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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16
Henry Hudson, Sol.)
August 2 8 is % 1919
TO KATIE JtFFRIES AND
BLAINE MeCARTER

TO KATIE JkFFRIES AND
BLAINE MeCARTER
o B Jeffries VS.. Katie Jeffries 4
State of Tennessee, In Chancery Courr
OF Knox County. No. 1885
In this cause it appearing froE thu
bill filed, which is sworn to, thai tina
defendants. Katie Jeffries and Bl inc
McCarter are non-residents Of the
State of Tennesgees so tlaatt the
ordinary process Of law cannot be
served upon them, it is ordered chat
said defendants appear before the
Chancery Court, at Knoxville,
Tennessee, Of. or before the first
Monday Of Oct. next. and make
defense to said bill, or the same will
be taken for confessed and the Gauss
set for hearing ex parte as to them
This notice will be published in the
Knoxville Independant for four con-
secutive weeks.
This 7th day Of Aug. 1919
]. c. Ford, Clerk and Master.
B. c. Ogle, Sol.
August 9 16 23 30 1919
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Fred e. Garter, Circuit Court Clerk
W. s. Roberts, Sol.
Aug. 8 is 20 lo19
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Sen- Dc Your JOB PRINTING
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19
VIRGIN ISLANDERS
CALL FOR RECOGNITION

ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, July
5 Correspondence of Associated
Press) This American port is be-
ginning to regain some of its former
maritime Importance. Owing to the
war, improvements in this direction
have been slow since the Virgin Is
lands were purchased from Denmark,
but now, after considerable agitation
by business men of St. Thomas, Am
crican steamers are beginning to call
here. This is the result of repre-
sensations which have been made to
Washington in behalf of the inhabi-
tants of the islands.
The islanders feel that American
steamship owners, and especially the
Shipping Board at Washington, have
heretofore overlooked the facilities of
the harbor of st. Thomas for provid-
ing coal, fuel oil, and other stores.
While few American steamers have
been calling at st. Thomas for sup
plies, many have called at the neigh
boring British islands where facilities
are not considered as good as here.
The price of coal is cheaper at st.
Thomas than at the British islands.
To bring this matter before the
Shipping Board and to obtain all the
help possible from the American peo-
pie and congress, a meeting of the
inhabitants of the Virgin islands was
held here. Resolutions were adopt
ed calling the attention of the Ship
ping Board to the facilities Of the
port, such as pier 5000 feet long
with 81 feet of water alongside, and
all up-to-date appliances for the quick
dispatch of vessels wanting coal,
water, fuel oil and other stores.
The resolution was carried to-
washington by Darwin 0. Curry, col
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19

lector of customs, who laid it before
the Shipping Board. Mr.. Curry has
since returned and reports that that
board, members of congress, and Am
erican business men have promised
to do all they can for the islands.
Another oil depot is being erected
here to meet increased demands. The
people of St. Thomas believe it pos
sesses far better facilities than most
other West Indian islands, and are
determined to make known it's avail
ability as a port on call for supply
ing steamers.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19
CONDITIONS IMPROVING
IN SERBIAN CAPITAL

BELGRADE, July 2 (by maiD.-
There are many evidences of better
ing conditions in Belgrade. Belgian
university opened a short time ago.
The American Red Cross is now erect
ing barracks to house the students
during the summer
In the spirit of the people there is
a marked change for the better in
the last few months. Social gather
ings are more frequent, and a few
moving picture theaters are in opera
ton.
Shops in the city are gradually
re-flling with stocks. Prices are
high. Reports from the interior in
dictate a large grain harvest, with a
possible surplus for export in south
Serbia. These reports have had an
encouraging effect on life in the
capital.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19
Not Mrs. WincheII's Body

Then one day a few weeks ago a
Seattle diver, J. J. Donovan, whom
Winchell says 'is the most cOnscien-
tiOus man I ever knew" succeeded
in bringing the body in the berth OF
room IS to the surface and Winchell
was disappointed again. 1t was not
that of his wife.
In May the steamship company
sent divers to the Sophia wreck and
since then Wincheu and his men
Donovan and Smith-have worked
with the company divers and there
have been fOrty-six bodies recovered
but not the body Of Ilene W1nchell.
Winchell is an old man now. His
friends say that he has grown old
since the Sophia went down. He
lives with but one thought and one
end, and that is expressed in the
line of a letter he wrote a few days
ago which says, 81 hope there is
God in heaven who will favor me
by giving me my poor 1lene. | am
nearly all in"
The staterooms and the decks of
the Sophia, say the divers, are lit
tered by the bodies of her pas
sengers. Slowly and painfully the
divers are cutting them free from
the wreck debris, and as every one
reaches the boats above, Winchell
is happy for a moment and then filled
with sorrow, but impelled by a de-
termination greater than before.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19
AL WINCHELL'S HEROIC EFFORTS
TORECOVER BODY OF lost Wife.
Exhausts Health and Funds Rather than Break
Promise to Lay Remains of Sophia Victim
Beside Those of Her Mother in California

went back to the reef and Jacobson
reached the body and drew rings
from it's fingers to show Winchell.
It was not his wife. Later identifi-
cation showed it to be the remains
of Mrs. John O'Brien, who had
persisted with her husband and five
children. Then they felt sure that
the other body In room IS was that
of Mrs. Winchell.
One day when it seemed as if but
a few hours would see Mrs. Win
che1ps body discovered, the diver
working below felt smothered. His
trembling, half-frozen fingers in their
cold-brittled gloves slipped over the
handle of the valve in his helmet and
closed it, and with the air confined
in the helmet he shot to the surface,
sixty feet above the wreck.
A slug of ice, formed by the
moisture of his breath in the air pipe
just above his head, partially clog.
it.
''That settles it." he told Win
chell. II wouldn't go down there
again until the water is free of ice
for all the money there is in the
world
Winchell demonstrated with him
but in vain.
With borrowed money Winchel]
began work again in March, and al
ways the sea threw new obstacles in
his way and laughed at his work.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19

Try the Club Billiard Hall for
golden, silver and royal fizzes. 23-tf
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19
Miner on Flat Creek

Winchell was miner employed by
the Yukon Gold company until he
gave up his work to search for the
body of his wife. For years the
two had lived at Flat creek, which
is a mining camp adjacent to ldlta-
rod. on the lower Yukon river. Mrs.
Winchelrs health failed and it was
decided that she should spend the
winter in California.
On the night that she was to leave
for the coast the two of them talked
of the trip, and Mrs. Winchell said
to her husband:
"A1. I can't tell you how I know
it, but you will outlive me. If you
do. Al, tell me that you will see that
I am buried with my mother
81 WILL" he replied.
The fate that delights to torture
the minds of men who are honest of
heart must have grinned.
Winchell, at Flat creek, heard OF
the loss of the Princess Sophia. He
walked, with a party of men, the 400
miles to Anchorage in what is said
to have been record time.
On reaching the coast he took
steamship passage to Juneau. They
he began the ceaseless, day-after-day
So
Because her owners believed that
the Sophia had broken her back on
the reef, they declined him help, and
Winchell a mine laborer, hired his
own diver-a man named jacobson
chartered a boat in Juneau and IN
the dead of winter went to the reef.
Floating ice and the extremely
cold water made diving hazardous,
and it was only by paying exorbltant
wages that Winchell kept the diver
at work The company records IN
Juneau showed that Mrs. Winchell,
because of her i'll health, had been
given stateroom by herself, and
it was at this room, No. IS, that
Jacobson began his search
The room is in the waist of the
ship and the wreckage of the super
structure lies about it in such
manner that a man does not dare to
break it's door and to enter lest the
wreckage topple down and close the
opening.
The diver, peering through the
window, saw two bodies, one On the
floor and the other lying in a berth.
He drew one body to the window and
tried to drag it through. A parti-
ton, too strong for him to break, pre-
vented.
He could spend but few minutes
at a time in the icy water and Wheh
he had chopped through the partition
atew days later a storm came up and
Wlnchell and the diver had to put
back into Juneau.
Returned TO Wreck
When the storm subsidized they
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-08-19

A recent San Francisco dispatch
states that "Al Winchell returned here
today from a trip to bury the remains
of his wife in the cemetery next to
those of his mother. He intends to
return to Alaska"
There are men who have torn the
writing of solemn pledges to shreds
and drenched the shreds in blood
and called it nothing There are
men who have been willing to spend
life itself to keep good promise
made, says the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer Of the latter is Al Winchell.
For nine months the love of Win
chell for his wife and his respect for
a promise given her have made him
endure much suffering. Long ago,
by the mundane rules that men and
women judge these things-some
might say he was entitled to forget
he told his wife that in the event
of her death she should be buried be-
side her mother in California, and he
fights in the face of encouragement
to wrest from Alaskan waters the
body of Ilene Winchell his wife,
victim of the steamship Sophia wreck
last October, so as to keep his prom
Use to her.
Grant Murdoch, who is an old-time
friend of Winchell, and who now re-
sides at 5616 Kirkland place, Seattle,
brought Winchells story to Seattle
last week.
When the Canadian-Pacific steamer
Sophia struck on Vanderbilt reef,
Lynn canal, forty miles from Jul
neau, Alaska, in the midst of biz
gard, and, after having resisted the
boffets of the storm for day,
slipped from the rocks to become a
scarophagus for the bodies of nearly
300 men, women and children,
among this number was Mrs. Win
chell. The Princess Sophia changed
from ship to tomb on the night of
October Is, 1918.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
MEXICANS REPRESS
 FACTS OF MURDER
Witness Tells of Discovery of Bodies of Two Ameri-
 can AviatOrs
By Assoelates Prs.

El Paso. Tex, December 26--Mex- ican officials sought to repress facts concerning the murder of American sviators Lieuts. Cecil Connolly and Frederick waterhouse, whose bodies were found buried in the sand on the Baya De Los Angeles. Lower Cali fornia, according to testimony at the hearing today. The testimony was given by Joe Allen Richards of Chi cago, the American who discovered the bodies on September 21. The hear ing was conducted by Major Dan M. Jackson of Fl Paso, secretary of the Senate sub committee investigating Mexican affairs. The subcommittee will formally open it's hearings on the border next month a San Antonio.
 None of the committee members was present today.
 Richard testified to finding the bodies when he landed from a Mex ican steamer to get water. He said the captain of the steamer warned him not to make public his discovery and he was arrested at Santa Rosalie on September 26 because he had not kept his discovery to himself
 According to Richards testimony, Connolly was stabbed to death and Waterhouse evidently died from broken skull caused by impact from heavy iron bar found near the bodies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
The Business of Being a Housewife Department of Education Inspia the Home
  Desic e States m

siasses or five-pound pails, and is food we always like to keep on hand for both eNeryoay use and emergencies.
 HOW IT IS MADE.
 As with all superior products, il is necessary that the best materials go into the making of it. The splendid Spanish ard Virginia peanuts are received shelled. Each shipment of peanuts is carefully inspected before being accepted.
 The color of the peanut butter depends upon the roasting, SO careful producers roast all the peanuts in their own plant. Alter being roasted the peanuts are cooled and passed through machine, where they are -blanched and the tiny seed eliminated from the one end of the peanut This bit of a seed, if left in, gives the finished product a slightly bitter taste. The banched meats are scattered by the machine on to a. moving ta ble on the floor below.
 HAND PICKED.
 Neat girls seated before these moving tables next pick out all imperfect peanuts The Virginia peanuts run the best, while the Spanish peanuts often require two pickings.
 The Spanish variety are rich in oil, while the Virginia nuts are much dryer. being rich in protein. Properly mixed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
No Bolsheviki in China,
 Says Engineer in Bern
By Associated Prsss

Berne. Tuesday, December 2S.-l young Chinese engineer who has jus. arrived in Berne discussing today tn reported intention of Leon Trotzks the Russian bolsheviki minister o war. to recruit a Chinese army to car ry out bolsheviki methods if nEuropd declares such step would be imposl sible.
 He asserted that the boishevik might be getting some troops iron China and some mercenary soldier from Manehuria who are adventurer4 and are being well paid by the boil sheviki, but said the statement tha the bolsheviki were getting 500 monthly from China was an obviou exaggeration.
 The engineer declared also that il was untrue that there was a growins bolsheviki movement in China Ther. were no bolsheviki in his country, ana only a few socialists. The only grow ing movement in China, he said, va. the one against Japan, which had beer started among the Chinese intel lectuals and seemed to be spreading seriously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
USE PEANUT BUTTER FOR
 FOOD VALUE AND VARIETY

The variety of uses for peanut butter is surprising to the uninitiated. This increases it's popularity with every house wife. For childrens lunches, sandwiches, for picnics and as substitute for other spreads, peanut butter has no equal. Ten cents worth is equal 10 one dozen eggs .n food value. and various other com parisons are equally as interesting
 As with all superior products only the finest materials go into the making of it. spanish and Virginia shelled peanuts are roasted to a delicate brown, cooled and olanched. Before being ground they are sorted and put into different grades ac- ccrding to their size, afterward mixed with just the right amount of salt and sugar
 After filling the glasses with the rich brown butter the sanitary tops are placed or the glass to keep this carefully pre- pared product free from any contamina- ton.
 This product is sold in various size
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
YOUNG WIDOW IS
 HELD AS WITNESS
Brown, Detroit Millionaire, Murdered By Jealous
 Rival-TheOry
By Associated Press

Mt. Clemens, Mich December 2e.- County authorities Investigating the killing last Wednesday of J. stanley manufacturer today detained as ma terial witnesses Mrs. .Ruther Provost Brown. the slain mans young widow, and Lloyd Provost, her cousin.
 Mrs. Brown and Provost, the latter of whom was regarded as one of Browns closest friends. were queS- toned again this afternoon separately by Prosecutor Lynn Johnston and Sheriff William Caldwell
 Decision to hold them as witnesses was reached after three hours de- voted to interrogating Provost
 4 safety vault, containing Brown s papers, was opened this afternoon and found to contain securities worth 5000. This according to William Y. Kelly, an attorney who acted as finan cial adviser for Brown. is s12.o00 short of the amont of secrities his client was understood to have had in his pos session. While some of the securities were known to have been negotiable no record of their having been disposed of by MT. Brown could be found to- day.
 Brown frequently carried large sums of money and securities on his per son 'rhc autnc rites. however, scout the theory that robbery was the motive for his staying. Sheriff Caldwell de- clared he was convinced that jealousy was the cause. In explaining this the ory today he said he believed a man and woman accompanied Brown on the automobile trip which ended in his oeath on a country road four miles from here. In support of this opinion he pointed to the fact that four bullets had been fired into the young mans neck from behind so close" the sher- if added, that there was no .ance Of missing.
 Pursuing his theory the sheriff ex- pressed the conviction that the shoot- ing was done by a man angered be- cause he believed Brown was attentive to young woman in whom he himself was interested.
 Stories Of an arrangement between Brown ard his wife were denied by Mrs Brown who pointed cut that he had given her $50 for a Christmas gift Tuesday evening
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

these make very good balance. The selected peanuts are put into a mixer. according to formula, and just the right amount of salt and sugar added. The nuts are thoroughly mixed so as to give a uniform product and then forced au- tomatically through the grinder An other immaculate young woman fills the clean glasses with the rich, brown but ter that is forced out of the porcelain lined tube of the grinding machine. San itary tops are immediately placed on the glasses to keep this carefully prepared product absolutely free from dust or any possible contamination
 The label of the producer of national reputation for high quality and uniform ity of product is then put on the glass and it is ready for distribution When we open glass of that peanut butter in our own kitchens we know that it is the same as though we stood at that sanitary tube leading from the grinding machine and wilfed the glass ourselves. using the product immediately.
 Peanut butter is a food product which became popular as soon as it was on the market, beca of it's delicious fla vor healthfulness and high food value It compares favorably with beefsteak or eggs in bodybuilding material
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
RADICALS CONDEMN
 LEVINE AND TROTZKY
Rx A,,ociaied Pre,s

New York. December 26.-Evidence was give nat today's executive session of the legislative committee which has been Investigating radicalism in New York state that the, Union of Russian Workers. the organization to which a large proportion of the radicals re- gently deported on the transport Bu- ford belonged. includes the soviet government of Russia in it's antagon- ism to all forms of authority. George j.. Starr an investigator of the com mittee. testified that at one of the meetings of the organization a reso- lution was adopted condemning the Lenine-Trotzky variety of government as being as reactionary as any other form.
 The committee tonight issued a statement. preliminary to the final re port, which will be presented to the legislature at it's forthcoming session. Tn not only the large, but also in the small centers of population up state the statement said there are found men and women engaged in the radical revolutionary movement. Evi- dence also discloses the fact that liter ature of an extremely radical nature is being very generally and very openly circulated throughout the en- tire state, principally by organizations located in New York City"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Reversible Propeller

To the future may best be left all ap- praisal of the reversible airplane pro- peller, says the Popular Mechanics Maga- zine in an illustrated article. Perhaps II will some day be judged the greatest con- tribution to the art of mechanical flight since the Wrights first biplane; perhaps not. Sufficient now is the bald state ment that the. mechanism is being tested and developed. under government super vision, at McCook field. Dayton, Ohio.
 Examinatso nof the device shows that its virtue lies Tn it's simplicity, for tho in ventors have realized that only the sim. plest of mechanisms can withstand the tremendous centrifugal stresses devel- oped with peripheral speeds that some times run to coo miles an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
CHINA AMBITIOUS
 TO HELP MAINTAIN
 PEACE IN PACIFIC
By Associated Press

Peking. Thursday, December 25.-Ad- miral Sah Chen Ping, minister of the navy, in a speech of welcome at a ban- quet rendered last night at the admi- ralty to Admiral Albert Gleaves, com mander of the American Asiatic fleet, voiced China ambition to play it's part in the maintenance of peace in the east.
 China has no navy at present. but we hope that soon we may be blessed with an adequate, up-to-date navy, one that will be able to share in the work of maintaining everlasting peace in the Pa cific" he said
 Admiral Sah Chen-Ping declared that the visit of the American admiral would help bring the citizens of America and China into closer relations and warmer friendship. The military order of the Striped Order of the First Class has been conferred on Admiral Gleayes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Nitti Expects to Float
 Fifteen Billion Lire
By Associated Press

Rome. December 26.-Premier Nitti ex- pressed today that from twelve to fifteen billion lire would be subscribed to the victory loan the sale of which begins January ,. On his return from the visit he is to make to Paris and London early in January. Premier Nitti will undertake a speaking tour on behalf of the loan.
 He expects large subscriptions will be received from Italians abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Earth's Magnetism

Knowing smiles generally greet any statement that one sleeps better, or worse. with the head toward some par ticular point of the compass, says the Popular Mechanics Magazine Yet even this supposed superstition may be found ed on scientific fact; for a French phy- sician finds now that certain reflexes in the human body, and the effects of per- cussion on some organs, are markedly stronger when the patient faces west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
ASHLAND

Ashland, December Special )-R. A. Griffin of Lineville and Miss Inez Ware of Ashland were married at this place today, the Rev. A. A. Hutto officiating. They left at once for bridal trip of a few days, after which they will make their home at Cottondale, Fla.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
HowelPs Body Floats
 Ashore on Corfu Island
By Associated Pross

london, December 26.-The body or Capt Cedric Earnest Howell, one of the British airmen in the London-to- AustIa- la flight, who lost his life when his ma chine was wrecked off the lsiand or Corfu on December F. was washed ashore or Corfu and buriad by an Eng fish chaplain. according to a Corfu dis patch to Lloyd's under Wednesdays date
 The body of Henry Frazer Howell $ mechanic has not yet been found. How elrs airplane is complete wreck and salvage is impossible because of the bad weather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Artist Goes to Italy
By Associated Press

New York, December 26-Hermon Atkins McNeill. artist and sculptor, will sail for Italy tomorrow to take up his duties as resident professor at the American Academy at Rome, it was announced here tonight. His wife and daughter will accompany him. Professor McNeil designed the McKin- ley memorial at Columbus. Ohio. He was a student at the American acad- emy "A years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

Sheriff-elect John M. Martin, who takes charge of the office in this county Jan uary l. has announced the appointment of A. F. McGee, member of the police force at present, as. jailer, and J. H. Wells, w. C. Moore and F. M. Woods as dnn11fies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

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