, 1919-01-09
FOREIGN

died at Manchester, Eng.
Herbert Hoover has been d~esignat-
ed director general of food relief
measures in restored. neutral and
enemy territories, it was officially
announced in Paris.
David Lubin of San Francisco,
founder of the international institute
OF agriculture, and the American rep
resontative on its permanent board,
died in Paris of pneumonia. His fatal
illness followed an attack of grippe.
President Wilson arrived in Rome
at 1928 o'clock Friday morning. He
was received at the station by King
Victor Emmanuel and Queen Hell
ena. members of the government
and representatives of the local au-
thorities.
Marshal Joffre was elected chan
cellor of the French Academy, fol-
lowing the precedent OF according
that post to the most recently re-
ceived member. Pierre de La Goroe.
the historian, was made director of
the academy.
The international labor confer
ence, which, according to program.
will meet concurrently with the off,
cial peace conference. will open at
Lausanne on Jan. 10 and continue i'll
session for several weeks, according
to Arthur Henderson.
From the frontier to Rome the jour
ney of President Wilson was like 4
triumphal procession. M%ountaineers
and villagers swarmed from the hills
and valleys to the railroad over which
the Presidential train passed to pay
homage to America.
American Ambassador Thomas Nell
son Page, in company with the mill
tary and naval attaches of the Amer
lean embassy, left Rome to meet Pres
ident Wilson at the Italian frontier.
The visit of Mr.. Wilson to Rome was
the chief topic of conversation at Of
fetal New Year receptions in Rome.
There is every likelihood, accord
ing to Paris newspapers, that the
peace conference, or. rather, a pre-
liminary conference. between the
four great allies will open Jan. 10.
The secretaries of the conference
will be Paul Dutasta, French am
bassador to Switzerland, and Phil
ippe Berthelot of the French foreign
office, it is said.
SPORT
Jess Willard says he will fight
Jack Dempsey if he is guaranteed
100000.
Jack Dempsey started west to open
a theatrical tour, after having dis
posed of Gunboat Smith in the Sec
ond round of their bout at Buffalo,
N. Y. =
Several new boxing bills which
have for their purpose the legalizing
of ten-round boxing bouts in the
state of Oregon are now reported
to be in process of formation.
When the California Legislature
meets at Sacramento Edward Lewis,
assemblyman-elect from Marysville,
will present a new boxing bill which
if passed, will permit ten-round
bouts and a decision by the referee.
Many other states plan the same
movement when their Legislative
bodies V
GENERAL
An official Polish delegation has
arrived in Switzerland and will visit
Paris to lay Polish interests before
the peace conference.
Mrs. Vernon Castle, whose hus-
band was killed in an airplane acct
dent last year, is reported engaged
to Tom Powers of the Royal Flying
Corps.
A Polish army of 8 $1,000 to $1,000
men, striking toward Berlin, has cap
tured Frankfort-on-the-Oder forty
miles from the German capital, the
Polish agency in Lausanne was mott
fled by telegraph from Posen. The
Germans, the report said, are hastily
re-arming their demobilized troops ! IL
an effort to stem the invasion. o
The Pershing theater, said to be
the only playhouse in the United
States maintained exclusively for
soldiers, and to which admittance is
free, was opened in New York by
the New York Community Camp
Service.
Battling against a rough sea which
capsized three of their boats, coast
guards from many stations, aided by
crews from nearly twenty naval craft.
had by nightfall on Thursday taken
safely to shore n navy nurses
and 237 of the 2.4SO homeward-boun
soldiers on the United States trans.
port Northern Pacific, hard aground
for W days on a sand bar near Fire
Island light, according to a New York
report.
This war has taught the lesson
that those who make the best citi-
zens in times of peace make the
best soldiers in time of war; said
William Jennings Bryan in an ad.
dress at Raltimnre in which he