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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
Mr.. DARR APPEALSFOR
JEWISH RELIEF FUND
Speaks at Motion Picture Houses
on Closing Night of Campaign.
Quota Here Probably Raised.

Charles w. Darr, former four-min-
ute man, last night made appeal at
motion picture theaters in behalf of
the raising of Washington's quota of
$4,000 toward the American Jewish
relief committee fund.
The campaign formally closed at
midnight. Local committee headquar-
tiers announced that when all reports
are in, and belated contributions are
received. 1t is probable that Washing
tons quota will have been raised.
Tomorrow a collection will be taken
for the fund at the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing and at various de-
partment buildings.
Those who subscribed 500 or more
to the fund yesterday are: Albert
Carry. 500; Is. F. Saul. 800: Sidney
w. Strauss, 500: Friedlander Broth
ers, 500: Christian Heurich. 800:
Emil Beriiner, additional, $500; Capt.
julius Peyser, 500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
SENATORS OPPOSE.
5-YEAR TEST PLAN
Show Hostility in Questions
to Director General When
He Pleads for 1t.
THINK II MONTHS ENOUGH

Hostility toward the plan of
Director General McAdoo for a FIVE
year extension of government control
and operation of the railroads was
manifest in the questions asked the
director general by members of the
Senate interstate commerce COM
mittee during the hearing yesterday
on the railroad question.
There is strong opposition to grant
ing the request of Mr.. McAdoo for the
extension. Senators believe that the
railroad problem should be settled as
soon as possible after thorough con-
sideration by Congress, and they
believe that this can be accomplished
during the twenty-one months which
the government. under existing law.
is authorized to operate the roads
after the proclamation of peace.
The threat of the President to turn
the roads back to the old owners. un-
der old conditions, unless Congress
indicates that it proposes to enact
laws dealing with the roads speedily.
coupled with the refusal of Director
General McAdoo TO suggest any plans
as an alternative for his recommen-
dation that the Congress amend the
law so to permit the government to
hold the roads for five years has
caused some of the senators uneasi-
ness.
1t was suggested last night by at
least one of the senators that a reso-
luton should be brought in to prohibit
the return of the roads to the old
owners, during the twenty-one-month
period the government is permitted
to hold the lines and until Congress
shall have had an opportunity to
legislate.
At the end of his testimony, Mr..
McAdoo and Senator Smith Of South
Carolina. chairman of the commit
tee exchanged brief complimentary
speeches. 1t was the occasion of Mr.
McAdoo's last appearance before a
body of Congress before retiring as
director general
Tomorrow the committee will hear
Edgar L. Clark and other members
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, and probably Tuesday. A p.
Thorn, counsel of the Association of
Railway Executives, Will present the
railroads views.
Mr. McAdoo still is expecting daily
to receive word from President VIII
son concerning the appointment of
new director general, and has no in
formation indicating the reasons for
delay it was stated. If no selection
is made by the time he leaves for a
vacation in California Tuesday, he
will maintain nominally the functions
OF director general. although Walter
D. Hines his assistant, may act in
formally as director. designated by
Mr. McAdoo. as he has done frequently
in the past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
CRUISER SEATTLE BEARS
BOOTH MORTAR BATTERY
Report of 147th Coming Home Is
Changed; More Units As
signed for Convoy.

The 3osth Trench Mortar Battery
five officers and III men. instead of
the 147th Trench Mortar Battery, as
previously announced, is aboard the
cruiser Seattle, due in New York
January 10, the War Department an
nounces.
Eighty-five per cent of the men Of
the battery viii go to Camp Taylor
for rehabilitation and the balance
to miscellaneous posts.
Additional units assigned by Gen.
Pershing to early convoy home, the
War Department announces. include
the LIST and I'd Railroad Ordnance
Repair Shops, the 151st Artillery
Brigade, composed of the 302d and
SOD Field Artillery regiments and
the brigade headquarters, and the
Tractor Artillery School detachment,
in all about 100 officers and $500 men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
WILL SPEED WORK
ON DISTRICT BILL
Senate Committee Hopes
Soon to Report Measure
With $3.50 Principle.
DROPS LUMP SUMS ASKED

Work on the District appropriation
bill was continued yesterday after
noon by the Senate appropriations
committee, in charge of the measure.
and some progress was made in re-
drafting the bill. The appropriations
for the Pubic Utilities Commission
were changed from a lump sum to
specific amounts. the committee feel
ing that the practice of granting lump
sums was unwise. The commission
will receive within a few hundred dol
lars of the total asked for, but not in
lump sum.
The committee will resume consid-
GRAFTON of the bill tomorrow and every
effort will be made to have the meas
ure ready to report to the Senate this
week Already the committee has re-
placed in the bill the half-and-half
plan of appropriating for the District,
which the House has sought to Kill
The committee is considering the
matter of increases in the salaries OF
the District employees, who, under
present living conditions, are said to
have hard struggle to get along on
their present pay. The commissioners
believe that relief should be granted
these employees. They have pointed
cut 10 1ohSfess' aiso' .iiS
which they experience in getting the
. work done at the figures authorized
by law. - 10y g.
A strong feeling exists among Sem
ators as well as members of the
House that a joint committee should
be appointed to go into the question
of salary increases for the civil en-
ployes of all the government depart.
ments and the District of Columbia.
Such a committee could standardize
salaries and provide for fair COM
pensation for the work done. 1t is
said that such committee will likely
be provided for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
HUN PAPER CALLS
FOR WILSON PEACE
Urges Germans to Resist
Harder Terms; Thought to
Echo Foreign Minister.
BY the Associated Press.


COPENHAGEN, January Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau, the new Ger
man foreign minister, has issued a
statement outlining his policy, but it
has not yet reached Copenhagen.
From comment in the Tageblatt of
Berlin, however, it appears that he
declared that Germany must not yield
to every peace condition her opponents
may wish to dictate. The Tageblatt ad-
heres to the minister's point of view,
and says:
NO peace must be signed which
differs by the breadth of hair from
the principles of President Wilson's
fourteen points, which Germany has
accepted and the entente willingly. or
unwillingly, has signed"
The Tagebiatt then discusses Ger
many's decisions before the war, and
says these were fed by a fatal prop
uganda which drove America into
the war and led to the inevitable
catastrophe"
ut is necessary" the paper contin-
ues, ITO avoid the self-deception Of
which the minister speaks. but it is
not necessary to plunge madly into
standardization. Continuous lamen-
tations and half-hearted weakness
must lead the entente to see that the
German people have no viii of their
own and may bend under any yoke
of slavery. Thus bereft of it's most
valuable territories, Germany might
be held down in continuous impotence.
I'VE regard it as urgently necessary
that Germany should convince !sthe
world of her firm will and loyalty to
realize President wilson's peace, but
not to accept any other, especially
that of Premier Clemenceau. Minister
Brockdorff- Rantzau has said this with
a plainnesS and a frankness which the
German policy too long has been
lacking. He rejects peace of vio-
lence destruction and subsection. de-
spite the serious crisis in Germany
The people will back him up"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
AMERICANS SHELL
ENEMY AT KAD|SH
BoIsheviki 0utnumber Them
Three to One, But They
Bear Up SpIendidIy.

ARCHANGEL, Friday, January 3
(by the Associated Press) .-Fiehting
about the village of Kadish. which
was recaptured by the American
forces on December 80. is continuing.
The American artillery has moved up
slightly and is almost continually
Smelling the enemy. There have been
numerous outpost encounters in the
thick woods bordering on the Petro-
grad road.
The bolshevik force outnumbers the
Americans nearly three to one and is
seeking to outfank them. but the
American soldiers, though tired after
five days and nights of fighting
activity in the extreme cold, are bear
ing up splendidly. The battle is
largely question of endurance in the
Arctic weather
Now and then in the courses of the
fighting the Americans encounter hid
den machine gun positions in the
woods or along the road. One of these
held out for five hours, until tn.
Americans, advancing step by step.
or crawling in the snow. succeeded In
Ranking it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
CARGO CARRIER LAUNCHED.
Sponsored by Chicago Girl Selected
BY C. N. Schwab.

CHESTER, Pa, January - The
Edellyn. first of the Delaware river 1919
fleet of cargo carriers, was launched to-
day at the yard of the Sun Shipbuilding
Company. The sponsor was Miss Helen
Wilson of Chicago. who was chosen for
the honor by Charles NJ. Schwab before
he retired as director general OF the
Emergency Fleet Corporation. Miss
Wilson is a daughter Of Thomas E.
Wilson, a Chicago business man. The
name Edellyn is derived from Edward
and Helen, the names of Mr.. Wilson's
two children.
The Edellyn is $500 lightweight tons.
one Of the largest type of ships built in
this vicinity. She is a sister ship of the
Marica and South Bend. which were re-
Gently launched at the Sun company
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
House DEFERS ACTION
1, ON Alaska CONTEST

ffer two days argument in the
Hause over the elections committee
report that Charles A. sulzer, demo-
crAs. sitting as delegate from Alaska,
is snet entitled to a seat in Congress,
arr that James Wickersham has been
lawfully elected. House action on the
report went over until tomorrow.
Most of the time for the last two days
has been consumed by Mr.. sulzer
arguing in his own behalf.
At the request of Representative
Moeres of Indiana. Mr.. Wickersham
was gwen the privilege of addressing
the House for one hour. He urged
that the question be not decided by
patty vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
TROOPS HEALTH IMPROVED.

Continued Improvement in health
of troops in the United
States is shown by the surgeon gen.
erals report. Both influenza and
pneumonia cases decreased
The port of embarkation, Hoboken,
N. j., was the only station reporting
more than 100 cases of influenza for
the week. Eleven new cases of beri-
beri We're reported from Camp Las
Casas. Porto Rico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
MERCURY RISES IN CHICAGO.
Relief From Severe Cold Wave
Comes in Western States.

CHICAGO, January 4-Relief from
the severe cold ushered into the west
ern half of the country New Year day
came today in most regions. and to-
night more comfortable temperatures
were generally reported. In Chicago.
where a minimum of eleven degrees
below zero was recorded at am, the
reaction had carried the mercury up
ward twentyfour degrees in fifteen
hours tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
DENIES BIG FORD PROFITS.
Secretary Daniels Says Eagle Boats
Have Proved Satisfactory

opmentfnE on reports of high
1rehfs paid for construction of Eagle
oats by the Ford plant. Secretary
1a1ieis said yesterday that profits on
2sse craft were smaller than for any
tasr class of naval construction and
mall in comparison with what the
ayy Department was prepared to
Tow.
So new type of boat ever had fully
.aliZed the hopes pinned to it. he
iasS. but official reports of trials
the frst Eagles showed they were
satisfactory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
FLOOD LIKE GREAT SEA
SURROUNDS WILHELM
Former Kaiser's Health Improved,
He Joins Family Circle of
Won Bentincks.

AMERONGEN. Friday, January 3
tby the Associated Press The for
mer German emperor has apparently
shaken off the effects Of his recent
Illness and was able to join the fam
lily circle of the Won Bentihcks yester-
day. He did not venture into the open
air today. however.
The Rhine is rising rapidly, and in
its lower branches has overlooked its
banks, covering scores of square
miles. The lowlying meadow land
around Amerongen castle now looks
like An immense sea. The water runs
directly to the foot of the castle walls.
Many farmhouses are cut off from
with the adjacent viii
lagos, except by means of boats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
Losses Instead of Profit.

Matter of prices asked by Young
Mems Christian Association for it's
articles sold in canteens overseas al
ready investigated by War Depart
ment, and conditions being remedied
Young Mems Christian Association
originally asked by Gen. Pershing to
run canteen for Army on cost basis.
To do this had to reckon in price Ak
ing such overhead charges as trans
portation charges and marine insur-
ance, so that prices were much higher
than in this country. Young Mems
Christian Association made no profit,
but lost thousands of dollars. Ar
engagements now made will enable
them to obtain supplies from sources
that viii reduce overhead charges and
keep prices down.
Raymond b. Fosdick. chairman of
the commission on training camp ac-
tivities of the War Department, fol-
lowing his return from Europe re-
Gently. stated that he went into this
matter thoroughly and found the COM
plants absolutely without founda-
ton. / mention this matter only be-
cause the widespread rumor is most
unfair to an organization which is
doing heroic service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
DEFERS NEWBERRY CASE.
Supreme Court Not to Hear Argu-
ments This Week.

Announcement was made yesterday
that, upon Solicitor General Kings
motion, arguments which were to
have been heard this week In the su-
preme Court Of the United States in
the contempt cases. growing out of
investigation by a federal grand jury
at New York of primary campaign ex-
penditures of Senator elect Truman
H. Newberry of Michigan, would be
postponed temporarily on account Of
the inability of counsel for the de-
PENDANTS to appear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
COAST LINE STRIKE BEGUN.
Machinists and Others at Whining.
ton Oppose Non-Uuion Man,

WILMINGTON, N. c.. January A.
All repairmen, machinists and boiler
makers went on strike in the local
yards of the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road at noon today following refusal
of the company to remove a non union
employe. About 500 men are out and
all work in the shops and on the yard
is at standstilI.
The demand Of the men for the re-
moval Of the non-union employe was
presented as an ultimatum late yes
terday afternoon and expired at noon
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
CROSS FOR LIEUT.. sCHLEY.
Cousin of Late Admiral Was
Wounded Five Times in Z Hours.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Lieut. J.
Montfort Schley, jr., cousin of the late
Admiral Schley, wounded five times in
seven hours during the second battle of
the Marine, has received the croix de
guerre. relatives here were informed to-
day.
He is rapidly recovering and is ex-
pected home soon. 1t was not until he
received his fifth wound. bullet in the
leg, that Lieut.. Schley had to leave the
battlefield.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
In Charge of Harbor Work.

Col. Spencer Cosby, who has been on
duty with the 209th Engineers Regi-
ment at Camp Sheridan. has been
ordered to proceed to Galveston.
Tex. Col. Cosby will have charge
of the harbor improvement work at
Galveston, and is to be relieved at
Camp Sheridan by Col Beverly c.
Dunn from Camp Shelby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
THROWN INTO BLACK SEA.
Cruelties to Greeks and Armenians
Caused Projects Removal.

SALONIKI, Friday, January g.
Nazim Bey. forRar project of Kharput,
in letter to th<Sbabah of Constantine
pie, declares that he was removed from
Office by Talaat Pasha because he pro-
tested against the manner in which the
Greeks and Armenians of Asia Minor
were being exterminated.
Nazm Bey adds that one of the meth
DDS used to exterminate these peoples
was to throw them into the Black sea
and force them to drown. He says this
was done by order of the Turkish gov
eminent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
ADR|AT|C DISPUTE
STILL UNADJUSTED
Czechs and jugo-SIavs May
Pool Claims in Peace
Settlements.
ITALY LOOKS TO WILSON

Possibility of mutual action on the
part of Czecho-Slavs and Jugoslavs
to attain their respective aims in
Austria Hungary and in that part of
the eastern Adriatic coast where the
southern Slav claims conflict with
those of Italy is a subject of grow
ing interest in Washington.
Should any troubles arise between
the Jugo-Slavs and Italy before an
adjustment of their differences is
reached at the peace conference. the
potential aid which could be rendered
by the Czecho-Slovak forces would
be of considerable benefit.
Indication of close cooperation
between the peoples of the newly
formed and as yet underlined nation
aiities is given by the recruiting
already IN progress among the Jugo-
Siavs in Austria Hungary. where they
could be of value to the CZechs if the
latter must fight the Magyars of
Austria to clinch their territorial
claims in the erstwhile Austro-
hungarian empire.
Worked in Close Harmony.
Though they have been too far
separated for common military action
during the war, the CzechS and the
Jugoslavs have held common counsel
and have worked together in close
harmony. CZechoslayia, as a ma
tonality whose provisional govern
ment has been recognized by the
United States and associated nations,
is in position to bring political
Jugo-Slav claims. DR.. Mazaryk, presi-
dent of the Czecho-Slav provisional
government. also has the confidence
of President Wilson and of allied
statesmen.
On the other hand, Italians now are
making every effort to press their
claims upon President Wilson during
his visit to Italy.
The resignation of Leonida Bissolati
from the Italian cabinet, in protest
against Italy's so-called imperialistic
ambitions, is counted by the Jugo-
their benefit.
Presidents Position Satisfies.
Stressed by the Italians is the recent
pronouncement of Premier Orlando in
support of Baron Sonnino's broad
claims for Italian expansion on the
eastern Adriatic. Following confer
ences of the latter in Paris with Presi-
dent Wilson and Ambassador Cellere
it was stated that lie Italians were
thoroughly satisfied with the Presi-
dent position on the Italian-Jugo-
SlaV question.
Press reports to date have carried
no news of conferences of Jugo-Siav
leaders with the President. though
representatives of the southern Slavs
have talked frequently with Col.
House and with Secretary Lansing,
and have laid before those members of
the American commission the conten-
lions in behalf of their state.
Entire Willingness of the Italians
to support President Wilson's peace
program, including his league of ma
tons and pronouncement for the free
dom of the seas, indicates that the
Italians are looking to him in the
hope that ne will be their sponsor at
the peace table. Neither England nor
France looks with marked favor upon
the Italian proposals for expansion
which would give that nation virtual
control of the Adriatic and a strong
position in the Mediterranean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
Capt. E. Rice Pneumonia Victim

NEW YORK, January Capt.
Emery Rice, who commanded the
Mongolia, the first American steam
ship to sink German submarine, and
who made forty-one voyages across
the Atlantic during the war. died to-
day at the New York navy yard hos
pital of pneumonia following infiu-
enza. He was i'll only week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
Darkness Brings Some RESPITE.

There is some respite with dark
ness, which descends at o'clock in
the afternoon, but the Smelling at
night is making perilous the matter
of the transport of munitions and
provisions along the high road in
sleighs or on mems backs through the
forest. The Russian peasant drivers
of these sleighs, stricken with fear,
in some instances turned and bolted,
only to be forced to proceed by
American soldiers.
The American trench mortars are
doing splendid work. On the Eologda
railway front the bolshevik Smelling
continues. American patrols are
encountering the enemy in the
Omega sector, where it is considered
probable that the American forces
may withdraw from the exposed posi-
tions TO one of the captured villages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
800 Ships Lost by Norway.

CHRISTIANIA, January NAVAL
statistics show that the losses to Nor
ways commercial shipping through
the war were S29 ships Of q total
gross tonnage of 100000. The num-
Der OF sailors who lost their lives
49,. .-l55.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
$40, 900 Asked for Ell Paso Building

Congress was asked by Secretary
Glass yesterday to appropriate $780,
900 for remodeling tho present federal
building at Ell Paso. Tex. Removal Of
the post Office into a new building
next spring will make necessary many
changes TO house various other gov
eminent Offices, it was explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
December Circulation
/ 1925

THE EVENING STAR does not
print forenoon edition.
Its paid circulation in Washing
ton and suburbs is believed to be
between two-and-one-half and three
times that of the corresponding edi-
ton of its afternoon contemporary
IN the same territory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
Would Face Complaints.

1T is our judgment" says DR.. Mott.
that these complaints should be
frankly and fearlessly faced. If we
were to ignore criticism we would be
false to our trust. 1t is our duty to
discover the unfounded criticism, so
that patriotic organization, as a
matter of simple honesty, may not
be blighted unjustly. 1t is equally
our duty to discover the well founded
criticism in order that we may adopt
constructive program that will
obviate in our future policy any lax
administration of the past
rs IL true that the Y. NJ c. A, has
been guilty of profiting in the opera
ton OF its post exchanges overseas?
The following telegram from the
third assistant secretary of war, Frede-
rick =. keppel. is self-expla natory:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
WAR OFFICIALS FIND
NO PROF|T|NC BY ''Y'
Secretary I-ott Quotes Them in
Annual Report of
Association.

NEW YORK, January A review
of the year. which the Young Mems
Christian Association regards as the
greatest in the history of the organi-
cation in effort and accomplishment,
was made public today by the asso-
cations war work council
The review deals with the COM
plants of canteen oyercharges made
by some of the returning soldiers, re-
fers to the War Department investi-
CATION, which, it says. exonerated the
~" and states that, because of fire.
quent reiteration of these and other
complaints by returning soldiers,
John Il. Mott, general secretary OF
the war work council, has asked that
the entire administration of the Y. NJ.
c. A. war program overseas be in
vestigated by the inspector general.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
Takes Baby's Life Also.

Barnes then proceeded to the bed
room OF Mrs. Jones, who. with her baby,
had retired. He fired two charges at
Mrs. Jones, while a single shot took the
baby's life.
The assassin then returned to the
kitchen, where he sat down in chair
loaded the gun for the fourth time
and removed one of his shoes. He tied
string to the trigger of the shotgun
and to his great toe and pulled the
trigger. His body was found sitting
in the chair.