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of their luck of ammunition, are remarkable.
Will Not Decide Issue.
Referring to the advance of the Teutons
on Lublin, the Times* Petrograd
correspondent says:
"Military authorities now affirm that
the seizure of the railroad line will not
decide the issue, because it runs parallel
with the Russian front and does
not serve the purposes of transport.
Even an advance northward along the
line from Chelm as far as Wlodawa
would not be regarded as a grave
strategic menace, but beyond that
point on the way to Brest Litovsk
there is no intention of permitting the
foe to proceed. Now for the first time
the Russians are able to operate in a
region where strategy factors are in
their favor. "
Fighting in the West.
Fighting along the lines in France
was in progress at several points during
last night, but there were no decisive
actions. The Germans tried to
win back some of the ground they had
lost on the heights near Metzergl, but
although they penetrated the French
lines at one point they were driven
out by a counter attack, the Faris
statement say?.
Russians Handicapped
by Severe Shortage in
Officers and Munitions
A UST RO- H UNG A R1A N H E A DQUARTERS,
July 21, via London, July 23.?
The offensive of the allied armies in ,
Roland is proceeding with machine- j
like regularity, and has now entered |
the decisive stage of the struggle in
south Poland, namely, a battle for the ;
possession of the Important railroad
line connecting Chelm. Lublin and
Ivangorod and of these strategically
important cities
The Russians, although clinging desperately
to every undulation of the
water course in the broken, sandy
country, have been driven from one advanced
position after another and
forced to fall back upon their last and
main line of defense south of the railroads
Battle Line Shortened.
The long battle line has been considerably
shortened, owing to the northward
movement of the armies, and the
Russians thereby have been enabled
to concentrate in heavier force. But the
ame factor frees considerable masses
of the allied troops to be used for a
ooncentric attack against the new line.
The advance has been executed under
highly unfavorable conditions. The
allies have had to force their way
through a wide belt of sandy country,
interrupted with frequent swamps. The
Russians could entrench in this country
with lightning rapidity, while the
Austro-German artillery could be
moved through the deep sand only
whan double-spanned and with the
gunners putting their shoulders to the
wheals. Also marching and the observations
for the artillery were hampered
by wet weather and fog.
Russians Handicapped.
The opposing Russian troops are of
the first quality. They are handicap* <*.
however, by the lack of artillery
and ammunition and particularly from
a shortage of officers, the battslions
sometimes being commanded by a elngle
commissioned officer.
The advance is proceeding in three
columns. The objective of the easterly
column Is the Russian barrier south
and southwest of Chelm. An AustroGerman
army is almost in touch with
It.
The Austrian Archduke Joseph Ferdinand's
army, operating against Lublin
and over which the Russians recently
attempted to claim a victory near
If V alrsail v V, a . r.ock^ ? rs A no.s.
ed the furthermost line reached by
the Austrian General Dankl's army
last August and is steadily pushing
back the Russians.
Wage Furious Fight.
Before Ivangorod the Russians are
fighting furiously In positions barely
ton miles southwest of the fortress, apparently
attempting only to cover the
retreat upon Ivangorod. This position
already has been broken at one point,
and its abandonment is Imminent.
Ivangorod from this side is very strong
and an attack against it Is difficult' but
It Is less defensible from the east, and
the archduke's advance from that region
is its main danger.
Comparative quiet prevails along the
Bug river. The Austrians by forcing a
passage of the river at Sokal and to the
northward have secured a flank against
any attempt at envelopment.
Desperate fighting, although upon a
mailer scale, is in progress on the
Bukowina frontier, the Russians making
vigorous attempts to break the
northeastern front. An attack the
night of the 20th northeast of Czernowitz.
delivered under cover of darkness
and In a heavy rain, lasted Ave hours
before the Russians were repulsed with
very heavy casualties. The cannonading
in this battle was plainly heard at
Czernowits
STEAMER IS BLOWN UP
IN THE SUEZ CANAL
BERLIN. July 23, by wireless to Ssyvllle.
N. T. ? A dispatch from The
Hague to the Overseas News Ageney
says that according to reports from
Cairo the British steamship Theresa,
while passing through the Hues canal,
ran upon a Turkish mine and sank.
Available shipping records contain
several vessels of the name of Theresa,
but none of British nationality.
TAXI COMPANIES' VALUATION.
iMt Step Before Consideration of
Bates in the District.
Reports on the valuation of the Auto
Livery Company and Federal Taxicab
Company and the Barnett Taxicab Com.
pany were made today by the public
utilities commission, these being the
last steps necessary before a consideration
of taxicab rates in the District of
f'olumbia The commission reports that
the Auto Livery Company and Federal
Taxicab Company could be duplicated
for fl2J.022.4l new, and )75,7&1.7& less
depreciation
The Barnett Taxicab Company, according
to the commission's valuation,
oould be duplicated for S22.5&0.34 new,
r 99.779.83 less depreciation.
Kahn for Artists' Advisory Board.
The exhibition of paintings in New
York under the auspices of the Friends
of Young Artists closed yesterday, and
the society is arranging a competition
for young architects, to be opened September
16 at Mrs. Harry Payne Whit-I
fiey's galleries, it is announced. The
name of Otto H. Kahn has been pro- I
posed for addition to the advisory
bosrd of the society.
Mrs. Louis Stern Recovering.
Mr, 8t?rn. wife of Rev. I.oul, Stern
f the Washington Hebrew CongreguHon.
ie slowly recovering from the ef
?ww W -V? -"V i?v?nsg Bonif
time tec as a result ?f an accident in
Rock Crack Park, when aha was
thrown from an automobile She has
been confined to her bed suffering from
eonetltoion of the brain. Her comnlet*
recovery ie assured
Body of Mrs. Lipman Recovered.
CSCANAHA. Mich., July 23.?The body
of Mra Neva Lipman of Powhatan. W.
Vs., who waa drowned below Chandlers
Falls here yesterday, was recovered today.
Mrs. D. G. Moon, sister of the
victim, was reseued only when nearly
as hundred workmen employed on the
Ma dam under construction Joined hands
and farmed a chain Into the swift river.
Tha. woman were wedlns when eauaht
IS she current
REVOLUTIONS AFOOT
IN LATWRICAS
Story of Plot Against Guatemala
and Honduras Reaches
Washington.
FRIENDS OF CABRERA
DENY HE WROTE HUERTA
Carranza. at Vera Cruz. Said to Be
Concurring in Intrigue Aimed
at His Neighbors.
Details of an attempt at revolution
against the present governments of
Guatemala and Honduras, with the alleged
connivance of Carranza, one of
the Mexican factional leaders, reached
Washington today in a personal letter
from Dr. Alberto Membreno, former
minister from Honduras to Washington,
and now president-elect of that
country. Dr. Membreno. who recently
returned home to be inaugurated president,
is now at Tegucigalpa.
The charge is made that Jose Leon
Castillo, a Guatemalan, wty) has had
aspirations toward the presidency of
that country. Is now in Vera Cruz,
I Mexico, equipping himself with arms
for a movement against Guatemala and
Honduras.
Coinctdentally. it developed today that
the alleged "letters" telegraphed to the
United States yesterday, purporting to
be from Estrado Cabrera to Victoriano
Huerta, in whch Cabrera, the President
of Guatemala, is alleged to offer sympathy
toward the plans of Huerta and
associates for re-establishing control of
Mexico, are part of the Castillo intrigue,
according to friends of President Cabrera
here. These "letters," published
in I,a Voz de la Revolution, and telegraphed
here, are said to be forgeries,
and Cabrera's friends declare that so far
from desiring to aid Huerta, President
Cabrera in fact hates him. politically.
Was Politician in Guatemala.
Castillo was a politician in Guatemala,
and desired to be president, but
President Cabrera is so popular with
the masses there that Castillo went to .
Mexico and New Orleans and began a
campaign against Cabrera in those
places. It is said in Washington that
for the past two months Castillo has
been in Vera Cruz, endeavoring to fit
out an armed expedition against the
Guatemalan government, with ulterior
designs on Honduras, and that he has
been getting men in Vera Cruz and
the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco
and Yucatan.
The letter of Dr. Membreno which
reached Washington today is addressed
to a personal friend and says, in part:
"There are signs of revolutionary
flames for Guatemala and Honduras. 1
I am assured that Jose Leon Castillo
is equipping himself with arms in <
Mexico, with the concurrence of Car- i
ranza, said arms having been delivered '
to his agent, Mr. Santos de la Rosa, a
Guatemalan; and that the expedition .
will start from Vera Cruz or from
some other Mexican port. In these
plots seems to be implicated Maximo
B. Rosales, who left three days ago
for San Francisco, Cal. A letter from
Castillo, in which he called upon Central
American youth to help Carranza,
has been published here."
Nothing has reached Washington
lately. Latin American diplomats sav.
indicating grounds for revolution in
either Guatemala or Honduras. So far
as Guatemala is concerned, on the contrary.
documents have reached Washington
showing that railroad men, business
men, students and others have
been forming clubs and signing peti
tions to President Cabrera with the
idea of urging him to accept the presiM?nrv
ifffiln Wh atf Vi ar ha will atihmlf
to a re-election is still a question. The
date for the presidential elections is to
be fixed by the national assembly the
latter part of this year.
Cabrera Long President.
Mr. Cabrera ha* been President of
Guatemala since February 8, 1898. Before
that he was minister of the interior
and had been named aa "first
designate" by the national assembly, a
position corresponding to that of Vice
President of the United States.
He is a pronounced liberal in poll
tics and under his administration the
country has enjoyed peace and progress.
In that period the railroad between
the Atlantic coast and the capital?Guatemala
City?has been completed,
a work 210 miles in length,
after almost insurmountable difficulties
of engineering through mountains
and tunnels.
For the past ten years President Cabrera
has been constructing additional
ratlroads, notably one leading to the
city of Quezaltenango. the second city i
of the republic. Mr. Cabrera is said to
be a man of scholarly attainments. He
has been a leading figure in Central
America for the last ten or fifteen '
years, and the only criticism of him i
ever made in his country is that he
pays too much attention to the friend- ,
ly counsel of the Washington State
Department and honors citlsens of the
United States.
May Submit to Will of People.
In a letter Just received in Washington
by a personal friend President Cabrera
said:
"If fully persuaded finally that the
necessities of the country require my
continuance In office I am disposed to
lend my energies toward helping the
people, so you will see that there may
remain no other thing for me to do
but submit to the will of my countrymen."
It is undsrstood in Washington that
f resiaeni v^aurera may cwjimhi lu ecrve
again as president for the purpose of
seeing that the entire public debt of
Guatemala is funded before he ends
hie connection with the* government.
The foreign bondholders of the country
have been paid oft reguarly at the
! rate of $1,600,000 a year, but there has
; been a depreciation in the currency
because the country has been drained
| of gold.
Xn Honduras there is said to be an
equally good situation, devoid of real
necessity for revolution, according to
' I,atin American diplomats here. Dr.
I Membreno was elected president of
that country while still serving here
i as minister to the United States, and
he only recently left Washington to
assume hie new duties.
Letter From Minister Mendes.
The following letter has been re*
eelved:
"LEGACION DE GUATEMALA.
-WASHINGTON, July 23, 1916.
T* tlie Editor of The Star:
"In yesterday's edition of The Evening
Star I read a telegram from Galveston,
Tex., in which it is asserted
that President Estrada Cabrera of
Guatemala, promised to help Gen.
Huerta in a revolution in Meaico, which
affirmation is based only on certain
letters said to have been published in
La Vos de la Revoluclon, a newspaper
in Merlda. Yucatan.
?c? thu truth msv Ha l/nnu.n 4.
is my duty to state that the letters 'alleged
to be from President Estrada
Cabrera are apocryphal, and I have been
Informed were forged by a young writer
who wished to give something of Interest
to some newspaper. I wish to
call attention to the fact that the young
man undoubtedly does not even know
Ouatemala as he makes many grave
mistakes when referring to it, and
which are the best proof that the letters
are forgeries.
"For example, hs states that the
Guatemalan army Is Instructed by German
officers, which Is not true, for
during the last twenty-flve years,
which I remember vary distinctly, the
nlHWnas who has la any way been
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Thin remarkable strike photograph
was made a moment before a striker
was killed. In the picture the men
are seen throwing: atones, preparing
to hurl them or searching for weapons.
In the foreground is seen a man
with his hand thrust in his rear
pocket in the act of withdrawing a
weapon.
connected with the army was Baron
von Merck, son of a banker from
Hamburg:, who arrived in the country,
became a citizen of Guatemala and
married a young- lady from the capital;
he was an officer in the staff for a
while, but never in the capacity of
instructor, and he then returned to
Germany.
"The only European officers which
can be mentioned as connected with
the army cf Guatemala are two colonels
and a captain of the Spanish army,
who were in charge of the military
academy, and which is now headed bv
Gen. Pereira of Guatemala^ and a pupil
of the Spanish officers* and Col.
Chaigne of the staff of his excellency
the president of the French republic,
who acted as instructor to the Artillery
Corps during ten years an dwho, like
the Spanish officers, has returned to
Europe.
"But where the complete ignorance
r?f the oerson who forged those letters
can be more plainly seen is when ne
dates them 'San Jose de Guatemala,'
which is a port on the Pacific to
which the president never goes, and
who has his residence in Guatemala
City: and more so when he states that
the residence of this high official is located
on Morazan avenue, No. 12, instead
of No. 5 8th West street," and
there happens to be no 'Morazan avenue*
either in Guatemala or in San
Jose. Very cordially yours,
"JOAQUIN MENDEZ,
"Minister of Guatemala."
IL S. S00NT0ACT
REGARMIXICO
State Department Makes Announcement,
But Plan Is
Not Disclosed.
PERIOD FOR INSTITUTING
PEACE IS NEARING END
Both President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing Leave for North, But
Will Watch Situation Closely.
The administration intends to
move in the Mexican situation
within the next few weeks. A
positive statement to this effect
was made today at the State Department.
Tust what course will
r -be
adopted, however, was not disclosed.
Although President Wilson and
Secretary Lansing of the State
Department both plan to leave
Washington this afternoon for
brief visits in the north, they will
keep in close touch with Mexican
affairs. Secretary Lansing will
return to Washington again Monday,
and the President several
days later, it is understood.
Almost two months ago the President
warned the leaders of the various fac
peace and provide for an orderly government
within a reasonable time or
the United States would have to adopt
some policy which would bring about
such results. The belief is growing
that the President has reached the conclusion
a reasonable time to make a beginning
in establishing peace has near
]y elapsed. j
No News Today of Fightlng.
Officials here are awaiting with much
Interest news from Mexico City and
also from the Carranza and Villa forces
In the field somewhere near Mexico
City. Up to this afternoon no dispatches
had come from Mexico City and
no news of any fighting. No special
efTort is being made by the United
States to re-establish communication
because fighting makes it impossible.
Both Villa and Carranza agencies
here are without advices of the armies
believed to be engaged somewhere near
Pachuca. forty miles northeast of the
capital. The Carranza troops which
left Mexico City to meet the southward-bound
Villa column have not
been heard from since Sunday.
Officials and diplomats were surprised
over the reported action of Gen. Carranza
in serving notice that lie would
not receive communications from or
transact business with foreign governments
which have no diplomatic agents
accredited to hla government at vera
Crua. It had been generally understood
that foreign governments were
awaiting action by the United States
before recdknlslng any government in
Mexico.
Effect of Such Action.
The effect of such action would be to
cut off the Carransa government from
further communication with foreign
nations having ministers resident in
Mexico City, although It would not, it
i~ believed, sever his informal relations
with the United States, as he le
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firing: their revolvers at the guard
were fired from thla point.
said to regard Consul Silliman at Vara
Cruz as a properly accredited agent.
Secretary Lansing said that no official
report had been made to him In
regard to this stand on the part of
Carranza.
The State Department late yesterday
sent a message to Gen. Carranza directing
his attention to the Scott agreement
and ask'ng him to adhere to It.
The notice in effect is a request that
he withdraw from the Mexican side of
Naco the troops which occupied it several
days ago.
MAYTORENA MASSES TROOPS.
Making Ready to Oppote Carranzistaa
in Sonora.
DOUGLAS. ARIZ.. July 23.?Jose
Maytorena, Villa governor of Sonora,
is today hurriedly massing his available
forces in the state for a last stand
at Xogales against the Carranza
troops, who are making every effort
to dominate Sonora.
Advices received here state that
estimates based on careful observance
place the largest number of Villa
troops in the town at 1,500, but it is
expected that this force will be reinforced
by 1,000 troops from Guaymas.
The main army of Gen. Calles, at
last accounts, was reported near Santa
Cruz, where the advance guard is stationed.
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J. A- Henning Accused of Carrying
Weapon With Intent to Use It.
Charged with carrying a deadly weapon
with intent to use it, John A.
Henning, sixty-six years old, was
locked up at the first precinct police
station this afternoon. Henning, it
is stated, is a watchman In a building
at 10th and E streets northwest, and
today he became involved in an argument
with Wesley Commodore, colored,
who was employed by the owner of the
building to do some cleaning.
Henning, it is alleged, complained
that Commodore was not doing his
work properly, but the latter refused
to accept or pay any attention to his
orders. The colored man alleges that
Henning threatened to "fix" him and
that he procured a shotgun and pointed
it at him.
Commodore disarmed the watchman,
turned the gun over to the police and
caused his arrest. The case will be
heard in Police Court tomorrow.
COMMODITY RATES ATTACHED.
Reply Brief of Washington Commercial
Organizations Filed.
Declaring that the commodity rates
and not the class rates between Washington
and points north and east are
being attacked, the reply brief of the
local commercial organizations wt|
made public at the interstate commerce
commission today. The brief Is submitted
on the part of the Retail Merchants'
Association, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Freight Audit and
Adjustment Company, and Is seeking
to have the commission order the railroads
to provide commodity rates to
Washington on the same number of articles
on which such rates apply to
Richmond.
The omission to publish a longer line
of commodity rates is the basis of the
entire complaint of the local merchants,
and they take the stand that goods can
he shipped from points north and east
through Washington to points south
rneaper man mey can nc anippca trom
the aarae points to Washington.
Y. W. H. A. Givej Lawn Fete.
Members of the Young Women's Hebrew
Association entertained many
friends at a lawn fete last night at
11th and P streets northwest, p.
Greene gave a demonstration of ventriloquism:
there was exhibition dancing
by little Goldie Kobbins and her
brother, Morris: Mrs. M. Abrams and
her daughter Udette of Boston sang
several duets; a prophecy on the members
of the Young Women's Hebrew
Association was read by H. B. Bachrach,
and refreshments were served
and there was general dancing.
Tanas. in 1114. mined 2.121.771 tons of
coal, valued at $9,132.4 Bt* |
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ALASKA MOVING PICTURES
AT CLEVELAND SCHOOL
E. B. Thompson Will Show Them at
the Free Entertainment of
Social Center.
?
E. B. Thompson, who was sent by the
United States bureau of education to
make moving pictures of Alaska for
the Panama-Pacific exposition, is to
show lantern slides of Alaskan scenery
mads on that trip as a feature attraction
at the free weekly entertainment
of the Margaret Wilson Social Center
rsf tie* Cnnv?r rievAlond RpVirvnl 8th i
and T streets northwest, tonight. This
entertainment is free to the children
and residents of the neighborhood.
Views of the native life among the
Eskimos and Aleutian Indians will be
followed by illustrations of the whaling,
fishing and particularly the great
salmon industry of Alaska. He will also
show picturesque scerves of snow-capped
mountains, of the inside passage,
gorges and glaciers and of mountains
with great wide seams of outcropping
coal.
Another attractive feature of the program
is to be a whistling duet of the
Barcarolle from the "Tales of Hoffman,"
by Carlisle Jackson and Theadore
Arbeley. There will be a number
of piano and vocal solos. A recitation
on "The Four-leaf Clover" is to
given by Marie Graffman.
The girls of the center in the cooking
classes were shown yesterday how
to make patties and serve an attractive
luncheon of crab salad and fruit
salad by Mrs. 8. A. Graff am.
Mrs. G. E. Oliver conducted her class
in canning and preserving Wednesday,
showing the girls and the mothers of
the neighborhood how to pickle and
preserve peaches.
ACTIOS WASTED OS STEAMEB.
Britain to Be Aiked to Expedite Application
for Change of Registry.
Secretary Lansing today instructed
Ambassador Page to ask the British
government to expedite action on the
application of the Albanian relief committee
of New York to change the
atearaer W. G. Cochrane from Canadian
to American registry.
The Cochrane, with a full cargo of
grain for Albanian famine sufferers, of
whom there are said to be 300,000 In
distress, is at New York and cannot
proceed until her registry is straightened
out.
PAY CLERKS COMMISSIONED.
Navy Department Announce* Appointment
and Warranting of Others '
At the Navy Department it was an- '
nounced that the following named chief *pay
clerks have been commissioned ^
from" July X: Edgar L. Cary, William e
Craig, Clarence C. Alger, Richard R. 1:
Bolles, Joseph A. Rebentlsch, Frank U.
Baasan, Walter D. Bollard, Edward W. v
Poore, Charles W. Charlton, John J. c
Gerlng, Nils B. Olsen, Helmer H. Kop- I1
pang, Thomas A. Culhane, Arthur W. X
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OAUVVVH, Aiwtui -uvbiv.u, riaua o-?.
Foley, Alephue M. Jones, Carroll F. I
Bennett, Edward R. Von Dressig, Jo- 1
seph Reay, Thomas M. Schonotala, *Frank
Hunt, James Gately, Dayton r
Fisher. Edward F. Delaney, George W.
Masterton.
The following Day clerks have been 1(
warranted from July 1: Herman W. r
Johnson, Orville D. Foutch, William H. n
Abbey, John H. Daniels, Theodore S. ,
Coulbourn, John M- Cornell, Floyd J.
Farber, Nathaniel E. Dlsbrow, James n
Fellls, Percy J. Hutohlson, Maurice S. 1
Hirshorn. Peter J. Penner, Alexander i,
C. Koelowskl. Alvah B. Can ham, George ,
W. Armstrong, Clarence B. Fuller, *,
Henry E. Brown, George C. Tasker, 0
Melvin E. Throneson, Herbert C. Lasslter,
Leslie R. Corbln, William C. Col- a
bert, Hugh F. Gallagher, Rose B- Dem- ?
ing, Ernest W. Paynter, Arthur D. Tur- v
nsr. William R- Ryan, Harry W. Orlder, *
Palmer J, McCloskey, Samuel B. Cald- ti
well. Eugene K. Brooks and Bert R. ?
Peoples. tl
The following acting pay clerks have .
been appointed from July 1: Charles r
Rudolph and Harry Lewson. a
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TO ASK GERMANY
ABOUTTHEORDUNA
Report Submitted by Collector
Malone Embraces Affidavit of
American Reaardina Attack.
The United States will make diplomatic
Inquiries of Germany regarding
the submarine attack on the Cunard
lner Orduna at a time when she was
pringlng a score of Americans home.
A report of an Investigation conductsd
by Customs Collector Malone at New
fork, presented today to the State Department,
embracing affidavits of officers,
crew and passengers on the liner,
:ontalns the sworn statement of at
east one American passenger that the
ship was attacked without warning.
All officials refused to discuss the report
or Its contents, but It Is know,*
hat State Department officials did not
'eel they could address Inquiries to
Germany on statements made by Britsh
passengers alone. Now, In posseslion
of statements by Americans, the
jnited States probably will ask the
Berlin foreign office for Its version of
he affair, and developments will depend
on the reply. *
Administration officials expressed the
lope today that the Cunard liner Oriuna,
which sailed from New York
yesterday, will have a safe passage to
Liverpool, especially for the reason
hat there are eight citisens of the
Jnited States included in her passenger
1st of 19a persona Increased interest
s taken In this voyage because of the
parrow escape from destruction by the
,-essel on her recent trin to New Vn,if
then it was alleged that she waa atacked
with torpedoes and shells by a
ierman submarine.
It is apprehended that the German
lavy will make another effort to inter
;epl liua vcbbci in oraer to prevent tbe
lelivery of the large quantity of muiltions
of war included in her cargo,
-.onaisting In part of 3.100 caae* of cart idgea,
revolvers and Infantry equipnent.
Teat of Germany's Policy.
In one quarter today, It was estimated
hat the voyage of tbe Urduna may put
o a practical test the policy of the
lerman government with respect to the
Vaahington insistence of non-lnterferuce
with Americans traveling on a beligerent
ship on the high seas.
Because of the Important lsaues inolved
in that particular question, offl;ials
are inclined to deplore the great
ubllcity which has attended the departure
of the vessel from New York
.nd the character of her cargo, on the
ground that such Information is likely
o make the vessel a special target of
ierman naval operations.
iollector Malone Reports of Orduna.
Dudley Field Malone, custom* colsctor
at New York, today presented a
eport of his investigations of the Uerlan
submarine attack on the Cunard
Iner Orduna to the Treasury Depart- 1
j#nt and conferred with Secretary '
ansing Later he conferred with Pres- 1
lent Wilson at the White House. Mr* (
lalone said 1)9 did not divcuss the Or- 1
una ca?e with the President.
Mr. Malone'a report Included affidavits
nd statements by officers, crew and
aseenger of the liner, which carried a
core of Americana, detailing the at. 1
licit, which, they say. came without l
/arnlng, first by a torpedo which missed 1
he ship oy ten feet, and than by shells 1
rem a deck gun on the submarine, ]
one of wbleb hit the Orduna, <
AIMS 10 SETTLE
PATRONAGE FIGHT
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President Makes First Appointments
to Federal
Places in Nebraska.
DIVIDED EVENLY BETWEEN
BRYAN AND HITCHCOCK
Collectors of Customs and Internal
Revenue, U. S. Marshal and TJ. S.
Attorney Named for That State.
President Wilson today sought to settle
the long-standing Nebraska patronage
row between W. J. Bryan and
ociiaiur niicncocK oy maKin; mo moi.
appointments to important federal positions
in that state. He announced the
following:
To be collector of customs for Nebraska.
Charles W. McCune of Omaha;
collector of internal revenue. George
L. Loomis of Freemont; United States
marshal. Thomas J. Flynn of Omaha,
and United States attorney, Thomas S.
Allen of Lincoln.
No statement regarding the appointments
could be obtained at the White
House, but it is understood that the
patronage is split evenly between the
two democratic statesmen. Mr. McCune
is a follower of Senator Hitchcock;
Mr. Loomis is a Bryan man. Mr.
Flynn is for Hitchcock and Mr. Allen
is a brother-in-law of Mr. Bryan.
Doubt Over Any Agreement.
There was serious doubt among well
posted Nebraskans today whether the
appointments represent an agreement
between Mr. Bryan and Senator Hitchcock,
as the latter is known to have
strong objections to Thomas S. Allen,
the brother-in-law of the former Secretary
of State and may oppose his nomination
in the Senate. On the other
hand, it is suggested that as the President
wishes to bring about harmony in
Nebraska he may have succeeded in
obtaining an understanding that all of
the appointments would be confirmed
when sent to the Senate.
If Senator Hitchcock should confirm
his own friends and stand out against
Mr. Bryan's friends, the political difficulties
in Nebraska would be about as
great as before.
Mr. Hitchcock's opposition to Mr. Allen
is declared to have been that the
Lincoln lawyer has always opposed Mr.
Hitchcock and said harsh things against
him on all possible occasions.
Republicans Held on for Some Time.
The Wilson administration has been In
office nearly two and a half years and
the federal positions filled today are the
first important ones that democrats have
had a chance to look in on. Mr. Bryan
and Senator Hitchcock have been at loggerheads
during all the time and the
President hesitated to widen the breach
between them and their friends in Nebraska
by making appointments.
Republicans have continued to hold
the fat jobs and enjoy the democratic
row. Should some of today's predictions
prove true the row is by no
means settled.
It was also suggested today that as
Mr. Bryan is no longer connected with
the administration the President feels
bound to give some sort of recognition
to Senator Hitchcock, who was
one of the principal stumbling blocks
in the last session of Congress to
democratic legislation.
The President signed the commissions
of a large number of postmasters, including
two in Nebraska?F. H. Marnell,
at Nebraska City, and John J.
Adams, Jr., at Crawford.
BENALLA ARRIVES IN PORT.
Steamship Still Has Smoke Issuing
From Her Hold.
DURBAN, Africa, July 23, via London.?The
Peninsular and Oriental Line
steamship Benalla, on which Are broke
out on her way through the Indian
nr.i>an from T.nnrinn fnr Australia with
800 emigrants on board, arrived here
today with smoke still issuing from
her hold.
A dispatch -from Durban last night
said that the crew of the Benalla had
succeeded in getting the flames under
control, ana tn&t sne was oeing escorted
to Durban by the steamer Otaki.
SAY STILLnroS HAS PISTOL.
Former Public Printer Arrested, But
Is Beleased on Collateral.
Charles A. Stlllings, who was Public
Printer In the Roosevelt administration
and now is president of the National
Capital Life Insurance Company, was
arrested yesterday afternoon on a
char re of carrying: a concealed weapon.
Trial of the charre against Mr. Stllllnga
was postponed In the United
States branch of the Police Court today
until Tuesday. Assistant United States
Attorney Ralph Given stated an arrangement
had been made through the
office of the corporation counsel for the
postponment of the trial. Sir. Stllllngs
Is at liberty on J50 which be deposited >
at police headquarters for his Appearance
at trial. 1
Detectives O'Dea and Boyle were In, <
the Bond building yesterday aftternoon i
when they were informed of some ]
trouble on the sixth floor. Detective i
O'Dea overtook Mr. Stilllngs and de- \
clares he found a revolver In his pocket. ,
wnetner or nor jar. Biinings was one of
tha parties who are alleged to have
had some trouble In the building la not
known.
ROTHSCHILD IS ARRAIGNED.
Lawyer Pleads Hot Guilty to Five
Charges of Forgery.
David Rothschild, member of the bar,
pleaded not guilty today when arraigned
before Chief Justice Covington
In Criminal Division 1, on Ave charges
of forgery. Attorney A. L. Newmyer,
for the prisoner, secured permission of '
the court to withdraw the plea within *
three days and file a demurrer or motion
to quash, If so advised.
United States Attorney Laskey gave
notice that he would call the case for ]
trial nest Wednesday in the event that
no demurrer was filed, or that it should
be overruled.
Rothschild suddenly disappeared Sep- 1
< 1 lost and ura a nnt hserd nf a
lemuci * w* v
until his arrest about two months ago
at Toledo. Ohio. i
Plan* inspection mp west. c
Dr. E. Lester Jones, superintendent t
>f the coast and geodetic survey, ex- t
jects to leave here August 6 (or points A
n the west. He will make Inspections s
>f the survey's stations throughout the
vest, and will be gone about two e
seeks. '
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Soon to Begin Surrey Work. c
The coast survey steamer Isis, recent- *
y acquired, ie now at the Norfolk navy
rard being fitted out with surveying ,
nstruments and supplies for a long j|
/oyage. She will take up her first sur- It
rey work next week, looking for a reef it
n the vlelnlty of Fishers Island, near 6
Ape Henry. J<
nnminn ri rnrnm I
luiuiMUUttiitni
TO FIGHlFi BONDS
Notifies Utilities Commission .
Appeal Will Be Madato
the Courts. /"
DISCRIMINATION MADE,
ELECTRIC OFFICIALS-SAY
Cite Initanoet Said ,
Their Intentions "Where Permiscion
Was Granted.
The Potomac BHotrto Fower Company
served notice on the public utilities
commission today that unless the
commission authorised the lssuanee of
1495.000 worth of bonds applied for
several months ago, and partly prohibited
by the rommlsalon, the company
would make an appeal to the
courts. The commission, April 5.
made an order allowing the Potomac
Electric Power Company to Issu*
$79,500 general improvement ? per cen?#
debenture bonds and disapproved th*
Issue of the balance of the proposed ?
$495,000 Issue on the ground that only
$79,000 Is necessary for "certain extensions,
additions, betterments. Improvements
and for reimbursement of
funds expended for these purposes
The commission said at that time also
that the expenditure of all the money
asked for by the sale of bonds was not
reasonably chargeable In whple or in
nart in nnarotlnir ? - i~
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As a third reason the commission then
stated "that certain information which
the commission will take into consideration
In acting on the application
for the certificate of authority for the
issue and sale of the remaining bonds. *
nrrwely, $416,000, will not be in the
hands of the commission before the
completion of the valuation and investigation
of the said Potomac Electric
Power Company now in progress."
The electric company in its notice today
said plainly that the commission
was wrong; that the money was to be
spent for legitimate purposes, and that
the company is going to appeal to
court unless the former order is
changed.
Electric Company's Position.
"The only reasons assigned for your
failure to approve or authorize the
issuance and sale of bonds," says the
protest, "are because 'certain* information
which the commission would
take into consideration In acting on *
said application would be in the hands
of the commission when the valuation
and investigation of this company,
then in progress, was completed, and
which, you also stated, would be completed
within a few months from said
date, and that the expenditures were
not made necessary by express order of
Congress or your commission.
"It is respectfully urged that neither
of these reasons is sufficient or valid
In law."
The Potomac Electric Power Companyspecifies
several reasons as grounds of
objection. Among them are:
"1. That it cannot be questioned that
all the money is necessary for capital *
account, extensions, additions, better- *
ments and improvements.
"2. Because notwithstanding the lapse
of more than the few months mentioned
by the commission, the valuation
of the properties of this company has
not been completed and there is no assurance
that it may be expected.'
"3. Your refusal to approve the issue
of bonds aforesaid disregards precedents
heretofore established by you in
approving the issue of bonds of this
and other utilities operating within the i
District of Columbia and discriminates
against this company.'*
Alleges Discrimination.
Sever** orders are listed as examples
of the alleged discrimination. One of
them is the order of February 18, 1914,
whereby the Capital Traction Company *
was allowed to issue (250,000 of bonds
to reimburse Its treasury for past capital
expenditures. Another was an authorisation
for a six-hundred-thousanddollar
issue of Washington Gas Light
Company bonds to repay floating indebtednesses.
The letter also claims that the val
uation or tne company naa no relation
to the question of legitimacy or the
necessity for the capital expenditures
represented by the items for which
authority was asked for the issue and
sale of bonds.
C. E. WOODSON DENIES >
WIFE'S CRUELTY CHARGES
Declares Be la Willing to Support
Her?Ordered to Fay S40
a Booth.
Charles E. Woodson, through attorneys
A. Deftwlch Sinclair and Walter
B. Guy, today Died an anawsr In the
Supreme Court of the District to the
ult recently brought against blm by
Helen T. Woodson, hie wife, asking
[or a limited divorce, upon the ground
at cruelty.
In his answer Mr. Woodson emphat- '
leally denies eaeh and all at the aete
it cruelty and mleeonduet charged
i gainst him. and acta forth that the
plaintiff haa not traated hire aa a wife I
should. Ha luforma tha court that I
:hey Uv?d happily 'ogether for thtrteen H
aontha after their marriage, April >?, H
1912; but he charged that, after the H
paaaage of theae thirteen montha of H
Tiatrlreonlal bllea the plaintiff wrong- H
eellmr stagdrtdf) hllW. fin IfiVfiR dlffaffiBt H
iccastone, durine a period of eighteen I
nonths. I
Mr. Woodson states that, notwtth-' I
itandlng the plalntlff'a repeated do- I
lertlons of blm, be Is willing to provide I
ind maintain for her a comfortable
lome, If she will return to him. Mr.
bVoodson is an Inspector In the en
tlneer department of the District gov- H
irnment. H
Chief Juetlce Covington today ordered
he defendant to pay temporary allt
nony of ftO per month. H
TEY TO END DOCK STRIKE I
Longshoremen and IT. S. Arbitrator I
See Clyde Line Preiident. I
NEW YORK, July ??.?Michael J I
teagan of the state board of arbltra- H
ion of the Department of Labor, to- H
tether with six representatives of th?' H
ongshoremen on strike here, held a H
inference today with H. H. Raymond H
^resident of the Clyde Steamship Com. I
any. to see if some agreement as to H
ho men'a demands could be reached. H
it present there are about 1,100 long- H
horemen on otrlko. H
The demands of the men are for 33 H
ents an hour for day work, 00 eeate
-- Ims and 60 cants for flunriavi
nd holiday*. Tha praaant acala la SO
enta an hour for day work, and Si
a- an kAiir frtr AV?rtim* Kunrfavi H
nd holiday*. H
A romance which ?'? itagad partly H
i Sydnay, Auatralia. partly in Brook
rn and partly in Baltimore reached
a climax in Flatbiiah, N T.. what
ilaa May Btevena. daughter of Squlra H
tavaaa of riatbuah. waa married to
ohn D. Ftibar of BlItUBOW.