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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-11
AIR RECORDS
MADE BY Girl
Phoebe Fairgrove, Is. Drops 15,sG0
Feet in Parachute From
AirpiaRe.

st. Paul, Mimi, July II. - Miss
Phoebe j. Fairgrave, IS years old.
of this city, established what was
said 10 be a new worlds record for
a parachute drop for women when
she dropped 1920 feet from an
airplane at Curtiss flying field, near
here, late yesterday.
The previous record was said to
have been II, 900 feet, held by Miss
Mabel Cody, set at Chicago, last
February.
The altitude was recorded by an
altometer, according to Paul Olds-
borough of the Aero club of Min
neapolis, who, with V. c. Omlie,
pilot, went up in the plane with
Miss Fairgrave.
1t took exactly 20 minutes from
the time Miss Fairgrave leaped un-
I'll she alighted safely in a wheat
Held near New Brighton.
1T was terrible" said Miss Fair
grave later. Il never want to try
it again"
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HARDING'S
MOVE We'll.
RECEIVED
Hughes Prepares Official
Invitations to World
Powers.

Washington. July limit
cd Press.-FOllOwing are the
salient points of President
Harding's statement that he
would call a disarmament con-
ference.
The great powers, Great
Britain. France, Italy and ia
pan. which with the United
States were known as the
principal allied and associated
powers" are TO be invited to
the disarmament conference.
The conference is Ito be held
in Washington at a time to be
mutually agreed upon"
The question OF limitation
armaments has a close rela-
ton TO Pacific and Far East
ern problems and the presi-
dent has suggested that the
powers should undertake in
connection with this confer
ence the consideration of all
matters bearing upon their
solution with view to reach
ing a common understanding
with respect to principles and
policies in the Far East"
This has been cOmmuniCat-
ed to the powers concerned
and China has also been inyit-
ed TO take part in the discus
sion relating to Far Eastern
problems"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-11
CRITICISM BY
PUBLIC JARS
LEGISLATORS
Precedence of Tariff
DiSpleases Business
Men.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Copyright, 1921


Washington, July 11.-Public
opinion is making itself felt in the
national capital. The impatience
of the country over the failure of
congress TO get started on a pro-
gram of tax revision has pene-
trated both the legislative and ex-
ecutiye branches of the govern
ment. Letters of complaint from
prominent business men, most of
them Republicans, have reached
congress, and, while it is true that
the average man outside Of Wash
ington has little conception of the
immense amount of work involved
in shaping a tariff bill, it is a fact
that most of the criticism has
been placed upon the preference
given to consideration of the tariff
ahead of the tax question.
Tariff Bill Is Big job.
Representative Mondell, RepUbli-
can leader OF the house, who is as
conscientious public servant as
the Republican party has ever had,
makes a point of the tremendous
labor the ways and means commit
tee has had before it in shaping a
tariff bill, and argues that this
same committee could obviously
handle only one thing at a time
The ways and means committee IN
fortunately is charged with the
task of making both the tariff and
tax bills.
There is no other committee to
which the revenue measure could
have gone while the ways and
means committee worked on the
tariff. But the nub of the present
situation is not that the ways and
means committee has been wasting
time, for it has been working hard
both night and day on the tariff bill,
but that ii gave right of way to
the tariff on the basis Of an alleged
overwhelming opinion from the
country in favor of that course If,
in other words, congress misread
public opinion, it is really partly
due to the failure of the country
to assert its wishes Enthusiastically.
Serious Differences.
1t now becomes apparent that
there are serious differences of
opinion on the tariff and that many
of the advocates of a permanent
tariff are in doubt as to whether
any bill enacted at this session will
not have to be changed in a month,
as the result of constantly changing
economic conditions throughout
the world.
As for the tax question, on the
other hand, there is no division of
opinion among the advocates of a
change in the tax rate Sentiment
is perfectly unanimous. Rarely in
recent years has a demand from
Continued on page nine.)
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diture in the Pacific, with all the
evils that such expenditure would
entail, and that would ensure the
development of all legitimate ma
ticnal interests in the far east.
I'VE had first to ascertain our
exact position in regard to the an
Io-Japanese agreement. There had
been much doubt as to whether the
notification to the League OF Ma
tions last July constituted denun-
citation of the agreement in the
sense of Clause VI. If 1t did 1t
weuld be necessary to decide on
some interim measures regarding
the agreement, pending fuller dis
cussion with the Pacific powers and
negotiations with this object in
view. were. in point of fact, already
in progress"
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TWO DROWNED
IN FOX RIVER

Aurora, Ill, July 11.-Joseph So
jetz, Chicago, and Clarence Hen
rickson. 20, Aurora, were drowned
at different points in the Fox river
yesterday under almost identical
circumstances. Each was attending
a family picnic and each was wad-
ing in an apparently shallow place
when he stepped into hole.
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HARDING BACK
FROM CRUISE

Washington, July 1.-THE Presi-
Dental yacht Mayflower reached
her dock at the navy yard soo-. aft
er s o'clock today, bringing Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding and their
guests back from weekend cruise
in Chesapeake Bay Mr.. Harding
plannd to return to the White house
after breakfasting abroad the yacht
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Transfers GO
OUT ON STRIKE
WaIkout is Protest Against Wage
Decrease-St Louis Vehicle
Companies Tied Up.

St Louis, July 11.-Approximate-
ly one thousand teamsters and
chauffeurs went on strike today in
protest against proposed wage de-
crease of 10 10 u per cent. The
waikout virtually paralyzed the bus
mess of transfer and vehicle ser
vice companies. The present wage
scale ranges from $3.50 to $50 a
week
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FIR ANCE is
CERTAIN TO
Join MEET
Glad to Disarm but Fears
Further Aggression
by Germany.

Paris, July 11.-(By the Associat-
ed Press. )-Sheldon Whitehouse.
counselor of the American en-
bassy, called at the French foreign
office, just before noon today and
talked with NJ. De Peretti de La
Rocca, director of political affairs,
on the possibility of holding a con-
ference on disarmament
Mr.. Whitehouse delivered no
document in this connection, mere
ly engaging in a tentative conver-
sation on the subject.
No Official Comment
Official comment on President
Harding's initiative for a confer
ence on the limitation of arma-
ments is withheld pending receipt
OF the official invitation, but unotll-
cial opinions, gathered in official
circles, are to the effect that France
certainly will accept the invitation
if one is received.
The attitude of the French gov
ernment, however, is said to be un-
changed since it was set forth in
the assembly of the League of Ma
tions last December by Leon Bour-
geois. France, it is explained, is
ready and would be glad to reduce
her armaments and save the heavy
expense involved as soon as she
can safely do so, but any decision
on this question must depend upon
absolute security from the east
Time Is Not Ripe.
Inquiries in official circles dis
close the impression that such Sc
curity has not yet been obtained.
The Upper Silesian troubles and
the nationalist reaction in certain
parts of Germany are cited as in
dicationS that the time has not yet
come when France can safely
weaken herself in the face of Ger
many. French opinion is particu-
larly exercised over the continued
agitation by the German manifest
ants who remained in Upper Sile-
sia after the evacuation by the Ger
man forces under General Won
Hoefer.
Silesian Question Troubles.
In this connection 1t is declared
that since the assassination of Ma
jor Montalieres at Beuthen last
week two French officers there
have been besieged in their quar-
ters by menacing crowds, being
saved only by the Intervention of
the police, while French official dis
patches declare that of the 10000
troops who were under General
Won Hoefer in Upper Silesia only
10000 were withdrawn. OF the TO-
900 said to be remaining, half are
residents of Upper Silesia, and
these are understood to be the ele-
ments which are continuing the
anti-Polish agitation and menacing
the French troops and their officers.
The French government afhrms
that the version of the aSsasSina-
ton of Major Montalieres given by
certain German newspapers is IN
accurate in essential particulars.
both the French and British re-
ports demonstrating that someone
in the crowd of demonstrators was
responsible for the shooting.
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HERE'S PASTOR
WHOSE SERMONS
ARE ICECOOLED

East St Louis, Ill, July IL
With the thermometer register
ing well above 80 degrees, Rev.
Francis Geyer OF the First
Methodist church preached to a
cool congregation here last
night. Behind him on the pull
pit u 100-pound cakes of ice
had been placed before a large
electric fan which played cool
breezes over the worshippers.
Artificial snow was scattered
through the aisles.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-11
CHURCH WILL
ASK CONGRESS
FOR BLUE LAW
Southern Methodists
Would Prohibit Sun
day Trains.

Nashville, Tenn, July II. - En-
actment of Sunday blue law
prohibiting among other things the
operation of Sunday trains and ex-
cludfng Sunday newspapers from
the maiIss will be urged by the
Methodist Central Sabbath Crusade
committee in a petition to be pre-
Sented to congress this week, it was
announced by Noah w. Cooper,
chairman of the committee on leav-
ing here today for Washington. On
July IA, Mr.. Cooper said, the COM
mittee, which represents u south
ern conferences, will place a copy
of the petition in the hands of every
senator and representative in con-
gress
Plans for demonstration by ma
ti0nal Sunday advocates before the
capitol entrance on that date were
abandoned, he said, because of pro-
hibitOry regulations.
Law is "Simple.-
Characterizing the proposed law
as the simplest thing imaginable" >"
Mr.. Cooper, in a statement issued
before his departure, said it would
prohibit all secular work on Sun
day by persons in interstate or in
federal service, except instances of
charity and necessity, and stop all
interstate Sunday trains, newspa-
pers and like business for profit"
1t would not, however, he said.
"stop men from kissing their wives
and babies and riding in their cars
to get fresh air and visit the sick;
nor from looking at the flowers and
viewing the landscape; nor from wa
tering the cows or doing hundred
things that any gentleman would
take plasure in doing without in
truding on his ordinary work on
Sunday"
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WATERWAY BOOSTERS MEET.

Niagara FAILS, Ont, July II.-Ap-
proximately IT'S persons interested
in the proposed st. Lawrence deep
waterway project gathered for
tour of the proposed waterway Mon
day.
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ININVI SIdEl dI Z q. Ill., 20, 44O
change last "a hours.
River Forecast.
The Mississippi river from below
Dubuque to Muscatine will remain
nearly stationary during the next
four days.
FLOYD D. YOUNG,
Meteorologist-
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r,RI, OF CRAyFN DROWNED.

Cowes Island, OFF Wight, July
1G.-The Earl of Craven was
drowned in the waters of the Sol
ent Saturday night, or early Sun
day.
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BULLETIN.

Washington, July This
government expects a faVOra-
BILE response from all FIVE na-
tons which received tentative
invitations to a disarmament
conference in Washington.
The belief was expressed in
a highly authoritative quarter
today that all the powers inVit-
ed viii send representative to
discuss a cut in the worlds
armies and nayies and to set
tie questions bearing ON the
Pacific and far eastern prob
lens.
That such an international
gathering will ''secuTe the
peace OF the world was the
statement of an Official in em-
phasiZing the importance of
the step the administration has
taken.
1t was also explained why
the proposal for the conference
was brOadened to include land
as we'll as naval arInamants;
why countries other than the
United States, Great Britain
and Japan. the principal naval
powers, were included. and it
was intimated that many of the
obstacles heretofore appearing
in the. way OF disarmament may
be wiped out before the con-
ference actually meets.
Officials also said that they
are not yet clear as to Just
how soon the conference can
be put nnder way or how IL
will be organized.
a disarmament conference
was bound to come" said Sec
retary OF War Weeks today. at
mas my approval
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Washington, July IL (Uuited
tress)-A disarmament conference
m Washington was regarded as GER
tain today
Following the informal query to
.Ie great powers, asking whether
uley would be willing to enter into
Sucn conference, Secretary
l nugheS was preparing the official
iIni'4lsuons in order to be ready 10
s,.ISpatch them upon receipt of word
,Hd' they are acceptable.
England and Japan Already Bound.
Great Britain and Japan, through
puohc statements of their govern
sht sieht leaders have already bound
themselves TO join in a disarmament
sSnlerence if the United States
should call it.
Fuoiic opinion in France and
.Cdiy will not allow leaders of
.aose nations to refuse the invita-
su non even if they should regard it
UIdIavorably, it is believed here.
oniha, whose friendliness to this
eSy SSuntry has been many times en-
ttuaSized, will certainly accept, it is
r. p-Ought China will participate in
at Eastern discussions.
oue OF the fundamental factors
60 60 OF the discussion to call the
.Serence "a. is that by this step the
~ inistration has virtually begun
So framework of its promised as
'atlon Of nations TO prevent war.
10 hill Angle-Jap AIliancel
hughes and Harding included in
ossn call the questions in the Pa
Sis. IL has been pointed out that
IN =. mament hinged on the events
IN the Pacific.
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MOVIE MEN ARE
DRAGGED INTO
BRIBERY CASE
Linked With Charges
Against District
Attorney.

Boston, Mass, July 11.-United
Press. 1.-The names of several
prominent movie magnates today
were dragged into the case of Dis
trict Attorney Tufts of Middlesex
county, whom the attorney general
seeks to have removed from office
Special Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Henry Hurlbut, making his
opening statement to the five su-
preme court justices who are hear
ing the case, made the following al
legations:
Guests Pay "Hush Money
1. That 100000 hush money"
was extracted from guests who at
tended a girl and wine dinner at
Mishawum Manor, Woburn, to pro-
tect from exposure. 1t is charged
Tufts was involved in this.
2. That the bill for this dinner
$1,050-was paid by the Paramount
Moving Picture company, and was
approved by Tiram Abrahams, Of
fetal of that concern who, with
Adolph Zukor, we'll known movie
magnate, is alleged to have been at
the feast.
Hurlbut, in discussing the charge
that 100000 hush money was OBJ
tanned, told of various checks that
changed hands after conferences in
which Daniel H. Coakley, promi-
nent Boston attorney, and others
were leading figures.
Girls at Wild ReveIs.
1--WE are unable" Hurlbut said
'to trace any part of the 100000
directly as having been paid tc
Tufts, but We will produce eVi-
dence which we will say will raise
strong suspicion that he allowed
himself to be influenced to help his
friend Coakley, and to the great in
jury of the public"
Hurlbut said that the revels at
Mishawum Manor followed a dinner
at a Fashionable Boston hotel in
honor of Fatty" Arbuckle on the
night of March 6, 1917. The revels
were arranged by someone un-
known to him, he said.
Hurlbut asserted that Brownie
Kennedy, owner of the Manor,
brought Is or 16 young girls 10 the
party.
On May II, while he was in Port
land, Maine, Abrams received a
telephone call from James M Cur
ley, then mayor of Boston, Hurlbut
said, in which Curley notified Alb
rams to return to Boston at once
as a serious matter was about to
develop and to bring an attorney
with him.
Party "Drunken Affair."
After the telephone conversation
with Curley, according to Hurlbuts
statement, the moving picture mag
nate hurried back to Boston where
he met Curley. Abrams had with
him as his attorney Joseph NJ
Levenson- After conference. Dan
ieI H. Coakley was called in as
chief counsel for Abrams.
Coakley is alleged to have ar
ranged a conference with Tuftus
and he and his client visited the
district attorney at the court
house in East Cambridge. Acco~A
ing to Hurlbut, at the conference
Tufts referred to the Mishawum
party as a drunken affair" and
said he had received several com
plants and that if they would get
the complainants "off his back"
nothing more would be done about
the matter. Coakley demanded a
retainer of $4,000 early in the pro-
ceedings, Hurlbut said
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The WEATHER

Generally fair and continued
warm tonight and Tuesday.
Highest temperature yesterday,
IS; lowest last night, 72.
Wind velocity at a. m, 2 miles
per hour.
Precipitation, none.
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CONTINUED on page nine.)
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Quits Cuba National Bank
W. A. Merchant Retains New
York Position

Cable advices received here from
Havana yesterday announced the
resignation of William A. Merchant
president of the Banco Nacional de
Cuba, effective April /. Mr.. Merchant
continues as president of the Bank of
Cuba in New York.
A reorganization Of the Banco Ma
cional dc Cuba is expected 70 be under
taken shortly. The institution as
severely felt the effects of the fnan-
cial disturbance in Cuba as a result
of the collapse in the raw sugar market.
Porfrio Franco, manager of the
Havana branch of the National Citv
Bank OF New York, is understood to
have been offered the presidency OF the
Banco Nacional, succeeding Mr.. Mer-
chant, who is to leave for Europe
shortly with his wife, who is in III
health
A majority of the stock of the Banco
Naclonal IS understood to be held bv
the Cuban government as security
against the s22 100000 government de-
pOSltS in the institution
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03

Open. High Low.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
b ii ess News
Depression ON Pacific Coast
Reflected in Survey of Trade
Tariff to Aid Trade
Opposed by Sisson

Tariff protection for our agri-
cultural products was opposed by
Francis II. Sisson, vice president Of
the Guaranty Trust Company, last
night in an address at the banquet
of the Society of Arts and Sciences
at the Hotel Astor.
After pointing to improvement in
the general business situation in
the last two months and predicting
a gradual betternent of the eco
nomlc position, Mr.. Sisson said
while the unfortunate position
of holders of agricultural products
in whose behalf tariff legislation is
chiefly urged may be fully recog-
nized, it is still difficult to see in
what respect the imposition of tar
ifs can help them materially, and
it is certain that the effect upon the
welfare of the nation as a whole
cannot fail to be seriously adverse.
There is no certainty whatever that
domestic markets can be stimulated
by tariff exclusion or foreign goods,
nor that domestic prices will there
by be apprcciably enhanced"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
TunadAY'a
Butter. Cheese, Eggs

Butter-Recetptx were b.saa rack.~..
Creamery higher than extras, ID, "a
e6ho; extras. 90 score. 64iac; nrsts. ss
score, 500 47c: lower grades, s4@ssc; un. n.
sa'ted. higher THAN extras. 57,s Q5sc, ex.
tras. b6ia q $40: frsts. 4e0s5isc seconds
soW 4sc; held or storage, extras, 4S 40 <9c
hrsts. 4s@47c; seconds. 3204Ic: lower
sTades, 2s@soc: Danish casks. fresh 81 u
964'ac; state dairy tubs finest, 6a954c;
good to prime, 4sQ5oc: common to far
S9W 42c; ladies. current make. hrsts, u a.
2sc; seconds. 24924 iac: lower grades 22
q 23c; packing stock, current make. No J.
24c: NO. 2, 23c' lower gra des. 10 q acc.
whole milk. held. early nade flats. spe
cials. lb 27ls @ 2ac; fall made, 26is Do7c
average run. 24is W26c; fresh. specials
rs NC average run. 2l024lac: lower
grades. Is q &c; twins. held. specials sS II
q ssAac; average run, 24la G,25isc; Wis
eonsin, held fats a5@27c; held twins eS
20 !ac; single Daisies. held, 2oa 27Ac
double Daisies, held. 25127c: Young
Americas, held. 279ashc: fresh 379asc
skins. held specials 17is Ml9lsc: prime
to choice, lSQ16c; fair to good lO0l2c
lower grades. SO &C.
Eggs-Receip<s were a0.oSo cases Fresl
gathered, extras, dozen. ss@ssiac; extra
dirties, No. !. 5o@s ssc checks, fair tc
choice. dry, 80 q Soc: state, PENNSYLVANIA
and nearby Western, hennery whites
extras soc; extra firsts. 4s@49c; firsts
4s@47c;. gathered whites frsts to extra
nrsts $50 49c; under grades. 4o@42c
hrsts. 47G+Sc: pulets, 35@36c; hei
Western and Southern. gathered whites
ss G45c: state. Pennsylvania and nearby
Western. hennery browns, extra, 4o@42c
extras $50 &c; frsts to extra hrsts
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Advance i'm Wheat
On Outlook Abroad
Followed by Sales
Reaction from Highest Fails
10 Efface Net Gain; Corn
Shows Same Trend with
Irregular Fluctuations

CHICAGO, March 2.-Fresh upturns
in the price of wheat took place to-day
owing chiefly to European political
strain. The market closed unsettled
to 1& net higher, with March Sl.672 q
to $l.6S, and May, $1.5aA to $780,
Corn finished y to l cent up, and oats
at an advance Of 1sM1s to asMha. In
provisions the outcome was unchanged
to 15c lower.
A general rush TO this. buying side
brought about sharp advance In the
wheat market during the early -1ading,
but many holders realized on the bulge
and top prizes failed to hold. Further ex
port demand was something of factor In
STRENGTHENING tho market, and so, too, was
notable 1ightness OF rural offerings. Be-
sides. 1t was contended that European con-
dltions would force higher prices regard
less OF whether or not there was crop dam
age In the United States. Official fam
inc reports from India tended somewha at
TO emphasize this view. on the other
hand. sales OF wheat 70 come to Chicago
from Kansas city helped to case the
market at the last
Corn and oats paralleled the action of
wheat. Export business In corn kept UP.
and domestic demand was fairly good bot b
for corn and oats,
Selling by packers weakened provisions
dcspite higher quotations. on grain and
hoss.