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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
TEARS FALL FOR
GREAT CARUSO
IN MANHATTAN

New York. Aug. 2.-(United
Press .)-Through the narrow, dark.
dingy streets of Little Italy" made
more squaIid and gloomy by low
hanging black clouds and cur
tain of rain a courier of death rode
today with the message:
"Caruso is dead"
The courier was Giuseppe Van
tresca, native of Naples, whG
bought an afternoon extra paper,
turned his produce laden truck
around and speeded home with the
bad news to the old mother who
knew the great Caruso when he
was an infant.
Barefooted urchins. deserting the
water flooded cutters where a
fleet of cigarbox boats was. sail
ing, spread the news up and down
the streets.
Fruit venGers left their stands
merchants forgot their stores and
Joined the oldest young in a pro-
cession to the tenement where the
lone paper had already been torn TO
pieces by the anxious people. O;d
women with skirts knee high, pad
died through the pools of water IN
the street to the two bigger coated
Irish cops who stood under a pro-
tecting awning at Sullivan an
Prince streets.
is Carusoi dead?" they asked The
two big coppers who have come TO
be accepted as the official bureau of
information in the settlement.
That's what the papers say,
they were told.
Then the tears came.
They expressed themselves IL
Italian walls. They crossed them
sely es. said prayer for the dead
ana then trudged home detected!
through the water.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
TAKE CRAFT
LADEN WITH
RUM IN TOW
Coast Guard Captures
Schooner Concealing
Liquor Below Decks

yew York, Aug. 2.-The schooner
Harry L. Marshall, with a cargo of
uouor. was taken into custody late
1,et night four miles off the coast
nv the coast guard cutter Seneca
and brought here today. The
schooner was flying the British flag
INT advices from the Seneca said
there were no papers showing
transfer to British registry.
On the deck of the schooner, whose
name was concealed by canvas.
coast guard officers said they found
numerous cases of liquor with addl-
tional spirits below decks. There
also was evidence that much of her
cargo had been discharged.
The men on board were asked for
their papers, which they denied
having. A search, however, dis
closed documents indicating she
had cleared from Nassau, July Z,
for Halifax, and also for Glouces-
ter
Dispose of Cargo.
The men on board were alleged
to have admitted that the schooner
loaded her cargo at point five
miles off the island of New Provt-
dence, in the Bahamas, and that the
cargo comprised 1900 cases of
LIQUOR OF various kinds. They were
quoted as saying they were to have
destroyed the Halifax clearance
papers after the cargo had been dis
posed of, and then proceed to
Gloucester They declined to say
what they had done with that part
Of the ships cargo obviously miss
ing.
After examining the ships papers,
the Seneca's captain placed seven
men aboard the schooner as prize
crew, and taking her in tow, started
for New York.
For weeks, the coast guard serv-
ice has been circling nearby waters
on the lookout for mysterious noat-
iLg bars which have been reported
bobbing up from Cape Cod south
TO the Virginia capes.
Many Rum Runners.
Montack Point and Atlantic City
have been the most active points in
reporting run-laden craft just be-
yond the three-mile limit. From
Montack came reports that a ship
from the Bahamas had been most
punctual in keeping appointments
on shore with a swarm of small
craft and that liquor enough to
slack many thirst had been pur-
chased on the high seas and landed
along the New York, New Jersey
anc Connecticut shores.
Atlantic City reported rum run
ners three miles off the beach, sig
Mailing taIntingly to prohibition
agents to come and get it," One
schooner already had been seized
there. but no liquor was found
aboard
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
JEWELLERS owe
PERSONAL TAX
Board of Review Calls 500 Chicago
Dealers To Be Questioned
Claim Large sum Due.

Chicago, Aug. 2-The board of
tax ew-hassSallsd before it more
than eight hundred jewelers. to ques-
ton them in regard to their per-
sonal properly tax schedules, which
in some instances, have not varied
in recent years when jewelry was
at its highest point, according to
members of the board.
Board members estimated that
the jewelers. may owe the county
between $1,000 and 100000, due
to Understanding the value of
their personal property. Merchants
in other lines will be summoned
later.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
Late Bulletins

NOrbOrne, Mo- Aug. John
Craig. wealthy retired farmer,
was seized by masked men last
Friday night and taken in an
automobile a mile from town,
where he was whipped severe
Iy it was learned today. The
men, it was said, told Craig to
''treat his family better.-
London, Aug. 2.-EamOnn de
Valera. leader OF the Irish re-
publicans, has informally sub
mitted TO all available members
of the Irish republican parIia-
ment, the peace proposals OF
Prime Minister Lloyd George, it
is declared by the Daily Sketch.
Tulsa, Okla, Aug. 2-CUnit-
ed Press. Herbert l.. Roy, 81,
alleged lover of the woman, and
Charles Scott. her husband, met
at the city mOrgue today and
agreed to share funeral ex-
penses of Mrs. Scott whom pO-
lice say suiciaed last night by
drinking poison.
Grand Junction. Colo, Aug. 2.
-(UHited Press)-The Carried
County State Bank at GI-amd
Valley was robbed today OF $1o,-
600.
Washington, Aug. 2-The new
tax proposals OF secretary Mel
Ion for IevieS on automobiles,
bank checks and increased post
age were denounced today by
Representatives Bacharach OF
New Jersey.
Topeka, Kan- Aug. 2.-JeSs
Willard. who is in Topeka to-
day on business, said he receiV-
ed a telegram from Tex Rick
ard today asking for terms for
bout with Dempsey. and will
take the matter up with Rick
ard at once.
Dixon, H. Aug. 2.-William
Coffee, aged "a, white, OF this
city, was shot and killed in n
quarrel at a gambling joint con-
Quoted by Sam Starks. negro,
east OF this city, last night
Washington, ID. c. Former
comptroller Of currency, ]. 5.
Williams. before a ieint con-
gressiOnal committee consider
ing agricultural problems. criti-
cized the administration of the
federal reserve banks, saying
that in 1919 the New York fed
eral reserve hank loaned one
New York bank $3.50, 900. 600. He
said the Institution was not a
national bank and was noted for
speculation.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
WILL STOP CARS
IN DES MONIES
Auorneys for Bondholders Ask CeS-
sation OF SerVice-To Fore
close Mortgage.

Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. PRO
.eeolngs TO foreclose the mortgage
"a The Des Moines Street Railway
onpany's property will be insti-
@'ed In federal court in accordance
sln action taken in Chicago yes
,eloay by the bondholders, it was
.anounced here today. Attorneys
:. .ne bondholders will ask an i'm
eeiate cessation of service. The
- ,sse VIII be heard by Federal Judge
aaiun J. Wade, who last week is
,,. su warning indicating that
et car service would be sus-
ruued on Aug. /, as requested by
eisers for the company.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
MAIL Theft
SECURITIES
RECOVERED
Find Loot Taken in Rob
berries With Firm Whose
Heads Are in Jail.

Chicago. Aug. .. Bonds of the
Sinclair Oil company, which re-
Gently disappeared in New York,
and securities missing since the
Toledo and Dearborn station, Chi
cago, mail robberies, were found
today among the effects of the Cen
trail Securities company, whose
leaders, John ". Worthington and
Owen T. Evans, were arrested here
Yesterday, according to announce
ment Of federal officials.
Three million dollars worth OF
the Sinclair bonds were missing but
it is believed they may be located
through those found today.
Based upon these discoveries, ad-
ditional indictments against the
men were asked by John V. Clinnin,
assistant United States district at
torney.
Mr.. Clinnin is directing the case
which is aimed also at 26 other
persons indicted with Worthington
and Evans but whose names had not
been made public, pending arrests.
The federal investigators expect
that the case will clear up the mail
lObDGI l1OlC lhdA hNO
and a half million dollars. Further
discoveries are expected if the in
vestigators can find keys to safety
deposit boxes rented in Worthing-
toms name. There were no keys
on his person when he was arrest
ed but elevator shafts and other
possible hiding places are being
combed for them.
We absolutely have the goods on
Worthington," said Mr.. Clinnin. He
said that besides the Sinclair, To-
ledo and Dearborn station securi-
ties, there had been found a guam
tity of war savings stamps and
some cancelled internal revenue
stamps washed" by an Illegal pro-
cess for use a second time.
Worthington and Evans pleaded
not guilty when arraigned before
Judge Landis and their bonds were
set at $4,000 each.
Chicago, Aug. 2.-Federal officials
said today that the roundup of 26
persons named with John W.
Worthirgton and Owen T. Evans in
charges relating to mail robberies
totalling more than $5,500,00o. was
boing pushed. They declined, how
ever, to announce early today
whether more arrests had beer
made.
Worthington, who has figured in
several previous sensational cases
and Evans, a former bank ex-
aminer, were taken into custody at
the Central Securities company
of which they were president and
vice president
The district attorneys office indl-
Gated that this concern was be-
lieyed to be the medium through
which stocks and bonds taken il
the big mail robberies of recent
months, had been sold.
Give Out List.
The federal officials gave out {
list of the principal robberies
which they asserted were carried
out by the band whose operations
they are seeking to break UP. The
| list included:
$1,000,0OO stolen at Toledo. Feb
II, 1921
100000 stolen at Pullman, Ill.
Aug. 20, 1920.
s35O,OO0 stolen at Dearborn ParE
station, Chicago, April 6, 1921.
$4,000 stolen at branch station
| in Chicago, March 4, 1921.
$212, 900 stolen at Mount Vernon
| ILL.,, Jan. IA, 1921.
100000 at Terrell, Ga, Sept. 10
1920.
s3,50O,0OO at Council Bluffs, Ia.
Nov IT, 1920.
| $40 600 at Minnea polis. MINI.
Dec. 3, 1920.
$4,000 at Centerville, Ia, Marcf
%, 1921.
1t was also announced that tbs
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
Get
Pen SENTENCE
Alleged Automobile Thieves From
EIgin Given Three Years by
Green Bay Judge.

Green Bay, Wis, Aug. John
and Felix Sutrick, brothers, claim
ing Elgin, Ill, as their home, were
sentenced to three years in the
Green Bay reformatory by Munci-
pal Judge Monahan, late yesterday
when they pleaded guilty to a
charge of grand larceny The broth
ers were brought here from La
Crosse where they were arrested
after having attempted to dispose
of an automobile stolen in Green
Bay, July "a.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
TO MEET SOVIET
famine BOARD
Director Of European Relief to
Start for Riga Friday to
Negotiate with Russians.

London, Aug. 2.-(By the Asso-
Gated Press) w. L. Brown, Euro
pean director of the American Re-
lief administration, will start for
Riga next Friday to negotiate a
aew agreement with the Russian
anime committee for the feeding
Of million Russian children and
hvslids, it was announced here To-
day.
The American Relief administra-
ion has been ordered to make no
move and TO give no indication Of
aeceptance of responsibility for
Russian relief until all American
prisoners are actually out of Rus
ia and until satisfactory written
agreement has been arranged.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02

HALT HIGH FEE
Injunction Suit Against 80 Cent Ad-
mission Charge Filed in Circuit
Court Of Chicago.

Chicago, Aug. Am injunction
against officials of Chicago's S
Pageant of Progress to restrain
them from charging a so cent ad-
mission fee at the gate was asked
in circuit court here today, Eugene
L. McGary, former assistant states
attorney. announced
The admission is attacked as an
infringement of rights of the people
who built the municipal pier where
the exposition is being held About
s250, 900 has been obtained at the
gate since the exposition opened
last Saturday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
SMOKERS START
LEAGUE TO KEEP
RIGHTS TO WEED

New York, Aug. 2.-'"The Smok-
ers' League Against Tobacco Pro-
hibition," inc, has been granted a
charter by Supreme Court JUS
tice Martin. The league plans to
establish and conserve the right
of the citizens of the United States
OF America, to the use of tobacco"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
Firm INCORPORATES.

Springfield. III, Aug. 2.-Articles
OF incorporation were issued by the
secretary of states office today to
the Aurora Woolen Mills company,
capitalized at 100000. The incor-
porators were George ". Boynton,
william II. Ziock and P. Y. Smith.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
To WAGE FIGHT
UPON TAMMANy
President Curran of Borough of
Manhattan Made Candidate for
Mayor by Committee.

New York. Aug. 2-Henry H.
Curran, president of the borough
of Manhattan, today was unaIi-
mously designated by the steering
committee of the anti-Tammany
conference as candidate for mayor
on a coalition ticket
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02

The Mississippi river from below
Dubuque to Muscatine VIII rise
slowly during tn next few days.
ANDREW HAMRICk,
Meteorologist-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
AUTO BANDITS
ROB MESSENGER
HOldup Men Escape With $4,000 in
Cash From EmplOye of Chi
cagO Bank.

Chicago, Aug. 2.-Four robbers
in an automobile waylaid bank
messenger at Ogden and Western
avenues, on the southwest side OF
the city, today, and escaped with
So 600 in cash. The victim was
Benjamin Zukerman, employed by
the Sixteenth Street State bank.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
THE WEATHER

Generally fair tonight and We'd
nesday. Somewhat warmer We'd
nesday.
Highest temperature yesterday,
rs; lowest last night, 60.
Wind velocity at a. M, IL miles
per hour.
f, Precipitation last "a hours, 4.o1.
I'm INN. q q. m
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-02
River Forecast.

River stage at Z a. M, 10 a Use
of Z last "A hours.
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New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

the Gak Theater the Theat Guild will
Ferguson by St John The
Digges Mary Hampton Angela McCahll
Handon and James Mari.
Globe Kist" Pacific Coast musical ex-
will produced
CHAIN Arthur West Clark
Squres Lucille Harmon and Daisy De Witte.
At the Hudson Theater NJ. "The
Tavern with Mr. Cohan himself Vagabond The
Allen Rita Hacke Isabel
Withers William L. Thorne Eugenie Blair CIvde
North Robert Geckler Edwin Walter Guth
rie and liam Gaunt
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
In His Own Country
Shakespeare and Shaw Are Not Without
Honor in England-Broadway
to Pic cadilly

is where all the intellectual people
live, you know, sort of combination
of Upper Montclair, Forest Hills and
Greenwich Village, and Shaw was
really one of the family. The theater
was packed nightly, and since then it
has been entirely a Shaw season. Now
major Barbara" is playing, and it will
soon be followed by Man and Super
man"
G. B. S. had little enthusiasm for
the idea at first. When Mr.. MacDer-
mott went down to the Adelphi fat
where Shaw now lives, and talked over
the SHAW Theater" idea, G. 8. S.
called him young fool. and said that
the venture would land the company in
the bankruptcy court in six months
Now he has become interested, how
ever, and IS watching the progress of
the theater.
While it is understood that Shaw
looks with a kindly eye on the Shaw
Theater," he has little to say about it.
.. G. B. S. is not an easily interviewed
celebrity. An American newspaper
correspondent recently wrote him re-
questing an interview on the sex edu-
cation Of children, a subject then agi-
tating the English press. The CORE
spondent received curt note inform
ing him that the interview-if given
at all-could be had for $4,000.
English newspaper men say that this
does not mean that Shaw is mercenary;
1T is merely his way of refusing an in
terview. In one case he sent a jour,
nalist postcard saying that an inter
view would be granted for s1oOOO00Oo-
0000000O0-a strirE Of diminishing
figures dashed off across the page.
Maurice Moscovitch, who is playing
in "The Great Lover" at the Shaftes-
bury Theater, has appeared in only two
other English plays. For years he
acted insYiddish plays in the East End
of London, and later in New York, app
pearing at the Greenwich Village
Theater in Yiddish plays, 800 of which
are in his repertory. He was acting
"Shylock" in Yiddish in the London
East End when J. G. Pagan, manager
of the Court Theater, saw him and
brought him sup West" to Londons
theatrical center.
Moscovitch is forty-eight years old
and has spent much of his life in New
York. In speaking of Jewish audiences
recently he said:
II love these audiences. No play
was ever too intelligent for them. An
dreyeff, Strindberg, Chekov and Haupt
mann were their customary fare, and
I never found anything too deep for
their understanding. There is room for
Jewish theater here and a splendid
audience is always at hand"
Discussing recently the food ~
American plays in London, Alfred
Turner, of the Grossmith and Laurii-
lard organization, pointed out that the
blame for the shortage of English plays
can be tagged ''Due to the war"
"It is true that American plays hava
held an important place in London
this season." said Mr.. Turner, "but the
cause is not difficult to find. All our
best men were in France during th5
war. Somerset Vaughan was a doc
tor in France. Arthur Henry 5oaes was
in service every one was
gone. In the war years we had only
revues in London, and after the war II
has taken bit of time for US to gel
started again. Another season Will
probably see many more English pros
I. ductions."
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
From The rribuns's Europsan Bureau

AYG ONDON, May 3.-England is a
al land where prophets find honor
Ngex in their own country. During
the recent Shakespearean an
nlversary West End playhouses, jammed
q few nights before, found them selves
with empty seats, while the public
Journeyed to Shakespearean revivals in
Battersea and the suburbs of Hanlp-
stead and Hammersmith. The English
man does not care so much for vodka
stained Russian tragedy, or even the
champagne of French comedy. But he
will have the cakes and ale of Eng
land time and again.
Now England, in honoring its proph-
cts, has theater in Hampstead where
nothing but the plays of George Ber-
nard Shaw appear. Norman MacDer-
mott, founder and director of the
Everyman Theater, had planned a lit
tie theater in London that was to fol-
low the line of the little theater move
ment in America. Last fall he took
an old drill hall in Hampstead, rebuilt
1t according to special designs he had
worked out and found q group of West
End actors and actresses who were
willing to try to prove that people
liked something other than music hall
revues. The Everyman Theater was
opened and plays by Galsworthy, Ben
nett, Masefeld and Lord Dunsany were
produced. But the 800 seats of the lit
tie theater were not always full.
Shaw's "You' Never Can Tell" was
put on. Shaw used to live in Hamp-
stead, up on the plateau north of
London and just this side of the great
parked miles of Hampstead Heath. 1t
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

lished by Doran st the end of the year
l know very little about the writing OF
novels-or the writing of plays, for
that matter-but l hope am learning
And, anyway, it is much more fun try
ing to do things which you can't quite
do than doing them when you can.
GAS regards more intimate matters,
have one wife, one son, one house and
one recreation--golf. My handicap is
12, which seems to me about the right
sort of handicap for an amateur My
son has no official handicap yet--he is
only eight months old. However, he
has been told that am very good
player, and for little while yet we
shall be able to deceive him on the
point. But, of course, he will find out
one day"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

shorter numbers will be played by
formances,
Jean Bedini's New Peek-a-Boo," !"
which scored a hit at the Columbia
Theater last Monday, will begin the
second week of it's all-summer run to-
morrow afternoon. Clark and Nc
Culloch, Emily Earle, the Seven Musi-
cal Spillers, Jack Edwards, Helen Stan
ley, Pauline Anderson, the White Way
Trio, Frank Sabipi and company, the
Ten High Steppers and the Bedini
Beauty Chorus constitute roster Of
entertainers which would be difficult to
match.
Lieutenant Commander John Philip
Sousa has just completed plans for the
most expensive itinerary in the history
of his band. Harry Askin, manager of
the organization, asserts it is the most
far flung tour any band has ever made
in one season, reaching from Portland,
Me, to Los Angeles in latitude, and
from Montreal to Mexico City on the
longitudinal plan. The annual engage
ment at Willow Grove Park, Phila-
delphia, will be kept, despite the wide
peregrinations of the band, beginning
August 7. The New York concert will
be given at the Hippodrome October 2
The Dumbells, the company Of for
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

senting the musical revue "Bif. Binp
Bang" at the Ambassador Theater.
Will begin two-year tour of the world
at the conclusion of their engagement
here. Organized in France, the Dunn
bells played for two years behind the
lines, being the official entertainment
corps of the Canadian army in France.
Since then they have presented their
revue in England and Canada for runs
of one and two years, respectively.
After many cries of Wolf! Wolf!"
following which it always moved into
another theater and placidly continued
its run, MIXED Marriage" at last gave
its final performance Saturday night
In the fall the same cast will be re-
organized for a tour, which will be
preceded by a round of the subway
circuit. In the mean time, Margaret
Wycherly will go to London to rest
and refresh herself, Harmon Mac
Gregor will do the same thing on his
farm in Westchester County, while
Augustin Duncan, Barry Macollom.
Angela McCahill and Brandon Peters
will take their vacation working in
John Ferguson" which opens to-mor-
row night at the Garrick Theater.
In Difference to Thomas Mott Os-
I. L L.