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HOME EDITION
WEATHER FORECAST.
EI Paso and West Texas fair with rising tempera-
tore; Kew Mexico fair except snow northwest; Arizona
fair sooth probably snow north.
TODAY'S PRICES
Mexican bank notes state bills 918c; pesos 78e;
Mexican gold 5858c; nadonales 17i18J4; bar
silver H. & B. quotation S1.01J6; copper $26; grains
lover; livestock steady; stocks lower.
14 PAGES TODAY
LATEST NEWS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
EL PASO. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 5. 19 19.
DELIVERED AM WHERE tie MONTH
SntOtE COPT FIVE CENTS
PORT BAN
FLAT
BRITISH
MILLIONS SAVED
ON SOOTIEST
RAILROADS
Bush Reports $9000000
Cut From Operating Ex-
penses During Year.
unusualTtrain
conditions met
Total Of 4411244 Miles
Conserved In Passenger
Service Says Bush.
1 7ASHZNGTOK. D. C Feb. 5-Ap-
VV proximately JI.OOO.OOO was saved
- operating expenses of the railroad
tbe southwestern region during toe
&- Just closed by unification of
'rmiiuli. consolidation of repair fa-
:.ties a system of Interchange
nr - h i n g and elimination of unnec-
eytary mileage according to the an-
- ai report of B. F. Bash southwest-
ern director for the United States
-a in ad administration made public
Tbe onikTTPmtern region. Tilth
Its Btnr cantonments and army
camps was called upon to meet
unusual passensrer trala condi-
tions the report sa7.
Competitive passenger trains were
t! minated In seme Instances and
. onsolldated la others. Schedules of
"-.rough trains were lengthened and
1 a work added In order to eUrai-
ate local trains.
Passenger Exprmrs Cat.
rnder this arrangement a total of
. l :44 miles was conserved in pas-
merger train service effecting a car-
's Iment in expenses of JX.W1.SJ1.
In the handling of freight great
-. v r.gs were effected by eUmraatlon
. f unnecessary freight mileage. This
-e suited largely from the discontin-
uance of competition which permitted
arload traffic to be moved over the
n.-st direct routes.
"In the passenger and freight de-
ns r-ments. 2.S000 wan saved." the
-t'jort says.
Chicago Mail Train
Wrecked; Three Dead
U toons. Pa. Feb. S. Three railroad
--.ployes were killed when the Cm-
i:3 mall train eastbeund. on the
1 c- r.sylvania was wrecked at Shoen-l-?er.
15 sues east of here last
- .-H The locomotive toppled over
r. embankment into the Juniata river
adn four or nine cars in tne tran we
r 6 railed.
V Tt vivn am SXECXSCI
OF RAILROADS ADVANCE
Washington D. C Feb. . An in
flmnit snmrnarv of railroad earn'
.nga reported for December made
public by the Interstate commerce
rfMinn indicates that receipts
irom oasseneer and freight traffic
'r.r tt month exceeded the Novem-
- f.gures but that expenses also
advanced. .
wh reports from 176 roads and 19
-- v ft tabulated ooeratlng revenues
- December were 5411557. WO. and
AAA
: ra'.nic expenses were
ile net railway operating income
-vas 1:3.85.000.
DELICATE P 0 1 NTS IN CONFERENCE
TOLD BYW1LS0N TO LEGISLATORS
Visitors In Paris Are Given An Intimate Insight Into
Problems and Leave Conference With the President
Convinced That He Is Working For Best Interests
of the Whole Country In Peace Negotiations.
By DAVID I
PARIS. France. Feb. S. President
Wilson spent an hour today chat-
r.lag with Hops. George White of
.rdo O. T. Helverlag of Kansas both
oernocrata. and P. D. Norton. Kepub-'-an.
of North Dakota. The three
-epresentatlves have been making a
t- r of the battle regions.
Mr Wilson unbosomed himself as
o the whole situation st the peace
Stocking Banks Are Only
For Women Court Rules
CI icago. III. Feb. S. Valentine
Mardiowski. south Chicago steel
n.ai worker ha sworn off carry-
ing his roll in his sock.
Valentine recently climbed into
i barber chair and when greeted
. Jennie Sadler the female bar-
ber with the uual "like to have
n trimmed up a bit around the
r . r . - came back with use
nUal!' commonplace "nope have--i
t much time just once over
wri lightly under the chin."
Valentine got the "once over
!.en dug into his s.xk. Excitedly
re removed his shoe and made a
t urned search clear up to the tip
o' il-e toe. Valentine s roll of five
o"e was mieslre Before the po-
fe arrived Val r-eaved his shoe
r wjrt a large plate glass mirror
.. .d mussed m- the barber shop
considerably.
Today jndgv Trude ruled that
the stocking should ho exclusively
a Woman's flcar.t lal institution
iv a female l.a-1-er couldn't very
v. ell rob such j bank while shav-
ir a man and rl'T aler.tme must
Tiay for the sh. e. t.te mirror and
and costs.
Nivhts A Week. Until
i. V '
SEEKS $1000000000 MORE POWER
FOR WILSON TO INSURE WHEAT PRICE
SAYS S1U00
0. S. WITHOUT
EMPLOYMENT
Morrison Urges Haste On
Bill Prohibiting Immi-
gration Four Years.
BAKER SAYS MEN
WILL HAVE JOBS
Secretary Tells Business
Men To Aid In Giving
Ex-Soldiers Work.
1 fASHINGTOX. D. C Feb. S-Urg-
VV ing the house rules committee
to give the right of way for pas-
sage of legislation prohibiting Immi-
gration for four years Frank Mor-
rison secretary of the American Fed
eration of Labor said that 500000
men In the United States were now
without employment.
Every soldier who put on the
uniform of the United States
who fought or trained to fight.
Trill have a Job It he wants one"
secretary Baker declared today In
delivering the opening address at
the 14th annual convention of the
National Til vera and Harbors con-
gress. The secretary emphasized the duty
of American businessmen to cooperate
in what the erovernment was doing in
this direction and said that every
chamber of commerce board ol trade
or other similar organization should
realize the need for its participation.
Daniels Giles Warning.
Secretary Daniels said that the navy
would have to adjust Its relations
with American business interests so
that manufacturing might be resumed
and labor kept employed.
In warning against a tendency to
wait-or-prtees-aa4 wages -to drop-be-1
fore undertaking new construction
projects Mr. Daniels declared that
those who expected wages and prices
to return to former levels had not !
properly read the changed conditions
of the present day.
In insisting that in any national
policy water transportation and rail
transportation should go hand in hand
the secretary said:
Says Roads Broke Down.
"The railroads broke down when
we entered the war in the attempt to
carry increased burdens while the
waters have run Idly to the sea."
Secretary Daniels referred to Bol-
shevism in America and said:
There la no more danger of
Bolshevism taking hold of Amer-
ica than there Is of the kaiser en-
tering Washlagton."
SMELTI3G Jt REFIXIXG
CO. REDUCES DIVIDEND
Sew York. Feb. 5. The American
Smelting & Refining Co. today re-
duced its dividend on the common
stock from 6 to 4 nercent basis de-
elaricxr a Quarterly dividend of 1 per-
. V.h 1 T V .ffrV Til.
... "' :
been paying Hi percent quarterly
since December 15. 1(.
A WHENCE.
conference talking frankly and can-
didly of the many mooted points.
He sketched the difficulties of
the Americans Indicating that he
fully understood the desires of
the people back home that their
Interests be handled carefully
here lie made It clear he vrn
not disposed to blame some of
those In America who have been
making speeches In opposition
as It Is difficult to follow these
complex: negotiations and diffi-
culties even In Parts.
The congressmen went away with
tbe impression that Mr. Wilson re-
alized the necessity of giving a full
account when he returns home so as
to explain the implications of the
peace treaty and the American re-
sponsibilities. Republican Norton Is Impressed.
Congressman Norton said after-
wards: "I was very much pleased
with what the president told us. He
Impressed me as fighting for the
things all Americans want. If what
he told us in the hour that we saw
him today covers what he is at-
tempting to do at the peace table. I
say candidly though I am a Repub-
lican. I am with him. And if every
Republican knew the situation as we
have learned it he. too would ap-
prove for the president seems to be
standing for the true American con-
ception of things."
The president Is understood to have
told his callers many things of a con-
fidential character concerning nego-
tiations which they of course would
not discuss for publication. It was
apparent the president did not hesi-
tate to express himself even on the
most delicate points involving the
Intimate relations of the allies with
each other. If the president on his
return to America Is equally frank
with the Republican members of con-
gress ranch of the opposition he has
encountered on certain points will no
doubt have disappeared. (Copyright
ISIS by New York Evening Post Inc.)
URGES AUTHDRITYTO DECLARE
EXPORT AND If ORTEIARGOES
Food Administration Grain
Permit President to Build or Eequisition Storage; Li-
cense Dealers Millers Elevators; Control Ex-
change Trading To Carry Out Price Guarantee.
v 1 TASHINGTON D. G Feb. 5 Julius transporting cereals to markets at
YY Barnes head of the food admin
istration's grain corporation asked
congress today through the house ag-
riculture committee to delegate broad
powers to president Wilson as a
means of making effective the govern
ment's guaranteed price fo the 191S
crop.
Mr. Barnes asked for an appro-
priation of at least S 1.000000000
with authority to borrow more If
necessary on the credit and prop-
erty of the grain corporation and
authority to buy and sell wheat
and wheat products at home and
abroad for cash or for credit.
He also asked that the president
bo given Import and export embargo
powers authority to build or requisi-
tion storage facilities and to license
irtL millers and elevators control
over exchange trading and authority
to give preferential rail service on
American railroads and steamships In
4 Held On Charge
And Ammunition
GEORGE HOLMES said to be an
agent of Francisco Villa on the
American border was arrested near
Sierra Blanca Wednesday morn-
ing by agents of the bureau of in-
vestigation department of justice
and is being bronght to El Paso to
answer charges of theft in connec-
tion with the disappearance of a
Vickers machine gnn 3600 rounds
of ammunition for the rnnfTiirir
gnn and seven rifles from Camp
Cearcheme TexJiisJlUJonas-!
special agent in charge of the de-
partment of justice announced
Wednesday.
OTHERS JAILED.
With Holmes were arrested
First Sergt Ernest B. SUlder
Ninth engineers; Pvt. T.Tine'ian
Seventh cavalry and Frank id-
ler a civilian chauffeur. Wilier was
arraigned before United States
commissioner Sam Kelly Wednes-
day morning and his bond fixed at
$5000 pending a preliminary
hearing.
Holmes was arrested near bis
ranch about 125 miles east of XI
Paso Wednesday according to in-
formation received at the depart-
ment of justice offices in the HTQs
building. The arrests were made
by special agent Jones and John
Wren of the department of jus-
tice and Capt Carroll H. Counts
T.
&P. Troop
TrainDerailed
Near Cisco Tex.
13 Cars Loaded With Cal-
ifornians Off Tracks;
Some Are Hurt.
Fort Worth Texas Feb. 5. A Texas
and Pacific troop train of IS cars.
loaded with Callfornlans. was derailed
early today between Ietn and Cisco
Texas. The engine baggage car and
three sleepers turned over. Engineer
Coughlin. fireman do Hart and con-
ductor Swarthe were injured. The
occupants of sleepers were bruised
and shaken.
FllBNCn SHIP TO SAIL.
Seattle Wash.. Feb. S. Sailing of
the French wooden ship General Pan
from Puget Sound Tuesday will mark
the departure of the last of 4! vessels
built for the French government at
Tacoma. Portland and Seattle yards.
The fleet will be used Ip the French
costal trade or as colliers between
England and France.
50 Strong Young Men
Volunteer To Submit
To Influenza Tests
Boston Mass.. Feb. 5. Fifty
healthy young men volunteers
from the detention barracks here
were taken to tbe quarantine sta-
tion at Oallups Island today to
submit to Influenza tests by a
board of government experts. The
men will be subjected to every
known method of infection In or-
der that an exhaustive study of
the "cause and mode of spread In
Influenza" may be made.
Prof. Milton J. Rosenau of Har-
vard will supervise tbe latest ex-
periment. A previous experiment
made in the fall was unsuccessful
all efforts to inoculate the sub-
jects with the disease falling.
Corporation Head Would
home or abroad.
340.000000 Bnshels for Export.
Mr. Barnes said that after deducting
leo.OOO.Oee bushels of wheat for seed
and 470.000.960 bushels for home con-
sumption there would be left availa-
ble for export trade S4S.OM.9M bush-
els. He said of this amount. 1S0.000.-
000 bushels had been exported up to
February 1. last and against this the
following commitments were to be
applied to wheat or wheat flour:
European allies 100000000
bushels.
Commission for relief In Bel-
glum 0000000 bushels.
European neutrals. 15)00000
bushels.
European relief 3000000 bush-
els. "These exclude" Mr. Barnes said
"any contribution to enemy countries
such as may be approved by the su-
preme council or the armistice author-
The grain corporation now has on
hand Mr. Barnes said. l.0flel
bushels of wheat and 15.0M.0OO bush-
els of wheat flour.
Of Stealing Guns
From Army Camp
district intelligence officer United
States army.
OTHER CHARGES.
In addition to the charge in con-
nection with the theft of the ma-
chine gun ammunition and rifles.
Holmes Stalder Minehan and
Miller were also charged with hav-
ing in their possession property
stolen from the government con-
spiracy to unlawfully export arms
and munitions of war to Mexico
in violation of the espionage act
and with conspiracy to smuggle
arms and arnrancitien to Mexico.
TriflTMaHfTnia an"tw .
chauffeur wag charged with aid-
ing and abetting in the alleged
violations.
LOCATE LOOT.
The machine gun ammunition
and rifles were located by special
agent Jones and Capt Counts on a
ranch on the bank of the Rio
Grande one mile below the Holmes
ranch. The gun ammunition and
rifles were alleged to have been
taken from Camp Courchesne on a
date not given and to have been
transported to the place where
they were found with the intent to
smuggle them to Mexico.
FRIEND OF VILLA.
Holmes is engaged in the cattle
business in the lower El Paso val-
ley and is known to federal offi-
cers as a friend of Villa's. The
arrest is considered one of the
biggest cases developed on the bor-
der recently and was the result of
two days and nights of strenuons
work on the part of the officials
of the department of justice and
intelligence office.
Ohio Senator
Interrogates
Director Hines
Better To Return Roads
Pendmg Solution Of
Problem He Says.
Washington. D. C Feb. 6. Senator
Pomerene of Ohio at a bearing be-
fore the senate Interstate commer-
cial committee today told director
general nines he could not under-
stand why the director general
should ask congress to turn over to
him for five years the management
of tremendously valuable properties
In order to permit him to work out
some plan of reorganization not yet
fully formulated. He suggested that
it might be better to turn the rail-
roads back to private owners have
the government make consolidations
and get the benefit of private Initia-
tive pending a final solution of tbe
entire railroad question.
Would Give Congress Time.
Mr. Hines in reply explained that
be was not advocating a five year ex-
tension as a means of working out a
permanent solution but only to give
time In which congress might develop
a comprehensive reform plan. The
railroad administration he said had
no authority to reorganise the rail-
roads and he suggested that contin-
ued government control would be of
an interim nature. Intended to stabi-
lize conditions pending a final solu-
tion. Senator Pomerene said he did not
believe tbe railroad question could be
kept out of presidential elections un-
der any circumstances.
Would Minimise Agitation.
Mr. Hines agreed but argued that
the harmful agitation resulting in
hampering physical operations of the
roads would be less If tbe end of
government control did not impend so
nearly. He agreed also that congress
would be able to work out legislation
with the roads under private manage-
ment although perhaps not so wen
as under government control and for
this reason advocated relir .u.shment
of the properties at an ear.y date If
the five year extension were not allowed.
Midnight. Is Enough To Dance In
3OTIN0.S.
Y ON
11.191
Allied 'Rifle Strength' Ex
ceeded That Of the Foe
First Time July I.
WAS 2 Tol ON
NOVEMBER I
1485000 Were Ready To
Go Over Top Just Be-
fore End Of War.
1 r ASHTNG TON. D. C. Feb. S. The
W total strength of the United
States army on November 11 when
the armistice was signed and when
the American war effort was at its
peak was 3.763.273. officers and men
including the marine corps on duty
with the army in Europe. A statisti-
cal table made public today by the
war department gives this figure.
l4SS00o representing shrd shr shrdl
Foe Strength. Exceeded.
Included In the table is a compara-
tive statement of the strength of al-
lied and German forces on the west-
ern front by months beginning April
1. 1318 showing that on July 1 for
the first time the allied ."rifle
strength" exceeded that of the Ger-
mans. In rifle strength which means
men standing in the trenches
ready to go over the top with the
bayonet." tbe allied total on July
1 was 1550000 compared with
l.41000 for the Germans.
On November 1. when the enemy's
reserves had been exhausted and his
front line strength reduced by about
halt the allies had rifle strength of
MrfcjtM. .representing- odd of up-
wards of I to 1.
From Jnly 1. as the Americans
continued to arrive the allied su-
periority showed eontlaued growth
over the Germans who had
dropped on November 1 to a
strength of 86&000.
When the great German drive was
lounched in the spring of 1918 the
enemy had a definite superiority of
approximately SO percent the figures
for April 1 showing an allied rifle
strength of 1.S45.0OO and a German
total of 15(9.000. The Germans
reached their maximum June 1. with
1(39000. while the allies reached
their maximum on September 1. with
1681.609.
1"SS0 Rifles In Division.
The meaning of the rifle strength
upon which the table Is based. Is made
clear by the fact that an American
division with a total strength of ap-
proximately 27000 fighting men. was
rated at 1 150 rifles.
The department's table shows that
the rush or American troops to Europe
when the German drive was launched
not only succeeded in making good all
allied losses from month to month at
the front but steadily Increased the
strength of the allied armies actually
engaged. Figures on the hundreds of
thousands or Americans who were
training behind the lines are not
given.
Table Comparea Strength.
The table prepared by Gen. Persh
ing's starr. snowing the comparative
strength of the allies for the eight
momns coverea. iouows:
Month. Allies.
April 1 1:4SM0
May 1. 1.341000
June 1 1.496.000
July 1. 1.55 S.00
August 1 1671.000
September 1. 1.(82.000
October 1. 1.5SI.0O0
November 1 1.4S5.00O
Germans.
1.569.040
1.(00000
l.(39.00
1.412.000
1.39S.OO0
1.339000
1.223.000
866.900
On November 11 the American army
In Europe was composed of S0.842 of-
ficers and 1.868.474 men while 1101 of-
ficers and 21.072 men were at sea en
route to Europe. The marine contin-
gent in the expeditionary force on
that date was 1002 officers and 31.J83
men making the total European army
strength either In France or en route
there 2.004.935 officers and men.
In the United States on that date
were 1.634499 army personnel and In
the Insular possessions tbe canal zone.
Alaska etc &5.735.
The total strength of the Siberian
expedition on that date was 293 of-
ficers and 8S06 men.
Canada Sent SOOO Flyers.
London. Eng. Feb. 5 (via Mon-
treal). Canada sent 8000 aviation of-
ficers overseas to Join the royal air
service during the war according; to
a statement today by sir Edward W.
Kemp. Canadian minister of overseas
service.
More than a quarter of a million
men were demobilized in the week
ending January 30 and the total to
date has exceeded 1000000 men. The
British demobilization Is continuing
In the most satisfactory manner but
tbe opinion prevails here that the
one unfortunate feature of the nitn.
tkm Is that -the men are not being
absorbed in civil occupations in pro-
portion to the rate of demobilization.
ISOLATE VIRUS OF TRENCH
FEVER "FLU" NEPHRITIS
London. Eng Feb. S. The virus of
trench fever influenza and of some
form of nephritis have been Isolated
and identified according to a report
submitted to tbe director general of
the army medical service in France
by army medical officers.
According to this official statement
the virus in each case has been proved
to be a minute globular cell varying
in size and behavior In three types
of disease. Investigations which have
been conducted have resulted it Is
believed In the isolation of the germs
of mumps measles and typhus the
causes of which have hitherto been
obscure and the bacilli of which have
never been isolated.
1
Mrs. Roosevelt Sails
For France To Visit
Grave Of Hero Son
Jfew York Feb. 5. Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt widow of the for-
mer president was among the pas-
sengers on the French liner La
Lorraine which sailed from here
today. She will visit the grave of
her son Lieut. Quentln Roosevelt
who was killed in an airplane
battle over the German lines and
also plans to spend several weeks
with her sister. Miss Emily Carow
Who Is doing war work In Italy.
While In France. Mrs. Roosevelt
will see her sons. Lieut. COL Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Jr and Capt. Ker-
mlt Roosevelt.
London Strike
Situation Is
Not Improving
Transportation Lines Con
tinue Tied Up; Cafes
Hotels Cut Menus.
London Eng.. Feb. 5. There was no
Improvement today In the strike situ-
ation In London. All the tubes and
underground lines with the excep-
tion of the Metropolitan which how-
ever has only one line running Into
the city were still tied up. The ho-
tels and restaurants while able to
replace a few of their servants still
were offering only mearer Imitations
of their regular menus.
Some government offices and large
business firms overcame the difficul-
ties of the situation for their staffs
by running motor lorries from the
outlying districts to central London.
There were many more automobiles
on the streets and bicycles are coming
Into their own again.
3Iay Augment St rite rs.
Today will decide whether the staffs
of the electrical power stations will
Join the strikers. According to the
authorities it makes little difference
what action Is taken because the
Electrical Power Engineers' associ-
ation has promised to keep the sta-
tions In operation while there are
many men on the executive staffs of
the big companies capable of taking
the places of the regular workmen.
More men returned to work Tues-
day in Glasgow while the presence
of lord Pierre controler of merchant
shipbuilding in Belfast gives some
hope of a settlement there.
Demand 40 Hour Week. 1
A statement was issued last night'
by the Ministry of labor Inreferonee
to demands made by unofficial confer-
ences of London members of the en-
gineering and electrical trades unions.
These demands included governmental
intervention in the various labor dis-
putes and the Introduction of legisla-
tion involving the establishing of
40 hours as the legal working week.
The statement points out that no com-
munication in support of these de-
mands has been received from the
executive officers of any of the unions
involved. On the contrary this state-
ment says it is "understood that the
executives are opposed to the action
suggested." It Is recalled that agree-
ments were recently concluded by the
union executives with the employers
for the introduction of a 47 hour week.
STRIKERS PLAN TO SHUT
OFF ALL SEATTLE LIGHTS
Seattle 'Wash- Feb. 5. The Elec-
trical Workers' union has decided to
shut off all lights in Seattle when
these workers together with 40000
others in Seattle and vicinity com-
mence a strike tomorrow morning in
sympathy with 25.000 shipyard work-
ers who are out to enforce a demand
tor Increased wages Leon Green busi-
ness agent of the electrical union said
today.
Mayor Ole Hanson has declared he
would see that the city Is lighted.
Sanction for the sympathy strike
has been refused by the international
organisation with which the local
typographical union is affiliated and
It waa announced by officers of tbe
union that Its men would remain at
work.
Approval by the parent organization
of the vote by the local carmen's union
to strike has not been announced.
LOCKOUT DECLARED BY
BUENOS AIRES SHIPPERS
Buenos Aires. Argentina. Feb. 5.
The shippers here last nignt ueciarea
an absolute lockout because the mari
time workers persisted in boycotting
some vessels. Every hand aboard
coastwise shipping was dismissed.
An officer of the Coastwise Shlp-
rw.ru' association said he expected the
lockout to continue a month. It
believed the trans-Atlantic steamers
which have been in the roads for a
month will be sent to other ports.
AGAIN nECOGNIZES WAR
LABOR BOARD'S TOWER
New Tork. Feb. S. The Bethlehem
Steel company which recently re-
fused to recognize the authority of
the national war labor board has re-
considered and pledged "loyal coop-
eration In carrying through the two
Important measures with which the
finding of the board dealt." accord-
ing to a statement issued by the
board here.
FEDERAL EMPLOYES 3IEET.
Congressman elect C B. Hudspeth
addressed a meeting of the Federal
Employes union in Odd Fellow hall
Tuesday evnelng on union labor and
legislative topics. President Clifford
A. Perkins presided. Addresses were
made hT Martin Sweeney and Win. T.
Griffith. Fourteen candidates for
membership were Initiated and 1( new
applications were received.
Bellhop Later Captain
Returns To First Love
Los Angeles Calif- Feb. S.
Oliver H. Pochi. a Los Angeles
bellboy who rose to the rank of
captain with the 180th division
has signified his Intention of re-
turning to this city and startinr
work again as a "bellhop."
Pochi enlisted as a private and
while at Camp Kearny San Diego
taught French to the soldiers
scheduled to sail overseas. This
service earned him his promotion.
CRITICISE EMBARGO
FOR ITS EFFECT ON
AMERICAN INDUSTRY
LOYALTY OF CARNEGIE PEACE
FOUNDATION IS QUESTIONED
Senators Knox of Pennsylvania and Ashurst- of Ari-
zona Join Senator Eeed Missouri in Attacking Foun-
dation's Activities Abroad; Republicans and Demo-
crats Eap Great Britain's Import Sestrictions
WASHINGTON D. C Feb. 5 Democrats and Eepub-
Icans in the senate today joined in criticising the
new British embargo on imports and callng attenton to
the effect it would have on American industry.
During the discussion that followed senator Eeed
of Missouri Democrat attacked the Carnegie Peace
foundation activities abroad questioned its loyalty and
declared it should be dissolved. Senators Knox of
Pennsylvania Eepublican and Ashurst of Arizona
Democrat joined in the attack.
U.S. NET LANDS
Cast Is Sweeping To All
Quarters of the City TJ n-
der Federal Guidance.
The federal dragnet continued Its
relentless collecting Tuesday and by
nightfall three more were in custody
as follows:
Josephine Alexander alias Mary
noward 503 East Boulevard
charged with practicing prostitu
tion atad bootleggizur to soldiers in
uniform. '
Viola Mock 9 IS Alameda av-
enue charged with practicing
prostitution and bootlegging to
soldiers in uniform.
Ed Cameron. Argyle hotel
charged with bootlegging to aol-
' dlers In nnlf orm.
The sweep of the net Is Into all
quarters of the city and the above
haul is said to be but & small sample
of what the conclusion of the cast
will show.
Preliminary hoarlng of Joe Chlpps
and W. C Campbell proprietors of the
Stockmen's hotel which waa raided
Sunday morning will open Friday aft-
ernoon at 2 oeloek before United
States commissioner S. L. Kelly and
it is expected to run into the evening
hoars because of the numerous wit-
nesses to be examined. United States
district attorney William Fryer will
conduct the prosecution.
IRE IN JAIL!
i
Lenine Calls Bolshevist
Parley Intended To Rival
Peace Meeting At Paris
STOCKHOLM. Sweden. Feb 5. An
exhortation from premier Lenine
addressed to all Bolshevik committees
ta Germany Austria. Poland the
Baltic provinces and Finland to con-
voke a communist conference in-
tended to eclipse both the peace con-
ference at Paris and the Socialist
conference at Ben a. Is published by
the Petrograd newspapers.
Lenine declares that the Bol-
shevlkl alone will have the right
to take the Initiative at the pro-
posed conference.
Dtanoyo Rtehcsnan head of the
Chinese Bolshevik prapaganda in tbe
Far East and the president of the
Chinese section of the communist
party has been murdered by an un-
identified person according to a dis-
patch from Petrograd.
He was shot down as he began
a public speech. The murder it
Is added. Is expected to have Im-
portant consequences.
Rlehoman exercised an absolute
dictatorship over the Chinese living
in Russia and recently ordered three
coolies living near Petrograd. to be
tortured and shot.
SwIsm Minister May Leave.
Paris France. Feb. S. M. Tchlt-
cherin. the foreign minister In the
Russian soviet government has with-
drawn his opposition to the departure
from Russia of Ertuard Odior. the
Swiss minister and his staff. A tele-
gram to that effect has just been re-
ceived from the Bolshevik irovern-
ment. according to Marcel rutin in
the Echo de Paris.
Friction For Some Time.
(There has been friction between
the Swiss and Russian soviet eovern-
ments for some time past. The Bol-
shevik! complained that the Swiss
had arrested 30 Russians and were
keeping them in confinement and
various threats were made against
3vrias citizens In Russia to be carried
-ut unless the Swiss released the
bolshevik prisoners and recognised a
representative of the Russian soviet
. government in Switzerland. The exact
! status of the relations between the
two governments 1-as not beer rle-
Russia or Switzerland but the fore -
I going maaes it appear mat tne sever -
xaoera la protest.
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts.
Republican and senators Lewis of
Illinois; Smith of Georgia and Reed
of Missouri. Democrats; led In pro-
tests the British embargo.
Senator Weeka said he did not
charge that the embargo was
aimed against the Tnlted States
but senator Lewis remarked that
a majority of articles listed are
manufactured ia the middle west.
The rjHnoIs aenator said the ac-
tion might bring on a trade war.
"I invito the attention of Br: us i o -fidala
to the delicate situation ' re
continued. "While the president at
France battling for the principles our
country feels are necessary one "
our own allies takes a course so -rvrr -leal
to the welfare of the trruteu
States that It Is calculated to -c-ate
a eentiment of hostility which
will embarrass harmony in the T nr-i1
States."
Senator Weeks said that the em-
bargo'a pursose. was to build us S- -Ish
Industry to its prewar nurr J.
coadfttloB.
"This bufldlnx; vp however.
said Mr. Wee&s "has directly the
reverse- effect on our own Indus-
try. The time has come when we
must give attention to our do-
mestic affairs and protect our
own commerce.
In the discussion senator. Reed re-
ferred to pacifist movements
France and England about six years
ago and declared the Carnegie f' ni-
dation had branches In every countr-
that were "Jointly conspiring to con-
trol the policies of these countries '
"T do not hesitate;" he continued.
"to question the loyalty of any organ -ization
that sits in the United States
today and conspires with a lot of Ger
mans. Swedes Hungarians or Engi.sb
to work out a policy that affects 'ho
policy of our government"
IIAL CHASE ACQUITTED.
New Tork. Feb. S. Hal Chase flrs-
basetaan of the Cincinnati Nations:
league dun. was today acquitted of
the charge of attempting to influence
the result of baseball games last sna-
mer. ance of relations has become com-
plete.) To Transport Hun Troop.
Polish representatives here hava
received reports to the effect that a
delegation sent by the mill t
authorities of the German army oc-
cupying parts of Lithuania and Es-
thonta to the Russian soviet govern-
ment has signed an agreement by
which the Bolshevists undertake to
transport German troops from Tkraine
over the Briansk-Kovno railroad.
A soldiers' council with Herr
Weriie at its head controls the test-
Gorman array which is occupying
Grodno and Kovno
It Is said that the general staf
officers of this army are Bolshevists.
It was this army that compelled
Polish contingents fighting against
the Russian Bolshevists to. evacuate
Vlhsa and to give up their arms.
Baser For Paris Decision.
Vladivostok. Siberia. Feb. 5 (Asso-
ciated Press.) The decision of the
peace conference regarding the all ed
Policy in Russia and Siberia Is eagerlv
awaited by tbe Canadians and ot"ert
of the allied forces here.
The Russian press guardedly is op-
posing the withdrawal of the ail ed
forces and Is urging active participa-
tion against the Bolsheviki. In ac-
cordance with their announced roUcv
the Jananeso are evacuating part of
their force. The Czechs are withdraw-
ing from the Oral front to guard tie
railway line.
Send Home Allied Wounded.
Washington D. C Feb. 5 r-.T
ships will be required to transport a"
lied Invalided soldiers from Slber'a -
their home countries according to a
Pekln dispatch to the state denar-ment-
The dispatch said the Br t
steamer Madras would sail fron:
Vladivostok next Saturday for lea: .
by way of Hongkong and Sues w ta
500 Czech and 28 British sick a-.d
woundei.
The American Red Cross Is furs s i
lng personnel and equipment and -endeavoring
to secure another ship -r
this service to sail by February 15
Copenharen Deports Reds.
Sine members of tbe Bolshevik -a
Copenhagen headed by Buritx. we-e
expected to leave Denmark todav -accordance
with the recommerdauo-.
f the chief of the police that they bo
-nt out of the country accorrtlntr t -
advices today to the state department
1 Many other BolshevikL howeve-
are
(remaining in vopennagen.
Cabarets
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