prices, to fuel, wheat, flour, meal, beans
and potatoes.
A new section, was adopted authori*-*
? int? requisitioning for military of ptfb
, lie purposes, of any factory, packing
. house, mine, pipe line or other plant
producing the designated necessaries.
Provision for just compensation is in
cluded.
The Senate provision requiring em
ployes of the food administration to
he appointed under civil service rules
'was eliminated.
Chairman Lever of the House agri
culture committee also conferred with the
President and la^er .conferred with Re
publican Leader Mann, who is expected to
renew his light for the congressional com
mittee despite the fact that many re
publicans are opposed to it.
SITUATION STILL GRAVE,
EMBASSY ADVICES SAY
Strong- Measures Being Taken to Es
tablish Discipline on the
Russian Front.
Official dispatches to the Russian
embassy today said the military situa
tion on the pastern front continued
? serious and that the Galician army
still was withdrawing.
Strong measures are being taken to
prevent desertion and re-establish dis
cipline. A military censorship has
been established, under control of the
minister of the interior, in agreement
with the minister of war. The social
ist ministers representing the council
of workmen and soldiers' delegates are
said also not to be subordinate to the
council, but to be free to make what
ever divisions their judgment dictates.
The Rumanian successes are reported j
as continuing under a verj? slow and ;
cautious advance, to assure not com- j
promising, their success by too great j
sneed. The presence of the German |
emperor on the front is taken to indi- i
rate a purpose to push the German of
fensive as far as possible.
OVERCOME BY THE FEAR
OF LOSING GRANDCHILD
Mrs. Alice Dixon Collapses During
Court Contest for Custody of
Little Girl.
Mrs. Alice Dixon, 463 F street south
west. collapsed in Chief Justice Cov
ington's court today when she feared
?he might lose the custody of her
grandchild, Louisa May Devlin, who
has resided with her since the child's
birth. Mrs. Dixon was removed from
the courtroom and an ambulance from
Emergency Hospital summoned. She
was taken to the hospital. Hearing of
the case was continued until tomorrow.
Mrs. John Devlin, mother 'of the
child, who has remarried, is seeking
the custody of her daughter in habeas
corpus proceedings.
The grandmother asserts that the
mother is not a proper person to have
the custody nf the child, as she h&s
shown little affection for it. Once when
Louisa was three years old, the grand
mother says, the mother took her to her
; house, but the child was unhappy and
,! Cried so that Mrs. Dixon had to go
after her the same day. She and her
. husband are a ttached to the little one,
the grandmotner asserts, desire to re
? tain her with them and will willingly
adopt her.
Attorney George Francis Williams
appears for the grandmother. Attor
neys Millan <& Smith represent the
mothei\
HORACE KEELER MISSING
FROM PARENTAL HOME
Nine-Year-Old Boy It Bepdrted to
Have Been Last Seen at Glen
Echo Sunday Night. "
Horace Keeler. nine years old, bare
headed and with but little cash in his
pockets, Saturday morning left his
.. home at 134 11th street southeast and
failed to return. Last night the po
lice of the fifth precinct instituted
search for hfm and it was learned that
the boy had been seen at Glen Echo
at late as 9 o'clock last night. A com
panion who was with him returned
. home.
Today the boy's father went to Glen
Kcho and instituted search there for
him. He was satisfied that his missing
son was there last night. Persons em
ployed at Glen Echo explained to Mr. j
K'-<-ler that it was a common occur- ;
rence for boy* to appeal to them for
rar fare home or to make efforts to
enjoy the concessions without having
to pay for their enjoyment,
A boy answering the description of
young Keelor last night appeared at
ihe ticket office of the gravity railway,
put his hand in his pocket and asked
for a ticket. He said he had lost his
last nickel and searched about the
ground for it, but did not find it.
"That was the last time he attracted
notice." his fa.ther was told by one of
the employes, and it was suggested
that he probably would be on hand to
night when the music started.
WANTS SAMMIES IN RUSSIA. |
Gen. Yassukovich Says 100.00Q |
Would Be Fatal to Germany.
P \N FRANCISCO, July ?0.?The pres- j
encc of American troops on the eastern j
front would be fatal to Germany, says |
Gen. M:'bei Yassukovlch, chief of a Rus
sian military commission, who was here j
todj'y.
"If America will send 100,000 men to j
Russia she will furnish an army that will !
be the nucleus of a Russian army of a
million men that may be grouped with j
1. tal results to Germany," declared Gen.
Yassukovich.
"Germany will not be able to face such j
i\ i -rnbinatlon in the eastern theater
while l?'ranre. Great Britain and America
press her in the west. There is no doubt
that splendid Russian armies of a million
:,i? n each, organized, stiffened and en
<our?geu by the presence of your troops,
can be built up on the foundation of each
1 ? ? -'0 Americans sent to our front."
Gen. Yassukovich is accompanied by a
s'aff of four officers and a secretary. He
is to go to Washington.
TO MAKE LONG STAY IN RUSSIA.
Charles R. Crane Resigns As Treas
urer of American Committee.
NEW YORK, July 3n.?Charles R.
Crane. now in Russia as a member of
the Root commission, has resigned from
the treasure:ship of the American com
mittee for Armenian and Syrian relief,
it was announced by the committee
here today. He has been succeeded by
Cleveland TT Dodge.
.Mr. '"rane. whose home Is in Chicago,
and who was appointed American min
ister to China in 1905, but resigned be
for be assumed his dutuies, will make a
long stay in Russia with his duties on
the commission, the relief committee
staterf".
MAKES RESCUE; THEN DIES.
Charles H May Succumbs After
Saving Woman From Drowning.
I'ATKHSON, N. July SI0.?Charles H
May. retired ?i!K and cotton manufac
turer of this city, died suddenly in his
motor boat la to last night after he had
rescued Miss Kdith Schofield. daughter, of
Krede rick J. Schofield, .silk manufacturer,
who was one of it party nf fou* clinging
ti> an.overturned motor bruit in the 9town
whlp#?d waters of Greenwood 1/ike.
Mr4, rfchofleld, Miss Florence Hall and
Mrs.:Isaac Hecshall. all of Paterson. were
rescued by deck hand* of the steamer
>1 on? lair.
? Mtt May Was seventy years ?Id. He
lea\9s a wife and two children.
t
TEUTON PEACE8ID
IS TAKENLIGHTLY
British See No Hope While
Enemy Clings to Conquered
Lands.
THINK DELAY CHIEF OBJECT
By tlif Associated Frew.
LONDON, July 30.?Statements by Dr. I
Michaelis, German imperial chancellor, ]
j and Count Czernln, the Austro-Hun
garian foreign minister, which are re
garded here as obviously made in collu- !
sion, dominate the news columns of the |
morning papers. They are generally j
treated editorially as a sign of weak
ness, while the absence of reference to
, the future of Belgium and Serbia is
considered to exclude all credence in
the desire for peace by understanding.
Austro-German peace talk, unless ac
! ooiYipanied by an undertaking to evacu
ate and restore conquered territories, is
declared merely to be aimed at delay
; ing America's preparations for war.
Ilerr Michael!*' accusations against
France are dismissed by some commen
tators as best left for refutation by
French allies, but discussed by others,
one of which says the story is too thin
even for the Germans to believe.
Would State War Aims.
The Daily News, liowe.ver, maintains
? hat although the chancellor's state
ments are valueless as evidence, thcJy
cannot be left unanswered, and Insists
that a statement of war alms to be.
formulated at the coming conference of
allies must constitute an explicit dis
avowal of all thought of conquest for
conquest's sake. Tne paper denounces
the "ignorance or the folly of Sir Ed
ward Carson's threat to drive Germany
behind the. Rhine," which, it says, has
given Herr Michaelis a weapon which
h^ was swift to use.
"It is in ttae power of the allies to
render the ewapon innocuous, even turn
ing it against himself, but the repudia
tion of his charge must come quickly
and in a form leaving no loophole for
misinterpretation."
German Soil Not Wanted.
The Chronicle proclaims Its belief
that it would be unwise for the allies
to deprive Germany of genuine Ger
man soil. It points out that while the
chancellor talks of vast territorial
modifications, he mentions only the 8aar
valley, and it suggests that France may
be aiming to restore the old German
frontier of Lorraine, which would in
volve "a little strip on the German side
of from Ave to fifteen miles."
If France desired this for strategic
reasons the Chronicle would not say
she necessarUx had the right, but "it
would be an exceedingly small affair,
not comparable for an instant to Ger
many's Beisure of two large provinces
in 1871. It must be remembered, too,
that after losing some millions in killed
and wounded in a war forced upon her
and wherein she has borne the brunt
of battle for liberty throughout Europe,
France has the right to make excep
tional claims for her future security
such as Germany had not in 1871, and
ho other state, unless Belgium would
have, today.
British "War Will" Besented.
BERLIN, Saturday, July 88, via Lon
don, July 30.?Commenting on the ad
dresses made In the house of commons
July 26 by ex-Premier Asqulth and A.
Bonar Law. chancellor of the exchequer,
in which they dealt with the peace
resolution adopted by the German
reichstag, Vorwaerts says:
"Between the unqualified and sincere
love of peace Of James MacDonald, so
cialist and labor member Of the house
of commons, and the unconditional war
? will of the conservative, Bonar Law,
lies the somewhat qualified war will of
the former liberal premier, Asqulth.
The latter, it would seem, Is ready for
peace, provided Germany restores the
independence of Belgium. He also prob
ably would be ready to discuss the
question of Belgian indemnity. With a
government, however, which Is animat
ed by the spirit of Bonar Law and Sir
Edward Carson, the only peace possible
would be one of abject surrender.
"GSorge J. Wardle, chairman of the
British labor party, refers to Asqulth,
but talks like Bonar Law. He demapds
of the German people that It should
force its government to accept a peace
dictated by a foe who Is animated by
lust of conquest. 8uch force, however,
the German nation must leave to the
entente armies, and It wlll*contihue to
oppose it, as has been done before.
"If Chairman Wardle Is of the opiln
ion that he is not noticing among the
German majority socialists a epirlt of
repentance we would reply that the
German workingman would only ex
perience repentance if he left his coun
try in the lurch in the face of a ten
fold foe. The worklngmen haven't j
done so and do not propose to do so." |
Sought Accord in Belgium.
The Vossische Zeitung says: 4 "The
fact that Germany desired to arrive at
an understanding with England re
garding Belgian neutrality before the
outbreak of the war and that England
made such an understanding impossi
ble would seem to be unknown to
Chanoellor Bonar Law and Mr. A?
quith, who was a war premier and at
times t*eems to have forgotten thia cir
cumstance.
"The English government now dis
putes the power and authority of the
j Gorman reichstag and its ability to
Five the nation ? politics official direc
tion. only one answer in possible in
the face of such an attempt: The rep
! resentatives of the German people must
! demonstrate that they are in posses
sion of this disputed authority and are
i able to exercise it. Tf the German peo
ple succeed jn convincing continental
( it.urope of this fact then tne chief Ene
I lish war aim will have been disposed
| OX.
Senators Divided in Views
on Teutonic Interviews
on Possibilities of Peace j
The discussion of peace possibilities
by the (jcrman chancellor and the for- '
el*n minister of Austro-Hungary '
published today, was received by sen- '
ators with considerable difference of '
opinion as to what was meant and as '
to what might be its results. ? I
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts gave I
it as his opinion that the discussion I
of such peace tsrms as indicated in the !
statements from Berlin and Vienna was i
"put out with a purpose to divide if'
possible, sentiment in the United States '
and the countries of the allies" j
"A j>eace on any such terms," said Sen- !
ator I/odge, "would be In effect peace fori
Germany on victorious terms?not such '
terms as they had hoped for, of course !
but, nevertheless, they would be regarded '
| as victorious terms Such a peace would
i result in the world s remaining an armed
' camp for years, at any ratv until the next
w:ir had come and been fought out.
My opinion is that the German govern
ment does not want to face another win
ter of war and will do all It can to bring
about a peace on Its own terms "
Senator Smith of Georgia said that he
believed Germany was face to face with
industrial collapse, and that undoubtedlv
the ijerman government was striving to
bring about a. peace that would be as fa
vorable as possible to it.
"Like a voice from the winderness "
was the comment of Senator Smith of
Michigan, Oil the statements of the
German and Austrian officials.
"If there la to b ea discussion of peace
terms eventually," said Senator Smith
"then why not now? Why wait until a
million more meh have been killed''
"J believe that the entrance of 'the
United States into the war and the fact
that this country la determined to carry
on the war to a successful conclusion
has brought the Germans to the belief
that they Must obtain peace before it is
too late."
Senator Smith said that he did not be
lieve that the United States would
agree to peace proposals that would
take large pieces of territory from (Mr
many a ad, Austria lot the benefit of
other European natives. This country,
be said, was not at war to give other na
tions added territory, nor to take any for
herself, lie said he believed the Germans
would yield Alsace-Lorraine to the French
eventually.
PLAN TO KEEP BELGIUM
POPULAR WITH GERMANS
Cannot Be Handed Back to England
and France, Lokal Anzeiger
Asserts.
COPENHAGEN, July 30.?The Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger, commenting on the re
cent proceedings in the British house of
commons, says:
"Mr. Asquith's inquiry as to whether
we were ready to restore Belgium's full
freedom can only be meant as a rhe
torical question, for Mr. Asquith must
know that, aside from a handful of
dreamers, nobody thinks of handing
Belgium again to England and France."
The Catholic organ, the Cologne Volks.
Zeitung, attempts to prove that the re
tention of Belgium and the annexation
of regions in the east are Indispensable
to that protection of the German fron
tiers which Chancellor Michaelis speci
fied.
The Tageszeitung adopts this conten
tion enthusiastically. Some of the radi
cal newspapers, on the other hand, seek
to give the impression that the govern
ment is so bound by the reichstag reso
lution that the entente allies have only
to propose peace without annexations
or indemnities to obtain it.
PEACE IN A FEW HOURS.
German Clerical Leader Thinks He
Could Bring It About.
LONDON, July 30.?According to a
Reuter dispatch from Zurich, Mathias
Erzberger, one of the leaders of the
clerical center in the German reichstag,
who has Just arrived there, declared to
the Zuricher Nachrichten:
"If 1 could talk with Lloyd George
(the British prime minister) or Mr.
Balfour (British foreign secretary) we
could in a few hours reach an under
standing which would enable official
peace negotiations to commence."
Herr Erzberger, who has taken a
prominent part with respect to peace
during the last months, asserts that Dr.
Michaelis, the imperial German chan
cellor, is a peace chancellor.
RAILROAD MEN CONTER.
Meeting With Secretary Wilson to
Clear Up Disputes.
Secretary Wilson is sitting as one of
the members of the conference being
held today at the Labor Department to
clear up the situation which threatens
to affect 42,000 men, directly and in
directly, employed on fourteen rail
roads of the southeastern states.
Managers of the fourteen roads, head
ed by John R. Gould, superintendent of
motor power of the Southern railway,
and six representatives of the men,
headed by A. D. Wharton of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, today are
thrashing; out demands as to wages and
hours of labor.
After six months' conference in this
city, representatives of the roads and
the employes broke off relations, and
eight days ago John A. Moflitt, con
ciliator of the Labor Department, was
appointed by Secretary Wilson to brlfig
the conferees together .again. This he
did, and settled some differences, but
the conferees "struck" again, and ask
that Secretary Wilson himself sit as
mediator.
Conditions seemed favorable today
for the settlement of the controversy
through the mediation of the Secre
tary of Labor. It is probable that the
conference will extend several days.
ENTRY OF U. S. INTO WAR
GREAT EVENT FOR WORLD
Assures Winning Complete Victory
for Democracy, Sir Edward
Carson* Asserts.
LONDON. July 30.?Confidence that
Russia once more will be brought into
effective co-operation with the entente
allies, and that America will in good
j time give "material aid of overwhelm
j ing power which will make an end of
all doubts as to the completeness of
i victory by the allies" was expressed by
I Hir Edward Carson, minister without
portfolio, in a statement to the As?o
! elated Press in behalf of the British
| war cabinet, of which he is a member.
! Sir Edward also voiced the determina
j tlon of Great Britain "to see this thing
| through until we have attained the
aims we proclaimed at th*? beginning."
"The momentous decision of the
United States that no alternative re
mained to her but to take up arms
j Against Germany," he said, "Is one of
the greatest events in the history of
I the worW. Previous to taking it she
! ha<f proved by a long course of pa
' tient statesmanship how deeply seat
ed was her abhorrence of war and her
idealism in the conduct of international
affairs. Nothing but persistent and
openly avowed adoption by Germany of
a policy of public crime and flagrant
violation of neutral rights would have
driven America into the war.
"The utterances Of President Wilson
have nobly vindicated the moral basis
of the allianc# against Germany and
we have full confidence that America's
moral support will, in good time, be
backed by material aid of overwhelm
in* power whioh will make an end of
all doubts as to the completenees of
the victory attainable by the allies."
Washington Portrait Is Stolen.
An oil painting of George Washington
opening a session of a Masonic body, the
property of Mra. Mary I,ockett, Fort Myer,
Va., disappeared about four weeks ago
while Mrs. Lockett's furniture was being
moved from 738 Sth street to the vicinity
of the military reservation, in her com
plaint to the police. Mrs. Lockett said she
had no idea as to the value of the paint
ing. A stranger who saw It the day she
was moving, she stated, wanted to pur
chase It. She did not care t j sail, aha
told him, and aha thinks It WW stolen that
das.
NEW GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA
INDICATES PROMISE TO REICHSTAG
Makes Evident Pledges of New Activity by Hin
denburg?Efforts Futile as Long as
Kerensky Has Army Left.
BY BENE ARCOS.
(Special Cablegram to The St?r and
Chicago Daily Xefvs.)
(Copyright, 3917, by the Chicago liaily New?
Company.)
BERN, Switzerland, July 30.?It. ap
pears more and more certain that Field
Marshal von Hindenburg and Gen.
Ludendorff made important promises to
the representatives of the reichstag at
the last conference In Berlin. Recent
events in Russia enlighten us as to the
nature of these promises. The German
counter offensive in Galicia was
curiously coincident with the tempest
let loose In Petrograd by Germany's
agents.
Hindenburg doubtless counted more
j on the internul upheaval in Russia than
on the success of his armies. It is ad
mitted that the Austro-Germans even
after the recapture of Brody and
Tarnopol -will still have a sufficient
number of Russian soldiers in front of
them to keep them busy. If the Petro
grad Maximalists had succeeded in
DR. WOODWARD REPLIES
TO ATTORNEY O'BRIEN
Health Officer Challenges Bight of
Lawyer to Speak for Dairymen
of Washington.
Challenging the right of Matthew E.
O'Brien to speak for Washington dairy
men as a class, and asserting that there
is no evidence to show that existing
regulations are responsible for in
creased prices of milk. Health Officer
William C. Woodward today replied to
criticisms voiced by Mr. O'Brien in a
statement published Saturday In The
Star.
"In a statement recently given to the
press by Mr. O'Brien," said Dr. Wood
ward, "it was made to appear that Mr.
I O'Brien was 'attorney for the dairy
| men'; that the entire local milk situ
ation would be solved in so far as the
sale of unsound and unwholesome milk
i was concermd by the seizure and con
demnation of milk by warrants from
| the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, and that the regulations of
! this District to procure the purity of
I its milk Supply had resulted in an in
crease in the price of milk.
"Mr. O'Brien has no right to speak
for the dairymen, as a whole, who pro
duce nnd sell milk in and for the Dis
trict of Columbia. While I have no
means of knowing just whom Mr.
O'Brien represents, and Mr. O'Brien ap
parently does not care to disclose that
information, I doubt if his clients num
ber one in thirty of the persons en
gaged In the milk business. As a mat
ter of fact, only a very small number
of the persons engaged have had oc
casion to seek Mr. O'Brien'a legal serv
ices.
Says Course Is Impracticable.
"The seizure and condemnation of
milk on the basis of warrants issued
by the Supreme t'ourt of the District of
Columbia, facetiously proposed by Mr.
O'Brien, is impracticable In so far as re
lates to filthy and decomposed milk un
less the milk Is so palpably dirty or
sour as to be unsalable. No warrant
for the seizure of milk could be ob
tained from the coUrt except upon the
basis of evidence showing its filthy and
decomposed character. To obtain such
evidence by ordinary laboratory meth- |
ods would require at least twenty-four
hours and in some cases longer and the
issue of the warrant would have to
come after that.
"I'nder such circumstances, between
the time of the taking of a sample of
milk and the issue of a warrant by the
Supreme Court for its seiaure. the milk
would be mixed with the general milk
supply of the dealer who had received
it. and ordinarily would have been not
only sold, but actually consumed.
"The detection by laboratory tests of
typhoid and diphtheria bacilli In milk,
and the germ that causes septic sore
throat, is impracticable, and the detec
tion of tuberculosis bacilli is extremely i
difficult and requires weeks of investi
gation. Against these the inspection of
the dairy farm and of the dairy afford
a necessary element of control, but it
is to such inspection that Mr. O'Brien's
clients moBt seriously object.
"There is no evidence to show that
any of the milk regulations in force In
this District have ever increased the
price of milk here. Washington was a
high-priced milk market long befort
such regulations were adopted, and It
is today relatively no higher than It
was before the adoption of such regu
lations. It may be asked, too, why it
Is, If It Is the milk regulations that
increase the price, that milk that is
brought In in defiance of every such
regulation is still sold at as high a price
us IsFtasked by the dealers who are fur
nishing strictly regulation milk.
"If Mr. O'Brien s contention is cor
rect the least that can be asked is
that the dealers who bring into the
city thousands of gallons of milk from
farms and establishments that have
been put to no possible expense by
reason of District regulations, share
with their consumers the financial ben
efit which they as milk distributors are
deriving."
Mayor Mitchel to Run Again.
NEW YORK. July JO.?Mayor Mltch?l
will becqme a candidate to succeed him
self as the city's chief executive for the
next four years. In a letter today from
Upper Saranac Lake, N. Y? to William
Hamlin Childs, chairman of the execu
tive committee of the fusion committee,
he accepted th? designation tor mayor
in. the September primaries,
i
overthrowing: the provisional Russian
government a great step would have
been made toward a separate peace
with Russia.
It is affirmed here that a separate
peace Is more than ever discounted in
Germany. Figuring in the recent fa
mous promises made to the representa
tives of the relchstag explains why the
defeat of the Maximalists is much more
serious for Germany than the Austro
German victory in Gallcla Is for the
Russians. One hundred German vic
tories over disorganized and betrayed
Russia if they do not lead to a definite
victory will meaft but so many defeats
for Get-many, who is uselessly wearing
herself out in pursuit of a chimera. The
only victory which can save Germany
is on the western front, and such a vic
tory is growing more and more im
probable. So long as the Russians hold
from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 Austro-Ger
mans on the eastern front the hypothe
sis of any German success of vital ib
portance In France cannot be consid
ered.
RED CROSS NEEDS ALL
LINENS WOMEN CAN GIVE
District Chapter Can Use Unlimited
Supplies of Pajamas, Bed Cloth
ing and Towels.
All the pajamas, bed linen and towels
that the thousands of woman workers
can supply to the,District Chapter of
the Red Cross are needed. This state
ment was made today by officials in
charge of supplies for the District
Chapter to answer a request that The
Star had received for such informa
tion from the federated clubwomen of
Montgomery county, Md., and other
large auxiliaries which are anxious to
make just what warments and Sup
plies are most urgently needed.
The various Red Cross classes In first
aid, dietetics, home care of the. sick,
etc., are being moved this week from
the District Chapter headquarters in
the WadsWorth House. 1X01 Massachu
setts avenue, to the auxiliary house at
170H I street, which was given for Red
Cross use by Howe Totten. New Red
Cross classes are being organised un
der the general direction of Miss Anna
J. Greenlees.
Postmaster General Burleson advised
the Red Cross finance committee today,
through Chief Clerk Ruskin McArdle,
of a contribution of $1,410.35 from the
employes of the United States Post
Office Department in Washington, ex
clusive of the field employes of the
postal service. Mr. McArdle states that
this amount was all collected prior to
Red Cross week, and that many of the
department employes gave additional
amounts through various agencies dur
ing that week.
J. H. Marshall, $50; Mrs. Nellie H.
Crocker, $20; Grant F. Chase, $5;
Klisha M. Friedman, $2: John J. Rother
mel, $8.50; May R. Kemp, $1 a month;
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sykes, $2; Miss
Frances Moore, $1; Mrs. Fannie Bur
re.ll, $1; Miss Kdith Burrell, $1.
Red Cross dividends?United States
Steel Corporation: Archibald McLach
len, $50; Miss l*aura S. Converse, $22;
Fred G. Coldren, $26. Kennecott Cop
per Corporation; John Eissler, $3.60;
Clarence Goldsmith, $1; Randall Hag
her, 60 cents; Dr. James Dudley Morgan.
$1; International Nickel Company, Na
tional Vaccine and Antitoxin Institute,
$6.25; American Smelting and Refining
Company, Mrs. May C. Baker, $16; Na
tional I^ead Company, F. R. Sparks. $2;
Nevada Consolidated Copper Company,
Cora B. Taylor, $y.
JAM SENT TO HOSPITAL.
100 Glasses Presented to Fort Myer
Institution by Red Cross.
The Fort Myer Hospital Was the
recipient Saturday of 100 glasses of Jel
lies and jams which have been pre
pared by the organization of women
which Mrs. Allyn'K. Capron, widow of
Capt. ('apron of the army, has recently
perfected under the auspices of the
Red Cross. Miss Mabel Boardman of
the Red Cross accompanied Mrs. Capron
to the post for the presentation.
Mrs. Capron has established the
headquarters for the preparation of
the jellies, jams, etc., at her apartment
at Chatham Courts, Columbia road
northwest, where sugars and fruits
may be sent by any housewife of
Washington who is desirous of aiding
in the effort to make the life of the
soldier as pleasant as possible.
Each glass as soon as it Is filled is
labeled, dated and signed by the wom
an putting it up. They are then packed
and held awaiting directions for con
signment. Although a large number
of women have already volunteered to
Mrs. Capron for the work, she an
nounced today khere is room for many
more.
ARTILLERY COURSE PLANNED.
Men Taking Instruction to Be Given
Enlisted Status.
Plane for giving specialised Instruc
tion to 230 men who later will be given
an enlisted status in the Coast Artillery
Corps are announced by the War De
partment. The courses will begin Au
gust 15 at Fort Monroe, Va., and appli
cations for admission must be made
through department commanders.
There will be plaoes for 110 in the
electrical course, 70 in the mathemat
ical and clerical course and fifty in the
artillery course, .
/ J
mystery as to shooting
IS CLEARED BY VICTIM
Detectives Say Bobert X. Dunyan
Admits Wound in Arm Wag
Belf-Infllcted.
Stringfellow and Embrey
t day solved the mystery of the report
t?Fn"tv?flvr* Kobert I- I'ungan,
.o^e?:w>heoar1:.ot,rt?'lgih7t0lohIaI?;fed"ttrhe:[
throughPe,SOn had ahot hlm
ft arm wh"? he wan
l??u?i! rounds at the plant of the
Capitol ?1r?r?'>0lS,'e factory, 13J9 8outh
las watchman W 8 "* wa" emP'?y?<l
!gKP?i ??:r >s
?,x rs.Msa'i.^HS
S&w-srassS
S^S^r-SsSfflrS
Lpp??a?har\sedi?vTw8nt u ,o
j ENGINE~JUMPS THE RAILS;
ENGINEER IS INJURED
Serious Wreck Narrowly Averted on
the Pennsylvania Railroad
Near Monkton, Md.
S
s??sw !r Sr f
train, was llljured siirtml I ot th?
gar ? -aswa
! K&S rsss.Tj.s
locomotive on the rails. ep the
The engine, however, with the ???
ten Tun^r** C8r' ,eft ,he "-aok. thP
I ^n?,PUp?tirerCa?Ithre hfJn'flnK 'he
aub"e'JUpntly investifrat
the accident found that if ??,? I ?
'had gone a short distance furthe^on
account of the deep flu a ?n
cident could hardly have hp?n . V5"
Shortly after the accident
train brought the passengers to Baltl
more, and those whose desUnaUon was
II o'clock. her? ,,hortlJr before
GOVEBWOB VISITS CAMP.
West Virginia Executive Enter
tained at Fort Benjamin Harmon
INDIANAPOLIS. July 30._aov. Joh'n
?rr? ?f WeRt V,r?'"ia. accom
rsur vri^r.-;iL*:s,;,.';ri-;
West Virginians, together with native
are * In train hle^' f?hi? ?nd Ke"'ucky.
Nat i onalATrny f?r ?fflccr? ?f ?h.'
Gen. Edwin F. Glenn, commander nf
the fort, sent an escort Into the city
for Gov. Cornwell and his party and
they planned to spend the entire d?y
at the post. Where more than 11 (Mm
troops. Including three regiments' of
regulars, are quartered. The visit 2r
the West Virginia party wIM conclude
tonight with a dinner given bv the
| West Virginians in the officers- train!
ing camp in honor of the governor, foi
( owing his review of the troops late
SEVERAL J3H0T IN HOLD-UP.
Bandits Bob Stage in Oklahoma,
Getting Several Hundred Dollars.'
I TULSA, Okla., July 30.?Several Mex
ican laborers employed bv the Mil.
sourl. Kansas and Texas Railroad Com
pany, and stationed at AnnalaVhio
| Okla.. sixteen miles north at he? were
? shot and probably fatally wounded
shortly before midnight during a olstnt
fight that followed a hold-up staged bv
six whit* men, who escaped In an autn
mobile. Several hundred dollars wera
SSTi.SK*
MILK TO GO TTP IN NEW YORK.
Price I? to Advance One Cent
Wednesday.
I NEW TORK, July Jo On
th. price of milk 1. to b. IdvanMdl
f??r.dln?'? ?nnouncoment made here
toda}. This will make class "B" milk
the cheapest grade, which will sell fir
ISH eents a quart for bulk sales ln ! L?.
j The price of grade "B" deUverJd Sn
,bS * q^arti ?T?de "A." 13U
'cents certified grade "A," 18 cental- h.lf
l? ?!f pint0?""" and con<Ienaed, 12'c.nU
At many milk atorca, It waa a?nm?,.j
the prices would be for a quart bSttu'
Igrad* A. 12 cenu, and grade "B" if
I cents, with a 5-cent deposit for the re^
turn of the bottla. An Increase of a cant
a quart to farmers for raw milk iaaivPn
a*, tka raaaon. toe th* advancartra tea.
PRIZES TO BE AWARDED
TO CANNERS OF FOOD
Garden* Commission Adopts Plan to
Arous* Interest in
Movement.
As a means of arousing to a high
pitch Interest In the national food con
servation movement. the national
emergency food garden commission to
day announced that It will offer 1.000
cash prltea to women, girls and boys
of every state for canning war garden
produce.
Details of the awards will be an
nounced later. The offer It made aleo
a* a means of sneouraglng a reeponee
to President Wilson's call to the house
wives of the nation to conserve food
for winter use.
NATION-WIDE QUEST
IS ON FOR SLACKERS
(Continued from F1r*t Page >
within the Jurisdiction of the local
board, forwarding the cards; e. g.. take
a district that registered 100 persons.
Suppose its quota Is ten. Then the lo
cal board will call twenty men. select
ing those In the order that their num
bers appear on the official sheet after
canceling on that sheet *11 numbers
above 100. Some of those twenty will
be discharged because of physical de
ficiencies or other lawful ground for
discharge.
Supposititious Cases.
"suppose there are five men to be reg
istered after the draft. The adjutant
general will take the first Ave blank
numbers of those discharged and by
lot aeRlgn them to the late registrants.
Suppose 71, 4, 13, SO and it are numbers
of persons discharged. Suppose John
Smith, Henry Jones. Silas Turner, Jer
emiah Atkins and Joe Vaughn are the
late registrants; then he, by lot, as
signs to each of said persons one of the
above blank numbers. The man who
gets 71 must take the place In the list
that 71 occupies on the official draft
list.
"If no persons among the twenty are
discharged, and hence there are no
blank numbers, then he will begin at
101, the next 'serial number' following
the highest number In the supposed dis
trict, and add Ave 'serial numbers' and
assign them ?y lot to the persons above
named. They then are liable In the
order that 101. et cetera, come In the
official draft lists. The adjutant gen
eral will then notify said local boards
of the 'serial numbers' thus assigned
the cards forwarded by that board. The
local board will then assign the proper
'serial number' sent them by the adju
tant general to the original cards In
their possession and cause the list of
persons with the 'serial numbers' to
>e posted and notify each person of his
number. Thus, the late registrants are
made equally liable under the original
draft with all who registered according
to law.
Local Officials May Assist.
"It Is not expected that your time
will permit you to undertake person
ally or with your regular force a
house-to-houee canvass nor a compari
son of the registration list with the
various tax and voting lists of eaoh
county: but when you can engage the
assistance of local officers Or volun
tary organisations for such work It
should be done. The department does,
however, e*pect you to Institute with
all the help at your command a Vigor
ous Investigation of persons reported
to you of conscription age and not reg
istered and all cases coming to your
attention in the course of your work.
"When It 1* discovered that a person
has not registered and Is of proper age.
proceed at once to register him. as out
lined above, and Institute criminal pro
ceedings against him regardless of the
reasons for failure to register before
the draft, unless the circumstances
causing the delay are beyohd the con
trol of the Individual?such as being at
sea on registration day and registering
as soon as practicable after landing, or
when the person had been refused the
opportunity to register by the local
boards. Pending physical examination
and application for discharge or exemp
tion, such persons who hold number*
rendering them liable to draft on Arst
call should be kept In Jail or released
on the highest ball practicable. The
prosecution for violation of the con
scription act Is entirely independent of
the act of registering such persons, and
is terminated only in one of two ways
?by Judgment of court or by being
?chosen' by the district board."
Alleged Slacker Is Arrested.
Robert Nelson, colored, twenty-five
years old, residing in an alley between
(1th and 7th. M and N streets north
west. was arrested as a "slacker" and
taken before United States Attorney
Laskey today. Nelson claims he Was
sick on registration day, but had no
doctor in attendance.
Mr IjaBkey turned the ease over to
Assistant United State* Attorney Arth.
who will follow the method outlined
in the letter from the Department of
Justice. He took the man to the ex
emption board at the Dunbar School
and had him given a serial number. A
charge of evading the conscription law
will probably be Aled by Mr. LaSKey
before the grand Jury at its next ses
sion. In default of ball Nelson prob
ably will be committed.
MERCURY CLIMBS TO 104
AT,2 O'CLOCK TODAY
Thermometers arfe out after a record
today.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the offi
cial figure at the weather bureau was
94 degrees. On June 27 those cool
thermometers on the hill Stood at 95
degrees.
Downtown, of course, thermometers
in the shade stood anywhere between
six and ten degrees higher than to
day's official figure.
At one downtown drug store the
thermometer stood 101 degrees at 1
o'clock, and at 2 o'clock the same in
strument showed 104 degrees, whlls
any thermometers which were so car*
less as to be out in the sun mighty
near melted, along with perspiring hu
manity.
INSTRUCTION IN FRENCH.
Claiiei Formed to Teach the Lan
guage to Soldiers.
NEW YORK, July 30.?Classes in con
versational French designed to aid sol
dier* and sailors going abroad will be
organized here tonight. The lessons,
which will be free, will be given at the
headquarters of the National League for
Women's Service. Clasies will be held
five evenings each week.
In addition there will be Informal lec
tures dealing with the life and customs
of the French people.
HELD UNDER ESPIONAGE ACT.
Two lien and a Woman Under Ar
re*t in Spokane.
SPOKANE. Wash.. July 30.?Carl Q.
Grossman and two companions, a man
and a woman, are held in the city jail
her* today under the espionage act.
They were arrested lsst night a few
hours after their arrival from Butte,
where they had been for a week, ac
cording to statement* of the federal
authorities.
Grossman is booked at the police sta
tions as an alien enemy. The name*
of his oompanlons are withheld by tha
police. Grossman, said to be a former
member of the staff of the Germany
embassy at Washington, is declared by
the police to have been ordered to leave
this country several weeks ago. Im
portant papers, naming prominent
Bpokane residents of German birth, are
said to have been found in Grossman's
possession.
m
Chicago Yardmen Ordered
Back to Work After Agree
ment Is Signed. *
ROADS OPERATING IN FUtX
B/ the Associated Prtii.
CHICAGO, July SO.?The strike of
switchmen belonging to the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen. Involving
more than 2,500 men In the Chicago
switching district, which h^uan Satur
day at 6 a.m., was called ofT shortly
before ? o'clock thla morning, after an
all-night conference between repre
sentatives of the switchmen and the
nineteen railroads Involved. The men
were ordered to return to work at once.
Terms of Agreement.
The agreement provided that the
ewitchmen should return to work with
out prejudice or loss of seniority. The
settlement followed a series of confer
ences during the night, the last of
which being a meeting of the confer
ence committee of managers of the
roaue affected and a committee of seven
grand officers, representing the Order
of Railway <*omluctors, Brotherhood of
Locomotive JCngineers and Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Enpinemen.
the latter representing the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen.
This conference lasted for two hours.
The vital questions at issue wore dis
posed of and the agreement then was
taken to James Murdock. vice president
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, who acted for the switchmen. He
assented to the agreement and word
was immediately sent out for the men
to return to work.
According to a joint statement made
by the conferees the "closed shop,"
which was claimed by the railroad
managers to have been a primary cause
for the calling of the strike, ceases to
be an issue, it beltig stated that "mat
ters at issue are to be settled without
the adoption of a closed-shop rule or of
any rule that might fairly be consid
ered aa equivalent to such."
The meal period question is to be set
tled by a commission of eight, meeting
In New York.
Appointment of yardmasters. rein
statements and employment of new men
are to be settled by a board consisting
of ii E. Sheppard, chairman: W. M.
Clark, M. W. Cadle, H. E. Wills, U J.
Gritting, Arthur J. Lovell and 8. A.
Boone, representing the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, and the managers*
conference committee, representing the
railroads.
Several minor issues are yet to be
settled, but arrangements were made
for further meetings tomorrow, at
which time they will be taken up.
Rules in Dispute.
According to a statement last Fri
day by Mr. Murdock. representing the
switchmen, no contention was mada
for a closed shop. The rules In dispute,
he asserted, included the question of
preference to yardmen in promotion
to yardmasters or assistant yardmas
ters; the question of obtaining a rule
whioh would prevent the companies
from reinstating men Justly discharged
In disregard of the rights of other
loyal yardmen and committees repre
senting yardmen, and the matter of
giving preference to members of the
brotherhood in employing yardmen. It
was the contention of the railroad
heads that to aooede to the demands
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men switchmen would establish the
closed shop in favor of members of
that organisation and deprive the
management of the power to select
yardmastets and assistant yardmas
ters.
As the result of the agreement, trafflo
on nineteen railroads entering Chi
cago moved unhindered today and
what threatened to be a serious con
gestion of transportation facilities has
been averted.
Durltif the strike of forty-eight
hours no violence of a serious char
acter occurred. At the Glenn yards, at
Summit. 111., a coal car was wrecked,
holding up traffic several hours. The
dumping of a load of bricks from a
downtown viaduct, narrowly missing
several switohmen belonging to the
switchmen's union, was said by them
not to have been accidental.
8H0PMEN BEADY TO STRIKE.
C. and 0. Worker# to Quit Tuesday
If Increase I? Not Granted.
HUNTINGTON. W. V?_. July 29.?A.
meeting of shopmen employed by the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad here to
dav directed that a telegram be sent
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Labor at Washington, stating that un
less their demands for an increase in
wages of approximately BO per cent
are met a geheral strike of shop
workers employed by the company will
be called Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock.
While but 2.600 men would be affected
in a walk-out of Chesapeake and Ohio
shopmen. It was stated tonight by their
leaders that 8S.000 men in the south
eastern district will quit work unless
the pay increase is allowed, 'ihis would
include shopmen employed by the Nor
folk and Western, the Southern and the
Virginian railroad companies. It waa
said.
SHIPPING BOARD MOVES.
British War Mission Now Occupies
Quarters Vacated Saturday.
The British war mission moved in ae
the shipping board moved out. About
ten or twelve rooms on the seventh
floor of the Munsey building, formerly
occupied by the board, have been taken
over br the mission.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation of
the shipping board went into new
quarters in the old Interstate Com
merce building on F street nearly two
weeks ago. The shipping board fol
lowed. completing its packing and
transfer last Saturday.
The British war mission, presided
over by Lord Northoliffet has had email
quarters in the Munsey building for a
month or more, although this wa? not
generally known.
CHANGES ANNOUNCED.
Transfers to and From St. Aloysius
Church, This City.
Rev. John O'Hara, 8. J., who has been
stationed at St. Aloysius Church for some
time past, has been transferred to Holy
Trinity Church of Georgetown in a list of
Jesuit changes in St. Aloysius Church
according to announcement made yester
day by Jesuit authorities.
Other changes at St. Aloysius Church
are as follows: J. F. Meagher. 8. J.,
transferred to Boston College; Rev. Myles
McLoughlin, S. J., to St. Mary's Church
of Boston; Charles J. Robinson, S. J., to
Woodstock College of Maryland for the
completion of theological studies. Francis
E. Lowe, S. J., is detailed to St. Aloysius
Church as prefect of discipline at Gonaaga
College.
TO VOTE ON BOND ISSUE.
Bayonne, N. J., Considering Expen
diture of 110,000,000 on Bay Shore.
NEW YORK, July 30.?A special elae
tlon will be held in Bayonne, X. J., to
morrow to decide whether that city will
Issue $10,000,000 in bonds to develop .'the
New York Bay Shore front, erect termi
nal buildings and purchase for $1.466,843
the property of the water company sup- j
plying the water front district. _J(
The terminal proposal providea
the city shall issue the fio.oofib^oo tn
build the plant, which it J*<proDosed
10 ..1<?181Jt0.?rlVat?.lntf!I?*? <0 operate
and divide the proftts^fYh the city. At
the end of titty.yayfTthe plant la to be
turned over, to tftrfcltfc