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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
POST SOLDIERS
OUTSIDE MILLS
AVERT CLASH

Providence, r. l., March g.
Heavy forces of national guard
cavalry and coast artillery men. tc-
gether with deputy sheriffs and po-
lice, guarded the Hope company's
mill at Hope this morning in the
expectation that the strikers would
carry out their plans OF last Satui
day and attempt to picket the plant
with strikers from other mills III
the Pawtucket valley.
All strikers were kept away from
the vicinity of the mill. 1t was an
nounced that Thomas E. Harrop,
chairman of the general strike
committee, would have a conference
with Governor San Souci later il
the day regarding the picketins
rules.
Pawtucket, R. l., March e.
Blackstone Valley mills, closed fer
seven weeks, were picketed today
by many persons, due to rumors OF
an attempt to resume work. but ex-
cept for the Tamarack, Number l
Mil here, conditions were un-
, changed. This morning additional
workers reported and the Tamarack
management announced that mos,
Of the departments were in opera
ton.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
OPEN FIGHT
TO FIX PAY
RAIL FORCE
Half Million Men in Group
to Get First Hearing
Before Labor Board

Chicago, March 6.-The six rail-
road shop crafts, unions represent
ing 100000 employees, were the first
group of railroad workers on the
program today at the opening OF
the fight over the present scale OF
wages between railroad labor and
the nations largest transportation
lines before the United States rail-
road labor board.
Petitions asking for 10 per cent
wage reduction have been placed
before the board of ia roads, while
the shopmen have asked increases
of 13 cents an hour over the pres
ent scale of So of these roads. Fail
ure to ask increases on more than
the S5 roads was due, it was said,
to failure to get the employees petit
tons in on time.
More than IT'S roads have placed
petitions for reductions before the
board, while groups of employees
have adopted method similar to
that of the shopmen by making
counter proposals for wage ad-
vances-
1t was said that B. M. Jewell
president of the railway employees
department of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, representing the
shopmen, would be prepared tC
ask postponement of the hearing
on technical grounds, and at
tempts to block the hearings were
regarded as likely in railroad
circles.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
BANKS WILL
LOAN FUNDS
To SOLDIER
Amounts Up to Fifty Per
Cent of Certificates to
Be Advanced.

Washington. March 6.-The SOL
diers' bonus bill will be introduced
in the house late today and form
ally reported tomorrow Chairman
Fordney announced this noon, after
a legislative session of the major
ity members of the ways and means
committee. A second session VIII
be held later in the day for final
completion of details of the meas
ure.
Representative Fordney said the
committee had had reason to be
lieve that President Harding was
not opposed to the certificate loan
provision written into the bill and
under which national and state
lied under state laws, would be au-
thorized to loan holders of such
certificates an amount equal to 30
per cent of adjusted service pay.
1t was estimated that the total
amount of money that the banks
would be asked to advance probably
would not exceed $500, 100000.
II all of the lervice men elected
to take the certificate option, it was
pointed out, the immediate face
value of the certificates would be
only 1880, ,000, 900, or the maximum
of the previous estimate for the
cash bonus. If all the men bor-
rowed from the banks, it was said
the total advance would not exceed
$3.50, 100000.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
ONE KILLED, TWO
Are WOUNDED IN
FRESH TONG WAR

Chicago, March 6.-Mystery fol-
lowed today in the wake of the fat
al shooting here last night of one
Chinese and the wounding of two
others, one probably fatally. in a
basement rendezvous of Wing Hing
Lung in Chinatown.
Rumors of war of Tongs were
rampant and police were inclined
to the belief that it may have been
an outbreak of the Hip Sing-On
Leong feud. A year ago the police
found three dead Chinese in base
ment just two doors south of the
place in which last nights shoot
ing occurred. The dead men were
On Leong tongsmen, the police
said, while those shot last night
were Hip Sings
Joe Wing, said to be from Sc
attic, Washington. or San Francis
co, did the shooting, according to
the police. Wing was arrested. He
is an On Leong tongsman.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
TROTzKY CROWD
PLANS AFLANk
WAR ON CAPITAL

Moscow, March 6.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. "A conference of all
the socialist internationales to dis
cuss the formation of a united front
on world problems affecting capi-
tai and labor was recommended by
executive leaders Of the Third In
ternationale of Moscow after a two
weeks discussion here. The vote
was IS to 10. The resolutions pass
ed mentioned the various interna-
tionales with which a conference is
favored-the second, or prewar or
ganization, the second and a half
as the organization formed at vi
emma last year and which recently
held a meeting in Paris, is termed,
and the fourth internationale.
Leon Trotzky and other Russian
chiefs who were instrumental in
fastening this decision explained
that the move simply was in keep
ing with new tactics having as their
purpose a flank attack on capital
ism, instead of the old open battle
for an immediate world revolu-
ton.
A group of % Russian commun-
lists, chagrined at the new economic
system which they describe as a re-
surrection of the bourgeoise, pre-
sented to the conference a bill Of
complaint against the Russian COM
munist party. They were also
sharply rebuked and were threat
ened with expulsion not only from
the party, but from the interna-
tionale unless they maintained par
ty loyalty.
Throughout the conference both
the Russian leaders and the news
papers dwelt on the idea that the
direct attack for world revolution
had failed.
THE victory we expected now
seems further away" says the IL
vesta. THE bourgeoise have held
on, and the second internationale,
which we considered dead, is again
on its feet. The communistic inter
rationale has not become a decisive
force to change historical develop
ments."
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
DANCER
ON ROCK River
SEEMS PASSED

Sterling, Ill, March 6.-Although
ice gorges about this city and be-
tween Erie and Hillsdale continued
to hold at noon today, there has
been a drop of over a foot in the
stage of water and over half a foot
at Hillsdale.
Dixon, ILL.,, March 6.-The water
of Rock river continued to fall to-
day at the rate of about three
inches an hour, warm weather hav-
ing caused a drop of nearly four
feet from last nights level at 9
o'clock this morning, and the
stream is now within it's banks.
Gas company officials, working to
repair the flooded gas house, hope
to resume manufa cture of gas by
the end of this week and the Illinois
Northern Utilities big steam cleo
trio plant, which was also flooded,
resumed operations last night BY
noon today practically all of the
half hundred families who had
been driven from their homes by
the flood, were about to return to
the buildings and begin repairing
damages caused by the flood. The
Dixon Inn, closed Thursday, ex-
poets to be able to resume business
tonight. The gorges below and
above the city still hold, but are
being melted and washed down by
the warm air and flowing waters
Rockford, ILL.,, March Crock
river has receded seven inches here
since Saturday and two feet and
one inch since the ice went out a
week ago.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
TAYLOR KILLED
BY HUSBAND OF
SCORNED Wife?

Los Angeles, March 6.-Further
checking on the latest confession
to the murder OF William Desmond
Taylor, film director ten-page
document mailed from a small Con-
necticut city-was planned for to-
day by officers assigned to the case.
According to the confession" as
described by the police, the con
fessor" was a husband with whose
wife Taylor had had an affair, only
to "scorn" her later. Then the hus-
band and wife planned and executed
the murder, the document stated.
The name of a Hollywood man, con-
nected with the motion picture in
dustry, was signed to the "confes-
sion," but the police stated they
were certain that the man had no
guilty knowledge of the crime.
They said, however, that despite
the fact that a name they believed
was not the writer's was Signed
they felt inclined to believe the
"confessor" had some definite con-
nection" with the murder.
The confession letter of 10 pages,
handwritten on stationery of a ho-
tel, and giving details of the killing
of William Desmond Taylor, motion
picture director, slain here on Feb.
1, was sent from Atlantic City, N.
j., having been mailed there on Feb.
II, it was announced here today by
Police Captain David L. Adams.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
So MILLION FOR
FARM AID GIFT
OF THE NATION

Washington, March 6.-An appro-
pr;ation Of s34,97S,O33 to meet ex-
penses of the agriculture depart
ment during the coming year is
recommended in a bill reported to-
day by the house appropriations
committee. The total is S3,710,0 ,026
less than the amount appropriated
for the current fiscal year and ST.
554, ,S35 less than budget estimates.
Discussing the elimination of
$3.50 900 carried last year for dis
tribution of seeds by members of
congress, the committee said, in its
report, the budget bureau in sub
hitting estimates did not include
provision for seed distribution.
The item of 1000 900 carried in
last years bill for loans to farm
ers for the purchase of seed grain
in drought-stricken areas is not re-
pealed by. the bill reported today,
the committee reporting that no es-
innate was submitted for the pur-
pose.
The bill carries s2,57S, 800 for the
eradication of tuberculosis in ami
mails, s1,72S,S00 for the payment of
indemnities for tubercular cattle
slaughtered by the government, and
s103. 500 TO reinforcement OF the
grain futures trading act
A total of s4,S25,960 is provided
for the states relations service OF
for farmers institutes and agricul-
which 81 300, 900 would be availabls
ture, and 81 ,O00, 900 for cooperative
agricultural extension work-s5o0,-
600 less than the amount appropri-
ated a year ago for the purpose
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
LANCHORNEST TO
HEAD MOVE FOR
SOUTH Girl AID

New York. March s. - Southern
women living in regions devoid OF
modern advantages are to have ed
ucation brought to them by a move
ment set on foot by two of the
famed Langhorne sisters of Rich
mond. Va.-Lady Astor and Mrs
Charles Dana Gibson.
Lady Astor, who was Nancy
Langhorne, has sent her contribu-
ton to her sister, Mrs. Gibson, who
was Irene Langhorne and the orig
inaI Gibson Girl" Mrs. Gibson to-
day sent out an appeal to women
of the south now living in the north
asking for their support of the pro-
ject. Mrs Gibson is vice chairman
of the New York City branch of the
Southern Women's Educational Al
lance.
The organization contemplates
the donation of more than one hun
dred scholarships for technical
schools. colleges and prep
schools; arrangements for loans for
needy southern girls, and also the
conducting of vocational courses for
girls in their teens.
"All of us realize that women
need education now as never be-
fore" Mrs. Gibson said in her ap-
peal, "and thoughtful southern
women who live outside the south
realize more than any others how
meager the outlook and chances of
some southern girls are, as COM
pared with those of girls of other
sections of the country"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
Priest Beaten By Texas
Mob Because of German
Sympathy in World War

yesterday and said he would go to
Dallas. He left Slayton by auto
mobile and boarded the train at
Lubbock.
The masked band is reported to
have comprised both Catholics and
Protestants of Slayton. A mass
meeting held at S1ayton yesterday
adopted resolutions declaring the
attack on the priest was not direct
ed at the Catholic church as an in
stitution, but at the priest as an
individual.
The records of the court show
keller's final naturalization papers
were denied by Judge James c. Will
son on June IA, 1921. The record
in the. case says: Applicant after
taking out his declaration of inten-
tion, registered with a German con-
sui for military service in Ger
many"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
EVANSVILLE GIRL
DISAPPEARS WHEN
REACHES CHICAGO

Chicago. March 6.-The police
were searching today for a 12-year-
old girl, Louise Kiener, of Evans
vile, Ind, who started for Chica-
go last Wednesday to visit an un-
Gle here and who disappeared. The
uncle delayed by trivial occur
ance at his home, arrived at the
station a few minutes after the
train had pulled in and Louise was
not there. The father has come to
Chicago and notified the police to-
day. The conductor on the train
remembered seeing the girl, he
told the police, and said hat she
had been in company with we'll
dressed woman. He said the wo-
man had seated herself beside the
girl shortly before the train
reached Chicago. Police are trying
to locate the woman.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06

Amarillo, Texas, March 6.-J. G.
Keller, Catholic priest at Slayton,
who was seized by masked men Sat
urday night and beaten, tarred and
feathered, authorized the statement
here today that the incident was the
climax of sentiment due to pro-Ger-
man accusations against him during
the World war.
He said he was denied citizenship
papers in federal court at Amarillo,
in June, 1921, on the ground that ne
had registered as a German subject
after taking out his first naturaliz-
alton papers.
Keller, who was ordered to leave
Slayton, said the court had in
structed him to make re-application
for first papers and to go through
the entire proceeding again, but
that he had not had sufficient time
to do this. He arrived here by train
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
BELFAST Is QUIET
AFTER DISORDERS

Belfast, March 6.-(By the AS
sociated Press.) Belfast was
quiet today after weekend disor-
ders in which two persons were
killed and 21 wounded. A missel
was thrown today at a group of
early morning workers without in
jury to any one. Otherwise the
city showed little evidence of yes
terday's disturbances.
The killing of Owen Hughes,
shot while riding in a street car,
on Saturday night, is described by
the authorities as premeditated,
according to witnesses. Four men
saw Hughes seated with his broth
er and questioned Owen about his
religious conditions. He then
shot him dead and escaped with
out interference by panic-strick-
en- passengers.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
REDUCED RATES IN
FREIGHT FROM THE
TEXAS OIL FIELD

Washington, March 6.-Reduction
in the freight rates on petroleum
and petroleum products from Burk-
burnett and Ranger fields in Texas
to points in the Mississippi valley
and mid-continent were ordered to
day by the interstate commerce
commission.
The commission, in its decision,
refused to grant the claim of the
oil producers for identical rates out
of the two fields and left the gener-
al rate structure showing Ranger
rates slightly above the Burkbur-
nett rates.
To Kansas City, as Illustrative Of
the reduction, the commission ord
cred the charge for refined oil from
Burkburnett fixed at 28.5 cents per
hundred pounds against a previous
charge of 1915 cents, while from
Ranger the charge was made 80 ;
cents instead of 42.5 cents To St
Louis the Burkburnett rate was
fixed at 22.5 cents against previous
charges of 34.5 cents, while the
Ranger rates were left unchanged
at 37.5 cents.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
The Argus
Business
Review
By Consolidated Press.)
Telegraphic dispatches from
nations important centers
giving Business News and
Reviews Of Interest and In
pOrtance to Producer and
Consumer.
SAN FRANCISCO.

San Francisco, March 6.-Easier
money with declining interest rates
has caused capitalists in this sec
ton to turn a more favorable eye
on business investments. This has
caused a decided improvement in
the amount of building construC-
ton going on and projected. Spor-
adic and localized labor disputes
alone prevent tremendous home
building campaigns and these
troubles gradually are being ad-
iusted.
Signs point to a decided revival
in mining. There are inquiries for
gold properties for the first time
since the beginning of the war and
many mines closed during the per-
iod of high production costs, now
are preparing to reopen. There
is also renewed activity in the oil
districts, with increasing produc-
ton and better distribution at re-
tail.
Automobile dealers report a de-
cided improvement in trade, espe-
cially in the medium priced cars
Some distributors declare the trade
at present is well above the aver
age of 1921.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

(CopyriSnI, 19zz, Dy Inc ArguS.J
Washington, March g The
United States government is taking
steps to prevent American money
from being used wastefully in
Europe and to compel foreign peo-
pies who seek loans here to prom
Use to use capital for reproductive
purposes only.
The full significance of what the
American government insists on is
not a political but an economic
measure and is just becoming ap
parent. With the failure OF Euro
pean countries to balance their
budgets because they are spend
ing too much money for the main
veloped a tendency on the part of
the municipalities as well as CEN
trail governments abroad to finance
themselves loosely on the expecta
ton that they can always make up
their deficits by borrowing through
American banking concerns.
This process, however, will be
abruptly halted by the United
States government through the use
of its moral influence and its pow
cr of publicity. The views of the
administration are summed up by
Herbert Hoover as follows:
America is today the remaining
great reservoir of surplus capital
and we must remain strong and
conserve the rightfuI use of this
| capital if the world is to recover.
We will need much of it for the up
building of our homes and our pub
lie utilities, stagnated today through
| inequalities in readtustment be-
tween industries. But our surplus
even then is greater than our needs
and it would be disaster II it were
dissipated in wasteful expenditure
abroad
"All loans to foreign nations who
are not employed in reproductive
work are destruction of the cap
ital. 1t is vital that our bankers
and investors should scrutinize the
| loans to which they are asked to
subscribe that they may make sure
that they are to be employed for
reproductive purposes or the re-
funding of outstanding obligations.
The furnishing of raw materials,
the construction of transportation
facilities. public utilities, factories
and work throughout the world, is
a use for American capital that
blesses both the borrower and the
lender. The upbuilding of the rest
Of the world and its consuming
power adds primarily to world well
being but it also adds to the de-
mand for our own labor, the prod
ucts of our own farmers, and the
services of our own merchants
But loans that are dissipated in
military expenditure or in unbal-
anced budgets, in the bolstering of
inflated currency, are a double loss
to the world They are not only a
loss in that they add nothing to the
increased productivity-to the con-
Stunning power of the world-but
they are a loss in that they entail
the postponement of those meas
ures which are vital for the reha-
biltation of the world"
Echo of Conference.
This viewpoint, on which Presi-
dent Harding and his cabinet are
in unanimous agreement, is in re-
ality sequel to the failure of the
Washington arms conference to do
anything on land armament. 1t is
protested that the move is made in
defense of Americas economic sit
uation. That is true. but the whole
economic problem is so inter
related to the question OF e1pend-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
JOHN LAMBERT,
Wire MAGNET,
DEAD ON COAST

Chicago, March 6.-Colonel John
Lambert, president of the American
Steel & Wire company, millionaire
steel man, and prominent in Illi-
nois political circles, died today at
his winter home in Pasadena, Calf,
according to private advices re-
ceived by relatives here. Mr.. Lam
bert's home was in Joliet, Ill.
Death resulted from complica-
tions following an attack of pneu-
monia two weeks ago. The pro-
gress of the patient had been re-
garded as satisfactory during the
last few days, and death was un-
expected.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
ONE TRAIN BRINGS
HUNDREDS OF 'BO'S
INTO NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans, La, March g.
Three hundred Tamps, arriving
here on a single freight train from
Texas points, were guests at New
Orleans today, some of them being
entertained at police stations and
others visiting points of interest
about town.
They travelled about forty in a
car and alighted from the train all
the way from the city limits to the
railroad yards. Police informed
them their stay in the city would
be brief.
Jail sentences and hard work on
Texas roads as penalties for va
grancy were the reasons given for
their wholesale emigration.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
LLOYD GEORGE Is
TO DECIDE COURSE
WITHIN "a HOURS

London, March 6.-CBy the As
sociated Press within "a or at
most 48 hours, the world will
know whether Prime Minister
Lloyd George has decided to re-
sign or continue as chief of the
coalition government This is the
only substantial conviction emerg-
ing from a tangle of contradictory
rumors in the crises which On.
crossed political observers over
Saturday and Sunday.
Even if the prime minister stays
nobody believes that the coalition
can last much longer, though it
may be prolonged until Irish legis-
lation and the Genoa conferences
are out of the way.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
BRING BODY OF
PARIS TRAGEDY
VICTIM TO HOME

Los Angeles, March 6.-Funeral
ssssrvlces will be held here today for
Mrs. Thomas Stewart Ryan, a vio-
,.ulst' known, professionally as
nnucrey Creighton, who died in
arls from poison taken at what
said to have been planned as
nnaI meeting with her husband,
~ american newspaper man, from
~ ssuom she was estranged. The
suy arrived In Los Angeles yes
~ruay in the care of Mrs. Ryan's
cotner, Mrs. William st. Clair
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
ship AND CREW
20 men MISSING
FOR Three DAYS

Boston. March 6.-What became
of the Norwegian freighter Gron-
toft and her crew of 20 men was a
question that concerned coastwise
radio stations today. Three days
of broadcasting of wireless inquir-
les for the steamer that was sink
ing four days ago had brought only
negative answers. The laundering
freighter had passed word OF her
plight to the steamer Estonia, 36
miles away. and that vessel went To
her aid, but found no trace Of her
at the position given.
After reporting failure, the Es
tonia continued her voyage 10 New
York and other ships took up TIE
search without result
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-06
HULL'S CLAIM.

Washington, March 6. - Cordell
Hull, chairman of the Democratic
national committee, said that the
Republican administration in the
last year and the Republican ma
pority in congress in the last three
years have wholly failed to make
good their prediction promises and
to grasp the true economic condi-
tions and apply sound demedies
therefore"