Rock Island Argus., 1913-06-24
MOLINE

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Hold Boys for Theft.-Charles Pap
pas, aged II, and Raymond Lundy.
aged Is, were committed to jail after
a preliminary hearing before Police
Magistrate Cartwright Saturday after
| neon. The boys plead guilty to the
charge of having broken into a house
| occupied by number of Greeks in
the New Shops addition Friday even
| ing and made way with two gold
! watches, some chains and a few dol
lars in money. less than SO. The
Greeks, however, reported the loss of
about $50. At the hearing it was
| brought out that Raymond Lundy,
whose parents reside at Thirty-eighth
street in Moline, was once committed
to the state home at st. Charles, Ill,
and is now out on parole He will
likely be returned to the home without
further formaiity. Pappas, whose age
! is given as II, will await the action
of the grand jury, having been bound
over on bond in the sum of $500.
He will likely receive term in the
! state reformatory at Pontiac, III.
Slash Appropriations S25, ,ooo.-An
unexpected slash of $4,000 in appro-
priations occurred yesterday when
| Commissioner G. V. Johnson entered
opposition to the passage Of the ordi-
nance. His stand resulted in a mo-
ton to slice the appropriation pro
rata to figure within $4,000 of the
| S534,000 estimated as the amount to
be given the various departments. A
further discussion ended, however, in
a motion which prevailed, that the ex-
penditures of the various departments
be kept within the limit set by the
budget estimate. Each departments
total are to be reduced by the same
per cent. This amounts to a cut in
some instances of $4,000 or more.
Wireless Test Trip.-TweIve mem
bers of the Northwestern Military and
Naval academy, Lake Geneva, Wis, in
three military automobiles, arrived in
Moline yesterday On a wireless teleg-
raphy test trip from Lake Geneva to
Omaha and Minneapolis. The expe-
dltlon is in charge of members of the
faculty-Major F. l.. Beals, lieutenant
q. S. A, and Captain P. H. Kanaga,
wireless operator, 1. n. G. The party
Will spend today and tomorrow IN the
tri-cities and On Arsenal island, where
II will be Joined by Colonel R. P. Dav.
1dson, superintendent of the school.
Purpose of the trip Is to test a new
| portable wireless outfit designed by
officials of the school that is said to
be of lighter weight and at the same
time has a greater carrying capacity
than the ordinary portable wireless.
Two of the machines are equipped
with telescopic wireless masts which
can be erected and placed in opera
ton in three minutes. From Daven-
port the cars will travel over parallel
roads from fifty to seventy-five miles
apart, communicating with each other
hourly by means Of wireless.
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w. J. Ball Heads contractors.-W.
j. Ball is home from Chicago, where
Saturday he was elected president of
the Illinois State Electrical Contrac
tors association. Other officers
named: Secretary, NJ. Blumenthal
Chicago; treasurer, E. Pierce, Chi
cago. The meeting Of the Illinois as
sociation in Chicago was a semi
annual one, sessions being held in the
, Hotel LaSalle. About fifty of the
, sixty-five members of the association
were in attendance.
o.
Raid Coffee House.-Jim Brown, s
/ Greek, owning a coffee house at 141C
Fourth avenue, had a remarkable plea
: to offer when he was caught In the
act of serving liquor Sunday after
noon. Il was only giving it way" he
| told the two officers who relentlessly
LeEghed at him and he reiterated
this statement when arraigned befoSe
Magistrate Gustafson Monday after
noon. The police have had the piact
under suspicion for sometime. Sun
day afternoon two policemen walked
in and found the place full of Greeks
all OF them having their beer on the
table in front of them.
o.
Interrupt Crap Game--"CoHe on
scven," shouted a Greek in the Grecial
tongue at 1909 Second avenue, a
about 5 p. m, Sunday, and then turned
around in confusion as a policeman
; yanked him to his feet. Eleven, two
: proprietors and nine gamblers, were
. caught in the act and had to pleat
guilty. The two proprietors who hav'