hi* office, wnere ■ number o f tetegrapn and telephone operators sit at keys and switchboards. A cup of coffee 1» steaming at his desk, a broad, tint la Chairman o f W ar Council Met» Forth ble. upon which Is spread a great de **388535; . v tail map with Hugs marking the line at len g th Vast Amount o f Work of attack. He drinks the coffee, light» That lias Been Performed. his pipe aud turns to greet Ida brother officers. Washington, D. C.— Six months of Men Qo Over the Top. effort to moot tho most far reaching The hour of the attack la marked by **w. appeals for relief In history Is do- a general glance nt watches and then scribed In a report to tho American the phone rings. The men are over the top I Several phones ring. A uumber people made public Tuesday ulght by of objectives have been reached. An Henry P. Davison, chairman o f tho S. O. S. signal from “ A ” section. All war council of the American Red ,sm reports are marked upon the big map Croaa. It Is the council's first semi t vl by flags, nud ns each objective Is annual report, and It tells how more reached a new ting Is added. As re­ than >40.000.09« o f the >100,000,000 ports o f trouble come from different war fund contributed by the people points certain barrages are Instructed ■\a ■ to cut loose with everything they hav Events o f Noted People, Governments has been allotted for expenditure at First Resolution Introduced Is Joint A “ cut-lu" shows the men lying by homo and abroad. *rm t; Measure to Include Turkish and and I’ac'Ee N o rth s,st and Other their guns, which are loaded and ¿ F $ Demands from Kuropo continue to KStf r Bulgarian Governmenla. trained upon certain polutn. The 8. Increase, and on the receut basis of Things W orth Knowing. O. S. sigual comes to the gunner uear expenses the council estimates that , { M est tho string, who reaches out nud . - the war fuud will not last much bey gives It a yank while the other gun .vu ^. ond spring. 80 far about >88,000,000 Washington, I). C.— Immediate dec­ A Long Island, N. Y.. grocer is tiers Jump Into uctlon. Before the This massive dirigible balloon Is but one o f the great number o f similar first shell has reached Its destination offering as a premium, instead o f trad­ in cash has been paid into the fuud laration o f war against Austria-Hun­ «ra ft guarding the coasts of Great Britain from attacks by Zeppelins and a second Is on Its wuy and the big ing stamps, a lump o f sugar with by the subscribers. gary was recommended to congress German airplanes. At .the left is Field Marshal Sir John French, at the head show Is on In full swing. We see the every 10-cent purchase. Of >40,27*.4(7 appropriated by the Tvesday by President Wilson. Tha • f the British home defense forces. tueu bombing the Germans out of dug Robert P. Perkins, o f New York, council, >7.6»,000 has been advanced I President did not, however, recommend outs; fighting hand to hand In the has been appointed Red Cross commis­ to chapters for the purchase of ms 1 declaration o f war against Turkey and open ground with vicious thrusting of sioner to Italy by the Red Croaa war terlsl and will be refunded. For work 1 Bulgaria at this time. bayonets. council. He w ill s e r v e without salary. abroad >27,8»,>16 has been apprnprla Immediate war against Austria, the Finally the picture reverts to head­ tod. >20,401,240 o f the amount going President told congress, was necessary Stabilizing o f sugar prices, the food quarters, where we see the officer, announced Monday to •■'ranee, where suffering has been to meet the anomalous situation tho tired eyed but smiling, reading the administration ; United States faces in its war with congratulations from all along the line night, probably w ill be accomplished beyond description." For work oul Germany, even though Austria was not and transmitting them to the victori­ before the end of December. Prices side of France, exclusive of >7(0,000 now are widey different in many parts recently sent for emergency relief In h e r ow n m is t i c H S a n d o n ly a v a s s a l 1 k ous men out lu the shell holes and «— Germany. o f the country. trenches. Italy, the following appropriations The »sine logic, he ssid, would Irsl mans began an attack— it was an act “ I don’t believe there's a one of us Automobiles caused the death o f HOI have been made: Belgium, >720,001; Nerve Centers of British and Ca­ o f providence. to war against Turkey snd Bulgaria that wouldn't have glveu a great deal persons in New York state during the Knglaud, >1,044.(20; Italy. >214.000; but they ilo not yvt, lie »aid. stand Id Lighted by Lam is and Candles. nadian Armies Peaceful to be right down there with our men,'' first 10 months o f 1917, an increase of Russia. >1,3(9.440; Routnanla. >1,(18. its path o f the United Slates in Its ' It can be set down here without he said. “That's the worst o f having 197 over the corresponding period in war against Prussian autorraey. m Even in Battle. further parley that two newspaper a staff Job. One must take a distant 1916, according to a report of the 398: Serbia, >493,203; Armenians and In ringing, definite terms, the P iw - W men were never treated more royally view o f things and stay out of the National Highway Protective society, Syrians, >1.800,000; others. >113,012. The report describes In detail bow Id w t dec lared that nothing shall turn than we were by these men who at show, which Isu't a pleasant task, es­ the United States aside until the war Stories o f germ-laden balloons that all this money has been spent, and the moment we entered their quarters pecially for that young officer who Just is won and Germany is beaten. A ll ■ floated across the line from the Ger­ were directing a barrage against a handed me this report. I'll venture to man front were related by the mem- tells o f the vast organization set up talk o f |»eace, he |>runuunred out o f th e» strong German attack. say thnt he'd yell with Joy If he got by the war board since its appoint­ , , , . , . ^ , bers o f a party o f 18 American volun question. In the midst o f tea the door opened orders to go back to his regiment ter tw r> lh„ J. mbuUm., M rvice who m ent It records the formation of the Peace, the President declared, could Function Calmly and Efficiently With­ and for a few minutes we were under " * “ *• arrived in this country on Thanksgiv Union Red Cross. Naval Auxiliaries, rome only when the German people out Turmoil or Slightest Disorder the Impression that every general on Along toward midnight our disabled ing Day, make it through rulers the world can tho Service Bureau, tho ijgnl »M V ('amp v SIW )> wvi » -"-I ------- ------ - - - " — Young Staff Officers Com­ the western front had been deluged in­ car came limping up to headquarters plain Because They Must L ively skirmishng between the Brit- tary Service Bureau and other dlv ¡trust; when they make reparation for to our presence. It was a pprty of for us and our farewells were said the destruction their present rulers Stay Out of the Show. officers who had dropped In for tea outside the door in the Inky blackness ish forces campaigning for Jreusaiem Isions. and describes the membership have wrought and when Germany re­ and the opposing Turkish troops, in campaign which brought the number and n chat with the army command­ of a rainy night. We shook hands cede» from all the territory acquired London.— During the past three ers. Instead they had a rather amus­ there In the darkness with these men which the British raptured mors than of Red Cross members beyond the by armed conquest. years o f warfare there have been daily ing talk with two American corre­ who had been our hosts. From the dis­ 450 prisoners, is reported in Sunday’ s 5,000,000 mark. A joint resolution declaring th s t% communications emanating from a spondents, who were found Interest­ tance came the deep-throated growl of official statement on the Palestine The total expenses of raising and itate o f war exist* between the United operations. mysterious place called geueral head­ ing because they had been with the heavy guns. collecting the war fund are proving States and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria “ We never let up on them,'’ said a quarters, whose location or surround­ American army on the Mexican border Leon Trotzky, the Holsheviki foreign to be less than 1 per cent. The war and Turkey, was introduced in the ings have never been mentioned, in and in France and had some idea of voice from the steps. “ It has been minister, has issued an order that no fund Is deposited locally by the chap­ senate by Senator Pittman, for Sena­ fact are not known to the average sol­ what the United States troops could Just as you hear It now for months, British subject shall receive permits to ters and campaign committees. About tor King, o f Utah. It was referred to do. Their Intense Interest in prepara­ and we'll keep on until we finish the dier fighting in France, writes Hal the foreign relations committee With­ leave Russia pending the settlement of 3500 banka now hold these deposits In tions o f the United States for war was Job. We are going to win.” O'Flaherty in the New York Sun. out action. the cases o f Russians alleged to be in­ T o the citizen unacquainted with the I manifested In every question, and their And that Is the spirit that pervades terned in England because o f their po­ (he name of William O McAdoo, treaa affairs o f giant armies the mention of friendliness toward everything Ameri­ not only the headquarters staff but litical convictions. urer. every camp and every dugout on the the term general headquarters brings can was more than evident. Forty nine army base hospital units In two minutes the formality o f In­ British front. W ar crosses have been awarded to and five for the nsvy have been re­ up a picture o f a building In the heart Benjamn Burton, Jr., o f Colusa, Cal., o f the great army activities, with mud- troduction was over with and for fully cruited, organized and equipped by Count Von Hertllng Telia Reichstag e f and Herbert Hope, o f Oakland, Cal., splattered couriers dashing up on horse half an hour the Canadian general His Hopes With Russia. the Red Cross. More than 12 of the PROUD OF HER RECORD. staff dropped their heavy responsibili­ o f the American Field Service in or cycle and with sentries pacing to army units and two o f the navy units ties and enjoyed the unique experi­ France. Mr. Burton and Mr. Hope Berlin, via London— Count George and fro armed to the teeth, while wor­ drove a motor truck under heavy bom­ have now been mustered Into their F. von Hertling, the impelral German ried ' generals sit about great tables ence o f entertaining two Americans. bardment October 8, two men with respective medical corps and are see chancellor, told the reichstag Thursday within tracing upon their maps the It was the first time that such a gath­ ering had ever assembled in this par­ them being killed. Ing service. These units can care for that he was ready to enter into peace various positions in the front line. The fact of the matter Is that Brit­ ticular building and all made the most a (00 bed hospital each, and some of negotiations a* soon as the Russian The final shipment o f the first 2000- ish general headquarters is perhaps o f it. them have been reinforced to enable government sends representatives hav- ton consignment o f refined sugar has The staff captain who hud Intro­ the most peaceful and orderly place arrived in Stockholm from Germany. them «0 take over larger hospitals. '" i . f f i K ! ? i „ . , , . ' I hope and. #B n , he said, that that one could Imagine. The roads ap­ duced us suggested that we get a little A further 1000 tons now is being load­ The Red ( roas ha» also organized l|w|1- e(TorU w j„ u k „ deflnU, exercise, explaining that the staff offi proaching the main buildings are not ed at Stettin and is expected to arrive 45 ambulance companies, with s total ihape Bn<1 brjng U1( p ,,« .« .” lined with troops and paraphernalia of cers usually spent an hour in the eve­ within a few days. It is declared that personnel of 5580. all of which have Respecting Poland, Lithuana and war, nor is there any of the much- ning playing badminton or some other the sugar has been received without game Just to keep In condition. W e been taken Into the army medical Courland, Count von H ertling said; talked-of dramatics of fighting. any special compensation from Swed­ went out to a well constructed court corps, some for service abroad, others “ We respect the right o f setf-deter- Guards Are Unarmed. en’s resources. for the camps and cantonmenta. A mination o f their peoples. We expect It Is a business house, conducted on similar to a tennis court and taped hospital, for the use of the they w ill g iv e themselves a constitu- the most advanced systems of efficien­ off In the same manner. For an hour Pottery and glass manufacturers in general cy. The traffic coming np to the heart we watched four officers bat the feath­ Eastern Ohio, Northern West V irginia navy, has been established at I’hlla tional form o f government correapond- Convalescent homes have ing to their conditions." o f the gigantic chain of fighting units ered shuttlecock across the net with and Western Pennsylvania were Mon­ ■lelphia. —— — —— — —— is regulated by military policemen who a display o f skill and strategy that was day notified that their products had been built at Fort Oglethorpe anil ort McPherson, Ga., and mobile lab . U / fiO Itt DC U/ll I y r r T know their business and keep motors worthy o f men who used strategy In been listed as non-essentials by the oratory cars arc to be provided for j L U A N W U n R C n o W IL L d t t I and pedestrians going In the right di­ a greater and more deadly manner. We govenment, and many manufacturers use in case of emergencies at the took a hand In the game for a time took this to mean their plants would camps. rection. Secretary McAdoo Calls Conference et be closed fo r lack of transportation Fourteen thousand Red Cross nurses The soldiers on duty In front o f the and then watched four others play off j Washington. fa cilities and fuel. nave been enrolled for duty, and ap building visited by the correspondent the staff championship. Meet Famous Strategist. oxlmately 3000 have already been were unarmed and directed the arriv­ Washington, D. C .— To perfect lib Princa Ong Chow A rtitt, nephew of failed Into nctlve nursing service, of When the game broke up and we re­ ing officers in a manner us courteous erty loan organizations throughout tha the king o f Siam, arrived in San Fran­ hom 2000 are working abroad. entered the headquarters building we as that displayed by the commission­ country for the |ieriod o f the war, cisco Saturday from the Orient on his aire at the war office In London. W ith­ were presented to a man whose name retary McAdoo Friday called a confer^ way to Washington, D. C., where he in there was nothing to indicate the is famous the length and breadth of ence o f representatives o f liberty loan expects to arrange for his naval edu­ the British front. His keen stratagems presence o f the greatest army chief­ I committees in each o f the 12 Federal^ cation in this country. The prince, tains. The furnishings were modest, and forceful work have won for him I who is 14 years old, is accompanied by President Authorizes 35 Cents Per reserve districts and o f the women’s the praise and admiration o f every ! almost homely, and the atmosphere of liberty loan organization to be held in a private secretary and a member of Ton Increase. the whole place was that o f a peaceful Canadian fighting In France and his Washington December 10. the Siamese legation at Tokio. record as a fighter would fill several and well conducted business establish­ Washington. D. C.— A general In “ W hile the sccrtary has announced books. W e were fortunate In hnvlng Six men Thursday attacked the i'-e of 35 rents n ton was added to that there will be no further liberty ment. an opportunity o f talking with him, •Huebner brewery company paymaster I ri 4 of anthracite coal at the loan issue, at least until after Febru­ «3 l im n 4 (site To secure an Interview with one of 1 Monday by President WIlBon, at Toledo, Ohio, and got away w ith , the men who conduct the affairs o f the for he, like the late General Funston. i ary 1,” said a Treasury department neet a proposed wage Increase for British armies was simplicity itself. A Is keenly Interested In newspaper work ; Members o f the National party, re­ $35,000. ■ rs. The new prices announcement, “ he believes it essen­ and it gave us a good start on the | telephone call sufficed to tell him of senting the suggestion that their White beginning Monday and tial that educational work in prepara­ The death o f ten soldiers at Camp our coming and we were ushered into right plane. W e explained to him our House pickets are not ns patriotic as ! :r I m re than >30.000,000 to the tion for future loans be conducted con­ Beauregard, near Alexandria, Va., reasons fo r coming to headquarters his office Immediately upon our arrival. tinuously so that the people may be­ i al hill. some o f their less militant sisters, are during Thursday, was announced, mak­ An officer of the United States army, and how the car that was to meet us pointing out the record o f (lias Eleanor Irirreaae was agreed on come fully acquainted with the worth ing 22 deaths in the last ten days. had broken down. known as a “ liaison officer,” had quar­ 1'1 is and miners' representa o f government securities, the advant­ "W ell, I'm glad you’re here, boys,” Hill Weed, granddaughter o f the late Some o f the deaths were due to pneu­ h re two weeks ago, contingent age o f th rift and economy and the ters nearby. He has been working as Representative Ebenezer J. Hill of monia and measles. he said. “ I ’ll Just arrnnge to have a r coal prices to absorb the financial needs o f the government to bard as any man o f affairs at home Connecticut. Miss Weed, who assisted \\ h o their negotiations were wage war against Germany.” could work and his surroundings couple o f places set for you at dinner. In picketing last spring, was one of The Brazilian government has I 'be i Mors and miners turned showed he wasn't In the habit of en- are thln« 9 over ln the & A .r reached an agreement with France for fuel administration their 1. Governors ,_. ___. o f the , federal reserve W e had been talking with him only the 12 Vassar college girls who spent tertalning visitors. the use under the Brazilian flag for d . - 1 mates of what It I b» n* * have been asked to attend the a few minutes when an officer brought last summer on a farm, accomplishing one year o f 30 form er German ships, “Take that rocking chair over In the id add to tho cost of production. conference and also to designate and to him word that an S. O. S. signal had a sum total o f products sufilclent to held in Brazilian ports, fo r provision­ corner,” he said as we entered, and one «■■' I that prices he raised at send at least three o f the principal lib­ feed 1,800 persons all winter and 20 been received from a certain point In­ ing the allied countries. 45 cents a ton. erty loan executives o f their districts. of the party went over as directed and dicating that the Germans were pre­ head o f live stock nntll next year’s sat on the wooden box that had held paring to attack. There was no blus­ crops are ripe. Miss Weed Is a sopho­ Food Administrator H oover’s plan to Diseases Raging at Camp. his typewriter. A wooden table, two Bryan Augurs Dry Nation. ter. The information was given In a more at Vassar this year. take a large quantity o f sugar held in chairs and a rack fo r books made up Washington, D. C .- Surgeon Gen­ this country for foreign account and low, steady voice and the orders for Washington, D. C.— Ratification by the furnishings o f his office. certain counter-measures were given In DESCENDS IN BURNING PLANE pay fo r it with government funds was the states of a prohibition amendment eral W illiam C. Gorgas, reporting on On his table was a stack o f corre­ an equally unruffled manner. An hour approved as legal by the controller. to the federal constitution within two the epidemic o f measles and pneumonia spondence a foot high, which If It could later It was learned that the Germans at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga., de­ British Airman Recovers From In- The appointment o f Leonidas R. years was predicted by W illiam Jen­ be read by the German high command had given up their attempt after being clared that the number o f cases o f Juries Received A fter 1,000- Whipple as professor o f journalsim at nings Bryan, speaking before the would probably give them heart fa il­ unmercifully flayed by the gruelling measles was decreasing, but expressed Feet Drop. the University o f V irgin ia was re­ opening session of the annual conven­ ure. There was something significant fire which our host had turned loose. the fear “ that we may be beginning scinded Friday by the board o f vis­ tion o f the Woman's Christian Tem ­ In that stack of letters. It was prob­ From time to time an officer would here an epidemic o f septic pneumonia. ’ ’ London.— A fter one o f the most itors, a fter an investigation o f alleged perance Union. ably the first nucleus of a correspond­ With 26 states al­ When General Gorgas made his In­ appear at the door and report the prog­ miraculous esenpes of the war, Major disloyal sentiments expressed by ready dry and prohibition territory ence between the directing officials of spection this week there had been ap- ress o f various movements under way, Bannatyne, D. 8. O., Is today recover­ Whipple in an address last week at spreading over others, Mr. Bryan said the American army and the British and throughout the evening there was ing from his Injuries In the Clrcen- Sweet Briar College, Virginia. a federal amendment before 1920 proximatley 3000 caaes o f measles upon whom they are depending for ad­ no letup In the handling o f business. cester hospital. While flying alone nt seemed certain. N early 1000 dele­ among the 22,000 men at the camp, vice and Information. Some day that The whole procedure o f this work of a height of more than 1,000 feet his en­ A ll communication has been broken gates are here for the convention, and 300 cases o f pneumonia, with 1 Uttle pile w ill have grown Into an en­ directing armies seemed to operate as gine caught fire. He headed the ma­ between North and South Russia. The which w ill continue until next Friday. about 60 deaths from the latter. tire library o f documents that will fill smoothly as the service at the dinner chine toward the gronnd. Soon the foreign embassies at Petrogrd are un­ long ranks o f filing cases. It Is pio­ table to which we were shown. Pin Money >12,000 a Year. flames reached his feet. H e climbed able to establish any touch with Monroe Man Is Handled. neer correspondence under the new When the meal was finished and we out o f the seat and crawled along Philadelphia— Tw elve thousand dol­ Odessa or other points in Southern order o f things between Britain and Everett, Wash.—George W. Croff, were comfortably seated In the main the body o f the plane toward the tall Russia. Official messages, however, merchant o f Monroe, a town near lars a year “ pin money” for the w ife tba United States. room we heard from the lips of one of while the blazing plane plunged to­ are reaching Odessa by way o f Persia. here, was seized on his way home o f the President o f the United States The follow ing afternoon brought us the officers a story of the thoughts and “ or the first lady o f the land,” is pro­ ward the earth. The flames reached by a lucky chance to Canadian bead- feelings of a man directing an offen­ United States Deputy Marshals F ri­ Sunday night by five masked men, vided in a fund fr o r : the estate o f him again. He swung himself off the tied and taken by automobile three quarters. where we had the privilege sive. Henry G. Freeman, J r „ who died here frame nnd hung by his hands under day arrested 14 alleged members of o f spending several hours with other For the moment we saw a series of (he machine— now a mass o f flames. the I. W. W. who are believed to be miles from town and released. I-ater recently. “ The reason I make this V a can o f tar was found there. C roff men who are conducting operations. pictures thrown on the screen o f our He fell Into a plowed Held and was responsible for the wrecking near Hen­ had a large sum of money In his pos­ fund, the will explains, “ is because It was more than a lucky chance that Imagination. The officer asleep In his picked np suffering from a broken arm, rietta, Okla., Thursday, o f a fast S t session. but It was not taken. His I feel the President o f the United brought us to Canadian headquarters room. A servant calls him In the small scores o f cuts and with all bis hair Louis A San Francisco passenger daughter, who was with him at the States receives such a miserable pit­ train, in which three persona were time of the assault, aacrlbed It tq her almost at the same hour that the Ger- hours. H e dresses and walks slowly to scorched to a crisp. tance for a man holding the greatest killed. father’s alleged anti war attltuda. position on earth. ” DEFENDING ENGLAND AGAINST RAIDERS RED CROSS REPORTS OF C U T WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. President Makes Recommenda­ tion to Congress. COMPILED TURKEY MAY BE NEX' FOR YOU P ■ívi & m ag NEWSPAPER MAN DESCRIBES VISIT TO HEADQUARTERS IS LIKE BUSINESS HOUSE 1 GERMANY READY FOR PEACE COAL GOES UP WITH WAGES \ i