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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19
Reveal FRAUD
TACTICS USED
IN ARMY STEAL
Plan Of Operation in $4,000, 900
Conspiracy in Supplies at
Detroit Are Told.

Detroit, Mich.-Charge of a con-
spiracy to defraud the government
in the sale of 100000 worth Of
army supplies to be salvAged in
Detroit were made known June z
when federal agents arrested
Grant Hugh Browne, millionaire
sportsman; Fred C, Collins, vice
consul for Greece and president of
a Detroit realty company; Captain
Soterios Nicholson, a finance Off
GER of the ordnance department,
and Bert Harris, New York junk
dealer.
All but Harris and an army Off
Ger in France whose name was
withheld had been indicted by a
federal grand jury. Browne and
Collins, arraigned a few days later
before Federal Judge Arthur w.
futile, pleaded not guilty and were
held in bail of $4,000 each, with
two sureties. At the same time
Harris was given a preliminary
hearing before a United States
commissioner, and bound over for
examination later by the grand
jury. His bond also was fixed at
100000. Captain Nicholson. it was
announced, was to be tried by an
army court martial at Fort Wayne,
the army post at Detroit
The alleged conspiracy, accord
ing to agents OF the department of
justice, contemplated elimination of
all other bidders for the material
to be disposed of, whereupon, they
are charged, bids would be entered
in the name of Collins, Harris and
Browne, the highest of which would
be far below the value of the sup
plies offered for sale. The three
bids were arranged, it was declar-
ed, because of the requirement that
at least three must be received be-
fore government-owned material
could be sold. 1t was alleged Har-
ris, the junk dealer, was to dispose
of the material.
One Deal Completed.
One deal. the officers declared,
was actually consummated before
arrests were made. 1t involved the
sale at Rochester, n. Y, of $1,000
tons of materials valued at 100000.
According to the federal authori-
ties, the alleged conspiracy was dis
covered by an officer in Captain
Nicholson's branch of the service.
This officer, they charge, was ap-
preached by Captain Nicholson with
a proposal to juggle salvage bids.
With the approval of his superior
officers, they declared, he worked
in with the alleged plan, reporting
frequently to the chief of the sal
wage board and other officials at
Washington.
When department of justice
agents were called into the investi-
cation, they declared, dictaphone
was installed in Captain Nichol-
sons room at a Detroit hotel, and
final details Of the alleged conspir-
acy obtained.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19
WOOL POOLING PAYS PREMIUM

In certain sections of the fleece
growing states wool pooling has
gained greatly in popularity. Small
producers who formerly were un-
able to market their wool as indi-
viduals in a profitable manner can
now combine with their neighbers
and produce a sufficient supply OF
graded, quality wool to make it at
tractive for the eastern wool mer-
chants to bid on these fieeces. Dur
ing tn last year the various coop
erative associations have sold their
wool for prices ranging from 1 to
8 cents premium a pound above the
prices offered by the local buyers
for the same clips.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19
WHY HORSES WEAR NOSE
GUARDS.

The horses are wearing nose
guards these days in the north
vest. It isn't that somebody has
developed cavalry football, neither
is it that northwestern horses are
given to the fault of stumbling and
smashing their noses. It is to pre-
vent the laying OF eggs on the
horses lips by the worst, probably,
OF the three American species of
hot f1y-the nose fly Of horses.
This fly is confined to the north
central and northern Rocky Noun
tain states. Its egg-laying habits
diner from those of the other bot
flies, making it more difficult to
control. The common bot fly lays
its eggs mostly on the forelegs of
horses. The second most common
pne, known as the throat bot fly,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19

lot a frame will be built to pro-
vide shade for the hogs and large
burlap wicks will extend down the
sides from containers which are
placed on top and are filed with
water. tt is expected that the
evaporation OF the water will keep
the hogs cool and thus enable them
to make more economical gains
during the summer months.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19
CLIFFORD BRADLEY
KILLED IN ACTION

Sergeant Clifford Bradley, A. f.
F., is reported in official press no
tees as killed in action, having
been previously reported missing
in action. Although his address is
given as this city, his name is not
in the directory, and The Argus is
unable to learn further particulars
by extensive inquiry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19
HAS TOO MANY GROCERIES.

Mexico is overstocked with gro
ceries. So reports Vice-Consul
Cunningham, stationed at Mexico
City. In many cases importers are
selling at a loss. Canned salmon
and condensed milk are being re-
tailed by some dealers at less than
the wholesale price. Merchandise
ordered has in some cases been re-
fused on arrival, and has been TAX
en- over by banks and creditors and
sold for what it would bring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19

Fleming this morning and denied
that he was the party who had
given the information. He stated
as his belief that another had used
his name.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19
DRUG COMPANY INCORPORATES

NSpeclal 10 Inc ArSusJ.
Springfield, Ill, July 19.-The
Rax Chemical company of East Mo
line incorporated today to manu-
facture medicine and stock rem
edies at 1886 Fifth avenue. East Mo-
line, with capital stock $4,000.
The incorporators are: G. F. John
son. H. H. Siebke, G.. Bickel, H.
Galtz. F. o. Loving and George D.
Long.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-19
RUMOR HAS SEARIE
A CANDIDATE FOR
CONVENTION SEAT

A rumor circulating in the lower
part of this, the Thirty-third SEN
atorial district, today listed the
name of c. j. Searle as the latest
candidate for a seat in the Illinois
Constitutional convention, subject
to the primary in September.
Mr.. Searle informed The Argus
that he has the matter under con-
sideration but has not yet made his
decision.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13

90 she lived ON. outwardly tranquil, but win
,he Immense regret which sumbers In the soul
Of 40 nhny spinsters, until Charles Andrews
letters began TO disturb her peace of MIND.
She abandoned herself tenderly to that cor
rosnondencel which, without obligTting her INV
any way. might bring little comfort 70
poor soldier As he had never seen her anu
probably would never see her, and never kno"
how homely she was, she expressed treeiy W
him all those charming and deIeate IeeiLsSS
which she had in her heart and which she mao
never EXPRESSED to anybody else, for rear OF
being laughed at Sometimes, however, IN the
midst of this Towering of her soul, she became
suddenly afraid Suppose he should arrive
some fine morning on leave-or, perhaps, AFTER
the war? Suppose he saw her?
But he never saw her. One day she received
big envelope sent under military frank,
as usual but not addressed by him. she found
in il all her letters with card hastily
scrawled:
.'Mademoisee: ! regret to announce TO you
that my comrade Sergeant Andrews, was Kill
ed Yesterday in an attack on an enemy trench
He died bravely, without suffering. In accord,
ance with his desire, send you these letters.
Madeleine read no more. The papers dropped
to her feet. while she, with eXpresSoness eyes,
undmned By tears, was lost in thought.
He had died for France-her American hero
and also he had died for America. lie would
never see her. He had departed, carrying with
him the illusion of having been loved by
beautiful young girl. And she retained the
treasure OF sweet dream, which no shadow
and no deception had furnished Her unknown
friend would never belong to another He had
gone, with his aureole of herosm; and beyond
the tomb, in his glory, he would remain hers
Thanks 70 him. she had known the sweetness
of loving. of being loved and Of weeping for
one dear TO her Into her lonely life he had
cast flower and had then passed on. 1t would
never fade
Madeleine picked up the letters and got out
those which Andrews had written to her. Hav.
ing tied them together with silk thread and
a strand of her long blond hair, she deposited
them. as in a coffin, in a mahogany box ex-
hang the discreet perfume Of an ancient sachet
bag.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13

The day when the captain returned TO the
front with the stock Of knitted things which
he had gone TO Brest TO procure, Sergeant
Andrews received as his share-besdes leg
gings, gloves and a sweater-a muffler,
pretty muffler made out of soft and delicate
grayish blue wool.
His pleasure was extreme-in the first place
because, in the monotonous life of the trenches
any surprise is a great event. and an agreeable
surprise, recalling life behind the front, as
sumes tenfod Importance. And in the second
place because Charles Andrews was at home a
clerk in an office-that is to say, man already
subject, although only 20 years old, to the SEN
sitiveness to cold which is induced by a seden-
tary occupation like scratching on paper. And,
above all, he was a bit Of poet in his leisure
hours lie therefore shivered little more than
his comrades, and it was with genuine salts
faction that he unfolded and put around his
throat at once the welcome muffler, so soft,
no fluffy. so blue-a coquettish adornment for
q mudstaned soldier like himself.
Something white attracted his attention.
Fastened to one end like butterfly, was a
little card, which contained these words, writ
ten in fine hand:
Dear Soldier of America: Be courageous
and recover my country. That is the wish of
q Partisan in America, who thinks OF you.
Madeleine Decker, IL st. Charles ST, New York,
City"
Partisan in America Charles Andrews
who had just landed in France awaited I'M
patiently the moment when he should meet the
enemy in battle and defend the honor of his
country. 49,.
AS he stood deep in thought, with the little
card in his hand, something very soft caressed
his cheek, something still softer than the
flossy grayish-blue wool. He examined the
muffler carefully and found long blond lock,
silky and fine which the knitter, either by in
advertence or through coquetry, had imprison-
ed in her work.
Thereafter, during his hours of inaction
Charles Andrews did not find time heavy on his
hands in the trenches. The card and the blond
hair of his Partisan furnished him material for
long reveries-for poems scrawed on the pages
of his notebook in intervals between bayonet
attacks on the "neighbor opposite"
He was never wounded. The blond lock
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13
AN
AUTOCRATIC
DECISION

The majority doesn't always rule-not by
iugfu-if such an expression is permissible
in bone-dry America. Sometimes the verdict
of overwhelming odds is set aside by the minor
ity This is not politics. either, but ! am going
TO tell YOU how my mother once usuIped her
power away back yonder when | was boy.
She was out-voted eleven TO two, but she
wouldn't abide by the decision.
It happened this way: Two peddlers met in
front of our house one day in the good old sum-
mertime one of them had watermelons to sell
and the other potatoes These fellows got INTO
quite discussion as to which had the most
popular product The debate got real interest
ing and all of us bOys-there were ten OF US
-crawled up on the wagon that the water
melons were in. They were fine ones and they
sure looked good to us.
Well finally the fellow with the potatoes
said well just leave it to those concerned;
it is useless for you and | to discuss it. The
watermelon man agreed and vote was taken.
Ma and the potato man voted that potatoes
were the most essential and the healthest;
they only had two ayes" The watermelon
man and us ten kids voted watermeons BY
the verdict of the majority we were winners
more than five to one. But what do you reckon
ma did? Why she purchased a bushel of the
potatoes and allowed the watermelon man TO
drive right off. We protested but 1t didn't do
a bit of good.
In those days watermelons were cheap: the
best one in that lot could have been bought FOR
fifteen cents. / sometimes wish that we could
turn back the wheels of time and make them
spin and spin, until the yellow glints of the
sunlight of that far away time revealed to us
a patch of beauties smiling on the vine behind
an old rail fence. | don't know how Heaven is
going to look, maybe ! shall never know, but
could there be an. abode. even with the pres
eace Of angels. calculated to fill mortal's
heart with more JOY than that?
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13
COMMUNITY HOUSES AS MEMORIALS TO
OIDIERS.

The movement TO erect community houses rs
memorials 10 soldiers and sailors is spreading
rapidly over Kansas and even Texas. Walter
Burr director of the rural service depart
ment. Kansas State Agricultural College, Is
receiving large numbers Of requests for sug-
gestons and plans and specifications
"The community house movement, where
properlv organized is 20 be most highly com
mended said Mr. Burr These social service
stations are certainly much better as memo
rails than marble shafts would be- II has been
feared by some that there is danger in this
movement in that il will proceed as a fad and
result in the erection of number of poorly
equipped. msmanaged buildings which will be
perpetual problems in the community when the
war enthusiasm has passed Such a calamity
can be avoided by following certain methods
in financing, erecting and maintenance of these
buildings
In the average Kansas community the build
ing should be financed on the taxation basis.
This is the only democratic way TO handle COM
munity enterprise. IL l. unfair 10 place the
burden of financing such an institution upon
the shoulders of few enterprising citizens who
might donate the money.
Wherever possible the project should be de-
veloped on the basis of bond issue for a new
school building, OF where such building is not
needed for an added building on the school
grounds
OOlncldent also Win TINS y fl lluSt De the
voting of a sufficient salary {. 5oile member
of the school faculty who will be employed for
the entire twelve months and viii, among other
duties. be given the supervision of the social
recreational activities of the community as con-
Quoted from the school center.
The building should provide for an audito-
rum and gymnasium combined II necessary
shower baths for men and women, a reading
room, rest rooms for men and women who come
into the town 10 trade. and II in a county seat
town an office room for the county agricultural
agent the county Y. M. c. A. secretary and
any other executives Of county wide organize
tons.
Zone can find community houses that came in
on wave OF temporary enthusiasm and that
are now lying as stranded and abandoned
wrecks but no service center established ~ rec
ommended here a. part Of the school plant has
ever met such fate"
Ostriches Are bslng Matched In lneuhators IN
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13
YESTERDAY
AND
TODAY

Don't you remember how he snuggled up
close In your lap and how his bright eyes fairly
danced when you told him that the big black
bear commenced climbing right up the tres
where the little boy wasf"
lie couldn't 20 10 sleep al all without daddy
telling him story. Just as soon as supper
was over, his soft, chubby hand would take
hold of y0ais and hed lead YOU away 10 the
nearest rocking chair Then, after you had
climbed the bean stock with Jack and flrted
through the woods with Little Red Riding
Hood, You had to make up a fairy tale OF your
own.
lios wonderfully beautiful wa The garden
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13
BY.
AUSTIN CALLAN

strike blow at the vitals of America couldn't
stay below because the odor OF the vessel
stifed me-, 80 ] came up on deck. You
couldn't see your hand before you and all was
AS still as death with the exception OF splash
ing wave out 10 one side, or some riuffled sound
aboard the ship. But felt safe because knew
that convoy Of submarine destroyers skipped
through the waters on either side. flying the
flag OF my country. The splashing of the waves
said 20 me. Fear not we are here, and
went to sleep. with all the confidence of those
other days when YOU held my hand as ] wan
dered off into Dreamand
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13

his breast and on which he had written:
IF | am killed, please send this package to
Nile Madeleine Decker, No. IL st. Charles St,
New York City, and inform her of my death.
The Partisan who held the other end of the
thread-the other end of the strand of hair
was one of those persons without age, who, It
seems, was never young. Was she 20 or 40?
Or perhaps 30? Her delicate and tender soul
was hidden beneath a body without grace,
face without charm, having no other adorn-
ment than her blond hair, of a warm tone which
the sun turned to gold.
Never had any young man lifted his eyes as
Madeleine passed by. She was one Of those
who pass unnoticed who attract nobodys
glances well meaning relative had once
asked her to marry him, because, being an or
phan, she possessed a little dowry. But she re
fused, not wishing TO enter into union based
on interest on convention, in which the heart
had no part.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13

against his cheek seemed to be a talisman. II
became, at the same time, an obsession con-
stantly recalling the unknown donor, giving
him the illusion of an invisible presence and the
passionate desire to know his far-away we'll
wisher. He wrote to her at IL St Charles St,
New York City without any great hope that
the letter would reach its destination.
There are miracles. The letter arrived A
still greater miracle happened He received an
answer-modest, reserved, delicate and charm
ing like the blue shade of the muffler A cor
respondence ensued into which each put a lit
tie of his or her heart and fancy in which, out
of the threads of discreet phrases, was fash
Toned the strand of an unavowed love-
when the war is over" Andrews said to
himself, II shall go back to America / shall
see her, and if she is what | hope she is, !
shall marry her Before knowing her in person
] shall have known her in heart and mind"
But inasmuch as a slodier in wartime must
be prepared for all eventualities, he put her
letters in an envelope which he carried next to
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13
THE
NEW
NEIGHBORS

While visiting my more prosperous city
brother recently. / had occasion to ask nm VINO
lived next door. He replied: Il don't know,
and went right ahead talking about oil leases,
limousines and other such matters that were
of no concern whatever to me. let the matter
drop there but it put me TO thinking How was
il possible for a perfectly sane man TO live
thirteen feet from another human beng WIN
out knowing his name? | wondered II he mad
never gone over there to borrow cup OF sugar
or TO use the telephone while his own was out
of commission.
Well, things are different now than what
thew used to be; that is the way ! reasoned
TO myself. Back at the old home where we
were both brought up, neighbor couldn't 1--we
that close TO our door more than one day with
ont divulqing his name, his business, where ne
came from. who his wife's people were and
what church he belonged to. ! wanted to re-
mind him of this, too, so the very first chance,
/ said: do you remember when old Amos
Davies moved next door to US down there by
the schoolhouse2'
eyes" he replied, land haven't forgotten
how ma worried that first night about his dog.
She said that she Just knew we would never get
another egg on that place. 1t was sorry
enough looking cur, but he turned out better
than she prophesied. | remember. too, how
we had 10 chunk up all the cracks in the fence
TO keen those Shanghais out of the yard. Pa
declared that if the worst came to the worst
he would buy some game ROSTERS and let them
do the executing.
Well. / soon found out that my city brother
had not forgotten his raising. even if he had
departed from it. He called 10 mind how US
kids enticed the little freckle-faced Davies boy
10 the COW lot and got him to tell US all about
his daddy and nanny. We learned the fam
ily history before the morning and the evening
Of the second day had passed Mr.. Davies was
a "Campbellite" and wouldn't go TO church with
his wife because she was a close-communionist,
and they had sold mule back IN the coast
country 10 make the trip out West. They want
ed 10 get away from a mussed-up spot Wild
brother Of the boys ma had put on Davies
s'repr by serving time for stealing a sheep
But the idea OF anybody not knowing who
lived next door-that is what got my goat.
There is no excuse for such unconcern about
other folks affairs as that. II ne were neigh
Dor like we had IN those old days OF my kid
hood and yours. he might have told me the
brand OF flour thee used, what kind OF fruit
cake recipe the good woman had, and whether
the little boy in the home inherited his bad
traits from his pa, or Just picked them up by
running with the preachers son.
But rs a people we are drifting from the sun
tiesed waters OF neighborly knlghtho0d into a
enid indifferent channel We don't ser6i 10
nave that old concern for the family history
III those about "a that We once had We are
,,,.,e Interested In the seating capacity Of then
ear than Ia the number of children they clam
=, af uhai age the hahY cat hla first tooth.
III, AFRAID that A. ouf minds lnae interest IA The
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13
HOME REVERIES

lives and characters and pecularites of the
folks across the fence, our hearts forget TO
feel for them when they really need sympathy.
Where there is no touching of souls, alas! there
is no helping of hands
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13

Ostriehea are being Matched IN lneuhators IN
South America.
Evening journal., 1919-12-20
CHRISTMAS WEEK
AT BIG BETHEL

The Rov. II. Y. Arnetl announces
Christmas week program at Big Bethel
as follows:
Sunday, 1890 o'clock. Christmas ser
mon by The pastor; subject, The Ma ,-
ter Is Come and Calleth for Thee -
special music by the choir under Di-
rector VI. i. Sterling; i2 30, sunday
class meetings; 230 o'clock, Sunday
school; Gas O'Clock, Allen Christian
Endeavor League; 8 o'clock, sermon by
the Rev. :. B. Timmons.
Monday night, o'clock. board meet
ing; Q o'clock. csntata practice at Odd
Fellows Temple.
Tuesday night, O'Clock. Christmas
cantata by 60 young men and women,
entitled, a Jolly Time With Santa
Claus Special music by Iarnon's Or
chestra.
Wednesday mid-nieh; the Big Bethel
choir VII give an open air conce-t
about the city singing Christmas
carols
Thursday, Christmas morning. at 3
o'clock. the pastor and the choir, with
congregation. will attend the Minister
isi Union Christmas service at the
Eighth Street Baptist Church.
Friday nlght the Big Bethel sun
day school VIII give It's annual Christ
mas tree program and treat at the
church.
Evening journal., 1919-12-20
HANOVER READY
FOR CHRISTMAS
IF Christ Had Not Come, y
is Pastors Morning Ad-
vent Message
SUNDAY SCHOOL TO
PRESENT PROGRAM

The Christmas season will be ush-
cred In at Hanover Presbyterian Church.
Eighteenth and Boulevard. tomorrow
morning when the pastor. the Rev.
Charles II. Bonner will preach on the
subject, III Christ Had Not Come" "
The choir under direction Of C. a.
Hume Will sing the anthems. o Quiet
Night, o Holy Night" and Behold
Bring You Good Tidnss" Ms. c. Y.
Manncring will sing ~ Christmas
story" as the offertory.
At 40 o'clock In the evening the
Sunday School will presen, It's Christ
mas program. Because Of this enter
ta'nmcnt there will be no evening
preaching service Al go o'clock the
two Endeavor Societies Will join In q
Christmas service. This service will be
held In the church auditorium
Next Wednesday evening being Christ
mas eve. weekly prayer service viii
not De held that evening.
Residents OF the Washington Heights
section who have no church home are
cordially invited 70 Hanover.