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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
PINE BLUFF BOY BACK FROM fRONT
 BOOSTER OF LOAN
James Pritchard Is Touring United States In inter
 est of Loan.

James H. Pritchard, son of MT. and Mrs. M F. Pritchard. the former a prominent blacksmith of Pine Bluff, is touring the United States in the interest of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
 James Pritchard is we'll known ill Pine Bluff This home town" and the fact that he is doing something big for his country is of much qualification to his friends and we'll wishers, stated Mayor Simon Bloom Wednesday afternoon.
 The Pine Bluff lad was ill the great retreat from Cambrai ill March and is familiar with practically the en- tire European battlefront, having been in the fighting for about two years.
 The following clipped from the Chattanooga, (TennD, Times, shows what the local youth is accomplish ing:
 James H. Pritchard is here from France to help boost the fourth li- berty loan in the Chattanooga zone. Private Pritchard is one of the wound ed returned soldiers promised the local organization. As a member of the engineering corps assigned with the English he participated for 14 months in the big battles of the war, being in the thiry-five mile retreat March 31 from Cambrai. His wounds consist of a laceration in the chest and general ravages of gas, from which he is recovering.
 Private Pritchards home is in Pine Bluff. He is on a leave of thirty days, and will be obliged to assist in the liberty loan drive before sec ing his homefolks. He wears two bars for service on his sleeve and one for the major wound.
 As guest of the Rotary club yester day he was called upon to relate some of his experiences. He did so briefly, chiefly answering questions asked him by the members. He told of being caught by a German barrage at Cambrai in shell hole with a full-blooded German and a boy from Hoxie, Ark, and of how the German caught horse released from lim Der and made it to safety while a machine gun got his other friend and the gas beat his mask to his face.
 He has been all along the line from Armentieres and Ypres to the Somme. He likes Paris because there the American soldier is supre- me. The Follies of 1918, he said have captured Paris and the Ameri- can boys. When asked what he thought of German prisoners he had seen, he said most of them looked like wild men. and were in a poor physical condition. T think an Am erican soldier is worth two of any other soldier in the fighting line" ," he said. He brought the message that the soldiers from the Unted Sta. tes are being we'll taken taken care of and are in the best of spirits.
 The soldier told a representative of The Times that he can hardly req lize that he is in America. He is not familiar with what the government is doing in the way of training men, and asked several questions regard ing methods employed. such as the use of gas chambers, etc.. that are familiar practically to everyone who has been here since the country be- gan it's military activities.
 He leaves next Saturday to speak at Madisonville and Tellico Plains.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
SPEAKERS DATES
 JEFFERSON COUNTY
In Fourth Liberty Loan Given Out By County Speaker Chair
 man.

Judge w. B. Sorrells, chairman of the speakers division 0 fthe County Liberty Loan Committee today an nounced the assignment of speakers as follows:
 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 8:16 p. m.
 "All speakers, except the ladies (who will be called for at their re- spective homes), will start from the courthouse and are urged to be there early so that they will have ample time to make their appointments with out undue haste. It is urged that no excuses be offered nor change of as- signment requested, and that no one fail. Let us remember that our boys, are giving their 'todays' for our to- morrows.' and that at this minute and while you are speaking, they are in Flanders, in France and in Cham pagne, passing through blood and fire for you and your audiences. Let every one make a talk with heart in it. "
 Redfield--Dr. Junius Jordan, Mrs. J. I. Norris and Mrs. Cora Gillespie.
 Wabbaseka-N. J. Can't, Mrs. B. D. Russell and Mrs Frank Tomlinson Wabbaseka (colored.-Prof. R. E. Harrison.
 Rydell-T. Havis Nixon, J. F. Nar Intyre, Dr. F. P. Lytes, J. F. Jones and the Rev. H. R. Tarrage. Watson chapel-The Rev. Theodore Copeland, Mrs. eLe Fox and Mrs. J. w. Adams.
 Humphrey-E. w. Brockman. T. Nj. Hooker, Mrs. Henry Haizlip and Mrs. c. w. Butts. First Baptist Church, Humphrey (colored)-A. s. Moon. Altheimer-Dr E. R. Steel, Mrs. c. Watson and Mrs. w. o. Taggart,
 Altheimer (colored'-Prof. w. M. Townsend.
 Gethsemene (colored'-The Rev A. T. Stephens.
 Sherill-The Rev. W. c. Watson, Mrs. J. w. Blackburn and Mrs. Wal ter Hudson.
 Sherill (colored) )-Prof. c. P. Nc Clurken.
 Pastoria-W. D. Jones, V. O. Alex ander, Dr. G. w. Bell.
 Dexter-J. E. Boyce, and F. G. May
 New Gascony-A. H. Rowell, D. B Niven, Prof. F. I. Vinegar. ., COfnerSCOne-TI IOl. J. n. 1A1oA, Jack Bernhardt, and the Rev. James Drake. English-Dr. A. Homer Jordan, Dr. w. J. E. Fox, s. J, Altheimer.
 Tucker-D E. Tucker, w. w. lay Tor, H. l.. Jordan. Ferda-Harry Woolridge, A. R Cooper, c. c. O'Neal Faith-The Rev. rFank Thompson Pre-. -. ii: Glenn. Double Wells-J. w. Crawford, the Rev. w. c. Wood.
 Swan Lake-The Rev. H. A. Stow ell, and Rev. J. H. Hankins:
 Swan Lake (colored'-G. w. Ash ford w. E. Guy.
 Rob Roy-T. G. Parham, Creed Caldwell.
 Rob Roy (colored)-W. C. Patter- son.
 Moscow-The Rev. A. H. Hill, A. w. Speers. -s
 Noble Lake--A. l.. Burnett.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
POSTPONE CASE OF
 ARTHUR BRISBANE
Judiciary Committee Receives Report In Matter Then Waits For Evi-
 dence.

Washington, Oct. 2.-Further in- quiry into the purchase of the Wash ington Times by Arthur Brisbane with money furnished by brewers was postponed by the senate judiciary subcommittee today after putting into the record papers submitted by Alien Property Custodian Palmer and Mir. Brisbane.
 The subcommittee will not resume it's work until documents for which the Attorney general has been asked are received and until the full com mittee determines whether the in- vestigation should be confined to the Washington Times purchase or extend to the general propaganda and activi- ties of brewery interests.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
glIIIIIIlIHIliIiIIIIlIIIi[ I[[IIll[llIIlZg
COughed So He Couldn't Sleep.

Bronchial coughs, tickling in throat and asthmatic spasms break ones rest and weaken one so that the sys- tenn is run down and serious sick ness may result Ehos Halbert, Pao- Ii, Ind, writes: "I had a severe cold and coughed continually at night, could hardly sleep. Foley's Honey and Tar cured my cough" Manns Pharmacy. Advt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
CHINA ENDORSES THE
 FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

Shanghai, Oct. 2.-American fourth Liberty loan campaign has been en- dorsed by most of the Chinese cham bers of commerce and it is being pro- noted by the most extensive adver.. Using campaign in the history of China. In Shanghai the subscriptions at the end of the second day amount ed to $250,O00.
 Many prominent Chinese newspap- CTS devote their leading editorials to the opening of the loan drive.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
Are In Revolt.

London, Oct. 2.-News has reached the Serbian army in Macedonia that revolts have broken out in Serbia, and other regions where there are Serbians, Croatians and Slovens. This announcement is made in a Serbian semi-official note dated Tuesday which says that the reports should be received with great reserve.
 It is feared, the note says, that the Austro-H Hungarian government pur- nosely is arranging with the police authorities to excite the peaceful in- habitants and then on the basis of such acts, confiscate their property and imprison them in camps. It is de- clared the camps are in terrible state because of infectious diseases and dirt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
TOOK OUT DREAFUL SORENESS

When the kidneys are weakened and fail to throw impurities out of the blood. the poison remains in the system and backache, soreness and rheumatic pains develop. Mrs. David Henry, 65 s. Lincoln Ave, Washing ton, N. J., writes: Foley Kidney Pills took the dreadful soreness out of my limbs and 1 walk good" Mann's Pharmacy --(Advt)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
SAVE FUEL.

By using Kerosene Coal Oil. Get a Simplex Gas Burner, They fit any old stove. Easy to operate, absolutely safe and makes natural gas from coal oil. I also handle self-heating coal oil irons, and the brightest and most practical gasoline lamps and storm proof lanterns. 300 candle power and lights with an ordinary match. See me. A. NJ. LEVEY,
 3rd and Main St. Piue Bluff, Ark.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
INDICTED FOR FRAUD
 MAN KILLS SELF

New York, Oct 2.-Under indict- ment of charges of bribery, and con- spiracy to defraud the government Joseph Usoskin, manager for Valen- tine and company, shirt manufactur- CTS, committed suicide today in home in Brooklyn federal authorities an noulfced. A date for his trial was to have been fixed today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
SENDS DRAFTEE TO
 TULANE UNIVERSITY

Local Board No. 1 sent Albert J. Russell to Tulane University yester- day and Ben Frank Collins to Jeffer- son Barracks, Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
Cut This Quilt Is Worth Mt

Cut This Uut-It IS WOrtn MOHey.
 DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with SC to Foley & Co. 2S35 Sheffield Ave. Chicago, Ill.,, writing your name and address clear ly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup, Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Adv.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
NATION PLACES
WEALTH At CALL
Of war WORKERS
Reports Of Many Cities and
Counties Passing Quotas
Reach Headquarters in
National Capital.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, May 20.-Enthusiastic
reports of the progress OF the Amer
lean Red Cross drive for second war
mercy fund of $l00,000000 came to
headquartersthercH in a$steady stream
throughout the opening day of the
campaign. :;
Messages telling Of over-subscrip-
tons in towns and counties from New
England to Hawaii began arriving
early in the day, while governors OF
nearly all states telegraphed PROM
ises of hearty cooperation in the auc-
tioning off for the benefit Of the Red
Cross packages of wool clipped from
the White House sheep.
Conflicting claims to the honor of
first subscribing their allotments have
been received. Governor Pinkhanl
cabled from Honolulu that Hawaii had
subscribed its quota of $250,0OO.
Peabody, Mass; Kossuth county,
Iowa.; Pontotoc county, Oklahoma,
and Yolo county, California, were
others that reported over the top.
Much rivalry i'll, the sale of the
White House wool was manifested in
the kilograms from governors.
Dakota in Clear.
Sioux Falls, S. D., May 2O.-South
Dakota was the first state in the union
to over Subscribe IFS Red Cross allot-
ment, according to George R. Douthit
vice chairman of the committee here.
Reports showed the state over-sub-
scribed its allotment of $250,000 by 70
ner cent. Mr.. Douthit said.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
BILLION. and
HALF DOLLARS
FOR WARSH|PS
Naval Appropriation Bill Com.
pIeted by Committee and
Ready to Be Reported
to Senate.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, May 20.-Carrying a
total of 81 ,5S7 100000 or 02,S40,000
more than provided by the house, the
naval appropriation bill was COM
pleted late today by the senate naval
committee and will be reported to the
senate tomorrow. The measures
total is $63,053l27 less than was ap-
propriated for the navy for this fiscal
year in the regular naval bill and i'll
deficiency measures.
The senate committee redrafted, to
make more emphatic, the provision in
the house bill for the beginning Of
the work on the three-year building
program by July, 1919. Construction
of the great fleet of superdread-
naughts and battle cruisers provided
for in the 1916 naval bill.has been held
in allegiance in order that the building
Of the destroycrs to battle German
submarines might be rushed.
To man the capital feet when il is
completed, the senate provided for a
permanent increase in the enlisted
personnel of the navy to 13l, $40,
nearly three times the number of men
in the navy before the war. The
president also would be authorized to
increase that strength by $4,000 men
for the war.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
FOOD SITUATION
WITH AUSTR|ANS
GROWS CRITICAL
Germans Requisition Cattle
and Hogs in Poland, Caus.
ing Panic Among People
Of Country.
lRy Associated PrcAs.l

Washington, May 20.-Even more
critical than the German food situa-
ton is that in Austria. An official dis
patch today from France quotes Aus
tro-German newspapers as saying that
at recent conference in Vienna on
the situation, it developed that food
supplies to be requisitioned were suf-
hcient only to feed Hungary and the
army and that Austria could expect
nothing but its own harvest.
r--lGern,any's purpose in announcing
to the world through its official wire,
less the reduction of the bread ration
for its population was widely dis
cussed here today. Some officials con-
cluded that the Germans, knowing
that eventually the news would reach
its enemies, decided to anticipate 1t
with the purpose of showing the will
ingness of the German people to make
any sacrifices to win the war.
Never Feel Optimistic.
The Volks Frunds of Karlsruhe
says the dispatch speaks of the "sur-
prise the German people will meet
when they realize that they must suf-
fer new deprivations. while they were
counting on an improvement of the
food situation based on what had been
said about the wheat from Ukrainia
and Roumania." ~-
The tone adopted by the govern
ment press is no less characteristic.
The official paper, Nord Deutsche
Allgemenie Zeitung, gives a weak ex-
preston to the hope that the measure
will not endanger resistance of the
interior front. AS to the newspaper
Germania, it does not succeed in hid
ing its dependency. 1t declares:
I'VE have never been optimistic, but
our pessimism was not great enough"
In All effort to improve the serious
meat situation, the German military
authorities have decided to requisi-
tion 100000 head of cattle and 10000
pigs in Poland. This, says a Swiss
dispatch, has caused panic among
the Poles.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
CHAPTER III.
Real Thing War.

Now indeed we bagn to get real
news OF the war. We heard of how
that little British army had flung it.
self into the NAV of the Hun.
came to know something of the
glories of the retreat from Mons, and
how French and British had turned
at the Marne and had saved Paris.
But, alas, | heard too of how many
brave men had died-had been sacri-
fed, many and many a man of them,
to the failure of Britain to prepare.
That was past and done. What
had been wrong was being mended
now. Better, indeed-ah, thousand
times better!-had Britain given heed
to Lord Roberts, when he preached
the gospel of readiness and prayed
his countrymen to prepare for the
war that he in his wisdom had FORE
seen. But it was easier now 10 look
into the future.
/ | could see, as all the world was be.
ginning to see, that this war was not
like other wars. Lord Kitchener had
said that Britain must make ready for
three-year war. and l, for one. be-
lieved him when others scofed. and
said he was talking so to make the re-
cruits for his armies come faster to
the colors. l could see that this war
might last for years. And it was then,
back in 1914, in the first winter of the
war, that | began to warn my friends
, in America that they might veil ex-
pect the Hun to drag them into the
war before its end. And | made up
my mind that | must beg Americans
who would listen to me to prepare.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
|. v. v. SECRETS
ARE LAID BARE IN
COURT IN CHICAGO
Letters Show Plans for Carry.
ing on Sabotage to Curtall
Production of Food
StuffS.
nv Associated PreSs.)

Chicago, May 20.-Details Of the
operations of the Industrial Workers
of the World in the wheat and oil
fields of the middle west states were
revealed today when government at
torneys read numerous letters from
the correspondence files of Forrest
Edwards, secretary and treasurer OF
the agricultural workers; organization
of the Industrial Workers of the
World No. 400, at the trial of liz
members of the body before Federal
Judge Lands.
This branch is considered one of the
largest and most powerful unions OF
the Industrial Workers of the World
At one time. it is said, it had an en-
rollment Of 10000 members, and, &C
cording to the charges made. by the
government, its members put into et-
feet a score or more forms of-sabot-
age to curtal the production OF food
stuhs and supplies.
The letters showed that large sums
were expended by the organization in
flooding the middle west states with
Industrial Workers of the World lit
erature, pamphlets on sabotage and
manifestoes.
Disclosed by Letters.
One letter disclosed the fact that
the Ondustrial Workers of the World
last July negotiated with the Farm
ers Nonpartisan league of North Da'
kota for a wage scale agreement. The
league offered farm workers $3.50 a
day, but the proposition was rejected
because the Industrial Workers OF
the World demanded S. day as the
minimum wage.
In one of the official bulletins, men,
ton was made that the defense of In
dustrial Workers of the World in the
state of Washington had cost the or
ganization $4,000.
An extract from one of the official
Industrial Workers Of the World bull
letins read in part:
"The anti-Industrial Workers of the
World bill in Minnesota has passed
both houses and is now up to the gov.
ernor. We wonder if it will work III
Minnesota"
Feeding Cream to The Cat"
The methods used by the Industrial
Workers of the World in farm strikes
were described i'll letter written by
Thomas ODay, Aneta, N. D., to Ed.
wards, as follows:
There are now about five 'wobs
in town and we have been doing all
we can to keep scabs off the job. We
picket every train. Quite few 'wobs
on the job with the cat" Three of us
hired out to John for So with the in.
tention of striking for 81 the mex,
day. The cat then came and stayed
till we struck. Still on strike, feeding
the cat rich cream"
/ An article in Solidarity, an Indus.
trial Workers of the World publica-
ton, signed by Edwards, was read III
part:
Some day our organization will be
more powerful than the state. Wher
that time comes they will open jail
doors and release all labor agitators.'
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
TWO DIVORCES UNITE PAIR
Love Laughs at Locksmiths, But Judges
Pull Real Hee-Haw Stuff On Home Stretch.
TWO DEGREES WITH BELLS ON

After nearly two years litigation,
during which his wife secured di-
vorce in a Missouri court, Carl O.
Swanson was granted a divorce Mon
day by Judge Day.in district court.
The Swansons were married in Om-
aha, September IA, 1915, and moved to
Kansas City early in 1916. In Feb
.ruary Mrs. Swanson filed suit for d.
vorce in Kansas City, alleging cruelty,
but the couple reunited and moved
again to Omaha without dismissing
the suit.
They moved to Norfolk, where they
lived together. They again moved to
Omaha in December, 1916, and Mrs.
Swanson filed second suit for di-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
POLICE COURT JUDGE THROWS|
Keep Your Medullo Oblongata in Good
Psychonomc Condition, Madden Warns.
SPEEDERS INTO BRAINST0RM|

That Chicago judge who ordered
automobile speeders examined for
symptoms of brain-storm has nothing
on Police Judge Madden.
Judge Madden hcralded all ukase
in police court Monday that would
make Copenhagen dissertation on
the psychic condition of the Russian
soul look like a cub reporters story
of Wednesday evening prayer meet
ing.
The Omaha police court decree fol-
lowed the arraignment of two motor
car drivers on a charge of exceeding
the speed limit of All international
track meet, to say nothing of the
modest traffic regulations in vogue in
this classic capital city of the west,
Pushing back his judicial locks in
deep mediation, his honor warned
the prisoner that the next time they
were brought before him, they would
be transferred to the most conven-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21

After announcing that action in
Wisconsin was impossible because the
statute of limitations directs that such
prosecution must be begun within one
year from the time Of the alleged Of
fense. Judge Lueck called D. J. Hem
lock, a member of the bar, before
him and said:
81 direct you to communicate with
proper authorities in Chicago and
urge upon them immediate action
looking toward the prosecution of DR..
Roberts because of the offenses he has
here today admitted committing in
that city,"
Hoyne Glad to Prosecute.
Mr.. Hemlock Immediately tele-
phoned Macklay Hoyne, states attor-
ney, Chicago, who said that he would
be glad to prosecute if the facts justi-
fed and requested that all evidence be
sent to him at once. Judge Lueck
complied with this request tonight.
Action against DR.. Roberts by the
federal government also was limited
by w. H. Steiner, special investigator
for the Department Of Justice, who
was called to the witness stand by
the state early in the afternoon.
DR.. Roberts was temporarily ex-
cused to permit the taking Of Steiner's S
testimony, which dealt with a state
ment he had obtained from Miss Lusk
in the hospital a few days after the
tragedy. He said he asked Miss Lusk
if she realized what she had done and
that she replied: 49,.
"Yes, do! l killed her because she
called ME such obscene names"
Roberts Center Of Interest.
For more than six hours DR.. Rob-
erts was the center Of interest of the
crowds that packed sthe court room.
During his third day on the witness
stand he repeated his charges that
Miss Lusk had pursued him with her
attentions.
Much of his testimony concerned
meetings with her in Chicago. Finally
he admitted giving her money, paying
her hotel bills and giving her railroad
fare from Chicago to Milwaukee.
During the morning session Of the
trial dramatic moment came when
DR.. A. P. Lusk, the 72-year-old father
of the defendant, interrupted DR.. Rob
erts' testimony with the cry, that is
a le."
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21

lent bughouse to undergo an examin.
alton of their prosencephalon, thalS
mencephaion, messencephalon, spen-
cephalon, metencephalon, including
the length and breath of their medul-
Ia oblongata, and extending to all the
higher mammal of the cerebrum. If
necessary, the whole of Omaha's
psychonomic skill would be called in
to action.
This time" the judge announced,
"you will each pay $3.50 and costs.
The next time you go before an exc
amining board to ascertain whether
you are merely suffering from tem-
porary attack of speed mania. or are
simply common nuts
The drivers, Harry Bland, us
South Thirty-hrst street. and Arthur
Jones, Farnam and Twentieth streets.
didn't know what the judge was talk-1
ing about, but they promised never -
do it again.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-21
- COPYRIGHT 1919

, So, all the way across the continent,
spoke, in every town we visited. on
that subject of preparedness. | had
seen Britain, living in just such a
blissful anticipation of eternal peace
as America then dreamed of. | had
heard, for years. every attempt that
was made to induce Britain to ill
crease her army met with the one, un-
varying reply:
1--WE have our feetp That was the
answer that was made. And, be it
remembered, that at sea, Britain was
prepared! "We have. our fleet We
need no army. If there is a con-
tinental war, we may not be drawn
in at ALL Even if we are, they can't
reach US. The fleet is between US
and invasion"
But" said the advocates OF pre-
paredness, I'VE might have to send an
expeditonary force. If France were
attacked, we should have to help her
on land as well as at sea. And
we hav,s sent armies to the continent
before"
"Yes," the other would reply 1--WE
have an expeditionary force. We can
send more than hundred thousand
men across the channel at short no.
tice-the shortest. And we can train
more men here, at home, in case OF
need. The fleet makes that possible.
Aye, the fleet made that possible
The world may we'll thank God for
the British feet. l do not know, and
I do not like to think, what might
have come about save for the British
feet. But ! do know what came to
that expedit;onary force that was senl
across the channel quickly, to the help
of our sore stricken ally, France. How