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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
CONGRESS- BACK
ON DUTY AGAIN
RecOnvenes Special Session After
Weeks Rest After Passing
Appropriation Bills.

Washington, July S.-The Sixty
sixth congress, called in special
session by President Wilson seven
weeks ago, began a new chapter
when ii convened today after a
weeks recess. Having passed all
of the appropriation bills carrying
leaders planned to begin work at
an early date on the reconstruction
Legislation made necessary by the
change of the country from a war
to peace basis, while in the senate
the next few months at least are
expected to be given over largely
to consideration of the German
peace treaty and related subjects.
The appearance before the SEN
ate Thursday of President Wilson
to explain the peace treaty and its
league of nations covenant and the
Franco-American agreement in the
opinion of senators eclipsed all
other matters on the program for
the week.
Much Committee Work.
The house activity this week
will center on committee work with
the eACtpliOH liidL l6BlSldllOn Apt
enforcing prohibition probably will
be called up for consideration on
the floor. Investigation of war de-
partment expenditures will be con-
cinued during the week by sub
committees while work on some
cases of merchant marine legisla-
tion will be undertaken by sub
committees of the merchant marine
committee. The interstate COM
merce committee plans to com
plete it's program for hearings on
railroad legislation that are to be-
gin July Is. The ways and means
committee is expected to consider
special legislation for protection Of
industries which sprang up during
the war before beginning work on
a general revision of the tariff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
FRANCIS x, ONCE
MOVIE FANS IDOL,
NOW WITHOUT JOB

New York, July S.-Francis X.
Bushman, former matinee idol OF
the movies, can't get work The
charges made by his former wife
Josephine F. Bushman, have hurt
his drawing powers as a star, he
told Supreme Court Justice Tier
ney yesterday in proceedings for
the release of an attachment
against his personal property OBJ
tanned by his former wife to insure
payment Of alimony.
Since his divorce Bushman mar
ried his leading lady, Beverly
Bayne. He and Mrs. Bushman No.
2 are living on Riverside drive and
have a daughter.
"Since last July l have made
only one picture" Bushman told
the court. Il am told at the stud
los and on the street by fellow ac-
tors and producers that the matri-
monial troubles of a movie star in
jure him in the eyes of the public. 4"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08

DENVER STREET
CAR LINES ARE
IDLE; STRIKE ON
WaIkout of 1900 Work
ers is Mems Answer to
Reduction of Pay.

Denver, Colo, July S.-A strike
completely tying up street car ser.
vice in Denver, became effective al
o'clock this morning. Employees
of the Denver Tramway company
went on strike as the result of a
wage reduction announced by the
company yesterday.
The vote was 976 for and 2
against the strike.
Twelve hundred motormen, con-
ductors and shopmen are incIud-
ed in the strike order.
Frederick w. Hid, general man.
ager of the tramway company, said
that an attempt would be made to
run the cars with outside help.
Mayor Bailey would not promise
assistance to the company. He
said the police only would see that
no violence occurred.
Cut Pay On Drop in Rate.
The company ordered a reduction
in wages as the result of the su-
preme courts decision yesterday
upholding the right of the city to
fix rates. An ordinance reducing
the fares to 5 cents was effected
Saturday.
A maximum wage of 20 cents an
hour and recognition of the union
was incorporated in demands to be
made of the company by the strik-
ers. The previous wage was As
cents an hour and a reduction an
nounced by the company yesterday
was "a cents an hour.
Company officials concede that
the new wage scale is insufficient
but declare the reduction was the
only alternative to a receivership.
They declare the company has not
paid dividends for several years.
Raise Asked in Chicago.
Chicago, Ill, July S.-Wage in
creases for street and elevated
railway employees are to be consid-
cred at a meeting of officials of the
unions of surface and elevated men
on Friday night, it was announced
last night. Fifteen hundred mem
bers of the surface mems union
held a stormy session last night at
which a resolution was adopted
calling for an eight-hour day, and
a six-day week, and 4S cents to 80
cents an hour.
Cleveland Tieup Ends.
Cleveland, Ohio, July S.-Street
car service was resumed here ear
ly today having been interrupted
since Sunday morning when $500
c. the Cleveland Railway
cOmDany went on strike Settle
ment was reached last night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
CAPT. FRYATT
PAID TRIBUTE
BY ALL LONDON
Honor Memory of Victim
of Hun Cruelty On Re-
turn of His Body.

London, July S.-A national
tribute of honor was paid today TO
the memory of Captain Charles
Fryatt, executed by the Germans in
1916 for attempting to ram a u
boat, by a national memorial SER
vice at st. Paul Cathedral. After
lying in state at the Dover station
over night, the body arrived at
Charing Cross station at II o'clock
and was placed on a gun carriage
drawn by blue Jackets A cortege
was formed, headed by relatives
and including Representatives of the
admiralty, war office. other govern
ment departments and all seafarers'
organizations.
With a naval escort and a band,
the procession passed slowly
through the crowded streets by the
way of Trafalgar Square, Northum-
berland avenue, the Thames En-
bankment and Ludgate Hill, arriv-
ing at the cathedral at noon.
The coffin was hidden under a
mass of flowers, among which were
magnificent wreaths from the
townspeople and authorities OF
Brugges.
Body Taken to Old Home.
The clergy received at the west
door of the edif1ce, an orchestra
playing a funeral march as the
coffin was placed In position. The
burial service was read and the
hymns Eternal Father, Strong to
Save" and abide With Me" were
sung. At the conclusion of the ser
vice the procession was reformed
and again made an impressive pro-
gress to the Liverpool street station,
where the casket was placed on
train and sent to Dover Court, the
home of Captain Fryatt where the
body will be inferred in the quiet
parish courtyard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
AUSTRIA TO GIVE
UP IDEA OF UNION
WITH HUN NATION

Paris, July S.-The Austrian gov
ernment has given up, at least for
the time being, the idea Of a union
with Germany DR.. Otto Bauer,
the secretary for foreign affairs,
declared in an address delivered
last week at the congress held by
the councils of workers, according
to the Vienna correspondent of the
Temps.
Austria, small and ruined" the
foreign secretary is quoted as de-
claring, could only exist by the
permission of the entente, and that
is why it is abandoning the idea of
uniting with Germany at this time,
as Austria was not powerful
enough to bring about a union
without the consent of the entente.
The essential thing for the pres
ent, the secretary added, was the
maintenance of the unity of the
proletarian front"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
HOLDS ROADS IN
NATION CONTROL
rs BETTER PLAN

Washington, July S.-Better re-
salts in transportation can be OBJ
tanned by obtaining and improving
federal operation than by return
ing ito old methods in whatever
guise," Joseph B. Eastman, mem
mer of the interstate commerce
commission. declared today in a
communication to the senate inter
state commerce committee. He
was not a member of the commits
sion when the coInmission's views
on the railroad situation were
given the committee last winter.
Mr.. Eastman declared that fed
eraI control of the roads should
continue SO as to ensure necessary
capital at low cost to avoid unduly
high rates to solve the problem of
weak roads" so as to obtain the
operating advantages which come
from unif1cation, and to promote
right relations with labor.
Guaranty Of dividends was op-
posed by Mr.. Eastman as a mUn-
grel and unsatisfactory arrange
ment" which would impair private
initiative.
LAS for raising rates." the COM
missioner continued in discussing
the need for the roads for capital,
there never was a time when con-
servatism was more desirable. We
have had ample reason of late to
fear the coming of an endless
chain of rising wages and prices.
Increases in freight rates have re-
suits more far reaching than
many realize, affecting as they do
the price both of the raw material
and of the finished product. The
roads have recently been operating
with earnings which would drive
them to bankruptcy if they were in
private hands; but the director
general has felt, and 1 think wise
ly, that the depression may be the
temporary result of the uncer-
tainty following the cessation of
hostilities and that the country
can better afford, for a time at
least, to carry the burden of in
sufficient revenues through taxa
tion, as a part of the war cost,
than to suffer further advances in
rates whose ultimate effects no
man can foretell.
Mr.. Eastman said the railroad
in the midst OF
great difficulties, had relieved CON
gestion and handled troops and
war freight with credit to ITSELF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08

Paris, July 7.-OeIayed.)- }
Approval Of a plan for a con-
oerted attack upon PetrOgrad
by Finnish troops and the
forces of the KOlchak govern
ment at Omsk was given today
by the council of five.
military attaches of the United
MATES. Great Britain, France and
tiny at Helsingfors, instructing
them to support the Finnish gov
ernment if it decided to accede to
the request of Admiral Kolchak to
assist him in the campaign.
There is no indication that the
allied and associated powers pro-
pose to go further at this time in
helping Kolchak's plan, but their
action in supporting the Firms is
regarded as equivalent to assur-
ances that they will see the Kol-
chak movement carried through.
Ready to Quit PetrOgrad.
Washington, July 3.-Defnite in
formation that the boishevik au-
thorities are planning to eVacuate
Petrograd has been received in Of
fetal circles here. Decision to
quit the capital was said to have
been violently opposed by some
elements of the government.
Foreign Embassies Seized.
HelsingfoTs, Sunday, July ct
is reported that all foreign embas-
sizes. legations and coEsuIates in
Petrograd have been occupied by
bolsheviki troops. The archives
have been seized, it is said, and
those in charge have been arrested
and have been handed over to an
extraordinary commission dealing
with charges of espionage against
the soviet government.
Long Object Of Attack.
(Petrograd has been the object
of the attacks of Finnish, Esthon-
ian and Russian volunteer troops
for sseVeral months. A few weeks
aF6 the Esthonians and Russian
Volunteers were closing in on Pet
Tograd, but an announcement made
in Copenhagen Monday by the Es-
thonian bureau said that the troops
which had been advancing on Pet
rograd had suffered a reverse and
were in retreat. The anti-bolshe-
vik forces were reported to have
abandoned several positions along
the coast of the Gulf of Finland
and the Petrograd-Narva railroad.
Not to Use Siberian Force.
admiral Kolchak's plan proba-
bly, does not anticipate the use of
the Siberian armies which have
been fighting the bolsheviki west
of the Urals. At present the Kol-
chak forces west of the Urals are
more than 800 miles east of Petro-
grad. It is likely that the Firms
will be Joined By Russian volun-
teer troops and forces of the North |
Russian government at Archangel. |
The North Russian government |
has agreed to cooperate in mill |
tary operations against the bolshe- !
Wiki while retaining their often
sive.
Finnish troops are within 80 |
miles of Petrograd on the north, !
While forces of the North Russian |
goMrnment are operating in the !
southern part of the province of |
Olonetz, northeast of PeITograd.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08

Mineola, N Y, July 8-Major G.
f. NJ. Pritchard, executive officer
of the R-34, after inspecting the
dirigible's engines at a. N. today
said all repairs would be COM
pleted by 9 o'clock tonight and that
fuel. water and other supplies
would be taken aboard before
midnight. With favorable weather
he said the R-34 will be ready to
start at daylight tomorrow.
Major Pritchard said the airship
would take the southern trail, four
or five hundred miles north of the
Azores, in view of a favorable fore
cast of "clear" weather for the
next As hours, made by the
weather bureau in Washington and
received here this morning. One
third of the course on the way
over, it is said, the R-34 probably
would strike northerly cross winds
which would not retard her very
much. The remaining distance. it
was stated, favorable westerly
winds would prevail.
VIII Start Tomorrow
The enforced stay of the giant
British dirigible R-34 made neces-
sary by unfavorable weather re-
ports covering the next 4S hours
and repairs to her motors. brought
hundreds of visitors to Roosevelt
field today In making the an
nouncement concerning the return
cruise. Hrigadier General E. NJ
Maitland, special representative of
the British air ministry aboard the
dirigibIe, positively declared the
R-34 would start tomorrow morn
ing, wind or no wind" On its
homeward journey the R-34 will
carry % pounds of mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
LATE BULLETINS

Paris, July SIN government
circles it is believed that parlia-
mentary elections Will be held
October 26, according to the
Echo d. Paris.
Washington, July s-POst-
master General BurIeson TO-DAY
declared there was no f0unda-
tiOn for reports that he Eau
sent his resignation to Pres,-
dent Wilson.
Paris, July S. The proposal
TO abolish martial law which
has been In effect since the be-
ginning of the war will be DIS
cussed In the chamber of depu-
ties today.
Berlin, July S-A mob at-
tackled the castle and the deten.
tiOn prison at Hanover Monday
and released aSI the prisoners
In the buildings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
, The Weather

Partly cloudy tonight and We'd
nesday. not much change in tenn
perature.
Temperature at a. m. 64: high
est yesterday. Sc; lowest last
night, 62.
Velocity of wind at a. m. Z
miles per hour.
Precipitation. none.
Relative humidity at p. m. 81;
at a. m. 63.
Stage of water, IA; rise Of /
in last "a hours.
J. M. SHERIER, Meteorologist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
PLANE FALLS IN
PRAGUE; YANKEE
DEAD, FLYER HURT

Prague, oMnday, July flames
Ceary, a secretary of the American
Y. NJ. c. A. was killed and an alien
aviator injured when a machine in
which they were flying over the
Wisehead bridge fell today. The
pilot was doing circus tricks with
airplane and Ceary operating a
moving picture apparatus, when
the plane fell and was wrecked.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
VETERAN PILOT
OF MISSISSIPPI
DIES IN AN AUTO

Quincy, Ill, July s. = Captain
Henry D. Parmalee, aged so, one
of the oldest pilots of the upper
Mississippi died very sudden
ly Monday afternoon at Canton,
Mo. while riding in an automobile
with his daughter He had served
on many of the we'll known boats
of the early days and had a wide
acquaintance from st. Louis to st.
Paul
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
DECISION TO LIFT
FOE CENSORSHIP
MADE BY COUNCIL

Paris, Monday, July 7.-Decision
was reached today by the council
of five to lift the commercial cen
sorship on communications with
Germany simultaneously with cae
lifting of the blockade. This GecIs-
ion will not affect the censorship
on matters of a political nature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
MEMORY OF HERO
DEAD HONORED BY
YANKS IN FRANCE

Cobienz. Monday. July 7.-(By
the Associated Press America
Joined hands with France today in
honoring the memory of General
Hoche and General Marceau, the
French military leaders who held
the Rhine frontier against the
Prussians and Austrians more than
a century aga. Both are buried
near Coblenz.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
CALL STNN FEN UNLAWFUL

Dublin, July s.-A proclamation
has been issued declaring all Sim
Fein organizers and Irish volun-
teers in Tipperary county, unlaw~
ful organizations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
1b MILEh M ACTInN.

Washington. July s.-An army
casualty list today contained the
names of Is privates killed in ac-
ton. Among them were:
Frank Schwab. Coal City, H.,
md Paul Quinn, Lathrop, Mo.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
RETURN TRIP
OF RIA HELD
UP 40 HOURS
Unfavorable Weather
Forecasts Delay Dirig-
ible's Start Home.

Washington, July S-DeIay
OF at least As hours in the star
OF the return flight of the Brit
iSh dirigible R-34 was recon-
mended today by the weather
bureau in a forecast sent to
the ship at MineOla, Long Is
land, by the navy department.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
SAYS LEAGUE AND
PACTS WILL AID
SMALL NATIONS

Paris. Monday. July Special
treaties and the league of nations
will protect minority peoples. es-
pecially Jews. in the countries Of
eastern Europe. Stephen Pictpn
the foreign minister, pointed z
tho reply he made 10 q con
cation from a group OF ---~
which was issued for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-08
JOINT SMASH
ON RUSSIANS
rs PROPOSED
Washington Hears Boil
sheviki Are Ready to
Quit Capital City.

Paris, July 7.-OeIayed.) -
Approval Of a plan for a con-
oerted attack upon PetrOgrad
by Finnish troops and the
forces of the KOlchak govern
ment at 0msk was given today
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-12-31
A Christmas "Suppose."

We would not change the chldren's
Christmas. But suppose all the grown
up people were to say to one another:
"This year, instead Of my giving you
present and your giving me pres.
ent, let US club together and give our
present to some poor child who will
not have any Christmas. There are
hundreds Of them somewhere. Or, if
we do not know Of such child let us
give our present to hospital for chill
dren, home for crippled children, for
incurables, for the aged, the blind the
feeble-minded." This to be, OF course,
in addition to what we usually give
to charities at this season. Why could
we not try this as IN experiment, and
see what the result would be?--Chrls-
tian Register.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-12-31
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Iaaas SS
ANCIENT CHRISTMAS TOYS
Dolls That Delighted Children Of Romo
and Greece In Early Days Re.
Gently Excavated.

Rag dolls are as old as the hills and
go are dolls with movable arms and
legs, toy dogs. rocking horses and
host Of other things that bring de.
light to the children on Christmas
morning.
Recent excavations in the ruins Of
ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt have
placed the British museum in possess
sion Of an interesting assortment of
these relics Of early Christian days,
some Of which may possibly have
been given to the children of the fol-
lowers Of Christ at time when the
observation Of Christmas day was an
innovation.
In the nursery Of newly eXcavated
house at Behnesa, Egypt, fairly well
preserved rag doll was found with
arms and legs still intact and painted
face. The doll is by no means beau
ty and does not compare with the
Christmas dolls Of today. but neverthe-
less 1t must have brought JOY to lit.
tie girls heart nearly 1000 years ago.
The jointed dolls Of long ago were
made to sit down, stand up and move
their arms, but they didn't close their
eyes or squeak mamma" Among the
toy dogs, horses and donkeys are some
made Of stone and baked clay and
others carved out OF wood.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-12-31
Touched Hls Heart, Not Purse,

a very ragged individual invaded
the office Of millionaire one Christ
mas eve and started describing his
woes and sorrows in so graphic a man.
ncr that the millionaire was more af.
fected than he had ever been before IN
his life,
At last, with tears In his eyes, he
rang the bell for his servant, and when
the latter arrived, said to him in a
broken voice: "John, put this poor fel,
low out at once. He's breaking my
heart"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-12-31
Their Annual ResoIve

Probably the girls afe. saying the
same thing this year that they have
said every year in the past "Well I'm
going ITO btart making presests right
away 3Orsnext Christmas"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-12-31
CHRISTMAS BELLS

"'~S~eNFSS~SSSS>SSS SSSSSSN~$SSSSSSS>SSstt
Harki Harkl hear distant ben.
And now a chjme-they softly ring:
What joyful tidings do they tell
As back and forth they swing.
TIA mid Of night-who rings those ,bellof
Perhaps sorIe doves there nesting,
And while each little bosom swells,
And warm. they touch with gentle wing
The tuneful metal. and It feels
90 incubated It would swing
To life. and wake the world with peals
or gladness as for new-crowned King.
Those midnight bells. how sweet they
chime:
The welkIn vibrates with their sound;
To hearts attune they are sublime,
Nor spread they dread alarm around.
10! now I see. from East afar
A light shines through the steeple'a
frame.
"Tis brighter than the brightest star.
1t gilds tho bolls with golden flame;
There, too. see some chorubs cling
Fast hold the ropes HOW fair they be!
They swing the bells and sweetly sing
''This Is tho Christ's nativity"
Wake every heart, Join In their song
or praise to Christ, our newborn King:
To him our sweetest strains belong,
And his, our richest Offering.
Whom wakes the god OF day, and shines
Athwart tho heavens. what of glee
VIII wake as we'll? With box and pines
And flowers gay, yon house will be
Adorned, and while the anthem aHells
With organs voice, all Chrlstendom
VIII vibrant be as are those bells
That Christ's nativity has come.
j. William Pope.
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Evening star., 1919-04-17
Noah g Ark

1t is hard to write a packet of
the verse that man enjoys, when
the house is full of racket, full
of fifty kinds of noise. Oh, the
boys and girls assemble in the
shack wherein | dwell, making
that old structure tremble, while
they whoop around and yell.
Then l think of Father Noah
and his cargo in the ark, of his
warthog and his boa and his
large man-eating shark. ap-
preciate his feelings while he
tried to do his chores, mid the
yappings and the squealings and
the whinnyings and roars. When
he tried to give instructions to
his helpers, Shem and Ham,
SOME old bull was raising rue
tions, scrapping with the South
down ram. 1t is strange that
Father Noah found an hour ir
which to sleep while he steered
his air-cooled proa DER the wide
and waili,1g deep. For the
horses all were neighing and he
heard hyenas Groom, and the
mules were doubtless braying
all their voices out of tune; ane
the roosters did their Growing
just as though they were OF
land, and the COWS were bawl
ing, lowing, in style to bea'
the band. Yet there is no rec
ord written that old Noah made
scene, even when his leg wa
bitten by a NANCY wolverine
And if he could do his chorinl
with those critters all around,
have no excuse for roaring at ;
litt1e~agrant sound.
WALT MASON.