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The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
The Devastated Areas.

"Yes," observed the sergeant major
(volunteer) to the unwilling working
party (retainable), "some O. you lads
don't seem to realize that you're well
off. You might be on the Rhine 'aving
'yms of 'ate sung at you all day long.
You might be on the Somme, working
side by side with Chinks and ferries
Instead O. which 'ere you are in love-
ly country, good society, beaucoup
estaminary an beaucoup mademoi-
selles. An still you won't put your
backs into it. Very we'll, if you want
a change you shall ave one. I'll ave
the whole lot of you transferred to the
demonstrated areas" = Manchester
Guardian.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Take Out Riot Insurance.

New York,-"Riot and civil com
motion" insurance policies aggregat
ing more than $1O0,OOO,O0O have been
taken out by business men of Pitts
burg and other cities where plants OF
the United States Steel corporation
are located, it was estimated by in
surance men here. The amount called
for by the largest policy is $6OOO,OOO
while that of the smallest is $1,000
The policies provide for covering dam
age resulting from rioting and other
causes not specified in regular fire
insurance.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Refuses To Invite kinq.

Milwaukee, Wis., stand for the
man who works. To hell with the
kings" This quotation closes letter
TO A. L. Van Scoy, president of the
Milwaukee Association of Commerce,
from Mayor Hoan in which the latter
refuses to invite King Albert and
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium to visit
Milwaukee, The mayor offers, how
ever, to forward such an invitation
presented by any group of citizens.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Gold Steamer Wrecked.

Nome, Alaska The schooner Cas-
co, carrying a party from San Fran
cisco on mysterious gold hunting
expedition to the Kolyma river section
of Siberia, was wrecked on King is
land, about forty miles from Nome,
during heavy gale. Capt c. l.. Oil
yer was badly injured, but the tN ty-
seven members of the crew and party
aboard were landed safely on the is
land, according to reports reaching
here
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
WASHINGTON


Francisco Villa is about to launch
campaign south of Chihuahua to avoid
rsking intervention by United States
troops, according to information re-
ceived in Washington.
Early and favorable action is expect
ed in the Senate on the bill providing
a punishment by fine or Imprisonment
or both for the transportation of stolen
motor vehicles in interstate or foreign
commerce.
The former North German Lloyd
steamer, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm,
recently used as an American naval
transport, has been allotted to the
White Star line for service on it's
New York, Cherbourg & Southampton
route.
Consumption of sugar in the United
States for the first seven months of
this year was 362 1000 tons more than
during the corresponding period last
wear. according to statistics compiled
by the United States Sugar EqualiZa-
ton Board and made public by the
American Sugar Refining Company.
This amount represents an increased
per capita consumption of one pound
pei month.
More wheat should be sOwn this fall
than was the average in pre-war years,
but not so much should be SOWn as was
sOwn last year. This is the outstanding
fall farming recommendation of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture which is watching the changes of
the world supply and demand while
European countries are getting back to
normal in food production and thus af-
fecting the market for American pro-
ducts.
Ben f. Allen of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, member of President Wilson'S
party, and James r. Patterson of Port
land, Oregon, were killed and two 9th
er newspaper men injured in an auto
mobile collision on the Columbia high
way while the presidential party was
returning to Portland from a tour over
the highway.
Fire destroyed warehouse No. Of
the J. G. White Engineering Corpora
ton at Muscle Shoals, the government
nitrate plant, the loss being estimated
at $2,0OO000 The major portion of
the loss was on electrical equipment
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Serueant Killed in Fall.

San Diego Calif.-Robert l. Butler,
sergeant of the first class, attached to
the Ninth aero squadron, was instantly
killed at Rockwell field when his air.
plane crashed to the ground from an
altitude of $50 feet The mishap was
caused by the sudden breaking of a
knuckle in the steering gear.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Announce Labor Delegates.

ngton-President GOmpers OF
the American Federation OF Labor has
announced the names of the fifteen
representatives of labor who are to
take part in the indus,r conference
called by President Wilson TO meet
here October g.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
rN0EN ALI o0IlnnrH
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN c 8. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, SuFFER RINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western newspaper Union News service.
WESTERN


WESTERN
At least $25,000 was obtained by
robber who bound and gagged mail
clerk on an eastbound Northern Pa
cific passenger train between Seattle
and Kanasket, Wash.
Twelve horses were killed outright
and fifteen others mutilated at Milfay,
Okla, when the third section Of the
Ringing Bros. and Barnum-Bailey cir
Gus train was piled up when 1t ran
through an open switch.
A petition by the California Grape
Protective Association asking that gov
ernment officers be enjoined from en-
forcing the wartime prohibition act
was denied by United States District
Judge William c. Vanfleet at San
Francisco.
Rapid growth of the death list re-
sulting from the hurricane and todal
wave that swept Corpus Christi and
nearby points caused: the belief among
the relief workers and local officials
that the total dead would approximate.
500 persons.
Parents who permit their children
under 16 years of age on the streets
after 10 o'clock are subject to a fine
of $10O in Concordia, Kan. That is the
new ordinance just passed by the City
Council as a means of preventing juve-
nile waywardneSs.
John H. Suits was sentenced to one.
States District Court at San Francisco
following his plea of guilty to charge
of defrauding through the mails in con-
nectiOn with the collection of funds for
the National Defense League of Cali
fornia.
Reprieves granted by Gov Samuel r.
McKelvie extend to next Jan. 8 the
date for the electrOcution of Alison b.
Cole and Allen V. Grammer, both of
whom had been under sentence to die
for the death of Grammer's mother-in-
law, Mrs Lulu G. Vogt of near Elba
who was shot and killed in 1917
WClNC III
thirty-two counties, actively co-operat-
ed in a campaign for the destruction of
ground squirrels, which resulted in a
saving of $2,5OO,OOO in crops during The
year ending Aug L. according to the
report of w. e. Crouch, in charge of
rodent control work of the extension
division of the University of Idaho.
Bishop Francis J. Mcconnell of Den
yer, in an address before the New Mex
ico Methodist conference, declared this
government should withdraw it's pro-
lection of citizenship from any Amer
ican who engages in the saloon bust
ness below the border in Mexico, or
who engages in a business in any 9th
er country that is Outlawed in this
country
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
The Army's Efficiency.

Friend-HOw's your boy getting on
in the army, Mr.. Johnson?
Johnson-WOnderfu I feel a great
make my boy get up early, work hard
all day and go to bed early can do any
thing American Boy.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Siuns Pointed That Way.

Visitor-What makes you think Will
liam will grow up to be great doc
FOR?
Fond Mother-While playing doctor
With his little playmates, he said:
"Gentlemen, before we begin to Oper-
ate. you hold the patients hands and
feet, I'll get the three cents out of his
right-hand pocket"
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Proof of Death of Villa Colonel.

Juarez, MeXicO-A left hand with
one finger missing was brought to Bar
real station, fifty-nine miles south
west of here, as proof that Epifanio
Holguin, a former Villa colonel, had
been killed by one of his own men,
with whom he had quarreled.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Army Food Burned.

Paris.-The loss from the fire at
the American camp at Miramas was
estimated at $1,OO0O00 Half the loss
was in the burning of foodStuffs.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
EiIlina the Bill.

''That parrot you sold me last week
doesn't talk at ALL"
"No, mum you said you wanted
one that wouldn't be nuisance to
the neighborhood." = Boston Tran
script.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27

'Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" to be
genuine must be marked with the
safety "Bayer Cross" Always buy an
unbroken Bayer package which con-
tains proper directions to safely re-
lieve Headache, Toothache, Earache,
Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tin
boxes of IL tablets cost but q few
cents at drug stores-larger packages
also. Aspirin is the trade mark of
Bayer Manufacture Of Monoacetic-
acidester of Salicylicacid.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27

How the shades of the ancient
prophets must sneer at the man who
grinds out our weather predictions.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Both.

Manager-That was roast you got
ActOr-Yes, it was a raw deal.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
STRIKE CAUSES
MANY RIOTS
SEVERAL INJURED AT DIFFER
EMIT LOCALITIES WHEN
STRIKERS MIX
MANY PLANTS OPERATE
5000 OBEY ORDERS AND WALK
OUT AT C. r. G. |. IN
PUEBLO.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Chicago, Sept. 23-JOhn H. De
Young, assistant secretary of the local
office Of the national committee for
organizing steel workers, declared that
from $4,000 to $4,000 men were on
strike in this district and that most
of the plants had been forced to close.
Besides the plant of the Indiana Steel
Company, plants affected by the
strike are the American Sheet and Tin
Company, employing 5000 men; Amer
ican Bridge Company, employing 1,SOO;
Union Drawn Steel Company, employ
ing 500, and the Screw and Bolt Com
pany, employing 800 John c. Fitz-
patrick, chairman of the steel work
crS' organizing committee, at a confer
ence with local union officials here, de-
clared that reports from throughout
the country indicated that the strike
was a complete success.
Pittsburgh.-One man was killed,
two state troopers were shot and
many other persons less seriously in
j
The fight occurred near the American
Steel and Wire plant, when, it is said,
members of crowd threw bricks and
other missiles at the state police and
local officers.
Newcastle, Pa-Seven persons were
shot, one probably fatally, in rioting
which broke out at the Carnegie Steel
Company's plant here late today. The
trouble started when crowd of
about 400 persons attempted to pre-
vent mill workers from entering the
plOnt. About twenty workmen were
being assaulted when the mill guards,
consisting Of number of deputy sher-
ifs, came to their rescue.
Pueblo. - swell, goodbye, boys"
Standing in slow, cold rain J. F. Wei
horn, president of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company, thus bade fareweA
to the men who were leaving the Min
nequa steel plant on a strike. The Min
nequa steel plant, employing 5000 men,
is shut down.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
DISCOURAGED

81 was in terrible shape from kidney
trouble" says d. Reuter-, North St.,
West Chicago, Ill. II couldn't stoop
because of the awful pains in my back
and the steady. dull misery almost
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
500, 900, 900 to Remodel Warsaw.

Remodeling city Of Warsaw, Poland,
will take II years at an estimated
cost of $10O,0O0000.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
The Silly Niuht.

The most cOnsoling thing about 60
ing to the movies is seeing so many
women in the pictures opening their
mouths and not saying word you
can hear.
The Benson signal., 1919-09-27

AS the chip of the old block is in
clined so the twig is bent.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-05-06
PRICE OF PEACE
REVEALS SECRETS
Treasury Presents Film OF
Events in Great Conflict
Showing What Victory Lib
erty Loan Bends Pay For.

Secrets of the war recorded by the
motion picture camera and only now
released by the censors are revealed
in The Price of Pace" an official film
issued in behalf OF the Victory Liberty
Loan, and being shown all over the
country.
'"The Price of Peace" is the only
ofhcial picture ever assembled which
purports to cover the war from the
day it was declared down to date.
The purpose OF the picture as an
nounced by the Department of the
Treasury through Frank R. Wilson,
director OF publicity, is to put before
the public graphic accounting and to
make clear why there is now a Vic
tory Liberty Loan.
The picture opens with a scene in
President Wilson's office and a refer
ence to that momentous April 6, when
war was declared. 1t concludes with
a remarkable view of the Statue of
Liberty. in New York harbor, and the
homecoming of our army
But there is a vast deal between,
including the embarkation of troops,
their landing in France. final training
over there. then the desperate reali-
ties OF the front line trnchs, gas at
tacks, army railroading under fire, the
great attack from scissors to Chateau
Theirry, infantry and artillery under
heavy bombardment, battle between
aeroplanes, and the downing Of an
enemy airman, the observation bal
looms under fire, then the battle dead,
the prisoners, captured guns, our
troops marching over the Rhine into
Germany, General Pershing and his
men in Prussia. Christmas with the
Army of Occupation in Germany, and
the homecoming
Probably the greatest thrill OF the
picture is in the scenes where our
troops are seen going over the top"
and into the wheatfields at :35 o'clock
on that famous July IS, 1918. There
Is dim, misty light, that gives these
scenes a peculiar intensity. Other
scenes Of desperate fighting show an
American battery under heavy fire
from enemy guns in the Argonne. In
yet other scenes American soldiers
are shown bravely advancing under
shrapnel IRE across an open glade,
Two are shot down near the camera.
The activities of the American navy
furnish another important chapter OF
the picture. A number of impressive
scenes show the German feet steam
ing to surrnder.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-05-06
AIR SERVICE HELPS VIC
TORY LOAN-LET'S HELP
AIR SERVICE.

> When the appeal was sent to
the air service by the Liberty
Loan Organization for using the
airplanes in helping the drive.
the response was immediate,
and Liberty Loan committees
all over the country are now CO.
operating with the air service to
encourage enlistments.
The air service needs men
) and offers a number of attract
i've inducements to those who
enlist. Those who have had ex-
perience and re-enlist are offer
ed the following privileges:
One months vacation at once.
Bonus of $50.
Furlough fare certificate en-
fitting you to ride to your home
) at one cent a mile, with an addi-
tional five cents mile for trav-
cling expenses.
Months pay and ration money
on return from furlough.
Free clothing, medical atten-
ton and quarters and board.
No loss o. pay while sick.
Burroughs with pay.
Insurance at low rates.
Pay ranging from $50 to
, 1921 so a month.
Langley Field. Hampton, Va,
is a recruiting center and Lieu
tenant Joseph MacLean is In
charge.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
September Again

Oh, cut out the signing, for
summer is dying, September is
here at the gate; September so
winning has come for an inning,
and August is pulling its freight
The summers a season that's
based upon reason. it's good for
the corn and the wheat; with
out it the granger would soon be
stranger, and we would have
nothing to eat. The summer is
needed; the fields that are seed
ed without it would fail to pro-
duce; and SO we must bear it.,
this season of merit, while siz-
zling away in our juice. AL
though it is splendid we're glad
when it's ended, we're tired Of
Its charms, we admit; with
laughter we wriggle, we dance
and we giggle, when summer
goes licketysplit. Our noses
are roasted, our whiskers are
toasted, we're baked and we're
poached and we're fried; we
long for cool breezes, and Au-
tumn, she eases the burden to
which we've been tied. Oh,
welcome, September! l seem
to remember we had Septem-
Der last year; and she was a
hummer that followed the sum-
mer and filled our old bosoms
with cheer. Oh, she was daisy
with distances hazy and zephyrs
that limited of frost. with nights
that were chilly-not sizzling
and silly; | boost her. regardless
OF cost. WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
WANTS LAW AMENDED
TO PUT OWNER IN HOME
Senator Dial Thinks That as War
Is Over It Is Not Right to Keep
Man Out of His House.

Senator Dial of South Carolina. a
member of the Senate District sub
committee investigating the rent sit
uation here. said that he planned to
offer an amendment to the Salisbury
resolution. which prevents the evic-
ton of tenants in the District, SO as
to permit owners of houses to obtain
possession of them when they desire
TO use them as residences 1or tnem-
selves.
Il think that the Salisbury resoiu-
tion has served very good purpose.
said Senator Dial. but the war is
over and i do not think that it is
right to keep a man out of his own
home. which he may have leased,
after the lease has expired. The law
should be amended SO that owners
may regain possession of houses
which they desire to occupy them
selves. and bona fide purchasers of
residences who desire to occupy them
also should have no impediment
placed in their way.
Senator Dial may offer his amend
ment to the Haugen anti-profiteering
bill. which has been reported to the
Senate by the committee on agricul
ture, or he may offer it as an amend
ment to some other bill.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
cox HELD FOR GRAND JURY.
One Co. of Policeman Is
Freed in Blackmail Case.

Policeman Melvin Cox of the fourth
precinct. with Frank =. Leitch and
George Broadus, accused of an at
tempt TO blackmail Leon Budd. col
ored man, was in the United States
branch of Police Court yesterday aft
ernoon before Judge Robert Hardison
in a preliminary hearing Cox and
Leitch were held for the action of the
grand jury. Broadus was discharged
for lack of evidence. The bond in
each case was fixed at $1,000, which
was furnished. and both men were re-
leased
1t was alleged that Budd. who oper-
ates an automobile for hire, was ar
rested Dy the three men early one
morning at the 9TH street wharf on
charge Of speeding, and that he paid
the three men SO to settle" the case
The defendants denied that they had
accepted any money from Budd.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
ASKS PROBE OF REED
AND ST. ELlZABETH'S

Immediate and thorough investiga-
tion of the present administration of
Walter Reed and ST. Elizabeth'S hos
pitals are asked in a resolution intro
duced yesterday by Representative
Thompson of Ohio. which was referred
to the select committee on war eXpen-
ditures.
Three specific lines along which the
investigation should be made are sug-
gested in the resolution.
Conduct of prisons within the hos
pitfalls where overseas and other parties
are confined for infraction of rules;
attitude of officers toward enlisted at
tendants who apply for discharge;
alleged favoritism relative to the dis
charge of enlisted soldiers prior to or
during or after the establishment of
their so-calied priority list.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
THREE AUTOS STOLEN.
Cars Taken From Street Yesterday
Are Still Missing Today.

streets in different sections of the
city yesterday and at at late hour
this morning had not been recovered
Frank Farnsworth of 1915 14th
street reported that his machine dis
appeared from North Capitol and H
streets about 11:4o O'Clock
The machine of John c. Joy, of
Hyattsville. Md. was taken from near
Center market early in the day.
The third victim Of the auto thieves
was John l.. Smith of the Southern
building, residing at 1880 street
northwest. His machine was taken
from Delaware avenue between D and
G. streets
Evening star., 1919-08-30
CITY POST OFFICE FORCE
TO OBSERVE LABOR DAY

All sections of the city post office
except the collection and stamp WIN
dows will be closed all day Monday in
observance of Labor day. it was an
nounced today.
The money order section. the postal
cashiers office. the registry section,
general delivery and classified section
viii be closed all day. Airplane mail
will be received at the main office un-
til 10 am. At the Georgetown station.
and from the main Office, business and
residence districts collections of mail
will be made at and 10 pm, and
at all other stations in the city COL
lections will be made only at o'clock.
At 1880 am. mail will be delivered
to hotels.
There will be no delivery of mail by
letter carriers.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
ASKS TO ADMINISTRATE
ESTATE OF HER HUSBAND

claim against the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for damages resulting
from the death of her husband, Odie
S. Wathen, who was killed last Sum
an excursion train near Atlantic City,
Mrs. Alice b. Wathen has filed in the
Probate Court a petition to be ap-
pointed administrator of the estate
of her husband. Besides the ella i'm
for damages. the widow says Wathen
left only $500.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
REPORT ON FROZEN FISH.
Amount in Storage Shows Decrease
Since Last August.

Frozen fish held in storage August
IS amounted to 64,74O.173 pounds.
compared to S2,554,790 at the same
time last year. the monthly report of
the bureau of markets of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, made public to-
day, shows.
The holdings of cured herring
amounted to 30.271,216 pounds, COM
pared to 290.409 pounds on August
Is. 1918. az the holdings of mild
cured salmon amounted to 9.347, ,625
pounds, compared with 5,l2S.523
pounds last year.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
life-Saving Medal Award Advised

Acting Secretary Roosevelt of the
Navy has recommended the award of
gold life-saving medal to Arthus
H. Bridges, quartermaster, United
States naval reserve, attached to the
u. s. S. Lake Larga, for the rescue of
Manuel Munez from drowning, at the
risk of his own life.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
CITY CLUB MEMBERS
PLANNING ACTIVITIES
Old Farragut Square Home of Or
ganization to Be Scene of
Numerous Gatherings.

The old Farraguet Square home of
the Commercial Club. the membership
of which constituted the nucleus
will be the scene of great activity this
fall and winter. pending erection of
the proposed s1,00O.00O home for the
City Club.
Club officials today outlined the
functions of important subcommit-
tees which have been intrusted with
the task of stimulating interest in
the club and making the clubs tenn
porary home the center of mark ed
civic activity during the coming win
ter.
Evening star., 1919-08-30
Will Keep Public Advised.

The subcommittee on publicity. of
which Edgar d. Shaw is chairman,
will keep the public advised as to the
activities of the club. and later possi-
bly, Will strive to acquaint the busi-
ness men of the country with the IA
cilities offered by the club to persons
who are brought to Washington fire.
quently on official business