ITALY WARNED
Must Raise Blockade on Food
Supplies to Slavoc States
ENTENTE ALLIES AROUSED
———————
American Government Has Notified
Italy That Unless She Raises The
Blockade Steps Will Be Taken
To Cut Off Foodstuffs
Washington.— The American Gov-
ernment has warned Italy that unless
she puts an end to delays in move-
ments of relief supplies to the newly
established Jugo-Slavie and Czecho-
Salvic states steps will be taken to
cut off the flow of American food-
stuffs to Italy.
It was stated in an
had caused intolerable conditions by
the blockade she has imposed against
the Jugo-Slavie countries and which
operates also against the Czecho-
Blovaks. The bldekade has not been
wholly effective because the United
food where it was needed, but many
delays have been caused, resulting of-
ten in holding up supplies the need
of which was desperate.
Reports from Paris of the
ence of chaotic conditions because of
the blockade have not been confirmed
here, but it is known that much un-
directly attributable to the
taken by Italy. News from Paris
that representatives of Great Britain
and France were outspoken in their
condemnation of the attitude of Italy
had been cabled to the United States,
but the action of the American Gov-
ernment in sending
Italy was taken before
ecame.
No reply has yet been made by the
Italian Government.
that
measure
foodstuffs,
Russia and
Central Powers in Rumania cut off
European sources of wheat, so that
upon the United States for
The disintegration
316.000.6000 bushels
barrels of flour.
and
This cereal ration
els of corn
Italy also has looked to the United
States for meat, taking 46.000.000
pounds of canned beef, 9.000.000
pounds of fresh beef, 98,000,009
pounds of bacon and 1.000.000
pounds of lard last year. Other pur-
chases from this country included
20,000,000 pounds of salmon and
80,000,000 pounds of sugar.
COXEY'S LATEST SCHEME.
The “General” To Lead An “Army”
Against National Prohibition.
New York. — “General” Jacob
Coxey declared here that he proposes
to lead another “army” to Wash-
ington as a protest against national
prohibition. He has decided, how-
ever, thatshe will not go on foot, but
will travel in a touring car and motor
transportation will be provided, he
said, for all his cohorts.
“General” Coxey, who ig at the
Waldorf-Astoria, said he had dis-
cussed the project with many busi-
ness men in this and other cities
and that most of them have volun-
teered to enlist in his “army.”
HILARY A. HERBERT DEAD.
Was Secretary Of Navy In Cleveland's
Second Administration.
Tampa. Fla.——Hilary A. Herbert,
Becretary of the Navy during Grover
Cleveland's second term, died here
al the age of 85 years. Mr. Herbert
had been in feeble halth for a num-
br of years. He had spent the win-
ter here and was preparing to leave
for Montgomery, Ala., when stricken
HUN DISARMAMENT DEMANDED.
Vital To Safety Of France, Says Cham.
ber Of Deputies Committee.
Paris. The disarmament, of Ger-
many Is demanded In a resolution
adopted by the army commitice of
the Chamber of Deputies. The reso-
lution says that the committee, “tak-
ing ioto consideration the danger to
the continuation of any industrial
activities connected with war fabri-
eations and the maintenance of an
armed force in Germany, invites the
Government to insist that the Peace
Conference obtain the disarmament
of Germany.”
— ————.
FORD OUTFLIVVERS FLIVVER.
S———
Plans To Manufacture Cheaper Auto.
mobile,
left here for his home in Detroit,
after announcing that on his arrival
there he would perfect plans for the
manufacture, by & new corporation,
of a cheaper automobile than any
BOW extensively marketed. Mr. Ford
suid he had designed the car while
“posting” at Altadena, near bere,
-
ed
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Christians of
All Countries |
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PLANS DELAYED BY WAR
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No Proposal Made Yet To See The |
Pope—Committee Will Doubt: i
less Be Sent To
New York.-—A deputation of the!
World Conference of Churches left
here for Europe and the Near East
to make plans for a world-wide con
ference of all Christian churches of
all countries. The commitee includes
-
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PEACE TREATY
———————————
Returns to Paris to!
Battle For Plan
Wilson
WARNING TO OPPONENTS
The President Will Teil When In
Paris That An Overwhelming Ma.
jority Of The American Peo-
pie Favors The League,
Wilson told
addres
New York
American
President
the people in an
with renewed
of a
to battle
vigor for creation league of
Brent, the chaplain
Bish- |
Lae,
cago, Bishop
op B. H. Weller, of Fond du
Wis.; Bishop Vincent, of Cincinnati;
Rev. Edward Parson, of Cali
and the Rev, Dr. B. T. Rog
ers, of Racine, Wis. Bishop Ander
before the follow.
SON leaving made
“The general church conference
met in Cincinnati in 1910 un
dertook to promote a conference of
all Christian churches, to discuss the
as well as united them. It was the |
belief that such a conference would
be the first step toward the unity
church.
“The
eration
and all
congress secured the
of all the Engiigh
of the leading
churches in the United
the Non-Conformist churches of
British Empire, as well as that
the old Catholic churches of Europe
A deputation was about to visit Eu
rope and the Near East when ithe
war broke out. This stopped pro
ceedings in the meantime, but while
the war has delayed the work it has
created an atmosphere which brings
it more nearly within the bounds of
practicability.
“This deputation is now proceeding
to Europe and the Near East to take
the matter up where it was left off
in 1210, at a time when nations are
discussing a league of nations the
Christian churches may well con
sider ways and means of closer co
ordination and co-operation and of
giving utterance to the international
Christian conscience.”
Bishop Anderson said that no plans
as yet had been made to see the Pope, |
but that no doubt the committees
would proceed to Rome. When asked
il he expected the conference to be |
able to establish an international
church, and if there were not cer-
tain creeds that opposed the idea he
answered, that extremes were often
more compariblé than similarities.
Bishop Weller deliverad an address
in the Church of 8t. Mary the Virgin, |
in West Forty-sixth street, in which
he outlined the forming of the
church league along lines similar to |
those embodied in the proposed
league of nations, in which Roman |
Catholic, Greek, Russian and Prot- |
estant “might get together and co- |
operate in Christian work as
brethren.” i
“The people here may think it im- |
possible for such a league to be
brought about,” said Bishop Weller.
“They may believe us engaged in an
Impossible task, though hoping that |
our mission may not ve futile.
“The idea of a league of nations
was laughed at, yet our beloved Pres.
ident Wilson sald that it was not an
impossibility and the conferees at
Paris actually agreed upon a pro-
posed constitution for such a league.
Things that seem impossible become |
possible when nen work single-mind-
edly for the good of their fellows and
to the glory of God, so let us humbly
beseech Him for His help and guid-
ance, for the presence of His Spirit
and the overshadowing of His eloud
by day, His pillars of fire by night,
that in His strength we may go for
ward.”
Bishop Weller has been working
CoD 0}
churches
Protestant
and
the
States
of
¥
“The first thing I am going to tell
on the of
waler that an overwhelmhing
jority the American
favor of the league of
people other sides the
Hl ma-
in
aid
of people is
nations
the President
former President
Speaking after
Taft had expounded the main fea
of the proposed covenant
nations, Mr. Wilson told
audience, which filled the Metropoli
of !
the vast
ponents of the league plan in Amer
ICA.
“No party has the right to appro-
priate this issu®, and no party will
in the long run dare he
asrerted
Asserting that
tions "meant
outiaw nations” great
ples of the world will no longer tol
the Pres
is a bit sick
he-
have
oppose it,”
the
an a
that
league of na
iu nolice fo all
the peo
erate international
that
at
iz seen that statesmen
vision Ps the
and
of
Crimes,
ident said Europe
heart this very moment.
it
fat
cause
only
the
had jal
no
has been the vision
‘And I am amazed-—not alarmed,
but amazed in
some quarters such a comprehensive
ignorance of the state of the world.”
continued Wilson gentle
men do not know what mind of |
men is just now i
does
“1 do know
been closeled i
what influences they
blinded; but 1 do khow that they |
have been separated from the gen- |
eral currents of the thought of man-
kind.
“And I want to uiter this solemn
warning, not in the way of a threat;
the forces of the world do not
threaten, they operate. The great |
tides of the world do not give notice
that they are going to rise and run;
they rise in their majesty and over- |
whelm in might and those who stand |
Now
the heart of the world is awake and
of the world must be sat-
that there should be
i hose
fhe
vervbody else
where they have
not know by |
have been
not
do
America’s soldiers, he said, went
bound to the realization of those
ideals which their President had
enunciated when the United States
went into the war.
There is another thing, the Pres)
dent said, which eritics of the league
"They not only have not observed
the temper of the world, but they
have not even ohserved the temper
of those splendid boys in khaki that
they sent across the seas,” he as-
serted. ’
“And do you suppose,” continued
the President, "that having folt that
crusading spirit of these youngsters,
who went over there not to glorify
Ameriea but to serve their fellow.
men, I am going to permit myself
for one moment to slacken in my
effort to be worthy of them and of
thelr cause? 1 do mean not to come
hack until ‘it’s over, over there,’
and it must not be over until the na-
tions of the world are assured of the
permanency of peace.’
Wilson Receives Argentine Envoy.
Washington. —« President Wilson
received the credentials of Thorns
Le Bretom, mew ambassador from
Argentina, who presented them in
person,
PRESIDENT |
FOR AVERAGE MAN
A A————
Tells Governors the Business
of the Government
CABINET MEMBERS SPEAK
Executives Of States Discuss The
Labor, Industrial And Other
Problems After Listening
To Speeches.
Washington. —The peace conferees
at Paris are meeting as the servants
of the common people of the whole
world, and this fact is perfectly un
derstood in the French capital, Pres.
ident Wilson told the assemblage of
State Executives from all over the
untry and Mayors of most of the
larger cities of the States
who had gathered to discuss the re
truction and readjustment prob-
lems in this
he return of peace conditions
"We meeting in Paris,” said
President Wilson, “as the servants
of, I believe it is about 700.600. 000
people, and unless we show that we
understand the business of serving
Of
United
Cons
country growing out
are
not of the
that if
accomplish
He
Pesce
wants
than
the peace
then announced
Couneil that it
serve any interest othey
those of the people the mem-
bers will have "become candidated
for the most lasting discredit that
will ever attach to men in history.”
In his address opening the ses-
of the reconstruction confer
ence the President expressed regret
that he could not attend their de-
liberations, saving
“I find nothing deliberate
permitted me gince my return I am
trying to month's work in a
ir **
wee R
shows
to
that is
do a
conference
Tne opening day of the
that there is no
sm over the present situation
in America
tion or
showed clearly
pessim
any other
in WAY
Cabinet officers had told of the post
funtion as
the
floor to
Wi viewed by them
took
in
States, there was & notice
able undercurrent of strongly Amer
Covernors in turn
explain conditions their
country readjust itself and
back to a normal working basis with
out undue individual or Snancial un-
or disorder Atl the same time
there was voiced by Secretary of La-
bor Wilson a warning that the Gov-
ernment not owe any of
citizens, be they laborers or workers
in the professions, a living
“No country ‘owes’ any man a
ing: but
man the opportunity to earn a
ing." was the way the
Federal Department of Labor put it
Forty-six. States were
at the conference
to
reat
does iin
iiv
fvery couniry owes every
liv-
head of the
represented
Teentv.one Gove
present, while 25 State
who unable at
prominent citizens to rep
them Probably 126 of the
municipalities of the country
were represented by their Mavors
frnors
aXe
were
Lives were to
fend, sent
larger
CLOCKS GO UP MARCH 30.
Saving Bill,
Washington Failure of Congress
action on pending bills providing for
repeal of the daylight saving act
during the period belween the last
in October,
Opposition of farming Interests to
the daylight saving aet on the
grounds that it was of no benefit to
the people of rural communities led
to the introduction of several bills
for its repeal, but all of
sais am——— enti:
Bryan Stil} Confined To Roorh.
Washington William J. Bryan is
still confined to his room here hy a
bad cold.
“Tiger” Is Boy Scout Head.
Paris. — Premier Clemencean hag
accepted the presidency of the Boy
Scouts of France.
WASHINGTON
Democratic leadeis of the Senate
withdrew their objection to the re
ceipt of the credentials of Truman
H. Newberry, Republican senator
elect from Michigan,
Senator Vardaman, in an official
statement, declared that production
of anthracite coal in the United
States ir controlled by eight large
transportatior; companies, .
Service and wound chevrons were
authorized by the War Department
for telbphone operators and similar
female employes with the expedition
ary foreom,
+A forme! statement of position in
the form of a wetition drafted by
proposed League of
*
Capitol
AT SHIP TERMS
BE A A
Refuse to Give Up Merchantmen
Without Food Pledge
HURLEY CALLS IT A BLUFF
Cry Of Famine Called Mere Bluff—
Shipping Interest Reported To
Have Inspired Teuton En.
voys' Stand.
London The negotiations at Spa
relating to the shipping question have
heen temporarily broken off, accord-
ing to a German wireless message
The Allies, the message
manded that the remaining Cer-
man merchant ships be handed over
unconditionally, without being will-
ing undertake the obligation of
supplying Germany with
The delegates, it is
received
says, de-
all
to
German added,
instructions
of
supply
whole
message continues
ernment that the
shipping, finance
must be dealt
The German
question
and food
with only as a
quate food supplies, say
tons of foodstuffs, are assured
many until the new harvest.
Entente would not agree to this
“As the instructions of both sides
did not go bevond this, a
delegate proposed that
be broken off, whereupon
special delegations left Spa
(ier
the
Germans Reject Rental,
refused
her
Germany has
the use of
the Allies,
Spa, the
commission's headquariers
The counter-proposition is
by the that wiil
lease the shipping
definite
be
Paris.
proposition for
chant ships by
her delegates at armisiice
Germans they re
German desired
SGERUTANCE
in return for a
will sent
the
Bolshevik
| that food
enable
the
enough
Germany
fo thstand
{0
move
When
Spa it
Allied commission went
that the
rely a ques
the
to was believed re
least of the ships was ms:
it
| Germans that in return for
of the ships a rental be paid
he their
their food account.
The Germans,
that this would
| tion of days
the use
entered to credit against
however
be inadeguate
steady, uninterrupted supply of food
No country was in position to supply
thie food under the German
tions the question of
mains unsettied
Only a
money is
and
be
#0 a survey is being
abroad
80 creqit re
relatively emall ame
available in Ges
realized
actually
many, it is tha this
would
rr
stances made of
assets ax well
There
German
home
tien
He
certain
she
there
remain
in Germany which
pledge in payment, and
are cerlain foreign assets, esp
in Argentina, where German
| ties are held.
If the German proposal je agreed
to the active agent in the food
ply must be the United States.
securd
may
ecially
sacurnr
#up-
MEDALS TO 9.383 YANKS.
France Confers Majority Of Those
Awarded Americans.
Paris Foreign medals to the
number of $383 had heen awarded
to members of the American Expedi-
tionary Force up to February 26. ac-
cording 1p a compilation made by the
Rtars and Siripes. Of this number
8.008 were French war crosses, 61
medals of the Legion of Honor, 124
the military medals and 58 the Hon-
ner des Epidemies. The British
decorations totaled 518. Including
154 military crosses and 251
tary medals.
mili-
LOAN MEDALS FROM MUN GUNS.
They Will Be Awarded Workers In
Fifth Campaign,
Washington. Medals made from
captured German guns will be award.
ed by the Treasury Department to
all Liberty Loan workers who par-
ticipate actively in the coming Vie
tory Liberty Loan campsign. The
Treasury anrounced that the medals
would be distributed to all members
of ioeal Liberty Loan committee who
do conspicuous work In behalf of the
next loan. such as serving on volun
teer soliciting commitiees,
i
coil aa
U. 8. LENDS $178,000000 MORE.
Crecho- Slovakia, Belgium, France And
italy Get Advances.
Washington. The Treasury es
tablished new credits of $18,000,000
for the Czecho Slovaks, $40,000,000
for Belgium, $100,000,000 for France
and $20,000,000 for Italy, making a
total of SR E41.657.000 credite for
all the Allies to date,
The Crecho-Slovaks' aggregate
credits now amount to $35.€00,000,
while Belgium has obtained from
the United States $338, 145.000,
France $2,517,477,000 and Italy $1.
405:000,000. |
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AMERICAN SHIPS
ON SEVEN SEA
'
Carrying Products to Farthest
Corners of the Earth
——————
NEW TRADE ROUTES INVADED
—————" T———
For The First Time Since The Days
Of The Famous Clipper Ships
American Vessels Are Ply.
ing The Seven Seas.
Washingion. — For the first time
since the days of the famous “clip
per” ships, American merchant craft
now are plying 1he seven seas, carry-
ing products of the United Btates to
the corner of the earth
and bringing home both
and iuxuries.
The Shipping
tk American
ne
built up under the spur of war's
fartherest
pesentiale
Board announced
merchant marine
fieceourily
fifth of
f the
now represented nearly
ton
46
from
ont the entire seagoing
world and comprised
cent. of zi] ships clearing
War
erseq
9.7 per cent. before the great
not
for
nore a
Trade
by
50
routes tray
than
invaded
to China,
craft more
once re with
established
New Zealand, India, the
East Indies, the West Coast
of Africa and ports on the Mediter-
new routes
Stripes also are running regularly
Europe, as well as to
The fleet now engaged in os
an
81 freighters,
CTECRs
congigts of
K4 freight and passenger vessels, 71
il tankers, 230 sailing
ships
vessels and
miscellaneous ARETregating
224 Of this {otal
1 6 ?
1,861, ETOoss tons
fons are
trade
trade, 40
Atlantic
American trade
n Caribbean
outh
and Mexican t
Alaska and
trade
When the Army and
shipping
they
fleet
ie
io the Board the
are operating
mercial under the
increased by
ions, making the tot
tons, with
ai
many
der contragt
20000 YANKS NEED TRAINING
Return To Old Jobs
Washington ent
itary authorities
Americans
Of this number
that
Present imates of
the number
the
put
disabled in war at
3
it ig oxi
mated E0.000 will be able tn
leav-
who need retraining, for
suited to condi
their maimed
a3
“a
for
the
The Federal board
appealing
Yocation
to country
soldiers independent by mak-
ing them self-supporting. announced
that far 13,000 mey injured in
fighting the battles of democracy
have registered for retraining. The
applications of 1,300 have been ap-
proved and 540 actually have started
courses in re-education. The experi-
that
only 25 per cent. of the men needing
retraining take advantage of the fa-
cilities offered seems certain to he
surpassed in this country, the Fed-
eral board believes, “in view of the
greater generosity of this Govern-
ment.” At least 15,000 disabled men
are expected to enroll for vocational
courses,
80
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Public service commissioners,
bankers and electric railway execu-
tives will discuss the rehabilitation
of the electric railways of the country
at a meeting to be held in New
York.
Former President Taft was both
cheered and hissed at a meating in
New York when he declared the Irish
question should not be settled at the
Peace Conference. & x
Missouri liquor men and 20 eivie
organizations are working to have
the recent action of the Legisizgtare
in ratifying the prohibition amend.
ment repudiated.
in an auto accident near Wiming:
ton, Del, Johanna DuPont, aged is,
war killed and her father and moth.
er and three other children shaken
up.
The dead body of an infant was
found ving in a basket on the
near Cherry Hill, Anne Arundel.
county. “
Frbderick Gtibert Bourne, finan
cier and yachtsman, died at his roun-
try home on Long Island.
President Wilson's political friends
are making a Aght against the solos
tion of former Speaker Champ Clark
to the Democratic floor leader of
next House because he fs pon te
Wilson's League of Nations plans.