'Hara, Mrs. Laura C. Williams.
Evening star., 1918-04-14

When consideration of the overman
bill permitting the President to CO.
ordinate and consolidate the various
government departments and bureaus
comes up for consideration in the
Senate again, probably this week. Sem
ator Hoke Smith Of Georgia, will be
one of the most ardent advocates OF
amending it so that 1t will apply only
to the Army and Navy and shipping
board Discussing the measure he said:
There should be the most complete
cooperation between the President and
Congress. 1t is desirable at all times;
it is absolutely necessary to fight the
war
"The President made a great speech
in Baltimore. Nothing is in sight but
a fight to the finish, and every re-
source of our country must be organ
lied to win the war, and every effort,
every act. and every thought should be
to accomplish that result"
Evening star., 1918-04-14
FOR LIMITING OVERMAN BILL
TO ARMY. NAVY AND SHIPPING

must be saved from doubt and uncer-
tainty. It is essential to the successful
conduct of the war, and by amendments
certainly they should be removed from
the effects of the bill"