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The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-01-23

forces of the several states, which
were called into the federal service
during the war. The aggregate
strength of the National Guard of
the country now is approximately
$4,000. Congress has appropriated
funds to extend federal aid to a
National Guard personnel of 100,-
900 during the current fiscal year.
The militia bureau, of which Maj
Gen. Jesse McCather is the head, is
urging the state authorities to build
up the MALTA organizations wiped
out by the war. Gen. Carter said
no unusual methods are being en-
ployed in this direction, except that
army receiving officers are urging
young men who cannot see their way
clear to enlist in the regular service
to join the National Guard of their
respective states.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-01-23
REVENUE OFFICER TO QUIT
THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Little Rock, Jan. 20.-Meyer Solm-
son, division chief for the Internal
Revenue Department with headquar-
tiers at Helena, has rendered his res
ignation to Collector Jack Walker,
effective February /.
Mr.. Solmson will open an income
tax bureau at Helena with branch
offices in Little Rock, Pine Bluff and
Memphis, Tenn. He will specialize
in income tax work and internal rev.
enue taxes of all kinds.
uty collector in 1915 on the rec
ommendation of United States Sen
ator Joe T. Robinson and the late
James P. Clark. He was for two
years in the field service of former
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-01-23

Revenue Agent J. S. Barkman and
later under Revenue Agent w. L..
Yarbrough, being assigned to the dis
trict composed of Arkansas, Oklaho-
ma and Kansas. In 1917 he was
transferred to the office of Collect
or Jack Walker as a division deputy,
being assigned to Eastern Arkansas.
Some months ago he was promoted
to division chief in charge of corps
of deputies with general headquar-
tiers in Helena, where he. abhshed
permanent office of the depart
ment.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-01-23

You cannot measure patriotism in
dollars and cents; but a generous
person is invariably a patriotic per-
son. People in whom no patriotism
dwells are always those of stingy,
selfish, narrow soul
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-01-23
CARAWAY AT HOME

Jonesboro, Ark, Jan. I8.Congress-
II. H. Caraway arrived home today for
few days visit, coming from Little
Rock, where he has been in the in
terest of his candidacy for the Unit
ed States Senate to succeed Senator
w. F. Kirby. His friends here are
quite enthusiastic over his race, and
will lend every energy to secure his
nomination.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-01-23

A man is chiefly interested in the
beginning of love affair; but wo-
man always wants to take peep at
the last chapter and see how it is
going to turn out" before she can
work up any vital enthusiasm over
it.
"Tis far better to fail than never
to try. ANON.
The evening world., 1920-07-14
THREE BLIND MEN
BEAT POLICEMAN
Harlem Patrolman Says They At
tackled Him When He Ordered
Them of Corner.

A badly battered policeman appeared
in Harlem Court to-day against three
blind men he accused Of beating and
cutting him when he ordered them Off
the corner at 12Oth Street and First
Avenue early this morning,
The policeman. Frederick w. Modcr
of the 126th Street Station. said the three
blind men, Peter Meyers, No 2I4 East
l25th Street; Andrew Granteau. No. 55
East 1S7th Street. and Walter McPart-
land, No. 4Ol East 1O7th Street, had
been drinking and were noisy when he
approached them.
Instead Of obeying the policeman &
order, the three blind men started a
fight that would have done credit to
men with eyes, and in a moment the
air was filled with clubs, bottles and
fists. all flying in the policeman's droc-
ton, Moder Said. He declared he had to
use his club vigorously to subdue the
blind men.
William KIder. No 356 East l24th
Street. bystander, was struck by one
OF the flying bottles and may lose the
sight OF an eye. The blind men were
convicted OF disorderly conduct and re-
manded until Friday for sentence.
The evening world., 1920-07-14
MORE OF 100000
LIQUOR LOOT FOUND
Raids In Clifton, n. j., Yield 10
Cases of Whiskey, Said to Be
Part of Holdup.

Early morning raids in Clifton. N. j..
to-day netted s5 cases a whlskey which
the Newark police assert was part "
the 500 case consignment valued at
500. 900 stolen by hlghwaymen near
Kearny, ~ j.. from an auto truck last
week. In the home OF Benjamin Bar
toni, No. 81 Ackerman street, adjoining
his saloon, forty-eight cases OF whiskey
were seized Twenty cases were taken
from the home OF Robert Dixon on ker-
ker street: seventeen cases from the
home OF Daniel McGuire, No, 2O2 Pas
sale Street The police say the men ad-
mitted buying the liquor Within the last
few days. Bartonl and Dixon are held
on charges OF buying liquor they knew
was stolen.
Almond Legier. one OF Supervising
Agent shevlin's operators. who was ar
rested in Pennsylvania yesterday ac'
cused OF transporting a truck load oil
ATTY cases OF whlskey was to-day heh
in $500 bail by United States Commits
.,oner Hitchcock. His arrest followed
an investigation by the Federal au'
thorlties OF reports that dealers nave
been obtaining additional whlskey per
nit, by means Of faxed" rObberies.
The evening world., 1920-07-14
PREMIERS
SEEK TO'PREVENT
BREAKUP AT SPA
Lloyd George Confers With
German Minister Over Dead
lock on Coal.

SPA, Belgium, July Il (Associated
Press) In an effort TO compose the
differences between the Germans and
the Allies over the question OF coal
deliveries by Germany and prevent a
breakup OF the conference here Sc
ries OF Informal conferences was ar
ranged early this afternoon.
Premier Lloyd George received DR..
Walter Simons. the German Foreign
Minister, at the latter's request this
afternoon and told him emphatically
the Allies were not bluffing.
The Allies, Mr.. Lloyd George de.
clared, intend seriously to take meas
ures for enforcement Of execution OF
the Versailles treaty unless the Ger
mans meet the Allies modified terms
regarding coal.
Field Marshal Wilson OF Great Bri-
tain, who was summoned here yester-
day by the Supreme Allied Council
IL expected to arrive here tonight.
Marshal Foch and Gen Weygand.
his assistant, arrived here from Paris
at $50 o'clock this morning.
Konstantin Fehrenbach, German
Chancellor and head of Germanys
delegation here, and Dr, Simons. Ger
man Foreign Minister, suggested to
the allied governments that they send
a commission composed OF Ministers
and experts to Essen TO meet working
men and their representatives for the
purpose OF talking over the urgency
iof increasing coal production.
The Allied ministers, however, dc
not appear disposed 10 enter into dl-
rect negotiations with the German
mining unions.
The secretary OF the Belgian delega
ton at the conference here addresse,
a note to-day to the Germa nrepre
sentatives expressing regret that Ger
man newspaper correspondents haC
been subjected to III treatment fol sing
ling Die Wacht am Rhein'
The evening world., 1920-07-14
1000 MEN AT SEA
D TAKE STRIKE VOTE
BY WIRELESS
Operators Complain Ship Owners
TUNED Down pleas, Advising
Them Not TO Marry.

T OR the first time in history a
strike vote will be taken by
wireless within the next
two days when the members ,of
the United Radio Telegraphers'
Association will be called on to
decide whether to strike follow
ing the refusal OF American ship
owners to treat with them.
Most OF the associations 1000
members are at sea, and the
question will be transmitted from
ship to ship by wireless.
The demands Of the association
for increases in the pay of junior
operators from 500 to $3.50 per
month and chief operators from
SIPS to $500 a month, and for an
eight-hour working dav were re-
jected at a meeting attended by
representatives Of the Assocla-
tion, leading ship owners and the
United States Shipping Board.
The radio operators contend that
the American wireless men are
among the lowest paid in the
world.
Ship owners, they say, refused
flatly to consider the data sub
mitted on the increased cost OF
maintaining homes and families
and even went so far as TO advise
the radio men not 70 marry.
The evening world., 1920-07-14
By Lindsay DenisOn.
Especial Staff Correspondent Of The
Evening Worldly

HIGHLANDS, N. j., July 14.-Heavy
fog blanketing the harbor the day
before the commencement OF the
races for the Americas Cup to-day
inspired fervent prayers by yachting
experts that the sun, which was
struggling through the gray banks,
would burn through and insure a
good day Of final rehearsal. a. T.
was, neither the Resolute nor the
Shamrock w. could be seen this
morning from the Sandy Hook OBJ
servation towers, under which they
lay at anchor.
The uncertainty and thickness Of the
weather dashed the probabilities OF
either yacht having their sails up to-
day, as the rival shippers were not
considered likely to get them wet so
close to the hour Of the first test OF
defender and contender IT was an
nounced on good authority that the
crews Of the Resolute and Shamrock
". would spend the day in practice,
in the manner of the signal practice OF
rival rowing crews on the eve Of 9
varsity shell race.
Yacht experts attempting TO fore
cast the results of tomorrow s
opening trial were anxious for a closer
final look at the Shamrock Tvs re-
markably metallic-like spread Of can
vas. The admiration of all yachts
mon had been aroused by the ut OF
the sails tried out by the challenger
featuring the new sail invention OF
Mr. Nicholson, first revealed mere
Yesterday. When the mainsail which
he used Yesterday and will use during
the cup races was bent on 1t was
noticed that a strip Of canvas Whicf
filled in the space between the bar'
wood and the mainsail itself had beer
lashed off. 1t made a continuous lint
OF sail from the outer edges Of th'
mast and is designed to help th'
yacht to windward.
The Resolute was tOwed in jus
before dark last evening from tn
staten Island yard to which she wa
sent Monday for the secondar,
cleaning made necessary by tn
sticky oils through which she passe'
in getting out of the Morse DR.!
Dock. The damage done to he
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LAFOLLETTET TIES
A STRING TO HIS
PROMISE TO RUN
Sends Word to Third Party
Leader Platform Must Mea-
sure Up to His Wishes.

MILWAUKEE,. July 14.-Senator
Ia Toilette sent a message TO the
third party convention last night ex-
pressing his willingness to head its
Presidential ticket. according to a
statement made by the Senator to a
newspaper correspondent He inti-
mated very strongly that the plat
form must measure up to his wishes
before he would give his unqualified
consent to carry the partys standard.
CHICAGO. July 14.-Little progress
was made by the new Fusion Party
during the first two hours Of its con-
vention to-day, and an undercurrent
Of dissatisfaction was in evidence
throughout the meeting. Il once
more required the pleas OF the lead
ers and constant conference to keeT
open breaks from cropping out.
At ll.45 A. NJ, the platform con.
ference ordered the typing OF q
third version OF a Fusion Party plat.
| form, and sent word to the conven.
ton that it would report at F. NJ
The convention adjourned until that
| time.
The Committee of Forty Eight a
| a morning caucus, decided to con
tinue its State and National organi
zation regardless Of the action Of tn,
present convention, and to NEE
separately tonight to consider tn,
convention action.
Senator La Toilette was still beinJ
represented in platform conferences
The latest reports on the platform
show that some representatives O
the Forty Fighter group would NEE
Senator La Follette's ideas in II
planks on foreign relations and ma
tionalization.
The Single Takers have withdraw
from the new party, adopted thei
ono plank platform and nominateI
Presidential candidates. For Presl
dent they chose Robert G. Macaule,
Of Philadelphia, and for Vice Presl
dent they selected r. g. Barnum "
Cleveland. They quit the new party
Jerome c. Reis, Single Tax leade
said, because It was not only apparen
they could not obtain their platform
desires and Il candidate committed. Z
them but also because they "coul
not stand the SOcialistiC ideas" Of III
dominant labor group.
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BIBLE MONEY FOR WHISKEY,
Jerse, Policeman Accuses wife !"
suit for Divorce.

Using for the purchase OF whiskey
SIC given 10 her by his mother in July,
1918. with which TO buy Bible for his
birthday, is one OF the charges con-
talned in divorce action started to-
dev I'm the Court Of Chancery, Jersey
civ by PatrOlmun Frederick A, Gel
lrer Of the North Bergen Police Depart
ment. against Mrs. Lucy l. Geiger OF
No 1856 Union street. Union Hill Geo
buying IT, He also charges infldelity.
nptning men and hotels,
Mrs. Geiger denies all her husband :
charges and declare he treated her cruz
eiiv and threatened 10 shoot her. lie
told her the only reason he did not
shoot her. she says In her affidavit was
that the bullets would be Identified by
Shs police.
The evening world., 1920-07-14
NO RUSSIAN REPLY
TO TRUCE PROPOSAL
Copenhagen Reports, However
l.itvinofi Is to Head Red
Peace Delegation.

LONDON. July li.-British OFFICIALS
stated to-day that the Russian SOVIET
Government had not yet replied 10 the
British proposal for an armlSVco DC
tween Poland and Russia 20 De 'o'
lowed by a Peace Conference
A report from Copenhagen says
Maxim IAtvinoff former Soviet AM
bassador to London" has been desig-
mated head OF the Russian delegation TO
the forthcoming Peace Conferences In
London between the representatives OF
soviet Russia, Poland and the other
border states. ~
Ey,rther advances by the BolshoviN
T., their campaign against the Poles are
reported ia Tuesdays official COM
fJnnidue. received by wireless from
MOSCOW to-day
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Undaunted at the Prospect of
Travelling Two Hundred
Miles a Day.
PLANS TO START SOON.
Will Talk Over the Pro-
gramme With Wilson at the
White House Sunday.
By George Buchanan Fife.
Especial Staff Correspondent Of The
Evening Worldly


Evening Worldly
COLUMBUS, o., July 14.-When
Gov. James NJ. Cox has his conference
with President Wilson next Sunday
morning at the White House, one OF
the chiefly important subjects to be
discussed is the Democratic candi
dates plan for speaking campaign
which will carry him into most OF
the States of the Union.
He has decided that in this way
alone can he bring home TO the people
the message of his party and its
meaning to them. He feels, too, that
II community be asked TO vote for a
man il Is entitled to see him and know
him as something more than name
painted on a banner over Main Street
near the Post ONCE.
Further stlll, he recognizes that tho
fellow who sits all day in the general
store whiting n stick and damning
the Government has right TO stand
up in the back row and ask imperti-
nent questions, and have them an
sWered.
In making such a plan the Gov
ernor knows all the exhaustion OF
mind and body II entails, the long
! journeys, the snatches of sleep, the
utter physical WEAKNESS, not to men
ton the thorns of the hecklers. But
he intends to go through with 1t and
to hit out as soon as possible after
! he delivers his speech OF acceptance
at Trails end, his country home near
Dayton.
Throughout the Middle West Gov.
incredible endurance and enthusiasm,
but the task he has now set up for
himself is one which will demand far
more of him than he ever gave, even
in his famous Gubernatorial cam
paign of 1914. The tours he has laid
out for himself this year will take
him more than 10000 miles by train
and automobile. He will be ION the
road so to say, for about eighty
days. and in this time will deliver
more than 500 addresses. He expects
that his travelling will average more
than 200 miles a day. There Is moth
ing in this to dnunt him, because he
can look back six years and rcmem-
ber that In one day and one evening
/, he addressed sixteen meetings
stretched among the sixty miles be-
tween Cleveland and Toledo.
In the two and a half months OF his
journeying, which is to begin in
California and take him in a zlg-zaR,
saw tooth path as far east as Maine,
Gov. Cox will appear before thou-
sands OF people who hitherto had
never set eye upon him. When lac
comes upon the platform or speaks
20 them from his motor car, they will
see strong, cOmpactly- built man OF
medium height, who does not look hi.
ffty years His face Is tanned from
outdoor life. His hair, dark brown. Is
ample for all brushing purposes. HIS
/ eyes are blue grey the depth Of then
and the intensity Of their regard
accentuated by rimless eyeglasses.
His voice has, without harshness
: a remarkable clearness and carry
, This latter quality, even when ne
speaks in normal voice, was mani.
tested many times recently in hI
telephone conversation from tn,
, library at Trails End TO the conven
tion hall at San Francisco, where I'D
ward II. Moore, Charles r. Morrl
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TO SELL BREAD BY WEIGHT.
pittsburgh Dealers Agree on Price
OF ~ Cents a Pound.

PITTSBURGH, July H. - An agree
ment has been reached between whole
salers and retailers In the sale OF
bread. according to an announcement
made here to-day Under the plan.
bread will BE- sold by the ounce instead
OF by the loaf and three -fourths OF a
cent has been fixed as the standard
price.
All loaves will be marked IL Is said
as 10 weight, and purchasers will have
the privilege OF placing them on the
scales.
The evening world., 1920-07-14
WHISKEY IN De CORDOVA CAR
LEFT THERE BY THE HUSBAND
OF WOMAN MURDER VICTIM
Employer Saw Signs of Mania in
Chauffeur, He Says, but Over
looked Them - Confers With
Slayer's Widow Two Hours.

Mrs Bernard GeiSsa widow of the chauffeur who killed his
oye5 wife Mrs Arthur DE Coova lonely road Sonngon
Conn., Monday night and then committed suicide New London
to-day claim her husbands body and appear the Corone inquest
into the double tragedy,
Mr. De Cordova who with his two children brought Mrs.
Cordovas body last night talked with Mrs Gesse hours
neither would reveal the substance the their conversation
The evening world., 1920-07-14

1t was not until this morning that
Mr.. De Cordova was sufficiently com.
posed to speak OF the case at lengta.
IL would like to clear up some do
tails that have been published" he
said. "As to the whiskey bottle in the
car, II was mine. always took a
flask o, whiskey in the machine. I
was out driving Sunday and smoked q
number OF cigarettes, THUS accounting
for the stubs found.
81 have been assured by hotel en-
ployees that tho story Mrs. De Cordo-
va was sitting on the front seat when
the machine left the Hotel Griswold
Is a mistake. The car was not a
three e-seated machine, as stated. but
a five passenger touring car with
victoria top. Mrs. De Cordova was in
the tonneau when she left the hotel.
Barney Geissler never drank 20
my knowledge and at times when
invited him to take a drink he de-
clmed because he said he drank
nothing but beer. am sure he
drank some OF the whiskey from the
bottle in the car. but his doing so n
foreign to everything l knew OF him.
CHAUFFEUR NEVER FAMILIAR
WITH ANY OF FAMILY.
He always showed devotion 70
the whole family. but never exhibited
the slightest familiarity toward any
| OF us.
THE revolver with which he did
the shooting belonged to him. My
son tells me Barney told him on the
way up to New London that he had
revolver and offered TO stop and
get some blank cartridges so my son
could use the revolver on the Fourth
Of July My son declined as he did
not want 20 stop.
IL am positive Barney was men
tally unbalanced. Three weeks ago
| ordered him to bring the car at
o'clock Sunday morning and he was
| late. He excused this on the ground
that he had to go TO mass and would
not miss his devotions. When he
passed a church he would bless him
self.
81 did not take these things ssFi-
ously, nor his opinion that he could
do anything better than any one else.
He thought no mechanic could DO 20
much with an automobile, no ohauf-
feur drive so we'll as he, and showed
many signs Of exaggerated ego"
oEISsLER A PARAfNoIAc, On.
MEYER BELIEVES.
DR.. Florizel Meyer. husband OF Mr..
De Cordovas sister, said there was
every indication Geissler was a para :
noiac. and committed his crirno while
suffering from brainStoTm.
Mrs. De COrdova's funeral VIII he
held tomorrow at $50 at Campbelfs
Chapel, 67th Street and Broadway,
Mrs Geissler has not yet arranged
for her husbands burial.
She was not surprised at his death
as she knew something would hap
pen to him"
Mrs. Geissler is a pretty brunette
twenty years old. She said she
married Barney after a short eouTe-
ship in February. 1917.
II had presentrnent 0f his dsath.'
The evening world., 1920-07-14
Heavy Weather DasheS Hopes
of Setting UP Sails on Eve
of First Conflict.
TEST SHAMROCK CANVAS
Oil SmudgeS Now F ully
Cleaned of ReSolute
and Her Challenger.

The following special forecast
for the yacht races tomorrow
was received by the local
Weather Bureau from Washing
ton to- day;
Moderate to fresh winds off
Sandy Hook. Mostly southwest
and westerly. Weather unset
tied with thunder showers prob
able during the day"
The evening world., 1920-07-14
FRANK GOULD TO FIGHT SUIT.
Notifies supreme Court lie VIII
Contest Separation Case.

Frank J. Gould to-day filed notice In
the supreme Court, through his sttor-
neys, Leonard and Walker, that he will
appear to contest the suit for separp-
tion brought by Mrs Edith Kelly Gouid.
from who mhe obtained divorce de-
cree In France.
The date Of the trial has not been
fixed,
The evening world., 1920-07-14
COAL WILL LAST
UNTIL 1920 A. D.,
EXPERTS ASSERT
Supply of Anthracite, However,
Is Likely to Give Out in $50
or 200 Years.
CLEVELAND, July ~.

|OAL consumers of the United
States will have no real
worries until about the year
1920, according TO state and Gov
ernment inspectors attending the
eleventh annual convention of the
Mine Inspectors Institute OF
America here to-day.
Hard coal will give out in $50
years or 200 years, but the soft
coal supply is nearly inexhausta-
BILE, j. w. Paul, Chief Coal Min
ing Engineer Of the United States
Bureau of Mines, said. The in
spectors see evidence of enough
soft coal to run the country 5000
years.
The evening world., 1920-07-14
YACHTS AND CREWS READY
FOR TO-MORROW'S RACE;
MEN At SIGNAL PRACTICE
HANGMEN STRIKE
IN GERMANY; CAN'T
EXECUTE SLAYER
They Refuse to Work Until In
crease in Wages IS Granted
TO Them.
LONDON, July IL.

THE hangmen OF Germany
have gone on strike for in
creased wages, says a Ber-
lin despatch to the Exchange
Telegraph to-day, quoting Ger
man newspapers
At Meiningen. according to the
despatch, the execution Of a muir
derer could not be carried out, AS
the Halle and Munich hangmen
refused to work.
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Arcade puluDef lWOTldi building, 05-h3 Para
Row. y, 4 Ctu, Telephone beekma1 400 600,
s'sat. Mons5 OFdss and us'sAeF' shsoa Tor
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Tar Included you can so the gfeatsSt sh0g I'M
world has ever known, ziEGFELD FOLlIkS
ksW AnSisTda } TheaiIs.-AdEt
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(Rselna News on Page 2o,l
The Washington times., 1920-01-11

only perfect happiness on earth.
Everything else II second best
often O very good second, but no
where near the real thing.
30 why. when love Is bound TO
come TO as all sooner OF later, not
try to retain Its sweetnessy
Think of the humdrum lives liv.
ing themselves out In Anglo-Saxon
countries! I say Anglo-Saxon be-
cause In Latin countries tempera-
ments are too strong, and either the
man or the woman frequently in-
dulges In Illicit love II II is not to
be found In the home. But. just
review the gray unattractiyeness of
many British couples!--existences!
and then, Richard and Kathleen.
determine you will not permit such
fate TO overtake you.
In my next and final paper on
this subject OF the Philosophy Of
Love I am going 10 continue talking
to the husbands, and end by q gen.
ersi review Of the whole subject.