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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19

East Side. including burglaries in Six
teenth and Seventeenth streets. and a
few others which have slipped his mem
DRY for the moment:
Spending the proceeds of the bur-
Gl9ries on the movies, vivacious neck
ties and the lighter things OF life in
general. always, the police say, in COM
pany with two other young fellows who
had been his pals in the various rob-
berries.
Two weeks~ago these other two were
arrested and sent 20 Jail.
Lonesome Bi ! was found in the dark
ness before dawn yesterday morning,
according TO the police, as he was try
ing TO bore his way into cigar store at
ll3 avenue D. Tears were running down
his cheeks as he worked.
"Oh, I'm so Slad you've come at last"
he cried II was so afraid you wouldn't
find mel"
What's the big idear?" asked the
officer bit suspiciously.
why" SO id Lonesome Bill, life
hasn't been tho same since my two pals
were sent ur" Here he sobbed again.
I'm lonesome boss; all | want In the
world is to Join those two boys again.
| Gid this so that/I could join them.
officer do your ddty.'
The police are holding Bill for exam
nation tomorrow before Magistra te
rockingham In Essex Market Court
on suspicion Of attempted burglary. He
said he is Il years old and lives at 6Sl
Twelfth street
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
PROFITEERlNG IN MEAT
is DENIED BY ARMOUR
Packer Firm Denurs to New
Zealand Lamb Charge.

Argument on the demurrer ineerposed
through Charles e Hughes and Lamar
Hardy to the indictment charging Ar
mour & Co. with profitcerng in the
sale of New Zealand lamb was heard
yesterday by Judge Augustus n Hand
In the United States District Court
The indictment. returned on October
q on evidence presented by Lester S.
Kafer. special Government prosecutor,
contains 1877 counts. 1t charges that
Armour & Co. imported S.000. coo pounds
of New Zealand lamb at bulk cost of
IA cents pound and that they sold the
foreign meat at prices ranging from
% to o. cents pound That price, the
Government alleges. while far below
that charged for native lamb. was I'M
reasonable and profiteering.
Mr. Hughes CHALLENGED the constitu-
tional validity as well as the sufficiency
of the indictment and insisted that at
this time the act cannot be sustain cd
under the war power. He asserted that
section 4 of the Lever act Is uncertain
and indefinite and therefore invalid I'M
der the fifth and sixth amendments Of
the Constitution and because it makes
an arbitrary classification is discrm-
inatory.
In reply to the demurrer Lester Kafer
insisted that the Indictment was prop
erly drawn. judge Hand reserved
decision.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
FIGHT Is STIFFENED
IN CLOTHING TRADE
Graft Charges Meet Allega-
lions Of Union Wreck
ing Plot.
BOTH BOARDS IN SESSION
Strike Pickets Are Said to
Beat Up Workers Who
Returned to Shops.
BOTH BOARDS IN SESSION

Executive bodies % the clothing man
ufaeturers and Of the clothing workers
gave no sign OF compromise yesterday IN
the struggle between the two organiza-
tons. The Clothing Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION through its counsel. Harry
Gordon. announced definitely its inten-
ton to call for a legislative investiga-
ton into the clothing trade soon after
the first of tie year, alleging conditions
similar to those exposed in the building
trades
The General Executive Board OF the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America with representatives present
from the clothing centres of the coun-
try. continued to work on plans for fight
Ing the manufacturers. 1t issued a
and Boston manufacturers are taking
advantage of unemployment to create
lockout and cripple the workers or
ganization, while in the large Chicago
and Rochester markets the manufactur-
ers are holding to their agreements with
the union.
The meeting was the first held by the
board since the alleged lockout of last
December. with the resulting unemploy-
ment of more than $1,000 workers.
Mr.. Gordon said he had no doubt that
walking delegates and business agents
Of the unions have been collecting
tribute from the manufacturers by
threatening to call the workers out. He
added that in one instance contractor
had paid an agent $4,000 to prevent
strike when the plant was busy on a
war contract
1t was charged at the manufacturers
meeting that several clothing workers
have been beaten up by strike pickets.
This morning. 1t was said. foreman
for Schwartz & Jaffe, was attacked by
three men on his way to work, one of
whom laid his head open with bale
hook.
A. /. Shilpacoff, manager Of the New
York joint board. said:
Some manufacturers are raising the
cry that they really want to bring down
the price of clothes. They try to give
the impression that the workers wages
are to blame for the costs. They con-
ceal the fact that direct labor costs are
only 20 to 80 per cent of the manufac-
turing cost They do not want attention
directed to that 60 to IS per cent. OF
cost where efficient management should
bring a large shrinkage. They have
definitely refused the unions effort to
investigate management and our offer to
cooperate.
"Lockouts will not bring down the
price of clothes. Il larEed production
under Joint control of the workers and
the owners, and the instr llation Of eff
cient management, will make clothes
cheaper But the present leadership of
the clothing manuf cturers Is not con-
cerned with the prile of clothes. 1t is
out to smash the union-that's ALL"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
TRIES BURGLARY TO
JOIN z PALS IN JAIL
Lonesome Bill Metz, IL,
Caught by Cop, Tearfully
Pleads to Be Arrested.
MANY THEFTs CHARGED
Police Hold Office Boy for Ex-
COMMUNICATIVE Record
in Few Weeks, They Say.

Lonesome Bill Metz, an office boy, ex-
planned to the police yesterday why he
feels so lonely.
According 10 Detective Herbert Of the
Sheriff street police station these are
the activities with which Lonesome BIZ
brichtened his evenings for the last few
weeks:
Stealing fifty gallons of whiskey on
October 10 from q place at Fifteenth
street and First avenue and selling II
for a dollar. gallon:
Stealing fifty pairs of shoes from a
store at 333 East eighth street on No
vember 20 and selling them later for 70
cents or a dollar pair:
COMMITTING several hurglaries on the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
ASKS CHRISTMAS GIFTS
FOR CETY'S PATIENTS
DR.. Copeland Has a List of
Deserving Poor Folk.

A plea for bounty with the statement
that this would oe the last Christmas
for some of the patients at the city
hospitals was made yesterday by DR..
Royal S. Cope and, Health Commits
sioner.
Among the special cases for which
gifts are desired said Dr. Copeland, are
1871 men III with tuberculosis. who need
sweaters. gloves shaving sets. wool!en
caps and similai articles; 80 babies and
youths Ill with chronic Group who would
appreciate shoes stockings, dresses and
gloves; II women suffering from tuber-
culosis and $50 children who are Ill with
contagious diseases The relatives of
these patients are not able to provide
Christmas gifts for them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19

lief OF dependents OF hremen killed in
line OF duty. realized $4,000 from the
baseball games between the Fire and Po-
lice departments last summer according
70 report made yesterday TO Thomas J..
brennan. Fire Commissioner by w w.
Cohen, an honorary battalion chief, who
has charge of the fund Expenses were
$2.031.
Mr.. Cohen has Invested $4,000 in Lib
erty bonds and 100000 In municipals and
placed them on deposit, from which the
fund will produce 4.s5 per cent. or
$4,000 a year. The principal must re-
main intact
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
NAVAL ORDERS.
Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York He. Id Bureau,l
Washington, ID. c., Dec. IL.

These naval order have been made public:
Lieut.. Roswell II. Blair, to U. s. s. Hunt;
Lieut.. Edwin Brown. 10 U. S. S. Minnesota
vania: Lieut.. H. o. ID: Hunter, to course
ordnance. Naval Academy Lieut.. p. w. F.
Huseke, to U. S. s. O-S; Lieut.. Alfred l..
johnson, to u S. S. Micbigan; Lieut.. Fran
els Z. O'Brien, to U. S. S. Delaware; Lieut.
John N. Slattery. TO duty r. S. New York.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
$4,000 FOR FIREMEN'S FUND.

Money Realized From baseball
Games Last Summer.
The Firemen's Honor Fund the pro-
ceeds of which are to be used for the re-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25

ing put in shape to come to Wash ington. The supervisors have been instructed to send the schedules as rapidly as consignments can be made ready. We therefore naturally ex- pect large amount of the work to reach the office in Washington dur ing the latter part of this month or the first of February, but as gen. eral rule the enumeration will be completed throughout the entire country by the first of February. 1t will be some time, however, before it will be finished in the districts where it has been postponed on ac- count of clomatc conditions.
 "We are now organizing a force of clerks who will be equipped to examine the schedules as rapidly as they are received from the super visors. These clerks will make q preliminary count of the population. This preliminary count will be made public as rapidly as the totals for the cities and the minor civil divis- ions are obtained. 'The population of the cities will be announced first. We hope that the total population of the country will be known in September or October of tthis year, and the population of the cities should all be announced by May or June."
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THE U. s AS AN EMPLOYER.

Uncle Sam is a splendid spend thrift, but he is stingy employer He throws his money away in a drunken baronial fashion, but when it comes to the help he pinches every penny. He builds grand postoffices where moderate priced structures would serve every purpose and he disturbs mud turtles by pulling snags out of streams which are just as good with the snags in them as they can be without them, but when it comes to the pay roll for employees he has the instincts of sweatshop manager.
 The treatment of the postoyficc clerks is conspicuous example ot such procedure. The clerks arc wor- thy of good employe. Uncle San as an employer is not worthy of their good services. They have. not had an advance in wages since 1907 The scale then in force is unjust The employees protest and petition, but they have refused to consider the strike as q possibility.
 They uphold their end of the public service equity. The government says that certain employees must not strike. Municipalities say that po- licemen and firemen shall not strike The federal government cannot have strikes in services which must be maintained for the we'll being of all the people. But the government has not recognized its end of the obli- gation, which is to pay living wages and to adjust wages to changing con ditions.
 Two thousand regular army off cers have resigned in the last year because they could not live on their pay. The navy pay is inadequate fof officers. No changes are made. The injustice continues. The country can not insist on service on one sid4 and refuse to pay for it.-Chicago Tribune.
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IN SPOTS.

A few months ago we had an in- vestigation of the manner in which Camp Sherman was built. It devcl- opcd that while plumbers who were being paid $15 day shot craps neal warm stove, soldiers died because of lack of heat. It developed that in order to give hundreds of men em- ployment at enormous wages, con- tractors permitted wilful wreoking oi buildings, rebuilding, etc, anything to simulate the appearance of work
 Now-months later-a great hdl,a' baloo is being raised about the con struction of the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals. Witnesses 50 far have testified that the whole thing was an enormous graft.
 The authorities seem to he hit ting the army graft proposition only in spots. There was graft in other camps and on other war projects. Why has it not been exposed? And why have there not been indictments and arrests as result of the expose already made? Is the sole purpose of federal and state author ties to get the lurid details of an investi,sa tions into the papers? It is about time that we put few of the wal grafters in jail. If we can't du that, we might put in jail those who should be prosecuting them and are not
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Americans Feel Need of Shipping
 to the Argentine

Buenos Aires, Jan. 24.-Amercan business men in Argentina received with pleasure the announcement that the United States Shipping Board had allotted seven of it's fast passenger liners for service between New York and South American ports including Buenos Aires. They have felt that they have been struggling against n handicap owing to slow mail com munication and passenged transporta- tion between the United States and this country,
 If the Americans here wanted to send letter to the United States he knew that in the past it would re quide at least 30 days for the letter to reach New York and that frequent ly twould require 40. To send q representative to the United State on a business mission would require three months before the agent could return to Buenos Aires.
 Meantime the American's hcance of doing business has fallen into the hands of European competitor whc could communicate with his princi- pals by mail within three weeks. Fast steamships have been arriving here from European ports almost twice d week while the mail from the United States came mostly by slow freight steamers.
 One of the difficulties of which the Americans here complained was the delay in receiving bills of lading fo, goods sent from the United States tc Argentina. This was due to the fact that the bills could not be sent on the steamer which carried the goods anu there were few fast steamers which could bring them here at the time the goods arrived
 When the bill of lading was sent on slow ships the goods were held in the custom house until she arrived.
 On the other hand bills of lading on goods shipped from England came through on fast steamers which often arrived here before the goods were received.
 The Americans here say that cable communication to the United States costs 53 cents word and that the capacity of the cables is trebly over taxed.
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He Wrote Many
 Plots of Operas

Milan, Jan. 24.-Luigi Illica, the fla ,oops roet and librettist, who recent ly died at his villa, Castell 'Aquato, created the plots for more operas than any other writer of the las, quarter of century in Italy. He was a prolific writer and had such an intimate knowledge of the the ater and it's needs that all compos- CTS of his time turned to him tor subjects.
 llica's most celebrated operas were written in collaboration with Giuseppe Giacosa and are Boheme, Fedora, Manon and Adriana. lie wrote Iris and Maschere without collaboration and has at least forty less famous operas to his credit. Catalani, Cilea. Giordano, Franchet- ti and many other composers drew upon him for plots and lines.
 Although lllica was 5S years old when Italy entered the great war, he volunteered for service with the artillery for one year. He suffered fall from which he did not fully recover and was forced to give up military duty.
 His latest important opera score was that of Lady Godiva and was received with indifference which discouraged lllica. There was con- siderable discussion about altera- tions made in the libretto by the composer, and director and lillca said the production gave. an entirely wrong interpretation ot ms work'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
Expects Tell Total Population of All
 Cities by Fall

Washington, Jan. 24.-Announce- ment of the population of practically all cities of the country by May or June and the total population ot the entire country in September or Oe- tober is the expectation of the di- rector of the census. Sam. l.. Rogers
 Population statistics of some of the cities probably will be completed by March or earlier. Washington, D. C., is expected to be the first as it was in the Thirteenth Census in 1910. In that year it was taken April 15, and announced June "A Rhode Islands population was an nounced first of the states on July 2l. New York City's population was announced September ?, Boston's September IA and Chicago's Septem- ber IS.
 The center of population, Bloom ington, Indiana, was announced July IT, and the country's total popula- ton was made public December 10,
 "The enumeration is in progress throughout the entire country, said MT. Rogers today "Advices from the supervisors indicate that during the first week of the work at least 10000 enumerators were start ed. ..
 "We find that in some districts 1t will be necessary to postpone the enumeration because of weather conditions There has been: no op- position to furnishing the informa- tion requested by the neumerators.
 "The supervisors report the com plction of the enumeration in many districts. and as rapidly as the enumerators turn in their portfo- ilios they are being examined ln the office of the supervisor and are be
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Arthur Johnson, Former Resident,
 Dies in St. Louis

Arthur Johnson, about 33. died yesterday in St. Louis, according to news received here by relatives. Mir Johnson was raised in Pine Bluff and left here about 10 years ago. He was employed by the Cotton Belt railroad here in an office capacity and at the time of his death worked in the terminal station in St. Louis
 He was i'll only three days, of pneu- monia He is survived by his parents
 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Johnson of St Louis and wife and two children
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
WHAT IS HOOVER?

MT. Hoover, presidential candidate
 on anybodys ticket, was member of
 a republican club for eight years, it now develops. Previously 1t had
 become known that MT. Hoover was
 democrat. The Germans and the Irish charged, during the war, that MT. Hoover was an Englishman' which was worse on Hoover than it was on the English The socialists say he is working for Mir. Armour and is meat packer. In Belg!ar, they used to think he was an angel. In his earlier days, Hoover was re- porter. And before that he was devil--a printers devil of the iuk- smearing, crap-shooting, garden variety. Mir. Hoover thinks himself that he is a presidential possibility. And he may be. A man that says anything is impossible, since the war is pretty apt to be wrong. B
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LETTERS TO EDITOR:
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"The Graphic,
 "Pine Bluff, Ark.
 "Dear Sirs:
 "I derived so much pleasure in reading the poem by Mrs. Anna Flournoy Bassett dedicated to oui Grand Old Man" Dr. Junius Jordan which appeared in your paper last Sunday, that I feel that l am com pelled to ask for just little space in your paper by which l can ex. press or attempt to, my gratitude to Mrs. Bassett for the beautiful way in which she eulogizes this good man and expressed the sentiments of all patriotic citizens toward him.
 You no doubt recall that the writer some few years ago gracious lv conceded that Dr. Jordan was and is Pine Bluffs and Arkansas great est asset and every day since that time my estimate of that man has been confirmed by and thru some additional honor or lustre that has fallen to some of his former stu dents, many of whom are now lead ng lights in the commercial, bank ing, professional and political life of many states in our nation.
 "The heartfelt gratitude of Pire Bluffs citizens particularly and Ark ansas generally should ever go out to this "grand old man," who is daily approaching nearer and nearer the gates ajar, that will admit him to dwell among the angels of angels.
 "I should like to add just one ad- ditidnal wish to those expressed by Mrs. Bassett and that is, that Pine Bluff will begin to think of trying to make the remaining days of pr. Jordan's just little happier if pos sible by (when he ready for it), mak- ing him Superintendent Emeritus of our city schools with salary com mensurate with. his past valuable services.
 "Yours very truly,
 "E. B. BLOOM"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
at Work
 in Tampic0 Fields

Laredo, Tex, Jan. 24.-Agitators are at work in the Tampico oil fields as result of which the marine workers and other employees of the Trans Continental Oil company are threatening general strike which would affect all that companies properties, according to a Tampico dispatch Thursday in Fl Universal, a Mexico City newspaper. The men demand at 30 per cent wage in- crease while agitators are melting them to strike for an advance of 100 per cent, says the dispatch.
 The commander of the Tampico garrison and local police have taken necessary precautions to avoid dis orders," the dispatch adds.
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Trainmen to Press
 Demands Feb.

Cleveland, O., Jan. "A. The Broth erhood of Railroad Ira i n m n, through it's general executive com mittee and grand lodge officers, will press Director General Hines for a reply to their demand for increased wages at conference in Washington February or 5, instead of next Tuesday, as announced, President w. G. Lee stated tonight.
 MT. Hines will be absent from Washington next week and wired he could not meet the committee Tuesday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
MRS. MARY HAMILL.

The funeral of Mrs. Mary Hamlil' an old resident of Pine Bluff, "ho died yesterday afternoon at z;o' o'clock, will be held this afternoon at 9 o'clock from the residence of Mrs. ]. F. Fisher. 213 Georgle, services to be conducted by the Rev. E. k. Steel Mrs. Hamill is survived by two sons, W H. Johnson of Drumright, Okla,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
Weather Forecast
 for Coming Week

Washington, Jan. 24.-W eather predictions for the week, beginning Monday are:
 West Gulf States, temperatures below normal, greater portion of week; below freezing to the coast early in the week. Generally fair after Monday.
 Upper Mississippi and lower Mis- sissouri valleys: Cold weather with temperatures much below normal first half of week with fair weath- CT probably some moderation sec ond half of week, with occasional snOWS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
Dunne Protests
 Raid On Radicals

Chicago, Jan. 24.-Former Gov. F.. r. Dunne protested against reported manner, in which Chicago authorities have proceeded against radicals, at 8 meeting attended by 150 persons last night. Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, presided at the meeting, and Professor I. Freund of the Uni versity of Chicago also was speak
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Railroad Striers
 Sentenced to Death

Saloniki. Friday. Jan. 23.-Several railroad strikers have been sentenced to death by courts martial establish ed in Bulgarian towns to try men ac- cusel of blowing up railway bridges ;n that country. Bolsheviki dis orders are reported in advices from Sofia, which say that at Boudnltza, one communist and one soldier were killed.
 Several arrests have been made at that ylacp
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
LIFT BAN ON PAD,

Dublin, Jan. 24-r, Freeman's Journal ord,., ~A
 ed iiSS December for nnh,;'. su 1, ticle adjudged to bo 'Nns' police discipline, has b,. .'i'Fs The newspaper will .s VI N Wednesday. 'ppss'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
Robbers Break in
 26-Inches of Wall

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 24.-Robbers used pick axes and crow bars to smash their way thru a 26-inch brick wall into the vault of the First Guaranty bank at Cedar Hill, near here, and escaped with more than $5,000 worth of Liberty bonds and war savings stamps last night
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25

MT Wilson may go to California for freshair and the like. And if out in Californit he absorbs some of the ideas that actuate Mir. Johnson and other natives sons, we'll have to im- peach him when he gets back to Washington.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
Farmers to Discuss
 New Legislation

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 24.--Exec- utive officers of several national afrmers Organizations will meet Tn Washington January 29, to outline the farmers attitude on pending ma, tional legislation, it was announced