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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
YOUNG DODCEIS
HELD BY POLICE
ON Girl CHARGE
Son of Late Millionaire Auto Manu-
facturer Arrested After Injury
to Student.

Kalamazoo, Mich, March 1S.-
John D. Dodge, son of the late
John F. Dodge, millionaire Detroit
automobile manufacturer, and Rex
Earl of this city were held in the
county Jail today, pending further
investigation into an automobile &C
cident yesterday that resulted IN
serious injury to Miss Emmeline
Kwakernck, 19-year-old Western
State Normal school student.
Miss Suzann Stegena and Miss
Ethel Clemens, also Western Nor
NAL students, who Also were in the
machine, told officers Dodge and
Earl offered to take them to their
home from a dance, and that Miss
Kwakernck leaped from the ma
chine when Dodge, who was driv-
ing, ignored their protests that he
was not driving in the right direc-
ton to their rooming house. They
charged he drove into the country
at high speed.
Miss Kwakernck was found at
the roadside by a passing motorist,
who took her to the hospital. Off
GERS declare a bottle of liquor was
found in the machine.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
SCARE NOT
To HOLD UP
BONUS BILL
Committee Unmoved by
Claim of Danger in
Certificate Plan.

Washington, March 13. - Repub-
lican members of the house ways
and means committee decided at 4
conference today to stand pat on
their determination to report the
compromise soldiers bonus bill.
despite objections to its provisions
by Secretary Mellon and Comptrol-
Washington, March 13. i Favor
able report by the house ways and
means committee on a compromise
on the soldiers bonus bill without
any important change in provisions
was regarded as assured when the
committee met today for final con-
sideration of the measure. AL
though several committee members
were expected to vote against re-
porting the bill, the provision for
issuance of adjusted compensation
certificates was said to be favored
by a. majority as a satisfactory
compromise"
The only amendment of conse-
quence which appeared probable,
Chairman Fordney said, was elm
ination of the requirement that a
war veteran must decide within
six months which of the options
provided in the bill he would &C
cept.
There was believed to be little
probability that Secretary MELONS
criticism of the bill in a letter to
Chairman Fordney, made public
last night, would result in any at
tempts at amendment or delay in
ordering it reported. Expressing
the view that the measure as now
drawn involved "a dangerous abuse
of government credit" Secretary
Mellon disapproyed the provision
for bank loans on adjusted service
certificates as in direct and fore
ed" borrowing by the government.
He contended that sit is both dan
gerous and unwise"to seek to avoid
paying the cost of bonus for the
time being.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
HOWAT APPEAL
L0ST;SUPREME
COURT DECIDES
Former Kansas Miner Leader Re
mains in Contempt for His
Actions.

Washington, March 13.-The su-
preme court today dismissed the
writs of error by which Alexander
Howat and other labor leaders
sought to have reviewed the decis-
ion of the Kansas state courts hold
ing them guilty of contempt of
court for their refusal to appear
before the court of industrial re-
lations.
The opinion Of the court, deliv-
cred by Chief Justice Taft, stated
that the questions of the constitu-
tionality of the Kansas statute ere
ating the court of industrial rela-
tions and prohibiting strikes in the
settlement of labor disputes were
not brought before the court in
proper form for it TO pass upon
them.
The effect of the refusal of the
court to dispose of the appeals on
the issues which Howat and his as
sociates sought to raise will be to
leave effective the decision of the
lower courts holding them in con-
tempt of court for refusing to ap-
pear before the court of industrial
relations, and also holding them in
contempt for ordering a strike
after they had been enjoined from
doing so.
The opposition of organized labor
to legislation which would prohibit
strikes and provide for compuls-
ory arbitration in the settlement of
hot
employees in essential industries
reached the supreme court in ap-
peals brought by Alexander Howat,
August Dorchy, Thomas Harvey
and Robert Foster, union labor
leaders, who sought to question the
constitutionality of the Kansas
statute creating the court of indus
trial relations. The state of Kan
sas contended the cases presented
no federal question and therefore
should be dismissed by the supreme
court.
The labor leaders sought to at
tack the Kansas court of Industrial
relations act from two direction In
September, 1920, they were en-
Joined by the Crawford county dis
trict court from Causing strikes at
coal mines in that and Cherokee
county On Feb. 4, 1921, the strikes
began, and three days later Howat
and his assistants were arrested,
held in contempt after a hearing
and sentenced A year previous
they had sought, the state contend
ed, to precipitate an issue by refus-
ing to appear before the court of
industrial relations on which oc "a
sion they had been held in contempt
by the same state district court for
their refusal to comply with its
orders.
The state statute which the labor
leaders sought to have set aside
was enacted by the Kansas legis-
lature in January, 1920, patterned,
the state claimed, after laws which
had been found beneficial in Brit
ish Nominations.
Claiming the right to strike was
constitutional, and could not be
taken from them by state legisla-
tion, Howat and the other labor
leaders contended their rights were
fortified by the Clayton act, and
other federal laws The national
had assumed such com
plete control over the coal mining
industry that no field remained for
the states to occupy in an attempt
to regulate it, they said.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
SHIELDS SISTER
GIVES CLEW To
DELAND POLICE

Deland, Fla, March 13-Collusa
county authorities said today their
activities for the time being in con-
nection with the investigation of
the shooting here Feb S of William
A. Shields, formerly of Moline. H.,
were being devoted to running
down of certain leads obtained from
copies of letters and kilograms re-
ceived last week from Mrs. Neftie
Lawrence of Wichita. Kan. a sister
of Shields, which she had received
from her brother during the three
months prior to his death
Mrs Alice Shields, the widow. is
held in jail here on a charge of
murder as a result of information
furnished the assistant district at
torney by the Ku Klux Khan
Pete Smith, a negro, is also held
on a murder charge in connection
with the killing Smith has waived
preliminary hearing and will re-
main in jail pending the action of
the grand jury next month
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
DEATH HITS
AGAIN DOOR
MOVIE DENS
Mable Normand Attends
Wild Party Followed by
Killing of One Guest.
BY FORREST WHITE.
(By Consolidated Press.)


Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
Los Angeles, Calf. March 13.-
J The murder of William Desmond
Taylor, motion picture director, has
not been cast into the limbo of for
gotten mystery, but with the police
department continuing to attach
importance to one or two of the
hundred anonymous letters that
have poured in from all parts OF
the country, it would seem to be on
/ its way to a sealed crime of yester-
/ day.
| The motion picture world, once
| so aroused, and so free with prom
| ises of undivided effort and unlim-
tied expenditure to prove to the
world that the Staying of Bill
Taylor could in no sense be at
tributed to the life of the picture
world as represented by the Holly
wood colony, is gradually falling
back into the old path, cautious, but
unconcerned
Mabel Normand meantime has
had another unhappy experience.
Reported i'll and unstrung by the
prominence she achieved in the
. y
the last person known to have seen
him alive, she retired to a secluded
home in Altadena, an eminently re-
spectacle suburb of Pasadena, to
sooth her nerves and recuperate
her strength before resuming work
in the pictures.
Her recovery, in her seclusion
was rapid enough to permit her to
attend, a few nights ago, a party
given at a cozy little place whore
jazz music exerts its soothing eff
| feet, especially to the nerve broken
and weary, until an early hour OF
! the morning. In the little party
| that assembled at her table was
! George S. Patterson, a young bust
ness man of Los Angeles, clubman
famous golfer and son-in-law of w
C. Brown, late president of the New
York Central railway.
When the party broke up after
an evening of music and dancing,
young Patterson returned to the no
tel where he had been staying for
several days. He remained in his
room until the following evening,
when he won the consent of fell
low guest to accompany him on a
motor trip to San Diego, where Mrs.
Patterson was reported to have
gone for a visit with her children.
Killed When Car Skids-
The next morning Mabel Nor
mand, among others, was shocked
by the news that shortly after mid
night, in the hurried night ride, the
car that young Patterson was driv-
ing had skidded off the road, over
turned and killed him almost in
stantly.
Mrs. Patterson returned immedi-
atley to her home on receiving the
news and the body of Patterson is
to be returned to the east to his old
home for burial Miss Normand to-
day is receiving the sympathy Of
her friends that she should, by un-
fortunate coincidence, have been so
near to another tragedy at her re-
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
PRIZE HARVARD
STUDENT FACES
DRUNK CHARGES

Watertown. Mass. March 13:-
The arrest for intoxication of Fred
erick R Wedge, student at the
Harvard graduate school OF educa-
ton, was a matter of formal rec
ord in the district court here to-
day. The police blotter containing
the latest entry in the spectacular
career of Kid Wedge, Wisconsin
lumber jack, prize fighter, univer-
sity of Arizona graduate, school
principal, and student OF educa-
tional psychology, was brought into
court, but the subject Of the entry
was not. In accordance with the
practice in this town, the prisoner
was released without arraignment,
as a first offender.
Wedge, AZ years old, attracted ma
tionaI attention recently when ne
was admitted to the Harvard grad
uate school, a man of letters who
had fought his way up from the
secondary prize fights. He was in
a lunch room here early this morn-
ing, the center Of a distur bance,
when a policeman was called. At
Harvard university today it was
said an inquiry would be made into
the facts.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
BOMB BANKERS
CHICAGO
HASAM MYSTERY
Dynamite Placed Under Porch of
Suburban House OF Willis p.
Dickinson.

Chicago, March 13.-Federal au-
thorities joined police today in
seeking the solution to the myster-
ious bombing of the suburban home
of Willis P. Dickinson, president of
the Security Trust & Deposit COM
pany of Chicago. A heavy charge
of dynamite placed under the front
porch exploded early yesterday,
causing considerable damage, but
injuring no one. Mr.. Dickinson
says he cannot explain the attack
on his home and has offered $1,000
reward for the arrest of the bomb
ers.
Various theories have been ad-
vanced by the authorities. They
suggest that the bombing may have
been done by disgruntled investor
in one of Dickinson's enterprises,
that it may have been attempted
blackmail, that it might be the aft
ermath of a robber last August of
the Security company's safety de-
posit valuts, when 100000 was
taken.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
MILLER ASKED
T0LEAvE POST
after CHARGES
ST. Louis Parents Indignant at Al
legations of Police Head Against
School Girls.

st. Louis, No. March 13-The res
ignation of Victor j. Miller, presi-
dent of the board of police commits
sioners, was demanded by the Ceu-
trail Trades and Labor union, ac-
cording to a resolution adopted in
a meeting of that body and made
public today. A committee of the
organization, which represents 25.-
600 men and women of this city
will attempt to meet Governor Ar
thur NJ. Hyde here today to present
their demand
Commissioner Miller early last
week declared that there is an or
ganiZation of girl students in one
of the high schools, founded on the
entrance requirement that each
member must have had an intimate
relationship with boy" and that
similar organization exists
among the boys"
Later Commissioner Miller, &C
cording to a resolution adopted dur
ing an indignation meeting of par
ents and of officials of the high
school yesterday. is declared 10
have said that the charge of vice
at the Zoldan high school was not
strong enough" The resolution
adopted by the trades and labor
body, not only demanded the resig-
nation of Miller, but condemned him
for making public his utterances.
A committee composed of repre-
sentatives of school organizations
and parents of students was expect
ed to call on Commissioner Miller
late today, or else to arrange for a
conference with him. He has an
nounced that he would present evi-
dence of proof of his charges to
such a body, but to no others Ap-
proximately 1000 persons attended
the meeting here yesterday after
noon.
Governor Arthur M Hyde has
held several conference with men
prominent in local political affairs.
Rumors have gained circulation that
Miller will be asked to resign as
president of the board of police
commissioners. These rumors,
however, have not been verified.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
TWO WIvESARE
LEFT TO MOURN
MINING EXPERT

Chicago, March 13.-Mrs. Claire
Gilbert and her son, Carl Jay Gil
bert. will go to Los Angeles. Calf.
to view the body of Edward Gilbert.
mining expert. who Mrs. Gilbert
claims was her husband. Mrs. Gil
bert. son and her daughter, Miss
Claire, received word Of Gilbert's
death yesterday.
Gilbert's death, according to Los
Angeles dispatches. revealed that
he had two wives, one the Mrs Gil
bert in Chicago, and the other
woman he had married some time
after his disappearance from here
10 years ago.
Mrs. Gilbert last night told OF
cherishing the hope throughout the
I9 years that her husband would re-
turn to her and the children. She
said size had never heard directly
from him since he left IN 1903 20
take position as = mining eng!-
neer.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
ROYAL COUPLE
ASKS REDRESS

London, March 13.-(By the As
sociated Press .)-Prince Eitel
Friedrich and his wife have re-
quested the government department
which deals with the Hohenzol-
lerns' affairs to proceed against
desseminators of the story publish
ed in England and the United
States that the princess had con-
fessed to misconduct with the
Baron Plettenberg, says a Berlin
dispatch.
Eitel and his wife say the story
is untrue. They admitted that the
princess testified about a month
ago at the hearing of the divorce
case brought by the Baroness Plet-
tenberg, in which she is named as
correspondent, but declares that
her testimony was exactly opposed
to that ascribed to her. All di-
vorce cases in Germany are heard
in private.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
JUDGE RETURNS
T0P0ST AFTER
DEMAND TO QUIT

Okamulgee, Okla, March 13.-(By
the Associated Press Judge H. r.
Christopher of the Okmulgee county
superior court was here today to
resume his seat on the bench, hav-
ing returned late yesterday from
Chicago, where he went from Coyle,
Okla, exactly a month ago.
The judge left town because of
agitation resulting from his course
in dismissing a jury investigating
the Bank of Commerce here.
In a published statement at tho
time of his departure Judge Chris
topher declared that he dismissed
the grand jury when convinced il
was not able to conduct a fair in
vestigation of the banks affairs.
Those who criticized him contendef
that the grand jury at the time of
its dismissal was about to return
indictments against prominent
state officials. A new grand jury
recently began investigation of the
bank.
The dissolving of the grand jury
aroused a demonstration of pro-
test here and the judges resigna-
tion was requested. This, he for
warded on Feb. 13, from Coyle, to
a local attorney and the same day
disappeared.
1t was almost two weeks before it
was learned by relatives that ne
was in Chicago, and Governor J. B.
A. Robertson wrote to him there,
declining to accept his resignation.
The judge then announced that he
would return here as soon as he re-
covered from an attack of infIuen-
"a
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
SOUTH AFRICAN
REVOLT TRACED
TOFOREICNERS

Pretoria, Union of South Africa,
March 13.-(By the Associated
Press. Government forces are
Proceeding with great success
against the revolutionists. accord
ing to an official communique is
sued today. The statement says:
The total number of prisoners
aken in the operations in the CEN
Ial area is 2,200. Our forces oc-
Supied with but slight casualties
"e high ground around Westcllffe.
In the eastern area Major Gen
erai Van Deventer's troops forced
ne revolutionarieS to retire into
nenonL In the western area our
torees reached Krugersdorp (22
1iies northwest of Johannesburg) !.
saa are now pushing eastward. We
asVe occupied Rietfontein lin Brit
al Bachuansland)."
london, March l3.-(By the As
socated Press. AN agency dis
patcn from Johannesburg this aft
eernoon says:
, through the capture of spies
a1d documents it was learned that
e money for the red revolution
ne from abroad. 1t is expected
peace will soon be restored"
II Is believed in official circles,
s message states, that there will
auhue to be small setbacks, such
he loss of isolated posts. but as
.SSdruS the rpneral result little
0oubt is felt
a., neavy casualties have been in
Siaed M on the revolut.onaries. in ad-
ssnoh soh 70 the capture Of more than
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
Rhine ARMY
DEFAULT AS
VOTE ISSUE
Democrats Insist Delegate
at Allied Table Would
Have Saved Trouble.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Copyright, 1922, by The Argus

NOpyl l6AIf 1C-Gs ny uC al uS-J
Washington, March 13.-The
United States government declines
to believe that the allies will ig-
more the claim of $241 ,OOO,OO for
the expenses of the American army
Of occupation in Germany. Secre-
ary Hughes insists that by every
legal and moral right arising from
the arnistice agreement itself, as
we'll as subsequent treaty rela-
tiORships between the United States
and Germany, the claim is abso-
lutely valid.
AS TO whether the allies will give
America her share of the German
reparation money at this time or
merely will recognize America S
contention and defer payment along
with other obligations arising out
Of the war, that's quite another
question. The impression is given
out in official quarters that the
United States, with all its wealth,
is not going to bedevil distressed
Europe for the payment of that
$241 900 900, but is, on the other
hand, going to make sure that some
other government doesn't acquire
sAl,000,O00 which doesn't belong
TO IL
Although the controversy which
has arisen has in it all the potenti-
alities of a fuIl-fiedged controver-
Er ri -, nvfa q xxyith 20
unsolved dispute over mandates,
the disposition of the American
government is to pour oil on the
troubled waters. No effort will be
made to revive old questions or to
allow the discussion to grow embit-
tered.
Some Unpleasant Facts.
But certain facts are neverthe-
less coming to the surface which
state department officials are none
too happy to face. For they are
not responsible for the failure of
the United States to ratify the Yer
sailles treaty, either with or with
out reservations. The department
Of state is endeavoring to make the
best it can out of the legal mess in
which the United States was plung-
ed by the inaction of the United
States senate on the Versailles
treaty.
Mr.. Hughes holds the view that
the separate treaty between Ger
many and the United States gives
this government all the benefits
which it would have derived out of
the Versailles treaty. Dispatches
from abroad to the effect that the
allies have been expecting negotia-
tons to confirm Americas rights
under the Berlin separate treaty
seem TO have no effect here. If
such conversations did take place
at one time and were dropped, the
implication now is that they will
not be renewed and that Mr..
Hughes believes Americas is legal
ly at least firmly secured by the
terms OF Germany's grant to Amer
lea in the last treaty.
Although officials discuss tenn
perately the reported unwilling
Continued on Page Two.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
HARDING LIKES
HUGHES LETTER
TO DEM LEADER

Fort Pierce, Fla, March 13.-(By
the Associated Press. president
Harding expects to conclude his va
cation and leave st. Augustine on
Friday, for Washington, he init
mated today to newspaper men.
Fort Pierce, Fla, March 13.-
(By the Associated Press. )-Presi-
dent Harding had planned another
brief interruption of his houseboat
cruise today for game Of golf at
Verna, IA miles from here. Spend
ing the night aboard the craft at
anchor in the Indian river. the
president had arranged to make an
early landing here and motor
down to the golf course.
Continuing their leisurely cruise
down the coast yesterday the pres
ident and his party spent all day
aboard the houseboat, which made
only a brief stop at Rock Ledge,
where mail and newspapers were
waiting. 1t was not known today
how far south the president plans
TO go, but some OF the members of
the party are urging him to con-
tinue beyond the middle of the
week, the time originally set for
st. Augustine. The decision "
believed to depend on weather con-
ditions which have been ideal so
far. as well as developments at
Washington.
To a group of neswpaper men as
sembled on the pier at Rockledge,
Mr.. Harding yesterday expressed
his approval of the letter of Sec
retary Hughes to Senator Under
wood on the ''four-power Pacific
treaty.
That's fine; I'm glad he did it"
the president said when they in
formed him of the substance OF the
letter as carried in news dispatches
from Washington
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
LIKENESS TO DEAD
CHILD WINS POOR
GIRL A RICH HOME

Chicago, March IS. - Victoria
Klensy is 16 years old and modern
Cinderella. Last Thursday she left
her South Chicago home with the
threat of a beating from her father
if she returned without a job, ac-
cording to the story told Mrs.
Helene Danek, president of the
Woman's Protective association
Then Mrs. Danek thought of the
home of a north side banker whose
daughter died three years ago and
she also noted a similarity in the
features of the two girls.
The banker and his wife were
summoned by Mrs. Danek. This
morning Miss Klensy was wearing
the slippers and charming dress
brought from a chest that for three
years had been unopened.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
BROKEN wheel
CAUSES DEATH
SEVEN ON ROAD

Atlanta, Ga, March 13.-Al1 of
the 16 persons injured in the derail-
ment and destruction of an Atlanta,
Birmingham & Atlantic passenger
coach of a train enroute to Fitz-
gerald, at Camp Creek, early on
Sunday, were pronounced out of
danger today and arrangements were
being completed for burial OF the
seven persons killed.
The coach was sent crashing
from a trestle into the shallow
creek so feet below. all of the
killed meeting instant death. A
broken wheel caused the wreck.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-13
REsISTS ARREST. DEAD.

Marshalltown, Iowa, March 13.-
One man was killed and another
was seriously wounded by police
here late last night. The men were
fred upon In the railroad yards
when they resisted arrest The
identity of the men had not been
established early today, but police
say they were members Of party
of boxcar thieves.