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mi LLINOIS STATE NEWS • *75* this Mchenry plaindealbb, Mchenry, ha.' ,. . < ' . ' ' ' I V >< ' * s I'rbana.--Teachers of vocational ag- Hculture from over the state were in fttinual conference here. The confer- •Cce is a part of the state program for vocational education, and is held ibder the direction of the state. Adtresses were delivered by Francis G. Blair, state superintendent of public Instruction; C. H. Lane, chief of the Agricultural education service, federal board for vocational education, and Don H. W. Mumford of the college of agriculture. Ilarrisburg.--Clement Farrell, thlr- , teen, and Julian Gustln, fifteen, have Wifely reached Cave-In-Rock, 111., on the Ohio river, after a 100-mile trip in • boat made of barrel staves and scrap lumber., Starting east of Harrisburg, the boys launched, their boat In the Middle Pork, floated down to the Saline . fiver and finally reached the Ohio fiver, arriving in two days at their destination at Cave-in-Rock. Bloomington. -- Mrs. Clarence A. . -fcfinham claims the championship as the best woman horseshoe pitcher of the United States. She has a trunkful of medals and trophies won in the barnyard game. Her best record in a single game is 35 ringers. Mrs. Lanham will pitch at many tournaments lit the United States during the coihll* g summer and fall. Tallula.--That section of the state «sr n*ar Tallula is recovering from the ef- -'•* , ' ftects of the disastrous wind and hail storm which swept through the territory, causing the loss, it Is estimated, of 200,000 bushels of wheat, stripping of fruit trees, much damage to residences and outbuildings, the breaking of windows and the killing of three horses. Sterling.--The courts probably will N called upon to decide whether the board of supervisors acted within its right when It voted $13,500 for the purchase of 77 acres of land for right-ofway for state bond issue road No. 8, in the vicinity of Erie and Denrock. r" The legality of the act has been questioned. "Waukegan.--A 61-pound sturgeon was landed in Lake Michigan near here by two fishermen. This is an unusual catch, because of late years very few sturgeons have been caught in the take and they are apparently on the ? verge of becoming extinct, although once they were very numerous in the lake waters. • . Edwardsville. -- The Edwardsvllle Concert band has Joined In a plan with the Highland and Colllnsville bands for a joint, band concert and picnic to be given at Llndendale park, I)', at Highland, on Sunday, August 19. The ^program calls for a continuous ^ concert all day. rfjf: Chicago.--A short course in instruci ? / ttve and experimental work is to be oftfcred, beginning August 15, to rural public health nurses, under the direcjp|, Won of the rural public health nursing |j| ; service of Cqpk county, according to II' Miss Harriet Palmer, R. N„ supervisor . at Chicago. ' Springfield.--Application with the 1|" v .?* > --Illinois commerce , commission has been filed by the Three Star Bus line at Chicago Heights for permission to Operate a motorbus line between Chicago Heights and the Indiana state and betweeen Chicago Heights ^ ihd Momence. Jacksonville. -- William Brummon, seventy-one, a Litchfield farmer, and Miss Eva Slight, thirty, were married •• here, an hour after they met. The wedding was reported to have been brought about by* a matrimonial •gency. Tampico.--Robbers have taken "* ..particular fancy to the stock of the E. A. Bennett general store here. Twice' Within a month the place has beeik pillaged, the thieves on their first visit taking $3,500 worth of goods and on the second trip $1,700 worth. : Rockford.--Rev. George T. lllddell. stor of Westminster Presbyterian urch, was a member of the clf»ss Just admitted to practice law in this State. He passed the bar examinations successfully after several years' study. 1 St. Charles.--That the smallpox epifljfemlc here was caused by germs » wrought to St. Charles In costumes / rented in Chicago for a home talent play is the belief of health officers. The disease IS*POW under control. Roscoe--Union of the Methodist and Congregational churches here Is to take place as soon as the state officers qt the respective denominations sancfjon the merger., 1 Carlinvllle.--Carlinville made a gain Of 673 in population during the last ear, as shown by the school census, e 1923 census showed a total of 6,- Last year it was only 5.329. Pana.--Charles N. Elchelberger, sixty, retired business man and former city treasurer, died of heart disease. He had been. a leader in Democratic circles. Llncoln.-r-As a memorial to her siot her, Mrs. J. M. Satly has given ^ §15,000 toward the erection of a new ' ; fJethodist church here. Sterling.--Victor Anderson, fifty, a farmer living south of Prophetstown, locked himself in his garage, slashed '••..'Jiis throat and wrist with a razor and firank a bottle of paris green. He died i -within a short time. He was despondent over the loss of his wife three Weeks ago. Eight small children are left. < Springfield.--Police are working on several clues in an effort to recover the Jewelry, estimated at $20,000. (carried away by burglars from the home «f Edward Shipp, well-known circus man. Springfield.--Governor Small vetoed house bill No. 655, which would authorize Illinois municipalities to lm pose license taxes on businesses and industries. Springfield.--Governor Small signed the bill which1 prohibits Illinois banks , ; from operating branches or having any offices except at their regular 1 places of business. Hoopeston.--A storm of almost cyclonic proportions caused a heavy property loss in ihe farming region six - miles south nf here on the Danville V toad, it was followed b^lreavvvrqtps, Crbiina.--Of the four crops--com, wheat, oats and soy beans--corn was the only crop which showed a net profit when 5 per cent interest on $250 land was charged as an expense of production, according to the records kept by the University of Illinois on 13 farms in Champaign and Piatt counties last year. The profit on corn was only 39 cents an acre, while the loss on wheat was $1.70 per acre, on soy beans $4.59 fin acre, and the loss on oats $9.60 per acre. Pana.--Will F. Jordan, editor of the Pana Palladium, who was authorized by the Pana Lions' club to requesl President Charles A; Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox to pitch "Lefty'1 Louis Michael Cvengros, well-known Pana boy, in the St. Louis Browns- White Sox game at St. Louis July 4, has received an affirmative answer from Mr. Comiskey. Springfield.--Because the entire Wilcox family was killed in an automobile crossing accident here several months ago, the Chicago & Alton railroad may escape paying any damages, although It admits that there might be a chance to collect soine. The railroad asserted in Circuit court that there Is no one left entitled to recover damages, as every member of the family was dead; Shelbyville.--A piece of black walnut limb was dug up 86 feet underground by Merritt Ragan, a farmer living south of here. Mr. Ragan found the limb while digging a well on the Charles Flenner farm. The wood Is solid and in good condition, although it was buried probably hundreds of years. Rockford.--^Arraigned before Judge F. E. Carpenter on the charge of stealing a bicycle, Percy Steele, seventeen, was "sentenced" to commit to memory the Ten Commandments within a space of two weeks and report back to the court, if he wished to escape being sent to jail or the state training school for boys. Manlto.--Central Illinois' most unusual harvest, that of weed selling, il$ now under way. Buyers from the wholesale drug firms are here making the annual purchases of catnip, hemp, hoarhound, carpenter square and other medicinal weeds. Many families devote their entire time to gathering the plants. La Salle.--The Standard Oil station at Third and Bucklln streets, was robbed for the second time within a few months when a lone bandit held up Hubert Confrey, in charge of the station, and forced him to open the safe. The holdup locked up young Confrey In a washroom and escaped with a roll of bills. Springfield.--The Bank of Mascoutah, St. Clair county, was granted a charter by Auditor of Public Accounts Russell. The capital stock of the new bank is $100,000, and the surplus is $50,000. The president is Julius Postel and the cashier Allan J. Postel. The bank takes over the First National bank of Mascoutah. Marion.--The annual Williamson county singing convention will be held on Sunday, July 22, Instead of July 15, as previously announced. It was made known. The change In date was was made so as to conform to the wishes of the largest number of choirs. The sing will this yeur be held in the First Christian church. Edwardsvllle,--The eleven lodges of the Knights of Pythias which are in the Fifth district are making arrangements for a big Fourth of July celebration to be held at Stemmers' park, on Horseshoe lake, near Edwardsvllle. There will be ball games) races, drills, speaking and dancing. Aurora.--Cupid Alblngen, a trotter owned by C. E. Beverldge of Chicago and trained here by Henry Thomas, has set a new trotting record for halfmile tracks in Ohio. Cupid won the 2*512 trot at Canton in 2:07*4. the fasteat a trotter has ever gone on a half' mile oval in the Buckeye state. Woodstock. -- Seventeen thousand marriage licenses have been issued in McHenry county since August 6. 1837, when John G. Ragan got license No. 1, to marry Miss Harriet Hubbard. License No. 17,000 was issued to John V. Mueller of Gleen View and Miss May Hannapple of Chicago. Sullivan. --"Ralph, twelve-.vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Itowers, living seven miles northeast of here, was shot through the lungs while attempting to take a gun to pieces. Doctors stated he had a chance for rcovery. Chicago.--May building contracts In Illinois surpassed all previous records, according to the survey prepared by the F. W. Dodge corporation. The city of Chicago showed the largest total volume since October. 1919. Ottawa.--Friends of Lee O'Neill Browne, veteran member of the Illinois house, declared that he will seek the Democratic nomination for governor as a wet unless tli#» party chiefs declare for another wet governor; Waukegfin.--Millions of caterpillars are Invading Lake county, according to T. A. Simpson, county superintendent of highways, who.has just returned to Waukegan from a tour of the whole county. Rock Island.--U. W. Bard wel l of Woodstock has l\een chosen superintendent of Rock Island's public sc hools, succeeding E. C. Fisher, who be;utines head of the Peoria public school system. There were 40 applicants for Fisher's place. Waukegan.--June, 1923. bids well to set a new record for marriage licenses Issued in Lake county. According to the county clerk 18tt licenses were Issued during the first half of June. Sterling.--Earl Abell, twenty, was electrocuted In a factory here. He left a wife and three-week-old baby. --Wlnthrop" Harbor.--After 30 years without a place where to worship Winthrop Harbor finally is to have a church of its own, it was announced. A site has been purchased and Lloyd H. Scheerer of Evanston selected as pastor. Sterling.--A bolt of llahtnlng leaping from a small black cloud that hih peared over the farm of L. R. Rutt killed one of his valuable cows, which was grazing in a pasture. Woodstock.--.John Nleman was He verely Injured when ; ttat kid by eu enraged bull. REVEALS PLOT President Harding Tells Ho* Ha Saved the Unions From Gapitalism. ; ^ SAYS HE AVOIDED EXTREMES Discloses In Helena Speech How Organized Employers Tried to Get Him to Aid Move Against Collective Bargaining. Helena; Mont., June 80.--In one of the most remarkable speeches of his administration and of his present tour of the Middle West and West, President Harding here proclaimed himself as a staunch defender of organized labor against the assaults of capitalists who sought and had expected him to help them break It down. The President arto made a fervent appeal for revival of religious sincerity among the American people; uttered a stirring pronouncement on behalf of American womanhood; insisted that the present standard of American wages must be sustained, rebuking capitalist systems which have tried to use the Republican party to help beat back this standard; and in the most virile language reiterated his opposition to the Bolshevist^ of Russia. Here, where the I. W. W. movement was cradled, the President's words were enthusiastically received, and, earlier in the day at Butte, where he spoke on somewhat similar lines, he received a good hearing. In his address here the President said, almost at the outset, that the capitalists of America had iexpected him to break dowp the position in the social structure reached by labor as a result of the war. , • "On capital's bide of the line," said the President, "were those who hoped that the administration would lend itself to their program of breaking down organized labor and sending it back to the era of individual bargaining for the individual job. "On the labor side of the line were those who hoped, by exorbitant demands and an attitude of uncompromising insistence, to force the nationalization of some of ou? most important industries and services. "Between these two extreme groups, and confident that we had behind us the overwhelming public opinion of the nation, we have tried to hold the sqales even--to prevent on the one side the destruction of organized labor and, on the other side, to frustrate those programs which look to the ultimate destruction ofrprivate capital and the nationalization Bf all the national instrumentalities of production." GUY QUNDAKEH Guy Guild: ! >>t Phllmlelpbia, i'a., has been elected president o£ the International Rotary club at the fourteenth annual convention held. In St. Louis. Mr. Gundaker is a noted restaurateur. TO SEIZE RUM SHIPS Washington Asserts * Importa* tions Serves No Purpose. British Labor Upholds Their King and Queen London, June 30.--A resolution declaring that the royal famlljs^uu longer was a necessary part of tlie British constitution fulled in passage by an overwhelming majority at the Labor party's congress. George Lansbury voiced the party's attitude regarding royalty when he declared that it was Immaterial now whether the British; have a king or not. "I used to think that the monarchy made the workers poor," Mr. Lansbury said. "Since I have dined with royalty'I have decided that they are ordinary clay like apyoue else. They talk like you, only a little worse." Drastic Action Ready for Promulgation by the Government Following a Conference of Officials at Washington. Washington, June 28.--Treasury department officials at a conference decided to seize foreign ships which hereafter bring beverage liquor into American waters and to arrest the captains. Notice of this decision, it is said, will be served on the steamship lines. A "deadline" date may be set for application ©f the new policy. The department officials base their decision upon the belief that foreign steamship lines have now brought liquor into American ports and have filed formftl protest against seizure, so that the basis for court' fights and for diplomatic protests has been laid. Consequently, It Is said, repeated Importations of liquor can serve no useful purpose except to Indicate a defiance of the Treasury department's Interpretation of the recent Supreme court decision on the Volstead act. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Gilbert presided at the conference. Officials discussed the clause of the Volstead act which makes it mandatory for the government to seize "the vehicle and team or automobile, boat, •lr, or water craft" which transports Or possesses liquor illegally. Ships which are seized under the law must be held unless bonds twice the value of tlit vessels are put up as surety that the ship will be returned to the custody' dfMederal officials at the time of trial. If the verdict Is guilty, the ships must be sold at auction. v' Premier Poincare of France Answers the Pope at Rome Paris, June 30.--Answering the pope* Premier Poincare told the senate that he wanted the "temporal and spiritual powers" to know that France vwill continue her "measures of coercion until Germany surrenders." The senate cheered him and unanimously voted 307,000,000 francs credit which he had asked for the Ruhr occupation. Seven Germans Doomed to Die for Sabotage in Ruhr Mayence, June 80.--Seven Germans were sentenced to death by a French court-martial for sabotage. The court condemned another man to penal servitude for life and another to five years' imprisonment. The condemned men were Herren Sasse,*Maurer, Gruber, Hanme, Schneider, Dryer and Frey. French Occupation of Ruhr Is Extended at Mayence Coblenz, June 30.--French occupation was extended along the eastern edge of the Mayence bridgehead to Langen, on the Barnstadt-Frankfort railroad line, eight miles south of Frankort, and to Eschborn on the Frankfort-Kromberg line, seven and a half miles west of Frankfort^ Belgians Slay Four Germans Who Ignore Their Orders Buer, Germany, June 27.--Four Germans have been shot and killed here by Belgian sentinels, and three others wounded. In every, case, according to the Belgian authorities, the shootings were the result of violations of orders by the victims. No Seizure of Ships, Says Secretary Mellon London, June 30.--Andrew W. Mellon, the American secretary of the treasury, when asked whether it was true that the United States intended to seize ships carrying liquor into American waters, is said to have replied that this report "was a pure invention." Slayer Killed by Motorcycle of the Man He Slew Freeport, HI., June 30.--Clarence Frueh, a member of the Freeport police force, was shot and Lilled by an unidentified tramp whom he had arrested at the Illinois Central depot here. Then the tramp, in attempting to escape on the officer's motorcycle, crashed into a curbing and" broke his neck. Porterfield Becomes Haynes* Aid. Washington, June 30.--E. L. Porterfield was appointed special assistant prohibition comn^sioner, with headquarters in Waahiflygton. He has been serving as divisional prohibition chief, with headquarters at Toledo. Illinois Roads Bill Signed. Springfield, 111., June 30.--Governor Small signed the bill for a new $100,- 000,000 hard-roads bond Issue. The proposal will be submitted to the voters of the state at the election in November, 1924. Three Children Perish In Fire. Escanaba, Mich., June 29.--Bert and Bertha, eleven-month-old twins, and Vivian, three, children of Mr. and Mrs. Gunner Wickman of Gladstone, were burned to death in a firp that destroyed their home. > Storm Damages Springfield, Me. . Springfield, Mo., June 29.--This city was Isolated more than six hours as the result of a cloudburst and storm which caused damages of many thousands of dollars. The storm uprooted 'Viica Reserve Board Says General Business Activity Is Heavy Washington, June 28.--The federal reserve board issued a summary of general business and financial conditions, in which it pointed out that production and shipment of general merchandise and inannfacture during -May and the first half of June continued heavy. 4,218 Men Laid Off. Detroit, Mich., June 30.--Four tboih sand two hundred and eighteen men, were laid off in Detroit automobile factories during the week ending June bringing the total employed In factories, here to 223,013. * Liquor Schooner Seized. Riverhead, N. Y., June 30.--A twomasted schooner, 400 cases of liquor and several automobiles were seized at Hampton Bays by county and federal officers. Three men were arrested, but' the captain and the crew escaped. Forest Firea in Alaska. Anchorage, Alaska, June 29.--United States forest rangers are fighting a number of forest fires near this city. Ordinarily rain puts out incipient forest fires, but for a month there has been hardly any rain here. STRIKE CASES ' NOLLE PROSSED , <•' -- -- \ . * Fii#itCourt Dismisses Criminal Conspiracy Charges Against * Miners and Operators. >-:0J COL C. E. C. G. CHARLTON Ford Man to Manage Car H«M.V iDetroit, Mlclt., June 29.--Mayor Doremus and the street railway commission asked William K. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford Motor company, to become general manager of the Detwtt straqf railway department. DAUGHERTY URGES THE MOVE Attorney General, However, Declares , Still Believes Defendant's Acta Unlawful--Indictments Returned Under Anti-Trust Act. A , St ' Indianapolis, Ind., Jane 29.--Criminal. conspiracy cases against 127 coal operators, union officials and miners, and 99 corporations all growing out of the 1921 coal strike were dismissed in the Federal court here by Judge A. B. Anderson. The cases had been pending since Indictments were returned February 25,' 1922. They were dismissed on the personal petition of Harry M. Daugherty, United States attorney general, who appeared in court. The indictments nolle prossed charged that the 1921 strike constituted a gigantic conspiracy among the defendants to increase price of coal and restrain trade. They were returned under the Sherman "anti-trust" act. Belief that a conviction could not be Obtained formed the basis for the motion for dismissal. Mr. Daugherty said in a statement to the court. He declared, however, that many things done at a joint meeting of operators and miners constituted a conspiracy. He also urged dismissal on grounds that h * wanted to make it impossible to say that the legal branch of> the government was unnecessarily impeding the progress of legitimate business. At the same time he denied the government is taking a backward step in the enforcement of the Sherman act. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, was among the defendants dismissed. Operators freed from the charges In-, elude Hulbert M. Ferguson, John Chesterfield, Walter M. Tally and many others. Giant Liner Leviathan to Have Supply of Lfctuor New York, June 29.--The giant liner Leviathan, It was said here, will have a considerable stock of liquor in its medical cabinet when it sails July 4 on its maiden voyage as a United Spates passenger vessel. The permit was issued by Dr. E. K. Sprague of the United States public health service, but the amount was not disclosed. Other vessels flying the American flag also have applied for permits authorizing them to maintain a liquor store for medicinal purposes. U. S. Not Trying to Excel Britain's Airship Total Washington, June 28.--The United States government hss no Intention of trying to compete with Great Britain in the numerical strength of its air force. This statement was made by Secretary of War Weeks in response to questions concerning Prime Minister Baldwin's announcement that Great Britain would increase its air force from eighteen to fifty-two squad- Britain Never Will Agree to Twelve-Mile Limit London, June 29.--Great Britain will not agree to the proposal that the United States be permitted to search foreign ships for liquor within twelve miles of the American shor^. This was made plain in the house of lords by .Marquis Curzon, foreign secretary. A debate was In progress on the question^ ot American seizures of ship liquor. *' I. C. C. Orders Assigned Car Regulation Dropped Washington, June 27.--Abolition of the "assigned car rule," by which railroads have Insured a supply of coal for their own use during mine strikes and other stringencies, was ordered by the interstate commerce commission. The ruling was made over the protest of the railroads and is the result of an Investigation begun more than two years ago by the commission. Bumble Bee Didn't Sting, but Wrecks Car Instead Lake Geneva, Wis., June 29.--A bumble bee wrecked an automobile and severely injured Mrs. Lillian Bally on the Elkton road, near Cbmo, Wis. When a child became frightened as the insect flew into the car, the child grabbed the arm of Miss Pearl Marsden, Janesvllle, who was driving. The car went Into a ditch. il. 8. Army Officer Slain by Wifa. Annlston, Ala., June 30.--Lieutenant James C. Itichner was shot and killed by his wife. Who is held In the Calhoun county jalL The shooting occurred in th» quarters of the couple at Camp McClellan. x"N New portrait of Col. C. B. CL O. Charlton, C. M. G., D. S. O., who sneceeds Maj. Gen. H. K. Bethell as military attache of the British embassy in Washington. PLEADS FOR GERMANY Pope Asks France to Spare the Teutons. Government Clerks Discharged. Washington, June 30.--Approximate* ly four hundred clerks were dismissed by the various departments of the government Saturday Jiecjrtise of the expiration of the fiscal year, it was learned here. 8oviet to Buy Cats. Warsaw, June 28.--A Russian soviet commission has arrived In Poland charged with the task of purchasing 10,000 cats with which to fight the rats which are becoming a scourge in Russia. * Jugo-Slavla Premier Wounded. > Belgrade, June 28.--Premier Nikola Pachltch of Jugo-Slavla was attacked and slightly wounded shortly after leaving the house of parliament. Six shots were fired at him, <?ne of which acfuek his lad hand. < Letter to. Cardinal Gasparri Contains Veiled Condemnation of Ruhr Policy--Sees Ruin. Rome, June 28.--A plea for Germany and veiled condemnation of the French reparations policy are contained In a letter by Pope Pius XI to Cardinal Gasparri. The letter deals entirely with the Ruhr situation and states that justice, world peace and the Interest of the creditors themselves demand that creditor powers should not exact from debtors what the latter cannot give without totally exhausting their resources and impairing their productiveness. This, declares Pope Plus, leads to the danger of social disturbances whicb. "might mean the final ruin of Enrapar* Youth, Fifteen, Kills His Foster Mother to See World Springfield, 111., June 29.--While a posse of farmers with bloodhounds was'^searching the country near Auburn, fifteen miles south of here, for a tramp supposed to have murdered Mrs. Mary Seales, a seventy-flve-yearold widow, her flfteen-year-old foster Bon, Ivan Wooten, confessed, according to police, that he had committed the murder. The boy ascribed his deed, the authorities stated, to a desire to get out into the world and earn inoney for himself. He had Uved at the Seales home three years. Secretary Weeks Opposes Use of Army as Prohibition Force , Washington, June 29.--Flat opposition to any project for using the army to aid in prohibition enforcement work was voiced by Secretary \(reeks, speaking at the graduation exercises at the Army War college. "I cannot believe," he said, "that persons who advocate unusual employment for the army, such as enforcement of prohibition, have given serious thought to the possible consequences, of such a practice." South Bend (lnd.) Car Employees Get Pay Boost South Bend, Ind., June 29.--Three hundred employees of the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana railroad, including city and interurban motormen and conductors, were given wage increases of three cents an hour. The increase brings the wages of city street car employees Up to 50 cents and of lntertttiM|* -ttsur ployees up to 52 cents. Soldiers Shot at Funeral by Mob of Italian Agitators Rome, June 2$.--Several soldiers, including one national militiaman, were seriously wounded at Parma when political agitators, who desired to make an issue of the death of a laborer, fired on the military guard escorting the funeral cortege to the cemetery. Two hundred persons have been arrested by the authorities. Liquor Tangle May Force the Recall of Congress Washington, June 29.--The foreign ship liquor tangle has reached such a critical stage that suggestions of a special session of congress to relieve the impending danger of serious international eventualities were heard in official quarters. Bessie Eyton Divorces Cofftfb Los Angeles, Cal., June 29. Bessie ^Harrison Coffey, known on the stage /nd screen as Bessie Eyton, was grant/d a divorce here from Clark Coffey, whom she charged with non- -rapport. Pusey Heads Medics. Sal Francisco, Cal., June 29.--Dp. William A. Pusey of Chicago was elected president of the American Medical association at Its annual con ventlon by a vote of 06 to 62 over Dr. William D. Haggard of Nashville. Deaf Hear by Amplified Phone. Jacksonville. 111., June 28.--Experiments at the State School for the Deaf here show that some deaf persons are able to hear by qse of an ordinary telephone with an amplifying attachment like those on radio instruments. France Makes Loan to Serbs. Paris, June 28.--The foreign affairs committee of the chamber of deputies adopted a report by Deputy Margaine authorizing the loan of 300,- 000,000 francs to the government of Jturo-filavla. : $310,000,000' ? iU SURPLUS >n of Budget System Seen in Showing for Last Fiscal Year, . »<•»¥'• <- MORE THAN WAS EXPECTED Ge«. H, M. Lord, Director of the Budget, issues Statement of Receipts and Expenditures of the Government. Washington, July 2.--The government closed the fiscal year with a surplus of approximately $310,000,000, according to a statement issued by Gen. H. M. Lord, budget director. This is an even more favorable showing than was estimated two weeks ago when President Harding announced that the fiscal year would end with a balance of ordinary receipts over expenditures of approximately $200,000,000.' "The reduction is the total: expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, as compared with the total expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, will be approximately $265,000,000," General Lord said. "Qne year ago, the estimated receipts and expenditures. indicated a deficit of $832,000,000 for the fiscal year 1923. The difference' of $1,133,- 000,000 between this estimated deficit of $832,000,000 and the. present estimated surplus of $310,000,000 is accounted for by an increase in receipts of $767,000,000 and a reduction in the estimated total expenditures of $366," 000,000. "The difference in receipts was occasioned by an increase of $213,000,000 in customs receipts, $423,000,000 in internal revenue receipts, and $131,000,- 000 in miscellaneous receipts. "The difference of $366,000,000 in total estimated expenditures was the result of a reduction of $151,000,000 in general expenditures and $45,000,000 in interest on the public debt, and a net decrease of $170,000,000 in capital outlays, operations in special accounts, refunds of tax receipts and retirement of the public debt required to be made from ordinary receipts." Two Men Drown in Ditch When Automobile Turns Turtle Hammond, Ind., July 2. -- James Bloomer and Alexander Duncan of Chicago drowned when the automobile in which they were driving from Chicago to the Tippecanoe river overturned in a ditch nine miles southeast of Hammond. They were pinned face down In the water, which was about tse feet deep. 2,500 Whippings in Oklahoma in One Year Reported Oklahoma City, Okla., Jujy 2.--Explanation of why Governor Walton is determined to put an end to mob outrages in Oklahoma and is ready to use military force, if necessary, was made by the executive's secretary, Aldrlch Blake, who declared "whipping parties" during the past year' have numbered at least 2,500. Farmers Urged to Hold Wheat to Boost Price Washington, July 2.--A proposal was made public by the American Farm Bureau federation that a minimum of 200,000,000 bushels of wheat be withdrawn by American farmers from this year's visible supply in view of this country's indicated lacge surplus. • . 100 Slain When Russian Factions War in Korea Shanghai, July 2.--A shipload of Russian refugees arrived at Woosung, at the mouth of the Yanktze riverfc bringing the ^tory of a bloody battle at Gensan, Korea, between rival Russian factions, who/had fled from Vladivostok. One geflferal and 100 of the rank and file fell In the fight. Three Brothers Electrocuted While Riding Hay Derrick Twin Falls, Idaho, July 2.--Three brothers, Glen, Tom and Lloyd Aken, farm hands, were electrocuted at their ranch home near Tuttle, Idaho, when a hay derrick on which they were riding came In contact with an electric transmission line carrying 40,000 volts. Rebels in China Led by American Officer Peking, July 2.--Capt. L. D. Kearney, formerly' an officer of the American army, is the leading figure in the "Confederate States of China," which has been organized In an attempt to seize the government of the country in tt>% present confusion. Nine Belgian Soldiers Killed. Due8seldorf, Germany, July 2.--Nine Belgian soldiers were killed by the ei-' plosion of a time bomb In a passenger car of a train carrying Belgian soldiers on leave back to Belgium from the Rahr. Wolves Attack Boy in Texas. ^ Fort Worth, Tex., July 2.--Donald Matheson. ten-year-old son of a ranchman at Paradise, was attacked by a pack of wolves in a pasture and severely Injured before his father rescued him. Plnchot Cuts Own 8alary. Harrisburg, Pa., July 2.--Gov. Clifford Plnchot reduced his own salary from $18,000 to $10,000 a year when he lopped off $2,155,040 from the general appropriation bill as passed by the senate. Russ Refugees Reach San Frencisco, July 2.--TTip artny transport Merritt arrived her? with 526 Russian refugees who fled from Vladivostok after the Bolsheviks took possession of the government at that Siberian port. • vi: .J i;r~. - " v*: