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Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
STOCKHOLM DOES NOT APPEAL ID
 PEACE DELEGATES
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LONDON, Jan. 6.-An official state ment issued at Berlin yesterday and forwarded by the Zurich correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company announced that because of the Russian request to transfer the peace pour parlers from Brest-Litovsk to Stock holm, the central powers had tempor- arily suspended the negotiations with Russia.
 The message which was filed at Zurich on Saturday. said: Another crown council was held today at Ber- lin which Field Marshal von linden burg and General von Ludendorff at tended. After the meeting the follow ing official statement was issued:
 Tn consequence of the request of the Russian government to transfer the seat of negotiations from Brest- Litovsk to Stockholm, the central pow CTS have temporarily suspended the negotiations with Russia"
 Dispatches received here from Petrograd dated Friday and Saturday confirm the previous reports that the Russian peace delegation, including Leon TrotZky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, returned to Brest- -Litovsli in an endeavor to arrange for trans fer of the negotiations to neutral ter ritory. The German refusal to ac- quiesce in the Russian demand, accord ing to these dispatches. was based or the fact that their delegates already had arrived at -Litovsk. An armistice has been declared 1T | the Ukraine region, the Rada, the | Ukranian legislative body and tho | Bolsheviki having agreed to a com. promise of their difficulties. The Rada l is said to be ready to decline to give support to General Kaledines and hi: | Cossacks in return for the withdrawa
 of the Bolsheviki troops from thu | Ukraine.
 The Petrograd Post says the king O
 Rumania has cabled the entent allie!
 that the Rumanians are determined tt | continue the war, notwithstanding thu desires of the troops on the Russian. | Rumanian front, and that Nj. Poincare
 the French president, replied, assur ] ing the king of Frances support. The French government has pro
 tested against the seizure of Frencl
 banks in Petrograd
 The central executive of the work
 men and soldiers deputies has de (COntinued on Page TWol
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
LIVE STOCK MEN
 PLAN DISCUSSION
 OF VITAL TOPICS
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SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 6.-How to eat more now in order that there may be more to eat next year will be one of the topics brought before the an- nual meeting of the American Nation al Livestock association which opens here January II, according to stock men who plan to attend the meeting The plan, which touches the consumer in that it would substitute "porkless" day for the present 'meatless" Tues day is based on the declaration that unless the demand for beef and mutt ton for domestic consumption is in- creased soon, there will be a shortage of these meats the spring and summer of next year.
 The stockmen assert that while a normal or enlarged number of steers and sheep are being fattened for mar ket this winter, if there should be no increase in prices, or if the present prices should not be maintained, fewer would be fattened next winter, with corresponding decrease in the number sold for slaughter. Continu ance of the present decreased con- sumption, due to ''meatless' days, they declare. will mean a glut of the mar ket and lowering of prices.
 Another subject which the stockmen expect to consider is the possibility of changes in the transportation system due to the taking over of the rail- roads by the government. Reports from the market committee, touching on the investigation of the meat in- dustry being made by the federal trade commission; discussion of na- tional forest use for grazing purposes i the "640-acre homestead bill," the live stock industry and the war, and othel subjects, many of them technical, are also to be presented at the meeting.
 l. T. Pryor, of San Antonio, Texas president of the association, has not announced the title of his address Governor Simon Bamberger of Utai | is to discuss the subject of war timt | loans to meat producers. Among fed eral officers on the program are JohI R. Mohler, chief of the bureau of ami nal industry; Will C. Barnes, assis tant forester; C. D. March, physiologis in the bureau of animal industry, ant several men connected with the ex tension departments of state colleges Clifford Pinchot, former forester, is t discuss "The Federal Board of Earn Organizations"
 James Callan, president of the Cat tie Raisers' Association of Texas, am | l.. l.. Harmon, president of the AriZo na Cattle Growers association, als are on the program. F. J. Hagenbartl president of the National Wool Grow CTS association, which meets here a about the same time as the livestoc
 association. is to deliver an address a
 the latter meeting on Relation of tn
 Federal Government to the Produce
 in the Present Emergency"
 A tentative program is to be an
 nounced shortly
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
"PeQCe' Is Black Cloud
 Hanging Oper Germany

The liberal Tageblatt reflects the gen. eral attitude of the press in declaring that negotiations at Stockholm would be impossible. The newspaper says that British, French and American dip lomats and their numerous agents are beseiging Stockholm and would prob ably weave a net of intrigue around the conference and that espionage would flourish, making successful ne gotiations impossible.
 A Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam dated today says the hitch over Brest- Litovisk is considered to endanger the cohesion of the reichstag majority, but that great efforts are being made to prevent the falling away of the social ist majority. The dispatch refers to the possibility of new constellation of reichstag parties.
 The Berlin Norwaerts, the socialist organ, refers to the declaration by the chancellor on the endangering of the peace negotiations as having fallen on the spirit of the nation like a black Cloud. The newspapers say the situa- ton is extraordinarily serious.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
Alleged Spy Holds Many Secrets of
 Ndval Operations
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TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 6.-Intimate knowledge of Pacific coast fortifica- tions, of the personnel of the American army and navy, and ability to name almost every American ship sunk by German submarines up to last July were possessed by Thomas Helmuth Ritter. alleged spy held at Camp Lew is, according to military authorities. Ritter was regimental sergeant major of the Ninety-first division at the can tonment and was in charge of the distribution of mail and papers.
 His activities, it is charged, have re- suited in the betrayal of naval secrets. Officers assert that he was conspicu- ous in an intrigue originating in Der lin and extending to France, Italy. South Africa, New York, Chicago and San Francisco and involving Franz Bopp, former German consul general at San Francisco. now interned for eutrality violations.
 Details of the alleged conspiracy have not been made public.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
ARMOUR IS WROTE AT HENEY
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CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-J. Ogden Ar mour, head of Armour & Co.,, meat packers, tonight made a statement in regard to remarks made in Phila- delphia on Saturday by an official connected with the federal trade commission, asserting that the fed eral government might seize packing industries through a receiVership. MT. Armour, after resenting what he called the ihsidious methods of MT. Heney, counsel for the commission, of prejudicing and inflaming the public" said:
 Under an act of congress passed few months ago, authorizing the United States food administration so to do, the government has in ef- feet already assumed practical con- trol of the packing business. As late as last month Food Adminis- trator Hoover. through his repre- sentative and agent, Joseph P Cot ton of New York; adopted rules ar.d regulations which limit the profits | of packers so that they cannot ex- ceed nine per cent on the invest | ment IS to meat product, which in effect limits the net profit of the packers on their sales of such pro- ducts to a little over two cents of. every dollar.
 Through the affairs of a cor poration in Philadelphia which has l no connection whatever with the l packing business and whose opera tions have not the slightest influ- 1 ence or, the cost of meat, the press dispatches scatter all over the coun- 1 try interviews with Mr. Heney which l hOth coupled with Mir. Heney's insistent declinatiohs to be personally inter- | viewed charge that the United States Is planning to have receivers take over and run the packing business MT. Heney is the paid attorney oi the federal trade commission and as such he did occupy and discharge his official duties 1T. a fair way He has, however assumed the powers not only of the federal trade com
 mission, but of the department o justice and, in fact, of the govern. ment itself.
 T shall not at this time commen
 on the manner in which the hearing.
 are conducted, nor shall refer tt
 the fact that the packers are no
 represented. and are not permitted
 to cross-examine witnesses or t,
 introduce testimony or to otherwis,
 explain, the motives or develop tn,
 truth of the witnesses selected b,
 MT. Heney to lend color to his ore
 conceived and preannounced opin
 ions. Each day there issue from tn.
 inquiry room press dispatches tha
 refer to the meat trust the 'foot
 combine which has the public in it
 grip and similar ur.fair catcl
 phrases which can only be construe, as appeals to stir up the passion
 and prejudices of the people.
 The cost of meat is high, bl there are controlling economic Tea sons therefor which can be readil
 ascertained and should by som governmental agency be explained f Continued on Page Two)
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
Knights Of Columbus Talk
 Of OrderS War Activities

this country by the Knights of Colum- bus for the war activities of the order in France. Quotas by states were an- nounced as follows:
 New York, s2.000.000; Pennsylvania, s750,0O0; Illinois. $500, ,00O: Massachus- etts, s400.000; Michigan, Minnesota and California S300.000 each; Connecticut, Nebraska and Iowa, S250000 each; New Jersey and Wisconsin, $20O. 900 each; Rhode Island. s150.000; Delaware, s117,- 900 and Washington, S100,0O0.
 The insurance board of the order today decided that members holding in- surance April sixth. 1917. when war was declared. and who are in the army or navy services shall not pay any ad- ditional premiums on their policies. The board tomorrow will consider the dis bursement of the orders Sf.000.000 war relief fund. of which S1.o00,0o0 is to be used for relief work in domestic can- tonments
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The board of directors of the supreme council of the Knights of Columbus began two days conference here today to consider the general war activities of the order.
 Walter kernan, overseas commis- sioner of the order, who has been in France for several months investigat- ing conditions relating to bases and field secretaries, reported at length on the proposed work. but his report was not made public. It was learned, how ever, that MT. Herman recommended the appointment of a number of field secretaries, preferably not within the draft age, and that he asked for boss workmen to supervise construction of portable buildings to care for men as close as possible to the trenches.
 Directors from various parts of the country presented assurances that nearly s10,o0o,oO0 would be raised in
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
Preuent Aerial Raid

ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN ITALY, Saturday, Jan. ,. -(By the Associated Press s.)-Padua was spared another raid last night largely through the daring of Italian aviators who went into the air an hour before moOnrise and formed an aerial cordon around the city meeting enemy machines as they advanced. The enemy, seeing the heavy concentration. divert ed their course, going to Mestre, Bas- sano and Casterfranco, where they caused some casualties and consider able loss at the last place British aviators are doing especially good work. Their latest exploit was the de- struction of an enemy balloon at Su- segana and the bringing down of an army airplane by gunfire.
 The artillery action along the noun tain and Piave fronts is intermittent and no longer shows the intensity of big offensive. Along the upper Piave enemy batteries have been virtually silent for d week, indicating either a
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Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH |S CALL
 FUR UNITY IN FACE IF TRIALS

nificant of his belief that the organized movement of democracy is the power which shall rule the world in the con- ing golden time.''
 The People asserts MT. Lloyd George has done inestimable service to the nation and the entente allies in stating frankly and without reservation Great Britain's war aims and adds.
 Tt will no longer be possible for our present enemies to profess honest doubt as to what we are fighting for, or to delude any intelligent German with the fable that our aim Is the de- struction or the disruption of the Ger man state or it's people,
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
Maintain Vigorous Fire

ROME. Jan. 6.-Austro- German and Italian big guns maintained a vigorous fire along the entire Italian front yes terday, says today's war office an nouncement, and there was great aerial activity. The statement reads:
 Along the whole front there was a harassing fire by the artillery on both sides and intense activity of our and enemy aircraft reconnaissance.
 Enemy patrol attemps between the Brenta and Piave rivers were easily re- pulsed.
 "On the lower Piave between Ros- salta and the sea there was a lively fire by guns of small calibre and also bursts of machine gun and rifle fire at in tervals''
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
WINTER WEATHER DOES NOT HALT ARTILLERY ACTIVITY
 ON VARIOUS WAR FRONTS
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 Although the weather continues cold and much snow lies on the ground in northern France, there has been considerable activity by the artillery in Flanders and on the eastern part of the front along the Moselle river. Near Bulle- court the British have recaptured in a counter attack the sap taken from them Saturday by the Ger mans. There were intermittent artillery dueIs Sunday along the entire battle front.
 In the Italian theater the biq guns of both sides are hammering away at opposing positions in the hills and on the lower reaches of the PiaVe river. Several attempts by the Austro- Germans to make headway with small attachments between the Brenta and the Piave rivers were repuIsed.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
ITALY ADOPTS DRASTIC POLICY
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Italy has adopted a drastic new policy to in- crease her fighting forces. Physlcai requirements have been modified, and all men between the ages of IS and A years previously exempted for defects are ordered to present themselves for further examination. Those accepted will be mustered in the army on Jan uary 15. It is estimated the decree will bring more than 600,000 men to the cOlOrS
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
" EST IN. GRASP OF ICE KING
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CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-Chicago was the center today of one of the most severe snowstorms that has visited the central west in years. Railroads suffered severely, traffic on some lines being virtually at a standstill. Temperatures were moderate, but strong wind whirled the falling snow Into drifts that at many points were almost impossible. The storm, which started in the southwest Friday, moved slowly northward widening its path until today it extended from Omaha to Ohio points, where the storm became one of sleet or rain extending from Louisville, Ky, to Toledo
 In and around Chicago, almost a foot of SLOW has fallen. Driven by q 35 mile gale the snow piled in drifts of six and more feet. Surface lines made strong efforts to keep their tracks clear, but toward the latter part of the day service on many was stopped.
 Elevated railroad lines suffered the least. The companies managed to maintain a fairly regular service.
 Innumerabc automobiles were abandoned in snowdrifts.
 Officials Of the weather bureau predicted the storm would continue throughout the night.
 Lake shipping was endangered The steamer Missouri of the North ern Michigan Transportation com pany. plying between Racine, Mill waukee and Chicago, is ice bound two miles outside the harbor. Life guards at the harbor entrance Caupbt tba ca1l Of inc Steamer and later tonight a big ice ramming tug reached the Missouri ard reported by wireless it was preparing to tow the steamship into port. Some con- cern was expressed for the steam ship Illinois, owned by the same company, which had not reported late tn1ight
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
"FAINTlNG BERTHA" ESCAPES
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LINCOLN, Neb, Jan. 6.-After es caping from the state asylum for the insane, Painting Bertha Liebke, a nationally known police character, was taken from local hotel and re- turned to the institution. She has been in many penal institutions in the United States
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
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LONDON, Jan. GA belated dis patch from the correspondent of the Associated Press in Berlin, which is dated Friday. shows that there was great political perturbation following the meeting of the main committee of the reichstag that day. The meeting lasted barely 45 minutes, a motion for adjournment being supported by all factions except the independent social iSts
 Immediately on adjournment all part ies entered into caucus sessions. which continued through the day and until late at night. The indications pointed, the correspondent says, to an endorse ment of the governments attitude to- ward moving the peace negotiations from Brest- -Litovisk to Stockholm by the right, center and progressive part ies, including the pacifists, the demo- cratic wings of the national liberals and clericals, and the Scheidemann wing of the socialists, but the attitude in gen. eral of the socialists was problemati-
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
DISCOVER PLOT TO
 FIRE MANY PLANTS

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.-Evi- dence of well organized plot to destroy industrial plants, lumber mills and crops of the Pacific coast is in possession of the arson bureau of the board of fire under writers of the Pacific, according to A. w. Thornton, chairman of the bureau here. Members of the l. W. w. organization are behind the plot" Thornton said tonight, and there is a. strong suspicion on our part that German agents are furnishing the money for the work
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
Imnrovement in PhilIy

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. b.-Co1di- tions resulting from the shortage of coal were greatly improved in this city today. More than 2S,000 tons of anthracite had been received up 10 o'clock and heavy shipments of bituminous were reported. Retail dealers kept their yards open all day and coal was delivered to many householders who had been without heat for several days.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
Coal for shiverino Gotham

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Ninety-two barges laden with approximately 5000 tons of coal were tied up to docks in New York City today and, coupled with warmer weather. as sured relief for the city's population from coal and scarcity of fuel which it had undergone. fer more than a week. Fuel administration officials, while admitting that a shortage in coal probably would continue for some time, predicted that the critical period had passed.
 More than 6S,0OO tons of coal was brought to New Jersey terminals during the day. Prospects are for continued moderate weather, the weather bureau said
 Widespread efforts to provide the poor with coal from the increased store were reported from all parts of the city.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
French Statement

PARIS. Jan. 6.--The war office con- munication issued this evening says:
 There has been moderate artillery activity in the region of Corbeny and in upper Alsace and more spirited fir ing on the right bank of the Mouse.
 Belgian communication: In the course of the day the fifth and the sixth moderate artillery activity was reported in the region of Ramscapelle, Dixmude and Merkem. Army of the east January ,: There was some enemy artillery firing in the region of Monastir. French aviators bombed cantonment and conveys 10 the north of Lake Presba.''
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
British Statement

LONDON, Jan. 6.-British troops last night attacked and recaptured rom the Germans a trench section which the Teutons had occupied ear Her in the day to the east of Bulle- court. on the Arras- Cambrai front. the war office announced today.
 The text of the statement reads:
 Yesterday evening our troops sue cessfully attacked and recaptured the sap which the enemy had occupied during the morning cast of Bullecourt.
 Except for some hostile patrol ac- tivity in the Lens sector, nothing of special interest occurred during the night
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
With British Arni.s


 WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Jan. 6.-(By the Associated .Press)-Freezing temperatures con tinue to hold the British front in an Icy grip. Many of the roads are i'm passable to motor cars owing to the snow drifts and the fighting neces- sarily is desultory owing to the wealth CT conditions. The Germans, however. are exceedingly active, carrying out raids on various parts of the line.
 Their exploit of yesterday morning east of Bullecourt, in which they cap tured an advanced British post, re- suited in heavy loss of life to the attacking troops. Late yesterday af- ternoon the British organized a coun- ter thrust and recaptured the position.
 There has been considerable activity in the air and also considerable wrangling between the big guns as a reminder that the war has not been finished. Aside from this, however, comparative quiet prevails.
 The Germans are industriously con- ducting changes in their back areas, which lends support to the general | impression that they intend to attempt | offensive operations unless peace is concluded shortly.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
Snow in West

DENVER, Jan. 6.-There was a light fall of snow today in Colorado and portions of New Mexico, but not serious enough to handicap train service. Snow fell at Denver, Lead vile and Grand Junction, Colo, and Santa Ee N. M.
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-06
BOYS OVER THERE

Mrs. w. Joel Smith has received
word from her husband, Sergeant
Smith, that he has arrived safely in
France. He writes that Sergeant
Arthur Rosenberg and Private Vic
Lomax were on the same ship with
him.
Mrs. Philip Rosenberg received a
letter from Sergt. Rosenberg con-
firming the fact that the three had
arrived safely.
Private Ernest FAINT has also land
ed in France and is ready to face
the Hun, according to a card re-
ceived by his mother.
All of these young men are Alb
beville's own soldiers and will un.
doubtedly live up to the fighting
traditions of their native city. Their
friends are delighted to learn that
they suffered no mishaps on the way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-06
CLASS PICNIC.

The Misses Louise Brown and
Plevna Seal chaperoned a Sunday
School class picnic at Roche's pas
ture Wednesday Afternoon. Eighteen
girls were in the party and had a
great time. They carried along bas-
kets of lunches, which we'll certified
as to the high grade of Presbyterian
cooking. Various sorts of amuse-
ments were entered into and the
young ladies returned a happy,
though tired, company of Sunday
School soldieresses. Every one will
no doubt be at Sunday School Sun
day morning with her lesson learn
ed to the last letter.