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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
TAKESPECK AT
SUFFRACET HEAD
President Refutes HO0sier Slap and
Says Women VIII Participate
In Conference.

Washington, Aug. 17.I(United
Press President Harding gave
assurance today that women will
havea part in the disarmament con-
ference.
Whether a woman will sit as
delegate or as member of an ad-
Vlsory body which the president
contempIates appointing is still TO
De decided apparently.
Officials of the league of women
voters addressed to Harding resolu-
aons adopted recently urging ap-
polntment of a woman on the dis
armament committee. They also
TOOK issue with the statement made
by Miss Alice Robertson, congress
woman from Oklahoma, that few il
any women are qualified for a place
VI the commission.
AS Republican woman, / re-
EFet the newspaper prominence be-
ing given a woman of Miss Robert
son type" Mrs. Richard Edwards
.. Peru. Ind, first vice president
VI the League of Women Voters,
house.
Herself a political accident, in
Ier contempt of women and their
ability her total ignorance of WON
eh and wOmen's affairs, she in no
way represents women, though she
sils as the only woman in congress.
actually what Miss Robertson says
u thinks is negligible. The women
~ my part of the country know
mat she never responded to the
demands of women nor concerned
herself with things women's organi-
Iauon were developing through
out the country"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
KNIGHTS STAGE
FINE PARADE AT
STATE SESSION
Four Thousand Temp
lars March at
Rockford.

Rockford, Ill, Aug. 17.-Four
thousand Knights Tempiar with IA
bands appeared in the parade
which was the feature of today
program of the annual conclave of
the Illinois Grand commandery
Major General George Bell, Jr., of
Camp Grant, was marshal.
Eighty-five Communicates, the
total in Illinois, were represented
in the march. Chicago command
cry had the largest number in line,
but other commanderies of that
city had good sized delegations.
The knights from Peoria and
Rock Island were numerous and
Freeport, Sycamore, Aurora, Dixon
and Clinton men also attracted
attention.
Crusader commandery of Rock
ford had the post of honor
A march of little more than
two miles was made.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
HOME BREWERS
GAIN VICTORY
Liquor For Personal Use May be
Manufactured-Agents Not AL
lowed to Search

Washington, D. c., Dug. 1.-THE
house went On record yesterday
against any interference with home
brewing and disulling for personal
use
By a rising vote of 96 to 81 it vir-
tually deprived prohibition agents
OF all power to prevent the manu-
facture of all alcoholic beverages in
private dwellings unless proof can
be furnished that the liquor is being
manufactured for sale.
The victory for the cellar distil-
ieries and the kitchen breweries
came when a substitute for the
Stanley search and seizure amend
ment, approved by the senate was
adopted AS passed by the senate.
the Stanley amendment prohibits
with heavy penalties any searches
or seizures by prohibition agents
without warrants.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
ITALY FORMS
RUSSIAN PACT
Economic Agreement Nearly Com
pleted-FOur Principal Points
Are Stated.

Rome, Aug. 17.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-Negotiations for an
economic agreement with the Rus
sian soviet delegation here, the
Messaggero says today, have al
most been completed. The agree
ment, which is to be signed in the
near future, contains four points,
the newspaper asserts, as follows:
IA mutual undertaking to open
negotiations Immediately for an
economic and commercial agree
ment of the widest kind between
the two countries.
Russia is to afford Italy the
same facilities and advantages as
those granted other countries.
3-Russia is to give equitable
consideration to Italian claims for
credits with regard to Russia.
Am undertaking by the soviet
government that it's delegates in
Italy will abstain from any at
tempt at propaganda in the king
dom
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
START HUNT
FOR BAND OF
ASSASSINS
Barber's Tale Accuses
Gang of Good Killers
of 16 Murders.

New York, Aug. 17.-New YorA
detectives today took up the search
in a dozen cities for members OF
the good killers. The search be
gan after Bartola Fontana, a bar
ber, admitting a murder committed
by himself. implicated a band oi
six alleged hired assassins in IL
killings.
Seven victims fell in New York
and nine in Detroit, Fontana said
Unfolding the plots and machina-
tions of the gang which he said
earned the name of the good kill
ers", Fontana said its career be-
gan with a murder in Brooklyn Ia
years ago. From that murder
sprang a line of stabbings and poi
sonings which made the gang all
powerful in the Italian underworld
and brought it hundreds of thou
sands of dollars
Wealthy Italians with enemies
they wished put out Of the way
have given the gang valuable COM
missions. Fontana said.
Lured Immigrants.
The usual method of the gang,
he said, was TO obtain control Of
youthful Italians before they leave
Europe. In various ways they
worked on the unsuspecting immi-
grant, Fontana said, telling him
that the gang owns the United
States" and that he must obey its
orders.
In a matter of fact way Fontana
declared that the immigrant then
was the tool used to commit the
paid murder. If the immigrant
objected. force was used. Whether
he obeys or not, his life was for
feited, Fontana declared.
They would kill the immigrant
just to be sure he wouldn't TELL"
Fontana was~said to have Informed
police.
Fontana declared he was forced
into numbering Camille Caisso
when the good killers" thrust re-
volvers into his stomach and
threatened to shoot if he did not
swear to get the man.
Six other Italians were arrested
on Fontana's story and were held
today on suspicion of being con-
nected with the Caisso murder.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
By EDA TREAT O'NEH.
(Written for The United Press
Copyright 1921 by The United
PreSS.)

Copyright 1921 by The United
Press.)
Reval, Aug 1.-THE shadow of
famine looms large today in Russia.
Every phase of life is beginning to
reflect it.
Where and how to obtain food is
the thought uppermost in the minds
Of every one
Values at present are reckoned
according to one standard-the
amount of food which a given ar
tlcle represents. The food situation
which is due in part to last years
poor crop and has been growing
more and more critical since Febru-
ary was the biggest problem in Rus
sian life even before famine de-
yeioped in the Volga region.
The establishment of commerce
and the legalizing of trade in mar
kets and shops, under the new regu-
lations, has bettered the situation
somewhat.
Busy Markets.
The markets are the busiest
places in Moscow and Petrograd.
Thousands Of people go there daily
to buy and barter. The latter is
the more common because roubles
are scarce and low in value and the
peasant is as eager for city prod
ucts and f1nery as the city dweller
is for food
AT the market, the city dweIler
trades his cigaret lighter made at
home after factory hours, or his
wife a handkerchief she has just
embroidered.
Household effects and personal
belongings are still in demand but
few city folk possess now much
that is saleable
One sees no lsweis of value on
the market-only pathetic trinkets
for the most part and rubbish that
seems of no value whatever. Some
times it is a cracked mirror, per-
haps a cup without a handle.
/ have seen a woman at the mar
ket, struggling with herself. Fin
ally with an air of decision she
strips a wedding ring from her
finger and lays it before a peasant
who has food he will trade for the
keepsake.
Generally speaking the much
tried Russian folk is setting it's face
against famine and cholera with a
splendid energy and solidarity.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
SEVEN STEPS nv
. THRASHING TAX
LAW INTO SHAPE
Tax Payers Should
Defer Judgment on
Measure.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial to The Argus.)

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE ad-
ministration tax bill as approved
by the Republican caucus in the
house will undergo still further
change before it is finally enacted
Dlsconcerting as it may be to OBJ
serving business men to read one
day that certain taxes are repealed
only to find them reimposed the
next day, congress is merely evolv-
ing revenue measure in the usual
way. To understand the changes
that have been made and will be
made the following steps must be
borne in mind:
First, Secretary Mellon proposes
to President Harding the basis of
new revenue measure.
Second, criticism from the coun-
try at large produces a first change
and President Harding calls con-
ference of Republican leaders in
congress and together with Mr..
Mellon a revised program is ap-
proved
Third, the Republican member
ship Of the house in conference or
caucus makes further changes and
prepares to submit the new bill to
the house through the ways and
means committee. That's the status
today
Fourth, further criticism from
the country will influence Republi-
can leaders to agree to more
changes either in the ways and
means committee or on the floor of
the house before the bill is passed
which ought to be this week or the
first part of next week.
Fifth, the bill is taken in hand by
the senate finance committee which
is fully expected to rewrite the
whole measure and put it into
shape, balancing revenues and re-
ductions more systematically than
can possibly be done in the hurried
methods of the house. When the
senate finance committee gets
through, a better idea of what
taxes eventually will be can be OBJ
tanned.
Sixth, more changes are made
during the senate debate after the
finance committee has reported the
bill. These amendments may or
may not stay in the measure fin
ally. 1t all depends upon 4he ulti-
mate attitude of the house,
Seventh. when the senate has
passed the bill it is then placed be-
fore a conference committee rep
resenting the house and | senate
where the real legislating Is done.
Then the disagreements between the
two houses are ironed out land as
a rule the house and senate both
accept the decision of the confer
ence committee and the measure is
ready for signature. OF course, a
president can veto it and send it
back for further changes but since
President Harding and the major
ity in congress are of the same po-
litical faith the measure is certain
to receive executive approval.
Tax Payers Wait.
Through these seven steps the
tax payers of the country must
wait before they can pass judgment
on the tax bill The details being
published from day to day merely
show the trend of opinion in con-
gress. Even Democrats admit that
the changes thus far made are i'm
provements and they expect the
bill will be changed for the better
when it reaches the senate.
Just now the house is hurrying
to get through with the tax bill and
when it is realized that the senate
will correct any error made, the job
is necessarily done without
(Continued On Paos Ten
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
MAY STRIKE
BECAUSE OF
ROADS ACT
Erie Shop Transfer at
Marion Resented by
Unions; UP to Board

Chicago, Aug. 17-United Press)
Decision of the United States
railroad board on overtime rates
Of pay and working agreements was
delayed today.
The board announced the ruling
will not come for several days, due
to delay in having it printed.
Representatives of the big four"
brotherhoods and the switcnmen's
union and the association of west
ern railroad executives will not
conclude their conference until late
tomorrow it was announced.
Labor and rail men again confer
red on the following propositions
OF employees: That the western eX-
ecutives put wages back to the
June 80, 1921, level; that railroads
stop requesting abolition Of time
and half for overtime and that no
more applications be made to the
railroad board for wage reductions.
Rail union representative Will
not discuss the case in which the
Erie railroad company has leased
its shops at Marion, Ohio, to a
group of business men, until the
question is thrown before the rail-
road labor board.
Chicago, Aug. 17-United Press
Railroad union leaders here to-
day prepared TO protest to the
United States Railroad Labor
Board against the transfer of the
Erie shops at Marion, Ohio, to pri-
vate control under non-union con-
dhions.
More than 500 men in the Marion
shops have refused to enter the
elpiCye of the Railway Service
company, formed by Marion bank
ers and business men to operate
the shops under contract, according
TO information received by B. NJ.
Jewel, head of the railroad depart
ment of the American Federation
of Labor.
A strike threat was contained in
Marion sent by union leaders there
to Chicago. We will not strike,
nor is there any danger OF a strike
over the entire system until the de-
c.sion of the Labor board is re
ceived,' it was stated.
The Labor board will receive the
Protest and act on it at the earli-
est moment, it was stated by an i'll
fuential member.
But" he added, "I don't know
what we will do with it. | do not
know if the leasing of shops under
contract is a violation of the trans
portation act. That is a question
we must study"
AT the same time, other railroads
are making ready to follow the ex-
ample of the Erie, it was learned
by the United Press. If the Labo.'
board holds that the Erie was act
ing within its rights, it can be stat
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
AMBASSADOR TO
SPAIN DEPARTS
nfnIomat Chats With Friends, But
Says He Wouldn't Even Dis
cuss 10 Commandments.

New York, Aug 17.-Cyrus E.
Wood of Greensburg. Pa, new am
bsssador to Spain, was a passenger
on the steamship Paris, sailing to-
dav for France. He was accompan-
led by his wife and mother-in-laH,
Mrs. ]. A. Marahand.
Ambassador Wood will go to
Paris for a short stay before taking
I'D his official duties. He chatteG
gaily with friends who filed his
cabin with flowers, but declined 10
talk about world problems with re-
porters.
Il would not even discuss the
Ten Commandments today" he told
them.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17

CLAIM SMALL
STILL HOLDS TO
ROYAL MAXIM
Request for Change
of Venue Sign of
Old Stand.

Springfield, Ill, Aug. 17.-(Unit-
ed Press-)-Judge Norman L. Jones
of Carrollton will be chosen to
name the court in which Governor
Len Small will be tried on charges
of embezzling large sums of state
money, according to indications to-
| day.
Either Peoria or Decatur are
picked here as possible scenes of
the trial Judge Frank W. Burton,
of Carlinville, was mentioned as the
! juTist who will be chosen to pick
| the court in which the trial will
! be held, in case Judge Jones is not
appointed.
Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 17.-De-
velopment of new angles in the
Small csse-Illinois' greatest politi-
cal sensation-were believed to
have been brought to an abrupt
stop until next month by the filing
last night of applications for a
change of venue. When Governor
SmalPs attorneys filed their appli-
cations, while exchanging letters
with States Attorney Mortimer on
the subject, all possibility of habeas
corpus proceedings, it was believed,
had ended.
By their formal move to take the
governors case out of Sangamon
county for trial, his attorneys indi-
Gated that they had abandoned at
tempts TO invalid Governor Small's
arrest until the case is heard in
some other county.
1t was evident today that through
their negotiations States Attorney
Mortimer and the governors coun-
sci would get together in an eff
fort to agree on some county in
which to try the case. No decision
of the question can be reached until
the matter is taken up formally in
court before either Judge Burton
or Judge Jones, Judge E. S. Smiths
associates on the Sangamon county
circuit bench. -
"Kingly Maxim"
It appeared certain that the gov
ernor and his counsel have not re-
ceded from their position summed
up in the ancient maxim, quoted by
Attorney J. NJ. Graham, that the
king can do no wrong" and that
this contention will be their first
move in the legal battle to come.
The applications for a change of
venue we're filed by George B. Gill
lespie. Signing the application as
counsel for the governor were Mr..
Gillespie, former Governor Joseph
W. Fifer, former Congressman Ora
ham, c. c. LeForgee.
The absence of the signature of
Albert Fink, Chicago attorney, who
made the conditional surrender"
offer to Sheriff Mester several
weeks ago when Governor Small
was in Chicago, was believed bore
out rumors that Mr.. Fink would
not be prominent in the case in the
future.
Governor Small, it was said to-
day, planned to leave the capital in
a day or two, possibly late today.
He expected, however, to be here
during the state fair next week
Formal application for a change
of venue from Sangamon county
for Vernon L. Curtis, Grand Park
Qll.) banker, indicted with Gov
ernor Small on charges of en-
bezzling public funds during the
Small term as state treasurer, will
be made Aug. %, according to an
announcement by Mr. Curtis at
torney, Paul Fisher of Chicago.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
ROAD FUNDING
BILL APPROVED

Washington, Aug. 17.-Favorable
report on the administrator rail-
road funding bill was ordered to-
day by the senate interstate com
merce committee by a vote Of z to
..
The bill would authorize the war
finance corporation to use not to
exceed s500.000 900 to purchase
railroad securities from the rail-
road administration and prescribe
interest rates on securities hereaft-
er accepted from the carriers.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
FINE B0YSF0R
BARN YARD GOLF

Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 17.-Eight
boys caught pitching horseshoes on
a vacant lot at University place, a
suburb, last Sunday, following a
trial in a justice court Of the town,
were found guilty of violating the
law and fined SIS and costs each.
University place is the seat of Ne
braska Wesleyan university.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
BODY OF NEGRO
BURNED BY MOB

Augusta, Ga, Aug IA masked
mob forced its way into the Uni
versity hospital here shortly after
o'clock this morning, secured the
body of Walter Smalley, the negro
who ran amuck and killed two
white men and injured four others
late yesterday. and carrying it be-
yond the city limits. burned 1t to a
crisp. The remains were returned
to the hospital.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
OBENCHAIN
STRIVES To
KEEP TRUNK
Sheriff Wants Property
as Evidence in Ken
nedy Murder Case.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 17.-Ar-
| consigned from San Francisco to
Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, held in
jail here on a charge of murder in
connection with the shooting of J.
Bolton Kennedy, insurance broker,
and the subsequent attempt of the
sheriff's office to seize it as pos
sible evidence against her, was the
signal for a fighting announce
ment" by her attorney, Ralph Oben-
chain, her divorced husband. ac
cording to story which appears in
morning newspaper.
The trunk, according to Mr..
Obenchain's statement, belongs to
him, but Mrs. Obenchain had been
using it. Some property in it, it is
said, belongs to him. 1t is a regu-
lation army locker trunk, and he
said it was used by him when he
was a lieutenant in the army.
Il will apply for an injunction
to prevent seizure of the trunk
without warrants" he said.
cent court ruling it becomes q vio-
lation of constitutional rights to
seize property for use against
defendant without warrants de-
scribing the papers or evidence
sought.
Magnetic MadaIynne.
Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. IL
UNITED Press.)-Source of the
mysterious magnetism of NADIA
lynne Obenchain over at least
three men was the chief point on
which District Attorney Thomas
Lee Woolwine today centered his
investigation of the murder of John
Bolton Kennedy.
Woolwine declared he believed
the mysterious murder would be
lowing facts:
What power, Madalynne. who
with Arthur Burch, stands accused
OF the murder, possessed over Ken
nedy to cause the murdered man
to communicate with her on the
night she was married to Ralph
Obenchain, and to keep in commu-
nication with her during the time
she was living with the Chicago
lawyer?
2-What strange influence does
she exert over Obenchain to force
him TO allow her to obtain a di-
vorce so that she might fly to Ken
nedy? and now a powerful impulse
leads Obenchain to give up his po-
sition, prospects of advancement
and rush across the continent to
her aid.
3-What is her hold on Arthur
C. Burch that he should leave his
business bankrupt and travel 5000
miles Ito help out a pal'.
The only explanation of Burch
and Obenchain is that she is inno-
cent, Woolwine said. That don't
explain-it will not explain-the
many puzzling circumstances of
this case.
They have made no effort to
help US arrive at the true solution
of this crime. If they are inno-
cent, why don't they do so? 81
want to know why this conspiracy
of silence exists. Burch doesn't
try to explain the tracks of the
auto which we can prove he took
from the garage. Why doesn't he
tell US where he went on that A
mile drive, if he is innocent? He
hasn't told US about the package |
he rushed from the hotel with in |
answer to a call believed to have |
come from Madalynne: nor of !
visits, disguised as a /
blond, to his room, nor of his un- |
doubted espionage on Kennedy's |
Office.
What was he doing here any |
way? snapped the prosecutor.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-17
COLLECTOR OF
REVENUE SLAIN
Z. S Officer Killed as Auto Goes
Over Bridge-COmpaniOn Bad
ly Hurt.

Pana- Ill, Aug. 17.-Dwight
Michaels, an internal revenue col
lector was killed and Richard Large,
business man of Taylorville. was
injured seriously when an automo-
bile, In which they were riding,
went over the side of bridge here
today. Michaels also resided in
Taylorville. but worked out OF
Springfield.