MAY RECALL U. S.
ARMYJNJtUSSIA
Note Declared Sent by America
Warning Slavs to Join Pro
posed Parley.
REFUSAL TO BE COSTLY
Would Mean Also Embargo on Sup
plies and Nonrecognition of En
voys—Allies Expected to Join
U. S. in Position.
Paris, Jan. 31.—The British and
French governments have accept
ed in principle President Wilson's
plan concerning mandatories from
the League of Nations for the ad
ministration of captured territory,
it was stated by Captain Andre
Tardieu of the French peace con
ference delegation. The accept
ance, however, is subject to learn
ing under what conditions the
plan will be carried out.'
Washington, Jan. 31.—Diplomatic
circles disclosed that the United
States threatens to withdraw its sup
port from the Russian republican tac
tions unless they at .pnce endorse
President Wilson's plans for ending
Russian strife through a meeting with
Bolshevik and Allied delegates.
Recall of American troops in the
Archangel regions and in Siberia, em
bargo against exports to Archangel
.arid Vladivostok and withdrawal of
United States recognition now grant
ed the diplomats of the Russian con
stitutionalists at Washington would
be the most significant features of the
step. Similar action could be expect
ed from Great Britain, France, Italy
and Japan, and the Russians would be
left to "fight it out amongst them
selves."
Russian Embassy Notified.
It is understood a memorandum of
the American viewpoint has been
handed to the Russian embassy here
for conveyance to fiussian ambassa
dors and ministers at Paris.
Diplomats admit that the disappoint
ment of the United States at, the op
position of the Russian constitution
alists toward the proposed all Russian
conference is evident.
The United States has practically
supported the constitutional diplomats
here, financially as well as politically,
since their appointment by Kerensky.
The Entente Powers were led to do
likewise.
Tchaikovsky on Way to Paris.
The official position of the northern
Russian government regarding the
meeting will not be known, it is be
lieved, until the arrival in Paris of
President Tchaikovsky, now on his
way to the peace conference from
Archangel.
The Russian embassy has received
an Archangel cable declaring that the
president is pledged by his govern
ment to take an uncompromising stand
against the bolsheviki ajid to insist on
Russian republican admission to the
deliberations.
The cables also stated that Tchai
kovsky proposes to join the Omsk gov
ernment representative in establishing
a strong denter of Russian politics in
Paris, from which the land can be re
deemed from chaos.
PROMOTION BAN MODIFIED
Army Officers to Be Advanced as Va
cancies Permit.
Washington, Jan. 31.—Secretary
Baker has issued instructions modify
ing, to a limited extent, the blanket
prohibition against the promotion of
officers promulgated by the War de
p'artment immediately after the armis
tice was signed, and which has been.1
sharply criticized in congress.
Under the new policy, contained in
a. memorandum dated Jan. 25, ad
dressed to General March, chief of
stall, and made public, General Persh
ing is authorized to make such promo
'tions as vacancies 'in the authorized
strength of his command may per
mit and the same practice will be fol
lowed with respect to the army in-the
United States.
RESTORE ORDER IN TURKEY
Supreme Council Asks Allied Military
Men to Frame Plan.
Paris, Jan.
31.—The
Supreme coun
cil, it is officially announced, reached
satisfactory provisional arrangements
dealing with the German colonies and
the occupied territories of Turkey in
Asia.
The council decided that the mili
tary representatives of the Allied
powers at Versailles should pieet and
report on the most equitable distri
bution of the burden of supplying
military fprces for the purpose of
maintaining order in Turkey, pending
action by the conference regarding the
government of Turkish territory.
Hungarians Cheer U. S.
Budapes't, Jan. 30.—Hungarians con
ducted enthusiastic demonstrations
throughout the country, cheering the
United States and the Allies as a re
sult of the" peace conference note
warning that claims to territory occu
pied by force will receive no recogni
tion at the peace table. The Hun
garians regard this warning as direct
ed at the Roumanians and Jugo-Slavs
who, they say, have been encroaching
on Hungarian soil. A new crisis has
been forced in Count Karolyi's cabinet
due to bourgeoisie attacks.
Saturday, February 1, 1919 E I I S S A N A
GEORGE STALLINGS
Manager of Boston National
League Club.
Bt
George E. Stalling?, manager of the
Boston National League baseball club
received a leter from Sergeant (Hank)
Gowdy, saying that he hoped to be
released from his duties in France
soon and expected to be back in this
country in time to join the Braves on
their spring training trip.
YANKEES ASIE
CLEARED
Boys in Europe Refrain From
Acts of Violence.
Crime Wave in Paris Is Traced to
Apaches Wearing United States
Army Uniform.
Paris, Jan. 31.—An investigation
shows that Apaches of all nationalities
dressed in American uniforms were
mainly responsible for the acts of vio
lence which have caused broadcast
publicity to be given to an alleged
American crime wave in Paris.
It was further ascertained that as
saults and hold-ups are infinitesimal
in number as compared with the pub
lished figures of the crime wave, ex
isting nearly exclusively in the vivid
imagination of sensational local news
papers.
An opportunity was presented to
verify at police headquarters the fig
ures respecting crimes during last
December. Thirty-four murders
charged to Americans were discredit
ed and dwindled to two 244 hold-ups
and assaults were reduced by 80 per
cent.
There have been numerous fistic en
counters, however, but they wdre most
ly between Americans, old-fashioned
rough and tumble brawls in which ar
rests are rarely made in American
cities, where for the most part the
pugnacious individuals would merely
be requested by the police to go home,
or a humorous policeman would advise
them "if you want to fight, go to
Europe."
GOVERNOR RENEWS CHARGES
Alleges Mismanagement in Argonne
Forest Campaign.
Kansas City, Jan. 31.—"An under
statement of the situation," was the
way Governor Henry J. Allen of Kan
sas referred to previous statements in
which he charged that the losses of
the Thirty-fifth division, composed
mainly of Missouri and Kansas forces,
in the fighting of the Argonne forest
were heavy because of inadequacy of
transportation and artillery and air
protection, in a statement here.
ADVOCATES GOING THE LIMIT
Admiral Mayo Says Now 1s the Time
to Expand Navy.
Washington, Jan. 31.—Iii urging im
mediate naval expansion before the
House naval committee, Admiral
Mayo, coirtmander in chief of the At
lantic fleet, said:
"The league of nations is rapidly
getting down to a sewing circlft with
no means of enforcement and no in
ternational police force. Now is the
time to go the limit in expanding our
navy."
NOTED STEAMSHIP IS SUNK
Exploration Ship Endurance Lost and
Ten of Crew Perish.
Yarmouth, England, Jan. 31.—The
exploration ship Endurance, formerly
the sealing steamer Nimrod, which Sir
Ernest Shackleton used in his explora
tions in the Antartic and which had
been engaged in the coal trade be
tween France and England, was
dashed to pieces on the sands off
Yarmouth. Ten members of the crew
oi 12 were lost.
Gen. Wood Sounds Warning.
Detroit, Jan. 31.—Warning was is
sued against the growing 'Bolsheviki
menace in the United States by Major
General Wood in an address here to
the Four-Minute Men in which he
urged them to "stick" and fight the
"Red movement." General Wood de
clared the Four-Minute Men must as
sist in securing employment for the
returning soldiers or face the possi
bility of losing them to the Bolshevist
propagandists. He warned that "this
is not the last war we don't want
discontented men in this country."
ALLIES OUTLINE
FOOD PROGRAM
Germany Will Be Allowed Six
Million Bushels of Bread
stuffs a Month.
GASH BASIS REQUIRED
Herbert C. Hoover Cables From Eu»
rope That All Surplus American
Wheat Can Be Disposed
of Abroad.
New York, Jan. 31.—Germany will
be allowed about 6,000,000 bushels of
breadstuffs a month, mostly from the
United States, under the general food
program outlined by the Allies, if she
can pay for it, according to a detailed
statement of foreign grain require
ments cabled by Herbert' C. Hoover
to Julius II. Barnes, president of the
United States Grain corporation, and
made public here.
Between now and July 1, the state
ment said, France and Italy will take
80,000,000 bushels of wheat and flour
from the grain corporation, while the
Allied governments will take also
about 75,000,000 bushels of oats.
If restrictions are removed on cereal
imports to European neutrals they will
reuire about 60,000,000 bushels of
wheat, rye or barley, in grain or flour
to bring their bread consumption to
normal, mostly from the United States.
Can Dispose of All Wheat.
"As we have already shipped from
the United States over 160.0(10,000
bushels of wheat or flour, the (Train
corporation will easily dispose of all
wheat, with perhaps a small carry
over, if any, at the next harvest," the
cable said.
"The basis of price of all these
wheat sales included not only the
basic prices paid to the farmer, but
handling and storage expenses of the
Grain corporation. The Grain cor
poration !s, therefore, in a strong po
sition because farm sales are about
equal to its stock on hand and its
available $150,000,000 capital and the
corporation
swill
emphatically maintain
the 1918 guaranty for which purpose it
was created.
Pork Products for Germany.
"The Supreme Food council, under
military advice, has granted Germany*
the right to import 150,000.000 pounds
of pork products per month as soon
as she arranges payment and ship
ping. This and neutral demand should
overtake any surplus of these prod
ucts in two months after being start
ed in fact, by peace there will be a
shortage in pork production.
"The re-establishment of new mar
kets and normal trading during armis
tice is slow and difficult. In order
to get over many of the difficulties
of trading in flours and wheat during
the period of the armistice, the Grain
corporation^ establishing stocks for
sale at Rotterdam, Trieste, Constan
tinople and other points to as large
an extent as the Shipping board can
furnish tonnage."
CABINET TO I0N0RE STRIKE
Labor Unions Are Not Supporting
British Walkout.
London, Jan. 31.—The cabinet met
to discuss the labor troubles. It is
Understood that the ministers decided
against intervening at present in the
strikes, on the ground that they have
not been authorized by the trade
unionists and that, therefore, interven
tion would be unwise. It is the view
of the ministers that the men, in the
absence of the usual strike pay, are
not likely long to keep up the move
ment and that the government there
fore should confine its action to pre
serving order.
POOR QUALITY OF HORSES
American Cavalry, in Europe Said to
Have Been Failure.
Buffalo, N. Y„ Jan. 31.—Major
Henry Leonard told the members of
the New York State Breeders' Asso
ciation at their annual meeting here
that the American cavalry remount in
Europe had been a failure.
"This is an open secret now that
the war is over," he said. "The Quar
termaster's department reports verify
the statement. The government main
tained its artillery remount service at
high efficiency, but failed to keep the
cavalry properly mounted."
SENATE PASSES WAR BILL
Measure Provides for Settlement of
War Coneracts.
Washington, Jan. 31.—Legislation
designed to validate and permit set
tlement of informal war contracts ag
gregating several billion dollars was
sent to conference by the senate,
which without a record vote passed
the military committee's substitute for
the measure recently passed by the
bouse.
Mission Is Instructed.
Paris, Jan. 31.—The Allied commis
sion to Poland appointed by the peace
bureau has received its instructions.
These can be summarized as follows:
"The Poles are fighting. Get* them
down to business." The commission
"ers traveling by way of Germany, are
expected to reach Poland in a day or
twp and begin the somewhat difficult
task of pacifying the Poles, Bohem
ians and other nationalities, at whom
the recent mandate regarding fighting
during the peace conferences was par
tially directed.
TOWN WELLS GUSH
Water tills the Storage Tank, but
of Little Use to Pumps.
The town of Wyoming, three miles
south of Dover, Del., has a phenome
non which officials and residents have
been unable to explain. The water
system, pumping station and tower are
a quarter mile from the town proper,
with a tank which is nearly 100 feet
high and has a capacity of several
thousand gallons. Usually it has re
quired an hour or longer to fill the
tank by pumping from the driven wells
and refill it as water is drawn by con
sumers.
Within the past week the unusual
thing has happened. The keeper of
the pumping station was surprised to
see the tank filled in about 20 minutes
of pumping and in some instances not
that long. It is also noticed that even
after the pumps have been shut down
the water gushes up the pipe for a con
siderahle height, causing the tank to
overflow.
With this peculiar situation several
town wells have gone dry, the pre
sumption being that the pumping sta
tion has struck the same vein of wa
ter. Residents with such useless wells
have been compelled to tap the town
water supply.
MUSTARD GAS COOKS FLESH
Soldier Tells of Experience in En
gagement Near Verdun.
"Mustard gas shells which the Huns
used in many instances cooked the
flesh," s:iid William Arnold, I'enn, 111.,
Company IV Forty-seventh infantry,
while recounting an engagement with
the Germans near Verdun.
"When the enemy made an attack,
we adjusted our masks, hut the gas
was so deadly poisonous that it. scorch
ed our hands ami necks. If a
man failed to get his mask on in
time, nine times out of ten his face
would-lie badly burned. The efTecf re
sembled a bad case of smallpox," lie
said.
Private Arnold is in the base hos
pital at Camp Sherman recovering
from shrapnel wounds in both legs.
FREAK WINS HIS BET
Found Dead in Police Station as He
Had Predicted.
Fifteen years ago "Tattooed Jack,"
a well-known steeple jack and circus
sideshow character of former years,
bet "the best drink in town that I'll
be found dead some night, with my
clothes on in this police station," with
Sergeant Hutchinson of the North side
jail at Pittsburgh.
The other night an aged man was
found dead in a cell of the station.
No
one
knew his identity until Hutchin
son was called. Tt was "Tattooed
Jack," and he had his clothes on. He
had won the bet.
TRENCH PAPERS HE
It
AT END OF THE WAR
Memory of Little Sheets That
Enlivened Army Life Will
Live Forever.
The trench newspaper died with the
end of the world war, but in England
and France today there are not a few
soldiers who, although naturally joy
ous at the thought of peace, betray
a degree of sadness because of the
disappearance of these famous little
publications.
Editors and reporters were sought
out to serve the occasion from all
ranks and conditions. Typewriters,
papers and pencils were spirited fruu
somewhere, and the trench papers
were produced, in most cases, on the
firing line. They had to overcome ln-(
numerable difficulties. Laughing at
death and destruction, it was their
mission to lighten the task of the
fighting men.
But now the little papers have been
scrapped. Editorial offices In the shape
of dugouts, bell tents and broken
down huts were stripped with the sign
Ing of the armistice, and the Squib,
Rocket or I'atrol remain only as mem
ories.
It is said of one of these little pub
lications on the British front that not
one of the original editorial staff
lived to read the last words of the
paper they brought into being. Men
came and went, but (lie paper was pre
served until (he last.
Rich Indian Takes Wife.
Old Dog. chief of the !ros Ventres,
one of the four tribes which lives in
peace and harmony on Borthold Reser
vation, has brought Mrs. Old Dog to
a hospital at Bismarck, N. !., for
treatment. Old Dog is a full blooded
Gros Ventre, and is one of (he wealth
iest and most: progressive Indians
on the reservation. He has thousands
of acres of good land, several thou
sand head of registered cattle and
hundreds of fine horses. Last summer
he built a nine-room home in which
he Installed a modern heating and
plumbing system.
Optimism Nets $500.
Mrs. J. II. Steiner's optimism and
faith In General Pershing and his
Yanks has won for her $fi00. While
the Germans seemed on the verge of
winning (he war she went, among her
neighbors in Pittsburgh cheering them
up, saying that, the enemy would be
beaten before the snow b'gan to fnll.
When her statements were questioned
she promptly offered to wager $500,
which was as promptly taken up. She
collected.
Village Without Doctor.
Without a blacksmith, doctor or
minister, the village of West Warren,
Mass.. has prospered. The village has
been without a doctor for many yeara.
PRINTING
The Lubricant of all Successful! Business
BIG OR LITTLE
No Job is too Small for us to give it that careful
scrutiny through each department which marks
our printing Perfect.
No Job is too Large for us to turn out perfect,
for we have allied with us dependable workmen
who are artists in every branch of the printing
trade.
School Prospectus and Annuals
A Specialty
Church Annual Reports Promptly
Printed
The Irish Standard
Job Department
CURIOSITY CAUSES FIRE
Man Applies a Match te 8ee If Coal|
Oil Will Burn.
Inqulsitiveness on the part of anl
employee of the Grand Trunk Railway I
company, who applied a match to a|
pool of coal oil "to tee If It would!
burn," was responsible for the confla-l
gratton which wiped out the freight!
sheds, offices and 28 loaded and un-f
loaded-ears of the company at Ottawa,|
Can., with a total loss of $112,000.
Henry Daoust, a freight handler,I
who appeared at the investigation!
proceedings with his face badly burn-l
ed and one of his hands swathed lnl
bandages, frankly told how he had!
come to start the blaze. He said hel
had noticed a pool of liquid on the!
floor of the freight shed, close to a|
number of barrels which had been!
shipped in from the Inland revenue de-|
partment.
He did not know what the llquldl
was, but was curious to see whether!
it would burn. He applied a match!
with the result that the liquid burst!
Into a hhre flame. Almost Immediate-!
ly an eplosion occurred, which hurled]
him backward.
Woman Is Deputy Sheriff.
A woman lias been named deputy!
sheriff of Cumberland county, Maine.I
Mrs. -Mary, S. Burnham has taken thel
oath of office and assumed her duties.!
Mrs. Burnham has had much experl-[
enee in police work. She was matron!
of the Portland police department fori
number of years and had much tol
do In the line of investigating for thel
Society for (lie Protection of Children.!
Banquets Six Canaries.
Six canary birds were the guests at|
a banquet given in a Pittsburgh ho
tel on New Year's eve by Miss Katiel
Guilfoyle, mi aged employee of the bos-1
teir.vJ The feast was made up of teal
and crackers, the birds pecking at bits I
of crackers held by Miss Guilfoyle lie-1
twecn her lips. Miss Guilfoyle liasl
been at her present employment for|
r,0 years.
Takes Patent Medicine, Dies.
A coroner's inquest has been orderedl
Into the dealh of Hugh McMahon,!
sixty, of St. Louis, who died follow-!
Ing the taking of a dose of patent|
cough medicine.
FINDS LIQUOR IN TRUNK
Kansas City Woman Is Now Suing|
Terminal Company for Damages.
Mrs. Olive Sterling of Kansas Cityl
packed her steamer trunk with duintyl
clothing and had it taken to the depot,I
where she checked It to Charleston,!
W. Va„ where she intended paying!
relatives visit. On her arrival there.f
Instead of her line lingerie, dainty!
dresses, etc., she found IfiO pint bot-l
ties of booze, evidently destined for anl
Oklahoma bootlegger. She will bringl
suit against the Kansas City Terminal!
company for damages as a result of|
the mix-up.
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