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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08
Charges Against Gilbert.

Much of Gilbert's testimony con-
cerned the speech he made at Lake
field January %, 1918. He was ar
rested while making the speech. The
Indictment charges that Gilbert, in
this address, declared:
Your boys are better off on the
farms than in the trenches, 5000
miles away. Who will feed these
boys when they are in the trenches
5000 miles away"
Gilbert testified that he said:
why. the boys on the farms are
rendering just as valuable service
toward winning the war as the boys
in the trenches"
"I also said who would feed the
boys in the trenches if all would be
at the 'front.'" Gilbert added.
Gilbert's direct examination was
completed when adjournment was
taken
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AIRPLANES AS WIRE AIDS.
Used as Trouble Hunters" Along
Panama Canal TELEGRAPH,

Airplanes are used for trouble
hunting" along the Panama Canal
Zone telegraph lines. A seaplane pi-
loted by Lieut.. ]. b. Duggan and car
rying Maj. Prescott was sent from
Balboa to San Carlos. fifty miles
south. to repair break. completing
the round trip and the task itself in
an hour and ffty minutes. BY horse
back over jungle trails the trip would
have taken three days.
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Witness Called for Defense.

The first witness called by the de-
Tense was Prosecuting Attorney E. H.
Nichols. Nichols was asked regard
ing correspondence he might have had
with the states star witness, F. A.
Teigen, who testified last week that
Townley had told him he was opposed
to the war and that Townley had at
tempted to arouse pro-German in
stincts" in sections Of southern
Minnesota, where the population is
heavily of German extraction.
Il had no correspondence with
Teigen except for two kilograms" re-
piled Nichols. One telegram was
other was my reply"
Attorneys for the state said that
they would vigorously object to any
testimony by Representative ]. NJ
Baer of North Dakota or other wit
nesses regarding the loyalty of
Townley's speeches or the loyalty of
the members of the league.
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SIGNS Of REVIVAL SEEN
IN devastated LENS

PARIS. June 90 Correspondence of
the Associated ess).-Lens. the
most thoroughly devastated town of
the war. is showing signs of revival.
Before the Wa" Lens had 80, 900 in
habitants. When the Associated Press
correspondent visited the locality in
its state of hopeless deSolatiop there
We're only three sturdy optimistS left
who led cave mems existence among
the ruins. Their nearest point to get
food was Buliy-Grenav. ten miles
away, and there was no transporta-
ton.
Things have been mendng since
Today about 5000 of the eXiled inhab
itants have returned. They are
housed in corrugated iron hutments
formerly used by the British army
The cleaning up of the place, begun
by Chinese and German prisoner work
squads, is taking on more speed The
approaches have been laid bare to
cellars and underground shelters
which have been occupied by home
less "househunters.
Rebuilding Is Herculean Task.
Even building of a sort is going on :
the material used being such odd bits
OF wood. stone and iron as were still
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Yanks Held by Reds Released.

Maj. Gen. William S. Graves. COM
handing the American forces in ST.
IBERIA, has notified the War Depart
ment that Lieut.. Fribley and four en-
listed men who were captured re-
Gently by anti-kolchak forces. were
released June % and have returned
to the American lines
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DR.. Owens Asked to Give Aid.

Dr. Owens has received credentials
from DR.. Porras for important serv-
ice to be rendered in the United
States in relate to the agricultural
bank. the construction of highways,
purchase of ships for coastWise serV-
ice and for a scientific survey of the
lands of the republic Upon being
requested to make a statement as to
his observations in Panama. Or.
Owens said today that the complete
report will be made available later.
He said that in his judgment the
United States has mistaken concep-
ton as to Panama.
Panama. he said. is a land of un-
excelled natural resources, and with
the opening up of the interior by
highways is destined to become one
of the richest agricultural countries
of the world
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serviceable in the huge rubbish heap
that once was Lens
In the Pas de Calais dcpa rtment
alone $50 townships and villages are
in the same plight as Lens, or nearly
so. The task Of making these places
fit to live in again is a herCnlean one.
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LACK OF LABOR, NOT
ICE, MADE TROUBLE
Manufacturers Assert There
Is No Shortage and Fear
No Famine.
HEAT WOULD THREATEN

Somewhat relieved by markedly
lower temperatures the last two days.
the local ice situation nevertheless
remains serious. Return of hot
weather. indicated for the latter part
of this week, threatens to bring re-
turn of conditions which caused much
inconvenience and loss, together with
numerous instances of actual hard
ship. Sunday and yesterday.
According to reliable information
ice in storage in this city today totals
only about 10000 tons. OF this storage
supply about half is in the storage
houses of the American Ice Company.
the remainder being divided among
four other concerns.
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To Send Soldiers to Wheat Fields.

Commanding officers of Camps Pike
and Bowie, Tex: Dodge, Iowa; Fun
ston, Kan, and Fort Sill, Okla, have
been instructed by the War Depart
1nent TO release every man serving
under an emergency enlistment who
can be spared for work in western
wheat fields
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08

Labo- is available in adequate num-
bera, but to lodge and feed the men IL
"A great problem. The latest sucgeS-
tioa is to use covered army motor
trucks as temporary shelters for the
workers by whose efforts Lens is TO
arise from it's ashes.
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10000 Fewer Clerks in War Dept

Reports made to Chief Clerk SEQ
field of the War Department show
that the force of civilian employees
of that department is now about
$4,000, a decrease of about 10000
since November IL, 1918, the date of
the signing of the armistice.
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AN INVIGORATOR.

HorsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.
Relieves languOr, brain flag and nerve ex
haustion. Makes Il tasty and refreshing tonic
nk.-Adyertisement
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Says No Shortage Exists Here.

Officials of the American Ice Com
pany and other manufacturers of ice
stated today that no shortage exists
here. inability to supply ice Sunday
being wholly due to lack of labor.
Former officials of the District food
administration said today that inves
legations made last summer showed
the combined daily output of local ice
factories to be totally inadequate to
supply demands during excessively
warm periods. Recognizing the fact
that with it's largely increased popu-
with an ice famine if the summer
proved to be hot Clarence r. Wilson.
then food administrator for the Dis
trict, early in the spring of 1915
brought pressure to bear on ice
manufacturers to induce them to run
their factories at capacity and to fill
all storage houses before warm
weather arrived.
The result was that when actual
summer temperatures came every
house adapted to the storage of ice
was full, and no shortage existed
during the summer.
With the passing of the local food
administration manufacturers this
season filled their own storage houses,
but failed TO operate their plants at
capacity in order to fill other storage
houses.
me result is, according to former
food administration officials. that
many of the houses that last sum-
mer were filled with ice made during
the slack season are empty this sum-
mer. AS the combined daily capacity
of ice manufactures of the District,
according to figures gathered last
summer. is only about one-half of the
average daily consumption during hot
weather, the limited quantities of
storage ice threaten to be exhausted
if the District experiences soon an
other period of high temperatures.
Many downtown restaurants. lunch
rooms, drug stores soda fountains
and other places using large quanti-
ties of ice had no deliveries yester-
day until after noon. Such places in
the general vicinity of 18th and F
streets were served with ice between
II and l O'Clock yesterday, this being
the first delivery since Saturday. AS
result much food was spoiled be-
cause of lack of refrigeration.
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Trouble Caused by Lack of Labor.

From statements of a score or more
of manufacturers and distributors of
ice. both wholesale and retail. it ap-
pears that the ice shortage Sunday
and yesterday was due to lack of labor
more than anything else. The ice bus
mess, according to these statements,
is as severely handicapped as any
other industry by inability to obtain
! necessary labor. Plants report that
they are unable to obtain factory
hands. drivers skilled labor or work.
men for any part of the ice producing
and distributing business in anything
like necessary numbers.
Until the labor shortage that ex-
lists in our line as we'll as in every
other line of business and industry in
the country is overcome the city will
remain under the threat of an ice
shortage during hot periods" said one
of the large manufacturers today.
The labor shortage has existed fof
months. and instead of growing lass
| with the return to civil life of thou
sands of overseas troops, it appears
to be getting more acute. If the ice
men can find the necessary lobor there
will be no ice shortage Here this sum-
mer.'
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Sees No Repetition.

Deliveries of ice. it was said by deal
ers and manufacturers, would get
back to normal today, and hope was
expressed that no famine" even of
the duration of only a day or two,
would occur. again this summer.
Some ice dealers in various parts of
the District yesterday devoted their
attention to refilling family refrig-
orators to the exclusion of ice chests
in business places. Other dealers took
the opposite course, making deliveries
to lunch rooms. etc. before serving
family trade. In both cases the deal
ers came in for wholesale condemna-
ton. nobody appearing to be satisfied
with either plan.
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Mode TrOpiCals-

include the Palm Beach, Kool Kloth, Mo-
hair, Silk-in the Single and Double
breasted models designers have made
supremacy popular this season.
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Rebuilding Is Herculean Task.

Even building of a sort is going on :
the material used being such odd bits
OF wood. stone and iron as were still
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
Ultimdtum of Director Hines
 to Pacific Coast Strikers

Washington, Aug. 29-The utimatum of Director Gen. cra Hines of the Railroad Administration striking railroad men of California; Arizona and Nevada contain ed in the following notice, issued last night: To public officers railroad officers in California, Arizona, and Nevada: A strike in progress rhe the of California Los Angeles purely a ployes of that of grievance being presented alleged and repudan of the between striking th" railroads which they  executives the the strikers belong national providing for the also illegal strike under the the
 
 
  enable the time
 
 
 a public rendering public President employees report o'clock Saturday morning Aug So when and called for will be hed as having terminated n' and their places wi" npedes possession. non control of any railroad property railroad under Federal United punishable and 
 railroad under Federal
 
 
 instructions have been issued United States District and the United States Marshal of the he and all other state and local officers relied upon to lend assist including enforcement of the statutory which will aid operation and in protecting
 WALKER HINES Director General of Railroads
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
PERSKING TO GET GREAT WELCOME
 IN NEW YORK
Big Feature Is Parade on Sept. 9, Which Will Re
 quire 4 Hours to Pass.
BANQUET IN WALDORF
 HAS BEEN PLANNED
Round of Festivities Plan ned for Enlisted Men of
 the 1st Division.

New York, Aug. 29-New York city's official welcome to Gen. Persh- ing will last two days. It will begin with the arrival of the Leviathan early in the morning of Monday, Sept. 8, and continue until late on the fol lowing Wednesday. when he will de- part for Washington, following d great military review and banquet in his honor.
 This was the preliminary arrange ment decided upon by the Executive Committee of the Mayors Committee on Reception to Distinguished Visit OTIS at a meeting held in the mayor s office, City Hall, yesterday after noon.
 Maj. Gen. McManus, Chief of the Port of Embarkation, informed the committee that the parade and re view on Wednesday, Sept. 10, vii consume not less than 4 hours. H. also said that in all probability Gen Pershing would ride at the head o. the columns of soldiers, which vii embrace the 1st Division, 4. P. F. in the full panopIy of war, including field kitchens, ambulance units anC artillery. It is anticipated that ther' will be three regiments of artillery il line. 2.OOO vehicles of war, 5000 am balances and contingents of all arm of the service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29

alone, and in addition to that we will here and a head tax to get them out, the same as was charged by France for getting our men into France and out.
 ITO do what? Not to discharge any service to the American people or perform any duty of ours, but in vio- lation of the Constitution of the United States to invade neutral teri ritory
 Promises All Violated.
 "I think that the American peo- pie should be apprised of this fact. I know that they will regret it. know that the American people who have sons over there now are praying night and day for their coming back.
 "It may be that no man on this floor has son or a relative in either the Fifth or the Fifteenth regime ent, but there are fathers and mothers who have sons there, who have thought and had reason to believe, by virtue of the promises made by this
 
 no longer be called upon to engage in war on the other side of the sea-
 We are representing them here and it Is our duty as representatives of the people to voice the protests that we know the people are utter ing, and to express by our voice and our action our determination to sec | to 1t that the wishes of the people | and the promises of this administra. l ton are kept, or, if violated, that il | be over our protest.
 God knows that the task 1. enough without our taking upon our. selves all of the trouble that art | perplexing Europe"
 | Representative Blanton, Democrat | of Texas, suggested that the Ameri | can soldiers could be brought hom, | and be kept at home if the Republi 1 can leaders of the Senate would per init the notifications of the Peac, treaty. MT. Wood retorted: l 'I wish to say that that is a mer ' subterfuge. And this is sampl of 1t. If the Administration is do ing these things before it has tn i sanction of law by virtue of tn, ratification of this treaty, and if thi administration is taking the powe into its own hands to send our sol diers over there without authority how much more will it do when it ha the sanction of this so-called Leagu l of Nations?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
SECRETARY BAKER DENIES EFFORT
 TO CONCEAL FACTS THAT 2 REGS.
 ARE NOW IN DISTRICT OF SlLESIA

Representative Wood of Indiana in a speech in the House said in part:
 Now, the reason why they sought to conceal this action from the American people is perfectly plain. The American people have been led to believe from statements emanat- ing from the War Department that our troops are being brought back as fast as possible, and that they would all be brought back from France and from Germany not later than September. No wonder they did not want the American people to know that, in violation of this prom ise, they are sending new troops over to Europe.
 ''The American people are unalter- ably opposed to sending more troops to Europe. I see from the head lines of the press before me now that American soldiers are fighting in Silesia at this moment. We are fighting there an undeclared war.
 "An Undeclared War"
 This country is not at war with Silesia, and we are intermeddling with affairs over there with which we have, and should have nothing to do.
 "It brings to my mind in most forcible fashion what we may expect if this entangling alliance proposed in the articles of the peace covenant for a League of Nations is entered upon. This is but a foretaste of what would be expected of us.
 "All the little states created by this Peace Council are now at war with each other. Some of them will con- stantly be calling upon the United States to send troops over there to dc | the duty that these troops are now | being sent over for.
 "I wish to call your attention to | this further additional fact, that now 1 when we have trouble enough throughout this country of ours and when, God knows, there is trouble | enough across the border in Mexico ] is 1t not time that we are attending | to our own affairs, attending to the people who need our protection along ! our border. and if we want to fur
 nish occupation for our troops WI should use them there, instead O
 sending them across the ocean to Flu
 rope to meddle in the internationa
 affairs with which we have nothing | to do?
 'Thereare practically, in roun'
 numbers, $500 men in a regiment, st
 that 7,26O men are included within these two regiments which are to g, | to Europe, costing the Amercan peo pie $1,5OO,000 for transportation
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
AMERICAN TROOPS IN SIIESIA WE'RE
 ORDERED THERE AT FOCH'S REQUEST

The most reliable information in the possession of the mayors com mittee is that the Leviathan, with Gen. Pershing, his staff and approxi- mateIy 10000 men of the First Di- vision, will arrive at Sandy Hook about o'clock on the morning of Sept 8. A fiotilla of steamboats and government vessels bearing members of the welcoming committees will meet the Leviathan. So will squad- rons of airplanes.
 The Leviathan will be escorted up the bay to the authorization pier at Hoboken, where she is expected to berth at about o'clock. The present plan is to have Gen. Pershing and his staff trans-ship to the police boat Patrol at Hoboken and after formal greetings are exchanged the Patrol will take the General to the Battery.
 From the Battery Gen. Pershing will be taken to the Waldorf-Astoria No formal reception will be held
 there The General and his staff will
 rest for a short time. Some time later in the morning, it is expected,
 Gen. Pershing will make an official
 call upon Mayor Hylan at City Hall. The program for the remainder of
 the day has not been mapped out by the mayors committee and will de- pend largely upon the advices receiv- ed by Mayor Hylan from Washington. All arrangements tentatively made for Wednesday, the day of the great review, are subject, the mayors com mittee announced, to the approval of Secretary of War Baker. The public demonstration will begin in the morning, perhaps at about 10 o'clock. | A considerable part of the First Di- vision may have to come to the city on the previous evening and be bill ! leted here.
 It is planned to have the parade pass down Fifth avenue from 10th i street to the Arch of Victory in I Madison Square The official review l ing stand will be erected at the Met ropoIitan Museum of Art. The parade | should reach this point by about II o'clock The present intention is to provide places on the reviewing 1 stand for President Wilson, all the members of the Cabinet, Governor Smith and heads of State Depart. ments Mayor Hylan and city off.
 cials and the representatives of for eign governments.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
IS
 MANIFESTED
 IN CORN CROP

Albany. Aug 29.-General opti- mism marked the conference here today between agriculture officials from all parts of the United States who discussed the serious menace to the country's corn crops made by the recent invasion of the European corn bore. Charles s. Wilson. state commissioner of agriculture, an- nounced it was the concensus that 'diligent effort would remove the threatened spread of the pest and ultimately eliminate it.
 Officials for the United States De- partment of Agriculture and Canada, and from Connecticut, Massachu- setts. Vermont, New Hampshire and other states attended.
 The conference wll convene in Boston tomorrow.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29

Clark on Broad street, returning to their home in Middletown on Satur- day taking Douglass Clark with them.
 MT. and Mrs. R. A smith, having recently returned from the White Mountains, are away again, and will pass the rest of the vacation period at Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks.
 The visiting nurse cared for well over a hundred cases in July. and the revenue was under four dollars. It is said that in other towns the income runs from one-third to one-half of the total expense The fee is 30 cents per hour and should be paid where the ability to do exists
 Announcement has been made by the Democratic town committee that Carthy as a member of the committee has been unanimously accepted. 
 The following list of jurors from Milford who are subject to call for jury duty for the year commencing September 1, has been returned to , Town Clerk W. A. Rose by A. w. Wheeler. clerk of the Superior court: Herbert NJ. Nettleton, Charles w. Baldwin, Arthur I. Platt. George Will ! liam Smith. Frank W. Cook, Edmund E. BurweH. \. Dwight Platt, William H. Bristol. Roger $ Baldwin, Eugene ! w. Coe. Walter MCrwin, William F. Platt, E. H. Littcl. William E. God dard. H. N. Spcrry, George Frank Smith, Hubert l.. Platt, John r. Rob- inson. Edward B. Brotherton, John 1 W. Clark, George VanHorn. Walter i M. Irving, George H. Furman, O. L.
 Nettleton, F. x. Clarke, Burton T. Osgood. F. H. Woodruff. William c. Goldsmith. Arthur Tinkham, Frank Graham, Wilbur $. Ford, Charles Eddy, A. N. Hall, George s. Wheeler, Joseph F. Platt, Charles H. Holton,
 James A. Perry, William E. Durand, i Charles H. Bryan, J. l.. Pole, F. M. Smith, and Moves R. Bailey.
 The request of the board of educa- ton made Monday evening of the board of finance for $7S,OOO with which | to meet the expense of conducting the public schools of this town for the
 coming year. shows in a very striking manner the growth of the town and the increase in the schools made nee
 essarv by this growth as it was but a few years ago that the schools were lconducted on about a third of this sum- The matter of salaries for the
 teaching force is the largest item in lthis needed sum and but few feGlize the number of people on this list oi teachers at the present time V
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
MILFORD NEWS

The organ recital to be given Friday night of this week at the First churcn by Lorenzo Oviatt should be remem- bered. There will be no admission fee, a silver collection taking the place. MT. Mallory will give readings.
 The road improvements between Baird corner and the creek on Nauga- tuck avenue will be finished in about a week, thus completing a job that has been in the works for a number of years.
 Pastor Wyatt of the church on Rail- road street needs a carpet, 24X23 feet. to complete the equipment of the church.
 Arthur H. Berkitt and wife have re- turned to their home in Wollaston, Mass, after visiting friends in this vicinity. MT. Berkitt is employel with the U. s. Printing company of Boston.
 MT. and Mrs. Elliott Botsford have been visiting at the home of Harry