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The Washington times., 1918-03-18
UNSUITABLE SHIP
OF MAXIM TYPE TO
Be BUILT BY j. S.

The Shipping Board Will build a
mon -sInkable" ship along the lines
laid out by Hudson Maxim, the inven-
tor.
According TO the mesger informa'
ton made public. It will be special
ly constructed ship in which the MAJ
i'm device may be placed. The depar-
ture from ordinary ship construction
VIII be but in a few minor points, 80
that IL the device fails. il can b"
taken out and the vessel placed in
regular service.
Thousands OF devices have been
submitted TO the shipping board. Of
fIcIals say. and "now that an inventor
OF Nr. Maxim's reputation has sub
mitted q plan. It is thought wise to
build the first non-sinkaole ship OF
the type proposed by him
There are two types OF non-sink-
able ships known. One is the inner.
which protects the hull after the tor
psdo has hit, and the other is the
outer, which prevents the torpedo
from hitting the vessel. The ship
ping boards statement says MaNim's
type Is the former.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
ATTORNEYS HOLD
PARLEY To PLAN
! GODSOL DEFENSE

Attorneys for Frank J. GodsoI, held
In the District Jail pending his ar
raiEnment Wednesday morning on a
charge OF obtaining millions in graft
On automobile contracts from the
French government. conferred this
morning on the action TO be taken
when the prisoner is arraigned.
Benjamin s. Minor, attorney for the
French embassy, has returned from
New York city. where he conferred
with District Attorney Becker. who
has been conducting the Godsol case
In New York State, and who made
the raid recently on the Alliance Mo
tors Corporation. in which papers are
alleged to have been found which are
10 be used against Godsol. Mr.. Minor
also conferred with Mr.. Coudert, who
represents the French government in
the Godsol case.
No information regarding the con-
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lip curling with impatient scorn. and
George Zottmyer grinding his teeth
In the trenches and suffering acute
ly from dyspepsia.
Until the summer OF 1916 she was
very busy, either in her mothers
hospital or in one in Munich run
by a group Of Socialist friends un-
der Marie Won Erkel.
She glanced at the English papers
sometimes. but assumed that their
versions Of the wars origin. and of
Germanic methods. were for home
effect, and smiled at their occasional
claims OF victory.
Poor things, BY this time she
had seen SO much mortal suffering,
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
Begin to Read Here.

Countess Gisela Niebuhr is one Of three
daughters of a weIl-known Junker fem
lily OF Prussia From long observation OF
: the autocratic bearing Of their father IN
his domestic affairs they have sworn
never TO marry On the death OF her
father. Gisela, free, enters a German uni
Versfty. gets a degree In letters. and goes
20 America as companion to the childreh
OF a rich American. There she meets
Franz Won Nettelbeck. attache al the
German legation. with whom she forms
close friendship. Won Nettelbeck mas
been paying court TO a wealthy Amerl-
can girl. Gisela does not reveal TO Won
Nsttelbeck that she 10 Of his class. ana
he continues 10 regard her as OF the great
German biddle class. Their attachment
continues two years, after which Won
\ettelbeck IS recalled TO Germany 10
marry a titled woman. and Gisela ac-
C0nanies her employer on tour OF the
United States. She IS vastly impressed
with the extent and resources OF the
country.
Gisela returns tOheT native land and re-
Rumes her studies. She meets Won Net
teibeck at a court function. bue he does
not betray that she had been working In
coEniLa in America. She receives a pro-
rosal Of marriage from a fellow student.
but is spruned when he finds her one or
the detested Junker class. She writes
successful play depicting the difference in
the racial position OF German and AmeT1-
can women.
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nowthe

full enemies? What more natural
than that they should be ever on the
alert?
That Germany herself would strike
at the peace OF Europe, a peace
which had brought her an unex-
ampled prosperity and eminence,
never had crossed Gisela's mind.
Nevertheless, knowing the Ger
man male as she did. she was quite
sure that the officers reveled in the
exchange Of peace for war as much
as the men in the ranks detested it.
She could see Franz Won Nettelbeck
barking out orders for the irresistible
advance, his keen blue eyes flashing
with triumph, his Prussian upper
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF,
LONG UNDER FIRE, QUITS

CHICAGO. March 1s.-Resignation
OF Charles c. Healy. former general
superintendent OF Chicago police, and
member OF the department for
thirty years has brought to a close
conspiracy and graft charges pend
ing against him Attorneys for
HeaIey announced the resignation I'm
court, and State Attorney Hoyne
asked that all charges against him
be dropped. Healey is practically an
invalid, resulting from paralysis fol-
lowing his recent acquittal on the first
indictments.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
Do Make.
The Skin White.
How to make a creamy lemon
beauty lotion at home
for a few cents.

Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply you with three ounces Of
orchard white for a few cents.
Squeeze the juice Of two IA sn
lemons into a bottle, then put in the
orchard white and shake well. This
makes a quarter pint OF the very
best lemon skin whitener and com
plexion beautifier known. Massage
this fragrant. creamy lotion daily
into the face. neck, arms and hands
and just see how freckles; tan, sal
iowness, redness and roughness dis
appear and how smooth. soft and
white the skin becomes. Yes! II
70 harmless, and the beautiful re-
suits will surprise you.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
CHESTERTOWN, Md, FIRE
LOSS PUT AT $4,000

CHESTERTOwN. Md. March Is
Losses from yesterdays FIRE which swept
the business section OF this city will not
be more than $4,000. it was announced
today. Eut for the prompt response OF
the FIRE department from Smyrna, which
was called on for assistance. it is be-
ueved that the entire town would have
been burned. Hyson's drug store and
Charles NJ. Hurts general store. each
valued at $4,000. were the two biggest
losses Both were Insured
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
INFANT Is KILLED
BY TINY PACFIER

BALTIMORE. March 1S-A tiny
pacifier. a small piece OF rubber used
by mothers to help keep their children
quiet, ended the life of John Molvin
Calllen. one-month-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Callien. here today. The
child put the pacifier in its mouth and
the rubber chOked the infant to
death.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
Army Ever Alert.

Gisela, like the vast majority Of
civilians in the central empires, had
grown too accustomed to the evi-
dences OF a graf standing army to
give them more than a passing
thought. Were they not. then. sit
uated in the very middle Of Europe?
Surrounded by envious and power
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
OPENS This MORNING

OTTAWA, Ont. March 1S.-Psrlia-
ment convened here today at the I'M
precedented hour OF IL a. m.
Election OF speaker is the first
business scheduled.
The formal opening OF parliament
by the governor general occurred in
the afternoon
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
NO RED LIGHT DISTRICTS
NEAR CANTONMENTS

There is not a single red light
district existing today within an ef-
fective radius OF any army canton
ment or naval station where any con-
siderable number OF soldiers or sail-
ors are in training"
Raymond B. Fosdick. chairman OF
the commissions on training camp
activities. made this statement today
in summing up vice conditions around
military camps.
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tents Of the papers recently received
from France, which comprise the for
NAL indictment of Godsol has been
given out.
The arraignment on "wednesday
will be part of the proceedings to ex-
tradite GodsoI TO France for trial on
the supposed graft charges.
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and that he had referred to the Great
European war as a foregone conclu-
sion, as so many had been doing
these past ten or fifteen years; but
he had been careful to say nothing
about throwing the torch into the
nnundar
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
(Continued Tomorrowl
RAISE FOR HARVESTER MEN.

CHICAGO. March 1s.-About $4,000
employees In the various plants OF the
International Harvester Company re-
ceived notice that on April 1 an in
crease in pay OF approximately 10 per
cent will be granted. It Is the sixth
wage increase during the last two
and q half years.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
LINCOLN DESCENDANTS "sIr."

Mary Lincoln BeCkwith. great-Erand-
daughter Of Abraham Lincoln. today an
nounced she will pillow the fields of the
family farm at Vermont to aid in the
production Of more food. Miss Beck with
will attach a large tractor to an auto
mobile.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
HEAD STUFFED FROM :
CATARRH OR A COLD :
Says Cream Applied in Nostrih =!
Opens Air Passages Right Up. !

instant relief-nO waiting. Your
clogged nostrils open right up; the
air passages of your head clear ana
you can breathe freely. No more
hawking. snuffling, blowing, head
ache. dryness. No struggling Tor
breath at night; your cc'd or g
tarrh disappears.
Ge: a small bottle OF Ely's Cream
Baim from your druggist row. AT
ply q ntrle Of this fragrant anu
septic, healing cream in your nos
trils. II pcnetrates through. every
air passage Of The head. soothes the
infiamed or swollen mucous mem
brane and relief comes INSTANTLY.
Its just fine. Don't stay stuffed
up with a cold or nasty catarrh.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18

soothed so many dying men who
raved OF unimaginsble horrors,
written so many pathetic last letters
TO mothers and wives and sweet
hearts. that the first mood Of fury
and hatred had long since passed.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
Benefit to Her Sex.

Her mind, normally clear, acute,
just, regained its poise. Moreover,
those five years preceding the war,
during which she had learned to use
her gifts for the benefit Of her sex
instead Of for her own amusement
and fame, played their insiduous
part.
When she was ordered to take
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charge of hospital in Lille in June
Of the second year Of the war she
had forced herself to accept the
present state of Europe with GER
tain philosophy. After all, war was
its normal, its historic, condition.
Following a somewhat unusual in
terval Of peace, owing to the benef-
icent reign Of the German emperor,
the war microbes of Europe, cul-
tured in the Balkan swamps, had,
through some miscalculation, after a
deplorable assassination, ravaged
the entire contingent instead of be-
ing localized as heretofore.
Men were men and kings were
kings and war is war. Gisela some
times wondered if the hideous up
heaval were anybody's fault, if the
desire to fight had not been more or
less simultaneous in spite of the fact
that Germany was caught mapping
and permitted Russia and France
to sneak over her frontiers.
The sinking Of the Lusitania and
other passenger ships, or rather the
results, had filled her with a horror
that might have developed into pro-
test had she not been assured that
the U-boats had purposely waited
for q calm sea, not too far from
shore, that the passengers might
have every opportunity for escape;
and that they had been the victims
Of contraband cargoes Of ammuni-
ton exploding, badly adjusted life
boats, panic among themselves, and
utter inethciency and selfshness Of
the officers and crew.
Atrocities Appalled, Her.
These excuses sounded plausible
to q young woman still too occupied
to ponder; but during her journey
through Belgium and the invaded
districts of France her mind grew
more and more uneasy.
Surely an army so uniformly vic
torious, an army which only fore
bore to press forward in a battle
like that Of the Marne, for instance
for sound strategic reasons,
should have found it unnecessary to
destroy whole towns with their
priceless monuments Of art, level
countless insignificant villages, and
reduce their inhabitants to COVER
ing misery.
She had been a student of history
and had inferred that modern war
fare was as humane as war may
be; witness the fine magnanimity of
the Japanese, an Oriental race.
This passing country, which she
had known well in its hey-day, look
ed extraordinarily like the histori-
cal pictures of the invasions Of
Goths and Vandals and Huns.
"Hunsi" She had resented the
constant use Of the word in the
English papers, dismissing it finally
as childish spite. Had its usurpa-
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discuss her work and letters, they
were still unsuspected of the arro-
CANT men who controlled the des-
tinies of Germany. And as the Ger
man woman is the reverse Of frank,
as little indication Of the slow revo-
lutiol was found in the home.
The solution was as far of as ever,
but German women are patient and
they bided their time, exulting in
their seer. 1t gave them a sense
of reTenee and power.
Then came the war.
Gisela, like all the good women
Of Germany, famed with patriotism
and righteous indignation. Russia
and France with no provocation,
with no motive but insensate ambi-
ton on the one hand and Tester
ing desire for revenge on the other,
had crossed the sacred frontiers Of
the great Teutonic Empire.
Bombs Filled With Air.
A French aviator had dropped
bombs on Neuremburg, one Of the
artistic treasures of Europe, al
though, mercifully, his bombs had
inadvertently been filled with air.
Then followed the even more in
defensible act Of Great Britain,
whose only motive in joining forces
with paper allies was to aim a blow
at the glorious compercial prestige
of Germany, the object Of her fear
and hate these many years.
Gisela Immediately entered the
hospital opened by her mother in
Berlin and took a rapid frst-aid
course, concentrating upon the work
all the fine powers Of her mind and
strong young body.
Literature, fame, propaganda
among women, all were dismissed.
Although victory was certain in a
few months there would be many
thousands Of wounded and she was
filled with a passionate desire to
serve those heroes and martyrs Of
foreign hatred
She forgot her personal expert
ence of the German male, forgot
herself. Her beloved Fatherland
was attacked, and the German male
in his heroic resistance, his tri-
umphal progress, was become a god.
Dienen! Dienen!
She had no time to ponder upon
the violation of Belgium and knew
nothing of the curious escape of
medieval psychology from the for
NAL harness fmodern times. She
was engaged in hard menial labor
during those first weeks and it was
sufficient to know that Germany
had been violated.
1t is true that the warrior parent
had sometimes boasted of the day
when Germany should rule the world,
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Hailed AS A Leader.

But thousands of them were NUT
tering to or ~1other and readin"
with envy the literature of woman's
revolt in other lands. When one Of
their own sex rose, a woman of the
highest intelligence and an impecca-
BILE style, who, although she signed
herself Gisela Doring, was said to
be a rebellious member of the Prus-
sian aristocracy, their own vague
protests slowly crystallized and
they grew to look upon her as a
leader, who one day would show
them the path out of bondage.
Her correspondence grew to enor-
nous proportions, but she answered
every letter, fully determined by
this time to accomplish something
more than a name in letters while in
cidentally ar-using herself With STIR
ring up the women and annoying
the men.
But ALTHOUGH clubs were formed to
The Washington times., 1918-03-18
Saw Him Only Once.

Saw Him Only Once.
But although she heard Of him
often, for he had covered himself
with glory, she had seen him only
once-from a window in Berlin as
he promenaded Inter den Linden,
a superb and naughty figure, his
swelling chest covered with medals.
In Lille she met Elsa, who had
been in charge of a hospital for a
year, Mimi Brandt and Heloise Won
Erkel, with whom she had been in
timately associated in Munich.
She found all three Mortified and
appalled, at the atrocious cruelties,
the persistent and needless severi-
ties, the arrogant and staggering
attitude, accompanied by countless
petty tyrannies, unworthy Of an
army in possession; the wholly un-
modern and dishonorable treatment
Of a PROSTATE and wretched people.
Above all, the deportations Of the
young girls Of Lille, torn from their
families, driven in herds through
the streets, their faces stamped
with despair or abject terror. con-
demned to God knew what horrible
fate, had shaken these three humane
and thinking women to the core.
All three. while serving far be-
hind the lines, had thought their
German army an army of deni-
gods, and all three were bitterly
Of their countrymen and
disposed to question a sovereign,
and a military caste, that not only
the saddest lust OF
their fighters and seemed unable to
spare sufficient food for the civilians,
in spite of the great leakage through
countries, but which per-
sisted in calling themselves victori-
ous when they were either perpetu-
ally on the defensive or in tie act
Of being beaten, despite their ire
sistible rush.
The Somme drive had not begun.
but there was not a nurse in Lille
that did not know the truth about
Verdun.
"And believe me, as the Americans
say" remarked Mimi Brandt, when
the German people know the truth,
particularly the German women,
there will be some circus"
(Continued Tomorrcwl
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Now Go Right On With
the Story.
CHAPTER I. (Continued)

= Those who have not lived IN Ger
.bnany have not even an inkling of the
gsdeep slow secret revolt. against the
y,insolent and inconsiderate attitude
I;of the German male that had been
'sgrowing among its women for some
Fifteen years before the outbreak of
Athe war.
Il They ventured no public meetings
TOR militant acts of anv sort. for men
sewere far too strong for them yet,
iand the German woman is by nature
Ifetiring, however individualistic her
lego. Their only outward manifesto
lition was the hideous reformkleid, a
, ,tynical manifestation in even the
women of a nation whose art is as
ugly as it often is interesting.
The Washington times., 1918-03-18

tion Of the classic and noble word
Germans" been one Of those quick
merciless, simultaneous designa-
tions that fly through every army
in wartime and are as apt as they
are inevitable?
She felt a sudden desire to ~talk
it out" with Franz Won Nettelbeck,
whose mind, despite his prejudiees.
was the most stimulating she had
ever known,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-20
TWENTY.THlRD ANNIVERSARY
 OF GRACE CIRCLE
Event Observed Tuesday by Social
 Meeting at the Johnson Home. l

Grace Circle of the Kings Daugh- ters held a social meeting Tuesday af- ternoon at the Johnson Home with over fifteen members present, The meeting marked an event of special interest to the circle it being the 23d anniversary of its activities. As iR- vited guests of the circle were the ia- dies at the home who expressed great pleasure with the entertainment pro- vided to commemorate the occasion. Mrs. Frank J. King. leader, presided. while the Lords prayer was repeated in unison after which delightful lit erary and musical programme was given. The programme arranged by Mrs John B. Oat, Mrs. Lena Perkins and Miss Annie Case, was as follows: Piano duet, Miss Olive Linton and Miss Ethel Adams; reading, Mrs. Av- cry Park; piano solo, Miss Linton; reading, Mrs. Park; piano duet, Misses Linton and Adams; reading, Mrs. Park. The several members received encores which were cheerfully responded to. The programme closed by all joining in singing The Star Spangled Banner. Mrs. George H. Stanton, Mrs. John H. Barnes and Mrs. Amos Swan of the committee served ice cream, cake and coffee, closing a most successful ses- sion.o
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-20
sHoEsTRINe DISTRICT
 REGlsTRANTs ARE EXAMINED Considerable Delay in Announcement
 of Results by Board.

The Eleventh division draft board continued the physical examination of the registrants from the Shoestring district, at the courthouse Tuesday. About 100 were examined Monday, but the net results do not yet show up strong, due to the fact that nearly ey- cry man. after being passed upon by the physicians. is next turned over to the medical advisory board for a still further examination. This results in considerable delay in obtaining the exact status of the men, and thus the results of the examination are not coming forth very rapidly.
 Monday only. four more men were absolutely passed and certified. but the majority of them were found to be available for limited service" and just where they will eventually land will not be known until after the medical advisory board has completed its work.
 To the credit of the Eleventh .diyis- ion, however, it may be stated in truth that fewer men have been returned from camp after having been forward ed there than from many other divis- ion boards, which indicates that the examinations are thorough and the test which follows in the case or every camp arrival does not reveal anything flecessitating the return of the man to his home because of some disquali- Ification overlooked.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-20
RED CROSS IN NEED
Electric Cutter Necessary to Prepare
 Material for Garments.

In statement issued Tuesday night Joseph H. Selden, chairman of the Norwich Chapter, Red Cross, appeals for funds to be used for the installa- tion of an electric cutter at the Red Cross headquarters. The statement follows:
 The Norwich chapter of the Red Cross is ip need. Not 8 friend, we are glad to say, for their number is large and ever increasing. Nor of faithful workers; nearly 700 devoted women are enlisted in this patriotic service.
 To prepare the, material for the five hundred garments sent out each month an electric cutter is needed. To install this machine, $110 will be: re- |quired ..1
 The executive committee win be very grateful to any friends of the Red Cross in Norwich who are able to assist us. in securing this greatly needed aid to the work of the chapter. Your gifts may be sent to the treas urer, Miss Louise B. Meech, No. ITS Broadway, or left at the Red Cross headquarters in the Thayer buildinE. JOSEPH H. SELDEN.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-20
MAY TRY TO OPEN
 1 OLD FERTILIZER WORKS
c. N. Shay After Property Formerly
 Operated by Luce Company.

It seems likely that the c. M. Shay
 Fertilizer company, which formerly operated plant at the navy yard, and
 which has just been purchased by the
 government for use of the submarine
 base, has purchased the fish works at
 Giants Neck, west of Mantle. which
 has been idle for number of years.
 It was formerly operated by the Luce
 company in the manufacture of men baden into fertilizer, but after passing through several hands 1t finally went into the hands of receiver. and later placed in charge of Thomas F. Foran, one of the directors, for disposal It is a very deSirabel piece of prop- erty for the purpose of manufacturing fertilizer and just what the Shay com pany has been looking for, since it be- came evident that the government would take over their Groton plant. c. M. Shay, when asked if his com pany had acquired possession of the East Lyme plant would neither deny nor confirm purchase. He admitted, however, that he was negor.atlng for l 1t
 1 As consequence of the report that the long idle plant will again be put into operation, some of the people who l have landed interests in the town of I1aSI ltynic dIS up III dIHiS d5dlilSt tue proposition. Mir. Shay has been served | with legal notices by Gross, Hyde and Shipman of Hartford, representing the l Hatchett Point O., James !. Smith of the Point O Woods Co. the Cham rion Point Realty Co, with offices in
 New Haven. and Stephen N. Bond, of New Yorak, not to open the plant un-
 der penalty of being sued for damages
 It is understood that Mir. Foran has
 also been threatened with suit for damages if he sells the property for
 use as a fertilizer plant by one of the parties named
 The objection is presumed to be due
 to the offensive odors which it is sup posed will be thrown off by the plani when it is in operation.