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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24

and Second avenues. carr,
morning. saty Sun
Miner and Miller were
pending further invest5o.....l psit
Chief Miller SUNDAY s oa
were taken back on H.
Commissioner John Lie5t,,.o i,,
po..co department witbo@' q
ing Chief Miller. earIv ' ,oa'l
morning The men wortss I, VA
aud Tuesday nights. b.. - Won
charged for a second fi-,.7,
chief following the verde,
jury who fried the case IN Y
afternoon. 1-l9i
Forced To Art.
II is ruuored that bt.
vas taken IN opposition
missioner Iiedtke. who q " Y
refused 10 change his vis, %
interview I'd by the mavor 49,
fellow members Of the et'r
who stated that he corrr. Y
would be compelled 10 Ar, y.
Mr.. Liedtre's Reinstatement, y
was rescinded. The head of,.
lice department then en- NJ
Chief Miller's final action
EfIr War g ..se s....
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
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SWEDES LEAVE TOXIC,

London, May 24-Much specula-
ton has been aroused in Toxic over
the departure of G o. Wellenberg.
the Swedish minister, and IA prom
tnent Swedish residents. according
to i dispatch from the Japanese
capital to the Daily Express dated
Thursday. Allegations of unneu-
trail conduct by the minister are
freely made
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
NOTED TENOR DIES

Akron, Ohio. May 24.-Evan H.
Williams, noted tenor. died this
morning at the city hospital after
an illness of one week. Death,
which was due to blood poisoning.
came while Mr.. Williams was sur
rounded by his wife and children,
called to his bedside when it be-
came known that his condition was
critical
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
HAS RIYETTNG RECORD,

London, May PA new riveting
record for the United Kingdom was
made yesterday at Barrow by vii
liam Moses, an employee of Vickers,
Limited Using 2S1a-pound riv-
citing hammer on firing beams for
9.2-inch howitzers. Moses drove
h.804 rivets in nine hours. The
Tivets were of two kinds, counter
sunk and snaphead. and the tools
employed had been in use for u
months.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
JUDGE GIVES TWO
WOMEN DIVOPr

Two divorces were granted
circuit court yesterday afterno
Judge w T Church.
Bessie Wilson was given a 4
from Stanley Z. Wilson b,
grounds Of cruelty and Nellsp
ner was granted a divorce
Owen Buchner on the Same x,
Buy Thrift stamp,--
LIBERTY MOTORS SPEFn
New York. May 24.-Aeriai,
service, Washington to New I
esta blishes new record .
equipped with Liberty moto,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24

All Kinds of Fresh Vegetables.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
HOSIERY
GAPS

A most extensive varlety y outing caps " "'
shapes, styles and fabrics OF silk or cloth al Oh"
70 G %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
HIGH SCHOOL TO
GRADUATE GLASS
OF SO STUDENTS

The 1918 class of the ROCK Is
land high school which will grad
uate with exercises Friday night OF
next week. numbers SO. The class
is smaller than that of last year
there having been IS graduates IN
1917. War conditions are held re-
sponsible for the decrease in num-
Der. Appended Is the list of grad
yates:
George Barsloux Adams.
Arthur John Allen.
Irwin L. Anderson.
Ruben Anderson.
RAYMOND Henry Arndt.
Clara Angela Arnell.
Ruth Z. Asquith.
Hortense Eliza beth Bassett.
Edward Baumann.
Ernest Baumann.
Anna Mary BostOck-
Ruth Icaphene Bradford.
Vera Bronson.
John Arthur Bruner.
F. Marie BTuner.
Chester A Carlson
Daniel P. Cavanaugh.
RObley Edwards Clark.
Harriette Elvina Clarke.
Frances Lucille Cornell.
Harry Rogers CorwIn.
Elsie Idabelle Crist.
Bessie NJ. Crowley.
Dora Agnes Daily.
May DanielsOn.
Waldron Dolly.
Robert c. Doyle.
Clara Ehleb.
Jessie Henrietta EmDry.
Elmer ". Endter.
Juanita Funkenstein.
CleIa Finley.
Emmitt Fullmer
Ruth Winifred Gillespie.
Ida Barbara Gross.
Harold H. Heimbeck.
A Myrtle Holmer.
Sylvia B. Horblit.
Charlotte Frances Huesing.
Kathryn NJ. Hynes
Clifford Berry Johnson.
Fredricka Johnson.
Roy Harold Johnson.
Kirk Alden Journy.
Sherman Harms.
Lowell E. Kay.
Merrill Preston keemle.
Gertrude Irene Lamont.
Mary Katherine Hackstadt.
Roswell {. Lamp.
George Lattner
Hugh Joseph Lawson.
Sara G. Levinstein.
Arthur Lindros.
Mary Frances Upton.
Oren Joseph Litug.
Ralph Elmer Lundberg.
Evelyn c. Lundeen.
Helen Lucretia McGrath.
Louise Zenaide Mclean. .
Mabel Marie Magnuson.
Anna Mauritzson.
Fred J. inflow.
Mabel Anna Moffitt.
t'rieda h. Nuessli
Clarence Arnold Olson.
Irving Z. W. Olson.
Lowell Dudley Granger.
0. Ruben Peterson.
Blanche NJ. Reid.
Stella Elizabeth Reid.
Glen Rueckert
Carl Rydholm.
William lie Roy Schofer.
Robert Schurr.
Roy Siemon.
Una Elizabeth Sodergren.
William Frank Stapp.
Mary Elizabeth Stauduhaur.
Fridolf E. Swenson.
Edward Taber.
Edwin William Thackham.
Raymond Carl Thoms.
George Uhlmeyer.
Alice Louise Whenever.
Marjorie Amelia Walker.
NJ. Norma Wigers.
Gladys NJ Wilson.
Ray Wood
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
SHTPYARD MEN STRIKE.

Vancouver. 3. c. May 24.-Ten
thousand shipyard workers struck
in British Columbia to force the
imperial munitions board to grant
the scale in force in the United
States and a ~ hour week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24

PRINT WAGE BOOST ORDERS.

Washington. May 24.-Orders
raising the wages of two million
railroad employees and giving them
back pay from Jan. l. have been is
sued by Director General McAdoo
and sent to the printers.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Democrats Tricked
Vets, Anderson Saws
Anti-Saloon Leader Declares
Saloon Men Were Told
"Dry" Bill Was Beaten

William H. Anderson, State Super
intendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
says that the brewers and hotel keep
ers of New York were the victims of a
shrewd game at the hands of the Dem
ocratic managers, who fooled them
into the belief that if they defeated
Governor Whitman they could stave
off the adoption of the Federal prohibi-
tion ratification amendment. Mr.. An
derson says the brewers and hotel men
are believed to have contributed more
than $250,000 to defeat Whitman.
"The Democratic workers." said Mr..
Anderson yesterday, passed out the
word that they had inside reliable as
surance that the President would veto
the demobilizing prohibition act of
Congress, and that if Governor Whit
man could be defeated even ratifica-
tion could be held off After having
worked this for all it was worth in New
York and other big cities, the Demo-
cratic majority in the Senate put the
measure through and the Democratic
President signed it in order to make
good with the prohibition states in the
South and West.
at is practically certain that the thir-
tysiX states necessary for the ratifica-
tion of the Federal amendment will be
in line not later than January 25 and
thirty seven states will in all probabil-
ity ratify before Anril | -
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Women Drivers Carry
29O Wounded Soldiers

Two hundred and ninety wounded
American soldiers were removed yes
terday from Pier 90, Fiftieth Street
and North River, by ambulances OPP
Grated by women drivers of the Amer
lean Red Cross Motor Corps. The
wounded, as in the case of the five
hundred who arrived on Saturday, were
taken to Debarkation Hospital No. 8
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets, on
Sixth Avenue, formerly the Greenhut
store.
In the last three days the corps has
transported to hospitals more than
1000 wounded officers and men. DR..
Dorothy C. Smyley, in charge of the
corps, said yesterday that its force
would be augmented to take care of
the increased demands.
Sunday the women's ambulances took
220 wounded soldiers from Hoboken
pier to st. Marys Hospital in that
city and furnished transportation also
for seventy-five officers who wanted
TO go from steamship piers to railroad
stations.
Scores of private motor cars are in
use by the motor corps drivers to give
convalescent soldiers trips around the
city. Thirty ambulances and fourteen
private cars were on duty Sunday, and
Saturday fifty-fve ambulances were
necessary to take the wounded from
Fiftieth Street and the Hudson River
to the Debarkation Hospital. The corps
mem bers are subject also to calls at
any hour night or day, from port mill
tary officials wanting to 90 somewhere
in hurry. Seven Red Cross cars are
constantly on duty at the Hoboken
neaduuarters.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
1t. Pierce Butler
Dies of Wounds i'm
ArgonneF Fighting
Prominent NewYorker Mar.
ried Miss Maude O'Brien
on April s

Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Rennard,
of S16 Ocean Avenue. Jersey City,
have been notified that their son,
Corporal Herbert Miller Rennard,
Company L, 11sth Infantry, was
killed in action. He was seventeen
years old, and had enlisted by misrep-
resenting his age in the old 4th New
Jersey on the outbreak of war.
Corporal Rennard was we'll liked
by all and was brave lad" Lieutenant
Charles Grassey, OF the dead mans
command, wrote to Mr.. Rennard. He
knew no fear On the day he was
slain, he killed two Germans and then
was hit by sniper He died instantly"
Lieutenant Meredith l.. Dowd, 147th
Aero Squadron, killed in action, was
the son of Colonel Heman Dowd, vice
president of the Equitable Trust Com
pan. He was a member of the class
of 1918 at Princeton. but left in 1916
to drive an ambulance in France.
Early in 1917 he Joined the French
aviation service. and later transferred
to the American. Word received by
his father says that he was killed on
October 26, in an air combat north
of Verdun He died fighting against
tremendous odds.
Lieutenant Colonel wild Bill' Don
ovan, 165th Infantry, wounded in ac-
ton, was shot in the knee in recent
fighting, according to letter received
here from an officer of the expedition
ary forces yesterday. 1t was Colonel
Donovan's command that first crossed
the Ourcq.
Lieutenant Edward Ellsworth, 9Th En-
gneers, killed in action, was a gradu-
ate of Princeton in the class of 1910
He was twenty-eight years old and en-
tered the first Plattsburg training
camp, joining a regular army outfit on
receiving his commission. His mother
who lives at 220 West Fifty ighth
Street, received letter from him re-
Gently in which he said that the wal
would soon be over and that then he
would be home.
Word was received yesterday of the
death from wounds of Lieutenant
Pierce Butler, 312th Infantry. He was
twentythree years old and the son of
James Butler, 230 West 'Seventy-escond
Street. He was wounded by machine
gun fire in the battle of the Argonne
Forest.
He was graduate of Loyola School
On April 6, this year. married Miss
Maude O'Brien. daughter of Morgan
j. O'Brien. at st. Patrick's Cathedral
Cardinal Farley offciated A brother
Lieutenant James Butler. jr., is in
France. Two sisters also survive. They
are Mrs. Walter Travis and Mrs. Philip
( McGuire
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Rigid Inquiry fer
All Teutons Who
Ask Citizenship

Rufus W. Sprague, jr., director of
the Enemy Alien Bureau, announced
yesterday that Germans and Austrians
seeking citizenship who have not al
read obtained their first papers will
be subject to searching inquiry before
the final naturalization certificate is
granted.
Mr.. Sprague explained that under the
act of May 8, 1918, there are at pres
ent only three classes Of Germans or
Austrans who may become naturalizcd
These are such as filed their declara-
ton of intention not less than two or
more than. seven years before the dec
laration of war: those who have pet!-
tions pending in the naturalization
courts and Germans and Austrians in
certain Western States who had been
allowed to vote immediately after
signing their first papers.
All citizens of the Central Powers
not coming under these three classes
must make application to the President
through the Department of Justice for
permission to become naturalizcd. They
will then be investigated, and if the
inquiry develops that they were loyal
during the war they will be granted
a Presidential exemption which will
permit them to take their cases into
naturalization court. Mr.. Sprague
will use the records of his bureau in
passing on all applicants
Because of the amazing Delbriick
law, passed by the Reichstag in 1918.
making it possible for German to
have two countries, the Federal au.
thorities arc anxious to eliminate those
Teutons who under the cloak of citizen
ship are menace to American insti-
tutons.
This scheme of perjury which was
given official sanction through the ef-
forts of the Pan German League. per-
mitted German to accept citizenship
IN. sixteen countries without sacrificing
allegiance to Germany if it was to his
advantage.
DR.. Delbriick, who drew up the law.
SAID in explaining it to the Reichstag
that unloss German who emigratcd
was protected by such statute he
would would 'ose e. ms usefulness in repre-
foreign countries.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
20 Shipbuilders Hurt
AS Gangplank Breaks

When the Knocking off" whistle
blew at the Standard Shipbuilding Cor
poration's yard on Shooters Island last
evening, gangplank stretched between
a pier and the steamer Dallas buckled
and broke beneath the weight of the
mechanics who poured across it, drop
ping twenty-five of them twenty feet
to the dock below.
All of them were injured, eight Of
them SO seriously that they were taken
to st. Vincent's and Mariners Harbor
hospitals. These were:
Andrew Flood, seventeen, 456 East
145th Street, fractured right arm.
John Long, nineteen, 246 Grove
Street, fractured right leg and left arm.
Robert Pinkerton. twenty-five, 447
Twentieth Street, Brooklyn, FRACTURED d
right arm and scalp wounds.
Leland Davis, twenty-one, rs Grove
Street, fractured left leg and left arm.
Charles White, twenty-five, Ia Maple
Avenue, Mariners Harbor Staten ISL
and, fractured right leg and possible
fracture of skull.
August Dallas, twenty-five, 304 Grove
Street, fractured left arm.
Robert Hess, twenty-five, 100 Clare
mont Avenue, fractured right leg.
Peter Dallas, twenty-one, 90 Sherman
Avenue, Tompkinsville, Staten Island,
fractured right arm and possible frac-
tured skull.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
No Red Cross Aid for
Germany, Says Staub
Director of Atlantic Division
Declares Other Countries
Are More Worthy of Help

EAST ORANGE, N. j., Nov 25.-"The
Red Cross has no plans for work in
Germany" declared Albert w. Staub,
director of the Atlantic Division of the
American Red Cross, at the annual
meeting tonight of Orange Chapter, in
the East Orange High School. The
statement was vigorously applauded.
"Other people are more in need of
help and are more worthy" he con-
tinued. If any persons raise the ques-
ton that they do not want to make
refugee garments because of the belief
that they might get to Germany, you
can tell them that. | have even had re-
quests for the return of contributions
if Germany was to get any of the
money"
Mr. Staub said he could not discuss
fully or adequately what the American
Red Cross rthe-war programme
would be, because that programme can
not be formed until reports have been
received from representatives in Eu-
rope. He urged that there be no slack
ening of work. 4
Until the French authorities make
known to us what we are to do, we can
not outline a definite programme in
France" he said Belgium is in need
of more help. The Barkans are in great
need, and our work probably will be
carried into Poland and Russia, and
among the Armenians and the new
countries the are being born"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
w. T. Evans, Patron of
Young Artists, Dead
Prominent Drygoods Mer-
chant Succumbs in Home at
Glen Ridge. N. |.

William T. Evans, formerly presi-
dent of Mills & Glib, the New York
drygoods house, lover of art and pa
ron i struggling artists, died at his
nome IN Glen Ridge, N. j., yesterday
morning in his seventy-sixth year. His
oeath followed the general breakdown
whlch occurred when his firm was
forced into a receivership in 1916.
Born IN Clough Jordan, ireland. Mr..
Evans was brought to this country
when only a year old. He studied
architecture for two years in his
youth, but finally took up mercantile
career. High as his position was as a
merchant, he enjoyed quite as enviable
reputation as lever and patron of
AIT. During his life he made anu dis
posed OF no less than three distinct
corrections of pa ntiNcs worth at this
time more than s1,O00,0OO.
lie was also d friend TO struggling
artists. Among those with whom he
was intimate were Inness, Martin and
nmynant. 1t was through his Offices that
blakelock and Ranger got their first
taste of fame
During the earlier part of his career
as collector, Mr.. Evans paid chief at
ana appreciation in this field led to
the. decoration of St. Michael being
conferred upon him by the BavarIaH
government
In 1890 he sold his first collection.
consisting mainly of foreign examples.
and became a collector of American
art. In the course of this ambition
ne became a member of the Metro
polltan Museum, and the National Arts.
Lotos and Salmagundi clubs. As chair
man of the Lotos Clubs art committee
he made that institution we'll Known
among art lovers of the city.
His second collection was sold in
1900. Several pictures by Martin and
lnness sold then are worth to-day from
$4,000 to $4,000.
During the following period Mr..
Evans moved to Montclair and pur-
chased house, which he literally filled
with pictures of his collecting. He
gave 100 paintings to the National Gal
lery in Washington and sixty more to
the Montclair Museum.
In 1918 he sold his third collection.
This marked the virtual end of his
life as collector, and the failure of
his firm few years later was to end
his career as a merchant also.
His wife, five sons and two daugh-
ters survive him.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26

laundresses, chemists, besides repre-
sentatives Of the Red Cross, the Y. M.
c. A., the Y. w. C. A. or the War Camp
Community Service. While there is
no longer any necessity for training
women for overseas service, they will
be needed in camps and 1nntonments.
England has had a definite policy
regarding the employment Of women
since 1915. but in America the ques-
ton has been chiefly dependent on
local conditions. In England the Won
ans Legion was formed to supply
cooks. In 1917 5000 women became the
nucleus for the "Waacs," whose pur-
pose was "to effect substitution Of
women for soldiers in certain employ
ments throughout units. formations
and Offices administered by the Army
Council, at home and at the bases on
the lines of communication overseas
Last June 10000 women were en-
rolled in this corps. They were re-
cruited through the official employm ent
agencies and enlisted only after thor
ough investigation as to character and
qualifications. After thorough inten-
sive training they were put into field
work. then advanced to executive places
according to ability.
Mr.. Fosdick believes that the advp
ton of similar plan in America would
raise the standard of service now be-
ing rendered by women in military
car1pS.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
County Democracy
Expended $14O,978
In State Campaign
Statement Filed at ALBANY
Shows Total Receipts
of $143,885
Special to The Tribune

ALBANY, Nov. 25-That the CAM
palgn managers of Alfred E. Smith ex-
pected to get the vote that would sweep
him into office in New York City is in
dicated by the big campaign fund that
was collected and spent by the New
York County Democratic Committee,
which filed its election expenses to-
day with the Secretary of State. 1t
received S143,855 and spent S140,978.
It's receipts were greater than the total
contributions made to the Republican
State Committee for the Whitman can
didacy. 1t was only through loans that
the Republican State Committee's s
campaign fund was raised to something
more than 100000, of which $4,000
was provided by the Republican Ma
tlonal Committee. This was shown by
a statement filed with the Secretary of
State by United States Senator William
M. Calder, as an individual member of
the national committee. He received
and spent $3.50 600. Besides the S14O,-
600 the sum of $4,000 was distributed
among ten Republican candidates for
Congress, whose campaigns needed boil
stering up.
The New York County Republican
Committee spent only little more
than a third that of the Democratic
committee and the expense statement
shows that the Republican managers
had a lot of difficulty in getting New
York's men of wealth to come across:
Of the receipts of ,73O, the sum OF
$4,000 was contributed by the state
committee.
John D. Rockefeller jr., gave s4oo;
Ogden Mills, $500, and George F. Ba
ker and Andrew Carnegie, 81 900 each
R. Fulton Cutting, Adolph Lewisohr
and William D. Guthrie gave $50 each
New York brewers contributed gen
erously to the New York Democratic
County Committee. George Ehret gave
81 500 and Jacob Rupert, $1,000;
Philip J. Britt J. E. Dordan, A. j
Baldwin, j. A. Mccarthy, G. w. Plum
kilt and John F. Calvin gave $4,000
each; D. II. Knott, James L. Holland
H. H. Hilland, J; Johnson, P. H. Dona
hue and H. Schneider, $4,000 each;
William Fox, George w. Weller and T
F. Foley, So 500 each; James w. Geraro
and Joseph B. Mayer, $1,50O each
Frank X. Pendeton, G. w. Loft. Alex
Moran, Lewis Nixon, P. H. Dugro
Lew Cooke, w. II. Baldwin, E. f
Latour, Charles N. Harris and j. +
Sinclair $1,000 each.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26

Samuel S. Koenig, Mrs. John Francis
Yawger, Public Service Commissioner
Kracke, Mrs. William C. Beecher, Alba
M. lde. of Troy; Thomas R. Proctor, of
Utica; Mrs. Luther w Mot. OF Os-
wego;; George F. Johnson. Of Bing-
hamton; George W. Aldridge, of Roch-
ester; CONGRESSMAN Norman J. Gould.
John G. Wickser, Of Buffalo; Mrs. Ar
thur l.. Llvermore of Yonkers: William
l.. Ward, of Westchcster; State Chair
man George a. Glynn Secretary L. B.
Gleason and Treasurer Harrison K
Bird.
Justice Fawcett. of the Supreme
Court in Richmond, yesterday ordered
the void and protested ballots pro
duced in court this morning, and at the
same time granted a stay against the
county canv9 ssers, preventing them
from certifying the canvass. Almost
Immediately Abram I. Elhus obtained
from Presiding Justice Almet F. jerks.
in the Appellate Division in Rrooklvn'
a restraining order. and the argument
on Justice Fawcett's order was set
down for 10 o'clock this forenoon in
BROOKLYN
Justice Giegerich in he Bronx, yes
terday issued permanent writ of man
damus requiring Alfred f Smith an6
"S''VA' w NiiVN S1'uSt WHY Cnc VOlQ, OrO
tested and blank ballots cast at the
last election should not be INSPECTED
by judicial procedure. The Justice
eliminated from his order stav re-
straining the county canvassers from
forwarding the results of the canvass
to the Secretary of State.
"The milk IN thi~ cocoanut." said Mr..
Proskauer. for Mr.. Smith. "is the
granting of a stay which would pre-
vent the issuance of certificate of
election, so that the Governors chair
on January would be empty"
Justice Manning in Brooklyn re-
the Governor for an order looking to
an inspection of the void and protested
ballots.
Justice Morschauser. of the Supreme
Court, sitting in Pawlng. will to-dav
inspect 1e3 void and protested vallots
cast tor Governor in Dutchess County.
Justice Philbin in the Supreme Court
in Manhattan reserved decision on the
application of Governor Whitman for
an order to open up void, protested and
blank ballots.