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Crisp News Items Every Morning at Your Door in Compact Form. RICHMOND, VA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1919. ?FOURTEEN PAGES RAIN PRICE, THREE CENTS WRATH KB rAGE 8 Palling Power Times-Dispatch Want Ads Have That Qxiality. 69TH YEAR. VOI.CMK NllinKR SUNDAY AND BOOZE HAVE FINISH FIGHT IN MEETING Tfl-OAY Hell for Rent After Final Battle at Auditorium, Evangelist Says. PLEADS TO ALMIGHTY FOR REVIVAL SPIRIT Tired Out by Vigorous Cam paign Here, He Asks Spe cial Dispensation. CROWDS COME IN IIAIN TO HEAR Flaps Bolshevists in Afternoon Ser mon, and Says "Slimy Gang" Not Wanted Over Here. .Mr. Sunday'* nrrmori on "i)r. JrUjII and Mr. Iljilr" will bf found on pasrr 5 of thin Unite of The I'lmrn-Dlnpn fell. Hell for rent, with crape on the front door, was the jirotnise Billy Sunday made the Lord last night as he dashed the perspiration from his brow and brought his right leg sharply up to a crooked position tn unison with a Aweeplng swing of the arm. The dramatic exit of tho devil from hio low-lying home of high perdition will begin to-day, the evangelist said, when ewlft, decisive blows at King Booze and life-blasting amusements will bond their promoter over the ropca groggy, bleeding and ready to quit Krorn hfgh nervous tension to a low chuckle, Mr. Sunday struck every chord of his emotions as lie made this last, heart-to-heart talk with the Lord, dually exulting over tho prospect of leaving the earthly station for that in heaven in "a cloud of dust." ASKS NITXIAIi DISPENSATION OK ItKVIVAl, SPIRIT HUItlC Plainly tired from the efforts lit has made during the campaign in Rich mond, Mr. Sunday asked that God visit him with a spcclal dispensation of re vival spirit, that he may continue vig orously to the end the light he has be guh on every form of slu. The Mr. Hyde of Stevenson's terrible allegory appeared the acme of all that is perfect In life besides the insidi ous personage of sin that the evangelist pictured for his audience as the evil force In every man fighting for mas tery over the Dr. Jekyil of the godly hrc. Ucld up before them in derisive scorn, named as tho inner .Ilun. with hit the brutal and demoralising in stincts of the real one across the Rhine. Air. Hyde saw last night ?cores of men go to tho rescue of l>r. Jekyli, promising to tight the good fight until crape appeared on hell's door. YOUTH .l.\D AGE MEET AT I'OHTAI, OF SANCTITY Touth and old age met sis recruits before the platform. A small boy, scarcely tall enough to reach the hand of Mr. Sunday as he thrust it down over the side of the platform, came down the aisle just after the enlist ment of an old man, whose white beard ovidcnced many years on life's stormy sea. The audience last night was composed entirely of members of the male sex. A majority of them were business men. Those who declined actively to engage in war on Mr. Hyde gave their moral support of Dr. Jekyli, if the applause accorded Mr. Sunday's vigorous expres sions is a criterion by which to judge. "God Almighty puts it tip to you. old top," tho evangelist warned, a^s he jumped from one side of the platform to the other and pointed his index finger vigorously at the audience. "There's no passing tho buck. Old Aaron tried to pass the buck once, but Moses called him down. That was the time he made the golden calf for worship in the wilderness. Old Moses comes along and asks Aaron why he made it. MOSES WENT "llED-HEADKU" AND SWITCHED INTO "HIGH" "Aaron saw Moses had gone red headed and had switched into high, so he shifted the responsibility?put it on the furnace; said the people put their gold into the furnace and the calf came out, formed from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. But it didn't go. Aaron couldn't put it over on Moses that way. And you can't put it over on God. You must be either a Dr. JcUyil or a Mr. Hyde." "Old Gilbert, ihe grave-digger at Monte Carlo, said life is a game of chance," Mr. Sunday declared at an other point. "But I tell you that old Gilbert is a liar." he shouted. "Every man is the architcct of his own fate. Neither is sin a disease, as some peo ple would have you believe. It's a condition, something you have got to fight L.id fight every day." Despite tho rain, which poured steadily all day yesterday In a fine, cold drliszlc, Billy Sunday had the usual big crowd at tho 2 o'clock ser vice. It appeared that many people had made a special effort to reach the Auditorium, under the impression that the rain would keep "the other fellow" at home. But the other fellow was right on the job. nevertheless. "Body" was back from three big services with tho soldiers at Newport News, who have just returned from overseas. He wore his "Y" uniform. The two Rodelieaver brothers sang "In the Garden," by special request, and Homer A. Rodelieaver, the "Body" of the Sunday party, sang "The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago." From Isaiah xlill. 10, "You are My witnesses, saith the Lord of hosts," the evangelist delivered a discourse of convincing power and earnestness. "St.IMY GANG** FROM RUSSIA ENGAGES IIIS ATTENTION "That infamous, scaly-headed, slimy j;ang from Russia" engaged all of Mr. Sunday's extensive vituperative vocabu lary for several minutes at the be ginning of his sermon. He referred again to the treatment of women in Russia as "brood animals" and ex pressed his opinion that before America should become a pnsture. ground for such a black-hearted gang that some more fighting may be necessary. "If wo licked 'em onco we can do it again," arc Mr. Sunday's sentiments. In reference to his text, the evangel ist repeated the assertion which he lias made many times since he came to Richmond that the world wants a re ligion of deeds rather than words. "Talk's cheap!" said Mr. Sunday. "There arc more expert wind-jammers in this world than anything else." God can even get along pretty well without the preachers If He ?0 wills, according to Mr. Sunday, who Illustrated his statement with tho Incident of Taul being bitten by a venomous scrp i cnt. which foiled to harm him. "God can uso a rattlesnako to proach " (Continued on Second Pago.) On Billy Sunday's Trail TO-DAV. - P. M.?nilly Sundar will prrarh hi* famous "Boose Sermon," by ipe cial rtqaent. 7 iHO I*. M.?Mr. Sunday will preach lil* first arrmon un "A raunemrn In of Modern Society." The name sermon will be repeated to-mortonr after uoon. Shop meetings to-day for men > will be as follow* i Hletunond, Kredertcksbnrg and Potomae, T. T. Illneri Klnpan & Co., Lieutenant Doydi T. U. Williams & Co., llobert Matthews. Miss Crnee Saxe will teach her noon Bible study class a* usual at St. James Episcopal Church, for the downtown district.1. At 8 I*. M. ahe trill be at Fulton Street Methodist Church. The noon-day business women's luncheon will be held, as usual, In the annex of Seventh Street Chris tian Church, where Mr*. William Asher will address the business women until 2:30 1*. M. INCREASED CAR FARES ! GO INTO EFFECT TO-OAK! Mayor Ainslie Signs Ordinance, and 1 Railway Directors Accept Plan. ! MARKS END OF L.ONG RATTLE ! ! Controversy Regan in November, i 1017, When Company Filed Ap lication for Higher Rate?*?May , | lie Repealed Witliin Year. Richmond eels a valcruine to-day in the thapc of increased street, car i fares. . Mayor Ainslic yesterday afternoon j approved the ordinance granting the | Increased rates, and soon afterwards j the board of directors of the Virginia I I Railway and I'ower Company passed a < ! resolution accepting the conditions j i laid down by the city. The ordinance I became law about 5 o'clock yesterday j ; afternoon. President Thomas W. Wheelwright, j of the Virginia Railway and Power ! Company. just before leaving for * Washington last night, stated that the | company would put the new fares into ; j effect this morning. Changes made by ihc ordinance arc as follows: Six-for-a-quarter tickets for the gen t era! public are abolished, and a straight ' 5-cf dt cash fare is substituted. Labor tickets at 2 1-2 cents each and ! good between the hours of 6 A- M. and | . i A. M. are abolished, instead labor tickets will be sold at the rate of slx j for-a-quarter, and will be valid be- ! i tween the hours of 6 A. M. and 8 A. M. School tickets and transfers remain 1 ) as at present. I SIGNING OK OIIDINA.XCK EMI OK LONG BATTLE ? j in November, 1917, the street rail- | ; way company Hied w?th the City Coun i oil an application for increased rates, : uetting out the great cost of material and labor as,compared wjth the. cost ! ! in former years. The application was \ > referred to the Committee on Streets, J and there were many public hearings, j the opposition to increased rates being | j chictly led by representatives of the j Central Trader and Labor Council, j The matter wa? sent backwards and j j forwards between the two Council ; i branches and the Committee on Streets. ; j and finally came to its end in the City ? Council, when the Hoard of Aldermen i last Tuesday night passed It by a vote ; of 10 to 1. The ordinance allows the company ! to maintain the increased rates for the period of one year, and at the end of that time the new law auio , matically comes to an end. The City ; Council, honevcr. has the right to rc- ' ! peal the ordinance at any time that it ; may deem proper. One of its pro 1 visions, as accepted by the company, I gives the city the right to exainlne the j nooks, vouchers and methods of man- ' . ageme.nt of the Virginia Railway and ! | Power Company. ' NEARLYTWOHULLION RAILWAY MEN FAVOR FEDERAL OWNERSHIP j Referendum Shows Fourteen Organizations Almost Unani mous in Indorsement. WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.?As a re- i j suit of a referendum vote just taken I by the fourteen labor organizations ! i operating the railroads and represent- ! I ing between l.juO.OOu and U,000.000 ' ; employees, an almost unanimous vote i ! has been returned in favor of gov- j | ernment ownership. "While the complete poll has not ! ! been fully tabulated," said John Scott, J ; secretary and treasurer of the railway ! employees' department of the Atnericar ' j 3<'ederation of Labor, to-day, "it ts i | virtually unanimous and the votes yet i to be heard from could not in any ! material degree change the result." | ! HENRY~WHITE IS~ELECTED ! I American Mnde Chairman of Sub committee on I'ort Uuestions in Pari*. ] PARIS, Feb. 13.?Henry White, Rc- [ i publican member of the American | i peace commission, was elected chair- i j man of the subcommittee on the inter- ; national regime of ports at a meet- 1 i ing of that body to-day. A draft convention dealing with the freedom of transit, submitted by the j British peace commission, was dis | cussed, and, according to the ofilcial j communique, "the discussion Indicated j general agreement on the principles ; involved, but various amendments of i detail were suggested." These will be j taken up at the next meeting. Sir llerbe.rt Llewellyn Smith was i elected vice-president of the subcom i mittee. REDS MUST GO I<*cdcrnl Judge Knox I'plinlds Original Order Deporting FIfty-Tltree Undesirables. Nl'JW YORK. Feb. 13.?Federal Judge Ivnox decided late lo-day that the fifty-three. "Reds." respecting whom writs of habeas corpus were sworn out by Misa Caroline Low, the Kansas City lawyer, must bo deported as originally ordered. The writs were lacking, the judge said, in specific information showing that there had veen a viola tion or transgression of immigration laws. REPORT HARBORS CLOSED Disturbances in Portugal Cause Dropping of Rars at Many Ports. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.?All North ern Portuguese pojts between Avelro and Camlnha. including the Important harbor of Oporto, have been closed to navigation, owlftg ;to Internal disturb ances. the War T-ade Board was In formed to-day. Vessels now In tho ports affccted may depart at will, sub ject to neareh by tho Portugucuo naval uuthoritlca. } PUT UP 10 PUBLIC Interests of Country Must De cide Question of Federal Ship Control. HURLEY TO SEEK SENTIMENT Will Wire Questionnaire to Busi ness Men Asking Their Views on Policy. , nV IR WIN IIAIlBOUn. WASHINGTON, Fob. 13.?American j business, fin a m co and industry will be j asked to decide whether or not the ' American merchant marine, reborn in ; the war, shall be operated by the gov ernment or shall be sold to private Individuals. Kdward Hurley, chairman of the Shipping Board, returned to his desk to-day after two mouths at the peace conference, and declared that a de finite policy with regard to th-j dis posal of the merchant fleet built by the government would be decided upon within thirty days. The policy la to be determined not by the Shipping Board so much as by the business and industrial inter- | csts themselves. In order to sound i the sentiment of the nation on the best! way to handle the situation in which I ships worth 14.000,000,000 and the en- I tire international carrying trade of the nation is bound up, Mr. Hurley is! preparing a direct questionnaire to every chamber of commerce, hanking interest, shipping interest, grange, im port and export business In the \oun try. His plan was put before President j Wilson in Paris, and with the Presi dent's approval Mr. Hurley to-day called into conference Harry B< Wheeler and other directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce. U.UKSTION onG A .M/,ATION S tiihough ti-:li:ghams A list of questions will be sent by telegraph to organizations represent ing every important interest, which will determine their opinion concern ing the best policy to be adopted In respect to the merchant marine. Kach organization will i>c not merely asked to answer the questions, but to make a statement of its position, giving the grounds on which that position i3 based. "Do you favor government opera tion of the merchant fleet; and, if not, why not?" "Should the ships be sold to private concerns with the war costs written off?" "How would you operate or dispose of the ships?" "What suggestions have you to make concerning their use in the expansion of American trade?" These will be among the many questions to be asked. by Mr. Hurley, Discussing the proposition to-day, Mr. Hurley said: "Here is a question bigger than the railroad question, in fact the biggest business question confronting Ameri ca to-day. The government has at least twenty-one montii-s to arrive at some solution of the railroad ques tion, and, perhaps, it will have more. 1 But the shipping question, in which 1 J4,000.090,000 are wrapped up and which f is to the United States internationally wiiat the railroads arc domestically, we arc asked to decide almost over night. Wll.I, .NO!' RISK GOING AGAINST NATION'S SENTI.MEXT That is the reason wo arc going to ask every interest even remotely a-s *v><'iated with shipping :o give its opinion. !f we try to decide for our srives on the facts and fhrures we have we may mistake the sentiment of the country. But if we know what the sentiment is we can go ahead and frame recommendations to Congress based on what we know the nation wants. The Shipping Board cannot establish a policy. That is not in its province. it can only make recom mendations. But recommendations made on the known sentiment of the people will have more weight than those based on figures alone." C A S HI ErTr IE S*~S UICID E; BANK'S DOORS CLOSED One of Pittrtbnrprlr, Strongest institu tion* SuMprndn After nriuB VlrtlntUed of S^oO.OOO. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13.?With the ar rest of .?. K Swartz. cashier, charged ! with embezzling $:'50.000 of its funds the Park Bank, one of the leading ! financial institutions or the East End I was closed this morning. It was an nounced that IX G. Cameron, State I bank examiner, had been appointed receiver. The bank's statement on January showed deposits of 5^,235, According to the police, Swartz at tempted to commit suicide shortly be fore officers arrived at his home in a fashionable residence section of the city. The officers were kept waitine several hours until he regained con sciousness before the warrant, charg ing him with defalcation was served. He was rcx>orted in a serious condition in his home to-day under police guard. The bank, which was regarded as one of the strongest in the city, was closed by order of the State banking depart merit. A statement issued by El C. ( halfant, president, said the amount comPrised between $70,000 and -.80,000 in cash and *170.000 in unau thorized notes, lie said there would be little loss to depositors. PERISH FROM STARVATION I'rfersbnrc Missionary nnd Hi* Wife KleHnjj From Far, Die In Persia's Deserts. ISpeeial to The Times-Dispatch. 1 r'h.TF,rtSBUUG, VA., Feb. 13.?Infor mation has been received here of the death of the Ttev. Mr. Yohannan, a mis sionary to Persia, sent out and sup ported by the Sccond Presbyterian Church, of this city. He and his wife are "reported to have perished from starvation and exposure while in flight for their safety. Mr. Yohannan was a citizen and tax payer of Petersburg. He was a gradu ate of the Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, and he and his wife were both well known in Petersburg. Pull details of their death have not been received. HUNS QUIT "POLISH WAR Berlin Newipnper* Say German* Have Now Derided to Oane HOMtlllHOM. IBv Associated I'rcss. 1 ZURICH, Keb. 13.?The German of fensive against the Poles has been sus pended. Berlin newspapers say. The German government has been preparing for an offensive movement against iho Polos under the supremo command of Field Marshal von Hlnden burg. A recent unconfirmed report from Paris said Marshal Foch had or dered tlio Poles and Germans to cease I hostilities. ROUMANIA REVOLTS; FLEEING KING SHOT Bolshevists From Russia De clared to Have Fomented Internal Strife. WORKINGMEN ATTACK PALACE Rioters in Streets of Bukharest Openly Demand Over throw of Dynasty. I By Associated Press. I BERLIN", Feb. 13.?A general insur rection is in progress throughout Rou tnania, according to a special dispatch from Vienna. King Ferdinand has been wounded in attempting to flee from Bukharest with the royal family, j Worklngmcn blocked the roadway [torn the royal palace when the royal family attempted to flee to Jassy, and the King and his family were forced to return. The King: was wounded when the workers, according to the report, fired upon the royal palace. It is not believed the King's injuries arc serious. Kioters in the streets of Bukharest are openly demanding the overthrow | of the dynasty, crying: "Down with j the puppets. Long live the republic." The Vilag, of Budapest, learns that [ the revolt is part of Bolshevist propa I ganda. In a clash between the mill | tary and demonstrators at Bakorst sixty persons were killed and 150 | wounded. ! ROUMANIAN ARMY'S DISW1PL1ME COLLAPSING j The discipline of the Roumanian I army, the newspaper adds, is col | lapsing. The food and economic sit l uation is rapidly growing worse, and , the country's finances arc completely i demoralized. The position of the Bra tiano Cabinet is declared to be un tenable Since early last December there have been recurring reports of grave dis orders in Roumania, but there never has been any official confirmation nor ' any statement from the Roumanian | government on the internal situation. | mspaiches received in Vienna from ? Budapest on January 28 Baid that a i peasant revolt had broken out in Rou i tnania, and that many had been hilled I and wounded in fighting in Bukharest. i Thi3 report was not confirmed. : INTERNAL SITUATION HAS IIEEX VISRY GRAVE j The internal situation In Roumania, however, has been most unsettled, and I the covernment has had tc> deal both I with Socialist agitators at home and | Bolshevist propagandists from Russia. The reconstruction task of the govern ment has been hard, because of the manner in which the Germans pillaged the country during the occupation. ? Roumanian money, printed and floated by the Germans, has been causing financial difficulties. Premier Bratiano is a liberal In poli tics and anti-German. On February 2 he appeared before the supreme coun cil of the peace conference in Paris, and there has been no report concern ing hia whereaboutn. -since. SNOWSTORM MOVES FROM MIDDLE WEST TO ATLANTIC STATES Sixty-Mile Blizzard HaltsTrains \ and All Traffic in Kansas. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.?The West ern disturbance Is central to-night over Northern Illinois, and will continue I in an east-northeastward movement j to-morrow, attended by general rains I in the Ohio Valley and the Atlantic States, the Weather Bureau reported, j Storm warnings remain displayed on the coast from Boston to Jupiter, Fla., and on the Gulf coast from Bay St. i Louis to Tampa. nMZZARD AND SIXTY-MILK WIND HALTS ALL TRAFFIC KANSAS cm. MO.. Feb. 13.? Kan sas, Western Missouri, Oklahoma. Ne braska. Kastcrn Colorado and a por tion of Texas to-night are in the grip | of a blizzard, with a sixty-mile wind I accompanied by snow, sleet and raip. From El Paso to Kansas City and j from Denver to Omaha, trains are de | layed, wires down and roads in some [ places impassable The Rock Island California Limited is held at Hutchinson. Kans., on ac count of snow drifts west of there. | HEAVY SNOW AND HIGH WINDS IN MIDDLE WEST CHICAGO. Feb. 13.?Heavy snow, ac ! oompanied by extremely high winds, to day demoralized telegraph and tclc i Phone communication from Chicago to 1 the Pacific Coast. The heaviest snowstorm reported 1 was from Nebraska, where business in some towns was at a complete stand still. and railway traffic had been tem porarily abandoned. Aa far as reported, temperatures have not fallen much below the tree-/. ; ing point, and live stock has not suf j fered to any great extent. FOOD PRICESTUMBLE l>nl in Wholesale Market Cheaper Than Any Time Thin Winter. Also Lower. Live veals are cheaper to-day in the Richmond wholesale market than they ! have been at any time during the win ter. Prices vary from 10 cents to 17 cents a pound, due to the faot that the market is overstocked, and that many of the calves are too small for quick sale. Choice veals are from 3 to * cents a pound cheaper and small veals from b to 10 cents it pounder cheaper than was the case three weeks ago. Eggs, too, are much lower in price, wholesaling at 4D and 41 cents a dozen. French Wnrshlp Driven Ashore. PARIS. Feb. 13.?The French Dread naught Mirabeau lias been driven ashore at Sebastopol (the big Black Sea port) In a snowstorm. At last ac counts it seemed doubtful whether the big warship could be saved from utter destruction. League of Churches j May Result From War j A leagoe of rhnrcbM, an well an n league of nation*, may be one of [ the dlreet results of the war. Thin vision of the ne?r future In seen by Dr. Fort Newton. American pant or of the famous City Temple, In Lon don, to which no many (honnand* of tourists make the-lr pilgrimages. In fnet, he believes that a lengne of churehes Is the foundation on which a flrm and complete under standing between English-speaking people must he. hullded. tad with out which no league of natlona ean he suecessfnl permanently. It la ? ?plendid vision thai he haa seen, and if It materlallsea It may'prove the longest step yet taken toward Inter* nationalisation. Dr. Newton has given aa Interview on this snbeet to dward Marshall, and 14 will be printed In The Times-Dispatch to-' morrow. ? ? . "Cv ' <:>? PRESIDENT LEA VES PARIS FOR HOME TO-DA Y; REJECT INTERALLIED ARMY PLANS Huns Have Failed to Fulfill Armistice Terms and Allies Insist Upon Action nv N A BOTH mcoix. PA HIS, I'"eb. l:k?Public nervonn ness and the puinlhlllty of tlir re (umptloo of active rtchllnsr which the cancellation of noldlern' Iravr.n had forenhndowed, have diminished, o?'ln(C to reports InnplrlnK con fidence that tjermnnjr cannot non dream of a renewal of warfare. Nevertheless, Krench opinion ?tronclf favor* emctlnsr a pledce from Germany that she will obey the terini* In letter and In nplrlt. It In proponed that the German Constituent Assembly be anhed to pledjje eipllclty that the German nation will adhere to the new nrmln tice terras and ulve material assur ances In that direction to nhon It* Rood faith. The supreme war council is con aiderlng: 1. The demand of a pledge from Germany that she will live up to the clauses of the previous armistice agreements which thus far she has not rellftious done. I. A set of entirely new condi tions which would virtually amount to a preliminary peace. Including complete dinnrmunieat, cessation of the manafneture of war material, evacuation of Polish territory and pledgees to repair the war damage. The impression prevails here that President Wilson felt scruples with reirard to Imponlnff new conditions, while Premier Clemenccaii insists that Krance mtrnt hnvc a complete CTinrantee of security a^alnnt a re vival of lifrmnn military power after the allies have demobilised their armien. The military features of the armistice renewal have been dis cussed and drafted by the allied commanders and experts who re ported tliem t o the supreme war council. In 1'rcnch official circles it Is understood that the body of commanders nnd experts fnvor the dispatch of an ultimatum tit Ger many demanding that she fulfill the previous armistice conditions forth with, In default whe'reof new and severer terms would be Imposed and forced. The previous armistice olunnen not yet fulfilled by the Germans arc notably: 1. The delivery of rolling stock. '??. The restitution of stolen ma chinery, stocks nnd bonds. 3. The surrender of nil siibmnrlnes and designated merchant ships. 4. OltcoiitInuatIon of the manu facture of arms and nirplanes. Permission of allied inspection of German war plants. Germany's opposition to the Polinli claims In another fuctor tttnirlnc in the allied determination to force a show-down. Hut above all else loners the claim repeatedly heard from the tips of responsible Ger man leaders lately that Germany was not beaten and therefore re fuses to pay the damages. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE S ! RE-ELECTS ALL OFFICERS! ! i 'President Easley Reviews niff Work of Organization During. F'ast Year. | OUTLINES RICHMOND'S NEEDS Lack of Funds, However, Compels I Further Delay on Projoct, He Says. ? Advisory Cooncil of 100 Members j Chosen. All ofllcers of the Chimbrr of Com j mcrce were rc-cleeted at the annua! I meeting of tho organization, at the I auditorium of the Jefferson Hotel last | night. They arc: John C. Kaslcy, pres ident; John Kerr Brarich. tlrst vice president; I. _J. Marcuse, se^rid vice presidch"t;"'P- t). Dunlop, secretary and treasurer, and W. T. Dabnev, business j manager. j Owinc to the inclement weather the j attendance was much smaller than j would otherwise have been the ease. | but several hundred members were I present, and they made up in their ! enthusiasm any deficiency caused by j the absence of others. President Eas'ey delivered his an nual address and called attention to the many industries which had been brought to Richmond during the past year, through the efforts of the Cham ber of Commerce. He called attention particularly to the Alco Manufactur ing Plant, a branch of the American i Locomotive Company. which, when I completed will employ at least 1,000 I skilled workmen and involve an out- ! lay of approximately fl.000.000. |fc j declared that this plant vas? brought ! to Kichmond notwithstanding strong! competition from other localities. ukviu'ws hig wohk doni: dy organization i In reference to the needs of Rich- | | mond Mr. lOaaley said: "Among the war plants located in : or near Richmond largely through the ! Influence of the chamber, may be men I tioned the bag-loadinu plant at Seven ' Pines. This is one ot the three such j plants operated by the government, the other two belr.g on lea-scd ground. | while this is on land purchased and : owned by the government, whi:h fact j make.s us hopeful that its operation may be continued permanently. "The investment involves a cost of \ several million dollars, and many | buildings have been erected anil other Improvements made that will be worth less unless used for the purpose for j I which they were intended. Acting ' ! upon the assumption that the govern- j I ment must operate such a plant even j : In times of peace, the chamber has | done what It could to induce the gov- I . ernmcnt not to abandon this invest- | ment. "The aviation, storage and distribu- j tion station in FuUon employs about 500 men ^civilians and soldiers), and ' carrics a stock of supplies to the j amount of $50,000,000 in value. Your committee on business enterprises has been active in pointing oul the many . : advantages Richmond has to offer, and the fact thail the government will] probably retain one such plant, and J that 590.000 la now being spent there i ?n construction makes us hopeful. AIDS IN RECOVKIUNG BIG IIOILEH FACTORY ; "While work on the boiler plant in i South Richmond was suspended upon | tho signing of tha armistice, an was j tho case with practically all govern- 1 ment emergency work throughout th?> country, our business manager has ; been particularly active in his efforts ' to secure tho completion and opera- j tion of th?? plant, and largely through | his efforts the government has been . j induced to complete this plant and work there has been resumed. "The air reduction plant, costing a j large sum and employing a large num i bcr of operatives, has also been located here, and Is backed, we are informed, j by unlimited capital. "The government hospital, on the! Richmond College grounds, was secured by the chambcr. Representatives of the government from the surgeon-gen eral's oflice, and the camp at Newport News, were on their way to some point in North Carolina in search of a suit able location and stopped over In Rich mond to talk the situation over with the officials of the chamber, who fixed uj>on this location for them, took them over the property and brought them in touch with those In control of the col lege. and the prompt and ready ac quiescense of the collcgc trustees made the negotiations easy. OUTbl.VKS INDUSTRIAL NKIJDS OI' richmond '.'U has been the custom at this llinc to mention the 'prominent needs of Richmond.' There are so many needs and all ho prominent that it Is dif ficult to know where to begin and where to atop, but following the ex ample act by my predecessors, I shall mention thoeo that have been con sidered most pressing, railing your at tention, howover, to the fact that a lack of funds has made a continuance of theao needs unavoidable. W? still have at len*t three toll bridges which ought to b? acquired by fait' and equitable arrangement, and thrown open to tho public. "The work of covering and Btrairht ? tCoutiAuod on tiocond Page.} I Conference Heport Adopted ithout J Record Vote, I''cw Record ing Noes. LA FOLLBTTtS ON*3 OPPONENT j Townseud, of Michigan, Also Regis ters Protest?Kill Designed to Haise $0,000,000,000 This Year and $1,000,000,000 in 19*20. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.?Tho confer ence report on ilio revenue bill was adopted by tho Senate this afternoon without a record vole. On tho viva voce vote three or four voices were heard to register "no," among thom being Senator La Kollette. of Wisconsin, .who offered a substitute hill at tho time the present bill passed the Senate, and Senator Townsend. of Michigan. The bill will be held in Washington to be signed by the President upon his return from Kurope. ts iiKConu tax nu.i, l'OR A I.I, COUKTIUIS9 , Designed to raiso more than $6,000, 000.000 in revenue to meet the war expenses of the government this year and 54.000,000.000 next year. It Is a record tax bill for this and all other I countries. Adopted by the House last Saturday, the conference report was called up In the Senate Tuesday, and has been under discussion three days, during which many of the features were criti cized by RepublScans, who also took I advantage of the opportunity afforded to criticize the administration for the very heavy expenditures because of the : tax burden thereby placed upon the people. IMPORTANT A .M KMDHliNT AI)imU TO BILL. IX SKS ATK While not everything In the bill was satisfactory to any one member of the Senate, as was the case In the House, the disposition of the very great majority was to accept the conference report so that the bill might become a law rather than have no revenue legislation at this Congress and allow the old law to continue In ctTect. Under the old law, Representative Kltchln. chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, estimated that war profiteers would escape the payment of Jl.TOO,000,000 in taxes that they will have to pay under the new law. NOT A Lai, Ptl AMISS ARE SATISFACTORY TO SKXATE Important amendments added by the Senate Included a tax of 10 per cent on tho products of child labor; tho District of Columbia ?'bone-dry" pro vision; a bonus of J60 for discharged members of the military establishment and the elimination of the postal zone system, with a reduction in the second class mail rates. All of these were accepted by the House except the elimination of the postal system, which the Senate con ferees were compelled to allow to re main in the bill under Insistence on the part of House conferees that Sena tor Simmons declared "amounted al most to coercion." URGES WAR TRAINING FOR AMERICAN BOYS IN SENATE DEBATE Representative Kahn Advocates Six Months Instruction for Youths of Nineteen. Illy Associated Presj. 1 WASHINGTON. Keb. 13.?General de bate on the *1.100.000,000 army ap propriation hill was closed to-day In ?tho House, and the measure taken up for amendment under the five-minute rule. Slow progress was made, how ever. and at adjournment to-night there was no indication when a tlnal vote wquld be reached. Universal military training was ad vocated by Representati ve Kahn, of California. Republican, who is expected to head -the Military Committee In the next Congress, lie urged the train ing for nix months of all youths when they attain their nineteenth birthday. Representatives McCulloch, of Ohio, and Connally. of Texas, gave notlco they would offer amendments later. Only a few of the appropriation Items were considered under the amendment rule. "OLD HICKORY'MViOVING Karri on* Division In K.xpected to Re turn llomr Within Short Time. I By Associated Preim. I KNOXVILI,?, TLONN., Fob. 13.? "Thirtieth moving:: home soon,"- reads a cablegram received hero from Cap tain Herbert AcufT.' with the Old Hickory Division. 1-: Is believed here this Indicates the division la moving lo Brest to embark for Amorlcu. TO PEACE PARLEYS SOON, HE DECLARES Incomplete Draft of Society of Nations Rules Is Adopted. BRITISH TO DEMAND COST OF WAR AND ALL DAMAGES English Delegates Instructed to Seek Huge Indemnity From Huns. rocH goes to meet gukmans Carries Allied Contlilious for Armlfc st ice Forcing Ki\omy to Carry ! Out Promises. 5 "ATIIS. Feb. 13.?President Wilson will start upon his return trip to | America to-night. leaving for Brest curly In tlio evening to go aboard the 'U. S. S. George Washington which ? is prepared to clear port early Sat | urday morning. | 1? Irst formal announcement that , President Wilson would return to [ I' ranco before Die pcacn conference i ends was made to-day in an address | to a delegation of the French Society for a League of Nations. The outstanding development of the day's proceedings of the conference was the report thai the draft of the society nations nail been adopted with several amendments, but that the plan for the international army had been defeated. BRITISH WILL DIC.M A N D WAR COST AND DAM.M.'R i.?0"ar?/4?.w''s atltlress to the British Uouao of Commons revealed the fact that the English delegates have be?>n instructed to demand an jndcmuU.v fr<un Germany which will include not L.\Ci CiOSl. of l,hc war, but all dam age w hleh has been caused. Maraha.1 Ij'och is ynder'stood titK-jia'va departed^ Tor a conference with ' fclie Cierman armistice commission, bcarihg w ith him the conditions which Oor ^^*,.m"3twCtlrry out I'oreafter, these condiHons being such as to make re poHsible" ?f ho*tl,,Ues practically im li0u^co,s Proposition for an in terallied military force to enforce peace was defeated by an overwhelming' vo?e at the meeting of the society Jf na tions commission. iiJhoniCerU>h and Czeclio-Slovaks were j tlrmaUvc. reprcsenta"vos in the a? . DRAFT op SOCIICTV OF nations is adopted 1 PlJ?|,fiwas/tth<i.n lnR society of nations : as a whole unanimously adopted ! siJ'articles draft consista of twenty ! re^The^raa'Jl0" 'T!". personally ,Thethe 'P?aiC conferenccd?a-morCrtS .ri'h.njsaskea s C&SSiB.-ttg i ? evoral delpgtites urcrod thnf would open such a larjrc question thi? treat delay might ensue, and the mat L.was rtrf>PPed without a vote hv ?h-n2w armistic* terms agreed on by the supreme war council mu*t hr* accepted by Germany. ? ,m" must b0 KOCH I.KAVKS WITH ARMISTICE CONDITIONS Marshal Fooh is understood to have fcep&ried for Treves late to-day to com municate .the new conditions to tha ?l.irVv??rmisUce commission. He will Mst of*1 mfi^ans tIl?'t a supplementary lit of military and naval terms will be completed within three or four weeks and will then be presented: They, too, must bo signed without any attempt at bargaining or the advance of the allied armies into Germany will be resumed where it was left off ' It will bo made unmistakably plain to Germany that the time for hagglincr over the terms is past. The supplementary terms will ke nrawn up during President Wilson's ab sence. Colonel House will sit in the Presidents place when they ate framed and voted upon. CONDITIONS VIRTU A 1,1, Y AMOUNT TO ULTIMATUM The understanding of the French press is that the new conditions vir tually iimount to an ultimatum and that they include a clause prohibiting a Herman offensive against the Poles. The draft of terms is said to be a British compromise between the French and American viewpoints. The commission on reparations heard the American and English points of view on the question of reparations. l?ord Sumner spoke for Great Britain. Ijouis Klotz, the French .Minister of Finance, presided. The financial commission of the con ference met under the presidenc of former Premier Salandra. of Italy, The secretary of the oommlssion was ordered to amalgamate all lists Into one for presentation to the commis sion at its next meeting on Monday. ITALIAN FRONTIERS QUESTION HELD L P The supremo council sat for thrae hours this afternoon. It heard the Rev. Howard S. Bliss, president of the American College at Beirut and Chekri i.ahein, president of the Syrian na tional committee. The proposed arbitration of the Ital ian Jugo-Slav frontier question Is for the moment in abeyance. The Italian Premier, Vittorlo Orlando, has seen President Wilson and informed htm that after consulting witb his colleagues of the delegation they had agreed it would be Impossible to take a decision on the arbitration proposal which the Jugo-Slavs presented to the peace con ference. asking President Wilson <o be arbiter, without first consulting the King and the Cabinet, ami, if neces sary. the Parliament. WILSON MAY DECLINE POST AS AUniTOATOB President Wilson took the oppor?, tunlty to explain he was nol the originator of the proposal, which wa# presented by M. Trumbltch, during a conversation which he had with hint last week, and he had simply men* tloned it to Premier Orlando in a com* versatlon. The President added t?v?t he would prefer not to be .loaded ?vrfkh the responsibility to at-bUrat*. but wa?r. willing to act s.a a friendly InUrmtMif