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Associated Press Exclusive Wire OCK ISLAND ARGUSjilSiS "SIXTY-THIKD YEUl NO. 107. FRIDAY. JUNE 5, 19U. -SiXTEEX PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. EE R GLOUDS ALONE BLQGK TO BUSINESS Redfield Shows Map of the Country to Prove His Assertions. HOWLERS ARE HIT HARD Mental Mourning Still Exists for Lost Privileges, Secre tary States. Ra!eic?i. X. C. Juno 5. Secretary of Commerce Rodtie'.d. in a speech here yesterdav bi fore the chamber of ocir.merce, dit-cussed business condi tions throusliout the country. In part he said: "If we woiiid p ace the business at jncspiere of the country on a S'jrt ot commercial wea.her map suili as is used by the weather service, we s-hould find a curious condition. In the ex treme southeast aid southwest would be area where the business bnroine ler is high. Ail t'.irough the great cen tral part of the country, where the bulk of our wheat is grow n, would by another great area of fair weat'.ier and high pressure Over the preat coitoa j areas of the south would be no dej res ign, cot even unsettled conditions, but a nortiiul locking fur great apri cultural favors expected to come. High barometer aiso jTt-vaiSs wlif-re iutonio- biies are made in and a!out the lake area. Over the northeastern states would be found a H-!:un of low ba rometer and marke.i depression. If the state of mind of the different parts of our country er.tiM be shaded in col ors, the cr-t body of the west would be white, while an area of di:Il pn.r wcId represent our northeastern stares. "One does not mean to deride a de pressed su'- "" i!"!ud in speaking of !t at a psychological condition. The people that fetl that way fee", just as badly about it as if the condition were physical rather than psychological. The hope lies in the fact that the reali ties of the physical condition may so assert themselves ere long that the mental state will adjust itie'f to taern and be relieved." After citing reports of depression in various foreign countries. Mr. Redfield continued: j "Few men would be so bold as to! deny the world-wide conditions which tare been tuegete-a. TMd is not an age in which the nations are separat ed. Tiie!r commercial and industrial alliances on the one hand and compe titions on the other are close. That which affects one adversely is reflected upon the others. It is the merest child ishness to select one of them out from the others and deal w ith it as If its own Internal procedure were the sole cause of the conditions found in it. "In like maiiLer any argument to the effect that the alleged attitude of o ir fovernment toward 'big biioiness is the cause cf such depression as exists here Is met by ti.e fact that in Ge , many, where trusts and cartels are le galized and the government assists "m. ue depression is even more se vere than it has been here. Depreea:on Elsewhere. Any world-wide view, therefore, of the great intricate mass of inter locked transactions which we call "the orld g business' finds it in a state of depression almost everywhere, with ocean freights so low because of the shortage of international traffic on the ea that ship owners .are beginning to conFlder whether it is not cheaper to lay their vessels up than to run thetn at a material loss. A good dea". has been made of the Mrt that our foreign business during the month cf April shows a decre'aso the exports of about $37,OO0,00. and a Increase In the Imports of about I27.600.000. and that the merchandise transactions for that month show an Ppsrect balance aqalnst us somewhat moneyttTinsure big fight posted Six Thousand Sovereigns Up, This Amount Representing Share Johnson Gets. London. England, July 5. Six thou sand sovereigns, the largest sum of fold ever deposited to insure a trior e tKht, was posted in the office of the Sportsman this afternoon by Gerrard Austin, representing a syndicate pro moting match between Jack John son and farn LunKford, which prob hly wui take place in Lcadon in Sep tember or October. The money repre enu Johnson's share, win, lose or draw. MIND J Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, lor Rock Island, Davenport, Mcllno and Vicinity.. Unsettled weather tonight and Sat urday; probably showers: not much change in temperature; moderate ta rresh southerly w inds. Temperature at 7 a. m. 66. Highest yesterday 95. Lowest last night 60. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 6 mile per hour. Precipitation 4.17 inches. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. S7; al 7 a. m. 89. Stage, of water 6.9, a rise of .5 in last 24 hours. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Even in a sturs: Mercury. Venus. Sat urn. Mars. Morning star: Jupiter. The star at the point overhead about ! p. m. Is the Up of the handle of the Big Dipper. 8,000 ON STRIKE IN EASTERN CITY : Employes of Westinghouse Com pany, Pittsburgh, Ask Bet ter Conditions. Pittsburgh. Pa.. Juno 5. Eight thou sand men and women employed by the Westinphouse Electric and Manu facturing company and the Westing house Mach:ne company struck today and dt-ciared they would not return until working conajtions were im proved. They are members of the Al lepiieny Industrial union and demand elimination of premium piece and I bonus systems, reemployment of all men disc-harped since Keb. 1. and rota tion employment during period of de- pression. There was no disorder. Sev eral Hundred pins, each with a tin horn, paraded the streets. in excess of $11,000,000, and gleeful conclusions as to the effects of the tariff law are drawn by high-speed thinkers from raiiier meager data. Looking plainly at the facts, we And them to be as follows 'During April the increase of imports which we have seen amounted to about $27,0"0,ooo. Is found to be In the fol lowing items: "Crude materials for we in our man ufactures. SliZ'W"'iijk "Crude" foodstuff i over 14,000,000. "Partly manufactured foodstuffs, nearly t7.000.000. "Here Is an aggregate of $25,000,000 out of a total increase of J27.500.000, which is entirely in foods and mater ials which our manufacturers use. The balance is made up of an increase in finished manufactures of $5,000,000 less a decrease in partly finished manufac tures of $2,000,000, showing a net in crease in all imported manufactures of $3.0rw),0f'0, or about 6 per cent as com pared with the month of April a year afo. "Turning now to the exports for the month of April, in which there Is a decrease of $37,000,000 for that month, we find $10,000,000 of It in crude ma terials for manufactures; $14,000,000 ot it in foodstuffs; over $5.00fl,T)f0 in part ly finished manufactures: making a total of $29,000,000. Eight millions out cf $37,000,000 is In fully finishes manu factures, this last, item showing th" smallest ratio of decrease for the month of any of the great groups named. In other words, it is in the line of fully finished manufactures that we have he'd our proportion of business best. "On the day when this was written the secretary of labor read in the cab inet in my presence a telegram from the labor authorities of Missouri stat ing that 30,000 men were needed in that state to help harvest the crops. Another telegTam from the labor com missioner of the state of Kansas call ing for that state for a like purposa was read, and at the previous sessloa he had read a dispatch from the labor commissioner of Oklahoma stating that 15,000 men were needed there. Looks Into Other Conditions. "It is true that psychological depres sion is none the less a depression be cause it is psychological. We may therefore fairly look Into other con li Hons to see whether the mental state that exists has a Justification in solid fact. "If you and I get away from the crowded centers of our middle and eastern states where mental mourning exists for conditions that can never re turn since the day of mastery Is over and commerce must henceforth be a servant if, I say, we get away from these centers Into which the ljght is breaking, but which it has not yet fully iilnminated. we shail find a dif ferent atmosphere. From far-off Cal ifornia and from Florida; from the fields of Oklahoma and Kansas, Mis souri and Nebraska, comes the glad cry of a harvest all but ripe for the sickle. There was no mourning in the craage .groves or eamomia wnen i saw them In March, and Florida utters no cry of distress la sending 23,000 carloads of her fruit to market, "It Is a small and pitiful thing that men should expect to reap political Droflt out of magnifying evils. How- ever, the too willing howls of t!' apostles cf evil are so obvious as weii as so previous as to be on the whole jr.ore humorous than harmful. They make the Judicious grieve, but they bring no anxiety to the thoughful." THE WEATHER GIRL ON KNEE BEFORE KING; COURTSCENE Daughter of Lady Blom field Causes Sensation 4 at English Palace. HURLS SELF AT THRONE Hustled Cut of Room Before She Is Able to Finish De livery of Message. London, England, June 5. Miss Mary Blomfield. daughter of Lady Worn field, w idow of Sir Arthur Blom field, was the woman who created the sensational scene in Buckingham pal ace last night, when she threw herself on her knees before King George and Queen Mary. .miss luomneid alone was concern ed in the incident, although her sis ter, wno also attended the court, was requested to leave the palace after th occurrence. She left without protest Officials of the palace today are on the verge of nervous prostration, and are taking every precaution to pre vent a repetition of the performance at tonight's function at the palace. Miss Blomfield had only time to ejaculate audibly. "Your Majesty, for God's sake " when she was seired and hustled out of the throne room. King George was the coolest man in the company. The Women's Social and Political union, militant, denies responsibility for the incident at Buckingham palace last night. Many of Churches Close. In consequence of suffraget attacks many churches in the country are be ing closed except for Sunday services public opinion is inflamed to a remark able degree. There is well grounded belief that much of the work of de struction Is being done by .hired .bands well paid out of the bulging coffers of the Women's Social and Political union. Much lucrative American tour ist business is being lost to the Lon don hotels and storekeepers because oj suffraget raids on museums and art galleries. Historic Church Burned. Derby, England, June 5. A historic church at Breadsall, dating back to Norman times and containing many priceless relics, was destroyed by fire during the night. Recently a suffraget meeting at Bread sal I was broken up by bovs. It is generally supposed the women burned the church in revenge. SPRING RUSH IN BUILDING ENDING Licenses for the Erection of Dwellings Are in Majority During Past Week. The rush on the starting of build ings in Rock Island which started la early spring is now ending and per mits for buildings to the extent of $16,- 150 were all that were issued the past two weeks. The permits issued: Frank Vogue, 717 Fourteenth avenue, dwelling $ 1.400 Mclnnls Bros., for H. W. Tress, 1537 Twenty-sixth street, dwelling 1.650 Mclnnls Bros., for W. G. Welch, 1613 Twenty -second street, dwelling 2,500 J. Burgis, 1129 Fourteenth street, dwelling 2,800 II. W. Baker, for Edwin F. Lun- deen, 1626 Thirty-seventh street, dwelling W. E. Bailey for F. K. Rhoads. 1S04 Forty-first Btreet, dwell ing J. E. Johnson, for Dr. F. O. Ringnell. 4201 Seventh ave nue, alterations Louis Miller for Fritz Herman, 2958 Thirteenth avenue, al terations 2,000 2,000 S00 500 R. Standard. 453S Fifteenth ave nue, dwelling 2.500 $16,150 "Firebugs" Denied Rehearing. Springfield. 111.. June 5. The su preme court yesterday denied the peti tion for a rehearing in the case against W. A. Harris and Max Covitz. mem bers of the "arson trust" in Chicago, who were convicted in the Cook coun ty court and whose case was affirmed by the supreme court. Director Not Dummies, Says Ledyard. Washington. D. C, June 5. At the interstate commerce hearing today, Lewis Cass Ledyard denied that the New Haven directors were "dummies" or that the late J. Plerpont Morgan or former President Mellen dominated the board. FLOODS IMPERIL TOWNS IN NORTH Small Buildings Being Whirled Down Black River at Greenwood, Wis. Greenwood, Wis., June 5. With Black river at greatest flood height, the result cf heavy rains, and rising fast, tbis-4ow.itn4itb.ers hourly, ax in danger of being swxept. away. The municipal light and poweA company's dam was torn from its anchorage and 250 feet of concrete levee 1pm away. Small buildings are being, whirled dowa stream and families driven from their homes. Toledo, Ohio, June 5. There was only minor damage by the storm yes terday at Helena, Ohio. No one was killed or injured. J. C. R.MYSTERY FINALLY CLEARED Mother, Brother and Sister Identify Man Missing for Eight Years. Chicago. 111., June 5. When a broth er and sister toaay amrmea innr mother's identification of the myster ious "J. C. R." as her son, and the lat ter, whose mind Is practically a blank and vocal chords paralyzed, gave evi dence of remembrance of his mother. the eight-year mystery of the "man who was" was cleared to the satisfac tion of all concerned. Mrs. H. E. Pit kin, a wealthy woman, last night Iden- ifled the man as Earl lies, son of her former husband. Hies, a mining en gineer w Ith Interests In Goldfleld, Xev disappeared in 1906. The only word he can articulate Is "pie." SHIP HITS A REEF; ALL ABOARD SAFE Seventy-Five Passengers Are Relieved When Wireless Calls Are Answered. New London. Conn., June 5. The 5 passengers of the steamer North land. New iork for Portland, Me., hich went ashore on Bartlett's reef. 0 miles southwest of here at midnight in a heavy fog, were landed in this city at 5 this morning by the wreck ing tug Tasco, which had answered wireless calls. With the Empress of Ireland disas ter fresh In mind the passengers said they were in constant fear a storm would come up and endanger their lives. There was little alarm, however, after they learned the wireless signals had been answered. The captain and crew remained on the Northland, which was damaged about the bows and forehold. Efforts to haul the vessel off this morning failed and the cargo will be lightered and another attempt made to float her this evening. She is ot steel and 304 feet in length. Germany now has CO towns where wemea are enjr'lycd as policewomen. UNRAVELING THE CAUSE THEATRES PLAGE NEWSPAPER FIRST Manager of Chicago House Tells Why the Billboard Is Thing of the Past. Chicago, 111., June 5. Billposter ad vertising cannot compete . with news paper advertising. This statement yes terday supplemented the announce ment by J. T. Garrity, manager of the Garrlck theatre, that during the en gagement of Olga Petrova in "Pan thea" at the Garrick, beginning Sun day, publicity will be sought only through the newspapers. "Billboards usually are most numer ous where the persons who read are the fewer," said Mr. Garrity in ex plaining his stand. "Many managers believe that the billboard as a getter of patronage Is a thing of the past, but few of them have the courage to stand by their convictions. The Schuberts tried out exclusive newspaper adver tising in New York a year ago with gratifying results and this caused the experiment in Chicago. "You know tha"t persons who ride past billboards are usually going too fast to read them and 00 per cent of the folks who ride read the newspa pers. while on the cars. "During the last year, with 'Ro mance' and the 'Road to Happiness,' two of our biggest successes, the Gar lick and the Princess advertised ex clusively in the newspapers. A spe cial matinee, advertised for three days in the newspapers, was sold out by 10 o'clock on the morning of the perform ance and 900 persons' were turned away. . "When IT. J. Hermann brought the 'Modern Girl' to the Cort he protested that we did r.ot allow him enough paper on the billboards. Three weeks later he said his billboardless show had the best opening in Chicago that it had experienced on the road. "The cost of lithographing six cents a sheet, not counting the paper, mounts into big figures when three or four thousand sheets are put out. We intend to advertise more and more in the newspapers and less on the boards. "The Palace, the Majestic a-nd the burlesque houses abandoned the bill boards a year ago and the legitimate houses are coming rapidly to the sense of the experiment." Mann Act Is York's Nemesis. Des Moines, la., June 5. George York, a Colfax merchant who figured in the failure of the state bank of Col fax several months ago and the sub sequent Investigation into the death of M. B. Wheelock, the cashier, yester day was convicted In the federal court here, on a charge of violating the Mann white slave act He. was charged with having transported Mrs. O. E. Jackson from Kansas City to Des Moines. George York today was sentenced to a year in Leavenworth prison. Detective Aids Schumann-Heink. Chicago, III.. June 5. At today's ses sion of the divorce case of Madame Schumann-Helnk against William Rapp. the deposition of William Na ples, a detective, was read. Naples said he followed Rapp during the month of February, 1913. and saw him enter the apartments of Mrs. Cather ine Dean of New York, late at night and early in the morning. On numer ous occasions be saw Rapp in her company. ERUPTIONS BURY HOMES ON ISLAND Boiling Lava Overwhelms Plan tations and Forest Near Philippines. r Batavia, Java, June 5. There was a violent eruption of several volcanoes today on Dutch Island of Sanguir, 140 miles direct south of Mindadbao, Phil- appines. Boiling lava poured down the mountains, overwhelming forests and cocoa plantations. Simultaneously a heavy ram of stones from various cra ters fell over the whole island. Of ficial reports do not mention loss of life, but register destruction of 100 houses. - ALLENS NEAR TO DEATH IN MEXICO Deputy Consul and Wife With stand Four Days' Siege in Monterey House. . OakUnd, Cal., June 5.--Deputy Uni ted States Consul John C. Allen, who, with his wife, arrived here last night, gave a dramatic recital of his escape from death by a Mexican mob at Monterey. Allen and his wife with stood a four days' seige behind stone walls in a crude Mexican house in Monterey after receipt of the news of the American occupation of Vera Cru, while a frenzied mob surged out side crying: "Death to Gringoes!" "We lieved a lifetime in those four days," said Allen. ''The mob was crazy with hatred. My wife made me prom ise to kill . her, then myself, if they broke through the barriers. We had no firearms, nothing but a butcher knife, but I got it ready, for I should never have allowed her to fall Into their hands alive." At the end of the fourth day the fed eral troops were driven out by the constitutionalists and the Aliens left their "fortress" in safety. COULD LOVE GOV. DUNNE, BUT ALAS, HE'S MARRIED Springfield, 111., June 5. Following the action of Governor Dunne In par doning a convict in order that he might support his family, the gov ernor's mail has been largely increased by letters from humanitarians com mending him for his actioto. One of them, however, failed to reach the governor's desk. ' It was a note from a woman who told of reading of the par don in a newspaper clipping which carried the governor's picture with the story. "Your picture was In the clipping," said the letter. "Your fine, noble self and I feel I love to look at you and really would love to know you. I am going to send you my photo. Wish you would answer in this case. To err is human, to forgive divine, for I really admire you greatly. Hope this will reach you and you will answer same. Tell me if this Is appreciated and If you are a married man." Inclosed In the letter was the writ er's photograph and a request that the governor send his own in exchange. William Sullivan, the governor's sec retary, received the letter. He im mediately remalled it to the writer, en closing a picture of Governor and Mrc. Dunne and their nine, children. i PRESIDENTS PRAYER THAT PEACENEARS Naval Academy Graduates Are Told Nation's Posi tion in Mexico. IN A HUMANE SERVICE Believes People of Vera Cruz Will Change Their Opin- -ion of Americans. Annapolis, Md., June 5. President Wilson today told 154 graduates of the naval academy, many of whom will leave shortly for Mexican waters, that the mission of the United States is one of service to humanity, not of ag grandizement, nor conquest. He later delivered diplomas to the young mid shipmen. The president declared that it was the duty of the United States to serve the world. Speaking of the Vera Cms situation, the president reverently de clared : "I pray God the boys will not have to fight any more," and added that the real good they will do will be their impression on Mexicans. "They are not strutting or bluster ing," he went on. "The people of Vera Crua, who despised and hated Ameri cans, will think differently when our boys leave." The president spoke in the huge armory, which was packed with more than five thousand officers and mid shipment and relatives and friends of the graduates. He was enthusiastical ly cheered. The yacht Mayflower, on which the president. Secretary Daniels and party arrived this morning, was saluted by the battleships Illinois, Idaho and Mis souri and shore batteries. A bad wind and rain storm made the going of the Mayflower difficult during the night, but there was no serious trouble. At 2 this morning on the Mayflower the president received a long wireless message from the American delegates at Niagara Falls. He refused to dis cuss its contents. Tampico Situation Still Annoys. Washington, D. June 5. The sit uation confronting Washington with reference to shipments of arms to .' constitutionalists at Tampico con- ,v tinued today the absorbing subject of deliberation in official quarters. Secre-f tary Bryan reiterated that Tampico was still held as an open port, nob' wiinsianaing uu several snips are en route there with arms for the const! 1 tutionalists. Admiral Howard reported fighting about Mazatlan continues, and the . federal fortifications badly damaged, j iteports oi iorceu loans continue. Vice Consul Silliman of SalUllo con ferred with Secretary Bryan and John Lind today. Silliman confirmed : re ports that the federals compelled him to open the consular safe and took the state department code and valuables. He was in jail 21 days, but was not taken before a firing squad, as bad been reported. MONA LISA THIEF GIVEN YEAR AND FIFTEEN DAYS Florence, Italy, June 5. The judges today accepted a plea of "extenuatlnpt-' circumstances" in behalf of Vlncennis Peugia, who stole Da Vinci's Mons Lisa from the Louvre In Paris and sen tenced him to a year and fifteen days. As he has been in prison since Decem ber he will serve only six months. Spells 1,400 Words Rightly. ' East SL Louis, ni., June 6. Wil liam Roslager, an 11 year old boy In the sixth grade of the public schools here, won a spellfing match here yes terday when he spelled 1,400 words without missing one. The match was limited to 35 boys and girls of the sixth grade, and lasted 114 hours. Moyer Trial Next Month. L'Anse, Mich., June 6. The trial ot President Moyer and other leaders o( the Western Federation of Miners oa charges growing out of the recent copper strike, will begin here July 6, 2 FLYERS BURNED HALF MILE IN AIR Aeroplane Engine Explodes Dur ing Flight of French Armj; -Aviators at Dijon. . . Dijon. France. June 5. Lieutenant Gironne and Sapper Rioux. French. army aviators, were killed near here today. They were flying at an altitude of half a mile over the forest when peasants heard an explosion and saw a burst of flames. A few moments Iat er fragments ot the aeroplane to which the aviators were strapped, fell among the trees. The bodies wer horribljr burned and, muJUated, j 7. 4.