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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
CHRISTIAN ENDEAV0R
 DOUBLED MEMBERSHIP
Reports Show That 100000 Members Were Added in Three Years
 Hot Springs Seeks Convention

Memphis, July ill., Christian En- deavor workers in the 12 states of the Southern district organized 1,- 799 new socities and obtained more than 100000 members since Septem- Der, 1915, almost doubling in less than three years the objective set for a five-year membership campaign, ac- cording to reports submitted at the first business session of the All South convention of the Christian En- deavor union which was formally op- ened here tonight. The organization of 1000 new societies was set as the goal for the five-year campaign un- dertaken by the extension committee in 1915. New Orleans, Birmingham, Hot Springs. Dallas and Asheville, N. C., are among the cities seeking the next biennial convention.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
GOVERNMENT TO KEEP
 PRICE OF SUGAR DOWN
Will Sell Beet Product to Consumers at Less Than Cost of Manufac.
 ture to Stabilize Market

Washington July 11.-To equalize the price of sugar to the consumer in face of a prospect for an increase due to threatened shortage and to bring about better distribution President Wilson has created the sugar equali- zation board on recommendation of Food Administrator Hoover
 The board will be incorporated at $5,000,000, the capital to be furnished by the president from his special war fund, and will have authority to ac- quire even at loss to the government the production of beet sugar factories that cannot, under the present price of beets, be sold to the public at a reasonable price, and other high cost sugar. It will be resold in the com- mon lot at the stabilized price, saving considerable to the consumer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
INNATE 10 VOTE
 T0OAY 0N WIRE
 | CONyROL MEASURE
,esolution Expected to Be Tn the Presidents Hands
 By Saturday.
oNGRESS TO TAKE
 VACATION AT ONCE
I,nnorters of Wartime Prohibition
 auree to Postponement of That Legislation Until After Recess.

Washington, July 11.-Adoption to- |orrow by the senate of the house lsolution empowering the president 1 acquire telegraph, telephone, cable bd radio systems and a summer va gt;on for congress with national war (me prohibition postponed until aft the recess, was the program fram- today by the congressional lead Senate debate on the administra- bn wire control resolution was be- bn today after the $11 100000 em- fgency agricultural appropriation ii with it's prohibition amendment Id been laid aside temporarily. With a vote expected tomorrow or bt later than Saturday and approval most universally conceded, leaders the resolution without amendment l the senate and house renewed ne- btiaticns to postpone the prohibition
 sue and carry out original plans for
 recess for adjournment until about 'hgust 12.
 Prohibition advocates assented to
 mporary displacement of the agri- Sltural measure because the wire Sntrol resolution is regarded by the
 ministration as an urgent war
 cessity. The agricultural bill, how
 Ter, was kept in position to be call
 immediately after disposal of the
 ire legislation either before or after
 recess.
 The wire control resolution was de- Rted in the senate virtually all day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
.UN-AUsTRIAN LEADERS MEET

London, July 11.-German and Ans sn s.s statesmen began a conference at ssug suuIg Tuesday for the pupose of snsing for closer relations be- sea the two countries and cement
 aelr alliance. Sixty of the most :. ~inent statesmen were to partici- V ,a m the conference. according to n VI, ulspatch from Amsterdam says tis.;s Sss rom Vienna declare the ne sroa s.ons are of a purely economic rv a.'er' and that no political or mil K tts questions will be discussed.
 tda S reported Austria proposes free 1us saall not be arranged. but that
 psooucts which need the protect
 oi tariff shall carry heavy dut- tvaa a. IS also said the tariff alliance tIsen Sa n. Austria and Germany will
 pe Of an aggressive character tow.
 e, sae enemies of those countries tn,a n not present barrier to the ESre N e friendly relations of Austria to .ae entente allies. It is propos- ts,,s s arrange a tariff arrangement for Iion ss% .',f or 20 years, subject to a re- re-
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ONE MEMBER (F ANTI.DRAFD GANG
 TAKEN BY POSSE:
Sam West Captured When He Goes Home for Food
 For Bandits.

Heber Springs July 11.-Sam West. aged 40, alleged member of the band of draft resisters. that has been hid ing in the hills since Sunday was captured in his home five miles west of Heber Springs this afternoon. He was captured by a posse of deputy sheriffs, who from hiding places, had been watching Vests home 40 hours.
 The deputies say that West was in the home of Thomas Atkinson, Sunday afternoon when the resisters fired on the sheriff's posse killing Porter Hazelwood, who was driving the sheriff's car West was taken to the county jail.
 It is charged that West is a half brother of two of the youths who re- fused to respond to the calls of their draft boards and that he encouraged them to resist. West refused to dis close the whereabouts of other mem bers of the band but the deputies be- lieve that West returned to his home to get food for them.
 They believe that hunger will force other members of the band to come from their hiding places soon.
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TRAIN ROBBERS
 bELItVf0 HlOING
 IN KANSAS CITY
Postal and Express Elm plyes Say They Got Very
 Little Loot From Cars.

Paola, Kas.. July 11.-After several hours search thru the brushwood bor- dering the Marais de Cygne river, Home Guards, sheriff's posses and volunteers numbering about 250 re- turned tonight without having found a trace of the ban65ss .involxed in the midnight robbery near here of a pas senger train on the M. K. 6 T.
 Some of the searchers expressed the belief the bandits, who escaped in motor cars, had probably reached Kansas City. A merchant who res ides near the scene of the hold-up re- ported motor car loaded with men stopped in front of his home early today. He said the occupants were going towards Kansas City,
 According to postal and express company employees the mail and ex- press cars which the bandits detach- ed from the train and later ransacked, yielded them only trivial amount of loot.
 Four persons on the train were wounded during the shooting.
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ARKANSAS YOUTH
 IS BATTLE HERO

Little Rock. July 11.-Corporal Ray mond Powell, who was mentioned in the British press dispatches of July z as the leader of an American party which charged hot foot after the re- treating enemy through fierce fire and rescued two Americans and Hv',, Australians who had been captured and also brought back q German ol.. ficer, is an Arkansan, 1t was learned yesterday. He is son of R. l.. POW ell, a Baptist minister, who lives two miles east Of Corning, in Clay county Powell volunteered at the outbreak or the war and went with the regular army to France in July. 1917.
 Powell. who is 23 years old and weighs about 1855 pounds, is typical farmer boy of Arkansas. according to c. T. Bloodworth of Corning, a dele gate to the Constitutional convention from Clay county. who knows the young hero we'll.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
MOTHER NATURAL
 |IAS COMPANY MAY (ENvtR PINE BLUFF
representative of Monroe
 Capitalists Open Prelim- mary Negotiations.

Preliminary negotiations for a new tural gas company to obtain a Pnchise and supply Pine Bluff with were opened yesterday with May
 Slron Bloom by c. H. Collins of pnroe, La., representing a newly or nlzed company which claims to ve big field there.
 The company has obtained fran ,se in Little Rock and it's mains ll pass thru or near Pine Bluff, ac- Fdlng to MT. Collins. The company
 sad, desires to supply cities all Png the route. Mayor Bloom advised Collins that Pine Bluff in all !nood would be willing to grant Franchise.
 Deflnite action is expected to be Ken when the company starts the lk or laying it's mains from Monroe Llttle Rock. The city's gas supply eurtailed last winter and it is be- yea that the entrance of another mers. >''
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
U. :. Flyers
 ROut Many
 Hun AirInen
Prevent Photographs of American Lines and Down
 Two Enemy Pilots.

With the American Army in France, July 11.--American pursuit planes to- day interrupted German observation and photographic work behind the American lines. Lieuts. Edgar Tab on of San Antonio, and Edgar Jones. of Chicago, attacked biplane over Fliery at an altitude of 5000 yards.
 They dove after him four times, down to thousand yards when he fell over Thiaucourt
 Lieut.. Charles T. Merrick of Eldora, 1a., attacked another biplane north of Fliery. The German went slid ing down on his wings and was re- ported later by another American fly CT as having fallen in flames. Pur- suit planes also attacked the enemy's observation balloons, which were hastily pulled down.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
300 GALLONS MILK
 SEIZED IN P. B.

Forty-nine cases. 300 gallons, of eva porated milk were seized at the plant of the o. K. Ice Cream and Candy company, 51S Main street, yes terday by U. s. Deputy Marshal A. H. Reed under an order issued by Judge Jacob Trieber, of the federal court at Little Rock. A complaint. filed by a federal food inspector. charged that the milk was not up to the standard. according to Deputy Marshal Reed
 The company was given 20 days in which to appear in court at Little Rock to answer the complaint. The milk was left in possession of the company and receipt taken for it by the deputy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
Lightning
 Kills Two
 U. .. Soldiers
Seven Others Are Injured By Bolt Which Strikes
 Mess Tent.

Fort Worth, July 1.-Two soldiers were killed, seven were dangerously injured, several perhaps fatally, and several others suffered severe shocks and minor injuries when lightning struck a mess tent in the brigade stockade of the 61st brigade at Camp Bowie, just as score of prisoners were sitting down to supper Tuesday night, during the worst wind and el- electrical storm that has swept this section in years.
 The dead are Privates Joseph w. Shue, Malakoff. Henderson county. Tex, and R. R. Moreland, said to be of Amarillo, Tex. both of Battery B, 132rd field artillery.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
BUSCH FAMILY HELPED FINANCE HUN PROPAGANDA Provided Millions for Ger mans to Buy Newspapers
 in United States. BOUGHT TEUTON
 BONDS IN AMERICA New York Official Says Many Ameri. cans Also Invested in Bonds Sold
 to Help kaiser's
 Battle.

New York, July 1.-The Busch family of St. Louis bought at least $1,000,000 worth of German war bonds which the government believes; were sold in this country for propa- iganda and for the purchase of the New York Evening Mail and other neWsrapers, accordin:, to a statement issued tonight by Alfred l.. Becker, deputy state attorney general.
 MT, Becker added that probably smore than S100,0000OO worth of the bonds had been sold in the United States. Mir. Becker emphasized that while the United States was still neutral the imperial German govern ement without cent Of expense to itself established a fund to "seduce part of the American press with good American gold exchanged for mere scraps of paper"
 Many Americans, he said, invested in the German bonds before this coun- cry went to war in the same manner that they are now buying Liberty bonds, thinking that the money was to be used legitimately for the pur- chase of munitions and war supplies and not suspecting that their dollars were to be used against their own country.
 Capt. David A. Henkes. who was dismissed from the United States army by court martial for wishing to resign after being sent to France. and who was sentenced to 25 years at Fort Leavenworth. used part of his army pay to buy German bonds. ac- eoFding to MT. Becker. e4
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
DENIES GERMANS ARE MIsTREATED
 BY AMERICANS

Washington, July 11.-Calumnies nub'ished in German newspapers re- garding the treatment of wounded Germans falling within the American lines. which reflect directly on the American Red Cross. have caused the United States government to make re- Huest of the German government thru the Snanish ambassador at Berlin as to the basis for the statement. No re- ply has been received.
 In roaking this known today the sta.e department said while the Ger man assertions have been formally de- nied bv 1t on behalf of the Red Cross and by Henry P. Davison. chairman oe the Red Cross war council. it is informed the denials never have been given circulation in Germany.
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NEW LAW MlKI KS
 SPEND WHOLE: DAY ARGU(VG TAXATION
Committee Proposes Sys- tenn of Classified and
 Segregated Assessments.

Little Rock, July 1.-The subject of taxation engrossed the attention of the Constitutional convention on all day Thursday. The whole issue is being based upon the question of whether the present system of "uni- form and advalorem" assessment shall be retained Or the committee's pro- posal for Classified and segregated" assessment by adopted.
 The speakers were pretty evenly divided on the subject, and declared that the theory of the other looked we'll on paper but would net work out in practice.
 For hour after hour the convention of taxation, criticisms of tax-dodgers, citations of the experience in other states, and definitions of tangible and intangible property.
 Delegate F. E. Brown, a former member of the tax commission assert ed that the present system has proven monumental failure and that he is willing to try any change that may promise an improvement.
 It was argued by some that the trouble is not so much with the pres- ent law as it is with the lax enforce ment of it, and to this it was re- piled that so long as the present theory of taxation prevails, the evils of unfair and unequal taxation can never be corrected, and that it will continue to be the means of causing most men who give in their asses sements to perjure themselves.
 When the convention adjourned, the question was still being argued.
 Delegate Gustave Jones stated yesterday that the Convention is cost ing $534 a day, and that balance of $15 ,408.41 of the original $25, ,0O0 balance remains unexpended. It is be- lieved, generally, that the convention will be in session about three weeks after this week.
 The convention adopted by a una nimous vote, without roll-cail. the fol- lowing resolution by Delegate Clay Sloan of Lawrence county:
 Resolved by the constitutional con vention of the State of Arkansas now in session, that we urge upon con- gress the passage Of the amendment now pending there, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors during the war, in the inter- est of food conservation an sobriety."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
GAINS MAY BLOCK GERMANS
 DRIVE FOR PARIS
Capture Territory Teutons Need for Launching
 Offensive.
ITALIANS STILL
 GAINING GROUND
Vipnna Admits That Austrian Armies Are Being Driven Back in AL Bania-AttaCk in North
 kepulsed.
Associated Press Summary

French pressure along the line from the Marne to the Aisne which began two weeks ago as a series of local at- tacks has begun to yield results which are appreciable when viewed on the map.
 The town of Corey, east of Retz for est has been taken from the Germans and strong positions in the vicinity have been captured by the slow meth. odical advance that has been tue source Of much annoyance to the ene- my for several days.
 As result Of the assaults made by the French from Ambleny south of the Aisne, to the hills Of south of Cor cy their lines has been strengthened and advanced to high ground which lends itself defensive operations and gives the French good observation profits from which they can see what is going on behind the German lines.
 Block German Plans.
 There has been some reason for believing that when the Germans re- sume their offensive on the western front they will attempt to break thru between the Marne and Aisne in a dash straight for Paris For this rea- son the operations which the French have carried out assume importance. South Of Corey the German line ex- tends slightly to the westward but it curves sharply eastward just be- fore it reaches the l,lignon river northwest of Chateau Thierrys1ss4pr--ys
 From the Clignon southward to the Marne American forces have been improving their positions in recent daysc and now have strong lie of positions running northward from Hill 204 west Of Chateau Thierry. to the village of Corey.
 Australians Gain
 On the British front the Austral-9 ians have been in action once more, penetrating German positions and cap turing prisoners. On the rest of the tines held by the British there have been the usual artillery duels and pa trol engagements.
 French and Italian detachments are steadily pushing austrian forces back along the western slopes of the mountains that parall the coast of Albania. They are reported north of the important town of .Berat and have moved ahead in the hilly country to the east. Vienna admits the al- lied success in this squarter. In the mountain sectors Of the northern Ital. ian front Austrian, uits which ap- preached Italian positions have been driven back.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
Probe Nashville Wreck

Nashville, July 11.-Daniel F. Johnson, B. c. Craig and J. B. Ford, interstate commerce inspectors, sent here by the government to make an investigation of the wreck Tuesday on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway near Nashville. with w. G. Templeton, superintendent of the Nashville division of the road, spent the day at the scene fthe wreck, Many employees were examined. The ifficials said no public hearing would be held. G. R. Loyal, assistant to the regional director who ha scharge of the railroads of this section of the south, will arrive in Nashville Friday to take charge of the investigation.
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GARANFLo AND DUNCAN
 START FOR PRISON
Is Last Chapter in Failure of State National Bank at Little
 Rock.

Little Rock, July 11.-+William H. Garanflo, former president and Rob- ert D. Duncan, former cashier, of the defunct State National Bank of Lit tie Rock today were taken tc the fed eral penitentiary at Atlanta to begin serving terms. They were convicted of violating the. federal banking laws in connectio with the failure of the bank in 1914.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
AMERICAN CONSUL
 REACHES TEHERAN

Washington, July 11.-Safe arrival at Teberan of Gordon Paddock, Uni ted States consul at Tabriz, was an- nounced today by the state depart ment. Paddock left Tabriz more than a month ago with party of American and Europeans, when Tab rig was threatened by Turks, who afterwards seized the American con sulate there and socked an American hospital.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
2,2S0 ENLIST IN
 MARINES IN WEEK

Washington. July 11-Marine corps officers and men now number 55.1S5. An announcement today from the marine headquarters says since July l. 2,26O enlistment papers have been received at headquarters and it is estimated 5000 are pending at re- cruit depots.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
BOLsHEVIKI FORCES
 BEAT CzECHO-SLUVAkS
Moscow Statement Declares Revolu- tiOns are Defeated in VOlga Sec.
 tiOn and in Siberia.

London, July 11.-Bolsheviki forces have taken the offensive against the Czecho- -Slovaks army in the Volga region and the government troops have won great success, says a Rus- sian official statement received here by wireless today from Moscow. The Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia also are re- ported to be retreating before coun- ter offensive of the Russian Bolshe- Wiki.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
POI NEW RFGISTRANTS .
 Of BOARD 2 IN GLASS 1
Exemption Officials Complete Classi- ficatiOn of Newly Drafted Men 10 Failed to Return Papers

Two hundred and one of the 23O men of the draft class of 1918 who registered on June 5. last, have been placed in class one. according to fig ures compiled by Ben Harvey, chief clerk of local Exemption Board No. ?.
 Eleven men were placed in class two, six in clas four. and two in class five. Ten men have failed to return their questionnaires.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
WILL APPOINT 29
 STUDENTS TO U. OF A.

County Judge L. E. Cheek announ- ced yesterday that he will appoint 29 young men and women from Jeffers son county as students at ths Univer~ sity of Arkansas for the 1910-10 see- sion. Applicants for scholarshipe must De high school graduatss or eIl- ter the university training aeAool
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
PLAYHOUSE
 WRECKS FREIGHT TRAIN
Small Boys Amusement Is Respon- slble for Death of Veteran En-
 gineer on Southern Railroad

Knokville, Tenn, July 11.-A play house of scrap iron built on the track by a nine-year-old boy caused the wreck of Southern railway fast freight train near Newport Tuesday which resulted in the death of John R. Crittenden, veteran engineer, ac- cording to Thomsa N. Skeen, chief special agent of the Southern.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12

''Babe" Ruth. the Red Sox hammer, ing marvel, has chalked up eleven home runs SO far this season.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12

In parts of Ireland silver Is so scarce that change is given in post age tamps.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
The Weather

N 1y, plobss'sy bPssst'ly .s! cloudy, warmer, Sat-.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12

The shortest verse in the Old Tes- lament is 1 Chronicles l.. 25, which
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-12
CZfCRO-SL0VAKS CONTROL ALL IF WESTERN RUSSIA
Reuter- Dispatch Says They Have Defeated the
 Bolshevik Forces.
SOVIET GENERAL
 COMMITS SUICIDE
Moscow Officials Declare He Was Traitor to the GOVcrnmEnt--U. $. Fears Famine In
 Russia.

London, July 11.--Virtually all of Western Siberia is in control of the Czecho- Slovaks, according to Reu- ter dispatch from Pekin dated July 10. The dispatch says the Bolsheviki have been overthrown in the whole region from Tobolsk east of the Urals to Semipalatimsk, 750 miles to the southeast near the Chinese frontier.
 The Trans-Siberian railway is un- der Czecho- -Slovak control from Tach- elabinsk, in the Ural mountains, at the junction of the branches of the road which lead to south and north Russia, Krasknoyarsk, 1900 miles to the east. The report confirms ear Her dispatches to the effect that the Bolsheviki at Irkutsk have been de- feated by the Czecho-Slovaks.
 Fear Famine in Russia
 ties of famine this winter in Rus- sia are giving this government some concern. Reports from authentic sources say that in the political tur- moil agricultural virtually has been abandoned and that the people have eaten what grain the Germans have not taken. The result is there has been no seed for planting.
 White Guards Favor Allies
 Washington, July 11.--It is assum. ed at the state department that the White Guards, reported to have cut communications between Volog3a aaid Moscow, are anti-Bolshevsts or conservatives who created a great disturbance at the recent meeting of all-Russian Soviet in Moscow.
 The term "White Guards" is used generally in Russia to designate con servatives. The opposition to the Bolsheviki is crystalizing in Northern Russia and Siberia. where the leaders are said to plan to rejoin the allies and eventually combine independent states into Russian republic.
 Soviet General Kills Self
 London, July 11.-General Murav- jeff, commander of the Bolsheviki forces operating against the Czecho- has committed suicide, ac- cording to an official Russian wire less dispatch received here. The dis patch, which denounces Gen. Murav- jeff as traitor says:
 "He issued false and treacherous order to his troops and sought to dir ect an offensive against the soviet government of Russia. He ordered his men to advance against Moscow and at the some time attacked the town of Simbirsk, in the Volka region. The soviet troops, however, declined to obey his orders and remained faith full to the soviet authority. Finding the troops would not follow him in betraying the revolution Traitor shot himself"