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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
j. S. EMBASSY IN PERU
URGED BY Mr.. LANSING
Nation Always Friendly to United
States, and President Approves
Recommendation.

With the approval of President Will
son. Secretary Lansing has asked Con-
gress to raise the American legation
at Lima. Peru. to the rank of en-
bassy. Peru has signified a desire to
appoint an amba ssador to the United
States and the administration wishes
to agree.
In a letter to Chairman Hitchcock
of the Senate foreign relations COM
public today. Secretary Lansing
pointed to Peru's friendship and align
ment with the United States in the
war and urged the exchange of am
bassadors. Argentina and Brazil on
the Atlantic side of South America
and Chile on the Pacific side now are
represented here by ambassadors.
Special Interest Attaches.
Special interest attaches to the rec
ommendation at this time because of
the boundary difficulties between Peru
and Chile.
The United States has urged the
adjustment of their differences to pre-
serve pan-American unity.
Secretary Lansing's letter said:
IF it should be the pleasure of
Congress to grant this authority, which
II strongly urged, the two principal
countries on the Atlantic side and the
two principal countries on the Pacific
side of South America would be rep
resented in the United States by am
bassadors. the United States would
likewise be represented by ambassa-
doris at their capitals.
Peru "Always Friendly"
"Peru has always shown a friendly
disposition toward the United States
and should be entitled to every con-
sideration at this time, since she
aligned herself definitely with the
United States in the war and has in
the last few months given over to the
United States under charter the Ger
man vessels which were sheltered in
Peruvian ports.
1.-The matter has been given careful
consideration both by the President
and me, and we are agreed that
it would be desirable to have an ex-
change of ambassadors between the
United States and Peru"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
A Beautiful
Rotogravure Section
IN Tomorrow
Star.

This is to be permanent feature of The Sunday
Star, together with the usual Planogravure Section
Two picture sections that will bring to readers the
very latest and unusual photographs OF world
events, local happenings and portraits OF men and
women in the public eye.
The Rotogravure process, unexceled tor the re-
production of beautiful pictures, gives Sunday Star
readers first sight of the latest news photographs
very limited time from the camera to the press and
from the press to the home.
Tomorrow's section will be made up entirely of
photographs of special interest to Washingtonans-
local subjects selected account OF their timely inter
est and the quality of the photographs themselves.
Page titles as follows:
"When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin"
"The Luncheon Hour With Few of Our 10000
War Workers"
washington Mothers and Children"
Mainly Personal
Two Remarkable Picture
Sections IN
The Sunday Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
FLAG OF PLAIN, CLEAR BLUE.
Paris Journal Floats Emblem Pro-
posed for League of Nations.

GahIeEram 10 The Evening StAF and
chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
PARIS. France. December 4.-Over
the Office of the liberal newspaper
Louvre, in the Rue Royale. floats a
Tag never before seen in the history
% the world 1t is a plain. clear blue,
.he color of peace skies and calm,
free seas.
1t is the flag proposed as that Of
tie league of nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
FIVE YEARS IN PRISON.
silas Parker, Bootlegger, Sentenced
for Slashing Officer.

si1as Parker, colored, bootlegser'
who slashed Police Lieut.. Pierson
with a knife September IA last when
the officer had caught him making
cole Of whisky, was sentenced TO-DAY
hV chief Justice Mccoy to serve hVe
Years in the penitentlary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
GETS UNANIMOUS APPROVAL.
Nomination of Carter Glass as
Treasury Secretary Confirmed.

The nomination Of Carter Glass of
Virginia to be Secretary Of the Treas
ury, succeeding Mr.. McAdoo, was con-
frmed by the Senate late yesterday
Afternoon without objection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07

low figure that it had become of little
value to the German government
To prevent the ownership of the
paper from going into bankruptcy
with undesirable publicity" being
given to it, the German embassy paid
1904 for the payments of debts
This amount was given only after
Braun had threatened that he would
make no effort to prevent the publ-
cation of the connection between the
German government and the paper
should it become bankrupt In let
ter to Bernstorff, DR.. Albert termed
this "despisable extortion." but recon-
Icended that the amount should be
paid to avoid further blackmail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
QUESTION HONESTY
OF HUN COUNCILS
Lavish Expenditures Of Work.
mems Leaders Bring Acute
Money Situation.
ACCOUNTING DEMANDED

By the Associated Press.
MUNICH. Friday. December V1a
Geneva)-Anxiety is being shown by
the German. especially the Bavarian,
press over the financial stability and
even the honesty of many of the hum
dreds of workmen's and soldiers
councils now conducting affairs In
this country. Reliable reports say
that the disbursements of these coun-
ellis for the past two weeks have to-
tailed 500, 900. 900 marks.
If this rate of expense continues to
be the usual cost of operating the
government it will exceed the total
German budget. with it's enormous
outlay for military upkeep. by sew
eral times
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
L|PSNER RESIGNS
ASA|R MAIL HEAD
Two Men to Have Charge of
Work Under Departments
Reorganization.
Filler GETS PROMOTION

Reorganization Of the air mail serv-
ice was announced today by the Post
Office Department, following tho
resignation Of Capt. B. B. Lipsner.
superintendent of the service. This
office is abolished, and in its stead the
air mail service Is divided into two
main sections. one on maintenance
and equipment and the other on flying
operations.
Lieut. James Clark Edgerton was
appointed to take charge Of flying
operations. resigning from the Army
to accept the position. Dr. L. T. Buss-
Ter, who served with Gen. Pershing's
staff in Mexico. was appointed chief
of the maintenance and equipment
section. The appointments are eHec-
tive Immediately.
announced there last night that he
had resigned. Otto Praeger. second
assistant postmaster general, TO-DAY
declared that he had not received the
resignation.
for his resignation were that he had
been informed novices are to be piacea
in charge of important branches vi
the service and special airplanes con-
structed for carrying mail.
Due to Rapid Expansion.
Reorganization of the air service he
came necessary, the Post once DC
partment said today, on account or
the rapid expansion of the field OF the
service contemplated. These plahS
were outlined by Postmaster eIenerat
Burleson in his annual report, made
public yesterday.
Dir. BussIer, chief of maintenance
and equipment. served as adJutant
and instructor with West Virginia
troops which went to France
1.-The splendid record of the aerial
mail service during the Ill days from
August IL to December !. was due
largely to DIR. Bussler, who was act
ing superintendent of the service for
eighty-seven days. while former SUPP.
Lipsner was in Texas. Chicago. Mime
and extension work." the depart
ment's official announcement of the
change stated.
Only Twenty-Five Years Old.
Lieut.. Edgerton, the new head of
flying operations. is but twenty-five
years old, and the son of James A.
Edgerton, purchasing agent for the
Post Office Department. Young Ed
gerton was born in Lincoln. Neh-.
but has spent great part of his life
in Washington. He took the ground
course in aviation in the fall of 1917
at Princeton. N. J., and was one OF
the first officers commissioned at the
field at Houston, Tex.
He has been flying the mail planes
/ between Washington and Philadelphia
and New York since the inception OF
the service. Recently he has been
| engaged on testing and flying work
at Boiling Field.
| One trip from Philadelphia he ran
/ through a hailstorm. Another time
he flew the distance between the two
! cities in eighty-nine minutes. AS
schoolboy he walked from New York
F., to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
CONFIDENT NATION
WILL MEET CRISIS
Federal Reserve Board Looks
for Reimbursement Period
to Be Short.

Confidence that the nation will go
through the readjustment period with
out serious difficulty is expressed by
the monthly review of the Federal Re-
serve Board, made public today, which
reflects the observations Of the boards
trained agents in all parts of the
country.
The extreme scarcity Of labor has
been relieved by the lessening activity
Of munition and other strictly war
work plants and by Rehabilitation of
the armed forces, the report states,
adding that the general level of prices
had begun to decline slightly even
before the armistice was signed. Ma
terials now will flow freely to peace
time Industries, in the opinion Of the
reserve boards agents; credit Will be
released gradually for limited devel-
opment projects and the country 8
business will soon find itself actively
engaged.
Commercial Aspect Altered.
'In some districts" says the review,
''it already is reported that cancella-
ton Of government contracts has al
tered the commercial aspect very pro-
foundry, besides influencing for the
worse the ability Of concerns with
high cost inventories to pay taxes:
On the other hand, readjustmept or
employees in munitions and other war
plants in their old lines of Industry,
is regarded as essential and will be
a problem of the immediate future.
Whether it will be practicable to take
all of the floating supply of labor off
h@ o1.ly foe Can n
now admitted to be serious ques-
ton. On the other hand, the opening
Of new channels of civilian demand
and the release of staple materials,
such as wool, cotton, rubber and 9TH
ers, is believed likely to re-establish
out delay.
THE readjustment period will
be, short, is the opinion in some
districts. It is. however. reported
from important sections. largely
those engaged in agricultural occu-
pations, that comparatively little re-
adjustment will be necessary and
that ample outlet for everything that
can be produced is already seen.
Little Pessimism Evident.
1.-THE banks of the country are adj
mitted to be in a position which calls
for careful and farsighted handling
in order that their resources may not
be too rapidly absorbed in connec-
ton with purely developmental work
while, on the other hand. it is adj
mitted that they are now in a posi-
ton which calls for very conserva-
tive treatment in order gradually to
reduce the loans on war paper which
have been piled up in the process of
placing the various liberty loans.
The future is regarded with general
confidence and but little pessimism or
fear is evident"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
Money Difficulties Acute.

The Bavarian Gazette says that the
money difficulties of the councils are
constantly growing more acute. The
financial problem was simple in the
beginning, because. it is said. the
soldiers occupied state buildings
which were heated and lighted by the
old staff. and requisitioned state auto
mobiles. When money needs arose,
however. difficulties began. says the
newspaper, which at first were met
by individual well wishers but now
have become so urgent that serious
consequences are threatened.
An undreamed-of perspective opens
up for the state treasury" the Ca
zette continues. eff the workers and
peasants councils, with at least 10000
members in 5000 Ravarian commune
ties. become active and spend 20
marks daily per person"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
HOLLAND TO YIELD
EX-KA|SER AND SON
But Will First Urge Life In
ternment-InternationaI
Jury Plan Gains.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December IF the allies
insist upon the delivery of the former
German emperor and crown prince to
an international court of justice Hol-
land will yield. but will first urge
that the allies content themselves
with an undertaking by Holland to
intern them for life in one of the
Dutch colonies, according to an Am
sterdam dispatch to the Express.
Holland, it is understood, will sug-
gest that Herr Hohenzollern and his
son be placed on an island in either
the East or West Indies. where they
will be guarded by a Dutch fleet.
International Jury Plan Gains.
PARIS, December Z (Havas).-The
formation of an international jury to
try the former German emperor is
gaining wide support in France, the
Matin says.
Attorney General Lescouve, after an
investigation, has transmitted to the
ministry of justice the charge of muir
der, made against the former emperor
by Nine. Prieur, whose husband was
killed in the torpedoing Of the mail
steamer sussex. Ine attorney gen.
eral said that he considered the
charge admissible in the French
courts.
Minted Gold for Ex-Kaiser.
AMSTERDAM, December THE
president of the Hamburg soldiers
and workmen's council has declared to
the Weser Zeitung of Hamburg that
he knew positively that twenty bags
of minted gold have been sent to
Amerongen, Holland, for William
Hohenz6llern, the former German en-
peror.
Law Immunity Withdrawn.
BERLIN, December 6.-The Prus-
sian government has formally with
drawn the privilege heretofore held
by the members of the Hohenzollern
family of immunity from law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
MUST SHOW[|QUOR
TO FOR own USE
Such Persons Are Not ViOlat-
ing Law, Assistant District
Attorney Says.
If persons arrested by the police for

If persons arrested by the police for
bringing liquor from Baltimore prove
in court that they were bringing it
for their personal use the government
will not contend that they are violat-
ing the Presidents proclamation
which makes it unlawful to bring al
coholic liquor within five miles of any
Army camp.
The statement was made by Assist
ant District Attorney Ralph Given in
Police Court today. when the case Of
Frank P..Leach Of 1902 Girard street
came up for trial. Leach was one of
the men arrested when the police held
up electric cars from Baltimore
Thursday and Friday nights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
FURTHER EVIDENCE
OF HUN ACTIVITIES
GIVEN AT HEARING
ow figure that it had become of little
alue to the German government.

Continued from First PageD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
D. C.. BILL PLACES
71.3 PER CENT OF
EXPENSE ON CITY

Continued from First Page.)
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Demurrer Is Filed.

Attorney James O'Shea, representing
that the information filed against
Leach was faulty, in that it failed to
state that the Presidents proclama-
ton provides that the five-mile limit
shall not apply to a person who has
liquor within that limit for the use Of
himself or his family.
Mr.. Given contended that that pro-
vision is a point for the defense to
bring out and that it is not necessary
for the government to set forth that
provision in the information.
Judge Hardison announced that he
would take the case under advise
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
Accounting Demanded.

The Ncueste Nachrichten demands
an accounting. 1t says that soldiers
who formerly served on their pay
now are drawing salaries and have in
some cases displaced officers and are
paying themselves half as much
again. 1t questions. also. whether
paper money is not being Surreptl-
tiouSly issued.
This newspaper uses the situation
for an attack on Kurt Eisner, the
BaVarian premier. It says the neigh
boring South Germans are growing
suspicious of Bavaria and are eX-
pressing a desire to separate from
her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
Kaiser Was Busy" in Norway.

THE Bergen journalist. whose spe-
cial duty it was to report the kaiser's
doings. declored that the kaiser dur
ing this last stay in Norway was bus
Ter at work on board his yacht than
during any other previous year." the
newspaper says. His visits ashore
were remarkably less frequent and
more brief The telegraphic corre-
spondence of =" 'laiser in those July
days was rerS ..e@vy, and he passed
several hours daily in wireless COM
nunication. When the imperial yacht
lay in one of the fjords. where the
height of the mountains prevented
wireless telegraphy, a first-class tor
pedo boat appeared daily to deliver
and receive kilograms and mail.
therefore. it is little probable that
the kaiser was only informed of the
march of events in Europe by the
Norw egian newspapers, the more SO
as the majority of kilograms received
by him are known to have been in
cipher"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
ISL Persons Photographed.

Photographs of 151 persons taken in
the liquor raid were added to the
collection of pictures of arrested per-
sons at police headquarters Twenty
one additional arrests were made yes
terday, fourteen in Northeast Wash
ington and seven on the county roads
north Of the city. In not single
instance yesterday did the police find
any large quantity of whisky.
eff the courts will uphold u.s." said
Maj. Raymond w. Pullman, superin-
tendent of police, this morning,
washington will be practically bone
dry in ten days. 1t will be next to
impossible to purchase liquor. and
persons who have liquor at their homes
will guard it as carefully as they do
vaiua bleS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
American Aids the Idle.

LONDON. December 7.-Dr. James
Crack. an American. who resided for
n long time in Germany. is head Of
the department at Berlin. which is
finding work for idle men. according
to Il Berlin dispatch to the Express.
Thr"" thorSard applicants for work
register daily with him. it is said. and
$1,000 thousand men are now unem-
ployed there.
Less than quarter of the Berlin
troops have as yet returned from the
front. and it is estimated there will
be 10000 idle when demobilization is
completed. The dispatch to the Ex-
press was sent Thursday evening and
deals lengthily with the labor situa-
ton. but does not mention any dis
orders such as were reported yester-
day from Amsterdam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
Minted Gold for Ex-Kaiser.
Law Immunity Withdrawn.

BERLIN, December 6.-The Prus-
sian government has formally with
drawn the privilege heretofore held
by the members of the HohenZollern
family of immunity from law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
Center Hope in President.

BERLIN, Friday, December 6. via
Copenhagcn.-The summary of the
address delivered by President Will
son before Congress last Monday,
which has reached here. is presume
bly, inadequate, and hence there has
been little comment on it in the
newspapers. One of them, however,
the korrespondenZ. organ of the ma
tional liberals. declares that the Ger
mans will seek in vain for any sub
Stantial comfort in the message. 1t
expresses the belief that President
Wilson's program to which Germany
supposed the United States and the
allies had pledged themselves will
have only shadowy existence at the
peace conference.
a large majority of Germans ap-
rarently believe in President Will
sons good intentions. and all their
hopes are centered in him. but there
il a general fear, which amounts al
most to a settled belief. that he will
he unable to force his program
through. The Leitung am Mittag
says:
lit is almost unimaginable opti-
miSm for one to hope that Wilson's
intervention will mitigate the de-
structive conditions of peace
Other comment seems to recognize
that President Wilson may not be
the dominating figure that Germans
have expected him to be. Some papers
declare that he approved of "Ameri-
cas- imperialiStic naval policy" and
has failed to check the entente'S
"piratical economic plans"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-07
Eisner Blames Ex-Kaiser.

LONDON, December 6 british Wire
less Service).-kurt Eisner, the Bava-
rian premier, declared in a speech
yesterday that he intends in a few
days to commence publication of doc
uments of the German foreign office.
in order to prove that Emperor Will
liam was responsible for the war. ac-
cording to a dispatch received here
today from Copenhagen. Comments
on certain documents prove that the
kaiser caused the war" Eisner asserted.
Dealing with Eisner's speech, the
Tageblatt of Berlin says it is true
that notations on documents often
bore signs of the well known impul-
sjveneSs OF the emperor. and declares
that there is no doubt the documents
are more compromising for the EN-
peror than for those who wrote them,
With reference to the statement by
Emperor William to DR.. Georg Wege-
ner TO the effect that in the three
weeks of his stay in Norway during
the critical days of July. 1914. he was
only informed of events through the
Norwegian newspapers, the Morgen-
bladet gives particulars of the ordi-
nary days work of the emperor at
that time.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-18

didn't even catch cold. and aside from
al few f1eas and lots of mud, l never
felt better in my life. In the last
woods We stopped in we had a fine
dugout with wooden floors, sealed
walls and ceiling and a stove, SO we
were quite. comfortable. BY the end
of this trip the woods and particular
ly the wood roads, were veritable
quagmires, and l sure will take off my
hat to the army mules that pulled the
gun carts, caissons, combat wagons,
etc, through. We never could fight
this war without them.
We'll, on the night set for the at
tack, it was raining harder than ever.
The doctor, several hospital corps men
and 1 started off to meet the medical
M en- of another outfit and go up to-
gether We started about o'clock
to go about eight ,kilometers to the
trenches The traffic of course was
terrible. The final units of artillery
and infantry moved up and it was
nearly a. N. when we finally tumbed
into a trench, soaked to the skim hay
ing Waded through water ankle deep
in the woods, and in the trenches it
was knee deep in places. WE had been
shelled a bit on the way up, but that
wasn't q patch to what we got n day
or so later
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-18
Horizon ON Fire.

promptly at o'clock a signal gun
was fired and q streak of fire ran all
around the horizon in our rear Such
a bombardment, as was never seen sor
dreamed of before, broke loose from
our entire front, the big naval glins
way back, the 6 and S-inch guns next
and, not so far back, the '75s, and it
was continuous until 5 o'clock when
the boys went Overland then the
whole world broke loose. Not fifty
feet in front Of me were our machine
guns, who laid down a, barrage that
a mosquito couldn't have come
through and, just back of me, we're
the '75s' hub to hub. Absolutely
nothing could have lived through it,
The air seemed to be alive with shells.
1t was a wonderful sight and one
shall always remem ber--and, in con