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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
MOORE FORGETS
TWO OF WIVES;
TOTAL NOW IS

Indianapolis, Ind, March Is
Two more wives were added today
to the list of matrimonial ventures
of Isaiah Moore, under arrest here
charged with bigamy and embez-
Element.
II have kept a pretty good rec
ord of my marriages and 1 am sure
there are only 49," Moore said.
Moore told the police in an orig
inal list of marriages he had neg
lected to include one at Denver,
Colo, and one at Ridgeway, Md.
He said he could not remember the
names of either of the wives.
81 have always been subject to
severe nervous disorders. Petting
and affection have caused my ner-
vousness. 1 would get tired of one
woman and would desert her. Then
l would feel the need of affection
and get married again" Moore
said.
Moore was bound over to the
grand jury yesterday in the city
court, charged with bigamy and
embezzlement. His bond was set
at 5000,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
CAT REFUSES DIET
OF BABY RODENTS:
ACTS MOTHER ROLE

Bloomington, Ill, March l5.-By
mothering two infant rats with her
own newborn kittens, Susie, a
cat in the blacksmith shop OF Jack
Crawford, breaks down all previous
supposiUons as TO cats.
Last Sunday morning she added
five infant cats to the feline popu-
lation of the world. Soon after
Lou White, a neighbor, thinking to
give Susie a treat, took her TO a
nest where there were five new
born rats.
Instead of making a meal, Susie
started to purr, and laid down and
played with the strangers. How
ever, she remembered her own
waiting children and carried two
of the rats back to her family
home, in d cupboard in the black
smith shop.
Susie and her family were exhib-
tied this morning. She strutted
and purred when complimented on
her unique motherhood, while four
kittens and two infant rats era WI
ed over each other on the floor.
Susie gave her entire family a bath
and carried it back to the cupboard
one by one, and the first one re-
turned was a rat
The two little strangers are
growing fine. says DR.. Crawford
who shares his Susie's pride, and
the rats are now covered with a
coat of gray fuzz which denotes
their true ancestry.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
SOUTH AFRICAN
REBELS CHASED
OUT ALL TOWNS

London, March 15-(By the AS
sociated Press. with all sectors
of the disaffected area in South
Africa cleared of rebels, except GER
tain portions of the johannesburg,
or central region of the Rand, the
struggle apparently has entered its
final phase. Jeppestown, on the
east end of johannesburg, seems to
be the principal remaining center Of
resistance.
Johannesburg, March 15.-(By
the Associated Press. )-Advices
from Fordsburg, timed late yester-
day, report that government infant
ry was then clearing the streets
after the capture of the town from
the rebels. Many prisoners had
been taken, and the remainder were
retiring on the Langlaagte river.
Leaflets were dropped by air
planes warning the women and
children to leave before the town
was bombarded. There was an i'm
mediate response, a steady stream
of refugees proceeding to a special
camp outside the zone of lombard
ment.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
CHICAGO HAS A Fifteen MILLION FIRE
Federal Pr0hib Agents
Fail in Their ATTEMPTS
ToMOp Up Florida Coast

Attorney General Daugherty, who
accompanied President Harding on
his present Florida vacation, has
made preliminary study of the
enforcement situation in this sup
posed wettest of all cities. He and
the president realize the difficult
ties in the way of preventing the
illegal smuggling and traffic in Ii
quor. The Florida coast line is
more than 1,200 miles in length. 1t
is marked by hundreds of sheltered
coves which offer safe haven to
the rum runners. The attorney
general is convinced that it will
take the best efforts of the entire
law department of the United
States to cope with the vioIators of
the dry laws, as revealed in con-
ditions here, and his present trip
has convinced him more than ever
that some change in enforcement
plans must be made.
The wave of prohibition enforce
ment announced for Florida just
as the tourist season was about to
begin did not deter the wealthier
classes of visitors. They guessed
rightly that prices would be high
er than ever on the smuggled Ii
quors, but that they still would be
available The tin can tourists
have not been nearly so numerous
as heretofore.
Old Florida crackers" declare
that real elixir of youth is juice
taken from the shellfish. The boot
legpers insist that the DOtential
elixir comes from Bimeni.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
BY THOMAS WATKINS.

Consolidated Press Correspondent
Miami; Fla, March 15.-Despite
the heroic efforts of the federal pro-
hibition officials to "clean up Flor
ida," this winter, the northern tour
list, in search of the fountain of
youth, has found plenty of that
elixir sometimes known as the
"joie de vivre."
There is no question, however,
but that the announced plans of
the prohibition enforcement people
deferred some visitors who other
wise would have come to this land
of sunshine and liquid enchant-
ment. In any event, there has been
a falling off in visitors this year. By
the same token the steamship lines
to nearby foreign ports have been
remarkably well patronized.
Bootleggers and dry detectives
have had a merry battle ever since
the first of the year Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes sent a veri-
table army of enforcement officers
into the state and their activities
naturally have centered about this
city and Palm Beach, although the
west coast also has reported an
extraordinary number of sleuths at
work
Every device known to the en-
forcement officers has been brought
to play this winter. Airplanes, sub
marine chasers and revenue cutters
have swept the coast and made nu-
merous raids, but the problem in
Florida still is far from solution.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
RECEPTION FOR
NATION HEAD IN
FLORIDA HOTEL

St Augustine, Fla, March 15.--
Arriving here early today by train
from Palm Beach, President Hard
ing and his party planned to make
a final two days stay here before
leaving on Friday for the return
trip to Washington. The president
wound up his houseboat cruise at
Pain Beach yesterday, putting in a
day of golf and other recreation
there before boarding the train for
St Augustine.
Invitations have been accepted by
the president and Mrs. Harding to
be the honor guests at a public re-
ception to be given at the Ponce de
Leon hotel here tonight, for which
about one thousand five hundred
invitations have been sent out. 1t
will be the first public function
they have attended during the vaca-
ton trip.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
DRYS PLACE
CHECK UPON
HOUSE RACE
Carlson, Abbey, McCask.
rim, Wertz Endorsed by
Anti Saloon League.

Chicago, March 15.-The Anti
Saloon league of Illinois, in this
weeks issue of it's organ, the
American Issue, will publish the
list of legislative primary candi-
dates which it endorses or finds
satisfactory.
In the following list of the candi-
dates those found satisfactory to
the league are so designated and
those not especially designated are
given the full endorsement of the
league on the basis of their records.
Further endorsements, to complete
the list, will be published in a lat
er issue.
The list by districts follows:
Third-House: Adelbert B. Rob-
erts, (R.)
Fifth-Senate: James E. McMur-
ray, (RD. House: Charles w. Bald
win (R0.
Seventh-House: Howard P Cas-
tie (R0; Lewis B. Springer, CRD.
Eleventh-Senate: William H.
Cruden, (R-), satisfactory; Perciva1
G. Baldwin (RO, satisfactory; Fred
L. Steers (R-), satisfactory; House:
David 1. Swanson (RD.
hirteenth-Senate: G.. E. Q.
Johnson (R); House: G. A. Dahl
berg (R0; C. A Young.
Eighth-House: Charles H. Fran
els (R0; William F. Weiss (R.) :;
William L. Pierce (R); James M.
Gunthrop (RD.
Tenth-House Charles W. Baker
(R); David Hunter Jr., (R) Duane
C. Stocking R).
Twelfth-House: Joseph L. Mey-
ers (RD; Robert Irwin (R).
ourteenth-House: Ralph H.
Hoar (R); John A. Heron (R) !;
Fred B. Shearer (R).
Sixteenth-House Charles NJ.
Turner (Rl; D. S. Myers, Jr. (R) !;
&c. A. Bruer (R), satisfactory.
Mariner CR).
(R).
Twenty-first-H Anton A.
Skudstad (R); Senate: Frederick
J. Bippus R).
y-second-House Abraham
L. Stanfield (R); Hugh NJ. Luckey
(R), satisfactory; Henry B. Downs
(R), satisfaction Miles S. Odell
(R), satisfactory; Robert W. Ffske
(R), satisfactory; Winston J. Grif-
fifth CD.
ty-third-House William C.
Thon (R).
Twenty-fourth-H Roger F.
Little (R); James A. Reeves (R) !;
Calvin w. Adams (R); Paul d.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
WILD BOAR ENDS
FOOTBALL CAME
IN ALPS; SLAIN

Geneva. March 15.-Winter in the
Swiss Alps has been so severe that
scores of wild boars, wolves and
other animals have been driven to
the towns and lowlands in search
of food The authorities are offer
ing bounties for their death or cap
ture.
Recently several thousand per-
sons at a football match at Besan-
con, near the western frontier,
were thrown into a panic by the
sudden appearance on the field of
a huge tusked boar. Goaded by
hunger, the animal charged the
players and bowled several of them
over. 1t then turned its attention
to the football, apparently mistak-
ing it for something edible.
The boar ran wildly about the
field, making finally for the specta-
tors, who took to their heels. A
gendarme rushed on the field and
ended the animals escapade with
a revolver shot
The boar, which weighed 120
pounds, was later served to the
players and their guests at a ban
quet in the town hall, the referee
meanwhile having declared the
game q draw.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
MADALYNN CRIES
over PROTESTS
IN HER DEFENSE

Los Angeles, March 15.-Another
day of argument today was ahead of
the court where the trial OF Mrs.
Madalynn Obenchain for the killing
of her sweetheart, ]. Belton Ken
nedy, is drawing to close.
Alfred F. Macdonald. junior de-
tense counsel, began placing the de-
fendant's cause to the jury late yes
terday and was ready to resume
when court opened this morning.
He was TO be followed by Judd R.
Rush, senior counsel for the de-
fense, and Asa Keyes, deputy dis
trict attorney. was expected to
make the final argument for the
prosecution tomorrow.
Mrs. Obenchain cried softly when
Mr.. Macdonald addressed the jury,
declaring the states theory that she
was "a woman scorned" had been
disproved.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
RESCUE GUESTS
NEAR DEATH
IN HOTEL FIRE

Reno, New, March 15.-Scores of
guests escaped from upper windows
in their night clothes when the
Riverside hotel, the largest hotel
here, was destroyed by fire early
this morning.
The fire, believed to have started
in the engine room, broke out short
ly after o'clock. The flames
spread quickly and the guests,
aroused by the smoke, found the
stairway cut off. Most of them
were rescued by firemen with lad
ders. The firemen prevented the
flames from spreading to other
buildings, but could not save the
hotel.
Several thrilling rescues were re-
ported, among them that of two
children from a blazing room. The
scantily clad guests were cared for
in surrounding houses.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
BONUS is To
Be SHELvED
FOR A YEAR
Lawrence Says House VIII
Pass Bill, but Senate
Will Not Concur.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Copyright, 1922, 5y The Argus.)
Washington, March 15.-The
house will pass a bonus bill and
the senate will shdve it for this
session at least.
That's the outlook now that the
house ways and mems committee
has received and Ignored the ad-
vice of the secretary of the treas
ury, the comptroller of the cur
rency and the goyernO of the fed
eral reserve board to ae effect that
the bonus bill will be a bad thing
for the economic condition of the
country.
1t doesn't often happen that a
committee so important as the ways
and means committee summons d
secretary of the treasuryof its own
political affiliation and, after lis
tening to his exposition of the
treasury's condition, goes ahead in
exactly the opposite direction. 1t
doesn't happen that a reputation
of the secretary of the treasury is
voiced by a whole body in con-
gress, but that's what is coming &
now. In a parliamentary form of
government it would mean the res
ignatiOn of Mr.. Mellon, but the
house of representatives has pass
ed many a bill that died in the
senate and designations are never
in order here unless the president
himself fails to stand by a cabinet
officer. In this instance the presi-
dent is squarely behind Mr.. Mellon,
and if the senate should follow
the house a veto is certain for the
bonus bill.
But the senate will not ignore
Mr.. Melons advice. Over in the
cloak rooms of the upper house the
word bonus" rarely is spoken. 1t
hangs over the senate like impend-
ing doom Just how the senior
body will handle the question Is
not yet determined, but a tacit un-
derstanding seems to prevail tha.
by one parliamentary maneuver %
another something will delay pas,
sage of the bonus.
Revision Proposed.
II was the senate which last sum
mer blocked the bonus bill and
probably upon more words of warn
ing from the White house the meas
ure will be set aside until the IL
nances of the government are in
better condition. AS for the issue
itself, it is expected to bob up again
in 1924 when the next presidential
primaries are under way. By that
time, however. some Republican
leaders hope to revise the entire
revenue program and to make spe-
cial provision for a fund to pay
the bonus. The revision will be
attempted by means of a sales tax
which Mr.. Harding now openly ia
vors for the soldier bonus. This
commitment to the principle of the
sales tax comes at a time when
revenue laws are not being revised,
Continued on Page Nine.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
SOLDIER BONUS
BILL APPROVED
BY COMMITTEE

Washington March 15-With but
single change from the form in
which it was approved last week by
the ways and means committee ma
jority, the compromise soldiers
bonus bill was ready today for for
NAL presentation to the house It
was approved late yesterday at a
meeting of the entire committee the
vote being 19 to ,, with three Demo
Gratis and two Republicans OppOs-
ing the measure.
The time at which the bill Will
be called up will not be determined,
Chairman Fordney said, until the
return here on Monday of Speaker
GiIlett. who is a guest OF President
Harding in Florida.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
HAVE EHALF JURY
IN THIRD TRIAL
ARBUCKLE CASE

San Francisco, Calf. March IS
With six jurors accepted temporar-
lily, attorneys for state and defense
today resumed tSair efforts to fill
the remaining six seats in the jury
box for the third trial Of Roscoe G.
Fatty" Arbuckle. on manslaugh-
ter charge. growing out of the death
of Miss Virginia Rappe, film ac-
tress.
Indications that the defense was
preparing TO attack the credibility
of some of the states witnesses
were given in questions by defense
counsel as to the weight prospec-
tive jurors would give testimony
offered by witnesses whose truth,
honesty and integrity" had been as
sailed
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
EATS BLOCK
NEAR HEART
OF THE CITY
Burlington Ro ads 81
Story Office Building
Among Wreckage.

Chicago. March 15.-A spectacu-
lar fire early this morning destroy
ed a block of business buildings
just outside the Chicago loop, caus-
ing a property loss estimated be-
tween s12,0O0,00O and Sl5,000,000
The fire started soon after mid
night in the center of the block
bounded by Van Buren,, Canal and
Clinton streets and West Jackson
boulevard, of unknown origin, burn
ed every structure in that area,
leaped north across Jackson and
wrecked the 21-story Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroads gen
eral Office building, which also
houses the Mercantile Trust &
Savings bank, and under burden or
a strong wind, dipped over Van
Buren, street southwark and burn
ed nearly through to Harrison
street
The fire was not brought under
control until nearly o'clock and
even then firemen were fighting a
dozen different fires, and others
broke out intermittentIy as the
wind waited sparks about
One fireman was killed, another
seriously injured, ten or more
slightly hurt and an unknown
number of the thousands of speCta-
tors who thronged the burning dis
trict slightly hurt by falling bricks,
burning timbers or sparks.
IncendiariSm Charged.
The fire for a time threatened to
assume virtually unlimited proper
tions and every piece of freight
ing apparatus within five miles was
called out in a series of 10 alarms.
The rapidfty with which the fire
spread was astounding" Marshal
Buckley, assistant fire chief, said.
1.-The fire actually seemed to run
from US"
That the original blaze from
which the cOnfiagratiOn grew pos
sibly was of iDcendiary origin was
the statement OF Shirley p. High.
city fire attorney, who early today
announced the arrest of an un-
named man on information sup
piled by H. T. Schiff, president of
the Confectionery Speciality com
pany at 521 West Jackson boule-
ward. where the fire started
Mr.. High refused to divulge the
name of the man arrested, but said
that he was being questioned re-
garding threatening letters Mr..
Schfff said the man, former en-
pIoye, had sent him. Mr.. Schif
told Mr.. High the man was ais
charged when he became incensed
over refusal to permit him 70 fcT-
chase stock in the company, and
within the last two months had
made a series of threats. Mr Schiff
placed his personal loss at $4,000.
Mr.. High summoned several or
his aides while the fire was at its
height and said an investigation
would be begun Immediately. He
placed the total loss at from sl0,-
900 900 to $4,000, 900.
Railroads Blocked.
Traversing the main burned area,
the Metropolitan West Side elevat-
(ContiUued on Page Nine.b
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
WISCONSIN TAKES
CEMENT AT OFFER:
BREAKS BOYCOTT

Madison, Wis, March 15.-The
Wisconsin highway commission to-
the entire 100000 barrels of ce-
ment needed to construct the 400
miles of concrete road planned for
the present year, at price of $1.41
net, mill.
This means that the cement boy
colt of eight middle western states,
which held out for lower bids from
cement concerns, is broken, A. R
Hirst, highway engineer, said.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
MINERS NOT
IN FAVOR OF
DAVIS MOVE
Prefer Dealing With Op
orators Rather Than
With Labor Board.

Springfield, ILL.,, March 15.-Dis-
approval of the appointment of a
governmental commission to effect
settlement of the threatened coal
strike April L was expressed in a
telegram sent Secretary of Labor
Davis by President Frank Earring
ton of the Illinois Mine Workers
at noon today.
While promising Secretary of
Labor Davis every support in his
efforts to prevent the nationwide
coal strike, President Harrington
wired that ''as between a wage
scale fixed by governmental COM
mission and one secured by direct
negotiations with the Illinois oper-
ators, we prefer the latter"
Il am directed" he wired the la
Dor secretary, by the executive Of
ficers of district No. II, United
Mine Workers of America, having
jurisdiction over the 10000 union
mine workers in Illinois. to say to
you that we have viewed with sat
isfaction your efforts to bring the
miners and operators in the central
competitive field together in an in
ter-State wage scale conference,
and we approve of your course.
Should the plans for such a con-
ference be consummated through
your good influence, we shall glad
ly do everything in our power to
persuade the Illinois mine opera
tors to participate in the confer
ence.
rh Ia 1a nfrY
plated that failure to agree, after
the miners and operators have
been brought together, shall result
in the appointment of govern
mental commission to make a set
tlement, we shall very vigorously
disapprove of such action, especial
1y should it be contemplated thai
the award made by a commission
should one be created, is to be
made applicable to the mine work
ers of Illinois"
Address to Operators.
The telegram to Rice Miller of
Hillsboro, president of the Illinois
Coal Miners association; w. K.
Kavanaugh of st. Louis, Mo, pres
ident of the Fifth and Ninth dis
tricts Coal Operators association,
and H c. Adams of Chicago, pres
ident of the Central Illinois Coal
Operators association was as fol-
lows:
To-day 1 presented to our dis
trict executive board, your tele-
gram of March 10, in which yon
insisted that l give a definite an
swer to the letter sent me March
1, in which they requested that we
enter into district wage scale ne
gotiations with them as required
by the 32nd section of our state
contract
Our district executive board has
directed me to say to you that in
their opinion President Lewis still
has a lingering hope that the min
ers and operators in the central
competitive field will be brought TO-
gether in wage scale conference
through governmental influence,
and that a four-state agreement
will eventuate therefrom.
Wish to Cooperate.
Naturally we are anxious to CO.
operate with President Lewis to the
end that an Interstate agreement
may be consummated and conse-
quently we do not want TO do any
thing that might hamper him in
his efforts to bring about an inter
state conference. Therefore, we
earnestly urge that the Illinois op-
orators relieve US, at this time, of
the necessity of definitely stating
Continued on Page Seventeen.l
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
WILLS FORTUNE
To THREE D0CS;
FIGHT IN COURT

Chicago, March 1.-two mongrel
puppies and their mother today
scampered around a back yard un-
mindful that they may be heirs to
Sic, 900 and that they are the CEN
has all the requisites of a movie
thriller-the death of an aged wom-
an without direct heirs, two wills,
one of them missing, and the other
said to be Illegal. contest by rela-
tives and a counter-contest on the
part of the dogs by a young attor-
ney who drew up the missing will.
Mrs. Sadie Howard. who died sew
eral days ago, is the benefactor
whose will, or wills, have caused
the contest. Harry Leemon, her
attorney, announced today that he
had drawn up her will some time
ago and that it left the income from
a $4,000 building to the dogs. Rel
atives were given a few small be-
quests.
A few days later, Mr.. Leemon
said, a relative drew up another
will for Mrs. Howard, made himself
the chief beneficiary and cut out the
bequests to the dogs and an orphan
age. Mrs. Howard. according to
Mr.. Leemon, later declared that she
did not want that will to stand. She
told Mr.. Lemon, he said, that the
will he had drawn up should stand
Mr.. Leemon says that the rela-
tive now has the original will nam
ing the dogs and the orphanage as
beneffciaries and that he refuses to
give it up.
81 have a copy of it, however" +"
said Mr. Leemon, land l will go
into the probate court with this
copy, demand an order on the rela-
tive for the original of the will and
ask that 1 be made administrator of
the estate"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
lPOOH-BAH OF TOWN
BALKS AT CHOICE
AS CHICKEN DICK

Peru, Mass, March 15.-'I've
got enough to do. I'll be hanged
II l chase everybody's cows
and chickens, too"
1t was in this wise that
Frank Creamer. "pooh-bah of
Peru" called a halt on the hon
ors being given him at town
meeting. The 19 voters of this
Berkshire town had just elect
ed him as moderator, town
clerk, selectman, treasurer, tax
collector, overseer of the poor,
and. member OF the health
board. Then some one nomi-
mated him for field driver, and
ne called quits.