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WEATHER Final ? EDITION Published ?*??/ (lnciadii SBtarad >? Mcond-claM m?tUr,i WASHINGTON. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16. 1919 NUMBER 11,045 PRICE TWO CENTS. Nebraska, Last State Needed, Ratified Prohibition Amendment Today Today Rum and the Workers. China and Opium. Monroe Doctrine Meddling? 42,000 Dead Horses. By ARTHUR BRISBANE. (Cepyrlfht. ltlt.) Sweet, who manufactures paper and is speaker of toe as sembly in New York State, t-ays that women talk a great deai of nonsense about laws to protect workers. 4 His opinion is: "If working folks would lei -um ?lone, thev would not need un>ons. strikes, health insurance, mini mum wages, etc." With the prohibition amend ment soon to be in the Constitu tion, only one more State needed, the public will test the soun.loess of Mr. Sweet's view. The wotKers will HAVE to let rum alone." It would be nice if that .hould indeed solve all problems of the porkers. It may not do- so, fcr in India, where thev all 'let rum alone," vou can hire them for fifteen cento a day. They live on ? handful of rice, with a piece of cotton wrapped around tneir loins. Thev mav be hanny, look in* forward to Nirvana, in wbich ?tate they won't need either the rice or the loin clot't. These are interesting spo's in the news: The Bulgarians have pilled ??wn the Turkish Mosque at Sofia. Turkey would like to Oght ker recent ally. How will you ?top that? 3 The Germans, having tempo rarily squelched Bolshevism in Ber lin, are orranuine an army under Ton Hindenburg, preparing to ?*arch against what they rail "Polish despotism." How will you stop that? _ * hunger stricken crowd on XS?fT>d bfSMin* for bread is fired upon by Bolshevik troops. Even Bolshevik brotherhood ha* to Me Powder and shot occasionally. _ Lord Robert Cecil says he League of Nations SI ^ interfere in any way ?JonLw doctrine, and omL< hi1 an ?rrangement "*** America conld act in behalf of the league." America hopes that so far as the Monroe doctrine is concern ed, the United States will con 3? m BEHALF OF , Thk UNITO STATES. TWacontinent has been get ?J"1* mmx prttty wefl with the ?"?woe doctrine, rrrueh .better than Europe with its Greek, TwMah, and Balkan wars letei **<* b<* explosion. The protect us from a Monroe doctrine modified by a league of nations. ? ? * President Wilson's urgent, al alarmist, warning against Bolshevism appears to echo the feehng in Europe. . Orlando is called away from tne peace conference because of cabinet troubles and serious dis agreement in Italy. The same Lord Robert Cecil even announces that Germany may be admitted to the League of Nations if the is good. Per haps the energy with which Bol shevism was shot to pieces in Berlin may have had something * **** th?* statement, and with the statement that the food ?gainst Germany will be modified. More than forty-two thousand American horses were killed in 1* Mar- Those horses had just ?bout as much to do with it. and understood as little about it " ."SK of the Russian. Balkan! and Turkish men marched up to be shot down. The new Director of Railroads nas appointed a committee to in vestigate safety devices, automatic control to protect passengers. Let the committee write to the Swiss government for full information. In Switzerland the people own theJr railroads. All safety devices are used, wrecks are practically unknown, and railroad fares paid by the Swis3 are less than half those paid by Americans. "Doliar-a-year men - in Washing tbn are to receive checks for the ye?r*a work signed by President Wilaon himself. A majority will preserve the checks framed not caah them. Many of those "doliar-a-year men sacrificed their business in terests and rendered invaluable service to the Government. Others will be able to loe* at the dollar check, signed by the President, neatly framed, and know It repre sents millions of other dollars put away in profit. The unjust thing is that the public will never know Which were wbich. Have you money to lend? Chile, Belgium, and China would like to place loans over here. Chile need* money because she is thinking of fighting Peru Poor old China, to her credit, has given up the obium trade. She has even decided tc burn all the opium on hand. What she is doing with opium is more than we did with whiskey In the United States. Instead of put ting it In ammunition, or in indus try. or using it for fuel in explos ive engines, we poured it into the stomach* of the American people, burning out the linlnga of those itomacbs on the broad patriotic ground that the country needed the meaey and couldn't afford to give un the tax on wh skey. PARIS, Jan. 16.?The peace dele , grates decided today to call news paper correspondents of the allied representatives into conference for "an interchange of views." It was believed the recent secrecy" order would be brought up, and it was predicted that it would be materially modified. In the meantime the storm of pro test against confining news of the conferences to the offiawd-com munfque is increasing. .... . In addition, the announcement was I mad* that correspondents would not fie permitted inside the foreign office ;building, as they were Sunday.^ A French fhinkic wore himself out i *oday. exclaiming "Defundu" (for bidden). The correspondents were i siven the liberty of standing in the court yard and watchinsr the dele gates arrive and depart in their au tomobiles. FARM, Jan lfl.?Following tn? agreement of the peace envoys to con fine the official Information to the public on the peace conference de velopments to a single communique j daily, the opinion was prevalent i among the American newspaper men | today that much now depends on any I possible action of the American Con | gress as to whether a right to all j facts shall be demanded. The "gag rule" was apparently ef ! fective a* a result of the resolution taken by the peace delegates.' j Should the situation continue as it ' stand.* today, with the only source of official Information constituted In the cut and dried daily communique, American public opinion would be kept more or le&s in the dark, ex cept for the news contained in the of I flcial statements. i Only the actual developments would bfc told in the communiques, which means that the American Congress, as 'well as the people of the United (States, would lark the important de i tails surrounding these decisions and j the debate which accompanied them, j Both the American and riti?h press representatives are emphatically pro testing against this method of pro cedure. It has not yet been stated whether this means that the Ameri can commissioners will not receive ?the reporters in audlen<-e for confiden tial talks, but the facts indicate that any such meetings would be limited SANITARY DISTRICT FOR D. C. SUBURBS IS UPHELD i The validity of the act creating a ! sanitary district for the suburbs of | Washington, comprising about ninety ! square miles of Montgomery rna i Prince tJeorge counties, with a popu | lation of 40,000 peop e. wa? upheld . in the Mary!and court of appeals to day by .1 udge Briscoe I ?? ij HELP WANTED?FEMALE" [| j'STENOGRAPHER wanted at : once; good v/ages and short hours. Apply THE DOC i COL.A CO., 1222 14th st. ! N. W. 1-16 i ??? One hour after this ad appeared in The Times a competent i stenographer was se- I j :ured. Phone The Times ' ?i vour ads. i . 'I Main 5260 i| I Ought To Be a Vampire % - Mrs. Taylor Says All Her Friends Told Her So. Bat One-Piece Bathing Saits, Shore Parties and Other Romantic Diversions Have Led to Di vorce Proceed ings. "Oh, I just lore the romantic." There was a smile and a shroff of the shoulders as Mrs. Mabolls Lee Ludwlg Taylo- twsnty-ons years old. and pretty. u*od the sjx words to ex press a volume of meaning. " Mrs. Taylor is beinff st*ad for di vorce by Osceola Walker Taylor, in ternal revenue officer, and to all the harsh things that her husband says labcut her in tha.divorce bill, tfcs at 1 tractive wife reiterate* merely: Kl' I "Oh. I fc* *C* tb? *a?aatl8." The answer was made to a Times reporter who a*ked Mrs. Taylor why her hbsbsnd hsd flled cult for >50.000 against Capt.. Clartnce Walnwriffht Murphey. of the army intelligence service, charging Murphey with steal ing pretty Mrs. Taylor's affections. ??{ ????el" Oat af Tawa Kaw. Murphey was a colonel In the regu lar army during the Soanish war an J formerly served on the staff of the governor of North Carolina, Mur phey's home here is In the Benedict apartments, but the "Colonel," as the army officer in called, i* out of town now. "I -was married to Mr. Taylor in New York on November -9. 1918," be gan Mrs. Taylor, when asked to ex plain just what she meant by her love of the romantic. "A few hours after our marriage Mr. Taylor went to Bos ton and I left him. He was too home like. ' * "I do not know what Captain Mitrphev I is going to do about the suit. He is i such a good man (he is about forty-six j years old), and is worried over the di I vorce proceedings. I do not believe nt I (Continued on Page 11. Column 3.) SUGGESTS PROBE OF WORKERS' SAURIES | Hop* that <'ongre*.? would pro- ide for a commission to make a geneial study of salaries paid Government ot flcials and employes was expressed on the floor of the House today by Con gressman Byrns. of Tennessee, who is in charge of the legislative bill. A provision for su<"h a commission has been put .into the bill by the ' Hou?<e Approprtations Committee and I Mr. Byrns aald lie approved it. The r-.atter came up when the legis i lstive bill was being considered and i when Congressman Austin was urg j |ng an am-ndment to increase the ! salary of the superintendent of the i Botanic Garden from $2,250 to >3.250. Austin's amendment was knocked [ out on a point of order. BAKER WOULD KEEP ARMY ORGANIZED i' Continuance of th* present army ? organization, which gives large pow ! ers to the general staff, was proposed i to the House Military Committee by Secretary of War Baker today. This | proposed to make permanent. Baker repeated previous requeats for ! a temporsry volunteer fores of 600,000 I men. This Baker emphasized is a I temporary provision. I Other points Bsker explained were: j It is planned to make promotion by a selection process instead of senior ity, making selections from men who ! came In from civil life as well as I regular officers. | The department will not at present 'recommend universal military train ing I JAP SLAYER SHOWS HOW HARA-KIRI IS COMMITTED BALTIMORE, Jan. . 16.?"Thej dagger! You take him like theea." The diminutive Japanese hand grasped a fountain pen that in stantly became villainous-looking. "You plunge heem into the right side, like thees." Almost sleepily-dontented Orien tal eyes followed the course of the hand as it, with the signiQcant pen, pressed close to hi* side and?"you draw through the abdomen? Hke theeft" The hand traveled across the body to the rfgU aide and the basilisk eyes followed its course lingeringly. According To Old Custom. ? ? . "That," concluded Dr. Norbu Ishida, who short and killed Dr. George B. Wolff on December 21, ' that Is hara kiri that in what one of Japan was in, honor obliged to do when one's honor had been assailed?that ta what I would have had to do years ago?I, a man who have been compelled to kill another." * The Japanese alienist greeteu a reporter in the jail at Towaon with an apology for his costume, conven tional except for the lack of a coat, and grave the only Interview which his attorney, C. "Gus" Graaon, of Towson. has permitted since the shooting. Himself thoroughly con vinced of Dr. )shida's insanity, Mr. Graaon does not intend to run the riak of exciting his client by further excitement attendant upon similar talks, much if.-? it might aid his case. Mot Despondent, He Says. "I am not despondent." began the educated gentleman of .lapan. "I have been mediating, and thing* come back to me. it was all arranged, all arranged beforehand. I was an in strument. It oould not be helped. I had known him before?in 1017. Just before the Ulst I had arranged tj lake a room. I had paid a week in ad vance. Then I went to the hospital. I could not reject Dr. Brush He urged me to stay there, to help. 1 stayed. It was part of the preordina tion. it could not be helped." "Night and day, night und day I hear them talk, here. They ?ay Dr. Wolff is crazy; they say that 'the Japanese4 is crazy. All the time, night and day, I hear then)." 'I n Ik a of "The \ur*r." ' "Yes. Dr. Wolff is part o; the pre ordination plan?he is there. I shall see him," and again the sleepy eyes', hiding a half smile of near content, seemed to look into the future "Yes. he is part of it." "And 1 shall not be here long ? I know it. They will not help me?the authorities. ' he added, referring pi/S sibly to the resident officials of his country. ? ( i.now her by the face, not by the name," he went on as the name of a nurse v.as mentioned. "She?" liarnestly he looked at the glowing end of t*e cigarette he was smoking Complete change of expres sion held the countenance that had been almost happy. "Yea?1 know her. It could not be helped. It was arranged. I shall not be here long." The impressive silence was inter rupted by the hesitating suggestion: "There will be some doctors sent by the State to see you, Doctor." The reference was to the approach ing investigation Into Dr. Ishida's .sanity by the State lunacy commls sion, an order for which was signed yesterday by Judge Duncan in the .circuit court st Towson. "Doctors," repeated the man of Japan, "they will do no good." And the weary smile that accompanied the words held nothing of the realiza tion of murder. PADEREWSKI NAMED PREMIER OF POLAND PARIS, Jan. Ill-?All opposition to Tgnace Paderewskl has been aban doned In view of the gravity of the national danger, and the Poles have Hamad him premier of Poland, ssy late dispatches. Padarawakl Is today engagad In the formation ef a coalition cabinet. States Which Ratified the Amendment 1 Miaaiaaippl Jan. 2 Virginia Jan. 3 Kentucky Jan. 4 South Carolina...Jan. 5 North Dakota. >. .Jan. 6 Maryland Feb. 7 Montana Feb. 8 Texaa March 9 Delaware March 10 Sooth Dakota. .March 11 Maaaachoaetta... April 12 Arizona May 8, 1918 10, 1918 14, 1918 23, 1918 26, 1918 13, 1918 19, M18 4, 1918 18, 1918 30, 1918 2, 1918 27, 1918 13 Georgia Joly 22,1918 14 Lonisiana Ang. 3 1918 15 Florida Dee. 14, 1918 18 Michigan Jan. 2, 1919 17 Oklahoma Jan. 7, 1919 18 OMe Jan. 7, 1S19 19 Tenneaaee Jan. 8, 1919 20 Idaho Jan. 8, 1919 21 Maine Jan. 8, 1919 22 Weet Virginia... .Jan. 9. 23 Washington Jan. 1919 1919 24 California Jan. 13. 1*19 25 Arkanaaa Jan. 14, 1919 28 Illinois Jan. 14, 1919 27 Indiana Jan. 14, 1919 28 Kanaas Jan. 14, 1919 29 North Carolina...Jan. 14, 1919 38 Alabama.........Jan. 14, 1919 31 Iowa Jan. 16. 1919 32 Colorado Jah. 15, 1919 33 Oregon Jan. 16, 1919 34 Now Hampshire. .Jan. 15, 1919 36 Utah Jan. 15. 1919 36 Nebraaka ..Jan. 16, 1919 SNOWDEN TO NANISMS CHRT ?-I f- "y. ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Jan. ie.~In opinion delivered by Judge N. Charles Burke this morning the Court of Ap peals of Maryland affirmed the judg ! ment of the circuit court for Baltl 'More totinty'in Which'John Snowden, an Annapolis negro, was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Lottie May Bran don. a young: Washington woman, on I August 8. 1917, in this city. | Snowden was sentenced to be hung, and the action of the court of appeals today makes it practically certain the sefttehe'e will be carried out. Those close to Oovernor Harrington say he is convinced of the guilt of Snowden, j and will not hesitate to set a date for ; the execution. It is likely to take place about the middle of February. Snowden, .in spite of the evidence against him. persistently has de ? clared he is innocenti Vie has told' | conflicting stories about his move- I 1 menu on the morning of the crime. ! ' but he lias resolutely declared he had never seen Mrs. Brandon. ! The killing of Mrs. Brandon and j the incidents during the hunt for the I criminal constitute one of the most 1 j sensational chapters in the annals of ! ) crime in Annapolis and its vicinity. j Mrs. Brandon was a youthful wife j land expectant mother, living with i her husband. Valentine N. Braudon. | in a little home on Second street, which runs lro.n West street to the1 Murray Hill section. Brandon, who j : was employed at tlie naval experl-, ' mental station, left his home before I ! X o'clock on the morning of the day | J of the crime. He returned after 6 j j o'clock p. m. to lind his wife dead , on a couch in the front room of the i first floor. Her clothing was torn; J and disarranged, and there was a j 1 big bruise ou her forehead. COLONEL DEEDS ! NOT TO BE TRIED: ' l 1 Colonel Deeds, of the aircraft produc- j : tion service, will not be tried by court- j I martial Secretary of War Baker today approved the recommendation of tht t acting judge advocate general against such action. Colonel Deeds was made the sub ject of charges in the report of the Hughes investigation committees re port on aircraft production. i WIRELESS CONTROL BILL IS TABLED Secretary Daniels' radio bill, pro viding for Government ownership and control of all American wireless un der the supervision of the United States navy, was tabled this afternoon for the rest of the present Congress by the House Merchant Marine Com mittee In executive session. TUMULTY ILL AT HOME. Secretary Tumulty was confined to his home today with a cold. ? '4 ' MINES REPORTED OFF VIRGINIA COAST . NEW YORK, Jan. 16.? Members of the crew of the schooner Edith, of Buenos Aires, arriving to da&'Hported they passed Awm floatitt.^iiiin?'8 all the oop?t of ViVeinin Inst Monday morning. The Navy Department has been notified. Mine sweepers havo been sent out. PRESIDENT-ELECT OF BRAZIL DEAD I RIO UE JANEIRO. Jan. 16 ?Hod riguez Alves. president elect of Brai.it who wax n?vfr able to aMiime the duties of his office, on account of ill ness, died at 12:40 a. m. today. Vice President Delphim Moreira.; former governor of the Minu.vGeraea j succeeds to the Piesidency. A Ives was unanimously elected to! | the Presidency last March, but was | unable to assume his office on No vember 15, the date of inauguration, I because of ill health. Recently he i contracted influenza, and hope r.C his i recovery was abandoued several j weeks ago. Wednesday afternoon he I received the last sacraments of th-3 [ Catholic church. Sfrifd One Trrai. Alve.s had already served one ;erm as President of Brazil?from 1902 to 190}. During that administration he gave evidence of being one ?f the greatest statesmen Brazil has ever] produced.' He brought aboui tin j enactment of numerous public health > measures, and besides improving the j principal Biazilian ports, remodeled' and virtually rebuilt the city of Rio | Janeiro. j Alves also strove at all time? to' bring a closer relationship between j Brazil and the United States. He was regarded as the strongest friend of | ! the United States and the foremost i advocate of Pan-Americanism in South) i America. In an interview last May; ! he said: "Brazil wtll continue to follow the course of the United States of North America to the end of the war. The change in administration in Frazil w-ill In no way alter Brazil's friend ly policy or her whole-bearted back ing up of the aims and purposes of the United States." U. S. REQUISITIONED SHIPS RELEASED The United States Shipping Board today released from Government con trol all ships operated under requisi tion. The total number of vessels In volved Is about 24S. Their dead-, weight tonnage Is 1.21B.000. I Orders of the Shipping Board pre scribe for release of the privately owned ships upon the arrival of each in an America port, or upon com pletion of Us present voysge. MRS. LEBAUDY TO BE PUT meat ? * ^ ! ?\ tp.< yi.N'KOt^A, K. T$r JM. Id -Ordal*| for the Jafliag of Mrs. Lobaudr. May er of her husbaad. the "Emperor of the Stbtrv" **r? issued today by District Attorney Week*. In spite of the statements of tha woman's physic'.aas that she was so ill any sudden excitment might kill her. Weeks believes she is able to go to jail. Sheriff Seaman was in atructed to put her in a cell. Since the killing- of Lebaudv. the woman has been under guard at aer home. Grand jury investigation of the case ?u resumed today. To AM Defeaae. * The opinion that Mme Lebauav will qot be indicted for the murder of her husband was strengthened t(?day when It became known that Mark Roaenfeld, messenger boy of 123 East One Hundred and Tenth street. Man hattan. jrho was expected to give damaging testimony before the grend Jury, had materially strengthened the case of the defendant. Roaenfeld accompanied Jacquc* L,e bandy, the slain man. from Manhattan on the night of the tragedy. He was with him when lie entered Phoenix Eodge, the Eebaudy house at Weet bury, and was met by Mme. I.ebaudy. The messenger, who is fifteen years old. who disappeared after Mme. Le baudy ahot the self-styled "Emperor '?Continued on Page 10. Column I I ! FOOD FOR EUROPE ! FAVORED IN SENATE1 The resolution carrying the $100. 000,000 requested by President Wil son for feeding the peoples of Eu rope was ordered favorably reported to the Senate this afternoon by the Appropriations Committee. There wa? no roll call on reporting I the resolution, but Senator Kenyon ' of Io* a reserved the right to Hie a| minority report on behalf of him-i s*elf and others. The commitsee adopted a resolu tion urging President Wilson to reach a Aim agree.nent with the al lies that will bind them to give their share of the $300,000,000 needed for food relief. The total requirements at present can be met with this sum, a cable- j gram from the interallied food com mission to the committee said. Amendments to the resolution pro vided for an itemized accounting to Congress of all expendlturea. and for auditing the accounts in the same manner the accounts of other Govern ment departments are audited ROME, Jan. Id -The Italian ?abl net resigned today. Premier Orlando has been ee?s<n!s aloaed to form a new ministry. t WITHIN YEAR JEFFERSON CITT One year from today the Uaitod States roM "iry." Prohibition baa bacon part of fee baaie lanr of th? natiea. Ratification today of the F? dry amendment by the All k* halt a daaaa ef the forty, eight States are > reacted to the amend meat in the weeks, bat the actio* af today gives the ratification of fourths of the States, the necaaaary to adasiaiato: __ .eycorn the knockout punch. War ProhibHiea Jaly 1. One >?tr from today every ?|?m, brewery. distillery end wine proas la the land must close ita doors, mha a* ?o* likely?they are already closed at that tine by war prohibi tion. which goes iato effect Best Jaiy 1. and atayi until c?ni)l?tiM of de moholisatlon. Ratification in the Nebraska 14 lsture wes complete at KfrSS a. when the senate concurred la a hi resolution passed earlier ia the ffhy. The senate, two da ye a(0. ratified the amendment, but the ratifytag resolution a* passed by the house tola morning was amended and waa re turned to the senate for concurreeee. The amendment at one atroke wtpee out 2SS distilleries, M2 breweries. and over -'>00 000 saloons and wholaaala liquor establishments. .( It cuts from employee of these ie stitutions an annual income of mere than <70.000 000 in pre-war times at.eee.eea.eee iitvesw lm. It cuts off from the United Ststes Si.?)00.000.000 in revenue proposed un der the new revenue bill. It removes the liquor question from national. State, and city pan tics and help* decrease city. State, and Federal expense by decreasing law violations. The fight on liquor, triumphant to day. is an old one. It raised Its head early in the iflne teenth century and was looked upon as "another crank notion." But It fathered strength. Churches took M up. doctors followed, and then came the organisation of anilhquor soci eties. the W C. T. U- the Antl Saloon l?eague. and others. In the middle of the nineteenth cen tury. Maine went dry. Kanaas fol lowed. < arete \atiM Artaee. The militant Carrie Nation, of Kaa> sas. rose up in 1900. and proved te be one of the moat picturesque fig ures the fight has developed. Ten years later the movement swept the country. Another conatitutional amendment was offered?the eight eenth addition to the Constitution. Distillers propose a fight on the amendment in the courts on tha grounds that It was not adopted by two-thirds of the whole Congress, and that the seven-year limitation Invali dated the measure "Dry" leaders aay they are confi dent that neither of these contentions will hold, an don their aide are pre paring legislation carrying heavy penalties for vlolallon of prohibition. A special agency In the Internal reve nue bureau probably will be aaked. The first tfitrty-elx States ratifying the intendment. In order are: Mlasle slppl, Virginia. Kentucky. North Da kota, South Carolina. Maryland. Mon tana. Texas. Delaware. South Dakota. Massachusetts, A r I sons. Georgia. Lou isiana. Florida. Michigan, Ohio. Okla homa. Maine, Idaho. Wnat Virginia Washington, Tennessee. California. Arkansas. Illinois. Indleee. Carolina. Alabama. Kanaaa Nebraska. Colorado. Oregon. Utah. Iowa and New Matnpehlre. "The prohibition amendment waa ratified today,** Senator Oheppard aa> Bounced, -one day leas ihea ihtrtea*