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RICHMOND, VA.( SATURDAY, JANUARY 5,1918. ?TEN PAGES.
WEATHER.
PA OK ?
?FAIR
PRICE, TWO CENTS
? FOR OPERATION
OF RAILROADS
President Requests Congress
Provide $500,000,000 to
Pay Compensation.
SEVERAL BILLS PROVIDING
FOR MEANS ARE OFFERED
One Section Lays Heavy Penalty
on Any One Who Im
pedes Possession.
WELL PROTECT SIIAKKHOLDJOHS
Placo Financing Under Approval of
President and Government
Will Support Credit.
f Br Prc**.l
WASHINGTON. January <??Presi
dent Wilson laid before Congress to
day his re- ommendations for leglsla
tlon to carry out government opera
tion of railroads, and administration
bills to that purpwo wero introduced
Immediately in both houses.
Whllo tho President. In hin address,
laid stress on tho Importance of prop
erly preserving the properties for th'*ir
return, the administration bill speclfi
cally provides that government control
shall obtain throughout the war nnd
"until Congrocs shall thereafter order
otherwise."
Many government ?? fH? ? in 1 .s and rail
road men made no coin ealinent of their
belief that the rail":iv3 never would
return to private hand .
Tho President's program, besides
calling for a 5500,000.000 appropriation
to be used as '"revolving fund" with
railroad Income for operation and main
tenance, cailu fr.r compensation to the
roads at the rate of their net operat
ing Income for th- lant tflrec fiscal year?.
Any declenclcs would be paid out of
tiie J500.000.000 fund, and meanwhile no
railroad may increase its dividends;
roads that have skipped dividends may
resume with rates lixed by the l'rcsi
dent
*!*ne section of the proposed law. con
sidered very elgnlficaiu. lays a heavy
penalty on any one who impedes "pot
Boesion. use. operation or control" of
Uie roads. Jt Is regarded a;; preclud
ing a strike.
All new railroad financing would
bo under tho approval of the Presi
dent. and. the government v. otild be
authorized to support railroad credit
by buying railway securities and hold
them for better market*.
All advances of money to the roads
/ or expenditures for betterments would
be reimbursable to the government.
In the Iloute. the bill was intro
duced by Chairman Siins. of the In
terstate Commerce Committee, which
will meet Monday to consider it.
In tho Senate, It was introduced by
Senator Smith, of South Carolina, and
will be considered 1 v th<? Senate Com
mittee also on Monday.
The President *;?ok>> a.< follows:
"Gentlemen of the Congrers:
"I have utkod tho privilege of ad
dressing you in order to report that
on the 28th <>f I?eceinber lust, during
the recess of Congress, acting through
the Secretary of War and under the
nuthoritv conferred upon n?<_- "i y the
act of Congress approved August
191G, I took possr*; ion and as; tfmed
control of the railway line.? of the
country and the systcmw of water
transj?ortatii>n tinder their control. This
step seemed to lie imperatively neces
sary in the interest of the public wel
fare. in the presence of the grot tasks
of war with which we are now dealing.
As our experience develops difficul
ties and rnake3 it clcar what they are,
I have deemed it my duty to remove
those difficulties wherever I have the
legal power to i|o so. To assume con
trol of the \a.-t railway system* of the
country is. I realize, a wry great re
sponsibility. but to fail t<> do so in the
existing ciriiimstan. es would lia\e been
moro greater. I assume the less re
sponsibility rather than the weightier.
CALLS roil .MOIilM/.ATION'
OF AM. -NATION'S ItKSOVIlCKS
I am sure that I am speaking the
mind of all thoughtful Americans when
I say that it is our duty as the repre
sentatives of the nation to do every
thing that it i- necessary to do to se
cure the complete mobilization of the
whole resources of America by as rapid
and effective a means as can he found.
Transportation supplies all the arteries
of mobilization. Unless it be under a
single and uniiled direction, the whole
i process of the nation's action ij em
barrassed.
It was in the true spirit of America?
and It was right?that we should lirst
try to effect the necessary unification
undor tho voluntary action of those
who were in charge of the great rail
way properties; and we did try it.
The directors of the railways re
sponded to the need promptly and gen
erously. Tho group of railway execu
tives who were charged with the task
of actual co-ordination and general di
rection performed their difficult, duties
with patriotic zeal and marked abil
ity, as was to have been expected, and
did, I believe, everything that it was
possible for them to do in tho cireum
Ktanccn. If 1 have taken the task out
of their hands, it has not been because
of any dereliction or failure on their
part, but only because there were some
things which the government can do
and prlvato management cannot. We
rhall continue to value most highly tho
advice and assistance of these gentle
men, and I am sure we shall not find
them withholding it.
It had become unmistakably plain
?\tjjiat only under government admlnia
'ifatlon can tho entire equipment of the
several systems of transportation ho
fully nnd unreservedly thrown Into a
' ~ (Continued ou?Third Page.)"
Head of Tredegar Co.
P asses Away at HisHome
FE3B OF ICE SOU SB
EXPECTEBTOKW GOMES
? Merchant* Arc \Varne<l to Hcniovc
j All I'reight I'rom Steam
ship Wharves.
I DIPS Hi;LOW zi:no again
; Kocord for .January Was
Sot nt Daylight Yesterday?(ini
tial l ijnires Show UJI7 Had Cold
est December on Korord.
With the promise by the Weather
i I ureau of fair and warmer weather
! to-duy and to-morrow and tho fear of
| a consequent freshrt nn.i u-e gorge in
i James Klver, the Old D.minion Steam
ship Company lust night issued a
J police to merchant: to remove at once
I ?'h freight now on t!ie local wharves
! The river is Mil! frozen :o!i?ily froin
;shore to shore, and tho upper part ?.f
! the State is covered with a heavy full
! <>( miow. 1 "car i.- iliat a
j sudden break-up ??! the b-o may be as
serious to the State as would ho a
(continuation of the prescit frozen con
dition.
!
I All water transportation in Virginia
J waters is at a stand, till because of
! the i.;e, and freight congestion fs be
coming a most serious problem. So
badly lias Use ice elogg.d in Hampton
Koads that the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway ha:: j.. en unable to operate
Jits ferry service between Newport
j .News and Norfolk, and all passengers
i:-re being routed b.\ the Norfolk and
Western, tlie Chesapeake and Ohio sell
mi; iick< ts only to Newport News and
' 'Id Point.
The Old Dominion steamship .lames
town. of the New York line, left New
port News yesterday morning at
oVloek and did not get into Norfolk
.until 11. taking live hours for a trip
j usually made in one hour. The Hay
j I.inc and Washington sit amors h ue
(suspended service, including the York
. Ki\cr l?ir:o, and th" Old l*ominion
I J.:ne last night canceled its: sailing for
l N' w ^ ork, the Jamestown, after it?
trip across the Koads in the morning.
; l aving become solidly packed in i,-e
| ir it:i slip at Norfolk.
1.11I'OItTA\T THAT I'HKIflUT
?u; hijm(?\l:i? at once
, "It is mo.>l important." said General
j Agent George M. Wyatt, of the Old
| Dominion l.ine. last night, "that all
l merchants having freight in the lUch
j moral docks remove it at once, as an
i ice gorge may follow the tir.-t thaw.
| and would <? rtaluly ean-e a serious
1 ftvcrSftw of th- lower part of the city.
I including the steamship docks."
I ice i:i the river at Hiehmond is re
j l orieil .soi.'d from shore to shore, u
>h nation not before tiuplicat<d since
| 1 s iAll railway traina from the
.North and South are running from one
; t. Sen hours late, one due a. 12:30
I A. M. yesterday not getting in until
j nearly noon.
The thermometer smashed all Jan
! nary records of the local Weather liu
? reau yesterday morning by going to
i degree below zero. it climbed
s I eadily, however, during (he day,
making !7 by noon and by oYlock.
At ^ p. m. the Weather Hurt-au reported
a temperature of with the prospect
of fair and warmer wontln r to-day
and the promise of the first real thaw
in more than a week, the slight melt
ing of the past few days having been
only where enough heat escaped from
buildings to temper the atmosphere re
potted officially as below the freezing
mark.
1 he drop below zero yesterday morn
ing was the second time this winter,
tlio temperature Sunday morning hav
ing been the record for cold weather
since February. Imi;., the thermometer
at t> A. M. Sunday having stood 2.2 be
low zero. After yesterday the next
coldest January day on record was
January 14, 1312, when the mercury
fell to six-tenths of a degree below
zero.
?i- or one week yesterday's maximum
temperature of was the highest
recorded by the Weather Hurcau In
st ruments.
COIiDKST, pEt'KMIlKlt
ON illKMAl \S HECORD
Dast month was tho coldest Decem
ber on record, the average temperature
for the entire month having been be
low the freezing mark. Section Direc
tor 15. A. Evans. of tho local Weather
Hurcau, in a special bulletin issued
yesterday gives tho following figures
for December:
Tho average maximum temperature
for tho entire month was 37.7 degrees,
(Continued on SevontiPl'agc.) :
DIES AT HIS HOME
Prominent Business Man Passes
Away After Brief
Illness.
HEAD OF TREDEGAR COMPANY
Had Distinguished Confederate
Career, and Was Leader in
City's Business Life.
i
| Colonel Archer Anderson, seventy
; nine years old. one of the most prom
| Incut citizens of Richmond, president
| of the Tredegar Company, and widely
j known throughout Virginia and the
I South, (ifcl yesterday aft'-rnoon nt 1:30
j o'clock at his home, 101 West Franklin
i Street. after a brief illness. He was
flr:-t taken sick Sunday night, and
hevairec of hi.s age, physicians immedi
ately realized the seriousness of the
attack. l?ut his death camc as a dis
tinct :-hoek.
Funeral services will bo conducted ;
to-morrow afternoon at o'clock at St. !
! Paul's Episcopal Church. Interment j
will be in Hollywood Cemetery.
G:i Saturday, Colonel Anderson rc- j
| inained at his offices at the Tredegar '
Company, munition manufacturers and '
stc<-1 producers, until li'.s usual hour, |
and returned home, lie was apparently
in the best of health, as on Sunday
morning. I-ate in the day, however,
' he became 111, and retired to his roosn.
Physicians were called, and realized
almo.-t immediately that lie was seri- !
I ously ill. Ills condition grew steadily !
'A'ur.se, although several hours before :
hi.s death he was unusually bright, and :
talk'd with members of his family as
extensively as liis physicians would !
' permit. I
IMPOnTAXT riGCKB IN
IttRVILDINK OK KICII.HIOMI
Colonel Anderson was one of the!
most prominent business men of Rich
and was an Important factor in
the reconstruction of this city and sec
lion in the years that followed the
cloj-c of the War Between the States,
lie succeeded his father, the late Gen
ital Joseph R. Anderson, as head of
the Tredegar Company, and lias di
rected the affairs of the company since
that time. This plant was acquired by
General Anderson a number of years
before the v.nr, and during that strug
gle it produced a large part of the
? munition used by the Southern forces.
Colonel Anderson was born at I**ort
ress Monroe October 1S3S. His pair-.
. outs removed to Richmond- when he
!v.h.-- about four years old. and he con
j sidered this city his home. His early
education was received in Richmond.
He attended Turner's School, which
was prominent before the war, and
was an exceedingly bright pupii. At
the age of sixteen lie entered the Uni
? verslty of Virginia, and in two years
graduated with a degree of master of
? :'rt.-\
i He then spent about two years study
ing in a well-known institution in Iler
:!?. returning to America and entering
the University of Virginia for a upe
? iai course in law. v.hlch lasted one
year. In 1S59 Colonel Anderson mar
ried Miss Mary Mason, the daughter
I of John V Mason, who was, respec
tively, Secretary of Navy, United States
Attorney - General and minister to
France. '
MARIIIKI) DA t'fiHTKIt
OF MLMSTER TO FRANCE
The marriage occurrod in Taris,
where Minister Mason was then making
uis home. Colonel Anderson returned
| to Virginia after the death of his
father-in-law. and wl?h the outbreak
of the War Between tlie States he en
ii:-ted as a private in Company F, of
tho Richmond Volunteer?. He was
only twenty-one years old when be
; entered military service.
His promotion was rapid. During
; the struggle he was connected with
; several commands, advancing steadily
by the dint of his un%iring efforts. His
; military record was brilliant, and as
'promotion after promotion followed
i each other, he left each position with
I the greatest praise of his commanding
onicer. At the close of the war he was
j ansi.st.-int-adjutant-gencral on the staff
I of General Joseph K Johnston, and
? was on one occasion highly commcnded
by General Robert IS. Lee.
?"'olonei Anderson returned to Rich
? mond immediately after tiie surrender,
and entered the plan of the Tredegar
? Company under his father. His entire
| time, was devoted to this business, and
some years later, on the death of his
father, he assumed control of the busi
ness. The loyalty of his employees, es
pecially the older men, is very great.
J and there was a strong personal bond
between him and th ^ men during re
! cent years. It was decided last night
' to close tho plant to-day, and cm
; ployees of the mills will probably at
tend the funeral.
I
. DECMNKll ALL OVIOIITIKKS
FOH Pl IILIC OFFICE
It is known that Colonel Anderson,
: who for more than a quarter of a ccn
' tnry has been recognized as one of the
most distinguished citizens of Rich
; niond, because of his extraordinary
lability, lii'i scholarly attainments and
, his brilliant military record, could have
j occupied several public offices within
j the gift of tne city or State, but he
consistently refused all such overtures.
| He was eon&idercd one of the fore
! most citizens of Virginia, and always
took great interest in tho affairs of
tho State. IIo was widely known in
many sections of the country, and de
livered tho oration at the unveiling of
the equestrian rtatue to General Rob
ert 12. Lee on Monument Avenuo on
May 30. 1S00.
In recent years, despite his advancing
age, he continued unusually active. He
visited his offices at tho Tredegar Com
pany dally, and personally directed the
(Continued on Third I'agc.)
v
Holds Up Murdered Brother as
Ingrate Who Betrayed
Him in Iov/a.
AGAIN ON STAND TO-DAY
For Three Hours Accused Man
Reviews Life Before
Goochland Jury.
fBy a Staff Correspondent.)
COOCHLiAXD, VA? January 4.?Pic
turing th<: brother of whose murder
he is accused, as an ingrate who be
trayed him after accepting hi*i assist
ance in many times of adversity. Dr.
Asa \V. Chamberlain. on the stand in
his: own defense. for nearly three hours
this afternoon calmly reviewed the re
lations between himself ami that
brother. Judge Albert I*. Chamberlain,
from their early childhood to the time
of the murder. which was exposed by
the finding of the judge's dismembered
body beneath fenee posts in the'bach
yard of the doctor's home late in Oc
tober.
There war; no bitterness in the doc
tor's recitation of the alleged wrongs
he suffered at the hands of his brother.
The jury was evidently impressed by
his demeanor. Certainly spectators be
came more sympathetic. Of forceful
I personality, his enunciation crisp and
peculiarly Western, he talked plainly
and with few falters. Beginning with
the time when he and Albert, as he
??ailed his brother, were children on an
Iowa farm, he passed rapidly over their
school years, spent together until he
| left the Iov/a Agricultural College
after two years there to take up the
study of medicine. His brother com
pleted the course while he was ntudy
j Ing at the L.OuisvI le Medical College.
| Later lb? brother began reading law.
tret ting license to practice about the
! time he graduated in medicine, in JST6.
.ItDftrc DEI'EATKD FOR
officio ix nrcs moivks
i Albert Chamberlain located in Des
I Moines and enjoyed a lucrative prac
j tice for many years. Dr. Chamberlain
i set up an office at Stratford, a few mile?
? away. He visited his brother often.
J The doctor prospered in a small way,
although adversitv visited him some
. times, once necessitating bankrui>tcy. 1
I Again tire destroyed a drug store in |
which he had established a profitable j
business. However, late in life, accord- !
| ing to hYrti, he wars able to help his J
' brother, to whom fate was beginning
j to be unkind. The homo life of the
! judge became complicated. Divorce ?
i nroceedings ensued, lie lost his prop- !
! erty. The doctor helped him. Surgical |
operations for a goiter on the judge's)
J neck were ndvised by physicians. The 1
doctor brother carried him tc the Mayo j
brothers and paid the expense of an j
operation while he ? tayed beside him. |
After the hospital experience, the!
(judge ran for office in Des Moines. lie j
i was defeated. .Then he wanted to leave ;
; tho State, The doctor, too. thought he '
I himself had reached the stage in life
j when ho was entitled to a home in a j
pleasant clime. He bought "Sunnyside ;
Farm," the place which plays so big j
a part in this trial. To this he in- i
vited his brother. The judge, however, ;
i bad his eyes on Florida and bees. The i
! doctor advanced him money to go to
' Florida, where he bought a small place. .
which subsequently proved unsatisfac-1
tory. i
OFTEN GAYK JIONKY
TO ASSIST II1S llllOTIIL'lt J
From Florida the judge returned to I
Stratford. The doctor renewed his in-I
vitatlon to "Sunnyside." The judge
j accepted. Tho doctor bought two
? mules, two l.orses and household goods
j and equipment and employed a young
' man to come with the judge to Yir- J
! ginia. The judge was to have half of!
: the income from the farm and was to
i have a home ther? as long as he wanted i
i it. Utsring the two years the judge!
I made his home there before Dr. Cham-!
j herlain came with his young bride the i
) doctor s?Mit him much money for ex- '
| penses?even supplied him with po.it- j
! age stamps. A statement from a i
(Stratford bank was shown to prove
j that the doctor really sent drafts to
j his brother, and they came to a goodly!
j sum. Often, the doctor said, he gave!
i his brother money when lie came to '
l the farm.
j All went well between tho brothers)
until Dr. Chamberlain came with his ]
; wife. Then the Judge seemed to fsar ]
that ho was not to enjoy his old priv- !
ileges. lie asked the doctor to deed |
him half interest in the farm. This '?
was refused, the doctor said, because!
he did nr>t want to fix it so the judge's j
son would Inherit the property. lie
I did, however, offer to build a separate,
j home for the judge, he said, when hi- !
! brother informed him that ho wanted'
j to marry.
I The doctor said his brother was |
[angered by bis refusal. They qtiar- 1
I reled. Albert wanted arbitrators railed .
j to settle their differences, he claiming!
that he wns duo something for the |
w ork he had done and his own money j
i that had been spent on tho farm. The |
? doctor agreed. The arbitrators ai-:
| lowed his brother $I.Ht>. lie thought
I this too much. thinning unpleasant- 1
ness resulted in the brother's dopar- ?
i ture from his home.
DBLIBYKS imOTtlr.lt DKTRA^ KP
HIM IN IOWA C'Ol'HT
In the meantime tho doctor had been
indicted in Iowa courts for selling
whisky in his drug store. lie explained
that the husband of a woman for whom
lie had prescribed a remedy composed
principally of whisky had gotten drunk
on the remedy and gone before the
grand jury with the matter. In the
subsequent trial tho doctor said the
prosecuting attorney had used some
disagreeable facts known only to hlm
( Continued ? on -Third ir'agc.)
How D. CM. Is Won
by British Tommies
in the Cause of Allies
Modesty of Two Brave
Men Is Set Forth in
Narrative of Thrill
ing Action.
B* ARTIIl'lt Gl'V I3.MTKY,
Anthor of "Ovtr the Top." "l'lmt Call/'
Etc., Who Han find >tnny t
Thrlllfrs "Over There."*
fThe sixth of a series of twclvo ar
ticles by the author of "Over the Top,"
the best seller of tho year. Tlio re
maining articles will tell Mr. Kmpey's
experiences during: his seventeen
months in the first-line trenches of
the British army in l-'rance, the thrill
ing "great adventures" which hundreds
of thousands of young Americans are
soon t'< pass through.J
(Copyright, 1911?, by the McCluro
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Our gun's crow. as was its wont, was
sitting on the straw in tho comer of
our billet, far from the rest of the sec
tion. The previous night we hail been
relieved from the lire trench, and were
"resting" in rest billets. Our "day's
ree?t" had been occupied In digging a
bombing trench, this trench to be used
for the purpose of breaking in would
be bombers.
Hungry Foxcroft was slicing away
at a huge loaf of bread, while on his
knees he was balancing a piece of
"issuo"' cho?o. His Jack-knifc was
pretty dull and the bread was hard,
so every now and then ho would pause
in his rutting operation to take a. large
bito from the chcese.
C'urley Wallace whispered to me:
"Three bob to a tanner, Yank, that
he eats the cheese before he finishes
slicing that 'rooty.*"
I whispered back:
"N'othir.s doing. Curly, you are
Scotch, and did you ever tee a Scotch
man bet on anything unles3 it was a
.-ur* winner?"
lie answered in an undertone:
"Well, let's make it a pack of fags.
IIow about it. yank'/"
1 acquiesced. (Curly wong the fags.)
Mascot Hti'l Clieene .111* M Ip.
Sailor Bill was sitting next to Curly,
and had our mascot. Jim?a sorry look
ing mut?between his knees, and was
picking hard pieces of mud frpm its
pawn. Jim was wagging his slump
of a tall ahd was intently watching,
Hungry's operation on the bread,
livery time Hungry reached for the
cheese, Jim would follow the move
ment with his eyes, and his tall woiil 1
wag faster. Hungry, noting thi* look,
b off a small piece of tho cheese and
flipped K in Jim's direction, Jim deft
ly caught it in his month, and then
the fun began. Our mascot hated
cheese. It was ludicrous to watch him
spit it out and sneeze.
I key Honney reached over, took the
candle, and started searching in his
pack, amhl.-t a chorus of growls from
us at his rudeness in thus depriving
uf. of light. 1 was watching him close
ly. and tiuspected hat was coming.
Sure enough, out came that harmonica,
and I knew it was up to me to start
the ball of conversation rolling before
he began playing, because after he had
once started, nothing short of :i Ger
man "five-nine" sltellburst w.iuld stop
him. So I slyly kicked Sailor Bill, who
immediately got wise, and then 1 broke
tho ico with:
"Sailor. 1 heard you say this after
noon, while wo were building that
traverse, that it was your opinion that
darn few modal.", were really won: that
it was more or less an accident. Xow.
just because your IX 1. M. came up
with the rations and, as you Bay, it
was wished on you. there is no reason
in my mind to class every win..er of
a medal as being 'accidentally lucky.'"
This medal business waa a sore point
with Sailor Bill, and he came right
back at m? with:
"Well, if any of you lubbers can
tell in.- where a. 1?. C. M. truly came
aboard in a ship-shape manner?that
is. up tlie aftergang plank?then I will
strike my colors and lay up on a lee
shore for dry dock."
Ike Honne.r (explodes.
I key Honney had just taken a long,
indrawn breath, and his cheeks were
puffed out like a balloon, preparatory
to blowing it into the harmonica which
he had at his lip.', but paused; and.
removing the musical instrument of
torture, he exploded:
"Blime me, I know ot' a bloke who
won a l ?. i'. .\|? and it wasn't acci
dental or Igcky, eliher. I was right
out in front with him. Blime inc. I sure
had the wind up, hut with French it
was 'business a-s usual.' Ho just car
ried on."
We nil chirped in: "Como on. Ikey,
let's have tho story."
"I will if you'll Just let me play t It in
oiio tunc first," answered Ikey.
lie started in, and W8? accompanied
by a dismal, moaning howl from Jim.
Ikey hnd been playing about, a minute,
when tl;?* orderly sergeant poked his
head in the door of tho billet and said:
Ihc captain says to stop that in
fernal noise."
Highly insulted. Ikey stopped, with:
"Some people ave no idea of music."
We agreed with him.
Somewhat mollified, he started:
"Corporal French is the same bloke
who just relumed from Blighty and
joined the third Section yesterday."
I Author's note?The incident here re
lated is a true happening. Corporal
French won the I?. C. M. In the manner
described by Honney. I will not at
tempt to give it in the cockney
dialect. J
In Urnth Alley.
"We were holding a part of the line
up Fromelles way, and were about ^00
! ? {Continued on Fourth I'agcT)
Asks for Commission
to Solve Problems
WASHINGTON, January 4.?Ap
pointment of n t-ummlanlon by th?
President to condnrt an InvrxtlRa
tton and reevmmcnd legislation to
meet the problem* that this country
will fare upon tbe clone of the war,
la proposed In n resolution Intro
dured to-day by Senator Jones, of
Washington. The commission would
be cnmpiurd of twenty-seven repre
tfntatlve* of commercial, financial,
agricultural nnd other lntorrsts of
the country, who would nerve for nl*
months unless It wan necessnry to
prolong the inveHticntlon. The reno
lution would appropriate ?:t()0,000
for tbc expense of the commission.
FOR OFFICERS' SCHOOL
Third Trnining Course Gels Under
way nt Camp Lee Willi
Many Virginians.
ELEVEN ARE FROM THIS CITY
Total of :J0I Candidates Made Hap
py by Announcement of Decision
of Division Examining Hoard.
Three Deatli.s at Cantonment.
CAMP LEIi, January 4.?Three hun
dred ami ninety-one men were made
| glad to-night when the decision of the f
iMvision examining hoard, composed of'
Colonel Fitzhugh Leo, Major George T'. i
Hawea nnd Major liruoc It. Campbell, i
wa.^ announced. This number of men. j
, rhe majority of whom urn now tion
j commissioned officers, will report to-1
i morrow morning- to Lieutenant-Colonel!
j .lames Love, the commandant of. the'
' third-line officers' training school.;
| Here they will receive a three-month i
? course of instruction, which la caleu-j
Mated to qualify them for commissions i
| in the army of the United States, i
I While at the .school the men will re-1
j tain their membership ill the coni
| panies of w.hleh, thoy nrc now mem-j
j beri, and if they should fail to pass!
.tlie examination at tlw> end of their;
course of instruction they will be re-'
'turned to their commands.
j Of the tlfty-nlne men who were ap- ?
I pointed from the Three Hundred and |
! eighteenth Infantry, there were eleven
I Hich.n6nders. These were: Private P.I
11 oil Ida y, from the Supply Company: I
j from Headquarters Company. Sergeant
I Major P. C. Worthington (Company A),|
I Sergeant L/. W. Koontz (Company B),
| Sergeant M. \V. Lee and Sergeant I.
Bernstein; from Company F, Sergeants
' W. Sitlording, L. C. Floyd, W. Smitii
(and A. W. Browning; Prom (Company
. 1. Sergeant 1>. Davis; from Company
1 K. Sergeant W. Wright.
j UAVID 1)1 XI.OP A .MONO THOSE
WHO WILL ATTEND SCHOOL.
Another Kiehtnonder was Corporal S.
Tt. Hurt, of the Three Hundred and 1
Nineteenth Ambulance Company. Jo-!
seph E. Moaby. also of Richmond, who j
ts a member of I lead quarters Company,
will attend the school as a designated
representative of the Virginia Poly
technic Institute.
An appointment of interest is thut
I of David Ptinlop, Supply Company,
I Three Hundred and Seventeenth In
i fanny. Dunlop is from Chesterfield
j County, and his olaim for exemption on i
J agricultural grounds prior to his being |
| forwarded in the quota from his county!
I attracted considerable attention. He I
? was recently assigned to duty with the j
Supply Company, having been in Head-i
l quarters Company since his arrival at'
I camp.
The Three Hundred and Seventeenth
I Infantry, which is also composed of
| Virginians, will be represented by sixty
men.
At tbc line officers' camp there will
probably be 673 men. in addition to j
| the :s??l men appointed to-day, there1
i will be 172 men from the following!
i schools: University of Virginia, Vir- i
j ginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia j
j Military Institute, Staunton Military
j Academy and St. Johns of Manlius,
! New York. The regular army posts!
{of this sei-tion will send 110 men to'
j the school.
j VIRGINIANS AI'l'OlNTBD
TO ATTEND Sf llOOlJ
Besides the Richmond men, the fol- j
t lowing members of the Virginia regi- j
! ments were appointed to the school:
!Tint in ; iiivnmn ami
SEVENTEENTH IN FA NTH Y }
.Medical Detachment.?Private V.'il- t
Hum it. Nair. ;
Machinc.-tInn Company.? First Ser- ;
geant II. .1. I'-opp.
! ilf-adqiiirte,r,4 Company.?private A.
? T. .John son. Sersreant-Mnjor \V. S.
j Przyhyssteivski. Srrgoant-M:ij?r It. K.'
Crowrli. Sergeant <1. S. Griffith, S.?r
j geant-Major Ir\ in,; Compton, Private
J S. i". .Sprinkle, Private I. B. Alleman. ?
j First Sergeant A. Mackenzie, Jr., Pal
| taliou S< rgeant-Mnjor W. R. Smith.
Supply Company.? Private David
! Pun lop. I
| Company A.?Sergeant It. M. HowelS^J
? Sergeant J. J. Coleman, Sergeant D. K. |
Cox. Sergeant W ill (am B. Sour si Cor
poral John II. Petty, Sergeant P. E.
Bobblt.
Company D.?Sergeant O. It. l?nrus.
Sergeant P. L>. Boamer. Sergeant 1. T.
Maddccks, Private J. P. Odanieo, Cor
poral W. S. Smith. I
Company C.?Private S. J. Slie|- i
bourne, Corporal II. ,\. Kupsell, Ser
geant i?. Smiley. Sergeant F. C. Vow oil,
First Sergeant S ft. N'ehlett, Private
William It, Fletcher.
Company P.?-Corporal W. M. Brown,
(ContlnUcd- on Fourth Page'!j
ME CENTRAL
Delegates of Austria, Bul
garia and Turkey Said
to Have Disagreed.
GERMAN REPRESENTATIVES
POSED AS THE CONQUERORS
On Other Hand, Allied Forces
Evinced Desire to
Compromise.
CALM prf.yaii^s ON ALL FROSTS
Berlin Reports Claim Aviators Ilava
Accounted for Twcnfcy-Tlireo
Allied Airplanes.
fHv Asno^Iatrd Prem.]
Although the peace conference be
tween representatives of the Bolshevik
government and the central powers %va8
title to reconvene Friday. Information^
Indicating v. hether the meeting took
pIhoo not forthcoming. Neither
have there been any advices as to
whether the difficulties in tho way ot
reaching an agreement have been sur
mounted or if concessions by either
side, making possible further negotia
tions, are intended.
Dissatisfaction with the proposals ot
the central powers apparently does not
obtain solely on the side of the Uol
shcvlk government, but exists among
the delegates of the central powers as
veil. Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey
arc asserted to have disagreed with
the domineering attitude of the Ger
mans at the Brest Mtov.sk conference.
where they posed as conquerors, whllo
their allied delegates cvinced an eager
desire ft r peace and a disposition to
comproini-e.
The attitude of th<* German Social
ists against the demands of the central
powers, especially those providing fory
the retention of Poland. Lithuania,
Courland and other occupied territory,
has forced the Imperial Chancellor to
refer to the situation before tho main
committee of the Uaichstag. Tha
Chancellor's statement gave no ink
ling as to what Germany's future In
ventions were, and even left to tho
Fnder-Seci otary for Foreign Affairs
the task of outlining in the most per-,
functory style the trend of the negotia
tions up lo the time tho recess was
taken at Brest Bitovsk.
"We can cheerfully await the fur
ther course of this incident. Wo
rely np^n our s'.rong position, our
loyal Intentions and our jnst rights,_
was virtually all the Chancellor had
to say concerning, llu.-sia s rejection ot
the peace proposals.
tJKIlMAN'S l'l Ml MACK
l-tllll WHITISH AOVAXCK9
On the battle fronts tho comparative
calm o!" the put few days continues,
although the Germans in the L'ambrat
sector, in local attacks, have pushed
back four Lhitish advanced positions
for short distances. The artillery dfiel3
along the front in Franco and ;Bel*
glum, a>id also in Italy, are still'going
on. but tho Infantry is idle, except lor
patrol engagement*.
There has been considerable fighting
in the air on the wcst< rn front. lho
German War office asserts that tho
German aviators during the week have
accountcd for twenty-three allied alir
planes and two captive balloons.
French aviators have brought down
eight German machines, and also car
ried out bombing operations behind tho
enemy line.
Tho American army in France is to
be re-enforced by the American avia
tors who became famous as pilots in
French esoadrilles. Thirty-two men,
mostly in embers of the l.afayette cs
cadrill-*, will be the lira to be sworn
into 11??* American at ny. others will
follow them as rapidly as possible.
The transfer of (he aviators was
brought about through negotiations
between the French and American army
authorities.
To the band of experienced men
shortly will be added the tlrst group ^
of young A uteri ? ai? pilots and observers
t?> take instructions near the battlo
front. They already lnvo finished their
first, tests and now are to bo sent to
the. front to complete their work un
der actual battlo conditions.
in:a it j.trw iMiA\s to
HKCOt.MZFi MiW tiOt KltNMENT
COrENHAGUM. January 4.?Tho Bo
kal Anzeiger, of Berlin, says it lcarn3.
from Tokyo that tft? Japanese govern
ment has decided to enter into diplo
matic relations with tip. new itusslau
rovi rament. >. \
WASH IN I.TOV OI-THI
DIAV .?AI?A\ HKI'ORT
WASHINGTON'. January t.?N'othlWff
? >t the reported intention ot the Japa
pes.- govrmnient extend recognl
i ion to t h<- Ilolshevlki ba*' been itWfd
hy the Slate l?rparlmet ?, and tho
Japanese embtssy eo tally ignorant
on the subject. In view ??? the coni
t.? n nd^r.'tand. air that lias existed
!i twecn tho ?? itt?? u? ?* a1!.."' and as tn
unity ?>f action lu such matters, Jt 1ft
sr.;*' m entente circb s here that it Is
certain Japan woule i.ot tike th? initi
ative in recognizing the Uolshevlkl
witnout full confirence with her alllca
and Amcriea.
St'.te Department officials say?tltat ;
there lt{ivo been vi negotiations on tho
suojeet up to this point.
Cio*c attention is being given to llifl
uueM'-on of the status of the Bolshevist. ,
regime, and from private statements 1
of c:r;clals it Is gathered that a decision
will bo rcached very toon as an ?ut?