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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
History Is interviewer.

Summing up. the report says: The
history of the packers growth is in
terwoven with illegal combinations,
rebates and with undisclosed con-
troll of corporations" The report
says. in urging the Importance of
full publicity of corporate ownership
for all Industries: LAS to devices for
secret control, there does not exist
adequate law. In its absence unfair
competition may run it's course to
the goal OF monopoly and accom-
plish the ruin of competitors with
out the secret ownership being sus-
pected, and consequently without re-
port to the commission or investiga-
ton of facts. The competitor is in
ieoiardy so long as he has not the
knowledge of true ownership, and
the public is entitled to such knoWl-
An approaching packer domination
of all important foods in this coun-
try and an international control of
meat products with foreign compa-
MES seems a certainty unless funda-
mental action is taken to prevent IT:
the report declares. "A fair consid-
Grafton of the course the five pack
ers have followed and the position
they already have reached must lead
to the conclusion that they-fhreaten
the freedom of the market of the
countrys food industries and Of the
by-product industries linked there
with. The meat-packer control OF
other foods will not require long In
developing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Order Is Restored.

Precautionary military measures still
continue in force in this city, but order
has been virtually established every
where. Many shops are still closed, but
the people are resuming work after the
recent disolA Ars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Plans Suggested.

The first Of these ii was stated
probably would provide for extension
Of financial relief through some in
crease iii fares, in the event it was
felt that promises that light be made
by the companys officials and direc-
tors could be accepted at face value
Ii. on the contrary, il was felt that
IN view of past performances such
promises could not he believed then
the banks likely will suggest that
the present management. from top to
bottom. be replaced by an entirely
new personnel. and that radica i
changes be made in the board of di-
rectors before any steps be taken to
AFFORD the road additional relief
The entire matter, the committee
member declared. rested wholly upon
the evidences of sincerity Of the
present management and the degree
OF credence that might be placed in
prom Uses il nigh; make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
PRESIDENT REVIEWS
OFFICIAL CALLS
Spends Hour With Mr.. Polk
and Chats With Secretary
Daniels.
MAKES ROUND OF LINKS

President Wilson today resumed his
pre-war custom of calling Informally on
department heads. He went to the State.
War and Navy building and consulted
with Acting Secretary of State Polk and
later with Secretary of the Navy DAN
iels.
Neither at the White House nor in
Mr.. Folks office was any word given out
as to the purport of the conference, but
it was generally understood that it had
to do with the departure of Mr.. Polk
for Paris july 81. where he will head
the American commission. Mr.. Polk
will have Dot one day to consult with
Secretary of State Lansing in New York
before sailing, and it is natural that he
should confer with the President in re-
! gard to the situation which obtains
abroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Assures Peace in World.

! The crux Of the Presidents appeal
! for support of league of nations
| was that it assures peace in the world
and will prevent recurrence of war.
Senators have charged that the cove
nant of this particular league of ma
| tons 1egaliZes future wars in seven
| cases. makes war compulsory in three
contingencies.
Senator Knox has pointed out the
/ three eXigencies under which war
would be compulsory, as follows:
First. By this document. we. as
one of the high contracting parties.
obligate ourselves to protect by force
of arms. if necessary. the territorial
integrity and political independence
of all states members of the league.
Second. If any of the high con-
tracing parties breaks CT disregards
: it's covenants under article II. the
covenant dealing with resort to arms.
then as members of the league We
must fly to arms to protect the cove
nant
Must Go to War
Third. If any non-member of the
league. either accepting or not ac-
cepting the obligations of member
ship in the league for the purposes of
! the dispute. acts in sucn a way as
would constitute a violation of article
| II. if the state were member or the
| league, then we must go TO war TO
protect the covenants of the league.
Elihu Root has asserted that article
10, by which the United States would
guarantee the political and territorial
Integrity of all states members of the
| league would force this country into
a foreign war ten or twenty years
hence. possibly a war in which the
people had little interest. or put the
t United States in the attitude of break
;po solemn engagement.
Senators declare that they are being
n1aced in false light by the Presi-
dent insisting that the league of ma
lions now conceived will prevent wars.
and not answering the explicit charges
drawn against the covenant to the con-
trary.
Foresee Appeal to People.
Senators, however, foresee difficulty
in combating the attitude in which
thew find themselves placed. They say
the President will probably go to the
country in much the same vein his
address of yesterday followed: that he
will make the alluring and attractive
appeal to the widespread and ever
present desire for peace and an end
ing of wars, touching upon chord that
will find a response in every human
bosom. But they apprehend that he
will fail to answer the specifications
of their charge that his plan as now
drawn will not bring the millennium of
world harmony nor will he. they fear,
reply to their charges that the cove
nant as framed actually weakens the
independence of the United States and
barters nationalism for International
ism.
Their recourse, it is explained, will
he TO demand reservations to the
treaty. setting forth in debate the rea-
sons therefor, and submit them to the
judgement of the people. But they
realize. they say, that it will be an
appeal of logic against an appeal to
lofty human sentiment.
the best judgment of Senate leaders
TODAY was that the Presidents address
Yesterday did not wfan single vote
rom the forces demanding reserva-
tons to the treaty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
SIX BANKS MOVE
T0STRA|CHTENOUT
W.R. &E. AFFAIRS
May Suggest Removal of Of
ficers if Credence in Prom
iSes Fails.
PLAN TO SAFEGUARD
HOLDERS OF NOTES
Committee Member Declares the
Patrons Would Welcome a
Receivership.

Railway and Electric Company along
lines designed at once to safeguard
holders of notes of the Washington
Utilities Corporation. backed by col
lateral in the form OF common stock
of the street railway company. and
the interests of the public. is under
discussion by committee composed
of representatives of SIN Washington
banks.
a meeting of the committee was
held yesterday. and another meeting
is to be held next week. at which it
is expected the plans that have been
under discussion will be completed.
ready for presentation to the officials
and directors of the street railway
company and the Public Utilities Com
mission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Sighted by Steamship.

Officers of the British steamship
Triumph. which arrived here today
from London. reported sighting the
RIA when a day out from this port.
The dirigible was said to have been
flying fast at a low altitude.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
italian Leaders Confer.

Rome, July 10.-Premier Nitti and
Eoreien Minister Tittoni held most
imnortant meeting at the foreign office
with leaders of the various political
narties today. The attitude of the for
eign minister at the peace conference
relative to Italian aspirations was the
after under discussion. 1t is the feel
inc here that Signor Tittoni will need
the support of all parties to master the
situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 1.-THE RIA was
estimated to be more than half way
across the Atlantic at 8 am. today.
although official advices regarding the
dirigible's position were lacking. At
am. Greenwich mean time (mid-
night, New York time). when the last
message was received, the R-34 was
1850 miles east of here and speeding
at As knots. If this progress were
maintained. it was calculated. the air
ship at am. would be, approximately
),66J miles east of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
R-34 SPEEDS EAST:
IN WIRELESS TOUCH
HALF Way Across Atlantic
Was Estimate at 9
O'Clock Today.

LONDON. July lin the first
tNenty-fOur hours Of return flight
the dirigible R-34 covered 1900
miles. according to advices received
here.
LONDON. July 1.-THE diriEible
R-34. speeding eastward across
the Atlantic, at 12:1O o'clock
Greenwich time (S:lO am. New
York time) had reached 4G de-
Srees north latitude. 80 degrees so
minutes west lOnEftude-apprOxf
mately 1900 miles from her start
ing point. -, ;;=.e.ss,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
PACKERS CONTROL
Of FOOD IS SHOWN
big Five's" Wide Interests
Subject of Report by
Trade Commission.
MAKE us COMMODITIES

/ Imminence of domination by the
big five" Chicago packers of the ma
tons entire food supply is the subject
of part of the report of the Federal
Trade Commission to the President.
The first part Of the report covers the
commissions investigation of the
meat industry.
Jointly or separately the five big
Chicago packing concerns, the report
declares, WELD controlling interests in
574 companies. hold minority interests
in % others and undetermined in
terests in 80 other companies, total
OF h762 companies. They produce or
deal in about IT'S commodities, princi-
pally food products.
Commodities produced or dealt in by
the five big packers and the COM
panies in which they are interested
range from dressed meat to banjo and
hkelele strings. They include fresh
tomatoes. bottled fruit juices, leather
and cottonseed oil. breakfast foods.
canned vegetables, curled hair pepsin,
washing powders, soap. candy. etc.
Most Services Dominated.
Most of the services connected with
the production and distribution of
animal foods and packing house by
products are dominated by big five
. influences. These include railroads
and refrigerator car lines: cattle LOAF
companies: banks. live stock and farm
publica tons: most of the important
stock yards, lumber companies. mills
| ma king various. kinds of machinery
for use in packing plants. in salt
mines and refineries, etc.
| The report states the packers COM
bine is the most important factor in
the leather industry, in oleomargarine
and lard substitutes. in cottonseed oil,
I in fertilizer, soap, glue and scores of
other manufactured by-products and
allied products.
| Individuals Of the Armour family.
| the report asserts, are owners of
| grain and elevator companies. ]. Og-
den Armour and the president of one
| of the Armour subsidiary companies
are among the principal stock holders
| in a company producing from mineral
! deposits in Utah substitute for pot
! ash as an ingredient of commercial
fertilizers. The report further states
that the big five either control or
have important holdings in public
utility corporations in nine large
middle western and western cities
Since July. 1917. the big five have
so dominated the leather industry
! that at no time have their holdings
of hides in the United States fallen
! below 81 per cent of the total hides
in the country. influence of this
condition on the shoe and glove man
ufacturing industries and prices is
pointed out in the report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Banks Represented.
out-of-Town Interests Action.

Steps looking toward some sort OF
reorganization of the street railway
company were instituted some time
ago by the out-of-town interests but
in view of the fact that the plight OF
the w. L. & r. Company is matter
of distinctly local interest. the matter
has been left TO the local banks.
1t was stated today by member Of
the committee representing the six
local banks that il was likely two
plans might he suggested to the Pub
lie Utilities Commission and the street.
railway company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Conference Lasts an Hour.

The President entered Mr. Folks
office shortly after II O'Clock. and was
in there for an hour. AS he left he
bowed to the newspapermen and clerks
gathered in the hall and then passed
down the corridor to Secretary Dam
iels' office.
Ae he passed one group of woman
clerks they appla uded and he turned
and smiled at them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow: mild
temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended pm. today: Highest, 20. at
pm. yesterday; lowest, g.. at $50
am. today.
Full report on page Il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Poles Halted in Lithuania.

Marshal Foch was instructed today
nv the council of five to send NOUN
cation to the Polish troops to cease
action in Lithuania. The Bulgarian
treaty. it is announced, VIII come up
for consideration on July %.
An interallied commission has been
named to discuss the military occu-
ration of the Rhine with the German
delegation after consultation with
Marshal Foch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Member of the Associated Press

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited TO it or otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local published herein.
All rights of publication of special
dispatches herein also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
-Goes-to Links With Mrs. Wilson.

A bright. cool morning lured the
President to the golf course early to-
day, for the first game he has had
since his return to this country. He
was accompanied only by Mrs. Wilson,
and after one round of the course they
returned to the White House at 1890
o'clock. where the President at once
tackled the pile of work on his desk
in the executive Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
May Suggest Drastic Action.

Whether or not the plans to be out
lined by the banks committee will
suggest removal of some of the present
officers and directors of the street rail-
way company and substitution for
them of new directors and officers. if
was stated today. will depend upon
the degree of credence that may be
given to promises the company may
make as to improvement in service.
equipment. etc, and to adoption of
d policy designed to obtain and to hold
public confidence.
Banks Represented.
Banks represented in the conference
ere the American National. District
National. Federal National, CONNER
cial National. National Metropolitan
and the Continental Trust Company
Two other local banks hold notes and
common stock collateral of the Wash
ington Railway and Electric Company,
and the Dupont National. Becaus. Of
ficials OF the Washington utilities cor
porations are or have been intimately
connected with these two banks they
have not participated in the confer
enceS.
Notes of the old Washington IT'LL
tiles Corporation to the amount OF
1851, 900. based on 27.5O0 shares OF
the common stock of the W. r. & f
Company are held by the local banks
and by financial interests in Baltimore
and New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
UNCOVER PLOTS
TO DESTROY
ALL INDUSTRY
Brussels Police Find Papers
Showing Plans of "De-
struction" Firms

Paris, March 10.-Evidence of an
organized system for the destruc-
ton of shops and manufacturing
plants in Belgium and northern
France by the Germans has been un-
covered by the Brussels police in
documents left behind among the
records of the German government
during the occupation of Brussels.
Belgium is expected shortly to fix
upon the indemnity which 1t Will
demand from Germany. The docu-
ments were furnished to the Asso-
ciated Press by the Belgian peace
delegation.
On their face the documents
seem to establish that destruction
companies" were founded by and
operated under the auspices of the
government of occupation. They
were five in number-first, the
Gutehoffnungshutte Company, of
Oberhausen; second, Helm, Lehman
and Company, of Dusseldorf; third,
j. Hilgers, of Rheinbrohl; fourth,
c. II. Jucho, of Dortmund; fifth, a
Berlni firm (name almost illegible
on index card) probably Breest and
Company.
How System Worked
Under the system the five destruc-
llOu lO apply IHe
special organization for permission
to commence work on any plant, the
Organization retaining five per cent
commission on the gross value, as
well as % marks SO pfennigs per
ton on the iron destroyed and Is
pfennigs for each metre of destroy
ed material. This was done in order
to reimburse itself for the labor sup
piled to the destruction companies,
consisting of prisoners of war.
The companies were required
to pay within thirty days the sale
price agreed upon with the special
organization, according to the lat
ter's valuation of the plant involved.
Machiner yand material were first
removed from the plants and ship
ped to Germany, especially all boil
ers, rolling stock, electrical ap-
paratus, zinc and copper and ma
terials of a similar character.
On December 81, 1917, the five
firms mentioned had made profits
aggregating about 100000 marks,
according to Belgian estimate. On
April 80, 1918. the same firms had
removed to Germany for the Ger
man quartermasters' department H.
626,306 tons of iron and 207, 7,242,003
square metres of other material
such as wood, glass, zinc and tin.
They had also removed for the ac-
count OF German firms 24,293,S27
tons of iron and steel and about 300,-
100000 square metres of other mate
rial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
Half Starved and
Then Exhibited
Thorugh Germany

CoblenZ, March 10.-How it feels
told when Joseph Brown and Charles
to be exhibited in Germany will be
Mnowlton, both of the 165th In
fantry, get back to New York where
they lived before the war.
Roth have rejoined their regiment
after Imprisonment in Germany
since May 8 when a patrol they
went out in search of Germans
who were needed for the informa-
ton they might give. The patrol
got the Germans, but the German
army got Brown and Knowlton and
until a few days ago the 165th In
fantry knew nothing more about
them. Both had come through the
German lines after the armistice.
After the German intelligence Off
Ger had desraired of getting from
them any accurate information about
the Americans both men were sent
out on a tour of Germany. In city
after city they were exhibited as
specimens of the new enemy. To
make them appear as excellent ex-
amples of the weaklings the Ger
mans had told their people the
Americans were, they said they were
half starved and otherwise brutally
treated for a month or more when
they were thrown into an ordinary
prison camp, remaining there until
the end of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10

Wednesday the most serious part OF
the outbreak took place. Here II
was that the casualties occurred. A
detachment with loaded rifles grim
ly stood their ground and an offi-
Ger warned the rebellious mob or
the gravity of the situation. AS the
mob persisted in coming on the
order was given to fire. Besides an
officer, four of the rank and hle lost
their lives and about twenty others
were more or less seriously wounded.
Caused by Discomfort
Tt is still asserted that instead or
having been a Bolshevik demonstra-
ton the real motive for the outbreak
was discomfort over executive action
in the camp. In all over four num-
dred soldiers were arrested and con-
Veyed out of the district.
Women camp helpers are declared
to have asserted after the disorders
that they had all been we'll treated.
A riot on a miniature scale took
place at the Whitley camp, near
Guildford, Saturday when the camp
canteen manager was fined 10
pounds for selling for a profit ciga-
rettes issued by the Government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
Civilian Clothing Is
Made of Unused
German Uniforms

CObIcnZ, March 10.-Thousands
of unusued German uniforms that
were found in the storehouses here
have been delivered to the local
authorities by American army off,
cials for conversio ninto civilion
clothing for the poorer residents CT
the city.
Both boys and men now appear
on the streets in new clothes, some
of which have been disguised by
dyes. The women too have awaited
themselves of the opportunity to
get warm war coats. They have
scorned, however, the camouflage
of the dye man and it is now a COM
mon sight to see one wearing long
war coat that obviously once, as a
gray military overcoat, adorned a
German officer. The only change
has been the feminizing of the col
lar and sleeves with perhaps the
addition here and there of a few
buttons or trimming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
Itching, Scratching, Skin Diseases
That Burn Like Flames of Fire

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