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WEATHER
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Fortv-slxth Year.
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MEDFOlin. OhMXION". WEDNESDAY. .JANl'AUY
1 0 IT
NO. 24H
SENATE DEFERS
ENDORSEMENT
OF PEACE NOTE
Resolution Backing Up President's
Efforts Goes Over for Discussion
Tomorrow After Spirited Debate in
1 Which Senator Lodge Attacks Am
bassador Bernstorff.
WASHINGTON', Jan. 3 Action on
Senator Hitchcock's resolution to
have tho sonata endorso President
Wilson's peace note was again tie
forrcd today, after a long debate.
Tho resolution wont over for dis
cussion again tomorrow at tho i
quest of Senator Hitchcock, Its au
thor after a spirited debate in which
Senators Lodge and Borah, rcpubli
cans, opposed action at this time.
AttacJcs lleriistorff.
The debate was marked by an at
tack by Senator Lodge upon Count
Von Bernstorff, the German ambas
sador, because of the latter's action
in Issuing a newspaper statement Ap
proving tho note. That action Sena
tor Lodge said, added to the mis
understandings about Its purposes
and added to the opinion that it was
timed and intended to aid Germany
in making the peace terms she. seeks.
Senator Lodge expressly said, how
ever, that he accepted in full faith
the declaration of the president in
tho note that it was in no way asso
ciated with the peace proposals of
the central powers.
Urjres Adoption.
Senator Hitchcock urged its
adoption. "In framing this resolu
tion," ho said, "I have carefully
avoided reference to those portions
of the president's note which might
provoke controversy.
"! realize there may lie two opin
ions as to some of the president's
suggestions, but I do not see how
there can be two opinions on a sim
ple proposition that in the interest
of humanity and civilization this
nation has appealed to nations el
war to state terms upon which peace
might be made."
Senator Hitchcock said there was
recent precedent for the president'
action and referred to former Presi
dent Roosevelt's peace overtures to
end the Kusso-Japanese war.
Senator Hoke Smith, democrat,
also urged immediate consideration
of the resolution. ,
Senator I.odjre. republican. a:ahi
spoke n'iiiiist artion nt this time.
Kcserved to Ivvccntc.
''I do not think the hmmriancc of
tin, resolution can he exuberated,''
saiil Senator Lodpe. ''It project.--congress
into tiie field of foreign ne
gotiations which under our form of
ovi-rnmcnt is reserved to (lie execu
tive. More than Unit, il also pro
jects i!ine,ress into 1 tie field of Kiiro
pesn politics and involves it in the
nl'f airs of Kurope.
"This resolution is not u general
resolution in regard t peace. It
commits the senate to most ulisoliitc
approval and indorsement of the note
of t!ie president. It also commits us
lo di-miind from Ihc nations enpruiieil
in war a statement of terms upon
which they will make peace.
"As tlic war stands today, we have
(Continued on Page Two.)
KI. PASO, Tex., Jan. 3. Francisco
Villa shot Garcia, his secetary, at
Bermejlllo because he drafted and
issued the manifesto which was sent
to the border, while Villa held Chi
huahua City, according to a Villa
partisan here. Garcia,-w ho w as said
to have been an Industrial Worker
nf the World in California, wrote
tho manifesto without Villa's know!
edge, and, when Villa agents here
sent a conv of it to him at Dcrme-
Jilla, Villa ordered Garcia executed
at once, according to this same
source. :
Villa partisans here, insisted to
day that the skirmish which was re
porled to have occurred near IOS Me
danos, ?.5 miles south of Juarez, re
salted In a Villa vlrlory.
Armv officers. Carranza officials
and others here denied any fllit look
place there yesterday.
. BORN 10 PRINCESS
PRINCESS HARit AUGUSTS
'Princess Joachim of Prussia has
given birth to a son, the tenth grand
child of the kaiser and the fourth
born during the war. The princess
is wife of tho kaiser's youngest son.
BY
UKUI.IN, Jan. II. A dispatch 1
the .uricii post mm -Milan .reports
thai tile Flench huttlcshiii Vcrite I
been torpedoed ly a (.u'l-iiiiin siihniu
rine near Malta, snys an Overseas
News agency iiiinollllcciilellt today.
The 'eritc, badly danin"ed, is lyinj;'
near tile port of .Malta, tin dispatch
adds.
The battleship Vcrite was litiill al
llorilcaiix in 11107, and is one of a
class of four war-hips, of which the
l.iberte was destroved hv an explos
ion in 111.11. The battleships of this
class displaced 1 4,(i:i0 Ions, with a
water line length of VM fect, beam
711.."; feet and draft .7.(i f,.,.t. Their
ai'inameul comprise.-- foiu 12-inch
and ten "lli-inch jiuns in 'the ; mam
battery with two torpedo lubes. They
have a complement nf 1V1 men. The
Vcrite made III. '1 knots on her trial
trip.
NAVY REFUSES TO
GIVE UP OIL LAND
WASHINGTON', .Ian. 3. Western
senators met and worked again today
without result In tiieii effort to ar
range some compromise between the
navy and claimants of oil lands in
California and Wyoming, who are
asking congress to fix their status on
lands withdrawn from the public do
main to make fuel reserve for the
navy.
Senator I'ittliiall, who with Sena
tors Smoot, Clark, Phelan. Works.
Sterling and Smith of Arizona, com
posed the conference, said all agreed
that the claimants should have some
relief and assailed the navy depart
ment for Its attitude. The navy con
tends that to give over the lands to
private settlers would cut it short of
fuel. Tiie committee will meet again
tomorrow.
IIP TO IHE COURTS
I'llOKXIX, .ri.., Dec. :i.-Thc
( iiliiphcll-1 liinl gubernatorial conlc-l
is in -1 ii t ii - ipio pending deci-ion of
tiie -iipreme curt tomorrow on the
writ of peremptory mandamus nskee.
hv (ioveinin- I 'niiiphcll's attorneys,
and which, if granted, will place (lov
crhnr ( 'iiniphell in pos-crsiun of the
office until the iv.vri y finally i
determined. Thcie is a tentative un-
di-i -taiidiiig that neither governor will
attempt to cxeri-i-e any major func
uon- mild alter the mandnmu- hear
jug. .
S3
C?7-
GERMAN DRIVE
THRU RUMANIA
REACHES SERETH
Russian Retirement Ends at Fortified
Line Frepared for Resistance
Failure to Halt Advance Imperils
Whole Galician Front Towns In
Dotrudja Captured.
llKIil.lN. .Inn. The towns ol
Miitcliin and .lijilui, in northern Dob
rudja, have been captured, it is an
nounced officially.
Reports from holli sides in I lie
tniuiUc in Kmiianiti indicate Hint the
Russians have now virtually rcuehc
(he line of llie Serctli, to which the
have been fulling hack while liglitin
stroiijr rear-;; mi id actions.
lierlin today announces that troop:
f the ninth army, under Field Mar
-dial Von Jlackenseii, are now before
Fokshani, which is on the fortified
line which the l!u-sians have been
preparinu and which follows in a Jjen-
eral wav the cou-sc of Ihe Sercth
Kndin at the Danube between llraila
mid llnln'la, this line extends north
westward through .Moldavia, in tin
direction of (lie Moldavian frontier
.Make l.nst Stand.
II is here, according to present in
dications, that the Russians count
upon brineiii" Field Marshal Von
lliickensen's advance to a halt. Fail
in' in this purpose, it has been point
ed out, they would expose their front
from (lalicia southward to a possible
crumbliue, up process through a turn
injr movement mid imperil their lies
sarabian territory to invasions norll
of the Danube across the line of the
I'riilh.
Apparently the Teutoliic'effort to
break this hue is lo be a stroll),' one
as today's Merlin statement record
smiishiii"- attacks upon the Russian
lines al several poinls in which pris
tillers were laken and ground gaineii
Meanwhile the drive at the right.
flank nf the Russians in this region
along the western Moldavian frontier
is continuing uniibatcil. and fitrthc
prioress in the transverse valley, no
tably in the Suchitza and 1'iitna re
ions, is announced.
llraila liniicrilcil.
On the Danube end of the line tile
security of llraila has been further
imperilled, a irdinir to the Ilerlin
report, hv a new advance of the Ten
tonic furces on tiie Dohrudju side of
the river, where (he Russians hav
been driven back further into III
noiiliwestcrn corner of the province
opposite llraila. Klsewherc in Ihc
field of war no important operation
are recorded in any of the official ni
counts, patrol and artillery aotivitii
furnishing the material for Ihc bul
of the statements. .
AMERICAN SHIELD
KI, PASO, Tex., Jan. IJ. Villa fol
lowers drove a railroad spike through
the heart of the eayle on the Ameri
can shield at the t'ntted States con
sulate and tore an American flag to
ribbon when they oecupled the town
on November 5, a foreign refURee
who reached hero today reported.
This occurred when the American
consulate was looted.
He said Villa made a systematic
canvass of the mining camp and took
whatever wus wanted for the Villa
army. The soldiers were not per
mitted to do any looting, he added.
He said he raw Villa ride through
the streets of I'arral In an automo
bile several times during Ms stay
there.
SUBSTITUTE FOR DIES
lUTCIIINSON', Kun.. .);m. H.
With the ili-i-ovcry I mil Dsiiyp urunso
licilc lien nioN ciin bp ulilizcil in Ihc
niiiniir.-o-liirc of n substitute lor Hyos
of (ti-iinn.i inuki, I'lirniiTs near lii'i'c
ni-f ruliliin-j out t lu-i r ln-iii;t' fi'nri
urol iliio-in' of the routs to luivor
iif i-a-tcru ilvp iiiiinutiii-turing ron-.eni3.
NEGOTIATIONS
WITH CARRANZA
E
First Cl ief Refuses to Resume Con
ferences With United States Until
American Troops Withdrawn
United States Commissioners Con
sult President.
(jK'KKKTAUO, Mcx., .Inn. XKelix
Pulnviieini, former secretory of pub
lic instruction, who often has spoktn
for General Cumui.it, declared befoic
the constitutional conference Into. la.-t
night that the situation was rave.
(ieneral Cnrrau.a, said the speaker.
had refused to resume conferences
with the Cuitcd States representa
tives until the American troops were
withdrawn front Mexico uncondition
ally, ami lie declared that the assem
bly must rush the work on the consti
tution and proclaim the rights of the
people, while General Carranza ami
the constitutional forces were battling
against u dangerous enemy to save
the national honor and integrity.
WASHINGTON, -Ian. I 'resident
Wilson will confer at . o'clock this
afternoon with Secretary Lane ami
the other American members of tin
Mexican-American commisMou.
It was announced that the Amen
can commissioners would make :
statement of their positions to thi
president, and in some quarters that
was taken to forecast an end to the
commission negotiations. An answer
is hciiiii 'trepareil lo Carraiuu's plea
for modifications in the protocol, hut
it was said that was not to be dis
cussed today with Ihe president.
SYMPATHY LED
GERMAN SPY TO
SAX KKAM'ISCO. Jan. ;i Sym
pathy I'or the Kussiiin soldiers in the:
trenches not plots to dynamite ships
bound for Knssia led Charles
Crowley, chief of the (.ierman consul
ate war spies, here, to seek intonna
tion I'rom the Russian consulate as
to fruit shipments to Vladivostok.
Crowley testified on cross-exam illa
tion in the I'nitcd States district
court today. Consul General Kranz
Ilopp, K. II. Van Sehack and others
besides Crowley are in the fifth week
of their trial for dynamiting con-pii-aeies
to destroy Canadian and Ameri
can munition ships and railroads, al
iened by the I'niled States govern
ment. John V. Preston confronted Crow
Icy with a letter he had written lo the
liussiau consulate here askini: sailing
dates of ships that could carry dried
fruit to Kiissia.
"And vou miv von reallv wanteil to
send fruit to the Kussian soldii'rs out
of pure charity asked Preston.
"I'm alwavs doitiy; charitable work.
Mr. 1'restoti," replied the war spy.
Crowley admitted he mijjht have
made a li.-lit cnminixion from in
tended fruit shipments.
"And would the information you
miuht have gained of hips .-.ailing for
liiisia have been of any u-e to the
German ciinuiate !' aked Pr eston.
Vellt it niiuht not have been
amis," admitted Crowb-v.
GERMANY REPLIES 10
I.ONUON, Ji(n. :i. The German
government ha replied to the Oanih,
Swedish and N'nrweian note of De
cember '2 on January 1. aeeordinj;
to an Amsterdam dUpateh to (tent
er's. The reply cxpre-M'd thp lulled
appiei'itilion of the motives of the
three governments and referred the
Scandinavian power" to the German
note of December 12 and the reply to
President Wit-on. It concluded with
the remark :
"It depend- upon the reply of the
entente whether the attempt to ive
back to the wnrld the ble-sinys of
peaep will be crowned with sU'ee-jf."
NEAR1NG GLOS
CARRANZA REFUSES TO RESUME BUIL
CONFERENCES WITH UNITED STATES
I;- V m ,f'"
III t V , ' . i r ' t 41
Yj;n ''i '.i i: - i
CARRANZA CONSUL jBARNEY BARUCH
UNDER ARREST FOR , BLAMED FOR LEAK
: SUIPPINGlNITIONSl OF PEACE NOTE
XKW YORK, .Inn. It. luiin T.
Hums, Cnrrnnzn consul rimumuI lioro,
was todny arrested clini'Kctl with be
ing concerned in a conspiracy to .ship
arms and amnn'nition to Vera Cruz
in violation or President Wilson's
embargo proclamation of October,
l!)ir,.
Three indictments have been
In on n II t nRainst Hums, It w as
learned, .(side froiu the allei.-d con
spiracy to violate the president's
proclamation, the defendant Is ac
cused of decelviuK the customs au
thorities by falsely nianll'estiliK
American shipments as liardware.
The arrest, made by special uKcuts
of the department, of justice, is the
outcome of a raid on Ihe ol'l'lccs of
an ImpnrtluK and exporting company
operated here recently by Mexicans
and of the arrest, siih:-ciuciitly, of a
man named Kcuhcu Mirr at Houston,
Tex. .Mler was formerly employed
hero In the .Mexican consulate.
The arrest of llurns came after evi
dence was uncovered Indlcalini;, it Is
said, widespread plots lo siunle
arms and ammunition to the aid uf
Carranza. These experts went to sea
to tlalveston and tin-ace across the
bonier or by m a dlicet to ' rn 'ruz.
The evidenr-o is sabr" lo show that
since hist August llle-al i.hiiur.ents
valued at $:!ou,iMiit Iijivl Kone for
ward on tlir e vcs.-cls.
Kvldcnce unearthed nl.Veni Cruz
caused the federal authoriiitrt to
raid an import itm and exporting
rom pa u v here, ran hy lot tin
a u d
, to-
WeneeKola Monte. Tiie:-e two,
get her with .Ioe ! I.a Paz, an
ploye of the firm, were arrested.
by
I.ONIMiN, .Ian. :i. I.l-.vd'- Shi).
pinjr ajieney announce- flint the P.til
ih steamer Holly Hiam h ol XtiYA
tons pro--i, and tli" Norwegian
Meamer Ki'iea haw been -uuk.
J(yd'- report- the -in!,iii- o( tic
I-'ie'.ich -itiliriir 'hip Acnucayua, 1 - 1-1
ton-, and the Swedi-li t'aIre tiim-e-blide.
js.jl loj,-.
WASHINGTON. .Inn. IS Hepresen
tittU'e WooU'd resolution for a special
invcsllKallon of chaws of a "leak"
on President Wilson s peace nolo was
I held
privileKcd by tue house today
and It was referred to the rules com
mittee with Instructions to report
within len days.
Din-inn debate on the resolution,
representative llenneil, republican of
New York, declared rumors had It
that llernard liariiih of New York
was responsible fi"' the Information
rcKardiiiK the note aettini; Into Wall
street and that II was alio said Har-m-h
sold short on steel shortly before
it was made public.
Dennett's declaration followed a
iilest.lim by liepreseutative Carrett
of Tennessee, as to what the rumor
was rotianHnn the leak.
"The rumor is," Dennett said "that
Mr. Darney Dai ucb, a member of llie
Council of National Defense
was the
man who was responsible for this
Inroiniatioa uettlim to Wall street
and that thirty minutes before the
president's mile was made public, he
sold, on a risiiiK market lii steel by
the way, fifteen t hou.'-ii nil shares of
steel cdiiiniiiii sh'irl. That Is the ru
mor In New York city, if the gentle-
man want twino-:;. '
Chairman Henry of tin- rules com
mittee vteorourdy opposerl holtiini;
the
-oluiion privileiit-d.
1 95 HOST
i;l-;i;i.lN, j-m. :;.
rreiich batth-ltiji
Gei man -mIoiimi me
'en-. Ni'".'..- atieiicv
"Itieltlilill'.
niloi-, -mil
bv
' -a- an (K
lalcmciit tod
")'Mi bo-lile ;ir-ili
IikIiiil: t
.cdd hunt - and -ubiiia fine-, ol
ti-nna-c nf 7i!i. I I", have beei
-ince the hcinniii id (lie war.
"U thc-e. 'J7t u el- ucrc 1
nf it loliil 1. 1 ."HJV-'im ton-.
-The total lo--e of enti-nh
-hip" exceed the t'H.il tniniaue
i total
sunk
irifi-ii
wa r-
of the
Wiir-hii
tf i-'ranee at tile be
"Auxiliary cii;i-ct- and -liip.
-pcciiil type that have been lo-t a
not included in the ti-urc- iveii
T
D VERS
FOR ALLIES AT
Union Iron Works Head Admits on -,
Witness Stand in Bopii Trial Con- -structing
Submarines for Entente '
During 1914-15 Shipped Vessels J
to Canada, There Assembled.
SAN KKAXCISCO, Jnn. :). .lolm
A. McGregor, iresideiil of llie I'liiou
lion Works of Sun r'ninoiseo, u sub
sidiury nl' Ihe ISothlchcni Steel eor
poriilion, mliuiilcil on the witness .
sluud today in Ihe I'niled Stales (lis- ,
Iriet eourtv lor the 'first tune pub
licly, that his conimny buill subinar- t
ines I'm- Ihe entente nllies during ;
1II14-I."i. lie was a witness lor Franz
lloi, (leruiau consul cneriil, on trial
with otlu'rs I'or conspiracies' lo dyna- :
mite ships anil trains earryinis muni- "
tions of war in Canada and I I'nil- '
cd Stales. I
SIllpiK'll to CllltlMlll. v-
Mc(iie:.'oi- ileelarcd that the I'mou ;;
Iron Works const ructeil liltnis uml f
working purls for eiyht or ten sub- .
marines fur the allied powers, ship-
pile.' Ibi'iu lo ('lunula with about .10!)
employes, who assemhlcd the Ixmls
there. "There was no secrecy about
it,'' said Mc(ii-ei:or,
"(Irifrinally we had contracts le ,'
builil the submarines in eninplele ';.
Conn, hut wc ubandoiieil that plan lato
in l!H4 at I be reipiest of Secretary o :
Slate I'.ryan," .Mclircjor teslil'ied.
Slllisliint lutes Itopp.
lestiuiouv was lo suhstanlialo i
that of Ilopp and others that consi.l
alc siics were hired lo spy out sub- i
marine const ruction and munitiuu
iiiovein'.Mits not lor dynainitin. . j
. Kniiines and hulls I'or the subma
rines were limit in .New i.oniion, 1 01111.,
the executive testified. '
''When I was in Washiiif;lon about '
thai lime I conferred with Secretary ;
nf State l.ausiiiu:, then counsellor li
the slate department, who told inu '
that wo were within our legal rinbts
in nianiifacturinir submarines I'or hel
litierent powers, but he - advised
auain-i il." Metire.mir said.
WASHINGTON, .Ian. il. - Senalof
Stone, alter coiisidei iiitr with Seen -lary
Iwmsin loiluy, made a statement; ;
in Ihc senate explaining that he hail '
intendi-d in no way t' reflect on tlm --eeretary
when yolerday he chareii
that import a nt oflTeia! Mute doe u-
incuts bad been known to find thcif
way into unaittluri.ed hand-.
"Wlii'ii I -aid that copies of ofli- r
eial documents of the depa t'Unent had
Iwii.ti -li.iun lo onl .iiler." I'viihiiiii'ii
Senator Stone. "I ouht to have sunt
that the-e oftieiul mi-deeds did nol,
neeitr in the perinil sime Secretary
Lansing: has been at the head uf the
department,
"I am ure ai-o thai no secretary
nf stntc nor any idher bih official of
the itepaituu'Ut ha- at any time been
enn-eion- of tlio-e aids lo which L
retern-d."
WASHINGTON, Jan. Il.Kailure
.f
the lioit-e.appinpiiations commit
tee to 'jrant a 100 annual im-rcaxi
in -alarie- to Mute department bu
reau eliieN led Seeretnry l.an.-in to
day to make a "-onal apiu'al for
the incrcu-e to the ,-enate n'inroprii-tiou-
eoiuaiittee.
While before the committee. Sec re -taiy
Lati'iii'4 wji, as-ured tlial the
appropriation to provide him with an
officiiil automobile would be left in
the bill. It :is di-elo.-ed that when
the ipie-tiou came up in the bouse
committee ( 'ha i no an Kit z;e raid had
exclaimed :
"Secretary ,an-inir is the only
cabinet official who hn had nerve
enough to a-k conre-.- for an auto-
imiliile uml t- llixn lift -hull IniVti
SAN FRANCISCO