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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18

The semianmual meeting of the vir-
g'nia Society OF Public Accountants
VIII take place at the Richmond Hotel
tins morning Il { 10 o'clock. ana tho
session viii last throughout the day.
Inc officers Of the society are: \. NJ.
Pulien G. Il. A. president. Richmond:
y. Lee Rawlings. G. T. A. NorfoII;
vice president. and J. Harold Wren. G
+. A.. Richmond. secretary and treas
urcr. The membership is composed Of
;hc p:acticing public accountants in
the State.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
STRIKE DECLARED OFF
-Norfolis Hallway Harbor Tugs and Pms
scnGcr Hargcs Temporarily
Tied In
10y Associated presr.I

7 y! N-FocIa 'FfI ITpe" ]
NORFOLK. VA, May IA general
strike of crews OF raiiwsy harbor TUGS
and passenger transfer barses. which
began Unexpectedly early this morn
me. has been declared off hu, i, viii
DE several days before the congestion
caused By the temporary tic-ur is re-
iieHed. The request of the strikers for
an increase III wages was referred 70
Washington for final adjustment some
''Hr ago our the tug and barge men
became impatient and decided to force
me issue y majority Of the tugs VIII
again tie in commission Tomorrow.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
NEAR MUTlNY AkloNG HUNS
!nterned Aliens Mt Hot Springs Protest
Loudly HSainst Vheir
UcmnNal.

WASHINGTON. May 17-Almost a
mutiny broke out among tho 2,2Oo In
termed Germans at Hot Springs. ~. G..
when they learned OF the governments
plan to move them before July TO
army posts at Forts Oglethorps and
Mcpherson. Ga. II was necessary to
increase the guards to preserve order.
Many of tho interncd aliens had in
vested their savings in improvement,
on their cottages TO make them moro
comfortable. thinking they were nor
manentiy located tor the period OF tho
war.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
THREATEN TO FEED CROPS
West Ireland Farmers Declare This
VIII he Done II CorscrlptIun
Is Enforced.

LONDON. May 17.-Farmcrs in the
midl2nds OF IVES; Ireland. according
To a Central News dispatch fro: Null
lingar. have decided TO allow the cat
Tie 10 cat the growing crops If con-
Scriptiom is enforced
John Mckenna. chairman OF the Ker-
~ County Council. has been arrested
under the defense of the realm act.
He has been locked UP in a Cork prison.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
COMMONS ADJOURMS
british Lawmakers Go Home. r.cayIn:.
Irish Home Rule In the
tBg Associated r-ers

LONDON. May 1.-THE House o.
Commons adjourned last night una;
May -, without any sign Of the long.
delayed Irish home rule bill Apnar-
entity the members ot the government;
nave no idea when the bill viii lie
introduced.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
DEATH RATE HIGHER
THAN ~ BRITAIN

The infantiie death rate in Germany
has been kept we'll down. but. never
thelesS the report shows. is 50 ucr
cent higher than in England and
Wales. THIS fact has led 20 a large .x-
tension Of infant welfare work in Ger
many In which voluntary societies
have played an active part, but the
movement IS becoming one increasingly
In the control Of tho municipalities.
The infant mortality rate in Ger
many in 1919. II is shown. was ISL per
1000, as compared with los in England
and Wales.
The rates in 1914 for Prussia. Saxonv
and Bavaria we're respectively. lGt, l73
and 1873 per 1000. An abnormal in
crease In infant mortality during thu.
rrst months Of the war is shown nv
the fact that in Prussia in the third
quarter Of 1914. the rate rose from ioi
TO i+3: in SaXonv from 40 to 242, and
N Bavaria from la to 22a. The rec
ords In England and Wales do no,
show any abnormal mortality among
infants during the early months of the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
The Weather
FURNISHED by Z. 8. Weather bureau,
tFedernl Sumner Time Uscd.)
Forecast. Virginia

Fair = u Z err Il q y,
W a r IN or interiors;
Sunday partly cloudy,
gentle "a moderate
east to south winds.
North CarOii:in-
Fair Saturday, warm
cr Interior: Sunday
partly cloudy, gentle
Ia moderate east To
south winds.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
Local ycu,ucr,ture

- noon tciupcr;.turc -
i. NJ. temperature IS
i. NJ temperatures II
Maxim um temperature to y NJ &c
Minimum temperature to s f. NJ 81
Mean temperature " g.
Normal temperature &,
deficiency in temperature Scs:cr-
Deficiency in tcinpcratnrc since
january / .................. 1871
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18

Telling Ia Selling.
Let Times Dispatch Want Ad toll
IN" news Of your business. Telling ia
selling. Call Randolph J.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
Local flIinfnlI.
Local Dl,St.rNrfi

Eaintati last twcnty-toGr' hours None
i:Nc"s5 IN rainfall! since AIarch l. : 90
Excess in rainfall since January !. SD
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18

Locni Observations. at s. T. VI
Temperature. -; humidity. 81; wind
direction, southcast: Wind yal,ci..
miles; weather. clear
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18

Ing calculation and deliberation sufi.
cient to remove any idea of an insane
mind being the actor
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-18
FRENCH CHILDREN SAVED
BY AMERICAN EFFORT
Mrs. Joseph Linden Smith Makes
Vivid Address ut jefferson
Auditorium.
HEARS NO WORD OF COMPLAINT
Gives Striking Account OF Three
Years Work in Rear OF Armies in
France-America Must Live Up to
Expectations.

Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith, fold sec
rotary of the franco-Amcrican com
mtttee for tho care OF refugee chill
dren Of tho French nud Belgian front
thrilled a large audience in tho Jener-
son Hotel auditorium last night. ,.irs.
Smith spoke for nearly two hours
during which Thc related many terri
bic incidents coming under her OBJ
serVation while engaged in her work
for the past three years in France.
She is a Bostouian and has been IN
this country on tour in behalf Of the
chldren's aid section Of the war Re
lief Association for the last six
months.
Mrs. Smith vas preceded by Lieu
tenant G. T. Domcz"n. a French vet
eran of tho war. now stationed ut Camp
Lee and who vas decorated with the
French cross for bravery. In very
good English h" briefly told Of the
conditions in France as lee '.a," their;
and brought home the fact that the
men Of Franco could not fight if th"y
were not assured that their little ones
were safe and in good hands. IN re-
fcrring further 10 the relation Of the
fighting forccs TO tho civilian popula-
ton. he described WILDLY tho mothers
leaving their homes, pushing their
baby carts AMI with otNor children
trgginS at her clothes and with BON be
from enemy planes dropping around
them. Fastening TO place of safety.
Tho American women contrirut ~.
largely IN a financial way toward TIVE
homes fo- these destitute Children.
whose mothers had been slain before
their eyes and fathers KILLED at tho
front. The children cared for Included
many who came back from GermaMy.
having been denorted by the enemy
and sent back by way Of Switzerland
In such health tha, months Of careful
nursing were required % restore them
in {.4,p. M, H..
the audience. and introduced Nr5.
Smith
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
State to Use $4,000
For Immediate Fight
On Influenza Epidemic

ALBANY, Oct. 4.-Fifty thousand
dollars of state funds was ordered by
Governor Whitman to-day to be made
Immediately available for obtaining
services of nurses and physicians to
work under the direction of the State
Health Department and in cooperation
with local health authorities in the
care and treatment of the large number
OF Influenza patients throughout the
state. The ordor was i~r,led rt tha 20
quest of DR.. Hermann NJ Biggs, State
Health Commiss 4oner.
The Governor was asked to take this
action, says Health Department state
ment, in view Of the rapid spread of the
epidemic throughout the state and the
great decrease in the number of physi-
clans and nurses available on account
Of demands for their services by the
Federal government.
EVERY effort will be made" the
statement continues, "to obtain nurses
from such localities as are still com
paratively free from the disease and
dispatch them in groups to such places
as are urgently in need of assistance y
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
euton Loans TO
Ferdinand Nav
Be UncoLlecfibIe

ZURICH. Switzerland, Oct. 4.-Thc
detection of Bulgaria is having a seri-
out effect on the Central Empires, for
financial as we as political and mill
tary reasons, because of the fact that
hoth Germany and Austria Hungary
had made large advances to Bulgaria
for the conduct of military operations.
According to the Vienna ''Neue Freie
Presse.' the first loan was for 30
600 GOO francs made ~ August 1915,
Immediately before Bulgaria's entrance
into the war. Another loan o1 oOO,-
00o,000 francs was made IN 1916. There
were two ether advances in 1916 and
1917, carrying the total above 1,00O,-
100000 francs. In addition, the Cen
tra1 Powers delivered large quantities
of war material to Bulgaria.
The German loans are guaranteed by
the Bulgarian tobacco receipts, but the
Austrian loans are secured only by
Bulgarian paper.
The Bulgarian Socialist party will
support the government in the So
iranjc on the sole condition that the
government makes peace, according to
the Socialist newspaper "Narod," of
Sofia. The Socialists also demand that
the government shall conclude nego-
tiations necessary to insure good re-
iations between the Balkan peoples
and which will tend toward the estab-
lishment of a Balkan league.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
Will Reject
NelU Austrian Plea for
Peace Conference

WASHINGTON. Oct. 4.--No details
of the new Austrian peace move
reached Washington tonight. The
only word received by the State De-
partment was through the press dis
patches. and these were too brief to
disclose whether any actual endeavor
had been made to respond to President
Wilson'S reply to the last Austrian
peace move.
Whatever may be the new proposal
OF the Austrian government. however,
1T will be rejected. 1t is pointed out
that President Wilson has made it so
emphatic that no word of the present
German or Austrian governments can
be accepted, that there is no possibil-
lty of any peace negotiations with
Germany or Austria until there has
been change in the governments of
those countries-not change in min
lstrles,. but an actual change in the
form of governments. And this change
must include the removal from power
OF the Hohcnzollern and Hapsbure
dynasties.
The only interest in the new Aus
trlan move observable here tonight
was curiosity to know just what Will
helmstrasse-for, Of course, Vienna
was only a relay point-has desig-
mated now IN the way of peace often
sive. following tho sharp rebuff from
the United States and the Allies which
greeted the last peace move
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
100000 Americans
Abroad; Influenza
Delays Transport
Men Exposed to Disease
Will Not Be Sent to
Join Fighters
Halt Conscript Call
First Draft of $4,000 Regis
trants in October Still Re-
mains Suspended

WASHINGTON, SOct. 4.--American
troops abroad now number 100000,
members of the House Military Com
mitteo were informed to-day at their
weekly conference at the War Depart
ment. Spanish influenza in camps and
cantonments will retard shipments
somewhat in the immediate future,
they were told. the department having
adopted the policy of not sending men
overseas who have been exposed or
show symptoms of the disease.
No requests for the suspension of
physical examinations of draft regis
trants were received by Provost Mar
shal General Crowder day, though
in Massachusetts and Philade lphia the
work has been stopped because of in
fluenza. 1t was said that, except in To-
calities where conditions were partic-
ulary bad, the examinations would
proceed.
The examinations upon which local
boards everywhere are now engaged
affect men between nineteen and thir-
ty-seven years Of age who registered
on September II and have been placed
in Class /, ready for immediate calls.
The first large call for men in October,
which would have taken $4,000 into
cantonments on October ., still re-
mains suspended.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
Nelu Yorkers
Epidemic Victims at
Wrighfsto.un Camp

CAMP DIX, WRIGHTSTOWN. N. j.,
Oct. 4.-One New York City soldier,
two from Brooklyn, six from other
parts of New York and nine from
New Jersey are numbered among the
forty new deaths reported from pneu-
monia, influenza and meningitis a
humber of cases Of the last named
disease having appeared. One hundred
and seven new cases of pneumonia have
been reported, making total of O75,
and 102 new cases of influenza, making
a total of 4,011.
The New Yorker who died was Pri-
yate William Mcintosh. West 136th
Street, and the Brooklynites Privates
Andrew ]. Fesore, 1853 Meserole Street,
and Charles P. Geissing. 425 Grove
Street. The other New Workers were
Privates L. T. Sturdevant, Jamestown;
William Goldsmith. Penn Van; Frank
Timmons and James r. Hilliker. Buff
falo; John B. Simmons. Catskl, and
Joseph d. Shurhan, Dunkirk.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
u. S. Asked to Curtail
Motion Picture OUTPUT
Priorities Committee Consid.
ers so Per Cent Cut in
Production

The release of thousands of notjor
picture employees for national service
by sweeping curtailment of the Aim
industry, is prospective war measure
being considered by the Priority Com.
mittee of the War Industries Board
The conservation plan, suggested "a
the committee by picture men then.
selves, calls for a large saving in pro.
duction material, advertising, fuel aus
transportation, as we'll as drast;e
thinning of the ranks of actors, me.
chanical workers and others who mako
their livelihood in the movies
An appeal for action by the War
Board was made in letter written
by George Kleine. producer and head
of national distributing concerr
He recommended a 50 per cent en-,
in all production, excepting pictures
of value to the government for war
purposes.
Prominent film men said they were
not disturbed by the possible curtaif.
ment Of their output. and several were
of the opinion that such chang
would benefit the industry as whoie
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
Senate Finance Committee
Adopts Amendment to Un-
earth Stacker Salaries
Will Affect 3O,OOO,OOO
Practically Every Adult Wage
Garner Will Feel Lat
est Suggestion
By Theodore M. Knappen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-By virtue of
an amendment to the Kitchin bill
agreed upon by the Finance Committee
Of the Senate to-day, something like
c0.O00,000 persons will have to wrcstle
with the complexities and intricacies
Of personal income return blank this
fiscal year. Under the present law and
by the bill only those who have a net
income Of $1,000 if single and 81 900 if
married are required to make returns.
Under the amendment every person
whose gross income is $1,000 or more
will have TO report.
One result of this amendment will
be to cause millions of wage earners
to make returns. Another will be to
get some millions of farmers on rec
ord
Heretofore it was an easy matter
for the man with gross income of any
where from $1,000 to $4,000, or even
more, to make running jump esti-
mate and decide that his net income
was less than $1,000 or $4,000. If he
satisfied his conscience and no tax col
lector came around to investigate he
got off without paying an income tax
Most farmers and wage earners fig
ured that the law was not intended
tor them, anyway
Practically every adult person who
IS engaged in gainful occupation is
now making $1,000 year or more,
and under the terms of the amendment
Will be required to make a return or
be penalized.
1t is thought this finance committee
amendment will go long way toward
distributing income taxation over all
classes and conditions of society.
The committee adopted number of
ther amendments of an unimportant
nature. struck out the 25 per cent
amortization limit on corporation in
come deductions and adopted the bill
with amendments as far as Section 25l,
passing over some paragraphs for in
dlvidual reasons and several because
they come under the general subject
CT depletion, amortization, business
loss and deductions, which the commit
tee is planning to condense into a
single comprehensive amendment that
will, it is hoped, give all persons and
corporations square deal" in assess
ing income taxes.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
y. S. Seeks independence
OF German Potash Control

united States has risen from 900 tons
in 1915 to 10000 tons this ,vea YEAR ''nf of
which about 10000 tons came from the
tNeoraska :, plants and 5000 from the
Searles Lake deposits in California.
ne Total production is now about one
quarter OF the amount formerly i'm.
ported from Germany.
ne NeDraska deposits are regarded
as. short lived, but the Searles Lake
possibilities are estimated at from TO-
ooo,ooo to 2o,O00,000 tons-enough TO
meet all the requirements of the coun-
sry tor from twenty to forty wears.
lh's deposit is, however, unfortunately
very remote from the regions in which
potash is largely used.
lhe same is true of the potash de-
rived from the giant kelps of the Pa
enc Coast. which now rank second az
source of potash.
The aluntc deposits near Marvsvalr
Utah, are producing about 2,4OO tons
o year. but they also are remote from
the chief markets.
me greatest potential sources of
potash. according to A. w. Stockett Of
the Bureau of Mines, who is in charge
OF these researches, are the green
sands of New Jersey and the Caters
VILE states of Georgia, but no genera!
commercial process for extracting their
potash has yet been developed.
From commercial and economical
point of view the most promising
sources now being developed are the
Portland Cement Mill by-products. The
cement plants are distributed all over
the country, and a plant in California
and another in Maryland are ALREADY
hndlng their by-products more profit
able than the cement.
The potash is recovered from the
k'ln dust The cement plants will pro
ouce altogether 10000 or 10000 tons
oi potash ms year and may eventually
turn out $4,000 tons annually.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
Durazzo Reduction
Means U-Boat Must
Leaue Mediterranean
(SpeciaI pispntch to The Tribune)

NopeCI DSpdtcN 10 Inc 1ubUh1)
WASHINGTON, Oct 4.-The re-
ported participation OF American naval
craft in the reduction of the Austrian
naval base at Durazzo, Albania, COM
ing on the heels of the information re-
ceived by the State Department that
the Germans are beginning TO evacuate
their naval bases on the Flanders
coast, is believed in we'll informed
naval circles to be the first of impor-
tant naval operations both in the
Adriatlc and British waters.
The defeat of the Austrians means
he driving of the submarine from the
Mediterranean, thus removing the dan
ger of an attack on the Allied naval
lines of communication and turning
those waters into lanes for undis-
turbed Allied shipping.
An official cable from Rome to the
Italian Embassy to-day said:
''The military situation in the
Balkan peninsula and Albania made it
advisable to destroy the efficiency of
the port of Durazzo for enemy mill
tary traffic"
For the first time since the attack
on the Notifications of the Dardanelles
An Allied squadron, composed of bat
tleships and division of torpedo
boats, carried out a successful attack
against an enemy base" an earlier
telegram from Rome said. "The merit
belongs to the Italian fleet, admirably
supported by light English vessels and
American submarine destroyers.
while the details regarding the i'm
portance of the action are still lack
ing, it can be affirmed that it was car
ried to a successful issue after thor
ough preparation, made necessary by
the extreme narrowness of that part
of the Adriatic.
preceded by a number of mine
sweepers, which opened safe passage
across the fields of mines the battle
ships began the bombardment, while
small motor vessels conducted them
selves with great valor, torpedoing
torpedo boat destroyer and steamer.
italian generosity was once more
shown in allowing safe passage to an
enemy hospital shin ="
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
By Theodore M. Knappen

WASHINGTON, Oct. At having
been called to President Wilson's at
tcntion that Germany is counting upon
the practical monopoly of potash, which
she has hitherto enjoyed, as one of her
''pawns" in the determination of peace
he has taken a personal interest in the
subject and is urging the Department
of the Interior and the War Industries
Board to take every possible step to
render the United States independent
of German potash.
The enactment of the law for the
stimulation of mineral production,
which the President has just approved,
opens the way for substantial encour-
agement of all the various enterprises
that arc now seeking to make this
country Independent Of Germany in
respect to potash, which is generally
considered as an indispensable ingre-
dient of agricultural fertilizers.
Before the war Germany was prac-
tically the only source of the worlds
supply of potash. the United States
potash salts, equivalent to 100000
tons of pure potash, which come from
the great beds at Stassfurt, in Saxony
There are also extensive deposits in
Alsace, and German propagandists have
even represented that one of the war
purposes of the Allies in demanding
the restoration of Alsace to France
is to get possession of the Alsace
potash fields.
Secretary Lane is expected to issue
within day or two memorandum on
the potash situation, in which he will
show that with proper encouragement
and direction the United States is
capable of producing all .hc potash it
requires.
The total production of potash in the
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
Philadelphia Closes
Amusement Places.
Many Cities "Drv''

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4.~-Drastic
measures to combat the spread of in
huenza' which is sweeping through
many parts of Pennsylvania. WIS in
iSll iS SWING tonight: In obedience to
partment of Health, the greater mart
OF the state tonight was bone drv y
All places where liquors are sold even
private clubs, have been prohibited
from dispensing intoxicants until fur-
ther notice: The order went into ef-
1ect In Philadelphia at 7 o'clock TO-
night; All amusement places have been
aalosed, and public gatherings, even out
door Liberty Loan meetings, were sus-
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
Americans Play Important
Part in Bombardment
Of Naval Base
Vienna Attempts to
Minimize Damage
Assault on Albanian Port
Thought Forerunner of
New Offensive

ROSE, Oct. 4.-American submarine
chasers destroyed two enemy subma-
rines yesterday during the lombard
ment of Duraz7p, it was officially an
nounced to-day.
The Chief Of the General Staff of the
Italian navy made the announcement
OF the American success. The chasers
were engaged in patrol escort service
for the protection of the large warships
taking part in the bombardment
LONDON. Oct. An the levelling Of
the Notifications and depots at Durazzo
Wednesday the Entente squadron, ac-
cording to a Central News dispatch
from Rome, destroyed much material Of
the Austrian army in Albania.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05
Saloons Are Closed
In Boston to Check
Spread of Influenza

BOSTON. Oct. 4.-Liquor saloons in
this city were ordered closed for an
indefinite period, as step in stopping
the spread Of influenza, at a meeting
Of Mayor Andrew J. Peters Emergency
Health Committee to-day. The commit
tee also requested all churches to re-
main closed next Sunday.
Seventy-nine communities outside of
Boston reported 4,773 new cases and
81 deaths, as against 1924 new cases
and 15l deaths, reported yesterday by
eighty-three cities and towns.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-05


pest state that the demand for the
formation of coalition cabinet in
Hungary becomes more insistent
and that plan is on foot to bring
Count Stephen Tisza, Count julius
Andrassy and Count Albert Appon-
VI into the cabinet of Premier
Wekerle.
The fact that Count Michael
Karolyi, president of the Hungarian
Independent party, has had a long
interview with Premier Wekerle and
later sought an interview with En-
peror Charles, has also aroused
much attention.