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Evening star., 1918-01-16
STEAMSHIP TEXAN SAFE
American-Hawaiian Line Receives
Notification From the Navy
Department.

NEW YORK, January 16.-The Amer
ican-Hawaiian line steamship Texan.
reported sinking off the coast two days
ago, is safe, the line was notified today
by the Navy Department
The line received no details, it's Of
ficfals announced, the notice from the
Navy Department merely stating that
the Texan was afloat. Their assump-
ton was that the crew of forty-three
men was also safe. otherwise they
would have been notified.
Wireless messages Monday from the
Texan reported that she had been
struck amidships" and was sinking.
The crew had taken to the boats. Good
bye. No more" were the last words
of the message, and the last known of
the fate of the vessel until the infor-
nation received today from the Navy
Department. 1t was supposed that the
Texah was in collision with another
vessel.
Evening star., 1918-01-16

BALTIMORE, Nd, January 16.-Unit.
ed States District Attorney Samuel K
Dennis declared today that after a
thorough examination of the papers and
effects Of Walter Spoermann, alleged
German spy arrested at the new Army
aviation depot near Newport News, Va,
he did not believe that the man in the
Baltimore Jail was guilty of anything
more serious than violating the provi-
sions of the Presidents proclamation
concerning the movements of enemy
aliens.
Mr.. Dennis added that if the naval in
telligence agents have no more evil
dence than that which was brought to
his attention nothing will come Of the
case.
In a resume Of the case. Mr.. Dennis
said he could not understand, in the
first place, just why Spoermann had
been brought to this city by the agents
of the naval intelligence bureau. He
stated that SO far as he could sae
Spoermann had simply been working
at various military camps and at the
aviation field in Virginia as a mechanic.
and had only violated the Presidents 8
proclamation concerning the move
ments Of enemy aliens.
Mr.. Dennis declared in conclusion
that the United States Attorney Cen
eral would decide the merits Of the case
and that in his hands would rest the
fate of the man under arrest.
Lieut.. Spoermann was brought to Bal
timore yesterday afternoon. He was
rushed from the railroad station to the
United States marshals Office and thence
lodged in Jail.
Records at the local federal Office show
that an enemy alien permit was issued
to Spoermann several months ago, and
the record showed statements from Spoer-
mann that he had come to America with
his brother Frederick in 1910.
These statements only and SO far as
could be ascertained were never run down
by the federal agents for verificatlon.
Papers seized in his rooms here in Balti-
more last week, along with those indi-
eating dealings with both Bernstorn and
Boy-Ed, indicated that he had reported
for service in Germany after the war
began in August, 1914.
This would apparently dispute Spoer-
mann's statements on his alien record In
1910. except that he could have returned
to Germany surreptitiously. reported for
service there and later re-entered the
United States without detection.
Evening star., 1918-01-16
PAN-GERMANS CAUSE
Rl0TING IN FRANKFORT

AMSTERDAM, January 16.-Frank-
fort has followed the example of len.
and Mannheim and has refused a hear-
ing to the fatherland party, accordins
to German advices today.
AS soon as the chairman of bic
meeting, that had been called in Frank
fort mentioned the fatherland party a
tumult broke out and rioting followed
The police finally had to disperse the
meeting. - ..
Evening star., 1918-01-16
POPULATION OF BERLIN
NOW LIVES ON RATIONS

STOCKHOLM, January 16.-Food con-
ditions in Berlin have become so much
worse, according to advices reaching
here, that the population is compelled
to exist almost entirely on the ration
ed quantities of bread. meat and pota-
toes Virtually no vegetables or fruit
are reaching the city and no game is
to be had. owing to the beginning of
the closed season.
Some of the greater Berlin municipali-
ties, It is said. have been forced to re-
duce the potato ration from seven
pounds to six pounds.
Evening star., 1918-01-16
Capitalization of Buying
Forecasted in Resignation of
Willard From War Board

Resignation of Daniel Willard as
chairman of the war industries board
TO-DAY was regarded by some persons in
close touch with recent developments in
the War Department and the Council Of
National Defense as being another cir
cumstance leading to some centraliza-
ton of the purchasing of supplies to
meet war needs.
1t was stated the resignation of Mr..
willard had no connection with the re-
organization of the War Department,
between the duties of the war industries
board and the department. But if the
board is to be continued 1t was consid-
cred likely that some more specific
definition of it's duties will have to be
made.
No one seems able to give a clear
definition, in view of the recent creation
of new bureaus in the War Department
and the merging of others, of just
where the duties of the war industries
board end and the departmental bu-
reaus begin. For example there is the
new office of director of purchases in
the department, of which Secretary
Baker said, THE five purchasing divi-
sions of the War Department are CO.
ordinated. and their eonbicting needs
reconciled through the director of pur-
chases." In the same statement, made
announced, the Secretary said of the
war industries board that it will assist
the several purchasing departments to
convert factories from one form of i'm
dustry to another and will supply in
formation as to possibilities of increas.
ing the raw material and manufactur.
ing facilities"
Evening star., 1918-01-16
SAY SOLDIERS DANCE TOO MUCH
Camp Devens officials to Take Steps
to Cut Social Doings.

AVER. Mass, January 16.-The New
Eng1and soldier at Camp Devens
too much. in the opinion of Of
ecers At a conference of camp officials
= was decided to take steps to cut
down the social functions. which are
mighty occurrences. It was the
.,,asment of those present that the
.,;nd of the soldier was distracted bv
20 many gayeties. This impression
20 confirmed. it was said. by the COM
ment of a British officer, who recently
inspected the cantonment. He was
quoted as saying:
.sThere is too much woman about this
camp" ..--.---.-a-
Evening star., 1918-01-16
STOLEN CAMP FUNDS
FOUND HIDDEN IN WALL

: CAMP FUNSTON, Kan. January 16-
money taken from the Army bank at
Camp Funston by Capt. Lewis Whistler
last Friday night, after he had killed
four employees and injured fifth, said
to have been more than $4,000. was
found today hidden in the walls of
Whisler's quarters in the barracks
here.
The money, in currency, was found
stored neatly in a hiding place Capt.
Whistler evidently had prepared for it.
The finding of the money. it was said.
probably closes the case as far as the
theory that Whistler had an accomplice.
Evening star., 1918-01-16
Girl Player at D. c. Hotel
Declares She Knew Spy
Suspect Was Pro-German

Miss Mary Stoops, the Washington
girl mentioned in connection with the
arrest Saturday at Fort Monroe. Va,
of Walter Spoermann, suspected Of be-
ing a German spy. today told reporter
for The Star of her acquaintance with
the man under arrest.
Miss Stoops. who is an accomplished
violinist, was found at the National
Hotel, where she. plays. Almost pros
trated because of the serious trouble
involving her friend. Miss Stoops de-
clined to make any detailed statement
saving she had been instructed by 1.-The
authorities" to say nothing to news
paper men.
Aware of Pro-German Views. :.
She said she had known Spoermann
for several years, but was indefinite as
to the exact length of time. She also
said she was we'll aware of his pro-
German sympathies. and had frequently
pleaded with him to find some work
other than around Army camps and can
tonments, as she believed he was likely
TO get into trouble in such employment,
Miss Stoops declared she had never
suspected that Spoermann was a spy
In the pay of Germany, however, and
said she never knew of his having worn
the uniform of an American officer or
soldier.
nloyed as timekeeper or in some similar
caDacity at several cantQnments under
construction. she said, wone Of these
being Camp Meade. She was not GER
tain as to when he went to Norfolk. and
also declined to say when she had seen
him last.
Employed in Washington.
! The young man. she said. was for a tina
empIoyed as clerk in the office Of loca,
plumhing company. but she declined to
give the name of the concern and likewise
refused to say when Spoermann was an
employed here.
Il knew all the time that he was pro-
German in his sympathies,'' Miss Stoons
said. .but had no idea he was actuajIv
working in the interests of his country-
he is a native Of Germany. Many times
asked him to stop working around he
Army camps and to find something EN-
to do: not because thought he would
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Evening star., 1918-01-16
Anti-Sufragists Suffer Rebuff.

LONDON. January 16.-The anti-suf-
fragists insthe house of lords suffered
another rebuff yesterday by the rejec-
tion Of an amendment proposed by Wis
count T9RHfax to the franchise bf1l that
the QUESTION be decided by a referen-
yes 6efeated by @. vote OF 30 to 81.
Evening star., 1918-01-16
ASSERT CZARINA IS INSANE.
German Newspapers Say She Is Con.
fined in Sauitarium at Tobolsk.

% AMSTERDAM. January 16. - The
former Empress of Russia. according to
German papers. has beome insane and
now Is confined to sanitarium at
Tobolsk, Siberia Her condition is re-
ported to be homeless.
The former empress was reported to
be seriously i'll last September. She
accompanied the former emperor, Nicho-
las Romanoff, when he was transferred
from Tsarskoe-SeIo to Tobolsk.
Evening star., 1918-01-16
DEPUTYlN CAILLAUX
CASE is ARRESTED

PARIS, January I6.-Louis LOU
staIot, member of the French cham
Der of deputies from Landes, whose
immunity recently was suspended in
connection with the Caillaux case,
was arrested this morning.
Evening star., 1918-01-16
Minor Portion of Work.

Hitherto the conversion of industries
to those better adapted to meet war.
time needs has been only minor por-
tion of the work of the war industries
hoard. handled principally through
George N. Peek. designated for this
particular work.
Criticism of the War Department re-
organization, made in the midst of the
outspoken criticisms during the inves-
tigation of the Senate military affairs
committee. is widespread. Much of it
is to the effect that the changes are
not drastic enough, and seem to be only
a patchy method of ayerting the CEN
tralization of purchases under a munf-
tions minister. opposed by Secretary
Baker in his testimony. and known mot
The war industries board has been
Evening star., 1918-01-16
Germans to Intercept
All Messages Which
MIGHT Incite Masses

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 16.-The boIsheyik
government has announced officially.
according to a Reuter- dispatch from
Petrograd, that the reports regarding
the progress of the peace pourparlers
sent out by the Wolff bureau, the Ger.
man semi-off1cial agency, alter the real
sense of the negotiations. Foreign
Secrtary Won kuehlmann, the dispatch
adds, has declared to the Russian dele
gates that the German government re-
serves the right to intercept all COM
munications which might excite the
popular masses in Germany.
Begs Help for Army.
Three appeals issued by the bolshevik
government in Petrograd Tuesday are
contained in a Russian official wireless
communication received here. One is
signed by the council of peoples COM
missaries for war and the central com.
mittee for army supplies and begins:
"To all: Immediate help is necessary
The army which is standing patiently
and braveIy on guard for the freedom
famine; their provisioning has ceased
Several regiments are entirely without
bread and horses are without fodder
Every citizen of Russia in this fateful
hour. do your duty Immediately"
The governments provisioning COM
mitlees are told it is their duty to as
sume responsibility for the buying and
sending Of food to the armies without
sparing any means. and 1mmediatel,
with all your revolutionary energy In
friendly cooperation to do what you
think is necessary, including the order.
ing of compulsory work"
Threat to Railway Men.
men and others concerned
with transportation are warned that Il
found guilty Of violence OF disorder OF
attempts to.capture military foodstuH.
Il lContinued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1918-01-16
Ultimatum to Rumania.
By the Associated Press.

The council of national commissioners
Monday sent an ultimatum to Rumania
demanding the release of the bolsheviki
arrested recently in that country the pun
ishment of officials who ordered the dis
armng Of Russian troops and a guaran-
tee for the future. A reply was demanded
the ultimatum saws. extreme Measures
will be taken.
Evening star., 1918-01-16
Threat to Railway Men.

men and others concerned
with transportation are warned that IL
found guilty Of violence OF disorder or
attempts to.capture military foodstufrs
i lContinued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1918-01-16
WEATHER.

Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; prob
ably snow; little change in tempera-
ture.
Temperature last twenty-four hours
ending pm. today: Highest, "a. at 2
pm. today; lowest. q. at am. today.
Full report on page 16.
Evening star., 1918-01-16

The Associated Press IN exclusively entitled -
the use for republication Of all news dispatchss
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights Of publication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1918-01-16

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-29
BY NAN O'BRIEN

Sister of philadelphia Jack o'Brien."
VoUNG woman OF today!
L You, whose hour has struck, who
stand on the threshold Of untried possi-
bilities, with never-before-known respon-
sibilties on your shoulders and never
dreamed-of powers in your grasp;
Only one thing can stand between you
and your regal entrance to your broad
new kingdom, head aloft and eyes wide
open to the new-world vision Of woman
hood.
That's the lack OF physical prepared
ness. To be 1T you must feel ft,"
vibrant, aglow, full of the joy of service
and this condition comes only through
training.
The woman Of today must make the
most of her physical self, realizing that
without her full measure of health-brim-
ming vitality she must fall far short OF
her new opportunities
With health the world is hers. With
out it-hut no woman need stay WITH
out II. If she does not yet realize she
must be taught to make.the best use OF
| natures clements. water, arr anu hgn''
and to take regular exercise, thereoy
building and strengthening her physlcal
system, She must he taught TINS IL she
| is to escape evils to wnich she Is pc
culiarly susceptible. because OF her oeh-
cately adjusted mechanism ,...
Exercise of the right sort is me
olver. hut il is of value only as 1t Is
uniform. systematized, persistent WIN
the boy It should take the form or atm
letics; with women and girls, physicai
culture.
Ny experience of seven years IN teach :
ing and preaching physical prepared
ness has been a Joy. first from the fac'
that I have directed hundreds TO the
knowledge how to obtain vigorous
alert, effective body. and still more Noe-
cause I have yet to hear of one who mas
since met with a severe illness or is not
in robust health today.
Naturally, war conditions are bring
ing new Importance to this great
subject of health supremacy for women
Where few years ago an electric cabi-
net bath or n body massage was al
most unthought Of, except for men, hun
dreds of women have now learned the
lIfe-giying results from these treat
ments and are claiming them for their
own. They are Drawing the supposed
horrors of jogging two or three miles
at some gym, doing the various stunts
on parallel and horizontal bars, indulg-
ing in calisthenics and pulley-machine
exercises of variegated forms punching
the bag when suspended from plat
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HEY HAVEN'T LIVED HIS LIFE.
BUTTHEY HAVE DIED HIS DEATH
What the Supreme Drama of Good Friday
i Means to the Men in the Trenches as Told
by Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson

the part that Christ Is playing in the
present war. He survives in the noble
self'effacement of the men. He is re-
crucified I'm the defiements that are
wrought upon their bodies" -
LIEUTENANT 7 DAWSON describes
- high altar. all that was left Of a
cathedral 'roofed only by the sky"
The Christ looked down from His
cross, as He had done for centuries,
sweeping the length of splendid archi-
lecture with sad eyes"
Then he goes on:
From the polluted trenches of Vimy
the poppies spring up, blazoning
abroad in vivid scarlet the heroism of
our lads willing sacrifice. All last
April, high above the shouting of our
guns, the larks sang joyously. The
scarlet of the poppies, tn, song OF the
larks, the lamp shining on the altar.
are only external signs of the uncon'
querable, happy religion which lies
hidden in the hearts of our men. Their
religion Is the religion of heroism,
which they have learned in the glory
of the trenches.
"a big sacrifice, which banlirupts
ones life, Is always more bearable than
the little inevitable annoyances Of
sickness, disappointment and dying in
Deu.
ITS easier for Christ to go TO Cal.
vary than for an onlooker to lose a
nights sleep in the garden.
God as we see Him! And do we
sec Him? 1 think SO, but not always
consciously. He moves among us in
the forms of our brother men. We see
him most evidently when danger is
threatening worst and courage Is at
its highest. We don't often recognize
Him out loud. Our chaps don't assert
that they're His fellow-campaigners
They're too humble and in
| articulate for that. They're where
they are because they want to do their
'bit'-their duty. A carefully dis.
there.
"'Doing their bit in Bible language
means laying down their lives for their
friends. After all, they're not so far
| from Nazareth"
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Tomorrow's War Me,;,'

The recipe for anv dish msr,,.
here will be forwarded upon rscs,,,. \.
seif-addressed stamped envelope = :
DREAKFAsT
Grapefruit
liominy with Ton Mil,
Hidden Eggs
Coffee
LUNCHEON
Creamed Tuna Fish with Creon
Raisin and Apple Marmaiaa ppen
Barley Drop Cakes
A BAKED DINNER (No BRrA,,
q Casserole Of Lamb
Baked Stuffed Potatoes
Apple Pudding ''a'oes
BARLEY DROP CAKES
One-haif cuptm fat.
Three-qudrters cupJul sugar.
one egg. ~
One-haD cupf,tt ,cater or min
= Ttoo cupJuls barley -four. ~
Three fedspooufuIs bakiuo oo,,s.
One-qadrtcr tedspoonJtl saff n
1hree-qrdrters cupJui chopped ..,.
Cream fat and sugar Ada 49,.
egg and milk. Sift dry ingredientse tes.es ss
add with chopped nuts Mix tboror. Snc s,lc
Drop by tablespoonfus on a wsiirssml!y
taking sheet and bake in a moderssaa
oven. 'uefate
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exception of the very aged and the
mothers Of children"
Through her knowledge OF the French
language Doctor Tallant was a great
asset to the unit of sixteen women.
aside from her value as doctor. How
ever, her leave of absence was over In
February, and she was constrained to
return home. In telling of the medi-
cal needs of the village folk Doctor Tai
liant said:
"Civilian hospitals are almost un-
known In France now. That Is one of
the horrors of war, for the thousands
and thousands of women and children
need hospital care just as much, II not
more. than ever before. In our work we
laid particular stress upon the children.
and endeavored to give them the nour-.
ishment they needed as growing chill
dren. They seem to have had enough
of vegetables, thin soups and war
bread. but the milk and meat that
mean so much 10 the growing child
have been impossible to get About'the
| first thing our unit did was to get some
cows and furnish the children with
milk.
| 1.-THE Smith College unit was only one
of great number of such relief organ
izations helping the people in the VIII
lagos devastated by the Germans get
pdck 10 HOrIldi Hedltily ihaiihei u
! living"
Doctor Tallant continued
These people have a great love of
their birthplace. and preferred to live
there, in spite of the destruction that
preceded the retreat of the German army
last fall. Virtually every house and
barn, every fruit tree and vegetable
garden was destroyed in the retreat,
but with the aid Of the relief units they
lived through the winter. and were get
ting ready to plant gardens and settle
down to as peaceful an existence as six
teen miles from the battle front would
permit. Owing to the proximity of the
front, no work of permanent reconstruc-
ton was undertaken"
According to a cablegram received
last week. the members of the unit were
safely out of range when the big drive
started. They had been given warning
of the coming activities.
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nvER In France where the scarlet
~ poppies flash in the sunshine as
Yoen die gloriously for their country,
they will tell you they understand
Good Friday now.
TWO thousand years ago a Man died
for something on which none could lay
hts hand. A cause. the supreme cause.
How incomprehensible. vmen have
Whispered. How vain to give life for
Something you cannot seei
But in the trenches they have grown
e understand. Men have drowned for
ideals in the mud of the trenches.
nlAutenant Coningsby Dawson, the
young Canadian soldier author, tells so
beautifully what the crucifixion means
to tho men now that i cannot do better
than print what he says. Lieutenant
Dawson has been in the thick of the
q6ht, he has been spent long months
IA hospitals thinking it over. God
a. We See Him." he calls his marvel
ous story of the trenches. which ap-
pears in Good Housekeeping.
tNNHE wooden Christ" he writes,
i "gazed down on them from His
cross, with q suffering which two thou
sand years ago he had shared. The
terrible pity of His silence seemed to
be telling them that they had become
one with Him in their final sacrifice.
They hadn't lived His life-far from
IL: unknowingly they had died His
death. That's a part of the glory of
the trenches, that a man who has not
been good can cruelty himself and
hang beside Christ in the end. One
wonders in what pleasant places those
weary souls find rest.
ssThere was a second Calvary--a
heap OF ruins. Nothing of the altar or
trees. by which it had been surrounded,
was left. The first time / passed it I
saw foot protruding. The man
might be wounded; / climbed up to
examine and pulled aside the debris.
beneath It found, like that of one
three weeks dead, the naked body of
3he Christ. The exploding shell had
skrenched 1t from its cross. Aslant the
lace. with gratuitous blasphemy, the
} crown of thorns was tilted.
"Those two Calvaries picture for me