/WEB REFUSES
l IB SPECULATE OR
Confines Testimony Before the
Senate Committee to Facts
Only—Sims Scores Lack of
Confidence.
Washington, March 10.—Sending of
surplus anti-submarine craft to Euro
pean waters would have greatly aided
the allies at a “dangerous period” of
the war, Herbert Hoover testified to
<lay before the Senate investigating
■committee, supporting contentions of
Sims as to the critical allied situation
in the spring of 1917.
Submarine sinkings were so great
in this period as to endanger the out
come of the war, Hoover declared.
Whether the navy could have done
more to meet the situation in Europe,
Hoover declined to state.
Hoover said the war would have
come to an end' “almost in a mo
ment had. allied food supplies been
cut off.
"The situation was dangerous, al
most beyond description, and I can't
over emphasize the dangerous posi
tion the allied cause was in,” Hoover
said.
"The supply of breadstuffs was
most < ritical and did not exceed three
to four weeks' reserve stocks. The
result was to create the utmost anx
iety on the other side, as at the rate
of sinkings then taking place, the
war had a debatable end."
“if sinkings had gone on at the
rate of 800.000 tons a month could
the allies have gone on?" Chairman -
Hale ashed.
"My personal opinion Is that they
could not, but I want to reserve my
judgment because by strict denial
the allies might have met the situa
tion. They were never reduced to the
final state of privation although they
■were on the serious borderland, not
only at that time but during the fol
lowing winter.”
Withhold: Opinions.
Asked if he thought the navy de
partment did everything it could to
meet the situation. Hoover replied
that he knew nothing about naval
policy and would not give an opin
ion.
Hale asked is sending of destroy
ers to Europe would have shortened
the war.
"If we had surplus equipment and
could have applied it certainly would
have helped,’’ Hoover replied. “I
would not go so far as to say it
would have shortened the war be
cause the duration of the war is a
most complex thing with a hundred
involved."
Admiral Sims today supplied doc
umentary evidence that he was not
kept informed as to naval depart
ment plans for operations in the war
zone.
Admiral Sims said the first intima
tion ho had that he was net in the
full confidence of • the department
came soon after he submitted his first
reports from London. He iearnc.l
then, by accident, he said, that si
a?rj“mcnt had been reached by the
nafgy department and British . nd
F'iench naVal officers in Washington
early in April regarding the dispo
sition of American naval forces. The
terms of this agreement were cabled
to Admiral Jcllicoe by the British
representative on April 13. 1917, he
declared.
The officer also charged that with
out notifying him before band, the
■department arranged with the French
naval attache to send 10 or more
yachts to combat submarines off 'he
French coast; arranged to establish
two naval bases in France, sent naval
forces to that country; dispatched
six destroyers from Boston; sent 100
cannon to France on naval colliers;
started a campaign in the newspa
pers for a North sea barrage; dis
patched the fifth destroyer squadron .
.from St. John’s to Queenstown and
sent four additional destroyers from
New York to join his forces.
Some of these vessels, he said, ar
rived overseas before he knew of
their allocation to command.
He declared that great confusion
existed with regard to the establish
ment of the bases in France. The
admiral said he received a letter ear
ly in August from the officer assigned
to command the Bordeaux base say
ing "the situation in France is not
clear to me,” and that he had asked
upon being ordered to the command
of the base what his duties were he
had been unable to obtain any infor
mation.
i "After waiting about four weeks, I
I received orders to proceed with a
party of eight persons, but still no
instructions,” the officer said.
A similar condition existed with re
gard to American naval aviation
forces sent abroad. Admiral Sims
ILLINOIS MAN SHOOTS
WIFE AND SUICIDES
New York, March 15.—Lawrence
Harrington, of Aurora, 111., Friday
shot his wife probably fatally artd
then shot himself, dying almost in
stantly. Mrs. Harrington is at a
hospital here and hopes for her re
covery are said to be scant. Har
rington arrived at York Thursday
night from Aurora, and called on his
wife at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Rosa Keyes, where she has bton for
six weeks. He asked her to return
with him and she refused, he left
the house, bought a revolver and re
turned in a few moments, when the
shooting took pla*'*
“accused negro killed.
Montgomery, Ala., March 15.—Wil
bur Smith, negro and former soldier,
was shot to death by six masked men
near Legrand, Montgomery county,
1 last night after his arrest by Frank
Robinson, a farmer, on a charge of
attacking a 6-year-old white girl.
RUSSIAN COMMISSION.
■ Paris, March 13.—The League of
[Nations council today adopted a res
olution for appointment of a commis
sion of 10 members for the investi
gation of' conditions in Russia.
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4 Seattle, Wash., March 15.— 4
4 Perry Cunnjngham, who says 4
4 he is from Alaska and “on the 4
4 level," was seeking a bride 4
4 here today. In a letter to the 4
4 Star, he said be must be mar- 4
4 ried by his 25th birthday 4
4 March 31, or lose a fortune of 4
4 $25,000 left him conditionally 4
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III 6SJSE OILS
High Prices Asked By Private
Producers Leads to Move—
Federal Refineries May Come
Next.
Washington, March 13.—The gov
ernment lias decided to take over the
entire oil production of the Gsage In
dian nation, totaling 15,000,000 barrels
a year to insure its supply of fuel oil
for the navy, shipping board and war
department, it was learned today.
Fuel oil producers are asking such
several occasions has rejected all bids
and now faces a serious shortage.
The government decision to take
over the Osage nation oil was reached
at a series of meetings of the council
of national defense and following con
ferences between John Barton Payne,
chairman of the shipping board and
secretary-elect of the interior depart
ment, Secretary Baker and Secretary
Daniels.
A permanent oil policy has been
determined upon to cover a period of
years and insure k continuous sup
ply. The outline of this policy will
be made known in a few days, prob
ably beginning when Payne takes of
fice os head of the Interior depart
ment. One of Payne's first acts. It
was learned today will be to an
nounce that the government will take
all Its royalties from government
lands in the form of crude oil.
The crude oil thus obtained will be
traded for fuel oil or held in storage
until such time as the trade can be
made at what government officials
regard as fair terms. Present high
prices asked by fuel oil producers
will not be recognized, it has been de
cided.
Another item of the oil policy is a
decision of the officials that unless
' the government is able soon to pur
chase fuel oil at a reasonable price,
shipping board and navy department
will co-operate in going into foreign
I fields, buying crude oil and refining
i it in competition with United States
refiners, it was ascertained.
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Hu Lire Shipping May Be Tied
Up By Isemand For Big' Wage
Increases—About
7,000 Out.
NVw York Mutch 15.--The strike of
1 kual longshoremen checkers aiul dock
workers to enforce demands for an
j increase in wages and adjustment of
wcrk.ng hours, which was unani
mously voted hist night became ef
1 fective this morning.
The unions involved claim a mem
bership of between 7,000 and 8,000.
1 Steamship owners said if the full
| membership walks out, coastwiso
I shipping would be nearly tied up.
j Companies affected include the Mal
I lory, Clyde. Morgan. Old Dominion,
j Southern Pacific and the Ocean
Steamship Company lines.
Dongshoremen are now paid 65
j cents an hour for a basic eight-hour
day with $l an hour for overtime.
They demand $1 an hour and $2 an
hour for overtime. The checkers
want an increase from $25 a week to
$38.50 and a reduction for four hours
a week. The dock workers want a
25 per cent increase in wages over
their present scale of $35 a week.
Steamship owners declared they
were unable to meet the demands be
cause they are bound by the award
of the national adjustment commis
sion which was to remain in effect
until September 30. 1920.
PAPER SUED
FOR $150,000
Chicago, March 15.—Mrs. Jennie M,
Vale, mother of Mrs. Ruth Randall,
pretty divorcee, who a week ago killed
Clifford Bleyer, wealthy advertising
man and then ended her own lifa,
brought suit for $150,000 damages
against the Illinois Publishing and
Printing Company, publishers of the
I Chicago Herald-Examiner today.
The suit is based on the "unau.
thirzed publication” of Mrs. Randall’s
diary, which was found in her apart
ment after police broke down tha
door.
BERGER CASE CONTINUED.
Chicago, March 14.—Victor Berger
and four other socialist leaders sen
tenced on January 23 of last year to
serve a 20-year sentence for draft
obstruction obtained another contin
uance, when the case came up in tha
United States court of appeals today.
By agreement of attorneys the case
was continued Indefinitely.
STERLING AT $3.48.
New York, March 15.—Demand
sterling was 1 cent lower at $3,4S on
early nominal quotations today.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT FALLS
IN BLOODLESS REVOLUTION
Dr. Kapp, Monarchist, As
sumes Chancello rship—•
Treaty of Versailles to Be
Fulfilled, Message From Ber
lin Says.
Berlin, March 15.—it is report
ed that it is intended to pro
claim Field Marshall Von Hin
denburg “imperial president.”
A proclamation has been issued
by the old regime, calling on
the peop]£ for a general strike,
declared that it is the only means
against the return of y/illiam II.
London, March 15.—Official
advices reaching the press as
sociation are that the revolution
ary troops have brought artillery
into Berlin. They state laso that
tho members of the Ebert gov
ernment have proceeded to Dres
den to set up their regime.
NAME NEW CABINET.
Berlin, March 15 (noon).—A
new imperial ministr yhas been
formed. It is provisionally com
posed as follows:
Imperial Chancellor—Dr. Kapp.
Minister of Defense—Gen,
Baron Von Luettwitz.
Minister of Finance—The Ober
finanzrat Bank.
Minister of Public Worship
Dr. Traub.
The other ministers have not
•s yet been appointed.
The government of President
Ebert in Germany fell today.
In a bloodless revolution, Dr.
Wolfgang Kapp, president of the
fatherlands-party, and a recog
nized monarchist, was pro
claimed chancellor. General
Luttwitz is the new minister of
defense.
Plans to promote the aims of
the monarchists or the reaction
aries are disclaimed by the new
government. In a message made
public today it is announced:
“The new government under
Chancellor Kapp says in its pro
gram to be made public that it
will honorably fulfill the treaty
of Versailles. It gives emphatic
assurances that the government
has no reactionary or monarchial
aims.”
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ajuaiiu was uireaienea during
the night by the immediate dan
ger of a violent revolution. It
became known at midnight that
revolutionary bodies of troops
had begun to move on Berlin
from Doeberitz.
Generals Yon Oldershausen
and Yon Ovan and Lieut. Col.
Wetzel went to meet these troops
and warn them of the conse
quences of their action. Troops
from the Baltic joined in the re
volt.
The troops which were concen
trated at Doebritz, including the
Erhard and Loewenfeld naval
brigades, nevertheless, contin
ued their advance on Berlin and
at 5 o ’clock this morning were at
the Tiergarten railways station.
President Ebert, his wife and
members of his cabinet, left Ber
lin by auto early today without
resigning their posts. Chancellor
Kapp dissolved the Prussian as
sembly this morning.
Berlin is reported quiet and
normal. Detachments of soldiers
are patrolling the Wilhelmstrass
and are stationed about the Hotel
Adlon, headquarters for the vari
ous foreign missions.
A dispatch to Basle today says
that the new government aims at
a military dictatorship with a
cabinet of specialists. There is
no indication that Dr. Kapp
plans an attempt at re-establish
ment of the monarchy.
Paris seems the most seriously
agitated of allied capitals over
the German situation. Certainty
that the new government is mon
archistic in tendency causes the
French to regard the situation
as extremely serious. Many
French expeet a new war at
once.
So far the revolution has been
bloodless.
News from the German prov
inces is to the effect that general
calm prevails.
A late dispatch to London
claims that loyal 'republicans are
still holding the east part of Ber
lin, the revolutionists being in
possession of the western part of
the city.
Public security police are re
ported in possession of most of
the important public buildings.
SCORES SEEKING CURES
FROM ANOTHER “HEALER“
Now Orleans. La., March 15.—Led
by a score of crippled and ailing men
and women, hundreds of persons
crowded the Mississippi levees last
night trying to reach the ramshackle
^houseboat of John Gudney. a kindling
*peddler, known as “Brother Isaiah”
from reputed cures by the laying on
of hands,
The newspapers Vorwaerts and
Freiheit have been suspended.
LONDON HEARS IT.
London, March 13.—Revolutionary
troops entered Berlin today, a news
agency dispatch asserts. The revo
lutionists declared the government
overthrown. Dr. Wolfgang Kapp
was named chancellor.
The foregoing dispatch was filed in
Berlin at 8:50 a. m. today.
A Berlin dispatch from Carl D.
Groat, United Press staff correspon
dent confirmed the news agency dis
patch that the government of Presi
dent Ebert, first head of the new
German republic has been over
thrown.
The Berlin dispatch dkl not men
tion the ‘•revolutionary troops," how
ever. It said th..> revolution was
“peaceful." 1' i..er dispatches had
said the i \ hswehr and public se
curity f<" s of Gustav Noske nad
been co ned to their barracks and
ordered to be ready for any emer
gency.
Dr. Kapp, who has assumed the
chancellorship is known as a violent
reactionary and has opposed the
Ebert government since its inception.
As head of the powerful fatherland
party he is considered an advocate
for restoration of the monarchy.
Kapp has been reported as closely
in touch with the activities of the
pan-Germanist groups who have
been backing Field Marshal von
Hindenburg for the presidency. Hin
denburg was last reported as accept
ing the offer to become a candidate.
Fall of llie Ebert government may
be fraught with the most far reach
ing consequences. Allied lears have
made every effort to Insure its se
curity, puolicly declaring that any
change of government in Germany
would be sure to endanger the treaty
of Versailles.
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r-ioeri depended ror support largely
on the troops of Gustav Noske, hla
minister of defense who crushed the
Spartacan and other radical out
breaks. While Noske had full control
o-rer the reichswehr and volunteer
troops his hold on the regular army
was weak. The disaffection of thie
element, headed by officers who re
tained. secretly at least, their allegi
ance to the former kaiser probably
forced Noske to give up hie post
without fighting.
Reports that the revolution was
brewing have been current for
months. Pan-Germanist and mon
archists recently have been gaining
power.
Revelations In the Erzberger
Helfferich trial weakened the confi
dence of the people In the Ebert ad
ministration and gave the reaction
aries an opportunity they did not
miss to crystallize opinion against
the government.
Ebert always has been considered
an interloper by the aristocrats of the
old kalserist regime. Hts lowly birth
and unconvincing personality have
been held up to scorn time and again
by the military clique.
The revolution will bring the allies
face to face with these problems:
Forcing the new government to ad
here to the treaty of Versailles.
Securing stronger guarantees from
Holland that the former kaiser, now
interned in the Dutch nation, will be
so guarded that there will be no op
portunity for his return to Germany.
Forcing the new government to ad
here to the allied decision to make
Germany punish her own war guilty
by trial before a German tribunal at
Leipsig.
General Von Luttwitz, who was
commander of the first reichswehr
group, and a lieutenant of Noske, ap
parently was guilty of complete de
ception to his chief. He was ac
cused by Die Freihit yesterday of
being implicated in the plot when it
was first discovered by the govern
ment. Noske has been accused of
disloyalty to the Ebert government.
Today’s successful coup was the
result of careful preparation both by
propaganda among the masses and
careful work among army officers by
the reactionaries. Radical and indus
trial outbreaks gave them their first
chance. At the time of the Spartacan
outbreaks, when grave fears were felt
in allied circles for the safety of the
government, the pan-Germanists and
monarchists did everything in their
power to embarrass President Ebert.
Noske, however, succeeded in bolster
ing up the strength of the adminis
tration by ruthlessly repressing each
disturbance.
The reactionaries found their next
opportunity when the allied demands
for punishment of the German war
guilty and lists of accused were for
warded tq Berlin. These lists
brought a storm of indignation from
every circle of German opinion. Tlte
Ebert government, in a series of
notes, warned the allies that it could
not—dare not—turn the accused over
to the allies for trial before entente
military tribunals.
The government practically told
the allied premiers that surrender of
the accused Teutons—including
many powerful figures in the old
kaiseristic clique—meant its down
fall. Allied investigations bore out
this statement and the premiers fin
ally agreed that the accused might
be tried before German tribunal at
Leipsig as the Ebert government had
suggested.
PROHIBITION DRIVING
FOREIGNERS FROM U. S.
New York, March 15.—Prohibition
Is causing so many foreign born to
leave the United States that emi
gration is exceeding immigration, ac
cording to Congressman Isaac Siegel,
a member of the House immigration
committee.
Ellis Island records today showed,
that immigration since Jr.vS'arCtt.
totalled 53,000. wii^e-CV
left the country,/•..''Most of Y 011 11 p
have gone back to Pulitnd and •
Slovakia to stay. It is epiiina&ftfrthccff/
the figures for March will lx1 30,OOP
I departure* and 24.00O arrivals. •?
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Cutlers Are Scarce.
‘‘The servant problem la gilded cir
cles must be acute."
‘‘Why do you think so?"
“I see where the wife of a multimil
lionaire bns brought suit against the
wife of another multimillionaire to re
cover the person of one English butler.”
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Th* Cutleura Toilet Trio
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totlet preparations. The soap to cleanse
and purify, the Ointment to soothe and
heal, the Talcum to powder and per
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Without them. 25c everywhere.—Adv.
Age Quickly.
A visitor going through a rug fac
tory stopped beside an Armenian who
wws busy plying his shuttle. "You
make antique rtigs, too?” he inquired
presently.
"Oh, yes,” was (lie grinning reply.
“Dls rug when bees finished is 200
years old.”—Boston Transcript.
Evidences of Income.
"Btiggins Is trying to dress In a
way that will inako people think he
Is making a whole lot of money.”
“Silk hat and patent leather shoes
and all thn! sort of thing?"
“Not these days. He lias to put on
a suit of overalls and is carrying a
plumber’s outfit.”
Evoty htimui, heart is human.—
T.ongfellow.
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No woman Is a thing of beauty to
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Blind Men Splice Rope.
Blind men in a Pacific coast instt*
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