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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-01
Missionary Society Hostess.

The Missionary Society of the First Methodist church was hostess to the church members last night at the Methodist house.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-01

Mrs. T. A. Payne, 1217 Georgia street. is seriously ill with inflamma- tarx rheumatisnl.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-01
aRovE'S 0-PEN-T -TRlTE SllYE

0llns tha Pores aa1 paatiEails For chssi Colds. Heat eptds, at e1sue, is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES HEALING HONEY. This is the only cough syrup on the market with which his additional treatment is, aiven. Tho salve IS also very valuable as Germicide for the Nose and Throat. You get both remedies for the price of one. 35c. Sold by all Druggists. If yoar Druggist should not have it in stock. he will order 1t from his nearest Wholesale pEuegist. Made. Recommended and Guaranteed to the Public
 hyPAais MEDICINE colleMU.
 MANUFACTURERS or
 Groves Tasteless Chlll Tonic
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
War Disabled Veterans
Are Greeted by D'Olier
Legion Commander
Finds Christmas Cheer in
Beneficial Legislation

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 24.-Franklin
D'Olier, national commander of the
American Legion, to-day sent Christ
mas greetings to the war-disabled men
and women throughout the country in
telegram addressed to Corporal J F.
Butte, Walter Reed Hospital, Washing
ton. Corporal Butte represented the
ference of department commanders of
the Legion in Washington. The tele-
gram follows:
AS national commander of the Amer
ican Legion, | desire to extend through
you to the disabled service men in the
Walter Reed General Hospital and to
the disabled men and women of the re-
cent wah throughout the entire country
sincere Christmas greetings from the
American Legion
'lt was with most heartfelt gratitica-
ton that learned less than forty eight
hours after the conference of depart
ment commanders OF the American
Legion IN Washington adjourned, the
Senate of the United States had acted
IN response to our recommendations
for legislation to secure to the disabled
men and their families just and liberal
treatment for which they had waited
so long and so heroically
want you and your comrades in
Walter Reed Hospital to know that
no small share of the success of the
conference was due to your assistance
IN representing the facts to the mem
bers of Congress. 1t is the hope of the
American Legion to be of continuous
service to the comrades in need and no
efforts will be relaxed while anv men
Who have been handicapped by reason
OF their service to their country re-
Quire the legion's intercesson and sup
port"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Toy Men Swanaped
And Only Cheaper
Kinds Are Left
Outdoor and VehicularTvpes
Made in America Most
in Demand, but Germans
Still Lead Field i'm Dolls

This is weary but merry Christ
mas for the people in the toy business.
Last night they wound up the busiest
toy season i'll their history. Depart
ment store buyers and smaller store
keepers estimated that their business
had increased from 80 to 40 per cent
over last year.
Thousands of last minute customers
made life hard for salespeople yester
day The throngs seemed to roam
about in hungry search of something
that would get chuckles from children.
Store after store reported cleaned out
cleared last night, only the cheaper
toys remained, the kind no union
worker would give his offspring.
A. G. Hegeman, buyer for the toy
department Of r. II. Macy's, declared
yesterday that the demand for toys
this year had been "startling and tre-
mendous." 1t was a concentrated de-
mand, he declared, upon the higher
priced toys, especially the vehicular
kind.
"In other years" Mr.. Hegeman said,
"the mechanical toys were the centers
of attraction, but not so this year
Germany was the source of most of our
best mechanical toys. American manu-
facturers have not been able to turn
out tin things with flesh and blood
grace.
"Amercan manufacturers, on the
other hand, have devoted themselves
to max ing automobiles for children
and other varieties of outdoor toys
The demand sensed this, and has veered
from the indoor mechanical playthings
to those which will keep the young
ones outdoors"
Mr. Hcgeman said that in previous
years tho purchasers of the larger toys
were limited to the wealthier classes
This year, he declared. almost every
one seemed bent on getting something
large and costly for his young ones.
Less Choice, Higher Prices
According to A. j. Gilmore, another
buyer, the wave Of prosperity has
flooded the toy business with unprece-
dcnted receipts. Customers exercised
less discrimination and paid higher
prices than ever before. In discussing
American toys as compared with the
German output, he said that domestic
manufacturers were far behind the
Germans in the production of dolls
The dolls made here, he said lacked
certain facial character" which was
found in the European made dolls. He
declared that American doll manufac-
turers could only continue business if
German dolls were excluded from this
country.
According to Mr. Gilmore and to
other buyers, the sale Of toys has been
unusually large even before the Christ
mas season. They also said that they
were preparing for a record season in
sporting goods.
The proprietor of a toy store on
Nassau Street, not far from Beekman.
IS going to buy a large red automobile.
He said that he really had intended to
buy small black one which started
with crank, hut the business was so
good that he changed his plans
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Former Negro Slave Is
''Santa'' to '65 Veterans
Governor Of Georgia Assists Bill
Yopp Handing Out Presents
to Former COnfederaies

ATLANTA, Rec. pa. Bill Yopp. for
mer slave. held his annual reunion at
the Soldiers Home here to-day with
the old warriors OF the Confederacy.
and Bill as usual, brought along a
little gift for each of them.
The aged negro has been providing
the gifts for years. partly with his own
money and partly from dimes collected
around his home, near Macon. whore he
has become known as "Ten Cent Bill"
Last summer the Georgia Legislature
IN making appropriations for 1920 pro
vlded a special fund to carry on Bills
work, and as this is probably the last
time the old darky will play Santa
Claus at the home Governor Dorsey
and other state officials arranged to he
present.
Bill started his custom Of brighten.
ing Christmas for the old soldiers
when he returned to Georgia ten Years
ago and found that his old master,
Captain Thomas NJ. Yopp, was an in
mate Of the home
Captain Yopp, whose ninetv-three
years have pinned him almost helpless
to his bed, often tells how Bill, then
his fifteen -yearold body servant. res
cued him wounded from the battlefield
and nursed him back to strength.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Lonely East Side Girls
Given Christmas Party
iorkville Service League Spon-
sors Dimpled Feminine Santa
in Baory Red R!oomers

Santa Claus remembered the lonely
girls IN East Side boarding houses yes
terday in the first festival of the kind
ever held in New York.
Invitations had been left with board
ing-ho keepers and with the heads
OF big department stores and factories.
inviting any girl who was lonely at
christmas time to come to the York
VILE Girls Service League at 331 East
Sixty eighth Street.
Hundreds of girls who are strangers
IN the oity and have no friends or rela-
tives to visit at Christmas accepted the
lnvitation with delight last night.
femlnlne Santa Claus with dimples
and baggy red boomers bounced into
the room carrying pack filled with
candy and two great stockings Of red
cambric. One was for the good girls,
she SAID, and one for the bad girls.
Both stockings were filled alike
however
The club will keep open house all
day to-day for girls who are still lone
some
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
''Stanta" Falls Dead on Trim
Usual Yuletide Journey is Too
Much for Grandfather

Bernard Ruppel, seventv-two wears
old, has been playing Santa Claus for
MS grandchildren every Christmas
since the first of them got out of long
dresses. This year his vision had
failed to such an extent that his SON
ln-law, Henry Hansel, called at the
Ruppel home, at 72 St Nicholas Ave
nue., Brooklyn, for him when the time
approached for Santa Claus to show up.
They had almost reached the Hansel
home. at 202 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn,
whore Hansel's four children were
waiting fM Santa Claus, last night,
when MrfEuppel collapsed. An ambu-
lance VIZ Sailed, but he died before it
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Red Cross Santas
b ing Yule Cheer
To Wounded Here
Patients at Fox Hills to Have
100000 Christmas With
Trimmings; Merry Time
for Heroes at Polytechnic

Out in Fox Hills, S. l., where the gov
crnment has it's Base Hospital Al, ap-
proximately 1900 wounded service men
are celebrating a Christmas holiday
program which cost the American Red
Cross 100000 to prepare. The festivi-
ties began yesterday afternoon and will
continue all day to-day.
With the aid Of the Richmond County
Chapter Of the Red Cross, which gath
cred $4,000 from various local Red
Cross chapters. the director of the Red
Cross recreational work in the hospital
Captain George V. Brooks, arranged
the program, which, besides the giving
of gifts to each man. includes two
vaudeville performances, cabaret
show for each ward, jazz band music,
big and small Christmas trees deco
rated in the most orthodox Christmas
fashion, with plenty of candy and fruit,
not to speak of cigarettes and cigars.
Presents Ready for All
Several days ago each of the wounded
men was asked what he wanted most,
oliuy as was OSliIUlloCI u dCCu coCCi udJ All
almost every case the man got what he
asked for. The chief demand was for
leather grips, and then came bath
robes-one doughboy asked for bath
robe that twas warm and fancy" and
he got it-wrist watches, cravats, gloves
and pipes.
In the evening after all the gifts
we're distributed a ten-act vaudeville
show was put on and the twenty-five
foot Christmas tree was lighted in the
recreation rooms. At $3.50 the men
held a community sing for thirty min
utcs and. aided by the hospital jazz
band, sang all the old favorites, ending
up with "Auld Lang Syne."
At 10 p. m. sharp one of the Red
Cross aids dressed in Santa Claus
clothes, followed by other aids in cor
rect biblical garb, proceeded slowly
throughout the whole building, visiting
each ward and wishing every patient
"a happy Christmas"
To-day there is to be a regular
Christmas dinner with all the known
furnishings and then some more" and
in the afternoon another vaudeville
show, followed by religious service;
more food and then some more vaude-
Vile, and "thcn to bed'
Of course, as was pointed out, the 600
members of the Medical Corps who
tend the patients and patrol the hos
pital will take part in the festivities,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Christmas Day Euents
In Greater Ne,U York
MORNING AND AFTERNOON

MORNING AND AFTERNOON
Entertainment for wounded SOL
diers from hospitals near New York
Mt Pershing House, Gramcrcy
Square.
Celebration and Christmas dinner
for sailors, Victory Hut, Battery
Park
Christmas tree for children at New
York Society for Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children, 2o7 Fourth
Avenue.
Distribution Of candy in orphan
asylums and other institutions by
Knights of Columbus.
Distribution Of presents at various
police stations to children who failed
to receive them at the Sevcnty-first
Regiment Armory Tuesday night.
Entertainment for 1000 West Side
children at Funeral Church, Sixty
sixth Street and Broadway
Christmas party for children on
sixth floor of McAlpin Hotel.
EVENING
Banquet of employees of the Pub
lie National Bank of New York at
Biltmore.
Christmas dinner and celebration
at Brace Memorial Ncwsboys' Home,
IA New Chambers Street.
Distribution of gifts by seven po-
lice precincts in Brooklyn.
Entertainment for sailors at Riv-
erside Community House, Ninety
seventh Street and Riverside Park.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Madison Square
Echoes to HYMNS
And Tree CLOVIS
Tiny Fir Cleans Amid Snow
Mist as Soldiers, Sailors
and Civilians Join IN
Old Christmas Choruse.

At 1880 o'clock last night c,o,,
surged around small, dark 49,.
planted in the center of Madison Sons.
A misty haze hung over the sousr.
the tall buildings on all sides loos, s"'
gray against the sky. Fleecy sno~
flakes began to fall and splattersd a.
upturned faces Of the crowd ~ ,h.s
locked around the little fir.
At 8 o'clock, with tho snow f.,,;.
thicker and faster, the big cloct =
the Metropolitan Tower struck and
tiny gIcam appeared at the ton ~ =.
tree. A moment later electric cprre,.
wa turned on and the tree was ;I,r..;
mated by hundreds Of bulbs. The IT,.
of Light" once more sparkled in Msd'
son Square.
AS the tree glowed, the first not. ..
Christmas hymn was heard fror, ~.
little pavilion erected near is ba.s
The note sounded louder and cborn.
of voices took up the song. The sincsr.
included soldiers sailors and civilians
clustered at the pavilion to maa tho
celebration Of the Tree Of I;cb,Y
something New York would reme,r how
Each year these exercises are hoid
IN Madison Square end each vear
large crowd gathers whatever ~.
weather may be. Last nights cole.
bratlon was not unlike those that have
been held in the past. the fallino So
giving the event real Christmas
touch.
Many persons who have attended
similar exercises in Madison Souare
were on hand last night. Among them
was Patrolman Butle~ of the 22d Stree
Police Station. He has been present
for the last five years
The exercises lasted until O'Clock
The New York Community Chorus was
represented by number Of singers
and big band took part in the eele'
bratlon. Several Italians Joined in tho
singing and were cheered by the crowd
that showed its apprec alton BY draw.
ing hands from overcoat pockets and
giving a round OF applause
When all the hymns on the program
had been sung and the soldiers and
sailors began to file ont Of the pavilion
the ground was carpeted by snow. At
$3.50 the crowd had departed every
body except Patrolman Butler. He was
on the scene an hour or two explaining
to belated persons just what had hap
rened
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25

not to mention the 300 nurses who
make life pleasant for the sick ones.
The United States Public Health
Service Hospital, formerly the Poly
clinic Hospital, at 345 West Fiftieth
Street, also was the scene Of d process
sion of gift-1aden Red Cross trl cks and
visitors bringing Christmas cheer in
the form of sweetstuffs, cigarettes and
articles of clothing for the $50 wounded
soldiers there.
Francis P. Nash, Red Cross director
at this hospital, made it clear that
abundant preparations had been made
for tho mems care and entertainment
throughout the holidays, and that the
Red Cross had left nothing undone to
make their Christmas a happy one.
To this end, he said, every patients
bed and room had been decorated
fruits and candies distributed, Christ
mas stockings filled and tree set up
bearing gifts of the Red Cross and
friends and relatives Of the boys. At
midnight attendants slipped quietly
filled sock from the foot of each Of the
beds. A kit bag containing toilet
articles, knit goods, handkerchiefs,
socks and smoking tobacco was also
left on each patients bed.
Tree for Wounded Heroes
At 4 o'clock this afternoon those
patients able to leave their beds will
assemble about huge tree on the first
floor Of the hospital for q programme
of vaudeville entertainment. readings,
music and gift presentations. Every
man will receive a gift.
In addition, Christmas dinners have
been arranged for many of the
wounded men in the homes Of private
families and friends
An announcement IN The Tribune
yesterday morning resulted in many
additional gifts being sent in for the
patients, Red Cross Director Nash
said, who expressed himself as more
than pleased with the provisions made
for the soldiers cheer
eve only hope the generous spirit of
the people will persist after the holi-
days" he said. "The bovs-if not the
same ones are here some of them for
several months, and are always glad to
receive flowers, smokes or personal
visits. 1t should not be forgotten that
the circumstances under which these
men are here make welcome twelve
months out of the year, such attentions
as have been shown for their Christ
mas cheer.
"Gifts from the public are always
welcome and the men appreciate them
There should be no Misunderstanding.
hoswever, that the Red Cross provides
in every way possible for the mems
care and happiness"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25

several hours: There were gifts for
everybody Also good things to eat.
There was pilgrimage through the
streets of Manhattan last night under
the auspices of the Community Coun-
ellis. A large number of army trucks,
appropriately decorated, rumbled
through the streets spreading Christ
mas cheer.
Residents of the Carry On clubs
maintained for manned war veterans
undergoing vocational training day
fathers were killed in France. The en-
tertainment will mark the opening of
new club at 271 Madison Avenue to
accommodate forty men, for whom
there was no room at the original club,
Madison Avenue and Thirty-eightn
Street.
A big Christmas tree has been erect
ed and loaded with gifts from the
veterans for the children. The young
sters will have dinner at the old club
and then 60 to the new house, where
they will receive their presents.
In accordance with its annual Gus
tom the regular Democratic organiza-
ton of the 14th Assembly District,
Brooklyn, last night distributed five
hundred Christmas baskets to as many
families in the district. The distribu-
tlon was under the supervision of State
Senator Daniel J. Carroll.
Service men now stationed at Ho-
boken will receive gifts this morning,
and will enjoy the day generally. In
the Y. M. c. A. restaurant at 1876 River
Street there will be grab bag" which
will be large enough to hold a present
for every man. Christmas Eve was
celebrated at Hoboken by the soldiers
last night.
Thousands of dollars in Christmas
bonuses were distributed yesterday to
employees of the Waldorf Astoria, Nc
Alpin. Claridge hotels and annex.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Thirsty Besiege Canadian
Doctors for Yule Cheer
Special Correspondsne.

Special Correspondence
WINDSOR. Ont, Dec. 24.-Angry at
the refusal OF border physicians to tilt
the did clamped on LIQUOR nrescrin.
tons week ago, thirsty Windsor citi
zens to-day tore down the "No pre-
scripton signs. and in some cases had
TO be 1oroibly elected from offices.
Ihe crowds of prescription seekers
lhcluded many women, and. according
to the doctors. these "patientsv were
the most persistent in their arguments
for a little Christmas cheer. They
coughed and showed signs of fainting.
but 70 no advantage, for the medicos
stoutly declined to recede from their
stand.
The stream of requisition holders.
however. was steady enough to keen
the clerks at the government dispenr
aary busy wrapping up packages, which.
to avoid unpleaslntness for the fortu
nate ones. wereziabelled legally pur-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Christmas Bonuses Exceed
SlO,OOO.OOO at Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 24-More than
s10,0o0,00U was distributed in the Pitts
burgh district to-day in pay rolls and
bonuses, according to estimates by
bankers. All manufacturing concerns
did not pay their employees for Christ
mas, but some of the more important
advanced the date of their pay day
Bonuses, it was stated, figured more
than ever before in the distribution,
many concerns giving their Office force
as high as 10 per cent of their annual
SalarieS
New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Chicago Cafes Deserted

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-For the first
time IN many years Christmas Eve in
downtown Chicago was a drab affair.
with only the theaters ministering to
crowds Hotel managers called their
realm desert" and said prohibition
did it.
Empty tables and deserted prom
ehades IN hotels and cafes made dining
nalls ana corridors seem sepulchral.
Early in the evening the shonning
throngs were homeward bound. While
travel on the railroads was heavy. Chi
cago's population had prepared for an
fashioned Christmas at home the
overstocked Christmas tree market nro-
vldlng thousands free and many more
The evening world., 1919-02-11
GALSWORTHY HERE
TO TAKE PART IN
LOWELL MEMORIAL
British Author One of Many
Noted Passengers Arriv-
ing on Carmania.

John Galsworthy here to represent
tho British literary world at the
James Russell Lowell centenary. was
one Of 251 passengers who arrived in
New York to-day on the Cunard liner
Carmanla. Mr.. Galsworthy-"Sir'
John II he hadn't rejected a knight
hood some months ago--declarcd
that the secondary purpose OF his
visit is 10 enjoy his first vacation in
four years.
The Carmania had stopped at Hall
fax on the way to disembarlS 1000
Canadian trops. She brought "a
New York 113 first cabin. lOl second
cabin and ~ stecrage passengers.
Among others on board were Philip
Gibbs. war correspondent; Judge n.
q. Ward OF the United States Court
III Appeals. home from a visit to the
graves OF hts two boys in France;
Sir Ashley Sparks. X. B.s r., Director
General OF the Cunard Line In Amer
lea; Mrs. Hilda Wynnc, with all the
war decorations the ship news re-.
The evening world., 1919-02-11

porters ever heard OF and one or two
more; Brig. Gen. Guy Livingston. Di-
rector OF Aero Organization for the
T.rtish War ONCE: Licuts. NJ. J.
NlcH and G.. W. Buichart. aviatcrs,
from Che Holy Land; Signor Gino
bnssy at Washington. and II. G. Grew
and Lieut.. Col. q. NJ. =. Murphy OF
the American Red Cross.
Mr.. Galsworthy. here on the 'nvl-
tation Of President Nicholas Murray
Butler OF Columbia University. said
he expected to attend a dinner OF the
Ritz-Carlton on Thursday and a
James Russell Lowell celebration in
the ball room OF that hotel on Sat
urday.
II was suggested that this would
be merely one OF many dinners here.
| and the author raised his hands In
| protest.
Dear me, hope mott" he said
| That is TO say. formal dinners.
dread them. As for ordinary or rogd.
lar dinners, I cannot meet too many
e them. | mean the non-Hoovei
sort.
II am glad to be here. have
been working too hard. In addition
to having increased my own output
| have been doing some work Cor the
Government. 10 cannot he denied
that the war has brought the Eng
lsh- speaking peoples together. They
will, I believe, remain together d,
not mean that we shall never have
differences or disagrcements They
will come. quite naturally, but Lon'
OF them can ever again he serious.
Judge ward brought a word o
reinsurance to other parents who's
sons sleep on the hospltablc soil o
France
oI found the graves OF Galbraltl
and Marquand." he said, "as casil!
AS II | were visiting a large New
York cemetery. The French hav
registered the graves Of our dead"
Mrs. Wynne. who comes In the in
tercst Of an Italian relief work 10
soldiers. is lady OF grace of ~
John OF Jerusalem and has been dec
GRATED with the Mons Star. the Ordel
The evening world., 1919-02-11
AUTO, TRAILED HERE, LEADS
TO ARRESTS FOR HOLDUP
Man Married Month and Alleged
Safe Cracker Held for MlSsa-
chusettS Authorities.

When detectives trailed motor car
with a Hoboken license from Cambridge
Mass. to New York it led them to No.
1873 Ninth Avenue, where Detectives
Flood. Whitney end Coleman this morn
in" arrested Samuel Sterrett, twenty,onc
years old. and Lawrence Leary. twenty
five years old. Leary is said TO have a
long police record as safe cracker.
Sterrett had a furnished apartment at
that address. where he lived with his
bride. She was Helen Garratt, eighteen
years old. and she told the detectives
she had been happy after her marriage
In Jersey city last month until her
home had been made a rendezvous for
men OF all sorts. II,
| The men will he srraisned in West
Side Court on highway robbery charges
and held for Cambridge officials TO cX-
plain their connection with the shoo.-
ing OF General Electric Comrany pay
( master on Dec. 90. when $4,000 Was
stolen. Three other men have previously
been arrested I'-e and takn 10 Cam
bridge.
The evening world., 1919-02-11
OFFICERS AND MEN BOTH WIN
FRENCH DECORATIONS.

The Third Battalion has all white
officers and there are honor men
among them. Lieut. German r.
Jones, who is from Decatur Ala,
lsAds the thrillers. With n combat
sroup he moved forward on the night
- Aug. ls. The men were surround
ID by Germans, who captured the
: entire squad and were conducting
them to their lines when they ran