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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
IS
TO WE'D BRITISH
PRINCESS MARY
Wedding IS Expected
to Take Place Near
Christmas.

London, Nov. 23.-United Press)
ALI England today hailed Prin-
cess Mary and her "commoner"
fiance-the Viscount LasceIIes. son
of the Earl of Hardwood Their
engagement was announced last
night in a statement issued at
buckingham palace by the king and
queen.
Title SHORE Courtesy,
The fact that the title of viscoun+
is a mere courtesy" of the king
and that the prospective BRIDE
groom is really an ordinary com
moner seemed to please the news
papers and the public alike.
Il am very happy and a lucky
man." Lascelles told his friends
who showered him with congratu-
lations.
The announcement of the be-
throthal threw London into a
hysteria of pleasant excitement.
Mary Is Good COok.
The viscount is SO, while Mary is
a. Mary has always been popu-
lar with the British public. She is
fond of home life and a qualified
cook" She has been leader of the
girl school movement and is a well
known horsewoman. Although no
definite time has been set for the
wedding it is expected to take place
around Christmas.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Copyright, 1921
fC~4-laI - TI-


Washington, Nov. 23.-Premier
BRAND has hoped that the Wash
ington conference would adopt a
resolution more or less approving
the attitude of France ON land
armament. His speech of Monday
was designed as a preliminary step
toward that end. Arthur James
Balfour of Great Britain and Sec
retary Hughes of the United States
delegation endeaVored to meet his
wishes in their responses to his
speech and the discussion yester-
day in French circles was whether
Premier BrianG would be satisfied
with those expressions or whether
he would ask for something more
concrete. The chances of his get
ting a blanket approval of the
French idea Of land armament
were regarded as slim though some
statement sympathizing with the
necessities of Frances position
would not be as difficult to get.
Premier BRAND leaves tomorrow.
To get an agreement on so knotty
a point in "a hours would be in
deed a tribute to the skill of the
French statesman as well as an un-
precedented record for action on
such a vital principle.
BRANDS BROAD Hint.
Premier BRAND has courted some
from the conference on
French policy. He has done it by
intimating how unfortunate it
would be for France if the Wash
ington conference by indirection
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
Nine LEADERS
FAIL TO AGREE
Kansas Conditions adjusting
Themselves Says Lewis-"Less
Than 800 at Work. Harrington.

Springfield. ILL.,, Nov. 23.-Inter-
national President John l.. Lewis,
announced this morning that con-
ditions in Kansas coal fields are
rapidly adjusting themselves, but
President Frank Harrington, of the
Illinois miners organization, de-
clared that the three Illinois repre-
sentatives in Kansas wired last
night that LESS than 800 men are
at work"
President Lewis declined any
further discussion.
President harrington, however,
said statements had been given out
here that 5000 miners had return
ed.
That is untrue" he said, "such
statements are made to discourage
Illinois miners from giving any
support to Kansas miners by try
ing to create the impression that
the bulk of the Kansas miners have
returned to work.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
DEFENSE OF
FAT T Y IS
UNDER WAY
Many Lawyers Open Fight
for Film Stars
Freedom.

San Francisco, Calf. Nov. 23.-
Omitted Press Roscoe Arbuckle
today started his fight for freedom.
His attorneys attacked the case
built up by the prosecution in its
effort to convict the comedian of
manslaughter in connection with
the death of Virginia Rape, ac-
tress.
Comedian Is Disheveled.
Arbuckle-heavy of eye, saggy of
cheek, and with his once natty Nor
folk suit sadly needing a trip to
the pressers-leaned eagerly over
the backs of his attorneys chairs,
as they launched their counter at
tacks.
The prosecution action in sud
denly closing it's case late yester-
day without warning, failed to take
Arbuckle's counsel by surprise. His
chief attorney Gavin McNab, was
ready to demand Arbuckle's release
when court convened this morn
ing. In fact, Arbuckle's lawyers
had under consideration the prop
osition of asking the judge to free
their client at once, without hear
ing further testimony, on the
ground that the state nad not sue
ceeded in showing that he inflicted
injuries upon Miss Rappe that
caused her death.
Dismissal Not Likely.
1t was a foregone conclusion that
such a plea, however, would be de-
MED by the judge so Arbuckle's
lawyers marshalled their evidence
for their counter attack.
They planned to prove that Miss
Rappe's death was caused by an
illness which ArbuckIe had nothing
to do with.
They were lining up a score of
witnesses through whom they in
tended to demonstrate that the
famous thrower of pies is innocent,
and that those who accused him Of
carrying Miss Rape into a bed
room caveman style were, to say
the least, just a bit confused about
what really happened.
Chambermaid Testifes.
One of Arbuckle's first witnesses
was Miss Kate Brennan, tall. port
ly, and we'll dressed in brown satin.
She said she had been a chamber
maid at the Hotel St Francis and
was permitted TO explain in detail
how chambermaids clean rooms at
fashionable hostelries.
She even gave demonstration
busting up a desk in the courtroom,
Continued on Page SevenD
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
MINE CLOSED BY
BY SYMPATHY
STRIKE OF MEN
Fields of Colorado
Still Under Mar
fioI LalU.

Walsenburg, Colo. Nov. 23.-(By
the Associated Press
ity that some of the miners at the
Cameron mine, closed by a sympa-
thetic strike of miners, may be
transferred to other mines was in
dicated last night by officials Of
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company
Only 20 per cent of the miners
had reported at work last week,
although the Cameron mine is not
affected by the recent wage cut
which resulted in a strike at 13
mines and declaration of martial
law in Huerfano county.
Oppose Wage Cut
Superintendent Kaiser of the
Cameron mine, said that the mill
ers had voted against accepting
wage reduction at the time the pro-
posal was placed before miners at
other camps, and that, due to the
small number of men reporting for
duty it was decided TO close the
mine Indefinitely. The men who
want to work will probably be sent
to other mines, Superintendent
Kaiser said.
At the Ideal mine, it was said
that approximately a normal crew
was expected by the end of the
week
Company Claims Gains.
The number OF diggers actually
at work has been growing each
day, according to the company fig
ures- Continued improvement is
shown in company reports from
all the mines affected by the strike,
the largest proportion of men be-
ing at work in Las Animas county
Hundreds of weapons surrender
ed by residents in response TO the
proclamation from Colonel Ham
rock, adjutant-general. have been
brought to the county court house.
Others have been brought to pre-
cinct polling places. In each case
a receipt is given, so that the
owners can get back their property
after the present emergency.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23

France Hopes to Receive
Americas Moral Support
In Place of Militaru Pact

were to point a finger of disappruv-
al toward the size of Frances land
armament. The very inclusion of
the topic '1and armament" on the
program of the conference has been
more or less distasteful to France
and M. BRAND has given the other
delegations this broad hint as TO
his desires:
If by direction given to the la
Dors or the conference it were pos
slbie somewhere over there in
Europe-if it were possible to say
that the outcome of this conference
is indirect blame and opprobrium
cast upon France-it it was pos
s1ble to point to France as the only
country in the world that is still
lmperlalistic, as the only country
that opposes final disarmament,
tten, indeed this conference would
have dealt US a severe blow-and
/ am quite sure that nothing is fur
ther from your minds and from
your intentions. If after listening
tC my argument, after weighing the
reasons which you have just heard,
you consider it then as valid, then.
90 VII SIlI pe Will us anu YOU
will agree with me in saying that
France cannot possibly do anything
but what she has actually done. .
BalfOur Chooses Words.
To this sentiment, Great Britain
responded through Arthur James
Balfour who repeats what Prime
Minister Lloyd George has said
again and again since the armis-
tice, namely, that if France were at
tackled again. England would come
Continued on Page Threel
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
II KILLED,
so WOUNDED
IN BELFAST
Riots in Ulster Capital
Approach State Of
Civil War.

London, Nov. 23.-CBy the Asso-
ciated Press Fourteen were kill
ed and more than so seriously
wounded in the Belfast riots yes
terday and today. with scores suf-
fering from minor injuries. These
were the reported casualties up to
midnight, following day of fierce
turmoil and excitement which re-
sembled that of civil war.
Sniper Shoots Workman.
Belfast, Ireland, Nov. 23.-(By
the Associated Press. belfast s
long list of fatalities as the result
of factional rioting began to grow
early today, one victim being add
ed almost at the outset to the 13
killed in outbreaks attending the
assumption Of governmental pow
ers by the new Ulster parliament
yesterday.
There was comparative quiet in
the city after midnight and the day
opened quietly, but in view of the
last nights events. little hope was
entertained that this quietude would
be enduring Fears of further trou-
BILE were realized by the time actiV-
tiles were on the dock street, a
foreman who was engaging labor
ers there for the shipyards being
picked off by a sniper.
Killed Instantly.
The foreman. whose name was
Branton. dropped dead on the spot.
Meanwhile precautionary meas
ures for safety were being taken
by the working population, work
ingmen's cars in the early morning
proceeding without lights so that
they might have better chance of
reaching their destinations without
casualties.
London, Nov. 2S.-(By The Asso-
ciated Press .)-RiotiRg which be-
gan in Belfast on Sunday, had its
climax yesterday in a state of
shooting, bombing and turmoil ap-
preaching civil war. 1t is declared
the disorders were planned to CO.
incide with the assumption yester-
day and the government of Ulster
by the northern parliament.
Press Divides Blame.
Dispatches to the London press
from Belfast place the blame &C
cording to the sympathy of the re-
spective newspapers. However.
while il seems established that the
Sim Feiners were responsible for
the bonn bing of a tram car full of
shipyard workers late in the after
noon and the consequent death of
three persons and injury to so, the
various accounts of the days dis
orders suggest that the aggrega-
ton On the whole, was eciLrocaI
and due to the everlasting rancor
between the Nationalist and Or
angemen.
The total casualties in the series
of outbreaks up to midnight last
night stood at IS persons dead, with
more than fifty seriously wounded
in the hospitals. Scores of other
persons less seriously injured were
treated at their homes.
Military Is Helpless.
The entire force of soldiers and
police in Belfast is said to be un-
able to cope with a situation such
as arose yesterday and the military
commander is reported to have an
nounced, as the disorders continue,
the curfew hour will be advanced
bid use of the streets after $50
in the disturbed area, so as to for
p. N.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
LET CONTRACTS
ON STATE WORK
Lowest Bidders Get Jobs at Dixon
and Alton Hospitals and Arm-
Ory ut kankakee.

Springfield, Ill, Nov. 23.--Lowest
bidders on construction work at
state hospitals at Dixon and Alton
and the armory at kankakee will
be granted contracts, it was an
nounced at the state department OF
public works and buildings today,
where the bids were opened yester-
day.
Lowest bidders were as follows.
Heating plant at Dixon. Ameri-
can Plumbing & Heating company,
East st. Louis, $12,625.
Heating plant at Alton, William
a. Pope. Chicago. $Z9,366.
Electrical work at Alton, MyoTes
Tanner & Co. Danville, S9,995
Heating and ventilatiEg at kan
kakee. J. J. DTury, kankaKee, Sl0,-
779; plumbing, same, S5,56S.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
CONGRESS- TO
QUIT TONIGHT
Sine Die Adjournment Expected; {;
Next Regular Session Will be
Convened in December.

Washington, Nov 23.-Sine die
adjournment of congress was ex-
pected tonight. bringing to an end
the extra session which was called
by President Harding on April IL.
The senate had agreed to a final
vote late today On the tax bill. and
with this out of the way. was pre-
pared to adjourn while the house
was marking time waiting for the
senate to declare its business fin
ished.
The regular session will be con-
vened in December. when the Ford
Newberry election contest and 9TH
er measures which have been un-
der immediate consideration in the
closing days of the extra session
will again be taken up.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
40 PRISONERS
BATTLE GUARDS
Desperate Struggle Follows Mys-
terious Fire in Galway Prison
Ten Are Injured.

Galway, Ireland. Nov. 2S.-By
the Associated Press. Forty po-
litical prisoners confined in the
prison here rushed the warders to-
day while a fire of uncertain or
igin was blazing in two sections
of the structure. The men seized
the keys and barricaded themselves
with six warders in another part
of the prison
The fire was brought under con-
troll, but later desperate struggle
occurred between the rebeIlious
prisoners and their custodians in
which five policemen and five pris-
oners were injured.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
NEWBERRY CASE
UP IN JANUARY

Washington, Nov. 23.-The SEN
ate today agreed to dispose of the
Ford-Newberry senatorial election
contest early in January. The
agreement, which was by unani-
nous consent, provides that the
election case shall be considered
to the exclusion of all else ON the
fourth calendar day, on which the
senate is in session after Jan. /,
and to limit debate after two days
Rf general discussion
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
SENATE CASTS
FINAL VOTE ON
TAX BILL SOON
BaUoting is to Begir,
Not Later Than
S O'clock.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
Washington, Nov. 23.-The
tax revision bill became law
late today, President Harding
signing it at the capitol during
the closing hour OF the spe-
ciaI session of congress.
BULLETIN.
Washington Nov. 23.-FiRal
enactment of the tax revision
bill was accomplished today
with the acceptance by the SEN
ate of the conference report on
the measure.
The bill now goes to the
president whose signature will
make it law.
This, the bill which repeaIs
the excess profits and trans
pOrtaliOn taxes. does away with
most of the sO-cailed nuisance
and luxury taxes, reduces indi-
Tidual taxes all along the line
and increases the corporation
income tax from 10 per cent to
121s per cent.
Washington, Nov. 2S.-(Associa-
ted Press THE last legislative
step in revising the tax laws was
to be taken by the senate before
Debate on the tax bill was re-
sumed early today under a unani-
nous consent agreement for final
vote at not later than p. m. I'm
after the senate acts the
bill will be sent to the president
and it will become a law when he
signs it. None of the tax reduc-
tions provided for in the measure
will be felt before next year, and
the full force of many of them will
not be reflected in the taxpayers
pocketbook until 1928. By that year
it is estimated that the nations tax
bill will be cut to SS35 200, 900 from
the s3,400, 100000 estimated load
this year.
SNuisance- Taxes TO Go.
The transportation taxes and
most of the so-called nuisance and
all of the so-called luxury taxes
will go by the boards on Jan. /
The excess profits tax also will be
as of that date, but the cor
porations making excess profits
this year will pay that tax nexG
year. The higher surtaxes also are
as of next Jan. 1, but the
actual payments of the taxpayers
in 1922 will be at the present rates.
In many instances, however, there
will be some changes in the
amounts of income taxes through
the changes made in the admins
trative provisions of the bill, which
lake effect when the president
signs the measure.
The only tax provisions of the
bill, aside from administrative feat
nres, which are retroactive, are
those granting additional exemp-
tons to married men and heads OF
families on account of dependents.
These additions in the deductions
can be made by the taxpayers in
computing their taxes for this cal
endar year and due in the next cal
endar year.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
PICK 7 WOMEN
ON BURCH JURY
Only One Man Temporarily Passed
as ctiOn Expected on
Writ for Mrs. 0benchain.

Los Angeles, Calf, Nov. 25--Se-
lection of a jury was scheduled 10
proceed with the resumption to-
day of the trial Of Arthur c. Burch,
indicted with Mrs. Ida Madalynne
Obenchain for the murder of j.
Bolton Kennedy, broker. When
adjournment was taken yesterday
the first day Ct trial-seven wo-
men and one man had been tenn
porarily passed as jurors, another
woman was undergoing exam1na-
ton and two ether women and
man were in the box awaiting
questioning.
The district court of appeal was
expected to act today on an app.l-
cation for a writ of habeas corpus
filed in behalf of Mrs. Obenchaln-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
SIX-!NCH RAIN
IN CAIRO, ILL.

Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. %. - The
city of Cairo had its heaviest No
vember rainfall this week The
downfall of more than six inches
broke all records, according to the
weekly crop and weather bulletin
of the weather bureau, issued here
today.
Several inches of snow fell in
the northern counties" the bulle-
tin said. land some cover still re-
mains. The corn harvest was de-
layed by wet weather, but it is
largely completed. Very little corn
has been marketed. Farmers are
holding their corn for higher
prices.
winter wheat continues in fine
condition. There is some pastur-
age"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
FR5.OTECTION OF
CHILDREN IS AIM
a. OF VIGT.ANTES

oSnlcaso, Nov 23.-vigilante
NJ ssuiiaiuees aIiuees for the protection
- children are being organ
s,'L ~ 10 many of the Chicago
a. SauuInS. II was announced to-
. following reports that an
S.era Srase of u children a day
aroe oeen missing in and
n us action was the result OF
We VIC kidnapping on Sunday of B.
soaid at-oid Helen Kierwan. Her
ssses1s eams frightened away her
a.. batant and she wandered
NJ ~ tne streets for nearly "a
pDs Ss before she was found
,,; me Juvenile court is cooper-
u with the vigilante bodies
n protect the children from
@ileged morUns.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
5000 NOT ENOUGH
FOR DIVORCE FEE,
LAWYER DECLARES

Springfield, Ill, Nov. 23.-Serv-
ices Of a lawyer in a divorce suit,
for a man whose estate is valued
at $4,000, is worth more than 5000,
Attorney Thomas Masters objected
this morning when that amount
was allowed him in the circuit
court by Circuit Judge Burton.
Its not enough NJ. Matters
told the Judge. Il could do better
in my Office"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
LINCOLN, ILL,
CHURCHES GIVEN
WINTERS COAL

lincoln, III, Nov. 25.-Seven
hundred tons of coal are to be dis
tributed among the churches of Lin
coin, by the Sangamon County
Mining company, it was announced
today. There will be no church
coal bills this year. Each church
here will be given As tons, the COM
pany's gifts totaling 700 tons.
The company recently acquired
the Latham mine heEe-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
POLES UNvEIL
HOOVER BUST

Warsaw, Nov. ga 'Thanksgiv-
ing monument" in commemoration
of American relief work in Poland
is to be unveiled here tomorrow,
Thanksgiving day. A bust of Her
bert Hoover surmounts the monu-
ment, which was paid for out of
popular subscription opened on the
Fourth of IulI-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
CAN'T DESCRIBE
SKINNY BY USE
OFFICIAL TERMS

Chicago, Nov. 23.-The abun-
dance of praises and words in
legal phraseology, are made
quate to describe the shimmy''
This admission was made to-
day by Assistant States Attor-
ney Frank Souhrada, charged
with preparing a case against
SO persons charged with i'm
moral conduct in dancing, At
torneys for the defense OBJ
tanned a continuance Of the
trial because the dance was
not accurately described in the
charges.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
CALI. LAND
ARMS BODY
TO CONFER
NAV Make Formal Ex-
preston on Frances
Position.
BULLETIN.

Washington. NOV. 23.-By
tbe Associated Press THE
delegations Jf the five powers
discussed land armament to-
Say. but no definite declaration
Of policy resulted from their
deliberations.
Nene of the powers, it is un-
derstOOd, presented any pro-
pOsaI looking toward a con-
erete proROuncement support
ING the French attitude to-
ward srmy reduction as Outlin-
ed to tho full conference in
pleaary session Monday by
Premier BRAND.
Washington, Nov. 23.-CBy the
Associated Press. THE question
a land srmaments was again Civ
aa piace on the arms conference
rrugram today for discussion at a
rseeting of the armament commit
tee Of the whole prior to the gath
sring Of the full conference to re-
same its committee discussions of
speStions relating to China
Premier Brand, of France
x1nes Immediate departure is IN
dsrstood to have prompted the car
, for the armament committee meet
inz, was coming for last word as
10 his country's position in the mat
ter Of a reduction Of arms.
General Expression, Sure.
The conference might proceed to
the point of a formal expression en-
the subject as relating to the pres
ent position of France was regard
ed by many as more than a possi-
biEty in view of the circumstances
under which the meeting was call
ell NJ. BRAND, it is known, would
be pleased to return to France with
; formal conference endorsement
Of the position he has taken
against material reduction. That
there would be at least many gen
eral expressions of appreciation Of
the reasons for that position was
taken for granted.
China Committee to Act.
With the first action of the con
ference locking TO specific applica-
ton Of the general principles
adopted with relation to China TAX
en- IN the appointment of a sub
committee Of representative of the
rine nations TO study the whole
question of administrative auton-
cmy for that country, the Far East
ern committee OF the whole was
expected TO develop further today
Ms course Of procedure on Chinese
questions. The program made thus
!@ IN negotiations regarding the
EN eastern situation. including
ne appointment of this commit
lee, which viii give particular at
nnuon to the tariff and tax re-
su1cnons imposed upon China by
NE powers, was regarded in of
Rcial quarters as highly encour-
ssing' although it is recognized
nat some Of the most troublesome
yesSnons have not vet been taken
~
U. y Advisory Body Meets.
me American advisory commit
se Oh Il entered on its more i'm
prtan work in connection with
s conference today. following a
SaaeTence with Secretary Hughes
sSeS'efoay - IN which he reported on
- present status of the negotia-
A A number of subcommit-
- OF the advisory body were in
odscted after the conference 10
sSspAre ssSpe reports for the American
Ss.es, S.es@'es on various subjects of
all, including one on the use
~ llesltlmacy Of new weapons of
hI@re' a subject that has not yet
proper. HA eA eA|0
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-23
CONGRESS- ADLOURNS.

a, washington, Nov. 23.-The sem
- &c ana house adopted resolutions
Iov-inSuf %uSoufn for Thanksgiving fol-
tsesas s vote on the tax bill yes