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LOAN AIR CIRCUS DUE TOMORROW "Stunt" Aviators Will Per form Here to Boost Victory Loan. Victory Loan Ctreu? Air Squad. rnp..??d of the beat flier? of the a?iatir>n ramps of th? country, expected to arrive at Rollini Kl 'd tomorrow in time for the 1 o'clock air parade. Thl? 1? the (lr?t timo that avi ator? ?cheduled for air flight? have r??orted to the uee of the railroad? for transportation purpose?. Onj thl? tr.p. the men and plane? will arrive by ?pedal train Mechanic?. | accompanying: the pa-'v. will im mediately reassemble the part?. Specially prepared Victory Loan literature will be dropped over the city by the birdmon Sunday after noon. They will also perform feat? a? they move throuch the air sev eral thouaand feet over the city. For the first time in many months, durine; war activities and the readjustment period. ?????p? Field will be open to the public Sunday afternoon. Special pasee?, however, will have to be obtained at the held from the officer of the day. Although flymsr activities were virtually ?u?pended yesterday, due to the itnrm, Rrpreaentative Fred erick C Hicks, of New York, and Representative Milton H. Welling ton, of Utah, were observation cuesta of Col. K. S. Harts, com mandant. Allied Gunners Fired 2,200.000 Tons at Huns Allied artilleryman during 191S fired ?.300.000 tona of ste**l projectiles at the 'Wman army. War Department ex porta estimated yesterday. Tt was announced also that America Browning machine ?nina and auto matic rifles at last have entirely re placed* foreign model.?? in th** A. E. f*. Kills Father-in-Law for Interfering. Durham. X. C-. April 11.? Angered at interference between himself and wife. Tom Barbor, 31. a farmer living near here, late yesterday shot and killed Sam Clayton, his father-in-law. 700,000 in Switzerland Were Stricken with "Ru" InflueVisa affected 700.000 out of Swlt xerland'? population of' 4.000,000. ac cordine to official report? Ju?t received by the United States Public Health Service and published in Public Health Report? yesterday. . A? wa? the case In England there were two distinct waves, the first reaching- a crest In July, when there were 53.89? caae? and the eecond in October when the tot?l was 253.3S?. 11 SENTENCED BY D.C. COURT Suspends Three Penalties; Joyrider Gets 2 Years; Other Cases. Eleven sentence? ranging from four years in the penitentiary to nine months at Occoquan were imposed In Criminal Court No. 1 yesterday. ?Charles K. Carter, convicted of joy riding, was sentented to two yeara in penitentiary, but the sentence waa suspended and he was placed on pro bation. Nine months in Occoquan waa the penalty of George Jenkins for steal ing xw from Walter M. Stockham. Both frank C. Johnson and Vlnelle King got four years in the peniten tiary following their conviction of robbery and assault with dangerous weapon against John Plumero. Another suspended sentence-proba tion penalty was given in the case of Fred Hyson, convicted of stealing ?t3ti0 from George K. O'Donnell. Convicted of stealing two auto tires, worth 960, Charlee Thompson cot a year at Occoquan. Cora Brown re ceived the same sentence after her conviction of grand larceny in the case of a $43 theft from Randolph Hebron. Jeannette C. Kskridge. alias Ger trude Ki?sex, was placed on proba tion with a two-year penitentiary sentence suspended for stealing ??W from John T. Cronkhite. Filipino May Speak Here. Mnnuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate and head of the Philippine mission to thia country, probably will .?peak at George Wash ington I'nhers'ty chapel exercises at 12:13 o'clock next Wednesday. Pimples and Skin Eruptions Danger Signs of Bad Blood It May Mean Eczema, Scrofula ?Tue First Sign of Inher ited Blood Disease. Pimples, scaly itching skin, rashes, burning sensation.-? and Scrofula de note with unfailing certainty a de bilitated, weakened and impure state of the blood. The trouble may have been in your blood from birth, but no matter how you were infected, you must treat it through the blood. It la a blood disease. Yon must use H S. S, the standard blood tonic for ?'?? years, if you expect ceVtain relief. Kor purifying the ?y?tmm, nothing Is equal to It. The action of S. S. S l-< j to cleanse the blood. It soak 5 j through thc system direct to the seat of the trouble?acting aa an antidote to neutralize the blood poisons. It revitalizes the red blood corpuscles, increases the flow so that the blood can properly perform Its physical work. The dull sluggish feeling leaves you?the complexion clears up. Bven long standing cases respond promptly. But you must take S. S. S. l>rtigs and substitutes won't do. Get S. S. B. from your druggist, if yours Is a special case and you need expert advice, write to Medical Adviser. 257 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta. Ga.?Adv. The Amazing Story of Maria Botchkareva Leader of the Russian Battalion of Death THIS STARTS THE STORY In the summer of 1917. Mart? Botchkareva formed the Battalion of Death, a woman's fighting unit in the Ruasian army, and thus a peasant girl stepped into the in ternational hall of fame. Thia la her story. In earlier installments ehe told of her childhood; of the brutalities of her married life, her attempt to commit suicide to ea ( ape a cruel husband? and her final success In evading him. She told of her many molestations at the hands of officials, soldiers and how she waa trapped In a house of shame by promisee of work. Bhe escaped from this bouse but im mediately returned when the police made advances to her instead of affording protection. In deaperation she attempted suicide a second time. A man intervened. She grew to like him and they lived together by civil agreement. She lived hap pily with him for three years when a revolutionist, a friend of her sec ond husband, sought refuse at their home. The political refugee and ?husband fled when discovered by the authorities. They were caught in their flight. Maria Botch Kareva was arrested and question ed. She and her husband became separated. She traveled many hundred miles to And him. She located him in a priaon and set out to carry her appeal to the gov ernor. She subjected herself to voluntary arreat that she might accompany her husband to Siberia, to which place he is exiled for four years. En route the party suffered many hardships and she learned aatoniahlng workings of the code of criminals. Arriving In Siberia the husband was threatened with further exile to the most desolate of prison camps along the Arctic Ocean. Maria Botchkareva inter ceded and had to deal with a liber tine governor. Her husband was given his liberty, but the price was that she was drugged and ehamed by the governor. She attempted suicide by drinking poison, but was revived. When the husband learned of the outrage he attempted to kill the governor, for which act he was exiled to Amga. The husband grew to be a worthless gambler. In a rage he at one time hung his wife, but she was rescued In time to save her life Maria Botchks reva could not longer endure his brutality. Rumblings of the world war reached far off Siberia. Maria decided to leave her husband and enlist. She was rejected because she was a woman. She appealed to the Ciar. AND HERE IT CONTINUES. The fifteenth of August, IHS, was a memorable day in our lives. The enemy opened a violent fire at us at .". A. M. of that date, demolishing our barbed-wire defenses, destroying some of our trenches and burying many soldiers aJive. Many others were killed by his shells. Altogether we lost fifteen killed and forty wound ed out of 150. It was clear that the Germans contemplated an offensive. Our artillery .replied vigorously, and the earth shook from the thunders of the cannon. We sought every pro tection available, our nerves strained in momentary anticipation of an at tack. We crossed ourselves, prayed to God. made ready our rifles, and waited for orders. At six the Germans were observed climbing over the top and running in oflr direction. Closer and closer they came, and still we were kept in active, while our artillery rained shells upon them. When they ap proached within a hundred feet of our line the order was issued to us to open fire. It was such a concen trated hail of bullets that we let loose at the foe, decimating hfa ranks, that confusion resulted in hie midst. We took advantage of the situation and rushed at the Germans, turning them back and pursuing them along the eighteen-verst front on which they started to advance. The enemy loet 10.000 that morning. During the day we received rein forcements, also new equipment, in cluding gas masks. Then word came that we would fake the offensive the following night Our guns began a ter rlfflc bombardment of the German po sitions at six in the evening. We were all in a state of suppressed ex citement. Men and officers mixed, joking about death. Many expected not to return and wrote letters to their dear ones. Others prayed. Be fore an offensive the men's camara derie reached a climax. There would be affectionate partings, sincere pro fessions by some of their premoni tions of death and the intrusting of messages to friends. lTnlveraal Joy was displayed whenever a ahell of ours tore a gap In the enemy'a bar rier of wire or fell into the midst of his trenches. At three in the morning the order "Advance!" rang out. Buoyant in spirit, we started for the enemy's positions. Our casualties on the way were enormous. Several times w? were ordered to lie down. Our first line was almost completely wiped out. but Its ranks were filled up by men from the second row. On we went till we reached the Germans and over whelmeS them. Our own Polotsk Regiment alone captured 2.000 prison ers and our Jubilation was boundless. We held the enemy's positions and No Man's I ?and. strewn with wounded and dead, was now ours. There were few stretcher-bearers available, and a call went out for volunteers to gather in the wounded. I was among those who answered the call. There is great satisfaction in aiding an agonized human being. There is great reward in the gratitude of some pal ?-convulsed boy that one wins. It gave me immense Joy to sustain life in benumbed human bodies. As I was kneeling over one such wounded, who had suffered a great loss of blood, and was about to lift him, a sniper's bullet hit me between the thumb and forefinger and passed on and through the flesh of my left forearm. For tunately I realized quickly the nature of the wounds, bandaged them, and, in spite of his objections, carried the bleeding man out of danger. I continued my work all night, and was recommended "for bravery In de fensive and offensive fighting and for rendering, while wounded, first aid on the held of battle." to receive the Cross of St. George of the 4th degree. But I never received it. Instead. I was awarded a medal of the 4th de gree and was informed that a woman could not obtain the Cross of St. George. I was disappointed and chagrined, Hadn't 1 heard of the Croas being given to some Red Cross nurses? I protested to the commander. Me fully sympathized with me and expressed his belief that I certainly deserved the cross. "But." he added, disdainfully. shrugging his shoulders, "it Is natch alstuvo" (officialdom). My arm pained and I could not re main in the front line. The medical assistant of our regimental hospital had been severely wounded, and I was sent to act in his place, under the supervision of the physician. I stayed there two weeks, till my arm improved, and attained such profi ciency under the doctor's instructions | that he Issued a certificate to me, stating that I could temporarily per form the duties of a medical assis tant. I The autumn of 191.? passed, for us, I | uneventfully. Our life became one of | ! routine. At night we kept watch, warming ourselves with hot tea, boiled on little stoves in the front trenches. With dawn we would go to sleep, and at 9 in the morning the day would begin for some of us. as that was the hour for the distribu tion of bread and sugar. ? very sol dier received a ration of two and a half pounds of bread dally. It was I often burned on the outside and not | done on the inside. At 11 o'clock, when dinner arrived, everybody was I awake, cleaning rifles and repairing) things generally. The kitchen wa always about a verst in the rear, and | we sent messengers to bring the din- ? ner palls to the trenches. The aver age dinner consisted of hot cabbage soup, with some meat in It. The meet frequently was spoiled- The second dish was always kasha, Russia's popular gruel. Our daily ration of sugar was supposed to be three-sixteenths of a pound. By the time our dinner got to us it waa cold, so t hat tea was resorted to again. After noon we received our assign ments, and at 6 In the evening supper, the last meal, consisting only of one course, arrived. It was either cabbage soup ar kasha or half a her ring, with bread. Many ate all their bread before the supper hour, or if they were very hungry, with the first meal, and thus were forced to beg for morsels from their comrades, or go hungry in the evening. I Every twelve days we were relieved and sent to the rear for a six days' recuperation. There the baths of the Colon of Zemstvos, which had al ready extended its activities in 1915 throughout the front, awaited us. Every divisional bath was in charge of a physician and a hundred volun teer workers. Every bath house was also a laundry, and the men. upon entering it, left their dirty underwear there, receiving in exchange clean linen. When a company was about to leave the trenches for the rear. word was sent to the bath house of Its coming. There was nothing that the aotdiers welcomed so much as the bath house, se vermin-ridden were tho trenches, and so great was their suf fering on this account. More than embody else did I suffer from the vermin. I could not think at first of going to the bath house with the men. My skin was eaten through and through, and scabs be gan to form all over my body. I went to the rommsnder to inquire how I could get a bath, tetling him of my condition. The commander sympathized. "But what can I do. Yashka?" he remarked, "I can't keep the whole company out t?> let you alone make use of the bath house. Go with the men. They respect you so much that I am sure they won't molest you." 1 could r.ot quite m.ike up my mind for awhile. But the vermin gave me no rest, and ? was neartng the point of desperatton. When we were re lieved next and the boys were getting ready to # march to the bath house ? plucked up courage and went up to my sergeant, declaring: "I'll go to the 'bath house, too. I can't endure it any longer'' He approved of my decision, and I foilowad the company, arousing gen eral merriment. "Oh, Yaehka is go- ' ing with us to th* bath house " the boys Joked, goodnaturedly. One* in side, I hastened te occupy a corner for myself and demanded that the men stay away from there. They did, although they kept laughing and teasing I was awfully embarrassed i the first time, and as soon as I got through I hurried into my new under- ? wear, dressed qulckiy and ran out of. the building. But the bath did m# so much good that I made It a habit to attend it with the company every two wMikr In time, the soldiers got bo accustomed to It thst they paid no attention to me, and were even quick to silence the funmaking of any new member of the company. (To be continued.) ? fCopyrt?ht 1*1?. fc* l^rdenrk A Htakm Ooss panj. All Rights itsMf-rrsd. ) Plan to Release Enemy Aliens from Parole Hundreds of enemy aliens will be released from parole 8unday, it was learned at the Department of Jus tice yesterday. United States marshals and De partment of Justice officials in all parts of the country this week are sending notices of parole releases. Most of the aliens to be thus re leased were arrested on Presidential warrants for violations of minor clauses of the espionage act and were not interned. PAYS $24,000 CLAIM TO G.W.U. Government Meets Bill for Housing and Educating Student Corps. George Washington University la the first of the educational institu tions of th? country to get a check in settlement of its claim against the Government for housing and subsistence supplied members of the Students Army Trainine; Corpa A check for $24.006 bas juet been received. "University officials are highly gratified at the promptness with which the claim was paid." aald Dr. William Miller Collier, president of the university. "The university's finances are in excellent condition, and Judging from preset indications we will close the academic year with a substan tial surplus, a rather remarkable situation in view of the deficits that most colleges are facing because of the disorganization brought about by the war." 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