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WEATHER SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; Wednesday prob-ably ibowert; light southerly winds. Morning Herald City Country By Carrier. 50c Per Month ONLY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE BETWEEN STOCKTON AND FRESNO 120 MILES. XXVI COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1919 Horrible Cannibal Orgy Held In West Africa When Members Opposing Tribes Have Clash UmM Mares Congress Is Mot To Be MODESTO, STANISLAOS WHEN IS BEER BEER Question of Alcoholic Content Being Discussed By Internal Revenue Bureau and Brewery Heads SEARCHING LAWS OF LAND Attorney General Sought in En- deavor to Ascertain What Really Constitutes Intoxicating Liquor WASHINGTON, March 18.

Answer to the question of when beer is legally beej- and whether it may contain 254 per cent alcohol without being officially considered intoxicating, was sought today by internal revenue bureau officials in existing statutes, court decisions and administrative regulations, but with no definite conclusion. Pending a decision by the legal division of the bureau and an opinion by Attorney General Palmer, Commission-; er Roper declined to say what he would do in case New York brewers carry out their announced intention of resuming' manufacture and sale of beer containing 234 per cent alcohol under President Wilson's recent order permitting the making of near beer. i If Wilson Is Not Willing to Negotiate Peace That Is Satisfactory to People, Congress May and Undoubtedly Will Pass Joint Resolution Declaring War With Germany at End Having Power to Declare War, Senator Lenroot Holds Congress Unquestionably I Has Power to Bring It to an End HOSPITAL NURSE TELLS JURY SLAIN PHYSICIAN DID NOT ASSAULT HER (By Aociated Press.) BALTIMORE, March Billie Jacobs, the nurse at and Enoch Pratt hospital to protect whose honor Dr. Norbu Ishidai the Japanese mental expert, claim he APPEAL 10 MEXICO T01AHCAN PEOPLE HELD American Embassy Asked To Request Mexico Take Steps Protect Citizens of This Country Against Villa ASK FOR RELEASE BISHOP Reported Villa Is Launching Campaiqn Similar to One in 1916 When Pershing Was Sent to Border WASHINGTON, March 18. The American embassy at Mexico City was instructed today by the state department to request the Mexican government to take every possible step to insure the protection of American citizens in the territory in northern Mexico, where Villista bandits again have become active.

The Mexican authorities also will be asked to effect the release of James E. Whet ten. an American, who, with Joseph Bentley, la bishop of the Mormon Church and a naturalized Mexican, who was captured by Villa forces near Las Cruces, Chihuahua, some days ago. Information that Whetten was in the hands of the bandits reached the department only a short time before Company employes he companys ranch at Ojitos, ihi- huahua, were held by Martin Lopez, a Villa leader, who demanded $5,000 ransom under threat of killing the, prisoners and destroying the ranch The message said the foreman of thej ranch was endeavoring to raise the money. In connection with this case the department disclosed that two days ago it directed the embassy at the Mexican capital to urgently re- (Continued on Page Two) i (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mar.

18. If President Wilson does not negotiate a peace treaty satisfactory to the sen-i ate, Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, i Republican, said in an address on shot and killed Dr. George II. Wolff, tlt-e league of nations before the resident physician, was today called Washington Commercial club here on by Hie attorneys for the deftmse tonight, congress may pass a joint to testily that thq. accusations Add resolution summarily ending the war to have been made by Dr.

I--lijla with Germany without a treaty, leav-that she had been assaulted by tr. I ing American participation in the Woltf and that Dr. Woltf had intfr- league of nations to future deter-fered, in an alleged love affair be-1 mjnation. tween; -her and Dr. Ishida were but Senator Lenroot declared he rathe ravings of a man with a disor-j voted the general plan of the league dered nrind.

I as proposed, but would not be co- Miss 'Jacobs, under cross exam-' erced into voting for the const Ruination, declared that Dr. Moiff Hjon as now drawn without amend-never had assaulted her, and that mPnt. there had been no love affair toe-1 NEW YORK, March 18. Details of a cannibal orgy in West Africa, in which natives are reported to have eaten members of opposing tribes after a battle, were received by the Presbyterian board of foreign missions here tonight in a message from Dr. G.

C. Beanland of Louisville, Ky a missionary stationed at Metet, West Africa. According to Dr. Beanland the righting centered about a native king at the town of Efufup, whose forces were attacked by those of several elder chiefs after he had ordered erection of a school for use of the missionary parly in his town. Sev BRITISH AYIAT0RS TO TRY ATLANTIC FLIGHT LONDON, March 18.

British aviators are to try for a flight across the Atlantic. A secrelly built airplane, accompanied by Harry Hawker as pilot and Commander Mackenzie Grieve, royal navy, as navigator, was shipped from England yesterday for St. Johns, New Foundland, from where it will start at the earliest possible moment in an attempt to win the Daily Mail prize of $50,000 for the. first machine to fly actoss the Atlantic. The machine is a Sopwith two-seater biplane with a 375 horsepower engine.

The fuselage is boat-sl aped and will support the machine in the water. Pilot Hawker said he believed that the flight would occupy about 19, hours. The machine, he said, had flown 900 miles in 9 hours and five minutes on one-third of its petrol capacity, and is capable of maintaining a speed of 100 miles an hour for 25 hours. New Fouiulland lies nearer to Europe than any other part of North America, the distance being about 1,900 miles. Alleged Woman Swindler Will Testify in Trial SAN FRANCISCO.

March 18. Direct examination of Mrs. Alyce Rogers of Los Angeles, on trial in U. S. dislrict court here with Major J.

B. Jeffery and Mason L. Williams, on the charge of having used the mails to defraud in connection with the national defense league of California, was begun late today. Mrs. Rogers, testifying in her own behalf, will he on the stand for two or more days, it was said.

Th' sentaXe E. HaXon oMicUgrm. hpr umi Y.olfl or Air. today is in a most critical situa-held ft number of confeiences. 1 hl i luhid'i hnt th-nt i)i ThiHn lutfi on.

who said lie had been informed byi na'1 DUI ll1- ma 1 a1 an Don. with American principles and noyed her willi improper advances bureaus legal experts argued that all Warren and that Asserting that Hie United Stales ideals endangered bv the plans for No. 243 guard the interests of the United States, the senate will propose such amendments as it may deem necessary. Senator Lenroot said "the supposed club over the senate of postponing peace is stuffed with straw, It dees not seem to have occurred to the president that if he is not willing to negotiate a treaty of peace satifsactory to the American people congress may itself, and undoubtedly will, pass a joint resolution declaring the war with Germany terminated. The constitution clothes congress with the power of declaring war, and the body that is given this power unquestionably has the power to terminate the war.

Germany is whipped. We are asking for no annexation, no Indemnities. We have accomplished the purpose we had when we declared war, and while it would be desirable to have a formal treaty of peace with Germany it is not necessary. We can declare the war ended and go about our business, and I confidently predict that this is what will be done if the treaty is not ratified by the senate. The pro-oosed league of nations will then have to be considered separately if it is considered at all.

By thio course the United States will loss nothing, for the obligations imposed upon us by the proposed league far outweight any possible benefits coming to us. The senator quoted from an address by President Wilson in 1914 in which the executive said we should not form alliances with any nation in the world, and also from a statement by former British Am-bassador Bryce commending the senate for discouraging the executive from schemes for foreign enterprises and to save the country (the United States) from being entangled with alliances, protectorates, responsibilities of all sorts beyond its own frontiers. Willard and Dempsey Managers Hold Conference in New York While Looking For Sparring Partners PLACE NOT YET GIVEN OUT Willard to Appear in Movies Getting $100,000 While Dempsey Will Go to Palm Beach For Short Rest KV YORK, Match 18. At an In-inimnl conference here tonight the man.igeis of Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey discussed the heavyweight championship contest, scheduled for Inly 4, with 'Promoter Tex KIcKairt, pieimmtory to aunngmg lor preliminary training. Willaid was repic-sented hv Itnv Archer.

THmpse.a plans were explained by Jack Kearns. Doth managers stated thev in this city prepared er 1 sparring partnoi.s for their rIm i and each carried a hsl of a el it boxers I nmi which it was cktm thev would be selected. I that he was ptepurod to take at I I and had shown himself exceedingly the longue, Senalor Lenroot eontin-jealous. ued: Several Japanese doctors located We are told that the president at institutions here testified Dr. will not permit peace with Germany Ishida suffered from self-exaltation I unless there is made as part of the NATION WIDE HUNT Taft is president, is ALLEGED MURDERER IS BEING CONDUCTED rued a statemeht tonight denying that the organization is split by serious differences of opinion among officers and mniebers over its endorsement of the peace treaty the constitution of the leaque as drawn in large part by Great Britain.

We are told that this wilt be done to force the senate to accept without amendment this British constitution, revolutionizim cur government and its foreign and domestic, policies. In other words, 1 the senate is to be coerced to do which it otherwise would and public opinion in Amer. ica is thus to be coerced into dc. mandinq ratification. In my judgment, President Wilson has once more misjudged the temper of the American people' and the senate.

I will not be coerced into voting for the constitution of the league and I am sure the senate will not be. The proposed constitution will be considered upon its merits regardless of whether it is coupled with the peace treaty. If the constitution should not be amended to protect and safe- jnot eral bodies were eaten in the streets of this town, Mr. Beanland reported. Later, after twelve of the insurgent chiefs had been captured and imprisoned by French troops and the uprising quelled, Dr.

Beanland visited the scenes of other fights. According to his report, nearly a dozen towns had been laid waste and the road over which he traveled was strewen with human bones from which the flesh had been eaten. Dr. Beanland reported that the horror of the uprising caused a revulsion of feeling among- the natives which resulted in hundreds of conversions and baptisms. PLANS TO PUT SOLDIERS INJURED BACK IN TRADE NEW YORK, March 18.

Delegates from all the allied countries began comparison of methods of rehabilitating war victims at a four day international conference on rehabilitation of the disabled, which opened here today under the auspices of the Rod Cross. Out of the conference it is expected will be developed for each country new methods for the restoration to society of all the injured, comprising the best elements of the various methods now in use. Plans for extension of the work to the hundreds of thousands of persons crippled every year in industry also are to be taken up at the conference. Todays session was given over to short outlines of the rehabilitation plans of the various countries. Dr.

Maurice Bourillon, president of the permanent interallied committee on war cripples and known as the grandtather of re-education, was the first speaker. France, he said, so far as possible, is training Hie disabled to resume their pre-war trades. New laws, he said, give them pensions and five years preference in civil positions in the national government. America's program, as built up from the experiencess of the allied nations, was outlined by Colonel Frank Billings, chief, and Lieutenant Colonel Joseph L. Miller, assistant chief, of the division of physical reconstruction in the surgeon generals office.

Under the American plan. Colonel Billings said, no soldier will be discharged from (he army until he has fully recovered physically, and all who desire will be given full vocational re-training. AUTOPSY REVEALS BOMB EXPLODED NEAR WOMAN FEET BADLY BURNED (By Associated Press.) OAKLAND, March 18. Police and medical authorities at a preliminary autopsy late tonight developed the first clues in the investigation they are making into the death of Mrs. George Greenwood, who was killed in the yard of her home here early this evening by a homb explosion.

Six pieces of galvanized iron telephone wire and a lead slug wete found in the body, in addition to many particles and fragments of brick. The feet were burned. The police-said this indicated Mrs. Greenwood was close to the bomb when it exploded. Many of the wounds discovered on the body alone could have caused deailv, the authorities said.

01 swell head. DENY MEMBERS LEAVING LEAGUE ENFORCE PEACE (B.v Associated Press.) NEW YORK. Match 18. Tim eague to Enforce Peace, of which Paris covenant of the league of na- instrument. Neither Mr.

Taft nor the league, however, favors amendments after the treaty is finally adopted in Paris, as amendment would then probably mean LONG BRACK. N. March is. I110ns i Since the league announced its en- A nation-wjdo search is to be made dorsement. the statement declared, foi Dr.

Mutter Keene Hilkins, Long only eight members have resigned Beach physician, charged with the out of a total list of 300,000. murder or his wife here February 27. Only three of these are officers. He disappeared last Sunday, about Its, None of the leagues 7,000 volunteer hours before a warrant whs issued or 3.000 clergymen all over his arrest. country has withdrawn his pledge District Attornev Weeks stated to- to work under the league's direction, night detailed description of the miss- it was asserted.

ing physician had been sent brondrast "Mr. Tafts attitude, which Is sub-throughout the country and that stantially that of the league, the wherever possible his picture would be statement said, is that he would ac-flashed on scieens of motion picture cept the Paris covenant as it stands housea- and thank God for it; that it does not, Fifteen detectives, the pick of the however, fully meet his ideals, not New York police department, have as strong in some respects as been placed at. Mr. Weeks disposal, the plan we have been advocating; he said, to make a thoroug.i search he would like to see amendments throughout the eastern states. jthat would strengthen it, and thinks CABINET MEMBERS TALK IDIUIT CYTD CCCCIAM wdl'dl we understand it to carry.

He AdUUI EiAIKA uEiuMUN favorable to making changes Ghat will placate opinion, especially in the direction of definite acceptance ol Ihe Monroe Doctrine, which we under stand is already the real basis of the WASHINGTON, March of an early extra session of io HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLE NOW BEING ARRANGED 0AKLANDW0MANSLAIN BY BOMBS EXPLOSION precedents of acts of congress and of revenue bureau practices point to the rule that if beer contains one-half of one per cent or more alcohol it is intoxicating and is taxable as real beer. Drinks to be "soft, non-intoxicating. and non-alcoholic must contain less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol, they said. Therefore it was argued, that the presidents order of last September 16 forbade the use of grain or other food products in making beer (Continued on page twol WILSON INSISTS UPON STICKING LEAGUE IN PEACE PROPOSALS (By Associated Press.) PARIS, March1 18. Announcement was made at the close of a conference today between President Wilson, David Lloyd George and M.

Clbmenceau that no final decisions had been taken, but that all the main questions surrounding the peace conference had been discussed; that the meeting had been entirely satisfactory and that there had been no change in the plans previously announced, which contemplate the completion of the peace treaty within the next two weeks, including the league of nations. The conference was an extended one, lasting from 3 oclock until 6 oclock. It had been intended that the meeting should occur at the White House," but the program was changed and the conferees met in the apartment of E. M. House at American headquarters.

M. Orlando, the Italian prime minister, did not attend the conference as the discussion principally concerned Great Britain, France and the United States. During the meeting Captain Tardieu of the French peace delegation visited the apartment of Colonel House. Great interest attached to the meeting owing to a report that there was a divergency in views on some of the main questions to be discussed. Lord Robert Cecil, after a conference with Premier Lloyd declared tonight in behalf of the British delegation that the league of nations covenant, in the opinion of (Continued on page 2) FOURTH DEATH REPORTED NEW YORK COMA SICKNESS 4' 4 NEW YORK, Mrreh 18 An- other death from epidemic coma or sleeping sickness, making the 6 fourth to date, was repotted to the health depaitment today.

George, congress was understood have lpen discussed today at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet which was at-I ended by Secretary Glass, Acting Secretary Polk, Postmaster General Burleson and Attorney General Palmer. rainier. SELLING COUNTERFEIT DISCHARGES FOR $12 IN SAN FRANCISCO iBy Associated Tress) ANGELES, Manli 18. ('nun-army discharges are being sold to deserting soldiers by a San Francisco printing firm, according to a confession which the police here said tonight had been made to them by Otto Merten. Arrested as an at leged deserter, Merten showed what purported to be an honorable discharge.

examination showed that it was counterfeit. Under questioning. admit ted, according lo oll'irers. that lie had deserted from the army in San Francisco a few days ago and had bought the counterfeit discharge for $12. PLOT DISCOVERED TO STEAL MILLIONS IN ARMY GOODS MlNlcn, March 18 The po- lice have discovered a plot lo steal aimy goods valued at ten million marks.

Twenty-four per- sons were arrested. Wife of President George Greenwood of Trust Company Killed Instantly While Walking in Garden THREAT AGAINST BANKER Investigation Fails Disclose Whether Bomb Was Thrown or Picked Up By Woman During Walk OAKLAND, March 18. Mrs. George Greenwood, wife of the vice-president of the Savings Union Bank nd Trust Company of San Francisco, was killed instantly by a bomb explosion tonight in the garden of the family home overlooking Lake Merritt in IHe residential district of this city. The police have announced that investigation has failed to disclose whether the bomb was hurled at Mrs.

Greenwood or whether she picked it UP while walking about the garden. Greenwood was ill in bed at his home at the time. No one else was in the Continued on Page 3 -g Cabinet members who attended lie ta 1 1P Pi8iie. meeting, it was understood, do not AMERICAN BREWERIES MAY plan any further recommendations to; nND COMFORT IN MEXICO the president regarding an extra ses-i sion as it is their belief that Secre-j WASHINGTON, Mar. 18.

Advices tary Glass covered the situation ade- (o je state department today from quately yesterday in cabling the preM- Mexico City said American brewers dent as to the situation in a number distillers bad been making in-of departmental bureaus as a i quiries in Mexico as to the possibii- of failure by the last congress to 0f starting their industries be-certain appropriation bills. ow i0 (Rande in event the American law completely prohibits manufacture and sale of alcoholic i beverages." par.j The president of the supreme court PARIS, March 18. The Petit sian announces that an agreement Mpic0 waa in Patches has been reached between the allies a aa-vln thp American com panics would be given facilities for establishing their factories in Mex-' ico. I (Continued on page two).