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MR CLERKS,
' MR. BAKER'S PLEA
Var Secretary Appeals to D.
C. Residents to Rent Rooms
to War Workers.
T-?ck of satisfactory housing accom
modations in the District is partly re
nonslbls for the difficulty which the
*>Var Department experiences in keep
ing needed clerical help, in the opin
ion of Secretary Baker.
The Secretary expressed the opinion
in a letter to the United States homt*
'egfetration service, 1414 H street,
through which he appealed to house
keepers of Washington who have not
yet done so to take war workers into
their homes.
Mr. Baker's letter follows:
Clerical Assistance Inadequate.
"I heartily indorse the effort now
being made by the United States
homes registration service to induce
every householder in Washington to
rent his guest room to government of
fice workers. The War Department Is
seriously handicapped by the fact that I
it cantiot secure adequate clerical as
sistance, and this inability. I am In
formed. is based, to a substantial ex
tent, upon the difficulty which new em
ployes find in securing satisfactory
living accommodations. The condition
ts not peculiar to the War Depart
ment?it is shared by all of those de
partments on which depends the suc
cessful prosecution of the war. I
therefore most earnestly urge upon
every householder this opportunity to
participate personally In the common
undertaking In which we are en
gaged."
Another month, or possibly six
weeks, will elapse before the dormi
tories at Union station will be ready
lor occupancy, and it is to house the
clerks who will arrive in the mean
time that the registration service ap
peals for more rooms.
Steam shovels have begun the work
preliminary to the construction of
more dormitories and several tempo
rary apartment houses for government
workers at 23d and B streets. These
buildings are scheduled to be ready In
February.
To Accommodate 3,544 Women.
The t-'nion station project will ac
commodate 1.144 women, nearly all la
single rooms, and the 23d street dormi
tories will provide for 1,600 women.
At lid street there also will be small
apartments for approximately 1,400
persons.
War workers already in Washington
are making application to the head of
the department In which they work
for rooms in the Union station build
ings. These lists of applications will
be forwarded by each department to
the housing bureau. Department heads
have been advised to number applica
tions. so that in case there are too
many applicants the first to apply may
be given preference.
TEN FROM DISTRICT MAY
JOIN NAVY NEXT MONTH
Five White Carpenters and Five
Colored Stewards Wanted
From Washington.
Ten District registrants, five white
and five colored, will have opportu
ntiy to join the Navy next month, un
der a call for selective service men
made upon sixteen states and the
District today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder.
Five white carpenters are wanted
from Washington, and five colored
stewards. The men selected will pre
j sent themselves at the naval recruit
I ing station, 306 9th street, November
9 for assignment.
! The call is part of a general requisi
I tion for 1,100 men for the Navy from
I the states. Voluntary inductions will
! be accepted until November 5. This is
the second Navy call issued through
the draft executives.
Tomorrow will see seventy-five
white registrants go to the Blisa Elec
trical School for special training.
Local board No. 1 of Pawtuokeit,
R. 1., is the first draft board in the
country to complete the classification
of September 12 of registrants of all
apes. Provost Marshal General Crow
der announced today.
WAE WORKERS INVITED.
Nat Gathering for Gas Masks to
Feature Sunday Outing.
Gathering nuts for gas-mask pur
poses will form part of the program
of wanderlusters on their Sunday aft
ernoon hike. Invitation is extended
for war workers to join the hikers.
The party will leave the Congress
Heights engine house at 2 o'clock
Sunday afternoon and walk to Oxon
run. the Barnaby mansion and along
Good Hope road to Anacostia. '
WOULD INCREASE FARE
ON ITS SUBURBAN LINES
Washington Bailwaj and Electric
Company IUm Petition With In
terstate Commerce Commission.
The Washington Railway and Elee
trto Company and It* affiliated lines
have died an application with the In
terstate Commerce Commission asking
authority to increase the fares on all
their suburban lines in the Maryland
jurisdiotion. The matter has also
been presented to the Maryland public
utilities commission. The petition asks
authority to increase the zone rate
from 5 to 6 cents.
The reason for asking such in
creases is the high cost of material
and labor, similar to the plea made
to the District of Columbia Public
Utilities Commission and which has
been granted. If the traction com
pany is authorized to make the asked
for increases commuters will be taxed
20 per cent above the rates they are
now paying.
A conservative estimate places the
number of persons who are patrons of
the suburban lines and who will be af
fected if the asked for rates go into
rfTect at 10,000. The new rates in all
probability will go Tr.to effect December
1 and will cover straight fares and com
mutation tickets on the Cabin John
line, the City and Suburban railway,
the Washington Interurban railway,
the Washington and Rockvillo railway
and the Forest Glen railway.
The greatest increase asked for will
be in the first zone, where an increase
is asked of 20 per cent on the twenty
! eight-trip commutation tickets, which
would mean an increase of $1 per month
on commutation tickets in the first zone,
with a gradual cecrease as the outer
zones are reached, when the increase
would be 50 cents. The zone tickets
would be as follows: First, 14.50; sec
ond, $5.55; third, <6.68 ; fourth, $7.90,
and fifth, $8.50. There would be an
increase of something like 20 pe. cent
on school tickets, making the tariffs on
the trolley lines approximately the same
as on the steam lines, which now charge
10 to 20 per cent more.
Farmers' Congress to Meet Sec. 3-6.
MARION. Ind., November 1.?Joshua
Strange of this city, chairman of the
executive Committee of the Farmers'
National Congress, has issued a pre
liminary call for the convening of
the thirty-eighth annua] session at
Jacksonville. Fla.. December 3 to 6.
The National Farm Women's Con
gress will be held at the same time
and place.
Spanish Influenza is an
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In the American influenza epidemic of 1916, bac
teriologists found that only a small percentage of the
cases they examined were infected with the influenza
bacillus.
They found either the streptococcus, the pneumo
coccus, or the micrococcus-catarrhalis more prevalent
than the influenza bacillus.
The most dangerous complications occur in influ
enza through the increased virulence of other microbes
in the mouth, the throat and the air passages, to which the in
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inmkiums
IN WAS CASUM.TY IIST
- -
Private Aubrey Halstead Wounded
in Battle, Private Henry Logan
Dies of Fnenmonia.
AUBREY HALSTEAD.
Today's casualty list from the front
contains the names of two Washing
ton boys. Private Aubrey Halstead
was wounded and Private Henry
Logan died of pneumonia.
Private Halstead's sister, Mrs.
Norma Lynham, 424 Shepherd street,
received a letter stating that her
brother was in a hospital receiving
treatment for slight wounds received
in August. Later a letter told her he
was again in the front line. It is like
ly that the name on today's list refers
to a second casualty.
Well Treated In HospitaL
After being wounded the first time
he had an agreeable experience in a
hospital. "We certainly are well
cared for," he wrote. "The hospital X
am at is managed by the Detrooit Red
Cross. They do know how to care for
the American soldier."
Before entering the service Private
Halstead was employed by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. He en
listed at Philadelphia and was sent to
a camp at Douglas, Ariz., where he
trained with a regiment of "regulars."
While In Washington he made his
bomo with his sister, Mrs. Lynham.
Private Logan's Death.
Influenza evidently is busy "over
there,' as well as here. Private Henry
Logan, a local colored boy, died of
pneumonia, following an attack of in
fluenza. His sister, Mrs. Mary L.
Newman, 30 Defrees street, received
official notification of his decease sev
eral days ago.
TO REJOIN FRANCE, AIM
OF ALSACE-LORRAINERS
Those Resident In Switzerland De
nounce as Inadequate German
Reform Measures.
Delegates of thirteen commissions
representing Alsace-Lorralners In
Switzerland declared in formal reso
lutions adopted at a recent meeting
at Bern that the needy populations
of those provinces "do not wish now,
any more than they did forty-five
years ago, to belong to the German
confederation, and making use of the
right of free disposal, they demand
the pure and simple rejoining of Al
sace-Lorraine to France."
The resolutions, which have been
received in Washington by cable, de
nounce as inadequate the new reform
measures which the German govern
ment has instituted in Alsace-Lor
raine, declaring that even the more
liberal among the members of the
new ministry are not worthy of con
fidence."
ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANTS
CAPTURED FROM HUNS
Germans, in Drive Which Wiped
Ont St. 3Cihiel Salient, Abandon
Complete Portable Outfits.
WITH THB AMERICAN FORCES
IN FRANCE, October 15 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).?Sev
eral complete portable electric light
plants were captured from the Ger
mans in the driv^ which Wiped out
the St. Mihiel salient, some of which
were used by the Americans in equip
ping the headquarters of different
units. One of the largest outfits
taken was found in Thiaiicourt, the
Germans having abandoned the plaint
without having damaged it in the
Within two days after the Ameri
cans entered Thiaucourt the German
motor was turning out electricity for
the Americane. The equipment in
cluded wires. Incandescent lights,
lamp shades of metal, tacks and all
appliances used by electricians, there
being enough material to "wire" sev
eral villages.
LOOKS TO TJHTFOBM WAGES.
Railroad Board Functions Is Ex
tended to Express Company.
The function of the board of rail
road wages and working conditions
has been extended to include investi
gation of the conditions of employ
ment under the American Railway
Express Company.
Director General MeAdoo announced
today that the board will direct its
efforts toward establishing uniform
wages and working conditions for em
ployes throughout the country, and as
an advisory body to the director gen
eral will investigate all differences
arising between officers and employes
of the company.
GREASELESS
NOXZEMA
For The Skin
"FEEL IT HEAL"
remedy for skia disease*, ul ttliMmd
to be is near perfection ss eat can be
nude. TVs new oream is ABSOLUTELY
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SAILORS IN STREET RIOT;
POLICEMAN IS KILLED
Norfolk Stores and Bestennutto
Looted?Several Wounded in _
Sight With Police.
NORFOLK, Va., November 1.?A
street riot occurred shortly before
midnight last night when a squad of
policemen attempted to round up a
number of sailors, charged with dis
orderly conduct. One policeman was
instantly killed. Several policemen
and sailors were wounded. A company
of naval guards from the station and
two companies of marines are now
restoring order and rounding up all
sailors on shore leave.
Patrolman A. T. Williamson was in
stantly killed.
Hen Looted Stores.
A number of sailors are alleged to
have been under the influence of con
traband whisky. They raised disturb
ances at several theaters, helped
themselves to something to eat in
one restaurant and then began to loot
retail stores, property losses being
estimated at 12,000. When the police,
appealed to by citizens, attempted to
intervene a pitched battle occurred
on Plume street, near the post office
building.
All available police reserves were
rushed to the scene and had about
succeeded in restoring order when
automobiles from naval bases with
armed sailor guards reached the
scene. A few minutes later two com
panies of marines arrived and the j
round-up of sailors was inaugurated.
The police charge, that the sailors
secured their firearms by looting a
shooting gallery near^the Portsmouth
ferry.
i Two sailors are said to be in bad '
condition, one with a pistol wound in |
the head and the other in the abdo
men. The four others wounded are ex
pected to recover.
Liat of Wounded.
An incomplete list of the wounded
follows:
Patrolman J. R. Anderson.
Patrolman J. M. Wilson.
Chauffeur Edward Parr.
The sailors wounded:
K D. English, fireman, second class.
O. M. Bixby.
Paul A. Pankratz, fireman, first class.
ORDER AS TO GIFT SHIPMENTS
None Accepted for Overseas After
November 25, Unless as Directed.
Regulations supplementing previous
announcements governing the ship
ment of articles to members of the
American expeditionary forccs or
persons serving- with the T. M. C. A.,
Red Cross, or other organizations af
filiated with the Army have been
Issued* by the War Department.
After November 25 no shipments
will be accepted by forwarding com
panies or by the post office unless
accompanied by a request from the
consignee approved by his com
mander. One Christmas package
will be shipped prior to that date
only when the nearest relatives to
the consignee in this country certi
fies to the Red Cross that but one
package is being sent.
AUSTRIAN!! CARRY
PLEA TO ITALIANS
\
Latter Permit Foe Deputation
to Enter Lines for Prelim
inary Pourparlers.
FOE FACED BY ANARCHY
Br the Associated Press.
VIENNA, via London, October SI.?
An Austrian deputation has been per
mitted to cross the fighting line for
preliminary pourparlers with the
Italian commander, according to the
official announoement tonight.
The statement says: "The high com
mand of the armies early Tuesday by
means of a parlementaire established
communication %*ith the Italian army
command. Every effort is to be made
for the avoidance of further useless
sacrifice of blood, for the cessation of
hostilities and the conclusion of an
armistice.
Best Intentions Asserted.
"Toward this step, which was ani
mated by the best intentions, the
Italian high command at first assumed
an attitude of unmistakable refusal,
and it was only on the evening of
Wednesday that, in accord with the
Italian high command. Gen. Weber,
accompanied by a deputation, was per
mitted to cross the fighting line for
preliminary pourparlers.
"If, therefore, the cruelties of war
fare < must continue in the Italian
theater of the war the guilt and re
sponsibility will have to be ascribed
to the enemy."
Uonarchy Faces Anarchy.
LONDON, October 31.?Conditions in
the interior of Austria-Hungary vir
tually preclude a continuance of fight
ing, according to news reaching Lon
don this evening. The railways neces
sary for the maintenance of the mili
tary forces of the &ual monarchy have
become utterly disorganised.
All communication between Agram,
Fiumc, Budapest and Vienna has been
interrupted, and the railway communi
cations between Berlin and Vienna
have been cut.
The monarchy is faced with complete
internal anarchy.
Quite a Pond.
From the Boston Transcript.
Two soldier boys from the we3t,
who had been hurried to the coast
and on board ship in the dark, Were
next morning surveying with open
eyed wonder the boundless stretch of
rolling blue around them.
"Gee whiz. Bill," said one, "who
would have thought there could be so
much water as that."
"I know it," drawled the other.
"And just think, Jim. you" only see
what's on top."
Overheard.
From the Boston Transcript.
Jack?You can't judge a man by the
way he dresses.
Edith?Oh, I don't know. I can tell
a gentleman by his get-up?In the
crowded street car.
. .
Tired,OverworkedMothers
What You Need is Vinol
War conditions have made the demand upon a
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to do all in their power for their loved ones, they
continually overwork and are soon in a nervous,
run-down condition. Vinol, the non-secret cod liver
and iron tonic, will build you up and make you
strong. HERE IS PROOF
Whitman, Mm.
"I suffered from a nervous, run
down condition and loss of strength
so it was bard for me to get around
and do my work. After other medi
cines had failed to help me Vinol re
stored my health and strength and I
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myself and got into a weak, run-down
condition, no strength, languid and no
ambition. After doctoring for awhile
and getting no better 1 tried Vinol
and to my surprise it built me up and
strengthened my whole system. It
is eertainly a good tonic."?Mrs.Wm.
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Notify President Wilson and Ap
peal for Bight of German Na
tion to Dispose of Itaelf.
BERN,. October 31.?The German state
of Austria hatf.bsen created by act'
of the Germap national council ot
Austria, and a note to President Wil- i
son notifying him of this action has
besn drawn up and approved at a full |
j meeting- of the council. The state
I claims all territory of old Austria
where the majority ot the population
is German.
A summary of the contents of the
I note, which was first drafted by the
exeoutlve committee of the council,
i Is given by the official Vienna cor- '
respondence bureau. The neWly
created state, the note sets forth, ac
cording to thla summary, demands
that Its representatives be admitted
to participation in the peace negotia- |
tlons.
The new state recognises the' in
dependence of the Jugo-Slav and
Csecho-Slav state*. It claims for
itself Moravia and Silesia. It appeals
to President Wilson to give the Ger
man nation the right to dispose of
itself.
AMSTERDAM, October 31.?The Ger
man Bohemian members of . the reichs
rath have formed a provisional constitu
| tion and elected Reichenberg as the
seat of government, dispatches from
| Vienna announce.
| Dispatches from Vienna by way of
SwiUerland early last week reported
j that the German deputies in the Aus
' trian diet had met at Vienna and had
decided to form a German Austrian
state.
TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS,
IN NEW CREDIT TO FRANCE
!
A new credit of t20?.000,00? MM
netted by the Treasury In (?Tor of
Ki anoe toO?v brought the total or*d<
its to that country up to $2.365,OOO.OM
and the total tor all allies to f7,Tll.
576,66#.
1.859 Siek and Wounded Return.
The War Department today as*
nounced that 1,859 sick and wounded
men from the American expeditionary
forces were landed in this country
during the week ending October tSi
making the total for the month. 441*.
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