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ALL MERCHANDISE ADVERTISED IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED Vol. LXXIX No. 26,736 Edttorials >erttsementa Sritmnt W E A T H E B Fair to-day and probably to-morrew; colder; moderate northwest to north wlnds. Full Keport on Fa* e SO WEDNESDAY, JANUARY * * * * Tirn /<vx-ru *In *>re?t*r New Torfc and THREE OENTS yemocrais Fear Danger In Article X $oviet Meiiace of Persia | and India Suggestive ' of Possibility of .Call for American Troops $o Progress Made Toward Agreement $ew York Delegation in Appeal to Calder for Treaty Ratification New York Trj'ftun* Wathinoton Burnau WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.?Efforts of the bipartisan conference com- j Bittee of Senators to bring about an ! ijreement on reservations to the > feggue of nations covenant -which would win two-thirds of the Senate fiiled to advance a foot to-day. The Jipartisan committee met for a short jegson, found it could not agree upon a reservation to Article X and idjoorned unti! Thursday. Only urgent pleas by several Sen itors of both political faithg pre rented the presentation of a motion te hive the treaty of peace brought jp tgiin on the floor of the Senate. Although there are many Senators who do not believe the bipartisan meetings will get anywhere at any | jkime, there are enough who do be? lieve in the possibility of getting jomewhere hy negotiation behind committee room doors to make a con tinuation of the conferenees possible even beyond Thursday. Nobody in the conference is eager to precipitate the break and to be he!d responsible for failure to try every way to bring about an agree? ment. Before the Thursday meeting the Democrats who want to change the Lodge reservations will devote their energies. to trying to make sbme Republican converts, and the Republieans will be just as busy to keep the members of thcii- 6wn party ih line. "lrreiopeilahles" ( laim Control The "irroconcilables" who inter ruptcr the sessioiu of the bipartisan conference l&st Friday are confident that at ieast thirtV-oij<ht oerrilvors will vote down a:iy reservations except the Lodge reservations. and have taken a yo\] which showa that many in their tamp. That is more than enough to srevent ratification. and about the only isope of the Democrata is to bring the treaty up on the floor ar.d force opi poner.tg of chang< i in the wording of reservations to vote against such rsanges one by one. Republican scouta were not without ime comfort to-day. They reported taat Democrats aie looking askance at ite riispatches from Europe showing '???_ Bolshevik forces. evidently pre Ptring to press on toward Syria and Mla. Thes.e Democrats, the" Repub- j ?an8 heard, are concerned when they think that if the United States were ? raember of the league under Article X American troops mijjht be called opon to oppose such advances. Re jmMicars did not fail to remind thesc Draoerats who showed signs of wab '?ing that William Jenninps Bryan has ailed Article X indefensible. 8ini8 Resolution Recalled Musionary work among the Demo Ws waa not the only move of the R A foretaste of what some Re SMicar.s may expect if they depart * the line the "irreconcilables" **"t them to toe was given to-day ??n Senator Hale, of Maine, tried ?flin to have passed his resolution Mnnitting his sub-committee to em My counsel in the investigation of *Mfi'.ral Sims's charges about the Navy >*P?rtment. The reBolution failed H*tn and two Republican3 votes were g tgainst it, those of Senators wah and Sherman. ,]"} on a political hunger strike," n n*tor ^herman later. There was talk in the cloakrooms Sgj* votes to come from other Re '??iiCans against other measures which *?mbera of thsir own party might J* to get through if those members "J1* *t al! ?abbly on the treaty reser Mfeas. But auch talk will not be gf* seriously unless. the feeling in *?< Republican camp runs much l<b*r than it has so far. New Yorkers FMead for League L-???}S**tlon of New Yorkers headed | ,v ":*m Church Osborn, chairman :???'* New York State branch of the ?*?? to Enforce Peace; Charlea H. jj**"*, of the league; Herbert Par >, ',? 'r'': '' '' Yorl< County Commit ^.?* 'r'' ???mv. organization, and in r'?nJf t*everal miniaters, urged Sen jr ",a:d?-r to-day to give his aid in ;;^p?K about a apeedy ratification of 2 u*}? w?thout reservations if that ??;;'J ''- necesaary. Senator Wads C , '"? - r r>t be present when the .,'. 'r'"T' made their p'*a, b??cause ? vai engaged i dcbate on the floor J** Senate. r;.", ??;'? Yorke: declared the sen .,' ''? "'' )tat?, the county and the ;>,*i'- foj earlj ratification of the ??t?v- '''r :: compromiae to bring l,,* ''?'?;- ' ;- compromise ahould ? ?'?;. did not dwell upo; r.'"' ' ' ' ' thia country, but said ??v'Jt''"'- '""''-^ ia duty bo 11 d to th< i " " ?">rld to go Into the league *... . '? - Senator Calder made no ?,'' .?"''?' explained lat< r that he waa m?Yf ?'" Wortunity, The delc ii,, ', ?"'"" "Orlcera alio included: hLgl y ''? ??-'? < ollier, Brooklyn W ' '" >ationa (Committee; Mr* F Wr/T h''?-*. Uague Of Wornon *,;K," *> '?? '"?>?? York; Kdward H. L^\M y-m-ry, :,>w Y?,v State hr?L 9omm*re?i Mr?- OHver i**?i c.h*irman, and Mr? Charlea ***?; W w Ci* ot -*''at,or"? Ajaocia W?? r "?l??j ehairman, Bronx >*,*' -omrmtu-,. r^?g,je to Enforce ?bii?u A'h!,-r Laldlaw, New York *---.: ,Ti '-f Churehesj Vr. 1/ M vntbiwd <m next page %,? -]?* ." l'.ry.; EHlWard M. U\u', ,t7'nhr rA Brooklyn League tBW- i/04nmUt**: Samuel R. Bcr ;SrW- 8*ith,Jam?? H. Speera \*m Ked' Exiles Safe in Petrograd Goldnwn and Berkman Cable They Received an ; Enthusiastic_Welcome ! WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.~The 249 rad.cals recently deported to Soviet Russia by the United States eovern I ment have reached Petrograd fnTIre 9??rtered at Smolny Instftute, accord! I r ? i cablegram from Emma Gold i ers or M A,,tfXand? Berkman, the lead fn New YorkPOrted Pnrty' t0 a 'friend" L?nJrf,fmKS8aT8eJWaB mad? PubHc here Wii; ? l LudJW1K C' A- K- Martens, ' a ll , nmbna?ndor," who was instruct ed by Maxim Litvinoff, Assistan* Peo jPics Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Itopcnhajren, to transmit the cable gram Ihe message as made public bv Mr. Martens said: "We were met at the Soviet border anci at Petrograd with tremendous en tnusiasm. Our reception was inspir ing. Enjoying the hospitality of i fetrograd, the deportees are quartered ' at Smolny Institute. They will be sent to work wherever they desire Tlie people here are cold and hungry, but their spirit and devotion are marvel lous. After two weeks we will go to ftioscow." Two Children Burn to Death in Little Room Mother.Who Led Others of Fam. ily Through Smoke, Thought Victims Had Escaped Huddled in a corner of their little room on the top floor of the five-story tenement at 76 East 115th Street last mght, two children, Dolly Hakin, ten years old, and her sister Pearl, three years old, were burned to death in a nre that wrecked the building. The children were the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hakin. Mrs. Hakin was in her apartmcnt with her children when the fire started. Blinded by the smoke that rapidly fllled her rooni, she clutched Louis, seven years old, and Victona, twelve years old, bv the hands and led them down a fire escape. She helieved that her other two children already had reached-the street. Attracted by the cries of Mrs. Hakin as she left her burning apartment, Patrolman Joseph Crawley, of the East 104th Street police station, and Lieu tenant Henry Hcithaus, of the Fire Patrol, made their way into the apart? ment and found the two little girls crumpled in a corner. They wrapped the children in blankets and took them to a store across the street for raed ical attention, but it was found that they had been burned to death. On the second floor of the building, Yetta Rosenthal, seven years old and her grandmother, Mrs. Tegina Newinan, fifty-four years old, had a narrow es? cape. John Levine, of 52 Lenox Ave nue, heard the cries of the woman and child and climbed up the front of the building into their apartmcnt, remain ing with them until the arrival of the firemen. The Rosenthal girl was dropped into the arnis of Julius Rotholz, of 83 East 1.13th Street. Levine and Mrs. Newman were rescued by the liremen. The woman received svere cuts about the hands from broken glass. o Wireless From Another Planet Held Possible British Astronomer Royal Dis cusses Marconi's Theory of Mypterious Air Signal? LONDON, Jan. 27.?Discussing the mysterious signals described yesterday by Signor Marconi as having been re? ceived in the form of intcrruptions of the .Marconi wireless instruments, Sir Frank W. Dyson, Aatronomer Royal, to day admitted that in his opinion it was quite possible to get waves from other planets. He was not prepared to go further at the present time, and left it to greater wireless experts than himself to clescribe the effects of such waves. Interviewed to-day regarding the sig nals. Marconi said: "hTey are sounds. They may be sig nals. We do not know. They are not what operators call atmospheric, and we have nothing to guide us at present as to how they are caused. "We do not get them unless we set up a special wave length, very much greater than the wave length ordina rily used. Sometimcs there may be a long wait before we hear anything, or we may hear these sounds in twenty minutes or half an hour. They occur when we are using a wave length of approximately one hundred kilometers, which i; three or four times the length used ior commercial purposes." -? Smuggled Whisky Laid To "Red Hook Junkers" Customs Officials Seize Fifty-six Bottles in Boats Alongside Liquor Ship Yarmouth A %tory rivalling any moonshine yarn that ever came out of. the South was uncovered yesterday afternoon when revenue agents operating under Customs Inspector W. W. Trumblo seized fifty-six bottles, said to contain whisky, in two work boats which were tiftl alongside the damaged lilack Star line steamship Yarmouth, off Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn. The customs officials believe that the liquor was smuggled off the Yarmouth, which recently came near foundering in a iieavy gale. According to Jnspector Trumble, the arrests rnade yesterday will break up the operations of an organized whisky running (jan^ which has been srnuggling alcohol to the mainland from ships lying in harbor. The ^ang, customs of ficiala said, called itself "The Red Hook Junkers." The officials assert the "junkers" have been srnuggling whisky to "blind pigs" and "speak easies' in Third Ave nue, Rrooklyn, and West Street, Manhat tan. The scherne, according to the men who made the scizure, was to carry a rej: ular supply of marine Attings among Ihe ? h p at anchor in fnst rnotor boats. Under the supplies was hiding spaco for large quantities of liquor. Wanamaker Fliers, Missing At Sea, Make Safe Landing New York Party, Sought by Navy Scouts When Friends Feared Disaster, Reaches Coast at Vero, Near Miami Sptcial Correspondence PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 27.?The seaplane, manned by six members of the winter colony here, which had been : sought all day following its disappear | ance on a flight from the Bahamas to ; the Florida mainland, made port to : night under its own power at Vero a ! town seventy miles north of here. All ) on board are safe, although for twenty I six hours the craft had been tossed ; about in seas that ran twelve feet j nigh. The passengers were Rodman Wana I mak"2d,' ,so,n of Thomas Wanamaker, of Philadelphia; Gurnec A. Munn, of Washington, son-in-law of Rodman Wanamaker, of New York; Philip I Boyer, of New York, banker and presi ; dent of the Hudson-Wright Airplane Company; Caleb S. Bragg, of New Hrkwinnerof the fourth international Grand Prix automobile road race and E?eT" amate?r drivor of America, Jack Rutherford, of New York, where w m Pro,mi1ent .,in soc>ety, and David H. McCulloch, pilot of the plane and a member of the crpw of the naval sea? plane NC-3 in the United States Navy < transatlantic flight. Party Bound on Fishing Trip ! Wanamaker and his five companions i put to sea here at 11 o'elock yesterday ^fni!n?. for, a tr,P t0 th? Bahamas, ; which he about 100 miles off shore. I ?o^ craft was a flyinSf boat of the SS2-0 navy type, with a 74-foot span and equipped with a Liberty motor. Ihe men took a lunch, a keg of drink | mg water and some fishing tackle. On | leaving they announced their Intention I of getting a power boat at the island for a fishing trip. Clifford Webster of New York rc Allies' Fiume Plan Accepted By Jugo-Slavs Decision Is Reached by a Small Majority and Is I To Be Forwarded to Paris Within Next 48 Hours BERNE, Switzerland, Jan. 27.--A Bel grade dispatch says the Jugo-Slav gov i ernment has decided to accept the Al? lied ultimatum with regard to settle ment of the Adriatic controversy. The decision was reached by a small majority and after a long discussion, the dispatch adds. The Jugo-Slav reply will be sent to Paris within forty-eight : hours. The Allied ultimatum to Jugo-Slavia demanded that the government at Bel grado decide without delay upon what it wanted to do and to give a categori -?al answer of "yes" or "no" to the com? promise offered by the Italians for solution of the Adriatic question. A Paris dispatch of Monday said that one of the first acts of the Council of Am bassadors. appointed to carry on the unflnished routine work of the Supreme Council of the peace conference, was to give the Jugo-Slav repiesentatives four days' additional time in which to reply to the Allied ultimatum. Fiume To Be Free City Under the 6ettlement plan as set forth in the Allied ultimatum to Jugo Slavia, now reported accepted, the city of Fiume was to be independent, under a league of nations guaranty. The port and the railroad terminals, the Allied note provided, were to be controlled by the league of nations. The suburb of Sussah was allotted to Jugo-Slavia. A strip of territory along the coast was delimitated to connect PMume with Italian territory. In Dalmatia it was provided that the city of Zera should constitute an inde? pendent state under a league of na? tions guaranty. The temis stipulated that Italy should retain Avlona? and have a mandate in Albania, except that the northern part of Albania, it was set forth, should be made an autonomous province under Jugo-Slav administra tion. Italv was given the islands of Lussin and Lissa, the remainder to go to Jugo-Slavia. All the islands are to be demilitarized. Baffling Peace Puzzle Sohed The settlcment of the Fiume ques? tion ends a controversy which has been the chief stumbling block to peace in the fourteen months since the closy of the war. Italian insistence that Fiume, with its Italian population, should be annexed to Italy, despite the fact that the environs of the city are inhabited by Jugo-Slavs, and Jugo-Slav objec tions to such a settlement, which would place some of their nationals under a foreign flag, have been art the bottom , of the dispute. The controversy threatened for a ! time to disrupt the peace conference in Paris, as President Wilson's appeal to I the Italian people precipitated the tem- i porary withdrawal from the parley of the Italian delegates. The disposition of Fiume was the outstanding unsettled problem shifted to other shoulders when the peace con? ference which drew up the treaty with Germanv adjourned. Mcanwhile Gabriele d'Annunzio, who had occupied Fiume with his volunteer force, continued to hold the city, de- j claring he would die rather than see the port po to any nation except Italy. -_- | Nitti Sees Soviet Envoys ROMK, Jan. 27.?Premier Nitti yes terday received two Bolshevik dele-' gates, who conferred with him with reference to the repatriation of pris- I oners. The Tribune's PlatformContest The planks submitted have passed the 500 mark! Some of them and the day's prize letter ap pear on pa#e 9. turninp this noon in another plane trom Westend Island of the Bahama group, reported that the Wanamaker machine had left that island at 3 o'elock yesterday afternoon on a return trip to Palm Beach. To-day, with the ship many hours overdue and with no word received, a scarch was instituted bv relatives of the men. Radio calls were sent out from the wireless station at Jupiter, and air and water craft along the coast within a radius of 1,000 miles picked up the distress signals and joined in the hunt. Navy Gives Prompt Aid The Navy Department at Washington was notificd and promptly sent ir.struc tions to stations in tliis vicinity, sujf Kesting that all possible aid be ex tended in the search for the missing plane. Thirty private power boats, a few navy craft and a fleet of airplanes searched the area cxtending thirty miles east, north and south of this city, but with no results. Mr. Munn said on his arrival to-night that while stranded and fioating on the open sea, they had spied one of the searching airplanes and had tricd to signal it, but without success. The scaplane was not equipped with wire? less. Mr. Munn said that engine trouble had developed just at dusk yesterday when the plane was within thirty miles of home. Darkness prevented the com pletion of repairs on the engine until this morning. Even when all was in readiness again it wa6 impossible for the ship to take to the air again on ac count of the heavy seas running, and in these tho ship drifted northward Jall day in the Gulf Stream, until toward sundown to-night the machine was able to taxi into port. World Tribunal First Work of League Council Constitution of Permanent Court To Be Taken Up at Meeting Scheduled in London February 10 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (By The As sociated Press).?The second meeting | of the council of the league of nations, which in reality will be the first actual business meeting, will take place in London, probably February 10, accord [ ing to advices received here to-day. At j this meeting the council plans to enteri upon consideration of une of the most important subjeets with which it has been charged under the treaty of peace? namely, the constitution of the perma? nent court of international justice. The first meeting of the council, held in Paris January 16, confined it? self to matters of organization neces? sary to meet contingencies that had arisen under the treaty, such as the; appointment of the Saar Valley Boundary Commission, which had to be named within flfteen days after ratifi? cation of the treaty. Court Suggested by United States It is learned that. the launching of : the permanent court of international , justice has been decided upon after | great hesitation, becausc this was one of the features of the peace program in j which the United States had taken the j greatest interest; in fact, having orijr- j inated the project as one of the best means of preventing wars by rcsort to judicial processes. It was to have been considered at the first meeting of the j council, but was postponed in order to afford opportunity for the American | Senate to act upon the peace treaty and ; for this nation to be in position to par- j ticipate in the orjranization of the court. The United States, it was stated in the council's meeting, had given this j plan of settlement of international dis putes its oripinal impetus at the first and second Haguc conferences and also j at the London Prize Court conference. i The council, it is now learned, has | linally decided to go ahead with the i plans already made by the secretariat I of the league for launching the court.. I While these plans are not understood to be at all detailed, it is known that j they contemplate the approval by the I council of an organizing committee of seven or eight of the most eminent jurists in the world to amplify the whole structure of the court. The' choices have been made with a view I of finding men not only faniiliar with the evolution of the league itself, but ' also representatives of the different legal systems of the world, in order to ? assure that the court may be acceptable and available to all nations. Root Slated for Membership Elihu Root, former Secretary of State of the United States, is known to have been Belected as the American member ' of the commission, but it is not yet certain that the council will feel free to offer him the actual appointment in advance of America's ratification of the treaty. This subject now is under itiation, with the viewpoint ex ? d by other nations that they very i . ..-M desire to name Mr. Root if the choicc would not appear untimoly in view of the -treaty situation in this country. The organizing committee is cx? pected to have a most diffieult and complex task. The plan for an in? ternational court has been one of the i most discussed of all of the league of nations provisions and suggestions for its constitution have poured in from - all sides. Both the Germans and the ' Austrians submitted a most detailed program in their counter proposals to the Allied and associated powers at the i per.ee conference. t The three Scandinavian countries, Norway, Swedcn and Denmark, in long nieetintrs last summer agreed upon a joint plan to be pressed before the leairuc, and Switzerland also has worked out an elaboratc mcchanism, which was presented at the confer? ence between representatives of the neutral states and of the league of na- i tions commission in l'aris last sprinp;.! All these plans laid' principal stress upon the method of the appointment of judges, which proved to be the rock on which The Kague conferences brokc. The small nation; stand united for the principle of the equality ol dtat C! . and conscqtu'iit ly ol t In ii | u :i voting powei of sl 11>?:.; in tho Hulcction of judges. 3,663 New Cases of Flu; 169jDeaths Low Mortality, as Con trasted With 323 in Epi demic of 1918, Encour ages Officials in Fight Congestion Despite "Staggered" Hours Smoking Forbidden in Theaters; Whisky Made Available for Physicians Health Commissioner Copeland said last night that he expected that more than 4,000 new cases of influenza would be reported to the department in the twenty-four-hour period ending at 10 o'clock this moming. The new cases registered up to 10 o'clock yesterday morning totaled 3.6fj.?. Deaths yester? day due to influenza and pneumonia were 169. Theee figures, according to Dr. Cope? land, indicate that the disease ia now as widely spread in the community as at a corresponding period in the epi demic of 1918, but they establish also that the death rate is sraaller. "The most aignificant point about the figures to-day," Dr. Copeland said, "ia that while an increaae in the num ber of cases is ahown, deaths yester? day totaled 169, as against 323 on the corresponding day of the first epi demic. Clty Irt Better Shape to Fight "In my opinion there will be more than 4,000 cases reported in the 'chart' day ending at 10 o'clock to-morrow. One encouraging feature about the present fight, as compared with the other, is that there are more doctors to take care of the stricken. There is not neaYly thp amount of distress in connection with this visitation. I ba neve that the fact that about half of New York's physicians were in the mihtary service in OcLober, 1918, had much to do with the high death rftt? .then- Then, too, we were badly off for hospital space. Many of the hospitals had been taken over by the army and navy and all of the others had many beds occupied by soldier and sailor patients. "Even so, the present invasion is bad enough. The normal daily average number of deaths in New York from a I causes is about 175. There were 410 deaths in New York yesterday from all causes. Some people have said that we always have had a high death toll from influenza and pneumonia. By wuy of contradicting this I will point out that oti January 27, 1917 when there wa8 no epidemic, thare* were fifty-three deaths in New York from influenza and pneumonia." The number of cases of influenza and pneumonia and deaths reported in the twenty-four hpurs ending at 10 o c ock yesterday morning were as follows: Influenza. Pneumonia. Borough. Cases.Deaths. Cases.Deaths. Manhattan . 1,566 33 137 40 Bronx . 432 7 20 18 Brooklyn . 1,459 14 194 33 Queens . 120 Richmond . 86 1 g q Totals . 3,66:1 57 420 ~U2 Proceding 24 " hours' totals.. 1,712 43 238 Increasea . 1,951 14 lg2 S8 24 Grand totals since Jnnuary l.14,174 259 3,845 1,299 C o r r esponotling data 1918 epi? demic (Oct. 8). 2,503 133 282 190 Subway Congestion Above Normal At 1 o'clock yesterday morning the Health Department rules governing graduated opening and closing hours of business houses, factories and places of amusement became effective. The department inspectors reported that the first day showed more congestion on subway trains than in normal times. Dr. Copeland, however. was told by Frank Hedley, president of the In terborough, that this was in part ac counted for by the trlaze which covered the exposed parts of the third rail, tying up the service at intervals. Dr. Copeland said that he bclieved the ir regular opening and closing hours would be operating ^moothly every where within two or three days" and ex pressed confidencc that his purpose would be accomplished- that of ilat tening the peak of the transit. A new order issued by the Health De? partment temporarily ended all smok? ing 111 the auditoriums of theaters and picturc houses. Explnining this order Dr. Copeland said that the throats of uon-smokers were irritated by tobacco smoke and that tho fumes made per sons susceptible to infection. The order does not apply to the smoking rooms of theaters. Nurses Respond to ('all There was a splendid response yes? terday to appeals for nurses, accord? ing to Dr. Copeland, who said that eighteen trained nurses had registered and been sworn in and ninety-tive un trained, or so-called "practical," nurses had reported for duty. Even so, the department is continuously behind the number of calls by about fifty. An anonymous letter was received at the department from a woman who described herself as a trained nurse. She said that there were plenty of well-to-do families in New York who were glad tp pay $15 a day for the ser vices of a trained nurse. She added: "This may be profiteering but if doctors charge all the trafiie will bear why shouldn't nurses?" Dr. Copeland at once called several registrntion agencies and was told by the women in charpo that they were besieged by persons who drove up in automohiles and offered to pay any sum asked for the services of a nurse. The Health Department is paying nurses $6 a day if trained or $4 if untraincd, in all instances where the family of the patient is financially un able to pay. The anxiety of public service eor porations and heads of ciry depart ments lest their organizations be cripplcd by influenza was illustrated in an order issued by Fire Chief John Kenlon, in which he said that any rnember of the department. of no mat ter what grade. who is eaught at a lire without rubber boots and rubber coat will be suspended on charges. Another phase of the effort to con? trol the epidemic was brought home to David Zipkin, who is the landlord of the apartment ii"usc- nt '2.22H and Continued <>n page tcn Prosecution Opens Direct Attack on Five Socialists By Revealing Party Pledge Meredith Is Appointed to Houston Post Selection of Iowa Man to Head Agricultural Bureau Called Shrewd Politics in President New York Tribunn ~n ns.hi-ngton Rurrnu WASHIXGTOX, Jan. 27.?As indi cated by comment in Washington, President Wilson to-day made a shrewd political move from the stand point of party politics when he shifted Secretary Houston from the Agricul ture Department to the Treasury and appointed E. T. Meredith, of Iowa, to succeed him. Bv this shift, say the gossips, he gets Houston away from the attention of the farmers of the coui try, with whom he admittedly has been most unpopular, without doing violence to his persistent loyalty to members of his offlcial fami.ly, and re places hi?i with a man who is well and favorably known to the farmers of the country, especially in the Middle West, and is an uncompromis'ing ad vocate of their interests, being also publisher of an agricultural paper with a circulation of about 750,000. The wheat raisers, it is said, have been especially incensed at Mr. Hous? ton, as thty hold him responsible for the President's veto of the $2.40 mini mum wheat price biil in 1918 and also charge that lf he had had his wa7 in tho beginning the price tixed in 1917 would have been about $1.80 ipstead of $2.20. Farmers generally have com plained that Houston was a i'ailure as an executive, and that the organization of the Dopartment of Agriculture has surfered greatly \n morale during his administration. Marsh's Advice Followed The net result. of the Meredith ap? pointment is expected to be a inarked promotion of party welfare in the farming sections, and is believed to have followed the aavice of W. W. Marsh, treasurcr of the Democratic National Committee, whose home is ln Iowa. Democrats express the hope that this appointment marks an end of the President's ne^lect of party consider ation in many of his important ap pointments and a new era of rap prochment with the party leaders, with most of whom, they say, he has been i about as intimate during his second ! term as he is with Senator Lodge. In j this connection they are wondering i whether there is design in the rapidly ; accumulating number of vacant Fed ; eral appointive offices. Some of the vacant positions of na? tional importance, most of which have : been so for a ling time, are: Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Federal Trade Commissioner. Civil Servicc Commissioner. Tariff Commissioner. Minister to Switzerland. Minister to China. Minister to the Netherlands. Minister to Siam. Minister to Denmark. Minister to Costa Rica. Minister to Sjilvador. Three Judgeships Also. Vacant The following Federal judgeships are vacant: Third Alaska district and two circuit court. judgeships in the Fifth Texas district. The list would be extended considor ably by an examination of all the ap? pointive offices. Of course the delay in filling such important offices may be attributed ;n tircly to the President's long illness, but some of the Democratic workers consider that there is a deliberate pur? pose in accumulatinp; a large number of vacancies for use where they may do the most good in building up the or? ganization of whatever Democratic Presidential asp"irant is to be the residuary legatee of the present Admin? istration. Another theory is that the open list is to be kept as large as possible until ! the very last days of the Wilson Ad? ministration, so that the sort of g^atitude th-t is based on favors to come will be a powerful motive among the Democratic faithful, tending to keep the present White House r6gimc powerful and respected until close to Mareh 4, 1921. She Upsets Town "Slate" To Elect Husband Mayor Now the "Gang" in MuIIens, W. Va., Ailmits Mrs. Sizemore Is State's Greatest Politician Special Cirrevpondencr MULLENS, W. Va., Jan. 27. That the femaie is more deadly than the male never was better /xcmplitied than in the municipal election here yester? day, when, after a week of hard work, Mrs. Hiram Sizemore overcame the only municipal ticket in the field and induced enough voters to scratch every one of the original names from the regular ballot and substitute new ones, thus overthrowing the entire slate and electine; her husband Mayor. Mr. Sizemore began the campai;;::, but his wife finished it. The latter ls said by her friends and politicians of various persuasion to be the greatest woman politician and spell binder ir. the state. In fact, the "ccang" here now admit that she has it on most of the men. When the "s'nte" ticket was put out there was no opposition. Sizemore tin ally decided he wanted the job of Mayor, and his wife apreed with him. j So began their campaisn. Sizemore's majority was overwhelming. <.OOI> MOHNIXII: What connUtutoH k.I roaults? N.,t nil Ing your ofllco with "Job-hunters," not wiiHtlro.- valuable llme Interviewlni; unde ulrnlili iippllrnnta. t.u- iu netllni: what vou i|e?tn> u iih the 1. ua: i,,..-...: | tr.? i ?:?? ?. -..i ' -Y '? " ''all thi C,iwi\ MornliiR <?>!, '. " '.>>? and k-lve .,? i your adv, r ilsemcut (or Lo-iuorruw'a Tilbuuc.?Advt.. Kaiser Won 't Go Back to Germany MAYENCE, Jan. 27.?German newspapers publish a letter from former Emperor William to a personal friend in which Count Hohenzollern expresses his abso lute discouragement and say* he does not want to ever return to Germany. He says he believes his return would cause a split between Ger? man factions. Mexico Uneasy As U. S. Forces Throng Border Carranzistas Apparently Sec Threat of Intervention in Steadily Growing Strength <*f Americans By Wilbur Forrest EL PASO, Tex? Jan. 27. The Car ranza army along the border is pre I paring for an invnsion by Americans. ' Revelations made before the Senate .committee headed by Senator Fall, j now here to continue its inquiry into , Mexican affairs, the booming of Amer 1 'can cannon at daily target practice at Fort Bliss, and frequent maneuver i mg of the regiments of United States cavalry here seem to be having some effect on the'nerves of the Carranzistas. Though armed intervention in Mexico depends entirely on official Washington. the opposing forces are cocked and ready for action. On the American side The Tribune correspondent ob sei-ved todny that American forces un i der Major General Howze, veteran of ! the European war, have been recruited | to a point resembiing a real war divi . sion, except that where infantrymen previously composed the major part of ; one of those divisions the border army , is now made up of swift mobile cavalry. ( A complete regiment of artillery is here ; in tiptop shape for immediate mobil j ity, and motorized units, including hos I pital and sanitary corps units and others go to make up the arniy's pre parednese. : General Pershing to Arrive Sunday i General Pershing, accompanied by several staff officers, is due here Sun? day, and is scheduled to confer at length on border preparedness. Gen i eral Pershing also will review the ! forces of Fort Bliss and accept honors from the townspeople of El Paso, who desiro to greet him for the first time j aincc he left here to take his command in France. j The Mexican garrison at Juarez, just i across the river from this city, has been reinforced, it was learned to-day. i The Mexicans also have created forti i fied points as far as fifty miles south ! of the border, indicative of their belief j that they will be called upon to op [pose.the increasing number of Ameri | can army effectives appearing on the i American side. As I approached El Paso along the j Rio Grande yesterday the entire course of the river could be discerned by the camp tires of the American border pa ; trols. Nearer the iroutnern Pacific ' Railroad small armed camps were nu merous. Pollowing these camps came El Paso and Fort Bliss, the fountain head of American strength in this "sector." Mexico inlimidates VVitnesses In addition to preparations against possible American invasion, M'-xico is busy, it was learned to-day, in intimi dating witnesses who may appear be? fore the Senate Committee. As in San Antonio, Mexican secret service agents abound in El Paso and are expected to "attend" the Senate hearings. In addition, through the Mexican Con sul here, a demand for stenographic records of the hearings has been made by the Mexican government. These, it is understood. will be sent by the fnstest ! route to Mexico City. Permission to obtain these records from the official stenographers has been granted the Mexican Consul by Senator Fall. In view of this fact many prospective wit? nesses w:th property interests in Mex? ico are timid about appearing before the committee. American army officers engaged last year in the Big Bend troubles and many Mormons whose farming colonies are ;n Chihuahua are expected to testify. The j committee latcr will look into the Columbus i N. M.) raid, sitting at' Columbus. and likewise will visit sev- : eral border points in Arizona before ' moving on to Los Angeles and San i Diego. Calif. ?Fletcher Resigns As Mexican Envoy Ambassador Said to Be lieve He Can Do ISoth ing More for Peace WASHINGTON', Jan. 27 (By The As sociated Press).?Henry P. Fletcher has resigned as United States Ambas- ' sador to Mexico, to take effect in the course of the next few weeks. i Those who know the reason for Mr. j Fletcher's decision say that he is convinccri that a continuation of the efforts he has made during the four years in which he has held this impor tant post 10 bring the Carranza gov- : ernment into accord with the United States government on the many irri tating issues which have arisen, in volving the protection of American lives and property rights. would be futile. Hc terminatps eighteen yeara Continued on page three Gerber Admits Accused Assemblymen Bound by Oath Against Army or Navy Appropriations Defense Loses All Objections Waldman's Speech Assail ing II. S. in Evidence; Hillquiu IU, Is Absent Stciff Corre>t>ixmdtm?* ALBANY, Jan. 27.?Counsel for (the Assembly Judiciary Committee that is trying the five suspended So cialist Assemblymen renewed its ef? fort to-day to couple the Socialist party in general and the men on trial in particular with the govern? ment of Lenine and Trotzky. To that end it occupied virtually the entire day with reading into the record pamphiets, manifestoes and I stenographic reports of ppeeches. "To tbese ponderous tactics of the : prosecution, counsel for the defense ; offered no violent protests. Several times objections were made that the material being presented was irrele vant and immaterial. AH Objeetions Are Overrulcd Each time the objection was over ruled, and the dreary reading con? tinued. Amoiig the pieces of evi? dence with which the record was enriched to-day were: The translation of a pamphlet pub lished by the Jewish Kocialisti' Fodora tion entitled "The Dictalorship of the Proletariat," transcription of 'an ad? dress by ^lexander TrachuJibcrg, do livered at the Park View Palace, 110th Street and Fifth Avenue. on November 7 at the celebration of the anni versary of the birth of the soviet republic; the manifesto of the Com munist isternational, signed by Len? ine, Trotzky and others; the mani festo of the Sociulist party, iasued Sep tcmbcr 1, 1919, trnnseription of "an Bd dress delivcrcd in Brownsville on No? vember 7 by Louis Waldman, one of the five susp-.-nded Assemblymen. Waldman's speech was the sole piece of evidence introduced during the day that brought the issues down from h broad diseussion of general principles to a detinite, personal accusation. Jr, the stenographic report he is quoted as saying ut the conclusion'Of an address in which he glorified the Russian So? viet government and attacked the cap italist system: "We must select between two alter natives either the ideas and phi losophy of the Russian govern ment or the ideas and phi.'osophy of Gary and Wilson. and Palmer "and Lloyd George and Clemonceau. Waldman Prote*ted Againnt Blockade "Between the two. for mv part, and for the part of thousands of Socialists now battling in America to-day, w. choose to stand by the 'ideas and philosophy and program and principles of Lenine and Trotzky." Earlier is his address he protested against the blockade, which he said was starving Russia, and asserted: "America is one of the murderers of hundreds of thousands of women and chihiren in Russia." The rest of the material read into the record dealt in general terms with the proletariat revo!ution-to-be and the ensuing dictatorship of the working classes. Under the drone of the interminablu reading, the crowd that filled the high ceiled Assembly hall nodded or whispered together. There was none of the bitter legal warfare that nae marked earlier sessions. Possibly this was due to the absenee ot Morris Hillquit, who hitherto has led the defense in battle. Hillquit Too 111 To Conduet Defense Dangerously i',1 when he came down from Saranac to aid the suspended members of his party, the preparation or the case and last week's exhausting series of legal confiicts have weakened him so that his physician has told him that he must rest for at least a week before returning to the succor of hii chents. Seymour Stedman yesterday voiced what objections were made. One other specific charge was brought out by John B. Stanchfield, who led the prosecution. While examining Julius Gerber, ex? ecutive secretary of New York County local of the Socialist party. he elicited from him the admission that Section 6 of the constitution of the Sociaiist party was still in force. He then read it: "Any member of the Socialist party elected to an office who shal! in any way vote to appropriate moneys for mihtary or naval purposes or war shah be expelled from the party." Five Compelled To Stand by Partv He then pointed out that the five men on trial were bound to obey this injunction, through reading the fol lowing from the state constitution of the. Socialist party: "Any person eighteen years of age or over who agrees to abide bv the national platform and constitution and resolution, of the Socialist party may become a member of the party." After having brought this out, he then reminded the committee that the hve men on trial had taken the fol lowing oath be ore being admitted to the Assembly: "I soiemnly swear 1 will obev the constitution of the State of New York." Then, as if to show that the five were faced with the necessity of being dis loyal, either to their party or their state, ho read Section 8 of the New York State constitution, bearing on th* otganization of militia Thrs set forth that an armed force of 10,000 men was to bo maintained and that: "It shall b? th? duty ot th? Legia