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•* i ~ / * ^ 4 4;' • fIV $,»*• '. j' f J "^""* *•-'*» »* U&&K »k#», <v pm <* ,-• •> -- -.'fl -WS^ST *, J4-,^..?!.*m.^ THB MoHBNRT PLAUfDEALEB, McHENRY ;•- V; giiiliinnimtiitinmwiiHHnniHmnini'i I News Brevities| I of Illinois | luiUllllllllillllllUllllllllilllllllllllllllllfT v Mount Vernon.--Rev. David Sneed. •lltlng In Franklin county. Is the father of 22 children, 16 of whom are living. Of the 16 living there i^e three sets of twins. He has been / married twice, and 1s about seventy-nix years old. and qtfite active, still preaching occasionally. His father, Ezekiel Sneed, wns the father of 22 chlldrerwnnd one son, Rector Sneed, is the father of 10. Plainfleid.--Twelve thousand persons went to the Stewart Parsons farm north o*f Plainfleid and watched Charles Bageman of Wheatland win the horsedrawn plowing championship. They •Iso saw Abner Thomas of Big Rock win the tractor sweepstakes. Farmers were enthusiastic about the plowing and declared that the furrows were as tree as any they had ever seen. Chicago.--Despite the efforts of federal prohibition forces and the Chicago police force, the supply of booze, chiefly beer, has not been shut oft or even diminished. At the time Mayor Dever attempted to clamp down the lid Chicago breweries were putting out 18,000! barrels of real beer every week. Springfield.--Lightning was the hlgfppst factor in Illinois fire losses in August, according to State Fire Marshal John G. Gamber. It caused 167 fires and a loss of $224,503. These losses all occurred on buildings which were not equipped with lightning-rod protection. T^ie total loss in the state for the montn was $1,408,487. Dixon.--Glenn Briggs, twenty-four, Burlington, la., was Instantly killed on the Lincoln highway; M. A. Hoppe, Davenj>ort, la., suffered a concussion of the brain and Cyril Haught of Burlington. Ia., a dislocated arm when the transmission in their car broke aBd wrecked it. All were members of a Burlington orchestra. Springfield.--The law providing that bps lines operating over state high- Ways shall pay a license fee proportioned to the weight of their vehicles and the load they carry has been construed by Attorney General Brundage to include those oprating over high- Ways built by counties. Galesburg.--Locking the cajshier and assistant cashier in the vault, two young unmasked bandits secured $2,- 500 cash and 19,000 Liberty bonds in a holdup of the State bank of Cameron, near here, at 9:30 o'clock in the faorning. The robbers made their escape in a car. « Springfield.--The Lockport lock in the Illinois waterway, designed with the largest lift of any h>ck of its size In the world, can be constructed for *1,4 59,076.50, according to bids opened by the state waterways division and announced by Willlahi'J. S&ckett, superintendent. Springfield.--Mona Lee Dnwson, ttairteen-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Dawson, Beardstown, topped the list of babies examined in the better babies contest at the Illinois state fair. The child scored 99.5. A total of 303 babies wfte examined Ttaesday. Springfield.--Under the same old name, but with a vastly enlarged scope of work, the Anti-Horse Thief association still Is doing business, according to Its officials. Though the horse rapidly fading into the past as an ob* Ject of wholesale thievery, the automobile has brought more problems for the association than the horse ever dreamed of, it Is said. Almost a half century old, the organization still laheld Intact and Its officials declure It is rendering valuable aid to farmers at every "turn of the road." Springfield. -- Comparative figures Just issued by the state department of public instruction show that teachers' salaries have increased in 39 counties in Illinois and have decreased in 33 others. Man teachers were treuted better than woman, generally. While man teachers' salaries were Increased In 33 counties, woman teachers' salaries were raised in only 32, and while 40 counties decreased man teachers, only 39 decreased woman teachers. Chicago^--Chicago now has. more negroes than Baltimore or New Orleans. Migration from jthe South has more than trebled the^ colored population in the city Within the last 12 or 13 years. In litlO negroes in Chicago numbered 44.000. In 1920 they had grown to 109.- 458. In 1923 they number at a conservative estimate between 135,000 and 150,000. . Some pat the figure lit 200.000. * Freeport.--When Mr. tind Mrs. Arthur Stearns approached their auto, following a visit to a friend's house, they heard the cry of a baby. They found an infant swaddled in an old shawl and stuffed into a large paper hat bag. They took the baby to a hospital. Springfield.--It Is expected that the $2,000,000 Illinois Centennial Memorial building, recently completed, will be dedicated on October 5. The first general assembly of the state was called to order on October 5, 1818, at Kaskaskla. It will be just five years ago, on October 5, when the corner stone of the building was laid. Chicago.--Robert L. Thompson, who superintends the mail messenger and screen wagon service at the post office, began his fifty-first year of work in the Chicago post office. A gold fountain pen, a bouquet of flowers and speeches by fellow employees marked the occasion. Urbana.--More than 200 stddents from foreign countries will attend the University of Illinois this year. Included in the number already registered is Rajinder Ringh Datta, son of the governor of Baluchistan, India, who will take an electrical engineering course. Camp Grant.--A ban has been placed on hunting in Camp Grant, following the wounding of a civilian worker oh the barrncks by a hunter. Officials at the camp rounded up the hunter. Thed the order went out that all hunting within the camp was prohibited. Chicago.--A large prairie wol£ believed to have been brought into Chicago in a freight car, was shot by Roy Lamphere under the front porch of his home at 5121 South Austin avenue, near the Glenn yards of the Chicago & Alton railroad. Gulesburg.-r-<"lass fights, which have been yearly occurrences since the II. S. SUPERVISION OF MINES URGED Coal Commission Favors Aoency k Like Interstate Commeroe . Body. •J, VU; RECOMMENDS NEW DIVISJON Danville.--Asleep in a pig pen, [ founding of Lombard college in 1858, Y-S'" ' •'>%: guarded by his fox terrier dog. Homer Russel, two years old, was found by his father. Clyde Russell, a half mile from the city. The hoy. missing for el£ht hours! had caused the police to search the county for him. Glasford.--Chargea with hunting without a license, Lonig Kropel and Ray Lawson, both of Hanna City, were fined $25 and costs by a magistrate. Both plead guilty after being taken teto custody by a game warden, ' Peoria.--Highwaymen, who have ' been terrorizing motorists, slugged Ed- - ward Backas. choked his wife into Insensibility and escaped with $75 and . tbe car. which they later abandoned. Sterling.--The Peerless Level com- , pany's factory building was gutted by fire, with an estimated loss of $25,000, partially covered by insurance. DiXon.--Harvey Miller, fifty-two. was killed when a heavy casing that litos being lifted by a derrick fell and broke his back. Mr. Miller, who was superintending tbe work, failed to bftar warning cries. Chicago.--Real estate values in Cook county are going up by about ffiOp.OOO.OOO this year, according to an estimate hame based on increases already made by the board of assessors for taxing purposes. ^ Bloomington.--The Moline Plow has disposed of its building te J. F. Humphries & Co., wholesale , grocery firm. The consideration was More than $100,000. . Litchfield.----A M. Howell, sixty-nine, Ifesldent of the Montgomery County -i. Telephone & Telegraph company, vbpnker and lumber dealer, died at 'Jtfs borne in Hillsboro. Nashville.--John Fricksmeyer. sixty- «tx, was found dead near his barn liy ^ neighbor. He died of heart disease while hitching his team to work on the road. Kuskaskla.--Illtnota' first newspaper, the Illinois Herald, was published at Kaska^kla in 1814. Chicago.--Not a single baby born in •? 'Illinois last year was made blind by Infection at birth, according to an an- ' ttouncement from the Illinois Society . .for the Prevention of Blindness. This Was attributed to the more stringent : Enforcement in the last five years of lexlstlng laws. Sterling.--At tbMhlrty-ntoth annual reunion of the Northwestern Illinois v ^soldiers and Sailors' association. G. A Jprown of Oregon was elected jiresl- Mlent, Judge James Courtrlght of Oregon vice president and C. W. Johnson fpt Dixon secretary-treasurer. 1 Moline--The guaranty fund of the '-city Symphony orchestra will be lsed from $6,500 to $10,000 for this ason. It was decided by the board of '^•ontrol of the chamber of commerce, f the 3,000 tickets to be sold, 1,500 11 be disposed of In Moline and Rock land and the otheAi In Davenport, a., said members Of the board. ? ' '* Geneva.--Rev. Glen Stewart m. Tfslgned the pastorate of the Cfenevri ^Congregational church and accepted jcall from a church at Davenport. Ia JHa Witt nmwirtig tola m* poat to Ocftv .'bar. • < Problem Properly Belongs With Federa I Regulators, 8ays Final Report : Expert!--Mine Gaat ». • • " " Report* Urged. * * Washington. Sept. 24.--The United States Coal commission issued Us final report. The commission proposes federal supervision of the coal Industry through a new division of the Interstate commerce commission. . Authority to issue licenses to operators, wholesalers and middlemen would give the supervising division considerable power, under the final suggestions of the coal commission, whifh ceased to exist at midnight under the congressional act which created It The commission also proposes that the supervising agency be empowered to compel reports showing facts concerning costs, Investments, profits and wages. The agency would encourage consolidations of bituminous coal companies, but would have authority to reject financial arrangements of consolidations If the arrangements were deemed unwise or unfair. In order to keep down prices, the commission recommends that graded excess profits taxes be imposed upon royalties paid to anthracite land owners and upon profits of anthracite operators. The report of , the commission drew the suggestion from Washington observers that the Supreme court might refuse to uphold legislation for federal control of the coal mining Industry, which is said to be chiefly Intrastate In character. The new supervising agency would act as federal fuel distributor In Mme of emergency, under the commission's suggestions. The agency, acting under the direction of the President, would control the transportation and distribution of coal. The commission declares consolidation, grouping or pooling of bituminous coal mining companies wolud result In steadier production, less speculative prices, wider use of long term contracts with consumers, lower costs, more regular employment for. miners and Improved living conditions. were abolished by vote of the fresh men and sophomore classes of the institution. Winslow.--A fall from a silo was fatal to Rudolph Streeck, thirty-five, when lie dropped from the top; of the storage tower. He broke eight ribs and suffered internal Injuries. He leaves a widow and three children. Springfield.--Every automobile owner is invited to become a member of the "Stop, Look and Listen" club, now being formed by Superintendent C. W Shaw of the Springfield division, Illinois Central railroad. Danville.--James Riley, proprietor and manager of the Hotel Lawrence, died in his apartments after a four months' illness. He wns a New York city waif and once lived at the Foundling home at Ward's Island. Itockford. -- Mildred Livingston, eight, wiis killed instantly and her mother narrowly escaped death when an auto driven by George Schulp, a provision storekeeper, ran them down In the dark. Decatur.--WUHan: Z. Foster and his proposal to form a "Labor party" In Illinois met crushing defeat on the floor of the convention of the Illinois Federation of Labor at Decatur. The vote on the resolution stood 456 to 65 Macomb.--A goat farm, which according to its owner soon is to.grow into a goat dairy, is being developed In McDonough county, near here, bjv Dr. J. B. Bacon. Quincy.--WiJHam Bellendorff, aged seventy, a wealthy retired banker, committed suicide by hanging. He, suffered from the delusion that he hadMost his fortune. Rock. Island.--Special Instructions given the September grind jury In Circuit court call for a further investigation of vice cases in Rock Island. PlttsfJeld.--Construction contracts, calling for an expenditure of $120,000 for a new waterworks here, have been let to an East St. Louis firm. Bloomington--Mrs. Frank H. Funk, wife of the congressman from the Seventeenth congressional district, died after a week's illness, aged forty-flye. She was formerly Florence Rlsser of Chicago. Her mother survives her. Mrs. Funk leaves three children--two daughters, Mary and Florence, and a son, Ben, Student In Yale university. Elgin--A boys and girls' school band, composed of 150 pieces, is the organization hoped for by the superintendent of schools. The board of education has voted $500 for the purchase of instruments. Champaign.---More than 200 fingerprint experts and Identification specialists from all sections of Illinois are expected to attend the annual convention of the association which will convene here for a two days' session the middle of October. The sessions will be held at the Elks' club. Bock Island.--While backing np from a collision with an automobile In which one man was Injured, a street car ran down grade for half a block and nearly wrecked three other ma chines. Nobody was hint Hi tha runaway, 500,000 Meals a Day Served by Yankees to German Children Berlin, Sept. 24.--A total of 4.989 tons of flour, 2,531 tons of milk, 1,033 tons of sugar, 209 tons of cocoa and 006 tons of fat were required to carry on the feeding of children throughout Germany the past summer under the auspices of the Quakers, it is shown In figures made public here. Meals to the number of 500,000 were served daily in 1,000 cities and towns at an average price of two cents per meal. The present relief is chietty financed by the American central comhiittee for the relief of distress in Germany and Austria, with the Geriuao*gitwstrnments also contributing.. i Nav/fc Giant Dirigible at ' Capital on Longest Trip Washington, Sept. 24.--The giant navy dirigible ZR-1 reached Washington at 1:25 in the afternoon. It left the Lakehurst, N. J., air station at 10:35 o'clock in the morning to pay an official visit to Washington. The giant dirigible slipped through lowhanging clouds and flew low over the capitol, then straight tup Pennsylvania avenue to the White House. It circled there, turning with easy grace, and passed over the Lincoln memorial. President and Mrs. Coolidge left luncheon for the White House grounds to obtain a better view. I . 0 Profiteers in Spain to Hang, Dictator Rivera Says Madrid, Sept. 24.--President Prima Rivera announced that he will hang food and rent profiteers if necessary. The directorate declares the cost of living is exorbitant and it will abolish all middlemen unless they reduce profits. A royal decree forbids any increase In the prices of food or rents, and another cuts off railway passes. 50 Dead, 40 Buried Alive, in Polish Mine Disaster Warsaw, Sept. 24.--Fifty are dead and their bodies have been recovered, and forty ure buried alive after a dlsastef at the Red en mine, near Sosno- Itic. The catastrophe was d«f to fire daiqp. BIG BiTMSHIPS Captain McNamee Says Planes Cannot Protect vX , United States. OTESkSESULTIMi OUHiBtS Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England, Is coming to the United Statea, to accept the fellowship in creative art at the University of Michigan during the coming year. The fellowship carries a stipend of $5,000 and has been held by Robert Frost, New England poet, since it was established two years agtt. / r ?*p BERLIN MONEY PANIC New Dictator's Gold Drive Pancoc Much FyfiitAmftiit GrMt Wstfmg and Gnashing of 'Tfeirtti Throughout Nation -- Thousands Lose Fortunes While Millions Double Holdings^ :>• Berlin, Sept. 21.--There Is a walling and gnashing of teeth throughout the nation. Thousands of, persons lost fortunes and millions doubled their holdings. Americans who have made debts or whose hotel rooms cost marks are in consternation. From Wednesday's 250,000,000 marks for a dollar, the mark Thursday night closed at 80,000,000 to a doUar. The enormous success of Germany's exchange coup is credited to Finance Dictator Fellinger, who is said to have ordered marks bought in New York, Amsterdam and Switzerland. Although Germany has issued quadrillions of marks--trillions daily--It was possible twirieth u mere million gold marks to reone- fifth of the nation's gold mark obligations. German speculators, who were clamoring for dollars and were given all they could stomach by the reichsbank, must produce trillions of paper marks or they are bankrupt. Panic is reigning. if the finance dictator can dictate the rate a few days, there will be a most serious catastrophe for speculators. . , Meanwhile, Americans. find food, hotel and goods prices, which already are above the world marks, suddenly tripled. At the new rate everything will cost from double to §v* >|tlmes American prices. Oppoaea Vigorously fh* Movement far Supplanting War Veaaels With Fighfe • • tPV Air Craft---Points te Mwrt 4•.,'h ;v ' •; Life o# Airships. Washington, Sept 22.--The United States navy must be bulrt around a battleship rather than the airplane, Capt. Luke McNamee, U. S. N„ director of naval intelligence maintained In an address here. He spoke for "a navy that can stand np and take blows and hit back harder than the other fellow, a navy with battleships and airplanes." The way to win wars, he pointed out, "is to go after the other fellow and hit htm where he lives." Captain McNamee emphasized the view that the United States could not hope to win a war "by sitting at home on the defensive," even on the precarious assumption that airplanes might be able to protect American continental shores. It would be essential, he said, to bring "military pressure to . bear againat the enemy to compel him to accept peace or give np oar posses slons." If the United States had no nary, but relied solely on a huge air force, according to Captain McNamee, an enemy could capture Panama, Porto Rico, Alaska, the Philippines, the Virgin islands, Hawaii, Guam and Samoa because he "would sink every transport that we sent out with reinforcements for any of those places." No defense, he asserted, can exist Indefinitely if It cannot be reinforced. Captain McNamee maintained there had been "much misconception in regard to economy in using aircraft instead of battleships." "Despite expenditures) on aircraft of more than fl,800,0C0,000 since 1917," he said, "we have not today onetenth of the aircraft we would need to enter war tomorrow. "This is due to the short life of aircraft, the high cost of development and the frenuency of crashes and operating casualties." Dry Forces Are Called to Nation-Wide Rally Washington, Sept. 22.--A call for a rally ol" the dry forces of the nation was Issued here by the federal council of churches. A "good citizenship and patriotism conference" Is to be held In Washington October 14, 15 and 16 "to spur on those who believe in prohibition, but have lost* active Interest." The call was signed by 756 business men, college and university heads, clergymen, members of congress, mayors, heada of religious associations and leaders of women's organizations. . . Steals $5,000 in Gold e 4 From Veterans' Teeth ' Washington, Sept. 21.--Harry P. Clayton, a negro employed as a dental mechanic at the Mount Alto Veterans' Bureau hospital, was said by the police here to have confessed that In working oi brldgework for former service men he had been putting only half the gold ordered into the bridge and selling the rest. Government agents say the loas probably w-|U amount to $5,000. Big Losses in Ship Rufs. Washington, Sept. 24.--Government shipbuilding and operation have proved a costly venture to Australia, according to a statement by the Department of Commerce. The total losses will run close to £11,000,000. Early Byzantine City Discovered. Constantinople, Sept. 24.--A hitherto unknown city in Thessaly has been unearthed. The ruins belong to the early Byzantine period. The discovery has aroused great interest among archaeologists and historians. Kills Self So He May Be ^ Buried Beside Tiancee Menominee, Mich., Sept. 22.--Otto Llshka shot himself through the heart at his tire shop. His fiancee, Miss Belle Lemieux, was killed Saturday night in an automobile accident opposite his shop. In a note left he said he wished to be burled at her side.' 5,000 Stills 8eized. Washington, 2~4.--In its fight against m>M)nHliining the federal government seized more tliun 5,000 stHls in the last fiscal year, according to figures made public by Roy Hiyngfr prohibition commissioner. ' To Call Dry Parley, Washington, Sept. 22. -- President Coolidge has decided to call a conference in Washington of state governors to discuss prohibition enforcement about the middle of October, It was announced at the White House. Isles. Rsturnad te Turkau Constantinople. Sept 22.--Imhroae and Tenedo«>, two islands at the mouth of the Dardanelles, were turned over to Turkey by Greece as the last portion of Turkish territory to be » turned under tbe .Lausanne treaty. 70,000 Bales of Silk Lost' Osaka, Sept. 24.--About 70,000 bale* of raw silk were destroyed in Yokohama by the quake, of which 55,000 bales were In the hands of wholesalers and 15,000 bales in tile hunds of exporters, who saved 3,000. 2,689,837 Cars Made This Year; Sets Record Washington, Sept. 24.--Record production of automobiles and trucks this year was shown in figures made public by the Commerce department. Reports from 181 manufacturers showed •:hat up to September 1 the factories this year had turned out 2,431,061 passenger cars and 258,774 trucks. The entire output last year was only 2,339,414 passenger cars and 244,822 trucks. * -t - r- ... 1 1. „ i Pronounced Dead After Shock; Adrenalin Saves Him Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 24.--Although Frank L. Mann, forty, was declared dead when police took him to St. Mary's hospital after a 7,500-volt electric current had passed through him, Dr. O. H. Gillette, an Interne, resorted to the use of adrenalin. Fifteen drops were injected into Mann's body. Within two hours he. had <*- vlved and, despite serious burns, be la rapidly recovering. President Favors I. C. C. i Plan for Group Raffrodds Washington, Sept 21. -- President Coolidge favors the tentative plans of the interstate commerce commission to consolidate American railroads Into a few major systems, It was learned here, following a conference at the White House between the executive and N. L. Amster of Boston, president of the Citizens' National Railroad league. Spanish-American War Veterans Pick Comntender Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 22.--Delegates to the United Spanish-American veterans' twenty-fifth annual encampment elected Albert D. Alcorn of Cincinnati to the post of commander in chief. The 1024 annual meeting will be held at Michigan City. Ind. Hangman's Noose Bows to "Chair" in Alabama Montgomery, Ala., Sept 22.--The bouae of the. Alabama legislature passed the Inzer bill substituting the electric chair in the state Instead of the hangman's noose in the execution of criminals. The bill become* a law with the governor's signature. Educator Lives in Garage. Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 24.--Left homeleas by Monday's' fire here. President Emeritus Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California and his wife are to reside In a tiny aparament garage owned by-friends. Year-'Reund Tree Groomed, : Seattle, Wash., Sept. 22.--A fiveyear- old peach tree bearing fruit on its lower branches and blossoms ou Its upper six Is reported growing at Foster, near here, by William Bangell, a horticulturist. No Special Session. .Washington, Sept. 22. -- President Coolidge has no Intention of convening congress In special session In advance of the regular December session. This was reiterated Friday at tlii'.Wblte Hooaft. Warns Vets of Homesteading. Washington, Sept. 24.--Secretary of the Interior Work issued a statement warning ex-service men of the hardships that must be encountered and the cupital that Is necessary to take op homestead claims. 1 > . | Or. Edward Ryan Die*. ; Washington, Sept. 21.--Dr. Edward Ryan, internationally known for his work in combating epidemics, Is dead In Teheran, Persia, of heart disease, according to a cablegram received by the State department. Cavalry to Texaa. El Paso, Tex., Sept. 21.--Tbe First Cavalry division, the only one of horsemen In the army, will be concentrated at Marfa, Tex., September 23 for maneuvera under conupand of Gen. Robert L. Howae. LIEUT, i. B. UtWRESCE IN RUHR ENDS German Government Signs De| ISJJcree at Capital EndirfFfp ^ Resistance There*, : , BBMrWlU GET Uset J. B. Lawrence, * U. 8. Jf* pilot of the navy entry In the Gordon Bennett International balloon race to be held at Brussels on September 23. U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Washington.--For the week ending September 22.--HAT--Mo. 1 timothy, $22.25 Cincinnati, S27.O0 Chicago. 120.0* Minneapolis. DjURY PRODUCTS--Butter, >2 moor* 47fec Chicago. Cheese prices at Wisconsin primary markets: Twins, 24\c; single daisies, 26c; double daisies, 24%ci young Americas, l^nyhnrnn 24o# lauare prints, 26c. FRUITS AJND VEGETABLES--Long Island Green Mountain potatoes, $2.60 (y 2.86 sacked and bulk per 100 lbs.; Maine Irish cobblers, S1.&S02.3S city market*, •1.20 4# 1.40 L o. b.; northern round Whites. •l.UQl.tO In Chicago, mostly •1.&0 t. o. b.; Minnesota Red River Ohlos, •1.60© 1.80 in St. Louis, •1.00© I.10 L o. b. Eastern peaches, Elbertas, •1.76©2.60 per bu. basket. •1.7601.S6 f. o. b.; ring-faced Michigan Elbert&s, $S.OO©2.76 mid western markets, ILtO f. o. b. New York cabbage, domestic round and flat types, •26.00© 36.00 bulk per ton eastern cities, •22.00© 24.0# f. o. b. Eastern apples, red fall varieties, (1.00©1.76 per bu. basket, •LlO© LSO t. o. b.; Michigan Wealthys, •t.SO© 6.26 per bbL In Chicago, •1.25© 1.50 per bu., •1.16 f. o. b. New York onions, yellow varieties, •3.50©4.90 sacked per 100 lbs.; tnldwestern various varietlss, •3.26 ©8.S6 city market*, •1.10© 3.M L o. b. GRAIN--Chicago cash market: No. S red winter wheat, U.04; No. > hard winter wheat, •l.O?; No. 2 mixed corn, Mc; No. 2 yellow corn, 87c; No. 3 white oats, 40c. Average farm price: Mow 1 mixed corn in central Iowa, 73c. LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hon top. 38.86; bulk of sales, •7.90©8.70; medium and good beef steers, •S.OO© II.90; butcher cows and heifers, i3.60© 11.36; feeder steers, $4.60 ©9.00; (at lambs, •12.00©14.60; feeding lambs, • 12.00©14.9(>, yearlings. •8.76©11.76; fat ewes, $3.76©7,00. Illinois Man Offers His Thre* ! ' Children to Pay Debt of $32 ' Coal City, III., Sept 2L--Frank Vodacek of this ,city values his children at $10.72 each. When the Smith- Wallace Shoe company of Chicago obtained a judgment In court againat him for $32.16, Vodacek stepped to the bench. Informed the court he bad no money with which to pay tbe claim, and offered his three children In payment of the debt Roosevelt May Head the Navy Department, Report Washington, Sept 22.--Col. Theodore Roosevelt of Oyster Bay, N. Y„ assistant secretary of the navy, soon will become secretary of the navy, marking the first change In the Harding cabinet under the administration of President Ooolidge, If present plana are carried out. Edwin Denby of Michigan, at present secretary of the navy, baa expressed a desire to retire. Three U. S. Scientists Killed in Gas Blast at Washington Washington, Sept. 21.--Three men lost their lives and six were injured in an explosion o{ gas in the fueltesting laboratory of tbe bureau of standards here. L. L. Lauer iof Lower Salem, O., was killed almost Instantly, and Urban J. Cook, formerly of Cincinnati, and Stephen M. Lee of New London, Conn., died later. ; Bulgarian Red Plot Nipped, Says Dispatch From Vienna Vienna, Sept. 22.--Reports of a recent Communist revolt In Bulgaria are untrue, according to information from Sofia, which states that the government checked the uprising before it materialized. In two days goverment authorities arrested 2,000, including ten Russians, and have fined them In the Sofia jail. 8hoe Wage Raise Extended. Brockton. Mass., Sept. 22.--The 10 per cent wage increase granted most classes of workers in the factories belonging to the Brockton Shoe Manu- •facturere's. association wua extended tp Include class B factories. Mine Expert Dies. Boston, Sept. 22.--William Tudor, mining expert, died at Venice, Italy, It was learned here. He was graduated from Harvard 1n 1871 with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge und Bishop William Lawrence. I * iyjj* Wit:. :2. r ®621iSLaiii iwi mm r.'1 Ty;; v_ , . Rome Day Celeferawftr** '"*• '•* •' Rome, Sept. 21.--For the first time since the advent of Fascist power, the city celebrated the anniversary of Rome's selection as the capital of Italy. The famous capitol hells were tolled and all joined In the observance At 11 Boy Enters College. Syracuse. N. Y., Sept. 21.--Moses Flnkelsteln. eleven years old, matriculated Into full startling as a freshman at Syracuse university. He Uvea In this city and was graduated from a local high school l$?t June. Z jj 44 ' „ . • * '.T,- *0 * - y. Inability to Bear Enormous Costs Brings Complete Capitulation--De- '•?P|!eat Expected to Bring tatorshlp for Nation. ; • - ,'Vsi Berlin, Sept. 25.--The proclamation ' decreeing the end of passive r«§;/: :y, slat a nee in the Ruhr was signed herj& 1 £ by the government. The proclamation was issued after the cabinet had beeil • in almost constant session for 4i| • nours with bankers, labor leaders and .- representatives of large industrii^ > interests. 'Wfy 'Germany no longer can bear enormous tosts of resisting the Rttlif|h i invasion, the government leaders \ i-lared. It was stated that the minister has given promises which Itjfc Y/S dlcate that Ruhr residents who hav^Hfi* l>een deported will be permitted to r«*» ' turn, and that imprisoned German* will be freed. The government is also said to hav« ' . ceceived semi-official assurances thitt » France and Belgium will skeletoniz(tS>:v their forces of occupation and wilt permit the actual administration of / the invaded territory to be returned to • the hands of the German civil author- i . Itles. ' Chancellor Stresemann announced the proclamation after he had reached an agreement with delegates from tl»|r Ruhr and the Rhineiand. The deltfii gates agreed that Germany no longer had the strength to resist. When the cabinet was In session 'fo the final hours of Its long conference^V 3,000 Communists marched through / 1 ? the streets of Berlin singing revolu^" tionary songs and carrying red Aug*. Police dispersed them. The situation Is ominous. The Gejt* v % man republic, confessing utter defed| x ? In the Ruhr, admittedly can l>e held < together only by a dictatorship. Faced by threats of the, nationalists, the government muat set aside constitutional methods and uphold Its decisions by force. The question confronting President Ebert, Chancellor Stresemann anidr other politicians who are feverishljp;|, > struggling to keep the rudderless and. • *' foundering ship of state afloat, l| whether a complete wreck can b« ' • averted by placing all the.power in the hands of a dictator appointed by the Republican government or whether the only possible outcome is a Fasclsta coup d'etat, definitely destructive of democratic order and probably leading to the restoration of an absolute monarchy. „ . ' Red Forces Busy Getting Arms Into Germany, Report Berlin, Sept. 25.--The/Russian government's Implication in a proposed Communist revolt was charged by German government agents here. They raided two warehouses and seized twenty machine guns, one mine thrower, a number of rifles and ammunition, which were bought by the soviet embassy here. Three German employees declared the Bolshevik military attache, M. Petroff, had planned to distribute the guns among the German Communists. Coal Car Ruling Expected to Close Down Many Mines Chicago, Sept. 25.--Slany coal mines In Hlluols, Indiana and western Kentucky aire expected to be forced to close as a result of a decision made by the principal coal-carrying rai^ roads to treat as empties all unbilled s coal cars. A slight car shortage !£• some of the producing fields and an accumulation of "no bills" at the mines were given as the cause. Rebels Circle Bulgar Capital; J,r ' King Boris Offers to Resig London, Sept. 2f).--The revolution In Bulgaria hus burst Into full tlame and tlie whole country Is In ttie hand* of rebels, according to a dispatch tft the Aioruing Post from Belgrade. Th® dispatch adds that Sofia is blockaded* King Boris has offered to resign, but his offer has not been accepted. Coolidge Says Nation Stands for Idealism Washington, Sept. 25. -- President Coolidge delivered his first speech since he became President. Addressing the annual convention' of the American Red Cross', he said that America stands for a practical idealism which contains the realization that force Is sometimes necessary., G. O. P. Chiefs to Meet. Washington, Sept. 2T>.--Chairman Adaras of the Republican national committee announced fhat members of the committee from Montana, Wyoming^ Utah, Arizona and New Mexi^y vviil confer In Denver October 11. Peanut Growers' Suit SettliiL /. Norfolk, Vu., Sept. 25.--A settlement out of court was effected in the $3,625,000 suit of the Peunut Growers' association against tnore than a dozes large cleaners and shelters of Virginia aiMl North Carolina. Jap Relief Fund $9,600,000. "Washington, Sept. 25.--The Japanese relief fund now amounts to about $9,500,0t>0, it was announced at relief headquarters. Of this sum, ?5.dOO,OOU has been spent for supplies already on the way to the stricken area. , to Grave in Farm Wagon, , ttoroll, la.. Sept. 25.--Drawn by ® teairk of horses, a farm wagon carried the body of Ethan Akin, seventy, who ' left an estate valued ,#t more than , $500,000, t^ its final resting place Ui a cemetery here. • < . ? ' • » rs'.v '