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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15
GALLON HOUSE
NETS 100000
IN SHORT TIME
Partner Claims Lewis Establish
meni's Gross Receipts in II
Months We're 1921 .0eo.

Gallon houses. which fourished
50 numerousIy in South Moline
township for about 4 year, being
closed by the war prohibition act
July / were exceedingly prosper
Gus, according TO a bill in a suit
docketcd for trial in the circuit
court at the September term.
hiphons DeMeurriese of East
Moline is the plaintiff and Simon
Lewis Of this city the defendant.
The two were associated in the
management of what was known
as the Lewis gallon house and fail
cd to agree over d settlement. The
plaintiff claims that the receipts Of
the business in the II months IT
was conducted amount TO 1924 600,
md the profits we're 100000. Lew
claims the profits we're only s.
o. the bill states. It is under
rod that pcNcurriese was ten
Ecred A check for $500 as his
share in tho enterprise,
) The bill rCciies tina. tho plain
ftiff on Aug. l, 1918, entered into &
copartnefsl1ip with Lewis. The
firm name is SAID to have been Dc
Mcurricse & CO. and sometimes
DcMeuries5e & Lewis.
Were to Share Equally.
DeNeUrTiesc SAYS he had cCSag
ed IN hanGIfnE liquor for years and
had = large following Of customers
VINO became patrons Of tho firms
business. In conducting The hUsi-
ness Lewis was to buy the goods
and handle the funds and tho prof
is and losses were to be shared
equally The business was con
Quoted within one month of a year
having closed July 1, 1919
In his bill OF complaint DcMcur-
ricse says that tho invoices went
into the hands of Lewis who re
Scs to let him sec them. although
,4estcd so 10 do. and that fnspec-
n of the books has been refused.
sc expresses the belief that his
snare Of the profits will amount to
$4,000
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15
TWO GET 80 DAYS
MORE IN JAIL AS
RESULT OF FLIGHT

Homer Davis and Fred McCauley,
both coioTed, we're given material
cause to regret a brief vacation
from sentences being served out in
the county Jail on petty larceny
charges. in county court this morn
ing. when each was invited to So
journ 90 more days in Jail. The
escape took place June "a, and they
were captured soon after in Chi.
cago. The petty larceny charge
was imposed in circuit court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15
GLARS KIN REACHES KoLCHAK

Paris, Sept. 15.-Grand Duke
Michael Alexandrovitch, brother Of
the former Russian emperor, who
made his escape from Perm. after
being imprisoned by the bolsheviki,
has reached Admiral EoIchak's
Headquarters. according TO Human
lite. The paper says that he is pre-
pairing TO act in the role or pretend
or 70 the imperial throne.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15
Hts Hard.

The sugar shortage hits Rock
Island and in fact the entire coun-
try hard now, because this is the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15

canning season. Retailers are ad-
vising that as much fruit and veg
etabIes as possible be canned now
But there is no sugar.
The sun., 1919-08-07
LUSTGARTEN IN WAR
TOGS GETS 4 YEARS
Discharge and Wound Stripes
Fail to Saue Him.

Appearing at the bar in the uniform
Of a corporal in the United States Army
and wearing In addition the red dis
charge stripe signifying an honorable
discharge. two gold service chevrons and
wound stripe. William Lustgarten for
merly president OF the defunct Tax Lien
Company. found guilty last week by a
jury OF grand larceny in the first degree.
was sentenced yesterday by Judge Grain
In General Sessions to from four to eight
years Imprisonment In Sing Sing.
Lustgarten after he heard sentence
imposed had to be assisted back to the
Tombs, A plea for clemency made In
his behalf by his counsel. Isador wasser-
vogel, was denied by the court. Mr.
Wasservogel intimated that the men who
are now prosecuting Lustgarten made
more money out Of the Tax Lien failure
than he did.
Judge Grain told the defendant that
while he had honorably served in the
United States Army in France that hard
ly could rebound to his credit because, in
the courts opinion. he entered the army
after fleeing from its Jurisdiction under
an assumed name for the purpose OF con-
cealing his whereabouts.
Though under Indictment also in con-
nection with the $500, 900 crash OF the
Tax Lien Company, the specific charge
resulting In Lustgarten's conviction was
preferred by Robert Schalkenbach, a
printer. Of ais Fulton street. who al
legged that he lost $4,000 through pool
which Lustgarten told him was TO be in
vested in East Side real estate, but
which was shown at the trial to have
been deposited to Lustgarten's checking
account and used subsequently, to meet
| other obligations
The sun., 1919-08-07
RARITAN ARSENAL
VICTIMS NOW TEN
Bodies of SeUen Haze Been
Taken From Blast Wreckdge.

The names of ten men are included In
the list of those missing at the Raritan
Arsenal since the explosion Monday.
The list was given out yesterday by
Lieut. L. r. Jeffords. the post adJutant-
They are all civilian employees. Seven
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins of the powder magazine and
freight car. Three of them have been
identified as ]. Besary. 1872 New street,
New Brunswick; George S. Turk, 272
Oak street, Perth Amboy, and L. s.
Clair, Steelton.
The other missing men are listed as
william Dougherty. 244 Somerset street;
A Durham, 1876 Seaman street. p. AIMS
tides, SO Church street: f. Bedard. 80
Jersey avenue. all of New Brunswick;
Lawrence Schaefer, 219 Augusta street.
South Amboy; Alex Bergoforowski, Main
street, Sayreville. and NJ. Zranesk. Cath
crime street. Sayreville.
According to Coroner William F.
Harding. Dougherty. Durham and
Gchaefer have been Identified as dead.
although their names were not on the
list given out by Lieut.. Jeffords
2 A board of five officers headed by
Major-Gen. c. c. Williams, chief of ord
nance, has begun an investigation OF the
explosion. No statement will be Issued,
Il was announced. until the investiga-
ton has been finished. Mayors of cities
IN the vicinity of the arsenal took steps
yesterday to protest to the War Depart
ment against the storage Of large guam
titles of explosives there.
The sun., 1919-08-07
The .neU
silhouette
for Autumn suits

for Autumn suits
is like a chapter from
"Godey's Ladies' Book"
The Women's Suit Sa-
Ions have just received this
new and unexpected model
that predicts-all in a rush
of revolutionary lines
what our silhouettes are to
be like this Autumn.
Very slender of waist
and bouffant of skirt is
this model. The coat flares
into busy little ruff1es after
it has been nipped in Sc
verely at the waist. And
everywhere-almoSt-are
narrow bands of fur and
pompons of fur at the
waistline front and back.
This is the silhouette our
grandmothers wore with such
grace. They had not, however,
the sophisticated tight under
skirt that invariably appears
under the tunic of the skirt.
Second floor, Old Building.
The sun., 1919-08-07
BROADWAY CROWD
TRIES TO LYNCH RED
Police SaUe Man Giving Out
HondbilIs.

Downtown Broadway became very
much agitated yesterday noon. when q
man who gave his name as Herbert A.
Thorpe of Jersey City took up a position
on the curb near Fulton street and began
handing out printed handbills containing
revolutionist propaganda. Thorpe made
no attempt at speechmaking. but the ma
ture of the matter contained in the
dodgers collected a crowd of almost 1000
persons, some OF whom insisted on a
lynching.
A patrolman from the Old Slip station
hurriedly pushed in to the rescue.
You don't know how close you are
to first class hanging" ne remarked.
He took Thorpe to the station, fol-
lowed by hooting crowd, and a dozen
men offered to swear out warrants The
dodgers bore Thorpe's signature and con-
cluded with quotation from, Herbert
Spencer on the mutability of govern
ment. The rest of the sheet was a ques-
tionnaire. OF which some Of the samples
were these:
Who started the diabolicai war Just
ended? The German Government
WHO were too criminally stupid to
prevent It? The allied Governments.
who caused the loss Of millions of
lives? Governments.
Who send men and women to Jail for
merely trying to educate their fellow
creatures? Governments.
who are causing the high cost of
living7 Governments.
who denies the working man the
knowledge and means to coptrol the
number of his children? The United
States Government.
who are 80 foolish as to create and
support Governments? The people. Is
1t not about time people woke up to the
above facts and did little something
| toward reducing and ultimately elimi-
| mating Governments?"
The sun., 1919-08-07
MANHOLE COVERS
BLOWN HIGH IN AIR
Flames From GasoIene FolloD
Man Breaks Leg.

The accumulation of gasolene in tho
sewer beneath Forty-second street, be-
tween Second and Third avenues. caused
an explosion yesterday which boosted
manhole covers along its course ten to
twenty feet in the air. with flames leap
ing through the openings.
One of the covers under the Third ave-
nue elevated station made direct hit
in the centre of the overhead structure,
smashing through two ties. The boom
ing of the explosion and the flames
caused a good deal OF excitement along
the street, and in the midst of It Hugh
Roberts, 81. OF Corona, alighted from a
crosstown car and plunged down one OF
the holes. One of his legu was broken,
He was taken home.
The flying iron covers came TO earth
without hitting any one, and in a short
time firemeR had smothered the flames
The smoke was dense before their work
was finished.
The sun., 1919-08-07
SUSPICIOUS POSTAL
PACKAGE A BOMB
Eagan Finds Shell Filled With
Black Powder, Wrapped
In Tin.
CAP AND FUSE READY
Action to Prevent Sale Of
Empty Hand Grenades
az May Be Taken.

Inspector Owen Eagan of the Bureau
Of combustibles brought the suspicious
package found by a clerk In the Penn
syivania post ONCE Tuesday afternoon
70 his desk In the Municipal Building
and dissected it yesterday. finding that
f. contained a long tubular bomb nlled
with black powder.
The explosive charge was wrapped In
tin and jaclteted In what looked like a
large calibre shot gun shell, although
Inspector Eagan said that he had never
seem shot gun shell Of that Size The
metal base OF the shell bears no oalibre
Identification and Is stamped Paris"
How the bomb was intended to be
exploded Inspector Eagan was not sure.
The percussion cap was intact and would
function with a blow. From the end
of the bomb protruded short piece
Of powder fuse ready to be lighted.
Inside the tin wrapping, which In
ppector Eagan had cut open. six tubular
metal slugs. each about an inch long.
lay end to end and Joined by the fuse.
According to the inspector, these slugs
were loaded with aluminium or magne-
stun powder SO that each slug would
explode in the air.
1he package was unaddressed when
found In the post office, and so far
az can be learned the post office officials
do not know whence 1t came.
Putting the bomb back in a drawer
Inspector Eagan rummaged among
litter OF various explosive devices. some
dangerous and some not dangerous, and
drew out hand grenade such as was
used by the A. e. r. in France only on
this one the firing pin had been re-
moved and a length OF powder fuse in
serted through the neck and the re-
manning space blocked with cloth.
"Were finding these things all ovei
the city. People buy the hand grenade
for souvenir. Drug stores, novelty
stores, any number of stores are selling
ths empty hand grenades-about q
cents apiece. That's all right; but right
there in that empty hand grenade you've
got the grandest beginning in the worlc
for q bomb. All you've got to do II
MI Il with powder''-he took the fuss
from the one in his hand and emptied 9
bit of the contents on a piece of paper
This one is filled with giant powder
But what's to hinder any one from put
ting in a more violent explosive?
cit makes the handiest little bomb
No one would ever notice that thing II
your pocket. The fuse burns In abou
two seconds. All you've got to do II
press lighted cigar or cigarette to l
and let 'er CO."
Patrick ]. Gillespie, supervising in
Gpector of the Fire Prevention Bureau
said yesterday he was going to speal
to DR.. william F. Doyle. chief Of tn
bureau, about having some actor. takei
to prevent the sale of empty hand gre
nades. He said that something ought L
be done about them; that they wsr
ready made bombs.
Two hand grenades have been foun'
loose in the city this week. one loade
and one unloaded.
The sun., 1919-08-07
DRUGS SEIZED HERE
co TO WASHINGTON


A shipment Of narcotic drugs valued
at 100000. including heroin. cocaine
morphine and opium, all Of It stun seized
in recent raids here by Federal agents
against "bootleggers' and other illegal
traffickers. was sent yesterday from the
ONCE Of Major Daniel L. Porter, internal
revenue agent at the Custom House. to
the Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
In Washington.
This consignment will be diverted to
army and navy hospitals for medicinal
use. The drugs are in original unbroken
packages. The New York Office still has
about 500 ounces of confiscated narcotics
In broken packages, most of which, be-
cause It has been adulterated. Ia deemed
unsafe for use and will be burned.
Among the stun going to Washington
is one haul" of 1000 ounces Of opium
taken July from Joe Miller, who SNUG
gled It here from Montreal. bringing II
across from Canada by automobile. He
was followed, however, by revenue
agents who were sent on information
that resulted In his capture as he en-
tered New York on a New York Central
train. Miller has since been convicted
and sentenced.
Another supply of drugs worth $4,000
was taken In the raid made some weeks
ago on the German-American Medical
Institute at Tampa, Fla, by agents un-
der Ralph H. Oyler, chief of the mar
cotic division OF the New York Internal
Revenue Office. The seizure of this
cache of narcotics was effected follow
ing the arrest here of r. c. Hammers
at the American Express office on
I Broadway, where Mr.. Oyler trapped
Hammers as he was in the act of con-
summating deal for another $4,000
worth of drugs. Hammers's trial re-
Gently resulted In his conviction.
Mr.. Oyler declared yesterday that
| more drugs have been confiscated in the
last half year than In any previous six
months period. The internal revenue
| Office in this city. he said, was the means
| Of supplying Government hospitals dur.
| ing the war with more than $780, O(
worth OF drugs which had been seized ir
\ raids,
The sun., 1919-08-07
POLICE NOT FORMING
UNION. OFFICIALS SAY
Comnissionsr Enrisht Denies
Truth of Widespread Report.

General denial1 were made yesterday
by Mayor Hylan, Commissioner Richard
=. Enright, Chief Inspector John DAILY
and others connected with the Police
Department Of q report that the SER
geants and patrolmen were organising
themselves into n union to be affiliated
with the American Federation OF Labor,
and the first aim Of which would be to
get an increase in pay. The report
emanated originally from Louis Fri
digger, counsel for the Amalgamated Car
mems Union, who said the organization
was Every we'll perfected in Manhattan
and The Bronx and partly in Brooklyn"
The Mayor. hearing of this, expressed
scepticism and then called UP Commits
sioner Enright. The Commissioner de-
MED the story, saying he had investi-
gated It and found no foundation to It.
A similar statement came from the Chief
Inspector. and Joseph J. O'Reilly, editor
of The Chief and social secretary for the
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said
there was no truth In II.
IT know" he said. that a number Of
the patrolmen who formerly belonged to
trades in which they keep I'D their union
membership have sympathy for the
Brooklyn strikers and would like to see
the Police Department unionized, but
they constitute only q minority Of the
9,s02 patrolmen and the 766 sergeants-
how large. I can't say. But know that
their leading officials haven't suggested
any such organization. Their president,
Patrolman Joseph p. Moran, Is away on
his vacation.
such a step might be suggested at
the next meeting OF the association on
August ~, but no man could predict
that. So far 1t hasn't happened. Prob
- ~ a. H.
| the police have been working with the
unionized flremen in obtaining wage in
! creases, and they are now combined
with the present drive of city employees
| for a general raise, that of the patrol
men going up to $500 a year"
The sun., 1919-08-07
HOLDUP
MEN GET $551 CASH
Rob Cashier of Evenings Re-
ceipts at Century Cocoa
nut Grove.

Five men armed with revolvers
stopped three employees OF Reinsenweb-
er's restaurant at Sixty-first street and
Broadway shortly after 5 o'clock yes
terday morning and relieved them OF the
evenings receipts from the Cocoanut
Grove on the roof Of the Century Thea
tire. The robbers obtained 1851.
Spiro Mavromatis of 321 West Four
teenth street, cashier at the restaurant,
left the Century Theatre building after
the last patron OF the roof garden had
departed and started toward the main
Reisenweber establishment in Fifty
eighth street Just below Columbus Cir
Gle. He was accompanied by Emil Krell.
977 Fox street, The Bronx, a steward,
and Miss May Haran, 1441 Third ave-
nue., the cigar and cigarette vender., AS
the trio turned into Broadway from
Sixty-frst street three men who had
produced revolvers and commanded
Mavromatis to hand over his leather
bag containing the evenings receipts
Krell offered resistance and was
promptly felled by blow from one of
the men. At the same instant two
other men Joined the party from be-
hind, snatched the cashiers bag and all
FIVE Jumped into a closed automobile
which was waiting In Sixty-first street
and made of toward Central Park.
The thing was done so quickly that
none OF the three victims was able to
offer clear descriptions OF tho men OF OF
the car in which they made their es-
cape, though the three believe that they
| would recognize their first assailants.
Frank Koch. waiter employed al
Reisenweber's was the first to answer
| NJ IS Haran's cry for help. He blew
police whistle which brought two police
men, but the car was out of sight even
before Koch arrived.
At Reisenweber's 1t was said yester-
day that the robbers were evidently ia
| miliar with the nightly routine of the
cashier and his assistants. The man
agement of the restaurant were con
graduating themselves. however, thai
| the attack on their employees had no
| taken place the previous night, when the
receipts were about three times the
amount which the robbers secured yes
terday.
| A detail of tan men from the Fourth
| Branch Detective Bureau, under Capt
Thomas Walsh. began search for tn
car and its occupants. They made on
| arrest late yesterday OF q man the.
think drove the car.
The prisoner gave his name as Charles
Cohen, IS East Ninety-eighth street
According to the police his story is tina
he was hired late Tuesday night b!
three men, who told him that the!
would give him $40 for a special job
After the holdup had taken place on
of the robbers sat next to Cohen. h
says, and jabbed revolver into hi
side every time a policeman came II
sight The men ordered him to eros
the park and drive them to Seventy
first street and First avenue. whore the!
paid him and disappeared.
Cohen was arrested in garage a
l1O4th street and Third avenue. wher
he Is employed. He Is not charges
with participation in the robbery Itself
The sun., 1919-08-07
Girl Falls Five stories.

Mary White. 10. a photographer en-
ployed by the Argus Smelling Com
pany, ~ West Thirty-fourth street, was
getting out OF the elevator at the COM
pany offices on the fourth floor yester-
day when the car suddenly started up.
catching one heel. The girl pitched
forward and then slid into the empty
shaft, falling to the basement She was
removed to New York Hospital In a
serious condition from internal injuries
and fractures OF the limbs. The oper-
ator, George Matteson, 10s Ditmas
street. Brooklyn, was held In $1,000 bail
for examination tomorrow. The girls
home Is In 400 East Thirty-third street.
The sun., 1919-08-07
Better buy the
Chidren's
shoes nOU

This advice is prompted
by the fact that many
wise parents have been
buying school shoes these
past few weeks, taking adj
vantage of the lower prices
of shoes which will neces-
sarily be higher in price
when new shipments come
in the Fall.
Two examples
Excellent wearing shoes
which we now have in good sup
ply, but which cannot be re-
placed at the price.
Girls black buttoned
shoes, welted and stitched:
sizes 81 to 1917, 81,
sizes IL to 2, $3.50.
sizes pa to 6, SIS.
Girls tan lace shoes:
sizes IL to 2, SIS.
sizes 2l to 6, Sc.
These are only two out Of
many shoes for girls, small boys
and for babies, that are still SELL
ing at old prices.
For instance,
a baby's all hand-sewn tan shoe
for 1925, the maker tells US
will now cost that much to
make.
Parents will find the store for
Children's shoes a profitable
place to visit these days.
Special:
Pink or blue house slippers
with silk pOmpon, sizes / to 8
for $3.50. Only a couple hun.
bred pairs. Girls love them.
First floor, Old Building.
The sun., 1919-08-07
BLAST BREAKS WINDOWS.
Bxcarators' Powder Sends stones
Into Houses Boy IL HIT.

A powder blast in an excavation for
q building at Riverside Drive and 1bSth
street yesterday morning sent up a
shower of stones that broke windows in
several adjoining houses One Of the
stones went into a front room Of an
apartment at SIS Riverside Drive and
struck James Crawford. 10, in the head.
The boy was attended at his home.
The hail of stones peppered a num-
Der of passing motorists and Uttered
up the street. The foreman In charge
Of the excavation disappeared when a
crowd of excited residents OF the neigh
borhood came to investigate.
The sun., 1919-08-07
UNDERWOOD HEARING DELAY.
Erie President Ill, Ferry Case to
Wait.

Frederick d. Underwood. president of
the Erie Railroad, was prevented by
illness from appearing yesterday in the
Court at New Brighton, Staten
Island, In the case to test the round
trip rule on the Staten Island ferries.
On the request OF Arthur S'monson. as
sociate counsel for Mr.. Underwood, ad-
journment was taken until to-day. Mr..
Underwood was arrested Saturday for
dIsorderly conduct in refusing to leave
the ferry at the Staten Island end as
the rules require. He had purchased
a ticket for the return trip. which a
ferry employee would not accept on
the boat
The sun., 1919-08-07
Have You Read
CYNTHIA?

l. e on a r d M eric ks
Cynthia" has been repub-
lished. 1t is a novel so
finely written, that one
cannot help but enjoy it. It
is the story of a novelist
and his wife Cynthia. The
book is SITS.
The sun., 1919-08-07
A Play of Next Fall

One Of the plays to be
put on next fall is Mr.. Ar
mold BENEFITS Judith"
The play is published now.
There is something gor-
geous about the color and
settings, one can imagine
when reading the play, 81.
The sun., 1919-08-07
Search for Girl Missing II Days.

Olga Morse. IA. who packed her suit
case and left the home OF her aunt Mrs.
Edna O'Connelly, 1910 Grand avenue,
The Bronx. the night of July 26, Is being
sought throughout the city. She was a
high school student and had been popu-
lar. When last seen she wore a blue
satin dress. low cut tan shoes. a navy
blue hat and carried green sweater.
The girls mother. Mrs. Alne Williams.
lives In Detroit
The sun., 1919-08-07
French bLOuSeS

New shipment
Made of sheerest batiste
or French voile-exactly
the fine, dainty things
wanted at this season.
Filet lace combined with
embroidery, shadow en-
broidery on others, fine
tuckings, quaint new neck
lines, charming cuffs-a
hundred delightful little
unexpected details, all go
towards making these
blouses distinctive and in
teresting. SIP to $45.
In the Imported SHOPS
Third floor, Old Building.
The sun., 1919-08-07
Miss FingaI

by Mrs. w. X. Clifford is
a story which conveys in a
subtle manner the possible
continuity of one person.
atty through another after
death, $1.50.
The sun., 1919-08-07
Body Found in North River.

The body of Patrick ]. Kelly. 81, Of
CAT Adams avenue, Elizabeth. N. j.,
missing since Saturday was found yes
terday in the North River at the foot
Of Liberty street. The police gay the
dead man had about $S5 when he left
home, but only 81 in change was on the
body.