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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
ARBUCKLE JURY
FAILS TO AGREE
SHE REFUSED TO CONSIDER EVIL
DENcE AND SAID SHE'D VOTE
GUILTY "TIL HE'LL FROZE"
JURY TIED UP BY WOMAN
In Signed Statement Foreman Says
State Asked Them To Substitute
Conjecture For Facts

San Francisco. - After forty-ont
hours of elaboration, the seven mer
and five women on the jury which
tried Roscoe Arbuckle on charge OF
manslaughter in connection with the
death of Virginia Rape was discharg
/ ed recently when it was unable to
agree upon a verdict.
| The jury was brought into court at
| it's own request at noon, reported a
disagreement and asked that it be dis
charged. The foreman announced that
the final ballot stood ten to two. The
case was set for return January 8.
August Fritze, foreman of the jury,
issued a signed statement later saying
that one of the women jurors, who was
in the minority, refused to consider
the evidence from the beginning anil
declared that "she would cast her
ballot and would not change it until
hell froze over"
There were two jurors who voted
for conviction, according to Fritze. His
statement follows:
81 make this statement as a duty
to the public.
There was a tacit understanding
that the members of the jury would
not make individual statements. l
have learned since that number of
the jury have, however, done so, and
| believe, as foreman, that it is well
for those interested in the administra-
tion of justice that the citizens of San
Francisco should have facts.
THE ten members of the jury who
voted on the last ballot for acquittal
felt that they voted on the evidence
fully considering it all One of the
two minority refused to consider the
evidence from the beginning and said
at the opening of the proceedings that
she would cast her ballot and would
not change it until hell froze over.
The other was fluctuating, sometimes
casting a blan ballot-sometimes vot-
casting blank ballot-sometimes vot-
ing for the prosecution.
Considering all the evidence, it
seemed to us that the prosecutions
case was an insult to the intelligence
of the jury. 1t asked us to substitute
for facts without showing
what had been done, and asked us to
guess what might have been done, and
to guess only one way.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
MORSE, ARRESTED
PLANS TO RETURN
sHIPeUILDINe CHIEF is ARREST
ED ON LINER PARIS AT
HAVRE, FRANCE
FINANClER NABBED on Liner
Left United States On The Liner Paris
Under Assumed Name, But Says
He Intended To Return

Havre. France.-Charles w. Morse,
American ship builder and financier,
who was taken into custody by the
police on his arrival on the liner
Paris, was released upon his promise
TO return to the United States on the
first outgoing liner.
Il am willing to return to America
by the first boat, and have so wired
the United States district attorney"
he told newspaper correspondents on
board the Paris.
Mr. Morse, who travelled on the liner
Paris, under the name of Morris, says
that he was going to Paris for kidney
operation, but that he intended to re-
turn to the United States shortly.
He declared he was unaware that
his presence in Washington might be
desired in connection with a probe
of ship contracts in connection with
the investigation of his wartime actiV-
tiles by the federal grand jury at
Washington until he was informed by
wireless that several operatives from
the Paris department were watching
for his arrival.
q am over here because of i'll
health" he added, "but l am willing
to return even at the expense of jeop-
ardizing my life
Police Commissioner Fabiani, who
was enjoying luncheon in the luxuri-
Gus dining room of the Paris as a
guest of Mr. Morse, told the CORE
spondents that he would take Mr..
Morse ashore and deliver him to the
American consul general.
A dispatch from Paris say that the
Havre police have been instructed by
the secret service of the French min
istry of the interior to arrest Charles
w. Morse, American shipbuilder and fl
nancier as soon as he lands from the
liner Paris. The instructions were
sent by telephone.
1t was explained that Morse had not
been arrested in the technical sense
of the word although he was in Gus
tody of the police on board the liner.
The police said the American was be- !
ing detained
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08

l recommend your medicine to anyone
who is ailing. You may publish my testi-
mon;al if you think twill help others. -
Mrs. CARRIE WILLIAMS, Overpeck, Ohio
For more than forty years Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
been restoring women to health VINO
suffered from Irregularities, displace-
ments, backaches, headaches, bearlngss
down pains, nervousness or the blues.
Today there is hardly town or hamlet
in the United States wherein some
woman does not reside who has been
made well by it. That is why Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is now
recognized as the standard remedy for
such ailments.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
s5O,OOO,OOO SLICED
FROM .PAYROLLS
SOME OF OLDER UNION RULES
LEFT UNCHANGED BY
THE BOARD
SIGNIFICANCE IN DECISION
Bulk OF Notifications In Working
Rules Made On Privileges Granted
During World War

Chicago.-Fifty million dollars is
trimmed from railroad payrolls by
the decision of the United States rail
road labor board, made public, an
nouncing the new working rules for
six shop craft declarations.
While the decision is in the main a
pronounced victory for the carriers,
as it greatly modifies the majority
of the working rules granted the shop
crafts under federal control, not all
of the requests of the carriers are
granted and some of the older rules
sanctioned by long experience are re-
tanned practically unchanged. The new
rules go into effect Immediately.
This decision is regarded by the
railroad labor board as the most sig
nificant work 1t has done to date
These rules and others about to be an.
nounced, had to be formulated before
wage considerations could be taken up.
Ben w. Hooper, vice chairman of
the board, announced that the board
is not in position to take up wage
matters and the controversy between
the transportation heads and the big
five brotherhoods, which recently near
ly resulted in a widespread strike, is
expected to be resumed almost imme-
diately.
Railroads hurried to notify employ
ees that 10 per cent wage cut is
contemplated. This question will be
before the board formally within six
weeks.
The bulk of the modification in shop
crafts working rules were made on
privileges granted by the government
during the war. These rules have
been bitterly assailed by the carriers
as the cause of inefficient manage
mez,t. Machinists were forbidden to
touch anything but repairs. They
cotld not disconnect wiring. This had
to be done by electricians. They could
mo-, touch pipe connection because this
WIS the work of sheet metal workers
only.
Unskilled labororsf could not dis.
mantle wooden freight cars. This was
the work of carmen.
No employee could touch an engine
CRATE except a boilermaker
1t was this condition that caused
the protests of the railroads.
Under the new rules, much Of this
condition is done away with. The
classification of the work of electric
ians, carmen, sheet metal workers,
boilermakers, blacksmiths, machinists,
and iron shipbuilders, is=so broadened
that any employee can step in and do |
most any job that requires attention.
Some of the rules are discontinued
and the complaint of the
railroads that lit takes ten men to
do four mems work" is removed.
Thus, controversy of eighteen
ends with victory in the hands
of railroad management. The fact that
the decision was filed with no dis
senting opinion of labor members of
the board is taken as acquiescence on
the part of the shop craft union lead
ers to changes in rules they did not
hope to maintain.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
KATO WANTS LARGE NAVY
Asserts That Main Issue Is Reduction
OF Armament Burdens, Ratio OF
Power Being Secondary


I
Washington.-To safeguard properly
the interests of the japanese empire
the ratio of 20 per cent in tonnage
Of capital ships is necessary, Vice Ad,
miral Kanji Kato. president Of the Jap
anese naval college and chief naval
adviser to the Japanese delegation to
| the Washington conference. said to
the Associated Press recently in an
interview.
Vice Admiral Kato, who is regarded
as the leading Japanese authority on
naval strategy, declared that the main
issue for the conference on limitation
of armament was the reduction of
armament burdens.
Japan accepts this issue whole
heartedly," he continued, and is quite
prepared to scrap capital ships under
construction and old battleships. The
naval ratio is question OF grave con-
Germ to the security of the nations.
hope the United States will accept the
20 per cent for Japan which is the
minimum of strength required for her
security
The vice admiral remarked that the
agreement to limit ornaments must
be accomplished by a thorough I'M
derstanding of all those participating.
People of all countries" he said,
must be in full agreement, otherwise
even though an agreement be made,
it might create an unpleasant feeling
and defeat its purpose. To meet the
desires of the Japanese people, as to
their national defense, l believe that
70 per cent ratio as compared with
the United States and Great Britain
is necessary"
"The main issue in\the limitation of
armament, as I have stated above, is
to relieve the burdens of the nations.
Japan has shown her hearty accord
to the idea and has agreed to the
wholesale scrapping of capital ships
under construction as well as old
ships. This practically means that the
great purpose of the conference has
been attained, because it indicates that
In the future there will come about
huge reduction in naval expenditure.
There is another point to which I
would like to call your attention. When
you think about the sacrifice made by
the nations represented at this confer /
ence, it seems clear that the degree
of sacrifice is very great for Japan.
l mean that it will be felt more keenly
by us than by the United States be-
cause our Industrial and shipbuilding
power cannot be compared to that of
America.
when it comes to national aspira-
lions and the general security of the |
state, believe it best for the country |
to decide what these nation
al aspirations are and what security is
needed to safeguard them.
THE preamble to the American pro-
posals specifically says that the United |
States believes that the plan later pre-
sented safeguards the interests of all
Let me emphasize again
that in order to safeguard the inter-
ssts of the Japanese empire 70 per
cent is necessary. II the ratio of 20
per cent is accorded to Japan this does
not mean the purpose of the confer
ence Is defeated, because, as l have
pointed out before, the main purpose
If the present meeting in Washington
IS limitation of ornaments. The rela-
ivity Of tonnage IS not the principal
ssue."
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Arbuekle Witness Is Poison Victim

San Francisco.-The poisoning of
Mrs. Irene Morgan, leading witness
for the defense, and the beginning of
the closing arguments of both sides,
were outstanding developments recent
ly in the trial of Roscoe Arbuckie.
Systematic police search was begun
for the stranger alleged to be respon-
sible for the poisoning of Mrs. Nor
gan The district attorney announced
his entire force would aid in the in
vestigation
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
"wouId Continue Truce In Ireland

"Would Continue Truce In ireland"
London.-@In confirmation of previ-
Gus reports by the United News that
suspension of the Irish peace negotia-
tons might be agreed upon by both
parties in order to permit Lloyd-George
time to attend the Washington confer
ence, it is learned from reliable
sources that the government has al
ready begun to take certain measures
to guarantee the observance of the
truce during the premier's absence.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
sIx Persons KILLED In Head-on CRASH

Portland, oregon.-Six persons were
killed in head-on collision between
the eastbound Portland-Spokane limit
cd and westbound oregon-Washington
limited trains of the 0regon-Washing-
ton railroad and Navigation Company,
two miles east of Cello. Twenty-Five
persons were injured. Among the dead
was A. II. Mcbride, marine. who was
guarding the mail on one Of Tho
trains. The others who were killed In,
cluded two trainmen and three Oregon
passengers.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08

Ten Students Are Killed In Crash
Red Bluff, Cal.-Ten high school
students we're killed recently south Of
here at the Proberta crossing when
Southern Pacific train No. Is. south
bound. struck the high school auto
mobile bus in which they were riding
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Printers Strike On italian Newspapers

Rome. Italy.--Italy will be without
newspapers following decision of the
printers union to declare a general
strike in protest against the killing Of
Fascist at Triest recently of Signor
Miller, president Of the Triest Typo
graphical union. The killing of Miller
has caused widespread indignation,
owing to the manner in which the
deed was committed. The Fascist cap
tured Miller and forcibly took him to
an isolated spot where several bullets
we're fired into his body. The wound.
ed man was left to die
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Ford And Edison View Wilson Dan

Florence, Ala.-Henry Ford, Detroit
automobile manufacturer, and Thomas
A. Edison the electrical wizard, re-
recently inspected the gaunt skele-
ton of the great Wilson dam, which
constitutes the nucleus around which
Ford will build and Industrial empire.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Hero Of lost Battalion" Lost At Sea

New York.-Lieut. Col Charles w.
Whittlesey, hero Of the famous lost
battalion has disappeared from the
steamship Toloa, on which he sailed
November 96 for Havana, according
to wireless message received here.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
France And Italy Join In HandcIasr

Washington.-Sena Sehanzer Of
the Italian arms delegation and Rene
Viviani of the French clasped hands
warmly under the open sky before the
newly unveiled statue CT Dante. By
that handclasp, the reported rupture
between Schanzer and BRAND, with its
aftermath of anger and bloodshed, was
denied publicly and dramatically.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
League OF Nations Calls Meeting

League OF Nations Calls Meeting
Geneva, Switzerland.-The league Of
nations has issued call for the men,
bers of the international court of JUS
tice to meet at The Hague on January
30. Formal opening of the court is
expected early In February.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08

FOR COLDS, GROUP AND PAINS.
Use Vacher-Balm 1t relieves at once
AVOID INVITATIONS.
If we have no agent where you live,
write to r. w. vacher, Inc, New
Orleans, La.-Advertisement.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08

New York.--Members of the New
York cotton exchange recently voted
to erect new 100000 exchange
building on the site of the present
structure of Beaver and William
streets.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08

before and after my
baby was born. /
suffered with back
ache, headache, was
generally run down
and weak. | saw
Lydia E. Pinkham's
We ge t a bic Com
pound advertised in
the newspapers and
decided to try lit
Now | feel fine, take
care of my two boys
apd do NV own work.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Harding To Pay Honor To Dante

TIdTu1Hg TO ray FToHUT TO Ddnto
Washington.-President Harding and
other dignitaries will pay honor to
the memory to Dante, the Italian poet,
by attending the unwilling Of statue
to the author Of the Divine comedy
here.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Foxes Infest War Trenches.

Foxes have multiplied greatly In the
valley of the Mouse. and In several
districts have made their holes in the
deserted French and German trenches.
The soldiers, perhaps, had little idea
when they nicknamed them "fox
holes" that some time real foxes would
lnhabit them.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Strike OF Harbor Workers Unsettled

New Orleans.-The conference ar
ranged by Governor Parker between
operators and labor leaders which
sought to terminate the strike of the
twelve thousand harbor employees at
this port, adjourned without finding
basis for settlement. The different
Interpretation of the Galveston basis
of handling cotton upon which both
factions had practically agreed would
be acceptable as compromise was re-
sponsible for the failure In negotia-
lions. The conference win hold other
sessions
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Springfield viii Offer Hospital Site

Springfield, Mass.-A campaign to
have the New England hospital for
crippled children of the Shriners, To-
Gated in this city, was started recent
ly as result of conference between
Executive Secretary B. F. A. Hapgood,
of the chamber of commerce, and Po-
tentate Walter H. Damon, of Melba
temple.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
KipIIns's Son One OF Wars Missing

Binghampton, N. Y.-Rudyard Kip
ling's son, John, was one of the thou
sands of soldiers lost in the worlds
war whose fate is not officially record
ed He joined the army when barely
eighteen years old, and was reported
wounded and missing in northern
France in October, 1915.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08

$4,000 In Gold Taken BY Bandits
Sacramento, Calif.-Gold bullion to
the amount of 100000 was obtained
by bandits, armed with sawed-off shot
guns, who held up the Argonaut mine
at Jackson, Amador county, accord
ing to report to the Sacramento po-
lice department.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08

The optImist Is man who believes
that thing Is for the best until
something better happens.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
Noted N. Y. Criminal Lawyer Dead

Noted NJ. Y. Criminal Lawyer Dead
New York.-Robert M. Moore, noted
criminal lawyer. died recently as re-
suit of injuries received when struck
by an automobile near his home on
West Ninety-sAth street. Joseph
Dempsey, driver of the machine, was
arrested ON a charge of homicide.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-08
BEFORE AND AFTER
CHILDBIRTH
Mrs. Williams Tells How
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Kept Her
in Health

overpeck, O.-"Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound helped me both
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-12

dreds of cut-of- town visitors dis appointed.
 Such free concert as those who attended the Jefferson last night heard has never before been given here.
 The three artists whom Mime. Tetraxzini affectionately calls ssher boys, pushed to the fore by the illness of their great singer, left an impression which will finger long.
 Max Gegna, 'cellfst, Henri Rove. flutist. and Francesca LOngo, pianist. demonstrated to their nudi- ence. supercritical becasue of the shock dealt few moments before, that Mime. TetraExini was not the only stnr on the tour.
 Mir. BOve, f1utist, was the out standing personality of the trio, not dfscrediting the others one bit. His masterful control of his instru- memt stamps him as one of the really great artists, Outranked possibly by only one in the entire profession. the great French vir- tuasO.
 His dainty and delightful rendi- ton of . little waltn from Chopin was his feature work of the eve ming, and he was obliged to re- spond to two encOrcs at this junc- lure.
 The coordination of Instruments in the selections from "SamsOn ct Delilah." the concluding number, drew picture as If with an artists brush. so vivid were the contrasts made possible by their harmony.
 Nothing can be kaid to detract from the work of the other two artists, MT. Gegna and MT. Longo. MT. Gcgna is a 'ceIlist far beyond the average. and Mir. LonEo pianist of rare ability.
 The programme rendered by the three artists follows.
 '<Serenades tTitl), Mersrs. LonsO, Rove and Gegna.
 "Symphonic vnriations- (Roeli- manD. MT. Gesnn.
 "Serenade" UaviEnac), "Waltx" (Chopin), Mir. BOve.
 Selections Mir. LOnEo.
 sRhnpsotlie.' (Popper), MT. Ccgna.
 Selections from ssSamson ct Der lilah" tsnint Saens). Messrs. Longo, Gegnn and BOve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-12
BELIEVES CITY ID
 GET BETTER RATES

More advantageous class rates for Bir- mingham to and from Ohio and Missis- sippi river crossings are in prospect, ac- cording to o. l.. Bum, general manaser of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Birmingham Traffic Bureau, who has just returned from Nashville and Wash ington. where he argued Birmingham $ claims to more equitable rates, especially from Memphis to this place.
 'T feel especially optimistic with re- gard to the rates from Memphis. MT. Bum said "It was not difficult to prove to the interstate commerce com mission that with Birmingham and Nash vile equidistant from Memphis, and this city closer to Memphis than Chatta- nocga, the present rates are wrong The first-class rate from Memphis to tne points named is as follows:
 To Birmingham ......................,. .sl ,S6iS To Nashville ,......................... l.usFs To Chattanooga .......,............... l.l9
 s'I secured admission from one commits sioner that such rates did not at all con form to the long and short-haul clause Of the transportation act of 1920.
 ssIn the matter of the class rates to and from Ohio and Mississippi river functions, our contention was not for lower rates. but for such an alignment of rates as would be just to Birming- nam in respect to other cities.
 we asked that the rates applied to Mississippi points recently be made the basis of rate realignment. so far as Blr- mingham is concerned, If that is done Birmingham will have as fine set of freight rates as one could ask.
 "Our whole contention has not been that other places should be punished, but that other places should not Ne accorded rates that were out of alignment with .justice to Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-12
DECISION IN HARRISON CASE
 DURING NEXT WEEK
Courtroom Crowded as Case Against States Law Officer Brings SalIies From Eith-
 CT Sides Counsel

Decision in the case of w. l.. Harrison. who is seeking to restrain Conrad w. Austin, chief of the law enforcement de- partment of the state. and his deputies, from the alleged violation of his per- sonal rights by following him around, eavesdropping him and picketing his place of business, will be decided by Judge Hugh A. Locke. in the chancery division of the circuit court next week.
 At the conclusion of arguments for counsel yesterday afternoon the case was taken under advisement by Judge Locke, who expects to render a decision within the next few days.
 Hearing of this petition has consumed the past two days and no oral testi- mony was taken, submission being on the pleadings and number of affidavits by both sides and on the arguments.
 Practically the entire morning session yesterday was taken up by c. P. Bed dow for the defendants while the clos ing argument was made by Huga l.. Black for the complainant
 All during the hearing of this case the courtroom was crowded with interested spectators and at no time did interest lag. The outcome is being watched by the public generally and it is expected that which ever side loses will take an appeal to the supreme court.