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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
CITY RATIFIES
HOUSING PLANS
Commission Accepts Government
Specifications and Valves All
City Ordinances.

Waving all city ordinances, the
Moline city commission yesterday
ratified the contract between the
city and the government and agreed
to accept the building specifications
as provided by the government
architects. Homes to be built by
the federal government are in an
addition between Twenty
and Twenty-third streets and Eigh-
teenth and Twenty-third avenues.
The contract provides that the
government open four new streets:
Twenty-third, Twenty-third street
A. Twenty-fourth street and Nine
teenth avenue. There will be but
one avenue between Eighteenth and
twenty avenues, because Of
the short intervening blocks. The
government will pay for all street
and alley grading.
Pavement of Twenty-seventh
street between Sixteenth and Twen-
ty-third avenues will be done by
the city, at the time the Fourth
avenue car line is extended along
that street. Paving assessments
will be paid by the government.
Federal employees or officials will
not be allowed to hold any contract
or contract on the housing pro-
ject. The laying of sewers or wa
termains will be done by the gov
ernment, but paid for by the city.
The latter will receive the money
from the government for five years
at a rate of five per cent interest.
The city will not be held for acct
dent damages sustained while the
improvements are in operation.
If circumstances make it neces-
sary for the government to abandon
the proposition. the city agrees to
pay for all sewer and water main
work already completed.
In case of disagreement between
the city and the government hous-
ing board, w. D. Wilson, secretary
of labor, is made final arbiter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
CONDITION GRAVE
RESULT EXPLOSION
TODAY AT BARSTOW

Julian Peres. a Mexican, is in a
critical condition in the Moline
city hospital, as the result of ex-
plosion of Kerosene at his home in
box car at Barstow, this morn
ing.
1t was in an attempt to start fire
in a stove this morning that the
can of kerosene which he was
holding, became ignited and ex-
ploded. He was severely burned
and his recovery is doubtful. He
was found later by friends who
live in a box car next door. DR..
J. H Long was summoned and re
moved the man to the hospital
Peres is about "a years of age
and has been employed at the Bur
lington roads at Barstow. He
moved to BarstOw from Aurora, re-
Gently His relatives reside in
Mexico.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
COMMITTEE NAMED
TO CAMPAIGN CITY
FOR PLEDGE MONEY

A campaign to raise $500 among
the business men Of Moline will be
launched directly following the
noon luncheon of the Moline Com
mercial club, Friday of next week.
in order to meet the pledge made
10 the United States registration bu-
reau
The approximate cost of operat-
ing this home bureau is $4,000. OF
this amount manufa, 'turerS of the
city have rledged eight per cent and
the remaining 20 per cent is to be
raised by Moline's business men.
The following committees have
been appointed to work in their re
spective districts:
West Bluff-C. G. Hogberg, Al
bert Wander Vennet and Conrad
Carlson
East Bluff Reuben Rosene, Will
bur Larson and Otto Henrickson.
Downtown, west of Fourteenth
William Klingebiel, John
KlattenhOff and William STANCE.
West side of Fifteenth street,
Fourth to Eighth William
Tally, Charles Meyer and Charles
MangoId
East of Fifteenth street, Fourth
to Eighth avenues - John erik,
Charles Hickey and Axel Nelson.
Fifth and Sixth avenues from
Fourteenth to Eighteenth streets.
aud Sixteenth street from Fourth to
Seventh avenue-Fred Young. Ed
win BOXman and Monte Lethin.
East end, east of Eighteenth
street, south of railroad tracks-C.
0. LoveiOy, J. E. Cowley and
Thomas Reno.
Third avenue, First to Twenty
fifth street-John Sundine, Fred
Leavens and George Reimers.
Offices in the Peoples State bank
and Trust nd Reliance buildings
Z. Z. Morgan, a. L. PuIver, E. T NJ.
WheelOck, G. l.. Peterson and n. S.
Johnson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
.CONVENTIONSTO
GATHER MONDAY
Precinct Committeeman of Various
Parties to Meet in City
First of Week.

County conventions of the sew
eral political parties viii be held
in Rock Island, Monday
Those to convene here will be
precinct committeeman selected in
Wednesdays primary election.
Campaign plans and other matters
OF party interest will be taken up
and discussed. Officers and COM
mittees to the congressional and
state conventions also Will be
named.
The congressional convention
will be held Wednesday. Sept. rs,
while the state convention will
convene at Springfield, Sept. 20.
Committees will organize by Sc
lection of officers at the meeting
Monday.
Democratic committeeman will
assemble at $50 at the Courthouse
while the Republicans are sChed-
uled to convene at the Rock Island
house at the same hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
AMERICA USED BY
IRISH TO INDUCE
MEN INTO SERVICE

Dublin.-(Correspondence of The
Associated Press Americas par
ticipation in the war is the trump
card used by the Irish recruiting
council formed to put into effect
the governments offer to accept
$4,000 voluntary recruits from Ire
land in place of three or four times
that number of conscripts.
They are publishing widely the
declarations of American cardinals,
archbishops and bishops and evil
dence of cordial participation in
the war by Irish Catholic Ameri-
cans. They point out that the war
is as much America s and Frances
as it is England's and urge Irish
men to take a fair share in it.
So far, they seem to have made
a slight impression. Nationalists
declare that if Ireland is TO take
an active part in the war it must
first have home rule.
The Ulster party is willing to ac-
cept CONSUMPTION.
According to the latest announce
ment of the government policy the
result may be three months hence,
the forcible applications of con-
scription everywhere in Ireland
outside northeast Ulster 1t has
been decided to divide Ireland into
ten areas and TO apportion to each
the share of the fifty thousand re
cruits it ought to furnish. Any area
which furnishes its quota will be
held to have satisfied the claim up
on it, and will be thenceforth free
from the application of cOnscrip-
ton. II is regarded as certain that
Belfast and the northeast area Will
readily provide its share of the
voluntary recruits, and doubted
whether any other part OF Ireland
will do So
The result would be that the only
part of Ireland which now declares
its willingness to accept cOnscrip-
ton would be the only part free
from it. The rest of Ireland would
be a chaos of violent opposition
and resistance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
PERSHING SENDS
MESSAGE TO BOY
SCOUTS FOR AID

New York, Sept 14.-GeneraI
Pershing has sent greetings from
the American expeditionary forces
to the splendid army Of 442. 900
American Boy Scouts" II was an
nounced at headquarters of the
organization here today In a let
ter the American general ex-
pressed appreciation of all you
are doing for our great cause" and
adds:
Upon you will soon fall the
burden of our civilization. Every
act and thought Of yours, in keep
ing with the scout law will help
to make good citizens and good SOL
dieFs Obey it in letter and spirit
and all the older scouts who are
fighting for you and all We hold
dear will shake hands with you as
comrades who helped them win the
war"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
SLIGHTLY WOUNDED
FROM SHELL SHOCK

Carl Theodore Hull, son Of Mrs.
Gertrude Hardy, 4O3 Ninth street,
Moline, is suffering from shell
shock, according TO a telegram re-
ceived from the war department by
his mother this morning. The
message gives June 5 as the date
Hull received the injury. He en-
listed with the United States ma
rines in 1916.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
MAY LOSE ARM AS
RESULT ACCIDENT

William S. Kidd, 1903 Sixth ave
nue., Moline, may have to have his
arm amputated as a result of get
ting his sleeve caught in drill this
morning while operating a gang
drill at the r. & V. company plant,
East Moline His left arm was
drawn under the bits. His flesh
was badly lacerated Dr. A NJ
Beal was summoned and the man
removed to the Milne city hospi-
tai. Kidd has been with the R. &
V. company but a few weeks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
RED GROSS IN DUBLIN.

Dublin.-An American Red Cross
committee has been formed in Dub
lin and has opened comfortable
rooms for the benefit of wounded
American soldiers and sailors in
hospitals in the Dublin district The
opening ceremony was performed
by the vice president, Lady Decies,
in the absence of the president, the
countess of Granard, formerly Miss
Ogden Mills
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
WANT BERGSTROM
TO REMAIN IN MOLINE

Members of the First Swedish
Lutheran church of Moline have re
fused to accept the resignation of
their pastor, the Rev. A F. Berg
strom, who desires to take the pas
torate of the Lutheran church at
Denver. Colo. The resignation has
been referred to the board of dea-
cons and that body will endeavor
to induce the Rev Mr.. Bergstrom
TO reconsider.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
ITALIAN OFFICER TO SPEAK.

Lieutenant Rossell OF the Ital-
ian army, will lecture at the Moline
high school, Monday evening. He
will speak on army life and give a
graphic description OF the condi-
tons as he has seen them. Lieuten-
ant RosseIli was wounded in a bat
tie on the Italian front and is in
this country while convalescing. He
comes to this city under the aus
pieces of the fourth Liberty loan
committee. This is but one fea-
ture of the many prepared for Mon
day nights entertainment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
IOWAN DECORATED.

Washington, Sept. l4-Geueral
Pershing advised the war depart
ment today that he had awarded
the distinguished service cross TO
seven members of the army in
France who lost their lives in deeds
of gaIlantry Among those honor
ed was William P Hymand, Iowa
Falls, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
ASKS DIVORCE

Mrs. Irene BaItrushaites of Mo
line appeared before Judge Dietz
this morning asking divorce from
her husband. Charles Baltrushaites,
whom she has MT seen for two
years. Three months after their
marriage friend husband left home
and has not been seen OF heard Of
since
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
PLANEF4LLS: KILLS TWO.

San Diego, Cal. Sept IA Second
Lieutenant Amos B. Whittle. Oak
Park, Ill, student aviator, and Pri-
waite Allen H. Anderson, Detroit.
Mich, were killed when their air
plane fell into the ocean.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
Obituary
Dwight AIonzo GOswick.

Funeral services for Dwight
Alonzo Goswick, aged 9 years, son
of Mr.. and Mrs ]. NJ. Goswick, 507
Twenty-fifth street, Moline, were
held at 2:30 yesterday afternoon in
the residence, Rev. =. c. Ladd Of
ficiating Pallbearers were Leon
ard Fredeen, Leroy Benson, Eddie
De Backer, Bernard Hermsen, Car
riel Colpert and Thor Carlin. In
terment was in Riverside cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14

Geneva, Sept. l4.-Ihe Lausanne
Revue states that the United States
has offered to make a loan of 75O.-
600 900 francs to Switzerland in or
der to electrify the railways. Switz-
erland thus would become indie
pendent of German coal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
MAY FIX COTTON PRICE.

Washington, Sept. 14.-President
Wilson announced that the commit
tee TO he named by rhe war indus
tries board to investigate the cot
ton situation Will recommend basic
prices only if its inquiry cOnyinces
il that price fixing is necessary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14

or signify more imam a QdII-
cent for every dollar value of ships,
the shipping board insures it's yes
sells against marine losses between
Atlantic and European ports. An
additional 4 or cents for every
dollar covers war losses such as
submarine sinkings, damage done
by floating mines and attacks by
enemy vessels. The boards insur-
ance committee is composed of
HendOn Chubb and H. F. Eggert,
both of New York and w r. Hedge
of Boston.
The insurance plan is regarded
by the board as a great aid in de-
feating the objects of the sub-sea
warfare. Property loss is protected
and men are willing to risk their
lives with their only protec-
ton their own watchfulness and
that Of the allied navy.
Strange events have marked the
submarine warfare and the marine
insurance that helps block its aims.
The Orleans braved the submarine
zone a short time after the Ger
mans had declared ruthless war
fare against all vessels entering the
sO-called barred zones. The yes
sci was unmarked by the ridicu-
lOus stripped effect Germany or
dered American vessels to wear
This vessel and another freighter,
the Rochester, were the first to
show the Germans, with whom the
United States was not then at war,
that the American merchant marine
would continue to sail under the
American flag in the face of threats
to sink without warning.
For year both vessels success
fully evaded submarine attacks, al
though both were pursued several
times. Within the last six months
the enemy got both. but due to war
risk and marine insurance their
owners were enabled for a year to
operate without risk Of financial
loss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14

New Orleans. La. Sept l4-An-
nounc=meEt by President Wilson
that if found necessary a basic
price would he fixed for cotton.
caused d Wild and sensational
opening on the New Orleans cot
ton exchange today i'm the first
few minutes of trading prices
dropped an average Of $3.50 per
hale.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
FIGHTS SPANISH GRIP.

Washington, Sept. 14.-Surgeon
General Rupert Blue of the public
health service has issued a state
ment regarding the Spanish infu-
enza which has invaded the United
States and prescribing means for
combating it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
LEAVES FOR TRAINING.

George Fl. Carstens, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Carstens, 1926
Twelfth avenue, Moline, left yester-
day morning to enter the ground
aviation school of the navy at the
yards at Charleston, S. c. Carstens
enlisted several months ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
DIES OF PNFTNONII.

Naples. Friday. Sept. 13.-Fred-
eric CrowinshieId of Boston. for
merly director of the American
academy in Rome. died today of
pneumonia at Capri.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
SPERRy VICTOR
OF TRAPSHOOT
Islander Wins Over Two Profess
SIGNALS in Third Annual Exhi-
bition OF Tri-City Gun Club.

A. D. Sperry, veteran Rock Is
land trapshooter, is victor of the
most successful shooting exhibition
held in this vicinity, given yester-
day at East Moline as the third an
nual shoot of the Tri-City Gun
club.
Breaking 1879 birds out Of 200
from the 16-yard elevation and
establishing a local record when
he made a straight run of 140 pig
cons, Sperry outdistanced two pro-
fessionaI marksmen, j. Z. Webster
and Fred Bills. The professionals
finished with 1913 and 1872 birds
respectively. E. J Buck of Dayen-
port and Jean A. Pope Of East Mo-
line tied for second place.
All shots were at 16 yards and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14
ONLY NINE SHIPS
OF u. S. SHIPPING
BOARD ARE SUNK

Washington.-Only nine ships op-
Grated by the shipping board have
been sunk by submarines, and their
loss with that of all others due to
ordinary marine perils is but frac-
ton Of the total premiums paid for
marine and war risk insurance.
Estimated losses of all kinds suf-
fered by the emergency fleet coTpO-
ration. which conducts the insur-
ance bureau, amount to about 3d.
500, 600, while approximately $780,
100000 in premiums had been set
aside up to July %. last
Four former German vessels, val
ued at $6.75O, 900, and five comman-
deered ships, worth $2,850.000 fell
by the sting of the German sea
wasp. These follow:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-14

Nearly Beer, Beardsley S.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-08-21
CONSTANT FIGHT WITH FLIES
Camera Men Bothered With the
Pests, Which Persist in CircIlns
In Front of the Lens.

Flies give the technical department
of the movie companies some of their
hardest battles, writes Robert Wagner
in the Saturday Evening Post. Flies
are worse camera hogs than actors;
they wouldn't be so bad If they'd stay
at the table and eat, but between
courses they up and fly in droves all
round the camera. just to be In the
close-ups, and when they pass direct
ly In front of the lens they take on
the proportions Of buzZards.
When we stage banquet scene IT
is banquet-not pasteboard eats, sU b
as they have on the stage, but the real
Peruvian doughnuts. And when one
of these great open-air feasts-for,
alas, our banquet halls are usually shy
two or more walls-is announced and
the diners sit down to their happy
feed they soon disc over that every fly
from as far north as Inyo county is
also I'm attendance.
As wicked as 1t seems to use poison
gases at banquet, we often have to
do It Just to keep the flies out of our
artistic ointment. 1t was because these
creatures liked burnt sugar so much
that we had to give up that sticky
camOufiage for our strong waters; our
Martins are now drier than every.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-08-21
Secret of Longevity of
Indian Is That He Lives
In Open, Eats Plain Food

Chief Manitoweg (whlte wings), an
Indian evangelist of the Siwash tribe,
who has been preaching in churches in
Harlem and In New Jersey, told his
auditors of the good health and longev-
ity of the Indian.
The Indian" he said, ''who lives in
his native state on the reservation at
tains an age that few members of the
white race would believe possible. !
am aware that NY race is rapidly be-
coming extinct, but this is because 80
many Indians have followed the mode
of life of the paleface and the soften
ing influences of civilization. have
a sister who is more than one hundred
years old, and know Indians today on
the reservations who are more than
one hundred, and whose births are a
matter of record. am sixty-nine my
self, but my years trouble me not at
al. | once knew an Indian woman
who lived to be one hundred and TWEEN
ty-eight years old.
II am often asked what is the secret
"a -A% ASht1NfiAN Va NAtoC ht
answer is simple, so long as an Indian
VIII live in the open. drink pure water
only and eat plain food. Many such In
dams are AT their best physically at
the age of fifty. The Indian at fifty
still has his hair, his teeth and his
eyesight. and ,an run ten miles before
breakfast without an effort. l was
preaching recently at church in New
ark, y. j., and after the service man
Of thi 'ty-four came 20 me and asked
why 1t was that so many indians had
thick hair and were not afflicted with
badness. He remarked that he had
never seen a baldheaded Indian. This
man himself was as bald as a billiard
ball.
~ will tell you, my friend l told
him, 1T is the truth, although you will
probably not believe me- When the In
dian goes to bed he Mt once goes to
sleep: IL is different with the white
man, who takes his troubles to bed
with him. and always has something
on his mind.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-08-21
"OVER THE TOP''
By An American Arthur Guy Empey
Soldier Who Went Machine Gunner, Serving in France
COPYRIGHT AtgA oyE

These star shells attain a height of
about sixty feet, and a range of from
fifty to seventy-five yards. When they
hit the ground they explode, throwing
out strong calcium light which lights
up the ground in a circle of radius OF
between ten to fifteen yards. They
also have parachute star shell which.
after reaching height of about sixty
feet, explodes. A parachute unfolds
and slowly floats to the gro1nd. light
ing up large circle in No Ian's Land.
The official name of the star shell is
a "Very-light." very-lights are used
to prevent night surprise attacks on
the trenches. If a star shell falls In
front of you, or between you and the
German lines, you are safe from detec-
ton, as the enemy cannot see you
through the bright curtain of light.
But If it falls behind you and. as Tom
my says, ''yOu get in the star shell
zone," then the fun begins; you have
to lie fiat on your stomach and remain
absolutely motionless until the light of
the shell dies out. This takes any
where from forty to seventy seconds.
If you haven't time to fall to the
ground you must remain absolutely
still in whatever position you were in
when the light exploded; II is advis
able not to breathe, as Fritz has an
eye like an eagle when he thinks you
are knocking at his door. When a star
shell is burning in Tommy's rear he
can hold his breath for a week.
You blacken your face and hands so
that the light from the star shells will
not reflect on your pale face. In a
trench raid there is quite sufficient
reason for your face to be pale. If you
don't believe me, try 1t just once.
Then another reason for blackening
your face and hands is that, after you
have entered the German trench at
night, ''white face" means Germans,
"black face" English. Coming around
a traverse you see q white face In
front of you. With prayer and wish
ing Fritz "the best O. luck" you intro
duce him to your ''persuader" or
knuckle knife.
A little later we arrived at the COM
munication trench named Whisky
street, which led to the fire trench at
the point we were to go over the top
and out in front.
In our rear were four stretcher bear
ers and a corporal of the R. A. NJ. @.
carrying a pouch containing medicines
and first-aid appliances. Kind of a
grim reminder to US that our expedi-
ton was not going to be exactly pic
mic. The order of things was reversed.
In civilian life the doctors generally
come first, with the undertakers tag
ging in the rear and then the insur-
ance man, but in our case, the under.
takers were leading, with the doctors
trailing behind, minus the insurance
adjuster.
CTo BE CoNTINUED.)
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-08-21
Tin Cans to Aid in
Winning War
Garbage. Too. VIII Assist. Blu, Fsney
Articles Not Deemed Necessary
by U. S.

Jade carving, laCuuered shrines and
carved wood Jewel boxes win not help
win the war. in the opinion Of the
American government, but tin cans
and garbage will.
In its steady progress toward elm
inatlon Of the great American waste.
the government has put the three for
mer items on the restricted imports
list The latter items are being looked
after by other departments of the gov
eminent.
Tennis rackets. tennis. golf, base,
ping-pong and bowling balls; almond
flour used I'm cosmetics; metal vases
and similar luxuries also are on a
newly issued restricted imports list.
The department Of agriculture an
nounces that If You do not throw away
your tin cans. but save them to can
the kaiser, you may make some money.
If you gather 1000 or 5000 Of them.
free from rust, you may get SIC for
them. according TO quotations fur
nshed by n smelter.
So worried has the government he
come about the sinful waste Of gar
bage in this country that the food adj
ministratlon has issued an appeal to
the h0usekeeper. saying:
zone ton Of garbage confirms:
Sufficient gylcerlne for u T5mIlli-
meter shells.
Sufficient fatty acid for manufac-
tnre of 100 12-ounce cakes of soap,
sufficient fertilizer elements to grow
eight bushels Of whtDt; a score OF