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by about fifty per cent Tartars,
while Of the other races there are
not only old Russians, forming per.
haps twenty per cent, but three or
four other tribes, speaking distinct
languages.
That people were starving here
was soon evident. for found a
man dead on the footpath. who had
died Of starvation, and who had
lain there where he had fallen,
without any one taking any notice
Of him. Somewhat further along
I saw another man sitting by the
footpath who appeared to be dying,
and at the corner Of street where
the market was held, two children,
one about twelve and the other
about eight, and when I arrived the
younger child had just died.
NO ONE NOTICES DEAD.
No one took any notice Of these
people, and I thought that this in
dicated an abominably callous dis.
position until I reflected that I
myself had passed on, simply be-
cause could do nothing and also
perhaps, because I would have got
into trouble had ] interfered
Within sight and hearing Of where
these people lay down and died Of
starvation was the great market
place Of Kazan-the largest I have
seen In my life-where among u
thousand and one wares foods Of
all kinds were displayed and prof.
teers were chaffering and bargain
ing all the time.
For those who have the money,
food was relatively cheap. Apples
here cost twelve cents a pound;
eggs two cents each; bread about
half q dollar a pound; butter a
dollar q pound: while luscious,
well-grown grapes were sold at
thirty cents pound. Yet with all
this food in evidence, the spectre
Of famine was on the land.
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By COL. ARTHUR LYNCH
Former Member Of British
70 Parliament.

THIS % tho eighth In a series Of
articles on Russian internal condi-
tions BY Colonel Lynoh.
r. oNDoN. Jan. 21.-Beneath all
the impressions of Moscow
lay tho haunting thoughts Of
famine in the land.
First OF all. with, regard to Mos
cow itself, / found that the reports
current in London had been great
ly exaggerated. There was hard
ship, undoubtedly, severe want. but
tow cases Of actual starvation.
The ouakers' Committee was look.
ing after some $4,000 children; feed
ing them, washing them and cloth
ing them. And no doubt II they
had twice the funds at their dis
posal they could easily have found
useful occupation in this respect.
The deficiency Of transport is the
crux of the whole matter.
II all the grain throughout Rus
STA could be. collected at suitable
centere.. and apportioned out and
distributed. the famine problem
could be solved; but the transport
In Russia, which was never good,
has within the last few years be-
come worse and worse. and so
when famine breaks out in any re-
mote part. the means Of assistance
are inadequate.
frauslad an thu train -.teh
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claim to the baby's custody. She
was talented, accomplished and de.
cidedly winning in feature and man.
ner.
She met Baron Walter de Mumm
at st. Louis in 1910, when he piloted
a French balloon in the famous race
in which Hawley and Post were lost
for many days in the Adirondacks.
His daring won her admiration. He
was handsome-his recognition as
the handsomest man in Europe was
not belied by the mans appearance.
He was gallant and wealthy and Of
an old German family. growers Of
extensive vineyards and makers Of
the famous Mumm champagne.
Their holdings near Rheims were
worth many millions Of dollars.
Tho better to appreciate the gay
character and pleasure-indulging ma
ture of the Baron. 1t is well to step
back into the past. when he was
twenty-seven. In 1912, and recount
an escapade that brought him. world.
wide notoriety and entailed chagriu
for his family.
ADVENTURE WITH SIREN.
This episode revolved around an
American woman with whom for
three years he had been intimate.
She had como to Paris as a Mrs.
Brown. She was socially ambitious,
and was possessed Of a wit and man.
ner that won for her the attentions
Of the scions Of many notable Amer
lean families then in Paris. Baron
de Rothschild staged many parties
for her. She Tilted a duke. A score
Of notables were on her string Of
enchantments. She lived in luxury.
recipient Of tho adulatfons Of many
wealthy suitors.
This woman had been of humble
origin. She began life as Mary Jane
Reinseimer. and in her teens was a
waitress in country hotel near
Easton. Pa Newspaper stories Of
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EAD BREAD, BREAD WORD OF AWFUL SIGNIFICANCE i'm RU

Tho houses in the villages are
arranged moro or less irregularly
along what might be called a street,
except that It is neither paved nor
drained.
One Of the houses which We en-
tered is typical of all the others. A
square-built block house, with all
tho appurtenances Of q farmyard
quite contiguous. barns, hayloft,
chicken run and manure heap in
vading the entrance to the kitchen
door. This is all comfortable and
home-like to Russian IDEAS. The
good dame Of the house is Of the
type born to hard work and who, in
that respect, has certainly not es-
capped her destiny-a middle-sized.
strengthening woman, with a coun-
tenance whose coarse features have
been somewhat chastened by years
Of struggle, often Of misery and of
patience.
She has had seven children Of her
own, and is now proudly watching
her eldest grandchild-Anna Mich
misunderstanding the little suspend
ed cradle, hung from the roof, which
contains a baby three months old.
Anna, kneeling on the bed, is gently
fitting the cradle up and down, and
as the sun at the moment Of our
entry suddenly streamed through
the window, throwing its light upon
the pretty face Of the girl. glinting
in her straw-colored hair and light
ing up her soft blue eyes. the whole
made a picture which held us for a
moment entranced with its beauty.
We spoke Of that beauty to the
grandmother.
A TYPICAL VILLAGE.
You cannot eat beauty, she
said. Bread is what we need now"
The owner Of the house now ap.
pearsd--a fairly tall, sqnare.built
man, verging on fifty years OF age,
with shaggy head of hair and full
straw-colored beard. He wore .
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Baron Walter de Mumm. the
Champagne King" Of France. re-
puted to be the 'handsomest man
In Europe" Because no actually
was q German citizen. thrce-fifths
Of his vast vineyards in France
were confiscated. y.
yielded to their demands for his
attentions.
It seemed then that the romance
had been shattered. It actually came
to q definite close when the war
began. With France and Germany
at grips. the Baron chose to adhere
to his allegiance to the Kaiser. He
underwent the humility Of being in
termed in his own homo under the
guard Of an American youth who
had been his jackey. Winnie o'Con-
nor. 49, 'a-.
The Baroness elected to renounce
the land of her adoption and give
her aid % that of her residence,
France. She gave all her efforts
and much Of her resources in money
to French war relief and by her Of
forts erideared herself to the French
people. -
For this, when she subsequently
sought to begin q divorce suit In
German courts, she was barred from
those courts and branded q traitor
to Germany.
Eventually. she obtained her free
dom in the French courts. She and
the Baron met on neutral grounds,
at the American Legation in Berns.
and arranged q settlement whereby
she was to receive from tho Rheims
vineyards an income Of $1,000 .
month. plus s1,4oo a month for he
baby, and eventually . two-fifths In
terest In the wine properties.
This was the resolutions:
WHEREAS. Frances scovflls-
Mumm. daughter Of c. c. X. 500
vile, q citizen Of the United States.
residing In tho State Of KanaA,
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We drove Off, calling out to us to
came again, that they would make
tea for us.
savs for these whom the A. n. A.
the Save the Children" Fund. the
ouaker's Committee. and other
helpers may reach. those children
will all die Of starvation within q
few weeks. Ivanoff and his wife
Will die Of starvation. and the
whole Village will be left ruined
and ~desolats until again, after .
time, the patient slav vii, patient.
ly rebuild It.
BREAD. BREAD, BREAD.
Bread! Bread! BreadI Chliebi
chliebl Chliebl Tho word 90 IA
miliar, usually 80 carelessly uttered.
had a fearful significance in that
village. It was impossible for any
Of US. by any stretch of imasina-
ton. to realize the biank desert
Of suffering that stretched before
the eyes Of these people, or to know
the full meaning of despair with
which. the bread having disap-
peared. they faced the emptiness
Of Nature.
Chlieb! Chliebl Chlieb! Those
words haunted my ears. and yst
what could one man dor Only tell
the tale and try to arouse gym.
pathy in others.
Multiply that -villsge by thou
sands, and some faint idea may be
formed Of the meaning Of famine
during the terrible winter % the
steppes In Yast Esgisna q r. =.
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from tho chfffonier Of her room and
fired twice. point blank. Then, n.y.
sterical. she called servants to the
mans aid and had him sent to a
hospital. Tho Same night she packed
her trunks and disappeared.
He recovered slowly. Physicians
ordered him to st. Moritz for the
winter. prescribing the winter
sports Of the Alps resort as the final
treatment necessary to his recovery.
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Within . year little Mary. whose
custody the courts have now given
the Baron. was born in the Mumm
homo near Rheims. The Boron dur
ing the months before his daughters
birth. in fact. from a time shortly
after tho marriage. had been renew.
ing his gay career Of other years.
The handsomest man in Europe
had found the alteration Of fawnins
women irresistible and he had
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There no met the girl from Senecx.
Her daring tobosgan exploits had
won the awed admiration Of society
at the Swiss resort. He sought her
company and obtained II with in
creasing frequence. Before many
weeks It seemed a foregone conclu-
sion she had forgiven his Paris life
and would become his baroness.
Their wedding in London on June
2, 1913, was Q notable
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Mumm. who becomes hciress to
her mothers share Of two-fifths
Of the Baron's estate, but who
does not want to 20 to France
and be placed under her fathers
control.
gay life and social functions en-
thralled her thoughts. She deter
mined to climb the ladder.
She went eventually to Paris. pro-
claiming herself as the divorced vito
of DR.. Harry David Brown. of Balti-
more. He. however. persistently de-
MED they had been married. In
Paris her charms won Georges En-
rico Creel, multi-millionaire Chilean.
A few years of her gay career and
he decided he had had enough. They
were divorced.
Then began her companionship
with Baron de Mumm. q companion
ship that continued for three years.
until in-1s12 It almost eliminated In
tragedy. All that period his family
was furiously trying to separate
them.
SHOT BY INAMORTA.
Several times he yielded to the
family's demands that ne cease his
companionship with the woman. and
each time she won him back to her.
-proclaiming she could not endure life
without him.
Then. one night in October. 1919.
Paris was startled to learn that de
Mumm had been shot twice in tho
chest and was in serious condition
in a hospital. A warrant was Is
sued for the former Mary Jane, now
Marie van Reinseimer Brown Creel.
But in panic, she fled to london.
1t was then learned that the shots
had been fired by the woman in
an alteration over the baron's in
sistent announcement that they
break off their relations. White
with rage she grabbed up a revolver
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FORCED BY THE LAW TO LEAVE UNITED STATES FOR FRAN
z.z7 TO GET A RICH ESTATE BABY BARONESS DE MUN1M

being a native-born citizen of the
United States. married In 1918
Walter Mumm. an alien Of German
birth. and parentage, but at the
time and for many years prior 70
said marriage. q resident of France,
and
WHEREAS. The said Frances
scoville-Mumm has since returned
to the United States and renewed
her residence therein and has peti-
toned Congress to be readmited to
the character and privileges Of .
citizen II the United States Of Amer
lea. Therefore. be It
RESOLVED. That FRANCS 500
viiie.Mumm. daughter Of q c. X.
Scovilie. be and she II hereby on
her own application Internationally
admitted to the character and priv.
leges Of q citizen Of the United
States"
With the close Of the war France
began. the liquidation Of German
properties in that country. crediting
the proceeds to the German repara-
tons debt.
The baroness protested against
liquidation Of her two-fifths share.
The French government decided that
by her marriage to De Mumm she
had become a German subject and
therefore was not entitled to exemp-
ton from the rule.
BARONESS, WINS.
Then began a race for millions
between the American and French
governments. France wanted to
liquidate the De Mumm properties
before the baroness could effect the
coup it was known she planned. She
knew the only way she could main
tain her claim would be by estab-
fishing citizenship friendly to
France. In other words, II she were
an American citizen. France. an ally.
could not-object to her possession
Of the property.
She FASTENED to America and be-
sought Senator Kapper and Repre-
sentative Campbell. Of her native
State. There was only one way
restoration OF citizenship. And there
was this tremendous hitch, that only
once before In the history Of the
United States had an American re-
gained citizenship by Congressional
action. The previous instance was
in the case of Nellie Grant Sartoris.
daughter Of President Grant.
But the statesmen got busy. They
were backed by the sentiment OF
their constituents. They put
through a joint resolution that gave
back to the baroness her American
citizenship and her rights to the
millions or dollars Of vineyard prop
'erty. given her by her husband in
their Swiss agreement. On her
death. this estate passed into the
ownership Of her sole heiress. little
Baroness Mary.
The baroness and her daughter
hastened back to France to lay claim
to the vineyards. This, time the
claim held good. for tho baroness
could show that she was not Ger
man. but an American citizen. She
had the resolution Of Congress to
support her claim.
Her enjoyment Of these properties
was short-lived. She succummbed not
long thereafter to an operation.
Her sister, Mrs. Treadwell, went
to Paris. When she returned to
America the little Baroness Mary
was with her. Since then Mary has
been in Seneca with the bankers
family. happy In her surroundings,
hopeful to continue with them al
ways.
But q court has declared she must
be given into her fathers custody
and sent to him in Germany. A linn
II has been set. She must be turned
over to him by March next.
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TINY HEIRESS is SAD
q. AT COURTS RULING
Il SENDING HER ABROAD
Little Baroness Mary, Virtually EXiled, YearnS to
~ Remain Here with kim of Her Dead Mother,
y Rather Than Go to Her Father the champagne
King" who Although German Lives i'm Paris.

austere court decision in New Jersey has the
romantic story Of tiny girl whose childish heart yeams
to live here with her American kim but who American
court has decided must become baroness and take resi-
sdence in Germany, whether she will not
child of eight is not endowed with profound power of
reasoning But her heart is her conscience and in that
heart she has found deep rooted affection for her
American guardian that brings sobs from her little frame
when they tell her she will have to go away from them
and live with father she cannot remember.
All the worlds goods semeed to be hers-milions of
dollars in an inheritance from her mother, luxurious
Kansas home with her grandparents and the fame of
being the daughter of who once known "the
handsomest in Europe and a woman whom Euro
pean painters describing her the most beautiful girl
in Paris" rivalled each other to portray.
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Colonel Lynch Describes Heartbreaking Scenes
Among Starving Russians Who Summon All
Their Courage and Fortitude to Bear Terrors
OF Famine.
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citizenship unwingly brought unhapp
which would confated
getco
New-York tribune., 1922-02-11
No Poison i'm Searlcs
Death, Autopsy Shows

SAI.FM. Mass. Feb. TO- Tho death Of
Edward +. Searlee. millinrairc recluse
o. Methucp, was due to natural cnusca,
according to tho official rcpol, or ~,
autopsy held last October. made public
here to-day by District Attorney Don
ucll Chcmical analysis Of the organs
revealed no trace OF poison, the re
port declares.
Scarlcs died at his Methucn estate
In August, 1920. In October, 1927, an
autopsy was ordered by the District At
torrcv after he received annonvmous
communications suggesting that poison
might hnVc caused death. Some Of the
organs wcrc sent for chemical ANALYSIS
TO Dr.. William +. Roos, Of Boston
whose report has just been presented.
The analysis, according to tho rc-
port, revealed "no form Of poison or in
appropriate form Of medical treat
mcnt.' 1t was indicated that Soarlcs
"su!fcrcd from organic disease includ-
ing a chronic affection Of the kidneys
and other conditions" the report added
Scar|ca left an estate estimated at
from $4,000, 900 to $4,000 900 Arthur
T. Walker, of New York, who had az
rist'd him III legal matters, was the
prime pal beneficiary.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-11
Irving Bacon Missing;
Note Hints Of Suicide
Newspaper Man, Who Under.
went Monkcy-Gland Opera
lion, Saws Friends Left Him

ATLANTIC CITY. Feb. 1c.-Irving
Bacon, fifty eight wears old, New
York newspaper man who gained con-
siderable notoriety recently When he
underwent much-oSpl monkey
gland operation. has been reported
missing to tho police. He left a note
addressed to his wife which indicates
that he contem mplated taking his life.
According to his wife Bacon's health
seemed to have been improved as re-
suit Of his operation. She said that he
had been suffering from nervousness.
but this she attributed to his inability
to obtain work.
This morning Bacon and his wife left
their home. where they lived with their
two daughters. At corner Bacon left
his wife, saying that he had a business
errand to perform and would Join her
later at their home. Mrs Bacon re-
turned there at once, where she found
the following note:
"Decelvcd in my expectations, which
we're based on contract 9Th a New
York paper; unable to obtain work. ex-
cept such as could not possibly Weld
enough 10 provide even food for the
family, and deserted by those who pro
fess to be my friends, there is nothing
LETT but to take myself out of your
lie, so at least you may be iii a posi-
ton to live again. Do not worry or
mourn for me"
New-York tribune., 1922-02-11
Rickard Wins
Appeal to End
Receiversl,ip
Management of Madison So.
Garden Restored TO Sport
ing Promoter by Unani-
nous Decision of Court
No Partnership Proved
Venture Declared Safer in
His Hands Than in Those
Of Inexperienced Men

Tho appointment by the Supreme
Court of receivers for Tex Richard. the
Madison Square Garden Corporation
and the Madison Square Garden Sport
ing Club was sat aside yesterday by the
Appellate Division. Allen Lcxow and
John Ringling had been named as re-
cclvers III an action brought BY Frank
4. Armstrong for an accounting from
RicSard Of an alleged copartncrship
OF the two men in several sporting en-
terpriscs, from which Armstrong as
serta there is large amount of money
due him. The receivcrship was asked
not because Of any fear OF the defend
ants inability to pay a Judgment but
to prevent the removal Of the asset
to another state for the purpose Of do
fcating and impeding the plaintiff in
obtaining his relief
nous opinion of the Appelate Division.
said: "The defendant denies in toto
pialntitf's claims as to an agreement to
enter INTO q partner rship. it appears
beyond dispute that the business Of the
corporations formed by the defendant
Rickards, has been extremely profitable.
The success OF the cnterprisc has con-
cededly been due to the genius and
ability Of said defendant as promoter
OF sporting events, and it would seem a
grave, injustice, upon the very qucs-
tlonable showing of merits made by the
plaintiff. to take from the defendant
k1ckard, aud the corporations which he
has caused to be organized. and which
are now carrying on successful busi-
ness. the management thereof and place
the same in the hands of untried and
inexperienced receivers.
No co-partr ership is shown
{" have existed. At most there WAS
on.y an oral agreement on the part OF
the defendant to embark on Joint VEN
ture with the plaintiff That agree.
ment never was consumnated, and, ac-
cordlng to the plaintiffs s af1idavits. the
most favorable Interpretation, the most
that he can ask. is that the defendant
respond in damages for breach of his
oral agreement"
The Appellate Division said that the
alleged assault by Richard on Arm
strong, at Madison Square Garden after
the bringing of the action, had no bear
ing Oh the suit.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-11
Assault Killed
Actress. Not Drugs.
&
Lawyer Asserts
Virginia Girls Family Asks
Investigations Alleging Sew
craI Men We're Implicat-
cd; Called Morphine Case

DiN'" Dixon, an actress. VINO died re
Gently in Harlem Hospital, was nt-
tackled nnd her death was the result of
criminal assault, in the opinion, cx-
pressed yesterday TO District Attorney
Banton, OF Harry Bcr1nan, a LAWYER of
Dnnville, Va. where Miss Dixon made
her hcme. AT the District Attorney
Office the case had been considered
closed. The girl was said by the med-
cal examiner to have died Of morphine
poisoning, and Martin Ryan, a taxicab
driver, OF ESP West l39th Street. who
was held on her death, was later re-
leased
Mr.. Berman said that subsequent
autopay performed in Danvillc, on the
arrival OF the body there. showed tina t
the gisl had been "brutaliv murdered" ="
Miss Dixons family in Danville," j"
he said. following his interview Win
the District Attorney, sis convinced
that death was due 20 criminal CON
duct and that If siftcd to the bottom
sevcra will be implicated.
~ the facts in my possession develop
as expect them TO, We ehall ask for
the arrest and Indictment Of "A per
So: related to Miss Dixon by marrlarc. y
Mr.: German said that Miss Dixon was
married during the war to R. NJ. Bliss.
Of Cleveland, 0. He conferred with
members Of the Homicide Bureau and
he said that they had assured him that
they would Cooperate in every way in
his investigation.
Miss Dixon vas registered at the
Hotel buckingham, at Fifticth Street
and Fifth Avenue, at the time of her
death On January 90, she is said to
have engaged Ryan to drive her
around Following a night, said to
have been spent mostly in cabarets.
Ryan drove the young actress to Har~
'cm Hospital. She was in an uncon-
scious state when she arrived there and
died short time later.