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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
LIST OF TORNADO VICTIMS
AUGMENTED BY SEARCH
Finding OF Nine More bodies bring.
Total Dead mt TcEg>. Okla.
to Eifty-Ninc.

I by Nssnr'It"l TT . l.
MuSkOGEE. OKLA. May 4.-The
number of persons known to have
been killed In the tornado which
wiped out the village of Pcggs. Okla,
Sunday night. reached ffty-nine late
today with the finding of nine more
bodies In the debris OF homes, ac-
cordinE to a revised casually list re-
ceiEcd here. Rescue workers placed
the number of injured at $50, sew
eral OF whom, they said. would not
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
Jersey |. Wood, by go,

NEWARK, y. J.. May i.-OMcial
figures IN the New Jersr! preterentia!
estimated returns from al except one
SINAI! district IN one county. today
gave Major General Leonard Wood a
margin OF l.2.5 over his opponent.
senate! Hiram W. Johnson. The to-
tails were: Wood 5.sgi: Johnson.
IL $50
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
FORMER DETECTIVE is
HELD WITHOUT BAIL
"uinnn Valves Preliminary Hearing
an Murder Chhrrc nnd liz Bonnd
Over to Grand Jury.

lSpeS:ai TO The Times Dispatch.l
PETERSRtkG. May John ].
Suinan. former member OF the local
detective force who IL charged with
the murder OF r. II Brown on Syca-
more street last frida: afternoon. to-
day waive! preliminary examination
when brought before Justice Clements
IN Police Court. He VAS sent on 10
me grand jury and IS now being held
IN the city Jail without bail
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
Only Seventy, They Get Married.

=, HARl-OTTESFlLLE, May 1. =
William Painter and Miss Julia
hirhE: both from the County Home
taimshouse>. drove 10 the city in a
fr!erd's auto last evening and were
married n, the rectory OF S.; Paurs
Episcopal Church at the University
OF virginia. Rev. u. y. Tucker. Jr
officiating. Both parties are we'll
past the seventeen mile post
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
.sI Engineering nuIIdinE DEDICATED.

:. --is!.7 ~ = IE-NN.. Way 4.-The
= .nE y ee-.rg building. the gift OF
~ y. H-.,. o. Sew York. 10
= teln 4-morla. University. was
nt1!catec het. 'DGAy. Or Leonard
ado .. NJ" lo-. and Miss Jane
S5da-ns. %: ~ .c;.Ko. wcrn among The
tPtatera - todsy's closing cxerclgcs
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
Adycrti,cr. Nc.t Tod,,.

Fernancnt committees OF The Rich
mond Advertisers Club will he APP
pointed for the year today at n meet
ing OF tho new boarS OF directors of
the organization. which viii be held
at the Business Mems Club AT /
O'Clock. This is the first meeting OF
the lew ona-d OF directors. Presiden,
NJ. S. kn:Eht Will n:eSidc
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
HEALTH RECORDS SHOW
240 DEATHS FOR APRIL
should Not he Compared with ALI
normal Figures OF One Year

Figures posted yesterday In the
City Health Bureau show "A tota, OF
$40 deaths during April. This mark
LOOKS high In comparison with the
phehomenal record OF last April.
when tho totnl was 1876. but the ag-
Gregatc for that month was lower
than any record made i'm years. ana
Is expected TO stand for all time
The comparative table of deaths
this Year, rs compared with the same
month last year shows:
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05

willie. ". Va. has been appointed
acting Democratic national commit
tecman from West Virginia. to sue
coed the late Judge j. T. McGraw, Il
was announced here today by State
Democratic leaders
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
Teacher. Arc Allotted no.u,

NEW fDNN, May i--!-lcA o! the
80 schoo! teachers ami supervisors
in the GrE=apc.nt section OF Brook-
;ya. have been allotted bonus of
100 ~ nc American manufacturing
company. :c- ihtir faithful attention
= i1e ch!.L:-H o: the company's en-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05

father. rs years old. Is in jail Mt
Jacksbor0. held without bail and
charged with the killing.
According to reports received hero,
young Whitman was leaning over
and laclnR hia shoes when struck.
Deputy Sheriff lIcsterly. who ar
rested the elder Whitman, said 1t
was believed the man was Insane.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05

Wilson Signs Pension BuI
WASHINGTON. May 4.-Prosident
Wilson has signed tho Fuller pension
bill. increasing the pensions OF vet
and widows and other dependents OF
Nctefans.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
FATHER Is CHARGED WITH
KILLING SON WITH AK

Officers Who Made Arrest believe
Accused Man Innane Being
Held without DaIl.
ny Ass0ciat tod Prras.
LUCK WOOD. TBNN.. May 4-Jake
Wh!,man. aged 80. was killed by
iniowS with an AK at his homo near
la Follcttc. Tenn, Sunday. and his
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05

Name Democratic Committeeman.
:. CHARLESTON. w. VA. May &c.
w. Oasenton. an attorney, OF Fayette.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-05
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
M axes Food
aSte Good

Creates an appetite, aids diges-
ton, purifies the blood, promotes
assimilation so as to secure full
nutritive value Of food, and to
give strength to the whole system
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
LEGION IS WARNED OF REDS.
Radicals Seek Membership to Learn
 of Moves Against Them.

Indianapolis, March 2f-Warning that radicals are trying to obtain mem bership in the American Legion was given in statement issued tonight by Arthur Woods. chairman of the Ma tional Americanism Commission, from national headquarters in Indianapolis.
 Mir. Woods said he had learned that the reds are seeking enrollment in the Legion to learn what action former service mems organization is taking against them and their policies.
 No real harm, however, can be done to the Legion or its work of promoting Americanism by the presence in it's membership of such persons" Mir. Woods declared. We are working to promote public welfare and good citi- zenship and the more they find out about this work the better. It will do them good.
 "They will find it very difficult yes, impossible to convert to belief in anarchy men of the stuff that char acterizes our membership, and they will run grave risk of being converted themselves to a belief in law and or der as prerequisite to social and eco- homie justice and happiness"
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
WILSON ADANDONS
 CONTROL OF COAL
President Requests Miners and Opera tors to Make New Contract, With Special Warning Against
 Profteering.

Washington, March 23-With a warning against profiteering, Presi- den Wilson today ordered abandon ment of government control over bi- luminous coal prices and operators to negotiate new working agreement on the basis of the majority report of the coal strike settlement commits sion.
 The president ordered termination of price control April 1, when the new working agreement becomes effective. That will permit at least partial ab- sorption in coal prices of the increase in miners wages, established at 27 per cent by the commissions majority report. The increase in wages, the commission estimated, will entail an added annual cost of $200, 900 900 and includes the 14 per cent increase awarded the miners in settling the re- cent strike.
 The operators, however. were re- minded by the president that unrea- sonable prices must not result from the relinquishment of price control and the addition of increased wages tc their expense.
 The late of the joint conference of operators and miners to formulate a new wage agreement had not been sci tonight. John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers, while awaiting a conference with officers of his union on the matter, said the miners were ready and willing to meet with the operators.
 The majority and minority reports of the coal commission also were made public at the white house and both were included by the President in his letter. Notwithstanding tho lack of unanimity in the commission E findings, the President said it was tc be assumed that the two groups would regard the majority award as binding The minority report would be laid be. fore them, he said, for their guidance Tn reaching an agreement. The president in resembling con trol over prices restored the fuel situ ation so far as bituminous coal is con cerned to the status existing prior t November 1, when the bituminou miners went out in nation wid' strike.
 The executive order, however, doel not affect tide-water coal exchange which was re-established Februar, 9, and which controls export of coal
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
.CER|lMl|ANYPR|lE|:P|IA!R!!EESS CER|lMl IAN R|lE|:P| IA!R!!EE s TO.'ANNUL TREATY
Will Conduct Formidable World Pro- poganda to Change Versailles Pact -1O,O0O;0OO Books for Distribu-
 ton Have Been Printed.

Paris, March 22.-Germans are preparing formidable world propo- ganda in favor of revision of the Yer sailles treaty and the holding of a new international conference at which vanquished nations might be repre- scented for the object of changing or eliminating many clauses of the pres ent treaty between the allied nations and Germany, according to Havas dispatch.
 A book entitled Greatest Crime Against Humanity" has been prepared and ten million copies have been printed for distribution, especially in England, America and France, and it is expected that millions more of other pamphlets along the same lines will follow.
 The reactionary revolt in Berlin on March 13 put temporary stop to the movement, it is said.
 Captain Andre Tardeau, one of the French delegates to the peace confer ence has written an article which ap- peared in last weeks edition of L'Illus- tration, in which be declared himself opposed to any revision of the treaty"
 ''Let us first help our allies" he wrote, land we will find this to be bet ter than to dream of movement in favor of benevolence to our van- quished enemies, which instead of in spring gratitude, fosters arrogance
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
HAVE MUCH WAR EQUIPMENT
Highway Department Will Rent tC
 Road Builders.
Special to The Star

Special to The Star.
 Little Rock, March IS. The War Equipment Division of the State High way Department is rapidly growing in- to one of the largest and almost com
 plex business concerns of the state.
 An inventory is being made of the va
 rious items and they amount to four or five hundred different things, from
 spark-plugs to railroads. Their value will run into the millions, and Com | missioner Owen is working out a sys-
 tenn whereby the tractors, trucks, and various road working machines may
 be rented to road builders and provide fund for the maintenance of the de partment and at the same time bene-
 fit the road districts
 The latest equipment received is 59 No. field cookranges. valued at prob ably $100 each. They were received yesterday.
 So any road builders who are look ing for ranges would do well to con suit Commissioner Owen.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
SEN. NEWDERRY
 GIVEN PRISON TERM
Is Found Guilty, With Is Others, of Election Conspiracy-Will Retain Seat in Senate Until the Supreme
 Court Reviews the Case.

Grand Rapids, Mich, March 20. - Truman H. Newberry, junior senator from Michigan, was today convicted by a jury of having conspired crim' inally in 1918 to violate the election laws. He was sentenced by Judge Clarence w. Sessions to two years Imprisonment, and was fined s10,000; released on bond pending an appeal and at once issued statement declar- ing his intention to retain his seat in the Senate unless that body decides otherwise, or the Supreme Court up holds his conviction.
 Sharing the senator's fate were his brother. John s. Newberry. and II campaign managers, including Fred erick Cody, New York and Paul II King, Detroit. Both the latter receiy ed the limit sentence.
 Charles A. Floyd. Detroit, also was sentenced to two years, but he was fined only half as much as Newberry The brother was fined $10,000, and was one Of four not sentenced to Leaven worth The lghtest sentence went tc George s. Ladd of Sturbridge, Mass. and he was fined $1 ,000.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
GAS BOMBS TO STOP CRIME.
Johns Hopkins Professor Suggests
 Weapons for Police.

Baltimore, March 21.-The use by police of gas bombs in instances such las developed last Friday morning. 'when a lone negro barricaded in eel lar, held at bay two hundred policemen for three hours, has been suggested by Dr. Robert w. Wood of John Hopkins university.
 T should favor lachrymatory gas, commonly called tear gas,' that tenn porarily blinds the person sought by the police, spelling his shooting aim and making him helpless" Dr. Wood |said
 "A plentiful supply of gas grenades ought to be available to the police force at comparatively small cost. However, it should be borne in mind that the gas suitable for use by DO lice force ought not inflict permanent injury. but merely disable temporar- lily
 "A sneezing gas would be effective lin police work. A sneezing gas mixed with chloroform gas also should be good, for the first would disclose the criminals location and the chloroform gas would render him temporarily helpless"
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
ISSUES CALL FOR AT LEAST 100 MEN, LOCAL WORKERS ARE
 PREFERRED.
800 WORKING DAYS
 TO COMPLETE TASK
Secure Offices in Farmers & Merchants Bank Building-Mules. Tools and
 General Equipment for Road . Building Shipped.

Men who want to work on the great Jefferson Highway in Polk county had better start to get in training, for it IS promised there will be something doing in the next two weeks.
 J. H. Early of Sheridan, Ark, member of the contracting firm of Early X Jones, was in Mena Tuesday to make arrangements for starting work on the big highway project. Mir. Early announced they will need at least 100 Elen to work beginning not later, he hopes, than April 10. Work will start just as soon as possi- ble and MT. Early has hopes there will be dirt flying soon after the be- ginning of the coming month.
 Different classes of laborers will be needed, and men who can handle mules, load slips, use saws, axes and other tools, will be sure of job. Mir. Early announces that his firm will use all the local labor it can get. and will not bring in outside workers save the skilled heads and foremen of the different classes of work required.
 Two cars of property of the con- tractors are now enroute to Mena. One car contains mules, the other equipment including scrapers. blows, { slips and other needed tools. Arr engagements have been made to keep the mules at Gale Hume's barn on | South DeQueen street.
 The Early < Jones company will 1 have offices in Mena and has secured the room on Jansen avenue, just east of the Farmers & Merchants Bank, formerly occupied by The Printery. The office will be in charge of B. A. Jones. It is planned to open the of- flee by April 1.
 l It is estimated that 800 working days will be required to complete the 49 miles of highway planned for the north and south route thru Polk county.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
BRYAN DESIRES NO PUBLIC OFFICE
Declares His Ambition Is to Discharge Debt of Gratitude to American People-Happl in His
 Friends.

New York, March 19.-William Jen- nings Bryan declared here tonight that his ambition was not to enjoy the hon. ors of public office but to discharge as fully as possible, his debt of grati- tlide to the American people.
 It was the Nebraskan's first pro nouncement on the Democratic presi- dential nomination since the announce ment of his brother-in-law in Lincoln. March g, that the "commoner' would not vote for the United States Senator c. M. Hitchcock, if he was elected a delegate to the national convention.
 Mir. Bryan made known his stand in a speech at dinner at the Aldine club arranged in celebration of his sixtieth birthday anniversary by friends and admirers of all parties. The address was the first or a speaking tour that will embrace many states.
 After submitting some conclusions drawn from thirty years of experiences in the arena of politics." Mir Bryan said:
 Even in my youth had no doubt of the final triumph of every right eous cause and my faith is even great CT now since I have seen reform after reform accomplished and great princi ples that were at first scoffed at, writ ten into the unrepealable law of the land.
 No one has been happier than I in the character and constancy of his friends or more generously rewarded for labor in the political vineyard. My ambition is not to enjoy the honors ol office but to discharge as fully as can the debt of gratitude owe to the Aparican naoD1a
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
Are Anchored to Mena.

Since Mir. and Mrs. Roy St. John sold their home, 400 Eighth street, a number of persons have assumed it was probable that they would go to California, and there join the moth CTS. This, however, has at no time been the intention, Mir. and Mrs. St. John feeling as much Mena fixtures as ever. As little further assur- ance, if such was needed, is the fact that they have purchased from Free man L. Johnson three very pretty residence lots at the corner of Ninth street and Walnut avenue, where they plan to build bungalow at some not far distant date. The price paid for the site was $1 900. s
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
WANTS TURKS oUsTED.
President Wilson Said to Have Ex-
 prest Views in a Note.

Washington, March 1s.-President Wilson has communicated to Under Secretary of State Polk his views on the Turkish situation, it was learned semi-officially yesterday. Those views are understood to be that the Turk has no right to remain in Constantinople and should be elected.
 The allies have advised the state department of their program with re- gard to the Turks, and Wilson's memorandum to Polk will be issued in framing this governments answer. The allies, according to intimations, planned to let the sultain remain in Constantinople, but to put the city un- der garrison of international troops and have the Dardanellcs interna- tionalized.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
FAILED TO RATIFY
 THE PEACE TREATY
The Vote, 49 to B, Lacked 2 of the Necessary -Thirds--May be Re- turned to President as Rejected
 by the Senate.

Washington, March 19.-The peace treaty again failed of ratification to. night tonight in the Senate, the reso- lution failing to receive two thirds majority.
 The vote was 49 for ratification to 30 against.
 Immediately after the vote, Senator Lodge offered a resolution proposing to return the treaty to the president with the information that it could not be ratified. Senator Hitchcock, admin. istration leader, objected to immediate action on the resolution.
 Washington. March l9.-A resolu. ton that was adopted directing that the treaty be returned to President Wilson with a notification that the Senate had refused to ratify it.
 The resolution of Senator Lodge provided
 That the secretary of the Senate bs instructed to return % the Presiden the treaty of peace with German, signed at Versailles on the 2Sth da, of June. 1919, and respectfully inform the president that the Senate has fail ed to ratify said treaty, being unable to obtain the constitutional majority required therefor. The voting on returning the treaty to the president was 47 to 2S. all of the latter being Democrats. Six Democrats Gore. Kirby. Reed, Shields, Walsh ol Massachusetts, and Williams voted with the Republicans for the Lodge resolution.
 After adoption of the notification resolution however, Senator Robinson Democrat, Arkansas, moved to lay that motion on the table. The mild reservation Republicans voted with the Democrats against Sen ator Watson's motion and the effori to table failed. That brought Senator Robinson's reconsideration motior back before the Senate.
 The vote on the Watson motion tC the table Nthe reconsideration motion was 34 to 43.
 With this motion for reconsideration pending, an adjournment motion by Senator Robinson was defeated AZ tt 33.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
ATTACKS NEwBERRY VERDICT.
Result of Power of Administration" "
 Paul King Says.

Grand Rapids, Mich, March 21.-- Paul King, campaign manager for Senator Truman H. Newberry in 1918, and one of the seventeen men convict ed Saturday on charges of criminally conspiring to violate the federal cor rupt practices act, issued a state ment tonight characterizing the out come of the notable trial, just con- cluded, as indication of the power of the administration, with all the agen- cies of the government at it's com mand."
 Senator Newberry's campaign was "the cleanest ever conducted,y the statement said. The fright of Michi- gan voters to choose their senators without presidential interference Mir. King said, would be vindicated in higher court.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
DEMAND e-HoUR DAY.
Arkansas Coal Miners Take Decisive
 Step at Fort Smith.

Fort Smith March 23-Following hours of lengthy and heated debates in which vigorous attacks were launched against district officials, and particularly the members of the exc cutive board, the United Mine Work CTS of America Dist. No. 21 in session here late Tuesday afternoon voted for the six hour day, also an increase in salaries for district officials.
 A change in the constitution adopt ed unanimously reads:
 The object of this organization is to demand that not more than six hours from bank to bank in each twenty-four hours shall be worked by members of our organization" The present constitution provides for eight hours work
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
Roads by Thousands of Miles.

Special to The Star.
 Little Rock, March 19.- From fig ures just compiled. it appears that the recent extra session of the Legislature passed acts creating a total os 257l miles of new roads. The regular ses- sion of 1919 passed acts and districts were formed under the Alexander road law providing for 7.056 miles of road. This includes small mileage author ized by the session of 19f7 The total roads program of the state is therefore 9,627 mics.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
PROBABLY ARE STOLEN TOOLS.
 Quantity of Material Found Hidden in Old Railroad Yards.

It has long been safl that the money in Polk county is beneath the ground, and this belief was further strength ened when Jack Paulu and A., P. Schott, who are removing the stone work on the old Kansas City Southern cinder pit in the old railroad yards here uncovered collection of automo- bile tools, pumps, etc. The tools are all new, and doubtless have been stolen from some garage, and hidden there by the thieves pending a better time for disposal The articles have been left at The Star office, where the owner can identify and get the property.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
FALLS OFF 85-FT. SMOKE
 STACK; FINISHES HIS JOB
(By International News service.)

(By International News service.)
 Wichita, Kan, March I9.-''What the h. broke loose up there' Now I'll 'have to work five minutes over time to finish up."
 This was the only remark of Jim Williams, professional smokestack builder, when he fell eighty-fiye feet from the stack of an electric light plant here the other day.
 Failing headfirst, Williams struck guy wire, which broke his fall and caused him to land feet first in soft earth.
 He was uniniured