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DEMOCRATS CHARY
LEGIONNAIRES SCORE
DEMPSEY AS SKULKER
el pAso legion coxdemxs
. . pugilist's record,
GOVERNMENT SCORED
FOR "EXTRAVAGANCE"
REPRESENTATIVE GOOD SAYS
BUSINESS ACUMEN LACKING.
LEGION TO
2 YOUTHFUL ROBBERS
HOLD UP GROCERYMAN
TREATY CEREMONY
PLANS COMPLETE
ON. DINNER TALK
LAND AT
PAIR IN AUTO SECURE $20
FROM J. T. GRANT.
'DR. X,' WANDERER,
IS MAN OF MYSTERY
CULTURED ENGLISHMAN UNA
BLE TO RECALL. IDEXTITY.
SPEECH DOES NOT
DASH TREATY HOPE
Plans for Compromise
. Vigorously Pushed.
Eli
KLAMATH
V
Washington Banqueters
Wait News From Home.
OUTSIDERS HOLD PARTY SPLIT
Eastern Press Comment Brief
but Critical.
BRYAN IN FIGHTING MOOD
Senator McXary Get9 Further Com
promise Offer on Treaty; Cliam
berlaln Stays Away.
OBEGOKIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Jan. 9.-Democratlc ex
pression on what happened at the
Jackson day dinner last night was
given sparingly today. It will require
ome time for the average democrat
''In Washington to get his bearings.
He knows what Is thought of last
night's developments here in Wash
ington, but obviously he would like to
hear from the folks back home before
he decides to follow the president or
Mr. Bryan.
The non-democratic party view of
last night's events is that Mr. Bryan
has split the democratic party wide
open. This view was indicated In
most of the newspaper headlines, sev
eral of which used that exact lan
guage. Few democrats could be found
who would commend the Bryan stand,
while many approved the president's
position, contending at the same time
that it was conciliatory instead of
warlike.
Compromise Offer Continues.
Senators Owen, McKellar and Ken
drick, domocrats, called on Senator
McXary today and said that they
were ready to proceed with further
conferences for a treaty compromise.
They declared that the president's
declaration helped rather than hurt,
and that there was -nothing In It to
excite alarm. Senator McNary, who
is the leader of the mild reservation
republicans, appeared to take that
view. However, these were the only
expressions of that trend. All others
obtainable said it meant that the issue
must be decided by the people.
The republican reservationlsts liked
Mr. Bryan's observations on article
Xo. 10, which they said upheld the
view of those who framed the Lodge
reservation on that article. Bryan
went further than his prepared re
marks In his second speech after his
audience had angered him by shout
ing "stand by the president" and "put
him out." He said, referring to ar
ticle 10, that certainly congress should
have the power to say where "our
boys shall be sent to fight," Instead
of placing that power in the hands
of a body under foreign domination,
and this was applauded.
Bryan Serves Xotica.
To Colonel Bryan the dinner was
a success. He got what he came
after. He came to tell the leaders
of the democratic party what he
thought of them and before he got
through he went much further than
he had intended. He doubtless ap
preciates his own impotency in har
mony role and he came here to give
his party leaders something' to think
about. He did not come to convert
them but simply to serve notice on
them that he had some distinct ideas
f his own which he intended carry
Ing to the people. .
When there was a shout of "Put
him out," during his speech at a few
minutes after 2 o'clock this morning
at the Willard hotel, he turned and
aid:
"I expected that. I am not talking
to you," speaking as if he aimed his
words at every democrat present.
l am talking to the 6,000.000 demo
cratic voters of the country."
Flshtlns Mood Evinced.
He was in a fighting mood at the
jast ana ty a simple change in the
inflection of what had originally been
designed for a calm, constructive ut
terance, he put much fight Into his
speech the second time he delivered
it. And when he threw the manu
script aside at the Willard to make a
few additional extemporaneous re
marks the act was accompanied with
all the emotions of the sorely-tried
individual pulling his coat for a hand-to-hand
encounter.
Several phases of President Wil
son's letter were discussed today.
Some seemed to think that failure to
renounce the third term meant that
he was holding tie possibility of his
being a candidate for a third term
as a club over the republicans. A
republican leader said:
"Wilson in tls ego thinks that the
republican party has a mortal dread
of him as a candidate and that, being
so fearful of, him, pressure will be
brought from the republican organi
zation on republican senators to yield
all he asks on the treat to be rid of
him as a contender next year. He Is
mistaken. I think knowing republic
ans would rather have him on the
democratic ticket than any one els
who has been mentioned."
Eastern Papers Critical.
The dinner lasted so late that east
ern newspapers contained little com
ment. For the first time since the
reaty has been under discussion the
Xew York Times offered a brief crit-
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Sew Jersey Rector Befriends Rag-'
ged Wayfarer, Who Knows
Medicine, Surgery, Music.
LAMBERTVILLE, X. J., Jan. 9.
Apparently unable to recall anything
except Indistinct recollections of his
past life and events since the sinking
of the Titanic, a man of mystery who
has christened himself "Dr. X." re
mained tonight at the rectory of Rev.
J. T. Bensley here.
The stranger, found wandering in
rags and babbling childishly near the
city on December 22, is a cultured
Englishman, versed in medicine an4
surgery, learned in fesearch work and
music Attracted by the man's evi
dent culture. Dr. Bensley, rector of
St. Andrew's Episcopal church, took
him to his home from the city Jail,
where he was being detained.
'Dr. X.'" said in an interview to
night: "I should say that I am a native
of England that's certain. That I
attended Oxford that-; certain. That
I have had English church experi
ence that Is ..most certain. That
there is a strong presumption that
my early life was spent In Missis
sippi." How long he has been suffering in
this manner, whence he came and
through- what experience he went
before being found on the outskirts
of the town "watching a sunset," the
man says he cannot remember.
While being -questioned by Dr.
Bensley the man pointed to a picture
of President Wilson and asked who
it was.
"I remember when President Mc
Kinley was shot and Roosevelt be
came president, and then I remember
that he was elected," he said.
"Do you remember when he died?''
he was asked.
"Xo," replied the man of mystery
quickly. "Is he dead?"
FORMER MINISTER HELD
Department of Justice Makes Ar-
rest on White Slave Charge.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Jan. 9. A man
who said he was Eugene De Luca and
who federal aaants say is a former
minister from Colorado, was arrested
at Tijuana late today and brought
here by Walter Weymouth of the de
partment of Justice.
He will be arraigned tomorrow,
Weymouth said, on charges of having
violated the Mann act.
With De Luca at the time were a
woman and four children, who, she
said, were hers. They were brought
to this city but were allowed to spend
the night' In a hotel. The man was
held at the county Jail. Weymouth
said that the woman also was under
arrest. He declined to make public
her name. Weymouth .added that in
bis examination the man has admit
ted that she is not his wife.
"KIDNAPING IS PRANK
Young Woman Not Carried Off lay
Men in Machine, Police Find.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 9. A kid
naping story was shattered here to
day when police investigation proved
there were no grounds for a report
that three men had seizefl a woman
from a downtown sidewalk and
escaped with her In a closed auto
mobile. '
The "kidnaped" young woman, it
was found, was a member of a party
taking an outing In two machines.
When she attempted to leave one ma
chine and enter the other, her friends
in the car In which she had been
riding grabbed her and pulled her
back.
Mrs. G. J. Fuller, wife of a patrol
man, saw the incident, and thinking
the woman was kidnaped, telephoned
the police.
DEPOT IN JJTAH SOUGHT
Ammunition Reserve Is Menace to
Eastern Cities, Baker Says.
WASHIXGTOX, Jan. 9. Congress
was asked today by Secretary Baker
to authorize expenditures by the war
department of $12,000,000 in building
an ammunition and ordnance storage
depot in the vicinity of Ogden, Utah.
The war reserve of ammunition.
now held in manufacturing plants
along the eastern seaboard, is a
menace to many cities, the secretary
said, adding that such continued
storage was "untenable from the
standpoint of national defense."
EIGHT PACTS ARE SIGNED
Papers Preliminary to Signing of
Treaty Are Indorsed.
PARIS, Jan. 9. Eight preliminary
documents concerning the details of
the enforcement of the treaty have
been signed in preparation for the
ratification of the Versailles compact.
Five of these are between the en
tente and the Germans and concern
Galicia and other territories affected.
The other three, between the Poles and
the Germans, settle the details of the
relations of these coutrles In the en
forcment of the treaty.
CIGARETTE FOE TO RUN
Lucy Page Gaston Opens Presiden
tial Campaign Headquarters.
CHICAGO. Jan. 9. Miss Lucy Page
Gaston today opened headquarters to
campaign for the republican nomina
tion for president on an anti-tobacco
platform.
Miss Gaston, noted as an implacable
foe of the cigarette, filed her plat-
form and declaration too late to be a
candidate In South Dakota.
CONCESSIONS ARE FAVORED
Some Democrats Would 'Pass
Buck' to White House.
REPUBLICANS TO CONFER
Speeches of President and Bryan
to Be Inserted in Record and
Split Causes Speculation.
WASHIXGTOX. Jan. 9. The for
tunes of the treaty of Versailles be
came even more unsettled today when
on top of President Wilson's Jackson
day pronouncement for taking the
question to the people in the political
campaign and William J. Bryan's op
position to such a course, democratic
and republican friends of the treaty
in . the senate renewed determinedly
their efforts to obtain a compromise
ratification.
Senator Hitchcock' said he did not
regard the president's declaration as
calculated, to cut oft any reasonable
compromise and predicted ratification
before the campaign was under way.
The mild reservation group of repub
licans took much the same view and
the group of democrats who have been
urgent in the demand for a compro
mise declared their position was in
no way altered.
Republicans to Confer.
Discussion of compromise reserva
tions accordingly went forward as
actively as before, a conference be
ing arranged on the republican side
to take up in detail the set of reser
vations submitted recently by Senator
Kendrick of Wyoming and other dem
ocrats. It was said, a counter-proposal
might be drawn up within a few
days and all of the parties to the
negotiations seemed hopeful that an
agreement ultimately would be re
ported. ' Among the treaty's irreconilable
foes, however, the president's stand
and the statement last night of Sen
ator Lodge that he would "most cor
dially welcome" the treaty as a po
litical issue, were hailed as having
definitely put the question into the
campaign. These senators consistent
ly have predicted failure for the com
promise negotiations and they were
more positive today than ever that
there would be no agreement.
Some Would Accept Anything.
In announcing that the compromise
plans would go ahead. Senator Hitch
cock said that, of course, the demo
crats could not agree to any compro
mise vitally impairing the treaty, and
that there would be an endeavor to
work out such reservations as the
president could accept. Some other
democrats were not as emphatic on
that point, however, declaring pri
vately that they would take the best
compromise that they could get and
then put the responsibilities straight
up to the White House.
The speech of Mr. Bryan at the
Jackson day banquet, which, in ad
dition to opposing any effort to carry
the treaty Into the campaign, advo
cated a speedy compromise, was put
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Georges- Carpentier Called "Gallant
Frenchman" Hope Expressed
Jack Loses Fight.
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 9. Jack Demp
sey, world's champion heavyweight
boxer, was charged with having "ap
parently skulked in hiding from the
draft boards" during the late war and
Georges Carpentier, his French rival
for championship honors, was made a
life honorary member of the post, at
a meeting of the El Paso post of the
American Legion held here tonight.
The local post also appropriated $25
to be wagered on Carpentier in his
coming fight with Dempsey.
The action was taken in the form
'of a resolution passed by the veter
ans, the text of which follows:
"Whereas, One Jack Dempsey, who
poses as a fighting man and who es
says to become champion pugilist of
the world, during the late war did not
offer his services to his country, but
apparently skulked 'in hiding from
the' draft boards; and
"Whereas, Georges Carpentier," a
gallant Frenchman, who also seeks
the pugilistic championship of the
world, did serve his country well and
faithfully throughout the war, and
who has comported himself in such a
manner that he is esteemed in all of
the countries which, were allied
against Germany in the war;
"Therefore, be It resolved. That this
post of the American Legion make
Georges Carpentier an honorary mem
ber for life and that we do pray that
he conquer each and every slacker
who may confront him in the ring or
emewnere;
"And be it further resolved, That
this post appropriate $25 to te wa
gered on our associate member.
Georges Carpentier, in his fight with
jacK Dempsey;
"And be it further resolved. That a
copy of this resolution be mailed, to
Georges Carpentier." .
VANDERBILT HOME SOLD
High Cost of Maintaining Mansio
Cause of Transfer.
NEW YORK, Jan. . The Cornelius
vanaerbllt home fronting Fifth ave
nue from Fifty-seventh to Fifty
eighth streets has been sold for
$5,500,000 cash. It was announced to
day. It was said that t ie residence,
one of the most , costly In America,
will make way for a $20,000,000 struc
ture. The name of the purchaser
has not been disclosed.
There was' an unconfirmed report
that the site would be used by T. Cole
man Dupont for a hotel and another
that the Marshall Field interests in
Chicago had obtained it for a depart
ment store. Representatives of the
Vanderbilt family said they had de
cided to sell because of the high cost
of maintaining the mansion.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9. Officers of Mar'
shall Field & Co. today denied rumors
current in Xew Yorln that they were
interested in the purchase of the Cor
nelius Vanderbilt home on Fifth ave
nue and would erect a department
store there.
36 SOWS BRING $53,975
One Is Sold for $4090 Offer of
$50,000 for Hog Refused.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9. A record' sale of
thoroughbred hogs was made today
when 36 Poland China sows were
auctioned for $55,975, an average of
$1554.84 each at the farm near Lake
Geneva. Wis., of William Wrigley Jr.
Ernest Melberg of Norway, la., paid
the highest price, $4000, for a sow. An
offer of $50,000 was mad, but refused,
for a prize hog for which Mr. Wrigley
paid $15,000.
TOR HEAVEN'S SAKE,
Estimated Requirements for Next
Fiscal Year Placed at Five'
and Quarter Billions.
CHICAGO, 111.. Jan. 9. The esti
mated requirements of the United
States government, not including
anything for "the railroad adminis
tration for the next' fiscal year, were
placed at $5,250,000,000 by James W.
Good of Iowa, chairman of the house
committee on appropriations. He
made the statement tonight before
the Illinois Manufacturers' associa
tion In an address advocating the
budget system.
The sum, he said, represented a
per capita tax of $47, and to collect
even a much smaller sum, the hand
of the tax gatherer would fall heav
ily on many people. He charged
many government department
heads were extravagant and deplored
tae lack of "real business acumen"
In others.
"No press bureau budget plan nor
the British budget system will an
swer,' he said, for the need of an
American budget code! The tax
payers were becoming more insistent
for government fiscal efficiency. .
"With one breath," said the speak
er, "the secretary of labor asks for
$14,500,000 to establish employment
agencies throughout the country to
help our unemployed find jobs, while
in another he voices his approval of
the plan of the commissioner of im
migration to bring- into the United
States 100,000 laborers from Porto
Rico and Mexico to supply a labot
shortage.
"On the same day that the attorney-general
is seen starting a great
crusade against buying anything ex
cept the actual necessaries for imme
diate needs, we see the secretary of
agriculture advising and urging the
state highway commissions to buy all
kinds of material and machinery for
road construction and store it for fu
ture ' use.
"We behold the treasury depart
ment urging congress lo accept a
generous donation by patriotic citi
zens of a southern city of 5000 acres
of land on which to build a hospital,
and when a generous appropriation is
made by congress to build this hos
pital, we see this same department
letting a contract to some of these
same patriotic citizens who donated
the land. That is not all. The con
tract Is let at Just double the amount
which the treasury department esti
mated It would cost to have the same
Improvements made by letting out the
work to subcontractors.
"We hear all of the executive de
partments In one grand finale de
nouncing the hoarder of the neces
saries of life and threatening to
throw him in Jail, while at the same
time we behold theecretary of war.
the greatest hoarder In all the world,
refusing to dispose of his hoarded
stock until commanded by con
gress."
MOORE ESTATE $600,000
Report Shows ex-Governor Had
$100,000 in Oregon Property.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 9.-
(Special.) The estate of Miles C,
Moore, ex-governor, in Washington
is valued at $500,570 and in Oregon
at $100,000. according to the certlfl
cate filed for use of the state tax
commission.
The certificate shows that the two
sons, Frank A. Moore and Robert L.
Moore, are to receive half of the es
tate after the other bequests are
paid, their shares being estimated at
about $200,000.
Whitman college will receive $50,
000.
BOYS, USE DISCRETION."
Oregon Irrigation Con
gress Favors Move.
OFFICERS TO BE HEARD TODAY
Many Projects Throughout
State Are Indorsed.
ELECTION IS BIG TOPIC
Four Men Discussed for Presiden
cy; Session Ends Tonight With
Press Club Smoker. '
American Legioa officers, members
of various posts and their friends will
appear before the ninth annual ses
sion of the Oregon Irrigation congress
in the Chamber of Commerce this
morning to demand favorable action
on the resolution of the Klamath
post, calling upon the government to
reserve first rights to service men in
the upper Klamath lake region. They
will protest the proposed granting of
exclusive privileges to the California
Oregon Power company.
While the legion officers are pre
pared to make a strong fight for
what they believe to be the riarht
course in this regard, general senti
ment about the assembly hall where
the irrigatlonists are meeting yester
day seemed to indicate that the con
gress Is favorable to the veterans'
wishes In the premises and that a
resolution, already before the ses
sion and now in the hands of a com
mittee, will be adopted without much
debate. This was among a batch
presented yesterday, it being Intro
duced by R. E. Bradbury of Klamath
Falls.
Adoption Believed Likely.
W. B. Follett of Eugene, state com
mander of the American Legion, and
Tom A. Sweeney of this city will be
among th'ose who will lay before the
congress this morning the situation
with regard to the upper Klamath
proposition the views of the service
men.
It Is believed that fhe ' congress
will adopt the Bradbury resolution,
as Jay H. Upton, president of the
congress, and other leaders of the
sessions have expressed themselves
as favorable to the view taken by
the legion men.
Aside from resolutions and unfin
ished business scheduled to come up
today, election of officers is attract
ing more attention than anything.
This feature is on the programme for
the last act of the afternoon session.
air. Tjpton is not a candidate for re
election, and there are four chief
members of tho congress who are
being discussed for the place. These
are H. H. De Armond of Bend. Fred
N. Wallace of Tumalo. present secre
tary, who has served In that capacity
for seven years; Julian Hurley "of
vale and Harry Gard of Madras.
Echo Man la Named.
For the position of secretary, should
Mr. Wallace be elected president or
decline further to act in his present
capacity, it is expected that Frank
Spinning of Echo will be chosen.
The congress will conclude its sea
slons with a smoker, given by the
Portland Press club in the Elks'
building at 8 o'clock tonight, at
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Police Believe Williams Avenue.
Storekeeper Victim of Men Who
Use Stolen Motor Car.
Two young robbers held up the
Home grocery, 847 Williams avenue.
robbed J. T. Grant, the proprietor, of
about' $20, and made their escape in
an automobile last night before the
police arrived on the scene.
Mr. Grant reported tnat the men.
one armed with a nickel-plated re
volver, entered his store at 6:50 P. M.
and ordered him to hold up his hands.
He thought they were Joking snd de
clined to do so until one of them
Jabbed him in the stomach with the
revolver. Mr. Grant said a girl clerk
had checked up the cash in the tin
nd he did not know Just how much
the robbers obtained.
The robbers were said to have trav
eled in a Bulck car. The police think
the machine is one belonging to J.
Pomeroy. His car of this make was
stolen from In front of the central li
brary at about 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
John B. Kelly. 23" years old. and
Alfred Douglas, 24 years old. were
arrested at West Park and Washing
ton streets by Patrolmen Craig and
Watson about an hour after the rob
bery. One of the men carried a re
volver. They are held pending inves
tlgation by the police, who say the
prisoners answer the description of
the robbers.
SEATTLE FARE TO STAND
Council Rules in Favor of live-
Cent Charge on Lines.
SK1TTI.E. Wash.. Jan. 9. Five cent
fares are to remain on Seattle's muni
cipal street-car system, the city coun
cil ruled today. The council made
the rulinar in connection with a deci
sion that property owners. Instead of
the street-car line, must pay most or
the cost of paving the streets.
The Seattle municipal street-car
system is said to be the largest muni
cipal line In the world.
INDIAN TOTAL REDUCED
House Passes Appropriation Meas
ure for $12,816,013.
WASHIXGTOX. D. C, Jan. 9. The
annual Indian appropriation bill, car
rying $12,816,013. or $1,500,000 less
than wsfa appropriated this year, was
passed today by the house. The In
dian bureau estimated expenditures
for 1921 at $17,471,763.
The appropriation of $75,000 for
suppression of liquor traffic among
Indians, eliminated by the house in
committee of the whole, was retained.
ANTI-JAP RISING BEGUN
Outbreak, in Core Reported bj
Bolshevik WIrelcse.
LOXDOX, Jan. 9. An anti-Japanese
rising has broken out In Corea, ac
cording to a bolshevik wireless com
munication received here tonight from
Moscow.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
34 degrees; minimum, 20 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair, continued cold; easterly
winds.
Foreign
Distressed Austria to seize fortunes.
Pago 2.
Formal signing; of peace treaty is sched
uled for today. Page 1.
Bolahevlkl capture remnants of first, sec
ond and third Russian armies. Page 2.
National.
Soviet "ambassador" la called to appear
before senate foreign relations com
mittee. Page 4.
President's speech does not stop efforts
to reach compromise on treaty and con
ferences are planned. Page 1.
Democrats chary on dinner talk. Page 1.
Domestic.
California milk producers face court fight.
Page S.
Charles ES. Hughes condemns Xew Tork
assembly for ousting socialists. Page 2.
"Dr. X." Wanderer, is man of mvatery.
Page 1.
Representative ?ood scores government for
extravagance and lack of business
acumen. Page 1.
Capitalists help In war without profit.
Page S.
Packers accused of "red" frameup. Page 3.
Pacific Northwest.
Washington Irrigation congress at Spo
kane elects. Page 6.
Stage set for opening or special session
of legislature. Page 12.
Sports.
Tijuana fight waits action of Carpentier.
Page 14.
El Paso American Teginn post condemns
Dempsey'a war record. Page 1.
Eugene honors football team at ban
quet. Pag. 14.
Beaver training camp remains unan
nounced. Page 14.
Sammy Pelnlnger to fight Denny at Hellfg
smoker Wednesday. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Marked gain In Portland produce receipts
In past year. Page 21
Seasonal decline In corn values - antici
pated. Page 21.
Lack of public Interest m Wall street
market. Page 21.
D. C O'Reilly, member of Port of Port
land commission, resigns. Page IS.
Portland and Vicinity.
More sportmen's clubs oppose fish and
game commissions. Page 4.
Legion to 'demand Klamath land. Page 1.
Bryan-Wilson split baffles Portland's de
mocracy. Page 8.
Raids on reds cause rush for naturalisa
tion. Page 12.
Auditorium claims denied by city council.
Page 13.
Census publicity aids enumerators In Port
land canvass. Page 15.
Another self-asserted leader appears in
central labor council. Page 5.
Bend woman Is alone at Irrigation con
gress meeting here this week. Page 6.
Litigation looms over leaf, of Southern
Pacific station on Fourth street.
Page 4.
Two young robbers obtain $20 in grocery
holdup. Psge 1.
Elaborate outdoor rose show planned by
x'oriland society. Page 6.
State of Peace to Be Re
established Today.
13 NATIONS TO TAKE PART
Records Will Be Deposited in
Archives of Fn&ndi.
ALL POINTS AGREED UON
Diplomatic Relations' to Follow Im
mediately ami German Prison
ers Repatriated.
PARIS, Jan. 9. (By the Associated
Press.) Tomorrow's ceremony, which
definitely re-establishes a' etate of
peace between the allies and Ger
many, putting an end to the armis
tice, will be divided In two parts.
The representatives "of the five pow
ers will meet first In the office of
the minister of foreign affairs. Baron
von Lersner, head of the German
peace delegation, and Herr von Sim
son will be Invited to sign In Ger
many's name the proctocol f Novem
ber 1. They will receive from the
hands of Premier Clemenceau a letter
binding the allies to reduce the
amount of materials demanded for the
destruction of German war vessels at
Scapa Flow.
13 Powers to Take Part.
The second part of the ceremony
will follow immediately In the Clock
hall. The 1J powers which have rati-"
fied the treaty will be represented
here by one delegate each. Minutes
will be drawn up on the following
matters:
Signing of the Versailles treaty,
signing of the protocol attached to
the treaty and signing of the agree
ment by the United States, Belgium,
Great Britain, France and Germany
relative to occupation of the Rhine.
After the signature of these docu
ments is completed, they will be hand
ed to the Ffench officials for deposit
in the archives. The records will be
printed on large sheets of quarto
parchment paper and the seals of eacb
will be affixed with signatures.
The ratification exchange ceremony
will be followed by the immediate re
sumption of diplomatic relations be
tween the allies and Germany. It Is
considered possible that Baron von
Lersner will be designated German
charge d'affaires here. On Sunday
jr. de Hardily will leave for Berlin
to act as French charge d'affaires
there.
Premier Hurries Work.
Another immediate result of the
ratification will be the repatriation
of German prisoners of war.
So as to make It possible for the
ceremony to be held., a technical com
mission, presided over by General Le
rond and attended by Herr von Sim
son worked throughout last night.
It was at Premier Clemenceau's re
quest that the work was hurried to
get the documents ready for Saturday.
The premier desired Premier Lloyd
George to sign for Great Britain and
Premier Nitti to, sign for Italy before
their departure, rather than have
lesser members of the delegations af
fix their signatures. Premier Clem
enceau also wished to have the ratifi
cation finished this week eo as to de
vote all next week to preparation for
the Versailles election next Sunday.
In preparation for the allied demand
for the delivery of Germans charged
with war guilt, the allied commission
dealing with that subject met today.
PRICE EXCUSES RAPPED
Food Officials Report Pleas to De
partment of Justice.
XEW TORK, Jan. 9. Federal Food
Administrator Williams announced
today that he had reported to the de
partment of Justice a number of ap
plications to increase prices in this
district.
"Increased demand," "short supply"
and "shortage of railroad cars."
given as reasons for a requested ad
vance in price, are the "first princi
ples of profiteering." he said.
Commodities on which dealers wish
to charge higher prices inctude eggs,
broken rice, potatoes, onions, rolled
oats and flour, Mr. Williams said.
James H. Stafford, new. federal
food administrator fo Xew York
state outside of Xew York city, de
clared that in the past week many
foods advanced in price from a quar
ter of a cent to six cents a pound.
Eggs went up six cents.
"NEBRASKA RIFLES" FORM
Two Regiment of Volunteers Con
sist of ex-Servlce Men.
LIXCOLX, Xeb., Jan. 9. Organiza
tion of two regiments of volunteers
known as "the Nebraska Rifles," to
maintain law and order In case they
are called upon to act in any emer
gency, is practically complete. Adjutant-General
H. J. Paulan announced
today.
The organization, which Is to be
maintained until the state can organ
ize Its national guard, is made up
largely of ex-service men who en
listed for six months' service. The
men are subject , only to call by tha
government.