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The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

Farm activities in the neighborhood may be carried on during the entire year. while the growing season starts with February and ends with November
 SOIL ADAPTED TO FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
 The soil of Polk county is particularly we'll adapted the growth of fruit and truck Apples, peaches, pums cherries grapes strawberries black and red raspberres canteoupes better than the Rocky Ford variety and all kinds of vegetables grow the greatest prouson Staple crops cotton peanuts, cowpeas and sweet Pota It also fine stock country and many farmers taking up stock raising extensive scale While cot ton has long been looked upon the money crop the poultry far greater than those from cotton, and the industry is gaining rapidly.
 The Jefferson Highway, the great international road from Winnepeg Canada, to New Orleans IS much of the way hardsurfaced between Mena and Shreveport dis
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

and villages each with its own advantages and
 tions Among the most prominent Hatfield, Cou Wickes have liberal space in this number Besids the largest are Grannis and Vandervoort, while Il Potter Acorn, Eagleton and Rich Mountain all ara. points along the Kansas City Southern Potter andr ton each have extensive lumber interests. Acornb. an envable reputation for its schools, Hatton
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

qgesuPPER ouAcHlTA FROM THE souLpERs' Msm springs and resort advantages and Rich Mountain s highest elevation reached by the railroad between City and the Gulf.
 Inland points of interest, located off the rairoa Ink Yocana, Egger Opal, Big Fork, Board Camp Nunley on the east and Rocky and Mountain Fork c west
 THE GOOD DAYS ARE HERE.
 Finally, after several years of depression, Ma today coming to herself as never before Scores of critics are being bought at prices double and more their market value as rated year ago. Many refusing absolutely to set prices on then
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

FOUNTAIN JANSEN waterworks, sewers electric light and power plants an ice plant beautiful park In fact almost all those things that make city life comfortable and desirable
 POPULAR SUMMER AND WINTER RESORT
 These things, combined with the remarkably fine general heahuness largely responsible for making Mena pre-eminently city of homes not mansions castles but pretty cozy comfortable modern residences cottages and bungalows surrounded by attractive lawns of grass and trees and flowers
 Mena IS annually becoming greater and more pop ular resort for all the year Summer brings visitors from Louisiana and Texas while in the winter
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

soUIOERs" . MR. AND N. A. s7RATToN tance of 82 miles, and Mansfield, La The con tracts let for this great highway Polk county from the north the south line of the county more than 50 miles and construction will begin few weeks. There only short gap between Vivian Louisiana and Texarkana, Arkansas be filled after which 1t will be possible make the trip finely baasted road all the way and less time than the journey could be made in steam cars.
 CONVENIENT TO SOUTHERN POINTS.
 A Shreveport business may own his summer
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

rtory of more than one hundred miles square Of thing less than four thousand population it is admirably located part of the Ozark plateau. Its eleva ton varies from 100 500 feet within the corporate limits the variation in altitude giving perfect drainage
 Iree-cad mountains protect Mena from the blizzards from the North and tempers the climate almost perec tion The altitude absolute of cool breezes and absence of oppressive heat that prevails in lower countries both north and south It has strong banks splendid business houses four good schools churches of almost all denominations with several fine buildings,
 handsome government building, public library, broad streets miles upon miles of sidewalks splendid
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

dences and the day of empty residences and bus houses is of the past and the greatest opportunity h would-be home owner Is to obtain a desirable site build thereon. These sites as yet easily within reach of the ordinary investor
 What IS true of Mena Is true of Polk county farmer who has desirable property and wants to a must not set price upon it. And yet real bargam being snapped up almost daily, and will be, for all coming to know that nowhere else can lands be had will give such returns for the investment
 hearty welcome awaits those who would cont
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

home Tn Mena or its environs place his family in for the season and spend the weekends with his homefoks LID among the cool breezes of the Ozarks The beneficial re- suits Tn health happiness, ability think and work right during the summer months be obtained from vacations Tn Mena and the surrounding country will soon be so we'll known and so numerous and that the annual heglra from the south will surely grow into enormous proportions
 POLK COUNTS GOOD TOWNS.
 While Mena the county seat of Polk county is first in size and prominence there are several other good towns
The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

months many tourists from the North make long stays in the city. The climate truly delightful during all sea- The mountain breezes crisp pure and nvgorat ing and every night the the temperature is cool enough to make blanket comfortable
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Stock Exchanges Hold
Bonus Tax a Menace
Delegations From New York
and Chicago VIII Present
Protests To-day

WASHINGTON, May 17.-Represen-
tatives of New York an Chicago ex-
changes will appear tomorrow before
Republican members Of the House
Ways and Means Committee to protest
against taxing provi7io carried IN
the soldier relief bili. Democratic
members Of the committee are expected
TO met with majority members Wcdnes-
day to approve the bill.
Representative Henry r. Rainey,
Democrat, of Illinois, said tonight that
the New York Exchange and the Chi
cago Board of Trade may be compelled
to close because of the "excessivc
taxes carried in the measure.' Taxes
on bread grains and other produce and
on stock and bond transactions, he
said, would be increased 1000 per cent
under the bill.
"The tax on every shipload of grain
exported from this country" MIR.
Rainey said, would be Approximately
$1,000, which is the equivalent of 5
per cent tax on every carload. Stock
Exchange transactions would be taxed
along with bonds, even Liberty bonds,
which are held by 20,000,000 citizens"
Mr.. Rainey predicted that "the coun-
try will be in a state Of terror when
there is q realization of the extent of
tho proposed taxes"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Justice Says Landlords
Him With Bomb
Robitzek Tells Realty Men New
Rent Laws Saved New York
From Revolution

justice Harry RobltZek, of the Mu-
nicipal Court, the Bronx, addressing
meeting of the Real Estate Owners
Protective Association last night in the
Hotel Majestic. declared he was daily
receiving threatening letters from
landlords because he was upholding the
new rent laws in his court Some of
these letetrs, he said, nave threatened
to bomb him.
IF the laws had not been passed"
Justice Robtzek said, "there would
have been a revolution in the Bronx.
This revolt would have spread to Man
haitian, and then real estate wouldn't
have been worth nickel"
The speaker said that some of the
Bronx landlords continually used to
make sales of their houses to dummy"
purchasers, SO that they could evict the
tenants and push the rent still higher
on the new set. He also charged that
some landlords could speak no English
and were unable to write their names.
Magistrate Schwab, another speaker
told the gathering that van owners
were geuging people who were obliged
to move. A committee of five was ap-
pointed to ask the Board Of Aldermen
to pass a bill, long before them, fixing
the rates to be charged by moving vans.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
IL Policemen Questioned
In Death of Patrolman
Tell Story of ''Friendly Bout
Between Officers in Station
After Parade

Twelve policemen of the East Thirty
fifth Street police station were ques-
toned yesterday by Assistant District
Attorney John f. Joyce, Of the homi-
eide bureau of the District Attorneys
office, in the investigation into the
death of Policeman Edward F. Burns
The patrolman is said to have died of
injuries he suffered in scuffle with
Corporal William Murray in the dor
mitory of the station after the police
parade on Saturday.
The men agreed that Burns and
Murray engaged in friendly scrim-
mage, during which Burns fell against
an iron bed, his head striking one Of
the posts. He died later at his home
Captain Ward, in command of the
precinct, told Mrs. Joyce that Murray
said in friendly way:
"Gee, you fellows looked fine march
ing down there to-day. You looked real
chesty."
Whereupon Burns is said to have re-
piled: eyes, we had reason to feel
chesty. There was some chest in that
line. Just feel this chest"
Captain Ward said the two men en-
gagged in friendly tussle.
Mrs. Edward f. Burns, widow of the
policeman, sa id when her husband
reached home he complained of feeling
dizzy. Burns told her he had "scrap"
with Murray, as the result of haunting
over Invitations to the police dinner.
She declared her husband said he was
"jammed" on the side of the head.
The investigation will be continued
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
American Express Plea
For Rate Increase Heard
Company Declares Terminal
Charges Have Advanced 90
Per Cent Since 1911

Hearings on the application of the
American Railway Express Company
for 25 per cent increase over the
present rates were begun yesterday be-
fore Examiner f. II. Barclay, of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, at II
East Thirty sixth Street.
Charles A. Lutz, vice-president, in
charge of the accounting department Of
the company, submitted figures tending
to show that haulage and labor costs
had risen and that terminal charges
alone had increased SO per cent since
1914. The basis used in figuring the
express rate increases, testified George
S. Lee, traffic manager of the company
was the increase in rates for first class
freight. These figures had been COM
piled, he said, before the intention of
the railroads to ask for an additional
increase had been made public.
The sessions will be continued here
all this week, moving to Chicago on
May "a, and to Spokane on June /.
Hearings will then be held at San Fran
cisco, Houston, Atlanta and the last one
on June % before the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Washington.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Russians Begin
Fresh Advance
Against Poles
Bolshevik Forces Reported
Engaged Ten Miles Out
of kiev; Caucasus Army
Crosses Line Into Persia
British Custer Demanded
Reds Claim Success in Ma
val Encounter i'm Sea of
.AzOv; Bombard Villages

LONDON, May 17.-Russian Bolshc-
vik forces are striking back at the
Polish and UkrRnian troops which cap
tured Kiev about ten days ago, accord
ing to an official statement issued in
Moscow yesterday and received here by
wireless. The statement said Soviet
troops had started an advance and were
engaged about ten miles northeast of
kiev.
The Bolsheviki have appeared at
Astara, in southeast Caucasia, and
crossed the Persian frontier, according
to dispatch to "The London Times"
from Teheran under date of May II.
The dispatch adds that the Bolsheviki
said they had no quarrel with Persia,
but that the British troops must be
withdrawn.
"In the Borisov region conflict of a
local nature occurred" the statement
on the Polish fighting continued "Our
airmen again engaged successfully with
Polish airmen and downed a Polish air
plane. The aviator was taken prisoner.
I'm the Cherkask region we have oc-
cupied village west of that town. In
the direction of Vapniarka our troops
are conducting a successful fight ten
miles north Of Vapniarka station.
''ln the Crimea sector, west of Pere-
kop lsthmus, enemy ships several times
bonn barded coast villages. In the Sea
of Azov there have been encounters
with enemy ships fourteen miles west
of Berdiansk. The enemy ships were
forced to retire.
COBLENZ, May 17.-Authentic in
formation from Warsaw received by the
American command shows that the
Poles are concentrating on the front
south Of Kiev. Trotsky has called up
OH al Ruesia to rise against Poland.
New Bolshevik forces, including a
I3ashkir brigade, are attacking kicv,
and the casualties are reported to be
heavy. Other Rolshevik reinforce
ments are arriving between the Dniepcr
and the Dnl@ster.
Between Anrl 25 and May 10 the
Poles took $4,000 prisoners and $50
guns and 500 machine guns, exclusive
of the material found in depots. The
Polish losses to May 10 are reported
to have been only 100 killed and 800
wounded, bat the losses to the troops
holding kiev were proportionately
heavier.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Presidential Row
Busy Preparing for
Chicago Contention
Managers of Candidates for
Republican Nomination
Establish Headquarters
in Two Leading Hotels

CHICAGO, May 1S.-"Presidential
Row." an institution unique in Amer
lean politics, is preparing for the final
drive that will culmina.e. the week of
June in the nomination of a Repub-
lican candidate for President of the
United States.
The Row" which each four years is
the center of national convention
politics, is going through the greatest
season in it's history
"Presidential Row" includes parts of
two Michigan Boulevard hotels, which
are connected by a subterranean pas
sageway, and along the row every lead
ing Republican Presidential candidate
has established or will establish his
headquarters. Here, too, the Repub-
lcan National Committee maintains ex-
tensive Offices, while the Democratic
committee meets here on occasion.
Since the Republicans began holding
their conventions here regularly in 1904
the Row" has become an institution
OF the party
National headquarters of Governor
Frank 0. Lowden and Major General
Leonard Wood were the first to open
this season. The Wood delegation has
~
last winter and the Lowden camp has
been on the ground since January /.
Later arrivals included Western
headquarters for Herbert Hoover and
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
and the regional Offices of the National
Personal Liberty League, working in
The interests of Governor Edwards
Democrat, of New Jersey.
Reservations have been made for
Senator Hiram Johnson, Senator Miles
Massachusetts,. They will open Of
ton.
The Republican National Committee
has had Offices on the Row for sew
to convention headquarters at the
will begin hearing contests for con-
present plans.
Following the convention the Re-
publican committee will occupy an en-
tire floor, including the ballroom in a
downtown hotel, and also establish
viii H. Hays, chairman of the COM
mittee, is expected to spend consider
able time during the campaign here,
and one of the large hotel parlors is
beng prepared for his private Office
The Democratic National Commit
tee Will maintain headquarters here
but has not yet selected a location.
Chairman Homer S. Cummings will
divide his time between the Offices here
and those at the Grand Central Palace,
New York
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
q. S. to Pay Hoboken
Taxes ON German Piers
Revenue Denied City for Three
Years Under Federal Control
Totals 81 GOO 0Q0

Mayor Patrick R.. Griffin, Of Ho-
boken, received a telegram yesterday
from Senator Walter L. Edge, of New
Jersey, assuring him that Hoboken
would be reimbursed for its loss in
taxes when the Shipping Board took
over the Hoboken piers formerly used
by the German steamship companies.
II have had passed to-day" Senator
Edge telegraphed, "an amendment to
the shipping bill taking care Of back
taxes for Hobokcn, as we'll as taxes in
the future under the jurisdiction Of
the Shipping Board"
For three years Hoboken has lost
the income derived from taxes on the
German piers. The arrears aggregate
about S1,000,00O and the city wanted to
be certain of at least enough revenue
under government operation Of the
piers to make up the deficit Mayor
Griffin said that Senator Edges mes
sage meant that the Shipping Board
also would take over the War Depart
ment piers along the New York water
front and in Newark Bay.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Lee De Forest Asks Court
To Modify Divorce Order
Appeals for Revocation Of De-
cree Under Which He Pays $25
Weekly for Child's Support

Counsel for Lee De Forest applied
yesterday to Supreme Court Justice
Morschauscr, in White Plains, n. Y,
for revocation of the order under
which he is paying his former wife,
the daughter of Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch, $25 a week for the support Of
their daughter.
In support of the application it
was said that since obtaining her di-
vorce from Mr.. De Forest, in 1912,
Nora Blatch De Forest had married
Morgan T. Barney, q naval architect,
who thereupon, it was argued, be
came legally bound to maintain his
stepdaughter as well as his wife. This
marriage took place February IS, 1919,
Although Justice Morschauser re,
served decision, he declared himself
as follows:
This is still the defendants child
and why should the father dodge pay
ing for his own child's care and main
tenance? Wasn't the defendant wrong
in the start when he broke his mar
riage vows ?"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Motor Parade Launches
Ship by Truck Drive
Broadway Traffic Tied Up by
3uge Procession 10 Madison
Square Garden

More than 250 commercial motor
trucks Of all makes and sizes paraded
DOWN Broadway last night, from 168th
S,reet to Madison Square, amid the din
VI IA ao9nking horns, popping exhausts
qua the b!are of brass band. formal
" opening New York's part in the
1a 1gaa'ional ship by truck" campaign
.ae parade was held under the aus
g.ces gs OF the New York State Highway
transport Association, the National
automobile Chamber of Commerce and
.ae National Automobile Dealers As
ISOLATION.
Inc parade was made up largely of
ssshy and navy trucks and those lent
!, iet tne occasion by business houses.
h. ned up traffic for more than half
,L sour along the line At Times Square
WY "v forty-second Street surface cars
were neld up for blocks and the usual
o"m OF theater- bound automobiles was
,tongested " so that it took nearly an hour
,eXtricate them.
FAC, Each Of the trucks bore a placard
ena"hosncAng the ship by trucq'' cam
gSsh' ~ scores Of men and women rode
D;., At Madison Square outdoor motion
mv'ares nra outlining the "ship by truck"
rV!ec' were displayed.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Girl CrawIs on Hands and
Knees to Get Healer's Aid
900 Cripples Crowd Newark
Church; Some Taken
on Stretchers

A congregation of crippled and blind
filed ST. Barnabas's Episcopal Church,
Newark, yesterday, when James Moore
Hickson, English faith healer, laid
hands upon the heads of 600 persons.
Some came in wheelchairs and on
crutches, assisted by friends.
One woman, twenty-five years old,
crawled on her hands and knees up
the steps to the terrace of the church.
Several persons were carried into. the
church on stretchers.
The church was filed twice. The
doors We're closed alter the first 400
entered. There were as many in the
crowd outside, and Mr.. Hickson an
nounced that he would minister to
every one who desired it.
Mr.. Hickson, before he returns to
England, will conduct additional mis-
SiOnS in Massachusetts,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Anti-Wilson Plot Charged
Pou Says Republicans Seek to
Discredit President

WASHINGTON. May 17.-Republican
leaders in Congress were accused to-
day in the House by Representative
Pou, Democrat Of North Carolina, of
having joined conspiracy to discredit
President Wilson. Mr.. Pou cited the
resolution which would make it unlaw-
full for the President to leave the
country, another declaring the Office
vacant because Of absence from the
country and Il third seeking investiga-
tion Of tokens Of appreciation given
the President while abroad" as proof
of his assertions.
The conspiracy, Mr.. Pou alleged. was
based on a fear that President Wilson
would peat ''hg unp1 donabie 81
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
Eight Youths Held i'm
Rockaway Beach Hold-Up
Four Girl Companions Are De-
tained by the Police as
Material Witnesses

Eight young men who, with four
girls. were arrested at Rockaway Beach
Sunday night, charged with holding up
and robbing Stephen Pappas, confec-
TONER at the beach resort, were held in
$4,000 bail each by Magistrate Doyle in
Jamaica court yesterday. The girls had
been charged with assault and robbery,
but were discharged and later held as
material witnesses.
When the case is disposed of in Ja-
maica the men will face charge in
Manhattan of stealing the automobile
IN which they were riding at the time
OF their arrest, according to the police.
They gave their names as James Buck
ner, twenty two, Of $40 West Forty
second Street; Benjamin Herman, nine
teen, of 857 Tenth Avenue; John J.
Murtha, eighteen, of 1886 West Forty
seventh Street; Frank P. Moran, eigh-
teen, Of 695 Second Avenue; Louis A..
dc Cafero, twentyfour, of 460 East
Twenty ninth Street; William F.
Gavin, twentyone, Of 464 Eighth Ave
nue.; e. j. Horton, twenty, Of 241 East
Fiftieth Street, and Martin Cantwell,
twenty-five, Of 431 West Thirty fifth
Street.
The girls were Patricia, Peggy and
Betty Kelly, sisters, of 111s West
of 207 st. AIMS Avenue, the Bronx
They said they were dancing instruc-
tors.
Pappas was overpowered in his store
by three men, who obtained $40. Pappas
telephoned to the police. Detectives
stopped the car with drawn revolvers
According to the police the automobile
! belonged to Samuel Goldberg, 87l
Macy Place, the Bronx.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18

Swiss for League by 93,72O
GENEVA, May 1.-THE popular ma
jority in favor of adherence by Switzer-
land to the league Of nations, in the
referendum held yesterday was 1920.
The vote in favor Of the proposition
was 414,600 and the vote against if
was 320, $50.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
PEARLS DIAMONDS JEWELRY
SILNERMARE STATIONERY
Countess Markieyicz
Comes Out of Hiding
Sinn Fein Leader Makes Ora.
matte Temperance at Big
Dublin Meeting

DUBLIN, May 17.--Countess Georgia
Markievicz, Sim Fein member of Par
lament for the St. Patrick's division
of Dublin, whose whereabouts has long
been mystery made theatrical re-
appearance yesterday. She. was clad
in commandant's uniform and ap-
peared at an open air meeting in
Croker Park in memory of the mem
bers of the Irish Republican Parlia-
ment who were executed after or killed
during the rebellion of 1916.
The countess delivered an address in
which she appealed for support for
IL raided the residence of Mrs. Eamon
de Valera, wife of the Sim Fein leader.
in search of the countess.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18
90 Fined Under Park Laws
Magistrate Warns Prisoners
Apainst Throwing Paper

Sixty persons were fined 81 each yes
terday by Magistrate Levine, IN the
West Side Court, upon their arraign-
ment on charges Of having thrown
paper and refuse in Central Park,
crossing lawns and perpetrating other
violations of the park law. They were
arrested Sunday by Detectives Joseph
Flynn and Thomas Carrigan, of the
Central Park Raiding Squad, Most OF
them were foreigners.
"Other cities keep their parks clean
and there is no reason why New York
cannot do the same" said the magis-
trate in warning the prisoners. "Peo-
pie are in the habit of sitting on paper
spread on the grass When they get
np m thew leave the paper where it is.
This must stop. Hereafter the fines
will be heavier"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-18

ers Of war and be accorded better
facilities for repatriation. The British
will insist that definite information he
given regarding two British officers
who were last heard Of in South Russia
some time ago.
So far as is known here there is
only one American citizen in Baku. and
it is felt that the presence of Rear Ad-
miral Knapp on the flagship Pittsburgh
will serve to protect American interests
there.