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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
LEADS THE COUNTRY
SOLVING FOOD ISSUE
LiverpooPs Municipal Kitchens
ModeIs-SuppIy Boiling
Water to Homes.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
LIVEDPOOL, March 15.-Liverpool.
the second largest city in England, is
leading the whole country in solving
the food-shortage problem. 1t has
municipal Kitchens which are models
and work more efficiently than those
in any other part, of the kingdom. IT
an example by maintaining a municf-
pal participating plant and cooking
the potatoes for the bakers to mix with
their -four
householders with boiling water for
cooking and washing purposes and
thereby causing a great saving in fuel.
Liverpoors city fathers are very
proud of their efforts to make their
people the most comfortable in the
country in these days of enforced econ
omy. With display of pride they
gladly show visitors these new ways of
meeting the food shortage. They take
them along the streets. where butchers
sign on the meat market reads: why
buy meat from the butcher when you
can get it ready cooked at the food
depot?" The argument is unansWera-
BILE, particularly when there is no meat
to buy at the butchers.
There are eleven municipal cook
shops where family of four might
buy and take away a satisfying din
ner for % cents. SteWed steaks, po-
tatoes and buildings are the principal
articles.
An enterprising city engineer has set
up an engine which runs a machine
that peels tons of potatoes in few
minutes. and also supplies steam to
great cauldrons in which the potatoes
are cooked. This enterprise supplies
a clean and wholesome flour to the
bakers. which is mixed with wheat
flour and helps to produce delicious
Nread.
At the food depots a person can buy
for a cent great bucket of boiling
water and the population is being en-
couraged to come for this boiling water
in order to save coal Instead of buying
coal to boil a kettle for cocoa or tea
people can get as much water as they
want for a cent.
Those responsible for Liverpoofs en-
! terprise declare that results have al
ready shown that Il workmanS family
can live much better and more eco
nomically by buying its meals at the
food depots than by doing its own
cooking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
SCOTCHMAN AND A BOMB
STOPS HEAVY GUNFIRE
Wins Victoria Cross for Capturing
SO Germans and Their Deadly Ma
chine Gun and Trench Mortar.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON March 1S.-How Sergt.
William Grimbaldeston of the Kings
Own Scottish Borderers, though armed
only with one bomb, captured thirty
six Germans with six machine guns
and trench mortar. and thereby won
the Victroia cross. is thus told in an
offiScial narrative:
During the course of an attack,
Sergt Grimbaldeston noticed that the
advance of the battalion on his left
was being checked by heavy machine
gun fire from a large blockhouse. He
at once collected four rifle grenadiers
and instructed them to open as rapid q
fire as possible on the blockhouse. thus
assisting one of our trench mortar bat
teries. which was also concentrating
OH the same target
The ground between him and the
blockhouse was open and entirely de-
void of cover. In spite of this he
made his way across it in series Of
rushes, followed closely by his small
band of riflemen.
Under a hail of bullets from the
enemy machine guns and armed wirS
only one hand grenade, he worked his
way round to the entrance at the rear
of the blockhouse. With this solitary
weapon he suddenly appeared in the
m1QSt OIL the eHemy, anu
each gun team in turn to lay down its
arms.
so it happened that thirty-six Ger
mans. with their six machine guns
and a trench mortar, surrendered to
oneaRritish soldier and a bomb. BY his
bravery and initiative he was thus re-
sponsible for the capture of this
stronghold with it's defenders. and It
the same time prevented what threat
ened to become critical situations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
BUMPER BRITISH FRUIT CROP.
Chief Difficulty Will Be Provision
of Baskets for Handling.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
LONDON. March ia bumper fruit
crop. probably exceeding even the rec
ord crop of last year. is indicated in the
agricultural forecasts. The chief diff
Guilty this year. as last. will be the pro-
vision of the five million baskets re-
quired to handle the crop. Before the
war practically all fruit baskets were
imported. but under the spur of neces-
sity the old English basket-weaving
industry has been revived to consid-
cradle extent.
The government is now encouraging
the opening of basket-making centers
as village industries in all the willow
growing districts. and in some places
German prisoner labor is being extern
sively employed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
TO GIVE IT'S VERSION OF WAR.
German General Staff to Publish
Enormous Official Edition.
Correspondence of The Sunday Star
and the Chicago Daily NewsD

STOCKHOLM. Sweden, April 9.-The
German general staff. it is learned
here, will publish an enormous edition
of the first official history of the war
1t will be in the shape of a series of
small volumes, each devoted to a phase
of the war or special battle. Thirty
three have already been planned. The
first three will be on Liege and Namur,
the Mazurian lakes and LODI. A
Swedish translation will be published
here simultaneously.
Each volume will be written by a
general who either personally took
part in the battle described or is espe-
cfally acquainted with the subject. The
general staff will lend the official rec
ords for the purpose. The STATS pref
ace 10 the first volume explains that
this Is only preliminary history pre-
ceding an elaborate military scientific
work that cannot even be begun for a
few years and Will not be finished I'M
til several years after the end of the
war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
See Sign From Heaven
in Finding Royal Robe

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
: LONDON, March 1S-The cOrO-
hemia, which long ago mysteri-
ously disappeared, has just been
discovered In a little shop owned
by nm old woman who has been
guarding and treasuring 1T de-
vOtedly. snys n Central News dis
patch from Prague.
The temperance of the man.
tie has caused some excitement
and the superstitiOus see in 1t a
sign from heaven that In the
near future this emblem OF an
Client sovereignty will once again
be required for its original use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
WAR SHIFTS POPULATIONS
OF MANY GERMAN CITIES
Five Principal Centers of Munition
Industries Among Nine Largest
Points in Germany.
Correspondence Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. March 15.-War has
produced some remarkable changes in
the population and relative Importance
of big German cities. The five principal
centers of the munition Industries have
suddenly mounted to places among the
nine largest cities in Germany. Before
the war Munich was the third largest
city in Germany. ranking Immediately
after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich has
now dropped into seventh place, and
Bocbum lin Westphalian Prussia, has
risen to third place.
Bochum is the seat of great coal,
iron and steel industries. In 1900 it
had a scant $4,000 inhabitants; now it
boasts of more than 764 900.
Dresden and Breslau. which were
formerly the fourth and fifth cities in
Germany. have fallen we'll behind bort
mund and Essen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
NEWS FROM ACROSS THE SEAS FOR SUNDAY STAR READEl
Serve Gun in Air Raid
in Theatrical Costumes

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 10.-IsurinS
one of the recent air raitls the
largest nnti-aircraft gun In the
London district was worked by
die-nI plate armor, n brcech-
worker clad in chain mail and n
sightsetter attlred In silk tights
and n velvet coat.
The reason for this motley Mt
tire was that the alarm came
while the gum crew were taking
part in some amateur theatre
calls in their barracks. md they
rushed off the stage in their me-
dieval attire. straight to their
duties on the gun PLATFORM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Lady Gertrude Crawford Ranks High
Jurisprudence Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 12.-Lady Gertrude
Crawford. who has been appointed di-
rector of the womans branch of the
air service. is one of a very few women
classed master turner's. She was one
of the first women in England to enter
a munition factory and has ever since
done great technical and organizing
work that naturally led to her new ap-
sands of woman mechanics will come
under her direction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Business Improving in Jerusalem.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 1S.-Sergt. Frank
Smith of the Royal Engineers, the first
British postmaster of Jerusalem, writ
ing to a friend here. says: There are
10000 Inhabitants left in Jerusalem and
they were all glad to see US. The pow
erty Is appalling, but business is pick.
Ing up now and the post Office is doing
3 thriving business"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Present Chief cent=rs.

An official tabulation of the chief
population centers of Germany gives
them in the following order:
Berlin, 1885, 24: Hamburg. LOLA, 654
Bochum, 764,744: Leipzig, 763,6S9; Co
logne, ST. .22O: Duisburg, $500;
Munich, 6OS,124: Dortmund. SOS 055
Essen. So, 507: Dresden, 531 697; Bres-
lau 514.947; Dusseldorf. 449. CAB: Reck-
linghausen. 444, 160: Frankfort, 414.57S;
Konigshutte. 413.7S6: Hanover. 407 500;
Kiel. 37O.35s: Chemnitz, 35s.7S3: Nu-
remburg, 357. 141; Stuttgart. 34O.554: Ell
oerfeld. 339, 400. and Bremen. 299.526.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Germans Plan fo- Inventions.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
COPENHAGEN. March IA Ger
man institute of inventions has been
founded at Giessen. 1t is intended ito
foster German creative technical work
by the selection and promotion Of per-
sons endowed with inventive talent"
Prizes are to be offered for the solu-
ton of important problems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21

There was only one thing which could
possibly prevent it and that was an iron
nerve in the pilots box. He coolly
started to coast westward. On he came
until his signal lights showed clearly to
the watchers in the aerodrome- 1t was
like the flight of phantom machine
with its soundless engine. The pilot
got near the aerodrome and then hest
tated. He was lost and was coming
down rapidly. He signaled wildly and
a score of answering lights flashed
back. He swerved and came swooping
down into the aerodrome, sawed by a
few yards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
DART|NG FROM SKIES
THRILLS THE A|RMAN
His Machine Gunfire on the
Enemy Always Starts a Mad
Rush for Shelter.
BAYLIES FEARLESS Filler
BY PAUL AYRES ROCKWELL.
Correspondence of The Sunday Star
and the Chicago Daily Newa.D

WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, April
afternoon in a small town near the
firing line Sergt. Frank Baylies OF
New Bedford. Mass, a twenty-two-
year-old aviator flying with Frances
most famous chasing squadron. the
"Stork" group. of which the immortal
Capt. Guynemer, Lieut.. D'Orme, Capt.
Heurteaux, who is now in America,
members. Baylies was flying in an
other district when the present Of
fensive battle started His group was
Immediately ordered to the scene of
activity and an hour later he was en-
route via the air to the aviation field
near Montdidier.
"Since then we have been making
three or four sorties daily" Bayltes
told me. my first several days of fight
ing We're extremely interesting, more
SO than others 1 have seen. We were
surprised at the small number of Ger
work consisted principally of attack
ing enemy troops. supply conveys and
so on with machine guns. I am con-
WINGED that the allied aviators pre-
vented the Germans from making a
far more serious advance 1t is a won
derful sensation to dart down from
the skies to within sixty or eighty
feet of the ground and open fire with
the machine gun upon the Teutons.
Invariably our attacks cause a panic
even among the stoutest-hearted
troops. who generally start a mad rush
for shelter Where conveys are, at
tackled the horses are shot down and
the roads are blocked for hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Crime in England Takes Turn.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 15.-Crime in Eng
land is now showing an upward tens
dency, after remarkable and con-
tinued fall since the beginning of the
war. The annual report of the British
constabulary attributes this to restric-
ton Of street lighting and shortage OF
police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
FORECAST FORFOOD
IN GERMANY GLOOMY
No Chance for Potato Ration
Being Increased-WhoIes
Complaints in Papers.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. March Ca gloomy
view of the food situation In Germany
was outlined by DIR. Won Bretterich,
the Bavarian minister of the interior.
In forecast which has appeared in
the Berlin newspapers The public was
told that mot only Is there no chance
Of the potato ration being increased.
but we must think ourselves lucky if
it is maintained at it's present level"
The Bavarian minister said he hoped
the bread ration might not have to be
reduced and that the meat ration may
be kept at its present height, but
there was little confidence in the tone
of this assertion.
Special preparations of cereals, on
which many hopes were based a few
weeks ago, were not yet on the mar
ket in any considerable quantities. and
the public must wait for a daily ration
of half a teacupful.
Wholesale complaints of the quality
of food being supplied at the public
kitchens throughout Germany appear
in the. newspapers. The director of
public kitchens. in reply to these at
tacks. issued the following statement:
Quality of Materials Poorer.
With the continuance of the war,
the quality of the materials we receive
becomes ever poorer and the choice
more limited. We are compelled to
take what is offered us or go without.
Complaints of defective quality are
simply ignored, and if we insist upon
receiving a regular supply We run the
rio Of of
fat quota allotted to US grows ever
smaller. spices are now scarcely OBJ
tainahle and the substitute spices have
a bad flavor. The vegetable supply is
now limited to kohlrabi and turnips."
A pessimistic article on the potato
situation by member of the Prussian
house of deputies says that the acreage
under potatoes has decreased by one
fifth, as compared with the peace
time figure. Not only is the acreage
less" he says, but the demand is
greater. and a crop double that of
peace time would not fully suffice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Searchlight Fearful for Pilot.

The deluge continued and the shrap-
4el flashed in ever-increasing numbers.
German searchlights went peering
Through the clouds, and we learned
Eater that one ray rested squarely on a
British plane. 1t was a heart-breaking
moment for the pilot and observer.
Their chances were small. but the light
moved on and upward and the plane
was again developed in darkness.
All the planes but one We're across
the line at last. The one machine came
wheeling back. flashing its personal
signal as il felt its way toward home.
and the plane circled slowly down and
came bobhing across the field. Engine
trouble had forced return. but there
had been no accident.
1t neared the hour for the other
planes to be coming back. Finally, a
set of lights appeared and swung swift
". toward the west. Dash, dot. dash,
DASH went the code.
IT'S Brown and Little" sighed the
commander, and he was off post haste
coward the landing place. The machine
c!rcled and perched.
THAT you. Brown" the commander
demanded. anxiously. Everything all
right"
He didn't ask whether they had
reached their objective or whether they
had dropped their bombs. Were his
boys all right?
Brown and Little are all right, sir,
came the reply.
Ten times more the same thing hap
pened, the planes sometimes arriving
In groups. One pilot and his observer
were still out. We waited a long time
and they did not appear. The COM
Snander took himself off to be alone and
the other officers whispered quietly
among themselves. There was tragedy
in the air. Two of the finest men in the
Service were still unaccounted for.
Meantime this pilot and observer were
struggling to win a hundred-to-one
chance against them with death as the
penalty for failure. Out over the Ger
man lines their engine went dead while
they We're at a height of. perhaps, 1000
feet. They dropped a thousand feet and
then the pilot got his engine working
again spasmodicaily. UP they crawled
to their former altitude with their nose
toward home. and then the engine gave
! G. final gasp and died.
All the probabilities were that they
would crash and be smashed to pieces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
TRENCH fever BATTLING
MEDICAL MEN IN LONDON
Organism Which Causes It Yet I'm
discovered and No Drug Found
for Successful Treatment.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
LONDON. March 1G.-Trench fever
tnd shell shock are the two most diff
ficult problems that this war has pre-
sented to medical science. according to
report issued by a British-A American
medical commission which recently has
been sitting here.
Cases of trench fever were reported
from France as early as 1913. and the
disease has been continually studied
ever since. but the organism which
causes it has not been discovered, nor
has any drug been found for its sue
cesSful treatment. The American Army
doctors believe that they have definite
ly established that trench fever is COM
municated by a body-louse. a fact
which has been repeatedly suspected
by the British investigators also.
Disease Growing More Prevalent.
The fact that the disease is growing
more prevalent and is spreading from
noted In the report The original cases
were all among troops in the trenches,
but the disease is now prevalent on
various lines of communication and at
the bases. Even hospital orderlies and
Eurses are occasional victims.
The actual crux of the discussion
seems to be whether trench fever is
a disease of man transmitted by the
louise. or some disease among lice
themselves which is transmissible to
men. If the latter. the cure would seem
to be the eradication of lice. gigantic
and almost hopeless task in war time.
If the former, the dissemination of the
disease comes down to a control of the
human carriers, and probably an easier
task The commission recommends
energetic action in the direction of
greater personal cleanliness, which will
also contribute greatly to the general
comfort and health of the troops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Guns Mounted on Railway Cars.

German railway trains now carry
mounted on top of almost every car
light machine guns. each manned by
two men. as a protection against at
lacks by allied aviators. Five days
after our arrival there we were forced
to leave Montdidier. The order to
evacuate the field via the air came at
noon. Two hours later an English bat
terry was in action on the field.
AT O'Clock the Teutons arrived. One
pilot. whose machine was out of fix
air just as the Huns approached and
was followed in his somewhat hurried
flight by a vain shower of bullets.
Il was shot down by boche machine
eunners near Mesnil-St. Georges early
on the afternoon of March %. / was
attacking the enemy from low alti-
tude when bullets put my motor out
of commission. 1t was impossible to
plane to safety. and I considered my
self already breaking rocks or sweep
ing the streets of Berlin. My ma
chine came to earth between the lines
not more than twenty meters (sixty-
five feet from the Germans, who had
no trenches. but held a sort of zigzag
line behind trees, walls and other shell
tiers.
Ran for Safety in Rain of Bullets.
Seeing me come down with my pro.
peller stopped, they rushed forward to
await me, but. luckily. the French were
only sixty meters (19J feet away. and,
opening fire, killed one of my would
ne captors and caused the others to
drop for cover. | sprang from the ma
chine before it had stopped and ran
for dear life for the French lines with
bullets busting around me. 1 was re-
ceived with cheers by the Frenchmen,
VINO belonged to a chasseur battalion.
/ remained with them until night time
and witnessed an inspiring attack
which drove the Huns back .two kilo-
meters G.2 miles,"
Young Baylies has been in the serv-
ice in France for two years. For
time he drove an ambulance car on
the Macedonian front, where he won
the French war cross with a star for
allantry. He entered the Aviation
Corps last June. going to the front
in October. Near Verdun he shot down
in flames an enemy biplane machine.
In the Champagne region he destroyed
a second German aeroplane. which was
placed to his official count. Recently
he shot down another. but it was too
far within the enemy lines for official
verifica ton. He has just received his
third citation in French army orders
and has been proposed for an adJu-
fancy.
Lieut. Forck. the French lace OF
aces" with thirty-three official VIC
tories to his credit. also flies in the
Stork group, which within the last
four weeks has destroyed thirty-fve
enemy airplanes.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-22

must be close to thirty-three years of
age, yet to look at him in action one
would never suspect that the Califor-
nian has seen nearly ten years of serv-
ice in the major leagues.
He has not been troublesome at the
bat thus far In the series, but he is all
over his side of the field, and the base
runners never take more than a pass
ing chance with his arm.
Apparently Chase has forsaken his
desire to create trouble for the man.
agement or ownership, too. Hal seems
to be one of the most satisfied mem
bers of the Reds, and he works like
Trojan for Matty. Like a good many
other star pastimers, Hal possessed
the disposition of a prima donna when
in the American league, but his serv-
ice In the Federal and since with Gin
cinnati has wrought a big change in
the clever first baseman.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-22
Hal Chase Has Lost None
of His Skill Around Bag;
BaSerunnerS Know Danger

Although much farther advanced in
years than when he first broke In with
the Yankees, Hal Chase is the same
graceful performer for the Reds that
used to hold American league fans
spellbound by his work at first base
for the Gotham entry in Ban Johnson's
circuit.
Nothing seems to be too hard for
Hal to tackle, and the same ease char
acterizes every movement. Chase