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CONGRESS TO MARK TIE COMING WEEK Waiting on Military Defi ciency Appropriation Bill, tr Other Measures. Congress virtually will mark time this week, waiting on the $7,000,000,000 military deficiency appropriation bill, which the House appropriations com mittee plans to report October 14. The House has determined to trans act no business, according to an nouncement by Representative Rainey, until the appropriation bill comes in. The Senate will be wellnigh as in active, in all probability, though some of the senators will seek to have considered measures in which they are particularly interested. Wants Budget System Considered. Senator Kenyon of Iowa is anxious to have the Senate take up his bill for a budget system for the country, to do away with the system now in vogue. This bill is on the calendar, the Senate having voted, on motion of Senator Kenyon, to discharge the appropriations committee from fur ther consideration of the measure. Senator McKellar of Tennessee also may seek to have the Senate consider the bill reported by his committee? the civil service committee?providing a retirement and pension system for superannuated employes of the gov ernment. He believes this is essen tially a war measure, because of the increased efficiency which the govern- ; ment departments would gain through its operation. For Bringing Up Revenue Bill. Plans for an adjournment of Con- I gress over the election period are still I unsettled. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, in charge of the war revenue bill, said last night that the earliest day on which the revenue bill could be reported to the Senate was October 2o, and that it might be later than this. Until the committee has progressed further, he said, no plans would be made for a recess or adjournment. The fact that the House has deter minued to transact no business before the appropriation bill is reported to it leaves the emegency agriculture ap propriation bill, with its war-time prohibition and rent-profiteering rid ers, suspended. The Senate has adopt ed the conference report on this meas ure, which is a complete agreement on the bill except for the rent profiteer ing amendment. Until the House acts on the confer ence repoit the bill will remain in its present position. The chance of its passing finally before election day is becoming slim. Brisbane-Brewers Case. The Senate judiciary subcommittee appointed to investigate the purchase of the Washington Times by Arthur Brisbane through the financial assist ance of brewers and the political ac tivities of the brewing interests is still awaiting documents from the Attorney General bearig on activities of the brewers. This investigation also may go over until after the elec tions, it is said. AUSTRALIANS AS JEST INVITE U. S. RECRUITS Response of Americans During' Hot j Battle Shows Camaraderie Ex isting Between Them. I By the Assrx*iatc<I Prrss. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Octobcr (Reuter's).?The . camaraderie existing between the Australians and Americans was il lustrated when the Anzacs had passed through the American infantry, ac cording to program, during Sunday's battle. There naturally was some confusion in th.e subsequent fighting. After the Australians had carried their objective a good many Amer icans. who probably had not unwill- ] ingly been borne forward in the ad- j ? vance, were sorting themselves out preparatory to rejoining their units, j i Thereupon ai? Australian started a j recruiting: depot in the front line. ' Standing upon a heap of sandbags, he shouted: "This is the battalion of the Australian imperial forces, the finest fighting battalion on the western front. Who'll join? Wralk up, walk up." This so tickled the American strag glers that most of them temporarily attached themselves to the Anzacs, aud when the battalion re-attacked it was considerably stronger than be fore. SAYS THE BROWNING GUN MEETS THE TESTS OF WAR Gen- McRoberts Reports British and French Governments Want All the Surplus Supply. Brig. Gen. Samuel McRoberts, head of the procurement division of the ordnance department, back from a | two-month tour of inspection in I England and France, declares that the Browning machine guns now be ing delivered in quantity to the Amer ican forces in France, have so suc cessfully met the various tests im posed upon them that the British and Krcnch governments have asked that any surplus number produced be j made available for use by their ar- j mies. ' The United States model 1917 rifle also has proved highly successful, he said, and Is such an all-around prac tical weapon for actual fighting that American soldiers are enthusiastic over its performance. Gen. McRoberts reported that the acute shortage of copper and brass in Germany is evident by substitutes found on captured enemy ordnance. Richmond Strike Plan Abandoned. RICHMOND, Va.. Octobcr 5.?Con tending for the eight-hour day and se niority rule, 25.000 employes in the South Atlantic department of the American Railway Kxpress Company had voted to strike today, but H. A. Berry, general chairman of the express division of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, decided Instead to lay the matter before the Federal War I.abor Board. Drastic ac tion was deferred in deference to the ?wishes of President Wilson. ? "77" Humphreys' "Seventy-seven" breaks up Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Cold In the Head, Catarrh, Sore Throat.Quinsy, Tonsilitis and Grip. At all Dnigjist COLDS LAUNDRY CALL WILL BE MADE BUT ONCE A WEEK Collect and Leave Package at Same Time Under Order of War Industries Board. In obedience to an order of the War Industries Board to effect conserva tion of wrapping paper and labor, re leasing: them for essential war needs, the laundries of Washington are read justing their collections and deliveries. There will be one trip each week to the homes of patrons, according "to announcement made last night by the representatives for the laundries. On one day to be determined by the laun dries. to suit as far as possible the convenience of the majority of their patrons, the laundry wagons will call for soiled .linen and clothing, return ing on the same day the following week with the cleaned articles, when the next week's laundry will be taken away. The laundries also announce a new minimum package regulation. Here after the minimum package of starch ed work that will be received will be 25 cents, of flat work 60 cents and of rough work f5 cents. COST OF FOOD SUPPLIED TO UNITED STATES ARMY Quartermaster General's Figures Show Several Millions of Dollars Expended in Singls Week. Some idea of the magnitude of food purchases for the Army may be gained from the minutes of the board of review in the office of the quar termaster general, which passes on all contract purchase orders of more j than $5,000. For the week ending September 28 ' some purchases and contracts for [ foodstuffs authorized by the board of review were: Tomatoes, $1,736,163; evaporated milk, $ .'US.400; hard bread, Sl.l?j9.."75; salmon, $269,274; flour, $701,009; sugar. $84,186; lard substi tutes. $28.07!?; jam, $41,702; fresh beef, $o.255.758; pork, $176,147: sirup, $25, .",00: rice. *22,144; dehydrated vege tables. $15,750; coffee. $11.">.199; candy. $10,250; cannod beans, $206,953. Pur chases of forage for horses included? Oats. $1,123,850; bran, rye and barley, $42.S2:i, and hay, $819,386. Soap purchases to the amount of $264,539 were also made during the same period of time. HEADS NEWS PRINT SECTION. G. J. Palmer, Texan, Appointed by War Industries Board. G. J. Palmer of the Houston (Tex.) Post has been appointed chief of the newspaper section of the pWp and paper division of the War Industries Board. lie will administer the rules and regu lations of the board applying to news papers. Deaths Reported. The following deaths have been reported to the health department in the last twenty-four hours: Edward E. Adams, 28 years. 432 Columbia road northwest. ('race Osborn. 33 years. Emergency Hospital. Elizabeth A. Prather, 72 years, 510 I street northwest. Marion Snyder, 1 year, 624 M street south east. Harold H. Hayden, 3 years, Sibley Hospital. Marshall LaVerne, 24 years. Emergency Hos pital. Lillian M. Lyers, 9 years. 3200 O street. Henry Page. 34 years. Casualty Hospital. Edmond C. Bowie, 31 years, 332 E street northeast. ? Richard .T.-Barry, 35 years. 1527 Buchanan strrot northwest. Madeline X. Driver, 30 years. 2018 Portner place. Biagio Enlellini, 28 years, George Washing ton Hospital. Louis Bunch, 32 years, 935 Virginia avenue southwest. Oliver A. Williams, 10 years, 805 4th street southeast. Fred^ Warner, 22 years, Washington Asylum Hospital. Charles E. Brosee, 69 years, 92 K street northeast. Louis Faust, 36 years. Providence Hospital. Selveric Elisario, 22 years, Georgetown Hospital. Grace M. Goodhart, . 28 years, 5p S street northwest. Stephen J. Feeley, 26 years, Walter Reed Hospital. Ruth A. Iyete. 19 years. Providence Hospital. Clarence E. Whitmore, 27 years, 51S 10th strict southeast. Joseph F. Bellak, 29 years, 2102 0 street northwest. Myra J. Scott, 19 years, 1212 Delafleld place northwest. Minnie J. Perry. 36 years. Washington Hotel. William F. Morwood, 28 years, Walter Reed Hospital. Homer C. Dye, 22 years, Walter Reed Hos pital. Alice M. Kloek, 33 years, 3935 Georgia ave nue northwest. Howard Steidle, 26 years, 1311 W street nort hwost. Russell W. Smith, 18 hours, Sibley Hospital. Catherine Ross, 44 years, 631 3J/j street northeast. Susie Harris, 35 years, Washington Asylum Hospital. Malinda Pnrdy, 60 years, 467 Washington street northwest. Josephine C. Kelly, 30 days, 2131 Newport place northwest. William v. Hall, 46 days, 706 Massachusetts avenue northeast. Births Reported. The following births have been reported to the health department in the last twenty-four hours: Thomas X. and Mary Lynch, girl. Edmond and Elisabeth I>a, girl twins, William R. and Daisy Mason, boy. YOUNG AMERICAN FLIER HERO OF DARING FEAT Lieut. Chalaire, Former New York Reporter, Has Exciting Encoun ter With Foe Planes. B.t the Associated Press. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, October 5, 10 a.m.?A young American aviator distinguished- him self during the recent great aerial activity over Belgium. He is Lieut. Walter P. Chalaire, who at the out break of the war was a reporter on | a New York newspaper and now is in a hospital in England with a bullet wound through his shoulder. While attached to a British photo graphic group Chalaire and another machine went out over Ostend. On the way back he became separated from the other machine. Soon after ward Chalaire and his observer dis covered a large group of German ma chines above them and another group below the tail of their machine. The enemy groups began a concerted at tack. Guns Brought Into Action. Chalaire maneuvered the machine and used his machine gun and the observer used his gun with the result that at least two enemy machines were seen to go earthward in a spin. By this time some of the enemy ma chines had gone off. but seven re mained and continued the fight. Bul lets from their guns flew all around and punctured virtually every part of the American machine, but the ob server, who had been hit, kept on lir ing, although he was bleeding freely. The wires were cut by the bullets and the. gas tank was punctured. About the time Chalaire got a bul let through his shoulder he noticed that his observer had become uncon scious. He put his machine into a dive through the clouds, expecting every moment that it might collapse. Once through the clouds, he made straight for the coast of Flanders, which he reached in safety. | Observer Wounded Seven Times. 1 Chalaire hauled his unconscious ob server from his seat and found that he had been wounded in seven places. The pilot's wound was painful, but he set out immediately for help. As a consequence, the observer, who was a British sergeant, quickly got much needed medical attention and he is now in a hospital in England on the road to recovery. PRAISES BRITISH TROOPS FOR RESCUE OF HOLY LAND Count Zammoyski of Polish Na tional Committee Sends Congratu latory Telegram to Gen. Allenby. PARIS, October 5.?Count Zammoy i ski, president of the national Polish committee, has sent the following congratulatory telegram to Gen. Al lenby, the allied commander in Pales tine and Syria: "What Christianity has dreamt for many centuries, what has been sung and foretold by poets and why cru sades have been waged is realized. The Holy Land has been freed from the hands of her oppressors and for this freedom it can be grateful to the valiant British troops who. under your brilliant generalship, have per formed undertakings which shall for ever lemain in the history of war. "The occupation of Palestine and the defeat of the Turkish army simul taneously are strong blows at the I falling structure of power based on force. 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