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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-07-05

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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06

mean, Egypt, Alden, India and Sing
apore; or by more northerly route
almost entirely overland if by aero
plane. In either case Cairo or Alex
andria will certainly be port of
call, as being the commercial CEN
tiers of the Eastern Mediterranean,
Clear to Capetown.
"Also the equally important route
from Europe to South Africa will
lie through Cairo, passing south
ward down the valley of the Nile,
thence via East Africa and Rhodesia
to johannesburg and Cape Town.
1--WE can draw a line across the
map from Ireland to Newfoundland
and also one from England via Port
ugal and the Azores to the coast Of
America and predict that these will
be the routes Of the transatlantic
air lines when aircraft have become
sufficiently developed to make the
flight with commercial regularity.
1T is then possible to see how the
Atlantic seaboard of America may
be linked with the near East in the
Old World; the route passing over
Portugal, Spain and northern Africa
to join with the easterly routes at
Cairo.
"Obviously another overland route
to the east is available from Eu-
rope, following more or less the
line Of the Berlin-Bagdad railway.
Therefore, we must not fall into the
habit of thinking that, because Brit
lsh territories are to be found in
every part of the world, Britain has
undisputed opportunities for aerial
enterprise. This is far from being
the case"
"Charting the reefs of the air" is
what the Royal Air Force calls the
work upon which section of that
organization has been busy almost
since the day of the armistice; this
in anticipation of the needs of the
pilots of the skies. Says an R. A. F.
expert:
"Weather is the controlling factor
in flying activities, and with the
very changeable and uncertain eli
mate conditions of the British Isles
it has a special significance to US.
An extensive system of meterologi-
cal observatories has been establish
ed by R. A, F. all over our islands
from Lands End to the Shetlands,
and careful observations of tempera-
ture, barometric pressure, direction
and strength of winds, humidity,
ETC., are made hourly, not only near
the ground but also in the upper
air BY means of balloons and kites.
By examining the data received by
telegraph and wireless from these
stations each day it is possible for
the meteorologists of the R. A. F.
to issue a weather forecast for the
next twenty-four hours Of infallible
accuracy"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06
Airs Freedom Stimulates
Plans for Ether Routes to
Join Worlds Continents
British Already Are Planning Air Routes to India and
Australia Jules Vernes Dreams Of the Future of
the Arships, Written in Stories More Than Is
Years Ago. At Last Realized.

eminent has created the bureau of
civil aviation and placed at its head
Major-Gen. Sir F. H. Sykes with the
title of controller-general. Parlia-
ment has set aside from this year S
budget 100000, or SIS 100000 to
encourage civil aviation. Two mil
lions of this vast sum are to be de-
voted to research and experiment,
half a million to developing new
types of planes and the remaining
half million for the administrative
functions of General Sykes depart
rnent.
Already General Sykes has taken
a long step forward in attending the
international convention at Paris.
whereat he and his assistants had a
strong hand in formulating the in
ternational agreement as to the uses
of the air, the details of which al
ready have been published. Every
airman in Europe and America now
knows the regulations governing his
flights across national boundaries,
his encounters with the customs and
all the nice jealousies of national
self-protection.
Blazing Air Trails"
The second great forward stride
made by this new branch of the
government executive in Britain is
in the work of "blazing the trails"
which the sky couriers of the imme-
date future must follow in their
leaps through space. On this sub
ject General Sykes himself recently
gave the main outlines. He said:
THE stress of war is passed. An
almost equally difficult and certain
ly more complicated period is upon
US. We must now insure that the
air forces of the British empire are
fitted not only, if need be, for pur-
poses of destruction, but are able
quickly to take their place in the
great broadcast peaceful Develop
ment of civilization.
an the immediate future one of
the principal tasks will be to open
up ALFRED routes and blaze the
trails for the empire aerial services.
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Whether He Wins or Loses
Army Chief Will Create
Dilemma for Government
Opponent of Carranza and Villa Regimes Has More
Bitter Enemies and Loyal Friends Than Any Man
4 in Mexico-Controls Yaqui Indians by Practicing
4 What He Preaches-Divided Lands With Poems

you shoot me, you'll only split the
Carranza party and make present
of the country to the Americans. If
we hold together, we can hate each
other, but we can keep Mexico for
the Mexicans," and Villa knew it
was true; for the American State
department men were on the spot;
aud he ordered the death SQUAD back
to barracks, raging and roaring and
swearing at the top of his voice as
he relinquished the chance at prey
in hand.
Sell Ammunition.
What brought the split between
! Oregon and Carranza isn't hard to
guess. Oregon was the strong
man; but the United States had rec
ognized Carranza. Whatever Car
rama may be himself, it has been
his tragic misfortune to be sur
rounded by dishonest scoundrels.
However cruel Obregon may have
been on occasions, he has always
fought with certain code of honor,
and his worst enemies have never
accused him of dishonesty.
One episode will explain why
though Carranza and Oregon held
together their military commanders
could never operate in the same field
together. 1t was down in Vera
Cruz. A Carranza relative was in
charge. There was at that time no
embargo on the importation of fire
arms. Remington 1890 shells were
being used. The Carranza man had
$500 men. Ten million rounds of
ammunition came in. The Carranga
general reported it all Shot off" and
requisitioned 100000 rounds.
That, too, came in. 1t, too was re-
ported shot Off" If. as the Ger
mans figured, one bullet out Of rs
should hit man, this general must
have winged" 100000 enemies;
but that was not his game. He
called in little foreign broker-no,
not an Aforementioned the ammu-
milton all over to the little broker
and sold it back to the government
This was done three times. The lit
tie broker boosted that he cleared
up 100000 as his share of the DEAL
Kept from Capital.
Those were the sort of things that
made Oregon froth at the mouth.
They are the sort of things that
make him bitter enemies to this day
in the Carranza junta. Then there
were other little things. Obregon
wanted. to be first to Mexico City.
He was held back by red tape till
Carranza beat him to it. That hap
pened over and over in all Obregon's
campaigns. 1t perhaps explains why
Obregon will not 60 against Villa,
when Carranza's men can't whip
Villa.
He won the Yaquis by the simple
but in Mexico altogether unusual
proceeding of practising what he
preached. He believed the Yaquis
could be pacified only by having
their own land to till. Now Obre-
gon has descended from a Mexican
family rich in lands. Would he di-
vide those lands up with the Yaquis?
That is exactly what he did, though
he did not give them title unless
they bought. He would set aside
an acre or two acres to family.
He would advance the family pillow,
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E7shkzuS forces 5xcaSsAxf Nzaue

use the knife. When they find an
empty she'll, they run lead into it,
put in their own Illuminating cap
and use it again. 1t is a shell cruel
er than dum-dum bullets.
Gives Friend Money.
So when Obregon reached Mex
leo City he had $4,000 men. 1t wa /,
then the Carranza junta began to
fear him and began to conspire.
Oregon countered so quickly his
enemies quaked. Dr. Att, a madly
enthusiastic |. w. w. man. educated
in Paris in all the tenets of red
revolution, was called in. One can
imagine how Obregon's land policy
appealed to Att. Att got out among
the unions. Conductors, drivers,
taxi men deserted in droves to join
Obregon's army. When Oregon
left Mexico City, he had $4,000 men
and his enemies were powerless to
touch him; and he has never forgot
ten Att When Att went broke from
the very excess of his own theories,
it was Obregon kept him in pocket
money; and as late as July, 1918,
Oregon sent Att 500 in Los An
geles.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06

"The Atlantic has great attrac-
tons. But of far greater and more
solid importance from every point
of view is Cairo-Calcutta, Calcutta
Singapore, Singapore-Australia.
Beyond Imagination.
"The advantages to be derived
from the chain of British posses
sions throughout the world, afford
ing as they do facilities for refuel-
ing and repair bases, and meteor
illogical and wireless stations, must
be utilized to the full and prepare
tons made for the day when all
British air routes will play a great
part in the maintenance of the COM
mercial existence of the British en-
pire.
Commercial flying a., such, has
not been able to exist, owing to the
necessities of war, and we are there
fore compelled at present to rely
upon military experience for guild
ance in civil aviation. But its capa-
bilities are beyond the imagina ton
of even H. G. Wellsl
Routes to the east and Austral-
asia have had most careful consid-
Grafton. We have been for some
time engaged in mapping out the
stages of the aerial route to Aus
tralia from Cairo to Karachi, Singa-
pore, and via the Sunda Islands.
"The type of machine so far found
most suitable and relia bic is De
Haviland, and it is considered that
this type of machine is we'll able to
carry up to 600 weight OF mail mat
General Sykes's statement about
the "all-red routes" open vistas
which are by no means fantastic in
their imaginative scope. So far has
the mapping of these air trails ad-
vanced that already experts in the
department of civil aviation have
visioned Cairo as the Charing Cross,
or grand central air station of the
flying world-so far as the eastern
hemisphere is concerned, at least
All airpaths will cross at Cairo
Here is the way Maj. Wilfred T.
Blake, of the royal air force, visions
this great junction point OF the sky
travellers.
1T is sometimes suggested that
Australia, on account of its posi-
tion, equidistant between the East
ern and Western hemispheres, may
become the hub of the aerial world.
But it would appear that the Pacific
ocean, 5000 miles broad between
Australasia and America, will al
ways prove 4 difficult passage to
aircraft, even though use be made
Of the groups of Pacific islands as
refueling depos.
"The connection between Britain
and Australia by sirship will proba-
bly, be via France, the Nediterra-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06
Aged Renew Youth in Spirit
World, Says A. Conan Doyle,
Told by Ghostly Shad es
Noted Writer Says Messages From Those Passed
Away Describe Death as Painless and Rather
Pleasant Feeling; Says Dead Speak of Etheric or
Spiritual Body as the Exact Counterpart of the
Body That Was Left Behind

| one Of great happiness, yet Of great
homeliness. In the evolution Of ma
ture one stage was very like the
stage it succeeded. and the dead"
found themselves in = world which
was so like this one that some OF
them had difficulty in persuading
themselves that they really were
dead.
No Rich, No Poor.
Everyone there had congenial
work, and there were no rich and
no poor. There were punitive cir.
cles, but not in the sense of punish
ment as we knew it here; they were
looked on rather as hospitals for
weakly souls, where they were
healed by sorrow. The most dan
gerous man in this world was not
the wicked man-for him there was
hope-but the man who had no spir-
ituality whatever, the one-idea'd
man, whose soul was in his ledger
and his money bags. He might 60
regularly to church and rely on his
parson to see him through, but he
forgot that though we may 60
through life in a procession we have
to die one by one.
Discussing some of the points on
which he said that all the messages
from "the beyond were agreed, Sir
Arthur said that they did disagree
sometimes, but it was only about
the question Of the future Of those
who sent the messages. On the
things they could see in their pres
ent existence they were all agreed.
Infants Continue Growth.
If child died, for example, they
were all agreed that it grew up in
the next world, but under better
conditions than those OF this world.
When the old died the symptoms of
age rapidly left them, and they con-
t;nued their life at the normal, which
was described as being about thirty
five years in the case of a man and
thirty in that of a woman.
In conclusion the lecturer de-
scribed spiritualism as a new revela-
ton sent by God, and if the churches
were going to try to drive it out
they were driving out the most vital
and dynamic thing which had been
sent into religion in the last 1000
years.
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Takes Prisoners Clothes
After JaiI-Break Fails

Seymour, Ind-Sheriff Harvey L.
McCord heard a commotion in the
Jackson county Jail and slipped
through the corridor to ascertain
the cause. He saw Claude Strange
and Chauncey Hall, waiting removal
to the Jacksonville, Ind, reforma-
tory to begin sentences Of from one
to five years for forgery, digging a
hole through the cell floor to the
basement with iron rods taken from
their cot. After watching the pair
for few minutes, he made his pres
ence known. He then made the two
remove all their clothing, which was
locked in the jail office. McCord
then returned to his apartments,
feeling confident they would not try
to escape without their clothes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06

horse, or mule, and one sack of
beans to plant-all to be charged
against returns. Now one sack of
garbonza beans will produce $50
sacks worth $l4 to $l8 a sack. All
advances were charged against re-
turns, then for the use of the land,
Obregon took rs per cent OF the net
profits.
Acts as Middleman.
But he went farther than this. As
all farmers know the trick is not to
raise crop. It is to sell the crop
without letting mddlemen steal all
profits; so Obregon created an ex-
clusie monopoly in Sonora for gar
bonza beans. They must all sell
beans to him; and controlling all
beans, he raised the price to $18
sack. Of course, enemies howled
at the word monopoly; but his worst
enemies have never accused him of
cheating the growers one cent.
Compare his methods with Alva-
RADIOS socialistic experiment on the
same line with henequen in Yucca
tan, when all profits went to over
head expenses and the growers were
reduced to ruin.
One of the best examples of the
dishonesty that makes Oregon
snort occurred in that Vera Cruz
campaign. A petty thief by the
name of Juan Gutierrez had been
sentenced to seven years in the ter
rible fortress of San Juan Ulua. A
day or two later, a political con-
spirator of the same name came in
court martialed to be shot. The
alcalde was a new man. By some
horrible mistake in the early dawn
the executioners took out the wrong
Gniterrez
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06

What are you going to do with
me" asked the dazed thief.
why, bump you off. of course,
according to orders"
20 God Almighty" howled the
man, Il am only poor, honest
thief. l would not be a sinking,
rotten politician for all the wealth
in Mexico! I am only poor little
honest thief"
But he was executed, neverthe-
less; and when the Mortified Off
Gals found what they had done,
they hurriedly let the other man
escape. 1t was a dead sure thing
he would not tell.
Oregon had always been a COL
onel in his own home guards; so
when the revolution broke, he called
to his 800 Yaquis all the others who
would come. 1t may be asked how
the Yaquis got their firearms and
how they get them today. Yaquis
work on the American side of the
border They go constantly back
and forward across the border, and
when they go back to Mexico, they
carry shells with them. And they
are very sparing of shells. They
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06
By ROBERT WELLES RICHIE.
Universal Service Staff Correspondent.


London, June 1.-The air has
been free since May l."
This is the catchword which Lon
don papers have made popular since
the announcements made in the house
of commons by General Seely, I'M
der secretary of state for the air
ministry, that after that date all mill
tary restrictions on navigating the
blue would be withdrawn.
All indications point to the I'M
leashing Of flock of sky couriers
long chahng at the leash by this mo-
mentous decision of the government
to cancel the many encumbrances
prohibiting the use of the sky for
civilian purposes. Not only has the
air ministry itself, through its great
technical staff prepared for this day
when the shackles should be cast
off the restless sky swimmers of
commerce and travel, but in Britain
large corporations with financial
backing running into the tens of
thousands of pounds have been pre-
pairing against the time when they
could enter into competition in a
new mediur-the charted air.
Verne Foresaw Air Conquest.
To give the full preparations in
Britain for this new era which dawn
ed on May day would require a
volume. The subject ranges from
the work of the meteorological
bureau, with its kite balloons record
ing the unknown currents OF the
upper air over the Atlantic, in the
heart of Africa and along the Medi-
terranean shore to the purely bust
ness aspect of this and that pioneer
firm preparing to exploit tours to
the Riviera by air or business air
rates to Australia via Cairo and the
Soudan. But the salient features of
this excursion into the realms of
which Jules Verne wrote Is years
ago under the inspiration of a pro-
phetic imagination may be touched
upon.
In the first place. the British gov
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06
Those Attending Revival
AIsa Take in Movie Show

Medoria, Ill.-"Movie" shows are
just as popular here as revival
meetings. And when it comes to
choosing between the two the popu-
lace wants both. Such was the de-
cision when \ picture show and
evangelical meeting came to Me-
doria the same night. The only
place to hold the meetings was at
the "Opry" house, SO it was decided
to set the scheduled hour for the
revival conclave back 80 minutes in.
order that the citizens might not be
up too late. They also advanced
the hour of the picture show meet
so the audience sat right through the
revival to watch the Pickering of
the movie film Immediately after
ward.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-23
Hayward at the Palace Organ in Music Suit the Pictures
STAGE AND SCREEN
 SUPPORT MARY GARDEN.

The first problem that faced Mary Garden when she landed on Amer ican soil to make her moving pie ture debut in "Thais" for the Gold wyn Pictures Corporation was diff ficuit of solution And even Casting Director Klauber of Goldwyn was for some time unable to. solve it for her.
 The problem was: Should moving picture actors or players from the legitimate constitute Miss Gardens support in "Thais"?
 "It has always been a marvel to me how minutely realistic and con vincing the moving picture actor seemed" said Miss Garden until appeared before the camera for my tests Then I know what did it.
 "The moving picture camera and the much-despised closeup have de veloped pantomine to q point of ar tistic precision never attained be
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-23
PAULINE FREDERICK
 ACHIEVES TRIUMPH IN PHOTOPlAY "FEDORA"

Beautiful, Statuesque, and intense ly dramatic, Miss Pauline Frederick was seen to fine advantage at the Coliseum Theater yesterday in her portrayal of the strellar role or Fedora" a picturization of the fam ous play written by Victorien Sardou for Sarah Bernhardt in 1882. This play to be repeated tonight the last time, served as a starring vehicle for the late Fanny Davenport for many years, and in the screen adop- tion the artistic work performed by Miss Fredreicks compares favorably with that of her predecessor in the same role of long ago. The picture though tragic as most of the Sardou plays are. met with instantaneous approval, because of it's artistry and excellence as a cinema production
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-23
REID'S YOUTHFUL
 DREAM REALIZED.

In his youngster days Wallace Reid's dream was to be a soldier of fortune His chief mental food in those days was furnished by the ex- cellent romances of Richard Harding Davis and other writers dealing with adventures in mythical Central Am erican republics
 But, alas. he entered picture work instead of going to Central America to become a general in an over night army. and not until recently has he had Q chance to portray his favorite type of hero. In Les Than Kin" the colorful and swiftly nov ing romance by Alice Duer Miller, which has been picturized by Marion Fairfax, and which will be shown at the Coliseum Theatre Thursday and Friday. he has a chance to revel in Central American atmosphere and intrigue The part of Lewis Vickers in his latest Paramount starring
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-23
HENRY KING CEASES RUNAWAY "SALLY ANN" OUT IN FRISCO BAY.

Henry King. director 0f Mary Miles Minter productions, l. ] a deep sea cruise last week that neither he nCr any member of the Minter company had bargained for as will be seen at the Coliseum Saturday night only.
 The cruising brig Sally Ann, being used by MT. King in filming the sea stuff in Miss Winters latest Ameri- can-Mutual production, "The Mate of the Sally Ann" broke loose from her moorings at a dock on the San Fran cisco waterfront and went scudding down the bay under bare poles, q gale behind her.
 Trying to hire a tug in these strenuous times along the Pacific cost, is like searching for diamonds in a Kansas cornfeld, so the best Mr. King could do was hire a motor boat and go chasing the Sally Ann himself
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-23

fore. On the stage everything has to be highly colored. every gesture exaggerated and every impression heightened to achieve an effect on the huge audience so far away Today the great screen has brought the ac- tor into such intimacy with his audi ence that every smallest movement every flash of an eyelid counts The camera has male acting natural. know that l feel nervous enough my self about the task before me. I'm going to practice and practice, anu work and work, to make my acting absolutely camera-perfect'
 The cast finally elected to support Miss Garden in "Thais" is about evenly divided between stage anu screen players, which will be seen al the Palace Theatre tonight
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-23
CRIMINALS AND + CRIME WILL BE
 THE NEXT SUBJECT
Prof. L. w. Rogers Lectured In A. B. Hall Last Evening on the Ghosts of
 Shakespeare

Shakespearian ghosts were dis
 L. w Rogers. of Los Angeles, who
 gave tho fifth Of a course of lee lures on things occult He took the ground that all the gat sta i. the
 various tragedies were intended by shakespeare t. represent the actual return of the Gead, and asked his audience what other reasonable eX planaticn there could be It would not do, he argued, to say that it was a concession to the superstition oi those times because other dramatists did not follow that course. Ben Jon sons contemporary work of The Alchemst was cited as an example of taking the opposite course In any case it was impossible to be | live, he declared, that the great man who gave us such ideals as we | find in The Tempest, and who creat ! ed such characters as .Prospero and | Cordelia. could have degraded he
 genius to catch the popular applause of the times. Cruelty and revenge
 were the popular ideals of those days, the lecturer said, but Shake speare had exalted and glorifiet
 kindness and compassion. What Wal
 the supertition of the plays to thi'
 generation would be their science | to the next.
 | Tomorrow night MT Rogers vii
 speak on "The Life Sublime" ant will discuss crime and criminals among other topics.