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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11
MANY WOMEN ASSESSING

Many Pine Bluff and Jefferson county women are assessing for poll tax. in order to vote in next years primaries. according to Assessor Fred T. Fucker. July 20 is the last day to assess.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11
AUTO WASHED AND CREASED.

Electric and gas cars properly washed and scientifically greased and polished. Cars called for and deliv- cred. The Auto Laundry. Phone BAT. Tenth and Main. 6-oS-1m
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11

In an egg-laying competition in Australia Black Opington hen laid 325 eggs in twelve months. which is claimed to be "a worlds record for any breed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11

The skin of the female shark, which is smoother than that of the male is used extensively for sword hap1ies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11
AUSTRIA DECLINES ID
 ACCEPT HUN GENERAL
Doesn't Want vOn Below Unless 1: Divisions Are Sent With
 Him

Rome, July 10.-Austria has declin- ed to accept the German general, Otto von Below, as commander in chief of the forces on the Italian front because Germany refused to send 12 German divisions with him, according to the newspaper Epoca, which bases the statement on advices from Swiss source.
 Austria, it adds, has temporarily given up the idea of revenging her self for her recent defeat by Italy.
 Dispatches from Rome through Paris on July reported that Ger many intended sending three army corps to the aid of Austria to be put under General Otto von Below as commander in chief on the Italian front.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11
SOCIETY
 MISS EUNlCE NORRIS. Editor ,,ro Items Department to Mo- M After rno 6 P. M Phone No. 5O9.

Lieut.. and Mrs. Ira D. Bloom who have been spending their honeymoon at the Waldoff Astoria in New York left Tuesday for Camp Upton, N. Y.'' where Lieut.. Bloom is stationed with
 his command.
 Miss Florence Tonev, daughter of
 MT. and Mrs. w. M. Tonev on South
 Olive is recovering from a few weeks
 illness.
 Mrs. Martha Ealy Norris who has
 been the guest of her sen Dr. ]. l.
 Norris and family for several weeks left for her home at Mabelvale, Ark, this morning, accompanied by Dr. Norris.
 Misses Bessie and Hughlette Cole man of Pine Bluff are guests of Miss Marjorie Lombard at Swan Lake.
 Miss Mildred Daniels has returned to
 her home in Pine Bluff after a visit
 here with Mrs. w. o. Goodloe. Mrs. A. A. Haeper has returned from Camp Beauregard La, where she visited h.: three sons, Will, Alton and John Ill.,. per.
 Mrs. W. w. Fisher and daughters. of Big Springs, Texas, are visiting Mrs. Fishers mother, Mrs. T. T.
 Reed, sos East Second. Mesdames A. w. Troupe, J. w. Adams, P. H. Mccarthy, w. M. Toney
 and R. B. Rice motored to Little Rock yesterday to attend the state Demo- cratic convention as delegates from Jefferson county.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11

Mrs. w. w. Fisher and daughters of Big Springs, Texas. are visiting Mrs. Fishers mother, Mrs. T. T. Reed, sos East Second.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11

Mrs. A. A. Haeper has returned from Camp Beauregard, La, where she visited h'" three sons, Will, Altor and John H.. per.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11

and hundred thousand of forwo different
 hou e marched in he greatest Fourth of July eoa oI the country the hosts or through the The photo shows the Amef1can Red Cross passing in review.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11

Miss Florence Tonev, daughter of MT. and Mrs. w. M. Toney on South Olive is recovering from a few weeks illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
HAS FAITH IN CONCRETE SHIP.
Fleets Chief Engineer Predict:
Type Will Be Adopted.

A PACIFIC PORT, March 16.-After a
close study of the reinforced concrete
ship Faith. which was launched success
fully last Thursday. Chief Engineer
R. q Wig of the department of con-
crete construction of the United States
Emergency Fleet Corporation said to-
day he believed the new type of YES
sci might prove to be such a vital war
measure that it soon would be filling
the ocean,"
The question of dura bility. he Said.
remained to be determined. but at the
least it would exceed the term of the
war. Quick construction in cheap
yards was an advantage, he thought,
that probably would lead to construc-
ton of concrete ships on large scale.
No fear. he said, was entertained of
the seaworthiness of the concrete ship.
Its durability depended upon the ef-
feet of sea water on the concrete, and
to guard against danger in that direc-
tion he intimated that coating of
some kind might be used effectively
Since the launching of the Faith, he
said. the vessel had not leaked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
JAPANESESLA|N
BY THE bOLSHEV|K|
$50 Subjects of Mikado Muir
dered in Amur River Gold
District of Siberia.
By the Associated Press.

By the Assoca ted Press.
LONDON, March 16.-Maximalists in
Siberia have murdered $50 Japanese at
Blagovieshtchensk, capital of the Amur
province, according to report printed
| in the newspaper Hochi Shimbun Fri
day and forwarded by Reuters Limited.
4 dispatch from Tientsin. China. to
the Daily Mail says that the japanese
embassy at Peking has been informed
that during recent disturbances at
Observation-Disclosures three Japanese were
killed and seven wounded while de-
Tending their properly against boil
shevjki.
(Blagoviesiltchensk is on the Amur
river near its confluence with the Zeya
and is opposite the Manchurian town
of Aigun. 1t is 500 miles north of
Hsrbin and has a population of $4,000.
There are extensive gold mines in the
district.)
LONDON, March 16.-In reply to a
question in the diet yesterday the Jap
anese premier. Count Terauchi said. ac-
cording to a Reuter- dispatch from To-
kio, that the dissension prevailing
between North and South China was
the source of serious concern for ia
pans interests. but that Japan would
take no steps in the way of mediation.
The premier characterized as untrue
report that small body of entente
troops had been dispatched toward Si-
IBERIA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
CONCRETE SHIPS MAY Be
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM
Interest of Officials and Public
Heightened by Launching of
5.0OO-Ton Vessel.

Concrete ships are claiming a large
share of public attention and of the
attention of officials of the shipping
board. Both the public and officials see
in them d possible solution of the ship
ping problem-solution of which
through the building of steel and
wooden vessels is steadily diminish
ing hope.
This interest has been heightened by
the launching yesterday on the Fa-
cifc coast of 5.000-ton concrete YES
sci. built for private owners The
shipping board has authorized three
concrete vessels of $500 tons each.
but successful launching of the larger
ship claimet instant attention.
Chairman Hurley last night tele-
graphed the builders of the big hull
asking them to report at once what the
prospects were for construction of ad-
dltlonal vessels and what time would be
required. An unofficial report said the
! launching had strengthened belief that
] concrete construction could be depend
| ed upon.
Chairman Hurley's telegram request
I cd also that there should be an early
test Of the vessel to settle the question
I as to her strength and behavior in .
heaFY sea. An important point to be
/ decided before lar,fe-scale construction
/ of concrete, ships will be approved by
/ the government is what will be the eff
lt"t OF salt water on the concrete and
the steel reinforcement
! Designs for the four 3,500-tou con
! crete ships authorized by the shipping
! poafd nave been about completed and
their construction is to begin soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
CHINESE CITIZENS HIDE. FLEE.
AS TROOPS APPROACH PEKING
Merchants Close Shops and Secrete Valua-
bles in Belief That Gen. Chang Tso-
Lin Intends to Restore Monarchy.

northern military party, just as Ii
Yunan Hung was under Yuan Shi Kai.
His trip to the south a short time ago
was really an attempt to escape, and
it was the northern military who re-
fused to allow him to resign a few
days ago. The presidents weak and
vacillating policy and his intrigues
have undoubtedly brought about the
present crisis.
1t is believed that Chang Tso-Lin in
tends to force the president to recall
! Tuan Chih Jul. the former premier and
minister of war. but he is quoted as
saying that he does not intend to un-
seat the president. He is further cred
tied with saying that his troops intend
to support a northern advance against
the southernerS SO as to restore the
prestige of the government.
The situation is so complicated that
it is impossible to predict the eventual
outcome. ] have interviewed three diff
ferent members of the cabinet, but each
gave an entirely different opinion on
the situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
U. S. TROOPS TO PROTECT
TOWN AGAINST |. w. W. MOB
Citizens of st. Maries, Idaho, Anxi-
ously Awaiting Arrival of the
Military Forces.

ST MARIES, Idaho, March 16-Ar-
rival of United States troops and Idaho
state Guardsmen ordered here by Mai
Cen Arthur Murray, commanding the
western army department, and Gov
Alexander, as a precaution against pos
sible renewal of violence by industrial
Workers OF the World. was anxiously
awaited here today.
Armed citizens, deputized yesterday
by Sheriff a. L. holland after he was
set upon and beaten by a mob of IN
dustrial Workers and their sympathiz-
erS. who are declared to have threat
ened to deliver one of their number
from jail here, patrolled the streets
during the night to prevent any fresh
outbreaks. The trouble arose yester-
day when the /. W. W. members learned
of the sherif's intention to remove
William Nelson. formerly secretary of
the /. ". ". local here, to Coeu1
dAlcne, Idaho, on a chanpe of venue
for trial OF a charge of criminal syn
dicalism. The sheriff who remonstrat.
ed with the crowd which made threats
to release Nelson from jaiI. was
knocked down several times and Sc.
vere1y beaten.
Armed citizens came to his rescue a n,
dispersed the mob.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
must EXPLOIT THE EAST"
German Paper So Declares, Citing
Possibility of Economic War

LONDON, Thursday. March 14-Ger-
many must count as accomplished the
fact of economic war after the war
and control by Great Britain and the
United States of seaboard traffic in
raw materials. declares the pan-Ger-
man Taeglische Rundschau of Berlin,
according to a dispatch from The
Hague to the Daily Mail. The Taeg-
lische RundSchau adds:
Germany must therefore exploit
Persia and Siberia. Bremen and Ham
burg, which SO long have strained
their eyes earnestly seaward must for
some time turn their gaze landward
Germany must make up her mind to
exploit the countries available to her,
and these are the Balkan and Black
sea districts. followed by the Caucasus,
the Transcaspian district. Persia and
Siberia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
THINK KAISER HAS.
NEW PEACE OFFER
Neutral Diplomats Believe
Terms Will Be at Rus
sia's Expense.
ALLIES NOT TO CONSIDER

differences that Germany may have
made a new peace offer to the allies.
proposing terms at the expense of Rus
sia coincide with an undercurrent of
discussion which has been running in
diplomatic circles here for some time,
but which never has shown any evil
dence of tangible development.
The statement of Lord Robert Cecil
in London yesterday that no such pro-
posals would be considered, coupled with
Marshal Hindenburg's announcement
that the German offensive would go on
in view Of the entente's unresponsive
latitude toward Germany's peace inten-
tions. served 10 strengthen the view of
neutral diplomats, who for some time
Have believed that some sort of under
ground feclers have been going out for
some time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
HOUSE TO GET BILL
GRANT|NGO
Measure to Be introduced
Provides Pay for Addi-
tionaI Work.

\ bill is to be introduced in the
House to provide overtime pay for gov
ernment employees called upon to work
more than eight hours a day.
Labor leaders in the House today de-
clared legislation for time and a half
for overtime work is inevitable as a
result of acceptance by the House of
the Borland eight-hour amendment.
Many members of Congress already
have received protests from their own
constituents pointing out that the Bor-
land amendment. as it now stands, ere
ates a discrimination in government
work Representative Borland himself
on the floor of the House yesterday re
called that government workers in fhc
navy yard, government printing office
and the bureau of engraving and print
ing now get such overtime pay. and labor
members assert that if employees IN
other government departments are call
ed upon to work more than the elght
hours established by Mr.. Borland's
amendment there Will be discrimina-
tion.
That the Borland amendment does
not really effect any saving for the
government is claimed by the labor
leaders in the House. They assert that
under the old law government workers
could be called upon, IN the discretion
of department and bureau headss to
work more than seven hours when re-
quired. AS showing that no saving is
expected, they point out that neither in
the agricultural bill nor in the legis-
Iative appropriation bill-both of which
measures carry appropriations for sala-
ries of government workers who are to
be forced to be worked an extra hour
day. according to the Borland plan
no reduction of the appropriation has
been suggested.
They say that if Mr.. Borland's ar
guments that an extra hour of work a
day would be accomplished are sound,
there should be a saving of one-Seventh
the original cost of such work. The
appropriation bills We're figured ON the
old-time schedule. and if the hour q
day is saved in work, as Mr.. Borland
claims, there should be a reduction of
one-seventh in the appropriation. Mr.
Borland. however, has never attempted
to decrease any item in the agricui-
tural or legislative bill on this ground
they argue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
LIQUOR MEN OUT OF BUSINESS.
Order in Effect Prohibiting Sales
Near Newport. r. I, Naval Station.

NEWPORT, r. l., March 1s.-The
Navy Department order prohibiting the
sale of liquor within five miles of the
Newport naval station went into ef-
feet today with the result that forty-
nine saloons and wholesale lijuor stores
In this city were forced out of busi-
ness
Efforts by dealers to gain an exten-
sion of time SO that they might dispose
OF their stocks more profitabJy were
unaVailing and the authorities an
nounce that every establishment would
De closed at 4 o'clock this afternoon
and that the order would be strictly en-
forced. An investigation Dy the police
indicated, they said. that large amounts $
OF liquor had been shipped here for the
use OF citizenA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
MRS. Emery IN STOCKHOLM.
Wife of American Who Is Held
Captive by Germans.

BOSTON, March IA cable message
announcing her arrival at Stockholm
was received here today from Mrs.
Henry crosby Emery, whose husband
has been detained by Germans on the
Aland Isia ands. The message came to
former Chief Justice Lucilius A. Emery
of the Maine supreme court, who is vis-
iting in Boston.
My son went to Petrograd nearly two
years ago as the representative % the
Guaranty Trust Company of New York, -
Judge Emery said with his wife he
was leaving Petrograd on a neuti q
ship and while nothing was said in the
cdblegram regarding the causes of mis-
detention, I feel that he will be per
Initted to proceed to Stockholm"
Mr.. Emery was married i'll Petrograf
to daughter of Prof. +. q. Allinscn o1
Brown University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
AER0NAUTICs FOR POLICE.
Reserves in New York to Begin
Study of Anti-Aircraft.

NEW YORK, March 16.-AeronauticA
will be a leading feature in the train<
ing of the police reserves of this city.
it was announced by Rodman Wana-
maker, recently appointed speciak
deputy police commissioner in charge
of the reserves.
The plan, which has the approval OF
Police Commissioner Enright. contem>
plates the training of one hundred men
as a nucleus of the air defense unit
The study of anti-aircraft guns Will bo
one of the first subjects taken up.
Mr.. Wanamaker was one of the early.
aeronautic enthusiasts in the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
U-BOATS SEIZE BELGIAN
RELIEF SHIP AND GRAIN
Number of Large Swedish Trawlers
Also Forced to Go to
Germany.
BY the Associated Press.

I
LONDON, March ia number of
large Swedish trawlers and one of the
largest Gothenburg steamers have been
captured by German submarines off the
skaw, the northern extremity of Jut-
land, Denmark, and forced to go to
Germany, according to a report printed
by the Gothenburg Shipping Gazette,
and forwarded from Copenhagen by the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
The steamer seized was the Princess
Ingeborg. from Gothenburg for Rotter-
dam with grain for the Belgian relief
commission, the Copenhagen advices
state. She was ordered to proceed to
kiel-
Before sailing, it is added the steamer
had the promise of a safe voyage to
Holland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
Conflict Over Treaty.
New Disorders Break
Aboard German Fleet
Off AIand Islands

PETROGRAD, March 15.-Fresh dis
orders have occurred in the German
fleet off the Aland Islands, according to
the Russian military newspaper, Kras-
maya Armia.
The Germans. it is added. have occu-
pied RaZdielnaya station of the Odessa
railway. and the evacuation of Odessa
and Nicholiey is proceeding. The Ger
man Admiral Siegert has been appoints
ed commander of Odessa. Before the oc-
cupation of Odessa by the Germans
anti-Jewish riots occurred there.
German authorities have announced
that German commissions, with the
power of veto. will be appointed to the
Russian ministries to control the full.
fillment of the treaty of peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
BY WILLIAM r.. GILES.
CabIegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

CabIeEram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
PEKING. China, March 16.-The ap-
proach of Gen. Chang Tso-Lin's forces
is causing alarm similar to that which
occurred when Gen. Changhsun ap-
preached. The merchants are shutting
their shops and hiding their valuables.
The populace believes that Chang Tso-
Lin intends to restore the monarchy,
but this is considered unlikely by those
best able to judge.
He has a brigade midway between
Peking and Tientsin and a brigade in
Tientsin. His move is intended to force
the presidents hand and make him
take stronger action against the south
by removing several of the governors.
President Feng kuo Chang is practi-
cally a prisoner in the hands of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
Train Hits Auto, Kills 2, Hurts 3.

persons were instantly killed and three
probably fatally injured when a Rock
Island and Pacific railroad passenger
train struck an automobile a mile
south of here late yesterday The dead
are Miss Loda Long. a school teacher
of Rockport, and James w. Whitfield
of Friendship. Two brothers and a
sister of the dead woman were badly
injured and were rushed to a hospital
at Little Rock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
Says Foe Must Fight

Gen. Won Ludendorff. the German
quart ternlaster general, was reported
Friday as saying: since the enemy is
not inclined to make peace. he will have
to fight. and this fight will, of course,
he the most tremendous of the whole
war
American officials and allied diplo-
mats. while agreeing entirely with Lord
CeciIs statement that no such terms
can be considered. give no evidence
of how much may be known here of
what Hindenburg refers to as Ger
manyS peace intentions.
Some of the neutral diplomats, how
ever, have for some time firmly be-
lieved that Germany would be willing
even to give up Asace-Lorraine if she
were permitted to retain her hold on
the Baltic provinces and the mineral
belts in the other nearby sections of
Russia. The general current of opinion
in diplomatic circles for some time has
turned toward the possibility of Ger
many attempting TO give way in the
west and make up her losses in the
east.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
Mr.. TAFTFAVORS
IS AS DRAFT AGE
Army of Five Million Needed,
He Tells Geographic
Society.

Indicating that he is in favor of re-
ducing the draft age to eighteen. and
giving as his opinion that the law
should be amended to authorize the
President to increase the number of men
with the colors from 100000 to 5.00O,-
600 or more, former President William
Howard Taft gave his annual address
before the members of the National
Geographic Society at the New Masonic
Auditorium yesterday. "Airplanes, ar
tillery and other instruments of war
are necessary in modern campaigns" he
declared, but this war. like other wars,
must be won by trained man power
I'VE can raise as fine an army and as
large an army as there is on European
soil and if we transport it as rapidly
as we may, we can have it all in Eu-
rope within two Or three years: our OBJ
ject will be attained and the world will
again be free. MIR. TAFT stated with con-
Victon.
The distinguished former President
expressed deep concern for the
opinions from perfectly loyal quarters
that the war will be over in less than
a year. and that peace will be brought
a bout by negotiation. In decribing his
work of preaching the gospel of this
war to the men with the colorS Mr.
the United States against Germany and
pointed out that no course was left to
Il government of honor which professed
to defend the right of it's citizens to
life against murderous invasion to do
otherwise than declare war"
In these speeches he said. "the Ger
man people through the education of
Bismarck and the Prussian military
regime, became obsessed with the con-
viction that they We're supermen in
with what they called a divine destiny,
which was nothing in reality but a lust
for world power International mo-
rality he pointed out was abolished
in Germany's rules for national life.
Germany under her present leader
ship is Il perpetual threat to the integ-
rity of every nation. and especially to
democracies. and makes a permanent
peace impossible. We must bring Ger
many to her knees by defeating her,
turning her people against their lead
ers and their present false ideals. If
we were to make an inconclusive peace
it would mean either the submission to
German suzerainty or making our
country an armed camp to resist in
vasion," he declared
Drafted Men, Finest Army.
Mr.. Taft's visits to the cantonments
brought him in touch with old friends.
Commanding officers were in many
cases men whom he had known in
Cuba, the PHILIPPINES or in Washing
ton as lieutenants or captains. These
men, he said, told him that the drafted
mon are the finest material for the
making of an Army that they have seen
in any country. and that they are bet
, ter physically, mentally and morally
than the average of the National Guard
or the Regular Army.
Describing them passing in review. he
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