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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-26
FEDERAL MARSHAL STILL
TRAILING JOHN L00NEY;
SEARCHES HAUNTS IN Vain
psdigo, Chief Aid, Denies
Knowing Whereabouts
Alleged Auto Thief.

Another thorough search
Of two of John Looney's
properties = the Country
club, on the Rock river road
east of the Watch Tower,
and his residence on Twen-
tieth street and Sixteenth
avenue-made this morning
by United States Deputy
Marshal John w. Murray
and two of his deputies,
found no trace of the fugi-
tive from justice. Murray
has a warrant for the arrest
Of Looney on a federal grand
jury Indictment a lie gin g
theft of an automobile. He
must furnish $4,000 bond.
The first visit was made at the
Country club, located on a hill over
looking Rock river. Upon entering
The house, Deputy Marshal Murray
was greeted by the voice Of an old
friend, Stats" Sturgeon, whom Mr..
Murray said he had known at one
time when Sturgeon was turnkey
1t q Peoria Jail.
After talking while at the
Country club and asking as to the
whereab bouts Of Looney, Marshal
Murray left with no further infor-
nation as to the hiding place Of
Looney. Sturgeon said that he had
not seen Looney for six months and
that he had not been at the Country
club for three years. He said that
hs did not have any idea where
looney was now.
i Leaving the Country club, Muir.
ny next went to the Loonsy, place
on Sixteenth avenue. A knock al
the door interrupted a friendly lit
tie card game between two men
guarding the Looney homestead. A
negro came to the door, and wher
asked il Lawrence Pedigo, an ally
Of LoonAy's. was there, he answer.
Cd that he was not. Marshal Muir.
ray and his men, also accompanied
by . representative of The Argus
went through the house on the
first floor and then to the darl
basement, where the Rock Islant
News is published. Thorough
ssarch was made of the press room
and the basement.
The second floor of the hous,
was the next object of the search
In the bath room was another ne
gro, who was shaving. Mr.. Murra!
then opened another door and dis
turbed Lawrence Pedigo. who wal
sleeping in an adjoining bedroom
do you know where Looney is!'
queried Marshal Murray.
Il do not know where he is, bu
] expect him back in several days.
Pedigo answered.
Liquor and Guns.
In going to the second room aft
sr entering the house Marshal Muir
ray observed a pint bottle of whis
~ nearly full standing on the flool
near the piano where the men wer'
playing cards. MIR. Murray picket
up the liquor and smelled of it
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-26
LEAGUE Of
NATIONS TO
GET HIS AID
Premier Echoes Lloyd
George Desire for U.s.
Friendship.

London, Oct. 2e.-tBy the Asso-
ciated Press. ANDREW Bonar Law.
as leader Of the Unionist party. !. il
a manifesto issued this afternoon.
declared one of the tasks OF that
party il it is returned to power
will be to make good the Great
Britain-Irish treaty, both in letter
and spirit. and to cooperate with
the Irish government.
The manifesto declares 1t will be
the governments earnest aim. II
returned, to give wholehearted and
practical support to the League of
Nations. to fulfill the obligations
Great Britain has undertaken
abroad, but not to extend her COM
mitments but preferably to curtail
them, and to maintain friendship
and good understanding with the
United States.
Bonar Law said in the Mani
festo it was the Unionist party's
purpose, the self-governing domin-
ions approved, to summon an econ
Omist conference in an effort to
discover how the vast trade which
the resources Of the empire made
possible could best be developed
by mutual cooperation.
Text of Manifesto.
The manifesto read in part:
"The crying need of the nation
at this moment is that we should
have tranquility and stability, both
at home and abroad, SO that free
scope should be given to the init
ative and enterprise Of our citi II
zens.
with this in view, I think 1t OF
the utmost importance that We
should return as quickly as pos
sible and completely, ~ possible to
the normal procedure which exist
ed before the war.
THE time has now come when
! q change should be made in the
machinery of the central govern
ment.
Abolish Secretariat.
Some of the work hitherto done
by the cabinet secretariat is essen
| tAdl anu muSt Uc CUulkuutu, Uut "
intend to bring that body in its
present form to an end.
I'm illustration of the changes
we contemplate, instructions al
ready have been given to transfer
to the foreign office the machinery
of the League OF Nations. and as
regards any future international
conference, even where 1t is neces-
sary that l as prime minister
should be present. the machinery
of the conference will be operated
not by the cabinet secretariat E;1..
by the foreign office itself.
In all our foreign relations VIC
intend to pursue an even course
Loyalty fulfilling the Obligations
we have undertaken, but resolutely
determined not to extend our COM
mittments, and should rea sonable
occasion arise, to curtail them.
1T is my confident hope that ur-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-26
ATHENS paper
STIRS CREEKS

Athens. Oct. 36.-Sensation has
been created by the demand Of the
newspaper Vima for . scientific In
quiry into the cause Of the death
OF King Alexander Of Greece, who
died two years ago after q monkey
had bitten him. The Newspaper
intimates the possibility that there
was criminal negligence between
the time Of the bite and thu time OF
the kings death. What It wants
particularly 70 know is how the
accident became irreparahte.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-26
TRAVELS $4,000
MILES TO ENTER
CULVER ACADEMY

Canton. Mo-. Oct. ga. E.
Adams and his wife OF Dunedin.
New Zealand. spent 30 days
travelling 1900 miles to this
city, to enter Culver Stockton
college. Adams was a stuLent
at Culver Stockton before the
World var and returned to his
home in New Zealand to Join his
countrymen in arms. He is .
member of the tuEior class, and
today said be and his wife would
remain until they received de-
grees. q
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-26
THE WEATHER

Generally fair tonight and Fri
day. Warmer tonight
Highest temperature yesterday,
81: lowest Hast night, 42.
Wind velocity at a m. 4 miles
per hour.
Precipitation, none.
12nl. 7p.m. Tam.
yester. yester. Today
Dry bulb ......s4 81 ~
Wet bulb ......50 46 40
Rel. humidity "a 40 so
River stage at z g. m. 1.3. . rise
of q in last "a hours.
Sunset today SOS; sunrise to-
morrow. $50.
River Forecast.
The stages Of the Mississippi
river from below Dubuque to Mus
catine will change but little during
the next few days.
ANDREW HAMRICS.
NeteoroloEist-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-26

Gloucester. Mass. Oct. 2e.-(By
the Associated Press THE Cana
dian Blue Nose led the Henry Ford
by q seconds when the schooners
started the third and deciding race
today for the championship of the
Atlantic fishing fleet. Each boat
has one official race to her credit.
The 40-mile course selected was
the same as that sailed yesterday.
The Blue Nose had a lead of one
minute and six seconds at the first
mark.
The Blue Nose was 38 seconds
ahead when the boats had sailed
Is miles.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-26
Blue Nose
Leading in
Final Race
BULLETIN.

Gloucester, Mass, Oct ~
Blue Nose Of Canada REFINED
the championship Of the Attain.
tic fishing heet by defeating the
American schooner Henry Ford
in the third race Of this years
competition here today.
THe Blue Nose finished at
::iS:47. At that time The Ford
was two miles aStefn.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
PLAN LADIES' NIGHT PROGRAM
Members OF Square Circle Club To
Meet at Boys School,

The next meeting of the Topeka
Square Circle club will be a ladies'
night meeting and dance at the new
dormitory of the Boys Industrial
school, it was decided at the regular
meeting Monday night
Major w. p. MacLean, superintend-
ent of the school and president of the
club, invited the Square Circlers to
dedicate the new building of the
school, by holding their next session
there.
The Square Circle will support the
Booster Day for the Topeka Solons. IL
was determined after DR.. Galen Z.
Crook had presented the condition OF
Topeka's baseball team to the club.
and asked for their cooperation.
A radio concert and a series OF mar
ket reports being broadcast from Kan
sas City, were picked up by the radio
installation of the w. I. Alstead Radio
& Electric company, which was
hooked up" for the entertainment or
the members of the club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
But NATIONALS WON'T CONTROL.
With Majority in Lower Philippine
House, Other Parties Combine.
(BY the Associnted PresrI

Manila, P. l., June 12.-Leaders of
the collectivista and democratic par
ties today agreed tentatively to com
bine against nationalistas in the cleo
ton Of the president of the senate and
speaker of the house in the next legis-
lature according to statements issued
after conference between them. The
program agreed upon, it was said was
to re-elect Manuel QuezOn, president
Of the senate and give the speakership
to a democratic.
With eight districts still missing, It
is conceded by leaders of both parties
while the nationalistas will have a
plurality in the lower house a COM
bination of democratas and collecti-
XistaS would hold control
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
(Ry the Associated Press.l

Dayton, Ohio June 13.-IaShed
and whipped about by a 120-mile-an-
hour gale more than four and a half
miles above earth, on the verge of
suffccation, caused by loss CT his oxy-
gen tank and compelled to cling to
ropes and straps attached to the para
chute for fear that a whirling cross
current might weaken and cause them
to break are several of the mere de-
tails" related today by Capt. A. W.
Stevens. aerial photographer, McCook
field, who yesterday broke the worlds
parachute jump record when he de-
scended 24206 feet.
The fact that it was Captain Stew
enss first drop" tends to make his
feat one of the most remarkable in
the history of aviation. He suffered
no i'll effects from his hazardous trip.
The plane in which Captain Stevens
ascended, a twin motored Martin
bomber, piloted by Lieut.. Leigh Wade
broke the worlds altitude record for
this particular type of ship carrying
three passengers when it attained
24,2O6 feet Sergt. Roy Langham
was the third member of the party.
Captain Stevens was reluctant today
to discuss details of his experience.
For a long time I have wanted to
make a parachute drop" he said
Primarily to obtain first hand infor-
nation as to the sensation one feels
I am highly gratified to think I was
able to bring another record to Nc
Cook field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
MEXICAN BANDITS ARE ROUTED.
Attempt to Hold Up Train Which
General Rode Was a Mistake.

Nogales, Ariz, June 13. - Mexican
bandits who attempted to holdup
and rob a Southern Pacific of
Mexico railroad train near Ros-
ario station, sixty miles south
of MaZatlan, Sinaloa, yesterday, were
driven off. according to reports reach
ing here today. Three of the bandits
were killed and two wounded when
General Rodriguez and members of
his staff who were aboard the train.
opened fire upon them, the report
said.
According to word received here,
the bandits. twenty-five of them, had
received word that forty bars con-
tanning silver bullion had been placed
aboard the train by an American min
ing company at Rosario. The ship
ment is said to have been valued at
$4,000.
Trainmen told General Rodriguez,
who was in a rear coach that the
bandits were attempting to loot the
express car. Rodriguez and his staff
opened fire. Two members of the
staff were slightly wounded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
Governor Withdraws as Candi-
date for Legislature.
Has Entertained Plans for Seat
in 1928 House.
URGES |. A. HASTY TO RUN
Wanted to Defend Work of
Present Administration.
Many of Governors Friends
Advise Him to Stay Out.

Governor Allen today withdrew
himself from the legislative list. Plans
which he had entertained for some
weeks looking to possibilities of seek
ing a seat in the 1928 house were aban-
doned when the governor asked Rep
resentative L. A. Hasuy to become a
candidate for denomination.
Some time ago Hasty was asked to
stay out of the race for the legisla-
ture from the Sixty-seventh district.
ing to reports, in order to permit Gov
ernor Allen to seek a, place in the
new house. Hasty has been undecid-
ed as to his course for several weeks.
The governor has also considered the
situation and made his final decision
today when he addressed a letter to
Hasty asking him to get in the race
for a second term.
Friends Urge Him to Stay Out.
According to reports, Governor AL
len planned to come to the legislature
in order to defend the work of his
administration. In event of the cleo
the present Morgan-administra
alignment, the governors election
would have made the logical leader
for the new administration. Many
of the governors warmest friends in
the state and in Wichita urged him to
stay out OF the race. They felt that
he would be forced to stake the en-
tire record of his administration on
results in his home legislative district.
Defeat, they declared, would have
been interpreted as reputation.
Records of the 1920 election showed
that Governor Allen lost his home
legislation district by 700 to 500 votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
Thrills of Breaking Record
For Altitude Jumping Told
New Marks Set for McCook Field When Three Scatter
Plane Climbs 24,2O6 Feet, and Parachute Jumper,
in First Jump, Drops, Landing Safely.

When the plane reached the cell
ing, I made ready to jump As near
as could judge, we were over Spring
field, Ohio. Bidding my pals good
bye. I jumped.
The opening of the parachute
caused the oxygen tank to become
loose from its fastenings on the front
of my clothing. Grasping it with
both hands, I endeavored to retain it.
The wind was travelling at a speed
of 120 miles per hour. I was forced
to use both hands on the ropes and
straps which held me to the chute. It
was then that I lost the tank
Before settling down to a lower
altitude, 1 thought my time had com e.
as / was nearly suffocated due to rare
ness of the atmosphere. Dropping out
of the gale into calmer atmosphere
below. 7 quickly recovered. however
'I landed at jamestown, approx
mately twenty-five miles from where
1 left the plane. The descent took
just thirty minutes
Two hours and five minutes was re-
quired by Lieut. Wade to pilot tho
bomber to her record breaking alti-
tude.
Arkansas City. June 13.-Sergeant
Ensel Chambers. late of Postfield,
Fort Sill. now of this city. claims the
worlds record parachute drop of "a
$50 feet According to the aviation
and aircraft journal he made the drop
at the American Legion convention
at Kansas City in 1921.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
DEATH LIST Is UP
More Than Seventy Believed
Victims of Eastern Storm.
Proprietor of Ferris Wheel To
Be Called Before Jury.

New York, June 13.-The death list
resulting from the cyclonic storm that
smashed and swirled its way thru New
York and it's suburbs Sunday evening
continues to grow.
The known dead now total forty
five with sixteen other persons re-
ported missing. The police launches
continued to grapple today for bodies
of those still missing.
At least forty visitors to City Island,
were drowned in the disaster and the
police are convinced that the death
list will reach seventy.
1t will be days before the total loss
of life will be known. The Bronx
grand jury has started an investigation
of the wreck of the Ferris wheel at
Clason's point. in which seven were
killed and forty others seriously in
jured. The owner, who was arrested
after the tragedy will face the grand
jury today.
Heavy Wind in Nebraska.
Omaha, June ia 54-mile an
hour wind. a heavy downpour of rain
with hail, and lightning caused dam
age to wires and trees. interrupted
traffic and swamped police headquar-
ters with calls for men to clear away
debris here last night.
Storm in Springfield, Ill.
(By the Associated Press)
Springfield, III, June 13.-Fifteen
houses were blown from their founda-
tions, $4,000 damage was done to
Deveraux mine and two men were in
jured while in bed when a violent
wind and rain storm struck Spring
field early this morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
BIG BOOSTER DAY
Five Thousand Tickets VIII Be
Sold for Game Thursday.
Committees VIII Make Canvass
in Business District.

The success of a booster day next
Thursday, June Is, for the benefit OF
the Topeka baseball club was prac-
tically assured this morning when
committees, appointed at the pep"
meeting Monday night. opened a drive
for the sale of five thousand tickets
at 81 each.
Various plans of coming to the res
cue of the club were discussed at the
meeting Monday night. Manager Dick
Cooley was present ana explained why
the support was needed. While the
attendance was small there was de-
termined expression from nearly
everyone present that Topeka could
not afford to see the franchise trans
ferred to some other city.
1t was finally decided to go on thru
with the booster day. stage the event
Thursday afternoon when the Solons
will be playing the third game of the
series with Bartlesville. and check the
entire matter up to a committee OF
business men to put it over. And Ii
is going over.
The committee appointed consists
of Earl Akers, chairman; Fred Voiland.
L. c. Rain, DR.. Galen Crook, Georg.
Senne and Bob Fullerton. This COM
mittee met at the Chamber of Com
merce this morning at 10 o'clock,
named their Heutenants, divided the
town into districts and started the
drive at once.
Mr. VciISnd and Mr.. Rain are in
charge of the ticket sale in the 700
blocks on Kansas avenue, Mr.. Akers
and J. H. Lee the 500 block and the
state house. DR.. Crook the 600 block,
Harper Rigby the 900 block and North
Topeka, Mr.. Senne the 400 and 500
blocks and the court house. Mr.. Full
lerton the wholesale district, Mr.. Rain
the Santa F'e shops and storehouse, G.
c. Sickler the Santa Fe general Of
fiNnS nj Rnh MRCriffoFf the CitV hall.
Business Houses To Sell Tickets.
While every effort is being made to
effect a sale at each place, blocks of
from twenty-five to one hundred tick
cts are being left with some of the
larger business houses with instruc-
tions to dispose of as many of them
as possible. This mean that the tick
cts are on sale at many places along
Kansas avenue where they may be
procured by persons whom the com
nittees fail to reach. This plan was
decided upon inasmuch as the sale is
limited to period of forty-eight
hours.
The committees will meet at the
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday
morning at O'Clock to check up their
Plans will be made at that time to
canvass the side streets, including
Jackson and Quincy. and business
houses refusing to buy tickets today,
may expect call from strong arm
committee tomorrow.
One thing that should be distinctly
understood is that the tickets will be
good for Thursday only, except in the
case of rain when they will be good the
next day following. Another thing
that is helping the sale of tickets,
among clerks and office employees, Is
that the game will not be called until
5:15 o'clock. At that hour there will
be very few persons who will be un-
able to attend, and some of the bust
ness houses, it Is said. may close at 5
o. clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
SAYS HIS HOME BROKEN UP
Trial of S. j. Craig's Damage Suit for
S42,z 200 in Progress.

Details of how he had been sus-
pected of chloroforming his wife in
1917 were related on the witness stand
today by S ]. Craig, of Atwood, Kan,
whose S42,700 damage suit against
several prominent Rawlins county
men is in progress in Judge George
Whitcomb's division of the district
court
Craig said his wife awoke in the
night almost overcome by the fumes
of the choloform and that shc called
him six times in an unsuccessful ef
fort to awaken him. In the divorce
suit subsequently brought by Mrs.
Craig allegations concerning the epi-
sode were contained in her petition, it
was said, and the inference left with
the court that Craig had attempted
to take her life. Dempster Scott,
prominent Rawlins county attorney.
afterward intirnated that he suspected
Craig might have made the attempt,
Craig asserted
Craig is suing c. A. P. Falconer and
w S. Langmade, both former judges
of the Rawlins county court, together
with Dempster Scott and his son,
Charles Scott, attorneys; Frank How
ard and Earl D. Howard, Atwood
county citizens for damages he says
he sustained when the defendants
were alleged to have conspired to-
gether to ALLEVIATE his wifes affec-
tions and get her property. valued at
more than $55,OOO.
Il believe that those men are the
men who broke up my home" Craig
asserted. I honestly believe it.
He admitted that after Mrs. Craig
had obtained her divorce that Judge
Langmade advised him to marry her
again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-13
Tho Not Expected Today, HI
May Quit After Reelection.
Little Doubt Felt That He Is To
Be Kept in Chair.
BUT He is GROWING old
So Delegates Are Casting About
for a Successor Now.
Serious Dissatisfaction Has Not
Been Expressed So Far.

Cincinnati, June 1s.-The ship sub
sidy bill now pending IN congress was
condemned by a resolution adopted
unanimously today by the American
Federation Of Labor as inimical to
public interest and destructive OF the
nations hope for sea power.
Andrew Furuseth. president OF the
International Seamen's union. told the
convention that the bill probably
would be reported tomorrow in both
houses of congress with committee
recommendation that IL be enacted
into law. On Furuseth's motion the
convention voted to write protest to
congressional leaders opposing favor
able action
Convention Hall. Cincinnati. June
Political strategists within the
American Federation of Labor are
maneuvering today TO anticipate the
stepping down from the leadership
Samuel Gompers. dominant factor in
all but one year of the forty-two years
labor has been banded together
Among the hundreds of delegates in
attendance at the federation conven-
tfon here, there is no thought at this
time that Gompers will be defeatd
for reelection as president or that
he will voluntarily relinquish the
presidential reins.
Gompers Is - Years Old.
But some AtAEEdLES punt OlAf 6OAAA-
pers. THE grand old man of labor"
is 70 years old, and while he would
not fail to combat strenuously all
efforts which might be made to dis
place him. there is possibility that
following reelection he may resign
within a month or two.
This is the political phase OF the
convention as 1t opened its second
days session today.
Today few delegates from informa-
ton obtained by a canvass OF many
expect any serious dissa tisfaction over
policies to be laid down for labor gen
orally. and while Gompers' long reign
as president promises to be unbroken
by any. action Of this convention, the
same is not expected to hold true for
other officials of the federation.
Many Moves in Offing-
Pressure is being brought to bear
in responsible sources in the conven-
rion TO induce Matthew Vol. Of New
York. present vice president Of the
federation. to seek the secretarysnip
held by Frank Morrison.
Back of this political move is an
attempt to make VOL next president
Of the federation. Under the organ
ization rules. VOL as secretary would
be eligible TO the presidency in event
Gompers resigned or was otherwise
effaCed from the leadership he has
held so long
Committees appointed at the open
ing session. were busily engaged today
in shaping up their work