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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03

Sbpf ANA 'oNo oIlu iiiiiupAO.
81 have strongly emphasized the great
necessity Of physicians making blood
examinations of their weak, anaemic,
u down patients. Thousands of per-
sons go on year after year suffering
from physical weakness and a highly
nervous condition due to lack of suffi-
cient iron in their red blood corpuscles
without ever realizing the real and true
cause of their trouble. Without iron in
your blood your food merely passes
through the body. something like corn
through an old mill with rollers so wide
apart that the mill can't grind.
For want of iron you may be an old
man at 30, dull of intellect, poor in
memory, nervous, irritable and all run
down. while at SO or, so, with plenty of
iron in your blood, you may still be
young in feeling, full Of life, your whole
being trimming over with vim and en-
ergy.
"As proof of this, take the case of for
mer United States Senator and Vice
Presidential Nominee Charles A. Towne,
who at past So is still a veritable noun
tain Of tireless energy. Senator Towne
says: L have found NuXated Iron of
the greatest benefit as a tonic and reg
ulative. Henceforth l shall not be with
out 1t. | am in a position to testify for
the benefit Of others to the remarkable
and immediate h~elpfulness of this REM
edy, and l unhesitatingly recommend
Nuxated Iron to those who feel the
need of renewed energy and the regu-
larity of bodily functions
But in my opinion you can't make
strong. keen, forceful men and healthy,
rosy-cheeked women by feeding them
on metallic iron. The old forms of me-
tallic iron must go through a digestive
process to transform them into organic
iron-Nuxated 1ron-before they are
ready to be taken up and assimilated
by the human system, Notwithstand-
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03
SMlDDY RELEASED
ON BOND OF $1,000

viii Smiddy, former city detective,
charged with perjury, is at liberty on
$1,000 bond. Smiddy is alleged to have
sworn falsely to the value Of four lots
on Cummings street in signing bonds
for Charles Wiley, j, II, Kirkman and
were arrested in October IN charges
OF whisky running.
Smiddy was arrested Monday follow
ing his Indictment by the federal grand
jury. He made bond before United
States Judge Mccall.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03

chanic Marvin II. Morgan, Advance;
Privates Bert Flora. Kingsville; Har-
ley II. Hammons, Trenton.
Wounded slightly: Corp. Nova r.
Garrett, Stedman; Wagner Urban L.
G,fst West Alton; Privates Lee E.
Birdsong, Olean; Everett Irvine, Lou
isiana.
Missing in action: Privates James A,
Adams, Tilden; Thomas n. Petot,
Meufre; Lee A. Scott, Kansas City; A
II, Busche, st. Louis; Raymond J
Grove (marine), Kansas City; Paul e
Miner (marine), st. Louis.
Returned to duty, previously reported
missing: Private Frank G. Anderson
%(marine), Lee Summit.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03
MEMPHIS GETS NEW
DISTRIBUTING FIRM

The central location OF Memphis,
coupled with it's splendid facilities for
concentration and distribution of both
raw materials and finished products,
has attracted the Old Kentucky Manu-
featuring company, of Paducah, to this
city.
Fl. H. .Northup, of New orleans, has
formed a partnership with W. NJ. Lind
sey, Shreveport. La, for distributing
the products of this company in all
parts Of the South from Memphis, and
II is announced that they viii, during
Tuesday, decide upon a warehouse that
will suit their purpose. Mark Fenton,
industrial commissioner OF the Chamber
OF. Commerce, is aiding them.
A number of statesmen for the firm
will travel out of this city.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03

ing tissue. Without it, no matter how
much or what you eat, your food mere
ly passes through you without doing
you good, and as a consequence you
become weak, pale and sickly-looking
just like a plant trying to grow in u
soil deficient in lyon. Pallor means
anaemia. The skin of an anaemic
woman is pale, the flesh flabby. The
memory fails, and often they become
weak, nervous, irritable, Respondent
and melancholy. Give such a woman
a short course of Nuxated Iron and
she often quickly becomes an entirely
different NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., healthy
and rosy-cheeked. l have used Nux-
ated Iron widely in my own practice
in most severe, aggravated conditions
with unfailing results. | have induced
many other physicians to give 1t a
trial, all of whom have given me most
surprising reports in regard to its great
power as a health and strength
builder"
Manufacturors' Motel Nuxated Iron, which Is
used by nr. sullivan and others with such sur
prisine results. and which Is prescribed and rec
commended above by physicians, Is not a secret
remedy hut one which Is well known to drug
pIsts everywhere. Unlike the older inorganic iron
nrodurts, 1t is easily assimilated, does not injurs
the teeth. make them black, nor upset the stom-
acb, Tie manufacturers guarantee successful and
entirely satisfactory results To every purchaser or
they will refund ynur moneN. 1t is dispensed
by all good druggists.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03

= tOl olbullS L
Nuxated 1ron-or, if you don't want to
go to this trouble, then purchase only
Nuxated Iron in its original packages
and see that this particular name
(Nuxated from appears on the pack
age. II you have taken preparations
such as Nux and Iron and other SINH
lar iron products and failed to get re-
suits, remember that such products
are an entirely different thing from
In commenting upon : the value of
NuXated Iron as a means for creating
red blood, strength and endurance, DR..
Ferdinand King, a New York Physician
n Medical Author, says:
Scarcely a day goes by but that !
see women whose careworn faces, drag
ging steps and generally weak, tired
appearance show unmistakable signs Of
hat anaemic, rundown condition usu-
ally brought on by lack or iron in the
blood.
There can be no strong, healthy,
beautiful women without iron, and in
asmuch as refining processes and mod
ern cooking methods remove the iron Of
Mother Earth from so many of our
most common foods, this iron deficien-
cy should be supplied by using some
form of organic iron just as we use
salt when our food has not enough salt.
Iron is absolutely necessary to en-
able your blood to change food into liv-
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03
"FONETICALLY r

Now, then, Line up alphabetically
for pay said the sergeant.
What's your nane my lad?'
Phillips, sir"
We'll what yer doing UP here? Get
back with the Fs at once"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03

starve for want Of iron-iron that gives it
strength and power to change food into living
tissue" says DR.. James Francis Sullivan, form
erly physician of Bellevue Hospital (Outdoor
Dept,), New York, and the Westchester County
Hospital.
Modern methods of cooking and the rapid
pace at which people of this country live has
made such an alarming increase in iron de-
men that / have often marveled at the large
number of people who lack iron in the blood,
and who never suspect the cause of their weak,
nervous, rundown state. Lack Of iron in the
blood not only makes a man a physical and
tigued, but 1t utterly robs him of that virile
force, that stamina and strength of will which
are so necessary to success and power in every
walk Of life. 1t may also transform a beauti-
full, sweet-tempered woman into one who is
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03

s.apdac cold remedy for % years-in tablet
fom--safe, sure, nc o~piates-bresks up q cold
in "a h~ours--elisvcs grp IN ) days. Money
with Nj, Hil's picture. At Al Drug Stores.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03

ing all that has been
said and written on
this subject by we'll
k n o wn physicians,
thousands Of people
still insist in dosing
themselves with me-
tallic iron simply, |
suppose, because it
costs a few cents less.
/ strongly advise read
ers In all cases to get
a physicians prescrip-
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-03
Is Your Blood Starving For Want of

WHY Nuxated Iron So Quickly Builds Up Weak, Nervous,
ing 1t in This Country Alone to Increase Their Strength,
Power, Energy and Endurance.
is your blood starving for want of iron? If you were to 60 without
eating until you became weak, thin and emaciated, you could not do a
more serious harm to yourself than when YOU let your blood literally
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Price of Cornmeal
Falls; Its Use Urged
Food Board Here Asks Pub
lie to Buy 1t and
Save Wheat

Following a warning by Herbert
Hoover that profiteers in cornmeal
would be punished severely, the Fed
eral Food Board announced last night
that the price of cornmeal here had
dropped two cents a pound since May
2, and probably would go lower.
To-day cornmeal should be sold to
the consumer at from Ga to 7 cents
pound" said the Food Boards state
ment. "The retailer is paying the
wholesaler 6h to cents pound
Cornmeal is now cheaper than white
flour. which is IN and tn cents
pound. Consumers are urged to help
clear the market of the unusual supply
of eornmeal and SO save the wheat
F. W. Fiske, head Of the boards dis
trlbution bureau, will ask the bakers
tomorrow to use more cornmeal.
Bernard Hoffman, who, when the
Food Board was formed, gave up his
business as a consulting engineer to
become an assistant, without pay, in
the Bureau of Transportation and Dis
tribution, was yesterday appointed
head of the newly created sugar divi-
sion, which will handle the distribution
of sugar to manufacturers and home
Gamers under the certificate plan.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
issue s15,ooo,ooo in corporate stock or
serial bonds, to extend over time of
from 10 to 80 years.

issue s15,ooo,oo0 in corporate stock or
serial bonds, to extend over time Of
from 10 to 80 years.
"This bill is necessary" said C;tv
Controller Craig, "to provide additions
to schools to meet present overcrowded
conditions. Under the present pay-as-
you-go system new schools cannot be
built and appropriations previously
authorized for Garyizing various build
ings cannot be used for other purposes
1t also is necessary to meet the re-
quirements of hospitals, armories and
other improvements of pressing ur-
gency under war conditions"
Nobody appeared in opposition to the
against it by the Citizens Union on the
ground that it interfercd with the pay
as-you-go policy.
"The present law should not be
known as pay as-you-go policy" said
Edward j. McGoldrick, Assistant Cor
start" ~"
Senator Wagner also appeared for
tne Dill, and it is expected that the
Governor will sign it.
New York City officials also urged
the Governor to sign the Donohue bill
to permit the compensation of unli-
censed physicians for work in the hos
pitfalls. At present young physicians
without New York State licenses can
only serve in the hospitals without
pay. SO many young physicians have
been called into war service that the
New York City hospitals are badly
crippled Tor lnternes, it was declared.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
nee whatsoever to the

out ally reference whatsoever to the
Gary plan.
"The Board of Superintendents was
requested to modify programmes in all
schools operating under the Gary psan
and in recent report received from
superintendent Meleney, we are ad-
vised that the programmes have been
changed by eliminating the objectiona-
bic features from all schools. except
Public School 45, The Bronx, and Pub
lie School 80, Brooklyn" Here. too, 1t
is expected that the Gary features will
be gradually done away with.
"The duplicate programme" continues
the report, "has been eliminated aim ost
completely from the lower grades. Spe-
cialization or departmental teaching
(the teaching of single subject BY a
special teacher) has also been largely
eliminated for these children, and
teachers now generally have their
classes for all academic work"
For small children long auditorium
periods have been discontinued, while
shop work, cooking, sewing and ele-
mentary science, the report saws, are
now reserved for older pupils.
Under the heading Salaries OF
Teachers" the report declares that ow-
ing to the better, inducements being of
fered young women nowadays by the
Federal government and mercantile
houses such inroads have been made
into the teaching staff that this city
may find itself without sufficient sup
ply of teachers within the next year
To meet this situation the board has
modified the requirements for teachers
license No. and is now at work on a
revised salary schedule, which, it states,
will soon be presented to the Board of
Estimate for approval!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Engineer Killed,
q Fire1nen Hurt.
In $500,00o Fire
Government Beef and Eggs
Lost in Blaze in 18th Ave.
Refrigerating Plant

One man was killed and more than
half million dollars damage was
done early last evening when a series
OF explosions in the engine room of
the Merchants Refrigerating Com
pany's plant at Eleventh Avenue and
Sixteenth Street threatened to de-
stroy the entire structure, which is
eleven stories high and covers a city
block. Prompt work by the fremen,
who were forced to battle most of the
time with deadly ammonia fumes, pre-
vented the blaze started by the ex-
plosions from spreading.
James Vincent, who lived on Fresh
Pond Road, Brooklyn, and who was as
sistant engineer of the plant, was
killed instantly. Battalion Chiefs Jo-
seph Dooley and Lawrence Mcclure.
Acting Chief George L. Ross and about
twenty other tiremen were bruised and
cut by bits of wood and pieces of
glass which were blown into the street
by small explosions which followed
the first big crash.
Twenty-ffth Street, Elmhurst' Long
Island, the chief engineer. and two
other men were in the engine room
of the plant, which is located in the
cellar, at the corner of Eleventh Ave-
nue. and Seventeenth Street, shortly
after 7 o'clock last night, when a slight
rumbling warned them of danger.
Berend and the two men managed to
rush from the room Just before the
main explosion completely wrecked the
engine room, blew off the steel head
OF an ammonia tank, which crushed
Vincent down at the doorway His body
was recovered some time after the fire.
men reached the scene by members of
the rescue squad, wearing their gas
masks.
Smoky Joe" Martin, who reached
the building on the second alarm,
promptly sent in two more. Police
reserves were also called from four
precincts, and, with the assistance Of
soldiers guarding the barred zone
around the piers of the Atlantic Trans
port Line, directly across the street
from the plant, kept civilians a block
away in all directions from the build
ing.
The plant, an official of the company
stated, contained 100000 pounds Of
beef, 100000 ases of eggs and large
quantity of copper and tobacco, be-
longing to the government The same
official, after an inspection of the
wrecked engine room and refrigerating
system, which was electrically operated
and one of the finest in the country,
declared the loss would be between
$500,000 and 100000.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
To Take Bray From Mule

SALEM, Ore, May 11.-Removal Of
the bray from mules was announced to-
day as one of the purposes of joint.
clinic which will be held at Portland
next month by veterinarians from
Washington and Oregon. Experiments
will be performed upon mules in an
effort to discover the method which is
known to exist by which they are de-.
prved of their ability to bray.
The operation was said by veterinar-;
ians here to have been performed suc-.
cessfully in the French army, adding
greatly to the value of the mule for
army use. The braying of the animals.
is said sometimes to have betrayed to
the enemy the movements of an army.
:. According to DR.. w. Fl. Lytle, State
Veterinarian for Oregon, three theories
are held as to the method of perform
ing the operation. One is a surgical
treatment of the "halse nostril," an
other the severing of certain muscles
in the neck and the third the severing
Of muscles in the tail.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
The Weather Report

WASHINGTON. May ll.-Anothcr disturbance from
the far West is Central Texas tonight and the
precipitation resulting therefrom extends from
the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma cast northeast
ward through the Ohio Valley and Tennessee There
were also rains and SHOWS to the northward and
Mexico There is other disturbance North
em Minnesota that was attended by local showers
earlier days in the week has passed into the North
Atlantic, and +, The showers in the Atlantic states
Temperatures are quito high in the South. but
elsewhere ihcy: below the seasonal average
ths sliss,ssppi River except in Nsw nsiana whsre
Western TSnnessce ana the East dyli states ths
ths eastward showers yin continue It win b
snd coer Monday N thy In ass ou states
Forecast. for Special LooaIItle..-Eastsn Now
York. showers Sunday or Sunday night and prob
wv Western S10 New York. cloudy Sunday probably
showers: Monday. showers;
Northern New England fair Sunday; Monday.
=. New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. showers
Sunday and probably Monday.
Local onlclai Rccord.-The following official rec
ord from the Weather Bureau shows temperatures
during the last twenty -four hours. in comparison
with the corresponding date OF last year:
1913. 1917 1913. 1917;
J { ]! / ! !: 8: !: ]! s
Highest temperature yesterday 6s degrees lat
$50 p. m) lowest, Al lat a. m.): average. 5s ;
average same date last year. 53 average same date
for thirty three years. 5S
Humidity
a. m...7o p m....55 p. m... SO
Barometer Readings
a. m. .2998 l p. NJ. 80 .04 8 p. m...30. OF
Local Official Foreoast.-showers, to-day or to.
night and probably tomorrow; moderate east and
southeast winds. increasing somewhat tonight
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12


II think that when the city gets a
3 per cent return on its investment.
with an additional per cent for
amortization and per cent to cover
taxes. that is all we should ask.
AS you know, have decided to nut
up Pier SO, North River, at auction as
an object lesson. Now, here is some
thing Pm going to tell you, something
for which | will be criticised by Con.
troller Craig and others. But don't
care; l am right am going to lease
to the French Line, for three wears.
Pier g., at the foot Of West Fortv-
fourth Street, for $1,000 a week. I
could get more than twice that sum
for this pier, at auction, from a steve
dore, who would use it for profteering
me me pier is now controlled by the
United States government, and it is
at its suggestion that / am going to
turn it over to the French, because
they are engaged in war work and have
turned over their piers in France to
our government"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Gary Plan Gone
From 33 Schools,
Says New Board
Education Heads Report
Reorganization Work of
First Four Months

Arthur Somers, President of the
Board of Education, yesterday made
public his report to the Mayor of the
boards first four months of steward
snip. Divided into five sections. it
forms summary of the lines upon
which this board plans to reorganize
the cltys schools.
=, Among the actual achievements of
the board thus far the elimination of
the Gary plan from the schools system
ana the extension and standardization
OF school buildings are featured. So
are the substantial contributions of
school children and teachers to vari-
Gus forms of war service.
In submitting the record, President
Somers was frankly proud.
1T isn't very lengthy document"
said he, but l think it contains the
evidence of a good deal of pains
taxing and constructive work. l trust
the Mayor will feel satisfied. Person
ally. | feel that it speaks pretty we'll
lot the new. small board"
After dwelling on the administrative
advantages enjoyed by such a board
and on the early difficulties it encoun-
the fire which destroyed part Of it's
pudding and many of its records,
President Somers proceeds to the mat
ter of reorganization
Reorganization Work Begun
One of the first problems the board
undertook to solve" says his report
was the organization Of the schools
1t asked the superintendent to in
yee$s:tlgate and report upon the advsa-
blllty Of organizing our schools on
the basis of six-year elementary. a
three-year Junior high school and
three-year senior high school plan. A
perintendents to appoint a committee
of associate and district superintend-
ents to consider this plan was adopted
on April 8. This committee, I am in
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Fights Van Cortlandt Will

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, May 11.-An
affidavit filed with Surrogate Sawyer
shows that Augustus Van Cortlandt, of
New York, intends to contest the will
of his brother, Robert B. Van Cort-
landt, by which the greater part of
his 100000 estate would go to Colum-
bia University. He says that the tcs-
tator's sister, Mrs. Mary Bayley Mat
thews, now in England, probably Will
contest the document also.
1t is the belief of the contestants
that the will that has been filed did
not express the intentions Of Mr.. Van
Cortlandt at the time of his death;
that he was on the point Of signing
another will when he took his own
life, and that the will on file here
was not properly signed.
The signature, it was said, was not
at the end of the instrument, but on
the page preceding the last.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Dock Commissioner Asserts
Total Rental Will Be Dou-
bic Present Receipts
Hit. Back at Craig
TYouble With Controller Is He
Wants to Do 1t All Him
self, He Declares

Dock Commissioner Murray Hubert
r.nlied yesterday to Controller Craig's
criticism of the proposed lease of 200
te.t of the pier at the foot of East
rfth Street, Manhattan. to the Paw
,ncket and New York Transportation
Company.
The Sinking Fund Commission ap-
nroyed the lease at Thursdays meet
;ne. the Controller dissenting. The fol-
lowing day the Controller submitted
ia the Sinking Fund and Dock Com
mission information received from the
Secretary of State of Massachusetts
under the laws of which state the COM
pany was incorporated urging that the
lease be not executed until the city
authorities had an oportunity to recon
sider their action.
The Controllers information showed
that the Pawtucket company had only
$500 paid in capital out OF capital
stock of s500,000, and that its incor-
porators were dummies. The Con-
troller declared the practice of leasing
piers to dummy corporations should
stop.
Says Craig Tries to Do 1t All
In his answer the Dock Commission
or said he was "about through" trying
TO find companies to take the piers at
advanced rentals, "if the Controller is
going to question the bargain because
tke company happens to be new one
starting in with a small capital. in
spite of the fact that the city would be
fully protected"
Zone trouble is that the Controller
tries to do it all himself" said Com
missioner Hubert, "and his desk is
getting so clogged up that some things
won't get off until it is too late for
them to be of any value. l consider
that the proposed bargain was a per-
iectly good one.
"This company wants the 200 feet of
the pier for $8,400, whereas we had
been getting only S7,714 for the entire
pier Then we would have the remain
ing 264 feet of the pier, for which
figure we could get as much in wharf
age as the entire pier now brings.
"1t is common practice for new
companies not to disclose their hackers
at the time of the incorporation and
to start with small assets. NV in
vestigation showed that the company
had the approval of the city govern
ment Of Pawtucket, which had leased
to it space at the public pier there.
Calls 1t Good Bargain
Here are piers that, because of the
depth OF water-it is only about l2
feet at low tide at Fifth Street-can-
not be used by oceangoing vessels. and
have not been in demand. got
chance to make a good bargain for
the city, and the Controller holds it up.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
John Worthington

PITTSBURGH, May 11.-John Worth
ington, for MY years ore Of the lead
ing figures in the international bust
ness of the Standard Oil Company,
fell dead in the dirxng car of Penn
syvania Railroad train near Altoona,
Penn, when on his way to his home
in Pittsburgh from the East this morn
ing.
Mr.. Worthington was seventy years
old and a millionaire, carried the bust
ness of the Standard Oil into all parts
Of the world, and at one time was To-
Gated in Turkey, where he served as
an officer in the Turkish army.