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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
PLANSFOR ROAD
HEARING SOON
Governor Len Small and Col C. Z.
Miller and Staff Expected
Next Week.

Colonel C. r. Miller, superin-
tendent of public works and build
ings in Springfield and his staff,
probably will be in Rock Island,
accompanied by Governor Len
Small, next week, for a hearing
on the bond issue of the route No.
8 highway.
Mayor H NJ. Schriver received a
communication this morning from
Colonel Miller stating that the
company would not be able to be
here this week but it would make
every effort to get here next week.
The meeting will be held in Legion
hall in Rock Island.
Colonel Miller stated in his let
ter that enthusiastic meetings at
La Sale, Dixon and Freeport have
been held. The party will go TO
Jacksonville and will be in KaL-
kakee tomorrow.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
WHISTLE WELL,
ROAD DIVISION
HEAD, is DEAD
Former Superintendent of Rock
Island Lines I'm Davenport
Passes Suddenly.

Wendell III. Stillweli, former
general superintendent of the Rock
Island Lines east of the Missouri
river, and more recently supervisor
Of safety and fire protection for
the railroad, died very suddenly in
St Anthony's hospital at AIS
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Death
was due to heart disease.
Mr.. Stillwell was well known in
railroad circles, having been with
the Rock Island Lines more than
As years. He came here yesterday
and in the morning had gone to in
spect the Cable and Sherrard
branches. He became i'll in Pre-
emption about noon yesterday, and
was rushed to Rock Island in
thongs, where death followed
half an hour later. He was 63
years of age.
The body was taken this after
noon to Des Moines, Iowa, where
Mr.. Stillwell lived at 5000 West
Fourteenth street place, where flu
neral services and burial will take
place. A. W. Kelso, Des Moines,
an old friend of Mr.. Stillwell, was
ia the city to take charge of the
body. Mrs. Stillwell is very i'll at
the home in Des Moines Suryiv-
ing are son in California, and
two brothers in Des Moines.
Lived In Davenport.
Mr.. Stillwell was division super
intendent for the Rock Island lines
in 1902, making his home at that
time in Davenport which was also
his division headquarters. He had
long been identified with the road
and for years division chief He
became supervisor of safety and
fire protection five years ago, and
his duties had taken him to Rock
Island on many occasions.
He was also well known in fra
ternal groups, having been a MEM
Der of the knight Templars and the
consistory.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
KARLOWA RADIO
TO SEND FROM
PS.C. STATION
New Apparatus Operating There By
End of Week; Continue Regu.
lar Program.

The broadcasting station Of the
Karlo~a Radio company, woo, in
the Best building, will be removed
to the Palmer School of Chiro-
practic and will be in operation
there Saturday.
The station will be known as the
broadcasting station of the P. S. C.
but will be operated by the Kar-
Iowa Radio company, with CHIEF
Operator Dwight A. Myer in
charge.
The reason for the change is that
better facilities for obtaining high
class talent for concerts are avail
able at the school, Robert Karlowa
announced today. Lectures will
also be given at different times b.
members of the faculty. Weather
reports and the regular program OF
the Karlowa company will be given
on the usual schedule from this
station and DIR. Frank Elliott. vice
president and general manager Of
the P. S. c., will supervise its
operation. Until the station is re-
moved to the Palmer school the
regular program will be given
daily from its present location.
Establish Largest Station.
The aerial tower system is now
being erected at the school and
this will be the largest broadcasting
station in the middle west The
preliminary tests of the new appa-
ratus, which will be equal in power
to any in the country, have been
satisfactory and excellent reports
of the program being heard in
Kansas City, Mo, Chicago and
Hoisington, Kan, have been re-
ceiyed.
The station will still retain the
same caIl-WOC.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
EDGERTON TO ASK
SHIPPERS TO JOIN
PRODUCERS FIRM

P. r. Edgerton will meet with
Representatives OF the Cooperative
Livestock Shipping associations in
the upper end of the county tomor-
row afternoon at 1880 O'Clock in
the Pleasant Point school house,
Coe township, and will explain
benefits of membership in the farm
crowned producers commission
company soon to be in operation at
the Chicago stockyards.
1t is anticipated that the associa-
tons, following the example of
other Rock Island county associa-
tions, will vote to take out men,
berships.
Mr.. Edgerton will meet with the
Reynolds association Friday after
noon
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
THOMAS z. DAVIS
ADDRESSES HIGH
SCHOOL PUPILS

Thomas z. Davis, well known lee
turer, addressed pupils of the Rock
Island high school this morning at
a special assembly program. His
subject wass, why Students Fail.
A very instructive talk was given
by Mr.. Davis, who explained that
one of the main reasons why so
many of the pupils do not succeed
is because they are slaves to Gus
tom and are afraid to get out of
course of fashion because of the
fear of criticism.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
GIRLS HELD FOR
THEFT IN DIXON
Believed To Be from Rock Island OF
M0line-Held Under $1,000 Bond
for ShOpliftiEg.

Two girls, first giving their
names as Dorothy and Marie De
Poster, and later as Dorothy and
Marie Kelmann, believed by Dixon
authorities to be from Rock Island
or Moline, are being held to the
grand jury in Dixon under bonds
of $1,000 for the theft of $85 worth
of drygoods, according to a report
received by Rock Island police this
morning. They gave their ages as
% and IT, respectively.
One Of the girls wore a mink
cape valued at 800 and the other a
blue coat with a gray squirrel col
lar.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
BAND PLANS ITS
SUMMERS hike
United Sunday School Boys TO Go
TO Lake Itasca, MIMI, Dur
ing Vacation.

Another journey to Lake Itasca,
Mimi, the source of the Mississippi
river, and an expedition through
the mines, woods, Indian reserva-
tons and lakes of that part of the
country, will be taken by the Unit
ed Sunday school band boys early
this summer.
The band outlined program for
its 18th annual hike at a meeting
last evening in the home of John
III. Hauberg, Twenty-third street,
organizer of the group. The or
ganiZation decided to cut its mem
bership to so, instead of so, as last
year. Each season, in the last few
years, the band has reduced its
membership, finding it much more
convenient TO carry on its activi-
ties with fewer boys. The carriage
facilities for hikes were over-taxed
with such a large number of mem
bers. By next Tuesday evening the
band expects to have its so mem
bers enrolled.
Plans for a hike up the Missis-
sippi Saturday morning were made
last evening. The boys will meet
at the Y. NJ. C. A at 8 O'Clock in
the morning and will go in truck
to point between Hampton and
Port Byron. They will return in
the afternoon.
The boys also went on record as
in favor of more singing and Indian
stunts, such as dancing, to be car
ried out through their seasons pro-
gram. Indian games and activities
Will be incorporated. Forty boys
attended the meeting last evening.
Stereopticon slides of the hike TAX
en- last year and those taken in the
last eight years were shown.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
STATE VARSITY
REPORTS CAIN
Increase of 1,134 Students Over
Last Year RepOrted-TOtaI
Registration 1882.

A total registration for the year
of 10,627 resident students for the
University of Illinois was announc-
cd by the registrar of the universe
ty today This is an increase over
last year of 1,134. Illinois does not
have any extension or correspon-
dence courses.
These figures include those who
attended the last summer session,
but exclude the names of students
who attended both the regular and
the summer session. The summer
session enrolment was l ,0S9. The
total winter session enrolment at
Urbana is STA, and the total en-
rollment in the Chicago schools and
colleges for the winter session, Sl4.
The complete figures are as fol-
lows:
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
FINDS METHOD
FOR SECRECY
IN WIRELESS
Morkruy17 Head Says
Printer Machines
Solue Problem.

Chicago, March 29.-Secrecy in
wireless communication. absence of
which has been one of the draw
backs to this form of telegraphy.
may be attained by the adoption of
the automatic printing machines
used on the Associated Press and
many parts of the county, accord
ing to Sterling Morton, president Of
the Morkrum company, one of the
pioneers in the manufacture of
automatic telegraph equipments.
Experiments have been under
way for months in sending and re-
ceiving wireless messages with the
automatic printers, Mr.. Morton
said, and the system has proved
successful.
Sending from a typewriter key
board, a typist can average 100
words a minute while the attend
ant at the receiving end need only
watch the automatic printer work.
Tape and Typewriter.
The printing machines use tape
with a punching mechanism, oper-
ated by the keys of the typewriter
which punches holes in various
combinations of five positions. Elec-
trical contacts, made through the
holes in the tape, dispatch the i'm
pulses which are received and
translated back into letters by the
automatic typewriter at the other
end of the circuit.
The advantage of the machines
in wireless lies in an almost in
finite variety of adjustments by
which no machines not adjusted to
the signals. To all others, even
though operating on the same wa re
length as the sending apparatus,
the signals would be only a hodge
podge' of meaningless characters
"a Chinese laundry ticket"-Mr.
Morton says.
Secret in Magnets.
The secret of the automatic
printers lies in five little magnets
which, in various combinations, re-
ceive and interpret the electrical
impulses, and a cam shaft which
translates their Interpretation into
typewriter action. There are 80
possible arrangements of these
parts and, in agreement with the
receiving stations, the sending OPP
orator can change to any one of
80 codes at will. If the sending
and receiving apparatus is connect
ed to make the punch hole in the
first row actuate the letter "a on
the typewriter, the operators may
change the adjustment and have
anyone of the other four holes, or
any combination of two or more of
them represent "a, changing the
rest of the alphabet in the same
way.
Can't listen I'M.
In addition to the 80 combina-
tons thus attained an almost ex-
haustless variety of secret codes
can be had simply by changing the
speed of the motor which drives
the machine, the motors at the send
ing end being adjusted to conform.
Before an authorized station can
listen in" on machine sent wire
less, according to Mr.. Morton, the
operator would have to find the
wave length used, the motor speed
and then the particular keyboard
code employed.
At the receiving end the operator
can go away without leaving the
apparatus running. An endless
screw shuts of the operating mo-
tor if no letters have been received
for one minute. When the sending
station starts again the first cleo
trical impulse trips a spring and
the motor starts again, continuing
in operation until another minute
has passed without a signal.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
SEND CRAIGER TO
JAIL ON VAGRANCY
WARRANT; 80 DAYS

o. L. Craiger, arraigned this
morning before Magistrate D. j.
Cleland in police court was given
a sentence of 80 days in the county
Jail on a charge of yagrancy.
Craiger was intoxicated and was
arrested last night by Officer Harry
Fitzsimmons. He had been arrest
ed several other times recently for
being intoxicated and "mooching"
on the street.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
EXPERT PREPARES
s CASES OF EGGS
FOR MARKET SALE

Eight cases of eggs were candled,
graded. packed and shipped to the
Chicago market yesterday by E. f.
Murphy, head of the poultry de-
partment of the Illinois Agricul-
tural association, who conducted a
demonstration at Port Byron. The
gathering was largely attended
considering the wretched condition
of the roads and Mr. Murphy an
swered great many queries pro-
pounded by visitors. A demonstra-
ton was held at Taylor Ridge
today.
Indications are that a coopera-
tive egg shipping association will
be organized at some convenient
county center.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
MISSION SOCIETY
OF STATE TO HOLD
MEET IN MOLINE

Announcement is made that the
Illinois Christian Missionary So
ciety, an organization of the Dis
ciples of Christ, will hold a dis
trict convention in Moline, May IS
and 10.
Five other district gatherings
will be held during 1922. accord
ing to H. H. Peters, state secretary.
The Disciples of Christ have 700
churches and lis, 1000 communicates
in Illinois.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
PROTECTIVE BODY
MAKES PLANS FOR
A PRIL ELECTION

Members of the South Rock Is
land Protective association met at
the Cleland Presbyterian church
last night and discussed steps to be
taken to conserve the integrity of
the boundaries of the township,
threatened by the alleged incorpora-
ton OF a part of the territory by
Rock Island township.
1t was decided to meet again next
Monday evening and appoint work
ers to be stationed at the polls at
the township election next Tuesday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
SNTDGE IN BASEMENT

Fire departments were called to
the home of Edwin Swanson, 1888
Thirty-eighth street at 10:0S O'Clock
this morning. A small smudge in
the basement, caused probably by
spontaneous combustion in some
burlap sacks, resulted in no dam
age.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
KIDNAP AND ROB
DR.. H. C. JOHNSON
Former Davenport Physician Found
Unconscious Along Tracks
in Dos MOineS.

Des Moines, Iowa, March 20
DR.. H. c. Johnson, formerly of Day.
export, was found in an uncon-
scious condition near the Wabash
railroad tracks at Southeast Tween
tieth street here early today, where
he was left after having been kid
mapped, robbed and beaten by three
men shortly before last midnight.
He is expected to recover.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
AUDITS ACCOUNTS
OF JOLIET PRISON

Lee Roy Dehler. head of the
Dehler Audit company, who is en-
gagged in auditing the books of all
the state institutions, is at present
examining the accounts OF the
joliet penitentiary. The work will
occupy at least three weeks,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
VIOLATE MOTOR LAWS.

+. L. Hendricks was fined So and
E. L. Glawe was fined So by Magis-
trate D. J. Cleland in police court
this morning. Hendricks was fined
for driving without a chauffeur's
license and Glawe for violating the
parking ordinance.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29
MINOR CHANGES
IN SCHOOL PLAN
Audubon School Architects Sub
NIT Preliminary Sketches; 16-
Room Building.

Suggestions for minor changes in
the plans for the new Audubon
school building, Twenty-seventh
street and Eighteenth avenue, were
made by members of the Rock Is
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29

Wood-boring insects are said to
communicate with one another by
means OF taps
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-29

Total enrolment for year, 1887
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-15

expressed surprise at the very great
backward or amount of ice found
in the arctic The coast guard cut
ter. the Holmes. with the explorer
aboard, was forced to wait eight
days until the ice opened up before
she could come into Wainwright. At
that time there was from ten to fif-
teen miles Of solid ice off VAIN
wright.
ice conditions are illustrated by
the fact that relief expeditions have
been unable toFreach WrangIe Island.
where five white fox hunters have
been held for a year. A ship, the
Teddy Bear, belonging to Capt. Joe
Bernard. made vain efforts to reach
these men. but could not get near the
island. These men may live through
the winter. is they have saved ammu-
milton with which to kill game and
fowl for food
Typical Eskimo Village.
Wainwright. a typical Eskimo vii
lase. is 800 miles north Of the arctic
circle and for most of the year is
isolated from the remai nder Of the
world. Mail is received three times
q year. but between March l and Sep
tember Is Mr.. Ward said it is impos-
sible to get word to the outside world.
and for this reason ii will not be
known when Capt Amundsen leaves
on his dash across the polar region.
unless the flight is successful and he
lands in Spitshergen.
The little Eskimo village. Mr.. Ward
said. has a lone schoolhouse, which
has been developed to the perfection
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Amundsen Plan for Pole Dash
Is>Told by q. S. official Here

(. Bubbling over with strange stories
OF the frozen north and burdened
with trophies Of the arctic. Edward
j. Ward. q specialist in community
organization of the bureau Of educe-
ton. returned today from VAIN
wright. Alaska, where he spent IT.
teen months as a government teacher
In order to further his knowledge Of
the community use Of the school,
house. Mr.. Ward, who lives at 1882
Warder street. left Washington for
the Alaska Eskimo village June Is.
1921. =.
Information .of the whereabouts
Of Capt. Roland Amundsen, the ex-
plorer. also was brought to WASH
ington by Mr.. Ward The explorer
reached Wainwright August IL. and
Mr.. Ward left FIVE days later for his
long journey home.
Capt. Amundsen, according to Mr..
Ward. has postponed his proposed air
dash across the north pole from VAIN
wright to Epitbergen until the return
Of the so-calied light nights" or
the twenty -four-hour days in the
arctic. which begin the latter part
of May or early in June. The flight
was deferred. ne said. because Of un.
favorable ice conditions.
Intrenehea for Winter.
With DIR. Omdahl. the Norwegian
aviator. who will pilot Capt. Amund-
sens plane across the pole. the ex-
plnrer has intrenched himself for the
winter In his portable house which he
brought with him. on the coast just
below the village of Wainwright.
Capt. Amundsen." said Mr.. Ward.
expects to make the flight in from
without stopping. He has no fear Of
the dangers Of the trip and will take
no guns or supplies with him except
a thermos bottle Of tea and a sand
witch. The arctic ice IL 40 craggy.
rough and uncertain. that the ex-
plorer in afreid to land at the pole,
fearing the possibility of not being
able to rise again."
The Maude. the ship in which Capt.
discovered the south pole.
he left at Point Hope. at the north
west point Of Alaska. in care Of Capt.
Verhof. She went into the ice at
this point and will drift across the
polar basin and come out into the At
There are q number Of scientists
a board, Mr.. Ward said. who will
make meteorological and biological
and map the currents.
The Maude has seven years equipment
and food supplies aboard.
Ice Fl0es Huge.
When Capt. Amundsen arrived at
Wainwright. raid Mr.. Ward. "he
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THE ARMY

II appears somewhat. significant
that at the first annual convention OF
the Reserve Onicers' Association the
only legislation discussed or acted
upon was the bill now pending before
Congress to retire disabled emer-
gency officers upon the same pay q
that provided by law to officers Of the
Regular Army.
BY = Unanimous vote the Reserve
Officers Association, represented by
its delegates, Endorsed the pending
bill written by Senator Bursom OF
New Mexico. which, when passed. will
give to officers OF the late National
Army the same relief as that provided
by law for disabled emergency Officers
Of the Navy and Marine Corps who
served in the world war.
Unlike Army legislation to cor
rect an inequality in pay, the funds
with which to carry out the Bursom
bill will be charged to the bureau OF
war risk. Without this relief legis-
lation the pay of disabled emergency
officers would be no more than that
allowed to disabled men who were
drafted during the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-15

of community use. 1t seryesfiot only
as school, but as q post once, q
church, q recreation center. a COM
munity store. and administration Of
fees OF the great reindeer industry
for which wainwright is noted, and
also the mining industry.
During his fifteen month residence
in the village, Mr.. Ward was the
United States school. teacher, post
master. superintendent Of the rein.
desr herds and the coal mines. super
rissor of the community store. Judge
and adjuster Of things generally. In
fact. he was the only white man In
the village most OF the time
Feels Lure Of Arctic.
Mr.. Ward said he is already feeling
the lure OF the Arctic and wants to
GO back. 1T IL wonderful country
he declared, land there is something
doing all the time. The Eskimo is
the bravest and most cheerful, kind
est hearted human being found any
where. They are eternally cheerful,
and sing virtually all the time
The Eskimos are great athletes,
the women as well as the men. said
Mr. Ward. Racing and wrestling are
their favorite sports. The women. he
pointed out. think nothing OF running
ten miles with a dog team for exer.
else.
Despite the radical change In food
Mr.. Ward said he soon got accustomed
to it and liked 1t. Reindeer meat, Of
which three or four pounds are con-
sumed by an Eskimo at one meal, is
the principal food, he said. although
In the spring there are plenty of elder
ducks, geese and swan for food. Nut
duk':-the dried skin of q seal-also
is a favorite dish. as are the arctic
fish, which are eaten raw. Mr.. Ward
4 Ia 70 II
the whole time he spent In the frigid
zone.
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AIR SERVICE

Mai. W. r. Weaver. chief omcer OF
Mitchell Field, made a recent flight
to Washington. d. c.. in plane
which has been newly set up ana
constructed for his use. He was
Joined at Boiling Field by four other
airplanes from Mitchell Field and
formation was flown on his return.
Mai Weaver visited the capital in an
effort to secure additional funds for
activities at Mitchell Field and to
secure authority for several air serv-
Ice extensions and projects which he
IN. In mind to accomplish shortly at
that field.
The consolidation of the Air Service
Mechanics School and the Air Service
Communication School into one or
eanization, known as the Air Service
Technical School. Maj. F: L. Martin
commandsns;; nat -. oc rsnenf activities
on Chanute Field. The training car.
ried on by the new organization Will
he under the direction of Maj Toilet
Bradley. assistant commandment.
A new white hospital plane. de-
Aligned and built at McCook Field. has
been received at the primary flying
school at Brooks Field. Tex. This
plane 10 . remodeled curttss JN.e:
equipped with q Wright motor, 1so
horsepower. The fuselage is en-
Iarged to accommodate the patient in
4 prone position. seat facing the
nafient, between patient and pilot,
has been installed fol, an attendant.
The plane, with full load. has been
given severn. test flights by pilots .ss,
although II is an ideal ambulance
plane 80 far as the patients comfort
is concerned, It Is iogsy: nose n heavy s,sy
SLAYER In Getting of than q standard
Curtiss JN-s with $50 horsepower
Wright motor.
The Medical Research Laboratory and
School for Flight Surgeons at Mitchell
Field opened it, fall term recently
with g. class Of twenty students.
twelve Of whom arc naval officers
ana eight medical oficers Of the