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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Demand Dwindles Supplies.

.-As the demand for wheat has grown,
the supplies in elevators have dwindled.
due to holding back for higher prices.
The price of flour would be increased
to SIS a barrel il the $3.50 a bushel
for wheat becomes law. according to
food administration officials.
Food administration officials say
their work had been hampered by the
refusal of many persons to cooperate
in food conservation,
q Regulations for the enforcement OF
wheat conservation are being worked
out by the food administration As
the new regulations probably will be
necessary only until the harvest. g
matter of three months. the admins
tration has abandoned the idea of ra-
zion cards and will impose restriction:
on mills, wholesalers and retailers
which can be established inexpensi"elN
and done away with quickly. Contro
of wheat at the mills probably will bt
frightened, SO that its distribution
throughout the country will be baset
on an equitable scale and no dealer will
have more -four than he can sell othel
than by strict apportionment, if he de
sires to take care of his trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
GIVES PENSION
BACK TO U. S.

A quarterly pension check
for $50, payable to Mary B. N.
Kelly of 1919 N street, WASH
ington, has been sent to. the
treasurer of the United States
as a gift to the government.
The beneficiary desires to give
her pension money to the gov
ernment for the period of the
war and has SO advised the
commissioner of pensions.
Her communication to
Treasurer John Burke reads:
Enclosed please find my PEN
sion check for the present
quarter, which l wish to turn
into the Treasury.
81 have requested at the PEN
sion office that for the present
the payment of this pension be
discontinued, as for the period
of the war ! wish to give it to
the government"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
CALLS FOR RECRUITS
TO DISTRICT GUARD
Gen. Simms Lays Stress on
Need for AbIe-Bodied Bust
ness and Professional Men.
THREE CLASSES DESIRED

call for recruits for the new Ma
tional Guard unit of the District Of
Columbia has been sent out by Brig.
Gen. Richard D. Simms, commanding
officer of the organization. 1t is point
ed out by officials of the new unit that
the special classes of men wanted by
the guard are able bodied business and
professional men, men of all civil voca-
lions and men from the various gov
eminent departments. who. under pres
emit laws or business or family ties are
not eligible for foreign service, but who
are capable of doing local military
service. 1t is announced that men of
the following classes are wanted in the
guard:
Class Those between eighteen and
forty five years of age who desire to
enlist under the present requirements
OF six years service. three years in
active service and three years in the re-
serve. but who will be privileged to re-
ceive discharge at the close of the war.
if they 80 request.
Glass Men who are in the selective
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
LIEUT.. K1LRoY's NEW POST.
Is Medical Aid in Administration Of
Selective Draft Law.

Lieut.. James J. Kilroy. formerly
member OF local draft board. No. /. has
been appointed medical aid for the DIS
trict to assist in the administration OF
the selective service regulations. lie
has been assigned an office at the head
quarters of Acting Adjt. Gen. Donovan
in the District building.
The new official is a graduate of the
Georgetown University Medical School
He was born in New Jersey and has
lived in Washington eighteen years. He
has been in the thick of the local draft
work since last June. His new duties
will be to supervise the conducting of
physical examinations of registrations
and coordinate the work of the local
and medical advisory boards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
WILL ADDRESS CLUBw0MEN.
Representative Rankin Among
Those to Speak Tomorrow.

Representative Jeanette Rankin. Miss
Julia Lathrop. head of the children's
bureau of the Department of Labor;
Richard Dana and Mrs. Augustus
knight. director for the District of the
war victory commission of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs. are
among the speakers announced for the
next meeting of the District Federation
of Women's Clubs. at the Municipal
building tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Charles E. Steinmeyer, a member
of the Maryland federation, who has
just returned from trip to France.
where she went to establish a recrea-
ton home Tor soldiers, will also give
some personal Impressions gained on
tho trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Should Cease Entirely.

as Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts for non-food purposes should cease
such use entirely.
go There is no limit upon the use of
other cereals. flours and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat, potato -four, etc.
Many thousand families throughout
the land are now using no wheat prod
uctS whatever except a very small
amount for cooking PURPOSES. and are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Administration Statement.

Following is the statement issued by
The food Administrations:
Eff we are to furnish the allies with
the necessary proportion of wheat to
maintain their war bread from now I'M
til the next harvest, and this is mil
ftAry necessity, we must reduce our
monthly consumption to $1,000. 900
bushels a month, as against our normal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Dependent on Volunteers.


ITO effect the needed saving of wheat
we are wholly dependent upon the vol
untary assistance of the American peo-
pie. and we ask that the following rules
shall be observed:
a." Householders to use not to ex-
coed a total of one and a half pounds
per week of wheat products per per-
son. This means not more than one
and three-quarters pounds of victory
bread containing the required percent
age of substitutes and one-half pound
of cooking flour. macaroni, crackers,
pastry, pies, cakes. wheat breakfast
cereals, all combined.
40 Public eating places and clubs
to observe two wheatless days per
week, Monday and Wednesday, as at
present. In addition thereto, not to
serve to any one guest at any one meal
an aggregate of breadstuffs macaroni,
crackers, pastry. pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing total of
more than two ounces OF wheat flour.
No wheat products to be served unless
specially ordered. Public eating es-
Establishments not to buy more than six
pounds of wheat products for each
ninety meals served, thus conforming
with the limitations requested of the
householders.
49, Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time, and
not more than one-quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time. and in no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals
81 We ask the bakers and grocers
to reduce the volume of victory bread
Sold by delivery of the three-quarter-
pound loaf where one pound was sold
before and corresponding proportions
in other weights. We also ask bakers
not to increase the amount of their
wheat flour purchase beyond 20 per
cent of the average monthly amount
purchased in the four months prior to
March l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24

Mexican government forces are pur--
suing a band of rebels in the state Of
Jalisco said to be headed by Antonio
Orozcoy JimineZ, archbishop of Guada-
Iaiara. who, according to government
reports, induced a number of Indians to
follow him into the field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24

Reused by the arrest of their COM
mander, Gen. Silvestra G. Ma-iscal
governor of Guerrero. Mexico. who was
placed in prison on a charge of disobey-
ing orders of the War Department, 400
of his men are said to have Joined the
rebel bands in the state of Vera Cruz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24

consumption of about 100000 BUSH
els or so per cent of our normal con-
sumption. Rese rving margin for dis-
tribution to the Army and for special
cases leaves for general consumption
approximately one and one-half pounds
of wheat products weekly per person.
Many of our consumers are dependent
upon bakers bread Such bread must
be durable and therefore requires a
larger proportion of wheat products
than cereal breads baked in the house
hold Our Army and Navy require
full allowance. The well to do in our
population can make greater sacrlnces
in the consumption of wheat products
than can the poor. In addition, our
population in the agricultural districts,
where the other cereals are abundant.
are more skilled in the preparation OF
breads from these other cereals than
the crowded city and Industrial popu-
lationS
with improved transportation con-
ditions we now have available surplus
of potatoes. We also have in the spring
months a surplus of milk, and we have
ample corn and oats for human con-
sumption. The drain on rye and bar
ley as substitutes has already greatly
exhausted the supply of these grains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24

draft, In order that they may have
the advantage OF preliminary training,
which may help At them for service In
the National Army. to which they will
service therein. BY joining the Ma
tional Guard in the interim they will
prove a valuable addition to the
strength of the force available for
local defense.
Class All men eighteen years of
age and over who are physically Mt
for military duty, such as may be re-
quired in local service in the District
Of Columbia, who for legitimate rea-
sons are unable to obligate themselves
for service outside of the District of
Columbia
Men of classes and 2 can now be en-
listed in the National Guard
Men of class can enroll and attend
hitting such special enlistments for
the period of the war.
Now Seeks Authority.
The District is now seeking authority
to raise a guard equal in efficiency to
that of fourteen other states where
guard units to take the places of those
now in the service have been author
lied. That the War Department and
the citizens of the District consider it
highly important that the new Ma
tional Guard be promptly organized is
evidenced by recent communications
filed with the military affairs commit
tees of both the Senate and the House.
1t is understood that the pending leg
islation authorizing the formation of a
new unit in the District has the ap-
prevail of the President and the Secre-
tary of War The intent of the bill
which is known as House bill 1854, Is
to grant authority by which the
strength of the National Guard may be
augmented and maintained through the
period of the war by admitting to the
guard men in addition to the limited
number being obtained and enlisted
under the present laws governing the
National Guard OF the District of Co
lumbia
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
CIVILIAN PENSIONS

The first provision ever made by
the government for pensioning civil
liam employees is contained in the
annual lighthouse bill recently ap-
proved by President Wilson.
A retirement system is instituted,
permitting optional retirement at 65
years for those having 80 years ac-
tive service and making retirement
compulsory at 20 years. Pensions
will be computed on one-fourth of
the average annual pay during the
last five years of service multiplied
by the number of years spent in
the Lighthouse service or some other
branch of the government which has
retirement system. In any case,
the pay shall not be more than
three-fourths of the annual averages
Despite several qualifying clauses.
the bill is regarded by government
employees and officials advocating
general civilian retirement system,
as marked step forward Only
employees in the field service and
on vessels come under the law, those
continuously employed in district
offices and shops being excluded.
The provision that service only in
branches of the government having
retirement systems may be counted
IN qualifying for a pension imposes
strict limitation on the transfer of
veteran workers from civilian de-
partments to the Lighthouse Service.
while permitting soldiers. sailors,
marines and employees of the Coast
Guard, all of whom have benefit
of the military systems, to enter
the service without prejudice to their
record
In keeping with the generally adj
vancing trend of wages, the limit
for the average pay of lightkeepers
was increased by the bill to s84O
from 5000, at which it was fixed
more than half century ago. Sup
srintendents of districts were ad-
vanced from s2,4OO to $4,000.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
UNIFORMS IN MEXICO
ARE UNIFORMS AGAIN

CHIHAUHAU CITY, Mex-Mex-
lean troops are again being outfitted
, with the old style, Revolutionary
French uniforms instead of the
khaki uniform with SLOUGH hats that
have been the undress wear of the
enlisted soldiers since the beginning
of the Carranza revolution. The
troops of the north are receiving
two kinds of uniforms One is of
a khaki colored cloth with brass
buttons for wear on desert marches
es. The other is the dark blue uni
form, piped with red, which was gem
orally used in Mexico during the
days of Diaz. The same high crown
en- French cap of blue piped in red
is worn with the two uniforms. but
a covering of the khaki colored
cloth is issued for wearing over the
cap when the fatigue uniform is
worn.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
SHELL INSURANCE

Long range bombardment brought
into Paris "anti-bombardment in
surance.'" The one company allowed
to do such business will insure any
given property only against damage
from 5000 shells. If the Germans
were to reach a point where their
huge 350-cenimeter guns could eff
fectively batter Paris, and to pour
5000 in without damaging any
given piece of property, its owner
would have in reinsure against the
next five thousand shells.
The price of the anti-bombard-
ment insurance has gone up to twice
what the anti-airplane bomb policies
cost. 1t means just six francs per
thousand of insurance if it is fur
niture and other household goods
that is being insured; eight francs
per thousand if buildings; and
twelve francs if anything else.
The insurance company also has
drawn up scale of insurance
against personal injury from long
range and other kinds of guns and
alrplane raids. Thereby it is posi-
Bile to insure civilians up to $4,000
francs at four francs per thousand
In the districts nearest the present
front; at and on-half a thousand
IN Paris and its immediate vicinity
at one franc in remoter depart-
ments; and at rs centimes in the
most distant departments and in
Algeria,
The company, whose parent or
ganlzatlon in England has achieved
a reputation in years past for taking
any kind of a sporting risk in the
insurance line. will not insure life
for over $4,000 francs unless special
premiums are paid.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
SAN JUAN WORKERS
MAY ENTER STATES

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico.-Special
Agent Roberts, of the Department
of Labor, has notified the authori-
ties in Washington that he is ready
to send 10000 laborers to the main
land whenever transportation is pro-
vided. That number of workers has
already registered and hundreds of
others are seeking registration. To
get these men and others like them
into industries essential to war is
the special agents aim.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05

The mother of family who does
not economic today is taking to-
morrow's bread out of the mouth
Of her children.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05

Here, he maintains, they are a
burden to themselves and the COM
munity because they are idle. At
productive war industries they will
become an asset to the nation.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
HUN COLONIES
TAKEN IN WAR
VEX|NG ISSUE

SYDNEY, Austrailia-The final
disposition of the German colonies
in the Pacific; the Pacific Monroe
Doctrine" preached by the Prime
Minister. William NJ Hughes, in his
speech before the Pilgrims club in
New York; and the recent report
of the Australian Interstate Com
merce Commission upon British and
Australian trade in the South Pa
cific," all relate directly or indirect
ly to discussion which is becoming
more or less frequent in the Aus
tralian, New Zealand and Fiiian
press touching federation of the
South Sea Islands. The Interstate
Commerce Commission said in it's
report:
THE government of the islands is
controlled by the British crown at
present lacking in cohesion and unity
OF policy. The commission is salts
fled that the islands under the Brit
ish crown should be grouped under
a more coherent system. The COM
mission has suggested that in order
to ensure timely settlement of this
paramount question of government
joint inquiry by representation of
the United Kingdom, Australia and
New Zealand should be undertaken. {"
One of the British Pacific island
commissioners said in Sydney while
on recent visit here:
"The suggestion that a conjoint
commission of inquiry be appointed
at an early date should in my opin-
ion be carefully considered by the
public of the Commonwealth. The
question as to whether administra-
tive powers should be granted to
such commission, which would
represent the interests of the i'm
perial government of the Common
wealth, and of the Dominion of
New Zealand, is one which also
claims the full consideration of
statesmen.
British interests at present are
widely spread under many forms of
control, and difficulties are con-
stantly created by the lack of Great
i've cooperation. Great Britain,
Australia and New Zealand are
carrying on the work of admin
stration through officers who have
no direct relation with each other.
There are crown colonies, Fiji and
the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the
imperial protectorate of the Sol
ONION Islands; Australian depend
encies such as Papau; and the. is
lands under the civil administration
of New Zealand. To add to this
diversity of control we now have
the military occupation by Aus
tralia and by New Zealand of the
late German Pacific possessions. 1t
is maze of control with centers
of reference in London, Melbourne
and Wellington.
"Objection may be made to the
grant of administrative powers at
present to any commission. The war
is still on and it may be urged that
little can be done-at least so far
as the late German Pacific posses
sions are concerned-till the issue
of it is known. But pending peace,
why not appoint a board or COM
mission to obtain information and,
as far as possible, to simplify the
existing administration? The COM
mission could thus put the interests
of Great Britain, of Australia, and
of New Zealand into common
pool for the moment, and when the
peace conference sits much valuable
information should be available"
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
VETERAN WHAlER
TELLS OF SPERM
WHALE INDUSTRY

JUNEAU-The romance of whale
fishing still exists with all It's an
cient thrills. according to Captain
G. Earling, an experienced whaler
and owner of fleet of whalers near
Port Armstrong, Alaska. Here the
United States Whaling company is
operating under the superintendency
of Captain Earling.
This veteran hunter has a high
regard for the sperm whale for sew
eral reasons Primarily it is one of
the most profitable of the big ocean
mammals to bag. The sperm whale
unlike many of the other species,
has big throat aperture. In the
stomach of one captured recently
was found the following: one devil
fish with feelers twelve feet long,
the creature being IS feet across
when head out; two sharks, one IL
and the other 8 feet long; and an
endless variety of smaller fish. Ac-
cording to the captain, these were
all in state of good preservation
indicating that the whale was feed
ing at the time it was taken.
The gender he, is correct in
speaking of sperm whales of the
Pacific coast waters. st is one
of the wonders of the Pacific" said
Captain Earling, why no females
have ever been taken in this ocean"
1--WE have killed around $50
sperm wha',s at this station since
it was established in 1912, and none
of them have been females. | have
hunted whales from Panama to the
Arctic, and have neither heard nor
seen female" said this old whaler.
'The sperm whale is like a camel
too said the captain. 1T seems
that they store oil in a tank for
future use, just as a camel stores
water. Sometimes these tanks are
nearly empty, and again they are
full. The size of the creatures
therefore is not necessarily an in
dication of the amount of oil that
may be found"
The average amount of oil found
in the tank is Is to 80 barrels.
The blubber also produces many
barrels of good grade of sperm
oil.
The sperm is the favorite game
hunted by whalers. But many
other varieties are sought and cap
tured. Among those commonly taken
at Port Armstrong are: Sulphur
bottoms that measure up to 80 feet
in length; Fin backs which attain a
length of so to 60 feet, as do also
the sperm whales; the hump back
that run around 25 to 80 feet in
length. They will all average ton
or more to the foot of length. A
big sperm whale is valued by those
who capture him at from $4,000 to
$4,000.
Most whales have a small throat
and are provided with gill bones
that serve as strainers to let the
water out and keep the small fish
in, as they open their mouths and
close them again when feeding on
schools of small fish, such as her
ring. But the sperm whale is not
thus supplied. On the other hand,
it has teeth, ivory ones, its lower
jaws, but the upper part of its
mouth has nothing but gum sockets
into which the teeth of the lower
jaw fit when the mouth is closed.
These teeth are ground up and form
the raw product out of which COM
pound ivory billiard balls are manu-
featured
The whales captured at this sta
ton are all made into fertilizer
after the oil, whale bone, and ivory
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05
SINKING

KOBE, Japan-The Isle of Avail,
the favored spot of japanese potes,
is slowly sinking into the ocean.
Houses are being hastily removed
to the highest point of the island.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05

The potato is a native American.
Enlist it to fight against the kaiser.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-09-05

Better feed the Allied soldiers now
than the kaiser's later on.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14

Clara Davis went to Leon Monday
take teachers examination.