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Show WHITE SLAVERS SI TO HAVE BIGJIie Department of Justice Makes Arrests in New Mexico and Nevada . The existence of a white Slavs ring that haa been trafficking In young girls In t'tuh and Nevada la Indicated liy arrexts Just made hy department of JuMIre agentH at Onllup. X. M , and i Kly, Nev. Krlch Hohl. Hungarian musician mu-sician and alien enemy during the war, has been taken at Gallup. Mr. and Mn. Victor Ajax were arrested at Ely. The evidence In the possession of the authorities is to the effect that the three connived to transport Salt Lake girls to Nevada mining camps. Pohl was caught In New Mexico after an exciting- chase that took federal agents .from Tonnpah to Toronto, Canada, and bark again. Iy.aoftheglrl whose testimony i has been given to the federal-agentT 'are now In Tonopah and the third has I returned to Bait Ike. The ruse against the three defendants will be , heard at Carson City. Nev. I It is charged br the federal agents ' that Mr. and Mrs. Ajax operated .a 'cabaret at Kly In connection with houses of prostitution. l'ohl Is ; charged with being a traveling rep-resentatlve rep-resentatlve of the combine, who went 'about the country endeavoring to Induce In-duce girls to go to Kly as cabaret entertainers. en-tertainers. They were then made the .victims of a vicious system. It is 'claimed, that took them Into the un-'derworld. un-'derworld. I'ohl is alleged to have re-I re-I ceived a commission on nil candidates that he could procure. Mrs. AJaxt it Is claimed, Is well known to the underworld under-world of San Francisco as Madam Raymond. I Pohl was married In 8alt Lake In February, 191, to Cora Tlbbltts. On May 18. 1S18, she sued him for di- vorce. claiming the custody of a child of ten months. She declared In her complaint that Pohl had threatened to , put her "six feet unnergrounu, anu that she feared for her life. In a counter complaint, Pohl said that he was a citizen of Austria and j that his wife had lost her cltlsenshlp hy marrying him and was therefore not entitled to the protection of the ' laws of the United States. He said that she had become an alien enemy by taking his name. The case was dismissed by Judge Bramel. May 24, lli. and a new action ac-tion was brought by Mrs. Pohl. March 8 1920. At that time Pohl had disappeared dis-appeared and the notice of the action was published. In default of answer, 'a decree waa Issued January 11. 1320. and the decree became final In Decern-I I ber of last year. |