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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
BAKER TO VALIDATE INFORMAL CONTRACTS

Washington, Jan. 10.-Validation and adjustment by the Secretary of war, of informal war contracts involv- ing the expenditure of more than $2,- 700,000,000 is authorized b va bill passed by the House late today by a vote of 27O to 30. Approximately G. 600 contracts in this country and d large number in England. France and Italy would be affected.
 A similar bill also placing adjust ment in the hands of the Secreary of War, was approved today by the Sem ate Military committee which reversed it's previous action in voting for the creation of a special commission on adjustment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
STAY THESE EXECUTIONS.
By David Hinshdw.

You average American citizen ill your average American community imagine if you can, the possibility of report similar to the following being made of your community at any time and under any conditions.
 Though much saddened, our work CTS are cutting off whom they must, and continuing with those selected, principally children All are making winter plans and asking. pleading, for funds now to buy what will cost many times more later on. Can you not cable us that the promised appropriations are certain until the end of June 1913. Such action would double the value of the gift. We must not let go now''
 The Committee for Relief in the Near East is doing it's utmost to sus- tain these peoples. Poverty sticken, plague infested. war terroribed Near East, the cradle of the white mans civilization, is perishing. It is perish ing because of the faith that is in it. Only the help of an aroused American generosity can prevent this.
 1t is hard at distance of thousands of miles for Average American Cti- zens to grasp the need. Tolerant, Help full, Kindly. Generous America would never permit relief workers to sign death warrants for thousands of per sons, did it but realize the situation. That is exactly what happens when the workers in the Near East are forced from lack of funds to "cut off whom they must" More than i,000,- GOO people are destithte, of this mum Der 100000 are orphans, orphans be- cause they were innocently caught in the net of the great war
 These starving people live in the ''fester' spot of Europe aAd Asia Am erica entered the war that autocracy might be crushed from the earth. We are forever bound to Europe because the blood of our sons i, a,inCled with European soil. We must carry on in their names, We must carry on or their supreme sacrifice will have been in vain.
 France, Belgium. Italy can all ht helped by governmental aid, but the dying Christians of the Near East have no government through which gov ernmental aid can be given them. The task is Americas Liberty, equality freedom of speech, freedom of wor ship, all of these America has giver to the world Slowly the other nations Of the world are accepting our ideals Now we are challenged practically tc advance the Brotherhood of Man d, taught by the Man of Sorrows" 190( years ago. The people of His land by the faith He gave them ask for bread. What shall America giy, them?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
SUGAR MARKET.

New York, Jan. 10.-Raw sugar was steady and unchanged today at 72S for centrifugal to the refiners. There were purchases of 214,0oO bags of Cuban January shipment and 15.90 Porto Rico afloat
 In refined there was only a fair ir- quiry but considerable apprehension was felt by refiners lest the harpor strike continue and cause some delay in the arrivals of raw sugar.
 The zoning system, which prohib- ited North Atlantic refiners from sell ing West of Buffalo and Pittsburgh has been removed by the United States food administration. Prices are un- changed at 9 cents for fine granulated
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
ST. LOUIS LIV ESTOCk.

St. Louis. Mo-, Jan. 1O.-Hogs re- ceipts 12,500; 10c lower: lights 17.1G @17.S5; pigs 13.O0M17.00; mixed ana butchers 1760@1s.00; good heavy 17.90m1S.10; bulk 176O@18.O0.
 Cattle receipts 3.2e0; steady; native beef steers 11.50@1S.50; yearling steers and heifers 9.50@16.oo: cows 7.50G12.5 stockers and feeders S5C @12.00; fair to prime southern beei steers 10.00M1S.00: beef cows and heifers 7.5c@1o %; canners and cut. ters 7.25MS00; native calves 7.75@ 17.30.
 Sheep receipts HOO; steady; lambs 16.50@17.25; ewes S.5O@10.50; can ners and choppers 5.001y.UO.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
ARMY DESERTER
 SL.AYS OFFICER

Atlanta. Ga. Jan. 10.-United States Deputy Marshal B. F. Dixon was kill ed today near Blairsviile. Ga, by an alleged deserted from the army nam ed Crawley. according to telegram, received here by United States Mar shal Howard Thompson. The mes
 sage, which was from Commissioner W. E Candler, of Blairsville. said the situation was serious and requested that assistance be sent there imme- diately. Deputies from the office of Marshal Thompson and Revenue agent D. J. Gannt, have been ordered to the scene of the killing and al lcounty and Federal officers of the state notified to be on the lookoout for the fugitive
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
DISPOSITION OF
 GERMAN TONNAGE

oLudon, Jan. 9.-1he United States, Great Britain and Italy have agreed upon plan for taking over the Ger man passenger tonnage The plan will be laid before the German and allied armistice commissions next Monday France is not included in the plan as she got the bulk of the Austrian pas senger tonnage and is willing that the other three bid for the erman ship ping. Representatives of the three countries will submit their plan 10 the commissions at Spa.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
SUNDAY \ DAY FOR
 SPECIAL PRAYER

New York, Jan. 10-NeXt Sunday will be observed as day of special prayer for the 2eace congress in all Protesant Churches throughout the country, according to an announce ment by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
 lndorsing the program of Presit>. Wilson for League of Nations, the council explained that emphasis of the prayers to be offered will be for the adoption of an international agree. ment on this subject.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11

Arkansas Oak Flooring company. Wood Department. Phone liaS. Ord CTS taken day or night. l2-25-lmo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
TO WARD OFF ILLNESS.

If you are bloated, languid of lazy have the blues" headaches. palpita tim, biliousness, bad breath, gas constipation or indigestion. you will feel better in the morning if you take a Foley Cathartic Tablet to- night. This is a wholesome laxative and cleansing physic that acts with out inconvenience. gripin gor nau- sea Mann's Pharmacy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
Cut This Out-lt is Worth None,

Don't miss this. Cut out this slip. enclose with 5c 10 Foley and Co, 2S35 Sheffield Ave, Chicago, H.. writing your name and address clear ". You will receive in return a tria package containing Foley's Honey and ar Compound for cough, colds and croup. Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Mann : Pharmacy.-Ady.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
WORTH s50O A BOTTLE.

Wm. Barnes, San An.o2io. Tex, writes: "Foley's Honey and Tar has been worth s50.00 a bottle to me- I had the flu, followed by pneumonia, which left me weak, with persistent cough. The cough hung on Some one advised Foley's Honey and Tar. I have completely recovered and do not cough at all" Mann's Pharmacy--Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
WAS RESTLESS AT NIGHT.

Sufferers from kidney trouble eX- periehce backache, rheumatic pains, aches in joints and muscles. shoot ing pains aud other torturoIs afflic- tions- E. w. Kilt. k. r. D. ,, Box 2 Shorters, Ala. writes: T used Foley Kidney Pills as was so restless over. night with pains in the small of my back and side. hey did ms good" AaUn's Pharmacy.--Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
DO YOUR PART

Own a part of the earth. We sell
 'o+elsa IuoJ TAYLOR < co. l23 w. Barraque Street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11

New Orleans, Jan. 9-1nfluenza threatens again to approach an epi- demic condition in Louisiana, accord ing to Red Cross and Health authori- ties. County Parishes fthe State re- ported 1.224 new cases of the malady Thursday. New Orleans reported GAP new cases and 26 deahts from it We'd nesday and Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
MOBILE CLUB MAY BE SOLD ID MACON President Inge Says Rich
 Georgia Men Almost Sure to Buy 1t

Mobile, February 1.-(SpecialD Dr. II. T. Inse. one of the principal owners of the Mobile Baseball club of the Southern association, announced here today that n syndicate of wealthy men of Macon, Ga. had made an offer for the franchise and that it would be sold.. The offer is n bOnafide one and the dickering has been swinging for several weeks, according to the club owner.
 pr. Inge stated that there was just one possibility of the club remaining in Mobile this year, and that was for Mobile people to meet the price of fered by the Macon people. The club is owned by four people, Dr. H. T. Inge, one of the wealthiest physicians of the state, A. L. Staples, president of the Peoples bank and owner, T. K. Jackson, general manager of the Mo- bile Electric company, and Greg NJ. Luce, a wealthy lumberman of Mobile The club needs a man for president who can operate it and look after af- fairs in general and attend to the vari- ous league matters.
 Neither of the persons mentioned who own the club have the time to de- vote to it's affairs. The owners don { want the club to leave Mobile, but 1t Is a matter of business and the Macon people have been given price for the franchise, and they will get the club in the next few days unless the Mo . bile people act 9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Railroad Freight Depots
 Remain Open to 1 P. M. Saturdays After Feb. 8


 Railroad freight depots which have been closing at 12 o'clock, noon, on Sat urdays for a great many years will keep open until l o'clock in the after noon beginning February 8. An order to that effect was received yesterday from Regional Director B. l.. Winchell.
 Sometime ago the railroad adminis- tration announced that the depots would close for the receipt of freight at o'clock in the afternoon every day except Saturdays, when they would close at noon. Opposition from Bir- mingham shippers caused a cancella- tion of this order before it went into effect.
 Immediately after the o'clock clos ing order had been rescinded the ship pers, through the Birmingham traffic bureau, made 8 request that the depots be kept open one hour longer on Sat- urdays. In their investigation of the "A o'clock order they discovered that in all cities competing with Birming- ham for trade, the depots did not close until o'clock Saturday afternoons, and they immediately requested that the same hours be observed in Birming- ham. Hence the order received from the regional director yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

For keeping typists' fingers clean ar protecting their nails, rubber thimbl' have been invented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Bresnahan Kicks on Playing Schedule for
 the Toledo Ball Club
By Associated Press

Toledo. O.. February 1.-Roger Bres~ nahan, president and manager of the Toledo baseball club of the American associat tion. announced today that he voted against the dates awarded him in the playing schedule which was sent him by mail.
 Bresnahan's major objection to the schedule, he said is that he is given 2S games at home at the start of the season and that the Toledo team then is sent on the road for 29 straight cor tests at the best time of the year. Another objection he makes is that he Is booked home during grand circuit race week
 Last week Bresnahan upset the meeting at Chicago by leaving for home while vote was being taken on the 1919 schedule. There will have to be many changes before I will vote for it," Bresnahan said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
FULTON "SQUEALS' ABOUT FAKE FIGHT IN DEMPSEY MATCH Plasterer-Pugilist Says He and Dempsey Framed
 and Jack Double
 Crossed
By Associated Press

san Francisco. February 1.-Fred Fulton authorized the San Francisco Call today 10 make the statement that his fight with Jack Dempsey at Har- rison Park, N. l., July 25, 1918. was n preaeranged affair to the extent that he and Dempsey were to box an eight- round "eNhibition- and that Dempsey won in the first round by "dOuble crossing him." .....
 Fulton said he wanted a chance to fight the winner of the proposed Wi!- lard-Dempsey match.
 q was in on the thing-on the fake if you wish to call it that-because went ahead and did what my manager told me.
 Now with Jess Willard wanting to fight and with Dempsey picked by most critics as the man to meet him, I do not rpropose to keep still any longer.
 q know I can whip either Dempsey or Willard. Perhaps 1 won't get the chance at Willard
 By making clean breast of the part I played in that Harrison Park affair. l hope the public will forgive me and grant me the privieleg to fight for the worlds championship. if not in the show that Tex Rickard is pro- noting. then with the man who wins the fight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
CorbeH's Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
Fly JAMES J. CORBETT

, won't he? If he isn't who will sue
 ceed Big Six? Until the identity of the 1919 Red leader is ascertained there is no doping the Cincinnati pros poets. The outlook of club depends
 rather largely on it's pilot.
 l Ty Cobb, insisting that he is free agent. is said to be demanding a s20, | 000 contract from tue Tigers. Tho ! Tiger bosses say they won't pay 1t. l Ty is reported as saying that mo s20,000. no play" If neither side backs | down and Cobb goes through with his | threat the Tiger flag chances for 1919
 are reduced to almost nothing With 1 Cobb they are dangerous without him l they are Tigers without claws. & Only one man of the Giant infield | of 1918 is sure of a job this season. l And that artist is Arthur Fletcher, the | shortstop. Walter Holke, perhaps. will i be traded or sold. Maybe Hal Chase 1 will succeed him and maybe it will be
 Jake Daubert. Or it may be some othcr ] first baseman so far unmentioned. Larry Doyle isn't the player he used
 to be. He'll put up a great fight for
 the second passing job, but runs the 1 risk of being nosed out by one of the youngsters.
 Just who will do the third base work | for the Giants is a big question Heinie Zimmerman says he has played his l last game at that station and in fu- ture wants to play either i'm the out field or at first. Maybe John McGraw | can influence Heinie to change his
 mind If not. and if McGraw can't get topnotch first baseman to replace l Holke. he may put Zim at that station l and try to land an experienced third sacker to fill Zim's old shoes
 But the makeup of the Giants will not be decided upon for some months 1 And until then no one can get a Zine" | on their real strength.
 1 If Hank Gowdy returns to backstop- | ping duty for the Braves and Waiter
 MaranVille resumes his old stortstop- 1 plng job and Charlie Herzog plays up 1 to his old time form and the Braves can snare pair of good pitchers, they
 may have 1919 Hook in" But. at | tempting to dope" out their prospects fin the face of all those ifs" is a haz-
 ardcus job. to say the least
 The recent interleague meetings | brought together many of the mana gers Negotiations were opened that l that may lead to many trades before March that will make radical changes
 in the club directories
 1 And so, with deals hanging fire. and 1 With a dozen or more stars utterfn-
 holdout or retirement speeches and | with the uncertainty as to when some 1 players will be mustered out Of mill :
 tary or naval service uncertainty is
 the word that describes the pennant
 outlooks from the February angie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
MARTIN NOT INFORMED

Memphis, February 1-(SpecialD Macon must find an opening or 6 franchise on the market if the Georgia city secures a berth in the Southern league. In reply to a communication from a committee of Macon men re- ceived by John D. Martin, president Of the Southern league. the chief exec utive today wired that he was not aware of any city in the league desir- ing to dispose of its franchise, and therefore saw no room for Macon in the league President Martin followed. his wire with a letter to the effect that he had not heard of any member of the present circuit being dissatis- fled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
ALABAMA ID PLAY
 i MONTGOMERY TEAM
U. of A. Football Schedule for This Year Is Practi-
 cally Completed

University, February 1.-(Special.) ) The quintet of bask etters representing the University of Alabama will play it's second game of the season with the Y. NJ. C. A. of Montgomery Tuesday night. Not much is known concerning g
 the strength of the five from the cap ital city. but a strong aggregation is looked for.
 The Crimson tossers following their defeat by Howard college have been engaging in some hard practice tlfIs week under Coach Yank Coodall. The members of the team frankly admit l that they were nothing like prepared for the game last week. and it isFeX- pected that better team work will be shown Tuesday night.
 Alabama's lineup in the Howard game, and which will remain essen ! italy the same with the Montgomery 'Y," is: Forwards. Anderson and Montgomery; center, Blackburn ! guards, Agee (capt) and Cochrane
 The substitutes are: Sessions for Agee i DusGer for Blackburn, and Aston for 1 Montgomery. A game is being ar l ranged with Birmingham college and will likely be played on the campus l Saturday night
 University. February 1-(Special. l The football schedule of the University
 | lacks only one date of being arranged
 and Coach Lonnie Noojin hopes to an
 nounce the completed schedule this
 week. The strongest colleges in tht
 south were numbered among the op. ponents of Alabama on the 1919 grid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
LARGE CROWD AT
 GUN CLUB SHOOT
Two Events-Smith Visits the Club

There were a good bunch of shooters out Saturday afternoon to take part in the weekly meet, and John Fletcher led the boys on the first 30, breaking 47 of the clays pr. Noland and Mr. Strader came second in this match with 45 dead birds to their credit. MT. Strader landed high gun for the afternoon with 92 out of his 100. C. J. Barr was out for the first time in some months and made a very good score, but did not shoot up to his aver age
 Harry Jones ventured out once more and shot fine; he still declares he has the best gun that was ever on the club grounds.
 MT. Alex Smith, from Fayette. was with the club again and tried out a new gun which shot fine. The long runs for the afternoon were made by John Fletcher, IS straight. and MT. Strader. 39 straight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

Attempting to dope" out 1919 pros poets of the big league at this time sizes up as a job of the most difficult order
 Everything is in rather chaotic con. dition at this time owing to hoidouts, reported retirements and uncertainty a, to when some of the star performers will be released from governmental duty.
 The Yankees furnish an excellent ex- ample of the present peculiar conditions in baseball.
 If they entered the race in April with all their old stars and the newly acquired ones on the roster they would loom with considerable loom as flag chasers. But at this moment. the two brightest stars of the infield are on the retired" list while brace of pitch CTS and an outfielder are posing as holdouts. Without the services of these men the pennant prospects of the Yanks will be dimmed considerably.
 Frank Baker insists that he won't play big league ball any more, -ano Derrill Pratt, the second sacker, has announced that he. guesses he is through with the game. Some reports have it that Baker has gone so faI as to sign up for, 1919 with semi pro ball club in Upland, Md. Ping Bodie shows no eagerness to get back into the Yankee lineup and Dutch Leonard. the eccentric southpaw, se- cured in trade from Boston, declares that he won't do any flinging if the Yankee owners fail to meet his terms which the owners insist are 'eXorbi- tant"
 Win Grover Cleveland Alexander be back in time for the April opening-o1 won't he? If he does the pennant pros poets of the Cubs will be enhanced al least 30 per cent because the addition of Alex Vaughn, Tyler, to Hendrix will give to the Cubs one of the great est pitching staffs in baseball. With Alex in the lineup the Cubs will look like almost certain repeaters If he isn't, their chances will be much smaller.
 Eddie Collins may-and may-not- be back on the second passing job foi the White Sox. Without him the Windy City team loses mmeasureably Minus the services of Collins, the SoS cannot be regarded seriously as pen nant persons. But with Collins back at second-thats different.
 Who will manage the Reds? Will Christy Mathewson be back in time to lead the team into the southland-oI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

dress the society. The coming of Dr. Bogle is in keeping with this pro- gramme
 Dr. Bogle is professor of orthodontia, mouth hygiene and radiography in the department of dentistry at Vanderbilt.
 Dr. Shropshire announces that all fu ture sessions of the society will be held in the Civic association quarters in the Jefferson County Bank building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
MEDICOS TO HEAR ! DIR. R. BOYD BOGLE
 TOMORROW NIGHT
President Shropshire Brings Second of Noted Doctors Hear to Address Medical Society

Dr. R. Boyd Bogle of Vanderbilt uni versity will address the members of the Jefferson County Medical society al it's meeting in the Civic association rooms tomorrow night at o'clock.
 When he was elected president of the society Dr. c. w. Shropshire announced that he would bring at least one noted speaker month to Birmingham to ad-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

city mixed doubles exhibition on t' covered courts of the Longwood Criei ct club. The scores:
 Mrs George W. Wishtman al Harry C. Johnson of Boston defeate Miss Molla Bjurstedt and Fred Alexander of New York. 6-3, 6-S.
 Mrs. Wignlman and Mir. Johnson d. feated Miss Eleanor Goss and Walt M Hall of New York, 6-4. 3-6, 6-4.
 Miss Marion Zinderstein and Nathan iel w. Niles of Boston defeated Mis Goss and Hall, 6-5. 2-6A 6-2, and los to Miss Bjurstedt and MT. Alexande 6-4, 6-3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Billy" Smith Signs
 to Pilot Shreveport
By Associated Press

Atlanta. February I-William A. Smith. former secretary, and for sev- eral seasons manager of the Atlanta Southern association baseball club, an nounced here tonight that he had ac- cepted terms of the Shreveport club of the Texas league to manage that team during the coming season. Mir Smith, prior to coming to Atlanta in 1906. had served as manager of the lynchburg, Va, league. and Macon South Atlantic league. teams. He later led the Buffalo and Richmond teams in the International league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Two Cities Enter P. C. l..
 By Associated Press

San Francisco, February Port land and Seattle were admitted to membership in the Pacific Coast league of baseball clubs today at the annual meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Boston Tennis Players
 Defeat GOthamites
By A,snnlated Pre.a

Boston, February 1-Boston tennis players defeated New York experts to- day three matches to one, in an inter-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-11-03
sALVlN0 scUTrLED- SHIPS.

More than two years after Dewey
had sunk the Spanish feet in Manila
bay saw the masts Of some of those
doomed warships poking out of the
water in front of the old fort at
Cavite. @..,-
Better still, I spent q happy hour
aboard another of those sunken
Spaniards, the Don Juan de Aus
tia, which had been lifted from the
muddy depths, re6tted and rechris-
tened as part Of the United States
navy. ~-,~~.
She was then commanded by Cap
tain Mclean, who later became Z
rear admiral. za%
Fishing up those scuttled German
ships in Scapa Flow may become tho
big-sea game of the future.-Phila
delphia Press. 4