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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
D0RMITORIES' STATUS
SOUGHT BY SENATOR

Senator Harry New of Indiana to-
day introduced a resolution calling
upon the United States Housing Cor
poration to inform the Senate whether
the dormitories on the Union station
plaza have been completed. how much
they have cost, and what rental the
government is receiving from them.
The resolution was referred to the
committee on public buildings and
grounds.
The resolution also asked what pro-
portion of the dormitories for the war
workers were completed on November
II. 1918, the date the armistice was
signed. Information is requested as
to just when the buildings were com
pleted, II they have been completed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
HUN OBSERVATIONS
!. NPACT DELIVERED
INFORMALLY TODAY
Counter Proposals Cover 146
Pages Printed in Ger Sc
man Language.
HASTE IN DELIVERY
DELAYS TRANSLATION
Propose Special Commission to Set
tie Questions Concern
ing League.
HUNS DEPRESSED
OVER DELEGATES
REPLY TO ALLIES

BERLIN. May - Oby the As
ISOLATED PressD.-The cOnser-
vatfve press of Berlin condemns
the counter proposals to the
peace terms submitted by Ger
many, especially the financial
and military concessions which
are granted.
The Pan-German Gazette
brands the reply as s'suicide"
and the Post says: "The Ger
man people are doomed to
slavery between two masters
until q new Germany arrives to
break the chains"
The Kreus ZeftunG In skepti-
cal of the SUCCESS of the cOun-
ter proposals. despite what 1t
calls "count Won BrOckdOrf-
Rantxnu's aubmixsfveness" and
the Taeglische Rundschau says:
sThe German reply II fully n
depressing rs the entente
TERMS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
1913 U-B0ATS LOST,
ADMISSION AT BERLIN

BASEL, May % French Wireless
Service).-Germany lost 1913 subma-
rines during the war. according to
statistics on this branch of the Ger
man naval service published in the
Berlin Vossische Zeitung. This num-
Der included seven submarines in
termed in foreign ports and fourteen
destroyed by their own crews
More than 5000 sailors lost their
lives in the submarine sinkings, the
statistics show. while several thou
sand others lost their reason and were
committed to lunatic asylums
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
WOULD AID SERVICE MEN.
Three Bills in Former Fighters In
t3reat 1ntroduced in uouso

Three measures to benefit honora-
bly, discharged service men who par
ticipated in the world war were in
troduced in the House yesterday.
Representative Jones, democrat, of
Texas proposed that preference he
given them in appointments to posi-
lions in the government civil service
and also that $1,500,O0 be appropriat,
ed by Congress for establishing SOL
diers' hospital at Amarillo. Tex. Rep
resentatiye Strong, republican. Of
Kansas proposed that the income taY
of the men be made to apply to s. 600 Of
their income.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
PRESIDENT Will LAY
SCOUTS FLORAL TRIBUTE

PARIS. May 2s.-At the Memorial
day exercises which will be held to-
morrow in the American cemetery at
Suresnes, a suburb of Paris, at which
President Wilson will speak, he will
in compliance with a request, Law a
wreath in tribute to the American
dead on behalf of the Boy Scouts Of
America
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
AUSTRIAN PEACE TREATY
DELAYED TO SATURDAY
Balkan States Asked Further Time
in Which to Consider the
Terms.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 29.-When the peace
conference met in plenary session this
afternoon to hear the Austrian peace
terms, it was announced that the
treaty had not been completed. 1t was
decided therefore to postpone the ses-
sion until Saturday, when the COM
p1eted treaty was expected to be
ready.
Another reason for postponement of
the plenary session was a request
from the smaller powers. especially
the Balkan states, that they be al
lowed further time to consider the
terms. -8's.. -
Plan to Share Indemnity.
PARIS, May Is Thy the. Associated
Press.-The states formed from the
old Austrian empire have virtually
agreed to pay part of the Austrian
indemnity, not as enemies Of the
entente, but in recognition Of their
liberation, and also to redeem pro-
portionately their shares of the 49,
O0O, 000, 900 kroner Austrian paper
currency still in circulation in these
states.
Austria's indemnity payment win be
about 2,500,000,000 kroner. Another
$500, 100000 will be proportional
among Hungary. Czechoslovakia,
Jugoslavia. Rumania, Poland and
Italy.
A peculiar feature of the arrange
ment is that Italy is sharing the cost
Of Austria's war against Italy. This
results from the acquisition by Italy
of the Trentino, Trieste and other sec
lions which share in the total amount
assessed against Austria.
Final details Of the financial terms
of the treaty were concluded at the
conferences today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
SAYS 50 YANKS MISSING

LONDON, May 20 (by the Associated
Press).-As a result of a fire in a
building occupied by American troops
in the Coblenz district and the ex-
p1osion of a munition dump yesterday
eighty men are missing, according to
Cologne dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company.
A later dispatch from Cologne says
that the fire and explosion occurred near
the frontier Of the Bavarian palatinate,
which is in the French area Of occupa-
ton,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
SALVATION ARMY FUND
OVER IS MILLION GOAL

NEW YORK. May 2s.-The saliva
ton army's campaign for $4,000. 900
home service fund has passed it's goal,
according to latest reports from all
sections of the country, received here
today.
Although the New York district was
still $323,000 short Of its quota, the
workers expected 1t would go over
The top" before nightfall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Free Seeds to Continue.

Free seeds for congressional dis
tribution will continue. Representa-
tive Walsh of Massachusetts made tn.
annual attempt yesterday to eliminate
the item from the agricultural apnro-
priation bill. and his motion was de-
feated, 95 to "a. The item this year
Is $358,9S0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Decoration Day

The Star will be issued to-
morrow at l O'CLOCK.
Classified advertisements for
tomorrow's paper must be
sent to The Star Office this
evening or tomorrow morning
before 10 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Would Protect Fishing Industry.

Bills designed to protect and con-
serve the fishing industry, with par
and to halibut. have been introduced
by Representative Alexander Of Mis-
souri,,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Peoples Are Mutilated.

Ears and noses have been cut off
Of Slovene peasants, priests have been
killed and churches sacked, hundreds
of Slovenes have been carried away
by Austro-German soldiery and prop
erty damage to the extent of mil
lions of francs has been done in many
of the villages in the general Nlag-
enfurt region. according: to advices
which have been received here. Every
where the Slovene Inhabitants are
being terrorized by all kinds of bar
barous inhumanities.
That conditions in all those Sec
tions which will be torn away from
Austria and Hungary by the allied
peace terms are certain to be the
scene of disorganized fighting be-
tween various racial groups is a
theory advanced by officials in WASH
ington most cognizant of the con-
fiicting prejudices and antipathies
which exist in these regions 1t is
generally admitted that when tho
terms of peace are made known to the
Austrians tomorrow there will be q
general wave of disorganized bar
barities against those peoples who
have been pared from the old mon
!. =. ;Cvlitinued on .iisi, iaso.j
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Passengers Carried.

In its estimate as to how far a q
gent charge for transfers will go to-
ward producing this additional $780,
600 the commission states that the
number of transfer passengers car
ried in the Washington Railway and
calendar year 1918 was 23.002.474:
during the first four months Of 1918
the number was 1854 .655, or an in
crease of 10 per cent over the corre-
spending months of 1918.
Assuming that this rate of increase
will obtain for the balance of the
present calendar year. the commission
passengers for that period will be
15.321.533. which, at cents each, will
amount to s3065 50.66.
The other street railways in the Dis
trfct of Columbia-namely. the Capt.
tai Traction, Washington Virginia
and East Washington Heights-are
held by the commission to be COM
way and Electric Company, and for
this reason 1t was felt that il the
transfer charge was not made appli-
cable to all the systems 1t would have
the effect of diverting a large amount
Of business from the w. r. & E. lines.
Under the terms Of the order the
,Washin Virginia Company is au-
fhorized to charge and collect cents
for each transfer issued by 1T to the
1ine of the Capital Traction Company.
il is provided, however, that no charge
shall be made for transfers between
the lines of the East Washington
Heights Traction Railroad Company
and those of the Capital Traction
Company. No conditions are stipu-
lated as to how the additional reve-
nue. shall be spent by the companies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Lieut.. Moore Leads Attack.

Lieut.. Ralph S. Moore of Is Adams
street northwest led the third platoon
of Washington men in the fighting at
Hill 1913.
After taking the hill, the battalion
followed the retreating Germans to
the towns Of Reville. Etraye, Wayr-
vile and Gibercy. and captured these
places on November 8. The Germans
withdrew to Cote de Romagne. a
mountainlike place, which was prac-
tically impossible to climb. The Ger
mans put their guns at the top and
the 312th was at the base of this hill
when the armistice was signed No
vember II.
AS evidence of the close fighting
which took place between the 312th
and the enemy, Lieut.. Moore recalled
today that in the Grand Montague Sec
tor the District machine gunners used
up two rounds of pistol ammunition
and accounted for fifty prisoners.
The battalion has learned that its
name is to be retained as one of the
machine gun battalions Of the Regular
Army after rehabilitation. This does
not mean that the men now in the bat
TALON will have to remain in the Regu-
lar Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Victory Bonds at Par on Exchange

NEW YORK. May 29.-The first sale
on the New York Stock Exchange of
An per cent victory bonds took place
today. when a $1,000 bond changed
hands -ia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Saws 10th Took Montfaucon.

Referring to the dispute which
arose in France over the question of
whether the 18th or the 37th Divi-
sion captured the city of Montfaucon,
Lieut.. Moore, who is now adjutant of
the headquarters of the 312th. said
1Gonfinned on SeXenfh PAGE i
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Burden Should Be Distributed.

The commissions report states that
! during the present reconstruction
. period Justice to the public requires
p distribution Of the war burden and
FOR this reason the commission bases
its decision upon a per cent rate Of
return. With this rate of return on
2 valuation basis of approximately
f.. t15,000, 900, the Washington Railway
Z, and Electric Company, the commits
sion states. should be allowed to
charge such rates as will produce q
met operating income of approxi-
hnately 100000.
The report goes on to say that during
the calendar year 1918 the company's
pet operating income was $s15, 200. Dur
ing the greater part of that year the
rate Of fare was six tickets for
tober rs last to cents fiat. This
increase, 1t Is pointed out. was or
set by large increases in operating ex-
penses, so that predictions as to the
net operating income for the calendar
year 1919 must be based primarily
upon conditions that have existed
since November 1, 1918.
The company's estimate of operat.
ing income. after deducting for oper-
ating expenses and taxes for the year
1919, is $353.43S. In the opinion of the
commission the existing rate Of fare
will produce an operating income of
approximately, 100000, leaving $780,
600 still to be procured to bring the
net operating income to the amount
stated as a fair return on~the fail
value of the property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Had to Apply to All.
Value Fixed at $14,175, 900.

An interesting phase of the commits
eion's report is its finding Of the fair
value Of the property Of the railway
system, which is placed at $14,175,000.
This. is understood to be q tentative
finding for the purposes Of the present
investigation.
The Commission points out that to
have delayed decision in the case
until final completion Of the vafua-
tion would have been detrimental to
the interest of the company. while
on. the other hand to have rendered a
decision without consideration OF the
valuation data might have resulted
In an injustice to the public.
The commission does not express an
opinion at this time as to what consti-
tutes a fair rate of return on the
property of street railway corpora
tions in the. District other than to say
that it should not be less than s per
cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
W. A. Eppoluppi's Pathetic Death.
Finally Take Hill 37S.

At Hill 37s the battalion played an
important part in the advance of a
large part of the allied forces on the
western front by driving the Germans
from that hill November 5, after three
days Of terrific fighting.
The battalion was on an angle Of
the allied line at the foot of the hill.
under fire from two sides. On top Of
the hill were the famous Death
head Hussars, the cavalry Of the
crown princes army. Three times
4 the 312th charged the hill anu took
it, but each time they were forced
back by the German counter attacks.
On the fourth charge the Americans
took the hill and held it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
Armistice Violated

According to dispatches which have
been received in Washington from
Laibach, representatives Of the Jugo-
slav and Austrian governments met
at Celovec CKlagenfurt). the Jugo-
slavs demanding conclusion Of an
armistice based on status quo and
demanding necessary guarantees
after renewed fighting began on April
80 This came unexpectedly. Austrian
forces making a quick advance and
pushing Jugoslav guards backward.
The majority of the Jugoslav forces
kept in this region had been sent
home on seventeen days leave in or
der that the farms might be planted
and food supplies for the present year
insured. Hardly had the incident been
settled than the Austrians attacked in
greater force, armistice, agreements
being violated. The Jugoslavs assert
that the armistice should have been
maintained until definite settlement
of the frontier problem by the peace
conference. That the Austrian aim
has been to enlarge their territory in
Slovenian Carinthia against the
wishes Of the population and in vio-
lation Of Wilsonian principles Is the
charge made in Jugoslav circles in
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
2-CENT TRANSFER
!. CHARGE ORDERED
FOR STREET CARS
Utilities Board Rules Levy
Effective on All Lines
June |.
PLAN is ADOPTED AS
RELIEF FOR W. R. & E. co.
Estimated It Will Increase This
Roads Revenues by 5000, 550.66
for Rest of Year.

The Public Utilities Commission this
afternoon issued an order permitting
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company and subsidiary companies
and the Capital Traction Company to
charge cents for each transfer is
sued. The order becomes effective
June 1.
This transfer charge is applicable
also to the Washington Virginia
Railway Company.
This disposes of the long agitation
as to the need of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company for in
creased revenues. 1t is estimated that
the transfer charge will increase the
company's earnings for the rest of the
year by $306,550.66
No estimate has been made as to
the effect of this order on the Capital
fractions revenues. but it is expected
that the increase will be Of similar
amount.
Z Had to Apply to All.
The Capital Traction did not apply
for financial relief, but it was found
that a charge for transfers could not
be made a practical proposition If it
applied only to one company.
Officials of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company were disap-
pointed at the finding of the commits
sion, stating that the estimated increase
would not be SUFFICIENT to meet its OBJ
legations. The company estimated that
It would require an addition Of at least
100000 year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
AUSTRIA Stays
TOEXTENDPOWER
Bitter Campaign of Intimida-
ton in CzechosIovak and
Jugoslav Regions.
YEARS OF TROUBLE SEEN
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

The Austrian government in Vienna,
while wooing allied favor in Paris
with the hope Of mitigating the Sc
verify of the peace terms. is ushering
in wide campaign of murderous out
RACES and intimidation axainst the
peoples Of Jugoslavia and Cxechoslo-
vakia, who. by the terms 5of the peace
pact. will become "A Hliat6 with the
newly created nxtio to
advfces which, have reached Wash-
ington. That the Austrian govern
ment is still under the direct influence
of the Germans. and that neither of
these Teutonic groups has given UP
hope of retaining, by influence at
least large sections which the map
are the reasons assigned for Austria's
reaching out in southeastern Europe.
Old Prosecutions Continue.
In those regions of Csechoslovakia
which are largely inhabited by Ger
mans, but which under agreements
reached in Paris, will fail TO. the
Czechs,- the Austro German attempts
to intimidate the people by show Of
lions continue. Old methods which
for so many decades kept the polyglot
races of the Austrian empire within
control are again being utilized, while
the allied nations have their eyes on
other large issues, and cannot, under
the circumstances, lend most effective
aid to prosecuted peoples. Czechs in
several of the larger cities and Czech
sympathizers in the rural regions are
kept In a constant state Of terror. and
inasmuch as the Czech government is
unable to lend proper assistance be-
cause of only partially organized COM
bative means the German Austrians
are striving to accomplish their full
purpose.
While carrying out systematic eff
forts to intimidate the people and stir
constant DISCRIMINATION and dissatis-
faction with the new government,
with the hope of possible revolt in
Czechoslovakia, the Austro-Germans
are even more bitterly pressing cam
paigns against the Jugoslavs or any
pepsons Of Jugoslav sympathies resid-
ing in the frontier regions now in dis
pute between the old and new coun-
tries. More particularly have the out
breaks against the Jugoslavs been
conferred in Carinthia, which Is a ter
ritory admittedly largely inhabited
by Jugoslavs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
RANKS OF 3l2TH
HEAVILY DEPLETED
Only About 500 of 1874 Who
Went Overseas Are Now
at Camp Dix.
D. c. MEN IN BIG BATTLES
From a STAFF corresnondent

From STAFF Correspondent.
CAMP DIX, N. j., May 29.-Their
ranks depleted by heavy casualties
they sustained on the western front,
the 312th Machine Gun Battalion, in
Guiding more than one hundred men
from Washington, is resting at this
camp today on the last leg OF their
Journey homo. aftef=ztwelve~ months
seEx5oe In France. z {sss ysg SO 3 !
Tie Battalion w4fit to France with
7s4 men and returned with approxi.-
triate1t soc. Indicating the price they
paid for the victory they won on the
western front.
Tell Thrilling Story.
The story these Washington men
tell Of thefr> fighting in France is
more thrilling than that of any other
District unit in the war.
At Montfaucon and at Hill 1877
this battalion engaged in two death
battle lasting several days.
Several Washington men were killed
in these engagements. and more than
score of others were wounded
W. A. Eppoluppi's Pathetic Death.
One Of the most pathetic stories
told by the men to-day was that of
the death Of William A. Eppoluppf of
Company c, who was MORALLY wound
ed while going to the assistance of
a comrade who had fallen.
Eppoluppi was picked up and car
ried back to dressing station.
Realizing he was dying, he called a
fellow soldier and started to give him
a farewell message to his mother. He
died before he could finish it.
Other. Washington men killed in &C
ton were Privates William c. Com
pher, a former policeman in the first
precinct; Tony Smith. Sergt. Maj. Earl
Tyler and Private Harmon G. Young.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow; not
much change in temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended 2 pm. today: Highest, Is, at
5 pm. yesterday; lowest, SO, at $40
am. today.
Full report on page IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29

CONTINUED on Seventh Page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-29

Member Of the Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited TO II not otherwise credited in this
paper and also The local news published herein.
All rights Of publication Of special
dispatches herein also reserved.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-07-04
FOOD PRICES UPHELD TO
BENEFIT THE BIG PACKERS
Tess Suggests That 2S0,O0O,OOO Lbs.
of Meat Products Be Placed on
the Market

Vigorous protests against the with
holding of 2SO,OOO,OOO pounds of
meat products by the war department
in order to uphold the current prices
of the packers has been voiced in the
house by Representative Simeon d.
Fess, of Ohio.
In reciting the facts he said: "The
government is now holding 100000
900 pounds of roast beef in cans, 3d.
100000 pounds of corn beef in cans,
20,000,000 pounds of corn beef hash
in cans, and 50,0OO,OO0 pounds of ba-
con in cans. The explanation of the
war department is that to release it
to the people would cause break in
prices. 1t is stated that this large
amount of food in cans represents five
months of intense active production,
which, under any other conditions
than those of war would mean two
years of production.
az know of no disaster that would
follow the lowering of food prices to
the people at a time when they are
carrying many burdens of taxation
and when a great number are out of
employment. The destruction OF
prices current should not be avoided
when prices are as high as now. This
is the plea of a committee represent
ing the packers and | do not believe
in it. In the face of abundant produc-
tiion, it cannot with reason be con-
tended that there is a scarcity of pro
duction. Therefore the law of supply
and demand should not be retarded
and INSTRUCTED by the secretary of wal
but should be allowed free reign sc
as to benefit all the people of the
country. This vast amount of fooo
should be thrown upon the market
now that peace is here, and should be
permitted to take it's chance with the
other output of the packers.
eve have the same situation with
regard to wheat. With a greater yielt
than ever before the government has
decreed that the price to be paio
for it shall be fixed at 1926 pei
bushel. This is done in order that
the original fixing of prices current
for wheat may be upheld as against
the discrimination in favor of cottor
which was regulated only by the law
of supply and demand. The govern
ment should take over the wheat a
the contract price, put it on the mar
ket at the Sse which supply and de
mand would name, in order that the
consumer may have cheaper flour anc
bread, and then charge off the differ
ence to war loss. All of this compli
cation comes from governmental tink
ering with normal economic condi
tions. So far as the prices of pro
ducts are concerned, the people are
better off without such interference
for the reason that they thereby have
in the long run to pay greater BILL