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OIL LAND DECISION URGED,

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, February
ZS. A telegram urging Secretary
Lane to decide contest between the
government and the Honolulu Con-
solidated Oil Company involving 2,72O
acres of oil land valued at S40,00O.o0O
before he leaves Office has been sent
by the directors Of the company.
The land. located in the Midway dis
trict of Kern county. has been in liti-
cation since 1915. 1t was included in
the naval reserve under the with
Grawal act of President Taft. but the
company contended that it had q prior
right to the land.
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Plans for Benefit Play.

Harry White Wilmer Unit Of the
American Women's Legion at a bust
ness meeting held last week in the
clubhouse of Jacob Jones Post of the
American Legion, 1919 K street. ar
ranged to give benefit play soon
after Easter. Miss Margaret A. How
ard. president of the unit. who oc-
cupied the chair. announced that the
membership pins would be distributed
soon, but that they were not received
from the manufacturer. as had been
expected, in time for distribution at
the meeting The pins are diamond
shaped with a blue star in the center,
except, for those who lost a relative
In the war, in which instance 2 pin
with a gold star will be provided:
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Inp

r. OIds. Red Cross commiSsf6ner Tor
Europe. s-.->t .s.szb sgssE
OF the total American personnel q
large number are stationed in France.
conducting headquarters operations.
principally in connection with relief
supplies and their transportation. Tho
personnel attached to the various
commissions operating under dirDc-
tion from Paris total as follows:
France. 23: Albania, SIS; Csechoslova-
kia. 3; Greece. s; Italy. 20; Montene-
gro. A.: Poland. 13l: Rumania. -:
Serbia, 90; west Russia. 81: south
In addition to the major protests
there arc nearly q score Of activities
conducted in behalf OF the war-worn
children Of European countries by the
Junior Red Cross supported by the
100000 American school children
that are members.
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Department Charmed to Meet.

.Chairmen of all standing depart
mental committees of the District of
Columbia American Legion will meet
with Department Commander E. Les
ter Jones at legion headquarters, S23
18th street. this afternoon at
o'clock.
The report of the committee in
charge of the recent circus, held at
Liberty Hut for the benefit of the To-
cal legion, has not been presented,
but 1t is understood that substan-
tial sum was raised for the organ
ization here.
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Names welfare Committee.

Stuart Walcott Post, No. 10, of the
American Legion, has named well
fare and relief committee. with DIR.
Howard W. Baker of the bureau of
war risk insurance, as chairman. and
will give whatever aid is possible to
members of the legion in need. Com
mEnder Henry Hayes presided at
meeting of the post held in the board
rooms Of the District building last
week.
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Post Holds Election.

At a special meeting of President
Theodore Roosevelt Post. No. IA. OF
the American Legion. held at Carrol
Institute last Wednesday evening,
Theodore D. Peyser was elected junior
vice commander, I. Blumberg was
chosen sergeant-at-arms and, Com
rades Kyle and Mincosky were made
color bearers. The post will give
dance at Elks' Hall, s19 H street,
Thursday evening of this week.
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Many Attend Post Dance.

Men who served the flag in many
countries attended the invitation
dance at Elks' Hall last week
given under the auspices Of Equality
Post. No. 127, Of the Veterans Of For
eign Wars. A brief meeting of the
post was held at Pythian Temple Just
before the dance, at which Lieut. Col
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RED CROSS TO extend
FIELD OF ENDEAvOR
Aims at Bettering Of Conditions
of Health and Arousing So
cial Consciousness.

Before the war the work of the Red
Cross was confined largely to disaster
relief, the building up Of nursing
service and the teaching Of first aid.
But the war, now over, gave the or
ganization far greater vision, points
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Accepts Higher Rank.

Having been elected second vice
commander of the District of Co
lumbia Department Of the American
Legion, Miss Alice B. Harvey has re-
signed as commander of Jane A. De-
lano Post, organized by Army nurses.
The vacancy caused by her resignat-
ton probably will be filled at meet
ing of the post to be held at 1891 n
street the evening of March 4.
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will II We keep before NJ the thought
that tho Red Cross Is an organisation
Of individual members, closely knit,
upon whom tho success Of cur great
work depends"
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VETERANS OF THE GREAT WAR
A Column Devoted to the Interests. of the Men Who
Defended the Nation on Land and at Sea.

Harry Coop Of the ad1utant generals
of1ce ana Lieut.. R W. Clark Of the
Navy were Initiated.
A number of those at the dance
were from the newly organized vet
erans post at Walter Reed Hospital.
which was instituted last week under
the direction of Capt. Herman Fleugle.
national aid to the commander-fn-
chief. Commander E. H. Hale of
Equality Post. presided at the install
lation- Another new post Of the order
is being organized at Camp Meigs.
VIII Ask Additional Pay.
Capt. Bertram E. Snodgrass, chair
man. and Edward H. Hale. secretary
of the national legislative committee
OF the Veterans Of Foreign Wars,
have completed the draft of a sub
stitute bill to provide additional pay
for former service men. A full com
mittee meeting has been ordered to
urge on Congress the necessity for
immediate action in this matter.
Proposes Aid to Disabled Men.
Representatives of 1900 disabled
officers met in Washington last
Thursday and organized The Dis
abled Emergency Oficers of the World
War;" which has for its first objective
the enactment of legislation for the
benefit of disabled men. Capt. p. NJ
Feltham and Lieut.. A. r. Donlon.
both of Walter Reed Hospital. were
elected chairman and secretary
treasurer of the order, respectively.
The officers indorsed the Stevens bill,
now before Congress. which would
provide for the retirement of dis
abled emergency officers on the same
basis as that under which officers of
the Regular Army may be retired.
They also decided to push the Wason
bill, which would allow government
insurance benefits to be paid to partly
disabled service men in proportion to
their disability.
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OVER 1000 RED CROSS
WORKERS STILL ABROAD
Engaged Largely in Activities in
Connection With Supplies and
Their TRANSPORTATION.

American Red Cross workers en-
gagged in prosecuting relief measures
in Europe still number slightly more
than Q thousand, according to Robert
Evening star., 1920-06-23
POLICE TO STOP SALE
. OF T0N|CS AS BEVERAGE
A. Collins and G. Athanan Arrest
ed and Required to Give Bond
to Appear at Hearing.

In!ernal revenue agents and the DO
lice nave started crusade against
the sale for beverage purposes of bit
ters and other preparations containing
more tnan one-half of one per cent
aiconol. Two arrests were made last
Fight, the persons arrested being
Aeneas Collins, zoos 14th street. and
George Athanan. 18th and U. streets.
Acting Capt. Bean of the eighth pre-
cinct took the initiative in the crusade
against the sale ct alleged alcoholic
preparations in near-bear saloons, and
the arrests last night were the result
of his activity
Harold Stephenson. of the internal
revenue bureau assisted the police. and
Lieut.. Sprinkle, Sergt. Holmes and
Freclnct Detectives Burk and Davis
participated in the arrests, Many com
plants of the sale Of certain tonics
ana b1tters in near-beer saloons have
Deen made from time to time. and
Acting Capt. Bean concluded he would
put the case before the courts.
internal Revenue Agent Stephenson
To-Day stated that the sale of the prem
arations complained of cannot be made
except in original packages. Should
dea lerS open the bottles and sell their
contents, Tor beverage purposes, he
stated, they are liable to arrest.
Colllns was charged with selling in
toxlcantS and with failure to attach
revenue stamps to bottles he is alleged
to have sold. He, was required to give
bond in The sum of 81 900 for his an
pearance. In the case of Athanan. a
charge of selling was filed and he
furnished a. $500 bond for his appear
ance. Quantities of the bitters found
on the premises of the two defenda nts
were seized. 1t is the intention of the
revenue agents to continue activities
| IN an enort to put stop to the selling
OF bhters and tonics by the drink.
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SAUNDERS NEW HEAD
| OF SOUTHERN SOCIETY
Succeeds DR.. owens-Message of
Sympathy cabled to Gen.
Gorgas.

William H. Saunders was elected
president of the Southern Society of
Washington at the annual meeting at
the New Willard Hotel last night.
Other officers elected were Daniel r
Henderson, active vice president: viii
liam de c. Ravenel, secretary; John
Franklin Little, financial secretary.
Charles w. Warden, treasurer: Mrs
Milton w. Johnson, historian. and Rev
j. Henning NelmS, chaplain
Honorary vice presidents were elect
ed as follows: Gen. William c. Gorgas
Capt. c. c. Calhoun, DR.. Clarence T
Owens. Claude N. Bennett, E. B. Mer-
ritt, Robert N. Harper, Col. William G.
Harllee, H. Garland Dupre. Pat Har-
rison, Joshua w. Alexander, Samuel L.
Rogers, Robert l.. Owen. DR.. Gustayus
Werber, F'inis j. Garrett, Maj. F.. M
Burrows, Thomas w. Harrison, How
ard Sutherland.
New members elected last night in
cluded Mrs. Roberta West Fosse. w
T. Miller, Frank Fitzhugh Conway
Stephen F. Tillman, Virginia Grace
watson. Kathryn Kostmayer, Mar
Jorie NJ. Enos. Eleanor Elizabeth
Saunders, Mrs. Herbert l.. Davis. Her
bert L. Davis, Edna Kostmayer. James
Madison Kennedy, Edith M. Gallant,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gray and Mr
and Mrs. Warren Newton Akin.
DR.. Clarence j. Owens, retiring
president, offered a resolution, which
was unanimously adopted, extending
cable message of sympathy and
prayer for recovery of Gen. William
c. Gorgas, who is i'll in London.
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WILL QUIZ WOMAN
Who MET ELWELL
District Attorney Finds Let
ters From Miss Anderson
of Minneapolis.

NEW YORK. June p3 - District
Attorney Swami has announced that
he had sent for Miss ELY Hope An
derson of Minneapolis to question her
of the murder of Joseph Bovine Ell
we'll. wealthy turfman and whist ex-
pert, who was found with a bullet
hole through his head at his home
here on the morning of June II:
Miss Anderson was the dinner guest
Of Victor Won schlegell, New York
business man, at the Rits-Carlten
Hotel here on the night before Elwell
was slain. While dining on the hotel
roof they met Elwell, accompanied by
Miss Viola kraus, divorced wife of
Won Schlegell. and ether friends. The
question Miss Anderson about this
meeting and of events prior and sub
seuuent thereto.
Packet of Letters Found.
A packet of letters found in Miss
Andersen's apartment here has been
turned over to the district attorney.
Some of these are department store
advertisements, the district attorney
said, while others apparently are Of
a personal nature and will be opened
in her presence.
I'VE have asked Miss Anderson to
come here as soon as she cam, Mr..
Swami said. Ito see whether she may
not be able to aid the authorities by
giving them information on some of
the points on which they are work.
ing"
Asked If he considered her as an
important witness in the case. Mr..
Swami replied:
You can make 1t emphatic that we
do. not regard Miss Anderson as one
upon whom even the shadow of a
suspicion rests in connection with the
| murder"
Summons Not Received.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, June 23-Miss
ELY Hope Anderson of Minneapolis
declared she had not yet received a
| message from District Attorney
Swami of New York, asking her to
come there to be questioned in con-
nection with the J. b. Elwell murder
mystery. She stated. however, that
she would be willing to go to New
York, if asked, as stated in New York
dispatches.
Il shall be glad to tell the author
| tiles all 1 know" Miss Anderson said
and give them all the help l can"
Miss Anderson said she had break
! fast with Victor Won SchlegeIl, New
York business man, about am on
June IL. the date on which Elwell
| was found dead. She said she had
dinner with Won Schlegell the night
| before. At the dinner she last saw
Elwell, she asserted.
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rendered this inadvisable, and the
audience assembled in The clubrooms-
Mr.. Hardy introduced the reading
with a brief talk on Brownings dra-
matte works. dwelling upon the fact
that throughout his writings are
numerous references to art and art
lists. "In Balcony" has not been
given dramatic presentation. thoush
1t has on several occasions been rem
dered by readers. The parts were
read last evening by Miss Anne Ives.
Miss Virginia Hardy and Denis Con-
nell. all of whom proved themselves
in full sympathy with the power OF
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ARTS CLUB READING.
Browning's I'm a Balcony" Heard,
as Are Musical Numbers.

The Arts Club was the scene of
an interesting program last evening.
when members of the Arts Club Play
ers gave a reading of '1n Balcony"
by Robert Browning, under the di-
rection of Theodore Hardy. 1t had
been planned to give the recital in the
garden, but the weather conditions
Evening star., 1920-06-23

ease of rodents, especially rats" said
Gen. Cumming. land the disease can
be controlled effectively by measures
directed against the rat The exter-
mination of rats is all the more desired
because of the trenendous economic
damage they cause"
According to the conservative esti-
mates made by the United States pub
lie health service, there is at least one
rat for every person In the United
States:
It is understood that the United
States public health service is pre-
pared to detail experts te assist COM
munities in their campaigns fer rat
determination.
Evening star., 1920-06-23

DESIDES those illustrated
we include-White Kid,
White Cloth. White Nubuck,
Sport and Dress Pumps.
Patent, Gun Metal. Brown
Kid, Tan Calf, Black Satin.
Black Kid Walking Oxfords.
Dress Oxfords - Street and
Evening Pumps.
You can be fitted in one
stvle or another - in sizes
from | to 8. AAA to D. All
at S4.95 the Pair!
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GOT PLACES FOR 1904.
Work of Z. of c. Employment Blu
reau This Year.

In report announced by the
knights of Columbus employment bu-
reau it was stated that 3,064 posi-
tions have been filled through this
agency since January 1. The average
wage scale obtained by those making
use of this free employment bureau
is not less than $40 a week. The bu-
reau is located at 9Th and G streets
and operates for men only.
Many of the applicants have been
ex-service men. The record indicates
that clerks, stenographers and typists
filed half the positions and skilled
and unskilled laborers 35 per cent.
The remaining Is per cent is miscei-
|laneous.
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URGES sLAYlNG OF RATS
TO HALT BUB0NIC PLAGUE
Surgeon Gen. Cumming of Public
Health Service Tells How Dis
ease Nay Be Controlled.

Directing attention to the discovery
of bubenie plague in several Ameri-
can and Mexican gulf ports. and re-
newing his warning regarding the
Introduction of plague, Surgeon Gen
eral Cumming of the United States
public health service today urges
Communities throughout the. country
TO inauguFate rat exterminating cam
iaigHs:
"bubenIe plague Is primarily a ais-
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Browning's great poem-drama.
Musical numbers were rendered by
DIR. Flemer. violinist. with Mrs. Alder
man at the piano. Mrs. Lawrence
| V. Grogan and Miss MarEarethe cal
! lahan sang Browning's "Ah, Love But
a Dayr and 1.-The Years at the
Spring with Mrs. Paul Bleyden as
accompanist.
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The police records of London show
that every day in the year an aver
age of thirty girls are reported
missing in the British metropolis.
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servatiou committee of the association
said: For some years there has beef
a growing sentiment that the Nationa.
Gamers Association should give coIt
certed thought to the quality and sun
ply of raw products from which canna
FOODS are prepared. A year ago thS
executive. committee passed resolsA
ton authorizing the president to All
point an agricultural committee fof
the purpose of surveying the field d
canning agriculture" 4
Evening star., 1920-06-23

A housewife In England has been
awarded damages for what counsel
in the case termed "the gravest
sHenee of modern times-the larceny
az a eaat.'
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WOODBURY. GETS POST.
Purdue Man to Head Gamers Bu-
reau Here.

DIR: c. G. Woodbury.. director of
Purdue University agricultural expert
ment station, at Lafayette, Ind, has
been chosen to head the conservation
bureau of raw products. recently es-
tablished In Washington by the Ma
tienaf Gamers Association. He will
take up his new duties on July 1.
Commenting on the new bureau,
Willis l.. Critics, chairman of the con-
Evening star., 1920-06-23

Miss Esther Marjorie Hill of Ed
monton has received her degree from
the University OF Toronto as canada.
first woman architect
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-06
tian church at Mayfield was from the
same text at that a generation before.

After having apparently recovered
from influenza, the two children o:
Forrest Fookes, 10 and ~ years old
developed pneumonia and died The
same afternoon in Robertson county
Their mother is critically i'll, and theil
aunt had just been buried.
The two little children of the woman
Of mystery, who left Paducah after
cashing seven checks declared fraudu
lent, have been virtually prisoners il
a room on the third floor of Winters
hotel there, which is under constant
watch. If the mother can not be
located, they will be put in an or
phans' home.
Residences at Nero and Wilkinson
street in Frankfort were flooded when
a water main burst at an excavation
made for sewer repairs, yards being
deluged until the flow could be turned
off.
Authorities are seeking a youth
who will fit an old coat found in the
store Of Glover & Laid at Dawson
Springs after the visit of burglars
who carried away 10 suits of mems
clothing and several pairs of shoes.
Three hungry little negroes, accus-
ed of throwing a rock through the
plate glass window at the Harbour de-
partment store at Paducah and max
ing their escape with cakes, Were ar
rested later in the night.
James Lawrence Fleming county
farmer, who went out to shoot a
chicken hawk, was found dead, the
gun having been Accidentally discharg-
ed, the load taking effect in his chest.
IN Henderson county Magistrate j.
/. Farley and Louis Hape, road con-
tractor, engaged in fist fight over
road work, but were parted by on
lockers. Farley is the magistrate to
transfer cases against local movie
whose court ministers tried vainly to
transfer cases against local movie
men.
At Carlisle C. C. Dunn submitted
his resignation from the Office of jail
or and Russell Lawrence will succeed
him. Dunn will become city marshal.
r. L: Adler 81, president of the
Brown Oil Co, dropped dead in the
keystone hotel ct Franklin when ap-
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-06
parently in vigorous health.

Hopes are held out for the recovery
of Mrs. George Slaughter brought to
Hickman from Bondutant suffering
from lockjaw caused by the sting OF
a wasp.
At Hopl1insville Col. A. S. Tribble
was given a judgement of $3.50 against
a medicine company who published
an advertisement purporting to be his
endorsement of its nostru1. He sued
for $4,000.
Mrs. Quillan Goodpaster, accused of
biggamy by Thomas Dunn, of Brack-
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Page Five

en- county, was dismissed ON the
ground that if she were a biggamist
courts in Ohio, where she was last
married, alone would have jurisdiction.
William Deboe, Louisville youth who
escaped from the Feeble Minded In
stitute at Frankfor was found at
water on the railroad suffering from
cold, and was taken back to the in
stitution-
AT Henderson, Otis Benton sold two
Flemish rabbits to Evansville parties,
receiving $50 for one and $50 for the
ether.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-06
IN old KENTUCKY

Mrs. c. c. Reynolds died of
pneumonia at the home of her
| father, Fl. A. Lovelace in Laurel
lcounty. Her husband and two
| children who had come with her
from their home in Tennessee
/ for visit, are i'll with the same
disease.
The death OF John Todd Shelby,
90, great grandson of Governor
Isaac Shelby, took place on the
4Sth anniversary OF his admit
lance TO the Fayette Bar, of.
which he was the senior member.
/ Information is being sought by
letter of ]. t. Ballard, father Of
Jesse Ballard, q, who, as a re-
suit of sleeping sickness in Oak
land, Cal, has forgotten where in
Kentucky his father lives.
c. E. Barker and Jas. Dudley,
representing tobacco growers, of
Todd county, are in Washington
urging the government to take
some action which will restore
tobacco trade with Italy, former
ly chief buyer of dark tobacco.
The fine, together with removal
from office, of Frank Short, Har-
Ian county, magistrate, for failure
I to report fines to the circuit court
was sustained i'll a decision OF
the Appellate Court.
Fl. H. Toller, Of Lewis county,
who is moving to Ohio, had to
comply with a law requiring that
his four cows should be pro-.
nounced free from disease. The
veterinary sent from Portsmouth
charged fee of $35, which he is
protesting as exorbitant.
Information has reached Ash
land of the death at Staunton of
Miss Katherine Hill, teacher of
the deaf, who in two years resi-
dence in Ashland, taught speech
to little James Ross.
Mamie May Powell, IS, whose
leave from the Predetermined
Institute at Frankfort was OBJ
tanned under preteXt and who
twas married to Rash Adams the
same day in Lexington, was
brought back to the institution by
the secretary of the Associated
Charities, who caused her de-
tentioh Immediately after the
wedding. u i2-
l. Henry Moore, sent from Camp
Taylor, several, days ago to Par
is, to secure recruits fro the army,
scored his first in Miss Bessie
West, telephone operator, who
capitulated before storm tactics
land took on life hitch in a cere-
1nony at Lexington. l1aa p q.
Despondent over i'll health,
Monroe Thompson, so, of Marsh.
tall county, cut his throat with a
razor in fence corner on his
farm, and died almost Immediate
ly. 81
In anticipation of his appoint
ment as postmaster at Ovens
boro, Clint Griffith executed bond
in the sum of $4,000.
Mrs. Mary Sullivan has petit
toned the circuit court in Jeffer--
sonville to declare dead her son,
Daniel Riley, ON the ground that
he has been absent for 8 years
and has not been heard from for
years, so that his estate may be
used.
Henry Nanhook, Of Rockcastle coun-
ty, was instantly killed by a falling
timber when his dwelling, near Quail,
collapsed. His wife also was caught
in the wreckage and seriously injur-
ed
Mrs. Acie Crabtree died while seat
ed in front of the fireplace at the
home Of her daughter near Victoria
mine in Hopkins county. Because of
heart trouble she had been unable to
lie down, and was asleep in chair
when the end came.
After a lapse of exactly 40 years,
the Rev. Elijah c. L. Denton, Mem
/ phis, fulfilled a promise to preach
again, and his sermon at the Chris
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-06
HENRY COUNTY
FARMS FOR SALE
Woods & Douglas, Real Estate
Box Is ~ srnaithheld, KY.

We. have nice list of farms
for sale, among them the follow
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-06

FOR SALE-25 bushels of sweet clo-
yer seed. T. d. Hacllett, Richmond.