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SCALJCS.
San Antonio Machine & Supply Co
lN ANTONIO CORPUS CHRISTJ
Republic Ft*nee and Gates,
Poultry Netting
IN STOCK
F. W. HEITMANN CO.
HOUSTON*.
VOLUME LIV— NO. 64.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 5, 1919.-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 186;
YANKS IN RUSSIA
CHEER REPORT OF
COUNTRY BEHIND LEAGUE SAYS WILSON
Returning Y. M. C. A. Workers
Say Men Are Game Enough to
Stick, but That They Want to
Come Home.
WEIRD WARFARE WAGED IN
SNOWS OF ARCTIC WASTE |
Americans Outnumbered Alternately
Retreat and Advance—Detachment in 1
One Battle Falls ltack Six Miles, j
Then Chases Bolshcviki Eighteen
Miles. I
FLAYSSENATE
AND APPEALS
TO PEOPLE
FORAPPROVAL
President Says
Duty Calls to
Conference
in Paris.
First of Eagle
s Ready for Service Will Do Twenty Knots
————————— ily Pre««.
Universal Service Staff Correspondent ' GT0N' 9' C" Mar^h 1
,ftkmnKI ,, , , _. H ' ' bitter controversy between President
LONDON, March 4. Direct from Wilson and the Senate over the League
the snow-swept No Man's Land on the of Nations and a filibuster by a few
ront where American troops Republican Senators seeking to force
the Bolsheviki, comes a an immediate extra session, marked j
Hp
• ,
—« opyrlght
I nternatlonal
I Mill
j**?}
Tim
crport that the American ex-
1 soon be withdrawn from
• C. A. workers just arrived
in London from Archangel say the
doughboys are dancing with glee at the
persistent report, which is not denied
by American officers, that they will
soon start for home.
Lending: further color to this is the re
murk dropped by General Bliss in Paris
last week to the effect that it may not be
long before American troops are'brought
home from Russia.
The four V. \l. C. A. workers who have
talked personally to many doughboys say
the American troops are game enough to
stick on "bushwhacking" the Bolsheviki
despite the great obstacles and handicaps
of the went her and the fact that, they are
greatly outnumbered, but the common
opinion among the soldiers is: "This isn't
our show. We want to go home. Let the
Russians paddle their own canoe."
The lour Y. M. C. A. workers are C. L.
Ileddon of Newark, N. J.; NT. \V. Hess of
Ashland, Pa; Thomas Woody of New York,
and K. Blrkham of Baltimore.
Whilo some American soldiers in Rus-
sia believe they will be homeward bound
within a few weeks, general opinion is that
they will start for America May 1 or In
.Tnue, at the least, owing to the necessity
* ing "
>»«
waiting
until the i«-e breaks up.
",o:ter Winston Churchill
i I*iiRe Two, Culumn Pour.
the passing at noon today of the Sixty
fifth or great war Congress,
Called in April. 1917, to throw
America's weight into the conflict over-
seas, the Congress held three momen-
tous and historic sessions, Partisan-
ship lay dormant during the war, but
it broke forth in the last session to
culminate in a final filibuster which ]
successfully blocked passage of half j
of the fourteen regular appropriation '
bills, including the $750.0<X),000 Rail-1
road Administration revolving fund,
and the huge army, navy and merchant
marine budgets.
Althougn unsuccessful in their efforts to ;
record the Senate in favor of amendment |
of the constitution of the League of Na - !
tions as now drawn, the Republican Sen i
ators left in the record a resolution ap-
proved by thirty-nine of them opposing ac-
ceptance of the charter in iff pr -sent form. I
Republican Leader Lodge and other spores j
men said this was notice to the President
and the i«eaee conference that 'he neces-
sary two thirds majority in the new Senate !
tor ratification of the present plan could
not be obtained. Democratic leaders pri
vately expressed belief that amendment j
would b»* made soon after the President
reared Pari*.
President Wilson spent an hour at tli . j
Capitol before adjournment. Later ho for-
mally announced that despite the death in |
the filibuster ol' the railroad and o?Ikv
bills, he would adhere to his refusil to
Continued on Page Two. Column Thre*.
This photo is of the first Eagle boat,
made by the Ford Motor Company under
contract for the Government, on a practice
trip off the Atlantic coast. This is the
Eagle No. which has developed a speed
of twenty knots per hour. The trial trips
were made off New London, Conn. They
were built originally for protection against
submarines, but they will probably be
I used as part of the coast patrol.
Contrary to popular belief the Kagle is
! not a motorboat. but an oil driven steam
turbine craft with a cruising radius of
3,«H» miles. It is not a thing of beauty—
beauty was not contemplated in it* •■.in-
struction. It is a long, gaunt "capon
of war, of all-steel construction with the
exception of a concrete nose. This nose is
encased in steel, tapered to .1 knife Use
tdfs. It is declared capable ol
any submarine.
Another popular impression i- . n idea
that the Kagle boat is equipped with tor-
pedo tube*. 1 in- submarine < haset
intended to combat the major iustrunicnt
of German rtithlessness with it- own
weapons. It was designed to depend rather
upon its speed and quick handling abil-
ities, its powerful light guns and a new
American invention for directing its fire
at invisible objects.
Its crew, including operating and fight-
ing complement, numbers approximately
SO men. Its seaworthiness has been dem
enstrated in careful trials. The Kagle will
not distance the average destroyer, but
will pass most snbrnurin:s and the razor-
like edge of the bow Is mute evidence
of what would happen to nu undersea
boat if the two were to collide.
By .\ *«.(»« ih t *-'! Pre -
WASHINGTON. J». < M;,tvh 4 The
Ford eagle bout is the best type of sub-
marine chaser and is required as part of
a complete navy, even in pea« e times, the
Senate Naval Affairs sub-committee,
inquired into construction ot the <t«
ported today to the Senate.
Completion of sixty ot tIt
NO PARTY CAN
OARE OPPOSE
IT FOR LONG
IS CHALLENGE
U. S. Would Be
Contemptible
to Stay Out,
He Says
| NET luRK. March j.—President
V, ilson went aboard the L'.S.S. George
Washington at 12:05 o'clock this morn-
ing with Mrs. NX'ilson and other mem-
bers ot his party. The steamship is
scheduled to saii lor France at 8:15
I a. m. toda\.
of sixty ,ii llio In
mediation of contracts for flft\ tw
approved by the sub committee.
WARNING TO LITTLE
NA TIONS IS SOUNDED
TAFT DEFENDS LEAGUE
CITES OWN EXPERIENCE
M"st. N°* T.r.y /° Text of President's
Uatn loo Much
Territory.
By I mreri <1 s.-rri- e.
LONDON. March l. A word of warning
to little nations against emulating the
LEADERS ARE JAILED AFTER
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST
PRESIDENT FAILS.
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 4.—Prominent mem-
bers of the National Women's party were j
arrested tonight on charges of disorderly ;
conduct after a battle with police-j
men in front of the Metropolitan Opera •
House, where they had intended to stage
a demonstration against President Wilson.
The women arrested were Miss Alice Paul
and Miss Doris Stevens of New York,
and Elsie Hill of Norwalk, Conn. They
were locked up in the West Thirtieth
Street station. Thirty suffragists were
charged by fifty policemen when they
started their demonstration and were
quickly dispersed.
By Associated Pre?.s.
XEW YORK, March 4.—President Wilson
approved the sending of women labor
delegates to the peace conference, in a let-
ter received here today by Miss Mary
Andrson, who. with Miss Rose Schneider-
man. will sail next Monday for Paris as
representatives of the National Woman's
Trade Union League.
"1 think it is very desirable." the Presi-
dent wrote, "that the working women of
the country should have at least, one or
two representatives to confer with the
committees of the peace conference con
sidering labor matters."
TELEGRAPHERS MAY ALSO WALK
OUT AND CAUSE COMPLETE
TIE-UP OF WIRE SERVICE.
By T'niversa 1 Service.
WASHINGTON. I>. C. March 4
United States laces a simultaneous stop-
page of both telephonic and telegraphic
communication the country over. Tonight!
it was a hp need at the headquarters' ot
the lutein nui P.rotherhood of Electrical
Workers that the strike vote of the organ-
ised telephone operators of the countrv
was overwhelmingly in favor of such a
strike. If the telegraph operators also vote
to strike, as is expected, there will be a
complete tie-up of wire communication
throughout the United States.
lu New England the tabulated vote was
7.444 for the strike with only twenty votes
against, according to .lohn "-T. Pureell. in-
ternational representative of the brother-
hood. On the Pacific Coast the vote was
l).» per cent in favor of a strike
rl'liA rl >l tn t, ? t li m tnlniil.i.n., - t
lhe date of the telephone strike will be
fixed by the executive board of the In-
ternational ltrotherhood, which meantime,
is taking a referendum as to the per capita
tax to be levied against tbe Kfi.OOO mem-
bers to support the strike. It is expected
that a fund of $600,000 will be raised imme-
diately for that purpose.
faults of the greater powers in their desir.-
for territorial expansion was spoken by
Lloyd-George last, night in his address at
the Welsh banquet.
' I do not know whether tUis is the
I proper occasion on which to utter a word
of caution to little uations," said the
Premier. "I do so as a genuine friend
to them. Now that they have achieved
success, great success, dazzling success, al-
most blinding success, there is great dan
ger of their emulating the faults of great
countries.
"There is tendency to expand beyond the
limits of their race, to annex territories
not their own. The spirit of expansion is
beginning to possess them. It is the most
fatal error that, any people, great or small,
can possibly make. Their strength of (o
day and their strength of all time is in
.securing the liberty of their own race.
' After all, the Influence of a race on
i the world in the past, as history shows,
has never depended on its numbers or the
size of it^ countries. The racei thai have
made the deepest mark on the history of
the world have been small and If the little
The 1 nations of Europe imagine that they are
going to strengthen their power and in
fluence by simply increasing their terri
tory, they will commit the very error which
the great empires made, when they thought
they could crush nationality 'itself, which
is the immortal element in the spirit of
man."
The Premier drew a comparison between
Poll em ia and Wales, citing the resurrection
of the Czecho slovak nation as a parallel
to what had happened in his homeland.
"As I heard L>r. Benes-(a previous speak-
er) telling the story of Bohemia, I recall
back in Wales hearing the story of what
happened In our own little country." he
continued. "The Czecho-Slovak in his own
land was nothing but a hewer of coal and
digger of peat. The first thing they de-
termined to do was to educate. They set
up a system of national education whit h
lifted the fiat ion to a position where it
could claim equality. They did not claim
equality until they were equal'to the Ger-
mans. That was a generation ago. Now
New York Address
r^wvv v-."/
M
RecallsHow Senate
Crippled Treaties
He Attempted.
• ! * i I •
NLW YORK, March 4.—Oil the eve
of his reiurn to the peace conference.
President Wilson delivered an address
in.-h ! here tonight at the Metropolitan Opera
,p | House, urging establishment ot a leagu';
| of nations. Former President Tatr,
i sPC-iking from the same platform, also
I outlined his reasons for believing that
' a league should be formed to prevent
■ future wars.
One hour before the doors were
I thrown open to the tew thousands who
| had been able to obtain tickets, twenty
j Inspectors Irom police headquarters
j searched the opera house from cellar to
j uppermost gallery, showing evidence of
precautions taken to protect America's
chief executive. Roofs of buildings
near bv were also searched.
I I lie door* were opened shortly after 7
. o. lot k. and as fashionably dre*>c<) uc-u
.♦ad women, with many representatives of
the Anuy. Navy and Marine- filed do** a
j the aMe> to their seats, the port of em-
; baikjitlon band played patrlotb air*
Mr. Tat't arrived at the Metropolitan Up-
to associate myself with Mr. Taft in this great
elevation of view and a devotion to public duty
walked upon the
stage
Another
By Associated frc-», , 1 , Br t nitarsal .servl. e
"MEW YORK, March 4.—President Wilson said: ; ^n,{K Mar-', j \u audi- n-e iii.it
"My Fellow Citizens: 1 accept the intimation of the air just plaved. I will j ropoiifVu°^^|.era' if'oo-e^VMeuV(iuft,,nilMi^7o
not come back 'till it's over, ever there.' And yet I pray God in the interests j l'l'-sident wiison'* .ici>n-e ,,t in- league
of peace and of the world, that that may be soon. i \\{. \lM'
t,T. . • ,i ■ ■ , , , . , . . „ . 1 '•} rebellion* Senators w ho h:i*1 been r»
ine first thing that I am going to tell the people on the other side of the i tmked b. him early in the day u,r then-
water is that an overw helming majority of the American people is in favor 0f fjlit"i»t.--rinK i.u.f |ir<-v-iit.-.i
the League of Nations. I know that that is true; I have had unmistakeable j !!lm wik"' "v® ai,|,r"l'ria
intimations of it from all parts of the country and the voice rings true in every I i't.-- '-nm-ii gut iis fir-i upijiprtnniiy .■>
case. I count myself fortun? : to speak here under the unusual circumstances I' ,le.'.'r o..v. rm.r smith un.i ins tuff
of this evening. I am !
cause. He has display,
which is beyond praise.
"And I am the more 1 ... py because this means that this is not a party issue.
No party has the right to appropriate this issue and no party will in the long
run dare oppose it.
"Vi'e have listened to so clear and admirable an exposition of many of the
main features of the proposed covenant of the League of Nations that it is
perhaps not necessary for me to discuss in any particular way the contents of I
the document. I will seek rather to give you its setting. I do not know when j "iOi
I have been more impressed than by the conferences of the commission set up
by the conference of peace to draw up a covenant for the League of Nations.
The representatives of fourteen nations sat around that board—not voung men,
not men inexperienced in the affairs of their country, not men inexperienced
in the politics of the world; and the inspiring influence of every meeting was
the concurrence of purpose on the part of all those men to come to an agree-
ment and an effective working agreement with regard to this league of the
civilized world.
"Ihere was a conviction in the whole impulse; there was conviction that
this thing ought to be done, and there was also the conviction that not a man
there would venture to go home and say he had not tried to do it.
eta 11ou>r about
After ' :• * ci not
t!" committee on
their pla-e on the
added In a •
:'H).
Kmtlb find alters <-f
arrangement* had taken
stage, a military touch
olor guards of o\eri*ea<
nter and
the open
com pa
Continued on I'age Two, Column Four,
General Strike Paralyzes Berlin
REIGN OF TERROR NOW THREATENED BY REDS
SENATOR DECLARES
! MUST L'NITE—APPLAUDS COX'S
PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION.
' Mr. Taft has set the picture for you
of what a failure of this great purpose
would i %nn. We have been hearing for
i all these weary months that this agony of
; war has lasted because of the sinister pur
poses of the central empires, and we have
i ma tie maps of the course that thev meant
their conquests to take. Where did the
lines of that map lie. of that central line
that, we used to call from Bremen to
i Bagdad '!
| "They lay through these very regions
I to which Mr. Taft has called your atteu-
IXTERESTS '».v„then through united
j pi re, the
till
Austro Hungarian Ktnpire, whose
integrity Germany was bound to respect
as her ally lay in the path of that line
of conquest; the Turkish Kmpire whose
; interests she professed to make her own,
By Associated Press.
LONDON, March 4.~A general strike
began in Berlin Monday evening, a Ger-
man wireless message received this eve-
ning announces. All traffic has been
siopped on the street cars and the ele-
vated and underground railways.
Berlin is without water, electricity or
gas, the Exchange Telegraph correspond-
ent at Copenhagen reports.
By Associated Press.
BKKLIN. Monday, March 3.—The Na-
tional Snartacus League and the Greater
Berlin Communist organizations have is
sued an appeal for an immediate general
strike and the overthrow of the National
Assembly and the present republic.
The organizations Instruct their follow-
ers to assemble at factories to prevent
work and direct them to avoid street dem-
onstrations in order that the government
may have no opportunity to crush the
movement by force.
Meetings were being held at 10:30 o'clock
today at various factories for the purpose
of deciding whether to respond to the
appeal.
The workmen of the Schwartzkopf plant,
who are among the most radical in Ber-
lin, have voted for a general strike. I'J.000
men being affected. This Is the first
response to the Spartacan appeal.
According to the Vorwaerts, the major-
ity of the workiugincn in the metal trades
and the railway workers favor a general
stoppage of work.
The aims of the proposed strike include
the introduction of factory councils in all
plants to regulate factory affairs and ul-
timately the taking over of the factories,
the dismissal of the government troops
and the disarmament of all non-Socialists,
the withdrawal ot' m11 troops from West
j ': • i .• ■ • i other regions desig-
• y;y • lation of a lied Guard
under the control of the Soviets, which
would take over all military and police
powers.
The liberation • of all political prisoners
and the establishment of a revolutionary
tribunal to try the "chief culprits" of
the war. the Ilohcnzollerus. Field Mar-
shal von Hiudenburg, General Lutlen-
dorff. Admiral Tirpitz and the "traitors
to the revolution." President Kbert. Chan-
cellor Scheidemann and Gustav Noske. the
minister of defense, .are also called for.
The immediate conclusion of peace with
Iltissla and the establishment of diplo-
matic relations with the Russian Sovle!
republic are likewise demanded.
The national governing board of th^
Majority Socialists party, the delegates to
the National Assembly, and local board
of greater Berlin, have issued an appeal
to the workingineu to refrain from taking
MEXICAN PUBLISHERS HONOR
JOSEPH EMERSON SMITH
Staff Special to The Express.
CITY or MEXICO, March 4.—At
banquet of Mexico's newspaper men to
Joseph Emerson Smith tonight the pub-
lisher of El I'niverbal, Fell* Palavlcini,
proposed a league of newspapers of the
two countries to spread the truth and
help friendly relations. Official an-
nouncement was made that the gov-
ernment shortly will send to the I nited
States an important commission headed
by tiovernor Salvador of Yucatan to
work for better knowledge. The press
pledges co-operation with I nited States
press.
part in the general strike. They promise
that the government will use all efforts
possible to hurry along social legislation
in which the retention of the principles
of the workingmen's councils will be in-
corporated. Such councils later would of-
ficiate after the manner of factory coun-
cils. The proclamations set forth* that a
general strike at this time would prove
catastrophic in its effects as it Mould be
inimical to the early conclusion of peace
and the economic recovery of Germany.
Vorwaerts asserts that Russian rubles
are playing a role In the present situa-
tion. %
By Associated Press.
BERLIN. Monday, March 3.—The trans
portatioii facilities of Greater Berlin came
to a standstill sharply at S o'clock tonight
when the surface cars and subway and
elevated trains ceased operations. Passen-
gers in automobiles and in cabs were no
more fortunate than the travelers on the
railway, because crowds in all the prin
cipal streets held up conveyances ami
forced the occupants to get out a nil walk.
Telephone service in Berlin stopped early
in the evening. The big cafes and res-
taurants closed early, fearing trouble from
the crowds in the streets.
By Associated Press.
WEIMAR, Monday, March 3.—The gov-
ernment is nearly ready, after many weeks
work, to present the National Assembly
with drastic and far reaching labor legis-
lation, which is said far to exceed any-
thing demanded even by the Independent
Socialists. The government also will pre-
sent measures for the socialization of the
mines in Germany and the taking over of
tte* .oal syndicate by the nation. The So-
cUutti s have presented a bill providing
Continued on Page Three, Column One.
By Associate'] Pre**.
WASHINGTON. I». C., March 4. A clash !
between Governor Kdge of New Jersey and I
Governor Cox of Ohio developed today at I
the conference of Governors and Mayors.
after an attack by Governor Edge on the
Government's poli'-y of "trying to do too !
much for the people." Governor Cox said-1
the Government was not doing enough. ]
After Governor Cox concluded a speech '
urging the Government to determine the
basis of reasonable prices, reduce freight
charges on road materials and start at otu e 1
a railroad improvement program and critl
cizing Governor Edge's remarks, the dele-
gates stood and applauded for nearly a j
minute.
Previously Governor Edge had declared: i
"The people today, employers and em-
ployes alike, want to be left alone. Then '\
leave them alone." ; \
lie also charged the Government with i
falling to adopt a definite ami permanent I Pr . K
polity tow.-ipl industry, sajlns that Hits Br» "." J.
was the principal cause of uncertainty. | "ASHINGlON. 1> < March 4 Th-
Governor Cox replied that the executive , British government has asked the covern
branches of the Government had recom- J nipIlf nf- fn,ii-, r..i..., « .
mended a definite policy but that Congress 1 01 In ,,a ,u ro,Pa>p a
I veterans who marched to tbii
presented color*.
President Wilson arrh -J at
holl>e at S o'clock. lie
| "ied by Mr*. Wilson The President went
! to a cloak room, wher»- be met Mr Ta.'t.
, Mr*. Wilson was c*'mted to a box in '.lie
I fir-t balcony.
lhe Presidentroute from the station
to the opera house was « hanged at the la t
moment the party driving In automobile
up Seventh Aveuue to Thirty fourth Str»'< t,
and thence up Broadway to the open
bouse. Large crowds greeted the Presi
dent at the statfon. and he acknowledged
the « heer* by doffing his hat and smiling.
Enrico Caruso, introduced i>\ Governor
Smith, saner "The star Spangled Bunne-."
Governor Smith opened hi* spetvh by pa-
in? a tribute to the part the Ne*/ Yoik
soldier* played in the war.
"The war i- not yet won." he *.ild. "ari l
will not until the -oiilcu rui'- i* written
ulog.v ot the part placed ,,v j into th- international law of th* worhl.'
American soldiers especially the New v»rk ; . ,l'' introduced Mr. Taft as the man who
troops in winning the war Hi* address ! ; woru purple ol the Iresidcnt «•£
pun-tuated by freqmuit applati
followed when Governor Smltlf's prede«es
sor, Charles S. Whitman, arrived. Mayor
liylan also got a cheer.
There was a long wait with every one
of the ."i.ooo persons In the house standing
following th" appearance of the National
colors and the President's flat:.
The President's entry accompanied by
Mr. Taft and Governor Smith wa* tie-
signal for a demonstration lasting several
minutes
vcrnor Smith started the speaking
Mr Taft, wii.j followed Governor Smith,
indorsed the President * plan for a league •
of nations.
lie began by telling of hi* own vain ci
forts to win the approval ot the Senate1
lor treaties of arbitration between thi* j
country and France. These treaties, he
said, "were emasculated by the Kenate !
yielding to the spirit which has manifested j
itself in the speeches on the proposed i
covenant of Paris."
The practicability of the proposed <o\ j
enaut was then explained by Mr. Taft. !
The boycott, he asserted, would bo an , t j
fective weapon against any nation r« |
fusing to abide by decisions of the league. f
Military force, he said, would be the la*[
resort, but he predicted that resort to
warfare would not be necessar.v.
The provisions of the penali/ing :i i t i- !•»
of the covenant, he said, formetl in iii-;
opinion the nub of the plan. This article
provides that a breach pf the covenant b.\
any nation is an act of war against ever>
other nation. The only protection again*t
the inroads of I'.olshevism. he a--eriC'l
would be the stabilizing power «-f tin
league of nation*. A Bolshevistic Europe,
he said, would be a direct threat again*t
the safety of the I nited States.
The Monroe Doctrine. Mr. Taft said had
been subjected to many varying interpr-'
tations.
* I have no objection to putting into the
Continued on Pace Two. Column Tws.
PARTY LEADERS CLEAR DECKS
I OR ACTION AND PREPARE
TO NAME COMMITTEES.
Continued on Page Two, < nlumn Three.
P.y \vm. Pre««
WASHING!< '.\. l» c.. March t ;tli
th- adjournment of Cougre*>s today. Ue-
publicans and Democrats In the House i;a-
nie.Jiately turned their attention to tl.Mr
organizations in the Slxt* -sixth Congr- *s,
in anticipation of the calling of a s^tcisi
session early in the summer.
The Republi- au committee on commit*
tees, chosen at a re- - nt party conferen a
"ill meet tomorrow to begin it* work
which probably will require n week ;or
BRITISH RELEASE PRISONER TO
REDS IN EXCHANGE FOR AMERICAN
Bolsheviki W orker in In-
dia Given Up by
Great Britain.
I"
uliuued on Page Two,
Column Fivs,
had failed to act on it.
Mayor George L. Baker of Portland.
Ore., ridiculed the procedure of the con-
ference. saying the Governors failed to
recognize serious social conditions in their
States with which mayors of cities were iu
touch.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma told the con-
ference that, labor and capital must unite
their interests and that industrial democ-
racy was the new order.
"There should be on end to war between
labor au«l capital. The old program 'do
as I tell you or get out' ought to be
abandoned for the sake of capital and labor
alike." he said.
"The Siamese twins cannot profitably
fight, each other."
Activities of Government departments in t
Russian Bol-
shevik prisouer now bebl in Persia in ex
change for I nited States Consul Roger «'.
1 red well of New York, who has been held
l-risnuer by Bolshevik officials at Tush-
kend, Turkestan, for several months.
The Bolsheviki recently offered to free
1 ret 1 well if the Lnited States Government
would bring about the release of Eugene
A'. Debs or Thomas J. Mooney In the
l nited States, or of some Bolsheviki held
by the Indian government.
Officials said today there was no cer-
tainty that the concession now proposed
by the British government would insure
Mr. T red well's release.
P.y Asso in led Pres?.
ARCHANGEL. Monday. March The
the work of restoring business to normal i Bolsheviki continue to push their offensive
• omlftions and ««r alleviating unemployment I against the American and allied troops on
were presented to the Governors and May j the front 100 utiles ^itli of Archangel.
» According to reports ■paved at headquar-
ters here this morning the allies hav
evacuated the village at Vevsiov*kawa
The allies.-however. stjj| },c>j4| fjlo;
sjtion at Vistavka and the villa--
Maximovskawaya and Kltsa.
The Bolsheviki were reported voterdav
to be moving a considerable tor-e aloti.-
the road from Tarahevo >:■ the Kadislt
sector toward Maximoskj v., and last night
the Bolsheviki artillery bombarded Vis
i lavka heavily.
The Americans- evacuated Vevsicvakawa
\esterday after the bio. k houses ha«l l.een
set on fire. Airplane ob>e!vers re j., • ;-t»j
t hat the town wis still burning last
night.
In the meantime the Bolsheviki con
tinue to shell the allied positions at 1 .
gas on the Dvlna. The allied gun* are
replying vigorously. The enemy apparent
ly is attempting to drive the Americans
from I st \ og.u and cut off th- column
along the Dvlna which is thirtv mil.-
south of the confluence of the Vaga with
the Dvina. Since early In I'ebruarv the
enemy has been reorganizing behind the
lines and bringing up new guns. The
columns on both the Vaga and the Dvini
are outnumbered at least 3 to 1 ami t'u
Bolsheviki have a great superior!! v in
guns.
The renewal of the Bolshevik offensive
began on Sunday alter the enemy had been
inactive for nearly three weeks. Follow-
ing a t went \ -1oilr iionr bombardment to
which the Auieritan gun* replietl vioh-nt
ly the Bolsheviki latin- hed a -trong liifan
try ntta k auainst the American positions
< u the Vaga i.'iver Suuuj afternoon. Bea\ •
fighting resulted.
In the meantime, eighteen Democra'ie
members have their colleagues no orgau-
i - -I as to |-.resent a solid front to th«
I Kepublican majority.
Su-ii an organization, their announce-
ment tonight said, can be perfected only
| with the appointment of a steering ' oin-
| mittee. the i" i.sonnel of wlii« h "should he
-o distributed that every section of the
] countrj will bare representation thereon.'
! They also proposed that the chairman of
Ihi* ouimittee have no other committee
j ., -dgiiinents ami that he be ex-officio
' minority floor leader.
I Tbe statement made no declaration ot
I prcicren- e a* to the minority leader. Some
i Dcutot rat.*, however, propo>e«l to regard
1 tlie auitouni enieiit as fq>pc»sition to Champ
j i lark. Speaker of the la*t House, becotn
• ug lloor hader. The outlinctl program ol
' the organization would prevent Represent.
stive Kitehln of Nortk Carollaa from eon
tinning a* leatler unles* he forfeited hi*
pla< e .'ti the Ways and Means r'omiuittee.
Mr. Kit liiti, however, has declared his in-
tention of retaining his committee assign-
ment with the expectation that Mr. Clark
wcnibl automatically become the floor
leader. Kepresetitntlve Sanders of Louisi-
ana is < hairman of the organization, with
Re|»resentatlve Ay res of Kausa* a* vl««
• hairuian, and Representative M Clintick
of Oklahoma secretary.
LIMIT COTTON GRADES
ON FUTURE CONTRACTS
By A-".elated Pres.
W ASIllNt.TON. I». C.. March 4 —-Th»
cotton future*, rider tn the snaranieet?
wheat priee bill which wa* .dgneU todA>
l>> President il*on, be<otne.« <o-
nigl»t at midnight. I nder ii onl> thirteea
Grades of cotton—from l»» middling up —
• an In* delivered «»u future conlraet* anr
all cotton so delitered mu«*| l«e damnified
i i.iuMumcut grade
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