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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
PASSING IS
SUDDEN and
UNEXPECTED
Result of Fall on Ship.
board; Actress Was
so Years Old.

Pittsburgh, Pa, June 6.-(By the
Associated Press) Russell
(Ars. Alexander P Moore), bright
star of American comic opera for
three decades, and internationally
known as a professional beauty,
who died at 2:20 o'clock this morn
ing, had been i'll several weeks fol-
lowing d ship-board accident while
returning from Europe. Her death
was unexpected, as her physicians
two days ago announced that she
had passed the crisis and would re-
cover.
Mrs. Moore, who was the wife of
Alexander P Moore, publisher of
the Pittsburgh Leader, later suffer
ed relapse and yesterday after
noon was so i'll that members of
the family were summoned to the
bedside.
Failing Health Kept Secret.
The accident, which her physi-
clans said was the primary cause
of her illness and death, occurred
when she was violently thrown on
the ship during a storm. The eff
fleets OF the injury were not i'm
lmediately serious, nevertheless,
and although she steadily failed in
health after her arrival home, even
those most closely associated with
her were not aware of the decline.
Mrs. Moores trip to Europe was
undertaken at the request of Sec
| Of I oil
pose of making an intensive study
among prospective emigrants to the
United States.
Mrs. Moore, who was known
throughout the country for her in
terest in civic matters, was IN
great demand as "a public speaker
and only a short time prior to her
death filled u number of such en-
gagements.
Was Leader OF Women.
She was actively interested in
civic affairs in this city and was d
leader in women's movements.
In addition to her husband, there
we're present at her bedside during
her last moments, her daughter
Mrs Dorothy Calbit, and her niece
Mrs. Mildred A. Martin. She is al
SO survived by her two sisters, Mrs
Suzanne Westford Allen, of New
York City, and Mrs. Hattie Leon
ard Colburn, of Schenectady, n. Y,
The funeral Will probably be held
on Thursday at Trinity church
with burial in this city.
Funeral services will be held III
| Trinity Protestant Episcopal church
4 on Thursday afternoon. The body
will then be placed in a vault until
suitable mausoleum can be erect
ed by her husband.
Born in Clinton, Iowa.
Chicago, June 6.-It was in Chi
cago that Lillian Russell laid the
/ foundation of what became spec
1cular stage career.
One of eight children, she was
Continued on Page Fifteen.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
CLAIM BRITON
PERFECTS NEW
AIR MACHINE
Truentor Won't Ad-
nit Helicopter Is
Success.

London, June 6.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press )-Louis Brennan, IN
an interview with the Evening
News today. said reports appearing
in other English newspapers re-
garding the success of the invent
or's helicopter were unfounded.
The simple truth is that the ma
chine has not been out Of its shed,
he was quoted as saying.
I'VE can not tell from expert
ments with the model" he said
whether the full size machine will
answer the conditions. My big ma
chine will not be tested until
autumn"
Dream Of Decades.
London, June 6.-(By the Asso
ciated Press) A successful hell
copter, dream of aviation expert
ments for decades, has been de
vised by Louis Brennan, with the
aid of the British government, &C
cording to the Pail Mall Gazette
Mr.. Brennan is the inventor of the
Brennan torpedo and the gyro-
scopic monorail.
1t is claimed the new helicoptei
can rise from and land on a small
roof, hover stationary in the air
rise to a height of 1000 feet ana
fly go miles an hour. All these re-
quirements were to have beer
fixed by the British air ministry
which was preparing to offer fol
their fulfillment a prize of $4,000
pounds sterling.
Built in Secrecy,
The newspaper states that the,
all have been met by Brennan:
machine. Constructions was begun
more than a year ago behind heav
! lily barred doors, and each of tbs
limited number of assistants wa!
sworn to secrecy.
/ The newspaper predicts that the
helicopter will bring flying int
everyday business and social life.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
SLASH $50, ,000, 600 MORE OFF RAIL Pa
Lillian Russell, Stage Star Thirty Years, Die
Is Baby Carriage q Common
Carrier? Judge Rules 1t Is
When 1t Transports Liquor

been requisitioned to replace the
one that usually is occupied for
that purpose. She tried her best to
account for the substitution of the
half boys" for one perfectly good
baby. But the court pronounced
her guilty and inflicted theF penalty
usually attached for transporting
illicit whisky in a common car
rier.
Lawyer Is "Amazed."
Eva had a lawyer on hand. He
profesSed to be amazed at Judge
McReynolds' decision, declaring
that there was "a limit to all
things" and that to call a baby
carriage a common carrier was a
direct assault on the sanctity OF
one of the most necessary house
hold appliances" He demanded
that 'the perambulating cradle oi
the nation be protected and ar
gued as great detail that it was
especially designed for individual
use and rarely was used "on in
terestate journeys"
The court declined to be con-
vinced, holding this was a freight
and not passenger transaction
The original sentence, of 80 days in
the workhouse and a fine of $10L
was directed to stand. Eva went
back to Jail but her attorney insist
ed that he was not through.
I'VE will roll that baby carriage
into a higher court and prove thai
it was not a common carrier and
so Eva will eventually go free,
was his final word.
But Judge Sam is studying his
law books and says he can defend
his decision if called on to do so.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
LAWYERS IN
SMALL CASE
NEAR CLASH
Foresee Row in Attempt
to Probe Loss of
Records.

Waukegan, Ill, June 6.-(By the
Associated Press) Judge Claire
c. Edwards took over the examin-
alton of witnesses in the trial of
Governor Len Small this after
noon, calling officials of the gov
ernOr's bank at Kankakee, after
the prosecution declared the wit
nesses were hostile and it would
not vouch for their testimony.
Roy E. Taylor, assistant cashier
of the First Trust 6, Savings bank,
was the first witness called by the
court. After a few questions about
records of the bank which were
not produced in compliance with
state subpoena, the court turned
the witness over to James H. VIII
derson, assistant attorney general,
for cross-examination
Waukegan, Ill, June 6.-(By the
Associated Press)-A bitter fight
between the prosecution and attor-
news defending Governor Len
Small, charged with conspiring to
defraud the state of interest due II
on public funds, loomed today
when the state attempts to find out
what became of certain records oi
the governors bank and a banB
owned by his co-defendant, Vernon
Curtis, and also whaY was in the
missing papers.
The cashier of the First Trust &
Savings bank of Kankakee, OF whlcf
the governor is president, has al
ready testified in preliminary hear
Iings that records dealing with tht
governors personal account IN th'
bank prior to last November haV'
disappeared and cannot be found
The cashier of the Grant Pari
Trust & Savings bank, one OF th'
Curtis institutions, testified at tn
same investigation that Janlto1
who has since died, inadvertentl,
burned up some of the banks rec
iords last year, and among them wa
the papers sought by the state
Defense Continues Argument
| The argument of late yesterday
when the defense sought to bloc
! the states efforts to go into the MS
tory of the disappearance OF tn
i documents again, this time befor
The iurv trying the governor, viii b
resumed this morning when C. {
tLeForgee,-chief of counsel lor IN
/ governor, cites authorities IN sup
iport of his stand
Judge C. c. Edwards Indicate
Yesterday that ne would call officer
| of the two banks as witnesses OF IN
court, in accordance with reques
of the state, but he reserved tna
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
DIPLOMATS
ARE FLAYED
BY WATSON
Indiana Senator Raps
Speeches of Foreign
ENJOYS.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
Washington, D. c., June 6.-Sen-
ator James Watson of Indiana, Re
publican leader and mouthpiece of
President Harding in the upper
house of congress, has stirred up
the diplomatic corps and given the
department of state delicate prob
LEM to solve.
The Indiana senator's speech
criticising the diplomatic repre-
sentatives of foreign governments
for making addresses relating TO
the tariff on the ground that they
were assuming to dictate to an
American legislative body through
public opinion is no casual affair.
Under the usual rules of procedure,
the department of state cannot
help taking cognizance of the
charges made by an American SEN
ator and if his charges are well
founded the recall of the d1plo-
mats must be asked.
But nobody supposes for a min
ute that the department of state Will
do any such thing. Ohclally the
department will take absolutely no
COSllZdICS OL the SpCSSA am "AAA
go along as ii il had not been made.
This is the only course that Will
save it from embarrassment. And
as for the foreign diplomats they
will undoubtedly take the hint and
avoid assuming responsibility Tor
their own utterances by submit
ting their speeches to the depart
.ment of state.
They're Hard to Muzzle.
It's difficult to muZzle an am
bassador or consul on the subject
of trade and commerce. That's his
paramount thought in peace time
He must keep the subjects of his
own country wko live in the United
/ States constantly advised OF the
new laws or proposed laws. Amer
! lean consuIs and diplomats are
/ doing the same thing abroad-ln-
( forming American citizens of the
possible effects of foreign laws
pending or passed on their own in
! terests. Somew here between proper
advice and improper influence
! there's a line. Heretofore the dip
! Continued on Page Fifteen.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
BY G. F. MILTON, JR-
asolidated press Correspondent

Consolidated Press correspondent l.
Copyright, 1922. by The Argus.l
Chattanooga, Tenn, June 6.-ls
a baby carriage a common carrier
This question is perplexing Judge
Sam d. McReynolds of the Grim
inaI court of Hamilton county. The
judge is diligently seeking the an
swer in his law books because on
it hinges the liberty of Eva McFad-
den, a colored person of 400 pounds
displacement, who played the stei-
lar role in a comedy drama wmch
held the boards at the court house
for an hour today.
Two local plain clothes men sus-
pected that Eva, despite her bulk
entertained concealed bootlegging
proclivities. They paid an uneX-
pected and unannounced visit tc
her home and found her just leaV-
ing. Before her perambulated Z
nice baby carriage. A we'll swad-
died and blanketed form reposed
where children usually do in We
hicles of this sort.
"Lfl Eva7 Is Pinched.
Chattanooga liquor detectives
however, are trained to suspect ev-
erything, even mother love. They
held up Eva and her baby buggy
and leaned down to examine the
mite of humanity which seemed tC
be there. They unrolled the outer
blanket and found-not a baby but
several half boys" of moonshine
So Eva, her baby" and her baby
carriage were taken into custody
and were placed on trial.
Eva took the stand in her owT
defense after a double chair haL
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
RUNS AMUCK IN
HOTEL With GUN
william Gibson, 32, Wounds Pro-
prietor, Then Shoots Self;
Expected to Die.

Clinton, Iowa, June 6.-Running
lamuck in the Revere hotel here
this afternoon, William Gibson, 80,
fired four shots at random, sent a
bullet along the skull of Proprietor
Jerry Cahill and then turned the
gun on himself The bullet en-
tered through his right eye and he
was taken to a local hospital in
what is believed TO be a dying con-
dition. Mr.. Cahill is not believed
to be in a critical condition.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
HUSBAND SERVES
ON JURY GIVING
WIFE A DIVORCE

Atlanta, Ga, June 6.-The nov
lei experience of a husband
serving on a jury that granted
us wife a divorce has just been
Brought to light here in the case
Iet Mrs. Sara Myrtice Almand,
VINO was granted a divorce from
ALBERT Irwin Almand, several
nonths ago. Mrs. Almand did
not attend the hearing, the di-
lsorce being granted on deposi-
leons taken in Newark, n. j.,
Where she now resides. The
leause of her petition was not
Earned.
/ The decree is valid. according
II the lawyers in the case.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
WOMAN KILLED
IN AUTO SMASH
Mrs. Oscar G. Pfeifer, 24, Rock
Falls. Dies OF Injuries After
Machine Turns Over.

Centralia, Ill, June 6.-Mrs, Os-
car G. Pfeifer, "a, of Rock Falls,
H., died today from injuries sus-
tanned when an automobile driven
by her husband, skidded and over
turned, five miles north Of here.
Mr.. Pfeifer is expected to recover.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
z SOLDIERS DIE
IN TRUCK CRASH
Two Others Fatally Hurt When
Machine Carrying 10 Men
Goes Over Embankment.

Baltimore, Md, June 6.-Two SOL
diers were instantly killed, two suf-
fered injuries physicians believe
will result fatally and six others
were less seriously hurt, when a
truck carrying ten soldiers from
Camp Holabird bound for Buffalo,
went over an embankment near
Westminstsx. Md today.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
BUILDING TRADE
WAR IS NEAR END
Reports Say Nader VIII Resign
and All Unions VIII Accept
Lands Award.

Chicago, June >6.-Peace in Chi
cago's strife-torn building trades
situation was predicted today with
reports that Fred Nader; indicted
president of the Building Trades
Council, had agreed to resign and
that all of the building trades un-
ions would accept the Lands
award.
These developments, it was said,
cleared the way to unhampered
completion of building projects
amounting to 100000.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
U. U.S.-FRANCETO
CONFER ON DEBS
Paris Foreign Office Is Told Amer
lea Is Ready Now to Discuss
Question.

Paris, June 6.-(By the Associat-
ed Press. The French foreign OF
ice was informed this afternoon
that the United States was ready
now to discuss the war debts ques-
uon. The ministry of finance aft
erwards stated that the French
mission was ready to start for the
united States as soon as Premier
Foincare gave the word.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
MANY KILLED AS
BUILDINGS FALL
Three Ancient Structures In Polish
City Collapse. Buryfng Scores
in the Debris.

Lemberg, Poland, June 6.-tBy
the Associated Press More than
40 persons were buried in the deb
ris and many were killed today
when two ancient 3-story buildings
collapsed. The buildings are be-
Iieyed to have been shaken down
by vibrations caused from pass
ing motor truck.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
LETTERS PRAISE
PEGGY BEAL FOB
CRAFTSMANSHIP

Kansas City, Mo, June G.
Letters Of sympathy and praise
for her courage and good mark
manship" were received late last
night by Miss Peggy Marie Beal,
as she lay on a hospital bed
suffering from a self-infiicted
wound sustained early Saturday
after she had shot and killed
Frank ". Anderson, department
store welfare director, in q no
tel here. One of the letters was
signed by a local doctor and his
wife, and another by a local
nurse.
Miss Beal was on the road to
recovery, hospital attendants
said.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
ASKS CONGRESS
FOR TAX REFUND
Harding Seeks Deficiency ApprOp.
ration for Illegal Collection
During Year.

Washington, June president
Harding asked congress today for
a deficiency appropriation of s2S,-
122,500, for refunding taxes illegal
l. collected during the fiscal year
7Juna 20. 1921.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
Cement GROUP
TO BE RETIRED
Justice Department Decides on
@YigOrOus Prosecutions" Case
in Chicago, June 15.

Washington, June 6-Retrial of
the eastern group of the so-called
cement cases will be undertaken
as speedily as possible, the depart
ment of justice announced today.
The departments announcement
said that at a conference between
Attorney-GeneraI Daugherty and
Colonel William Hayward, q. S.
attorney for the southern district
of New York, who came to Wash
ington for the purpose, decision
was reached for vigorous prosecu-
ton of the cement case and other
antitrust cases in the New York
district
The case against the central
group in the cement combination
will come to trial in Chicago on
June Is, the department said. add
ing that a third case on a civil bill
is awaiting action in Denver.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06
THE WEATHER

Generally fair and continued
warm tonight and Wednesday.
Highest temperatuIG yesterday,
50; lowest last night, 64.
Wind velocity at m, mlIes
per hour.
Precipitation, none.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06

River stage at a III, OF q IaI-
of . last "a hours.
Sunset today, 1885; sunrise TO-
morrow, 4:2S.
River Forecast.
The Mississippi river from below
Dubuque to Muscaune VIII fall
slowly during the next few hours
ANDREW HAMR1Ck.
MeteorQlngiste
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-06

JAP CABINET QUITS
Toxic, Japan, June 6.-The cabi-
ne of Premiars sIskahashis resigned,
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New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Radio Telephone Conversation
Test To Be Made With Train
College Students OH LacAa~anna Special Will BE
Entertained With Broadcast Music and Talk to
Friends Here While Train Is Running

An important public radio telephone
test will be made upon a train in mo-
ton on Wednesday next when the
Lacllawanna Railroad takes up again
the experimentation which was tenn
porariy suspended during the war
The test will be made on the Cornell
Special while en- route from Ithaca to
this city with students on their spring
recess.
The running timc of the train is
SIX hours and thrty-hyc minutes and
the tests viii continue throughout this
period. The train leaves Ithaca al
1886 aoon. The test is extremely i'm
po,tant because it. completes the last
link in which wireless telephony for
conve rsa tional purposes can be used
with different types OF transportation.
The government is already engaged in
making simultaneous two way CONVEX
satiou tests with airplanes. and the
Bell System is experimenting in q SINH
lar way with the steamship America,
At the present time conversation
from the train is limited to I great
extent through the impossibility Of
getting 4 transmitting set with suni~
cient power to cover long distances.
AS it is, however, it is expected that
in the tests Wednesday considers b le
distances Will be covered, and radio
fans in the vicinity of the railroad
along the route will be able to listen
TO the experiments.
A specially sensitive receiving set
will be installed upon the train, which
will include an amplifier and loud
speaker of the latest type 1t is ex-
pected that the passengers viii be
entertained with thc programs broad
cast from Pittsburgh, Schenectady and
Newark throughout the trip.
In connection with the tests, the fol
lowing statement was ISSUED by the
officials Of the Lackawanna:
THE set which will be used will be
operated by two young radio experts.
David W. Richardson, Of Princeton Uni
versity, and G. Donald Murray, of 66
West Thirty eighth Street, New YORK
City, both Of whom were in charge OF
the radio station 3-DH of Princeton
University one of the stations success
ful last December in transmitting wire
less messages across the Atlantic to
Ardrossan, Scotland.
while under normal conditions il
would be difficult to have a small trans
mtting set CT any efficiency, particu-
larly On moving train with its limited
antenna conditions, it is believed that
these two experts with the previous
experience of the Lackawanna in radio
will produce very interesting results.
"Radio enthusiasts who consid er
themselves within proper range on date
Of above test, will have an opportunity
Of receiving some of the messages sent
by students to their friends or rcla-
tives residing in the vicinity Of New
York City and knowing at the same
IL. J. IL, II.
ration of the wireless telephone on
railroad trains, which will doubtless
speedily develop in the near future.
"The Lackawanna installed wireless
telegraph service at Hoboken, n. j.
Scranton, Pa, and Binghamton, n. Y,
during the fall and winter of 1918. The
installations consisted of standard ap-
paratus, wave length 1,600 meters. No
difficulty was experienced in maintain
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Radio Bootleggggers Reap Rich
Harvest Selling Illegal Tubes
Factories ''Somewhere in Jersey" Manufacturing
Unauthorized Vacuum Tubes, Which Their
Bootleg Statesmen Peddle in Streets

but there are some bootleggers who are
cutting of telephones and selling them
to purchasers who cannot obtain head
sets IN the radio stores.
This Wanton thievery is undoubtedly
very serious problem TO the telc
phone company-the more so because
the telephones are absolutely useless
to the radio fan. They are constructed
for an entirely different purpose than
the radio head set and have not "a
sufficient number Of turns in the coils
about the permanent magnet inside
them.
In this respect n very interesting
cablegram was sent to this paper from
France last week. The French govern
ment has just permitted the general
public to use radio receiving and small
trans hitting sets. as result of the
interest caused by The successful trans
Atlantic communication tests conduct
ed by the amateurs Of this country.
The result has been such a tre-
mendous demand by the general public
that the manufacturers have been
flooded with orders, Just as they are in
this country. and supplies are difficult
to obtain. The cablegram stated that
the raids on the telephone pay station
booths had been SO great in Paris
and other French cities that the gov
ernment had sent out a general alarm
circular warning station operators
and merchants to be on the alert The
impetus in France has been given
momentum since the government sta
tion on the Eiffel Tower commenced
sending out broadcast concerts and
news reports
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Naval Militia Starts a
New Radio Division
Includes New School Aboard
Battleship Illinois, With
Latest Radio Sets

A special naval signal and radio
corps is being recruited by the State
Naval Militia for service on the battle
ship illinois, which is now the home of
the 1st Battalion, at the foot of West
Ninety y-seventh Street. In connect Oh
with this corps a radio school was
opened on board the battleship yes
terday, according to an announcement
by Captain William Bell Wait, com
mander Of the battalion.
II is planned to enroll radio divi-
sion to enable the men to become thor
oughly proficient before the annual two
weeks cruise to Bermuda this summer.
The radio course will be conducted
by Lieutenant Commander Earl Far
we'll, who during the war was connected
with the naval radio and signal corps.
Drills viii be held Monday evenings,
although recruits will be permitted to
study and use the radio instruments
during other evenings for practice
work.
On the opening night Of the radio
school a general wireless concert will
be given on board the U. S. S. Illinois
to members Of the battal lion and their
friends. Amplifers are now being in
stalled for the concert and a demon
stration will be given Monday night by
Commander Farwell and Captain Wait
The L. S. S. Illinois recently replaced
the frigate Granite State, which burned
last May at her berth, Ninety seventh
Street and North River. The Granite
State was the home of the 1st Bat
talon, Naval Militia, New York, for
twenty wears