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Evening star., 1919-03-12
PRESIDENT EXPECTS
To REACH PARIS FRIDAY
Busy With Preparations for Con-
ference Labors--Wireless
Messages Exchanged.

ON BOARD U. S. S. GEORGE WASH
INGTON, March ~ (by wireless to the
Associated Press).-President Wilson
hopes to reach Brest in time to leave
there Thursday evening for Paris.
after a brief reception at the port. He
took up today active preparations for
his peace conference labors and ex-
changed wireless messages with mem
bers of the American delegation in
Paris.
The sea is smooth and the George
Washington is making good speed.
The President expects to arrive in
Paris Friday morning He hopes that
a plcnary session of the peace confer
ence will be held within a week after
his arrival in order to clear up some
of the important questions held in
abeyance during his absence In the
United States
ON BOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE
WASHINGTON, March IL {by wire
less to the Associated Press. p.mD
vigorous than at any time since his
departure from the United States,
devoted some time today to his ap-
preaching tasks in Paris
The progress made by the peace
conference during his absence on
couraged the hope that he may be
able to make his stay abroad shorter
than he at first expected The Pres
ident is planning to do everything
possible to expedite the work of the
conference.
Passing Ships Courteous.
The President received a wireless
from delegation of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce proceeding to
England on the Aquitania. conveying
greetings and best wishes. The Pres
ident is receiving unusual courtesies
of the sea from passing ships. The
steamer AMMAN hove to until the
George Washington had passed. This
salute is customariiy given only to
royalty. The Hollandia inquired as to
the George Washington's position. the
crew wishing to approach and cheer
the Presiient, but the vessels are too
far apart.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
VIEWS ON GREEK
CLAIMS CHANGING
Commission May Ask That
Fate of ConstantinopIe
Be Decided First.
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1919.

PARIS, France, March I2,-After
reaching a tentative decision giving
Greece all of southern Albania and
a considerable part of Macedonia and
Thrace. the Grrek claims commission
is now said to be reconsidering its
report.
The French and British delegates
want to deprive Bulgaria of all her
Aegean coast as far north as the
River Arda and give Greece not only
this coast, but strip of Thraoe rum
ming clear across the peninsula to
the Black sea. bounded on the north
by the present Bulgarian frontier
and on the south by the Enos Midia
line. to form an integral part of the
Constantlnople region. which they
seem to want internationalized.
American View Changes.
Italian experts object to depriving
Bulgaria of her Aegean coast. The
American experts, after having first
assented to the arrangement, now
seem to favor deciding the fate of
ConsGantinople before settling Greek
ella inns definitely.
The whole progress of the negotia-
tious in this commission is curious
commentary on the nature of the
work that the various commissions
have been doing. II was originally
supposed that the commission, being
composed of experts, would not ex-
press opinions on the claims made,
but would simply report findings Of
fact regarding population. distribu-
ton of races and various economic
factors, leaving the peace delegates
themselves to make the consequent
decisions. Instead of this the experts
on the commission seem to have felt
il to be their duty to consider the
problems submitted to them from the
standpoint of higher policy as we'll
as the standpoint of more judgment
of fact. There can be no other ex-
PLANTATION OF the alleged American at
titude that it is necessary to know
what is to be done in Constantinople
before the commission can report
what should be done in Thrace.
Sons Documents Lacking.
I am informed that in the reference
library of the American Balkan COM
mission even such sources of docu-
mentation as the recent reports of the
American consul general and the
charge d'affaires at Sofia on actual
conditions in the Balkans are lack
ing.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
PATIENT FLIES TO HOSPITAL.
1uu1d TO Stretcher, He Makes Ia
Miles in - Minutes.

NEW YORK. March 12.-Bound TO a
iGtretcher aboard a naval flying boat,
Usut David Gray. . conyalescent Of
Aeef. accompanied by a woman aerial
nurse, was carried through space yes
xeeday from the naval air station at
Rockaway. Long Island. TO st. Luke's
Hospital Manhattan. about eighteen
miles, IN forty-nine minutes
The flight was taken to demonstrate
the practicability of transferring
wounded soldiers by airplane. Lieut..
Stevens piloted the seaplane and Mai.
Helen Bastcdo of the woman's Motor
Corps. who suggested the trip, was
the nurse The patient was transferred
from the aircraft to a dory after a
landing had been made on the Hudson
river. He was then rowed ashore and
taken In a motor ambulance TO a hos
pital.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
HARD To ENFORCE REED
B0NE-DRY1LAW IN D. {.
Police Are Sure That Blockade Is
Being Run, But Lack Right
of Search.

Prohibition detectives of the police
department met Maj. Raymond w.
Pullman, superintendent of police,
yesterday and heard their chiet tel
of his desire to have the Reed pone-
dry law enforced TO the letter. II
is known that quantities OF liquor
have been brought into the city since
the law became applicable here, and
several arrests have been made, out
MANY persons have managed to run
the police blockade.
Seldom a day has passed that the
police have not received numerous
messages telling of persons starting
from Baltimore or Ellicott City with
supplies of liquor, police informants
giving names and numbers of auto
mobile licenses. In few such instances,
however, have the police arrested the
persons tipped off,
Told of Liquor on Way.
Monday afternoon a message from
Baltimore told of several automobiles
having started in this direction with
liquor, but If they reached here they
did so without being seen by the po-
lice. 1t is possible that all cars start
ing from the two wet spots In Mary
land and heading in this direction do
not come here with their suppRessof
liquor, some of them probably going
to points in Maryland.
1t Is said that much liquor is being
delivered in Montgomery county.
where the law places no limit on the
fnI 70 h. Ap1 50,
homes. the law differing from that in
Prince Georges county. where the
limit is one quart Police say they are
handicapped in their prohibition work
on the roads because there Is no
search or seizure law under which
they are permitted to stop automo-
biles and conduct search.
Whisky Laden Auto Turns Turtle.
Police today are investiga ting a re-
port that an automobile laden with
whisky met with an accident on the
Washington- Baltimore boulevard last
night. turned turtle and smashed nu-
merous bottles of the contraband bev-
erage. James M. Chisholm, twenty-six
years old. sos 9Th street southv est,
driver of public automobile, is under
arrest in connection with the affair,
his automobile having been found 70
contain S04 half-pint bottles of
whisky, two pint bottles of gin and
six bottles of beer,
Chisholm denied that he had any
thing to do with bringing the liquor
to this city. declaring he hired his
car to occupants of the damaged car
on the boulevard and saying the men
| to whom he hired it brought it to this
city. He said he did not accompany
them
Policeman Birkight of the first pre-
cinct saw the automobile in front of
1906 l street late last night. He saw
two men leave the car and enter a
house. They also saw him and did not
return. Their movements appeared to
suggest something wrong, the police
man stated, and when he neared the
car he detected the odor of whisky
The intoxicants are held by the police
and search for the men alleged to
have brought the supply here is being
| made.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Expect to Obtain Money.

A feature of the conference TO
which the director general called
special attention was that all the
railway men were in accord in be-
lieving that the necessary money
would in some way be made avail
able. Heads of railways. frankly op-
posing some Of the policies Of the d.
rector general, told him he could de-
pend upon them TO 'go the limit TO
help him out of the present critical
condition.
Eugene Mayer, managing director
of the war finance corporation. as
sured the director general that the
corporation was desirous OF doing
everything possible to meet the pres
ent situa ton. Mr.. Mayer, however,
called attention to the fact that his
Office was limited by the law Great
ing it and must have in mind the IN
terests of the government in protect
ing loans.
Howard Elliott. acting chairman of
the railroad executives committee,
assured Mr. Hines OF the hearty CO.
operation of his organization. The
same assurance was given by other
railroad officials.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
AID FOR RAILROADS
NOW Is ASSURED
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Continued from First Page1
to guarantee them when it assem-
bles in extraordinary session.
In a statement yesterday afternoon,
Mr.. Hines gave an itemized account
of the needs of the railways. He
said:
In order to get the problem before
the conference. the director general
outlined the situation as follows:
Amount needed up to June 80, 1919:
For interest and other corporate
requirements of the railroad corpora
tions. s166, ,0s6,762.
ITO meet amounts due equipme ent
companies by the railroad admins
tration, s183.8S1,965.
"To pay for indispensable additions
Evening star., 1919-03-12
MRS. H. D. HOWELL TO JOIN
Y.M.C.A. WORKERS ABROAD

NEW YORK. March 12.-Mrs. Hum
phrey Daniel Howell of HAT Willard
street northwest. Washington. d. c..
has just sailed for France. Mrs.
Howell has been for fivs years in
the state Department and has given
UP this work In order TO join the
overseas service of the z. N. c. A.
She will be In the IT'S" business de-
partment, = position for which her
knowledge OF French and German e.
pecially ftS hea
Evening star., 1919-03-12


Of everybody rather than merely
themselves.
AS further proof of the validity
of the prices fxed the government
itself will buy goods for Its own
needs at the figures agreed upon for
the public generally. Thus the Navy
the railroad administration and any
other branch of the government which
buys steel or lumber or any other
commodity will. as an evidence of the
good faith of the government, make
It's purchases at whatever price levels
are fixed between the Industrial board
and industry.
Take an actual case for example.
Suppose a manufactured commodity
is now selling at 81, which is so per
cent more than 1t used to be year
or two ago. The public expects the
article to drop to so cents and there
fore doesn't buy It. The business lnan
faces the prospect of losing the
chance OF any transactions until the
consumer gets over his hesitation.
charges must be paid.
Aim to Reach Fair Price.
Some business men are in a posi-
ton to take loss this way, as their
income during the war was abnormal
others can't do it. They offer their
article at lower price. say IS cents.
and still there are not enough buyers.
They even may feel il necessary after
a long period Of waiting to go to the
very cost of production and make no
profit at all to get rid of existing
stocks. but the effect in the meantime
of such st&gnation. especially when
ness world, 1t is predicted, would
be to cause unrest and much loss to
the people of the country. So it is
suggested that in many business es-
viii differ as to each industry-the
seller shall agree to reduce his price
to a point which the Industrial board
ard the Industry shall consider fair.
This VIII in some cases mean taking
a big loss at the outset, but supposing
the government told business men
that such a reduction in price with
all that II involves would be accepted
by the Treasury Department as q legi-
innate business deduction on income
tax returns? Then, IL such a plan Is
finally found necessary and agreeable
TO ali concerned. the expected loss Ia
the seller would be measurably re-
ducsd. On the other hand the alvan
tages to the people of a lower price
would stimulate purchases of manu-
featured articles. which In turn would
create a demand for more raw prod
ucts.
Everything Is impossible till it is
tried--but the number of objections
raised to the plan as reflected in let
ters and personal inquiries seem to be
less than the arguments being ad-
vanced in favor Of It There is. there.
fore. at the Offices of the Industrial
board a spirit Of optimism that whai
was done between government and In :
dustry. BY voluntary cooperation
throughout the war can be repeated in
the new era Of reconstruction.
tCopyEight, 1oia, b. the Nov xsek Dyraaa1
R09k Inka
Evening star., 1919-03-12
More Food in Storage.

Foodstuffs in storage March 1 were
larger than a year ago, as shown by
the monthly survey of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. Holdings of
meats amounted to 1,424.193.903
pounds. an increase of about 1ss,o00,-
900 pounds: lard. 1s3.o1T.a6e pounds.
OF about $4,000. 900 pounds more. and
butter, 25,7Sl,637 pounds, an increase
Of about $500, 900 pounds. The 49,
sss.5Ss pounds of cheese reported was
a decrease of about 30,250,000 pounds.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
To Distribute Publications.

The committee on public informa-
tion. which will close the service bu-
reau at 18th and G streets April 1,
announces that it has for distribution
upon application large quantities OF
publications issued during the war.
These include the Red, White and
Blue" series Of documents.
Evening star., 1919-03-12

and bctterments. including equipment
ordered by railroad companies, $ilS.-
900. 600.
."ro meet maturities of the railroad
corporations, s10o,94s,965.
ITO meet excess of cash require
ments to pay current vouchers over
the probable receipts up TO March 81.
1919. s191 ,000. 600.
ITO bring cash balances in hands
of federal treasurers up to 100000
600, which is the normal requirement
for one month. $40, 100000
.a1,ntal S1nI cot fa2''
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Less Radical Plan Likely.


II is the opinion among senators
that deferring the league of nations
for post-peace consideration will
make for better feeling in this coun-
try toward the general league of ma
tions plan and will go far toward
paving the way for affirmative action
upon some such plan in the future. No
proposition so radical as the one now
pending is likely ever to be accepted,
1t is declared by the republicans and
democrats who have banded together
In opposition to 1t, but some kind of
a concert of nations seems to be the
wish of the great mass of the people
of this country. and realization of that
wish bids fair to be expedited, il is
SAID, by postponing the subject for
after-war consideration.
Reading of the drastic terms inn
posed by the peace treaty upon Ger
many leads some statesmen and Of
ficials here to the conclusion that the
world can be safe from the menace
OF another war for a. while. at least,
pending the period of reconstruc-
ton. Germany will not be able to
start trouble, lacking the material
means
IL any other nation should feel
moved to start a war, it is argued,
the spirit of concerted action for
peace which was born at this peace
conference and fostered throughout
the civilized world will be manifest
at once. and can take practical form
in blockade of food and munitions
and withholding of moneys.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Britain Frees Raw Material Trade,

LONDON. Tuesday. March 1.-THE
board of trade announces that hence
forth all raw materials may be i'm
ported without license. The list of az
ticies included under this order COM
prlses hides. timbers, sugar cane and
tailow.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Swiss Recognizes Polish State.

BERN, Tuesday, March 1.-The
Swiss government decided today to
recognize the Polish and czechosIovak
states and to establish diplomatic re-
lAtions with them. Poland has already
appointed Baron Modzelewsky minis
ter at ReYn.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
THE WEATHER.

The District of Columbia. fair to-
night and tomorrow: warmer; tenn
perature above freezing tonight; gen.
tie to moderate southwest winds.
West Virginia. fair tonight and
probably tomorrow; warmer.
Maryland and Virginia fair tonight
and tomorrow; warmer: gentle to
moderate southwest winds.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours
The following were the readings
OF the thermometer and barometer
at the weather bureau for the twenty
four hours. beginning at pm. yes
terday.
Thermometer-Yeste 4 pm, As;
pm, Al; IL midnight, 81: today. 1
a m. 34; s am. 36; IL noon. 50: p. m. g..
"a. Maximum, 81, at 2 pm. today; min
imum, 33. at am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum. SIS; minimum, 40.
Barometer-Yesterda pm. 30.1e:
s pm. 3o.31; IL midnight, 30ss; to-
day. am. S0.4o: am, 80. so; IL noon
30.S7; pm. 30A.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
A. E. Shaw Asls Divorce.

Absolute divorce II asked In . suit
fied by Alfred T. Shaw against Irene
c. Shaw. They were married Augvst
IS, 1905. At AlexAndrta, Va Th1y
,sanaented laSk, ~
Evening star., 1919-03-12
OVER 10000 MORE
/. TROOPS GET HOME
Iowan Brings First Men of
26th Divisior-0ther
Transports Arrive.
SOME COME TO MEADE
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 12.-With 1872
troops the steamship Iowan arrived
here today from St. Nazaire. Units in
cluded the 1o1st Trench Mortar Bat
terry, four officers and 1873 men of the
26th Division-the first troops of this
New England division to arrive home.
This battery is assigned TO Camp
Devens.
Three Hundred and Fourteenth
Trench Mortar Battery, three officers
and 129 men of the seth Division (Na-
tional Army troops OF Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Colorado), assigned to Camp
Dodge.
From West and South.
Three Hundred and Fifteenth Trench
Mortar Battery, three officers and 175
men of the Goth Division (National
Army troops of Texas, Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma), for Camps
Bowie, Dix and Travis.
Three Hundred and Tenth Trench
Mortar Battery. three officers and 1872
men of the S5th Division National
Army troops OF Michigan and Wiscon-
sin). for Camp Custer
Three Hundred and Eighth Trench
Mortar Battery. three officers and l55
men of the 33d Division tNational
Guard troops of Illinois), for Camp
Grant.
Also the following: Fifty-third Com
pany TRANSPORTATION Corps. for Camps
Grant, Logan, Meade, Lewis and Up
ton; sth Battery Trench Artillery, for
Camps Upton. Dix. Sherman and Dew
ems: supply detachment of s57th Aero
'tsQuadron; Casual Companies No. 169 OF
New Jersey and 1873. III and 17s OF
New York.
Casuals on Amphion.
The steamship Amphion brought III
casuals, including Company No. 161 of
Ohio and Company No. 14s of Texas.
. This vessel, from St. Nazaire, had
! sailed for Newport News but was di-
verted to New York.
Among thirty-two casual troops on
the steamship Chinampa, from La
Paliice, was Company No. 35 of Mas
sachusetts, one officer and eighteen
men.
The steamship Surname, from Bor-
deaux, brought forty-four casuals. in
GLIDING a detachment of Company No.
- tcolered), OF Kentucky.
The hospital ship Mercy arrived to-
day from Bordeaux with 3s1 sick and
Wo1uacu iuSis ihUSS ok hhSah WV
ridden.
Bringing 3,7s2 troops. including So9
sick and wounded. the transport Aga
memnon arrived here yesterday from
Brest. Uuits aboard included 102d
Engineers, Sanitary Detachment,
Second Battalion Headquarters and
Companies E and F, consisting Of
nineteen officers and 5s5 men, and
casual companies from Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York. oklahoma.
California. Kansas and Michigan.
Over 5000 on the Nansemond.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va. March 10. -
!. The U. s. s. Namsemond, the largest
, troopship TO enter this port, arrived
yesterday with nearly $500 Amerf-
can soldiers. the lar9eet contingent
to arrive here. Aboard this ship we're
the 18th Engineers. the 56th Engin-
eeFs. SD Coast Artillery Corps. the
keth Ammunition Train and about If
teen cosuai companies from Iowa. Ohio
Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky and Wis
Evening star., 1919-03-12
GERMAN TROOPS KILL
ALL PRISONERS TAKEN
Women Participate in Cruelties as
Government and Spartacans Fight
Like Wild Beasts.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March l1.-Fighting is still
going on in Berlin with great fury, &C
cording to undated reports received in
Copenhagen from the German capital
and forwarded by the Exchange Tele-
graph Company.
Witnesses Of the fighting in the last
few days say that both the Spartacans
and the government soldiers acted like
wild beasts. Hostilities continue in the
northern and northeastern sections OF
Berlin and the government troops are
killing all prisoners who fan into their
hands. Women, the reports add, par
ticipated in the cruelties with as much
desperation as the zen.
The German government troops,
greatly reinforced, have resumed the
fighting in Lichtenberg, says Ger
man wireless dispatch received here to-
night.
The dispatch adds that the Spartacans
already have been obliged to evacuate
the police headquarters ana the post
office.
Eichhorn in Brunswick Plot.
AMSTERDAM, March 11.-Eichhorn,
the former Spartacan police chief OF
Berlin, who fed from the German capt.
tai during the disorders there in Janu-
ary and who has been living under
an assumed name in brunswick. Ger
many. addressed a meeting Of indepen-
dent socialists in that city Monday. II
u reported that Eichhorn has been aid
ing movement to establish an tnde-
pendent state I'm Brunswick.
The city Of Brunswick is becoming q
place of refugs for Spartacans and in-
dependent socialists. driven from other
IGeIman cities By the goHexnmenk {.