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New-York tribune., 1922-02-15
Users of HOme-Made
Liquor Risk Sudden
Death, ExpcrtWarns
Bellevue Psychologist Says
BEST Formulm'' May Pro-
duce Poison; l27 Died
Here of Alcoholism in '21

Consumers of home manufactured
alcoholic liquors, especially so-called
whlskey and gin. run the risk o. sud
den death, whether or not there is
wood alcohol Involved in it's manufac
ture This is the opinion of Dr.. Alex
andcr o. Goettler. Bellevue Hospital
toNicologist. expressed in connection
with the report Of Chief Medical En-
aminer Norris. made public yesterday
of deaths IN New York City through
misadventure during 1921.
Home dist'lling. even according to
what arc known as "the best formu
lac may produce deadly poisonous
products. Or. Goettler asserts More
than 1oo analyses made in Bellevue
Hospital laboratory III the last twelve
months disclosed that in many in
stances deadly mixtures are produced
through use OF such substances as
acetone. ether. formaline and pyridne
but that products quite as deadly are
turned out by still operators without
the other ingredients named.
The report shows that while wood
alcohol poisoning cases decreased dur.
ing 1921 there was q disquietirg in
crease in the total Of deaths due tc
alcoholism. placed a. III. Sixteen per
sons died from wood alcohol poison
ing. Six died from injuries due to cx
plosion of stills. In 1920 nineteen died
from wood alcoh holism and no deaths
from alcoholism Of the ordinary type
were reported Similarly, no alcohol
ism fatalities were reported in 1919
bat fftv-fou: persons died of wood al
cohol poisoning
The figures show decrease in hori-
cides for 1921. compared with 1920
but exceed those of 1918 and 1919
There were 3o1 homie ides during tbs
year in Greater New York. 2o6 by
shooting thi'ty-cight by stabhing and
thirty eight by violent assault In
1929 there vcre 1874 shootings. fifty
two cases of death from assault and
forty Stabbiucs. II 1919 there were
$ol homicdcs by shooting fifty-fyc by
assault and fortyeight by stabbing.
Returns for 1871 show heavy in
crease in suicides. $40 men and women
taking their lives Illuminating gas
accounted for 29l. Those who chose
hanging numbered ninety-eight and
l5i used firearms. Jumping from higl
structures was the method Of lo6 II
1920 there we're 707 suicides and ir
1919 there were $50.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-15
Egg Dealer Who Cheated
L. s. Gets Year i'm Prison
Ben njamin Kalmanson Sen.
fenced for Frauds in Claims
Tie Filed for Rrcakagc

Benjamin kalmanson, an egg dca lcr
at 3102Greenwich Street, was sentenced
to year and a day in Atlanta Fed RAJ
pcnltcntiary yesterday as a result Of
his conviction in District Court last
week for collecting from the govern
ment on fraudulent claims for break
age in the mails. According to Post
office Inspector +. A. Schwab, he col
lected $3,28l in eighteen months end
ing in August, 1921, on 3o5 bills for
broken eggs and filed 673 other claims
in the same period for 5000.
The attention Of tho government was
attracted to Kalmanson, James S.
johnson, Assistant United States At
torncy, explained when it was found
that he was reporting the brcakage Of
about fourteen dozen eggs in every
crate of thirty dozen he recciXed. His
r'"'"'s were so far out OF proportion to
those of others engaged in the same
~..,. css that the authorities checked
up the actual loss on each crate before
delivery and were thus able to collect
the evidence Of the fraud of which Kal
manson was convicted
New-York tribune., 1922-02-15
Coontz Backs Dcnby's
Plea for 90, 900 Navy
More Than 200 Destroycrs Now
Laid Up With Skeleton
Crews. He RcpOrts

WASHINGTON, Feb. More than
200 dcstroyers of the United States
Navy now are lying in various ports
with depleted c~c"-, barely sufficient
IN number to keep up their intricate
mechanism, Admiral Robert f. Coontz.
chief of naval operations. testified to-
day before the House Naval Committee
Only sixty-fivc ships of this class are
in Cooperating commissions" the Admiral
said, and the crews Of these are being
maintained at 80 per cent Of normal
strength
Supporting Secretary Denby's recon-
mendation that the enlisted strength
OF the navy be not reduced below so
600. the witness said that the 100 de-
stroycrs which would be placed wholly
out Of comm isson to make possible the
reduction of 10000 men in the naval
personnel suggested by Secretary Dem
BY "will deter'orate to greater or
less extent while laid up
AS to the effect of the naval limita-
ton treaty. Admiral Coontz said:
"Thc result Of the limitation of arma-
ment conference will be to place upon
each signatory power the onus Of keep
ing ltA tonnage aIIOtmentS up 20 :hc
razor edge of efficiency. Should We
reduce below the minimum stated by
the Secretary of the Navy it viii be
reduction by example and net by
agreement.
"Thc measure Ct the ratio of % 3
will be the efficiency and sufciency Of
the personnel Of the fleet No other
nation has taken any actual step tow
ard reducing its personnel
Supporting Secretary Denby's re-
quest for naval appropriation next
year Of $350,000 900, Admiral Coontz
said that except for the action of the
arms conference the navy within a few
years would have cost around $780,
0OO, 900 annually,
New-York tribune., 1922-02-15
Fight for Full Grew Law
Trainmen Here Ask Assembl,
Not to Rcpeal II

Resolutions asking the Legislature to
take no action on the bills introduced
in the Senate and Assembly repeating
the full crew law have been forwarded
to Albany by Local 598 Of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen
The amendments, if passed, the res
olutions state, will "destroy a law that
has been the means Of saving thou
sands Of lives and limbs. not only OF
the travelling public, who are compelled
to travel daily upon the trains but of
New-York tribune., 1922-02-15
WHITE
CONSTRUCTION Conc

lie, WHITE build it Of CONCRETE
New-York tribune., 1922-02-15

the employees who are engaged IN the
operation Of the trains"
J. A. Mexican, Legislative representa-
tive Of the local, has sent a copy Of the
resolutions TO every member Of The
Senate and Assembly.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-15

YES, We specialize in the erection
- of concrete factory and industrial
buildings. 1t won't pay you 10
employ jack of-ali-trades. to put
up that new plant. The specialist
who knows every detail Of his
business can save you money.
Phone Madison Square 1904 for
our representative.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
GOV. M'RAE WILL
VISIT THIS CITY.
night OF MAY 26'
States Chief Executive
Writes G. O. Light He
Will Speak at School
Commencement
(From Fridays Daily Press)

tI ICIn t luda . Dt'ily II N02J
Governor McRee has accepted an
invitation to visit Paragould and
deliver an address upon the occasion
of the school commencement, May
26th. The invitation was extended
the Governor By G. O. Light and
the latter this morning received a
letter from him stating that he
would be here upon the date and
occasion mentioned.
1t is planned TO extend the dis
tinguished visitor hearty welcome
and arrangements to that end will
be entered upon at once. Mr. Light
told representative OF this paper
this morning that he hoped to en-
list the assistance of everyone that
an appropriate reception may be
extended the chief executive.
Details of the plan of reception
and entertainment will be announc-
ed at a later date.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
American Legion To
Observe Mothers Day

Sunday. May II, will be cele-
brated as Mothers Day, throughout
the country, and special services
have been arranged by different
churches and Sunday schools in
Paragould for the event Prominent
among them will be the Mothers
Day program rendered by the Baraca
class of the First Methodist Sunday
school, at the Masonic Hall at 9:45
a. m. John T. Batten will deliver
the class that every member of the
American Legion be present, as the
legion. generally, is taking the lead
throughout the country in sponsor
ing this great day.
Since the great world war. more
significance is being attached to
Mothers Day than at any previous
time, and the reason for such is
very beautifully expressed in the
following excerpt of one of Rupert
Hughes editorials, which appears
this week in the American Legion
Weekly.
1T is strange and beautiful
thing to be the mother of a soldier;
to bear the pangs of birth and the
countless agonies and anxicties of
raising the child and sheltering him
from disease and other dangers,
only to watch him march away in
his prime to furnish target for
a ruthless enemy But somehow
mothers manage the final sacrifice
and their supreme gift to their
children, as to their country, is to
give their boys to the armies
No war had ever been SO perilous
and crowded with old and new
hardshfps as the World war. For
three years we had watched its
devastation among our future allies.
No detail had been spared by the
newspapers. Our womenfolk knew
exactly what it meant for us to
enter. And they we're as eager as
the men.
This war was, therefore, pc
culiar test of the mettle of our
motherhood. And our mothers did
not fail US Having borne and bred
as fine a multitude of sons as ever
Wore a uniform, they gave them tt
the nation. The honor of every
m .dal, every wound-stripe., every
wound, is shared by somo hero
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
RISBERC and
JACKSON FILE
DAMAGE SUITS
Members of Famous BLACK
Sox Brigade Enter Court
to Obtain Justice-peti-
ton Continued.
(By The United Press)

Milwaukee, May 13.-Two addi-
tional suits were filed in the Cir
cult Court here today against
Charles A. Comiskey. owner OF the
Chicago "White Sox" team of the
American League of Professional
Baseball Clubs, by Charles (Swede)
Risberg ard Joseph Jackson. The
suits are similar to that filed yes
terday by Oscar (Happy) F'elsch,
All three suits seek to collect back
pay and bonus for being barred from
professional baseball by Judge Ken
saw Mountain Lands, supreme com
missioner of organized baseball. Co
miskey. has been asked to answer
several baseball Irregularities that
occurred during the seasons of 1917
and 1919. Judge Gregory has or
dered that Felsch's petition be con
tinued until next Saturday.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
HARDING Will.
URGE owners
TO COOPERATE
Executive Wants Joint Ac-
tion Taken by Commerce
Commission and Railroad
Owners.

Absecon, n j.. May 13.-Presi-
dent Harding in the forthcoming con-
ference with the railroad presidents,
at Washington on May 20, will ap-
peal to them ''tO go the limit" and
with the Interstate Com
merce Commission in bringing about
A lower level of railroad rates. it
has been learned from close friends
Of the president The president is
known to believe that complete fl
nancial and economic readjustment
of the country hinges to a large
degree on an early reduction of
rates. The commission has appar-
emily, reached the conclusion that it
must have the voluntary coopera-
tion of the railroad executives. The
conference will determine what rate
of return should be a fair basis for
operation.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15

farmed out to Minneapolis, of the
American Association, for little
experience.
"There, during two years of pitch
ing | made a fair record Robert
son says. enough to bring me back
with the White Sox this year"
That his remarkable game against
Ty Cobb and his team of maulers
was not an accident was asserted by
the pitcher, who admits that for a
long time he had dreamed of pitch
ing Just such game.
81 had confidence / would do so,
but | had not expected to have such
good luck so soon," he said.
"Will you be able to repeat your
performance" he was asked.
II sure shall try" he replied.
And If Robertson was "doctoring
the pill" as alleged by almost the
entire Tiger team, he certainly sue
ceeded in concealing the medicine
case, for Robertson's uniform anc
glove were subjected to a thorough
'frisking' by Umpire Evans anC
such members of the Tiger team a!
Cobb, Heilman, Blue and Veach, al
of whom are, or should be, wise tt
all tricks Of the trade.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
PINE BLUFF
WOMAN In
Tolls OF Law
MRS Sheppard is Accused
Of Being Accomplice in
Bank Swindle of That
City.

Pine Bluff. May 13.--Mrs Annie
accomplice of Willard Jarman, book
keeper who is alleged to have
flccced the Merchants and Planters
Bank of this city out of over $780,
900, was arrested in Dallas, Tex,
yesterday, according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch, at the request
of Pine Bluff officers. She will be
returned to this city today or Sun
day
Mrs. Sheppard is accused in an
information filed by Prosecuting At
torney f. w Brockman, of embez-
element in connection with the al
legged embezzlement by Jarman of
S21, 1,75S.22 from the Merchants and
Planters Bank, where Jarman has
been employed as bookkeeper since
1919.
Jarman's speculations were dis
covered shortly after he left Pine
Bluff on April a. when he was
Mrs. Sheppard is accused of being
the woman who floated the fraudu-
lent checks by which Jarman and
his accomplice obtained the funds
The fraudulent checks would be de-
positd in banks elsewhere for a
| short time, when the woman it is
said would withdraw the funds.
When the checks came through
the clearing house to Jarman, at
the Merchants and Planters Bank,
he would destroy them, thereby
avoiding detection. A check from
Dallas. Tex. is said TO have led to
the discovery of the couples plot
Jarman has not yeti been appre-
hended, but local officers feel sure
that with the arrest of the woman
in the case, his arrest will be se-
cured in short time.
About week ago. Mrs. Jarman.
wife of the missing bookkeeper,
called at the Merchants and Plan
ters Bank and opened safety de-
posit box kept by her husband there.
Jarman, it is said, gave her the key
to the box before he left and told
her to open the box. She is supposed
to have found a letter left by Jar
man, but nothing has been made
public concerning what was in the
box
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
Auditors Discover
$4,000 Shortage
tBy The United Press)

St. Louis. May 13.-The police
are searching for Arthur Bergman,
employe of the Meyer Dairy Equip
ment Company, on warrants charg-
ing embezzlement of the company s
funds. The auditors claim to have
discovered shortage aggregating
twenty-five thousand dollars
mother without whose devotion that
soldier would never have lived to
fight.
Mothers Day then by all means,
and it is the proposal of the Amer
lean Legion that tomorrow shall be
the biggest in history. Show your
appreciation by attending the sers-
sices tomorrow.-(C (Contributed)
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
MAN
At JONESb0RO
FINALLY DIES
John Mitchell Who Jumped
Into Lake at Lake City
Succurnbs TO Injuries
Wednesday.

Jonesboro, May John Mitch
ell the insane man who jumped
in st. Francis river last Saturday
night and who was placed in the
county jail here later in the night
after being rescued by parties who
happened to see the demented man
plunge headlong into the water, died
here Wednesday night at 8 o'clock.
He was not violent when placed in
jail but grew very violent and made
a determined effort to kill himself
by buttng his head against the
brick wall and the iron doors of
the cage.
His wife was located at Jackson
vile. Ark. Wednesday. but she re-
ported that she was not able to
come for him and directed that he
he committed to the State Hospital
for Nervous Diseases, and had he
lived until yesterday he would have
been conveyed to this institution.
His condition was evidently due to
religious troubles. as his talk was
along this line. Letters and a mark
ed Bible showed that he was Of
the Holiness faith.
1t is learned that he has a broth
er in Little Rock, but Undertaken
Gregg who has his body in charge,
has failed so far to locate him. The
body will be held until today. and
if it is not claimed it will be buried
in the potter's field here.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
BULLDOGS GET
CLEAN SWEEP
OF SERIES
Faragould Captures Second
Game After Hard Uphill
Battle - Forrest City
Gained by Infield Errors.
(From Saturdays Daily

Coming from behpd IN the sixth
inning, the Paragould high school
baseball team yesterday afternoon
crept to a position within one run
of tying the visiting Forrest City
nine. After the same visitors had
added another to their count in the
seventh. the locals returned to the
fight and ran UP an addltlonal
three runs, winning the game. .for-
rest City placed the first man up III
the ninth on base, but he could
not progress farther than third
while Meriwether was handling the
next three invading batters.
The game was featured by Meri-
wether's steady pitching in the
pinches, the local hurler making
eighteen opposing batters lay down
their hickories by the strike out
road This was the only effective
way possible. it appeared at times.
for the support given him by his
teammates in one or two positions
was very erratic. However. Bill
paved the way for part of his own
troubles, five Forrest ity sluggers
being presented with passes to the
first station. Three of the five
finally counted The hitting of Sal
ters also featured, the local third
sacker polling out two singles and
a double in four times up. Furten
starred at the bat and especially in
the field. Whitsitt got the last
extra base hit of the series when
he doubled in the eighth and sent
Purcell across the finish line and
at the same time forced lark to seek
a better climate. Clark started out
as though he would buffalo the
Bulldogs. However his support also
weakened as Meriwethers had done
in the earlier rounds and he was
finally counted out of the game.
AS in the previous game, Hodges
opened the entertainment by getting
on the paths, this time by clean
single to short. He stole second
while Snyder was tanning and scored
on Runyan's single to right field.
Runyan YVES caught stealing and
the next man, webb, after being
given pass, was left high and
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
CONTROL BLANKED TVS TIGERS,
ASSERTS ROOKIE HURLER, WHO
is CHARGED WITH OILING BALL
BY w r. STOKLEH,
International News Service Staff
CORRESPONDENT.


Correspondent.
Detroit, May 1S.-"The only
thing ! had on the ball was CON
troll" declares Charles Robertson,
recruit pitcher for Kid Gleason
Chicago White SoX. who finds him
self famous as a result of his no
run. no-hit. no-man-to-first game
against the slugging Detroit Tigers.
And Mr.. Robertson, who is twenty
five years old, doesn't smoke, drink
or swear, and who narrowly es-
caped being a minister, resents to
certain extent the charge made by
certain members of the Detroit
team that he, by some mysterious
process, was camouflaging the base
ball by amounting them with crude oil,
or some other liquid strangely re
semblng said oil.
Not only did he not oil the balls
as charged. nor cut or roughen
them. as is alleged also but he h2d
I'm contend with spheres ''emeried
by Pillette, Detroit twlrler oppoS-
ing him on the mound, Robertson
asserts.
"Always at the beginning of an
inning | found the first ball enc
ried" he stated. I'm not crab, al
though / don't want accusations OF
an unfounded nature thrown at me.
Hailing the boy as "the world s
wonder" "kd" Gleason, manager oil
the White Sox, branded the oiled
ball accusation as bunk"
"Its all bunk kid got the
coat of the Tigers, and they're try
ing to get hist" AYERS Gleason.
Robertson is Texan
Robertson, who halls from Texas
was studying in Austin College,
sherman. Texas, when the war broke
out. Despite the fact that parsons
are among the chief crop produced
Inv Austin College, Robertson enlist
ed in the aviation branch OF the
service.
After the war closed he went into
the oil business for a time. In 1918
a White SoX scout who heard OF
Robertson's fine record as a college
nitcher induced him to desert the
oil game for a fling at major lea
que baseball. Accordingly the young
ster went to Chicago, but wa'
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
Fire Burns Down
Needhan Mill

Joneshoro, May 13.-The handle
mill of Paul Smith, located at
Needham, a small town on the
Jonesboro. Lake City & Eastern
Railway Company, east of this city,
was destroyed by fire yesterday
morning, entailing a loss of about
$4,000, which included the machin-
cry and stock of handles, with
no insurance The fire, it is thought,
resulted fio sparks alighting on
the roof from the smoke stack.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
OPEN SESSIONS
WILL Be Held
ON STEEL TRUST
Attorney General Daugher-
ty Plans Open Hear
ings During Investigation
of Alleged Violation.

Absecon, N. J., May lS.-Attor-
ney General Daugherty will hold
open hearings to determine whether
the proposed merger of seven indie
pondent steel companies is in viola
ton of the antitrust laws, should
he decide that an investigation is
necessary. Daugherty, who is here On
vacation with President Hard
ing, declined to express any opinion
on the legality of the merger
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
SENATE ASKS
INQUIRY INTO
Big MERGER
|. AZ ollette's Resolution Is
Passed by Upper Body
Want Advice From
Daugherty.

Washington, May 12.-The Sen
ate this afternoon adopted the reso-
luton of Senator .Lafollette asking
the attorney general to investigate
the proposed merger of seven of the
largest iron and steel corporations
in the country. The Senate also
wants to know whether the attor-
ney general thinks it is advisable
to proceed in the prosecution of
the alleged merger through the
antitrust laws.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
POLICE GAIN
UPPER HAND
IN LABOR war
Chicago Chief Of Police Or
ders Men "To Shoot to
Kill" Two Bandits Slain
This Morning.

Chicago, H., May 13.--The police
turned the tables in the war with
gunmen early this morning when
two bandits were shot and killed
Chief of Tolice Fitzmorris has is
sued orders of ''shoot to kill" Five
persons are held in connection with
the labor war which has resulted
in the death of two policemen.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
Believed At Dallas

Dallas, Tex, May IA woman
giving her name of Annie Sheppard
Is under detection here in connec-
tion with the alleged embezzle-
ment of $4,000 from a bank at
Pine Bluff, Ark.
she was taken into custody Thurs
day night on request of Arkansas
officers and while admitting ac-
quaintance with former clerk in
the bank, denies having been con-
nected with the alleged embezzle-
ment
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
Huge SUM Is Voted
Punish Defrauders
CRy The United Press,

Washington, May l3.-The first
definite move in the campaign to
round up and prosecute The war de-
frauders came today when the House
appropriations committee favorably
reported the bill giving the depart
nent Of justice special half mil
lion dollars to prosecute the charges
of fraud and graft resulting from
war contracts. The bill passed the
House Monday. Equally speedy ac-
ton is hoped for in the Senate.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
Leachville Officers
Cleared of Murder

Leachville, Ark. May 1S.-Depu-
ties Oscar Sherwood and q. Jones.
OF Leachville, and Kid MacMaster.
OF Manila, charged with killing
young Handover here SATURDAY.
night while placing him in 1aiI.
were given an examining trial and
eXonerated of the charge of murder,
the finding of the court being they
acted in self defense, witnesses prov
ing that Handover opened fire on
the officers and they were forced
to act as they did This is the
first killing in the Leachville sec
ton in years. The body of Hand
over was buried in the Cardwell.
Mo, cemetery.
Women are staging boxing bouts
in London.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15
BIG INCREASE
COMING in COST
OF GASOLINE
Approaching Prices May
Equal Those of Past Six
Weeks Reaches
All Parts Of Country.
Az rhe united Press,

washington. May 43.-Further
increases in the cost of gasoline will
become effective soon in all parts
of the country, it has been learned
by the department of the interior
The increases may total four or five
cents per gallon by the middle OF
June, it was stated. This increase
will be in addition to the increases
in the past six weeks and which
anged from four to six cents.