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The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
HENEY NOSES
MEAT TRUSTS
FINANCE TRAIL
Federal Trade Commission $
Council Quizzes Associ-
ates Of Richard Olney:

The trail of the so-called meat
packers trust was hit yesterday BY
the Federal Trade Commission.
Sensational testimony, tending to
show community Of interest among
the big packers, was produced in
the first Of a series Of hearings
Under the sharp questioning Of
Francis ]. Heney. financiers gave tes-
timony which, according to Heney,
supports his view that the origina,
trust, after being dissolved by the
Federal courts, was resurrected in
the Chicago Stockyards Company.
Boston bankers, it was shown, were
the organizers Of the Stockyards Com
pany, and the name of the late Rich
ard Olney. Secretary of State in the
administration of President Cleve-
land, was brought prominently into
the foreground.
All Packers Interested.
All the big packers. Heney prom
ises to show, are interested in the
Chicago stockyards concern. Approx
imately 100000, the testimony show
ed. was paid to lawyers and others
who directed the formation Of the
company. which was organized under
the laws of Maine. Mr.. Olney him
self, it was brought out, received
fee of $500.
These are the things Heney wants
to find out:
Do the packers control the prices at
which products are first purchased
and thus prevent competition?
Do they control the prices at which
the food is sold to jobbers and re-
tailers?
Do the packers create an economic
condition that will demand legisla-
ton to remedy?
Do the packers violate the Sherman
antitrust laws?
Do the packers force unfair prices?
Heney started in to show how the
old Union Stockyards and Transit
Company, formed in 1865. had been
turned possibly into the present Chi
cago Stockyards Company.
Tired Business Men.
Frank r. Pegram, nearly 70 years
old, bent, grizzled and tired, treasurer
Of the new company, was called to the
stand. Mr.. Pegram testified to having
been a multi-millionaire for about
fifteen seconds.
How many shares Of stock did YOU
hold?"
"Seyenty-nine thousand nine hun
dred and ninety"
Who is the president of the COM
pany ,"
II have never seen him."
Aren't you merely a dummy treas
urer?"
Yes; I'll sign anything they put, II.
front Of me-" he replied rather
weakly.
How much do you get?"
Three thousand"
How much did you get in this
Transaction
Five hundred dollars
Mr.. Pegram testified that he had
had the stock of the Chicago Stock
yards Company in his actual possess
sion about fifteen seconds-just long
enough to endorse It over.
E. v. r. Thayer, one of the Olney
committee who sought to induce
to assent to a reorgani-
zation. also testified. He is president
OF the Chase National Bank and the
Kansas City Stock Yards.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
COSSACKSCUT
RAILWlY1INE,
: NJ: Il HUNS
ITrotzky Gives Allies Two
Months to Join General
Peace Efforts.

London, Dec s0.-"We have given
the allies two months 10 join in our
general peace efforts, but We do not
promise not 10 conclude a separate
peace"
Leon Trotzky. the Bolsheviki foreign
minister is quoted in Swedish dis
patches 10 have made this declaration
in a speech TO a group of his adher-
ents after he had been howled down
by the majority at the Peasants con-
gress. He is said to have added:
I'VE are not able TO make war for
ten years in the interest of French
Boerse and English Imperialism. His
tory will condone a separate peace"
The same dispatches quote Trotzky TO
be equally defiant toward the TeutonS
We have instructed our representa-
tives," reads the transmitted text Of
his speech. to inquire what interpre-
tation will be placed upon our policy
of no annexation and no indemni-
ties by German Foreign Minister Won
Kuehlman and AUstro Hungarian
Foreign Minister Count Czernin. No
doubt they will attempt to obscure
their answers by diplomatic phrases
but We will insist that a clear an
swer be given
simultaneously there came a dis
patch from Vienna via Amsterdam
quoting Count Czernin as approving
a general peace without anneXa-
tions. territorial or economic"
The Turkish foreign minister is re-
ported to be on the way to Berlin
10 ''reafirm Turkeys alliance with
Germany"
Meanwhile disorders still hold free
sway throughout Russia. While the
Ckrainians and Bolsheviki in Odessa
have made a truce. the situation
grows daily worse at Petrograd. OPP
position to the Bolsheviki there ap-
pears TO have become so strong that
the Bolshevik saw themselves COM
PEELED to place the capital under a
state of siege.
One dispatch from the strife-strick-
en- Russian land today said the Cos
sacks had cS the trans-Siberian
Railroad. II this is true, the re-
turn OF German and Austrian pris-
oners, the vast majority OF whom
are in Siberia. may be frustrated.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21

Won Below made fresh attacks yes
terday to widen the wedge he has
driven in the italian lines on the Tas-
son Col Del Orso front, but was forced
to abandon his efforts because Of the
heavy losses sustained.
Blizzard HaIts Fighting.
The continuation of the blizzard on
the Western front has put a stop tv
practically all large infantry oper-
ations and has brought a let-down in
the activity Of the opposing artilleries.
but the air services of both sides have
carried on extensive work in defiance
of the elements.
Since Monday night, when the Brit
ish flyers took the air at the height
of the snowstorm to riddle the en-
emy's works with bomb and bullet,
Haig's aviators have accounted for
seventeen German machines at the
cost Of only four of their own.
On the Battlefield of Arras the
Portugeses troops saw action again
today for the first time in some
weeks. when they successfully re-
pulsed a German raid southeast Of
Laventie. This is the only action
reported by Haig today. while the
Paris war office had no infantry
operations at all to record. Berlin
claims the capture of French and
British prisoners in a local thrust near
Craonne
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21

Four Miles From Goal.
At the same time the Italian naval
and military forces on the lower Piave
further demonstrated their superb
qualities of resistance in the face Of
numerically superior units, repelling
new attempts of the enemy to extend
their gains across the old Piave.
The seriousness of the Italian mill
tary situation at the present moment
is not to be doubted. For eight days.
by concentrating all his vast power
against the Italian line in the north,
the enemy has moved steadily forward
toward his goal. Four miles of noun
famous front alone separate his forces
from the Venetian plains, and with the
conquest of Monte Asolene he has been
able to place his heavy guns within
range of the only intervening passes.
In the nine days Of the great often
sive the Austro-Germans have taken,
according to today's Berlin communi-
que, $3.50 Italian prisoners. at the rate
of more than 800 a day, a loss which
Italy is i'll fitted to bear. The number
of killed and wounded among the
Italians can hardly be fewer than
5000 or 10000 for this period. While
the invaders casualties undoubtedly
have reached a much higher figure.
they are in far better position at the
present time to fill up the gaps.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
GERMAN PEACE
OFFER BEATEN,
NATIONS whine
High Command Has Played
Its Biggest Card
and Lost.
Special Cable to Washington Herald
and New York Tribune.

Special Cable to Washington Herald
and New York Tribune.
London, Dec. 20.-The German
Emperor's promise Of peace by
Christmas Is being fulfilled, but in
a more ghastly manner than the
Kaiser anticipated. Germany's
Christmas offering of peace was to
be based on the solid foundation OF
an Italy beaten and bleeding in the
Italian plans beyond the Piave, of
an exhausted France crippled and
cowed by the fire of the German
machine gun. of a once proud Brit
lin trampled under the force of a
Teuton West front drive.
Instead. the Kaiser's Yuletide gift
to his exhausted subjects is the awk-
ward, but unmistakeable, peace
whine of a beaten nation. The Ger
man high command has played its
biggest card-and lost. Behind ev-
cry Teuton movement for the last
two months has been the well
grounded fear that the enemy might
not, perhaps, be so tired and worn
as to listen attentively to the Ger
man whine for peace.
This same fear has been answered
today in eloquent words by the Brit
ish premier, who pledges the allies
% fight on till the complete restora-
Ion of the territories taken by Ger
'lany. together with compensation.
8 accomplished in such a manner
as to establish beyond a shadow Of
a doubt that the worlds peace will
not again be disturbed by the un-
principled, unbridled Teuton militar-
ism. Germany has made her peace
bid and the words have scarcely been
uttered before the allies have an
swered with the same answering
conviction that the war must go on
until the thing despised by all the
forces in humanity Is crushed.
The same hideous diplomacy which
made secret war in neutral countries
like America and attempted by the
most dastardly of methods disclos-
ed in all the history of the world
to divide peaceful household against
itself, banked heavily on the Rus
sian treason and. as in previous in
stances. suffered defeat. Germany's
purpose in her dealings with Rus
sia is now disclosed. The Lenine-
Trotzky government was a. mere tool
to be used to secure a general peace
with the allies. 1t was an attempt
to fulfill Germany's promise to her
people that the world would be at
peace by Christmas.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21

and a more complete indication Of the
citizenry Harvard war unit was ef-
fected.
But this must be without the slight
est detraction of merit or honor to the
five speakers who addressed the Har-
ward graduates-every one a power in
his special endeavor ana everyone
with the war spotlight flung upon him.
Elliott Hits KeyDote.
OF these speakers, Howard Elliott,
81, struck the most responsive chord
OF the evening when he declared that
''the real task Of the United States
now is to win the war, and. that the
sooner the people Of the country real
ize that they cannot hope for normal
business, the better 1t will be and the
sooner II will be that we bring the
present conflict to a victorious con-
'clusion.
II hear people deprecating the fact
that they cannot get their business
back on the same sound and profitable
basis that they used to be-" Mr.. Elliott
continued, This Is the wrong spirit.
All business today must be subordinat-
ed to the greatly overpowering one Of
winning the war, for if they do not we
cannot accomplish our object as
promptly as we would like"
Mr.. Elliott caused considerable mer-
coNTISuEDg ON PAGE ELEVEN
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21

Many In Uniform.
Fifty-six of the Harvard men who
sat about the banquet table wore the
uniform of the. United States army.
Every one of them, however, as 1t
was recurrently suggested, are en-
rolled in that silent intellectual band
who are unostentatiously molding
brain bullets with which to lombard
the Hun.
Lacking was the unreckoning
spirit Of jollification which usually
distinguished Harvard club meetings.
The Harvard banquet this year
shaped itself into a reunion for the
sole and supreme purpose of ex-
changing views on how to win the
war;" rather than reserving this
cherished occasion merely as. time
when they might Just be boys and
live for a few fieeting hours in the
poignant memories of their past days
on the campus and IN the college
class halls. ,
Grim, Not FarcicaL.
Perhaps the most important and i'm
pressive portion Of the program was
completed before the Harvard men en-
tered the banquet hall to participate in
their formal program of entertainment
and dinner, for 1t was in the spacious
reception rooms that dormitory and
classroom friendships were rekindied.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Gen. Scott Saw u. S.
Ship Sink Submarine

An Atlantic Port. Dec. 2O.-The sink
ing of a German submarine by an
American liner was described when
the ship docked here today. When
two days out from the English coast q
submarine was sighted about 200
yards distant. - .-
The stern gun crew opened fire. miss
ing. A shot aimed by the forward
gun crew found its mark, passengers
declared, sending the U-boat to the
bottom. Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott was
one of the passengers. He is said to
have stood by the forward gun crew
when 1t sank the submarine and to
have congratulated the gunners.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
SKty-Seven Killed in Railroad Wreck
BULLETIN B

Louisville, Ky Dec 2oore than 100 persons were killed and
injured when Louisville and Nashville passenger No from Gin
cnnai to New Orleans crashed into the end Of
local train the Bardown Louisville and Springfield Railroad to-
night The known dead number according the latest
ports. Forty injured. ."..
The dead and injured being brought here special train
The collision occurred about Fifty yards from the Shepardsve
depot just after the local had left there The through was not
scheduled stop at Shepade and did aekn its speed
the yards reached
When the tail lights Of the accommodation oomed up ahead the
engineer the fast train unable to bring his train sands
COACHES DEMOLISHED
Every the local train demolished and the engine
wrecked
Practically passenger the local either killed
jued. Few any injured on the through train.
Most Of these who lost % lives residents Of Bardstow Ky
and small Keptuy that vicinity who had spent the day shop
ping in Louisville.
For hour after the crash the scene was lighted
for half mile with burning weease Relief trains rushed
the and the work Of removing the dead and injured started
speedily.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
No Clue to Bank Robbers.

Summit. ILL.,. Dec. @-Practicslly
no clue has been obtained TO the
identity OF the burglars who looted
the summit State Bank OF t4ooco
early today.
The men burrowed their way into
tho vault, using pickaxes. They bor-
ed through twelve inches Of con-
crete wall and burned through steel
reinforced bars. l
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Washingtonian to Run
Hotel in New York

New York. Dec. ga lease by which
James H. Paris, OF Washington. D. e.
and A. Eugene Kirby. of this city, get
control Of the Hotel Chatham, just
constructed in Vanderbilt avenue from
Forty-eighth to Forty-ninth streets
by George Backer, was recorded to-
day at the county clerks office. The
rental for the term of q years will be
s.. .625,o
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Italians, in Terrific
Counter Stroke, Halt
German Shock Troops
Won Bellows Army, Four Miles from Objec.
tive, Hammers Allies Near Col Del =.
Orso; West Front Calm.

Special Cable
London Dec 2OIhe ninth day Of the terrific battle the north
Italian front the armies Of Gen. Dag pass from losing
ensye to aggressive tactics nature that the
found themselves hand pressed retain their gains of the las, week
All day yesterday between the Brena and Paye and to the west
of the former the Italian troops spurred by the danger to
their battle line of the recent enemy battered necessarily the
Teuon sonsho Monte Peca Monte Aoone the surround
These strokes failed ground of themselves
dangerous advances of the invaders the passes leading into the
MA
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
N. Y. Gunman Get, 20 Years.

Philadelphia, Dec. 2o,-Jacob Mascia.
SAID TO be a New York gunman, was
tonight convicted Of murder in the
second degree, growing out of the
bloody Fifth ward" riots in the Sep
temoer primary. Mascia was tried for
the killing Of George A. Eppley, a spe-
cial policeman. The Judge roundIy
scored the jury for the leniency and
then sentenced Mascia to twenty
years Imprisonment.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
3 STREET LIGHTS
BURN, DESPITE LAW
Maj. Pullman and Fuel Administra-
tor Note Violations Here.

Three electric lights blazed brightly
last night, despite the edict OF the
fuel administrator that Thursday
night should be a "lightless" one.
Electric lights in all sections of the
city, street lamps, advertising signs.
business houses and others were cut
of at 7:45 last night and John l..
Weaver, fuel administrator for the
District. and Maj Pullman, superin-
tendent of police, making tour OF in
spection were highly pleased, until
they ran across three brightly burn
ing lights.
What action. il any. will be taken
against the three violators, Mr.. Wea-
yer was not prepared to say.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
American Officer Wounded.

Gen. Pershing last night rabled
the War Department that Lieut..
Samuel Miller of the Medical Officers
Reserve Corps had been slightly
wounded. Lieut.. Miller has been at
tached to the British forces and was
wounded In action. His mother, Mrs.
Ida Miller. lives at Lakeville, Pa
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
To Vote Against Suffrage.

Savannah, Ca, Dec. 30 : Woman
suffrage will be voted against in both
houses of Congress by the entire
Georgia contingent and by the dele
cations from all Southern States. ac-
cordlng to a statement today by Con-
eressman Oxerstreet.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Movie House Collapses;
Eleven Persons Hurt

Pittsburgh, Dec. 20.-More than 600
persons many of them children, had a
narrow escape from death or injury
when the ceiling and one wall of the
Gem Theater. a moving picture house
m the eastern end Of Pittsburgh, co.'s
lapsed tonight. Eleven persons were
injured by the falling debris. Most of
the injured were children.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Passengers See U-Boat
Sink Argentine Ship

Buenos Aires, Dec. 2o.-Idea Nacion-
al publishes a sensational statement by
passengers of a Spanish mail steamer
saying that they witnessed the sink
ing Of the Argentine steamship Blan-
CO by a German submarine.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
so Die in Train Wreck.

Louisville. KY, Dec. 2o-Between
sixty and seventy lives were lost to-
night in q train wreck on the Louis
Vile and Nashville Railroad, accord
Ing to . report received here.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
mo Time to Pass Buck"
Harvard Men Are Told
Howard Elliott Gives War Message That Is
Backed by Eloquent Speakers at Annual
Dinner of Cambridge Men in Capital.

War of Harvard favored the thy-6fth annual
dinner of the Washington Harvard Club Rauscher banquet hall last
night topics the themes the nationally celebrated speakers
and distinct warnnns stamped each of the gradu-
present.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Work or Jail for Loafers.

Fhtladelphia. Pa, Dec. 0.-Mayor
smith today issued orders to the DO
nee making the city a barred zone to
loaiers. He decreed they must go to
work Or jail
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
LLOYD GEORGE GIVES ALLIES
RREDUClBLE CONDITION FOR PEACE;
MUST DESTROY AUTOCRACY FOREVER
Allied War Aims

CAS- Enumerated by Premier Lloyd George)
Germany completely restore all invaded territories and
make full compensation.
world peace be guaranteed only by destruction of
Pussian mitasm and q democratzed German
German colonies be decided by
tona which the wishes and interests colonial
inhabitants be the decisive factor.
Mesopotama Armenia Jerusalem must be restored
Turkish rule"
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
LUXBURG NOTES, SHOWING CONTEMPT
FOR BIG south AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
GIVElf OUT BY STATE DEPARTMENT
What Luxburg Sent to Berlin

What Luxburg Sent to Berlin
Information to of American
South American waters after United States
Names description and time of departure of Brazilian
chant ships bound for the
Information bringing pressure on
gentna to abandon South American pronutray
Complaints of having his "telegraphic with
Mexico entirely interrupted"
Says "a friendly probaby sweds fears that secret
wire may be compromised"
Assurances that President of Argentina proerman
the foreign minister and minister probably bbed
and that the people Indians with slight
What Berlin Sent to Luxburp
Tips secret German agents" arriving Buenos Aires
Instructions to inform Argentine government Argentine
ships plying zone under certain conditions spared
but very for your information" tells Luxburg
quite impossible in practice to guarantee pledge.
Urges that pledge be kept
oermanys submarine not based
Lu1burg to German Legation
at Santiago, Chile
Congratulations how Germany that
so long Chile remains neutral Germany pur
sue her South American policy well Infatuated
and misguided Argentina" her foe
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Teuton Terms

CAS- given in Latest Unofficial Peace Feeer)
Germany willing sell her lost African colonies England
With the money paid therefor she promises:
To rehabtate Belgium, Northern France, Serbia Rumania
popular vote by the people of AsaceLorrane to decide
which country those provinces to belong
An independent Poland under Austrian suzerainty
The Turkish empire to remain it before the
Russian provinces bordering Prussia Baltic and Black
many.
Serbia have to the
Serbia Rumania and Montenegro be restored prewa
frontiers
conference decide questions of disarmament freedom
of the and free economic intercourse
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21
Publication Of Forty Tele-
grams Proves Deceit in
German Foreign Policy.
"SPURLOS VERSENKT"
APPROVED BY BERLIN
Record Of Sailings Was Sent
to Hun Foreign Office
by Luxburg.

The die has been cast in Arsen-
tina. The richest and most impor.
tant, the proudest and the most
democratic of the South American
republics is momentarity expected
to break with Berlin. A deciars-
ton of war will follow Immediately,
it is expected here.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-21

Goes direct to the homes of I
the Discriminating Buyers. =
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-26
WOULD PROTECT LANDLORDS
New Workers Who Move Are TO BE
RceistCrch.

Not since the days of old when
vagabondage was universal and land
lords were unknown has any class of
citizens derived as much untrammeled d
joy out of life as those folk who move
and forget to pay so they may be
dead beats" again some other day.
Theirs not to worry, theirs not TO
care so long as apartment and flat
owners stood prepared to force their
philanthropy upon all those who ap-
piled. All this happiness is to end,
however, and not ION account OF the
war, but because the board of alder
men has been asked to sound the
knell of the New York tenant who is
both n pGticist and Il Stacker when
the rent man calls
In the ordinance that the aldermen
are asked to transform into law IT Is
provided that public movers shall file
weekly records with the bureau of IL
censes showing all removals of goods
and furniture from dwelling, apart
ment, office, tenement or hotel. Thus
In the dismal days or nights to come
1t Will be necessary or at least diplo-
matte for those who prefer moving &c
paying rent to transport their house
hold goods by man and not van power
II they wish to escape the just veng-
encc of the realty owners and then
new secret service. These days that
try msp's souls, and the dead beat,
who has been joyful. care and rent
free so long now must join the great
tenant democracy that makes the
realty world safe or enlist in the
army where moving Is necessity
and rent collection luxury.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-26

pinhead in mine. Can I put any
thing on these to stop the leakage?
s. Il.
A. I know of no way to repair a
leaking top satisfactorily outside Of
recovering
q. Ny car squeaks. I am very care
full about fabrication, and am sure
there is not "A place where | have
omitted to grease or oil regularly.
This squeaking is very annoying. can
you tell me what Is the cause OF It.
and how it can be stopped? II. Il. l..
A. A loose fender, body or de-
mountable- bolt will cause Z.
squeak. II will take but few min
utes and pay to regularly go over the
bolts and tighten any which may be
loose.
Q. When ! start my 1915 t.-v-l
car, there Is n sort of hammering in
the back. | also got 1t when I give 1t
gas. My torque-arm springs recent
ly broke, and ] had new ones put In,
and am sure that It is not the cause
Of the hammer. What is the matter?
G. d.
A. The pins or bushings of the uni
versal joints are most likely badly
worn, and need replacing.