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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15
Declares Prassians Intend to Execute Peace
Treaty, But Holds Out Against All
Reparation Demands.
EXPECT SOLUTION OF sCAPA FLOW.
Unofficial Peace Conference Decides on Hands
OFF Policy Regarding Soviet Russia
and Reservations

Salvi and Chiglianovich of Dalmatis
! who related the conditions in Spalat0
and other coast cities under Serbian
rule. Sforza promised to refer their
report to the cabinet
! New Entente Denounced.
BERLIN. Dec IA. The Berlin
press, commenting ON the unofficial
peace conferences" in London, parti-
cularly Premier Clemenceau's activi.
| ties, denounces the new entente. The
Kreuse Zeitung declares Clemenceau
| is striving for new western Euro.
ipean alliance against Germany" The
! BOersen Courier says the conferences
will have an "evu effect" thr0ugh,
out the world
Unofficial Peace Conference.
EBy Ed. L. Keen, United Press Stan
Correspondent
LONDON, Dec. 15.--Of the various
decisions author1tativeIy reported to
have been reached by the unofficial
peace conferences" here last week
the two on which speculation center,
ed today were the ''hanGs Off policy
toward Russia and the tentative
agreement Of the European allies 10
accept reasonable reservations to
the treaty by the American senate.
The press and the general pubic
were interested in how far the allies
intend to go in each case. AS regards
Russia all that could be as.:ertained
was that the representatives cf treat
Britain, France, Italy. japan and
America had informally agreed to
have no dealings with the bolshevih
and at the same time to withdraw
further support from Generals Deni- /
kin and Kolcho. There is no fnfor-
nation whether the economic fsola-
tion of soviet Russia would be con-
tinued.
The stand on reservations it ves
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15
.TELEGRAPHIC TABLOIDS
FROM FAR AND NEAR

his wife. Blaine bounced the con-
tainer off his better hairs head and
the court held this to be sufficient
grounds for divorce.
Judge Makes Friends.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 15.-Judge
Todd had many new friends today.
He ruled Henry Van courts oh1ec-
tion to supporting his mother. .in-laW
was sufficient grounds for divorce
from his wife, Alice Van Court.
Drop In Living Cost.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. 10
Living costs are dropping. shoe
shines went down to dine from
fifteen ents today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15
Mexican Official Charges In
terventionists With Seek
ing Cause to Stir UP
Turmoil.
OIL SCARE IS ABSURD
Any Companies Forced to Suspend,
Il Was Because They Did
Not obey tho
Lava.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1A.-Luis Ca
brera, secretary Of the treasury
charged in an interview that Inter
lventionists" are seeking to stir UT
new trouble between Mexico and the
] United States over oil properties.
Now that the jenkins case has
collapsed, the interventionists are
seeking new cause for trouble" he
said. They are complaining that Mex
leo started confiscation Of oil proper.
ties. seriously affecting production
These charges are absured. II any oil
companies were forced to suspend il
was because they did not comply with
the law"
Held FOR $4,000 Ransom.
EAGLE PASS, Tex. Dec. 15.-Fred
C. Hugo. American. captured by VII
las bandits in the MusQuiz raid, is
being held in the Elpino mountains
according to word reaching here to
day.
J. NJ Dobie, who employed Hugo
as manager OF his 200000-acre ranch
near Musquiz, was here directing the
attempts to procure the Americana s
release. Dobie said the $4,000 ran
som demanded by the bandits would
not be paid il 1t was possible to
avoid it.
New Note to Mexico.
WASHINGTON Dec. 15.&Dispatch
of a new note to Mexico. requesting
the Carranza government to bring
about the immediate release Of two
Americans taken prisoner by Willis
tas, was announced by Secretary Ian
sing today.
Reports from the border said that
the two Americans were captured in
raid on Musquiz.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15
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OAu
TO NORMAL CONDITION

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 10
Indiana coal miners were back on
their jobs practically 100 per cent to.
day. according to reports to the dis
trict headquarters Of their union and
to office Of the operators associa'
tion.
In only a few mines, which did not
employ a force OF electricians and
pumpmen to maintain the property
during the strike. were operations de-
layed today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15
Ncar Normal Rasia.

Near Normal Basis.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Dec. 15.-Pro-
duction Of coal was resumed in Ohio
today on near, normal basis reports
from the majority of the larger fields
in the state indicated.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15
Unofficial Peace Conference.
EBy Ed. L. Keen, United Press Stan
Correspondent

Continued on page 2.)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-04
LEGAL.

Nsties u PublieaHion.
etsts Of Illinois, 1ock Island county. -:
In The circuit court Of said county: 70 ths
Jaauasy term. 4. D. 1920. =,
eottiisb Beck. complainant, ". James
ptckson. John r. Dickson. Jsns Dickson.
William Hopkina Ebenesee Mcclsllaad.
wIItsm Dickson. Marian G. Dickson. VII
n1h ". Dickson. John Dickson. John Nc.
Cloud. Samuel II. Lamberson, Samuel L.
1ambesvcn. David Lamberson. Abigail A.
Gibson, Frances +. Dickson: unknown wife
Or widow Of David n. Dickson. deceased:
Philip I. Deal. phllip> J. Deal. William
noilmsn. William Poliman. Jr., and Rob
widow Of Ier 9. Turner; the unknown
wife Or widow Of lanes Dickson: tho
unknown heirs o. deyisees Of James Dick
60. deceased: the uhknown wife or widow
u John 4. Dickson: the unknown hsifs
g. dsvisess Of John =. Dickson. decessed:
Dleks0n; the unknovn heirs or dcvisees
Of JAns Dickson. -dsceased: the unknown
heirs OF dsvisees Of William Hopkins. d.
oeased: the unknown heirs or devisees Of
16eneaef McClellsnd. deceascd: the I'm
known heirs or devisees Il william Dick
vieeea Of William ". Dickson, deceased
fho unknown heirs or deviaees Of John
D1eksou. deceascd: the unknown heirs or
deviaess Of John McC!oud. dsceased: the
unknown wife Or widow Of John @. Nc.
Cloud. The unkn4Nn heirs or dsvisees Of
known heirs or devisees Of esmuel l..
Ia@beFSon, deceased: the unknown heirs
- doyisee6 Of David Lamberson. deceassd:
u unknown hcirs Or devisses Of 1rancee
y. Oickso6. decessed; the unknown wife
o. widow Of Samuel L. Lsmbers0n: the
unknown wife Of widow Of David Lam
Xbogscn: The unknown husband or widcwer
oz Frances 3, Dickson: the unknown hetrs
ee Aevisees Of David N. Dickson. deceased:
lAo unknown wife or widow Of Charles 3.
oS James Dickson, decessed: ths unknown
hGlrs or devisees of Philip ]. Deaf. de-
oooeed: the unknown heirs or devisees Of
Philip J. Deal. deceased: the unknown wife
or WIDOW Of Wilhelm Bollman: the un-
known heirs o.. devisees Of william Boil
nan, r.. dseeased: ~ unknown heirs or
assisses Of Robert L. Bollman. d6esased:
- unknown heirp or devisess Of any
1sesssed person who may have besq In
olgeStod in she subject matter Of this tuit.
81 IN any portion thereof previous TO his
or, haf death md the unknown owners
81 ths following described premises. toswit
m east half Of the northwest quarter
81 secAon tAirty-one tai. township sev.
emteea (l7D north. range ono ~ west
q ths fourth princlpal usridian IL Hcsa .
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- oee-A1N sess thsAsofs described ..
bsNeyS: BEGINNING n Tbs southwest cor.
~ Of sid wese Rail Of the nortness,
~ I'm eisg 10 III Knoxville road; themes
SotshvasxIly. a!eng aid road sudAcien,
11Glnnc& 70 fn8ke one, AAh aeTs By running
9eoS 70 The west line Of said wsst hall
& ed nof:Sssss as.rssr o. sa,e s !. se
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-04
CAMBRIDGE

Archia Kirkland OF Daten-
mort spent his Thanksgiving vaca-
tion at his home at Cambridge.
Edwin Rosenhtone, who ID at.
tending school ut Champaign. spent
q few days at his home.
Miss Rica Sandberg left for her
home Sunday after Q visit with
friends in Cambridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Olson ana
two daughters. spent Sunday with
the formers parents in Galva.
/ Mrs. Roy Palmer and sister
Hazel Pratt, were tri-city callers
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hanson Of Rock Is
land spent Sunday with friends In
Cambridge.
Miss Ruth Olson returned to
school after spending her Thanks
diving vacation At her home IN
Cambridge.
Miss Rsna Larson Of Rock Is
| land spent few days with her
parents At Cambridge.
Miss Cora Tridricson Of Moline
spent q few days with friends N
Cambridge.
Miss GLADYS Himman, who Il at
tending school 1t Illinois univers-
| ity at Champaign. spept her vaca-
ii N with her parents g Cambridge
Miss Ebbs Leaf o. Rock Island
| spent the. week end With Miss Hat
tie Falline.
DR.. W. H. Conser spent Wednes-
lday In Peoria.
Mr.. Klucker Of sherrard spent .
few days this week with her daugii-
| ter. Mrs. Glen Eniott.
Miss Selma Larson OF Touion
spent 4 few days with her mother
at Cambridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Bioomgrer
spent q few days in Chicago.
Miss Fay Palmer spent Sunday
with her brother and family q
GAlva.
Class No. . Of the Baptist church
Ihaf . farewell party for Mrs. John
son Monday afternoon ct Mrs. Bak.
er's home. The afternoon was spen1
! il. : social way aftsr which ligh,
| refreshments were served. In be
lhalf Of class No. > Mrs. Johnsof
wss presented with token - /.
remembrance to her - shs lesvel
for her new home.
Class No. 8 of the Baptist churcl
planned and carried out complete
surprise on the Sunday schoe
\ teacher, Mrs.. Johnson, Tussda!
evening, 1t the home Of Mr.. All
! Mrs.. / Glen Elliott. Various game
we're played during the evening %!
10 two course luncheon was served
| In behalf Of the class Mrs. johnson
was presented with : spoon g
| remembrance from her class ani
wishing her God speed - she goe
| to her new home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-04
LICENsED CnIROrRACTOR.

;HfkoFSzCfic Is - YEARS OLD.
You ars mot The FIRST 10 desert old
uaethola. b mot the last to Try the
new. Call to-day. Dr.. Liess. Chtro-
praesor. 61oh Fifteenth street. Moline.
Ph0nA Moline 2s13.,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-04

It Is Just 50 years since the UNI
versfty Of Michigan voted to admit
women students TO- al depart.
ments, being one Of the first prom
inent American colleges to take
such action.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-04
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Vaudeville

PALACE-Bothwell Browne and hi,
Bathing Girls will head the bill IN
"A Twentieth Century Revue" Thu
bathing girls are all from the beaches
of southern California. Blossom
Seeley returns with her Jazz band.
She has new songs and costumes and
the Jazz players have new numbers,
Vic" Quinn is also featured on the
bill with Frank Farnum, George
hreer and the Memphis Five. Nc.
Mahon and Diamond with Ethel
Rosevere will offer "Some Doll" and
the Mangeen Troupe of acrobats are
down for hair-raising exploits In the
air " '"S
RiVERSIDE-Pat Rooney and Marion
Bent will come from a recent three
weeks at the Palace. Florence Tenn.
pest and company. James Thornton,
frank hurst, the Wilton Sisters. Nc
0lellan and Carson, Gems of Art;
Prosper and Maret, Elmer Cleve and
the news pictorial will complete tho
bill. WV
COLONIAL-Kitty Gordon will be th.
star Of the bill Jack Wilson and
company, Miss Juliet Imhof Conn
ana Coreene, Bennett and Richards.
Arnold and Boyle, Wish Wynne, ROY
Harrah and Jacquelina, Cora Young
Dlood Corson and company and thu
news pictorial will round out the bill.
EIGHTY-FIRST STREET-Grace IA
Rue will hold the stellar position.
u. Y. Griffith's latest picture. "Scar-
let Days." will be presented with an
aii.star cast. Others in the bill
Will include Bert Baker and COMPANY
DuHy and Sweeney, Frank Caby, the
hamsdells and Deyo, Exposition Ju-
paiee four, comedy picture feature
ana the news pictorial.
Observation-Disclosures Carr has re-
turned to vaudeville and will hold
the headline spot Others will in
Guide Ruth Rove, Sheila Terry & Co.,
The Glrlies' Club" Duval & SYM
onds, johnny Ford and his Melody
maids, bartram and Saxton, over
Your Head" and the news pictorial.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-Lulu Mcconnell
and Grant Simpson, in a one-act COM
edy, AT Home" by Grant NJ. Simp-
son, Will be feature Monday, Tues
day and Wedne sday. Other acts will
include Hugh Emmett and company,
Lillian Watson, Jerome and Albright,
quicker and Winifred, Thirty Pink
Ioes, an acrobatic novelty; Haddon
ana Norman and the Dancing Hum
phries. THE Country Cousin" with
Elaine Hammerstein, will be shown
IN the theater. Clark's Hawaiians.
Homer Lind and company and
Walmsley and Heating will be the
headliners the last half of the week.
others will be Bill Dooley, Stein and
Arnold, Hall and Gilday, and Farrell
and Hatch. Nazimova in 1.-The Brat
Will be the film Offering.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Who Is June Walker?''
All Broadway Is Asking
OF Dimple-Kneed Girl

All Broadway, or at least that part
which considers itself the last au-
thoritative word on things theatrical,
awoke one morning last week to find
itself visibly disturbed by the per-
sistent buzzing of an oft-repeated
questions:
"Who is June Walker?" was asked
from one end of the Gay White Way
to the other.
The night before this same Broad
way had gathered at the Comedy The
alter ready to welcome Clifton Crawford
as an actor in straight" comedy, de-
void of the usual frills of chorus, mu-
sic and dances that made him so pop
ular for many years. AS "My Lady
Friends" unraveled it's laughable stu
ations and smart lines Broadway
nodded approvingly
Then suddenly it took notice of June
Walker
A tiny bit of femininity, attractive
if not beautiful by the standards of
some captious artists but with an all
enveloping personality that stretched
across the footlights and won her in
slant recognition, came forward in a
small part-a sort of "baby vamp" role.
Then came the second set and June
Walker danced on the stage in white
silk bathing suit, and immediately
the famous frankie Balleys" that had
been the standard of feminine neither
limb pulchritude for many years. Two
dimpled, bare knees, showing under
the ends of the white silk bathing suit,
caused the gasp and the starting of
the question after hasty glance at the
program:
"Who is-eh-er-June Walkcrw
"'Who is June Walker?' Why, I
guess she is-well, she is just little
me-" laughed little Miss Walker, as she
stood in the wings awaiting her cue to
join Mr.. Crawford on the stage and
give the audience an opportunity to
make an approving appraisal of those
already famous dimpled knees.
"But isn't it funny New York should
be asking who is June Walker" she
said. "Why, Pm from New York;
you see The Betrothal'? Did you see
The Little Journey? Well, l was in
both. So l don't see why so many
should be asking who is June Walker?'
Oh, know l only had bit to play,
but still was on Broadway. Oh, yes,
and I've been in pictures, too. But 1
wouldn't blame any one for not know
ing that, because usually was merely
part of some ballroom scene-just
atmosphere guess you'd call it,"
But, Miss Walker"-and the oues-
ton just would come out-'in The Lit
tie Journey and in The BetrothaP YOU
-er-that is, you didn't wear a bath
ing suit, did you?"
'Why, Of course not" and two dim
Piles showed on two plump cheeks.
"Of course / didn't. But you really
don't think that made any difference,
40 you? I'd feel awful if / thought
that all the nice things that are being
said to me are really directed at nv
-er-that is, l mean my little bathing
suit. But it is dream of suit. isn't
I It? But, Pm sorry, there is my cue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

the golden adornment on her head, ap-
proximately q crown, wiggled it around
where it irked her on her tawny locks,
and told the truth:
"Who ever heard of anything but n
golden haired Chrysis? The real me is
camouhaged. Of course, I am a bru-
nette--dark as can be-"
And the observer couldn't help motto
ing that her eyes were big and brown
and sparkling, that her cheeks had a
ripe olive tint and that she was temper
amentally the vivacious brunette type.
Clearly she was exhilarated over her
success in "Aphrodite"
tits all SO wonderful that can
scarcely believe 1t to be true" she de-
clared. You see, in pictures my sue
cess was gradual. But all this has
happened overnight and has quite
overwhelmed me. 1t is really entirely
due to Mr.. Belasco's direction. l shall
not renounce my allegiance to pictures,
however. They were my first love. In
deed, | am working on a picture now
Louis Joseph Vance's Dark Mirror
After it l am to do Barrie's Half
Hour My favorite among the pictures
| have done is the Flame of the Yu-
kon.' One naturally prefers the most
successful ones"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
War and Prohibition
Have Changed Vaudeville
Much, Says Alice Lloyd

The American demon, Speed, has taken
hold of the English music hall. With
an expressive snap of her small, vigor-
GUS fingers Alice Lloyd showed how.
She was sitting before her mirror at
the Palace Theater doing herself I'D
as quaint young person of the Vic
torlan era and rejecting a trife sadly
on the rapid changes taking place in
vaudeville.
Its the war" she said. "Music hall
artists have been affected more than
any other. They are expected to sup
ply the speed, the zip, that people seem
to crave. Different songs. different
clothes, less talking and patter, more
snap and sparkle! They have had
enough of sorrow. They don't want
war plays now, and they don't want to
hear about the war. A little bit Of
French and a whole lot Of Americanism
nave become part and parcel of the
English music hall repertory since the
soldiers took to swapping songs and
yarns.
II find that the pace has increased
here, too. | haven't been in America
since the war started, but there is a
great difference in the things expected
of one now. Neither here nor in Eng
'land would | attempt talking song
any more. Everything must be rand
jazzy and jingling. One has to rush on
the stage with enthusiasm, keep things
humm:ng every second and get off with
equal expedition. 1t is rather rough on
characterization"
How on earth do you manage to suus-
tain the pace?"
"oh, | listen to lots of jazz and
keep alive"
And as for keeping alive" she must
know how. At the Palace she has
been singing all week with a measure
Of personal truth: "I'm not exactly
the fiapper l used to be-" But if she
is not as sprightly as she was in 1907.
when she took New York by storm at
the Colonial Theater, she can still
play the young girl with dash or
dalntlness, according to the nature of
ner song\ Dress her up as coster wom-
an, or as Victorian miss, or as 1919
bathing girl; have her talk the lingo
OF Billingsgate, Cornwall or Yorkshire
1T is all the same She continues to
be winsome through rags and tatters
and entertaining as scrubwoman.
If the war has had a visible effect
on vaudeville, prohibition has had even
more, in New York, at any rate, saws
Miss Lloyd.
What different city have come to
this time" she declared. 81 scarcely
recognize it. The spirit is so changed.
The famous glitter of Broadway is all
IN the electric signs now And do you
know, 1 can actually feel in the audi