The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-23
THE NEWS M BRIEF

case passed to the foot of the docket of federal court. he-latest announce ment was that the trial will start Jan uarv 15. It is expected that hearing of the case will require a month.
 Irkutsk. sunday. December 21.-- (Russian Telexraphic Ageney)-An in- tercepted wireless message sent out by the soviet authorities at Moscow says that a revolt against the bolsheviki is in progress in Turkestan.
 New York. December 22.-A skull cap worn by Pope Benedict on several occasions and a partly burned history of France salvaged from the ruins of the Louvain library were brought back from Europe today by Charles c. Dunn, a Knights of Columbus secretary, for presentation to the Rev. Dr. George Daugherty, vice rector, and pr. Pat rick Healy. director of studies at the Catholic university at Washington.
 Washington. December % The American government has received no rroposal that the United States join win Great Britain and France in fur nishing assistance to Austria, obtainl ing valuable paintings now held in Austria as security. as asserted today by Earl Curzon. the British foreign secretary, in the House of Lords.
 London. December 22.-A statement issued by the war office today on the situation in South Russia says that on December 19 north of Tsaritsyn. the bolsheviki were retreating before Caucasian cavalry. On the Don front bolshevik cavalry raids have pene- trated deeply into the left wing of the Don army and the latter has retired l. front astride the Liksrostov railway. North of Konstantinograd, Terek Cos , sacks have captured a hostile battalion. General Denekine's volunteers have ad- vanced to the northwest of Kiev, all though the bolshevikf still hold that town.
 New York, December Ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois. a candidate for the republican presidential nomination. in an address here tonight, attacked so- cialism and communism. The futility of these doctrines, he declared, was amply proved by results of the at tempt of the Pilgrim Fathers to found socialistic community, although con ditions at Plymouth Rock favored a communistic state.
 Mineola, N. r. December 22.-Mrs. Mar guerite A. Lebaudy, who killed her husband, Jacques Lebaudy, Emperor of the Sahara" at their Long Island coun : try home a year ago, consented today to divide his millions with his sister Countess Marie Theresa Jeanne Le- baudy de Self of Paris. Under an agreement filed in court Mrs. Lebaudy and her daughter, Jacqueline, will have half the estate and the countess the other half. Mrs. Lebaudy agreed to re sign as administrative in favor of two administrators.
 Boston. December 22-In view of the keen competition for the e4 Rhodes scholarships allotted in October, last the Rhodes trust has decided to allot three additional scholarships at large to the United States for this year. In announcing this fact tonight Prof Frank Aydelotte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, American sec retary to the Rhodes trustees, said that these appointments would be filled from list of candidates who applied ir October and who, while they did not receive scholarships, were recommend ed by committees of selection as men who were well qualified to represent the country as Rhodes scholars at OK ford
 New York, December 22.-Joheph M Proskauer, the second lawyer appointed l to serve as counsel to the extraordi. 1 nary grand jury Investigating the lover, l shadowing crime" today declined to ac cept the post. The jury; after investi gating anarchism, an alleged traction conspiracy to raise fares, and the higf cost of milk several weeks ago, turned it's attention to the conduct of various city and county offices and at that tim, served notice it would not longer ac- cept the services of District Attorney Swann, whose office is under investiga ton.
 Ottawa, December 22.-Reports wer, IL n