The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-20
PINE BLUFF WILL
 GET NAVY LEAGUE
MRS. w. C. MAURICE HOME AND REPORTS CHAPTER IS TO BE
 FORMED TUESDAY.
Money to Be Derived From Big Show in Auditorium Will Buy Material for Sailors Kits.

Returning home after mot sue .cessful campaign in Pine BllW Mrs. W. G Maurice, state organ ger for the Navy League, reports tha the patriot ic men and women of that city have rallied 10 the support of this great ma tionel organization and that on next Tuesday nlght the Pine Bluff chapter Of the Navy Leag1e will be organized.
 Mrs Maurice carried with aer letters to officials and prominent citizens Of Pine Bluff given her by Mayor simon B oom, who is gues at the Majestic Hotel These letters were of great as sistance and pun Mrs. Maurice in m- mediate touch with the leading and progressive men and women of that .cty She cal ed upon he Chamber of Commerce officials and although they were at the time Interested in enter tanning the Arkansas Public Utilities Association. they gave Mrs. Maurice an
 immediate hearng and Secretary l.. E. Bloom pledged for the citizens of Pine Bluff too kits for the men aboard the ba tle-lip Arkaueas.
 "1 had a most delightful time while in Pine Bluff and the men and women | called on have given me the great est possible assistance. I cannot speak too highly Of their cooperation They
 anted to know what Little Rock ana Hot Springs had done in Navy League work. and when ] told them they said they would do their part, the equal 10 any other city. l certainty appreciate, too the letters given me by Mayor Bloom, for they made a feature of my work easy and they are oguc 10 have H bie and active chapter Of the Navy Lea-la organized there next Tuesday uElt said Mrs Maurice.
 A special meeting of tue ladies or the Orange $ rect Presbyt s,aa church uas been called 10 meet n the church Monday afternoon eG 8 o'clock, which meeting Mrs Maurice win attend, for sine is much interested n the big "-re- paredne-, entertainment to be given for the benefit Of the Navy League from that entertainment wl be used to buy material with which to make kits for the men aboard fine bareshp Arkau-as.
 The aJ-olue ueces .t that kits be made for the men in the navy was re- tered to d few days ago in dispatches from London. which told O. the arrival Of American naval forces here The men had not bad time Co get the warm or clothing uece- sary m the North sea climate. Re.e.rus 10 this fact officials 0, tue navy. n ji-pa 0H from Wash iuetoH Whru tated heavier garments were being -ent tae Americans. said
 'Io the women of the rntted States ia dre tae credi for glis measure of. protection Under dire tiog Uf the Navy League thousands O. American women have been knitting wooIeu gar neut- and Iecia fund has been ra sed 10 Duv rubber coats and lGt boots
 American wartlIps have never be .ole been called upon for service in such cold clina e- and therefore the regulation clothing oattt was not suit able Tor the North sea service against submarines Secretary uau.eis reeDg uIzed thls tact and Ii an official order called upon the Navy League 10 enlist the a.d of American women Tn supple meHrng the 0luela ket,' clothing
 Roth of1cers and enlisted men have written 'ettcrs 10 inc league extending the.r tnanA- to the American women
 It I- anticipated tho big cn7crta'n- ment m fue Auditorium will matera- lle Q snug sum for hc Nayr League. This show Vll be a patriotic one throughout No less tb4n seyeu5Iiye persons vll participate n it aud will Toe the greates and bisg feature of it. Kind th, city has ever seen