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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
Business Topics.

Philadelphia, Feb. 3-A large
number of commercial and bust
ness structures are planned for
erection this spring. The demand
for additional housing for bust
ness enterprises is regarded here as
an excellent indication of the bet
terment of business conditions.
Cleveland, Feb. 3.-The plants OF
the American Ship Building Com
pany here and at Lorraine and Buff
falo are busy on repair work nec9s-
STATED by the recent big storm and
will remain thus occupied until
spring. No new Construction is
under way.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

tention of pig iron makers and con-
sumers as supply of iron on hand
is short and any squirt OF buying
might develop a shortage.
COLLARS.
Troy, N. Y, Feb. 3.-The new
collar being put. out by Corliss
Coon company is neither soft nor
laundered. Dealers, it is said, are
buying it freely, although deliver
les may be subject to delay.
CLOTHING.
Seattle, Feb. 3.-Clothfng dealers
report trade extremely dull in all
lines One large retailer has been
compelled to settle with his cred
itors at 40 cents on the dollar.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
GIRL GOT
$4,000 GIFT FROM
BROKER, SAYS WIFE
Mrs. Norman R. Sterne'S
Counsel Introduces Bank Ac-
count of Helen r. Meyers.

One of the exhibits in the papers
the Queens County Supreme Court,
Long Island City, to-day, by Hildure
Sterne against Norman II. Sterne, up
to six weeks ago the most prominent
resident of the Beechhurst section of
Whitestone, was the bank book Of the
correspondent. The bank book shows
that Helen r. Meyers, formerly a
Winter Garden chorus girl named as
correspondent, deposited $4S, 900 in the
Chatham & Phoenix Bank at Firth
Avenue and 33d Street, Manhattan, in
1921 and Armin Kohn, counsel for
Mrs. Sterne, asserted TO Justice Faw-
cett in open court that he had can
celled checks to show that practically
all the money was presented to Miss
Meyers by Mr.. Sterne.
Mrs. Sterne asks for $500 week
alimony and counsel fees of S2,5OO
and 81 800 additional for legal expen-
ses. Her complaint states that she
was suspicious of her husband for a
considerable time and had watch
placed on him when he left for busl-
ness trip to Europe last year.
He was accompanied, according to
Mrs. Sterne, by Miss Meyers. She
swears they lived together in hotels
in Paris, Bucharest and elsewhere
Sterne came home last month and the
day after his arrival his wife lett MN
and he closed up his Beechhurst home
According TO Mr.. Kohn, Sterne Is
we'll known in theatrical and financial
circles. He was at one time asso-
ciated with Joe LEBLANC, the thedtrl %
cal ticket speculator. When the war
broke out he became President OF the
Trans Oceanic Commercial Corpora
tion. Recently he organized the
Sterne Trading Company to purchase
surplus war materials for the Gov
ernment.
Mr.. Kohn said the demands for ali
mony and counsel fees are reasonable
because Sterne has enjoyed a large
$3.50. 900 from the operations Of the
Sterne Trading Company. Abraham
j. Spiro, appearing as counsel for Mr..
Sterne, entered a general denial OF
the charges of infidelty and specific
denial of the allegation that the de %
fendant is immensely wealthy. Jus
tice Fawcett announced he would ap-
point a referee to ascertain the
financial standing Of the defendant.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
GRANT GAVE HOUSE
TO MRS. P.LYD|G,
STOKES TEST|F|ES
"Would Go Limit to See
Them We'd" He
Declares.

William e. d. Stokes, the elderly
millionaire, whose affairs, marital and
financial. have occupied so much
space In newspapers for years, testi-
fying to-day before Supreme Court
Justice Finch in the suit Of his wife,
Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes. for $T5.-
900 yearly alimony, stated that he
had been willing ito go the limit" in
aiding Mrs. Philip Lydig, a former
wife, to become the wife OF the Rev.
Percy Stickney Grant. rector of
the Church of the Ascension. Mrs.
Lydig had divorced Stokes and when
her engagement to Mr.. Grant was
announced, some months ago, Bishop
William T. Manning refused. on that
account, to sanction the marriage.
Mr.. Stokes made several statements
during the course of this testimony
which Justice Finch at first permit
ted and then ordered stricken from
the record on the motion OF Samuel
Untermyer, Mrs. Stokess counsel
Percy Grant had given Mrs. Lydig
a house at Bedford Hills and they
wanted to get married." Mr.. Stokes
declared. II was eager to help them.
A certain income she had been re-
ceiving had stopped.
Samuel Untermyer jumped to his
feet in anger as he vigorously pro-
tested against the remarks of the wit
ness.
"If this man is not stopped he will
drag everybody on earth into the
mud" shouted Mr.. Untermyer as he
asked that Stokes's statement be
stricken from the record.
81 don't think so," Justice Finch
calmly replied. LET the witness
| complete his answer
She appealed TO me for the sake
of our son." continued the witness,
"that I help her get &25, 900 to pay
Mr.. Grant and also to pay for i'm
provements she had made on the
house in Mr.. Grants name. told her
would go the limit so she could
marry the minister.
Mr.. Untermyer again asked that
Stokes's remarks be stricken out on
the ground that they were maliciously
false. I. Gainsburg, counsel for
Stokes, declared the testimony was
the truth and added that Mrs. Lydig
knew what evidence would be pro-
duced against her and that was
the reason she refused to be cross
examined,
81 shall prove that Mrs. Lydig is a
1
| Mr. Untermyer.
Justice Finch granted his motion TO
have Stokes's testimony stricken from
| the record,
But I do not think the statement
was made with any malicious in
tent declared the court. at was
his explanation of why she wanted
the s25, OOO."
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
j. s. TRADE BOARD
FILES COMPLAINT
ON STEEL COMBINE
Commission Calls Bethlehem
Lackawanna Merger Trust
Inquire Into Midvale Group.

WASHINGTON. June 5.-The
Federal Trade Commission has issued
a formal complaint against the Beth
lehem Steel Corporation and the
Lackawanna Steel Company. charg-
ing they have been and are using
unfair methods OF
complaint grows Saste a-.ssses
tss.j is.j sntry rreeted by the two CON-
panies.
AS to the proposed Midvale-Inland-
Republic merger, the commission
stated this probable combination
would be thoroughly investigated.
This proposed merger. the commits
sion said, has not yet reached the
point where it can be charged that it
violates antitrust laws.
A report on the commissions action
was sent to the Senate by Chairman
Nelson B. Gaiskill, in response to the
La Toilette resolution recently passed,
which asked complete information as
to what action the Federal Govern
ment was taking against the com
binations.
"The commission" says the letter
of Gaiskill to the Senate, had con-
siderable information already at han1
with reference to the position Of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation and its
subsidiaries and the Lackawanna Steel
Company and its subsidiaries, and the
relation of each to the other and to
competitive conditions in the steel
market generally.
This information has been sup
plemented by inquiry and research,
with the result that the Federal Trade
Commission upon the information be-
fore it has reason to believe, in the
language of the constituent act, that
the proposed Bethlehem m-Lackawanna
merger when consummated, will con-
stitute an unfair method of competi-
ton in that 1t contains a dangerous
tendency unduly to hinder competition
and to restrain trade and commerce
and that a proceeding by the commits
sion in this respect is in the public
interest
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
SLASHES
WRISTS IN WARD
At ELLIS ISLAND
Swiss Butler to Be Deported
Tomorrow, Authorities
Announce.

August Probst, the young Swiss
butler, formerly employed at the Roll
ing Rock Country Club at Ligonier, u
suburb of Pittsburgh, now awaiting
deportation as an undesirable alien,
slashed both wrists last night In the
psychopathic ward at Ellis Island,
where he il being held until a steamer
takes him back to Europe.
He made several gashes on both
wrists and had bled good deal when
discovered. The implement he used
to cut himself has not yet been found,
1t was said to-day at Ellis Island. All
sharp or pointed objects had been
taken away from him at the time he
was placed in the ward. 1t was only
a short time after he had inflicted the
cuts that his plight was discovered
and surgical attention given to him.
Probst gave testimony before the
Grand Jury which resulted in the
rtcent indictment Of Edmund Leigh
private detective, charging that
Leigh kidnapped him from the club
also that the detective tapped tele-
phone wires leading to the home OF
one of Probst's friends.
Protest was being held as a wit
ness against Leigh, but this afternoon
Assistant District Attorney Schreiber
said he was not necessary in that
capacity and that District Attorney
Banton was willing he should be de-
ported without delay. At Ellis Island
it was said he might be sent back to
Europe tomorrow.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
LENINE REPORTED
AS SERIOUSLY ILL
Physicians Attending Soviet
Leader Say He Had Stroke
but Is Better.

Moscow, June ASSOCIATED Press).
Combination has been obtained OF
the report that Nikolai Lenine, the
Bolshevik Premier. had suffered an
apoplectic stroke. 1t is declared his
condition is serious. but that he is
improving.
The physicians attending Lenine
have issued the following carefully
guarded bulletin:
"At the present moment NJ. Lenine's 3
temperature is normal. He feels bet
ter, and the patient, for whom vas
prescribed absolute rest during the
near future, is now on the road to
fuV recovery"
BERLIN, June 5.-Premier Llnin
who suffered a severe stroke last
week, was reported to-day in des-
patches from Moscow to be "some-
what worse"
Soviet ENJOYS Litvinofr and Radek,
here negotiating extension of the
treaty of Rapallo. have been sum
moned by radio TO return Immediately
TO Moscow.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
WALTER NJ. HOOVER,
DULUTH BOAT CLUB,
FIRST IN CUP RACE
Costello Second, Belyea Third
in Contest for Worlds
Championship.

PHILADELPHIA, June 5.-walter
NJ. Hoover of the Duluth Boat Club
to-day won the Philadelphia gold
challenge cup, emblematic OF the
amateur sculling championship of the
world His time was minutes %
seconds, said to be a worlds record
for the distance IA miles.
Paul V. Costello OF the Vesper Boat
Club, Philadelphia, was second. two
lengths behind Hoover; Hilton Belyea
of st. Johns, n. b., was one foot be-
hind Costello and w. +. Garrett Gil
more, Bachelor Barge Club, last.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
LABOR NOT EXEMPT
IN ANTITRUST LAW,
HIGH COURT RULES
Supreme Tribunal Hands in
Decision in Famous Coro-
nado Strike Case.
EFFECT FAR REACHING.
Unions Face Damages Of
100000 for Loss to
Mine Property.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Labor or
ganizations are not exempt from
prosecution under the Sherman Anti
Trust Law, the Supreme Court an
nounced.
The Court delivered such an opin-
ion in the celebrated Coronado coal
case, one Of the most important pieces
Of labor litigation ever to come before
the Nations highest tribunal.
The court held that labor organiza-
tons can be held liable for property
and other damages caused by the acts
OF members during strikes. The de-
cision was deiive ed by Grief ssSstice
Taft. The case was brought by the
United Mine Workers of America
against the Coronado and other coal
companies, arising out of the Arkan
sas strikes of 1914.
Chief Justice Taft in delivering the
opinion discussed at length the ques-
ton OF the stability OF the national
and inter- national unions If the un-
ions were responsible for what was
done, pointing out that in common
law unincorporated organizations
could be sued as individuals but
from necessity of existing conditions
1t was utterly impossible of doing
justice otherwise than by holding
labor unions suable.
The fame of the Coronado case"
arose not only from the long period
it remained on the docket but from
it's Importance, involving as 1t did
the question of whether organized
labor as represented in the United
Mine Workers of America could be
prosecuted under the Sherman Anti
Trust law for restraint of interstate
commerce resulting from strikes.
The Coronado and Associated Coal
Companies of Arkansas instituted in
the United States District Court for
Arkansas civil proceedings against
the United Mine Workers to recover
treble damages under the Sherman
Act for property losses suffered by
them during a strike in the Arkansas
coal fields in 1914. The coal companies
alleged that the United Mine Workers
| had unlawfully conspired to suppress
non union competition, and that the
destruction of the property had been
resorted to with attendant restraint of
interstate commerce to accomplish
that end
The decision of the court dismiss
ing the suit was set aside by the
United States Circuit Court Of Ap-
peals for the Eighth Circuit, and in
the same court, on second trial, be-
fore a different Federal Judge, the
jury found that the destruction of
the mine property was due to a con-
spiracy to prevent the mining of coal
by non-union labor, and had resulted
in a restraint of Interstate Com
| merce.
The jury placed actual damages
of 100000, which were trebled by
| the court under the Sherman Law.
The award. affirmed by the Circuit
Court OF Appeals was brought to the
Supreme Court by the laborr unions
on the ground that being incorpo-
rated they could not be sued.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
ATLANTIC FLYERS
, AT PERNAMBUCO
Reach Brazil Coast After
Many Delays and
Accidents.

PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, June 5
ASSOCIATED Press) The Portuguese
naval aviators, Capts. Sacadura and
Coutinho, arrived here shortly after
noon to-day. havir- hown in their
hydro from Fernando Nor
onha, thus completing their trans
atlantic fight from London.
They started from the Island OF
Fernando Noronha, off the Brazilian
Coast, for Pernambuco, at 7.45 O'Clock
this morning.
Their transatlantic flight had been
interrupted by accidents in April and
early May.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
Harding Assuming A ctiv e
Leadership to Push Subsidy
/ Measure Through.
STAKES ALL ON PLAN.
Executive to Stand or Fall on
Issue of Larger Mer-
chant Marine.
By David Lawrence
Especial Correspondent Of The Eve
ming Worldly

ming Worldly
WASHINGTON, June Copy
right president Harding has come
to a showdown with members of his
party in Congress. He means to keep
Congress in session until a ship sub
sidy bill is passed. Hopes Of adjourn
ment in August. so as to give MEM
bers an opportunity to participate Ia
their own campaigns in September and
October. Erv Ezpidly vanishing " The
President Is IN earnest and will make
the fight of his career for it. II Con-
Rress adjourns without action, a spe-
cial session probably will be called at
once.
Urged by his friends to assume ac-
tive leadership of his party on the
Hrax Bill, tariff and bonus, Mr..
Harding had refrained from taking the
reins. But he is up in arms on the
ship subsidy measure. 1t Is to his
mind a pledge the party must keep.
Just as Mr.. Wilson in his first term
regarded currency reform as para
mount and kept Congress in contin-
uous session all summer until he OBJ
tained action, so is Mr.. Harding con-
Vinced that the major act of his Ad-
= -ministration is to provide a merchant
narine.
Mr.. Harding is willing to Stand or
fall as party leader on the merchant
marine issue. The Nation Is to-day
losing $50, 900, 900 a year in operating
the ships inherited from the war and
the vessels are steadily depreciating
in value and no others are being
built by private shipping companies
10 replace the war fleet. To drag on
this way means, in Mr.. Harding s
Judgment, an absolute failure of the
United States to keep her place on
the seas with a consequent loss to
American industry and commerce of
untold proportions.
The pending bill, which will be re-
ported to the House in ten days, pro-
vides for direct and indirect aid. The
first year II will cost about twenty
million dollars. The annual outlay
will be gradually increased to about
forty-flve million, until at the end OF
zen years approximately two hundred
and fifty millions will be spent. The
Government expects confidently tc
get this sum back through the sale
of ships and through the profits from
private operation.
The private companies will be lin
tied to 10 per cent. in the taking OF
profits and must divide so per cent
of their excess with the Government
to repay the subsidy. The 10 pei
cent. isn't guaranteed, nor are losses
TO be covered by the Government
(Continued on Ninth Page.)
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
WARD ATTORNEYS FIGHT
TO PREVENT WIFE FROM
TELLING STORY TO Jury
Lawyers Ask MorschauSer for
Ruling on Husbands Legal
Rights in Testimony-Mrs.
Ward Ready to Talk.
Slayer Faces Cunningham in
Jail, but Says He Never
Saw Him Before, Despite
Latter's Recognition.

Allen r. Campbell, Of counsel for
Walter s. Ward, went before Justice
Morschauser at White Plains to-day
with District Attorney Weeks to get a
ruling on the controversy between
them as to how far District Attorney
Weeks may go in compelling Mrs.
Beryl Ward TO give testimony regard
ing her husband when she Is sum-
moned before the Supreme Court
Grand jury for May tomorrow. The
Grand Jury deliberations have been
under the supervision Of Justice
Seeger.
Mr.. Weeks was asked II there was
any way of compelling Mrs. Ward to
testify before the Grand Jury.
Let us not anticipate" he said.
"It is a matter of common knowledge
that a wife cannot be compelled to
tell any part of a marital confidence
where no third person was present"
Walter s. Ward motored to White
Plains to-day In the car Of a friend
and went to the Jail where James ].
Cunningham was brought down to the
office for him to look at. The two
men eyed each other for a full minute
and then Ward went out with his
lawyer, Mr.. Campbell. and hurried
away. Sheriff Werner would not say
II there had been mutual recognition
between Ward and the man who has
tried TO make the authorities believe
he knows something more OF the kill
ing Of Clarence Peters than Ward has
told.
With the Sheriff's permission. re-
porters questioned Cunningham, but
he would say nothing more informing
than save your money. boys. Save
your money"
But when he was taken before jus
tice Seeger on a habeas corpus writ
at O'Clock Cunningham told the
story OF the meeting to his lawyer.
Mr.. Mccarthy.
"I knew him as soon as he came
in," said Cunningham. HE was
with Lawyer Brennan and another
lawyer CMr. CampbelD. said to
him Hello, Ward; how are your He
said to me: What do you mean.
never met you before
"'Oh. yes, you have told him.
4 know you well, but perhaps you
don't recognize me with this NOUS
tache.' Then Ward turned TO Bren-
nan and said: 4 don't know this
man at all; let's get out of this, and
they went out"
Mrs. Helen Blanchard, a widow
and a cook and general hoUseworker
OF Hungarian birth, Of No. 20S East
l26th Street, created something of a
stir to-day when she called on DIS
trict Attorney Weeks to tell him she
had seen Walter S. Ward, Clarence
Peters and two other men in an
angry argument on the sidewalk in
front of the Bronx plant Of the Ward
Baking Company at o'clock on the
afternoon of May IL or Is when she
was looking up an opportunity for
employment at Hunts Point.
She described Peters accurately and
said he was shabbiiy dressed, Mr.
Weeks lost interest in her somewhat.
when she said she remembered Peters
because he had come 10 her home in
New York as a representative for
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
VALENTINO is FREED
IN CHARGES OF BIGAMY
insufficient Evidence 10 Hold Him,
Justice Rules.

LOS ANGELES, Cal. June 5.-Ru-
dolph Valentino, screen actor, was
freed of a charge of bigamy here to-
day, when the felony complaint
against him was dismissed after a
preliminary hearing. The Justice of
the Peace RULED there was insufficient
evidence to support the complaint.
Dismissal of the case followed three
days OF testimony concerning the
marriage in MeNicali, Mexico, on May
10, of Valentino and Miss Winifred
De Wolf -Shaunessy- Hudnut and their
honeymoon in Palm Springs, Cal.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
DIDN'T CRY FORE"
AT GOLF, WOMAN
is SUED FOR $4,000

BRIDGEPORT. Conn, June.
Because Mrs. william Meredith
Of Westport failed TO shout fore"
when she struck q golf ball,
Michael Gilbertie. an employee Of
the Westport Golf Course, filed
complaint in Superior Court
here to-day asking $4,000 dam
ages for being struck on the head
GIbcrtie claims Mrs. Meredith
is negligent, reckless. and care
less IN hitting the ball about the
course"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05

County Kerry, with corn and a mixed
cargo, was held up in Tralee Bay by
a British sloop, says a despatch from
Tralee to-day. A large quantity of
ammunition in barrels was seized.
The Seattle Spirit is a steamer of
5,7S3 tons gross, built at Seattle in
'tS19-a United states Shipping Board
vessel. Shipping records show her
to have sailed from New York May
1s, calling at Boston, whence she
sailed May 20 for Cork, Dublin and
Belfast.
The Shipping Board steamer Seat
tie Spirit, reported held up in Tralee
Bay with contraband arms, presum-
ably loaded here, is the second Amer
can vessel to get into trouble over
shipment of arms for Ireland
Just year ago the steamship East
Side was boarded at a pier in Ho-
boken, and 495 machine guns were
seized by the police on the theory
they were being illegally shipped to
Ireland.
The Seattle Spirit, now reported
held up with arms, was in trouble
here less than a month ago over a
cargo of contraband liquor. Customs
inspectors, looking over a cargo of
'pickled herring" she was discharg-
ing, detected a -fish-like odor.
Opening one of the barrels. they found
1t filled with liquor. Further investi-
cation revealed that 149 barrels, sim
ilarly labelled. contained liquor.
Moore & Mccormick, No. Broad
way, are the operators of the Seattle
Spirit. An officer of the firm said
this afternoon that the loading of the
cargo here and in Boston was care
fully inspected.
"The manifest shows" said he,
that the cargo consisted of 2,10O
tons of grain taken on here, and of
quantity of syrup taken on in Boston.
when the ship left here there were
no barrels of anything in her cargo,
Boston Is a hot bed of the Sim Fein.
II ammunition was found 1t was
smuggled on inS Boston by Irish Re-
publican sympathizers with the con-
nivance of members of the crew"
The cargo, said Capt. c. w. Kreig,
Marine Superintendent of the line,
was OF corn in bulk and merchandise
In barrels. boxes and bags, where II
would have been a simple matter for
the crew to conceal considerable guam
titles OF contraband.
Two months ago an attempt tc
smuggle arms into ireland aboard one
OF the lines six vessels was frustrated
by the master of the craft, Capt
Continued on Ninth Page)
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
PINCHOT-PEPPER-REED
CONFERENCE BREAKS UP

WASHINGTON, June 5.-The confer
ence here to-day between Senator Pepper
of Pennsylvania. Major David r. Reed.
Republican nominee to succeed Senator
Grow, ard Clifford Pinchot, Republican
nominee for Governor OF Pennsylvania,
to select a new Republican state Chair
man was declared by one of the con-
ferees to have ended 'in friendly dis
agreement"
The matter will be taken to the meet
ing Of the State Committee Saturday In
Philadelphia. II was said.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-06-05
LIVE WIRE KILLS
TWO BOYS ON BANK
OF "SWIMMIN HOLE"
Lads Swim on Way Home
From Sunday School
Is Fatal.
SIMCOE, Ont. June 5

Albert Patterson and Cyril
johnson. fourteen and fifteen re-
spectively, were electrocuted when
ehey went in the old swimmn'
hole on their way from Sunday
school yesterday.
They grasped a wire that had
been used to illuminate the pond
for skating last winter and were
Instantly killed.
The bodies were found hanging
by their hands from the wire.