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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-18
Become Peaceful Citizens.

The red guards, who regard Gen.
Gaida with the utmost awe, discard
ed their guns and became peaceful
citizens. The civil population demon
strated their. unfeigned joy at their
deliverance.
On August 10 at Troitskovasavsk
1900 Magyars. who had styled them
selves 'Internationalists," surrendered
to Col. Linevitch's deta chment. The
trophies taken by the Czecho-Slovaks
included four steamers, several barges
and a number Of automobiles and
horses.
A Czecho-Russian force sent over
land from 1rkutsk against the boil
sheviki working the Yakutsk gold
mines disposed entirely of the red
guard, took the mines under control
and occupied Yakutsk.
The main body of the Czecho-
Russian troops then proceeded above
the Amur railway in pursuit of the
main body of red guards, which with
drew from Nerchinsk to Sretensk
after the capture of Tchita. The Co.'S
sacks freely entered the ranks of the
CZecho-SlovakS.
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Grand fetal.

Graz. ..,., a s:'ss
The fsllswing casualties are repsrt-
eA BY the e0mnaAndlng general Of the
American expeaftienary forces (in-
eaaded In above tetal)s
KILLED In action ...........
Died Of w0uAds received In
action
woundeA In aetien severely Q
Missing In action. 10
q
KILLED m AoT1os.
EIp sasxaFr Wln..m l.. cleveland. Ohio.
LANE. BENJAMIN F.. g. Louis, Mo:
xo ST. S sissi III H11s
PRIVATES:
HAYWARD. Don l., Sparta. I'LL
LEASE. Frank ", Gazette. Mo.
WOUNDED m ACTON tssversly,.
RANSOM. Charles r.. Duck Hn. Miss.
cHALLIs, Fred L.. Atehison, Kan.
cHl59 as4Di5s p Paul Ia r. .. Mitch Al
WEBB. Martin B.. PhiiadeIphi.. Pa.
MISSING IN ACTION.
/ BARNHAM: Claude NJ. Naeosdoches. Tex.
B1Fas a se.es w. f. Ts,mD.ston, Mass
DExTER. George ". Atlantic. lows.
HIRsCH, William. Minneapolis. MINI.
IUTER. Fred. RIGGS. Ak.
CRuM. John r., sherrard, W. Va.
FIERCE. Nathan W.. Spirit Lake. Iowa.
PoYTHREss. Marvin l., Chapel Hnl. N. @.
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MRS. r. LUSBY.

MRS. r. LUSBY.
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appointment. Phone Col. 1470.
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PALMISTRY.

RIZPAH ELDON. WHOSE WONDERFUL
knowledge of the science OF palmistry is at
tracing the attention Of the entire public.
Hundreds are visiting her, and each and every
one accords her the highest praise. Fee, 81.
Hours. 10 m. to 10 PIN. Cor 9Th and NV.
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Army casualty lists for last night
contain 273 names. divided as follows:
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Scientific palmist and clairvoyant. be con-
suited on all affairs of life. Readings. 81. 1915
New York ave. NV. between Eth and 18th
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Prices Range From $25 to Sos

We're prepared business this Our air
bullying cothng-and we'll show before e-war quail
woons purchased long, long We got the best of quality
best of price, Today you're getting the advantage of that
tailored order according the dictates
clothing made for particular trade and we know right for
Washington climate.
here and buy according his wishes
him good suit for $2 him for sos and
either
than he can get elsewhere. in for YOURSELF
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KILLED IN ACTION.

The list follows:
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
ship BUILDERS ASK
FOR A war ZONE
TO INCLUDE ALL sHIPYAROs-
BowLEs SEEKS RIGHT TO
coMMANpEER HOUSES
And Would Tighten Tax For contrae-
tors-Former Admiral Puts Faith In
Steel VesseIs-Says Government lS
Being "HeId Up"

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-An outline OF legis,a.
ton sought by the Shipping Board to
provide additional powers for speeding
up construction of the new merchant
feet was given by former Rear Ad.
miral Bowles, assistant to the general
manager Of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, test flying at the Senate COM
mittee's inquiry into the shipping sit.
uati n. Among other things Mr..
Bowles said the board desired author
ity to declare as a war zone the terri.
tory surrounding shipyards, as we'll as
to commander houses and local tranF
pOrtation facilities so as to better take
care OF workmen at the plants. He
also suggested that Congress should
protect shipbuilders from the opera.
tons OF the war excess profits tax law,
or at least modify its provisions in so
far as It pertains to them.
Operation of the law now is so un-
certain, he explained. that the board
is having great difficulty in placing
contracts at a reasonable price, as the
builders claim that they will have
practically nothing left from the
profits on the ships after paying the
tax. Replying to Senator Jones, of
Washington. the assistant general man.
ager said fear of the tax law is gen.
eral among builders and not confined
70 any one part of the country.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
TROOPS CROSS RIO GRANDE
In Pursuit Of Bandits, After Killing
Eight-American Soldier Reported
Slain During Chase.

Maria, Texas-United States troops
crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico
in pursuit of the bandits who raided
the Brite ranchhouse Christmas morn
ing and killed the United States mail
carrier and two Mexican passengers
in the mail car. The report of the
crossing, which reached Colonel Geo.
T. Langhorne, in command here, said
that one American soldier and an un-
known number of Mexicans had been
killed in running fight. Eight ban
dts were killed when ranchers and
American caValrymen fired on band
of Mexican raiders after the Mexicans
had killed Michael Welsh, driver of
the mail stage, and two Mexican PAS
sengers and had looted the l.. C. Brite
store at Candelaria, Texas. This was
the official report received here.
1t is reported that Mexican bandits
raided also the Fitzgerald ranch, be-
tween here and the river, driving off
all the horses from the ranch and TAX
ing large quantity Of provisions.
These raiders were believed to have
been part Of the band which raided
Candelaria.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
ENTENTE MUST
achieve ENDS
NO PEACE, SAYS BRITISH PRE-.
MIER, UNTIL PURPOSE OF WAR
is ACCOMPLISHED.
Statement Of Lloyd George Is Regard
ed as Answer Of Allied Governments
to Peace Proposal Of Count czernin,
Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister.

London.-No peace until the ends Of
the Allies have been achieved. This
is the answer of the Allies to the peace
proposal of the Central Powers as out.
lined in the statement Of Count Ger
min, the Austro- Hungarian foreign min
lister at the Bolshevik peace confer
ence in Brest-Litovsk.
Achievement of the purposes for
which the Allies are fighting is essen
tial to the future freedom and peace
of mankind" said Premier Lloyd
George in a letter which he sent to the
Labor Congress.
The premier's statement is regarded
as the British reply to the German
peace offer, and therefore the reply of
the Allies.
The premier said that a statement
on war aims could bnly be made in
agreement with Great Britain's allies.
The question of issui1g fresh declar-
alton, he added, was being constantly
kept in view by the Entente Allied
governments.
Russia will transmit formally the
peace proposals Of the Central Pow
ers to the Entente governments forth
with, says a dispatch from Petrograd,
thus virtually attempting to become
q mediator between the Teutonic alli-
ance and the Entente. Judging from
the sharp press comment, the proffer
will receive a cold reception in the En-:
tente capitals of Europe and at Wash
ington. Although there is desperate
desire for peace on the part of the
Central empires, especially Austria
Hungary, it is pointed out that Ger.
many may be playing a shrewd game,
using Russia as her tool
That Germany has designs on Rus
sian territory has been made apparent,
while Bulgaria has made no secret of
her intention to annex part of Ru-
mania and all of Serbian Macedonia, If
possible.
One significant feature of the Cen
trail empires offer was the omiss on
Of certain questions which. up to this
time, have taken prominent place in
the peace talk Nothing was said
about freedom of the seas" nor dis
armament nor an international league
to enforce peace.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
CCi1s Cause Headache and GriD
LAXATIS "a BR0N0 QUININH removes the cause
There is only one "Bromo Quinine." r. W. GR0VH1
signature is on box. 00
LIONS CHANGE. IN CAPTIVITY
King Of the Jungle Grows Darker in
Color, Skull Broader, Shorter
and More Massive.

Captivity proves to have marked
effect on both the external appearance
and the head-shape of lions. Observa.
tions have been made on five specimens
of Felis leo masSaica that had died
after several years of life in the Zoo
logical park in Washington. states q
correspondent, and 81 specimens of the
same species that were killed In the
wild state in East Africa.
The chief external differences noted
are much darker color, more luxuriAnt
name. and longer tufts Of hNir on the
elbows in the park animals as COM
pared with wild ones of the same Hge.
Confinement in damp atmosphere has
been shown to increase augmentation
In birds, and 1t is assumed that an at
m0spheric humidity greater In Wash
ingtOn than in Africa has produced the
same effect in lions. The bones were
even more strikingly affected.
The skulls of the captive lions are
broader and shorter, more massive and
bulky, and indicate that the powerful
muscles Of the jaws and neck that are
so much exercised by the prey-seizing
Of wild lions have had little effect on
bone-shaping in the confined animals.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
Make a Direct Hi,

Loudon.-A German submarine was
SUNK by the fire of guns OF an Amer
ican passenger steamer approaching
the British Coast according to reports
Of the passengers and gunners aboard.
The ship was proceeding at full speed
about noon In a very smooth sea- The
weather conditions we're such as to
make the best visibility. A periscope
was sighted by the watch on the bridge
and the submarine was seen plainly
by the passengers as 1t came to the
surface at a distance of about 1900
yards directly in the wake of the ship.
The ship was brought about sharply,
and the two guns fired with only an in
terval of two seconds between shots.
The second she'll exploded and debris
from the submarine was seen flying
In the air. Afterward no trace Of the
submarine was visible. The convoy
signaled to the liner: "a direct hit!"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
IS HELD FOR EMBEZZLING
Civilian Is Charged With Taking Gov.
ernment Property, and IS
Locked Up.

New York.-Louis Davidson, pro-
prietor of cloth shrinking and refin-
ishing works in this city, has been
locked up In the Tombs Prison on a
charge of embezzling government prop.
erty.
The arrest was made in connection
with the disappearance of $50 bolts of
olive drab uniform cloth, valued at
$4,000, which for several months had
puzzled the Quartermaster's Depart
ment of the army.
The conspiracy to steal uniform
cloth is said to have been extensive,
involving at least two civilian en-
ployes Of the Quartermaster's Depart
ment. and it is probable other arrests
will be made. Books of accountants at
the Army Building and one Of the gov
ernment clothing warehouses still are
under examination.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
HOOVER ISSUES Statement
Asserts That Without Fixing Of Prices
Sugar Would Now Be Thirty
Cents q Pound.

Washington, Dec. 26.-FOod Admin
istrator HoOver's statement on the
sugar situation, which he tried unsuc-
cessfully to get before the senate COM
mittee investigating the sugar short
age. was made public on Tuesday by
the White House.
1t attributes the shortage here to the
heavy movement Of sugar from the
western hemisphere to Europe and as
serts that without the fixing Of prices
by agreement sugar would be selling
for Is to 80 cents pound and more
than 5000. 100000 probably would have
been prOfiteered from the American
people by this time.
The statement contains the food ad-
ministrator's reply to charges made be-
fore the committee by Claus A.
Spreckels, president of the Federal Re-
fining company. that the sugar situa-
tion was mismanaged, and sets forth In
detail the administrations efforts to
keep sugar prices down while supply.
ing large quantities to the allies.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
SOLDIERS ENJOY CHRISTMAS
Children Of Nearby Neiehborhoods
Cared For BY Soldiers In Christ
mas Entertainment.

With the American Army in France.
The American expeditionary force
capitulated to Santa Claus. With a
light snow falling throughout the zone,
every man in General Pershing's army
-"doughboys," cavalrymen, artillery
men, marine engineers, "mule-skin-
ners"-stopped work as the sun went
down and started in to do the bidding
of the iovial saint temporarily in COM
mand. First there was a rush to open
the Christmas packages from home,
for during the day mail truck after
mail truck had arrived in the various
towns, where the troops are quarter
ed, loaded to the top with presents.
The mail arrived at the base port late,
and extraordinary efforts were made
to get it to the soldiers promptly.
So many lonely American fighter,
who had about come to the conclu-
sion that his friends at home had for
gotten him, had cause to rejoice.
With their new sweaters on, new
pipes in their teeth, some of them
smoking fragrant cigars, the men Of
the army then set to work in earnest
making it merry for the children Of
France. At some distance from the
American zone the railway engineers
at the British front and other engi.
neers at the French front we're spend
ing their Christmas eve under fire,
but even there the children of nearby
neighborhoods were being cared for.
1t was in the headquarters town of
the first division to land on French
soil that the most elaborate entertain.
ment was held, however. Because the
church there was small, the Y. M. G.
A. hut was Communicated.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
ARMY OFFICERS CREDITORS
Have Recourse Only To Civil Courts
War Department Says, In
New Regulations.

Washington.-Regulations issued by
the War Department deny to creditors
Of officers of the national army and
national guard recourse to the mill
tary establishment in seeking adjust
ment of their claims.
All military authorities are directed
to discharge any obligation, transac-
ton, domestic or personal controversy
relating to such officers before they
entered the service, and divisional
commanders are instructed that only
such matters involving these officers
as fall within the provisions of the
articles Of war are to be considered by
them.
All other controversies or t-ansac-
tions must be left to settlement by
civil process.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
TEUTOES STRIKE
AT ALLIED Lines
LAUNCH ASSAULT ON vERpuN
SECTOR, PIERCING LINES,
BUT ARE ELECTED.
Eleven Enemy 5iplanes Are Brought
Down In Aerial Engagement on
the italian Front

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London-The visit of the German
Emperor to the Verdun front and the
delivery OF his iron fist and shining
sword" speech in another Western
front sector has been followed by a de-
termined attack by German troops on
the French defenses northeast of Yer
dun on the east bank of the Meuse.
The blow was delivered at Cauri-
eres Wood on a direct line north from
Fl. Douamont, the famous keypoint OF
the Verdun battle of 1916, from which
1t is slightly less than two miles dis
tant. Two attacks followed a violent
bombardment.
The effor.., according to the Paris Of
fetal reports, was a sanguinary failure.
In the last attack the enemy sue
ceeded in reaching the French lines.
He Immediately was elected however
losing heavily in killed, wounded and
prisoners.
One Of the greatest air raids the en-.
emy has attempted on the Italian front
came to grief when nearly half of a
feet OF 25 airp,anes was destroyed,
with an extensive list Of killed or
wounded.
The big fleet swept over the camp
west Of Treviso at 8 o'clock in the
morning, flying low and discharging
machine guns. Considerable damage
was done. Notwithstanding the sur.
prise, the Italian and British machines
were soon in the air and engaged the
enemy at close quarters. The fighting
was most spectacular, eight of the en-
emy cars being brought down, SIX of
them falling within the Italian lines.
The other machines beat q hasty re-
treat.
The raiders, however, returned at
II o'clock, and three more were dis
posed of, two falling in this attack in
side the Italian lines. An observer
who has just returned says the scene
of the conflict is covered with wreck
age Of the enemy aircraft.
One of the machines brought down
was dreadnought, carrying three per-
sons; the others carried two. All OF
these men were killed, wounded Or
captured.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
ATTEMPTS TO HALT STRIKE
Federal Mediator on Pacific Coast
Makes Effort to Prevent Iron
Workers From Walking Out.

San Francisco, Cal-Conferences
were undertaken by Mortimer Fleish-
hacker, Federal mediator for disputes
affecting war work on the Pacific
Coast, in the hope Of speedily clearing
away differences in the demand of 15,.
900 iron workers of San Francisco and
the bay district for 10 per cent wage
increase.
Only 1925 men walked out, accord.
ing to Il. w. Burton, president of the
Iron Trades Council, but the entire
10000 members of the affiliated unions
will stop work if the workers demands
are refused, he added.
The demand for an increase follow.
ed the granting to shipbuilders Of a
similar 10 per cent in addition to 81
per cent raise for all employees OF
structural iron plants.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
LAND CARGOES IN BRAZIL
Mysterious Ships, Supposed To Be
German, UnIoaded at Certain Ports,
and Struggled Away.

Buenos Aires.-Brazilian papers re-
Ceived here are filled with accounts
of the movements of German corsa;r
off the Brazilian coast a few weeks
ago. The newspapers assert the mys
terious vessel was identified as Ger
man, and that it unloaded an immense
cargo of heavy cases at Zerqueira ami
Armacao.
Several days later the steamer re-
turned to Armacao with additional
cargo, which the newspaper accounts
say it is believed she received from
larger ship out of sight of land. From
ArmaCao the vessel proceeded to ca
louro, where another portion of the
cargo was unloaded. These ports are
not guarded, and it Is asserted the car
goes landed were smuggled away mys-
teriously.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
BRINGING Hors the Germs.

When our soldier boys mingle with
the soldiers of all natiOnalities and
fight over strange and disease-sOaked
soil they may acquire many strange
disease germs and. returning to Ameri-
ca, bring them along, warns World
Outlook. Pestilence has generally
been u camp follower of war. But sci
ence is dealing with this problem with
unprecedented vigor. Sir william Os-
Ter said: "Never before in history has
so great host been assembled; never
before in war time have armies been
so healthy"
Yet we are warned as to the danger
of indiScriminate immigration after
the war and Of the great need of care
ful medical and sanitary preparation
to combat the unfamiliar diseases that
Sammies will bring home.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD


Mrs J. L. Whitman and her six chill
dren. ringing In age from three to thur
teen years. were burned to death In
their home near Greenwood. s. q.
Fred Green, one Of the best-knOwn
engineers of the Northwest. aud Miss
Jessie Wharton, were killed when their
automobile was struck by a train on
the outskirts Of Butte, Mont.
1t was announced ut Republican
national committee headquarters at
washington that Chairman Wilcox
mas called a meeting Of the committee
In st. Louis ON February Il.
Maj. Arthur Brlce DE SauIles died
at Bethlehem, Pa, aged seventy-elght.
Death was hastened by the tragedy Of
ms son, John L.. who was shot by his
former wife, Blanca De Saulles.
Federal officials announced at San
francisco the arrest on u presidential
warrant of Franz Schulenberg. alleged
to be one of the cleverest and most
dangerous German spies operating on
the Pacific coast.
Alphonse st. Pierre, twenty-five
years old, was shot and killed when ut
tempting TO escape from Fort Wayne
Mt Detroit, Mich. st. Pierre was taken
into custody on charge of deserving
from q New Jersey engineer regiment.
Gerard Meister, who was five times
wounded in the battle of the Murne,
won the annual Christmas swimming
contest across the River Seine at Paris.
distance Of $50 yards. The tempera-
ture stood at about the freezing point.
Gen. Tasker II. Bliss will be re-
tained on active service as chief Of
staff of the army after he reaches the
retirement age, next Monday, Decem-
Der 81. Secretary Baker announced at
Washington that this had been decid-
ed upon by President Wilson.
Among Al officers of the expedition
ary forces recommended for promotion
by General Pershing In a list made
public by the war department at WASH
ingtOn, is Second Lieut.. Archibald B.
Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt,
who is proposed for a captaincy of In
fantry.
The mills at Minneapolis, Minn., be-
gan grinding "war -four" under the
new government regulations designed
to save 100000 bushels of wheat in
the present crop year. The regulations
provide for the use of "a per cent Of
the wheat berry instead of but so per
cent.
More than a half-million working
days-the equivalent of the labor Of
10000 workmen for solid MONTH
have been lost to the governments
shipbuilding program through strikes
and lockOuts, II. B. Stevens of the
shipping board told the senate inves-
tigating committee at Washington.
Negotiations for the purchase Of a
large part of the Cuban sugar crop,
now being harvested and amounting to
an estimated 100000 tons, for the use
of the United States and it's allies,
have been virtually completed, 1t was
announced at New York. The price
was said to be $3.50 hundred pounds
4. O. b., Cuba.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
FAR MORE MEN ARE REJECTED
Uncle Sarn's Record Of Reflections For
Army Greater Than Any
Other Country.

Philadelphia. Pa.-The percentage
of men rejected by the national army
for physical reasons ranges from 20 to
70 per cent and is higher than that of
any other country, according tn the
American Economic Association here.
Prof. Irving Fisher, Of the Department
of Economics at Yale University, de-
clared figures he had collected con-
vinced him that the percentage of re.
jections not only ranged as high as
10 per cent, but that countless cases
of unsuspected sickness, such as tu.
berculosis, had been discovered.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03

food have been lifted to the mouth
with chopsticks the liquor remaining
is slipped from the bowl. In the case
of rice, which would be tedious to pick
up grain by grain, the bowl is often
raised to the mouth and the rice shov-
eled or pushed In with the chopstlcks.
II Is also customary to pour little
tea into the rice bowl after 1t has been
nearly emptied, and In this way the
few remaining grains of rice are
washed down as the tea is drunk.
At public places the chopsticks at
each meaI must be new; this Is indi-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-03
Il Was Too Bio,

At Mount Pleasant. Tex, n cOlOred
man came into the public telephone Of
fee and insisted that some one should
talk for him. Upon being told that he
would have to do his own talking he
approached the telephone, took down
the receiver and, after turning 1t over
two or three times and examining 1t
carefully, said: "Boss, All don't believe
All kin get dat dah ting in NAH mouf."