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Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-06
The Wide Open Door

The proposed amendment which ostensbly pro-
vides for City Manager plan of government for Pu-
ebo, aboshes the commission form of city government
and opens wide the door for the establishment par
tisan political machine corrupt bipartisan gang.
The supreme and central authority in the proposed
in the first and sections of the amendment and
enlarged in later section eleven persons by the add
ton of president elected by the ten representative
members
Six representative members of the council would be
a majority of that body. They would have the power
TO elect president, thus increasing their number to
They would have the power to choose the city
manager, to fix his salary, and at any time without
giving any reason to remove him from office.
All members of the council must without pay,
altho they must give much time the duties Of their
office and assume much responsibility. Any member
of the council who is absent for five consecutive meetings
who is convicted of violating any provision of the
charter creates vacancy, and his place may be flled
by the majority of the Council Further, the Council
shall be the judge of the election and qualification cf
its members, and by two-thirds vote may ch>-se
the boundaries of the representative districts
Under such charter machine or gang government
it could not be overthrow by anything short of an up
heav9l of public sentiment.
The main theory of the amendment seems to be to
take power of the hands of the people who cannot
be trusted. That power thus removed may easily be
used to serve purposes antagonstic to the public
interests
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-06
T0DAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Frank W. Moudeil of wyoming. Rc-
publican floor leader of tho L. $.
house OF representatives, born in st.
Louis. 81 years ago today.
Lord Charuwood. traveller writer.
and Irish Home Rule advocate, born
in England. 81 years ago today.
Walter johnson. one of tho most
ccIebrateu of professional BASEBALL
pitcherH, born MT Humboldt. Ksa. 90
ycars ago today
fznAce Jan PadercwEki. rnmous
pianist and erHtwhne premier of po-
land. born In RusBiJ Poland. 81 wears
go today
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-06
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Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-06
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

General Wrangels army was driven
rapidly back from the Dniopcr aud
Into the Crimea Peninsula.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-06

THE CHrEFTArN has tho b,s.
quality OF circulation for advertiser,
OF any newspaper published In Colo
RADIO. 1t consistently supports the up-
building of the state with Just regard
10 every citizen. and IT has the confi-
dencc and approval OF Colorado's best
citizens Of every class and section.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-06

]. D. Kennedy, father Of J. B.
Kennedy. for whose death Arthur
c. Burch is being tried and Mada-
lynne Obenchain 1, awaiting trial.
10 an Interested spectator at
Burch's trial. now on In Los An
Eeles. Kennedy was shot while he
and hadalynne were at his Lunga-
low in Beverly Glenn, near Los
Angeles
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
RURAL MAIL CARRIER ROBBED.
Two Bandits Get s4I,5O0 PayrooI at
 Carterville, III.

Carterville, H., Sept. 29.-Two ban dits held up and robbed a substitute rural mail carrier between Carterville and Bush of 4l,5O0, the payroll of the Western Coal and Mining Com pany at Bush, late this evening, it was learned here. The bandits accompa- nied Lawrence Gerard, the driver. as passengers in the taxicab, used to haul the mail from Bush.
 Gerard, taking the place of Edward Zimmerman, the regular carrier, who IS Ill, said he was within three miles of completing the trip when the two ban dlts ordered him to drive the car into the woods along the roadway, one of them pressing revolver against his back.
 Gerard, according to reports here, was forced out of his automobile and tied to tree. The men then lifted the mail sacks out of the car and rified them.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
FREIGHT RATES AND THE
 FARM FRS.
the Arkansas Gazette.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 The same serious situation, grow ing out of high freight rates, that confronts farmers in the truck and melon belts of Hampstead and Nevada counties, confronts farmers in various parts of this country. Unless freight rates are reduced it will not pay to ship melons and truck from Hemp stead and Nevada counties to the mar kets. This means the loss of a big and rapidly growing industry. Farm CTS in Northwestern and Western states, in Republican territory, cannot ship some of their products because of high freight rates, and Republican congressman who must stand for re- election soon return to these districts with fear and trembling.
 Here is one of the reasons thous- ands of dollars worth of watermelons were fed to hogs in Arkansas this year. On August 2 five cars of water melons were shipped by B. T. Ward from Arcadia to Chicago. The melons arrived in good condition and were sold at high prices, bringing S1.25O. Uf this amount Sl 100 went to pay freight charges and SIS went to com mission brokers, leaving only $75 for the growers of the five cars. In other cases melons, tho selling at top prices, did not bring enough to pay the freight charges.
 The effort of the railroads for years past has been to increase rates stead fly. They now are confronted not only with shippers strike, but with a travellers strike. Admitting that the railroads have suffered from unreason- able legislation in the past, and that they now are having q difficult time in making buckle and tongue meet, it is still plain they have gone too far in piling increase upon increase.
 It is not to be denied that bringing about those necessary readjustments and economies that will allow the rail- roads to reduce freight and passenger rates and at the same time make an adequate profit, is a difficult job. But the job will have to be done to save industry and to save the railroads.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
LOVE FOR WIFE LEADS
 MAN TO DEATH CHAIR
Amos Ratliff, Who Killed Two. Fol lowing Minor 0ffense, So Lays
 the Blame.

Little Rock, Sept. 28.-Amos Rat Tiff, 25 years old, will die in the elec- tric chair at the state penitentiary Friday, unless there is last minute communication by Governor McRae.
 Ratlig, twice a murdered, attrib- utes most of his troubles to his wife. First sentenced to the penitentiary for selling mortgaged property, he returned to his Carroll county home to find his wife had deserted him, he says. He met her with the man who, he had been told, had captured her love. Meeting the couple on the road, Ratliff drew a gun and killed John Berry, his wife's suitor.
 Friends got him out on bail and he started out to raise funds to pay law yers to defend him. He borrowed some from a bank, but that ran out before time for his trial. He heard that Miss Frazier kept S8,O0O hid- den in her home. He got two com panions and they plotted to rob the woman, but the friends got "cofd feet" He made the efforts alone.
 Going to the house at night. he called on the woman, who was in bed, to put up her hands. Instead she sprang from the bed, screamed and threw blanket about her. He nred, one. shot, and his second mur- der had been committed.
 This time there wasn't much. de- iay. lie was sentenced to death.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
LAW OF GRAVITY IS
 EXPLODED BY V0LIVA
Zion Oyerseer, Who Has Just Pro- claimed World Flat, Finds New
 ton Theory Absurd

claimed World Flat, Finds New
 ton Theory Absurd.
 Zion, H., Sept 29.-- With a book, a toy balloon, a brick and a feather, Wilbur Glenn Voliva. overseer of Zion, last night demonstrated his dis belief in Newton's theory that objects fall because they are pulled by gray ity toward the center of the earth.
 There is no such thing as the law of gravity" declared the successor of Alexander Dowie, who recently pro- claimed the world fiat and had no motion, in his Wednesday night ad- dress in Shiloh tabernacle.
 They write books on the law of gravitation, Voliva said. There is no such thing. How is it that the law of gravitation' can pull up toy balloon and cannot pull up a brick bat. 1 throw this book up, why doesn't it go on up? That book went up as far as the force behind it forced it, and it fell because it was heavier than the air, and then it begins to settle. take this brick bat and a feather. l blow the feather Finally it begins to come down. The brick bat goes up as far as the force forces it up thru the air and then it comes down. That is all
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
POLICEMEN SELL
 !. AND RESELL BOOZE
Multiple Shakedown System of Chi cago Police Explained-In Full Uniform, Officers Start Scheme
 by Robbing Cars

Chicago, Sept. 2s.--A multiple shakedown system thru which Chi cago policemen were alleged to have obtained as many as half dozen rakeoffs on the same case of whiskey, was revealed today as the govern ment turned it's full strength into the investigation of the police depart ment, said by Charles Fitzmorris, chief of police, to contain 2,500 boot leggers in a membership of 5000. The request of Chief Fitzmorris that the federal authorities help him clean his own house. made last week, was placed before the federal grand jury with score of witnesses, most of them policemen, testifying at the 1 first session of the inquiry.
 One of these witnesses, according to officials, explained the multiple shake-down. Members of the police | force, organized in bands, he said, would obtain information as to ship ments of whiskey from other cities 1 into Chicago and then, in full uni WOUtu 1VO bAtC NoAo AH eA@~ freight yards under the pretense they were confiscating the liquor. I The whiskey then was sold at fair I ly cheap bootlegging prices, the cheap ness making it easy to get customers to take it in case lots. When the h.
 quor was delivered, however, DO.
 liceman always appeared and de
 manded substantial amount from
 the recipient for protection. After
 the sum had been paid, other police men would raid the place and afte,
 collecting another protection fee
 would "confiscate" the liquor, reset
 it and repeat the process of graft
 sometimes half a dozen times before
 turning the whiskey over to favored
 saloon keeper for sale by the drink at high prices.
 I According to federal officials, tho
 investigation will go back to tho
 Mike de Pike" Heitler case where
 two bands of uniformed policemen fought for possession of car load o1
 liquor, valued at S165,000, and shipi
 here from Kentucky.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
GAVE WIFE DOLLAR A DAY
Then Husband Said She Spent It or
 Other Men.

New York. Sept. 28.--Mrs. Anna Gerard asked Justice Faber in the Brooklyn police court today for an or der directing her husband, William Gerard, an employe of the Art Print ing Company of Manhattan, to pay her $25 week and $500 counsel fees pending trial of his separation suit. Mrs. Gerard also asked S200 for hos pitai charges, as she expects to become mother soon.
 Gerard accuses his wife of abandon ment. She denies this charge and ac- cuses her husband of cruel and inhu- man treatment.
 ~After our marriage I was taken to a furnished room in Manhattan. Each morning before leaving home my hus- band would give me $1 with instruc- tions that 1t was to provide the house for that day. On his return he would demand an accounting of the money given. When told that the dollar had beer spent for food for the house he told me 1 lied and that I had spent it on other men,"
 Gerard denies he ever struck his wife.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
MANY TO KANSAS CITY MEET.
Arkansas Legionaires VII. A:;sasa. Annual Meeting in Large Numbers.

Arkansas Legianaires Nil! Attend
 Annual Meeting in Large Numbers. Special to The Star
 Little Rock, Sept. 29.--It is expect ed there will be very large attend ance of Arkansas Legionaires at the annual meeting of the American Le- zion in Kansas City, in November. One of the features of the convention will be the greatest flying circus ever staged in the United States. Kansas City is preparing to entertain 100000 delegates and visitors October 31 to November 2. More than a score of World War heroes, leaders of the AL lied army, will participate in the aer- ial program. President Harding will also be present. Railroads all over the country have reduced fares to 1 cent mile for the convention dele gates and all necessary arrangements are being made to house the throngs who will attend. The flying circus will demonstrate the progress in avia- tion since the close of the war. There will be $l0,000 in cash prizes and S10,- 900 in cups. Planes of every type have been entered for the meet and there will come from Europe several ships which became famous for their exploits in the World War. The final event will be the Legion derby, which will be over a 150 mile course in 30 laps, in which the speediest planes in the United States have been entered.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
ALTERATIONS OF THE OZARKS. From the Arkansas Gazette.


 Word comes from Harrison that R. W. Bass, steel construction con- tractor of Detroit, has begun work on a $20,000 home on his farm. which lies on the Jefferson highway six miles north of Harrison. We are told that Mir. and Mrs. Bass expect to spend some months of every year at their home in the 0zarks.
 With trunk highways traversing the Ozarks there will be, we do not doubt, hundreds of cases like this one. People with the means to in- dulge in second home will be at- tracted to the Ozarks in increasing numbers as those regions are made more easily accessible to the modern vehicle of transportation, the motor car. In the high and healthful hills or this state there are thousands of beautiful and interesting spots that invite the building of country places. When these spots can be reached over improved highways, and when they have been seen by people from other states who will travel the im- proved highways of Arkansas. they VIII year by year be taken for home sites. Thus we may look for continual increase in the number of permanent or part-time residents of Arkansas Wno have. come here for the same reasons that move people to build homes in the hills of New York or m Southern California-ecenic and climatic attractions.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
TAXES AIRP[ANE
 NEAR s MILES UP
Lieut.. J. A. McReady, Test Pilot at MeCook Field, Ohio, Aseends 4O.s0O Feet and Suffers No
 Hardship.

Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 29.-Lieut. John 4. McReady, test pilot ct McCook field, yesterday shattered the worlds altitude record, attaining a height of 40, 500 feet in the same LePere bi- plane used by Major Rudolf Schroed- CT. who set a record of S8,l80 feet on February 2S, 1920.
 Lieutenant McReady was in the air one hour and 4 minutes, requiring all but a few minutes of the total flying time to reach his mark. At 39,00O feet ice formed on his oxygen tank, but he pressed on until the altimeter registered 1000. At this point his engine coughed and died. He then glided safely to the ground.
 McReady's new record is 2,620 feet higher than that of Schroeder, and in this flight the pilot suffered none of the hardships met by the former chief pilot. Schroeder's eyeballs froze and excessive dilation of the heart kept him in hospital nearly two weeks after the flight.
 Test Out Improvements.
 The flight made primarily was for the purpose of testing improvements made on the super-charged invented by Amoss, who witnessed the flight, and also a new propeller of very high pitch, perfected by engineers at the local field.
 On landing McReady declared he suffered nothing but numbness. He climbed out of the plane unassisted and posed for several photographs.
 Lieut.. George B. Patterson, chie1 of the technical data section of tht field, assisted by Lieutenant Mortar. ly, took charge of McReady's instru ment, as soon as accumulated ice wal cleared off the ship and following calibration, announced the official al titude as 40,800 feet.
 i When accumulation of ice on th' plane at 39,000 feet caused one oxy gen tank to cease functioning, auxili ary tanks provided for just such ai emergency were brought into use ant safety of the pilot was assured.
 Clothes Electrically Heated.
 McReady was clothed in the heavi est furs, with special helmet and gog gles. Te insure clear vision specia gelatine was used on the goggles t. prevent collection of ice. The sui was electrically heated turnout.
 A centrifugal air compressor oper ated by gas turbine forms the sup exchanged which made the fight pos sible. The turbine derives its powe from the hot-exhaust gas liberty mo tor with which the ship is equipped and air thus compressed is fed to tn carburetor at the same pressure a air at sea level.
 i The hi-plane was designed in Janu ary, 1918, by Captain LaPere, French aviator, while working unde direction of the United States govern ment.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
THRILLING RESCUE AT SEA.
Ten Japanese Without Food or Water
 Adrift for Sixteen Days.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 2s.-Storm- tossed at sea, their little gasoline ocean-going steamer waterlogged and helpless, ten Japanese sailors were rescued by the steamer Abercos on her voyage homeward from the Orient. The. rescue, according to the Chroni- gle Tn Captain K P T. Woods log of the journey, was thrilling, spiced with the weird religious superstition of Nip pon and the gallantry of American seamen. The Japanese marines had been drifting for sixteen days and were without food or water for six days. 0's After the men had been taken on board the Abercos and fed, one of inc Japanese sailors, true to his relipion. went to the rail and threw rice and nsn into the ocean for the lost seamen,
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
 STREAM A FREAK OF NATURE
But Phenomenon Seems Simple--Af-
 ter 1t Is Explained.

VI At 70 LAPtdtitC0s
 A small stream called Bear Creek flowing from the glaciers of Mount Adams, near Husum, Wash, i. is a freak. It plays hide and seek along it's course thru the forest, slipping into cave here, crevice there and reappearing below full fiedged rivu- let. Its bed is ice coated nearly the entire year; on the surface rocks float and in the water logs sink.
 The water is bright yellow in one place, red in another and like bluing when it flows into the Columbia river.
 Bear Creek, differing from other streams, freezes at the bottom first instead of the surface. This is caused by rocky formation, similar to corrugated washboard, retard- ing the movement of the water, fore ing the surface to move swifter. In this way air bubbles are shot down. ward. carrying freezing tempera- lures, and ice forms. Often in win ter the stream flows while the bed is solid ice.
 This stream also contains more water in one part of it's system than m another. A 4foot depth quickly becomes a tiny brooklet by the water disappearing into the porous volcanic bedrock. Later it reappears and re- sumes it's course.
 The logs that readily sink are a species of black jack pine with a specific gravity heavier than water. They are carried into the creek by. landslides.
 Rocks seen floating are a sort of pumice or lava elinkers released by melting glaciers.
 The yellow color is direct from the glaciers, the red caused by red clay bluffs, and the blue by deposit of copper quartz thru which the stream has cut its bed.-New YorF Sun.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
KU KLUK BATTLE
 WITH TEXAS POSSE
SherilT's Posse Tries to Stop Parade of the Klansmen at Lorena. and at Least Nine Are Wounded
 More Trouble Is Feared.

Waco, Tex, Oct. 1.--Nine men are known to have been wounded and oth- CTS are thought to have received in- Juries when a posse headed by Sheriff Bob Buchanan of McLennan county attempted to disperse a parade of Ku Klux Klansmen at Lorena, near here, tonight.
 Until midnight no deaths had been reported, tho, due to the crowds which thronged the section where the ngagement took place, it has been im- possible to determine the exact num- Der of injured or the extent of their wounds.
 Notice that parade would be to- night had been issued by the klans- men. The sheriff countered with the public announcement that he would oppose any demonstration.
 Sheriff Grabbed the Flag.
 When the head of the parade came into the main street of Lorena the sheriff stepped out of the crowd and attempted to wrest an American flag from the hands of one of the leaders of the hooded procession. That was the signal for the melee to begin. The crowded thorofare became a rioting mass in an instant. Weapons appeared on all sides. Revolvers parked and knives flashed as officers, klansmen and spectators were drawn into the human whirlpool. Men went down and were trampled upon. 9th CTS, believed to have been injured, made their way from the scene of the battle in motor cars or on foot It was not learned whether any members of the klan lost their robes and hoods in the battle. Sheriff Buchanan at a hospital here, said he was unable to recognize any of them. His condition is said to be critical.
 Klan and Law in First Clash.
 It was the first open clash of the klansmen with the law and order | forces. Texas has been a hotbed of agitation for and against the revived invisible empire" Many outrages have been eommuted, nearly all of which have been disclaimed by the Ku Klux members. However in one of two instances charters of local organ lizations have been revoked because of violence committed in the name of the klan.
 Parades have been held in many towns over the state--they are an al- most daily occurrence now-as if in answer to the proposals to enact leg Iislation forbidding demonstrations by masked secret orders.
 It was several hours after the out break began at Lorena that order was Sufficiently restored to learn just what had occurred. The town still was in an excited mood late tonight and further trouble is possibility.
 Nine Known Injured. Those known to be suffering from knife or bullet wounds are:
 Sheriff Buchanan, Waco, shot twice in right side.
 Louis Crow, Waco, laundry proprie- tor, knife wounds in right side
 Carl West, Lorena, bullet wound in neck.
 | Will Lawson, Lorena, knife wounds.
 Ed. Johnson, Waco, knife wounds.
 Julien Minter, Waco, knife wounds.
 Will Austin, Lorena, knife wound. Charles Westbrook, Lorena, knife wounds.
 L. s. Dumas, Waco, bullet wounds.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
THREATEN LIFE OF JUDGE.
Reducing Charge in ArbuckIe Case
 Brings Many Letters.

San Francisco, Sept. 30.-Many threatening letters have been re- ceived by Police Judge Sylvan Lazar- us' who conducted the preliminary nearing of the murder charge against Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, in connec- non with the death of Virginia lhsappe,, and have been turned over to today. ''0 ''''e eu
 Most of the letters were precipi- tated by Judge Lazarus action in M ra- uocing the murder charge to man. slaughter, he said. The letters were not made public
The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
SUFFER FROM MALARIA
Fatal Tropical Fever Has Broken Out
 in Volga Section. Russia.

Riga, Sept. 29.--A fever similar to that found in cases of tropical malar- ia, which is frequently fatal, especial ly among children, is prevalent in the Volga section of Russia, according to 2 radio dispatch received here from Moscow.
 In cities in the famine area there is an increase in the cases of spotted and recurrent typhus in heavy form.