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Execution of sentence, however. has
been deferred because of President
Ebsrt's order that death sentences Of
drumhead courtmartials must not be
carried out until he has had an OPP
portunity TO review the findings ana
countersign the decree
General Kabisch. commanding this
sector, laid the papers In Demotts
case before me and an ofncer OF
American general stan today. The
young American was captured with
arms in his possession near Muelheim
N an automobile. together with sew
eral revolutionary leaders
Chased A ''Relief Worker"
Demott had State Department pass
port, No. l22 ,S25, issued at Washing
ton September 30. 1919. certify ng
that the bearer was to do relief work
in France. The passport was extend
ed for six months and vised for west
ern Russia on March Q, this year. for
purposes of Journalistic work." by
United States Vice Consul u. IN. in
Paris.
81 Demott also carried British mercan-
tile marine service certificate No.
S63, ,991, in which he was rated as an
assistant cock and his nearest rela-
tive. was given as Wilbur Demott.
Paterson. N. j.
Among his other papers were . GER
tificate from the British committee
of the French Red Cross and letter
from the director Of work in the
French devastated area, dated March
81. -,Ey - .-...
At the trial emphasis was laid on
the consular wise for western Russia
md the late date of the above mem
toned letter. together with frag-
ments of another letter In his posses
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RENO, New. April lit is time
for the State of Nevada to show the
rest of the nation that 1t does not
countenance irregularity in court
procedure, and that it's morals are on
as high a plane as those of any State
in this union.
This was the emphatic statement
made today by Attorney General
Leonard B. Fowler. Of Nevada, VINO
after an absence of several days re-
turned yesterday to Carson City.
where Deputy Attorney General Rob-
ert Richards has been preparing the
complaints under which attempt Is so
complaints under which attempt is to
be made to set aside the decree OF
divorce issued to Mary Pickford In
the district court of Douglas county
at Minden.
THE complaint will allege that the
court had no Jurisdiction" continued
Fowler, because the plaintiff had no
residence ard the defendant was
brought into Nevada as a matter Of
collusion."
Fowler then said:
Fraud md Perjury.
Fraud has been committed. perjury
has been committed. At this time.
however, I am not prepared to say
that any criminal action Is to be
brought against either Mrs. owen
Moore MARY PickforO or against
the defendant in the divorce action.
This, in fact, is n matter for the dis
trict attorney of Douglas county to
take care of.
"The interest of the attorney gen.
erals office lies chiefly in getting the
Tha of tc frN
party to all civil actions. and In this
case its dignity is at stake. Not only
will we seek to annul the Moore de-
cree, but we stand ready to take SINH
lar action In any other case OF like
conditions to which our attention may
be called"
Attorney General Fowler stated
that the contemplated action will be
filed this week in the district court
at Minden. 1t is presumed, however,
that Judge Langan, who granted the
decree to Mary Pickford will hesitate
to sit in this case and that another
Judge will be found to hear the evil
dence.
The divorce law OF Nevada provides
that a decree may be granted in the
county where the causes for the d.
vorce action accrued, or in the county
where the defendant resides, or in
the county where the defendant shall
be found, or In the county in which
the plaintiff shall have resided for six
months.
Attorney General Fowler holds that
there Is ample precedent for his con.
tention that six months bona fde, cor.
poreal residence by the plaintiff must
underlie any OF the other conditions
as above set forth by the law.
He holds further that the defendant
n found must Justify his presence by
some reason other than that OF pal
pable collusion for the purpose of
being served with the complaint.
In this Connection Fowler today
called attention TO Mary Pickford's
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CUMBERLAND, Md, April 11.-Con-
tending that her husbands accusa-
tions of infidelity were based on what
a spiritualist told him and that he
always consulted a ouija board to sub
stantiate what his dead wife told the
medium, Mrs. Louise Plum, daught'
of Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Brinker, took
the stand in the circuit court and de-
MED that she had been unfaithful to
her husband, John Plum. a Federal
internal revenue officer, Of Baltimore,
who is trying to secure divorce.
II appeared through the course OF
the examination of the witness that
she does not believe in divorce, but
she has no objections to her husband
being granted one, providing II Is Sc
cured on other grounds than those OF
infd delity.
Says Husband Best Children.
Mrs. Plum Is attractive. She left
her husband in october, 1919, on ac-
count of i'll treatment, she declares,
and after heI refusal to sanction
Plum's plan to bring suit against her
parents for alienation of her affec-
tions. She charged her husband with
beating the children mercilessly, one
time using a hair brush with BRASS
headed tacks. While Mrs. Plum was
telling this story tho little boy
brought forth from her handbag the
brush described and displayed 1t to
the court.
Mrs. Plum denied her husbands al
legation that she confessed having
had Improper relations with a prom
inent physician, a jeweler, and law
yer OF Cumberland.
Il was at this point that she testi-
fed that her husband had told her
the spiritualist and the ouiJa board
had enlightened him. She said her
husband told her that his dead wife,
who could see things from the spirit
world, was always riding on the rear
seat OF his motorcycle when he was
out with It. She said that during the
time they lived In Baltimore he had
taken her to the spiritualist with him,
near Patterson Park, and that he nj.
ways appeared familiar with the me
,dium.
Mrs. Plum denied the allegation
that she stopped at the Raleigh Hotel.
Baltimore, with w T.. Moore. Man
ager Tjarks exhibited the register
leaves, which showed that w E
Moore and wife had registered there
September 2S. Mrs, Plum declared
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EXTENT OF STRIKE
SHOWN AT GLANCE
tBy international New. Service,

(By Internatteaal News Servfee.)
Seventy thousand men--switchmen.
yardmen. engineers. nremen, engine
tenders. and, In some instances, train
men and conductors-are reported to
be on strike In railroad yards in
thirty-six cities In seventeen different
States.
Latest asures shsw enpIeyes sst
~ fellowss
Salt Lake--45O switchmen.
. Ogden, UtahA110 switchmen-
Indianapolis-I.700y yardmen and
switchmen.
Jackson, Mich.-200 yardmen.
900 yardmen.
A list sf ether cities seriously af-
fected fellowss @
Chic o-25, 900 switchmen,
yardmen, engineers and nrement
out.
New York and Jersey City
5000 switchmen. r, ...- $50
Detroh-2, 900 swftchmen and
1000 enginemen.
Toledo-5,00O yardmen.
Los Angeles-1.s00 switchmen
and others.
Milwaukee II 200 switchmen
and yardmen.
Decatur. Ill.-107 switchmen.
St Louis-10,000 switchmen-
Buffalo-2.0O0 yardmen.
Centralia. Ill.-40O yardmen.
Champagne, Ill-65 switchmen.
Urbana, Ill.--15 switchmen.
Kansas City-1,50 switchmen
out reported back).
San Francisco-2,500 switchmen
and enginemen.
Beaver. Pa.-500 switchmen.
Jefferson City, Mo.-All yard
men.
Saginaw. Mich.-All yardmen
on Pere Marquette.
Puebla, Col.-100 switchmen.
Springfield, Ill.-All yardmen.
Youngstown, Ohio-3,000 yard
men.
PocatelIo. Idaho-1oo switch
men.
Portland, Ore.-All switchmen.
Gary. Ind.-350 switchmen.
Syracuse, N. Y.-250 yardmen.
Scranton, Pa.-50 switchmen.
Niagara Falls-All yardmen out
on two roads.
Fort Worth, Tex.-600 switch
men.
Columbus, ohio-10o switchmen
and yardmen.
Tuscon, Ariz.-5o0 switchmen,
enginemen, firemen, trainmen and
conductors.
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FRENCH ENTER
NEWD|STR|CTS
Increased Troop Movements
Hint At More Seizures of
German Cities.
PLAN "WAR- TIME" PROGRAM
Workmen At Hesse Read yfor
General Strike to Protest
Occupation.

BERLIN, April II. - Reports
reaching here today indicated in
creased troop movements on the part
Of French forces at the Rhine bridge
heads. The impression prevailed
that the French plan a new occupa-
ton Of various sections, although the
new troops may be merely replace
ments.
A dispatch today from Darmstadt
declared a clash occurred between
civilians and soldiers there, result
ing in several persons on both sides
being badly wounded.
Arrest German Police.
Babenhausen has been taken over
by French troops.
General Degougette, active com
mander of the French army OF occu-
patton, is reported to be preparing to
occupy Heidelburg, Mannheim and
Karlsruhe.
Five hundred members OF the Ger
man security police have been arrest
ID by the French at Frankfort and
are being held as prisoners Of war,
according to word received here.
The French general staff is ssputting
"war-tfme- program In effect In the
German neutral zones and in the
citiessthat have been seized.
There are indications that the
French plan to occupy Chaffenburg
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TO DYNAMITE
FERRY IS FOILED
BY DECKHAND

NEW YORK, April 11.-What
is believed to have been an at
tempt to destroy a Lackawanna
ferry was frustrated when a
deckhand discovered a package
containing dynamite placed on
the deck Of the boat near tho
entrance to the women's cabin
The mans suspicious were
aroused by the appearance Of
the bundle. IL was turned over
TO the Hoboken police, who
identified its contents.
About 400 passengers were on
the boat at the time. ..
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MARY CAN'T Be SEEN;
ILL, SAYS FAIRBANKS

Los ANGELES, ca e, April IL
Mary Pickford Fair anks. who Sc
cured divorce from owen Moore
and whose subseduept marriage to
Douglas Fairbanks has been the
subject Of proposed investigation in
Nevada, could not be approached to-
day concerning the latest statement
from Attorney General Leonard r.
Fowler. of Nevada, relative to the
stars divorce.
Her state OF health forbids the
slightest worry or annoyance Doug
las Fairbanks, her husband, said.
What plans are being made by
Fairbanks and his bride to oppose
setting aside the courts decree from
Moore and the automatic annulment
of her marriage to Fairbanks, those
concerned declined to say.
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BRITISH FOIL PLOT TO
RUN GUNS INTO IRELAND
Two Vessels, One From Hamburg,
the Other From Russia, Detained
at Scottish Port.

LONDON, April 11.--hn attempt to
run guns and ammunition into Ire
land was frustrated today. accord
ing to reports from Edinburgh.
Two vessels, one from Hamburg
and the other from Russia, were de-
tained In port in East Scotland. &C
cording to tho dispatches, when the
arms and ammunition were discovered
concealed under the ships coal sup
plies.
The ship from Hamburg is said to
have had camouhaged whippet
tank on her decks. and on report
said that the German vessel at
tempted to transfer part of her
cargo to the Russian steamer.
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25-CENT SUGAR LOOMS;
SPECTATORS BLAMED

NEW YORK. April 11.-Following
the sensational rise in the price OF
raw sugar to I'm cents per pound,
were asking and recoiv-
ing today from 21 to % cents a pound
for refined sugar in quantities of a
ton or more.
This means that housewives are
likely to be forced to pay as high as
IS cents n pound in a few days, II was
said.
The sharp increase In raw sugar
was attributed to manipulation OF the
market by speculators, coupled with
an increasing demand and shortage
of supply in the Cuban crop
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.ary's Diuorce *RalD,'
Says Nev. Legal Chief

testimony concerning owen Moore's
presence at Minden.
"She frst tried to explain to the
court" said Fowler. shat Moore had
come to Nevada to look for n coal
mine, but changed this to gold mine
Mt Judge Langan's suggestion. She
explained that he had hrst gone 10
Virginia City, but failing TO md
proper accomm cd ations, came 10 Min
den. Was anything ever more rawf
Why should he come to Minden, where
there arc no gold mines, and wh5
seek nccommodat In that place
when he could have found plenty At
Renof
"No, both plaintiff and defendant
tried In every manner to hoodwfnk
the law and the state of Nevada. II
they had been acting in good faith
they would have been open and above
bOnrd I'm all the proceedings"
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Not only was this young woman,
Grars Clark Cothron, near by when
her husband and another man, who
posed as her brother, shot and killed
two men, but she is accused OF kid
naping a child who now is in pitifui
state of health in Baltimore. The
girl in a sworn confession admits her
part in the crimes. but pleads In ex-
tenuation that she was forced to as
sociate with men, playing the badger
game and obtaining money by other
shady methods for the support Of
herself and her husband.
One of her victims, she says, was
a Congressman, and others were mar
ried men, whom she inveigled into
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Keeping Up With
The Times
A FACT A DAY

Why make a mystery Of
advertising? It's not mys-
terious.
There is some reason why
people trade with you, or
ought to trade with you.
Otherwise you wouldn't be
in business.
Tell that reason, with
the right sort Of advertising
copy, in the columns of The
Times.
Figure out for yourself
the number Of buyers YOU
can u n d o u b tie dly reach
through a newspaper circu-
lating to an extent of ap-
proximately 10000 copies
daily.
But make sure your copy
Is right.
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traps so her husband could command
funds as an alternative to q beating
and exposure in the cleverly planned
frauds.
Warns other Girls-
my year or so of married life was
not blessed with happiness and bliss.
1t was one Of shame. and my expos
ure OF my welded existence should
be a moral lesson to other young
women about to marry. Every girl
sshould guard against an unfortu-
nate marriage. Once the venture has
been made, 1t may be too late. My
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ITALIAN TROOPS AT
FTUME ARE REINFORCED

ROME. April 11.--Italian troops
which are maintaining the blockade
II Fiume have been heavily re-
enforced. Il was announced today II
vas expected this move would be
preliminary to action against Gabrielle
Annunzio in the city.
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YALE PRESIDENT RESIGNS.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. April 1.-THE
resignation of DR.. Arthur T. Hadley
as president OF Yale University has
been accepted by the Yale Corpora
ton. Il was announced last night
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FIGHT DUEL OVER cow,

BENTON, III, April 11.-Green
Smothers, sixty-five, and Sherman
Hart, shot a duel at ThompsonvI'le
following an alteration originating,
II Is said, when a COW, BELONGING 20
Hart entered Smothers' corn fiela.
Smothers was killed, and Hart is ex.
pected to die.
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U.S.OR BRITAIN.
TO RULE EARTH
-Harden
German Writer Declares John
Bulls Maritime Crown
Is Slipping.
JAPAN IS KEY IN THE EAST
Tokyo-london Alliance Will
Make England Supreme,
Journalist Warns.
BY MACMILLAN HARDEN,

By MACMILLAN HARDEN,
editor Of DIE Zu Kunft and Famous ~ the
Most Powerful Writer In GermanyJ
BERLIN, March 80 (by maiD.-
Near Westminster. in London, sits a
man who Is spinning q web OF
thought with which he is trying to
encircle the globe.
English Goal Attained.
'The goal of our desires Of yes
terday is attained. Against our viii
Europe cannot stir. Germany. our
only dangerous competitor at sea. In
industry and In trade. lies PROSTATE
on the ground" his thought main
'ains. Before II fell. 1t dragged
3olshevism into Petrograd, and so
reed us from Russia's might, which,
had 1t Joined the ranks Of the victors.
would have most inconveniently
and would have limited the sphere OF
influence of the Union Jack In eastern
Europe.
"Now. we hold Gibraltar and the
Dardenelles. the North Sea- and the
9altic. We have acquired representa-
tions at the mouth of the Sheldt,
along the Rhine and along the DAN
ube. and a dominating influence over
the Poles, Magyars. Let's, Esthonians.
and Jugo Slavs; we are assured OF a
majority vote in the league of nations,
nd az a convenient instrument we
have the reparations commission.
Makes Puppets Dance.
Z, "Au the roads to India, both by, sea
and land. are subject to our blockade; /;
we can Join Arabia, Mesopotamia and
Persia either firmly or loosely to the
British empire; Ike q puppet on a
wire, we can make the Caliph who
governs Mohammedan Islam to dance
in Mecca or in Constantinople; as the
protector of Zion we shall gain the
favor Of all the Orthodox Jews on
earth.
"Rule tho waves7 No Pitt. welling-
ton, Balmerston. Disraeli in his
widest dream ever beheld greater
triumphs. =
"But sterling exchange is lower
than ever before, the glory Of gilt
edged consols has faded. Ireland de-
mands the enjoyment of the right
Of self-determination- Egypt and
India are in a state OF unrest, and
upon all the borders Of the Moham-
medan world the virus Of Bolshevism
finds a receptive medium, through
which II trickles into the arteries Of
religious feeling and becomes a hun
dred-fold more dangerous than in the
colder zone Of sober, calculating
nationalism."
John Bull Uneasy.
Upon the summit Of his European
successes, John Bull sees himself
more seriously threatened than ever
before in the history of his empire.
In its very center socialism iss de-
veloping an increasing attractive
ness, toward which such far-seeing
liberals as Viscount Haldane incline
as toward a rising sun.
There can be no hope of a rapid
recovery of the financial situation,
in view OF the increase Of wages and
the decrease of production. And be-
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific we
are being outstripped by the greatest
power on earth, which may, IL II so
desires, become over night the strong
est maritime power In the world
"Tt is already the clearing house
Of world rule, and will not allow us
to monopolize, with japan. the enor-
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Cothron's Girl Wife
Says Husband Drove
Her to Life Of Shame

Driven to life of shame by unscrupulous husband
man of criminal habs-a childwfe will unfold strange
and almost nconcevabe story of degradation to- her
life from the gaows when she is brought to trai.n the
circuit court of Montgomery county, at Rockville Nd this
month on charge Of being accompce to the Staying
of a negro chauffeur,
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RAIL STRIKE TIGHTENING HOLD ON EASTERN ROADS


GRACE CLARK CoTHRoN, girlwife facing trial at
~ Rockville, Nd, for completely in staying negro
chauffeur and her husband Clarence M Cothron whom
she of driving her into life of shame. Cothron
recently sentenced to life imprisonment The girl in
confession, relates amazing story Of crime
and intrigue.
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BRITISH WARSHIPS
TAKE SO IRISH
TO LONDON

DUBLIN, April 11.-Fifty
prisoners from Belfast were ta-
ken on board a British warship
yesterday. II Is believed they
will be taken to England for con-
finement In prison.
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Cheap Pistol Conflicts
u. s. Author in Berlin
AS Red Revolutionist
BY KARL H. Won WEIGAND,
Universal Service

HEADQUARTERS, REICHSWEHR DIVISION OF
GENERAL KABISCH, VESSEL, April 11.-Paul r. Demott
Twenty-Five an American, claiming to be journalist has
been sentenced to death by drumhead court martial for
participaon in the revolution in the Ruhr district
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GIRL SMOKERS EXPELLED.

AURORA, H., April 11.--Four girl
tudents found guilty OF smoking In a
at Jennings Seminary
were summarily expelled
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WEATHER,

Fair ssS ss.ewhst
waraer tsa.yI Monday
sAssttieS. probably show
srsI Shifting wiASs-
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bIdlloPOl eotiohs
With men demanding eight
hours and wages sufficient to meet
the high cost Of living, whatever
such wages may be, the public
has sincere sympathy.
The public has not de served
that the effort "to get" an individ-
ual labor leader should be held as
excuse sufficient for menacing the
welfare of the entire nation.
Suppose the stockholders Of
railroad, wishing ito get" their
president, discharged every work.
man and inconvenienced the whole
public in the process. Would not
railroad employees, deprived Of a
living, while the stockholders were
"petting" their president, feel that
the getting" ought to be done
otherwise?
The most radical Of these that
reprdiate union labor leaders
point to the success of the new
Russian government as justifica-
ton for their attitude.
The government OF Lenln ana
Trotzky has been wonderfully sue
cessful because, instead of repu-
dating leadership, the people have
been obedient to their leadership,
knowing that a mob without lead
ers can accomplish nothing.
No leader was ever obeyed or
respected more implicitly than Le-
min. Workmen quit their jobs and
enter the Russian army, to fight IL
ordered or to carry out public work
on the soldiers small pay, because
they know that in discipline and
sticking to chosen leaders is their
only hope Of success.
The day when workers in Russia
repudiate their leaders, as the
heads of the big brotherhoods have
been repudiated here, will be a sad
day for Russian workers and
glad day for the surviving Russian
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II would be serious for the
United States il disorganization in
one great branch Of public service
affecting all other branches were
not subject to reasonable settle
ment. But this matter Fortunate
" viii be settled properly.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-12-24
SAW LIGHTNING At WORK
Probably Few Men Have Been PrivI.
legged to Witness What This
Scientist Observed.

One July a scientist had the un-
usual fortune to see a bolt of light
ming strike an isolated cottonwood
tree about a quarter Of a mile away.
The fash appeared as a superb col
umn or shaft Of light about four
hundred or five hundred feet nigh
and eight 10 twelve inches in diam
eter, perfectly straight, vertical and
steady. The shaft was white, with
its base tinged with red. This col
umn seemed to stand between two
diverging trunks Of the tree, and
lasted about two seconds.
Afterward the scientist found
that one Of the two trunks Of the
double tree had its bark stripped
off in the shape Of a ribbon six
inches wide and two yards long.
The other trunk showed two fur
rows beginning ten feet above the
ground. They looked az il they
had been plowed by a piece Of steel.
There was no sign Of fire.
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MOTHERS REGIMENT.

A small boy who had Just re-
ceived a new military uniform en-
tered the street car one day with his
mother. The little lad looked very
fit, wore his uniform proudly, and
attracted much attention.
Finally a soldier entered the car
and, seeing the boy, turned to him
and asked in a kindly tone, 'TO
what regiment, my Lad, do you be-
long?'
The word regiment" was new to
the child, He hesitated a moment
as if trying to grasp its significance,
and then, with an air Of pride, re-
piled, "To mothers regiment"
"That is right, my boy" replied
the soldier. "There are many Of us
in the service who still belong
to mothers regiment" -Youth'a
Companion.
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There was a load Of bricks on the
football ground in anticipation Of
some reconstruction work.
An aged supporter Of the club
came up one day, eyed the bricks,
and knit his hrows as if in deep
thought.
When the secretary asked him
what he was thinking about, he said
quietly:
'Why didn't you get 'arf-bricks1
They would have been much
handler"
Handler ?" echoed the secretary.
"Why, man, we couldn't build a pa
vilion with half-bricks"
"0h, a pavilion !" sighed the old
man. 81 thought they were for the
referee ANSWERS, London.