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Evening star., 1918-07-09
COUPLE, AFTER QUARREL,
TREATED FOR POISONING
Mrs. Griffin, Taken to Hospital
Finds Her Husband Also
Patient.

John W. Griffin, a Baltimore and
Ohio railroad brakeman, and Mrs.
Ella Griffin. his wife, today are pa
tients in Casualty Hospital, where
they are being treated for poison they
are said to have taken last night.
Physicians expressed the opinion that
neither was dangerously affected.
Police Of the ninth precinct made
an investigation but failed to find any
evidence Of a suicide pact, the wife
not taking poison, they said, until she
learned that her husband had taken
some Of 1t and had been taken to the
hospital. :
The Grihins lived at ia G street
northeast. 1t was said at that num-
ber today that the husband had not
been working steadily and that last
night he and his wife engaged in a
quarrel.
later was taken to the hospital from
near 8th and H streets northeast.
having swallowed poison while on the
street. That was about 1915 o'clock.
said she. too, had taken poison
Physicians at the hospital were
working to save the husbands life
when the wife was brought to the
hospital.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
TIME RIPE TO DISCUSS
PEACE, SAYS BERNHARD
Berlin Political Writer Saws
Presidents Plan Is
Basis,

COPENHAGEN. July s.-writinE In
the vossische zeituns Of Berlin
George Bernhard. political editor,
says:
1.-THE time is now ripe openly to dis
cuss peace conditions. Having regard
to the ideal peace conditions laid
down by President Wilson unanimtty
on the matter undoubtedly could
easily be reached If a method Of dis
cussing the peace terms could only be
agreed upon"
Bernhard says Germany and her Al
lies would undoubtedly accept rea-
sonable disarmament proposals.
President Wilson's demands for
self-government by small nations, the
writer says. would be favorably re-
ceived, but the central powers would
insist upon knowing the attitude of
England regarding ireland. Negotia-
tions. the writer adds, should take
place directly between the bellig-
erents respecting frontier regulations.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
WOODEN SHIPS T0L|FT
BURDEN OFF RAILROADS
Plan to Employ 200 of Them in At.
1antic Coastwise
Trade.

The shipping board and the railroad
administration together are working
out a program by which the railroads
will be relieved of considerable traf-
fio along the seaboard, especially In
connection with coal and cotton ship
ments along the Atlantic coast.
Wooden ships are to be used extern
sively in this coastwise movement of
commodities. which hitherto has en-
tailed q heavy burden on the rail-
roads About 200 of these wooden
ships soon will be ready for this traf-
fic.
The extent to which the wooden ship
program is speeding up is indicated
by the fact that there are 1872 wooden
shipways now built.
Steel ships are first to be provizied
with engines and boilers. of which the
supply has been limited, owing both
to difficulty in obtaining steel and In
manufacturing. After the steel ships
are provided for the wooden ships will
be used, and then the concrete ships
will be equipped.
Contracts have been let for ninety.
two 12.000-ton vessels to be used in
the transport service. After the wal
they will be employed as passenger
vessels.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
KEPT TWO SETS OF BOOKS,
FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY
English 4 o'Brien, Wool Men, Ac-
cused Of Conspiracy to Defraud
q. 8. Of Taxes.

BOSTON, July s.-william A. Eng
lish and John H. o'Brien. members
of the firm Of English & o'Brien. Bos-
ton wool merchants, were arrested
TODAY on a federal Indictment charg-
ing conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment of income taxes. The indict-
ment alleged that the shortage
through improper accounting amounted
to $3.50, 900. oBth pleaded not guilty and
were held in bonds Of $685. 900 each Fed
era1 off,cials said It was the first case Of
the kind to be brought to the attention
Of the grand Jury.
with the arrest Of English and
oBrien it became known that the
sovsrnment yesterday instituted =
civil suit against them for the rscov.
ery Of 100000 damages to cover the
amounts alleged to have been held
hack on income tax payments. Exam
nation Of the firms records showed.
federa1 authorities said, that two sets
of hooks had been kept one for ex~
animation by internal revenue experts
and the other. for the private informa-
fion az the defendants.
The arrest was described by federal
onacials as the hrst of . series Of
prosecutions against alleged tax
dodgerA
Evening star., 1918-07-09

poration commission. and several
hearings were held with no decision
being reached. The question of in
creased rates desired by the water
company also was taken up.
Commission to Give Hearing.
Tomorrow morning there will be a
hearing before the commission on the
question OF the water supply and In
crease in rates. The following Is a copy
Of the letter received by Samuel G..
Brent, commemorative attorney for
Alexandria, from Alexander Toward Of
the state corporation commission rela-
tive to the hearing:
1T has been brought to the attention
Of the commission and of the state
board Of health that the method Of the
Alexandria Water Company in distrib-
uting its water supply is dangerous to
the health Of the community, and the
commission desires In connection with
the above case, which involves the mat
ter Of service, to have conference on
this subject. which will be held in the
commissions ONCE, in Richmond, We'd
resday, July 10. at 10 o'clock. The par
ties to the conference will be the attor-
neys for the city Of Alexandria, for the
petitioners in the above case. and for
the Alexandria Water Company. with
representatives of the state health de-
partment and the United States depart
ment of public health"
Evening star., 1918-07-09
TO RELIEVE WAR WORRIES.
Red Cross Discusses Financial
Problems Of Soldiers,

Financial problems to be met in tax
ing care Of soldiers families were con-
sidered by American Red Cross division
directors Of civilian relief in conference
at national Red Cross headquarters hero
today. The conference began yesterday
and will last all week.
Fifteen division directors from all
parts Of the United States arc attend-
ing the conference, which is presided
over by w. Frank Persons, director
general Of civilian relief. Willouehby
-Walling Of the bureau Of development
Of the Red Cross took up the financial
problems OF the work at today's session.
the maintenance Of morale through keen
ing the soldiers from worrying about
their families. rehabilitation Of the
wounded, coKmunicatfon service to helm
men to keep in touch with their families.
etc,
Evening star., 1918-07-09
CAPT. LA GARDE is MADE
'ADJUTANT GENERAL IN D. C.

Orders issued at the War Depart
ment today assign Capt. Richard D.
LaGarde, United States Army. retired.
to active duty as adjutant general OF
the militia of the District of Columbia.
Capt LaGarde was born in Indian
Territory in May. 1883. and served as
a private in Troop B. 4th Cavalry.
from August. 1902. to December. 1903.
In November, 1904. while a resident
of the District of Columbia, he was
appointed second lieutenant, 1st United
States Infantry, and served with that
regiment until September. 1905. when
he was transferred to the cath In
fantry. Subsequently. he served with
the 10th and 9Th Regiments of Infan-
try.
He was retired with the rank of cap
tain in 1916, and since then has lived
at 1880 Woodley place. this city.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
John M. Barnes Dismissed.
U.BoATs MENACE BRITAIN.
Danger Still Prevalent, But Curbed
SAYS Munitions Secretary.

LONDON, Monday, July s-The
great body Of the English nation fails
to realize how near England came
to irretrievable disaster because Of
the German U-boats, said Frederick
George Kellaway. secretary to the
minister of munitions. speaking at
Midlands today. In discussing the
submarine peril, Mr.. Kellaway said:
'The U-boat is still one Of the
greatest perils against which the al
lies have to fight. Those who sup
pose we shall ever be able to abolish
these risks are living in a FOOLS
paradise. But, thanks to the navy,
our losses are being brought to
within limits which the allies can
bear without flinching. Recent re-
turns show the loss Of munitions
ships from submarine warfare are
only about a quarter Of what they
were when the nS.rs p.Doat h.s: camnpaisn npa was was
recently when the Germans failed to
sink a single ton of munitions"
Evening star., 1918-07-09
NO FEAR OF SUGAR FAMINE

Definite assurances that there IL no
danger Of a sugar famine were given
by the food administration today, and
the food situation generally was de-
clared to be better than at any time
since America undertook the feeding
of the allied world.
The American public will. however.
be expected to observe closely the
new regulations limiting the house,
hold per capita consumption of sugar
to three pounds monthly and to con-
tinue all other conserveeion measures.
other than provided 6E in the regu-
|lafione thAt maysbecot$ necessary to
remove al danger Of lkmino VIII be
Aono ~ rnanuf6ctnrax1,
Evening star., 1918-07-09
CALLS FOR INFORMATION.
Mr.. Hadley Introduces Inquiry
Regardinp Milk Condenseries.

Representative Hadley. OF Washing
ton today introduced a resolution
calling on the food administration to
report to the House whether any steps
have been taken to regulate the op-
Grafton Of milk condenseries. whether
regulation to the prices paid by them
to milk producers exists or whether
the wartime profits OF the condense-
rfes are regulated.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
HELD FOR GRAND JURY.
Isaac Lee Arraigned on Charge Of
Carrying Deadly Wespon.

Isaac Lee, coIored. was arraigned
before Judge Mcmahon in Police
Court this morning on a charge Of
carrying a deadly weapon. He en-
tered q plea of not guilty and was
held under $500 bond for action by
the grand jury.
Lee was arrested by Policeman c.
H. Trammell, Sergt- Holmes and De-
tective ]. A. Sullivan Of the eighth
precinct when he attempted to shoot
a colored man following a dispute in
q Chinese restaurant at 8th street and
Florida avenue early this morning.
The police say that Lee snapped the
trigger of the revolver several times.
but it failed to go OF. When arrested
fhe loaded revolver was found on him.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
GERMANS IMPRESSED
BY AMERICAN TROOPS
Enemy Intelligence Report Admits
United States Lads Are Every
Good" Soldiers.
By the Assoeiated Pre1s.

By the Aaaoeiated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, July s.-An indication OF
what the German army thinks Of the
fighting ability Of the Americans ID
given by a copy Of an intelligence
report of the - (deleted) German
army, which has just been obtained.
The report. describing the lighting on
the Marne; refers to the - (deleted)
American division as very good one
almost an attacking division" and
adds that the nerves of the Ameri-
cans have not yet been shaken.
The German fire. the report says
had been unable to affect the morale
of the Americans. who lacked only the
necessary instructions to mako them
serious adversaries.
Prisoners taken by the Germans. the
report states. were physically well
built and were aged from eighteen to
twenty-eight years. Their character
istic utterance 10 quoted as I'VE kill
or are killed"
The report adds that 1t 10 impossible
to obtain military Information from
the Americans and that they rarely
will Indicate the positions they oc-
cupied in the line.
In general the report declares the
Americans make q good impression.
For the moment they continue to con-
sider their part in the war a. that OF
"bie brothers" who had come to
Europe to assist their little brothers
and the latter's mothers and sisters,
fhAv had
overseas to fight for their country.
Most Of the Americans. the docu-
ment adds, are Of foreign extraction.
sdami-Americans" Is calls them, but
II admits that their spirit and fighting
Qualities are remarkable.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
HOMESPREPARED
FOR CLERK INFLUX
1000 Rooms Available Now
for Five Hundred Arriv-
ing Weekly.
SITES FOR DoRMIToRIEs

Although the housing situation in
Washington has been less acute since
the beginning of summer. belief has
been expressed in some quarters that
the return of hundreds of persons to
the city in the fall may cause more
congestion for the winter.
1t was estimated today that the
governments clerical force in Wash
ington is now increasing at the rate
Of 500 a week and that a total of
$4,000 more employees will be brought
here by Uncle Sam during the re-
mainder of the year.
This means that there is a net In
crease of 500 after deducting resig-
nations.
Edwin S. Hege, manager of the
room registration Office of the District
Council Of Defense. said today his Of
fice has approximately 1000 rooms
available for employees who arrive be-
tween now and the date of the COM
pletion of the dormitories which the
Department OF Labor is to build. As
many of these are double rooms. the
registration Office is really ready to
care for more than 5000.
Although the $10.000.0oo appropri-
ated by Congress for housing govern
IueuI WAT WOEherS IN washington Is
available and the sites are understood
to have been definitely decided on,
there was no indication today Of when
work Is to be started on the dormi-
tories or homes for navy yard work.
ers.
Union station plaza and one of the
government-owned squares south of
Pennsylvania avenue between 14th
and 18th streets are understood to
be the sites decided on for the DOR
mftories and the tract from 18th to
1eth and from e to East Capitol
streets southeast for the homes for
navy yard workers.
II work should be started by the
middle of this month 1t probably
would be late in September before
the structures would be completed.
Able to Meet Influx.
Mr.. Hege expressed confidence to-
day that with rooms still being listed
daily the room registration ONCE will
be able to meet the influx of clerks
until the dormitories are ready for
use.
The room registration Office offers
practically no accommodation. how
ever, for the navy yard workers who
still are being brought here and near
ly all of whom have families. The
housing bureau Is contemplating sew
eral hundred small homes and dozen
or more apartment houses OF perma
nent construction.
gun on both the dormitories and the
navy yard homes the government will
see that materials are given priority
| in shipment, in order that the housing
Accommodations may be completed in
| as short a period as possible.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
HANS MERx, MUSICIAN,
GOES TO BE INTERNED

CHICAGO, July s.-Hans Merx. un-
til his arrest May 81. under the espion-
age act. superintendent of church
music in the Roman Catholic archdio-
cese of Chicago. started today with a
party of enemy aliens for Fort ogle-
thorpe, Ga. where they are to be in
Federal agents assert that Merx. a
reserve officer of the Austrian army.
conducted correspondence with per-
sons concerned in plots against the
United States. He formerly lived in
Brooklyn. N. T., where he was active
in musical circles.
Evening star., 1918-07-09

. PARIS, July 9.-Police Commission
or Priolet, at the request of Capt.
Bouchard of the Paris military court.
yesterday questioned NJ. Joucla. a re-
norter ON the newspaper Bonnet
Rouge who was convicted last month
In connection with the pro-German
activities of that newspaper and SEN
fenced to five years penal servitude.
n is understood that the police COM
missioner found nothing in Joucla's
disclosures to warrant any further
delay in his commitment to prison.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
None Lost When Eaton Was Sunk,

NEW YORK. July 9.-No lives were
lost when the American steamship
George L. Eaton was sunk in Euro
pean waters last week, presumably
by q submarine. according to . cable
message received here by James W.
Elwell 4 Co., owners of the ship. All
the crew handed safeiy At : French
Evening star., 1918-07-09
NASHF00D HOARD
SOLD At AUCTION
Business-Like Crowd on
Hand to Buy Condemned
Supplies.
WENT IN LARGE LOTS

Hoarded food taken from the home
of DR.. Francis 8. Nash. U. 8. N. was
sold at auction today at a United
States marshars sale held by Adam
A. weschler, at s20 Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. The food sold comprised the
entire store. estimated to be worth
about $1,000. taken from the Nash
home in @ street recently, and con-
demned by the District Supreme Court.
The sale was the first Of It's kind in
the United States.
Clarence r. Wilson. District food
administrator. was an interested
spectator at the beginning of the sale.
following the reading to the throns
of boarding house keepers. confec-
TONERS and others by Mr.. Weschler
of a letter. from the United States
Food Administration. limiting the
sale of sugar to householders. unless
the purchaser fed twenty-five per-
sons or more 1t was announced that
not more than two pounds could be
sold to a private householder and Mr..
Weschler refused to sell in such small
quantities. This limit. however. did
not apply on sugar sales to those
feeding twenty-five people or more.
and this included soda fountain mon.
etc, Such bidders. however, were lin
tied to purchases for thirty-da
supply, and the sugar purchased Will
be taken from their allotment Tor the
quarter comprising July. August and
September.
Names and Addresses Taken.
The names and addresses Of pur-
chasers of the great stock of groceries
of every description in the sale were
taken, and such will undergo the
scrutiny of the local food administra-
chased more than his needs will be in
danger of facing boarding charge
himself, it was stated.
A big crowd of purchasers gathered
early and examined the stores, rang
ing along the entire west wall of the
Weschler establishment. Hams galore.
soups in cans. 935 pounds OF rice:
1900 pounds of granulated sugar and
soap were a few of the lots auctioned.
Most of the sales were in large lots.
For instance, one lot of sixty-three
two-pound packages of fancy lump
sugar in packages was knocked down
for 10h cents pound. Assorted
soups brought IL cents can.
No certificates were required for the
purchase of sugar at the sale. The
fifty fifty" rule. whereby purchasers
are required to buy an equal amount
of substitutes. etc, when buying
wheat flour, was not in force at the
sale.
Must Be Removed Today.
The cans holding much of the flour.
rice, grain. etc, were not included in
the sale, and those purchasing these
foodstuffs had to bring their own con-
tainers for its removal. The cans
will go back to DR.. Nash.
All the articles purchased will have
to be taken from the saleroom by the
purchasers today.
No wines. etc. were sold today. It
is declared that several persons made
inquiry at the saleroom early in the
morning as to whisky. wines, ETC..
found in the Nash stock, and seemed
disappointed when told that none
would be sold.
H. B. Kramer of the local food ad-
ministration brought to the saleroom
this morning the letter defining the
rules of sale. Deputy Marshal P. F.
Cusick was on hand. but had little to
do. as the crowd was most orderly
and was plainly out for business.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
.GODS0L HEARING
NEARS ITS CLOSE
Attorneys Arguments in Case
of Former French Soldier,
Who Resists Extradition.
is CHARGED WITH CRIME

Tho prosecution today finished its ar
gument before Justice Gould Of the Dis
trict Supreme Court, who is hearing the
babeas corpus proceeding for the re-
lease from custody Of Frank ]. Godsol.
Godsol. a former French soldier. is
charged with obtaining $1.50o.0oo from
the republic Of France in connection
with the purchase of automobile trucks
for war use. The lawyers representing
Godsol may close their arguments late
this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Opens for the Government.
Assistant United States Attorney
Laws opened the argument for the
government. He first pointed out the
limitations on the power of the court
in habeas corpus. proceeding to re-
view the decision of Justice Hitz,
sitting as a committing magistrate,
saying that the test to be applied by
the court to the case was whether
there was any legal evidence before
his order for the extradition. The
presence of hearsay evidence IN the
record was of no moment, he claimed !;
provided there was other competent
evidence to support the charge.
Answering the contention of Attor-
ney Stanchfield that the crime. If any,
was committed in America, because,
while representation may have been
made in France. the money was OBJ
tanned in New York. Mr.. Laws urged
that the law of France under the
treaty was the law which governed,
and that the uncontradicted testi-
mony before Justice Hitz was that
under the law of France the prose-
cution could be maintained there,
even though the money was paid in
America.
Evening star., 1918-07-09
Children's Matches Start Blaze.

Children playing with matches this
morning started a small fire in the
house Of Henry Clay. 207 o street. Fire
men made q quick response to an alarm
sounded from box 277 and prevented
the fire from doing moro than SIS dam
Evening star., 1918-07-09

, NEW YORK. July 9.-Edmund A.
wetmore, distinguished lawyer and
educator, and who had been counsel
IN many important patent litigations
in the United States during the last
thirty years, has died at his home
here. He was at one time president
Of the American Bar Association
(1so0.19ol). He was educated at
Harvard, from which he graduated In
1850, and received his legal education
At Columbia He Was born n utica,
Evening star., 1918-07-09
Automatic May Increase Calls.

That telephone usage here will IN
crease II an automatic telephone sys-
tenn 10 installed was indicated by sta
tistics given by the expert as to the
call rata in Lima, Ohio. where auto
mates are used. With about 10000
stations, Lima, he said, has approx
mately 10000 originating calls q day.
which averages about eight calls per
station per day, as compared with the
less than four calls per station per
day in Washington, where the manual
system Is in operation.
DR.. VOLTS testimony at the morn
ing session related to only a few
phases Of the bureaus investigation
and did not touch upon many OF the
questions, especially that Of the prac-
ticability Of installing automatics in
Washington at the present time;
which the government experts viii
endeavor to clear up for the benefit
Of the commission before the hearing
Representative Of the telephone
company. including President Bethel.
T. P. Sylvan, assistant to the presi--
dent; Attorneys Marye and Swayze of
New York, and others attended the
hearing. Chairman Brownlow Of the
commission presided and General
Counsel Conrad II. Syme conducted the
questioning Of DR.. Woln for the COM
mission. The hearing was resumed
this afternoon and IL not expected to
terminate before Wednesday or Thurs
day at the earliest.
Evening star., 1918-07-09

Navy Fireman Dies Of Injuries.
Guy Casey. Navy fireman of st.
Louis. died July s Of . fractured skull
catpsd By o fall down . hatch aboard
FL cruiser Pittsburgh. ~ Navy De-
Evening star., 1918-07-09
Steamer Returns; Saved 600 Lives.

SEATTLE, Wash, July 9.-After
saving the lives Of more than six
hundred cannery employees. Including
twenty.one men marooned on an Ice
berg for three weeks, the United
States dsheries steamer RooDesz11t
has returned to port from Alesknn
Evening star., 1918-07-09
Assassins Defended.
Changes Are Imminent.

Changes in Russia are Imminent" !"
saws the rrankfurter Zeitung. IF the
entente's enterprise should lead to the
co,,anse Of the, present government
than not much will remain of the
neaee treaties. Our problem would
then become more complicated than
aver. Let us hope that in the solu-
tion of them the sword will play as
little a role as possible. Nevertheless.
the central powers on no account can
nermit the entente to md fresh re-
sources in the east"