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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
AVIATOR LANDS
ON MOUNT BLANC
Highest Summit Conquered by
Swiss Flier After Two Unsue-
cessful Attempts.

Chamoniax, France, fully 30
(By The Associated Press. Mount
Blanc, the highest summit of the
Alps, was conquered today by an
aviator. The successful airman was
M. Durafour. Swiss flier, who had
previously failed in two attempts to
land on the summit. Today, setting
out from Lausanne, he rose to a
great height and ultimately effected
a landing on the mountain peak,
1882 feet above sea level.
Taking off from the summit, Dur
afour made favorable descent, fin
ally landing at Chamoniex.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
GENERAL DAWES, DIRECTOR OF
BUDGET, PRACTICES WHAT HE :.
breaches; PUTS IN BUSY DAY

Washington, July Sole prac-
tees what he breaches. does Charles
G. Dawes, Uncle Sans budget COM
missioner.
when Dawes came 10 Washington
| tn show Uncle Sam how to save
money. he recognized living in ho-
| tells is both expensive and inerll-
cient. Quiet surroundings, agree
able companionship and some sem
bIance of home life, he holds. Is
necessary to keep a man toned up
and fit for his work.
Also. he figured. while two may
, not be able to live quite as cneapiy
as one, they can live lot more
cheaply together than apart.
So it was that an arrangement
was made, In the common interest
Of efficiency, economy and comrade-
ship, whereby Dawes and his old
pal, General Pershing. share an
apartment out at 2029 Connecticut
avenue -
Before this hour Of relaxation
comes, however, Dawes will have
put in a busy day.
Always Up Early.
Out of bed early-a habit he &C
quired even before he went over
seas with the A. f. F.-he is through
with his bath, shave and morning
papers before breakfast is an
nounced, at 8.
Breakfast over he bids Pershing
adieu for the day. The general will
ride down to the war department.
But Dawes will walk.
It's two miles from the apartment
at the top Of Connecticut avenue
hill to the treasury building. Dawes
covers the distance in about 40 min
utes.
Shortly after $50 each morning
the door of room 3S212, treasury
building, swings open and a slender,
slightly stopped man in a gray suit,
rather loose across the shoulders
and baggy at the knees, enters.
Helen Maria" Dawes is on the job.
He may go to see the president.
The cabinet officers come to him.
An 'sopen door" policy is main
tanned.
Works at Lunch.
At 1890 halt is called for lunch.
This usually is taken with someone
who has asked an engagement on
budget matters.
Normally the day ends anywhere
between and 6 o'clock. That or
diEarily means walk back to the
& partment and dinner with PERISH
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
ROCK ISLAND
DAY. BIG One
Of FAIR WEEK
Program Includes Parade Of Prize
winning Stock and Some Of
Best Races.

Rock Island day. Aug. 2s. at the
Rock Island county fair at Joslin
Is to be one of the biggest and best
of the entire week Of festivity.
which begins Tuesday, Aug. %, and
continues through Saturday, Aug.
~. On this day the feature will
be the parade Of all prize winning
stock, and in addition some of the
best races of the week will be run.
Wednesday. the second day OF
the fair. Is to be Moline day. Judg-
ing of exhibits is TO be started
then and there will be an exhibi-
ton of swine and sheep in the
ring.
East Moline day has been set for
Thursday, at which time horses
and cattle are to be judged.
The fair opens Tuesday, which
will be arrangement day. No ad-
mission is charged for this day.
All exhibits are to be placed that
day. The program for Saturday,
closing day. includes all kinds of
amateur sports and races.
Boost Heme Trade.
List OF premiums and prizes to
be offered this year indicates that
the fair will be as large, If not
larger, and better than ever.
- Rock Island county manufactur-
ers are being especially solicited
TO exhibit their products, as a
means of boosting home trade.
y The race program will start We'd
nesday and continue through Fri
day. The purses offered guarantee
three days of first class racing by
a heavy entry list in all
events. The racing program is as
follows.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
T.PLANS
| ANNUAL PICNIC
Baseball Game Between Davenport
and Rock Island VIII be Watch
Tower Feature.

The United Commercial Travel
ers of the tri-cities will hold a
member and family get-tegether at
the Watch Tower next Saturday.
Plans for the event are being made
by committees of which Ben Will
hite of this city is chairman.
A program Of games for the chill
dren and women has been arrang-
ed and contests of various kinds
will be held for everyone. The
baseball game between the Rock
Island and the Davenport council
will be the feature of the outing.
Members are asked to bring their
families. The outing will be a bas-
ket dinner affair.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
TO HUNT FOR
MYSTERY HOME
IN DAVENPORT
Alvah HILL Kidnapped In Peoria.
Walks Back; Police Take Up
Hunt

Alvah Hill, 15-year-old son OF
william Hill, Chicago produce
broker, was expected in Davenport
today to locate for the police house
in which he said he had been held
prisoner, after being seized on the
streets of Peoria Monday, ehloro-
formed. robbed and taken uncon-
scious in an automobile to DaVen-
port.
Hill walked into Peoria yester-
day from Bureau and told the police
his story. He had been visiting with
an uncle, William Hill, during the
vacation. The boy is student IN
Northwestern Military academy.
81 was walking downtown Mon
day morning" he said, when
stopped and pulled $40 in bills from
by pocket. Some man passed me,
stopped and looked into my face. !
pocketed the money and strolled on
The man kept pace a while, then
walked away, and thought no more
OF him.
AUakens In Davenport.
Hill says that shortly afterward
an automobile came down the
wrong side Of the street, stopped,
and the man he had seen earlier
leaped out and, grasping him.
pressed a drug saturated handker-
chief to his nose.
Two other men and a woman
were in the car, Hill said, When
the boy revived, he says, he was IN
strange house.
When l came to-" says Hill,
they released me. l ran until l
became sick, then hailed a man l
learned later was c. H. Green. He
told me l was in Davenport, Iowa.
Then he took me as far as Bureau
junction. l walked back to Peoria. u
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
BUFFALO PRAIRIE,

NDpOGIdI NOI EbpUHUSLNC.
Buffalo Prairie. ILL.,, July 30
Clair Munson is able to be around
after being i'll for several days
Miss Ella Pence, Mrs. Charles E.
Kister and Mrs. Mary Boruff, who
have been i'll, are slightly improved.
Rev. and Mrs. Henry Love will
leave Tuesday for a visit with rela-
tives and friends in La Sale, Liv-
ingston, Christian and Menard coun-
ties.
The Buffalo Prairie State bank
has been reprinted and awnings
placed on the buildings.
Threshing Is getting well under
way here. The community well
coined the showers.the first part of
this week.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30

ing. But often he takes dinner
downtown and goes back to the
office for a night session. These
have run as late as 1890 a, m.
Dawes isn't ''hard-boiled." He is
essentially human and tender heart
ed.
The real Dawes is revealed by the
man who builds and maintains ho-
tells for unemployed men and wo-
men, who adopts into his home an
orphaned boy and girl, who recog-
nizes so keenly the sufferings and
hardships of soldiers on the firing
line that he stands up before SEN
ators and tells them straight out
they have been quibbling over moth
ing while men died.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
Obituary
Clarence Moore.

Clarence J. Moore, aged II years,
died at 1880 o'clock last, evening in
the family residence, 1911 Fourth
avenue. He had been i'll two
months.
He was born in Michigan Nov. Q,
1876, and resided in Rock Island the
past year. He had formerly lived
in Monmouth and conducted q
sporting goods store there. He was
a member of the Monmouth lodge of
Elks and Masons. The widow sur
wives
The -bodywill be sent to Kalama-
zoo, Mich, tomorrow morning and
funeral services will be held Mon
day afternoon. Burial will be in the
Kalamazoo cemetery.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
ATKINSON
Especial Correspondence. }

Atkinson, ILL.,, July 80. Ed
| Stokes, who has been a guest al
| the home of Mr.. and Mrs. William
| Fitzgerald for the, last two weeks
returned to his home in Chicago.
| Joseph Rumler, who is working
on the railroad near Carbon Cliff
came home Thursday evening to at
tend the dance here.
P. E. Geninder and daughter
Halo were in Geneseo shopping
Thursday
Mrs. Wesley Heller and daughter
Rena of Geneseo spent Thursday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Man
dus Vandersnick, Sr.
Mrs. Thomas Domas returned to
her home in Chicago Thursday
evening
NJ. NJ. Wright of the Farmers
Grain company spent Thursday in
the tri-cities on business.
Miss Phyllis Riley, who recently
returned from camping at Rock
river, is now a guest at the home
of w. A. Movers and family. She
will visit her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. WEIGH, before returning
to her home in Chicago.
Mrs. Elmer Blankefeldt and her
sister, Miss Alice Steiner of Dav-
export. are spending the week at
the home of their mother, Mrs.
Lottie Steiner.
Max and Harold Goss of Kewa-
nee are enjoying a three weeks
vacation at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. De Moss Parrish.
Miss Marie Claeys and her sister.
Mrs. Falady of Moline. returned to
their home, and Miss Marie is now
at Sheffield at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Martin Wilt.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cornellissep,
after spending a week at Kewanee
with relatives, have returned to
their home.
Mrs. George Koch and two sons
EDMOND and Frank are spending a
TWO weeks vacation at the home
or Mrs. koch's cousin, Mrs. Gold
berg.
Miss Nellie Hartman is conva-
lescing.
MRS. Harry Baldwin and children
OF chicago are guests at the home
OF her sister and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Rum1er.
MISS Mamie Phillips arrived home
FRIDAY morning after spending a
months vacation at Bemidge. Mimi.
at the home of her cousins and
brothers, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfonso
lips.
WalQuts vera 6rrt ora a.,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
POSTOFFICR T0UR

Washington, July 80. - UNITED
Press-)-A six weeks tour of the
larger western postofices will be
made by DR.. Lee K. Frankel, welfare
director OF the postofice depart
ment, it was announced TODAY. He
will make a personal inspection of
the working conditions. DR.. Frank
ell leaves here Monday. The tour
VIII include st. Louis.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
JOY
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Joy, ILL.,, July 30.-Mrs. Charlie
Thornhill of Rock Island is here
for visit with her mother, Mrs.
Mary Epperly and other relatives.
Miss Edith Cass of Wyanet is
here for short visit with relatives.
The W. c. T. U. met yesterday
afternoon with Mrs. H. j. Fisher.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
Licensed to Wed
PERIL IN WAR RELIC

London.-Alfred Asprey, 16, had
as war relic a pencil holder fash
toned from an old rifle cartridge.
AS he was writing, the cartridge
exploded and blew of three fin
gers.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
PORT BYRON

Especial Correspondence.)
Port Byron, ILL.,, July 30-Mr.
and Mrs. Claire Golden are the
parents of son. born yesterday
at the Lutheran hospital. Moline.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30

New York--Sometimes the line be-
tween sports styles and dress styles
seems to vanish completely.
The adoption and adaptation OF a
sport idea into the dressier realm is
shown in this latest Joseph impor-
tation- 1t is a top coat" of gray
suede with monkey-fur collar. Its
smart lines, loose BOX coat effect
with the perforated seams, and belt
make it one of the smartest fall
novelties. The hat worn by the chic
young woman is a gray velvet con-
tineutal modification
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30

Cast Iron articles were frs
made in England in 100.
Switzerland has adopted a stand
ard voltage for electric circuits.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30

Walnuts were first grown in
Persia.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-22
BELOVED THIEF
FINDS MOTHER
Separation of Many Years
Comes to End.

NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-LittIs Edna r.
Wilsey Of Oswego, n Y, is nesting in
the arms Of the mother who had long
bsen mourned q dead.
The girl IS known as the beloved
thief" Her fall began July .. when she
stole some jeweIry and dress from Miss
Rose Reilly in Manhattan State Hospital
She said she wanted to visit her grand
parents and left before the theft was de-
tected.
on the train to Oswego she met an old
woman whose heart she won and who
offered her a position and home in Corn
ing, y. y Arriving there the old woman
missed $50 diamond pin and $40 IN
cash Edna's arrest followed and she
Was taken to jail in Bath. y. Y.
Stricken with remorse, the old lady fol
lowed her to Bath and pleaded for her
release In the meantime the warden
heart had been warmed toward her. He
took the girl into his home and then got
her position In a hotel.
The girl was located by detectives from
this city and brought here, but WHOM
they met In court Miss Reilly. the com
plainant, kissed and Rugged her, and re
fused to press the charge. In general
session Judge Talley refused TO accept
Edna's plea Of guilty. Nevertheless
Edna was locked In the Tombs pending
disposition of her case. Here she said
that her mother had died several yea RS
ago aud that she had stolen to go to her
grandparents, with whom she lived
Yesterday n woman who strangely re-
sembled the girl appeared at the Tombs
and told the warden she was sure Edna
WAS her daughter She explained that
she and her husband had separated and
that he and another woman had taken
Edna away when a child She told OF
years OF search FOR her daughter and of
finding a clew in the story Of her arrest
The warden was finally convinced and
brought the woman and girl together
Edna rushed into the arms that waited
for Der while the grlzzled warden wept
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-22
OCEAN QUAKE is
SHAVING MENACE
Man Caught in BARRIERS Chair
in Trying Moment.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22-An earth
quake is a mean proposition at best. But
for one to occur while a ship is passing
through the quake zone is still worse.
And worst of ALL according to Collector
Of the Port John o. Davis, just back from
trip to the Orient. is to be in a barber
chair on board said ship, with a shaky
barber welding the razor.
The earthquake shook the Marking
from stem to stern, and the barber
bolted, locking Davis In the shop.
Davis said the earthquake occurred in
the region Of the Lomocks Islands, close
to the point where the Chinese steamer
Kong Mob was wrecked recently, with
! 200 Chinese passengers lost, and that
the vibrations had given rise to the be.
lief aboard that the Marking was meet
ing like fate.
The Marking passed through the
wreck zone three days after the vessel
had gone down, and Davis said bodies
were still to be seen floating around on
the oceans bosom.
Davis related tale of heroism in con-
nection with the rescue Of 200 survivors
by Captain Evans, of the British ship
Carlisle which put out to the wreck
scene from Hong Kong. Evans, Davis
said, found the Chinese refusing to leave
the fragment OF their boat protruding
above the water and save themselves.
With seas too heavy for navigation by
small boats, Evans swan from shore
with a line and effected the rescue, being
compelled to thro wthe majority of the
panicky passengers into the water.
Evans was forced to jump in the ocean
second time to disentangle q hawser
which had caught in the propeller Of
Iauuch
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-22
GERMANS SEEK
GREAT CREDITS
IN ALLNATIONS
Country Hopes to Win Con-
troll of so Per Cent of
Worlds Commerce

BERLIN, Aug. 22-German export
manufacturers are laying plans to win
control Of 60 per cent of the worlds
commerce by the time the war indem-
nifty is liauidated, and to do this, which
they consider essential if Germany is
| to meet promptly her obligations to for
ner enemy countries and remain eco
nomically sound, "feelers" have been put
out for negotiations for extensive credit
| loans in virtually every country once
interested or now attracted by German
trade possibilities.
The German manufacturers, who are
understood to be closely cooperating In
plans to launch the campaign for world
commerce, are hoping for special agrees
ments with American manufacturers
which would not take into consideration
in any appreciable manner the proposal
Of the American Finance Trade Corpora
| ton to establish 81, 900, 900 buying fund
/ in the United States for TeutOns.
| The delay in declaring the state Of
/ war between the two countries at an
end also has embarrassed manufacturers
/ in both countries and. even now that
peace has been declared, the situation Is
uncertain, because it is believed many
weeks must elapse before the nationals
/ VI NtAAtA GbuHAIy kuOW dppGOAAndtetS
what the new relations viii be.
The Germans are placing their prin-
cipal hope for favorable relations with
American concerns in a scheme by which
they would act as European agents" fos
the Americans and would manufacture in
Germany raw materials sent from tbs
! United States and sell these manufactured
goods to the Americans customers here
I on a percentage basis. Concerning this
plan. an informant said:
Many German factories are now
working only half time, not because
there Is no market for their goods, but
1 because they are unable to secure raw
materials at reasonable prices. The cost
/ Of production in Germany Is so
much less than it is in America that the
Americans, as well as the Germans.
! could cooperate profitably in meeting
| the European demand for manufsc-
/ tured articles. The market for cotton
/ goods. for agricultural machinery for
/ automobiles-in fact, for all sorts Of
machinery, VIII not be over supplied for
many years.
This proposal is particularly timely
/ now when IL is estimated that the worlds
/ surplus cotton crop this year will exceed
/ last years by five and a half million
! bales. The European demand for cotton
/ goods has been decreased by the sub.
/ stitutes which Germans especially have
been forced to manufacture, but 1t would
/ promptly revive If the goods could be
/ placed cheaply before consumers. Ths
/ high cost Of labor and the high value OF
American money abroad makes it next
/ to impossible for the Americans to meet
this demand. The Germans feel they
+ could do it."
| Some German capitalists believe it VIII
be ten TO fifteen years before Germany
again can WELD anything like her old
| time power in world commerce. but the
more optimistic are figuring on a shorter
period. Copyright, 1921, By Public
Ledger Company.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-22
BY FRANK e. MASON.

RIGA, Aug 22.--Xenophon Kalamatia-
no, New York, who lived in the shadow
Of death in Russian prisons more than a
year and half and who came out Of
Russia last week with five other liberated
Americans, has arrived from Reyal with
a story Of adventure more wonderful
than fiction.
Kalamatiano told Of lonely night vigils
in bis death cell listening to the crack
ling rifles Of firing squads outside his
cell; of how men died bravely facing
their ,executioners OF living on half o
pound Of bread daily, never knowing
when It would be his turn to fall before
the red rifemen,
The correspondent rode down from Re
val on the same train compartment with
the American citizen Thursday. Kala-
matiano who is graduate of the Univer-
sity of Chicago of the class of 1902, told
his tale In the phrases of an educated
man.
at is strange how quickly a man can
readjust himself to new and strange con-
ditlons," said Kalamatiano.
For instance, / am riding on this
train as unconcernedly as though I were
used to 1t, and as though / had ex-
perienced no emotion in three years.
All this time / was in prison. cooped up
in different cells.
WALKING DOG
MADE HIM NERVOUS.
"Often in the stiffness of the death
cell in Jail, 1 wondered if 1 could ever
again aecustom myself to motion. Even
the sight Of a dog walking across the
prison yard made me nervous"
He glanced out Of the window at the
fat territory whirling by and smiled
at his fancies. Unlike the other five
Americans who came out of Russian
prisons, he shows no traces Of nervous
ness. He was cool and calm and took
everything philosophically. He told his
story as he paced up and down the rail-
way station at Dorpat and while we
were riding together in the train.
"In September, 1918, | was in Samara,"
he said There l heard the Reds had
begun a campaign of reprisals for an
attempt to assassinate Nikolai Lenin.
soon found out that the reports of Red
terrorism were not exaggerated.
Il returned to Moscow to see what
was happening and was caught in a
Bolshevist police trap. was arrested
outside of the American consulate just
as I was about to enter.
81 spent eight days in the Tscheka
prison with nightly interrogatlons All
that time | was practically without food.
Then came d big trial with the news
papers filled with details.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-22
NO DETOUR FOR
MAN 98 AROUND
LTFES Spirits
Father of Detroit Judge Bears
Age Lightly, Though Near
Certurp Mark.

DETROIT. Aug 22--John 2. McKin-
lay, a welcome relief from those gen.
tlemen who step up to bat at 100 years
OF age and gustily announce they did 1t
by making a detour around all LIES
joys, sat on the bench with his son,
Judge John r. McKinlay, in justice s
court last week.
He is o. He has tried about every
thing once, except tobacco. Not that he
ever had scruples against smoking, Mr.
MeKinlay hurries to say. It just wouldn't
agree with him. With ale and other
beverages In modest potions, that's an
other story.
His home Is In Ridgetown, Ontario.
III think I'll have to get back a little
sooner than l expected, SON" he said
fore July IS" Ontario goes dry that
date
The cocks growing at dawn never
meant anything more than an annoyance
to this mona genarian. He went to sleep
when be felt like sleeping. Sometimes il
was D. m, sometimes after midnight
the matter being determined largely by
the time 1t was when Mr., McKinlay had
finished reading his favorite Toronto
newspaper.
The sturdy stock from which he comes
may be responsible for Mr.. McKinlay's
ruggedness The clan of McKinlay IL
from Perthshire, Scotland, and many Of
those who have passed on" rest on An
ME farm. near the scene of the action In
SCOTS Lady OF the Lake" and hard by
Loeb Lomond.
1t was the clan rule that the first
born son should be named John. Hence
there is John p. Wednesdays visitor
Judge John r., his son, and John b.
the judges 16- year-old son.
Mr.. McKinIay was a police magistrate
at Ridgetown for thirty years. At his
retirement he was the oldest magistrate
both in point Of age and in point Of
service, within the Dominion.
He writes with no uncertain zigzag
His signature was witness to a wedding
ceremony performed by his son, th'
Judge, on Tuesday night, is as precisely
Iettered a sif school teacher had writ
ten it,
Mr.. McKinlay is dividing him time
while in Detroit between the home OF
his son, 9S3 Hazelwood avenue, and that
OF his daughter, Mrs, w. A. Malcolm
son