Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-07
w. T. PATE, JR. TO BE
 CITY DEFECTIVE TO
 SUCCEED C. C. LYNN
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 Chief of Police Stewart has re- quested that all persons who bor- rowed pistols and shot guns or rifles and who have not returned them to their owners, should leave them at the police station. If the firearms were not secured from the police sta tion, they will be returned to their owners. Plans are under way to increase the supply of firearms and ammunition at the police station, for any emergency.
 Lynn Funeral Today.
 The funeral of MT. Lynn will be held this afternoon at 3:3O o'clock from the residence at 1901 West Ninth Rev. E. R. Steel and Rev. J. I. Norris will officiate. The Elks, of which lodge the deceased was a member, will conduct services at the home, and the body will be shipped today to East Prairie, Mo-, for inter ment. Members of the order are t meet at Holderness' chapel at 2 o'clock.
 The following Elks will act as pail bearers: Mayor M. c. Hollis, J. P. Baker, E. T. Miller, J. F. Stewart, c. M. Nichol, F. R. Bloom. A. c. Breiner, J. F. Franey, Met L. Galli- gher, Ebert Renyolds, Henry Marx and Henry Y. Williams.
 Besides a wife, daughter, fath- CT, MT. Lynn is survived by two brothers, Robert and Charles Lynn. and three sisters, Misses Nettie and Hattie Lynn and Mrs. Anna Moore.
 A fund for Mrs. Lynn was started yesterday at the Chamber of Com merce meeting. A committee com posed of Leo M. Andrews, T. H. Gre gory and E. B. Bloom was appointed to solicit subscriptions from citizens who wish to show their appreciation of the services of the officer. MT. Andrews headed the list with $50. The subscription is making good headway.
 MT. Lynn, it is understood, had $3,- 900 insurance in the Knights and Ladies of Security, and some in the A. 0. U. w.
 The chamber trustees voted to send flowers to the Lynn home, to adopt resolutions on his death and to have the chamber represented by special committee at the funeral.
 The subscription started for the benefit of J. B. Middlebrook, member of the police force whose home was burned Thursday night in efforts to capture the negro, George Vicks, is also showing excellent progress The list at the police station, in the hands of Chief of Police J. Frank Stewart, has passed the $100 mark by good deal, and another list at Fire Department No. l, in the hands of one of the fire boys, had reached the amount of $156 late yesterday.
 Several negroes who lived in the adjoining house, which also burned called on Mayor Hollis yesterday in an attempt to learn if they would be reimbursed for their loss.
 Soltz Funeral.
 No inquest was held over the re- mains of Mrs. Sam Soltz, killed by a stray bullet, and her funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the family home, 903 West Bar raque. Burial was made in the Jew ish cemetery. Rabbi l.. J. Rothstein conducted services, and the pallbear- CTS were: Sam Balm, B. B. Veil, M. Marcus, Henry Marx, J. R. Marcus and F. Baer. l.. Froug and M. Brown, active. M. Silbernagle, M. Brown. Julius Schloss, M. Carp, Simon Bloom. Ben Feinberg. Max Eisenkramer. honorary.
 The Colored Ministerial Alliance of Pine Bluff yesterday adopted reso- lntions praising the action of Sheriff Nichol in preventing the burning of the negro's body. The ministers also announced they would raise a gener- al relief fund for those who lost their belongings in the fire.
 It became known yesterday that one of the worst sufferers from the blaze is Mrs. I. Summers, who works for the Citizens Bank Building com pany. She receives bua nominal weekly wage and all of her belong ings were burned.