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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
Success of Arms Meet, With
Resultant Naval Cuts, May
Close Great Lakes Station

trict alone were enlisted in the re-
serve force out of a total of 10000
reservists for the entire country.
Salt water states do not produce
as good sailors for modern fighting
ships as the prairie states of the
middle west, officers here say.
There is no place on a modern S40,-
100000 battleship for the oldfash-
ioned salt water seaman, and the
picturesque tar of the past has Civ
en- way to highly skilled mechanics
whose Ueace time training in mid
die western factories, machine
shops and foundries, fit them for
the specialized service of an cleo
tric-driven and operated floating
fort.
Evans New .Commandant
The original Great Lakes naval
training station cost $5,000,000.
Millions more were spent during
the war on the temporary camps.
At present operations are confined
to the aviation mechanics and radio
schools, naval hospital, district
headquarters and guard duties. Cap
tain w. A Wurtzbaugh, comman-
dant of the station, is also district
commandant He is to be replaced
about April 1 by Captain Waldo
Evans, at present naval governor
of Guam.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02

Great Lakes, ILL.,, March 2.-(By
the Associated Press. 1.-The mid
die west may lose its only big ma
val establishment, the naval train
ing station here, as a result of the
successful conclusion of the dis
armament conference at Washing
ton.
Wreckers already have nearly
completed the destruction of the
vast wartime camps through which
nearly 100000 embryo seamen pass
ed during the years 1917 and 1918,
and now, as a result of the con-
templated reduction in naval forces,
the permanent station may be
abandoned and training concen-
trated on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts.
Officers Oppose.
Abandonment of Great Lakes is
opposed by the officers here because
the middle west furnishes a large
part of the nations naval forces
and the ninth district headquarters
here has more reservists under its
control than any other district in
the country. More-men were train
ed at Great Lakes during the war
than at all other training camps
combined After the armistice 49,
600 former seamen in the ninth dis
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02

enable holders of such certificates
to borrow from any national bank
or trust company incorporated un-
der the laws of any state. SO per
cent of the sum of adjusted service
pay prior to September, 1925. This
date was fixed because after that
time the bill as originally drafted
by the committee providing for a
larger percentage OF loan by the
government has not been changed
by the subcommittee
Generally Approved.
Chairman Fordney said his plan
was expected to meet with general
approval since it enabled the SOL
diers who may be in need to OBJ
tain cash Immediately after the is
suance of certificates, and would
relieve the treasury of any large
cash payment of the enormous re-
funding operations which must be
carried in the next two years, and
would place no additional tax bur
den on the public.
Many details of the proposed
amendment to the bonus bill re-
main to be worked out, Mr.. Ford
ney said.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
3 DRY LEADERS
GET STUCK IN
ILLINOIS MUD
Spend Whole Night in
Auto Trying to Find
CenfroIio.

Centralia, H., March 2-(By the
Associated Press.) = Mud-b!edrag-
gled and heavy-eyed. three of Illi-
nois' most prominent Anti-Saloon
league men pulled themselves into
Centralia early this morning, after
a night lost on the road between
Mt Vernon and Salem, and part of
it spent in 4 ditch.
State Superintendent F. Scott
Mcbride, whose broad shoulders
were undiscovered from attempting
to lift an automobile from the
ditch, reached here just in time to
catch a train to Springfield, to at
tend a conference at which he is
to speak. Former U. S. prohibition
commissioner John Kramer escaped
a similar experience by refusing the
automobile ride, which Mr.. Nc
Bride accepted.
Editor Is Victim.
The other members of the party
that landed in the ditch were o. G.
Illinois edition of The American
Issue" the state anti-saloon official
publication, and John w. Langley,
prominent anti-saloon debater.
These two had appeared in a
joint debate at Mt. Vernon last
night, on the same platform with
Mr.. Mcbride and Mr.. Kramer.
When the meeting was over they
declared they had to make an early
train at Centralia so as to reach
Oregon, ILL.,, for another appearance
tonight. They had hired an automo-
bile and a driver TO take them the
25 miles to Centralia, and having
ample room urged the state super
intendent and the former federal
commissioner to ride with them.
Mr.. Mcbride accepted, as he is due
at a political conference in Spring
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
Washington, March 2.-Senator
Brandegee's reservation to the
four power treaty will be adopted.
1t contains President Harding's ex
act words in the address made the
senate on submitting the pact. To
vote down the reservation may be
construed as an affirmation of the
argument that the four-power
treaty is an alliance and obfigates
America to go to war.
This is the situation a. the debate
on the four-power treaty begins.
Ratification with the Brandegee
reservation seems assured. Without
it, there is danger of defeat for the
treaty. The views of the most of
the senators who advocate the
Brandegee reservation have been
given to this correspondent. To I'M
derstand the reasons which actuate
them, it is necessary to study the
exact text OF the treaty as well as
the reservation which reads as fol-
lows:
THE United States understands
that under the statement in the
preamble or under the terms of this
treaty, there is no commitment to
armed force, no alliance, no obli-
cation to join in any defense"
First, the senators who favor it
make it clear that they do not for
moment question Mr. HardiEg's
Interpretation of the treaty but they
want his Interpretation made a part
of the ratification of the treaty it
self SO that the rest of the world
and future generations will not
misunderstood. At present the in
depreciation is merely an executive
statement and the senate has not
yet uttered its understanding of
the treaty.
If the Brandegee reservation is
adopted by the senate, included in
the instrument of ratification and
exchanged with the other powers
who signed the treaty, and they do
not protest that their understand
ing is different, then the other ma
tions never could claim that the
United States was under "any obli-
CATION to join in any defense of their
rights in relation to their insular
possessions and insular dominions
IN the region of the Pacific ocean"
No Valid Objection.
Senators who take this view point
out that if the treaty without the
reservations means what President
Harding says it does there can be
no valid objection to letting the
treaty say so by means of clari-
fying reservation. The preamble
of the treaty declares that one of
the purposes for which the treaty
is made is the maintenance of
their rights in relation to their in
sular possessions" in the Pacific
ocean. Article two says that ''if
the said rights are threatened by
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
ARREST NEAR in
TAYLOR DEATH?
Motion Picture Actor Mentioned by
Mrs. Rupp May Be Taken by
Police.

Los Angeles, Cal, March 2.-The
six men arrested Tuesday on infor-
nation furnished by Mrs. John
Rupp, their housekeeper, have no
connection with the killing of Viii
liam Desmond Taylor. motion pic
ture director, here Feb. !, II was
announced today by Detective Ser
geant Herman Cline, in charge OF
the investigation.
He said examination of Mrs. Rupp
and investigation convinced the de
tectives that there was no foun-
dation to her statements that they
had threatened the life of Taylor.
Los Angeles. Calf, March q
Officers investigating the killing OF
William Desmond Taylor planned
today still further griiIns OF SIX
men taken into custody here ON
Tuesday, on information supplied
by their housekeepeT. Mrs. John
Rupp. known also as Mrs. May
Lynch.
Mrs. Rupp has made fofmai
statement of 10000 words to the
police, who said they would check
every detail This, they stated.
would involve close questioning OF
the six men, one at a time.
They also had in view, they said,
the possible arrest OF a motion pic
ture actor whose name was brought
into the case by Mrs. Rupp, who
made the general allegation that
the men were bootleggers and drug
peddIers, and that two OF them
threatened Taylor.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
M'bRIDE FACES
LIFE SENTENCE

Elkhorn. Wis, March PRED
Mcbride, alleged slayer of Edwin
Thielen of Racine county, whose
body was found in Miracle Creek,
near Palmyra last December. was
to be arraigned this afternoon in
circuit court before Judge Fritz Of
Milwaukee. sitting in place of E. e.
Belden of Racine. He was expect
ed to enter a plea of guilty and re-
ceive a life sentence in state prison
at Waupun.
Mcbride was brought back from
Ohio last Saturday and is alleged
to have confessed to detective
and two newspaper men that he
committed the crime.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
LANDIS DOESN'T
WANT MAYOR JOB,
HE TELLS FRIEND

Chicago, March 2.-Kenesaw
aountain lands, commissioner
or baseball, who resigned as
FEDERAL judge Tuesday, will not
90 into politics in Chicago. he
mas informed a friend in a let
'ei, II became known today.
/ note what you say about
,ne mayoralty of Chicago" the
.etter states, land | thank you
ior your kindly sentiments, but
Ioht get it into your head that
I nave it in my head ever again
- De Interested in holding a
public Office"
The statement settles the
question which was raised re-
entiy as to whether Mr.. Lands
would consent to become a can
udate in the next mayoralty
ace. His name had been sug-
eested by several admirers as
soon as it became known that
y was about to resign from
the bench.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
FLOOD HITS
GAS PLANT,
DIXON, ILL.
City Faces Fuel Famine;
Rock River Continues
to Rise.

Dixon, H., March AT 1915
this morning great field of ice
east Of the dam and north of big
island, which had not broken up in
the freshets last week, started TO
move out, adding its weight to the
mass lodged against the wagon
bridge.
The Dixon-Oregon road, east of
the city, is under water for a dis
tance of over a mile.
After moving for half an hour
the movement of the ice in the new
field stopped, but not until a dozen
or more boat houses, containing
valuable canoes, launches and row.
boats were almost totally destroy
ed.
At IL o'clock it was announced
that the water above the Galena
avenue wagon bridge had again
risen, a 51a inch rise in an hour
being reported. Between II and
11:20 a. NJ quarter of an inch
fall was reported.
Dixon, ILL.,, March 2.-Water from
gorged Rock river, rising slowly
during the night, flowed into the
fire pits at the city gas plant early
today and stopped further manu-
facture. With less than a days
supply of gas in the holder, the
city faces a complete famine of the
fuel. Many business institutions,
which are dependent on gas for
fuel, including the city's newspa-
pers, may be forced to suspend op-
erations before the day is over.
Ice Gorge Splits.
After midnight there was split
in the gorge here, the wagon and
foot bridge becoming the dead line
of new gorge which now. extends
up the river several miles, while
gradual compact of the ice below
made an open space in the rivers S
surface.
This resulted in a drop of three
inches in the stage of water at the
power dam, which is 500 feet up
stream from the wagon bridge, but
rise of nearly six inches below
the bridge brought the surge which
put the gas plant out of commits
sion.
Officials of the utilities company
stated this morning that it might
be a week or ten days after the
f1ocd subsidies before the gas plant
can be put into condition to oper-
Continued on Page Nine.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
BEGINS HIS
new DUTIES
ON MARCH a
Second Colorado Man and
First Physician to Hold
Cabinet Position.

Washington. March DIR. HUI
bert Work, present first assistant
postmaster general, will succeed
Will II. Hays as head of the post
office department. it was learned
definitely today at the White house
DR.. Work, whose home is in Pu-
eblo, Colo, will take over the post
office portfolio on Saturday, when
the resignation of Mr.. Hays be
comes effective. The nomination
of DR.. Work is expected to be sent
to the senate shortly.
Denver, March DIR. r. Hubert
Work OF Pueblo. who will be ap-
pointed postmaster general by
President Harding, will be the sec
ond Colorado man to hold place
in the cabinet. Henry M. Teller OF
Colorado was appointed secretary
of the interior by President Ar
thur in 1882
DR.. Work is the first member OF
the medical profession to hold a
cabinet Office.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
OSKALOOSA COPS
SAY THEY'VE GOT
TOMMY O'CONNOR

Oskaloosa, Iowa, March q
Local police are holding man
who they say may be the much
wanted Chicago murderer, Tom
my O'ConnOr. The man held
here was taken from Chicago.
Rock Island < Pacific train last
night.
The man held has a scar
above his left eye and he other
wise fits the description of
Tommy O'Connor. sent broad
cast by Chicago police follow
ing his sensational escape from
the Cook county Jail in Chicago
on Dec. II, last.
The man held here refuses to
talk
Among his effects was a cal
endar with the date Dec. IA,
marked. O'Connor was sched-
uled to hang on Dec. Is, for the
murder OF a Chicago policeman,
! The man held here walks with
slight limp. which is said L
have been characteristic Of
OConnor.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
PICKFORD WINS
100000 SUIT
New York Federal Jury Decides
Mary Doesn't Owe Mrs. Will
kenning Anything.

New York, March MARY Pick
ford does not have to pay Mrs.
Cora C. Wilkenning any part of the
s10S,00 which Mrs. Wilkenning
claims was due her as commission
for getting the film star raise to
$4,000 a week. This was the YER
dict of a federal jury, returned last
night and unsealed today before
Federal Judge Mack.
Neither Mary nor her husband,
Douglas Fairbanks, were in court
when the verdict was announced.
Her counsel rushed to the tele-
phone to acquaint her with the
news at her hotel
Counsel for Mrs. Wilkenning filed
notice of an appeal
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
WOMAN TO SIT IN
HOUSE OF LORDS
Petition of Lady RhOndda is Grant
ed by Committee on Privileges
In British Upper Body.

London, March 2.-(By the AS
sociated Press 1.-The petition OF
Lady Rhondda to sit in the house
of lords was granted by the. COM
mittee on privileges of the house
of lords today. If she takes the
seat awarded her by this ruling
she will be the first woman to sit
in the upper house of the British
parliament, as Lady Astor was in
the lower chamber.
Lady Rhondda is daughter of Wis
count Rhondda, Great Britain S
wartime food controller, who died
in 1918 from an illness brought on
by overwork. His only child was
the daughter, wife of Sir Humph-
rey Mac Worth.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
BANDITS GET 4
MAIL POUCHES
AT KANkAKEE
Report 1t Is Register
ed Matter Denied
in Chicago.

Kankakee, III, March -Four
mail pouches, each filled to ca
pacity and believed to contain only
registered mail for this city and
nearby points, were stolen from the
Illinois Central baggage room here
early this morning. The pouches
had been received from a south
bound fast mail train.
Several pouches were thrown
from the train at the north end of
the platform and part of the sacks
were carried to the baggage room,
which was left unlocked while the
baggage man returned to the plat
form for the remaining sacks. Dur
ing his absence, two men, believed
TO have been in hiding, entered the
baggage room and escaped with
four sacks in an automobile.
Postmaster S. J. Jackson was un-
able to give an estimate of the val
ue of the mail contained in the
stolen pouches.
The pouches had been taken from
south-bound train No. 5, from Chi
cago. Two pouches were con-
signed to Kankakee, one to Bloom
ington, Ill, and the fourth was to
be transferred to a Big Four train
for the east.
Taken from Baggage Room.
Phillip Catchett and Peter H.
Smith, local baggagemen, took the
pouches from the train and placed
them in the baggage room, locking
the door after them as they return
ed to the train for the other mail
sacks. they said. When they re-
turned few minutes later the
pouches were missing.
P. Z. Lee, another baggageman,
said he saw two men sitting in an
automobile across the street from
the station Just before the robbery
became known
Local police believe a third man
had entered the baggage room earlier
in the morning, and hiding behind
some baggage, escaped with the
mail when tie two baggagemen left
the room.
Shortly after the robbery, the car
which Lee had seen was reported
speeding east on the Dixie high
way. Police in towns along the
highway have been notified to watch
for it.
Chicago, March 2.-Local postof-
fee officials said that the mail
pouches stolen at Kankakee today
obtained nothing but ordinary
mail, so far as they knew. They
said that if any registered mail was
/ in the pouches it got in by acci-
dent
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
MRS. ODENCHAIN
TRIAL HALTED
Illness of Another Witness Causes
POstpOnemcnt; Jury Excused
Until Next Monday.

Los Angeles, Calf, March 2-An-
other halt occurred today in the
trial of Mrs. Madalynne c. Oben-
chain. for the Staying of ]. Bolton
Kennedy. the illness OF witness
having cadsed the postponement of
further testimony until next Mon
day. The jury has been excused
until that time. Tomorrow, how
ever, attorneys will argue motions
by the defense % strike out certain
portions Of the states testimony.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
FOLKSFLEEFIRE
IN NIGHT ATTIRE
Naples Macaroni Company Blaze
Spreads to Adjoining Rooming
House in Chicago.

Chicago, March 2.-Twenty-siH
persons were forced to fee, scantily
Glad, from the rooming house IN
which they lived, when fire early
today partially destroyed the build
ing occupied by the Naples Maca-
roni company and spread 10 the
rooming house adjoining, causing
a loss estimated at $4,000.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02

The Argus
Business
Review
(By Consolidated Press.)
Teiegraphic dispatches from
nations important centers
giving Business News and
Reviews of Interest and I'm
pOrtance to Producer and
Consumer.
CLEVELAND.


Cleveland, March 2-Reemploy-
ment of old workers on a large
scale is reported from the various
steel company plants of northern
Ohio Sheet mill operations have
now reached SO per cent of capac-
ity, which is the heaviest produc-
ton recorded since last November.
The Trumbull company at Warren
was the first to return to 100 per
cent capacity operations. The open
hearth works of the Carnegie Steel
company are working Sc per cent,
while the United Alloy Steel com
pany has just taken back a thou
sand men, which has enabled to
bring production to 60 per cent.
Cleveland's large paint plants
report substantial increase rates in
production Plants of the Glidden
company for the first six weeks of
this year report SO per cent better
than in 1921. The Sherwin Will
liams company has just closed a
large contract with the state OF
Georgia for chemicals with which
to combat the pink boil weevil.
Motor truck orders are increas-
from the cities, although reports
indicate the buying power of the
Ohio farmers has improved mater
tally Furniture dealers report sat
.isfactory sales throughout this ter
ritory.
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, Mo-, March q
Heavy snow which followed the
rains of last week has brought ad-
ditional joy to the wheat belt The
farmers are all smiles now, where
as two weeks ago they were eX-
! tremely discouraged because of the
| drouth. This relief felt by wheat
growers already has been reflected
in trade here. When the present
cold spell, probably the last of the
winter, ends, spring trade is ex-
pected to open with a rush.
i The money situation is easier
with an over-abundance of loanable
funds available for legitimate bus
mess purposes at rates lower than
prevailed last year. The banking
/ situation in this section now is
stronger than at any time since
the beginning of the war.
Building operations continue to
break records. In this city alone
permits for the first two months of
this year totalled $2,SS2,650 the
largest sum ever recorded here for
such a period. With the approach
of spring and open pasturage, milk
prices have taken a tumble, grade
A raw and grade A pasteuriZed
dropping to II cents "a quart. Coal
sales have been stimulated by
threats of a strike and by recent
cold weather Many industrial
plants are putting in reserve coal
supplies.
SEATTLE.
Seattle, March Goal produc-
ton in Washington, where most
mines are run on the open shop
basis, is now about 20 per cent of
normal and will reach full capac-
ity within 60 days, according to
dealers here. Operators declare
there will be no strike in this dis
IContipuod O0 poVa Five
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
CONTINUED on Page Nine.)
3 DE-, a. HURT
IN EGYPT RIOTS

London, March 2.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press .)-Three persons were
killed and "A others injured, some
seriously, in a disturbance this
morning at Tanta, Egypt, fifty miles
north OF Cairo, says Central News
dispatch from Cairo. Native SOL
0iers quelled the disturbance and
restored order.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
WOMAN NAMED
FOR DEMO JOB

Washington, March ?. = Mrs
Emily Newell Blair, Democratic ma
tional committee woman from Mis-
souri,, has been appointed to the
national headquarters STAFF by
Chairman Cordell Hull. She will
be associated with the bureau Of
organization. it was announced.
the woman's bureau being discon-
tinued as a separate unit and its
activities coordinated with those Of
other sections at headquarters
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-02
REPORT OCEAN
Liner SINKING

Boston, March 2.-The Norweg-
ian freight steamer Grontoft was
reported sinking about 500 miles
southeast of Cape Race in radio
messages received here today. Her
lifeboats had been smashed, the
steamer West K. Barre reported ..
The steamer Estonia was proceed
ing to her assistance. The Gron-
toft was bound from New Orleans
to Esbierg.