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Pemrvage of said net, that the repre- BeAtatives of the United States in said Gonference ‘shall be qualified for Mission by cminence in the By devotion to the w and » of pence, and said representatives shall be ap- | Pointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” On adoption of the resolution in the mittee, Senators Lodge, Borah, oes Knox, Harding New, and all Republicans, voted in the tive, and Senators Hitchcock, jam: id Pomerene, Democrats, in Derative. was understood to be the tthe majority leaders te lution lie over 4 out any attempt to after the end of the January. D’ANNUNZIO KICKS OVER TRACES AGAIN Miinounces That He Will Remain in Command of Forces in : ‘Fiume, FIUME, Dec. 20.—The plebiacite Mat was to have been hel! here to Gerérmine whether th ‘oposals made d¥eBen, Thadoglio, the Italian ¢ for the settlement of the t of Fiume ‘ . Involving the withdrawal of the MAwMunzio forces and thé occupation > elty by regular Italian troups, abandoned, nunzie made public announce- TRUNK MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED LAWTON, Mich., Dec. 20.—With the ‘@FOner’s inquest complete and a ver- ligt returned to the effect tiat Maud tabor, whose body was found in a rank in her home a month ago, died ts the result of an illegal operation, (aunty authorities a» ndeavoring to Delve more deep'y into the mystery. Phahrouded lives of the Tabor family Mra. Sarsh Tabor, whose #tory yea- is Sy created a senention at the Coro- Ws inquest, although ceerally a repe- tition of her former claims, custody, as were her son, ‘V Joseph C. Virgo, once husbi peed woman's daughter Mrs. Tabor remaina firm in her dec- fyration that ane did not know ‘her jaughter Maud was about to became mother; that no operation waa per- in her know! sna that she Hieved Maud accid took suf- emt chlorovorm to bring wbout death, | Weward Offered for Bodies of! Slain Radical Socinitets, BERLIN, Dec. 20. — Ernst Sonnen- erg, former Paymaster of the Goy- brnment Brigade in Berlin and now in-| }erned ‘in Holland, alleges that he was) lordered to pay a reward of 60,000 Marks for the delivery of the bodies of | . Karl Liebknecht or Rosa re, Radical Socialist leaders, hstag. Dr. Liebknecht and Fraul Luxemburg were shot and killed by @ mob in this city last January, ter, of the of (Flame Plebiscite Postponed. | War Department. BY WATCH OVER WAR CLAIMS; WILFUL WASTE {S CHARGED Representative Graham Gives) more reason why the War Depart- Credit to Congress In- jment should be most careful in set- |tling war claims. vestigations. “I stood one day in the mud of a ‘ruined town in Northeastern France,” AUDIT HOLD DS UP $380,000 concluded Representative Graham, big ‘and saw a division of American boys ‘go past through the mist toward the Extravagant Profits Reaped by | pattie out yonder that awaited them Arrangements Made With | As 1 looked at these young, healthy, > p jclear-skinned boys with the sacred Copper Producers. fire of youth in them, they who, had so much to live for, I thought of the ‘supreme sacrifice they were making By David Lawrence. Woman's Appointment Announds or not to resign, ottie is evidently to take as President of the Netv York ‘ity Board of Aldermen Jan, 1, Inas- | much he announced to-day the appointment of Charlotte Delafield of No. 20 West 58th Stroet as secre- tary pure and und¥lfish dedication of alt they had to the country that has gained much credit in this old worid of ours by having given them birth, “And it does irk me exceedingly hen I think of the economies and and many more millions will be saved | because of the vigilance which has been kept over the public purse fn the settlement of war claims—and that vigilance, in the opinion of Rep: resentative Graham of Illinois, Ri publican, Chairman of the House ##¢rifices of our people, when I re-} “Miss Delafield {s an expert on SubCommitiee of Investigation of Member what I saw in Flanders and | municipal matters,” said Mr. La | France, to observe a carcleas disre-| Guardia, “She is a hard worker and Expenditures in the War Depart- ment, is as much due to facts brought out during the Congressional investi- gation as to any other factor, In view of the speech of Represen- has devoted much time to the study of conditions in New York. During the war she was attached to the French army and drove a motor. I gard of the public rights and an igno- rant and apparently wilful waste of |public funds. Every cent we have must be carefully conserved. The {i t th ‘i have asked her to jook up some tative Garrett of Tennessee, giving times cry for the most stringent) pressing school matters and coudi- the viewpoint of the Democrats to- Cconomy. We must not save our’ tions in the Department of Correc- ward the Republican investigation, | Country only to see it become a bank- which I outlined on Thursday, 1 TUDt. It fs the duty of every right asked Representative Graham to dis-|thinking man to guard in every pos- cuss the purpose of the investigation |Sible way the public purse, and it as he saw it and to tell what he| Matters not whether he be a member hoped would fe accomplished for the Of 4 claims board or a member of the ounteY BY Hust (BRED, Jongress of the United States. tion that were tention, |ONE LOST HIS TEETH, ONE’S COW ATE TNT, HOUSE REPAYS BOTH brought to my at- “1 dislike as much as anybody| Mr. Graham estimated that out’ of else,” began Mr. Graham, ‘to go| the $100,000,000 involved in out. |National Solons Buy Buy McGarvey around probing info the affairs of the St@nding claims arising out of war New Ivories and Settle a contracts he would not be surprised if the sum were cut in half and a have done something constructive in | S4Vins of at least $50,000,000 effected. our investigation, For one thing, it|The Investigation was intended not has attracted the attention of the of-|™erely to find fault, he sald, but to ficers of the War Department, go ‘Urnish a stimulus for post-bellum hey feel that a watchful eye is be- | economy. ing kept on the way they settle) claims. Since the investigation be- gan, millions of dollars have been | I do not like de structive inquiries, but I think we Farmer's Claim. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.— This being the season of beneficence and truly temperate n, the House of Representativ the many weighty questions before it long enough to pass a bill to pay Michael McGarvey $35 for a set of | false teeth he lost last July. Mr. McGarvey mislaid the teeth —~—~——_——— 'SECOND CONFESSION USED IN NEW TRIAL - FIUME, Dec. 20 (Associated Press).— | Whe plebiscite by which It was in- to determine whether d'Annun- | Ya forces. should. leave Fiume was held yesterday, Peraistent objections various factions «nd insisten@® by extremists that the present garri remain in the city made a post ment of the yote necessary until | nore quiet conditions prevail. ‘The Roting probably will take place Sun- A AUSIGAL TR An Old Christmas Carol | “with a New Setting. “ | E InN sabes FAITE KREISLER ond VISTOR JACOB) Composers of “Apple Blos- soms,” the musical success of , the year. ’ Messrs. Kreisler and Jacobi fiave written the music for a Christmas Carol expressly for The World Magazine. have given the famous ‘carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” a new musical * setting. iz This is onc of the best musi- cal novelties of the year, for wth Kreisler and Jacobi are aftiong the greatest living eg@inposers. ees and Music oie “Ah ono Edition yimied | brought while working at the Quartermaster’s | Depot, Governor's Island, New York Harbor. The Government Compen- saved by the adoption of rules! out by our investigation, Why, In one claim alone I know that [WI Be Offered Monday Agal Youth Accused of Killing been made by Harry New, on trial that subsequently. a bill may ve for the murder of his sweetheart, Freda Tassed permitting the Government to Lesser, will by offe: as evidence when Feopen all claims which, after an ex-| the ease is rumed Monday, mination by an impartial board, it] ,, 7" » probably nal reconstruction, Having passed the Volstead Act, hag teeth in it, the House turned to a cow which got outside of, swallowed and consumed will be " $80 worth of Government dynamite | is deemed advisable to reopen,’ Heaven nl at Willan, Washington. TOO MUCH SALVAGE IS “CON-|{iinie) Tip tal remained intact, but died, STRUCTIVE FRAUD.” mite is indigestible. Government | road builders were accused of con- It would appear under the Dent’ 4 ‘4 the in-|tributory negligence in leaving the Act the opportunity to reopen claims, troic joe ‘confession ulleged to{aynamite where the cow could got it have been made by Ne This wus over|{t. The House voted to pay the 8 e is not given unless fraud is proved, | UAY® heen inady by Nev Benak Op tia aw taoe Rowe a ‘But Col. Reeves of the War Depart- ment has informed Representative) TRANSFERS FIVE-CENT SUIT. Graham that in any case in whieh | bers urged that $120 be paid because the cow was doubly valuable while the dynamite was in her midst. too much salvage has been given or, COBrt Grants Yonkers Pail ray's is there he been watag, te War Dec] cini™ i= extra Pere actions." |ONE YARD LAUNCHES partment can view the case a# one |i, suit for five ceuts damagea brought SIX SHIPS ) TO- DAY of “constructive fraud” and at least against the Yonkers Railway Company Serre Ryan ner Worn of The for their country. What the rest of by! dopa lect of Board WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Copy.|U8 did as compared to this was # slg maar res re tall |mere bagatelle. There was no SHINGTON, Dec. — 20,—Con-| right, 1919)—Millions of dollara) thought of profit or gain or per 1 F, H. La Guardia, although , have been saved since the armistice cents or personal returns, It was a "° @ppeared to be debating whether | a hl which, tke |! __THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, ‘NEARLY 10 BILLION LOANED TO ALLIES; MILLIONS SAVED 1 ear ee rat H (} NATION | MADE SECRETARY | | BY LA GUARDIA MAY FUND INTEREST) \Glass Says Payment Would Crip- | ple Foreign Governments and | React Against U. S. | SHINGTON, Dec. 20.— Loans to foreign govern- ments from April £2}, 1917, to Nov. 15, 1919, total $9,647,419,494, according to the annuot report of Becretary Glass on Dec. §, made up as fol- lows: Belgium « + $843,445,000 Cuba. 10,000,000 Czecho-Slovakia , France itain. Great I Greece ...4. 48,236,629 jy Italy + 1,620,922,872 TAberta 6,000,000 Kumania . 25,000,000 Russia, + 187,729,760 Serbia .. Total .. M Mr, Glasé asked for authority to fund j the interest on all foreign loans, a while, he said, there was no doubt to the stabiltty of the Allied Govern- mente, they could not pay the heav: Interest without crippling themsel | fnaneially and this would react against | the United States, BRONX GAS FIGHT He KO] BE CONTINUED |Decision Gives Company Right to | Prove Present Statutory Limita- , tion of $1 Is Confiscatory Delégations tr District Attorn jurge him ¢o cot |the proposed | the Bronx called on Martin to-day to! ue the fight against | Increase of gas ates to $1.50 thousand cuble fe Many | interpreted the decison of the Appell Division of the Supreme Court as giv- ing the tronx Gas & Electric Company | y to charge $1.60, but District orney Martin eald the decision merely gave the company the right to Prove in a court of equity that { limitation of $1 i “We atill believe that we have a good Jcase, as it does not seem reasonable to suppose that gas which sells for 80 cents per thousand cuble feet in other parts of the elty is worth $1.50 in the Bronx,” said the prosecutor, Eugene H st, President of the Bronx Gas lectric Company, sald the company would continue to ch and post a bond with ‘the erlain to co*er the differ- 1 this charge and $1. U.S. OFFICER KILLED BY THUGS AT BREST | {Lieut. C From Injuries—Lieut, Nevin 5 cy re sation Commission refused his claim, | ait a $280,000 sas sate ey compelling an) Hee ips eS ee al Guticus Louavode Retro ican eit Shot in Leg. O83 ANGBLES, Dec. 20 second e@ benevole louse i 7 ste : audit, I hope that our inquiry will. more lengthy confession, alleged to] Proper to do a little post-war inter- | PHILADELPHIA, Dec, —Llent. | SO attract the attention of Congress |... és John Campbell Cleave, twenty-eight years old, of this city, prominent so- has been killed in Brest, France, He had survived a wound and ing at the battlefront and g for 2 boat to bring him |b; |severe gas | was waitl Es ho was ’ night when leav- died the foltowing | He ontained in a cable nts, and confirmed he United States W. Nevin, also of | Was shot In the leg in the KOLCHAK THREAT REPORTED WUl Tarn to Japan if Other Allies | Russia. weduce the amount of the claim. lby Henry Koster, a wealthy residgnt of | World's Record for Mooi Plant —A report from Basle Mr. Graham summarized the con- onkeen Grek an axire (hrs: be aie ve ‘ae Walp: Beard) Chaleman rays anoaaio @ head of ed ansverred na punty to-du: n Anti-Rolshevik Government in clusions of the majority of the in- ¥ Supreme Court Justice Seeger Presses Button, Haihes notified the United States Vestigating committee this way: |Nowburg. | ‘The company declared it! WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—By press that dn u “Firet, the interests of the Gov- Gounty.. * Pe ing a button here to-day Chairman 4 ernment in many cases have not been, Mr. Koster also sues for $1,999. Payne ofthe Shipping Board will send Jamages for being ejected from a trotiey | ac ; ne first of # aia een | eomeiently guarded in such settle Car Mancha aucune cortee an Meatee Loe ARG: Wien WS Pats OE BLN VemesD> i atiby iit, to be luunched In one day by the Moore or from. the Ne % ne, Shipbuilding Yard at Oak special facilities furnished by the future must come only on prob Rec ed of at a ersrninant, Ht erauta’ ve eulda Land. her daughter wi GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FAIL! oreignere, | Ing before the Childr IN VIGILANCE, | Carranra to Run for Gov “Fourth, in numerous instances HAVANA \ ENTRIES. ate of Coahail Government oMcials charged with of:| orgy are SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. ficial responsibitity have not exer-| st * furignan: for geaee sais |dent Carranza has formally ed : H i Laniady | the candidacy for the governorship gf cised sufficient vigilance in the pro a 99% the State of Coahuila offered him la tection of the Government interests 110; Week by petition from the A the eitte sdras Negras, Mugquiz in such settlements, [Cuatro Cienexas, Monclova Mr. Graham devoted particular at- tention to the profits of the copper companies, declaring that the ar- rangement entered into by the War], Industries Board, of which Bernard | M. Baruch was Chairman, was “ex- pee = nes. | WANA and Tors i he cee ose see ris ny at 2 T ft is | aed certain rules have been | Yonkors, Ma te es GL ae ee GERMANY PAYS THE ALLIES. adopted by the War Department record, lkdenen 1 is t ‘berger Reports Delivery of Claims Board which, as administered, | ADMIT ALIENS ON | PROBATION Women Held an dnaniitiae Acansea| t of Firnt 85,000,000,000, have had the effect of keeping for) Representative Johnson Urge Store Detective. De Erzber- the Government in many cases large Stelcier Law fer Dope Mrs. Josephine Gudema, of No. se} hier and Minister of Fi- sums of money to which it is right-| WASHINGTON, | Dec. Anns Avenue, tho nx, arraigned ports to the National Asem | ra Ae gual, ta: Aanoke with her ten-ye aughter that # ereat part of the 20,000,000,000 fully entitled. pemans of) $by Lig irks in guld, wbout $5,000,000,000 pa Sora afiihe 7. W. and organizations | before Magistrate Simms in M ff 25,000 i st bers of the L W. W. and org to the Allies under ms of the “Third, large sums of money hav Court. to: { sof t 5 ie - w Laat money have ‘ating overthrow of the Govern- | that th ive Treaty, had alre; been deliv- cen allowed to various contractors entutive Johnion, Repub-. gin “Combany depar ‘ on settlements (hrough unfair gal-| |! ton “chairmen oe tie | Phra Aventie and Assembly 8 sal.) tlon Committer, ‘to-day | nues had snatched from her ae ti vage values for raw materials and) Jeclard in the House that ~ | cheeks which would how 8 ers coming to the United States "in the | pald for $5.07 worth of Chri Now, PAY tremely favorable to at least a few Villa and his bandit forces are ap- lof the copper producers, and that| w et 106. ' Dick proaching the Rio Grande, with Man a one mile and one-cighth co Federal troops in clove pursuit, from this arrangement and because | epas HA: Piatt fea tar pan Hecere) AICE RT Te ope tan Come i DI cer y i? 0 nounced. of the necessity and demands of the 0; 14) Home |"Sineragan sald thet afi waa Government during the war, those ‘nreewaralia expelled from the Mute of Chihuahun who operated these copper producing whe | he od into Coahuila, then moved 1101 \ | northward and in the Pin Moun now properties were enabled to make and |did make extravagant and extraor- dinary profits.” . Mr. Graham took a broad view of war contracts in general, saying that haste due to the war and the desire to get production led to the @olng of —_— Completes Australia Noss Smit LONDON, Doe © fro ny iieht Saving FULL to Neanme Harte 4 Wa HINGTON, 20. Resump- | - 6 some things which might have been] ion’ of daylight saving next year in| Pe 7 avoided had ‘there been more timo. ne Kastern Atlantic 20 " provide LAR ative BIeO: Mi CAROL the [for ina bill Renresentatlve Ackerman, | toot tr wanauure af L. OH Novis ae But he declared that this was all Qhe Now yerecy, introduced to-daye Cdk ia Gae Day, Wemadiy . tae n h n DIAMONDS, WATCHES AND a 6 MAIDEN LANE—FOURTH FLOOR during the perioa | leave, of Philadelphia, Dies |, jre wee ey. BERGER RE-ELECTED FOR CONGRESS SEAT BY 4,806 MAJORITY that election was 17 w the two! opposition candidates combined polled 22,854 votes, ould the House again refuse to| seat Berger, the Fifth Wisconsin Dis- | rict will not be represented in Con- | gress until after the regular eledtion |} in 1920, . L. Philipp announced | to-day, \| >. MOVE TO PUT BERGER | BACKIN JAIL AT ONCE. Federal Proxecator Says He Has Evi- || dence Congressman-Elect Broke Pro CHICAGO, e the District Court of Ap- peals and demand that Victor Ih Berger, who was re-elected to Con-! gress yesterday in the Fifth Wi sin District, be remanded to jai “Mr, Berger and his four fendant gdahl, Germer, Kru and Tucker. specifically prom- | ised Judge Alschuler that they v refrain either by word or de y demonstration such as which thesy were Clyne said. » have evidence that Mr. Berger | violated stipulation. I am | before “the District eals and.demand upon || vidence that he tbe remanded to ould | a from ose upon convicted," Mr. | an has preparing to Court of Ap this ja eo ae MORE CLAIMS BY REDS. The Captue of > Prisoners Is Now Reported, Dec, 20,—Bolstnaia, south | has been captured, with by the Bolsheviki, ac- LONDON, west of Toms’ 00 prisoners, cording to an official statement issued at Sov Moscow, The staten on the western front an engagement ts being fought 14 miles southwest of Ni the Gulf of Finland, Nomad Kirgis Tribes, inhabiting the on to the northesst of the Caspian | have revolted, the statement says, and after annihilating the d, have caused the chief of the government tn that section to fle oes Ey TO AID EX-SERVICE MEN. | Free Surgical or Medical Treat- ment for Those Needing It. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20,.—The War Department's Service and Information Bureau announces that former ser a, south of men need of medical or surgical treatment, because of illness or injury contracted in the Army or Navy, can enter an Army or public health servies hospital or loca! civilian sanatorium, with all expenses paid by the Govern- ent. Discharged service men should apply to the nearest Army hospital or local representative of the public health service for examination, or consult Red Cross representatives or State und municipal health officers. HB Britain Names § LONDON, Dee, 20. has been appointed a Affaires at Berlin, voy for Kerlin, Lord Kilmarnock British Charge » Post reported eg = ea a ee KiEV BOLSHEVISTS. amains n evording t } a ih angers lived a atatlae Tat : ak o Sat any | 1 eviki, the Socialist Denied Seat in House Others Said to Have Been : ¢ ‘ ipa Says He Does Not Care if Burned Alive in Effort to [una etot und ¢ dered the * Siatincat el thay conveyed them to Con | Barrgd Again. Extort Confessions. atinople under jon of th ne i — | American Red Cross “a paradise.” MILWAUKER, Wis. Dee. 20.—Vic GENEVA, Dee. 20,—Nir cil-| Many R n bo who have tor L. Berger, Socialist, has been izens of both sexes, including Mime,{been thrown into have be i| re-elected to Congress from the Fifth Tennis sister of the Sw pas ' hich sap H} Wisconsin District, having defeated by the way of Constantinonle, i nf ile en into the hand Henry H, Bodenstab, Republican, |aay shey suffered terribly and the running og a Fusion candidate, by |nessed great horrors during a year’s | Fi 4,808 votes. residence in Russia under 1c Pier ornare ar, Senmtene ss ; ton, Vi The complete unofficial vote com-| rule f NBGNINGTONT ONL Bee Shue piled to-day guve wer 24,367 and! The Swiss party was sepa bes fheten: Gate Bodenstab, 19,561, In the election of| Marseilles from a band of refugees | and tie » H. Powers 1918, Berger received a plurality of{which included two Ameyicans, six | w early to-day 5,507 in a three-sided contest, the English and a number of French 1 at $100,000 aha i a Be is va HCOHATA mple warnings: publicans sind Democrats having can-| nationa | themael¥er didates in the field. Berger's total in t gees we ber 1 ThisStore Open Evenings Until Christmas Saturday.....Deeember 20, Open 9 A. M., Close 10 P. Monday...... December 22, Open 9 A. M., Close 1o P. ‘Tuesday .- December 23, Open 9 A. M.; Close 10 P. Vednesday...December 24, Open 9 A. M., Close 10 P. stella The Phonograph with te master made horn? cannot be bought on any “terms” except cash—which accounts for the difference in price, and there is a differ- ence! Save from $25.00 to 100.00 by paying cash here for the “Ru-stellal” ate Five models, $42.50 to $184.00. rture for cording BURT THE ALL DIED. GUERRA —MERCEDES C. de. BELL FUNERAL CHURCH, 66th st., Sunday, 3.30 P. 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