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Evening star., 1918-11-28
U. S. SOL DER ARGUES AS
FRENCHMEN OFFER AID
Lineual Dfmculties Prevent His
Making Any Headway Until
7. N. c. A. Man Appears.

Correspondents Of the Associated Press.
one Of the big maps Of Paris that
hang in all the subway stations q
Y. NJ. c. A. man recently found an
American soldier gesticulating mad1y
in an unavailing argument with one
ticket-taker and three beaming gend-
armes. All of them were waving at
him in the most friendly fashion to-
ward one Of the entrances. Voila,
monsieur, VOLTA" they were saying
earnestly and one of the gendarmes,
in an excess Of kindness, put his hand
on the private's shoulder and tried to
propel him in the proper direction.
But / tell you don't want to go, ,"
he was saying desperately. Then he
saw the Y. NJ. C. A. man and his face
cleared.
DO you speak French" he asked.
Then for goodness sake don't let
them send me back to the port OF
Versailles tonight. I just came from
there"
where do you want to go?" asked
the Y. NJ. c. A. man.
Nowhere except home to bed and
they won't let me- said the Ameri-
can soldier. They saw me looking
that wanted to go somewhere and
I did not know how. They would
have sent me. too. if you hadn't come
The Y. NJ. c. A. man said something
to the gendarmes and they melted
away with many polite an. outs,
beaming upon the American soldier
to the last.
He grinned after them.
They're sure wonderful folks. the
French" he said, "only they're some
times too darn polite"
Evening star., 1918-11-28
TWO MILLION TREATED
IN 81 MONTHS OF WAR
Hospitals in Great Britain and Ire
land Lose Less Than q Dozen
by Transportation Mishaps.

NEW YORK, November 2s.-Hos-
pitals in Great Britain and Ireland
have treated 1881 .349 British and In
dian troops and German prisoners
wounded in the various theaters of
war. restoring many thousands to
health and losing less than a dozen
by accidents in transportation, the
British bureau of information has
announced here in a review Of the
United Kingdoms medical. surgical
and nursing work during more than
fifty-one months Of war.
Attending to the comfort Of the
wounded from the moment they be-
came casualties" the statement said.
the British medical service rose bril-.
liantly" to a tremendous task and
brought millions of men into Eng
land by hospital ships and ambu-
lance trains with the least possible
delay and suffering" Among the
Evening star., 1918-11-28
RED INDIAN PRINCESS
ON MISSION IN EUROPE
Attractive Maiden of American
Tribal Family Will Sing for Sol
4 diers of Her Race.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 19-The Prin-
cess Tsianina- a real American Red
Indian princess. has arrived in Lon
don and all the little boys in the
neighbrohood of her hotel are tre-
mendously excited. They form an
3we-grtpped retinue for her whenever
she takes walk, following at a re-
Spectful distance with worshipful
eyes They have found out that she
Is the daughter of Cherokee mother
and that her father is . member of
the Muskogee tribe. Being more ia
Hliliar. as are their American cousins,
with the wild west stories than with
their Biographies. their imaginations
are fred by the princess buffalo robe,
her moccasins of soft cherry-colored
skin. her necklace of buffalo bone,
hich was presented to her by In
dams as a token of affection. and her
6let Of Indian beadwork. Far from
1esenting this youthful homage. the
Erincess seems to enjoy 1t thoroughly.
Her mission in Europe is to sing
Indian songs to Indian troops, Of
whom there are about 20. 200 in France,
ranging from privates to majors
Brought up by white people and the
HosseSsor of a fine voice, which has
Deen well trained, Princess Tsianina
p regarded by the British press as an
Interesting product of twentieth CEN
bury America
Ths princess deprecates wild west
Shows and wild west movies. which
S ~ ha@e Gtvan EuropsaAs an
Evening star., 1918-11-28
HANG|NG Of BAHlSn
At trent REVEALED
=
Italian Patriot Captured Afte'
Desperate Fighting, Was Sub
= sequently Executed.
CableEfHm to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1913.

CableErzm to TIE Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1913.
BoLZANO. Italy. November 23.-.
Before leaving Trent we learned the
fate Of Caesare Battisti, the deputy
from Trent to the Austrian reichstag
at the time the war began with Italy.
Battisti, who was an ardent patriot,
Joined the italian Alpini as bat
talon commander. In the course OF
a fierce battle on Mount Cerne, Bat
tisti, with 1,e0e, men. on July 10. 1916.
while under 4 heavy artillery fire.
fought 5000 Anstrians. When the
Italian force had been reduced to
100 men the Austrians rushed the
mountain and took Battisti prisoner
with the few remaining officers.
Hanged in Castle Courtyard.
In Trent, which was his home,
Battisti, after being confined few
days. was hanged in the castle court
yar1- At night the body was re-
buried in an unmarked grave. An
italian happened to be near and heard
an Austrian major giving directions
for the removal Of the body. This
major was captured in the advance
Of the Italians and was pointed out
by the man who was near him when
Battisti was buried. When threatened
with immediate death the major told an
Austrian military policeman who also
was captured to indicate the place Of
burial.
The body was found and recogniz-
ed. In the castle court, wnere the
martyr was temporarily buried, Al
pini had come and recognized worn
leather card case belonging to Bat
tisti. With the deputy in prison were
few officers badly wounded. One
of them after having been transport
ed to Innsbruck and thence to the
interior OF Austria, managed to
escape with the connivance OF friends.
He had returned to Trent and walk
ed with me below the castle walls
that Battisti had requested him if he
ever escaped to carry q message to his
family.
Battisti's last words were Long
live Italy! Long hive Italian Trent"'
Battisti devoted his life to maintain
part of Austria, while the Austrians
combated the patriotism with colonial
tion.
Bolzano is an example Of this policy.
Here the signs on the schools and
many of the people are German. Ita1-
idu SyHiPdIHiASiS "SAo SohSh o"oy
when the army retreated. These are
now returning by train or wagon or
afoot. Each Italian lorry returning
has a woman on the front seat and
soldiers and civilians covered with
dust on the other seats. Occasional
ly one sees an Austrian ambulance,
which seems queerly out of place
among italian troops. In shops here
where German is spoken one must
make purchases with Austrian kron-
en- instead of the Italian lira. Each is
worth about 20 cents.
Evening star., 1918-11-28
YANK SPIRIT OF HUMOR
DESPITE TRAVAIL OF WAR
Sergt. Brandenburg Sends Letter
From France Which at First
1 Causes Foreboding.

The Yankee spirit in the midst of
the carnage and travails of war is
eXsnplif1ed in a letter written two
weeks before the signing of the ar
mistice to Edwin c. Brandenburg,
former president of the Board of
Trade. by his son, Sergt. Milton F.
Brandenburg, who has been in France
a year. Dark forebodings flashed
through the mind of the father as he
read through the epistle until he came
te ia last sentence. The letter reads:
I dislike very much to have to write
this letter to you, but the time has
come when 1 must ask your advice on
q matter of great Importance to me-
the complication of which has caused
me nights of restlessness and many
day of anxiety.
You will understand when I tell
you that many a happy home has been
wrecked and in fact even human lives
upset by similar troubles, and that is
why I haven't written you about 1t
before, but now 1 feel that you should
know at once, as it means such a
great deal to me.
Even though 1 am in France, 1 dare
not communicate the state of my mind
10 any of my friends here, so go to
you. I know / am asking a good deal
Of you. but your loyalty more than
warrants il and I am going to ask
sou and expect you to tell me from
deep down in your big heart if you
think that JEFF will ever be as tall as
Mutt!'
Evening star., 1918-11-28
THE EVENING STAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER g. 1918

wounded treated in the British Isles,
it was said, were 41.S19 German Of
ficers and men who were attended
with care. sin striking contrast to
the treatment meted out to allied
wounded prisoners in German hands" ;"
wounded British Comprising only
part of the total casualties of this
class) treated in the United Kingdom
since August, 1914. are summarized
as follows: From France. los,
officers, 2,04s,O58 Of other ranks;
from the Mediterranean. S,1H officers.
1874 men, and from the Persian gulf,
1,214 officers. 1881 men. Native In
dian wounded brought to England
numbered 36S officers and 1882 men
Evening star., 1918-11-28
DAVID EWING RESIGNS.
Quits Shipping Board for New York
Company Post.

David l.. Ewing. assistant director
of operations for the United States
Shipping Board, has announced his res
ignation from that body. Mr.. Ewing re-
signed to accept the vice presidency of
the France and Canada Steamship Cor
poration Of New York.
Mr.. Ewing is the oldest man in
point of service in the shipping board.
He united with the organization sew
enteen months ago. He is from st.
Louis and was for some years gen.
eral freight agent for the St. Louis
and San Francisco Railway Company.
Evening star., 1918-11-28

Aronen and five others wefe convict
ed on the same sort. or even weaker,
testimony.
After careful examination Of the
rest of the cases, where sentences OF
Evening star., 1918-11-28

from twelve to three years at hard
labor were imposed, there is q strong
impression here that the recent re,
gime in Finland tried to rid the
country Of the socialist party.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
Suffs Against Law
 To ''Force" Wilson

Washington, Aug, 1 - Miss Alice Paul, head of the National Woman's Suffrage party. has summoned her clan to meet in Lafayette Square on Aug, 6, to make demonstration against President Wilson for not forcing Congress to adopt the Woman Suffrage resolution for an amendment to the Constitution, as he did the wire control measure, Miss Paul has served notice that she will held her meeting regardless of what the District of Columbia authorities say or do about it:
 There is possibility that the po- lice may interfere, and we may be arrested" said Miss Paul in a letter inviting Suffragists to take part in the demonstration. We have been hold ing outdoor meetings in Washington ever siace we began work here in 1918, bat few months ago the police department refused te give us per- mits for such meetings except at two places which are most uadersirable for the purpose, although other out door meetings, such as Liberty Loan
 metings and Salvation Army meet Aings, are still allowed"
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
MADOO SAYS
 STRIKES MUST END

Washington, July 31-Railroad em- ployes were told today by Director General McAdoo, in announcing de- tails of the wage increase for more than 500,000 shop men, that the na- ton expected new energy from the workers in return for pay increases and improvements in employment conditions, and that strikes and other labor disturbances must be eliminated during the war.
 Under the new wage order exper- fenced shop men are to receive a minimum of 6S cents an hour car men and second class electrical workers 5S cents an hour, with rates ranging from AS 1-2 to 54 1-2 cents for car men and second class electri- cal workers with less than four years experience, the amount depending or their length of service in the par ticular craft. Over time after eight hours Is to be paid for at 1 1-2 time and pay advances are effective as o1 Jan 1.
 Piece workers are to receive no less than the minimum allowed hourly workers. Apprentices pay ii to range from 25 to 32 1-2 cents ar hour, and helpers will get AS cent' an hour.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
STATE SHIPPERS
 ARGUE TROLLEY
 FREIGHT TARIFF s

Hartford, Aug. 1.-Arguments on the petition of the Connecticut Co. to increase its freight rates throughout the state were concluded yesterday before the Public Utilities Commis- sion. Several other Connecticut ship pers, for the most part wholesale gro cers were heard. Counsel for P. Berry & Sons of this city, said that if the proposed rates were adopted, his company would be forced to use mo- tor trucks for transportation purposes. R. W. Miller, representing the Bridgeprt Chamber of Conn, cree said that all shippers in the state recog- nized the necessity of an increase in the company's tariffs, but that the rates which the company proposes are unreasonably high and would make transportation on the company's lines prohibitive.
 J. s. Berry, W. E. Jones and E. s. Curtis presented figures for the com pany to show that, although the av- craze increase throughout the state would be from 100 to 150 per cent, the company needed the increase as proposed in order to realize any profits.
 Other shippers to be represented at the hearing were the Columbia Graph ophone Co. and the Crane Go. of Bridgeport, and Loomis & Wilson and Goldschmidt & Co. of Hartford.
 The commission directed both sides to file briefs on or before August IA, after which a decision will be made.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
GERMAN CORN
 CROP IS FAILURE

New York, Aug. 1.-The yield of the German corn crop has been reduced and is barely sufficient for the feeding of the population, according to a statement made by Privy Councillor Kleinert of the Imperial German Blu reau before the Food Committee of the Retchstag, according to the Ber- lin Tageblatt of June 1 4.
 In reply to a demand by the bour- geoisie parties that the farmers be al- lotted larger quantity of a certain kind of corn (called in German Hin | terkorn, black corn) as this would | have a conciliatory effect in view o1 the many enforced deliveries and nu. merous compulsory measures, Klein | ert said that the so-called "1inter- korn'' could not be released In gen. eral for fodder purposes, for the req. son that unfavorable experiences haG been made in that respect in 1916 | Notwithstanding a, careful system o, control, extraordinarily great difficul ties were encountered and these diff
 culties would increase now that 'th' situation as a whole is more tense
 than in 1916 and that the total yielt
 of our crop has been further reduced
 and barely sufF1ces for the feeding O the population"
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02

brought a number of gifts besides congratulations and good wishes and the occasion was one affording an agreeable social time and productive of pleasant memories. Those making up the party were MT. and Mrs. Geo. Beers, Chester Hull, Mrs. Betsy Sher- wood, MT. and Mrs. A. J. Sherwood and daughter Hazel of Easton, Mrs. Philo PIatt and son Raymond of Newtown, and Mrs. Stephen Sanford, MT. and Mrs. w. c. Sanford, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Margaret Sanford, Miss Winnie Bradley and Mrs. Randolph Bradley, Mrs. George o. Sanford and son Earle, all of Bedding and Miss Elizabeth McPherson of Canada Mrs. Henry F. Rogers, who has boarded most of the permanent charges among the towns poor for a | long period of years, Is about to move 1 to Danbury and the selectmen have arranged for the transfer of her two present boarders to the care of Mrs. Henry Platt. One of the couple is | the colored man known as "BIind Joe" who has been supported by the town for the past S5 years. Mrs. Henry S. Osborn went from her home on the Ridge last week to Washington, D. C., to join her 1 daughter Eleanor, who has a position in one of the government depart ments. The entire trip was made by auto, H. Sanford Osborn being the driver. Mrs. Osborn's going was de- l layed by the difficulty in obtaining housing accommodations In Wash 1 ington.
 The first letter to come from Cor l poral Bart" Sanford since his de- parture for France about two months ago was received last week by his parents at Redding Center. Although undated it had apparently been writ ten upon his arrival and suffered a 1 delay of several weeks in transmits sion.
 The special road committee will meet with the selectmen next Mon- day afternoon to decide in what To- | calities there shall be expended the special appropriation of s1,000 voted last fall for permanent road improve ment.
 Mrs. Michael Connery with hel daughter and her son, Attorney Pau at Norfolk, Conn.
 Bert Reilly and family have moved
 into the former John Carroll house
 in the Ridge section.
 Miss Ida M. TarbelI, the vel l known writer and lecturer will speal
 on the Ridgewold Inn lawn at 4:3(
 next Sunday afternoon on 'Wom
 ans Work in the War"
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
CIVIL WAR SHE'LL EXPLODES AND
 INJURIES GIRL

Galveston, Tex, July 30.---When a "dud'' shell that was fired in the Union naval attack upon this town on January 1, 1883, came to life un- der a negro washerwoman's tub of boiling clothes a few rays ago it caused a detonation that caused hun dreds of persons of the city to be- lieve that an attack was being made by German submarines. For 8 time veritable panic reigned for blocks around the scene of the explosion.
 The only casualty by the explosion was that of Miss Alice Warren, the young daughter of MT. and Mrs. James D. Warren, in the back yard of whose home the family washing was being done. It was almost a miracle that the negro woman, who was only a few feet away from the spot, was not killed when the shot went off.
 Miss Warren suffered from powder burns and shock of the explosion. Her injuries were not dangerous.
 The sI-elI which exploded, as well as scores of others which have been heretofore carelessly handled by peo- pie of Galveston were brought up in dredges from the bottom of Galveston Bay, where they had lain for more than 50 years. They were believed to be harmless. The one which went off at the Warren home had been used for some time as a barn door prop. When the negro washerwoman
 needed something to hold up her
 wash boiler from the fire few days ago she selected the shell as a likely thing for the purpose. The clothes were boiling merrily when the heat
 from the fire exploded the charge o1 | powder in the shell.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
FATHER ROCKWELL
 NOW PROVINCIAL

New York, Aug. 1-Announcement was made at St. Francis Xavier's College, yesterday, of the appoint ment of the Rev. Joseph H. Rock well. S. J. formerly president of Brooklyn College, as Provincial of the Society of Jesus for the Maryland New York province. He succeeds the Very Rev. Anthony J. Maas, & J., who had been Provincial for six years.
 Father Rockwell was born in Boston on Nov. 1s, 1862, and was educated in the public schools there and at Boston College. He entered the so- ctety of Jesus in 1881. He was or dained to the priesthood by Cardinal Satoln in June, 1895, and has since held many important posts in the or der. For six years he was prefect of studies at Boston College and four years later became Assista nj Provincial of the Mary1and-New York province,
 He was transferred to St. Francis Xavier's College, where he was rector for two years, going thence to Brook lyn College.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
MAJOR E. W. LEE
 SERIOUSLY ILL

San Juan, Porto Rico, Aug. Ma jor Edward W. Lee, of the Medical Reserve Corps, who was one of the physicians called to attend William Mckinley when the President was shot at Buffalo, has been seriously i'll with typhoid fever. He is attached to the Base Hospital.
 Major Lee came to Porto Rico about three months ago with the first group of reserve officers assigned to the hos pital. Prior to entering the reserve corps he had been for years a sur geon in New York City. The fact that he is the only one of the officers coming from the North who has been attacked by typhoid is regarded as in- teresting from a medical viewpoint for the reason that he was the only one of these officers who did not take the typhoid vaccination. It has been popular theory among medical men
 that for persons over 45 or 50 years l of age vaccination was not necessary
 as the likelihood of their contracting | the disease was very slight. Major Lee is a man of perhaps 55 years.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
Tuesday, July 30

4 series of explosions and possibly the most destructive fire in the his tory of Bridgeport were averted last night and early this morning at the Remington Arms Company's plants when Captain Charles Woodcock and Sergeant R. L. Ward assisted by number of men of the Remington Guards removed the huge stock of ex- plosives which were stored in Maga- zine Number 406, which was but a short distance from an old nlaga- zine in which were more than 500 pounds of smokeless powder explod- ed through spontaneous combustion.
 The guards worked like demons to remove the explosives from the threatened magazines. Wrapped in blankets to protect themselves from the flying sparks and flames winch were licking the walls of Magazine 4O6, the men under the direction of Robert M. Davies worked in long lines passing the cans of explosive to one another until 1t was placed beyond the reach of the flames, heat, and sparks.
 Time and again woodcock and Ward ran the gauntlet with tins of powder, risking their lives on dozens of occasions, to save the huge prop erty of the Arms Company and per haps the lives of the hundreds who were working on the night shift. From 11:29 last night when the fire started with nine vivid flashes which tllumed the sky for miles around, un- til four o'clock this morning when the last traces of the fire were ex- tinguished the Remington Guards with the Remington Fire Department and the Bridgeport Fire Department fought the flames and prevented them spreading to the other magazines and the main plant.
 At the time of the frst blast the people at work in the plant went to their fire stations and such was the discipline maintained that everyone remained at the place assigned until they received other orders. There was no confusion or panic which speaks more than highly for the training which the employees have received.
 Men who were off duty in the fire department and he guards reported immediately for duty without being summoned, many of them travelling across the city from homes in vari- ous sections.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02

Some idea of the seriousness of the blow-up can beg adhered from the fact that trees 100 feet away were stripped of their foliage and many of the larger ones rooted up by the force of the blast, and the intensity of the heat. The reason there was no loud report sASh as usually fol lows an explosion was the place was filled with cmokeless powder which was loosely packed and which caught fire If the powder had been detonated the explosion would have rocked the entire city, and many people would have been injured.
 John Murphy, of the Army Intelli- gence Bureau, arrived at the plant from New Haven at about o'clock this morning and with Frank Cantil- Han, also of the Army Intelligence Bureau and attached to the Bridge port office, made a thorough examin- ation of the scene, accompanied by Jarvis Williams, Jr., works manager of the Union Metallic Cartridge plant, and R. N. Davies, chief of the Rem ington Guards, and Fire Chief Far mer, of the Remington Fire Depart ment. After a careful and thorough investigation the officials arrived at the decision that the explosion was entirely due to spontaneous combus- tion and to no other cause.
 When the fire was first discovered at 11:29 p. m., q still alarm was sent to the Bridgeport Fire Department and was responded to by two chem icals, one engine and one hose con- pany. The firef1ghters did excellent work in cutting off the spread of the | flames and earned the sincere con- gratulations of the Remington off cials.
 This was the first opportunity tc test the emergency plans which have been worked out and perfected by Superintendent of Charities Angus P Thorne, and in response to a genera alarm ambulances, doctors, hospital! and nurses were all on the alert for z possible catastrophe. The police re serves were rushed to the scene 1T patrol wagons and under the com mand of Sergeant Isaac Williams sue ceeded in handling the huge crowC which had collected in a most admir- able fashion. They also watched tht lsurrounding houses which were il danger of catching fire from thu myriad of sparks which flew from tn,
 burning magazine.
 The damage is slight considering tn Intensity of the fire, about s2,O0O.