Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1919, Page 1

WEATHER. Partly cloudy and colder tonight; {| i | ket tomorrow fair. ae Temperature for twenty-four hours ending 2 p.m. today: Highest. 44, at , p.m. yesterday; lowest, 31, at 8 a.m. to- day. 3 Full report on page 9. Closing New York Stocks, Page 9. Hemi WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 27,317. ~WANAND BROTHER. GUARDED INHOTEL Chinese Who Are Questioned WASHINGTON, D. C,, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919—SIXTEEN PAGES. S. INCOME TAX TO LEVY HARD | ON MANY AMERICAN POCKETS} meet ee rey ee TRADE PROVISIONS More Than $1,000, or, Married, With in Triple Crime Placed on an Income of More Than $2,000, Separate Floors. to Be Affected. un and wor READ MURDER REPORTS |": try whos $1.00 income, if single, is d or if married, whose income is above ! 000, 1 nt floors |, pay an income 4X under the new war revenue Dill » and | Which has been reported from confer- and is expected to become a law by March 4 In separate rooms on di of the Dewey Hotel Zing Sung W his brother, W. T. Van, the two y mg high-caste Chinese who back from New York to b iw men, $2,000 for married men or in connection with the triple murder 0 for ads of familie: lependent child ational mission at the Chinese ec ag 3 over that age, is physically or men- virtually as prisoners ais g held | is under eighteen years of age, or, if more than ten day incapable of e 1f-support guarded the These Chinese are same as in the present incom within locked rooms. They have been jaw. The tax rates, however, have at this hotel since their arrival in the/ been considerably increased over the city and during that, ti the police | existing rAtes. have taken the greatest precaution to prevent their hiding place from be- Normal Tax, 12 Per Cent. coming known. The income tax is levied on the net income for the calendar year 1918 Food Sent to Them. under the new bill. The normal tax So closely are they watched that|is 12 per cent of the net income, detective. in the| Which is ascertained by first obtair rere reach young man, and one or ing the gross income and then de mere aye generally on. duty the |Gucting the credits and exemptions al- lobby of the hotel or nearby. The !owed under the proposed law. In the Chinese are not permitted to leave Case of a citizen or resident of the their rooms, not even for meals. Their United States, however, the tax rate food is ‘brought in on large trays. by upon the first $4,000 of this excess trusted attendants of the hotel amount, or net income, is fixed at 6 The polic> contend that Wan and per cent. This means that every one! Van are not under arrest—at least, living in the United States who is| not “officially” so. It is explained |subject to the war income tax will| y have to pay 6 per cent on the first] that circumstances require that t be closely examined, if for nothing $4,000, or any part thereof, of his net more than to aid in the solving of the income, and 12 per cent on all over mission house murder—the first triple‘ $4,000. Alien non-residents of the murder in the history of the ci United States having property here Wan, who is about twenty-six years will be taxed on their income from old, like his, brother, who is a year or that property to the extent of the two his junior, had been a guest at full 12 per cent of the normal tax. the mission house until the night of the crime. He was there as the guest Tax Fixed for Future. of Ben Sen Wu, the youngest of the victims. The police says he siept in a, The bill also fixes the tax on jn- room at the Harris Hotel Wednesday | comes received in 1919 and each year night, the night the tragedy is sup-| posed to have occurred, and with his | an in the coun-, } The personal exemptions in the pro- | questioned | posed new law, $1,000 for single men j ach | WHEN INCOME RETURNS ARE DUE—WHEN TAX IS TO BE PAID Under the revenue bill agreed to in conference individual in- come tax returns for Washing- ton must be made to the reve- nue collector's office at Balti- more on or before March 15 (unless time is extended by the internal revenue bureau). Dates of payment of the tax s fixed in the bill are per cent on March 15 (with return). per cent on or before June 5 per ci ber 1 per cent on or before De- cember 15, (or all at any quar- ter point ‘or at any interme- diate date). Return blanks can be obtain- ed after the bill becomes law at the deputy collector's office, 8th and G streets; any bank or at the Treasury Department. nt on or before Sep- thereafter until the law is amended | or repeaied, reducing the normal tax to $ per cent. with a proviso that citi- jzens and residents of the United | States shall pay only 4 per cent on | the first $4,000 or an: their net income, and § per cent on! all in excess of $4,000. In addition to the normal tax, there | are the surtaxes, which begin to run | when a man's net income passes the | $5,000 mark. The surtax is 1 per cent of the net income in excess of $5,000 | 4 not more than $6,000. The surtax | increases thereafter 1 per cent for | every $2,000 of increase in the income, until it becomes 48 per cent of the ASKS ALLIES ABOUT State Department Takes Up British Embargo, Italian and French Systems. _ACTS FOR U. S. INDUSTRIES Wa Department to ance and Italy regarding the Bri import embargo, the French cartel | | system and the Italian system of gov- crament suervision of purchases, h have an effect on American rm debate in the Senate, pending a resolution by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts, ask- information from $ j Department, and it wa that , various have been received by partment from manufacturers. have been based upon claim that operation of the embargo nvolves discrimination. Officials of the government said to- ‘day that no evidence of discrimination | had been presented and that unless discrimination exists the j would have little ground upon which to base any protest. a was recognized that the countries of Eu- ‘ope were compelled to protect them elves during, the their industries to a peace basis. ——_-_—_—_ where there s learned today complaints Jnited States readjustment of PRICE PLAN ISTO. INSURE INDUSTRY Proposed Stabilizing Com- part thereof of | AMERICA FOR AMERICAS STANDS AT CONFERENCE } United States Will Not Become In- | brother left Washington for New | York at 2:40 the following afternoon. | It-was upon information furnished | by King Li, a fellow student of the} two murdered mission assistants. who said it was Wan who answered the | doorbell when he called at the mis- York to furnish the police with any information he may have that might throw light upon the mystery. He re- . see eee icecstts New yor: | Will Invoke Martial Law, if) Departure of Six Craft on) to identify Wan. Gueitioned by Police | Necessary, to Protect Es- wiPiniagten tase Mecaraayntene | ential Industries. Wan was whisked from the station to the Dewey 1, Where he has remained, and where he has un- Press. imany henrs of persistent | °_\' Associated Pree. number 221, is a large and i i pani ane pag onth siderot the |terest in the general strike of 55,000. ‘and in the daytime, when not be- | workers here centered early today in sits in a Jarge easy chair beside the thinly curtained window and devours | strike called February 6 to aid 25,000}fantry and a battalion of the 25ist the newspapers and magazines. He | striking shipyard workers was called| Field Artillery (924 Division) and the! 42d Coast Artillery. | The Kansas is expected to arrive at Newport News February 16 with the headquarters, medical detachment, and companies A. B, C and D of the 116th Ammunition Train, shows a keen interest in the news- paper accounts of the tragedy. Much | ff at 8 o'clock this morning he would} of the daytime, too, is spent in sleeP. | proceed to operate all essential indus- aminations are held at night—fre- | tries “under protection.” quently long after midnight, when all is still im the hotel. His brother Van. who was brought include formal request through the This protection would be extended to} (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) ERS | 8,000 ON WARSHIP Home Voyage of Soldiers ‘The ‘battleship Kansas and at ning SEATTLE, Wash., February 8—In-|transport, bringing 600 officers and nearly 8000 men, were announced by the War Department today as having : sailed from Francc. ing. Sag mpg ae ge Pb eo the reiterated announcement by Mayor| on poard are 116th Enkineers (416t Di- SEEK omters of the department, he |Ole Hanson that unless the sympathy} vision), a battalion of the 368th In- back from New York last Tuesday, is ordinary channe’s for martial law, ;for Camp Dix. confined in room 323, a correspondingly comfortable and sunny room on the third | floor. He has not his brother's fond- | sary, he said. ness for reading and his lack of Hb-| No action had been taken this morn- erty is plainly irritable to him. How- | , S EG SOR i ever, he has expressed no complaint |i" by the strike committee repre: of the police department has been Mayor Hanson's decfaracfon that un- most agreeable and courteous—just | what one expects from Chinese of high caste and education. | off by 8 a.m. he would take steps to With the exception of the superin-| operate all essential industries under tendent and chief of detectives and} foicral protection. Hot more than nine other members of | 2 the department and half that many | Attaches of the hotel staff, the loca-| City Provides Jitney Service. tion of this place of confihement is, (ity-directed automobile “Jitney” een ein eepeess service was inaugurated in Seattle to- Claims Secrecy Justified. day to break the strike in compliance | with the mayor's ultimatum that the The superintendent has contended | strikers would have to call off a sym- that the case has been a complicated | pathetic strike at 8 o'clock this ene, and because of other unusual | morning or he would operate all es- features he has considered it neces- | sential industries. H sary to proceed in an entirely differ- No street cars were running at 8 ent manner than usually is employed o'clock, and the restaurants, with a in murder cases. He maintains that few exceptions, were still closed. this degree of secrecy has been nec- jt is expected the city authorities essary. wil third degree or other so-called old- time inquisition methods have been resorted to by the polic handling any susbects in this ca: me bit of evidence after another ha: .: been collected and investigated. and Buildings Guarded by Troops. in their weaving the police are con- vineed that the triple murder is no . \ mayor's order that they be run, even if the assistance of soldiers were ary Nearly a thousand federal troops, in longer a mystery—that the motive |command of Brig. Gen. John L. Hay-) was robbery only and that they know den. are in the city, it was announced the slayer or ers and can arrest officially. Since their arrival late et Ae ie nen ursday they have been stationed Because of the absence of certain stout government buildings and along evidence desired by the police they |the water front = dela: oar ee formal sxgea In a proclamation issued yesterday pnd starting active machinery of the ‘tne mayor stated that the street cars of the muni Not Seeking Third Suspect. city light plant and water system, would be operated by soldiers if nec- essary hree of the eighteen engineers at ty light plant quit their posts jay, their places being filled h non-union volunteer workers, -ording to J. D. Ross, supenintend- Positive assurance was given today by the police that they are not look- ing for a third person as @ suspect in the case. They are most anxious to find # half a dozen pp S. one of whom is a white ¢ question ax witnesses. The g question is ent of the city light department. known to ha e been a ¢ end of Hen Wu. the youngest victim, and Newspaper Cut to Four Pages. of ‘qua intane fu the po- them | The Post Intell r, a morning Zarding | newspaper. put out a four-page pub- id /leation early today distributing free be- | copii The is not | only eveni ay shington day. Armed soldiers and police with » guarded its plant and accom- ed a truck containing papers s and frien to be a profe: al danc sought in New York eved to nin for several Aside fro’ lines upon which they are workin the police have fol lowed numerous others suggested. by individuals who offered various theories or what they believed to be union ranks we tips.” One of the former was when one union possibility of a double murder und fifteen of y's seventy-nine sulcide as the solution of the my schools remain . their janitors but no credence is placed in and engineers refusing to heed the # clearly disproved strike or Today the engineers hands of the police. janitors’ union was to consider the assassin was a pr ultimatum of the school board man hired for the « hool employes on strike must who planned the ro! und mur-|return to work Monday or lose their marked yesterday arber shop reopened ever the municipal line yesterday un- Officials to Confer. der guard. late this afternoon confer wiv pis. Shipping Board Officials tase. “It'ts kaown that csimiatcon . Refuse to Arbitrate Strike se. It is known that Mal Pullman, superintendent af ter Shipping board officials announced st night that no change in the de- Maj. Pullman, superintend lice. and the district attorney mination of the board to refuse to foned all hope of obtaining confes-| arbitrate with the strikers in Seattle should such a measure become neces- | : : detachment, jless the sympathetic strike were called | inclusive, jdoard are thirt: supply company; batteries A, Field Artillery, headquarters i ke steps to operate cars on the; It is emphatically declared that the municipal lines, in compliance witht : sual 11024 al line. as well as the; NEWPORT NEW ont brought 1 ‘The, units wh ing were the 483d and construction squadrons. these organizations four caswal eure. | : Seattle Star was the}/panies were abvard, representing | not members of the association, were lvania, Kansas and | ,ot involved in the strike order, Pres- Hutcheson -said, nd private contracts held by ciation ‘members in_more than’ | higher level than before the pean war and that no readju in the true wages of labor = ured by purchasing power should be attempted, though it was felt that as the cost of living is reduced labor would readily agree to the corre- sponding adjustments in money wf events are left to take the nat- | ural course, the establishment of post- iwar prices would probably be a difi- jeult and protracted matter, since | prices of one commodity affect other commodities and producers would {wait for one another to take the first jstep. Such a‘course of proc dure {would involve much unemployment and a loss to both labor and capital. | Voluntary Co-Operation Required. “It was the sense of the meeting that the fine spirit of voluntary co-opera- tien in industry. which had proved such a valuable factor in the conduct of the war should be «availed of to |New York, Penns New Jersey. A large number will Meade for demo! ers will be discharge and Camp Stuart. to publish yester- | h were distributed through the ; first signs of a break in the! Men's Christian The police have practically aban-|t sions and have resolved to depend | would be made. Chairman Hurley, it discovered, xt forty-cight hours, eR mond spon circumstantial evidence collect- | was stated, has been fully informed in| awaiti ea by them since the murders of Dr. |regard to the situation and is expected| charges of filing fa Wong and his two assistants were | to make an announcement within the} questionnaire and evading the adratt| Ine: segulations, Will Go to Camp Meade. The transport Harrisburg, due arrive at New York February 15, has and his bearing before the members | senting 35,000 striking workmen on!on board the fleld and staff, héad- quarters and supply company, medic: and companies A to G, of the 368th Infantry. Ali lof these go to. Camp Meade. Also on hree casual officers ;and about fifty sick and wounded. The Louisville is due at New York February 16 with the field and staff, medical detachment, B, C and D of the 351st for Camp Meade; | 167th Field Artillery Brigade, detachment of Company G. 368th Infantry, and convalescent de. tachments Nos. 9, 10 and 12. Also on/| this ship are about three hundred na- | val men and thirteen sailors’ wives. Kroonland’s List. ‘The transport Kroonland is due at New York February 17 with the 424 Regiment, Coast Artillery, complete companies’ of Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts men, | Aero Replacement Squadron, | photographic sections Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 26, headquarters 38th Coast Artillery Brigade, tachments 31, 32 and 45 to 49, inclu- sive, and sixteen casual officers, The Polar Bear and Malden are to arrive at Baltimore February 18. and New York 17, respectively, with a few casual officers each. VERMONT HAS ROUGH TRIP. Battleship, 15 Days in Crossing Ocean, Brings 1,000 Soldiers, 00 soldiers liz TWO DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE. INDIANAPOL —_—_ Charged With Evading Draft. ROANOKE, Va., February 8.—A. R. Johns, former Secretary of the Young Association at Rad- ford, was brought here from Rich- yesterday and lodged in jail, ng trial before federal court on volved in Entangling Euro- pean Alliances. BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN, Staff Coyrespondent of The Star. By Wireless (delayed). PARIS, February 7.—American man- | date for the Americas only is the de-j |clared policy which the peace delega- ‘tion here is striving to obtain that the United States may not become in- volved in European affairs any fur- In this way America can maintain)’ [100° tne cost of production in. €- SOM | sential industries and then decide on a fair price which the government: should ‘Day for the ‘commodities it’ buys. Government officials who attended the conference feel certain that if the gov-| lerament sets fair prices for itself such action will have a tendency to stabilize prices generally and give the industries @ YP to requirements placed by the league of @éclared to’ ia’ important factor in discussions of the re than halt In announcing that | league have | of the principles of Amdng the urits|heen decided upon, and these all of} ‘All will be ready for the Presiden’ to return by the first of next week, | suggestion of Secretary of Commerce | Redfield, has been approved. by the |'Treasury Department and has been sub- niltted to President Wilson for indorse- His approval by cable is confi-j Assume Rights Protected. {t Is assumed that when Mr. Wilson takes the American public into his confidence he will be able to announce that the sovereign interests of Amer- j fea have been protected in all the are inclined to move slowly, which in lagreements drafted. in Paris. This is | turn results in unemployment. | ue to the adamant stand of the com- | | missioners that America remain aloof \from petty squabbles and intrigue designed, to drag her into the mire of European politics. “It-ts admitted in Paris that- Amer. ica’s influence in the future throug ment. |dently expected. Government officials took up the sug- gestion promptly, realizing that during the period of readjustment business men and the 116th Engineers, complete, all bound BRICKLAYERS IN MANY CITIES TO BE CALLED OUT 'D. C. Will Be Affected by Sympa. thetic Strike Proposed for NEW YORK, February 8—All union | bricklayers and hoisting engineers! that a considerable amount of un-| employment existed and that with the! urn of the troops this unemploy- | ment would tend to inc . It wast also recognized that in a large meas- ure the unemployment was seasonal } and due to the impossibility of car- | open-air construction inj certain states at this time of the year. It was, however, agreed that a_sec- | ond important cause was the reluct- ance of buyers to purchase more tha their emergency requirements at th present level of prices, and it was felt that a determination of a post war level of prices for basic com- modities was urgently needed. in various cities through- [out the country on contracts held by | Tet | members of the Building Trades Em- |ployers’ Association of this city will | | be called out on a sympathetic strike | Monday morning, in an attempt to | {enforce the demands of carpenters | employed by the associdtion for a dollar a day increase liam L. Hutcheson, president of the | United Brotherhood of Carpenters and | | Joiners, announced shortly after noon | S, Va. February 8.| —The United States battleship Ver- mont reached this port this morning after a rough voyage from France, which consumed fifteen days, The Ver-|against all bricklayers and hoisting jengineers who have quit.work in this city in sympathy with the carpen- convalescent de- rying out | ‘This action follows the declaration \by the Employers’ Association of a| landed this morn- | 489th aero | ters, In addition to} Employes of individual contractors, sent to Camp | while oth- | men' at C | Camp Hill) core of cities will be affected. ‘Thes include Bridgeport, New Haven, Wat- Boston, Lawrence, Mas: |R. L: Camden, N.’ J.; Washington, D: |C.; Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, De- ltroit, Chicago, Terre Haute, Ind.; Mo- | bile, Ala., and New Orleans. | BLAZE IN CROWN CAFE QUICKLY UNDER CONTROL February 8.—Two men are dead and cight others are in a local hospital as the result of a fire in the Palace Hote} The dead were lieved to live ne ders positions. Two street cars were sent !and Elmer Reese, were suffocated el here early today. rank Bracken, be- ' Logansport, Ind., ae akey, Ind. They e building occupied by the hotel. bane age to the building was small. Fire of undetermined origin broke lout at 2 o'clock this afternoon tn the leellar of the Crown Cafe, 510 13th \street, and had enveloped the first floor of the building before the arrival of the fire department. Thick “columns: poured up through the cellar di jgave the impression that the entire building was in flames. Fir the blaze under contro} adjustment and that the turers of the country would be will- ing to take the first step. After a full had ae : (& C/ paper and also the local news published All rights of publication of speeial dispatches berein are also reserved. Yesterday's Net Circulation, 102,628 ® TWO CENTS. mission to Keep Wheels of Business Turning. SUBMITTED TO PRESIDENT | Industries will be kept running and vremployment avoided during the pe- riod of readjustment from war to peace if the plan outlined at a conference of exbinet officers and here yesterday is carried out. The plan is to have a commission in- major Character, it is Sipeesi va that | the feeling of confidence they need to “America for Americas” policy has’ ‘ a. it is intimated that eep plants going and men employes The plan, which was taken up at the To Release Latent Power. Secretary Redfield said those at- tending the conference here this we were convinced that the determining of fair prices in the semi-official and out the world depends on the success- | CO-operative manner proposed would | u release “latent consuming power ful resistance of entangling alliances. |now' dormant becausg consumers are | awaiting price stabilization, and thus bring about an immediate increase in | Production in all lines of business. Return to pre-war prices is not con- | templated, Mr. Redfield said, nor is | proposed to use the government's war | powers or to seek legislation from | Congress. The whole plan depends. entirely upon voluntary co-operation y all interests involved, it was ex-| | plained, and the government's pur- | chasing power would be used only in carrying out the prices agreed upon. It Is understood that many heads of divisions of tke War Industries Board, | whieh dissolved on January 1, | expressed willingness to serve on the, | general committee and that special j subcommittees have been suggested to make the investigtion in each in- | dustry. “It was recognized by the meeting Price Level Needed. It was the general. opinion. trated by many specific large latent ‘buying power in. the country Which needed only a satisfactory level of prices to become effective. It was pointed out that the establishment of a satisfactory leve of prices at this time offered par | ticular difficulties, because war price: as fixed, are recognized as abnorma on the other hand, there is no pros: pect in the immediate future of the restoration of pre-war prices. It was felt that wages would remain on a ease and expedite the processes of re- Women’s Clubs to Fight Indecent Evening Gowns February 8.— women’s evening gowns have led fashion indecency,” having “a most demoralizing in- fluence upon the youth of the country,” the New York City Women’s Clubs at a meeting yexterday adopted a resolution calling on women “to dress modestly” and on design- ers and shopkeepers “to control indecency in dress.” A committee was appointed to rush the war on scanty evening j fe ilable for H pressed today by the federal reserve! Gone ot Sorkey. or ee board in its report for 1918. This ar-| 5 Miranzement would be similar to that, Shipping Division Undecided. © Federation o| industrial leaders! Movement From Camps at Home Shown by Gen. March. MILLION MARK IS PASSED larch said today that demobili jzation in the United States now was! on the “home stretch. day a total of 67,038 officers and 1,033,- | i812 men had been discharged, while the total ordered for discharge’ had reached 1,4 ‘The demobilization machinery is now point of efficiency and} operation, the chief of staff explained, is capable of handling more men than Pershing can possibly send lable shipping. Of the troops lin the United States only the overhead detachments which must be main-} Up to yester- ‘future financial development growing lout of successful domestic war oper- week | it ‘turning units will be left. Men Returned From France. Up to January 31 236,824 men had} been returned. from France. partment estimates that 160,000 will be returned in February. “rhis is an se of 46,000 over the January total, due largely to the transforma- els into transports. fifty-one cargo ps had been ordered converted and that the first of these were now com- ing into service. Plans for divisional parades in heme have been upset by the irregular | of troops homeward. Gen. s were returning in such that in a great have | Honsot <Arec sven tof the world will be at peace for a Hong period of years, there seems to at the Quai d'Orsay between 2:30 and be no reason why an internatfonal |5:30 p.m. They discussed the terms | arrangement of this kind should not |of the extension of the armistice with jenormous transactions between dis- of America and the representatives of ttered form ee probable that divisional organizations! held together for large parades. Dealing With Question. The department is dealing w | question, however, as thg divisions lordered home, acional Guard jraded in New York ce: j parading the cident to ae and pone ocean | charges and interest on gold trans: i rT ferred will be enormous, and the aa-| |SChaikovsky Arrives ‘ to the coi f the worl i = Ms Wil beinosiemables S| in Paris for Parley; long enough eral Reserve Board's system of regu: (New York sion, will be pa- ity and plans for the past year to prevent dealings las Tschaikovsky, president of the | on enemy accourit. Agents were main- | provisional government of North Rus- tained at all cable offices, and these worked -in close co-operation with other government agencies to detect With delegates to the peace confer- enemy transactions. Total purchases ence regarding the future of his coun- and sales of demand and cable ex-| try spent the day in conference changes between dealers in the Lnitea ‘TY: He 8Pe eae in Washington, could be carried out. y sffers for other | March thought, ; Wherever opportuni jdivision ‘parades, advantage will be the regulation became effective, to|R. Francis, with whom he cailed on _ December 31%were $5,158,000,000, of | ¢ E. M. House. M. Tschaikovsky is which. $3,737,000,000, or 73 per cent, | Oot erties he greatest military camp in the i be established at Brest jwhen the plans for extension of en facilities there have be: said Brest of the Ameri- iworld will | completed. the backbon can demobilization system. as handled 51 per cent. of the soldiers «to the United States be ababiek city for .000 men is to nt back to NATIONS’ SOCIETY | TOBE COMPLETED AT PARIS TODAY _ Two-Thirds Finished at Ses- sion of Conference Last Night. , WAR COUNCIL DECIDING ON FURTHER ARMISTICE | Tendency to Impose Drastic Terms | on Huns Is Evident at Parley. By the A PARIS, Fi ference commission on a society of mae tions expects to finish its work at the on to begin at 10:30 o'clock aan.” today. ociated Prova. bruary 8.—The peace con At a Jong session last night the eom- mittee completed two-thirds of the draft of the pre The commission | reached a substantial agreement on the chief points discussed last night, ac- cording to an official statement issued today. s The commission. it is added, is of the opinion that certain clauses of the draft) should be referred to a subcommittes for classification | Armistice Extension Up. : PARIS, February 7—Many impor- |tant matters were before the supreme war council comprising the coupeit of the great powers and the military. Federal Trade Board Plans commanders on ail fronts when Tk met today to consider primarily the Development of Interna- extension of the armistice with Gere 5 |many which expires February 17. Al- tional Exchange Fund. though the final decisions went over juntil tomorrow, the session was inter- 9 jesting from the number of subjects = OUTLINED IN 1918 REPORT demanding attention that were pre- © isented by the naval and militar, | chiefs. | Reports were made to the council Willingness to undertake develop-/ by the military high commands on the ment of an international gold ex-/SunJects (of demobilization and the change fund, to facilitate financial maintained in the occupied regions, transactions between nations without! The Versailles military council also. actual shipment of gold, was ex-| Submitted a report as to the military Wy maintained by the board to set-| The naval branch of the council : sented recommendations form tle balances between banks within | SOIC remit of consultations the United States. _|the British, French, Italian The fund might be developed among | American naval commanders, beari "| mainly on the turning over of tl = entente nations and a few lead-| Corman submarines, blockade ret 4 ng neutrals, “but it is conceivable) tions and the surrender of the G that all civilized countries may event-| man commercial fleet. This fleet, it 1s. ually be participants,” said the board. | Stated. is ready to be turned over, but — : the allies thus far have not agreed The gold would. be deposited in trust | the allotment of the ships aisong tl in some governntent bank or banks] various allied nations nor on the ome ti pensation for the use of the vessels. © guarantee exchange obligations, | PQnsation for the use of the vess and it was proposed that the fund! the United States receives its share |sbould be limited to current commer-| the ships, they will be manned by the |clal and exchange transactions. American Navy and fly the Stars 3 | Stripes. the initials of the relief coum cil being added to the flag. Trade Balance Settlements. The commission on blockade also This is one of the suggestions for Presented a report favoring the light- ~~ ening of the blockade restrictions in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic. ation of the federal reserve system, | Drastic Terms Discussed. which the report reviewed in detail. Referring to the settlement of trade | balances in this country through the | “ cage federal reserve clearing channels, the | {07m® upon Germany when the armi- | Teper said: E |reached today as to what measures “The successful operation of the! might be taken. After hearing the — gold settlement fund has suggested | views of the military representatives the possibility of avoiding shipments | the council of the great powers decided of gold from one country to another | to outliné the discussion tomorrow when 7 in settlement of balances arising out the decisions will be made without the of ordinary commercial transactions, | presence of these representatives. This and the board is ready, if authorized last move was regarded in some quar- to do so, to undertake negotiations | ters as significant of the gradual change A tendency was evident in some mili- tary quarters to impose further drastic tained for future demobilization of re- {looking to the establishment of an in- from war conditions to those of normal iternational gold exchange fund, or to | peace terms. ‘ lassist in any way in its power in ne- gotiations which may be begun by a Official Statement. government department looking to. 2 that end. The board believes that After the session the following official — definite plans cannot perhaps be Statement on the proceedings was 4 worked out until a stable peace has “ved on ns - % “The President of the United on been assured,” and the report added: 4¢ ‘ameriga, the premiers and foreign Sitios Bat ministers of the allied and associated — ee See powers, the Japanese representatives “Assuming that the leading nations 2nd the military representatives of the supreme war council, assisted by naval | authorities and technical advisers, mét operate as efficiently as our own gold | Germany. settlement fund, which has cleared: “The President of the United States sections of a country of vast the allied and associated powers will © meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. to continue the saving of loss and expense in- | this discussio The report disclosed for the first ‘, 4 time extensive operations of the Fed Montenegrins Demur = lating foreign exchange transactions | PARIS. Friday, February 7.—Nie jsia, arrived in Paris today to confer — ates from February 20, 1918, when | With delegates and Ambassador David were for exchange on Great Britain. | the Only head of any of the Russian j rnments now in Paris. : What System Accomplished. ng Nicholas of Montenegro im“ ~ The report told in cryptic financial | Proclamation to his people charges the: terms how the federal reserve system Present Serbian administration with © in this country functioned in co-|conspiring to defeat Montenegro's operation with the Treasury in tre-|jegitimate’ aspirations to become a ~ = mendous war tasks of raising liberty | member of the Jugoslay federation. “|loans, floating certificate issues, set-| pr. Peter Chotch, acting minister of tling trade balances, discounting bil-/ foreign affairs for Montenegro, has | Kons,of commercial paper, assisting in | sent an appeal to the conference de~ ~~ the rationing of capital and providing | claring that Montenegro is besieged BREAD, 5 CENTS FOR A POUND LOAF! You will be able to buy it at that price before long if. the government adopts one of the plans proposed for solution of the wheat guarantee probiem. Read about it tomorrow in the Editorial Section of sorb investments has proved to be iph McCormack. East Boston, far greater than had been anticipat- (ae eee eer ist wight whem nianufac- ‘(Continued on Fifteenth Page. THE SUNDAY STAR a free channel for flow of credits to ali|},y Serbia and that its vital interests parts of the country where th : = * ||| most needed. A ey were are being ignored by the peace com Owing to war exigencies, said the | {7° 2 ‘|i report, “the Federal Reserve Board | j felt it to be its duty to assist in mak- | THREE NAVY AIRMEN KILLED. ling effective. the policies determined | =e 3 upon by the Secretary of the Treasury, = - [however inconsistent some of the | Their Machine Demolished by Fall steps 1 0 be taken might be | {With principles which usually govern | Into Bay at Pensacola. : in normal times.” It added: “Within Saye 7 Ja few months the country’s war financ- | PENSACOLA, Fla. ing will have been completed, and the |The death of three naval fliers in a board can then deal with the problems | jydroairplane accident was announced incident, to Daeeene our credit stru: ture and our banking operations back 5 to a normal basis.” tion. Ensigns Duane Rutledge, Rob- Februsry 8— here today at the naval training sta “The ability of the country to ab-!ins, La; David Mingie, Tyrone, Pa. 2 ee gene eee remit 11 about 500 feet i structure, acpantion their machine fell about though 5 shaken. We have no currency prob- | podies were found = bay and was demolished. The the y A : (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) wreckage.