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ARMY OFFICERS
GOING TO SIBERIA
Many D. c. Men Included in
List-WiII Sail Feb
ruary rs.

A number of Army officers. mostly
of the Medical Corps. have been or
dered to Vladivostok for service with
the Siberian expedition. While no
statement was made in connection
with the announcement of the orders
they were regarded in official quar-
tiers as possibly indicating consider
able sickness in the ranks of the
American troops there. The orders
also were interpreted to indicate that
there is no present intention of ,e-
calling or reducing the American
forces in Siberia.
Among the officers ordered to
Viadivostok are the following:
Medical Corps-Mats. Darius Cleve-
land Absher, Lee hall, Va; Chester
Homer Axline. Allentown, Pa: Her
bert o. Black. Chillicothe. Ohio;
Rossner Enders Graham, Petersburg,
Va; Emanuel Kline, Petersburg, Va,
and Harry Toulwin Lay, Louisville,
KY, and Capts: Frederick Franklin
rington Ashby. Petersburg, Va;
Herbert Yeomans Bell. Petersburg,
Va. Edward c. Durgin, Wash
ington. D. c.; Bradford Massey. Fort
Oglethorpe. Ga; John Gardner Muir
ray. Augusta. Ga; Theodore Wallace
O'Brien. Admiral, Nd: Laurence Ar
thur Petty. Louisville. Ky: Lewis
Byrne Robinson, Lee Hall Va; Hord
Sharp. Washington. d. C.; Cyrus Wal
ter Truxal, Admiral. Nd, and Henry
Mitchell Van Hook. Augusta, Ga. and
First Lieut.. Arthur Kirby Baldwin,
Colum biafi S. c.
Capts. Jerome Francis Berry,
Plattsburg Barracks. n. Y; Clarence
Lavan Bittner, Petersburg. Va; Boyce
Richardson Bolton. Admiral, Md;
Harold Williamson Dingman, Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga; Elbridge Arthur Car
Wallace Fenton, Petersburg, Va. Oa-
car {. Frundt, Augusta, Ga, and
Adam Heistand Konigmacher. Peters
burg, Va.
First Lieuts. Robert Samuel Nc
Birney. Washington, j.. c.; George
McCreight, Augusta, Ga; Roscoe Will
liam Mckinley, Admiral, Md; Walter
Spalding Mix. Columbia, S. c.; Charles
Townsend Olcott, Washington. d. c.;
John Henry Rock, Columbia. S. c.;
Frank Joseph Sauer. Fort Oglethorpe.
Ga; Dean Stanisiau Van Hecke, Ad-
miral. Nd; Walter Robert Wynne'
Columbia, s. c.; Leon Max Bellin.
Louisville. KY: Harry Hal Belts,
washington, D. c.. Charles Cadwal-
lader, Fort Oglethorpe. Ga; Ebert
Earl Freeman, Columbia. S. C.; Carl
Freund, Columbia, S. c.; Joseph Hall
Jones, Washington. d. c.; Joseph
Kopecky, Louisville, KY, and Walter
Raleigh Livingston, Columbia. S. c.
Dental corps-First Lieurs. Lynn D.
Blanchard, Petersburg, Va; John
Francis Clancy, Louisville, Ky; Frank
r. Keller, Louisville. KY. George
Robert Kennebeck, Washington. ID.
c.; Joseph Shields Matson, Chillicothe,
Ohio; Charles Benton Pratt. jr, CO.
Iumbia, S. c.; Robert Fletcher Wells,
Augusta, Ga, and Max Dee Wilmot.
Columbia, s. c.
Officers of other corps ordered TO
vladivostok at the same time are
Cant. Frank A. Paul, general staff
Capt. Frank r. Ward and First Lieuts
Herbert Augustus Horgan. Justus s.
Davidson, infantry, and Douglas Il.
Williams, Motor Transport Corps, at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. . The party
will sail from San Francisco Febru-
airy 25.
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TELLS OF SERBS SUFFERINGs
Bulgars Tortured Even Old Women
Says Lieut.. w, A. Drayton.

PARIS, Wednesday. February II
(by the Associated Press).-Leut.
William A. Drayton of the Serbian ar
tillery, who four times was rejected
by United States Army examiners for
physical disability, and who is a son
of ]. Coleman Drayton of New York,
member of the interallied commits
sion on Bulgarian atrocities, arrived
in Paris today.
Lieut.. Drayton described the tor
lures inflicted by the Bulgars on the
Serbian civil population. Aged WON
in, he declared, were branded with
red-hot irons, while in one Serbian
county the whole population was Grip
pied by the Bulgars In systematic
cording to Lieut. Drayton, destroyed
numerous villages and towns outside
the war zones
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HOUSING DIVISION
WILL QUIT MARCH |
Capt. julius |. Peyser, Who
Defended Tenants, to
Leave Army.

The housing and health division of
the War Department, which admins
tered the Salisbury law to prevent
evietions from houses in Washington
during the war, will go out of exist
ence March !.
Capt. Julius ]. Peyser, a local at
torney. who as chief of the division
defended hundreds of tenants in Mu-
nicipal Court during the war. will be
relieved of service in the Army with
the discontinuance of the housing di-
vision.
Notice of the discontinuance of the
division was sent to Capt. Peyser this
morning by the Secretary of War, it
was learned. 1t is understood that
Capt. Peyser requested that he be re
lieved from duty in the Army when
ever the housing division was no
longer needed.
The War Department. it was stated
today, feels gratified over the services
performed Ky Capt. Peyser and his
assistants in the housing division in
directing the enforcement of the
salisbury law, which was enacted s
an emergency measure to check evic-
lions which began in Washington
when the city's war population became
so much greater than the available
housing space.
When hundreds of clerks and bust
ness men came to Washington early
in 1918 to do war work, houses and
apartments became SO scarce that the
newcomers began to buy places when
they found they could not rent. The
result was that scores of tenants re-
ceived notices to move.
All government employees, as well as
xnrt
such notice were defended in Munich
pal Court by Capt. Peyser.
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PRESIDENT TO EMBARK
FROM BREST SATURDAY
Approves Peace Conference Celebra-
ton in Paris on His
Return.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 13.-In a written
reply to a delegation of the French
Association of the Society of Nations
which recently called upon him
President Wilson makes known
formally for the first time his inten-
ton to return to France after going
to Washington for the closing session
of the American Congress.
In this reply the President says
that he accepts the suggestion that
after his return to Paris great pub
lie meeting be arranged in celebration
of the conclusion of the work of
the peace conference.
The arrangements have been COM
pleted for President Wilson'S pro-
spective departure from Paris on Fri
day night and his embarkation from
Brest on Saturday 1t is known he
plans to return to France March IS.
There now is belief in official cir
cles the peace conference will be able
to complete it's work by June /.
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MORE D. c. MEN COMING
MAY Be on U. 5. Transport 0rtega,
Which Is Due at New York From
France Monday.

More District soldiers may be on
the transport Ortega, which sailed
from Brest, France, February Z, and
is due at New York Monday.
The ortega is bringing the supply
company, a medical detachment, a de-
tachment Of the machine gun COM
pany and Companies x and L Of the
iSIst Infantry, 41st Division. Com
NAMES A. b, c and d of the old 3D.
infantry of the District National
Guard were made part of the 1s1st
Infantry in France ,Sa o ds,a w chne the
the Ortega is not known by the War
Department, xf
The detachments of the 161st on the
Ortera total seventeen officers and
725 men. They are slated to go to
Camp Dix for demobtlizations
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Wednesdays Official
] Statements From Paris

paris. February 1.-THE Official
cemnunique issued this evening on
tie work of the war council says:
The war council met this morning
eftttng from IL until 1890 and re-
etmed the sitting in the afternoon
1fom . to $50.
The conditions of the renewal OF
Ne srmistice were decided.
The next meeting will take place
1QmorroW at . p.m.
me communique ISSUED by the inter-
u4ttopA1-s labor commission reads:
fnp eeEepth smeeting of the COM
x5gssion on International labor legisla-
tRn took place this morning.
e Particle Nv of the British draft was
cFried. providing that at the proposed
4fernational labor conference the rep
fDBentatiyes OF the governments. the
oppioyers and work people should be
e4tttled to speak and vote independ-
44t1y without regard to the views ex-
D}essed BY the other representative
= their nation, with power to draw up
ze1nventions binding on the states rep
sifksrte. the delegates present at
@be eQre<nmeAts only, and the voting
41A Ayways been by nations 1t was
4o16 hoWeyer.s that in dealing with
1eRox lAgtelation the employers and
me HqTklref must be given the full
at opportunity of giving free EXPIRES
uton to their views, and that they
eould not do this IL the delegates OF
each nation were bound to speak and
vote - Q unit.
article v was also carried. pro-
y1dfng that the international labor
conference shall meet at the capital
81 the league Of nations. unless il de-
Gides by . two.thirds majority to meet
elsewhere.
The commission then proceeded te
1iscusa the article dealing with the
establishment of the permanent inter
national labor ONCE and the govern.
ing body which will direct its work
IL was agreed that the Office SHOULD
b established at the capital of the
league of nations as part of the or.
HAntxatton OF the league, and should
3e under the control of a director.
s.uerestion, rose in honor to the hir,t
~ Abraham Lincoln"
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D. C.'S COLORED HEROES
NOW AT CAMP UPTON, N. Y.

Washingtons colored heroes, for
merly of the LIST Separate Battalion OF
the District National Guard, are now
at Camp Upton, n. Y, ready to be de-
mobilized within the next two weeks.
These men, who were part of the 372d
Infantry arrived home Tuesday on the
transport Leviathan
Many of the 1st Separate Battalion
men are wearing medals for distin-
guished service. and Maj. Clark L.
Dickson, their commander, spoke the
highest praise for all of these coIored
troops from Washington. They were
In the thick of the fighting and, theif
officers say, kept the Germans in front
of them busy every minute
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HUNS TO ASK RECOGNITION.
New Government to Make Demand
at Armistice Meeting.

BERN. Thursday. February 13-As
result of a long conference between
Matthias Erzberger, member of the Ger
man armistice commission and various
ministers at Berlin on Monday, it was
decided, according to the Frankfort
Zitung. that Erzbrger will demand
that the allies recognize the new Ber-
lin government when he meets the
entente chiefs to negotiate renewal
or the armisticeh
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Belgian Claims.
COURT COACHES PRETTY
WOMAN ON THE STAND

Talk as you do to your husband,
sometimes" said Chief Justice Mccoy
TO pretty married woman. whose low
tones prevented the purport of her
testimony reaching the extreme end
of the jury box In Criminal Division Q
today. The jurors sitting farthest
from the witness stand could not hear
what the young woman said and had SO
informed the Judge.
The witness. adopting the suggestion
OF the court, raised her voice so that
the rest of her testimony could be
heard readily,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-13
Brother in Peace Party.

His brother, Albert Ward, who was
an employe of the Department of JUS
tice. was sent TO France with the
American peace party, and heard from
him while in Paris.
In a telegram 20 his mother today
Private Ward said he was well and
expected to return home in a short
time. =
The Washingtonians who arrived on
the Matoiska are: First Lieut. Will
liam T. Goldsborough, Marlboro;
Private Hugh McWilliams, SD In
fantry, li1 North Carolina avenue
southeast; Private Emery T. Sond-
heimer, 23d Infantry, 500 G. street
northeast, Private Everett c. Kream-
er, 30th Infantry. 1892 L street south
east; Private William L. Rhine, 312th
Machine Gun Battalion, le4I r street
northwest; Private Francis B'%aWard,a
150th Machine Gun Battalion, 2sIi
18th street northeast; Eugene Z. Gass,
l5ist Infantry, 1913 Glrard street north
east; Capt. Philip A. Helmbold. infantry.
Somerset apartments, 18th and
streets; Sergt. James Smith, 30Sth
Motor Transport Corps, PIG street
northwest; Private Gerhard Stgacke.s
l65th Infantry, 252S L street north
west: Private Fred Frazier, 36Sth 1rs7
faHtry, 1924 K street northwest: .Prf-p
vate Henry Bailey. S77th infantry
1908 LIST street southeast; Private Nor
ris J. Bel. S0Sth Infantry, Washing
ton avenue; Corp. Charles q. Hilte3s
11Sth Engineers. 1905 Eth street north
east. and Private Robert Z. Flynn
seth Pioneer Infantry, 1906 Vernon :
street. so
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Debate Barring Central Powers.

GENEVA. Wednesday. February IL
-The movement to exclude the CEN
trail powers from the International
Rad Cross WAS debated at a meeting
of that organization held here today.
President Ador of Switzerland was
chairman OF the meeting, which was
attended by delegations from allied
countries, which preferred charges OF
violations of Red Cross privileges by
Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-13
MAI. GEN. H. P. MCCAIN
HERE TO RECEIVE D. S. M.

Mai Gen. Henry P. Mccain. former
adjutant general of the Army, now in
command at Camp Devens. Mass, has
arrived in Washington to receive per-
sonally from Secretary Baker the dis
tinguished service medal awarded him
several weeks ago for meritorious
work performed in preparation Tor
the war. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-13
Congestion Is Relieved.

Since the signing of the armistice
housing congestion has gradually
been relieved by an outflow of war
workers, and the War Department, it
is understood, came to the conclusion
that the law of supply and demand
would solve housing disputes from
now on.
Capt. Peyser was assisted in his
housing work by Capt. Edwin B.
Mayer and Lieut.. William Conrad
The home registration service of the
Department of Labor, which handled
the task of finding rooms and apart
ments for the war workers as they
arrived in the city. is still in opera
ton. Whether this bureau also will
be discontinued in the near future is
not known. Both the registration
service and the housing division have
been quartered at 1414 II street north
west.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
HELD TO Be DIRE NEED

DIR. Josephine E. Baker of the New
York department Of health, speaking
this morning at the opening session of
the conference Of American women
at the wardman Park Hotel, urged
creation Of a department of health.
DIR. Baker declared that the United
States government holds life cheaply
and pays more attention to its insane
and imbeciles than to the health of
its people. She said there are four
large health agencies in the govern
ment which work at cross purposes
by overlapping and having independ-
emit resources.
Privilege to Be Well.
DR.. Baker said that children have
been defenseless during the war and
that the future alone will tell what
effect the war has had upon the coun-
try. She added that the people have
government the privilege to be well
and healthy and therefore enjoy hap
piness.
"It is easier and more satisfactory
to keep people well thvtn to keep them
after they are not WELL" she said.
The morning session was given over
entirely to a discussion of health ques-
Atoms and international problems deal
Snr herewith. Mrs. Jane d. Rippin of
the section on women and girls of the
commission on training camp activi-
ties spoke on social hygiene as a fac
tor in international health.
She referred to the need of educa-
tional propaganda in schools to blot
out social evils which are prevalent
in the country. She urged that the
women aid in the campaign of health
week, which win begin February 90,
and was OF the opinion that the sub
feet should be given free and open
discussion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-13
Sees Need for Improvement.

DIR. Martha Tracy. dean of the wom-
ems Medical College, at Philadelphia.
opened the discussion and asserted
that the country 10 aroused to the
need of the Improvement of health
conditions. She declared II is neces-
gary to- educate the country in this re-
gard by a comprehensive campaign
covering the schools and industries.
Jane Adams of Hull House spoke
on how to feed the world. Another
speaker was Mrs. Martha d. Bruere
Of New York. Miss Mary Mcdowell
Of Chicago appealed to the women to
back up the Presidents league of ma :
tons idea and read letter of grati-
tude from the French women to Pres
|ident Wilson for his work for hu-
|manity.
The conferences will close with this
afternoons session
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DIRECTORS AND PLAYS
FOR CAMPS SOUGHT
Appeal Made in Behalf Of Branch
Of War Camp Community
Service.

An appeal for play directors and
suggestions of good one-act plays
was issued today by Mrs. Maud
Howell Smith. director of small plays
for the war camp community service,
following a meeting held at her home
last night by those interested in the
organization of a citywide dramatic
organization here.
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letyia Demands BoIshevists
Withdraw Troops as Proviso
| of Farley Plan Acceptance


Withdraw Troops as Proviso
| of Farley Plan Acceptance
D. the Associated Press.
fPARIS, Wednesday, February r.
fhe Lettish republic, in accepting the
Invitation of the peace conference to
$ttend a conference at Princes Island,
states that as a proviso to its accept
knce the Russian soviet government
hust withdraw its forces from Letvia
Ind cease all offensive military meas
Yres.
The Esthonian government, in it's
acceptance, states that it does not
consider II is a part of the Russian
4pviet republic, but will participate
because it feels the conference VIII
ke Of Importance to the future of Is
Shonia and it's relations with Russia
7 Has Seeded From Russia.
THE Lettish reply. in part. says:
k'Ietvia announces its separation
from Russia. and announced in Janu
dry, 1919, at the constituent assembly
Il Russia, the constitution OF an in
dependent and sovereign Lettish
gate.
n
peace conference will participate IN
fhe conference at Prinkipo in order
s'T-Make, peace with Russia. this
leace to be recognized by the great
&llied powers.
ssTI-Regulate, under the auspices
Ct the great allied powers, the polite
NJ and economic affairs as they result
from the separation of Letvia and
Russia
'TII-Make treaties in and take the
necessary steps toward the establish
ment of states. ]. TSCHISTE.'
Determines for Independence.
1.-THE Esthanian reply. in part. says:
4ediary of it's national council, which
springs from universal suffrage. de-
&rmined to separate from Russia,
f'The Esthouian people, by the inter-
I9ediary of its national council,
which springs from universal suffrage,
oetermined to separate from Russia,
md thereupon proclaimed Esthonia
IN independent republic The govern
1Aent has been Professionally recog-
3pxed by the English, French and
8altan governments. Not only does
fhe Esthonian government exert its
dhthority Independent of any Russian
government, but for three months.
4kter having organized a regular
Amy, II has been at war with the
Russian soviet communist republic.
t'Therefore, we in nowise consider
lDnrselves a part of Russia, although
e accept the invitation of the allied
yoweFs aid of the United States to go
- Princes Islands. We believe that
t4e participation of the representa-
DYES OF Esthonia and of the COM
0unist republic of Russian soviets of
Importance to the future relations
letween Russia and the Esthanian
H3public"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-13

Several Washingtonians who helped
whip the Huns in France have arr
rived at Newport News. Va. and now
are on their way to Camp Mills, Va,
according to word received here to-
day. Men from this city are return
ing in large numbers on every ship
that arrives at Newport News. They
are first sent TO Camp Mills, and later.
it is stated. will be transferred TO
Camp Meade for rehabilitation
Capt. Philip 4. Helmbold, whose
mother. Mrs. c. V Helmbold. resides
AT the Somerset apartments. 10th and
5 streets. in command of Company *
OF the SD Infantry. was among the
arrivals Capt Helmbold was gassed
twice while fighting in France. He
was gassed at Verdun. and shortly
before the signing of the armistice
he received the second dose
Enlisted as Private.
He enlisted as a private and later
was transferred to Fort Oglethorpe.
Ca, where he was promoted to first
lieuteranJ Before sailing for France,
in July. 1915 he was made a captain.
He teiephoned his mother today that
he expects 70 be home Sunday.
Private Eugene r. Gass of 1913 Girard
street northeast. who was employed as a
printer by The Star prior to his en-
listment in the Army. was in the band
OF the 1871 Infantry He had been
member of the band of the District
National Guard. He was sent to
France in December, 1917. In a Lett
ter to his mother he stated he had not
been at the battle front, having been
detailed as soioist of the band. which
was held at one of the large hospitals.
Private Francis E. Ward of 2911
18th street northeast, is another
Washington boy who arrived at New
port News. He was a member of q
machine gun battalion, but contracts
ed rheumatism while In France and
was later transferred to the Red Cross
unit. He has been in the Army about
three years. Although his relatives
received no Information from him, IL
was learned he was gassed while in
France. ,
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Urgent Need in Camps.

The need for entertainment for SOL
diers in nearby camps is more urgent
than ever, it is declared, and those
who are supplying dramatic enter
tainment to the camps need more play
directors. and especially need sugges-
tions of one-act plays. There are
hundreds OF little plays suitable for
presentation, but the Woodworking
community service people are unable
to read all the plays written, and If
any one who has read a good one-act
play will tell Mrs. Smith about 1t she
will appreciate the favor.
committee was appointed to re-
port at another meeting to be held
next Wedn esday night at s O'Clock at
the home of Mrs. Smith, 1443 Massa-
chusetts avenue, on plans for the
formation of a community players or
ganization when the war camp COM
munity service shall cease to exist
as such.
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4 desire that he should remember the
Necessity Of certain guarantees which
{fxre not excluded from his original
81kn. and we doubt II the creation OF
m International police force would
be suflcient to guarantee US the Sc
{ curity to which we are entitled"
H. Meyers contention is that France
Nhould have q defensive frontier as
well as membership in the league
s 81 nattofs.
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National Theater Proposed.

Present plans point TO the acquisi-
ton OF the Poll Theater as a sort
of national theater. The COMMITTEES
is composed OF Mrs. Smith. w. II.
Berry, Miss Cecil Norton, w. G. Fitch.
Morris Layine. Miss Maude Lee, Mrs.
Marie Moore Forest, c. w. OConnor
and Dennis Connen.
Addresses were made last night by
L. III. Weir and c. II English. head
of the activities department of the
war camp community service, and
Mr. Berry.