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Evening star., 1920-01-03
INFORMAL PARLEYS
ON TREATY co ON
Supporters Discount Pessi'
mistic Reports Given Out
on Situation.

Informal conferences among the
senators seeking to bring about a
compromise on the peace treaty, so
that it may be ratified, were continued
at the Capitol today. The supporters
of the treaty have discounted pessi-
mistic reports on. the situation.
There is q growing feeling that the
senator's en- beth sides of the chamber
who are anxious to have the treaty
ratified with reservations will get to-
gether before long. One of the demo-
cratic Senators said today that he
thought there was too much jockey
ing for political advantage going on
on both sides. He urged that the
Senate go ahead and ratify the treaty
with reservations and then submit it
to the President.
senator, is pledged to support the
treaty without reservations as long
as he can, but after the Senate has
acted upon the treaty and added res
ervations, in the opinion of this SEN
ator, the President will be at liberty
and, in fact, would be compelled to
exchange ratifications.
One of the latest arrivals is Senator
Hoke Smith of Georgia, who has been
making a number of speeches in
Georgia during the holidays on the
league of nations. He expressed con-
fidence today that the treaty. would
be ratified with substantial reserva-
tions. He said that he thought it
would be disastrous for the demo-
cratic party if it should be forced
into the position of defending the
treaty without reservations in the
coming campaign.
"I believe that Georgia would send
a delegation to the democratic ma
tional convention instructed to op-
pose any candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination who would stand for
the treaty without reservations" said
Senator Smith.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
NEW EVIDENCE BELIEVED
FOUND IN BROWNS DEATH
Secret Inquiry Resumed by Attor.
ney General Widow
Among Those Examined.

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, January
attorney General Alex j. Groesbeck.
VINO came here yesterday to put the
service of his department at the dis
posal of local authorities in an effort to
solve the mystery of j. Stanley Browns
death zee day before Christmas, re-
sumed his secret inquiry this morning
Although no statement was made il
was understood yesterdays inquiry
brought out new evidence the officers
considered of Importance The witnesses
examined included Mrs. Ruth Provost
Brown. widow of the slain man, and
three neighbors.
Coroner's jury last night returned an
open verdict without taking any addi-
tional evidence
Information brought out during the
last twenty-four hours today led au-
thorities to give serious considera-
Z ton to the theory that robbery and
not Jealousy was the motive. 1t has
oeen dehnitely established that Brown
few weeks before this death with
drew from Detroit trust company
$4,000 in stocks and bonds and $1,000
IN cash. No record of what disposition
he made of these has been located.
The belief is expressed that he con-
verted the securities into cash and
carried it in belt. which he is known
to have wore. The belt has never been
located.
In resuming the secret investigation
he began yesterday. Alex. j. Groes-
beck, attorney general of Michigan,
announced today that every taXicab
driver in Mount Clemens will be sum-
moned for examination. -
The preliminary examination OF
Mrs. Vester on the murder charge,
set for this morning, has been in
definitely postponed. 1t was stated
this morning that Ben Sorenski, a
Camp Custer soldier. who Mrs. Yes
ter declares can subStantiate her
story that she was in Battle Creek at
the time of Browns death, will arrive
here some time today.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
KANSAS GOVERNOR
Nc. 0. ?. RUNNING
William Allen White An
nounces Aliens Can
didacy.

TOPEKA, Kan, January 3 tSpe-
ciaD What is regarded as the Of
fetal announcement that Gov. Henry
J. Allen will be a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for President
was made here today by William Allen
White of Emporia. William Allen
White has started more than half of
the political movements in Kansas in
the last two decades. Some of them
have won. some lost. Now he has
started the Allen for president boom.
Statement Deemed Sufficient.
No long interview, platform. pro-
gram or reasons were given by White.
Il am for Allen for President. first,
last and all the time," said White, and
seemed to regard that as sufficient. 1t
has been understood for some time in
state political circles that the gov
ernor was putting up lightning rod
to catch any presidential lightning
that might strike in the vicinity. The
announcement was to have been made
later.
Wood Boom Slows Down in Kansas.
Harvey H. Motter. chairman Of the
republican state central committee
has been combating the movement
among followers of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood for delegation instructed for
Wood for President. Motter managed
Aliens campaign for governor last
year while Allen was in France. and
is close personal and political friend
of the governor. The Wood boom
while it has not collapsed in Kansas
has been more or less slowed down
ever since Gov. Allen took his vigor-
Gus action in handling the coal strike
in Kansas. Several ALLEN for Presi-
dent" clubs have been formed in small
Kansas towns, but the White state
.ment is the first movement for Allen
regarded as significant in Kansas cir
cles. CLIFF STRATTON.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
NATION WIDE NET FOR REDS
LANDS 4, 500, OF WHOM HALF
FACEDEPORTAT TTON PROCESS
SUMMARY Of RAIDS
AGAINST THE: "REDS''

The Department OF Justice today
made public the following statement
of results of the raids on the "reds":
New YOrk-:O1 perfect cases." vo-
luminous amount of literature, records
and books of the organizations.
Ncwark-3OO ''perfect cases." high
officials. including the state organizer
for the communist party. were taken
and implements of destruction.
DetrOit-NOre than 800 persons ar
rested, of whom 2O7 have been exam
ined without the release of any: vast
quantities of propaganda material
taken.
HartfOrd-Twelve arrests and the
charter and literature of the local
communist party seized.
BridgepOrt-Twelve arrests.
Waterbury-Five arrests.
AnsOnia-Five arrests.
san FranciscO-Twenty- per-
sons arrested. including eleven Ger
mans. eight Russians, one Norwegian,
one Italian and one Chinese.
Kansas City-FOrty arrests, includ-
ing Meyer LOOnin of New York, de-
Scribcd as national secretary of the
Jewish branch of the communist
party
ToIedo-Thirteen arrests and rec
Ords of great value to the federal
agents.
st. Paul-Thirty arrests.
Cleveland-Nearly1 100 arrests.
lOungstOwn-MOre than 100 "per-
feet cases' and all mem bership books
and records of the local parties.
BuffalO-Seventy-th persons held
without bail and others still being ex-
amined.
ChfcagO-Approxima 800 held by
federal agents.
Baltimore e-Twnety-fOur persons
arrested and several tons of literature
and the membership roll of the Let
tish branch Of the communist party
seized.
Boston-Heading the list of 600 ar
tional communist party organizer.
Papers and records seized.
BrOcktOn-Practical all Lithuan-
ians, their local society Offices raided
and it's charter and dues records
taken.
adeIphia - One hundred and
TWENTY-FIVE arrests. Of which the local
authorities reported more than 100
were "perfect cases."
Trenton and Camden, n. J.-One
hundred and sixteen arrests. INCLUDE
ing every known leader Of the COM
munist and communism labor organi-
cations.
st. Louis-Fifty-five arrests, most
Iy CrOatians.
New Observation-Disclosures mt more
than 200 arrests, but details had not
reached the department.. Sz<-s<.s ~
Pittsburgh-Twenty- arrests.
Denyer-Sfx arrests.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
DENIKINE'S GOVERNMENT
IN RUSSIA OVERTHROW
Gen. Romanousky Becomes Anti-Bolshevik
Chief, According to Wireless Report
From MoscolU

, veloped into a fight extending over a
virtually continuous front 400 miles IN
length.
Bolshevik cavalry finally filtered
through the Denikine lines, breaking
communications in the rear, and forced
the anti-soviet forces to fall back rap
idly. Recent dispatches have indicated
the bolsheviki were rapidly approach
ing the shores of the Black sea on the
western end of the front and the Volga
river further east.
There were reports last month that
Denkine had been dismissed from COM
mand of the anti-red amy in south
ern Russia, but these were never con-
firmed. Later, it was said, he might
succeed Admiral Kolchak head of all
the elements fighting against the regime
of Lenin and Trotsky.
Gen. Rornanovsky, who is reported to
have succeeded 4Denikine, may be the
officer who has been acting governor
and commander of anti-bolshevik armies
in the far eastern provinces of Siberia
There is no other Russian general by
that name in available army lists.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
WILL
ISSUE CALL FOR
LEAGUE COUNCIL
Planned to Have Mr.. Wilson,
if Able, Give Formal
Notice.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
| PARIS, January 3.-The informal call
for the first meeting of the league Of ma
tions council will be issued by Premier
Clemenceau. the supreme council de-
cided today.
This call is regarded as a simple
notification to enable the delegates to
reach the appointed place in Paris in
time for the meeting. formal notice of
which it is still intended to have Presi-
dent Wilson issue, according to the
| present program.
! Mr.. Wilson to Give Formal Call.
1t is pointed out in conference circles
! that It is immaterial who issues the
informal notice, which will enable the
delegates to reach Paris in time for the
meeting, and that even the formal no.
tice is simple detail. The issuance of
the formal notice devolves upon Presi-
dent Wilson by the provisions Of the
treaty of Versailles, but it is held that
! in case of his inability to act in the
matter any other representative of one
Of the five principal powers forming
the executive council of the league could
issue the notice.
May Not Sign Protocol January @.
| Baron Kurt Won Lersner. the head of
the German mission here, has been
| ill in bed for three days, and the
progress of the negotiations for set
! Ting of the question of what dock
and harbor tonnage is to be turned
| over by Germany as compensation for
the Scapa Flow sinkings has suffered
! in consequence. The allies experts
are continuing their comparisons of
the German figures and the allied
| estimates, but solution of the ques-
| tion involved in the differences be-
| tween the two sets of figures is not
/ clearly enough in sight. it would ap-
pear. to confirm the feeling in the
more optimistic council circles that
the peace protocol will be signed
January 6. That date, however, still
remains as the one fixed for the cere-
mony of the exchange of ratifications
which would put the treaty into effect.
PIebiscite Plans Delayed.
| The question of organizing the pleb-
| iscites to be held in the areas provided
for in the treaty also has been de-
layed in settlement pending/a a reply
| from Berlin as to whether the experts
sent here have full authority to act
| for the German government. The su-
preme council has received request
| from the commission on prisoners of
war for authority to proceed to ar
range with the German government
for the transportation of the prison
ers homeward as soon as the peace
becomes effective.
Evening star., 1920-01-03

LONDON, January 3 (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-Gen. Denikine's gov
ernment in southern Russia has been
overthrown and Gen. Romanovsky has
been chosen to replace Gen. Denikine
as anti-bolshevik chief. according to a
wireless dispatch received here from
Moscow quoting advices from Taganrog.
The report indicates that owing to
defeats along the front a coup d'etat
occurred at Gen. Denikine's headquar-
ters and that his government has been
replaced by a group known as the
''Vozsozhdenye Rossie." meaning the
Regeneration of Russia"
Gen. Denikine's fall is probably a re-
suit of his recent defeats by the boil
sheviki in southern Russia. During the
past autumn the Denikine forces
rnbxed steadily northward, defeating the
soviet troops in many battles and ap-
parently threatening Moscow. After he
had reached Orel, 120 miles south of
the soviet capital, however. he encoun-
tered stern resistance which soon de-
Evening star., 1920-01-03
SENATE'S MEASURE
CREATES0NE ARMY
IN UNITED STATES
Provides InsuIar GarrisonS,
Small Home Force and
Compulsory Training.

The Army reorganization bill, as
completed by the Senate military sf
fairs subcommittee. provides for but
one Army in the United States. ac-
cording to a committee statement
made public today. This force will in
clude:
Proper garrisons for overseas pos
sessions.
A small but efficient home force
available for any minor military emer-
gencyt
training establishment, including
a sufficient number of trained officers
and men to conduct annual training
under a system of compulsory mill
tary training.
A citizen army including. first. the
organized reserve. subject to military
services only in an emergency de
clared by Congress; second. the Ma
tional Guard. composed of volunteers
available for military service within
the several states, and as a reinforce
ment for the home forces in military
emergencies not JustifyinS mobiliza-
tion of the organized reserves.
The bill provided for n period OF
compulsory training for four months.
beginning normally in the nineteenth
year, but subject to deferment one.
two or three years. under proper reg
ulation. Exemptions from training
Will be reduced to a minimum. but
no veteran of the world war will be
subject to compulsory training in
time of peace.
The charter members of the organ
lied reserves will be thosa officers
and men of the world war who Nolun-
teered to enroll for a short period.
subject to voluntary reinroilment
This force Will be permanently or
ganIzed SO far as practicable as a
localized territorial army in brigades.
divisions. army corps and field armies
1t will be perpetuated b. receiving
each year the young men of the coun-
try after they have completed their
required period OF training. Zach Of
ficer and soldier of this force will be
assigned to a definite unit or staff
organized in the locality of his resi-
dence.
The National Guard will form IN in =
tegral part of the citizen army. 1t
VIII be organized in a general way,
as now provided by law, except that
within the limits of a strength au-
thoriZed by law young men liable to
military training may elect training
| IN the National Guard instead of in
the training camps. Such training in
the National Guard shall be under full
federal supervision.
The bill provides for an efficient
general staff, and also creates the of
nee OF undersectary of war, charged
Win tHe SOlullOn OF the great inuuStrla
and business problems involved in OBJ
tanning military supplies
The bill places the strength of the pro-
fessional personnel of the Army at
$4,000 officers and 2S0,0 900 enlisted men.
Also provides for the organization OF
the air service as a separate combat
branch of the Army and for chief OF
each combat service, including the in
fantry and cavalry.
1t is expected that the bill will be laid
before the full Senate committee by the
subcommittee at a meeting next Friday.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
HOTEL PATRONS GET LIQUORS
New York Hostelries Estimate
Free Drinks at $4,000.

NEW YORK. January Supported
stocks of champagne, wines and cor
diaIs to the value of $4,000. according
to valuation under present arid condi-
tions,t were distributed gratis to pa
irons of the Waldorf McAlpin
and Claridge Hotels as the New Year
was welcomed. the managers of the
hotels announced today.
Hundreds of letters, they said, have
been received from celebrators ex-
pressing thanks for their liberality.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
SALISBURY LAW
CASE GOES TO i. S.
SUPREME COURT
D. C. Tribunal Refuses Re-
hearing in Wilson Case,
Granting Writ of Error.

The District Court of Appeals has
refused a rehearing asked by Attor-
ney Henry E. Davis in the case of
Hannah T. Wilson against Curtis c.
Mcdonnell in which the court declared
unconstitutional the Salisbury rent
law. The lawyer then requested a
writ of error to the United States Su
preme Court. which was granted.
Attorney w. c. Prentiss, who three
weeks ago obtained from the Court of
Appeals the first writ of error trans
ferring the question of the validity OF
the Salisbury act to the highest court
pleted his record and filed the case in
the United States Supreme Court.
First to Reach Supreme Court.
The first case to reach the Supreme e
Court involving the constitutionality
Of the Salisbury law is that Of Ger
trude Groot versus Caroline l. Reilly,
on appeal from the decision of the
District Court of Appeals, which held
the resolution unconstitutional. 1t
was filed yesterday.
The original opinion of the Court
of Appeals was handed down in the
Wilson-McDonne case. Chief JUS
cision in the Groot case, merely stated
that as the appellant rested her cause
on the Salisbury resolution, and as
the court had already determined that
act to be unconstitutional, the judg-
ment of the lower court against the
appellant was affirmed.
No date has yet been set for hear
ing arguments in the case, but the
cases covering the Salisbury law.
which are expected to be grouped,
probably will not be heard until
March.
Facts Of Groot Case.
1t is alleged that in February, 1918
Caroline ]. Reilly purchased 1876
Fairmont street northwest. 1t was
under lease until September 27. 1918
at the time of the purchase. Gertrude
Groot holding the lease. The house
was one of three which the tenant
was using as a boarding house to
house fifty woman war workers. The
houses were all connected by pas
sageways.
The tenant refused to give up the
house in September, 1913. when her
lease expired, taking advantage OF
the Salisbury resolution. The pur-
chaser, in her statement to the court
said that she had come to Washing
ton in 1917 to 10 war work AS as
sistant to Dr. Anrn Howard Shaw
chairman of the wOman's coi1mittee
of the Council of National Defense.
The purchaser then brought suit to
oust the tenant. In the Municipal Court
the tenant was sustained, but the Dis
trict Supreme Court reversed the de-
cision of the Municipal Court, and the
Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment
of the Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
Reds in d. {.
Are Watched
By ythePoHce

Washington police, cooperating with
the Department of Justice, have a
number of reds" under surveillance,
Inspector of Detectives Clifford Grant
said today.
A special detail of detectives has been
working on suspects, but no arrests
have been made. Inspector Grant and
Patrick ]. Ahern of the Department Of
Justice held several consultations re-
garding procedure in the cases. No
immediate arrests are anticipated
I'VE have made no arrests" Inspec-
tor Grant said, but we have appointed
special detail to watch suspected rad
icals. We are cooperating with the
Department of Justice. Beyond this
there is nothing to say"
Evening star., 1920-01-03
TWO JURORS SAY SUICIDE.
None Expressed Belief Griffith Girl
Was Murdered by DR.. Schott.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, January 3.-Two
of the six members of the coroners
jury which has returned non-com-
initial verdict in the inquest into the
death of Elizabeth Ford Griffith, be-
lieved that the girl committed suicide.
two believed she was killed by some
one and two were in doubt as to
whether it was a case of murder or
suicide None of them, however, ex-
pressed the belief that DR.. Christie
pher G.. Schott, charged with murder
ing the seventeen-year-old office as
sistant, had committed murder. The
Jury reported inability to determine
who fired the fatal shot.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
EARL GREY SAILS FOR HOME.
Steamer Adriatic Leaves New York
With 1.5OO Passengers.

NEW YORK. January 3.-The
steamer Adriatic, sailing today for
Plymouth. Cherbourg and Southamp-
ton, had 1,500 passengers aboard,
among them many persons Of promi-
nence. The passenger list included
Viscount Earl Grey of Fallodon, am
bassador to the United States from
Great Britain: Lady Jellicoe, wife of
Admiral Jellicoe; Lady Herbert, wild
ow of the former ambassador from
Great Britain to this country: Will
liam Phipps, assistant secretary of
state; Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir
Wroth and Lady Letherbridge. Rob-
ert Silvercruys Of the Belgian en-
bassy, Washington. and Nelson Dean
Jay of J. P. Morgan & Co.
Evening star., 1920-01-03
NEW YORK AUTO SHOW OPENS
Motor Display Ii Two Divisions.
Trucks and Passenger Cars.

NEW YORK, January 3.-The twen-
tieth national automobile show opened
here today in two divisions-one ar
the Grand Central Palace and the
other at Sth Coast Artillery Armory.
Passenger cars of eighty-four differ
ent makes, ranging in price from $713
to more than $1,000 were exhibited.
At the armory sixty-nine makes of
trucks were displayed.
Lieut.. Gen. Bullard, commanding the
Eastern Department, and Maj.
Shanks, in command of the port of
embarkation at Hoboken. will speak
tonight at the inaugural session of
the highway transport conference.
which will be held in connection with
the motor truck section Of the sheEs
Evening star., 1920-01-03
One-Third of Arrests
In Country Made in
Middle West.
DETROIT AND CHICAGO
ALONE HARBOR 1000
Drive Directed Mainly at Mem
bers of Communist
Organizations.
BY the Associated Press.

ny 'He AssoclAteu IreSS.
CHICAGO, January 3.-ApproXi
mate1y one-third of the more than
1000 alleged radicals arrested in the
federal Department of Justices sec
ond drive to rid America of the forces
OF anarchy and bolshevism today
We're in jails in the central west AL
most 1000 of the number We're ar
rested at Detroit and Chicago. which.
Department of Justice officials have
declared. were Strongholds of organ
izations inimical to the government.
Five hundred were under arrest at
Detroit and about $50 were added to
the 200 taken at Chicago in the New
Year day drive by state and city Of
ficials.
Raids Resumed Today.
Sixty detectives and private investi-
gators under the direction of States
Attorney Hpyne today resumed their
raids on radicals today. The detectives
were divided into squads and assigned
to visit l. w. w. and communist party
headquarters in every part of the city.
1t was announced that the state at
torney'S agents would not operate in
conflict with federal officers.
Some of the men and women ar
rested were released almost imme-
diately. and additional releases were
in prospect today until the gross re-
suits of the raids were thinned down
to those the government plans to send
after Alexander Berkman and Emma
Goldman to soviet Russia and other
countries they came from. The raids
in the central west were conducted
quietly and with precision. Nowhere
did the federal agents and state and
city officers who aided them encounter
opposition.
Prisoners Are Mostly Russians.
The drive was directed mainly at
members of the communist organi-
cations. and most of those arrested
Germans, but a number of representa-
tives of other radical organizations
and ,nationalities were entangled in
the net.
In the southwest few arrests were
made. Principaily they were al -KaA--
sas City, Kan, where forty.fi five men
were taken. They were Russians and
Jugoslavs. Mainly they were employ
es of packing houses and in railroad
yards, and had been under surveil-
lance three months.
Arrested Mt Rockford.
At Rockford. Ill. 1873 alleged radi-
calls were arrested. Milwaukee and
Cleveland, where, respectively, SO and
from rs to 100 persons were arrested,
were the only other central western
cities of more than dozen in which
raids were conducted where the num-
ber of arrests approXimated three
figures. Other reorts were:
St. Louis, 16; Louisville. 20; Grand
Rapids. Mich. 25; Des Moines. Iowa,
is; Denver, 8; st. Paul, 10; Minneap-
oils. II; Toledo, 8: Racine, Wis. s;
East ST. Louis, Ill. 6, and Omaha.
Neb. 8.
Federal officials at Chicago said that
they expected the cooperation of the
states attorney. who directed the
New Year arrests. in turning over
prisoners that it is desired to deport.
Naturalized radicals arrested at that
time probably will be prosecuted un-
der the strict syndicalist law. it was
stated.