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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03

The credentials committee of the
peace confer ence will meet the
German delegates on Sunday morn
ing.
The council Of three today de-
cided that no provision will be
made in the peace treaty for dis
position of the German cables be-
yond specifying that they are to be
taken from the Germans and left
in the control Of the five great pow
ers.
2lS Germans on Hand.
Versailles, Friday, May 2, (7:3O
p. m.)-tBy the Associated Press)
The German delegation to the
peace congress is rapidly assum-
ing a position of equality, in num-
bers at least. with the delegations
of the various allied and associated
powers. Twenty more subordinates
arrived in Versailles last evening
and this morning. Their arrival
brings the roster of the delegation
to 2iS. and more aEs expected.
a brisk interchange of kilograms
is in progress with Berlin, cour-
icr also leaving for the German
cdpital today with official and press
dispatches. Time is hanging rath-
or heavily on the hands of the
gI eater part of the delegation, how
ever, owing to the delay to the
actual peace negotiations. The bill
lard tables in the hotels occupied
BY the Germans are in constant
use and many card games are in
- Progress.
So far as is known the only
thing on the program for the enemy
plenipotentiaries until next week
when the peace terms will be hand
ed over, is a further meeting with
the credentials committee Sunday
morning.
Must Stay in @0wn Back Yard"
The tendency of German subordi-
mates, particularly girl stenogra-
pliers. to break bounds has led Po-
lice Commissioner Oudailles to in
struct the police posted at the three
hotels to turn back any Teutons
wandering of the reservation and
TO form a flying squad of detectives
to round up any of them discovered
in any unauthorized parts of Yer
sailles. The commissioner has also
issued a warning to the delegation
that any attempts to see Paris will
result in an immediate deportation
!, back to Germany.
The report that some Of the Ger
man journalists have been in PariC,
is denied
A survey of the long German
roster reveals the presence of a
fourth German minister of state. in
addition to Count Brockdorff-
Rantz. Herr Landsberg and Herr
Giesberg. He is Minister of Labor
Schwartz, who is found among the
33 commissioners sent to support
the principal delegates.
Boys Taunt Hun Enjoys.
The first disturbance around Ger
nan headquarters occurred this
afternoon when a procession OF
youths cheering for Premier Gle
r1enceau and carrying placards
reading Viva La France" marched
past the Hotel des Reservoirs.
Count Won Brockdorf-Rantzau
the head of the delegation, took the
air this afternoon in an automobile
placed at his disposal by the
French.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
LATE BULLETINS


Orleans. France, May B.
Three American soldiers were
killed and eight injured SER
i0us when an American army
motor truck was struck by a
railroad train at grade cross
ing n8ar La FeTte-St. Aubin, 13
miles southeast OfsOrleans, to
day.
London. May 3.-The cOun-
ell Of three has settled the
question OF the disposition of
the German cables according
to a Reuter- dispatch from
Paris. filed last ght. 1t
adopted the view that the
cables are spOiIs of war and be-
long to the captOrs by right,
the message states.
Washington, May 3. = The
public debt of the United States
was reported today by the
treasury department as S24,-
S24,S45,00
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
YANKEES REACH
EASTERN PORTS
Several Thousand More Troops Ar
rive at New York, Boston and
Newport News Today.

New York, May 3-With 1913
troops including So officers and
1.1S7 men comprising the One Hun
dred and Nineteenth field artillery
complete. Thirty-second division.
tformer national guard of Mic hi
gan and Wisconsin,, the cruiser
Frederick arrived here today from
BTest. Some of the One Hundred
and Nineteenth men are assigned
to Camps Dodge and Grant. Also
on the Frederick were two officers
and Ill men of the Four Hundred
and Sixty-fourth aero squadron.
and a few casuals from Kentucky.
Missouri. Montana, Michigan, Ohio
and Ne wYork.
The steamer General GoethaIs.
from Bordeaux, brought LAY
troops. including 10 officers and
433 men comprising a medical de-
taChment and companies, A. B and
c of the Three Hundred and Twen-
ty-third field signal battalion. for
Camp Custer: the Ninetieth aero
supply squadron. and the Three
Hundred and Eighteenth replace
ment and salvage company of the
tank corps.
Twenty-nine casuals returned on
the steamship Western Hero from
La Pallice.
1916 Reach Boston.
Boston. May 3.-The transport
Canandaigua with 1,345 soldiers.
arrived here today from Bordeaux,
after delays due to broken steer
age gear.
Among the units on board were
700 officers and men of the Three
Hundred and Second field artillery
of the Seventy-sixth division.
largely New England men. Other
units were the headquarters com
pany, ordnance, and sanitary de-
tachments and companies A. B, C
and D. One Hundred and Forty
fifth machine gun battalion; First
army artillery park motor section.
Photographic sections II and 81,
headquarters and truck company d,
air service. and casual company
No. 20.
Newport News. Va, May 3.-The
battleship Vermont arrived here
from France today with 1850 Of
ficers and men of the Fifty-third
pioneer infantry
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
TREATMENT COOL
IS WORD GERMANS
SEND BACK HOME.

Paris. Friday, May I'm a Ger
man wireless dispatch picked up in
Paris describing the first meeting
of the German delegates with rep
resentives of the allies, the French
attitude is characterized as cold
but correct"
June l is given as the probable
date of the signing of the treaty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
CONGRESS To
MEET JUNE |
ADvICESSAY
Wilson to Have Session on
or Before That Date
Is Capital Word.

Washington, May 3.-Intima-
ton that a special session of
congress will be called by
President Wilson to meet about
June 1, is contained in conf
Dental dispatches received in
Washington today from Paris.
1t was said in authoritative quar-
ters that it was quite possible that
if the situation in Paris should de-
velop rapidly the special session
might meet even before June l. In
that case the call would'be made by
cable.
Back Before June.
1t was made clear in today's dis
patches that the president was CON
fident he could return to the United
States before June.
President Wilson announced yes
terday the treaty of peace would be
handed to the German delegates at
Versailles Monday. He added that
he hoped to return to America
about June l.
The president made these state
ments to members OF the house mill
itary affairs committee who have
been visiting battle fronts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
MINS nRATORICAL PRILE.

Chicago, May 3.-Robert Aurner,
University of Iowa, won the $3.50
prize and first honor in the annual
intercollegiate contest of the North
western oratorical league.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03

ACQUIT Los ANGELES MAYOR.
Los Angeles, May 3.-Mayor F. T.
WooGman, charged with having ac-
cepted a bribe to protect vice, was
acquitted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
SEES LABOR SHORTAGE NEAR

New York. May 3.-The corptry
will confront shortage of labor
hv 1920. according to Colonel Ar
thur Woods special assistant to the
secretary OF war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
FORECAST Is FAIR AND COOL.

Washington, May 8. - Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday are: Upper Mississippi and
lower Missouri valleys: Generally
fair and low temperature. Oc-
easional frosts probable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
CREW REACHES FLYING BASE.

st. Johns, Y. F., May 8. The
crew of the naval air station which
will be maintained as the base for
the American flying boats which
participate in the transatlantic
fight, has arrived at Trepassey
bay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
BOLSHEvIKI IN ULTIMATUM
TORUMANIAAS ARMY RUNS
WILD after EAST DEFEAT
Russ Reds Demand Bes
sarabia Be Evacuated
48 Hours for Reply.

Paris, Friday. May 2.-PetrO-
grad has probably been taken
by the Films, according 10 the
information believed TO be
Trustworthy which has reached
Paris.
HelsingfOrs, Thursday, May
1.-Defeated along the entire
eastern front by the Siberian
armies, the bOlsheViki forces
are retiring in disorder, the
Russian newspaper Ruskaya
Pjisni says.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
HUNS ON JOB,
QUESTION OF
ALLY NOW UP
Vienna Delegates to Stay
at St. Germain-More
Germans Arrive.

Paris. May 3.-With meetings
with the German peace deIega.
ton already under way at Yer
Sailles, the question of peace
with Aus ria has been taken
up. One de all. it has been
known, is that The Austrian
peace delegation, upon its ar
rival, Will be housed at st. Ger
~Qain, q suburb of Paris.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
T X 7 R A !
FEAR SO DEAD
IN EXPLOSION
AT COAL MINE
Scores of Men Caught in
Shaft AS Terrible
Blast Occurs.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, May
3.-A terrific explosion
of gas today in the Not
tingham mine of the Le-
high and Wilkesbarre
Coal company killed a
number of miners.
Scores of men were
caught behind the blast
and the FIRE that follow
ed. Their bodies have
not been reached and
the fear is expressed
that SO men are dead.
Fifty men were overcome by
black damp in the Nottingham mine
of the Lehigh and WiIkesbarre coal
at Plymouth today. At
noon 80 of this number had been
brought to the surface. The fate
of the so men still in the mine was
Fall in Rows.
A fire started in the 18th east
gangway and the deadly black damp
was present in great quantities
The men were quickly overcome
falling. in rows along the gangway
Early rescuers also fell and helmet
men then went in to bring out the
men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-03
CBy Associated Press.)

(By Associated Press.)
Petrograd, which has been in the
hands of the bolsheviki since No
vember, 1917, is believed to have
been captured by the Finnish army
which has been advancing from the
frontier. The bolsheviki we're re-
Gently reported to be evacuating
the city.
This pronounced reverse for the
bolshevik arms is the most notable
development reported from the
anti-bolshevik fighting fronts. Ba-
varian government troops have en-
tered Munich, but the soviet forces
probably still hold some parts Of
the city.
Russ Send Ultimatum.
London, May 3-The Russian
soviet government has sent an ulti-
matum to Rumania, demanding the
evacuation of Bessarabia.
A wireless dispatch from Mos
cow says that the Runanians are
given 48 hours to reply.
Bessarabia is a former Russian
province populated mostly by Ru-
manians and 10 which Rumania has
laid claim On the retirement Of
the Germans after the signing os
the armistice Rumanian troops oc-
cupied BessaTabia.
Four or five weeks ago Russian
Bolshevik troops after fighting
their way through the Ukraine
reached the Dniester river. the
eastern border of Bessarabia. A
Bolshevik official statement April
IA reported the Rumanians had
been defeated in lighting along the
Dniester and were retiring from
Bessarabhia.
The Rumanian government, how
ever, denied that its troops were
evacuating the province.
The Russian ultimatum to Ru-
mania may have been made in view
of the successful Rumanian CAM
paign against the communist gov
ernmeut in Hungary. The Russian
soviet government thus TAR has at
tempted unsucCesstully to form a
physical union with communist
hungary.
Reject hungary OAer.
Geneva. Friday. May =. The Ru-
maniau and CzechO Sloyak govern
meuts, according to reports receiv-
e. here have refusCG TO entertain
the offer of Bella Kun, the Hunga-
rian foreign minister, to make ter
ritoriaI concessions providing that
frhttng sop on all fronts. The
Fumanlans and Czechs continue
their march on Budapest.
tRv AcgOciatel bFPsal
A rather indefinite report from
London states that a Russian bui-
shevik army is marching on Hun
gary" following a convention with
the Ukr.Inians. whether this
means that the Ukrainians are pes
mitt.ug the bolshevki 10 join The
hungarian reds against the Rum A.
mans, is not reported.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22
Impending Storm

Profteerine may yet be the I'm
doing of this country. No nation
ever is greater than the government
it maintains, and if the government
does not conserve the interests of
the people the people in time lose
confidence in that form of govern
ment.
The greatest crime in the history
of our country is that of profiteerine,
wholesale and deliberate robbery of
a helpless public.
Prices have been artificially fore
ed to such a high altitude that it is
becoming more and more difficult
for poor person to even sustain
life,
The law of supply and demand
no longer prevails 1t has been sub
stituted by one Of gouge and grab.
Already many people. men and
women of sound and patriotic
principles, are predicting revolution
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22

Miss Elizabeth NJ Hunt, an Ameri-
can Red Cross nurse who has just been
released from the Army Nurse Corps,
will lecture at the White and Meyer
Chautauqua here regarding her ex-
periences as chief nurse of the Edge
wood Arsenal, Edgewood, Maryland.
Miss Hunt, whose home is in George
town, Kentucky, has had nursing ex-
perience in France and Rome and as a
public health nurse in southern Ken
lucky. When the war was declared
she was assigned through the Red
Cross to the Army Nurse Corps, and
was placed in charge of the nurses a.
the Edgewood Base Hospital Arsenal.
which is one of the largest manufac-
turing plants for high explosive shells
in the country. Here she took care of
the workmen who were gassed and
burned in filling the shells and makir.y
Liquid fire and mustard gas.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22
New School Law

The last legislation passed sever
al new school laws, one being q
compulsory law.
1t provides that every child be-
tween the ages of seven and fouT-
teen shall attend school regularly
for the entire term, and between
the ages of fourteen and sixteen
they must attend unless actually
and regularly aud lawfully engaged
for at least six hours each day and
in some useful employment or ser
vice AS means of enforcement.
this law provides for a county at
tendance officer. being selected by
the county superintendent Of
schools, placed under a bond Of
$1,000 and being paid a salary of
not to exceed 81 per day for each
day actually engaged in the dis
charge of his duties and his actual
expenses incurred. The attendan
officer is appointed for the entire
county and has authority to arrest
and place in school children who
are not in attendance. He may
bring action against the parents or
guardian. Only children entally
or physically incapacitated or who
have completed the common school
course and received a certificate of
graduation are exempt. Teachers
shall report non-attendance direct
to the county superintendent. Boards
of education in towns and cities
may employ separate school at
tendance officers and pay them
from the funds of the district, other
wise the county attendance officer
will act in these districts.
This is considered one of the best
compulsory attendance laws in any
of the states, and we see no reason
why this should not greatly increase
the attendance in the state. as it is
made the duty of the state depart
ment OF education and of all other
school officials as well. to enforce
this law.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22
Carnegie is Dead

Andrew Carnegie began a race
against time when, in 1901, at the
age of 65 he resolved to give away
his enormous fortune. He held it
"disgraceful" for a man to keep on
gathering idle millions. In the com.
paratively few years which the
actuary could allow him, he would
disembarrass himself of practically
all he had. No man had ever
launched philanthropic campaign
of such dimensions.
His was then fortune estimate d
at Ia billion dollars, the largest
ever acquired by a foreign born
American, second only to the John
D. Rockefeller wealth as the largest
individual accumulation 10 the
United States, and, built, as it was,
on S per cent steel bonds. it would,
without so much as turning over
ones hand. have approached 1.2
billion by the time Carnegie called
himself an octogenarian, November
IS. 1915.
To give that stupendous amount
away. in about half the time he had
taken to gather it. was a purpose
Carnegie had fairly we'll fulfilled
when death overlook him. He had
distributed more than $50 million
dollars. 1t was giving money away
at the rate of more than 20 milIio n
dollars year, or more than $780,.
600 a day.
He said, when he gave up gather
ing wealth and .announned an era
of distribution, that he expected to
find it more difficult to give his
millions away than it had been to
acquire them.
Before he sailed for Scotland in
1901 he left letters announcing
gifts of 8 million dollars. His first
big gift was the setting aside of 4
million dollars to supply pensions
and relief for the injured and aged
employees of his steel plants-"an
acknowledgment of the deep debt
which owe to the workmen who
have contributed so greatly to my
success" He added an extra mil
lion for the support of libraries for
his workmen. and took up his libra
ry hobby in a wholesale way by
giving $5,200.000 to New York City
for the erection of sixty-five branch
libraries in the metropolis Anoth.
er million he gave for a library in
St. Louis.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22

An advertisement in The War
rensburg Star-Journal reads: VIII
the lady who bought some sewing
machine needles at Burchfield's
Music House please return the pair
of pants that she carried away with
her bundles"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22

A paragraph, intended to cheer q
Responding world, which is now be-
ing copied about the State reads:
Whenever you see a shadow, it
means there is a light close by"
Still. the astronomers insist that
the sun is 100000 miles away.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22
Essay on Geese

The following composition on
geese was written. according to
Capper's Weekly, by schoolboy in
St. Louis:
Geese is a heavy. set bird with a
head on one side and a tail on the
other. His feet is set so far back
on his running gear that they near
ly miss his body Some geese is
eanders and has a curl in his tail.
Gamblers don't lay or set. They just
eat. loaf and 90 swimming If l had
to be a geese would rather be a
gander. Geese do not give milk,
but give eggs, but for me give me
liberty or give me death.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22

A glass of lemonade. it is said,
costs sixty cents in some New York
restaurants. and that is and another
reason why the people of the rural
districts are thankful that they live
within a few steps of the old oaken
bucket that hangs 10 the we'll.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22

as the only means of checking this
wholesale and Iawless thievery
Our government should take warn
ing while there is yet time. Pro-
lection of profiteering should cease
at once, and prosecution should be
swift and relentless. We can not
afford to have our great country
wrecked upon the rock Of greed and
avarice. And yet today. because of
the supine inactivity of our public
officials, we are heading straight to.
ward destruction, Public endurance
is at the breaking point. Revolution
is lowering dangerously near. The
government should heed the i'm.
pending storm before it is too late
to prepare to meet it.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22

Wheat buyers don't have to pay
so much for wheat when it doesn,t
grade No. 1 Do you recall ever
having received a retail reduction
on bread that graded about No. 4?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-08-22

There will soon be reversion to
Edenic simplicity of attire if prices
continue to advance. says The Van.
dalia Leader, and if that is so the
price of fig leaves will begin to
aviate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-20
COLLEGE GIRLS
 CAREFULLY SELECTED
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CRESCENT COLLEGE for girls, at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, has acquired a reputation for, having an unusual student body that attracts fa- vorable attention everywhere by req son of the method employed in mak
 ing up their enrolment. Few girls schools have resisted the temptation to enlarge their numbers when the opportunity came to accept more. CRESCENT COLLEGE aannounced it's limit as 80 several years ago, and though they must decline many applications each year, they adhere to the original limit. However the CRESCENT student body has grown steadily in quality and since each year the college is more discriminating in accepting applications. Chief depen- dence is placed on the recommends tion of former students who are now living in at least 35 different states and when any doubt exists about the desirability of new students the col lege asks it's alumnae to make inves- tigations The large school or col lege cannot do this and it cannot give 1 the individual counsel and instruction girls of this age should have.
 The enrolment for session, begin ming September 19, is now being being made up Write for catalog. View Book and further particulars.
 Crescent College, Box If, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. adv
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-20
GOOD SALAD DRESSING ,.,

Our home manager was noted for her mayonnaise dressings. She it was who always furnished the salad dressing for the church suppers and took the premiums at the state fair. But alas, one day she was unable to secure the accustomed results Her salad dressing separated and no old and tried remedy availed. This fact was brought to the attention of the domestic science teacher who at once began to inquire about the materials used and the method of making.
 The oil was of the highest quality and the eggs fresh, but it developed that the home manager had been ac- customed to another oil and felt that she could not have success with new element in her formula.
 The domestic science teacher gave Ter the principles of making the dressing, namely: Use all quality pro- temperature. Place the yolk of egg in the bowl, add the mustard pepper, salt and a teaspoon of lemon juice; beat immediately with dover beater (never raise up the beater from the bowl until work. is doone). Add a 1 small amount of oil and beat until t.,e mixture is thick; then add a few drops of lemon juice or white vinegar tn thin-add mere oil and repeat until all oil is used The result was as fine mayonnaisc as she ever saw The secret is ir learning to use the best materials and then work contin- uoEsly until the joD in finished With these instructions the home mana gers confidence was restored, anc now she makes the finest mayonnaise w tn no danger of failure. Her re suits arc alway. uniform and hel ] success assured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-20

considerable trouble and great ex- pense to secure for the GREATEST COLORTOY CIRCUS ON EARTH the finest EAST INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER whom money could se- cure and therefore you see before you JAHAN--J HAN the wonder, who handles snakes like some people han dle handle noodles. Color the snakes green, yellow and brown Jahan's costume is yellow or pink, his hands are brown The platform might be blue and the basket straw color. The tases of all these FOLD AWAY COLORTOYS are a tan color.
 Next Sunday--Plume the Ostrich.
 Gladys, the Shetland Pony
 Every kiddie loves Shetland pony so Gladys had to come into this CIRCUS. See how gentle she is. One of the monkeys is quite brave