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T" ' ? r ' t- THE AS LLE I THE WEATHER: fair Saturday and Sm"1-"- t much f change in temperature CITIZEN WANT ADS - BRING RESULTS VOL. XXXVI, NO. CI. ASHEVTLLE, N. C. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS to I I v 3 i ODYS' NIGHT BIG SUCCESS FORTHE LOCAL R0TAR1ANS Over 150 Boys Enjoyed the Supper and Large Christmas Tree. j EACH BOY RECEIVED ! if SPLENDID PRESENTS 1 u Isfif i Owing to Big Crowd of Boys Many Rotatians Unable to Get Seats. With 150 boys present, more than I expected. In fact ao many that eev- jeral Rotarlans were not only unable 10 nna oiu, uui ncm - he Ashevllle Rotary club's I "Boy Night" at the Battery Park ho J tel last night was a howling, rcream inr vAitinar success, and all one need- tmti tn do waa to take a peep In the large ball room to see the youngsters fc having tne one Dig iime 01 mcu lives. Counting o 100 boys, the ' many members o( the club thinking that thla number naa Deen pmceu wu high, the hotel waa swamped with boys when they started to arrive, some of the Rotarlans bringing as many as three and four, and then a Dig crowa of probably 15 or 25 came unattached, It was at first believed to be Impossi ble to feed them. Despite the fact that the crowd was larger, than ex pected, nota single boy failed to get a seat, a turkey dinner, ana mm via -uaT present,- In addition to fruit and swi-indv. -. I lit waa a great night and scores of Ahevtlle s leading business men, in cluding bankers, preachers, doctors, (merchants, lawyers and others, vied with each other in giving "their" boys the greatest time. The Rotarian lion rcaied-, 'the chicken crowed, the dog barked, all for the amusement of the boys and In answer the boys yelVd and blew horns, whistles anfl hugged each other with Joy. Each With Boy. I cch Rotarian going by the loeul V. U. C-A, met C. W. Johnson, the c immunity boy's work secretary at C-30' o'clock and "his" boy was n s--Hlttned to the Rotarian. The Rotai-l-.ns also had their own sons .with tijem and with the "adopts i" boy nil proceeded to the Battery t'ark hotel. Arrangements naa been made Kr a lurtm crowd, but for nothing like :lie n uinoer. appearing and ho ball roou sTiifre the tables had beet arranged ssjaiuuea emu uvyi. "Know all Men by These Presents" By Billy Borne (EE WILLIAM COX S w BMIirWDEI DIES IN RICHMOND H EiP"5E v : Had , Distinguished Career in War and Civil Life. Was One of Last Surviving Ranking . Officers of . Confederate Army. ; rtai'i'rt' Frank Johnson then ca'led on nil Uo tariana to stand uo until ovary - hnv had been seated. When this was done u -waa posaime roe a few of the Ro tarlans to.get seats, but the majority of them did not get seats or any supper,-but they gladly gave up their i-nances in order mat "thoir" boy - Dr. A. S. Wheeler, chairman of the boy'a committee, took charge of the meeting after the supper had been served and the first number on the present, a lvceum attraction ho h.r. heard. Congressman Upshaw of Atlan ta, maae me principal address of the Evening, reviewing for the benefit the boys, the hard struggles he had jto overcome before he was able to yumuy win nia piace in the world. He old of addresses he had delivered to i. over 8,000,000 boys In ull sections cf xne united btates.and how easily It -oy wno reany ana truly tries to succeed. The Real Efcrat. , He referred to the boys as the real estate of the earth, that which could be worked Into the greatess asset of the nation and the world. His talk HIS . i? b,t wltn the by aIa he was V "PPiauoea tnroughout. ' Only one accident happened That In any way. marred the happy occasion, tbfcr when H. W. Pelton. the photog rapher appeared and in attempting to take flashlight of the scene ser iously burned his left hand. Before - i cravmi treatment ne camelv conunued the work and . the second A AT . iaKing.tne shot. i. Vi. v m evenr section of the , iu. uoW rea-neaaed, freckled faced, cross-eyed, toe-headed, big little, ugly and good looking chant in fact all kinds. thorohtS-S the most unique party that -perhaps ""n irau in asnViile. In the north end of the large hall was- a large Christmas-tree, electririiiv lighted, on which the presents had The following program was enrriorl out at the meeting: v i' Dinner, SO minutes. Muslo, lyceum, 20 minutes. Talk, Congressman, Upshaw, 15 min utes. , Sack race, 10 minutes. Wrestling match. Big "Mac" and John Drake, 10 minutes. Wrestling match, Beard Buckner vs. Chan. Blanchard, 10 minutes. " Boxing bout, Donald Dunlap vs. Wm. Wyatt, $ minutes. Story, Joe Taylor, 10 minutes. Feather race, E minutes. I Peanut race, 10 minutes. Pie eating contest, 10 minutes. Santa Claus, 30 minutes. THREE CARS PLUNGE INTO OCONEE RIVER MACON, G., Deo. 2 .-A-freight car In the middle of a Central of vteorgia train jumped the track on the Oconee river, bridge at Athens late mis afternoon ana carried three other cars with It into the river. The cars were loaded with potash and ni trate of soda. A car of lumber that waa left hanging over the side of the trestle later fell into the stream; - One nunarea ananrty feet of the three hundred foot trestle was torn down. No one was injured. Traffic over this division will be tied up until repairs can be made. , a Reds Are Allowed on Deck for Exercise Twice Daily Says Wireless. HtdHMOND' Va.. Dec. 26. Gen eral William Ruffln Cox, one of the lBt aurvivina- ranking -officer of- the Confederate army, died hem thta eve ning. He was extensively " engaged i hu.ln.u In North Carolina and eh ieeith.sieMtalfwuwyaepwsy --waaHoeen WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. A wire less message from the army trans port Buford on which a number Of radicals were deported from the United States, received at the war de partment today, said everything was well on board the ship and "the reds contented." . V '. - All dealing between the anlp, of ficials and the passengers are carried on through- Alexander Berkman, who rwntn u &aia to nave een uu "j . ,... .,, . . . . ...iktf fnnnflnHifU Liieu inwi, toxlo-polsoning orougnt en oy - ' dim dated "at sea De General Cox had! the 'distinction of being the last Confederate offloer to relinquish the lighting at Appomattox courthouse,, prolonging the fighting for sometime after the signing of the surrender by General Iee. - Wounded 11 times during tlie civil war, General , Cox suffered Ave severe wounds in one battle but kept at the head of his brigade until he fell to the field exhausted. . Following the close of the war, Gen eral Coxe became secretary of the United States senate serving . both under democratic and republican ad ministrations. Later he was elected to congress from North Carolina, his! home state, serving several ' - terms. , General Cox served in numerous other cember 24;". was as follows: , - "General Hlnes, Washington: ; . "The reds are contented and every thing is o. k. Even on leaving tne DRINKIfJG ALCOHOL RESULTS IN DEATH OF MANY PERSONS Thirty-Two Are Dead at Chicopee," Mass. Oth ers Critically 111. NINETEEN DEAD AT SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Charge of Manslaughter Brought Against Two Men i Probe Is Begun. Mild Reservation Group May Act Independently. According to! Notification Sent Lodge-f-New Ac tivity on Both Sides. , ... . CIIICOPEK, Mass., Deo. 26. Thir ty-two deaths had resulted tonight from the drinking of liquor bought in Hartford, Conn., and drunk in this city, Holyoke and Hartrora, x ester day, lost night and today fourteen men and one woman died in Chlco- peo, ton men in Hartford and lour in Holvoke. A number of other men were in a critical condition tonight at hospitals In Holyoke and Bpringfleld. Four men were under arrest in Martiora ana three in Chicopee, pending the result of autopsies to be held late tonight. Police investigations in Hartrora in dicated that tho liquor, which was sent to that city from New York, con tained wood alcohol. Part of it was Hold at a bar in Hartford, part was bought at that place by persons who carried It away and part was sent to a hotel In Chicopee Falls. State and federal authorities in Massachusetts and Connecticut were aiding the po lice of Chicopee, Holyoke and Spring field tonight in their efforts to de termine responsibility for the deaths. Three more deaths - in Chicopee Falls were reported by physicians and hospital late today, NINETEEN DEAD SPRINGFIELD, Masa, Dee. 26. Eighteen men and one woman are dead and several others are critically ill In hospitals tn this city and Holy oke as the result, it is believed, of drinking some noxious fom of alco hol contained In liquor, which - the hnen are said to have bought Christ mas aay. f ourteen ot tne mew aiea In Chicopee and the other four in Holyoke, while many of those ill in the hospitals are not expected to live. Two men were arrested tonight and are held - pending autopsies, WASHINGTON, Dec. e ?. Dissat isfied with the progress made toward solution- of the peace treaty tangle, Konatnrft nt hnih nalltlrnl t. cartiea meVed toda to tmg gatefatirelLl'A Vtr? and Wm" A- Russian Workers' Union Opposes Soviet. Policy . NEW YORK, Dec 26. Evidence given at today's executive session of the committee which has been Investigating radicalism in New Tork state, that the Union of Rus sian Workers, the organisation to which a large proportion of the radicals recently deported on the transport Buford belonged, in cludes tho soviet government' of Russia In its antagonism to all forms of authority. George J. Starr, an Investigator of the com mittee, testified that at one of the meetings of the organisation, a resolution was adopted condemn ing the Lenlne-Trouky variety of government as being reactionary as any other form. Evidence also waa given that the union of Russian worker has more than 7,000 members In the United States, organised in . 70 branches, and that It has 17 branches in Canada. As an Indi cation of tho kind of doctrines the organisation advocates, a olrcular was submitted, which it was testi fied, had been circulated through out the country at the time of the attempted assassination of Premier Clemenceau of France last spring.' This circular described the pre mier's assailants a "bold and loyal son of the oppressed masses" and termed hla act a "holy duty." ; MACHINISTS PLAN TO ST E FTH R. R.BILL PASSES Declare They Will Not Sub mit to Enactment of Cummins Bill. BOARD IS ORDERED OF NAVAL MEDALS Secretary Daniels Issues Orders for Body to Re- , convene Jan. 5. ' MEDALS REFUSED BY TWO MORE OFFICERS Yice Admiral Jones and Capt. Hasbrouck Fol- '., low Sims Action. O, TOOK STRIKE VOTE OVER A MONTH AGO Brotherhood Heads Called by Gompers to . Meet in Washington Monday; Wlwy. barter dtnmfoZwJ!'?"?rr ? grf'T i . . - -Ka - . i i ri nni m inn Kisrsj ntr ranarai ti alee to insure 'ratmcauon , promptly vzi.z. inmZiii iiT, on the' reasmbllnglof congress ear.y WASHINGTON.-- Dec' 26. Organic ed railway ' machinists, Mhrongh the ppMMnnt. mfvcm! natfo on comrrfias They . today that they .would not submit to capacities for his home stale. At one Rneclal attention is being paid to ven time he was Judge of the circuit court, j tllation and the berth compartments in January. , The falld reservation I "".V" " P:"eJ r' party leader, Senator Lodge, of Maas-! htttiben, J Sll0'. hL8 ,. i i,ci. ninin it,, it waa purchased earlier In the week. time had come to parli company with, " 18 XDefte? topsle will be per .k. ... ui. -..- . u. ;...., formed late tonlaht. - island (Ellis island) there was no "" I declared that unless compromise ne- ,.Later tonight it waa announced that turbance and no cursing as stated in otlattonB or mor- wholehearted sup-' A1 ?erry. proprietor of the Amori the newspapers. They are - allowed t from ,h republcan 8i(le , they can house in Chicopee Falls, had not on oecK wr Mtrai ... were preparing to act Independently u wu nam ne naa and agaln,in the afternoon. They are fQr ftn agreement wltn tn, democrats. e" th lty and a search for. him obedient and respectful. The weather. Among tfte democrats the move-' 1)11(1 not revealed his whereabouts, is moderate with rain: the ship steady, i ment wasv not BO well defined but Charles Perry, hla brother, was releas averaglng eight knots. Her couVse Is erltlclm tne COUrse of . President ed tonight under 110,000 bond, pend southward for the Axores that rougn W11 d RanatoP Hitchcock, of Ne-iing the outcome of the autoosies. ana ma v ha avoided. Dealings' wltn k..i. v, .i.. .,u i.... I Th nnli n the reds are through BerRman, ino reacne(i proportions where some pre-there are many more ill as a result of leaaer. in-re . aictea that It soon would be given annaing vne liquor ana nave not yet sickness aboard. Mess tor ail classes tanKlDje form. one prominent dem-; been reported, as the police declared Is excellent, , the chief , steward ana r tl genator was said to have told several packages of the 11a uor were stewards crew being exceptional. th reDubllcan that more than 80 i '1 In this section. Most of the vie- Mifl t rt van. . . . . i . i . . oi tne 47 on tnat side would join ams were auecteu similarly Doing enactment L the Cummins . rallroadjaaytnaaa th chairman of the democnatio state com mittee and attorney general. He was prominently Identified with the Ma sonic order, serving in the capacity of grandmaster for many years. Born in Carolina. William Ruffln Cox was born ' in Scotland Neck, N. C, March 11, 1831 of English parents, being the youngest son of the family After an - early training , at 'Vine . Hall academy, at Scotland Neck, he entered - a prepar atory school at Nashville. Tenn.. and at the age. of 15 years entered Frank lin college, where he graduated with distinction. He then entered Lefenon college and studied law, being admit ted to the bar In Nashville in 1S52. Forming a 'partnership with John G. Ferguson, they practiced until 185T, when general Cox returned to North Carolina.' -. -'v --o'v Tiring of the plantation life, he went to Raleigh where he opened a law office. Spirit of war :was in the air and it became more apparent dailv that the forces of the north and south would clash. General Cox organized and equipped with his own funds a military company. Later he waa named' major of the Second North Carolina troops and hla remarkable military career began. After six months 'of training he was nlaced in command - of : the r heavy artillery at ran s romi on tne rotomac river and in June, 1862. his regiment was the first to cross to Meadow Bridge at jviecnanicsviiie under terrible Are. The are strictly clean and orderly. PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY GABRIELE D'iHIO movement to ratify the treaty at once on the best terms they could get. Scrambled situation. The effect wag a scrambled situa- paralyzed. At midnight the Chicopee notice an nounced that charge of manslaughter naa oeen orougnt against Charles Por tion in both party organizations. In W and William Baker, who have been which the leaders seemed confident they could straighten out but which the compromise advocates predicted would greatly strengthen the - move ment for a bi-partisan conference of those determined to ratify the treaty at the expense of material concessions on both sides. .' v- The feeling among those who are . xne li UlSCUSSeS inieuUOa UI vruv- ready to go ahead without their lead- ,! era seemed to be that the treaty dead ernment in DiSDOSltiOn 01ilock already had been prolonged un- Troops. necessarily by too much no-compromise talk and that both aides had over-Iayed a waiting game in the hope that a break would come In the op position. : , . . - After, their conference - Saturday with. Senator Lodge the mild reser vation republicans seemed confident that, he would take the initiative if necessary, in carrying the compromise CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) Back From Paris. m AJTETilOAJf WvrEJT ARE i iAlDED BY PERSHEVO tXNCOVH. Neb., Da K.--Qeneraf John J. Pershing, addressing club luncheon In his honor here today, lauded the Work of American women .during the world war. The general declared he waa certain the good mo rale of the army fa due to the work ef the women overseas and. the "splendid Influence of our women at tuxo." CP 17 This is the latest picture of General Tasaer h. bium, tne military mem ber of the American peace delega tion, who. with several. other mem bers of the delegation returned xroia rn the other day. . a prominent acmocrat. in favor of a compromise, but . it was said today their talk got nowhere. Meantime it became known that the , CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. FItJME, Sunday, Dec. -21. -Gabriele d'Annunzfo today fssued a proclama tion to the people referring ' to the suspension of tho plebiscite held onj negotiations forward. . On Monday, he Friday. The proclamation was coucn- saw senator underwood, of Alabama, ait in nowerv language, it wniw that the Italian government was un willing to give a definite guarantee as to the retention of Italian troops on the armistice line. . "Tho government" said d'Annun io,M has declared that it Intends to keep entirely to the line of the armis tice but It refuses publicly or secretly to- add word "definitely." wno can say to what point the armistice line will be withdrawn under the implica te power of the allied and associated governments." -: d'Annunsio repeated part of a speech made by him on October 74 tn which, ha declared that without Idria. Postonia, the San Pletro railroad Junc tion, and Castelnuovo, the Italian boundaries would be exposed to a con tinual straggle. ' owns" . -a lil . t'.A nnunsia in the proclamation, "the government does I not want to take the responsibility f fni ih mil mad throuab San netro i from Flume to Trieste, much less fori held pending investigation. - DEATHS I NEW YORK NEW YORK, Dec. 8ff.--Twenty-seven deaths from drinking wood al cohol and several cases of poisoning have occurred in Manhattan between November - and December 20, accord ing to official figures made tpublio to night by Chief Medical ' Examiner Charles Norrls. Dr. Norrls declared that, in his opinion these figures did not nearly represent the full toll in death and sickness due to taking the poison as, a beverage. - v TOTAL DEAD TEX , ,.f ' : . HARTFORD,; Conn., : Deo. 2 6. Two men died in a hospital here late to night from the effects of drinking liquor soia in winasor street saloons. These deaths brought the list of via time of the drinking mixture here to 10. Hospital and police reports told of six more ' dangerously 111 . from drinking a compound believed to be largely wood alcohol. Four men, two (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) TOMSK CAP1URED BY REDS; JIEBEL S IN SIBERIA ACTIVE; JAPS AND U. S. IN HARMONY LONDON, Dec. 26. The bolshevikl have captured Tomsk and also the towns of FastofT, Vassllkov,, Krmentchug, Izlum, BeloVodsk, Makevka and does I Kopekhta, according to a wireless dispatch received tonight from Moscow. V SEVEN COMMUNICATIOX8 OJf AMUR. LONDON, Dec, 28. The rebels In eastern Siberia, says a Moscow wireless Tho proclamation recalled the vow I dispatch, have completely severed all communications on the Amur line and taken by the people of the islands . Blagovleshtchensk has .been completely cut off. The dispatch- adds that of the adjacent archipelago and the people of Flume mutually ana aaaea that the proposal of the govern ment would leave eglla and Arbel islands outside the line of demarca tion while . the remainder or the archipelago would be I exposed . to enemy. - ' -' "- "TodaT - we all cry we will not abandon you. brothers! The line of armistice Is no more stable ' than a mark which a wave make upon tne sand and which a stronger wave ef face. It waa necessary that the would of the people should be expressed. A plebiscite was ordered. It was de creed not for the purpose of bring ing about a disagreement but for pur poses of pacification, not for the Joy of ambiguity but to seek the truth." The- proclamation gave no further explanation on the suspension of the plebiscite and no information a - to what course la to be pursued in the future. ' has :, been Galiclan troops, intended for the defense of Kleve, have revolted againCt Gen eral Deniklne, the antl-bolshevik leader In the south and attacked the velnn teer army In the rear. .-; : . " S ' ' ) ' The communication add that after the capture of Tomsk, .the red ad vanced from' Novo Mlkolaevsk to theonaln line , of .the trans-Siberian rail road and occupied the station of Taiga, taking an enormous amount of boot ing and prisoner. '...'.. ...--v . " ' ' "The road-to Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk Is now open, and Admiral Kol chak's army in thla region baa ended it existence " says the oommunicatlon. . -- . ' - -: .' -' .. ; , . ... , ,. i ;,- 'JAPS AND V. S. REACH COMMON GROUND. ' ' , " VLADIVSTOCK. Thursday. Dee. 18. (By the Associated ' Press)-A common ground on which to bos Joint action in Siberia has been reached by the United State and Japan, according to an announcement given out here by the Japanese official publicity bureau. - . ; The announcement aald: ; ' !: K' " ' " i ' "Genuine satlirfactlon is expressed In Influential quarter that a common ground haa. been reached by Japan and America for basing Joint action in Siberia. This Is particularly pleasing to those who have observed with regret 1980, and also to enable the railroad Vision... . ' :. 1s.v - Voting more than a month ago, 08 per cent of the 12S.00O member of tne union favored an immediate wam out in event of the bill passage by both' houses of congress, but the re sult waa not made known through fear that the brotherhood might ap pear tn tho light of attempting to coerce the law-making branch of the government . The machinists, ' according to Wil liam H. Johnston, president of the in ternational association, are the only railway employes who have taken a strike vote but the heads of all the brotherhoods, 14 in all, ..have .been summoned to meet, here Monday to consider pending railway legplu.Iun and define, precisely their position on the clause in the Cummins bill Which would prevent, strikes and put strik er in Jail.- ' , t ..... . Issaca by Gompers. -The cajl for the conference was Is sued by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, but Mr. Gompers and other labor leader ; refused to .discuss probable action ' by the brotherhood leaders. President. Wilson's Christmas eve an nouncement that the Toad would be handed back to their owner March 1, was a distinct disappointment ' to labor leaders who had been pleading for a two year extension or govern ment control. They agreed, however, that if the roads were to go back ft was a good thing to let it be known. ' There was no meeting . today of house and senate conferees who have been assigned the tuik of framing a new railroad bill out ef the Each and Cummins measure. This work. how ever,' will begin next week -In the Rope of final enactment - of railroad legis lation, sometime -in the next two months. ; The anti-strike section Is known to be the main point of dif ference and while it was left Intact in the bill passed by the. senate, house leaders frankly expressed doubt to day whether the house would accept it. WASHINGTON, Dee, 26. - Secre tary Daniel tonight ordered the navy department's board of award recon vened Monday, January1 6, to revise the recent recommendation - a t-9 naval awards, , which have been the source of a controversy brought to ev head a few day ago by declination of Admiral films to accept the dis tinguished service medal while . th awards remained a at present. While approving In the main the recommendation of the board : of award," said Mr. Daniels In hi order to Rear Admiral A. M. Knight to re convene the ' board, my examination Into the subject ha convinced me that there are a number of case re quiring further examination and there have been additional recom mendations since your board adjourn ed, which require examination by a board of officer." The order to reconvene the board waa made public late tonight follow ing receipt of report from Newport, R. I., that Vice Admiral.. HUery P. Jones, and Captain Raymond X. Has brouck had followed Admiral " Sim -. In refusing to accept the medal be stowed on them, disagreeing with the policy determining the . officers to be rewarded for service during the ; war. , Secretary Daniels, it was said at the navy department, however, had received no information aa to the, declination of Captain Hasbrouck or the ; reported declination of Admiral. Jone. r v;;.v i i ' : -f The secretary's order to reconvene the board, addressed to. Rear Admir al A. M. Knight, chairman,- follows:' "While approving to th main the recommendations ' of th . board of awards, my examination into the RKA'S 8TATEMEST PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4 26. Sam uel Rea, president f the Pennsylvania railroad,' in a statement tonight on the return of the railroads to private ownership, said it Is. essential that higher rates be approved by the In terstate commerce commission to save the country -from broken down rail roads and in sufficient racutties and service. Mr.'?Rea- said -the railroad bill pending in congress should def initely provide, the essential .features: "1. That adequate rates be at all time maintained to prevent th rail road from getting into the position from -which they are now trying to emerge. For this' purpose th adop tion of a rate-making rule, or, if that Is not acceptable, the fixing of some minimum return, is essential for the positive guidance of the commissions which' regulate rates. - 2. Fund the war inaebteanesa to the government which chiefly consists are-a-number of cases requlriii fur ther examination and there have beeu additional- recommendation since your board adjourned which- require examination by board of officers, v v'f'Haa Been lAbem "I felt in going ever the list that the board had been liberal, particu larly as regards officers whose duty during the war wa mainly or-alto gether on shore." I felt that reports, some of which had not come to your board, 'particularly as to men - who had served and suffered in the war zone, Justified additional awards. , No Official approval of any list ha been made. ; Alt list published were tentative, Last wees. - I ordered cshanges made in th list a printed awaraing tne distinguished service medal, among other to . Admiral Knight, Admiral Caperton and Vtoe Admiral Jones. I had also decided that like award should be. given to certain officer who had rendered long and arduous service on convoy and other service afloat In the war none. "I feel that nothing should be left undone a far a la humanely to in sure that the award shall- be made without the possible suggestion .of in-' Justice or discrimination against any person . in the naval service, and I have therefore decided to reconvene the board of awards to reconsider the whole subject in the tight of tho ad ditional information recently sent to th c bureau of navigation- and , such other Information aa any person tn the naval service may wish to lay be fore board. The board will there fore meet in Washington on Monday, January 6, 120," V NO INFORMATION. 'WASHINGTON, Dec 2.Secre tary Daniels had received no infor mation tonight " that Vice-Admiral Hilary P. Jones and Captain Raymond D, Hasbrouck, had declined to accept the naval decorations recently award ed them, thereby following the ex- ample of Admiral 81 ma . The secre- ' tary refused to discuss th reports of '. the declinations as current In naval circle at Newport. R. 1. ; - ; Friends of the two officer here professed to have heard nothing as to dissatisfaction of Admiral Jones ' and Captain Hasbrouck with the awards which recently were annonnc- ed by the navy department and which -because of the attitude taken by Ad- . mlral Sims In a memorandum to Bec--" retary Daniels have stirred naval clr- la --'!' " : . CONFIRMS REPORT. -PHILADELPHIA. Deo. 2. -Cap-i tain Raymond D. Hasbrouck, com mander of the battleship Minnesota, . tonight confirmed th report that he had declined to accept the navy cross : awarded him by the navy depart--, ment He said he "thoroughly con curred" in the views of Rear-Admiral Sims contained In hi recent letter to Secretary of the Navy Daniels that no . special award should be given to offi cers whose ships were successfully at-( of expenditures made by, tne govern-. tacked by German ubmarine. ment for addition and betterment tnougn o special blame should be easential to carry the traffic of the war ,tUched to commanding officer for tion: and also return the roads. with sufficient ' working capital' to " resume operation. - The government found it essential to nave wonting capital, ana the railroads were called upon to pro vide a large part or that working cap ital at th beginning of federal con trol, both in money and material and supplies. .- , Continue the 'standard compen sation aa . prescribed by the federal control act and contract until the rail road situation . has been steadied by adequate rate and stronger capital. "4. Provide sufficient capital to fin ish additions,: betterment and equip ment already used by the United State railroad administration to fi nance additional new work and equip ment that should be authorised in CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) 'Concurring In ' the view of Ad miral 81m," said Captain Hasbrouck j at his horn In'Bryn-Mawr tonight, "I could not. consistently receive the award, for the reason that I had lost my ship." Captain Hasbrouck commanded the transport Covington. 'When she was sunk on July 1. ll. returning to the United States after having landed troop In Europe. Six men lost their Uveew , V'-; :' - ' REPORT RECEIVED. NEWPORT. R- L. Dec. 2. Word that Vice Admiral Hilery P. Jones, and Captain Raymond D. Hasbrouck had followed the example of AdmiraJ Slma In declining to accept decora tions awarded them In the recently published navy list, wss received' ia .CONTINUED ON PAGE IWO) , naval circle here tonight.
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