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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
Thousands Of Passports for Restocking
Americans and Home Returning Foreigners

Washington, March 1s,--More per-
sons are leaving the United States
than ever before in history. with the
exception of the period when there
was n steady stream OF khaki-clad
Americans to Europe.
In the first two weeks of this month
more than 1000 passports were is
sued as compared with an average of
only $4,000 passports year from
1912 to 1918. The failure OF the sem
ate to confirm the nomination of
state has held up approximately
1000 applications for passports but
now that 1t appears that Mr.. Colby's APP
pointment will be confirmed these will
be acted upon within the next week.
Since March 13, when Under-Secre-
tary of State Frank Polk ceased to
be under secretary of state, the state
department has been unable to issue
any passports as the law provides
mat they bear the signature of the
secretary or state r 's' a''. %
Americans are going all over the
world. according to the information
which the state department. has as a
result or its passport duties. and
travel is constantly on the increase
In January of this year $4,000 pass
ports were issued, in February the
number was 900. and March is ex-
pected to total over 10000. ~. ..as.
Approximately 200 passports are is
sued daily TO Americans seeking rest
and recreation in Cuba.
Hundreds of other passports are
being issued to persons wishing to re-
turn To Germany. Austria. Poland and
HUNGARY T. hess tlsajoritXy at these are
nationals of those countries who have
been employed as laborers In tho
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
1872 BILLS PASSED
BY LEGISLATURE
At LATE SESSION
General Assembly Be-
comes History Fifteen
Minutes After Its Final
Meeting Yesterday.

Though the final session Of the
general assembly of 1920 was brief,
the journal OF the house, at least.
Will show that a greater volume OF
business apparently. was disposed oi
during the closing hour of the ex-
tended term than at any time during
the sitting of the regular session.
The record. made up and checked
over by Clerk John w Williams. con-
tanned total of 1872 bills. signed by
the presiding officers Of the two
branches, 10 be transmitted TO the
governor.
The constructive session of the as
sembly was brought to a close yes
terday evening at 6:15 o'clock. Ten
minutes after Speaker Brewer had
called the house to order for the
final wind-up. Senator Mills appeared
on the floor with a message from the
senate. that that body was ready 70
adjourn and asking appointment of a
Joint committee to notify the govern
or.
Delegates Price, Haddon, Carter,
Rodgers and r r. Fuller composed
the committee on the part of the
house, and Senators Mills and Oliver
from the senate
The governor sent word that he
had no further communication 10
make to the general assembly, and
on motion the two houses were de
clarcd adjourned sine die.
The general assembly during the
sixty days passed SCI bills. Of these
40 originated in the senate aud 352
in the house. The governor has ten
DAYS from the adjournment OF the
Legislature to consider the measures
presented TO him and attach his sig
nature.
Members OF the committee on the
memorial library To be erected in
honor Of the soldiers, sailors, marines
and women who took part in the
world war, were named by the pre-
siding officers of the house and senate
yesterday. They are: Senators Mills
and Mapp. and Delegates E. K. Full
members Of the committee. under the
provisions of the tall, are TO De APP
pointed by the governor.
Lieutenant Governor Buchanan
nounced the following appointments
on committees to sit during the in
, PERMISSION of the session OF the gen
era assembly.
Committee on self-insurancc OF
state properties: Senator Deal.
On steam boiler inspection: the
industrial commission.
Fec bill investigation: Senators
JefTreys and oliver
Development Of Hampton Roads:
Senators Andrews. Corbitt and
Crockett
On merger Of medical colleges:
Senators woodson and Booker.
On state office building; Senators
Mn'er and Goolrick
~ investigate the blind: Senator
Ferguson,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
AMERICANS ARE
WARNED AGAINST
RISK IN GERMANY
I his Government Power
less to Safeguard Its
Nationals in Revolution
Torn Country.
GERMAN SITUATION

Here are the outstanding facts
In the German situation as shown
by Universal Service dispatches
received up to midnight.
Radicals order continuance of
general strike. which is more
thorough than at any time since
kapp revolt
Violent fighting in Berlin and
everywhere, establishing soviets
wherever they overpower troops.
Center of Berlin still held by
troops under command Of Cen
t-'eti -F-t,t4 S.-eet t=-------
TWO thousand reported killed
in various parts Of Germany since
Saturday.
General Nollet, chief of French
mission at Berlin, discusses ques-
ton OF French occupation of
Frankfort-on- Main with Eugen
Schiller. Ehert's spokesman in CAPT
tai Result not known.
Gustav Noske, Ebert's war min
lister, offers to resign yielding To
Spartacists' ultimatum, but Ebert
refuses to let him go.
Ebert and Bauer cabinet still
in Stuttgart, where they remain,
pending settlement of Berlin dis
orders
Berlin's telephone service para
lyzed. Radicals surround arsenal
at Spandau. Just outside Berlin. 1t
contains 10000 machine guns and
huge stores OF other weapons and
ammunition.
Kari II. Won weigand urges
the Washington government TO
take steps toward removal of
American women from Berlin.
All western and central Ger
many apparently is in reds
hands. Part of south still is
quiet, but Leipzig. big Saxon city
has gone red. Situation in
north obscure. hel. Wilhelns-
haven. Hamburg and Bremen.
four biggest ports, ali reported in
Sovietfsts hands
Erhardt's Baltic troops, with
drawn from Berlin yesterday.
now back trying to stem rea
wave and save Ebert government.
Looting has begun in some
parts OF Berlin City has had no
replenishynent OF food stocks for
a week and faces starvation
Warrants are out for Ludendorf
and Colonel Bauer. chief Organi-
GERS of kapp revolt.
Reds insist on withdrawal OF all
troops Ebert replies that would
mean giving free reign to Sparta
cisnn.
Telephone communications be-
tween Berlin and CoblenZ, head
quarters OF American troops on
Rhine, is broken
Antagonist toward Jews as
Stunning violence in Berlin.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20

United States and whose savings, In
the average run of cases. aggregate
between $500 and $4,000.
They wish to return to the ola
country because the rate of exchange
changes them, in the twinkling OF an
eye from the rank OF a lowly prole-
tariat to that of hloated plutocrat
A returning German, for instance
with $4,000 in American money in
his wallet, can paint his home town a
deep crimson and then some, with the
thousands and thousands of marks he
receives in exchange for his United
States currency.
The state department officials to-
day pointed out that the necessity for
passports still exists because we are
technically still at war and the law
says that no American citizen can
leave the United States without a
passport. In explaining why pass
ports were not necessary for travel to
asersauda and were necessary for
prospective visitors to Cuba, it was
said. that once an American reaches
Bermuda he can only return to the
United States whereas from Cuba an
American may take hi spassport and
proceed to any other part of the
world
Correction of the defect in the law
which prevents the. issuance of. pa.ssH
ports during vacancy in the office
of secretary of state, Is proposed in
a bill introduced in the house today
by Representative Dallinger, Repub-
lican OF Massachusetts.
MIR. Dallinger,s bill would give the
.InsiarSsecre tary of states.,sf full au-
thority to issue passports during a
vacancy in the ONCE Of the secretary.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
Receipt Of Rejected Treaty to Give the
President Chance of Addressing People

lied associated and neutral powers in
the throes of activity through the
lea que of nations. Advices which have
reached. Washington in the past few
days have contained the Information
that the defeat of the treaty had al
ready been discounted and that there
fore the league Of nations would carry
out its plans without thought OF the
United States.
Whether the president will break in
Surprising fashion his Intermittent ST.
lence on the peace treaty before the
allied governments are informed of the
treaty situation is tonight a matter of
conjecture.
r. Tho m0st nopefhf observers tNougAt
that the word OF the allies of the de-
feat of the treaty would give them an
opportunity long awaited to make pub
lie the extent OF the concessions they
would be willing to grant to see rati-
fication OF the treaty and that tais
mjght, sbring about as. its .rsconsi degation,
Only the most optimistic of aDImisrS
voiced this view. however.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
CITY MAY TAKE OVER
INTERBoROUtfH LINES

New York. y. Y. March 1.-the
transit construction commissioner, John
II. Delaney. has been instructed by
william Z. Burr. corporation counsel.
to notify the lnterborough Rapid
Transit company that unless il com
plies Immediately with the orders Of
the public service commission to i'm
prove it's service the city viii A7ke over
and operata its lines by virtue of the
clause in the contract providing fas
such action. The transit company was
notified that certain specific improve
ments must be made by March TO- but
March %
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20

STATEMENTS BY
THE LEADERS

Washington. March 19.-Follow-
ing are statements obtained tonight
on the rejection of the treaty from
Senator Lodge. majority leader and
Senator Hitchcock, minority lead
er:
Senator Lodge: The treaty is
gone. II has been rejected by the
senate and sent back to the presi-
dent. If the president chooses to
return il 70 the senate. it will have
to go through the same processes
as before. II it goes to the senate
foreign relations committee he Will
have mighty hard time getting
it out. II the president desires to
make campaign issue OF it the
Republicans are perfectly willing TO
meet it,
Senator Hitchcock; I am glad
the ratification did not carry on
the Lodge res..=g.,Atinas, hgt~the re
suit was about what / expected It
viii now he IN to- the president and
he will have To take the initiative.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20

Washington. March 1q.--AU
civilian Americans, men and
women. who are in Germany
were warned OF the consequences
of entering that country and
are told that their venture would
te At their own risk when they
applied for passports il was au-
istauvely annouced here TO.
right
because the United States is tech
rjca'.y at war with Germany, The
STATE, DEPARTMENT at no time has been
able &C isso" n passport to Germany
In number cf trsta noes however.
it issued PERSONS passports to Uol-
land. Belgium. Switzerland and OF her
German borderland countries. and al
the same time knew that the appli-
cants objective was Germany. In
all othese cases, however, the APP
plicants were warned as a matter OF
precaution of lack of an American
and consular service Ger
many and the inability OF the United
States 10 furnish American citizens
with adequate or immediate assis.
lance if danger arose.
Now that danger has come to pas
though, the American government is
aim 1st powerless. unless it chooses
armed Intervention, to safeguard III
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
By JAMES r. NOURSE.

Washington March 9The senate light rejected the
treaty peace with Germany and flung back upon the White
House with resolution informing the president that the senate
would not consent to its ratification
For the time since the treaty with the covenant OF
league nations brought back from Paris by President
Wilson, refused to give it the approval that
sary bind the United States to the engagements which it
sought to impose upon the nation.
Exactly months to the day the treaty refused
ratification the to 81 Toays vote 40 to 3d.
majority in favor Of ratification being votes short OF
the thirds required by the constitution.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
VERDICT OF ACQU|TAl
IN CASE OF TEMPL|N

Especial to The Richmond Virginian.)
Bristol Va, March 10 After "a
elaboration of not more than three
minutes, jurors in the case of the
Commonwealth of Virginia against
Charles Templin, charged with hav-
ing shot and fatally wounded Vol
lie A Sharrett whom Templin said
he found in the arms of his wife,
returned a verdict of not guilty.
Scores of witnesses were introduced
in the case, and probably the greatest
leal battle ever waged in local courts
this morning.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
Communication
Between Coblenz
and Berlin Is Off

Paris. March I9.-Telcphonc COM
n1unieation between Berlin and Cob
LEM has been broken since last night.
wires correspondent from Coblenz
The above dispatch means that. for
the present - least. General Henry r.
Allen. commander Of the American
army of occupation on the Rhine. IS
out Of direct touch with the German
capital 1t may he presumed, how
ever. that he is in roundabout contact
with Ellis l.. presel. the American
commissioner in Berlin.
Berlin, March 10 Friday night.
Il just tried to put in a long distance
telephone sail TO Leipzig. The tele-
phone operator informed me that a
soviet government had been estab-
lished there.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
BERLIN is REPORTED
PANIC-STRICkEN

London, March 10 U0:10 p. NH
Berlin is ic-stricken tonight AS n
result OF a report spread there that n
Bolshevist army is marching on The
city sre4f~, the Russian frontier 49,.
The nationwide Red rising Is on
the increase.
The communists are issuing mani
festo after manifesto to the working
masses urging them to stand firm"
The Baltic troops that yesterday
withdrew from tho center OF Rerlin.
have discontinued their retreat and arc
now terrifying the western suburbs
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20

Stuttgart March 1s,--President
Ebert has refused to allow Gustav
Noske. his minister OF defense, TO
resign.
Berlin. March 1a--(Frtday II
r. NJ. ii abor decided tonight to
continue the general strike.
The entire Berlin press comedies
that a soviet Germany Is inevitable
unless the Reds are broken within
a few days.
The majority OF the German
workmen Is being terrortZed by
Bolshcvist minority.
The general strike IS more
thorough than at any time since
the Knapp revolution.
Crowds are now dragging wo-
men drivers from cabs and de-
manding that the street carmen
join the strike. beating those who
resist into submission.
Mobs are continually engaging
soldiers.
There lis much shooting tonight
Two thou@snd persons have been
killed throughout Germany since
Saturdays coup, the papers say.
President Ebert is not expected
in Berlin before Sunday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
REACH AGREEMENT
ON MAJORITY REPORT,

Washington, March 19.--President
Wilson. expects the bituminous ope-
rators and miners to reach an agree
ment on their wage differences ION
the basis of the majority report" of
the coal commission.
This announcement was made to-
day by Attorney General Palmer, fol-
lowing conference participated in
by the attorney general. Director
Ganaral of Railroads Hines and Sec
rotary Tumulty.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
by KARL II. Won WIEGAND,
[ UNIVERSAL Service Star Correspondent
Special Gable Dispatch.

Copyright 1920 BY Universal Service)
Berlin, March l9.--- Friday, l;45 i.
NJ )-Thc situation here now is such
that Washington should try to get
out the American women still In Ber-
in. Some Of them are nervous
wrecks.
An attempt has just been made in
front OF the Adlon by mob to storm
an officers car. Soldiers in an armor-
I'd ear rushed up and threw hand
greuades.
So far six wounded and one dead
have been brought into the Adlon. one
wing of which has been fitted up as
hospital.
A fairly reliable report says the
Sicherheitswehr tsecurity guard) has
gone over 10 the organized workrnen-
COMMUNIST TO RATTLE
Communist leaders tell me fresh
battle will begin tonight
They claim to have tanks. but this
cannot be verified The loyal troops
are being held in the outskirts of the
eity ready to help save the situation.
AN our reports indicate days of
heavy fighting are approaching, was
statement made TO me at the min
iStry OF defence at noon.
An international train for foreign
women has been made up and is
ready. but arrangements have not yet
been completed for its departure.
The radicals demand that the old
government surrender as did the
Knapp regime.
The Baltic troops whose withdrawal
from Berlin had been demanded by
Ebert have been brought back to save
this regime.
At noon today they cleaned up the
Alexander Platz Chg square in the
center of Berlin. off the Wilhelm
straSsel, killing eight persons
An armored car belonging to the
Baltic saved three officers in an au-
tomobile that was being attacked by
a mob in front of the Adlon
The situation here continues criti-
cal, The general strike continues. No
food trains are reaching Berlin The
capitals electric power is falling
The Ebert Bauer government has not
yet returned. The majority Socialists
and the Independents have not yet ar
rived at an agreement.
MANY KILLED.
More than 100 persons were killed
In yesterdays clashes between Captain
Erhardt's Baltic troops and MODS
around the Brandenburg gate.
The Adon's dining room has been
General Won Seeekt with the Reichs-
wehr Irrational guard and the Sicher-
heitswehr fsccurity guard) continues
to be master of Berlin after nervous
night frequently broken by the stac-
cato of machine guns and the rattle of
rifle fire in various sections Of the city.
Captain Erhardt's troops were quar-
tered in the west end, whore again
some shooting took place as a result
or molestation of the troops by mohs.
Details are unobtainable at this FL
ing, because for the first time the
kapp coup the telephone of the entire
capital is suspended
Whether this suspension is by or
ders from General von Seeckt in order
TO prevent the radicals from communi-
eating between one section and anotn-
err Is not yet clear.
Thirteen were killed and nineteen
wounded. 1T is reported. in the shoot
ing in front of the Hotel Adlon and
around the sBrandenhurg, gate. lats * ss-
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
DISBURSEMENT or
GERMANY OPPOSED
Ry JEAN LoNGUET,

Paris. March 19.-Dismemberm Of
Germany so freely advocated in Ger
tain quarters which wish to take ad-
vantage of the present German civil
strife. is madness. Nor is II desired by
the bulk of the French people. who
want peace.
/ hope the American democracy will
realize the urgency of opposing such
action. which would only result in raj
lying German opinion under the ban
ner of revenge.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
Labor Decides at Critical
Moment to Continue
General Strike.
MISTREAT WOMEN
WHO REFUSE TO
JOIN STRIKERS
Bolshevist Minority is
Terrorizing Populace
and Mobs Are Continu-
ally Engaging Soldiers.

Stuttgart. March 1a.-''There Is
danger that catastrophe may
befall our country" said Friedrich
Ebert, De jure national president;
here today. He added: We are
not forming a coalition with the
Kapp government We are re-
manning in Stuttgart pending set
tlement OF the disorders in Ber-
lin"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
BERNsToRFF AGAIN
APPEARS IN OFF'ING

: London. March 19,--Count Johann
Heinrich Won Bernstorff, former am
bassador to the United states has
been appointed foreign minister n the
new cabinet at Berlin, according TO
word from Hamburg, quoting the Ham
burger Nachrichten to that effect.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
WEATHER

Washington, March 10.
Rain or snow in north:
rain in southeast; fair
and colder In southwest
Saturday. Sunday fair,
warmer.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-20
NO NEED FOR MORE TAXES

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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-09-23
Build up Reindeer Herds

IN Investigation OF the condition
of the reindeer in Alaska and the
introduction of new blood into the
herds, which are of great economic
importance to the natives of the
territory, are to be undertaken by
the Biological Survey, United States
Department of Agriculture, in
accord with recent legislation; The
work will be carried on in coopera-
ton with the Bureau of Education,
Department of the Interior with the
reindeer industry in Alaska, since
'92. In that year the bureau intro
duced l43 animals, which have in
creased uutil they number today
approximately 100000. In addition
lit is estimatad that natives have
killed 10000 for food and skins.
Excellent as has been the result
50 far, there are great opportunities
for improving the industry, thus
developing an important meat sup
ply not ouly for Alaska but for 9th
er parts of the United States. A
vast region, including the base Of
Alaska peninsula and immense
areas farther north, is adapted to
raising these animals. Several mil
lion reindeer could be supported on
these tracts, according to estimates.
| The introduction OF new breeding
stock will be undertaken by the
Federal Authorities.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-09-23
peviIflsh overeame Whale.

According to some naturalist, the
squid, or cuttlefish. is the principal
food of the sperm whale. But appar-
emily the game is not always one-sided.
There is told thrilling incident of a
huge sperm whale rolling on the moon
liz surface of the sea enveloped in the
mighty coils of an octopus. Bui,en who
Witnessed the fight. is of the opinion
that the deviliish was far larger tlian
any of which even fragments have yet
been handled by man.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-09-23
Fortune Mioht Have Cost L life

letter informing him that he had
been left $4,000 by an uncle in New
Zealand was nearly the cause of the
premature death of a house-painter in
the Midands of England. His wife.
seeming news of an unexpected ma
ture had opened the letter while her
husband was at work and, upon read
ing the contents, she rushed off to tell
him. The painter was up ladder at
the time and so astounded was he that
he fell. fortunately without sustaining
serious injury.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-09-23
Josh BILLINGS.

The humorist whose pen-name was
"Josh Billings" was Henry Wheeler
Shaw. He lived from 1915 to 1885.
de turned off many shrewd sayings,
bits of quaint philosophy and pointed
Jokes. but they We're rather damaged
by the laboriousy bad spelling in
which they were written. This style
of humorous writing, quite popular in
the United States half century ago
has about gone out Of vogue. Today
Josh Billings is little more than q
name.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-09-23
Meteors.

Observations made simultaneously
flGm stations far apart have proved
that the average meteor when frs.
seen is about eighty miles above the
surface of the earth, and disappears
words, it travels fifty miles before the
atmospheric friction burns Il up. This
friction. it is reckoned. raises it to a
temperature of something like 3.00O,-
0Nn degrees. so that, unless of large
size, 1t has no chance to reach our
planet.