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Evening star., 1919-09-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
Harry Cadx. 2s2: Georgia avenue

Harry Cady, 252: Georgia avenue.
was taken TO Casualty Hospital from
7th and N streets about 2:30 o'clock
this morning and treated for severe
scalp wound. He told police of the
second precinct that another man had
struck him with a f1atiron.
While walking near her home, Mt
1343 Emerson street northeast, yes
terday afternoon, Margaret Curtin,
belonging to a neighbor. The child's
mother took her home and summoned
physician.
Several companies Of firemen re-
sponded to a call received from the
residence of John Sprague, 1885 5th
street, last night about 1870 o'clock
fire resulted from the explosion of a
lamp.
The commencement exercises of the
class of 1919, at the Bliss Electrical
School, will be held this evening at
O'Clock. This is the first civilian
class since the school trained over
seven hundred soldiers for the Army.
A package party and dance will be
given under the auspices of the Dra-
matte Society of the Young Mems He
brew Association tomorrow night at
o'clock in the Y. NJ. H A. building,
11th street and Pennsylvania avenue.
The Spanish Reading Circle will
meet tmorrow night at s o'clock at
the Thomson School.
The Colored Drusgists' Association
will meet tomorrow midnight at the
residence of the secretary, DR.. E. F.
Harris, 1853 L street.
Meeting to formulate final plans for
the new post of the American Legion
will be held Sunday afternoon, at
o'clock, in the Y. NJ. H. A. building.
11th street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Music by the Navy Yard Band on the
terrace at the Blue Triangle Recrea-
ton Center, goth and streets. tomor-
row evening at 1880 o'clock.
The Texas girls invite all soldiers.
sailors and marines from the Lone
Star state to a reception this evening
at 1880. at Recreation Hall, govern
ment dormitories, North Capitol street,
between the Capitol and Union sta
ton.
A notable gathering will be present
at the first fall show. Of the National
ers will include Senators Capper and
Mccormick. Representatives Fitz-
gerald. Greene, Hardy, Gallivan and
Platt.
The monthly meeting of the WOnS-
ems Guild of Sibley Memorial Hospital
will be held tomorrow morning al
II O'Clock in the chapel of Rust Hall
1850 North Capitol street.
Announcement was made today by
the Civil Service Commission that
after the first-grade clerical examina-
ton held September 13 women will
not be admitted to the field service
clerical examination held in Wash
ineton until further notice, as suf-
ficient number of female eligibles
have been obtained to meet the pres:
ent needs of the service in the field
branches of the service in Washing
ton.
Fall graduation exercises of the
Columbia University Club PREF
School will be held Fri lay night at
3 o'clock at the National University
Law School, SIS 18th street. DR.. w
D. Shepard, president. will make the
address. A social will follow the ex-
erciSes.
The Cftizens' Buying and Dfstribut-
ing League will meet tomorrow night
at s o'clock at the Petworth Com.
munity Center. Sth and Shepherd
streets, and at the Birney School
Anacostia- Prominent speakers VIII
discuss the plans of the organization
at both places.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
LIEUT.. T1NDALL IS HERE.

Lieut.. Philip Tindall, son of DR.. and
Mrs. William Tindall of 1889 Lanier
place. who was enormously reported
and later reported alive. is visiting
his parents.
The officer arrived at Hoboken on
Labor day, and later came here on
a furlough. He is to return to Camp
Dix tonight, where he expects to be
discharged tomorrow.
Lieut.. Tindall went over with the
41st Division and later was trans
ferred to the 32d. Following the re-
port of his death, the officer was
wounded in France while leading his
command, Company X, 126th Infantry
32d Division, during the fighting in
the Argonne region.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
Mrs. C. M. Carter Asks Divorce.

Absolute divorce is asked in a suit
filed in the District Supreme Court
by Charlotte NJ. Carter against Au-
brey B. Carter, government en-
ploye. They were married December
29, 1910. The court is asked to en-
join the prosecution by the husband
of proceeding for a limited di
vorce against the wife in Richmond,
Va. The plaintiff seeks to have her
maiden name restored.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
G. U. OPENS FOR YEAR.
One Glass Of Preparatory School
Occupies New Quarters.

All branches of Georgetown Univer-
sity, excepting the law. medical and
dental schools, opened today.
The new building which the univer-
sity is erecting at Garrett Park, on
the road to Rockville, is not COM
pleted, but work has gone far enough
to house one class of the prep"
school this year. The undergraduate
course of the university will start to-
morrow and the graduate course Oc-
tober /.
The medical and dental schools will
begin the year Friday, September rs,
and the law school October l.
Officials of the university reported
yesterday that enrolment is heavy
be taxed to it's capacity with boarding
students.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
RACE CONGRESS TO MEET.
Suffrage Session" Will Be Held
Here October z to IL,

The National Race Congress Of
America will hold its fourth annual
session October z to IL at the Metro
politan Baptist Church, 18th and r
streets northwest. The session will
be known as the Suffrage session."
one of the works Of the meetings be-
ing to emphasize the Importance Of
the ballot as the basis of American
citizenship.
Sunday. September %, has been set
aside as "rally-for-suffrage day" when
colored churches throughout the coun-
try will consider the congress and the
necessity Of sending delegates hera
Evening star., 1919-09-17
Fall Is Here.

Goodbye. old top, whate'er befell,
You did your bit. you did it well,
That's what you did,
Now, with regret and with a sigh
l take you off and say, Goodbye,
My old straw lid!'
But on your resurrection day
Next year. in April or in May,
If you stand pat,
You will arise and shine once more.
Resplendent, natty, as Of yore,
My new straw hat.
C. A. S
Evening star., 1919-09-17
PLAN AGAINST RUSH
0NPARCELPOST
Post Office Soon to Install
Huge Counter to Handle
Christmas Business.

Preparations for the Christmas mail
Office will be started shortly with the
erection of a huge parcel post counter
along lines entirely new in the Ma
tional Capital.
For the first time since the new city
post Office building has been in COM
mission the public will be admitted to
the sacred precincts Of the work
ROOM floor. The workroom floor is
the whole space on the main floor
north of the main corridor.
Plans for the new parcel post coun-
ter call for the erection of parcel
post room within the workroom floor,
entrance to which will be by means
of a door opening in from the main
corridor.
Admitted to Counter Space.
Patrons with parcel post packages
will be admitted to tie counter space,
but will be prevented from turtner
progress into the workroom by means
of partitions. The parcel post coun-
ter will form a sort Of salient pushed
held by postal clerks weighing par
cells, and beyond which none but an
employe can pass.
Several schemes have been tried at
the city post Office for the handling OF
the parcel post rush, and all to date
have proved lacking. 1t is the belief
of officials that if the plans can be
completed for the new arrangement
much better service can be given the
public.
Anticipate Great Demand.
A tremendous parcel post rush is ex-
pected in Washington during the com
ing Christmas season. The parcel post
business has increased year by year
and the coming holiday season is ex'
pected to top all the rest in the
amount of business transacted.
Establishment of parcel post
counter on the workroom floor, and
away from the main corridor. is ex-
pected to facilitate the handling of par
! eel post packages and all other busi-
ness of the city post office. BY con-
fining the parcel post business to the
little room within room" the main
corridor will be less congested.
Facilities for handling parcel posi-
will be enlarged at the various pos
tai substations throughout the Icity
At the U street station, which will be-
come a carrier station October l, with
the transferral of seventy carriers
there permanently larger pacel post
counters W. "'''
Evening star., 1919-09-17
Truthful Advertising

The Star will be glad to
have its attention called to
any misleading or untrue
statement, if such should
appear at any time, in any
advertisement in its col
umnS.
Readers are requested to
assist in protecting them
selves and legitimate adj
vertisers.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
Court Action Possible.

That any such attempt by the COM
pany to drop the subsidiary lines
would be opposed by the commission
in court is considered certain.
The hearing beginning tomorrow
in many respects. is regarded as the
most important ever undertaken by
the commission and may develop to
the point where it VIII have an active
bearing on the proposal for merger
of the local street car companies.
1t is considered certain the public
will be. well represented at the hear
ing. Chairman Kutz of the commits
sion today said it was impo o2sible to
forecast how much time the proceed
ing might consume.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
Proposed Reforms Outlined.

DR. Frank F. Bunker. an expert OF
the bureau of education, attended
meeting of the High School Teachers
Union at 1923 New York avenue last
night, at which the union outlined to
him what reforms it's members be-
lieve should result from the proposed
survey.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
Gen. Ireland Invited to Speak.

Maj. Gen. Merritte w. Ireland, sur
geon general of the Army. has been
invited to deliver the address at the
General Hospital in
Boston, October II, in celebration of
Either day."
Evening star., 1919-09-17

One hundred housewives in Winni-
peg are financing cooperative store
which will handle all staple lines of
food without profit, to provide cheap
er food for the homes represented in
tho Cnncern
Evening star., 1919-09-17
Disagreement on Valuation.

This valuation has been announced
by two members of :he commission,
Messrs. Brownlow ami kutz, to be ap-
proximately s16.000,000. Commissioner
Gardiner dissented from thei! finding.
Had Mr.. Gardeners contention been
allowed the rating would have been
increased several mIl.io dollars.
1t appeared probable today that any
rate based on the majority members
valuation would not produce the
amount of revenue The company says
it must have if it is properly to serve
the public and meet its other obliga-
tions
Notice has been served fatty by the
traction company that, it must have
more money or cease to operate along
it's present lines. In other words the
subsidiary companies, including the
City and Suburban and Georgetown
and Tenleytown. would be cut off and
left to shift for themselves. The
parent body, the Washington Railway
and Electric Company proper, would
then be concerned only with looking
after it's own interests.
Evening star., 1919-09-17

Queen Mary (then Duchess of York;
and the Countess of Aberdeen were
the first women to receive honorary
degrees from any Canadian university.
Evening star., 1919-09-17
v. R. E.FARE FIGHT
OPENS TOMORROW
Utilities Board Hearing May
Have Active Bearing on .
Proposed Merger.

The Public Utilities Commission to-
morrow will begin a hearing to de-
te1mine whether the street car fare
on the lines of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company shall be
increased.
Action on the conpany's plea that
it must be given an increased rate of
fare or face the alternative of bank
ruptcy and disintegration of the sys-
tenn was held up pending completion
by the commission of valuation of
the company's property.
Evening star., 1919-09-17

The Oakland, Cal. high school has
introduced a course in business law
for women.
Evening star., 1919-09-17

Meeting of Gen. NJ Emmett Urell
Auxiliary, No. 5, U. S. w. ", at the
Pythian Temple.
Evening star., 1919-09-17

Dance to men of the 1st Division
at 1880 o'clock at the Blue Triangle
Recreation Center. Goth and B streets,
by the Illinois State Girls Club.
Evening star., 1919-09-17

TAKE BELL-ANS BEFORE MEALS
and see how fine good digestion makes you feel.
Advertisement
Evening star., 1919-09-17
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TONIGHT.

TONIGHT.
Meeting of the Real Estate Brok-
ers' Association of Washington at 8
o'clock, in the rooms of the Board
of Trade, in The Star building.
Evening star., 1919-09-17

Entertainment at all Y. NJ c. A.
kutS.
Dance at Carroll Institute, 91S 10th
street
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
Final Lists Of Men Who
Evaded Service in Keno
sha are Sent to Govern
ment Officials.
RECORD IS EXCELLENT One
Final Report Shows That Less Than
Two Per Cent of All Men Called for
Service Were Either "sickers'
or ''Slackers" in Kenosha.

More than twelve thousand men
registered for military service in the
city of Kenosha since June 1917, and
of this number but two hundred and
fifty are classed as either "slickers"
or "slackers" by the Kenosha Local
Board. This morning the officials of
the board were forwarding to Madison
the report of these men. They are GO
ing to be subject to prosecution by the
Department of Justice and it is declared
that not one of them will be allowed to
escape the penalty Of their failure to
come to the mark when called by the
government officials under the draft law.
The list is for the most rart made up
men Of foreign birth. Many of these
men never answered the call of the
government to file QUESTIONABLE and a
number of them failed to respond to
the call for mobilization. A score of
the number, whose names were for
warded to the Adjutant General today,
to be turned over to the department of
Justice officials, were men who had
been called for registration only
short time before the armistice was
signed. These men for the most part
have disappeared from Kenosha and
the exemption board is unable to give
the officials of the government any sug-
gestion as to where they can be found.
Possibly forty Of the two hundred and
fifty are classed as deserters and if they
can be heated and arrested they must
pay the penalty for desertion. 1t is de-
clared that no "free .pardons" will be
issued to these mel even though the war
is over and the American army IS being
returned from France.
While the large number of the men
listed are men known to only few peo-
pie in Kenosha, there are a few names
on the list of men who belong to we'll
known Kenosha families. These men
for the most part have been missing
from Kenosha ever since the first call
to the army service was issued. A few
of them are lready in the custody of
the federal officials awaiting trial.
In the list are the names Of few
men who have seen. distinguished mill
tary service but who Called to notify
the local board Of their enlistment.
One man who has served with honor
in many hard BATTLES with the Cana
dian troops, is listed as a tdeserter"
on the local list sent to Madison. I'm
doubtedly this man will never be called
into court to answer any charge made
by the government or any one else. A
few of the volunteers who left Kenosha
with Companies M and Z, but who fail
ed to make the roper response to the
call for registration, are included in
the list. The fact that these men are
now in the army and in service of the
government, IS fully shown on the re-
port. 1t is expected that within
month the arrest Of the slackers will
be started. Local police officers are
already cooperating with the govern
ment officials in the effort to locate
these men.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
SCHOOL BOARD
NAMES TEACHERS
Many Vacancies in the
Teaching Force Filled at
Meeting of Board on
Tuesday Evening.
NO CHANGE IN INDUSTRIAL
Lynn T. Hannahs and Herman Mueller
are Reappointed as Members of the
Industrial Board of Educa-
ton for New Term.

Many new teachers for the filing of
vacancies in the corps Of teachers for
the city schools were elected at the re-
gular session Of the Board of Educa-
ton held on Tuesday evening almost
all of the session being given over to
the adoption Of reports of the teachers
committee and the receiving Of reports
from other committees.
The teachers committee reported in
favor of returning the manual training
work in the schools to the pre-war foot
ling and announced that J. EEL. Sprague
and Warren EEL. Lewis former teachers
in his department. had indicated their
desire to return to service. Both were
1re-engaged by the board. William S.
Hansen who has been in war work was
reengaged to have charge of the work
Of physical training in the schools.
While in camp he has had active mill
tary training and he may be found
available to have charge of such work
in the Kenosha schools.
The designations of Misses Emily E..
Bond, Bessie Heindel, Gladys Bartz,
Hildur Grace, Emma Soukup were an
nounced to the board and it was an
Inounced that Mrs. Stanhope had asked
for leave Of absence for the remand
Ter of the semester. In order to fill
vacancies in the grade schools the
/ Board elected Miss Edith Mckenzie
\ of Kenosha, Miss Margaret Schultz
of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs Mile Hicks,
Kenosha; Miss Anna Ekinner, Wausau,
4 Miss Dorothy Aul and Mrs Naomi Fan
ming Anglin both Of Kenosha were
elected
The High School committee announc-
ed the resignation of r. C. johnson,
head Of the commercial department;
Miss Florence Scott of the Lincoln High
School. Miss Nellie L. Maloney and
Helen Pohls have been transferred from
the Junior Frank to the Senior High
School, the former to have charge Of
the Commercial Department and the
latter to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Miss Vernet. Miss
Schaefer came from the Milwaukee
Normal to have charge of the work of
Miss Scott. Miss Katherine Byrne has
been employed to have charge of La
\ tin and Mathematics in the Junior High
School at the Frank Buildings and
Miss Rita Springborn has been trans
ferred to the Columbus school.
No Change in Industrial Board.
| There will be no change in the make
up of the Industrial Board of Educa-
ton for the coming year as Lynn T.
Hannahs and Herman Mueller the mem
bers of the board whose terms are ex-
Ipiring have been unanimously re-
elected.
The remainder of the session Of the
board was given over to the coIsidera-
ton of routine business. The plans for
the erection of the new school build
ling were not discussed by the board
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
New Report of Taxation in
Wisconsin Cities Puts
Kenosha Near the Top
of the List.
AVERAGE AMOUNT IS $40. So
Kenosha Second Only to West Allis i'll
the Per Capita Income Taxes Paid
for 1917 Incomes Big Tax for
This Year to Put City at Top

Have you paid to the city treasurer
the sum of $2o.532 If you have you
have paid your share Of the average
tax per capita of the people Of Kenosha
county. IF you have paid more han
this you can figure out just how much
better you are than the average
man. The Northwestern Railway
Company has just issued statement
showing the taxes paid in some forty
Wisconsin cities, each having a popula-
ton of more than five thousand. This
statement shows that $20.53 is the aver
age tax for Kenosha people and it adds
/ to the amount an annual average in
come tax of $1611. These figures are
based upon the levy of 1917 and the
average general tax to be paid this year
is something like twenty-five per cent
more than last year-to be exact
about $25.13.
Kenosha is pretty well up to the top
Of the list Of the cities in the state with
it's average taxes. /" In fact, there
are only few of the cities Of over five
tLousand in which more is paid. Apple
ton pays an average tax of $21.87; Cud-
ahy, 1922; Madison, 1929; Marsh
field, $21l6; Neenah, $22.43; Rhine
lander, $24.67; Sheboygan, 5000;
Waukesha, $21.05 and West Allis,
$3.50. In all otter cities of the five
thousand or other class, the average
tax paid is lower tlan in Kenosha.
In Racine the average tax was given
as $1975.
In the smaller cities and villages Of
the state the tax per capita runs much
smaller than in the larger cities and
only a few of these places have, "a per
capita tax exceeding $1,000 and many of
them are far below this amount.
Kenosha is second in the state in the
per capita income tax paid, with West
Allis as first. West Allis has a per
capita income tax of 1891 This is
due largely to the fact that a few large
tax payers reside in that small city
bringing The average up to a high
point. In Regime the PER capita income
tax is but $f0!98.
Every lnh15itant OF Kenosha IS sup
posed to pay $l.75 for the state taxes;
$2.48 for county taxes; 1894 for city
taxes; 1896 for school taxes.
The statisticians Of the North
Western who have prepared this report,
announce that all Of the facts have
been taken fror the tax rolls Of the
various cities and that there is no
lchance for errors to have crept into the
figures. The report brings little hope
for Kenosha, for it shows thaS the pres
ent increase in the taxes of the city
will bring a, double taxation within
thirteen years.
The figures to be made next year,
based ON the record Of twenty mill
| tax in Yenosha this year, will probably
place Kenosha at the very top of the
heap of the cities in Wisconsin
The city of Madison promises to hold
the high place in the tax lists of the
state, however, as the large taxes as
lsessed for the maintenance Of the
wonderful park system in Madison
increases. its rate over other cities in
the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
MILD WEATHER NIPS
ICE HARVEST IN BUD
Men Who Started Work on the Ice
Fields Sent Back to Chicago
Without Pound Of Ice Cut

The ice cutters who came out from
Chicago a week ago to start the harvest
on the lakes of Kenosha county, were
shipped back to Chicago this morning
"a Disguised lot, with complaint
against the weather man. Not a single
pound of ice had been placed in any of
the houses and while several days were
spent scraping snow from Silverlake,
the weather was SO mild that ice than
| four inches in thickness was found and
lit was held to be unfit fer cutting.
While several of the boarding houses
for the men viii be kept open the ice
companies have announced that no more
men will be brought into the county
until there is some assurance that there
will he ice to cut.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
lBy Robert ]. Benderl

United I.ress staff Correspondent
Paris, Jan. 15-President Wilson
is determined, so far as possible,
that civilian representatives
shall control the machinery for
feeding Germany. But, if the Ger
mans fail to agree to the prosposi-
tion advanced by the civilians,
Marshal Foch will dictate terms.
Edward Huley and Admiral Ben
son, representing the United
States in company with the allied
commissioners were en- route to
Treves today to meet the German
delegation and take up with them
the proposition of turning over
German merchant ships to the al
lies for transportation of food.
When the question came up at
the conferences Of the associated
powers the president maintained
that the best results could be OBJ
tanned by putting execution Of the
plan in the hands of civilians in
stead of military officials. He obtain
sufficient support, particularly from
Great Britain TO carry his point.
One of the principal American OBJ
jectives just how is to get Ameri-
can soldiers back home.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
Elk RA'
Yanks UncoUer
German Plot To
EDade Arnaistice
American ARM Of Occupation I'm
earths Plan OF Germans to Sell Sup
plies Promised to America.
BY Webb Miller

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.
With the American Army of Oc-
cupation, Jan. 15.-Americans of
the third army have uncovered a
plot by Germsns to evade the terms
Of the armisice, according to an
nouncements made today. The
Americans were cheated out of
millions of mtfks worth of material
through the sale Of motor trucks
and supplies. These supplies,
which were tO8revert to the Ameri-
cans according to the terms Of the
armistice wee sold to private
corporations. A proclamation has
been issued from headquarters
warning against such sales and de.
claring then void. Everything
thus sold must be returned within
q week.