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HORRORS • tively WE tOULOJfr 1$ELL THAT OF 1 \ DRESS pouutls Worn? fn Parisian fashion® failed r* shouted Fired Full Into the Face of Deputy — Arrowsm th. _ It. There goods In Ho has n wife and children living near CHIEF AND GIRL tate. and Federal Officers Have Been After Him for a — —Year;—-r— : — r LADYMESSELL Love, Treaspn. Theft and Brib- .\ery. Figure in tional Story. GIRL IS USED AS LURE V • . Officer Onoe Decorated for Bravery by Czar Believed to Be Most Unscru pulous Rascal In Criminal Rec ords of Russia. Stockholm.—Dftgmar (jje-Gysser, sev- inteercye§r-old daughter of a Russian general smoked many -cigarettes In her cell—and smiled. In an adjacent cell’morose and un communicative, ColT Mohammed-Beck Hadjetlache, ex-chlefjoTl^Cpssffck reg iment, wounded and-ddcorated personally by the czar for. brilliant leadership and bravery In the war,“3e- 1 fled detectives who sought to prove him the most unscrupulous rascal in thf criminal rec*>rds of the country. Elsewhere in the prison 50 members Journalist Ardasheff, who had Arrived/ / shortly before Hadjetlache, bqckpd by Jtweuty million rubied, to conduct a propaganda bureau. It was Arda-' shefTs surrender to the white lights that caused him to forget his mission. Ho had the money and believed him self Beyond the hand of the Moscow government. Hadjetlache really had been named t<T succeed Ardnsheff, -and, arriving here, found the latter turning to profit able account what he knew uboiit’the" bolsfh'evlstlc secrets by selling Informa tion £o the antis. - — —4-— Doorman Is Among Missing. One Knive, an ex-wrestler, doorman at the bolshevlst legation, was another Ivhoni the colonel quickly marked for j the government's revenge. For Knive hud turned - informer ;to the Swedish % government, with fhe result that the legation wns expelled from the coun*. try Just before tills occurred, how ever, the legation was looted of a tre mendous sitm in rubles and Halve dlsapp^n red. Hadjetlache notified Moscow of Ar- dnsheflTs change in allegiance and tpe of a bolshevlst gang stampeded to tell { word came hack to “extinguish” him, the police what they knew concerning the fate of men alleged to have been according to the police. Then the colonel called on Dagmar. lured to “murder Island” by Dagmar, She had loved the “king of the Indies." who Is said to be the fiancee of the! ** Ardasheff ,style<jLhlmself, and wns Cossack colonel. , J.. . furious when he deserted her. Hadjet- Reveal Workings of Gang. Inche played hpon her fury. He also 'About these two, the police say, have enlisted the aid of the monarchists revolved the machinations of holshe- because Ardasheff had once been open- vlst-and-royalist-Russian plotters eu; ly,bolshevistic._ t - gaged In a duel of wits and duplicity. Hadjetlache Is said to stand revealed as the leader of a Russlaif apache gang whose sympathies and services swung hack and forth to the side with the most money. The colonel established himself here a9 the agent of Nikolai Lenlne. Soon, however, he appears to have “sold out” the cause of bolshevism In favor of the royalists. Next they were de serted for neutral forces. Rut there after his affiliations became foo mixed and conflicting for understanding and the^ police are seeking simply to know thut murder- and robbery were the crimes In which he collaborated with the girl. Arriving' here last November, the Cossack established” a bolshevlst agency with a corps of agents, charged l>y the Moscow government with fhe task- of destroying The gmiliter-revolu tionary staff by murderer kidnaping If less strenuous means fAiled. Claim American "involved. On llndjetlache’s staff are said to have been Reginald Lehr, an American. | sysisljtuilty, two Russian flying officers. Cleg and Ivor Snitsevsky. their wives, Profes sor Llttlnger, a German musical tutor whose constant companion was a handsome widow; Colonel Poulova, formerly of the Russian army, and 80 other men and women. The colonel.soon met the Russian General Pe Gysser, who lived here In exile with his two sons, George and Louis, und the schoolgirl. Dagmar. Girl Begins Her Plotting. Dagmar resumed her calls on Ardn- shoff. Frequently at night her llmou- i sine was seen to draw up under the trees In front of his villa, until one night when he came out-with her and they went riding together. He wiis never seen alive again. Last week a Russian living on the Island of—BoHstanns, where Harljet- lnche lmd his villa, Informed the police of mysterious nocturnal happenings. There was n raid and 50 persons, In cluding the Cossack and his ybung sweetheart, were lodged In jail As a result of the haul of evidence. Lehrs denied knowledge of nny wrongdoings, but others.confessed that Ardasheff, after being lured to Ilndjet- laehe’s home, was bound and gagged for -frventy-slx hours, tortured “Tand taunted'and accused of treason to "bol shevism. Mennwlxifa his home was-be ing looted. Then Ardasheff’.s bonds were cut and lie wos-^tried by a court- martial" on n treason charge. Twenty men composed tlie court and their ver- ALWAYS SLIPS AWAY yy ar Veterans* Line Up for Morgan Home-Loan Bill He Cut Notch in Rifle for Every Time He Shot a Man; There I Wouldn't Be Any " ^ Butt LefL J 7 - Hillsboro, N. C.,—Nobody will sleep In Hillsboro or the cowvtry around un til "Outlaw Joe”’ RUey.-is-caugbt. "Outlaw Joe" is a moonshiner, slack er and assassin. If he cut a notch in his rifle for every time he sln?t a main there wouldn't he any butt left to his gun. -- - / . - For a year the state and -federal of- ■ - ■ 9 -»-»■—-■ W ASHINGTON.—Posts of the American Legion In several parts of the couu- try are lining up behind a hill recently Introduced In congress by Repre sentative Dick. T. MorgaTr'Pf- Oklahoma, by which any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine may borrow 84.000 from the government to buy or build a home, repayment to be made within a period Of (Kb years,-with In terim Interest on the- principal of 3% per cent per year. v Congressman Morgan’s hill pro- ficefSTiave beert after him. but he al ways slips away, says Sheriff Rose- -f ham of orange county. • ' . „ * “I’ll pay a good prlee-tA anybody \tho brings him in. dead or alive!" Shoots United States Collector, ltiley is sought hy UTlele Shut Ymr tnoonshining and for shooting Deputy Collector T. M. Arrow-smith. « revenue officer. He is wanted by the army for refusing to register for the dnaft. And ho is'wanted by the sjate for several shootings ami for Jiiiffpirr? hail. poses to create a government corpora tion with $100,600,006 capital, sub scribed by the , federal government. The corporation Is to be authorized to make a loan up to $4,000 to any hon-' orably discharged soldier, seaman or marine, to be nsed In fh*^ purchase of a home. Loans may run for the entire time limit—of 60 years, or taken up In whatever payments the soldier'can make. The interest Is to be per cent on the unpaid principal,'with amortization payments on—that, made annually. T he loan may be made to the full appraised value of the home and ltd Improvements. — I lie $100,000,000 capital to be furnished by the government under the * bill will be used as a working or revolving fund. The chief fum^for-finafretug the proposition will be obtained through the issue and sale of bonds, limited by the amount of mortgages held by the corporation. * To Insure the sale of these bonds at a low rate of Interest, the bill pro vides that the government shall guarantee payment of both principal und the Interest. To meet any losses the corporation may sustain, the bill provide®* one of the hostesses for the-- London social season. — - ~ ’ of the surrendering kind. He raised Ids shotgun and fired a charge full into the face of Deputy Arrowsmltb. By some miracle Arrowsmlth’s eyes-were missed, but the rest of his face Is still Lady Jessell, wife of Sir Jessell and j f u |j 0 f slua n shot. daughter of Sir Jullni} GoldsrahJ, Is ^ Recently Joe ltiley shot thrdfigti the head a companion whom he aqpused of having reported his Jtitopjoshine. Still to the revenue officers. I'm- com panion recovered, and so loyal are ihe members of Riley’s gang to their lea der that he rejoined him. ... ltiley was arrested for this shooting letter he had first jumped from ih>‘ sec ond-story window 1 of his none* when the offleers came to gel him. aud "had shot six times at Deputy Collector A. P. Cates! He was placed under bond. Jrut he junn>ed It and fled to the hills. Recently .he \yus euught making moonshine whisky But Joe Isn't one for the accumulation of an ample or guarantee fund. Taken Before “Court-Martial." 6 But tin* Cossack was not satisfied, lie believed Ardasheff possessed a se cret hank account and Intended to get it. So the Journalist was offered his life If he would sign a blank check. Ardasheff signed. j the body-In a sack, welght~It with ^ rocks and throw It Into the hay. When the buy wns dragged hy the police they recovered not only Arda- shefTs body, with the cord still knotted around the neck, but two others, which 1 were Identified as those of the» wrestler Halve and a polish Jew named I.e- witzkl, who was known to have been “in wrong” with the- holshevlsts in Petrograd because of inenshevlKtic writings from his pen. / v w— The police now claim ttvhav*e learned that Lewltzki was taking French les sen from .Dagmar. and that she lured him. as well as her exVsweethenrt, to the den of the Cossack. But while the other prisoners are signing confession^ in the hope 4»f re ceiving leniency. Hadjetlache, the Cos sack. keeps his own counsel, refusing even to deny Ills guilt. And Dagmar lights one cigarette ufter_juiotfier and smiles at her jailers. * Soldiers will not have to break home ties, [eave their friends, give up their prudent employment and business, and go to distant states tQ obtain the beueflts of tile act. The benefits will be equitably distributed to every state. Under the plan proposed by Secretary Lane, embodied In the Mondell bill, only.farm homes will be provided. ■_ .. Contrabass Sarrusophone Stumps Army Officers A SIMPLE and a civil question—can an army teacb a man to play the con trabass sarrusophone?—almost lost a recruit to the military establish ment und cuused some trepidation at the war department. Elmer Swann of Hagerstown, Md., who. has “reodjapd^/ musical pieces with the home bnnd, en- It was hut a few days until the gen eral and his children were enmeshed In the Cossack's schemes. Even now It Is not clear to the In vestigators whether General De Gys ser and his children were In the pay of the holshevlsts'. They purported to be staunch counter-revolutionists, and when they Joined forces with ItnrlJoP lnche he was temporarily on the side of the royalists—a violent detracTor I**- Of Lenlne and the Moscow government that hud him sent here with .unlimited money. Led Two Murder Leagues. - The colonel established a newspaper, 43 the Echo of Russia, w better to carry out his pretense to royalist sen timents. but the police have now- learned that all the while be was In constant touch with Lenlne, rei>orting freqlientiy the progress of the counter revolutionary plots. At one period, the police said, Ilad- Jetlache was the leader of two opposing murder leagues—the anti-revolution ists and the reds—each faction bent oil the extinction of the other. As u side line he Is said to have dabbled In robbery, and thftt Is where Dagmar appeared as the lure. 7T"-*■ M"-*’ on h f r waistline causes arrest smiling lips, Dagmar bad her i wenge. Before her eyes a rope, was thrown . ... .... ; around Ardnsh*ff’s_-,»eek and Hadjet- * kinr V lndivid « al With Midri « L,k « Fatty Arbuckle Attracts Police Attention. . — '.Incite slowly strangled him tp death. The police say the girl helped place --f 1 Offenders “Fined” to Save; They Get So They Like It In the police courts of NeW York state it Is getting to be a coimmm practice to sentence minor offenders to a term of saving, and in %racuse last year S.'i.iMHi was invested In th!i wnjr • in war savings..stamps,, all, later | returned to’ the men or used to t help their families. At Niagara Falls, when David Broderick was placed on probation six months, ago and-ordered to give the probation officer $12 a week for war savings stamps, he com plained bitterly. At the end of six months he received $230.50 worth of stamps, and he volnn^ - tarily placed himself oh indef inite probation, promising to bring in $10 a week to continue his savings-investment. Among the autl-bolshevlsts was the ^.., Brooklyn, N. Y.—A young man as skinny as a living skeleton in a circus • went ift'o-o-tnUor shop the other »lay and emerged in a few minutes with a i waistline like Fatiy Arhuckle’s. I’a trolman Jerry McMahon, who wit nessed the' transformation from the ; corner, watched the man waddle slow ly down the steps Into a cellar Then he called his partner, 1 Walsh, and. stairs, made a dash through <lpqi\^ y * “He must have weighed 300 and^jiow he has ducked,” exclaimed McMahon, just as his pa “Loq.HL here!” J' \ -Walsh had stumbled over a bolt of navy unfforin cloth and a large "quan tity unwound from another bolt, was perhaps $1,000 worth of the pile. ~’ < S , *• — The fugitive, skinny once more, was found hiding In a_dumh-walter and ar rested on a_burghrry charge. He gave his name as Joseph Riches und said h»; lived over tlje tailor shop. AUTO TIRES SALVAGED IN FRANCE A/Tmy IF TH'ARMT WILL TEACH ME TO PLAY TtfCOKTRASRUS MARU5OPN0HC fLL J0IH- ' tered the army recruiting office ut 509 Tenth street und said he would enll.>t in the army If he could be taught to play the contrabass sarrusophone. \ .The sergeant seemed undecided as to whether to thrown him out o£ take him seriously. ITien he asked the f'ap- tjiln. The captain assumed an attitude of deep thought and. murmuring some Inaudible plea, retired to his back room, where he telephoned the iiiujor at the war department. “Just hold the wire," the major answered and rushed to the colonel. \ “That,” said the .colonel, “Is a matter, which requires some deliberation. I will send you the desired Information in a moment.” When thq majt»c,had departed he frantically called up a hand leader at Washington barracks and learned that- the ufore-ipentioned Instrument Is something like a bassoon, and is taught In the army. Whether or not Its simil itude to a bassoon made the character of the sarrusophorfe more comprehen sible to the colonel he made the following notation to the major: “Of course the contrabass sarrusophone Is taught in array bands. It resembles the bassoon und Is a very Important Instrument." “You should have all that Information at your finger’s ends," the; major telephoned the captain. “The Instrument you speak of is like a bassoon and our bands would sound fiat without It.” * - What the captain told Jhe sergeant is not known, but the sergeaat told the prospective rhcrntno^slgn the dotted line. He also added—to himself—that this “baboon” business was new to him and, probably, some new feature of the educational scheme,-— <-■ TIED TOGETHER, TRY JO DIE j ~ • L ... ’ , *5* Buddh st Superstition Believed to Have Inspired the Act of Eleven Koreans. Seoul. Korea.—An extraordinary at tempt of eleven Koreans to commit suicide by tying themselves together with a rope and then jumping over-. is reported, from the treaty por; of Chemulpo, about twentytfive miles southwest of Seoul* The Incident occurred on. a-ferry boat running bet weed tiienmlpo^nd a nearby island. The boat wlls sTopped all Were picked up but three were. j The net is believed to hriye been m' spired by .BHddhlsL-supiM-stiT'Um. AMERICA Rug as Loan Security. Rending. I’a.—Belle G. Nve of Man Istee, Ml^h.. lias starled-® replevin ac- i tlop u?gatt&: KTX^Ilalnw ;pid the ex i e<tutors of the late Walter S. Davis, a ; : Rending business man, to irecover : | jxugj-valued aT ?2.fX1P. TTalmv'u PhTTi* f l,s said to. have ghyn ft t«» as sorority for ft |osn v . Tin- I plaintiff deriares It l*elongs tv nerunff j j that she loaned It to liulow for ex- i One nT The first photographs receive*! in rh»- United Stare* shovrTtig a pHe hihltton purposes. The sheriff took j of auton^TTe nod autotruck ttree*salvaged from the A. E. F. Much of this the rug from ih®J>av1* mansion to a | material, discarded as unfit for further service, has gone Into the bands of (ho . hank vault until the owcervhip ta de liquidation commiasloo for aal®. » . elded legallj. the village of Caldwell, Nr C. b^41e_lgfjw-famous down here in Or ange coqtiTy~Ka. tjie notorious Allen family Is In the mountains of Virginia. “Riley used ' to come boldly to Hills boro three or four times a week and spend his money-In the general store. Once, he flashed a roll of thirty-two hundred-dollnr hills. -—- Deputy Arrowsmltb, the particular ' enemy of Riley, Is the right-hand man of Col. Vanderford, chtef-ot tl^e reven ue raiders In the Carolina, district. He’s Efficient Raider. He has the reputation of being one af_JTie most efficient raiders In the countfy. In stature and appearance he greatly resembles 'the ascetic; thlc faced movie actor.. William S., Hurt— and he is Just as “quick on fhe draw.” .He has an almost iincanny-“nose” for stills—athey say he can smell one two iiiiles away. Arrowsmltb works-practically afiftie, .except tlvt occasionally Sheriff Knse- nmn of Orange county accompanied fitfirrm—his raids.- IthrnletTiods differ from those of the Virgii||^ moonsliine raiders in that he jih»es'hl8 work entirely at night. VV’ith an eldctrlc flasbliglit to a d lunu its only an excellently, camouflage*! dis tillery path In the \vo**d<That escapes him. * Voila Kid Skirts for American Profiteeresses W ASHINGTON modistes are exercised over reports from .Paris thatvdesign- ers are telling American buyers that If they don’t like the new kne«- length skirt style—“they can lump It!"—or the equivalent In parlevou* Tfancnis. The latter threw up their hands and vowed they’d never. posL not ever, dare to. take homn girls. Their hostility toward the “last awaken the old-time solicitous Interest of the creators. Of course It’s too had, the latter said, but explained that they’re really rushed to death making things to reveal the pretty calves of their own girls. And would Monsieur Amerlcaln please not paw over the goods If^he w-asn’t going to buy ’em? Kids are responsible for the ruction. For when it was decidej to fashion this season’s skirts from hides .of the capric younger set, the designers wotted not of structural limitations imposed thereon thereby. —\ The sons and daughters of, William and Nanny Goat are such little fellow* that, V you’re adhering to a one-skin-skirt principle, that skirt has got to be ull-fired short. Paris is adhering i^.nd the skirts certainly are. — JWelL all the profiteeresses" arid other rich ladies will shoe-horn them-, selves intoxklnds this fall-^-except those who, less pecunlous, choose- to reveal tbelr-legs through transparent creations.* In formed years Parisian designers have worked to please the American girl; she was their principal customer and what pleased her had to please every one else.^ Now It transires that during the war the French women have become subscribers to Purl^ fashions to such an extent that all styles are created with a view to pleasirig her first, others Incidentally. ¥ Twelve to Bury Giant r I>»r«loiu3^tl iiwfuict'd 12 ineu io t)ury Jonathan Swan. "TTA* Ley land ^ giant The coffin measured three fi*« * w ide, nix feet nine In* he* long. and. w* h the Utdr weighed 1.199 pound*. X.. hears* could be secured large enough to earn the remain*. The 12 men took 3t) min uteu to get the coffin into position it the grave- *„ *'• Wide Range of Schools Open for War-Disabled \ ^ O F THE 546 schools, colleges and universities which have "opened -ihelr doors for the re-education\aiid vocational training of discharged soldiers, sailors ami marines disabled In me world war, more than 100 ^r;e In the middle Wel*t, and of these -30 are in Chicago, with seven others Jin Ullnolsr® to the federal hoard of vocatlLuial e4^»- cation, while eight commercial and in\ ™ *—® K dustrlul establishments in Illinois, of which six are in Chicago, have under taken to train disabled men. It is the policy of the utilize existing institutions for instruc tion rather than to get up special school* and classes for the re-educa tion of wounded soldiers for civ lb life, and aiso to assign the men, wherever L f*M#H.bh\ to fnstiHUlotnf m r»r neafThetr home. A total of 23 course* ha* 1 provided, thn instruction ranging from l»ee mlrure to hoilermakikg. farm ngenient to jihotography. and from concrete construction, sheet metal work* •uto mechanic*, and plumbing to *ale>ti)ansb:p, th^plog^mUmhhd cutting, medicine, and dramatic art. * Kdocat-oaal institutioo* to Chicago to -whe L disabled I. »imh*/ If. . . * v —— •aW