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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-21
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MAKKEr

uSCHicAoo. May a.-Cattlo: rece,nt, =,
SLOW Deer steers mostly steady: hcavies.
fairly ae,lye; Top yearfsgs. ,sss; ION Ths esxx
fut h.a ~: naik: AT weight, ITO IL co:
and stockers and feeders. s,eaSy.ST g Gov
s Seany 70 rs higher bulk. 1860 100; bulls
Hogs: receipts. 1900: lights opencd wo,,.
msisSy Weight: steady: close weak for light.
h,i in oihrss strong to 10 higher: top, il so:
oiy' go Founders and over. 1875 q a. .
sSeep: a yes 70 aSe ioIysee6 bulk l2.Cog
sssesaoY; choice handy weight shorn lambs.
I'M. ou!ki le'oo9i 100: no good shorn
choice ewes. lL151fl20o so'u W
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COTTON MARKETS..

NEW YORK. May 20.--There was much
better UNDERGONE to the cotton market to-
day after prices had sustained early losses
The iiduidatinR movement which gained
such impetus yesterday was continued ac.
tiveY early and first prices .droppel II
70 20 points in conseuuence followed by
early decline carried May. l6 points and
later months 90 to GO points below last
October contracts this made Il break OF
day.
The market was comparatively quiet
dnIing the early afternoon and fiuctua-
general gen era, wav there was covering on ali
me satoacks while the bulges met little
iiGu lou ht,9 On the whole. however. Tho
a sane a neia steady with July selling around
RS ons s spos haas last nights closing quota
ding UNCHANGED at isc: no saies Spot
al; New Orleans was unchanged at 1870
Ecceipts at Galveston were 1,sls: New
oTr! es,nn; S.lSs; and Savannah. 1888 bales
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NEW YORK CURE MARKrr

NEW YORK. May 2O.-The Iemnnh for
stocks on the curb today was uraiIy
por;u uI 10y ne fact that such Inviting op-
were offered In the dealings on Tho .;octs
sHonanse end and other security trading
safes OF stocks generally could oniw hn
s sanuen at concessions and the natural
through the Industrial ist tn" ins s o.
inmSnn,.. were not large and a raiiying
oenmsy Was in evidence after dcciincs
occurred Iieyden Chemical was ono Of
s sn;i. weak feature. OF the early trading.
- neinE on an unusually large sea ie
international Petroleum waa heavy In Ihr
ear;y trading. but rallied around midday.
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CLOSER SUPERVISION OF
GOVERNMENT DEPOSITS
New Division Created by Secretary
houston Under budget Pinn of
Handling Finances.

WASHINGTON. May 2O--In order
that closer supervision may be Civ
en- government deposits in hanks
the Treasury has created "A section
10 be known az the division of de-
posits. Secretary Houston has namch
roland a. Croxton, formerly mem
Der OF the Treasury's war loan staff
10 be tho new divisions head
the division Of public moneys. which
IS to be abolished under the budget
plan OF handling government financa
VIII pc takea over by Mr.. Croxton i'm
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PETERSBURG rEANUr MARKET
''epotted bv RodEers P!ummer & Co.
Incl

en- ,.,, Petersburg. Va. Nav -. 1920
s,N HiaH..F Farmers stock, market quiet.
Fancy Jumbo sac per ID. N''e'
Jumbo. 9hc to sac per lb
Extra prime. &c per ID
Lrime. eiic per H.
Smelling stock. Sc to sac nor In
Reclaimed and shciled: wholesale
Jumbos lsc per lb
Fancies. 10Sc per H.
extra large Va. ,shelied. isc per Id.
30 ! VA. she!!ed. l.c per ID,
No. ! Spanish shelled. ltLc nor IN
No. : Spanish hhelled lie nor III
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-21
MANUFACTURERS INVITE
PUBLIC TO CONVENTIONS
Want Opinion of People On Platform
Condcmning Lpbor Leaders md
Urging Open Shops.

Ivy Unlversal Scrvico.1
NEW YORK. May POI. Philip
Byrd. general manager Of the Ma
t!onal Association OF Manufacturers,
which has just finished its conven-
tlon.. today issued call for two con-
ventions to- pass upon the platform
FOR industry that was adopted at the
convention. The conventions will be
held simultaneously with those Of the
major parties in Chicago and San
Francisco.
The platform has planks defending
the open shop. condemning labor
leaders, indorsing tariff revision in
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NAVAL STORES

ni JAc5kSsss3? 81: !, MAY sl-Turpen,inc
thipmens, SO; stock. !ss2: Fe TSaIn q,
sales sales. 's,; receipts, Gs5: Shipment s'lsi
iSs@ ii,o; a aG.s + fi4ess jjggi...e: 2
}}.3a 10: II: !7;soUlIaa; l. 1907 10 K
iMs;;o *? WhSS; y: n.o90lN25: wG
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LONDON. NAV D.-The weekly ,,stc.
foilowin l me ne, BANK sank Of England shows the
f rfotai reserve Increased 1885,
11i!SnIation decreased fis20c
Bu!lion decreased fig Iol
DDr ,hhar securities Increased is.lss0Jo
puouc deposits decreased n 3ss d.o
Stnef deposits increased IL SIS oC,j
C ",es reserve Increased $500.
GGnSernment securities decreased n 81, On
me proportion of the banks reserys n
Il; e 81 ~ 10 !sts per cent: last week il was
Rate of discount per cent,
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MIsCELLANEOCs MAKKErs.


>-,,v. DRY GOODS.
NV YORK. May 2o.-Cotton goods To-
sS were quicter with sonc easing in
so.y Rooun. Yarns were quiet and connie Il
Sarns lower. Raw silk was slightly easier
ZOO goods were moro un,ett!eI and ot,iet
BuF!aps were easy. N NN'e''
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M SEM ORLEANS. May 2o.-RouGh rice
ss.,cs; Biuo Rose. LID pockets. ioi. a ia.
ofah and polish receipts. CO.,
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RICHMOND SToCR MARKET.
Caskls @: Burch & Company,
lois EaAt Main Street
c,,rn RICHMOND. Va, May %, 1920
CITY AND STATE SECURIriES

o,nr Richmond. Va, May 90 19ao
CITY AND STATE SECURITIES.
nlchmond City IS. 1893 1850. n.c A's Is
I, STREET HALLWAY sTotKs %"
W. HSy: and Pow. Co. pfd.. 100 90. 90
RAILROAD STOCKS. A'' '''
r.. F.. and p Div On ,oo o,-
iNsuHXNCE srocRs'''' iVo .. 20
Atlantic Life Ins Co. I'M 1fo
Va. Fire and Mar Ins. Co. 81 iii SO
BANK AND TRUST CO STocKs 80
American National BANK. 100 30
Amer. Trust Co. (Class AZ ioS " iH
Broad Street Bank .. * (;
broadway National Bank. 100 1Ss
bank OF Com. and Trusts. 190 3S
Central National Dank id ia
Church Hill Banls ..,... iSS isS tx
First National B1nk -. lo0 2is
Merchants National ,.., 100 Go nd
Mechanics and Merchanta 100 "a
National State and civ 100 no
Old Dominion Trust CO. 100 ~ lid
planters National ,,,,,, 100 i2s 4I5
Richmond Trust Co... 100 ito
Union BANK OF Richmond. 90 -. is5
Virginia Trust Co....,..,.. 100 aid AS
West End Bank .....,... aS q ~
MISCELLANEOUS.
2, IT. Crump Co.. 8eS pfd. 100 1ol loaH
Fidel. Loan and Saw. Corn. 100 ~. iH5
Larus and Bro. Co., pfd.
Old Dom. ]. and Stool Co. 2m Sx
Sou. Stove Works. pfd,, So 100 90. 1o3
univer Leaf lob. $50 pfd. 100 -. 1oi
unE:sr. Leaf TOD, conn.,. 100 %. 2a5
Va.-Car. Chem. pfd. &c.,. 100 los -.
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PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW. YORK. Nay 5o@rh. ,par,,., ,o-
coffee futures opened al a decline Of "a
lower during the mSqnin 10 as 80 penis as, net
cG1hii onxn li9uidation promo,sd by reports
oHer Fdfef rio and
Private cables reporting further sales OF
Stock c BAGS asn aesm. she unsGid
an, sS r,ss impression on sentiment in some
e som eS ear Fly hSd
is sss ,s and rallied quite sharply in the
and and eoverng In stocks
s sP f5em MI ns 3 to ss the mafHet
l Msa; sep,,elmbeT: l4:GI: October. Mi7: De- Dc,
epes eos Zee; a ai"na Fio :. Isl ssTsh
t ios ss n 2a;4 q ts: Resnes Of cost and
oaers Ms59 rio =, for owHr
sss aHos Is a q. s lss for LoRdSn
American credits. ''' '"a' ''"e Shipment
,5 The Te,s sI G Inc cables Rfs showed decline
fTtures q reIs lowHr m N + bc With Santos
RIO exchange on London was I'D higher
fSs Tia 'G Hos sssTB rate s refs ssy
NEW YORK, May O-There was no
ssn aa IN the local raw sugar laaSket to.
at at, 2 1ar, for Sahas cost and freight Mhiie
spot priSG were eHtireiY e nsm riHsn'od and
conditions In refined do not show any
materiai change The demand continues
fast, fast as possible. Prices were advanced
cent pound by one OF the leading re-.
changed at 2oi TO &c for. fino Kranuiateh,
There was further advance in sugar
futures at the opening on continued buy
Ing by trade interests. prompted by the
strength IN raws. but after showing ad.
creased and prices eased on quite siarpiy.
closing at 10 points advance to IS points
coTToNsEED OIL.
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Norfolk &c Western Rv

Leave BROAD Street Station Daily
Fer Norfolk s:55 a. NJ. $3.50 g.. M.
5:65 A NJ, $50 a. NJ, 1880 P. n. sa5
?. NJ. 9:25 p. NJ. Arrive from NOR
folk. HAS a. NJ. 7:25 P. NJ. o:5s =.
p. NJ. 1925 P. M. S:s5 P. M. Once.
gag East Main Street Phone Madi.
.ou 10. 'Ss.a
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FISANrIAY.

Don. May D.-Dar silver. 5si.d nor
es..r' money. 81 per cent. DIsco,ni
is.Is 90 snost and three-mon,h bills. 6Sc
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Port movement:

Fort movements:
New York.Middling. 400: stock. as5o,
6ss! spnc Por1tHsH19Receips 1885, exports a.
a Total alto tSSdayom al 1o74s exports H.
s4 ppfGtai for week-Reeeipts. $3.50: exports.
no Tasai S SSr a1season-Rec.lpts. ssszs53 e.
- NEW ORLEANS. May ao.-Tn the cotton
meas On 't ty,aS mere was a period of easi.
after. out when July had dropped to $500
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-21

NEW YORK. May @,-cottonseed oil was
with cotton. but soAn nrmed UP on Short
covering and scattered local buying on
the bulge In lard and grains. Ofrerines
were light. Active months closed 20. to b
Points net o higher; Sales. 1890 barrels.
nominal; primo summer yellow. spot.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-21

The Fruitiest of 'Flavors. Florida
Fruit Gum Is an exquisite blend OF
pure fruit navors. Try package to-
day. Made by Fleer. All dealers
5c.-Ady.
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RICHMOND TIMEs-DIsPATCH: FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1920

mands OF production and distribu-
ton will be .jeopardized by ticIng
up our funds In rediscounts that tend
TO encourage unusual extravagance."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-21

i,gS2: May. 1919: july. 1920 September
w .iii: prime winter yellow and summc
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RICHMOND LIVE STOCK MARKET
Richmond Union Stock Yards.

Richmond. Va. May D. 1920
f"marks: There was O very good run
OF cattle in this weeks market. Market
STOW and draERy and prices lower in
~ np1thy with other matkets
Strictly good Etears. 1 loo Lbs
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
(mAin Street Station)

CONSOLIDATED CITY TICKET OFFICES
$40 E. Main Street Phone Randolph ga
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-21

WASHINGTON. May 2o.-Derno-
Gratis OF tho Senate Will confer to-
morrow and tho Republicans Satur-
day on the questions OF recess or ian
adjournment OF Congress about Juno
5 for the national conYentiOns.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Arrivals and Departures Of Passenger Trains
DAILY, unless otherwise shown) published
only as information and not guaranteed.
Daily except Sunday. Sunday only.
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LOCAL PRODUCE MAnKEr.

Wholesale Quotations ny woodSon. crair
Inc. 1915 Eas; cary ST Madison i,;.J
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tho interest OF foreign trado end
condemning the excess PROFITS tax,
The public generally Is invited. to
the conventions and tho slogan, Is
everything in the open" -
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Vs Gar. Chem. Conn.,. 100 81 -.
10 Planters Nations< Bank, AZ.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

all that Peary had, failed to touch the bottom.
 When he got back to civilization, Peary was surprised to find such a fierce controversy raging over him and his rival, Dr. Cook, but he easily established his claim before scientific bodies throughout the world. He was raised to the rank of Rear-Admiral of the United States navy and retired on pay; Congress voted him it's thanks in a special act, and gold medals, dec orations and honors of many kinds were showered upon him.
 A scientific and popular narrative of his success he wove into book called "The North Pole," while his other expeditions are described in detail in his "Northward Over the Great Ice," and Nearest the Pole. y
 Peary's closing years were spent in well-earned rest, living for a large part of the time with his fam fly of three-wife, daughter, and son-on Eagle island, off the coast from Portland, Me. Mrs. Peary was formerly Josephine Diebitsch, of Washington, D. C., marrying the eN- plorer in 1888. She frequently ac- companied her husband on his north ward journeys, and on one of these trips Marie Ahnighito Peary was born and bears the distinction of having been born farther north than any other white child in the world. She is popularly known as "The Snow Baby"
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
Department of the Interior Alaskan Engineering Commissior
NOTICE

Passengers are required to pur- chase tickets before entering trains.
 Tickets can be purchased from the station agent, whose office is in the employment office, on the ground floor of the General Office Building. Alaskan Engineering Commission, or at Camp 415 North Nenana).
 Tickets will be on sale at any time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time before the departure of the trains.
 Regular trains for the south leave the foot of A street on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a. m., and from Camp 4l5 North Nenana), for Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at l p. m.
 The following is the schedule be- tween North Nenana and Fairbanks. subject to change without notice:
 Leave Fairbanks at FOO a. m.; arrive North Nenana, 1:3e a. m.
 Leave North Nenana 100 p. m. arrive Fairbanks, 5:3o p. m.
 No tickets will be sold crossing the river. Those intending to tray |el to Fairbanks must make their own arrangements for reaching North Nenana.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
GERMAN GENERAL GETS
 MONEY FOR WRITINGS

BERLIN.-Field Marshal von Hin denburg bids fair to become a mill ionaire from his writing, according to the new Berlin Gazette. It IS reported that he has sold some of his works in America for e12,000, which, at present exchange, would amount to about 2,000,0O0 marks.
 The newspaper adds this comment:
 "The German army leaders under stand the pound and dollar reckon ing better than they did the U-boat chances, the strength of the Ameri- can army and the American tanks. :"
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
MANY SITES OFFERED
 FOR PROPOSED ARMORY

WALLA WALLA, Wn.-Twenty- five proposed sites for the state ar mory to be built here are being con- sidered by the armory commission, which is composed of Acting Ad- jutant- General Maurice Thompson, Seattle; J. H. Skaggs, Spokane, and Colonel P. H. Weyrauch, Walla Walla.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
DELEGATES
 WILL ATTEND MEETING

DENVER, Colo. - The Denver Civic and Commercial association will send delegates to the Seventh National Foreign Trade convention, which will be held at San Francisco May 12 to Is, 1920, and which is being announced as a World Con- ference of American Foreign Trad ers."
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
REAR-ADMIRAL PEARY.

It was on the afternoon of Sep tember 5, 1909, that the following few words reported to the civilized world for the first time the crown ing achievement of three centuries of effort:
 ''Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. E., September 6.-To The Associ- ated Press, New York:
 Stars and Stripes nailed to North Pole" Peary."
 Peary's actual attainment of the Pole had been just five months be- fore, on April 6, 1909.
 When this dispatch came, the world was, quite unknown to Peary, already praising Dr. Cook as the discoverer Only four days pre- vious to the Peary announcement, Cook, who was on his way back to Copenhagen on board Danish steamer, had telegraphed the claim that he had reached the Pole on April 21, 190S-nearly year ahead of Peary.
 While Dr. Cooks claim did not go unquestioned from the first. he had for four days at least been widely acclaimed as the discoverer of the Pole. With Peary's message there arose one of the greatest con- troversies of all ages over the hon. or of actual first discovery. There can be no one who has forgotten the dispute Peary's assertions were not seriously questioned. but among newspaper readers there came to be two great camps, for and against Cook. -= .:-.
 Pearv, with his record of seven successful trips to the Arctic, hls official standing in the United States navy and in scientific circles, easily held the commanding position in the controversy. But it was only after the scientific bodies one by one had sifted the evidence and pronounced Cooks claims unfounded that Peary's title as discoverer of the Pole was really won.
 The bitterness of this episode is only one item in the price which Peary paid for the immortal fame that is now acknowledged to be his He spent practically all he had ir money, gave all that was in him for hard work, and suffered all that the human frame could endure from hunger. cold and disappointment He made eight journeys into the Arctic, spent upwards of half 5 million dollars, and several times he barely escaped the death which 1T various forms had been the fate o1 more than TOO explorers before him
 The first step that led Peary to ward the Pole was taken in Wash ington one day when he walked into a bookstore to browse and picked up fugitive account of Greenland He became an unsuitable reader or the subject of the Arctic.
 He was then 30 years old. H. was born in Cresson, Pa., in 1856 His father died when he was three years old, and his mother took hin to Portland, Me-, where he spen' his boyhood, roaming about Casct bay. He went to Bowdoin college won fame there as a runner anG jumper, and stood in the honor col umn of scholarship. It was little later that he had gone to Washing ton to work as draftsman 1T the Coast and Geodetic Survey of
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
DANISH MOVIE MAGNATE
 STEALS YANKEE IDEAS

ROTTERDAM IA dispatch to the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant says that a director of Danish firm dealing in moving picture films has been arrested at Copenhagen, charg- ed with copying American films and sending them to Germany.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

studying civil engineering and pass ed in that branch into the naval service. He became Lieutenant Peary, U. S. N.
 His first assignment was to the tropics. He was a leader of the surveying for the Nicaraguan canal route. It was when he returned to Washington that he fell upon the book about Greenland, and there after virtually consecrated himself to polar exploration.
 Obtaining leave from the naval service, he led an expedition into Greenland, to determine the extent of this mysterious land. He deter mined its insularity, discovered and named many Arctic points which today are familiar names-such as Independence Bay, Melville Land, and Heilprin Land, and in one of his later voyages he discovered the famous meteorites which he brought back to civilization. One of them, weighing 80 tons, is the wonder of visitors to the Museum of Natural History, in New York. .....
 Between voyages, Peary resorted to the lecture platform to raise funds for further exploration. In one instance he delivered 16S lee lures in 96 days, raising s13,OOO.
 On his sixth voyage, with the Pole in view, he had to give up be, cause both of his feet became froz- en. Although he had reached the most northerly land in the world naming 1t Cape Morris k Jessup- at the tip of Greenland, and had also attained latitude s4.17, the northmost record in the Western World, he was still in great despair He wrote in his diary: .-
 The game is off My dream of sixteen years is ended. I have made the best fight I knew. I believe it was good one. But I cannot ac- complish the impossible"
 By the time Peary reached civ ilization, however, he had decided upon still another trip. With the specially designed ship Roosevelt Peary drove further into the frozen ocean than navigator had ever beer before. On foot he advanced unti his record for this seventh trir stood at S6.6. where starvation ant cold again checked the party. ! The explorer was 52 years ole when, in July, 1908, he set out or his eighth and successful invasion of the Polar region.
 Captain Bartlett. the veteran navi
 gator for Peary, shouted to Colone Roosevelt as the ship was leaving its wharf at New York: Its the
 Pole or bust this time, Mir. Presi dent"
 The method of attacking the Polt was in five detachments, pushing north in the manner of a telescope At the 8Sth parallel Peary parted i from Captain Bartlett, in charge 0.
 the fourth detachment, and he, witl one member of his crew and foul Eskimos, made the final dash. The!
 covered the 1855 miles in five days i Thirty hours from April to were spent at and around the Pole great tract of frozen sea-nont
 of the land which Dr. Cook report
 ed The weather was cloudless ant fiawless. The temperature ranged from 33 below to 12 below Where open places permitted soundings 5000 feet of wire which wa!
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

Fresh Groceries, Fancy and Sta pie. Fowler & Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
WITH THE SCRIBES
 OF OTHER CITIES
WHAT IS BOB
 ALIENS GAME

We confess to having been shocked when the news came out that Bob Allen Of the Little Rock Southern League club had signed Casey Smith. Putting aside entirely the question of whether smith is guilty of the charges that caused his dismissal from <he San Fran cisco club, it was, on the face of it, an unsportsmanlike thing to do, an act of discourtesy to an affiliated club in baseball; it showed an apparent dsre- gard for the efforts that are being made generally to purge the national game of growing evil, and it carried an inti- nation that Allen had taken snap judg- ment that the player had not been given a fair deal. Taking Bob Allen of Little Rock from all angles. it was hard thing to understand-and to swallow
 Then followed the news that Allen also had signed Tom Seaton. team mate of Smith at San Francisco, and dismissed with him under charges.
 Seaton on Smith, Had Bob Allen gone mad? Was he insensible to all the de- cencies of baseball? Those were the ex- clamations generally. But is there meth cd in Aliens madness?
 There have been things in the South ern League that a man with the best interest, of baseball at heart must pro- test against-they date far beyond John D. Martins administration. if he wants that point made clear. Maybe Bob Allen figured that the only way to get action was to start something Shat would rip up the leasue-so he signed Smith and Seaton and invited them to raise the issue.
 Maybe that is Aliens idea, we can't account for his action any other way Will the end sought justify the means?- Sporting News.