U. S. NAVY PRESS
NEWS.
WASHINGEFON:
By a vote of
seven-
teen
to three
the House Agricultura Com-
mittee
tabled
Gallivan Bill today for the
repeal
of war time prohibition which
set-
ties
for
the
time
all
efforts
to
repeal
war time
prchibition.
lLegal
effo-ts
to
make
invalid
the
constitutional
p-ohi
bition amend nent effective January
16th
were started
‘n the Supreme
Court today
when
New Jersey
retail dealers
ask 2d the
Court
for peirmission
to
file bill testing
validity and
seeking
injunction
tc
re-
strain officials from
enforcing
Vclsceac
law in New Jarsey.
ATLANTIC CITY:
Mrs. Esther
bilake
today repudiated
the statement
tha!
two
negroes
overpowered
her
ard Kidraoped
her five year
old
son
last
Friday
n ght.
It might have
been
a deiusion,s
.e is quo-
tad
as
saying.
She
is
uader
arrest,
charged with
murder
of her
little
boy,
whose
body
was
washed
up on the beach
several
days
ago.
She
has
been
suffer-
ing from nervous
exhaustion
for several
years,
and
suthorities
believe
thit
she
threw
the lad
from
the
piers
in:o
the
sea
in a fit of insanity, harboring
th2 de-
lusion
that
the
child
was
a
barricr
be--
tween
her and her
husband.
PARILIS:
A burst
of speed
of aporoxi
mately
two
hundred
and
twenty-six
miles
an hour
was scored
by Sadile :ornte
noted French
Aviator, in officially timed
airplane
test
today.
Also
holds
French
height reenrd
and previous
speed
record.
LONDON:
Thirteen
hundred
liritish
troops
in Persia
nave
been
wiped
-ut by
hostile population,
according
to a Moscow
dispatech.
Iro
ps
constituted
garrison
of town of Meshed.
COLEIMBIA. 5. C.:
Dr.
J
H Pratt
prominent Physician,
his
brother-in-law
John Bell, and Royall Cotton of
Charles-
ton
were
Kkillad in
pistol
fight
near
St.
Stephgus,
AMr. Beil’s couniry .home,
last
Sunday,
accordiag
to
reports
received
here.
Dr. Pratt
returning
from evening
church
founa
young
Cotton
at
lLouse.
Had warned
naim
to stay
away.
Shoot-
ing that followed, all three
men were
fa-
tally shot.
:
-
WASHINGTON:
President
Wilson
to-
day
spent
more
than
an
hour
on
the
south portico of the White
House
in spite
ors the severe
cold.
LONDON:
Bolsheviki
have
captured
town
on
Traas-Siberian
railroad,
says
wireless
from Moscow
wihich
states
that
they took five thousand
prisoners,
sever-
al guns,
and szveral
Kolehak’s Genals.
General
advaace
by
Boishevik
on
all
fronts
is c¢laimed.
SAN
ANTONIO:
Gaston
de
Wrida,
young
sportsman,
Kknown
im
various
Ammerican
ciiies,
who
with
compaunion
81T
¢ B
AV liN.
The Brass Bullet.
left New York with
intention
of captur-
ng
Villa for
reward
of fifty thousand
dol ars that has
been offered,
was
taken
~anc
executed
by the rebel
leader
accord-
ing to the newspapers
here.
Report
not
verified, but considered
reliable.
ERESTI:
Roughs
attacked
three
Amer-
ican
Naval
Officers
last
night
as
they
were
leaving
‘a
concert.
Lieut.
John
C.
Glone
was seriously
wounded
and
Lieut.
Charles
Nevin
received
a
bullet in
the
leg
MEW YORK:
Theft
of
nine
barrels
of tacramental
wine was
reported
to po-
lice last night by wholesale
liquor dealer.
He declares
the wine
was drawn from his
bas>ment
by seventy-five
foot pipe.
He
hac
special permit
to sell
it for religious
pul poses.
TELEGRAMS
SI. CROIX STATJON.
Faris,
Dec.
13th.—Gecrges
Carpentier
ccday
issued
a
challenge
to Jack
Demp-
sey for the championship
of the world.
.
London,
Deec.
13th.—Despatches
re-
"
ceived hers from
Stoekholm
say
the con-
fer:nce
between
the Baltie States’
repre-
sentatives”
and
the
Bolshevik
has
been
adjourned until the end
ot
the month.
Christiania,
Norway,
Dee.
15th.—The
Norwegian
coal
mines
in
spitzbergen
have
been
sold
to
a British
company
for
twe hundred
thousand
pounds.
The
sale
was
made
subject
to
approval
of
the
.
shareholders.
.
i
Paris,
Dee.
13th.——As
a
resul*
of the
l
conference
being
held
by
Mr.
Lloyd
Gecrge and
M. Clemerceau,
the
United
States
Government
will
be notified that
in crder
to facilitaie
a1
compromise
be-
tween
adverse
parties
in
e
American
Senate
the Allies
are
recady
te accept
to,
as great
an
exte~:
as
possible,
some
of
the reservatic...
to
the Versailles Treaty
-
made by the
Foreign
Relations
Commit-
|
tee,
according
to
the
‘‘Matin’’. It
is
~
said
that
the Allies
will do
everything
in order that America
may
participate.in
futire conferences.
Important problems,
the newspaper
szys,
shall be settled
by a
Council of the Premiers
of Great Britain,
-
France
and Italy.
This Council will meet
sometimes
in
Paris
and
sometimes
in
London,
and
will
examine
principally
Russian
and
Turkish
problems.
In the
~
presence
of
United
States
Ambassador,
Mr. Davis, it
is
said
Mr. Lloyd %eorge
and M. Clemenceau
assured
Sig¢nor Seiao-
lia, [talian
Foreign
Minister,
that
there
-
was
a necessity
for
an early
settlement
of the Fiume problem
and
indicated
that
Great Britain
would
intercede
with
the
United States for ;Italy.
Signor
Sciaoia
will leave for Rome
today
to lay the
mat-
ter
before
his
Governmeni.
The
spirit
which
prevails
at
the
London
confer-
ence,
the ‘‘Matin’’says,
is good, and
the
necessity
for
close
co-operation
by
the
Allies, is recognized.
Paris,
Dec.
11th.—Austria
must
have
belp from the Allies in order
to save
her
from famine
and bankruptey,
Chancellor
Karl Renner,
of the
Austrian
Republie,
said today,
in explaining his
presence
in
Paris.
where
he
came
to
present
to
the
Supreme
Council, the situation
which
he
declared,
faces
the
country.
‘“When
I
left Vienna
we had
only 9,000
tons
for
six and
three quarter
millions of people,
a supply
for
six
days
only’’,
said
Dr.
Renner.
*‘Children are dying of cold and
hunger
in
Vienna,
and
eightyfive
per
cent of those
between
nine
months
and
three
years
of
age
are
suffering
with
rickets.
The
loss
of weight
on
the
part
of nursing
mothers
s seriously
resulting
in the diminution of their nursing capaci-
ty. For these
reasons
it is of
the
utmost
importance
that
supplies
go
forward
at once’’.
Paris,
Dec.
13th.—Paul
Menier,
the
former Republican
Deputy
charged
with
intelligence
with
the
enemy,
was
ar-
raigned
before
a Court Martial yesterday
afternoon.
He challenged
the
jurisdic-
tion of the Mlitary Court
ana asked
for
trial by
a Jury.
Menier
was
arrested
in November
while
conducting
his elee-
toral
campaign
in
the
Aube
Region.
This arrest
created
a sensation
through-
out
France.
He
was
defeated
in
his
elections
for his seat
in the
Chamber
of
Deputies.
:
Paris
Dec.
14th.—The
newspapers
gen-
erally express
satisfaction
over
the
Cle-
menceau- Lloyd George
Conference,
and
see
in
their
presence,
at
the
London
meeting of Representatives
of Italy, the
United States
and Japan,
proof of closer
collaboration
among
the
Allies.
The
“*Petit
Parisien’’
says:
'‘The; Frer.ch
Gover.ment
will
make
at
about
the
same
time
as
the
English
Government,
a
detailed
statement
concerning
the
Conference
at
London,
The
communi-
cation will touch specially
upon econonic
questions’’.
‘‘Le ,Martin’’ says:-''The
English Government
is ,said
to
look
fa-
vourably upon
the
project
ot
a
French
Loan by England’’.
‘‘The Syrian
Ques-
tion is said to be setrled
according
to
the
legitimate aspirations
of France.
Publea-
tion of a communication
determining
the
Russian
Policy
of
the
Allies is
expect-
ed
shortly’’.
NEW YORK.
Dee.
16th
1919,
Flour, Blenczad
Clear
St. Lawrence [ rand
pr.
brl. $12.00
Meal, Kilndried per
100 tbs $3.75
New
Season’s
Pork
per bri. $45.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$46.50
Sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed by Brokers)
per
10U lbs.
s7.cß.
Mosasses
89 test
pr 150 Ibs. no
quotation
Cotton, Middling Upiand, at Liverpool per
b,
26 25-100 d.
Exchange,
New
York
and
London,
¢U
'
days’
sight
$3.66