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POST 0I5PAT BoiMe Value Bouhl rower it tinntknii uumuu ui ost-uispatcties sola in St. Louis every day is double that of the Globe-Democrat. 4 I I 0 The Only Evening Paper in St Louis With the Associated Press News Service ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENINCVjANUARY 16, 191928 PAGES. VOL.

71. NO. 143. PRICE TWO CENTS rui 1 fo) 1) rn A VI rvi mJ JV 1 AiUWU JV 0 NIGHT q) o) olio) JM ALLIED COUNCIL WILSON OPPOSES NEW AGREEMENT GIVES VALIDATION TOO. R.

FRANCHISES DR. UE6KNECHT, RADICAL LEADER, REPORTED SEED CHILD CfUT BY GLASS WHEN "BLACK HAND" BOMB EXPLODES Infernal Machine Set Off In Hall of Building at 1220 North Eighth Street. Frank Costa, 6 years old, was cut by glass and a half dozen families were thrown from their beds at 1 a. m. today when a bomb was eet off in.

a hallway of the building at 1220 North Eighth street. Police say this is the first appear NEBRASKA 36TH STATE; MISSOURI TIIE37TII 74,617,271 Population in States That Have Ratified Amendment; 30,456,709 in Those Yet to Act THE following table gives facts as to the order In which 3S states have ratified the prohibition amendment and the status of the liquor question in the 10 states that have not yet ratified it The population figures for the two groups are from the Census Bureau estimates for 191S. The totals show population in the states voting to ratify, and 20,456,709 in those that have not taken action. For a long time the prohibition movement derived its greatest support from the Western and Southern states, whose populations are smaller than those of the Northern and Central states. Indeed, it appeared probable at one time that the dry amendment would be forced upon a large majority of the population living in a minority of the states by a minority of the population living iu a two-thirds majority of the states.

The opponents of prohibition at this period bitterly attacked it on the ground that an amendment adopted in this way would be'undemocratic. No state has yet rejected the amendment and of those yet to rote, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and 'Wisconsin are practically certain to ratify it. States That Have Ratified Amendment. Order and Date of Final Action. June 26, 1918 Jan.

8, 1919 Jan. 14, 1919 Jan. 14, 1919 15, 1919 Jan. 14, 1919 Jan. 14, 1918 8, 1918 Jan.

8, 1919 13, 1918 2, 1918 Jan. 2, 1919 8, 1918 16, 1919 Feb. 19. 1918 1919 IE. 1919 Jan.

14, 1919 25, 1918 7, 1919 STATE. 1. Alabama Thirtieth 2. 'Arizona Twelfth 3. Arkansas Twenty-fifth, A.

California Twenty-third 5. Colorado 6. Delaware Ninth 7. Florida Fifteenth 8. 9.

10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

15. 16. 17. IS. 19.

20. 21. 23. 24. 25.

26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33. 34. 35..

36. 37. 38. Georgia Thirteenth Idaho Nineteenth Illinois Twenty-sixth Indiana Twenty-seventh Iowa Thirty -second Kansas Twenty-eighth Kentucky Third Louisiana Fourteenth Maine Twenty-first Maryland Sixth Massachusetts Eleventh Michigan Sixteenth MississlpplJ-FIrst Missouri Thirty-seventh, Montana Seventh Nebraska Thirty-sixth New Hampshire Thirty-fourth. North Carolina North Dakota Fifth Ohio Seventeenth Oklahoma Eighteenth Oregon Thirty-third South Carolina Fourth South "Dakota Tenth Tennessee Twentieth; Texas Eighth Utah Thirty-fifth Virginia Second Wyoming Thirty-eighth Washington Twenty-fourth.

West Virginia Twenty-second. it Population. 14, 1919 May 24, 1918 Jan. 14. 1919 13, 1919 Jan.

15, 1919 18, 1918 2.39S.270 272,034 1,792,965 3.119,412 1.014.681 938,877 2.935,617 461.766 6.317,734 2.854.167 2.224.771 1.874,193 2.408.547 1.884.778 782,191 1.384,539 3,832.790 3.133,678 2.001.466 3,448.498 486.376 1,298,877 446.852 2,466,025 791.437 3.278.814 2,377,629 888,243 1,660,934 735,434 2,321,253 4.601,279 453.648 2,231.030 190,380 1.660.578 1.439,163 7, 1919 15. 1919-23, 1918 20, 1918 '8, 1919 4, 1919 Jan. 15, 1919 11, 1918 16. 1919 13, 1919 9, 1919 74.617,271 Taken Final Action. Status.

Population. advertising In dry 1,286. 263 2.345,287 114,742 3.080.371 437.015 today Jan. Mar. Jan.

Mar. 1 Hi It if hi E6 3 is VIEWS OF I PUBLICITY PLAN in Meeting of Delegates of Great Powers With News-paper Men Called for This Evening to Exchange Ideas Regarding Secrecy Decision Adopted. RUSSIAN SITUATION ALSO IS TAKEN UP All Information at Disposal of Various Governments Will Be Laid Before Coun cil Foixnal -Opening of 1 Conference Saturday. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Jan.

16. The Supreme Council the five greater Powers resumedlts session at 10:30 o'clock today. There, were present for France, Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Minister Pichon; for the United 8tates, resident Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing; for Great Britain, Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Balfour; for Italy. Foreign Minister Son nino and for Japan, Viscount Chinda and Baron Matsui. Vlttorlc Orlando, the Italian Premier, was the only absentee lie still is detained In Rome.

President Wilson arrived at the meeting place accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and her secretary. Miss Ben-ham. Views of Press Invited. The 'official statement issued at the end of today's session reads: "The President of the United States of America and the Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries of the allied Powers, assisted by the Japanese Ambassadors in Paris and London, met today at the Quay d'Orsay from 10:30 a.

m. to 12:30 p. ro. "The question of the relations between the conference and the press was first taken up. It was decided to call a meeting of the members of the press of the allied and asso-tiatc countries at the Press Club, N3.

Avenue des Champs Elysees, today at 5 o'clock for the interchange of views as to the method to be adopted. "The meeting then took up the question of the situation in Russia and ngreed that the Governments fhould acquaint each other with the latest information at their" disposal with a view to the Joint examination of the question. "The next meeting will be held tomorrow, Frldiy, at 10:30 a. Formal Opening Saturday. The opening of the first full s-ton of the peace congress Saturday Will be carried out with ceremonies nviuunK eucn an occasion.

ui- tuchment of troops will pay honors to the arriving delegates and Stephen I Pichon. tha pnrVi Foreign Minister. tJ I will receive President Wilson at the I head of the steps at the foreign ministry and accompany him to the room where the meeting will begin at 3 o'clock sharp. Tho plenipotentiaries will sit around a horshoe table, the-middle part of this table being reserved for officers. The -delegation will be grouped by states in alphabetical or-j tier as they appear in the Almafiach de Got ha.

American delegates will be at one end, then those of the British empire, France. Italy ana Japan in the order named. After them will come representatives xf other states, also seated alphabetically. When all were seated President Polncare will enter and take the presidential arm chair to make the opening address. It Is understood that he will refer to the tragic epoch -nding so gloriously for the Entente and which for four years upheaved the world.

He is expected also to refer to the immense task of universal reconstruction which must be the work of the conference and the high ideals of Justice which will be ob-ervd during the deliberation of the peace conRress. He concludes by CORRESPONDENTS Jan. SECRECY POLICY; MAY GET CHANGE President and Lloyd George Work for Reconsideration of Decision and It Is Possible They Will Succeed. POLITICS SEEN IN COUNCIL'S DECISION Enforcement of Secrecy, for Instance, Would Prevent Discussion of French An nexation Ideas. By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Special Cable to the New York Evening Post and the Post-Dispatch. PARIS. Jan. 16 (Wireless Dispatch). President Wilsan has told his French, Italian and Japanese colleagues that he is unable to accept their proposalthat the proceedings of.

the peace conference shall be limited to a single communique daily, beyond which the press will be unauthorized to publish anything. Mr. Wilson stated clearly he had promised the American people that the proceedings would be open, and while he realized informal preliminary conferences must necessarily ba private to reach agreements, he could not support the view that restrictions should be placed upon rress discovery of what had occurred or been said. The British position was practically the same as that of the United States, People In America whs are accustomed to think of France as hav ing been grievously wronged, and soldiers who fought for her men and women, may not be familiar with designs of reactionary statesmen whose only chance to perpetuate themselves politically is in keeping! people ignorant of proceedings. What the Decision Means.

In actual practice the decision means that French spokesmen will be able seoretly to advance any proposition they please, arguing before their colleagues that it represents public opinion in France, which, however, could not manifest itself to the others. Some French leaders, for example, are. very anxious to get the territory on the left bank of the Rhine, which American commentators have often argued the French would never want, even though mentioned in the famous secret treaties published by the Russians. Nevertheless there is an active movement favoring the provisions of the old French-Russian treaty now going on and it is believed that a formal proposal will be made at the peace conference. Should such fact be discussed by public opinion in France, outside statesmen would have opportunity to observe whether annexationists plans were approved by the French people.

-Perhaps the most serious factor of all now is the point at issue of open diplomacy. President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George feel absolutely pledged to keep the peoples of their countries advised. The Italians support the French secret methods, buj if Italian people who are similarly kept under censorship knew the attitudes of the Government there would be objection. The trouble is that under censorship existing in these countries every decision will be made to appear For example, as- siduous effort Is being made in eer- I tain French papers supporting the Government to make it appear that the allies all agree constantly on; Russian policy, when all foreign cor-; respondents here know America and England orpose sending troops to Russia. The American mission, in meeting tho (correspondents today, felt un-' able to say anything for publication nonfllnir Ihn rtoislon r.f the Prmirj i.rRM.r,t vnnn tn ivhir tem of publicity would be adopted, Wilson May Bring Change.

Tho British and American corre- upondents are working jointly for a change, and the prospects are that Mr. Wilson and Lloyd George will win their point, hut wf.l have difficulty in persuading their colleagues wba are strong fir tho old methods. Opinion fluctuates as to the prob able time needed to formulate a treaty permitting a proclamation of peace in every country. Some be-i lieve that the fmooth progress made I In the last few days warrants Wo I hope that the first general treaty I can be affirmed by all during the spring months. This would provide for the creation of -a league of nations and thus, for the machinery Continued lne Col tuna S.

Mounted Troops Said to Have Captured Spartacan Agitator Soon After Their Arrival in Berlin. PREMIER'S PARTY IS DEFEATED IN BAVARIA Moderates Win in the Voting Elbert in Proclamation to Nation Promises Free Elections. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Wednesday, Jan. 15.

Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan leader, has been captured, it was learned late tonight, by officers and men of the Division of Mounted Rifle Guards, who arrived in Berlin today. The Spartacan leader is said to have been seized and taken to the fashionable Hotel Eden in, the western part of Berlin. Private telephone communication with the hotel was cut off abruptly soon after it was reported he had been taken there. Spartacan snipers continued their activities last night in some sections of the city and especially In the newspaper section, where the Wolff Bureau office and the Tageblatt were the objectives of their lire.

Other snipers rendered the district around the Halles Gate in the southern part of the city unsafe and there also was some scattered firing in the northern part of the city. The Government still maintains a strong force of troops in the Moabit section and the search for weapons and criminals there is said to be producing gratifying results. Hot but futile firing went on all night around the Stettin Railway station. Order Restored In Berlin, Govern- ment Announces, By the Associated Press. LONDON, Wednesday, Jan.

15. Order has been restored in Berlin, it is announced by an official wireless appeal to the German nation sent out by the German Government today and picked up here. The appeal, which was signed by Premier Ebert and Phillip Schsidemann, Herr Landsberg, Gustave Noske and Herr Wissell, members of his Cabinet, says that the Government is determined to prevent by every means at its disposal a repetition of "similar abominations." The appeal refers to, the coming elections under the "freest suffrage in the world to determine the constitution of the German State," and adds that the present Goverment is preparing a draft of a constitution which protects the free right of self-determination of the nation "against all counter revolutions or efforts at terrorism." Moderates Get 102 of Bavaria's 156 Assembly Delegates. By the Associated Press. BERLIN', Jan.

15. Nearly complete returns from tho Bavarian elections show that the party of Premier Kurt Eisner polled only 75,000 votes out of 2,750,000. The Eisner party and the Independent Socialists secured only four of the Assembly's 156 delegates and the Majority Socialists 50, the combined bourgeois parties have 102 representatives. The numerical unimportance of the Bolshevik elements outside of Berlin has again been demonstrated by the city elections. At Chemnitz, In a total vote of more than 117,000, the combined Spartacans and Independents polled 6269 and the Majority Socialists 64.534.

A comparison of the Wurttemburg results with the i Reichstag election of 1912 shows 'normous growth of the Democratic vote. The progressives polled 18 per rent of the vote in 1912, but received nearly a third of the vote Sunday last. CROSBY QUITS AS FINANCE AGENT Will Remain In Europe to Advise Prwee Delegation. Br the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan.

16. Oscar T- Carsby has resigned as Speelal Commissioner of Finance for tho United States in Europe. Secretary Glass will accept the resignation soon, but Crosby intends to remai in Europe to advise the American t-eace delegation on financial i ance of alleged "Black Handers" In" several years in that district. The explosions were a weekly affair, police say, until Capt. Schoppe, formerly in command of the Carr Street District, practically exterminated the band from that vicinity.

The first floor of the building Is occupied by the family of Joseph Costa. The second floor Is occupied by the families of Vito Palazzolo and Joseph Bommarito. In the explosion the hallway was wrecked and about 25 windows in the vicinity smashed. All the families in the house denied having received any threats lately. BAKERY FOR BEARS AND NEW HOSPITAL PLANNED FOR ZOO Program of Expenditure of $75,000 In 1919 Decided on by Board.

The Zoological Board, at -its meeting today, decided on a program of expenditure of $75,000 to $80,000, in 1919, on the Forest Park Zoo. Bear pits, wolf dens and a bakery, to cater to the taste of bears, monkeys and raccoons, are among the items of expenditure agreed on. A bridge is to be built over Wells drive, south of the lion house, to remove the danger from automobiles at this crossing. A hospital for wild animals, in the cement house, with an operating cage so arranged as to hold the animals in position, is also planned. The bakery was found recessary because bakers have largely stopped furnishing the former supply of stale bread.

It is planped to make about 100 loaves a day of a composition of bran, graham flour, molasses and wheat flour. PLANS FOR CHANGING LIBERTY 1 BONDS UNDER CONSIDERATION Secretary Glass Says He Will Shortly Recommend an Extension of the Time. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.

Secretary Glass wrote Chairman Kitchln of the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday that he will shortly recommend extension of the privilege-of converting Liberty Bonds of the firsthand second issues to bonds bearing interest at the higher rate of per cent. The period during) which the bonds might be converted closed Nov. 9. Secretary Glass transmitted to the Ways and Means Committee, which soon will consider, a new bond bill, statistics showing that bonds of the first two locfns nottonverted totaled $1,067,680,000. REQUISITIONED AMERICAN SHIPS RETURNED TO OWNERS Stripping Board Releases All Taken for War Service Except Those Being Used by Army.

By th Associated Press. NEW YORK. Jan. American ships which wr requisitioned by the United States Shipping Board during the war hive been released to their owners with the exception of those actually engaged in army service. It was announced by the Shipping Board here todav.

khiaiit ah Tiir infill PRESIDENT "RIGHT ON THE JOB" By the Associated Press. PARIS, Jan. 16. President Wil son has indefinitely postponed his visit to the invaded regions of Franco in order to keep in touch with the peace conference activities in Paris. RAIN TONIGHT AND PROBABLY TOMORROW; SOMEWHAT COLDER TUB TEMPERATl'HES, 1 ft.

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0 a. in- ...17 .45 Official fore Uncle Sam. is in out cp THE. VE-T. cast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Rain tonight und probably colder tomorrow; the lowest temperature tonight will bo above the freer ins: point. I 1 Rain In east and south portions; generally fair in northwest portion tonight; to-toniorrow generally fair except probably rain or enow in extreme east portion: somewhat IE Result Fully Confessed by New Stipulation Setting This Forth as Specifically Intended by City. ACTION WARNED OF BY POST-DISPATCH Settlement Concedes That Acceptance of Jefferson Avenue Line Deal Affects Others Similarly. The suspicion that the deal consummated by Mayor Kiel with the United Railways last Saturday, in which the Mayor validated the Jefferson avenue line franchise of the company by abandoning the city's fight against It, had tho effect of validating all other franchises of the company until 1939, a suspicion that was admitted to be well-founded by Counselor Daues to the Post-Dispatch, now is fully confessed by the Kiel administration in a formal agreement with the company signed late yesterday afternoon. Furthermore, Jn order that there shall be no slip to embarrass tho company in tho future, the agreement states that it is the intention of the agreement that the franchises shall bo validated to 1939, In the following language: It being the Intention of the parties hereto that said judgment rendered In favor of the United Railways, ant said affirmance thereof by the Supreme Court, shall operate to firmly fit and establish the right of the United Railways to operate Its various lines of street railways In the city of St.

Louis until the 18th day of March, 1938, under and pursuant to said ordinance No. 19,738. Ordinance Concerned. Ordinance No. 19,733 is the St.

Lnuta Transit Co. ordinance, under which Circuit Judge Cave held the 1 ompany had a right to operate its Jefferson avenue line, even though the Jefferson line was only a connec- tion of the lines enumerated in the Ordinance and was not named specifically. Attorneys, versed in franchise and charter law, have said that courts of last resort have held that franchise or charter rights cannot be conferred in general terms, but must be set forth specifically. They contended that the city could have won the fight it now has abandoned, the effect of the deal being to make Judge Cave's decisiomfinal. The appeal from the decision of Judge Cave has bceri on the Supreme Court docket since 1917.

having never been argued. Attorneys for the city and for the company pleaded they were not ready whenever the appeal was called. It was on the docket for hearing next March. A reading of Mayor Kiel's statement which accompanied the announcement Saturday and which he has said was his final comment on the deal, fails to reveal that the Mayor intimated he had validated any other than the Jefferson avenue line franchise. The fact that he had Intended validating all other franchises, of which there arc about 34, was concealed.

When a reporter for the Post-Dispatch on Monday sought from City Counselor Dimes enliKhtenment on whether the Validation of the Jefferson line franchise validated the other franchises also, Daues did not state that to be the purpose of tho deal. On the contrary, declared that while the city would be' at a "disadvantage" if it at any future time cared to attack any of the company franchises, it was not prohibited from raising an issue on any pther franchises in the future. In truth. the written agreement now discloses that the city specifically agrees not to raise any future Issue. 1 tenet) tri Given Company.

The recent so-called ordinance, once passed, then rejected by the company and repealed by the Board of Aldermen, at a. time when the public was indignant at the theft of referendum petitions on it, extended the franchise of the com-piny to 1948. It fixed a valuation of 550,000,000 on the company's property. It provided for revenue tor the city on the basis ofpassengera carried in lieu of the mill tax. It specified benefit to accrue to the public in the shape of extensions or line, improvement of equipment, including the removal of flat wheels, clean-UneMi of cars and their proper heating and ventilation.

repair of t'ontlsard I'ace S. Celaw Total States That Have Not STATE. Present Connecticut-districts -Prohibits liquor Minnesota Ratification 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Nevada Dry New Jersey Local option; dry New Mexico Dry New Tork New Hill-Wheeler option to cities Increasing Pennsylvania 14 counties dry Rhode Island Local option Vermont Local option; only Wisconsin Final action expected National Constitution Prohibit Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Beverages Year From Date of Final Ratification Amendment. of WAR PROHIBITION EFFECTIVE JULY 1 Country Will Become Practically Dry Within Six Months Under This Decree Unless President Rescinds it By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. lfl.TLu United States today completed the legislative process of voting itself dry. Nebraska was, the thirty-sixth state to ratify tlie national prohibition amendment.

Ratification by Nebniska iras followed at 11:12 a. m. by similar action in the Missouri Legislature. 1 The amendment to the Federal Constitution, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, becomes effective one, year after the date of its final ratification. Meanwhile the nation goes dry July 1' next, by presidential proclamation, as a war measure, unless the President rescinds it before that date.

Wyoming later In day ratified the amendment unanimously, and the Minnesota Senate acted faiwr- cbly, the House adjourning without action. Resolution Piijwetf In Itl7. Congress pussed the resolution ubmltting the amendment to tu various State Legislature in the midst of the neething preparations for war in 117. In the fall elections the wet una dry question was paramount In momt of the state, but the vote left doubt that the United States was destined to be the first great nation veto liquor. The vodka bn In Ilufcftl was never completely effective mr did It Interfere materially with the consumption of mora expensive' liquors, liuwlnn advicos now Mat that the DoUhevUU have restore! the vodka traffic Michigan nrt In Michigan was tho first State ratify In ll.

the LegUhtture voting on Jan. 2. From that date to today Legislatures have acted Flv statea ratified yrtent.iy, bringing th number up to 33. Other Lptflalaturea worked at feverish -ad to th thirty-sixth. Meanwhile a distillers' comTil'tee, through Levy Mayer, chief of their counsel, announced that in 23 stateJ the constitutions require a rfernr dum vote of cltlxens In order to rati fy a constitutional amendment.

Mayer today tbe stales as follows: South Dakota, Oregon. Nevada. Montana. Oklahoma. Main.

Maryland. Michigan. Arkansas. Colorado. Arlsona.

New Mexico. California, Ohio. Nebraska. Washington. North Dakota.

Missouri. Kansas. Ioulslaria ana tan. tight ivgn by DUillkT. In California court action ready Wvn taken to restrain the Clov ernor from certifying th action ct the Legislature to Washington, 'lut.

ery resourc th distiller wath re-n v.rcm of approximately ft. wlit mploel-In ttn effort to suve their buJ-tie-, it I sl.L An mwrtatit tntlnj of th oU: wll be held at New Ywrk on Jan. Iv when it it pUnm-d ta doi: a i tapl program. Ivy k-UeTS that the ilUlirr aitsck rt ror- ...,.,11 eteidr, MifactivJU i territory bill extends local dry cities by judicial action. nine towns wet Friday.

Senate already has ratified Total DRY AMENDMENT RATIFIED BY MISSOURI LEGISLATURE Senate Acts First by Vote of 22 to 10, and House Follows, 104 to 36 St. Louisans Against Ratification. 10.646.980 8.798.067 637,415 SI6.192 2.552.083 30,406.709 ators and 16 St Loubi Repreenta-Uvea voted gainst ratification. The other votes against It came for the most part from counties with largo German population. Procedure on QuvwUoit.

Owing to the fact that a suspension of tho rules would be necesnnry ia the Senate to paw the Houh resolution for ratification and th doubt of the drys'that they could lutlon was taken up In th Sentto and adopted and Kent to the House. There wa no doubt that there were enough dry votes In th House to suptnd the House rules and pas! the Senate resolution. Alimmt No K.ffort at Delay. -Atmoat no effort at delay wan made In either body, though In th Senate Senator Caey of Kmm City objected to tha of th" resolution on the ground tht undr the rule resolutions print and prints j-Ur-i cn tl i of the members to live then. supported in hi c.r.tn i v-on By a Staff Correspondent of Uio Posl-DlMmtch.

JEFFEKSON CITY, Jan. 16. The Federal prohibition amendment was ratified by the Missouri Legislature this morning, the State being the to ratify, following Nebraska, which acted earlier In the day and made the 36 necessary to put nation-wide prohibition Into ef fect. Action was taken virtually wiinou i mupter a two-thiro vote for uk-cebaie. The outstanding feature pension of the rule.

the Srcate reo- was a Fpecch by Kepresentative Frank II. Farrls, Democrat, of Fhelps County, "wet" leader of the House through many legbdatlvo -sionH. who announced Juat before the vote was taken that, while he had always opposed numptunry laws, he was willing to bow to the will of the majority of the people, and would vote for ratification. He declared he would do everything In hU power to enact an enforcement law "which would make Missouri dry in fact a Th for' ratmcatkm wss. ln in two in the Jloul" ta know oclaring tho session open and will.

v.Uthdraw. C'h'ineiK-cau to Tuke Chair. Premier Clemenceau will take the chair as chief of the French tlon. this bing his right, as the congress is meeting on the soil of France. Ho will request tho assembly to elect officers which, besides Cs(lnud a Vm S.

Colsa '0 i fcniwu. i' at 10 a. m. and la the House at 11:13 a. m.

livtry one of the alx St. Louis SeaT Are you pfclng to th Theater or If set. bee 1'ago 00 ir.