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Evening star., 1918-01-12
RAINSTORM IN NEW YORK. :.
Winds, Thunder and Lightning
Come With Srringlike Temperature

NEW YORK. January ia tropical
rainstorm. accompanied by high winds.
thunder and lightning descended on
New York and vicinity shortly after
midnight. The storm, which fhe
weather bureau had forecast as a heavy
snowfall. was accompanied by a rapid
rise in temperature. The thermometer
stood at freezing last night, with snow
for a time falling on ice-covered
streets. This situation was changed
within a few hours to one of spring.
like weather.
The wind and rain did considerable
damage. Cellars and Easements were
flooded and in some instances subway
travel was interfered With by water
seeping into the tabes- A rise in tenn
perature of 20 degrees in seven hours
was noted by the weather bureau, with
q precipitation of more than one inch.
The warm spell. weather officials ex-
pect, will be followed shortly by a re-
turn to winter weather, as the cold
wave now working its way from the
west is due here tonight.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Standard Colors Only
For Painting in Spring

Clean mp next spring II You
will. But II you "paint mp" be re-
signed to select the paints from q
few standard colors.
No longer will new-buiIt houses
look like n cross section of Jo-
seph Urban scenery, with hues
and tints of every shade.
For the commercial economy
board, Council of National De-
fense, has been investigating
paints. 1t has concluded that too
much linseed oil and other vnl-
uablc Ingredients are wasted i'm
making such n wide diversity of
paints that many of them remain
in stock.
Moreover, 1t has found that
there nre scores OF sizes OF con-
tafners. Tin might he saved II
the sizes were standardized.
Therefore, 1t hns been In confer
ence with paint makers to reduce
the number of colorx made, and to
stnndariixe the sizes Of the tin
containers.
So II you must "paint up. be
prepared to use a standard color
bought In a standard size can.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
s. 1875 STARS IN ITS FLAG.
United Mine Workers to Swing Re
puted Largest Service Banner.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, January IA
service flag, said to be the largest in
the country and bearing 1875 stars,
will be swung as a canopy in the hall
when the United Mine Workers of
America opens it's convention here next
Tuesday Each star represents a union
miner who has dropped the pick to
take service with Uncle Sam.
Notwithstanding the miners union
has furnished more men for military
service than has been the case in any
other single industry, officials assert
that more than 300.000,000 tons of coal
can be mined annually in excescs OF
the nations maximum demand il the
railroads could furnish the cars neces-
sary to handle the output.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
HUNS DEMANDS ON ITALIANS.
People of Captured Sections Sur
render Food. Work 16 Hours a Dav

OTTAWA. Ont. January 12.-AH food
supplies in private homes to be given
up and men. women and children to
work in the fields for sixteen hours a
day for the benefit of the invaders are
set forth in regulations imposed by the
Austro-Germans upon the people Of the
conquered portions of Italy, according
to the text of a Teutonic proclamat ton
now in the hands of Reuters Limited
and made public here.
Failure to comply with the regula-
tions. the proclamation states, will call
for severe punishment. including the
Imprisonment of men and women and
the beating of children.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
SENATOR BRADY NEAR DEATH.
Hope Of His Recovery Abandoned
by the Physicians.

Hopes for the recovery of Senator
Brady of Idaho, who suffered an attack
of acute heart disease Thursday night.
were today abandoned by his physicians,
who said his death was only a question
of time.
The senator rallied last night and ap-
back occurred early today and since
that time3he has been gradually sink
ing.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
$750,0oo Fire in Winnipeg.

WINNIPEG. Manitoba. January IA
Fire early yesterday destroyed the En-
derton Office and store building in the
heart of Winnipeg's retail district,
causing loss estimated at $750.000. The
20 degrees below zero temperature
which prevailed when the fire was dis
covered hampered the work of the fire.
men. Three firemen were injured.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
s125,ooo FIRE IN CLEVELAND.
Wright Hotel at Saginaw, Mich, Is
Swept by Flames.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. January 12.-Fire
of unknown origin destroyed the five-story
birck building occupied by the Shields
Wertheim Cigar Company this morning.
with an estimated loss of s125.000. Sew
eral water pipes were frozen, making it
necessary for firemen to run their hose
lines several blocks to reach the blaze
SAGINAW, Mich, January 1.-THE
Wright Hotel, in the heart of the city, was
swept by fire this morning. Several per-
sons were injured and three persons were
reported missing. The loss was about
$4,000. The cause has not been ascer-
tained.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
HERTLlNG TO ANSWER
ALLIED WAR AIMS

LONDON, January 12.-It is reported
In Berlin that the German chancellor,
Count Won Hertling, probably will ad-
dress the reichstag main committee on
Monday, in reply to the war aims
speeches of President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George, an Exchange
telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen
says.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
TO CUT OUT GERMAN.
North Dakota Public Schools Not to
Teach It After July l.

FARGO, n. D.. January 12.-Teaching
Of the German language will be discon-
tinued in all public schools OF North
Dakota after July 1. 1918. in accordance
with a resolution adopted by the state
board of education at a meeting yester-
day.
School boards and boards of education
were requested to authorize elementary
and high schools throughout the state
to substitute as far as possible classes
in French and Spanish.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Start Million Baptist Fund April /.

CHICAGO, January ia ten-week
national campaign to raise 100000
among laymen of the Baptist Church
will be begun April 1. according to a
resolution adopted last night at a con-
ference of laymen from all parts of
tbe United States. The fund will be
used for war purposes and for religious
needs that have not been planned for
IN the past. Permanent camps are to
be established at all Army ana Navy
cautonments in AmericaS
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Suggests More Tax on Rockefeller,

NEW YORK, January 12.-An in
crease in the personal property tax of
John D. Rockefeller, who now pays on
an assessment of $4,000, 900. is suggested
by Mayor Hylan in a letter to the presi-
dent of the. tax board. The mayor stated
that real estate was bearing an undue
share of the burden of taxation i'm the
city, and he also suggested that the city
might follow the government scheme
of taxing excessive wealth that comes
from excessive incomess"
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Five Years in Prison for Stacker.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. January IL
Arthur Handlon of Indianapolis has
been sentenced to five years imprisoti-
ment in the federal penitentiary at At
lanta, Ca, by Judge A. B. Henderson
of the federal district court. before
whom he had pleaded guilty to having
obtained military exemption by fraud.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Katharine Schratt Dies in Vienna,

LONDON, January 12.-German news
papers received here announce the
death in Vienna of the actress, Kath-
arina Sehratt, for years an intimate
friend of the late Emperor Francis
his will M
Evening star., 1918-01-12
KRyLENK0 APPEALS
FOR FIGHTING MEN
Wants Patriots to Enlist in the
New Russian
Army.
SAYS OLD ARMY is UNFIT

BY LOUIS EDGAR BROWNE.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
PETROGRAD. Russia. January 10
(Defayed)-The soviet has launched
campaign of preparation in view OF
the possible ultimate collapse OF the
Russo-German peace negotiations and
the resumption of hostilities. Dis
quieting reports from the conference
at Brest-Litovsk have caused Gen. kry-
lenko, the bolshevik commander-in-
chief, to take action and the bolshevik
newspapers to fire broadsides of war
like utterances. Gen. Krylenko has is
sued a general order to the fronts call
ing upon revolutionary Russia to stand
as a unit against the German I'M
perialist robbers"
Evening star., 1918-01-12
MAI. A. P. GARDNER ILL.
Feared Former Bay State Congress.
man Nay Have Pneumonia.

MACON, January 12.-Maj. Augustus
p. Gardner. former representative from
Massachusetts,, and. recently adjutant
of the s1st Division. is i'll at the base
hospital at Camp Wheeler. 1t IL feared
he 10 threatened with pneumouia,
Evening star., 1918-01-12
GALE RATED ''REMARKABLE..
Wind at Richmond ct Sixty-Mile
Speed. Temperature Sixty Deerees

RICHMOND. Va, January 12-One Of
the most remarkable gales ever known
in this section occurred at 2 o'clock this
morning, when the wind blew at sixty
miles an hour, from the southwest, and
the temperature was sixty degrees, the
highest since November II.
The wj1d was within one mile Of the
Vocord Tor Richmond, which is sixty
1Confinusd on sscond. .Pagal
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Former Mayor Mitchell a Major

NEW YORK, January 12-John Pur-
roy Mitchell. who retired on January
as mayor of New York, has been an
pointed a major in the Aviation Corps
of the United States Army,
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Crops Beneated-Lives Lost.
Freight Traffic in Tie-up.

Steam railroads reported a complete
tie-up Of freight traffic. and this caused
city officials to fear that there would
be suffering for want of milk and coal
before railroad traffic could be restored
to normal conditions
Suouroanites crowded the railway
stations awaiting trains that did NOT
leave, and many remained all night
while others sought hotels for lode-
ing Several trains on the New York
central and the Pennsylvania lines were
stalled in deep drifts within a short
distance of this city. while other trains
on these roads were annulled Similar
conditions obtained on the Wabash.
Grand Trunk and Erie; in fact, every
line entering the city was in dffficulty
with incoming as well as outgoing
trains In all. twenty-five trains due
In the city last night had not arrived
at an early hour this morning. A far
greater number of outgoing trains were
abandoned
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Krylenko's Reply to Germany.


LONDON, January 12-The call of
Ensign Krylenko, the bolshevik COM
mander- in chief. for volunteers for a
Russian army, according to the boil
shevik telegraph agency at Petrograd,
was issued in the form of an appeal to
the soldiers and workmen and as a
reply to the German peace proposals.
The appeal refers to Germany's rejec-
ton of the proposals framed previous
ly and their open talk of annexations.
In the event of a separate peace the
call declares that the Russian republic
and it's councils will be surrounded on
all sides by enemies.
american and French ffnanciers," he
continues, ''are lending money to pro-
vide war material for Kaledines. The
German bourgeoisie are quite prepared
to use them as allies for sitting the
Russian revolution. These are condi-
tions which raise for the Russian peas
ants and workmen the whole question
of the defense of the conquest achieved
by the revolution and of the holy war
against the bourgeoisie, not only of
Russia. but of Germany, France and
Great Britain"
Comrades he says, 'the people of
Italy, Spain, France. Austria and
Switzerland watch you with hope and
await the call to battle against their
bourgeoisie. Their soldiers will not
march against revolutionary Russia.
Enroll yourselves in the ranks of the
peoples guard and safeguard the revo-
luton and socialism"
Evening star., 1918-01-12
BRITISH DESTROYER
HITS ROCKS, FOUNDERS

LONDON. January 12.-The British de-
stroyer Raccoon struck rocks off the Irish
coast on Wednesday and foundered. it is
announced officially.
Evening star., 1918-01-12

The Raccoon was built in 1910. She
was 266 feet long and displaced 915 tons.
She was armed with one four-inch and
three three-inch guns and two torpedo
tubes. Her normal complement was l0J
men.
Evening star., 1918-01-12
COLD WAVE GRIPS
WIDE AREA AND IS
STILL SPREADING
Icy Blast From Rockies to Al
Ieghanies, Canada to
the Gulf.
CHICAGO ISOLATED BY
HEAVIEST SNOW IN YEARS
Low Temperatures in Many Cities.
81 Below in 0'Neil, Neb.-Rail-
road Traffic Held Up.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, January I2.-Chieago is
isolated from rail communication with
the outside world by one of the worst
Billiards in its history. Its business IS
paralyzed. No milk trains arrived nor
were coal wagons able to move 10 per
cent of the fuel needed. The thermom-
eter dropped to fourteen degrees below
zero and sharp wind from the north
west added to the suffering.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
started three passenger trains out last
night. They were unable to negotiate
the drifts and all we're held within 40
miles of the city. Other trains, in view
of this experience, were not started at
all. Grocers notified customers that de-
iveries would not be attempted until
conditions improved.
A blizzard extending from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rocky
mountains almost to the Alleghenies.
and accompanied by low temperatures.
ranging from 81 below zero at O'Neill,
Neb., to IL above zero at San Antonio.
Tex, paralyzed steam railroad and
street car traffic at many points. The
storm. which began early yesterday,
continued all night. and a high Wind
piled huge drifts of snow on top of the
heavy fall early in the week over Illi-
nois. Wisconsin. northern Indiana and
southern Michigan, and parts Of Iowa
and Missouri.
Over practically the entire territory
covered by the blizzard today train
schedules have been upset and at the
and Kansas City many trains have been
annulled-
81 Below at o'Neill, Neb.
Nebxaska. il Is said. experienced the
coidest day in half century. no point
reporting to the weather bureau ut
as zero, while O'Neill turned in 81 de-
grees below.
In Kansas and Missouri Temperatures
OF 20 below zero were common, and in
st. Louis the thermometer reached 10
below.
Crops Benefited-Lives Lost.
With practically the entire wheat and
oat belt of the country blanketed by
snow, grain experts predicted great
beneht to crops, The snow, it was said,
would not only form protective COW
ertng and provide moisture for win
ter wheat. but it would also soften the
ground to an ideal condition for spring
wheat and oats planting.
seven deaths were reported last night
as due to the storm. Four men were
lost IN the blizzard in Oklahoma and
frozen TO death, two persons died in
st. Louis, Mo-, and one in Duluth Mjnn
The worst storm we have experience
ed. steam road and street railway Off
cials said today. because the drifting
snow piles back on the tracks after
we clear them"
Freight Traffic in Tie-Up.
Steam railroads reported complete
Evening star., 1918-01-12
Text of the Order.

His order reads:
Peace is endangered. The Germans
are demanding annexations at the ex-
pense of Russia. A holy revolutionary
war is necessary at the front. The ex-
hausted old army after three and
half years in the trenches is unit FUR
ther to struggle and new volunteer
peoples army is necessary, using the
workmen's red guard units as the basic
units, all Russians must assist in or
ganiZing revolutionary guard. We
need fighters and not those who are
dreaming only of chickens and cows.
soldiers with patriotism will enlist in
the new volunteer army. Let the others
go home"
Points Out. Menace.
In a leading article the bolshevik
newspaper Pravda says:
Not only peace, but the existence Of
revolutionary Russia. is endangered.
Patriotic Russians face the possibility
of defending their freedom from the
aggression of the German imperialis-
tic criminals. A volunteer army pro-
PEELED by the spirit of revolution is
necessary measure Of precaution. Con-
sidered from every point, our success
is probable. Germany is unable to pro-
long the war with her former efficiency.
The last campaign demonstrated that
the aggressive energy of the central
powers had dropped greatly.
This will be more marked next sum-
mer. The psychological effect of the
armistice on<the German soldiers has
affected German discipline. Thousands
of German soldiers are deserters. and
there are other proofs that the bitter
feeling of the German soldiers and Of
ficers in the intensive war on our front
has gone forever. We now conduct a
guerrilla warfare. In the event of the
termination of the peace negotiations
we must make countrywide call for
volunteers"
View Of the Reactionariez
The reactionary elements declare that
the bolshevik appeals for a guerilla
army are camoufage in preparation
for complete capitulation- to the Ger
man demands. They say that addition
al proof of this is found in compromise
between the soviet and the rada of
Ukraine. which permitted the latter to
send envoys to the Brest-Litovsk peace
negotiations. This is considered dis
tant surrender to certain Of the Ger
man demands. The bolsheviki original
ly demanded the unconditional accept
ance of the principle of self-determi-
nation. but the Ukraine demands peace
at any price, regardless of the fate of
democracy in Poland and Courland.
Thus, when the soviet permits the
Ukraine delegates to take part in the
peace conferences its own stand for
self-determination is weakened. The
decision still hangs in the balance.
Evening star., 1918-01-12

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Evening star., 1918-01-12
WEATHER.

Fair ana much colder tonight and to.
morrow, with Severe cold wave, prob.
ably below zero.
Temperature for twenty-four hours.
ending 2 pm. today: Highest, 43, at 4
am. today; lowest, q, at pm. yester-
day.
Evening star., 1918-01-12

Scontinnsd on Second Psssa
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

A memorandum made public by the
war department concerning the use of
armed guards about industrial plants
contains the following:
THE soldier In training who has Of
fered his life for the defense of coun-
try should not sacrifice his effective
ness by performing police duty In the
protection of property back Of the
lines. This is the duty of the citizen
at home
''The theater for operations for
armed soldiers is the battlefield of
Europe. Each civilian should aid his
country by acting as a guard for the
detection and prevention of intrigue,
deceit, and all the familiar stealthy op-
erations of the enemy, in our midst.
Each soldier unnecessarily detailed as
a guard in this country aids and abets
the enemy in Europe.
"Often guard may be needed for
the safety of a factory. When 1t is,
it should be supplied by the owner Of
the factory, by the municipality, or by
the state.
"These measures apply not only to
manufacturing plants, but are equally
applicable to shipyards, grain eleva-
tors, and stores of supplies"
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16
SUGAR SUPPLY Isl
ASSURED PACKERS
FOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURE
ERS ADVISED THEY WILL BE
ABLE TO OBTAIN NEcES-
SARY REQUIREMENTS.
EQUIPMENT OF WAR PLANES
Each Aircraft Needs Extra Material
and Staff of Skilled Men-Removal
of Officers From Medical Reserve
Corps.

Washington.-Man of es-
sential food products have been ad-
vised by the food administration that
they will be able to obtain their full
requirements of sugar for manufactur-
ing purposes during the coming year.
This applies particularly to packers
of fruit, condensed milk, such vege-
tables for the preservation of which
sugar may be necessary, as well as to
the housewives, for usage in preserv-
ing purposes. AS soon as the car
shortage is relieved, according to the
food administration statement, sup
plies of sugar will be available for
these purposes. Shipments from Cuba
are steadily increasing.
All Gamers have been advised to
hold for war purposes such quantities
of canned corn, peas, tomatoes, string
beans, and salmon as they may have
on hand. Such quantities as are not
wanted will be released within few
days after receipt of reports showing
stocks on hand, which must be SUBJ
mitted to the food administration be-
fore March 15.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

1t is reported from Germany that
wood is being largely used In place of
cefluioid, ivory, and other substances
for the manufacture of combs. Ex-
cellent toilet combs are made from
thinly cut birch and beechwood.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

Massachusetts, and Michigan chap
ters of the Daughters of the Revolu.
ton are establishing "mending rooms"
In cantonments. These departments
are opened for hospitals, where hun.
dreds of garments are mended each
week.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

After three years of warfare the to-
tai number of airplanes able to take
the air at any one time on either side
of the western front has not been
over $500. Each plane in the air
requires a force of 46 men, two re-
placement planes on the ground, and
one training plane for every pilot
who eventually reaches the front,
with an extra engine for each plane.
The life of a plane is not more than
two months, and the engine must be
overhauled after each rs hours. Now
that American battle planes are going
overseas, the great problem is to Sc
cure the thousands of skilled mechan-
les, enginemen, motor repair men,
wood and metal workers needed to
keep the planes in perfect condition.
This engineering and mechanical force
at the airdromes, the flying fields, and
repair depots, both here and behind
the lines in France, is vital industrial
link in the chain to air supremacy.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

Plans have been announced for the
organization of Junior Four-Minute
Men" in every school in the country.
According to the division of Four
Minute Men of the committee of pub
lie information, bulletins especially
prepared for school children will be
sent during the third Liberty loan cam
paign for distribution by superintend-
ents to all schools in the United
States. Addresses will be prepared
from the material in these bulletins
just as regular Four-Minute speakers
In motlon-picture houses prepare their
own speeches from bulletins supplied
by the government.
In each school the children submit
ting the best speeches are to deliver
them In public. According to plans the
boy or girl awarded first prize is to
get certificate from the United
States government as a Junior Four
Minute Man.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

Packages containing dutiable gifts
sent to members of the expeditionary
forces temporarily serving in Eng
land will be delivered free of duty,
provided the contents contain bona
Hde gifts, the quantity Is not beyond
the personal requirements of the ad-
dressee, and that the parcels are ad-
dressed for delivery to the regimental
address of the recipient.
A navy base hospital with a capacity
of 500 beds has reached the war zone.
It will take care of navy personnel,
both ashore and afloat, and If accom-
modations exist will also be available
for army and allied sick and wounded.
All persons or firms engaged in i'm
porting, manufacturing, storing, or dis
tributing fertilizers of fertilizer in
gradients must secure licenses on or
before March 20. Application must be
made to the Law Department, License
Division, United States food admins
.ration, Washington, D. G.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

Near beer and temperance drink
coming within the designation of NAL
liquor are included in the President
proclamation limiting brewers of bee
to 10 per cent of the amounts of grain
and other food materials that wer
used last year.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16

From the declaration of war to
February %, the surgeon general Of
the army has removed 1,050 officers of
the Medical Reserve corps. In the
following table the reason assigned for
discharge does not isolate under 'in
aptitude for the service" all those
whose dismissal was in considerable
degree due to inefiiciency or incompe-
tency, since these reasons had weight
In many cases otherwise classified.
Discharged for physical disability
All; inaptitude for the service, 154 I;
to join other branches, BOG; domestic
difficulties, SO; resignation. SS; need
ed by communities, hospitals, schools.
80.
During the same period there have
been 2,265 promotions, including some
officers promoted more than once.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-01-14

To Yukon Territory, AtIn District IAtsFSOS Alask'-