The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-10


 Washington. January s.-More pas senger and cargo vessels will be as ! signed to the Porto Rican service, | Chairman Payne of the shipping board | today informed Felix Cordeva Dayila, ! commissioner from Porto Rico. The
 New York and Porto Rico line are to i construct one or two passenger steam
 CTS for Porto Rican service. the chair
 man said. and the steamers Comanche | and Moccasin will be added to the service if conditions warrant 1 Pittsburg. Pa. January 9.-A series ! of raids. the second in Butler county within four days. were conducted by special agents of sNe Department of Justice at West Winfield late today and 2S men, alleged members of the | Russian communistic party, were ar
 rested.
 l Denver, January 9-The Colorado State
 Federation of Labor has expelled S. D. c.
 Morrell, vice president and member of the executive beard, for alleged acrivt% | in the ranks of the l. w. w., according | to announcement today
 Laredo, Tex, January 9-Mexican con suls in the United States are compiling I list of alleged abuses against Mexican | will be published shortly, according 10 ! newspapers of Mexico City reaching the border today. The list is being prepared | by direction of Hilario Medina secretary
 of foreign affairs, the papers say ! New Orleans La, January 20.-Latin- I American delegates to the Pan-American l financial conference to be held in Wash ngton who arrived here today on the I steamship Cartago are;
 | Chile, Alberto Edwards, former minister 1 of finance Victor Robies, former minister I of war; Mrs. Alberto Edwards and Miss I Carmen Edwards. Uruguay Rodney ! Croskey of AsuHcion, consul | Toronto. Ont, January 9.-Unless ship | ments of newsprint are resumed in the northwestern province virtually all daily newspapers in Manitoba and Saskatche- wan will have to suspend publication, ac- 1 cording to reports received here tonight. 1 London. January 9.-The union of rail- way workers at a conference today re- l ected the terms offered by the govern ! ment in settlement of the wage demands | If the workers. Nevertheless, there is no l deadlock between the union heads and the 1 government and TO prospect at present Of 1 a strike.
 | Vicxsburg Miss. January 9.-Disappca-- ance Of pr. D. $. Alverson, physician here. Monday night resulted in the charge | of murder being filed here late today against Jesse Watts, grocer at kins l Crossing, who, it is alleged was seen 1 with the doctor in automobile that | night.
 I Cleveland, O., January 9.-Abandonment of the communist party of Clevelano I nlr rit,O ftf | the party's offices and discontinuance ol l the official weekly publication were an
 nounced today simultaneously with an- nouncement by the department of justice of three arrests of alien radicals charged | with being identified with the party. 1 Chicago, January 9.--Harry Bonnie, is l years old of Marine City, Mich, was ar- rested today and confessed, according to | the police. that he witnessed the murder l of John IaaF'rance, a retired shipbuilder 1 in Fair Haven, Mich, the night of De- cemher 27 He accused Louis Parquette, also of Marine City, of shooting I.aFrance with a shotgun, the police asserted Par quette is sought n Benton I1arbor, Mich. E.lmira, N Y, January 9-The pre- | ended commercial activity of the l soviet bureau in New York was "a blind for distributing letters from Le-
 nine to American working men and
 the distribution of other propaganda
 directed against the governments" de-
 clared State Senator Clayton R. LusN
 in a statement here today as chairman of the joint legislative committee i'm Ivestigating radicalism in New York
 state.
 The Hague. January o.--The first
 chamber of the Dutch parliament has
 drafted and presented to the cabinet q memorandum suggesting that it now is desirable that Holland request former Emperor William of Germany
 to return to his own country.
 London. January 9.--A Moscow dis patch says that the booty captured by
 the reds on the southern front in Rus
 sia in the present offensive includes 100 guns 1000 machine guns. 11,000
 rifles, IS armored trains, 200 locomo- tives, 10000 wagons and large stores of food and munitions. together with
 30o00 prisoners.
 Fl Paso. January 9.--Complaint that an American airplsne crossed into
 Mexico at San Agustinez. 30 miles east of Juarez. will be made to the Mex
 ican embassy at Washington for fur
 ther action with the American State | Department, according to an announce
 ment made here tonight by Alberto
 Ruiz Sandoval. acting consul general
 for Mexico at Fl 2aso.
 New Orleans January 9.--Andrew J. Whitfield of Alexandria La, was in-
 dicted by the grand jury here late to-
 day on the charge of the murder of
 pr. Leopoldo Cordova. Jr., former con-
 sul from Honduras. here the night of Il November 12.
 }! Atlanta, January 9-Charges that men and women prisoners at the city stock , ade here had been flogged will be made the subject of a preliminary investiga- ton by himself and two members of the Fulton delegation in the state legislature 1t was announced tonight by J. l. Kelly l secretary-treasurer of the state welfare board.
 Rochester. N. Y.. January 9-Charged with murder in the first degree for the alleged slgying of Edward Kneip. whose
 body was found yesterday beneath a cul-
 vert on the Mosquito road south of this
 city. James l.. Odell, 21. and his 1S-year-
 old wife were arragned in county court this morning. Both waived examination
 and were held for the grand jury.
 Madrid January 9.-(Havas. .)-Senor iQuinones De Leon( it was announced to-
 day, will represent Spain on the execu- ltive committee of the League of Ma
 tions.
 Vienna. January 9.-It is expected by the Austrian government that l2 900 0o0, ,O0l
 crowns will be realized from the partia