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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
GARRETSON SAYS RIGHT
OF MEN TO STRIKE IS HELD
Relation of Road Workers to Gov
ernment Similar to That to Pri-
vate Employers, He Contends.

The right of railroad employees to
ST like would be insisted upon under
government ownership, A. 3. Garrett
son. president of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors, said today in reply
to questions of Senator Cummins of
Iowa, during his examination on rail-
road problems before the Senate
commerce committee.
Sharp opposition to the govern
ment's present policy toward organi-
zation of its employees was expressed
by Mr.. Garretson, who also opposed
the minimum wage as an effective
method of settling the wage ques-
ton. He proposed, in response to the
Iowa senator's questions. that wages
should be determined by a tribunal
fairly balanced in which no one in
terested element could dispose of the
question"
IF the government did not fix wages
satisfactorily asked Senator Cum
Minis, you hold you would have the
right to striker"
Absolutely yes responded the
witness. THE relations between the
government and it's employees should
be the same as between the private
employer and his employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
CHINESE HAD DUPLICATES
OF ALL STOLEN TREATIES
japanese Paper, in Chinese Type,
Attacks United States Interest
in the Orient.
BY WILLIAM II. GILES.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1919.

NHIcdSO OaiiS news. tOpyFlSnt, IoIo.
PEKING, China, February 12.-I am
officially informed that although Lu
Cheng- -Hsiang, China's chief delegate
to the peace conference. was robbed
of all his documents while passing
through Japan on his way to France,
precautions were taken against such
an event. duplicates of the papers
being carried by an unimportant per-
son. AS a result of this foresight the
delegates are in a position to place
before the conferences the most i1n-
portant of the secret agreements.
Many agreements were made by in
dfvfdua1 members of the late govern.
ment. but as they have not been car
ried out many of them will not be
divulged. They are mostly Of an in
dustrial nature.
The Japanese are trying through
personal influence with members Of
the government to persuade the for
eign Office to issue statement that
the Japanese minister here did not
threaten China when he urged that the
peace delegates should not divuige the
twenty-one demands The Chinese
fear greatly that Japan will be given
certain power to reconstruct China,
owing to her propinquity, which she
has often claimed gave her special
privileges in Chinese affairs. 1t Is be-
lieved that the Japanese are working
on this fear.
China looks chiefly to America to
assist her in securing justice at the
peace conference and would prefer
Anglo-Ameriean assistance and protec-
tion. This country realizes that the
two great nations are working hand
in-hand to protect the weaker coun-
tries and prevent future wars. A
Japanese paper here printed in Chinese
strongly attacks America, saying that
it is the United States and not Japan
that is interfering in China's internal
affairs. The paper also says that
America is responsible for the appoint
ment of c. T. Wang to the peace con-
ference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
RELEASE CARS FOR FRANCE.
Americans Make Rotterdam and
Antwerp Base Ports.

PARIS. February IL tby the Asso-
ciated Press) and Ant
werp will be used as base ports for
the American army of occupation.
Deep draft barges seized by the
French and Belgians in the German
retreats will piow the Rhine. super
ssding the Bordeaux route to the front
by rail.
Warehouses will be erected at Rot
terdam and Antwerp and the ships
VIII be unloaded and reloaded upon
bayges by Dutch and Belgian civilians.
The establishment of the new route
VIII release between 1.509 and 1000
freight cars for the French railroads.
and 1t VIII make New York the rail
head for the American army of occu-
patton. Rations and supplies for the
troops will leave New York direct
for Coblenx.
Col. John 9. Sewell Is In command of
the new bases. He will be assisted
By Coils Charles c. collars. Paul J.
.inDesxaAn6aEdEaydsDsCushinh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
FRENCH POPULATION WAVES.
Falling Off Three-Quarters of Mil
lion in Four Years Noted.

PARIS. February IL (by the Asso-
ciated Press) )-France's civilian pop
ulation in four years has decreased
by considerably over three-quarters
of a million without including the
deaths in occupied northern France,
nor the losses due directly TO the
war.
oficial statistics show that in 1913
the births outnumbered the deaths by
II 900 But this slight excess disap-
reared in the following year. since
which time the deaths have outnum-
bered the births-in 1914 by more
than fifty thousand, and in 1915, 1916
and 1917 by nearly three hundred
thousand in each year. The total ex-
cess of deaths over births for these
fot.r years is given as sS5i6u
Births. which numbered approxi-
mately 100000 in 1913, dropped to
$4,000 in 1915. and $4,000 in 1917,
while the deaths increased, but not in
comparable proportions: SO that the
total decrease in population was due
to the great di,a;nution In births, and
not to any great increase in deaths.
The statistics cover seventy -seven
departments, excluding eleven in
vaded departments and not including
1S40o. 900 persons killed In the wan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
Many Peace Topics
Will Be Passed on to
Society of Nations

By the Associated Press. 49,,
PARIS. February 12.-While Presi-
dent Wilson and the allied premiers
and generals are deeply engrossed in
perfecting the plan for the creation of
a society OF nations and arranging the
new terms to be imposed upon Ger
many for a renewal of the armistice,
expiring next Monday, other subjects
of the greatest Importance are being
prepared for the consideration of the
peace conference. 1t is expected that
the conference will spend little time
discussing them, however. and will
pass most of them on to the society OF
nations, when the latter has been
created and ready to function.
Foremost on this secondary program
are the recommendations of the COM
mission on international labor legis1R-
tion. The commission is one OF the
few having an American at its head.
and Samuel Gompers, the chatunans
has been pushing work along at,te
great rate, so that 1t is expected ~
will have a report ready for the cone
ference as soon as 1t is ready 70 ~
ceive IT. =
There have been difncultiea -.
,eecQnctling the diyerDe sytoWa o.
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1914-16FLEET HAD
|NADEQUATEFORCE
Admiral JeIIicoe's Review
Shows How British Skill
Overcame Menace.
GREAT NEEDS OF FUTURE

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 12.-The dan
gers to which the British grand fleet,
short of cruisers, destroyers and with
defenseless bases, was exposed during
the first two and one-half years of the
war, owing to the German use of sub
marines, mines and torpedoes, is de
scribed in a book written by Admiral
Viscount Jellicoe, former commander
of the fleet, and published today, COW
ering the activities of 19l4-l6.
Admiral Jellicoe points out that the
German high seas fleet possessed
lightweight destroyers, compared
with forty-two for the grand fleet,
and reveals that owing to the subma-
rine menace the grand fleet, in the fall
of 1914, moved from Lough Swilly and
only returned to the North sea when
the anchorage in Scapa Flow became
reasonably safe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
Insist Huns Have a Chance.

But while insisting that Germany
pay for her heinous deeds, they insist
also that Germany be given a chance.
Frances demand that Germany be
handicapped commercially until
France has had chance to rehabiii-
tate her industries and start with an
even break with Germany is not
without justification and is defensible
in many respects.
France has suffered more than any
other nation in this war. Her pros
porous northern regions are hideous
remnants of once thriving commun-
tiles. Frances war debt is so enor-
nous that years will elapse before her
financial standing is maintained with
out outside assistance. The French
people today are gasping, but with
courageous attitude. One sympa-
thizes with Frances desperate need
of assistance and extremely p1ucky
efforts to solve her commercial di-
lemma.
1t is essential that France be re-
stored at the earliest possible mo-
ment but disagreement comes on the
methods. The other allies say it all
cannot be done in a minute or By
French methods. The French say it
can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
TELEPHONE RATES STAND.
Mississippi Court Declares Wa.
Powers Still in Force.

JACKSON. Miss. February 12-HoId.
ing that the United States is still in
a state of war and that the state
courts have no right to set aside or
interfere with any power exercised
by the President or a mmber of his
cabinet under the war statutes, Chan
ceilor Lamar Easterling has refused to
grant an Injunction restraining Post
master General Burleson and the
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph
Company from enforcing the new in
terstate rates for telephone service.
The petition for injunction was filed
In chancery court Of HiQds county by
attorney General Collir8
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
PLAN MAY END STRIKE.
Committeeman at Tacoma Make
Proposal to Settle Shipyard Trouble

TACOMA. Wash, February IA
definite proposition expected to bring
an end of the shipyard strike. involv-
ing 1900 men in Tacoma, was made
by strike committeeman last night and
given out early today. The PROPOSE
ton was made in conference with
Mayor c. M RiddelI and business men.
The proposal will be submitted today
to Charles PiGz. director general of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation. by
9. w. Wiley. m2nager of the Todd
Drydock and Construction Company
here. The proposition is made indie
pendently of any action elsewhere in
the northwest shipbuilding region
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
BORDEN FOR BRITISH ENVOY
Canadian Premier Is Said to Have
Been Offered U. S. Post.

MONTREAL February I2-Sir
Robert Borden, the Canadian premier,
who now is in Paris in attendance
at the peace conference, has been
offered the post of British ambas-
sador to tire United States. according
to a report in newspaper circles in
London received by the Canadian
Press here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
HENEY STRIKES BACK
At PACKER WITNESS

Francis ]. Heney, who has been ex-
aminirg packers witnesses before the
Senate interstate commerce committee.
appeared today before the House COM
mittee and denounced the testimony
given there by the Ave leading pack
ers. He declared the attacks upon the
Federal Trade Commission were yiru-
lent and unjustified
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
PRESIDENT WILL SAIL
FROM BREST FEB. IS

LONDON. February 11.--President
Wilson will sail from Brest for New
York February 16, according to Reu-
ters' Paris correspondent.
1t took the George Washington,
which carried the President to Brest,
ten days to make the trip. Conse-
quently, the President should reach
America about February 26.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
TEXTILE WORKERS RETURN.
Lawrence Plants Report Increasing
Forces-Fewer "Pickets."

LAWRENCE, Mass, February 12.-
When the big textile plants here
opened their gates today there were
fewer strike pickets on the streets
than on any morning since the be-
ginning of the demonstration for fif-
ty-four hours pay for forty eight
ours work. Mill agents said the
number of returning, employees was
gradually increasing.
The Lawrence Duck Company, nor
mally employing about 500 opera
tyes, resumed operations today on
fifty -four-hour schedule Officials
claimed that "a good working force"
reported. The Everett and Pembertop
mills remained closed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
MINERS RESENT WAGE CUT.
Scores Leave Work in Arizona Cop
per District, Following Notice.

JEROME. Ariz., February 12.-Scores
of miners left the Jerome district
today as the result of the troubles
following the 75-cent wage cut an
nounced Monday by the copper COM
panies.
The mine managers stand by their
statement that they will close the
workings indefinitely, or until the
copper market becomes more salts
factory, unless enough miners to keep
the smelters going appear for work
tomorrow.
order will be officially issued before
Federal Mediator Davis arrives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
Savannah Car Strike Ordered

SAVANNAH, Ga. February 12.-The
third strike order within as many
months was issued here today by the
street car mems union. to take effect
tomorrow. The employees, who are
members of the Amalgamated Asso-
ciation of Street and Electric Railway
Employees of America, demand that
the Savannah Electric Company rec-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
POLES AND GERMANS TOLD
TO END HOSTILITIES

LONDON, February II (Havas).-
The allied governments have ordered
the Poles and the Germans to cease
hostiiitieS according to newspaper
reports received here today from Her
lin by way of Copenhagen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
Count Andressy Going to England.

PARIS, Tuesday, February II
tHavas).-yienna and Budapest news
papers received here say that Count
Andrassy, former Austro- -Hungarian
that he is going to England to confer
with. the main British statesmen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12

Mass: James A. Heating. Chicago;
ond Lieuts. Earl w. Porter tobserv-
err. Chicago; John o. Donaldson. this
city.
The officers listed as dead were:
First Lieut.. Fred W. Morton, Coium-
bus, Ohio; Edward Orr, Chicago I;
Merton L. Campbell, Wakeman, Ohio;
Lloyd a. Hamilton, Burlington, VT;
Second Lieuts Frank B. Bellows, Will
mette, Ill.,, and Roger Hitchcock, Los
Angeles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
Wanted to Marry Russian Lady.

Questioned about an American negro
in bolsheyist councils called Prof
Gordon" Dr. Simons said in the United
States he had been pugillst and in
Petrograd a doorkeeper at the Ameri-
title of professor of physical culture
and boxing. At one time, DR.. Simons
said. the negro wanted to marry a
Russian lady" and asked him to per-
form the ceremony.
American propaganda In Russia
seeking to explain real motives of the
limited states in the war irritated the
bolshevists, the witness said. and
Russian agitators posted bills refer
ring to the ''fiesh-eating, blood-drink-
ing allies"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
Alfonso To Visit South America.

PARIS. February liking Alfonso
of Spain has definitely decided to visit
South America. according to the Gau-
lois. He will go to Buenos Aires.
Montevideo and Rio Janeiro, IT IS said,
but the date Of the voyage mas not
been dxeds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
MORE D. c. TROOPS
SAIL FROM bRES7
Pueblo Due in New York Feb
ruary 21-0ther Ar
rivals Expected.

| More troops of the former Sd Infan-
try, District of Columbia Nationa
| Guard, are homeward bound on the
cruiser Pueblo, which sailed from
Brest Sunday and is due at New York
| February 81.
These include Company 7, list In
fantry, 6 officers and $50 men, assign.
ed to Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N J.
and medical detachment, Companies
l. and M. and a detachment of Com
pany d, 162d Infantry, in all 13 off
GERS and 515 men, some of whom are
ordered to Camp Lee. Va. Both regi-
ments are attached to the 41st Divi-
sion.
D C. Boys May Be on Train.
Companies E and G, 116th Am
munition Train, list Division, Off
GERS and S23 men, are on the cruiser
Montana, due at New York February
21. and ordered to Camp Dix There
may be some District boys in that
train.
The entire 14Sth Machine Gun Bat
talon, 41st Division, 80 officers and
593 men, are on the Montana
The Machine Gun Company of the
Sd District of Columbia Infantry orig
inally was assigned to the 147th Ma
chine Gun Battalion. 41st Division.
some of the District boys may have
been since transferred to the 14Sth
Battalion.
Due in New York February 81.
The cruisers Pueblo and Montana
Ia raj inc hxx
sailed from France with about 5000
troops, and all are due to reach New
York February II. 80
Besides the District troops the
Pueblo is bringing casual companies
for New York, PENNSYLVANIA, Illinois
and the Regular Army.
The Touraine has aboard the head
Quarters of the Sd Army Corps, bound
Tor Camp Upton. and the headquarters
troops of the I'd Army Corps, to be
sent to Camps Upton. Dodge, Dix,
Grant. Sewer and Sherman. On this
ship also is an advance detachment
OF nineteen officers of the 9th fNew
York National Gnard) Division. who are
sion will be sent on its arrival, and a
detachment of the 412th Telegraph
Battalion for Camp Travis.
Western Troops Due.
Units aboard the Montana include a
detachment of 10 officers and 124 men
OF the South Dakota National Guard,
a casual company for Boise. Idaho.
and one for New York state: the 302d
Trench Mortar Battery of the nth
Division. bound for Camps Upton and
Dodge, and few casuais
The transport Pocahontas sailing
of which for New York was an
nounced recently. has been diverted
to Newport News and Is due about
February IS.
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williams Is Mentioned.

The witness told the committee that
boIsheyist agitators persistently fol-
lowed him when he delivered lectures
at The door pamphlets entitled Seven
ty-six Questions and Answers" on
boishevism in Russia, written by Al
bert Rhys Williams, one of the speak
ers at a recent meeting in Washing
ron which prompted the Senate com-
mittae's new inquiry. A paragraph on
religion of the bolshevist system in
his booklet was described by Dr.
Simons as an interesting fairy tale"
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Shot Down Nine Planes.

Up to September l Lieut.. Donaldson
had shot down nine German planes.
His adventures at the front included
being captured. esca ping from the
prison camp and getting back to his
own lines by tramping at night
through Belgium and Holland. He
was decorated by King George and
recommended for the United States
distinguished service cross.
Heading the list are the aces:
Lieut. Col. William Thaw. Pitts
burgh; Maj. David Mex. Peterson.
| Honesdale. Pa; Capt. Edward V.
Rickenbacker. Columbus. Ohio; Capt.
Reed G. Landis, Chicago; Capt.
| Douglas Campbell Mount Hamilton.
! Cal. and Capt. Edgar g. Tobin, San
| Antonio, Tex. all credited officially
| with having shot down five or more
! enemy planes.
| Others are: First Lieuts. Louis G..
Bernheimer, New York city; William
+. Erwin, Chicago; Robert F. Ray
! mond. Newton Center, Mass; Donald
B. Warner (bomper), Swampscott,
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Saws Bolshevists Hate England.

Most real bolshevists have hatred
for England and the allies and affec-
tion for Germany" he added, although
many displayed a tendency to main
tain friendly relations with the United
tStafAM st5s
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ADVANCED RATING
FOR 2OU. S. F[|ERS
Lieut.. Donaldson, One Of
Army's Youngest Aces,
Among Men Designated.

As reward for distinguished serv-
ice in action overseas, the War De-
partment announced today that ad-
vanced flying ratings had been recon- :
mended for twenty American Army
aviators, six of whom are dead
Lieut.. John o. Donaldson. twenty
year old, of 1925 Wyoming avenue.
one of the youngest aces in the
American Army, is included in list
of twenty aviators who We're desig-
mated by the War Department today
to receive higher ratings with addi-
tional pay for distinguished service
Lieut. Donaldson was a student at
Cornell University when the war broke
out and succeeded in getting into the
Aviation Corps, although only nine
teen years old. His father, Maj. Gen
Donaldson, during part of the war wa
inspector general of troops at Tours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
SAYS SBOLSHENSM
GOT NEW YORK AID
Success Due to Support
From East Side, Minister
Tells Committee.

Success of the bolshevik movement
in Russia was attributed to aid from
the lower East Side of New York bJ
Rev. G. A. Simons, former head of tbs
Methodist Episcopal Church iii Russia
testifying today at the Senate judi
ciary subcomnittee's inquiry into law
less agitation in the United States.
Got Yiddish support.
The witness also said the predofn-
mating influence on bolsheyist propa
ganda here was the Yiddish element
of the East Side He explained thai
he was not in sympathy with anti
Semitic movements, and that in stat
ing his views meant to cast no ref1ec-
ton upon Jewish people in general.
Referring to bolshevism, DR.. Simons
said:
az have firm conviction that this
agitation is Yiddish, and tnat one OF
its bases is in the lower East Side
of New York. I don't think the boil
shevik movement in Russia would
support it got in New York on the
East Side"
Pro-Germanism Developed.
Immediately after the Kerensky
revolution, early in 1917, DR.. Simons
said, sentiment in Russia was pro-
ally, but within few months, wher
the bolshevik movement developed 9
strong pro-German current developed
with more than half the agitators
Jews, including many from New
York.
The witness said a woman, a mem
ber of his church and teacher II
Smolny Institute, Petrograd head
quarters of the bolshevists before The
overthrow of Kerensky, frequentls
saw German officers at council
table with bolshevik leaders. Ht
added that the woman reported see
ing German documents bearing Ger.
man stamps on the table and hear
ing German spoken more frequently
than Russian. DR.. Simons suggested
that this language might have beer
Yiddish instead of German,
Hun influence in Russia.
AS evidence of German influence II
Russia. DR. Simons declared that before
Russia entered the war he heard thai
hundreds of thousands OF rubles hao
been placed by Germans in the hands
of labor leaders in Petrograd to cause
strike i'm Industrial plants and thereby
cripple Russia after war opened. This
strike was put down by the ole
regime.
DR.. Simons said he now was having
Investigated a report coming TO MN or
apparently good authority that the gov
ernine committee of the Northern Com
mune in Petrograd in December, 1918
contained only sixteen true Russians
2S5 persons from from York and one
American negro, calling himself Prot
Gordon.
discussing bolshevik propaganda in
the United States, DIR. Simons said he
frequently visited the Rand School OF
Social Science in New York to buy Its
literature, which he described as
"some of the most seditlous stun
have ever found" He added that nine.
teen out of twenty persons at this
school were Jews.
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WEATHER.

Fair tonight: tomorrow increasing
cloudiness.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending 2 pm. today: Highest, IS, at 2
2. IN. today; lowest, 80, at 1 am. today.
Full report on page IS.
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the for republication Of all dispatches
credited TO it or not otherwise credited in this
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