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Final! edition 1 . WEATHER: Fair lonlgkt, tempera lure silently above frecx Inct lncreailBjr cloadl ncii tomorrow. Tem perature at 8 a. in. to day. 23 decrees; average- temperature for February 12 for last 30 years, 32 decrees. Today A Rift In the Lute. The Age of Billions. A British Good Joke. Who Owns the Ocean? Published every evcnlnp (Includlne Sunday) Entered as second-class matter, at the pott- offlce at Washlncton. D. C NUMBER 11,072. WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS. WMB I Bj ABTHUB BBISBAT. I (Copyrlcht. 119 ) i Serious disagreement has arisen at the Peace Conference and threats to move the conference from Paris to some neutral place, or perhaps to London. This seems to be the heart of the trouble. Countries other than France want Germany to start up her industries, get to work, earn money, and be able to pay billions that the allies claim. She can't pay, of course, unless she gets food , and raw material for her workmen. ! France is less Interested in Jnoney than in freedom from fu ture attack. She cannot keep her mil lions of soldiers locked up in t camp much longer. They are not as patient as the Americans and ', "would not tolerate it. one does not dare demobilize un til she is certain that the Germans are cut down in a military way, so as to prevent any possible menace. The French idea is to continue the German blockade against food and raw material until Germany shall have cut her army down to almost nothing, making impossible for her to begin the war over again. The age of billions is surely lere, especially for the United States. Secretary Glass wants permission to issue TEN BIL LIONS more in bonds, and TEN BILLIONS in notes. "What a war it must have been. It is over, and the spring financing amounts to TWENTY THOUSAND MILLION t dollars, on top of all the other bil lions and with no end in sight. Pity Carter Glass, the new Sec retary of the Treasury, who must find billions without war excite ment to help him. It is 'to be hoped that he will manage his difficult financing somehow, without' making the view bonds exempt from surplus tax. For such, freedom would free the men that own hundreds of millions from taxation during the period of heaviest taxes, and put the load in the old way on small men, busi ness men, and even salaried clerks. By just one vote the United States Senate decides that women are not people. The dear creatures must sit around breed sons to be shot in war, and let men decide about wars and everything else. The South, which votes against women, will not complain when women vote against Democrats after the suffrage amendment shall have been passed by the in coming Repubican Congress. It will.be passed, of course, and the joke will be on the Democrats. iforth full credit for i(s wjimeiu voters, m Congressional represen tation, just as the South gets credit for its colored men. "When voting women in the North mean more Republican Congressmen at Washington, the South probably will revise its views as to the fitness of women to think and share in Government powers. All the way across the ocean the New York World cables a British joke which it says, "goes big over here." This is the joke, and there is light in it After the German fleet had sur rendered in deepest humiliation, "one big round-headed German" expressed his disgust. He spat into the ocean three times, once for the "damned British fleet," once for Admiral Beatty, and once for the Bntnh nation, saying, j'That's what I think of you all." Then a noble British tar hitches us pants and says, "Look here, Fritz, jou can say what you please about, the English feet and na tion -nd Beatty, Lut you be damned well careful WHOSE OCEAN you go spitting into." The British really think the 'ocean is THEIRS and resent any other claim to it. No wonder, after the wonders they have per formed, their btatesmen reaching out from the little island in all directions over the world, subject ing, colonizing, and controlling hundreds of millions of outside human beings and keeping them in ordei with a few ships. Look at the map of the world, see the tiny British island group tucked away in a foggy northwest corner of Europe, search for the spot in London where the House of Commons and the government offices stand; then look over the rest of the world map and see what British statesmen have done and got. India, with her hun dreds of millions; New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, Canada, South Africa, and all the other lands and populations are tied to Great Brit tain by STATESMANSHIP, not by force. In the war just ended all these countries showed eager ness to hght lor bngland, the ruler. No wonder the British en joy the British sailor's warning to the German sailor, "Be damned careful whose ocean you go spit ting into." Prince Henry of Prussia, being questioned, said that the way to restore happiness and prosperity to Germany is to restore the Ho henzollern and Prussian control, plus the 'old "legitimized dynasties of the) individual states." Prince Henry is said to be a good sailor He : a slow learner. There is one thing about hered ity divine right rulers and their -families most fortunate for ordi nary people. The divine-rlgbters are not compelled to think or un- Wan Will Ask For An Attorney To Defend His Brother Van President to Arrive Home Feb. 28, and Return to Europe March 5 NSISTS VAN HAD rilill! ! 10 DO WITH THE KILLING Standing out as the one redeem ing feature in a story of crime al together sordid and coldblooded is the love of Ziang Sung Wan, con fessed murderer, for his younger brother, Tsong Ing Van, the younger brother he has tried all in vain to save from complicity in the famous triple Chinese murder. At a coroner's inquest late yester day afternoon, Van was held to be equally guilty of the deaths of Dr. T. T. Wong, C. H. Hsie and Ben Sen Wu. With that verdict came the kneil of all Ziang Sung Wan's hopes. That verdict robbed him of all be fhad to gain by: confessing that be and his friend, Ren Sen Wu, were aione guilty 01 wnac nappeneu in that Kalorama road house two weeks ago today. Onlr One 3IotIre. In telling' the story of the triple murders, of how Ben Sen Wu hilled his two associates. Dr. Wong and C. H. Hsie. and how he himself finally sent Ben Sen Wu to death, the police believe Wan had one motive the saving- of his brother from the gallows. Convinced that the police would hold both himself and his brother un less he told the truth. Wan is thought to have decided to take punishment for his own crime rather than have his brother suspected, and po&slbly tried for the murder. He was willing to nav the penalty himself piovided only that the little brother he de-, clares Is absolutely innocent, could go free. The verdict of the jury came as a surprise and shock to the little Chi- ) nese student. "I must have a lawyer now," ho ex postulated, "because they do not be lieve what I tell them. I have told them the truth that my brother might !not suffer. Now thty arc going to (Continued on Page 'olumn " ) SOLDIER'S LIFE President Wilson has sacd the life of P. Irate Solomon Losofsky. Twelfth company. Third training hattnjion, 103d depot brigade. Camp Dix, N. J , who was sentenced by an army court martial to -be hanged until dead." be cause he said he had "no respect for the American flag or for America " The President commuted the sentence to confinement for twenty years at hard labor. TODAY derstand their people. As soon as they are old enough to understand they are told that they are wonder ful, perfect, all-knov.ing. They soon believe It. and in a few gener ations, as Prince Henry allows, they completely lose the thinking faculty, as fishes in the waters of dark caves lose their eyes. For instance, it is alleged that Trotzky, temporarily ruling Rus sia, is planning to make himself emperor. He must have some sense of humor and probabiy it isn't true. But if it were true you would have the first Emperor Trotzky thinking, planning, under standing the people and their weaknesses, as Napoleon, the self made emperor, did. In a few gen erations you would have little Trotzkys "by the grace of God," knowing nothing at all and some body would wipe them out DENT SPARES What Did That Mysterious Triangle Mean? see PAGE 13 Today's Great Chapter of "CAMOUFLAGED" By BEATRICE FAIRFAX HENEY IN'T "BIG FIVE" There will be no criminal prosecu tion of the "big five packers as the result of th Federal Trade Com mission investigation, according to a practical admission today by Francis J. Ileney, attorney for the commls- PROSECUTE ion. In discussing the work of the ,, . . , , , . .. m,....ic w, t. r.itlon has been causing officials in th mittee on Interstate Commerce, Ileney said he "had lost faith in the efficacy of criminal procedure against the packers." "The spirit of twenty years under open trust broken in 1901' by the courts Ikes and rules the activities of the 'big five meat packers today." s-aid JletK.v. tcstifjmg before the com mittee. Truat Spirit Still Lives. "You mav burn the paper on which the Constitution is written, yet we would go on the same old way. fot the spirit of our forefathers' words has become a working part of our lives." he said. "r'o ou may burn the trust papers of a mighty industry, as the court did foi the packers In 1902, but the agreements thereunder have become a working part of their lives and have never been dissolved," Heney ilpplnrprl. The investigator denied statements of packers before the House that they were not given permission to testify at the Federal Trade Commis sion's imestigations. He said, on the contrary, they had been given an op portunity, but had declined to testify because they would have been put under oath. Heney told the committee that it was his opinion that the legislation now before Congress will mean the only effective dissolution of the "Big rive" packers. He pointed out that, although there are no written agreements, the pack ers hae freely admitted before the committ e that they have understand ings as to territory and as to prices 30 CO-EDS DUCKED CHICAGO. Teb. 12. Hot-water bot ties, and, it is whispered, even "hot toddles," were in demand in North western University today. Thirty co-eds were complaining of chills as a result of being ducked in the Icy waters of Lake Michigan dur ing a "rough house party" staged by the freshman class last night. UNO y WATER i RAFT QUERY PAPERS 10 FILED HERE What i. to be done with the ten millions of questionnaires filled out by the men who registered when Uncle Sam called for an exact survey of h!s man power? It was learned today that this qucs- office of the adjutant general bleep less nights, and it has practically been decided they shall have a build ing of their own at Washington Ba; - racks. Surveys have been made of available buildings there, as a result of estimates that it will require aj building with 270.000 square feet to care for this intimate history of! America's men between the ages of eighteen and thirty-six. J The documents still arc in the hands Of the lorn! bn.irtls. hi-mica' until there was some place to put them War Department officials did not dare Issue the ordr tat would flood the Capital with theia. In the building Appropriated for their use the questionnaires, in which men revealed their family and finan cial secrets, will be filed away so they can oe reacnea u caueu lor. nui mey v'ul not be available to the casually curious only Treasury Ucpartment officials, who may want to check up on income ta-c returns, and other.--properly authorized, will ever get a peep at them, which should be some consolation to the millions of men who told the stories of their lives--bom"- for t lie tirt tune when thej struggled to fill them out PREMIER, TO QUIT GENEVA, Feb. 12. Kurt Eisner, premier of the new Bavarian repub lic, is expected to resign at once, and a new Bavarian government proba bly will be formed, fcaid a dispatch from Munich today. AMERICAN PROFESSOR WINS CAMBRIDGE CHAIR LONDON, I cb. J2. Piof. Harold Dexter, of Hazelton, Pa., has been elected to the Downing chair of Eng lish law at Cambridge University, It was announced today. EISNER MAN HOB OF D. C. GUARD REACH PORI; 50DEC0RAIED More than four hundred colored soldiers from tho District of Colum bia landed in Hobokcn, X. J., today from France. The men were members of the First Separate Battalion of the old District National Guard, and they have brought back honors that will live forever in the annals of the guard organization. Two hundred and forty-six officers and men of the field, staff and head quarters company, 163d infantry, about one-third of whom are Wash ington men, landed with the colored troops, The men of the 163d infan try left at once for Gamp Merritt, N.J. Fifty of the colored men wore the croix de guerre for bravery and gal lantry in action, and the entire con tingent has distinguished itself. The men compose Companies A, B, Cand D, of the 372nd Infantry, Ninety third division, and are under the command of Maj. Clark L. Dickson. Major Dickson sent this message to the people of Washington through The Times in a dispatch from Hobo ken today. 3Inde Undying Name. "These colored soldiers from Wash ington. D. C, have made a name for themselves in France that never will be forgotten We arrived in France March 30. 1918. and trained for two months near the Argonne in May we went to the Argonne front and, say! tell tho people of Washington that these boys fought like hell from that time on until the end of the war. "We had our greatest success at (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) GElISlTD UP 0. S. DELEGATION LONDON. Feb 12 - Tbe Herman military authorities are refusing t" allow the passage of a delegation of American officer, including ColonM Grove, into the occupied districts of Lithuania to study the needs of the people, said a Warsaw dispatch to the Times todaj. GENEVA. Feb. 1. The first food relief train for Poland left today for War.-aw under direction of American and Swiss officials. TWO DIE AND ONE HURT IN FIRE IN CHICAGO I CHhWGO. Fob 12- Two men were i killed and a third probablv fatally In ! Jured in a fire in a West Madison j street building early today I Thomas Sill and Joseph Plush were overcome by smoke while sleeping. :t, i! ROOMS FOR RENT EYE ST. N. V., 1415 Beautifully furnished room, with running water. 1 10 MR. S. I. DURPHY, in 5 Ejc St. N. W., ?aid he hail more inquiries from thr above ad in The Times than he believed pos sible from any one paper. Phone The Times Your Ads Mam 5260. j M-s WILL ASK FO AUTHORITY TO END ENEMY ALIENS AWAY FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 12. Thirty Bolsheviki and I. W. W. agitators rounded up by Gov erifcnent agents in San Francis co Tucson, EI Paso, San An tonio, and Dallas passed through here late last night in a special prison train bound for Ellis Is land, from which they will be deported. Some 3,000 Bolsheviks and I. W. Ws are slated for deportation as" soon as the facilities for getting them out of the country are available. This was revealed at the Depart ment of Justice today by John Lord O'Bridn, wnohas1 charge of this par ticular phase ptthe department's work. He also let it be known that the department is awaiting action by Congress that will permit the de portation of the thousands of in terned Germans and Austrians in this country who don't come under, the alien anarchist act under which the others are being rounded up. Under Surveillance. All of those who already have been arrested and those whose arrests are scheduled have been under surveil lance for months, it was stated. In this connection agents of the Depart ment of Justice and the departmene of Justice of the American Protective League and the military intelligence branch of the general staff cooper ated. Through their activities, all agitators under suspicion were closely watched and the Department of Justice kept fully informed of their every move. In fact, the record of surveillance in some instances extends back as fur as two years, or from the date that special agents of the Bureau of Im migration of the Department of Labor were sent Into the Middle West and the Tar We.st. I "Tne Department or. justice mawes no distinction berween tne so-cailea 'parlor reds' and the 'brick-yard reds' " said Attorney General Gregory, In allowing It to become known that there are "tens of thousands" of in dividual records on file in the de- (Continued on Page 2 Column 5.) 2,293,887 ALLIED SOLDIERS KILLED LONDON. Feb. 12. According to the recently published official figures, the losses in killed of England. France, Italy and America were 2.293.8S7. The assumed aggregate cost of the war in money of the same nations amounts to approximately $S5.O00.000.OOO. It has. therefore, cost the nations named the sum of ?37.030 per soldier actually killed. The calculation takes no account of wounded or prisoners. U. S. LOSES 324 MEN Total casualties of the American organizations in Russia are 324. ac- cording to a cable from the central i records office. A. E F. dated Feb-j ruary 9. They are divided thus. ' Killed in action. 62. died of wounds. 15. died of disease. 54. died of accident, ,"; severely wounded in action. 6U. slightly wounded in action. 33; wounded in action degree unde termined. 53: missing in action. 31. These casualties have been published individually in the regular casualty list. N U CAMPAN "WOLF BOY" FOUND BY MISSIONARIES PMRSE BOY FOUND N INDIA LONDON", Feb. 12. A modern Rom ulus has been found. An Englishman, while hunting down a pack of wolves in India recently,' found a human child among them. He is known as the i"Wolf Boy." The naked youngster was taken to the Methodist Century Commission, at Aligarh. India, where he is being cared for and taught civilized ways. The boy was well-nourished. It is believed the boy was the child of one of the temple women at Brinda bana, India, near the jungle where he was found. She probably left him to die. this method of getting rid of an unwelcome offspring being com mon in India. The unfortunate youngster was no doubt rescued and suckled by a female wolf, whoso maternal instinct was stronger than that of the real mother. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 12. Dr. Rick ard von Kuehlmann, former German foreign secretary, is reported to be In Holland incognito visiting the for mer Kaiser. LONDON. Feb. 12. Both the ex Kaiser and tho ex-German crown prince are now 111, according to dis patches received here today. A news agency dispatch from Ber lin told of the illness of the former crown prince. A Central News dispatch from Am sterdam quoted a prominent German who had just returned to Cologne from Amerongen as saying that the former war lord has become very timorous and decrepit, and is broken mentally CAPI. FRYATT SHOT BKRLIN. Feb. 10 (delayed) The Freiheit charged today that Admiral Schroeder waa directly responsible for the death of Captain Fratt. com mander of a British merchant steamer, who was executed for ram ming and linking a German subma rine. Schrocder is alleged to have a;- polnted U-boat commanders as mem-: bcrs of the court-martial and to have declared, "I wish this man shot" i 1 1 h HnSw I I V N U MAI V TING mm AMA OR EVERYTHING READY FO EXECUTIVE'S DEPARTURE PARIS, Feb. 12. Unless tomor row's session of the league of na tions committee develops sufficient unanimity to secure the complete adoption of a constitution, President Wilson must hasten back to Francs at the earliest possible moment. The eleventh-hour league of na tions hold-up is very disappointing to the President and his close ad visers. When the second draft of the constitution was read o& Tues day, on position developed at once. It is understood that the question of using economic weapons to prevent future i-ars was involved. .New SBbcemmhtee. ThesltuatIon hat developed waj so acute "tlIaT""the dmerences were re ferred to the new subcommittee com posed! of Ferdinand Xarnaud, of France: t-ord Robert Cecil, of Ens land: Premier Venlxelos, of Greece, and M. Vesnitch, of Serbia. This committee was busy at work today straightening out details In tht hope that the second reading of the new draft tomorrow would see its adoption. Whether the latest developments in the league of nations situation will in terfere with the holding of a plenary session prior to the President's de parture for Washington is a question that could not be answered today. While it Is hoped that a plenary ses sion can be held before Mr. Wilson leaves, it is admitted that the situa tion is serious in this regard. Should the President be unable to take a completed draft of the constitution back with him to Washington hU quickest possible return would becoma imperative. In this event it is ex pected that President Wilson would sail for France . immediately after Congress adjourns, probably about March 6. Delay Depart arc. In any event it is now certain that Mr. Wilson must come back to Franj shortly after reaching Washington. Mrs: Wilson has had everything pos sible packed up at the Murat mis sion, and it is expected that the Presi dent and his wife will leave either oa Sunday or Monday. The presents and souvenirs tn Mr. and Mrs. Wilson fill thirty-one biff packing cases. It is expected that the Presidential party will land in America about February 2S. President Wilson Is planning t clean up with all possible speed the final Congressional legislation, prob ably addressing a joint session of the Senate and the House just prior to ad journment. According to present in tentions no special session of Con gress will be called until the peace conference has completed its work and the peace treaty is actually ready for the signatures. President and Mrs. Wilson attend ed a gala performance at the opera, last night. The Presidential box was draped with the "Stats and Stripes." The party included, in addition t the President and Mrs. Wilson, Miss Margare.t iV'ilson, Admiral Grayson, and Secretary of State Lansing. Mrs. Wilson wore a new Worth gown and looked very beautiful. She carried a handsome bouquet. Many notables, including Ambassador and Mrs. William G. Sharp, called to pay their respects In the intermis sion. Others present were Prince Alexander of Servia. who is here In cognito, and the Prince of Monaco. BIG GERMAN ARMY' TALE IS NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY GENERALS OF ALLIES n International AeTra Service. PARIS. Feb. 1 The supreme iq-ter-allied wa: rouncil renewed .ti consideration of new armistice terms for Ger.nany when it met at tho for eign office this morning. Question which have brought about discord in some quarter, were again taken up. It is. hoprd that a plan, '.stuifaetory to all of tho powers, would be wr.r)c ed oi:t at today's scales us thfc .!:z ! w1 !