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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
HALLIDAY CLASSES
NSCH0OLSL|KELY
That Measure of Relief From
Congestion Depends
Upon Congress.

Establishment Of half day classes
in some of the overcrowded rooms
above the second grade is one OF the
measures Of relief from present CON-
ditions in the public school system
that will be made possible if Con-
gress grants the request for 1872 ad-
ditional teachers.
Figures obtained at school. head
quarters in the Franklin building TO-
day show that ESQ classrooms have
had to take in more than forty pupils.
Seventy-seven classes have more
than forty-nine children in attend
ance The largest class in the sys-
tenn at present contains fifty-six chill
dren. In 123 classes there are be-
tween forty-six and forty-eigbt pupils
and in eighty other rooms there are
between forty-one and forty-five chill
dren.
Assistant Superintendent Of Schools
Stephen F. Kramer said today that
another injustice which can be cor
rected if the additional teachers are
appropriated for, is the relieving or
high school teachers from the neces-
sitv of teaching six class periods in
stead of four, which is the average
number under normal conditions.
Hard for Teacher and Pupil.
In discussing the possibility OF es-
tablishing halliday classes, IL the nee
essary teachers are provided Tor,
school officials pointed out today tAat
all-day classes of forty-five or. more
children not only place an unfair bur :
den upon the teachers, but make 1t
difficult for the children to learn.
Assistant Supt. Kramer said no chll.
dren have had to be turned away from
the public schools yet because of the
crowded conditions.
The school business" said Mr..
Kramer, lis very different from, any
other If merchant is getting more
business than he can handle he can
turn some of it away. But when chill
dren come to us who are of school age
we have to take care of Them
Mr.. Kramer said there are few va
cant rooms in the school system. but
they are in neighborhoods where there
was practically no increase in the en-
rollment this year.
For example," said the assistant
Superintendent, 'if we have a vacant
room in Randle Highlands 1t doesn't
help much in Mount Pleasant, where
more space is needed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
WHAT Is NEU-METAL?
at plugs the holes in
a million homes"
Have Color in Cheeks
Be Better Lookirg1Take
Olive Tablets

To have clear, pink skin, bright
eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoy
ancy like childhood days, you must
Keep your body free from poison
Gus wastes. DIR. Edwards Olive
Tablets Ga vegetable compound
mixed with olive oiD act on the
2:vcr and bowel ike caIc:neI--e.
haze TO dangerous after effect.
Take one nightly and note results.
They start the bile and overcome
constipation. That's why millions
OF boxes are sold annually. I0c
and 25c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
National High School for Berlin.

BERLIN. October 20 Correspond
ence of the Associated Press)-Foun-
dation of a National High School for
Greater Berlin has been decidedeuUon
at a meeting of the constituent as
sembly. The new school will COM
mence it's activities in January next,
and will seek to give the workers an
opportunity to educate themselves by
scientific thinking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
Indicted Under Draft Law.

An indictment charging violation of
the draft law was reported hE the
grand jury against Jung Wing. who
is said to have claimed exemption
from military service as a Chinese
subject. Investigation. it is said, dis
closed that the Monaghan had been
born in America and was not exempt
from service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
|GRAND JURY IGNORES
CHARGE OF HOMICIDE
Fails to Hold John Phoenix for
William Jefferson's Death-List
of Indictments.

The grand jury today ignored a
charge of homicide against John
Phoenix. who was held by a coroner's
jury as responsible for the death of
William jefferson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
q. S. May Not Delay.

This is taken here as a hint that
unless Japan sees her way clear to
JOIN consortium on reasonable terms
the United States may adopt the pol
icy of meeting China's needs without
awaiting formation by the other pow
ers of a loan group. in which, consid-
ering the financial conditions of the
European nations. Japan would hold a
leading role. Indications are that
Japan's leading bankers favor uncon-
ditional pooling of the powers for
loan to China. though certain power
full business houses have joined mill
tary circles in backing the movement
excluding stated Monaghan and Man
churian zones.
The Associated Press CORRESPONDENT
gains the impressions from talks he
has had with those interested that
the exclusion of certain kinds of
loans, such as railroad concessions,
rather than the exclusion of definite
territories, would be basis of pos
sible settlement.
1t is likely that negotiations will be
lett in the hands of Ambassador Nor
ris at Toxic. to be worked out on the
spot rather than to a formal long
distance exchange of communications
The expe Citations are that an accord
will be reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
Mr., BAKER AWARDS
CROSSES AND MEDAL

The Secretary Of War yesterday after
noon presented distinguished service
crosses to Brig. Gen. Charles B..
Drake Motor Transport Corps, and to
Col. Charles D. Rhodes and Maj. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08

good Arabian horse can canter in
the desert for twenty-four hours in
summer and forty-eight hours in win
ter without drinking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
Wholesale Selling
Prices Beef IN
Washington

Prices realized on Swift and
Company sales of carcass beef
for periods shown below. as
published in the newspapers on
shipments sold out, average as
follows:
The sun., 1919-09-14
RAILWAY LABORERS
DEMANDS ACCEPTED
Strike Auerted and New
Working Schedule Fixed.

DETROIT, Sept lathe Railroad Ad-
ministration will accept unreservedly
the proposal of the United Brotherhood
Of Maintenance of Way Employees and
RI llway shop Laborers for a new work
ing schedule, according to a message
read before closed session of the or
ganization's convention here this morn
ing. ..s
This means, officials of the brother
hooe state, that there will be no strike
os the organization members.
The message, declared authorized by
W s. Tyler director of the division
NJ the operation Of the Rail Adminis-
ire tion, requested. officials stated. that
the national committee of the brother
hood be sent to Washington to sign the
rev agreement. ,,y.
The Administration conceded the only
point remaining In dispute, the granting
OF overtime pay at the rate of time and
nEe-half, the. convention heads declared.
Allan E. Barker, grand president, and
George Seal. grand secretary, both OF
Detroit, were reelected unanimously
The sun., 1919-09-14

which is occupied by a family named
Sullivan. There was patch of re-
Gently spaded earth about twenty-five
feet square and the chief fell to work.
He scraped away the loose earth
rather gingerly to a depth Of twelve
inches ard uncovered good sized pape"
har. Tie paper was clean and new.
chief lifted 1t out on his spade
..e ripped the bag open.
Naked, brown and wrinkled and ap
parently dead baby girl lay In thu
chiefs broad hands.
Bob Trimball says that the chief
uttered something that sounded like q
gulp and ran down the back street
with the midget in his hands. The
chief ran two blocks to the home Of
DIR. George L. Tobey DR.. Tobey gave
the little thing couple of slaps and
turned II over once or twice. A thin
wall issued from the baby's mouth and
the transparent eyelids opened.
She's all right" concluded the doc
tor; She'll live. She's not more than
ten hours old. IL that. Didn't need much
oxygen. Good thing the earth was not
tamped down after she was buried
though, and it's good for her that she
wasn't buried deeper"
The doctor weighed her and the scales
said seven pounds. Chief Magee went
back to 90 Clark street There Miss
Helen Sullivan, II years old, calmly adj
mitted that she was the child's mother
and that her brother, 10 years old, had
helped her bury the baby in the morning
"a half hour after 1t was born,
The baby's mother was not arrested.
Chief Magee says she confessed and
that he will submit the case to the city
authorities tomorrow to decide what
shall be done.
The sun., 1919-09-14

had been present for a space OF seconds
at the top OF the tank from the moment
that the roof of the tank had fallen in.
Suddenly the wind changed, or perhaps
better, halted, leaving the fire ball with
out what might be called lateral sup
port Perhaps there was vacuum OF
some sort made at the base Of the tank
through some resultant OF red hot iron
and falling wind. Anyway. the ball. in
tact and like an AFFAIR fashioned at the
forge Of Lucifer, dropped suddenly to
the ground and began to roll along. For
some reason, which has probably no
scientific foundation, 1t kept to the mid
die of street Everybody got out OF
Its way. but by all the laws of calorics,
combustion and atmospherics Il should
have taken the lives of scores Of men
and ignlted twenty buildings. -
As events fell out. II disappeared
after a little air became mixed with It.
But after 1t had burst and gone families
all through the neighborhood adjacent
began packing their effects and chattels
and late last night were still away from
their homes In the fear that the freak
would reappear.
After the ball had fully dlssipated In
formation was forthcoming from e. 8.
Fayles. general manager Of the yard. as
to what had composed II. He explained
that 1t had consisted Of $4,000 barrels
not gallons OF partly refined gasolene
which had become ignited into a single
fabric of flame when the burning tank
next to II blew In the head Of the tank
which had contained Il.
But In the main the tanks at the yard
were emptied before any fire reached
them by the efficient Standard OIL proc
ess of piping their contents to Bayonne
or Corlears Hook or Pennsylvania as
the case may be. This is one of the un-
alterable Standard Oil rules As soon
as one tank begins to burn evcry other
tank in the yard where 1t is situated Is
emptied by drawing of it's contents with
pipe which Is attached to its base and
Is connected with a main pipe outside
the yard which in turn is connected with
the great trunk pipe system which con-
meets one Standard Oil storing city or
place with all the others.
Due TO the fact that yesterday was a
half holiday at the yard and that the
first few tanks went up suddenly, ef-
ficiency slipped again in so far that a
number of men who were supposed to
betake themselves to certain tanks and
open the pipe valves connecting the
tanks with pipe lines. never arrived at
their stations, or when they did arrive
The sun., 1919-09-14
DEAD PATIENTS OR
BOOZE. DOCTORS FIX
And If One Saves Flu Victim
He May Go to Jail.
special pespatch 20 Tnr Sos.


WASHINGTON, Sept. t.13.-The large ele-
ment of doctors who swear by whislxey
to combat the "fiu." IL the predictions
Of a return of the epidemic this fall
and winter are borne out. may find
themselves in the position or sacrificing
patients or facing prison terms. This
was pointed. out here tonight in con-
lection with the new prohibition en-
forcement measure passed by Con-
gress.
The seventh section of Title l. OF
this act provides as follows:
Not more than pint of spirituous
liquor to be taken internally shall be
prescribed for use by the same per-
son within any period of ten days
and no prescription shall be filed
more than once.
Doctors who used alcohol as a stim-
ulant in treating cases OF influenza
found that TO be efficacious at all It
was necessary to use amounts varying
from a pint to a quart in, twenty-four
hours. Smaller doses In serious cases
were found to be little better than none
at all.
The sun., 1919-09-14
BABY, DUG UP, LIVES;
BURIED TEN HOURS
Crime Thwarted by Myster-
ious Phone Message to Clin-
ton, Mass, Police Chief.
Bp a stor corre.pondent Of THn sus.

BV Std0 Correspondent Of The Sun.
CLINTON. Mass Sept. 13.- Some one
rank up Jack Magee. Chief OF Police.
about II o'clock this morning and told
him to get a shovel and do a bit of
prospecting in the rear yard OF so Clark
street
at would be worth your while, chief" ;"
the voice said. Far, be 1t from me to
butt into neighbor's business. but take
1t from me you'll dig son rtt.ins that's
going to get into the papers,"
What is it?" demanded Magee. who
is talking? What's the idea? Can't a
citizen bury something in his own back
yard?"
"Oh. all right" came the reply. only
seeing that you're Chief of Police and
sort Of look into things now and then
thought you'd like to know. Never
mind who 1 am and It was not me who
buried 1t; and you can do what Won
like; only I'd dig and dig quick"
Police Chief Magee pondered over thi;
mysterious communication. II worried
him. He looked up the statutes. II:
wasn't going to get In bad nor make g
fool of himself by digging up lot OF M
good rubbish, a dead cat or anything
else. The chief debated in his niint
long and hard.
But finally at this afternoon tn,
chief called up a friend and told of tht
mysterious message.
'Tll tell you, Jack" said the friend
''id dig II / were you. There's some
thing queer about that"
The chief hung up the receiver, sum
moned Patrolman Robert TrimbGll anC
got shovel. He made a quiet entranc,
into the back yard of so Clark street
The sun., 1919-09-14

there were driven away by the heat be-
fore they could turn the valve cocks
These men later assisted the regular
firemen in every way they could. mostly
by acting as guides about the yard and
explaining to the f1remen the intricacies
Of various pipes ana conduits.
One of the chief anxieties about the
tire was the veering quality of the wind
which prevailed yesterday. so that the
fremen were hampered always and had
20 combat a red hot blaze Of the frs
magnitude under terrifying conditions
and at imminent risk Of their lives.
There is no way to stop oil burning when
once 1t begins to burn. All the firemen
sould do was to keep all oil tanks and
buildings soaking wet within the fire
zone.
This work, however, took them close
tc n score OF tanks containing each from
10000 to $4,000 barrels of oil, each
tank liable to explode any minute and
every tank red hot within a few min
oates after its contents began to- burn.
The tanks, which average a height OF
forty feet and a width OF ninety. are
when they are hot about as hot at any
thing in this world can be-
Fire Could BE More Disastrous.
In 1886 there was a f1re in the same
yard as yesterday. but It was much
more destructive in some respects than
yesterdays fire because blazing )ll
oured into Newtown Creek and de-
stroyed docks, shipping and factories
There are four varnish factories, five
chemical WORKS and an alcohol distl.-
lery close to the oil yard and a number
of times In the tickle veering wind o,
yesterday and last night 1t was feared
that these would be ignited. However
up to an early hour this morning none
of them had taken fire.
The fire made a great spectacle for
all Queens borough all afternoon and
evening and at night was the objective
for scores OF automobile parties, coming
from every corner of the borough.
Not even trained and efficient Stan.
dard Oil officials were able to estimate
the damage with any exactness last
night About 10.000.000 gallons of OF
of all sorts were lost and property de.
stroyed that cost somewhere in the
region of $1,000. 900. Whether Standard
Oil figures the loss of millions of gal
Ions of oil in the same terms that other
persons figure It, was not made clear
And in any event the fire is burning
merrily yet
The sun., 1919-09-14
MAILS FOR HUNGARY REOPEN

Postmaster Patten invited yesterday
attention to the following announcement
by the Post Office Department:
Letters, postcards. printed matter,
samples of merchandise and commercial
papers will be accepted for transmits
SION to Hungary, subject to the Postal
Union postage rates, conditions and clas-
sifcation. a..
Pending further arrangements the
articles nv 7tioned above will be ac-
cepted for registration.
mo provision has been made for the
transmission of merchandise, other than
samples, whether paid at the letter rate
of postage or not"
The sun., 1919-09-14
SAYS AMERICAN CoNFESsEs.

Mexican Embassy Announces
Prisoner Admits Attack.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-An Ameri-
can citizen. Samuel Follery. has con-
fessed to participation in the assault on
the Atlantic Refining Companys prop
erty at Guayabillo on August IA. ac-
ctrding to an announcement made to-day
It the Mexican Embassy. 1t was added
that Follery also was an accomplice of
those who robbed the same company on
July 16 of 10000 pesos.
The embassy also stated that an In
vestigation in the State of Puebla had
proved that Edward L. Du Fourq an
other American who was killed in that
State, was not the victim of rebels, but
that he was murdered by another
American named Geisman.
The sun., 1919-09-14
Mas. for Cardinal FARLEY.

=, An anniversary mass for the late Car
ninal John aFrley win be celebrated at
AZ A. N. Wednesday in ST. Patricks 8
cathedral. Cardinal Mercier will be in
the sanctuary and the Roman Catholic
clergy Of New York will have an op-
portunity Of meeting him after the SER
vice. Announcement Of the mass will
oe made In all the churches to-day.
The sun., 1919-09-14
RUTGERS GETS 100000.
HecLscher Also Gives Equivalent
Amount IL College Raises $sOO,oOO

Special Despatch to THE Sun.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Sept. IA
President w. II. S. Demarest of Rutgers
College announced this morning that an
unconditional gift of one hundred thou
sand dollars to the college endowment
has been received from August Heckscher
of New York. Mr.. Heckscher has also
offered an addit onal one hundred thou
sand dollars to endowment on the con-
dition that Rutgers secures a million
dollars for college purposes by January
1, 1920, including his gifts.
1t is expected that. the alumni and
friends of the college will raise the full
amount within the next three months
Part of the money may be used for
memorial hall to those students and
alumni who served in the army or
navy during the recent war
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-23

success and has been repeated every
year since.
Among those who are here are
Judd Mortimer Lewis, Houston Post {;
Ted Robinson and w. II. Rose, Cleve-
land Plain Dealer Strickland Gillian,
Judge; Newton Newkirk, Billville Bug,
Boston Post; Douglass Mallock, Judge (;
+. A. Oliver. Yonkers Statesman ;
Franklin +. Adams. New York Tri-
bunc; Henry Edward Warner, Rich
mond Times Dispatch, founder of the
American Press Humorists; Claire
Briggs, New York Tribune; 8. Il. Kiser,
Dayton News; 7. A. DAILY, past prcsi-
dent: Grif Alexander and Christopher
Morley. Evening Ledger.
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action the inadequacy Of his salary to
meet increased living costs.
Mr.. Robins's resignation has shifted
the controversy more or less from the
teaching body to the administrative de =
partment. Since the resignation of Pro
fessor ]. Russell Smith last spring,
there has been 25 per cent increase in
teachers salaries, but, according to Mr..
Robins. no increase at all in his own
department.
Further developments in the very
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=, +.
Importance thlS year. however o"'hg 10
the fact that movement is on foot
ouono o,o foction of the bumorists 70
"'''s
launch upon 'he Wor'" i'e" anu 'er
rhle substitute for gunpowder.
Il ;s nm anthology of the best and
,,,, ioLos .hoso oxnorts bov.
'''o''
been able TO manufacture uurlhs Tue
Inst year. The opposition to the move
r,or+ bosas its compaign upon the fact
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REAL LIVE HUMORLSTS
OPEN SESSIONS HERE TODAY
Cartoonss and Writers for Press Of Country Have Annual
Meeting-I2O Hours in City

Hang out the crepe at the side Of you,
door,
Sing ont the dirges and sing them some
more;
Halt mast the flags and steal far, ia,
Nir1V.
For the humorists come 10 the city
today.
Aud they ar" here for the annual
convention Of the American Press Hu-
mnrists Association, which opened its
sessions today and closes at the end of
the week. The association numbers
among its members the most noted car
toonists. colyumists and tear dispcllcrs
of tho country.
What they are going to do in and to
the city for tho 100 hours. more or less.
of their stay is Il matter of speculation
and rumor
The Original X. OF c..
These knights Of the Chestnut opened
their sessions today with the for
nal ceremony Of planting n chestnut
tree in Penn Treaty Park at 2 o'clock.
Following the ritual. the convention
inspected an icc cream works. In past
ycars-hut enough of sorrow.
Tomorrow tn" humorists will be the
guests Of the Kiwanis Club, at lunch
con in the Bellevue Straford. Wedncs
day the Rotary Club will feed them
and on Thursday night the Pen and
Pencil Club will stage n Might in
Bohemia" at the clubhouse for the col
rmn conductors. Gu Friday night the
American Press lIumoristS will cat the
annual dinner. which they pay for
themselves, in the bellevue Stratford.
business session Of the club will per
haps be twenty minutes on Thursday
twenty five minutes at the most. The
business is expected to be of unusual
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Germans Sink Ships
in TeUtOn Ports


have reached the Orkney Islands and
have as yet not been reported.
The main force of the British fleet
was absent exercising at sea when the
German ships were sunk. only some
drifters, small warships and patrolling
aircraft being on guard over the interned
enemy squadron.
Admiral Won Reuter-. commander OF
the German feet says he issued an or
der to sink the ships, the Daily Mail
adds, and did SO because at the begin
ming of the war the German emperor
directed that 10 German warships
should fall into the euemy's hands. He
SAYS that he believed, from newspaper
:eports, that the armisticc had been
ended.
Admiral Won Reuter- visited Germany
como weeks ago. it being Understood
at ttc time that the reason for his
esip there was that he was i'll, but he
soon returned. and it is believed that
Mt that time he circulated the order to
sink the German Ships by evading the
censorship or making signals to the vari.
Gus vessels. an act which the close
proximity of the German ships made
quite easy.
The Mail quotes the admiralty a,
denying that the German crews were
periodically changed and saying that the
original crews remained on board the
vessels. There We're 100 to 200 mer
on the big ships and from ten to twenty
on board the destrOyers. Therefore
there were nearly 5000 in the water
or in the ships boats when the warship'
went down at Scapa Flow.
400 Germans Landed
Fourteen hundred were landed by tht
British on Sunday at Nigg. Russhire
on the northern shore of Cromarty
! Firth. They were placed in hutmentS
and are being held under military
guard.
From the behavior of the ships, ac.
cording to the Mail, it was evident the
sea valves had been opened and in q
Surprisingly short time the vessels, bis
and small, began TO settle down. Every
effort was made by the British nava
craft to beach the sinking ships, and in
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near future are expected in this new
quarter, as considerable dissatisfaction
has been expressed by those employed in
the administration department.
Mr.. Robins was a newspaper man
before he took the position Of secretary
at the University. He was born in
France, but came as child to this
country. He worked on newspapers in
the east and west. In 1896 he went to
the University.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-23
.,ROBINS'S RESIGNATION
SHIFTS u. P. PROBLEM
Teachers Have Received In.
crease, but None Seen in Ad-
ministrative Branch

A new fareup in the low wage ques
ton at the University of Pennsylvania
has been produced by the resignation
of Edward Robins, secretary of the Uni
versity, who gave as a reason for his