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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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