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Evening star., 1922-03-20
Varnishes Are Sold at Retail by These Merchants:

Ulle Bros, BeItsville, Md.
MT. Rainier Hdw. Co, Mt. Rain
ier, Md.
w: w. Welsh Estate, Rockville,
Nd.
M. M. Walker, Washington
QroYe. Md. !.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
RAP PRICES OF
Cement MAKERS
Highway Executives of Illinois and
Five Other States Declare
Buyers Strike.

Chicago. Jan. 21.-Executive Of
ficers of the highway departments
of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas. Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota
and Wisconsin, at the opening ses-
sion of the Mississippi Valley con-
ference of the State Highway de-
partments today, declared a buy
ers' strike against the cement man
ufacturers of the country.
A fat 10 per cent decrease in the
price of cement is wanted by the
highway officials and their refusal
to enter into negotiations with cem-
ent manufacturers will retard con-
struction of more than one hundred
million dollars worth of high
ways, they said.
The highway department heads
of the eight states also decided to
recommend that steps be taken in
each state 10 investigate the possi-
bility of erecting and operating
state-owned ceISent mills. c. R Mil
state-owned cement mills.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
Girl Jilts Him; Brother Gets
Married; Snider, DespOndeat,
Cuts His Throat With Razor

ton because he had expected to at
tend his brothers wedding
Immediately after receiving the
telephone call he told Edward
Weeg, another roomer, that he was
going up to his room and go to
bed Mr.. and Mrs. Dunayin had
just left the home and Mr.. Weeg
and Snider were the only people in
the house. Shortly after Snider
went up to his room Mr.. Weeg
heard the sound of weight falling
heavily upon the bed in Snider's
room. He thought little of it, out
soon after heard Snider groan
He rushed upstairs and into
Snider's room, the door to which
had not been locked Snider was
on the bed and blood was gushing
from his throat He had used a
razor and threw the blade away
from him as Mr. Weeg stepped
in the room. Seeing his fellow
roomer Enider said: Let me die
everything is against me"
DR.. De Silva was called and
staunched the flow of blood, ant
then had the man taken TO the
hospital
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
RAIL men MEET
TO talk WAGES
Executives OF 100 Lines Discuss
Proposed Return to Negotiation
of Pay and Work Status.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-Railway exec
utives representing more than 100
transportation lines of the country
met here today to discuss a pro-
posed return to negotiation OF
wages and working conditions with
the train service brotherhoods on
a regional basis.
The meeting follows several con-
ferepces by committee of rail
heads and the Big Four brother
hood chiefs with Secretary of Com
merce Hoover in Washington last
week. A report of the action of the
executives meeting today will be
forwarded to Secretary Hoover, and
if favorable to the regional negoti-
alton plan, immediate steps are ex-
pected to set up regional boards
which will handle all wage and
rules questions.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
CROWD ATTACKS
HOLY ROLLERS
Leader Of Sect in Cedar Rapids
Sesed by Mob of aO0-Rescued
by Police.

cedar Rapids, Ia, Jan. 21.-A
TUwd of 200 persons stormed the
noiy Roller" church here last
aghi seized the Rev. H. A. Fergu-
sOa, leader Of the sect, and with
sles OF throw him in the river"
~ ~ ear and feather him" marched
san through the business sections
" NE city until police with drawn
,as'oivers, who had been rushed to
~ church at the time of the raid,
Ssnpersed the mob and rescued
ferguson.
The attack marked the boiling
SOln1 s Of popular feeling aroused
ISanst the Holiness leader by al
y ~sea expose in a local newspaper
= eohdltions said to have followed
- arrival here of Ferguson and
as followers.
" weapons were used by the
haefs, but blows were freely ex,
Iahged and Ferguson suffered the
N ~ OF TWO teeth when struck after
attempted to escape by jumping
Tgush window of the church.
,.. e spent the night in Jail TO be
from further violence.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21

Despondent because he was Jlit-
ed by a young woman of Musca-
tine. Iowa, his home town, Harry
Snider. aged % years, rooming at
the S. NJ. Dunavin residence, 252S
Fifth-and-a-half avenue, slashed his
throat with a razor at 1880 O'Clock
last night, and is now IN st.
Anthony's hospital in critical con-
dition.
Slashes extend clear across mis-
throat and although he has suf-
fered greatly from the loss of blood
it was reported this morning that
his condition is slightly improved,
and there is some chance of his
recovery. DR.. Joseph De Silva IS
attending him.
Snider is employed at the Rock
Island Sash & Door Works, and
has been living at the Dunavin
home since last June. He is said
not only to have been despondent
over being Tilted by a woman, but
also to have shown great disap-
pointment last evening when ne
received q telephone call that a
brother in Chicago had just been
married; this added TO his dejec-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
BY ]. C! ROYLE.


New York, Jan. 21-More for a
dollar-that phrase represents the
guiding principle of American busi-
ness life just at present and it
works both ways. 1t represents
both the attitude of the buyer and
the seller and of the employer and
the workers on his payroll. Busi-
ness men and workers expect to
give more as we'll as get more for a
dollar than they did in 1921.
That trend, however, does not
necessarily mean lower prices or
lower wages. In some industries
there is every indication that both
prices and wages will be maintain
ed at not less than present levels
for at least six months to come.
But there is a rigid price resistance
from the buying public which must
be taken into consideration. Rec
ognizing this, manufacturers,
wholesalers, jobbers and retailers
are endeayoring to give more for
dollar in quality or service or ef-
ficiency if not in quantity.
Labor Gives More.
Labor, while determined as a pur-
chaser to get more for its dollars is
realizing as a producer, the neces-
sity of giving more for a dollar in
personal efficiency and reduction of
waste.
The widespread determination
both to give and get more for the
dollar is bringing buyer and seller
closer together in an increasing de-
velopment of more stable and more
active business conditions. Busi-
ness dispatches received in the last
"a hours make this evident. These
DEVELOPMENTS will continue econ
omy, conservatism and efficiency
and are stressed above stimulation
and expansion.
A lower turnover is inevitable,
according to leading financiers and
/ business men here, and profit mar
gins must be narrow and effected
through reduction of production
costs. A more rapid turnover,
however, is making itself evident
on every side. Accumulated stocks
have been absorbed to a large eX-
tent and present and future needs
! must be met from current produc-
ton. This means greater business
activity and expansion of manufac-
turers. This tendency has made it
self plainly felt in increased pro-
duction since Jan. l. Raw mater
/ ial is going into the factories in
larger quantities and freight ship
ments are increasing.
Coal Strike Threat.
Threat of q coal strike in April
still is too far off to have affected
| increase of activity is perceptible,
which, however, has failed to stitfen
! Continued on Page Three.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
TEX RICHARD
:, ARRESTED ON
GIRLS CHARGE
Boxing Promoter Is
Held for Criminal
Assault.

New York, Jan. 21-Tex Rickard,
Boxing promoter, today was arrest
ed on charge of criminal assault
made by the Children's Society on
the complaint of 15-year-old girl.
Two other girls wer held as wit
nesses.
The arrest was made at the West
Side court Rickard appeared there
some time before he formally was
placed under arrest.
1t was learned that bench war
rant had been issued yesterday aft
ernoon. Hearing of it this morn
ing, Rickard promptly surrender
ed himself with counsel. He was
held in 81 900 bond bail for exam
ination on Jan. 25.
Rickard said he had no state
ment to make at this time.
Offers Girls Wine.
According to Vincent Pisarra,
superintendent of the Children's s
society, the promoter accosted three
girls last summer at the swimming
pool which he ran in Madison
Square garden. The society agent
also alleged that Rickard took two
of the girls, Alice Ruck, aged 15.
and Anna Hess, II, to an apart
ment and later offered them some
have assaulted the Ruck girl in the
Garden tower.
After a complaint had been made
to the society the three girls were
held on blanket charge of incor-
rigibility.
DR.. w. Travis Glib, physician for
the society, examined the trio.
The girls were questioned last
night by the district attorneys Of
fee and the warrant was then is
sued.
| In his statement to the court
Pisarra said:
Go to Hospital.
Alice Ruck and Anna Hess went
to Bellevue hospital a few days ago
and told a physician there that they
were afraid to go home because
they had remained out too late.
, They told this physician also that
they had both taken iodine.
He at once placed them under
observation and notified the chill
dren's society, which then took
charge of them.
They were examined by DR.. Glib
of the society, who, according to
his statement, discovered that Alice
Ruck had been assaulted"
F, After entering a plea of not gull
ty for his client, Attorney Max D
Steur issued the following state,
ment:
Mr.. Rickard is the most sur.
prised man in the world. He had
nothing to do with this case. He
knows nothing about it,
Several men wen known in the
world of sport were in court wher
Rickard was arraigned. Rickard die
his best to hide his face from a bat
terry of newspaper photographers
even holding an umbrella over his
head as screen when he entered
a taxicab.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21

Copyright, 1922. by The Argus)
Washington, Jan. 21.-Can the
United States government, as at
present constituted participate in
international action?
This question is being seriously
discussed in official quarters as di-
rect consequence of the very evil
dent opposition which is brewing
in the United States senate toward
the treaties negotiated by the ex-
ecutive branch of the government
at the arms conference but has a
relation also to whether the United
States will be represented at the
economic conference at Genoa.
Remembering that the senate re-
fused to ratify the treaty of Yer
sailles and the diminished diplo-
matte influence of the executive
branch of the American govern
ment, the fear is expressed that
perhaps the senate will again re-
pudiate the executive and demon
strate that whether the administra-
ton be Republican or Democratic,
the legislative branch of the gov
ernment is the final authority in
America on foreign affairs.
Lesson From Wilson.
The Harding administration, TAX
ing its lesson from the experience
of its predecessor who negotiated
the treaty of Versailles covering as
many as 200 subjects, outlined a
simple program for the present
CONFERENCE.-THE Eastern affairs
and reduction of armamentG The
land armament problem was aban-
doned- and the program was still
| further narrowed down. Now i
| looks as IL those two items would
cause such disagreements as to en-
danger the ratification Of the prin
cipal treaties.
What use, therefore, is it for tht
executive branch of the government
! to think about more internatiOna
conferences, as for example the one
at Genoa. An European government
which is represented in the nego
tiations by a ministry can cOmmi
its parliament to approval or i
promptly shows the negOtiatoT:
that the ministry is wrong by over
throwing it. The action is quicl
and decisive. If a ministry is over
thrown, a group fails. If the exec
utive branch OF the government i:
repudiated in America. the dead
, lock cannot be Immediately broker
by the substitution of the polio!
advocated by the opponents of the
executive. Too much time mus
elapse before changes can be regis
tered. International action under
such circumstances is almost i'm
possible.
Question Is Complex.
These views are not merely aca
demic theories by students<of gov
6Coutfnued on Page Three)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
BOUNDARY OF
ULSTER FIXED

London, Jan 21.-(By The AS
sociated Press. Sir James Craig,
the Ulster premier, and Michael
Collins, head of the provisional
government for Ireland, formed
under the Anglo-Irish treaty, issued
a joint statement this evening an
nouncing an agreement regarding
the question of the boundary be
tween Ulster and Southern Ireland
The agreement, it is announced, ,
also provides for the cessation OF
the South Ireland boycott against
Belfast and the return of the Cath
olic workmen to the Belfast ship
yards.
The Collins-Craig agreement
likewise provides that the two gov
ernments (of northern and south
ern Ireland) devise a more suit
able system than the proposed
council of ireland" for dealing
with problems affecting the whoie
of Ireland.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
PREMIER OF
BRITAIN FOR
ENDING WAR
Lloyd George Would Ask
ALI Nations of Europe
to Conference.

London, Jan. 21-iBy the Asso-
ciated Press.) - Premier Lloyd
George, addressing the national
liberal conference today, declared
that all the nations of Europe, with
out distinction, should be invited
to the Genoa economic conference,
because we want to put an end 10
constant wars and rumOrs of wars"
Discussing the Washington con-
ference, he said:
THE peace of the world largely
depends upon good understanding
between the United States and our
selves. The conference has done
more than anything else to restore
that understanding.
The premier, in referring to in
ternationaI conference in general,
said that if there had been con-
ference in July, 1914, there would
have been no war in August, 1914.
NO International conference ever
settled Europe's problems, he said,
but they had advanced the cause
of peace on earth l have profound
conviction and faith in the ultimate
reason of mankind
Proud of Irish Pact.
Replying to an eulogistic intro
duction by the chairman of the
meeting, Lord LeVerhulme, the
premier Immediately began a dis
cussion of the advantage accruing
to the empire from the Irish set
tement
1T is the first time for a cen,
tury," he said, that we have had
an Irish government established
with the whole-hearted sanction OF
the people of Great Britain
Premier Lloyd George said that
the Irish settlement had enhanced
the prestige of Great Britain
throughout the world and had de-
prived her enemies of the force ot
that taunt that we were always
willing to give exalted advice tc
other nations, which we never fol
lowed ourselves
World trade, he said, was in d
worse plight than any one present
had ever before witnessed, and con-
tinued:
international confidence is the
basis of international trade The
problem confronting Great Britain
and the world may be summed ul
in one phrase-restoFation OF in
ternational confidence.
Need Real Peace
"Order will restore confidence
we must establish real peace in the
world"
Mr.. Lloyd George said he was
looking to the Genoa conference tc
restore peace in the east.
IF permanent peace is establish
ed there must be great reductions
in the cost of armaments, he
added. THE British army is being
reduced to below the pre-Wal
standard and the navy and the all
force was being reduced also The
nations must be prepared to take
risks for peace"
The prime minister said he was
a believer in the League of Nations
land l wish some of its friends
would not run it as if it were &
sort of little party show" he added
With reference to German repa
rations, he said:
81 am one of those who thinA
Germany ought not TO be let of
from payment, but Germany is suf
fering from exhaustion, like othel
nations, and delay is inevitable
The sooner, however. a settlement
is reached the better"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
JUDGE OBJECTS
TO LONG DELAY
IN SMALL CASE
EdtDards Wants to
Try NosO or Put OFF
Till Next Term.

Waukegan, Ill, Jan. 21.-(By the
Associated Press. s.)-Arguments on
a motion for separate trials for
Len Small and Vernon Curtis, on
charges of conspiracy to embezzle
state funds, were continued today
by Judge Claire c. Edwards for one
week, when attorneys for the de-
fense notified him that Mr.. Curtis
was unable to appear today be-
cause his home at Grant Park is un-
der quarantine
The governor and Mr.. Curtis
were to have entered their pleas Of
mot guilty" today.
Judge Edwards approved a re-
quest by the state that Mr.. Curtis
counsel enter his plea for him next
Saturday, if he is unable to appear
on that day The judge voiced OBJ
jections to continued delay in the
case.
Lawyers "Waste Tfme.7
1--WE have spent two months ON
notions" he said, land this court
either wants to try this case now,
or put it off until the next term
There isn't any desire on the part
of the court to bring lawyers up
here from Springfield to waste
their time and l want to know
whether we are going to try this
case or not"
Alexander F. Beaubein, Wauke-
gan representative of the governor,
and James S. Wilkinson, assistant
states attorney general, each dis
claimed responsibility for the de-
lay, and told the court his side was
anxious to dispose of the prelimin-
aries and get started on the actual
trial. Mr.. Wilkinson characterized
the motion for separate trials as
foolish"
I'VE were ready" Mr.. Beaubein
retorted, ito go to trial early IN
January on the embezZlement in
dictment but the state then nolled
| it
The motion for severance, attor-
neys say, is the last of the prelIm-
mary moves. The court has lndl-
Gated that the trial probably Will
be set for hearing within 10 days
after the motion is ruled on.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
SCHOOL GIRLS
BAN COSMETICS

Augusta, Maine, Jan. 21.-Girls
of Cony high school have adopted
resolutions placing a ban on the
use of cosmetics, immodest dresses
and dresses made of expensive and
elaborate cloth. Skirts must come
four inches or more below the knee,
petticoats must be worn with all
light skirts and the girls must aban-
don the wearing of fancy stockings,
French heels, fancy garters below
the knees or rolled down stockings.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
ARRESTS To
PUT HALT To.
CRIME WAVE
seventh Looting of Safes
in Third Night; Got
$225 in Cash.

After cracking two safes last
uight and obtaining about $240, two
yeggs guilty Of the act were ar
rested at o'clock this morning
while attempting 10 open a third
ate.
Four policemen caught them so
Steanly that they never had a
chance to pull the guns they car
| red. The capture was made in
the office of the Rock Island Fuel
company, 2230 Third avenue. The
two yeggs we're busy trying to
ouen the safe when Patrolmen Gus
Krueger, Harry FitZsimmons,
Thomas Totten and Station Officer
| Charles Miner surrounded the
place. Patrolman Kruger had a
short time before passed the office
while making the rounds and had
/ heard the men at work. He sent
il a call for assistance and three
men were sent to his aid. After
surrounding the place so that the
yeggs would have no avenue of eS-
cape the four patrolmen closed in.
With drawn guns they were upon
he yeggs and had them covered
before the men had a chance 10
fight. One of the yeggs carried a
Colts 1920 revolver and the other
carried a Smith & Wesson .3S cali
Der revolver.
They gave their names as James
Kelly, aged As, Boston, Mass, and
Earl Vaughan, aged p, Omaha,
Neb.
They had first entered the Stock
dale Cheese & Specially company,
s227 Third avenue, where they OBJ
tanned about $35 in cash. They
gained entrance to the building by
opening two rear doors. One was
TO a rear vestibule and this was
opened by use of a jimmy. The
other door was opened by breaking
out the glass and unlocking from
| the inside The burglars smashed
the. knob and dial off the safe and
then drove out the lock bolt with
punch and sledgehammer.
They next went to the Mueller
Lumber company, 2405 Third ave-
Auos uey JLulAlASu a AAoOR SA
the east side of the office and broke
the outer and inner doors off the
safe and then smashed the lock on
the cash box and took $206.O5.
They then went to the Rock Island
Fuel company where they were ar
/ rested.
Picked Up Tools.
The tools that they had used had
been picked up at various places.
A sledgehammer was picked up
in the Rock Island railroad yards,
Two pinch" bars and heavy spike
nail IA inches in length were pick
Sed up at the Mueller Lumber COM
|spany and a punch found in their
possession has been identified as
property that was stolen from the
burlington roundhouse last Tues
cay night when four safes were
cracked in Rock Island
Police Chief Tom Cox has ques-
noned the men and announced this
morning that he is unable to say
a his time whether the two took
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21

OF MOTOR TIRES
Three Carloads, Valued at
S250y00O, Leave Akron for
Europe.

Akron. Ohio, Jan. 2l-Twenty-
three carloads of pleasure cars and
motor truck tires. the largest sin
gle shipment made out Of Akron -
q private distributor. left here to-
day for Europe. It is value al
about $3.50, 900.
Only one single shipment from
an Aaron tire factory has exceeded
this consignment II size. During
the war 28 carloads were shipped
at one time to the French govern
maut
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
AGED PRIEST DIES.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-Rev. J. J. Fla
herty, pastor of the Church of the
Nativity, died this morning of pneu-
monia at the age of IS years. He
was pastor of st. James Catholic
church at Rockford for % years.
The funeral will be held here on
Tuesday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21

Washington, Jan. 81. - (By the
Associated Press.)-Despite ques-
tions raised as to the practicability
of some of it's provisions, further
discussion today by the arms con-
ference far eastern committee of
the American proposal for publica-
tion of all treaties and understand
ings relating to China, was expect
ed in American quarters to clear
the way for its formal adoption.
Agreed to ''in principle" final ac-
ton on the proposal as presented
in resolution yesterday by Secre-
tary Hughes was postponed at the
suggestion of Japan, after an ex-
tended debate on the provision to
include in all the published list OF
commitments to various CONNER
cial agreements entered into be-
tween Chinese authorities and pri-
vate individuals abroad.
The resolution as presented by
Secretary Hughes provided that all
the powers file with the secretary
general of the conference at their
earliest convenience all existing
commitments regarding China tC
which they are parties or of which
they have knowledge, and also
thereafter any new agreements
within sixty days after consumma-
ton.
Hughes Amendment.
An amendment was proposed by
Secretary Hughes during the de-
bate by which the Chinese govern
ment, on its part, would undertake
to give prompt notification of al
existing and future agreements OF
which it had knowledge.
Acceptance of the subcommittee
plan for another international gath
ering in the near future, probably
to convene in Washington, to dis,
cuss the question of revision OF
rules of warfare appeared to be as
sured today by the favorable senti'
ment manifested among the various
delegations.
Though on the agenda of the
present conference, the subcommit
tee was said to have concluded thai
there was neither time nor suffi'
cient material for its adequate con
sideration.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-21
OIL MEN MEET.

Oklahoma City, Okla. Jan al
Oklahoma oil men conferred with
Charles Burke, commissioner of In
dian affairs.