The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 2

i SAA Hh BVENING WUD, MUNDAY, JANUAKY 7, 1918, ALLIED PREMIERS TO MEET. SOON AND DECLARE WAR AIMS @he Kaiser temporarily to suspend Ald poxsibiy to break off, the peace egotintions with the Bolshevik Gov- Greene in Russia is regarded hore day as alinost certain to ally Rus Mah people: and Government again) with the Entente against the mill-) teristic designs of Prussian abso- Jutism. Diplomats declare the Kaiser's ac- tlon is sure to make the Bolshevikt More amenable to reason the Lenine-Trotzky regime will soon feallzo their only hope in full e0-operation with the Allied Govern ments, The breaking off of the peace ne- getiations Is announced in an Ex- change Telegraph despatch from Warich, and is based on the demand of the Russian Radicals that future Geliberations be held in Stockholm where the entire world may have full information of every proposal and counter proposal, The Russians determined, trograd despatches aay, that the peice negotiations shall be public property and that there ghall be no tinge of secret diplomacy. “WE MUST HAVE POSITION OF POWER,” SAYS TRPITZ German Grand Admiral Thanks Chancellor von Hertling for Stand on Peace Parley. AMSTERDAM, Jan, 7—Grand Ad- miral ‘von Tirpitz telegraphed Chan- eellor von Hertling to-day, express- ing thanks for his “firm stand against transfer of peace negotiations to Stockholm.” “It would have meant a peace not respecting Germany's vital nee he declared. “Wo must have a posi- tion of power in the world.” ‘The Vorwaerts publishes speeches by Philipp Scheldemann and Hugo Haase before the Reichstag Main Committee, Herr Scheidemann de- glared the Socialists “stand for unre- stricted gclf-determination of peo jes,” adding “Just as resolutely as oppo the annexationist politictans 0 the Entente, we combat the onnexatton- Ist politicians of our own country. Herr Hasse said the German pro- Posals of Dec. 28 constitute 1a veiled ¢laim to annexations. Independent Soctalists ” have sent a message to Bolsheviki For inister Troteky advieiug him not pt the Gerruan terms and to avoid @ beparate peac Hes are we rmany Germany has recognized the Fin- nish Republic. ‘The Vhilosophical Facui t Stantinople has proposed Nicolal I Of the Russian Boisheviki for the Pe: accomiing Lo Wore received ‘The Natlonal Libe pure Province 1! al Party of Bran- 4 meeting yester= day, a Berlin despaioh reports, i ok the point of view that the demands of tho supreme army command in tht Bast and the Weat must ve decile It wae Agreed that the pewe terms aust bo auch ax will guarantee ny's fits wwure and be approved by Yield Mars shal yon Hindenburg, and Gen, oon Late dendorff. serretonesedlioni GERMANS FAIL IN RAIDS IN THE REGION OF VERDUN Attacking Forces Thrown Back on Left Bank of Meuse and at Hill 504, 7—"German of the Meuse 304 were war PARIS, Jan the left bank north of Hill the official to-day. Artillery actions in the sector to the right of the M near Bensonveaux were also reported. ARTILLERY BATTLES ON THE BRITISH FRONT raids on River and thrown back, statement declared | and believe | ‘WILSON SAID TO APPROVE ALLIED PREMIERS LET. S. OPERATE TO MEET SOON AND | COAL MINES, SAYS DECLARE WAR AINS, CLIFFORD THORNE Britain Backs Lloyd George’s| Rate Expert Declares Present Statement But Sees No Signs | Reputation Has Actually In- of German Break. reased the Prices, PATUS, Jan. 7.—A conference of the | Allied Preiniers ts likely to be called very soon WASHINGTON, Jan, 7.—Kederal operation of America's coal field was advocatrd to-day as a cure for the con) shortage by Clifford Thorne, rate expert, in testimony before the Sen- Inve Pur- chase or control of the pooled mines, products and equipment must come, Thorne sald, to offaet the evils re- sulting from six months of attempted Vederal regulation of privately op- erated cont feldas, Presumably such a conference will decide the exact outline of a joint re- atatement of Allled war aims. LONDON, Jan, 7.—Premior Lioyd George's speech on Saturday is sren- | erally applauded hero as stripping Gormany of her pretense that the Entente and America have any alm) of conquest ate tiguting Committee, or imperialism, or any desire to interfere in the internat hd hag maid teh bee ane i | cor oe, has resulted os follows: affairs of the Central Powers. Inetead of reducing the enerbitant At the xamo time, it 18 sugested! price of coal It has actually increased that the Kaiser, becoming even moro| these pricos—in some cases as much arrogant, may seek to misinterpret] 4s 100 per cent above voluntary Lloyd George's declarationr pretend-| prices in 1916 ing that they show the Entente Is; Prices fixed by the Federal Govern- weakening. ment ane excessive compared to cost But it ia thought the Premier's statements will have more forceful effect in Austria, Turkey and Russia than in Germany, where the military autocracy is as dominant as ever. Nothing ts known of the reported mutiny of 2%,000 German troops in Russia except as stated In the Bolshe- vik account of It, and it 1s believed that if such a mutiny has taken placo stern measures will be taken by the German military authorities to pre- vent it from spreading to other regi- mente. of production. Operators are refusing to make con- tracta for -oal because, under the fuel reg they can get more for “free con!” Thorno bitterly assailed what he called the secretive methods of Federal | { authorities in handling the coal situa. tion, He charged that all data was gathered in secret and that this data is kept secret from ‘the public. The witness said that if the 60 per cent, profit of Missouri operators was typical of the entire country it would | ‘The British prews is a unit in sup- porting Lloyd George's terms. represent a profit of $360,000,000— oie $1,000,000 a day—on coal products this | year. In October he sajd an increase of 19 cents a ton had been allowed Mis- uri operators. What's your idea of Government price-fixing?” asked Senator Reed. “It's absurd, unjust and un-Amer- lean,” he answered, ‘Lo borrow an iustration, you might as well put SPEECH OF LLOYD GEORGE Message From President to Premier Reported in Cable From U Boat Commander Reports He | Also Sank Fourteen Merchant- men on 5,000-Mile Cruise. 7.—Emperor | DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL IS. | PUSHED AS WAR MEASURE AMSTERDS an Williain has conferred the Order Pour| tas Already Passe! Senate and le Merite on submarine Commander | Will Soon Be Taken Up in Champagne | he une River | and Lachambrette | pound f Kophamel, on his return trom a cruise | qi tie House, to the Cape Verde Ieland. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The Day- Nght Saving Bill, which passed the Senate last June, will be considered by the House soon after thi gency railroad and,other war During thin cruise, sank an Amer! fourteen merchanty m the U He Is 9 Kophamel asvert ‘an destroyer nn, most of id them ed States Cor Italy emer- legis- | or France jd to have brought | ack twenty-two tons of copper aa| lation recommended by the President booty | is out of the way. It Is about 5,000 miles from the tej. | The bill Provides for the advanc- gian coamt to the Cape Verde talands | 18 of the clocks of the Nation one and return, hour from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday tn September. | President Wilson has > ; i . rench s Concedes) m re No Mention of Infantry Engage- le TeOSt OE Monee, Paver wer Uaben k ments in the Reports From PARIS, Jan. T.—The newspapers | plan. —_ ‘ . attribute cgpital importance to the | Mendon and Berlin Tiord Ciscrea spesett La Tater sine) DAY SUNDAY | Is UPHELD, casional hostile ariiicrs activity south’ ling to dissipate all tho clouds that betelltah Gavia eeivial report Germany and its agenta and accom- ra de | piftes have thrown around the war| WASHINGTON, Jan Bs Fighting on the weatern fré -| alms of the Allies.” The Intransigeant |Preme Court to-day refused to review fined mainly to artillery. fire, day y-| aime it a “diplomatic act of great| the attacks on Mayor Thompson's order | Satria etelteugne aaneried importance." closing suloons in Chicago on Sunday HOTEL ASTOR JANUARY 19 The proceedings, contention that House Act" ¢ which made Mauors in Chicago. based largely on a the Minois “Tippling ntained & certain com mal Sunday = selling attracted wide at- Open tention. Jar or Henry W. Boerner, a Chicago saloon- | March .« 1.05. |keeper, asked ind the Iilinols courts re= | May 407 * * FIRST CONGRE: TO ENLIST AS SMAN LEAVING THE CAPITAL | cs Nar Sour ay 093.96.8404 4b in mind particularly the large contributions made to the Ameri- Representative S. C. Johnson of | can Red Cross War Fund and the | South Dakota has left Washinsz- war work of the Young Men's ton for Ca Meade, Md., anden- | Christian Association, 1 enclose sted in Unclo Sam’a service as a to be used as the Foundation may private, Representative Johnson see fit for furthering its corpo- is tho first Congressman to enlist rate purposes. Very truly yours, ast private, Bovetal axealready | “JOBN.D, R p83 KEP BLL R. in the service, but as commis- | toe omer sioned officers CLOSING QUOTATIONS. fused an injunction to restrain the po- | li Mayor (rom interfering with | Oct Tiers |p AUTOMOBILE jon of a bom hk : Helbting, 1 BREATHING the spirit ar Hurgwal oon youre old, wa “ correct style and motor aa, oe P ace supremacy, the Salon is the loded, Burgwall wax able to t¢ Mecca of those who know nal Be wn erred 5 « © bon ’ and demand the best in for He escaped f » eign and domestic cars and a coachwor i EXHIBITOR —- RIDDLY MERCURY BRITISH WIN IN ARABIA NREWS'TE MURRAY - GUNS bt pecaey 4 sald to lave irate KOLB ROVOR ae LANCIA SOM PLES ‘ " LOCOMORILE Witt? ST RON ‘ — | BOMB IN TEACHER'S DESK. <'\; 1 | Rochester wrtinily Wereeked |” | by Explosion. ROCHESTER, Pa. Jan. 7—The Roeh ester Continuation School, a pablie in titution attended by forty puplla, wa purtiaily wrecked jay by the explo ( Mine ¢ Ameviean 1 Comp i Pn Pat ive Apotioation tandard M ¥ pany Hstra dividend > Heme Adbortewd Wad tis Assinmed ¢ \ 1 With net changes from London. 4 negro in a watermelon pateh and tell him not to eat—the temptation | aiiscoaimers LONDON, Jan, 7-American Am=] iy too great.” ; Ann Gat te Fue * Pres! J Am, Cun Ler} Ake pba NE Mola Of the three methods of handling son's “cordial approval’ of Pre) the situation suggested by Thorne— Smelt. « Met mier Lioyd George's speech to the Am: Tate & Te), Co Government purchase of all coal at| Am, ‘Pohives ts Welsh statesman, according to u Am: Woollen Co woll-authenticated report here this | Nes Tament (purchasg of the | dedconds Minin output of weaker mines and com. wi: afternoon en a mandeering of all mines—Thornd naid he considered the first probably KAISER REWARDS SINKER tie esr Under this plan. ve woutt |allow mine owners 4 profit based on m years, he said hd Werland took males, toeeeeooes es High R16 ITEMS FOR w Have denen aft S3 MAN JOMM SON previous elows, i} | Rockefeller ROCKEFELLER ADDS - $9,000,000 10 AID WARWORK OF U.S, | Sends Check to Foundation to} Prevent Further Depletion of Its Funds. Rockefeller 1 to-day the receipt of a fur- of $5,500,000 from John D, ‘The gift is made in view nereasing demands upon the the Foundation vith the war. Vincent, President of the indation, in making the announce- ment, stated that it was hoped this gift would make ft unnecessary for the Foundation to draw further at present Upon its principal fund, During 1917, in addition to the ins come expended, $5,000,000 of the prin- ipal fund of the Foundation was ap- propriated and the trustees gave au. thority to expeud, if necessary, $5,000,- 000 more of the principal. The use of princtpal as well as income was called | for by the large appropriations to | war relief and to the welfare of the American soldiers and sailors which were made In addition to the regular work of tho Foundation in pubilc health and medical education, Mr, » letter follows: “The ckefeller Foundation, “Gentlemens In view of the in+ Foundation an- nounc ther gift Rockefeller of the arising in ‘NAS, ROCKEFELLER IR creasing demands upon the funds of the Foundation arising in con- nection with the war, and having QUTLINES PLANS FOR GIRL WAR WORKERS 4 8 (Continued from First Page.) + imal — es 4 other entertainment should be "4 24| provided.” ;|MEALS ARE TO BE PROVIDED ix] WITH GREAT CARE. | i] “Meals should be provided with the tH {|idea of supplying a balanced ration. f ! | y should be set menus, as we do +4 : *| not belleve in letting young girls pick wit tT] out their own food. They are too apt Ht {| to choose three or four desserts, and » leat nothing nourishing or substantial. ‘ velleve foreign girls who do not A » [speak English should be housed in i groups by themselves‘and should re- | celve special instruction in English, | i {lin citizenship, in everything which | will make them Americans, After | : Fis they have recefved this Instruction, | which, we hope, will be given them by | { | volunteers, they will be ready to Join| ay * | the larger groups. | | believe that not more than 150 | ‘| girls should be housed together. }/Older women can be housed in three | ) , |or four-family houses, as they gen INVESTORS. CHICAGO CORN. MARKET erally object to living amid the nolse MASS IN CHURCH OF JOAN OF ARC FOR U.S. SOLDIERS. Dacian Prayers Said for the Souls of} Those Who Have Died “in France. By J. W. Pegler WITH THR AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Jan, .7 (United Press) —In the simple ittle church of the village where Joan of Arc was born, France's Plain people yesterday knelt In earnest prayer for the souls of Americans who have died for France, Scores of wooden-shoed pensants they were—women, ohildren, old men, pollus—and even a few fur-coated sristoctatn who came to knee! beside the simple folk, united in prayer a» Franoe is united in war for right. It was at the village of Domremy. The worshippers knelt In theesnow, their heads bowed reverentially as they made tho sign of the cross and petitioned Joan of Arc, the saintly defender of France in bygone years, to pray for “les soldats Americaines mort pour France” (American soldiers who have died for France). Every church in the “American yone”*of France held special masses to-day for the repose of the souls of these dead heroes. It was a spon- taneous outpouring of France's own reople, her people of the soll, the backboné of the republic. In thelr own * gue they whispered baltingly she ‘well-remembered but strangely tami fe pronounce names of Privates Guright, 4 and Gresham—now sleeping beneath the snow-blanketed Lorraine battlefield firet soldiers killed in action, ow were prayers forgotten for those of the Americans slain at Cam- brai, or for those to whom pena through illne But it was at Domremy, birthplace ler Joan of Are—in the very chureh she was baptized—that | the most impressive of all services was held. The worshippers, rich and poor, fighting man and priest, knelt before the hallowed doorway in the snow, There they could peer throug’ and within the crumbling portals the Stars and Stripes and the bel Freneh Tricolor entwined above the simple altar, After this consecration of the spirit America's came ed andthe inyocation to St. Joan of Are herself, most of the worshippers visited Joan of Are’s home—a de- caying little stone house surrounded by pines—to-day richly festooned in the snow. The village Mayor conducted visit- ing ch officials and Amertean correspondents t the centre of a small stone bridge, spanning the Meuse, now barely trickling between ice fringed banks, From there he pointed to a spot on a distant hill where Joan of Are had her divine vision —_—_———_ ‘FREIGHT CLEARANCE WEEK WILL BEGIN ON JAN. 14 McAdoo Orders 5 Rally. for General Clean-Up of Congestion—Pub- licity for Offenders. WASHINGTON, Jan, 7D General of Ratlroads McAdoo t a “National Freight Clear- " from Jun, 14 to 21 days all Federal, State and municipal agencies are expected to join a tremendous campaign to amash the freight congestion throu Jand confusion made by younger girls. e Eastern t ed State are) women need a chance to cook | ” ne of States » the *\their own food, and to have a cup of orgunt “ , a}tew with their friends, and this v 1 to to help T| think should be provided for them. St " Hite INE abliGnty te. nammeR 9 mney BEng avers: She SN ing iene care or engines were taken s younger «Ir In houses provided for Bpanisien | workers there should he an oepportu- |nity for classes in any educational work the girls want to take up, Of] course where 4 teacher is engaged | | members of the class would each pay | to make up the cost. a small fe ot | NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANG \E.| PLANS ARE OUTLINED TO MAN w le ohon w (heeds ts UFACTURERS, SHE SAYS. “We have sent letters to manufac- | turers outlining our plan of housing women employees,” Mrs, Rockefeller mntinued, “and we e many her will take it 4 T understand 1t lodging conditions for girl work in munition towns are at present very bad. We have made sugges- jong to Mr Bidiitz, Chairman of the | Goverr ‘ n Hous ni as spent 1 because b have b \ 1 that wil nelp ise wort t ving this Inter view,” M ke r sald in con u T like to be as quiet as the pu The name of Rock ris too t the papers, 1 think. 1 Meult to bring eht n nome + trotzh Bolshos iki and by the and Motsh ain daily thereafler. GIRL’S SLED RAMS AUTO. Coasting into an auto on a short hil) in front of her home, nine-year-old Mil- dred Binder of No. 86 Nowark, received a fracture of the skull esterday afternoon, She ts in the City | Hospital in a dangerous condition. ‘The short but steep grade on 19th Swift & Company's sales of Beet in Sew } he week aniilg irda, famed as fo nyaiie VetVAEs ver pound-—adve. : 19th Avenue, | GIVES COAL TRUCK THE RIGHT OF WAY OVER THE LIMOUSINE OLICE COMMITSSLONDR BUGHER assembled his traMc officers to-day and told them that coal wagons must be classed with ambulances, po- lice patrols and fire apparatus whenever {t is a question of the right of way. Under no cireum stances must a coal wagon be kept waiting. Limousines must be sidetracked if necessary, but coal must move Don't (be afraid of a man in a de tuxe,” the Commissioner “The law must be enforced.” oar aid, FIGHT ON AGAINST OWNERSHIP BY U.S OFTHE RAILROADS (Continued from First Page.) of demurrage rates, effective Jan. 2! necessary figures for establishing tt “standard return” provided in the | pending railroad bill. The commission to-day started al new survey of rolling stock by order- | ing railroads and prt car owners | to report the number and kind of; cars owned and leased and thelr con- dition. } ator Smith of South Carolina chosen to-day by the Senate Democratic Steering Committee to be | chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, succeeding the late Sen- ator Newlands, He wil) have tthe administration railroad legisia- tlon in the Senate. | Next week has been designated by | Director General McAdoo as “freight clearance week.” A special campaign will be conducted over the entire country to induce shippers and con signees to unload freight cars quickly to relieve railroad congesti Mr. | McAdoo will issue an appeal to Gov- ernors, tat 1 road Commissions, city officials and other to assis GUNS, SPEED, MORALE, NEEDED 10 WIN THE WAR Representative Met Cormick Tells Congress Conclusions Are Drawn From Three Months Abroad. WASHINGTON, Jan, 7,—Representas Medill McCormick of Tlinols to-day in a epeech in the House reviewed bls three months’ tour of the battle fronts. The Allies, he said, “want at least ,000 grent guns first of all, then they want men and want the heartlest oo f all political elements im s effect on morale to win operation America for the war ‘The German Staff,” he sald, “must strive to induce France to make peace on the score that America will not make ready tn time, German soldle « deserted in increas- ing numbers Inst summer, and emong the captured during the list few months ihere were many tear-faced youthe of | cixteen nd saventerty ‘BRITISH AIR. RAIDERS DROP BOMBS NEAR METZ i Hits Made at Railroad Stations of Conflans and Courcelles—Bel- gian Base Bombed. LONDON, Ja Ush aviators will allow cars to remain sidetracked jaye dropped lar itles of bombs two days free, but thereafter the) or tho Ramos irdrome in Bel- rates will go 90 to 100 per cent. above! glum and fn of Meta, Lor- the present reine. In making these changes, McAdoo! Bombs were dropped on the railroad held that the requirements of the war station at Conflons, on the aldings and the health and comfort of the orthwes Metz and on the Cour Nation demand tho extra efforts the ° station, southtast of Mets, ac- order will require, and he expressed | SO E"* cs vs oft Ls aaeoet on the view that shippers and the public et eked ae Prertre will readily bear the added burdens gy 4 fire were caused at Conflans, from a patriotic spirit, —_ > ——_ More locomotives were free to-day | Increns ssenmer Hates From for freight service as further ourtall- hin City. ment of passenger service had gone increased into effect over night bea sae EA The Interstate Commerce Commis. | 404 england. pointe Catan sion to-day also ordered railroads to, x. Company to report their earnings for the year|N oved by the Inters ending June 30, 1917, to show the|rta nission to-day. 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