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The Washington times., 1920-01-04
Ships Cat Strikes and
QUITS Vessel As Purser
Stops Her Beer Raion

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-zuiia. the
cat mascot OF the steamer Mara
ciaho won a ''no-beer. no-work"
strike when the liner docked In
Porto Rico recently. according TO
the tale told by members OF the
crew when they arrived here.
The cat signed or with the
Maraciabo two years ago. She
would not drink milk. and some
Joker gave rer beer. She ac-
quired an Unsuitable appetite for
that beverage. Shortly before the
steamer reached Porto Rico on a
recent trip zulia became the
mother OF three kittens. Finding
the ships supply OF beer was run
ming low, the purser cut on her
supply. In retaliation, she picked
up her kittens and quit the ship
cold as soon as they docked.
The sailors. knowing IL was
-bad luck" for a cat TO leave a
ship, hunted her up on the pier.
A bottle OF "2.75" was produced
and poured in bowl. She lapped
1t up. and, having won her strike,
marched back on the ship with
her kittens.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04

National Administration would devote
more OF its time to the solution OF
pressing domestic problems and less
To figuring out how this country can
do still more for Europe by f-eely
feeding and clothing all OF It's popula-
tion and loaning IL maore and more
money.
Get Out and Stay Ont.
We should get out OF Russia and
get out of Silesia and out of all Eu-
rope, and Europe should get busy and
work out its own salvation.
Perhaps this is too much to expect
OF an administration that has done
more talking about democracy and
engaged in more practice of Lctual
autocracy than any IL. the history or
our Government.
But there Is one demand made by
the American people OF which there
can be no doubt.
eLt us get out of Russia and stay
out.
Our whole conduct in the Siberian
matter has been absolutely inconsis-
tent with all the Administrators
idealism expressed IT, the fourteen
points"
Our handling OF the situation has
made of us a laughing stock among
our allies, and our boasted 'idealism"
has won US the sneers OF our enc
mics.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
FLRT NAYINC' VERDICT
PROBED BY GRAND JURY
Talesmen Who Acquitted Man Who
Shot Alleged "Masher"
Summoned for Quiz.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.-Three
members OF the jury which acquitted
Edgar Woodcock, charged with the
Staying of Edward Kelly. in the now
famous "fiirt Staying" case, have been
summoned to appear before the grand
jury tomorrow night to explain their
part in the acquittal, Captain Of De-
tectives Duncan Matheson said today.
Assistant District Attorney Alex
alder O'Grady, who conducted the
prosecution of Woodcock; James
Brennan, defense attorney. and others
have bene ordered to appear. 1t is
alleged Irregularities in bringing in
the verdict of acquittal are to be In
vestigated.
Wooddpck shot Kelly, a newspaper
man, in Market street in this city
after the latter is alleged to have at
tempted to firt with Mrs. Alice Wood
cock. He was acquitted on a plea of
temporary insanity.
Mrs. Woodcock will be tried on the
charge that she ipcited the shooting
Of Kelly. Her case has been set for
next Friday, but continuance is
likely, according to her attorneys. She
is being held without bail.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
REPORTS OF TROTZKY
DEATH REITERATED

BERLIN. Jan. 4.-Perslstent reports
from Helsingfors. Finland. reiterate
a story that Leon Trotzky, Bolshevilt
war minister, has been assassinated.
The reports have 1t that Trotzky
left Petrograd to bolster up the
morale of his troops after their in
explicable retreat on the Narva front
while trying to restore discipline, he
Is said to have threatened to execute
General Borishow. In the course of
n quarrel between them. reports say
the generals adjutant shot Trotzky
three times, killing him.
No confirmation of the story could
ho obtained.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
Wife Like a Gazelle.

Maurice Maeterlinck, grave. serious
ly courteous, dignified even In his
home working costume of heavy
white flannel pajamas and slippers,
bowed solemnly and left the huge
studio room at the top Of one OF New
York's tallest apartment hotels, where
he 10 staying before going on his lec-
ture tour through the United states
and Canada His nineteen-year-ol
bride, blonde as a buttercup. lively as
an elf, skipped across the chamber
and parted the heavy velvet curtains
through which her white-haired hus-
band had vanished. She peered after
him. closed the hangings, and lifted
back to the canopied divan from
which she had sprung. She leaped,
there was a fiutter of garments. and
she had alighted in the middle OF the
divan as gracefully as a bird. She
sat up. Mime. Maeterlinck shook the
yellow curls that framed her vivid
face.
Thinks Leap Year "Lovely."
Leap year," She repeated the
question. at means to jump? Nor
Her quick, jerky French. carried not
O trace of Belgian accent On. II
means that a woman can tell a man
that she wants to marry. Never have
I heard that. 1t is lovely. The poor
women in Belgium and France! They
never have known. I shall 60 back
and tell them.
But. no." she added. 1T would
do little good. Most women In France
and Belgium are too, too-what you
call it?-too conservative. They woulo
be too timid. They believe IT Is al
ways for the man to speak. They are
convent-bred, most or them, and they
are very shy. 1t will be ten years be-
fore they are half so advanced as the
American women.
"I think" continued Nine. Maeter-
linck, her face very serious, that the
war has done much to improve the
morale of Europe. Morality is much
higher. People are more idealistic.
They think seriously.
Finds Air of Freedom .
"The women OF America are very
beautiful" she went on, answering
question. "and 1t is natural beauty
charm of health and cleanliness.
There is such an air of freedom here.
Everybody is so busy. l think New
York has a blue bird in It's own heart
But I must go now: they call me-
She sprang from the couch like a
school girl, nodded her pretty heao
and danced out of the room. Some
how the big chamber seemed less
bright when she had gone.
Maurice Maeterlinck, about to at
tend a reception. had made quick
change to evening dress. He was
found in another room tapping
typewriter rapidly. while his watch
lay open at his elbow. He had a
minute or two more to spare the In
terviewer. Tall, thickset, courtly Is
the poet-philosopher. There Is a
dream in his clear, blue eyes. HIS
face is square and there are tired
lines about his eyes and mouth. His
thick, white hair In swept back from
a splendid forehead.
"I think" he said, "the war has
caused a moral reaction throughout
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
President Usurped Power.
occasion no SURPRISE.

IL would be but following out q
course which from the outset has
teen unwarranted and from its very
genesis a violation OF our Constitu-
tion.
The sending OF our troops 20 Siberia
10 nght a people win which we were
not and are not at war was ausurpa-
tion OF power on the part OF tho
President, and every day they are
kept there Is an additional ofrenss
against the provision OF our Constitu-
tion, which clothes Congress alone
with power TO declare war.
We are not at war with Russia, of
which siberia 10 a part; have never
been at war with that country; and
have no occasion to be at war with
her.
10000 Fighting and Free.iaG.
Yet we have at this moment be-
tween eight thousand and ten thou
sand American boys lighting and
freezing and dying OF disease In 81
IBERIA and destined to remain there.
according TO the recent declaration OF
the Secretary OF War, until volunteers
(also to be sent to Russia without
authority from Congress) are found
to take their places.
How eager these recruits are for
that kind OF service is shown by the
fact that out OF 100000 men recently
enlisted by the army. less than one
thousand and one hundred asked for
Siberian service.
Despair Making Criminals.
And doubtless this number would
have been much less could these re-
cruits have known that American
soldiers there, in despair OF getting
home any other way, were committing
crimes so that they might be sem
fenced to military prisons in America.
Why our Government should persist
In this criminal folly passes under
standing.
Our troops there can serve no good
purpose. They have no more business
in Russia than Russian troops or the
soldiers of any other country would
have in this country.
Their presence in that country can
but create a mischief breeding situa-
tion in this time of unrest.
Not American Problem.
Whatever may be wrong with Rus
sia. 1t is a Russian and not an Ameri-
can problem.
Our people recognize this, and are
insistently demanding a return of
these boys from Arctic cold and from
yermin and disease infested Siberia.
Not only do our people want US to
withdraw from Russia, but they
would be far better pleased IL tho
The Washington times., 1920-01-04

Europe. 1t is very natural. People,
SO long In dread and pain. have aban-
doned themselves to the pure JOY OF
living. Will there be any more
wars? ] am no prophet, but IL might
have been a better peace. Let US
hope 1920 makes II impossible that
there shall be more wars
"As for myself, during the new
year / shall write a new book. 1t
shall be a volume dedicated to a study
of the occult. ! shall strive to rid
spiritualism. mysticism, of the char
latanism that has discredited 1t so
long. There is much work to be done
much very serious work.
"Yes." smiled the author, 81 have
written symbolic fairy tales. poems,
and essays. and books on philosophy.
too. Ones mind is fresher for the
serious work when one also does
beautiful. light things. This year
shall be very serious. 1t may be my
best work year. ,
Fails For American Girl
always have there been motor
cars for u.s." said the poet, "and 80
/ have not yet seen this huge bee
hive, New York. Some day ] want to
go for a quiet walk and see this place
for myself l have met many New
York women. The American woman
is, indeed. beautiful and distinguish
ed. One catches glimpses of faces
so charming that II is hard to refrain
from stopping to speak to their own
ers. Maybe here 1 shall gain inspir-
alton for new work. Yes, you are q
happy city. Here the blue bird sings.
1t always sings in our own hearts. II
we but listen to it."
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
TODAY
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the man would still have strength
left to confess his accomplices and
endure further punishment.
The judges Of the high court said
the suggestion of the Queen did
the greatest honor to her "as a
widow and a mother" but did not
accept the suggestion. The court
ordered that the man should be
tortured three times daily on three
different days and finally killed
with the most horrible ferocity.
II you doubt that the human
race improves, read in the original
document, still preserved in Paris,
the court order. 1t begins: "The
murderer must make, amends be-
fore the principal door Of the
Church of Paris, naked, in his
shirt, holding a torch weighing two
pounds, and confess his guilt.
From there he should be conducted
to a scaffold on the Place de Greve
and with red-hot irons torn on the
breast, arms, thighs, the calves Of
his legs, meanwhile holding in his
right hand the knife with which he
committed the crime"
All Paris attended the horrible
execution, which included pouring
melted lead, boiling oil, resin,
wax, and sulphur melted together
into the wounds.
With all this the man died
without confessing anything. He
believed that he had rendered a
service agreeable to God in COM
mitting the crime. Historians
think that it was Marie, the
Queen, that brought about the
murder, directly, or indirectly,
aided by Concini, Florentine,
whom the Queen found more
amusing than her middleaged
husband, Henry Nv.
What the people of Paris did
afterward to Concini after Baron
de Vitry had killed him, to oblige
Louis XIII, makes unpleasant
reading.
The mans heart was cooked
and eaten in the street, after his
corpse had been dragged all over
Paris and hung up in a dozen
places. Those were hard, cruel
days in "Gay Paree."
They cut off the head of Con-
cini's wife, who had come from
Italy as a chambermaid of Marie
de Medici, and Louis Kills young
Queen, interested in the murder
and hearing that Concini's little
boy was a good dancer, sent for
him and compelled him to 60
through all his most elaborate
dance steps.
He, having heard Of his fathers
murder, danced and wept at the
same time.
To the young woman this SEEM
ed droll. Such history as Dumas
digs out OF ancient papers, fool
ishness of women and greater fool
ishness of men, horrible brutality
of the mob. worse even In old days
than now, is not ideal reading of
history.
But there are many children. full
grown, in the world, and reading
such a book as Dumas Great Men
In Their Dressing Gowns" may
stimulate interest In books worth
vhilA
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
FEAR OF DEATH LEADS
TO BLAST CONFESSION

JOHNSTOwN. Pa, Jan. Fear
that he was dying as result OF 9
fal from a tier Of cells In Centrai
station here propmted Henry Bonnell
to confess, according to police. COM
plicity in the dynamiting Of st. Casi-
mfrs rectory, in Cambria City. re-
Gently.
Police say two arrests have re-
suited from the alleged confession.
Father Dembinsky, the bombers
intended victim, was summoned ny
the injured man and details of the
plot revealed. Bonnell will recover.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
NOT TO Be
TUESDAY
Information From Paris Coin
cides With Views Of Lead
ing Diplomats.
By KENNETH La TOUR,
(UniversaI Service, stan Correspond-

(Universal Service, stan CorrespOnd-
PARIS, Jan. At Is now certain
that the peace treaty will not be de-
posted at the Quai d'Orsay and made
effective on January 6, the date previ-
ously set by the supreme council
This Information comedies with the
opinions expressed by leading diplo-
mats, who point out that there are
many difficulties contingent upon 1e
putting of the treaty into effect, such
as the transport of allied troops to
relieve the German forces now polio
ing the plebiscite areas, which have
not yet been Strengthened out.
Moreover, there has been signifi-
cant delay coincident with the re-
sumption of treaty compromise talk
in Washington. Both Germans and
allies would prefer to await WASH
ington's final action, each side be-
lieving some advantage might be
gained by the definite certainty of
Americas attitude toward the League
of Nations.
The ostensible reason for the de-
lay is the dilitory tactics of the
Germans, who, while they are be-
lieved to have decided to accept the
protocol terms, want to have the al
lies verbal assurances of leniencies
set forth in a printed note In order
to be able to claim a diplomatic vic
tory. r..t-r --.. ,.,
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
ALLIES WARNED NOT
TO PUSH GERMANY
TO BRINK

LONDON, Jan. Ave must
be careful not TO push Germany
to the brink" said Winston
Churchill, speaking at Sunder-
land yesterday. ITO do so," he
added, "might bring about n
serious situation in Europe. II
Is possible there might be a COM
bInation Of German militarists
and Bolshevists 10 destroy the
Republic. We must see that that
does not happoa
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
MOVIE STAR LOSES GEMS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Olve Thomas,
move star, who Is Mrs. Jack Pickford
in private life. is seeking a $4,000 dia-
mond bracelet she lost New Year Eve,
1t was learned. This information
was not obtained from a press agent
In fact Mrs. Pickford says she wishes
1t was press agent yarn" Tho
bracelet was a Christmas present.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
LLOYD GEORGE JOINS IN
PLEA FOR WORLD PEACE

LONDON. Jan. 4-Premier Lloyd
George, with the premiers of Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
and Newfoundland, yesterday, ad-
dressed a message to the British peo-
pies through the national laymen's
missionary movement, urging that all
spiritual forces of the world unite
to accept the fatherhood of God as the
only permanent foundation for world
peaCe.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
F|REMEN RESCUE
GIRLS FROM FIRE
Terrace Inn Apartments DAM
aged BY Thrilling Early
Morning Blaze.
Continued from First PassJ


X. volk is the proprietor OF the
apartment
Because OF the intense cold, the
crowd that usually gathers at fires
20 watch the firemen fight the blaze.
were absent. The few that did gath
or, however, merely stayed for few
moments and disappeared and the po-
lice that were called from two pre-
cincts when the second alarm was
sounded had no troublt In Keeping
those few persons outside the fire
lines.
line OF the Capital Traction Company
was delayed for nearly half an hour.
until a crew OF workmen bridged the
hose over the tracks.
The origin OF the fire and the
amount OF damage is not yet known
1t Is estimated at $4,000.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
MaeterIinck's S Girl-Wife Finds
Happiness In Making Birds
Sing For Aged Philosopher
BY AUGUSTIN LARDY,
Universal Service Staff COrrespOndcnt

NEW YORK, Jan 4.--'The Blue Bird of Happiness
sings in one own hear said Maurice Maeternck today
''Lovei Happiness! To get them must make them
sing anothers heart and then listen to the song said his
beautiful spriteke childwfe Renee Dahon Maeterinck
who has suppanted the gorgeous Geogtte LIE Blanc in
the affections of Begus great philosopher and poet of
happiness.
lie Gazelle
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
KING BREAKS ANKLE.

LONDON. Jan. 4.-King Alexander,
of Greece, fell yesterday. while jump
ing, and broke Mis- ankle, a dispatch
from Athens said today.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
Power Of Congress Usurped
By President In Keeping US.
Troopsln Siberia, Says Capper
BY sENATOR ARrHUR cAPPER, on KANSAS.

The report that the State Department at Washington
and the foreign Office at Tokyo have reached
for further joint military action in Siberia if true should
occasion no surprise.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
W. S. S. BRING se,124,292.

A total of s9.12429213 was received
in December through the sale. of war
savings stamps and Treasury savings
certificates, II was announced today.
The Washington times., 1920-01-04
Quit Mixing In Russ Tangle;
Tend to U. S., Advises Kahn
By CONGRESSMAN JULIUS KAHN, OF CALIFORNIA.

The entire Russian situation resolves itself into this
The sooner the Government and the people of the United
States attend their affairs at home and let the other
people of the world settle their local conditions in their
way the better it will be for country and our
Government.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-08-06
After Ten Years
EatOnic Proves the Best

81 say, God bless eatonic," writes
Mrs. Della NJ. Doyen. II can truth
fully say, after suffering with stomach
trouble for ten long years, that I have
never had anything do me so much
good as this one box Of ~eatonic."
We print these grateful words from
this dear lady, so that sufferers every.
where may have hope and a little
faith-just enough to give eatonic a
trial. Why, folks, last year over half
a million people used eatonic and
found relief.
This is the secret: Eatonic sim
ply takes up the excess acids, poisons
and gases, and carries them right out
Of the body. OF course, when the
cause is removed, the sufferer gets
well. Stomach trouble causes about
seventy non-organic diseases, so, If
you are suffering any kind Of misery.
not feeling well, go right to your drug.
gist today and obtain a big box OF
eatonic; cost is a trifle. Use it and
find quick, sure relief.
Make this test-you will see, and
then, if you are not satisfied, your
druggist will hand your money back.
He does not want one penny unless
eatonic pleases you. Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-08-06
big CROPS ASSURED
IN WESTERN CANADA
Need of Farm Labor Urgently
Required for Harvest.

Rains of the past week which have
been general throughout all portions
of Western Canada, covering MANI
TOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, and AL
BERTA, have placed beyond all nan
ner of doubt the certainty of vast
grain crops throughout the entire dis
trict.
Reports from all points indicate
marvellous and rapid growth. The
conditions of a week or so back, which
were decidedly less promising and led
many to think that there might be a
partial failure. have disappeared al
together and now there is a a of
optimism circulating throughout the
entire country.
In 1915 there were enormous yields
reported from all parts, and it would
appear now as if In many places the
yields of 1915 would be equaled if.
not beaten.
What might appear to be a draw
back, is the apparent shortage of farm
help. The Province Of Manitobr
through it's Employment Bureau in
Winnipeg, is asking for 10000 harvest
hands and over, offering from So to.
Sc per day. The Province of Sas-
katchewan is asking for 1900 extra
hands to take care of the immense
harvest that is certain to be reaped
In that Province. In Alberta the crop
area is somewhat less, the labor con-
ditions somewhat better, and Is MAX
ing a request for 5000 extra farm
hands.
interviewing the officials of the diff
ferent Governments, they are inclined
to the opinion that as the crops in
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Hi
nois and other Central States are har-
vested there will be a movement north
ward that will materially help to take
care of the labor situation. With the
low railroad rates that may be secured
on application to the Employment OF.
fees ct Winnipeg and at boundary
points, or which may be secured
through the Canadian Government Of
fees at Chicago, H.; Detroit, Mich. {;
Milwaukee, Wis; Kansas City, Mo.
Omaha, Neb. Des Moines, Ia; Water
town, S. D.; VSt. Paul, Mimi, and
Grand Forks, N. D., will give to those
seeking employment the opportunity
to reach the harvest fields al a low
cost.-Advertisement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-08-06
LAST EFFORT
SAVE CAPITAL
Polish Young and Old Build De-
lenses To Prevent BoIsheviks
From Taking Warsaw.
BOYS AND GIRLS HELP
Garry Food and Arms To Soldiers and
Lend Aid To Women In Flight
From War Assassination
Desperate.

Warsaw-With the Red armies
pounding at the gates of Warsaw and
the fall of Poland's capital imminent
school children, women and old men
are rallying in q final desperate effort
to help save their country from the
| peril of humiliation.
All schools in Warsaw and outlying
towns in the path of the Bolsheviki
horde's advance have suspended. The
children have turned out to help the
soldiers by carrying food and arms to
them, helping build wire entangle-
ments and lending aid to women and
babies in their fight from the war
stricken areas.
Old men, bent and feeble with age
and toil-all others are already at the
battle front-are building the d~efenses
of Warsaw to save the capital of this
crumbling nation from capture. Even
young girls have joined in the laborious
task and are doing manual labor in
building entertainments and strength
ening the final bulwarks of the CAPT.
tails defense.
would save Capital.
Only one thought pervades the en-,
tire life of the city from the humblest
to the highest-Warsaw must be
saved. The indominable spirit of Po-
land, long heralded as the cradle of
liberty, with the light of freedom burn
ing in its breast despite centuries of
oppression, never was more valiantly
manifest than at this critical period of
the new republics history.
There are no able bodied young
Polish men left in Warsaw; wounded
soldiers, hobbling about on clutches,
survivors of the women's battalion of
death, are squirting the remaining in
habitants to feverish desperation.
Much of the food and clothing which
is distributed comes from the Amer
lean Relief association which still
maintains headquarters in Warsaw.
News from the battle front was any
thing bat encouraging. With the fall
of Bialystok, northeast of Warsaw, the
advancing Russian troops now have an
almost level terrain over which to
reach the capital.
The government will not be moved
from Warsaw. Officials fear that a
radical government would be set up
following their departure. $
The breaking off of the armistice
negotiations threw the capital into
wild fright. The break in negotiations
is said to be have been due to a mis-
nm darcfon1ia oanoa,~;o~ xho o,@Lo,
ity delegated to the Polish ennis
saries, who are returning to the CAPT
tai.