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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
KIDNAPPED
UNIONlSTS
NUMBER 200
Newspaper Fears Atroci-
ties May Be Commit
ted on Captives.

Belfast, Ireland. Feb. 9.-tBy the
Associated Press. l-Ulster's boun-
Diary was virtually a line of steel
today, following the raid yesterday.
in which many Unionists were kid
naped From PortadoWn. County
Armagh, to Belleek, on the Ferma-
nagh-Donegal border. forces Of
specials" were on guard. as well
as heavy contingents OF the regu-
lar constabulary.
1t was estimated that 5000 men
were engaged in policing the line.
Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 9.-(By the
Associated Press. THE number OF
men held captive after yesterdays
raids is placed at 200 by the North
ern Whig. Unionist newspaper,
which adds:
''They are being held at the mer-
cy of men who, as the events of the
last two years have shown. are ca
pable of atrocities as vile as any
that bolsheviks or bashibazouks
ever committed"
Four More Seized.
Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 9.-(By the
Associated Press. kid
napings occurred today in County
Fermanagh, one of the counties in
which yesterdays raids were car
ried out. Four class 'B' special
constables were kidnapped ia the
ROselea district. They were taken
in the direction of Ballybay. where
it is believed other prisoners are
being kept.
London. Feb. 9-(By the Associ-
ated Press. THE Ulster UniOnists
kidnapped in yesterdays raids, with
the exception of those taken in
Sligo, were still held today, accord
ing to the latest reports from Ire
land. Their number was VariOusly
reported, the highest estimate be
ing nearly 200 although most ac-
counts put the figure considerably
lower.
One Man Released.
Belfast, Ireland. Feb. 9.-CBy the
Associated Press. Major Miles Of
South Donegal, one OF the prisoners
taken by the r-.iders Of northern
Irish counties yesterday, returned
to his home today. Others from
the same area are reported 70 have
been released.
Dublin, ireland, Feb. 9.-.CBy the
Associated Press.) .)-The feeling Of
concern and regret" by Premier
Craig of Ulster over yesterdays
raids will be shared by every
friend of Irish peace" the Irish
Times says.
These shootings and seizures
were heart breaking acts of folly
and unkindness. The situation may
be saved yet. and all good Irish
men ought to lend aid"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09

Copyright. 1922, by The Argus.)
Washington, Feb. 9.-The soldier
bonus has become the biggest polit-
ical and economic issue before the
United States government.
President Harding's firm refusal
to permit the money expected to be
received from the allied war debt
to be used as basis for payment in
bonds or borrowing has led con-
gresS to explore all the various
means of direct taxation that can
be depended upon as a source OF
revenue.
AS congress looks around for
things to be taxed and sees political
dangers arising from the non-sol-
der multitudes, the task of voting
the bonus becomes increasingly dis
tasteful. The secretary of the treas
ury has told congress that the
money for bonus can be raised
by taxing tobacco and cigarets,
gasoline, as well as each automo-
bile depending upon the horse
power, by taxing documents in real
estate and legal transactions and
by requiring everybody who cashes
check to affix stamp thereto on
presenting it for payment. Besides
this an increase from two cents to
three cent postage is being seri-
ouSly considered.
SROb Peter to Pay Paul.
Some of the government experts
figure it out that the effect of a
bonus raised in that way will be
to make the soldier himself and the
members Of his family pay out of
one pocket what is being received
in another. Also congress fears pO-
htical wrath for failing to reduce
taxes appreciably this year and now
to add to instead of subtracting
from taxation, is something which
Republicans as well as Democrats
admit will bring political disadvan-
tageS far greater than the advan-
tages derived from favoring the SOL
diers.
The real trouble about soldier
bonus, as waited here, is that while
many soldiers do not need a bonus
or want it, they are ready to jump
on anybody who says they do not
deserve it. Some of the letters COM
ing into the capitol from all parts
of the country reflect a bitterness
such as congress has rarely ever
witnessed. The fact that there is
even a reluctance to grant a bonus
is in itself condemned and the idea
that the money isn't available car
rfes little conviction with the soldier
folks who are all the more irritat-
ed because congress provided for
everything else before even consid-
ering bonus. To those who fought
to preserve the government, the
thought of paying out money for
new government activities of any
kind is a contradiction of patriot
ism
"PO1iticS is Politics.
Those who have been studying
the political effects of granting the
bonus wonder whether the soldiers
will take up the cudgels for the Re
publicans who have voted it and
Offset the criticism of the others
who are compelled to pay the bonus.
If the Republicans could depend
CONTINUED On Last Page.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
TOINVESTICATE
RUSSIAN RELIEF
Hoover Submits Report to Harding;
Justice Department Watching
BOlsheyik Activities.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Secretary
Hoover was understood today to
have submitted to President Hard
ing a report on the activities of
certain Russian famine relief organ
izations in this country and their
supposed connection with the Rus
sian soviet government.
Washington. Feb. 9.-Activities of
bolshevik agents in the United
States in the collection of funds os-
tensibIy for famine relief in soviet
Russia, were understood today to
be under observation by the JUS
tice department.
Many inquiries have been receiv-
ed by the department, it was said,
as to the connection between q
number of famine relief organiZa-
tions, collecting funds throughout
the country, with the soviet author
tiles.
Chicago, Feb. 9.-The American
committee for Russian famine re-
lief, in a statement today. denounc-
ed as false reports published in a
local newspaper that part of the
supplies and funds raised by the
organization are being sent to the
Russian soviet government.
From the outset" said the state
ment, "the committee announced
that distribution in the famine re-
gion would be made through the
Russian Red Cross under American
SUPERVISION No money or supplies
will be sent to the soviet govern
ment as charged"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
35 WATERS CALL
FOR SEEM; COPS
CALL A WAGON

Kansas City. Mo. Feb. o.
Diners at one Of the large
downtown hotels waited i'm
patiently for service last
night. The management
started a search for the wait
ers when the patrons became
impatient and demanded ser
vice.
The search ended at police
headquarters. Thirty-five Of
the hotel walters, negroes,
had bee narrested in a crap
game in a nearby house. A
hurry-up call TO police head
quarters brought back the
missing walters, who raced
through the downtown section
on foot.
The patrons turned back To
the dining room after being
assured of something more
substantial than the strains of
the hotels dining room or
chestra. The negroes will face
d gambling charge in police
court. with the hotel manage
ment pledged 10 see that
every enc Of the 30 is there
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
FRACTURED
SKULL ENDS
LADS LIFE
Only Son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John r. Koch is
Killed.

Kenneth John Koch, aged 6 years,
only child of Mr.. and Mrs. John R.
Koch, 446 Forty-fourth street, was
Instantly killed at 4 o'clock yester-
day afternoon when he was run
over by an automobile truck on
Seventh avenue, between Forty
second and Forty-third streets,
while he was returning home from
the Longfellow school.
The truck is owned by the East
Moline Lumber company and was
Cyriel Poelvoorde, 1042 Fifteenth
avenue, East Moline.
Verdict of accidental death was
returned by the coroner's jury this
morning. Witnesses sustained POel-
voordes story of the accident and
exonerated from liability.
According to Poelvoorde, he was
not driving faster than eight miles
an hour, and as he approached the
Forty-second street intersection he
saw small boy run from the side
walk on the south side to the bouI-
eyard dividing the thoroughfare
The driver said that the lad stood
on the boulevard short time and
then started toward the street
again just as the forward part of
the truck passed him Poelvoorde
said that in some manner the lad
fell between the front and rear
wheels on the left side and the rear
wheel ran over his head When
first group reached the scene of the
tragedy the truck was so feet away.
The lads body was found lying in
the street car track.
Few persons saw the accident,
but a large crowd soon gathered.
Children from the Longfellow
school identified the body and word
was sent to his father, who is an
operator on the Third avenue street
car line. DR.. F. o. Ringnell of Mo-
line was on the scene and the ply
sician and the lads father took the
body in a touring car and rushed
to st Anthony'S hospital. Exam
ination showed that the lad had
died practically instantly from a
fractured skull. The jaw was also
had crushed the life ont of the
cNhOOAbOy, DuA Was
a mark on his body. and these of
minor nature, as the wheel had
crossed over the lads head.
Poelvoorde spent two hours in
Jail until his employers assured
the coroner that he would appear
at the inquest.
The father asked that the body
be taken to the Danielson e Furgie
undertaking parlors in Moline.
Mother Frustrated.
When informed by her husband
that their son had met death, Mrs.
Koch was prostrated, and it took
the combined efforts of her hus-
band and relatives and friends to
control her and restore the grief
stricken woman.
1t was some time before she
could be calmed at all and then
only to exclaim. "I want him so
badly, so badly"
Kenneth entered school only last
fall, and was one of the most ac-
tive and bright pupils of the first
grade. His smiling countenance
mad won him scores of childhood
friends and his teacher and per-
sons living along his route to
school, to whom his name was un-
known, also testify to extraordin
ary appeal of the lad
Born in Rock Island.
Kenneth was born in Rock Island
Aug. 10, 1915, the son of Mr.. and
MRS. John R Koch, who have made
snls city their home many years.
Only his parents survive
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
BROKER
FIRM FAILURES
New York Grand Jury Starts In
yestigatiOn; Cases of Alleged
Frauds Are Presented.

New York, Feb. 9.-The grand
jury today commenced an investi-
CATION into the reasons for failure
of a number of brokerage houses
accused of bucket-shop operations.
Cases of alleged frauds were pre-
sented by the district attorneys Of
fee, in cooperation with the attOr-
ney generals office.
The United States district attor-
ney's office, it was stated. also is
cooperating in the investigation.
More than % firms are to come
under the grand jury's scrutiny IT.
was said, and dozens of customers
who lest heavily through their fail
ure will be asked To testify.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
MONEY MAKING
MACHINE COSTS
SUCKER" $4,000

Chicago, Feb. Stony Dom
agalsh purchased money
making" machine from Stanley
Nowakowski with his life saw
lngs, $4,000. The machine,
Nowakowski said had been sto-
len from a United States mint.
which Domagalski said turned
Tut two crisp 81 bills and
then stopped. Domagalsh
took 1t apart, discovered it
consisted of a box, two wood
en- rollers and a crank and
then reported the occurrence to
the police
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
NORTHWEST RAIL
LINES WASHED OUT

Pendleton, Ore, Feb. 9.-Large
areas in northeastern Oregon and
southeastern Washington are wash
ed out today and train service is
held up in many places as a result
of heavy rains that have been fall
ing since yesterday afternoon
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
CLEVELAND.

Cleveland, Feb. 9.-Cleveland has
recovered from the year-end In
Industrial lines which started last
December. Marked improvement
has been reported this month. Re
ports from 100 firms which norm
ally employ at least 500 men eacn
shows an increase of 4,54S workers
over Jan. 1, or a gain of per cent
Oficials of the American Multi
graph company report record sales
and tremendously increased 1nQulr-
les since Jan. i. This indicates,
said the president of the company
that business men are looking los
ways to stimulate business and that
there is today business to be had IL
the price is right"
Operations of the Steel Products
company have increased so per ce It
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Friday. Slightly
colder tonight
Highest temperature yesterday.
so; lowest last night, 81.
Wind velocity at Z a. m. 9 miles
per hour.
Precipitation, none
lam. 7p.m- Tam.
yester. yester. today
Dry bulb temp. Al As 81
Wet bulb temp. 81 Sc 33
Relative humid. .35 so 20
River stage at a. m, AZ. no
change last "a hours.
Sunset today. 5:2s p. m; sun
rise tomorrow, 7:06 a. m.
ANDREW HAMRICK.
Neteorologist
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
VET DIXON, ILL.,,
POLICEMAN DIES

Dixon, ILL.,, Feb. 9.-John Gaffney,
Ior over 25 years a member of the
DIXON police force, and known in
police circles throughout the state,
died this morning.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
The Argus
Business
Review

(By Consolidated Press.)
Telegraphic-- dispatches frem-
nations important centers
giving Business News and
Reviews OF Interest and I'm
pOrtance to Producer and
Consumer.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
KANSAS CITY.

Kansas City, Feb. 9.-Severe loss
has been sustained by farmers in
this section through the lack OF
moisture since Jan. l The condi-
ton of the wheat crop has suffered
materially and it is estimated the
drought has ruined 100000 acres
of wheat in Kansas alone. In 9TH
er lines, however, business is pro-
gresing satisfactorily. A building
boom is forecast for spring and
this forecast is supported by the
large numbers attending the better
home and building exposition being
held by the Kansas City real estate
board this week
Automobile dealers are looking
forward to much increased business
after the automobile show next
week. There has been a steady
business improvement in the Mid
Continent oil fields which has been
aided by the increase of cent a
gallon in the price of gasoline A
war between bread dealers has
brought the scent loaf back to
Kansas City.
Country merchants are buying in
small lots. Sales are brisk in dry
goods, millinery and notions but
orders are conservative and most of
them for nearby delivery.
SEATTLE.
Seattle, Feb. 9.-The retail mer-
chants of the northwest are clean
ing house and in some cases the
proces. is a painful one. For ex-
ample it is said that some dealers
have taken suits and overcoats sold
at s65, at the peak of the war boom,
cut them to approximate cost, $40,
and are Offering them at $S9-75- The
local consumer, merchants say,
looks only to value when he spends
his dollar.
Wholesale trade is active in dry
goods. Ginghams are scarce and
in good demand. One of the whole
sale houses reports an increased de-
mand for silks Heavy SHOWS in
the mountains of Western wash
ington and Oregon have cut down
fir and cedar log production. The
visible supply of logs in the water
now is only about one hundred MIL
non let, whereas the normal sup
ply at this season is 25O,OOO,ooo
feet
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
David
Lawrence
Says:

Soldier Bonus is Biggest
Political and Economic Is
sue Before Government;
Congress Fears Political
Wrath for Not Reducing
Taxes; Some Soldiers Don't
Want or Need Bonus But
Jump on Anybody Who Says
They Don't Deserve Ii.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09

Continued on Page Fifteen.)
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CONTINUED On Last Page.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-12

got to be put up it simply means that
our system of bank examination
which we have at the present time
for the purpose of protecting the pub
lie is either lax or at fault. A bank
guarantee law could not possibly raise
large enough fund to cover liabilities
during a panic. Business-like man
agement in a bank plus sound state
banking laws which are rigid and hon
estly enforced is the surest protection
a depositor can have that his funds are
safe.
If solvent and we'll managed bank
must be penalized in order to secure
funds to protect an irresponsible bank,
sound financial standards are percep-
tibly lowered and slight incentive Of
fered for conscientious banking ad-
ministration-The Manufacturer.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-12

The cheef diched my news last Friday cause he
coodn' t Find it no wares but node give IL TO t
him cause he sed Sumthin to me bout 1t De1n so
l ong an that's how he remembered it wus his falt
losin it. It wus holiday in the bank in
Austria last FRIDAY an in Bolivia an Brazil an
Canary Islands an Fernando Pc an Lithuania an
Spane also. Spane in a with us wun time
but it did nt get to get in the last war cause 1t
wat ed to wi Oh side we WIS goin to take Sarg.
Gibbons sed cause it didn't want to get in trubble
with us agen.
Jim dash
The Bailey s is home agen what used to live
here They are in Portland now an like it fine
only they like to cum back here also. 1t takes a,
bout yeers to get to ennybuddy in big cities
sept the ice the male man an the pleecemens
Mister Bailey sd.
Margaret Balls back from Boise seem Mrs.
Hughes wich is her sister by blood relashuns.
They look like each other only Margaret looks
more like Mrs. Hughes than she looks like
Margaret Nell says.
Carlotta Reeds goin to Boise to lurn all a bout
bizness this winter wich used to be bookkeeper
up to Haze1wood Creamery.
clariss Peters had sum cumpney wich wus sum
girl from Homedale wich wus named Hinze but don't
no her LIST name. She gone ennyhow Nell says.
Jim dash
Edna Wells is visitin her sister in oregon sum
wares. Her sisters marrid but Edna amt yet,
ike Nell amt.
Kathleen Martins gone back wich wus here
|vi in what used to live here. She lives up in
Portland like the Badley's.
Jim dash
Edna Woods an Fern Duncan had Ruby Fritz down
sect in them from Nampa but she IS gone back now
Fern Edna goin to see her next to pay back
lin dash
It's holiday in the bank in Maryland today
but the cheef sed mind bout it SO won't.
thirty.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-12
The Lesson.

A REAL ray of sunchine for Idaho
comes with the announcement that last
weeks excessive heat has cut the esti-
mated potato crop production of the
central northern tier of states by about
25OOOOOO bushels. While the federal
crop report for September noted a re-
duction in the total estimated produc-
ton of only one million bushels, unot-
ficial reports since that time indicate
that the crop will not greatly exceed
that of last year. And continued ad-
verse weather conditions may reduce
the production below last years figures
entirely.
Idaho, as usual, stands to profit from
some other states misfortune. With
bumper farm crops everywhere. ii
seems that there alone rests Idaho
hope. 1t is a thin thread upon which
to tie Idaho's prospects and one from
which the state can scarcely get great
deal of satisfaction
Every day, the lesson is brough
home more emphatically that the
COW, the hen and the hog alone car
bring to Idaho the agricultural pros
perity that the enormous potentia
wealth Of this state promises.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-12
A Questionable
Experiment.

IDAHO is threatened with a per-
ior of state guarantee bank law agita-
ton.
In plain English this means that a
law would be passed providing that
banks in Idaho deposit with state a
certain percentage of their deposits
for the purpose of creating fund
which would protect depositors IN an
insolvent bank by drawing on this
fund TO pay them.
There have been many attempts to
operate this kind of law successfully
in various states including Oklahoma
South Dakota and Washington.
Theoretically the arguments for + c
law seem plausible. In reality such
legislation has led to disastrous re-
suits in the states mentioned.
The strong banks which put up their
share of the guarantee simply protect
weaker bank arrangements which take
chances at the expense of solvent in
situations. The guarantee law is vir-
tually an inventive for careless bank
ing.
Of guarantees for depositors have
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-12

dent power to add or deduct SO
per cent from its rates in order to
fit the kaleidoscope economic
changes. But New York is positive
that even with that proviso, they
are too high because they cut its
profits on importing and shipping.
Democratic campaign talk to the
effect that the tariff will raise the
price of goods is pretty well
squelched by the treasury depart
ment's exposure of the conscience
less prohteering on imported
goods that is practiced by mer-
chants and retailers. A tariff that
would enable American manufac-
turers to sell goods at the price at
which like foreign goods are land
ed in this country, duty paid, could
not possibly increase the retail
price by the amount of the duty.
1t would force importers to accept
less profit and, if American goods
were sold at reasonable profit,
would force down the retail price
of imported goods.
The scheme that the democrats
worked with tinware against the
Mckinley tariff in 1890 will not
work this year. Exposure of i'm
porters' profits has killed it.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-12
Importers Groan.

ON THE desk of every newspaper
man in the United States is copy of
the Investigations on imported articles
retailed in New York. Profits on these
goods, covering almost every conceiv-
able human want, range from 237 to,
roughly, 5000 per cent.
No tariff ever yet devised could hope
to keep those goods out of American
markets. Bought in Germany and 9TH
er foreign producing countries, they
are unloaded in America at prices that
permit terrific profits and yet may be
sold just low enough to prevent COM
petition from American goods.
New York has been the hotbed oil
opposition to the present tariff bill
And that opposition has come, not
from the consumer, but from the i'm,
porter and retailer who sees his profits
dwindling from this foreign stuff
The Oregonan sizes the situation ur
thus.
To New York City the tariff is
local issue, and any increase in
the tariff causes it to emit cries
of pain. 1t is great industrial
center, but the power of its i'm
porter and shipping interests
browns the voice OF its manufac-
turers, Those interests want a low
tariff, not that Americans may buy
foreign goods cheap but that the
profits ranging up to hundreds per
cent which importers divide with
retailers may not be reduced and
that the flow Of oversee traffic
may not be diminished. Hence,
when New York newspapers pro-
test against the high duties of the
new tariff, they speak for New
York, not for the United States.
The new tariff may be too high.
Congress does not know. though
it has been debating for more than
year 1t has confessed that it
does not know by giving the presi-