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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
DRAFT BOOKLETS
ARE MAILED OUT
Two Hundred QUESTIONABLE Put Out
Saturday and That Many More
on Way Today.
WILL REQUIRE 90 DAYS FOR ALL
Five Per Cent of Total Going Out
Daiiy-Being Issued Accord
ing to Order Number.

Two hundred questionnaires were
mailed Saturday and two hundred
more today by the local exemption
board, in compliance with the orders
of the provost marshal general that !
per cent of each boards total be sent
out each day, beginning Dec. Is.
More than twenty days will be re-
quired before all of the registrants in
the Rock Island district will have re-
ceived questfonnaires. as there are
APO men in this territory listed with
this exemption board as having beer
registered for army service under tbs
selective conscription act.
All missionaries are dated at the
time they are sent out by the exemp
ton board and 1t provides that the!
must be properly filled out and re
turned by the registrant within sever
days of the date of mailing, Sundays
and legal holidays not included.
Sent Out i'm Order.
The questionnaires are being ser
out according to the order number o
I the registrant; that is, according t.
/ his position on the local list of regis
tered men. The registrants whose or
1 der numbers are between l and 90
were mailed questionnaires Saturday
Those having order numbers between
200 and 400 were sent QUESTIONABLE
today by the exemption board. In tn
same way questionnaires will be sen
! the registrants between 400 and so
/ tomorrow, and so on until the Who'll
list Of APO has been exhausted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
NO WORD OF PLAN
TO(;HANCE CAMPS
Rock Island Exemption Beard Is
Without Orders to Send Any of
Its Men to California.

Nothing whatever in the way Of or
ders or instructions had been re-
ceived at a late hour this afternoon by
the Rock Island exemption board re-
garding the sending Of men to Cali
fornia instead Of Camp Dodge, Iowa.
According to adyices from Chicago
1000 selectiyes are being sent to Camp
Winfield Scott at San Francisco, Cal,
for training instead Of TO Camp Grant
at Rockford, III.
Whether any Of the Rock Island
selectives, 200 OF whom are being held
pending further orders from the adju-
tant general, will be sent to the Cali
fOrnfa camp for training instead of 60
Camp Dodge, where previous contin-
gents were sent, could not be stated by
any of the members of the Rock Is
land exemption board, but they were
Of the opinion that such would not
be the case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
CHRISTMAS AT CAMP DODGE NOT TO BE
LONELY AS BIG PLANS ARE BEING MADE

and nuts for everybody, special relig-
ious services and a stunt program.
The Knights OF Columbus also is
planning elaborate observance OF
Christmas day, but have not yet com
pieted its programs. There will be
Christmas trees in each of the three
buildings, however, and special relig-
ious services in the K. of c. auditor
ium. A program of Christmas music
and carols also is planned. There
will be no dearth Of gifts in this or
ganization. either. Surely no soldier
at Camp Dodge will be empty-handed.
And it won't be such hardship to
be sick, either. Soldiers at the base
hospital won't be so far out OF luck
as they imagine OF course it's not
very exciting to spend Christmas in a
long ward but when that ward is all
decorated with holly and evergreen,
and there's d little Christmas tree
right in plain sight, it won't be half
bad There will be special delicacies
for the patients, too, and funny little
presents to cheer them up.
Those boys in the Forty-second in
fantry, stationed with the Eighty
eighth division. won't be homesick.
Their commander. Colonel C. e. Dent
err, says there's to be all sorts Of gay
ETY. around their barracks. They're
going to have Christmas decorations
too, and informal programs An the
| colonel himself will observe an old
regular army custom by visiting each
/ company that day to see what every
| company commander has done for his
outfit. He's going to see that his boys
/ have a merry Christmas. They're Just
/ boys you know. most Of them under q
years Of age, SO the holidays probably
mean more TO them than to some Of
/ the older men at Camp Dodge.
Or course. it sort of hurts, to b.
away at Christmas time.
But they're going TO do everything
at Camp Dodge to keep those soldiers
from being homesick
/ Maybe Sherman was wrong, after
ALI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
DOCTOR SAYS
VIN()L IS THE
BEST TONIC
Honest Opinion Doctor Gave
His Patient

Bedford, Ohio.-"I was in a pitiful
condition, weak, nervous and run
down SO could not do my houseworkJ
I had doctored for years and tried
everything under the sun. A friend
told me about Vinol. I asked nv
doctor about it, and he replied, 1T
certainly is the best medicine that can
be had today. I couldn't give you
any better took it, and today I
am as well and strong as any woman
could wish TO be, and it was Vinol
that saved rne."-Mrs. Frank A. Hor-
key. Ash St, Bedford, Ohio.
We guarantee this famous cod liver
and iron tonic for all such conditions.
Red Cross Pharmacy, Charles ]
Strate. Bengston's Drug store, RocH
Island, and at the best drug store in
every town and city in the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
GOVERNOR LOWDEN
MAKES APPEAL FOR
RED CROSS SOCIETY

The Christmas season is upon us
The question that comes to all is, How
shall we best observe 1t? 1t usually is
time of mingled Joy and reverence,
of tender thought and kindly deed
The joy this year will be chastened
and subdued by the great tragedy
which enfolds the world. Ali the more
reason why the reverence, the tender
ness, the generosity which have mark
ed other Christmases should find full
expression in this. How can this now
be better done than by a mighty en-
listment in the army of the Red Cross
For the Red Cross affirr1s the reality
Of mercy and gentleness and compass
sion, and the triumph Of the spirit,
just as did that other cross in Pales-
tine long centuries since.
The allies have captured the sacred
spot where that cross stood. And il
we now shall only reeapture the spirit
which went out from Calvary, all will
be we'll.
Our soldier boys in the camps and
at the front, with stout hearts and
serene faith, go to meet our enemy
They anxiously ask. How about ouI
people at home? Do they realize tbs
magnitude of our task? Do we have
their sympathies, their support and
their prayers? If SO, We shall surel,
win.
| Let us, in this Christmas week, make
answer by rallying all our patriotic
men and women and boys and girls
under the banner of the Red Cross.
Given under my hand and the grea
seal Of state at the capitol at Spring
field, this 18th day of December, in Ght
Fyear of our Lord one thousand nint
hundred seventeen, and Of the indie
pendence of the United States the on,
hundred forty-second
| (SeaD FRANK O. LOWDEN.
By the governor: Lewis L. Emmer
son Secretary of State.
All the news all the time-Th
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17

ter Of religion he should place an *,
in column A opposite division A IN
class /, also an X in column A o.
posite division b in ciass 5.
To Advisory Beard.
This ruling should be called to the
attention of the members of the legal
advisory board and given publicity
among the registrants in order that
the questionnaires may be properly
prepared aud the status of each regis
trant fully indicated thereon.
"F. S. DICKSON,
"Adjustant General"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
WORKMAN MAY LOSE
SIGHT OF HIS EYE

Charles Ware, sol Eleventh street,
may lose the sight OF one eye as re-
suit of an accident at the Campbell &
Woehner garage, 1913 Third ayenua,
this morning.
Ware was at work repairing a stoye
He was using a small chisel and hams
mer. A chip of cast steel few up
cutting across the eyeball. He was
removed to St Anthony's hospital
where DR.. c. f. Rochow attended him
DR.. Rochow stated that the sight Of
the eye might be saved. The injury
is a serious one, however.
A few cents deposited weekly with
the German Trust & Savings bank
will pay your Christmas bills next
year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
CHRISTMAS TREAT TO
COLORED CHILDREN

The Ladies' Progressive Art club is
preparing to give the annual Christ
mas tree for all the colored children
OF Rock Island at the Second Baptist
church Friday evening, Dec. 20,
Mrs. Marie Golden is general man
ager of the entertainment and any one
having anything TO donate will please
call Rock Island 2O33 which will be
greatly appreciated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-17
OFFICERS ELECTED
BY CATHOLIC UNION

At the annual meeting of St. Jo-
seph's branch No. IS. Western Catho-
lie union, held yesterday afternoon the
following officers were named for the
ensuing year
President. B. Corken.
Vice President--C. j. Larkin.
Secretary William 0Donnell.
Treasurer-John Brennan.
Trustees-J j. Mccarthy, Dan Law
Ter and c. R. Wheelan.
Marshal-John Ainsworth.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
UNFIT GUARDSMEN
/. EXPENSIVE TO j. 5.
Government in Accepting Them
Last Summer Was Out
S2,000.000.

New York. Jan. &-Acceptances of ply
sically unfit national guardsmen made
necessary by last summers mobilization
cost the federal government 5000 900 ac
cording to report tonight of the execu
tive committee of the Mayor Mitchcrs
committee on national defense.
The lowest estimate of the physically
unfit among the l14,nO officers and men
subject to the Presidents call was placed
at % per cent. or $500 in spite, the re-
port states. of the relatively low rejection
rate in Massachusetts, Now York and a
few other States. New York had gone
further. the committee found, than most
of the other States toward maintaining
proper physical standards
AT one of the mobilization camps
said the committee, the army inspec-
tor instructor estimated that each
man rejected had represented at a
conservative estimate a loss to the
government of $40. In the case Of
men carried to tho border without
thorough examination and sent back
home because Of disability, the cost
was of course far greater, In other
cases, where men We're discharged at
their home stations soon after the
call, it was less
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
DETECTIVE BURNS
FOUND GUILTY
Stole into an Office and Made
Copies of Private Papers for
j. p. Morgan a. Co.,
Jury Says.

New York, Jan. d. William J. Burns
head Of IA private detective agency, was
found guilty here late to-day of Surrcp-
ttiously entering the law Offices of Sey-
mour 4 Seymour, making copies of pri-
vate papers and then publishing them.
Burns was employed by j. J.. Morgan IL
co. TO trace a leak of information about
contracts for war supplies for the entente
allies from the Morgan offices TO obtain
the information sought, Burns gained ac
cess to the Seymoure offices.
In finding Burns guilty. the justices of
the court Of special sessions who heard
the case. laid down tho legal prncipl"
hat no private detective has the right
to enter 9 mans office or dwcll.ng and cS-
anime his p;vo'" correspondence and
papers.
ut would be giving a private detective
moro power than policeman declared
Justice Collins. in handing down the de
cision. The law puts n protection around
r1an's home IT would be n doplora hIc
thing &C. in America. n private housC
were not safe from being entered h,
private detectives: and. ii a lawyers q
ficc may safely hc entered what protcc
! ton woul9 a client have"
| A anc Of 500 Will an Alternative OF n
DAVIS In Jail was imposed or BIrns, whr
paid tho fine III once under protest An
rounceuenc was made ;hat ~ imrc1 att
appeal would be taken
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
CABINET SH AkE-TP
EXPECTED AFTER MARCH
This VIII Re in Addition to shifts in
Dipiomatic Service.

Washington Jan. 20 -Tcsidcs the diplo
matte shako-up contemplated and which
will occur about March I CT soon there
after. thore Will he . big cabinet shirt
carly i'm President Wilson'S second -c~1u
torn
These expected cabinet changes, how
ever. will not begin. 1t ia believed, Dn'ii
several months after the President sec-
and inauguration. In all cases, il is StsA-
cd, the cabinet designations 10 come win
I've ''voiuntarN."
The contemplated changes will affect the
treasury agriculture, commerce and prob
ably state portfolios
OF the four probable changes, that At
the state department is tho most uncc--
tain REPORTS that SECRETARY Lansing
might succeed Ambassador Page. London.
have been rife. but talk of this shift -
said to he based only on report
Secretary of Agriculture Houston. re-
gardcd as one Of the most able men in the
Presidents cabinet. will lcave his post
stated
Secretary of Commerce Rcdticrd will ac-
cept a position with n large manufactur-
ing concern in the early fall and Secra-
tary McAdoo will errtcr private business
about tho same time.
There are tn" usual rIlmcrS of other
changes, but there appears little ikel-
hood that beyond the four men mentioned
there will he any other designations dur
ing the first year of the Presidents sec
ond term.
AS Successors carl Nrooman has heeu
mentioned for ioUstons place and Rep
rescntativc Carter Glass tor thu portfolio
now held by Secretary McAdoo
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
PEN SEASON FOR GAME.
missioner Hopes to Harmonize
State and Federal Laws,

hn w. Titcomb, State fish and game
pnissioner. viii take steps to have the
t. law in relation to the taking of
g birds conform with the federal law,
Pably by having a bill introduced at
present session Of the Legislature.
Titcomb's action follows agitation
he part Of Fred Whittemore Of this
deputy collector of internal reve-
who called to Mr.. Titcombs atten-
the fact that the federal and State
stating the time when ducks might
aiken do not conform.
be State law allows hunters to take
Ks from September l6 to January IA,
|c tho federal law. which opens the
e date, closes December Il. In this
fner hunter. who is given "A book
hws AT the time he receives his hunt
license, may be of the opinion that
has the privilege to hunt ducks IN
January IA, which the State law dis
tly states that he may do. but a fed
officer can arrest him for so doing
| December 81.
he federal government has the right
hcrten the open season on migratory
s, but cannot extend the season over
of the State law. New York State
forms with the federal law and Mr.
bomb hopes to have the laws of this
c conform with the federal law.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
MEXICAN women
RIOT At JUAREz
Required to Take Shower Bath
Before Coming to U. S., They
Start COmmOtion.

ri Paso. Tex, Jan. 81 misunder-
standing over quarantine regulations led
to not to-day at the Juarcz end of the
main International bridge. which threat
ened for a time to assume dangerous
proportions. Energetic measures taken by
inc Carranza garrison and conference
between the American and Mexican
immigration officials later brought about
an arrangement satisfactory to the
mexicans and quiet was restored.
inc rioters were mostly Mexican wom-
en-. employed as servants In T;l Paso, who
resented the American quarantine order
that all persons of unclcan appearance
seeking to cross the bridge he given a
shower bath and their clothing be dis
infected to kill typhus germs.
Women stopped by the authorities re-
turned to Juarez and circulated stories
that all were to receive n bath in a Gaso-
line mixture similar to that which re-
suited In fire in the III Paso Jail last
Marth In which more than a score Of per-
son were burned to death. Stories were
also circulated that American soldiers
were photographing the women while
bathing and making tho pictures public.
Excited women thronged the Mexican
side of the bridge, held ur street cars
! and completely blocked traffic for sev-
eral hours.
They shouted. deffantiy waved con.
troller bars at the helpless manager OF
the street car system, scurried against
the bridge walls when a moving picture
man tried to take them and had good
time generally Some Of the American
carmen were roughly handled and several
car windows were broken Andres Gar
cha. inspector-general of Carranza con
sulates. and Soriano Bravo. the consul
general. advanced in a. motor car tina,
was showed back by the women, some OF
whom later shouted. viva villa; Viva
Villa" when they tried 10 address the
mob But the garrison soldiery appeared
and pressed the women back from tn,
bridge.
Several shots were heard in succession
at this time. but Carranzs officers anc
government Investigators say no ono was
hurt, despite detailed story that spread
through FL Paso that a peon had beer
killed for shouting Long Live Villa
Death to Carranza."
| At an international conference held a
noon It was arranged that the American
authorities would recognize bath anc
sterilization certificates issued by til,
Mexicans, who have an effective quaran
tine plant
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
ALL POSTMASTERS
IN CIVIL SERVICE
President FavOrs Such a Course
He Tells Senator POin-
dexter.

Washington, Jan. - After IL series Of
conferences at the Capitol on virtually all
features OF his Legislative program Presi-
dent Wilson told his advisers to-day that
HI believed action could be obtained at
this session on every important measure,
IN which he rs interested. With different
members of the Senate and House he had
discussed means of preventing railroad
strikes. vocational education, revenue
Hood control. the general land leasing
bill. the Porto Rico bill, a measure to az
low American exporters to form common
selling agencies abroad increased pay Toy
federal employees and the placing of post
masters unuer civil service.
The President told Senator Poindcxter,
author of an amendment tn the legisla =
tive judicial and executive appropriation
bin. adopted by the Senate which would
extend the civil service requirements to
all postmasters, that he favored the
change At present only postmasters in
small towns of the fourth class are
selected by examination and the re-
mainder are appointed by the President
and confirmed by the Senate. Mr.. Will
son said he would be gratifed to have
tho amendment agreed to in conference
He had previously urged proposal of
this kind and Postmastor-Gencral Burle.
son has endorsed it in his annual report
1t is expected to meet with some demo
cratic opposition.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
FORGED CHECKS APPEAR.
burlington Merchants stand to Los,
Small Amounts.

Two youths from this city are under
arrest at Springfield, Mass, following
efforts made by Thomas Reeves of this
city to apprehend the perpetrator of sew
eral forgeries recently made in this city
Mr.. Reeves is practically sure that the
two youths, who were arrested by detec-
tives Saturday, are the ones implicated
in the forgeries. but owing to a possible
doubt would not give out their names
for publication, both boys being from
good families in this city
The amount OF the forged checks so far
discovered aggregates s27. one for s. being
passed on the +. Howes company one
for 80 on the Hagar Hardware & Paint
company. one for s. on M j. Lunder-
vlle's grocery store and one on l.. A
Purintons store for s.
The forgeries were drawn on Howard
National bank checks, signed with NJ A
Bundy's name and made payable to Harry
Rock with which name they were also
endorsed upon their backs. The checks
were drawn on January Il and caShed
on January 10, the passer Of the checks
claiming to be Harry Rock. The checks
were discovered not to bear Mr.. Bundy's
signature when they We're presented at
the bank. which refused to pay the
amounts for which they called.
Harry Rock was under absolutely no
suspicion, as he left this city on January
Is, two days before the checks were
drawn The writing on the checks and
that Of letter written by one Of the
youths in Springfield to a friend in this
city is very similar and is one Of the
principal causes of the arrest.
Mr.. Reeves has been working on the
case with tho chief Of police at Spring
field, and the youths were arrested
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
DENY Vt. GIRL IS
MURDER VICTIM
Betty Benson, California officials
Say, Died of Infecti0nary
Disease.

t.ss Angeles. Cal, Jan. 3o--prompt de-
NAL by county officials that Betty Ben
son, tho beautiful Chicago motion picture
actress. whose body was sent to Fair
Haven. VT, was shot, as charged by GER
tain Boston papers. and the statement
that she died of diseases here in the
county hospital, was made to-day i'm
mediatcly upon receipt OF the report that
relatives of the girl were investigating
the possibility OF foul play.
The undertakcrs who prepared the body
for shipment say, and chief of Police
Buffers report of the case shows. that
there were no marks on the head and
those on the body were caused by disease.
\ police investigation of the charge that
one of the woman's legs was broken has
been ordered
The dead movie actress. who was y;
years old, was, according to the hospit al
and police records one Of a quartcttc ar
rested several weeks before her death,
during a raid on an alleged opium den.
She was serving n sentence Of loo days
when. on January ., she was brought 20
the hospital from the county jail.
DR.. G. II. Whitman. medica! director
of the county hospital. says Miss Ben.
son waa Unconscious upon her arrival
about six O'Clock in the evening. and tina,
| she died about noon the following day
i without reganing consciousness. She
| died of liver trouble complicated 10y ar
| Infectious disease which had reached M
| advanced stage added DR. Whitman
| There were no bullet wounds on her
body when she was received here. and
! none when she left, about is hours
/ later.
! AT the under taking establishment of
Edwards. Gamash e. Heath. 11gS Soutt
Main street II WAS said to-day that the
body was received there January i. anC
shipped TO Fair Haven. VT, three days
I later
( An attempt is being made to learn the
identity Of the man who is supposed t,
have accompanied the body as far as
Chicago and who disappeared when HI
learned that Mrs. Chaunccy Benson, tho
mother. would claim the romans in tina
! city
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-01
VERMONTERS INVOLVED.
American Telephone and TELEGRAPH
Company Sued by Chicago Corporation.

Two Nerinunters are the principals II a
court decision handed down at Chicago.
involving $40, ooo,m Attorney stephen \
Foster, VINO represents the minority
stockholders Of the Central Union Telc-
phone company II Chicago. in its suit
against the american Telephone IS F"ie-
graph company, Of which Theodore \
Vail OF LyndonNille Is president, was an
old Derby boy
The decision given ~ Superior Judge
William +. Dover holds the latter com
pany TO he guilty of sitting competitions
1t declares the absorption of the smaller
company ny the larger one Illegal and tho
retention of q per cent. OF its stock void
The American Telephone & Telegraph
company's stock is worth s5o'o1D. hut ii
claims an Indebtedness to ii on the parr
Of the Chicago telephone concern of 81,
NN,nO. The decision says that this Was
money expended for the benefit of both
companies, and that the exact indebted
ness shall be fixed by a master in Chan
Gerry
The stock control by the larger com
pany was illegal. saws the decision. he
cause it violated section 26 of the Illinois
incorporation act. which forhids the own
ershlp by one company of the stock of 2
competitor The stock control. il say.
secondly. was maintained for 80 years for
the purpose Of illegally suppressng com
petition. The compliments claim that tho
SIS 10000. originally s2,0N,Ooo were pilec
up by cxorbitant charges and prices 70,
equipment.