Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-19
"" HOLDS MONEY FOR TWENTY-F0UR.
 IN THIS STATE
Pine Bluff Man Named In List to Whom Allot-
 ments Made.

New YOrk, March 1.-The '. M. c. A. War Work Council is paying ali mony' Yes, and to three wives. And recently check for $l5, was sent to the Norman Church, and another ot last account with John Barleycorn." Also seceral pawn tickets have been redeemed lately, and how hany more transactions thus unlike those usually associated with the Y. M c. A. only the records of the A. E F. soldiers Remittance Bureau of the "Y" War Work Council will tell
 Just now one job of the Remittance Bureau is to locate twenty-four indi- viduals in Arkansas to whom money is, due, money given to Red Triangle secretaries overseas to be transmitted free of charge to the folks back home, In all there are 1859 such people who have failed to receive their remit. tances. The average amount is about $55, which is quite sum for a dough- boy to save. from his small pay, but it is less than twothirds of one per the last twelve months
 WlNcu ny SOlulcTSs
 All this money was glen to the Y. M. c. A. by the American soldiers, 274,224 of them, often in the period be- fore the armistice was signed without any receipt. In only two out of each 300 cases has the Assocoation hailed to find the payee. Some of these fail- ures may be due to the fact that rec ords were lost under. such circum- stances as the destruction of the "Y' huts on the western front by Ger man shells and the killing of secre- taries by gas and by fire. Most of them, however, are due to wrong ad- dreses and the fact that the payees have moved without leaving any traces. i The "dead letter" list, as it were, of the Y. M. c. A., shows that in Arkan- sas there are 21 persons for whom money is in bank awaiting their ord CT as soon as they prove to the A. E. K. Soldiers Remittance Bureau, 347 Madison Avenue, New York City, that they are ones to whom it was sent. A list of these individuals is given herewith.
 Many Have Died.
 1 Nearly one hundred checks have been returned to the "Y" because the persons to whomthey were made out had died. Recently an unusual case was handled satisfactorily by the bu- reau officials. A 'Philipino called at the New Yorkoffice and stated that last summer he had given some money to "" secretary in Bordeaux to be sent to his father in Manila. As this is beyond the field of opedations of the budeau the money was entrusted to an express company for delivery Mean. while the father died and when Phili- pino arrived at Camp Merritt a few days ago he borrowed dollar, no, having been paid in some time, ant called at 347 Madison Avenue to gel his money back.
 He waited while the express com pany informed the "Y" official tha he had receipt for the money, un doubtedy a forged receipt The Phil ipino insisted that it must have beer received by member of the famil! and perhaps used to pay his father funeral expenses. He went back t, Camp Merritt with $1O, advanced t him by the Y. M. e. A. When h. got there his pay had arrived and tn next day the remittance bureau re ceived a post office money order fo $10 from the Philipino
 Hard To Locate Payaes.
 The Y. M. c. A. discovered befor the fighting ended in November tha the average case required at least tw months for delivery. Practically tn only exceptions occurred when the de !, iposits with the Y. M. c. A. were mad