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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Protest Release by Sec'ty, Baker
 of an Objector

Washington, Dec. 17.-Frank- lin D'Olier, grand commander of the American legion, made public tonight letter from Secretary Baker in which the secretary de- clared that any further action in the case of Allan s. Broms, Minne- sota conscientious obiector, recent ly released from Fort Leaven- worth, altho having more than two years to serve, must be taken by the department of justice. Aft CT Mir. Bakers letter was read to the conference of state legion commanders, they referred the case to the national organization s executive committee for drastic and appropriate action" It was said the matter would be taken up at a coming meeting of the legion executive committee in h. dianapolis.
 Mir. Baker explained in his let ter that altho the premature re- lease of Broms, was mistake the only remedy left was to deal with Broms for any future viola tions of law.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
PALMER ASKED
 TO TELL STORY OF SETTLEMENT SETH
Attorney General to Appear Before Coal Strike
 Committee
WILL BE REQUESTED
 TO GIVE DETAILS
Expert Says IA Per Cent Increase is Sufficient-DecIare Puhlic Must Pay Any Additional
 Cost

Washington, Dec. 17.-Attorney General Palmer will appear be fore the senate committee investi gating the coal situation Friday or Saturday, Chairman Freling. huysen announced tonight after {; brief session of the committee.
 The attorney general, it was in dicated, will be asked to explair the basis of the agreement which finally ended the strike of bitu. minous coal miners and caused the resignation of former Fuel Admin istrator Garfield. MT. Palmer, il was said, tonight at the depart ment of justice, would leave Chi cago late tonight for Washington, having cancelled his speaking en- agreements in Little Rock, Ark. and Oklahoma City, Okla.
 J. w. Dawson, an expert on coal production and costs, who was the only witness heard today by the senate committee expressed the belief that the present wages pald miners were sufficient, and that "any increases granted them must eventually come from the public's pocket"
 Coal operators are not making big profits this year" Mir. Daw- son said, land in my opinion they cannot entirely absorb the "A per cent increase which the gov ernment has already allowed"
 Senator Frelinghuysen asked the witness to suggest a method of avoiding nationwide strikes such as that just ended.
 President Wilson and Attor- ney General Palmer took the best method when they started out to make the miners union obey the Lever law and call off the strike" Dawson replied.
 But later they reversed that position" Senator Frelinghuysen iateriected.
 z "Unfortunately, yes," Dawson
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
BOTH TICKETS REPRESENTED
 IN NOMINEES
Final Vote to Determine Di- rectOrate to be Taken
 at Once

Practically all of the members of both tickets had been nominat- ed for Chamber trustees when the ballot counting was ended this morning at 3 o'clock. Dr. J. l. Norris, who was on neither ticket was the only man who was not slated" who won out. Dr. Norris received a flattering vote.
 Nine hundred and forty four ballots had been issued, 830 voted The commissioners consider this a remarkable percentage, and an indication of the intense interest manifested in the nominations.
 Close observers of the fight con- tend that there is practically an even split, after a study of the 49 who will go on the final ballot. It is pointed out that both sides may clai ma decisive victory. But the members familiar with the con- test insist that three of the nomi- nees were placed there by both sides, having been listed on the tickets of both parties.
 Preparations are already under way for the prompt mailing to- day of the final election ballots. The count will be made Tuesday night, next.
 The names of the nominees will appear on the ballot in alphabet ical order, the members to indicate their choice by marking an "x" on the margin in front of the men they. want to serve.
 A number of women members of the Chamber were named in the primary, none obtaining sufficient votes to place on the ticket.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
c. l.. Miller Under 4
 Bank Said t0 be iI Good Condition SAY ALLEGED SHORI
 ALREADY IS GOV
institution to Continue isl ment After Conference I Miller Recently Boue
 Cotton Says Lawyer

O. L. Miller, cashier of tha of Grady, is under arrest y City charged with embszzlV funds of the bank. He is a to be short $18,OOO. \ Miller was arrested m night at Grady on a warns sued by Justice of the Peacd Hellums. His attorney, Johnson stated last night tE shortage of $18,0OO will bd good. His bond has been ii S20,000 and his release is eJ today.
 Following a conference day at Hotel Pines betweel cers and directors of thel state bank examiners and Hudson of Pine Bluff, it wi nounced that the condition bank was better than ever b|
 State Bank Examiner Major said last night that amount of the shortage a had been covered by a suret] on MT. Miller by the Ma Casualty company and sed he surrendered. This arrand was made last night. It VI be necessary to levy an asse! on the stockholders, thrcug acton, 1t was said, though { dlvldual resources of those ested in the bank have been ed to insure it's safety.
 Miller. who is 35 and mi was arrested on complaint fl Lhncoln county people. \ Examiners Major and A. M. ] were immediately summone an investigation of his ac was started. Yesterday the came to Pine Bluff where ar ments for guaranteeing the s of the bank were made. went back to Star City last in charge of Sheriff McCl. Lincoln county.
 Johnson declared that denied charges of forgery a to have been brought by C, CTS of the bank. Two checl is alleged, had been forged total of $12,000.
 MT. Johnson declined to q the reasons for the alleged age, but said that Mir. Mill( bought some cotton". He si thought the shortage wou reduced.
 The bank has a capital of 900 and a surplus of $2,20O Wood is president and Edgs kinson, assistant to the cash has done a good business in and Lincoln county and und, engagements perfected last will continue as a strong il tion, it was said.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Newspapers are
 Asked to Reducl Paper C0nsumpJ

Washington, Dec. 17
 newspaper in the country wal ed on today by the house p] flee committee to reduce ifS sumption of newsprint pape7 10 per cent for a period Ql months in an effort to relieS) present serious shortage whic| committee has been told threa| the destruction of a numbei small papers.
 Voluntary cooperation of, fishers would obviate the n sity for oppressive, governni action, said the committee I ment prepared by Chairman s erson. Members of the conn said r:lat if the publishers ca out the voluntary conserv plan, further action on the thony bill to limit the sizs newspapers and periodicals the second class mails would postponed for the present at
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
ARSENAL BLOWN UP.

New York, Dec. 17.-A report was received here tonight that the government arsenal near Dover. N. J., was destroyed by an explo- sion which occurred shortly after midnight. The noise of the ex- plosion was heard in neighboring Jersey towns, but all wire commu- nication with the arsenal which is located in an isolated spot in Jer- sey hills, was cut off.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
"A OF THESE AS TO RULE CHAMBER

he H. c. COUCH T. HAYNES GREGORY JO NICHOL
 J. F. MCINTYRE R. CARNAHAN LEO ANDREWS A. D. FOSTER
 w. w. TAYLOR b FELIX SMART
 H. c. FOX.
 PINCHBACK TAYLOR T. J. COLLIER, JR. J. H. MEANS T. F. GADBERRY w. N. TRULOCK s. P. RUSSELL E. A. HOWELL H. I. HOLDERNESS H. BLUTHENTHAI, M. c. HOLLIS T. L. BRUMMITT HENRY MARK c. A. BAHLAU B. M. SCHOBER 5 GEORGE H. ADAMS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
CHICAGO THEATERS
 BOOST PRICES OF
 SEATS TO &l1 EACH

J. Chicago. Dee. 1.-Two
 + leading Chicago theaters to-
 + day announced an increase in
 i' the price of tickets for the + New Years eve performances + from $3.20 to $ll, including F war tax Two others raised ad- r. mission from $2.75 and $3,30 | to %6.G0.
 + Prospective advance of wine + suppers at the cafes and res + taurants on the last day of the + year with the consequence of + amusement seekers turning to F. the thcaters was the reason F 2scribed for the changed | prices.
 ', T. sf T. tis T. |, !, is X I. 4.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
SAYS STARVATION
 FACES 2O,OOO.OOO PEOPLE IN GERM

Washington, Dec. IT, Starvation faces from 15 to 20 million persons in cen- tral Europe outside Ger many unless some" means can be discovered for their assistance, Herbert Hoover, former food administrator said today in a formal statement. Unless relief is quickly furnished, he predicted a break down of stable government in the countries affected and creation of another cess pool like Russia"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Whistles Fool Many.

Indianapolis, Dec. 17.-One long weird shrieking whistle, then others less strdident. finally prac- tically all sirens in the city, ming led with the ringing of number ot bells, broke the stiffness of the early morning in Indianapolis to- day. This was followed by the continual jangle of telephone bells in local newspaper office.
 "I guess it's notice of the end of the world said one woman tremously. "The whistles are calling the people to church and Pm going" It developed later that a throttle on whistle at rail road roundhdtse had become stuck, starting the din, in which the other whistles were joined, without knowing exactly why.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
EXPECTS REvOLTs.

Berlin, Tue lay, Dec. 16s Karl W. W. He;ne, Praassian lster of the interior, declarel the Prussian national asser today.
 We must reckon with the sibility of revolutionary riS this winter. We know how to with them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Case of 32 I. w. w. Members to Jury

|c.sa Aansas ns & City, Mo-, Dec. 7.-The |tr;al VI VI, o2 members of the Indus tr;a t,;a1 Workers of the World, on |sas iai 1T! m the federal court in Kaa- |s;o,o Go Iity, Kansas, charged with
 .ena ,t'!on of the espionage act,
 rd;o. d; to the jury early tonight. A |Xeainse' ilise' Ii reached tonight, will be E,nt;g raied and will not be announced |inp i' io o'clock tomorrow morn
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
ARREST TWO MEXICANS.

\, San Antonio, Tex, Dec. 1.-Two Meeexicans; ' oee prominent in political a1 aa11Ia!rs, have been arrested at N rnexlco City thru the activities of general Benjamin Hill for at- Me.ihptlng to assassinate Lieut.. Col.
 ha .sarG TIC obregon, candidate for "e MeXlcan presidency, it is re- ''pMJrted 'Mad here today in dispatches to Mexican newspapers. W
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
'55 OFFICERS, ESCORT OF HONOR, SAID TO RUN FROM BANDITS

* Fl Paso, Tex, Dec. IT,
 * General Manuel Dieguez, com + mander of the Mexican feder- + al forces in the northern zone,
 h is in Guadalajara investigat-
 + ing charges that a group of 55 officers of the Mexican + legion of honor, assigned as s an escort for a train from + Colima to Manzanilo, fled + before a band of 25 rebels + under Pedro Zamora, ac cording to advices reaching F here today. General Die guez is reported as being : profoundly disgusted" over : + the occurrence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Weekly Airships
 Across Atlantic

London, Dec. 17.-A weekly air ship service to America is con- templated by a combination of aviation firms, which are credited with the intention of acquiring the famous R-34 and her sister ship, the R-39. These are being altered to meet passenger and cargo requirements.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Speedy Action on Matters Touching
 Soldiers Urged

Washington, Dec. 17.-Speedy action was demanded of congress on all matters affecting the gov ernment's dealings with former service men, in resolutions adopt ed tonight by national and state officers of the American Legion at the conclusion of three day conference here with officials of the war risk insurance bureau.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18

V. M. HARRISON E. II. ELSBERRY , GARLAND BREWSTER A. ROSENBERG TOM BLODGETT HENRY REYNOLDS k. w. VANCE J. W. CRAWFORD DR. Q. ". CLARK II. w. MOORE J. M. SMULIAN c. A. LINAKER RAY MCINTYRE J. A. MCLEOD JAMES GOULD GEORGE WELLS T. s. DEWOODY J. c. WHITE w. H. WHITE w. H. ADAMS B. w. BENTON - w. J. WILKINS JACK BERNHARDT REV. J. l. NORRIS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Mexican to Give
 Up $1O,00O Rams

San Antonio, Tex, Dec. IT prominent Mexican from Mux
 Mexico, who with his brother, captured by Francisco Villa < the town of Muzquiz was Fl last week, arrived in San An today to arrange for raising ' 900 demanded as ransom for \ self and brother. The man quested that his name not be ! toned as it might get him in' ther trouble. .3
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
pays Uruguay Has
 | Not Offered to l Mediate Trouble

manUnntt:evldeo, Dec. 17.-Reports
 prdd.,ating from Mexico City yes Irnms s snt that the Urukuayan gov IS ns a n,e, would offer it's service betwanaie niediator in the differences Mex;eeeen the United States and GenI;ao. Go over the case of Consul eien m;,!wer were denied at the for ." ministry here today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Many Are Nervous.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 17.-Dr. Frank Schlesinger, director of the Allegheny observatory, was busy this morning answering telephone calls from anxious persons in all parts of Western Pennsylvania who wanted to know just when "the end of the world" would come.
 He advised them to go about their business as usual.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
SOUTHERN EDITOR DIES,

Fort Worth. Tex, Dec. 17.-J w. Bowden of the Records edi' torial staff, died suddenly about I o'clock this afternoon, death be- ing attributed to heart failure.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Plan to Test the
 Dry Amendment

Washington, Dec. 17.-Rhode Island, through it's attorney gen. eral. Herbert A. Rice, asked the supreme court today for permis- sion to institute original proceed ings to test the validity of the national prohibition amendment and to enjoin federal officials from enforcing it in that state.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Hoax COllapses.

Chicago, Dec. 17.-The lend of the world" hoax collapsed today. But many of the superstitious here who. according to ministecs had quietly prepared for eternity by increased church attendance. still awaited the vast gales and other phenomena which the ta,e of the scientific prediction fore cast.
 "They're in good if it don't happen" it was held, land no one will be left to indict them if it does.'
 Letters have been pouring in to astrologers seeking inside informa. tion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
WORLD STILL TURNS
 AROUND DESPITE
 THREATENED CRASH
Many People, Turnout United States, Got Nervous
 Over Hoax

New York, Dec. 17.-Astonisl- ment was expressed by the super stitious when the earth did not come to an end today.
 The ominous position of the planets had been well press agent ed and some astrologers and per- sons versed in witchcraft had maintained that at the precise moment when the major leaguers of the solar system formed them selves in straight line, with Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury on one side of the sun and Uranus on the other, the earth, which had moved four or five solar paces to the front of the line, would behave like one horse shay.
 Astrologers have predicted the end of the world on somewhat similar occasions for centuries. As early at 1186 the world escaped one of their threatened catastro. phes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Moon Out of Place

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 17.--The local office of the weather bureau was bombarded with telephone calls this morning demanding to know "why the world had not come to an end," and if the "dan- ger was all over" One excited man telephoned the home of r. Connor, head of the bureau at 6 o'clock this morning and insisted that the "moon was all out of place."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
WEATHER
 Thursday and Friday generally fair, somewhat warmer. a-
Wonder

Wonder how n1hny prohibit. tionisis Woul d turn down a quart this time o'year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
CASHIER OF BANK OF GRADY lSl WELD ON EMbEzzLEMENT C0UN
 St0,O0O SH0n TACE IS ALLEE

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01

fly over his prisoners. but the law
operating through the sheriff de-
rives the individual Of his property,
his liberty or his life.
"This is a nation of Americans,
whoIesouled, double-fisted, red
blooded Americans. There is no
room here for pro-Irish, pro-Ger-
man, pro-Italian, Pro-Russian. or
pro-anything else. He must be
all-American or all-alien. We can
no longer tolerate divided alleg-
lance of any character.
This must from now on be a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01

b given strictly % Z Basketball o.
ganisation. II b planned to havs ]
about eight senior teams, six inter
mediate teams, and gsvsral Junior
teams. The work Of the teams viii /
begin about Dec. 1e.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01

nation Of men and women whose
sympathies are in perfect accord
with the aims and ambitions Of
that noble band Of hardy pioneers
who founded this nation. and with
the loyalty and devotion Of the
brave soldiers, and sailors who
have fought and died to preserve
1t.
Majestic America.
America has now cast OF the
swaddling clothes Of infancy and
stands forth erect, clothed IN robes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01
LAWYER !! ! TO Be
STRONG PILLAR
Of The NATION


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luoWIedxe cf law ~. thu nnas n
-. ~ $50 \.
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taeney toward disregard Of Al
Lava. and thus preserve the ma
tl@ from ruin. Judge Floyd 3.
Tpmpeon delivered . flery address
e TIE banquet Of the Illinois State
BAT association. This event, held
Safurday evening at the Congress
noeot Chicago, was Given In honor
OF tne justices OF the supreme
|conrf. Mr.. Thompson began his
renaxks ~ saying. I'm settling the
polacy Of the United States In her
1ss.,. ~S' ~ yv..'.on .as .awyel ny e
lie striined end fitfad "a annlv the
fundamental principlea 81 4 fyeA
government and Of human liberty.
The patriotic duty OF every LAWYER
ID to Give his country the benefit Of
his study and experience, not as q
aaa.dsh partisan politician. but in
The nobler. and loftier sense. as 4
highminded and learned statesman
and . citizen of our common
country.
Nov II the time when opportun-
itie6 1fe daily presenting them
selves for the bar to be Of service
in helping to shane the policies
ana destiny Of our Country. We are
confronted with new conditions and
with new propositions, and It
seams to me that the man who Is
Learned in law. whose entire course
In life IL by training directed BY
the desire to do right and be lust,
should aid in our adjustment to
these new conditions.
n, vr,.. ~. p..,.
q A' o'0 AoD..
In assuming our new position
among the nations OF the world,
We must not train our vision to the
distant problems to the degree that
We can not see the problems that
race 10 ct home. II we are to re-
main strong enough to do any ser
vice to the world. we must guard
our BODY politics from the ravages
OF internal disease. We need not
fear that this nation OF free men
Is to perish by the sword Of for
eign foe. Our danger Is not from
invading armies. II this nation
dies, it will be by suicide. II we
are. threatened with destruction. 1t
comes in the growing disposition
to substitute the unchecked pas
siens Of the mob for the sober
judgment OF the courts. The dis
position to disregard the suprem-
acy Of the law Is awfully fearful
In any community. Yet one has
but to read the everyday news Of
the times to know that It exists IN
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01

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". Va; Captain Edward J. Cofsi,
Brooklyn: Captain A. b. Kelly.
Richmond. Va: Captain Marian c.
Cooper. jacksonville, Fla, and
Major Cedric D. FAuntlsroy. Chi
cago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01

public. The photo shows eight Of
them before the Polish White
house at Warsaw. Left to right:
Lieutenant Car Clark. Tulsa, Okla;
Lieutenant Edwin Noble, Boston,
Mass; Lieutenant George N. Craw-
ford. Wilmington. Del: Lieutenant
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01

4 ulseeing Of the committee rep
rsosating t. various churches Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-01

A squadron Of U. 8. aviators who
earned the rank Of ace in the world
war are now helping Poland on the
Ukrainian front. Discharged from
the A. e. F. these men made their
way to Warsaw in box cars to
offer their services to the new re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-08
Man, Not TolUn

IFrom the Pittsburgh Dispatch
The idea that nearly all the big"
men come from the small towns has
been fndustriously disseminated for
many years, but a census of n rep
resentative group of 100 well known
men in the New York financial dis
trict, reported in the National Bank
of Commerce monthly, does not bear
it out. It was true that so per cent.
came from outside New York, but,
taken by towns, it was found that
Just as many came from cities with a
million or more population as came
from towns with less than 5000 peo-
ple. Fifty-one came from towns
under 100000 population, another
remarkable breaking even.
If this analysis proves anything, 1T
shows that the man has much more
to do with getting there" than the
town he came from, which, of course,
everyone who gave any thought to
the matter expected. The "big men
from the small towns" was simply
one of those superficial notions that
get by because nobody stops to an
alyze them. 1t was flattering to the
bulk of the population who live out
side New York that the metropolis
had no monopoly of opportunity. But
who supposed it had?