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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-06
EXAMINE HUNDRED
MORE ON MONDAY
Thirty .One Draft Men Needed 10 Fill
Quota VIII BE Selected From
This List.
WILL BE SENT TO CAMP FEB. %
CantOnment to Which Registrars
VIII Go. However, Is Not Known
ut Present Time.

One hundred Glass I draft will be
examined next Monday at the local
exemption board Offices under the Sc
lective draft law.
Thirty-one men are to be selected
from this list to make up the first
quota for the local district of 343
men. This will be all that will be
sent to cantonments for the first ma
tional army. One hundred and forty
nine were secured from the 200 exam
ined last week and 81 more are need
ed to make the final increment of $50
men. Cards were being mailed out to-
day notifying 100 more men to APP
pear for physical examination. list
of those to be called will be published
tomorrow.
The final increment OF $50 men will
be sent to the cantonment Feb. % or
on any of the five succeeding days.
Whether the men will be sent to Camp
Dodge. Iowa. Grant Grant, Ill, or
Camp Taylor, KY, is not known. As
ISOLATED Press dispatches from Des
Moines. quoting Camp Dodge officials.
stated that no more Illinois draft men
would be sent to Camp Dodge and that
they would either be sent to Camp
Grant or Camp Taylor. B. d. Con-
nelly. clerk of the local board. has no
information on the subject as yet, bu,
will get instructions in due time.
Two indicted men were sent to
Camp Dodge this morning by the To-
cal board. They were Lew Schultz.
who was indicted upon request. and
John Bonner Boyle, who was classed
by the Pittsburgh exemption board as
a draft evader for leaving that CITY
without informing the board of his
future address. He was arrested here
and indicted into the service upon in
structions from the Pittsburgh board.
Final instructions to send the men to
Camp Dodge were received from the
adjutant general of Illinois.
Send Cards Up to $500.
The work of classifying the regis
trants has been practically completed.
with the exception of those who filed
appeals. Temporary classification
cards were mailed out yesterday up
to 3.400.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
4 U. S. Ships Ground
On Lake-to-Sea Trip

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Four Of the
fleet of twenty-one Great Lakes
ships being moved by the Ship
ping Board through the Welland
Canal to the sea for use in the
coastwise trade have run aground and
suffered serious damage. While Ship
ping Board officials decline to explain
the circumstances under which the ves-
sells met disaster, the implication is
that they were not properly nayigated.
This is borne out by the fact that after
one vessel of the fleet made four un-
successful starts from Quebec for the
sea her commanding officer was re-
moved and she is now reported to be
making excellent progress toward Hall
fax.
Shipping Board officials to-day ex-
would reach the sea before ice over
took them. They stated that difficult
weather had been encountered in NOV
ing the vessels.
report that some of the vessels
had not been properly assembled after
having been cut in two to pass the
canal locks was vigorously denied.
The sixteen ships so cut were all
put together without trouble in Mont
reAs, it was stated. Five vessels we're
canal boats, and no cutting was neces-
sary to move them to the sea. 1t was
said that the vessels which suffered
damage did not break at the points
where they had been cut.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Mexicans Again Raid Texas

MARIA, Tex, Jan. 3.-Another raid
by Mexican bandits occurred late to-
day at the Brite Ranch, thirty-fve
miles southwest of here, and an equal
distance from Valentine, Tex, accord
ing to reports received at the military
headquarters of the Big Bend district.
No details Of the raid were given.
This ranch was raided Christmas morn
ing by Mexican bandits. and one Amer
lean and two MeXicans were Killed.
A troop of cavalry under command
of Captain Carl, with signal corps
detachment, left here tonight for the
Brite Ranch to investigate the reported
raid. Additional cavalry troops were
ordered held in readiness to reinforce
this troop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Neill and Mr.. and
Mrs. T. I. Nell, who live at the Brite
Ranch and who were forced to fight for
several hours Christmas morning to
prevent the Mexican bandits from en-
tering their homes and killing them,
returned to the ranch yesterday after
spending the holidays in Valentine.
After the Christmas Day raid, Ameri-
can troops pursued the bandits across
the border into Mexico, killing eighteen
and Wounding many others
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Aero Engines Interest
Astor Show Crowds

Special attention at the Automobile
Salon in the Hotel Astor is being paid
to the two aviation engines on display.
Aviation men of the United States SER
vice and some from abroad who are sta
toned here have been visiting the show
to look at the engines.
One is Rolls-Royce, which is ex-
hibted just as it was recovered from an
airplane crippled by German attack.
1t is a 12-cylinder affair, rated at 800
horsepower The cylinders are bored
from solid steel blocks. 1t has overhead
camshafts and two valves to cylinder.
Through a planetary reduction gear the
engine turns over at twice the speed Of
the propeller.
The engine weighs 800 pounds. 1t is
duplicate of the engine used in the
Handley Page airplane which made a
fight some time ago from London to
Salonica.
The other airplane engine is Italian,
coming from the Lancia plant. 1t de-
veops $50 horsepower and weighs only
73O pounds. 1t also has IL cylinders,
set at an angle of SO degrees in blocks
Of six.
Interest in the show continues
marked. There was good attendance
at the three sessions yesterday. The
show runs until January 8.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Hog Island Yard
Late, Says u. S.
Ship Constructor
But Other Two Fabricating
Plants Are on Time,
Committee Learns

WASHINGTON. Jan. "a slow start
made by the American international
Corporation in construction of one of
the governments fabricating steel
shlpyards at Hog Island, Penn, will
make it almost impossible for the yard
to deliver vessels on schedule time,
Theodore E. Ferris, chief constructor
tor the Shipping Board, to-day told the
Senate Commerce Committee. which is
Investigating shipbuilding.
The other two fabricating plants
one at Newark Bay and the other at
Chester, Penn.-should be able to pro-
duce ships as fast as their contracts
call for, Mr.. Ferris said. The ship
building programme generally, he said,
have been expected. Delays In wooden
construction he blamed on a shortage
oil the proper timber sizes.
The American international Corpora
tion's contracts call for the first de-
hveries in September, 1918. The COM
pany will do we'll, Mr.. Ferris said, if it
delivers any ships at all in 1918. Once
it has got start, however, ships will
be produced rapidly, he said.
Protiteering house builders seeking
high rentals for homes in the neigh
borhood of shipyards we're denounced
by Meyer Bloomfield, head of the Ship
ping Boards industrial service section
another witness.
Mr.. Bloomfield said the shipyard
labor shortage could be traced in large
measure to poor housing facilities ano
lack of transportation for workmen
He advised legislation empowering the
Shipping Board to commander housing
and to enforce better train service.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Yaquis Hold Up Train;
Kill 36, 2 Americans

TUCSON, Ariz.. Jan. 3.-H. j. Poe. of
Los Angeles, and Miguel Martinez. Of
Nogales Ariz., Americans, were among
the thirty-six persons killed yesterday
when Yaqui Indians attacked South
ern Pacific train south of Empalme So
nora, according to messages reaching
the railroads Offices here to- day.
The attack occurred between Mapoli
and Lencho, about forty miles from
Guayamas. Encounterlng an obstruc-
ton on the track, the engineer, Rafael
Gutierrez, stopped the train. Then the
Indians, who were hidden in the brush,
attacked the train from the rear 1t
was in the rear coach that the massacre
occurred The Indians fired through
the windows and doors until every man,
woman and child had been killed or
wounded. The military escort of about
seventy men on the train was dis
perseC.
Raymon Gomez, sa1d to be a Villa
follower. and small band Of men are
reported to have crossed into American
territory. west OF Nogales, following
raids on two ranches and on the GUS
toms Office at Santa Cruz, midway be-
tween the border and Cananea The
customs official was killed. Border
patrols along the Sonora boundary
were increased tO-dav
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
News in Brief

STAMFORD.-It occurred to some one
that q gasolene torch might be effective in
thawing frozen pipe in the grocery store of
Walter Stewart d Co., in Darien. 1t WIS.
The fire destroyed the store and adjoining
buildings, doing 500, 900 damage.
All contracts for war supplies for Russia
in the United States and in the Allied coun-
tries. it was stated high authority yes
terday, are being liquidated, both the Rus
sian diplomats and the Allied governments
feeling that there is little hope Of Russia re-
entering the war, even should the Bolsheviki
be expelled from power.
Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist, will play
this afternoon at a concert at the home OF
Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings, SS2 Fifth Ave-
nue. for the benefit of the Babies Hospital
on Lexington Avenue.
John ]. Dukas. president OF the Hebrew
Free Loan Association. has been named as
trustee Of the bankrupt Jarmulowsky bank
at the request of its creditors.
WILLIMANTIC, Conn.-Hillside Hall. a
building of the Mansfield State Training
School and Hospital, at Mansfield Depot. has
been burned, with "a loss of about $4,000.
The occupants escaped.
Men have been added to the members OF
the Stage Women's War Relief because there
was so much work to do
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Queens Women
War on Loafers
lndorse Bill to Draft Unem-
ployed, Whether Wealthy
or Migrants

The Women Citizens League, of
Queens Borough, at meeting last
night in the Town Hall in Jamaica, in
dorsed bill designed to prevent any
able bodied man, between the ages of
eighteen and fifty, from becoming or
continuing to be loafer. Wealthy as
we'll as impecunious loafers are included
in the provisions of the bill, and no dis
tinctionr is made between coupon-cut-
ting and whiskcy guzzling as incentives
to laziness.
Mrs. Alfred J. Emo, chairman of the
league. announced that Assemblyman
Eugene Decker, of Jamaica, had pledged
himself to introduce the measure and
use his efforts in its behalf. The act is
described as an emergency measure re-
curing a three e-ffths vote Of the Legis-
lature and taking effect mediately
upon its passage.
Under the provisions Of the bill the
Governor is empowered to issue a
proclamation calling upon all able
bodied men within the specified age
limits to register with the clerks of
the counties in which they live. When
ever. because Of state of war, the
Governor decides that the welfare of
the state requires it. he may assign any
or all of the able bodied unemployed
to work in state or private enterprises.
Temporary unemployment less than a
month in duration does not render a
man liable to the labor draft, nor are
students or apprentices liable to en-
forced labor at new tasks under the
law
"All persons" says the bill, cable to
support themselves by reason of in
come from ownership of property, real
or personal, and those supported by
others shall be included among those
required to register under this act"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Philadelphia Witnesses Tell
of Street Fights and
Auto Ramming
Aimed to Control
Rendering Plants
Tried to Crush His Con-
Germ, Says Captain
w. S. Allen
Especial Correspondence

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. Shifting the
lid from the secret manipulations Of
the "Mcat Trust" in its invasion of
Philadelphia to control the highly
profitable industry of rendering butcher
waste, Francis J. Heney, special invcs-
tigator for the Federal Trade Commits
sicn, at q hearing to-day before Com
missioner J. Franklin Fort revealed
what he described as persistent cam
paign to drive independent renderers
out of business.
This campaign, according to wit
nesses, included the following tactics
alleged to have been employed by
Trust agents in grasping Philadelphia
trade:
"Mid persuasion"
Bribery"
"Thuggerv."
"Rammng with heavy motor trucks
rival automobiles"
Street fights provoked by employees
Of the Trust agents.
"Store -to-store canvasses.
TRAILING rival wagons to learn Gus
toners lOenlltN
price slashing."
The hearing was a continuance of
the nationwide inquiry following six
months investigation by operatives Of
the United States Secret Service.
Robertson Barred From Testifying
Hugh ]. Robertson, who as princi
pal in the combination, was named by
witnesses IN Boston at the hearing
there last week. asked Mr.. Heney to
he allowed to take the stand. He had
been denied the privilege in Boston,
and in renewing his demand he said
he would waive immunity if he might
testify.
This is not an investigation, it is
prosecutions" Mr.. Robertson said after
the Federal Investigator told him that
he would not take his testimony.
With the exception OF one concern,
it was testified, the independents"
surrendered to the OCTOPUS" Mr.
Henev declared that until he had COM
pleted the superficial hearings the gov
ernment would withhold any sugges-
tons as to the identity Of the group
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Anti-Saloon League Head
Declares 5000 Pastors
Will Join Drive
NamesF oesandF
Calder, Wadsworth, Brown
and Barnes Chief Oppo-
nents, He Says

William H. Anderson, State Super
lntendent Of the Anti-Saloon League,
yesterday classed United States Sena-
tors Wadsworth and Calder and State
Senator Elon R. Brown and William
barnes as being against prohibition,
and asserted that Governor Whitman
and State Controller Travis we're
probably for it,
Mr. Anderson announced that on
January 27 5000 pastors in this state
VIII preach on prohibition and urge
their people to work with their Sena-
tors and Assemblymen.
" he prohibition fight in the coming
legislature will have two phases" said
Mr. Anderson. First. the drive for
emergency war prohibition. This is a
national movement, but the nation
wide movement will be supplemented
IN New York by an effort to pass a
prohibition statute effective during the
war and for the period of demobiliza-
ton, about one year after the signing
will be automatically disposed of in
New York State as soon as Congress ss
acts, in case the New York Legislature
has not acted first''
Continuing Fight in Prospect
"The other phase of the question and
the one that seems to involve con-
lnuing fight in case anything should
block action at this session is the
campaign to secure ratification by the
New York Legislature OF the national
prohibition amendment.
"Especially in view of the enfran-
chisement Of women. we are expecting
New York to be one of the thirty six
states to ratify the amendment. and
we do not expect it to be the last. OF
anywhere near the last.
"The obstructive campaign now pro.
/ jected by the 'wets' is an attempt tc
secure provision for a statewide
popular referendum on the question o1
/ the ratification Of the national amend
ment The suggestion is that there be
a vote next fall on this question:
"The only trouble with this propose
is that it is in direct contraventior
of the Constitution of the Unitee
States itself The Federal Constitu
tion provides only two means for rati
ficaton either by the legislatures O.
the states or by conventions elected
for that purpose.
"Whom do you regard as the lead
ing opponents of ratification?
"There are a number of men, Ma
jority Leader Elon R. Brown of tn,
State Senate will be the most active
He is the legislative hope of the 'wets.
Both United States Senators, Mr.
Wadsworth. also Mr.. Calder. who ha
fathered the referendum proposal, ar
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04

OF men who evolved the combination
WIN ITS many ramitications. Mr.. Heney
added that the Department of Justice
would determine the extent of crim;-
nal prosecutions resulting from the
evidence.
Through Captain Winfield s. Allen.
general manager and president Of
W. Il. Shoemaker & Co.. one Of tho
pioneer rendering plants in this city,
Mr. Heney drew the story Of the al
legged methods used to absorb firms in
the promotion of the project.
They deliberately crashed into my
car, he testified, after he told of the
failure of the combination agents to
induce him to join their organization.
Tells of Street Fights
Operating under the name Of the
American Agricultural Chemical Com
pany. S100,000,000 corporation, with
headquarters in New York, Captain
Allen stated that group of men
sought to purchase his concern after
the announcement made, more than
year ago, that Brown & Co., q render
ing concern IN Trenton, had sold it's
holdings. Captain Allen, in describing
the negotiations which, he declared,
included street fights involving his
employees, a store to store canvass and
price slashing, when a deaf ear was
turned to legal negotiations. said:
"In September, 1916. l was first Of
fered an opportunity to JON the COM
bination under the leadership Of the
American Agricultural Chemical Asso-
citation. Hugh j. Robertson, one of the
confidential agents of the concern. met
me at hotel and suggested that the
olive branch be accepted
az NecliOpd ThpO NV Cuc+oO,orc &ho
retail butchers, told me that they had
been offered more money for waste.
ave were feeling the inroads of tho
competition keenly when last April
f.. T. Murphy an emissary of Brown &
Co., again took up the discussion Of
peace terms. To that company we had
lost more than 200 customers after
their agents trailed our collecting
wagons through the city.
Willing to Lose $4,000
"It makes no difference to US if we
lose $3.50 900 in this fight Murphy told
me. Then he said, we have paid stock
dividends cf $4,000 ,0O0 and our capital
is $l00.0O0,000.'
al again declined the proposition,
and then the fight against us was made
so hot that between last May and No.
vember we lost $4,000 to meet the
competition
Samuel Toplan. kosher butcher
who is an official of the Kosher Re-
tail Meat Dealers Association. de-
scribed how the "combnation'' pro
motcrs during their campaign against
Captain Aliens firm. sought the good
graces Of the "shop keepers" advanc-
ing money to the organization when it
was short
Did he ever give you anything ?"
Mr.. Heney asked.
''Fifty dollars. three times" the wit
ness replied.
"That was for boosting?" suggested
Mr.. Heney.
"Yes," the dealer answered.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
y. S. Shipping Board Slow
In Paying Owners of Vessels
No Pay Yet Received for Use of Merchant Marne-;nes
Say British Continue Trade From American
Ports to South America

Shipping men ere beginning to Won
der when the Shipping Board is going
to get around to pay them for the use
of"their. ships. Several months have
elapsed since the board took over some
500 stcamships-the whole Of the
American occangoing merchant marine
OF $500 tons or more-but the owners
nave not yet received any compensa-
tion.
Some of the owners refused to sign
the requisition receipts, which set
forth that the proposed compensation
was full and ample. Such owners ex-
rect to wait long time, because thew
40 not purpose to settle with the board
on the basis of the arbitrary charter
rates established by it.
some who did sign do not think thew
got square dcal. Others who signed
feel that they were treated very gen
orously.
No Settlements Yet
IN the case Of those shipping COM
Tanics which have continued to operate
their ships under the direction of the
"" ny S"ecidl nardShlp mas been
worked, because. acting as the boards
agents, they collect freight bills as
usual and are holding the difference
between the rate and the charter rate
tor the credit of the board. So far
they have made no settlements with
the government.
In the case of those companies that
have had their ships totally taken over
by the government the situation is
different They collect no money and
they get none, but their expenses 20 on
Just the same. Some owners even have
TO look on and see their ships oper-
atea tor the government by rival com
consolation of something to do.
The Shipping Board is not ARRANGING
for disbursements because it has moi
as yet created an accounting system
worthy of the name for its DEPART
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04

considered among the most influential
opponents. Both Of them voted against
the submission of the amendment to
the states at ali. The political infiu-
ence Of William Barnes generally will
be behind the opposition"
Counts on Whitman's Aid
"Has the Governor taken any atti-
tudc in the mattcr?''
"The Governor has, in the most ex-
plicit manner, declared himself as per-
sonally in favor of the ratification of
the amendment. He is also on record
in favor Of prohibition as an emergency
war matter, and has stated for pub
lication that he will sign an emer-
gency war prohibition statute for this
state if it is passed by the Legislature.n
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04

ment Of operations and because it feels
That 1t Is IN tight place on the whole
Communicating subject and NAV get
into a snarl Of litigation.
All ship owners who are credited
with less under government operation
than they were earning under their
own direction feel that the government
has confscated their property without
due process Of law. They don't like
government profiteering at their ex-
pense. They concede that the govern
ment has an unqucstoned right to take
their ships at fair compensation. but
they maintain that for the govern
ment to take their ships. keep them
in regular commercial trade, charge
the public the previously existing rates
and pocket the difference is nothing
but enforced taxation.
British Ships Still in Trade
Another grievance of the ship own
ers is based on national considera-
tions. They hold that it is not fair
to American interests to take all
American vessels from the East coast
South American trade, for example,
while the British are permitted to
continue lines from American ports to
South America. They argue that be-
fore American boats are withdrawn
from American trade to serve the COM
mon interests of the Allies all British
ships should be withdrawn from such
trade
Vessel owners have covered all these
points in letters. briefs and oral dec
larations addressed to the Shipping
Board 1t is understood that the Stand
ard Oil interests have been especially
vigorous in their presentation of the
injustice they consider has been done
them in taking over their tank steam
ers.
For patriotic reasons nobody is
pressing the Shipping Board very hard
Just now. but trouble is brewing and
there is going to be day Of reckon
ing. The difficulty must be settled by
an amicable arrangement arrived at
through conference and compromise
or it will get into the courts.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Smoot Plans New
War Tax Measure

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a substitute
for the war tax law is to be introduced
soon by Senator Smoot. 1t would prac-
tically reconstruct the present income
and excess profits tax sections from
which it is proposed to obtain about
three -fourths of the total amount to
be raised by the bill. Excess profits
rates. Senator Smoot said to-day, will
be slightly higher, but there will be no
additional levies on incomes
Congress reassembled to-day after
the holiday recess. and both houses,
after sessions Of few minutes dura-
ton, adjourned until tomorrow in re-
spect to the memories of Senator New
lands and Representative Bathrick,
who died during the Christmas holi-
days.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Red, White and Blue Turkey
Arrives at White House

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.-A big turkey
sobbler, with red, white and blue in
his plumage, reached the White House
to-day from Kefer, Okla. There was
nothing on the crate to identify the
sender but the gobbler probably was
intended as a gift for the Presidents
Christmas dinner and was delayed on
the road by railroad congestion.
In honor of his extraordinary coat he
was given bigger quarters and dinner
Op his own acnaunt