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Show VUELSQN ATTENDS SERVICE ojrsmp Vessel Now Running Through Smoother Seas and Encountering Warmer Weather, Executive to Begin Work ! in Earnest Today and Will Hold Conferences Confer-ences on Board Craft. OX BOARD V. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, WASH-INGTON, Dec. S- (By tho Associated Press.) President Wilson attended re-j re-j Ugious services this 'morning with the i enlisted men of the American forces on board tho Georgo Washington. The ser-j ser-j vices were held in tho quarters, of tho ! men, some distance below decks. The ! president joined In tiic singing and the j prayers and in the recital of tho ser-i ser-i vices. Later the president took his usual walk ; on deck and then rested. Ho did not work during the day. The George Washington is running through smoother seaa and encountering warmer weather. REGARD THIRTEEN AS THE PRESIDENT'S LUCKY NUMBER (By a Staff Correspondent of Universal Service.) ABOARD TIIK U. S. S. GKORQE WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. (By wireless lo Universal Service.) Thus fur President Wilson, on the flrat lap of his momentous Journey, has been taking things easy, allowing al-lowing himself a well-deserved rout. lie has spent a few hours each day working upon the mass of correspondence piled up on hlo desk and getting himself Into shape for a aeries of conferences aboard ship. Tomorrow the president wil begin work In earnest and will hold the first formal conference witli Secretary of State Ionising, Ioni-sing, Henry White, Jules J. J nsei-and and Count dl Cohere, lench and Italian ambassadors, respectively. The George Washington is runnliu; through a series of continuous so tin lis, but is driving ahead steady as a church. At its present speed the vepol should reach Brest on Friday, the 13th, n Rood omen, since thirteen the president's lucky number. The president and his partv will proceed immediately to Parla, reaching the French capital .Saturday. TWre will be the customary formal exchanges ex-changes on that day between President Poiiuaro of Franco and the American executive, but formal meet Inns with t he other dlgnitiiries will not ale place until Monday. The actual conferences preliminary pre-liminary to the peace, congress proper will begin Tuesday, December 1 7. President and Mrn. Wilson ag:.ln pur-ticipated pur-ticipated In the boat drilhi ycstcnhiy. Mr. Wilson assisting his wile from their suite to the boat assigned to them. The naval escort is keeping a good distance dis-tance from the George Washington. We will probably pass the Azores on Tuesday. Tues-day. PRESIDENT SENDS GREETINGS TO BOYS NOW BACK HOME ON BOA HO THF, I;. S, K. GFOUGK WASHINGTON, I'rc. K. S : 1 R p. ni.-ilty Wireless to the A ssoclal ed I 're;;s) T'y-H -idont Wilson had a conference, tod a y wlth Secretary of State lousing and ' Henry White, the first Lonlorenee Unit has been held during the trip. It is understood un-derstood that they discussed the procedure pro-cedure regarding the formation of a b'HKno of nations. The platform rf the British prime minister, David .Lloyd Gom-ge, was alpo considered. The. pro:;ldon t t nday sent n, wireless message of greeting tu Norwegian editors visit ins the Fn it cd Slat en ;nid alo to the hi. Idlers. To the latter he aald the following: " 'ordiii I greet In pa to 1 Unyn who have come Luck and w ho have Itornc the (sacrifices ho nobly." SHOWS COMPLETE ORGANIZATION OF U. S. PEACE MISSION r.:;iH. r-fc. 7. - The pin? of organization organiza-tion of the United StatcH pe;i-e minion, which i now tentative, but which in Mh essentials ttndoubt er ly will t-'taiul unchanged, un-changed, sh'-uH tbe Imdv which will Io'.k out for America h interetr v h'-n H,e world' del:gat'-n gather at VerpalllcM a h complete in everv detail. The ch:irl of tli organization which has her.i prepared here iinwh the large Am'Ti'-an organization, headed by the in 'ii itn fit I he peace co Trim Ission it wllli t he chart IIii'-k running from h if uronn to that "f tbe first secrdarv. .John ('. Grew, to the riccond. or Har.on find diplomatic )nl cllf-n. e group, nd ihn third, the group of advW--rs. pnnHpa I' v technical, with large iiaff" of ;i : 'dn a n t I"nd-r the HalFon and diplomat!-- mi -t eft lE'-ivf group are ndlit n rv and na vu l offic-Tr. Including the -m r-t :id r of tin; Arn'-rican expeditionary furo , naal and military at1:i.-hen and foreign reprcur r,l a -liven. Under j-ome of the;;-; head's ar) officers dealing with the peace commission. commis-sion. dl''gatcB of organization's diplomat diplo-mat and ceremonlfil oFficorn. whoe. duties v111 be Hh.tig PU'-ll Hm-M ;m ('nft rnV,.r, of for-.';.! f and unending 'i., Kim i lar ma ' t ers One or Hie n her nf the t -''o asi'.ipt a n (Continued on Page Two.) WILSON ATTENDS SERVICE ON SHIP (Continued From Page One.) secretaries will have within his secretarial secre-tarial duties the looking after the printing print-ing of communications, the distribution of press information, filing of reports, secret matter for transmission to the signal corps and wire terminals, etc. A sub-branch of the liaison and diplomatic diplo-matic intelligence office is a bureau In which American civilian activities will be represented, such as those of Herbert C. Hoover, the food administrator; the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Knights of Pythias, the Salvation Army and the war trade board. |