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The First National Bank
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GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11,1919 —TEN PAGES
NO. 40.
VOL. 39.
appointment,
McADOO’S STATEMENT.
FIGHTING AT HAGEN.
Six Vessels Coming With Orders Favorable Report
on Relief Bill.
2,000 Men.
GEDDES’ DISCOVERY.
For
Sir
OPENS «Y” HUT.
the
FAIR NEXT WEEK.
THEWEATHER
EXODUS CONTINUES.
FATHER AND SON WEEK.
SLAUGHTER GERMANS.
ENGINEERS ORDERED HOME.
These figures
include
countries.
wiR
forces are being withdrawn from
Archangel sector.
strongly contested issue
next month or two.
Announcement of the
ed
ed,
DEMOBILIZATION
ACUTE QUESTION
3
By Associated Press.
London, Jan. 11.—The German bat-
tleship Baden has been demanded in
place of the uncompleted Mackensen,
which has been surrendered to the al-
lies at Scapa Flow.
RULES COMMITTEE
REVERSES ACTION
MILITARY DICTATOR
RULES AT CAPITAL
WALKER HINES SUCCEEDS M’ADOO
AS HEAD OF AMERICAN |
CABLES REQUEST
TO LABOR BOARD
825.
the losses during the retreat from Ma-
ROOSEVELT’S WILL
FILED AT MINEOLA
U. S. TRYING
TO REDUCE
HIGH COSTS.
TRANSPORT ON WAY
TO UNITED STATES
DISCHARGED MEN
NUMBER 693,889
SUFFRAGE BILL
WILL BE FIRST
TO BE PRESSED.
PROBLEM NOT OPENLY
DISCUSSED IN PARIS
STRIKERS URGED TO
RETURN TO PLACES ’
PRESIDENT TAKER HAND IN STRIKE DR. LIEBKNECHT KILLED AT BERLIN
I ESTDENT IANED HAND IN STTIRE DURING STREET BATTLES, DISPATCH
SAYS-SITUATION REMAINS OBSCURE
By Associated Press..
Washington, Jan. 11.—Walker D. Hines, assistant director gen-
eral of railroads, has been appointed director general by President
Wilson, succeeding William G.,McAdoo, who now retires to private
life. ♦
Mr. Hines, who was recommended by Mr. McAdoo, is an advocate
of the latter’s plan for five years continuation of government con-
trol to provide a test period and has supported most of the policies
of the retiring director general, with whom he has been associated
throughout the last year of government management.
HELP YOUR GOVERNMENT
by purchasing Thrift Stamps and
War Savings Certificates. For sale
at all banks and by all postmen.
4 % Interest, Compounded Quarterlye
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
BANKERS
(Unincorporated)
24th Strand
Trust Fund Provided For
Children.
Twice as Fast as the Brit-
ish Rate.
Spotted Typhus Now Af-
flicts Country.
President Wilson Studies
Subject.
To Make Finding in Marine
Workers’ Case.
Affair May be Over Before
Midnight.
Over Eight Hundred Other
Casualties.
72 ARE KILLED
AT BUENOS A
English Incidents Indicate
Gravity.
Gives Out Statement in Regard to 4p-
pointment at Los Angeles.
By Associated Press
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 11.—Walker D.
Hines, assistant director general of
railroads, was appointed director general
today by President Wilson to succeed
William G. McAdoo.
Notice of the appointment, cabled to
the White House by President Wilson,
reached Mr. McAdoo by telegraph last
night at Winslow, Ariz., when the re-
tiring director general passed through
that town on his way to Los Angeles.
Mr. McAdoo authorized the foil-owing
statement to be given out here:
“The president has authorized me to
announce the appointment of Walker D.
Hines as director general of railroads.
He will enter upon his duties of office
President Wilson Appoints Assistant Director Gener-
al to Place-An Advocate of Five-Year
Control Plan.
Government Forces Believed to be in Control of Cen-
tral Parts of City-Spartacans Hold the
Outlying Districts.
Conditions in the Interior
Are Uncertain.
LEAVE LONDON FOR
PEACE CONFERENCE
British Delegates Go to
Paris Today.
MORE TROOPS ARRIVE.
Volunteers and Police Troops Are in
' Conflict.
By Associated Press.
.London, Jan. 11.—According to a dis-
patch from Hagen, Westphalia, heavy
fighting has occurred there between two
companies of volunteers about to en-
train for the eastern provinces of Ger-
many and local police troops. The Io-
cal troops were opposed to military ac-
tion against the Poles in which the
volunteers were on their way to take
part. The volunteers installed ‘.hem-
selves in the local crematory and de-
fended themselves obstinately. The out-
come of the fighting is not given in
the dispatch.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Weather pre-
dictions for the week beginning Mon-
day issued by the weather bureau today
are: West Gulf States, normal tem-
perature and generally fair weather.
ANOTHER SHIP DEMANDED.
.cedonia when many died of influenza,
exhaustion and famine and ninty thou-
sand were taken prisoner.
There is a serious development of
spotted typhus fever in Bulgaria, more
than fourt hundred cases having been
found in Sofia. The outbreak, the au-
thorities say is largely due to the coun-
try’s almost complete lack of soap, dis-
infecting materials and under cloth-
ing.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Jan, 11.—Outspoken talk
by an official of the food admin
istration that prices should be low-
er, had a bearish effect today on
the corn market. He was quoted as
saying the food administration was
doing all possible to reduce the
hight cost of living and that Ar-
gentine prices of corn and United
States prices could be brought near-
er together. General selling of corn
here resulted.
NORTH GERMANY MENACED.
February 11-17 Has Been Designated
By Hobby.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 11.—Feb. 11-17 is
designated as father and son week
in Texas by a proclamation issued by
Governor Hobby today. The purpose of
the week, as stated by the governor, is
to bring to the attention of the fa
thers a new and larger reponsibility
to their boys, especially during these
days of reconstruction, and bring the
attention of fathers and sons to their
relationship to home, church, school,
state" and nation and the world for a
Christian democracy.
The movement is being promoted by
the Young Men's Christian Associations /
of the world, and the governor asks
that program be arranged for the week. i
which does not need to be confirmed by
the senate, was made today by Mr. Mc-
Adoo, in the West on a vacation trip to
Los Angeles.
The news reached the White House
from the president by cable last night
and was telegraphed to Mr. McAdoo at
Winslow, Ariz. .
Until he - became a memebr of the
railroad administration staff a year ago,
the new director general was chairman
of the Santa Fe and was one of the
youngest railroad executives in the
country. He is now 48 years of age. He
became affiliated with railroads as a
lawyer.
Mr. Hines salary probably will be de-
termined by the president. Mr. McAdoo
divided his time between his duties of
secretary of the treasury and director
general and received no compensation
for the latter office.
By Associated Press.
Buenos Aires, Jan. 11.—Seventy-two
persons were killed, 81 were gravely
wounded, and more than 800 received
minor injuries in the fighting whicn
occurred here yesterday and last night
as a result of the general strike, ac-
cording to figures compiled at 3 o’clock
this morning. Firing was incessant in
all parts' of the city from 7 o’clock un-
til midnight, but then began to die
away.
Gen. Dellpaine, who assumed military
dictatorship last night, called the strike
committee of the regional labor federa-
tion before him at an early hour today
and ordered to bring before noon the
schedule of demands on which the fed-
eration will agree to settle the strike.
Conditions in the interior are obscure,
as the only telegraph lines are under
control of the government and censor-
ship is being enforced. Shortly before
midnight, the-telephone and telegraph
lines to Mar Del Plata, a fashionable
suburb were cut and it is feared that
the situation there is serious. Many
of the city’s wealthiest families are
there and the season is at its height.
Heavy government forces are occupy-
ing the post office which was attack-
ed by the strikers during the fighting.
The strikers were repulsed and the gov-
ernment troops seem to have matters
well in hand there.
do not
By Associated Press.
Mineola, N. Y., Jan. 11.—The will of
Theodore Roosevelt, filed today, di-
vides a trust fund of $60,000 in equal
shares for each of his children, be-
queaths wedding presents given at the
marriage of his first wife to his daugh-
ter Alice, and the residue of his estate
to the execution of the will in trust.
The executors are directed to apply
the income of the estate to the use of
his wife and authorize Mrs. Roosevelt
to dispose of the principal of the trust
to his children "in such shares and por-
tions and either absolutely or upon
any trust or limitation, respectively, as
she shall declare.” In the event that
Mrs. Roosevelt fails to make such tes-
tamentary disposition of the principal,
it is bequeathed to his children.
He is accredited with having origi-
nated many policies of the railroad ad-
ministration. If congress does not en-
act new railroad legislation at an early
date, Mr. Hines favors returning the
roads at once to private management,
and this is expected to develop into a
Conrad Hoffman Has Established One
In Berlin.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Friday, Jan. 10.—Conrad Hoff-
man, the Young Men’s Christian As-
sociation secretary, who remained in
Berlin during the war, has opened a
hut for Americans in one of the prin-
cipal streets of the German capital, it
was announced at Y. M. C. A. head-
quarters this afternoon. He is selling
supplies there to American prisoners
who have wandered into Berlin.
Robert Horne Responsible
Berlin, Jan. 11.—(By the Asso-.
ciated Press).—Heavy fighting is
reported between Poles and Ger-
mans in the province of Posen.
The Germans captured Czarikau,
in the northern part of the prov-
ince, taking the place by assault.
They were compelled later, how-
ever, through the arrival of Po-
lish reserves, to withdraw to the
north bank of the Netze. The
Germans have likewise been com-
pelled to abandon Kolmar in the
face of superior numbers.
Unless command of the prov-
ince can be regained by the Ger-
mans the action of the Poles ap-
pears seriously to threaten the
provisioning of all northern Ger-
many.
The private residence in Mulheim of
Leo Stinnes, the industrial magnate,
was entered and ransacked by a mob
which was later dispersed by the pee
lice.
Earlier indirect dispatches give fur-
ther details of Thursday’s fighting in
Berlin. Both the Spartacans and the
government forces are described as
acting with great determination, al-
though it seems worthy of note that
with all the reports of severe combats,
in whcih artillery, hand grenades and
rifles are described as having been
used freely none of the observers has
anything to say definitely of large cas-
ualties or has apparently obserbed any
considerable number of bodies.
The Spartacans are described as reso-
lutely defending the Tageblatt and Vos-
sische Zeitung printing plants, which
on Thursday night were still in their
possession. On the other hand three
resolute attacks by the Spartacans on
the Brandenburg gate are reported as
having failed to shake the govern-
ment’s hold on the main entrance to the
central quarter of the city, where the
chancellor’s palace and the ministeries
are situated.
The growing confidence of the gov-
ernment that the garrisons in the min-
isteries and private buildings in this
quarter are strong enough to prevent
surprise attacks is reflected in the re-
ports that the government has reduced
the number of troops guarding the
streets near by, so that access to the
quarter is no longer so difficult as ft
was.
From this center the government is
conducting its campaign to expel the
.Spartacans from the newspaper offices
to the south and east, but without posi-
tive successes yet reported. The gov-
ernment’s occupation of the red flag of-
fices is said to have been abandoned.
within the
37th To Sail For the U. S. On First
Available Transport.
Coblenz, Thursday, Jan. 9.—(By The
Associated Press.)—The thirty-seventh
engineers, consisting of 1,600 picked
electrical and mechanical experts from
every state in the Union and command-
ed by Colonel Albert Pierce of Eau
Claire, Wis., has been ordered back to
America on the first available trans-
port. The thirty-seventh is the first
regiment in the third army to be or-
dered home. Company E of the 37th
claims to be the first force of Amer-
icans to cross the Rhine. Its members
crossed at Coblenz, December 7.
By the Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Demobilization
of the American army, Gen. March,
chief of staff, said today, is proceed-
ing at a rate which comparative fig-
ures will show to be more than twice
as fast as the British demobilization.
Actual figures up to Jan. 10 of men
discharged from the American army
showed a total of 693,889.
British discharges to Jan. 7 num-
bered 352,658. Amerrican officers to
the number of 47,028 have been re-
turned to civil life, while on Jan. 7
• the British had discharged only 3,038
officers.
American troops scheduled for de-
mobilization now number 1,151,000, in-
cluding 96,000 men who actually have
returned from overseas, but not includ-
ing units designated for return or on
their way home.
General March made public today a
report from the American military at-
tache at Archangel on operation in
northern Russia during December and
the early days of this month, indicat-
ing that the situation was regarded as
satisfactory both from military and san-
itary standpoints.
The chief of staff said he had no
confirmation of reports that British
Transportation System.
London, Jan. 11.—Sir Robert Steven-
son Horne, the minister of labor in
the new Lloyd George cabinet, was one
of the discoveries of Sir Eric Geddes,
the first lord of the admiralty during
the war. Sir Robert was largely re-
sponsible for the transportation sys-
tem behind the British lines in north-
ern France. He never sat in parlia-
ment before, but was returned during
the recent elections.
It is. understood that Mr. Lloyd-
George vainly tried to persuade Vis-
count Milner to retain the ministry of
war. The selection of Col. Winston
Spencer Churchill for this portfolio, it
is said, will be resented by the army
and members of the conservative party.
Sir Eric Geddes is expected to re-
place Gen. Jan Christian Smuts of
South Africa on the war cabinet, after
the latter’s return to South Africa.
The new ministry, including all the
undersecretaries will be composed of
thirty Unionists, twenty-five Liberals
and five Laborites.
Transports Reach New York With
Men On Board.
By Associated Press.
New Yorw, Jan. 11.—More American
troops arrived here today, home com-
ing on the British steamship Tolo, 153
men of the 485th aero squadron; 693
of the fifth battalion, trench artillery,
and 150 casuals. There were no wound-
ed on board. The American vessel
Themisto arrived from Cette, France,
with 72 naval men, including sailors
who were on the cruiser Buffalo and
on mine sweepers.
By Associated Press,
Washington, Jan. 11.—Sailing of five
transports and the hospital ship Mercy,
from France with approximately three
thousand officers and men, was an-
nounced today by the war department.
They will arrive at New York as fol-
lows:
Pueblo and Wilhelmina, Jan. 17;
Hampden and General Goethals, Jan.
21; Ice King, Jan. 24, and the Mercy,
Jan. 20.
and missing, 101,224; wound-
1,152,399, and prisoners, 10,-
By Associated Press. %
Lima, Peru, Jan. 11.—Steamers §
reaching Peruvian ports during $
the last two days have brought ,
more than 2,000 refugees from %
Chile. It is estimated that the 5
total number of people who have $
sought safety in Peru since the ?
crisis between Peru and Chile ,
arose is between 5,000 and 10,000. §
Chilean troops are reported to S
be in complete control of the 2
Provinces of Arica,' Tacna and €
Tarapaca, the dispute over which 3
has resulted in the present deli- $
cate situation between the two $
Soon after Gen. Dellpaine took
charge* of affairs and ’established his
headquarters in the .central police sta-
tion, he ordered fire to be opened on
strikers who were attacking the build-
ing. He said, this morning that at-
tacks were made on seven police sta-
tions, but that all were repulsed.
The congressional palace was the
scene of hot fighting in which the gov-
ernment troops were successful only by
the free use of machine guns. The
palace of justice, also was attacked.
The Plaza Mayo in front of the gov-
ernment palace is filled with troops
and the forces, guarding the executive
offices are too strong to be attacked.
It was expected early today that
fighting would be resumed before many
hours had passed. General Dellpaine
has announced that he is determined
to end anarchy immediately.
Railway employees had declared a
strike on all railways for 4 o’clock this
morning, but no trains have been run-
ning since late Friday.
Throughout Friday agitators endeav-
ored to persuade the police to join the
strike movement, but the police aided
the troops in repelling the strikers.
Today a heavy force of government
troops was intrenched in the court-
yard of the post office behind sand
bags.
By Associated Press.
London, Jan. 11.—Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan leader in
Germany, was killed during street fighting on Thursday evening, ac-
cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph com-
pany.
Several dispatches from the Associated Press correspondents in
Berlin filed on Friday up to 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and received
here this morning contained no mention of the reported death of Dr.
Liebknecht. The dispatches, in fact, do not refer to happenings in
Berlin, but deal with events in the provinces or with press com-
ment. Nothing definite is known here as to what Friday’s develop-
ments in Berlin really were. '
Government forces control the sit-
uation in Berlin so far as the center of
the city, containing the principal gov-
ernment buildings and the retail shop-
ping district is concerned, but latest
advices give no indication of what has
been accomplished towards clearing
the Spartacans from their strongholds
in the outlying districts.
Loyal troops are being reinforced
and the arming of elements of the pop-
ulation willing to risk their lives to
down the bolshevists is in progress.
Philipp Scheidemann and Premier
Ebert are apparently determined to
vigorously press the campaign against
the followers of Liebknecht as soon
as their strength is completely in the
field. The cabinet has flatly refused
to accept the offered mediation of the
Independent Socialists to reconcile the
three Socialist factions accusing the
Independents of working “hand-in-
glove” with the Spartacans. The Spar-
tacans are now endeavoring to sum-
mon hunger and thirst as their allies
and have succeeded in interfering ser-
iously with supplies. Large parts of
Berlin are reported to have gone with-
out bread yesterday and today. Pan-
icky scenes are reported at bread
shops.
There has been no additional news
from Berlin early today to throw light
on the situation there, but newspaper
opinion stated here is to the effect
that the government is rapidly gaining
the support of the army and most' of
the people in its struggle against the
Spartacans.
“It appears to be generally recog-
nized in Germany,” says the Daily Mail,
“that the sooner there is a stable gov-
ernment there with which the allies can
deal, the sooner there will be peace.”
Delayed Amsterdam advices dated
Thursday contain reports of further
activity by the Spartacans in the Rhine
towns. They apparently control Dus
seldorf, where several prominent per-
sons were arrested, while many others
only escaped arrest by crossing the
Rhine. The Muenster Anzieger re-
ports that the Spartacans stormed the
prison in Muenster and set free 170
criminals. ‘
At Mulheim, during a big demonstra-
tion of strikers on Wednesday, the
strikers seized all newspaper buildings
and issued the general Anzeiger the
next morning as the Red Flag, desig
nating it as the organ of the revolu
tionary workers of Mulheim. They for-
bade the issuance of all the other news-
papers.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Jan. 11.—Problems of great
importance have been occupying Pres-
ident Wilson’s time while he waited
for the opening of conversations with
the premiers of the allied nations. He
has been devoting himself to close
study of the food situation, the acute
question of demobilization, and the
extent to which he will support the
claims it is expected will be made at
the peace congress.
American particpation in allied in-
interventio nin Russia and Poland and
other countries and the bolshevist
movements are problems also consid-
be said that the president’s decisions
paramount at this time.
It is understood that Mr. Wilson has
informed Premier Orlando of Italy, as
to his attitude relative to Italian as-
pirations east of the Adriatic. It may
safe from military threats. Jugo-Slav
as to this question can be described
as only a partial endorsement of Italy’s
claims. He is not expected to approve
Italian domination of the Adriatic, but
he will probably support Italy’s de-
mand that her eastern coast be made
nection with the food situation which
claims have also received earnest con-
sideration.
There is a collateral issue in con-
nection wit hthe food situation which
vitally concerns the economic situa-
tion in the United States and which
has not been as yet fully worked out.
Large contracts for food supplies in
the United States were cancelled very
recently by France and Great Britain.
France, after coming to an under-
standing of the fact that American
farmers had been spurred to food pro-
duction by the promise that their
crops would surely be marketed at
good prices, was willing to renew some
of these contracts, but negotiations
with Great Britain have not been so
far successful. A favorable outcome
is hoped for, however, but if the Brit-
ish contracts cannot be continued, it
is plain to experts here that some
other market must be found for the
immense quantities of foodstuffs pro-
duced in the United States in response
to continued appeals that the allies
must be fed.
It is pointed out that American con-
sumers have borne the burden of high
prices partially for the reason that
those prices are necessary to stimulate
demand.
Exports to neutral countries may
open a way for relieving the situation.
To that end negotiations are under
way' for a partial relaxation of the
blockade.
The demobilization problem is prob-
ably the most acute of all. It is so
delicate that it is not openly discussed,
but recent incidents in England caus-
ed by the unwillingness of British sol-
diers to return to the continent are
regarded here by Americans and others
as an indication of what might be
cause for grave apprehension.
Continued on Page Six.
BULGARIAN LOSSES
IN WAR ANNOUNCED
Sofia, Monday, Jan. 6.—Bulgaria’s
losses in the war were: Kill-
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 11.—An official re-
quest has been sent to the striking har-
bor boatmen of New York to return to
work pending action by the war labor
board, which President Wilson asked
by cable today to decide the contro-
versy. Officials think the strike will be
over before midnight.
Representatives of the war and navy
departments, the railroad administra-
tion and the shipping board decided
upon this policy and communicated
their decision to A. H. Smith, regional
director of railroads, who was asked to
advise the strikers.
The president said he was sure the
war and navy departments, the ship-
ping board and railroad administration
would use every power to make the
finding effective, and that he was con-
fident also, that private boat owners
would feel constrained by patriotism to
accept the boards recommendations.
Basil M. Manly, joint chairman of the
war labor board with William H. Taft,
said today the board would take up the
president’s request at once, but he was
not sure a quorum could be mustered
for action before Monday.
The board also was requested by the
president to use all means within its
power to stabilize conditions generally
during the present period of industrial
transition arising from the war.
- Mr. Manly's first step was to ask the
war and navy departments, the ship-
ping board and the railroad adminis-
tration what' will be their attitude
: toward any decisions made by the board
in accordance with the president’s re-
quest. He was informed promptly that
all four of the government agencies
will abide by such decisions.
The president’s cablegram follows:
“I have been informed by the sec-
retary of labor as to the serious sit-
uation which has developed in the
port of New York and the strike of
marine workers, which seriously crip-
pled the movement of troops and sup-
plies. Consider this a very grave em-
ergency and understand that it has
arisen because the parties to the con-
trversy failed to make a joint sub-
mission to the national war labor
board.
"I earnestly request that you take
up this case again and proceed to
make a finding. I appreciate the hon-
esty and sincerity of the board in an-
nouncing! on Wednesday that it could
not promise a final decision in the con-
troversy without a formal submission
from all parties, but I am sure that the
war and nav yedpartments, the ship-
ping board and railroad administra-
tion and any other governmental
agencies in terested in the controversy
will use all the power which they pos-
sess to make your finding effective,
and I also believe that private boat
owners will feel constrained by every
consideration of patriotism in the
present emergency to accept any rec-
ommendation which your board may
make. Although the national war la-
bor board up to the signing of the
Continued on Page Six.
FORECAST
_____For Galveston
WE OUGHT 70 an d vicinity:
GET SOMETHING ) Fair tonight and
OUT 0F- T^s / Sunday, slowly
pr/E / rising tempera-
-,-=€ ture.
021-24. For East Tex-
—Yoibbr-t as: Fair tonight
and Sunday,
slowly rising
temperature.
For West Tex-
as: Fair tonight.
Sunday, fair,
somewhat warm-
er.
For Oklahoma: Fair tonight.
Sunday probably fair, somewhat
warmer.
Winds on Texas coast: Light to
gentle southeast.
immediately. Mr. Hines has been my
assistant at Washington since the be-
ginning of government control and has
a thorough knowledge of organization
and administration of the railroads un-
der federal control, as well as of the
fundamental problem involved in the
railroad situation. His ability and ex-
perience admirably fit him for the great
trust and responsibility with which the
president has honored him.
“Aside from his obvious qualifica-
tions, Mr. Hines is in full sympathy
with the policies which have guided the
railroad administration and with the
views of the president on the railroad
question. I am sure that Mr. Hines
will have the hearty support of the fine
army of railroad officers and employees
and I can ask nothing better for him
than that they shall give him and the
country the same loyal and effective
service they rendered during my term
as director general.”
As assistant director general, Mr.
Hines has received $25,000 a year. There
has been much speculation as to what
the salary of a new director general
would be, some estimates placing it at
$50,000,
, ‘When Mr. Hines became vice president
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad
in 1901 he was just 31 years of age. He
is a native of Kentucky. In 1906 he
was elected general counsel of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and in
1908 he became chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the board of directors
of that road. He continued his law prac-
tice, however, until his election as
chairman of the board of directors in
September, 1916. His first connection
with the United States railroad ad-
ministration was assistant to the di-
rector.
Mr. Hines’ tenure of the office of di-
rector general will depend on the atti-
tude of congress toward future federal
control of the railroads. Many officials
think there is little probability that
congress will approve the proposed
five-year extension plan, and unless
this is done, both Mr. McAdoo and Mr.
Hines favor the immediate return of
the roads to their owners.
By the Associated Press.
Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 11.—
The first bill to be introduced in
both house and senate when the
Fiftieth Assembly begins work
Monday, will be the measure
granting women of Missouri the
right to vote at the presidential
elections, according to suffrage
leaders, who are in the capital
urging the passage of such a law.,
The women have asked that theirs
be the first bill introduced in the
new capital.
By Associated.Press.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Democratic
members of the house rules committee
today reversed the committee’s pre-
vious action and ordered the report of
a rule giving immediate consideration
to the bill appropriating $100,000,000
for European famine relief, requested
by President Wilson.
By Associated Press.
London, Jan. 11.—The British dele-
gates to the peace conference left for
Paris this morning. Premier Lloyd
George with the premiers of the do-
minions and the representatives of In-
dia. traveled by the ordinary route.
Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor of
the exchequer, made the trip by, air-
plane, as he invariably does when he
goes to France.
Premier Lloyd-George’s party was ac-
companied by an army of officials and
newspaper correspondents,
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