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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
TREVOR FIGHTS
UTILITIES BILL

Mayor Clarence Trevor will rep
resent the CITY of Moline Al Spring
field Tuesday when the house mu-
inequalities committee considers
the bill amending the public utili-
ties commission law in such a
manner as to provide for home
rule of street railways aEG similar
corporations.
Mayor Trevor is for the bill.
Franchises, he claims. are con-
tracts. and should be held valid.
If" he said today, IAN amend
ment won't prevent the utilities
commission from invalidating con-
tracts between cities and corpora
lions then the commission should
be abolished altogether"
Mayor Trevor declared further
that he would continue to fight for
home rule and limitation of the
utilities commissions power after
he ceases to be mayor OF Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
PLAN BANQUET FOR
E. M. ORGANIZATION

East Moline business and profess
sional men at the meeting of the
association last evening decided to
hold a banquet during the latter
part of the month. DR. A E. Baker
was named chairman of a commit
tee, which he is chose, to set the
date, place and make complete ar
engagements for the affair.
Plans for the banquet and routine
business was all that was taken up
last evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15

Invite Congressman - Congress
men from all western states will
be invited to stop off here and in
spect Rock Island arsenal on their
return to Washington, according IT,
plans worked out yesterday at the
conference between Congressman
Harry Hull of the Second Iowa
district. Colonel Harry B. Jordan,
arsenal cOmmandant. and Secre-
tary ]. c. Mccarthy of the Daven-
port Commercial club
Train Delayed Train No. 6 on
the c. D. & NJ. rolled merrily out
of the interurban station at Daven-
port yesterday morning at 1905.
bound for Clinton. Train No. 8
rolled merrily on past Bettendorf.
Pleasant Valley. LeCaire and
Princeton and at first rumbled
over the Wapsie bridge. Then It
stopped. No amount of persuasion
could induce it to go further. 1t
stopped there until after o'clock
last night. All this time the Dav-
export Office had been working .
big force locating the trouble. AS
fast as one cause for no current
was discovered and repaired an
other developed.
Whisky Is Mystery The pres
ance of seven cases Of whisky
found in his auto is something OF
4 mystery to Otto Herman. Nor
was he able. when arraigned late
Thursday before United States
Commissioner A G. Bush on
charge of Transporting. o explain
now his machine happened to be
abandoned on Federal street late
Wednesday after federal agents
aad followed the ca" several
blocks in an effort to arrest the
lriver Herman was held to the
grand jury under $500 bond
Fine Insane Man Roy Fitzger-
aid, an escaped inmate Of Water
own sanitarium. was found late
Thursday night inside the HalligaU
candy company. which he had en-
cred by forcing window. The
Eatchman discovered Fitzgerald
md turned him over to the police. !
he was returned TO WATERFOWL. In I
he mans possession was found
written list of many OF the chOiC- !
est candies and the police are in /
,lined TO believe that he was an !
expert candy maker before he wen. /
insane He refused to talk TO the /
authorities beyond telling them /
hat he pried open window AMI /
entered the plant to spend the
light
Serum Successful - Davenport
physicians yesterday began to
heck up the results OF the Rose
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
SAYS HE PREDICTED WAR.

London, March I5.-Vi'e Admir-
al Sims of the American naval
fo~ces in farewell speech, said
that in 1910, he submitted re-
port to Washington, that in his
opinion. and that OF many Ameri-
can and British officers, war CoulG
not be put off more than four
years
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
In the Lodges

Moline lodge No. 235, L. o 0. NJ.
will hold annual installation of Of
ficers Tuesday evening and a re
quest is made to all members to
be present Past Dictator Greeley
Henry will act as installing officer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
MUCH COTTON CONSUMED.

Washington, March 15.-Cotton
consumed during February amount
ed to 1856 running bales of lint
and 1852 bales of Iinters, the cen
sus bureau today announced.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15

Private funeral services Tor John
Johnston, who died late Thursday
afternoon in Peru, Ill. will be held
al 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning in
the home of his son, James NJ.
Johnson. city attorney of Moline,
3309 Park and Sixteenth streets,
Moline Rev p. c. Ladd will be III
charge. Interment will be in Riv-
erSide cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
Jews of the Day in Moline and East Moline
Obituary
Funeral of Mrs. Emma z. Dietz.

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
f. Dietz were held at 2:30 yester-
day afternoon in the residence. us
Nineteenth street, Moline. Rev.
Samuel Van Pelt of the First
Methodist church of Rock Island.
ofTiciated and selections were given
by Miss Esther Malmrose, Mrs.
Henry WheelOck. T. NJ. Wheelock
and II. T. Wheelock.
Remains were taken to Onarga,
Ill, for interment in the family
lot
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15

Serum Successful - Davenport
physicians Yesterday began to
heck up the results OF the Rose
The sun., 1919-09-30

she almost tainted. To-day she lies on
q couch, her head bound with cloths.
II am glad he has been punished, but
It was terrible that 40 many other hen
had to- suffer-" she said. There Is no
doubt that he waS the IMAM. I recog-
nized him the minute the police brought
him In. l recognized his voice when he
spoke. As he pushed me into the ravine
that night re continually told me 10 shut
IN. He was the man and am slad he
has been punished"
Miss Loebeck's mother said: IT am
glad they killed the negro have raised
thirteen children. Nine are living. !
have lived in this house twenty-seven
years, and to think a thing of this kind
should come to US after years OF hard
work.
Mayor Smith, who was twice hanged
to a trolley pole because he refused to
order the negro delivered to the mob.
and who was thought last night TO be
dying as q result OF the treatment, Us
resting easier tonight In the hospital.
His spine Ia injured. His condition still
10 serious.
At 8 o'clock tonight the soldiers were
In command of the situation at all
points. Pedestrians were not permitted
to pass the court house.
Col. Jacob Wuest, commander at Fort
Omaha has ordered that all firearms of
every sort be turned in, but practically
none has been surrendered, The police
have appealed to all to stay within doors
tonight.
A thunderstorm broke over the city
tonight, and authorities believe this will
dampen the ardor Of rioters.
The sun., 1919-09-30
PRISONERS IN PERIL
GIVE NEGRO TO MOB
Sheriff Tells of Scene in
Burning Court House.

OMAHA, Sept. 29.-Sheriff NJ. L. Clark,
who had charge of about 100 prisoners
at the county Jail on an upper floor of
the Court House when the mob last
night set fire to the building In Its search
for the negro who later was lynched,
told tonight how he tried 10 fight off
the mob
When the heat from the burning
building became intense the prisoners
were ara 20 Or roof for safety. While
on the top Of thu Snllding the crowds in
the streets below ssre shouting for the
negro. Other negro prisoners attempted
to throw Brown frcm the building. but
were overpowered thd prevented from
doing so by the Sheriff and his deputies.
Shots were being fred by the mob
toward the top of the building where the
prisoners were, and other shots were
coming from the roofs sf nearby build
ings Fire was belchins from the air
shafts and a dense smoke was making
It almost impossible for Sc men TO
breathe. Some of the prisonc-s were
praying. others cursing. Some ~ them
urged the officers to give up Brown.
Brown. reports indicate. was the
coolest man of all the prisoners. He
had nothing to say. He seemed to
realize, Sheriff~ Clark said, that every
TO the mob.
Finally after the prisoners had been
on the roof about fifteen minutes the
Sheriff decided to take the men to the
floor below. The Sheriff stationed him.
self on a stairway to prevent the men
from rushing madly down. In the mean
time some of the mob had worked their
way up to the top OF the building.
The whole stairway just below me
was Just jarnmed with rioters" Sheriff
Clark said.
For an instant as ne was standing on
the stairway the Sheriff had his hack
turned to the prisoners on the stairs
above him when suddenly Brown was
pushed by negro prisoners past the
Sheriff and into the hands Of the mob.
After Browns delivery the Sheriff
managed to keep most Of his prisoners
on one of the upper floors until the FIRE
was under control. During the q tcite-
ment on the roof the Sheriff released
thirteen women prisoners. !
The prisoners were suffering from heat
for about an hour. While they were
on the roof at least three of them were
struck and injured by stray bullets. Z
while was standing on the stair
way after we had been driven from the
roof by the intense heat, smoke and bull
let's" the Sheriff said, IT was confronted
with the onrushing mob. and It was
while was trying to hold them Off that
Brown was pushed into the hands of the
fy,ob"
The sun., 1919-09-30
SIX FOOD ROUTES
TO BE KEPT OPEN
London STRIDES to Operate
900 Miles of Trackage.
Special Gable Despatch TO The Sun and the
Public Ledger.

Special Gable Despatch TO The Sun and the
Public Ledger.
Copyright. 1919, all rights reserved
LONDON, Sept. 2e.-Major- Gen. Henry
Thornton, general manager of the Great
Eastern Railway. to-day said that six
principal food and petrol routes are to
be kept open during the railroad strike.
These vital arteries represent one thou
sand miles OF trackage as follows:
First--London to Liverpool, Birming-
ham and Manchester, 200 miles; second.
London TO Yarmouth and East Coast
points, 122 miles third, London to
Southampton and Plymouth, 226 miles :
fourth, London to Hull, 1876 miles; NTH.
London to Bristol. III miles, and sixth,
London to Dover and Channel ports, 10
miles. Scotland and Wales for the mo-
ment are cut of from England After
the establishment OF the skeleton routes
enumerated, over which trains Will have
coaches attached for passengers. atten-
ton naxt will be directed to getting sub
urbanites to and from the large cities.
The sun., 1919-09-30
$4,000 TONS OF
US. SHIPS TIED UP
Sailings Of Shipping Boards
Vessels Suspended Owing
to British Strike.
"a CRAFT ARE RECALLED
Altogether 221 Are Affected
Few Chances for Diversion
of Carg0es.

WASHINGTON, Sept 29.--The British
railway strike has tied up considerably
more than a million tons OF American
shipping. The Shipping Board to-day
suspended all sailings of Shipping Board
vessels for British ports, and Ia to recall
to home ports eishty-four vessels which
are outbound, loaded for various desti-
nations In the British Isles.
The following telegram was sent out
to-day by w, r. Taylor, assistant direc-
tor of the division Of operations, to all
operators:
To avoid congestion and bunkering
difficulties as result of impending
railway strike, and In line with ac-
tion likely to be taken by British
owners, all sailings of Shipping Board
vessels for United Kingdom ports are
hereby suspended and vessels ordered
held in port Discontinue at once
further bookings, loading and clear
anoes for United Kingdom ports.
This message was prompted not by the
tie-up in all British ports but by an
order in council Issued by the British
Government. The order In council pro-
hibited the furnishing of bunker coal or
the giving of bunker licenses to any ves-
sells In United Kingdom ports except those
under the British flag.
There are now eighty-seVen American
vessels in various British ports. They
will be held there indefinitely unless they
have bunkered. In addition to this there
are Atty vessels OF $4,000 lightweight
tonnage loading cargorin American ports
destined for United Kingdom ports.
These vessels will be held Up and load
ing stopped. The eighty-four vessels
outbound under load aggregate 429,OOO
lightweight tons. making in all 221 ships
OF $4,000 deadweight tons of Ameri-
can shipping effectively tied up. The
vessels that may be able to leave British
ports may cut this figure down, but the
cut is not expected to be appreciate.
Just how long the tie-up will last,
Shipping Board officials do not know.
Offhand there appear few possibilities
for diversion OF the oargoes. Vessels
allocated for cargoes for the United
Kingdom which have not started to load
can be diverted to other uses, but OPP
Grating officials are In a quandary as 10
what to do with the vessels loaded and
outbound.
II the tie-up Is to be a long one they
can be unloaded and placed in other
service. but this means a great loss of
time and ship efficiency aside from
the monetary loss Of unloading and re-
leading.
The sun., 1919-09-30
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Chief Of Police Linderman. Then sb.
tainted.
With small posse In an automobile
the Chief OF Police hurried after the
negro, who was identified as a man en-.
ployed on " farm outside the town. AS
the automobile containing tho poss.
drew near the farm house the negro
who had been on the porch, ran into The
house and out rear door into clumu
OF woods. Shots from the posse failed IA
hit him and he escaped in the fog.
Reported seen in several places, The
negro finally was traced to swami
near Hainesport, and county authorities
took charge Of the posse. ranks of which
had been swelled by more than a hun.
dred farmers and workers from a ship
yard where Mrs. Lotzer's husband is eli.
ployed. Late tonight these men Mad
surrounded the swamp where the negro
In hiding
The sun., 1919-09-30

tional Union Of Railwaymen's executive
committee has found 1t necessary to
double the pickets at n majority OF the
London stations and at many in the
provinces. The statement also says that
rs per cent. of the engineers on the
Southeastern Railway are reported to
have offered TO return 10 work.
The railroads generally assert that
numbers of the members OF the railway
mems union are returning to work and
that a modified service on all lines, with
the, assistance OF the volunteers, Is as
sured.
Premier Lloyd George, Sir Auckland
Geddes, Minister Of National Service and
Construction, and Sir Robert Stevenson
Horne. Minister Of Labor, conferred In
the morning and the strike committees
also were In constant session. This
statement was issued:
The general strike situation is i'm
proving. The Government measures
are working satisfa ctorily. Food dis
tribution 10 proceeding smoothly and
offers Of voluntary assistance are still
pouring in.
AS one effect OF the railroad strikes
100, 900 miners In the South Wales coal
fields are idle. Many collieries also are
closing down and the Swansea harbo-
trade Is paralyzed. The Government has
notified all the allied Governments which
are largely dependent upon Great Bri-
tain for coal that II will be impossible
because of the strike TO permit any
expectation Of coal.
Notwithstanding the Inconvenience
caused by the strike, the Cunard liner
saxonia sailed from Tilbury for New
York to-day, The vessel had on board
2, 900 passengers. Most OF them mo-
tored to London Bridge. from where they
were taken by river boats down stream
to Tllbury.
The new ration system was clamped
down on London to-day. These regula-
tlons are stricter than any for the last
year and affect all kinds OF meat. butter
and sugar. Cured meats, which wers
rationed only slightly during the war
were placed In the same category with
other meats In the strike ration system
Fish were not included In the edict a.
the lack OF transportation Is affecting
the supply. Many OF the restaurant;
have eliminated butter from their menus
and have restricted bread to one rol
for each person. Miniature war steak;
again have made their appearance to-
day.
In Scotland 90 per cent of the rail
way workers are idle, but a few train'
were run there yesterday and to-day fol
the carrying of passengers and perish.
able freight These trains, according
TO reportA were run by union men WIFI
The sun., 1919-09-30
100 TRAIL NEGRO
ACCUSED BY WOMAN
Alleged Assailant Surrounded
in SUamp Hiding Place.
SpeciaI Despatch 70 TIE srN.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.-More than a
hundred armed farmers and shipyard
workers, in motor trucks and automo-
biles. are searching for James Whiting.
a negro farm hand, accused OF attacking
Mrs Mary Lotzer, a white woman, near
Merchantville, n. j., early this morning.
Mrs. Lotzer, who is the mother of Ave
children, obtained work in a Camden
factory to earn money to pay the funeral
expenses of her baby, She lives two
miles from the trolley line at Merchant
VILE and was on her way to work when
attacked.
A young negro drove up to her. Jump
ing from the wagon. he threatened the
woman with revolver and choked her
into Inconsistencies, When sho came
to Mrs. Lotzer ran a half mile to Mer-
| chantville. where she told her story to
The sun., 1919-09-30
VOLUNTEERS OFFER
TO OPERATE TRAINS
Continued from First Page.

road yards despite all efforts to get 1t
distributed, and 1t is felt that this loss
will have an effect later.
The sun., 1919-09-30
TWO NEGROES SLAIN
BY MOB IN ALABAMA
Taken From. Custody of
Sheriff and Shot.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept 2s.-Miles
Phlfer and Robert Croskey. negroes. the
latter a discharged soldier, were taken
from county officials about five miles
from Montgomery late to-day and shot
TO death by mob OF about twenty-five
masked men. Both negroes were
charged with having assaulted white
women.
to the State prison at Wetumpka for
safekeeping when the mob held up the
automobile carrying them. The mob
forced the county officials to surrender
their arms. led the negroes into a wood
and opened fire on them with shotgunP
and pistols
The sun., 1919-09-30
AMERICAN LINERS
10 SAIL AS PLANNED
They viii Take Enough Coal
for Round Trip.

American Line passenger steamships
will not BID affected appreciably by the
strike in Great Britain. They win get
rid OF the problem of coaling on tn
other side by taking enough coal from
this side for the round trip. The Gu
harder Caronia will sail to-day as sched-
uled and take sufficient coal to BRING
her back.
The Mauretania, due to sail Thursday
will depart with full house. She has
not the bunker capacity for round
trip, so she may coal at Cherbourg, one
of her ports after leaving to South
ampton, II she cannot get coal at the
latter place.
The sun., 1919-09-30
MODERN French Petit=pOint

consisting of number of highly artistic
designs (partly worked QUIT i'm this partic-
ularIy fascinating form of needlecraft, most
of them copied from genuine works of art
produced i'm France during the reigns OF
Louis XIV. and Louis XVI. and varioGsly,
adapted for mounting as chair seats, backs
end arms; screens; tale scarfs, bench seats
pillow tops. etc.
Everyone interested i'm decorative interiors
and i'm the revival of Needle-pont tapestry
work should examine these interesting
pieces.
The canvases. with the materials necessary
for their completion, may be purchased at
reasonable prices.
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The sun., 1919-09-30
Accepts Division of Islands,

MELBOURNE, Sept. 2s-The House a,
Representatives of the Australian
Commonwealth has given it's approval
to the proposed arrangement for the
future, control Of the former German
islands In the Pacific, under which those
south Of the Equator would pass 10
Australia and those north of the Eaua.
tor to Japan.
The sun., 1919-09-30
SOUTHERN
HOSPITALITY

If you've ever enjoyed il n
one, Of Dixie's old>fashioned
white.columned houses, thsn
you know the delights q
Mammy's hot biscuits.
Brought in several times d,,r,
ing the meal, feather,liUh,
with golden butter melting n
you simply can't resist them
CHILDS famous butter cake,
are made like Mammy's BIZ.
cuits-brown and crisp on
top and bottom, light and
fluffy inside.
Served piping hot with -,
country butter. they bI.rj
perfectly with any di,b.
The sun., 1919-09-30
CLASH OVER SOFT
COAL WAGE SCALE
60 Per Cent. Increase Called
radical" Demand.

BuFFALo, Sept, 29.-The soft coal OPP
orators and miners of the central com
petitive field FLASHED at to-day's wage
conference on the issues OF whether tbs
The sun., 1919-09-30

were anxious to get to their homes.
The Irish roads are still running, but
the mon there have been instructed by
the union headquarters to hold them
selves In readiness for walkout at any
moment.
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ANTES De QUE Sc REA-
LICEN LOS ENSUE-
N0SDE UNA MADRE
Las mujeres precavidas evitan con
cuidado los padecimientos.

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mostrado Ia necesidad que hay dc ayudar 4 II
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braniieatO. Las n&useas. Il nerr!osidad. G!
decair:iento Y los terriblcs dolores del abdo-
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mrnce para las futuraS madrcs. Su uso ccpe
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glnc durartc 81 periodic en- que Ia madre Sc
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porqUe en- realidad nj elias miSmas -
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dar. Al buen comprendedor con ina
palabra le baSra. HaCe POGO ITEM
30 due eScribio 81 Sr. Ruybalid de
este pueblo donde dice asi:-"Seno-
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Sc firmo un arEastic;o entire
los aIemanes y los
polacos

BASLE, Febrero 6.-Los 2lemanes
Y los p~olacos que luchan en- IA froa-
terra silesiana, han firnado un ar
misticio por sicte dias. que podra ser
reanudado a la termination del pla-
20, segun dice I'm despacho recibido
hoy en- esta 'ciudad.
Por medic de csc armist;cio sc
pone IN alto, sino I'm fin definitivo
a una de las iuchas que amcnazan
Ia tranquilidad de II Europa Orien-
tai. Los polaccs que lachan por 81
Independence, Sc habian mostrado
inflexibles con los alemanes y llega-
ron a anunciar en- IN tempo que 81
prop6sito era ocupar ia ciudad de
Berlin, habiendo llegado en- aiguna
OCCASION hasta IN punto situado &
Glen millas de la capital aleTana.