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Evening star., 1919-03-18
FRENCH AIRMEN COMING
HERE IN LOAN CAMPAIGN
One Of Eight in Party May Make
Flight Across ocean-English
A9iators Also Expected.

Eight French aviators of distinction
will come to the United States to aid
In the victory loan drive. it was
learned at the Treasury Department
today. The names of seven of the
aviators already have reached the de-
partment. The report from abroad
published in the morning papers that
a French aviator was about to make
the attempt to fly across the Atlantic
ocean has led some Of the Treasury
officials to speculate on his being the
eighth aviator promised for the VIC
tory loan drive
Invitations were extended to Mar
shall Foch and Marshal Petain to come
to the United States at the time of the
opening Of the loan campaign. Both.
however. have been compelled to de.
cline the Invitations owing to their
duties abroad at this time.
An invitation has been extended to
Marshal Haig of the British army
also. 1t is understood that number
of British aviators as well as the
French will come here to aid in the
loan drive.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
SHOTS AND CLUBBINGS
MARK LAWRENCE STRIKE

LAWRENCE. Mass. March IS
While the police were trying to brea k
up parade of textile workers today
shots were fired from tenement
houses, officers were stoned and per
sons in the crowd dubbed Many ar
rests were made. 1t was the most
violent disturbance that had occurred
since the strike began, six weeks ago.
The strikers had picketed the mills
during the opening hours. After the
gates were closed they formed a COL
umn for a parade. At the head of the
line. according to City Marshal T. j..
O'Brien, were red flags. He sum-
moned reserves from police headquar-
ters and read the riot act
Stones and bottles were thrown
then from the outskirts of the crowd.
Shots also were fired from nearby
house, but no one was hit. Officers
arrested the occupants of the build
ing. In the meantime other policemen
and strike sympathizers had an en-
counter. Several persons were knock
ed down with police clubs and two
officers were hit by stones or bottles
Later tWenty-one men were arraigned
on a charge of rioting. Each pleaded
not guilty and bonds were set at $500
for a hearing March 26 The charge
against another person arrested was
dropped.
strike leaders denied that any red
flags were carried and said that an Ital-
ian flag must have been mistaken for
the revolutionary banner in the fog.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
FIRST PEACE FINAL
IN CASE OF HUNS
Pact With Germany's Allies
Soon to Follow Treaty
Nearing Completion.
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
(By Wireless.)

(By Wireless.)
PARIS, March 18.-There will be no
preliminary peace in SO far as Ger
many is concerned. The pact which
German delegates will be asked to
sign, Incorporating, as it will. the
league Of nations covenant. will he
the final one.
The allied powers in Paris then will
proceed with settlements with Ger
many's allies. After the signing of
the pact with Germany and her allies,
which will come within a few weeks.
the allies will proceed to settle their
own problems.
Many OF these allied issues possibly
will take weeks of negotiation but
from the standpoint of the United
States this country will cease to voice
particular interest after the pact with
both Germany and Austria is signed.
In view of conditions in Austria and
her possible junction with Germany.
1t is doubted in Paris that formal
agreements between the allies and
Austria. save so far as they affect a
general pact with Germany. can be
signed.
Pichon's interview. in which he said
a league would not be incorporated in
a preliminary pact. is regarded as a
political kite.
The French, desirous of an earlv
pact with Germany as. incidentally.
every one else is, are now seeking to
bolster opinion to defer this league n
IT is considered necessary to effect an
early agreement with Germany.
Owing to the trend of developments
and the speedy work of conference
committees on various phases Of the
agreement with Germany, there will
be no occasion to defer discussions or
action upon the league The commit :
tee engaged in co-ordinating commit
zee reports is proceeding also and
pact with Germany will be ready
Evening star., 1919-03-18
SOLDIER INSURANCE PLAN
LEGAL, SAYS Mr.. PALMER

The last legal obstacle to the issu-
,nce of a new insurance policy into
which soldiers insurance may be con-
ver,ed was removed today, when At
torney General Palmer gave an opin-
ion that the Treasury might pay in
surance to the estates of deceased
rersons as well as to specific benefi-
ciaries.
THE form of the policy was sent to
Secretary Glass for approval and will
he ready for final announcement
within a few days.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
STEEL MEN COMING HERE.
Representatives of Industry to Con-
fer With Sterilization Committee.

NEW YORK. March 18.-Members Of
the committee OF iron and steel manu-
facturers recently appointed to confer
with the committee on sterilization of
industry. named by Secretary Redfield,
met here today. They will go to Wash
ington tomorrow and confer with George
n. Peek and the other members of Sec
retary 'Redfield's committee
The Washington conference will be
the first of severa! which Mr. Peek and
his fellow commit ,eemen will hold in an
effort to stabilize industries and stimu-
late consumption.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
limited Mine Workers Meet.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 1S.--A
policy" meeting of about $50 repre-
of the twenty-six districts
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica began at the international head
quarters of the organization here to-
day. The representatives will discuss
and probably decide on questions re-
tracts and general conditions ex-
pected to develop during the reconstruo.
ton period.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
WILL NAME DELEGATES
TO ORGANIZE VETERANS

Col f.. Lester Jones. commander of
Gen. Pershing Post. No. 1, recently
formed as the District of Columbia
branch of a proposed world war vet
erans' organization, announced today
that delegates would be appointed
March "a to meet with delegates from
TIE states and overseas to consider
q national organization program.
Gen. Pershing has been advised Of the
plan by cable.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
BAVARIANS ELECT PREMIER
Herr Hoffman, to Form Cabinet
While Diet Is Adjourned

BASEL, March 18.-Herr Hoffman,
socialist minister in the Eisner
government, has been elected pre-
mier Of Bavaria by the diet, according
to a Munich dispatch to the Frankfort
Gazette. After the election the diet ad-
iourned to give the new premier time
to form a cabinet
At the beginning of the sitting party
leaders declared their adhesion to the
state constitution which was framed by
the late premier and agreed unani-
mously on the first and second readings
Of the document. it is reported.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
Storm Sinks Packet; Crew ESCAPES.

PADUCAH, KY. March 1s.-The
packet John l.. Lowry. since 1913 in the
Evansville. Paducah and Nashville trade.
was sunk in the Cumberland river at
point eight miles north of Paducah dur
ing storm late yesterday, according to
word reaching here today. The Lowry
was valued at $4,000 and carried a
cargo estimated to be worth SIG. 900
|:3he crew escaped
Evening star., 1919-03-18
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
CableEram to The Evening star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1919.


LONDON March 1S-The controver-
sizes in the United States relative to
the league of nations now filling
much space in the British papers
synchronize with the presence in Lon
don of Oscar Straus. chairman of the
American League to Enforce Peace.
Mr. Straus came to London to at
tend session of the International
League of Nations Society, where he
has been in conference with Bryce,
Bourgeois. Venizelos and other Euro
pean leaders
The former ambassador to Turkey
is naturally the target of inquiries
concerning the strength of the move
ment inside and outside the Senate to
discredit the league covenant as re-
Gently submitted to the American
people by Mr.. Wilson.
"Partisans Oppose"
What ! have said to my European
friends Mr.. Straus told me today.
lis simply that this opposition to
Mr. Wilson's program is sheer par
tisanship. 1t was conceived and is
now being agitated by political rivals
who would be hostile to anything
tndt promised TO augment the pres
tige of the democratic administration.
Senators Borah, Poindexter and
Mccormick. as we'll as others, are not
fighting the league because they are
against it, but because they are re-
publicans in quest of an anti-demo-
cratic issue. Their eyes are not fixed
on the future of the world, but on
the future of the republican party
eighteen months hence.
Il confidently predict their rout
They will make as much partisan
capital out of their opposition as
they can. and as long as they can,
but VIXEN the time comes to line up
squarely for or against the main is
sue, no party will dare to fly in the
face of what the republicans know
to be the overwhelming desire of the
rank and file of the American people
irrespective Of party politics.
What They "ought to Know"
"Borah. Poindexter, Mccormick and
their conferees understand perfectly
well that the league covenant threat
ems neither the sovereignty of Con-
gress, the Monroe doctrine nor the in
fuence of the United States in the
Evening star., 1919-03-18
Picketing Grows More Vigorous.

The picket operations have been in
creased in vigor day by day. Today's
turnout Of pickets was the largest
yet, and was attracting much atten-
tion until put an end to by the arrest
of the participants.
Capt. Fiather advised the pickets,
when released. not to go back to the
Raleigh Hotel. but to desist from
further picketing operations and
await the decision of the court to-
morrow. If they attempt further
picket work today. he told the pickets,
they would be arrested again.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
Senator Henderson in Air Trim.

Senator Henderson Of Nevada left
Washington at 2:15 o'clock today for
New York in an airplane pilSted by
Maj. w. c. Ocker. He planned to land
at Mineola. L. l.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
RULING ASKED ON
KICK" BEER SALE
Department of Justice to
Pass on Revenue Bureaus
Power to Enforce Order.
BREWERS WOULD RESUME

Whether the internal revenue bu-
reau has authority to enforce its rule
against the sale of beer containing
onehalf of per cent or more of alco-
hol will be put up to the Department
of Justice. Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Roper today decided to ask for
an opinion on the subject.
Proposal Raises Question.
The question was raised by the an
nouncement of New York breweries
that they would resume manufacture
and sale of beer containing not more
than 2& per cent alcohol. considering
this Notwithstanding.
Commissioner Roper discussed the
subject today with deputies of the
bureau in charge of enforcing liquor
laws, but found the various laws and
food administration regulations were
SO complicated that a legal opinion
would be necessary before he could
decide whether to enforce the bu-
reauS ruling.
This ruling, promulgated recently,
permitted the manufacture of beer
containing not more than "a per cent
alcohol, but provided that before sale
the alcoholic content must be reduced
to not more than one-half of l per
cent.
Rule Based on Precedent.
Revenue bureau officials explained
today that the one-half per cent lin
1t prescribed by that rule was based
on precedent and on court decisions
of a number of states. State laws
and regulations vary, however, and
Commissioner Roper said he knew
specifically of no federal law or court
decision prescribing one-half of l Der
cent as the limit of alcoholic content
for Notwithstanding beer.
AS soon as the solicitor of the reve-
nue. bureau and the Department of
Justice have rendered opinions, Com
missioner Roper will decide what
course to pursue If it is determined
to enforce the one-half per cent rule,
revenue officers will be charged with
forbidding the shipment Of beer contain
ing more alcohol from breweries
The revenue bureaus action today
was based on unofficial reports con-
cerning the intention Of the New York
brewers Neither the brewers nor
their counsel had communicated di-
rectiy with the bureau.
Not an Arbitrary Ruling.
Beer containing one-half of 1 per
cent or more of alcohol by volume is
considered intoxicating by the inter-
nal revenue bureau. Officials ex-
planned that this standard was based
on a number OF laws and court deci-
sions in the past and was not an ar.
b1trary executive ruling.
On the face Of the situation, il was
said unof1cially by some bureau off.
GERS. the brewers action would con-
stitute a direct violation of a recent
revenue bureau ruling
Evening star., 1919-03-18
u. S. IS IN WORLD POLITICS
TO STAY, DECLARES STRAUS
Former Turkish Ambassador Says Opposition
to Mr.. Wilson's Program Is "Sheer Par
tisanship'' Senator's Rout.

councils of the league. They talk
about the British empires six votes
and our one. This refers to the house
of delegates. They know. or ought
recting the affairs of the league Is
vested IN the council of nine, in which
the five great powerS-America Brit
ain. France, Italy and Japan-haVe
one vote each. with the four remain
ing votes split up among the smaller
powers.
They know. or ought to know. that
far from undermining the Monroe
doctrine, the league sets up what is
tantamount to Monroe doctrine for
the whole world. Instead of increas-
ing the danger that the doctrine Will
be attacked the league immensely
strengthens the probability that 1t
Eever will be attacked.
The suggestions about overriding
the Constitution of the United States
and other things are bogleS erected
by the republicans for their own pur-
poses. They are erected by men out
of step with the march of events
I'm World Politics to Stay
whether we want it or not. the
American people are in world politics
to stay. We can withdraw. as the re-
publicans would have US do, only at
the cost of losing the splendid posi-
tlOn we nave won Tor ourselves III Ine
last two years and inviting for our
selves. perhaps. dangers of which we
do not now dream.
Nobody, l am certain, is more con-
scious than is Mr.. Wilson that the
covenant as now drawn up is not per-
feet. Undoubtedly it requires amend
ment here and there. In the nature Of
the case it must be more or less pre-
liminary and experimental.
when the Wright brothers first
demonstrated to the world at Kitty
hawk, n. c.. in 1903. that they had
constructed machine that could fly
they were aware that they had not
reached perfection. Yet, within ten
years their airplane had become an ac-
.complished scientific fact.
THE league of nations is admitted
ly in the kittyhawk stage of devel-
opment. He would be a rash prophet
who dared to foreshadow that it will
remain there. The worlds mind is
made up too firmly that it shall not
Those who, in the spirit of little
Americanism or little International
ism. attempt to prevent the league of
nations airplane from soaring to its
appointed heights will suffer the fate
Of the many men who fooled unwisely
with the flying machine propellers-
they will be smashed in pieces"
Evening star., 1919-03-18
World Will Demand Peace.

They realize further that as soon al
the work of the peace commission
conferences draws to a close and i,
presents a plan for peace. although i,
may not appeal to every one as per.
feet. there will be such world de-
mand for peace, such nostalgia fol
war and it's aftermath, that a clamol
will set in for ratification-"and lei
the future take care of itself"
The opposing senators say that il
they had time and opportunity they
of the people that their charges
against the covenant are founded on
fact and in truth. Some of the main
allegations in the indictment of the
covenant they present are these:
Faults Of Covenant.
That it transfers the sovereignty
of this nation from the people there.
of to an international trust
That it places the control of this
autocratic mixed commission of Eu-
ropeans and Asiatics. in which the
United States will have one vote in
nine.
trine, which is held sacred as an
n aHiCi iSoh oSSoHu only
sanctity to the Washington doctrine
of no foreign alliances.
That 1t repudiates outright the
Washington doctrine of no permanent
foreign alliances.
"That it gives England, through
the inclusion of her colonies of Can
ada, Australia. New Zealand and
South Africa, preponderating influ
ence as against the United States
with one vote on the council.
THAT it involves sending Ameri-
can boys to police the nations of the
world in which they have no pos
sible interest or concern
That it vests the war-makfne
power. now resting in Congress under
the Constitution of the United States
in a commission of nine, in which
the United tSates would have one
vote"
These are some of the specifica-
tions in the brief which the opposing
senators have written in support OF
their case and which they would like
to argue before the people. But can
it be done?" they are now asking one
another. If the President comes home
with a treaty to bring peace now. and
which he will claim will cause peace
to be kept by international agree
ment forever after. can their argu-
ments convince the country of their
counter claim that 1t will not assure
peace except at the sacrifice of price
less American policies?
Evening star., 1919-03-18
ARREST TWENTY
WHOP|CKET HOTEL
Woman Among Those Police
Take Into Custody-An
Released on Bail.

Nineteen members of the Washing
ton Walters Union and the wife of
one Of the walters, who have been en-
gagged in picketing the Raleigh Hotel.
were arrested this afternoon by police
of the first precinct charged with vio-
lating law approved July l. 1902.
The pickets put up s25 collateral each
for their appearance in Police Court
tomorrow. Mrs. Annie Begelman was
the first released On collateral.
The pickets, carrying large and
small signs relating to charges made
against the management of the hotel.
were arrested shortly after noon by
Capt. Flather. Sergt. Wittstatt. De-
tective Fortney. Bicycle Policeman
Dierkopf and Policeman MCDANIEL.
The prisoners were marched, signs
and all, to the police station.
Charge Against Picketers.
Police arrested the pickets, who had
been ION duty" at the hotel for the
past week. and charged them with
violating the following act:
NO person shall place, exhibit,
maintain or continue any advertise
ment or poster, except upon land,
houses, buildings, fences or other
structure as the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia may, in their
discretion. authorize in writing for
that purpose"
1t was declared by the police that
the Commissioners had construed this
law to prohibit moving signs upon
back, and by sandwich men" and
perambulating signs. except business
signs upon wagons. etc.
Mrs. Begelman and many of the
men carried sandwich signs today.
which had been attracting consid =
cradle attention in front Of the Ra-
leigh since the walters, who have de-
clared that they were locked OUT
by the hotel management, took up
picketing.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
EXTRACONCRESSCALL
EXPECTED BEFORE June
Officials Holding Opinion Admit
Absence of Information of
Presidents Purpose.

An extra session of Congress before
June l is believed to be certainty
by many government officials and
members Of Congress. although their
predictions are without the support Of
evidence to show that President Will
son has changed his determination not
to summon Congress before his return
from France.
Views of Cabinet Officers.
Cabinet officers are known to believe
that the session will begin in May,
the middle of the month. with others
suggesting an earlier date, probably
May S. AS far as known none of
the cabinet members has specifically
dent. but Secretary Glass is UNDER
stood TO have presented certain facts
in regard to the governments finan-
cial situation from which the Presi-
dent may make his own deductions.
Members of Congress remaining in
licans, hope that the session will be
called two months before the end of
the current fiscal year, next June 80.
so ample opportunity will be given
for considering appropriation bills
that failed at the last Congress.
Republican Leader Lodge of the Sen
ate. has sent letters to all republi-
can senators requesting them to re-
cord their address of May Is with his
Office. but this was said to be without
significance.
White House Advices From Paris.
White House officials said today if
reports from Paris that the peace
treaty might be completed next week
proved accurate President Wilson
might return home by the middle of
April. No Information regarding the
probable date of approval of a treaty
has been received at the White House.
A statement prepared by Secretary
Glass Of the Treasury Department
showing the imperative need of the
government for the appropriations
which Congress failed to put through
will be transmitted by cable to the
President today. it was learned at the
White House.
1t is not necessary for the President
to be in Washington to issue a call
for an extra session of Congress. 1t
is likely. according to opinion ex-
pressed in some quarters. that the
President may send out the call for
special session while he is still
abroad. In this way he will give the
members time to assemble, and also
give himself time to be in this coun-
try on the day that Congress con-
veneS.
Secretary Tumulty also has cabed
the President that there is urgent ne
cessity for Congress meeting as soon as
possible.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
SAYS PEOPLE WANT
SOME LEAGUE PLAN
Senator Kellogg Declares
Sentiment Is Unprecedented
for War Preventing Mode.
POPULAR CHORD TOUCHED

Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, who
is back from a trip home, brings the
report that there is widely prevail
ing feeling among all classes of people
in favor of the general plan of a
league of nations to prevent future
wars. The senator says that never has
he seen the people of his state so gen.
orally united upon an idea or a policy.
He says that thus far they have not
analyzed the covenant of the league
of nations, but indorsc the proposition
as a whole.
Senators who oppose the covenant
of the league declare that unquestion-
ably this same spirit and feeling pre-
walls to a large extent throughout the
country and they realize that they
have their work cut out for them in
trying to arouse the country to ap-
probation of the dangers and menace
of the covenant as they see them and
charge them to be.
President Sees His Advantage.
These opposing senators go on to
say that President Wilson is evidently
aware of the psychology of the ad-
vantage he possesses in this contest
with a portion of the Senate and that
he is stalking his all upon the general
predisposition of the people to a COM
pact of nations to prevent war, intent
upon clnching the scheme upon the
nation before his opponents can pur-
sue their campaign of education
against it.
If President Wilson can come back
soon with the covenant of the league
incorporated in the main treaty of
peace. these senators feel that with
this prevailing widespread sympathy
for a league to which they cannot
blind their eyes to support him. he
will be in a position difficult to as
sail.
The suggestion has been made that
il the covenant is included in the
treaty, it would be possible by a bare
majority vote in the Senate to sepa-
rate the covenant from the treaty
and then ratify the treaty as thus
plan that it would be tantamount to
rejecting the peace treaty, as the
document would then have to go back
to the other nations for reconsidera-
ton.
Opponents Are Dubious.
Taking stock Of the elements of ad-
vantage possessed by the President
in his contest with them, the oppos-
ing senator's feel that he is in posi-
tion to touch upon a great popular
chord of sentiment and make It re-
spond. while upon them devoives a
lawyerlike task of argument, logic
and reasoning. They ask themselves,
with rueful looks. whether 1t will be
possible to get their briefs and oral
arguments Of the case before the mass
Of the people effectively.
The President, his cabinet, Mr.. Taft
Prof. Lowell and other distinguishe ed
men declare that the covenant is all
right. that it does not embody the
dangers alleged against it; that it is
essential to world peace. Already pre-
disposed in favor of it. will not the
rank and file be inclined to take a
chance" it is asked. on the new pro-
ject for world peace and insist upon
the Senate ratifying the treaty, cove
nant and all? That is the thought
which is worrying the Opposition"
just now.