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SECRETARY BAKER
FAVORS BIG REVIEW
OESIREB RAINBOW DIVISION TO
PARADE AT WASHINGTON
UPON ITB RETURN.
REPRESENTS ENTIRE NATION
Proposal Was Coincident With Ar
ranging Plans for Suitable Re
ception for First Combat
Unit to Come Home.
Washington.
Baker expressed a strong wish that
the Forty-second (Rainbow) division,
which includes the former First Min
nesota Held artillery, parade Washing
ton bn its return from France as rep
resentative of the entire country and
the whole fighting army.
The Rainbow division is now with
the army of occupation In Germany,
and a War Department report located
It as being at Ahrweller, Germany, on
Jan. 2.
Secretary Baker’s proposal was co
incident with the arranging of plans
for a suitable reception for the first
combat division to return, which was
begun following the announcement
that virtually the complete strength
of the Twenty-seventh division (New
Tork National Guard) had been as
signed for early convoy by General
" Pershing.
If it Js found practicable, New Tork
city will be given an opportunity to
see the organization on parade at full
strength, with, its fighting equipment,
its recovered wounded and its battle
trophies before it is demobilized.
Wounded • Would Have Part.
Mr. Baker announced men of the
Twenty-seventh who has already re
turned, even those who have been
Tnnstdajd eSU woujA bt .given an op
portunity fo march with their com
rades. The sick and wounded will be
carried in ambulances or other motor
transport.
Secretary Baker reiterated his do
sire that whenever possible either the
full strength or substantial portions
of the returning combat divisions pa
rade in large pities in the section from
which they came.
Suggests Chicago Parade.
“For instance,” said the secretary,
“the Blackhawk (Eighty-sixth divi
sion) comes largely from Chicago. I
am hoping to be able to work out a
plan by which a substantial part of
that division can parade in Chicago.
This division will go to Camp Grant.
One plan being considered is to have
the troops sent through the city first,
allowed to detrain, parade and then
entrain again for the camp, thus break
ing the railroad journey.”
104,000 AMERICAN
WOUNDED IN EUROPE
4£oo Vacant Beds in Hospitals In the
States Are Ready for
Their Use.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Wounded sol
diers remaining in hospitals overseas
number approximately 104,000, Colonel
W. H. Smith of the Surgeon General’s
office told the senate committee con
ducting an inquiry of hospital facili
ties and construction. Many of these
wonnded, he said, will not be brought
home until they recover.
In the hospitals of this country,
Colonel Smith said, there are now
about 4,500 vacant beds, which can
be placed in pse as additional wound
ed and sick dre returned.
4,020 ALIENS INTERNED
BY AMERICA DURING WAR
- Twenty-two Hundred of Them Were
Merchant Seamen and Remainder
Resident Aliena. IflS
Washington, Jan. 14.—Pour ihou
sand and twenty enemy aUens were
Interned by the United States during
the war, .the Department of Justice
informed the house immigration com
mittee, which is considering a bill au
thorizing the deportation of these per
sona. Twehty-two hundred pf them
were merchant seamen and the- re
mainder resident aliens.
The committee later adopted a favor
able report, which will be Introduced
in the house.
SOUTH DAKOTA FAVORS
RETURN OF RAILROADS
House* end Senate Oppose Continua
tion of Government Control
Yand Operation.
Pierre, 8. D., Jan. 14.—The Sooth
legislature asked immediate
return of railroads to private owner
ship. Both the senate and the house
adopted a resolution to that effect
after considerable debate.
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VOL. 8.
First Combat Division Coming.
THE TWIN CITY STAR.
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SINGLE COPIES 5 CTS.
C. W. HARE
C. W. Hart, assistant director of
munitions during the war, haa been
made director of sales for the war de
partment. Mr. Hare's assignment now
Is to get rid of a great deal of mate
rial acquired in a great hurry and at
large expense during the war.
DECLINE TO SIT WITH REDS
80ME RUSBIANS IN PARIB OPPOSE
CONFERENCE.
American and Britiah Delegates Feel
Only Course Open Has Been
Pursued.
Paris, Jan. 24. —Whether the effort
of the great powers to, tranqullize Rus
sia was to succeed or fail is still in
the balance.
No reply has come from the Bolshe
the meantime prominent anti-Bolshe
vik leaders in Paris are not qlear on
their course and first reports that
they were favorable to the plan have
been followed by statements by such
leaders as Sergius Sazonoff that they
would not “sit at the table with assas
sins.”
The semi-official Temps also asserts
that the Supreme Council’s proposal
“permits traitors who withdrew Rus
sia from the war and turned the entire
German strength against France to be
received on the same footing as the
falthfhl."
The American and British delegates,
feel, however, that proposal the only
course open. •
Sergius Sazonoff, a former Russian
foreign minister under the old regime,
and now representing the government
of Yekaterinodar and the Siberian
government at Omsk, has declared in
a statement that he would not partici
pate in the conference proposed by
the supreme council with Bolshevik
rpresentatives.
COMMITTEE IS PROBING
PRICE OF HARD COAL
Benate Body Opens its Inquiry In
Anthracite Fields of Penn
sylvania.
Pottsvllle, Pa., Jan. 24,—investiga
tion of the high cost of anthracite coal
and the alleged shortage of that staple
was begun here by a sub-committee
of the senate committee on manufac
turers.
Fred M. Chase, general manager of
the Lehigh Valley Coal company, own
er of approximately 100,000 acres in
various sections of the anthracite
fields, was the first witness.
ESERVE BANKERS TO
MEET IN NEW ORLEANS
At Least Forty-five- Cities Will Be
Represented at Convention
Opening April 80.
New York, Jan. 24. —New Orleans
was selected as the city where the
Reserve City Bankers’ association trill
hold its annual convention April 30
and May 1 and 2. Banks in 45 cities.,
will he represented, according to as
surance given by members from Bos
ton, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas,
New Orleans, Richmond, Atlanta, Mil
waukee and New York.
BAKER SENDS ARMY
RIDER TO CONGRESS
Bill Authorises President to Organise
Handing Army of 800,000
4 • Men.
Washington, Jan. 24. —Secretary of
War Baker announced that a rider had
been sent to congress for attachment
to the appropriation bill, which will
authorise the president to organise a
standing army of 100,000. This is a
substitute tor the original bill, side
tracked in committee.
BOLSHEVIK FORCE
JITS PETROGRI
REPORTED TO BE REMOVING ALL
BUPPLIEB FROM THE RUB- ‘ '
SIAN CAPITAL.
ANTI-SOVIET MOVE GROWING
Minister of War Trotzky Is Bald to
Have Ordered That, City Be
Surrendered Without a
Fight if Attacked.
Archangel, Jan. 24.—The Bol
shevik! are continuing their shell
ing of the American position at
■ Ust Padenga, 30 miles south of
Shenkury, and the American artil
lery is replying to the enemy fire.
Peasants say that the Bolshe
vik! suffered 500 casualties in the
infantry attack on Jan. 1, leaving
many wounded who froze to
death in the forest.
The American casualties in tha
fighting were less than 50 all told.
Copenhagen, Jan. 24.—The Bolshe
vik forces are evacuating Petrograd
and removing all stores, according to
a dispatch to the Berlinske Tidende,
from Helsingfors. The dispatch adds
that Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik min
ister of war, is transferring his head
quarters to Nizhnl-Novgorod and that
the anti-Bolshevik movement is grow
ing daily.
Trotsky Issues “No Fight” Order.
London, Jan. 24.—Leon Trotsky,
Russian minister of war, has ordered
'Zinovieff, Bolshevik governor of Pet
rograd, to surrender that city without
a fight if it is attacked by the North-
Russian forces, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen.
Northern Russia, the dispatch
J&tokitA* HmtlunrikT fncuss, lmnn keen,
defeated and a large part of them
have surrendered. In addition, a great
number of peasants are reported in
revolt in various parts, of Bolshevik
Russia.
Bov!et Success Reported.
London, Jan. 24. —Unconfirmed re
ports have been received here that
the Bolshevik! have captured Oren
burg, capital of the province of that*
name, on the Ural river, about 250
miles north of the Black sea.
If the report proves true, the dif
ficulty of the Russian Siberian army
getting into touch with General Deni
klne’s force is increased. The cap
ture of Orenburg also would consti
tute a threat to the small British
feroe in Trans-Caucasia.
RETURN OF SOLDIERS
IN RUSSIA DEMANDED
California Benator Contrasts Peace
Congress Statement and Ra
ports of Battles.,
Washington, Jan. 24. —Senator John
son of California, in a statement on
the peace conference’s Russian agree
ment, declared that it gave no infor
mation regarding the return of Ameri
can troops from Russia, while press
dispatches told of fighting between
the Americans and Russians. Sena
tor Johnson said:
“My concern is for American boys
drafted for war with Germany and
after, the conclusion of the war with
Germany, sent to war with Russia. 1
want these American boys brought
home at once.”
ONE OUT OF EACH 500
LOST AN ARM OR LEG
About Three Thousand Men of Ameri
can Combat Force Are 80 j
Maimed.
Washington, Jan. 24.—One soldier
ont of every 500 w£o fought with the
American army overseas lost an arm
or a leg, Lieutenant Colonel Stitoig,
of the army medical corps, told the
house military affairs committee that
8,000 of the total combat force of
1,600*000 men were so maimed, and
that 1,100 had been returned home
and were being fitted with artificial
military hospitals. An appro
priation of $7,000,000 to purchase ar
tificial limbs, as well as serums and
vaccines, wdf asked for by the medical
corps. -
GARMENT WORKERS’ STRIKE
IS ENDED IN NEW YORK
Contest Lasting Three Mentha Results
In Kmployee Securing Forty-
Pour Hour Week.
New York, Jan. 24.—Rndfag 0 f the
three months’ strtks of 65,000 garment;
workers engaged in making men’s and
boys’ clothing and the granting of a
44-hour wash was announoed at the
headquarters of the Amalgamated Oar
mant Workers of America.
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., JANUARY 25, 1919.
Lady Doreen Brown, daughter of
Lord and Lady Sligo, who Is to marry
Major the Honorable Michael Knatch
buß Hugessen, only son and heir of
Lotd Brabourne. The major will In
herit after hie father the aneleht bar
onetcy and anoestral estates of the
septuagenarian and childless chief of
hit family, Sir Wyndham Knatchbull,
which has been In the possession of
thb family since the reign of Henry
VIL
BfIGANIZE IN UNITED STATES
SOVIETS FORMING IN THE INDUS
V .TRIAL CENTERS.
rmu S > for Bolshevik Propaganda
Work Are Said to Havo Come
Ff - om '
Washington. Jan. 2*4.- Testifying
before the senate committee investi
gating German propaganda, Archibald
Stevenson of the military intelligence
bureau said that representatives of
the Bolshevik movement already have
organized soviets in the industrial
centers of this country and their plana
contemplate eventual seizure of the
government.
Mr. Stevenson said also that evi
dence exists that Germans in the
United States have begun p post-war
propaganda with a view to exerting
an influence which would make the
peace terms imposed on Germany less
onerous.
He called the committee’s attention
to a recent editorial in the New York
Staats Zeitung, which he said endeav
ored to convey the idea that Ameri
can soldiers overseas had come to re
gard the Germans in a light other
thdn that of enemies. v
Leaders of the Bolshevik movement
in this country, Mr, Stevenson testi
fied, included John Reed, who, he said,
was the consul general at New York
of the Russian soviet government, and
Albert Rhys Williams of New York.
Schools for the teaching of the Bol
shevik doctrine to children have been
established by the local organizations,
the witness said, and lectures sent
but. He told the committee that
Hutchins Hapgood of New York, was
one of the leoturers and Leonard D.
Abbott was head of the school for the
teaching of radicalism.
Money for the Bolshevik propaganda
work, Mr. Stevenson asserted, was
sent from Russia.
RUSSIANS IN PARIS
LIKE CONFERENCE PLAN
Daclda to Urgt Upon Slav Government
■ Acceptance of Pesos Council
* Proposal.
Paris, Jan. 24.—The representatives
of the various Russian governments
now in Paris mat with Serglum Sazon
off, the former Russian minister of
foreign affairs and now foreign min
ister of the Omsk government, to dis
cuss the decision of the supreme coun
cil hdre to send a commission to Prin
ces islands to meet the representatives
of the various Russian elements.
Tbs Russian representatives decid
ed to nrga their friends in Russia to
support the movement for the pro
posed conference.
New York, Jan. 24.—Dr. John H.
Lowman of Cleveland, who headed the
first American Red Cross tuberculosis
mission to.ltaly, died at the New York
hoepital here.
French Wemen Demand Vote,
Paris, Jan. 24.—The French Lea
of Rights for Women has seat to the
French parliament a proclamation de
manding Franck woman be given the
franchise Y
Bed Crete Mieeien Head Dead.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
UNDER DISCUSSION
SUPREME COUNCIL OF PEACE
- CONGRESS TAKES UP MOMEN
TOUB QUESTION.
ENVOYS SCAN BRITISH PLAN
Proposal Coming From Premier Lloyd
George Is First One to Receive
Attention from the Allied
Delegates.
Paris, Jan. 24.—The supreme coun
cil of the peace congress has turned
to the establishment of a League of
Nations. This question promises to
command virtually the undivided at
tention of the delegates until their
action regarding Russia shows results.
As the Russian delegates are ex
pected at Princes' islands until Feb.
15, this means that the attention of
the congress will be turned to the
League of Nations until President Wil
son's departure for America.
The supreme council unanimously
adopted a proposition brought For
ward by President Wilson asking all
the Russian factions, including the
bolshevlsts, to meet the Allied and as
sociated governments at Princes’ isl
ands in the Sea of Marmora, Feb. 15,
the contending factions m’eantime de
claring a truce and suspending all
military operations.
General John J. Pershing, the Amer
ican commander-in-chlef, has been
called to Paris. It is expected he will
be the American military member ot
the joint commission.
Consider Britleh Plan First.
It is regarded as quite significant
that the first plan for a League of Na
tions to be considered comes from Pre
mier Lloyd George. This is in con
sonance with what has been known in
a small circle that President Wilson
Btahn tb #M ideas come W
.J4*e tha„congress in advance ot hie
own. American officials explain thhf
Mr. Wilson’s purpose is not only out
of deference to European nations
which have sacrificed so much in the
war or out of deference to views ol
European statesmen but that there is
a technical advantage in reserving
American planq until all others have
been fully discussed, that they may
form a bridge by which disagreements
may be dispelled.
Wilson Wants Best Plan.
Mr. Wilson has told his colleagues
that he has no personal pride of au
thorship In the plan for the league and
is quite ready to place himself In a
position of supporting soeqe other na
tion’s plan rather than bis own if he
feels that procedure will best servs
the common purpose.
HOOVER REPLIES TO
SENATE CRITICISM
Ameriesn Food Administrator Denies
He Has Favored Packing
Industry.
Paris, Jan. 24. —Herbert C. Hoover,
United States food administrator,
made a statement in reply to criti
cism of him in the United States sen
ate.
”i apparently emerge In a new light
as the friend of the Chicago packers,”
said Mr. Hoover. "At the'same time
the mail brings - report from Swift A
Co. blaming the food administration
for reducing their profits by $10,000,-
000 during the last year. Ido not im
agine the packers would appreciate a
wide circle of such friends.” /
AMERICAN MERCHANT
MARINE ASSOCIATION
L
Shipbuilders, Owners, Operators and
Employes Organize at Wash
ington.
Washington, Jan. 24. —Resolutions
creating an organization to be known
as the National American Merchant
Marine association were adopted at the
closing session of a general confer
ence of shipbuilders, owners, operators
and employes.
B. Goodwyn Rhett of Charleston, 8.
C., was elected vice president of (he
new organisation and Wlnthrop L.
Marvin of Boston, secretary. Other
officers will be named after further con*
ference.
STUDENTS PRESENT
* PRESIDENT WITH ALBUM
Seek Bound In bid Parchment Con-
tains Photoe of Rhelms Cathed
ral Before the War.
Paris, Jan. 24. —President Wilson re
ceived a deputation of the students
of the Sarbonne, or the departments
of arts and science of tho University
of Paris. They presen’rd hin with an
album bound in ohi :>archment and
containing photographs of the Rhelms
cathedral before the v»ar.
SENATE STAGED WARM DEBATE
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST H. C.
HOOVER ARE TAKEN UP.
Senators Attack and Defend Food Ad
ministrator's Dealings With
American Packers.
Washington, Jan. 24. —Defense of
Herbert hoover on the charge of plot
ting to protect American packing in
terests plunged the senate into angry
debate on the 9100,000,000 famine fund
bill.
Laying before the senate Mr. Hoo
ver’s denial of improper collaboration
with tbe packers, Senator G. M. Hitch
cock, Nebraska, summed up the case
in Hoover’s behalf thus:
Hoover, at President Wilson's direc
tion, did get packers and live stock
producers together to stimulate hog
production.
He did make arrangements with the
Allied governments to take packers'
products.
Over the objections ot Allied gov
ernments, notably Great Britain, Hoo
ver had stuck and Is sticking by his
word to American hog raisers apd
packers, which was that, if they would
stimulate production, there would ba a
European market for the product.
Replying to Senator W. E. Borah's
charge that packers were enabled to
make Inordinate profits because of tha
system Mr. Hoover built up as food
administrator, Senator Hitchcock de
clared the profits would have been
much greater had not Hoover been in
charge.
SENATE ACTS ON SUFFRAGE
Minnesota Bolons Pass Memorial Reso
lution to Congress.
St. Paul. Jan. 24.—The Minnesota
senate, by a vote of 49 to 7, passed
the house resolution memorializing the
United States senate to pass the suff
rage amendment to the federal con
stitution. The house had passed the
resolution and the Warner bill for the
submission In .1920 of a suffrage
to ft. .t.u fltntlon.
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DAILY MARKET REPORT
Minneapolis Grain. -
Minneapolis, Jan. 24.—Oats: Feb
ruary, 64 %c; May, 64%<* Rye: Feb
ruary, $1.52%; May, $1.63%. Barley,
choice. 880)92c. Corn: No. 3 white,
$1.2701.30; No. 3 yellow, $1.2401.36.
Duluth Flax.
Duluth, Jan. 24.—Flaxseed: Janu
ary, $3.39; February, $3.38; May, $8.41.
Chicago Grain.
Chicago. Jan. 24.—Corn: January,
$1.36; February, $1.33; May, $1.27%.
Oats: January, 65 %c; February,
66%c; May, 67%c.
Bouth St Paul Live Stook.
South St Paul, Jan. 24. —Estimat-
ed receipts, at the Union Stock Yards:
Cattle, 6,000; calves, 1,400; hogs, 18,-
600; sheep, 800; horses, none; carlL
437.
Steers, $7.00015.26; cows, $7,750
10.00; calves, $9.25 0 14.25; hogs,
$16.90017.00; sheep and lamhs, $7.00
015.25.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Jan. 24.—(United States
Bureau of Markets.) —Hogs: Re
ceipts, 39,000; butchers, $17.55017.86;
light, $16.75017.60; packing, $16,500
17.35; throwouts, $16.00 @16.50; pigs,
good to choice, $12.75 @16.00.
Cattle—Receipts, 8,000; beef cattle,
good, choice and prime, $16.40@20.00;
common and medium, $9.76@16.40;
day butcher stock, cows and heifers,*
$7.50 @14.50; cr.nners and cutters, $6.88
@7.50; stockers and feeders, good,
choice and 'fancy, $10.75 @14.26; in*
ferior, common and medium, SB.OO @
10.75; veal calves, good and choice,
$16.00@16.50.
Butter, Eggs anJ Poultry.
Minneapolis, Jan. 24.—Butter—Ex
tras. 59c; extra firsts, 56c; firsts, 55c;
seconds, 64c; dairies, 48c; packing,
stock, 40c.
Eggs—Fresh prime firsts, new cases,
free from rots, small, dirties and ‘
checks out, per dozen, 55c; current
receipts, rots out, $15.60; checks and
seconds, dozen, 38c; dirties, candled,
dozen, 38c; quotations on eggs include
cases. ,
Live Poultry—Turkeys, fat, 10 Ibe.
and over, 25c; thin, small, cripples and '
culls, unsalable; roooters, 17c; ducks,
23c; geese, lb., lto; hens, 4 lbs. and
over, 22c; hens, under 4 lbs., 17e;
springs, 21c; springs, . .staggy, 18c;
guineas, young, doz., $5; guineas, oMI
SP »•
New York Butter end Eggs. r
New York, Jan. ,24.—Butter unset
tled,.. 11,418; creamery, higher than
extras. 58H@59c; creamery extras, ..»
57%@68c; firsts, 56H0.57QL peeking
stock, current No. 2,41 ft @42c.
Eggs—Weak, 8,157; fresh gathered ,-, f |
extra*, 68@68He; freeh gathered ref--
ular packed extra firsts, fIHO62Hc;
do firsts, 60@61b. •
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