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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
TONIGHT SEES OPENING
OF MERCHAK INSTITUTE
Retail Merchandising Expert,
James w Fisk, to Business Men
and Sales People.

The Merchants Institute, which opens
tins evening under the auspices of the
Mercantile Section of the Chamber of
Commerce, will be opened in the rose
room of the Hotel du Poht with an ad-
dress by James W Fisk the retail mer-
chandislng expert in charge, TO merchants
and their salespeopic The subject of
the evenings session will be Making
More Sales, preceding which Mr. Fisk
will give Il general outline of the week S
activities.
Practically every member of the Mer-
camille Section has indicated his inten-
tion to be present at the sessions during
the week, and it is expected that sales
people of all the local stores interested
will take full advantage of this 0ppor-
tunity to learn methods by which they
can render more efficient service, and
thereby make themselves and their
services more valuable to their en-
ployers and the purchasing public.
The next session, which will be held
In the same place tomorrow evening,
will be devoted to merchants, manager
and department managers, and will dis
cuss Finding Weak Spots in Your Busi-
ness.
Mr. Fisk viii address the members Of
the Current Events Glass OF the New
Century Club at ii O'Clock tomorrow
morning, when he will discuss problems
of retail merchandising and business
methods in general from both the view
point of merchants and purchasers.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
National Organizer Orders Men
|. Back to Work of Building Yes
sells for Nation.
FEDERAL WAGE BOARD
To ADJUST, GRIEVANCES
Roger Babson, Statistician. Blames
Some Employers for Labor
Troubles in Country.
PAY is TOO LOW, HE SAYS
By Associated Press TO Every Evenikg
New YoRK, Feb. 49,

New YoRK, Feb. lS.
The strike by carpenters in the Atlantic
scaboard shipyards engaged in govern
nent contrncts is over. John Rice, national
organizer OF the United Brotherhood Of
Carpenters and Joiners. said today.
Several thousand men who are still idle
are expected To be at work tomorrow
morning
About J, 900 OF the strikers returned to
work this morning. Mr.. Rice estimated
THE men are going back because they
have every confidence that President Viii
son will adjust this matter to their salts
faction, he said.
In yards at Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Jersey City, Elizabethport, Newark and
work this morning, Mr. Rice announced.
but they were unaware of the fact that
William l.. Hutcheson, president OF the
brotherhood, had responded To President
Wilson's letter of last night By announo-
ing he would endeavor 20 influence the
strikers 10 resume work pending settle
ment Of their grievances 10y the Wage
Adjustment Board
Many Of these &. 900 later were informed
of this situation and returned to the yards,
Mr.. Rice said, and during the day every
effort would be made TO get in touch with
the others
a mass meeting Of striking carpenters
had been called IN Brooklyn today and at
this gat herring these men will be instructed
TO return, Mr. Rice said; meanwhile tele-
grams and telephone messages are being
sent 20 the brotherhood locals in other
cities
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
WAR WORK FUND
GROWING SLOWLY
About sl,5OO Subscribed Up to
Noon Which is Half OF
Sum Needed.

Close TO fifteen hundred dollars had
hcen subscribed To the Salvation Army
campaign for 81, 900 being waged in this
CITY for war work. up to noon today.
But this ~ hardly UP TO schedule. The
campaign here which is a part OF the
national effort to raise 81 ,000,0 900 will
close on Friday and the subscriptions
on the remaining days OF TIE week
must be large 10 make up for the deficiency
over Sunday
A cable from Colonel Barker announces
that the Salvation Army Section of the
American Expeditionary Forces in France
has been recognized by the French mill
tarv authorities RS being under L. >.
Military control Five new hudments
were opened last week, making total
Of II now in operation in tie American
Camps in France.
The Salvation Army cares for the body.
soul and spiritual comfort of the boys on
the other side, ty their influence through
service making a Catholic a better Cath
olic, a Jew a better jew, Protestant n
better Protestant; winning also TO better
living those thousands who are without
religious creed or doctrine.
In troop efficiency. morale means as
much as health. One hundred thousand
men are daily turned away from refresh
ment huts in Franco. Those recreation
and religious huts are reservoirs of morale
Must anv soldier he denied the home
and church influence rs his price for
patriotic service? All subscriptions should
be made to Richard Reese, Equitable
Trust Co
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
RAP LLOYD GEORGE
. FOR ARMY SHAKE-UP
London Papers Wrathy Over
Ousting of Gen. Robertson as
Chief of Imperial Staff.
BY Associated Press TO Every Evening :.
I1.~n0., Enk *

BY Associated Press to Every Evening
LONDON, Feb. Is.
The idea that the public is attempting
to dictate to the government what their
military policy shall be or who shall
be employed to carry it out is deprecated
by the Daily Chronicle, in an editorial
on the situation brought about by the
announcement that Gen. Robertson had
been retired as chief of the imperial
staff
''T'he task is one for the responsible
ministers, ii says, land while 1t Is open
TO parliament TO change the ministers, no
circumstances have been disclosed in the
present instance which warrant such an
upheaval.
The Times, remarking that the premier 5
recent speech in the House of Commons
failed to carry complete convection, says
the result has been storm of eXagger-
Alton and political intrigueoyer what seems
to have been most natural and common
sense arrangement. 1t declares a full
explanation of events obviously IS over
due.
''1'he government seems TO have done
its best to mishandle an overwhelming
case" it adds Whatever may have
been going on behind the scenes, their
alternate bursts of confidence and reti-
cence have given the impression Of sheer
indecision Ii is almost as surprising as
it is satisfactory that the Allies military
organization has emerged with its prln-
ciples unimpaired"
CALLS HIM HIGHEST MILITARY GENIUS.
'News of Gen Robertson's removal,
the Morning Post says, will be received
with CONSERVATION by the public and the
! asst1o,,yas .axa RnharfcnV
only as the greatest British soldier of his
day, but as the highest military genius
the war thus far has produced.
at is impossible to exaggerate, 1t
says, how much efficiency and success
we owe to Gen. Robertson
Declaring it is evident Gen. Robertson
has been dismissed and that those who
dismissed him find it inconvenient to
confess the truth, the Post SAYS parlIa-
ment will insist on knowing why the
distinguished soldier is treated SO scurvIly
| 1t continues
'If summary dismissal OF Gen. Robert
son were not enough to shatter our con-
fidences in Premier Lloyd George and the
government, the circumstances of the
dismissal would do it. We have had
enough OF the premier who surrounds
himself with janissarles OF the press ready
at the lift of his eyebrow to bowstring
any distinguished soldier or sailor who
dares to cross his arbitrary will. The
need of the hour is premier who, while
knowing where to forbear interference
with what he does not understand, viii
know also how TO throw his whole weight
into the prosecution of the war"
! James w Lowther, speaker of the House
of Commons and Gen. Jan G. Smuts are
mentioned by the Post as the type OF men
/ fitted to head the government.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
SENT TO FORT OGLETHORPE.
Three Men From This City for the Medi
cal Corps and G nc From Sussex.

Special inductions for the medical de-
partment at Fort Oglethorpo, Ga, include
four Delaware registrants, Of whom two
were sent by Military Exemption Board
No | one by Board No. 4 and one from
Sussex county.
Board No. 3 has called tho following
men TO report at the old Court House
Wednesday morning. at II O'Clock, ior
medical examination:
RAYMOND J. Cunningham. 1924 West
Fifth street.
Joseph Daley, 1900 West Fifth street
Elmer z. Collins. 40 Monroe street.
Abe Silverrnan. 2l0 West street.
Chester W Toward 200i West Second
street.
John Orzechowski, 90S Linden Street
Pietro Capone, III Justison street
Raymond Dean, 70i West Eighth street
Etting Oscar Bennett, Ola West Fifth
street.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
LEFT STEFANSSON
MAROONED IN ARCT|CS
Membersof Explorers Party Dis
obeyed Orders, Spelling Plan
For Northwest Passage.
nv Associated pross . Every Evening

Ety hsNpEiaffD tFt%S 70 EVfifY fsHEnIUg
Seattle, Wash, Feb I8.-Capt. Alex
ander Allan, an Arctic trader, has arrived
from the north with word that Vilhjalmur
Stcfansson, tho explorer, now in the
Arctic. failed to realize his hope Of navi-
eating the northeast passage to the Allan
tic because two members of his party
dsobeyed orders and left their chief
marooned on Melville Island in 1916
without a ship.
The two, Capt Gonzales and Mate
Seymour, of the schooner Mary Sachs.
one of Stefannsons fleet, were instructed
in 1914 to take the Sachs in 1916 70 Ste
fanssons base on Melville Island In
stead, Capt Allan asserted they bcacbed
her at Banks Land about 800 miles west
Of Melville Island When Stefansson
found he was Tnarooned, he abandoned his
plans tn go cast and made the trip to
Banks Land on foot over the ice. From
Melville Island 10 the Atlantic navigation
IL comparatively easy, Capt Allan said
Capt Joe Barnard, another Arctic
trader who commanded the Teddy Bear
another Of Stefanssons feet, is now
.endeavorIng TO negotiate the northeast
passage aboard her, Capt. Allan asserted.
StefanSson and the members Of his
Canadian Arctic expedition are winterIng
at Barter Island, off the Alaskan Arctic
coast Capt. Allan said. The explorer
expects to make 100 mile trip north
over the ice next summer and return TO
civilization in the fall, by way Of Nome,
Alaska
Capt. Allan, on his trip to Seattle, made
a 200 mile -'mush" behind dog team
over the snow trails from Herchel Island
in the Arctic, TO Chitina, the head Of the
Copper River railroad. He carried dis
patches to the Canadian government al
Ottawa from Stefansson and fled them
at the Fort Yukon, Alaska, telegraph
office
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
bOLSHEV|KI TAKE
K|EV, IN UKRAINE,
FIGHTING HEAVY
Meanwhile Poles Defeat Reds and
Rumanian Forces are Threat
ening Odessa.
1000 ARE REPORTED SLAIN
ny Associated Press u Eyory Evcning

ny Associated Press n Every Evcning
PctrOgrad, Feb o. DELAYED Kicv, on.
Of the principal cities Of tho Ukraine. pae
captured by the Bolshcvih on Friday
after sanguinary fighting Tho strcrts
were filled with dead and wounded
While the fighting vas AZ the height IN
Thursday, the city vas bomhardcd by
Bolshcvik aviators
The casualties NJ Kicv.arc estimated ~
1000 killed and OOp wounded
Polish troops have defeated thr Bol
sheviki at BobrIisl IS rnilce s0ulhear'
Of Mnsk Other Pole. arc advancing
toward Smolcnsk Rumapinns oontrri
the Alderman district of Bessarabia s0d
are threatening Odessa
In a battle az Odessa on MONDAY ~
tween the Bolshevih and thc Modrrl'r
hundreds wcrc killed Thr rf's a~a
bombarded by Warships
Ensign krylcnko. the Bolrhcvik rnr
mandcr-in-chicf has decided - cornc Is
Petrograd 70 raise an army ~ inn f0n
BoIsheviki, whirh he viii command rcr-
sonallv IN operations againy' iho oess~i
army ~ Cen AlrxicG
fTclcgraphic communication ufh Hrf-
roUrad was resumed YESTERDAY s"or ir
interruption causcd hy thr cutting
telegraph lines ir Finland Several dr
laycd diSpatches rnreivrd vo-fcrdar nIl
81 disorders IN kuasia
One dispatch dated lasf uds, md
battle was bentin On Thursday between
the BolshevikI and a wing uf fhr 0-sact
army of Cen Alcxicf former Russian
commander-in-chref which i- advancing
toward kharlov in the tkraHne f1u
miles southwest Of Moscow b" sol-
shevikI are sending TROOPS ~ orlish fhiz
newest revolution, but rrpOrts rrcrrved
here indicate the forces ~ Bors ~avinkof
who was a member 1i he heronsky
cabinet, are ready 20 JON Gen Aleuef
Diplomatic reports indIrate the Alexini
movement Is obtaining lcss support than
its originators expected Much friction
exists among the forces ~ the Don.
Dispatches from kiev IN the sr1lsne
say the city Is under control ~ the hour-
Teolse Rsda, although the Bolsheva
were holding the suburbs Ciuzens ere
hiding IN cellars and mohs are plllagng.
Ukrainian bourgeoise troops are icing
sent 70 attempt 70 capture Poltava
The Bolsheviki have established a stsfi
at Odessa. from which point they arr con-
ducting the Ukralnian and 'kumanlan
campaigns. An Odessa dispatch SAYS tno
Bolshey1ki at Odessa have arrested Rum.
anian officers, rs well es Rurnsnisr
tions subsequently the committee VA
released and sent back with the waning
that the Bolsheviki would kali oneRuman.
ian officer for each Russian soldier killed
by Rumanians IN Bessarabla.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
WILLIAM Y. LOWELL DEAD.
lor Many Years He Was Wilmington
Business Man

William F Lowell, for many years a
Wilmington business man, died the
Chester, Pa, Hospital on Saturday night
of pleuro pneumonia. He was 81 years
old For a number of years he was in
thc butcher business in Second street
market, later engaging ID the same btIsi-
mess IN Madison street Subsequently he
went 10 New York. where he was in the
tobacco business with his brother. For
the last three years he was with the
Traction Co in Chester He was a mem
Der OF the Jr O. t. 4. NJ. and +. NJ. c.
Of Wilmington. Two children survive.
They are Stewart Lowell OF Chester and
Mns Veasey Clark of Wilmington The
funeral Will take place from the residence
Of has brother, Richard + Lowell, Eighth
and du Pont streets, a 80 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon, with inteunent in
RlyeryIew cemetery.
I,abella p Rugby died yesterday at
her home. 2O06 Market street.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
TO AID DRAFT MEN.
Council of National Defence Through At
torneys to Look AIN Legal Matters.

Provision IN legal way for the men
called in the draft and their families is
to be undertaken by the public spirited
lawyers of this country The Council
of National Defence, with the approval
of the American Bar Association, has
requested all State Councils Of National
Defence TO appoint legal committees TO
assist men called IN military service, and
arrange the affairs of their dependents,
looking after all legal matters while the
men are In the service.
The idea is to give legal service free
of charge to the draft men and their
families A man wishing to make will
or if after he has gone TO the front som G
legal questions about his. property or
business affairs shall arise, the lega
committees are to look after the busi-
ness with the same promptness Us they
would for private client.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
FOR CED TO KISS u. ). FLAG.
Miners Compel Manager and Two Sons
TO Swear Allegiance.

By Associated Press TO Every Evening
Springfield, H., Feb. lS.-Two hundred
miners quit work at the mine of the
Citizens Coal Co. here today, drove the
mine manager, Henry Martini, and his
two sons before them to the public square
and compelled them to kiss the flag and
swear allegiance to the United States.
The mine was shutdown today, the
miners declaring they will not return to
work until Martini Is discharged Martini
and his sons were rescued by the sheriff
Martini is said to have aroused the in
dignation Of the men when a youth who
had been rejected by the navy returned
10 work.
Ii you want Job you Il have to go 10
the navy for it, Martini is declared to
have informed him.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
TO SPREAD u. S. WAR AIMS.
Ex-N. Y. Police Head VIII Direct Prop
aganda Abroad.
Bv Associated Press TO Ever,

By Associated Press to Every Evening
New York, Feb. lS.-A campaign of
American propaganda in foreign countries,
including Germany and neutral lands, will
be begun shortly, it became known here
today, by Arthur Woods, former police
commissioner of this city. 1t was learned
Mr. Woods planned 20 90 to Washington
within day or two to confer with govern
ment officials.
Under MIR. Woods direction the truth
about Americas role in the war viii be
spread among the German people and
among non-belhgerents. and efforts will
be made to hearten the people of the
Entente Allies with fuller knowledge of
what this country will do in war work, and
to combat such insidious German propa-
ganda as is said to have caused italian
military reverses. To Russia will be con
veyed the principles of American demo
cracy.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
PRESIDENTS REBUKE WINS
OVER STRIKERS; X. BABSON,
II. s. AGENT, URGES MORE PAY

Washington, Feb. is.-Shipping Board
officials were confident today that Presi-
dent Wilson's Intervention in the strike
of carpenters in eastern shipyards had
had its desired effect and the men would
go back TO work pending settlement of
their grievances by the Wage Adjustment
Board The President issued a sharp
rebuke to William L. Hutchinson, presi-
dent OF the United Brotherhood Of Car
penters and Joiners, saying that If he
did not wish TO give aid and comfort
Continued on page Is
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
RUSSIAN ARMISTICE ENDS;
BERLIN TO SEIZE UKRAINE

Berne. Switzerland, Feb. lS.-The at
est dispatches indicate Germany intends
sending troops TO the kTaIne, there -
occupy important points UNDER pretext
of establishing order
The Reichstag probably wll meet We'd
nesday TO consider the peace treaty With
the xraine An important statement
from the Chancellor Is expected.
4 wireless Berlin dispatch 20 bOndon
carries an official War Diiioe announce
ment that the armlstIce on the Great
Russian front viii expire at noon tOolas
. o clock q. IN. Wilmington time
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
THREE SHOT IN RAID ON |. ". W.

Hillsboro, H.. Feb. 1S.-lSeaton En-
eroy, city marshal, and two other men were
shot and wounded last night when a party
of 'loyalists'' attempted to enter the home
of Clifford Donnelson, miner, where l..
G. Irwin, labor agitator suspected of
Industrial Workers of the World activity
was supposed to be hiding.
The crowd then went TO Irving's office
and dragged the furnishings into the
street, where they were burned.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18

Petrograd, Feb delayed -,nd
crlminate shooting Is guIug on thruugl
out the city both by day and bs night
but usually Il Is most general after
nightfall Pillaging followed by shootln-
spread last night from NozncSsensAs
Prospect past It. lssacs Cathedral 'o
Galernaya street. where private apart
ments were broken into and piundoroi.
eliminating in protracted firing hetwccn
the pillagers and tn Red Guards lhe
wounded were taken 10 hospitals
Three out OF six armed men wer
caught this morning after shooting thc
cashier Of the weekly illustrated paper.
Neva, who had returned from The post
office with $1,000. Their motor car, upon
which soldiers were hring, came ~ >
standstlll before "a hole IN the street 20
Noysky Prospect and Morskaya street
where they leaped out and scattered.
nnilitisman who tried " arrest one "a
Continued on nat-t.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
Bows Work Institute .

The Four-fold Nature d The Boy
will be the subject Of four successive
talks by DR. ". Edward affety, OF
Philadelphia, at the Y. NJ. e. A. assembly
room beginning tonight, ct O'Clock,
under the auspices Of the association
and the Sunday School Association here
in the Boys Work Institute now being
carried out IN Wilmington.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
IL COWS, > HORSES DEAD.
Heavy Loss Sustained by George W.
Blackburn, With Some Animals Still

Eleven cows, one horse and one colt
have died on the farm Of George w
Blackburn, near Harc's Corner, during
the past few days, and four cows, two
horses and a cat are sick
The cattle and horses were given what
is known as condition powders" TO get
them inshape for spring farming a ew
days ago, and the cat is supposed to have
eaten Of the mixture also.
Several OF the cows and horse and
colt died during the night or the next day
and the others have died since that time.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
81 SLAIN IN AIR RAIDS.
Forty -one Injured in Attacks on
London Saturday and Last
Night.
BY Associated Press to Every Evening

BY Associated Press to Every Evening
London, Feb 1S.-Eleven persons were
killed and four injured in the aerial attack
on London on Saturday, it is announced
officially -,
Six or seven airplanes took part IN the
raid of last night The first flew over
London, dropping bombs in various DIS
tricts All the others were turned back,
The casualties in last nights air raids
were Is killed and 81 injured, 1t was an
nounccd officially this afternoon.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
MOB LAW IN PETROGRAD;
HUNDRED SLAIN. SHO Ps LOOTED

Petrograd, Feb dciayed I'm ~
all night battle during which lewcir
stores and wine cellars in the ctpit.l Uer
plllaged by maraudlng soldiers, tbnl
one hundred persons were Aulcl
Forty Thousand German and Austrllu
prisoners who were freed by the councils
of Workmcns 5 and Soldiers Delegates a
smaller Russian towns are ia PetroErad
homeless and in danger 90 starvation
as a result Of the riots.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
Marten Boxes Suggested.

citizen suggests the> erection of
boxes for housing martens at Cool Spring
and Porter reservoirs. He says the birds
should be encouraged, as they do a great
deal to rid the community of the insect
nuisance I'D warm weather
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
LAUDS CZERNIN'S PEACE WORK.
Emperor Charles Gives Diplomat Rank
i'm Army.

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening
Amsterdam, Holland Feb. lS.-The
official gazettes in Vienna and Budapest
publish letter from Emperor Charles,
expressing the wish to create closer rela-
tionship between the army and Count
Czernin, the imperial foreign minister,
who, finding his support in the army 5
proficiency, has laid the first foundation
of general peace.
Count Czernin is appointed an honor
airy major general IN recognition of his
services Emperor Charles has decorated
several diplomats connected with the
egotiatlons at Brest-Iitovsk.
Lost something? Try classified adv.
in Every Evening
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
ISHu NEW JAPA NESE ENVOY.
Succeeds Ambassador Sato in Post at
Washington.

By Associated Press 70 Every Evening
Washington, Feb. lS-Viscount Kiku-
llso Ishii has been appointed ambassador
for Japan to the United States and soon
viii reach Washington He succeeds
Ambassador Sato, who takes a place on
the unassigned roll Of diplomatic repre-
sentatlyes IN Toxic.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
SEIZE SENATOR HUMBERT
Owner Of Paris Journal and For
mer Partner OF Bolo Pasha is
Arrested in Treason Case.
BY Associated Press to Every Evening

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening
Paris, Feb. lS.-Charles Humbert,
Senator from the Meuse and proprietor
Of the Journal, was arrested today.
Senator Humbert was one Of the prin-
cipal figures in the case Of Bola Pasha,
recently convicted Of treason and SEN
fenced To death through the fact that
IL was his newspaper, Le Journal, in
which an interest was bought with the
money Bolo received from the United
States
When the facts regarding tho German
source df the money involved IN the
transaction was revealed last fall Senator
Humbcrt cancelled the contract and re-
turned the money
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-18
TROTSKY YIELDS TO u. s.
Withdraws Appointment Of Reed rs
Consul 10 New York.
nv Associated Press TO Every Evening

by Associated Press TO Every Evening
Washington, Feb. ls.--Foreign Minis
ter Trotsky Of the Bolshcvik government
of Russia, has withdrawn the appoint
ment of John Reed rs Russian consul
general at New York, Ambassador Francis
at Petrograd, notified the State Dcport-
ment today.
Reed is under Indictment in New York
in connection with the draft. II was
reportedfoday that he WAS on his way
back from Petrograd and that Trotzky
had said that If he were prosecuted Am
bassador Francis would be held respon-
sible by the Boshevik leader.