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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

MMA ISIS ANNIE had finished OK
hy planning what War Savings
- stamps were, and how she
d ( wanted each child in the
school 10 take a card and try to fill
II with stamps. She didn't notice that
everybody was slyly watching the new
boy. and the new boy didn't seem TO
notice II either. AS Miss Annie passed
the cards around some of the children
whispered:
wonder If he'll take one!"
He did take one. then he asked for
another, saying he thought he could
fill both.
1T was queer. wasn't it?" said Dick
to his chum, Billy, after school u
guess he didn't dare to say he wouldn't
take it,
Buly's sister. Grace. was walking
close behind with her friend. Amy.
u don't see why you boys say he's
German spy" she remarked. He
hasn't done anything wrong. and he's
certainly awfully nice and polite"
His names Karl Schmidt" replied
Billy. y guess that's German enough
and IL our school was to burn down,
maybe you'd believe he was a spy"
But it HASN'T" said Grace family.
~Ir course. lust hate German spies
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

mother for she too, loved the robins
and hated to see anything happen TO
one of them. Then she looked at the
sad faces of her two girls. But
girls" she added, at doesn't do the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

You'll see how he can make things
huml"
But don't know what's wrong with
me
I'm just as lazy as can be.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04
FRACTIONAL BIRDs

l. ST of occurring every night 81
of entrance. 3-5 of vigilant.
2. 81 Of gravely thoughtful, rs OF
coarse sacking. 2-5 of a mass of metal.
3. "a of intensely active. 3-5 of to
Finger, II of to deviate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

BENCH HOOK, inter box and
shooting board are things that
every boy should have In his
equipment. Usually these are
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
COUNT MINOTTO IS
 FIGHTING EXPERIMENT
Swlr s SUN lN-LAW PRESENTS ELEVEN REASONS WHY HE IS
 NOT AN ENEMY ALIEN

Chicago, May 22-After fifty one typewritten pages setting forth eleven reasons why Count James Minotto, son law of Louis r. Swift, packer should not be interned as an enemy alien were filed in the federal dis trict court, Judge Carpenter late to- day put over until tomorrow hearing Of arguments
 The counts imposing array of legal counsel are prepared 10 fight the presidential warrant on which he was taken into custody ten days ago by a habeas corpus action The petition filed today alleges that the count. though born in Germany is an Ital- ian citizen, and cites an Italian pass port obtained by the counts father, Count Demetrius Minotto, in 1900.
 Alfred Dettman arrived today from Attorney General Gregory's office to aid in opposing the counts fight for freedom
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23

"round here and there at points where positions Of tactical value were wrested from the Germans
 Further north the British front has been fairly quiet with tremendous bursts of artillery fire coming at in- .teryals The German official state ment says that British attacks at various points were repulsed Reports from the headquarters of the French army are that there has been a re- distribution of German troops along the entire front \ German attack ls expected soon probably in the Scmme region, near Albert. or on the Avre river where the German can non have been laundering for sev- eral days. but SO far the Germen gen eral staff has not shown its hands.
 II Is known that there oro arert masses of troops within striking dis tance of he front and it k believed that when thc enemy is ready to strike there will be only brief artn- lery fire as a prelude to the actual assault by the infantry, The last re- rort from the French war office men lions heavy artillery fire in the Som me region and at Fremont near No yon. where there was terrific fiehtinc early in April
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23

Win the French Armies in France. May 22- CBy the Associated Press !
 -Getmans captured by the French testify to the brilliant work of the allied aviators. who. the prisoners gay, leave the Germans no peace Fears are expressed reeardiue future operations by allied airmeu on the Rhine cities, which they believe will be laid in ruins The Germans de clare their anti aircraft defense are insufficient to prevent the allies vis- itng every day or night the Teutou camps cantonments. depots and aero dfomes, where they say enormous damage already has been done Othe- prisoners assert that Emperor William hesitated a long time before startlno the offensive this veal. but that Gen eral Ludendorf obtained the upper hand by promising to force peace by beating the allies by Easter
 The crown prince. with the military caste in Germany they say. succeed ed in eiecting Rudolph von Valentini rom power after he had predicted catastrophe for inc German arms
 Fon Yalentini was chief of Elm Eeror Williams secret cabinet. and was replaced last September by yon Berg Von Valentine sremoval was hailed hy the pan-German newspapers as a triumph for their cause.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
ALLIED AIRmEN BOMB CITIES ON THE RHINE

'mittee they would find fraud that stinks to heaven
 Senator Reed of Missouri urged the committee 10 confine it's investigation 10 the text of the speech. The added that if anybody could show that il Senator LaFollette was trying to de feat this country in war instead of merely criticizng some member of the administration he would be willing to vote 10 eNpel him from the senate.
 Mr. Roe denied that Mir LaFouette said the carrying of American citizens on q mHnition-loaded ship was the only thing that carried us into war"
 He sad nothing of the kind" the attorney asserted.
 Ar. Roe said on Sept % the Chicago Tribune quoted Senator IaFollette as saying T was not in favor of being in this war. We had no grievance. 20 similar statements also appeared in 'he New York Times and the Wash ineton Post, he said
 Every Associated Press raper car ried it that way, Mir. Roe said adding that all Associated Press papers got that story and printed ii that way
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
Entered the HarbOr of POla Unobserv- ed During the Night in
 Submarine.
Worked Their Way Past Guardship, Through Mine Field and Got Passed Net Stretched Across the Channel Entrance Sunk Their Ship After Firing Torpedoes.

Italian Naval Headquarters. Satur- day, May l6-The details Of the re- cent naval exploit at Pola show that it was one of the most audacious feats of the war, worthy to rank with the British at zeebrugge and the Merrimac at Santiago.
 Plans were long matured ny Lieu tenant Commander Pellegini. who adopted a new means of secrecy to safeguard the project. To divert at tention he took service in the trenches on the Piave and when he was erady 10 start gave out that he was going to visit his friends. He was accom- panied by another officer and two sailors. The party was escorted by destroyers and arrived at Pola at two o'clock in the morning It was very dark, as inc moon had been down two hours light wind blew off shore which prevented the sounds or preparation going landward The en- trance of the channel was 100 yards across. with a long neck leading into the great harbor in which lay Aus tria's fleet of battleships. cruisers and .destroyers, encircled by frowning terrace of land batteries.
 'Tn the obscurity the guardship at the entrance was dimly visible, swung to one side, the guards appar- eutly asleep There was complete lack of watchfulness. Final prepara- tion was now made for dash in the darkness. Commander Pellegini and his companions put on rubber suits which could he inflated. The plan was 10 discharge torpedoes at the big ship, then blow up their own craft and jump overheard and await cap ture or drowning All realized that there was practically no chance of re- turning alive.
 How they encountered three sue cessive lines of defenses. First a guard ship, then line of wooden buoys. marking a chain of mines and then a heavy steel net strung from
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
RED CROSS FUND
 NEARLY HALF SUBSCRIBED
NATION Is RESPONDING cENge. oUsLY TO AMERICAS SECOND
 LINE OF WAR DEFENSE.

Washington, May 22-Nearlv one nan Of the American Red Cross sec ond one hundred million dollar war mercy fund had been subscribed on Inc face of returns received here to- night at headquarters at the end of the third day of the weeks campaign. ihe total subscriptions from the twelve districts was S+4.070. 555. but 1t was recognized that these figures were incomplete.
 Necessity for those chapters. towns and states to oversuhscrihe was em phasi7ed in a statement sent out by he war managers by Henry David son. chairman of the Red Cross war council
 Mr Davidson called attention to the act that the arraneements for tho campaign were made early in the year belore the recent German drives in picardy and Flanders and that has rhonged conditions for increased funds None of the divisions vet have reached its quota but many cities and towns today joined those that welt over the ton Monday and Tuesday The subscriptions in the divisions as
 nuounced tonight included:
 Southern division Georgia. Ten- Eessee North Carolina, South Caro- ina and Florida, $l.GS2654 Gulf division G.ouisiaua Mississippi and Alabamal, s942,776. Southwestern division ,Missour. Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and TeNas). S5,10l,iS6.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
SIDNEY JOHNSON IS
 KILLED BY POSSE
FIVE NEGROES HAVE BEEN kllL- ED AT VALDOSTA, GA, IN THE
 LAST SIX DAYS.

VAldosta. Ca May 22 Sidney Johnson, alleged murderer of Hamp- ton Smith. a farmer of Brooks county, was shot to death in a battle with DO lice and sheriffs deputies on the out skirts of Valdosta late tonight Three men weer wounded including Chief Of Police Dampier
 sWith Johnson dead five negroes have been Killed in this section of the state in the last six days in con nection Wfh the murder of smith.
 The battle between Johnson .and the authorities was made the more dramatic because of the expected ar rival some time late tonight or early in the morning of company of stare guards 10 assist the authorities in pre- serving order
 Johnson's body was tied to the rear of a uawomobile and dragged throuh the streets. Afterwards the aUtomo- bile head out of town and reports said the body was being taken to the scene of the murder
 Early tonight the authorities learn ed of the presence of Johnson in a small house in the southern part Of Valdosta. The house was surrounded Chief of Police Dampier, Patrolman Dampier and Dixon Smith. father Of Hampton Smith. were wounded in try ing to take Johnson alive The negro was armed with a shot
 gun and fought to the last the police
 said When he opened fire however
 the police riddled his body with bull | let's
 Of the negroes implicated in the at-
 tack on the smith home, only one
 remais at large
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23

bank to bank How they were able to penetrate these ,obstructions must remain a mystery particularly as to the steel net which was apparently an impossible barrier The escort waited almost most an hour when the silence was broken by two dis tinct explosions of torpedoes follow od by the sounding of an larm gun in the inner harbor'
 Soon after the signal lights slowly rose from the center of the harbor, showing that Commander PelIegerini had penetrated to the very heart of the fleet and was sending signals from the midst of it.
 The first signal meant. Have tor pedoed battleship." and the second said Don't mind us. we have no chance"
 This last signal was the agreed emergency sign which was to be sent up in case there was no opportunity 10 give help. It is believed that they blew up their craft and took to the water, in accordance with the pro- gram, as an explosive time bomb had been set to % off even if the craft was under water Meanwhile the sky was vivid with searchlights and the land batteries were pouring terrific fire on the escort. They left with forty searchlights and countless bat teries playing upon them As day light broke a fleet of enemy aero planes swooped down, but was beaten off by a smaller fleet of Italian planes three enemy machines falling into the water during the aerial battle.
 No word has since been received of the party. Their signal was definite that a ship had been hit and aerial photographs are expected soon to confirm their message. It is believed that the four men are prisoners. In any event the country greets the fear, less band as heroes who have re- flected lasting glory on the skill and daring of the Italian navy
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
DISLOYALTY CHARGE
 AGAINST lk TOILETTE
ATToRNEL REPRESENTING THE WISCONSIN SENATOR DE CLAREs LA TOILETTE WAS
 MISOUOTED

Washington. May 22-Counsel to day concluded the areument before the senate committee in support of a motion to dismiss charges that state men,s by the wis onsin senator in d speech at St Paul last fall were dis loyal and seduious. Gilbert NJ Roe, oi New York, the senator's attorney con cluded with the declaration that Sen ator IaFolleue is no, disloyal and to say that in his heart he desires to see the German cause win, is unthinK- able
 Two weeks were given the attorney 10 file a supplementary brief There was no indication as to whether tho committee will take any further steps in it's consideration oI the matter m the meantime
 tMr Roe praised Senator I.aFol- lettes record and said even those who disagree Mith him on public ques. tions agree that he is honest The St. Paul speech, he said, bordered on lthe commonplace containing oniy facts which were of common knowi- edge and would not have attracted any attention at all if it had not been for 7 the "tlOod of newspaper misrepresen- tation that went out" The attorney read from the text of the speech 10 show that Senator IaFollette had said that m entering the war this country i has cause for complain % and "seri- : ous grienyances' again Germany He declared if there were any inaccurate statement they were made in good faith by the senator and with no in tention "to pot the administration u the hole"
 | Senator 1.aFollette, he argued, is entitled to the presumption that he k honest and that he stated the truth He said heckling by persons in th' audience diverted the senator and tha
 he had no intention of mentioning thu Lusitania until some one in the audi
 ence asked about il
 When Senator Walsh of Montaui
 questioned Mir. Roe regarding Senate
 LaFollette's reference to war proft ieers Senator Vardaman of Mississispp
 interrupted Co say if the committe
 would read the evidence in the Ho
 Island Investigation by a senate com
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
DRAFT EXECUTIVES TO
 HAVE PLENTY OF WORK

Washington, May 22.-Draft execu- tives in all states were advised today by Provost Marshal General Crowder that they must be prepared to handle registration of many young men ab- sent from home. States having ship building plants, munitions factories and other war industries, were warn ed they must expect to care for A large number of absentee registrants included in the large non-resident population.
 Youths absent from home must register in sufficient time to have their registration certified 10 their home boards before June 5
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
ARRANGEMENTS PERFECTED TO
 GET FOOD TO 5ELG1ANS s

Washington, May President Wilson today approved arrangements which will remove the menace of starvation which the ten million in habitants in German occupied Belgium and France have been facing. Her. bert c. Hoover as chairman of the commission for relief in Belgium an- nounced tonight that the president had approved the restoring of the fleet ot steamers employed by the commission to the original number and the placing at the commissions disposal of sufficient tonnage for the dispatch of ninety thousand tons of roodstuffs in the next ninety days.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
STORMS FATALITIES
 WILL EXCEED TWENTY

Detroit, Mich. May 22.--With the death list gradually increasing as be- lated reports came in last night from the different sections of Iowa swept by yesterdays tornado and indications were that the fatalities would exceed twenty. Nineteen deaths had been reported definitely, scattered over the entire storm area from Denison, in Crawford county, eastward for more than 150 miles. The injured were believed to exceed t50 the property damage latest estimates showed, was sl,500,000,
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23

American opinion and each section quotes freely whatever American comment it can collect in support of ls own particular viewpoint. .%~ms.
 Not one of today's papers, whether unionist or nationalist, omits referring to the American attitude in long lead ing articles.
 The Freeman's Journal, the official organ of the Irish party, heads ifs editorial page with the following: AN EFFORT TO STAMPEDE AMER
 1CAN OPINION HAS EDEN.
 COMPLETELY BOILED.
 There is a complete suspense of Judgment in America on the charge of German conspiracy against the men arrested. Warnings have been given that proof must be quickly forthcoming or American would come 10 the conclusion that the plot, if there is plot, is not a pro German one"
 The Dublin Independent. in & long editorial, accuses the government with making the arrests with the view of turning the American opinion against Ireland and preventing the lord mayor of Dublin as Ireland's repre- sentative, from hayiAg a fair hearing at Washington. The proclamation of Field Marshal French had scarcely been cabled when there came back quotations from the American press based on the assumption that the story of a German plot was true"
 The Dublin correspondent of the London Daily News writes.
 The pivot of the Irish front is in Washington. Dublin is enjoying an uneXampled invasion of American newspaper men and anyone who sees the way they go about their work must admit their serious purpose and their open mindedness to impress sions. They have a voracious appe- tite for the opinions of the people who really count and are serving hu- manity we'll by sending the facts across the water"
 DtliiAS ANAtbli iutt HlFuDtT bl pdl lld ment from South Kildare. and one of the oldest members of the Irish party In speech to his constituents last night, urged Irishmen to put their eases against conscrlption before the American public, which he said would judge it justly.
 "The tenor of recent comment from America" he said. lis that Americans cannot understand why lrishmen op- pose conscription, in view of the fact that conscriptlon Is now Q fact in the United States. The answer is ob- yious. If Irishmen are to be con- scripted it is the Irish themselves who should carry it out. It was the people of the United States that com posed conscrlption there and Ameri- cans would rise in revolt against any other people dictating to them"
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23

New York May % In inc past years of the war a period of ex Haordinary activity by the aerial squadrons Of the contending armies in France has been considered as an Indication that events were rapidly shaping themselves for an offensive by one side or the other At the present moment the most notable feature of the war situation is the remarkable work of sirmen in various sectors where German attack is looked for.
 |. rms activity has not heen restricted slo the actual battle area. but far pack of each front there have been daring raids. The Rhine cities arc Deing Frequently bombed. while Paris mas again been in danger of a Ger man attack from the air.
 american aviators have borne a prominent part in this fiehtug In the i-uheYille and Toul sectors they have gwen magnificent account of them se'Ves' while further north and even m the defense of ondnn. they have "ehohstrated their fighting capacity.
 me German plans for resumption o the offensive fin France have been Neriously hampered hy the sudden "lows of the allies here and there aiohg the front Tho Germans have 'peh forced back at numerous points ana new lines which may he more tasily defended have been established oy the allied nations.
 The Americans on their own sector nave given the enemy no rest. The si'liiery has altered the German lines hlFht and day, while the infantrvmen nave riaded German outpost positions ana nave proved themselves capable VI outwittine and outfiehting the eheuly General Pershing's men nave won several hot fights with thl Toe and have captured many prison CTS. A night gas attack was loosef r'n The Germans near Toul. three waves of shells drenchine n wooded position of the enemy with poisonou, fumes.
 The French too, have been al wofl :" various sectors. particularly in th' Somme region. They have gaineI
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23

Dublin, May 22.-The events of the past few days have not drawn as much suppow 10 the Sim Feiners as they expected from the more moder-
 ate Irish parties. Indeed there are
 indications that the feud between the
 Sim Feiners and the nationalsts has
 only grown more bitter.
 To sum mp the attitude of the two
 factions it may be said the national
 ists believe in constitutional methods
 cf settling the Irish question while the Sim Feiners by the revolutionary tactics are spelling Irelands best chance of satisfactory settlement. If the Sim Feiners expected the ar- rest of their leaders would draw tho natlonalists over to the Sim Feiners they are evidently destined to experi- ence serious disappointment. John IDillon, as leader of the nationalists, carefully pointed out in his interview with the Associated Press that he maintains hostility to the Sim Fein, while indications are that the ma tionalist party is preparing 10 repudi-
 ate in the most emphatic way the revolutionary spirit of the Sim Fein party may be found in an editorial in
 the Evening Telegraph, the official
 organ of the nationalist party.
 If the Sim Fein leaders," says this
 organ, are guilty of the crime of | allowing Ireland to be made pawn in the game of the Prussian junkers,
 they will be repudiated and denounced | by nationalist Ireland If they en- tered into negotiations with the power 1 which trampled Belgium in the mire, enslaved Poland, brought ruin to
 Russia and now threatens to impose q militarist despotism on all the small | nations Of Europe. the resentment of
 he Irish people will makt itself felt
 iL most emphatic way
 Ireland is not. and never has been pro German. Irishmen believe that right and justice are on the side of
 the allies. Our people do not forget that hundreds of thousands of their
 own hth and kin are fighting against the German domination. They would regard any plot or intrigue with Ger many as treason to Ireland and treach l cry to every Irish soldier who has
 joined the ranks because he believed
 he was helping to free Ireland But | they are not prepared to swallow va que stories Of German conspiracy without some evidence to sustain the charges
 The Irish party's policy of tempor- ary ahstention from attendance in parliament is expected to come to close as soon as the house of com ! mons resumes its slttings. Many of
 the experienced representatives of the party in the house were opposed even
 to th temporary adoption of this Sim Fein method. They assented to 1t | with reluctance and their influence will probably be effective in securing
 the return of a strong Irish delega- | ton 10 participate in the debates not only on the arrests in Ireland. but | also on the financial measures of the budget which affect the Irish brewing and distiline trades and which also for the first time made substantial number of the Irish farmers liable to the income tax.
 What does America thnk?" is the
 question which all schools of Irish lopinion has been asking since the ar rests of the Sim Fen leaders on
 Saturday morning Every faction in tits press claims tho support of
The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-23
EIGHT JURORS SECURED
 OUT OF 525 TALESMEN N

Edwordsville. H.. May 22.-No progress was made in the examina- tioh of veniremen in the trial of eleven men charged with the lynching of Robert Paul Praeger, alleged German g by, al Collinsville, April !. Eight brors have been accepted from 525 taliesmen examined. During the eX