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Cleveland County herald., 1920-07-22
YRoPosED LEoIsLAr1vR AMEHD-
 AENT.
Proposed Amendrneat No. 14, tS HA
 Constituffoa of AYkansAa.

Proposed Amendment No. 1<, tS the
 Constitution of Aykansas.
 Amending Section 1 of Article ! of the Constitution of the State of Arkan- sas. as amended by Amendmant No. ', adopted January 14th. 1908: providing that every citizen of the United states having the prescribed residence in tho State, except those deprived of the right by law for the commission of felcnies, shall be allowed to vote st any election. upon exhibiting . poll tax receipt or other evidence of pay ment of poll tax: providing that per- sons attaining majority after time of assessing taxes and before election. possessing the other necessary quail fications. shall be permitted to vote; providing that judges of election shall mark or stamp poll tax receipts at the time of voting to prevent tho holder thereof from voting more than once at an election: and declaring it the purpose of the amendment to deny right of suffrage to alienS and to confer the right of suffrage equally upon men and women, without regard to sex, provided that women shall not be com pelled to serve on Juries.
Cleveland County herald., 1920-07-22

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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-18
FOUND NOT GUILTY
AT MURDER TRIAL
Ray McGonigal Released
at Close of Hearing
Before Justice.
PLEADS SELF DEFENSE
Victim Had Been Discharged
From Police Force Hour
Before the Tragedy.

Finding tho defendant NOT Euiib
Of the charge of murder, IttF M't
GonigaI was dschlrgcd ~ the con.
clusion uf his preliminary hearing
Yesterday before Justice ll 4. Graz,
when II was shown to the HHlisld'-
tiop Of the court that tho Ncum, ,.
II. Thompson. former police oilir''
in this cijy. was shot by Mrbonlftl
only after the putrolm1n h1d WIN.
out provocntiun fitcd u revolver al
the defendant ia the la'iors apart.
mcnt at 11g SuMh Denver avenue on
March 30.
From the tcstimouy introduced
for the defendant among th'H" WI
ucssos being James Patton. city de-
tcctivc; Jack Brauus, city del"'lIN',
Charles Alien, chivf Of police. ana
others. It was shown that Ihowp-
son. against whom several c'W-
plainis had been registered charg
ing unnecessary crBslt lty ana abuse
on the part of the officer toward
men whom hc had arrested, was dis
charged from the police totco
about an hour before his death
Thompson. ordered to his nome
on west Brady with Instructions Ia
remove his uniform and return II
to tho police station, failed 10 follow
these Instructions and ni about !
o'clock met Mrs. McGonigal on Firs'
and Main street ana insisted on af'
companying her to hcr home, Arrlv
Ing there. Thompson Informed Me
Gonigal. who was at mat time in
bed that he was about 10 arrest
Mrs. McGoniEal ne u vagraut.
This threat Of arrest OF the woman
led TO "a controversy between Nc.
uonigai aud tho discharged police
officer, In which Thompson finally
fired ono shot from a revolver n'
McGonignl. when the Inter fired
four shots, three OF which took cf'
feet and killed the officer almost i'm
mediatcly Upon this showing hN
tho defense, Justice Gray dismiagrt
the murder charge filed against Me
Gonigal
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-18
JENKS WINS DE BAT E
Wili Bc Contestant In state Battle
for Championship 10 he Held
At Norman.
Special TO The world.

Special 20 The world.
JENKS. Okla. April 1.-THE
local high school debating team mot
contesting toam from Copan last
night and came Off victor In the dc
clsion. The subject was universal
military training, the homo team
taking the favorable side and Copan
the negative. This puts the team In
position to go To Norman Ia MAY
and try for the state chnmp mpionRhip
This condition IL brought about he
cause Copan had already defeated
BartIcsvlle and Tulsa, Jcnks had
bested Nowata, and Bristoe and
sand Springs had forfeited 60 jerks.
The result IL specially gratifying to
the local debatcrs for the reason that
the affirmative side In most any de-
bate Is considered tho moro difficult
10 mHintah
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-18
ASKS $4,000 FOR
W|FE'S AFFECTION
Milan Claims Berry Used
Deceit and FIattery
TO Win Wife.

Alleging damagoa Of t-o.o'o hay"
bocn Inflicted upon the petitioner aa
the result 81 the alienation "f ms
wifo's affections. suit wtH iu'd .u
suprrior court yesterday boy J.. j..
Milan against Joseph berry
Milan claims thut from IN" NW'
~ his marriage io his wit" boo J"puu
u 1903. they livrd happily uuiil July
OF 1919. when sh' ho'dcd the ln.
piIioup wiI,s. dcorit ilhN'rY hul
hIaudishmcnts of berry with tht r'.
suit that the vie committed "'"
which have lol tp her '"ii'nF' mont
from the petitioner
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-18

here preparing for the formation oi
a. branch of the movement ln'
branch viii be- established Boy J. v
Nancy. state president ti 3.5'
% clock sunday afternoon iu the Is
'F club rooms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Boy Detective Reveals
Evidence of Mail Theffs
Bundle He Thinks Is Body Is
Thrown in Lake; Contains
Postal Pouches

Ten-year- Philip Burke, Of 80
Fourth Street, New Rochelle, saw two
colored men carrying a bulky bundle
between them in that city yesterday
and Immediately assumed the role
of Sherlock Holmes. With horrid de-
light, Philip noted that the bundle was
of the shape, and apparently Of about
the weight, of a corpse.
When the men entered the estate Of
the late Patrick F. Griffin and made for
BergholZ Lake, Philip covered in the
grass, confident that he was gazing
upon murderers Kidding themselves Of
embarra ssing evidence The colored
men swung their burden until it had
gained sufficient momentum and then
let il plunge into the water.
Philip waited to see no more. AS
fast as his legs could carry him he
ran to Police Headquarters, two miles
away. He related his story with so
much conviction that the police nvesti-
gated and set Michael Knowles to div
ing in the lake.
He found the sunken bundle and it
was hauled up. Philips disappointment
when no grewsome human form was
disclosed was alleviated by the dis
covery of evidence of a mail robbery,
involving the theft Of jewels The
bundle contained several registered
mail sacks, envelopes, boxes and torn
wrappers, most OF which bore jewel
er5' names. One envelope which had
not been opened contained a sapphire
and an amethyst. The postmarks were
those OF cities in the West and South.
The postal authorities were notified.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Ex-Private Has Former
Major Arrested for Loan
Real Estate Man Saws Officer
Borrowed $50; Charges
False Pretense

An ex-private appeared in the Chief
Magistrates Court, Brooklyn, yester-
day as complainant against his former
major, James Ray Webb, now a Phila-
delphia lumberman. charging him with
grand larceny. Webb pleaded not
guilty before Magistrate Short. He
was held in $1,000 bail for examination
August 5.
Benjamin kaska, the former private,
says that on February 90 Major Webb
borrowed $3.50 from him for period
of one month. Kaska says Webb gave
him promissory note and he offered
az security his motor car, which was
CHARTERED in the Patchogue Motormart
garage, Patchogue, Long Island.
When Webb failed to make good the
loan, kaska says, he went to the
garage, but the car was not there The
grand larceny charge is based on the
alleged false pretense in offering the
car as security.
Webb was major at Camp Upton dur
ing the war. Kaska now is in the real
estate business at 1870 Fifty fourth
Street, BROOKLYN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Barranco Says He
Posed as Slayer
To Rescue Hyatt
Bellevue Patient Admits
Story Was False That
He Killed Policeman for
Whose Murder Boy Died

Francis NJ. Barranco, twenty eight,
registered at Bellevue Hospital as Rob
ert Barron, and who upset the equilib-
rum of the Manhattan police Thursday
night by declaring that he had COM
mitted murder for which Elmer
Hyatt, nineteen years old, had been
executed at Sing Sing an hour before,
admitted yesterday that the story was
false.
Barranco had nothing to do with the
Staying of q Rochester policeman, for
which crime Hyatt. guilty beyond all
doubt, state officials say, went to the
electric chair at midnight Thursday.
Barranco admitted that he had been
greatly interested in the fate of the
condemned Hyatt and that after solicit
ing several clergymen to intercede in
behalf of the boy, he deliberately
planned the hoax of assuming RESPONSE
blllty for the crime as a means of stay
ing execution.
Barranco, the police learned yester-
day, was graduated from New York
ported that he taught Latin and Greek
there for a year
A. P. Barranco, brother, visited
him in the psychopathic ward yester-
day. Later he made statement in
which he revealed the correct name Of
the patient
Barranco said that his brother had
lived with friends on Autumn Avenue,
Brooklyn. from 1914 to 1920 Last
January he made a trip to Cuba, but
returned in February and visited his
family here. The brother said that
kinsmen noted certain peculiarities in
his conduct, but that he appeared to be
harmless.
Barranco is said to have been brill
liant student in school and it is be-
lieved that overstudy unbalanced his
mind. He told his brother yesterday
that the approaching execution of
Hyatt had worked upon his emotions.
He said that he had sought an audience
with Monsignor Lavele at St. Patrick's
Cathedral in the hope of interesting
him in Hyatt's case, but he said he
had not found the churchman at home.
1t was after he had failed to reac h
the authorities in the proper way that
Barranco decided to accuse himself OF
the murder of the Rochester police
man.
Barranco's family have informed the
police that they will send the man to
a private sanitarium.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Stories of Ponzi Gains
Doubted in Wall Street
Can't Believe Bankers You'd
Ouerlook Legitimate Chance
to Make Such Huge Profit

Wall Street men of long years train
ing in the intricate workings of the in
ternational exchanges threw up their
hands yesterday and frankly admitted
they did not understand how Charles
Ponzi, the Boston wizard, could oper-
ate successfully through the foreg n
exchange market on the scale reported
There must be niger in the wood
pile somewhere said one banker
international bankers and foreign
exchange brokers, who handle hundreds
of millions of dollars year and who
are thoroughly conversant with trian-
gular exchange operations among the
worlds financial cenuers said they did
not believe the stories coming out of
Boston
The head Of the foreign exchange de-
partment of one of Wall Streets lead
ing financial institutions asserted that
Ponzi might have made some money
through triangular operations, but the
amount would probably be found to be
modest compared with the huge esti-
mates made in Boston. when all is
said and DONE" declared this banker,
II think you will probably find that
Ponzi, while he may have started out
originally as an operator IN foreign eX-
change, developed some other scheme
which would enable him for while to
make good on his guarantee of so per
cent profits inside of forty-fve days.
You cannot tell me that the American
bankers have been so blind as to over
look any legitimate operation whereby
they could pile up the profits in for
eign exchange that Ponzi is credited
with having made"
Reports that Ponzi had received an
offer Of s1o,0O0,000 from New York
bankers to come here and show them
how to work the game were not credit
ed in the financial district. Bankers
of standing in the financial community
said they had no knowledge OF such an
offer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Shoots Wife i'm Embrace,
Then Ends Life in Woods
Mrs. Harry Scott, ofWest Nyack,
Shot as Babies Look On;
Nav Recover
Special Dispatch to inc Tribune

SptttU' HtSpQtCb 10 inc Iri0ure
NYACK, July 30.-Harry Scott. of
West Nyack, shot his wife last night
and was found dead in the woods near
his home to-day by state troopers who
were searching for him. He had shot
himself in the head
Shortly after he had left his home
for his Office in New York ne returned,
saying that he had decided to take a
day off. Early in the evening he
stepped up to his wife, embraced her
and asked for kiss. At the same mo-
ment he fired a revolver which he held
IN his free hand, the bullet entering
the woman's back and following a rib
around her body.
Scott carried the wounded woman
upstairs and laid her on her bed. Then
he prepared a meal and fed his twin
daughters, nine months old, who had
seen him shoot their mother He was
washing the dishes when his wife's
parents approached the house Leav-
ing the dishes in the pan he ran out
the back door as they entered. Mrs.
Scott probably will recover.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
$500 Auto Tires Found
Hidden Near Garage
Police Believe Goods, Worth
100000, We're Stolen From
Freight Cars

In a one-story brick building in the
rear of a garage at APO East Sixty
fourth Street detectives last night
found $500 new automobile tires, be-
lieved to have been stolen from railway
freight cars and valued at 100000.
Michael Pecoraro, owner of the
garage, told the detectives that on last
Wednesday he rented the building to
two men who were unknown to him.
He could give only vague description
of the men. After they had paid the
rent deposit, he said, they departed
and returned presently with heavy
trucks laden with the new tires
The detectives removed the tires to
the East SiXty-seventh Street police
station, where they were piled in the
squad room.
The American Railway Express Com
pany was notified, and its detectives
were cooperating with city detectives
last night in search Of the local
freight yards to determine whether any
cars had been robbed
No complaint of Wholesale tire
theft has as yet reached the police
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Rail Unions Postpone Action
Discuss Recent La
Dor Board Award in Chicago

CLEVELAND, July 3O.-Although
several Objectionable aspects of the
recent wage award by the rail
road Labor Board in Chicago were dis
cussed by the heads of the four big
railroad brotherhoods here to-day,
formal action was postponed until a
meeting to be held here in two weeks.
1t was announced, during the con-
ference, by w. G. Lee president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
that membership in that organization
is increasing at the rate of 100 to 1875
a day. The heads of the three other
blotherhoods also report increases in
mem bership, but not SO large as that
IN the trainmen's.
The officials attribute the increase to
the better wages that are being paid
as result OF the recently announced
wage scale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
lie Roy Reported Here
Day Body Was Found
Detroit Man Said to Have Seen
Husband of MurderedW oman;
New York Police ON Watch

Inc slayer of. Katherine Lou Jackson
lie Roy, whose body has been in the
Bellevue morgue since July 90, when it
was round in trunk shipped here from
detroit, still is at large, but new angles
IN the investigation were reported yes
terday from Detroit, Birmingham, Ala.
and Toledo.
Detroit police reported that they had
oeen informed that Eugene LIE Roy, hus-
Dahd OF the woman, who is charged with
her murder, was seen at 11lth Street
ana Park Avenue on the day the trunk
tragedy was exposed here. A Detroit
man who knew LIE Roy intimately is
SAID to have seen him in this city on
that date
Manhattan police, prompted by the
Detroit tip that LIE Roy was seen
here established a special watch at all
city exits
birmingham police continued their
efforts to locate trunk, supposedly
shipped from Detroit, containing the
vital organs of the slain woman.
Toledo advices said LIE Roy worked in
Ford glass plant there last MAY under
the name Of R. C.. Miller
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Taxi Driver Gives First
Alarm of Broadway Fire
Flames Do SI5O,OOO Damage to
18th Floor of Studebaker
Building at 55th St.

A star-gazing driver of taxicab
espied the flicker of flames in the
fourth floor of the six-story Stude-
baker Corporation Building, Broadway
and Fiftyffth Street, at 10 o'clock last
night. The driver told Patrolman Ar
thur Pfeffer. of the West Forty-sev-
enth Street station, and few minutes
later fremen were on the spot. The
fire was confined TO the fourth floor.
he damage is estimated at $4,000.
Thomas Darcy, night Waterman, had
discovered the fire and was attempt
ing to fight it with a hand extinguish-
Ell when the alarm was sent in from
below.
The fourth floor is occupied by the
executive Offices of the Studebaker Cor
poration. Eighty automobiles on other
floors were not damaged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Personnel of New Austrian
Cabinet Is Reported to L. 5

WASHINGTON, July 80 The per-
sonnet Of the reorganized Austrian
Cabinet was reported to the State De-
partment to-day by the American Com
missioner at Vienna The members Of
the new Cabinet are:
DR.. Mayr, chief of Cabinet. without
portfolios DR.. Carl Renner, Secretary
of Foreign Affairs; Ferdinand Hanusch.
Social Administrator; DR.. Julius
Deutsch, Minister of War; Eduard
Heinl, Minister of Commerce; Alois
Haueis, Minister of Agriculture; Walter
Breisky. Minister of Interior; Dr.
Roller. Minister of Justice; DR.. Reisch,
Minister of Finance, and DR.. Karl
Pesta, Minister of Railroads.
Two under secretaries also are mem
bers of the Cabinet, but have no vote,
the report said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Plea for High Bridge Made
Engineer Asks City to Save
Span From Demolition


r. II. Jacobs, president of the New
York Chapter Of the American Associa-
ton Of Engineers, wrote yesterday to
the Board OF Estimate and Apportion-
ment asking that every effort be made
10 save High Bridge from demolition
in the plans under consideration for
the widening Of the Harlem River
channel.
The American Association OF En-
gineers,' he wrote, believes that High
Bridge IS structure OF architectural
and aesthetic merit and an important
monument marking the progress and
advancement of ths City OF New York
The association. believes High Bridge
should be saved if possible and recon-
mends the members careful considera-
ton of plans which will tend to that
end"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Williams Charges
High Interest Here
Is Business Burden
Comptroller of Currency
Says Is P. C. Rate Is I'm
iustifiable; Beneficial Eff
feet of Brakes ON Credit

WASHINGTON, July 30.-Asserting
that while the application by Federal
Reserve banks of brakes on credit has
had Earring effect on some nervous
systems" John Shelton Williams,
Comptroller of the Currency, in a
statement tonight, said general bust
ness conditions throughout the country
afforded abundant reasons for con
hdence and encouragement in the flu
ture"
Action Of She Federal Reserve hanks
Ill largely dcpriving non-essentials and
Injuries from the use OF credit was
said by Mir. Williams to have had a
very beneficial effect. Reports to the
Comptroller show marked tendency
toward liquidation, he said. adding that
he believed the credit restrictions were
responsible for such declines in prices
as have come.
Banks Well Fortified
Mr. Williams said there was preva-
lent pessimism which was unwarranted
in that the banks AT present were IN a
particularly well fortified position
He cited figures from reports on the
show that there we're increases in
loans by banks in only two sections,
the Eastern and Cleveland districts
The Currency Comptroller attacked
New York banks for exacting an inter
est charge ranging as high as is per
cent New York bankers, he said, were
the only ones in the country charging
such interest rates, which he believed
to be burdensome on business as we'll
as without justification for their ex-
cessiveness." These banks, Mr. Will
lams said, have been obtaining credit
from the Federal Reserve banks at
less than per cent
Millions to Move Crops
Chose inclined to pessimistic views
as to our financial situation" Mr..
Williams continued, "probably do not
know, or do rot appreciate, the i'm
mensely significant fact that our Fed
eral Reserve banks have an unused
lending power of $780, 100000 at this
time. II the occasion required, the
board could. by waving reserve re-
quirements on deposits and notes only
10 per cent increase the unused lend
ing power to $2,5O0,0O0, O00 which is
twenty-five times as much as all of
the national banks ever borrowed at
one time on bills payable and redis-
counts prior to 1913. In the face of
such figures and facts as these, the
fear expressed in some sections that
there may not be money enough avail
able to move the crops seems mani
festlV absurd"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-31
Hylan Submits His
Scheme for Salary
Increase to Board
Mayors New Plan Grants
% Per Cent to All City
EmployeesWho Now Draw
S1 500 a Year or Less

Mayor Hylan's plan for readjustmcnt
of city salary increases was submitted
to the Board of Estimate yesterday.
On motion of the Mayor, it was re-
TERED to the committee of the whole
The Legislature voted S5,OOO,Oo0 in
crease for city employees. The Board
of Estimate decided TO issue special
revenue bonds to that amount, and
agreed on fiat 20 per cent salary in
crease, which was passed by the Board
of Aldermen. Then Mayor Hylan We
toed the plan, saying that, on reconsid-
Grafton, he had decided that the plan
was not fair to the lower paid en-
plovees.
The plan of Mayor Hylan calls for a
% per cent increase for employees re-
ceiving 900 year or less. The
Mayor would give this class Of en-
ployees greater increase if there is a
sufficient amount available. All en-
rloyees receiving from 800 to S2,499,
under the Mayors plan, would receive
an increase of 20 per cent. For those
the city, and not more than $1,000,
there is to be a fat increase, the exact
amount not being disclosed in the COM
munication Of Mayor Hylan.
The Mayor suggested that no salary
of $500 or more be increased at this
time, which excludes nearly all his
commissioners from any share in melon
cutting. Mr.. Hylan said he believed
the new plan would be more equitable
distribution of the S5,OOO,00O than the
one already adopted and vetoed by him.
Comptroller Craig, who announced a
few days ago that Mayor Hylan was
without power to veto the resolution
already adopted was not present at
the meeting of the Board of Estimate
when the matter came up. Later in
the Board of Aldermen to fix the
grades and issue the $5,0OO,OOO revenue
bends came up. The Mayor asked that
this resolution be reconsidered. This
too was referred.
Comptroller Craig, who had come in
said he would not object to having
this referred to the committee OF the
whole, but wanted to point out to the
board that 213 employees received sal
aries of $4,000 or more year. who
came under the 20 per cent increase
This increase, said the Comptroller
would amount to $13,65O d year. and
if that amount were divided it would
produce S228 to each employee who
did rot receive that amount for the
remainder OF the year after August 20.
Mr.. Craig said that ISL employees re
ceive salaries between $4,000 and
$4,000 4 year. and that the 20 per cent
additional would amount to $3.50 200
If divided it would give an increase of
1851 each for. the remainder o. the
year after August 90
The committee of the whole will meet
next Thursday to consider the new sal
airy schedule.
The drivers and sweepers of the
Street Cleaning Department including
1890 out of the o,440 in the uniformed
force. declared themselves yesterday
in opposition to the flat 20 per cent
increase plan.