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ELEVEN BILLS INTRODUCED IN SHORT SESSION OF ASSEMBLY Blue Sky Measure Among Bills Submitted Resolution Adopted by Seriate Endorsing Peace Program. SUFFRAGE REPORT SOON

Troops and Workingmen GREEK CLAIMS LAID BEFORE CONFERENCE BY PREMIER Clash in Peru Strike (By Associated Press) i.ima. Jan. 15 Business is paralvrfid and there have been several clashes between mobs and troops as a result of the general strike declared yesterday. Maritime workers and men engaged in transportation services are idle. The strikers have thrown up rails on several roads and have attempted to cut off the citys water supply. A few trains were operated last night by the military authorities.

Situation in Germany Grows Worse as Peace Meeting Opens IV S m . . , TOT .:-.-.-;..-. -Jt'-.!'

(By Associated Press)

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 15 Members of the house of representatives were admonished by Speaker Eschbach to "speed up" in their work so that the closing days of the present legislature would not be so crowded with business. Eleven new bills were introduced in the little more than an hour session. Among the new bills was one called a "blue sky measure." designed to prevent fraud in sale of stocks, bonds, securities, etc. A bill concerning school attendance which appeared today in the house would require steady attendance until 18 years old if the 8th year work had not been completed before that age. Burial of persons without the bodies having been embalmed would be permitted by the terms of another measure. In the senate a resolution by Senator Arnold endorsing a league of nations, freedom of the seas, and all other points made by President Wilson in his peace program, was adopted. The resolution also pledged loyalty to the representatives of the TJ. S. nt the peace table. Would Kill Amendment. The senate committee considering the two constitutional amendments providing for equal suffrage and in crease of salaries of public ornciais durine their term of office recom mended the two proposals be killed, The report was made a special matter of business at tomorrow's session. A number of administration measures appeared in the senate today. Among them being the one known as the conservation measure which would combine a number of state departments under one head. Terms of all judges in county courts would begin Jan. 1 and county clerks would take office on the same date under the terms of one bill introduced. Senator English of Indianapolis brought forth a bill increasing the salaries of Judges of the state supreme and appellate court $4,000 and $3,000 a year respectively. Both, houses will meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. VANCE M'CORMICK RESIGNS AS HEAD OF DEMOCRATS (By Associated Tress) WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 Vance McCormick, who is now in Paris to assist the American representatives at the peace conference, has resigned as chairman of the democratic national committee. This far became . known here last night co-Incident with the report that his appointment as ambassador to France was under consideration by President Wilson. William Graves Sharp, who has been the representative of the American government at Paris since the early days of the war. was said to have tendered his resignation to the president. No announcement has been made, however, and at the White t HiAtnt AnlfnoH tn rnmmpnt Jiuusw u 1 1 1 v lain ui..i" v v .... r... j , nr.trv ,n vmf. ?fly . u7 . lllfs Urii vuwv -' Ohio, by the illness of his brother, who recently died, but he is preparing to return to France. Two Hundred Thousand German War Prisoners to Work in War Zone I'AKIS, Jan. 13. The cabinet of the namiun vL-av nrisoners henceforth should henceforth be employed in re - lornUer. trifts The measures adopted provide that a minimum or Zuu.uuo win be working in the devastated regions bv March 20. POGRAM IN UKRAINE. WARSAW. Jan. 15. A pogram. in which several hundred persons were HlUd and othtr hundreds injured is reported to have taken place at Bredlischew in the Ukraine. THE WEATHER Kcr Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and probably Thurrday. Not much change in temperature. Today'a Temperature -Soon Ycsterday Maximum Minimum 30 For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Thursday, followed by increasing cloudiness General Conditions Weather con- : -Ifnues moderate, and generally fair ex- ' cept over the eastern states where it i' is cloudy. No zero weather in any f portion of the United States. Temperatures are above normal in west and northwest, as well as over the - ....r,oi fatfs. 52 at Ranid City. S. D.

BOLSHEVIK LOSE IN BERLIN AFTER WEEK OF TERROR

Reports Show Ebert Forces in Control ot Uerman Capital Cabinet Meets. (By Associated Press) BERLIN. Jan. 15. Berlin's long week of Bolshevist is finally ended. Here and there, scattered- desperadoes, mostly youths, still fire occasionally from Eome house-top and during the nights attempts are made by small bands of the followers of Dr. Karl Llebknecht to revive the reign of terror. They are insignificant, however, compared with what has passed. Dr. Liebknecht's sister was arrested today and several hundred rebels are locked up awaiting trial, which, inasmuch as martial law was not proclaimed, must be left to the regular courts. Losses inflicted on each side during the last week are as yet estimated only roughly, but it is believed that they will greatly exceed 200 dead and 100 wounded. The overwhelming majority of these are Bolshevists. Heavy Property Loss. The reinstatement and arming of the police gives the government a new force of trained men who know the criminal world and whose absence during the first days of the revolution en ve the disorderly element a iree hand. Police recvords, including those nf the Bertillon system, were not de stroyed as was first reported. Detec tives are already rounding up old ac quaintances and the work of disarmnjr lawless elements is proceeding. Pronrtv losses during the week of terror amount to tens of millions of marks. In addition to the damage to newspaper plants and government buildings, merchant's losses through looting are very high, one youth being-captured with 60,000 marks worth of Jewels which he' had stolen. In eome streets near . the police headquarters nearly every store was systematically looted. Bolshevist troops holding the Silesian station had so much butter that they used it to grease their guns and boots. . Inspired From Moscow. The center of the city has been quiet all day today. Late in the evening a few shots were heard in different parts of the town, being fired by snipers and looters. Merchants having shops along Unten Den Linden, took down their shutters and business went on generally as usual. The government has no intention of slacking its efforts against the Spartacanas. the Abend Zeitung says It learns from best authority. Energetic measures are being taken against the leaders of the moevment. It is reported that documents found by loyal troops show that the Spartacan uprising was inspired from Moscow. A cordon of troops has been thrown around the suburb of Moabit, one of the most important industrial sections in Greater Berlin, for the purpose of carrying out the work of disarming civilians and such Spartacan fighters as are still at liberty. The military measure which is being carried out in the most drastic manner, . . , . . - came in the nature of a surprise action, the troops being thrown in and occupying the big industrial plants of the section which are known to be Spartacan strongholds. German Cabinet Meets

Pedestrians are being halted and the first among ner neigiiDors 10 orthe houses entered by searching par-! ganize a strong army, she believes she ties. The telephone service has been could easily enslave the nations near

stopped for the purpose of making the - . a . t ii . siege of Moabit as airtight as possible. This section of Berlin is notorious for its riotous tendencies and is gen erally lookrd upon as a gathering 'place for all the criminal elements. le employe, woirs. one ui m mui i aujim uuuir.i among tne Benin proletarians, voiea today to resume work Wednesday morning. Similar action also put an end to the strike of railway employes at noon today. The German cabinet met yesterday to discuss the new constitution and to consider proposals for the meeting of the general assembly. Germany's participation in the peace congress was also taken up. The meeting will be continued today. Service Insignias for U. S. Welfare Workers (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 Service insignias for members of welfare associations on duty with the organized forces of the army overseas, was provided for in an order issued today by the war department. The chevron prescribed for each six months serjvice and for each wound will be an 'equilateral triangle of silver braid one ; eighth of an inch wide. Service tri- ! angles will be wor,n on the left sleeve 0f the coat and would triangles on the right sleeve SHERMAN TO RETIRE WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois, republican, intends to retire from' public life when his present term in the senate expires March 3, 1921.

Want to Reunite Greek Population in Balkans, Asia Minor and Adjacent Islands, Says Memorandum.

ASKS CONSTANTINOPLE (By Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 15. Greece has laid before the peace conference a memorandum signed by Premier Venlzelos, setting forth the situation of Greece and her claims in the settlement of the war. The memorandum says that the Hellenic nation consists of 8,256,000 persons, of whom 55 per cent, live in the kingdom of Greece and the re mainder outside its limits. Half a mil- j lion Greeks in America are included in the figures submitted. Wishing to re-unite the Greek population . in the Ealkans, Asia-Minor and the islands adjacent to the king, dom, Greece asks, first. Northern Epirus, which contains many Greeks. It says that "the former, besides being in the majority, also possess a higher form of civilization." As a second demand, Greece asks for Thrace, without Constantinople. Thrace, according to the memorandum, is peopled largely by Greeks. International Guarantee. "Since Constantinople, according to the twelfth point of President Wilson's program, cannot remain under Turkish rule, the memorandum declares, "the natural solution would be to award Constantinople to Greece, and to establish international guarantees of the freedom of the states." It is pointed out that the principle native element of the population of Constantinople is Greek, being numerically greater than "all the other nationalities put together except the Turks." But if a society of nations be established immediately." the memorandum continues, "Constantinople might, In consequence of great International interests, connected with the possession of the straits, be formed as a separate entity by the society of na tions, which would nominate its gov ernor for certain fixed periods.' ..w part of 'A8ia: Minor. The third territorial claim-made by Greece is for paTts of Vilayets In AsiaMinor. These have a population, it is said, of 1,188,000 Greeks against 1,042,000 other peoples and claimed to be both "geographically and histor ically integral parts of Greece.' The Armenian provinces, with Rus sian Armenia, the memorandum says, should be erected into a separate state, organization of which should be entrusted to one of the great powers bv the society of nations. It is ad mitted that the Vilayets of Trebisond and Adana. although having respec tively, 350,000 and 70,000 Greek mhab itants, might be attached to the new Armenian state. All islands in the Near East which are ethnographically, geographically and economically Greek must return to the Hellenic state. These should include islands which, according to the treaty made In London in April 1915, are to be annexed to Italy. Discuss Bulgarian Claims. All the figures given in the memorandum are said to have been taken from Turkish statistics. There is a long discussion of Bulgarian claims, in which that nation's attempts to dominate the Balkanas with a view to realizing her dream to possess four seas the Black sea, the Sea of Marmora, the Aegean and the Adriatic are detailed." The memorandum ends by saying: "It must be thoroughly understood that Bulgaria seeks to play in the Balkans the role that Prussia played up on the European stage. Having been hflr " her.' "Militarism is as deeply rooted in Bulgaria as in Prussia. The Bulgarians have every right to boast of being 'the Prussians of the Balkans.' They resemble the Prussians in mill tarism, in their worship of brute

be but one delegate for each

of making war but are far from equal i ----- . - ling the Prussians in the domain of science, letters and art." British Ships to Be Freed from Requisition (By Associated Press LONDON, via Montreal, Jan. 15. The shipping controller announced today that British ships completing voyages on and after March 1 at ports of delivery in the United Kingdom or, in exceptional cases, at ports abroad, will be released from requisition except insofar as they are required for government purposes, or if they are ships to which special conditions apply. Ship owners now are free to make arrangements for the employment of their shops from the time indicated, subject to approval by the controller of the nature of the employment and of the character, and the obtaining of the necessary licenses for the proposed voyages. Wood Ordered to Command of Central Department (By ABssctated Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 Orders directing Major General Leonard Wood now ., commanding Camp Funston, Kans., to proceed to Chicago and take command of the central department were issued today by the war department.

Deputy Hirsch, Socialist, addressing huge

While recent word from Berlin indicates that the Ebert government has

tempt to overthrow Ebert's regime, the

forces are gaining strength, von Hindenourg. it is unaersrooa, is now picKiug an anuj m emuiw ic CUr1B present regime. Socialist and Bolshevlki riots follow the mass meetings. Workmen at the Socialist gatherings flaunt their trade union banners. Some of these can be seen in the larger picture. Trotsky has thrown Nicholal Lenine, his erstwhile co-leader, into jail, it Is said, and has become dictator of the Keds.

RADICALS FAIL TO GAIN CONTROL OF LABOR MEET Chairman Firm in Opposition to Political DiscussionWalsh Addresses Meeting. (By Associated Press CHICAGO, Jan. 15. The National labor congress started its second day's business today by completion of its organization in electing permanent officers And appointing commit-

wtU LZ -Em? . ihnf thP tent. with- iU tenets, including comWalslt : former. jolnt-xhairm of the t providing for a balance of power, federal war labor board -was expected Agkd wnatBeffect the formation of to address the delegates gathered a league of natlon3 would have upon through call of the International i hb doctrine, Lord Robert as.Workers Defense League to decide on perted he cou,d spe nQ confljct wUh

y,aus l n.uu.c .i ,u"r' as J. ftiooney ana warren tunings, serving life terms for murder in con nection with the Preparedness Day bomb explosion at San Francisco in July, 1916. Efforts similar to those of yesterday to secure control of the congress by the radical element, were predicted by the conservatives and plans were formulated to confine action of the body to three possible courses of action. These were stated by E. 1). Nolan, secretary-treasurer of the Mooney defense league and temporary presiding officer of the congress to l:e, first, an appeal to the United States department of justice to invoke writs of habeas corpus on the grounds that the process of law was not exercised

in the case; second, an appeal to con-;amj

gress along with publicity; and, third as a last resort, the use by labor of its economic power either through the boycott or the strike weapon. To Demand Amnesty. It was the purpose of the radicals, said to be Socialists and I. W. W. members, seveial of the number stated, to commit the congress to the granting of amnesty to all "political prisoners." William Haywood and his ninetytwo comrade in Leavenworth prison, Eugene V. Debs, Rose Pastor Stokes, Victor L. Berger and his four co-de fendants and others. In the efforts to cull from the 1,500! in attendance on the opening session, the 350 delegates to whom credentials had been issued, Chairman Nolan experienced considerable difficulty, bat he stood firm in his ruling that only I Amalgamated Clothing workers and Railroad Brotherhood delegates should sit with the American Federation of Labor delegatf and also that there umou. union. "The Mooney defense proposition alone is the issue," Mr. Nolan said, "There are men attempting to participate here whose ideas reach to Russia. They are attempting to turn this into a political matter. It will not be permitted." Princess Charlotte Is New Luxembourg Ruler (By Associated Press) LUXEMBOURG, Tuesday. Jan. 14. Prince Charlotte, sister of Grand Duchess Marie,- has been chosen as the latter's successor by the chamber cf deputies, which met immediately after the abdication of the grand dush - ess was announced. By a vote of thirty to nineteen the chamber decided to immediately appoint a delegation to receive Prince Charlotte's oath of office. Princess Charlotte will as sume office Wednesday, Railroad Employes Are on Strike in Berlin (Bv Associated Pressl COPENHAGEN, Jan. 15 Employes of the elevated and underground railroads in Berlin have struck as their demand for higher wages has not been met, according to dispatches received here. It Is not known when traffic will be resumed.

crowd of workmen and soldiers in

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situation looms more serious every day.

League of Nations Will Not Interfere With Monroe Doctrine, Says Englishman

(Py Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 15. Iord Robert Cecil, who discussed with American journalists last night his views as to the work of a league of nations, had little j to say relative to the limitation of j armaments, fie expressed the opin- ' ion, however, -that the league of na- ! tions certainly wouW provide for the ! limitation and decrease of present armaments." j - He declared that this feature of the work to be done is being given deepest i consideration, although no definite '; agreement has as yet been reached. 1 He said that the league, if formed, (would do away w'th all treaties Inconthe Monroe doctrine, Lord Robert the doctrine. Hypothetical questions were raised as to what would happen j in case Mexico or a South American ! country did something that caused ; trouDie wiin trie league, and ira Korert replied: "Then I think an arrangement could be made by which America could act i in behalf of the league." I Regarding the admission of (he ceni tral powers and their allies to the league. Lord Robert said they should ! be admitted "if they showed an inclination to do the right tiling." Sneaking of Germany, he said: ! "We must await events. If nhe ; (urns over a new leaf and tries to repair the damage ph has done, there is no reason why she should not join. The league is for the good of humanity pot for any spjt group. It will Denent ner lr sue comes in. Austria, because of her internal condition, is not yet ready for the league. Lord Robert said. Dealing with another instance, he declared it would be a injustice to exclude Bohemia, saying: "She was not to blame and is progressive." Lord Robert said that the league might in some cases take over administrative control of certain territorieb of great international interest. He so'd that Palestine and Constantinoule might be in this e'a?s. He stated that ne accepted President Wilson's view that the league must be constituted congress, addby the present peace ing: "Otherwise, it will become an impossibility." I Lord Robert felt that the peace congress should get some aoproval or principles at the beginning of the . M MOCn DOTO TA i-wiwfcn i . i v inn PLAGE IN RUSSIA By Associated Press) STOCKHOLM. Jan 15 Hunger! riots took p'ace in Petrcgrad on Saturday and Sunday, according to advices received here. Ten thousand people paraded through the streets shouting for bread and were fired upon by Bolshevist troops who are aid to have been Letts Desperate from hunger the, crowds are reported to have asked the soldiers to fire upon them. Dispatches state that not a single piece of bread is to be found now in j Petrograd and that unground oats are 1 being given to the people. f Propagandists, disguised as refugees are said to have been sent into Fin-1 land by the Bolshevists. The pcV,z ! there have recently discovered sever: organizations which are alleged to ce plotting a new insurrection. Y' WORKERS ARRESTED PARIS. Jan. 15. Three Y. M.'C. A. workers in France have been arrested for alleged defalcation of $38,940. MANY KILLED IN PRZEMYSL. GENEVA, Jan. 15. Twp thousand persons have been killed by the Ukranians at Przemysl,-according to a dispatch in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse received in Switzerlanad. .

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foiled the Sparticides in their first atThe Sparticides and the Bolshevlki meeting, but was of the opinion that the details should "be worked out with care by committees which should report to the peace congress. "Questioned as to the attitude of the allies as a whole toward the league, Lord Robert said that everyone of them favored a league of some sort and that they were not separated by anay vital point. As to the scope of the league, he said there were still rmany purely icgai disputes Deiween nations which he thought ought to be settled by an arbitration tribunal outside the league. In discussing the probable efficiency of the plan' to force obedience to decrees by the league, Lord Robert declared:. ; 'If we had had a conference on the reply of Serbia to" Austria and had not allowed them to fight for a set period, there would have been no war. If the situation had been ' known to the

as-(world, no action could have forced its

people to fight. OPIjTRI TlinHOAlin OtfLll nUUuAllU TON FOOD CARGO GOES TO POLAND By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 15. The first food relief for Poland to go forward from the United States in four and one-half years will be taken soon from New York by the American steamer Westward Ho, who is loading a seven thousand-ton cargo, costing $2,225,000 and paiad for by contributions from

Polish and Jewish organizations iaUMrin5. th .

this country. One-third of the food will be con-

densed milk, one-third animal fats and!whif.h frtr ovarnri,a

vegetable oils and the other third cereals. The West ward Ho will sail for Danzig, the Polish port on the Baltic Sea, and the food will be distributed by representatives of Herbert C. Hoover, with the assistance of agents of the Jewish relief in Poland, said today that an agreement regarding the funds for the relief was reached yesterday between representatives of the Jewish and Polish organizations. Ccr.s:derably more than half of the money, he said, was contributed by the Jews through Felix Warburg, but decision was reached that both Jews and Poles would be served alike out of the relief cargo. U. S. Army Officers Estimate Extent of Damage m War Zone PARIS, will have Jan. 15. President Wilson i before him an independent .estimate cf the actual physical dam - age suffered by France and Belgium during the war when the peace con - gress readies the stage of discussing : indemnities A survey is now being planned and will probably be conduct - ed by more than 200 American army ; officers chosen especially for the work. Many difficulties are presented, for; in many of the uevastaTen regions ' there are no records available upon which to base an estimate of what ; existed before German guns and trops j ground the towns and villages into ! heaps of ruins.- The work of visual-! izing what pre-war conditions were ' and fixing tile proper value for the damage inflacted will, therefore, take many weeks, and probably months. Two More States Ratify U. 5. Dry Amendment . (or Associated Pres PES MOINES. la.. Jan. 15 The Iowa legislature ratified the federal prohibition amendment today, making this the 31st state to approve it. DENVER. Co . Jan. 15 Bv a vote of 3 to 1 the senate of the Colorado legislature tcday adopted the concurrent house prohibition resolution there by ratifying the national prohibition amendment. The house adopted the resolution last week.

Supreme Council Decides Minimum Sum to Provide for Liberated Nations U. S. Share Above Estimate.

BULK OF FOOD FROM U.S. (By Associated Pres) PARIS, Jan. 15. The supreme council of supply and relief which has been engaged for the last three days In considering the situation of the liberated countries, strechlng from Belgium to Poland and Armenia has concluded that the minimum sum necessary to feed these people until next summer is 400 million dollars. The council has asked the treasury determine how the monev can be provided. The allied governments in Europe it is said have agreed to undertake their sole responsibility in the matter. Considerable difficulty, however, arises from the fact that the bulk of the foodstuffs must come from th United States and while the allied government can pay for transportation and can furnish clothing and other services, the payments made in the United States will greatly exceed the 100 million dollars which President Wilson has asked congress to appropriate. Herbert C. Hoover, director general of international relief, has proposed that a commission representing each of the four great powers, be established in each of the countries to be relieved under the general term of "relief to liberated countries." Peace Council Reconvenes. All the countries which have set up democratic governments are struggling to maintain order and to establish themselves permanently. Any failure on the part of the United States to support these issues the members of the commission are said to believe, will bring ruin In Europe beyond anything since the middle ages. The supreme council of the peace congress resumed its session at 10:30 o'clock- today. Those in attendance were Premier Clemenceaund "Foreign Minister' "Pichon - for France; President Wilson ' and Secretary of State Lansing for the United States: Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Balfour for Great Britain: Foreign Minister Donnino for Italy, and Viscount Chinda and Baron Mathini for Japan. With the resumption today of the meetings preliminary to the peaco conference it Is apparent that the movement to creat? a league of nations is being carried on bv twn forces, having the same object, but , differing as to the means for making effective the decisions of the proposed world society. One of these represents the contention that th decisions of the league must be backed by its combined physical forces, while th? other represents the view that in findings can be, enforced without the aid of a common world police force. Move to Common Ground. Diplomats, watching the movement ! of thf lw. lrf. . t. a . ' !""-"& u'"i " me vuuif rente, seem impressea with the view that both are toward th-"" I,"' rn.nd J- ---k dlvIdual case their dec,si0 they would utilize armed force nr avail themselves of other means. There is reason to believe that such an arrangement would meet with the support of some of the European statesmen and there is nothing to Indicate that It would be rejected by the American representatives. This is the feature of the situation as it exists today. Object to Apportionment. While the apportionment of delegates to the peace congress has not yet been officially made known, the list published after Monday's session cf the supreme council has caused an unfavorable impression among seme of the missions, according to the French press. The Serbian, and Beli i h tis ztra nnto r i if 4nnz..4z i . I Giving of three delegates to Brazil i while they are only permitted ' twn each. l7i ine case of Belgium, the three . seats ai.otted ner by the French plan acimutea or the nomination of a rep- ; resentative of each cf the parties ! ?er duv ea. jioerais and Socialists. j With only two delegates, the represen- ! tatiye of one party must need 3 be cropped. Logically, it is pointed out, it ought to nave been the least important party tQus fo suffer, b':t it is impossible to drP from the delegation the foreign minister, Paul Hymans, a Liberal, Consequently the commentators say it would seem to be Emile Vandervelde, the Socialist minister of Justice, who be the one eliminated should the Belgian allotment stand. Last Years Death Rate Highest in History of Pennsylvania Ey Associated Pres) HARRISBURG. Pa., Jan. 15 The death rate for 1918 was the highest in the history of the state health department in Pennsylvania, according to the report of Dr. W. B. Batt, state registrar, made public today. Approxi imately 185.000 deaths occurred, the mortality rate being 21.6 as compared with 14.8 for 1917. The Increase was due almost entirely to the epidemic of influenza, which caused more than 50.000 deaths in the ar ...