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WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness and slight l>
warmer to-day : probably snow to?
night: rain or anew and warm?
er to-mcrrow.
Full Keporf on I a ire 1*
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1920
?I? 5??. 3|. 3|C
TUT? rrvT.<ln Greater Sew York ?nd I THKEE CENT?
TWO CENTS ( wU_,? eommanag distance | Kltcwher.
fafes Ready
For Liquor's
;Swan Song'
Broadway to Have Last
'Wet Fling' This Even-!
ing and Hotels 'SellOut'
for Great Celebration
Nation Goes "Dry"
12:01 in Morning
Police Will Not Aid in
Enforcement, Which Is
Up to U. S. Officials
The Eighteenth Amendment to the
(Jbnstitution of the United States,
sdijeh means prohibition, becomes ef- !
fective at precisely sixty seconds af- !
ter 12 o'clock to-night. From that j
jaoment any one who is caught buy- i
fog a drink containing more than
??e-half of 1 per cent alcohol is sub- :
ject to a fine of $",00. A second of- I
jaider may be lined as much as |
$1,000. Subsequent drinks will be \
purchased at the peril of two years I
ia jail- The man who sells liquor j
x&j be given from six months to
foe years in jail, depending on the
Bgmber of previous convictions.
The same penalties fixed for pur?
chasers of liquor apply to a man who
fe?aught carrying a flask on his hip
or taking a drink auywhere outside
his own home or the home of a
friend.
flot?is Prepare for "Wake"
On that basis if every one who
violates the new law in New York
between this midnight and dawn to
Borrow should be arrested and fined
for each violation there would be
enough money collected in fines to
wtire two or three Liberty Loan
bond issues.
,. Nearly every big hotel and restau
irsat in New York was bustling with
Wnrity yesterday as employees scur?
ried about making preparations for the
tail celebrations to be held to-night
* ?ark the passing from American
lift of a habit, a business, a source of
jjosarf, a cause of crime, all of which
tie summed up in the name John j
Bnmjcorn.
A single sip after 12:01 a. m. from!
i Wghbail glass at any one of these (
,ran\s will make the swallower guilty !
fl a? offense against the government, j
It ia an even money bet that there !
#re Mt enough men left in the army j
|a arrest all of the people who are
going to violate the new law in its ?
?rat hour?; However, Colonel Daniel J
Porter, supervising internal revenue !
tgent in New York, who is temporarily |
?barged with the duty of enforcing
jrohibition, has only 800 employees at
sjjj command?and most of those are
temen stenographers.
Police Not to Participate
Coionel Porter, drumming his lingers
?a the glass top of his mahogany desk j
is the Custom House yesterday, said i
?hit he had done everything in his j
aewer to prevent infractions of war- j
time prohibition, and that so far as his
?See was concerned?for the present, ;
aajway?war-time prohibition will glide
ames the calendar and quietly blend
?ad rectify with constitutional pro- j
yhition. Colonel Porter will be re
I Here? of the duty of enforcing pro- :
1 tibition just as soon as a state pro
i aibition enforcing officer is appointed, j
j u provided in the Volstead act.
Chief Inspector John Daly of the |
Mice Department said yesterday that
*?? police will take no part in en?
ticing the prohibition law, for the
MiMBi, anyway. So ail that need
?*h*r an illegal drinker at the cele
wation to-night is the possible pres?
sa* of wood alcohol in the bottle and
^conscience.
*B? celebrations to-night are almost
*rtainly the last public demonstra?
bas of regard for Joiin Barleycorn,
?tthey are riot the first to mark hi?
Wjmg. There was one Wednesday j
"?jpt and at least three big ones last ;
Jpt in places which will not permit I
i <%?o? to-night.
JW*?*! of a11 tne celebrations last
?gat and the night before was the j
S ?Walla ball at the Caf? de Paris.
1 *?"*' fcfeCtor'8' Ten dollars a cover
i !d!if_ ecte<* "n advance, and when
j y? tame there wasn't enough sal
*** alcohol left in the place to jingle
| *aa-year-old child.
I * ?umber of actresses, motion pic
i ?**** stage folk were there to con- ;
y*or the honor of wearing Prince
??ping's golden slipper?, and no
J"|tared a darn about the fact that
I *** ?tory it was a glass slipper.
j *?***?, when the ?tipper was ?lipped i
?*e dainty foot of Violet McMillan ]
??. and the judges declared her to
J**"* winner, and moving picture
7*}** ?an exposed hundreds and hun- i
2?? *f feet of4 film while Misa Me- f
r*** ,too,J lafthe glare of specially
*r?** *r? lights and exposed a bit
*J* wan her feet.
Aaother Claim? Slipper?
j?*** just as everybody was ap
ff",Bf the winner along came O'ElIa
^J^wno used to play in "The Cop
C?7? with Lionel Barrymoro, and
W* that ah? had feet that could
m***?1** Sr> tb* ?old?n ?Uppers,
r* w? judge? told hf.r that, however
mL uL!*l*ht bl)> th? "Upper? fit
g' ?eMilJ&n'a feet and that wan all
1 *** to It. So everybody ?at
?ad diaeuaeed the situation
2E ??* ?treot car? began to clang
^s*lKZ*J ? Ah* ?*fi'#* JBC.h,*d*
__.?, ?*">'- of th?:m inaiated Mis?
ig??*f dtS'-.rv.d th" slipper? and
S" i?*ut*d that Mia? Dunn had
ST? ? raw deal. None ot these in
ggj K?U ?o v?hem^ntly ?a Mie?
?&i3ht ?* ??LmwUrt, In
<**4?..' *?'-"'?-?'< thouH?.r.4 ?;.',-.i'r,<> -.:
??_ Cvnt?nwd on paye three
Huge Frauds in Shipyard
War Contracts Are Charged
U. S. Board Holds Up $37,000,000 Worth of
Claims; Fake Vouchers Used in West Coast
Conspiracy; Seven Big Plants Involved
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.?Frauds j
involving many millions of dollars in
connection with the building of ships I
for the government in Oregon, Wash- !
ington and California, have been un- j
earthed by government investigators, I
it became known to-day when William
H. Tidwell, special agent of the Treas?
ury Department, was appointed chief
assistant to Special Assistant United
Stairs Attorney General Bert Schles
inger here.
It is understood that Attorney Gen?
eral Palmer, on the strength of the
scope of the alleged discoveries of
graft, in Pacific Coast shipyards has
ordered the United States shipping
board to hold up claims approximating
$37,000,000, to await the outcome of
the investigation.
False Vouchers Alleged
The government, according' to infor?
mation from authoritative sources, is ?
alleged to have been defrauded of more !
than a billion dollars through ship- j
yard conspiracies working by the pay- j
ment of false vouchers for sums that '
shipbuilders obtained illegally.
A score of prominent shipbuilders I
are understood to be involved in the I
investigation, which is said to have !
reached the stage calling for special I
Federal grand jury sessions in cities
?f Oregonj Washington and California,
where Dig shipbuilding plants are lo?
cated.
Coat-plus contracts awarded by the
government for construction of ves?
sels during the war, by which the build?
ers were allowed 10 per cent over what
they figured as cost, were said to-day
to have been the medium of the al?
leged frauds.
Assistant Attorney General Schles
inger will leave to-morrow for Seattle,
where it is understood the first Fed?
eral grand jury sessions dealing with
the reported discoveries of government
agents working under Schlesinger will
be held. Subsequent meetings of Fed
Two Dead, Three Dying;
Spoiled Olives Blamed
Whole Family in Bronx Poi?
soned by Bottled Fruit,
Physicians Say
When Paul Daldene, of 2328 Hughes
Avenue, was taken to Fordham Hos?
pital yesterday, obviously suffering
from the same malady which had killed
his wife, Marie, and their son, Dom
inick, sixteen years old, and afflicted
two other members of the family, an
inquiry was started which showed that
the family had been poisoned by eating
bottled olives which had spoiled.
Daldene, his brother Angelo and his
son Anthony, the patients at Fordham,
are said to be dying. Dr. John A.
Eiegelman, Bronx County Medical Ex?
aminer, said that spoiled olives re?
cently had caused the death of six per?
sons in Detroit. What remained of
the bottle of olives was sent to Dr.
A. O. Gettler, city chemist, for ex?
amination.
Until yesterday the trouble had not
been traced to the olives. The result of
the poisoning simulates disease and ap?
parently is not digestive. Paralysis of
the muscles causing thick speech and
blindness constitutes the symptoms.
Mrs. Daldane's death on Saturday, six
hours after eating Bome of the olives,
was ascribed to ureal poisoning. She
died from suffocation caused by para?
lysis of the throat muscles.
Dr. Louis Ferrara, who attended the
family, said that the disease was caused
by the bacillus bacillini which multiplies
in spoiled food. ?
Clemenceau Announces j
Presidential Candidacy j
Authorizes His Supporters to ?
Present Name for Election
at Versailles Saturday
PARIS, Jan. 15.?Premier Clemen?
ceau has accepted nomination for the
Presidency of the Republic, it was an?
nounced to-night.
M. Clemenceau formally authorized
hi? supporters to place his name'before
the plenary caucus of the Congress of
Versailles to-morrow, and promised
that, if elected, he would accept the
mandate entrusted to him.
Supporters of the Premier immedi?
ately decided to order ballots printed
bec.ring M. Clemenceau's name. These
will be distributed among the voters at
Versailles on Saturday when the as?
sembly convenes.
To-night's announcement was the first
definite information that Premier Cle?
menceau would stand as a candidate,
although it had been assumed generally
that he would run for office -t>r at
least would not refuse to serve if
elected.
One of the supporters of M. Clemen?
ceau told The Associated Press that
the Premier would have refrained from
a public declaration had there been no
opposition to his candidacy.
A plenary caucus of Senators and
Deputies has been called for to-mor?
row at 3 o'clock in which the various >
groups will choose Presidential can- j
didates. I.eon Bourgeois is looming up i
as a dangerous "durk horse" in case
the voting is close as between Premier
Clemenceau and M. Deschanel.
?
Seize $20,000 in Whisky;
U. S. Agents Threatened
Officers Forced to Hold Back
Crowd With Revolvers While
Liquor Is Being Loaded
More than $20,000 worth of whisky,
to say nothing of a couple of special
revenue agents, was in danger for a
few minute? last night as a threaten?
ing crowd gathered at West and
Liberty streets, where James F. Mc
Ginni? and J. J. Quig?ey, the special
revenue agents, arrested a truck driver
land hi? nelper who were unloading
the whisky.
So closely did the crowd press in
! upon the agents, their prisoners and
'' the whisky that the two officers drew
? their revolver? and swept the foremost
rank with their mutzlc? until the
whisky wa? safe on the truck again.
William J. Flynn, of 73 Bank Street,
the driver, and George Wilkinson, of
?77 Waverley Place, his helper, were
: arrested, charged with having whUky
in ?heir po??e??ion (legally.
When the revenue ?gent* cam* upon
the?, ihey wer? unloading thi? liquor
. h n-uut of a _*l0?"-. Th<\r" w"?tI_S
?ra? grand juries will be held in othosr
large cities of the Coast in rapid suc?
cession, it was said.
Washington Keeps Silent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.?Department
of Justice officials to-night admitted an
investigation of financial transactions
in Pacific Coast shipbuilding had been
ordered, but refused to indicate the na?
ture of the evidence obtained. Officials
of the Shipping Board likewise were
silent on the reported disclosures of
fraud.
The investigation, it was recalled,
was instigated by former Chairman
Hurley of the Shipping Board. It was
the intention of the board, about eight
months ago, to go into the books of
the shipbuilding companies itself, but
plans later were changed and the whole
matter turned over to Attorney Gen?
eral Palmer. There was no intimation
at that time, however, that the alleged
fraud would attain any such propor?
tions as government agents now be?
lieve they have uncovered.
Information Came Piecemeal
Information which came out piece?
meal here tended to show that at least
seven large shipbuilding corporations
were involved in the alleged fraud.
Their identity was not disclosed and
probably will not be until Federal in?
dictments have been obtained and ex?
ecuted. The government was said to be
preparing its case with a view to
avoiding certain legal technicalities,
which have led to long drawn out fights
in attempts to recover illegally paid
funds on certain other war-time con?
tracts.
The opinion among officials here
seemed to be that the alleged fraudu?
lent transactions we*e limited to yards
on the Pacific Coast. It was said that
no reasons for investigating Atlantic i
and Gulf coast yards had been pre- !
sented thus far. Although several '
illegal transactions were discovered in
some of the Eastern yards shortly
after the signing of the armistice,
they were cleared up without resort
to courts.
Calk'Reds'to
Testify Against
Five Socialists
Newton Brings Subpoenas
for Fifty Witnesses From
This City Who Appeared
Before Lusk Committee
?i
Fifty subpoenas for witnesses at the
trial of the five suspended Socialist
Assemblymen which is to begin before
the Judiciary Committee at Albany
next Tuesday morning were brought to
New York last night by Attorney Gen?
eral Charles D. Newton. A dozen
agents from Mr. Newton's office will
begin servingthe subpoenas to-day.
They call for the appearance as wit?
nesses for the Assembly many Social?
ists and radicals, some of whojn have
appeared before the Lusk Legislative
Committee.
Much evidence taken by tho Lusk
Committee, it was learned yesterday,
is to be used by Mr. Newton and his
associate counsel as a basis for charges
that the five Socialists, by reason of
membership in their party, were
pledged to a program which -.??ek* to
overthrow the government.
All Names Withheld
It was pointed out that the Lusk
committee for eight months has been
gathering evidence along: the lines of
the charges made against the Social- :
ists In the suspension resolution
adopted by the Assembly. These
charges are" that the Socialist party in
Chicago last August declared its ad?
herence to the "revolutionary forces of
Soviet Russia;" that it indorsed the1
principles of the communist interna?
tional convention at Moscow, "which is :
pledged to the forcible and violent,
overthrow of all organized govern?
ment," and that each of the five So?
cialists, if admitted to the Asembly, ?
would be obliged to help carry out this
program.
Officials at Mr. Newton's office would
not say yesterday who are to be called
as witnesses, but it was made known
that a number of prominent radicals
are to be called upon to testify against
their will, as was done in the Lusk
hearings at the City Hall.
As to the possibility of Mr. Hughes
and other members of the Bar Associa?
tion committee appearing at the hear?
ing before the Judiciary Committee,
Attorney General Newton said:
"That will be a matter for the Ju?
diciary Committee to decide. Whom do
they represent? If they represent only
the Bar Association, it might establish
a precedent which would enable outside
bodies to appear independently at sub?
sequent hearings."
Seeks Associate Counsel
The Attorney General said he came
to New York to consult with an attor?
ney who probably would appear as as?
sociate counsel for the prosecution.
The Socialists will have a fair hearing,
he said. He declared the trial will be
"somewhat along the lines of the Lusk
committee hearings," as the charges
against the Socialist. As.-wmblymcn are
that they pledged support to the prin?
ciples of Bolshevism and the Com?
munist party, seeking the overthrow
of the government by force.
Charles E. Hughes, chairman of the
committee appointed by the Bar Asso?
ciation of New York to go to Albany
"to safeguard the principles of repre?
sentative government" and to protest
against the suspension of the Social?
ista, declined to make any statement
' as to the committee's plans. It was
?aid at Mr. Hughes'? office that, no
statement would be issued until after
the committee arrives at Albuuy.
The suggestions from Albany that
Mr. HugheB and the four other mem?
bers of his committee would have to
be accredited as counsel for the So?
cialist? before they would be heard
were treated with silence. The other
member? of the committee .Morgan J.
O'Brien. Joseph M. J'roskiiuer, Louis
M?r?hall and Ogden L. Mills would
not give any intimation as to th'-',''Iu^'
titudc. The letter sent by Morris HIII
j Continued on paye eto
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?Mmmmmmmmmtammm^mmmmmmmmmmm
Mexico Mess
Laid to U. S.
"Meddling'
Witness at Senate In?
quiry Charges Reign of
Lawlessness Is Due to
Upholding of Carranza
Bolshevism Spreads
Through Country
Fall, Invited by Cabrera
to Shift Investigation
to Mexico, Declines
By Wilbur Forrest
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 15.?
"President Wilson has made a mess of
things in Mexico and he ought to
straighten it out. The Mexican people
are to-day victims of a group of
thieves which our government put in
power and officially recognized. When
I say the people of Mexico I speak as
I would of the people of the United
States, leaving out the Bolshevik and
I. W. W. elements." ..
Thus P. W. Wai-ner. a witness be?
fore the Fall Senate committee inves?
tigating conditions in Mexico here,
testiiied to-day. Warner was agent
for the Atascadora Colony, a large
American colonization community,
sixty miles south of Tampico, until
Carranza troops and bandits forced
scores of American families?mostly
poor persons who had gone to Mexico
to establish homes?to leave the coun?
try, devastating their farms and
threatening- their lives.
"Only one family remains on the
wreck of our once populous colony,"
the witness testified, "and that family
is German. They raided us with Win?
chester rifles, which this government
allowed them to take into Mexico.
"united States Has Meddled Too Much"
"I'm against intervention, now,"
Warner continued, "because the United
States has meddled too much already
in Mexico. What should be done is
to withdraw recognition of the ban?
dits who are running the country. If
Carranza had not been recognized,
Huerta would still be in power and
Huerta was favorable toward Ameri?
canism." The witness harked back to
the days of Diaz when he had ridden
a horse clear across Mexico with
$30.000 in his saddle bags with perfect
safety.
Warner denounced the Wilson ad?
ministration for what he termed the
"meddling" part it has taken in Mex?
ican affair?.and placed the entire blame
for chaotic conditions upon the Wash?
ington leaders.
"Why do not your colonists go back
to Mexico now?" Senator Smith asked.
"I wouldn't go back for the whole
ranch," the witness answered, adding,
"we are afraid of the Carranzistas."
Warner named General Lariaga, of the
Mexican federa! army, as one of these
responsible for outrages in the Atas
cadoro colony.
Another Colony Forced to Flo?
P. F. Poorbaugh, of San Antonio, the
next witness, detailed a like fate which
befell a colony in which he was in?
terested in the Isthmus of Tehuan
tepec. AU were forced to flee in 1913
with only hand baggage, he testified,
and from that time to the present the
region has been infested with bandits
and is under no protection at present.
Poorbaugh testified of returning in
1914 to what remained of the colony.
He was accompanied by another Ameri?
can. "We were forced by the Mexican
authorities to give up our guns when we
arrived at Puerto Mexico," he ?aid, "but
th?; German Consul there told us we had
better go disguised as Englishmen or
Mormons and carry guns at the same
time."
He testified in detail of bandit raids
and declared the only American remain?
ing to protect his holdings was tortured
and killed on April 8 on the Sevilla
Ranch, near Salina Cruz. He was E. E.
Morgan. "Mexico is to-day like China,"
the witness said.
J. W. Compton, of Glenn Springs,
Tex., testiiied regarding experiences
during a raid by Mexican bandits on
Glenn Springs, May 5, 191?. Three
American soldiers and the witness's
five-year-old son were killed, he testi?
fied. Compton said one of the raid?
ers captured by Americnn troops and
brought back had papers on him which
indicated ho was a colonel in the Car?
ranza army.
Women Tell of Depredations
Mw<f Mary Wright, Mrs. Laura C.
Bailey and Mrs. .lames C. Willis, all
of San Antonio, told of being driven
from their Mexican homes by depre?
dations of bandits and Carranza
soldiers.
AU had been interested in agricul?
ture in the state, of San Luis Potosi.
Mrs. Wright testified dramatically of
the escape of her three daughters and
herself from Mexico, after terrible
hardships. Her husband, whom they
were forced to abandon in his illness,
died soon after reaching Dallas, Tex.,
their former home, Mrs. Wright said.
Mrs. Wright and her daughters were
brought to Gal veston by a German
cruiser from Tampico when British
and American warships on orders from
their governments withdrew from
Tampico harbor in 1913 and left for?
eign women and children at the mercy
of a frenzied mob. The German com?
mander went ashore with a detachment
and rescued them. Of the 500-acre
plantation, beautiful with orange and
banana groves, nothing is left now
but bare ground, the witness testified.
She has filed a claim with the Ameri?
can State Department against the
Mexican government for $48,000.
Impoverished by Bandits
A similar story was told by Mrs.
Dailey with regard to her plantation
near Valles, Mexico. Mrs. Willis, a
sister-in-law of Mrs. Bailey, cor?
roborated the latter's testimony and
declared at one time she, her husband
and three small children were so im?
poverished by bandit raids that, her
husband was obliged to go to Tampico
to seek work. She was forced to join
him there in poverty. One of their
children died in Tampico from lack of
medical attention because they had no
money, she said.
"No one there would aid us," de?
clared Mrs. Willis, who is herself of
Mexican blood. Fleeing toward the
United Statt? later, Mrs. Willis re
Oontinued on page four
Note to Holland
Ask# Extradition
Of Former Kaiser
! Supreme Council Invites
Dutch to Join Allies
in Arraigning Wilhelm
for "Supreme Offense"
PARIS, Jan. 15 (By The Associated
Press). ? The Supreme Council has
drafted a note to the Dutch Govern?
ment, asking for the extradition of the
j former German Emperor. It probably
will be sent Saturday.
! The note refers to Article 227 of the
Treaty of Versailles, and invites Hol
' li.nd to join the Allied powers in the
j accomplishment of this act.
I Article 227 of the treaty of peace
I with Germany declares:
I "The Allied and Associated powers
i publicly arraign William of Hohenzol
! lern, formerly German Emperor, for a
| supreme offense against international
; morality and the sanctity of treaties.
! "A special tribunal will be consti?
tuted to try the accused, thereby as
I suring him the guarantees essential to
| the right of defense. It will be com
j posed of five judges, one appointed by
t.ach of the following powers, namely,
the United States of America, Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan."
The article also declares that it will
be the duty of the tribunal to fix tho
punishment which it considers should
be imposed.
! Sir Oliver Lodge
I Here to Talk
On Spiritism
! Famous British Psychist
Says He Brings No New
j Religion Nor Has He Any
Quarrel With the Church
Sir Oliver Lodge, the famous British
I scientist whose indorsement of the be?
lief that the dead and the living can
communicate has strengthened more
than that of any other individual a
universal interest in psychical re?
search, arrived here last night on the
Red Star liner Lapland after ah ab?
sence of twenty-three years.
He comes here to lecture on physics
and psychics and brings the message
j that the survival of man after death
! can be proved. He said he had no
l new religion to preach and that he had
j no sympathy with denial of the mate?
rial universe, although he conceded
that the spiritual universe is much
more important. His leanings toward
the spiritual side of man, he explained,
might be pardoned if there chanced to
be a little overemphasis on this par?
ticular side.
Sees Religion Strengthened
Sir Oliver said he was aware that
S07ne of the Christian churches, par?
ticularly the Roman Catholic Church,
were unalterably opposed to study o?
the psychics and to psychical research
in communicating with the dead. Nev?
ertheless he maintained that the essen?
tial parts of the old religion are
strengthened and supported by new
I evidence that has come to mankind in
I a psychical way. The result of accept?
ing the facts under investigation, he
I said, is to strengthen faith and over
j throw purely materialistic contentions
| on the negative side.
Sir Oliver is a robust man, conspicu?
ously tall and broad of shoulders. His
face is ruddy and his hair and beard
snow white. Because of his unusual
height he has a habit of stooping over
I when talking to persons of medium
height. He gives the impression of be
I ing disturbed by nothing. He listens
i attentively and is exacting in his efforts
to grasp precisely what the speaker
i means. He then answers briefly and
much to the point.
As the Lapland came up the bay from
Quarantine yesterday he wore a heavy
coat with fur collar and a soft hat and,
despite the cold wind, remained on
deck. He was exceedingly cordial, but
little inclined to smile or laugh. The
observation of an interviewer that he
had come to a poor place for spirits
i did not bring even the suggestion of a
i smile.
Joke Has To Be Explained
Puzzled by the remark that there
were no spirits available in America,
j Sir Oliver asked for enlightenment. He
I was then informed by the facetious
j interviewer that sale of all alcoholic
spirits would stop at midnight Friday
because of national, prohibition.
"I see now what you mean," said Sir
Oliver seriously, but that is something
that does not affect me. I never use
spirits except once in a while in a
medicinal way. We were greatly sur?
prised in England to learn that Amer?
ica had become converted to prohibi?
tion. There is some talk of Scotland
j adopting prohibition, but it is my opin
i ion that Scotland is not ripe for it
I yet. Personally I believe that the in
I dividual should decide for himself
l whether he does or does not wish to
j drink alcohol."
When informed that J. Godfrey Rau
i pert, a former member of the British
| Society for Psychical Research, had rc
j cently attacked the evil of the ouija
board with the contention that its use
I destroyed mind and morals and made
? mental wrecks of the users, Sir Oliver
| said:
"There is no harm in the use of the
j ouija board if used by strong-minded
j persons. It is folly to condemn an
! agency or instrument for mental defi
; ciencies. If a person has a weak mind
! he should leave the ouija board alone.
If he has a strong mind it will not be
affected by the use of such an in?
strument."
i Concerning the pursuit of psychical
research and the user of mediums, the
: great scientist said he had never en
' countered a dishonest medium and thai
'. he knew of no substantial reason for
j disapproval of psychic study. "Re?
search m this particular field," he said,
? "has interested many clergymen.
| Others of tho cloth are skeptical. I
' am told that the Roman Catholic
! Church calls it deviltry, f have been
told that there are some dishonest
1 mediums, but I have run across none.
I "I don't object to professional
i mediums. All of them who have taken
up the subject have some power, ft is
Continued on page four
British Prepare for War
On 'Red9 Russia; Senate
Speeds Peace Agreement
- ?-? _
Nine Factions, All but?
"Irreconcilables," Con- j
fer and Compromise |
I Appears To Be Nearer I
I First Real Hope,
Declares Lodge
?His Reservations Are Basis
of Parley ; Hitchcock Op?
poses Bryan's Proposal
By Carter Field
New York Tribune
I Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.?Taking the
j Lodge reservations as a basis, nine
. Senators, representing every shade of
| opinion on the peace treaty in the
1 upper House, with the exception of
; the "irreconcilables," met in formal
j conference to-day in the hope of reach
? ing a compromise on which the treaty
i could be ratified.
After the conference Senator Lodge
said that "the outlook for an' agree?
ment is improved very much." The
Democratic. Senators suggested modlfi
I cations to the Lodge reservations.
Senator Lodge will discuss these pro?
posals with his Republican colleagues
to-morrow, and another conference will
be held Saturday, with the same Sena?
tors present who attended the meeting
I to-day.
The conference followed the reap
? pearance of William J. Bryan at the
| Capitol. Mr. Bryan urged the Demo
I cratic Senators to permit the Repub
j licans to ratify the treaty with reser
j vations by withholding their own votes
i Then, he said, he would make the res?
ervations au issue in the Presidential
i campaign.
Bryan Suggestion Opposed
I The Bryan suggestion was not re
j ceived favorably by many Senators
? Senator Hitchcock expressed stronj
| disapproval of it. The Democrats, sai<
Senator Hitchcock, never would follov
the suggestion, as they might as wel
vote for the reservations as silently ac
cept them by refusing to vote at all.
The conference of the leaders of th
different groups of Republican an
Democratic Senators was held in th
office of Senator Lodge. It was calle
by Senators Lodge and Hitchcock afte
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, actingfo
the Democrats, had asked Senato
'Lodge to select several Republicans t<
?meet with a group of Democrats am
discuss the possibility of getting to
gether. The following Senators at
tended:
Senator Lodge, majority leader o
; the Senate, chairman of the Foreigi
Relations Committee and author ofth
reservations adopted by the Senate.
Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, rep
resentative of the "middle ground
Republicans, who has been working fo
! a compromise on the basis of makin
i a few concessions on the Lodge reset
j vations.
I Senator New, of Indiana, represent
ing the Lodge followers on the Re
I publican side.
? Senator Keilogg, of Minnesota, repre
! senting the Republican "mild reserv?
tionists," who have been active i
I negotiating a compromise with th
Democrats on the basis of making ire
portant concessions to the Democrat:
Senator Hitchcock, acting leader o
the Administration forces in the Ser
| ate, who insists that the Senate, ratif
j the treaty with "interpretative" resei
! vations which President Wilson coul
j accept.
! Senator McKellar, of Tennessee, rej
j resenting the "Bryan group" of Demc
cratic Senaters.
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, reprc
senting the Democratic Senators wh
I want the Senate to act without coi
suiting the President.
Senator Simmons, of North Carolin;
i representing the Democratic Senatoi
' who would be willing to accept a con
| promise in order to secure ratificatio:
Senator Walsh, of Montana, repri
' senting the Democratic Senators wh
? are opposed to accepting strong rese
't vations.
First Step to Get Together
j "This is the first real attempt to g<
' together on an agreement," said Sen:
: tor Lodge after the conference. A'W
! have taken the first step. This is tl
i first time the Democrats have made az
practical suggestion for an agreemer
j I must talk it over with our peop
? and then we will meet again Saturday
i Senator Lodge said that the Senato
! discussed each of the Lodge reserv
I tions in turn. The Democrats su
I gested modifications, which were note
! and these will be discussed with oth
j Republicans.
No definite plan for a compromi
j was submitted by the Democrats, Se
j ator Lodge said. He added, howevi
; that the Democrats were in accord
j the suggested modifications and th
j they to:d mim any agreement th
? might be able to make would recei
; the support of most of the Democrt
j in the Senate.
? Article X, which has proved to
? the stumbling block in the path
1 an agreement during the informal r
! gotiations that have been under w
: in the Senate, did not come up f
! detailed discussion.
? Article X Substitute Proposed
I Stnator Colt, of Rhode Island, o
' of the Republican "mild reservatic
i ists," to-day proposed a substitute 1
i the Lodge reservation on Article
I and it received the favorable cons
1 eration of other Republicans, it f
: lows:
? "Under the Constitution of tl
? United States. Congress has the so
' power to declav-i war; therefore, tr
! United States assumes no obligatic
| to preserve the territorial integrit
1 or political independence of ar
! other country, under provisions i
? Article X, unless in any narticuli
case the Congress shall, by act <
i joint resolution, 60 provide; an
I further. Congress assumes no obi
! gation to interfere in controverse
between nations, whether mem be
I Continued on page fo-ur
ii 'i " . * '"
Bolshevik Drive
On OdessaStopped
LONDON, Jan 15.?The Brit?
ish military mission with General
Denikine at the latter's headquar?
ters in Ekaterinodar reports that
the Caucasus army, in the line
behind the Aksai River, repulsed
in heavy fighting- five frontal at?
tacks and an attempt to turn its
left flank.
The report says the advance of
the Bolsheviki on Odessa has been
stopped. It also states that the
report that General Denikine has
been superseded by General
Wrangel or any other commander
a untrue.
Democrats of
Senate in Tie
On Leadership
Hitchcock and Underwood
Get 19 Votes Apiece on
Two Ballots in Caucus:
Hoke Smith Not Recorded
New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, -Ian. 15.?The Demo?
crats in the Senate failed to elect a
permanent leader to-day, after a two
hours' bittet' fight in a caucus. Two
ballots were had and both resulted in
a tie vote. J9 for Senator Hilchcock,
of Nebraska, and 19 for? Senator Un?
derwood, of Alabama, the rival candi?
dates.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, declined
to vote. According to the campaign
managers for both Underwood and
Hitchcock, he had given both candi?
dates the impression he would vote
for them and was unable to vote for
either.
The situation rests with him to
. night. All of the absent Senators
. were paired, and record of tho vote
; shows that twenty-three Senators
i favored Underwood and twenty-three
? favored Hitchcock.
Leans to Underwood
The Underwood forces predicted utter
the caucus that Senator Smith will vote
for the AlaDama Senator when the
Democrats meet again. Senator ?Smith
said that he had not authorized any
such announcement.
The Democrats adjourned their cau?
cus without taking up any other mat?
ter. They will meet again when Sena?
tors Underwood and Hitchcock call
them into session.
Senator Underwood was in a position
to secure his election by a majority of
one at one stage of the fight to-day.
Tho Hitchcock forces had agreed to
permit Carter Glass, recently appointed
to the Senate from Virginia and who
favors Underwood to vote in the cau?
cus, although he has not yet resigned
as Secretary of the Treasury. Prece?
dents were cited to show that it was
permissible.
When it became apparent, however,
that the result on the first ballot would
be-close, Hitchcock supporters voiced
opposition to permitting Mr. (Mass to
vote. Senator Underwood then said
that he would mot ask that Mr. Glass
be recorded. *
The next caucus will not be held un?
til Mr. Glass has taken his seat in the
Senate. This probably will be within
the next two weeks, it is expected.
Administration Senators generally
voted for Underwood to-day, but there
was t?o distinct sectional line-up.
Hitchcock received the support of sev?
eral Southern Senators, while Under?
wood received the votes of Senators
from the North and West.
The peace treaty was not brought
up at the caucus, but it had a strong
indirect influence upon the result. Op?
position to Senator Hitchcock's leader?
ship of the Administration forces in
the Senate fight, gave Underwood sev?
eral votes. The Senators who have
been working for ratification without
consulting the wishes of President Wil?
son regarded the result of the election
as a repudiation of Hitchcock's leader?
ship, inasmuch as the caucus failed to
indorse him.
Vote on Leadership
The vote on the leadership follows:
For Senator Hitchcock -- Ashurst,
Chamberlain, Culberson, Henderson,
Kendrick, King, Kirby, Myers, Nugent,
? Overman, Phelan, Pomerene. Robinson.
Sheppard, Simmons, Thomas. Tram
mell, Walsh, of Montana: Wolcott?
nineteen.
, For Senator Underwood -Bankheaii,
I Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Gerry, Gore,
Harris, Harrison, Jones, of New Mexico;
McKellar, Pittman, Ransdell, Reed,
Shields, Smith, of Maryland; Smith, of
South Carolina; Stanley, Walsh, of
Massachusetts: Williams?nineteen.
Senator Smith made the following
explanation after the caucus:
?'I said when I entered the caucus
that my associates knew I was-accus?
tomed to meeting all votes in the Sen?
ate or in the caucus. I explained, how?
ever, that in this case my personal
relations with and affection for both
Senator Underwood and Senator Hitch?
cock were such that i wanted to vote
for each of them and had not been
able to bring myself to vote against
either of them.
"The matter was a cause of great
embarrassment to me, but under the
circumstances I felt I could not vote."
Standard History Wanted
BOSTON, Jan. 15.?The Massachu?
setts department of the American
Legion to-day announced the start of a
movement to place in the public schools
of the state a standard history of the
United States.
The Legion is sending to all school
superintendents a questionnaire re?
garding textbooks. When the answers
are completed a committee will Investi?
gate the merits of the various histories
in use and efforts will he made to p!;ice
the one selected as best in every public
school in the sut*.
Premier Calls Conference
to Stem Onrush of Rad?
icals After Success
in European Territory
Huge Bases of
Supplies Seized
Bolshevik Commands
Grow After Victories;
New Advances Feared
LONDON, Jan. 15 (By Tho Asso?
ciated Press).-Before peace with
Germany is a \vec;k old tho British
public has been brought up sharply
?against the possibility of another
?war. Winston Spencer Churchill.
?Secretary for War; Walter Hume
?Long, First Lord of the Admiralty;
Baron Beatty, commander of the
Grand Fleet, and Field Marshal Sit
?Henry H. Wilson, chief of the Im
?perial Staff, left London to-night.
: having been hurriedly summoned to
Paris for a consultation with Pre?
mier Lloyd George and other British
officials there on important military
and naval matters.
This summons is inevitably con?
nected in the public mind with the
?semi-official statement published to?
day calling attention to the threat?
ening situation in the Middle East
?as a result of Bolshevik military
I successes, which have given the So?
viets virtual mastery of the whole,
of Europpan Russia, for, although it
i is not yet confirmed that they have
entered Odessa, it is believed it can?
not be long before they are ?n ful!
?possession of these coast regions.
Get Command of Supplie?
By their victories the Bolshevik!
j have secured command of enormous
1 supplies of food, raw materials, coa'.
' and rolling stock and other means o'
transport which they formerly were in
need of.
Speculation is active in the Euro
I pean capitals as to what will be the
? next move of the Bolsheviki. It is re
i garded as certain that, flushed with
j success, they will not be content with
i their present conquests, but will seel;
j to extend Bolshevism, either eastward
| or westward. Expert military opinion
: inclines to the belief that their next
j move will be an attack on Poland ami
the Baltic states, and Warsaw dis
patches to the London paper? airead',
indicate that the Poles ?r" fully an?
ticipating such a move.
Flanks Are Exposed
The Soviets now undoubtedly com?
mand formidable forces, but not suffi
cient to warrant, an attempt to advanc
both east and west. Against the like?
lihood of an attack on Poland, which
it is said, will be popular with the "Red"
generals, is the fact that the Bolshevik
tianks would be exposed on the north
to :ui attack by th<- Letts and on the
.-.outh to an attack by the Rumanians.
The semi-official statement issued
at London to-day seems to indicate
that the British government is more
apprehensive of a move eastward
threatening India.
Within the next three months, says
the statement. Great Britain may be
faced with a serious Bolshevik situa
tion in the Mear East, which would
mean military, commitments, according
to expert opinion based on official ad
vices from the theaters of war.
Caucasus Position Reviewed
The Bolshevist occupation of Trans
Caspia may be regarded a* virtually
complete, which makes the position In
the Caucasus most difficult from an
anti-"Red" viewpoint. There is little
hope of stopping the Bolsheviki from
overrunning the Caucasus, and if they
succeed they will be able to join Mus
tapha Kemal Pastha (head of the Turk?
ish Nationalists) and other Turks foi
Mesopotamia!, aggression.
Likewise Red occupation of trans
Caspia gives the Bolsheviki a base for
operations against Persia and extend?
ing to India, with the cooperation of
Afghanistan. Georgia and Azerbaijan
are anti-Bolshevik, but they -are not
strong enough to resist the invasion
which threatens them from the north
where General Denikine's right wing
is being pressed back, and from acrosf
the Caspian, where the Bolsheviki
seem to be well established. There in
a large Bolshevist element ;ii Baku
and a "Red" landing there would prob
ably result in the recruitment of these
Bolsheviki immediately.
Daghestan is even more helpless
than Georgia and Azerbaijan. Numef
ous Turks are also penetrating into
the Caucasus from the south with the
1 object of fomenting trouble.
The difficulties in Mesopotamia ap
pear by no means to be finished. Ra
j madan Shalash, one of the leaders, con
j tinues his efforts to stir up the tribe?
?in the British area and has threatened
i an attack in case of non-coinplisnci
j with his demands for evacuation of
, certain districts. Tin- British general,
: Maomunn, commanding it; Me opots
i mia, has issued an ultimatum ordering
j the cessation of this agitation and has
I attacked and dispersed K.imadanV
| forces, whjch had crossed into British
I territory.
"Reds" Improve Railway
The '"Rods" are pouring troops into
trans-Caspia by greatly improved rail?
ways. A party ?;' Bolshevist Turks i>
reported to have arrived tt Herat.
Afghanistan, with two carts containing
! airplane parts and wir- less installation.
I and to have gone on by way o? Kutida
i har and Kabul, escorted by ?*fghan
I cavalry.
1 The "Bads" have opened fifty propa
; ganda schools at Tashkent, where <-r;.
entai languages will he taught Rnd
?from which "Bed"' scents ??.i t.e sent
to Indis and Chins and all the Moslem
I countries. The Tsshkent Soviet re.