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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-24
OUTSIDE THE LAW
By STUART RIVERS CO~author of @LOve Aff ntrs of a Lonely wOman-

No. 50
 Ballin laughed as he stood back from the door. gazing at it with a puzzled frown on his face.
 Well, that's the most remarkable thing I've ever heard of he exclaimed. What the deuce do you suppose her idea was in locking us in here? Is she robbing the office of all the pens? Heaven knows there snothing else Gu. tnere to steal What did you say tc ner, Frances? You didn't have any row or anything. did you?'' N'u
 Not the least" the girl answered "SbS said had better ask you if this letter had been answered. She was sitting at the desk going through some papers.
 The funny part is Ballin unused. more to himself than to the girl, "she came so well recommended by Judge Crane. I wonder-''
 T know what you are going to say D Frances interrupted. You were thinkinp that Miss Willis might be connected win Red Larkin and his gang, weren't you7
 Not exactly. I was wondering if that girl really was Miss Willis. It is just barely possible that they sent someone down here to impersonate Miss Willis. but still that hardly accounts for the sound of the scuffIing we heard. CaN-r imagine what it was And there's no other way out. is there?' Frances said after a moment. | NO. But I'm not going to stay cooped up in here long. l don't know why but l imagine Red Larkin has his finger in this pie. And If we stay in here-' His supposition ended in brief laugh. and he bent to examine the fastening of the door,
 Had they been on the opposite side the opening of it wourd have been com paratively easy, but as it was, with tn door swinging toward them, there w,as little chance of breaking their way through"
 ''1 could smash it down with ehsir. 70 Ballin muttered. And have every tefqRnt on the floor buzzing about our ears. Can't you-----'
 Frances held up warning finger for the outer door had opened, not quietly, but with a vigorous turning of the knob that came to their ears with sharp dis tinctness.
 "Hellow," voice began, and ended in a shrill whistle of surprise
 By God, judge another voice ex- claimed. adding with business-like sure ness, ''she is dead. Never knew what hit her"
 "Dead?" Frances breathed her hand instinctiveiy touching Balln's arm. Could he mean-Miss Wilis?"
 Ballin shrugged his shoulders and the first voice echoed the sentiments already expressed.
 It was Judge Crane speaking and Bal lin suddenly raised his fist and hammered on the door.
 Hello, out there,' he called. "JEdge Crane, we're locked in here"
 "Ballin? Is that you Balin?" the judges voice came in reply. Locked in where ah--' The key grated in the lock and BalIin swung the door open.
 What's happened?r he asked, stepping across the threshold.
 His quick glance searched the room. answering his own question. Miss Willis was still seated at the stenographer's desk, some papers gripped in her hands, but she was bent forward over the type writer, one arm hanging loosely to the floor Ballin knew the woman was dead the instant his eyes encountered her grue- scme attitude, and a second look told the
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AndreU and I,rogene
LITTLE LIFE coNFIDENcEs EXPERIENCE COUPLE PHLOSoFFiIL, THOUGH MARRIED
 Ry

Want to go to a picture show?" asked lmogene, pleasantly.
 Nav, don't want to go to no picture SHOW, mimicked Andrew, peevishly.
 Why, what on earth is the matter?" asked lmogene, in surprise Why don't you want to go?''
 T do not want to because you asked me to gor' he said. emphaticaly. If you had asked me to stay at home would have insisted on going.
 I have peeve, a grouch and mad on- l am blue, I am purple and I am smitten with a green-and-yelIow melan- choly which is as unreasonable as the wanderings of fox terrier pup.
 T came down the street from the of- flee to the car wishing someone would bump into me so I could snarl and show my teeth and then smite him hip and thigh.
 q got on a crowded car and then scowled at every person who stumbled over my feet and glared at them in the hope they would say something that I could resent
 T made the conductor give me trans fer at a point where never get off simply because he knew me and did not go through the formality of asking me if I wanted one and then I stuck my jaw
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, story of her death. for across the side of
 her white waist, just in back of the arm that was hanging by her side. a dull stain crept momentarily larger and larger. Astonishment was rife in the mans
 face, more than astonishment, almost disbelief gieamed from her eyes as he
 turned his head very slowly and gazed into Judge Cranes face.
 How did it happen?Y he asked rather namely, after a pause that stretched into what seemed almost hours. 'Ah, who are your he added, suddenly turning upon
 Judge Cranes companion. His name is Haggerty.' the judge an
 swered. But never mind him now, Pn ex- plain later Tell us what you know about
 this?''
 T don't know anything" BaTlin an-
 swered, turning to Frances for confirrha-
 ton to his statement, '''do we?" | Absolutely nothing she exclaimed.
 We didn't even know she had been
 killed"
 But you were locked in that room1'
 the judge insisted.
 "oh, that part of it's easy" Balnn nodded. Miss Willis was showing Francs something about filing some let ters. I went in there to wait Frances came in a moment later and while she was showing me letter, someone locked the door from this side. We heard a sound of scuffling, and then nothing more , until you came in
 They were after you, Frances" the judge said after a pause They only thought to find ore girl, and so they mis- took that girl for you. Same color hair He shook his head and moving across the
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HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville December 2s.-(Special.) ) The cotton planters of Madison coun- ty are experiencing a labor shortage for the first time in many years, and it is estimated that 15 per cent of the total cotton crop remains in the fields for that reason. In many localities the planters have no hope of getting this cotton, but in others the pickers are working as fas. as possible to save the remaining cotton from ruin.
 Several carloads of holly and mistle- toe have been cut in Madison county this season and shipped to cities in the north Madison county holly and mistletoe will form the holiday decora- tions at many Christmas affair throughout the nation this year. The cutting of evergreens of this kind is a growing industry here, and many car loads are sent away every season.
 All trains in and dut of Huntsville are loaded to the platform with pas sengers. They are hauling the maxi mum number of people with passengers standing up in every coach, and every train has extra coaches. The holiday traffic seems intending.
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VERNON MAN IS
 KILLED BY TRUCK

Columbus, Miss. December 2s.-(Spe- cial)-Duley NTaggart of near Vernon Ala, was fatally injured when big truck belonging to the McDaniel-Ros Lumber company ran over him on the Jackson highway 12 miles north of Go lumbus this afternoon at o'clock.
 He died within a few minutes after the accident occurred. The heavy rear wheels of the truck passed completely over his chest and he died not regain ing consciousness. Taggart and his eather-inlaw, J. Smith, also of Ala bama, were riding on the truck en route to their homes when the acciden occurred. Taggart dropped his hat and slipped off the side of the truck to get It. He fell under the side of the truck and the rear wheels rolled over him It was being driven by a negro. Tag gart had been in Columbus doing his Christmas shopping.
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out at him because he called the name of the street second time and looked at me, wondering why I didn't get off.
 AS I came down the block from the car I wanted some little kid to get out on the sidewalk in front of me so could step on it and break it. i T hoped that dinner would not be ready when I got home and determined that if 1 it was not was going to, raise the dickens about it, and if it was I was not going to eat a darned bite T am mad about nothing, and am glad that l am mad and do not propose to be wheeled into good humor by you or anyone else.
 T treat you all right, don't I? Then what kick have you got comin'?" Why should you to try to drag me out to see moving picture show with a scenario written by a guy who has spilled his marbles and acted by hams that failed to make good on the legitimate stage?' My collar chafes me at the neck; l do not like the way you have your hair fixed; the darned places on my socks hurt my feet and I simply hafe that foolish way you have of looking at me, with a funny little pucker between your eyebrows.
 'T don't know whatever possessed xSe to try and make a living in this town, and the man who sold me this house was liar in everything he said about it's com forts and advantages.
 The clothes I bought from my tailor this fall are wearing out, and they never did fit me, The war has put things on the blink, so that man cannot make a living. and the army team lost the foot ball game%
 Now. shut up and let me alone. When feel like I feel now I hate to hear a womans foolish chatter.
 He resumed his paper with an ominous frown on his face.
 Imogene left the room for moment and reappeared at his side with tablet in one hand and a glas of water in the other.
 Whats that stuff" he growled.
 "Cafomel,' she said, and you're going to take it this instant or there is going to be another peeve in this house, and when the two of them clash the neigh hors, and maybe an ambulance, will come in.
 Take it*" she commanded.
 He shallowed the tablet with wry face, drank the water and then grinned at her.
 Copyright, 1919, by Twenty-first Country
 Press, Inc)
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 NEW NAVAL GUN PIERCES ARMOR

London, December 10.-(Reciprocal News Service.)-Sir Robert Hatfield has an- nounced the completion at his Sheffield steel works of the most powerful naval gnn vet built. It has sent the lareest calibre of armour-piercing shell unbroken through the thickest armour plates. The bis new gun weighs 1s6 tons.
 The Sheffield manufacturer said that the history of modern naval warfare had been continuous struggle between gun and armour plate makers. "Tt is now the plate makers turn he smiled.
 There is supposed to be no gun in the world to equal the new one from Shelf field in destructivity.
 The orange was originally pear shaped fruit about the size of the common wild cherry. It's evolution is believed by naturalists to be due to 1200 years of cultivation.
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MERIDIAN, MISS.

Meridian, Miss ., December 23-(Special Dr. H. $. Gully. a leading physician of Meridian and we'll known over the dis triet, is being mentioned as a possible candidate for Congress in the election to be held next summer. He was a great personal friend of the late Congressman Adam Byrd, anu it is freely admitted that should be become candidate he would enter the race with the assurance of the support of a large following While Dr. , Gully treats the matter of his becoming a candidate rather lightly at this time, he has neither said he would or would not enter the race, and friends are quietly a- work in his behalf with the hope that he will allow his name to be used at the proper time. pr Gully is perhaps one 1 or the best known men in eastern Ms missippi, often taking a prominent pEsrt l in politics on the side of those measures he believed to be for the best interests Of l the state, always fighting to the finish for the principles of the democratic party, and his friends are confident he would | be formidable candidate and strong representative in the National Congress. The action of the supreme court yes terday in affirming the case of the state against Beaman Boatwright, convicted in the Lauderdale county circuit court for the murder of Constable Ben Culpep- per m september, l9lS, means that the incoming sheriff, John M. Martin, who will be inducted into office January 1, will officiate at the first legal hanging that has taken place in this county in long number of years Boatwright, all legged negro deserter from the army. killed Constable Culpepper as the result of a duel with the officer when the latter at tempted his arrest. in lonely part of the mountaoneous district south of Me ridian.
 Miss Maud Meyer, 1S-year-old daughter of Mrs Sarah Meyer of Meridian, was the victim of a serious accident Sunday afternoon at the Country club. which may cause her the loss of one eye. She was struck in the eye, supposedly by a gor bali, during the progress of game.
 The annual banquet of Che members of Mt Barton Queen City lodge, No. S, Knights of Pythias, was enjoyed tonight in the banquet hall of the Pythian build ing number of eloquent toasts were made, and the affair was pronounced success in every particular.
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ehaffeur to bring it to her in her iinou- sine.
 The next she heard was a desperate station; ''Corry, r1a'au," stamemerd the chauffeur. "but the police ave harrested me for 'oof and mouth disease"
 The chauffeur had misunderstood. The lady makes hobby of raising goats. and the chauffeur was faithfully bringing in heavy goat in the limousine contrary to a recent regulation which forbids the movement of any live stock owing to out breaks of the foot and mouth disease.
 Exemption from taxation of houses as- sessed at less than SS0o0 is a political is- sue in Winnipeg
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CHAUFFEUR TRIED
 TO DO HIS DUTY

London. December f5-(Reciprocal News Service )-Laugh at this all you want, but you cannot laugh at the peo-' pie for the police won't give out their names.
 It turned very chilly during the day in London, and lady at a tea party teie- phoned her home in the suburb of Guild ford for a heavy coat also asking her
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NEWS WSEVENTSAND FEATURES FOR WOMEN READ DERS

room, stood looking down at the silent , figure with trubled eyes. Copyright 1el9 Thompson Feature
 SnrVicel
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Grant Permission for Spur
 Permission was granted yesterday by the city commission to the Southern rail- way to build a spur track across Fortieth street to connect with the Montgomery Coal Washer Manufacturing company.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-09
I. c. c. Member in Favor Government
 Control of Rails

Washington, July S.-Better re- suits in transportation can be obtain ed by maintaining and improving fed eral operation than by returning to old methods in whatever guise," Joseph B. Eastman, member of the interstate commerce commission, declared today in a communication to the senate in- terstate commerce committee. He was not a member of the commission when the commissions views on the railroad situation were given the committee last winter.
 MT. Eastman declared that federal control of the roads should continue, so as to ensure necessary capital at low cost; to avoid unduly high rates; to solve the problem of the weak roads; to obtain the operating ad- vantages which come from unifica- tion and to promote right relations with labor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-09
Aut0ists Oppose
 Parking Measure

At the regular bi-monthly meeting of the Pine Bluff Automobile and Accessory Dealers association, held at noon Monday at the Hotel Pines the association decided a wage a fight against the proposed ordinance defining the parking zones for auto mobiles, which was introduced placed on the calendar last night at the meeting of the city council.
 A committee consisting of Hicks Riley, Felix Smart, Walter H. Adams, L. K. Duncan, and w. s. Turner was named to go before the council Monday night and urge against the adoption of the ordinance. Owing to the fact that the ordinance was put on the calendar before any of the members had an opportunity to speak another committee, or the same one, will go before the council at a later date to prove the measure is lacking in merit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-09
SUIT DRACS ON UNTIL MOST OF
 L|TICANTS DIE
Son of Plaintiff Finally Receives Award of $440,000 in Land
 Case.

Detroit, Mich, July 5.-A unique legal battle that spanned number or years ended when Samuel A. Wilson was awarded $440,0O0 against Chester G. White and others. The suit lnvol- we'd more than $2,O00,000, the sale price of large tracts of Alabama tim berlands purchased by seven Michl- gan men in 1883, and of lands pur- chased individually by w. w. Wilson, father of Samuel A. Wilson. White defendant in the suit just closed, is the only man of the original seven purchasers still living.
 i Wilson sued to recoveer his one- ninth share of the proceeds of the sale of the original tracts and the value of his 2,153 acres, purchased by his father as an individual, and for $50,000 charged against his father by the syndicate of original purchas- CTS.
 The elder Wilson, in the panic of sos, made his individual purchases at $5 and $6 per acre, it was declared. The property increased in value to more than $40 per acre and the group claimed it, declaring an individual member of the syndicate had no right to buy land without first offering it to the company. Wilson contended that this had been done and the court upheld his contention.
 The elder Wilson included his pro- perties with those of the syndicate when a sale was made to lumber company for $2,006,250, later charg- ing, it was alleged, that other mem bers planned to deprive him of his share in the proceeds. Suit was ther brought, but the father died and the son benefited from the award.
 The sale price was tied up by ar .] injunction from 1912 until announce ment of the court decision a few days ago, excepting for a small division made on agreement by counsel. Near. ly all witnesses with close knowledge of the facts are dead and during the trial more than 10000 letters were offered in evidence. The complete testimony made 10000 typewriter pages. Four houndred dispositions were introduced. There were more than 150 witnesses in the south whose \ dispositions covered 1900 pages. More than 300 law books were used and l, ;, 900 deads were in evidence. A safe two trunks and four suitcases were used in the court rooms to hold tht : legal papers.
 The oral argument in the suit tool Is hours to deliver and cover 600 pages of transcript, while the deci
 sion covered S6 typewritten pages. = The original purchase of land wa. = 45,700 acres.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-09
Trio of Accused Negroes Held for
 the Grand Jury

George Haley, the negro who so accommodatingly accepted money to
 be delivered to the bank by Glenn Withers, a negro friend, and who brought back the deposit slips initial ed very satisfactorily, but who failed
 only in that he failed to deposit the money, had a hearing in municipal court yesterday, and was bound over
 to wait the action of the grand jury. Bond was fixed in the sum of $400.
 Haley, instead of taking the money
 to the bank, forged the teller's ini-
 tials and kept the money. Withers
 remained in ignorance of the business
 until he was told that the status of his bank account was mo funds" He then sought the aid of the law with the result that Deputy Sheriff J. L. McBurnett arrested Maley some days later.
 Emanuel Shaw, negro who was cap tured Saturday night after an excit-
 ing chase on Third avenue by Deputy Sheriff J. l.. McBurnett, was bound
 over to wait the action of the grand jury after hearing in municipal court yesterday on charge of grand i larceny. Shaw is alleged to have pill fered about $24 from the cash drawer of restaurant on East Third avenue. Robert Johnson, negro, who laid siege to the home of Frank Hudson,
 another negro, with Winchester rifle Saturday, had preliminary hearing
 in municipal court yesterday, and on charge of assault with intent to
 kill, was bound over to wait the ac-
 tion of the grand jury with bond fixed at $500. Hudson was sentenced to
 pay fine of $10 for assault and bat , tery.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-09
THE AUTO PARKING ZONE
 MEASURE.

Pine Bluff will not have parking zone ordinance. You can put that in your pipe and smoke it Ut is about as good as some of the tobacco you'll get these days.)
 Not because Pine Bluff doesn't need an auto parking zone ordinance that will be enforced, bit because motor car owners are too selfish thinking more of themselves and their own convenience than of the safety of others and the welfare of the city.
 What chance has the tame little measure presented at the council meeting Monday night with the op- position of the auto-owning class :? None at all.
 The principal objection, as we un- derstand it, to a parking zone law, is that motorist would have to walk a few yards. For instance, if a mOtorist had his office in a building
  or on Second between State and Chestnut, or desired to deposit a couple of thousand dollars in a bank within the zone or purchase q suit or an ice cream soda at some of the stores or shops, what would happen ? Why, he'd be compelled to park his car at least 50 yards from his des- tination and walk that distance. Wouldn't this be terrible?
 Many of our ex-service men have walked 20 to 30 miles day to get a chance at the Huns, and thought nothing of it. But the folks who can enjoy automobiles because these men were able to walk 25 or 30 miles a day with an 8O-pound load object to walking few steps.
 Most of us, if we were able to de- posit 1000, had a nice office down town, or even possessed flivver
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-09
SECRET
 TREATY BETWEEN
 J. s. JAPS., HUNS
Senator Lodge Introduces a Resolution Asking for
 Copies.

Washington, July 8.-President Will son was asked in resolution intro duced today by Senator Lodge to transmit to the senate If not incom- patible with the public interest," a copy of an alleged secret treaty made between Japan and Germany and in- formation as to whether this alleged covenant has been abrogated.
 Accompanying the resolution was a newspaper article dated at Budapest and quoting a wireles despatch from Moscow as saying that under a sec ret treaty between Germany and Ja- pan those nations were to assist Rus sia and Germany was to receive va rious concessions from Japan.
 The resolution was referred to the foreign relations committee without discussion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-09
--W. s. s. U. s. WILLING TO MAKE GOOD.

If farmers of Arkansas who plant ed castor beans at the request of the government last year do not sleep on their rights, Arkansas will receive about $3OO,OO0 from the government in claims for loss through the differ ence between the minimum guaran- teed by the government and that pro- duced by the farmers. T. 0. Branch represented the aircraft board in this state and induced farmers to plant about 5000 acres of castor beans in order to produce this valuable pro- duct to aid the aviation forces. The government guaranteed the farmers $3 per bushel and contracted for the castor beans at the minimum of 25 bushels per acre. Due to the poor quality of seed supplied the average production was about two bushels per acre.
 The government has sent MT. Branch forms upon which all claims are to be made and he has requested every farmer who contracted With him to secure and fill out one. The dealings must all be through Mr. Branch, and the farmers making the claims assign their interest to him as the agent of the government. The claims must all be in by July l5, which is six weeks later than first specified, but as so many farmers had not filed, the extension was secured in their interest MT. Branch has an office in the Southern Trust building, Little Rock.
 Other southern states have had the same experience as Arkansas Tn growing castor beans, and the gov ernment expects to settle with all at the same time.