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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
HERTLING sEES WAX ) END.
German Chancellor Bases Peace Predic-
ton on Hun Victory al West Front.

by Associated Press 10 Every Evening
Amsterdam, Holland, MAY Isl am
stlll optimistic enough to believe We shall
have peace this year, said the German
chancellor, Count Won Hertling, in an
interview with the Berlin correspondent
of the Budapest newspaper, Az list.
Il cherish firm confidence that further
events in the west will bring us nearer a
speedy end of the war.
'1f the world should one day unite III an
international peace league, added Count
Won Hertling, Germany would unhesitat-
ingly and ioyfully join in it Unfortunately
present conditions give very little hope Of
that. Our desire is to win and preserve
peace.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
NEGRO SLAYERS LYNCHED.

By Associated Press TO Every Evening
Valdosta, Ca May 18 VIII Head
and Viii Thompson, Negroes, implicated
ia the murder Of Hampton Smith and
shooting Of Mrs Smith al Barney, Thurs
day night, were iynched last night Head
is said 10 have confessed plot against
the Smiths
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
SINN FEIN PLOTTED HUN
INVASION OF IRELAND
Conspiracy Npped by Arrest of Alleged Leaders, Men and
Women Who Escaped Death for Dublin Revolt al
Easter Charged With Entering Into Treason
able Communication With Germany.
GOVERNMENT HAS FULL PROOF
ny Associated rr,ss % Every Evening


Lovpoy. MAY, IT,
Ireland and Irish military affairs have
again come to the fore Discovery of
German plot involving certain persons
led TO Their arrest last night m Dublin by
the issuance Of proclamation signed by
Edward Shortt. chief secretary for Ireland,
IN the name 81 tho lord licutenant Nis-
count French
The proclamation asserts that British
subjects resident in ireland have entered
into treasonablc communication with the
German enemy and calls for drastic mea-
sireT to put down the German plot
Voluntary recruiting II urged IN order
that compuIsion may he avoided and that
tho Irish NAV assist in putting down The
conspiracy.
8kEY UNDER ARREST
Communication with Dublin is slow but
= Dispatch to tho T,mcs says that q large
number II persons already haTe been
arrested IN Dublin and other parts q
ireland
Tho reference 10 voluntary enlistment
in the proclamation appears 70 confirm
predictions that the government has
changed its policy concerning conscription
IN ireland owing 10 Nationalist and Sinn
Fein opposition
A report became current n Ireland Fri-
day hat the government contemplated
launching 4 recruiting scheme on the
tnes ~ thst formerly conducted ty the
Earl of Derby in England
Another report Is 70 the effect that 2
number of prominent lrishnen have sub
mitted to Premier Lloyd George request
to appoint General Sir Pryan Mahon who
has Just reinGmshed the military com
mand in Ireland director If recruiting in
Ireland General Mahon IS popular with
large classes of lrishmen with whom he IS
regarded as having very active sy7npathies,
hllt whether the appointment would have
practical results can only be speculaDed
upon
Although there have been many rImors
concerning events in Ireland recently,
rho news received from Dublin early this
morning of the arrests made in Ireland
and of Lord French proclamation, that
certain of the king 5 subjects have enter
ed INTO reasonable communication with
the German enenv'' created q sensation
GOVERNMENT KNEW OF PLOT.
Some davs ago sir Edward carson
the IRISH ITni0nist SAID in a letter 10 the
government that ne knew certain persons
in Ireland had been IN communication
with me enemy. but it was generally
taken to mean some unlmportaqt persons
connected with the man who wassapturec
,fter landing recently on the IRISH coast
in j collapalble boat.
The nature Of the arrests, taken lr
connection with the posting Of LORD
French Z, proclamation. however, ndi-
rafes that the persons referred TO are
the heads Of the Sim Fem party. anc
tbat the government possesses evidence
against them.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
COURT-MARTAL FOR Ex-CzAR.
Secret Trial for Nicholas ROmanOd In
Moscow Next Month.

By Associated Press 80 Every Evening
Amsterdam, Holland Alay Is. \lchU-
las Ronanoff, former emperor of RusSia.
according to the Lobal Anzeiger uf Berlin,
viii be tired by a court martial In Moscow
the latter part Of June The trial viii be
secret.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
FAIR; TEMPERATURES NORMAL.
Showers About Middle OF the Week
Predicted by Weather Man.
a Press % Every EVenins

BY Associated Press 20 Every evening
Washington May Is Weather pre-
dictions for the week beginning Monday.
issued by the Weather Bureau today,
are:
North and Middle Atlantic States.
Fair. except showers about the middle
Of the week Nearly normal tempe5
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
GOVERNMENT TO
CURB EXTORT|ON
IN HOUSE RENTS
Immediate Steps to Be Taken
Here for the Benefit of Ship I
yard Employees.
MAY TAKE SOME HOUSES

An important conference WAS held yes
terlav bv officials of the Emergency fleet
Cor,ora,ipn Of the United State ShiTfapg
Roar,I with officials of the Harlan plant
o5 The Rethhhem Shipbuildinx Corpor'f-
tiep. Limited, the -Pusev h Jones 20. and
a representative of the Chamber OF C0m-
neFre. - -,
This conference dealt entirely with the
ser,ous question which has arisen IN tins
city owing To the fact that some OF tho
landlords are raising rents and selling
houses over the heads of shpyard cIn-
plovps. without any regard for the tact
that these smpyard workers have no re-
dress or can find no homes IN which 10
move.
The result of the conference was that
the government proposes 10 take vigorous
action IN each and every instance brought
10 its attention and to commandeer or
reu,usition the properties where other
arrangements cannot he made with the
owners.
So vItsI has this question become thst
tho government proposes To establish,
immediately, suitable machinery IN thus
city 10 provide for the prompt Invest'-
cation and settlement of matters OF tins
character.
The House Of Representatives, IT
Washington. has adopted Senator Sauis-
hurys resolution regulating the renting
of hcusps IN Washington, the effect of
which ia TO enable tenants of houses in
the District Of Columbia to retain their
homes on the terms of their present tenure
unless mutual agreement rs to changes
shall he reached II preserves the present
status until more oompThcnsivc law
Is enacted by Congress. Under the terms
Of the resolution, no tenant, paying his
rent regularly. and conducting himself
properly can be diposseSsed. Leases
NAV. OF course. bc renewed. modified, or
avoided hv mutual agreement
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
NURSES TO PARADE.
Invitation to All Graduates From Red
Cross Teaching Centre

All graduates of the Red Cross home
nursing course are requested to take part
in the Red Cross parade next Thursday
night, meeting for the purpose at z
O'Clock They are asked 10 communicate
Immediately with the Red Cross Teaching
Centre. 9l3 Delaware avenue telephone,
Rell 2679M- if able to march with the
Vie nursing section
JLe uniform viii consist Of wh ite
and White Red Cross veil
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
Motor Trucks Collide

An automobile truck belonging to the
Atlantic Refining Company collided with
a machine owned by Edward krause, OF
Front and French streets, today and tore "A
wheel from krause's machine. The col
iision occurred at Sixth and Poplar streets.
No one was injured
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
BANK CLEARiNGS.

Bank clearngs for the week ending
NAV Is. as reported to Every Evening, this
morning. were: S3,0l9,94962, and for
the corresponding week last year were
SO. 1914 276 A.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
CA MOUFLAGE
SAYS DUBLIN IRISH ORGAN

London. MAY IS Commenting on the
proclamation by Lord French the Dublin
Freemans journal is quoted in an EX-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
Amusements Tonight

Playhouse McClaherty May Cars
val.
(IarriCk Vaudeville
Queen-'A Dogs Life,
Majestic Let's Get a Divorce-"
Victoria The Marionetges."
savoy" vengeance.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
Weather Forecast

BY Associated Press 70 Every Evening
washington. May lS.-Weather forecast
for Delaware:
Fair tonight. warmer Ia the interior sun
day partly cloudy; probably showers 10
the north portions.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18

Particular people choose Clover Dairy
milk ADV.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
PLAN HUN CHECK
IN THE FAR EAST
China and Japan Asked to Partici-
pate in Hating Further Ger
man InvaSions.
~ Associated Press to Every Evening

By Associated Press 70 Every Evening
Paris, Friday, May I7.-Japan and
China have been informed by the Allied
governments that they have arranged
for Entente military cooperation to meet
the dangers threatening the peace of the
Far East from German penetration.
Washington, May 1S-The Entente
military cooperation arranged TO meet
threats to the peace Of the Far East by
German penetration as reported today
from Paris, is understood here as purely
defensive measure, in which participation
for the present viii be confined to Japan
and China. Its primary purpose Is the
safeguarding of Manchuria with possl-
bilties Of its extension to Siberia.
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camped 100 or 200 miles north of the line
OF drift OF these three vessels it would
orlt III q course about parallel to the
driit OF these three vessels, but as far
north OF their course as the starting point
was north Of the karuk track.
formed then the plan OF striking out
from the Alaska coast, across the Karluk
tracks. with sledges, trying to reach a
point 200 miles north Of the Karuk. At
about latitude Is north, longitude 14S
west we would camp on cake OF Ice prob.
ably late in April and drift where the ice
listed. taking continual soundings and fire.
quent astronomical observations 10 plo.
cur course carefully 1t is impossible n
carry on sledges food for that sort of
Trip but our work the last five years has
shown that carrying food to the Arctic is
like carrying Goals to Newcastle
I'm pursuance of this scheme / spent
the Fall OF 1917 In buying the best avail.
able dogs and in having eight good sledgcs
made. with which Intended to start in
February from Cross Island, on tho north
coast Of Alaska. with an immediate obiec.
Tive 200 miles to the north. This plan was
U, :.
was taken with typhoid fever AS this
was in severe form and followed by
pneumonia 1t soon became evident that
could not do the work myself.
"fhe task then fell TO Storker Storker-
sen, who would otherwise have been my
chief assistant on the trip. With ten
s!edges and about eighty dogs he left
Cross Island in early March. After travel
Ing about 100 miles, he sent back his first
support party. On April 10 he was 200
miles north of Alaska and was ready TO
send back his last support party Before
sending them back he took observations
for latitude and longitude, and then re-
manned In camp for four days to see what
the drift would be. Similar observations
taken four days later show that he had
drifted forty miles northwest by west
Our theory, therefore seemed to be work
ing out. for those forty miles, IL plotted
on chart would he about parallel to the
drift of The Kariuk 600 miles farther south.
THE report that S:orkersen sent back
indicates that he was going TO travel an
other fifty or seyenty-flve miles farther
north before finally selecting an ice cake
TO camp on.
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80 degrees. Place the glass churn.jar In
The water and pour into it nearly two cups
OF milk. Add pound Of butter in thin
slices and let the Jar stand in the water
until they become mushy Lift il ont.
place it on table, adjust the metal mech
ahISih ana turn the crank for one minute
Empty Inc jar into bowl and Won have
Two pounds OF delicious butter Put The
nutter IN the iccboX until it is hard and
nrm. IL is then ready for the table.
~ mas creamy flavor that is lacking I'm
inc original butter. Its color Is the natural
color OF dairy butter, the artificial dive
having been washed out of it, Ii it seems
10 iack salt, this may easily be added to
,aste; But butter really ought not TO be
neaviiy saited, as the market product is
ora ,r,! IN order that 1t may keen.
ms ~mlik-charged table-butter does not
hcep long 1t Is fresh. delicate product
NAV should be consumed within yery few
uays' ana meanwhile kept in n cool Mace
may be- 40 WI enieh'iy
If creamery butter costs fifty cents
pouila ana milk seven cents a pint. It ia
OBVIOUS mat the milk-charged butter comes
10 less than twcnty-nine cents a Mound II
Is wonderful saving.
If you like TO do so. Won can uso tho
straight. All you have to do Is 70 Al, 4
half full Cor a little ,.ycr) with sweet
cream, not too cold, screw tho ton on
iight, and turn the crank until the bntter
heginS to lump. Pour out the buttermiIk
Swhich IS most healthful and nutritious
arinkl, put the butter on a plate. and act
1T TO harden 800 ~
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Arctic Pack Around the Pole

such good fortune be theirs it is believed
anyway, that they will drift across the ton
or the world in the same general direction.
Darallciing the courses OF the Karluk and
Jeanette. Late in February, 1919. S.cf-
ansson expects Storkerscn to arrive at n
point about 200 miles from tho New Sibcr
ia Islands
Stefansson after regaining his strength
made his way from Alaska back to the
east He has just completed making his
report 10 the Canadian Government. Con.
Corning this pluckiest adventure OF the
Arctic regions he said:
"Nsnsen was the first man that ever
thought about drifting across the Polar
BASIN. lie went into the ice north of
Siberia. near the New Siberia Islands,
and drifted in Il general northwesterly
direction, then westerly. and finally south
west his ship coming out after three
years in the vicinity OF Sptzbergen.
Another vessel had done a similar
lhing involuntarily more than decade
carrier. The Jeanette. bearing an Amer
lcan expedition, commanded by Lieutenant
lie Long. OF the American navy, froZe into
the ice north OF the Dering Straits and
driitcd northwesterly until crushed after
two years in the vicinity where Nansen
deliberately put his vessel into the ice a
few years later.
I'm August, 1913, the Karluk. of the
Canadian Arctic expedition. also com.
menced an involuntary drift Frozen in
the ice about lao miles west OF the mouth
OF the Mackenzie River and twenty miles
north or Alaska. she drifted west and
northwest until in January, 1914, she was
crushed in the vicinity Of where the jean
nettc long before had entered the ice.
III the course Of these three vessels
were plotted on the same chart they would
make continuous line. In other words,
tho karluk. had she not been crushed.
would have duplicated. first, the drift OF
ire Jeanette. and later tho drift of the
Fran. eventually emerging after four or
i've years i'll the vicinity OF Sptzbergcn.
1T has been Amundscn's announced In.
tcntion to undertake polar drift and ho
intended 10 pUi his vessel into th,. ice
about where the karluk was invoiuntarily
beset. He abandoned This plan as soon as
he saw which way the karluk had drifted.
because 1t then became evident that his
own idea, that ship that frozc into tho
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as he could Justify it. snow houses would
be built and the party would 1--we in COM
fort. don't see that The party is in any
mediate vicinity breaks ND during the dark
leriod OF Winter. Should they be com
PEELED TO remove their camp from an ice
cake that Is breaking up 10 q more fortu-
nate location nearby they might IN the
process OF moving lose considerable part
or their supplies. We fully realize the
danger but consider it only legitimate
risk
III our calculations are correct. late in
February, 1919. Storkersen's party should
lie northeast OF New Siberia, 100 or 200
miles farther north than the point where
the Jeannette sank. From here they
would start as soon as daylight allowed IL
Tor The mouth OF one OF the great Siberian
rivers. perhaps the Lena. 10 reach tho
Siberian Railroad then would become q
matter OF weeks
Storkersen's party consist OF four men
besides himself. Gustav Mask, Russian,
formerly second mate OF our vessel thn
Polar Bear; Lorn Knight. TWENTY-FIVE years
Old an American, whose parents live at
McAnville, near Portland, Ore; G. Gumar.
81 buffalo, ~ Y, and Martin Killian.
Seattle boy of about twenty years, tho
ideal age for men in subordinate positions
III polar work"
MT Stefansson maintains that if all goes
well with the expedition the mainland of
Siberia should be reached in from sixty to
elShty days after the Arctic daylight be-
GINS In February Of 1919. The party should
nus reach land in May and strike the
Siberian Railroad In Summe,
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Most OF the Ice in that region is many
years DID, thickened by being crushed anu
heaped UP in ridges and cemented together
again by the low temperatures. Some arc
thirty to fifty feet thick | would choose
cake over thirty feet In thickness and not
more than half q mile or q mile square in
area The main task OF the Summer Is
to put up enough meat for the Winter. and
the closer the open water is TO the camp
the less trouble in getting seals
"Storkersen is doubtless camped on some
such cake. On a good sunshiny dav one
is likely TO get from three 10 five seals.
these he would skin in such 4 way that
the skins form bags, which he would fill
with biubber, the blubbcr Of four seals
going to make one full bag The meat he
would slice thin and stretch out in the sun
to dry, this being his Jledge provisions for
the Journey landward the coming year.
After this. polar bears would become
the most freely obtainablo food. In our
rast experience one cartridge has aver.
aged us l25 pounds of meat. AS polar
bears frequently weigh 1000 pounds Stork.
ersen would be able to better considerably
Inc mountaineering average OF our anlmu.
bltion. Each animal that he kills will fur.
nish as much blubber as il does meat on
the average. The seals furnish a Little
Nore blubbor than meat and the polar
pears little more meat than blubbe- by
October, when Winter really set In. Stor-
kersen probably had 4 great many tons of
meat and fuel enough to last all Winter
III his course held true ! imagine he
would drift about 300 miles a month nj the
start and little slower later on. AS soon
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How to Make Your Own Butter

Vv7OuLD you like to cut your family
N/ butter bill almost in half? Not
by using less butter, you under
stand: nor yet by reducing the quality OF
The article you purchase. On the contrary.
it will be much better butter, and the
allowance for the family will be not an
ounce less than hitherto.
1t would be a miracle, you say? Well
call 1t that, but you can work It Yourself
very easily. The writer has tried it and
has proved it entirely practicable
Perhaps you have seen in the stores
those cunning little glass churns You
can buy one of twoGuarc capacity for 81 SO
They are not patented, which, doubtless
Is the reason why they cost no more.
me contrivance is most ingenious, yet
simple. You turn n crank and, by the help
OF gearings, "dasher" inside the churn
revolves with great rapdity.
Put n pound of butter in the church
with pound Ga little less than two cum
fnls) OF fresh milk turn the crank n few
moments and, 10! you have two pounds of
butter.
or course. what happens is that all of
the milk is taken up into the butter. Tho
amount Of butter-fat is only what the orig
mai butter contained, plus tho butterfat
that was in the cream Of the milk.
But the new-made butter Is much nicer
than tho original butter IL has the .rcsh
from.the.dairy flavor that is so delightful:
1t Is smooth. homogeneous and of an an.
petiZing appearance. Try it and you will
be convinced
To do the thing properly you should first
make ready dishpan half-full of water at
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CtNCE March OF this year five men
y have been drifting across the ton OF
me world on cake of ice for sci.
cnces sake. They arc members of the
'ilh1almur Stefansson expedition. which
was sent Gus in June, 1913, by the Cana
clan Government to seek new land and
gamer certain scientific data in the ice
pack which circles about tho North Pole
ihree ships have tried 10 penetrate
these frozen fields and all were caught
Ill the Hoes hundreds OF miles away from
th' point their commanders wished to at.
Ii before beginning the slow drift over
'he uheX2lored regions in which. if the
'ual phenomena does not mislead lies an
undiscovered continent, or, 1T the least
All enormous island group. or these three
snlpS .lne Jeannctte and the Karlu5 we're
each at last crushed in the laws of the
polar packard sunk. The Fran was oar.
rled FAR ont OF her course Their fatcs
proved mat the desired region could never
be reached by vessels
therefore the five. under the leaders hip
OF SteIansson's lieutenant, Storlter Storr-
erseh, nave raised their tents in this open
ana for eight months have been drifting.
HOW thick the pack on which they are
may be they cannot tell from hour to hour
apparently secure at night on Il tract ten
in''es square, they may awaken in the
in"i H'hg 10 tind il pierced with scores of
assures Or their cake may break and
crop 'hem into the Arctic Ocean.
mus are they drifting today in n totally
uneXp!ored region seeking that now con.
70 lie in their path between tho Alaska.
olocf!an mainland and the North Pole.
II me theory on which they ara work.
lhs Is justified by fact they vii, be pro.
peled some time in February, 1918 within
easy sledsinG distance OF the Sibcr,o,,
mainland. the posscss0-s OF fund nj GOV.
etcd polar neutrality-suspicious.. even Tho
oiscovercrs Of now land and its peonles
IL not. they will have written themselves
on sciences book OF martyrs
lheE nave no boats. Should ono ice
vessel become untenablc they will ,rust
10 tate TO float them TO another Wbon
the party started on their VOYAGE only
enough food was carried to last six weeks
After this they were 10 snbsist on spch f,oa
Us the polar regions yield. Polar bear and
seal abound and Steffansson himself hoe
proved from his own experience that
man may live indefinitely on a diet r,ra.
pared exclusively from these two animals
Rifles, ammunition and piece OF flint
and steel Will be all the cquipmen, re.
qured in appeasing the pangs OF hunger.
The blubber from bear and seal yields oil
for fuel. This will be used for cooking
and heating the Iglcos which they Will
build themselves. a little moss or piece
serted IN the oil. will meet the require.
ments for stove.
Stefansson conceived the idea Of making
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The Perilous
Experiment of
Five Intrepid
Explorers Who
Are Drifting on
a Floe Of the Polar.
Pack In Search OF \

ice north OF Alaska
would drift approx.
mately across the pole,
was erroneous, and that
II he were to free his
vessel anywhere in that
vicinity her drift would
thereafter duplicate,
first tho Karluk, then
the Jeanette, and last
ly the Fran, thus COW
ering no new ground.
He accordingly altered
his plar and is going TO
push as far as he can
into the ice somewhere
north OF Siberia.
ut was my idea that
If you could once get
nm eynloriDp norty n,