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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26

Steubenville, Ohio. Dec. Pa
woman entered into consideration
today in the killing yesterday of
Charles ("Dixie'D Blinn. prohibi-
tion officer, "the marked man" of
the dry squad here.
Police said Blinn was last seen
leaving the home of Miss Lulu
Lyle, Webster alley, about 10 p. m.
and that shortly after that resi-
dents told of hearing shots near
the house, and of seeing an auto
mobile driven away from near the
residence.
According to information given
police, they said today, Blinn ap-
peared at the home of Charles
Walker last night. in an intoxicat-
ed condition. brandishing revol-
yer and threatening to pinch a
number of places" He is said to
have left Walkers home in COM
pany with Miss Lyle.
Police are working today on the
theory that Blinn's murder was
planned; that he was shot and
placed in the machine in Webster
alley and his body taken to Marsh
alley two blocks away and there
dumped out There were no blood
stains on the ground where the
body was found.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
MURDER
IS A MYSTERY

Chicago. Dec. 26.-His throat
slashed almost to the point OF de-
capitation, Edward ]. O'Day, As
years old, OF 3019 West Polk
street, was found dead ON q bench
near a much traversed driveway in
Douglas park yesterday afternoon
Failure to discover q knife or, q
weapon Of any kind near the body
convinced me police that the man
was murdered. They are searching
for q tall stranger who Was seen
with him ON the bench earlier In
the afternoon.
That the murder could have been
unNitnessed Is considered remark
able by the police. The SPOT chosen
for the crime Il one OF the most
exposed in the entire park and the
bench ON which the body was
found Is near . skating rink. which
was thronge&s throughout the AFTER
noon. The beach also b IN full
view OF 4 number Of much used
walks and Of the boulevard, where
q stream Of automobiles u con-
stantly passing.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26

or1ner Mayor Arrested IN K)a,1 Probe
TodayInCity

Automobile Of Howard II.
Kloye damaged &1y00O In col
lision ON Twenty fourth street
vladpct.
Stolen automobile Of Thomas
Rosenfield located by radle and
returned to owner.
Rock Island postofficc does
largest Christmas business In
its history.
Book Of government whisky
permits stolen from Offices OF
Drs. Ell Bradford and Harry
Frey.
Persons indicted BY grand
jury in vice probe will be ar.
raigned in circuit cOud t0mor.
row morning at 10 O'Clock and
given opportunity to plead to
charges against them.
Samuel. Arndt, former Rock
Island merchant, dies in Mus.
cogee, Okla, hospital.
Today Is first registration day
for special city election, Jan.
l6 Next registration day will
be Jan. 8.
Residence Of Louis II. Blan.
set, 7sS Twenty.third street,
damaged g, 800 by fire.
Steamer Grace, engaged in
United States river improve
ment service, sinks in Mlssfs.
sippi at the foot of Nineteenth
street.
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CONTINUED on Page Two.l
10 PROBE COAL
| Rates IN West

Green Bay, Wis, Dec. 26.-Dis-
Atisfaction with the established
pal rates coming simultaneously
nom the Illinois traffic bureau, the
Lake Michigan Dock Operators, in
eluding those at Manitowoc, Mil
Naukee and Green Bay. and the
northwest Coal Dock Operators as
pociation. Minneapolis, will result
a general investigation Of the
eoal rates in the western trunk
3ine territory by the interstate
tommerce commission, in the opin-
ION OF W. F. KsfGfn. managing d.
rector Of the Green Bay association
eHeommerce.
All above associations have filed
complaints with the interstate COM
merce commission. alleging the
present carriers rates from Lake
Michigan docks and from Illinois
4felds In shipments Of coal in car.
load lots to Wisconsin and Lake
fSuperior points are unjust and IN
duly prejudicial to Illinois shippers
and that the rates to Michigan des
tinations are unduly preferential t
Lake Michigan dock operators.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
BIZ DAVID LAWRENCE.

Copyright, 1922, by The .Argus.)
Washington, D. c., Dec. 26.-Op-
position to Senator Borah's pro-
posal for an international economic
conference is not aimed at the
principle of a conference to restore
economic normally in Europe and
the world generally but at the
timeliness of the measure.
Administration senators. who are
lining up against the Borah resolu-
ton which would authorize the
president to summon an interna-
tional economic conference have
been advised privately that the
executive branch OF the government
already has been discussing the
project with other powers and that
action BY the senate at this time
might be construed as committing
the United States government to a
course cf action which it might
otherwise be free to avoid
Curiously enough, Mr.. Borah's g
proposal and the circumstances
which surround it are almost iden-
tical with the situation which
existed before Mr.. Harding called
tha conference on Pacific problems
and reduction OF armament. The
president was in negotiation with
other governments when Mr.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
the WEATHER

Unsettled weather tonight, with
probably snow. Wednesday gen.
orally fair and somewhat colder.
Highest temperature yesterday
Sc; lowest last night. S.
Wind velocity at Z q. m, 8 miles
per hour.
Precipitation. none.
yester. yester. Today
Dry bulb temp. ~ IS Ss
Wet bulb temp. ~ ~ 81
Relative humid. 63 60 81
River stage at q n, ~, . rise
Of = last q hours.
Sunset today ASS p. m; sunrise
tomorrow 7:$0 q m.
ANDREW HAMRlCK.
Mstsorologist
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
STOCK SELLER
HELD BY POLICE

st. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 26.-William
L. Cunningham, a stock salesman,
was held by police today for Balti-
more authorities, who, it was said,
wish to question him as to the
whereabouts of Austin H. Mont
gomery, under indictment in Mary
land on charges of using the mails
in a scheme to defraud. Cunning
ham, according to the police, said
Montgomery was in Mexico City.
Cunningham denied he had any
part in the alleged transactions
which resulted in MOntgomery's in
dictment.
Postoffice inspectors have been
instructed not to release Cunning
hame under less than 100000
bond" it was said. Cunningham
stated Montgomery was preparincg
a defense. in Mexico City and he
had stated financial and political"
interests in Baltimore were trying
to get" him. =
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
America is Ready to Enter
World Economic Conference

Borah's resolution was projected
and it looked to the outside world
as if the Idaho senator had driven
the president into the course he
finally took. The record at the de-
partment of state will show that the
subject was being discussed in dip
lomatic channels long before it was
mentioned in the senate.
Mr.. Harding is not averse to the
idea of an international economic
conference. He would gladly have
America participate in one but he
hasn't made up his mind that IT
would be a good thing for America
or the world for time to take the
initiative.
Who Shall Take the Lead.
Upon the country calling any in
ternational conference rests the re-
sponsibility for the program. When
the armament conference met In
Washington, Secretary Hughes laid
before the assembled nations at the
outset the sacrifices America was
wiling to make. Such an obligation
might seem to be imposed again In
an international economic confer
enee but the Harding administra.
tion has no such program to offeI
at this time. 1t feels that the Eu
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
Thirty Under Indictment
In Vice Probe Will Enter
Pleas In Court / tomorrow

negro. for the murder Of B1l Ca
bel and other charges; A. G. Smith,
Fred L. Heron, Billie Ray, Emil
Tank and George Marshall, for be-
ing keepers Of disorderly houses;
Jake Schaum, Cooney and man
named Quincy" for conspiracy
against the gambling, laws; Clint
Hippert and DIRTY Neck" Kelly,
for conspiracy to murder Dan
Drost; Pearl Lawrence and Helen
Van Dale, for harboring in house
Of i'll fame a girl under 18 years of
age. Helen Van Dale is in the Gus
tody Of federal authorities at Dav-
export on white slavery charge
Special Prosecutor Hadley will
return to Rock Island tomorrow
morning, and it is said he will re-
main in the city indefinitely to rep
resent the state in the prosecution
of the cases. The trials are ex-
i pected to begin as soon after the
start of next term of court as pos
sible. In the absence of Mr.. Had
ley, Assistant Special Prosecutor
George w. Wood of Moline is hand
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26

Keeps Watch Over Body
Through Night Before
Giving Herself Up.

Louisville, KY, Dec. 26.-A wom-
ans STORY of a quarrel, a shot and
her vigil from dusk to dawn over
the body of the man she killed. was
being checked up by the police de-
partment Investigators here today.
Il killed my friend" Mrs. Olive
L. Jones, 80. pretty divorcee, an
nounced when she entered police
headquarters early Monday. She
was dishevelled and hysterical. The
men ON duty discounted her state
ment. 3
"Oh, he's dead. shot him:
you'll find him out there on the
door. l left him covered up with
his own overcoat. l know he's
dead. He hasn't moved for hours"
she declared.
:. This was the first fntimation OFF,
Gals had that o. l.. Black, sales
manager for a Louisville automo-
bile company had been shot to
death late Sunday afternoon in Mrs.
Jones apartment. Mrs. Jones said
she fired in self defense.
Back, according to her account
Of the tragedy, became angry when
he learned her daughter, Clara, II,
was with her and that her divorced
husband, C. H. Jones of Cincinnati,
Louisville & Nashville baggage
master, was to visit his daughter.
Black feared, Mrs. Jones declared.
that a reconciliation between the
divorced couple would be affected
through the visits Of the father with
When Black. who, she declared,
''broke up my home and caused me
to get a divorce" reached for 4 pis-
tol on. a nearby table she seized
the weapon first and fired. Black
fell. How long he lived she did not
know. She covered him with his
coat and a>quilt. Later she placed
a screen Of chairs before the body.
Keeps Long Vigil
All night long she kept the death
watch. Never was she able to sum-
mon courage to call the police
Three times, she declared, she went
to the telephone, and three times
turned away.
Clara returned from a picture
show. With her companion. the
daughter spent some time : in the
hall. Later she went to her bed
7 room on the second floor. Mrs
Jones finally called the girl to come
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
IRA FRY HAS NECK BROKEN
WHILE DRIVING 40 MILES
AN HOUR ON COUNTRY ROAD
Victim, Pinned Under Ma
chine, Meets Instan-
taneous Death.

Ira Fry, 4ss Fifteenth avenue
East MOiIne, final test foreman
for the Root 4 VanDerveOrt No.
tor company, Was instantly
killed 1t 7:3V o'clock this mora
ing when the test tar In which
no was riding turned over On
the HlllSdale road, one mile
east Of WatertOwn hospital.
Daniel 3. Smith Of East Moline,
foreman Of the service depart
ment, who was driving the na.
chine, WAS painfully injured.
His left ear was badly lacerat-
ed and he was bruised about
the head and body.
The accident happened on the
one-mile stretch of hard road.
Smith was driving at the rate OF
40 miles an hour, 1t is said, when
suddenly the car hit depression
and went OF into the dirt at the
right side OF the cement The driv-
er, according to his story. told after
the accident, quickly turned the
wheel in an attempt to right the
machine. The automobile turned
completely around, plunged across
the pavement to the north side.
where it struck big object. either
a stump or stone, and turned
over into a ditch. Fry was pinned
under the car.
DR.. ]. H. Fowler, who examined
the man shortly after the accident.
pronounced him dead. There were
no marks on his body, and it is be-
lieved that his neck was broken.
The body was removed to Ange-
vines undertaking parlors In East
Moline and Smith was taken to the
Office Of DIR. Fowler. After his in
juries were dressed he was remov-
ed to his home.
George Walker, assistant to the
| president Of the motor company.
who was in another test car about
one-fOurth OF a mile ahead Of Fry
and Smith, scented trouble when
Fry and Smith failed to keep pace
with him. Mr.. Walker then turned
his car around to investigate and
! found the rear machine in the ditch.
Is Years With Concern.
The test car in which Fry and
Smith were riding was stripped
down to engine, chassis and seat
and was used in trying the motors
for speed and endurance.
| Fry was 33 years of age, having
been born near Kalona. Iowa, in
1883. He started to work at the
Root & VanDervoort plant when
he was a boy and had been employ
ed there continually for IS years.
He was an excellent mechanic and
competent driver, and he had the
! confidence of the management.
Every other emp!oye in the plant
knew Ira and he was universally
respected. He was a member OK
the East Moline lodge Of Masons.
Left to mourn his passing. are
the widow: his parents. who reside
near Kalona. Iowa. and a brother
and sister, at home.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
Big Liners
Perilled By
Bad Storms

~x,
N
tempests OF the SOFT known ony 70
seasoned. mariners of thet north
Atlantic arainst tho hov1tnr now
-...as 49,.
q Sn ec oee1n .
but fimsy cockleshells. have ragged
through the past week. threatening
..,,a. v....,a LIN a.et,r,t,o,
' es WIN .ess' 1
wrecking steamers deck equip
ment; driving fast liners out of
tbe;r uena1 lance and str,ting ter
~ :, s....-ss. -
rol ~ .n ea..s =. 1 .,;..,.e. uS y.
passensels, 80 asSouns .u !" e'0
repol.s ,ece'seu .ouayi p..,
..sS eiens'eSs es sa.. s,a psy as ths S ta,oo
steamshin tea cnmnan;es described
vaetordov hv ofricers ~ the Cedric
~ Zaai.nd .nd tha frr;tad States
witch arr;ved seyeraI davs late
aftar weatherino tho worst storms
n tho;r h;.to-v stii, arc wh;nnine
~ III ' wat.rs 'sy ~ ~ AtIo mic to fnrv
'n ~. re
All Snlps AAe.
The Manchuria and LaSavoie re-
ported today they would arrive
Thursday, two days late. The NC,
agara, due today, reported sne WI
try to tight her way 10 port To-
! morrow.
The Caronia reported from Han,
fax that she mad been forced 10 pul
In there. The Mount Carroii II
due here and the President mon.
roe In London. tomorrow Dotn Ia'
oenind scneoule.
veterans OF scores OF storms Wnt
guided liners lnto port yesteroa.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
DIVINE SARAH
OUT TOFDANGER
LATEST REPORT
Her Recovery a Mir.
acle, Doctors
State. ;.

Paris, Dec. 26.-(By the Asso-
,eiated Press. .l-The condition Of
Nine Sarah Bernhardt showed fur
ther improvement this. morning and
her physicians said. that they ten
tatively considered her out of dan
ger.
They asserted that if the actress
remarkable recovery continued
there was a possibility that she
might still appear in the new
Guitry play as planned.
Nine. Bernhard was taken with
a fainting spell during a dress re-
hearsal of the play several days
ago and suffered relapse On
Sunday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26

All defendants named In
Rock Island county grand Jury
indlctnetns procured by At.
tofney General Edward ].
Brundage who are in custody, !.
or have furnished bonds, will
be arraigned In the circuit
court tomorrow morning ut 10
O'Clock. There are 46 indiyid-
nails named in Al indictments,
many Of whom appear as de-
fendaqts In several of the In
dictmAats. Thirty defendants
are either in jail or are at lib
erty under bonds, and these
have been notified by Special
Prosecutor Charles w. Hadley
to appear with counsel t0mOr.
row morning and be prepared
to enter pleas. 1t is believed
that q number Of the defend.
ants, particularly in the disord.
eriy house cases, will take this
opportunity to plead guilty and
pay fines,
Sixteen defendants thus far hay
eluded the service of the warrant
These include John Looney, Je
Richards and Leonard Walker,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26

New York, Dec. 26.-A protest
against the temperance of Rosco
C. ("Fatty") Arbuckle in motion
pictures was telegraphed to Will
H. Hays by Mrs. Woodallen Chap
man, chairman of the committee on
motion pictures Of the General Fed
Grafton of WQmen,s Clubs, with q
membership OF 2,500,000.
"This organization" the message
said, Stands ready to assist any
individual to rehabilitate himself,
but not at the expense Of the ideals
of the nation. The youth of our
land must be protected from q re-
vival Of interest In the degrading
details of his trial and from con
tinued discussion Of immoral living
associated herewith"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
Foil Plot
to Hold Up
Fast Train

Joliet, ILL.,, Dec. 56.-An attempt
to wreck and hold up a Santa Fe
limited train at the coal chutes
north of Joliet, early last night,
was frustrated through the heroism
of Thomas Sokolowski, OF Fair
mont, tender at the chutes, who
drove of the bandits and then
tagged the limitedsa Sew feet from
where spikes. had been removed
from the rails.
The attempt to wreck No. 5, the
Santa Fe limited to Denver, was
made shortly before Z O'Clock last
night. 1t is due in Joliet at 7:06
p. M, and arrives at the coal
chutes a few minutes before that
time, making no stop, however, and
going at full speed past the cOaling
station.
Sokolowski, who was alone at
the coaling station, usually stands
outxide to watch No. 5 60 by, wav-
ing friendly hand at the engineer.
Last night he went outside the
chutes Office few minutes before
the train was due. Through the
murky fog he noticed two men evi-
IDENTIFY working on the westward
track.
He shouted at them and then
started toward the place they were
working. The bandits abandoned
their task and opened fire on
Sokolowski. He kept coming, how
ever, and they began to retreat
They ran behind side-tracked box
cars and disappeared.
Spikes Removed.
When Sokolowski arrived at the
spot where the men had been
working on the tracks he found
that IA spikes had been removed
from the inside of the rails and
four bolts had been taken from the
fish-plates which join together the
steel rails. In another few minutes
the men would have fixed the rail
so that 1t would spread and wreck
the train.
A whistle sounded in the distance
and Sokolowski dashed back for q
lantern. Stumbling over the ties he
ran 800 feet up the westward track
waving the lantern.
The engineer of No. 5, leaning
from his cab window, saw the sig
nal and applied tine airbrakes. He
brought his train to q stop Less
AIn- h4
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
i
LMCK0|N
At
baltimore
sts Claims to Have Eye.
Witness Who Can Iden-
| tify Masked Mob.

Baltimore. Md, Dec. 26.
The Baltimore police de-
.artment received a tele-
Esram from Governor Park
q of Louisiana this after
|ooon requesting the arrest
III DR.. B. M. McKoin,
kormer mayor of Mer
Rouge, La, on a charge of
murder. Two headquarters
detectives armed with a war
Iant started at once for
1ohns Hopkins hospital to
5rrest Mr.. McKoin.
DR.. McKoin is attached to
lie Brady THEOLOGICAL clinic
et Johns Hopkins where he
hes been since last October.
4 Bastrop, La, Dec. 26.-The iden-
Aity Of the leader of the men who
|dynamited Lake LeFourche ferry
|hading last week, sending to the
|bufface the mutilated bodies OF
Watt Daniels and Thomas Rich
|uds. alleged victims Of hooded
|nen, is known and his arrest is
eminent, 1t was announced here
|blay by federal agents.
Bastrop La, Dec. 26.-That The
Int will be able to establish
|6rpugh an eyewitness the iden-
|tAy' of several members Of the
|IAsked mob which last August
|bdnaped five Mer Rouge residents,
cluding Watt Daniels and Thomas
Richards, whose decapitated bodies
|vere taken from a nearby lake last
week, was the statement today oi
who have been work
|hy on the case for several months
The identification will be made
Iecret service men said, through
testimony at the open hearings or.
1sred by Governor Parker to begin
here Jan. 5, Of q farmer whose
lome is near Oak Ridge, in the
9putheastern part Of Morehouse
yArish, who they declare told then
= Witnessed the seizure and spir.
adng away Of the quintet and rec.
|egnixed some Of the abductors wheI
iAey lifted their hoods to drinl
|gater.
The farmer, according to infor'
nation the investigators declared
shey have in hand. was@held up BY
" band on the Mer Rouge-BastroI
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
late Bulletins

Pxris, Dee. se-(By the As
seciated Prcss) - The allied
reparafions eemnissisn this
afternoon for tho first time In
its history, declared Germany
to be I'm voluntary default On
one Of her reparatiens obliga-
items. =
Chicago, Dee. sk-Jshn F.
Shippio today told Chicago Pc
lice that Arthur Fsster had
confessed to hin that he had
mur1ecol Hrs. Kate Mifchell
Trostsll, for whose bedy M
tAorities haye searched tho
drainage canal for weekR
Washlngten, Dee. se-Rres.
nent Harding tsday deaied
that Secretary u The Interior
Fall bad resigne1
ST. Lsuis, Me, Dee. ~
SteekheNefs q tie Hnnl1ten.
Brown Ehee COMPANY today e.
elared . dividend sf : pr
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
CALL NATIONAL
\ W0MEN'S MEET


Washington, Dec. 26.-More than
no national organizations Of yom-
- have been Invited to send dele
lAtes to a women's industrial con-
lsfence here Jan. IL to 13, the wom-
sa6 bureau OF the department OF
nhor. announced today. The speak
- will include women employ
nent managers and women work
We, manufacturers and factory In
sectors, public health experts. In
l.trial statisticians, economists
q government administrators.
Vnly national organizations have
"a invited. Miss Mar Anderson.
ector Of the bnrcdu. explained.
muse It was found impracticable
s1fsnd the list to local groupA
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
OFFICER RETURNED
TO ANSWER CHARGE

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Dec. 26.-Clif-
ford A. Blair, formerly motor
cycle patrolman of Lagrange, Ill,
was taken back to. that place last
night by Frank P. Yeahey Of Ma
perville, to answer to charge OF
criminal assault on woman.
He was arrested at his home here
on a telegram from l.. G. Matthews,
chief of police of Lagrange. Blair
asserted he could prove an alibi.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
EFFECT TARIFF
Law DISCUSSED

Washington. Dec. 26. = Discus
sions at today's cabinet meeting
dealt with the effect Of the new tar
III law as shown by foreign trade
statistics. Exports and imports Of
the United States, it was said, are
increasing at a rate which con-
vinces responsible officials that the
world is recovering from the de-
preston which followed the World
war. and that the new tariff laws is
mot registering any ill-efIects which
were anticipated from Il
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-26
PLUNGES IN
RIVER; 2 DROWN

Omaha, Neb.. Dec. 26.-Miss Vera
LETTERS. %, and her cousin, ARTHUR
Clark, 25.. Of Randolph, Iowa, were
drowned last night when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
plunged into the Nishnabotna river
near Randolph, about 20 miles
southeast Of Omaha.