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The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
Many Deaths and Casualties
Mark Wild Labor
Demonstrations.
TWO DEPUTIES HURT
Soviet Menace Confronts
France as Result of Rev.
olutionary Demands.
washington Herald Cross Atlantic
Service. Special Cable Dispatch.
BY COL. ARTHUR LYNCH.

washington Herald Cross Atlantic
Service. Special Gable Dispatch.
BY COL. ARTHUR LYNCH.
Paris. May 4.-The general strike
has already proved serious to
France. especially Paris.
Demonstrations and riots followed
by saber and revolver charges with
cavalry troops have resulted in
many deaths and more casualties
including the wounding of two
members of the Chamber of Depu-
ties.
All of this appears to be but the
murmuTing of a storm that is brew
ing in France
Demands are IncreaslRs.
The French General Confederation
of Labor. which is the center of the
movement, for a long time past has
become more and more revolution
airy. 1t is now out for improvement mt
in the status of railway men and
miners, and is demanding the ma
tionalization not only of the rail-
ways and mines, but of all great in
dustries.
From the tenor of recent develop
ments, one is compelled to ask
would even such far-reaching con-
cessIons as their program calls for
satisfy the labar elements: lis not
an outright Soviet the objective0
Strike Carefully Planned.
The present strike is not mere
enlargement of the usual May Day
demonstration. 1t has been care
fully planned for weeks and led up
to by a system of agitation and
propaganda marked by an intensity
and exaggeration one is apt to find
in Celtic and Southern peoples.
The government will probably
tide over the outbreak, but trouble
appears inevitable in successive
waves. each bigger than the last.
French statesmen will need stabil-
ity beyond what they are credited
with and all the luck available to
escape without fundamental
change of regime.
Copyright, 1870. CrOss-AtIantic Newspaper
Service, Incl
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
'ROBBERSCOPY
MARYLAND JOB
Bank IN Columbus. Ohio,
Victim Of Sandy Spring
Methods.
OFFICIAL ASSAULTED
Escape with $500 After
Holding Up l3
Patrons.
OFFICIAL ASSAULTED

Sandy Spring, Md.-Two banks
robbed OF $4,000 In cash and
securities in daring, daylight
hold-up by Ave unmasked ban
dts on April IS.
Director Francis NJ. Hallowell
killed.
Gang escaped In automobile.
Employees locked in vault
while bandits looted banks.
Columbus. Ohio-Union Build
ing and Savings Company held
up morning of April 80, by three
unmasked bandits and robbed of
s2,500 in cash.
Robert e. Pfeiffer, assistant
secretary. assaulted and serious
ly injured.
Employees and thirteen patrons
locked in bank vault.
Bandits believed to have cs-
capped in automobile.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
CLARA TAYLOR
ON RENTBOARD
President Names Writer to
Fill Place Of
Guy Mason.

Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor. we'll
known literary woman and welfare
worker. has been selected by Presi-
dent Wilson TO succeed Guy Mason
as member OF the District Rent
Commission. The nomination of
Mrs. Taylor viii probably be sent
to the Senate either today or to-
morrow.
Mrs. Taylor has for years served
with various organizations. and was
director of the womsn's division OF
the Committee on Public Informa-
tion during the war. Later she oc-
cupied important posts in the wom-
ems bureaus Of the Department Of
Labor, and the division OF informa-
tion and education OF the same de-
partment.
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three gentlemen previously men,
toned is decidedly sccond-rate. But
all that is beside the point. II YOU
want to laugh. don't miss this trio
of clowns. Their stuff tonight
will probably be altogether differ
ent from last night, but it is not
likely to be less funny.
The music revealed nothing OF
moment. and the lyrics wouldn't
even stick in an actors mind. There
is no book, of course. and the
chorus is reasonably pretty. That's
about all one can say of The Cen
tury Midnight Whirl without vast
ing newsprint in the present short
age of that product.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05

Attention has been called to the
remarkable similarity in method of
execution and details OF the daring
holdup of the Union Building and
Savings Company in Columbus,
Ohio. last Friday, when three un-
masked bandits rushed" that In
stitution, locked the officials In the
vault and made a clean get
away" and the recent Sandy
Spring robbery.
With drawn guns, three bandits
held up the Columbus bank about
ten o'clock Friday morning, locked
six employees and thirteen patrons
in the vault and escaped with about
$4,000 in cash. No trace of the
bandits has been found.
The bandits, described as being
small men, well dressed, from "a
to 30 years old, entered the bauk
and suddenly demanded that every
one throw up their hands. In the
first few moments. as was the case
In the Sandy Spring ho'dup, one
of the men attacked a bank oficiai
who appeared not to understand
their command. while the others
covered" the balance of the people
in the room.
The bandits victim at Columbus
was Robert E. Pfeiffer. assistant
secretary of the company, who was
struck in the face with the butt
of a revolver and seriously IN
jured.
Standing on opposite sides of the
banking room. the bandits in both
robberies forced all to enter the
vaults, the big steel doors were
locked and the thugs escaped. In
both cases the robberies did' not con-
sumo more than ten minutes.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
THE THEATER
Polfs-"Century Midnight whirl."
BY EARLE DORSEY.

BY EARLE DORSEY.
This is less of a review than an
apology for the disturbance we
caused in DIS at Polls last night,
station far too contiguous to the
antics Of the effervescent Jay Gould,
the simpering Frank Fay and the
dynamic Felix Adler. to give one
proper hold on dignity. These
three gentlemen oontrived. by dint
of sheer clowning, to beguile an
evening at Polls that threatened to
succumb to the rather tawdry set
tingsr episodes and musical back
grounds of a rowing entertainment
calling itself The Century Midnight
Whirl.
The program gives undue promi-
nenee to the name of Bessie Mccoy
Davis. If her performance last
night is any criterion, her chief
contribution to the performance is
the use of her name. winona Win
ter. much less known to fame. car
ried away the feminine honors of
the evening, though Messrs. Gould,
Fay and Adler are really the life of
lthe party.
The Whirl is simply a succession
OF comic and musical episodes
staged by Julian Mitchell. Edward
Royce and LILLIAN H. Smith. The
music is credited to George Gersh.
win and Harry Tierney, with lyrics
by Bud De Sylvia, Joe Mccarthy
and John Henry Mears. 1t draws
its chief inspiration, in the form
revealed last night, from the plen.
teous and free-handed use BY
Gould. Adler and Fay OF all the
hokumish clowning tricks known
to musical comedy, and though
there Is an attempt here and there
to ape the gorgeous and the spec
tacular, the effort is little more
than an attempt. Whatever ma,
be said against the performance In
toto, ut must be admitted that
either Adler, Gould and Fay, with
oodles Of comedy never written in
the manuscript, are either extreme
ly funny or else unmitigated winter
play-going hath made us very
maudlin.
There Is really little use, in at
tempting to describe at length the
numbers. as the production is a
combination of glorified burlesque
and vaudeville with a free field for
all and no fayors asked. Many of
the attempts at novelty are not
novel at all, even to Washington,
and the company grouped about
Miss Davis, Miss Winter and the
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
WOUNDED MEMS PAY
BOOST IS APPROVED

A favorable report on the House
bill to fix compensation for disabled
soldiers taking vocational training
was ordered by the Senate Educa-
tion and Labor Committee yesterday.
One hundred dollars a month is
allowed men with no dependents and
$3.50 for those having dependents.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05

the resolution. The Democrats do
not hope to gain more than one
Republican vote, that of Senator
Porter ]. McCumber. of North Da-
kotA. They expect to lose at least
four of their own party, so that
passage of the resolution and the
necessity for an executive veto is
anticipated with confidence.
Public Ledger seryice)
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
Tornado Toll Now 81.

Muskogee. Okla. May 4.-The
death toll OF the tornado at Peggs
Sunday night, today reached fifty
one as volunteer workers continued
their search. in the wreckage of the
devastated village. One hundred
were injured. it was estimated to-
day.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
JOHNSON MAKES
GAIN IN INDIANA
ON LATE REPORT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
in Michigan City gave johnson, 100;
Wood. 23; Lowden, 10; Harding, 10.
johnson and Wood were tied in
returns from six out of seventy.five
precincts in Elkhart County. Each
received SO votes; Lowden, "a;
Harding, 8.
Fifty precincts out of 1881 in
Indiana gave Wood 2.036: johnson.
1,S45; Lowden. 56l; Harding, $50.
johnson Men Charge Stampede.
Fifteen precincts In South Bend
gave Johnson, 602; Wood, 2sO. Low
den. 81; Harding, Sc.
Seventeen out Of forty-six pre-
cincts in Fort Wayne gave Wood,
9S4; Johnson, 425; Lowden, 1856;
Harding. 75.
Friends Of Senator Johnson charg-
ed tonight that many Republicans
who favored Governor Lowden and
Senator Harding had been stamped
ed into voting for Gen. Wood as a
means of killing Off the. Californian.
They pointed out that early returns
clearly indicated Lowden and Hard l.
ing were not receiving the vote that
would have gone to them under ordi-
nary CIRCUMSTANCES.
Plurality Not Binding.
Unless a candidate receives a ma
jority of votes cast, it will not be
binding on the Indiana State Repub-
ilean convention. which will be held
soon to select thirty delegates TO the
Chicago convention, to instruct them
for the winner.
Friends of Herbert Hoover lool
askance at the ruling Of the State
hosrd of election commissioner
that no names could be written In
on the Indiana ballots. The Hoover
ties had hoped that he would re-
ceive a big written-in vote.
The boards ruling was: Indiana
law prohibits the marking of a bal
lot other than by cross desixnat-
ing the candidate for whom the
vote Is cast"
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
Plurality Not Binding.
Appoints Judge fof Hawaii.

Clement X. Quinn, Of EIilo. Hawaii.
was nominated by the President
yesterday to be circuit Judge,
Fourth circuit, territory OF Hawaii,
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05

Are you reading the o. HENRY
stories that are appearing daily ia
The Washington Herald?
The Washington herald., 1920-05-05

This branch of serv-
ice includes the wash
ing. starching and IRON
ing of such articles as
mems shirts. collars and
cuffs. women's waists
and miscellaneous wear
ing apparel.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
This Year t las Seen No Diminution
in the Crop Of Books Laid
in the Metropolis

venturous episode and spicy with di-
verting dialogue. Altogether a book
to enjoy and pass on to a friend with
out fear of q come back OF sad smile
and well, so, so.7
We are in London at the start IL
this novel. Lucinda Knyvett is on the
eve of her marriage to Waldo Killing
ton, son Of old Paget Rillington. But
Lucinda, with every body on hand, does
the unexpected thing, bolts ana leaves
the wedding a fizzle and worse. VINO
is the man in the offng? That's the
question, and it gets spoken cut loud
and frequently. Suspicion for once is
right in pointing damnatory finger
at Arsenic Valdez, chap of Spanish
descent and friend of Waldo Killing
ton, for there had been moments in
the past to which suspicion could point
as signposts.
The scene shifts to Southern Europe
Julius Rillington, cousin, while trav-
cling comes suddenly upon Lucinda
The young woman IS poor, has suffered
Valdez had been fascinating, compel
ing, but not quite success as finan-
cial husband To Julius, who, by the
way, tells this story through Anthony
Hope, Lucinda gives all the record Of
her struggles and her disappointments.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
MERRICK'S INNOVATION

THE ability to concentrate the
Il growth of thought in flower Of
epigram is shown repeatedly in Leon
ard Merrick's The House of Lynch
tDutton). In this short novcl~-an ef-
fort in new line for it's author Msr
rick studies the effect Of great wealth
on the minds and the life OF young
married couple, Richard Keith, IN
English artist, and his American wife,
Betty, daughter of millionaire Lynch,
Of New York. Tho artists aesthetic
hatred i vast fortune won through
the sufferings Of thousands will no,
permit him to compromise with love.
Betty must renounce her heritage of
dollars to come, must learn to live
with Richard in the dingy quarters Of
q rather unsuccessful painter.
They are married, in London, and
find homo in cheap section of the
city. A son is born. is suddenly H.
and BETTY wires hcr father in New
York for money. Naturally tho old
man sends more cash than IL needed
mad Betty approprIates and spends the
sum total Result, 3 war OF words
and worse. Betty goes back to New
York, to her father, to her dying
brother. and Is In danger Of beins
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
THINGS SEEN IN-LONDON

A CHAPTER in A. H. Blake's Things
Seen in London (nutton) is de-
voted to historic houses of the city.
While reading it VIC experience the
queer sensation of the receding Of an
author into shadowy presence as his
characters come forth and usurp the
realm of realities. Dickens is merely
man with pen in his hand, as one
reads that ain the Temple Garden
across the way Ruth Pinch used to
wait for her brother Tom, while the
Liquid music OF the water of the foun-
tain in Fountain Court, then as now,
flowed sweetly on This little book.
fitted to the geography Of a side
pocket trots in harness with Muir
heads London.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
THREE SHORT NOVELS

z NttiE Is trinity Of short novels
~ OF the year that stand little
way apart from the multitude. Each
of the three bears the imprint of a
power that rises beyond the level Of
mere talent into the lower air currents
OF genius. We refer to September
Legend and Living Alone, the last be-
ing collection Of brief wingings Of
fancy brought into unity by connect
ing thread Of personality. Swinnerton
rather 'f*jmanazed the world of English
lovers of fiction with his Nocturne
(Doran), one Of the very few successful
restricted area stories Of the last dozen
years. A friend tells IS that one can
follow the footsteps Of the. girl of the
story from the house of her revolt to
the banks Of the Thames. A single
room in a small home, a stretch of path
at night, yacht on the river-into and
through the media of these three di-
minutivc settings Swinnerton intro
duces and evolves the four figures Of
his dramatic storg; we mean dramatic"
ia IHc ociSc o4 CoHcIcnt SyuIneSlS.
Right on the heels of Nocturne came
September (Doran) to prove that here
is man who can walk into the coun-
try Of motives that lies behind and
beyond the images of appearance, and
emerge with the relation between The
psychology of prompting and the re-
sultant act established, defined. In no
recent novel, probably in no other
novel in the language, has the problem
Of clash between two women, one young &
and lovely, the other mature yet beau
tiful, been more strictly attended to
with astonishingly correct results.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
LONDON DAYS

WE ARE not a dozen pages into
Arthur Warrens London Days
Little, Brown & Coz when we find a
companionable soul, for Warren knows
the literary checkerboard Of London
and can convey his mental pictures and
his associations and recoilections to his
reader He went TO England in the
lOs or the last century, a young fel.
low fresh from college, opened his gate
to journalism in 1888, and in 1858 be-
came London correspondent Of The
Boston Herald. His book, revealing
! Journalist and an ability to estimate
shrewdly men with whom he came in
contact and into moments Of intimate
conversation, is definitely valuable
addition to our important library of
BritishAmerican relations We feel
that our author is Victorian at
heart, ana we DO not blame him for
shat. "1here is no man now who talks
- we'll as Nr. Gladstone" he says, and
we believe him.
But the whole significance OF the
real glory OF the Victorian period at
its golden elimination is crystaiiized il
Warren's fine account Of the burial
Of Browning in 1889. He 50 well facets
the idea Of an age with a circlet Of
great names that we quote: "The great
bell of the Abbey began tolling; its
deep notes foated down from its
tower as they sought lodgment in the
hearts OF the assembling throng, ard
with every stroke some face appeared
/ tkat all England or the world knew
we'll After thirty years can recall
many of the faces that the gray light
of the dull day. softened by the color
ing Of the Abbey windows, fell upon.
There were tiers Of people. Even the
openings in the triforium revealed
them, and by the great western doors
they were packed, though they could
catch but glimpses Of the chancel, and
most OF them not that. Huxley's was
/ the frss face | saw ] had first seen
1t in the same place, almost on the
same spot, years before, 1T Darwin's
une-al Max Muller and George
Meredith were near him now. One
thought that England sent her cele~
orased living men that day to meet
the famous multitudes whose bodies
naye been laid away beneath the Abbey
pavement for centuries upon centuries.
There were Lord Wolscley and the
Lord Chief Justice, Lord (then Pro-
fessor) Bryce, Frederic Harrison, Hol-
man Hunt, Henry Irving, Sidney Col
win, Whistler and Poynter and Alma
Tadema and Sir John Lubbock"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
THE CAPTIVES

"A FEW years ago the writer .strolled
down tho Strand one June day,
and, turning g. corner at Bedford
street, stood for while looking over
motley Of books displayed at book
stall. If he had gone up Bedford Stree t
and entered Garrick Street, only q few
PAGES beyond, he would have been on
the ground Of the Chapel of Hugh
Walpole's The Captives (Doran). We
reviewed this novel in The Tribune
some weeks ago, but it will bear a
second notice for it marks q new.
motif in its authors literary theme
OF life. In studying essentials that
are embodied in Maggie Cardinal, her
Uncle Matthew, Martin Warlock and
the members Of the Kingscote Breth
ren, Walpole has come to close grips
with ugly facts far removed from the
rather sequestered tranquility Of the
people OF his The Duchess of Wrexe
and The Green Mirror. There are
critics who have averred that he could
not handle a character Of the tvne
Of Sam Weller, Uriah Heep or Bill
Skies without smearing himself With
dauDs Of failure. Compare his word
painting Of the death of Uncle Matthew
with the of Bill Skies, and be con
vinced thar Hugh Walpole is not a
ToveNst Of 3 narrow mode
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Sax ROH ER'S The
Green Eyes Of Bast is
q thriller

els arc "studies Only in stagnation.' q
We arc thankful tha. we have in The
Oaptlves a book to toss on the boards
between us in way Of refutation. for
Maggie Cardinal lives, and a bit of Lo i
don, not of the elect Of Walpole'
wonted thin upper crust. also lives in
that searching story. Gilbert Cannan
49, for Goldring, lone Of the most hope
full literary figures Of to-day"
Youth must have its tilt at old wind
mill sails that flap around slowly IN
modern winds. But this young man
frequently aims at targets more stead
fast than figures circling in shad ows
and, to our mind, often hits breast.
plate too solid for his attack.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
GEORGES CALTBAN
rENHE London Of Calihan lHar

'fNHE London Of Caliban (Harpcr's)
W. L. Georges novel of the year
already reviewed in The Tribune, is
easily plotted on the map of the city.
1t lies in region between Fleet Street
and the outskirts Of the Northwest
This area is largely that Of the city's
teeming life. This novel, mirroring
its ground, is restless study OF an
unsatisfactory personality. 1t has won
praise on this side Of the Atlantic
and, here and there, expressions of
bafied wondering. Frankly, we do not
rank it with other novels by its au-
thor. The Second Blooming and The
Strangers Wedding are for US more
close-knit in structure, move with a
more certain gait to definite conclu-
sions aud interpretations.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
AN YCONOCLAST

'FHE vanishing year carries in its
sheaf little book that is a fam
ing expression Of q new order. For
there is an unworricd and athletic
group Of noveists and poets, housed to
surprising degree within the fences
Of London, that casts few glances back
ward over the crossroads of 1900. The
members Of this clique do not hcatatc
to stick sharp pen-points into the bal
looming regulations Of such lusty mod
erns az Wells and Bennett. Their
bumps Of veneration for the contempo-
rary in letters arc as fiat ss their knobs
Of respect for much that was scribblcd
decades ago. All this to introduce
Douglas Coldring. who in his Reputa-
tons (seltzer) frees himself Of many
savage, and some just, criticisms of
real live authors.
We cannot agree with CoIdring in
I his appraina nal Of Gissing. and it IL pre-
ciscly on his siur at the Victorian in
/ Cissiug that we put our condem natory
} finger. However. each TO hiy taetes and
/ IN hig opinions. What does amuse M
Immensely IL the gusto OF this fellow
1lams at Compton Mackenzie and Hugh
Waipois. Bs Ia commentator across
,he table VINO gesticulater and tella ns
that mckenzie writes "Elorihed dina
/ rogsls" and tha. Walpoles latest noy-
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
e BRETT YOUNG, outhor
4 Of The Young Physician

nifty years ago, so he can chart the COM
lnGs and goings of the central cEarac-
ters of In Chancery, for Galsworthy
gives US guidebook to London in fol-
lowing the paths and roads paced in his
novel The filmy cords of the SPIDERS
web, snare weak yet sufficient to mold,
has its geography just az truly as there
bulk behind the pages of this book az
actly marked streets and squares OF
London.
There is nothing of the caustic in In
Chancery. The writer is too much Of a
playwright to go deeply into the morbid
psychology Of serious moments. He
lures his people into the spider web Of
divorce. with all it's mortal cross-th reads
of secret motive and slanderous imputa-
ton, and imprisons them there, held,
much as were certain New Workers Of
Edith Wharton's story, by the age-iong
restraints of pride Of lineage and bar
IioIs of repugndnce--a condition .hat
gives him chance to light fires of bril-
liant dialogue in the heart Of dark cir
cunstance, as phosp sphorescence gows
when spurred by an oar in waters ct
night
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
ANTHONY HOPES LUCINDA

EOW we'll We recall The Prisoner
' 49, Of Zenda, that parent OF we'll
nigh iDnumerable throng of lovc-and-
rapicr stories. 1t is good to greet
Anthony Hope, as he hands in his con-
trioution to the London fiction Of the
year. Lucinda (Appleton). 1t is bet
ter TO be able to admit glcefully that
he has not lost his open sesame to ro-
nance, for Lucinda, to twist phrase
in the first chapter Of this book, "never
falls into cliche, a spurious common
place. It is rich in the tang OF ad-
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
THE VANITY GIRI.
COMPTON MACKENz1E's 7b

COMPTON MACKENZIE'S The Van.
~ ity Girl (Harpers) is distinct
improvement over its predecessor,
Poor Relations. In this novel of the
career OF Il young London girl on the
stage he abandona the skctchv. some
what he.ter-sfelter method so evident
ii Poor Relations and develops a con
sistent plot WITH foundations secure
N the determination and convictions
of the girl Norah Cafyn, who, assum-
ing the stage name dorothy Lonsdale'
the "Dorothy' is plain steal from
her sister-;.ttacks her individual
problem Of existence almost with
clenched fists. She is certain of her
self and she intends to succeed.
Mackenzie can be al!uring when he
elects to write sparkling pages and he
Is quite near HIS best form in this
story Of girl and her lover, later
her husband, Tony, fifth Earl of Glare
haven. The Two, from the glare Of the
footlights and the artihco Of the green
room, go over TO the stage of home,
with its acts and scenes OF days and
months and years. There come mis-
understanding and crisis, and Tony
whom VIC doubt at first, justifies him
self. a clever, fascinating presenta-
ton of q corner OF life that yields
items Of interest when explored by one
with authority. Mackenzie's home life,
charmingly lighted by .the lanterns of
vivacity and intellectual heat, must
have Influenced this book in the making