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The courier-index., 1918-12-13
Report of the Rondo Auxiliary for
 December

Report of the Rondo Auxiliary for
 December
 The members of the Rondo auxli- iary completed their years work CTS and one pajama suit were brought in for shipment. Two quilts are also pieced and when quilted will be sold, proceeds to go to the Red Cross.
 Mrs. J. l. Morris and Mrs. Bruce Mulkey visited our auxiliary Wednes- day, Dec. 4, and Mrs. Morris in structed us as to our next years work, which will begin sometime in January. We will use the school is large, well ventilated and pleasant.
 The members have all done splend- i'd work this year, and we all feel that this work is both profitable and a pleasure.
 We are glad to report that our chairman. H. L. Lambert, who has been critically i'll of influenza at Searcy, is much better, and we hope for his speedy recovery.
 Work completed from November 70 to December f:
 Mrs. T. J. Dice. one quilt, one sweater.
 Mrs. Ella Martin, 1 quilt.
 Mrs. w N Hally, l pajama suit.
 Mrs Oba Maynard. l sweater.
 Miss Lucille Howard, one sweater.
 Mrs. Jas. Noland donated three yards of outing for quilt.
 We especially want to thank Mrs. J. l. Morris for the interest she has shown in our work, also for the work she has done in this grand and noble cause, giving her entire time, sacrificing every pleasure of home and other duties, of the Red Cross. Going through heat. cold. rain and snow to work room and doing every thing in her power to give some pleasure and cofort to all our soldier boys. who will bless and thank her for every effort and sacrifice she has made for them when they return We again thank her, one and all.
 MISS IDA B. HOWARD, Sec
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A COOL RECEPTION

"All that l have I lay at your feet"
 The maiden arched her exquisite eyebrows and said nothing.
 Doesn't that make any impression on your"
 "Very little. You see, 1 have an idea that I could step over all you could lay at my feet without raising them more than two inches off the floor Birmingham Age-Herald.
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COUPON BOOKS NOT BE us''

The attention of the fooo a'' tration has been called to 'n, ,,ss tice by some commissary anu ,.. , sm, owners of conducting a creu'' .,rn0p ness through the use o' books. . will pot
 The Food Administrations .as s permit this, as the recoru " no ess obscured by their use. m 'U sor more es. coupon books are sol0 .ss, w s ( than the coupon value 'A' s,y doE five dollar book is sou io' ,.;r ursr lars. This is clearly an aaa an,'S r,l bs tice. and persons doing s. tnls 'n hooks punished. The use of coupOd .a urlps therefore. will be consiue's somethIng facie evidence that there 'o oo Very truly your,
 Federal Food Adminis'fa' kansas.
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Red Cross Support of the War
 Auainst Tuberculosis


 This Christmas season the usual ted and the anti-tuberculosis forces of the country will join with the Red Cross in the Christmas Roll Call. The Red Cross, in view of the seri- ousness of the tuberculosis problem, and the effective way in which this problem is being attacked and solved, will appropriate to the national tu- berculosis association the funds re- quired to continue and extend the anti-tubcrculosis campaign through out the country during the coming year.
 Red Cross Christmas Seals. mes sengers of health for you. No seals will be sold this year, but are award ed to each Red Cross member in tok en of the share that each has in the fight to conquer tuberculosis, and in recognition of your support of the American Red Cross as a member In the Christmas roll call.
 Wear your button when the boys come home.
 It's over. over there. The other day a long line of ambulances wound down busy New York street. It was our wounded boys home from the front Those were the first of our heroes to return en masse. Eight thousand more are on their way. One million. nine hundred and nine ty two thousand more will be coming back. How are you going to greet them? How are you going to show them your gratitude for all thelr service?
 England, France and Belgium have learned to love the Tanks. and the Tanks in turn love them. so when we'll fed, their thoughts will natural ly turn to those poor, war weary, kind people who are in need. So wear your button when the boys come home and show them that while they were over there you help ed to keep them happy and safe. and that your dollars are now aiding Europe in the lands where the tooth of war has bitten to the bone, and where hitherto. America had been only the unmeaning name of some thing very far away. You are carry ing healing and courage. and remem- Der to join the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. All in the world you need is heart and dollar, so join up, everybody.
 Work has been discontinued in all our Red Cross work rooms through. out the county until after the holi. days Do not forget our new location in the Masonic building
 Mrs J. l. Morris can be found ev, cry day at the headquarters in the Masonic building from 9 a m until l2 o'clock m. to answer all calls, and render any service she can for the benefit of the soldiers families
 
 Mrs. M. c. Scott donated two beau. tiful pairs of wool socks that she had knit, that will comfort and warm some dear mothers son.
 Don't forget the Christmas Roll Call of the Red Cross, December 16 to 23 so let the message that all is
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laughed heartily, but did not appaN
 After the lecture the warden q the penitentiary ventured an apol9g
 "They didn't seem very apPref tive. did they?" he asked
 "I thought they seemed to enN it very much," the lecturer replla
 But they might have clappa littles,' the warden remarked ins'sa of just sitting there with then nan1 folded"
 Well, we'll" the lecturer lausaa "I noticed that they sat wl'i u'' hands folded, but thought they sa' all manacled. Judge
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THE EMelTrERED sulToR

Your aristocratic American mil lionaire will often make mesall- lance and marry chorus girl or a parlor maid. But l notice that your .aristocratic American. millionairess always keeping her head, makes a good match.'
 The speaker was Mme, Montessori, the Italian educator. She continued:
 'On my way thither on the boat
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SURGEONS agree that in cases of cuts, burns, bruises and wounds, the first treatment is most important. When an efficient antiseptic is ap- piled promptly, there is no danger of infection and the wound begins to heal at once. For use on man or beast. Borozone is the ideal antisept,c and healing agent. Buy it now and be ready for an emergency. Sold by Harrington Bros. go
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Week Days
CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Bible school at 9:45 a. m. The Lords Supper and preaching service II a. m.
 Elder G w. Patterson will preach at the morning hour, subject: Philip and the Enuch."
 Rev. J. A Campbell will preach for us at the evening hour Everybody cordially invited to at tend both services,
 L. A. SPIVEY
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B. Y. P. U six-fifteen Sunday even ing. All the young people of the town are invited to attend the B. Y. P. U. The pastor will be in Little Rock this week attending the Stale Convention, but will return Friday. You will find welcome at this church.
 c. l.. HAMMOCK, Pastor.
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Sickly children need "n',' Cream Vermifuge. It not only " stroys worms, if there be any Oa' <, acts as a strengthening tonic in ' stomach and bowels. sou " M rington Bros.
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RESTRAINED APPLAUSE

A noted humorous lecturer, who was invited to deliver an address to an audience of convicts in western penitentiary, noticed that the auditors
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AT THE aAPTisT CHURCH

--ssAll the regular services at the Bap- tist church Sunday. Subject for the morning sermon. The King Who is Always Borrowing" Prayer service
 Wednesday evening at seyen-fiiteen.
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RED CROSS REPORT
 (By Mrs. J. I. Morris)
(By Mrs. J. I. Morris)

we'll ring from every corner of Let county.
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CHURCHES
SAINT ANDREWS CHURCH

The Rev. c. c. Burke, Rector
 SERVICES
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Don't forget the Christmas Roll Call of the Red Cross, December 16 to 2S, so let the message that all is
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Air Battleships Five Months
in Advance of the
Schedule
Production Peak
Near, Says Baker
Many Obstacles Overcome;
Great Need Now Is
Mechanics

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o.-The frs,
American built battleplancs are en-
route to France, nearly five months
ahead of the original schedule
In making this announcement to-
night, Secretary Baker said the first
shipment, although in itself not large
"marks the final overcoming of many
difficulties met in building up this new
and intricate industry"
"These planes" Mr.. Baker said, care
equipped with the first Liberty motors
from machine production. One Of
them, in recent test, surpassed all
records for speed and climbing for
planes Of that type. Engine produc-
ton. which began q month ago, is now
OH a quantity basis, and the peak of
production will be reached in few
weeks. Only the welve-cylinder type
is being made. as Developments abroad
have made it wise TO concentrate on
the high powered engine instead of the
iYht-cylindcr."
Optimistic as these statements ap-
pear, the Secretary said they should
not be exaggerated and should be con-
sidered in the light OF these facts:
That, after three years Of warfare,
the total. number of planes able to
take the air at any one time on either
side of the Western front has not been
more than $500.
That forty-six men are required on
the ground for every plane in the air,
making total of $4,000 men needed
for the present maximum OF $500
planes.
That for every plane in the air there
must be two replacement planes on
the ground, and one training plane for
every pilot who eventually reaches the
front, with q spare engine for each
plane.
After reviewing the many obstacles
that had to be overcome in getting
aircraft production under way, Mr..
Baker said tho great problem now re-
naming was to secure the thousands
Ct skls msGhnn'cs, men wood s"sme gn% msfn mfn
IorAers,.y etc. needed to keep the
bit which the machines turned out
kbon would bel useless and the ficrs
!. hs'9issb, "Ht BEST" M the Secretary, "the
life of a 'plap@ @@ but two months, and
the engine0 Must be overhauled after
seventy y-fve&$bUrs, while oilot on a
plane allow to leave the hangers in
imperfect c lition is as helpless as
bird with a oxen wing.
"Now that perican battleplanes are
going Oversee a great increase in the
volunteering II skilled mechanics is
both eHentiF ar and expected"
DX>fg th4 past months Mr.. Baker
sadly res &pnsve channel of COM
munication n the Allies has been
opened, the lest types Of foreign ma
chimes have 1been adapted to American
manufacture the industry increased at
least twcn Rld, the training plane
problem sd and the production of
battleplanes begun.
American battleplanes were not due
in France under the original schedule
until July.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
| Admits
Fraud in Willof
Artist Ranger
Drew Up Spurious Document
at Request of Decedent's
Sister, Says Affidavit

The contest over the will Of the late
Henry Ward Ranger, the landscape
painter. who cat Off his sister, Miss
Edith r. Ranger. and left his estate Of
S2l3,o0o to the National Academy OF
Design, as a fund for American artists
took new and startling turn yester.
day.
Martin W. Littleton, attorney for
Charles Henry Phelps, executor Of +,e
WILL filed affidavits in the surrooates,
ooort' alleging that the later will,
winch Miss Ranger said was made in
her favor, had never existed-and was
merely struck off on the typewriter in
the law Office of Charles ". Wexler. in
o'ah'ford' Conn. in the presence of
MISS Ranger and others.
according to affidavits by Wexler. the
W., WI was drawn up at the behest of
MSS w Ranger and her attorney, Charles
w. meyer. Wcxler says that he was
document because Meyer told him that
"hlle 1T might not be a legally proper
proceeding. it would be right morally.
SINCE Mr. Phelps was trying to cheat
ms client out of her just share of the
Ranger estate. '"'
When Mr.. Rangers will was filed, his
sister filed contest. She failed to 90 on
with tins contest and the document
was probated. Later, she moved to re-
open the probate proceedings and then
asked PERMISSION to file additional af-
noavlts and copy Of a new will.
Later, Miss Ranger withdrew her mo-
lN0
IN ms afidavits, filed yesterday. Mr..
Littleton attempts to prove that an ef-
Tort was to have been made to prove that
Mr. Ranger left his sister his entire
estate, by, submitting the copy of the
VIII and charging that the original had
been destroyed by Mr.. Phelps.
According TO Wexler. the second
Will came into being when a friend.
one r. II. c. Cunningham. came to him
as an agent Of Meyer, Miss Rangers
lawyer, and arranged for meeting be-
tween the two lawyers and Miss Ranger
in Stamford Hotel.
There, he says. Meyer Informed him
that he desired from him an affidavit
20 the effect that he had attended ,I,s''l ~ :,
the execution of Mr.. Rangers second
will. Wexlcr says that he refused
Whereupon, he alleges. the other said
that while it might be wrong legally
1T was right morally. "as Phelps was
trying to cheat Miss Ranger out Of her
rights"
He then quotes Meyer as saying: "If
the other side knew copy existed
they would throw up their hands and
cry for mercy" 1t is also alleged that
ne promised to reward Wexlef "hand-
WcXler says that he then wrote the
Wvlll on his typewriter. as dictated BY.
Meyer destroyed the original, kept one.
copy and gave the other tc Miss
Rangers attorney.
Mr.. Littleton yesterday obtained an
order from Surrogate Fowler directing
MISS Ranger 10 appear on Monday and
SHOW cause why the whole affair should
not be reopened.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
men for the overthrow OF their govern

men for the overthrow Of their govern
ment.
He is entirely sincere in rendering
his services to President Wilson for
such propaganda, he said last night in
Carnegie Hall, after addressing a So
clallst mass meeting there. No formal
otter has been made to the President,
but he announced that any representa-
tive OF the government present-and
there were many Secret Service opera
tives there-might record his willing
ness to work for successful labor up
rising IN Germany and Austria
HIS was the final address at So
clalist meeting at which Algernon Lee.
chairman of the Socialist aldermanic
delegation. presided Kate Richards
O'Hare, under a tve-year sentence for
obstructing the operation of the Sc
loctlve service act in North Dakota, had
just finished stirring plea for he lp In
lighting her imprisonment.
Mr. lililnult, after warmly approy-
Ing Mrs. OHara's activities in behalf
or the working classes, called upon
Socialists everywhere to exert their
influence toward cooperating with
their German workmen toward the
overthrow of their masters.
Offers Service to L. S.
at is now clearer than ever before
that autocracy and militarism in Ger
many and Austria must be put down.
| want to say to you. my Socialist
friends, that there is at least one
branch of war service in which YOU
can enter with all your hearts and
souls to aid the President in bringing
about his ideals of peace. | refer to
scattering propaganda among the
laboring classes in Germany and Aus
tria and bringing them to understa
that the laboring classes of America
are with them. We must all work to-
getner for universal and demo-
cratic peace.
Speaking for myself, | take this oc
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21

unless difficulties not now foreseen are
encountered
In support of this belief attention
was called to-day to the satisfactory
results obtained in the campaign
against enemy submarines, to the fact
that government ships now are coming
from American yards and to the prog
ress of negotiations for neutral ves-
sells to be used in the non-hazardous
trades to release other shipping for
overseas carrying.
When experts first plotted the curve
OF the tonnage supply, taking into
consideration the greatest success of
submarines and all possible contin-
gencies in the domestic situation, they
found that the number of vessels
available for transporting troops and
for feeding the Allies would be lower
toward the end of this month than at
any other period. Just how close to
the danger point that would be they
aid not care to say. knowledge that
the Germans sank about 100000 tons
of ships in 1917, nearly three times
as much as was produced in Great
Britain and the United States, did not
change their estimates
For the last three weeks the charts
of the Shipping Board have shown a
steady upward trend. Officials think
that from now on new factors will aid
rather than retard the efforts to put
more ships into service Chief OF
these will be the restriction of imports.
made effective February l6, the results
OF which will not be noticeable for
weeks yet AS more ships are needed
they will be withdrawn from the neu-
tral trade, and commerce with those
countries curtailcd to that extent.
Officials declined to say what was the
dominating factor in checking the de
cline IN available tonnage, though it is
well known that optimistic opinions arc
held regarding the anti-submarine cam
paign. Despite labor troubles, conf
dencc is expressed that the goal of
100000 tons of shipping will be
reached in this country this year Sail
ing vessels, of which there are $500 900
tons under the American flag. are being
put into the coastwise and other trade
to release the faster steamers for
transatlantic servicr
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Hldreth K. Bloodgood
Dies as His Dogs Win

:, damper was thrown on the dog
snow in Madison Square Garden last
n'eht when it became known that Hill
oreth x. Bloodgood, one of the Oldest
lTxseut,ve members of the American
,sa ne,nel Club, had died at his home.
los West Fifty eighth Street.
ar. Bloodgood was a member of the
urn OF Vernon c. Brown & Co., bank
srs ana brokers, of so Broadway. He
was the owner of the Mepal Kennels.
AZ New Marlboro. Mass. where he
spec'alized in cocker spaniels. He was
ohe OF the heavy winners yesterday at
me Garden show. His entries will in
o. on probability be withdrawn, as will
,nose OF his son-in law. ]. Macy Will
iets, owner Of the Cassilis Kennels.
NJ. Hlocdgood was for many years
=" n''tied with national horse shows
's director and Il Judge. In his
sshnger days he was considered a
sssefllng POLO player. He has always
yen interested in high class sports
= an amateur. His favorite clubs
tpefe the Racquet and Tennis and the
kilon Club
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Russia Now Attacked
on 70O-Mile Front;
$500 Prisoners
Taken
Bolsheviki Rush
Written Surrender
Berlin Foreign Minis
ter Says Peace Must
Correspond With
Our Interests"

Developments IN the Pusso-Ger-
man CRISIS were sepift and dramatic
yesterday.
German forces continued to sweep
eastward into Russia from the
Gulf of Finland to the Galician
border, a stretch of seven hundred
miles. German commands have
entered Esthonia and are only
slxty-fve miles from Reval, guard
ing the entrance to the Gulf of
Finland. Southward to Lutsk the
Germans encountered practically
no resistance, though they took
z'ooo prisoners and several hun
dred guns Austrian troops are
advancing on kovno.
IN Berlin, DR.. Kuehlmann. the Ger.
man Foreign Minister. told the
Relchstag Main Committee that
the only Russian peace acceptab,e
to Germany was 'one which cor
responds with our interests He
said that no faith could be nlaced
IN Leon Trotzky and any treatv
signed by him or Lenine would
De accepted only when tho ;rl,
was dry
General Hoffman,. the Gero,.n
commander, refused to accent tha
bolshevik wireless peace message
SO Trotzky and Premier Ien;na
are rushing the message to Dv;nsl,
with their names duly signed
to it. "e"
Dr.. seydler, the Austrian pren;sr
announced that a mixed commits
sion VIII decide the fate of tho
froVlnce Of Cholm, according to
the wishes of its population. Dr.
Seydler declared that the I-kra;
man food surplus was creator
'han Austria could possibly trans
port. He limited that the treatv
with the Ukraine would lanse nm
less gram were forthcoming
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Two Die in Fire
In Barracks of
Salvation Army

Two men are known to have lost their
lives and at least one other is missing
in fire which wrecked the Salvation
Army building, at 1876 and 1913 Four
teenth Street, early this morning.
The bodies of the two men were
found by iremen on the second floor
of the building, near the fire escape.
They had evidently tried to reach the
escape from either the third or fourth
floor, where they had been sleeping.
They were burned beyond recognition
One hundred and twenty other men
and women, students at the Salvation
their night clothing bv fremen and SOL
diers. They were carried down fire
escapes and ladders and taken across
the street, where they were sheltered in
the armory Of the 9th Coast Defence
Battalion, the men of which aided in
saving them.
The fire was discovered shortly after
] o'clock. Those on the top floor of
the building had been awakened by
the smoke and the noise of the
cracking timbers. Rushing to win
dows overlooking Fourteenth Street
they shouted for help.
BY the time the first fire companies
arrived the interior of the building
was mass of flames.
Escape by the stairways was cut off
and the firemen lost no time in raising
extension ladders to level with the
fourth floor windows.
In the armory across the street there
were close to a thousand soldiers quar-
tered. They helped to bring the badly
frightened men and women to the
street. At the same time the Red
Cross division attached to the battalion
prepared first aid for those overcome
by smoke.
The cause of the fire is unknown. A
night watchman reported he had
passed through the building at |
O'Clock and seen no traces of it. Fit
teen minutes later the building was
like furnace.
The three men missing were known
only as Anderson, Matthews and Nc
Cormick