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k-. - "99"W K NIGHT FINAL WEATHER: Probably Showers Tonight With Closing Wail Street Prices NIGHT FINAL itigtmt lime NUMBER 10.225. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1917. PRICE ONE CENT. f, J,, -jtnsft- Uteltelt L L W. W. Women Stalled in Box Cars Without Food 36 Hoars AUSTRIANS ROUTED 929 CAPITAL BENTS TO BE CALLED IN FIRST HOT High Number of Washington- ians Already in Military Ser vice Cuts Percentage Here to Low Level. Only 929 of the 32,000 Washington men who registered on June S will be drafted into the military service of the nation on the first call. Official1 announcement of this fact was made today by Commissioner Brownlow after receiving orders from Secretary of War Baler to complete the details for the draft in the District. All that remains to be done by Commissioner Brownlow is to fix the number of men to 'be drawn from each of the eleven police precinct areas. Eighty-four From Each. The quota for the precincts will 'be determined according to population. BnTiy wmvj, ...-. of the eleven precincts will furnish about eighty-foul- men. Some, however, will fur nish: more and others less. The' surprisingly small number of Washington men to be drafted on the first call Is due to the large number of local men already In the military service. The District's full quota was fixed at 3,796, but credit was given for 5,660 men already In the. regular army or national guard, and a further allowance of seven men was made because of a census readjust ment. Hawaii exceeded Its gross quota by 1,891, and therefore was not called on to furnish a single man by draft. REGISTRATION DEVICES TO BE USED IN ELECTION Plans Being Rushed for District's Preferential Primary. Machinery Improvised by the Dis trict Commlsioners for registration day will be utilized in conducting the preferential primary for the selec tion of Commissioner Oliver P. New man's successor by the residents uf Washington. The special committee of the Fed eration of Citizens Associations will recommend to the Federation at Its meeting In the District building to morrow night that each of the schools used for registration purposes be employed as voting places on primary day. The Federation's committee will also recommend that a number of ad ditional precincts be added, and that each voting place be designated by a. single number Instead of 5A. 7C. 8D, as was the case on registration day. SENATORS TURN GUNS ON DEFENSE COUNCIL A storm broke over the Council of National Defense in the Senate to day when Senators Sherman, McKel lar. Reed, and Kenyon took turns con demning the practice of council mem bers with the Government in their own products. "If we tried what they are doing we would be Impeached and imprison ed and ought to be." said Sherman. "In declaring they must not let con tracts to their own firms we are re moving them from temptation and wrong construction of their acts." "No honest man will want to alt in the council on a matter in which he Is pecuniarily Interested," Reed de clared. He quoted a statute passed ja iovo joroiuuius; sucn contracts. FATE OF FOOD BILL DEPENDS ONINFLUENCE OF PRESIDENT Selfish Interests Trying to De vitalize Measure Recognized fay Executive, Who Seeks Senators' Aid. By DAVID LAWRENCE. (COpyrltst. 1117. Nnr Tort Ermlnx Port Co.) President Wilson will find it neces sary to pot the whole weight of his influence behind the food -bill to com bat the selfish interests who are try ing to devitalize that measure. The Gore substitute -would so com pletely protect the big packing houses and commission men, and so effectively tie the hands of Herbert C Hoover, food administrator, as to make the conservation of America's food supply in the, interest of the na tions of the world, as well as the in dividual consumer, an almost im possible task. An analysis of what the Gore sub stitute prqvjdes shows clearly Ilia I 11 ends all licensing at the elevators and exempts packing houses, commis sion men, manufacturers and whole salers from the operations of the law. Danger Are Iteallsed. The President Is fully acquainted with the dangers In the, situation and has already conferred with several Senators. There has been enough de lay on the food bill and the fight must reach a climax In the next few days. A bill representing the views of the food administration and those In Congress who have pointed out some legitimate objections to the previous measures Is being drawn. The vote on that bill will be in the nature of a vote for or against the President of the United States, who has labored patiently with Congress In the hope of protecting the American public from extortionate prices and the allies from famine. The Gore measure la amazing in Its boldness. Control of boards of trade that deal in futures Is limited to such' exchanges as arc engaged In Inter state commerce when everyone who has studied the question knows that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the buying on exenanges ana contracts between purchasers and brokers are not trans actions involving interstate com merce. Stripped of Effeetlveneas. The hoarding section of the bill as It came out of the House and was approved in the Senate committee has been stripped of Its force, first by limiting It to those engaged In inter state commerce; second, by the addi tion or a paragraph that "prohibits the acquiring, storing, or holding of such articles for future sale and for such advanced prices as might pre vail In the ordinary course of business in a free and unrestricted market." The above Is simply an Invitation to hold foodstuffs for "a free and unrestricted market," whatever that may mean. The real motive of those fighting the food bill Is. however, disclosed in that part of the Gore substitute which provides for the creation of a commission or board in place of the single executive planned by Presi dent Wilson In choosing Herbert Hoover. At least two of the members. It is proposed, should be presidents of ag ricultural colleges In the two largest wheat ruduclng States, which means Minnesota and Kansas. This Involves a mixture of the executive and ad vlfory functions, no matter whether 01 not Herbert Hoover Is one of the five chosen. Washington has hsd enough trou ble already with boards and commis sions. It needs executives to decide questions. Food administration Is a question of efficiency. Mr. Hoover would And himself com pelled to conduct a debating society with men who could not possibly know about the larger aspects of the Continued on Page 2. Col. 4) KORNILOF S FORCE WILD RETREAT General Kornilof's army, continuing its big push in the; Dniester-Carpathian sector, has cut the Austrian army in two, according to cablegram to the Russian embassy today. Communication has been cut between the Kaiser's armies under General Kjrbech and Bofhmer, and they are "in precipitate retreat," the messages say. . The Cossack troops, who are now in open country, are pursuing the retreating Teu tons without let-up, and accounts for the S. i i NEW YOIUC, July 13. -The West-' lnghouse Interests In Pittsburgh are seeking 1,000 men who are willing to sign an agreement to enter a new plant to be built for th .manufac ture of. war munitions by a secret process :jan.d remain Imprisoned for ten months, all communication with tbe 'outside world td tie shut off.' afi cording to a .special 'dispatch from Pittsburgh to the New' York "World. Men who have been approached were told that the plant will manu facture a-powerful Implement of war and the secret must be guarded until the Government sees fit to make the details public Only those workmen and officials who will be engaged in the production of the new weapon will know Us character and the de tails of manufacture. Recreation and .entertainment of ertry possible sort will be furnished the isolated employes. Pay double that they now get Is guaranteed, and bonuses will be paid for high produc tion. Only picked men whose Ameri canism, is unquestioned and whose skill In their respective vocations Is of Che highest wilt be employed. Officials of the Westlnghouse In terests refused to talk. An artisan of high standing, who was approached by the Westlnghouse agents, sal he had received an Intimation that the new plant would turn out. In large I quantities, one of the late Inventions of Thomas A. Edison. William Maxwell, general manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc said at the convention of Edison Phonograph eDalers at Waldorf-Astoria last night: "There Is a man, an old man, over"! In Jersey who Is working hard for Uncle Sam. At the moment he Is the most Important man In the country next to t-resiaent wiison. I believe he may soon become the most Import ant figure In the nation. That Is all I can say now." a c. opsasgned TO ANNISTON, ALABAMA To Get Intensive Training There J Before Joining Pershing. j The District National guard troops' will be sent to a concentration camp at Annlston, Ala., after they are called out July 25. The War Department this afternoon made this official announcement which proves Inaccurate published re ports that Spartanburg, S. C. had been been selected aa the camp site. A full division of national guards-l men made up from the forces of thai District, Maryland. Virginia. New) Jersey, and Delaware, will be sent' to camp at Annlston for a period of: Intensive trslning before- they are I sent to France, as part of Pershing's! force. j A part of the 020 men forming the District's quota of the first draft will J be assigned to the National Guard to! fill the ranks to war strength. i Men conscripted for the National Guard will be called Into the service before those drawn for the National Army. LIBERTY BONDS SLUMP. NEW YOItK, July 13. Liberty bonds continued slumping on the New York stock exchange today. Bonds sold at D0.3SW), a new low record. 1QQQMENWANTED TOWORK NSECRET 11 WARDEVIGE and the superiority of their mounts is of immense advantage to them, large number of prisoners taken. ARMED MEN GO TO STOP THREA TENED RAID OF BISBEE BISBEE, Ariz., June 13. boarded a train here today for Osborne, a railroad junction cast of here, following receipt of reports that the I. W. W.fs were preparing for an. attempted invasion of Bisbee. The guards will round up the industrialists again and hold them prisoner until the. Government It.on-ft eidatorektbrraanoB,NM:. thirty Tniles west of Columbus, the 1,200 I, W. guards, as the latter left them returned to Bisbee. VANDALISM IS "Well burn the cars and hold up the first westbound train through this, station," they shouted. "You'll see us back in Bisbee soon." Three women are reported in the ranks of the agitators, who have been without food thirty-six hours. A troop of cavalry is in control at Hermanos. Some semblance of order in Bis bee was resumed today, although posses are still searching for I. W. W.'s and several men have been seized and are being held pending in vestigation as to whether they are I. W. W.'s. Censorship Is Lifted. The censorship which was enforced here yeaterday has been lifted. Yesterday the citizens' committee took jiosaesslon of the telephone and i telegraph offices. Messages filed and long distance calls failed to get atten tion. Thus far no Indication of what will be done by the Federal authorities to cope with the I. W. W. situation has been received here. The citizens are anxious to have the Government step In. EL, PASO, Tex., July 13. Ixcal au thorities are making preparations to arrest tho I. W. W. agitators If tht-y arrive here. The chief of police has arrancd to, call out citizens for duty bv n .vhlstl If the I. W. W.'s aprpoach El Paso. It Is said the Invaders wll be given food, but must leave the city Immediately. More than a dozen arres.s of Indi viduals said to be I. W. W.'s havt been made here today. All train are being stopped outside the city and searched, before being allowed to proofed l.i'o the city limits. , Military authorities nave armed -he provost guard and are prepared to co operate with civil authorities In han dllng the situation. Two Hundred on Guard. DOUGLAS. Ariz., July 13. Two' hundred citizens, armed, assembled here early today, awaiting the ar-, rival of a passenger train from 121 1 Paso, upon which are thought to boj a large number of I. W. W. It was reported here that while In Columbus, N. M., a large number of I. W. W. men declared they would . hold up the first train that came through and make their way back Into Arizona. j The cattle cars loaded with I. W. W.'s were backed on a lonely siding' at Hermanos and the engine and caoooie bearing F. B. King, division superintendent of the El Paso and Southwestern, and the train crew started back to El Paso. When the regular passenger train passed Hermanos at 10:30 a. m. the COSSACKS Five hundred armed deputies, .takesva'hand W.'s defied, .their 184 armed without. engine and caboose,, and; THREATENED.", Bisbee guarda boarded It on their re turn home. At that time the I. V. ..'a were still In the cattle car. According to railway officials there will be no westbound train through Hermanos, either freight or passen ger, until late this afternoon. It was learned from the guarda here that only the Judgment of cooler heads prevented serious. trouble with the military at Columbus, when Su perintendent King was refused per mission by Colonel Sickles. U. S. A, to detrain the Industrialists. A roar of protest went up from the several hundred Bisbee guards. "Dump 'em off at the switch In the dark!" somebody relied. At this Juncture, ac several guards were piling off the train to "dump" thn I. w. W.'s Superintendent King came back. "Dun't do that," he cried. "It will mean bloodshed If you do. The mili tary absolutely refuses to let these men detrain here." King then ordered the train to pro ceed to Hermanos, where the L W. W.'n were left. No response from Governor Camp bell's appeal to General Parker for Federal support In the situation had been received at noon, according to telephonic advices from the capital. CREEL BOARD DENIES CENSORING L W.W.NEWS The War Department and commit tee on public Information denied to day that orders to Impose a military censorship on news from Bisbee and Douglas. Ariz., had been sent from Washington. The committee on pub lic Information issued this statement: "Cennorshlp on news dispatches from Arizona was not Imposed b the War Department or by this com mittee, nor was the fsct that such censorship had been Imposed reported here. If censorship was Imposed, It was under o tilers of military com manders on the spot." Secretary Ilaker today wired In-, structlons to General Parker to take whatever steps are necessary to pro tect life and property. General Par ker was Instructed to take no sides In the disputes. COLONEL KUTZ TO QUIT HIS POST HERE SUNDAY Next Sunday was fixed as the date for the relief of Lieut. Cot. Charles W. Kutz and the assignment of Brig. Gen. John G. D. Knight as engineer commissioner of the District In an official order Issued by the War De partment today. WARBRsNGS12,397 NEW CLERKS HERE T0TALf,DW54,461 For the first time In the nation's history the force of Government workers In' "Washington" has passed the . 00,000 mark. - t C.Th. -'rrtd 'tritaJ -.- osj'4 offlciala .awl clerks oXtnexfvtllaV force and officers .flf thfci'anhltary orcsson. ihe'jggif rmj meotPeyroli In Washington, waa-j plfcad at 5mhrdej)artmint heads, today. This is an Ih'cre'sse of 1ZS0T over the total of 42.0S4. shown In the last Covernrdent' clerk, census, which was-. taken from the official register of July 1. IBIS. All (he Increase ha come In the first three months of waifs activities. Prior to ihe war decreases In the force of the Pension Office. Postoffice Department, and other bureaus had offset the normal Increases In the new acpiruoenu, .ims aaaiuon ot iz.lf employes should be multiplied by two' or three In reckoning the Increase In population aa a large part of the new force Is mad up of married mtn with families. This result ot 25.000 to 35.000 falls to represent all of Washington's gain In population since the. United States entered the war. Thousands of representatives of private firms dealing In war contracts have moved their headquarters and brought their families to Washing ton for the period ot the war. Hundreda of others have come to offer, their services to the Govern-H ment and are serving In various capacities on the quasi-official war bureaus organized under the Council of National Defense and other new war agencies. Moreover the transient population has Increased by thousands, as the crowded condition of hotels and apartment houses Indicates. ASHURST NEAR DEATH UNDER FALLING BAR Senator Is Knocked Unconscious j as He Walks G Street. Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Ari zona today narrowly escaped death when he was struck and knocked un- j conscious by a falling Iron bar of an awning frame In front of a restaurant at HIT G street northwest. Senator Ashurst heard warning cries from negro workmen as the . ..... -.... .! mhJ ,-f ,1 n .-,. HUM (I MIIIV .C, (.MU ...EU w C..,,E . being struck, but was hit on the J hniiMir W w unronarlniiji for I several minutes, but after being re vived declared that he had important work at the Capitol, and started for his office. Senator Ashurst replied to a num ber oT telegrams concerning the I. W. W. strike In Arizona, and then was compelled to desert his desk and go home to bed. The frame weighed more than 100 pounds, and fell nearly thirty feet, missing the Senator's head by Inches. The Senator was walking from the Treasury, reading a newspaper, when the accident occurred. BALFOUR WELCOMED BACK. LONDON, July 13. Arthur J. Bal four was formally welcomed home from America In Guild Hall today. In his address he paid high tribute to America's clear vision' of the danger of a German militarism. UTILITY BODY ORDERS Ml ELECTRICITY Fl CAPITAL Price Cut Per Kilowatt Hour Twf Cents, as Forecast by v The Times, Saving The sanas to wasningtonians. Clarence' P. King, president of the Potomac Electric Power Company; this a(rnoon said thaj ("until we have-had time to .carefully considervthe commis sion's order tUlm impossible to state exectlvfwh'at coarse of ac tion we shall'-pnrsue." Reduction of the cost of electric current to the 'people of Washington from 3.0 cents to 8 cents per, kilowatt hour, and the minimum monthly charge from' 1 to 75 .cents, and marked redaction in ether rate icheduiesjvlrich It ii estimated; will result in a net savins' to the people of Wasninjrton-ot S32000"anHually; was ordered by the Public Utilities Commission 'in the 'rate decision. based ori the -valuation of the Poto mac Electric Power Company, an nounced today. The report of the commission was forecast exclusively in The Times yesterday and the news then pub lished was received with great satis faction by .the people of Washington, meaning to them the saving of hun dreds of dollars each year. Effective Next Month. The order stipulates that the new rate shall become effective August 1. 1917. and the company Is directed to file with the commission by July 31 a revised schedule of rates conform ing with the order. It Is regarded aa practically certain, however, that the Potomac Electric Power Company will ask the court for an Injunction restraining the com mission from enforcing the. new rate until its appeal from the valuation recently handed down by the commis sion has been passed upon by 'the courts If the restraining order Is Issued this probably would mean that it might be a year or more before the people actually reaped the benefit of the reduction, even though the commission's valuation of the eora pany'a property were sustained by the courts. nefnnd would fellow. Corporation Counsel Syme said to day that In the event a restraining order Is Issued, be shall Insist that provision be made so that. In the event the valuation Is upheld, the new rates will be retroactive and become effective as of August 1, 1017. This would mean that the company would have to refund to the people of Wash ington the difference between the present rates and the- new rate, if the rullna- is unfavorable to th mr. ! poratlon. The order handed down today re duces the cost for street lamps 10 per cent. It also changes the present schedules of the company so that the minimum current to be used In order to enjoy reduced rates would be CO kilowatt hours Instead of 120 kilowatt hours. This Item Is Important since It will ensble private consumers and particularly small stores using more than GO hours and less than 120 to avail themselves of the rate of S cents per hour, which under the old sched ule could not be obtained until 130 hours had been consumed. Schedule C of company's rates Is changed so that the charge for the first fifty hours of monthly consumption r.M not ex ceed 8 ce'nts per kilowa.t hour, that the charge for the next 300 shall not exceed 7 cents, for the next 500 shall not exceed 0 cents, and that charge for current In excess of ssn kilowatt hours shall not exceed the rate now ln force. The commission estimates that even after the reduction ordered, and after making allowances for lncressed pro duction costs, the company will earn In excess of 7 per cent of the fair value of Its property. SLAVS FORGE NEW ACTIONS b BATTLE LINE Attack Between Riga am, Dvirtsk, White Kornilof Presses on Fleeing Austrq Gerniana. on RoM fo Galicia Capitai. LONDON, July 13V-Toda ad vices from the xtqssisn front, whfl incomplete In detail, , indicate that the offensive of the Muscovite forces is rapidly extending 1n the north. heavy ariiHerymg in the sector1 be tween Eitra and DviruV being is progress, while' General Kornflofs victorious .armies are sweeping tat ward Lembeix in Galicia. , The news that action has been t sukwAe Baltic xeoais of trf jriinnjrHr tiTrt-y ,as itshowsthat the entire Russian armx.' respond? iinjT to the Joint wh&i Irae3 Xornl- , lofs ' men in their amazing dash through, the Austro-German walls of fire and steel in the Galicia sector. Big Battle At Halics. KomUofe latest achievement; the capture of KIusz, the Callclas rail road base, was attended by a bis; pitched battle, th reports Indicate. When ft was over his Cossacks were; chasing the Teutons across the Ga-. llclan plains, harassing them at every step. That section to General Kornilof army which stormed Kalusx. tho for mer Austro-German headquarters la Galicia, Is reported to have occupied Krechovlce, which I on the. railway leading to Dollna. North of this sector Russian cav alry i approaching th. Svtc. river, fifteen miles from Kalusx, where th Austro-German forces are expected to make a strong stand. North of the Xmleater the Russians are fighting for the railroad town of Buczcxovce, an Important position north of Uallcz. The Russians are now astride th railway and highways leading from Stanlxlau to StryJ. This latter town Is another ot the "key positions' de fending Lemberg on the south. Apart altogether from the moral Significance of the capture or Halics and Kalusx by the Eighth Revolution ary Army, Kornllofs advance wedge wise Into the territory between the Dniester and Carpathians conatltnte a menace to the whole front of Boehrn Ermollt's armies, whose northeastern sector, hard pressed before Brxexany . and Zborow by the Russian Seventh and Eleventh armies, now risks being outflanked by Kornllor famous crumbling process, which began list year and may begin again. Although there Is need for caution In military forecasts under the new condition, nothing succeeds Ilk (ac cess, and at a moment when so much depends on the spirit of the new. born Russian army the moral factor may very easily override purely strategical considerations and th Russians will gather strength as they advance. Inner Crista la Amatrla. The large number of Czechs and Slovaks among the prisoners seems to show that the Inner crisis 'In Aus tria Is having Its effect on the front. If for a time German agents suc ceeded In weakening the spirit of the Russian army. It Is very prob able that the Russian revolution as an historical fact has had a mdctr more profound and permanent effect In undermining the moral resistance of the central powers. Kerensky at the front urging th war-worn soldiers to a fresh and vic torious effort Is one ot the most strlk- lnz iigures of modern history, H , watches the fighting from an artll- letr observation point, attends th funerals of the dead, distributes or ders, promotes brave officers and sol diers, and once during the battle de missed the commander of a division. I Before the attack he addressed the I regiments. "Comrades." he said, "the HICTANERThe Man Fish Who Sank a Navy See the Magazine Page S .ifc. .-AJC'- -T .--