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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
FOOD TO CO SKY HIGH"
Col. Adams of Quartermaster's
Corps Fearful for Future With
Restrictions Removed.

Higher food prices following the dis
solution of the food administration are
anticipated by Army officials, who in
asking Congress for appropriations for
food purchases disclosed today that
they have allowed for a 10 per cent
increase in the year beginning next
July.
When the food administration
ceases to function and all it's restric-
tons are removed, prices will go sky
HIGH" declared Lieut. Col Adams of
the Quartermaster's Corps before the
House military committee hearings on
the Army appropriation, bill.
An Army ration-food for one man
for one day-now costs the govern
ment As cents, but. anticipating an in.
crease. Col. Adams said that appropria-
ton for food had been asked on
basis of 53 cents.
'The increase of about 10 per cent
has always been found adequate in the
past" he added in explanation of a
basis for the increase.
The world demand for food would
bring the higher prices. Col. Adams
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
MEN BACK FROM FRANCE.
COMING TO WASHINGTON.

A detachment OF $50 men and twenty
officers of the 10th Engineers, who
have just been landed at Hoboken,
N. r., has been ordered to Washing
ton barracks. and is expected to ar
rive in a few days. officers at the
barracks said this afternoon that they
have made all arrangements to receive
the men. -
Although this is not a District or
ganization, officers at Washington bar
racks say they understand there are
number of Washington men in the de-
tachment coming here. The 10th En-
gineers was organized at Camp
Leach, American University, and saw
hard service in France.
The 466th Engineer Pontoon Train,
which was slated to arrive at the bar
racks this week, has been shifted and
will now be sent to Camp Humphreys,
it was learned today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Conductors and Motormen
of w. R. & E. Meet Tonight
70 Perfect an Organization

An important meeting of the Ma
tionaI Capital Local Division, $50,
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees. will
he held at midnight in Walters Hall,
7f9 9Th street. The prime object of
this meeting is to perfect the organ
ization of the conductors and motor
men of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company.
the headquarters of the local union
in the Washington Loan and Trust
building were crowded during the
greater part OF the day with en-
ployes applying for enrolment in the
union.
manager of the local, announced at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
BLAINE ELK|NS IS SUED
FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE
Wife Also Seeks 81 900 a Month
Alimony From Son of For
mer Senator.

Blaine Elkins, son of Stephen B
Elkins, late senator from West Vir-
ginia, is named defendant in a suit
for An absolute divorce filed in the
District Supreme Court by Mary
kenna Elkins. The custody Of their
only child. stephen B. Elkins, Sd. is
asked by the wife. 4 correspondent
is named.
Through former Senator Joseph w.
Bailey. Mrs. Elkins tells the court of
her marriage at Cincinnati January
%, 1908. her maiden name being Mary
Slavin kenna. During the past year.
she charges, her husband has been
intimate with a woman named as CO.
respondent, and that since the dis
covery OF his alleged misconduct she
has not lived with him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
PRINCE EXPIRES BEFORE
KING AND QUEEN ARRIVE
Death Of British Rulers Youngest
Son Comes Quickly and
Unexpectedly.

LONDON. January 20, via Montreal.
The death of Prince John, youngest
son Of King George, came so quickly
and unexpect eddy Saturday night that
there was no time for the nurses
who were with him to summon the
king and Queen Mary to his bedside
before he expired
In recent years the delicate health
of Prince John made it necessary that
he always have an attendant. Con-
sequently he was never seen on pub
lie occasions with the other members
of the royal family, but lived in COM
parative privacy at Frogmore House.
Windsor, or at Sandringham Palace.
The London newspapers point out
alphabetically how the king and
queen have sought increasingly dur.
ing the wartime to bury the tragedy
of their youngest sons delicate
health in the silence of their hearts,
never limiting to the nation the nature
of the personal anxieties weighing
upon them. Public sympathy was ex-
pressed for the royal couple yester-
day in all the churches.
President Extends Sympathy.
LONDON. January 20.-President Will
son has sent a telegram of sympathy
to King George on the death OF his
youngest son. Prince John
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
CONFIDENT OF INQUIRY.
Photographers Contend Postmaster
General Is Hostile to Labor.

Members of the local Commercial
Telegraphers' Union are confident that
their appeal to Congress for investi-
CATION of the telegraph and telephone
service as administered ~ Postmas-
ter General Burleson will b. saet with
approval and that an inquiry into
conditions will be held.
In the main. the charge against the
Postmaster General is that of taking
up the fight of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. with which the
union employees were at grips when
the government assumed control of
the wire systems, thus showing his
onposition to labor. Mr.. Burleson, the
union says. has shown that he is I'M
alterabiy opposed to labor and that
he has used authority given him by
Congress to make that opposition eff
fectiye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
VALUATION OF WAR
CONTRACTS TAKEN UP

Legislation to validate informal war
contracts was considered again today
by the Senate military committee at
special meeting. but members could
not agree and adjourned until tonor-
row. Another substitute bill-the
fourth since the legislation was urged
upon Congress-is being drafted by
the committee, combining features of
the measure passed by the House, the
so called Hitchcock bill and the sub
stitute recently reported by the com
mittee after conference with members
of the War Industries Board and the
United States and New York chambers
of commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
ROOSEVELT MEMORIALS
APPROVED BY PRESIDENT

President Wilson has cabled to Sec
rotary Tumulty his approval of the
proposal to hold Roosevelt memorial
meetings throughout the country
February 9. simultaneously with the
joint memorial services in Congress.
The message follows:
Il sincerely approve the suggestion
for simultaneous meetings to COM
memorate the life and services of Mr..
Roosevelt I think it would be most
suitable way to show the esteem in
which the country held him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
WANTS INVESTIGATION
OF Compartment NEWS"

An investigation Of publication by
government departments of periodicals
giving department news was proposed
in a resolution introduced today by
Senator Sherman of Illinois, republican.
and referred to the joint congressional
printing committee.
Senator Sherman's resolution stated
that department publications are used
by officials for propaganda and other
purposes. including extension of their
powers and appropriations. and are a
menace to a free press, burden to
taxpayers and serve no useful purpose.
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Asks $1,000 a Month.

Mrs. Elkins says she is without
money or property, while her husband
possesses a large fortune. She asks
alimony of $1,000 per month and an
additional sum of $4,000 to defray the
expenses of the suit. She also requests
an injunction to prevent Mr.. Elkins dis
posing of his property.
Mrs. Elkins suggests to the court
that permanent alimony be fixed at
$4,000 annually.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
TRIPLE FUNERAL PLANNED.
Children of Capt. c. F. Bremermal
to Be Buried Wednesday.

Funeral services for three children
of Capt and Mrs. Charles F. Bremen
man, Quartermaster Corps, United
States Army. who died early this
month at Charlotte, N. c.. are to be
held wednesday in the chapel at Oak
Hill cemetery.
The children are Helen May, Fred
erick Hugh and John Harold Bremen
man. They died Of pneumonia.
following influenza. The bodies have
been in vault at Charlotte since
their deaths. Capt Bremerman is sta
toned at Camp Greene. N. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20

o'clock that more. than 225 men had
been, enrolled up to that time, making
total representation OF about 400
among the employees of this railway.
Secretary Goodman predicted that
practically every man of this system
would be in attendance at the big meet
ing tonight. He said he did not care
to make any statement regarding the
arrests Saturday of number of con-
ductors charged with knocking down"
fares, but that the subject would, with
other important ones, be discussed to-
night, and that public statement prob
ably would be forthcoming tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Peace Conference Embarks
On an Ambitious Program
at Its Initial Gathering

PARIS. January 19-The machinery
prepared for the first session OF the
pence conference Saturday functioned
SO perfectly and smoothly that few
persons uracquainted with secretariai
methods i'll connection with internal
1ionaI gatherings realized just what
was being done and what had been
accomplished when adjournment
/. without date was taken.
The conference not only effected its
j organization, but it embarked upon
the-execution of most ambitious
program in the adoption of what Off
cially is designated as the 'agenda,
whrch in English means order of
bIlEsineSS''
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-
Refer Much to Delegations.

Topics on the order Of business have
beer almost automatically referred to
various delegations, which will re-
port on them as soon as they are
ready. Meantime the peace confer
enee- itself may concentrate its atten-
ton on other questions. especially
a 4ea que of nations. which NJ. Glenn
eu1pa u in his address said would be
firsEin order
The nations composing the supreme
coUHcil according TO the regulations,
arEo take part in all the sittings.
while the other nations are to be
repre- scented only when questions in
which they are especially interested
are4iscussed.
Tire conference has solved the deli
cate question of etiquette in select
inIour vice presidents, who are to
presIde in turn in the absence of NJ.
CieMenceau. Secretary of State
IaAxing has been chosen to act in
thIs- capacity for the United States
delegation. which will leave PresI-
dem Wilson free to come and go at
wif1on the floor of the conference
and-it was said today, even to leave
foThe United States without sacri-
fcinE any advantage to America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
British Army Feeds Thousands.

LONDON, January 1s.-Thousands Of
refugees from Armenia and eastern
SYRIA were sheltered and fed by the
British army in Mesopotamia during
the war, the work being of such q
character that it has been made the
subject of a special report
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Peace Before League of Nations

NEW YORK, january 20.-The pro-
posed league of nations and similar
questions should be subordinated
"to the very concrete and practical
problem of restoring peace to the
world" declared James H. Beck. for
mer assistant attorney general OF the
United States, in an address here last
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Trinity Church Pews to Be Free.

try o. Trinity Church has voted unan-
imousfj TO make all pews free, ac-
cordine TO an announcement by Rev.
DR. William T. Manning, rector, This
step was e-oposed recently by DR..
Manning as : victory Offering"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Precedent for Furnishing Huns.

Leon Bourgeois. former premier ana
French authority ON the league OF
nations. in statement TO the Natlh
cites. as precedent for Tie PUNISH
lnent OF Germans ni all degrees con
1,irtad Of violation of the laws OF war,
tn, case of Henry WirZ, who was
tried 10y court martial and executed
after the civil war for crueiueS SUIT
ferci by northern prisoners IN the
camp he commanded at Ander7"tEliie'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Basis for Discussion.

T1re conference, recognizing the in
teEnependence of all nations, will. it
is learned, base it's discussion of the
subject on the work of the Leeds labor
conference in July, 1916, which an
proved the resolution introduced by
Leon Jouhaux, then secretary of the
French Federation of Labor declar-
ing that the peace treaty should I'm
sure to the labor classes of every
coHntry free from international
cap4talistic competition. a minimum
OF moral and material guarantees
relative to the following points:
Eight of employment, right of
Labor organiza ton, change of resi-
deHce. social insurance, proper by
gienfc conditions. security Of labor
freedom to work in any country
where employment is available under
equal conditions with its citizens in
stitution in all countries of sickness,
accident, unemployment and old-age
insurance; prohibition of labor by
children under fourteen years, prohi-
bftion of night work for women and
for adolescents under eighteen; broad
entNg OF legislation to insure the
health and safety of workers and the
creation of both national and inter
national bodies TO study, codify and
interpret laws affecting labor coudi-
tione'
This program, communicated through
thet- Scandinavian trades union at
Bern in October. 1917, to the repre-
sehtAtives of labor organiza tons in
Germany. Austria. Hungary, Bohemia,
Bulgaria. Denmark, Sweden, Holland
andswitzerland, was approved by all
of-tfem.
Partially Approved by A. F. of L.
n Is recalled that the American
FEDERATION of Labor voted for por-
tio51 Of this program at Buffalo, and
that the statement of the war aims
Of tho British labor party contem-
plA4ed an international labor council
with similar objects.
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CONTINUED from First Page.)
Hugo Preuss. state secretary OF the
interior in the Ebert government, arc
given in an official wireless dispatch
sent out from Berlin and picked up
consist of it's former component
states; besides any territories which
by virtue of the right of self-deter-
mination, desire to be received INTO
the empire.
people have the right. resardaesss o.
former frontiers, to erect new Ger
man free states within the empire,
providing any such free state has a
population of 100000. II the people
of a border country wish to join the
German empire the assent OF the
The imperial president. who is TO
be elected by the people, must pc
thirty-five years of age, ana must
have been a citizen of Germany for
ten years before his election. he VIII
be elected by an absolute ma1orIty
of all the votes of the empire The
president will represent the empire,
but declarations of war or conclusions
of peace rest with the relchstaS.
Treaties with foreign states require
the assent of the reichstag. AS soon as
a league OF nations. the object OF
winch is the eXCtuSioh VI SSSt o. -
ties, has been formed. all treaties with
the league shall require the assent OF
the reichstag.
The imperial presidents tenure Of
Office will be for seven years and MS
reelection. will be permissible. The
imperial governm emit will be COM
posed Of a chancellor and ministers
who will be chosen aby the president
of the reichstag. The government
must have the confidence of the house
of deputies and shall be responsible
to the reichstag. --t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Air Mail to Alsace-Lorraine.

PARIS. January 10 (French Wireless
Service).-In order to facilitate corre-
spondence with Alsace-Lorraine the
French aeronautic department has
organized an air mail service between
Paris and the principal towns of
these provinces
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
BIOL SHEVKI TAKE KlEv;
UKRAtN GOVERNMENT OUT

GENEVA. January 2o.--Kiev is in
the hands OF bolshevist forces, who
have overturned the Ukrainian gov
eminent, according to a Prague dis
patch received here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20

question of whether a nation shall
contribute force in carrying out the
decisions of the league Will be left 10
each nation individually in each IN
stance, the general plan being most
talked about embodies an enlarge
Iuent of the principles contained IN
the treaties negotiated by Wflliam
j Jennings Bryan. These provide for
delay of a year before declaring war
and Investigations by special com
mission of all disputes and that no
declaration of war shall pe MAUI
tkereafter without giving certain no.
tiee. Such a plan. current discussion
in: Paris brings out. is intended ny
those who favor it to virtually estap-
lish a concert of power among the
nTrncinaI nations for a preservation
of world peace This would be extend
ed to what would he virtually guar
dianship of the smaller nations. app,E
ing to them the principles when gov
era participation in the league pS
their greater sisters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Labor Question Put Third
iH0rder at Peace ParIey:
Aackening of Laws Feared

Pmls. January 10 Cby the Associat-
ed Ffess).-The possibility that the de-
r1'a,fd for labor in debt-crushed Europeau
countries may cause Il slackening of the
laws for the protection of workers
win-be the starting point of the con-
sideration of the subject of interna-
fionai labor, which was placed yes
'erQay on the conference program
after responsibility for the war and
punishment of the crimes committed
during hostilities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Would Guard Smaller Nations.

BY this plan 1t is apparently pur-
p Ssed to intcrns tionalj2e the guard
iitiship of smaller nations. with the
j,isa thar there shall he no animation
over them by one nation. economically
OF, financially. II il DraUrr IL St5te at
THIS juucture that P"@S.,s-'5 W !tSoh
himself has Il reasonably complete
plan for the formation Of the league
of nations. 1t may also b. stated u =
he biehl,, regards many features o.
the plan presented 10y Gen SHUTS ana
is working in close harmony with NJ.
Bourgeois and Lord Robert Cecil.
Aside from the attention hf'n% palo
10 the Russian situation, the society
of nations question is no" IN an az
vantareous position aud steady deveI-
Comment may he expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Germany Protests to Russia.

BERN, Switzerland. January 90
The German government has sent
note to the Russian bolshevik gov
eminent protesting against the sup
port given the Spartacans by the boil
sheviki. The German government de-
clares it is in possession of 'irre-
futable proofs" of the attitude OF the
bolsheviki and says that the revolu-
tionists, who intended ito overcome
the German people," were paid with
money officially supplied by the Rus
sian authorities. Russian official rep
resentatives in Germany. 1t is said.
took an active part in the revolu-
tionary movement.
The note says that the German gov
eminent will take vigorous measures
apainst the Russians who aided the
Insurgents and are still supporting
them. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
CAR CONDUCTORS
CASES POSTPONED
Office of District Attorney to
Have More Time for
Preparation.
GO OVER TO WEDNESDAY

The cases of the street car conduct
ors of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company. arrested Saturday
and Sunday on charges of embeZzling
funds of the company. which were
scheduled for hearing in the United
States branch of the Police Court this
morning, have been postponed until
Wednesday. This was done to ena-
bic Assistant District Attorney Ralph
Given time fully to prepare the cases
before going into court.
The defendant conductors appeared
in court this morning. accompanied
by their wives, other woman friends
and relatives and a large delegation
Of conductors and motormen. Each
of the defendants has retained coun-
sci and, it is said the Railway Con
ductors' Union will back the defend
ants with ample funds.
Following the announcement in
court of the postponement of the
cases until Wednesday the defend
ants and their friends assembled in
front of the courthouse, where they
held an impromptu mass meeting.
Capital Traction Gases.
u was said in police circles this
afternoon that two conductors on
the Capital Traction line may be ar
rested as a result of the investigation
already made; that evidence of al
legged knocking down was obtained
against ten of them, but United States
Attorney LaSkey deemed it insult
ficient to take them into court. The
testimony affected only portions of
the trips made by the conductors and
did not cover an entire trip from
the starting point to where they
turned in their funds.
One conductor was reported as hav-
ing withheld more than 90 per cent
of the fares he collected. When the
police were told of the insufffciency
of the proof, and they had to make
another investigation, it is stated,
testimony was obtained against the
two conductors and warrants for
their arrest may be issued late today
or tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Decision Against Assembly.

AMSTERDAM. January 19.-The To-
kal Anzeiger of Berlin says 1t learns
the Observation-Disclosures government
national assembly, for which cleo
tions are going on today.
A German government wireless
message received in London Saturday
said Philip Scheidemann, the Ger
man foreign secretary, had announced
cided to convoke the national assem-
bly, February 16.
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Estimate of Losses.

District officials today stated that
reports of detectives assigned to the
work of sporting" conductors. indi-
Gated that the alleged dishonest con-
ductors We're falling to turn in about
20 per cent of the total fares they COL
Iected. Based on the reports of de-
tectives, it also was estimated that
only about 10 per cent of all the con-
ductors employed by the companies
could be rated as dishonest
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RIOTING REDS MAKE
BALLOT BOX RAIDS

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-20
wilson CABLES nation
TO SUPPORT NEW LOAN
Jays 10000 Soldiers Have Redeemed
Their Pledges With Own
Blood.
MUST FULFILL ENGAGEMENTS
declares Country Stands Mt Threshold
OF Happier Times and That World
Is Freed Of Threat OF Miiitarism
Forever.

WASIIINGToN. April 19.-Ncw evil
fence Of Americas purpose to redeem
n full the pledges made on entering
Pay by President Wilson. who urged
lull subscription of the $4,000, 900. 900
victory Liberty loan not issue. Sixty
housand men who gave their lives in
rance have redeemed the covenant OF
flood made two years ago, the Presi-
Fent said. out the pledge of treasure
1emains yet to be fulfilled:
The threat of mlltarism" the Presi-
eht cabled from Paris. But as yet
Nc stand only at the threshold OF hap
he utmost the engagements we have
made"
President Wilson's message in full
|ollowH:
For two anxious years the Ameri-
IAN people have strivtn to fulhll the
ask or saving our civilization. BY
me cxcrtion OF unmcasurcd po wer they
Ehich they would have remained in
he field until the last resource had
cen exhausted. bringing to the con
lest a strength OF spirit made doubly
|trong by the righteousness OF their
Iause. they devoted themselves un-
|wervingiy to the prosecution OF their
undertaking. in the full knowledge that
pig the conquest OF right.
To-day the world stands freed from
the threat OF miii,arism which has 30
Ping weighed upon the spirit and the
Iioor OF peaceful nations.
But a. yet we stand only at the
|nreshoid OF happier times. TO enter
Re must fulfill to the utmost the en-
agcmcn,s We have made. Tho Victory
kibcrty loan Is the Indispensable means.
"o years ago we pledged our lives
ind fortunes to the cause for which
re fought Sixty thousand Of our
5tronScst sons have redeemed for us
pat pledge OF blood. TO redeem in full!
fiith the promise OF this sacrifice we
ow must give this new evidence OF our
3urDDEe