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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
ROBBERY IS
STAGED IN
3 MINUTES
John Soffel, haywood, Is
Victim; Police Chief
and Messenger Shot.

Chicago, Jan. 5.-John Soffel,
president of the haywood State
Bank, was shot and killed and
Louis Sweeney, chief of police OF
the suburb, and Arthur Benson, a
bank messenger, were wounded to-
day when five bandits robbed them
of a $4,000 payroll for the May
wood plant of the American Can
company.
The bandits did not give the
banker and his two guards Il
chance to hold up their hands.
They ordered the payroll car to
stop, and as it came to halt
opened fire, killing Soffel almost
instantly.
Chief Sweeney was shot under
the right arm and Benson in the
side. The latter's injuries are
serious
The robbery occupied less than
three minutes.
The robbers drove away with the
money, heading toward Chicago.
The scene of the holdup was only
two blocks from the bank.
No Chance for Life.
Chief Sweeney said he was shot
as the bank messenger guided the
automobile to a stop, and that Ben
son was the second to fall MIR.
Soffel stood up and attempted to
draw his revolver when he was
shot dead. Sweeney, despite his
wound, ran to the bank two blocks
away and turned in the alarm. Chi
cage police dispatched three rifle
squads and placed guards on all
roads from haywood. The suburb
is II miles west of the loop.
w H. Heideman, cashier of the
bank, said the bank president, Do-
lice chief and messenger had car
ried the Can company payroll for
years without trouble.
Witnesses of the hOldup obtained
the license number of the bandits
automobile, but police say the tag
was issued to the owner Of diff
ferent make of car, who lives near
Rutland, III.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
3TEST!FY IN
STRAUsE CASE
william Norton, BrOther-in-Law OF
Mead. Tells of Scene in Bank
Shortly After Shooting.

Bloomington, Ill, Jan. 5.-Of-
ficers Claudin and Gustin of the
Peoria police department, and Viii
lam Norton, brotheT-in-law of the
slain man, were the only witnesses
called in the case of the state
against Edgar Strause, charged
with the murder of Berne NJ. Meade
in Mclean county circuit court to-
day.
Norton, who was employed in the
bank at the time of the shooting,
stated thatshe arrived on the scene
within a short time after the
shooting. He testified as to condi-
tions in the bank as he saw them
then, paying particular attention
to blood stains and the positions OF
the bullets
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
PICK CHICAC0AN
ON WATERWAYS
Howard S. Baldwin Is Appointed
to Illinois COmmiSsiOn-SOH OF
Representative Baldwin.

Springfield, Ill, Jan. 5.-Howard
S. Baldwin of Chicago. Office man
ager for Morris & Co., packers, was
today appointed a member of the
Illinois deep waterway commission
which is to study the value and
feasibility of a waterway for big
vessels from the Great Lakes to
the Atlantic seaboard by way OF
st. Lawrence river.
Mr.. Baldwin, who is the son of
Representative Charles E. Baldwin
of Chicago is the first member of
the commission to be named.
There are to be eight others, four
more citizens, and four represen-
tatives. Their first report to the
governor is due July, 1922.
An appropriation of $4,000 made
by the last legislature is available
for their use.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
CEDAR RAPIDS
BLAZE KILLS |
Floyd Roy, 16, Student, Suffoeatcd
in Room When House Burns;
Three Others Injured.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Jan. 5.-One
was killed and three severely
burned in fire here at 3 a. m. to-
gay, which destroyed the J. H. Mat
news home. Floyd Roy, 16 years
old, high school student, was suf-
located in his room before help
could reach him, Alfred Pundt, an
otner student, saved his life by
jumping from d second story win
COW, and Mr.. and Mrs. Matthews
were seriously burned in getting
Aout
APundt and Mr.. and Mrs. Matthews
we're rushed to a hospital where
.oday the condition of Pundt and
mrs, Matthews is declared critical.
The heroic efforts of Mrs. Mat
news to save the lives of the boys
was cause Of her injuries. Awak-
sned by the smoke and roar of the
names which were then sweeping
through the ground floor, she rush
N downstairs, but there turned
ana went back fearing the boys
ulu not hear the first alarm. When
sue started back down again the
stairway was mass of flames.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05

Philadelphia, Jan. 5.-The funer-
al of Senator Boise Penrose was
held this morning. The same great
secrecy that surrounded the max
ing of arrangements for the funeral
was maintained until the body OF
the political leader was lowered
into the brick-lined grave in South
Laurel Hill cemetery. No informa-
ton was forthcoming whether there
were any religious services at the
house or at the cemetery. News
paper reporters were not admitted
to the burial ground.
The fact that the body of the sem
ator would be buried today became
known late yesterday when the bu-
reau of vital statistics issued a per-
nit for interment for Jan. 5 or
thereafter. The immediate family
of Senator Penrose, who was a
bachelor, consists OF three broth
ers. No Information was given out
regarding the funeral beyond the
brief obituary notice that the fu-
neral be strictly private"
Scribes on ~Death Watch
Newspapers that regarded the
burial OF a United states SeUdtoI
who had figured so largely in the
political history of the country as
an important piece of news. set a
watch on practically the same plan
as death watches are set on prom
inent persons who are believed to
be dying. A report that Senator
Penrose's father was buried years
ago at midnight in order to avoid
undue publicity made the vigil OF
reporters almost an all-night al
fair.
About 7:S0 a. m. today the three
brothers, Charles B., Richard and
Spencer, arrived at the Spruce
street home, where the senator's s
body lay and where he was born.
Four automobiles parked short
distance from the house about the
same time. A little later Charles
Penrose, who is a physician and
had attended his brother, came out
on the front steps and waved his
arm, and seemingly from nowhere
a hearse approached the house.
A few minutes later the body OF
the senator was brought out by an
undertaker's assistants and the
hearse. followed by the four auto
mobiles supposedly containing the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
Late Bulletins

Chicago, Jan. 5.-The states
bill of particulars in the COM
Spiracy case against Governor
Len small was expected TO be
i'll before Judge GsaiTe {. Ed
wards at Weukegan late this
afternoon. according to an
n0uncemenf from ths Office OF
Attorney General Edward J.
Brund2ge.
St Paul, Minn., Jan. 5.-De-
yel0pmen:s today in the con-
tr0EeFsy GEoHg heirs over the
sediment of the estate of
Mrs. james ]. HILL widow Of
the empire builder. irclEdnd
the teroSing OF Louis W. Hill
rs president OF the United Se-
cRrities company.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
Ice Gorge Causes Mill
Creek To Flood Milan
With Is Inches of Water

All of the west end of Milan and
Second, Water and Dixon streets
in the east end of town are pond
of ice today as a result of a gorge
which caused Mill creek banks to
break and sent a flood of water
into the village.
No estimate of the damage done
could be made but food and articles
stored in cellars of homes in the
west end of the town were under
water.
Street car service was stopped at
the first Milan bridge leading into
the village at o'clock yesterday
afternoon and none has gone into
the town since The tracks are
frozen. Water filled that part of
town west of the railroad tracks,
an area of six or seven blocks, to
a depth of about IS inches, and
covered Water, Dixon and Second
streets, just east of the tracks, with
six inches
The onrush of water started
about noon yesterday. An ice
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
ITALY GIVES
|O,K. To ROOT
| RESOLUTION
will Accept Submarine
Restriction if France
Does Same.

\ Washington, Jan. 5.-(By the AS
sociated Press. Italy has decided
10 accept the second Root resolu-
ion prohibiting attacks by subma-
rines on merchant ships, provided
The French delegation does the
A same. it was said in authoritative
LAttalian circles. This decision will
Smake it possible to hold a session
I Y the full naval committee today.
Washington, Jan. 5.-(By the AS
sociated Press with all other
oroblems of the arms conference
practically moving toward the point
ilOf final settlement, the Shantung
Negotiations between the Japanese
and Chinese delegations alone to-
day presented a dubious aspect as
to whether their resumption is to
result in agreement or a final dead
lock-
While the far eastern committee
Of the whole met today to take ac-
ion on the decision of it's sub-com-
n aittee on the Chinese tariff Ques-
Son, the two delegations faced an
other meeting in their effort to set
tie the controversy which has de-
Eeloped over the mode of payment
for the Kiao-Chow-Tsinanfu rail-
road in the former German lease
hold.
i Japs, Chinese DeadlOcked.
h In the first meeting yesterday
bince the conversations" were ad-
lnrned because of the deadlock
over this issue, there were no out
ward Indications that either side
had abandoned it's former position
on it,
\ Evidence of revived hope in many
Nnarters for an early settlement OF
he issue following yesterdays
meeting was regarded as attributa-
bic in some measure to the subse-
quent statement issued by the two
delegations that the discussions
would be completed" today. 1t was
stated by a spokesman of the jap
anese delegation late last night,
however, that the statement should
1 have said the discussions would be
lSseontinued" today, although there
vas no official statement to that
effect.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
Secrecy Surrounds PenrOse
Burial; Reporters, Friends
Alike Barred From Cemetery

families of the three brothers,
started for the cemetery.
Is Minutes for Funeral.
Reporters who were OF. watch at
the cemetery yesterday were not
admitted today, and the newspaper
men who followed the funeral
party through steady rain to the
last resting place of the dead SEN
ator, were warned that if they en-
tered the cemetery it would be at
their own peril. Guards were sta
toned all around the place. The
funeral party was in the cemetery
about fifteen minutes and left be-
fore 8 a N.
Thus was enacted the final scena
in the career of a man who could
have had one of the largest funer-
ais in the history of the city. Po-
litical leaders from every county
in the state came to Philadelphia
within the last few days to do
honor to the dead chieftain, and not
one was invited to the bachelor
home of the senator where many
political conferences have been
held.
Questions had been asked why
the family desired secrecy in the
burial of the senator and the an
swer of close political friends was
that Penrose hated pomp and cere-
mony, and that it probably was his
wish that he be buried as simply
and with as little commotion as
possible. 1t is said to have been
a tradition in the Penrose family,
which is one of the oldest in the
city, that all funerals of members
be strictly private.
Later in the day Senator Pen
roses secretary, L. C. Taylor, said
there was some sort of service al
the grave. He said be did not know
who conducted it.
Mr.. Taylor said Senator Penrose
had an aversion to funerals ard at
tended only three in II years, those
of two local political leaders, and
Senator Knox.
Interest was manifested among
the late senator's friends as to the
disposition of his estate. He was
regarded as wealthy. 1t was said
the Penrose family might not &C
through the formality of having
the will probated-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05

Copyright. 1922. by The Argus.)
Washington, Jan. 5.-America' S
attitude toward the economic relief
of Europe has been given TO AM
bassador Harvey for presentation
to the supreme council. 1t con-
s.sts, in brief, of an expression of
willingness to listen sympathetic
ally to any proposal that the Euro
pean nations may offer, but re-
serves the right to approve or dis
approve, participate in or stand
aloof from the plans that may be
suggested
Talks which this correspondent
has had with members of the cabi-
net since the session on Tuesday
when the greater part of the dis
cussion was about the European
situation, led to the conclusion that
the Harding administration is not
going to tell Europe what to do
but is going to wait and see if
Europe can recognize its own
shortcomings and show the world
that it is ready to overcome them.
Here's U. s. View.
The viewpoint of the American
government is simply this: The
arms conference was called at
Washington in the hope that a re-
duction of armament both on land
and sea would bring relief to Amer
ica's over-burdened treasury and
would at the same time start
Europe toward a balancing of bud
gets. The United States felt that
armament was the root of the
whole business and that exchange
could not be stabilized until Europe
recognized that Germany was up
against it and could not pay all the
reparations France was demanding
of her and that Europe herself
could not begin to balance budgets
until the immense expenditures for
military and naval armament were
stopped.
The United States government
feels that something was accomp-
lished along naval lines in the
conference here but is amazed to
find some of the nations so far from
seeing a solution of the economic
situation as to be actually propcs-
ing an increase in naVieS. On top
of this came France to argue thai
the land armament could not even
be taken up.
Armies Too Big.
Surveying the situation at the
cabinet meeting members of the
administration came to the conclu-
sion that America had done her
part in taking the initiative, mad
shown the world a willingness to
cut her navy to the very lowest
possible basis, and now was being
forced against her will to build
ships for the next two years so as
to match the desires of other ma
tions. Instead of an immediate re-
duction. there is in fact only fu-
ture limitation. But. aside from
that, the disappointment is most
keen over the European ideas on
land armament. AS cabinet mem
bers here see it. Europe has about
three and a half million men un-
der arms for a total population of
16O,OO0,O00 people. Poland alone
has 100000 men in her army and
has not begun taxing her peasants.
Her receipts are only 20 per cent
of her expenditures. If the ratio
of men under arms to total popu-
lation were maintained in the Uni
ted States as in Europe the equiva-
lent would be about two million
men in the American army. accord
ing to estimates made by American
officials. So the whole question is
a revolving one There can be no
stabilized exchange until there is
(Continued on Page Three.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
WITNESS SAYS
YANkS HANGED
WE'RE DOPED'
Tells Senators He
SatU Ten or TUelUe'
Executions.

Washington. Jan. 5. - Further
testimony relative to the hanging
of American soldiers at Is-sur-
Tile, France, was presented today
to the senate committee inveStlgaJ-
ing charges by Senator Watson,
Democrat, of Georgia, that soldiers
had been executed without trial
Herbert l. Cadenhead of Green
vile, Miss, a former service man,
declared he had witnessed ten or
twelve" executions at Is-sur-Tilie
while engaged in transporting Ger
man prisoners by truck in the vi
cinity Of that place. --------- g
War department records preyi-
ously submitted to the committee
showed that two soldiers were
hanged at Is-sur-Tille after convic-
ton by general court martial and
gave the total executions in the A.
E. F. as IL, Ill after formal trial
before military courts.
Cadenhead did not know wheth-
er any of the men he saw hanged
had been sent to their death with
out trial. None of them, he said,
made any statement when on the
gallows. He described IN detail the
executions which he claimed to
have witnessed, one of them being
a lieutenant who. Cadenhead said,
had been charged with assault on
a seven-year-oid girl.
Shows Photographs.
Cadenhead produced several
small photographs of purported
hanging scenes.
Your main criticism about the
execution, as set forth in your let
ter to Senator Watson, was that
the French people should not have
been permitted TO see them?" Chair
man Brandegee asked.
"Yes, sir"
"See any barbarity?"
mo. The only thing I saw was
Continued On Last Page)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05

gorge which formed in Mill creek
at what is known as Chaney's lane,
three-quarters OF mile west of
Milan, and which is the narrowest
point in the creek, caused the sud-
den overflow of the creek. The
Milan streets did not become COW
cred until late in the afternoon and
by 5 O'Clock passage was impossi-
BILE.
The water yesterday was the
highest it has been in nine years.
This morning it dropped four feet.
Case creek, which in other years
has caused considerable trouble,
did not overflow
Mill creek has overflowed on sew
eral occasions, causing heavy dam
ages especially in the west end of
the village where it is extremely
low. This is the second time in a
year period that the creek has CIV
en- the residents of Milan trouble.
Early last year there was heavy
overflow, which caused great loss
to merchants and at private homes.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
TIRPITZ CALLS
HOLLWEG BOOK
FAIRY STORY
Says Kaiser Sighted
Him; That's Why
He Quit NaUy.

Berlin, Jan. 5.-(By the Associat-
ed Press. .)-Aduiral Won TirpitZ,
German minister of navy in the
World war, in an article in the peri
odical Die GranZboten, character
ICES the reasons for his resignation
as outlined in the late DR.. Won
Bethmann-Hollweg's book, as a
fairy story"
Won Tirpitz declares the real e1-
PLANTATION in the intrigue which
shut him out Of the kaiser's coun-
ellis and caused the monarch TO
slight him.
While Won Tirpitz was urging
continuance of the submarine war
fare, the decision was reached to
abandon it, without consulting him.
Embarrassed by the action which
he considered presaged disaster,
unless peace were speedily COLI
cluded, he decided to resign.
The newspaper Vorwaerts, COM
menting on the tendency of for
mer high personages toward eX-
plantations. says:
'Von Bethmann-Hollweg unhap-
PLY is dead and can not reply, but
the Won Tirpi:z article at least
gives insight into the small cabals
which the paladins of the kaiser
practiced among themselves while
the men of the people bled at the
front
Now they are writing books and
letters to prove their innocence;
Wilhelm, his son, Ludendorff, Helf-
ferich, Won TirpitZ. Only the
damnable people were guilty of not
holding out and for the famous
knife thrust in the back"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
OKLAHOMA HARD
HIT BY STORM
Several Injured, Score Of Families
Homeless, Property Damage
of $4,000.

Tulsa, Okla, Jan. 5.-With at
least a score of families homeless
and several persons injured, many
towns in this district were recov-
ering today from a storm which
swept yesterday through northeast
ern Oklahoma and reached into
southeastern Kansas and south
western Missouri.
Although an accurate estimate of
the damage has not been made to-
day. some said it would exceed
$175,0O0. The path of the storm
ranged to the east across northern
Oklahoma Then it dropped to a
southeasterly direction, reaching
Muskogee. At Joplin, Mo, its di-
rection was reported to be north
east.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
SPROUL TOKEEP
COvERNORSHIP
Announces He Won't Resign TO
Succeed PenrOse; May Become
Candidate for Unexpired Term.

Philadelphia, Jan. 5.-GovernOr
Sproul was expected today to name
successor to Senator Penrose
within the next few days. He an
nounced last night that he would
not resign TO take the senatorship.
The senator to be appointed viii
serve until the candidate chosen
at the November election, is ready
to qualify.
Political leaders generally were
of the opinion that Governor
Sproul would be candidate for the
unexpired term of Senator Pen
rose.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05

Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 5.-(By the
Associated Press. "A. B. Kay, cor
respondent for the London Times,
was kidnapped last night by three
armed men while with other news
paper men in a grocery shop. There
has been no word of him since his
disappearance, and no explanation
Of his seizure.
The correspondents attending
this mornings session of the Dali
Eireann demanded his immediate
release and the punishment of his
kidnapers.
kay's friends pointed to a letter
he wrote from Dublin recently say
ing that some of the leading fight
ing men of that city favored ratiti-
cation of the Irish treaty as a pos
sibIe reason for his abduction. They
said he was warned at that time to
leave Cork, On the threat that he be
put in a vault with corpses and a
candle"
Kay and five other English news
paper mon were in the grocery, his
companions said. when three armed
men entered, presented revolvers
and carried Kay off. They prom
ised Kay's companions, the latter
declared, to bring him back un-
harmed in the evening, warning
them to say nothing in the mean
while.
Protest to Dali.
Before the Dali met the CORES
pondents here held a meeting and
formulated a protest to the Dali
against the kidnapping. The Ameri-
can and Irish correspondents Joined
the English newspapermen in sign
ing the protest.
After adjournment of the Dali had
been moved Desmond Fitzgerald
rose to read the press protest
against the kidnapping, but was over
ruled by the speaker, who declared
the adjournment motion had been
carried.
Michael Collins told the CORES
pondents later he had sent two OF
his best men to rescue Kay and that
the kidnapers would be severely
punished. He expressed the opin-
ion that Cork men were responsible
for the kidnapping.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
PANAMANIANS
HIT BY FLOODS
Waters of River Tuira Sweep Pos
sessions of Inhabitants Away;
Government Sends Food.

Panama, Jan. Traditional re-
ports from the Pinogana district Of
the province of Darien state that
numerous villages have been inun-
dated by waters from the river
Tuira The inhabitants are suffer
ing from exposure and hunger. their
cattle and other possessions having
been swept away.
The government has sent
launch loaded with foOdstufgs and
medicines to the sufferers.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
fire IN SCHOOL
AT CALESBURG
st. Mary's Seminary Threatened by
Blaze at Early Hour; Damage
is Reported as Slight.

Galesburg, H., Jan. 5. - st.
Mary's school al Knoxville, fash
ionable seminary for girls, was
threatened by fire at an early hour
today. 1t was SO years ago yester-
day that the buildings, then knoWp
as Ewing Seminary. burned to the
ground. The damage at this morn
ing's fire was slight.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
DES MONIES MAN
SHOT TO DEATH
Harry Bruener, Horse Buyer. Killed
In Kansas City Livestock Ex-
change by Stock Raiser.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 5.-Harry
Bruener of Des Moines, Ia. a horse
buyer. was shot and killed and
Adolph Drahos. Cedar Rapids, Ia,
and W. B. Hall, Kansas City, were
wounded when, according to wit
nesses, Frank Thompson, a stock
raiser of Olathe, Kansas, opened
fire on Bruener in the crowded
lobby of the Livestock Exchange
here today.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-05
BURGLARS CARRY
AWAY, BLOW 3-TON
SAFE; GET A DIME

Chicago. Jan. 5.-Burglars raid
ed the office Of the H. H. Zain.nger
Coal company, at Naperville, an
carried away three-ton safe on
motor truck When they blew it
open they found one silver coin.
valued at 10 cents. The cashier
had taken $4,000 to the bank