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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
ARCOUNCIL
MEN HELD IN
CRAFT PROBE
Member of National De
tense Arrested in Army
Raincoat Fraud.

New York. July 23.-AgenCieS
Of the council OF national de-
tense were involved today in
the nationwide conspiracy OF
alleged bribery and graft in The
manufacture OF soldiers rubber
raincoatS through the arrest OF
Harry T.. Lazarus. a member "T
the defense council : Sub-Com-
mittee supervising rainc0at pro-
duetion. He is accused Of at
tempting to bribe a government
Inspector.
Department of justice agents also
t10k into custody Charles L. Fuller,
chief government inspector for the
New York manufacturing district,
and il was announced he had con
fessed full details OF the workings
of an extensive bribery system in
connection with the manufacture Of
rstncoats and other soldiers cloth
ing
Methods by which army rain
coat manufacturers conducted SyS-
tsnatic bribery of army officers
in order to ill war department
orders with imperfect articles were
revealed by department Of justice
agents following the arrest OF Il
officers or employees Of the manu-
featuring concerns.
Grafters Confess.
Facing charges Of bribery. fraud
or conspiracy, some OF the men
under arrest today are understood
10 have given the government tull
information concerning their CON
uections with the plot. Other ar
rests in connection with rainc0at
and army clothing and equipment
contracts are expected soon.
A number of army officers are
under Investigation. and evidence
against them has been presented 10
the war department.
Although the arrests applied
only 10 raincOat manufacturers and
70 the district of New York, gov
eminent agents have information
lsading them 10 believe that the
system Of fraud is widespread, and
involves millions Of dollars in con-
tracts.
The majority of the Il men now
in custody here are charged speci-
hcally with offering Dribes OF
small sums TO inspectors Tor the
quartermasteT' department, or
government agents acting as de-
coys, in return for favorable rec
lamentations on raincOats unin-
spected- Thousands of these coats
were carelessly made and fell to
pieces shortly after being put into
service by soldiers in France. it
is said. Others Of the manufacture
els are accused of seeking to pay
sums to officers in Washington to
obtain contracts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
OPERATION FATAL
TO CHARLES ALLIS

Milwaukee, Wis. July %
Charles Allis. aged 65, chairman of
the Milwaukee county council of
defense, second son of the late Ed
ward P. Allis, founder of the E. p.
Allis company. died last night Of
pneumonia following a serious op-
Grafton He was the first president
of the reorganized Allis-Chalmers
company and at the time OF his
death was president of the Chicago
Betting company and had official
connection with several financial in
stitutions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
THE WEATHER

Partly cloudy tonight and We'd
nesday. probably thunder showers;
not much change in temperature.
Temperature at S a. m. 70; high
est yesterday. 94 lowest last night.
-.
Velocity Of wind at S a. m, 4
miles per hour.
Precipitation. none
Relative humidity at s p, m, SIS
at s "a m. rs; at l p. m. "A.
Stage Of water 2.4s no change in
last "a hours
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23

newspaper reports, has been burn
ing.
Fere-EnTardenCis is the center
Of the Germans supply system, over
six miles TO the east of the allied
line, it is pointed out, and the june
ton points of six roads, and is the
central in the triangle formed by
scissors, Chateau Thierry and
Reims
Hold All Ground Gained.
With the American Army on the
Aisne-Marne Front. July %. TAO A.
NJ, tBy the Associated Press. J.-
(contInued On Page NineO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
ANAERICAN TROOPS TAKE MORE TOWNS
FRENCH In new DRIVE AT MONTDIDIEI
1O5NQneS on
ArfnyListand
23OnMdrines

washington July 23.-Ihe ma
rine corps casualty list today
shows:
Killed in action, 4.
Died of wounds, 8.
Wounded severely, Is.
Missing, 1.
Total, %.
The marine list follows:
Killed in Action.
PRIVATES Wyatt NJ. Chapman,
Americus, Ga; William w. Lowry,
Cleveland, Ohio; Frank S. Carlson,
Sycamore, ILL.,; Lloyd A Staley,
Springfield, u.
Died of Wounds Received in Action
First Lieutenant Arthur T. Ell
more, Washington, ID. c.
PRIVATES James d. Morgan,
CRANKY, Mass; Hugh A. Stirling.
Philadelphia, Pa
Wounded in Action, Severely.
PRIVATES Ira o. Arbuckle, Full
ton, Mo; Joseph H. Numan, De-
Kalb, ILL.,; Paul H. Sanderson,
Bowling Green. Mo.
Army List.
The army casualty list today
shows:
Killed in action, "a.
Died of wounds, 3.
Died of disease, 5.
Died of accident and other
causes, 5.
Wounded severely, 81.
Missing in action, l.
Total, 105.
The list follows:
Killed in Action.
SERGEANT Carl L. Gilbert, Niles,
Ohio.
CORPORALS Stephen P. Crib,
Chicago; Gust KOlar, Chicago.
PRIVATES Harry Abramowitz.
New York City; Clifford A. Beard,
st. Louis, Mo-; Resie r. Buchanan,
Big Lake, Wash; Leslie d. Chaplin,
Ridgeville, Ind; Homer Crumb,
Knobel, Ark; James P. Ellis, FL
dorado, Texas; Chester A. Hartwell
| Farewell, Mo; John Lambert, Holy
! oke, Mass; John d. Mundie, North
Tonawanda, n. Y; John Murphy
Aildavour, Ireland; Carl A. Oefste-
dahl, Spring Grove, Mimi; Joseph
"
seph Pirkl, OwatOnna, Mimi; Sam
uel Schaumbaum, Brooklyn, n. Y. ;
John w. Shoemaker, Tyrone, Mo. ;
Fulton c. Smith, Ambridge, Pa. ;
Peter Smulczynski. East Hampton
Mass. Archibald l.. Stanton, Wa
terbury, Conn; Alfred Stengel, Col
lege Point, \. Y; Isidor Swirski
New York City.
BUGLER Leo Garnett, Spring
City, Pa. ~
Died of Wounds.
PRIVATES Domenica De Modica,
Boston, Mass; John f. Hoey, Pony,
Mont; Guy NJ. Stanton, Millbrook,
Mich.
Died of Disease.
PRIVATES William A. Ferris,
Tuscaloosa, Ala; Harry A. Lewis,
Fullerton, Neb.; Henry Schmitt,
Winona, Mimi; John Schraeder,
Sturgis, Mich
COOK Clair L. Bixby, Gladgow,
Mont.
Died from Other Causes.
MASTER ENGINEER Albert o.
Urbach. Livingston, Mont.
SERGEANT Patrick J. McGaha-
ren, New York City.
WAGNER Sylvester Johnson,
Cadyville, n. Y.
PRIVATES Willie NJ. Kirdzik,
Jersey City, n. j.; Thomas Patrick,
Newark, n. J.
Severely Wounded.
SERGEANT Frank +. kriwanek,
St Louis, Mo.
PRIVATES Charles Bocca, Gary,
Ind; John l. Herman, Olney, ILL.,;
Irving H. Krengel, Elgin, Ill; Hen
~ Wehrenburg, Newell, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23

San Juan, Porto Rico, July 23.-
The third officers training camp
opened here today with 600 men,
including $50 negroes. in attend
ance. The training course Will con
tinue two months and those who
win commissions will serve with
the Porto Rican troops.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
AvIATORS LAND SAFELY.

Halifax, y. s, July % Three
American naval ayiators missing
from Chatham. Mass. landed at
Summerside. Their dlrigible was
lost In the fog.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
LATE BULLETINS

Paris. July 23.-AccOrding TO
review OF the military situa-
ton in L'HOmme Libre, the
newspaper owned by Premier
Clemenceau. the German losses
since March 81 are approaching
1,000,000 men.
Washington, July %. - No
general order fixing minimum
wages and hours for street car
employees will he made by the
war labor board. Each case
will be decided separately.
Berne. Switzerland. July %
Negotiations between american
and German delegates concern
ing the exchange and treatment
OF prisoners of war will begin
at Berne in the first days of
August
San Diego. Cal. July 23.-
Following a report from the
British consul at La PaZ that IA
German raider is cruising oil
the Mexican coast all vessels in
the 18th naval district have
been advised to observe special
precautions of the submarine
zone.
Washington, July 23. Fifty
thousand negro registrants
qualified for general military
service were called to the cOlOrs
today by Provost Marshal GEN.
eral CrOwder. They will en-
train between Aug. / and } and
Will come from I'll states.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
STRIKE HUNS
FOR GAIN ON
WIDE FRONT
Germans Hurled Back
Mile on 4-Mile Line at
Opening of Smash.

London, july ZS.-
The French at Sis
o'clock this morning be-
gan a new attack in the
region northwest of
Montdidier, according to
advices received here
shortly after noon to-
day.
At II o'clock this
morning the French
were reported to have
advanced a mile on a
front of four miles. 1t
was thought on the ba-
sis of the advices that
attack in the Montdidier
region might be on a
wider front than the one
mentioned.
In the Montdidier fighting today
the French, besides capturing the
villages of Aubvillers and Sauvil-
lers, swept to the crest OF Mailly-
Renewal and captured it
Termed "Local Operation"
Paris, July 23.-ArtiIlery activity
along the battlefront during the
night is all that is reported in the
official statement issued by the wal
office today North of MontdidieI
in the Somme sector, a local opera
ton brilliantly conducted permit
ted the French to occupy the vii
lagos of Mailly-Raineval, Survillers
and Aubvillers. The French took
$50 prisoners.
Official Report
The statement says:
Along the whole battle front
only artillery actions were reported
during the past night.
North of MOntdidier, a local Op-
Grafton which was conducted in a
vigorous manner, reported the cap
ture by the French of the villages
of Maily Raineuval, Sauvillers and
Aubvillers. The French up to the
present have taken $50 prisoners.
"Othewise the night was calm"
(By Associated Press.)
At Sis o'clock this morning the
French launched an attack along
a four-mile front in the Montdidier
sector. In three hours they ad-
vanced a mile London hints that
the attack was over a wider front
than that mentioned in the dispatch
This new onslaught, directed
against a front which has been COM
paratively quiet since the German
offensive there came to d halt ear
ly in June, may have an important
bearing on the development of the
military situation along the whole
front
Three Villages Taken.
Previously in an attack reported
as launched last night in this sec
tor the French had occupied the
villages of Mailly-Raineuval, Sau-
villers and AubvlllerS, which are
west of the Avre river and immedi-
ately south of the point of the
French successes earlier in the
month, when they captured valua-
BILE positions over a three-mile
front south of Castel, advancing to
depth of a mile and a quarter.
Prisoners numbering $50 were
taken.
Dominate Valley.
The success of the French north
of Montdidier improves their line
there. They have now secured po-
sitions which dominate the Avre
valley for severH miles along a
vital sector.
Further north. the British have
advanced their line slightly south
of Hebuterne, where they recently
attacked and moved their positions
forward over a mile front. South
of Merris and Meteren, in the Lys
sector in Flanders, the British lines
also were improved and local sue
cesses in the Hamel sector north
of Albert and in front of Amiens
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23

.A.sociated Press
Leased Wire Report
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23

;M e-mbsr e.f Aaaft
Bureau Of CirculatiOns
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
PORTO RICAN CAMP OPEN.

Continued On Page Nine)
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30
SsMR oB EoseFasEgRE.

To wm. LSerpxsel and Sarah A. 2 Learpapsi. year heirs, executors,
 axsigas CT psrsnnaf representa-
 Gxss: 1
 Ysu aAa each ef yea are hereby, notified that the undersigned have expended in labor and Improvements during each sf the years 1914. 1915 ana 1916 the sum of One Hundred dollars upon each of the following decribed placer. mining Claims, all situated in the Concil City Record ing Precinct, Territory of Alaska, to wit: the Limestone Group. asso- citation claim, situated on the Casa de Paga River, notice of location being recorded in vol 22 at page 187, records of said recording pre- ciRct; the Polar Bear Group. asso- ciatioR claim, situated in the Casa ds Paga River. notice of location being recorded in Vol. 22 at page 189, records of said recording pre- cinct; the Cinnamon Bear Group association claim, situated on the Casa de Paga River. notice of To- cation being recorded in Vol. 22 at page 138, records of said recording precinct; and the Bear Black Group association claim, situated on the Casa de Paga River, notice of To- cation being recorded in Vol. 22 at page 1So. records of said Council City Recording Precinct. Territory of Alaska.
 The above amount has bseA ex- pended under the provisions of the law concerning annual labor upon mixing claims, being the amount required to hold said claim.
 And you and each of you are further notified that if you fail to contribute your proportion of said expenditure within ninety days after the last publication of this notice, your interest in said claim will be- come the property of the under signed, your co-owner, under sec tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the United States.
 EUGENE w. GRAHAM.
 KARL KARLIN.
 Co-Owner. Date of first publ, Nov. 2, 1917. Date of last publ, Feb. '. 1918.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30
NOTICB- OF ADMINISTRATORS ! SALE OF RIAL ESTATE.
In the U., s. Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska, Second
 Judicial Division, Cape Nome a Precinct. In Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of

In the matter of the Estate of
 CHRIS PRBCHTEL. deceased. E Whereas under an order of sale maas and entered in said court on thes 1eth; day of January. 1sls,. was dirseted tor oall the following de1eribeds real estate situate, lying snd being ir. the. Cape Nome Recording District. Territory of Alaska. to-wit:
 Placer, micing. claims. known. sS the Coicr:do and Triangle placer claims situated. nsar the beach. wes: of Jess creek, noticc is hereby given that, on. tie 18th. day Febru- arys 1918, at 9 o'clock P. M. of said day at the front door of the office of the United States Commis- sioner for said precinct i1 Nome. Alaska, will sell the above de- scribed promi.cs at public auction to the highest and best bidder therefore for cash.
 Dated at Nome, Alaska. :his 18th day of January. 1918.
 F VIM. STIPEK, Administrator.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

Nothing is more striking in these days than the solidarity of orga- nized capital compared with the lack of solidarity of the workers. But there is a very simple explana- ton of this. To organize the ca pitGlists is easy eonugh. Relatively speaking they are few! their inter- ests arc all self-evidently in com mon. Day after day the experience which bring them as capitalists closer together makes it feasible for them to control the parasitic forces in society, end these in order to maintain their parasitism must also interest themselves in ln- creasing the strength and the so- lidarity of capitalism.
 Not cll the decisions of the Supreme Court are opposed to la Dor. Some of them un-question- ably are such that they would give one that idea, but it would be wholly wrong. It depends gen orally upon the nature of the measure. If measure about fifty years behind the times is pasecd to assist labor, it is almost probable that lhc Judges will sustain it. Of course, the beginning of labor re- forms may have long since been passed in the acceptance of such measure but at any rate, the Supreme Court may be relied upon with come certainty to advocate a reform which labor has itself practically accomplished sixty or seventy years ago.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

An American Congressman hes discovered a very good argument aganist suffrage. He said in a de bate in the House thct the minds of man ard woman were 6iffeernl organically. Ono wes given Al to common sense reasoning-tht mans; and tkc other to poetry ant idcal:sm-the womanG. That meant that mans victory meant victory for socialism, and he could imagine nothing worse except the abdica tion of tho crown by woman as queen of the American Home! Ho Air.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

Nome prosperity depends on a we'll paid working. class. AS a matter of fact. the size of the pay. roll is the best index of prosperity anywhere.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

The Oamasoo sometimes grows two feet; in twenty-fonr hours. There are thirty varieties of this tree; the smallest. is only six inches in height and the largest 150 feet.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

In Russia the natives never drink milk in their tea, and cups and sauccrs are never used for tea. It drank from glasses.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

If a thread is pulled out of a khaki coat, unraveled, and examin- ed closely, the khaki shade will be found to be composed of threads of bronze, light olive green, law ender and brown.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

Not oEly iS powder and shell be- ing exploded on the European battle ficldc, but quite number of system" that have been accepted h.. Russia for example.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

Tho boss is first of all able, end ..oN5 look cut fer himself.
 Tho worker is surely a fool who docs not set his own and hic fellow workers interest, before thCt of any boss.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

Express and General Delivery. Sec Erickson at Mansfleld's Cigar Store.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

The eight hour day for men and women also.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

We believe that nothing. il this world is accomplished without hard work. This is, a. truths No man can acquire skill in. anything without application. to the subject at issue; no man, can accomplish his end without continually striv- ing to attain, thct end, but supreme above all must society be organized to accomplish anything.
 The whole story of human pro- gross is, not tho springiag up of a genius here ard thore. They helped, but it has been. through the hard work, the patience and earn estness of concentrated purpose that organized effort has ever successfully accomplished anything beneficial to tho working class.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

It certainly affords the workers an object lesson that they should by all means appreciate. Without orga anization the military a system that is proving itself so efficient would have announced to nothing. It would have crumbled to pieces long befcrc this, but because it was carefully, closely and ably organ izcd, tho work stards the storm, strong and fierce and desperate though it may be.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

As tho war news comes ia from day to day it is quite per picking Firet one side is reported to have the advantage, then therc grc,.t activity here, and Hull in the fighting somewhere else, to- morrow thero is victory for the otter side and fighting which was very desperate yesterday is cften reported wholly abandoned, to off set activities in another. Only the sickeEing details of the terrific, in human sacrifice of mon, and tho enormous losses and shocking lists of killed and wounded, practically remain ever the same.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

The workers that want good con ditionG, and shorter hours are the re4l boosters for any camp they Happen to be a part of. No one has yet heard of prosperous towns springing up around canneries where contracted workers are ill practical pconagc.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-30

The eight hour day for men and women also.
 In Russia the natives never drink milk in their tea, and cups and sauccrs are never used for tea. It drank from glasses.
 Nome prosperity depends on we'll paid working class. AS matter of fact, the size of the pay roll is. the best index of prosperity anywhere.
 If thread is pulled out of khaki coat, unraveled, and examin- ed closely, the khaki shade will be found to be composed of threads of bronze. light olive green, law ender and brown.
 Not only iS powder and shell be- ing exploded on the European battle ficldc, but quite number of "sys1cm3" that have been accepted as infallable ere being shot to h.. Russia for example.
 Tho boss is first of all able, end .oo5 look cut fer himself.
 The worker is surely a fool who docs not set his own and hic fellow workers interest, before thCt of any boss.
 The workers that want good con- ditionG, and shorter hours are the re4l boosters for any camp they Eappcn to be part of. No one has yet heard of prosperous towns Springing up around canneries where contracted workers are ill practical pconagc.
 What a grand thing it would be if she Golden Rule were enforced. The entire capitalist system would collapse and then we would have socialism wherein there would be neither employers or employees. but men who would produce ac- cording to the social needs and not for tho profit of the individual.
 We nigh. as we'll realize that wo are now in world practically in the re-making. When many ideas and cherished principles are being destroyed, when many insti- tutioss lovcd ard revered ere be- ing crushed to earth, when many accepted conventions and time honorcd customs arc being swept mo the melting pot, to be tAerc rec::st.
 The principal difference between a union man and scab is, when all is said and done, that the form CT makes an intelligent and active effort to better hiS condition by CO., operation with his fellows, the other thinks that by catering to thc boos the lcttcr will bestow rome sort of kindness upon him in the shape of a job retention on a silver tray. The first is mentally free, the other is still mentally a slave.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-08-10
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF AD-
MINISTRAT0R AND NOTICE TO
CREDITORS.

In the Sixth Judicial District Court of
the State of Nevada, in and for the
County of Humboldt.
In that Matter of the Estate of E. L.
Labadie, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un-
d~ersigned, ]. A. Langwith, was on the
9th day of August, A. d. 1918, duly APP
pointed and qualified by the Sixth Ju-
dicial District Court of the State OF
Nevada, in and for the county of Hum
boldt, as administrator of the estate OF
Z. l.. Labadie, deceased. All persons
having claims against the estate OF
said deceased are required to file the
same, with proper vouchers and stat
utory affidavits attached( with the
Clerk of said Court, within three
months from the date of the first pub.
LEGATION of this notice.
Dated, August 6. 1918.
(Signed) j. A. LANGWITH,
Administrator of the estate OF
Z. L. Labadie, deceased.
Date of first publication, Aug. 6. 1918
Date of last publication, Sept. 8. 1918
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-08-10
RED CROSS FEEDS ALSATIANS
Three Thousand Who Escaped In First
Weeks Of War Are Being
Cared For.

Washington.-Three thousand loyal
Alsatians who escaped across the from
tier In the first weeks of the var when
the battle line swayed back and forth
across southern Alsaee, are now being
fed with American food. They are
quartered in nineteen villages safe on
the French side of the war zone where
American troops are now stationed.
They lost all their property three
years ago and what little money they
had was soon exhausted. With the I'm.
ereasing cost of living and the inability
Of their French neighbors to continue
to help them. their situation became
desperate. In answer to the appeal
from French societies interested In
them, the American Red Cross has just
shipped food to the nineteen villages to
provide half the daily rations Of these
5000 Alsatians for ten months.
The shipment included 1920 pounds
of condensed milk, 1920 pounds OF
flour, LOO pounds of sugar, 5000
pounds Of dried peas. 2,200 pounds Of
rice and 5000 pounds of timed meat,