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The Washington times., 1919-01-27
ENORMOUS GAIN
|NF|REARM SALE

Believing in the theory that the
criminal can best be met with his
own weapon Washington residents
are stocking up with various types
of firearms, ranging from double
barreled shotguns to .22-caliber re-
volvers.
The demand for revoivers is due to
the protective measures being taken
by District residents since the. mad
man of the northwest began his at
tacks on Washington women.
Eight Washington business men
who deal in firearms report an in
crease in the sale of revolvers.
The .32-caliber automatic is the
most popular. although .22-caliber re-
volvers are in demand among women
customers. The .22-caiiber revolver
Is said to be a comparatively inef-
fective weapon. unless fired at close
range, and at a vital spot. but Is moI c
favored by the fair sex. because 1t
hasn't the kick of a higher calibcred
weapon.
The Washington times., 1919-01-27
.H|CCOUGH EPIDEMIC
ISBLAMED ONFLU

LOUISVILLE. KY, Jan f7-The
epidemic OF hiccoushs. in Louisville
and many other parts Of Kentucky.
continued today.
Tandy ouisenberry, widely known
tobacco man has been hiceoughing al
most continuously since last Tuesday.
His condition Is reported serious
Physicians attribute It to after effects
OF nu.
The Washington times., 1919-01-27

: - = \ =
their salaries In the creation OF their
own retirement annuities will be
oenented By the system OF compul-
sorry savings provided under the
terms OF the bin and will In turn
enjoy q larger measure OF content
ment with their service as the result
OF this assurance and provision for
.-B~ery country OF the cfvfhsed
world, with the exception Of the
United States. Venezuela and Turkey,
has adopted some system or plan Of
pensioning It's superannuated and
disabled civil employees.
Great Britain and France have
both adopted plans for retiring their
aged civil service workers. The plau
first adopted by Great Britain was
In 1884 and was subsequently, modi-
ned in 1859 and later In 1909. The
plan as now administered is partial
iy contributory. France inaugurated
q civil pension system in i7po and In
1870 perfected the plan under which
IL Ii now operating. This plan n
modelled in many respects after the
principals embodied IN this bill.
Under a Senate resolution which
was adopted on May IL, 1915, the Blu!
reau of Efficiency was authorized TO
compile certain statistics which re-
quired the taking of a census Of the
entire CLASSIFIED civil service. This
census was taken and the statistic
compiled as Of July 1. 1916.
ApprsveS BY Expe-a
THE figures have the approval or
the Governments own expert and
must be accepted as the closest ap-
Proclamation available Of the cost to
the Government. II was shown that
on July 1. 1916, there were about
7,457 superannuated employees. or
this number. 41o4 had served suff-
ciently long TO be eligible for retire
ment under the provisions Of this
bill. A brief analysis Of the fgures
prepared by DR.. J. ID. 1addrill and
submitted as exhibit No. 4 shows that
the receipts in the form Of deductions
from salaries during the hscaf year
1920 viii aggregate about $e,0o0.00
It Is estimated that the disburse-
ments upon Withdrawals prior to
pension aga for the same period viii
be 100000. Nand that the amount Of
pensions and qua ,xsnteed returns to
pensioners will Aggregate $4,000.
leaving approximately an excess Of
receipts over disbursements OF $6,-
years 1921 to 1925, inclusive, also
shows an excess Of receipts over dis
bursements for these subsequent
years.
at must be understood, however.
that the contributions made by the
employees with the Interest guaranteed
by the Government are in the nature
OF trust funds held by the Government
for the benefit of the contributors and
that during the period OF bringing the
plan into full operation these funds
will be treated as q temporary loan
by the employees 70 the Government
II IL estimated by DR.. Naddrill
that the Government win be called
upon to actually disburse money
from the Treasury In the payment Of
annunities and refunds after the
pan has been I'm operation for q
period OF eight or ten yearx. Fol-
lowing that time, there will be q
gradual rise in the cost of these an
nunities and REFUNDS TO the Gov
ernment until a point a. reached
where the contributions by the en-
iployes and the Government win be
equal and will thus establish the prin-
|ciple Of the half-and half plan con-
templated by this bill
The Washington times., 1919-01-27
Makes "seary, Report.

Considering the noise it makes
the .22-caliber gun Is effective in SC
far as its report would tend to instill
scare in any midnight terrorist
who might invade the possessors
premises.
Shotguns. while not as popular as
revolvers are also in great demand
the dealers state. A shotgun, loaded
with buckshot infiicts a terrible
wound.
The sale OF ammunition, too, has in
creased. This Is due probably to the
fact that many Washingtonians own
revolvers, but have neglected to fur
nish them with food" until the prowls
Of the Capital terrorist made their i'm
mediate use seem more probable
q The laws Of the District make It in
cumbent upon the dealer in firearms
to take the name, address and descrip
tion Of the person who buys a gun
This data Is, at intervals, filed with
the Police Department of the District
Don't Need Permit.
1t Is not necessary for District resi-.
dents to SECURE a permit from police
officials to keep a revolver or shotgun
In their homes, so the exact number OF
Washingtonians who have purchased
weapons since the madman started his
depredations. Is not known. Dealers
estimate that the number is large.
II District resident wishes to carry
a revolver on his person, however. Il
10 necessary for him to apply to q
Judge Of the Police Ccourt and furnish
reasons for his wish.
Some increase In the number of per
rnits for carrying revolvers Is noted by
the police officials. but the tota II NOT
large.
The Washington times., 1919-01-27

FRENCH ENTER KIEv.
. VIENNA, Jan 27.-French and
Roumanian troops have entered Kiev,
the capital OF Ukrainia, the Zeit an
nouuced TODAY
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
(By the Associated Prcss.)

Italy has verdict of the United States government
CARDS claims the Adra She not have her aspra
tions Fume graed for that would block in from the
behind the coast of Damata the small independent
tons which to become members of the league of nations
President Wilson in long statement dealing with the con-
trovery ume has clearly defined to Italy the stand of the
United States in the and thus has brought to climax
the crisis that has existed for many days.
With regard the islands the eastern Adriatc and that
portion the Damaan coast which lies most open to the
which Italy also is demanding President Wilson broadly states
that these not necessary to Italy to make her safe
against aggression by Hungary because Austria
Hungary longer exists and the Notifications along the coast
be permanently destroyed Also the president says the
states to accept limitation of armaments which will
further put aggression of the question and that equal and
equitable treatment of all racial national mnores through
out THIS region to be guaranteed under International
tionr
President Wilson contends that the principles under which
the initiative for peace taken to be adhered to- Fume
the outlet for the mot only of Italy,
but of the land to the north and northeast of that porHun
gary Bohemia Rumana and the states of the JugoSav
group"
Premier Orlando of Italy Immediately called the Italian
delegates for conference after the presidents note
issued statement to be addressed to the Italian
people.
Later Vice Admiral Thaon D Reve former chief of the
Italian naval staff departed from Paris for Rome and was
asserted that General Diaz Italian military
chief would leave for Italy What action the part of Italy
this portends is probematical.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
SOLDIER KILLS
HIMSELF AF TER
SHOOTING WIFE
Police Find Joseph Ross Lying
Dead at Seventh and Iron
and Wife Seriously Wound
ed at Her Fathers S Home,

Jnea,,b Pass q diScbo rrol sol5i,r
sbot ~, NIP oriotsI,, ,,,,'e,'',;,,I ~,
, ~, ,',.,, nv,
ana hilieo hlnlsell s'loItly alter AZ
cioCh laSt nishl at seventh street
ahn iroh AVENUE.
ne Woiiial' w'o 10 o'I; - years
olu, was NJ nisn ~ uIe tlEnt cheek
anu the oulie' iouleu III tle ielt
cheek' Y ~ M. Clayton. CITY phy-
slclan, salu tnat sne had suffered
severe shoch ana that Il was uhcer-
'air III, IL SUE "ouLu ieeoNeL. .,
ne ouupie nau ep"i a,tu' "Toolu-
Tno,o,. IL Ia tha+ 81, ,,taI 80, y
= Soe'tai ~ s,'ih w.; ~. lfoSa "ail.eu a
Il, nossihtS for bar - ,a.,,o ' har,,
without his annroaching bo, Tbav
,,,oro ,,o,r,.iaa th,aa ,,ea,,s .oo a,d hoS
a child uttIe mora tban a 2,oar o,d
There was no witness to tho shoot
inc excent tho pirl and hor state-
ments were incoherent she said
however. while the doctor was ,treat,
ing her at her fathers home, Gil
Rarelas road. where she lived. that
Ross had shot her CueIlar said that
she had made the same declaration to
him before
Persons who live at Seventh and
Iron were aroused shortly after II
O'Clock by shots and woman's
screams. Hurrying outside. some of
them barefooted and wearing bath
robes, found Ross lying dead in the
street and the woman on her knees
seVefal leet away. her Whlte ufess
saturated with blood from the wound
IN her cheek.
FvN aelaf' the iatltef' was the Ilrst 10
reach the place. lie sald tnat ne ana
ms Wile htd 6ohe " WISH MS Diothei :
ieaVing MRS. hoss az nome with the
sihall childfeh' Wheh they came
PACK she was not IN the mousse ana Tue
chlldren SAID she had gone TO the out
mouse Cueiiar tlei Heata tle SINUS
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
Presidents Statement.

The text of the statement follows;
"In view of the capital Importance
OF the questions affected, and in or
der to throw all possible light upon
what is involved in their settlement,
! hope that the following statement
will contribute to the final formation
of opinion and to a satisfactory solu-
ton:
When Italy entered the war she
entered upon the basis of a definite
private understanding with Great Bri-
tain and France, now known as tho
pact of London. Since that time the
whole face of circumstances has been
altered. Many other powers. great
and small, have entered the struggle,
with no knowledge OF that private un-
derstandlng.
THE Austro Hungarian empire,
then the enemy of Europe, and at
whose expense the pact of London
tory, has gone to pieces and no long
er exists Not only that, but the sew
eral parts of that empire, it is agreed
now by Italy and all her associates,
are to be erected into Independent
states and associated in league of
nations, not with those who were re-
Gently our enemies, but with Italy her
self and the powers that stood with
Italy in the great war for liberty.
I'VE are to establish their liberty as
well as our own. They are to be
among the smaller states whose in
terests are henceforth to be safe
guarded as scrupulously as the inter-
ests of the most powerful states.
THE war was ended, moreover by
proposing tofGermany an armistice
and peace which should be founded on
certain clearly defined principles
which set up a new order of right and
justice. Upon those principles the
peace with Germany has been con-
ceved, not only, but formulated. Upon
those principles it will be effected.
We cannot ask the great body of pow
ers to propose and effect peace with
Austria and establish new basis of
independence and right in the states
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
URAL COSSACKS
LAUNCH DRIVE To
AID KOLCHAK
Several Villages Takeni BoI-
Sheviki Admit Retirement
"On Account of Pressure by
the Enemy"

London, April % (Russia. )-Ural
Cossack troops, apparently acting in
conjunction with the Siberian forces
of Admiral Kolohak, have begun an
offensive in the region of Uralsk, in
southeastern Russia, south of Samara
and have captured several villages
west of Uralsk.
A Russian wireless official state
ment under date of April %, admit
ting he progress of the Cral Cossacks
says that further north the Bolshe-
wiki have carried out further retire
ments "owing to enemy pressure"
Thirty-five miles southwest of
Uralsk, fighting is taking place be-
tween the CossaCks and the Bolshe-
Wiki for the possession of the fortress
of Shevorkin
Uralsk is near the border between
the Ural territory and the trans
Caspian region. 1t is the terminus of
the railway line running east from
Saratov on the Volga, Uralsk is about
260 miles southwest of Strelitsmak,
where the Kolehak forces were re-
ported several days ago to be adyanc-
ing southwark ON Orenberg.
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, via Vladivos-
tok, Tuesday, April 22 (by The Cana
dian Press. IA large Bolshevil< force
Is endeayoring to cut the Siberian
railway line east of Krasnoyarsk and
fighting is going on daily in the vicin-
ity of Taished and Yurd Thursday
the enemy ambushed a force of 200
russians al 4 only eighty of them re-
turned 10 Their base. The trails lead
ing to the lSolshevik villages are COM
manded by machine gun nests and the
Russians have been unable to advance
through the woods which are deep in
snow
The railway line is held strongly by
Serbians and CzeChs with field guns.
Because of the heavy weather and the
deep snow it is probable that the Boil
sheviki will not be subjugated until
summer.
Colonel Brook, adjutant of the Cam
adian forces in Siberia, is on his way
to VladivostOk, arranging for the
withdrawal of Canadian details in the
interior of Siberia. The only Can
adian troops left at Omsk are hospital
unitG.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
TWO GOVERNORS
WILL WELCOME
MEN Of 158TH

El Paso, Tex, April 23.-The 15Sth
infantry, composed of New Mexico and
Arizona troops, will be welcomed here
by Governor Tom Campbell Governor
Larrazolo and a committee of leading
citizens of the two states as well as by
the Mayor of FL Paso, the army and
the entire force of the Victory Loan
campaign now in progress.
This was announced tonight by
Burt Orndorff, general chairman of
the local campaign committee, who.
with Maurice Schwartz. his assistant,
is arranging for the reception to the
Arizona and New Mexico soldiers
from overseas. Bessie" the whippet
tank which is here for the Loan drive,
will lead the proposed parade from
the union station to Liberty statue,
where Governor Campbell, Governor
Larrazolo and other Arizona and New
Mexico speakers will deliver the well
come addresses. Invitations to the two
governors have been sent.
The regiment is expected to arrive
here Monday afternoon and the para e
and reception will follow Immediately
after their arrival.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
ALLEGED SLAYERS
|DE NT|F| Il D BY
CRIME WITNESSES
Ia, soRs,ss JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,ss,

IsT MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL ltAsEn Wletl
Colorado Springs, Colo, April 23.--
Tom and Earl Combs, alleged mur-
derers of Jacob n. Mellinger, Rush
Colo, merchant today were identified
by Jack Parker, Pueblo, chauffeur, as
the men who killed Elton G, Parks
Pueblo automobile merchant. and
william Hunter, prominent stockman,
on the afternoon of April / on the
road near Rye, Colo.
Parker, who is employed by a Pu-
eblo taxicab company, was employed
in driving w. f. Read, on the after
noon of April II, and while so en-
gagged came upon the bandits as they
murdered Hunter. AS they did this
Parker says he heard one of the men
say, Hey, Tom" to attract the at
tention of the second bandit to the APP
proaeh of Parker and Read in their
machine.
AS soon as the two men saw Par
ker's machine they commanded him
to turn around and drive away from
the scene of the murder Parker and
Read subsequently returned to Pueblo
and reported the murder of Parks
and Hunter.
The two men when identified to-
day in the county jail mere stoutly de-
MED any connection with the Pueblo
murders, claiming they had not been
in the vicinity of Pueblo during the
last two years.
Parks and Hunter were killed while
they were riding in a motor car near
Rye, thirty-five miles southeast of Pu-
eblo. Hunter was a prospective pur-
chaser of the machine in which the
two men were riding and they were
on their way to Pueblo to make the
final arrangements when they were
attacked. After they were murdered
their bodies were thrown out of the
machine and the murderers made
their escape in the machine. which
was recovered later in the night by a
posse which was searching for them,
At the coroner's inquest in Colorado
Springs today, William Combs, father
of Carl, became temporarily insane
and it required the efforts of Sheriff
Weir and four other men to quiet him.
He was later placed in a cell in the
county Jail
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
bARTH CASE MAY
NOT Be FINISHED
UNTIL SATURDAY
Hearing of DiSbarment Charges
Before Supreme Court att
Santa Fe Probably viii Last
Until End Of the Week. |
ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO MORNING JouesAll

Santa Fe. April 23,-AttOrney
Thomas ]. Mabry a law partner OF
former Senator Isaac Barth, was one
of the main witnesses today in the
case now being heard before the state
supreme court in which A. b. Nc
Millen asks that Mr.. Barth be dis
barred from practicing law in New
Mexico. ...
Mr. Mabry's testimony dealt mainly
with an article which was printed in
the Albuquerque Morning journal on
August ID, 1918, regarding a decision
rendered by Judge NJ. c. Mecham at
Santa Fe IN the Flournoy case and
which, It is understood, was excepted
to by Mr.. McMillen on the ground
that it was not according to the facts
in the case. Mr.. Mabry testified that
he told a Journal reporter about the
decision: that he himself had sum
married. the order on the typewriter
and that Barth had not instructed
him to do so. nor did Barth know that
it had been done.
This TESTIMONY was on one of the
nine counts against Mr. Barth, this
particular count alleging that Mr..
Parth had himself procured the pub
lication of the article IN the Journal
on the Flournoy decision by Judge
Mechem.
A. b. McMillen this afternoon tcsti-
fled that three payments had fpen
made to Mr. Barth by Mrs. Nell
Andres in connection with the Flour
nov estate, total of $40, 0,6SG.30, which
Mr.. Barth had deposited the same
day. October 10. IN the First National
bank of Albuquerque. according to the
recOrdS of that bank
On the same day 1t appears that
Mr.. Barth took a cashiers check for
S3.500 and deposited it in the Estancia
Valley bank to his own credit nd
that eight days later Mr.. Rarth had
to his credit at the Estanca bank only
SIG. The explanation of these finan-
cial transactions is to be taken up
later.
Il. r. Chase testified that of his
own knowledge as an officer of the
Stockmen's Guaranty Loan company,
at the time that the note of J. @. A..
Otero was delivered he knew Mr..
Barth was going to discount 1t. Chase
also testified that the company owed
Barth q considerable sum for attor-
ney's fees for compromising suits on
promissory notes and agents COM
missions. the total aggregating be-
tween Sb,UOO ana Sb.VpU, altnouSn tne
exact sum had not been agreed upon.
Guy L. Rogers testified as to tele-
phone conversation with Mr. Barth
regarding the discounting of the Otero
note; that the note was discounted
for $4,000. or 2S per cent, and that
the proceeds were deposited to the
credit of Barth.
John f. Simms testified that he was
oSknd IN collect tho $5 600 aSsipnment
of the jeanette FlOurnoy legacy to
Sam Davis; that he went to A. B.
McMillen. who told him the matter
was in Barths hands and he then
washed his hands of the matter.
Simms refused to qualify as hand
writing expert in an effort of the
prosecution to get into the record
letter alleged to have been written by
Barth.
The hearing may last until Satur-
day.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24

which originally constituted the Aus
Hungarian empire and in the
states of the Balkan group on prin-
ciples of another kind. We must ap-
ply the same principles to the settle
ment of Europe in those quarters that
we have applied in the peace with
Germany.
at was upon the explicit avowal of
those principles that the initiative for
peace was taken. 1t is upon them
that the whole structure of peace
must rest
Outlet of Balkans.
"If those principles are to be ad-
hered to, Fiume must serve as the
outlet of the commerce, not of Italy
but of the land to the north and
northeast of that port; Hungary. Bo-
hemia, Rumania and the states of the
new Jugo-Slav group. To assign
Fiume to Italy would be to create the
feeling that we have deliberately put
the port upon which all these coun-
tries chiefly depend for their access
to the Mediterranean in the hands of
a power of which it did not form an
integral part and whose sovereignty,
if set up there, must inevitably seem
foreign, not domestic nor identified
with the commercial and industrial
life of the regions which the port
must serve. IT is for that reason no
doubt, that Fiume was not included in
the pact of London but there definite
ly assigned to the Croatians.
And the reason why the line of
the pact of London swept about many
of the islands of the eastern coast of
the Adriatic and around the port on
of the Dalmatian coast which lies
most open to that sea, was not only
that here and there on those islands
and here and there on that coast,
there are bodies of people of Italian
blood and connection. but also, and
no doubt chiefly because it was felt
that it was necessary for italy to have
foothold amidst the channels of the
eastern Adriatic in order that she
might make her own coasts safe
against the naval aggression of Aus
tria- Hungary.
But Austria Hungary no longer
exists 1t is proposed that the forti-
fications which the Austrian govern
ment constructed there shall be razed
and permanently destroyed.
1T is part also of the new plan of
European order which centers in the
ledSue OF HdtloilS tnat the new states
erected there shall accept limitation
of armaments. which puts aggression
out fthe question. There can be no
fear of the unfair treatment of groups
of Italian people there, because ade-
quate guarantees will be given, under
international sanction, of the equal
and equitable treatment of all racial
or national minorities.
MI Questions New.
TN h~ief. every question associated
with this settlement wears a new as
pect-a new aspect given it by the
very victory for right for which italy
has made the supreme sacrifice of
plooa ana treasure; l.aly, along with
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
TIME Is AGAINST
GERMAN ARGUMENT
tsv MOANING ,ousAaL SPECIAL tr.sso VIE

Paris, April 23.--1n connection with
the question of permitting the Ger
man delegates to the peace congress
to discuss the treaty it has been fig
ured out that if the treaty were read
to the Germans it would require at
least one minute for each of the / 900
articles the document contains, taking
up two days of eight hours each. 1t
is computed also that If each article
were discussed an hour allowed for
every one the discussion would occupy
four months of continued sessions of
eight hours per day.
These calculations are advanced as
a conclusive argument against permit
ting the German delegates to- discuss
the document.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-24
AMERICAN ARRESTED
BY JAP SOLDIERS
rsr ~o-a,no JOURNAL SPECIAL Ls.sso wlss,

Peking (Tuesday) April 22. (by the
Associated Press. IL. w. Glass, an
American employe of the British
American Tobacco company, after be-
ing assaulted by a Japanese soldier at
Pam 'enching, near Mukden, Man
churia, was arrested and detained at
Japanese police station, according
to information reaching the Ameri-
can legation here. lie was liberated
after several hours, but was rearrast-
ed Immediately and conducted to
Japanese military headquarters where
he was detained. Before being re-
leased the next day, Mr.. Glass was
summoned to appear before the Jap
anese military authorities. He disre-
garded the summons and left the
town.