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GALVESTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1919—EIGHT PAGES
NO. 32.
TOL. 39.
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CAPT. MeCONNICE DEAD.
Electric Equipment Gives Reaches Frontier Point
CONFUSION EXISTS.
This Morning.
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By Associated Press.
Rome, Jan. 2.—President Wilson and
his party arrived this morning at Mo-
dane, on the Franco-Italian frontier.
Marked Differences
Among Allies.
“I inform the European negotiators
and the world," he said, "that there is
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TEN CIGARETTES;
WHAT THEY BRING
IN NORTH RUSSIA
3
WAVES BREAK OVER
STRANDED STEAMER
HOSTILITIES ARE DEVELOPING
EETWEEN GERMANY AND POLAND
CHANGES LIKELY IN
PEACE DELEGATIONS
COLD WAVE GRIPS
STATE OF TEXAS
SHARPLEY SCORES
WAR DEPARTMENT
BRILLIANT VICTORY
FOR GENERAL GAIDA
SPECIAL RULE ON
WAR REVENUE BILL
Northern Pacific Only 250
Yards From Shore.
By the Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 2.—Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois,
speaking today in the senate, charged Republican leaders with con-
spiring for political purposes to discredit President Wilson abroad
to thwart his purposes by giving European negotiators the impres-
sion that the senate opposed his plans and by deceiving the American
public. Their object, he declared, is "to prevent the president from
accomplishing anything.”
The speech was in reply to recent utterances of Senators Lodge
of Massachusetts and Knox of Pennsylvania, both Republicans,
criticising certain of the president's fourteen principles of peace and
urging that consideration of a league of nations, freedom of the seas
and other questions be deferred until after the peace conference.
• "The concurring assaults by certain leaders of the Republican
side upon everything that President Wilson has attempted in
Europe,” said Senator Lewis, "discloses, as I charge, a conspiracy to
discredit him and to defeat any design he enters upon by giving the
European negotiators to understand that the senate is opposed to
the president; that it objects to his measures and that it is speaking
with the power to revise, reverse and repudiate him.”
Senator Lewis declared the senate had nothing whatever to do
DAVID LUBIN DEAD.
Fort Worth, Jan. 2.—Thursday was
the second coldest day of the winter—■
nineteen above zero.
Measure Adopted Without
Roll Call.
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with what the president is now doing ‘in presenting the protocol for
peace and the adjustment of the disposition of the armies."
ponement of the proposals for a league
By the Associated Press.
Copenhagen. Jan. 2.—A Polish army of thirty thousand men is
marching on Berlin, according to a dispatch received here quoting
rumors at the German capital.
Gustav Noske, member of the Ebert cabinet in charge of military
affairs, is said to have ordered the Fifth German division to meet the
Poles.
Events iu Posen are assuming a grave character, according to
advices from Berlin. Large parts of the province are in the hands
of the Poles, and Polish troops have crossed the frontier at Kal-
mieryce, a town southeast of Posen and 62 miles northeast of
Breslau. German troops there must, it is stated, retreat in the face
of a superior force of the Poles,
It is also reported that the Polish government at Warsaw has
ordered the mobilization of all Poles. 1
Ignace Jan Paderewski, who arrived in Posen several days ago,
is delaying his departure for Warsaw in order to have a conference
with German delegates from Berlin.
CHARGES REPUBLICAN LEADERS
CONSPIRING TO DISCREDIT AND
THWART EFFORTS OF PRESIDENT
Specialists to be Heard at
Conference.
FIGHTING IN PROGRESS AT POSEN.
Amsterdam, Tuesday, Dec. 31.—(By the Associated Press).—1
Fighting has continued in the city of Posen, German Poland, be-
tween Polish and German troops in the last few days. The fortress
of the city has been occupied by the Poles, while more than 20,000
German soldiers have been disarmed.
Weeks Flays Errors in the
Casualty Lists.
Senator Lewis Asserts Political Motives Underly
Criticisms Hurled at Wilson’s Activities
by Opposing Solons.
Reports on Interview With
Clemenceau.
Takes 31,000 Prisoners
at Perm.
GERMAN FORCES RETREAT BEFORE
POLES-FIGHTING IN PROGRESS
POLISH TROOPS ENTER FRANKFORT.
By the Associated Press.
London, Jan. 2.—Polish troops have entered Frankfort on the
Oder, fifty miles east of Berlin, says a Berne dispatch to the ex-
press. which adds that the Poles have occupied Beuthen, in Prussian
Silesia and Bromberg, in the province of Posen, 69 miles northeast
of the Posen city.
Warsaw Government Orders Mobilization-Pader-
ewski Delays Departure for Conference
With Berlin Delegates.
Snow Is Favorable for
Small Grains.
| RUSS AFFAIRS
ARE CAUSING
MUCH ANXIETY
Vessel Driven Higher Upon
Beach.
ENGLAND AND U. S.
ARE IN AGREEMENT
By Associated Press.
Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 1.—American
Ambassador Thomas Nelson Page, in
company with the military and naval
attaches of the American embassy, left
here today to meet President Wilson
at the Italian frontier.
Directors of Ford Motor Company Take
Action at Meeting.
. Detroit, Jan. 2.—A two hundred per-
cent dividend was declared by the di-
rectors of the Ford Motor company
at their annual meeting Dec. 31, it was
announced here this forenoon.
The dividend which represents a dis-
bursement of $4,000,000 among seven
stockholders, is payable 100 per cent
Jan. 1 and 100 per cent Feb. 1
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 2.—Assignment of
Maj. Gen. Henry C. Hodges, Jr., to
commanded the 17th division at Camp |
Beauregard, La., was announced today
by the war department. Gen. Hodges
recently returned from France.. ,
The First National Bank
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firms, corporations and individuals
the advantages of its facilities. The
conservatism and permanency of a
bank are points that are appreciated
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By Associated Press y (
Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 1. —
George Creel, chairman of the
committee on public information,
took occasion to reply today to
some.of the criticism which have
been levelled at him by the Amer-
ican press. United States sena-
tors and congressmen since his
departure from America. . He
said that he wished to have no-
thing to do with the press dele-
gation after reaching Europe; and
added that he had so informed
newspaper representatives before
sailing for France on board the
Orizaba. ‘
Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 1.—David
Lubin of San Francisco, founder of the
international institute of agriculture
and the American representative on its
permanent board, died here today of
pneumonia.
no law of America, by constitution,
statute or custom, by which the presi-
dent is under any obligation to submit
what he is now doing to the senate or
to any other branch of the legislative
or executive body.
"I inform the negotiators as I do all
those interested that the present un-
dertakings of the president of the
United States are as commander in
chief until the full treaty or compact
of peace has been finally accepted and
peace declared and the armies with-
drawn as a result of that acceptance."
Drawing a distinction between treat-
ies made by the president as head of the
civil government and after the war
has ended and the making of peace
by protocol or agreements, the senator
said under the latter condition the pres-
ident serves as commander in chief
agreeing upon terms of peace for the
purpose of withdrawing the armies and
in doing so executes the authority of
the law of the people vested in him
as executive and wholly apart from the
interference, the opposition, the dis-
approval or repudiation of the senate.”
Senators Lodge and Knox were
charged with being inconsistent in their
views. The Illinois senator said post-
Fire Island, Jan. 2.—Three officers
and one soldier, all wounded, were
landed just before noon today from the
transport Northern Pacific, stranded off
here. They came ashore in, a coast
guard boat. The landing of additional
troops was expected to follow.
Four more life boats filled with sol-
diers arrived from the Northern Pacific
soon after, while four other boats, all
belonging to the transport, filled with
members of the crew, left the ship for
the outlying rescue vessels.
By Associated Press. /
. Dallas, Jan. 2.—The Southwest opened
the new year with the first cold weath-
er of the winter. With the thermome-
ter hovering around ten degrees above
zero in the northern part of the state,
the cold extended way to the Gulf of
Mexico. At Galveston it was 34 de-
grees above, at Corpus Christi 32, at
Beaumont 36, and at San Antonio 28
degrees. In Dallas the mercury went
down to 18 degrees above the coldest
day Since last January. The cold was
preceded by a rainstorm which turned
to sleet and snow where the tempera-
ture reached the freezing point. Au-
thorities on agriculture agree that the
snow will affect favorably small
grains.
C. O. Moser, agricultural agent of the
chamber of commerce, said that ground
is thoroughly Saturated with water and
the only inconvenience of the frost will
be to delay plowing.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 2.—America’s capi-
tal fighting ships of the future will be
superior to those of other nations, be-
cause of their electrically driven ma-
chinery. Secretary Daniels told the
house naval committee today in dis-
closing remarkable results attained by
the new dreadnaught New Mexico,
equipped with the electric drive, which
is to be a feature of all the big ships
authorized since 1916.
The New Mexico’s turbo-electric ma-
chinery was designed to develop 27,500
horsepower at full speed and to give
the ship a speed of twenty-one knots.
"She actually developed more than
31,000 horsepower,” Mr. Daniels said,
"and maintained for four hours a speed
of twenty-one and one-fourth knots
and this when running at a displace-
ment 1,000 tons greater than her design
called for.”
The secretary said fuel economy at
cruising speed had been one of the
things sought in substituting electric
drive for the ordinary turbine equip-
ment.
"And I am happy to say," he added,
"that this requirement also was met. :
As a matter of fact the New Mexico
will steam at ten knots on about twen-
ty-five per cent less fuel than the best
turbine-driven ship that preceded her."
With the American Forces on .
Dwina, Dec. 12.— (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)—A tobac-
co famine has become so pro-
nounced in the territory along the
Dwina and Vaga rivers, Where
Russo-allied troops are operating
in Northern Russia, that the peas-
ants are willing to exchange al-
most anything they have for small
quantities of tobacco or cigarettes.
The correspondent went ashore
from a flat-bottom, paddle-wheel-
ed steamer with a -packet of ten
very bad cigarettes and secured in
exchange twelve eggs, a half bu-
shel of potatoes and ten pounds of
cheese. During the past six months
the tobacco growing country in the
south has been cut off from the
north by many battle lines and the
supply was soon exhausted.
The peasants having been smok-
ing tea leaves, tree leaves and dried
moss.
FORECAST.
For Galveston
and vicinity:
Cloudy and con-
tinued cold to-
night; lowest
t e m p e r a t u re
about 28 degrees.
Friday fair.
For East Tex-
as: Generally
fair tonight, ex-
cept cloudy on
coast; freezing
to the coast;
temperature 16
to 22 degrees in
north portion, 22
to 28 degrees in the interior of
south portion. Friday generally
fair; slightly warmer northwest
portion.
For West Texas: Fair tonight,
slightly warmer in Panhandle, Fri-
day fair, slightly warmer in north
portion.
For Oklahoma: Fair tonight, con-
tinued cold. Friday fair, somewhat
warmer.
Winds on Texas coast: Moderate
north to northeast.
Houston, Jan. 2.—Ice laden streets
and wires and sleet glazed streets
marked the new year blizzard which
reached here early this morning. Trac-
tion service in the city was badly crip-
pled and many minor accidents were
reported as a result of the unusual
weather conditions. At 10 o’clock this
morning a heavy sleet storm was in
of nations and freedom of the seas
would mean that the war had been
fought in vain and would bring about
a repetition of the struggle.
"Each nation with claims and prin-
ciples at stake, as it believes them,”
he continued, "seeing no method exist-
ing through which it can secure peace
and obtain its rights will turn to the
only method left and which has just
been adopted—war.
“In justice to the distinguished sen-
ators they do not mean that America
should enter upon such cowardly
course. They are only anxious to secure
the abandonment of the demand for
the present, that it might be charged
against Wilson that he failed in se-
curing the only thing of material worth
for which the nation fought and her
children died. Then as a political cry
they come proclaming that the Republi-
can senate to be constituted after the
December session will undertake the
remedying of this wrong and make the
presidential issue upon the charge of
perfidy against our president and in-
famy against our party.”
In closing, Senator Lewis urged
united support for the president while
he is on foreign soil “contesting for the
supremacy of the United States.”
By Associated Press.
Paris Jan. 2.—The number of dele-
gates representing each of the great
nations at the coming peace confer-
ence is likely to be increased beyond
five, the number previously consid-
ered probable, by the inclusion of sev-
eral delegates who may exchange
places with others, taking part in the
conferences only when the special
subjects upon which they are authori-
ties, are being considered.
American representatives, who prob-
ably would be among those "inter-
changeable” delegates, are Herbert C.
Hoover, the food administrator; Ed-
ward X. Hurley, head of the shipping
board; Bernard M. Baruch, Admiral
Benson, and Vance McCormick, head of
the war board, who is on his way here.
Germany has not yet submitted a
list of her probable peace delegates
or at least no such list has been
brought to the attention of the Amer-
ican delegation to the peace confer-
ence. which is much concerned and is
giving great consideration to the in-
fluence of the Bolsheviki upon the
central powers.
Continued on Page Five.
People of Eagle Pass Uncertain as to I
Exact hour.
By Associated Press.
Eagle Pass, Tex., Jan. 2.—There is
some confusion here over the change
of the standard time zone. Eagle Pass
is placed in the mountain zone by which
clocks will be seg back forty-two min-
utes here. Railroad time is unchanged
In the absence of official notice some
clocks are set back while others are
running on central time.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 2.—House leaders
reported a special rule today to force
the war revenue bill to conference with-
out holding it for debate on demands
for votes on certain senate amend-
ments. The rule unanimously reported
by the rules committee was adopted
without a roll call and with only a
few scattering negative votes.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 2.—The war de-
partment was sharply criticised in the
senate today by Senator Weeks of
Massachusetts, Republican, for delays
and errors in compiling casualties
among the expeditionary forces and for
failure to co-operate with the Red
Cross in the matter of forwarding let-
ters from wounded soldiers to relatives
in this country.
Criticism was directed especially, at
the office of the adjutant general of
the army, Senator Weeks saying that
Maj. Gen. McCain, the adjutant general,
who retired last summer to command a
division and who was succeeded by
Maj. Gen. Harris, should have been re-
tained. He could not believe, he said,
that a change in the office during the
war was business-like or desirable.
Senator Weeks declared that the war
department’s information as to casual-
ties often had been wrong.
"During the week ended Dec. 14,” he
stated, "the Red Cross received an
average of twenty letters a day from :
parents who had been advised by the
war department that their sons had
been killed on a specific date. In every
one of these cases the parents wrote
Continued on Page Seven.
also told President Wilson about the
interview he had had with Mr. A. J
Balfour, the British foreign secretary,
a few moments after leaving Premier
Clemenceau. The colonel said he had
discussed the organization of the peace
conference with the British delegate.”
. The newspaper quoted the American
as adding that Secretary Balfour and
Col. House found themselves in agree-
ment on the subject discussed, presum-
ably covering that touched upon in
Col. House’s talk with Premier Clem-
enceau, and that their opinion "as well
as that of all the American represen-
tatives is identical and that England
and the United States are in agree-
ment.
“In a word, we American delegates
are convinced, as a result of these con-
versations that nothing in Premier
Clemenceau’s attitude can justify an
apprehension of any marked differ-
ences between the great powers of the
entente and the United States and we
believe that the divergencies now ex-
isting will be easily smoothed over.”
Vladivostok, Monday, Dec. 30.—(By
The Associated Press.)—In capturing
Perm, in the Ural mountains, General
Gaida, at the head of Czecho-Slovak
and Siberian forces, virtually destroy-
ed the Bolshevik third army, from
which he took 31,000 prisoners. Gen-
eral Gaida’s troops captured an armor-
ed train from which Nikolai Lenine, the
Bolsheviki premier, was directing oper-
ations in the region of Perm. Lenine
himself, escaped, but several members
of his party were taken prisoners.
General Gaida’s superiors opposed
his plan of attack against Perm and
he carried out the operation at the
risk of removal from his command.
In addition to the 31.000 prisoners
reported, General Gaida captured 5,000
railway cars, 120 field guns, 1,000 ma-
chine guns, thirty automobiles, an en-
tire wagon transport, .several armored
trains and several thousand horses.
His maneuvre was a complete surprise
to the Bolshevik, as proved by the
fact that he captured several prominent
Soviet leaders at the headquarters of
the third Bolsheviki army. Ten Bol-
shevik regiments are declared to have
been annihilated and the rest of the
army was driven across the Kamariv
river. Troops of General Semenoff,
the anti-Bolshevik leader, in the Chita
district, have occupied Verkhni Udinsk,
on the Siberian railway east of Lake
Baikal.
Two hundred thousand Russian sol-
diers released from German prisons
are expected to pass through Omsk
within a fortnight. The Russians are
destitute and in a serious condition
from exposure and lack of food.
OBJECT OF POLISH ADVANCE.
By the Associated Press. )
Geneva, Tan. 2.—The Polish army which is marching toward
Berlin has as its objective "a tearing raid into Germany,” according
to the Polish agency at Lausanne. The infantry is well armed and is
supported by artillery and cavalry. The infantry already has occu-
pied important railway centers, including Kreuse-Driesen and
Posenau, and has captured a large amount of railway stock with
little resistance.
The Germans are re-arming demobilized soldiers and fighting is
expected, although some of the demobilized troops are refusing to
serve.
AMERICA’S CAPITAL PRESIDENT WILSON
SHIPS’ SUPERIORITY ARRIVES IN ITALY
Veteran of Spanish-American War
Passes Away at Houston.
By Associated Press.
Lufkin, Jan. 2.—News reached here
today of the death of Capt. C. M. Mc-
Connice of this city in Houston Wed-
nesday night. Capt. McConnice was a
veteran of the Spanish-American war
and was the first man in Texas, after
receiving his commission as captain,
to raise a company of 250 home boys to
war strength for the war. After the’
organization of Company D, 143d in-
fantry, which trained at Camp Bowie,
he became ill and was later given an
honorable discharge.
He will be buried here. He was a
railroad and road contractor and was
well known over the state.
Dalhart, Texas, Jan. 2.—The temper-
ature here yesterday was 17 degrees
below zero, the coldest since 1912.
The thermometer registered 15 degrees
below today. The grass range has
been covered with snow for three
weeks, making the feeding of live
stock difficult.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Jan. 2.—William
Hohenzollern, the former em-
peror of Germany, is very ill,
according to advices from Amer-
ongen. He cannot leave his
room, it is said, and is suffering
from a bad cold. It is stated
that he has a high fever. An
eminent specialist from Utrecht
is in constant attendance.
Only the former empress, the
specialist and two attendants are
permitted to enter his room, it
is reported.
By Associated Press.
London, Jan. 2.—Russian affairs
are causing the British foreign of-
fice considerable anxiety, says the
Mail. The necessity of formulating
a definite allied policy as to Russia
is extremely urgent and it has-been
decided that the Russian question
will be the first to be discussed at
the peace conference, it is said.
“It is presumed that all the al-
lied nations are overwhelmingly
against armed intervention by an
expeditionary force,” says the
newspaper.
"The British government has also
decided that an expedition is im-
possible, preferring to encourage
the creation of a stable government,
in Russia, although the origin of
such a government is at present
quite obscure. In the meantime
munitions and instructors are being-
sent to the true Russian armies
in the south, Siberia, and forces on
the borders of Poland and Finland.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Jan. 2.—“The principal object
which Col. E. M. House had in view
in going to see President Wilson New
Year’s morning was to tell him the re-
sult of a conference he had had the
evening before with Premier Clemen-
ceau,” said a member of the Ameri-
can delegation to the peace congress to
a representative of the Petit Journal,
( according to an article in that news-
paper this morning.
"The conference,’' continued the
American, “was on the subject of the
various outstanding problems and also
on the subject of the premier’s speech
in the chamber of deputies in which
he related a conversation he, had had
with President Wilson.
“Col. House thoroughly went into all
the problems which the statesmen -will
be called upon to solve. Col. House
By Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 2.—Announcement
that both the wounded and well sol-
diers aboard the stranded transport
Northern Pacific were being transferred
both to rescuing vessels and the shore
in small boats was made at 12:30
o’clock today by Brig. Gen. Manus of
the port of embarkation at Hoboken.
The constant pounding of seas had
driven the ship higher on to the beach,
swinging her bow so that she was only
250 yards from the shore. .
Waves heavier than those , which
wedged her tightly into the sandbar
yesterday were breaking over the
transport and the wind was still blow-
ing unfavorably from the southwest.
So long as these conditions prevail-
ed, navy officials here said, no attempt
could be made either to put ashore, or
to transfer to other vessels the 3,000
troops, civilians and navy crew who
sailed on the transport from France on
Christmas, day.
Twelve cruisers arid destroyers and
other rescue ships maintained vigil
throughout the night in a semi-circle
a mile outside the bar, their blinker
lights flashing incessantly. At dawn
they prepared for a day of maneuver-
ing about the stranded vessel. Fresh
coast guard crews replaced the ones
which spent the night near the
breeches buoy which could not be used
and are in constant semaphore com-
munication with the '’transport.
At 9 a. m. opinion was expressed
that there was little prospect that the
troops could be removed until
late in the day. The vessel had worked
so far ashore that there was doubt as
to whether she could be floated even
with the sea calm.
Twenty Red Cross nurses with food
and supplies landed on Fire Island to-
day ready to care for any troops which
might be brought ashore.
Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves today
issued the following statement:
“The Northern Pacific is in no im-
mediate danger and until there is a
change of the wind from the westward
no attempt will be made to transfer
those on the ship. Such transfer, it
it is made today, will probably be to
the ships standing by as it is safer to
transfer them to ships than to try to
take them ashore and having to go
through the breakers.”
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