The Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 336, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Austin American-Statesman Newspaper Collection and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the UNT Libraries.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
<
if?
THE STATESMAN
ONLY DAILY PAPER PUBLISHED IN AUSTIN CARRYING THE COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
)
The News First
Vol. 46; No. 336.
s
PRISONERS TAKEN MAY RAISE
BY FRENCH EXCEED
STRENGTH
• A
SOME LINES
FORCE OF VICTORS OF RANGERS
O
BEGIN HEARINGS
UPON SUFFRAGE
Prominent Leaders Are FEDERAL AID
TO BE ASKED
1
%
a
Ti
U
TO BE CHANGED
MANY ARE SUNK
NOT TO EXCHANGE
IN
■ ' --
virtue
niste
2
FIRE DESTROYS
PALACE OF KING INFANTRY GUARD
FOR STOCKYARDS
RUCKMAN SAYS
BARS MUST GO
1
con-
ULTIMATUM IS
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan.
3.
SENT RADICALS
/
X
■a
-
d
CONGESTION
SERIOUS ON
WILSON MESSAGE
ON ROADS READY
eman
orm
Ukrainians Demand
Withdrawal of Bol-
sheviki Troops.
eat,
suf.
advance guard of commercial
quest.
Precaution Is Taken
Against Incendiary •
Fires..
ommit
a sho
this ye|
Statisti
was 11
300,000 POLES
EXPATRIATED
a
he pr
ible ti
en oul
yet-
to ;
and
who
for
live
the
tly.
RUSS-GERMAN
BREAK SENDS
STOCKS HIGHER
“Saloons, vice and gambling must be
eradicated.”
That was the ringing challenge given
yesterday by Major General John W.
Ruckman, commander of the Southern
Department. And fifty ministers, rep-
resenting every denomination in San
Antonio, and several laymen, arose and
after cheering drank a toast in water
to the man who made the declaration.
The occasion was a luncheon given
by the ministers of the cty—Catholic
Protestant and Jewish—as a tribute to
the standeGeneral Ruckman has taken
on the vice question and the effective
work he has done. , :
NEW SUBMARINE
SHIPYARD OPENED
Alfonso’s Palace at La
Granga Is
Burned.
Southern Department
Head Cheered by
Ministers.
McAdoo Confers With
Agents of Four
Brotherhoods.
Reports Are Made to
Federal Dictator of
Roads.
Germans Transfer Civil-
ians to Germany by
Force.
Russia Has No Such
Plan, Trotzky
Declares.
Complaint has been mao in a let-
fer addressed to the Senate as a whole,
from a woman on the lower Texas
border, of the alleged practico of Mex-
icans and some Americans in "doctor-
ins" soft drinks by adding various in-
gredientw, such as alcohol, pepper sauce
Capture More Men in
Italy Than They Have
Engaged.
Slated to Speak to
Committee.
Traffic Will Be Re-
Routed to Help
Matters.
or n
iiver.
Changes Are Mentioned
in Report of
Board.
Will Be Delivered to
Houses of Congress
Friday.
Mysterious Fire in
Capital of Russia
ban si
he Sta
gavel
3 chop
as base
on. thej
Ive sea
o freell
ountry.
-m ‘
mu
4---
ESTABLISHED 1871
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Stocks took another decided upward
spurt today, the reason generally advanced being the further signs
of a collapse of the Russo-Teutonic peace negotiations. Rails, which
were sluggish at the opening, soon bounded forward, leaders gain-
WORKERS CALL
ON RAIL CHIEF
rill nqS
efault,
mpatgh,
at th
Rishoi
ch an,
e Bay,
maeg.
*/,
2a
War On Undersea Boata
Is More Ef-
fective.
REICHSTAG MAY MEET TO
DISCUSS PARLEY FAILURE
-------------------------------------------------- 1
Ill ' ■
AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3,1918.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The "din-
ing"" out of town buyers in cu proper
business expense for commercial houses
and may be deducted legitimately from
areninge in figuring incomes and ex-
cess profits taxes, Internal Revenue
Commissioner ruled tody.
9
bi resumed nt Brest-Litovak o th,
Russians oppose stoutly the prinoiple .
of annexation. .. L 1fhn.
Ou Tuesday evening at eP"met* “
ing of the ceptral exequtiye commht-
tee of the conKreas of sldlers' and
workmen's delegates, rpresentative
of the pegsants deputies, the Petrograd
workomen’s and soldiers' council and
representtives of tho general arm
congress for the demobilization of the
army, n resolution was adopted unan-1
imoualy declaring that the Germa
peace terms were unjust. It denounced
German’ attitude toward the Balli
province as tyrannical ond authorized
the government to take steps to trans-
fer future peons negotiations to a neu-
tral country,
Russians genatuiils favor Stockholm
ns the place for the peace conference,
but It is said the Germans ar, not
willing to go to Sweden.
New Republic Is
Set Up in Russia
—.।
PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Jan. 2.— (By the Associated Press),
The Russian peace delegation officially has suggested to the Cen*
tral Powers that the meeting place of the peace delegates be trans*
ferrod to neutral soil and has protested against certain articleu
in the Austro-German terms already submitted. J
The halt in the Russo-German negotiations and indications of
erman refusal to remove the conference to Stockholm have ree
Driving first rivet in new cargo ship.
The submarine boat corporation
opened its new shipyards at Newark
recently with impressive ceremonies,
a huge crowd watching James
Hunter, official representative of the
U. S. shipping board, drive the first
rivet in the keel of the .first of tho
5,000-ton s.teel cargo ships.
SUBS BUSY BUT
------
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—Munitions plants
and the stock yards district today were
placed under guard of regular army In-
fantry units, as a precaution against
incendiary fires and explosions. Re-
cent fires and expolsions in other
parts of the country is said to have
caused the action.
,1
1;
hat tfi
vill S
v uni
on, an
will nc
. Roti
ucuea
Austi
hn I
r neve
l LAST MINUTE
. BULLETINS
in Germany. The group of Austrian
officers was impressed greatly at this
and openly declared their hatred fon
the Germans. A little later we heard
the Austrian soldiers cheering, and it
turned, out they were cheering their
French captors."
PETROGRAD, Jan. 3.---A nov roji ije
public has been set rup in the Bidck . .
Sea territory, with Novorossysk as th
capital. A coalition cabinet ineluding
constitutional democrats, ban been,
formed.
Delegates from Ukraine to the con-
stituent assembly will arrive in P!
trograd tomorrow, No effort was mude
to open tho assembly today.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.- -important
changes in the farm loan bank sys-
tem are features, of the first annual
report of the Federal Loan oBard, made
public today. The board recommends
that borrowing through farm loan as-
O—------------
Dining Customers
; Legitimate Expense
WAR PRISONERS GERMAN TERMS MEET
GENERAL DENUNCIATION
PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Jan. 2.-5
A dispatch from Kiev reports that the
Ukrainian government has sent an ul-
timatum to the Bolshevik! demanding
that they withdraw their troops with-
in twenty-four hours and state wheth-
er they consider themselves at’ war
or at peace with Ukraine. Shipments
of sugar and grain to Northern Russia
have been cut off.
Plans looking to immediate Increas-
ing of the Texas Ranger force for duty
on the Texas border as a result of
indefinite postponement of organiza-
tion of the new Texas National Guard
through orders Issued yesterday by the
War Department at Washington, will
be taken up with Secretary of War
Faker at Washington next week by
Adjutant General James A. Harley.
Genered Harley will leave for Wash-
ington within a few days.
The Texas Ranger force at the pres-
ent time, it is said, numbers approxi-
mately 176. It is understood that Gen-
eral Harley will tell Secretary Baker
that there should be several thousand
rangers on the border it also is sadd
that he takes the position that main-
tenance of -this additional force of
rangers should devolve upon the Gov-
ernment since several thousand sol-
diers NoW on the border patrol duty
could be released
WORST SHOWING
BY NEW HAVEN
yived universal discussion in Petrograd of a resumption of fight*
ing with a greatly reduced army, probably three million men.
Even the most radical Bolshevik and the most ardent peace ad.
vocates have been aroused by the German position. They declare
that a resumption of hostilities is imminent and express the belief
that it is possible to organize and make effective a small army. )
Indications are that the German attitude is harmonizing democvati
differences and is convincing Russians that they must fight to save their
revolutionary principles.
Chalman Joffe of the Russian peace delegation today sent an of*
flelal telegram to the chairman of the German-Austrian, Bulgarian and
Turkish delegatlons saving the Russian republic deems it necessary to
conduct further peace negotiations on neutral soil and suggesting a irang-
fei of the conference to Fiorklelm. The telegram declaras that replits to
the message are expected by Russla in Petrograd.
Articles 1 and 2 of the Austro-German terms submitted December 12*
December 26. the message says, are in direct conflict with the principled
of sell-definitton of nations insisted upon by the Russian peace delegation
and supported by the Russia republic and the central executive committed
ot the congress of soldiers and workmen’s delegates. v
Soft Drinks “Doctored”
Make Border Beverage
Harley Will Take Up
Plan With Secretary
Baker. 1
LONDON, Jan. 3. The situation cre-
ated by the hitch In the Brest-Litovsk
negotiations, dispatches from Amster-
dam reflecting news from Berlin show,
has aroused the activities of the rul-
era and politicians of Germany and
Aust ria-Hungary.
Emperor William yesterday received
in joint audience Chancellor con Her-
ling, Field Marshal von Hindenburg,
General von Ludandorff, Finance Min-
ister von Rbedern and Foreign Secre-
tary von Kuehl ma nn.
The foreign affairs committee of
the German Bundersrat under the pres-
idency of Count von Dandi, discussed
tho Russian situation at the chancel-
lor’s palace Chancellor von Hertling
had a long conversation with Admiral
von TIrpitz, the former minister of
marine and Emperor Charles received
in audience Prof. Kucharzevski, the
Polish premier.
Foreign Secretary von uelhmann’s
retrn to Brest-lotovsk after a hur-
ried visit to Berlin is paid to* have
created surprise as did his confidence
with Reichstag leaders who were sum-
moned suddenly
• Leaders of all parties were present
at the cnference, according to Infor-'
mation in Amersterdam and they in-
formed Dr. von Kuehlmann that they
adhered strongly to the demand that
the Reichstag bo summoned ns speed-
By as possible. It is expected that
the demand will be discussed at Thurs-
day's session of the Reichstag main
committee, which Chancellor von Hert-
ling will attend.
The feture of the conference is said
to have been the outspoken speeches
ke
, r, (By.Associated Press.)
PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Jan. 2-
Petrograd newvspapers are unanimous
1u deklaving that the Germans aid
Austrians have, after one week, thrown
off the mask and made it clear that the
Central Powers do not want a real
democratic peace. The Pravda says:
"German imperialism is again be-
ginning to show its claws."
Germany’s apparent unwillingness
to givo Poland, Lithuania, livonia,
(Tourland and Esthonia the prvilge of
fre» self-definition la the rock upon
which the negotiations have sulit.
Other peace conditionsRre ignored by
the Bolshevik leaders who say that
Germany oppoms the. most vital prin-
cple underlying the Russian ravol.t-
tlon, ,
In an interview with newspaper men,
Foreign Minister Trotzky said that
peace negotiations probably would not
ing 2 to 3%2 points.
Tho pace was set by such invest-
ment issues as trans-continentals,
grangers, Now York Central. Coal
shares under lead of Reading, also
were materially higher, presumably in
anticipation of an early solution of the
fuel problem. B team ship sh ares gained
1% to 3 points and numerous equip-
ments. including the war contract is-
sues. wore 2 to 5 points higher with 7
points for New York Airbrake.
LONDON, Jan. 3.- “Hostile raiding
parties were repulsed last night suth
and southwest of Ia Rassee, leaving,
a few prlsonens in our hands,” tho war
officer reports. “The enemy artillery
showed considerable activity during the
MADRID, Jan. 3—Fire ‘n,the Royal
Palace at La Grgnja today spread to
a church, which with the palace was
destroyed. Several houses also caught
fire. Fire hydrants were frozen.
Government troops were summoned
to fight the fire. Very few of the vul-
uable picture and are objects in the
palace were saved. The loss will ag-
gregate several million dollars.
X WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Railroad
labor and finance questions engaged
the attention of Director General Me-
Add) and his staff today along with
the movement of coal to Northeast and
the East.
Heads of the four railway brother-
hoods were called into conference to
discuss the general employment sit-
uation under Government operation.
Although the union chiefs had no in-
tention of pressing their demands for
40 per cent higher pay at this time, it
is understood their case will be taken
up along with many other wage mat-
ters as soon as the railroad adminis-
tration has disposed of the more press-
ing transportation problem.
K -"28088
Y -3
of the Philipp Scheidemann and Fried-
rich Hbert fr the official Socialists . ..
and Hugo Ban so for the Independent 'night east of Epehy.""
Sociallsts They ore credited with hav-
and other liquids. The letter asks that
tho Senate make an investigation of
this condition and take any action that
may be deemed n9vssary jo remedy
the conditon. ' •
Just what can bo done, if anything,
to remedy the alleged practice has not
been determined. -
before making borrowing more direct;
that the maximum which can be loaned
to any one borrower be raised from
$10,000 to 325,000 and thal warn loan
bonds be issued In denominations of
320 and 320. The board alsk recom-
mends that Congress authorize tho
Treasury to tak cup 3100,000,000 of
farm loan bonds to counterbalance the
withdrawal of foreign and domestic
capital from the farm loan field as a
consequence of war financing.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.— President
Wilson today finished the address he'
will deliver to Congress tomorrow on
> the railroad situation. It is under-
stood to bo about 1000 words long, and,
according to present plans, it will not
Abe confided to newspaper and press
Plsociations in advance of delivery.
■ gr pedeat will make specific rec-
2ughresrh4, for legislation to carry
oumadatromen-perations or rail-
kroade. >
ormer President
of Eagles Is Desd.
A INHAs CITY, Mo., Jan. 3.—John E.
• etter, former president of thr Fta-
• al order of Eagles, and well known
•orre insurance men throughout the
•Aantry, died at his home here early
•day. He WAS born in St. Louis fir-
•l-nine years ago. Mr. Pelletier was
it of the Eagles in 1904-05.
Lmell Postoffice
Destroyed by Fire
The opstottice building at Jarrell,
Wiiramson County, was destroyed by
fire last night, agcording to n wiro
received, nt the office of Postottice In-
spector C. B. Anderson this morning.
' oney and valuable papers had been
laced in the safe and were saved.
PETEdORAD, Wednesday, Jan, 2.—■
The Germans are reported to' have
transferred 300,000 civilian Poles and
Lthuanlans forcibly to Germany.
General Kornlloff, former oomman-
der in chief, and one of the leaders in
tho movement against the Bolsheviki,
has arrived in the distrot of the Don
Cossacks. (The death of General Kor-
nflott was reported unofficially on
Tuesday),
The members of former Rusetahcoyt
ernments who are under, arrest in the
fortress of St. Peter and St Paul have
abandoned their hunger strike.
(By Associateg Press.)
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTHERN ITALY, Wednes-
day, Jan. 2.—The French in their
recent successful operation on the
Monte Tomba captured more pris-
ioners than they had men en-
gaged, according to a veteran of-
ficer who witnessed the fight.
From the top of a nearby hill he
saw the French attack and after-
wards saw the prisoners, guns and
booty brought in.
“In addition to the 1400 pris-
oners we counted 560 dead on the
ground and no one knows how
many were in the caverns and
under bushes,” he declared.
The perfect French military system
enabled them to accomplish this with
insignificant loss—less than fifty men.
“The fiftieth Austrian division, which
was the one attacked, is considered, a
good fighting organization But the
Austrians were accustomed to fighting
Russians and Rumanians and this_was
the first time they had met the highly
tralned French troops.
"When the prisoners were brought
in I never saw a more miserable, piti-
ful, starved lot of soldiers. They looked
like the riff-raff from the slums of
some big city Even the officers ap-
peared underfed and underclothed and
I saw only one with a whole pair of
breeches.
“When the officers were lined up
there were forty-two Austrians. and
two Germans. The Austrians were
told they would receive the usual
PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Ja. 2--
Eleven hundred airplane machine guns
and a quantity of ammunition wer
destroyed and approximately twenty
persons were killed as the result of a
mysterious fire ond explosion today in
a military depot in the Guluyevsky
basin in Petrograd.
MEETING PLACE CHANGED,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-- The Na-
tional Society for the Promotion of
Industrial Education has changed its
meeting place to Philadelphia. The
dates, feb. 1 to 23, 1918, are still re-
tained. Thl will enable delegates to
the meeting of the Department of Su-
perintendence of the National Educa-
tion Association, in Atlantic City, Feb.
25 to March 2, to attend both meet-
ings. ■ .
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—The first
of a series of hearings on the woman
suffrage constitutional amendment to
be conducted by the House suffrage
commitee was begu today with the
session given over to the presentation
of the suffragists’ case by women rep-
resenting the National American Wom-
an Suffrage Association.
Mrs. Maud Wood Park, congression-
al chairman, is in chareg of the hear-
ing for the suffragists, and Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, honorary president of
the association; Mrs. Cafric Chapman
Catt, president; Mrs. Travers Whit-
ney of New York, Mrs. Gullford Dud-
ley of Nashville, and Mrs. Henry Ware
Allen of Wichita* have been listed to
speak in behalf of I the amendment.
LOAN SYSTEM
irn.....r ,,
FIVE CENTS ‘
RESUMPTION I
(By Associated Press.)
Increased loss of merchant ment is
shown in the current British and
French reports. Through mines and
submarines the British lost twenty-one
vessels, including eighteen of more than
1000 tons, or nine more than the pre-
vious week when twelve, including
eleven of the larger tonnage were sunk.
French losses* were nine steamers of
more than 1600 tons as compared with
Iwo in the previous week.
December shipping losses were but
slightly higher than those in Novem-
ber, which established a low record.
Submarine sinkings also are said to
have been more commn in December
than in "any previous month, being
greater than the number the Germans
probably were able to build.
Aj EWS of the city, the Nation and
* % the world, handled, fairly and
given to the public while it is really
news, makes The Statesman the most
popular paper in the Austin trade ter-
ritory. *
LONDON, Jan. 3.-—The Bolshevik
foreign minister, Leon Trotzky, is
quoted in an Interview as having said
that the commission which is discuss-,
ing prisoners was staking up only the
question of civilian and invalid war
prisoners. He said the exchan/a of
able-bodied war prisoners could be un-
dertaken only after the signing of
peace.
A Petrograd dispatch to the Post says
a very large proportion of the German
prisoners and still larger proportion of
the Austrians will return to their
fighting fronts only under compulsion
They have not been confined in prison
camps but have lived among the peo-
pie and everywhere have proved their
worth in agricultural, industrial, com-
mercial and even artistic pursuits.
Many of them arc getting on better
than they did at home and are more
than contented to remain in Russia.
Furthermore, it is Improbable. the dis-
patch says, that Germany desires the
return from Russigu of a majority of
her war prisoners. She will get back
the officers and non-commissioned of-
ficers in any case and many of them
already have returned. But for both
Germany and Austria the dispatch con-
tinues, it is a sounder policy to regard
the rank and file of these men as the
Hast Texas:
fair and warmer
Weat Texas:
fair, colder In th
WAR DISCUSSED "
AMONG RUSSIANS
I ---------
German Position in Peace Negotiations Arouses
Ing told von Kuehlmann that his at-
titude in the Russian negotiations was
prejudicial to peace.* They’ told him
to say one day that Germany wanted
no Russian territory and say the next
dny that it wanted virtually all terri-
tory oceupted by German troops justIX
fled Entente statesmen in declining to
place confidence in the word of Ger-
many's leaders. The foreign secretary
4s 6hd, however, to have made ‘‘oom-
plete explanations."' It is reported that
both von Kuehlmann and (fount Czer-
nin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign sec-
retary, returned to Brest-IAtvsk,
where they wore expeoted to arrive
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Serious con-
gestion on certain railroads while oth-
ers adjoining or connecting are abqut
normal was reported today to Director
General MoAdod by Interstate Com-
merce Commissioner MeChord, iln
charge of the commission's inspectors.
“The worst conditions reported so
far," said the report. '’are on the New
Haven, the Pennsylvania Lines west
of Pittsburg, on the Connellsville-line
and Cumberland divisions of the Bal-
timore & Ohio and on the Western
Maryland & Cumberland Valley Rail-
roads. On the New Haven the prin-
cipal difficulty appears to be the short-
age of power due to a large number
of engines in the shop and shortage
of both men and material to make re-
pairs.
"The congestion at Conway yard at
Pittsburg la due to shortage of power
and inefficient help. s Thet congestion
I on the Western Maryland and the Cum*
■ berland Valley and in a measure on
'the Connellsvill e and Cumberland di-
l visions of the Baltimor & Ohio is due
I to embargoes.”
The Baltimore & Ohio, at one point
I was reported to have 7000 cars of coal,
I although 1000 is a normal number.
! These reports were forwarded im-
mediately to A. H. Smith, assistant
. , director general at New York with in-
। structlons to reFroute traffic from the
heavily burdended roads to those op-
I erating normally. -
yesterday with new instructions The
Leopsig Volks Zeitung, the leading In*
dependent Socialist newspaper, com-
menting on the Brest-Ltovsk situation
and the activitiee of von Kuehlmann-
and the government, says:
“Germany now reveals her eastern
peace aims. Everybody In Germany,
Russia and Entente countries now
knows that she is not aiming at a just
peace without annexations, and indem-
nities such as von Kuehlmann de-
picted. but at a peace providing for an
enormous Increase in Germany’s mill*
tary, political and economfo strength.”
WFhese intentions must strengthen th
war will of the Entente Germany in-
tends really to annex all of the terrU
torlcs she now holds. Her excuse thal
the populations of these territories
have declared their willingness to be
severed from Russia is untrue. Indi: >
v!duals may have done so, but they
always have been irresponsible, acW
ing on some German suggestion.
I
treatment given officers and gentlemen
Wouancere be"teiedfor another year
same treatment given French officers
All Factions and Renewal of Fighting is
Forecast—Peace Meet On Neutral Soil Is
Suggested.
pas- »
• de- {
adly.
Itive .
"i
ugh
ark,
zher
:l
icka
ver,
• is
Soldiers Will Be Re-
leased From Border
• Duty.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View six places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 336, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1918, newspaper, January 3, 1918; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1456015/m1/1/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .