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VOL. CXXXV?No. 163.
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE THURSD
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ing; Medium in Northern Virginia.
AY, JULY 10, 1919. ,
PRICE ONE CENT.
Meeting In Interest of Or
ganizing New Com
pany , 4
NEED COMPANY HERE
Men Who Served Overseas Will be
Invited to Next Meeting?100 Men
Necessary to Organize.
Pre1! imli nary steps looking to the
organization of a military company
in this city were taken last might at
a meeting of sofme of the members
of the did Alexandria Light Infantry
together with members of the Cham
ber of Commerce.
After debating the subject of or
ganizing it was decided to hold a
meeting in the near future when the
men who served' overseas win be in
vited to be prcsenlt and complete plans
for organizing a company.
Sinfce the Alexandria Light Infan
try was sent away this city has been
wClhcut a military company and Col.
Jo. Lane Stern, adjutant general of
Virginia, ha!s sent an official ccm
rcuniication to Capt. T. B. Cochran,
asking that a military company be or
ganized here.
The letter follows: .
From The Adjutant General of Vir
ginia. *
To Captain Thomas Cochran, Alex
andria, Va.
Subject Organization National
Guard.
As a result of signing of the
JH^ie Treaty, the State will be re
V quired U> fpnm, and equip companies
^rx/r'Tne iNatioroal ' vrumm utriure ? cue
rTreaty becomes effective, which', it
/is understood ,will be ninety day*
i *from date of signature, or date of ap
' proval by Congress. Inquiry is there
P fore made of you as- to the probability
of organizing a company of Infantry
of the Virginia National Guard in
your place, within that time.
2.?Under1 the present regulations,
at is necessary' for the Company to
have 100 enKsted men, but the War
Department authorizes the mainten
ance of one platoon, with company
headquarters at one place, and an
other ,or second platoon-, under ccm
maijid of ohe or two officers, at seme
nearby .place, provided,- of course, pro
peri armory facilities are secured at
each place.
8i?It ..is requested you advise me
at the earliest practicable date if it
is possMe-to organize a" company of
the 'National?'Gu>ard at your place, and
recommend to this office the names of
some eligible'-men who woufld be will
intg to. undertake'organization.^ the
Company.' ? ; ? '
- 4.?The War Department furnisheis
ail^-arms, uniform clothing and fit Id
equipment ;trareports, subsists and
pays .troops for encampment, and also
pays for armory drills requiirirog only
that the community where the or
ganization is located furnish a suita
ble armory.
5.?If a favorable reply is received
f^om yqu, a more detailed statement
o| Requirements w-rW be! sent.
. JO LANE STERN.
. - . 1 , ' !? ' t
CANNOT RECOVER
Danville Judge Bases His Decision
on Fact That Government
Controls Wire
Danville, Va.,-July 10.?In a de
cision rendered 'yesterday bv Judge
E. Walton Brown no person can sue
the telegraph companies of America,
no matter what alleged wrongful
act is committed, as no individual
can sue the government. The deci
sion was rendered in the case of T.
M. Milstead against the Western
Union for $100, the plaintiff con
tending that the failure of the com
pany to deliver promptly a telegram
caused aim anxiety.
The court held when the govern
ment took over the wires t>o provis
i. was made for the institution of
sw t against individuals, as is the
ensv of the Fedarl railways, suits
ist which are brought against
Y?' :lUer D. Hijiei. . ?. ?
> STANDARD GASOLINE 25c
Orvn evenings and Sundays, Alex
Auto. Supply, 104 South
Wnsinagton street. ;i 149-tf
FIREMEN FEASTi
:.: !
Reliance Fire Company Host to Fire
men and City' Officials
The Reliance Fire Engine Com
pany gave a banquet at the com
pany's house last night which was
attended by about seventy-five guests
including members of that company,
officers of the other fire companies,
members of the fire committee and
memlbers of city council. L. E. Uh
ler, presideut of the company, pre
sided, and during the evening short
addresses were delivered by a num
ber of the guests.
The - occasion for the spread was
the arrival of the new motor engine
known as No. 5.
NIEW BOOKS FOR
ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY
The following new books have
just been added to the Alexandria
Library now located on the second
floor of 806 Prince sitreet.
The Shrieking Pit, Arthur Rees;
The Wicked Marquis, E. P. Oppcn
heim; Against the Winds, Kate Joy
don; Rosy, Louis Dodge; Shops and
Houses, Frank Swrnnerton; Lilies
White and Red, Francis Huard;
Further Adventures of Jimmy Dale,
F. L. Packard; The Moonlit Way,
R. W. Chambers; Across the
Stream, E. F. Benson; The Black
Stone, George Gibbs; The Undying
Fire, H. G. Wells; Flexible Ferdi
rand, ? Julie Lippman': When the
World Shook, Rider Haggard; His
Friend Miss McFarland, K. L Bos
her; The Last Million, Ian Hay;
The GoE<pel of the Hereafter, J. P.
Smyth; The Green Satin Gown. L.
E. Richards; The Armstrongs, L. E.
Richards; The Donnelley's Red Book,
National Buyers Guide, and Sales
Catalogue, March 1919.
OFFICERS I. 0. 0. F.. INSTALLED
W. Cl'ifton Cunningham, district
deputy grand master, last night in
stalled the newly elected officer^ of
Sarepta Lodge No. 6, at Odd Fel
lows' Hall. Afterward a buffet
luncheon was Served.
Tonight the officers of Fall's Church
will be installed at Palls Church by
Mr. Cunningham. The Alexandrinas
who will attend will leave here at 7
o'clock in automobiles from Odd
Fellows' Hall.
THAW HELD AS LUNATIC
Slayer of Stanford White is Now
Committed to Kirkbride
Asylum, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pa., July 10.?-Uarrv
K. Thaw'is a lur.'atic without lucid
intervals/ He has been-so adjudged
by a Pennsylvania, court and com
mitted to Kirkbride's asylum. The
Governor of Pennsylvania is not
bound to honor a requisition from
the' Governor of the State of New
York for Thaw's extradition in the
face of the judicial proceedings that
place his status. The only recourse
the State of New oYrk has is to get
permission from that court for his.
removal. !
That sums up Attorney General
William I. Schafer's opinion on the
matter of Thaw's extradition to
New York to face the indictment
held against him in a New York
court charging criminal assault
agaiirst Hei-bert Gump, of Kansas
City, committed in the Hotel McAl
pin, New York. It was made at a
hearing granted to Robert S. John
stone and Edward P. Kilroe, assist
ant district attorneys of New York
by the Attorney General, who acted
on behalf of the Governor, Judge
James Gay Gordon, counsel for Mrs.
Mary C. Thaw, appeared in opposi
tion to the New York man.
YOU BE THE JUDGE
Try our Fhavo and Baker's Pride
flour. If you don't find it better and
more pleasfiwg to the taste tell us and
get your money back.
Order a Sack Today
nitration Plant Nearing CompleCnp
The New Filtration Plant of the
Alexandria Water Company, is ex
pected to be in operation about July
20th.
We are introducing the maximum
amount of chlorine and using all pes
s:ole precautions, under existing ren
ditions to safeguard the water sup-:
After consultation with the City
Health Officer we feel it adivisable, as
a precautionary .measure, to urjre our
consumers to boil their drinking
water until the filtration plant is
completed.
Alexandria Water Company.
162~2c.
WILSON APPEARS
BEFORE SENATE
Gives Succinct History of
Peace Conference at
Versailles
IS AMERICA'S CHANCE
Urges Logical Reasons For League of
Nations?Part Played by the United
States During the Past Six Months
President Wilson addressed the
Unite/: States Senate today, present
ing ffie treaty of peace with Ger
many. including the covenant of Ihe
league of nations. He also discours
ed upon the process 211a completion
cf negotiations for the condusio-i of
peace. Among ether things he said:
"The- United States entered the war
upon a different footing from evsry
other nation except our assoc:ates
on this side of the sea. We entered it
not because our material interests
were directly threatened or because
any special treaty obligations to
which we were parties had been vio
lated, but only because we saw the
supremacy, and even the validity,
of right everywhere put in jeopa: ;ly
and free government likely to be
everywhere imperiled by the intoler
able aggression of a power which re
spected neither right nor obligation
and whose very system of govern
ment fl'outed the rights of the citizen
as against the autocratic authoi :fry
of his governors. And in the set
tlements of the peace we have sough;
no special reparation for ourselves
but only the restoration of right
the assurance of liberty everywhere
that the effects of the settlement
were to be felt. We entered the war
as the disinterested champions of
l'Sght and we interested ourselves in
the terms of the peace in no other
capacity.
"The hopes of the nations allied
against the central powers were at
a very low ebb when our soldiers
began to pour across the sea. There
was everywhere among thc-m, ex
cept in their stoutest spirits, a som
ber foreboding of disaster. The vai
ended m November, eight months r.gc
but you have only to. recall what war
feared in midsummer llaist, four shor'
months before the armistice, to i::i
lize what it was_ that our timely aid
accomiplished alike for their morale
and their physical safety.
"Old entanglements of every kind
s'tood in the way?promiises which
governments had made to cne an
other in the days when might r.nd
right were confused and the power
of the victor wais without restraint.
Engagements which contemplated
any dispositions of territory, any ex
tension's of sovereignty that might
seem to be to the interest of th:?sc
who had the power to insist upon
them, had been entered into without
thought of what the peoples concern
ed miight w*i!sh or pro-fit by; and
thtise could not always be honorably
brushed asid'2. It was not easy tc
graf'. the new order of ideas on the
old, and some of the fruits of the
grafting may, I fear, for a time b:*
bitter. But with very few exceptions,
the men who sat with us at the peace
table desired as sincerely as we did
to get away froim the bad influences,
the illegitimate purposes, the demora
lizing ambitions, the international
counsels an dexpedients out of which
the sinister designs of Germany bad
sprung as a natural growth.
"It had been cur privilege to fcr
?mulate the principles which wr ?
accepted as the basis of the peace,
but they had been accepted, not
because we had come in to hasten
and assure the victory and insisted
upon them, but because they were
readily acceded to as the principles ;o
which honorable and enlightened
minds everywhere had been bred.
"The atmosphere in which the con
ference worked seemed created, not
by the ambitions of strong govern
ments, but by the hopes and aspira
tions of small nations and of peoples
hitherto under bondage to the power
that victory had shattered and de
stroyed. Two great empires had beer,
forced in'to political bankruptcy, and
we were the receivers. Our task was
not only to make peace wath the cen
4 i S
tral empires and remedy, the wrongs
their armies had done.
'?'In all quarters of the world old
established relationships had been
disturbed cr broken and affairs
-.veer at loose ends', needing to be
mended or united again, but could
not be made what tTiey were be
fore. They had to be set right by
applying some uniform principle of
justice or enlightened expediency.
And they could not be adjusted by
merely prescribing in a treaty
what should be done. New states
were to be set up which could not
hope to live through their first
period of weakness without assured
support by the great nations that
had consented to their creation and
won for them their independence.
That there should be a league
of nations to steady the counsels
;tnd maintain the peaceful under
standings of the world, to make not
treaties alone, but the acepted prin
ciples of international law as well,
the actual rule of conduct among
the governments of the world, had
been one of the agreements accept
ed from the first as the basis of
peace with the central powers. The
statesmen of all the belligerent
countries were agreed that such a
eaprue must .be created to sustain
the settlements that were to be ef
fected.
The conference was. after all,
not to be ephemeral. The concert
of nations was to continue, under a
definite covenant which had bee*
agreed upon and which all were
convinced was workable. They could
go forward, with confidence to make
arrangements, intended to bo perma
nent and almost practical.
A cry had pone out from every
h~me in every stricken land from
which sons and brothers and
fathers had gone forth to the great'
sn rifice that such a sacrifie should
never again be exacted. It was
manifest why it had been exacted*
It had been exacted because one
nation desired dominion and other
nations had known no means of j
defense except armaments and al
liances.
The league of nations was not
merely an instrument to adjust and
remedy old wrongs under a new
treaty of peace; it was the only
hope for mankind.
It was seen as the main object of
the peace, as the only thing that
could complete it or make it worth
wihV. They saw it as the hope of
the world, and that hone they did
not dare to disappoint. Shall we
or any other free people hesitate
to ijcoept this jrreat duty? Dare
we rcjccc it and break the heart
cf the world?
"it was universally recognized
tl'iit America had entered the war to
promote no private or peculiar irv
terest of her own; but only as the
champion of rights which she was
?rlari to share with free men and
lovers of justice everywhere. They
knew that there is no ground for
fear in receiving us as their men
to'-s and guides. Our isolation was
ended twenty years ago; and now
fear of us is cnde*l also.
Our counsel and association is
sought after and desired. There
can be no question of our ceasing to
be a woiid power. The only ques
tion is whether we can refuse the
moral leadership that is offered us,
wh?tl..-r we shall accept or reject
the confidence of the world.
"The stage is s>et, the destiny dis
closed. It has come about by no
hand of God who led us into this
way. We cannot tuurn back.- We
car. only go forward, with lifted
eyes nad freshened spirit, to fol
low the vision. Tt was of this
that we dreamed at our birth.
America shall in truth show the -way
The light sreams upon the path
ahead, and noiwhere eke.
SUICIDE EPIDEMIC
Geneva, July 10.?Suicides among
the German officers are increasing
alarmingly, especially in Prussia,
where the number of suicides is 3S
pfrr ccnt. more than before it be
came known that former Emperor
William was to be placed on trial by
tl*. Allies, according to Munich
newspapers.
The wives of officers are also re
ported to be taking their own lives.
The ir.crcase in the number of sui
cides is attributed not only to patri
otic despair but of the loss of the of
ficers' past serai ? csition.
In compliance ' h a request
made by the Mercian: r" A ?? ;oc::ition,
we will close every V* ? .jtic-wu? at 12
?clock during Jir.* ? " ? August;
161-3p. rt'v ;u3e'> Bakery.
| Now Wait Patiently For Ap
proval by the Al
lies '
VOTE STOOD 20S TO 115
Yearns For Removal of Blockade?
Bill of Ratification One of the Hrief
est of Kind in History
Weimar, Juiiy 10.?By a majority
j of ninety-ithree votes, the German
National Assembly here ratified the |
treaty of pc-ace yesterday without re- j
serrations. The vote was 208 to 115 J
iiconditional acceptance of the j
treaty was voted on June 22, the ma
jority bein)? ninety-nine. The vote
en that occasion stood 27 to 1"S.
F'fty-two additional votes were,
therefore, cast at the ratification srs
.iLon. The figures show that no ma
terial change in the sentiment of the
assembly has taken place since :he
signing.
Immediately upon ratification.
President Ebert informed President
Glemer.ceu of the Peace Confercr.ce
by telegraph of the result of the
session.
Germany now waits?and waits
impatiently?for ratificaion by the
allies. The howl of protest against
the terms has died down, an-J the peo
ple of the Fatherland are fast set
:!in?; down to the hard task of ful
fillirsg lhc*m.
Dr. Ma'thias Encbergcr, vice pre
mier and minister of finance, sound
ed the keynote of Germany's peace
task by announcing his firm resolve
"to tread the hard path of economy."
Throughout his speech he emphasized
:he imperative necessity of fretting
back to a peace bas'is as quickly as
possible, to "work, work, work,'' to
ward payment of the reparations,
and to that end eliminate every pfen
ning of unnecessary nationsil and In
dividual expenditure.
, But even more than for ratifies
tion of the peace by three allied
powers?which will make peace an
icbual fact.?-Germany yearns for
v.*ord from Paris that the blockade
'? Hfted, and with it the censorship
f her mails and cables. The goveni
nent confidently expects this notifi
?itSon to reach; Weimar within the
?ext 48 hours. ? : :
The hiM^ ratifying the * peace treat?
'5 the Briefest document of its kind
n history. It reads:
'"'Article 1?-The peace treaty be
vveen Germany and the allied and as
sciatcd powers signed on June 28,
'.r.<I the portocol belonging thereto <13
?.veil as the agreement concerning the
nilitary occupation of the Rhine
ind, are hereby approved.
"Article 2.?This law becomes ef
"octive on the date of publication."
ON HOMEWARD VOYAGE
British Dirigible Lcfctvos for Scot
land Shortly After
Midnight
Mineola, X. Y., July 10.?The
3ritish dirigible R-34 left Roosevelt
leld shortly before midnight on her
etum cruise to Scotland.
?The great ship, held in leash by
1,000 American , balloon mem, was
eleased at 11:55 o'clock, and float
?d leisurely up to a height of 2W
reet with her motors silent. The
;notors then began to whirr and the
raft, noising upward headed for
New York.
Favorable weather condtions were
reported over the entire routie save
for one bad spot in midatlantic.
The big gas bag has been repair
ed and Allied with hydrogen, and
the engines are in excellent condi
tion. Forty pounds of official mail
is stowed aboard, including two
gold medals of the Aero Club of
America awarded to Can't. Alcock
and Lic'uv. Brown, who flew the
Vickc-rs-Vimy biplane overseas from
Newfoundland in the first nonstop
transatlantic "hop" to the British
Isles from Ncrth America.
In a statement last night, Major
G. H. Scott, commander of the di
rigible, declared that he* would fly
over New* York and, if favorable
winds on the other side offered, over
London on his honi?ward journey to
East Fortune, Scotland.-..
ARMS ALL WORKERS
Documents Seized in Raid Show
"Red" Tinge.
New York, July 10.?Documents
seized in the raid on the Rand School
of Social Science were introduced as
evidence by Attorney General New
j ton when the joint legislative com
mittee resumed yesterday its inquiry
into radical activities in this State;
One of the exhibits was lesson No;
12 in the correspondence course c'
the school. The lessons were prepnrc-d
by Scott Nearrnlg. In the or.e re'
into the records was this statement:
''Ail workers to be armed and th
propert classes to be disarmed."
CONDEMN BOLSHEVISM
Atlantic City, N. .J., July 10.?
Resluticns were passed at yester
days session of the Graml Lodge of
Elks condemning Bolshevism.
One resolution said: ''Every Elk
has taken a solemn obligation to
support the Constitution and laws
of the United States of America,
and we have been tautrht as one of
the fundamental principlts of the'
order that he American flag, typi
cal as it is, of our form of govern
ment, shall be in our hearts as loyal
Elks. No man can be a Bolshevist
and remain a loyal American citi
zen."
ALL U. S. SUFFERING
FROM HOUSING LACK
Hundreds of cities arc suffering
from a shortage of houses, accord1
mg to reports received by the Uni
ted States Housing Corporation to
day.
Chief among these are New York,
Cleveland, Detroit, Mihvauke, anci
Seattle.
Blue prints and plans used by the
corporation in its building program
are being sent to various cities to
helps timulate building.
FOCH TO LEAD PARADE
Pershing And Men Wll Have Second
Place in Victors' March
Paris, July 10.?Genral Pershing
and the American regiment wh'ch
will march in the Victory parade
July 1-1 will ccme . directly after
Marshal Foch, who will lead the pa
rade. and the first French division,
according to the oflicial program
which was issued yesterday. Af:er
the Americans will come Field Mar
shal Haig and the British contin
gent, which will be followed by the
representatives, of the Belgian army
SLAIN GIRL BURIED
. IX DANCING FROCK
: Los Angeles, Cal., July 10.?Mrs.
Lulu Burger, of Indianapolis, mother
of Ilarry S. New, confessed slayer of
his fiancee, Frieda Lesser arrived
I here yesterday to arrange for the <ie
j fense of New, who, she says, is Lh:
son of United States Senator New of
Indiana.
"Senator New will come to Harry'*
defense/' she said.
While arrangements were b?Mr?g
rrtade for Mrs. Burger to he taken tr
New's ceFl, she collapsed, and the
visit was postponed.
New is completely exhausted from
his nights of visions of the face of
the dead girl.
"Love is death," said Rabbi S.
Hecht yesterday, pronouncing the
last rites- over the body of Miss Fri
eda I/jsser, whom Harry S. New
^aid he killed.
Miss Lesser was buried in her pink
satin dancing frcck. pink slippers, j
and with her wealth of brown curls j
falling around her shoulders.
HEAVY RAIN KILLS SEVEN
Dubuque, la., -July 10.?Seven per
sons were killed yesterday and a
number of others seriously injured
as a result of ..two inch rainfall in
Dubuque county.
Five were drowned when a pavil
ion at Union Park was undermined
by the heavy rain and fell. Six
bridges were washed out, crops were
ruined ar.d trains were derailed by
washout track*.
DIVIDEND NOTICE
Office of Alexandria Water Co.
Alexandria, Va., July 8 ,1920.
At a meeting of the Board of Di
rectors of the Alexandria Water Co..
hel.i th?s day, a semi-annual dividend
of three dollars ($-3.00) per share v,as
declared payable on July 18th, to all
stockholders of record of June 30,
1919.
Alexandria Water Company.
1G2-3C.
HAPPENINES ABOUT
, CITY TOLD IN BRIEF
_
i
Miss Edr/a E. McKenney left
Wednesday for El Paso, Texas.
Rev. J. P. Lloyd and family have
gone on a motor trip to Nigara
Fails, X. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hopkins
and daughter, Miss Julia B. Hop
kins, have pone to Plot Springs, Va.
Private Thomas B. Connelly has
arrived safely from overseas and
now is at Camp Merritt, N. J.
There will be a called meeting of
the Columbia Steam Fire Engine
Company tonight at 8 o'clock. All
members are requested to be present
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bettis have
ben notified of the safe arrival from
overseas of their son, Leonard M.
I?ett:s who is now at Newport News,
va.
The regular weekly prayer meet
ng at Anne Lee Memorial will Be
'ield Friday night at 7:30. Judge
Parley will lead this meeting. A
crdial invitation to all denomina
ions and strangers.
?Mrs. Alice A. Burke and husband,
Julian T. Burke have sold to John
Morris and wife a house and lot on
Cedar street, Rosemont, Gardner L.
Sooth-?, trustee, has sold to Mrs.
Alice A. Burke and husband, Julian
T. Burke a house and lot on Rose
mont avenue, Rosemont.
WANTS ALL IN LEAGUE
Rompers Re-Elected President of
Pan-American F. of L. by
Unanimous Vote
New York, July 10.?A demand
hat all the nations of the world be
:iade eligible to the League of Na
'.ions was expressed in i resolution
nanimously adopted hero yesterday
>t the first annual congress of the
Pan-American Federation of Labor
by delegates from ten countries, in
cluding the United States.
The demand was formulated in an
?amendment proposed by Samuel
rompers, president of the congress
nd head of the American Federa
tion of Labor, following a report by
he committee on resolutions ind-r
.??ing the League of Nations.
Under another resolution adopted,
Mr. Gomtpers, who will sail Friday
"or Europe, to take part in the In
ternational Trades Union Congress,
is authorized to take what steps he
(!ems advisable to' co-operate, .with
abor organizations in Europear/
?ountries. ... ,
The American' Federation - of''Jta
' or is called' upon, in another me
morial adopted to "clarify^it'S' Tea
~on for objecting.*.! -to immigration
nto the Unitcnl States durmg the
Irst four years of the reconstru'c
ion period.
sons..rll lof dom od mo dom odr
Under a resolution adpted the
federation decided to use its pood
fiices toward a settlement of the
boundary dispute between Chile and
Peru, as there was dancer of a war
in which the workers would be the
chief sufferers.
Objection by the delegate from
Ecuador that the resolution was of
?olitical character was responded to
?y Mr. Gompcrs, who said: "Had
he working people of Germany and
Austria had the courage an dintelli
;c*nee to set themselves against the
action of their governments we
would not have had the war of the
past five years."
Mr. Gompers was unanimously re
jected president of the Federation.
CONDUCTOR'S SMILE
WINS HIM $15,000
Jersey City, N. J., July 10.?That
golden smile" fche poets love to jug
gle with has turned out literally true
in the case of George F. Conroy, Erie
conductor.
The smile which Conroy gave in ex
change for every ticket helped short
en the rides of J. J. Adams, commut
ing to Allendale. ;
Today Conroy learned Ad3m had 1
willed' him $15,000; '-2- ? :
"I hope he got as much pleasure
receiving it as I got giving-it," said
Conroy. ' ' * ??'?*:/<!<' ?
Commuters say that H rroy got
paid for a0 hi rate' he
could buy the .ra-ilyoar! _ _ <
PT* kic- ?
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