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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
MON ESSENTIAL"
JOBS ARE LISTED
BY GOVERNMENT

Washington. Aug. 24.-The COM
munity bureau of the federal en-
ployment service announced today
that Iaborers, p0rters, janitors and
other uuskiIIed workers would be
released from the following uon-es-
seurial emplOyments in the District
Of Columbia. II is probable the
classification will be used else
where.
Automobile accessories. pleasure
and sightseeing car driving, clean
ing N repairing, truck hauling
and teamiLg not ON war WORK,
baths and barber shops, bowling al
leys and pOolrOoms, bOttleEs and
bottle supplies.
Candymaktng, cigar and tobacco
ships, cleaning and dyeirg, cOnfec-
ti0nery and deliCatessen stores;
building not essential to war work;
clubs. dancing academies, stores,
florists, fruit stands.
Junk shops, livery and sale sta
bles. pawushops. peanut stands,
shoeshining shops, window clean
ing. soda fountains
4 conference of field agents Of
the federal employment service
planned further Curtailmenr of
Ionesze-tial production TO meet
the shortage of 10000 unskilled
labOrers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
boy BURNED AS
. he ICnITES OIL
MischievOus Lad Near Death in
Garage Hurt When
Bike and Auto Collide.

Donald Wright. aged 8. 162412
sixth avenue, Moline, decided to
have little gasoline bonfire in the
Flow City garage, 1915 Sixth ave
nue.. yesterday afternoon and today
il very fortunate in being able to
relate the tale Of the escapade
which nearly cost him his life. AS
it is he has a few severe burns on
his head and face
Together with another lad, DON
aid yesterday afternoon was play
ing in the garage. Longing for
some excitement they found a large
rag and visited a gasoline tank in
the rear of one of the cars. Matches
we're lighted and then-then came
a wild shrek for help.
Donald was carried away to his
home a much becalmed little boy.
Several gallons of gasoline and
part of aAservice car owned by the
garage company were destroyed by
the fire The other boy escaped
with only minor burns. 1t is said
that both youngsters have caused
the police trouble before.
When motor truck struck a BIZ
cycle on which he was riding yes
teTday afternoon in the alley be-
tween Fifth and Sixth avenues and
Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, in
Moline, Joseph Claes, aged Is, was
severely bruised and cut. His
wounds were dressed by DR.. Perry
Vessel, Jr., and he was taken to
his home, 524 Railroad avenue, in
the police ambulance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
PLAGUE CAUSES
DAMAGE ACTION
Three Suits Against City of Moline
10 BE Started ny Heirs OF
Typhoid Victims.

Heirs of those who have died in
the Moline typhoid epidemic will
within the next 10 days start three
heavy damage suits against the
city of Moline, according to an ma
nouncement made this morning by
Attorney George W. Wood. lie de
cIined to make public names of The
persons whom he represents.
They are husbands or wives Of
men or women who have been vic
TINS of the typhoid epidemic" he
said He also declared that it is
highly probable that Moline manu-
facturers whose watermains are
connected with city mains will also
be made defendants in heavy dam
age suits.
when the city contracts to serve
people of Moline with water If
contracts to serve pure water" said
Mr.. Wood. Water contaminated
with typhoid bacteria is not pure
water, and therefore the city is
liable for damages"
IF the factories permitted raw
water to leak into city mains, they
are also responsible We have not
decided whether to make the city
and the factories joint defendants
or whether TO file separate suits.
THE warning published in news
papers was not sufficient. The city
did not say the water contained ty-
phoid germs. 1t merely advised the
people that it would be better TO
boil water. Publishing notices in
the newspapers is not warning the
people. The city should have serv-
ed notice on every individual in the
city.
There is no doubt that city wa
ter was responsible for the typhoid
epidemic and therefore for the
deaths of the relatives Of our eli
ents. And there is no doubt that
the city is legally bound to serve
pure water"
Mr. Wood stated that Attorney
Peter Meersman viii be associated
with him in prosecuting the suits.
The cases, he said, will be started
in circuit court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
AMERICAN FLYER
BAGS THREE HUNS
IN A SINGLE DAY

With the American Forces on the
Lorraine Front. Friday. Aug. 23.-
(By The Associated Press Three
German airplanes brought down in
ore day. d record for American
aviatOrs. has been credited 70 Lieu
tenant Donald Hudson. a son Of
Paul Hudson Of Washington. d. c.
Official confirmation by the Preach
authorities has just been made,
adding lis name 10 those Of the
four aces Of the American army
WIN the American Forces ON
the Lorraine Front. Friday, Aug.
23-fBy The Associated PressJ -
Lieutenant Hudson accounted for
Inc three German machines Oh
Aug. 7 when the American forces
we're fighting tor possession Of Sa-
ponaE. He was engaged by one
alrp-are when well up ir the air
HIS engine failed but ne ran on
7 pressure" although all the time
Sinking over the German lines.
FINALLY, Lieutenant Hudson man
aged 20 ger over one German battle
plane and shot il down
When a. a height OF only about q
thousand feet he out maueuvred
Both machines and succeeded in
sending them crashing to the
ground. The lieutenant landed his
oTn airplane well behind his own
INES The entire engagement
lasted 20 minutes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
- NOME OFFICE,
ALL CASUALTIES
ARE MADE PUBLIC
GEN. MARCH SAYS

Washington. Aug. "a Members
Of the senate military committee
we're assured by General March at
their weekly conference today that
stories Of great unpublished Amer
icar casualties overseas are wholly
false and that all casualties among
the exgcdiriouary forces are given
10 the public as promptly as the
rabies can transmit them
The chief Of staff. without dis
cussins in detail the great allied
forward movement now under way.
said the situation on the western
front row was decidedly favorable
10 the allies.
Further Improvement in the
shipping situation was noted and
General March said the program OF
transporting troops TO France was
going ahead without change.
General March told the commit
tee that because wounded Ameri-
cans had been taken 10 widely scat
tered hospitals, many of them being
br.gaded with allied troops, consid-
cradle difficulty Is being expert
enced in compiling the casualty
lists.
Complaints received by senators
from soldiers invalided because Of
wounds or delays in receiving their
pay while detached from their
commands were brought to General
March attention. General March
assured the senators that every
thing was being done to expedite
the payment OF these men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24

There are over four hundred per
formers who take part in the big
show program. Every artist was
selected because Of some especial
merit New acts and faces viii
tend 10 eradicate the faHacy that
all circuse5 are alike" Foremost
among the features is Herr VoE
Ritter, who slides on his head down
a long silver wire from the tOpmOst
pinnacle OF the arena; the Marvel
GUS Perchetto troupe of acrobats
from the Royal circus, Amsterdam,
Holland; the COttrell-Powell trio of
riders from the London hippod-
rome: La Rose Marguerite, the so
ciety cquestrienne, with her tango
horses; the Cevene sextette, wire
artists, and almost two hundred
other features. The Hagenbeck
trained wild animals form a big
feature of the show. In an i'm
mense steel arena will be seen
lions, tigers, leopards polar bears
and other wild beasts broken to
perform marvellous feats.
During the engagement, which Is
for a single day, performances will
be given at and p. II. The
doors will be opened an hour earl
Ter. Tho parade is at 10 O'Clock in
the morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
HOLD CONFERENCE.

Fourth quarter conference of the
Moline Methodist church was held
last evening, with DR. John T. Jones
of Rock Island presiding. Election
of officers took place. nine trustees
having been seated with l.. +. Mutt
as chairman and 20 stewards were
installed with a. c. Vinton as chair
man. After the installation the
treasurer reported that all salaries
and obligations have been met in
full and written reports were also
received from the Sunday school,
Epworth league. Woman's Foreign
Missionary society, Woman's Home
Missionary society. the Ladies' Aid
society and the board of trustees.
Each indicated a helpful progress
since the last conference. Rev At
tree Smith, pastor of the church,
presented his report, showing a to-
tai net gain of 50 in membership
He OfFiciated at II weddings and -
funerals. A unanimous invitation
was extended TO the Rev. Attref
Smith to resume his work in the
| church for the coming year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
STAMP DRIVE is
PARTIALSUCCESS
Sales Total S5ys270o; Large Part
Bought BY Moline Banks Work
crS Are Lacking.

Pershing Patriots day IN Moline
yesterday was not a smashing sue
cess. But 20 women workers turn
cd out to canvass the business dis
trict in the interest OF the sale NJ
war savings stamps and with this
small number it wa5 iupos7ibi -
make any attempt in the residence
sections. The few who did turn
cut met with success and work
faithfully but lack Of numbers pre-
vented a sale Of the magnitude de-
sired, An appeal had been made
for one hundred workers. THE
stamps sold just fine remarked
one energetic Young lady, but
there weren't enough of Us selling
them"
Total sales OF stamps reported
this morning amounted 20 &5,S21 90,
"a 600 worth OF which was pur-
chased by the States Savings bank
and Trust company, Peoples SAY
ings Bank and Trust company, NJ
chauics' and Merchants bank and
Commercial Savings bank Reports
OF postofice sales and those made
at Moline day at JOslin fair have
not been made. Directors OF the
campaign believe that not over
400 names viii appear on the Mo-
line Pershing patriot honor roll,
which viii be sent to the com
mander OF the American EXpedi-
tionary forces in France.
When approached yesterday by
one of the workers, the head of a
large manufacturing plant in Mo-
line absolutely refused TO purchase
a stamp, according 10 the report Of
the committee, saying that he had
not bought any and did not intend
to. II is believed that this man
has bought Liberty bonds hut IL is
pointed out that those with less
wealth have also done this and are
investing more money or at least
the interest of their bonds in war
savings stamps.
Those who periodically assisted
in the stamp drive are: Mesdames
b. F. Ogden. r. Livingston, 4. p.
Washburn, F. =. Leayens, Elmer
Mowry and the Misses Jean Glenn,
Mabel Elev. jeanette McMastcr,
Maxine Smith, Lois Glenn, Halle
Guy. G0ldie Mowry. Evelyn Pierr,
Dorothy Pierr, Ruth Sheriff, Ma
bel Hartzel, Gladys Whiteside,
GLADYS Abel, Kathryn Hoffman and
Pauline Flemming.
Workmen at the Republic Iron
and-Steel company this morning
demonstrated the patriotism OF the
Iaboring class when they purchased
$50 worth of stamps. In some in
stances an individual bought as
high as six, it is reported.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
FIRMS MUST HURRY
THEIR TAX RETURNS

Washington Aug Corpora
tons wh6s fiscal year ended De
cember q, 1917, must file their re
turns for the 10 per cent tax on I'M
distributed surplus not later than
August %, to avoid becoming de-
IinQuent, the internal revenue bu-
reau today announced DeHHquents
are subject to a penalty of fifty
per cent of the tax. The war rev
enue act imposes a tax of ten
per cent Oh the surplus Of corpor-
atoms remaining undi5tributed
six months after the close OF each
fiscal or calendar year, with GER
tain exceptions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
MAN rs VICTT1I OF
PTOMAINE POISON

Raymond Gray. a resident of the
Moline Y dormitory, was stricken
with ptomaine poisoning last night.
He was rushed to city hospital in
the police ambulance. Although
very i'll for a few hours, hospital
authorities at noon today reported
that Mr.. Gray will recover. A com
binatiOn OF foods consisting Of
meats, cantaloupe and tomatoes is
thought to have caused the poison
ing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
PASSES MERIT BADGE TEST.

Prescott BrunstrOm, first-class
scout and member of Troop >. in
Moline, has passed successfully all
tests for merit badge. He is the
first Moline boy to pass those re
quirements. The following boys
passed the first-cIass test, swim
ming 80 yards: Clarence Hen
bricks, Donald zap, Edward Carl :
stedt, Henry Wood Judges Of the
contests were the following Moline
men Marshall Beck, president OF
the Moline council, Boy Scouts OF
America: John Sundine. troop com
mitteeman; George II. Steging.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
INVESTIGATOR IN BIG FIELD.

N. ]. DuTyea, secretary of the
Moline Commercial club. resigned,
has received information that his
! position as investigator at large in
the production division of the
United States ordnance department
gives him jurisdiction over a large
district including Michigan and
parts of adjoining states. His
headquarters will be in Detroit. He
will leave Moline. Sept. %.
Mrs. Clifford White, secretary to
Mr.. Duryea, has been selected for
secretary pro TEN. It is not prob
able that Mr. Duryea's place viii
be filled soon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
ARMY COM1TISSION
WAS NOT ACCEPTED

A. F. Mellen, former city chemist
in Moline, did not accept the army
commission lie was offered when he
recently resigned from the munich
pal position. He is in the city to-
day packing his household furni-
ture. Personal reasons which de-
velcped since my resignation make
it impossible for me 10 enter the
service at this time" said Mr. Mel
len. My business plans for the
future are unsettled l am consid-
ering several propositions"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24

FINAL payment Of pledges to the
building fund of the East Moline Y.
NJ c. \. will be due Sept. l. &C
cording to announcement made yes
terday. Notices have been sent TO
subscribers. The building is com
plete. the contractors have been
paid, and the association is carry
ing notes al fhe banks. These viii
mature in September. According
ly, effort is being made to minimize
the list of delinuueutz.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
INJURED BY ENGINE.

William Nicer, guard at a rail
road crossing at the r. & V--Wag-
her ordnance plant in East Moline,
was injured at $40 last night
when switch engine jumped the
track and crashed into the guard
house he occupied. MIXERS leg was
injured. but the extent Will not be
determined until an E-ray exam
nation is made. He tried to get
out OF the house when he saw the
danger, bat was unsuccessful. The
house was moved from its founda-
ton Nicer was a member of the
East Moline police force until re-
Gently.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
MOTOR cop HI

Among those severely III with
typhoid in Moline is Roy Liesveldt.
motorcycle policeman. Iiesyeldt's
well was one OF the few wells to
be declared safe But the police
officer is said to have been very
careless about drinking water
when not at home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
WIFI PApER SANEn-

Washington Aug. Z4.-War econ
omles praC-iced in July by newspa-
pers, particularly the larger pub
4shers- resulted in q pronounced
decrease in the use Of newsprint.
according TO the federal trade com
mission Total consumption was
le2, 800 tons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
TREASURY FEELS
SURE OF RECORD
BY FOURTH LOAN

Washington, Aug. 81 - The
treasury feels so sure the fourth
Liberty loan viii break all records
for size and number OF subscribers,
it as ordered the bureau OF en-
craving to prepare about 35,00O.-
900 separate bonds, or $500 900
more than for the third loan, when
about %, 500 600 bonds were sold.
One third of the fourth loan
bonds alreadyAbaye been engraved
and they are being turnsl out al
the rate Of 100000 a day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24

Word has been received in Moline
Of the assignment Of Captain R. f.
Willis to duty as first assistant ad-
jutant general Of the Ninty-second
division Of the United States army
He has been special Instructor to
officers and soldiers at different
Cantolmeuts in France and has
Travelled to nearly every part of
France. Formerly Captain Willis
was a national guard officer, and
after training at Fort Sheridan he
was awarded captains commits
sion and ordered overseas. There
he took a course in an advanced
war college and finished with high
rank in a class which included a
number Of men who held commits
sions as major.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
REVENUE ACT TO RI LATE.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.-DemO-
cratic leaders told President Nil-
son they did not think the revenue
bill could be made law before
late in October or early in NOvem-
ber
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
News of the Day in Moline and East Moline

deputy commissioner Emil Peter
son, scoutmaster Troop ); and
Leonard Staigel, assistant scout
master Troop 5.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24

Moline youth, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Anne Van Lantschoot, Az Thir-
teenth avRue, who is reported
missing in action. In letters re-
Gently received from him he says
that he is eagerly looking forward
to his first battle and it is believed
that he must have been taken pris-
oner in the initial fight He prob
ably is now in n German prison
camp.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-24
Polishes. Beardsley's.

Besco brooms, Beardsley's.
White shoe cleaner. Beardsley's.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-24
BY. MRS. j. c. BRIGGS.

(From the point of view of the
Canadian soldiers wife, a Bostonian,
who has had the woman's part in the
war. that of waiting at home. Mrs.
Biggs is the wife Of Major Biggs,
officer commanding the Chicago De
POT. B. c.. r. NJ, who served in the
Boer war with the Canadian Mounted
Rifles and went to France with the
same command at the beginning of
this war;
In those early days of the Marine,
Ypres, etc, when the men were stand
ing in water up to their waists, when
there was an allotment of only seven
shells a day for the big guns, when
men. ammunition. everything was
lacking except courage and indomnit
able will; when our men were beaten
over and over but not knowing it,
kept on fightin g-We-h ere in the Unit
ed States, went on with our usual
routine as if nothing we're happening
I was getting the Majors letters
from the front. well censored, but
there was enough to show the awful
ships, food, everything And even
lc", dllSl tuSSe I'LL veal >, Will oll
the things that have been done in this
country, plots and counter-plots and
all kinds of German intrigue, we still
talk of the war over there"-when
it is HERE. We don't seem to realize
that we are being saved, saved whole
sale, by the men in the trenches.
Mine is q double point of view in
a way. An American girl, married
to Canadian army officer, so nat
urally l think from both sides of the
line. Twice the Major went over
seas for service with the Canadian
Mounted Rifles. The first time at
the age of Is, he enlisted for a year
in the Boer war and was at Paarde-
berg, Dornkop, Zand River, Pretoria,
johannesburg and Krugerdorp. and
returned with his commission of Lieu
tenant. Again he went back and saw
it through.
A few weeks after we were married
in Boston, the Major enlisted in Ed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-24

er we will compare other winters with the one OF
1918.
The New York Evening World the other day
reprinted an article on Where Are the Old Time
Winters?," published on January Is, 1913. Five
years ago the editor was wondering if the old time
rip snorters had become extinct. Well, five years
later he received his answer and it was so en-
phatic that he thought of his 1913 impeachment
The 1913 editorial follows
January half gone and where is winter: Nothing yet
approaching weather The Hudson is The
river boats still running Albany The grass in Cen
trail Park is it were April Cold waves are
half hearted affairs ashamed hang about more than
twenyfour hours. Europe has had no severe weather
Black fog descended upon London two days ago with
frost But what the English call frost is often only
mild 25 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The Atlantic, to be
breezy restless enough but what has
OF the famous old land winters of bitter cold and
terrible snows What has happened to our fine old West
billiards that used make SILVER only to read
about?
1t looks as if the civilized world were being off
nowadays from the winter rgors that ratified the bones
chilled the souls of its ancestors In
former times winters in the Northern hemisphere left
their mark and remembered for generations.
In old records of hard winters the Middle Ages the
today hardly recognizes the planet it lives For
example: In the year 4O1 the Black Sea entirely
1880 1870
domer marched the ice to Swaba to his broth
death. 1853 the cold intense that the Strait
Dardanelles and the Black Sea entirely frozen
The in places fifty feet Deep and
the ice heaped in such quantities the cities
the walls to fall down.
In $50 the Adriatic entirely frozen In S91
and 1913 the killed by the cold and cattle died in
their stalls In 1867 the cold intense that most of
the travellers in Germany frozen to death the
road Wine casks burst and trees split by frost with
immense noise In 1881 the houses in Austria
petely buried in 1874 all the in Italy
frozen.
In 1863 the winter in Flanders that the
wine cut with hatchets be distributed to the sol
ders In 1854 many forest and oaks in England
split with the frost In 1891 the cold intense
that starved wolves entered Vienna.
What has become of the winters like these? Have
civilization and coal scared them away, is a kind
Providence tenpering the wind weakened and relaxed
humanity?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-24
STATEMENT

The following was submitted to the
press today:
| believe this is time when every
body who is true friend of President
Wilson and believes in his greatness
and the greatness of the Nation of
which he is the foremost citizen
should come out frankly and above
board and say so,
President Wilson, whom I opposed
at the time of electionfi has won me
over to his side by the wonderful
moderation and farsightedness he
showed during his last twenty-three
minutes of speech to congress. He
then showed himself as a man of Wis.
ion far beyond the present inhuman
struggle. citizen of the world, a man
far above the ambitions of any one
party, man devoid of all hate and
envy, true follower of the Lord
Jesus Christ, as far as our present
imperfect system of managing human
Affairs would make such high ideals
possible.
We do not read one word in that
remarkable message of Huns, Bar.
barians, Murderers and Beasts" to the
wonder and admiration that there is
at least one man, one real man, liv-
ing in this great country of ours who
can fight great war against great
enemy without having to resort to
mud-slinging.
(SignedD HANS N. KOHL.