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Evening star., 1918-10-16
MAY BROADEN THE SCOPE
OF BRISBANE INQUIRY
Senate Subcommittee Likely to Ex.
tend Investigation Beyond the
Washington Times Purchase.

The investigation ordered by the
Senate into the purchase of the Wash
ington Times by Arthur Brisbane,
through financial assistance of the
brewers. and the political activities of
brewers in this country. promises to
be broadened and to go into various
ramifications to an extent not hith-
erto expected.
1t is likely that the subcommittee
of the judiciary committee, charged
with making the investigation, will
call a considerable number of. wit
nesseS. 1t is said that among them
will be George Creel. chairman of the
committee on public information.
A report submitted by the military
Intelligence service is largely reSpon-
sible for the developments of the plans
of the Senate committee.
Senator Overman, chairman of the
judiciary subcommittee, conducting
the investigation, today received from
the United States district attorneys Of
flee at Pittsburgh two trunks and large
box containing the evidence and docu-
ments taken in that Office during the
investigation of the political activi-
ties of the liquor interests.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
INsURRECTI0M REPORTED
SPREADING IN UKRAINE
German Troops Are Alleged to Be
Siding With the Rebels-Peas-
ants Force Well Armed.

STOCKHOLM, October 16-Insur-
rection is spreading in the Ukraine
and recently extended throughout the
entire government of Podolia, accord
ing to dispatches received by the Po-
litiken. At several places, it is re-
ported, the German troops are siding
with the rebels.
Several thousand troops are declared
to have hoisted the red flag near
khaterinoslav and to have killed
their officers. They now are marching
on Khartov to join the revolutionary
soldiers, who hold the town.
A peasant force of 5000 men, well
armed with machine guns and can
non, is moving on Poltava.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
STAR TACKLE DEAD.
Lieut.. Pat Finnegan, Influenza Vic
tim, Buried at Home in Haverhif.

Lieut.. Alexander Patrick Finnegar.
known in Washington foot BAH as
Pat" Finnegan, star tackle on the
Georgetown team last year, has died
of influenza, according to word re-
ceived today by officials at the hilltop
from the dead athletes home in Hav-
erhill, Mass.
Finnegan won his spurs as lieuten-
ant at the Plattsburg camp month
ago and was assigned to Temple. ror--
lege in Philadelphia as an instructor
He died in the Quaker city. -
1t was principally as foot ball play
er that Finnegan won renown at the
Blue and Gray institution, but he was
also a star in basket ball. He played
forward on the Blue and Gray basket
ball team of last year and was catcher
on the base ball team. He was in his
freshman year at the hilltop.
He was a product of Haverhill.- Yin -
negan was twenty-one years of age.
His burial took place at Havcrhill Il
week ago.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
PRIVATE WARREN LISTED
AS SEVERELY WOUNDED
In Letter to His Home Here He
Says Already He Has "Put Out'
q Few Germans.

Private George S. Warren, 81 V
list as wounded severely, hasn't writ
ten his family much about his injury.
He does specify that when he returns
to duty he hopes to get in the artl-
1ery or machine gun unit. preferably
the former.
II have put out a few Germans al
ready he says, but ought to make
some more suffer for the incon-
venience I have been caused. I think
u can do it more expeditiously either
with q machine gun or with a field
gun"
Private Warren is a native of Wash
Hngton. He was educated at Gonzaga
College, served with the District
troops on the Mexican border, and
makes his homeS with his mother,
has two brothers also in uniform,
William H, in the artillery, now in
France, and Edwin w. infantry, now
at Camp Lee. Petersburg. Va. He had
been on the front line off and on for
three months when he was struck by
a fragment of high explosive she'll
September 8. Two days later he wrote
his relatives that he had been hurt
slightly" but admitted later in a
letter written the 18th, that he had
been injured severely.
The danger had passed by then. he
said. He was enjoying his first real
rest in two years. with a real bed,
fine '.eatS" and no duties.
This soldier says that it is hard to
tell which means more to American
soldiers-knight of Columbus, Sal
walton Army. Y. NJ c. A. Y. NJ. H. A.
or the Red Cross but that if any
young American wants to see a gen.
uine angel walking the earth, he
should so overseas and he'll run into
q number Of them wearing Red Cross
wells.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
DURAzZ0 is OCCUPIED
BY ITALIAN FORCES
Important Albanian Port Passes
Definitely Into Hands of Allies.
War Material Taken.

Italian troops have occupied Du-
razzo, the Albanian port at which
British and Italian naval forces re-
Gently raided and destroyed the i'm
portant Austrian naval base. A dis
patch to the Italian embassy today
announcing the occupation says the
Italians. forcing their way through
enemy defenses on the hills of Palja-
wab and Sasso Posse, entered the city
yesterday morning, capturing prison.
ers and material
ROME, October 15.-Italian forces in
Albania after storming the Austro-
Hungarian positions on the heights in
front Of Durazzo, penetrated the city
yesterday morning, taking prisoners
and capturing war material, the Ital-
ian war Office announced today.
VIENNA, via London. October Is
The occupation of Durazzo by the
Italians Is admitted in the official
statement issued by the war Office to-
night.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
DEATH OF MISS WARDER
IN OVERSEAS SERVICE
Sailed From New York September
25-Was Member Of the Mobile
Gas Unit of Hospital Corps.

A cab1egram received yesterday an
nounced the death of Miss wintfred
Fairfax Warder, a member Of the Mo-
bile Gas Unit of the Women's Over
seas Hospital Corps, sent under the
auspices of the National American
Suffrage Association, to be attached
to the Medical Corps of the French
army.
Miss Warder. who is well known in
Washington social circles. sailed from
New York September 25. In May, 1916,
she took a course of training in the
military camp of the National Serv-
ice School at Chevy Chase.
She was the only daughter of Wal
ter Warder, prominent in politics in
Illinois. Miss Warder was engaged
in volunteer Red Cross work in Cairo,
Ill. her home; Chicago and Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
COAL MINES DESTROYED
BY GERMANS AT LENS,

PARIS. October IS Gavas.)-It will
be from eighteen months to two
years before it will become possible
to take out any coal from the mines
in the Lens region, which the Ger.
mans damaged to the best of their
ability before they retired from the
city, an inspection of the mining
properties has revealed. 1t is esti-
mated that it will take five years to
restore the normal production Of the
pits.
At Courrieres, northeast of Lens, the
Germans had blown up the mines be-
fore retiring. Of the ten thousand
houses in Lens the visitors found not
one left standing, the town having
been completely raZed.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
GOOD BOWLING MATCHES.
Consolidated Quint Wins Two Out
of Three From Shamrocks.

The Consolidated quint of the Ma
tional Gapital Duckpin League made
a poor start in the first game against
the Shamrocks. but quickly recovered
and captured the last two. Frlstoe
of the Sfiamrocks led both teams, with
1872.
In the Masonic League King David
ouint made a cleanup by defeating
Mount Pleasant in all three games
rolled. Marcan. with a score Oh 1Ao'
was the high-score man.
The Washington Tenpin League got
under way last night. the opening
contest being between the Interiors
and Acme, the latter winning two
out of three games. Eckstein topped
over 20l pins and was high man OF
Following are the scores in detail:
Evening star., 1918-10-16
wasH1SGToN TENP1N LEAGUE.
LOYALTY OF TIGERS.
Have "A Players in Army and
NAVY. Cleveland Having 19.

CHICAGO, October 16.-Recent
claims that the Cleveland club led
American League clubs with eighteen
stars in it's service flag. sixteen of
them representing players in the
Army, caused President B. b; Johnson
to ask each of the eight clubs in the
league to give the number of it's men
in the service. The head of the
league announced today that the De,
troit club was the first to respond
with an official list of twenty-four
nlayers in the Army and Navy
seventeen in the former and seven in
the latter-and-a manager going over
seas for the Knights of Columbus TO
promote athletics.
With only one man in shipyard,
President Navin of Detroit challenged
the major leagues to beat its loyalty
percentage. The Chicago club has
sixteen players in service, four of
them officers, while other clubs in the
league are to be heard from.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
ALASKA MINERS LOSE
SUPPLIES, FACE FAMINE
Severe Storms Prevent Power Boat
Ruby From Reaching Them
Before Winter Season.

SEATTLE, Wash. October 16.-Be-
cause storms damaged the power
schooner Ruby and forced it to re-
turn without reaching the Kushkok-
vim river section of Alaska with a
cargo of supplies, several thousand
miners and prospectors of that Sec
tion are threatened with famine be-
fore the winter fairly sets in, accord
ing to the Ruby's master, Capt. D. S.
McAlpine, who has arrived here.
The Ruby was the only ship sent
to the kushkokwim section last
summer. and it is believed to be too
late for another vessel to make the
trip this year. This district suffered
a light famine last year, four white
men and about thirty natives dying
of starvation before supplies arrived.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
MIDDIES SEEK NAVY TITLE.
Annapolis Hopes to Beat Best Of
Marine Elevens.

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, October 1s.-
spirits began to rise higher around
the foot ball field at the Navaf
Academy yesterday afternoon with
the return of a considerable proper
tion of the influenza patients and the
announcement that a reasonably good
schedule was assured.
Every one is looking forward with
great interest to the games against
the service teams and the opportunity
that the midshipmen will have of dem
onstrating that it is the champion
team of the Navy. A new game was
announced yesterday, the Philadelphia
Marines having agreed to play here
on November 2. Capt. Ingram. who is
i'll at his home in Indiana, has not yet
reported here, but is expected any day.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
CHARGED TO "HAND OF FATE"
German Official Regrets" the Sink
ing of Steamer Leinster.

LONDON, October ia dispatch
to the Daily Mail from The Hague
quotes Matthias Erzberger, minister
without portfolio in the German gov
erament, as expressing regret over
the sinking o. the Irish mail steamer
Leiaster. tut declaring that it was the
hand of fate, for which Germany
could not be- held responsible.
The occurrence is exceptionally re-
gret;able." Erzberger is quoted as
saying. Il learned with deep SYM
pathy of the disaster which has over
taken so many women and children.
My attitude on such occurrences Is
well known. In 1915 I expressed re-
gret over the many victims Of the
Lusitania. My regret is increased In
this sad case to genuine pain. Tho
hand of fate. for which we cannot be
made responsible. has governed here"
Evening star., 1918-10-16
SKIP" MCCARTHY DEAD.
Influenza Claims Old Fordham
Foot Ball and Base Ball Star. :. .

NEW YORK, October 16.-Fordham
men, particularly those who played
foot ball with him, were saddened
yesterday when they learned of the
death of James (Skip) Mccarthy.
one Of the best gridiron and base ball
performers the Maroon yet has had.
Mccarthy was 4 victim of influenza
at Poughkeepsie, where for several
years he had been the sporting edi-
tor of the Eagle-News.
Only few days ago influenza also
claimed Frank MCGOWAN, Fordhau
correspondent for the Press and later
the Sun. MCGOWAN was at Camp
WadSworth.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
How to Keep from Getting Influenza

of Army, Navy Civilian Doctors
other people possible Especially
an therp of assemblage
Of
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alcoholic stimulants
Promptly
worry your demand
Evening star., 1918-10-16
ASKS PRESIDENT WILSON
TO PROTECT LUXEMBOURG

AMSTERDAM, October 15.-Accord
ing to the Bremen Weser Zeitung, the
Luxembourg chamber of deputies has
unanimously adopted an order of the
day begging President Wilson to pro-
tect Luxemburg's rights. The order
demanded that the government should
obtain the evacuation of the country
and the liberation of all nationals of
Luxembourg condemned by the Ger
man military courts.
The statement says the government
associates itself with the order.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
SPECIAL FUEL COMMISSION.
Will Visit Europe to Investigate
the Coal Industry.

Fuel Administrator Garfield has an
-1unced the appointment of Il special
commission to inquire into conditions
and government regulations affecting
the coal industry in foreign countries
TIL" commission will consist of Wal
ter l.. Hope who Joined the admin
istration on September 10. 1917, as
director of the bureau of state organ
1zations. S. Brinckerhof Thorne of
New York, coal expert. and James H
Airport. one of the engineers TO the
administration. They will sail soon
for Europe.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
"BERLIN" WINS FLAG,
PASSING LOAN QUOTA

whats in a nane?" asked a
telegram received at national loan
headquarters with the following re-
port.
Berlin precinct, Otoe county, Neb.,
with a population of 1000 and a
quota of S72,315. was one of the
first communities in the Kansas
City district to exceed it's quota
and win an honor flag.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
Another Base Ball Claim.

SCRANTON, Pa. October 16.-Inr n
statement given out last night. Frank
Brannan, catcher for the Scranton
team of the New York State League
during the season of 1917, said he liz
tended to file a claim for $40 baci-
salary against the local owners s.
Brannan is now employed as a brake
man for the Jersey Central Railroad.
He was a member OF the Shreveport
team of the Texas League until that
circuit disbanded because of the war
conditions. His home is in Wilkes
Barre.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
CLIMAX FOR THE U-BOAT
WARFARE THIS WINTER
German Paper Says It Will Produce
Unexpected Economic Crisis
for the Entente.

AMSTERDAM, October IA, Monday
There is good reason to believe that the
German submarine warfare will reach
a climax during the winter, accoding to
the Rhenish Westphalin Gazette. which
says that it will produce an economic
crisis of unanticipated dimensions in
entente countries.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
Former Ball Player Under Arrest.

YORK. Pa, October 16.-Edward
Smith, former professional base ball
player, who robbed the Farmers State
Bank at Hallam, this county, was ar
rested yesterday at his home in an ad-
joining town. The police recovered
$4,000 of the $4,000 he took. Smith
has confessed. After forcing the
cashier and his two assistants intotf
vault and telling them to remain there
twenty minutes Smith jumped into on
automobile and hurried to his home
The automobile furnished the clue
which led to his arrest
Evening star., 1918-10-16
Bartlett to Captain Purdue.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, October 16-
Prof. o. F. Cults. athletic director a.
Camp Purdue, announces that Charles
A. Bartlett has been appointed cap
tain of the Camp Purdue foot bali
team to succeed Kenneth Huffine.
Huffine has left Purdue and gone to
Fort Monroe, Va. to enter an artillery
officers school. Bartlett is 4 member
of the Student Army Training Corps
and has played tackle on the Purdue
team for two years. ,~..
Evening star., 1918-10-16
LIGHT LOST TO PENN.
Star Foot Ball Player Not Return
ing to College.

PHILADELPHIA, October lilo,
hey Light. one of the greatest backs
that has graced Pennsylvania team
in a long stretch of years, is not COM
ing back for foot ball at Franklin
Field nor for studies at the Penn
dental school. -~"-
Turned down in his efforts to enter
the students army training corps at
the university because he is over the
twenty one-year limit, Light is await
ing the draft.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
Big Job on Master List.

One item of work alone confront
ing the boards is a huge task. This
is the job of going through the master
list of serial numbers, in the order
they were drawn at the Capitol and
crossing out all numbers over the
high number" possessed by any reg
istrant of the board.
Since each local board possesses a
different high number, it can be seen
that each board must do the job sep
arately, and that there are in reality
eleven lists instead of one. The rel
ative order of all registrants, how
or. remains exactly the same in all the
boards.
w hen this job is done. requiring
many hours careful application. en-
tirely new lists of registrants must
be typewriter. this time with "or-
der numbers affixed. This means
more than $4,000 names to be type
written by the eleven boards.
Classification, based upon the ques-
tionnaires sent to the local men be-
tween nineteen and thirty-siX years
old, is proceeding steadily
Evening star., 1918-10-16
What to Do if You Have Influenza

Conference of Civilian Doctors
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Evening star., 1918-10-16
Call Off Vermont Convention.

BURLINGTON. VT, October 16.-
Vermont republicans will omit the
customary state convention this year
and will have no party platform. Can
didates will outline their own plat
forms. This has been decided upon
at a conference of party leaders and
member of the state committee, the
action being due to the restrictions on
public gatherings because of the
prevalence of influenza.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
COLD-sTORAGE SPACE SHORT.
Food Administration Appeals to
Agriculture Department.

The demands of the War and Navy
departments for cold-storage space,
owing to the necessity for obtaining
large supplies of beef for the use of
the Army and the Navy at a time
when it is available. are resulting In
shortage of space required for
ordinary commercial uses. To relieve
the situation, the food administra-
ton has appealed to the Department
of Agriculture. O..
Evening star., 1918-10-16
Swiss Envoy on Way Here.

BERN, Switzerland, October 15.-
Hans Sulzer, Swiss minister to the
United States, has left for Washing
ton. He is charged especially with
the task of negotiating a new COM
mercial treaty with the United States,
the former treaty having expired on
September so.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
Foot Ball Compulsory at Nebraska.

LINCOLN. Neb.. October 16.-Partic-
ipation in foot ball practice by stu
dents of the University Of Nebraska
who are members of either the student
army or naval training corps has been
made compulsory by order of Capt.
r. J, MacIvor, commandant of the
university's military detachment, it
was announced today.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
JOHNNY AITKEN DEAD.
Noted Automobile Race Driver Vic
tim of Influenza.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. october 10
John Aitken. one of the best known
automobile race drivers in America,
died here yesterday of pneumonia,
following an attack of influenza:
Aitken raced in all sections Of the
country and participated in most OF
the big automobile speed contests,
since that sport became popular. He
was thirty-three years old.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
Miss Erma Shaw Dies of Pneumonia

NEW YORK, October 16.-Miss
Erma Shaw, daughter of former Sec
retary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw,
who sailed for France to serve as a
canteen worker with the American
Red Cross, died of pneumonia Octo-
Der II, as the ship on which she was
passenger was about to land at
an English port. The body will be
returned to this country for inter-
ment. which will probably be in Iowa,
of which state her father was once
governor.
Evening star., 1918-10-16

Lieut.. Charles NJ. Tyson, reported as
missing in seaplane accident off the
English coast last Friday, is the son
of Gen. and Mrs. L. D. Tyson of Knox
Vile, Tenn. His father is in France IL
vision.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
States Emergent Needs.

What we need is helpers and more
helpers; women who can make thinks
easier by being around. Any woman
can give dose of medicine accord
ing to the doctors orders, or straighten
pillow OR pour out a bit of milk or
whatever the needs of a patient call
for-just as she would do in her own
home. 1t isn't much and yet it is
everything. Naturally there are
many women whose duties prevent
their lending a hand. No reasonable
person would expect it of her, but
there are others. And it is those
others that we are asking, begging,
imploring to come and help"
The pestilence of Buddha's time is
buried under the mold of ages, but
his voice calls out today to men and
women of Washington: "Al men
served their stricken brothers, save
those who deserved not the name of
man"
Evening star., 1918-10-16
September 12 Registrants Delayed.

It was the announced determination
of Provost Marshal General Crowder to
put registrants of the September IL
registration into camp before the end
of October. No definite statement has
been issued that this hope is now
thing of the past, but it is. believed
that the officials responsible for the
working of the selective service ma
chinery realize that the determination
cannot now be carried out to any de-
gree, at least.
The general suspension of calls
made upon the District gives mem
bers of the eleven local boards of the
city a breathing spell' in which to
plunge ahead on the great mass of
clerical and classification work con-
fronting them.
Evening star., 1918-10-16

If we do not remedy with our personal
help. then the poet was entirely right
about mans inhumanity to man.
Relief Stations Established,
The public health service has in
stalled relief stations in each of the
four sections of the city. Station No.
l. Curtis School, o street near Wiscon-
sin avenue; station No.2, Wilson Normal
school, 11th and Harvard streets; ;
station No. 8, Webster School, 10th
and H streets, and station 4, Va.
east.
Any one reporting a case of influ-
enza within his resident zone will be
sure OF instant attention.
Ihey are too busy at any of these
stations to talk about the work, but
ON" offlcial at the Webster headouar-
ters. recognizing the necessity of
:cquainting those who are wiling to
s,lp tut who do not know just how
to &c about it. took breath to say
that any one needing information should
come right to headquarters or to any
station most convenient, and that they
would do the rest.
Evening star., 1918-10-16
OF INFLUENZA IS
RATED EVERYBODY'S CALAMITY

The plague came And all men
served their stricken brothers, save
those who deserved not the name of
man."
This epidemic of ours is not to be
dismissed as a misfortuns which one
has happily escaped. It is every
body's calamity, since suffering knows
neither sex nor class lines, and there
is not man or woman of us who can
afford to ignore it. Neither is it a
sensational exaggeration-there are
are the obituary columns to prove it.
There is nothing more convincing
| than a death notice.
IT any one doubts the situation, go
Tor information to the public health
service. which has its headquarters in
| the Webster School, at 10th and Fl
streets northwest. You will find men
and women grimly alert every hour,
day and night. to supply whatever aid
may be needed-fuel and food, if
| necessary, and nurses-so long as
nurses may be had.
Lack Of Nurses Overwhelms.
It is the lack of nurses that is the
overwhelming want of the situation.
Practically every trained and ex-
perienced volunteer in the city is
working. regardless of personal
health. but-nurses are only human.
And for that reason many men and
women-our own men and women
are dying for want of ordinary care.
DR.. Mustard and his assistants of the
public health service are not asking
for experienced nurses. They are beg
ging for helpers who possess ability
and humanity enough to hand a
stricken soul drink of water, and to
do the small vital things that a sick
room demands
If you had gone to the Webster
building today they would have told
you. for one case. of family of nine
two dead and seven too iii to help
themselves.
And in the telling other cases were
reported of like helplessness, which,