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The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-26
CLEANING OUT ARCHIVES

The secretary went a great deal further than that. He issued an or der that all matters in regard to public lands that had been pending for more than sixty days be brought to his desk for disposition. There l was a great cleaning out ot the archives. Many of the claimants, to be sure, had died of old age since making their applications. but patents were issued to their heirs. Since that time the general land office has been up on it's toes, and daily hear ings have been the first order of busi- ness. A lot of patents have been issued, some of these having been pending for nearly two decades. l know of some that have been pend ing still longer than that, but the claimants haven't yet found out what kind of a man Secretary Payne is.
 But Judge Payne isn't going to get through without a lot of trouble. He has run foul of the forestry service, whose officials are the worlds cham pion putters-off. The friction, if such it be, aroGe over an Oregon case in which a man who had settled on forty acres of land near a forest re- serve twelve years ago wanted a patent to his farm It was not within the forest reserve, but forestry off, cers thought that some day or other they might like to include it within the reserve. A hearing was called, at which Judge Payne presided, and the forestry department was repre- sented
The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-26

Milk shakes like mother used to make at The Club Billiard Hall. 23-tf
The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-26
DOESN'T ALWAYS WAIT

And he doesn't always wait for people to ask him to do things Newspaper publishers have been in Washington lately on a news-print supply investigation. There is some pulp-WOod in Alaska outside the for est reserves, which comes under the jurisdiction of the interior depart ment. Judge Payne wrote the presi dent of the American Newspaper Publishers Association asking if they wanted any of this pulp wood, or if he could assist them in any way.
 Judge Payne would be a good man to have on a commission or board or something of that kind--if the rest of the members be either dead or asleep. All they would have to do would be to come to long enough to vote. Judge Payne would make all the decisions. He is the anti thesis of the usual department man. The usual procedure for department men is to sit around and discover reasons why whatever they have to do should not be done. They believe that department never should put off until tomorrow what it can just as we'll put off till next year. But Judge Payne is not a putter-off.
 Deciding right off the bat and put ting the stop to eloquence and gar rulity are about the hest things ha does. There is no chance for any body to get away with endless paIa- yer when Judge Payne is the lis tener. He makes people come to the point-quick.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-26

FOR RENT-Apartments in the Burk.
 hart flats. Phone 61.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-26
(BY j. J. UNDERWOOD

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.- This is, where the Seattle Times Washington bureau scoops the con- r gressional mountebanks and other propagandists. Hearken to this dole full talei
 John Barton Payne, secretary of the interior, has gone over to Wall Street! The giant trusts-the colos- sal financial octopii-have got him clutched in their tentacles, and through him they are sucking the nation dry of it's very lifeSblood! Through him, these greedy and per- nicious corporations are acquiring millions of acres of public land, which is the rightful heritage of all the pe-e-e-pul! As nation we are being robbed of our birthrights! Harrumph!
 That is what you are going to hear in a few Weeks-if the propagandists can put it over. They haven't dis cvered it yet, but Secretary Payne is issuing patents to public land with a reckless disregard of what the demagogues will have to say about him. Likewise he is leasing oil lands on liberal terms.
 It all began about two months ago when a man dropped in from Colo rado to inquire about a patent to a acoaI land claim which had been pend ing for the short term of fourteen years. He had some vague hopes of getting possession at some remote date in the future of this property, on which he had expended hundreds of thousands of dollars. He didn't really expect he would get this patent right away, but he thought Judge Payne might give it a sort of boost along, so that his standing would be a little better when the new administration comes in next March. He nearly died of heart failure when Judge Payne signed the patent next day.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-26
EXAMPLE OF ONE EXPERIENCE

l had one experience with him in connection with the mineral land leasing law. The departmental plan was to fix the royalties at 50 per cent on oil wells, and then if nobody took a lease the first year, to reduce it to 45 per cent the next year, and so on. This would have resulted in. a subversion of the law No oil wells would have been drilled on years. It made no difference to me personally, as 1 do not own a ziivver, but there is a very serious shortage of petroleum. I spent a good many hours looking up rates of leasing pri- vately owned land in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Wyoming and other states. I was going to make pro- test. l had so many statistics that my head rattIed when I walked. was framed to make the argument of my life and to talk all day if neces- sary. I had proceeded about thirty words beyond the Good morning, MT. Secretary" stage, when he looked at me with cold eye and said: Just what do you want me to do?"
 Il want you to fix the royalties in the oil regulations on a basis that people can take a lease with the royalties-'
 All right. Leave me those papers, I'll get out some oil regulations, and if they don't suit you, come back and tell me what's wrong with 'em."
 I withered toward the door. I didn't even have a chance to tell him that l don't own any oil wells per sOnally. 1 expected that about a year hence the regulations would issue. To my utter amazement received a copy. of them four days later. The regulations were more liberal than anybody could have anticipated, and they were short, terse and to the point. There could be no misunder- standing about what they meant. A large number of oil leases have al- ready been entered into, and wells are being dug.
 One of the banes of governmental business transactions is the fact that every departmental official-with few exceptions-has a mortal fear of criti- cism. They take no action that can be criticized. Whenever it is possi- ble the decision is passed to some body else, so that in case of criticism their own skirts will be clear. This results in lack of decisions in many important matters. Everlasting post ponement is the result.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Poor Commitments
Sustained by Court
Appellate Division at A.
bnny Ciues Decision in
Case Of Lillian, James

ALBANY, May S.--Commitmcnt ~
poor officers of persons to state or prt
vate charitable institutions constitutes
due process of law, the Appellate Divi-
sion of the Supreme Court Fourth De-
partmcnt, has decided in an opinion
made public to-day. The decision sus,
tains the commitments of 1000 persons
to state charitable institutions and 90
900 to private institutions.
The decision, announced by Attorney
General Charles D. Newton, grew out
OF habeas corpus proceedings insti-
tuted by the mother Of Lillian James,
who was committed to the state Gus,
todlal asylum at Newark by Deputy
Commissioner of Charities William J.
Doherty, of New York City 1t was
claimed by the girl that the charity
commissioners commitment was not
due process of law, and that she could
not be deprived of her liberty cXccpt
upon court order.
Attorney General Newton opposed
the writ, contending that the commit
mcnt by a poor officer was valid.
Justice William w. Clark, who wrote
the opinion, sustained this view. "The
state is vitality interested in seeing to
1T that INDECENT persons are cared for"
he said. "This young woman was an
infant when committed, and was found
to be in INDECENT circumstances, and
the Commissioner of Charities of New
York City, where she was found, was
not obliged to wait the tedious proc
ess of a legal inquiry before seeing to
1t that she was properly cared for"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Seizes WOman's Dress in
Fall; Even Judge Bushes
But Court Fixes SIS as Adc-
quate for Her Humiliation
and Gowns Rena;r

Because he nearly disrobed a young
woman in the Bowling Green subway
station when he grasped her dress in
an effort to keep from falling, John
j. Golden, of Jersey City, who is said
to be the owner of a chain of laun-
dries, was arraigned in the Mems
Night Court before Magistrate Levine
last night on charge of disorderly
conduct. Golden rcgained his free
dom by paying the young woman SIS
for the damage to her dress
Miss Gertrude Fay, twenty and
pretty, was awaiting a train in the
station, when Golden who admitted
IN court he had been drinking,
stumbled in front of her and in fall
ing clutched at the nearest thing,
which happened to be Miss Fay's
dress. He kept on falling and goodlv
portion of Miss Fay's dress went with
him. Miss Fay testified in court to
her humiliation and embarrassment
The young woman pulled her fur
coat around her and demanded dam
ages from Golden. He refused, and
Policeman Malone, of the Old Slip Sta
ton, arrested him.
When Miss Fay displayed the dam
age to her dress in court, Magistrate
Levine blushed, but said he thought
Sl5 would pay for repairing it.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Paper Mills i'm Alaska
Advocated by Meredith
Secretary Asserts Territory's Re.
sources Can Solve the Paper
Shortage in the Country

WASHINGTON, May s. Establish
ment of paper mills in Alaska was rec
commended as a means of relieving the
paper shortage by Secretary Meredith
tonight.
ALASKA is destined to become sec
ond Norway" Mr.. Meredith said. "With
her enormous forests of rapidly grow
ing species suitable for pulp her
water power and her tidewater ship
ment of manufactured products, Alaska
will undoubtedly become one of the
principal paper sources of the United
States. A substantial development of
the paper industry in this wonderful
region, combined with the intelligent
reforestation of pulp lands in older re-
gions, should settle forever the qucs-
tion of paper shortage in the United
States"
Secretary Meredith announced that,
to encourage q paper industry in
Alaska, national forest timber would
be offered for large installations under
mutually favorable terms. The Agri-
culture Department, he said, is pre-
pared to contract sufficient stumpage
to supply paper mills for thirty years.
The timber will be paid for from
month to month as it is cut, obviating
the necessity for large investments in
raw material.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Bond Plot Trio
Try to Engage
In Chair Fight
Cluck Threatens to Fell
Keai, as Latter Tells of
Trip and Inquiries as
to a $lO,OOO,OOO Sale
Prosecutor Gets Details
Driven to Life Of Crime,
Plea of One Alleged CO.
Between for Arnstein

"Bis Bill' Furey, Joe Gluck and
James Kean, alleged go-betwecns in
the plan to dispose of bonds to be
stolen in the "Arnstein conspiracy
were taken to the District Attorneys
Office at 2 p. m. yesterday for exami.
nation. The examination was still pro-
ceeding in a chatty and informal way a.
1920 last night.
Most Of the time Kean, former man
ager of the Burns Detective Agency in
Montreal, was in the witness chair
telling of his inquiries in Canada con
corning the possibility Of disposing of
"onc, two or ten Millions" in securi-
ties without any one being the wiser
Mates Criticize kean
Although out Of the witness chair
big Bill" and small Joe took an ac-
tive part in the discussion, frequently
interposing, with most uncompliment-
ary introduction, to announce to all
and sundry that Kean was the biggest
liar traveller could hope to encounter
in a circuit of the globe.
The examination was conducted by
Assistant District Attorney John 7
Dooling and Saul S. Myers, counsel
for the bonding companies which in
stituted the bankruptcy proceedings
against Arnstein and Cohn. Often
both attorneys sought to conduct the
examination at once, adding to the
general air of informalty which per
vaded the hearing.
When an intermission of three quar-
tcrs of an hour was declared at 1880
the diminiutive Joe Gluck announced
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Railroad Men
Demand $1,000
Minimum Wage
Represents Decent Poverty
for Unskilled Worker
With Family of Five,
Big gBrotherhoods Contend
Union Pleas Concluded
Labor Board to Reconvenc
at Chicago May IL to
Hear Executives of Roads

WASHINGTON, May S-Labor's ar
gument for increased wages for the g.
ooo,o00 railway workers of the country
was concluded before the Railroad La
Dor Board to-day by w. j. Lauck, for.
mer secretary Of the War Labor Board
appearing on behalf Of the railroad
brotherhoods and unions. He asked q
minimum living wage for unskilled
RAILROAD workers, with differentials
above that for skill, hazard and re-
sponsiblty.
Early decision was urged, Mr.. Lauck
declaring that delay might result in
serious disturbance to transportation
Mr.. Lauck told the board that g
minimum of $1,000 year was neces.
sary for the support of an American
family of five. He presented to the
board compilation Of budgets on
the cost of living based on studies
made under his supervision and by
Federal and state agencies.
$4,000 Not Decent Poverty"
at is impossible" he said "for 2
family of five in the United States tc
maintain itself even in decent poverty
under existing conditions for a penny
less than $4,000 year"
His estimate. he said, was supported d
by government agencies, and included
that of Professor Royal S. Meeker,
Commissioner Of Labor Statistics, in
August, 1919 That estimate was $2.-
252. The estimate for May, he in
sisted, should be S2,533.
Mr.. Lauck declared "the fundamental
causes of all economic instability, all
industrial unrest, all interruptions of
production and distribution, have beer
hign prices and pro1iteering by organ
lied capital and middlemen"
In concluding, the brotherhood
spokesman requested that the board
curtall its examination of wage data
and proceed Immediately to the de-
termination Of what constitutes a liv-
ing wage.
Lapse in Public Hearings
Chairman Barton announced the
board would discontinue public hear
ings until May II at Chicago unless 1t
should decide to hear a pending appl
cation.
In order that the board may procce
as rapidly as possible to digest the
wage information presented the board
will hold daily executive sessions until
1T moves to its permanent headquar-
ters in Chicago to hear the railroad
executives arguments.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
DIR. Copeland Sails
On Lapland for 8
Weeks Trip Abroad
Commissioner Will Study
Conditions at Ports Of
Embarkation and At
tend Brussels Institute

DR.. Royal S. Copeland, the Health
Commissioner, accompanied by his wife
and son, sailed yesterday on the Red
Star liner Lapland for trip Of eight
weeks abroad, during which he will
attend various health conferences in
over the ports of embarkation at which
immigrants are assembled for ship
ment to this country
While in Belgium he will attend the
convention of the Royal Institute of
Public Health in Brussels on invitation
Of King Albert.
Regarding his trip to the cmbarka-
ton ports DR.. Copeland said:
81 do not wish to give any occasion
for alarm, but plenty Of infectious and
contagious diseases arc rampant in Eu-
rope. There is typhus in the Balkans:
the plague in Poland; smallpox in
Italy and cholera in the Levant. 1t is
we'll that we should know to what ex-
tent these diseases exist and what
means are being taken to keep them
from our shores. | do not expect that
/ will have need to make suggestions
to the excellent men whom the United
States Public Health Service has placed
at these ports Of embarkation. | have
heard, however, that there are not
enough. of them, and it is worth while
to see first hand what is being done"
Dr.. Copeland and his family we're
greeted by many friends. Their suite
aboard the Lapland was filled with
fruits and flowers long before they
boarded the vessel
Among others on board were Clar-
cnce II. Mackay head Of the Postal
Telegraph and Commercial Gable Com
panies; Pompino Malatesta, Of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company, and Mrs.
| Thomas J. White.
Frederic Stone, retired English
farmer seventy years old, who failed to
pass the literary test at Ellis Island,
was deported aboard the Lapland, hav-
ing been brought aboard by immigra
tion officials a few hours before the
vessel sailed
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

fcrociously that he was going 10 orca'-
kean in two with a chair and lick cscl,
half separately Several times durinE
the performance the detectives IN at
tendance had to restrain the exuber-
ance of small Joe and Big Bill. ooth
of whom prophesied dark deeds "a tr>
former Burns detect:.,c proceeded with
his tale.
His story was much the same al,
that which he related before United
States Commiss ioner Gilchrist in the
bankruptcy proceedings. At ever
turn he emphasized the point that N :
inquiries he was making of Canadian
brokers were inspired simply by his
desire to "get a line" on the bond
thieves in the hope OF reward from
bonding companies in New York, which
he expected to "tip off" as soon as nc
got the facts he sought.
Driven to Life of Crime
Gluck said that Big Bill and tho
Count" had driven him back into
life of crime when he intended to re-
tire with paltry few hundred thou
sands in stolen bonds. This talented
pair, he asserted. had met him at that
crisis in his affairs and, persuading
had taken possession of his motor car.
his diamond ring and all his spare
cash.
Then, he said, they had compelled
him to go with them to Cleveland.
Ohio, to "shake down" an automobile
dealer there, big Bill" promising him
new automobile out of the deal. Big
Bill" interrupted at this point to an
nounce that Joe was a dirty liar and
was sick in bed all the time they wers
in Cleveland.
When quiet had been restored,
Gluck said that the Cleveland deal fell
through as the dealer would give up
only one car and Big Bill' wouldn I
take less than four The shake
down" as planned, he said, involved his
getting the description of some of the
cars in the dealers place so that "B, =
Bill' could go around later AMI cla i'm
them as stolen goods.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Union Organizer Is Criticized
Wife Sues Henry L. Hunt
Divorce Suit Instituted Against
Former Mavor of Cincinnati
7cial Dispatch to The Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CINCINNATI, May 8. - Suit for
divorce has been filed against Henry
T. Hunt, former Mayor of Cincinnati,
now member Of the Federal Railroad
Labor Board. He is charged by Mrs
Hunt with having, in writing, repudi-
ated her and his marital obligations
The suit, it is said, was not unexpected
by Hunt and an alimony settlement is
reported to have been agreed upon.
1t has been known for some time
that the Hunts were separated. Their
three children, whose custody Mrs
Hunt asks, now are in Washington
with relatives.
In her petition Mrs. Hunt charges
that when she was in hospital, dur
ing long and severe illness, her hus-
band refused to see her, though she
had asked that he do so. In addition
to seeking the custody of the three
Hunt children, Mrs. Hunt asks for "all
other proper relief"
Henry T. Hunt is the second former
Mayor of Cincinnati to be sued for
divorce this year. The other was
Julius Fleischmann.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Widow for a Day Reweds
Special Dispatch to The Tribu,

CHICAGO, May 8.-After being a
widow for one day Mrs. Helen Prindi-
vile Griffin has remarked. But even
if she has spurned conventions in we'd
ding the man of her choice, she has not
jeopardized her right to the 100000 900
estate of her late husband, George
Francis Griffin, Chicago capitalist, who
succumbed to apopleXy while fishing
on his yacht at Miami, Fla, early this
week.
This was made plain to-day by Mr..
Grffin's attorneys and the trust COM
pany acting as the conservator of his
estate upon receipt of the news Of Mrs.
Griffin's marriage in San Diego, Calf,
t. Lieutenant Commander Paul Henry
Bastedo. U. S. N, the day following h r
former husbands death.
Mrs. Bastedo before her first mar
riage was known to the theatrical world
as an actress of promise. After sup
porting Howard Kyle in Rosemary"
she won considerable reputation as
Tersha in "Ben-Hur."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Negro Will Campaign for
Covernorsl1ip Of Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May s.. H..
Blount Forest City negro, will make
an active campaign for election as Gov
ernor Of Arkansas, and his name will
appear on the ballots as an ''independent
Republican, committee elected at the
recent negro Republican state conven-
ton here and designating itself the
"Republlcan State Central Committee of
Arkansas made this announcement to-
day. The statement was made after
Secretary of State Terral announced he
would certify Wallace Townsend, nomi-
mated at white convention, as the gu
bernatorial candidate.
The negro Republicans also announced
they would contest the four delegates at
large, the two delegates from the 9Th
District and one from the 1st District.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
experts Ridicule Report
VI Sugar Reduction
'eela'e G. That There Is No Hope
., ~ n prices Dropping Here,
Us Predicted in Wnshingson

prrd,o.;as .M;asshlngton dispatch yesterday
hns nug u;. that sugar would be sold
l;V within the next two weeks ot at
s;sIt 'enls s. pound was ridiculed last
mt,a, tH. oy officials of the Sugar Eoual;s
Iita;a IIo.;S. Board, now in r, nrocess msuA,, nf
hsrs sua,!on. With raw sugar selling
.he,. az az ~ cents Wholesale. ono a;
:isi.a s,s 0'tcials said such price s' as nro ol
'JI'd Is impossible. p''ee as pre-
..s,. conference between Louisiana
Cen.r,ii iis1rers and Assistant Attorney
d.y H. Egg has been set for Mon,
oesinss ~ >. Washington, but no action
src. s 81 70 material deduction in the, the
sse'., ss Of sugar can be ~t' sSpscted !" me the
proh.t,o % declared. The Cuban cron w;lI vHI
sho,ss ahoessy be 100000 to s sooooO oo0p WI %rii
nd " u the estimate for this vcar bs
hat tha hs also gave it as his opinion
svuN as as,. sugar situation ultimately
ssa,nos a,nss'gn sugar producers are he.
nsrket t..ssfested in the American
d.saps.add d by the product 'fn aerep" p"'ces hs
,ss $40 s.s. Before the end of the pres. "e
Ills :enr :enr.s sugar will be pouring p into
ssb,s ,s'untsy unity from every section Of 'tee tho
md o,S.sk S'.k the exception Of germany m ,nv
.aorass countries suffering from >
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
baker Would Dirert
Labor to the Farms

fro"s Tho T'.aune's Washino.on Bureau
~ uMASSHlNGTON, May 8.-Secretary of
s. car Baker to-day directed Secretary
,aenson' OF the Council of National De,
! tsa tsass, s to issue call for a meeting Of
tSs Ss Council .Uu early next week to consider
ids.s Is suggestion of Daniel Willard, pres
.oent Of the Baltimore & Ohio Raj.
,S1a, ,;ai lor the curtailment of non-essen-
ia t,'. ,ta INDUSTRIES ses so labor may be diverted
,.d's ods'eFetary Baker received Mr.. Will
rect rsetsd letter tSel to-day and Immediately d.
siSsr ru Ina! .nat the council meet to con-
s.suatlon .on might be helped Secretarv Do of
Ilsht,cuture lsha tyr Meredith and Secretary Of Of
eonus;, uOs wilson will be asked by the
NJ suIel' .ha TO furnish data on the extent
viii i'e i. 1arm labor shortage and efforts
state tat Oe .uaa made to enlist the services of
labor au'norlties in recruiting farm