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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
PAY HONOR TO MEMORY
OF CATHOLIC PRELATE
Cardinals Gibbons and Farley and
Archbishop Bonzano Attend Rev.
DR.. Prendergast's Funeral :

PHILADELPHIA, March with all
the traditional honors called for by
Catholic rubrics, the funeral of the Most
Rev. Or. Edmund F. Prendergast. Arch
bishop of Philadelphia. was held today
in the Cathedral of IS. Peter and Paul
Cardinals Gibbons and Farley. Arch
bishop BonZano. papal representative:
more than a score OF bishops, arch
bishops and monsignors, from many
parts of the country; hundreds OF
priests and members OF other religious
orders, together with thousands of lay
church members, assembled to pay
their last tribute to the memory Of the
distinguished leader Of one of the
largest archdiocese in the country.
Bishop John j. McCort, the Srch-
bishops auxiliary. was the celebrant OK
the pontifical mass. Bishop Canoyan or
Pittsburgh preached the funeral sermon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
REVENUE BUREAU RULING
HITS POKER PROFlTEERS

Poker profteers have been hit by
tho internal revenue bureaus in
formal ruling that earnings from
the game were subject to the income
tax, but losses could not be de-
Quoted from income in figuring the
tax Thus there is tax for the win
ner and no relief for the loser The
ruling was given to the following
letter of inquiry:
KINDLY tell mo whether poker
losses are deductible from net in
come In figuring income taxes. L
have lost large sums in the past
year. and the question with me is
vital. For the information of
friend. who has had good poker
profits, please tell me whether these
are to be included in income.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
z. N. ALDERMAN WINS IN TEST.
D. C. Boy Is to Take Examination
for Annapolis Cadetship.

H. N Alderman. jr., 1745 Kilbourne
place. aged eighteen years, has won
appointment as first alternate as result
of a recent competitive examination
held by the District Commissioners to
establish eligibility for appointments
in the military and naval academies.
He stood second of those who competed
for the Annapolis cadetship.
Mr. Alderman is a federal employee in
the Treasury Department. He studied
nights to equip himself for the test.
He will be permitted to take the regu-
lar entrance examination for admission
to the Naval Academy April 16 next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
NATIONS IN KEEN RACE
b FOR PLATINUM SUPPLY
Germany Is Buying Up Available
Stock in Russia-Used in War
Implements.

Nations of the world are competing
keenly for platinum. This competition
has developed into one of the strongest
commercial struggles of the war.
During the so-called peace negotia-
lions with Russia, Germany is buying
up all available platinum in that coun-
try. Government officials say that
Germany is doing this for the double
purpose of getting all she can and
keeping it away from the United
States.
The platinum supply affects the war
program most vitality without IL nu-
uitions and many kinds of delicate
electrical instruments essential to war
machinery cannot be made. Tanks are
immobiIe without platinum for con-
tact points of magnetoS. ana signal
Instruments are dumb without ina
metal.
Supplies of platinum in the United
States amount to between $4,000 ana
10000 ounces. most of when VIII pe
taken over by the government under
the Communicating order issued last
week.
While that amount seems sufficient
for present needs. the country Is snort
of iridium, a constituent metal OF piati-
mum, which it is used to harden 1here
is not an ounce of iridium for sale IN
America today. Last sales of iridium
were made at S1S5 an ounce, and OF
platinum at $50.
With Russia the worlds principal
platinum market. closed by German
control the use of platinum for jewelry
Is expected to cease after present stocks
In the hands of manufacturing jewelers.
are exhausted. Those stocks have not
been taken over, one reason being that.
approximately, 5000 men in New York
and Newark alone depend on platinum
work for livelihood.
The possibility of increasing Ameri-
can production of platinum is being
studied in the emergency. Heretofore.
Nevada, California, Utah and Oregon
have turned out about $50 ounces a
year. which biologists believe can be
Increased to 1000 ounces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
PACKERS PLANNED BIG FUND.
$1,500,o0o Project in Educational
Campaign" Did Not MateriaIize.

CHICAGO. March 5.--Letters and
other documents taken from the files
of the big packers continued to be a
large part of the evidence submitted
today in the Federal Trade Commissions
inquiry into the affairs of the packers.
Evidence submitted yesterday related
to project of the larger firms to raise
a fund of $1,000 900 for a nation wide
educational campaign" at the time the
Borland resolution for packing house
investigation was before Congress-
plan which did not materialiZe. 1t was
shown, however, by other correspond
ence submitted that various sums had
been used by several of the big five"
firms in advertising in daily. weekly
and monthly publications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
DONATIONS ASKED FOR CLUB.
Recreational Home for Enlisted Men
Needs MANY Articles.

An appeal for donations to equip the
first United Service Club for enlisted
men in Washington has been sent out
by the District war service commission.
The club. which will be opened shortly
at 636 Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
has a photograph. but no money to buy
records; has three new billiard tables,
but no cues or balls. and patriotic citi-
Zens are urged to donate the articles
needed for the recreation of the SOL
diers.
The club also has A piano, and it Is
pointed out that there are many fine
piansts in the Army. but what's the
use of a piano without sheet music?
Anything which will contribute to the
lettering Of the recreation facilities of
the club is asked by the commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
$3.50. 100000 1917 FIRE LOSS.
Greatest Damage, Save in 1906, In
Nations History.

from fire aggregated 230.0o0,o00 in
1917 and were larger than in any pre-
vious year except one. 1906. in the ma
TONS history, according to a commune
cation received by the New Jersey
State Council of Defense from the
Council of National Defense. The San
Francisco earthquake and conflagra-
ton occurred in 1906.
The communication asserts that a
particularly ominous feature of the sit
uation is Il recent great increase in the
number of fires of incendiary origin in
places where they were effective in dis
couraging industry. such as factories,
warehouses, lumber yards and docks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
MAY REVISE LABOR PACT
Conferees Take Up Mediation Agree
ment With Shipbuilding Trades
to Please Carpenters.

Revision of the governments media
ton agreement with the shipbuilding
trades to make it meet the views of
the Brotherhood of Carpenters was
taken up today at conference of Navy
and shipping board officials. with the
heads of the unions involved.
The agreement, to which the car
penters' organization was not a party,
leaves all shipbuilding labor disputes
to the shipbuilding labor adjustment
board for settlement. William l.
Hutcheson president of the Brother
hood of Carpenters, has refused to sign
the agreement unless it is amended to
give the carpenters greater representa-
ton on the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
CARE OF WOUNDED HORSES.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox to Offer
Gen. pershing Two Ambulances.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is in
France as representative of the Ameri-
can Red Star Animal Relief and will
offer to Gen. Pershing two large veteri-
nary ambulances. costing $4,000, to aid
in caring for wounded horses
The American Red Star was formed
in 1916, and has headquarters in Al
bany. N. Y. The organization is giving
the government the same aid in caring
for American war horses as the British
Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has rendered the
English forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05

CONTINUED from First Page)
classes, were awaiting the board mem
bers when they arrived to open the
polls at o'clock.
In the twenty-first congressional dis
trict, which includes an apartment
house area west of 5th avenue and
above 124th street in uptown Manhat-
tan. approximately one-fourth of the
registered woman" vote had been re-
corded at noon. while but about one
fifth of the registered man" vote had
been cast at that hour.
This was interpreted as meaning
that many women, who ordinarily do
not go on shopping or other business
trips about town until after luncheon
made it a point to vote early" in
obedience to an oft-repeated slogan
Of party leaders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
LUNCHEON FOR MISS WILSON.
Register of Wills Staff Celebrates
Her Two Anniversaries.

Employees of the office of the register
of wills entertained yesterday in their
private lunchroom at city hall Miss
Louise c. Wilson. one of their CO.
workers
Miss Wilson was celebrating the an
niversary of her birth as well as the
completion of fifteen years service in
the Office To show their esteem the
clerks presented her with bouquet OF
roses and made her the guest of honor
at a specially prepared luncheon.
4 feature Of the celebration was a
large birthday cake Surnounted by
(deleted by CENSOR candles. Baked in
the cake was ring. thimble and a
coin. and the good-natured rivalry for
these fateful souvenirs enlivened the
occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
DEPENDENTS CHECKS START.
Two Weeks Will Be Required to
Send All Allotments

The first of the February checks for
pay allotments and government al
lowances to dependents of soldiers and
sailors have just been placed in the
mails, and probably two weeks more
will be required to complete the prem
aration and distribution of the re-
mittanceS.
In ANNOUNCING this officials OF the war
risk insurance bureau explained that much
delay has been caused by Irregularities in
application and erroneous addresses the
checking up of which requires the work of
several hundred cle.KS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
RLAMES IDLE FARM LANDS.
Cornell Professor Assails Method of
Wheat Price Fixing.

crops by G. +. Warren, professor of farm
management at Cornell University. in tes-
tifying today at the Senate agriculture
committees hearing on the food situa-
ton.
The method of fixing prices for wheat
was asEailed by Mr. Warren. who said
the food authorities do not take into con-
sideration unfavorable conditions in wheat
production. In fixing the price of wheat.
he sad, the government took into con-
siidcration only the cost of producing the
number of acres harvested and did moi
consider the loss suffered by failure to
harvest the remainder of the acreage
sown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
TO STOP VESSEL REPAIRS.
Shipyards at Alexandra Taken Over
for Emergency Operations.

With the taking over Of the two ship
wards Mt Alexandria for emergency
shiphuiIding operations. it is under
stood that vessel repairs being made
there soon viii be stopped. This Will make
it necessary for larger tuEboats and
sailing craft to go TO Norfolk or Bal
tinore for repair work. and even there,
it is stated. il is difficult to get it done.
There are two small railways at this
city, one of them large enough TO haul
ont the ordinary sized river schooner.
and two smaller railways on which
pleasure craft can haul for repairs.
All the steamers. however. VIII have to
go away from here for repair work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
BANS DEBATES ON PEACE.
Los Angeles Board of Education
Bars Them in Public Schools.

Los ANGELES, March debates; on
the topic of peace were barred from the
high and elementary schools of Los An
geles by a unanimous resolution of the
board of education last night
A report on recent high school debate
on the subject Resolved, that the ma
tons of the world should accept the pro-
gram of the League to Enforce Peace"
brought the matter before the board
We don't want any discussion of peace
in the high schools said President Lynn
Helm We don't want any peace talk at
all. What we want is TO fight until VIC
tory comes; then We will talk peace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
NO DRINKS FOR SERVICE MEN.
Philadelphia Clubs and U. S. District
Attorney Reach Agreement.

PHILADELPHIA. March 5-An I'M
Outstanding has been reached by Fran
els Fisher Kane, United states district
attorney, with the clubs of the city
which maintain a buffet whereby no
uniformed man of the country's fight
ing forces will be served with liquor
A further ruling against the sale of
liquor to any party containing a man
in uniform has been made. This was
made necessary by the practice of
friends buying drinks and passing
them on to the soldier. To obviate the
possibility of such action the entire
party accompanying a soldier or sailor
will be forced to go dry"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
REQUIRED TO STAY IN D. C..
UNTIL SUIT is DECIDED
Rush W. Conklin, Defendant in Pro-
ceedings Brought by Wife for
Limited Divorce, Under Bond.

Rush W. Conklin, a practicing physi-
clan. has been placed under $1,000 bond
by order of Justice Gould of the District
Supreme Court to remain within the Dis
trict OF Columbia pending action by the
court on a suit for a limited divorce
brought by Mrs. Florence NJ Conklin- The
wife charges cruelty and neglect
The Conklins were married Septem-
Der %. 1895. in Topeka, Kan. and the
wife alleges that for the past eighteen
months her husband has practiced sys-
tematic cruelty.
Mrs Conklin says her husband
threatened to leave Washington If she
brought suit against him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
SUMMER SCHOOL TO OPEN.
Announcement of Program Made by
Dean W. C. Reudiger.

The third session of the George
Washington University summer school
will be opened June "a and continue
until August 3. according to announce
ment yesterday by Dean William G..
Reudiger of Teachers College. direc-
tor of the summer school June %
will be registration day II has been
announced that the scope of the sum
mer school work will be as large as
that of previous years and no classes
will be dropped
Examination or certificates are not
necessary for admission. but no stu
dent viii be allowed to continue any
except an elementary course IL the
faculty finds him unqualified for fur
Their work. Studies completed at the
summer school will be applied toward
a degree at the university on the same
basis as work completed during the
regular session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
NO QUORUM. BUT KEPT BUSY
-Four North Washington Citizens
Hold Interesting Session.

After four members Of the North
Washington Citizens Association, as
sembied IN the Gage School last night.
had informally discussed various sub
jects. from street car service to the adj
vantages Of l Billy Sunday campaign.
the president entertained a point OF no
quorum ana declared the meeting ao-
iourned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
BREAD PRICES DROP.
Decrease of Is Per Cent Since Last
August.

4 drop of 10 per cent in bread prices
since last August is reported by the
Department of Labor. There was a
steady increase in price from 1913 until
August.
Using the five-cent loaf sold in 1913
as a basis. the average price of bread
is now S3 cents.
The increase began in 1914, when
bread rose to IS cents. In 1915 it
went as high as GA and in 1916 the
high point was reached in November.
The price of - reached then fell off
slightly until February, 1917, when it
again advanced. This continued until
the price of 81 was attained in August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
NON-PRECIOUS METALS
COST CURBS COUNTERFEIT

Rising costs of metals work at
least one benefit to the government
and the public. They are largely
responsible for the marked decrease
in counterfeiting during the last
year. The "non-precious" metals
from which bogus coins are made
have come so near to being precious
that the margin of profit In the
counterfeitinG business has been
cut, and little bad money now Is
being put into circulation
This was disclosed by Treasury
secret service officials, who. for rea-
sons of policy. did not make public
the exact decrease in counterfeit
ing cases discovered within the last
wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
Will Be Taught National Anthem.

ATLANTA, Ga. March 5.-AH soldiers
in the SD Division, at Camp Gordon, will
be taught to sing 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" A divisional order just issued
sets aside one hour a week in the infan-
try program for singing, stating spe-
officially that the national song will be
taught by Song Leader Bushkin of the
Army Y. M. c. A. until all units are
familiar with the words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
NA0N DETAINED UNTIL APRIL.
Asked by Irigoyen to Study Argen-
tine Relations With U. S.

BUENOS AIRES. March 5.-Dr. Ro-
mulo S. Naon. ambassador to the United
States, after a long conference with
President Irigoyen announced late
last night that he had postponed his
return to Washington until April.
The president has asked DR. Naon to
study several questions concerning
Argentine relations with the United
States, especially the possibility of OBJ
tanning permission for the export from
the United States of various articles
now under the embargo which are nee
sssary TO maintain Argentine indus
tries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
LOSES 2O-YEAR FIGHT.
City of Denver Defeated in Long
Battle ON Water Rates.

The city of Denver. in the Supreme
Court of the United States has lost
it's fight of twenty years duration
against the Denver Union Water Com
pany over consumers rates.
1njunctionS restraining the city from
enforcing an ordinance reducing wa
ter rates 20 per cent alleged as con-
fScatory on the grounds that it would
take the company's property for public
use without compensation, were sus-
tanned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
PICHoN STATEMENT UPHELD.
German Paper Says Kaiser Did De-
mand Guarantees Of Neutrality.

COPENHAGEN, March ACCORDING
to the Berlin Tahe5latt and the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger. copies of which have
been received here. the statement made
by the French foreign minister. NJ.
Pichon, last Friday that the German
chancellor sent word to Paris in July.
1914. that Germany would require as
guarantee OF the neutrality of France
the handing over for the period of the
war with Russia the French fortresses
of Toul and Nerdun, was accurate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
Avalanche Wrecks Military Train.

GENEVA, March 5.--The heaviest snow
fall of the present winter in the Swiss
Tyrolese Alps has occurred during the last
twenty-four hours. The snow is from
three to six feet deep and is still falling
One avalanche cut an Austrian military
train in two south of Botzen. Twenty-six
officers and men were killed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
TO LIE IN ARLINGTON.
Gen. Jacob n. Smith, Retired, Died
in California.

SAN DIEGO, Cal. March military
San Diego. as well as hundreds of per-
sons in civilian life, formed the en-
tourage which honored the memory Of
Gen. Jacob Hurd Smith, retired, of the
United States Army, at funeral serv-
Ice yesterday in st. Paul's Episcopal
Church. Gen. Smith died last Friday.
The entire 21st Regiment of Infantry
participated in the ceremony.
After the church service the body
was escorted to q railway station for
shipment to Washington. Interment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
WINS BOUNDARY FRAY.
Arkansas Given Decision Against
Tennessee on Land Rights.

Arkansas. in the Supreme Court. yester-
day. in effect. won proceedings to de-
termine the boundary line between that
state and Tennessee.
The dividing line, the court decided,
il the middle of the main channel of
navigation az low water stage III the Mis-
sissippi river. as the bed existed at the
time of the treaty with Great Britain
in 1913, and a commission will be APP
pointed to fix the boundary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
ALLIES KEEP PRESIDENT
INFORMED OF TREATIES

LONDON, March 5.-Replying to a
question in the house of commons as to
whether copies of all treaties. secret or
public. and all other memoranda of other
agreements to which Great Britain has
become a party since August 4. 1914,
have been communicated to President
Wilson. Foreign Secretary Balfour said:
President Wilson is kept fully informed
By he allies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
Awarded Absolute Divorce.

Katherine H. Reynolds today was
awarded an absolute divorce from Ray
mond F. Reynolds The decree, signed
by Justice Gould, permits her to resume
her maiden name, Katharine II. Dyfon.
They were married September 6. 1918,
and have no children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
To Talk on Prison Reform -

Prison Reform is the subject of a
talk to be delivered by Mrs. A. " Wad-
ham at meeting of the war service
committee of the Anthony League at
the home of the president, Mrs. Anna
E. Hendley. 20o7 Columbia road. at 4
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon. Finished
war garments viii be received and ma
terial for further work given out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
Mai. L. Hill Hurt in Trench Work.

FORT WORTH, Tex. March 5.-Maj.
How'd Hill of Fort Worth, in command of
the LIST Battalion of the 144th Infantry,
probably will be in the base hospital here
for a month, as a result of wound re-
ceived during trench practice yesterday.
Mai. Hill was accidentally shot through
the leg and his foot was broken by
charge from trench mortar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
License to Fly Near Military Zone

President Wilson has, by executive
proclamation, made it necessary for
any person flying in the vicinity of
military works. or any part of the
country designated as a zone of war
like operation or warlike preparation,
to secure license.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05

anese government is extremely well
Informed of the developments in ST.
beria- but at present is adopting a
policy of watchful waiting. Japan is
carefully avoiding arousing the antaE-
onism of loyal Russians. who, notwith-
standing their dire need of assistance,
appear TO be extremely sensitive of out
side interference.
Recognizing also that China is emit
tied TO consideration as {. protector of
the frontier on which Japan does not
actually border. Japan. the dispatch
says, probably has agreed with China
on Il plan for prompt cooperation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
Davies Opens Headquarters

Joseph E. favies. who resigned from
the Federal Trade Commission to seek
the nomination for senator at the pri-
rnaries on the democratic ticket. also
left Washington last night and will
make his headquarters at Milwaukee.
DIR. Charles Mccarthy may also enter
the democratic primaries
James Thompson of La Crosse is also
seeking the nomination on the republican
ticket. having, it is reported, the hacking
of Senator La Toilette. The possible di-
vision of the republican vote in the pri-
Iharies between Lenroot and McGovern,
curing the nomination as the republican
candidate TO be voted upon at the polls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-05
Capt. Peyser Assigned to Duty.

julius I. Peyser, who was recently ap-
pointed a captain in the Quartermaster
Reserve Corps, has been assigned to
duty in the office Of the acting quarter
master general, this city