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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-02
SitiuatiOn Critical.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The situation in Archangel district is regarded by military officers in northern Russia as extremely critical.
 Advices to the war department to- day made no reference to an appeal for reinforcements, but it was said here that inasmuch as this was a mat ter for determination by the supreme war council at Paris, more complete report had been sent to that body, possibly with request for additional support Reports that the Bolshe- wiki forces were using gas shells was taken here by some officers to mean that this equipment had been supplied through German sources, 0otwith- standing the terms of the armistice, and if this was established as a fact, it wos intimatad that drastic action against the Germans would be taken by Marshal Foch.
 Available figures obtained by war depar artment officials show that the British force M the region of the north is approximately 5000, Ameri.- can, 4,500;t French, 1,500; loyal Rus sians under British officers, 1,200, ana 1000 soldiers of one of the smaller allied countries.
 The exact disposition of these forces is not known officially in Washing ton, TO report on this having bean made. Army officials said that the body of troops now retreating before we'll armed and reinforced Bolshe- wiki was small, being little more than an advanced post. Reports Of 4f- miel retirement, however, led experts to believe that a larger body was en- gagged than had been supposed. Gen eral March, chief of staff, said a week ago. that the number of troops in the advance south from 4Archangel was sufficiently large to keep the situa- ton in hand.
 Use of gas and high explosives by the Bolshevilsi was looked upon by army men as the most disuuieiting Feature of the military reports as they affected Americans. Tsresevo, from which it was reported The Americans had been forced to retire, is a small town about 130 miles directly south of Arehangel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-02
NOTICE.

Pay your Armenian Relief pledge at Richey's Grocery now and save expense of collection D. ". Richey.
 1-31-4i
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-02

AT Jolson's new February record is here-it's "whang" too. Hear if at Knox Walkers. 2-2-3t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-02
bOL SHtvKI FORCE ' ALLIES ID RETIRE
 WITH GAS SHELLS
Military Officers Regard Situa-
 ton As Extremely Critical.

ArchanStl, Feb. 1.-An official statement on the opera tions on the north Russian front issued today says
 "Wednesday and Thursday the Bol- sheviki strongly attacked the posi- tions at Tarazevo, compelling the al- lies to retire northwards, and they are TOW holding positions 20 miles north of Tarazavo. h is reported that the Bolsheyiki are using gas shells. The allies are completely equipped with ianti-gas apparatus.
 "In MurmaRsk allied patrols con- sisting of Karelian volunteers have reached Ondocero, lNotosero?). From this village tte Karetian have been enabled to enlist more volunteers"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-02

New spring rugs ii6w cr dlSbaxy at Knox lWaiker's. Sy| 1z148t
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Tribune Fighters Form
American Legion Post
Charter Applied For in Name of
William 5. Lahey, Who
Lost life in Argoune

Members OF the staff OF The New
York Tribune who served with the
army, navy and marine corps during
the war have applied to the American
Legion for a post charter in that or
ganization. The post, which is being
organized pending the granting of the
charter. will be called the william S.
Lahey Post Of New York City.
The name was chosen in honor Of
Captain Bill" Lahey. young member
Of the editorial staff Of The Tribune,
who was woupded in the Arronne
shortly before the armistice was signed
and who died few days later. He left
The Tribune to enter the first Platts-
burg Training Camp. At the time he
was wounded he had been recommend
ed for q captaincy and was promoted
to that grade after his death.
Another newspaper mems post has
been formed, the American Legion an
nounced last night. 1t will be the Don
Martin Post, named for the New York
Herald" war correspondent, who con-
tracted pneumonia during the Ar
gonne offensive and died This is the
second post of the legion to be named
for Mr.. Martin. Former service men
Of Silver Greek, n. Y. where he was
born, have named their branch for
him.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Owens, Police A. E. F.
Hero, Given a Dinner
Detective Who Won Army Cap
taincy Mentioned for Sheriff
of Kings County

Friends Of Capt. Martin s. Owens, the
detective who drove the Police Honor
Legion ambulance in France and won
a captaincy there, gave dinner in his
honor last night at the Palais Royal
Broadway and Forty eighth Street
They gave him a diamond scarfpin
and there was another gift, of $780,
the source of which was not revealed.
John II. McCooey one of the speak
ers. said that since arriving at the din
ner he had heard it suggested that
Captain Owens would make o good can
didate for Sheriff of Kings County.
Aaron j. Levy, another speaker, said he
thought it due to former Police Com
missioner Woods to say that he was
the one who selected Captain Owens
to drive the Honor Legion ambulance.
The mention OF Colonel Woods's name
brought applause.
There were about 200 at the dinner.
Royal II. Weller was POSTMASTER
Other speakers were Inspectors John
Cray and John DAILY General Daniel
Appleton, Frederick Cunliffe- Owen. Po-
lice Commissioner Enright, Deputy
Police Commissioner Frederick A. Wal
lis and Frederick n. McCloy.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Rockaway Delegation
Complains of BatIners
Scantily Clad Women Enter
Churches, Pastor Says in
Protest TO Mayor

The Rev. ]. M. Foran, pastor of St.
Francis De Sales Roman Catholic
Church, Rockaway, headed a delega-
tion that called on Mayor Hylan at the
City Hall yesterday to protest against
the conduct at Rockaway Park, Ncpon-
sit and Belle Ifsrbor of visitors who
by their "immodesty and reckless
ness" were disgusting the people of
that section of the city.
The Mayor told the delegation he
would communicate with Police Com
missioner Enright and assured thcm
the police would look after the matter
and make the beach fit.
"If the police captain we have at
Rockaway can't keep the beach clean.
we'll send another there who cam"
said the Mayor.
Father Foran told the Mayor it was
impossible to describe some of the
actions residents witnessed.
"These invaders, who do not live in
our section Of the city, do things that
would justify Judge sending them to
prison." said Father Foran. "Women
ride in mems bathing suits on bicycles
and scantily clad, enter churches.
81 do not wish it understood that
Police Captain McMahon is to blame
for this, but we do need more police
protection and | have heard it said
that policemen turn their heads when
tfese women are nearby"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Plays and Players

Louis Bennison will be seen in "Pe-
11oleum Prince" when Marc Klaw pro-
ouces 1t early in October. Mr.. Ben
nison appeared couple Of seasons
ago IN Johnny Get Your Gun" and in
The unchsstened Woman" and lately
has been the "Apollo Cowboy" of the
films. "Petroleum Prince" was written
by Richard Barry.
Jessie Pringle is going to start on
hcr vacation Saturday night. when she
MWlll WI stop playing Ma Joncsr to
Llgntnln " and will go to her ranch
IN Denver. where she says she owns
PIGS, COWS and geese, and the ooaso
Vhls season are all laying golden eggs
our Tor dollar is the market nrice
MISS Prlngle has been able to a6d a
b,unga ow this season and she calls if if
the "Atlasta" N''' -
Marcus Loew is building ninotee,
new theatres in the United States and
canada and Is buying others. Mr. Loev,
hopes to add a least fifty to MS strino
cefofe the end Of the year.
Ihls sounds as though Mr.. Burleson
NAG ms fnger IN the pie. When William
ana GORDON Dooley entered the stage
door at the Winter Garden last nipht
they were handed a letter from their
lather IN Copenhagen, Denmark.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
CiUe a Thought to-
Duane Street

nUANE STREET needs traffic req
ulations and q thick layer Of
asphalt, James Heard, starter Of the
Third Avenue Railway Company, said
yesterday. Several years ago a floor
ing Of wooden blocks was laid. At
first they looked fnc and the horscs'
koofs made a pleasant sound. But
horses in many years have spoiled the
pavement. Three great riffs. the
largest ut Duane and Greenwich
Streets, now show. The holes were four
inches deep and filled with water
When large number Of people
wait for the car" nc declared. "a few
Of them get crowded into the lake
The tracks sag at this point and the
horses trip up often"
In the mornings, Mr.. Heard said
wagons running both ways along
Duane Street cause great traffic con
gcstion. hindering the cara and i'm
peding one another. He recommended
that Duane Street be opened only to
vchclcs going ona way, lcnvins
Chambers Street TO take care Of traftic
bound the other way.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
White Would Stop
Cilda Shi11lnyino
For the Shuberts
Producer Tells Court That
He Made Contract With
Miss Gray Before She Be.
came Dancer in sCaieties'

May Gray, known on the stage as
Gilda Gray, is q modest shimmycr.
Not that her performance of the quv-
ering terpsichorean stunt is less like
a plate of gelatnie carried by man
with the ague than that of other
dancers. Miss Gray's modesty lies in
the fact that she insists there are
better dancers, which is most un-
usual admission for a stage person.
But in this case there is difference
Miss Gray is not suing manager for
unpaid salary and doesn't have to prove
that she is the greatest ever. The
point is that George White, who pro-
duces the Scandals Of 1919" is. asking
the Supreme Court to enjoin Miss Grav
from appearing in Shubert's "Gaictes
Of 1919"
White told Justice Luce Yesterday
that after seeing Gilda shimmy at
MaNlm's he made a contract with her
TOR thirty weeks at S75 week. with
option OF renewal for another season
at S125 a week. White said Miss GRAY
Is the best shimmycr ne has seen, and
her appearance with rival attraction
Is injurious to his business
Miss Gray said that while she signed
a contract to shimmy for White, she
was not called to fulfill it until she
had shlmmied her way to success for
Shubert. She said the White con-
tract was only tentative agreement.
Miss Gray said her services are not
of unique character. and that White
easily could fill her place with some
other young woman even more pro-
hcient than she. {,
Justice Luce doffcd his shimmering
robe and announced that he would
reserve decision.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Newport Children Guests
Of yan1es J. Van Allen
Sixty Attend Party at Wake
hurst: Many Summer
C0IOnists Entertain
Specinl Correspnndcnce


NEWPORT. R. l., July 23 James J.
Van Allen gave chidren's party at
Wakehurst this afternoon in honor of
his two youngest grandchildren, Will
lam Laurens Van Allen and Louise As
tor Van Allen. There were sixty Of the
children of the summer colony present
Others who entertained to-day in
cluded: Mrs. James B. Duke, Mrs.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Mrs. Ar
thur j. Moulton, Mrs. Hamilton Mex.
Twombly, Mrs. Clarence W. Dolan,
Mrs. Joseph E. Widener, Mrs. Charles
A. Childs, Mrs. Ward Douglas, Mrs.
John Wanamaker, jr., Mrs. Marion Ep-
pley and Mrs. Vanderbilt.
Colonel and Mrs. Robert NJ. Thomp-
son gave a luncheon on their yacht to-
day.
Charles E. Sands has arrived to visit.
his sister. Miss Anna Sands and was
registered at the Casino day
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Howard B. Wood, Broker,
of Ill Broadway; DR.. E.
York Ames. of Louisiana.
and Two Others Named
Investors Allege SwindIe
Tar Island Producing and
Re efining Corporation
Runs Afoul Government

An Indictment charging Howard B..
Wood, broker and promoter doing bust
ness at III Broadway; DR.. f. York
Ames, of Louisiana, and uthbert w.
Wright and William l. Cherry, of this
city, with using the mails to defraud
investors to the extent of $500 in
the stock of the Tar Island Producing
and Refining Corporation was returned
Yesterday by the Federal grand jury.
DR.. Ames is president of the Tar ISL
and Company, organized under the laws
Of Delaware and capitalized at $1,000
600 Cherry was manager of statesmen
and directed the disposal of stock here
and in New England.
At the first meeting of the directors
in May, 1917, the indictment charges.
Dr. Ames, Wood and Wright voted to
issue to the physician the entire capital
stock of the corporation in considera-
tion Of certain property, contracts and
rights at Tar Island, Tex, which were
considered necessary to the business OF
the company.
In accordance with the agreement. it
Is charged. DR.. Ames was to deposit
100000 shares of stock in the treas
ury or the company and 100000 shares
were to be used in the promotion of
the corporation. 1t was further
agreed. it is alleged, that Wood should
have an option to purchase 100000
shares of the stock for 100000. or at
the rate of ten cents share, and that
Wright was to share equally with
Wood in the profits.
Fake Dividend Alleged
The indictment explains that about
July /, 1917 Cherry was made sales man
ager and in August. 1918. succeeded
Wright in sharing the profits with
Wood. In furtherance of the scheme
TO defraud, the Indictment charges,
Wood, as secreatry. entered in the
minute book that the directors had
voted per cent dividend on July 20,
1918.
1t is further charged that the de-
,endants falsely repre- sented to Thomas
Constas. Jere Focht. Martha A. Coulon.
Anna f. Dupay. May A. Blake, Eli
Trost and numerous other investors
that the corporations property was
located in Marion County, Texas. in
what is known as the Ferry Lake Dis
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Governor to Handcuff
Aviator for Air PLUNGE

Spectators at the police games at
Sheepshead Bay Saturday will be given
a thrill by Lieutenant Hiram Sheridan.
army aviator, who proposes to make
2,oOO-foot parachute drop from an
aeroplane travelling at the rate of
nearly 100 miles an hour. He will be
handcuffed
According to an announcement made
yesterday, Governor Smith will apply
the handouts. The lieutenant will be
escorted to his machine by a police
detail. AT a height of 1000 feet he
Will walk out on one of the wings and
undertake to attach the parachute
ropes to his belt. Then he will leap
or. lieutenant Philip Downes will
pilot the machine
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Speech Defending
Higher Gas Rate Is
Rejected by Court
Master in Chancery Refuses
to Hear Statement Given
Out to Press Previously
by Conpany's Attorney

Counsel for both the gas company
and the city voiced opposition to try
ing the so cent gas rate case in the
newspapers when the hearing was re-
sumed yesterday before A. S. Gilbert,
special master in chancery Both sides
expressed amiablc agreement on that
point after Colonel William HAYWOOD,
counsel Ger the Public Service CORPORA
non'. called the masters attention to
.hc pu0ilcatlon in a morning news
RaPer OF statement prepared by
W1lllam Eansome, counsel for the
Nonsolldated Gas Company.
e. ms statement was published as a
speech delivered by Mr.. Ransome.
outlining the company's case The
master declined to hear the statement
ana Colonel Hayward made the point
that 1t was not matter of record,
whereupon Mr.. Ransome said the state
ment nad/ been prepared for the COM
Panys otllclals and he regretted that it
had peen given to the papers.
One Witness Is Heard
Then followed the introduction. over
objections from the attorneys repre-
scnting public interests, of various
documents. Only one witness was
heard lie was Henry l.. Alrich, an as
sistant construction engineer for the
gas company, who produced maps
showing the properties and pipe lines
OF the company. He was Questioned
briefly and the hearing was adjourned
to this morning.
After the hearing Robert Livingston,
representing the gas company, issued
statement characterizing the rema rks
Il
Counsel, that the company came to
court with unclean hands, because it
lallcd to deliver gas of the requisite
candle power last year, as an attack
on the United States government
10 obtain toluol for the production
of high explosives" said MIR. Living
ston, "the Federal government in
stalled at the various gas works of
the Consolidated and its affiliated
com mpanles toluol recovery plants, and
on April ID, 1918, the operation of the
hrst plants was begun by the govern
ment by means of which the toluol
I'll the signing of the armstice.
O'Brien Is Criticised
"ihe effect of the governments op-
crations upon the gas was practically
nil, so tar as its commercial value was
concerned Whatever may have been
the impairment in the candle-power
Of the gas it would probably have been
lmposslblc to have detected it with the
human eye when the gas was used
through tat-hame burner Used with
an Incandescent mantle, or fer heating
or industrial purposes, the gas gave
better results after the toluol recovery
than it would have given before.
The company derived no profit
whatsoever from the operation by the
government nor from the recovery of
toluol. The statement made by the
representative of the District Attorney
was not only unpatriotic but was bad
law and in very poor taste"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
a Soldier Says

COOK OTTO BACHE, Of F Company
~ 45th Infantry, and Tacoma. said
yesterday that if he didn't have a coed
sense of humor he'd get mad all over
when people kick about the wet
weather. Bachc spent twenty-five
months in France.
Maybe it was that the rain kept fol-
lowing me around while | was in
France he said, Last fall. remem
Der, it raned for thirty days in a row.
would have hated to be around the
const then, because you couldn't tell
where tho iard ended and the sca be
gan"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Britain Sieletracks
Woman's Rights Bill
Labor Measure VIII Be Killed
in Favor of One Offered bv
Administration Leaders

LONDON, July 23.-Thc bill emitting
women to hold office and exercise public
functions. which passed second reading
IN the House OF Lords yesterday, is one
introduced by the government as sub
stitute for the bill or William G.. Alan.
son in the House of Commons on behalf
of the Labor party. The Adalnson bill
gave women the franchise on the same
terms as men, but only at the age of
thirty.
The government bill does not change
the women's franchise and does not re-
move the disqualification excluding wom-
en from higher ranks Of civil service.
1t contains clause emitting peeresses
in their own right TO sit in the House of
Lords, bat this clause was oaly included
as concession to the wishes Of some
quarters and probably will be rejected.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Your Town

7 lDARksIDE AVENUE station. or the
- BBrlsh5on Beach elevated line Of
completely remade and is now hand
solie concrete structarc. Two wears
ago the station was at Woodruff AZ
sue' d block away, and consisted ot =
lew boards nailed together. 1t was al
.ered ana altered again, and out Of all
me me-, a.serations there. now rises the
kea estate agents of the localjtv
tong advocated station nearer a
sweheleth century model and the new
az az @iis s'nent has inspired a number
OF get together dinners and an sdl.a,-
using campaign
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

trict. adjoining the Louisiana state
line; that all the titles to the 1,oo0
acres and leases had been investigated
that the company had two flowing wells
gushing 100 barrels of oil a day and
that pipe lines and water facilities
We're adequate to take care of any pro
duction the wells might develop.
As fiscal agent for the company. it
is alleged, Wood e. Co., the firm name
under which Wood did business at his
broadway establishment. sold the
stock which it got for 10 cents a share
to investors at from 70 cents to 81 y
share, it is alleged.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Selnearsals Begun for
Southampton Benefit
Thirty $I0O Boxes Sold for
Swinl'urne NTasoue of Queens
20 BE Given August Is

SOUTHAMPTON. N. y. July %
Rehearsals have begun for the Swim
ourne "Masque of~the Queens" waich
IS TO be given August Is, for tho
benefit Of Southampton Hospital. More
1han thirty 500 box seats have becs
sod already The balance will be
sold ior $40 and 5 each. according to
IoSapio4. lleEets are on sale by Mrs.
Clarence H. Machay is expected %
arFive at the Breeze ostata 'Ybc
Crchards,' Friday afternoon with his
children. Mr. and Mrs. Alden Talbot
are with Nh and Mrs. Stephen Pea
oody Tor brief visit before roinz to
'neIr iuture home in Philadelphia.
+. N. ByeTs and family. o. Pitts
0uTgh' with several guests. will arrive
az SANDY Mount Saturday afternoon
Tor the balance OF the season.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
$500, 900 to Girls Colleges
Former Treasurer Of Smith
RcUueaEl1s Essa1e

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, July %
The will of Charles N. Clark, former
treasurer and trustee Of Smith Col
lege, which was filed to-day, gives vir-
tually the entire estate, estimated at
$500 ,000 to Smith and Mount Holyoke
Colleges. Mr.. Clark said in the will
that he made the gift to the colleges
because at would be the wish of nv
late sister, Mary MARY F. Clark, a
graduate of Mount Holyoke. if she
were here to speak for herself"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Miss Jean X. Greer
Becomes Bride of
Franklin Robinson
Only Friends and Relatives
Attend Ceremony Owing
to the Recent Death of
Bishop David III. Greer

Miss Jean Keith Greer, daughter of
the late Bishop David II. Greer. and
Mrs. Greer, was married to Franklin
Whitman Robinson, Of 90 Claremcnt
Avenue, yesterday in the Cathedral of
st. John the Divine. On account OF
the recent death of Bishop Greer only
relatives witnessed the ceremony.
which was performed by Dean Robbins.
The bride, who was given away by
her brother, William Armstrong Greer,
had no attendants and there was no
best man. Immediately after the cerc-
mony Mr.. and Mrs Robinson started
on their wedding trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Bruce Coch-
rane. Of Brooklyn, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Helen Pascoe Cochrane, to Leslie
Powers Dodge, OF Boston. Miss Coch-
rane was graduated from Erasmus
Hall, Brooklyn, in 1916, and from Miss
Wheelcr's School in Boston last month.
Mr.. Dodge was recently released from
the Aviation Corps, u. S. NJ, at Miami,
FLA. The wedding will take place in
Miss Hilah c. French will arrive
soon from France and join her parents,
pr. and Mrs. John Herndon French.
She has been working in the cantecn
service established by the sisters of
Secretary of State lansing
Announcement was made yesterday
by Captain and Mrs. Bernard J. Nc
Dermott, of the engagement Of their
daughter. Miss Jean McDermott, to
george &. Bradley. jr.. of Seattle. Mr..
Bradley recently returned from TWEEN
ty-one months service in France with
the Outpost Company, 26th (Yankee)
Division
Mrs. Herbert Shipman will return
from Newport on July %, and after a
few days town will go to the Thou
sand Islands to visit her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Edison Bradley.
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Milbank have
gone to Breton Woods. n. H, where
they will spend two weeks at the
Mount Washington Hotel.
Mrs. Robert Winthrop, who is at her
country place in the Berkshires, will
go soon to Elberon, n. j., to visit Mrs,
HamiltonI'ish Kean.
Mrs. John Stuart Duncan and Miss
Susan Duncan are at the Profile House
Jefferson, N. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Fleitmann
jr., will go to Southampton L. L. carly
next month and will spend several,
weeks at the Irving House.
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman has re
turned to her summer home at
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

The elder Dooley had been off. on a
trip to foreign shores. William Doolev
opened the letter and before he could
read 1T somebody placed an arn1>on his
shouider Veil, son, am glad to sec
you.' It was the elder Dooicv. He haJ
beaten the letter home.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

Eddie Cantor will offer tonight in
the hrst act of "zlegfcld Folles" at the
New Amsterdam a new song by Irving
Berlin, 1--WE Cot a Captain WORKING
for Me Now"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

The Tribune Fresh Airs" get among
their country hosts Nothing of ,hc
carload handling sort about it. is there
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