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The Washington Herald from Washington, District of Columbia • Page 9

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IN WM AM Goed, Bafo Org.ixed Labor. -e suffals, 1. Now'. IL-Pike AmatS ean ederats, at ImAbor was eail today to Jb With organized la barl Grea BriainFrance, Italy, una grbjia and Canada. in dormIb thes war abas: 1 Theabh- of militarbin al N.

annemuom. 3. Freedom a trade after the 4. A eague of nattlee to emiaro 5. The abolition of secret diPanmanY Cie oam 3id A report tavring all thes4 proe1 tions was laid before the convention today by John Golden.

who has Jus returned from Londmn where he rep repented the Amereman Federatio Labor at the inter-aflled 0oaferene workera. He declared he found the delegates Who attended the cornfer ence in accord on the program he reomesmnmded. Golden declared in his report tha' the A. F. of L.

was too importan an organisation not to be adaquatel: repeeented an all inter-ained confer ene ot labor in the future. His re part will come up for adoption or re jection within a few day. The changing ot the annual meet ing time of the Federation from November to Midsumennr. was reonom rended to the convention. A boom which promnises to be uc Senssful.

was launched today to obtain the next convention for Cincinnati THE TOWN CRIER. At the meetting et the Seatety fe Philosophical Inquiry. to be held a the Public Library today at 4:4 p. there will be a general dis cussion of the Cartesian philosophy At the meeting of the Seemln League tomorrow at 3 at the l'ythian Temple. Kepler Hoyt wil present a paper of "PsychIcal Re search." The 2BUth meeting (speetel) of th Chemical Society of Washington will be held at the Cosmos Clul 4Madison place entrance) at I p.

in on Monday. Tlhe Ark of Delvernace" Is S6 subject of an addreesto be delli ered by Dr. Hillis Cole. of New York City, tomorrow evening a 3:15 o'clock in Studio Hall, 1219 avenue. for the Baha Aseembly and friends.

The 14th regular meeting of th Biological Society of Washington will be held this evening'at 3 o'clock in the lecture hall of the Cosmos Club, corner of street and Iafay ette Square. Enter basement door on Lafayette Square side of build ing. Visitors are welcome. Couneil meeting at 7:30 in the council roon of the Cosmos Club. At the Y.

3. A. A. Rmesntia Center this evening there will be a weekly reception and dance for soldiers and sailors and civilian stranDegrees ei entered apprentite. fel.

low craft'man and master Maser be conferred upon candidates of Harmony Lodge, F. A. A. at a aceting to be held in Masonic Temple today at 4 o'clock. An Important meeting of the West End Citizens' Association will be held at Kidder Hall, $22 Twentieth street northwest, on Monday, November 19.

at o'clock. "La 1ataille do In Marne" wll he the subject of an address by Maurice Boucher before the members of the Alliance Francaise at the Cosmos Club next Thursday afternoon ai 4:30 o'clock. The 111th meeting ef the Anthe.pological Society of Washingtor will be held in the auditorium of the new building of the United States National Museum (entrance at south front) November 20 at 4:30 o'clock. There will be a boarm meeting at 4 p. m.

The Ualversity Club will give a r-ception tonight to the heroes the allied armies. Officers who have taken part in military actions I the V. e.tern front will speak Among those to make addresses are J. K. Cochrane.

of the genera staff of the British Military Mission Lieut. Gen. Mathieu Leclerc. chief of the Belgian Military Mission Gen. Emilio Guglielmotti, of the Italian Embassy, and an officer selected from the French Mission.

The Day Nursery sad Dispsemar? Association In to hold a card party tt 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the New Ebbitt House. Mr. Will. iam E. Andrews I president of the asabelation.

The home is at 495 street southwest Resinol out that eczema 'Three days0 ago, my arm wasn simpt covered um red, itching eruption anm I thought I wasn up against ft lor fa'u But Joe had a jar of ReeinoIin his kit I aed a Natie and the bchlng soppec uigh of Ja temaornig meat of the redne.m vs ifgene aid'a eample mon DAY' ONi e.a bs. The United States Food Ad Iugar by standardizing the Ibaves. pounds, two pounds, a pound and may be sold. Vegetable oils in pl The above diagram gives a photo Epidemic of Keeps D. C.

With Ve An epidemic of thievery exists in the District. Judge Pugh and Prosecutor Ralph Given yesterday in Polle Court remarked an unusual number of potty and grand larceny and robbery cases. Six well-dressed white women were arraigned on charges of petty lareeny from a department store In Seventh street. All pleaded guilty. Eight charges covering a period of several months were fled against one woman.

Against another four charges were made and two others faced three charges each. One was held on two charges and the sixth just one. Merchandise valued at WtO2-ehoes. suits, muffs and coats-was involved. On recommendation of Mr.

Given all the rases were referred to the probation officer. Exacee. Pareels stlen. The express companies recently h'ave been victims of numerous potty thefts. Most of the offenders were employed by the companies.

Three young men employed on epress delivery autos were the latest offenders convicted. They are Harri. son J. Shoenmaker, Orlando Miller, and William E. Mulloy.

Three charges were lodged against Shoemaker and one each against the other two. They took vegetables, eggs, candy, hats. mufflers, and sweaters. Each offender ieceived sentences of thirty days on each charge. The telephone company has been the W.

I'. TRUE TO FIGHT FOR U. S. Government Publicity Man Follows in Footsteps of Coworkers. Webster P.

True, director of publIcity of the National Museum and Smithsonian Institution, has resigned and followed In the footsteps of many others connected with the Institution, joining the fighting forces of the country. True has left for New York to enlist in the Field Artillery. Before leaving he declared that should he be disappointed in New York he would cross into Canada and enlist there. Nearly a score of men have left the museum to join the army. M.

Murphy Is in France now. having Joined the Ordnnce Department some time ago. H. C. Bollman and R.

S. Rosemond have enlisted in the Medical Corps; W. W. Terbert is a sergeant In the Ordnance Department at Waltervilet. N.

Jack Holloday enlisted in the Field Artillery of the District National Guard and Js now quartered at Anniston. A. H. Porringer. who joined the Medical Corps.

is In France: and Louis Goldberg is serving in the Quartermaster Corps. Carl H. Butman, formerly connected with the museum, has charge of the Washington office of the Air Service jonrnal. Twp men have obtained commiasIons: Carlisle Whiting, who attended the second Offcers' Training Camp at Fort Myer. and has been commisstoned as a lieutenant; while 1.

B. Ettridge Is a captain in the Quartermaster Corps serving In France. Negro Teachers Homer Memory of Associates "The reward of a school teacher is in the. sense of satisfaction In training boys and girls to grow independently for themselves and developing their Individual qualities," said R1ev. B1.

F. Rivers in an address at the memorial meeting for negro teachers who died in 156-11. All France RidsWartime; Paris, Aim the bicycle over here. The automobile is out of re rich, hbeuse gasoline is $1.29 a So the French mass-- have i Everybody rides. On the hx rural hightways, almnost 'a mnany wi Yhen a polite Frencinman with me tonmorrow dont 'um ins around aiter you in ab egh.

The chances are three to one leain another for you to rids. In Paris and its environs i bicycles in service and thepes A top-neech bicycle 'it S50. Americam money. They're all equped witht posenmatae so inAua the average French highway iseg In the late afternoon, and hisentire famitt i msu t- sninstration prooseg to redues breas Bakers are' asked to make only a half, and one und. Each l6af ice of lard used and the on Iraphic idea of the relative-sizes of hievery Courts Busy uried Offenses victim lately of slot phone looters.

Several young men are on probation following oeoviction for robbing telephones when sent to repair thon. Herman Benson and Israel Rensen. brought back from Pittsbrgt and charged with robbing Nathan Wolk in his store on Sherman avenue and Barry plece northwest, were arraigned and held In $6.00 bond each for the grand jury. Woman's Steasing Raeied. Alice Shannon.

white woman. charted with stealing 01 from the stocking of another woman. was sentenced to serve three years In the penitentiary yesterday by Justles Stafford in Criminal Court no. Bessie Hawkins, a colored domestic. received a year for housebreaking and larceny, and Hattie Roane, another domestic, received a three-year sentence on a similar charge.

Robert Palmer got a five-year sentence for larceny. as did Virginia Jackson. colored, domestic. Maurice Butler got ten years for assault with a dangerous weapon and robbery. Mary Johnson.

alias Josel Simpson, also received ten years for robbery. Georgianna Steele and James Treskey, both convicted of burning the auto of the forther with felonios intent last fall on the Maribero road to collect Insurance, received a year sentence each and were placed on probatie'. Mrs. Steele was Bned TRADER i OMN WRK FOR Y. M.

Ge A. $10,000 Chairman Galliher of Campaiws Team, Sets Mark for Associats. The T. M. C.

A. war work fund campaign among members of the Board of Trade got under full headway yesterday. W. T. Galliher chairman of the campaign team of the board, mailed a letter to each member of the board.

in which he said: "To make the $10.00 mark, we need: "Three subscriptions of 00 each. "Seven subsecriptions of SiO each. "Fourteen subscriptions of S100 each. "Twenty subscriptions of Of each. "Fifty subsecriptiens of 610 each.

"One hundred sUbseriptions of 5 each." More than 85,10 was raised at the annual meeting of the board Monday night. The remainder of the sum Is expected to be realised within two weeks. HORSEMEN TO CONFER. Horsemen from all parts of New York State will confer in New York City Monday on questions concerning the horse in relation to military and civil conditions. Many of the best-known horsemen in the State have promised to attend, among them: Nathan Straus.

New Yotk; 8. Toman. New York; Horatio N. Pain. Poughkeepsie; Ernest I.

White, Syracuse, and many others. Dr. William 0. Stillman. director general of the American Red Cross Annal Relief.

Albany. has been specially invited to speak upon horse conditions in relation to the army and the great need which exists for a better type of army horses. held in the Dunbar High School auditorium yesterday afternoon. R. C.

Bruce. superintendent of colored schools, who presided, praised the character and quality of the Washington teachers. Prof. Tibbe, of Howard UiniversiW, also addressSd the meeting and several musical selections were given by Miss Mary L. Europe, of the Dunbar High SehooL on Bicycles-in.

Gasoline Is High war is repopularisng ich of everybody except the very calon. red agin to the bicycle. ulevarI of Parisaaslasathe mnen are to be seen ridin as men. tsks: "Would you enjoy a to tile conchusion that he's comn'll sowaUn i wabcle, ere are now more than 200,000 stie, in smaller townS is greater. ster appliance ean be bought for anall pneumatic tire.

The large in't nbcessar3f over here because smooth as a billiard thing for a Frseihman og aspin. mDas alwaysain th SWelan1 ajoie.the I prces, conserve itat, and our sizs, loaves W(ghir four 'ill be ereased qg that half-loaves gar content wi be cut in half. he future bakers' loaves. he Fam fre th Gls V.a... sPsUe Pen Tal.

Fisher sued a motion pictu proetor for damages. Miss eIlle, Lod 42. a spinster, was enjoying the novies with her beau when she neezed her false teenth out into his ap. The shock of learning her pearly were artificial caused him to eave in haste, never to return. WlsI lallie claims boys' scattered sneese sowder in the theater.

Inwaves New Cer. to(LEDPEAR WILL PtCKLE What Cheer. Davis has nvented a new kind of collar, to 00nPerve linen for airplanes and to cut town. laundry bills. It Is of a tnm3er of thicknesses of paper, and when soiled in easily freshenae by uerely peeling off the outer thleness.

Davis is working on paper euffs of the same model, for the especial use )f authors and detectives. Poo'' -im- sugar Creek. Ohlo-Fearing his state would go dry at the fall Jonas Archer put up )a huge stock of mincemeat, pickled pears snd other preserves with enough atzoholic kick to them to guarantee a souse per spoonful to any resident of a bone-dry State. Archer expects to sell his product at high prices to all forbidden to have alcoholie beverages on their premises. Whale saes Esm.

Pigs Eye, In the whale fishing industry Is caused by the escape of an educated whale rrom the local aquarium into the niorthern waters. The whale had been taught to read. It read that whale meat was being put on the market. whereupon It escaped and swaim madly out to sea. A shortage of whales Is expected as the educated whale spreads the news.

Eatb Way te Safety. FuTh Atchee, GoldIe Loggs was saved from suffocation in a great sugar bin by a miracle. At a refinery she fell In a twenty feet deep, and the sugar closed over her like sand. Later she explalned that her tears In fear of death turned the sugar In froit of her face Into candy, a sort of salt Water laffy. whereupon she was able easily to eat her way to-the surface.

Was is Ow. Hair. You Bet. TombetonS Is In jail following a riot In a local barber shop. Tombstone wanted the barber to pasta cn the bald spot ce the top of his head the haIr cut from khe fringes, clIning the hair becoaged to him.

He brought a pot of gIe for the purpese, and when the barber refttse be dabbed the glue all ever the ekir, starting a fight. 5udgroom centrasted a. gvhig against 44 -ap aeress the haJl. -ye" "'30st oCi sian twDisouu om man mef gesuiet th 0i 'sehe as oi ae to 0dibam to MO SW ISSM8 1116 VO NG IP an aveseer at 3hbi" Eoss.s tonee of so 21mb1 -sh the AsIkee eeseileat of the Oate0 mow. MOW.

Iadependent o-st aim that the g-l-hta take ft diet the new state ot aSrio as weOsmrind. Lithua i P.Cre aila. we lisamam aman', a telagrpe ae ltisa has been Interrupted ter n1aat a week. The program of th AddiweiM ef for an aritistle, bt it Ia undrtOd their prsse ito addreas the to son Se bhittent and to agra a asparas pec wit Gemay I the diapate esedvee bee Petrograd it IS stated that Asemandre P. premier Of to the nd guaranteeing the deareg out et the Delaberil as well as pr.nmat= the tradater of power to dmeanermte esaahmle--the preisleery and the eomittt.

fer eafegeamisu the ecuntry and the r. a Wome of Prms Howr Sted of Vacats The National Press AAseation discussed. last aigbt at the home of Mrs. Mary Lackwooi. the coming seans activitise and heerS short stories by members of their vacation experienoes.

Mrs. Brinen gave 4 very interesting talk on some her espertenes during the clvfi war, and read a poem, Mri. Weise told of her expertences In American hoepitalo In France. and Mrs. Walker, Principal of the Capitol Heights School, alSO spoke.

GEORGETOWN MEDICS ELECT. Ofncers of elasse" in the medical departrnent of Georgetown University have been elected an follows: First year-President. William Cussack; vice president. Andrew Evans; secretary, E. A.

Cornet; treasurer. D. Mck. Bryan. Second year-President.

Matthias Donnolly; vice president. Matthew E. Donoghue; secretary. Michael Kozialek; teasurer, Robert E. Moran.

Third year-f'resident, Walter Rapoport; vice president, Monterville C. Ewing; secretary and treasurer. Charles McDonough. Fourth classPresident, Edward C. Morse; vice president.

Joseph I. Howard; mecrtary, David PL Horrigan. Washii dinner the second The Bargain A Big One Men's Pants Fancy Striped Worsted and Cassimere Pants-in all sizes-and of extra good grade. special, $2.98 Can You? Plan IANKSGIVING I aven to Washington women who send in the best Th son Herald Menu Editor before Saturday. November fare's a chance for Washington housewives to show for the great American feast day-Thanksgiving Daynu Editor of The Washington Heral.

he best menu, in the opinion of the Menu Editor, wi best will be awarded $5 and the thiid $2.50. ol; typewriten Ipobe.though letters to the Menu Editor, Washington Herald. The three Winning Menus, with of the women who) submitted i be published in The Herald ber 23rd, 24th and 25t -one each day. Floor Offers This Week Men's Suits and Overcoats at $13.75 They are extraordinarily good values--present an assortment of Young Men's and Conservative Styles that will appeal to you for what they are-neat, desirable effects. The Suits are Blue Serge, Black Thibet and Fancy Grays, Browns and Blue Mixtures.

With and without belts. The Overcoats are Single and Double-breasted; with and without belt; Conservative and Young Men's Models-Oxfords and Fancy Mixtures. These are specials for today. Boys' Suits Plaited beck and belt all aroundful-cut Knickerbocker Pants Fancy Brown. Blue and Gray Mixtures; se 7 to 17 year.

$3.69 PINNER .50 Misgiving mesn to 'We 17. 1917. keir caliary skill. Plan a -and send your menu to be awarded $7.50. The ist necesuary, and adthe names bem, wili Novemab.

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