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SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR -NO. 179.
MONDAY MAY 15, 1922 -FOURTEEN PAGES.
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U. S. WON'T
JOi HAGUE
CONFERENCE
Uoyd George in Hole,
Wants Us Too,' One
Official Says.
MAN AND WIFE
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GAS-FILLED
HOUSE KILLS
AGED COUPLE
Hugh McGee and Wife
Victims of Tragedy
at Home.
Popcorn and Peanut Vender
Who Gained Riches and Fame
In Ed Howe's Town, Is Dead
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BY FRED KE"5ER. tfact It -was just a little charcoal
Consolidated Press Correspondent roaster mounted on a -wheelbarrow
(ConrriKnU 1922. by The Argus.) a long, far cry from the modern
Atcwfon Kan May 15 It was stand with its polished nickel plate.
k.nnn nir re. roasted ma
HUGH JTGEE.
BY DAVID LAWREXCE.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
Washington, I). C, May 15. Un
less seme phase of the situation not
sow apparent changes the whole
face of things, the United States will
decline the invitation of the powers
at Genoa to participate in a confer
ence at The Hague to discuss the
Russian problem.
Ambassador Child's cablegram
confirming press dispatches arrived
in time to.be the subject of infor
mal conference today among mem
bers of the administration and con
gress. The prevailing opinion is
not only that America should not
accept but that America will not.
"Lloyd George is in a hole and i3
trying to drag us in with him and
about all Europe wants is our
money," said an influential member
of the administration today whose
opinion will count for a great deal
before a decision on American
policy is finally made.
Entirely apart from the motives,
however, which have prompted the
request for American participation,
the view is emphasized here that
any conference such as proposed
would be a failure unless Russia
herself shows a disposition to
change her attitude. The notes of
the soviet government at Genoa to
gether with recent pronouncements
from Moscow have not been looked
uDon here as affording a sufficient
basis for dealing with the Soviets,
1'rance Plays Skillfully.
France has played a skillful
game. She has known that, in tne
matter of recognizing Russia, the
United States was as much if not,
more hostile to the ideas of the
soviet as any country in "Europe.
France has hitherto been accused of
disrupting European concord and
of standing in the way of economic
reconstruction. Tiring of that cry
and anticipating another flood of
criticism for her stubborn refusal
to concede the Russian viewpoint,
the French diplomatists have in
sisted that they would do whatever
tho united States thought best.
The appeal to America to partici
in ii t?naai.iTi conference is as
much based. upon French hopes of, had had two previous nearly fatal
aliening herself with America, on experiences with gas.
the Russian question as it is on
Lloyd George's desire to take the
Geuoa conference out of its present
hopeless atmosphere and try anew
at The Hague with the powerful
voice of America at the council
table,
Hardin? Embarrassed.
In "Washington, the cablegrams
MRS. HUGH 3TGEE.
Gas escaping from three burners
in a range in the Hugh McGee resi
dence, 647 Fourteenth avenue, yes
terday afternoon resulted in the
death of Mr. and Mrs. McGee. They
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ASKS REMOVAL
OF DRY CHIEF
MRS. SHIELD
TRIAL HALTED
Deland, Fla,, May 15. The case
of Mrs. Alica E. Shields, charged
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McGee, aged
residents of the city, resting peace-!
fully in the home yesterday after
noon, passed to the other world
unconscious of the other's depart-
ure- ' ' ,
The double tragedy occurred short
ly after noon in the residence, 647
Fourteenth avenue. They were
found dead by their son, James Mc
Gee, when lie returned home at
5:15 o'clock. Death resulted from
asphyxiation by illuminating gas.
Mr. McGee was 70 and Mrs. McGee
was 74 years of age.
Mr. McGee, who had been an in
valid and confined to his bed,
passed away in a bedroom adjoin
ing the front room where his wife
was found dead in a rocking chair
in front of the window. Three Jets
were onen on the gas stove in the
kitchen where Mrs. McGee had pre
pared coffee at noon time.
Jiear Death Before.
The aged couple had been near
i.ath from asnhvxiation several
times before. Last October they
were found nearly overcame Dy
gas and two years ago they nar
rowly escaped death in the same
manner. Because oi airs. m
advanced age, according to me
children, their mother sometimes
turned one of the jets open and,
thinking it was lighted, turn to
open another. Her failing mem
ory was believed to have been the
cause of the tragedy yesterday.
The son, James McGee, who re
sided at the family residence, left
early in the morning and Mrs. Mc
Gee was seen Dy me aeignuurj
about 10 o'clock.' After shehad
prepared lunch" at "noon, she was
noticed by the neighbors closing
the window in the front of the
house when the rain began. It was
her custom to sit in the chair at
this window where she was found
dead. Her death is believed to
have occurred shortly after Bhe
closed the window, cutting off all
ventilation in the house.
Mr. McGee EeaUsed Danger.
Mr M-r.ip had evidently detect-
ort th odor of gas and realized his
danger. He had been confined to
his bed six years as a result or an
automobile accident when .he was
thmon to the Davement at Second
avenue and Nineteeth street and
received a fractured hip. At the
time of the accident he was in the
emninv of the city. His wue naa
also been in poor health for some
time. . j
An inquest was conducted by
r'nrnTiPr John F. Maberry this
peanuts -better than anyone else a
Atchison, and because he popped
his corn with a little more care and
used perhaps a little better butter
over it that he rose to wealth and
was able to build two of the larg
est and finest apartment houses in
the city.
Not a single day during the tim
he was building the apartments,
not when the rents were beginning
to add a fortune" to his alreadj
plethoric bank account, did ueorge
Grice miss at tne peanut buuiu.
glass steam engine, and all the
paraphernalia of 20th century in
ventive genius.
Starts With Wheelbarrow.
For five years George Grice had
worked in a local nursery. But the
money making instinct was in him
and the nursery business palled, j
une aay ne as sea tne eiueriy yiv
prietor of the wheelbarrow roaster,
who was doing little business, what
he would take for his outfit. He
has never told just what he laid out
in original capital, but the amount
was ridiculously small, because
" . , '.i .00 root nrnnortr
Now, at the age of 79. he is "-mal i.
and his funeral has attracted men
from all over the state, for George
Grice has enjoyed with Ed Howe,
author and pnuosopner. tne inj
unction of being considered one of
the two best known in Atchison.
Telegrams from all over the United
States are being received by his
widow from friends of the humble
peanut vender who had known him
years ago and moved away.
Story Is Business Epic.
Grice's life story is an epic in
the modern business world. For
will
George Grice built that up later.
- After Grice had taken over the
business there was a great uplift.
Atchison had never tasted such pea
nuts as he produced over the char
coal burner. When the peanuts
weren't roasting, the pop corn was
popping. Soon the reputation of the
Grice products became such that
George needed assistance, and he
took his brother, William Grice, into
the firm. . Each week end found a
substantial increase in the bank ac
count but George Grice never varied
STATE WINS
VICTORY IN
SMALL CASE
Defense Plea for Trial on
One Specific Count
Overruled.
FINDS MOTOR
DRIVERS HAVE
NEW DISEASE
Male Chauffeurs Af
flicted by 'Ocularis
Delectare.'
45 vears his neanut and popcorn
stand was a landmark at Fifth and inia nabits or customs. He continued
Commercial streets. Wearing a)to live ln tho same modest little
shack of a home for years, while
his fortune grew.
Business Apartments.
Then, having faith in the Atchi
son which had made him, he decided
woman's kitchen apron, George
Grice, day in and day out, come
weather fair or foul, quietly sold
his product to hundreds of regular
customers. An humble man in an
hnmble business, through the ge
nius of doing his one thing in life
better than any of his rivals,
through never flagging industry,
through thrift and economy, ne leu
Waukegan, 111., May 15. (By the
Associated Press.) Taking of evi
dence in the trial of Governor Len
Small was postponed this morning
when the defense moved that the
state be required to elect which
section of the conspiracy law they
will go to trial under.
The prosecution had called Louis
Vogel, a clerk in the office of Louis
L. Emmerson, secretary of state, as
its first witness, when C. C. Le-
Forgee demanded that he be heard
on his motion.
Judge Claire C. Edwards excused
the jury from the room during the
argument.
The court asked Mr. LeForgee if
the state did not have the right to
present its case and then, Deiore
it goes to tne jury, eiect wuku
count is to be relied on for a con
viction. .
"This defendant has a right to
know now what he is charged with
and is being tried for," Mr. LeFor
gee said.
began the construction of the apart- j torney general, argued for the state
ment houses. As the buildings tQat tne indictments were properly
mw out of the trround George Hi-awn nnder two counts and the
I watched them and often said that nrmer.ution is entitled to present
n nototA valiiiul of m than 100 1 v. v.i- .hn. woo 1 1 i 1 panrflaontpH I -ii -. .- sjAnnA Kofi-iia tho chnTSTe
uuu. so Keen ana aien was uie the sale or nve sacra 01 ywjiuru a.t
man that few of his customers ; 5 cents the sack. ,
dreamed his real age. They knew Grice was born in Salem county,
his neanut stand had been Atchi-! verw Jersev. In his early life he
son's busy corner as long as they 1 tried his hand at raising horses but
could remember but they did not
know that it was away back in
1877 that George Grices established
his street corner emporium.
It was not an imposing peanut
stand even for those pioneer days
of the community. As a matter of
his venture was not a success. Then j
came the job in the nursery and at
last the modest beginning with the
peanut roaster. No resident of any
community ever was more sincerely
respected in life, or more sincerely
mourned in death.
CHILE AND PERU
BEGIN PARLEY
IN WASHINGTON
Hughes. Calls Confer
ence to Order at
12:14 P.M.
Washington, May 15. The Chilean-Peruvian
conference of Tacna-
Arica, was called to order by Sec
retary Huges at 12:14 p. m.
Washington, May 15. (By the
Associated Press.) Chile and Peru,
estranged for 40 years by their dis
pute over Tacna-Arica, joined here
today in a new effort to compose
their differences and remove the
"problem of the Pacific," as source
to the jury goes on.
Two Sections Involved.
One of the sections of the law In
question deal3 with conspiracy to
cheat and defraud, and the other
with conspiracy to obtain money
under false pretenses.
Tnflefi Edwards overruled the mo
tion by the defense and Vogel was
placed on the stand as the first
witness in the trial.
As Vogel took the stand Judge
Edwards excluded all other wit
nesses from the court room.
The judge called forward Harry
Luehrs, chief assistant in the state
troasnrer's office, and Edward
I Beck, a clerk in the office, the next
Witness tO IOllOW vusei, ami
them sworn before they retired
from the room.
Mr. Vogel, testifying that he was
chief clerk in the index department
of the secretary of state's office,
nresented certified reports of the
election of Governor Small as state
,ocui-oi. in 191 fi and of Lieuten-
ant-Governor Fred E. Sterling, as
, x - , .1.. 4 stato treasurer in 1918.
ciatea rress., ouver uy tu ."TT records were numbered
gold by the nnndreaweignt, pearis. , . . ..101 Edward Pree, as-
BY FORREST WHITE,
Consolidated Press Correspondent.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
Los Angeles, May 15. Edward
H. Morrisey, president of the Los
Angeles Association of Optome
trists in announcing today plans
for the entertainment of the dele
gates to the Western Congress of
Optometry, to meet here in a cou
ple of weeks, said that the congress
would have an important duty ln
the discussion of a new affection of
the eyes and the means of correct
ing it. The importance of finding s
remedy lies in the fact that the dis-
disease is held responsible for a
number of traffic accidents and
causes the eyes of those who ac
quire it to loop the loop at the
slightest provocation.
"It is ocularis delectare," Dr.
Morrisey said, "and this is a dis
ease peculiar to men. They get it
from trying to drive automobiles
and at the same time trying to
watch flappers climb curbs and
street' cars.
Fact 'Sot a Joke.
"It is a fact and not a Joke.
There is a growing tendency to
ward muscular error in the vision
of men and optometrists assign it
to the 'loop the loop' convolutions
of the eye that watch the road and
the girls simultaneously.
More than fifteen- hundred dele
gates from 10 western states are
expected to attend he congress and
when they plunge into tneir dis
cussion of ocularis delectare the
scientific and medical world will
wait expectantly for the clearing
of a path looking to the arrest of a
rapidly spreading malady but the
strange part of the whole thing is
that the. sufferers from ocularis
delectare have no desire to be
ONE BANDIT
IS SLAIN BY
liESSENGER
One Wounded When 8
Masked Men Try to
Bob R. I. Train.
UNTOLD RICHES
TAKEN BY RUSS
IN CHURCHES
Tucson. Ariz., May 16. With two
well directed bullets Express Mes
senger H. Stewart early today frus
trated a spectacular attempi Dy
eight masked bandits to rob Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific train.
No. 3, the "Golden State Limited,"
bound from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Stewart killed one of the bandits,
apparently wounded a second and
routed the band empty-handed.
Passengers were not molested in
the holdup, which was staged near
Jaynes, a flag station eight miles
west of Tucson.
Carried Dynamite.
The body of the slain bandit.
whose hands were encased in rub
ber gloves, was recognized by
Sheriff McDaniel of Pinal county,
as that of a Tucson poolroom
habitue. Beside the bodywas found
a sack of dynamite with which the
bandits evidently intended to blow
strong boxes in the mail and bag-
A red fuse, a railroad stop signal,
was used by the gang to halt th
limited at an isolated spot midway
between Jaynes and Cortaro, at 1:10
o'clock this morning.
Seven Men Escape.
Three masked men boarded the
guara
pneri-ne and a fourth stood
u n'icaonpcr rmr.hes When
cured and will fight the treatment stewart saw that Conductor Made
to the last ditch or high curb.
Millions in Metal and
Jewels Stored in
Moscow.
morning at :au ociotn m -" r
Wheelan funeral home. The ver-1 America.
with murder in the first degree 'dict returned by tne jury was u.u6 o. "
in connection with the killing of i ..deata result-! from accidental as- ference was called together in
husband, William A. sniems, pnyxiation." The son, james, auu p.cc
. t . i t o-?n I nf oil tho pnTArnTnonta in the
Eep. Hill, Maryland, Asks Mellon
to Discharge Hajnes; Cites
"Lynch Law" Bulletin.
Washington, "May 15. Secretary
Mellon was asked by Representa
.... , . . , v.t, ,nf Mn.rvland.
uve rim, ra-;juu..., - , . , j ... (rtnnt wit-
to order the removal rrom cii-c - J-.'" tand would
heT
fnrmerlv of Moline. 111., near here,
Feb 6. was continued late today
until the fall term of the circuit
court.
Deland, Fla., May 15. Selection
of a jury in the trial of Mrs. Alice
V. Shields, chareed with the mur
der, near here. Feb. 6, last, of her.
husband. William A. Shields, for
merly of Moline, 111., was inter
rupted this morning by a motion
of the prosecution for postpone
ment until the fall term of court.
The state's attorney explained ne
Pmhiliitinn Commissioner riajnes
or vhnever else in his office was ;not
responsible for a recent press Dune
tin which Mr. Hill declared con
stituted "official approval of the ap
plication of lynch law to the sup
pression of liquor violations.
BEGIN MAILING
BIBLE VERSES TO
ALL NEWSPAPERS
fineinnoH Ohio. May lo-
Mailing of bible quotations to
"editors of every Christian pub
lication in the United States,
was begun today by the .Back-to-the-Bible
bureau of Cincin
nati.
The bureau is non-sectarian.
its maiimo- heinE done iree, n-
nanced by a group of men who
believe that good citizensmi
promoted by daily publication in
newspapers and other Journals
of bible verse.
Starting two years ago tne nu
rean riinnri ita service until
its daily bible verses alreadyl
ro Tuircnirwrs hav-
' J intuitu ill " r- . .
ing a circulation of about 10,
000.000. These publications re
quested the service. The new
Plan is to extend it to all papers
through mailing them a month
ly publication called "Bible
Thoughts" each containing a
verse for each day of the month.
The first verse in today's in
itial issue of "Bible Thoughts"
is: ....
"A morning prayer: "Create in
aie a clean heart, O God; and
renew a right spirit within me.'
Psalms 51:10."
return until that time. ine
defense protested, asking that the
trial proceed, and the court took
the motion under advisement.
THE WEATHER
Wir tonizht and Thursday. Not
much change in temperature.
Highest temperature yeswiuoj,
69; lowest last nignt, o.i.
Wind velocity at t a. ux., miic
per hour.
Precipitation in last 24 hours,
.66 inch.
12 m. 7 p.m. 7 a.m
yester. yester. today.
Dry bulb temp... 55 57 54
Wet bulb temp..:54 5- &i
Rel. humidity ...9 : 2 81
River stage at 7 a. m., 7.6, a rau
of .2 in last 24 hours.
Sunset today, 7:16;
morrow, 4:41.
RlTer Forecast.
The Mississippi river from
nhnnni to Muscatine
change but little during the next
sunrise to-
be-will
two days.
ANDREW HAMRKK.,
Meteorologist.
neighbor, Mrs. Anna McCauley, 1330
Seventh street, testuiea at me m-
quest.
Dr. Joseph De Silva, who was
called after the son summoned the
neighbors, said that due to the
advanced age of the couple and
their weak physical condition,
death came quickly.
Neighborhood Shocked.
The entire neighborhood, in
which Mr. and Mrs. McGee resided,
was shocked at the news of the
tragedy and gathered in the home
after the bodies were discovered
by the son. The aged couple were
well known, having been residents
nf th citv 44 years.
Mr. McGee was born in Ireland
and came to this country in 1873.
He was united in marriage with
Mrs. McGee, who was formerly Miss
Bridget Haffey, May 5, 1878, in
Rock Island. He was a member
of St. Joseph's church and the
Western Catholic union.
Surviving Mr. and Mrs. McGee
are three daughters, Katherine and
Sarah, Davenport, and Mrs'. Arthur
Gotthardt, Rock Island and four
sons, John, St. Louis; Hugh, Dav
enport; Daniel, Chicago, and
.Tarnes. at home.
Mrs. McGee is also survived by
five sisters, Mrs. Anna Garah, Mrs.
Maeeie Gillispie and Mrs. Hannah
Donegan. all residing in Pennsyl
vania; Mrs. Alice iveeney, oiraiwu,
vh and a sister m Kansas oity.
nnuble funeral services will be
held at 9 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing at St. Joseph s churcn. itev. r.
H. Durkin will conduct the sur
vives. Burial will be in the family
lot in Calvary cemetery.
POLE-GERMAN
PACT SIGNED
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of all the governments In the
world.-in the Pan-American Union
building.
Secretary Speaks for U. S.
The spokesman for President
Harding, who invited the two gov
ernments to discuss their problems
her Secretary Hughes called the
conference to order, sounding its
key-note in an address expressing
the anxious but impartial interests
of the United States in an agree
ment. Luis Izquierdo responded for
Chile and Meliton Porras for Peru.
In prepared addresses each de
clared the willingness of his gov
ernment to accept a fair and just
settlement and the hope of his del-
gation that the negotiations would
be a success.
One of the most distinguished
gatherings Washington has seen in
many years made up the list of in
vited guests. Brilliant decorations
in which the colors of Chile and
Peru predominated, were arranged
for the occasion about the meeting
place.
Marks 12-Year Lapse.
Today's session was the first oc
casion in 12 years when fully ac
credited plenipotentiaries of Chile
and Peru had been placed side by
side at a council table. -It marked
a resumption of diplomatic rela
tions formally broken off in 1910,
although there have been a number
of diplomatic exchanges since by
round-about channels.
by the bushel, and diamonds by the
peck, dumped into . wooden boxes,
Jute sacks, pastboard cartons or
merely wrapped in parcels all this
treasure hoard awaits opening and
sorting at the store house of the
valuables, condemned and removed
by the soviet government from the
churches and synagogues of Russia
for the benefit of the famine suffer
ers. The correspondent of the Associ
ated Press was permitted to visit
the five-story loft building which
constitutes the storehouse, by con
sent of M. I. Kalenin, peasant pres
ident of Russia and head of all the
famine relief organizations.
100-Foot Boom F filed.
One floor of the building, about
100 feet long and 45 feet wide, is al
ready nearly filled with
sistant state's attorney of banga
mon county announcing that the
Drosecution had already marked
(Continued On Last Page.)
2 FATALLY HURT
IN AUTO CRASH
Louis Smith, Danville, and Stanley
Grnbazk, Chicago, Expected to
Die Following: Sunday Crash.
CHILD LABOR LAW
IS TTRT.TI INVALID
BY JUSTICE TAFT
Washington, May 15. The child
labor law was today held by the
supreme court to be unconstitu
tional, and not valid. The opinion
was delivered by Chief Justice Taft.
The decision of the court was
rendered in a case brought by the
Danville, 111.. May 15. Louis
Smith, a pawnbroker of Danville,
anrt stanlev H. Grubazk. a furni
ture salesman of Chicago, will
probably die as a result of an auto
mobile collision on the Dixie high
way near Hoopeston Sunday eve
ning. "
C. M. Crayton, attorney of Dan
ville; Joseph Golamowski of Chi
cago and Pearl Gordon, a chauffeur,
were seriously injured, but will re
cover. Smith, Crayton and Gordon
were returning from Chicago when
they met Golamowski and Grubazk
in another car, traveling north.
The Jatter attempted to pass a
string of cars and crasned into tne
Smith machine.
AUTO IS HIT BY
TRAIN; 1 KILLED
Harry Gwinner, Son of Alton Alder
man, Is Victim ; Girl Is Prob
ably Fatally Hurt.
Lgan was in danger he killed with
one shot tne bandit wno nau ureu
at the conductor, then sent another
bullet at four robbers who were
advancing on the baggage and mail
cars. One, apparently hit, Btag
oorori and shouted to his comrades.
Then all seven sped away in their
cars.
It is not believed there were any
tri-city people on the train. Pas
senger agents in the three cities to
day had no records of resilents oi
this city who were enroute to the
coast on the train, which left this
city Friday night.
May. 15. Harry
eovernment against the Drexel
n'rtioipa I Furniture company, of North Caro-
s i lUnorvnT olnno thoeo Una. ailU was UUC Ul mice i-ooo
amounting o more than ' 90,655 brought in that state testing the
J. s, o,i ,rf,.o.? validitv of the law, and in all of
";"cVr"' ohin-lwhich the United States disrict
000 precious stones, mostly dia--court decided against the govern
ment.
uiuuub. . .,1 , , J etittir.Tiol tr-
!tarto tre1datVthe courtwas" enacteTafter Uhe northbound Chicago ft Alton
provincial churches are to. De u, i declared in - nassenser train struck the auto-
8M ;f..S of Congress which ex- mobile in whic hthey were riding at
A 1UU5U v w . ... - . . . I ,
flonotoH arpnmnaniK each box as ClUdeo iroiu iukisuho
io hrmirht nniior hpjw enard. nroducts in whose
BANDITS GRAB
ROAD PAYROLL
Four Men in Automobile Get S.10,
000 from Frisco Machine; D?
tective Wounded.
-Tprsevville. Ill
Gwinner, son of Alderman A. M. Dank at the time.
Gwinner of Alton, was msiauuj
killed and Edith Trabaugh, also of
Alton, was probably fatally injured
at 1t o'clcck this morning, wueu
Springfield, Mo., May lo. Four
bandits in an automobile, intercept
ed a machine carrying the payroll
of the St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad company this morning and
escaped with $30,000 in currency
and silver. Police Detective Ben
Lamb was wounded in the left arm
bv a shot nred Dy a uauuiu iu -driver
of the car in which the ban
messenger was riding was wounded
in the back. m
Fremont, Mo., May 15. The Fre
mont State bank today was held
un hv two men who escaped on foot
Lwith'approximately $2,000.
iossemeu ucaucu uj -
Oliver are in pursuit. J. L. Vogel,
! cashier, was the only person m m
to the storehouse, but the
value only will be known
appraisers open the
sort their contents.
rnmmerce the railroad crossing near ueiui,
manufacture ! nine miles south of here,
exact child labor had been used. The law
when affected by today s decision was
parcels and
COAL PRODUCTION IS LARGE.
virtually the same except tnat it
imposed an excise tax of 10 per
cent upon the annual net profits
of establishments employing child
Washington, May 15. Reports labor. Opponents oi tne iaw wu
on bituminous coal production in- tended the new law was an uncon
dicate current output of 4,500,000 .stitutional invasion of the police
tons a week. I powers of the state.
Geneva. May 15. (By tre Associ-
ated Press.) The Economic treaty
between Poland and Germany, set
tling the Upper Silesian question
between the two nations, was sign
ed today in the presence of the pared with jju,uoo,oou in .viarcn.
council of the League of Nations j and imports totaled $217,000,000
and many other itnerested spec- against $256,000,000 the previous
tators. month.
FOREIGN TRADE
DROPS IN APRIL
Export From T. S. Show Decrease
of $9,000,000 From Previous
Month.
Washington, May 15. America's
foreign trade slumped in April aft
er ' its recent advances, accordi ig
to reports issued today by -the com
merce department. Exports for the
month aggregated $321,000,000 com-i
"Do Your Bit" for the Community Fund!
Tomorrow is the last day of the 1922 drive, and final reports
will be submitted by the majors of the four divisions at a meet
ing to be held tomorrow night.
Every citizen who has the welfare of his home city at heart
will want to be represented in the total sum reported by the so
licitors who are unselfishly giving their time and efforts to raise
$50,000 for civic betterment. If it-had not been for the fund
raised last year the situation among the poor and the unemployed
would have been extremely critical. If you are going to help at
all do it now.
That slogan "suppose nobody cared" is worth thinking about.
It ought to inspire everyone who is drawing a salary, or who is
blessed with a fair amount of this world's goods to help the Kock
Island Community Fund reach the $50,000 goal.
Once the great Henry Ward Beecher preached a sermon which
for brevity ranks as a classic. Making an appeal for a chari
table cause be said, "He that giveth to the poor, lendeth unto
the Lord. If you are satisfied with the security, down with the
dust."
We echo that saying, "down with the dust." In other words,
pledge, and do it quickly, to the Rock Island Community Fund.
Gwinner's head was severed from
his body. He was employed at the
Wood River Refinery of the Stan
dard Oil company.
Miss Trabaugh, who had, both
legs broken and her right arm
broken and injured internally, was
rushed to St. Joseph's hospital, at
Alton by automobile.
BORAH WOULD
BOW TO SOVIETS
Offers Resolution In Senate to De
clare for Recotrnition of Ituss
Government,
RELEASE 9 L W. WS.
Leavenworth. Kan., May 15.
Industrial Workers of the World
received at the federal prison Sept.
7, 1918, with "Big Bill" Haywosd
consignment, were released, having
completed their sentences.
PINClfSEEKS
GOVERNOR SEAT
Philadelphia. Pa.. May 15. Final
la in the Reoublican voters
of Pennsylvania were made today
by the opposing candidates for
nomination at the state-wide pri
mary tomorrow. All political par
ties will select candidates to be
voted for in November, but the Re-
Washington, May 15. The senate
would declare for the recognition
of the Russian soviet government,
under a resolution introduced to
day by Senator Borah. Republican,
of Idaho.
fiTTES MARGOT AS
EXAMPLE OF WHAT
ONE OUGHT NOT BE
i
Chicago, May 15. Charles H.
Brown, dean oi me ..i
school of Yale university in an
address here yesieraay, ub.u uv
Marmot Asauith as a "horrible
example of what one ought not
to be.' , ,
"A person may De iree n.-ui
vices and yet be lacking in the
qualities that make up the gen
,i..,,n hp Raid. "There is
vtr viarcot Asauith. She is a I
dutiful wife, and behaves well
in church. But her diary out
rages the finer senses of all
in Knaiand ana viie
i nuhlicans alcne have contests.
. . - . . .. . . . . . I rid33t:a -1 - O
The most interesting cgnt is oe- ... .. . states and was exceed
tween Attorney-General George n,. . iine,,v vniear. And she did it for
Alter and GifEord Pinchot, fonneri j - ,- Poor woman! she lost her
Uioner, for the Republican gaber- - i t
I natorial nomination (r: