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arle _Q-First to Last.the Truth: News . EditorialsTUESDAY, MARCH 18, li>19

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Dr. WilkinsMissing as

,Wife MurderIs ChargedTelephones From RailwayStatíon to His Lawyer,Then All Trace Is Lost;Police Begin Search

Prosecutor NowDevelops Motive

Has New Will Made byVictim Which MakesHusband the Main Heirto Her $75,000 Estate

Staff Cnrre^T'onrlr'nrffLONG BEACH, Long Island, March

17..Justice of the Peace Cassius Cole-man to-night, at the request of DistrictAttorney Weeks- issued a warrantcharging Dr. Walter K. Wilkins withthe murder of his wife. The physicianis a fugitive, and a general alarm wassent out to every police officer in theEast to-night to arrest Mm on sight.Mrs, Wilkins was killed on the night

of February 27, when her skull wascrushed by blows with a hammer out¬side her home here.The physician has been suspected of

the crime for the last week by theauthorities.. When the net of evidencedraw closer on Saturday, and he real¬ized after a long interrogation by Mr.Weeks that he was about to be takeninto custody, he fled. He -was last heardfrom on Sunday, when ha telephonedhis attorney, Lewis G. Friess. Thiscall came from the Long Island Rail¬road station in Brooklyn, and afterthat all trace of his whereabouts hasbeen lost.

Vanishes After TelephoningDr. Wilkins promised Mr. Friess in

the telephone conversation that hewould meet County Detective Plant atLynbrook and go with him to the homeof Mr. Weeks, in Port Washington.The object of this visit was to turnover to the prosecutor a new will madeby Mrs. Wilkins in 1915- The attorneyappeared at the home of Mr. Weeksand gave him the instrument, by whichpart of the murdered woman's propertyvas given to the doctor.This peculiar instrument, which may

supersede the will fonnd in the Wilkinshome, which was drawn in 1903, was notsigned by witnesses. Mr. Friess in astatement to Mr. Weeks denied that h«had drawn it, and said that it was

given to him by the doctor last Tues¬day. The will bequeathes the houseowned by Mrs. Wilkins at 164 WestSixty-fifth Street to her husband andalso her share in their Long Beachhome-

la answer to the prosecutor':, in¬quiry as to why the will fcad not beenproduced on Saturday when it was

sought by ;he authorities Mr. Friessexplained that he did not consider it a.valid «UL He also asserted, accord¬ing to Mr. Weeks, that the physician'»papers had not been asked for, andtherefore he withheld the document.The authorities are now inTestigatingto ¿earn who witnessed the signing ofthe will and what prompted Mrs.Wilkins to make it.Immediately after the discovery of

this will Mr. Weeks directed the detec-fitives working on the case to arrestDr, Wilkins on a charge of murder.Mr. Weeks had sought a motive forthe murder of Mrs. Wilkins continuallydaring his investigation. The storytold by the physician of the assaulton himself and the murder of his wifeby robbers was not believed by theprosecutor.When Mr. Weeks was notified byoperatives of the Burns Detective

Agency this afternoon that they wereunable* to locate the physician, he is¬sued the following statement:"Sine* the mttrder of Mrs. Julia Wil¬

kins at Long Beach on February 27,1$W, this office has investigated andcaused to b<- investigated the variousciewg presented by the physical fact»in the case. We navy also examinedor caused to bo examined all the vt'it-ntises who could furnish any evidenceupon the killing. It was not until yes¬terday, March 16, 1919, that we feltjustified by the evidence at hand inordering ?ne arrest of any one. Atthat time the arrest of Dr. Walter K.Wilkina for the murder of his wife waspractically decided upon. We wereunable to locate Dr. Wilkins on Sun¬day, March 16, or to-day. A generalalarm ha» been sent out for hi» ar-Ntt."

Description of the FugitiveI '<. following description of t»Bgltiv» has ^en gent out: Five feet¡«che» t« 11 ; weight about 190 pounds;»ray hair and bushy gray beard; bald«««id; full fac* with florid compies»on; largo hand* and feet; ste<-l blulytt %'.Ui » »light cast in the righ«ye. i h« doctor is described a* havsog powerful ahoulder« and alwaywearing a derby hat.f.,i*' é 5í,kíns. wa* f*ken '«-on» th« ofK.í 5 Dl»tr-ct Attorney Weeks on

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ilTuït \ *"? B^rSood ait«l) rJ?£¿,rt*r,d<í*t¥8 at Mineóla »haCMiw«olA nrftt be out of »he »igiBunday morning »bout 9 o'c

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French Airman Is FlyingOver Ocean, London Hears

LONDON, March 17..It is reportedAmong «irmen that a flight across theAtlantitc Is now being atempted by a

I French lieutenant named Fontan, Lieu-tenant Fontan is reported to havestarted from the French-African port of

j Dakar, Senegambia, for Pemambuco,Brazil, by way of the Cape Verde Isl¬ands and the St, Paul Rocks.Fontan arrived at Dakar from

France by air a few days ago. Ho isiirfitifr a Caudron machine. A supply ofpetrol is said to be awaiting him in St.Paul's Rocks.The aviator is reported to have es-

Williams QuitsAs President ofRobbed Bank

Resignation Is Declared toHave Been Caused byChange in Ownership

George B. Williams, president of theCosmopolitan Bank, 803 Prospect Ave¬nue, The Bronx, which was robbed of$26,432.50 a week ago, has resigned.This was announced yesterday, follow¬ing the arraignment in Morrisaniacourt of Samuel smith, paying teller,and three allégea accomplices. Thesewere charged with robbing the bank'ssafe and were neld in $7,500 bail. All

' four pleaded not guilty.Harold C. Steiner, vice-president of

the bank, said Mr. Williams's resigna-tion had been determined upon some¡time ago, when the bank changedhands. The board of directors re-

quested it last Saturday.i "Did the robbery hurry up the re¬

quest for Mr. Williams's resignation?"Mr. Steiner was asked.

"Yes," he replied.Reports current yesterday to the ef¬

fect that an additional $16,000, not yetmade public, had been stolen from thebank, were denied flatly by Mr. Steiner,"That is a lie," he asserted.

'Tip" Given by WomanIt was a woman employe of the bank,

Mr. Steiner said, that first directed sus¬

picion against the paying teller. Shereported to the bank officials, accord¬ing to the vice-president, that Smithseemed to be acting suspiciously. Thisbrought about a long examination of

I the teller by detectives and the ensu-ing arrest of Samuel and AbrahamLevitt and Frank Reynolds, a one-timeemploye of the bank.

District Attorney Martin of TheBronx said yesterday he would bringto the attention of the grand jury on

Wednesday information regarding the$16,000 which he says is reported tohave been misappropriated.Locksmiths and safe experts were

busy at the bank all day yesterday, re-

fitting doors and changing the com-binations of safes. Mr. Steiner yester-day afternoon issued the following': iatement:

The '..'osmonolitan Bank was robbedIon the morning of March 11 of $26,000.i On discovery of the theft the agentsof Lloyds Company were notified, asalso the American Bankers' Association.Owing to the fact that the theft couldhave been done only between 7 and 8in the morning, it was thought a thor-

! ough search of the premises should bemade, with the idea of perhaps finding the money concealed somewhere inthe bank. On that account no ira-

| mediate information was given to thepolice.

Police Work Complimented"All but $3,00e of the money has been

recovered. Detection of the thieves, andj the recovery of a portion of the money,is due to most efficient work renderedby the Police Department in conjunc¬tion with the Pinkerton DetectiveAgency."When the new interests acquired con¬

trol of the bank« it wa« with a view toincreasing the capital to at least $600,-000. A new board of seven directorswas elected at that time and will be

j shortly increased bv the addition ofwell-known substantial business men.

"It was not contemplated that Mr.Williams would continue as president

j of the enlarged institution. Mr. OscarSteiner is now chairman of the board.

I and in due course a president will beelected."

cort ships with him. The weather isreported to be unfavorable.The foregoing story was related to-

I night by British airmen, who claim| they have been reliably informed.

Lieutenant Fontan has attempted a

transatlantic flight. He has chosenthe shortest route across seas, it beingabout 1,800 miles from Dakar to Per-nambuco over the steamer route. TheCape Verde Islnnds lie just west ofthe point of departure reported forLieutenant Fontan. While flying south-westerly h ewould reach the St. PaulRocks in the South Atlantic, justnortheast of the peninsular on whichPernambuco is situated.

2.75Pet.BeerWill Be MadeDespite Rule

Brewers at Meeting TakeRoo^s Advice and Agreeto Resume Manufacture

The Lager Beer Brewers' Board ofTrade of New York, representing aboutforty-two breweries of New York andvicinity, announced yesterday that itsmembers would resume at once themanufacture and sale of beer contain¬ing a maximum of 2.75 per cent alco¬holic content.The announcement was made on the

advice of Elihu Root and William I).Guthrie, counsel for the board, afterthe brewers had made representationsto the attorneys that beer containing no

more than -.75 per cent of alcohol byweight or 3.3 per cent by volume isnot, intoxicating-The action of the brewers is tanta¬

mount to a challenge of Commissionerof Internal Revenue Rop?r's interpre¬tation of President Wilson's procla¬mation effective December last. TheCommissioner ruled that beer contain¬ing more than one-half of 1 per centof alcohol is an intoxicating beverage,and further stated that the act ofNovember 21. 1918, forbidding the use

of certain cereals in the brewing ofintoxicating beverages would close theprivilege to all brewers on May 1whose beer contains more than theCommissioner's stipulated amount ofalcohol.

Standards Without AuthorityThe brewers were advised in an

opinion from counsel that the InternalRevenue Bureau acted without author¬ity in prescribing fixed standards fordetermining the degree of intoxicatingcontents for malt beverages, and fur¬ther advised the brewers that a suitor suits in equity be brought if thegovernment should attempt to en¬

force the revenue bureau's decision.The board acted on the opinion in a

formal resolution, adopted unanimous- ¡ly. Jt approved the institution of testsuits and recommended all memberswho should be threatened with arrestfor violation of the law to communi¬cate immediately with the president ofthe board.Under the provisions of the food

conservation law, which went into ef¬fect December 1, the brewers have beenmaking a 2.75 per cent beer, but were

required by the Internal Revenue Bu¬reau to de-alcoholize it to one-half of1 per cent before being shipped for¦ale from the breweries. The brewersdeclare that no change in the manu¬facturing methods will be necessary tocarry out their plans, and that if then-standard of alcoholic content, for anon-intoxicant is sustained in testsuits, the 2.75 per cent beer will bemade indefinitely, and will not be pro¬hibited by the prohibition amendment.

Koot-Guthrie OpinionThe opinion was addressed to Chris¬

tian W. Feigenspan, president of theUnited States Brewers' Associationand a member of the board. It wassigned by Messrs. Root and Guthrie.They said in part:"You instruct us that, we may as¬

sume, as a matter of fact, that maltliquors which contain not to exceed2.75 per cent of alcohol by weight, or3.3 per cent by volume, are not in¬toxicating, and that this can be estab¬lished by the evidence of experts andother competent witnesses."We are of opinion' that the procla¬mations of the President dated January30 and March 4, 1919, authorize the

use of grain and other food productsin the production of malt liquorswhich are not in fact intoxicating, andthat the act of November 21, 1918, doesnot apply to non-intoxicating beers."In our opinion, the eflfecc of thePresident's proclamation of March 4 is

not limited to malt or cereal beveragescontaining less than one half of 1 percent of alcohol by volume, assumingsuch beverage not to be in fact intoxi¬cating; and there is nothing in such

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'Old 69th ' Gives GermanyReal Irish DayBy Wilbur Forrest

(Copyright, 1919, New York Tribune Inc.)JJEMAGEN, March 17.-.Father Duffy's celebration of mass at an.

improvised altar overlooking the Rhine this morning for theentire 165th infantry (the old 89th), was only the beginning of aunique celebration «t St. Patrick's Day on German soil.

The entire regiment of New York Irish fighters knelt in re¬ligious devotion, and then after the mass flung themselves into spir¬ited track competitions, while the German civilians looked on won¬dering what it was all about.

Baseball between teams of officers and men was on the after¬noon programme. There were special St. Patrick's Day dinners forevery company. Afterward the men went to shows, while the offi¬cers attended a big dance under the auspices of the Knights ofColumbus, which wound up th« celebration.

The regimental band played "The Wearing of the Green" fromearly until late. The men wore ,rreen conspicuously, while theStar» an.1 Stripes floated proudly, flanked by green banners in thearea of the Irish troops.

Altogether It was probably the largest Irish day In the historyof Utmftny» ^

35,000 MarchAs Irish HonorPatron Saint

Green Flags and BannersWith Inscriptions FloutBritish Rule of Ireland

Self-Determination Urged

Archbishop, Governor andMayor Among ThousandsThat Line Fifth Avenue

.i-Ireland's demand for freedom was

expressed yesterday in one of the mostspectacular St. Patrick's Day paradesNew York ever beheld.

Thirty-five thousand Irish marchersfilled Fifth Avenue from Forty-thirdStreet to 120th Street with a brilliantpageant of green banners, flags, sham¬rocks, harp«, neckties, hats, parasolsand placards denouncing British ruleand demanding freedom for Ireland.

High above the heads of the march¬ers were flung, beside the. Stars andStripes, thousands of flags of the "Re¬public of Ireland.""Follow the green line to Irish in¬

dependence!" shouted one enthusiasticparader. His remarks evoked a chorusof sympathetic responses from spec¬tators.

Several hundred thousand personsfilled the sidewalks along Fifth Ave¬nue and the side streets. Each of the100.000 or more seat3 in the reviewingstand, which was erected fo»* the. 27thDivision parade and which extends foralmost three miles, from Sixtieth Streetto 110th Street, was occupied.

John W. Goff CheeredThe ages old significance of the day

was suggested by the whiii hair ofJohn W. Goff, former Supreme CourtJustice. As grand marshal and as therecognized veteran leader of the Irishfreedom movement in New York, borode alone, seated high in the bark ofan automobile, his white hair shimmor-ing in the sunlight as he doffed hishat to the thousand.', who cheered him.Nature favored the paraders. Cloudy

skies gave way to a brilliant after¬noon. The prediction of Roderick J.Kennedy, the chairman of the commit¬tee on arrangements, that Irishmenwould seize the occasion to give NewYork a demonstration of "the deter¬mination to keep up the fight for Ire¬land's freedom" was fulfilled, in sofar as the number of paraders wasconcerned. From the time the paradestarted at ,'1 o'clock until it hadstretched its five-mile length along theline of march two hours later, not amarcher dropped from the ranks ofany of the fifteen or twenty divisions,

Irish Freedom PropagandaConspicuous in the parade were the

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Conferees Revising League Pact;French Willing to Put It in Treaty;Foe to Accept Only a Wilson Peace

Erzberger Warns AlliesThey Must Follow thePresident's 14 Points

¡ Demands LeagueWith Referendum

Insists Germany Isn'tLiable for DamageAfter 1916 Peace Bid

COPENHAGEN, March 17..If theAllies loaded the peace treaty withconditions going beyond President Wil¬son's fourteen points, the German Na¬tional Assembly would have to refuseits assent to the treaty, Mathias Erz¬berger, head of the German ArmisticeCommission, declared in an address ata Rerun meeting, in favoring the for¬mation of a "real league of nations,"according to a dispatch from the Ger¬man capital to-day. The matter thenwould be left, to a referendum of theGerman' nation, he said.

Disclaims All ObligationI

Herr Erzberger disclaimed any obli¬gation upon Germany to give compen¬sation for acts she committed after herfirst peace offer in December, 1ÎÎ16.The speaker declared that the only

means of calling n halt on Bolshevismwas the abandonment, of the "mailed"ist policy of the Allies."The German people, «aid Herr Erz¬

berger, had almost unlimited con-

iider.ee in President Wilson and hehoped that the league of nations cov¬

enant as promulgated on February 14would not be finally adopted, as, hedeclared, H) was a compromise of tileideals of President Wilson with theimperialistic aspirations of some ofthe Allies. Tne American President,Herr Erzberger insisted, was under ob¬ligation? to advocate tlie immediateadmission of Germany to the league.

Refuses French ClaimsHeir Erzberger asserted that Ger¬

many was prepared to accept the voteof Alsace-Lorraine a? to its future.

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War Clauses of Treaty AdoptedDAR1S, March IT By The Associated Press». The Supreme Wer Council

resumed its sessions to-day with President Wilson in attendance forthe first :ime since he returned from the United State.*. It was a distin¬guished assemblage of civilian and military chiefs, with Marshal Foch,Field Marshal Haig, Ceneral Diaz and British, French and American dnii-rals, as well a.> President Wilson, the premiers and foreign ministers ofthe five great powers, with military and naval experts, bearing war maps| and a diagram of and the actual draft of the military, naval, and aerialarticles of the peace treaty, in attendance.

ilt was this draft which the council considered and adopted inthe main, though a number of details still remain open. PresidentWilson agreed to all those features of the terms which Secretary ofState Lansing and Colonel E. M. House had accepted at previoussessions. These include a General plan for German disarmamentdown to 100,000 men recruited by the volunteer system for twelveyears, and a limitation on arms, munitions and other war stores,together with similar naval and aerial disarmament.

Allies ExtendLines FartherAcross Rhine

French in Suburb of Frank¬fort; British Bridgeheadat Cologne Is Advanced

BERLIN, March 15 By The Asso¬ciated Frees» British and Frenchforces, according- to reports receivedhere, have advanced their outpostsfrom tue limits of their present'bridgeheads at Cologne and Mainz, re¬

spectively. The. French are reportedto have penetrated into the corporatelimits of Frankfort.A special dispatch from Frankfort

to the "Norddeutsche AllgemeineZeitung" says that the French, in ad¬vancing to Frankfort, have occupiedthe llidda bridge across the Main inthe western part of the suburb ofRodelheim. The French are said tohave posted notices saying that thepassage was closed to all traffic.

Another report says that the au¬thorities of Remscneid, northeast ofCologne, and Kronenburg, northwestof Remscheid, have forwarded a pro¬test to the German government atWeimar and also to the German ar¬mistice commission against the occu¬pancy of the towns by British forces."The Daily Mail" of London on Sat¬

urday printed a dispatch from its cor¬respondent with the British army tothe effect that acute unrest prevailedin the whole Westphalian industrialregion. The correspondent said thatit probably would be necessary to en¬large the British bridgehead in thatdirection.

War Risk CrisisMay Force an

Extra SessionSecretary Glass Cables to

Wilson That $3,000,000Is Needed to Run Bureau

WASHINGTON, March 17..A finan¬cial crisis in the War Risk InsuranceBureau, caused by the failure of thelast Congress to appropriate funds forits support, may oblige the Presidentto summon a new Congres.- in the opin¬ion of many political leaders.

Secretary Glass has cabled an ac¬count of the entire situation to Presi-dent Wilson. He explained to-day thathe had made no specific recommenda-tion that Congress be convened to dealwith the situation. He said he merelyhad presented "certain facts" in regardto the government's financial situationand had left the President to draw his

| own conclusions.^jQther Cabinet members, it wasd

lefrrne to-day have cabled the Presi¬dent describing the serious conditionsin their own departments, due to theRepublican filibuster which broughtthe last Congress to a close with manyfinancial measures still hanging fire.Secretary Glass has asked Mr. Wil-

son to set aside more than $3,000.000from the Presidential war emergencyfund to cover the cost of the continuedoperation of the War Risk lusance Bu¬reau for the next few months.

it is believed here this appeal willbe vain, as the entire Presidential fundhas already been pledged to other ob¬jects. If money is not made availablein some way the operations of thebureau are certain to be greatly ham¬pered.

Officials of the bureau said to-dayit has sufficient money iyn hand tocover allotment and allowance checksto be sent out during March and April.The $¡3.000.000 or more asked fromthe President is not for the actualallotment checks. Half of the moneyfor these comes direct from the sol¬diers* pay and turned over to thebureau by the War Department..Funds for allowance checks are run¬ning short, however, and the actualrunning expenses of the departmentare extremely low. There are 15,-000 employes on the bureau's pay rollwhich amounts now to more than $1,-000,000 a month.

West Virginia HouseVoles Against League;

Special CorrctpnvdnnccCHARLESTON, W. Va.. March 17..

The House of Delegates to-day by avote of 52 to 26 adopted the Wysongresolution putting that section of theLegislature on record as opposed tothe league of nations in so far as theUnited States ever becoming a mem¬ber of such a league. The vote, wastaken after an hour of debate inwhich, with one exception, Republicanmembers spoke in favor of the résolu-,tion and Democratic members op-posed it.

J. H. Hobbs. of Summers County, aRepublican, declared he and his con¬stituents favored a league of na-tions. Delegate Hobbs and DelegateJoseph Williams, of Pleasant County,were the only two Republicans whovoted with the twenty-four Demo¬crats in opposition to the resolution.Democratic members who spoke

against the resolution, declared that'even though the majority of the mem¬bers of the House might be opposedto the league of nations constitution asit stands, the resolution in oppositionto any kind of a league was prematureand should not be passed.

Bonar Law DeniesLeague Caused Hiteh

LONDON, March 17.- Andrew Bonar,Law, government leader in the Houseof Commons, told that body to-day,that to the best of his belief there wasno foundation for the report that ahitch hpd occurred in the presentationto Germany of the draft cf the peaceterm» because of divergencies of ».fiin-ion on the rubject of the league of na-tior.n.

Mr. Bonar Law made this statementin rfplying to a question bv 11. W. Bot-tomly, member for South Hackney, who |wanted an assurance "that the termsbit' "tí upor. by si! th« representative«rit the conference prior to PresidentWilson'* return" would l>^ coramunt-cat«d at once tc the enemy.

you '>,h .i wlittr ><.¦! ¦»» * *.*«.< for v* 11 ii ulan ofVertat I'm>men! I'lmi.

House, Cecil, BourgeoisConsulting ¡Neutral« in

Redrafting Covenant

Changes ReportedOf Minor Nature

New Draft ExpectedTo Be Ready by a

Week From SaturdayBy Frederick Moore

New York /'./hun«Sprri<tl Cnblr Srrvie*

iCojjjTlglit 1919, Now Vurli Tribun« Inc.)PARIS. March IT..Colonel Hou*e,

Lord Robert Cecil and Leon Bourgeoisare revising the covenant of the league

*of nations.

They expect *o conclude the new

draft n week from Saturday, afterwhich it probably will be made pul>' <..

The representatives of the netxtn!nations are bcjng consulted daily on

the alteration?, which will not be se¬

rious and insufficient, it is believed) toobtain ratification by two-third« of the¡Senate at Washington when incorpo¬rated, a* President Wilson insi.ns, inthe body of the peace treaty.

K\pec( to Include LeagueM. Clemenceau and M. Pichón hnr#

informed the American delrpation that-,despite M. Pichou's remarks yesterday,they are not averse to the incorpora¬tion of the league covenant in the prp-liminary treaty, and Mr. Bail'our andLord Robert Cecil have given similarindica1 ¡oiiThe American delegation :*. thcrc-

fore, driving ahead with the plan ioincorporate the completed covenant inthe. treaty, although it may be as anappendix instead of following the pre¬amble.Although President Wilson probably

will realize his desires in this matter,the quick conclusion of the draft, ofthe treaty with Germany will not hoforthcoming' unless the Presidentmakes numerous compromises. i

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Wilson Confers lí itliAllied War CouncilOn Terms for Peace

PARIS, M«,r. h ¡7. -"The SupremaWar Council met to-day from 3 to ":?A¡>. m. and discussed the military, navaland aerial term¿ to he imposed on Ger-many." says th>- official statement. "At.the end of the meeting, an exchangeof views t:'ok place on the situationin Poland as desctibed by the Inter-Allied Commission. The next meet¬ing will take place on Wednesday ató p. m."

Points which were introduced at to¬

day's session of the Supreme Council,but on which no agreement, wanreached, proposed levelling the forti¬fications of the Kiel Canal and Helgo¬land and the disposition of the Germanwarships.

President. Wilson attended ; iir *es-

sion of the Supreme Economic Councilto-day and later went to the SupremeCouncil meeting.At ti 2 Economic Council session, in

addition to 'he President, there we;»»

present Bernard M. Raruch. Vance Mc-Cormick, General Tasker H. Bliss. Ad¬miral Benson, Herbert C. Hoover andother American specialists.

Aeronautics Board Named ..,

The Supreme Council to-day appoint¬ed a commission on aeronautics. TheAmerican members of the "ommisaionwill be Rear Admi;al Harry S. Knappand Brigadier General Mason W.Patrick.The council named Beigium. Greece,

Portugal, Brazil, Cuba and Rumaniato represent the small nations.A drafting committee to prepare the

tinal rcpoit of the Commission on Re¬sponsibility for the War was appoint¬ed by the commission at its meetingto-day. The report, after being ap¬proved, will be referred to the peaceconference.The members of the drafting com¬

mission aie M. Rolin-Jacquemyns, ofthe Belgian delegation; Sir Ernest Pol¬lack, of the British delegation, and M.Damilia, of the Italian delegation.The ports and waterways commis¬

sion, which met to-day, was addressedby the delegates of SwiUerland, whoexplained the legal and technical res¬tons which led Switzerland to claimparticipation in any convention in thefuture governing the Rhine navigation.

Traîne Clauses ExaminedThe commission examined furthel

c"..iunes regarding railway traffic, fo*insertion la the preliminary pese«treaty, /

At to-day's session of the Commis¬sion on International Labor Legislationof the peace conference the eommts-»ten, sayi» the o'flciul communique"discussed the difficulties raised as trthe application of labov conventions o!certain states with .federal cousiuu