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VOL. LIX.—NO. 312 POPULATION 29,919 12 PAGES—82 COLUMNS METHODS USED BY BIG MEAT PACKERS - ' How They Controlled the Meat, Rendering, Soap and Fertilizer Industries of the Country ‘ FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION HEARS TESTIMONY According to the Witnesses, the Subterfuge Resorted to by the Packers and Their Agents in the Industrial World is Comparable to German Propaganda Exercised in the Political World—John Glennie of North Andover, Mass., Refused an Offer of $250,000 for a Plant Valued at $35,000 Rather Than Allow the “Trust” to Put Him Out of Business—Pawtucket Man Tells of His Experi- ence—A. E. Keeler Declares He Was Driven Out of — Boston. Dec. 26.—Squeezing of small dealers out of competition by the al- leged grasp of the big packers upon the meat, rendering, soap and fertilizer industries of the country was depicted by witnesses today before the federal trade commission. which has trans- ferred its hearings into the meat in- dustry and iis relation to the high cost of living temporarily to this city. Francis J. Hensy, special counmel for the commieston, sald the packers controlled the réndering busineas from its collection of butchers’ waste to the manufacture of valuable by-products, By their methods of gaining control of meat scraps, fat and bones, he added, the commission sougit to show that the man who bought a steak Or & Toast an unnecessarily high price for atnner. Packers Stifled Competition. ‘Witnesses engaged in the rendering business asserted that the packers stifled competition for the collection of waste products by bidding up prices beyond the reach of the independent dealer, by resorting to the scheme of os in which the trade of a man opening a new butcher shop was the highest bidder, transmo- the butcher had moth- fund to pay bonuses for the trade of retailers at points where independent rendering companies tried to compete. Named Meat Prices. Not only the rendering business but even the corner store trade in meafs was sought by-the packers, witnesses declared. Large markets were estab- lished in strategic positions in various large cities, where packers named the price at which meats could be sold at retail, according to testimony. These prices were said to be below that at Which the small retailer could sell. As a result it was said the neighborhood butchers were closing up their shops in ever-increasing numbers bgcause customers were drawn to the r stores. Witnesses named the Mohican company, which bas a chain of stores throughout New England, as a specific instance of this kind, Controlled Entire Meat Business. Thus, Mr. Heney pointed out, the packers controlled the entire field of the country’s meat business. At the Washington hearing it was brought out. he said, that they controlled the stock yards and the extensive terminal facilities in Chicago. Now it was shown. he continued, that they also controlled the valuable by-products from butcher waste and were making business nearly unbearable for the small butcher. Many of the witnesses heard today gave their versions of being driven out of business by what they termed the “trust” or of getting into the combine in order to live. Two of the witnesses, however, enlivened the de- tails concerning greases and bones by trumpeting their deSiance to the pack- ers. Defied Meat Trust. John Glennie of North Andover, a man of the russed type, stated that he had refused an offer of $250.000 for his plant, which, according to his own estimate, was worth not more than $35,000. This offer was made, he said, when the “trust” tried to put him out of business. They resorted first to the usual methods, he said. of bidding up prices for war materials, by hiring away his men and by “leasing” away his customers by the bonus system. “Finally,” he said. “a representative of the combine came to me and said very sympathetically he was sogry, 4 but if I persisted in being stubborn, it would be necessary to put me out of the business, much as the big com- , bine hated to do it “And you persisted?” Mr. Heney “T went inte their own territory after their business.” Glennie replied. “Even at_the price they boosted up, I was able to make a living. I did much of the work myself and knew what my men were doing. 1 didn’t have the heavy overhead expenses of the com- bine.” “No expensive attorneys, in- stance?” smiled Mr. Heney. “Not much” answered the witness. “But do you mean to say” inter- posed Commissioner Victor H. Mur- dock. who presided, “that you refused the difference between $35,000 and $250,000 for the eake of a fight?" Would Fight if Necessary. Zvems out Lo carn = living,” said Glen- | mic “ng if I 1s uecessary to fight for it _I'll fght. 1 buiit up my business with my own hands and 1 won't have it away from me by for rials that he can afford to sell his meats cheaper to the comsumer. I'm willing to_contribute that much as my bit to the war. Even at the high prices 1 am paying for waste 1 can manufasture them into fertilizers and the liks on my own account and make a bare living, or I can even sell the tuff to trust-controlled manmfacturers and make a llving. 1 tell you thers isn’t a large soap factory in the coun- try today that isn't comtrolled by the packers.” h;mld.n Mr, Glennle, who is gray- and soft-spoken, stepped down from the stand he was warmly thenlked by Mr, Heney end other members of the trade commiasioners’ party, Anether Trust Bueker. The other, so-called thust bucker to appear at the hearing wes B, J, Mo- Caffrey, who _conducted, with his brother, the What Cheer ~Chemical company of Pawtucket, R, I. He told of meet ®tiff opposition in getting ‘waste lucts and of refusing offers 1 his, business, “T told 'em,” he mid, in describing his m with an ‘official of the at which efforts out, “that they diants _money - ta make me wall out. It was my business and I intendéd to hang on to ft. I was told at that meeting that thoy didn't like the shape of my faw." ' M weid ha was able to do business at a profit by his low over- head expenses, as compared with those of the combine, As a result of unpleasant incidents in dispoaing of some of his waste material, he was enlarzing his plant to_manufacture Tendering busindes proffabia in. fese re; ne in face rends ‘Dot profitable How Secret Was. Kupk. Barl R Avery, conducting i in- dependent rend busimess tn Wor- dotalls Xept and the rende he was employed firm in Manchester, N. he he learned from the bookkeeper thai there was a meeting of the wholesal- ers week, where the account of each customer was examined. The re~ tailers were kmown by number. Known by Numbers. “For instance” he explained, “Mr. Jones would be known as Number 5. If it happened that he owed the Swift Company for last week's meat, this fact was entered on the books of the other concerns. When Jomes tried to buy meat from Swift he was refused because of his unpaid bil When he tried to buy his meat from the other concerns he was refused for one rea- son or another. But, if he paid his bill, Swift's bookkeeper called up the other boolkkeepers on the telephone and would say: ‘O. K. Number 5, Swift’ And Jones would find clear ng;l'l‘g once more.” en Avery statted out to form an independent ren f>rine company of his own in Worcester, he said his proposal to establish a plant in Mill- bury, on the Worcester line, was met with’ easerness at first. but later opposition suddenly deveioped. He H, suspected the hand of the opposition, | he £2id, and was later approached by Harrv W. Smith, representing the op- position, with an offer to buy him out. “I was willing to agree” he admit- ted. “but changed my mind when all T conld et was three or four cents on_the dollar.” The rest of his testimonv related to the efforts of his rivals to get away his customers. Another witness, A. B. Keeler, n telling of his various efforts to es- tablish_himself in the rendering bus- iness, described how the town of Bed. ford welcomed him when they learned of M= proposal to establish a plant ere. “I éven had the site picked out mear a piggery so there could be no objec- tion to any additional odor from my plant” he said, “but the ardor of the melectmen had unaccountably coo% in the meantime. I was no longe: Wwelcome. My plant was mot wanted. T wasn’t even given a hearing.” Driven Out Three Times. Keeler has been driven out of the independent rendering business at least three times by the methods of the combine, according to his state- ment. new twist to the testimony was given by W. K. Hutchin. proprietor of retail meat stores in Greater Bos ton, who openly charzed the packers with giving short weight for pork. He said some retailers were forced to pay for pork strips at the weight marked on the packages when, as a matter of faet, the pork was from three to five pounds below that weight. That weight was marked on the package at Chicago, he said, and the discrepancy was due - to ich | shrinkage. Other packages showed no such_shrinkage and it was - ble for any pork to show such shrinkage, ifi his opinion. It made a big difference to the small dealer with pork at 25 cents, he said. Mr. Hutchins was asked by Mr. He- ney if there was any Cabled Paragraphs Joffre to Become One of the Immortals Paris, Dec. 28.—Marshal Joffre soon is to become one of the Immortals of the French Academy. This became known after yesterday's session of the academy. HOW BUILDING OF SHIPS HAS BEEN RETARDED Former Rear Admiral Bowles Says Pa- ific Coast Prices Are Out of Sight. Washington, Dec. 28—An outline of legislation wanted by the -shipping board to provide additional powers to speed up construction of the merchant fleet was given today by Former Rear Admiral Bowles. assistant to the gen- eral manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. testifying at the senate committee’s inguiry into the shipping situation. Among other thngs, Mr. Bowles said the board desired authorization to de- clare as a war zone the territory sur- rounding shipyards, as well as to com- mandeer houses and local transporta- tion facilities 50 as to better take care of workmen at the plants. He also suggested that congress should pro- tect_shipbullders from the operations of the war excess profits tax law or at least modify its provisions in so far as it pertains to them. Operation of the law 1s now so certain, he explained, that the board is having great difficuliy in placing contracts at a reasonable prico, as the builders claim they will profits on the ships after paying the have practically nothing left from the tax. Replying to Senator Jones, of Wash- ington, the assistant general manageér snid fear of the tax law is general among butlders and not confined to any ono part of the country. Senator Jones said he had seen telegrams indi- eating that Pactflc coast builders were anxious to get contracts. “Yes, at very high prices” replied Mr. Bowles. “Their prices are out of sight” Pacific coast plants, he added, have increased their demands from $15 to $20 a ton on stoel ships, they now ask. he maid, from $180 and 3185 a ton while seme are demanding $200. “Some contractors are acting in good faith while others are'trying to take advantage of tho government” said the witness in replylng to questions regarding the general attitude of con- tractors. “I think we ought to know who is holding up the government.” said Sen- ator Nelson but Mr. Bowles refused to give any names except in executive sossion. U. 8. TO DISREGARD NEW GERMAN PEACE OFFER Unless There Are Further Develop- ments In the Proposal Washington, Dec, 28.—America's war alme are regarded by the administra- tion s having been sufficlently dis- slosed In Prosident Wilson's reply to [the pope'w last peace proposal and in i recent memsago to congross. C sequently unless there '-h;rl:metz: velopments in the pence propaganda set afoot by the Germans and Austri- ans through their negotiations with the Russian - Bolshevikl, there-is no inten- tion on the part of the United States government of attempting to elaborate or expound the statementa of mger- |Aero Engineer May Be a German Spy PAUL H. BILLHUBER, A FORMER DAYTON-WRIGHT CO. EMPLOYE HAD EVADED THE DRAFT A Correspondence File, Maps, Draw- nigs, Plans and Secret Minutés of Strategy Board Were Found in H Rooms in Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 28.—At a preliminary hearing today of charges of failure to report for the gelective draft and vio: lation of the espionage act against Paul H. Billhober, until recently an aero_engineer, employed by the Day- Fie_..ormalOrder Giventhe Railroads DIRECTOR M’ADOO CALLS FOR A SPEEDING UP A TALKED WITH BOARD Hundreds ‘of Te Have Been grams Received From Railroad Officers Throughout the County Promising Cooperation,, ‘Washington, Dec. 28.—The rallroads of the United States passed into gov- ernment possession at noon as Secre- tary McAdoo, designated by President Wilson as director-general of rail roads, was delegating to the railroads ton-Wright Airplane company of Day- ton, O, in the planning and onstruc- tion of aircraft for the United States army, Wallace S. Whitaker, traffic manager of the company, identified a war board the task of operating them for the present. The war board, comprising five of the country’s foremost railroad execr- tives, who have been in supreme a recent issue eay: possible curtallment of publicity of war, 000. In the fiscal year ending in its profits to $1,500,000. similar increases in profits over ingly at it in an advertising way partment store advertising, bueiness pursuit.” umns Bulletin Saturday, Monday, Dec. Tuesday, Dec. Wednesday, Dec. “Fhursday, "Friday, Dec. 22. 24. 25, 26. 27 Totals .. joan purpose laid down In those docu- | ments, Tt 1 fully understood in Washington that there may be internal reasons in entente countries for makinz some concesslons to certain powerful politi- cal eloments which are pressing for another atatement of the entente's war in_state-. alms, Thess considerations will be wolghed and acted upon In the dis- cretion of the governments of those countries The deciaion involved is regarded as of great Importance because of the possibility that divergent statements might afford the German plotters op- portunity to weaken the ties that bind the allles together. FOUR GERMAN SUBMARINES CAPTURED BY U. 8. DESTROYERS They Were Lying on the Surface With Their Conning Towers Open. Boston, Dec. 28 —Four German sub- marines ‘were captured recently by twelve American destroyers according to an American seaman who reached his home here from a French port to- night. Che seaman—a former Bos- ton newspaper man—was aboard a troop ship at the French port recently, he sald, when the destrovers, all fly- ing the Stars and Stripes, steamed In with their prizes. The submersibles were lying upon the surface of the ocean with their conning towers open, during the process of recharging their batteries, when the American destroy- ers swept Gown upon them and took them prisoner without a fight. TWhile the transport was still at the French port. the seaman said, a Ger- man-T hoat entered the harbor with & white flag flying from her periscope. The enemy crew explained that they had been lving in wait for a troop ship n the open sea, and that when they fafled to find her and the supplies ran low, the crew mutinied, killed the com- mander and decided to surrender. Passenger Ship ks U-Boat. Tondon, Dec. 28—A German subma- rine was sunk by the fire of guns of an American passenger steamer ap- proaching the British coast Thursday, according to reports of the passengers and gunners aboard. ments attributed to the packers that retailers were gouging the public. “They can’t do any gouging,” Mr. Hutchinson said. “There were four hundred provision dealers failed in Boston last August. Does that look as if they were gouging or belng sougea?” Wholesale Prices Were Controlled. Hutchinson sald there was no ques- tion that wholesale prices for meats were controlled. He sald there were seldom more than half a cent a pound difference. There were nevet any in- stances, he said, of one packer who was overstocked with some one kind of meat trying to dispose of his stock by underselling another firm. Before going into_ the. retail provision busi- ness Hutchinson said he had tried the rendering business but couldn't do much in that line because he seemed to_be on the outside. “I was never offered an_ automobile for my. trade by some rendering com- panies, like some men I know,” e stated. The session was not adjourned un- til late in the day. Commissioner Murdock: returned to Washington to- night, but it was announced that the hearings would be continued tomor- row morning by one of the special examiners. Mr. Heney thought the business could be concluded by Keep Everlastingly at It - ” previous years. Keeping everlast- is what is going to count in de- just as it does in all other branches of Publicity cannot be dispensed with: it is vital to every mer- chant, and when it comes to furnishing it to the trade of this part of the state The Bulletin because of its circulation has no equal. In the past week the following matter has appeared in its col- Telegraph Local General Tota) 82 92 ‘88 In a timely paragraph on wartime adveriising Newspaperdom in S Tione ot Sl St T ths sovin oy il s mat 1o siucs GRS L EreE L St the big ILondon stores recently—that i if they have in mind the appropriations. After six months Selfridge’s Department Store declared net earnings of $670,- ; ¥ October, this same store jumped Five other* large department Stores report 140 496 718 168 360 G20 160 300 548 24 L O b2 5iA7 528 3570 correspondence flle, together with maps, drawings and plans and the se- cret minutes of the Aero company’s strategy board, outlining war policies, which were found in Billhuber's rooms at the Y. M. C. A. hotel in Chicago when he was arrested several weeks ‘The revelations brought out at the preliminary hearing led federal officials to belleve that Billuber may be a German spy. He is 20 years old and gave his home address as Maywood, N. J. Mr. Whitaker said_that although' Billhuber was a trusted employe in the engineer- Ing and construction department of the company, he would have no occa- sion to eee most of the correspond- ence and records found in his posses- sion. The plant of the company for several months has been devoted al- most . exclusively to the manufacture o fairplanes for the United States gov- ernment. Government agents have been care- fully investigating Billhuber's move- ments during .the past three years, with special attention to his connec- tion with other airplane concerns. He claims American citizenship. HOOVER TO APPEAR BEFORE SENATE TOMMITTEE. Senator Reed Explains Why Food Ad- ministrator Was Denied a Hearing. Washington, Dec, 28.—Food Admin- istrator Hoover, now in New York, In announcing the telegraphic re- quest, Senator Reed referred to critic- CENSOR PICTURE FILMS Comsigned to Neutral Oountries—To Prevent Military Information Reach- ing Enemy; - Ogdensburg, N. Y., Dec. 28—Orders to_censor motion picture films con- signed charge of thé roads for the last nine months, were called into conference at 11 o'clock to discuss plans for weld- ing all transportation lines into a sin- gle givernment-operated system. They left the treasury department two hours later under jnstructions to. continue their functions and to submit imme- diately a plan of operation to the director-general.: First Formal Order. Tonight Mr. McAdoo issued his first formal order designed to speed up freight movement, telegraphing all railroad presidents and directors in- structions to move traffic by the most convenient and direct routes. At the same time he ordered them to con- tinue operation of their lines in con- formity with the president’s proclama- tion putting them under government control. There was no indication tonight whether Mr. McAdoo Intended event- ally to displace the war board with an. organization of his own or to con- tinue its organization for the duration of the war. It was made clear, how- ever, that it will continue to function until the director-general decides that a better system can be devised. The order that freight move by the most expeditious routes opens the way for a pooling of traffic impossible heretofore by reason of statutes de- signed to prevent the practice by car- riers operated under private direction. It takes from the shipper the right to route his freight as he wishes and leaves to the railroad traffic manager the task of sending it most directly and where there is least congestion, There was a question tonight as to ‘whether the great mass of railway em- ployes in the country—nearly two million in number—now become gov- ernment employes. Some officials hold that they do not on the ground that . years and Condensed Telegrams Dr. Maurice F. Egan, the American minister to Denmark has arrived in the United States. nl the week ended Dec. 22. only two French vessels were torpedoed by German submarine: Ninety-seven per cent. of the in- habitanis of South Orange, N. J.,, own ‘War ‘Savings Stamp: The Brooklyn Union Gas Co. has agreed to pay the city back taxes with interest for six years, $637,000 The Panama Railroad Co’s steamer Ancon rammed the tug Juanata and cut her in half in the Erie Basin. The Fleischmann Yeast Company directed its employes to apply for exemption if drafted for military ser- vice. John J. Dempsey, who in 1900 was employed as a despatcher for B. R. T. was made vice president of the com- pany. Destruction of the American con- sulate at San Jose, Costa Rica, by fire is announceq in state department respatches. The fire swept an entire block. The weather man announces that the coldest day of the year is in store for New York city on the last day of the year. Harry J. Callahan, a pfivate at Camp Devens. Mass.,, was dishonorably d charged from the army for stealing an automobile. Mayor-elect Hylan of New York city left for Washington to pledze the aid of the new administration t3 the President. The British steamer City of Magpur was wrecked in Delagoa Bay, Port- usuese East Africa. All the passeng- ers were saved. 5 American enlisted men are not al- jlowed to ride in first class_compart- ment cars with British officers on PEritish railways. The Navy Department at Newport, R I, gave three tons of coal to the Bay State, Ry., Illuminating Co. be- cause of the shortage. The American Sugar Refinina Co. announced that hereafter it would sell directly to the wholesalers and eliminate the broker: The British recruiting mission at | Chicago issued an appeal to the ball- | players of the country to enlist in the { grenade throwing corps. President Wilson attended the fun- eral of the late Senator Newlands of Nevada. All the Conzress investigat- ing committees adjourned. -Presidont Wilson was requested hy thewNewport-War ~€amp and Corn- munity Service Commiitee to stop the sale of liquor at Newport. 'A bomb was thrown at the Unit=a States Consulate in- Odesea, Russia, on Dec. 18 and did considerable dam- |age. No one was injured The American Girls’ Aid shipped nce its .organization 9,460 cases o iclothinz and other relief supplies to the war sufferers in France. Cadet Davidson, son of Director Davidson of the Title Guaranty Trust Co., was killed in a fall from an a plane at ‘Hicks Field, Tex. Japan is formulating a definite pol- icy in event of a separite peace be- to Tokio advices to London. Thirty-one boys, between 16 and 19, elected by the Ontario constituencies held the first session of the Ontario Boys’ Parliament Wednesday night. James C. Brady, financier and horseman, announced that he would sive to thé Red Cross' the entire pro- ceeds of the sale of his show horses. The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie *Railroad will discontinue the use-of observation, buffet, smok- ing and library cars shortly after Jan- vary 1. According to speakers of the Ameri- can Economic Association at Philadel- phia there are more rejections in the American army than in any other country. Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law denied the rumor in the House of Commons that the British Govern- ment had asked Billy Sunday to visit the country. Secretary Wolcott of the Smithson- jan Institute received a cable ihat his tween Russia and Germany, accordins | PRICE TWO CENTS Announcement Made to the Great Britain and France, - respec- tively, through their prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, have made known to the world that the terms under which the Teutonic al- lies seek a general peace are not suf ficient. “And backing their prime min- ister, the British proletariat, repre- sented by a national labor conference, has reaffirmed, without equivocation, that it is the determination of labor to continue the war in order hereaf- ter to make the world safe for democ- racy ‘ortified hv the known attitude of { President Wilson as to the reauire- | ments of the United States if the war |is to end and a pedce concluded, the { utterances of Premier l.loyd George | Vil propssais, will zo for nought un- ess it is materiaily added to and jbrought into line with the demands that the United States and the entente ailies have lain down as tho concrete basis for the discussion of peace cvertheless, the Folshevik element in Russia apparently has not lost heart that somethinz may come from the Czernin proposal, fqr the Prest {1.itovsk peace conference. at which it |was made, has taken a recess untii January.. 4-and-meamwhile Trotzky, the . Bolshevik foreigh minister. b poses to send a mote to the entente (BNl laxibasion (15 an- o ; | have them participate i APPROVED BY BRITISH LABOR CONFEREN nNU Peace Offer Must be Brought Into Line With the De Stated by the United States and the Entente Al From Russia Comes a Report That an Armistice Been Effected Between the Kaledines and the Bolshevil Troops—The British Have Inflicted Another Seve feat Upon the Turks Near Jerusalem—Artillery Du Are in Progress on the Other Fronts. | parleys, and {#na Forein Minister Pichon and th almost unanimous sentiment of the | British workers seeminzly male cer- in that the Teutonic allied proffer, {given in reply to the Russian Bolshe- | GERMANPEACE TERMS ARE NOT SUFFICIENT World by Officials of Great Britain and France NE 1so is to_the peoples of the w Inside Russia the situ: mains obscure owing to ar reports. concern the Bolshevik tionary forces is to the effect t tween the Kaled troops has b on-Don, with the fighting line. Cossacks were Russian counte to take up arms a viki, On in the ana the fighting has com. st importanc having inflicteq upon the Tu North and nort Gereral Alle an_advance of | miles on a_fr | having repulsed suffered theatre, t apparently the maj he Germans the Fr. rth of Wednesday's Snow and cold | the entire line } Swiss border. | patrol front | | TEUTONIC PEACE OFFER | ONLY OPENING GUN. Londen Forecasts a Cirect Proposai to the Allies as Next Step. | TLondon, Dec. That the Austro- | German peace proposals to Ru i n eluborate peace campaign by the central powers {is the belief here. It is likely tha next step by Germany, ord ! well informed London opinion, w irect proposal to the allies either through the' atican or a neu! {"°The Russian government course of the next few days in fer officially before the entente allie but, as a formal reply would invol {a recognition of the Bolshevik go ernment, it is doubtful whether any entente government will make a reply. Informal, but sufficiently definite, re- plles to Germany were made today in London by Premier Lloyd George and in \Paris by Forelgn Minister Pichon Both reject the German offer on the ground that the great principles for which the allies are fighting would be utterly lost in the status quo peace propased by Germany. Neither in London nor in Paris is there a_disposition to deride the Ger- man offer as spurious. On the other hand, it is regarded as a serious step by the Teutonic government which regards an early peace as the surest and perhaps the only method of avoid- ing_disaster. The terms offered, however, are so clearly unacceptable that the only co: sideration as to a reply is whether e allled position would be improved by son Stuart had fallen behind the Ger- man lines in a fight with three Ger- man airmen. N Dr. James R. Brock, Trenton, Ga. deputy warden at the Federal Peni- tentiary at Atlanta, was Killed by the blow of an iron bar by Dimitre Popoft, an alien enemy. Peter J. Peel. president of the Unit- ed” States Football Association, an- nounced that a series of games will be arranged for army cantonment men. aHcetlyinmunu Rev. Frederick P. Wilhelm of Bronxville has been appointed super- intendent of home missions in the At- lantic district of the Missouri synod of Lutheran churches. Elmer Dwiggins, arrested somé time ago of misusing the mails in Liberty Loan frauds, pleaded guilty in New York and was sentenced to three years in Atlanta prison. Dr. Theodore Janeway, professor of medicine of the medical staff of Johns Hopkins University, died of pneu- monia after six days’ {llness. lhh.rd“hwflmm meh “:mm d_publisher ° z Sning Post and of the . Home 5’.!: , dle ouisville; Term, cultural Mn"fnmu "The ceroner’s Inquest at Milwaukee mmmhm:tmmu. police station Novamber 34, which re- Fuited in the Iifing of ten parsons, in- nine police officers, failed to oy on R e TR ous an alleged German woman the ao~ making again a_clear statement of their war aims. There is nothing new in Germany’'s terms. In fact, they are rather less comprehensive than the of- fer of last July. HALIFAX STILL NEEDS MONEY AND RELIEF Chairman of Relief Committee Noti- fies Gov. McCall of Massachusetts. Boston, Dec. 28.—Halifax still needs money for the reflef of the sufferers by the explosion, according to a telo- gram to Governor McCall from * the chairman of the Halifax rellef com- mittee, today. The telegram says: “We are receiving inquiries dally from Massachusetts oitles and towns stating it ip reported Talifax needs no further help, financial or otherwise, anl asking if thls is true. May we pre- sume further on your kindness and ask you to please make it known tRat while We have sufficient supplies of materl. als and food at present our Ananclal needs gre far from mot.” SEVERE COLD WAVE HAS STRUCK OHIO The State ls Sald to be on the Verge of a Coal Famine. Columbus, Ohlo, Deo. 88.—A severe cold wave struck Ohia tonight and the state again in on the verge of a cen! famine that State Fuel Administration ofiiclals declare will be mope serious than the one of twe weeka agg. Dur- ing that peried intense puffering lake coal was availlable for cenfisea- tion wheregs, tigsre is neme new te be EERERIEX w motive powe ich LY | cAUSES oF DisEasE EPIDEMI Shortage of Winter Clothin: crowding of Ter Washington, demics and clotl 1 ages at Camp ‘amp Doni 5 the senate milit respective comma tional guard can crals Grebele and Wr Both officers said the their posts now were and that adequate coats had been received, t g dismal picture sof They told tgo, o of rifies mhchine guns an t equipment still_existing a been plentiful they said, and o quality. General Grebe ditions at Camp the worse. He many men who recent] have been saved had winter sufficient tents to avoid over and proper hospital facilities - tation been provided. He told war department ordered twely house in each tent wher they were “so thick you couldn between them.” During November. said 8000 men, or abou of his command passed ugh t hospital with death: measles and other dises sixteen daily. At one t he stated, were crowde: built to acmomm without a sewer: In Septe sa protested against crowdin into a.tent and gave sikness would result tents arrived th: Now, however. he ad only 800.men on the D eno story Bowie declared to Goncca SERVICES OF ATTORN ARE NOT NEEDET In Collecting Money For of Enlisted Dependent Mon Who Die O Boston, Dec. 28.—Notice t vices of attorneys are not collécting for dependents sta or war‘insurance of enlisted me dle overseas was lssued tonlght Charles ‘8. Baxter, directer og t dters’ information bureau, Mr. Baxter cited the case of n achusetts soldier's mother wh approached by an attorney res outslde the state, with s propo she agree to pay him fifteen per of the money received BRADFORD PLEADED GUILTY TO FIRSH DEGREE MURDER Man' Who Killed One Twe Other Teachers shire. and Wonuede: 1 Nem Hamp Lacenta, N. H., Deo. 23— ) Rradferd. who shot and killed M Alice B, Richards and wounded 4 other teachers at the New Ham o0l for {he Feshia Minded ¢ teday pieaded pulity ta fi free musdar ARnd Was sente prison for life. Ha had pr pleaded mat gullty by reason of i ty: end his trial was set to bes Monday.