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Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Jap Cabinet Will
 Resist U.S.Denand
 For Cable Control
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TOXIC, Dec. 4-Decision to maintain ts. stand against the demand of the United States for control of the cable lines between Shanghai, Guam and the Island of Ysp, has been reached by the Japanese cabinet, it is said by newspapers here. Japan is willing there shorsd be joint control of the sables by this country and the United States says the newspaper Nichi Nfchi and the Yomri Uri Shmbun states a third power has offered to mediate.
 Viseount Uchida, foreign minister is declared to have proposed that the question be referred to the league Of nations. where favorable decision might be anticipated, since France and Eng land are said to be irritated by Amer lca's demand for the control of cer- tain Atlantic cable lines. The cabinet s reported to favor this proposal but has deferred decision until Tuesday, when it will be considered by the diplo- natic council.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Deny Rumor Of Chilean Alliance
 With Japanese
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SANTIAGO, Chile. Dec. Aldunate Echeverria, the foreign minister issued a statement today emphatically deny ing as absurd" rumors published in the European and American press re- garding an alliance between Chile and Japan. The statement says:
 There is not the slightest basis of fact in them"
 The foreign minister's statement fol- lowed publication here of a dispatch from La Nacion's New York cores pendent in which the letter quoted Q Paris cablegram to @ Chicago news paper 10 the effect that European naval experts were studying the strategic po- sition of Chile in the line of communi- cation between the United States mid Pacific possessions and the Panama canal after an alliance had been signed between Chile and Japan.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Brooklyn Rocked By Explosion Of
 Shells On Lighter
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NE WYORK, Dec. 5.-Hundreds of homes in the Fort Hamilton section of Brooklyn virtually were under heavy artillery bambardmept this afternoon. resulting from intermittent explosions of 6-inch and 1o-i1feh shells on a steam lighter which caught fire while moored to the army reservation wharf.
 Gathering together their belongings in belief that the naval arsenal at Fort Lafayette a small island near Fort Hamilton was ahlaze, terrified scores fled their homes for safer zones, driven to frenzied haste by the series of detonations which were heard for miles around
 An official statement from Fort Hamilton said no lives had been lost and that only four persons had been slightly injured
 The lighter, which was loaded with 300 shells for shipment to Boston, was torn from it's moorings by the violence of the first explosion. Two men were on board, but they escaped.
 4 naval tug soon reached the scene and in desperate to prevent the flames spreading to the wharf the command ing officer deliberately headed his craft for the blazing lighter and it's explod- ing cargo. He stuck her nose against the side of the lighter and pushed her away to a sandbar in imminent peril of his own craft being blown from the water. The naval tug had scarcely withdrawn when a heavy explosion oc- cured, which tore the lighter apart. Two of those slightly injured were a man and a woman, who had a miracu- l lous escape from death. They were motoring past the wharf opposite the 1 lighter when the first explosion oc- l cured. Fragments of shell pepperec their automobile, but the occupants suffered only slight wounds and after ! receiving medical aid were able to gt home.
 The glare from the exploding ammu nition and the flames from the burninl
 wharf illuminated the lower harbol and attracted thousands to the Brook lyn and Staten Island water fronts
 As explosion followed explosion anc the danger to craft passing the Narrow
 between Fort Hamilton and Fort Wads
 worth grew menacing, "blinl1er light signals were flashed from the fortifica
 tions warning mariners to give tn
 threatened district a wide area.
 Soldiers from Fort Hamilton wer
 dispatched into the residential section to allay panic.
 The proximity of the naval arsenal a Fort Lafayette, with it's stores of hig
 explosives and inflammable materia was source Of intense worry to fir l fighters.
 As the blazing lighter and it's OK } ploding shells broke away from th - wharf and began to drift in the direC ] tion of the arsenal the crews of nav . tugs and municipal fireboats redouble - their energies. Fear of Q. frightful ca e tasrophe should a shell strike the al 2 senal and ignite tons of gasoline store ! there was allayed when the light
 grounded on the sandbar.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Five Held Tn Frisco

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. s.-The att tacks on young women as q deveion- ment of which today's shooting affrav at Santa Rosa occurred. first came to the attention of the local police on the morning of November q. when a disheveled young woman whose face bore the marks of blows reported that she and a companion had been sub jected to insults and hrutalitieS at a house on Reward street where they had been taken.
 The police raided the place, flndIne. the second young woman in a serious condition and arresting five men who were there.
 Yesterday two other girls informe5 the police that they had been induced to visit the Howard street house anu had been subjected to treatment n1ucl. the same as that described by the first two.
 The five men taken when the of ficers raided the place, Edward Knockout Kruveslzy, Ed "Spud" Murphy, James Carey. Allen McDon- aid and Thomas Brady. were held in bonds Of s140.000 each. the highest ever fixed in local court
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06


 ARDMORE Okla, Dec. 5.--Investi- gation of the death of Jake L. Hamon, Republican national committeeman from Oklahoma. marked time locally today while the national search for Miss Clara Smith. charged with shoot ing MT. Hamon continued.
 Rumors persisted in Ardmore that Miss Smith had been returned to Ard more, and that she never had been away from Ardmore, but Russell Brown. county attorney for Garter county, who has been directing the search for Miss Smith, said that Sher- if Buck Garrett and J. B. Channlor, chief of police, had assured him that they were keeping close watch for Miss Smith and would apprehend her should she be in or near Ardmore.
 MT. Brown said that he was having certain unnamed places watched and also indicated that he was in possess sion of some new information that might shed further light on the shooting.
 Friends of Mr. Hamon. including Frank L. Ketch, administrator of the Hamon estate, have maintained that
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Will Investigate
 Foreign Activity
 In Grain Markets
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-A resolution directing the federal trade commission to investigate the activity of foreign governments In the grain markets 0 the United States with a view to ascer- taining whether the anti trust laws are being violated, has been drawn by Rep resentative Steenerson. Republican o1 Minnesota, who expects to introduce 1t tomorrow, when congress convenes.
 Mir. Steenerson charged today in a statement that it appears that the grain markets of the United States are no longer open and free to the natural operation of the laws Of supply and de- mand, but are monopolized, controlled and manipulated at will hv the influ- ence of foreign governments"
 European governments, the Mime sota representative declared. have been aided in monopoIizing and controlling wheat prices in the United States by numerous agents. brokers, banks and corporations, "aIl in direct violation of the federal antitrust laws"
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
President Elect Reaches Capital
 Before Midnight
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 WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Presi- don't elect Harding slipped quietly into Washington shortly before midnight, several hours before the special train bearing the presi- dent-eIeet and Mrs. Harding and the members of the party which accompanied them on their Vaca- ton trip to the Panama Canal zone was expected to arrive.
 Reports had spread that the president -eIeet would not reach Washington until early tomorrow with the result that only a small gathering was on hand to greet the senator.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Moonshiners And Federal Officers
 Engage in Battle
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 LEXINGTON Ky, Dec. s. Nine stills of from 50 to 100 gallons capacity, 6,5o0 gallons of beer, and 100 gallons of n1oonshine wnis- key were taken by federal agents in a raid in the "South America" district in Whitley county Satur- day, following a pitched fight be- tween 30 aileegd moonshiners and 14 prohibition agents and United N States marshais.
 ,PH At least one of the alleged moon shiners IS believed to have been killed
 s UT of six men captured are held in PineviIle. MarshaIs will begin serving warrants Monday on 20 other r1en alleged to have participated in the fight.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Three Officers Killed While
 Searching House in Santa Rosa Italian Settlement
Mob Threatens Lynchi1lg
OFFICERS SHOT WHILE INTERVIEW
 ING SLAYERS RELATIVE TO SAN
 FRANCISCO CRIMINALS ARREST
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SANTA ROSA, Cal. Dec. 5-An at tempt was made to break into the jail shortly after 10 o'clock. 1 number of men with telegraph pole attenlptea unsuccessfully to batter in the front door.
 The crowd at that hour was becom- ing rougher. Shouts of "Kiil them." Hang them!" and Lynch them were frequent.
 R. H. Campbell, confectioner ol Monte Rio, was arrested, charged With melting to riot. He was harangutng a crowd in front of the jail and assist ing in placing the pole against the Jail door, police said The officers inside tke jail opened the door. reached out, and took Campbell into custody.
 SANTA ROSA. Cal, Dec. 5.-Detec tive Sergeant Miles M- Jackson of San Francisco, and Sheriff James A Pe- tray of Sonoma county. and Detective Lester H. Dorman of San Francisco, were killed and two others were wounded while questioning three men ID house in the local Italian quarter today in connection with the recent attacks ol young women in San Fran cisco.
 George Boyd, one of the men inside the house, who police said, did the shooting. was shot in the side. The police believe he shot himself. He Will recover. the doctors said. The detectives and Policewoman Catherine O'Conner of San Francisco, had come to Santa Rosa early today with three young San Francisco girls who had been attacked recently in 1 that city.
 i The police hoped through the girls 1 to identify Charles Valenti of San l Francisco, as one of the men sought. l The policewoman and the three girls were outside the house when the shooting took place.
 Boyd, two other men and a woman 1 who were in the house. were arrested. 1 A crowd of several thousand persons congregated in front of the jail where i the prisoners were confined. and some 1 threatening remarks were heard. Sev- eral automobile loads of persons from Heaidsburg, IS miles distant, the home of Sheriff Petray, arrived shortly be- 1 fore o'clock.
 The persons in custody are: Body, Dan F Fitzgerald. Santa Rosa; Ter
 renee Fitts. Santa Rosa; Charles Va feuti. alleged owner of the Howard street house in San Francisco in
 which the attacks were made on girls
 and Dorothy Quinlan of San Francisco
 The mob surrounding the Jail which
 gathered immediately after news oi the shooting became public. was
 swelled all night by constant arrivals
 from >Healdsburg the home of Sherifi Petray. At least one hundred auto-
 mobiles filled with ea1dsburg citi-
 zens had arrived at o'clock. bringine
 reports that many others were on the
 way. Among the Haldsburg citizens
 feeling was reported to be running
 high.
 The steady increasing crowds forced
 county authorities to swear in addi
 tional deputy sherlffs and constables
 A force of 9 constables was held al
 the jail under the direction of Deputy , Sheriff John M- Boyes. former chief oi
 police of Santa Rosa Other con
 stables also were on the outside of tnt
 jail, circulating among the crowds anc
 attempting to calm them.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Benjamin Holt Dies
 Tn Stockton Hospital
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STOCpTON, Cal, Dec. 5.-Benjamin Holt, inventor of the Caterpillar tread applied to tractors, died at a hospital here today after a brief illness The tread he invented was applied to Ire tanks developed as a major weapon in the great war. He was born in Merri- mac county, New Hampshire, In 1849. Four sons and 8 daughter survive.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Burlington Fast Mail
 Crashes Into .Sidine

CRESTON, Iowa, Dec. 5.-Three per sons were injured here at noon today when Burlington fast mail train No. ' ran into the rear coach of passenger train No. 8, standing in front of the station. Three mall cars on No. z were wrecked.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Livestock CrowerS
 Tn Meeting Today
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SALT LAKE CITY Dec. 5.-Stahil- ization will be the keynote of the con vention of livestock growers. who will gather in Salt Lake City tomorrow. Tuesday and Wednesday. Several western states will be represented. In conjunction with the general confer ence of the general association Of cat tlmen, the cattle and stock growers Of several western commonWeulths will hold separate meetings and discuss matters which they wish brought be- fore the general sessions.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
George T. StalIings
 Buys Rochester Club

ROCHESTER,, Y. Y. Dec. 6.-C. T. Chapin. president of the Rochester In teruational league club. tonight am pounced the sale of the club to George T. StaIlines and Walter E. Hapgood, former manager and present business manager. respectively, Of the Boston Braves. Stallings will be the business manager.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Ten Thousand Men
 EscdDe From Reds
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WARSAW. Dec. 1.-Two thousand r,an who are members of the irregular forces commanded by General Bala- l-ovitch have escaped frgn the bol- shavflli am dhave found refuge in Pc and where they have been interned. The remainder of his troops number ing about 1000. have been captured
 General HalskoVitch. who was ,,-or15ed during one of the last bat
 t-eq has arrived here.
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The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
Tick Mirrors, Used BY MHlieers
In Other Cities to "Assist Sales"
Neuer Used in Washington Shops

Although milliners in other cities
are said to steer prospective buyers
before mirrors which tend to give
the fat ones a slim appearance and
vice versa, to make the tempting
headsear look more becoming
milady Of the District apparently
has no such willy pitfalls to avoid
for the local hat dealers have taken
no CogniznCe of such practices.
Whether just down right homes;
or disbelievers in the efficacy OF
such schemes. the fact remains tina
the leading milliners of Washing
ton pay no attention to the kind of
refiectors they buy for their Gus.
toners use.
"All we do is to get a good mir
ror," said Miss Edith Howard, o,
Howard and Deane, 1909 F street
northwest, yesterday. "one that will
give the best image. None of our
refectors have any flaws in them
nor are they bought in considera.
tion of any convexity or concavity
which they may possess"
"A woman must be pretty badly
off il she can't tell the difference
in her appearance as reflected by
her mirror at home and trics
mirror with which a milliner Nigh,
try to enveigle her into purchasing"
The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
Rockville, Md.
Especial to Warrington Her.Id)

Especial to Warrington HeraId.)
Rockville, Md, September ga
citizenship School," for the benefit
OF the women voters of Montgomery
County, will be held in the high
| school auditorium here next Tues
day afternoon and evening. 1t will
be held under the auspices OF the
Woman's Suffrage League of the
county and will be conducted by
MISS Lavinia Engle, of Forest
Glen. field secretary of the National
American Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation, who will give a course of
instruction as to legal method of
procedure in registration, casting of
ballot and declaration of party af-
flliation. In the evening a promi-
nent speaker of each of the political
parties Will deliver an address, and
Miss Engle will explain what the
League Of Women voters is to be-
The Red Cross workers of this
county who will represent the
county at the conference to be held
in Washington Thursday and Friday
OF next week as preliminary to the
Fourth Roll Call Drive" include
Mrs. ], Frank Wilson, Mrs. John T.
Williams, Miss Mary Jones, and Mrs
w. W. Skinner, Kensington: Rev. p.
Rowland Wagner, Miss Julia Fear
son. Mrs. John r. Henderson, Mrs.
Charles J. Lyddane. Mrs. George II.
Lamar, and Mrs. John II. Gassaway.
Rockville; Miss olivia r. Myers,
Miss Hattie Grifith. and Mrs. Frank
Severance, Gaithersburg; Mrs. Wal
ter Perry Mrs. Frederick KeplinSer.
and Miss Frances Chaplin. Bethesda
Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Gassaway
Will act as members Of the hostess
committee. D..
George Cooper, negro youth.
pleaded guilty before Judge will
liam L. Viett, in the Police Court
mere today, to charge of entering
the store Of John L.. Welsh. at Der
wood. and stealing about sl4 and a
bicycle. He was held for the action
Of the November grand jury. and in
default of bail in the amount OF
$l,ooe,' was commHted to Jail.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-24

FEASTSLEWIS
'Backstair Gossip Features
Address Of Treasury's
Saving Division Head.

William Mather Lewis, director
Of the savings division of the
United States Treasury. was the
guest of honor yesterday at the
weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis
Club.
Back Stair Gossip" was the sub
ject OF his address. He said that
every man should specialize along
some definite line. For. IL he does
specialize said Lewis. "a man will
be able to do his share of the talk
ing whenshe is in receipt of some
choice back-stair gossip"
In a more serious vein the speak
er illustrated the manner in which
even nations are swayed by back
stair gossip"
The awarding OF the norsl prizes
for the "best-looking" and the
"homeliest" Of those present pro-
duced a somewhat complicated cIi-
max. 1t was finally decided that
the contest was a draw. as the
judges were either afraid of their
jobs or. as one of the gossipers
put it,. they hadn't been PAID
enough"
Next Thursday a meeting will be
held in the Board room of the Dis
trict Building for the purpose Of
organizing the City Motor Corps
an auxiliary to that Of the Metro
politan Police Department at which
the kiwanis Club will be represent
ed. Joseph Furnace will have
charge of the Kiwanis branch OF
the corps.
1t was announced last night that
the kiwanis District Convention
will be held here October 9.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
CAPT. MUTTON LEAVES
FOR HIS NEW Posi-

Winchester. Va. Sept. 23.-Capt.
Louis Mccoy Mutton. United States
navy, commander of the bsttleship
Pennsylvania during the world war.
who came here several days ago
expecting to spend a month with
his family. left last night in re-
sponse to telegrsphic orders from
Philadelphia TO become commands Mt
of the NAVY yard there, succeeding
Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes.
Capt Mutton is one Of the senior
captains of the service. 1t is prob
able he will be Joined at Philsdel-
phia shortly by Mrs. Mutton, who is
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs +.
J. Evans. Capt. Mutton graduated
from the Naval Academy in 1855
and saw active service in the Span
ish-American and world wars and
also in the Philippines.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
The Rubber Plants Story =: By Q: HENRY

me-" says the young man. i've
come two thousand miles for you.
Aren't you tired of il yet, Bess
You've kept all of us waiting so
long. Haven't you found out yet
what is best?"
The bubble burst only today"
says the girl. Come here. Dick
and see what found on the side
walk for sale" She brings him
by the hand and exhibits yours
truly. How one ever got away
up here who can tell? bought
1t with almost the last money
had"
He looked at me, but he couldn't
keep his eyes of of her for more
than a second.
DO you remember that night
Bess." he said, when we stood
under one of those on the bank OF
the bayou and what you told me
them
''Geewillikins" I said to myself
Both Of them stand under a rub.
Der plant. Seems to me they are
stretching matters somewhat"
DO l not" says she. looking
up at him and sneaking close to
his vest. and now ! say 1t again,
and it is to last forever Look,
Dick, at it's leaves, how wet they
are. Those are my tears, and II
was thinking Of you that made
them fall"
The dear old Magnolias!" says
the young man. pinchinE one OF
my leaves. II love them all"
Magnolia! Well. wouldn't that
say, Those innocents thought ]
was ma agnolia, What the-weIl
wasn't that tough on a genuine
little old New York rubber plant?
Copyright 1920, Wheeler sypdicste.)
The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
BROWNLOW LEAVES
BUT MAIL GOES ON

Isaac Pinkney. clerk. is the sole
inhabitant of the office of former +
Commissioner Louis Brownlow at
the District Building. Yet callers
and mail continue to come to the
office for the attention of the former
executive.
Yesterday a postal card arrived at
the office, addressed to Commits
siOner Brownlow and sent by an
irate woman of the District. who
demanded that an accumulation Of
ashes be removed from her premises
Immediately. The complaint was
sent to the street cleaning depart
ment.
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ming. except now and then when
they took notion for pigs
knuckle and kraut.
After she had finished her din
ner my new owner came to the
window and leaned down close to
my leaves and cried softly to her
self for a while. 1t made me feel
funny. / never knew anybody to
cry that way over a rubber plant
before. OF course, I've seen a few
of 'em turn on the tears for what
they could get out of it, but she
seemed to be crying just for the
pure enjoyment OF il. She touched
my leaves like she loved EN-, and
she bent down her head and kissed
each one Of 'em. ! guess I'm about
the toughest specimen OF a peri
patetic orchid on earth. but tell
you it made me feel sort of queer.
Home never was like that TO me
before. Generally l used to get
chewed by poodles and have shirt
waists hung on me to dry. and
get watered with coffee grounds
and peroxide of hydrogen.
This girl had a piano in the
room, and she used to disturb il
with both hands while she made
noises with her mouth for hours
at a time. l suppose she was
practising vocal music.
One day she seemed very much
excited and kept looking at the
clock. At II somebody knocked
and she let in a stout dark man
with towSled black hair. He sat
down at once at the piano and
played while she sang for him
When he finished she laid one
hand on her bosom and looked at
him. He shook his head, and she
leaned against the piano.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
Hagerstown Woman, 81, Dies.

Hagerstown, Md. Sept. 23.-Mrs
Barba Las, aged 81 years, a men,
Der of a well known Hsgerstown
family. died here yesterday. She 4,
survived by a son. John A. Lias,
and a sister, Mrs. Sophia Maisack
of Altoona, Pa.
Rudolph Krepps, prominent
resident Of Clearspring. died yes
terday at the age of 81. survived
by two daughters, Mrs. C. E. Cow
ten and Mrs. Jacob NJ Ankeney.