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The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12
MAY WORK OR STARVE
Rations to Men Beported From Bisbee
MAJ Cease.

Columbus n. NJ, Sept S.-A recon-
mendation was made to the War De-
partment today by the military au-
thorities here that further issuing of
rations to the men deported from Bis
bee, Ariz., July u, be discontinued
at once, 1t is contended that there
is plenty of work for the men to do
in the Southwest and that there is no
further need for the army to feed the
45O men encamped here. Originally
1,168 men We're camped here.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12
PLOT TO DESTROY ARMY HORSES
Arsenic Sprinkled On Hay Fed to
Animals.

Fort Sheridan, Sept. 8.-A poison
plot to destroy a consignment OF
army horses that may nave a part
of a nationwide spy plot with head
quarters in Chicago. was revealed to-
day when four horses at Fort Sheri-
dan died and others became i'll OF
arsenic poisoning Secret service
men from the office in Chicago were
notified by Colonel Ryan and upon
an analysis being made of the hay
fed to the horses, it was discovered
arsenic had been sprinkled on it.
That the arsenic he'd been put in
the hay while the horses were be-
ing shipped through Chicago is the
belief of the secret service men. They
believe it was done while the ship
ment was delayed for half day in
the stock yards.
The horses sent to Fort Sheridan
were a part of a consignment of five
carloads sent to Chicago from San
Antonio, Texas last Thursday
Guards were placed aboard the cars
when it left San Antonio and they
remained at their posts until the
cars arrived at the stock yards.
When the Fort Sheridan shipmen;
arrived Lieutenant F.. Metcalf,. post
veterinarian, discovered some of the
horses were sick. Two died last
night and within few hours others
become so sick that hopes of theil
recovery was abapdOned.
The secret service agents are
rounding up the guards and the rail
| road employees who had any connec
ton with the shipment of horses il
| an effort to discover clues.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12
Bad Stomachs
Business Failures

In this day of high efficiency more
failures are due to dsordered Stom-
achs than to any other cause. Moth
ing undermines the body and mind SO
quickly as Stomach Trouble. 1t saps
the energy and reduces ambition and
vitality to low ebb. Cathartics fire.
quentiy aggravate the trouble Over
come quickly your Stomach, Liver and
Intestinal Trouble with Mayr's Won
derful Remedy, as it reaches the seat
Of the disease. Millions have been re-
stored by it. Let one dose of Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy convince you to-
day. For sale by Boyer Drug Store.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12
Miss Vida Mccoy of HOratio has

Miss Vida Mccoy of HOratio has
accepted position with the w. l..
Lindsay store OF this city.
Frank Locks, Jr., left Tuesday for
San Antonio where he will again re-
sumo his studies in military school.
Miss Willingham of Helena and sist-
err, Miss Carrie Bell Schirmer, of
White Cliffs, were in Ashdown Satur-
cay.
Miss Willie Wood and brother, Mill
ard, Of aed Bluff. arrived Sund.y aft
elnoon to attend the Ashdown Public
School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Roberts have
returned to Evansville, Indiana, after
! a visit with the latters mother, Mrs.
Josie Potts
Friends of Ralph Hughes will be
glad to learn that he is rapidly I'M
proving and will soon be able to re-
turn home.
John Phillips, Sr., of Hicks School
IlOuSe lids lllOFtu HIS luHilly 10 Urls
city, where his children VIII atten.
the Ashdown school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Johnston of Fore
, man were here Sunday the guests of
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. I.
Johnston, Of the West Side
Judge ]. T. COwling who has been
critically i'll at his home in this CITY.
is reported to be resting better, though
his condition is yet serious.
Three members OF Company l were
left behind on account OF Illness Jim
Wright and Walter Abney had the
humps and Hal Perkins had not been
well for several days, so he was LEFT
to look after the other two until they
all were able to travel when they will
report at Fort Roots.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12
LOCAL NEWS

T B. REEVES of Winthrop was here
Friday,
]. C. Slusser was here from Wilton
Monday.
J. w Pipkin was here from Wilton
Monday.
T. E. Mccall was here from Wilton
Monday.
P. S. Davis was here from Arden
Tuesday.
T. w. Mccall was here from Wilton
Saturday.
N c. Cooper was here from Wilton
yesterday.
Miss Ella Skinner was a Wilton Wis
itor Sunday.
Jim Pipkin of Wilton was in the
city Monday.
Jet Orion of Fulton spent Sunday
in this city.
Will Steel of Texarkana was in the
city yesterday
Earnest Pender was here from Mill
wood Monday.
Bob Bowles of Bokhoma spent Sun
day in this city.
Tom ,Rieves was here from Win
throp yesterday.
DIR. w. H. Toland was here from
Nashville Monday.
B. F. Love OF Richmond wss an Ash
down visitor Monday.
T. ]. Bass of Winthrop was trading
in this city Saturday.
Mrs Cash OF Wilton was shopping
in the city Saturday.
George w. Hull of near Lockesburg
was in the city Monday.
Mrs. Lon Coats of Paraloma is visit
ing relatives in this city.
Rev. w. T. Sullivan left Monday for
Benton county for week
Jack Crawford motored to this city
from Ben Lomond Saturday.
Mrs. P. S. Trustworthy of Wilton was
shopping in the city Saturday.
E. E. White of Lockesburg visited
with Judge J. S. Steel Monday.
Willis Holmes left yesterday for
Conway to enter Hendrix College.
Miss Ruth Fawcett returned Sun
day from visit to Morris Ferry.
r. A. Davis and wife and son, Robt
were here from Wildwood Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Anderson left
Monday for visit at Port Arthur. )
Mr.. and Mra J. G. Slusser of Wiltor
were shopping in the city Monday.
Chas. H. Park, who has been i'll fol
several days, is again able to be up.
Miss Lavada Cobb returned Sunda,
from visit with friends at Magnolia
Mrs. A. T. Hemphill and daughter
Mss Mary. were in Ashdown Monday
Miss Hemphill left FOR Fayetteville
n whore she will enter the University
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12

Alex Sanderson o. TeXarkana is
here visiting mis- brothers, Hiram and
III.
3. " FaWcett of BenLomond was
attending to business in this city Sat
urGay.
3 Or. AID Mrs. Gorham OF Wilton Wis
ted their son, Lee, of Company l,
Friday.
, Ted Hughes has returned from Mis-
! .0Uri, where lie has been spending the
summer.
! Mss Louise Williams left Sunday
to spend a week with her parents in
Foreman.
Dr. Marion York o. Little Rock ar
rived Saturday to visit his brother,
CT. w. W. York
Miss Annie Black of Foreman is the
guest OF friends and relatives in the
city this week.
Misses Lula and Willie Lewis OF
, Richmond are visiting their sister,
Mrs. Irwin Joyner
Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Gardner of Pey-
, tonyille motored to this city Monday
in their new Buick.
IsadOr Marquis returned home
Tuesday after few days visit with
friends in this city.
Andy Hooper of Foreman was here
SunG y visiting his son, who is a
member of Company l.
Hamp Alexander has returned from
label to again accept position with
the Ashdown Ice & Power Co.
Will Black of Searcy has accepted
position in the postoffice here. Nh
Black is a brother of Mrs. Hin.
Curry Freeman leaves Thursday for
Fayetteville where he will enter the
University for the 1917-18 term.
w. H. Block of Nashville arrived
Monday to take charge of the Johnson
DuLaney farm as superintendent
Mrs. H. B. Wilson returned from a
summer vacation trip Thursday night.
She remained in st. Louis visiting
with her brother after Mr.. Wilson
came home.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12
3 MULES FOR SALE--O. d. Turner.

A BARGAIN have a Houck Player
Piano for sale cheap or will trade
for corn or anything most you want
to trade on. Will trade for automo-
bile and pay or take the difference
r M. Price It's SO
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12
OLD SCRAP IRON WANTED-Wt

will pay you cash for Old Iron csc
per 100 lbs, Bones dry soc per 100
lbs, Rags 1.25 per 100 lbs. Will pay
above prices until Sept Goth only. In
quire at K. C. S. Cotton platform or
Johnson Hotel.-OklahOma Junk Co. 3
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-12

WANTED-PianO Player-Apply at
Royal Theater.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
American Steel for
Japan's Destroyers

WASHINGTON, Aug. Whether
Japan may obtain in the United states
steel for her naval building programme
is an open question and is likely to
be the subject of ir mediate diplo-
matte exchanges. The naval pro-
crammc calls for the building OF three
superdreadnaughts, two bsttle-cruls-
ers, three light cruisers and severf
smaller vessels. in addition 10 six de-
stroycrs, work upon which is being
rushed. as they take the place OF
part Of the Japanese feet of torpedo
boat destroyers fighting submarines IN
the Mediterranean.
No objection is expected to be made
by this government 10 permitting
Japan TO obtain steel here for the de-
Stroyers, but there is considerable
doubt concerning the expectation OF
materials for the construction of the
larger wGrships. The United States
has itself postponed the building OF
heavier ships, concentrating all its en-
ergies and resources upon the build
ing of anti-submsrine craft, princi-
pally destroyers. One of the several
reasons for the postponement Of work
on the larger ships is the heavy de-
mand made on Americas steel output
for this countrys war needs as well
as those OF the European Allies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Honduras Suggests Union
Five Central American State,
to Discuss Proposal

LA LIBERTAD, Salvador, Aug 81
Prospects appear bright fer confer.
snce to d..cuss the political union o.
the FIVE Central American republic,
The Honduras government, when II.
project came up Of assembling con.
ference to renew the peace agreement,
concluded in 1907, the ten-year period
Of which is about TO expire, suggested
that the scope OF the conference b.
enlarged 70 take into consideration ~.
closer union Of the FIVE countries. Tn.
invitation Of Honduras for the calling
OF a Central American congress % thi.
end has been replied to fsyorably. j, il
now understood, by Salvador, Gua..
mala, Costa Rics ard Nicaragua. while
Honduras has alredy appointed tao
delegates as a preliminary move.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
u. S. Officers Urge
Allied Naval Attack
Success of Fleets in Gulf Of
Trieste 1. Cited as
Precedent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3l.--In the
opinion OF some naval authorities here
what is being done In the Gulf OF
Trieste, where British and Italian ships
have been risked, but none lost. ought
to be done now, as being better late
than never, along the coast Of Flanders
and even of the German coast. The
monitors, following mine sweepers
could lead the attack, it was said, sup
ported in the rear by the Allied fleets.
which would come into action II the
German feet should appear. The Allied
naval strength would have to be great
or Off the German coasts, rs the Ger
man strength is greater than that OF
the Austrians.
"A place like Zeebrugge should not
be permitted to have a moments re-
spite. day or night" declared q high
army officer to-day. who asserted that
az long as there lacked an intelligent
naval offensive so long would lives be
sacrificed prodigally. in many instances
without justification. on the Flanders
front.
THE wholesome respect OF the Brit
ish people for American expert opinion
is having decided effect upon the
popular mind in England" stated this
authority, land it is expected the COM
ing months will witness new depart
ures in naval strategy on the part of
the Allies, especially England"
II was explained that strategy often
is influenced by public opinion. and
the volume of pressure for sea action
in some of the Allied countries was
attributed both to the popular dis
satisfaction with the lack Of decisive
results on land and also to criticisms
emanating from American sources. II
was intimated, however, that II ships
are to be riSked England will request
the United States TO participate in the
operations on a scale comparable to
England's share in the offensive.
Naval officials here are not disclos-
ing the plans OF the United States con-
corning possible naval operations d.
rected against either Germany's bases
or feet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Ship Board Ready
For Labor Problem
lSiAr Cnrrtannr d,rN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3l.-The Ship
ping Board announced to-day the ap-
pointment of Edward +. Carry, Of Chi.
cago. president OF the Haskell Barker
Car Company, as representative Of the
board on the Labor Adjustment Com
mission. This completes the member
ship of the Adjustment Commission,
which will have charge of the set
Element of labor disputes in ship
yards where the Shipping Board or
Emergency Fleet Corporation have
ships under construction or repair.
The President has already designated
V. Everit Macy, Of New York, to repre-
sent the public on the Adjustment
Board, and Samuel Gompers has. APP
pointed Alfred J. Berries, secretary OF
the Metal Trades Department Of the
American Federation OF Labor, to rep
resent labor. Louis p. Wehle has been
appointed counsel for the Adjustment
Board.
The newly created Labor Board will
soon leave for Seattle, the centre OF
the recent labor disputes affecting the
Emergency Fleet Corporations con
struction programme. 1t will be the
policy OF tho board, ~ was stated, 10
get into personal touch with employers
and labor leaders wherever disputes
over wages or conditions of labor de-
volop BY appealing to the patriotic
impulses of labor, and by manifestins
an absolutely juicial viewpoint tow
ard matters in controversy, it is ex-
pected the new Adjustment Board will
greatly facilitate the work of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation.
The contracts for three government
owned shipyards and for building stand
ardized fabricated steel merchant ships
were finally awarded to-day by Admiral
Capps. general manager of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation, to the Sub
marine Boat Corporation, American In
ternational Corporation and the Mer-
chant Shipbuilding Corporation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
New Line Pleases Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile. Aug. 3l.-Thc en-
bassies of Brazil, Uruguay and Para
quay continue TO be the recipients of
banquets and other marks OF esteem
from TIE Chilean government, society
circles and the people. The newspapers
attribute TO these events much impor.
lance concerning the future interna-
tional solidarity OF South America.
A good impression also has been
made by the news that the United
States Shipping Board proposes 10 es-
tsbiish a direct steamer line between
New York and Valparaiso. so that the
steaming time from Santiago and
Buenos AyrsS to New York will be only
twenty days. Cordial cable messages
in this regard have been exchanged be-
tween Secretary Of the Treasury Nc
Adoo. who is president of the Inter
national High Commission, and the
Chilean Financial Minister.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Newark to Get
One of Three Big
u. S. Shipyards
Contracts Signed Amount
ing to $35, 900, 900 to Con-
struct Merchantmen

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3l.--Contracts
for construction Of three government
owned shipyards for building fabrl-
Gated steel merchant vessels were
awarded tonight by the Submarine
Boat Corporation for a plant at New.
ark, X. j.: the American international
Corporation for one at Hog Island
Penn, and the Merchants Shipbuilding
Company for one at Chester. Penn.
The yards will cost $35,000,O00, and
the government is given an option 70
purchase the lands on which they are
located. The builders Of the yards are
given contracts for building in them
two hundred ships. The prospects are
that contracts for many more vesse!s
will be let when these are completed
and more money is available.
The Submarine corporation Will lay
ways for building twenty-eight ships
simultaneously, and will have facilities
and equipment to turn out one o,0OO-
ton ship every two days after the first
vessel is completed.
The origin of the plan for construct
ing fabricated ships was outlined to-
night by the National Shipbuilders" As
ISOLATION in a statement which said:
"The plan was first suggested by
Henry Sutphen, vice-president OF the
Submarine Corporation, to the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation last April. II
called for utilizing the facilities Of
structural steel ships that heretofore
have been furnishing fabricated steel
for bridge building, structural steel
buildings water towers and other con-
struction.
Owing TO tn. scarcity Of ship steel
i'm plates and shapes on account OF the
large naval programme under way, and
the limited rolling capacity of the steel
plants, the ships built Of structural
steel with parts fabricated from stand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Army Absorbs Two
Volunteer Ambulances

Eliot Norton announced yesterday he
could no longer accept volunteer. for
the American Red Cross Ambulance or
the Harjes-Norton sections, both of
which have been on duty in France
because they had been miltarized. An.
plications must now be made 70 the
Surgeon General of the United States
army.
The Red Cross will dispatch units
Of the Bureau OF Sanitary Service, with
bscteriologists and sanitarian., to as
sst in establishing proper sanitary
control among civilians in the areas adj
joining seven National Army canton
ments. Cities which are to receive
Red Cross cooperation in preventing
epidemics from the camps are Little
Rock, Ark; Louisville, Ky; Des
Moines. Iowa; Lesvenworth, Kan; Hat
tiesburg. Miss; Petersburg Va, and
Admission, Ala.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

lean industries Germany would to-day
be dominating the world.
"Conscript incomes and profits and
We shall have no one 10 buy our bonds.
We are raising larger taxes IN the nrst
wear OF the war than Great Britain IN
her third. The war is likely 20 end,
and | believe will end. before the bur
ders We are now levying are turned
into the Treasury. We may well CO.
operate to strike a staggering blow at
the enemy, but need not strike our
selves at the same time"
Bv a strategic move, the Senators
fighting for higher rate on war proilts
got Senator Johnson's amendment
nlaced in position for the first vote.
Both sides expressed confidence to
night. but the plan of the high tax
group is TO offer Senator Johnson 5
maximum levy provision first, and il
that is defeated, TO follow with other
PROPOSITIONS 10 secure acceptance OF
the highest possible rate.
Senator S.noot warned the Senate
against levying too high a tax on
business. declaring 4 this we're done
ruin would result. He added that n
Senator Johnson realized the eject his
amendment would have he would not
press it.
Pleads for Mercy to Business
"If business is made 10 pay pronts
tax of 80, 20 or 90 per cent and an
income tax there will be few lett IT
the close of this war TO pay dollar for
dollar on what has been invested, ne
declared. Millions OF dollars have
been spent in the extension OF plants
that after the war will hardly beTorth
10 cents on the dollar.
Compulsory payment OF taxes in four
distinct periods was urged by the Utah
Senator. who said unless this was done
half of the total money in circulation
would be taken from the western
states to Eastern centres, causing a
croat shortage. He used the recent sale
of Liberty Loan bonds as an lllustra-
ton. Every state took its share OF
the bonds. he explained. but If they
were again offered on the same basis
some states could not afford to take
their portion.
cor 10 the productive activity OF this
Country" he added, land | don't know
hut that we have crossed the danger
line. | think it is my duty as a Senator
and business man to call 1t to the at
tention Of the Senate"
"Why has the government been COM
PEELED TO give money to private manu-
facturers so that they can extend their
nlants ," Senator McCumber asked
senator Smoot replied that War
Department official told him the depart
mcnt was unable TO find manufacturers
having credits sufficient to secure
money with which 10 make improve
ments and erect buildings for the man
ufacture of guns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
May Reduce Incomes

'If you strike at excess profits you
reduce incomes, and are likely TO hinder
our industrial development" he con-
,inued. There is no cause for penaliz-
ing. Were il not for munitions plants
aud for big and highly organized Amer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

srdized patterns, thereby utilizing
iarg. amount Of labor both in the shops
and in the field not employed in ship
building. has made possible the carry
ing out OF the huge undertaking when
the contracts awarded to-day call Tor.
"By the standardized methods and
employing this class OF material and
labor in the government owned yards
steel tonnage will be obtained on
sale and in period which has never
been contemplated"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
r. Americas Part i'm the War
Congress to Renew Fight
For War Control Board
Republicans to Raise Issue by Amendment to Eleven
Billion Bond Bl-Assert Committee Will
Be an Aid to the President

accepted. II was brought out In the
committee that Secretary McAdoo had
been taking securities at par value from
certain of the Allies which were selling
for less than par value in the united
States.
The committee also inserted clause
in the bill directing the Treasury De,
partment TO charge interest for bond
money temporarily on deposit in banks.
The interest rate to be CHARGED was not
specified, but the intention Of the com
mittee was to make certain that Nc
Adoo could not make large temporary
deposits with banks and receive no m
terest for such deposits.
A provision authorizing the sending
of an auditor of the Treasury Depart
ment abroad to audit accounts OF the
War Department in France was moor
porated. go,
As the bill will be reported it will
provide for bonds and certificates as
follows: -
Loans to the Allies. $4,000 900.
Additional certificates Of indebted
ness. S2,O00,000,000.
War savings certificates, S2,OoO,OoO.-
000
To take up outstanding miscelis-
neous bond issues, including Panama
Canal, nitrate plant, shipping, Danish
West Indies, Alaskan Railroad, Mexican
border patrol, and naval construction,
$53S. 945, 400.
Total, S1l 3s,945,46c.
Four Per Cent Interest Provided
All bonds included in the above list
will pay 4 per cent interest, II the bill
-,
tifcates of Indebtedness was not speci-
fed, but it was provided that not more
than per cent interest shall be paid
on the war savings certificates.
The bonds will be subject to the
super-tax portion of the income tax.
Persons with less than $4,000 income
accordingly will pay no tax on the
bonds.
The war savings certificates are to be
issued in denominations as low as So
and SO through the Postal Savings
Bank. They will mature in not more
than five years. The bonds will mature
at from fifteen to thirty years.
The convertibility proposal probably
will cause hard fight and some Demo
Gratis may join with Republicans in IT;
Opposition TO the plan finally ordered
reported was so strong IN committee
TO-DAY that Chairman Kitchin and Rep
resentative Hull, OF Tennessee, con
ferred with Secretary McAdoo in
futile effort to effect a compromise on
it. Contention is made by opponents
of the plan that if some limit is not
placed on the convsrtibiliSy OF bonds
the government soon will be paying q
wholly unwarranted rate of interest for
loans.
The bill will be reported tomorrow
end taken up for general debate on
Tuesday. Its passage is expected TO
follow on Wednesday.