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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19
THE CUT.RATE MYSTERY.

The big stores in q dozen towns
Reduced the price Of raiment,-
With ID of on suits and gowns
SO folk could make . pay
nent:
But though they cut In two tho
price,
It's plain to you and me,
The thing that figured In the
slice
Was not humanity.
Once upon a time a woman used
to hold up traffic when she had tc
stop to lift her skirts to board q
street car
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19
ROCK ISLAND IN FIRST PLACE !
BECAUSE OF HIGH CLASS PLAY !
But FANS ARE STILL ASLEEP
Players Possessed Of . Lot q FlgAA
and It Should Be Appre.
eiafed.

Rock Island rests In FIRST place IN
the Three-Eye standings today ~
the result Of the victory over Rock
ford at Douglas park yesterday
afternoon. True, It is only by the
narrow margin OF q half game. but
nevertheless the boys are possessed
OF a lot Of fight and they haven't
any idea about giving it up. 1t has
been baseball OF the very highest
caliher that has sent them to the
front and il they continue to dis
play this brand Of play there Is
hardly a question but that they will
be out on top when the curtain 10
lung down.
u is too bad that the fans have
not yet awakened to what is taking
place each afternoon at Douglas
parfl. The attendance has been
disappointing. especially in view OF
the quality Of baseball that Is be-
ing provided. but the club oflictals
hope that things will show a de-
cided change for the better when
the team returns on May 30 to en-
gage Cedar Rapids in q double
header.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19
Car Service Poor.

Lack Of adequate street car eerv-
ice has probably done much to
keep the attendance down on week
days. Despite the fact there are a
hundred or two hundred fans who
are there each day, the street rail-
way company has thus far failed to
have even one car on the track aft
er the game to carry the fans into
town. No one likes to wait 10 or
Is minutes for a street car and
then find it half filled when It does
arrive.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19

Two-base hts, Shallenberger,
Pearce. Three-hase hits, Jones,
Murphy. Sacrifice hits, Hauk, Den
mis-, Jones, Benson Stolen bases,
Miller 80, B. Smith. Do.;blc plays.
Hraht to Smith Eases on balls of
Dennis, 4; Hill, L; Hummcl, g. Wild
pitches, Hill. Dennis. Hit by pitch
er. Hogan, Miller. Dixon Struck
out by Dennis, 6; by HuD'mel. l.
Passed ball, Glumski. Time of
game-1;50. Umpires-Weir and
Frye.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19
CUBS FALL BEFORE
GIANTS AFTER HARD
STRUGGLE, 8 TO 6

Chicago, May 19.-After having
an eighth straight game practically
sewed up yesterday with two runs
to spare and two men out in the
ninth, the Cubs eventually went
down in defeat, to 6, in Il in
nings, but they compelled the
Giants to win the game twice, and
were only licked by the hand of
Providence in the most frenzied
18th inning on record.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19
9p0RTLIGHI'
NJ Oby G3ntza1d Rice

more in the direction of second
base. But always he is stepping
into the pitch.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19

Batteries-Benton. Winters. Hub
bell, Douglas, Nehf and Smith:
Hendrix, Martin, Vaughn and Kill
lefer.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-19

A florist discovered that flowers
can talk. He advertised, Say it
with flowers"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
CHARGE CROWN FORCES
SET FIRES IN CORK
Labor Body Finds Witnesses
of Alleged Incendiarism.

LONDON, Dec. 16.-The report of the
labor commissions inquiry into condi-
tions in Ireland, made public to-day,
declares that eye-witnesses to the burn
ing Of Cork ARE unanimous in stating
that the flres were caused by crown
forces"
At a joint meeting Of the national
executive and the Parliamentary Labor
party to-day it was decided that COM
mittee should wait on the Premier to
urge further efforts for q truce in Ire
land.
The report says "a number Of wit
nesses interviewed are prepared. II given
adequate guarantees for their future
safety, to substantiate on oath this
statement of facts as presented:
The destruction in Cork is declared
to have been systematic, incendlarles
having sought out the most valuable
premises in the town and put into exc
cution n preconceived plan" 1t Is fur
Their charged that the fires were started
only after the Crown forces had forced
the people indoors.
Detailing so-called suspicious crcum-
stances before the fires broke out, the
commission says: Shortly after 9o'clock
auxiliary police and Black and Tans'
appeared in a large number of streets
in the city, and at the revolver point.
before actual firing took place, drove the
people into their homes earlier than the
curfew regulations required. The streets
soon were entirely deserted and the work
of destruction was begun"
An eyewitness Is quoted as testify
ing BLACK and Tans or auxiliary po-
lice, or both, were the incendiaries."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
GERMANY TO FORCE
GRAIN FROM FARMS
To Send Armed Detachments
Into Country to Confiscate
Needed Cereals.
PRICES ARE HELD TOO Low
Farmers Reported Feeding
Crops to Cattle Instead Of
Sending to Market.
PRICES ARE HELD TOO Low
by RAYMOND SWING.

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
COPYRIGHT, 1890, bv THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin, Dec. 16.
The Government has decided to send
armed forces into the farming districts
of Gerinay that are behind in their grain
deliveries and TO confiscate cereals which
have not been surrendered in accordance
with the food laws. This measure Is
being resorted to in an effort to increase
the grain supply, which will be ex-
hausted by the middle of next March.
Local commissions with agricultural
experts among their members, accom-
panied by attachments of Green
police. will go from farm to farm with
automobile trucks and examine zrana-
ries, seizing what they estimate to be
the States portion of the grain found
The charge has been made here that
since the restrictions on meat were re-
moved German farmers are feeding their
cereals to cattle. since thereby they
make greater profit than by selling their
grain to the State at official prices
Lately the Government has made APP
peals to the patriotism of the farmers.
but grain deliveries have not increased
The farmers demand that the Gov
eminent abandon all price control, but
if this were done it Is feared that an
increase in the price of bread would
follow and that this. in turn. would
mpel new strike wave over Germany
for higher wages.
The Vossische Zeit1n0 asks whether
policy OF force will serve to stave off
calamity. ut will prove only q poor
substitute for the stupidity which
marked the food policy all along" it
SAYS
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
WAR MINISTER OUT
OF FRENCH CABINET

PARIS, Dec. 16-Andre Lefevre, the
War Minister, resigned to-day. His
resignation resulted from his opposition
to the new military service bill favored
by the rest of the Cabinet. which pro-
vides fo~ eighteen months obligatory
military service. M. Lefevre had in
sisted upon two years service with the
colors.
Flaminius Raiberti. president OF the
Financial Commission of the Chamber
of Deputies, has agreed to take the War
Ministry.
NJ. Lefevre in his letter of resignation
to Premier Leygues said he regretted
there were differences between, himself
and the Cabinet on Frances German
policy, on the dangers TO France as a
result of Germany's attitude and also
with regard to the strength of the troops
France must maintain to apply the
treaty and defend herself, when the need
should arise, to prevent an attack from
the rear through Poland, Czecho-Slo-
vakia and Rumania. He declared that
the peril from the east was growing and
getting nearer. but that he was leaving
to his successor a faultless weapon with
which to defend France.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
BRUSSELS PARLEYS
MAY BE ABANDONED
Allied Experts Dissatisfied at
Absence of German Plans
to Pay.
GAVE GLOOMY PICTURES
President of Reichsbank and
Finance Undersecretary Pre-
sent No Programme.
GAVE GLOOMY PICTURES
Rn the Assocfated Presa.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 16.-At the first day )
session of the second Brussels financial
conference, which has taken up the ques-
ton OF the payment of Preparations by
Germany Rudolph Havenstein, presi-
dent of the Reichsbank, occupied most
Of the afternoon in depicting the gloomy
prospects of his country's financial and
economic future. He emphasized the
deadening effect upon German industry
of the demoralized exchange situation,
but did not give the constructive ideas
the members of the conference hope to
hear later.
Some of the delegates expressed their
belief tonight in the possible abandon
ment of the conference OF experts unless
the Germans speedily advanced some
constructive ideas respecting plan for
the payment of reparations The con-
ference will continue tomorrow with
the expectation that the Germans Will
realize the necessity of taking up the
separations solution Immediately.
Most of the Allied delegates apparently
fee, that the Germans are not to be
blamed for telling their story in their
own way, but even some OF the Germans
feel that Herr Havenstein's mournful
statement this afternoon was unfortu-
rate and there is disposition to let the
younger and more hopeful leaders
among the Germans offer their ideas.
The minority of the allied delegates
proposed that the session fixed for to-
morrow morning DE called off and that
the Germans be handed the question
naire previously prepared, with warn
ing that unless there was an immediate
and satisfactory discussion looking to
definite solution, the conference would
be abandoned.
Herr Havensteiu asserted during his
talk that the figures given to the Allies
in September, showing that German ex-
ports and imports virtually balanced,
were erroneous because of the imper-
feet statistical system employed, and
that the truth was that in the first six
months of 1920 Germany had imports to
the amount of 36.O00.O00 marks in ex-
cess over exports.
The financial survey given by Herr
Schroeder the German Under Secretary
Of Finance, was generally commented
upon as thorough and clear.
Herr Schroeder's statement concern
ing the financial situation in Germany
was pessimistic. but was not shaped In
such form, in the opinion Of the allied
experts as would render discussion of
final understanding impossible. He
painted the outlook in the darkest colors
and said he hoped the Allies would not
put the knife to Germary's throat"
thus reducing her to Austria's situation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
MOTHER TO MEET
KING CONSTANTINE
Former Mrs. Leeds Also TO
Greet Sovereign.

ATHENS, Dec. 16-The Greek Gov
ernment's answer to the Allied notes with
regard to the return of Constantine will
be sent shortly after the King reaches
Athens.
Dowager Queen Olga, with the Princes
and Princesses, will meet Constantine at
Phaleron on Sunday. 1t will be the first
public appearance Of Princess Christie
pher. who formerly was Mrs. William
B. Leeds of New York. A decree issued
yesterday reinstated 1000 former off,
GERS, with three years salary.
A schism in the Greek Church is
threatened by a dispute between the
Greek Premier, Demetrlos Rhallis, and
the Patriarch of Constantinople over
political questions, one of which Is the
removal Of the Metropolitan of Athens.
Premier Rhallis stated that he would
break off relations IL the Patriarch
maintained his attitude.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17

Special Gable TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1920 By THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, Dec. 16.
Tho 0Aneral strike called by the Com
munists OF Czecho-S lovakia has not
succeeded in bringing on social revolu-
ton, according to the Berlin press. Al
the same time It has demonstrated the
weakness Of the Communists in Prague
and an unlocked for response by COM
nunists In other manufacturing CEN
tres
The Communist organ here. the Red
Flag, reports bloodshed in Breux. where
II says six workers and two children
were killed when gendarmes fred into
crowd Of demonstrators. on the
other hand. the VosSiche Zeit1tn0 denies
there has been any tumult there, put
heard Of the killing OF one peasant who
resisted disarmament by tie workers.
which, It says. was the only fatality
connected with the strike.
A correspondent OF the VosSische
Zei pn0 made a tour OF the Industrial
districts and found that in Prague. with
some exceptions, all the railroad and
post office employees disregarded the
strike call He found in the Kladno
blast furnaces and coal mines what he
said was the most radical community
in the country. A one-day general
strike in the textile mills OF Bruenn
was successful. Kaschau and Press
burg, in Slovakia. also Joined in the
strike. Although the miners In the ma
TONS richest coal district OF Ostrau-
Arwiner were considered hitherto not
affected by Communism. II was only
possible TO keep twenty-five out OF the
thrty-eight mines in operation. In the
German-Czech cities the strike order
was generally observed.
The Czecho-Slovakian Communists,
the VosstSche Zeittn1 correspondent
says. are not SO radical as the German
or the Russian Communists. and stand
on a programme similar to that of the
Independent Socialists of Germany.
The strike was called by the Left
wing Communists against the strong OPP
position by Right wing leaders and is
significant primarily as test OF
strength. The Government militia
proved equal to the occasion, and rela-
lively small contingents OF the gen.
darmere were able to preserve order.
In Kladno, for instance quiet was
maintained by 800 men. although now
the city is guarded by 500 police.
The strike. the correspondent states,
Is altogether a social movement and is
due to the excessive imitation, the hous-
laws for the specialization Of the large
estates.
The Red Flag quotes the demands OF
the Kladno strikers as being:
l. An immediate end OF prosecution
of revolutionary labor leaders. the re-
lease Of all revolutionary labor prisoners
and damages for the families Of
wounded men.
2. Immediate freedom for the press
and In connection with public meetings,
and the resignation Of NJ. Cerny.
3. The evacuation OF the Volkshaus
by the police and the return Of this
property to the labor unions.
4. The recognition of workmen's coun-
ellis on large estates, the immediate ac-
ceptance of the specialization scheme and
the prompt passage Of legislation to
this effect.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
BERLIN HOTEL GUESTS
FLEE KITCHEN STRIKE
Many Go to Potsdor, to Avoid
Drastic Food LoU.

Special Gable to THE NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1890, by THE New YORK HxaALp
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, Dec. 16.
Berlin hotel residents in great num-
pers nave moved to Potsdam and other
SUBURBS to escape the effects of the clos
ing OF kitchens in all leading hotels and
VINE restaurants. This Kitchen strike
was undertaken In protest against the
drastic food laws imposed by the Gov
eminent under its conservation pro-
gramme.
The Adlon Hotel, which was expected
to hold out as a strike breaker also has
shut its kitchen. Guests who remained
in the city either bought food at deli
catessen stores or sought out beer res
taurants Bakeries have reverted to the
use Of substitutes in making cakes
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Bishop of Cork Spurns
Dublin Castle Sympathy

CORK, Dec. 16.-The Bishop
of Cork to-day received the
following telegram, dated Dublin
Castle: "Please accept my deep
est sympathy on the appalling
tragedy of the death of Canon
Magner and kindly convey to his
relatives an expression of my
deep sorrow and sincere sym
pathy.
"INSPECTOR-GENERAL,
"Royal Irish Constabulary."
To this the Bishop replied:
81 should accept sympathy from
the Inspector-General of the old
r. l. C. The verbal sympathy
of an Inspector-General whose
men are numbering my people
and have burned my city l can
not accept or convey to the rela-
tives of the murdered Canon
Wagner"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Trotzky Opens Peace
Drive; Reds in Distress

COPENHAGEN, Dec. ia
despatch to the Politiken from
Riga, says Leon Trotzky, Rus
sian Bolshevik Minister of War,
has been engaged in a vast pro-
paganda scheme to emphasize
the need of peace. The CORE
spondent adds that Russia was
never poorer and distress never
was greater than now and that
the Russian Government is will
ing to give concessions to foreign
capitals and would endeavor to
avoid conflicts with neighboring
countries.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
BIZ the Associated Press.

PARIS, Dec. 16.-Attempts which have
been made by Communists In Czecho-
Slovakia to overthrow the Government
and seize power in that nation have
failed entirely. according to the latest
dispatches to the French Foreign Office
The Communist leaders have been i'm
prisoned, the advices state. and the Com
munist newspapers have been sup
pressed. All the big estates and bust
ness establishments seized at the begin
ming OF the trouble have been restored
TO their owners
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
MoRGENTHAU TO PAY WAY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Henry Nor
genthau. who has been designated as the
personal representative of the President
in the proposed mediation between the
Armenians and the Turkish Nationalists
will pay his own expenses, II was said
to-day at the State Department.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
VALERA WOULD FACE
ARREST IN BRITAIN
London Discredits Report He
Is Coming There.

LONDON, Dec 16. - The report that
Eamonn de Valera is coming to England
is discredited in official circles, where
it is stated that he has technically Of
Tended against the law and Is liable to
be arrested in this country. Officials
call attention to the fact that he es-
capped from prison in 1919 and was
struggled out of the country.
Eamonn de Valera, President of the
Irish Republic" is "in hiding" in this
country but may consider returning to
Great Britain If granted a safe conduct
by Premier Lloyd George, Harry Boland,
Presidential secretary" announced
here yesterday.
Boland told the Associated Press that
de Valera at present was tagged from
his activities in this country and had
withdrawn into privacy until he felt
able to resume his tour in the United
States. He said he alone knew where
Mr.. de Valera was.
Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright. mother
of Eamonn de Valera, at Rochester, n.
Y, said at her home last night that
her son was not with her, that she did
not know where he was and had not
recently heard from him.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
COMMONS APPROVES
TWO IRISH SENATES
Continued from First Page.

amendment providing that the majority
vote of the members of the imperial
Parliament from Ireland should decide
whether the law should become opera
tive. BY it's provision the southern
Irish members would decide for the
south and the northerners for the north.
Moving the rejection, Sir Laming
Worthington- Evans said the Govern
ment wanted to appeal to the electorate
direct
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
DANES ACCUSE U. $. FIRM.

CoPENHAaEN, Dec. 1e.-An extraordi-
nary parliamentary commission has or
dered the Public Prosecutor to arraign
the American Tobacco Company on Il
charge of violation OF the Danish
profteering act
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
BIZ the Associated Press.

VENICE, Dec 16.-Former King Con-
stantine, Queen Sophie and their chill
dren sailed from Venice this morning on
board the Greek cruiser Averoff for
Phaleron, the port OF Athens. A steam
ship carrying the newspaper correspond
ents' and Greek officials left Immediately
before the Averoff sailed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-If Rear Ad-
miral Philip Andrews, commanding the
American naval forces in the Adriatic,
paid an official call on former King Con-
stantine of Greece at Venice yesterday,
as reported in press dispatches, naval
officials said to-day 1t would be unusual.
These officers as well as those of the
State Department suggested that the call
very probably was upon the commander
Of the cruiser Averof
The American Government has not in
dictated It's attitude toward the new
Greek Government, and State Depart
ment officials said no instructions had
been conveyed to any of it's representa-
tives aboard regarding the course they
should take
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Save 1t With
KniCkerbOcker Ice
Sausage

Daintily packed farm sausage
the kind that makes the buck
wheat cake worth while-is now
arriving fresh daily" This is
the caution on one of the best
brands: "Take the sausage out
of the box and put on plate
loosely, direct on ice, if not
used immediately"
Of course. in New York and en-
virons this means on Knickerbocker
Ice-the purity of which is fully
appreciated by those who buy the
unrest of foods.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17

Continued from First Page.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
CZECH STRIKE FAILS
TO GAIN REVOLUTION
Communists Display Strength
in Mines and Farms,
However.
ARE WEAK IN PRAGUE
Government Holds Control
With Little Disorder in
Spite Of Inflamers.
ARE WEAK IN PRAGUE

Special Gable TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
1920. By THE NEW York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Rerlin. Dec. 1G.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-06
Weekly Cotton Review
ay A.,esI.t.d rr,,, |

New York. March 5.-The cotton mar ket showed continued strength during the past week with the advance extending to a.2Sc for March contracts. which es- tablished new high record for the sea- son, while other old crop months made new high ground for the movement. May deliveries. for instance, sold up to ss a5c, or the highest price touched since She break to ei.soc for that position early in February, at the time when foreign ex- change rates were at about the lowest Evidently tho uneasiness of March shorts was inrarted to both trade and spec l:lative shorts in the May and July po- sitions, and toward the middle of Gie week there were indications of a broad
 ening demand for late summer and early
 new crcp positions owing to the contin-
 ued advance in foreign exchange and a,
 renewal of unfavorabie weather for the new crop start. Proft-taking became
 quite general above the 3ec level for
 March. and there were reactions toward
 the end of the week, accompanied by fe-
 ports of a continued dull spot demand and apprehensions that further advances
 would meet increased offerings from the
 south. Reports of disturbances in the
 marked fer Egyptian cotton at Alexdn- dria caused some nervousness during the earlier part of the week, but local trad
 CTS did rot consider this feature likely
 to materially influence the American
 markets, and Liverpool reported mcre
 encoura ging advices from Egypt on Tuesday The talk of possible Inter national loan to Germany was among the facttrt mentioned on the mid-week advance, which. as well as the stronger tone Of foreign exchange. encouraged lredictions of a renewed export demand. Sales in the southern spot markets, as of- ficially reported, have shown little im-
 provementt however, and toward the
 end of the week good deal of rett- tiorary sentiment was in evidence owing to the diminishing demand from sh1rw and a belief that the March position Mad been pretty we'll adjusted to the yaiIe
 of middlng cotton as quoted in eastern belt markets. The arrival of 70 bales from Liverpool at Galveston was not con
 sidered a market factor, as few re-
 turned shipments have been expected
 since the middle of last month