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il TfT) RIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS "THE VELVET HAMMER" TAPS THE FADS AND FOIBLES OF OUR OWN WELL-KNOWNS. NOTHING IS SAFE NOT EVEN BARBED WIRE. Nothing, appears too big oreo . little to be considered legitimate prey of thieves. V. C. Lee, farmer, hvfng south of Council Bluffs, re ported to the police and sheriff's office yesterday that thieves had stolen 1 000 feet of barbed wire from a new fence on his farm. Lee fin ished stapling the wire to the posts Monday afternoon. Tuesday morn ing when he gave a .casual glance in the direction of the fence he was astounded to find the posts as bare 'as before he began the job. The staples had been pulled and the wire carried away during the nigh. WHAT DOLLAR WOULD BE IF METHUSELAH SAVED IT. Lincoln, Jan. 20. In connection with the saving which the code bill is making to the state, Governor McKelvie called attention of the newspapermen to the following fig ures: ; '"Yon no doubt recall the case of Methuselah, who lived to be 9o9 years old. If his father had given him$l when he was 21 and he had kept that dollar out at 6 per cent interest, when he died he would have left a fortune of better than $302, 230,000 000,000,000,000,000 I have checked this figure by logarithms, assuming that money at 6 per cent doubles every 12 years, so I am quite sure it isv approximately correct."1 EATING VEGETABLES MADE HIM MUSCULAR. ' New York,' Jan. 20. Prince Paul Troubetskoy, Russian' sculptor, whose studio is at Hollywood. Cal., and who came here fairly radiating strength, declared that . eating vege tables instead of meat had trans formed him, from a sickly young man to "one of America's strongest men. By 'way of proving his strength the prince bent a quarter two ways with his teeth, smashed some walnuts with a ,blow of his fist and raised above his head some weights whibh an ordinary' man could not budge from the floor. JUST TO BE IN STYLE MOVIE PRICES TO SOAR. . Chicago, Jan. 20. (By Universal Service.) Everything is going up, so why not the admission fee to a movie? This was the kind of logic used by Al Lichtman, general man ager of the distribution agenfs of the Lasky-Farnous Players corpora tion, who arenieeting' here this week. , ' "High-class motion' picture shows Jvilf soon raise their admission prices to 75 cents," said Mr. Licht man. "Everything is going up',' so that the prices of high-class motion picture houses will also go skyward. Seventy-five cents will be the stand ard price for the best shows and special productions will demand $1. Mr. Lichtman denied that such an advance will cause a decline in at tendance. - , , . ; "The public - is motion picture crazy," he , said. , "You can't keep people awav-trom gooa snows, nq matter what the prices are.' PROFESSOR X r w ; ' RECOGNIZES WIFET"" ' Philadelphia, Jan. 20. Dr. John IX Brand, the amnesia victim, known formerly as "Professor "recognized . his whVwhen they met for the first time' in three years. - ; Dr. Brand, has been gradually re . calling his past life. He is taking daily exercise and is growing strong er physically as his mental power slowly returns. COMPARES RADICAL TO A' RATTLESNAKE. Chicago, Jan. 20. Federal Judge Carpenter has taken exception to a statement made vin a recent address Sy Judge Orrin Carter -of the Illi nois supreme court that radicals 'should not be deported, but edu cated to appreciate the true values of American ideals and institutions. Yon may as well try to teach a rattlesnake to sleep iri a cradle with ;i baby as to try to educate an an archist or radical," said Judge Car- pentera , ' COULD CHARM SNAKES BUT NOT HUSBAND. ' Los Angeles, Jan. 20. Indita charmed snakes for years by auoint ing hevself with fiery " water and looking them in the eye, but she has 1 failed to charm her recent husband, Capt. Harry R. Ziihmer. , She admits her failure in a bill for separate maintenance filed against the army roan, some , 20 years her senior. . , ' ( ' "It was a cat-and-dog existence every day of the six months of 4ur married life," says Indita.. "My advice to young womenvis to leave tlie old men with' young ideas alone." 1 Indita is a Hopi Indian princess, snake charmer and dancer. Captain Zimmer shows a bruise on his check where he says his young wife hit him. ? Captain Zimmer was command;ng officer of a signal corps in the 'Phil ippines during the Spanish-Amevcan war. He is an inventor and, his bride says, is .wealthy. TAtfES HIGH DIVE TO DEATH RATHER THAN GO TO JAIL. Oakland.- Cal.. Jan. 20. RatherJ than serve a 25-daysentence in the Oakland city jail, Pearl Whitford, v 23 years old, eluded the matron and, climbing through an 'open window on the 14th floor of the city hall, jumped 300 feet to her death. The body landed on a light well on the third floor., She was killed in s'antlv. Hundreds of persons wit nessed the tragedy. ' l METHODISTS CONVERT 9,200 IN 60 DAYS.', Chicago, -Jan. 20. The Chicago area of . the Methodist Episcopal' church, with a record of 9,200 con versions in th last 60days, is lead- ' ing irf .the nationwide canterary evangelistic campaign started last fall at the annual church conference. - according 'to a statement made by Dr. George B. Bean, director of the national campaign. , - Conversions xf or the 60 day pe- ' riod in other areas were announced as follows: - . Buffalo, 3.000:N Cincinnati, 1,541; New York,. 3,500: Pittsburgh, 3,000; Portland, - Ore.. 2.000T Washington. WicfaiU,-S,50Q , . - The Omaha aily-Bb VOL. 49 NO. 186. Enttiwtf Mcond-rlm matter May It, I9M. at Oaiaha P. 0. aadtr art March . 3, I87i . -OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1920. 8 Mall (I ytar). Dally. M-OOf Sunday. $2.50: Dally aid 8a., 17.90; autilda Nob. aaataaa antra. TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER: s ; Fair and continued cold Wed nesday; Thursday increasing cloudiness with slowly rising tem perature, probably becoming un settled. Honrly temperature! , ' 1 It. m U B. m 1 a p. m It 4 p. m ft p. m 18 p. m .11 ra...... S a, m . . a m. . 1 a. in., a a. m . . av. m.. la IS ....;. .....1 IS in a. m 15 11 a. m IS 13 noon ...il T D. p. mi.,.,. .IS .11 k BOM B PLOTS FRUSTRATED BY ARRESTS Wholesale Assassinations Planned for Next May Day or Fourth of July Nipped in Raids on Extremists. . . "HONOR LIST" INCLUDED PROMINENT PERSONAGES Police Believe Borrlbs Were' to Have Been Sent by Express Or Hurled by Fanatics Amonp Plotters. , r New York, Jan. 20. A plot for wholesale assasinations by the dis turbution of bombs next May day or Fourth of July is believed by the police to have been frustrated by the arrest in two raids Monday of 18 extremists, said to be members of the Union of Russian Workers. Public officials, prominent citizens, agents of the Department of Justice and police were to be included in the "honor list" of proposed victims, it is asserted. The police think the bombs were to have been sent by express or hurled by fanatics, i This information was forthcoming following the preliminary investiga tion of papers 'seized in the raids. Materials for use in the manufacture of bombs, including those of the pipe variety, was found. The plotters' plans were only in the preliminary stages, it was said. Fifty-two radicals taken in raids here and Passiac and Trenton, J., were r.eleased-from Ellis island on bail. According to Miss Rose Weiss, an xattorney for 37 of the prisoners, a bail fund of $150,000 in Liberty bonds is now available and from now on about 30 a day will be released- - v .27 Held for Deportation. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 20. Federal officials announce that 27 alleged radicals, arrested in raids here, are to be held for deportation. Three hundred and sixteen were arrested in the. raids which were' di rected acainst members of the Union of Russian Workers, and other al leged radical organizations. rMany were released after examination by Department of Justice officials. , AMERICAN MAY SIT ON JURY TO TRY EX-KAISER As Treaty Not Yet Operative Here, U. S. Did Not Unite .In Demand on Holland. J. W. Thomas. was the son of a London portrait painterand received a classical edu cation in the boys' schools of Lon don and Oxford and later traveled on the continent. He located in New York at the age of 19 and the'following year he moved to Carroll, la., where he en gaged in the banking business. He was associated later with G. W. Wattles in the establishment and operation of banks in Nebraska, at Sargent, Rushville and O'Neill. Made Enviable Reputation. . During the 'panic of 1893 Mr. Thomas moved from O'Neill to Omaha, where he had been ap pointed receiver of the American Savings - bank and of the Midland (Continued on Page Twg, Column Four,) PERSHING SAYS NOT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY 4,000 Former Soldiers and Sail ors and School" CRildfen Honor Officer at Seattle. Washington, Jan. 20. As the. German peace treaty is not ycf op erative so far as America is con cerned, the '. United States, it was stated officially, has not joined in the demand upcm Holland for the extradition of the former kaiser, nor can it do so even if it desjred. As head of the commission on re sponsibilities of the peace confer ence, Secretary, Lansing took the ground tha there was no law under which the former emperor could be brought to trial and punished. In its final action . upon the treaty, how ever, the conference designated the kaiser's acts as in violation ot in ternational -morality and provided for his indictment and trial by his accusers. Accepting the view that this proposes a political and not a criminal trial, the American com missionc'S signed the treaty. Therefore the offiial view is1 that while the United , Stages may not now paiticipate in the effort to ex tradite and try" the former kaiser because of non-action by . the sen ate upon-the treaty, it is possible that if 'he document is finally rati fied as it stands, America may have a member upon the court which will conduct the trial as required by the treaty. ' Blames Excess Profits Tax For Intolerably High Prices New York; Jan. 20. Describing the excess profits tax as "one of the foundation stones" of "the pres ent intolerable price structure," Wil liam B. Colver of the federal trade commission, in an address befori the Purchasing Agents' association of New York, declared that "if you knock the whole thing out, the price structure would come down two or three stories at least." v For every dollar that gets into the public treasury through the excess profits tax. Commissioner Colvcr.es rimated that between $4 and S5 was taken from the ultimate consume r in excess prices. Admitting that tcpeal of the excess profits tax .would re sult in a big revenue las? to the r,ov ernmtnt. he proposed "re.lson.'ble small direct tax that -vervbody can see, evidenced perhaps. by a st..mp on grs sales. , , Appoint Eastern Manager , Of Gen. Wood Campaign New York, Jan. 20. Representa tive Norman J. Gould of Seneci Falls, N Y. has accepted appoint ment as' eastern manager of the 'Leonard . Wood national campaign committee, it was - announced here i'by Col. William C Proctor, national chairman. TJhc national committer now includes, it was stated. Colonel Proctor; chairman; J. J. McGraw of Oklahoma, vice chairman;. Gover nors Allen of Kansas,Burnquist of Minnesota. Shoup ofColorado and Norbeck of South Dakota and form er Governor Stokes and Senator 'Ruujoa pf New Jersey. PIONEER BANKER AND BUSINESS MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL Joseph W. Thomas Expires After s Undergoing, Operation. i Joseph W. Thomas, pioneer Ne braska banker, died last night at the Methodist hospital from complica tions following a serious operation. Mr. Thomas was born in London, England, November IS, 1853. t He Seattle, Wash., Jan. 20. Children in heattie were oismissea irom school so they could see General Pershing as he was anven through the streets. ' General Pershing let it be known he does not want to talk about poli tics while on the tour of the country. Everybody should know -where I stand," he said. "I am not a can didate for president." our thousand tormer soldiers and sailors were present at a box ing smoker that General Pershing attended here Monday night. Just before the fights started- a former service man, in the ring, asked the men if they wanted Jack Dempsey to represent' America against Georges Carpentier for tbe world s heavy weight championship. The crowd yelled its. disapproval and in the next breath shoulted that Bob" Martin, heavyweight cham pion of the American expeditionary forces, should . meet., the French champion. Acclaim Gov. Edwards As "Personal liberty" Presidential Candidate Newark! N. J.. Tan. 20. America would have been the first nation to ratify 'he treaty of peace had a dem ocratic house and senate been fleet ed in 1918, Homer S. Cumtnings, chairman of the democratic nationa' committee, declared in an address at Governor Edwards' inaugural dinner. Governor Edwards was acclaimed as the "personal "liberty" candidate tor president in a eulogy. of his ca reer, pronounced by A, Harry Moore, city commissione? of Jersey City, and the new presidential boom was g-eeted with enthusiastic ap plause. It was announced tnat the governor's friends have already en tered his name in the Nebraska pri maries and that moves, had been made to enter his name in the Penn sylvania and Virginia primaries. Red Troops In Siberia Arl In Control of Much Territory Paris, Jan. 20. Bolshevik troops occupy all of the territory of Si beria west of Kransoyarsk, from which they have driven' Admiral Kolchak s i forces, according Jo" lat est dispatches received here. The Kolchak units are retreating east ward. Thi revolutionary socialist government recently established at Irkutsk is said already to be very weak, being strongly combatted by General Semenoff, who is supported by the last remnants of the Kol chak army. ' ' ' Going to PrWy Council With Labor Head's Appeal Winnipeg, Jan: 20. The case of R. B. Russell, leader of Winnipeg's general strike, whose appeal from a two-year sentence fr seditious con spiracy was denied by the Manitoba court of appeals, will be taken to the privy council, in London,' it was announced by J. Law., secretary of the defense ka&uf PEACE TALK ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN Disagreements in Bipartisan ' Conference Looking to Com promise Create .Acute Situa tion in Senate. DIFFERENT SOLUTION OF DEADLOCK PLANNED Movement Starts Among Rank and File Toward Some Sort o Agreement Other Than Yet Promulgated. Washington, Jan. 20. Disagree ments in the bipartisan conferences looking toompromise peace treaty reservations today brought, the sen ate leaders' committees to the verge of a break 'and caused a movement among the senate rank and file to ward a different, solution of the treaty deadlock. Open rupture today of the leaders' conference was averted, temporarily at least, by passing over the dis putes on the Lodge reservation re garding equality of voting in the league of rations. The bipartisan ' conference will meet again late tomorrow, but with leaders of both factions doubtful as to the possibility of ultimate agree ment. , Plan Independent Moves. f Prospects of failure of the leaders conferences and of formal suspen sion of their sessions today moved "mild reservation" republicans and a tew democrats not members ot the leaders' committees to discuss independent moves toward a solu tion of the treaty situation. One "mild reservation" republican spokes man said, such a move would be forthcoming if conferences of the leaders fail within a few days to give more assurances, of a compro mise. Two plans for future action were considered by the senate rank arrd file should th leaders' conferences fail. Several of the "mild, reserva tion" republicans were said to favor a combination with the democrats to bring the treaty again to the floor of the senate for open consideration of compromise reservations. For effectiveness of 'this plan' reliance would 'be placed opon public pres sure which, it is believed, would de velop in favor of a compromise. ' Round Robin Petition. , Another plan, "championed . by a democratic advocate of compromise, contemplates a "round robin" peti tion to briner republicans and demo crats into joint caucus. "The mild reservation re were reported opposed to the bipar tisan caucus plan and also to the pending motion of Senator Under wood, democrat, Alabama, tor ap pointment of formal conciliation committees. Followers of Republi can Leader Lodge as well as the re publican "mild reservatioists" are said to agree that if the present bi partisan meetings of the leaders shall fail it will be useless to appoirft other conciliation committees. Participants in today s 'conference of the informal committees, of which there were too, said an impasse and suspension of the compromise move ment was virtually reached at the first session as a result of inability to get together on the equal voting reservation to the league of nations covenant. After more than two hours spirited debate, the whole sirbject was put over. Second Session Better. , Better progress, however, was re ported at the second session. The preamble to the Lodge reservations, requiring formal acceptance by three of the five principal powers of Amer ican reservations was taken up and it was said a tentative agreement was reached., The proposed com promise on the preamble was said to provide that if the principal signa tories do not formally file," objec tions to the reservations before their deposit for exchange of ratification the American reservations shall be deemed to have been accepted. - Change in the Lodge reservation to provide for different situations arising when the United States is and is not a party to disputes beiore the league was urged by the demo crats, who,, it was stated, agreed to accept the reservation in cases where the United States is a party to the dispute. In such cases the United States would assume no obligation where a nation with colonies or do minions cast more than one vote. Jn cases where the United States is not a party to the dispute the democrats proposed that the United states should be content 'to file objections None of the democratic proposals were acceptable to the republican leaders and the democrats, it was said, were equally adamant against republican suggestions for change. Want Train Dispatchers' ' Head on Committee Spokane, Wash., Jan. 20. A re quest that T. G. Luhrsen, president of the American Train Dispatchers' association, with headquarters here, became a member of the committee of 61 on policies and platform au thorized at the last meeting ot the republican national, committee was recommended at tire office, of the as sociation. The request came in a telegram from Will H. Hays, republican na tional chairman. In the absence of Mr. Xuhrsp, who- is at. the national capital, at taches of his office expressed the belief that he would acceDt the ao puiuUicijt,.. ... v Closing Out a Bad Lot ' TaKC A LETTER. , - M. LEWINE,-SOMEWHERE in RUSSIA . SIRT,- HAVE JUST SHIPPED TO YOU A BOAT LOAD OF REDS tf MISCELLANEOUS SHADES. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL FUTURE CONSIGNMENTS UNTIL, I EXHAUST MY SUPPLY. THEN . I INTEND TO DISCONTINUE THAT LINE ENTIRELY. TRUSTING . YOU WILL FIND THESE UP TO YOUR STANDARD,, I AM VERY TRULY, - ALSO, ADD,- I N.B.x-THESE GOODS ARE NOT RETURNABLE. I SHALL NOT BE 5o SLOV IN THE FUTURE. - i ' THIEVES ESCAPE AFTER CHASE BY POLICE IN AUTO After being chased at high speed republicans, ' however,J-ffom the Douglas street bridge to a point on Grace street between Six teenth and Seventeenth streets, two men who had stripped an abandoned stolen car in Council Bluffs " a few moments earlier wrecked their own machine and were obliged to escape on foot, leaving their car and loot to the police. . E. L. Lotz, 5015 Cuming., street, reported to police last night that his new Chandler coupe had been. "Stolen from in front of the St. Joseph hos pital.' , ' N Stolen Car Abandoned. vAn hour later Council JJluffs po lice notified Captain Vandus at the central police station' that this ma chine had' been abandoned on the Lake Manawa road, south of .the Had Stripped Stolen Car of Tires and Accessories and Abandoned It . in Council Bluffs. Jens Peter Madsen' Killed I When Operating -Machine With Automobile. Bluffs. They, said that two men had been seen stripping the car of t. qnfl .ir.ccnripc nnrf that they were-on their way toward thei cil - Bluff s. He is survived by four" hriilffp tn Omaha. Chauffeur Haley and Officer Buglewicz were sent to the Douglas street bridge immediately ia the high-powered police emergency car. They met a machine, occupied by two men, at the approach to the bridge. When ordered to stop, "the driver of the car put on speed and tried to run awayi Speed Recklessly. : The police gave chase and the two the strtets until the first car ran into" a fence on Grace street, near Six teenth, and was practically demol ished. The two men jumped from the1 wredked car and escaped before the police could stop their car and return to the scene. The -wrecked car was found to contain the stolen tires and other accessories from the Lotz machine, which loot was brought to Central police station for safekeeping. Unless n the wrecked car also proves to be a stolen machine, po lice believe that- the identity of the thieves can be ascertained by trac ing the license numbers. Six Workmen Lose Lives In Fire in Philadelphia Philadelphia, Jan. 20. Six work men lost their lives and eight Mher persons were injured, one of thtim a fireman, when fire destroyed the four-story ' furniture factory build ing of Robert Tarlo & Son, South Fifth itreet. this citj'. Firemen and police tonight were searching the ruins for additional bodies. The fUmes swept so rapidlv that worknven" of the upper floors were trapped. Three men jumped from windows and were badly injured. "Dead" Gunner Alive. Bakersfield, Cal., Jan. 20."Gun ner" Depew, whose death at the hands of bandits ' near Maricopa, Ariz., was reported two weeks ago, is alive and well in Bakersfield. De pew says the report of his death in a local paper is false, antlcam to a local papef" to make the teport, . , STUMBLES UPON SAW AND IS CUT INTO TWO PIECES . To te cut 'in two by a. buzz, saw, that tore tfiroligh his body, from the .right shoulder to the lower ribs on the left side, was the fate of Jens Peter Madsen, 66 years old, yester day ofternoon. All the vital organs except the brain were cleaved. Death followed instantly. . . Madsen had been living with his son, George, on a farm on the line between Pottawattamie and. Mills counties, Jowa,. and was Helping operate a saw near the house. The power was ' furnished by a Ford automobile, 'in which was sitting Madsen's little 'grandson acting as engineer. The saw had been in op eration several hours. Madsen was helping his son carry a log-to the table ' and as he approached he stumbled over a stick and fell- for ward on the saw. The grandson saw the aged man stumble and stopped the engine, but not until the pieces of severed body fell on each side of the saw. - Coroner Cutler was notified and brought the body to Council Bluffs. Mr. Madson tormerly lived in Loun- sons, Ueorge. ana Charles, living on the farm, Chris and Peter at Ne bla, and one daughter, Mrs. May Machan. Des Moines.' Mrs. J. Jen sen, a sister, lived in Council Bluffs arid three brothers reside in-Den-, mark. , . ' - ' Peace Offers of Berlin : Will Be Made Public London, Jan. 20., All thc docu- machines speeded recklessly through ments respecting diplomatic, mter- .. . . . . i r . ' 1 U TJ , course between Berlin and Washing ton before the German peace otter of 1916 and the events leading to the proclamation1 of Poland's inde pendence will be published in Berlin. This announcement is made in -a wireless message from Berlin, i CHIEF COUNSEL FOR SOCIALISTS GIVES WARNING Says That It New York Assem- bly Permanently" Ousts De-1 pendants a Act "Will Loosen Revolution." JUGOSLAVS PRECIPITATE HUME CRISIS Supreme Council Disbands j Following Nitti's Refusal to Accept "Supreme Effort": in Relation to Adriatic. STAND-BY LINE DRAWN ' BY PRESIDENT WILSON Albanr, N. Y.,-Jan. 20. Morris Hilquir, chief counsel for the five suspended socialist assemblymen, declared at the opening of. their trial that if, the assembly permanently ousted the defendants, the act ."will loosen the violent revolution, which we , socialists' have always endeav ored, and are endeavoring,: to stem." Mr. Hilquit added this "one word of- solemn warning," after asserting that (he Romanoffs and all instru ments of oppression in Russia had been destroyed after the government had tried -to outlaw , the socialist movement and . that ., "we are not afraid of suppression at the time one half the world is under socialist con trol." Warning to Country. iThis "warning" was later inter preted by' Martin W. Littleton, as sociate counsel for the committee, as ."a warning to the country, a "threat" to the committee, and an ad monishment to the assembly that they do not dare deal with the gen tlemen he represents unless they wish to invite revolution to 'this country." Mr. Hilquit denied that his remarks were intended as a "threat", and said instead he had "made a sort of love offr" that "we socialists are ready to see the thing through in a constitutional manner and by peaceful methods." "I was merely imploring you to be as good and peace-loving as we so cialist are," he .said, "and not to be: high-handed in your, procedure. That was an entreaty and it was in tended to be.", . - Exclude Bar Committee. . .The- judiciary, committee opened the trial by .excluding by a vote of (Continued on Paga Two, Column Two.) Over 100 Increase in 0. T -" 1 TV 1 Locai uispi !! JL. 4. ay Advertising In Last Sunday's Omaha Bee . Watch The Bee Grow Fearless and Fair At All Times No Statement Outlining Pro posal Made by Italy to Jugo slavia Made Public, But Copy Is Sent to Washington. Paris, Jan. 20. (By The Asso- ciated Press.) With the disbanding tonight of the supreme council without a settlement of the Adri atic question, Premier Nitti of Italy' declared he stood by his ultimatum; that if the Jugo-Slavs did not nc cept Italy's terms tonight he would withdraw his compromise offer and that Italv will demand that France ! Land Great ' Britain execute purely ana simpiv tne treaty ot i.onaon or April, 1515. Prior to the breaking up of the council, the Jugo-Slav reply ' to Italy's demands had been presented, Signor Nitti declared the terms un acceptable. The Jugo Slav r.ote said it constituted "the supreme ti fort," of Jugo-Slavia, to bring sbbut an agreement with Italy. This fact taken in connection with Premier Nitti's statement, apparently leave , the situation a tense qne. -; ;. Jugo-Slav Reply. The Jugo-Slav reply said: ' "The Jugo Slavs accept 'nterna tionalization uitder the league of nai tions for Fiume and Zara, concede to Italy the isldnds of Lussin and Pela goza and agree to the demilitarizai tion of the Adriatic islands with the condition that the island of Liss$ remain Jugo-Slav. - . "The right of the Italians in Dal matia to choose Italian nationality without leaving Jugo-Slavia is rec ognized by the Jugo-Slavs, who als? agree that Italian national rights ia Dalmatian industries shall be guar anteed by an international conven tion. "They refuse to make any alteration of thline drawn by Pres ident Wilson.. - - : '. To Respect Albanian ! '.T The' note says the desire.. of th Albanians for independence will be respected,, but if necessary the Ju go-Slavs will accept all the -pro posals. ' . . The council this afternoon held " further discussion on Great Britaii,s announcement of her inaoiljty' to send her quota of troops into the j plebiscite areas. The discussion re- i suited in the British offering to send ' naval detachments to Memel anq Danzig. . -. . During the session Hugh G. Wal lace. American ambassador; Pre mier Lloyd George. Premier Nitti, and Baron Matsui, the Japanese am bassador, extolled M. Clemenceaii in brief formal farewell addresses. 1. No definite arrangements were rade by the council before dis banding for turning over the Turk ish, Adriatic and other problems to other hands, but it was indicated that the proposed conference of am bassadors would be empowered, soon to continue this work. ' Copy Sent to Washington, t No statement outlining the pro posal made by Italy to Jugo-Slavia for a settlement of the Adriatic Con troversy has been made public. The proposal which wrj sent to Belgrade January 14 is said to have had the approval of France and Great Bri tain. Signor Nitti said that a copy had been communicated to the Washington government and that he hoped it would receive endorse ment there. In an interview with The Asso- ciated Press the day following the dispatch of the document to' Bel grade, Signor'Nitti said Italy had offered to leave the port of Fiume and the railways at Sussak tinder1 th"e control of the league of nation. "The city itself." the premier said, referring to Fiume, "is' absolutely Italian in its nature." The premier then was optimistic (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) Material Reductions - In Clothing Prices Are Prognosticated i , Washington, Jan. 20. Material -reductions in clothing prices may be expected from nation-wide adopf tion by the clothing trades of sug gestions put forward by a commits tee of the National Retail Dry Goods association, it was stated by Howard E. Figg, special assistant attorney general, after he had con ferred with representatives of ,th4 dry goods retailers ' ' The suggestion of the retailers. which are understood to apply to the retail, wholesale and manufactur ing factors, will be made public Wednesday. One of the retailers' proposals was said to be that th manufacturer Istand the entire in-, crease cost due to any further' ad vance in wages, the retailers taking the position that increases incident to wages cannot longer be Passed on t5 the pubh'c. . . . ' I " Assistant Attorney General Figf and the members of the special com mittee of the retailers' association id a conference lasting throughout tho day went intothe question of labor, middle men. brokers, jobbers. stabiU. izrtion ot distribution and all othe question affecting clothing priceftt I (