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The Washington times., 1918-12-29
FLOYD GEORGE.
SAYS ENGLAND.
~
ANDU.S. AGREE.
ON NPEACE AIMS.
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silent and the sun OF hope seems TO
sspread its rays and 70 change the
Parth with a new prospect of happi-
ness. So our joy is all the more ele-
waited because we know that our spir-
slts are now kfted out of Chat valley"
President Was Pleased.
President Wilson was plainly inn
zensely pleased with the entire
days proceedings.
He failed to make any statement,
but others in the Presidential party
sbeIieve that, following the trip to
.ltaly next week, It viii be possible to
get down TO action on the peace pre-
-sliminaries in Paris without any fur
.ther delay.
-. The big four president Wilson and
s.the British, French and italian pre-
nIers) will participate in the confer
@eRces at the outset. when a program
will be agreed upon. Then the other
delegates will be called in.
1.-THE present outlook is that a pre-
ilminary peace treaty viii be agreed
upon and signed while the complete
program will be worked out leisurely.
To Dictate Terms.
The preliminary treaty would con-
tain the plan for the league OF nations
on broad and general lines and dictate
Ito the central powers what they are
expected to do. This would allow the
: United States and other nations op-
posing great standing armies a COM
plete program for demobilization.
1t is expected that the first business
: of the preliminary conferences will be
! to decide whether or not it can frame
"a treaty, either wholly or in part. so
the President can have a part of 1t be-
fore returning home next month.
= The President probably will leave
= for Italy the latter part of next week,
visiting Rome, Turin, and Milan. Ar
.rangements are being completed for
visits to the QtIrenniaI. the Vatican,
and the Methodist College. Mr.. Will
yon will deliver several speeches, and
--Inay halt at some Swiss city en- route.
=. Satisfied that he has obtained i'm
lsortant results in his conferences with
British statesmen, the President feels
there is no need to delay his return to
Paris. He will leave for the French
e,eapltd Tuesday morning, barring a
ssohange in the situation.
3 The President completed his confer
%ences late yesterday, and had dinner
s7Ufth Premier Lloyd George He left
e,for his mothers former home in Carl
<sislc last night
- During his stay in London the Presl-
rdent feels he has had the opportunity
tto come in close contact with-the peo-
pie as wen as their leaders His Guild
fHau speech yesterday reelected his
co7hdence in the future The speech
swas'praised generally. viscount Grey
and the. Arc41bishop of Canterbury
<lsnded il in private as ''an epochaI ad-
SdYess" .,a .'.
y Rear Admiral Grayson- insists that
the President shall rest at least two
<days in Paris before he goes to Italy.
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VATICAN WILLGVE
UP SPECIAL
EMBASSIES

ROME, Dec. 29.-The
Vatican has decided to
give up its special papal
embassies, the Giornale
d'Italia states.
In the future the Vati-
can will treat with the di-
plomats accredited to
the Italian government, it
was said.
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PRESIDENT TO INSPECT
WAR-ToRN REGIONS OF
FRANCE BEFORE RETURN

s PARIS, Dec. 29.-President Wilson
~ill visit the devastated regions of
France before appearing at the peace
eonference, IL is learned.
: The news dissipates the fear here
sShat the President would not. appre-
seiate the real havoc Of war The trip
20 the war-wrecked regions will be
sfnade between the Presidents visits
30 Italy and Brussels.
The inspection may last three or
,four days.
q Mr.. Wilson will go to the scenes
.bf the American fighting first. and
cater will visit the French front
.3proper and part of the English front
= Upon his return from London the
President will rest here a few days
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GOOD WILL KEYNOTE
OF FPEACELUNCHEON

LONDON. Dec. 29.-Democratic
good will and confidence were the
keynotes Of Fridays conferences at
Downing Street and Buckingham
Palace.
The scene around the luncheon
table is described by a statesman
who was present as more like \
friendly meeting OF an executive COM
mittee OF a golf or polo club dis
cussing the details Of an annual
tournament.
When coffee and cigars were reach
ed. chairs were pushed back and
knees were crossed and the distin-
guished men Of all political parties
in Great Britain settled themselves
in anticipation of what the President
OF the United States would have to
say.
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ORDER INVESTIGATION OF
1O1ST AIRPLANE ACCIDENT

FORT WORTH. Tex. Dec. 2S.-An
investigation was ordered today into
the death late Friday OF Flight Sergt.
Gardner Il. Haskell. Of SagimOre,
Mass. killed 100 miles west OF here
while on long cross-country flight.
The death Of Haskell H. the 10lst ac-
cid"utal death among aviators here
during the past thirteen months.
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This the third of photographs the worlds famous arches Washington proposes
o the Watch in
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ASKS PETROLEUM RATE RISE.

An increase of AZ cents a hundred
pounds over the rate in effect May -
1918, on the transportation OF petrc-
leum and petroleum products in car
loads from points on its line to other
points on its line. points in Centrai
Freight Association territory, trunh
line. New England, and st. Paul
Mimi. territories, and in Virgins
and to other cities" was asked in az
application filed by the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad with the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
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Where is Nicholas Cicchiuo' Has he
met with foul play. committed suicide
or abandoned his family:
The police are baffled At his myst"ri-
GUS disappearance week ago from
the plant OF the Washington Steel and
Ordnance Company at G:osboro. HIS
wife believes he has met with ;pul
play-tl!;tJ ha has hc'-I murdered in m
alteration ever the pryucnt Of 50
debt, and that his body = either hid
den in woods uCar Tie plant or has
been thrown into tn" Potomac riy"r.
Sh" scouts the abandonment and su3
eide theories
Harbor police. under Lieutenant
Russell Dean, last night dragged th"
Potomac river in the vicinity OF the
steel plant in an effort to recover
the body Of the Italian. should h"
either have Icapcd overheard or h""a
thrown into the river by asssilau'S.
ErHrs out Foul pIay Thcors.
Mrs. Cicchino was convinced that
h T theory that her husband has been
murdered was corr"cl. when shr
learned or the finding yesterday in
woods within 200 yards OF the steel
plant OF blue shirt. torn as though
it had been ripped with stillcto or
sharp blade OF some sort. and blood
stained. and a shoe which she says
he wore on the day he disappeared.
Positive Identification UI ttle shirt
and shoe were made to Detcctlv"
Serg. Jacob Berman. The shoe was
not only identified by Mrs. CfCchin0.
but by her son Tony. sixteen wears
old deaf mute. Written iu ink in
the shoe WAS the nam" Tony. son Of
the missing mIH. ard student ~
GallaUiet College. Tony was SICK
with influenza on the day that his
father disappeared. and CiCchin" wore
the lads shoes when he went To worE
In identifying the shirt. Mrs. Cicchino
pointed to a black button she had
sewed at the neck. while the rest or
the buttons were white.
where L. His Body.
II Cicchino has been murdered.
what has become OF his body. ask the
police. The woods about the plant
have beeh searched. but no trace Of
the man was found. The shirt end
shoe were found 200 yards from tho
main entrance TO the steel plant. and
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TO COMPEL USE OF "FLU"
MASKS AMONG BARRIERS

BOSTON. Dec. 2T.-Barbers. dem
lists. doctors and nurses who come
i'm contact with Influenza patients
arc 10 be compelled to wear masks
while at work. DR.. william G. Wood
ward, health commissioner, said to-
day. Influenza cases reported here
during the past twenty-four hours
were .i3G against 454 yesterday. with
II deaths against es yesterday
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before going to Italy. Mr. Lansing's
two days tour OF the American front
has made deep impression on him.
He was visibly affected by the devas-
tation and destruction seen in the
vicinity OF Rheims, scissors. Chateau
Thierry, and Fismes.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-12-19
Mining Man Dies
at Colorado Springs

In an effort TO save the life OF Toms
Daley. a prominent Cripple Creek
mine operator, he was moved by auto,
ambulance from the District hospital
to Colorado Springs last Friday for
treatment at the Glockner sanitarium
where he succumbed TO the rayages of
pneumonia shortly afterwards
Mrs. DALEY. who is also down with
pneumonia. following an attack of the
influenza. was taken from Cripple
Greek to Colorado Springs the same
afternoon and arrived there about an
hour and a half after the death of her
husband.
Daley was one of the most popular
men in mining and club circses in
Teller county, He was member OF
the Victor lodge B. p. o. Elks and was
As years of age
He is survived by the widow.
mother. Mrs. Daley. residing with her
son. Harry. brother OF the deceased
in the state of Idaho and brother
Franz Daley, living al Ely. New.
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give II TO anybody but Bobby, saying
that Santa Claus required him 10 give
any letters marked from Kris Krin-
gle" to the child to whom it was ad-
dressed and Ia no one else. Bobby
opened II and read:
Dear Bobby:
II have received your letter and will
bring you the finest Christmas present
you ever received in your life.
NssANTA CLAUS
Bob Of course was delighted with
this and he noticed that from the
time of Its receipt everything about
the house seemed 70 take ON certain
cheerinesss. Bobby laid in was, for Pc
ter when Ne came ngsain snd asked him
a lot Of Que&tions as 20 hnw and where
Santa Claus gave him the letter. Pc
ter said that he was npt permitted to
tell chlldten anything about Santa
Claus They must hang up their stock
ings aud Sate for llan to fill them,
This StaR thr~e days before Christ.
nnA Hobb9 who vas vSsy wAtchfps
detsste1 ~ n,othcr rlnuexlinR ~ GER
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:ain packages This puzzled him, for
his mamma had told him there would
be no gifts this year aud he did nos
expect any except what Santa Claus
would bring. Bobby asked his moth
er II what she brought in was intend
ed for Christmas. but she gave him
no satisfaction. though she took him
In her arms and gave him bear hug
and q dozen kisses. She seemed as
happy as III she expected Santa Claus
tc br.ng everything she wanted for
Christmas.
The day before Christmas q mes
senger boy came with telegram for
Mrs. Sawyer She tore on the enveI-
ope and read II. and looked very hap
py. giving the messenger a half dol
Lar. Bobby asked what tie telegram
was about. She told him it was about
Christmas gift she and all the rest
Of the family were TO receive. and
when Bobby kept asking again and
again What Is 1t mamma Z" she gave
him another bear hug and smothered
him with kisses.
Bobby had a sister. Edith, twelve
years old, and q brother Jim. ten. Both
of them were too old to sympathize
bringing him the gift he had promised
him in his letter Indeed they didn't
believe Santa Claus really wrote let
tiers to children Bobby tried his best
to get out of Edith or Jim what made
their mother SO happy, but they would
not tell. Indeed they seemed almost
as happy as she. Having failed with
.hem Bobby tried Peter the postman
Peter said he suspected Santa Claus
had something to do with the family
happiness. but he was not sure. Sc
poor Bobby was obliged to swallow his
curiosity and wait for Christmas morn
ing
Bobby went to bed on Christmas eve
determined to resist the sandman and
keep his eyes open all night. 80 that
he might get = glimpse of Santa Claus
and see what hks remarkable gift WAS
But the sandman soon began to drop
sand in Bobby's lids. and he WINS asleep
in ten minutes after his head struck
the pillow.
When Bobby awoke the sun was
quite high in the heavens. He heard
the word Bobby r. shouted il lis ears
and at the same time felt himself gent
iy shaken. He did not awaken by de-
grees, but all at once. And there
standing before him and looking down
upon him. smiling. was his papa.
"why. papa !" he exclaimed. Il
thought you were never going to come
home any more"
Santa Claus told me that he was
to bring me home to my little boy for
q Christmas gift"
Bobby threw his arms around his ia
Tiers neck and Rugged and hugged-
and 1t seemed that he would never
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Claus won't come as he used TO. /
hear of children writing TO Santa for
what they want and I'm going to write
to him. too
So Bobby sat down and wrote his
tettsr. He spelled bugle. bugei, and
Christmas. Crismus. and some OF the
words were so bungled that the old
fellow must have had hard time de
csphering them, but all the things
Bob wanted were named In the letter
and he did not doubt. for a moment
that Santa Claus would respond gen.
erously.
One morning shortly before Christ
mas. Peter the postman left a letter
at the door addressed to Robert Saw
yer. Peter who had long delivered the
letters Of the Sawyer family would not
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started a plant which by next year
can produce enough xyloi for 10000. 900
pounds of T N \.
American batsleships hereafter will
be armed with 16-inch guns, making
our craft the heaviest armed vessels
In the world.
Daniels praises highly the marines
work at Chateau Thierry and subse-
quently.
incidentally. Daniels firei the firns
shot for what may become govern
mental Insurance system. He ou-
nourced he win ask Congress to CON
tinua tho war insurancc--at cost--to
men In tho regular and reserve navy
osxsnixat Further he suggested
Il would be wise 70 offer thia tnsn'-
ance At ctAs tc civilian employees OF
the Rovernme,..
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Baseball May Suffer
From Rival Games
sy II. c. HAMLro.s

written for t1,e United Press-}
Camp Eustis. Va. Dec. 12.-Baseba.i
is going to suffer from the war.
Before this conflict ended 1t was a
common thing for baseball fans to
stage an argument over what might
be expected to happen to the national
game at the end. 1t was generally
contended that the soldiers would
have . big kick to make when they
came home and found that number
OF baseball players had done their bits
as timekeepers in shipbuilding plants
and as sailors up and down Broadway.
But that isn't the reason for the
statement that baseball likely will be
hit TO some extent by the belligerency
OF the nations. I, is fact that the
soldiers themselves have become rea-
sonably proficient nj them. They have
learned amateur sports according TO
a code of rules that does not exist in
professionaiized sports. The dollar
has been kept on the outside of the
barbed wire fence and has had no
place in the thoughts OF the athletes.
Several years ago small communi-
ties which supported minor league
baseball clubs began to lose interest
in the game. and many leagues We're
hit hard enough that they disbanded.
deserted cities. combined with other
circuits. or resorted to other methods
in a fight to keep themselves entirely
out OF the hole. That was blamed to
golf. II was contended that SO many
men were learning to play their own
games that they had no time to sit in n
yrandstand and let Is other men do
their exercising.
That is what is going to hit base.
ball when the war is over. The men
who have learned new games are go-
ing to continue to play them when tho
war is over or they are going to be so
set against other sorts OF sports that
they will ignore baseball.
OF course this does not apply To
every soldier. nor does II apply to all
baseball players. but the effect OF
this feeling. already noted in the home
camps, undoubtedly will be most ap.
parent when spring comes again.
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OF the. country thun all other diseasas
put together. and for years II was sup
poeed to b. incurable. Doctors prescribed
kocal remedies. and by constantly fat5inx
It incurahle. Catarrh u q local di7eana..
greatly Influenced BY constitutional ecnr-
dfticns and therefore requires ccnn<fcup-
tional treatment. Hsu'a catarrh 1{stH--
csne. manufactured BY r J.. Cheney &
remsdy, q taken Internally ard aeta
thru the Blood on tho Mucoua 6uskAeuo
ct he eyaeem- One Hundred Dollars ~
ward = oftered fer any case that Hn1fa
C1tarTh ncdtcina fnlls 10 cure. G>rA e0s,
circulars aud teetimen1nls q,
u 3 c1tENEy = 90. rsleoe, pe&A
Ssiis fssiis SsiS 81 ssssalpsa1,-
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Tells OF
PANIC IN
GERMAN TOWN
tBy U.ssea Pre.s.,

London. Nov. 30.-(By Mail.)--
..Yeg.' said recently repatriated.
wounded British aviator. who had been
a prisoner In Germany since January.
1917, Il was In Mannheim during two
night raids. It was during the latter
part of the 1917. Oh, they had the
wind up all right. even then. We won,
dered what was happening when we
frst heard the sirens and guns start.
Our orderlies just vanished. There
was big chemical factory not far
from our camp. Several bombs must
have hit It fair and square. In the
morning when we looked out there
was not much OF II left.
Nothing came ON us either time.
Fritz noticed that this hospital camp
was a safe spot. and built barracks
next door. and put down gun testing
station on the other side.
sIt was wonderful how our fellows
managed to pick out the factories. The
town itself was not damaged at all.
When We left Mannheim We marehes.
rigth through the town. and though
saw several facfries in ruins.
utou see Single pfiNatc uouse tnAt
had been hit
A colstreamer who had been in Es-
sen during the raids on Krupps spoke
of the frenxied panic that prevailed.
and told how mob of Germans. men
and women. rushed into the hospital
where the wounded prisoners we're ly-
ing. They broke into the wards and
hercely threatened the English.
His comrade. in the next cot. they
actually pulled out on the floor. and
jumping on the helpless man. perma-
neutly injured his spine.
This repAtriated Engiishman also
had much to tell OF the great material
damage wrought by the British bomb
e.s. and the farreaching moral effects
produced on the civil populace In Ger
many.
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~why, Papal- He E.el.Imed.

let go. Mamma. and Edith and jim
came IN and SO great was the excite
n,ent that Bobby forgot to look for
what wns in his stocking.
That was certainly the happiest
Christmas the Sawyer family ever
spent or ever would spend. Bobby
was too young TO have it all explained
70 him. but when he is older his mother
intends to tell him that his father was
on vessel that WAS torpedoed and
sunk Mr.. Sawyer was reported miss
ing, but he was picked up out of the
water by an American cruiser and in
time managed to get home. After word
came that he was saved the letter was
written 10 Bobby by his sister as from
santa Claus and afterwards tele-
gram came saying that his father
would be home ON Christmas morning.
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SENIOR CLASS
CARRY ON
STUDIES

Students of the senior class of the
Canon City high school are carrying
on their studies under restrictions pre-
scribed by the state board of health
and the local authorities. They meet
at the high school building five days
every week for study and recitation
as in normal times, but every safe
guard has been invoked to preyen-
an outbreak OF the influenza among
them There are 20 members of the
class. and each one is examined for
any indication of the contagion by the
high school nurse daily. If any OF
them are found TO be suffering with a
cold or any symptoms whatever or
the epidemic, they are sent home TO
await possible development of the
disease. If it does not appear they
are permitted 10 return to the school
room after a specified time to resume
their work.
The students are not permitted to
consTegate in the halls and are re-
quired to wear influenza masks during
study hours. They are seated in as
widely separated places as the class
and recitation rooms win AFFORD. and
RiOnlOAlcQ AlO4A I46GAin6 aBO0L
school buildings or grounds at the,
conclusion of their recitations. AS
only about half of the high school in
structors have work with the senior
class a number of the teachers are not
required to report for duty, and they
have been excused from the class.
rooms until the influenza ban has been.
lifted. OF the members Of the senior
class "a are young women and i've
are young men. OF the young men in
the class two of them. John Pearson
and David Parks, completed the man.
ual training course last year. The
others did not register for that WORK
and the manual training department Is
closed. Only few Of the young
women of the class are taking the do
mestic science course under Miss Lin
kins
The high school faculty is composed
of Willard Z. Graves. principal; Mrs
A E. Hubbell. teacher of Latin; Miss
Myrtle B. Raymond. mathematics,
Miss Mabel Mclaughlin. English; Miss
Marguerite Henderson,, English: Miss
Aileen Monahan, history: Miss Ethel
Young, Spanish; Miss Katherine Nil
Ter, commercial; w. w. TuttEe
science; Miss Helen Linkins. domestic
science; Chester Wolf. agriculture
Floyd Bricke-. manual training and
military; Miss Caroline Thomas. ply
sical training; r. L. Dick, Miss Flor
eRce Wooien. art Several of the
teachers nsye been absent from the
school since the influenza quarantine
was put into operation Miss Young
returned to Canon City few days ago
from a visit to Denver Miss Mona
han is in Greeley
The only member of the senior class
that has contracted the Influenza since
they were called for the resumption OF
their studies a couple of weeks ego, is
Miss Sharman. but it is not believed
that she contracted the disease in the
school room.
The students of the South Canon
high school have been carrying on
their studies by a correspondence sys-
tenn since the outbreak of the conta-
gion, and the plan is understood to be
working in fairly satisfactory man
ner.
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MRS. RiNcLE CALLED
TO DENVER SUNDAY

Mrs. David Ringle OF 2502 Main
street. East Canon. left for Denver
on sunday in response to telephone
message from there Saturday night
tha; her daughter. Mrs. Chamberlain
tnee Miss Bessie Rfnsle) was III from
pneumonia. Hcr condition is not be
lieved to be serious.
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Benson L. Advisor.

me navy nHu oss cnips austdu ~
October with $4,000 men and officers.
Some OF the navy's achieyements
not hitherto emphasized are recorded,
condensed. herewith
Destroyers steamed an average of
275 900 miles month.
During July and August last. Amer
lean escort vessels accompanied B.
4i4.0l2 tons of shipping TO and froia
France.
More than 10000 American mines
were lard in, strategic areas In Euro
pean waters.
American naval forces operated
from the Mediterranean to the White
sea.
American navy men helped mate
riany in transporting the more thnr
100000 soldiers carried safely over.
seas.
Merchant Marine Work.
incidentally. Daniels suggests the
navy may have much TO do with the
merchant marine service for some
time to come.
The last year naw orders placed for
four hattIeships. ono battle cruiser
two fuel ships. 223 destpoyers. s. sub
marines and many less Important
craft
The battleship New. Mexico, recently
launched, has proved to be marvel
with tts electric propulsion.
paniels VIII SAX Congress for land
20 enlsree the New York navy yard.
Tne navy. faced With nhortaEt Of
TN Z. developed r NsX = = -first
esssla" 70 ~ sshes sxp'es'vs snd