The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

place today when Junius Spencer Nor
gan. son of ]. p Morgan was admitted
as a partner in his fathers concern. Two
other young men, Elliot Cowdin Bacon.
son OF Robert Bacon, former partner,
and George Whitney, nephew of Edward
F. Whitney, a former partner were also
| taken into the firm as partners.
] Buffalo, N. Y, December 31.-Dr. Anna
Reins.ein. wife of Boris Reinstein, for
merly a leader of socialists here and for
| the last year reported to be close in the
councils of the Lenine-Trotzky regime in
| Russia, was arrested here today on
| charges of criminal anarchy. She was ar
raigned in police court with is men held
on similar charges. All entered pleas OF
not guilty and will have hearings on
Friday, with Is others arraigned on Tues
day.
| vlad.vostok, Thursday. December 60
Eight hundred government troops at Irk.
utsk revolted on the night of December
| %, took possession of the railroad sta
ton and established revolutionary head
quarters. The movement which is report
ed to- be headed by Zemstvo and social
revolutionary leaders, is spreading
through the city, which is reported fully
| controlled by ti-government forces. The
revolt started in the SD Russian regiment.
General Semenoff, commander in chief
of the all-Russian forces, is dispatching
armored trains to Irkutsls to protect cars
of gold and silver bullion being evacuated
| from Omsk.
| Seattle, Wash, December SIT. A. D.
Jones' general manager Of a shipbuild-
ing plant, said today he knew nothing
! about the report that he will return to
| coach Yale next year.
| New Orleans, December 5.-Practical-
l ly all of the men of the second division
despite their long service overseas, re-
| turned without any bolshevistic tenden-
| cies, according to Maj. Gen. John A. Lee
jeune. United States marine corps, and
| former commander of the division in
France, in a speech at a banquet here
today. General Lejeune is on his way
to Baton Rouge for memorial exercises at
Louisiana State university, which he once
attended.
| Washington, December 3f-Measrres
providing for the ultimate disposition of
1 German and Austrian property in the
United States, will be submitted to Con-
gress by the department Of justice i'm
| mediately upon ratification of the peace
| treaty, Attorney General Palmer an
ncrnced tonight. This will mark the be-
| ginning OF the governments task of wind
| ing up affairs Of the two enemy nations
preparatory to the resumption of peace
| time relations.
Washington, December s1.-Exchange
of notifications of the Versailles treaty
/ will have practically no immediate effect
upon American trade with Germany, and
will not alter present commercial regu-
| lations, it was said today in official
circles. All restrictions on trade with
Germany, except as regards imports OF
dyes and coal tar products and export of
| wheat, were removed by the war trade
board July IA, and, so far as the United
States government is concerned any,
| thing from matches to six-inch guns may
| be shipped to that country provided "a
purchaser can be found.
| st. Louis, December 31.-An examina-
ton Of the covenant of the league of ma
| tons shows that, as qualified by the
league reservations. it has not been de-
stroyed, as many people have thought.
| but has simply been Americarlized, DIR.
James L. Tryon, of the Massa chusetts In
stitute of Technology, told delegates to
the American Association for the Ad-
j vancement of Science today.
! Paris, December 81. = HAyas.J An
agreement to entrust the guarding of
the trans-SibeFian railway to2the .Czecho-
| Slovak forces has been reached by the
allied commissioners at Irkutsk and the
ail-Russian government, according to .
| dispatch from Ikurtsk today.
| Baton Rouge, La, December H.-A. M.
Herget, former head of the Louisiana
| State university, department of mechan-
ical engineering, and for the last year
president Of the Pierce foundry here, was
| found drowned In a pond near here late
today. 1t Is thought that he drowned
himself He had been in poor health for
several nonths. doctors said.
| Des Moines, Iowa, December sl.-Thir-
! ty-seven foreign countries, and every
states in the union, are represented at
tho convention of the Student Volunteer
movement for foreign missions, which
opened today. Canadian delegates num-
Der 4s5 studentss-of whom 1888 are from
the University of Toronto. About 1909
OF the delegates are foreign born.
| New York. December 31.-Dudley Field
Malone, formerly collector of the port OF
New York. was notified today that his
application for membership in the Croton
post of the American Legion had been
of the Westchester county executive
committee of the legion, announced that
his committee had unanimously upheld
the decision of the post on the ground
that Mr.. Malone's radical views and re-
lptions with radical agitators did MOI
measure up to the legion's standard of
Americanism.
Chicago. December 31.--The Hotel Sher-
| man company is preparing to declare a
I special dividend OF whisky to stock
| holders, Eugene Byfield. one of the man
ayers, announced today. The company is
said to have about 200 stockholders and
about two carloads Of whisky.
New York. December si.-The Inter
borough Rapid Transit company was
| saved at the eleventh hour tonight from
joining in bankruptcy sister traction COM
panies in New York. The Interborough
was faced with the problem of raising
| before tomorrow $685. 40 fixed charges.
/ II had about s.. 100000 cash on hand and
was only able to raise 100000 from
banking concerns on it's credit Late to-
day Federal Judge Mayer directed James
| r. Sheffield. trustee in bankruptcy for
the Interborough Consolidated corpora
ton. holding corporation, to advance
the lacking million dollars out of funds
in his possession.
II Richmond, Va. December n - For