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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
PACKERS FACING PROBE BY TRADE
 COMMISSIONERS
Federal Body Will Quiz Management Of Big Plants
 on Stockyards. E

Washington. Dec. 19.-The packing interests will be put under the searchlight of the federal trade com missions Investigating powers at the opening hearing beginning tomorrow. Unless they come of their own voli- tion, representatives of the country's five great packing families will not be present as the commission announces that subpoenas will not be issued to them. The commission gave no req son for it's decision, but some officials called attention to the possibility of immunity for persons giving testi- monv on which future prosecutions might be asked. The specific question in the hearing will be the ownership of the Chicaog stock yards and the Chicago Terminal railroad. The Ma tional Cattlemen's association has at various times charged inter-corporate relations between the stock yards, the road and the packing plants. The packers have contended that they own no; stock in the yards or the road, and that their businesses were conducted without other than an intimate rela tion with the great cattle market and the transportation facilities.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
FRANCE PLANS
 TO FIND WOOD

Paris, Nov. 3O-(Correspondence) France is beginning to figure out how to meet an anticipated shortage in lumber and firewood after the war The destruction of forests by she'll fire and the heavy demand for lum her for barracks and road construc- tion combine tC make deficit of one million cubic feet annually.
 Beyond the range of shells. on both sides of the front, the military woods mems axes have drawn heavily on timber from the North sea to the Swiss frontier. The consumption of lumber will increase during the war at the rate of three million cubic feet a year. and for several years after peace is made the demand will con tinue for thc repair and rebuilding of devastated regions.
 The solution of the problem is con sidered to be question of transpor tatiOD and of forest exploitation in the colonies. Specialists have dalcu lated that French Equatorial and Western Africa, Madagascar. Guinea and Indo China possess S75,000 square miles of virgin timber land, which could amply supply France and sev- era] other countries with fuel and lumber.
 Stock companies, organized for the exploitation of these resources. are al ready engaged in road making and other necessary preliminary work.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
WHEATLFSS DAY
 IS FAILURE IN
 OKLAHOMA CITY
Bakers Protest to State Ad- ministrator Because Lack
 of Observance.

Oklahoma City, Dec. 19.-Wheat- less day here, according to experts has become a total failure, and meat less day nearly so, inasmuch as Mayor Oxerholser was notified today that only 50 per cent of the citizens were sustaining from meat one day a week. The failure of wheatless days reach ed such proportions that Oklahoma City bakers appealed to State Food Administrator Dr. Stratton Brooks that he do something, saying that as public spirited and patriotic men they had tried to help the movement, but now find the public does not sustain their efforts. and uses as much wheat as it wishes. In response to their complaint, Dr. Brooks issued this statement:
 Washington has advised me that we must tighten up on food. Condi- tions are such that even the baking of Graham bread, which calls for wheat flour, on wheatless day may have to be eliminated.
 eff some people want to lose the war by eating wheat bread on wheat less day, they should be interned in company with German spies and other enemies"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
KISSES "0LO GLORY"
 AND IS RELEASED
When George Carlisle Shows Repent ance for Remarks Made, Case
 Against Him Is Dismissed.

After wrapping the flag of the United States about his body, press ing it's folds to his lips and declaring that he loves "Old Glory" as much as any man. George Carlisle, 19-year-old youth, who was arrested recently on the charge of having made disloyal re- marks, was dismissed before United States Commissioner A. L. Burnett yesterday morning, and went on his wav happier and wiser young man.
 Carlisle is alleged to have stated that he would just as soon Ee buried in gunnysack as to have the flag of the United States wrapped around his body. Corporals w. E. Green and George w. O'Oaniels, who were in charge of the local recruiting station at that time, heard the remark and had the young man arrested. Both of the young soldiers were present at the trial yesterday.
 After kissing the flag and saluting it, Carlisle also turned to the two cor porals and saluted them, saying that he was sorry for the remarks that he he made, and that he did not mean them in the manner in which they were construed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
DEAD SALVATION CAPT.
 PROVEN FORMER BANDIT
Lee Starr Dies in Charity Work, but Once Led Fierce Out
 law Band.

Enid, Okla, Dec. 19.-It developed on information made known today that Capt. Lee Starr of the Salvation Army, who was found dead in his home here last Friday, was none other than the noted reformed Oklahoma outlaw Lee Starr, one of the last surviving mem. bers of the famous Lee Starr band of robbers Following the breaking up of the band and of Henry Lee being sentenced to 35 years in prison here, it is said Lee Starr became converted at Topeka He went from Kansas to Texas and engaged in Salvation Army work. It is said that once while iv- ing in Corscicana, Texas. he shot one man and killed another in a fight, but was acquitted of the charge. He was in Salvation Army work at Shaw nee. Okla, before coming here two months ago.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
GERMAN WEST ARMY IS LESS
 THAN IN JULY

Washington. Dec. 19.-Germany has now 154 divisions on the Franco-Brit- ish front. according to dispatches re- ceived here today. Last July she had 156 divisions. The German forces, the dispatch says, are being increased partly with the young classes and spe- cialized attachments transferred from the eastern front, Other reinforce ments include artillery and aviation material from the same source. The allies. however, continue to maintain a marked superiority in numbers on this front.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
GERMAN INTERNED AFTER WIRELESS
 FOUND IN BARN

Bay Shore. N. Y., Dec. 19.-Henry Schneider, German jeweler, has been interned at Ellis Island as an alien enemy, it was learned today. and Henry Fuer, a German grocer. is un- der guard at his home here. where he is critically ill with pneumonia. after federal agents discovered a wireless outfit in Fucr's barn with it's govern ment seals broken. Schneider was shadowed by the agents of the Naval Intelligence Bureau, who found that he visited Fuer frequently. When the barn was searched memoranda of movements of transports and troops are alleged to have been discovered. The, wireless outfit was cOnfiscated.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
Mother Sees Son Kill
 Grandson, Then Kills Hi1u
Mrs J. H. Bush, 72 Yesterd ay Tells Horrible Story of Death in Home-Boiled Both Bodies in Lye to Dis pose of Them.

Montrose, Colo. Dec. 19.--Mrs. J. III Bush, 72 years old today, confessed to officers that she killed her Son, John o. Bush, after he had killed her grandson early in the day Sunday, after ,disposing of the body by boiling it in lye. The confession was made at the inquest into the death of the boy, Ira, II years old. The killing of the boy was brought to light yester- day when Mrs. Bush told officers Bush had slain his son in rage be-
 cause the boy stole money, and that the son had made her help boil the body in i've to hide the crime. A daughter of Mrs. Bush visited the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
GERMAN EDITOR, ATTACKED FOR
 NOT FIGHTING

Berne. Nov. 29.-tCorresponden Count Ernst von Reventlow, chief editorial writer of the Deutsche Tageszeitung. and ardent supporter of most of the various forms of pan Germanic ruthlessness, has been sharply attacked by some of his fel- low editors in Germany, according to information received here.
 "As an author, he is fire-eater, a raging creature of battle, who goes in for war to the ultimate limit. or at least, until the complete defeat of England" says the Neues Wiener Jour nal But even in the first few weeks of the war, when millions of volun- colors, Count Reventlow preferred to remain comfortably at home although at the outbreak of the war he was not quite 45 years old and formerly was a naval officer" s..
 Coun' Reventlow retorted by de- claring that he offered his services to the naval authorities at the beginning of the war and appealed to the Vor- waerts for a decision whether he had been slandered
 His appeal aroused no sympathy. however, and the Vorwaerts expressed regret that the counts offer of his services was not accepted by the navy, and adding: There exists a prejudice against people who. without personally having felt the miseries of war. propogate aims that lengthen the war"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
NEGRO SOLDIER
 TELLS HOW J|TNtY DRIVER WAS KILLED
Testimony duplicates Mem bers of Guard on Night
 of Houston Riot.

San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 19.-Ad- hitting his complicity, ana saying that he had been threatened with death by other negroes if he told what he knew, Private Ezekiel Bull lock. Company K, 24th infantry, to- day declared that all members of lower A guard at Camp Logan the night of August 23 last, except Pri- yates Blythe and Blunt, were in the party that passed Miller's restaurant in Houston, before it met the auto mobile in which E. M. Jones was shot to death and Charles Clayton wound ed. Bullock was the last witness was the last witness used by the prosecution today in the court-martial of the 15 negroes of the 24th infantry at Fort Sam Houston.
 There were IS negroes in the lower A guard the night of the riot, and Bullock's testimony admitting his own presence accounts for all of them. Bullock further testified he saw McDonald and Wright, defendants, shoot into the car, and that three other negroes on the opposite side of the road also fired. Other shots came from the back row of negroes, he said
 but he could not tell who fired, as he dropped into ditch and the bullets went over his head. Bullock asserted that he purposely led the negroes back to Sergeant Brunson's guard the night of the riot in order that he might "turn them in"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
WILL DISCONTINUE
 LONE STAR TRAINS

The Arkansas Railroad Commission has been notified by the Cotton Belt railroad that, effective January. 1, the Lone Star trains, Nos. and 6, which are operated daily between St. Louis and Texas points, will be discontinued at the request of the war emergency board. This body is seeking to elim- mate as many passenger trains as possible, so that the crews and equip ment may be used in the handling of troop trains and freight.
 These trains, both north and south bound, go through this city shortly after midnight, and have been very convenient for local travellers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
COSSACkS HOLD R0STOV PROCLAIM INDEPENDENCE kaledines Captures Don Capital and
 and Proposes Peace
 Terms.

London, Dec. IA Petrograd dis patch to the Post says the Cossacks finally occupied Restov or Monday. The infantry joined tle cossacks, the rear guard surrendering. Gen. Kal- edines hetman of the cossacks, has proposed to the bolsheviki govern ment that civil strife cease. stipulat- ing the independence Of the Don ter ritory and men intervention hy the MaXimalists.
 : State Of Seize in Petrograd.
 'Petrograd, Dec. 19.-The executive committee of workmens and soldiers deputies has proclaimed a state of seigt in Petrograd in an effort to re press disorders due to the footing of winh cellars and shops
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
CZECHS PLAN TO
 FORM BIG ARMY
 TO AID ENTENTE

Washington, Dec. 19.-Arrival in France of hundreds of Czechs and Slovaks from the United States to join the Czech-Slovak legion, which will fight with the allies. was an- nounced today in official dispatches. The force is being organized by the French government and has been raised through the activities of the National Council of Czech States in Paris. The number of Czechs and Slovaks who will fight for their ma tional independence is large in the entente countries. Many are expected to come from the thousands of pris- oners in Italy and the nearly 150,000 prisoners in Russia.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
ITALIANS AGAIN REPULSE HEAVY 1EUTON ATTACKS Make Another Drive for Venetia, but Gain Lit
 tie Ground. BERLIN CLAIMS
 2,0oo PRISONERS Other Fronts Quiet Except far Fierce Artillery Fighting-May Pres
 sage Further German
 OiienSiycS.
Associated Press Summary.)

Associated Press Summary) The Austro- Germans have renewed in great strength their effort to pierce the Italian lines and to launch upon : the plain of Venetia. In the region of
 Bassano they attacked in force. In the fighting around Monte Asoone, in which the enemy again suffered se- were losses and several times were re- pulsed, achievements in large num- bers were brought up and the Italians were compelled to give ground. The fighting lasted throughout Tuesday, and according to the German war of flee, more than 2,000 Italians were made prisoners. Likewise along the south reaches of the Piave, the invad-
 CTS and the Italians engaged in heavy fighting. The crossing of the lower
 Piave by pontoon bridges was success fully carried out by an enemy detach- ment, but later the Italians drove them back to the waters edge. The fighting on the other fronts still remains below normal, although
 the artillery fighting on various sec-
 tors still continues intense. The ar-
 tillery activity between the French and Germans in Champagne and in
 the mountainous region near the Swiss border, is unccasing in volume, probably forecasting infantry attacks at an early date. a~ ....-.s.. -.-ss. s-
 An enemy submarine has torpedoed
 and sunk in the Mediterranean an old
 French cruiser. the Chateau Renault,
 which was being used as transport.
 The submarine which fired the fatal shot was itself destroyed. The sol- diers aboard the Chateau Renault
 were saved, but ten members of the crew of the vessel were lost.
 Little material damage was done by the Germans in Tuesday nights air raid over Lindon, Essex and Kent. Ten persons were killed in London and 70 injured. Outside of the capital, five persons were wounded. One en- emy machine was brought down and another is believed to have been dis abled.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
ASKS ALL BANKS
 TO TAKE COUPONS
 WITHOUT CHARGE

Washington, Dec. 19.-Secretary Mo Adoo tonight called upon all banks of the country to cash Liberty Loan Bond Coupons without charge, stat ing that he had been informed that a few banks and trust companies were collecting money for this service. MT. McAdoo pointed out that the coupons are payable at any federal reserve bank or sub-treasury, las well as at the Treasury Department here, and that any national, which is a general depository of government funds. is required to cash the coupons without charge.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

home Sunday and reported seeing blood stains on the walls Mrs. Bush, in the confession, stated she was com pelled to witness the killing of the boy and forced to assist Bush in dis posing of the body. Then, the con fession says, Bush went to his room taking the axe with which he had chopped to pieces the body of his son, and went to sleep. As Bush slept his mother fearing he would kill her when he awakened, entered the room and killed him with the aXe chopping the body to pieces and boiling it in I've, then tossing the bones cut into the yard
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
CONFIDENT OF STRENGTH.

With the French in Italy, Dec. 19.- There is growing confidence in the Strength of the allied forces to hold [baek the Austro- Germans from break |lg through into the plains. The snow, which after falling last week only in Pdfficient quantities to make the ffnntal positions prominent, but not knough to obstruct the enemy's prog fess, has now begun again, and ap- |nrently in earnest. Although the |Austrians have Baretta, every des- PeTate effort to advance has been
 tustrated. The strengthening of the
 trench positions since they took up
 aar front has been noted principally
 trough the smaller number of
 asualties.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
Turks Violate SanctuerieS
 UnmOleSted for Centuaies

Washington, Dec. 19.-An official dispatch received here today from France says that the Turks before surrendering Jerusalem to the Brit ish, brutally mistreated Christian priests, carried off the famous treas ure of the Church of the Holy Sepul- chre, valued at millions of dollars, and sent to Berlin the church's cele- brated ostensory of bgilliants. Mon signor Camassei, the patriarch of Jerusalem, is said to have been de-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
War Preparations Investi- cations of Both Branches
 On in Congress.
NAVY OFFICIALS ARE SATISFIED
n.niels and McGOWan Show Pride in
 work DOne-MunitiOns Men Say Ordnance Supplies Now Made Rapidly.

Washington, Dec. 19.-War prepara- ,;ons of both the army and navy arc under investigation by Congress. While the Senate Military Committee continues it's inquiry into ordnance charges the House Naval Committee today opened the hearing on the activities of the Navy Department. Secretary Daniels and Rear Admiral ucGowan were the navy witnesses, snd they told in detail and with evil dent satisfa action of the accomplish merts of. their departments in meet ing the tremendous expansion and ex- |trsorainary activities required by the l war Other testimony probably will i mi he heard by the committee until after the holidays, and then much of # will be in executive session on ac-
 count of the military secrets in ! yolved !
 Private munitions manufacturers Oc-
 cupied the days hearing of the Sen
 ate committee. They agreed that there | had been delays at the outset. but
 that production of rifles and machine
 rlns of the finest type now were pro
 seedng rapidly.
 Two more war investigations will I,t2rt Friday. The. Senate Interstate
 cOmmerce Committee plans to begin
 It's study of the lailroad problem and
 he Senate Commerce Committee will
 Ak. up the troubles of the Shipping
 hard. Investigation of the sugar sit
 nticn by the Senate Manufacturing
 Nmmittce may be concluded tomor-
 ms with the testimony of Food Ad-
 mnistrator Hoover, and Friday or
 Saturday the committee will launch
 she coal investigation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
TEN YEARS PRICE
 DRAFT OBJECTION,
 SAYS GEN. MURRAY

San Francisco. Dec. 19.-Ten years in military prison will be the sen tence imposed hereafter upon con scientious objectors to the draft" ac- cording to an announcement by Mai Gen. Arthur Murray, commanding the Western Department of the army.
 Alfred Gloss Jr. and Wallfred E. Maher, both of Seattle, Wash. who ex- pressed scruples against draft service were sentenced each to 10Ayears by a court-martial at Fort Worden. Wash
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
ROBBERS KILL WOUND ANOTHER:
 BOOTY $1O,70O

Gary. Ind, Dec. 19.-Two robbers who today escaped with $1O,7OO after stunning Michael Vinson, a saloon keeper, and killing Spencer Tillman, a negro porter serving as a body guard, are supposed to have fled to Chicago. Between them Vinson and Tillman carried $25,0OO, to be used in cashing checks of steel mill employees. The guard was slain by charge from a sawed-off shotgul.. Vinson was hit on the head with piece of lead pipe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
FINE AND JAIL
 SAN JUAN EDITOR

San Juan, P. R., Dec. 19.-Vincenti Balbas. editor of the Registra de las Antilles. who was found guilty re- gently by jury in the United States district court on four out of five charges in connection with articles appearing in his newspaper, was sen- tenced today to eight years imprison- ment and fine of $4.00o. two years and $1.000 on each of the counts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

posed from his office, and Father Pi- cardo, an Italian priest, to have died from the effects of Turkish brutality. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre had remained unmolested heretofore during all the centuries of Moslem occupation of Jerusalem. The same dispatch told of the indignation among Musselmen of Asia Minor over the action of a German general in es- tablishing staff headquarters in the great mosque of the city of Aleppo, near the Syrian border.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
HIS 300: 900 DRUG oSERS IN NEW YORK

kosim.., n .ork, Dec. 19.-There are ap- |sr sr%s!sly % soo,ooo drug addicts in M Mit,e.. 't . city, and many of them are EsanS. ol nigh social position, R.
 E s, I;ss,.c chef of the drug division of E,,eSr Sr'sa9 s of internal revenue, de- kislst;..so .ooay before the Whitney
 AIM ~ committee, which is inves-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
French Losses Slight.

n a,s' Dec. 19-The losses to ha sasa , shipping by mine or subma-
 " the week ending December "A, .s'e exceedingly light. Only one \. N. qauef l,6O0 tons was sunk and yser' One ship was attacked but N u NC fishing vessels were
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
WANTED-EXPERIENCED
 BOOKKEEPER.

Prefer married man who is now em- ployed; good salary; to begin Jan uary with one of the largest stores in Pine Bluff. Address applications to Experienced Bookkeeper.'' care The Graphic. 12-16-5t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

The replacing of destroyed portions of skull with layers of cartilage talk en from the patients own ribs is one of the latest mfthods of healing war injuries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

The British government proposes to utilize the surplus of thls years potato crop for the purpose Of mak- ing alcohol.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
(lnlsH AND FRENCH SUP LOSSES DECREASE
'Dnarines Get Fewer Victims Than
 In Previously Reported Period.

London, Dec. .19.-Fourteen British ,caantmen of more than 1,600 tons ss, sv tlree under that tonnage were tak .Dy mine or; submarine during N past week, according to the Ad- ualty statement tonight. One fish vessel was also sunk.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

aae salpping losses by mine or sub nS.a ,,ae m the past week are slightly
 S.s u.l lnose of the previous week, on. n.A n vessels of more than 1.6O0 as sss ana seven under that tonnage
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-08-22

Charles L. (Buck) Herzog was born
at Baltimore, July 9, 1888, and played
his first baseball in organized ranks
with York and Reading in the Tri-
State League, after graduating from
the University of Maryland. He start.
ed out as third baseman, but has
played every position around the edge
OF the infield except first base. He
first came to the Giants in 1908, but
was used as substitute and got into
fifty-nine games. The following year
he played through the Spring training
games with McGraw's club and showed
so much aggressive spirit that "Mugsy
kept him all season.
In 1910 he went to Boston, and con.
tinued with the Braves until July of
1911, when McGraw traded Gowdy and
Bridwell for him. He stuck with New
York until 1914 and was transferred
to Cincinnati in the Besher deal. The
following year he was made manager
of the Reds and continued in that
capacity until July 20, 1916, when
McGraw pulled off the big deal which
sent Mathewson to "Cincy' and
brought the veteran Herzog back into
the Giant fold.
Having disposed of Larry Doyle, Nc.
Graw had TO have a second baseman
and Herzog was assigned to the key.
stone sack. Though he had spent six
years previously on the other side of
the diamond, playing short and third,
Buck" soon brushed up on the job,
and this season finds him playing
second with the skill of finished
artist, e,