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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27

Home Rule Bill Puts Bur
den of Construction
Upon People.

London, Feb. 27.-The govern
ment tonight made public the text
Of its Irish home rule bill intro
duced in the house Of commons on
Wednesday and passed through its
first reading by title. The measure
follows closely the outline. given to
the public by Premier Lloyd George
in December last.
By its provisions two parliaments
would be set up, one for the north
Of Ireland and the other for the
south of Ireland, the northern par
Lament to consist of 50 members
and the southern of 12S members.
The representation in the imperial
parliament would be IL for North
ireland and 80 for South Ireland,
necessitating the reapportionment
of Ireland, which is provided for
in the bill.
Six Counties in North.
The northern arc j would be COM
posed of the counties Of Antrim,
Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Lon
donerry and Tyrone, and the bor-
oughs of Belfast and Londonerry.
A council for Ireland" compos-
ed of 40 members is also provided
for in the bill. The legislative
powers of the new council would be
only those granted it by the two
legislatures, but the trainers Of the
bill hope it will form a nucleus
around which would be built one
parliament for the whole Of Ire
land. Almost unlimited legislative
executive and judicial powers are
provided for such q united parlia-
ment, but the powers to be confer
red on the separate parliaments
would be considerably curtailed
Responsibility for organizing the
united parliament and the power to
create it is left entirely with the
two legislatures. The bill provides
that the united parliament, if form
ed, would control the customs and
excise.
Powers Listed.
At the outset, according to the
bill, the parliament would have full
control of education, local govern
ment and the land policy, agricul-
ture, roads and bridges. transporta-
tion, old age pensions, insurance
municipal affairs, housing, hospitals
and licenses. All the judicial Of
fees would be controlled by the
Irish parliaments, each body con-
trolling the Offices in its own dis
trict, but there would be court OF
appeal for the whole of Ireland
presided over by the lord chancel-
lor.
What the government considers
one of the chief safeguards in draft
ing the powers Of the parliament is
a provision specifically prohibiting
either body from establishing any
particular religious creed or pen.
alizing anyone for belonging to OF
not belonging to any religious de-
nomination.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
CORMAN HEAD
.0F c. R. |. & P,
v|CEC. hayden

New York. Feb. 27.-James E.
German was elected president of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway at a meeting of the direc-
tors here today. Mr.. German, who
has been acting as federal mana
ger Of the road, succeeds Charles
Hayden. who becomes chairman OF
the board.
The following new vice presi-
dents were elected:
T. H. Beacon, S. H. Johnson. l..
M. Allen and F. D. Reed, all OF
Chicago. The other officers were
reelected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
Governor HITS
ROAD BUILDERS
FOR BIG PRICES
Cement Costs No Moro but C0ntrac-
tors Arc Asking Third Moro
for Work

Springfield, Ill.,, Feb. 17.-The
awarding Of contracts for Illinois
highways has reached q serious
point" to quote Governor Lowden.
The Last bids received ran up to
$4,000 . mile. Unless there is
somo unexpected development no
contracts will be awarded at $780,
900 and may not be awarded at
$4,000. Those prices are consid-
cred more than excessive and state
officials will not submit to what
they consider . holdup.
Governor Lowdeo conferred for
two hours yesterday afternoon with
Director Of Public Works Bennett
and his assistant Mr.. Vennum. Su-
perintendent Of Highways Bradt
and Chief Highway Engineer Older.
They later telegraphed for the
members Of the highway advisory
committee to confer on the situa-
ton.
I'VE have received bids and we
have not decided to award contracts
on them" the governor said. There
seems to be no competition. Road
builders apparently have all the
work they can do and are asking
prices accordingly. On some sec
tions we are begging for bids and
receiving none."
The increase In price Of road
building cannot be attributed to the
price of cement. Last year the av-
erage cost of construction was
around $4,000 q mile. In the first
bids received this year the average
was around $4,000. The largest
manufacturers of cement have not
increased their prices over last
year. It has been estimated by the
state that it can manufacture ce-
ment for 81 q barrel That is COM
parable with $1.70 paid the largest
manufacturers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
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10 U. S. SHIPS
SOLD BELCIANS

New York, Feb. 27.-Purchase Of
10 standard 5000 ton steel steam
ships from the United States ship
ping board has been announced by
the Lloyd Royal Beige Of Antwerp.
The ships will be turned over as
soon as they have discharged theirs
cargoes in American ports.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
PALMER SEES
NOTHING AMISS
IN RAILWAY ACT

Washington, Feb. 27.-The COM
promise railroad bill was returned
to the White house today by the
department Of justice, to which It
was referred Wednesday for an
opinion as to its validity. The
president was expected to act on
it today or tomorrow.
Attorney General Palmer inform
ed the president that he saw
no constitutional objection to the
measure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
U. S. OUT FOR
AIR TROPHIES

New York, Feb. 27.-The Aero
Club Of America today cabled a
challenge to the Aero Club Of
France for the international avia-
ton trophy, which will be contest
ed for in France in September.
Three American entries have been
received. The United States won
two out Of the five international
contests held prior to the war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
THOUGHT HOLDUP
JOKE, BUT HE HAS
CEASED TO THINK

Akron. Ohio, Feb. T.-When he
took as a joke q command to throw
up his hands and instead continued
laughing on his way. Russell Bor-
way, 20 years old. was shot and
killed by q highwayman today, who
later escaped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
U. S. SCENE OF
OPERATIONS BY
DIRIeIbLE Line

New York, Feb. 27.-Plans for
the operation Of the three trans
continental dirigible airship lines
for passengers and several smaller
middle western lines were an
nounced sby the Commercial Air
craft syndicate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
The Weather

Partly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday. Warmer tonight with the
lowest temperature about Is to 30
degrees above zero.
Highest yesterday, Is; lowest last
night, Z.
Wind velocity, I miles per hour.
Precipitation, none.
I'm 7p.m. Ia m.
yestef. ycstef. today
Dry bulb temp. .16 Is 10
Wet bulb temp. IL Is 3
Relative humid "A 70 "a
River stage, IS: no change In the
last "A hours.
J. n SHERIER Aetsocnlogist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
SEVERAL KILLED
IN IRISH FIGHTS

Dublin, Feb. 27.-Two constabu-
larry barracks, at Timoleague and
Mount Pleasant, County Cork, were
besieged Wednesday night by large
bodies of armed men and several
civilians were killed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
ORGANIZATIONS OF
FARMERS MERGED

Springfield, Ill, Feb. N.-The
Illinois Livestock association today
voted to dissolve its organization
and merge with the Illinois 'Agri-
cultural association.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
PRUSSIA SELLS
ROADS FOR DEBT

London, Feb. 27.-A Berlin dis
patch says the German state will
take over the Prussian railways
for $4,000, 100000 marks, of which
"a, ,00O, 100000 will be used to pay
debts of the Prussian state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
FILE PETITION TO
RECALLPARIS, ILL,
CITY COMMISSION

Paris, ILL.,, Feb. 27.-A petition
for referendum on the recall of the
commission form of government in
Paris and the return to the alder
manic form, was filed here today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
TWO u. S. AVIATORS
KILLED ATPANAMA

Panama, Feb. 27.-Lieutenant
Houman and Lieutenant Vaughan,
army aviators. were killed when
their plane crashed at Aqua ,Dulce.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
ALLIES REPLY
SOON BACK For
ADRIATIC Note

London, Feb. 27.-The reply
made by Premiers Lloyd
George and Millerand to Pres-
dent Wilson's latest communi.
cation on the Adrfatic ques.
tions repeats the assurance
that they ~never had the inten.
ton of making . definite set
tlement without obtaining the
view Of the United States gov.
ernment,"
Washington, Feb. 27.-The reply
of the British and French premiert
in the Adriatic question was re-
ceived today at the state depart
ment. 1t was sent to the White
house Immediately after being de-
coded.
State department officials woult
give no intimation as to the nature
of the reply, which was drafted
within "a hours after the premiers
had received President Wilson's
note. In that note the president
adhered to his former position thai
unless the Adriatic settlement o.
Dec. 9 was restored in principle
he would have to consider with.
the peace treaty and the
French-American alliance, from
the senate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
COURT ORDER ENTERED TO
FREE US. Dinner TABLE
FROM M0N0POLy Us MENACE
Permanent Injunction, Eli ed in Washington, Forsids
Handling Of Anything but Meat and Its Prod
ucts and Bars Retailing Those.

Washington, Feb 27.-The agreed decree under
which the ''bg five" packers are forever enjoined
from engaging in any ne-of business other than that
Of handling meat and produce was filed today in the
District of Columbia supreme court.
1t was submitted by Attorney General Palmer,
who said it removes the menace of control of unre-
lated industries by the big five and confines their
activities in future to the business of distributing meat
and its by-prOducts"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
FRENCH LEADER DIES,

hENVIK ULhDGXb DXEDe
Paris, Feb. 27.-General Pierre
August Roques. forRer minister Of
war, is dead.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27
JUST TO REASSURE PEOPLE.

Counsel for the packers, in a statement to the
court said the decree had been agreed to by the de-
PENDANTS mot because of guilt for they have not vo-
lated any law; but that the American people may be
assured that there is not the remotest possibility of
food monopoly by the packers"
After hearing statements by counsel for the gov
eminent and the packers Chief Justice Mccoy signed
the injunction making effective the agreement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-02-27

Attorney General Palmer submit sacrifices during
commenting the ef the essential
enforcement decree the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
U. 8. Destroyer Brooks
Will Tow Kane to Libau
Makes Remarkable Getaway in
Going to Rescue of Warship
Which Struck Mine

RIGA, Latvia. Oct 2-The United
States destroyer Kane, which yester-
day struck a mine outside Riga. Will
be towed into Libau by the United
States destroyer Brooks. which rushed
out from Riga to assist her. The
Kane's engines are not working and
she will be unable to proceed to Riga.
wireless message received from
the Brooks after her arrival on the
scene of the accident said:
"The Kane struck a mine in latitude
$3.50 north, longitude 2l53 east.
Both engines are out of commission.
No casualties. Am standing by and
will tow the Kane TO Libau"
The destroyers Gilmer, Brooks and
Kane have been ordered TO proceed
Immediately to Constantinople. The
Brooks and Gilmer will 20 TO the
Black Sea as soon as the Kane is
towed into Libau
The Brooks made a remarkable get
away Friday. Twenty minutes after
the Kane sent out the wireless an
nouncing the accident she had sus-
tanned the Brooks was~under steam
and headed down stream
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Smith Predicts New Era
In Prisoners Treatment
Special Dispatch to Tsc Tribune


OSSINING, N. Y, Oct. 2.--Governor
Smith laid the cornerstone of the
clinic building of the new Sing Sing
Prison to-day. He said in his address
that of 200 prisoners whose sentences
he had committed in twenty-one months
only one had been returned to prison.
'Not only are we laying the corner
stone of new building" said the Gov
ernor, "but we are adopting an ad-
vanced policy in the care of prisoners.
| am looking forward to the time when,
f1instead of sentencing men in a court
room we shall merely determine their
guilt Or innocence there and then turn
them over to the state to be sent to
an institution of this kind, where
trained experts will determine the
length of time each offender should be
restrained"
James L. Long, Deputy Superintend-
ent of Prisons. presided. State Senator
Henry M. Sage delivered an address.
The invocation was pronounced by the
Rev. William e. Cashin, Catholic chap
lain of the prison, and the benediction
by the Rev. A. N. Petersen, Protestant
chaplain.
Lewis F. Filcher, State Architect;
Harold Hickman, Deputy Architect; w.
Thomas Wooley, construction engineer;
William E. McCabe, of the State Prison
Department; DR.. Amos O. Squire,
Superintendent of Industries; John
Parsons Joyce, John S. Kennedy, presi-
dent of the State Prison Commission,
and Leon Weinstock and Henry Solo
mon, of the same body, were present.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Dry Law Chief to
Make Sweeping Cut
nLiquor Permits
City's 13, ,6O8 To Be Reduced
TO Less Than l 900; Steps
to Revoke 400 to Whole
salers Are Taken at Once

Charles r. O'Connor, State Director
of Prohibition, said yesterday that in
conjunction with the investigation of
persons holding liquor permits essued
from the New York Office, steps will
be taken soon to revoke 400 permits
which have been issued to wholesale
liquor dealers.
awe are now starting on an examina-
tion of manufacturing permittees," he
said. "Bond action may be prevented
by the immediate surrender of their
permits"
Acting on instructions from Wash
ington, Mr.. O'Connor is refusing to an
prove any further issuance of permits
to wholesalers for the present. Prior
to this order, which was in September.
there were 1868 permits of all de-
scriptions in the city, and 4,327 in
Albany.
Mr.. O'Connor wants to cut down the
number of permits and be sure in each
instance where a permit is granted
tina. the person will not abuse his
privilege. He said he expected to re-
duce the number of wholesale permits
IN the city to less than one thousand.
he said that many persons have re-
ceived permits who ought not to have
them. He said, also, that when the
Collector of the Internal Revenue De-
partment had charge Of the issuing of
permits and the enforcement of pro
hlbition was in its inception almost
any person who fulfilled the require
ments embodied in the application for
permit received it. The Collectors
staff, he said, was far too Inadequate to
investigate the good faith of every ap-
plicant. This condition existed even
after the Federal prohibition depart
neRt8was organized, because the VOL
ssHnfe of business was larger than the
organization could handle.
Another reason for the difficulty Of
the present situation is that most of
the persons who applied for permits
&vere new to the liquor business. After
he has cleaned out all the permits in
the hands of those who are not putting
them to proper use Mr.. O'Connor said
that when he did begin to issue per
mits again his department would know
all about the persons to whom they
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
New Thomas Ryan Will
Sets Stage for Contest
Former Syracuse Mayor, Who
Tried to Adopt Woman, Exc
cutcd Document While Ill
Special Dispatch to The Tribune.


SYRACUSE, Oct. 2.-Discovery in
the Surrogate's Office to-day of an al
legged last will of former Mayor Thom-
as Ryan, purporting to have been exc
cuted October 1, naming former Dis
trict Attorney John H. Walrath,
Charles E. Merckel and William f.
Sembach as executors, opened new
angle to the controversies raging in
the household of the seventy eight
yearold multi-mill llionaire, who is crit
icaly i'll.
Advent of the second will opens the
way for litigation after the death of
the former Mayor, who is partly para
lyzed as the result of stroke a few
days ago.
Recently Mr.. Ryan sought to make
his ward, Mrs. Florence May Ryan
Myron, his adopted daughter His
wife, Mrs. Jennie c. Ryan, objected,
and got an amendment to the state
laws blocking the adoption unless she
consented. She had three leading
Syracuse alensts make affidavits that
the former Mayor was incompetent to
manage his property.
About ten years ago, friends of Mr..
Ryan said, he executed will and since
then has added several codicils. The
recent trouble in his household was
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Hilly Defies
Landlords to
Test Rent Law
Tenants Take Advantage of
New Statutes; Few Cases
of Eviction Are Reported
to Prosecutors i'll the City
Moving Facilities Ample
Copeland to CallNation-Wide
Conference to Get Data
ON General Public Health

New York tenants yesterday con-
laws drafted for their protection and it
was announced at the headquarters of
the Van Owners Association that
ample facilities, even in the face Of the
strike, we're available to handle the
comparatively few demands for moving
service.
Arthur J. w. Hilly, chairman of the
Mayors Committee on Rent Profteer-
ing, issued a statement in answer to
the threat Of the Real Estate Board to
begin litigation to determine the con-
stitutionality Of the new laws. He said
the measures had been carefully drawn
and would stand the test.
There wer, isolated cases of at
tempted eviction. but in a majority of
instances the landlords were said to be
accepting the ruling with good grace
At the Real Estate Board it was said
the test cases contemplated probably
would be started this week.
Relief Planned by Tenants
Mr.. Hilly made it plain that the de-
sign of the rent measures is not to
abrogatc leases fairly entered into by
tenants. Relief may be afforded, how
ever, in cases where tenants have been
coerced into signing under threat of
eviction.
Two assistants from the office of
District Attorney Denis OLeary, of
n+1
dens apartment house in Forest Hills,
VIXEN it was reported that Guyon L. C.
Earle, manager Of the property, was
preparing to dispossess sixteen ten
ants.
William j. Morris Jr., one of the as
sistants, said he had informed the ten
ants that under the new laws they could
not be put out and advised them to
''sit tight" He was unable, he said, to
find Mr.. Earle or three men who, ac-
cording to the tenants, accompanied
the landlord and professed to be city
marshals. This phase of the matter is
of the 7th Detective District.
According to the tenants who called
upon the District Attorney, the sixteen
families involved in the threatened
evictions had refused to meet rent in
creases ranging from 60 to 12O per
cent. The families are said to be pay
ing rentals Of from $50 to sos month
j. D. O'Sullivan, Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel, forwarded the complaint
of a tenant at 215 West Ninety-tirst
Street to District Attorney Swami for
action. The tenant involved charges
that his landlord had denied to him the
use of accommodation afforded other
tenants of the property.
Mr. O'Sullivan said the mans land
lord had returned him the rent paid
for the last year and informed him he
was a trespasser. The case was sent to
the District Attorney on the theory
that the landlords notice is a violation
of Chapter 951 of the Laws of 1920,
which amends Section 2,04O of the code
Of criminal procedure and makes it a
misdemeanor for a landlord or any of
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

Jack Nadel and Jacob Rosonowitz,
freshmen mt the College Of the City of
New York, were kidnapped by sopho-
mores yesterday after the freshman
class election and taken to sopho
more club in Grand Street, near Clin-
ton Street. The sophomores stripped
their victims to their underclothes,
painted their faces and adorned them
otherwise in fashion which only the
genius of a sophomore or a freshman
could conceive.
On Nadel they put = potato sack, in
which holes had been cut for his arms
and head, and small cap trimmed
with long pink and white ribbons. Ro-
sonowitz was clad in corsets and other
intimate feminine apparel and topped
with q cap from which yellow stream
ers foated.
Nadel and Rosonowitz and as many
sophomores as could crowd inside a
taxicab started uptown. The rest of
the kidnapers followed afoot. There
was brief halt at Second Avenue and
Houston Street, where Nadel and Ros-
of the East Side which is not familiar
with the peculiarities of the higher
educational institutions gathered to
wonder and to jeer
Police Break Up Meeting
A patrolman broke up the meeting
and it was discovered that in the ex
citement the taxicab had departed. The
sophomores and their prisoners started
uptown afoot in the middle of Second
Avenue. The friends and enemies they
had made in the neighborhood followed
them in hundreds.
1t was tumultuous throng which
poured into the East Side subway sta
tion at Fourteenth Street a half hour
or so later and the platform and stairs
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Turkish Heirs Suicide
Averted by Manservant

CONsTANTINOPLE, Oct. 2 by The
Associated Press) Abdul Mejid, heir
apparent to the Turkish throne, at
tempted to commit suicide Thursday
night by trying to swallow poison. A
manservant dashed the bottle to the
floor before its contents reached his
lips. Mejid previously had written q
sealed letter to the Sultan.
The heir apparent is said to have
been nervous from his enforced seclu-
sion and inability to go to the Angora
front, where regular Turkish forces are
fighting the Nationalists. The attempt
at suicide is believed to have been due
to despair over his countrv's future
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Peggy Marsh appeals
Suit for Field Millions
Actress Asks Illinois Supreme
Court to Recognize Her Son
as Legal Heir to Large ESTATE

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, Oct. Peggy
Marsh, former London music hall
dancer, to-day carried her attempt to
obtain portion of the Marshall Field
millions for her con, Harry Anthony
Marsh, to the state Supreme Court
SUIT was filed by her attorney, ap
peahng from the Cook County Circuit
Court, which refused to recognjze +be
claim. Harry Anthony Marsh, accord
ing to the suit, is the illegitimate son
of Henry Field, deceased.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Mob at Student Hasing
Stops Broad'cay Traffic
East Sders Trail Freshmen Adorned With Paint
and Dressed in Potato Bag and Init
mate Feminine Carb Uptown

were jammed long after the departure
Of the uptown local which bore Nadel
and Rosonowitz and some Of the soph-
onores and a. great many Of the East
Side camp followers.
The train emptied itself at Thirty
third Street, whence, with the unfortu-
nate freshmen in the van, the process
about theater time when it reached
there and in no time Broadway was
so jammed with admirers of Nadel and
Rosonowitz that trolley cars and auto
mobiles were stalled for blocks.
The van of the procession had
reached Thirty seventh Street, when
Patrolmen Oakes and Jorn tried to
clear the street and find out what was
causing the congestion. Sophomores,
East Sders and Broadway throng were
so closely packed by that time as to
prevent individual Identification, even
had the patrolmen known a freshman
from a sophomore.
Crowd Grows Hysterical
Hysterical with excitement, the
crowd jostled and jeered the patrolmen,
who had the utmost difficulty in reach
ing the center of things which, of
ciulng that the two peculiar figures
were the cause of all the uproar, the
patrolmen collared the unlucky pair
and took them to the West Thirtieth
Street police station, where they were
charged with disorderly conduct.
The spectators followed, and Thir-
tieth Street soon was filled from one
building line to the other with a riot
Gus mob, most of whom had not the
slightest idea what the excitement was
about. The reserves had to be turned
out to clear the street.
Nadel is eighteen years old and lives
at 208 Rivington Street. Rosonowitz
is nineteen and lives at 255 Madison