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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
RARE FOSSIL OF WHALE
ON CLIFFS OF OREGON

Eugene. Ore, Sept. "a rare
fossil, that of mioscene whale,
has been found by DR.. Earl l..
Packard, professor of geology at
the University of Oregon here.
The relic of prehistoric times,
which was found in the cliffs along
the beach at Newport, Oregon, IS,
DR.. Packard believes, the finest
specimen Of fossil whale yet found
in North America. Such petrified
skeletons are very rare and the
extreme age Of the recent find
makes it of particular interest to
scientific men. Only the skull Of
the creature has been exhumed
from its rocky bed and DR.. Packard
is now preparing it for addition 70
the Condor Geological Museum Of
the University of Oregon.
The bones are rather small, midi
eating that the leviathan was Young
or, which is more probable that the
leviathans of the mioscene age w2s
markedly smaller than those of
the present day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
Staying OF MOTT
CHARGED TO WADE

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 9.-E.-
Vood B. Wade is charged with the
klurder of George E. Mott on Au.
lust 30, in finding by Coroner
John J. Phelan. Mrs. Ethe!
futchins Mott, widow of the muir
kered man, and John Edward john
tton, are held as accessories to the
nurder, although not themselves
charged with the crime.
Coroner Phelan, in part, says:
FIN considering the evidence in the
Ease as shown, much of which, is
conflicting and unreliable, ] am sat
lsied neither Johnston nor Mrs.
Mott actively participated in the
bctual killing of the deceased, eX-
fept in law.
There appears to be no serious
(oubt, however, that Mrs. Mott aid
I'd and abetted Wade in endeavor-
ing to suppress, conceal and OBJ
Eterate the evidences of the MUIR
IT by assisting in the washing
Fway of the blood stains and piac-
)pg of the body in the trunk and
Ter false statements to inquirers
S to the whereabouts of her hus-
land"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
SEES POSTAL DANGER

Cincinnati. Ohio. Sept. 9.-Post-
master Colin NJ. Selphi, St. Louis.
president National Association of
Postmasters of the United States.
in addressing the twentieth annual
convention of that organization,
advocated icreases of from Is to
20 per cent in the salaries of postal
employees from the postmaster to
the lowest in the ranks.
Unless Congress awoke to the
paramount Importance of postal
employees salary increase, he said,
The entire system would be endan-
gered, not becaus of unfaithfu!ness.
but because private owned utilities
were taking the men at hivhr pay.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
SHIP BLAST KILLS THREE
Tugs Bring in Lake Steamer With
Boiler House Wrecked

Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 1.-TWO tugs
brought the disabled ore steamer En-
|pire City into Cleveland early today
with the port side of the boiler house
blown off, the result of boiler-tube
explosion last night, which caused the
death of three men.
Anthony Cobb of New York and F.
u. O'Neil of Chicago were killed in
|stantly. Harry Cooper of Cleveland
died in a hospital from scalds.
The men were working near the
boiler tubes.
The Empire City is sister ship
ito the Superior City, recently lost
with twenty-nine lives twenty miles
fwest of Sault Ste. Marie.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
|ONE DEATH MARKS
DEADLOCKED STRIK f

New York, Sept. 9.-With a dead
book apparently reached in the strike
/ of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
|employes, more violence was reported
Today, the twelfth since the walk-o out
began.
The company has asked for increas-
I'D police protection.
Reports were received at police
headquarters that the body of man
alleged to have been strikebreaker
had been found in Coney Island creek
that alleged attempts to short-circuit
currents had resulted in several coach
rs and railroad ties catching fire, and
That switches had been pulled near
the Brighton Beach elevated terminal
bin Coney Island. No arrests, however.
had been reported.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
BANDITS FIRE ON DOCTOR
IN ATTEMPTED HOLD UP

Reading, Pa. Sept. 9.-Three au-
|tomobile bandits attempted to hold up
IDr. Malcolm .. Gerhart and fired at
him twice, both bullets striking the
automobile in which he was riding.
The bandits parked their car across
the road in order to stop the physi-
clan, but he suspected hold-up and
Epeeded up his automobile. The ban
BITS backed to one side and fired as
HE passed. Doctor Gerhart believed
IA hump in the road caused his ma
chine to rise as the bandits fired
and saved him from being struck.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
CAFES CUT FOOD COSTS
Everything Down to Sinkers Re
drccd Under Pressure Of
L. S. Probe

Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 9.-Most
Pittsburgh restaurants and eating
places yesterday went on a peace
time basis and the rest will do so
BY the end of the week, following
energetic action of United States
District Attorney Depnis J. Dr;s-
coll and score of Federal agents
All prices have been revised down
ward, the cuts ranging from SO to
1000 per cent. The Federal at
torney personally visited more than
100 places and told the proprietors
they must charge only. fair price
or they would be prosecuted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
DICKINSON COUNTY, VA.
MAKES HIGH RECORD

Dickinson county, Va, has had one
of the greatest increases in the past
ten years of any county in that state
according to statistics issued by the
census bureau today. With a total
for 1920 of 1852, Dickinson county
is credited with 4,343 more inhabi-
tants than in 1910, or an increase OF
47.2 per cent. Allegheny county. with
"a total of 1882 for 1920. has an in
crease in population of 1859 over
1910, which is S.2 per cent. all of
which increase is accounted for in the
Covington district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
JACK DEMPSEY NAY MEET
GUNBOAT SMITH SHORTLY


Chicago. Sept. Slack Demp-
sey, accompanied by his manager.
Jack Kearns, and a number Of
sporting writer's, left Chicago yes
terday for New York. He hopes to
close the match with Gunboat Smith
scheduled for Boston Sept. %, and to
compete negotiations for fight with
Bill Brennan
Billy M;ske, who was knocked out
at Benton Harbor on Labor Day
is in Chicago. He plans. TO return
to St. Paul tomorrow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
BIGGEsasdAsIBEISG CLUB
sM IAMERIcA is CLOSED

'CalexIca Cal, Sept. 9-Miii-
tary authorities have ordered closed
the newss0wl Club. of Mexicala, one
of the largest gambling houses in
North America. Troops are guard
ing the .p;ace, and no one is al
lowed tasleave or enter.
The action is sa1a to have been
taken because of minor disorders
that have occurred at. the gambling
house since the advent of the new
military regime in Lower California
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
HAD "FOR RENT SIGN;
WAS SUAVE SWINDLER

Detroit, Sept. 9.-An. automobile
Stopped in front of 1867 Brush street
where hung sign Houses for Rent"
The young couple in the car, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chauncey Gaskin, gazed at it
with eager eyes, A suave young man
appeared.
Gaskin nearly tore his. pockets get
hing the money out. He arranged to
move in Monday. When his van ap-
peared the house was already occu-
pied. Investigation showed that the
smooth young man owned nothing but
the "For Rent" sign:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
MOTHERS BOZ, AGE 40.
= GOES OUT WITH JAKE

Kansas City, No, Sept. s.-"He's33
4 bad boy, judge" Mrs. Mary Parke' ),
3 sixty year old mother told Judge
Towne. in municipal court. He goes
but with "Jake' and comes home IN
b terrible condition.
The "boy,' Bert Davis, forty years
old, explained that Jake" was short
for Jamaica ginger, "You must obey
your mother" said the court.
"I1l do what mother says from
how on" he promised. The court lsus-
bonded a fine of $100 asa surety that
Bert will keep his promise.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
ALLEN SAYS GOMPERS
FEARS FOR HIS JOB

Topeka, KAN, Sept. Cover
nor Henry J. Allen yesterday in
commenting upon the appeal made
by Samuel Gompers to the farmers
and laboring men Of Kansas to
eject a legislature that will repeal
the Kansas Court of Industrial Re
,,saions law, branded Gompers as
radical" leader, and accused
him of seeking to kill the new law
because its success would remove
him from his "fat" job.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
u. S. SHIP SINKS IS ZAP

Toxic, Sept. 9.-The American
steamer City of Omaha, bound from
Baltimore for Yokohama, which
grounded at the entrance Of Yoke
hama harbor September 4, but later
was refloated sank yesterday in a
shallow part of the harbor. Her decks
are inst above water. The cargoeof
steel is being salvaged and it IS hoped
TO dock the steamer for repairs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09

VIRGINIA..
IN the Clerks Office of the Corpo-
ration Court of the City of Alexan-
dr;a. on the 9th day of Aug. 1920.
Lester B. Isaac, complainant VS..
Ethel Isaac. defendant. In Chancery
No. 1922.
MEMO.
The object of this suit is to obtain
for the complainant from the defend
ant an absolute divorce from the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09

TO Figures complied BY
the Citizens Business Bureau of
Municipal Research which were
made public yesterday. "A family of
5 persons, including q workingman,
his wife and two sons and 2 daugh-
ter, now needs s19ss.32 a7year- in
order to live in the same style it
enjoyed asst autumn, the estimate
then being S1S03. Il.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
KALAMAZOO CARMEN QUIT

Kalamazoo. Mich, Sept. ".-kala-
mazoo's street car system was COM
pletely tied up this morning. the plat
form men refusing to operate the cars
under the old wage scale which the
Michigan Railway Company announe
ed would become effective today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09

VIRGINIA. ~: ..sss..:,-sss, s.ss J, J.
In the Clerks Office Of the Corpo-
ration Court Of the City of Alexan-
dria. on the 81 day of August, 1920.
Edna Mary Lewis, complainant VS..
William Lewis, defendant. In Chan
Gerry No. 1923. II
MEMO.
The object of this suit is to obtain
for the complainant an absolute di-
vorce from the bonds of matrimony
from the defendant on the grounds of
wilful and voluntary desertion and
abandonment for more than three
years prior to the institution of this
suit. resumption of maiden name, and
for general relief.
It appearing by an affidavit filed in
this cause that the defendant Will
lam Lewis is nonresident of this
State: II is Ordered. That saidIde-
PENDANT appear here within ten days
after due publication Of. this: ogaer,
and do what is necessary to protect
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
EARS LIVING COST FOR )
PLACED AT Sl9SS 40

Philadelphia, Sept. Giving
|osts are 10 per cent higher than
hey We're in November, 1919, ac
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09

his interest in this suit Il. ~
Davis and Budwesky, P, G.
A Copy Teste. y ~
NEWELL S. GREENAwaY,
2O7-4wp Clerk.
BY Ashby. e. Bladen, sdepttSsG
v1Rc1NIa,z5,,,s1 n M,
In the Clerks Office Of the Corpo
ration Court of the City of Alesan-
dria, on the 81 day of August, 1920.
Joseph B. Jackson, complainantNvs.
Carrie Mae Jackson defendant. In
Chancery No. 1920.
MEMO. j: 81
The object of this suit is to: obtain
a decree granting to the Complain,
ant an absolute divorce from,sthe de-
PENDANT on the grounds of w!lful de-
sertion and abandonment fora. period
of more than three years prior to the
institution of this suit, and fer gen
eral relief.
It appearing by an affidavit filed
in this cause that the defendant Car
RE Mae Jackson is a nonresident OF
this State: It is Ordered,;::That said
defendant appear here within ten
days after due publication oithis or
der, and do what is necessary.;to pro-
tect her interest in this suits
Thomas NJ. Watson, P. Q.
\ Copy Teste. ~
NEWELL S. GREEN4WAY,
i207-4wp ~ Clerk.
BY AsAby f. Bladen, deputy, clerk.
: ~, 49,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09

Fer results try Classified ad in
he Gazette.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09

lie Gordon is !. nonresident of this
State: 1t is Ordered, That said de-
PENDANT appear here within fifteen
days after due publication Of this or
der, and do what is necessary to pro-
tect her interest in this suit.
E. E. Johnson. P. Q.
A Copy Teste.
NEWELL s. GREENAWAY,
2O7-4wp Clerk
BY .Ashby E. Baden, deputy clerk.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09
VIRGINIA.

virginia.
In the Clerks Office of the Corpo-
ration Court Of the City of Alexan-
dria, on the 27 day of August, 1920.
William Gordon, complainant vs..
Lille Gordon. defendant. In Chan
Gerry No. 1921.
MEMO.
] The object of this suit is to obtain
a decree granting to the. complainant
an absolute divorce from the defend
ant. on the grounds of wilful and vol
untary deser:ion and abandonment
for more than three years prior TO
the institution of this suit.
It appearing by an affidavit filed
in this cause that the defendant Lii
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-09

bonds of niatrimony on the grounds
Of wilful and voluntary aesertion and
abandonment for mure than three
years prior to the institution Of this
suit; and for generai relief.
1t appearing by an affidavit filed
in this cause that the defendant Ethel
Isaac is nonresident of this State:
1t is Ordered, That said defendant
appear here within ten days after
due publication of this order, and do
what is necessary to protect her in
terest in this suit.
Davis and Budwesky, P. Q.
A Copy Teste.
NEWELL S. GREENAWAY.
207-4wp Clerk
BY Ashby E. Bladen, deputy clerk.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12

the Senate and the Chamber Of Depu.
les will be guests at special banqu cts
1t Is at the luncheons and banquets
generally that the first "straw votes
regarding Presidential possibilities are
taken, and the dining rooms are as
minated as those of the leading hotels
n an American city during the ma
tl'rcl convention Of one of the great
parties. This alone is the extent to
which the preliminaries of the Presi-
Dental election in France resem BILE
those. Of the election of President in
the United States.
self are very simple. Antorin Dubost,
the president of the Senate, will cali
tfe assemblage to order at o'clock
in the afternoon. After the Senators
and Deputies have taken their seats
ne will read the articles of the Consti-
tuition fixing the mode Of electing the
President and then will declare "the
National Assem- bly, is duly constit, ted
ard ethee~vote. for President will take
place at the specker's stand on nom
lnation and roll call"
4 No Nominating Speeches
Excu sesl from absent Senators or
Deputies will be read, and organization
of the body will be completed with the
selection by lot Of thirty-eight elect
,rs; one additional name then will be
drawn from the hat to decide WI ere
the alphabetical roll call shall begin.
Nominating speeches are omitted.
Although contrary t. the rules Of Par
lament, cheering is allowed in the
'crowded d, galleries as we'll as on the
floor. The enthusiasm generally comes
n single burst of applause, when
che presiding officer declares the name
Of tfe candidate who has been duly
elected President of the French Re-
oublic. The president Of the Congress 8
.herseupon declares the National AS
make himself heard above the con-
usion;, and Immediately the long col
'mn OF carriages, conveying the. elect
RS and invited guests. file back toward
iris through the Bois de Boulogne.
Paris itself does not begin to take an
interest in the election until the hour
approaches when news of the result
nay nay be expected. Even then it is not
the boisterous interest such as is
manifested in the United States, and
1h"re is lack of partisan s.irit.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Paris Opera Strikers :.
Sing to Crowded House

PARIS, Jan. 1.-THE entirs house
was sold out by yesterday for this
evenings entert" inment gwen in the
General Labor .Federation's Hall by the
striking artists of the opera. The
Faust ballet, with part Of the corps Of
dancers from the opera, was on the
progr"m.
Camille Snint-Saens, the composer
has notified the strike committee that
none of his WORKS must be played at
these concerts. The composers name
was hooted at the meeting at which
the announcement WIS made It hid
been intended to GIVE Saint -Saens's
Samson and Delilah."
The Italian artists at the opera and
IT the vaudeville .heater have offered
their services to appear at benefits for
the strikers. This is in contrast with
the head of company Of r ssian.
dancers who, when asked for the serv-
ices of his troupe, declared that he
could not allow his company, seventy
in number, to lose their means of
livelihood by the interruption of the
ballet senson at tlle. opera
The strikers committee, replying to
the Russian, after reminding him that
his troupe had been appearing in vari-
ous countries during the war, said:
your young people, who were dancing
while we were fighting, do not interest
,"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12

representative government? The
matter is not altered by the claim
that the exclusion is only until fair
trial. That is shooting your man first
and then looking to see whether he
is guilty. No true American can
tolerate for a moment TIE smash-up
thories of radical Socialists; but no
mHn can help on those theories more
effectively than by snmmarily ejecting
from the Legislature all the repre-
sentatives duly elected bv the people
to champion tho~e theories without
according them a hearing.
:. What travesty on free government
1t would be for the majority at the
opening session to count noses and oust
the whole opposing party until the ma
jority decide whether their principles
are in harmony with their own views
Of citizenship?
Sink OR swim, live or die, we of
America have committed ourselves ia
the proposition that the people ru' e
and 10 reject those sent by the people
is to reject the people. except there be
personal acts or words on the part OF
those elected which. show them to be
traitorous. Sometimes T. looks .s II
there were q bit of the ryrant in most
of us.
1T is hard to give to others the full
measure Of liberty we demand for our.
selves. But those who have watche d
carefully the outcome of attempts ia
squelch minorities by any high-handed d
procedure will agree that those at
,tem,pts ,s1e orlY frebrands. They re-
kindle the conhagration. After all, the
best thing to do when we haye made a
m stake is TO admit it and rectify it,
May the New York State Assembly
have the grace to do precisely that"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
POincare Is Elected
To Senate, 742 to 30
Although Not Candidate.
French President Is Chosen
to Represent Meuse

PARIS, Jan. 12.-Raymond Poincarss
President of the French Republic. to.
day was elected Senator for the d.
partment of the Meuse on the Second
ballot by vote of 742 out of 7;; 77s
votes cast.
President poincare was not a cand;.
date for -ne Office but received ia
votes on the first ballot. None Of II.
candidates received sufficient votes te
elect, and the electors concentrated ar
NJ. Poincare '"
Stephen Pichon, Minister of Foreiyr
Affairs; Albert Claveille, Minister Of
Pubic Works; Leon Bourgeois. former
Premier; c. c. A. Jonart. former
Min ster of Blockade; Jules PANS
Minister of the Interior; Joseph J. B
r: Noulens, Food Minister, and Etjenns
Clementei, former Minister of Com.
merce, all were elected on the FIRST
bal OF.
Among others elected on the 6r..
ha lot were former Premier Rbot. A.
bert F. Lebrun, former Minister OF
ockade; Rene Renoult, who will re-
p ace M. Clemenceau and who had thu
Premier's support; Captain GUY do
Lubersac, aviator, and General .Tauf
Hler, who last year married an Ameri-
can woman, Mrs. Julia Catiin Park
The Senators elected on the frat
bal 'ot comprises: Conservatives. II:
Liberal Republicans, 8; Progress ives,
IL; Republicans, 8; Left, az; Radical
Socialists, 66; Repub ican Socialist, 1.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Berlin League
w ants Kaiser
Given to Allies
Germany Warned That Fail.
ure to Surrender Him
for Trial Must Be Con.
strued as Political Crime
Treaty Terms Emphasized
Socialist Leader Points to
Case of Jefferson Davis
i'll Opposing the Move

BERLIN. Jan. 11.-Germans are
urged to turn over former Emperor
William for trial by the Allies in reso-
lutions passed at public meeting of
the New Fatherland League here to-
day. So
"ln signing the Treaty Of Versailles, )"
the reso 'utions said, Germany con-
sented to the trial of William II. 1t is
therefore the duty of the German peo-
pie TO execute the treaty. and every at
tempt to prevent procedure against the
former Kaiser must be branded as a
political crime"
Urges Neutral Tribunal
One speaker declared William, with
his eccentric myst cism," and former
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
werc not responsible for the "criminai
game played with Serbia" and that
German diplomacy was helpless in the
t ce Of operations by "men higher up"
Herr Won Gerlach, Radical Democra
asserted the surrender of William
would strengthen the reactionary wave
in Germany, and warned the Entente to
desist carrying out treaty provisions
Ling for the trial Of the erstwhile
monarch.
He advised the establishment of a
neutral court for the trial, adding;
The German peop'e must definitely cut
itself loose from this man."
President Linco ms attitude toward
the arrest of jefferson Davis is re-
called by Otto Landberg, Majority So
ca lstic leader. discussing in the ''Vor-
trial of the former Emperor: He cites
the dilemma Of the Union states when
the Confederate leader was imprisoned.
! Herr Landsberg recommends that
Entente leaders read observations ION
the Davis case by Carr Schurz. and
asser.s he beliaves sueha perusal would
bring about different attitude toward
the former Kaiser's surrender
Entente nations shou d desist in
their demand that Germans be taken
before their tribunals for trial" he de-
'otares, s"as that~is .b6nnd-.to result. in
not few of the men WI. osesnames are
on the list seeking death at their own.
hands," ~ -
Blow to Democracy ="
Belief is expressed that the Entente
will not be forced to insist upon Will
lam's extraditlon on the grounds of
prestige. He points out that recent
law designates the Imperial Court as
q competent tribunal for the prosecn-
ton of war offenders and gives the
Entente powers far-reaching privileges
in respect to active cooperation. = u
Herr Landsberg says the Allies can
not legally force Holland to give up
Count Hohenzollern, and points out
his will give them a convenient way
cut of their dilemma"