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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
REPORT SHOWS
LESS BUSINESS
AND PRICE DROP
Canvass of Industries
Reveals Outlook as
Uncertain.

Washington, March 1.-THE fed
eral reserve board made public to-
day summaries of reports from fed
erai reserve agents throughout
the country in aSWer to a queS-
tiOuaire recently sent out to ascer-
tain the extent of business and in
dustriaI Te-adj djustment. The re
ports showed in general that large
stocks on hand with manufactuT
ers and dealers and a Iessened de-
mand with prices decreasing in
many cases.
A typical example of the reports
from industrial districts was al
fOrded by the tabulation of replies
to questions from business con-
Germs in the Philadelphia and
Delaware district. The questions
and classified replies, were as fol-
lows:
Are the quantities of materials.
supplies and goods as shown by
your last inventory larger than
usual? Yes, ia; No, 129.
Are they principally for war or
civilian businesses? War work, 20;
civilian business. 221.
Have the prices Of your pro-
ducts been lower recently from the
high prices prevailing during the
war? Yes. 14S; No, s..
is labor more abundant? Yes.
225; No. 21
is labor less restless? Yes, 147.
No, 81.
is there, less re-employment2
Yes, 1856; No, 81.
rs labor more efficient? Yes,
SO; No, 142.
Has there been any lowering of
wages? Yes. II; No, 228.
Are you paying less for raw
materials? Yes, 131; No, 50.
rs the supply adequate? Yes,
2l2; No, 16.
Few Plan Extensions.
do you anticipate making anv
extensions or repairs to your
plants in the near future. which
will necessitate the purchase Of
building materials or equipment
Yes, AZ; No. 203.
Have you a satisfactory amount
of orders on hand? Yes, 81; No,
150."
Most concerns reported the out
look uncertain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
GOVERNORS WILL
ATTEND MEETING
FOR WATERWAYS

st. Louis, March 17-GOvernoTs
of fifteen states touching the Miss
issippi river, mayors of a hundred
Mississippi Valley cities, and the
directors of more than five hundred
commercial organizations in the
twenty-one states between the AL
leghaney and Rocky mountains are
expected to atten dthe second an
nual convention of the Mississippi
Valley Waterways Association here
April II and is.
The paramount subject will be the
development of foreign trade. Es-
tablishments of n merchant marine
and the. utilization of inland water
ways will be discussed from all
angles.
Action will be taken on the mat
ter of solidifying sentiment for de-
velopment and equipment by the
government of the 10000 miles of
waterways in the Mississippi Val
ley Establishment of regular for
eign sailings from southern ports,
and extension of the benefits of the
federal river service between st.
Louis and New Orleans also will be
SOuSHl-
Engineers will advise the confer
ence on the best methods of dock
construction in an effort TO form
ulate a uniform pfan for terminal
construction.
The question of improvement of
rivers under a definite national pro-
gram will be given careful consider
alton. One proposed will urge the
to expend s100,000,000
for the operation of government
barge lines on all rivers, especially
those tributory to the Mississippi.
The project has been approved at
recent meetings of river organiZa-
tions in other cities, it was said.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
RENNER ORDERED
TO FORM AUSTRO
CABINET, REPORT

Copenhagen, Sunday. March 16
The main committee of the Aus
trian national assembly mas unan-
imop<1y charged Chancellor Rem
I'll to form a new cabinet.
The New German-Austrian gov
ernment, according to a dispatch
includes DR.. Renner as chancellor,
Herr Jodofink as vice chancellor,
Herr Schumpeter as minister of
finance. Dr. alius as aiuister of
war and Otto Bauer as minister of
socialization. Herr Bauer also con-
}inues temporarily as minister of
foreign affairs.
The national assembly has pass
ed bills relative to parliament and
The state government and also has
approved a measure calling for thG
specialization of the latter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
OFFICIAL SANTA
OF CHICAGO HIT
BY AUTOMOBILE

Chicago. H., March 17-Chi-
cago's official Santa Claus was
probably fatally injured today
when he was struck by an auto
mobile The victim is John NJ.
Hubbard, for many years assistant
postmaster AT Christmas time
for generation, il has been MIR.
Hubbard's duty to receive all mail
addressed to Santa Claus" and
distribute it among the philanthro-
pic. Thousands of little children
have been made happy through
him.
MIR. Hubbard, who is 20 years of
age, was struck as he was about
TO enter poStothce.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
The Weather

Fair tonight and Tuesday, colder
tonight with the lowest temperature
above freezing
Temperature at a. m, Al. High
est yesterday. IS. Lowest last night,
Al.
Velocity of wind at a m. 8 miles
per hour.
Precipitation. .03
Relative humidity at Z p. m, 81 !:
at Z a. m, "a.
Stage of water, S.4 a rise of Ia
inlast As hours.
j. NJ. Sherier, Meteorologist-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
FOOD OUTLOOK
NOT BRIGHT AS
FOES BELIEVED
Hun Enthusiasm On
Wane AS Figures
Show Share.

Berlin, Sunday, March 16.-(By
the Associated Press indications
are that the average German is not
enthusiastic over the amount Of
food he is likely to get under the
provisioning agreement with the
allies. After his first feeling of
enthusiasm over the signing of the
long desired arrangement, he i'm
mediately began to figure out his
share of the provisions under the
terms of the document, an extend
ed summary of which was publish
ed officially this morning, and such
comment as is made reflects an un-
deniable feeling of disappointment
at the quantity provided.
This was practically the case
because the newspapers in reduc-
ing the totals to figures in pounds,
per capita, take as the basis Of
their estimates the population be-
fore the war and work out the re-
suit at ten pounds monthly per
person, instead of the approximate
Is pounds which results from a
computation upon the basis of a
population of 45,000,000 excluding
the self-proyides on the farms, as
the food ministry contemplates do
ing. This means that the allOt-
ment would be half pound of -four
and a tenth of a pound of fats per
day to supplement the waning
German food stocks.
Tool for Radicals, Claim.
In commenting on the food
agreement, Vorwaerts predicts
that the Independent Socialists and
Spartacans will make capital of
the fact that a proviso in the agree
ment that no food shall be allotted
to those who are unemployed
through their own fault. The
newspaper says the workmen will
be told that the government in
duced the entente TO insert this
proviso to prevent them from us
ing the stock as a political weapon.
The newspaper declares that in
actuality, the proviso was con
tanned in the draft agreement sub
mitted by the inter-allied dele
gates to the Brussels conference.
The delegates undoubtedly insisted
upon it, Vorwaerts thinks, in order
to make Germany finance as large
a proportion of the supplies as
possible by means or exports. so
that Germany's gold resources
might be reserved for indemnity
payments. The newspaper charac-
terizes the agreement as anything
but a success"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
PLANE PLUNCES
DIE
AyiatOrs Meet Instant Death as
Machine Crashes from Clouds at
End of Flight.

Houston. Tex. March 17.-Lieu-
tenants Robert f. Morsbach and
o. d Davidson of the Ellington
Field aviation personnel were kill
ed Sunday night near Richmond,
their plane crashing to the ground
as they were nearing the end of a
flight from Kelly field, San An
tonic.
Lieutenant Morsbach, who was
piloting the plane. was from Dur
and. Wis. and Davidson vas from
Omaha, Neb.
The cause Of the crash is being
investigated by an official board
from Ellington Field. and as yet
has not been announced.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
BOLSHEVIK TALK
AGAINST CHINA
CAUSING ALARM

Peking, Wednesday, March r.
(By the Associated Press.D The
Chinese government is alarmed
over a report from Petrograd rela-
tive to the formation of a Chinese
workingmen's organization, with
sixty thousand members for the
objective of carrying out revoIu-
tionary propaganda and establish
ing soviets in China. Inquiries are
being made by the authorities as to
measures which will effectually
check such activities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Few Plan Extensions.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
PARADE rs JOINED
BY u. S. FIGHTERS

New York, March 17.-Soldiers
and sailors were accorded the honor
places in the great st. Patrick's Day
parade, in which $4,000 representa-
tives of some 100 Irish societies
were assigned to places. Convey
ances were provided for wounded
soldiers. Service men also were the
guests OF the Irish societies II
Brooklyn, and other boToughs of the
city.
John W. Goff, former supreme
court justice led the New York
parade as grand marshal
Celebration of the day began last
night with banquets and meetings,
and meetings were arranged to be-
gin soon after the parade today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
WILL ACCEPT
ONLY WILSON
PEACE--HUNS
Germany to Reject Any
thing Beyond IA Points
Says Erzberger.

Copenhagen, March 17.-If the
allies loaded the peace treaty with
conditions going beyond President
Wilson's IA points, the German ma
tional assembly would have to re-
fuse its assent to the treaty, Ma
thias Erzberger, head of the Ger
man armistice commission de-
clared in an address at a Berlin
meeting favoring the formation OF
a real league of nations" accord
ing to a dispatch from the German
capital today. The mater ther
would be left to a refer endum of
the German nation, he sail.
Herr Erzberger disclained any
obligation upon Germany to give
compensation for acts she commit
ted after her first peace offer in De-
cember, 1916.
Says Allies Use "Mailcd Fist
The speaker declared that the
only means of calling a halt on
bolshevism was the abandonment
of the mailed fist policy of the
allies"
The German people. said Herr
Erzberger. had almost unlimited
confidence in President Wilson and
he hoped that the league of ma
tiOns covenant as promulgated Feb.
IA, would not be finally adopted,
as, he declared. it was a compro-
mise of the ideals of President
Wilson with the imperialistic
aspirations of some of the allies
The American president. Herr Err
berger insisted, was under obliga-
tiOns TO advocate the immediate
admission of Germany to the
league.
'"What Is German Stays Germans
Herr Erzberger asserted that
Germany was prepared TO accept
the vote of Alsace-Lorraine as to
its future but he referred to the
reported aspirations of France re-
specting the Rhineland ard to Po-
lands claims to Danzig, as
Grimes" adding:
What is German will remain
German"
AS lar dS Iue ueIudHuS IOT COiH-
pensation were concerned, Herr
Erzberger declared that Germany
would reject any demand that ap-
piled to acts committed after De
Cernber. 1916. when Germany made
her first peace offer There was no
moral obligation upon Germany
regarding compensation aside from
the case of Belgium, the speaker
argued. In that case Germany
would act honestly. he said.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
HOLD BERLIN
MILITARISTS
REAL RULERS
Report New Government
Does Bidding of Hun
Monarchists.

London, March Special
dispatches from Berlin report
that the suppression OF the re-
cent Spartacan outbreak there
has shown that military and
mOnarchist reaction progress is
growing and OVershadOwing
the new government.
The Berlin correspondent Of the
Mail who on Feb. II, sent dis
patch outlining plans for mon
archist uprising, has arrived in
London, having left Berlin ON
March IA, after residence there OF
three months. he reiterates tho
statements made in his dispatch
saying that President Ebert, Chan
cellOr Schiedemann and Minister
of War Noske are merely puppets.
He declares that for the purpose of
retaining power they have allowed
members of the military caste to
reappear as reorganiZers OF the new
Republican armies.
Real Rulers of Germany.
These men are the real govern
ors of Germany" he says. They
make the edicts and Chancellor
Scheidemann and his colleagues
willingly sign them"
Similar testimony is given by 9TH
er correspondents in telegraphlng
from Berlin, some stating that the
capture of the suburb Of Lichten-
berg has been intentionally prolog-
ed with a view TO eXtermiating the
SpartaCans, whose treatment at
the hands of government troops is
said to be sharply condemned.
While alleged atrocities are at
trihuted to the Spartacans, details
Which have been given are doubted
or denied. Even the Vorwaerts ad-
mits them TO be much exaggerated.
The correspondents concur in the
statement that extreme bitterness
has been created against the gov
ernment troops and that further
trouble is inevitable.
Hold New Revolt Certain.
According to a dispatch to the
Mail the Spartacan revolt will Ger
tainly recur in ever-increasing
force unless a miracle happens.
1t appears that Herr Noske's
forces have been recruited by
bribes and promise Of being ration
ed and that to this may be attribut-
ed some OF the food shortage in Ber-
lin.
ReVOkeS Execution Order.
Copenhagen, March 1.-THE or
der issued hV Gustav NOSke the
German minister of war. for the ex-
ecution of persons possessing arms
and fighting against the government
has been Withdrawn, according to
a Berlin disptch received here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Won ARNIM, HUNS
FLANDERS CHIEF.
BEATEN TO DEATH

London. Sunday. March 16-Gen-
eral Count Won Arnim, commander
of the German army in Flanders
during a large part of the war. has
been beaten to death by peasants
at Asch, Bohemia, according to a
Paris dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company. 1t is said that
General Won Arnim shot at peas
ants gathering firewood on his
property and that the mob invaded
and pillaged his chateau after kill
ing hiG-.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
REPORT RIOTING
AT TANTA, EGYPT,
5000 TAKE PART

London, March 17-There has
been rioting at Tanta. Egypt. in
connection with the disorders
which have occurred there during
the past week. On March -, 5000
persons attempted to rush a rail
road station at Tanta bat the at
tack was met by troops and po-
licemen and it was frustrated.
(Tanta is an important town on
the Nile, rs miles above Alexan-
dria, and is the capital of the prov
ince of Gharbia
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
RUSS TRY TO
UTYANKEES
OFF BUT FAIL
Rolsheviki Suffer Heavy
- Defeat in Move to Split
the Allied Force.

Archangel. Saturday, March
15.-(By the Associated Press.)
The futile attack which the
BOlsheViki delivered yesterday
on the allied and American
forces was the first serious at
tempt TO cut the line Of COM
municatiOn Of the Dvina and
Vaga columns. The attempt
was not only frustrated, but
the bolsheVik forces suffered n
severe defeat and sustained
heavy losses.
Moving from the Kadish sector
the forces of the Sixth soviet regi-
ment, 500 strong, attacked at 1:45
O'Clock in the afternoon the allied
Positions in the village of Gorka
which is % miles north of Beres-
mix, at the junction of the Vaga
and the Dvina. The American
Russian detachment at Gorka was
we'll entrenched and it decisively
Tepulsed the enemy, capturing five
prisoners and five machine guns
during the fighting. After the at
tack the bodies of 81 Bolsheviki
were found. The allied force suf-
fered only one casualty-a man
wounded
The Vaga sector in the vicinity
of Kitsa is quiet. as are the other
fronts.
Foes Losses Heavy.
American officers who returned
today from the Vaga front. de-
clared that the bolsheviki sustained
exceedingly heavy losses last
week. They related one instance
Of such losses to the correspond
ent. 1t occurred after the enemy
had razed with artillery fire nearly
all the block houses in Vistavka
All the defense troops withdrew
with the exception of a squad of
Americans. who lay concealed in a
partly destroyed block house with
machine guns. The enemy scouts
advanced and were permitted to
cut the barbed wire enta1glements
On doing this they shouted back to
bakn abandoned
Walk Into Yanks' Trap.
When the first column of the
bOlsheviki walked unsus spectingIy
up to the entanglements the Amer
leans inside the blOckhOuse turned
their machine guns loose and
moved down the entire enemy
marty After this the defensive
forces went back into Vistavka.
OF the total of Sc Americans list
ed as missing since the beginning
of hostilities on this front II has
been reported that 10 are prison
ers in the bolsheviki hospital at
Observation-Disclosures etaoin shr
Velsk. This information was given
an American Red Cross fold work
er who questioned bolshaviki de-
serters on the Vaga front
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
DRIVING
ON B0LSHEvIKI
Hard Pressed Russians Reported
Fleeing in Panic to Escape
Encircling Move.

Copenhagen, March 17.-Lettish
troops have advanced towards
Mitau and have captured the towns
of Kandau and Zabeln, according to
an official statement issued by the
Lettish headquarters. The advance
continues, the statement says. and
the bolshevik in northwestern Cour-
land are threatened with having
their retreat to Mitau and Riga cut
off They are reported to be retiring
in a panic.
A dispatch received from Berlin
quotes Mitau advices to the effect
that the bolshevik has been serious
ly defeated in the district between
kovna and Wilma, and that the i'm
portant railroad running from
Koshedary to Schaulen has been
captured.
Stockholm, Sunday, March 16-
The Lettish offensive in the Mitau
region is developing successfully,
the Let's having captured Shagory,
Grenzhof, Weitenfeld and AL AutZ.
The villages mentioned in the
foregoing dispatch appear to indi-
cate that the Lettish troops are
gains to the southwest of
Mitau. on the center of a line run
ming from Windau to the Kovo-
Wilma region.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
SPAIN TAKES UP
LEAGUE STUDY;
BACKS WILSON
Reserves Decision On
Reduction Of Arnna-
ment, Report.

Madrid. Sunday, March 16.-(By
/ the Associated Press.D-A commit
: tee appointed by the governor to
| study the subject of Spanish par
ticipation in the league Ot nations
has submitted a report which will
be considered at a special cabinet
meeting today or tomorrow The
government entirely endorsed
! President Wilson's proposals but
reserves its decision as to reduc-
tiOns of armaments and the fixing
of military forces by members of
the league
1t is understood that the gov
ernment will ask sufficient insur-
ances as to the Spanish coast line,
protectorates in Africa and the
suitability of military service as
social discipline for Spain. The
wish is also expressed that this
country may maintain close rela-
tiOns with the South American ma
tions of common race origin and
language.
Spain will he represented at con
ferences of neutral nations at
Paris, by Manuel Gonzs,es Hon
tOria, a Liberal deputy and in 1912.
under-secretary of foreign affairs.
Premier Romanonez may also 20
to Paris
Say Decision Carries Weight,
Senor Hontoria and other mem
bers of the committee who are
supporters of President wilson's
ideas consider that the findings
submitted to the government in its
report will have peculiar weight
both because Spain is Jne OF the
leading neutral nations and be
cause of the prestige she enjoys
among Latin-AmeriCan countries
favoriug the establishment OF
league of nations. Spain is ready
to present her views to the neu-
trail conference on military, eco
nomic and social questions, bat
will not discuss Morocco, consider
ing her rights SC indisputable that
discussion is unnecessary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
EBERT PUPPET OF GERMAN war RINlG2
BLAME LAID TO
JAPS IN FIGHT
WITH YANKEES
American Consul is
Stoned BY Mob in
Tien Tsin Affair.

! Peking. March 17.-(By the As
sociated Press.) - (De1ayed.l -
! While the early reports from Tien
Tsin suggested that American ma
rines were to blame for the recent
! disorders there, later reports
would seem to show that the Jap
anese also were at fault.
1t is claimed that Japanese mill
itary guards entered the French
! concession and there seized two
Americans. and when American
officials inquired of the Japanese
! police authorities il any Ameri-
cans were being detained. they
/ were given a. negative answer, ac-
cordlng to Il report.
! Later. American officials found
two Americans IN a police station.
one OF them lying almost naked
in the yard. calling for water. The
Japanese were induced to send
| the Injured man to hospital. and
an American consul refused to
leave tho station until the other
man, corporal, had been releas-
ed. This demand was finally
granted.
The American consul was ston-
ed by Japanese as he drove away
from the STATING. 1t is said
When the American marines en-
tered the Japanese consulate they
are reported to have attacked a
visitor.
On Thursday evening American
marines who were entering Il
movie picture theatre in the
! French concession were attacked
by crowd of Japanese armed
with clubs. They managed to en-
ter the theatre. the proprietor of
which teIephoned the French po-
lice, who dispersed the Japanese.
The situation at TIen Tsin IS
said to be intense. The matter has
been referred to the French lega-
tion here.
ALI Quiet at Tien Tsin.
Washington, March Minister
Reintsch at Peking advised the
state department today that all was
quiet at Tien Tsin, where there was
trouble last week between American
soldiers and Japanese. and that he
was sending a full report of the in
cident by mail.
The department instructed him to
report all important facts by cable
Immediately.
The minister made no mention of
the nature of the difficulty either in
today's dispatch or in his message
Saturday reporting that he had sent
First Secretary Spencer from Pek-
ing tn investigate
Matter Not Important.
Associated Press dispatches from
Peking have described a raid by
Americans on the Japanese con-
sulate, in which the consul was
seriously wounded; the seizure of
two Americans in the French con-
cessiOn by Japanese military guards
and an attack by Japanese upon
Americans at moving picture the
atre in the French concession. The
fact that Minister Reinsch thought
it unnecessary to send his report
by cable is regarded here as In
dicating that he did not attach
great Importance to the matter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

NJ e NIB eR Of AuditE
Bureau of CALCULATIONS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
PARK VIEW WILL HOLD
AN ELECTION TUESDAY
Residents to Choose Community
Secretary to Succeed John g. Nc
Grath, Whose Term Expires.

Tuesday will be election day in Park
John q. McGrath is to retire as COM
muhity secretary. Residents Of the
community will select his successor
through the medium of the ballot box
The voting will take place Tuesday
evening III the Park View Scnooi.
Newton and Warder streets. Mr.. Nc
drath has been community secretary
Two years, but declined to be a can
dldate for another term.
His election marked the first time in
forty years that District citizens had
voted for a public official, the position
tanned out of public funds. Since then
eighteen school buildings have been
opened as community centers. being
in charge Of selected secretaries.
An important phase of Mr.. Nc
Grath's work last year was the CO.
originating of the community center
activities with the postal service, The
Park View Schoolhouse was the first
In the United States to be established
as postal station. Community CO.
operative buying was developed as q
result.
Following the balloting Tuesday
night Representative Dan Reed Of
New. York will address the assemblase
on the community center movement as
which America fought in the war.
1t Is announced that Eugene Hart.
ley, director Of manufacturing and In
dustrial statistics of the census bu-
reau, will give . brief Account of the
experience of other cities in admifliB-
tration Of street car lines and other
public utilities.