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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
TO MARK ENTRANCE INTO
CAMPAIGN WITH SPEECH
President Gompers to Urge Purchase
of War Savings Stamps at
Keith's Theater Tonight.

Entrance of organized labor into the
campaign to sell s7.5oo,000 worth of
war savings stamps to residents of the
National Capital will be signalized to-
night when Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
will appear at Keith's Theater and urge
his hearers to save their money and
lend it to the government to help win
the war for democracy. AS this will be
the first expression from the leader of
organized la Dor in this country in favor
of the war savings movement. the event
is deemed at the Office of Daniel J.
Callahan, director of war savings for
the District, to be highly significant
one.
From the beginning of the campaign
the individual laborer has been a hard
worker toward making possible the
Districts quota in this little baby
bond" campaign, and now that Presi-
dent Gompers will aid the work with
his support not only as worker, but a
speaker. 1t is expected that great results
will be Forthcoming all over the country
be forthcoming all over the country.
Charles w. Darr will address the audi
ence at the Belasco Theater tonight at
will be addressed tonight at 3 O'Clock
by Mantou NJ. WydelL Chief Justice
Harry Covlngton of the Supreme Court
of the District OF Columbia will speak
at the National Theater at gas o'clock
this evening At the Gayes Theater
Robert W. Wells will address the audi
ence at $3.50 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
DECLARES PACKERS TOLD
HIM TO QUIT OR LOSE
Head of Rhode Island Rendering
Firm Tells Of Fight to
Hold Business.

BOSTON, December 28.-The control
by the big Chicago packers of the rem
dering business throughout the coun-
try was emphasized at the federal trade
commissions inquiry into the meat sup
ply which was continued here today
following the Washington hearing.
Francis J. Heney. special counsel for
the commission. stated that rendering
companies throughout the country had
been consolidated under the control of
the various packers, and that by gem
tlemen's agreements they had divided
territory and by bonuses tied custom
ers down for life, making it difficult
for independent firms to do business.
From a technical discussion of the
value of butchers waste products the
hearing took another turn, when E. J.
Mccartney of Pawtucket p l., told of
the fight his company, the What Cheer
Chemical Company. had made to hold
their business in Providence. R. l.
McCaffrey told the commission Of
Gals of the Consolidated Rendering
Company. controlled by the packing
firm of Swift & Co, had told him when
he first entered the Boston field the
rendering business here was very un-
healthy He said he was next informed
the rendering com bination had now be-
come wealthy and could afford to raise
prices. He was invited to come into
the combination or get out of business
When asked by Mr. Henry if he could
compete with the trust" on fair
grounds the witness answered: st Ger
tainly could. Their overhead expenses
are too heavy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
1000 UNION W0RKMEN
REFUSED TO GO TO WORK

HAMILTON. Ohio, December 2S.-Four
thousand union workmen refused to go
to work today, and as a result a general
strike of union men has resulted from the
imprisonment yesterday of thirty union
leaders who were charged with rioting in
the recent disorders here.
While it was at first thought the strike
today was to be only of one days dura-
ton. as a protest against the imprison-
ment of their fellow workers. 1t early be-
came known that the strike leaders had
decided the strike would last until the
men are released from Jail
Practically every factory In the city is
either closed down completely or seriously
affected by the strike.
When the cases of thirty union IN
charged with riotiug came up in court
for a preliminary hearing yesterday the
men all pleaded not guilty and refused 70
make any attempt to provide bondsmen
for themselves. Accordingly. all were
taken to Jail, number Of women. like
wise charged with rloting, pleaded not
guilty. but were released on their own
recognizance
No disorders have resulted thus far from,
the strike, but business IL at q standstill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Peace Farley Recess;
Trotzky Will Address
New Note to Entente
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated PRESS
PETROGRAD. Thursday, December
27-The delegates of the central pow
ers to the peace conference at Brest-
Litovsk have agreed to a ten-day recess
in the peace negotiations, which will
be resumed January at a place not yet
determined.
Leon Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign
new note to the entente allied embas-
sizes. again asking them TO participate
In the peace conference.
Trotzky is also said to be preparing
la new message to the peoples of the
world. The Russian delegates to the
peace conference will return to Petro-
grad tomorrow or Saturday. An armis-
tice Is reported to have been reached
between the bolsheyik forces and the
troops of Gen. Kaledines at Rostov.
with a neutral zone between the oppos-
ing lines.
The central powers are ready to make
an Immediate general peace, without
compulsory annexations and without
contributions
This Is their answer. through Count
Czernin. the Austre- Hungarian foreign
minister, made on Christmas day at
Brest-Litovsk to the Russian proposals,
which they are ready to accept in m ost
particulars as the basis of negotiations.
They insist. however, that the central
powers cannot bind themselves one
sidedly to such conditions without a
guarantee that the allies of Russia will
The Russian delegates asked for a
ten-day recess in the negotiations. in
order to put the proposal before Rus
sia'S allies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
traps DOLLAR SERVICE
| MEN; URGES U. S. BOOST

Every government employee should
be paid all he or she is worth in the
federal service and not be forced to
live on less than starvation wages"
said Representative Frank Clark of
Florida, chairman of the House COM
mittee on public buildings and grounds,
today. Incidentally. he took a shot at
the ''doljar-a-year" men who are help
ing the government in the war work.
He said in this connection:
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
This government is not a pauper. 1t
can afford to pay and pay well for
having its work done 1t should not
depend on donated services. I'd turn
these 'dollar-a-year' men out and fill
for the governments interests and get
their honest pay for 1t in a straight
forward manner"
Branching from this to the question
of substantial increase in salary for
all government employees, Representa-
tive Clark said:
II am in favor of paying living SAL
aries to every one who works for the
government. I am in favor of a gen.
erous increase to the thousands who
are helping to win the war through
work at their desks and in other
branches of the federal service.
Il shall vote for any measure which
comes up in the House for the relief
of government employees. L don't I'M
derstand how they continue to live on
the salaries which they receive and
which are totally inadequate to meet
present-day demands. These salaries
were fixed years ago-longer ago than
any one remembers. There ought TO
be n thoroughgoing revision upward
in all grades and classes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28


gardng his attitude toward increase in
salaries or regarding the merits of the
Heating bill allowing such increases UP to
80 per cent. However. Representative
Byrns' attitude is we'll known among the
members of Congress generally and to the
leaders in the employees cause. He is in
favor of any proper and substantial in
crease, because he feels that the govern
ment workers need it in order to live and
pay their way honestly.
Representative Lever, chairman of
the House committee on agriculture
the only department whose employees
salaries are not covered in the budget
before the Byrns subcommittee, has al
ready declared strongly in favor of a
substantial increase for the fedora |
employees, sufficient to pay living ex-
penSeS.
In an interview printer exclusively in
The Star Representative Lever said he
will support any measure giving the
government workers substantial in
creases, because he cannot understand
how they can live on their present
salaries.
Members of Congress say that if the
Heating bill comes into Congress with
the recommendation of the committee
1t will be passed without any opposi-
ton whatever. On account of the large
number of government employees in
their home district, who are interested
in this bill, scores of House members
want an opportunity to speak in sun
port of the measure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Coast-to- Coast Wedge
Through Africa Still Is
Dream of the Germans

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA. December PA London
dispatch to the Reuter- agency here
says:
"In an article entitled The World
Political Importance of German East
Africa the Cologne Gazette frankly
confesses that Germany has for years
aimed at the creation of a German
wedge dividing Africa from sea to sea.
Although Germany in 1911, by treaty
with France. apparently made final re-
nunciation of the idea of a great
colonial empire she really aimed at
the creation of German Belgian eco
nomic area in the Congo basin from
the Indian ocean to the Atlantic Thus.
when the war commenced, Germany
was deliberately exploiting her incom-
parable geographical position in East
Africa
1.-THE Gazette says this position con-
stituted a wedge, between the English
claims to sole domination in East
Africa and South Africa dividing
and imuovable wedge.
"'All our wishes will be realized the
paper continues, only If by our battles
in Europe we can compel England to
recognize US as an equal colonial
power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
SAYS HE DID HoUsEWoRK.
Massalone Jones Answers Wife's
Maintenance Suit.

Massalone Jones. an employee of the
navy yard, in an answer to a suit for
maintenance brought by his wife,
Meta L. Jones. enumerates a list of
household duties which he asserts he
was required to perform These are
assigned as the reason why he finally
left home
Through Attorney D. w. Baker the
husband says he was compelled to do
the family washing. to cook break
fast while his wife slept and then to
clean up the house. He was accus-
toned to surrender all but d portion
lof his salary each week to his Wife
he says. and when she upbraided him
for not buying her coat out of his
'thold-out" and told him she did not
desire to live with him any longer, he
decided to quit, the husband AYERS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
ANOTHER REQUEST
!. FOR RAISE POSSIBLE
Telephone Company Indicates
It May Ask for a Further
Advance in Rates.

Higher rates sought by the Chesa-
Ipeake and Potomac Telephone Company
may be only a forerunner to request
for another general advance.
Formal notice has been given the pub
lice utilities commission by the COM
pany that, in order to meet increasing
costs imposed by the war. II may have
to come back and ask for something
more to create fund to pay interest
and dividends. to protect the credit of a
corporation upon which is dependent
the intercommunication between the
city of Washington and the rest OF the
world"
In short, the company claims. and has
SO informed the commission. that ex-
penses are multiplying at such a rate
that the additional revenues anticipate ed
from the higher rates proposed may no,
be sufficient for any length of time to
enable 1t to operate with a profit and
protect it's investors.
Robert V. Marye. general counsel for
the company, in concluding his testi-
mony regarding the proposed tariffs be-
fore the commission last week, gave
the Suggestion OIL announcer !sdl!Cc Dc-
| Ing sought.
Credit to Insure Service.
THE only means that the citizens. the
| national government and the city govern.
| n1ent have of communicating telephonical
| ly with the world in this corporation. AND
it is to the vital interest of the individual
members Of the public that the credit
| of this corporation shall be such that
service will be insured" said Mr.. Marye
I'VE may, therefore. have to come bach
at some future date; we hope not and
we will not come. if we can possibly
avoid it,
| Officials of the utilities commission
are Withholding comment on this state
ment by Mr.. Marye, but the fact tha
the company Is considering the posi-
| biiity of having to seek still other ad
vances in its rates will be taken int
account when the present application
| is passed upon.
Protests continued to reach the com
mission today against the granting o
| this application. Among the complaint
| were few communications favorable
| to the company and it's service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Donations to IA Opportunities"

Further contributions received today
by The Star toward the annual -four
teen opportunities" are acknowledged
as follows: Mrs. Rabbit, for No. 5.
s12: Evelyn Downey, for No. 9. 81. and
E. NJ F. for the most needy. $40. All
the opportunities have been fully sub
scribed to. but these sums, 1t is stated.
will go to swell the surplus. which is
10 be held as a reserve fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28

The men were captured in a raid on
the American troops when they first oc-
cupied first-line trenches. The pictures
German propaganda organ. and reached
this country through British official
sources. The few Sammies captured are
represented to the German people in
the propaganda Journal as the capture
of the American Army" and the guilt
Bile German people believe 1t. The book
is published in ten languages and dis
tributed in neutral countries. Some
American mothers may recognize their
sons. who have been reported missing
and have been supposed to be dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Staff of Railroad Men.

Mr. McAdoo does not expect to ask an
appropriation for administering gov
eminent operation, and his staff prob
ably will be composed largely of men
already on the government or railroad
pay rolls He will receive no additional
salary for acting in the dual capacity
of director general of railroads and
Secretary of the Treasury. It is expect
ed ne also will retain the services of
the railroads committee which has
been administering the equipment poll
with headquarters at Pittsburgh.
Figures compiled by the bureau of
railway economies, an agency of the
companies. show net operating income
for the year ending June so. 1915, as
1896, s31,Ssl: for 1916. Si,0O5, 1872, 1874,
and for 1917, s1,o54,1oo.7s0.
Congress might establish this basis
of compensation, virtually the lease
rate for the period of government
operation
| Under the bill which officials have
| drawn for presentation to Congress II
| would be provided that earnings ex-
| ceeding this basis would revert to the
government, for general expenditure or
as special fund for railroad improve
ments Dividend payments would be
subject to supervision and approval OF
1.-THE Interstate Commerce Commission
/ Roads would make their own i'm.
/ proyements under the plan and provide
! for their own bond issues, but boti
| The size and interest rate on securitie.
| issues would be subject TO the Inter.
| state Commerce Commissions approval
| and the rate by law would be limited
| to minimum of 4 per cent and a maxi
mum of Ga per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
OFFICERS ARE TRANSFERRED.
Number From Gen. Crowder's 0ffic.
Get New Assignments.

A number of officers Of the Judge Ad-
vocate Generals Reserve Corps. who
have been employed in the Office of
Gen. Crowder. provost marshal general
in this city, have been assigned to
other duties and stations as follows:
Mai. a. NJ. Craven. to Fort Riley.
Kans., as division judge advocate.
Maj. Scott Hendricks. to San Fran
cisco.
Mai. c. IT. Weitzel, to Chicago.
Maj. Victor 4. Ruehl. to Fort Sill.
Okla.
Mai. r. r. kenney. to Hattiesburg,
Miss.
Maj T. B. Finley. to Fort Sam Hous-
ton. Tex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Ask Passports to Join Regiments.

LONDON, December ga number of
young men in middle and western Ire
land, according to a Dublin dispatch to
the Times. have applied for passports
to enable them to go to the United
States to join irish regiments in the
American Army. The government au-
thorities UP to this time, 1t Is added,
have refused to grant such permits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Entente Has No Excuse
for Longer Waving Sword,
Is Opinion in Austria

AMSTERDAM. December 2s.-The
tenor of the Austrian comment on the
Brest- Litovsk negotiations is that the
entente powers have no longer any
excuse for continued fourishing of the
sword and that nobody can deny the
for peace.
The Fremdenblatt (Vienna) says that
it now depends entirely upon the west
ern powers whether humanity is freed
from the evils of the world war
The Neue Freie Presse tVienna) de-
clares that all pretexts for prolonging
the war have become untenab bic, add
Ing:
1.-THE outline of peace by agreement
formulated at Brest -Litovsk consti-
tntes a golden bridge for the entente"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Honorary Pallbearers.

The honorary pallbearers were: Sec
rotary Lane Of the Interior Department.
DIR. Henry s. Pritchard of New York.
Col. Archibald Hopkins. Charles c.
Glover. Edward J. Stellwagen. DR.. Jo-
seph H. Bryan. Truxton Beale and
Henry Earle of New York.
Mrs. Newlands. widow of the SEN
ator; Mrs. William B. Johnston Of Bos-
ton. a daughter: Mrs. Virginia Dabney
his niece; Mrs. Henry S. Pritchard OF
New York, Mrs. Newlands sister, and
Hall McAllfster her brother. were pres
cnt at the church services.
The following committee from the
Senate attended: Senators Salisbury
Gallinger. Lodge, Swanson, Cummins
Chamberlain, Hitchcock and Phelan
Representatives Mays, yelling. Hill
Hard, Roberts, Hawley, Kettner, Raker
Sims and Nolan comprised the commit
tee from the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Soldiers Vote Against Draft.

OTTAWA, December ga Mel
bourne, Australia. dispatch to the OF
tawa agency of Reuters Limited. CIV
ing the latest figures on the recent con-
scription referendum, show that $4,000
votes were cast for the proposal and
1922 600 against 1t. The Australian SOL
der vote shows $4,000 for and $4,000
against CONSUMPTION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
and assistance of every good citizen II
this great work.
Of Fundamental Importance.


"The operation Of the railroads as a
thoroughly unified system is Of funda-
mental Importance to the success of the
war Without 1t we cannot get the ef-
fectiye use OF our resources. The su-
preme test in this war will proba bly, come
in the year 1913. Victory will depend
upon our speed and efficiency We can
get neither speed nor efficiency unless the
railroads are equal to the demands of the
situation.
II can only say ct the moment that the
problem will be taken hold of vigorously
and that plans and policies will be an
nounced from time to time as rapidly as
1t is possible to mature them. Mean
while, the business will be conducted
through existing railroad organizations
with all the support and power of the
government asserted in behalf Of more
efficient and satisfactory operation.
''The director general Of railroads. upon
invitation of the Interstate Commerce
Commission has accepted offices in the
Interstate Commerce building. The COM
mission has also placed al the disposal of
the director the entire work and facili-
ties of the commission
1t is considered probable that Mr.. Nc
Adoo will retain the services of Judge
Robert S. Lovett. director of priority
for the war Industries board. with whom
he conferred at length yesterday, and
that railroads Will be instructed to con-
ltinue to receive orders from that source.
Another priority question to be settled
soon is that of co-ordinating the pref
erential shipment instructions now is
sued by the fuel and food administra-
ton and Army headquarters through a
single government transportation di-
rector, to supervise only government
shipments.
| The director generals advisers have
recommended the creation of such an
agency, emphasizing that the govern
ment railroad administration must
| justify itself INN ediately by providing
! for speedier transportation of coal. Mr.
McAdoo Is known to have given serious
| thought to the coal situation and to
have received suggestions that a rep
resentatiye of the fuel administration
be included in his staff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Fire Takes IS Cars and the Barns,

SAGINAW. Mich, December 2S-Fire
Of unknown origin yesterday destroyed
thirty-hve cars of the Saginaw-Bay
City Railway Company and large sec
ton of the car barns. The loss is es-
timated at 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Bulgaria Will Hold
All That She Has Won,
Says KIM Ferdinand

AMSTERDAM, December. 2s-The
ideas of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
about annexations are very different
from those expounded by Count czerin,
the Austro- Hungarian foreign minis
ter, al Brest-Litovsk. The Neue Freie
Presss (vienna) quotes him as saying
won.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
o. s. Not Informed of Peace Terms.

No official information, informal or
otherwise, of the peace terms being dis
cussed between the bolsheviki and the
central powers had reached the gov
eminent today, and officials declared
they had not even an intimation of how
or when to expect them. The attitude
of the government was unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
Diverted Shipments Ordered.

Authority to divert and redistribute
coal in New England to meet the erner-
gency there was conferred today by
the fuel administration on James J
Storrow, the New England fuel admin
istrator.
Constitutionality of the act of Con-
gress under which the President ap-
pointed federal fuel administrator is
to be tested. 1t is announced, as the re-
suit of the arrest of a Philadelphia re-
tail coal dealer on charge of prof
iteering. Counsel for the accused man
has stated that his defense will be
that the act is invalid and in viola
ton of the Constitution of the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
100000 Fire at Omaha,

OMAHA, December 2S.-Fire early to-
day destroyed a Missouri Pacific freight
house, causing a loss estimated az
100000. Four employees escaped with
difficulty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
ALLIED PURPOSES
MUST BE ACHIEVED,
SAYS LLOYD GEORGE
Continued from First Page.)

Meanwhile, nothing can so contribute
to shake the wall of arms as this new
public diplomacy"
The Vorwaerts says:
The German government will have
seriously to consider whether further
negotiations are possible on the basis
OF the Russian program. with due re-
gard to the preservation of the vital
interests Of the people. The Russian
peace program Is framed in such the
oretical and abstract terms that a num-
Der Of concrete points In the contention
cannot at once be decided"