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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
FORMER LIEUTENANT UNDER CAPT, DETER
 DEF ENDS EX-CHlEF
testimony at Trial Differs Greatly from Statements
 Made in France

New York. Dec. 26.-After stat. Ing at preliminary investigation last July that barbarous methods of the department of criminal in- ves1gatlon at Le Mans made bol- shevists, Leo J. Rasche, of Oak land, Maryland, former lieuten- ant in the D. c. l., testified today at the trial of Capt, Karl W. Det- ger, on charges of cruelty that he had only seen ore prisoner mis- treated while serving undr the ac- cused officer.
 Rasche, who was called as a witness for the defense. said he had been member of Detzer's company from March 2, 1919, until late in July. The case of ill-treat- ment he recalled was when Ser geant Frank Hoyt struck pris- oner, for which, he declared, Dec- ger had the sergeant transferred.
 Under cross examination, how ever, Rasche admitted he made the statement about bolshevism to Lieut.. Col. w. L. Culberson, in- spector general, andthat he had expressed the same opinion to Captain Detzer, Lieutenant Mar. low, Flaig and Sutliff and several enlisted men.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
Continue Fight to
 Prove News Sanity

Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 26.- Counsel for Harry New, on trial on charge of murdering his fi- ance, Freda Lesser, concluded today the reading of dispositions of persons who had known New in the middle west, in an effort to establish the theory that New is insane.
 When the trial is resumed Mon- day the defense. it was said, would call witnesses to testify along the same line. Among these, it was said, would be George Gallagher, county jailer, and several other Jall attaches as we'll as prisoners.
 Stephen F. Kestler of Indian apolis, in a desposition read dur ing the day, testified that he had known the defendant for 16 years. that the young man was not men, tally fright" and that New would just as leave as not hit you on the head with a club if he got mad.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
STRIKING MINERS IN DISTRICT 14 RESUME TODAY.
Executive Board Orders End of Strike Called Last
 July
HOWAT MAKES GOOD
 PROMISE TO COURT
Order Affects 300 Men in Ar kansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma
 Mines

Pittsburg, Kans.- Dec. 2G.-A motion calling off all coal strikes now in effect in the Kansas dis trict that had been called by the executive board of District 14 United Mine Workers of America was adopted by the board at a conference here late today. All striking miners affected are order. ed to return to work tomorrow morning.
 The action affects thirteen mines, including five operated by the Central Coal and Coke con- pany. Approximately 1,50O men are employed in them. The strike has been in effect since July 16, 1919. '
 The conference today was held sn conformity with the promise given federal Judge A. B. Ander- son, of Indianapolis, by Alexander M: Howat, president of the dis tr1ct, that he would us his indulg- ence in having the strike ended. It has been the understanding here that if Howat succeeded in having the mine strike called off of court proceedings brought against him at Indiana polls probably would be continued Indefinitely by the government.
 No action was taken on the strike in effect on the Bronson Rogers and Hirni (B. R. and H.) mine since December IS. This strike was called because of the re- fusal of the men to work with q former member of the union who had worked with the state voluu- teers during the recent coal strike. Howat stated that the board would not act onthe strike and that it was not even mentioned at the held today, as it was not called by the board and it would have to be settled by the miners affected 2; and by the operator of the mine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
Mexicans to Buy Reservation for
 Yaqui Indians

Douglas, Ariz., Dec. 26.-The federal government of Mexico has completed the purchase of 15,00O acres of land in the region If Morocurit and Huatabampo, So- nora, on which the Yaqui Indians areto be settled. The Indians are to be invited by the federal gov ernment to settle this tract and be.
 come peaceful farmers, according to Orientacion a Hermosillo, Sono- ra newspaper. The Indians who refuse to accept the proffer of peace and safeguarded rights will be, hunted down and exterminated, according to a Mexico City news despatch to Oreintacion. Distr.- button is to start about January
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
These Reds Against it No Matter if
 They're for Ii

Baltimore, Dec. 26-Some of the vagaries of Sovietism turned up before Judge Rose in the United States District Court today, when two radicals appeared on habeas corpus proceedings. They said they wanted to go back to Russia and when they were given assur- ance by District Attorney Dennis that they were headed in that r. rection, they decided to dismiss thelr petition in the belief they had won victory.
 They were Gregory Mooroz, and kazimir Benecwich, who were scheduled to sail aboard the first soviet Ark" but whose departue was delayed by the habeas corpus action to obtain their release. Im- migration commissioner Stump said they would be sent to Ellis Island as quickly as possible to sail on the second transport.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
BROWNS WIDOW AND HER COUSIN ARE: HELD
 IN BIC MURDER CASE:
Officials Believe Millionaire Slain by Admirer-One
 of Browns FavOriteS

Mount Clemens, Mich., Dec. 26. County authorities Investigating the killing last Wednesday of J. Stanley Brown, son of a million aire Detroit manufacturer, today detained as material witnesses Mrs. Ruth Provost Brown. the slain mans young widow, and Lloyd Provost, her cousin.
 Mrs. Brown and Provost, the latter regarded as one of Browns closest friends, were ques- toned separately by Prosecutor Lynn Johnston, and Sheriff Will liam Caldwell. Decision to hold them as witnesses was reached after three hours devoted to in terrogating Provost.
 Brown frequently carried large sums of money and securities on his person, but the authorities scout the. theory that robbery was the motive for his staying. Sher- if Caldwell declared he was con- vinced that jealousy was the cause. He said he believed a man and a woman accompanied Brown on the automobile trip which ended in his death on a country road, four miles from here. In support of this opinion, he pointed to the fact that four bullets had been fired in- to the young mans neck from be- hind, "So close," the sheriff ad- ded, "that there was no chance of The sheriff said he be- lieved the shooting was done by man angered because he believed Brown was attentive to young woman in whom he himself was 
 Stories of an arrangement be- tween Brown and his wife were denied by Mrs. Brown.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
Shaw is Refused
 Entry to Mines

c, Little Rock, Dec. 26.-T. H. .. oeaw, who has denied the right 7. governor c. H. Brough to re- taS aJve hlm as state mine inspector, quay was refused admittance to a d mlne at Huntington, Ark. own eo ea oy the Central Coal and Coke conaey comapeany of Kansas City, Mo. .ac- Sa;lhg to a dispatch from Fort rsa,0; Sml5h' The action probably will : ,ssult r;suI In a test of the governors nght to remove Shaw as Shaw announced he would file charges ass asalnst the coal company. Cover GIT SIr brough a week ago removed
 s;d s:aw for his alleged refusal to
 Arln Al m securing labor to operate strike. 0 uu'ins the miners
 coas W. A. A. Tomlin. appointd to suc-
 qualified. - HIS ooho anu
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
U. s. and Japan in
 Siberian Agreement
lBy the Associated Press.)

lBy the Associated Press.)
 Vladivostok, Dec. 26.-A com mon ground on which to base joint action in Siberia has been reached by the United States and Japan according to an announcement given out here by the Japanese of- ficial publicity bureau.
 The announcement said:'
 Genuine satisfaction is express ed in influential quarters that a common ground has been reached by Japan and America for passing joint action in Siberia. This is particularly pleasing to those who have observed with regret that Si- berian policies of the two coun- tries, at times seemed to follow di- vergent courses"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
CALL FOR BEST PLIERS.

New York, Dec. 25.-A call for the nine best airmen in the United States to represent this country in international aeronautic contests next year was issued by the Aero Club of America tonight. Nation al elimination races may be the method of selecting the best flyers in three branches, airplanes, sea- planes and balloons, although the Aero club, as the representative of the International Aeronautic Fed eration in this country, is empow- cred to make the selections arbi- trarily.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
Slayer of Editor
 Held for Murder

Gallatin, Mo-, Dec. 26.-The coroner's jury in the case of the killing of Editor l.. Robertson, by Hugh Y. Tarwater, city clerk this afternoon returned a verdict recommending that Tarwater be charged with first degree murder. Tarwater is still held in jail at St. Joseph, Mo-, but will be brought here for arraignment early next week.
 The funeral of MT. Robertson, who was killed Tuesday, was held today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
Only One Drunk
 During Christmas

Only one drunk was arrested in Pine Bluff during the Christ mas holidays, according to the police, which is quite a change in the record of the past several days. Heretofore it was not un- usual for half dozen drunken men to be taken in in a single night, and Christmas times were generally busy seasons with the police. No sessions of municipal court were held either Thursday or Friday mornings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
COLD STORAGE ON BORDER.

San Antonio, Tex, Dec. 26.- The construction of two combina- tion ice manufacturing and cold storage plants, four cold storage plants and o feight small ice houses along the Mexican border, at cost of $178, ,OOO, was author ized in a telegram received here today by Lieut.. Col. F. G. Cham berlain, regional construction quartermaster and in charge of the Mexican border projects with of- fees at Camp Travis, from the construction division of the war department at Washington.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
WILSON ORDERS GERMAN SHIPS T0THE ENGLISH Seven Big Liners Turned Over
 to Passenger Line Service RULES NO AUTHORITY EXISTS FOR HOLDING Holding of American Ships by British is Separate Case,
 State Department Finds;
 Oppose Reprisals

Washington, Dec. 26.-The con- troversy between the shipping
 board and British officials over
 possession of seven German liners used to bring back American troops
 and now held idle in New York
 harbor, ended abruptly today with the announcement that President
 Wilson has ordered the vessels turned over to Great Britain. The transfer will be made without de- lay and the ships assigned to pas senger service on British lines.
 No explanation of the order was made beyond the statement that the state department had found there was no warrant for holding the ships now that the object for which they were assigned by the inter-allied shipping commission to American use-the return of the American army-was accomplish ed. The eighth ship of the group, the Imperator, has. already been turned over to the British and is being operated by the Cunard line.
 The unexpected action of the shipping board last September in refusing to deliver the Imperator to the British which was under stood to be connected with efforts to induce the return to the Stan dard Oil company of twelve tank steamers formerly from under the German flag but now held in Brit ish custody in the Firth of Forth, by order of the Supreme Council. The state department took the po- sition, however, that these were questions and must be dealt with separately, the United States carrying out it's obligation to turn the German ships over to the British.
 Tankers' Fate Doubtful.
 Meantime, the fate of the tank CTS remains in doubt. Chairman John B. Payne, of the shipping beard recently made proposal to the supreme council that, pending of titles, the tankers be put at the disposal of the United States and that Great Britain be given use of the former German liners. Great Britain agreed to this proposal, it was learned today, on the condition that the United States would furnish Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium with oil, but, it is reported, withdrew her acceptance the day after it was No explanation of the reported withdrawal was ob- tainable.
 In the absence of Chairman Payne, officials of the board to- lay were without knowledge of the of the tankers. In view of the worldwide shortage of tank CTS, it would be a hardship to the United States, it was declared, if these American-owned vessels should be turned over to other coun- ,ries. Officials expressed the hope hat the tankers would eventually pc placed at the disposal of the United States.
 Under the Versailles treaty, fi- nal decision as to the titles on all craft requisitioned from German larbors after the armistic rests with the separations committee. The present dispute, both as to the vessels, and to the tank ITS, it was asserted, cannot be con- ,idered as definitely settled, the present. disposition being only tenn oorary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
Gen. Cox, Last of Lees Staff to Quit
 Fighting, is Dead

Richmond, Va, Dec. 26.-Gec. Vim. Ruffin Cox, one of the las, surviving ranking officers of the Confederate army, died here this evening. Death was attributed to toxic poisoning induced by age.
 General Cox was borr, at Scot land Neck. N. C., March II, 1881, and was distinguished in the civil war chiefly as the last Confederate officer to relinquish the fighting at Appomattox Court House, some time after the signing fthe sur render by General Lee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
SIX HURT IN WRECK.

East St. Louis, Dec. 26.-Six persons were injured here today when freight train collided with and overturned the rear coach of a St. Louis and O'Fallon passen- ger train. The injured were talk en to hospital, where it was said they would recover. This makes a total of 21 persons injured in three railroad wrecks within a radius of 20 miles of here since yesterday morning.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
Cardinals Will
 Receive Welcome
 on Warsaw Retu

Rome, Dec. Cardinal I wski, Archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal Blabor, ArchbishoI Posen, are making arranged for a great ceremony wheH! return to Warsaw on JanudE The Cardinals are to takeM with them a candle used nection with the canonizatiq < Polish ecclesiastical college order of Pope -~Piux TX, 2 could be taken back to thd <. of a freed Poland.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
MACHIN!STS T0 QUIT F STRIKE
 IS BARRED Members of l. A. of M. Voted Month Ago to
 Strike BROTHERHOOD HEAD
 ISSUES WARNING Notifies Congress Machinists In- tend to Retain Right to Quit WOrk-DOesn't Fear Gen.
 eral Strike

Washington, Dec. 26.-Organ- ized railway machinists, thru their
 president, served notice on con gress today that they would not submit to enactment of the Cum mins railroad bill with it's dras- tic anti-strike provision. Voting more than a month ago, 98 per cent of the 125,000 mem- bers of the union favored an inn mediate walkout in event of the bills passage by both houses of congress, but the result was not made known thru fear that the brotherhoods might appear in the light of attempting to coerce the law-making branch of the gov ernment.
 The machinists, according to Wm. H. Johnson, president of the International association, are the only railway employees who have taken a strike vote, but the heads of all the brotherhoods, IA in all, have been summoned to meet here Monday to consider pending rail way legislation and define precise ly their positions on the clause in the Cummins bill, which prevents strikes and puts strikers in jail.
 Labor Chiefs Are Disappointed.
 The call for the conference was issued by Samuel Gompers, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, but MT. Gompers and other labor leaders refused to dis cuss probable action by the broth erhood leaders.
 President Wilson's Christmas eve announcement that the roads, would be handed back to their, owners March l was a distinct dis to labor leaders, who had been pleading for two-year of government control. They agreed, however, that if the roads were to go back it was good thing to let it be known.
 There was no meeting today of house and senate conferees who have been assigned the stupen- dous job of trying to frame a new railroad bill out of the Esch and Cummins measures. This work however, will begin next week in the hope of final enactment of railroad legislation some time in the next two months. The anti strike section is known to be the main point of difference, and while it was left intact in the bill pass ed by the senate, house leaders frankly expressed doubt today whether the house would accept it.
 Doubts General Strike.
 President Johnson of the I. A. of M. explained that the strike vote that union railway ma ,hinists would quit work if the Cummins bill was passed by both branches of congress, not by one.
 "When the roads were taken over by the government the em- ployes were free," MT. Johnson said, land we propose that if they are turned back to private owner ship, the employees shall be equal y free. There is no necessity for euCH uIdSCIC ItSISldClOH as IS pro- ! 1ided for in the Cummins bill. There never has been a general railroad strike and there never will be, in my opinion"
 So far as labor officials are ad- 'ised they will not be given an- other hearing by senate or house but they will keep up he fight against the anti-strike section, it was said, and appeal finally to President Wilson to ve- Q the bill if it should be enact Id with that clause intact.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
BOOTLEG b0()z.E: KILLS g MEN AND W()A'AN Several Others Critically III as Result of Christmas
 Drinking Bout 27 DIE IN GOTHAM
 IN SHORT PERIOD New Englanders Succumb After Christmas Orgy-One Held,
 Another is. Sought in
 Case

Chicopee, Mass, Dec. 26.-
 Thirty-two deaths had result
 ed tonight from the drinking
 of liquor bought in Hartford,
 Conn.,, and drunk in this city,
 Holyoke and Hartford. Yes
 terday, last night ana today
 If men and one woman died in
 ChicOpee, 10 men in Hartford
 and four in Holyoke.
 Springfield, Mass, Dec. 26.- Eighteen men and one woman are dead and several others are criti- cally ill in hospitals in this city and Holyoke as the result, it is be- lieved, of drinking some noxious form of alcohol contained in liquor which the men are said to have bought Christmas day. Fourteen of the men died in Chicopee and the other four in Holyoke, while many of those ill in the hospitals are not expected to live.
 AleA Teify, proprleCOf or the American house in Chicopee Falls. has left the city, and a search for him by the police had not revealed his whereabouts. Charles Perry { his brother, was released tonight under bond of $10,000, pending the outcome of the autopsy. Wm. A.. Baker, bartender, is also held in with the deaths.
 The police and state and federal began an investigation today and it was reported by the Holyoke police tonight that the liquor had been traded to Hartford, where it was purchased earlier in the week. Until autopsies have been performed on the bodies of the no statement will be given out by the police.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
SUPPORTERS q TREATY DENIAL
 AN AGREE: 5: ME.
Members of Both Parties patient With Leaders
 Tactics
MILD RESERV ATOMS
 READY TO QUIT LO,
Give Notice They Will Act Democrats Unless Compr.
 mise is Accepted by
 IrrecOncilables

Washington, Dec. 26.-Dis3f fled with the progress madQ ward solution of the peace ta tangle, senators of both pola parties moved today to greater pressure on their \ leaders for a compromise to N ratification promptly on the 4
 sembling of congress early inN uary.
 The mild reservation group
 republicans, notifying their \ leader, Senator Lodge of Mas8
 usetts, that in their opinionL time had come to part com] with the irreconcilable foes O, treaty, declared that unless { promise negotiations got whole-hearted support from th| publican side they were preps| to act independently for an al.
 ment with the democrats.
 Among the democrats, the nj ment was not so well definedJ criticism of the course of H dent Wilson and Senator H
 cock of Nebraska, the acting | ocratic leader, reached proporl which some predicted, soon VI
 be given tangible form.
 One democratic senator wass to have told the republicans 3 more than 30 of the 47 on that! would join a movement to ri the treaty at once on the \ terms they could get.
 The effect was a scrambled ation in both party organizat! which the leaders seemed d
 dent they could straighten out which the compromise advoS predicted would greatly strengs the movement for a bi-partisanI ference of those determined toi ify the treaty, even at the exrj of material concessions on 5 sides. D
 Both Sides Overplay GamS
 The feeling among those wh4 ready to go ahead without I leaders seemed to be that the ti| deadlock already had been longed unnecessarily by too d no-compromise talk, and that sides had overplayed a waa game in the hope that h| would come in the opposition.|
 Senator Hitchcock repeat has declared his willingnessl make any compromise which not vitally harm the treaty, has indicated that he expects| next move to come from thel publican side. Senator Lodge3 has said he would not oppos| compromise so long as the fol| relations committee reservat are not vitally impaired, thoug| considered that the next mov| up to the democrats.
 It is with this situation that
 bipartisan movement is calcul| to deal, it's packers declaring nl CT side should stand on fOrma| but should earnestly try to I'd at once. The strength of the m
 ment could not be estimated night, but it was suggested even if it could not muster| necessary two-thirds to ratifJ first, it might get,a majority VI could bring the treaty again] fore the senate and center pj interest on it and on such 2 promise reservations as migh( to.
 So the immediate comprol advocates predicted success their enterprise. Senator Hi cock expressed confidence that
 own compromise plan would put. Senator Lodge asserted the committee reservations wi be accepted without mate change and the sirreconcilables dared there would be no corn mist at all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
c. B. Wreck Fatal
 to Stephens Man

Texarkana, Dec. 26.-John Arn- old, aged 21, died in the Cotton Belt Employees hospital here this morning of injuries received in a wreck on the Cotton Belt yester- day at Stephens. His mother, Mrs. K. Arnold, and four sisters reside at Stephens.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
CHINESE ORDERED OUT.

El Paso, Tex, Dec. 26.- Chi nese have been ordered excluded from Cananea. Sonora, to stop ef- forts toward a rupture of diplo- matic relations with the United States, according to a message sent to the chamber of deputies at Mexico City recently by Governor Aldopho de la Huerta, of Sonora
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
PILLS TO ALABAMA.

Philadelphia. Dec. 26.-Ths Philadelphia Nationals will train next spring at Birmingham, Ala, according to an announcement to- day from President Bakers of flee. The squad will leave here the last week in February. About 50 players will make the trip.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
WILLIAMS TO YALE.

New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 26.- Published reports that Dr. w. l.. Williams, football coach at the University of Minnesota. had been offered the post of head coach of football at Yale, where authorita- lively denied tonight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
NEW BRITISH WIRELESS.

london, Dec. 26.-A scheme of agsrial hal wireless communication
 rug velng prepared under the SUI. colon;aon l,;aon of the secretary of the ali llss; os n The plan is to link up sions, ~ sbrltain's overseas posses purno.oIo Tor commercial strategic
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-27
ANGulLAR RESUMES JOB.

-Genaso Gso City, Thursday, Dec. 25. resnme refal Candido Angular will
 fcreion ms office as secretary of it is sh st. relations on January 2, Generssaa on good authority here. citv ta1 ta5 Aguilar arrived in this
 montbs mol biuoay, y, after spending several
 mission III Europe on a special