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saries were sent to Washington. Sen ator Wadsworth of New York, who Heney said was a stOckholder in Swift X Company was appealed to for aid w. IT. Gates, at that time chairman of the democratic state committee, of Colorado, according to the documents, reported on the attitude of various senators and congressman, especially his friend, Senator Thompson, of Kansas, whom he characterized as a good man to stay close to and recom- mended that Swift & Company give his firm some of their Kansas City business. Gates also reported that advisors of the president declared he opposed the Borland resolution as dis turbing to business.
 Attent on was called in this con- nection to the fact that the present investigation was undertaken on ex- press order of the president. An- other report said one of the conditions in favor of the packers was that the administration must come before the corporations shortlw for political sub seriptions as the convention is almost at hand"
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PRESIDENT TO ISSUE
 FOOD PROCLAMATi-N N

Washington, ian 25.-Greater say ing of food will be asked of the American people by President Will son tomorrow in a proclamation an nouncing the food administration S 1918 conservation program. The criti- cal situation in the allied countries. and the amount of food the United States is expected to spare them was set forth in a preliminary statement tonight by Food Administrator Hoover who quoted a cablegram from Lord Rhondda, the British food controller, which said.
 Unless you are able to send the allies at least seventy-five million bushel"of wheat over, and above what you have exported up to January l and naddtion to the exportable sur plus from Canada, l cannot take the responsibility of assuring and people that there will be enough food to win the war"
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ouS This is the explanation found here for the foreign minister's vague promises of peace without annexa- tions nor indemnities and his special bid for negotiations direct with America.
 1t is noted, however. that the speeches are interdependent; that Austria will not negotiate without Germany's consent and approval and that Germany gives her sanction to what has been done in Austria. Both spOkesmen express confidence in the success of the peace negotiations with Russia in contrast to the bitter de- nunciation of the conduct of the Teu- tone by Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki minister of foreign affairs, This at titude, officials and diplomats be- lieve to be the result of apprehension that the confession at this moment of the failure of the Brest-Litovsk ne- gotiations would eXasperate the Ger man and Austrian publics beyond the safety point.
 In some quarters there was dis position to find grain of hope i'll the concession by both speakers that there were points in the utterancea of Lloyd George and President Will son that might be acceptable to the Germanic powers and afford the basis of further discussions.
 The present belief of the officials is that there is not the slightest prob ability of compliance by the United States and the allies with the fina demand of the German chancellor foi the submission by them of new peace proposals.
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:! MURDER 0F YOUNG
 JACKIE CLEARED UP
ANOTHER SAILOR AT GREAT LAKES TRAINING SCHOOL
 coNFEssEs TO THE CRIME.

Chicago, Jan. 25--According to the police John Dell Claude, alias John King, sailor at the Great Lakes training school. confessed today clearing up the murder of John Henry Becker. another jackie, on Noverber 10, and numerous assaults and rob- berries of other tackles. Becker lived in St. Louis. Claud, or King, with Raymond Dunn. was arrested at St Louis, Jan. 10. His confession impli- cated Dunn in the Becker murder and other crimes but according to the po-- lice Dunn denied guilt.
 Claude is alleged to have said that they found it easy to lure their com rades to lonely spots by promising that they would meet girls, or find other entertainment. Claude is IS years of age and enlisted from Gal weston, Texas. Dunn is IT, His home is in Clinton, Indiana According to the police version of the confession Claude and Dunn fled from here to Terre Haute and after staying there a few days, assaulted their landlady and went to St. Louis in an automo- bile.
 There it is said, their business of bootlegging and black lacking became dull. Another jackie, known as E. F. Weir, is being sought by police in connection with the crimes.
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Washington Sees No
 AdDdnce Toward Peace
Addresses of German Chancellor and Austrian Minister Are
 For Home Consumption

Washington, Jan, 25.-No advance towards peace is seen here in the speeches made yesterday in Berlin and Vienna by the German chancellor and Austrian foreign minister upon the war aims of the central powers.
 Formal comment will be withheld until the texts are put out by an au- thorized German agency but after reading press accounts of the speeches officials expressed the opin- ion that they were framed largely for internal consumption with the in- cidental opposes to plant seeds of dis cord among the allies by sugges- tions of separate negotiations and to appeal to the sympathies of the radi- cal socialist elements in the enemy s countries
 Regarding the design to affect the internal conditions of Germany anc Austria. one official suggested that the striking differences of tone in the two notes. the German being al- most defiautly aggressive and the Austrian compromising aud insinuat- ing. were calculated precisely to meet the varying conditions in the two empires.
 In Germany the militarlstc party is in the ascendancy and the chan eellor. a6aneoning the conciliatory at titude he occupied whom he assumed office, apparently voices the VIII ol the military leaders
 In Austria the working people are reported in incipient rebellion ana their demands for peace at almos any nrice are insistent and clamor
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Whole Russian Front
 Is NoW Unprecedented
ReSerDeS Refuse 10 ReHeDe Men isr fhe Trenches and Soldiers are
 DeSerting in Masses

Petrograd. (Thursday.) Jan. 25.- Major General Bonch Breuvi.cn, chief of staff at the Russian front paints gloomy picture of the condition of the
 Russian armies in a report to Ensign Krylenko. the chief. The army organizations are utterly .demoral zed, he says, the officers are inexperienced and the maintainance of discipline is impossible The only possible salvation for the army, the
 only chance for offering an effective
 resistance. he declares, is for the var ious sections Of the armies to fall back to their natural defenses and un dergo thorough reign of the units under trained leaders. Many parts of the western front are entirely open,
 General Bonch Brueyitch reports, at
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TWO FIRES CAUSED
 BY GERMAN AGENTS

Baltimore, Md, Jan. 25.-The big shipbuiIding plant of the Henry Smith & Sons company at Curtis Bay was fired tonight about the same time that Della Woolen mills, in Baltimore county, near Ellieott City, were burned.
 Both concerns were engaged upon government contracts.
 The loss to the shipbuiIdine company is estimated at half a million; the loss to the mill about $1oo,ooo.
 At the ship building plant two watchmen sighted the supposed incendiary, one fired at the man, but he leaped into the water and was probably drowned.
 The central building of the shipbuiiding yards and a vast quantity of lumber were destroyed The Henry Smith & Sons com pany is building eight $500 tons wooden ships for the government.
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ASKS SUPPORT OF
 DELEGATES AT CONFERENCE
Publicity of the Proceedings of the Peace Conference, Count czernln Declares, Has Hsmpered the pele- gates in Arriving at a Decision Austrian Leaders Asked to Remain Calm.

Basel, Switzerland. Jan. 25.-The reply ot Count Czernin, Austro- Hun sarian foreign minister to the recent speeches of President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George is summarized rather fully in Vienna dispatch re- ceived here today.
 Count Czernin, who is quoted as sepaking before the foreign affairs committee of the Austrian delegation. said he considered it his first duty to present faithful report of the peace negotiations with the Russians at Brest-Litovsk to co-relate the dif- ferent phases of the events which had occurred previous to them and to draw from them conclusions which were logical and justified. As a reply to those who found the negotiations too slow, Count Czernin explained the difficulties attending them, difficult ties of which one could not even give an approximate idea. He dwelt upon the entire difference between the Brest-Litovsk negotiations and any previously known to history, one, of the chief difficulties being tho publicity given to the various phases of the negotiations, the details of which were daily telegraphed throughout the entire world.
 Tt is quite natural. In view of the nervousness which prevails all over the globe" Count Czernin declared, that they should produce the effect of electrisc shock which agitate pub- lie opinion. We arc in no doubt as to the inconvenience of this system. but nevertheless we yielded to the Russian governments desire for pub- licity because we have nothing to hide. If we had wished to keep to the former secret system, that might have created false impression"
 Count Czernin emphasized the fact that to counterbalance this publicity it was necessary for the public as well as it's leaders to remain calm. The business would he conducted to the end with coolness, he declared. and would achieve good results if the peoples of the dual monarchy sup ported their responsible delegates at the conference.
 Count Czernin went on Co decia~e that the basis of the negotiations bel ing demanded by Austria -HungaryI
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especially marked in London-the tre- mendous administrative machine which they have over there. The, said:
 Why do you not summon so and so and so and so to Washington to sit in council?'"
 m reference to General Crozier and sharpe MT Mccormick said:
 'I would rather not mention any names, but the most important Ameri %an officers said:
 If Sharpe and Croher do not gn we do not know what may happen. "
 'I have had that from three major generals" said Senator Wads worth.
 Yes" continued MT Mccormick, "the men upon whom our burden rests say that to me"
 Have they any way of reaching the administration? asked Senator Hitchcock
 q do not know" replied Mir. Me Cormick.
 When General Riddle was recent ly appointed, American officers were all broken up about it, As an engl- neer he as well thought of; they all liked him, but when he was to be made probable successor to the chief Of staff II just about made them vince"
 "Whom do they have confidence in over there?" asked Senator New. Do they express themselves on that?"
 They talk of General Marsh, think. Some of these names are un- familiar to me. They speak of Gen eral Morrison and General wood. These are the three men who were mentioned as representing the best military intelligence we have"
 Discussing air fighting MT. McCor- mick said the French were short of officers in the aviation,
 "The French office estimate tha' we should add five thousand planes to the total" Mir Mccormick said, and should never let the total fall below that"
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numerous places there being only 2l0 infantry to the mile. The reserves are refusing to relieve the men in the trenches and soldiers are deserting in masses. Commun cations are brok- en and few horses are available. Tho entanglements have been destroyed to facilitate fraternizing and the ex- change of commodities with the Ger man armies.
 At many points. adds the chief of staff. fortified points have been des- troyed making resistance utterly im- possible to the lines as at present located, even with good troops. vari- ous branches of the staffs must soon cease work. he declares. becamse cf the disorderly conditions and the life of the army.
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Washington, Jan. 25.-Some inter- esting disclosures regarding Ameri- can army affairs at home and abroad were made today through publication Of confidential testimony given re- gently before the senate military committee inc executive session Statements of nearly all the witnesses heard behind closed doors except Ma Jor General Crozier, chief of ord nance, were given in the usual print ed report.
 In the confidential testimony of General Sharpe he defended the de- cision to send General Pershing's ex- petition to France sooner than had been planned and the calling into service of more men than had been provided for. He said he knew and formally notified Secretary Baker that clothing shortages would result, but that even with the sacrifices of some lives as many men as possible should be summoned for the effect on the Germans.
 Some of the statements in secret session of Major Generals Preble, O'Ryan and Wright after their return from the French front also were made public.
 General Preble said that in Octo- Der the allied artillery was unques- tionably superior in effect to the Germans and that General Pershing's men were we'll clothed and equipped.
 All of the testimony of General Crozier was ordered kept confiden- tial.
 Representative Mccormick asserted positively that France could not sup ply the ordnance needed for the Amer 'ican forces. The French chief of staff told him the German line could be broken with enough artillery. The Germans, he said. cannot break the allies line if the French morale holds
 Mr. Mccormick in his statement said that for the American and all lied armies to break through on the western front they must have 25,000 more big guns and that 1t is impos- sible for the allies to make them.
 The French, he said, cannot make the guns.
 Every man who is in France" he declared, "is now needed to be mak- ing guns for France or to be on the line. We have to ship the steel to them. l can only say-and quote the man who won the battles that it is impossible to have too many guns.
 ''We ought to get 25,0OO as the mark and 10000 as a minimum. We ought to get the best information possible and not merely through the normal military channels, because, as Lloyd George and Kerr (premier Lloyd Georges secretary, said, the gener- als have always tended to underesti- mate the number of guns necessar.s."
 Representative Mccormick in reply to a question said that he did not think that this great production could be obtained under the present sys- tenn and suggested creation of min ister of munitions.
 The witness said Lloyd George has insisted that in making big guns the United States should not add a third calibre.
 You know We have done it?" questioned Senator Wadsworth.
 '1 did not know it," Mir. McCor- mick replied but I can very easily believe it from what else l have heard since I have been home. The most disappointing news I have heard was not on the italian front nor in France. but l have come back, could not say specifically except here and there. what is wrong. but members of the senate and house on both sides give me the impression that we lacA the CO., ordination and energy which is
The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-26

Washington, Jan, 25.--The admins trations answer to Senator Chamber lains speech in the senate yesterday on war department shortcomings will be made by Secretary Baker before the senate military committee Mon day
 MT Baker wrote Chairman Cham berlain today asking the committee to arrange an opportunity for him to present summary of what has been done in activities in the war and that time and place be fixed so as to enable all members of congress so disposed to attend. The committee considered the request in executive session and determined not to have a hearing anywhere except in the regu- lar committee room but sent the sec retary copy of a resoltion inviting him to appear there Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock unless he desired an earlier date. Although he is anxious 10 address as many members of con- gross as possible and is said to have hopes that he might be invited to appear before the senate itself, 1t is understood Mir. Baker will take the opportunity given. He has cancelled an engagement to meet tomorrow the house military committee,
 The committee adopted the follow ing resolution submitted by Senator Reed.
 Resolved, that the chairman be re- quested to reply to the secretary of wars communication by inviting him to appear before the committee next
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CHIP oUTPolNTs DILLON.

Deluth, Minn., Jan 25.-- George Chip outpointed Jack Dillon here to- night in 2 ten round bout, according 10 critics al the ringside.
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OFFICERS IN FRANCE DECLARE GENERALS CRozlER AND SHARPE SHOULD BE
 REMOVED.
WAR CONDITIONS HEARD
 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

General Sharpe Defends the sendlnc Of General Pershins's Expedition tc France Sooner Than Had Been Planned-Re2resentative Mecor. mick Gives Information He Secured in France,
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BAKER WILL
 PRESENT WAR PREPARATIONS
WILL BE THE ADMtNI ASPIRATIONS ANSWER TO CHAMBERLAlN's
 SPEECH IN THE SENATE.
INDICATIONS SECRETARY WILL
 Bf CR0sS-fXAMINED

War Department Takes a Step to ForestaII the Senate Committees Proposed Legislation for Muni. tions Director by Appointing a Sur. veyor General of All War Depart. rent Purchases.
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4 FOR RENT AD WILL
 PENr THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to the classified ada of the newspapers to seq what is offered. An ad in the Eeninel-Record is almost sure to bring a customer
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FATHER
 FORE A S7

Forecast for Arkansas: Saturday, rain or snow, much colder; cold wave in northwest portion, with tempera- ture below 20 by Sunday morning; Sunday probably snow, colder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-10
URGE WAR WORKERS
TO STAY At POSTS
BY FoNTAINE FOX.

Government war workers will not
be released wholesale even when the
signing OF the armistice is officially
announced, according to Secretary
Baker. Benrad Baruch. chairman of
the War Industries Board, and the
Civil Service Commission.
Secretary Baker, in commenting
on former statement, assures the
thousands of war workers in the Ma
tional Capital that the war program
Of the Government has not been
checked in the slightest by interna-
tional developments. An Immediate
announcement of any change would be
made, he said, upon official receipt of
the signing OF the armistice.
A statement issued by Chairman
Baruch on the phase of peace as il
concerns the war worker says:
"a committee named by the Presi-
dent is now at work to devise the
best means Of bringing about the re-
adjustments from a war to a peace
basis. The report Of the committee
may take the form OF suggested IeEis-
latiOn. The whole plan will be car
ried out with as little dislocation as
possible"
A denial OF any wholesale reduc-
ton at an early date, even IL the war
should end, is given by an official
statement of the Civil Service Com
mission, which is in close touch with
the labor situation in Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-10
CHURCH'CHAPE
WAR DORMITORY

Butcher shops have been turned
into residences" stables and
garages have been converted into
studios" almost any kind of make
shift quarters are considered .desir-
able in these hectic war days in
Washington. but the palm for sheer
originality must go TO the sexton OF
the Church OF the Covenant
He has turned his chapel into a
dormitory. the minister's study INTO
an apartment" and the Sunday
school into rooms" for girl war
workers.
W. E. Collier has been sexton and
deacon OF the church for more than
thirty years Not once in that time
did he ever dream that the sacred
chapel would be invaded by a galaxy
of noisy young women. But Mr.. Col
lier believes in the word service"
as the best motto. Therefore, when
he heard that young girl war work
ers arriving in the city were obliged
to spend nights in the Union Station,
he decided he had found a new use
for a church chapel
The young women had come to Join
the marines. They were under the
impression the Government" would
be at the railroad station to meet
them They found themselves with
no better prospect than that of sit
ting in the station to wait for the
morning, when the room service COM
mittee at the station informed them
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they would be taken care of at the
church.
W. w. Brookhouse. assistant rec
tor of the church. used to have a
study" on the second floor of the
chapel. In it he had shelves of his
choicest books. Now he is compelled
to share the rector's study and to
consult certain young war workers
IL he wants to borrow his own books
Three girls are using the study for
an apartment" this being its dig.
nified name as compared with "the
barracks" as the Sunday school DOR
mitory is called.
The original plan was to use the
accommodations for transient girls
but tn girls who came to the church
found II so comfortable, and the at
mosphere so pleasing they have
simply refused to leave Already
however, some $50 girls have been
housed. Permanent homes have been
found for many. One girl has been
taken into the sections own home
The charge is 80 cents a night or
enough to cover the work of laundry
and caretaking. Miss Annie Collier,
the sections daughter. receives the
girls and makes them comfortable.
They have the whole chapel for their
living room, three pianos, the church
library, and all the church activities
for interest outside of their work
Those who wish to may take their
meals at the war service house run
by the church. They use the base
ment for laundry purposes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-10
COL. FRED {. SMITH
KILLED IN ACTION

Col. Fred Z. Smith. well nown In
Washington. was killed on September
2sth, while leading the 3osth Infan-
try into action. according to Infor.
nation just received by his sister,
DR.. Cora Smith King, Of 3O15 Four
teenth street northwest.
simultaneously with the announce
ment OF his death a letter arrived
from Colonel Smith. written the day
before he was killed, In which he
stated that his regiment had been
commended by the general COM
handing the Seventy-seVenth divis-
ion for being, "as usual" first at
the front and first to get reports
back to headquarters.
Colonel Smith. who was forty-six
years old. enlisted from North Da
kota in the Spanish-American war and
saw active service in the Philip
pines and in Alaska. Since July II
his regiment has been in the thick
est OF the fighting.
Sergeant Loudon L Langan, of
429 Fifteenth street southeast, and
Herman Young, formerly of Wash
ington. both members of the 3I2th
Machine Gun Battalion, are mention
ed in today's casualty lists. Young
who was employed in this city by
the Southern Railway, was killed in
action.
Langan was wounded four times
in the same battle in which Young
was killed. and he received his
wounds on the first anniversary Of
his joining the colors.