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COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 7, 1920
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Eight men held up and robbed the of
Drovers National Bank here, of $19,
000 dollars. Officials of the bank fir.
ed on the robbers as they left and
one of them was killed,
captured.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., May 7
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Continued Rains
Damaging Crops
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The continued rains in this section
are proving disastrous to the crop
prospects for both cotton and corn,
and the outlook is rather gloomy just |
now.
The corn acreage is unusually small
and poor stands are reported in many j
places. j
The cotton acreage is also great-!
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farmers have been handicapped m
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planting on account of the bad weath
er, and further because of perhaps
15 to 20 per cent, of the low lands
being covered with water by overflow
from the rivers and smaller streams
A great deal of the cotton planted
failed to come up and will necessar
ily have to be replanted, provided the
farmers can get planting seed and
suitable weather appears in which to
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plant them.
The Yazoo and Tallahatchie Riv-1
ers are at a higher stage now than, d
they have been at anv time within ..
twenty-five years with the single ex
ception of one year.
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Mr. C. C. Whittington is attending
Convention of the Southern Whole- J
sale Dry Goods Association in Dallas, j
Texas, this week.
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Circuit Court
Making Progress
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Tess in the disposition of the large j ç
number of State Revenue Agent suits :
against Leflore county business firms j
and individuals. Most of these cases
have been settled and non-suits order
ed entered by the Court.
Circuit Court is making good prog- !
LIQUOR HIDDEN
INSIDE OF TABLE
a
Negro Woman Has Clever Method Of
Concealing Gosh—Fined In Court
This Morning.
Officer Tom Chapman was baffled
for a time last night, when he search
ed the home of Lettie Gidion. ne
gress, where he was positive liquor
was concealed, but he was unable to
locate same. He looked in every nook
and corner of the negroe's house with
out finding any intoxicant.
Finally he saw a small "stand ta
ble" built of new lumber, in one of
the rooms He shook the table and
The table
something inside rattled,
was built with a pedestal of about six
inches in diameter. The top was about
twelve inches square. Mr. Chapman
examined the table carefully but he
could not remove the top. After turn
ing it up side down, he ascertained
that the top was fastened on by a
nail combination" and after turning
this, he was able to remove it. In
side the pedestal was a quart of
"gosh" which fit snuggly into a space,
undoubtedly prepared for this pur
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pose.
Lettie was taken to jail and fined
$100 and costs this morning by Judge
Hughston on two charges of selling
liquor and of having same in her pos
session.
Mr. Chapman arrested West Amos,
negro, coming from the house of Let
tie, with a quart of liquor under his
coat. The search of Lettie's home was
then made.
Amos was fined $100 and costs for
having the "gosh" in his possession.
Both of the negroes are in jail and
so far have been unable to pay their
fines.
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salaries a ri^&llo w wit;
MEETING THIS M(EEK/ '
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i The Leflore County Board of* Su
pervisors*convenerf ? tylonday May 3rd
with the following njShibers in at^pd
ance: J. L. -Haley, president; H. L.
££■ £ * G ' p ° in -
clerk; $V7 s. Vardaman, sheriff. *
Prosecuting At to rite y Means - nn
j ston w3s or<iered to investigate the
matter of awards of lands *in Han
cock county -to this county; in lieu
of the sixteenth Sections Lands and
make a rep0 rt to tire Board. r ; •
The Board ordered that the account
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of Delta HiU for damans sus
| tained by th'e'county taking her land
; for use as a public road, be continued,
j The tax assessment of S. A. M4head
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for the years of 1919-1920 was found
to be erroneous and ordered reduced
by the Board.'
The Board ordered that the salary
of the highway engineer be fixed at
$4,200, payable in monthly install-}
ments of $350.
The Board found that the land of
; G A McLean on Itta Bena and Quito
j road had been damaged to the ex
| tent of $1000 by the taking of his
; land for use as a public road.
The Board ordered that the total
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death of the person, found floating m
the Yazoo river at Sidon .
The galaries for chancery Clerk
and hig deputies were allowed as fo i_
lowg; A R Bew> $ 395 . 83 . Miss Bonner
Dug g an> $ 197 . 92; R. W . Ramsey, $150;
^ A $jqq
' for sheriff and his depu .
tieg; w g Vardaman> $ 400; S . W.
^ E H . Crippen, $150; W.
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S. Hemingway, $125; F.
for Circuit cl erk and his
d G g p ate> $ 291 . G6; j. q. A l
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ford, $150.
galaries for Tax Assessor and his
deputies: L. Scruggs, $291.66; P. H.
Cain, $150; J. N. Truett, $100; Harry
Smith, $100; R. D. Prewitt, $100.
It was ordered that Dick Jones be j
awarded a refund of $18.77 for an er- 1
roneous tax assessment.
It was ordered that Austin Thomas
! he awarded $3.00 for an erroneous
1 tax assessment.
Several notices to contractors were
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The Board ordered the account of
j ç ]\j Dixon for damages sustained
: a horse falling through a defective
j bridge, be continued,
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The account of the Daily Common
wealth for publishing a notice of sale
of bonds, for the Sidon Consolidated
School District ,was continued.
It was ordered that the account
of $27.48 for the election commis
sioners for holding the Justice of the
Peace Election in District No. 5 on
April, 24th bo allowed.
An election was ordered held on
May 15 in Beat 4, for the election of
a constable.
Sheriff W. S. Vardaman was auth
orized to use Henry Gray, a convict
serving a sentence on the county
farm, as janitor for the courthouse,
The request for the establishment
of a drainage district to be known as l
the Pelucia Drainage District of Le
flore County, was discussed by the
Board. The Board ordered that a no
tice be published to the owners, whose
lands comprise the proposed district,
notifying them that action will be tak
en on this matter June 8 th, 1920, at
10 o'clock at the courthouse and at
this time the Board will hear all ob
jections.
The Highway Engineer was order- ;
ed to close and forbid the use of the
public highways in the county now be
ing repaired or constructed.
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ACCOUNTS ALLOWED.
$100.00
King's Daugh Hospital
Dr. L. F. Barrier, C. H. O. sal 125.00
100.00
Columbian Bank Note Co.
11.19
5.00
A. R. Bew, expense
G. S. Pate, expense
R. D. Prewitt, ex. on tax deeds 19.81 a
9-25
2.65
W. J. Buck
134.40
28.00
2.83!
Brandon Print. Co. sup.
Ellis Drug Co. sup.
Miss. Print. Co. sup.
Wilson Fur. Co.-.
Hend. & Baird Hdwe. Co. sup.
City of Greenwood, fines, costs 118.40
Lonzo Gill, C. H. jan.
Clyde Isenburg C. H. jan.
Robert Herman, sup.
L. N. Chandler, sup.
Leflore Grocer Co., sup—
W. D. Cooley, board in C. F... 60.00
W. S. Vardaman, ex... 187.40
W. F. Meadows, C. H. repairs 42.25
Means Johnston, sal ... 300.00
R. M. Hight, sal -
Cumb. Tel. & Tel. Co. phones 52.70
5.00
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11.60
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SHANGHAI, May 7
most populous of China's provinces
with extensive and varied resource^
and almost unlimited areas of soil' of
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seemingly are beyond the control of j
the Canton government to which Sze
the greatest productivity, is bandit
ridden and is torn with the strife of
five opposing governing factions that 1
chuen is supposed to pay allegiance.
This is the report brought to Shang
j hai by foi-eigners who have recently
I been travelling in the province.
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The country along all the main
highways, according to these reports
is overrun with bands of armed out
laws and it is only possible for the
foreigners to travel these by-ways in
any degree of safety by first buying
protection and immunity from moles
tation from bandit leaders who con
trol the various areas.
! traveller asks for an armed guard
j this is provided for a consideration.
I This guard must be changed when |
! the traveler enters the area controled
j by another military official.
By following this procedure, trav
elers from the province say, the way
of
When the
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farer is ordinarily safe, but it hap
pens sometimes that the spheres of ;
control of the leaders overlap and tra-|
velers who have bought protection in
one area are at times attacked by |
bandits whose leaders have not been
on
of
appeased.
The consideration required to
provide a guard for a traveler is not
particularly heavy, as it is said to be
about 50 cents a day per guard. Or
dinarily travelers who do^fall into the!
"hands of outlaws do not suffer bodi- [
as l y harm, but it is not uncommon for
native servants to be murdered and
cases exist in which foreigners have
been taken and held for ransom.
Chengtu, capital of the province of
Szechuen, is reached by a journey ofi
about 2 500 miles up the Yangtszei
at river from Shanghai to Hankow and
at Ichang, thence through the famed
Yangtsze gorges to Chunking and fin
ally by a sedan chair ride of from ten
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; to 14 days through the high mount
ains of the country that lies between
Chunking and Chentgu.
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Don't Miss The
Revival Services
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The revival services at the Metho
dist Church continue to attract large
congregations morning and evening,
a nd you are missing some very fine
sermons and excellent singing if you
don't attend regularly.
A cordial welcome is extended ev
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erybody and you should take advant- j
age of it by being present tonight. !
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S. L. Raines, sup.
4.55
W. F. Townsend, school sup. .. * 8.55
50.00
24.57
H. B. Levy, sten.
Schlater Gin Co., coal .
Wade Hardware Co. sup.
Dr. E. W. Hunter, Co. phy. .. 32.00
L. S. Rogers, sal. & ex. _ _ 334.00
The Board adjourned to meet again
at the next regular meeting date.
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET
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j Oct. - - j 36.80j 36.82J35.85 j 35.85136.51 !
! Dec. - - , 35.95 1 35.95 1 34.98 34.98j 35.681
Closed 20 to 70 down.
New York Spots 41.10—40 down.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON LETTER.
vFrom Jno. F. Clark & Co.
by Abe Silver.)
NEW ORLEANS, La., May 7—In
line with yesterday's cable news of a
settlement of the Lancashire sti'ike,
Liverpool showed a better tone today
with futures 4 to 15 higher than due.
Spot prices 29 up, sales 4,000 bales.
New York will be closed on Satur
day, May 29th, and Monday the 31st.
Map shows partly cloudy to fair the
Eastern half of the belt, no rain of
i consequence, but generally cloudy the
Western half of the belt with general
precipitation except the Southern
third of Texas. Indications are for
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P artl y cloud y m the belt exce P t un '
settled in the Southwestern quai'ter
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; where rains will concentrate during
* h T e next 36 hours ' These rains in the
West greatl y im P rove the crop situa
tion and besides hold the meaning of
a consequential extension of cotton
acreage.
Advices from New York and Chica
go are to the effect that the public
economy campaign is showing it's ef
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fect by a reduced buying volume and
more general reduction in prices by
wholesale establishments.
On a reactionary turn in the mar.
ket the difference in July new crops
widened as was logical to expect.
Exports this day last year were 54,
000 bales. Today for the week prom
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lse smaller than last year and chan
ces are that weekly comparisons will i
be less favorable for the rest of the
GREENWOOD COTTON RECEIPTS.
1918-19 receipts .160,064
11917-18 receipts .133,197
i Since Sept. 1 , 1919, .114,547
150,707
season.
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! Week ending May 6,
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409
stock on hand n °w
Same week last year _
695
23,465
33,531
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MISSISSIPPI — Partly cloudy to
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Local Observations.
TEMPERATURE—Highest, 80 de
, grees; lowest, 70 degrees; precipita
tion 0.0. ; river guage 36.9; rise in 24
hours 0.4.
Miss Annie Long Stephen
Local Observer
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The Salvation Army is the most
musical religious organization in the
world. More than fifty thousand mu
sicians are enrolled in its ranks.
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WASHINGTON, May 7—Charges ;
of a "corner" in print paper was made
today before the Senate Committee in
vestigating the pap er shortage, by
Courtland Smith,president' of the j to
American Press Association. Smith
There Is Conspiracy Regulate Pro
duction And Price
Associated Press
testified that the print paper manu- !
facturers were in conspiracy to regu- |
late both production and prices.
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RAINS GREATLY
DAMAGE COTTON
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President Of Texas Farmers Union
Says Crop In That State Worst
Condition In History.
Associated Press
FT. WORTH, Tex., May 7—Presi
dent Lyda of the Texas Farmers Un
ion, estimated today, that the rains of
this week, have placed the Texas cot
ton crop in the worst condition in its
history.
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WILL NOT ACCEPT
VICE PRESIDENCY
This Is Statement Made Public By
Senator Johnson Of California
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Today,
Johnson of California
statement saying, "
stances" would he accept the Repub
lican nomination for Vice Presidency.
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WASHINGTON, May 7—Senator
has issued a
under no circum
Ca U For Statements
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Of National Banks
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 8 —The com
ptroller of currency today issued a
call for the condition of National
Banks at the close of business, May
4 th.
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English To Negotiate
With Soviet Russia
Associated Press
LONDON ,May 7—Great Britain is
on the eve of negotiations with Soviet
Russia, a Moscow wireless message
today asserts.
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Order Barbers Supply
Association Dissolved 1
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NEW YORK, May 7—Federal :
Judge Hand today ordered the Bar
bers Supply Dealers Association of by
to
America dissolved.
THE AMERICAN
WAR SOLDIERS
BURIED FRANCE
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WILL BE EXHUMED AND BROU
GHT BACK TO THEIR NATIVE
LAND ANY TIME AFTER
SEPTEMBER 15.
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PARIS, May 7
Representatives of
! the American W 7 ar department here
] estimate that about 60 per cent of the
American soldiers buried in France!
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! their native land. A little more than
j 77,000 American burials have been
j registered by the Graves Registration
Service and about 71 000 of these are
in France.
Not all of these soldiers will be re-j
; turned to American soil as the United
j States War Department proposes to
! carry back to America only those re
j quested by their next kin. This policy
i will result in leaving in France those j
whose next of kin ask that they be
left here and those whose removal is
not requested. It is understood also
that the unidentified American dead
will be left in France.
Decision by the Franco-American
Commission that bodies of American ;
j soldiers buried in the zone of military
i operations may be exhumed anytime
j after September 15 next ends a long
period of negotiations between French
ant * American authorities. The French
government desired to meet the wish
es of the American nation but enter
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tained serious doubts as to the advis-:
ability of removing the American
dead from the zone of operations this
year owing to labor and transporta
tien difficulties involving the passing |
of the bodies over the railways and
highways at a time when the French
population was in the first stage of ;
its recovery from the economic and
sentimental strain of five years of
war. The French government feared
that the granting of such permission
to America would# bring on clamorous i
agitation from other nations for sim
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ilar permission and that this would
hamper the rehabilitation of French
industrial conditions.
American officers, however, have
vigorously urged that the number of
Americans in the zone of operations !
was relatively small; that the tradi
tional policy of the United States was
to return its dead from foreign soil
land that the American government
could do r.o less than heed the pleas.
of those next of kin who insisted that
the bodies of their relatives lx* return
ed to their homes.
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ANARCHISTS AT
WORK IN ITALY
Have Gained The Upper Hand In Sev
eral Districts—Police And Mil
itary Intervene.
Associated Press
ROME, May 7— (Thursday)—The |
Anarchists have gained the upper
hand in several districts in Italy and ;
disorders have occurred, especially in
Legsorn where the extremists have in-j
vaded the Chamber of Labor and com
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and military were forced to interfere j
and two persons were killed and more
than thirty wounded.
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HUNS TO ELECT
NEW PRESIDENT
Election Will Be Held In August—
Ebert Will Not Seek Re-Election
Says Newspaper.
Associated Press
LONDON, May 7—Germany's pres
idential election will be held late in j
August, according to a Berlin dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph Co.
The Deutsche Zeitung is quoted as
saying that President Ebert will not
seek re-election.
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Republican On The
Federal Reserve Board
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 7—Edmund j
Platte of Poughkeepsie, a Republican
representative from the- twenty sixth
New York District, has been selected
by President Wilson for membership
to the Federal Reserve Board.
PLAN OF ATTACK
AGAINST MEXICO
CITY CONTINUED
Fig-hting* Between Peu
bla And Mexico City
Today.
SUSPEND TRAFFIC
PASSENGER TRAINS
Rebel Activity Is Repor
ted In Vicinity Ot*
Vera Cruz.
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EL PASO, Tex., May 8 —The m obil-*
ization of troops, believed to be in
in a concerted attack
today at
tended for use
on Mexico City, continued
Juarez.
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ENGAGEMENT (H I URS.
WASHINGTON,
May
7—General
Murgi has been sent into the State of
Peubla to attack the forces of Gener
al Peblo Gonzales.
An
engagement
has already occurred between the
van
guard of the Carranza troops and the
Rebels at Otumbia, between Mexico
City and the City of Puebla.
Authoritative
reaching
s was
advices
Washington today, said Gonzale
not in league
and would resist them by the force of
This is regarded as coniplicat
ing the situation.
with the Obregonists
arms.
Passenger
traffic between Mexico
City and Guadaras has been suspen
ded.
Increased Rebel activity is re
ported in the vicinity of Vera Cruz.
The State Department
without confirmation that a private
today
was
message was received here last night
from Mexico City via Laredo, stating
that Carranza left the Mexican Capi
tal for Vera Cruz.
MUTINEERS LEAVE.
LAREDO, Tex., May 7—An official
announcement by the Mexican Consul
here, said the mutineers
among the
[custom guards ar Nuevo Laredo left
[the town, after exchanging shots with
the troops. He denied an attack
on
the town was threatened.
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DEMAND SURRENDER TOWN.
LAREDO, Tex.,
ployees of the Mexican
May 7—Sixty em
customs and
immigration service in Nuevo Laredo,
opposite this city,
themselves Obregonists
today 1 declared
and notified
authorities they would attack the Fe
deral garrison unless the town
rendered to the Mexican Consul here.
It is declared the Rebels are not of
sufficient strength to make ;
ful attack.
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REPORT CAPTURE LAMPTSAS.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7
It was
reported here at noon that the Mexi
can revolutionary forces
Nuevo Laredo, had captured the town
of Lamptsas, just South of the border.
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MISSISSIPPI IS
IN THE NEAR EAST
Dr. John H. Boyd of Wesson, Miss.,
At Scene Of Fighting Between
Armenians And Turks.
Associated Press
CONSTANTINOPLE,
May
(Thursday)—Dr. John II. Boyd, of
Wesson, Miss., an attache of an Am
[erican commission, for relief in the
Near East, arrived at Aleppo on April
21st, with four other American relief
workers, who were in Aintiah, when
that city was the scene of the fighting
between the Armenians and the Turks.
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STILL FIGHNING
TO SECURE KIEV
Bolsheviki Troops Have Strengthened
Their Defense—Battle For Poss
ession Rages.
Associated Press
May
troops fighting in defense yesterday
of Kiev have strengthened their re
sistance considerable during the last
twenty four hours. The battle for the
possession of the city is still raging,
according to latest advices.
WARSAW,
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Germany's Air Service
Has Been Disbanded
BERLIN, May 7— (Thursday) —
Germany's military air service has
been disbanded under the terms of the
Versailles Treaty, according to a semi
official announcement here.