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with the Mikado of Japan, the Slamese
twins OF modern Democracy. h sub
jecz before the Senate all day was the
Shangtung reservation
Berlin, March Bird. The fight to de-
prive the former Emperor OF his pro-
perties and his fortune began IN earn
est yesterday, when a motion by the
Majority Socialists Of the Diet to refer
the issue to the National Assembly pre-
cipitqted an acrimonious debate, the
Majority Socialists vying with the lnde-
pendents in their denunclatlon OF the
former ruler. An effort was made to
defeat the proposed settlement by &C
complishing the confiscaCi0n OF the Ho-
henzollern possessions, but t IS would
have to be done through a constitutional
amendment. voting the former emperor
a fixed sum for his maintenance. Deputy
Greaif, of the Majority Socialist, decIar-
ed that the ex ruler had failed to live up
to the historic precedents Of MS case. He
had not died at the head Of his troops,
but had chosen instead a midnight flight
to Holland, where he was now promenad-
inc and saving wood. Inc deputy eX-
pressed a douDt as to whether the former
emperor had subscribed TO the war loans
as he had claimed, while his claim that
he had been the guardian OF peace, had
been d~issaOr0Ved by MS cOntInuouS rat
tling Of the sword AMI pr)ciamalioaS OF
the mailed first. The democrats and clerl-
Gals Joined in voting for the Governments
measure. providing that same be referred
to Committee. The Judiciary Committee
now takes the bill under advicement and
conferences are expected to last many
weeks. The motion of the Majority So
cialists, providing for action by the Ma
tional Assembly has been temporarily
tabled.
ConstaatinopIe, March 4th.-In view
of the gravity Of the situation, the
Cabinet resigned today. The Sultan has
called upon Marshal lzzet Pasne to form
a new cabinet.
Londcn. March 4th. AZ an e~xtraor-
binary meeting of the Royal College of
Surgeons at Edinburgh yesterday, it
was resolved, says the London lines
today. that women should be admitted to
fellowship in the college.
New York, March 4th.-Fo1r weeks
ago, Yesterday, he big snow storm OF
1920 began mere. rner9 are tni 'ty street
car lines still out OF business and six
hundred miles of streets in the outlying
section of the city proper have been only
partially cleared. Fifty miles Of streets
in the congested portions OF the city
have been opened.
Washington, March Bird President
Wilson went for a motor ride today, leaV-
mo th4 White House ground for the
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police today ralded Liberty Hall, the
headquarters of Lakkins transport work
ers, the headquarters Of the grocers as
SistantS association, now on strike. the
Gaelic League ~oficers, the rooms OF the
Lei. ster College of irish and numerous
private hou-es. The principal arrests al
ready known is that OF Mr. Williams
O'Brien, leader of the transport work
ers. who is prominent in the corporation
and recently successfully demanded the
removal of the mace and swords. Mr..
Hunter, member of Parliament for North
East Cork, was also arrested together
with his partners, Mr.. Peter Clancy, in
a tailoring business under the style OF
Republican Tailors''. The theft of let
ters of Viscount French which were
taken from a mail van by a med men,
has created excitement at the military
police headquarters and all houses In the
district are being searched and numer-
Gus arrests made, although the letters
and other mail have not yet been dis
covered.
Lordon, March 4th. The Times"
today states that the Prince OF Wales
will probably visit Jamaica and other
West Indian centres on his h0meWard
voyage from Australia.
Stockholm, March 4th.-Bitter disap-
continent with Bolshevism is expressed
in an article published presently by Max
i'm Gorky, the Russian Radical, accord
ing to dispatches received here. He de
clares that the men in power now are
Just as brutal as tNOse III authority under
the Imperial regime.
Washington, March. 3rd. The Senate
debate today on the Peace treaty deVel-
oped some sharp passages when 1t wan
dered into the field of European politics.
Senator Borah Republican, ldaho), as
serted that the old regime sill ruled
the European Courts and that the stand
of the Allied countries in the Adriatic
controversy was only another Illustration
that the new day p~rOphesied by Presi
dent Wilson bad not come Senator
Hitchcock, (N9braska), declared chat
some of the European nations, par leu
larly Great Britain, had become demo
cracies in some places more responsive
to public opinion than the Government
of the United States. The voice of
an American has become the purring,
mewling, hooking voice of a sycophant
of Great Britain, Senator Reed. de
mocratic), declared, "It is the voice of
this Treaty that has poisoned the
foundation of pure patriotism for
the senior Senator from Nebraska
/ Hitchcock !. He stands there like
a brass monkey, claiming that all is
pure and holy over there, while the
President is threatening 10 Withdraw
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
FREEDOM FORDEBS.
AIM OF SOCIALISTS
Appeals to Wilson and Palmer
To Be Followed by Mass
Meeting Here.

Getting their choice for President
out OF jail will be the Job OF leading
Socialist party orators at a public
mass meeting In Washington tomor-
row night. The Candidate 10 succeed
woodrow Wilson Is Eugene V. Debs
now serving a ten-years sentence in
the Atlanta penitentiary. The scene
OF the mass meeting will be the old
Masonic hall. Ninth and + streets
northwest.
The meeting will come after direct
appeals have been made by Socialist
committees 20 President Wilson ana
Attorney General Palmer. Palmer
will receive a delegation OF Debs' sup.
porters today The appointment with
Secretary Tumulty is for tomorrow
at the White House.
Some ZOO delegates composing the
Socialist, national convention at New
York will come in a body to Washing
ton for rally in behalf OF their
Presidential candidate. and other po-
litical prisoners, on Saturday and
sunday. Secretary OF War Baker has
stated that on Monday he will receive
a delegation selected to petition him
in behalf OF conscientious objectors to
military service who are still in con.
finement for that offense.
Morris Hillquit and Seymour Sted-
man VIII be the principal orators at
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
WINDOWS TRIMMED
F0RD.C.HORSES
Merchants Cooperate for Sue
cess and Compete for Silver
Loving Cup.

Cooperating with the committee
of the National Capital Horse show
and Amateur and Military Racing As
ISOLATION. which will stage its annual
show and race meeting at Arlington
Park. Va. beginning on Tuesday.
scores OF merchants, hotel and cafe
proprietors throughout the city today
began the appropriate decoration OF
their windows. Hobbies. and other
places with horse shoes In flowers and
other appropriate emblems for "horse
show week"
There Will be keen rivalry for the
large silver loving cup which the
horse show committee has offered for
the best dressed show window during
horse show week" Miss Louise
Dauxherty. proprietress of the Louise
Flower shop in Connecticut avenue.
has started a campaign TO have all
or the merchants in the Connecticut
avenue business section enter the
competition for the cup. q
The j. street merchants are also
taking a keen interest In the contest,
and within a few days the downtown
section OF the city will take on a
strictly equine aspect. Woodward &
Lothrop are decorating their large
window on the II street side; Hecht
a. Company have also started work
on their London sport shop window,
while the Mode and numerous other
shops are making preparations for
appropriate decorations.
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
us. WORKERS TOLD
TO LEAVE DISTRICT
"Get Jobs Elsewhere" Is Advice
To Employees Who Will Be
Dropped July !.

Get out OF Washington and hnd
yourself a job elsewhere" Is the ad-
vice given today by War Depart
ment officials TO hundreds OF EN-
ployes who will be discharged on or
before July 1 in order to meet the
financial limits imposed by Congress
on the War Department.
Anticipating that the securing OF
positions either in or out OF the Gov
ernment service In Washington will
be increasingly difficult employees
who will be discharged have been
urged not to choose Washington as
their place OF future employment.
Special blanks were distributed to-
day among the War Department en-
ployes who viii be dropped from the
service, and these employees were
asked to Indicate the city or town
in which they desired unemployment.
The Red Cross Is aiding these EN-
ployes In locating positions in other
parts OF the country.
Employees OF the War Department
who are determined TO stay In Wash
ington are flling out re-empioyment
applications with the Civil Service
Commission. and are registering at
the United Employment Bureau, lh0
Pennsyivania avenue.
The Washington times., 1920-05-14

did not hold an autopsy on the body
merely making a post-mortem exsmi'
| nafiau nj n
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
"Confidence''

-"Conidence" word of big anng And in HRSHS Shoe
Service the of Washington placing
increasing numbers.
is big thing that toward particular goal are
producing results and feel graed
build cuomerconfdene meeting with success
thing with us-or always E1irsh patrons relied
Hhs Shoe Service with explicit confidence number of
these customers is steadily ncreasngwhch sufficient
Shoe Service something to the Washington
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
Gently employed.

IL IL Aliens opinion that Pierson
ieaped from the rocks at Great Falls,
and that his body was carried down
the Potomac river 10 the Chesapeake
bay. and thence up the bay to Ches-
aposke beach.
This theory is dIscredited by :ae
police, who claim that It is practical
ly an impossibility for Persons body
TO have floated from Great Falls 10
Chesapeake Beach.
'Piorson had often threatened. and
on at least one occasion had attempt
ed suicide" said Allen. HE declared
that the next time he would make
thorough job OF IT, and that IL was
his intention to drown himself, haV-
ing picked out a place some miles
from Washington, where he could 10
so without being observed and run
ming the risk OF a rescue. l had
long ago surmised that the place he
had selected was Great Falls. which
i know he often visited"
Believes Wounds Bruises.
Il believe he threw himself from
the rocks into the swirling eddies al
Great Falls, and that the alleged pis
tol shot wounds were bruises received
from rocks. This undoubtedly oc-
CURED on the fourth or perhaps hfth
day OF May. lie left my office at ii
a. m. May 4. The body fioated down
the Potomac and eventually reached
Chesapeake Beach.
1.-THE detectives expressed them.
selves mystifed at not finding his hat
Undoubtedly 1t drifted somewhere
along the river bank"
While Mr. Allen Is convinced Pier.
son committed suicide. Washington
detectives and Sheriff Bernard Will.
Jams. OF Calvert county, have not
abandoned the theory that the as
trologer's employe met with foul play.
To determine whether or not Pier.
sons brain was bullet pierced, In.
spector Clifford l.. Grant, chief OF
detectives, today will request Sheriff
Williams, of Calvert county again tc
exhume the Washingtonian's body
from it's beach grave, for the purpose
of holding an autopsy. DR.. William
". Talbot, Calvert county physician n
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
D. c. BREAD PRICE PROBE
WILL Be OPENED MAY "a
Senate District Subcom mittee Pre-
pairing Questionnaires to Be
Used In Investigation.

The Senate probe into the price OF
breadstuffs will be opened by the
Senate District Committee Monday.
May "a.
The Senate District subcommittee on
tionnaires for the bakers and hotel
keepers involved in the investigation.
All the witnesses who will be called
before the committee will be given
ample time in which to prepare their
reports OF profits, gross returns. tc.,
before they appear before the COM
mittee. IL was made known today.
The Washington times., 1920-05-14

did not hold an autopsy on the body
merely making a post-mortem exami
nation OF IL.
Msrder Theory Strengthened.
The murder theory, the police say
Is strengthened by the fact that EN-
pIoyes of Adkins mills. which are To-
Gated near the beach where Plerson'
body was found. heard the report OF
two shots and saw a mysterious craft
which has been identified as SKIP
lack, in the Chesapeake bay on the
beach an hour before the Washing
tonian's body was discovered.
No trace has been found OF this
mysterious craft, and Inspector Grant
has requested authorities OF Baii-
more, Annapolis and various counties
bordering on the Chesapeake bay 10
make a search for the skipjack and
to question the crew.
A skipjack answering the descriD-
ton of the one seen on Chesapeake
Beach on the morning that Pierson' s
body was found, was seen In the Po
tomac river near the railroad birds ge
on May /. 2. 3 and 4. IL was on the
latter day that Pierson disappeared.
The police stated this morning that
II was likely Pierson 'boarded this
craft, and. making good his threat 10
Kill himself, fired two bullets into his
brain: that the crew, fearing they
would be suspected OF killing the
Washingtonion. took the body to the
beach to bury it,
There are several angles OF the
case which indicate that Pierson
committed suicide" today declared
Detective Sergt. Edward ]. Kelly, who
with Detective Charles Mullen, Is
working on the case. There also are
developments which indicate that the
man may have been murdered"
1t is believed that with the finding
OF the skipjack. members of the crew
can clear up. to a great extent, the
cause of Persons death.
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
DOC STORK VISITOR AT
WALTER REED HOSPITAL

The stork visited Walter Reed Hos
pitaI early this morning and left with
Master Hospital Sergeant and Mrs.
Francis +. Shcain a baby boy. Mrs.
Shcain lives at tho hospital, where
her husband Is stationed
Mrs. Sheain. who was war bride.
met her husband while he was sta
toned in England. The couple mar
ried in England, and shortly after
Sergeant Sheain arrived in this coun-
try he sent for his bride. His term
of enlistment is soon to expire and
he will enter civilian life.
The Washington times., 1920-05-14

son and Harry New. Gov. James p,
Goodrich, and Albert J. BeVeridse.
Alternates viii be Mrs Anne Stude-
bAAsg Cafnsie, 81 soath hsna Ma
Joseph Kealing. OF indianapolis: H..
NJ. wasmuth, state chairman. and w.
A. Gaines. negro politician OF Evans
VILE. All were elected BY acclamstion
at the Republican State convention
here yesterday.
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
Persons Body Fioated
From, Great Falls Into
The Bay, Says Friend

That Dr. John Won Liew Pierson, whose body was
found washed ashore Chesapeake Beach Calvert
county, Nd Tuesday morning committed suicide and did
not meet with foul play the theory advanced To-Day
Frank Theodore Allen director of the Astrological Research
Society," 105 northwest by whom Person was re-
Gently EMPLOYED
The Washington times., 1920-05-14
INDIANA G. 0. P. NAMES
CONVENTION BIG FOUR

~ INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. May i4--In-
diana's big four" Ho the Republican
national convention win consist Of
Omitted States Senators James IL. Wat
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seemingly more lovely and entertaining
than the last. The feet not only move
70 its rhythm and the body sway. but the
brain itself is carried away by the mys-
ferrous exaltation OF the dance.
Henry Burr IS always At his best in
songs tinged with the pathos of love
that Is lost or unattainable. On one OF
the new Victor Records he sings you
Didn't Want Ne When You Had Ne"
a real tragedy of youths undecision.
Love was trihed with because it was
easy to be had 1t died, but through
the binding mists OF regretfulness and
pain, there remains in the song just a
trace of its old lingering. pure FIRE. Mr..
Burr and Albert Campbell sing II Am
Climbing Mountains" on the reverse
side Of the record. This is one OF
those half-tragic, half-whimsical songs
OF regret from the lover who strikes
high and fails.
No music IS more beautiful than the
sound OF mems voices blended in rich.
strong harmony. On one of the new
Victor Records Wonderful PAP and
There's a Lot OF Blue-Eyed Marys
Down in Maryland" are sung by male
voices. The first. sung by the Sterling
Trio. is tender and appealing song,
and the other has a sharp ragtime
rhythm and tune and harmonies one
cant easily forget. The latter IS sung
by the Shannon Four.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01
AUDITORIUM.

The bill arranged for today at the
Auditorium includes a twO-reel
western drama entitled "A Tell-Tale
Wire featuring Hoot Gibson;
Starting Out in Life" a twO-reel
comedy: SHIFT the Gears. Prick. "
a two-reeI Judge Brown drama
which is particularly interesting for
children, and the Gaumont Weekly
Of important events. Thieves, a
crook play starring Gladys Brock
well. Is one of the features for to-
morrow. Love among thieves as
we'll as honor among them is the
punch" this picture puts across.
The biggest moment of the picture
comes in the fight the star puts up
against "a gentleman crook, II is
said. The second chapter of the
new serial story, The Fatal For
tune" starring Helen Holmes, is
another big feature, with the Fox
News also on the bill.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01
Pietro and his accordion
give several new
dance numbers

Every dancer whose feet have tripped
the Tight fantastic" TO Victor Record
tunes knows Pietro. A new record of
his contains My Baby's Arms" a fox
trot medley and a one-step medley
called And He'd Say Oo-La-La Wee
Wee - The fox-trot Is from one OF the
Ziegfeld Follics, and Pietro rags II to
the queens taste. These are probably
the liveliest numbers this popular ac-
cordionist has put over.
The All-Star THO presents tw6 fox
trot medleys this month on a Victor
Record that are guaranteed as sure
cure for married groucheS. al Want a
Daddy Who VIII Rock Ne 20 Sleep Is
from the Greenwich Village Folhes in
Producing besides the title number. The
Critics Blues and My Marionette."
The medley on the other side of the
record has the title. "All the Quakers
Are Shoulder Shakers" but includes
Take Me 20 That Land OF Jazz,
when the Preacher Makes You Mine"
and Jazz BABY"
Joseph c. Smiths Orchestra also of
fers two fox-trot medleys on a Victor
Record this month. Angel Face" CON
tains serenade passages Of great beauty.
IN which brass instruments are promi-
nent. There also are delightful bell
and trap effects. Patches" for variety
of effect introduces two pianos. The
music has a splendid eNhilarating
rhythm. The pianos are played by
Hugo Frey and Frank Banta
Smiths Orchestra also presents on
Victor Record a medley waltz called
ooh. What a Pal Was Mary" and a
medley one-step Nobody Knows" The
first, so popular as song. has been
turned into a waltz without losing any
OF its great charm and tenderness.
When Mary died, her lover sorrowed
greatly but IN the waltz. the anguish
of separation resolves itself into the
painlesSness Of dreams. Nobody
Knows" by Irving Berlin. is another
song success incorporated into a dash
ing one-step. II introduces I've Got
Ny Captain Working for Ne Now"
The beginning OF the New Year is
n most fitting time 20 begin an ac-
quaintanceship with the great music
artisss Of the world. By having a
Nictrolz IN the home. they will sing or
play for YOU the finest music ever writ
ten just as often and whenever you de-
sire 70 hear them. There is nothing
that keeps the heart young and lightens
the burdens of life as music Even If
YOU are without a Victrola any Victor
dealer will gladly play any OF the
Victor Records for YOU and YOU can
thus keep IN touch with the latest and
best IN music until such time as you
can bring II through the Nistrola into
your own home.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01

those screen romances in which the
hero, while pursuing the elusive
papers meets his fate, so far as
cupid is concerned. The hero is ].
Warren Kerrigan, that good look
ing lrishman whose Interpretation of
the leading role in The Lord Loves
the Irish" won him many friends.
Lois Wilson is the girl in this case.
and is admirably fitted TO the heroine
role.
TomOrrOw's attraction is 1T Pays
TO Advertise and stars handsome
Bryant Wash5urn
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01
OLIVER.

when the Clouds Roll BY" is
BY far the best and most elaborate
production in which Douglas Fair
banks has yet been seen and the
acrobatsc comedian is furnishing
much amusement for patrons Of
the oliver theater this week, where
the picture is being shown. Doug
performs more daring stunts in
this production than in any two OF
his other pieces. Some remarkable
scenes are shown, including the
wonderful flood In the latter part
Of the production.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01
De Gogorza sings a
song for lovers

is love sweetest in its first realiza-
ton. or after Il has become settled and
Taatured2 Lovers perhaps will differ
widely as TO the answer, but there IS
no doubt but what the sweetness Of
budding love has furnished the theme
for the greater number OF songs and
poems. Dear Heart" which Deco
gorza sings on a new Victor Record. IS
underSsbly the song OF love that has
become a permanent element Of being.
IL IS a song of such tenderness as can
not be awakened IN 4 day and which
cannot depend upon hope, but fulfill
ment. Ii is sung by DeGogorza with
rare artistic finish and profound emo
tional force.
Without doubt one OF the greatest
concert-waltzes ever written is the In
vitation to the Waltz" by Weber. The
sumptuousness Of the ball-youth. love,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01
OLIVER.

business Before Pleasure" the
clever comedy which will be the at
traction at the Oliver theater sun
day afternoon and night, concerns
two persons, Abe Potash and Nav
russ Perlmutter, who were in the
cloak and suit business and who en-
ter the film business The efforts
Of these two 70 secure a vampire
of the Theda Bara type are said TO
be very comical and their disagree
ments during the course Of the show
are said 10 be original and unusual.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01

ing consciousness Of other races than
bis own. Yet, at heart, he is a Gael,
with all the wild poetry OF his own
people. No one but a poet at heart,
Tor example, could express the yearn-
ing. the tenderness and lyric ectasy
which be puts into that beautiful song.
Only You as It appears on one Of the
New Victor Records. IL is a love-lyric
Of unusual quality and the artists
genius az times carries II into the more
exalted levels of tone-poetry.
Gaili-Curci Is seldom heard 70 such
advantage as in the delightful, tender,
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winter and again has delicate. staccato
1ones that rival the piccOlo.
The blissful rOck-a-bye hour, the cud-
ding of little heads, and the grooming
of the old-time lullabies seem. some
times. 10 have gone out Of fashion. As
these melodies have a rightful place at
the very beginning of a child's journey
into homeland, il IS gratifying 10 know
that a Victor Record is just out which
zeproduces a few Of the most beautiful
ones. Hush, My Babe" is one dear to
all OF the older generation. Happy
Land" is the simplest familiar example
of the pentatonic scale used by all
primitive peoples. The lullaby from
"Erminie" Should be known by all chill
dren for TIE strong rocking rhythm.
Birds in the Night is another Of the
iullabies that should appeal strongly TO
children.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-01
MUSIC FOR THE NEW YEAR

rival the motor ear in popular songs as
a vehicle for Joy riders. Wait Till
You Get Them Up in the Air. Boys" Is
one OF these songs sung by Billy Mur-
ray on a new Victor Record. The song
Is = wonder Between the music you
can hear the whirr Of the engine and
the shrek of the wind. But high above
these sounds you can catch what ia
probably the widest sound IN nature
the scream Of girl in a JOY ride. On
the reverse side Of this record is
rafting quartet, "Fioatin' Down 10
Cotton Town" The music has the
snap and 90 Of a regimental quickstep.
with faint "reminiscences of Dixie"
and whistle effects from the Cid Ms
sissippi stern-wheelers.