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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial to The ArgHs-)

Washington, Dec 19.-The first
crisis" OF the arms conference has
slowly eyaporated.
France is not blocking the par
ley any longer but is gradually re-
vealing the why and the wherefore
OF her amazing request for an i'm
mense batt4eship program. The
national pride of the French naval
experts who had been slighted
while Great Britain, Japan ana the
United States have tor weeks taken
unto themselves the regulation of
naval ratios, the desire of the
French for more submarines, and
the natural effort of French dipIo-
macy to win a more influential pO-
sttlon in the reparations negotia-
tons in London have all been in
terwoVen in the policy which
France has been pursuing here for
several days
Those who have been taking the
French tactics seriously have lost
sleep needlessly. Talk of imperil-
ing the conference itself has been
heard in many quarters where the
French demand has been like a
blanket of ice suddenly thrown
over an otherwise enthusiastic and
happy gathering. AS the head OF
one of the delegations expressed it
today, the things were going too
well". He called attention to the
fact that such rapid progress had
been made thus far that it was too
good to be true-and something
dramatic had to happen. He was
one of the delegates at Paris, too,
and he recalled how the impulsiVe-
ness of the French and their pecu-
liar method of negotiating had kept
both the British and American
delegations on the anxious seat day
and night Nobody knew what M
Clemenceau would do next So no
body has known here what the
delegation had up its sleeve.
Sample of French Pride.
Aside from the intrinsic interest
which the episode possesses as an
example of continental diplomacy,
the truth is the French have not
intended to go so far as to prevent
an agreement on naval questions.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
SAHARA MAY BE
DRY; CHICAGO
WILL BE DRYER
All Danspness to Dis
appear by NetO
Years EUe.

Chicago, Dec. 2o.-Cfty police
and federal sponge squads today
continued their efforts to make Chi
cago rival Sahara in aridity. The
courts were grinding slowly
through the hundreds of booze vio-
lation charges gathered by the po-
lice in the last three days and
nights. The arrests SO far have
clogged the courts, for the reason
that the city chemists have been
unable to make analysis of the
varying liquids seized by the
police.
Hayes Is Coming.
Dispatches from Washington also
heraIded the arrival by Christmas
of Federal Prohibition Director
Haynes and his chief OF booze
sleuths, c. C. Yellowiey, with the
announced intention to mop up
even the least trace of dampness
before New Years eve
That the anti-liquor drive is not
going to be peacefully received by
many Chicagoans was indicated
when a large NUMBER OF those al
ready arrested asked, through their
attorneys, for jury trials, with the
intention of testing the authority Of
the police to arrest under the law
Cops Raid sBar."
In the raids early this morning,
the police found an iTnprovised bar
in an apartment on the south side,
with signs reading:
Whisky, IS cents shot" and ~ff
you don't See what you want ask
for it."
The police did not see what they
wanted in the fat, but without ask
ing Edward Hogan, the bartender" I"
they invaded the basement and
found a still, so quarts of whisky
and gin, and quantity of mash
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
II MINERS HURT
IN CAGE PLUNGE
Car With 12 Men Drops 200 Feet
Into Shaft; Seriously IN
jured; One Unharmed.

TayiorviIle, Ill, Dec 2o-TwefVe
miners in cage were plunged 200
feet down the shaft of the Kincafd
coal mine, 10 miles west of here
at z o'clock this morning. when
Engineer John SeIetto lost control
of his engine Only one miner es-
capped injury. -Four of them were
hurt seriously.
Every ambulance from St Vln-
cents hospital here was rushed 10
the mine and the IL injured men
brought here Four physicians At
Kincaid administered first aid
Engineer Seletto said the loosen
ing of a circuit plug caused the
accident It deprived him or any
control over the engine The four
miners most seriously injured are
George Mattershaw, shattered feI'
leg; James Shaw, broken right an
kle; Oscar Smith, broken Iert an
kle, all of Kincaid, and Henry Lon
don of Taylorville, left leg broken
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
u. S. PLANS
GIVEN 0. K.
BY BRAND
Accepts Hughes
Ratio; Is Glad, Pre-
mier Says.
BULLETIN.

Washington, Dec. 20.-By the
Associated Press French
delegation has accepted the
Hughes proposal OF 175,eO0 tons
in capital saips for France,
with reservations on all other
points with the naval program
a British spokesman announced
today.
Action of the French delegation
before the naval subcommittee, as
indicated by the British spokesman,
is in line with the statements at
tributed to Premier BRAND in Lon
don, that France was more partic-
ularIy interested in the proportions
of cruisers, destroyers and other
auxiliary naval craft, particularly
submarines, than in the capital ship
proposition.
1t was assured that the next
step of the Washington conference
would be to take UP the submarine
tonnage question
London, Dec 2Q-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.)--France has accept
ed Secretary Hughes naval ratio
for capital ships and we are glad
OF the relief it will afford U.S." Pre-
mier BRAND of France is reported
as declaring in an interview with
the Daily Mail.
Regarding secondary units, We
are yet uniformed respecting the
six 10000 ton ships which Germany
is allowed to build under the YER
Sailles treaty We shall ask the
Washington conference to take this
consideration into account"
n BRAND repudiated the idea
that France wished to maintain the
burden of great land armaments,
especially as she had just emerged
from a terrible war. But, he con-
tended, the Wirth government in
Germany was weak, and 'its very
fragility compels France to remain
armed, for there is no saying what
government may take its place
tomorrow"
Present New Proposal
Washington, Dec 20.-By the
Associated Press )-The modified
proposals of the French govern
ment as to the naval ratio to be
allotted France under naval Iimi-
tation agreement, were presented
to the naval subcommittee of Is of
the Washington conference today
by Albert Sarraut, head of the
French delegation
The French plan as presented, it
was understood, proposed a fleet
proportion in the several classes of
craft so as to give France a navy
that could be devoted largely to
defensive purposes.
The presentation of NJ. Sarraut.
it was learned, was largely one of
principles, much attention being
given to the necessity felt by
France for adequate defense,
The French declaration indicated
Frances willingness to make con-
cessions on capital ship tonnage
but not as to submersibles and
other auxiliaries.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
STOP TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM erin
French Demand for Larger
NaUal Ratio Was Colossal
Bltls1der', Laurence Asserts

! They have sought only to show the
world and Great Britain in partic-
uIar that while it may be a fact
that French naval strength is rela-
lively small, this was no reason TO
regard France as a second rate
power. The inclusion of France in
Ine four-power pact was an effort
TO appease French pride. but the
true explanation of the French ma
neuver in thrusting upon the coz
ference at the last moment a de-
mand for big battleship program
may be found in the strained rela-
tons which for months have been
noticeable between Great Britain
and France. Prime Minister Lloyd
George and the British generally
have felt that French policy was
mistaken in negotiating a separate
peace with the Turks. France, on
the other hand, had felt that Brit
ish policy in the Near East was a
menace to French economic inter-
ests. The controversy hadn't pro-
ceeded very far when Premier Bri-
and told the Washington confer
ence that France expected to ask
for a large number of submarines.
When he left for Europe, a re-
porter in New York asked him
what France wanted so many sub
marines for and he was quoted as
replying in cynical vein that
France wanted to fish for sar-
dimes" and investigate underwater
vegetation.
Enrages British.
This remark enraged British
opinion Lord CurZon made his ia
nous speech warning France that
a policy of isolation on her
part was dangerous. Immediately
therefore, the British began having
conferences with the Germans
about reparation payments and it
began to look to France as if the
British were playing closer to Ger
many than to France in economic
matters What more natural thing
therefore than for Premier BRAND
to make a gesture which would in
dicate to Great Britain that only
by French assent could the arrna-
ment agreement be made. Some
compensation for French approval
fCaufJuupd nm paoa GTffesx.n
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
ILL.,,
browns SELF
Elsie Davies, IS, Peoria, Is Found
Dead in Small Lake at
MaeOmb, Ill.

Aacomb, Ill, Dec. 2o.-Exptain-
ing to relatives with whom
she was visiting here. that she
was going for walk, Miss
Elsie Davies. 35, Peoria, Ill,
schoolteacher, was found dead an
hour later in a small lake on the
Western State Teachers college
campus last night.
Her relatives, alarmed at her
prolonged absence. reused neigh
bors and they followed tracks in
the snow which led to the lake and
discovery of the body.
Melancholy, resulting from pro-
Ionged i'll health, is assigned as the
cause of her suicide
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
MADE YOUR WILL?
DON'T PUT IT OFF
LATER THAN 1926

London, Dec. 20.-The year
1926 is destined TO shake the
world TO its foundation, both
physically and politically. IL is
to be a succession of plaques,
famine, floods, shipwrecks.
rioting and revolution So says
the British Journal of Astrol-
ogy, which has drawn the hOrO-
scope for that year, when the
planets Mars and Mercury viii
be in conjunction
Six years later. the great
mageddon is to take place
1t viii be a final conflict be-
tween Mohammedanism- allied
with boIshevism, against the
united Anglo-SaxOn world. Il
will end in a universal peace.
In 1892 there will be so few
of Us left and we shall all be
so tired that peace should hap
pen anyhow, the horoscope
says.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
20, O,LOOKUT WHAT
MIR. IRELAND HAS
IN HIS BASEMENT! !

Peoria Ill, Dee. 20.-Acting
"a anonymous tip received at
ponce headquarters, detectives
iace last night surrounded the
feSldence OF Congressman
Ohnord Ireland, prevented the
afrylng away of 45 gallons OF
uornestlc wines. five cases of
french imported wines and cap
.ared the would-be thieves The
otheers. in hiding, had only a
snort time to wait when the
swo men, giving their names
IS Joseph Upper and Richard
'orls, were seen to drive up
a an automobile and enter the
residence.
congressman Ireland voted
ory' on the 18th amendment.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
KILLED BY
FALL FROM
SKYSCRAPER
Paul Vandenberg Slips
From Window Ledge;
Dies Instantly.

pauI vandenberg, aged 25 years,
r9s Tyenty-third street, Rock Is
i.pd was instantly killed yester-
sav afternoon when he fell from a
vindow on the tenth story of the
Kahl building. Third and Ripley
Directs. Davenport. He was wash
ing windows when the tragedy oc-
curred.
Vandenberg, working on the
steffen and Newport Co. window,
shortly before 3 O'Clock, was
changing to the window Of the
priester Construction office when
his foH slipped and he plunged to
the pavement. His attempt to grab
tbe ledge failed and he struck the
canopy of the Capitol theatre and
crashed to the sidewalk. His head
and body were badly mangled and
death was instantaneous. He fell
about 125 feet
short time before making the
change from one window to the
other Vandenberg had unlocked
his safety belt which fastened on
either side of the window, sup
porting him while he was at work.
Took Many Risks.
People who were familiar with
vsndenberg said that he was in
slined to take risks and many times
accepted desperate chances while
At his work He had been warned
10 be more cautious but paid no
heed. He is said, by bystanders, to
have performed at different times
IN a spectacular manner as if 10
furnish thrills to people on the
street.
Washing windows in the different
Offices of the building was his only
duty and he had been employed
here only a month. Friends say
that his intention was to save
enough money to return to Bel
GUM, the place of his birth, next
rear.
An inquest will be conducted by
Coroner ]. d. Cantweli at I 1880
o'clock tonight in the office Of W.
v. Scott, justice of the peace, in
he Masonic temple building.
Vandenberg was a witness last
winter in the investigation OF the
murder of FiladeIfio Torodor, the
Italian, whose mutilated body was
found in his rooms and whose
Death was once widely ascribed to
operations of a ''mafiia." Vanden-
berg was acquainted with Torodor
but his testimony never bore di-
rectly upon the crime.
Native of Belgium.
He was born in Belgium, Sept.
Il. 1896, and came to this country
at the age of three years. He had
resided in Rock Island the greater
share of his life and was married
three years ago in Rock Island.
He was a member of St. PauPs
church.
The widow, Mrs. Grace Vanden-
berg. a daughter, May Adele, IS
months old, and the father, CAMEL
vandenberg. all of Rock Island,
uviye.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
RULE AGAINST
STOCK TRADERS
'ndge Landis, Evans and Fifzhenry
Deny Petition for Injunction
Against New Trading Act.

Chicago, Dec 20.-Efforts of live
SocS traders at the Chicago stock
yafus to prevent enforcement of
ae new livestock trading act fail
q today when Judges Lands,
vans and FTzHenry dismissed
aelr application for an injunction
neslraining Secretary of Agricul-
afe Wallace and District Attorney
Snarles F. Ciyne from enforcing
Tie law.
L As a result of the decision. the
livestock traders will be required
" lie their commission schedules
VIA the government Immediately
slo operate under the rules to be
.s.d down by the department of ag-
,soulture ,ss Or face fines provided by
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
PRAY LORD TO
END WAR SAYS
SERGEANT YORK
That S Christmas Mes
sage of Tennessee
Hero.
BIZ l.. W. MILLER R
Copyright. 1921, by the United

Copyright. 1921, by the United
PreSS.(
jamestown, Tenn, Dec. 20.-~Ev-
cry night when you say your pray
ers ask the Lord to stop war.
THE way for nations to get along
is to deal with each other as men
do-who hope to get along-on the
square
up here in the mountains when
man whips another, he doesn't
jump on him with his boots. Ma
tions should be as just"
This is the Christmas message
of Sergeant Alvin c. York, who kill
ed and captured more Germans
than any other American soldier
Discusses Arms Meet
York, sitting in front of roar
ing open fire, discussed the Wash
ington conference in the drawing
voice of a Tennessee mountaineer.
York's home today is two room
cabin of hewn logs, jutting from
the face of cliff, deep in the hills
Of Tennessee. 1t is II miles from
jamestown, over almost impossible
wagon tracks.
The conference won't be a sue
cess unless it deals out justice to
all nations. If it gives something
only to big powers and tramplss
little ones hope it falls through
Give Germany Justice.
Even Germany must get justice.
Germany was whipped but that's no
reason they should hop on her and
take everything she has
But Germany ought to pay for
every penny of actual damage she
did
How do you feel toward the
Germans now?" 1 asked York.
Il have not thing against them
today. 1t wasn't our fault they
fought us. 1t was the fault Of their
military leaders.
NO honest man wants war. Il
know what was is I've been over
there. And believe me anything
they do to put an end to it will be
a great Christmas present for the
common folks of the world.
@Knows What's Square,
I'm too busy running my farm
to know anything about interna-
tionai politics but do know what's
square, and that's all that counts.
Would YOU go to war againT
he was asked.
I'D feel like It, of course, unless
it was some sQuabble of other ma
tions that didn't concern US. But if
Uncle Sam called me l would go.
never was a conscientious OBJ
jector"
In spite of his hatred for war,
Sergeant York has a great admira-
ton for Marshal Foch, his gen
erahssimo in France.
1T is the regret of my life," he /
said, that didn't meet Foch when |
he was here. The last time l saw
him was in France"
York refuses to be regarded as |
poverty-stricken or unfortunate. |
Many erroneous tales are in circu-
lation, he said, about his 400 acre !
farm at Pail Mall. There is no +
danger of losing it Every payment !
has been made when due, he said |
The next is due Nov. 10, 1922.
There is still due $4,687.50 with /
Oer cent interest
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
GARDEN IS NOT
SERIOUSLY ILL
Grand Opera Impresaria Hopes 10
Play "SaIome7 on
Dee. 2S.

Chicago, Dec. 20.-(United Press)
Mary Garden, head of the Chica-
go Grand Opera company, hopes to
recover from her illness in time
to play the revival of '+Salome" Dec.
2S.
The condition of Miss Garden,
who had a slight attack of bron-
cl1ftis, was reported as improved
today.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
FIND SLAIN man
IN STRAWSTACK
Authorities Investigate Death OF
Isaac LOckhart, EOkomis,
Ill, Farmer.

EdwardsEiIle, Ill, Dec. 90
Omitted Press)-Authorities today
started to investigate the death of
Isaac Lockhart of Nokomis, whose
body was found in a strawstack on
a farm near here yesterday after
noon.
Lockhart was to have been a
witness against Jess Lockhart of
TaylorviIle in connection with the
kincaid mine payroll robbery last
August
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
BERRY FUNERAL
ON WEDNESDAY
Services for Former State Senator
To Be Held in Presbyterian
Church. Jacksonville.

Carthage, Ill, Dec 2o--(United
Press)-FuneraI services for Or
vile F. Berry, former state sena-
tor. chairman of the old railroad
and warehouse commission, who
died at Jacksonville yesterday, win
be held at 2:30 O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon at the Presbyterian
church here
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
Is PHONE GIRLS
STAGE WALKOUT
Operators In Downstate Towns
Strike Following Failure Of
Contract Agreements.

Harrisburg, Ill, Dec 20.-Twen-
ty-f1ve operators of the Murphys-
boro Telephone company went on
strike this morning. following fall
ure TO arrive at an agreement with
their employers as to new con-
tracts. The strike was confined to
Salina county. the only towns af-
fected being Harrisburg, Eldorado,
Galatla, Carrier Mills and Stone
Hax4
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
NEGRO ROBBED
OF $3.50 Cash

ST. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 20.-Three
bandits held up Edward Edwards,
55 years old, negro messenger for
the Choteau Trust company, while
the negro was on a Market street
car at noon today and escaped with
satchel containing $3.50 of the
company's funds.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
FARMER is @GOAT-?

Washington, Dec 20. - Cnarse
that the crop reporting board Oh
the department OF agriculture was
attempting to make the farmer
the goat for some of its mistakes,
was made in the senate py o
Smith. Democrat, South Caro
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
WAR PRISONERS
TO Be PARDONED
Harding win Issue @Christmas
Presents" This Week; No
Names Are Given.

Washington, Dec. Christmas
pardons to be issued this week by
President Harding will include
of persons imprisoned for
violation of various war laws, it
was stated authoritatively today.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
new TRIAL is
DENIED SLICK

Springfield, I'LL, Dec. 20-Ldn-
coin f. Slick of Bloomington, own
er of a string of elevators, was de-
MED new trial of the charge of
making a fraudulent income tax
return in the federal court here to-
day. He was convicted of schedul-
ing his 1917 income at $2,7S6.32,
when it should have been $121,-
S2a-24.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
The WEATHER

Generally fair tonight and We'd
nesday. Much colder. Cold wave
tonight with temperature Wednes-
day morning near zero.
!, Highest temperature yesterday.
IS; lowest last night, 25.
Wind velocity at g. m, 10 miles
per hour.
Precipitation none.
yester. yester. today
I'm 7p-m- Tam.
Dry bulb temp. "a 50 26
Wet bulb temp. 81 80 25
Relative humid. .6S IS 81
Sunset today, 4-S4; sunrise to
morrow, TBS a. m
River stage at a m, 3.S; fan
OF 2 last "a hours.
ANDREW HAMRICK,
Me1eorologist
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20

Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 20-tRy The
Associated Press)-A private
session of the Dali Eireann. held
late this afternoon, was devoted to
discussion of the position and re-
sources of the Irish republican
army in the event the Anglo-Irish
treaty, now pending before the Dali,
was rejected, it was understood
after the conclusion OF the session.
Queenstown, Ireland, Dec 20
(By the Associated Press.)-Re-
moVal of the British troops from
Ireland, which was to have been
begun today has been suspended
and they viii not be Withdrawn
unless the treaty is ratified. it was
stated here.
Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 20.-(By
the Associated Press. 1T was an
nounced this morning that Arthur
Griffith. head of the Sim Fem dele
CATION which signed the Anglo
Irish treaty, would move in the
Dali Eireann today for vote on
the question of approving the treaty
and that Eamonn de Valera, the
republican president, would move
it's disapproVal.
Today's session of the Dali
opened with Brien O'Iiggins in the
chair, replacing Prot. John Mac
NeilL
Cant Ratify'-De Valera
Mr.. de Valera, addressing the
Dali at the outset, claimed there
i ,F
of the treaty by the Dali, which he
declared. could not ratify the pact
in the sense of making it legal
instrument. All the Dali could do
was to approve or disapproVe, he
asserted.
The republican president said he
would later move that inasmuch
as the articles of agreement for
the treaty between Great Britain
and Ireland, signed in London, do
not reconcile Irish national aspira-
tons and the association of Ireland
with the Community of Nations.
known as the British common
wealth, and cannot establish last
ing peace between the peoples of
the two islands, the Dali Eireann
makes to the British the following
proposal:
Proposal withheld
Mr.. de Valera did not read the
proposal, nor was it made public
at this time, but copies of the dOcu-
ment, it was stated, would be circu-
lated among the members when the
motion was made
Mrs. Kate O'CalIaghan, the first
woman member to speak, opposed
the treaty.
THE women of the Dali viii vote
for principles, not expedients," she
declared.
John R Buckingham, deputy for
Wicklow and minister of fisheries,
spoke in opposition to the treaty,
saying the people were being STAN
peded.
They were not, as Arthur Griffith
said, marching into the British en-
pire with heads up, but with hands
up, he insisted.
Applause was given the declara-
ton Of P. Hogan, speaking for the
agreement, when he said:
Not a man who votes against
this treaty but hopes it will be
ratified"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-20
PORTUGAL WILL
HOLD ELECTION

Lisbon, Dec. 2e--tBy the Associ-
ated Press. "A decree was issued
today signed by all the ministers
of the Portuguese cabinet, dissolv-
ing parliament and fixing Jan. as
the date for holding q general elec-
EnR