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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-27
LIST Of REDCROSS
WORKERS CAPTURED
BY REDS" GIVEN
Evacuation of Siberia by U. S.
Troops and Aides Under
Way, But All Cannot Leave
Before March IS.

NLADIVOSTOK, Jan. %. (By The As
ISOLATED Press "A list of American
Red Cross workers captured by the
Bolsheviki at Kiucinskaya station has
been received here. 1t is: DR.. w H.
Kingston, Oklahoma: DR.. j. N Medill
Iarosa, Col. Pharmacists w. Q. Lowe
New York city, and Z. H. Charette,
Stockton, Cal.
News Of the capture of the Red
Cross men and of seven American rail-
way engineers was received in con-
sular advices reaching here. These did
not give the date of the capture nor
dld they make it clear whether the
Americans had heen captured by sup
porters OF a local uprising against Ad-
/ mlral kolchak or by Bolsheviki advanc-
ling from Omsk.
The. advices made no mention of any
women Red Cross workers. However
American Consul Ray Hansen and 20
others, Red Cross workers and Amer
1ean members of the railway staff, are
declared to have escaped and to have
reached lrkutsk. The railway men,
who included Col. Blunt, were mem
bers of the Stevens commission sent
from America to aid in rehabilitating
the trans-Siberian railway.
Prior to these advices no word had
been received of Americans near Kiu-
ehinskaya, which is a station on the
trans Siberian line near Taishet for
nearly month.
The American consular officials and
Red Cross officials here are taking steps
to ascertain exactly what forces made
the captures and open negotiations for
the Americans release.
American army authorities believe it
will be March 10 before the last Amer
. lean soldiers and Red Cross workers
are out of Siberia. Orders have been
sent that all American women be hur-
ried out of trans Baikalia which is in
8the path of the advancing Boshevik
army that has moved steadily east
ward along the trans Siberian railroad
and now seems to be nearing Irkutsk
Rearguard Red Cross units are re-
ported at Chita, a city just north of
the Manchurian border where the Amur
valley branch of the trans Siberian
Joins the main line, while the 9th
United States infantry is at Verkhuie
dinsk, west of Chita.
H Soldiers Of the 9th are still in pos
session of the armored train captured
Inear Verkihuie Udinsk on Jan. 10 from
Russian troops belong to one of Gen.
Semenoff's commands. Two Americans
were killed in this fight which was
4caused by the Independent action of a
stationmaster, who is alleged to have
been intoxicated at the time.
IA Reports state the Bosheviki have
swung southwark from Taiga and have
Preached the Monaghan frontier.
u sally Kaffee' is in town, sick folks.
You need not fear the flu. Ask for
Coussens Influenza Capsules; they are
of Laxative Coffee Quinine or sally
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-27
NEW TINE TABLE.

A new schedule, effective on the Illi-
nois Central railroad Sunday, Feb. l,
will advance the arrival time Of the
Fulton (Ky.) local passenger train No.
los from 900 pm. to S;25 pm.
There is no other Important change
at Memphis.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-27
COURT TO RECESS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The SUI
preme court win recess next Monday
until March /, Chief Justice White an
nounCes.
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-27

~ sally Kaffee" is in town., sick folks.
IfYou need not fear the flu. Ask for
Coussen's Influenza Capsules; they are
q of Laxative Coffee Quinine or "Sally
kaffee." $1.00 box at all druggists
accept no other. adv,
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The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
.27 RADICALS
PUTON TRIAL
Estimated Hearing of Chi
cago Communist Cases
Will Require E Weeks.

Chicago. May 1o.-"The attitude
Of the people" will make IL necessary
to take six weeks to try twenty
seven indicted members Of the Com
munist Labor party. it was an
nounCed at the opening Of the trial
in State Court here today.
Each side will have $50 peremp-
tory challenges and expects 10 use
them all.
William Bross Lloyd. millionaire
Socialist. and John Reid. carIoonist
and writer. were the stars" Of
those indicted on charges OF vio-
Iation # State and Federal espion-
age acts. Three women also were
on tho list They are: Margaret
Prevey. Of Akron. Chic, and Helen
Judd and Clara Rosky. Of Chicago.
All entered pleas of not guilty
when arraigned. Two Of the de-
fendcnts will become states wit
nesses anI will be given separate
trials, It was declared.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11

cold cream and the evening news
papers"
You are outrageous, Ferg," 1
said. Surely there is none of
this graft. as you call it, in a per-
feet and harmonious matrimonial
union!'
Well" said Pogue, nothing
that would justify you every time
in calling up police headquarters
and ordering out the reserves and
vaudeville managers on a dead
run. But it's this way! Suppose
you're a Fifth avenue millionaire.
soaring high. on the right side of
coppers and cappers.
"You come home at night and
bring a $4,000, 600 diamond brooch,
TO the lady who's staked you for a
claim. You hand it over. She
says. oh. Gcorge!' and looks to
see IL it's backed. She comes up
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him whether he had known any
woman who followed 1t.
"Ladies?" said Pogue, with
Western zehivalry well, not to
any great extent. They don't
amount to much in special lines of
graft, because they're all SO busy
in general lines. What? Why,
they have to, who's got the money
in the world? The men. Did you
ever know a man to give a woman
a dollar without any considera-
tion? A man will shell out his
dust to another man free and easy
and gratis. But IL he drops a
penny in one OF the machines run
by the Madam Ewes Daughters
Amalgamated Association and the
pineapple chewing gum don't fall
out when he pulls tho lever you
can hear him kick to the superin-
tendent> four blocks away. Man
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tion. Especially New York. I'm
not much fond Of New Workers.
and Manhattan is about the only
place on the globe where. don't
find any"
While in the metropolis Pogue
can always be found at one of two
places. One is a little second
hand bookshop on Fourth ave-
nue.. where he reads books about
his hobbies. Mahomedanism and
taxidermy. 1 found him at the
other-his hall bedroom in Eight
eenth street-where he sat in his
stocking feet trying to pluck THE
Banks Of the Wabash" out of a
small zither. Four years he has
practiced this tune without arriv-
ing near enough to cast the long
est trout line to the waters edge.
On the dresser lay bIued-steei
Colts forty-five and a tight roll
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
By O. HENRY

Il kind Of took to him. For
this reason, I met him on Broad
way one night when 1 was out
of heart. luck, tobacco and place,
He was all silk hat, diamonds and
front. He was all front. II you
had gene behind him you would
have only looked yourself in the
face. / looked like a cross be-
tween Count ToIstoy and a June
lobster. 1 was out Of luck.
hsd-but let me lay my eyes on
that dealer again.
.''vaucross stopped and talked
to me a few minutes and then ne
took me to a high-toned restau-
rant to eat dinner. There was
music. and then some Beethoven.
and Bordelaise sauce. and cuss-
ing in French. aud frangipangi.
and some hauteur ana cigarettes.
CONTINUED oE PACE EIeBI.
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of tens and twenties large enough
around to belong to the spring
rattle-snake class. A chambermaid
with a room-cleaning air f1uttered
nearby in the hall, unable to enter
or to fee, scandalized by the
stocking feet. aghast at the Colt,
yet powerless. with her metropol-
itan instincts. to remove herself
beyond the magic influence Of the
yellow-hued roll.
1 sat on his trunk while Fergu-
son Pogue talked. No one could
be franker or more candid in his
conversation. Besides his express
sion the cry of Henry James for
lacteal nourishment at the age of
one month would have seemed like
"a Chaldean cryptogram. He told
me stories of his profession with
prides for he considered it an art.
And / was curious enough to ask
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
INVITE
COLONIES IDEA
ON JAPAN PACT
Australia, New Zealand and
Possibly Canada to Be
Consulted.
RENEWAL IS ASSURED
Treaty Will Not Conflict
With U. S. England Ar
bitfation Plans.
RENEWAL IS ASSURED

Australia. New Zealand and pos
sibly Canada viii be consulted by
the British foreign office before the
British defensive alliance
is renewed. 1t was learned yester-
day.
The date for notification of ter
mination of the pact is July 13.
There has been a good deal OF
anti-JsTanese feeling in Australia
and New Zealand, and on the West
ern Coast of Canada. therefore it was
deemed prudent to consult the gov
ernments of those nations of the
Empire before reaching a decision
on renewing the agreement. How
ever. It is considered virtually GER
tain that the alliance will be re-
newed, and continued indefinitely.
Assist When Attacked.
The treaty provides that should
eitter Great Britain ~oI Jaran be-
come involved in wa. through "un-
provoked attack or aggressive &C
tior" in defense of its Territorial
rights or special interests" in the
regions of Eastern Asia or India
the other naticn will at once come
to the assistance of its ally, and
will conduct the war, in common.
A high Japanese diplomat yester-
day predicted the alliance would be
continued indefinitely.
Does Not Automatically Expire.
This diplomat pointed out that an
erroneous impression existed that
the alliance automatically expired
with the expiration of the ten-year
period after its signature by the
two powers. which was July Is,
lsIl. .r.=----ss..----
At the British Embassy comment
as to what action probably would be
taken on the alliance by the British
Foreign Office was withheld.
Article May Re Eliminated.
1t was stated, however. that Arti-
Gle ", Of the alliance, might be
eliminated as superfiuous. This ar
ticle provides that should either
Great Britain or Japan conclude a
treaty of general arbitration with a
third power. nothing in the alliance
would make it obligatory to &c
to war with the nation with which
it had made such treaty. This
provision was inserted to apply to
an arbitration treaty pending at the
time between the United States and
Great Britain, but which failed of
ratification by the Senate.
Should the Anglo-Japanese alli-
ance be renewed or continued. il is
understood it will be deposited with
the league of nations secretariat
and published, as provided by the
league covenant
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
THE GIRL AND THE GRAFT

II HE other day I ran across my
i old friend Ferguson Pogue.
Pogue is a conscientious CRATER
OF the highest type. His head
quarters Is the Western Hemis-
phere. and his line of business is
anything from speculating in
town lots on the Great Skated
Plains to selling wooden toys in
Connecticut. made by hydraulic
pressure from nutmegs ground to
a pulp.
Now and then when Pogue has
made q good haul he comes to
New York for rest. He says the
jug Of wine and loaf Of bread and
Thou in the wilderness business
is about as much rest and pleasure
10 him as sliding down the
bumps at Coney would be to Pres
ident Taft. Give me-" says
Pogue. "a big city for my yaca-
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and kisses you. You've waited for
it. You get it. All right It's
graft.
But I'm telling you about Arte-
misia Blye. She was from Kansas
and she suggested corn in all Of
its phases. Her hair was as yell
low as the silk; her form was as
tall and graceful as a stalk in the
low grounds during a wet sum-
mer; her eyes were as big and
startling as bunions. and green
was her favorite color.
''on my last trip into the cool
reeesses of your sequestered city
/ met a human named Vaucross.
He was worth-that is. he had a
million. He told me be was in
business On the street. a side
walk merchant says I. sarcastic.
Exactly says he. Senior part
ner Of a paving concern
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is the hardest proposition a wom-
an has to go up against. He's a
low grade ore. and she has to work
overtime to make him pay. Two
times out of five she's salted. She
can't put in crushers and costly
machinery. He'd notice 'em and
be onto the game. They have to
pan out what they get and it
hurts their tender hands. Some
of 'em are natural sluice trougRs
and can carry out $1,000 to the
ton. The dry-eyed ones have to
depend on signed letters, false
hair, sympathy, the kangaroo
walk, cowhide whips. ability to
cook. sentimental juries, CONVEX
satioRal powers. silk understands,
ancestry, rouge, anonymous let
ters, violet sachet powders. wit-
nesses. revolvers. pneumatic
forms. carbolic acid. moonlight.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
ALABAMA FIGHT
FOR SENATE
CLOSE
Underwood Certain to Be
Returned but Successor
To Bankhead Doubtful.

birmingham. Ala. May 10.-Can-
didates for Senatorial and Congress
sional and various State omces IN
the Democratic primary were mark
ing time today, awaiting the begin
ming of the balloting tomorrow
morning at s o'clock. Under Ala
bama law, no electioneering can be
carried on on the day preceding pri-
mary election.
The campaign this year has been
marked by extreme bitterness, and
opponents of Senator o. w. Under
wood have been especially active.
He has been made the target of
labor union leaders and leaders of
the anti-saloon league in the Sem
ate, the fight of the latter culmin-
ating in the appearance in the State
of William Jennings Bryan. who at
tackled Underwood in several
speeches.
Political observers in the State
are puzzled over the situation. It
is generally admitted that Under
wood will be returned by a small
majority. but the race of four men
who are seeking the place as sue
cessor to the late Senator ]. H.
Bankhead, is declared to be SO close
that almost any one of the candi-
dates might be elected.
Representatives S. H. Dent and
H. B. SteegalI have had hard fights
in their districts, but both are con-
fident of nomination.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
HUSBAND NO. 2 HELPS
NO. GET HIS DIVORCE
CBy Herald Leased Wire. }

Greenwich. Conn, May 1O:-Louis
DeForest Horton, of Port Chester,
n. Y. was granted a divorce today
from Louise Weinshank Horton, for
merly of Port Chester but now
somewhere in Wisconsin, the charge
being bigamy. Horton testified he
married his wife in 1908 and two
children born to them had since
died. He said his wife mysteriously
disappeared four or five years ago
and last November he was informed
she had married David Franklin
Gibson, of New York. Gibson, who
helped Horton obtain the divorce,
testified he knew she had been mar
ried, but supposed she had obtained
a divorce. For a time they lived in
New York. Then she suddenly dis
appeared. Later he met Horton and
volunteered to be witness for him.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
RADICALS MAY
ENTER TICKET
La Toilette Appeals to Dis.
satisfied Voters Walsh
As Second Man.

Now enters the arena of pre-
convention politics, Senator Robert
NJ. La Toilette. of Wisconsin, BRAN
dishing a club OF discomfort and
waving the banner of revolt. His
mission is one of trouble-making
for the Republican party.
Such was the estimate attached
yesterday by political leaders at the
Capitol to the apparently we'll
founded report that Mr.. La Toilette
had given his tacit consent to the
committee of forty-eight" self
styled liberals" to head their
ticket in the Presidential contest.
fhs negotiations were represented
as having proceeded to the point
where the liberal party's second
man on the ticket was named also,
being Frank P. Walsh, of Missouri.
former joint chairman of the War
Labor Board and one of the dele
gates Of the Friends of Irish Free
dom at the Paris Peace Conference.
Mr.. La Fallotte's decision to run
for the Presidency as the candidate
Of the liberals" was said to be
cnntingent only on the refusal of
the Republican National convention
to accept his ideas as to a party
platform. A perusaI Of that plat
form led leaders at the Capitol to
smile at the idea Of its being ap-
proved at Chicago.
Public Ledger Seryiee)
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Scientist Finds Sky.
Is Black; Measures
Belt of Air on Earth

Paris. May 1o.-AH previous con-
lectures of the depth of atmosphere
and the betting of the earth have
been smashed by the successful ex-
periments of the Norwegian astron-
omer Stormer. by which he has ac-
tually measured the belt of the
earth. He has found the limit of
atmosphere $50 miles from the
earth or $50 times the height of
Mount Whitney.
Incidentally, 1t has been estab-
lished that the real color of the sky
is black, not blue.
THE infinite blue" is merely a
poetical delusion.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
.RIGGSOFFICERS
PROMOTED FOR
GOOD SERVICE
Joshua Evans, Jr.. Made
Vice President Of Big
Bank.
BEGAN AS MESSENGER
Robert V. Fleming is CASH
ier and Secretary to
Directors.
BEGAN AS MESSENGER

Important changes in the officiaI
personnel of the Riggs National
Bank were announced late yester-
day. An interesting feature of the
changes. all of which were promo
tions, is that the men appointed to
higher positions mainly began work
with the banking institution as
messenger boys or similar subordi.
mates.
Joshua Evans, jr.. cashier, was
named vice-president. after 25
years service in the employ of the
old banking house. In his new
capacity, Evans heads the credit
and new business departments, su-
pervising new accounts of, banks
and firms. and enlargement of for
eign relations.
began aH messenger.
Evans began as a bank messen-
ger, was named assistant cashier In
1907, and eight years later was ap.
pointed cashier.
Robert V. Fleming, assistant
cashier, has been made cashier and
secretary of the board of directors
He will have charge of the general
banking department and will be the
official in charge of the custody OF
bank securities.
Fleming's career is similar to that
of Evans. A Washington boy. he
began his career as a bank messen.
ger, raising himself step by step un-
til he reached his present position
l. Avon NJ. Nevins, assistant cashier
will have special supervision of in.
dividual bookkeeping department
and be in charge of collateral ant
collateral loan records.
George o. Vass, assistant cashier
will have special supervision ovel
the correspondence department
CONTINUED ON PAGE ELEVEN.
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C4RRANZAA AND AGJIAR ARE REPORTED ASSASSIN47EL
"Uncle joe Hops in Delight;
Taft Caustic on Wilson Wire

Uncle Joe" Cannon. veteran
of political campaigns since
Lincoln's day. executed his fam
Gus dancing dervish from DAN
vile" stunt of hopping from one
foot to another. waving a long
black stogy. to give emphasis
yesterday to his comment on the
Presidents letter demanding
that the Democratic party be
committed to unreserved ratifi-
cation of the treaty of Yer
sailles.
I'm damned glad he wrote
IL" the former Speaker ex-
claimed.
"T expect to be born again
pretty soon. It's possible I'll
be in the draft age then, and
don't want to be called out to
protect Turkey or Armenia.
Hes on the side of God; on
the moral side. He is taking ac-
ton without regard to us
heathens."
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
INITTI OPPOSES
RETURN GUNS
Italian Premier, However
Is Ready to Supply Ger
mans Raw Materials.

Rome, May 1O.-"When Germany
wishes to keep her heavy artillery,
her military and aviation units, we
must say mo- but when she de-
mands raw materials we must
give" Premier Nitti told the Cham
ber of Deputies last night at the
conclusion of debate on the gov
ernment's foreign policy.
Replying to a question by Deputy
Treves, Socialist. as to what the
San Reno conference had done to-
ward putting Germany on her feet.
Nitti said:
MY view on that question is we'll
known. / believe the economic res
direction of Germany is a Europ-
can necessity"
Berlin, May 1O-Reduction of the
German army to 100000 will be
completed by May Is, it was an
nounced here today.
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SLASHES
ALLOWANCE
TOPALMER
Attorney Generals Tactics
Scored as Increased APP
preparation Is Denied.

The House refused t0ncrease the
appropriation for the Department OF
Justice yesterday. defeating an
amendment offered by Representative
Byrne of Tennessee to increase the
amount from s2,ooO.OoO to s2,5oo. 900.
Republicans charged that Mitchell
Palmer. Attorney General, had ac-
complished nothing in his campaign
against the high cost of living and
alien radicals for which the greater
part of s2.6oO.ooo has been spent
this year.
wants Clothing Stamped.
Byrnes denounced Congress for
not enactinE kpto law the recom-
mendatien-of the President that the
government require the cost of
manufacture stamped on every arti-
Gle of clothing. without this legis-
lation. the Attorney General is
hampered in his high cost of liv-
ing campaign, he said.
When Representative Good, of
Iowa, declared the price of sugar
had risen from 10 cents to 20 cents
a pound in spite of the efforts of the
Attorney General, Republicans
prompted him in a chorus with
statements that its higher, it's
higher"
Good said that in ninety nine
cases out of 100 aliens who had been
arrested had been released. Repre-
sentative Blanton, of Texas. inter-
jected the charge that that anar-
chist, Louis F. Post" the Assistant
Secretary of Labor. was responsible
for that.
Takes Fling at Palmer.
mo radical leader in this genera
tion has done more to unsettle the
nerves of the American people than
has the Attorney General" Repre-
sentative McCrate. of New York, said.
He has awakened class antagonism
TO a greater pitch than any preacher
of class warfare. Whenever the coun-
try seems ready to settle down and
the national nerves are about nor
NAL. he breaks out crying the Re-
public is endangered
Public Ledger Service)
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New.Wing Invention
Makes Air Taxis"
Possible, Says Page

London. May 10. - Twenty-Five
horsepower "sir taxis" are an i'm
mediate possibility, according to
Handley Page, the famous aeronau-
tical pioneer. who announced today
the invention of a new wing with
which the same load can be carried
as by a machine with double wing
span.
Our two-engine machine has now
a wing span of fifty feet" said the
inventor. The taxis will have wings
fifteen feet long and three feet wide.
They will be capable of carrying
enough petrol for a 5O0-miIe voyage
at los miles an hour"
The Washington herald., 1920-05-11

Chicago, May 10. Former
President william Howard Taft
tonight was caustic. in comment
on President wilson's latest let
ter on the league of nations.
The letter announcing that
the Democratic party should at
once proclaim itself the uncom-
promising champion of the ver-
saiIles treaty and condemn the
Lodge reservations" said Mr..
Taft, "is a most violently de-
structive letter. Mr.. Wilson is
the greatest obstructionist in
Washington. He desires to de-
stroy all IL he can't get all.
The Lodge reservations leave
the treaty nearly as effective as
it is without them"
Asked If he considered him.
self dark horse" he answer
ed with an emphatic NO"
In regard to Attorney General
Palmer's crusade against the
alleged red terror, he said:
"Hysteria never helped any
thing or anybody.