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Envoys of Small Powers To Have Role of Witnesses Before"Big 5" Committees PARIS, Jan. 15.?With the peace conference but three days off, final preparations are being made for it today by'the supreme interallied war council. The secretaries of the dele gation of great powers have prepared the formal invitations to the peace confer? ??~a. The method of procedure, according to the Temps, will probably be as follows: The direction of the debates will be left to the first class powers and a number of committees will be appointed, with all the big nations represented on each. The representa tives of the s?ialler nations will ap pear before the committee dealing with the subject with which it is concerned. The conclusions of the committee will then go before the plenary sessions of the conference for ratification. The question of Poland will be con sidered as part of the eastern Euro pean problem. Speedy Rau Deeiaioa. The question of Russian representa tion will come to a head following the arrival of M. Saxonoff, former for eign minister of Russia, who is sched . uied to reach Paris tonight. AlthoXigh Secretary Lansing an nounced that the Americans would not issue any communiques on the conference, but would rely on the FreMfc communique to convey the in fornSTon to the American public the American correspondents are not yet permitted'to enter the building where these official French statements ar* given out. Consequently the Ameri can reporters must obtain their only ? official news of the conference through French news agencies. How ever, it is understood that this will be remedied by the issuance of an American communique later. BrltUh Help Writer*. The British peace commission has been extending the most cour teous treatment to the American cor respondents, telephoning the British peace communique to American press headquarters and agreeing to submit tq any questions put by the Ameri cans and to transmit replies. It has been the custom of the American commissioners to meet the I American correspondents in the fore-i noon, but President Wilson has ex-| pressed the desire that more definite] information be conveyed to the Amer-i lean public, so it is possible that Sec retary Lansing will give an audience' to the reporters at the end of each session, and reply to the questionj put to him. If Mr. Lansing is too busy for this work some other mem ber of the commission will probably meet the newspapermen. President j Wilson is desirous that the American j public be kept fuitv informed as to the progress of tL conference una the developments. Small Powers Dlanatlafled. The allotment of delegates is thus far unofficial, but will undoubtedly be approved by the full conference on j Saturday. It is already causing some| criticism among the smaller powers, I but this was expected. The Belgians believe that they should have had greater representation, and the same is true of the Serbians. Both were in formed today that a story printed by a French paper to the effect that President Wilson insisted that their delegations should be reduced in size | is not true. It is understood that the Chinese Special IndocemeBts for Bad Weather Goods Men's Waterproof Raynster Raincoats. Kinds selling- at y $8.50 and *10.00 M ? (fradf U -7Se t* Men's Everstick Rubber Overshoes. SI.50 $1.10 Ladies' and Men's Rubbers, all styles. $1*30 DREYFUSS BROS., Wife, Sued for Divorce, j Tells of Hubby Playing i Poker While in the Nude I MILWAUKEE, Jan. 15.?That j she attended a poker party last sum mer at San Antonio, Tex., at which her husband and an army captain played with all their clothes removed, was the testimony of Mrs. William Unertle. aged nineteen, in Judge Os car Fritz's court in the divorce pro ceedings brought against her by William Unertle. aged twenty one. She testified she married Unertle after a courtship of but three weeks, because "he looked so nice in a'aol- j dier s unrform." felt slighted because of the difference in size of their delegation compared with that of Japan. The Chinese tool* the position that. regardless of Japan's part in the war, the Chinese ; position in the Par East entitled her i to more plenipotentiaries. Brazil was granted three delegates in recognition of her leading position in South America and her entrance j into the war on the side of the allies. i ~ Monroe Doctrine Safe. Lord Robert Cecil, the famous British statesman who is here to give the views of'England on a league of nations, declared in an in terview that the society' of powers should be a permanent organization like the supreme council of Ver sailles. It would not Interfere with the Monroe doctrine nor the policy of the United States toward Mexico, he said. No nation would be expect ed to hand over her sovereignty. In the opinion of Lord Robert the peace conference should give approval of a general plan foj* a league of nations at the earliest possible moment and leave the details to be worked out! later. "1 will not say that there will be! no more wars, but I will say that if warfare breaks out It will be con fined to the smallest possible dis trict," said Lord Robert. The British statesman added that it is planned to bring in the labor situation of the various nations. In| the future, he concluded, no nation will live by itself, but the problems that come up will be settled by the international organization. "FLYING GOWN" FOR WOMEN LATEST LONDON CREATION LONDON, Jan. 15.?Bond street, the fashionable shopping district, is boom ing again after four years of war-en forced economy. One shop has evolved the "flying gx>wn." not a sombre thing of leather for a fighter, but a suit for women, a creation of blue and red wool. The "gown" was planned afcainst the time when milady will want to skim over to the continent in her private plane. Stores for men are hard put to supply the demand for civilian suits, ties, shoes and collars. Their gieatesrt diffi culty. outfitters explain, is obtaining what the managers describe a.* "color ful ware." Pink shirts of Japanese from Syracuse, N. Y., a week ago and crepe are in great demand. DodgeBrothers & i). ? - * ? BUSINESS CAR * ? % .? ? ? A business car whose cost of operation can be calculated with mathematical accuracy. . It will render a maximum of service with a minimum of adjustment and repair. It will pmj yon ?? visit ?? and nunlnr thi* par. The haulage cost 1? unusually low. SEMMES MOTOR COMPANY 1100 Connecticut Avenue Main 9790 First Woman Diplomat And Doughty Skipper CAPT. J. W. HEMPEL, Who completed his two hun dredth voyage when the Oscar II docked at Hoboken. He has never had an accident in cross ing. GAYETY STAR SEEKS THEATRICAL DATA Who knows the name of the first vaudevilIc theatir to l??* ^tabllshcd in W ashington and has a .record of the cngag'-ntt nts i( played during the first month of its existence? This i.i information that Harry Welsli, featured star with Barney Gerard's 'Follies of the T?ay" com pany, this wi-ck'r attraction at the iCaycly Tin.-iter. is ureatly desirous | of obtaining llcports ?>l' a contro j v< r."y in tlir capital among old timers n.? tn tin- oiigin and name of tin' fli i moving picture house (have reaih?d Welsh this week and jthe (iay* tj star is hopeful that some tine will r* member the name of the National '"apital's llrst vaudeville | theater. j "1 understand a lot of your readers j have taken up tin* question of the I origin ami name of the capital's first | motion picture thiater," said Welch, i "This recalls the argument of a de ' cade ago. At that time I was able i to secure !i11accurate information about old-ti.iic \audeville in the Capi tal. Maybe tills time I will be more lucky." j Welsh has the programs of legiti ! maet ebons which were presented i here forty years ago. These are but I a part of the data which he is try ; ing to collect about Washington's amusement history. A veteran of twelve years' experi ence on the vaudeville, musical com I edy and legitimate stage, Welsh is j easily one of the most talented com ledians'on the entire.Columbia circuit. SEES SON FALL TO DEATH IN DREAM THAT COMES TRUE NKW YOllK, Jan. 15,?That a dream had proved true was asaerted by William Jackson, of Mrooklyn, in describing how his son, Charles, met death la?t Saturday afternoon. "?n Friday night," said Mr. Jack son, "I had a very clear dream con cerning my son. 1 saw him at his work on the traveling crane, a-id 1 saw the crane break and his body fall several hundred feet." In the morning at the breakfast table Mr. Jackson told his wife *-f the dream. Several hours later word was received from the navy yard, where his son was employed, that the li^e attached to the boom on wlil.'h he was working had parted and he had >4?Uen 200 feet and been killed. MISS GERDA ANDERSON. Who ha? just arrived in this country on the Oscar II. She - , will be an attache of the Danish legation in this city. ?' PLAN LONDON TO PARIS AIR SERVICE LONDON. Jan. 15-?Londoners expect to see airplane carryall* making regu lar passenger runs to Paris and Lon don before spring. Two concerns are rushing prepara tions in competition for the honor of inaugurating passenger air service to France. They are the Handley-Page Company and the Aircraft Travel and Transport Company, Limited. Within a few days after the sign ing of the armistice announcements came from both companies of plans for cross-channel trips. Within a few hours, hundred* of persons had booked passage Fares are quoted W and 175. one way. Present plans permit the carrying of hand baggage only by passengers. Later, promoters announce, facilities will be prepared by which passengers may check trunks. Both companies plan to use gigantic bombing type planes capable, they promise, of transporting passengers in electrically heated cabins. The Handley-Page Company recently sent a bomber to Paris with twenty passengers. Lunch was served before | the return. The round trip was com pleted between breakfast and dinner. The inauguration of regular London 1 aris service is dependent on relaxa tion of the British and French pass port regulations. Civilian travel be tween the two countries still is prac tically prohibited. | Commercialization of the airplane is | expected to come rapidly in Kngl&r.fi | and on the continent. Thousands of army aviators are available as pilots | and teachers. j Predictions are many that the family ! plane of well-to-do persons soon will j b<; in use. I _ BRITISH INDUSTRIES TURN QUICKLY TO PEACE BASIS i LONDON. Jan. 15? British indus ! tries accomplished a quick change in , switching to a peace basi^. Some fac I tfries are reported not to have lost a d?iy. Some of the manufacturing changes were: 1* rorn tanks and shell manufacture to boot machinery, shell bands to dairy utensils, shells to cream sepa rators, munitions to hosiery needles uroplanes to toys and furniture. ADVERTISEMENT DO AWAY WITH INDIGESTION llo? to Purify a Sour. l>i.?trrMK<-d Mwmnrli In u Frw Minutes T-et us talk plain Knglish; let us call a spat ,', a spade. | Let U;; tell the truth and say that if j you ar<- constantly distressed after J meals, if you belch gas and sour food I conies up in the mouth, then your stomach is in a rancid condition*and should be purified and put in good j shape at once. j Your food ferments and your stom och isn't strong enough to digest the food you put into it, so the food sours and forms poisonous gases, and when it does leave your stomach it has not furnished proper nourishment to the Mood, and has left the stomach In a filthy condition Take Mi o na stomach tablets if vou want to change your filthy stomach to a benlthy, clean, purified one. So strong is our faith in the value of Ml o na, we authorize your dealer to cheerfully refund your money if Mi o na fails to relieve your indiges I tion. rid you of dizziness, biliousness I and sick headache. If you want to make your stomach so strong that it will digest a heartv meal without distress, and you want to be without th:?t drowsy, all tired out feeling, take Mi-o-na stomach tab lets No matter how miserable vour stomach feels, Mi^o-na should "give you prompt relief. For sale by peo ple's Drirg Stores and all leading drug GETOANISH BEAUTY AS EMBASSY AIDE ? *. . y r ????? ? NEW YORK, Jan. 15?Miss Gerda Anderson, a Danish young woman of unusual beauty, reached here yester day on the Scandinavian-American liner Oscar I., to b? secretary of the Danish embassy in Washington. She leaves for Washington this af ternoon. Her appointment is regard ed as an indication ,of the progress the suffrage question is making In Scandi navian countries. Until she became convinced that the Bolsheviki were too careless In leav ing bombs around the streets Miss Anterson was secretary to the Dan ish embassy in Petrograd. Then she transferred to a similar position with the ministry of foreign affairs. She speaks with a slight and charming Irish brogue, acquired, she explained, during the five years she spent in Ire land as a child. An expert linguist, Miss Anderson speaks five languages, an accomplished pianist, and the most popular girl in the Danish diplomatic service are the reasons for Miss Anderson's appointment to Washing ton. Julius Magnussen, vice president of the Dramatic Authors' Association of Denmark, was also a passenger. He has come to supervise the big Shubert production "Chi-Chl," a play that has had long and successful runs in both L<ondon and Paris, later he expects to write a book on the part taken bjr the United States in the world war. Thowald Milkelsen. a Copenhagen banker, also arrived. He means to expedite the shipment of me.ci'andise to Denrva-k. He said Denmark wants to adopt sitne of the financial meth ods employi'd by the United States iJovernment. The successful manner In which the fe^r I.iberi, were handled has Impressed the Danish government he said. KENTUCKIAN8 TO MEET. Congressman David H. Kinchelae of Kentucky, president of the Kentucky Association, will lecture on his trip last summer to the European battle fronts at a meeting of the associa tibn to be held at 8 o'clock this even ing at New Masonic Temple. Thir teenth street and New York avenue northwest. There will be music and dancing. 'All Kentucklans in the city are invited to attend. WHAT THE SHELL SAYS 4 . Br DAMOW RUKYOft. COBL.ENZ, on the Rhine, Dec. 1*1 & Cap'n My, "You. Washington! You mine yo' pick en ahubble! 'At shell he ain't uh-lukln' fob no niggah pioneahs? lie tryin' to fln' "at run back theah thass mekin' him 'at trubble? You wuk uh ill' fastah en doan listen whut you heahsT* But all uh time be tglk Ah heah 't ol' shell squawk. "To' ain't uh roan back to Al-?h ? * Bam Uh!" Cap'n mighty smahl man when bit come to bulldln' bridges; Cap'n he is quality in Butnmenham thass so! Cap'n he know culltid folks, en ,treaU 'em mighty aquljuaa. But Cap'n doan know shell talk lak uh Cullud puason know! When dey come 'las way He doan know 'at dey aay, "Yo* ain't uh-goan back to Al-uh Bam * Ub!" Boche he seh' nem airyptanes to fine ou\ weah Ab'm wukkin; Sneak eroun' away up high en show me to hes gun; Gun be frows tin cans at me en gets mah nuhves to junkin. ? How dey speck Ab'm evah gosn to git 'iaa railroad done? When nem abells come heah En hollab in mah yeah: "Yo' aln' uh-goan bark to , Al-uh Bam Uh." t Cap'n. any: "You, Washington' At ?t?ll doan know you llbln'!" - Cap'n mighty nice man, en he treat me good en fine, Suttinly know hes bridges en hes rail road en his crlbbln'. But how ba know wbut der'lish ments am In a boche shell's ?pine? How he know dey say When dey come 'isa way: "Yo* ain' uh-goan bark-to Al-uh Bam VhV Swift A Company's sales of In Wuii Inrton. D. C.. for ths week engine Satar day. January 11, l?lt, averaged as follows Domestic beef, 21.*1 ccnla.?Adrt SAVE THE MOTHERS, MISS RANKIN BEGS Sixteen thousand *oim? ^ an nually In the United Stat* from lack of proper care before and during childbirth?virtually murdered. Rep resentative Jeanette Kaakln declared today, appearing before the H?um Labor Committee, in bahalf of her measure which would provide j sd eral aid for mothers. There are ten countries that hava a lower death rate among women at childbirth, and twelve that have a lower infant mortality rate. Repre sentative Rankin said. COLDS Checked in One Dty Dm ami Can Ctat n? fna. Addrcat Man yon'i Labotworie*. 54th and Caimm kiaAima, Philadelphia will be kept in better ahape If too let us aupply you with loose loaf I rail i la Diaries and desk pads, deak cal endara. copy-book*, everything for the offtce BAUM Paper ad Stab?cry Cr 905 7th Swift & Company's 1918 Earnings How They Affected You During the twelve months ended Nov. 2, 1918 (its fiscal year), Swift & Company transacted the largest volume of business on the smallest margin of profit in its history. Profits of the meat business?under regulations of the United States Food Administration?were limited to a maximum of 9 per cent on capital employed but not to exceed 2K cents per dollar of sales. Swift & Company in the regulated departments earned 7.57 per cent on capital employed and 2.04 cents per dollar of sales, out of which had to be paid interest on borrowed money and taxes. Here is how these earnings affect you. Live-Stock Raiser? Swift & Company killed 14,948,000 head of livestock, which weighed alive, 4,971,500,000 pounds. Swift & Company made a profit of only a fraction of a cent per pound liveweight Consumer? The sales of our meat departments were 4,012,579,000 pounds on which our earn ings were less than cent per pound. The per capita consumption of meat in the United States is given as 170 pounds. If a consumer purchased only Swift & Company's products, he would contribute only about 78 cents a year, or 1 lA cents a week as profit to the company Swift & Company, U. S. A. Washington Local Branch, 10-14 Center Market D. T. Dutrow, Manager