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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-19
CAPITOL HEIGHTS.

CAPITOL HEIGHTS. Md. July 10
Constable Harvey E. Smith of Hy-
attsville was before Justice of the
Peace John E. Weast here Thursday
night on a charge of assault, pre-
ferred by Ossie Klinger of Riverdale
Judge Weast imposed fine of SO
and costs on Smith. who appealed and
gave bond in the sum of $50
At meeting of the mayor and town
council in fire department headquar-
ters the installation of eleven addi-
tional electric lights here was au-
thoriZed. The purchase of these
lights has been made possible
through the successful carnival re-
Gently held here. The mayor and
council also decided to write Sen
ators John Walter Smith and Joseph
l. France and Representative Sydney
f. Mudd of Maryland. asking them
to support the measure having as it's
object the extension to Bladensburg
of the Anacostia river reclamation
project.
Plans for the big welcome home
ceremonies to be extended boys of
the community who answered the
call to colors in the world conflict
are beginning to take definite shape.
The Welcome Home Club recently or
ganized. with Mayor John A. Gabriel
as chairman, will be in charge of the
arrangements, and a meeting of the
club is to be held tomorrow night in
fire department headquarters. when
arrangements will be discussed.
Mayor Gabriel urges that every men,
Der Of the club attend the meeting.
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P0LICEMEN'S UNION is
PLANNED AT Meeting
Higher Salaries and Better Work
ing Conditions Are Principal
Objects to Be Sought.

Eighty-f1ve privates of the Metropoli-
tan police department were present last
night at meeting held IN the rooms
over the Gayety Theater. on 9th street,
and formed the nucleus OF a policenen's
union that Will be affiliated with the
Central Labor Union and the American
Federation Of Labor
The objects OF the organization into
which II il hoped to bring every one
or the nearly 500 members of the force,
is frst to make an appeal to Congress
for a substantial increase in salaries to
meet the high cost OF living and for
better working conditions. The organi-
cation is TO be known as Local No.
1918. Policemen's Union of Washing
ton j. Ed Toome. an organizer of the
American Federation of Labor, formed
the organization. Il. r.. Oden, vice
president of the International Assoc
citation of Fire Fighters, was present
and made an address.
These officers were elected: Presi-
Gent, l. f. Draeger: vice president,
G. r. Mansfield: recording secretary
c. II. Warder: financial secretary, c.
c. Wise: treasurer, J. II, Lee; guard
H IL Hartman: sergeant at arms, F.
S. Brown; trustees. Milton d. Smith
George Hellmuth and Frank Tyser.
The next meeting of the new union
will be held August l. The president
appointed this committee TO draft by
laws; Milton d. Smith, T.. +. Floegel
c. II. Warder. c. c. Wise and c. +
Aansfi cid.
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AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA. Va. July ia
playground for the children.Qf this
city will be opened Monday morning
at Lee School grounds. and II Will be
under the direction of Miss Louise
FRANKIE. Goid
The state corporation commission
has granted charter to the James
NJ. Jackson Holding Association. Inc.
Alexandria. with capital stock OF
$4,000. Officers are: w NJ. BowmaIl.
president, Ballston. Va. 5. A. For
rest. secretary: r. l. Merchant. treas
urer. Purposes are to operate building
for lodge and other purposes.
An amendment also has been grant
ed 10 the charter of the Cold Springs
Milling Company. Inc. Alexandria. in
classes of stock. Officers are: VII
liam H. Clark. president. and J. w.
Ellard. secretary.
Ferdinand l.. E. Randall. three
months old. son of Mr.. ana Mrs.
Charles Randall of 81. Elmo. AleXan-
dria county. died this morning.
The chautauqua which has been held
here for a week. closed last night.
Fifty citizens have signed guaraE-
tee of $500 for its return next sum
mer.
Funeral services for Mrs. William
H. Domaine. who died Thursday night.
will be held at . o'clock Monday at
Sls King street They will be con
Quoted by Rev. L. v. REGISTER, pastor
of the NJ f. Church South. this city.
and Rev ny. J. W. Duffy. pastor Of
the NJ. F.. Church South at Rockville,
Md Burial will be IN Ivy Hill ceme-
terry.
Miss Lillian ]. Ward. thirteen years
old. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Ward, died yesterday at Lincolouia,
Fairfax county. Her funeral viii take
place at O'Clock tomorrow.
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D. C. TO SING FOR VOTE,
A SONG IF. BUTTS WROTE
"The Old Spirit Of Seventy-six"
Shows Washington's In an
Awful Fix.

Little Tommy Tucker sang for his
support, according to Mother Goose
supper. according to Mother Goose
according to J. d. kaufman, who has
just published a song dedicated to vote
less Washington.
The song. entitled THE Old Spirit of
Seventy-six," is by ]. Frank Butts of
this city, who wrote the words and
composed the music. Acknowledge
ment Is made in the inside cover page
OF credit due the Lanman Engraving
Company for making the cut that
adorns the front cover. and to the
National Publishing Company for
printing the song. The cover design
was drawn by Clifford X. Berryman
of The Star Walt Masons now IA
nous prose poem Poor Washington"
appears on the back cover
Copies of the song are being dis
tributed by Mr.. Kaufman to all OF
the local theaters. cabarets and other
places of amusement. and may be had
by the general public on application
TO Mr.. kaufman.
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LOCAL CANDY FOR HUNS.
Clothing Also Sent From Here by
Parcel Post.

Clothing and candy are going from
Washington to Germany.
Several parcel post packages con-
tanning the above mentioned articles
have been received at the 18th street
and the Pennsylvania avenue post Of
f1c substations for transmittal to Ger
many under the recent order opening
up parcel post communication with
that country.
Only a few parcels have been re-
ceived to date, practically all of them
containing articles of clothing box
of candy was found in one parcel. The
city post office reports the sending Of
many letters to Germany, following
the opening up Of letter mail with
Germany this week.
Many inquiries are being received
from those with relatives in Germany
relative to the establishment of
money order business with Germany.
This has not yet been ordered by the
Post once Department, although It
has been indicated that 1t shortly will
be put on par with parcel post and
letter mail.
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STOCK MARKET CLOSES
/. FOR CATCH-UP IN WORK
Brokers Offices Busy Today
Strengthening Out Accounts and
Bringing Them Down to Date.

NEW YORK, July 19.-Business on
the stock exchange and allied insu-
tutions was suspended today to enable
members to catch up with the mass OF
work resulting from the weeks eX-
traordinary activity
Every stock exchange house had its
clerical force hard at work straight
ening out accounts and bringing them
down to date. In some Of the larger
commission houses three shifts of
eight hours each have been employed
for several months
Wall street now has experienced
some five months of unparalleled
activity. almost every full session of
the exchange averaging at least
l 900. 900 shares. In recent weeks the
average has been nearly 100000
shares.
These enormous transactions have
taxed the machinery of the exchange
to its utmost. They also have ex-
hausted the energy of the thousands
of men and women who gain their
livelihood in the financial district.
Early in the summer the authorities
Of the stock exchange were requested
to make every Saturday a recess. but
the petition of the members was not
granted.
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BUREAU WOMEN URGED
TO TELL OF LIVING COST
Mass Meeting This Afternoon
Seeks to Add Membership
to Their Union.

Women Of the bureau of engraving
and printing were urged today by
President Steward of the National
Federation of Federal Employees to
lay before the Redistribution COM
mission their experiences as to the
cost of living in the District.
This plea avs made at a mass meet
ing of woman workers of the bureau
held this afternoon at Typographical
Temple to open the campaign for
more members for the women's union
OF the bureau. The meeting was held
with the cooperation of the National
Women's Trade Union League.
Seventy per cent of the woman en-
ployes of the bureau, Mr.. Steward de-
clared, have dependents The women
were called upon to cooperate with
the Sherman investigation into the
cost of living here. as well as with
the investigation being conducted by
the Reconsideration commission.
Plans for pushing the drive for new
members of the union next week were
made at the meeting. Divisional meet
ings of employees of the bureau will
be held.
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or less than half your Pacific fleet
which will soon sail through the Pan
anna canal. We have. in addition to
this, an equal feet in the Atlantic, a
small Asiatic feet, which is to be
strengthened. and there are still a
number of ships in European waters
There were 500 officers and 1880
men in the fleet when it circled the
globe eleven years ago. You are
honored to command 2,00G officers and
5000 men in your splendid fleet.
"These comparisons afford an in
dication Of the growth in fighting
power, which is many times greater.
Then the largest ship had four
twelve-inch guns and could shoot TO-
900 yards. Your splendid flagship, the
New Mexico, of 80. 900 tons, carries
twelve fourteen-inch guns and can hit
the target at 10000 yards Its electro
cal propelling machinery has marked
an epoch in naval progress. and since
1907 the substitution Of oil for fuel
has greatly increased the fighting
radius of our ships.
From every city and town on the
Pacific coast kilograms announce the
warmth of the welcome awaiting your
feet. My greetings to all on board
your sixteen dreadnaughts and other
lighting craft and my best wishes for
fair Minds and a successful voyage"
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AND COUNTY

ROCKVILLE. Md. July l9.-The
race committee of the Montgomery
County Agricultural Society announces
a total of 1886 in purses for the
ten harness and six running races
scheduled for the annual fair to be
held here August 26. 81. 2s and 80.
The program. just announced. follows:
Tuesday, August 26-2:25 trot and
2:30 pace, for horses owned in the
District of Columbia and Montgomery
and Frederick counties, Nd: purse.
$500. Running race. half mile and
repeat; 1925.
Wednesday. August 2.-2:1S trot.
$500; 2:25 pace. 5000: 2:22 trot and
2:27 pace, $500: six furlong run, 500;
half mile run and repeat, $3.50.
Thursday. August 2S-2:15 trot $500:
2:1S trot and 2:22 pace. $500: PA pace.
$500: mile run. $50; six furlong run
and repeat. $3.50.
Friday. August 29-2:11 trot. $500:
2:30 trpt. $500; county roadster race,
for horses that have never started in
a race, 500; consolation run, for
horses not finishing better than third
at meeting. 500.
Kenneth +. Buffin of Chevy Chase
has been appointed deputy in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court
here to succeed J. Banks Berry, re-
signed. He will enter at once upon
the discharge of his duties.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court for this
county for the marriage of Miss Ella
a. 1den and Harry f. Edwards. both
of Takoma Park, Md. and Miss Hen
rietta Little of Marshal Hall, Md, and
Frank c. Doyle of Joplin. Va.
A large barn on the farm of Thomas
r. Hall, near Poolesville. and about
$50 bushels of wheat and a number of
pieces of farming machinery were de
stroyed by fire "A night or two ago.
The loss is placed at about $4,000. par
TALLY covered by insurance. the fire
is supposed to have been caused by
lightning.
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100 PER CENT INCREASE
IN MEMS CLOTHING COST
FOR 1920 PREDICTED

NEW YORK. July 19.-An in
crease of 100 per cent in the cost
of mems clothing was predicted
for next summer by II. Simons.
who presided at the opening here
of the American Clothing De-
signers' Associations annual con-
vention.
Some slight compensation. how
ever. is to be granted, as coats
will he longer. shoulders broader
and chest deeper. In addition
to this Mr. Simons said gaudy
Innings of Alice blue. orange and
similar brilliant hues will be in
vogue. while vests will be cut
lower to permit "A greater dis
play of dazzling shirts. He
stated that no departure in the
present style of trousers would
be noticed.
Jazz styles" so-called because
of their freakish cuts. will con-
time popular with the young
"fappers" ''Pickpocket proof
pockets were one of the novel
ties shown at the convention.
This is like a patch pocket" eN-
cept that it is sewed all-round.
with slit opening in the CEN
ter.
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FOCH WARNS BRITISH TO KEEP
ABREAST OF WAR NEEDS

contains no parallel to the produce
ton of such an army in such a way.
In every respect the British army
have been superb
The marshal insists that Great
Britain should maintain large re-
serves of military material. saying:
That is one of the obvious and in
dispensable precautions to be taken"
Look at the out-of-date equipmen
with which we started this war" the
marshal is quoted as saying.
The next war will be more than
ever one of machinery. You should
have laboratories with inventors al
ways at work keeping you abreast of
the mechanical side of war"
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MARTIN BOMBER TEST
TO COVER 10000 MILES
Col. Hartz and Two Pilot Lieuten-
ants to Leave Boiling Field
on Monday.

Col. r. S. Hartz, commanding officer
OF Boiling Field, accompanied by
Lieuts. E. E. Harmon and L. A. Smith
as pilots. will leave Boiling Field
Monday morning at 9 o'clock. if the
weather permits. for a transcontinen-
tai flight of 10000 miles in a Martin
bomber.
Purposes of the trip are to learn the
feasibility of the air route outlined,
the possibilities of the new machine
and the endurance of the twin liberty
motors of APO horsepower each with
which the bomber will be equipped.
The bomber is a ve-passenger ma
chine, and will leave Boiling Field
with New York as it's first objective
From there 1t will go to Augusta. Me-.
to the Great Lakes, to Seattle. Wash.
and to San Diego, Calf The return trip
will be by way of New Orleans and
Florida and up the east coast to
Washington.
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Message Of Secretary
to Pacific Fleets Men
Reveals Naval Growth

Good wishes for a safe and pleasant
voyage for the entire personnel OF
the newly organized Pacific feet were
expressed by Secretary Daniels in a
message sent last night to Admiral
Hugh Rodman, comma nder in chief of
the fleet.
that imperative duties here in Wash
ington deny me the privilege OF re-
viewing your magnificent fleet as 1t
sails from Hampton roads to the Col
den Gate. The country is to be con-
graduated that the American Navy
of today Is big enough and powerful
enough to be organized into two pow
erful fleets of 534,142 tons each. The
world gave glad welcome to what we
called our great feet when 1t made
its historic tour around the world.
The tonnage Of that fleet was 206,527,
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MOTORISTS AT SOUTH BEND.
Transport Train Welcomed There
hy Mayor and Others.

According to dispatches received
here concerning the progress Of the
transcontinental motor transport train
it reached South Bend. Ind. yes
terday on schedule time. The run
from Fort Wayne. consisting of
seventy six miles, was made without
incident A stop of ten minutes was
made at Churubusco. where refresh
ments were served by a local Red
Cross chapter.
On their arrival at South Bend they
were welcomed by a committee of
citizens headed by the mayor and
other officials and prominent citizens.
The train will camp at Chicago
Heights tonight and VITA remain there
over Sunday.
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THE OTHER ANGLE.
Important if True!
BY KIRK MILLER.

Hope Hank Ford wins his 100000
suit, but what in the name of St
Blimp is he going to do with another
million bills. When he gets tive
repeat. when he gets it-and adds it
to the other twelve million hell have
an unlucky number. However, il hav-
ing $13,000,000 is bad luck, we'll take
his tough break and not charge him
a nick.
The motor magnate only charges a
cold million to be called an Ignorant
idealist." He don't want much. Plenty
of people right here in Washington
who will stand on their exempted nat
feet all day and part of that hour Of
daylight and be called everything on
the calendar for two bits name. No
extra charge for compound adJectives
or for transfers.
it unlawful to even have a quart Of
sneak" in your house. Wow. that
tough on the old guard who laid
aside a snack for rainy day. Next
they'll introduce a bill to make 1t a
misdemeanor to think about a drink.
At the present rate of legislation,
BY two weeks from next Thursday 1t
will be a boobyhatch offense to wish
for a swig of the old essence OF corn
whisky will be legislated plumb out
of the public school dictionaries.
The drys evidently intend to eradi-
cate entirely from the domestic works
all evidence of Old Jack Barieycorn.
ration to read his obituary or about
the hard death he died. His name Will
be ruled out Of Who's VINO, the
Hagestown Almanac and the Police
guage was tossed out Of the school
rooms of the Skipstopian Islands
back in 1917.
No, sir, Brother Bacchus don't even
get a tombstone.
At that. the history of the fight for
prohibition in America has oeen
largely a matter of nip and tuck and
it's a question whether there nave
Some of the bugs are still holding
post mortems over Willard and
Dempsey, but more Of 'em are hold
dropped on the big boy. To them we
say that time is a great healer, but 1t
will never do much for that aching
void in the vicinity Of the purse
strings.
Jess has skunk back to his farm lin in
Kansas. There are those who VIII
youchsafe the opinion that he never
should have left it; In nine minutes nn,a1
which ia two more than belongs on
the regulation pianoforte.
Willard got floored so fast that he
thinks Dempsey shook hands with
hin, With His right and tabled him in
the law with his left, which, if true.
is bum joke. We've heard Of funny
handshakes in the different lodges.
but a handshake in the nose can be
construed as nothing else but a
handshake in the nose, whether 1t
happened in a lodge or in wooden
arena.
1t is still doubtful whether the bell
defeated Jess or whether Dempsey
did The bell called the giant for the
fourth round and he didn't bat an
eve. Don't konw what the bell call
ed him, but could make Some good
suggestions. He answered that bell
lust like a janitor.
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ITALY HONORS OFFICERS
OF U. S. AT AFFAIR HERE
Gen. March and Others Decorated
by Attache Of Embassy for
Country's King.

Gen. Peyton c. March, chief of staff.
and other officers were decorated at
luncheon today by Maj. Gen. Emilio
Guglielmotti. military attache Of the
Italian embassy here. on behalf Of the
King Of Italy, for distinguished serv-
ice in prosecution OF the war.
Gen. March was presented with the
great cross. with the great sash Of
grand officer. of the Order of st.
Maurice and st. Lazarus; Brig. Gen.
George Scriven. L, s. A.. retired.
former chief of the Signal Corps. the
cross Of the great officer of the Order
of the Crown of Italy; Brig. Gen. NJ.
Churchill, the cross Of the commander
of the Order of the Crown of Italy,
and Col. Constant Cordier. the cross
of commander of the Order of St.
Maurice and st. Lazarus.
At the luncheon, which was held at
Rauscher's. were the following, in
addition to the honor guests: Count
Macchi di Cellere. ambassador of
Italy: Secretary Baker Of the War
Department, Baron Arone di Valen-
tino. Capt. Tappi and Count Enrico
Luserna di Capligliohe.
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SUNDRY CIVIL BILL is
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT

President Wilson today signed the
sundry civil appropriation bill, carry
ing total appropriations of s6130O0.-
900, $14,000,000 of which will be used
to provide vocational education for
partially disabled soldiers, sailors and
marines. 1t was passed by the SEN
ate yesterday afternoon.
The President had vetoed the bill be-
cause it limited funds for training
wounded service men. The amount
was increased from $4,000, 900 to s14,-
000.0 900.
end enforcement of the trading with
the enemy act was respected in the Sen
ate, 33 to 81. 1t was offered by Sena-
tor Fall, republican, New Mexico. who
said there should be no restrictions on
trading with Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-19

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 19-"The next time
England will be in the same posi-
ton as the last time-she will not
be ready and we will have to wait
for her." is a statement made by Mar
shall Foch Of France to a correspond
ent Of the Daily Mail, which prints an
interview with the commander-in-
chief of the allied armies this morn
ing.
Marshal Foch, in the course of the
interview, however. pays highest
tribute to the British army, saying:
THE military history of the world
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WEST COASTS OWN
POWERFUL ARMADA
STARTS FROM EAST
Continued from First Page.)


mother ships. of the six pre-dread-
naughts. four big armored cruisers
and seven light cruisers. the mine
planters and mine layers and all the
rest of the 200 vessels assigned to
the fleet are moving individually, day
by day, toward their new posts. Some
will Join the flag en- route. After
the main fleet has passed through the
canal there will be a steady process
sion through the great waterway I'M
Ill all have assembled in the Pacific.
To American eyes the sailing of the
great fleet today marks a complete
change in naval policy. a change
growing out of the defeat of Ger
many in the great war. Not while
the German fleet existed. nor while
German eyes were leveled covetously
at the rich and undeveloped resources
of South and Central America could
American naval strength have been
divided
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Senate Asks Korean Charges.

Without debate the Senate yester-
day adopted a resolution calling on
President Wilson for the facts in
charges against American missionaries
in Korea. 1t asked about the case of
the Rev. Eli NJ. Mowry of Mansfield.
Ohio, a Presbyterian missionary pro-
nounced guilty of completely in the
Korean revolutionary movement, and
also about the charges against +. Bell,
another missionary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-19
Former Soldier Sues Railway.

Osha c. Dodson. under twenty-one
years old. while a soldier guarding
a railroad bridge near Cedar Bluff.
Va, June 1s, 1917, was struck on the
head by a lump Of coal falling from
a car of the Norfolk and Western
Railway Company, and suffered a
fractured skull. The former soldier
today. by William c. Ashford, his
next friend, sued the railroad COM
pany for $500 damages in the Dis
trict Supreme Court.
A consent verdict for the full
amount claimed later was. rendered
by a jury before Justice Siddons.
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EX-KAIsER REMAINS IN BED.
His Cold Better, But Physicians
Advice Is Needed.

AMERONGEN, July IS (by the AS
ISOLATED Press).-The former German
emperor, who has been suffering from
a cold, was somewhat better today,
but followed the advice of his physi-
clans and remained in bed He did
not get up even for his meals. His
sickness, however, is understood to
be of a very slight character.
James v. McClintic, representative
in Congress from Oklahoma, and
Louis B. Goodall. representative from
Maine, visited Amerongen today.
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Settles Candymakers' Strike.

CHICAGO. July 19.-United States
Federal Mediator Fred l.. Feick an
nounces that he has succeeded in set
Ting the strike of 1000 candymakerS
in Chicago, who walked out week
ago. Under the settlement agreed
upon the employees return to work i'm
mediately in considera ton of a forty
four-hour week and time and a half
for overtime.