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ILLINOIS " Springfield.--After waiting ten years news from her brother, Frank J. 1 tfchuessler, a Bailor, Mrs. Josephine S. JPritchett has died a request in Probate court at Springfield that he be declared dead and that sh« be made administratrix of his estate. Mrs. Prltchett said that she last heard from her brother in August, 1014, when he #rote saying that he was sailing on a transport carrying horses to Brest. Oak Park.--Seventeen hundred parilhloners cr6wded into the First Congregational church of Oak Park to hear the Rey. William E. Barton, their pastor, preach his twenty-fifth anniversary sermon. This was exactly JyXX) more than attended, the church When the Rev. Mr. Barton took the /. (iiBstorate. ; V-f Springfield.--Bids on contraction of 1P6.26 miles of state bond issue roads Will be received at Springfield March •v 21, Col. C. R. Miller, director of the " state department of public works and buildings, said. Colonel Miller said bids on 50.07 miles of grading will be » -Ifccelved at the same time. " Chicago.--Mrs. Henry Ganze bf Chl- Cftgo is laying claim to having brought Into this life the "tiniest baby . In the world." "Junior," as he has already been named, weighs only 12 ounces. He ie perfectly healthy, as attested by his lusty squalls for food - given him from a medicine dropper. Bloomington.--Seined from Thompson's lake, near Havana, being drained for agricultural purposes, 15,000 game fish, ranging from one to six pounds, were transferred to four lakes near Bloomington by the state fish commission. v. Springfield.--Now is the time to prevent Illinois children from having ®phtherla next fall, according to officials of the state department of public health, 'three injections of toxln-antifbxin, which Is furnished free by the >(itate, will make a child immune to diphtheria. Jerseyville.--When school officials at Jerseyville announced that there Was not sufficient funds to construct a • Workshop for the vocational classes IS farm mechanics, members of the class offered their services and built " a shop themselves. School authorities furnished the material. Urbana.--More than $200,000 has been given to the University of Illinois in direct gifts, scholarships and endowment funds in the last few .months, according to a letter which President David KInley of the unlverrity has prepared to be sent to members of the alumni association. Decatur.--Rev. Henry W. Trueblood, pastor of the Second United Brethren church, was found dead in the garage at his home in a sitting posture tn his automobile. The engine was running. Death is thought to have resulted from carbon monoxide gas escaping from the exhaust. ^ Galesburg.--A verdict for $8,000 'damages was awarded William Richardson for Injuries received when he -* Was struck by an automlble driven by Miss Florence Granklln, a co-ed of Knox college. He M sued for $25,- 000. Beardstown.--Reconstruction of lev- , .fes for the protection of Beardstown • from Inundation, authorized by the legislature which appropriated $350,- 000 for the purpose, will commence as soon as engineer* prepare the plans ffnd specifications, possibly by May 1. Toluca.--Peter Marett, thirty-three, of Pottetown, shot and killed Instantly Miss Theresa Boslo, sixteen years old, and then committed suicide. They had formerly been sweethearts and the double tragedy Is a result of Miss Boss's action in rejecting his suit. Urbana.--Operators of water purification plants In Illinois will meet at Crbana sometime this spring with representatives of the state department of public health and university experts to discuss the latest methods of handling city water supplies. j Belvidere.--Testing of samples of seed corn from 22 farms in Boone "bounty revealed that about 80 per '^enl of It would not germinate. Freezing weather In the early fall of 1823 is believed to be responsible for this condition. Rushville.--Jesse Fry and Oscar Green were allowed a $20 bounty on two wolf scalps at Rushville, the first of these animals killed In Schuyler county this season. The pelts were Sold for $20. Danville.--Sheriff Galligan of WI1- --"llamson county and J. S. Laymen, his chief deputy, denied at Danville they accepted "protection money" in a conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. Peoria.--One-third of the students of Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria are earning all or part of their way through school, according to survey made by the institute. Harrisburg.--William Gasklns, 8r. and Mrs.4 Sarah Priest, each seventyfive years old, were majrried at Harrisburg. • I Springfield.--Motorists who ° would travel the unpaved roads of Illinois s -these early spring days are warned to be ready to fall buck upon Old Dobbin The rains and snows have made all roads, not hard surfaced, In bad condition. Many stretches of highway, especially in the central and southern part, are Impassable. Decatur.--More than 300 potential gg,' missionaries, from 21 colleges in the state, outside of Chicago, met at Decatur for the eleventh annual confer- ' " - mace of the Illinois Student Volunteer " Union, v- ; * | » Aurork.--Changing of the name of ||fe ...' Lincoln park to McCarthy purk and of McKlnley park to Wilder park, in memory of Samuel McCarthy, founder yf~'„V- of the city, and Roswald Wilder, % .S ' pioneer resident, is proposed by the local chapter of the Daughters of the ~ American Revolution, which will petl ffeS - tlon ttyf Pfty council to take such ac- 3^ •- tlon. - Sfyijt m&t:'. Evangelical Church of PeaceTRas iBahcToned tlie use of the German language In its -0. services and hereafter will bave|serv- Icss lB EUgtUfe oaif. Chicago.--Organization of a boy police force at Chicago to help prevent rowdyism on the city's playgrounds began under the direction of Charles *.!. English, playground supervisor, and i Chief of Police CoHins. Six hundred school Jboys will soon begin training for thefr new work under the Instruction of Capt. John Bauder, drlllmaster of the city police force, and it Is planned to swear In the junior officers at a celebration on the lake froat May l. Jollet.--Objection to the plans of the state engineers In relation to the proposed Illinois waterway through Jollet, which provides for a pool ten to thirty feet deep from Jackson street to the dam at Brandon's bridge, hais been made by engineers engaged by the city, who My the plan Is not feasible, and will .constitute a flood menace. The street approaches and the proposed bridges also met disapproval. Beecher.--Miss Freda Beseke has filed suit in the Circuit court of Will county against Louis Pralle, Carl and Louis Kuhlman and George Beseke, the latter an uncle of the plaintiff, demanding $25,000 damages, alleging slander. According to the declaration, her father, Charles Beseke, disowned lier and expelled her from his home as the result of alleged libelous stories circulated about her by the defendants. Peoria.--Alleging breach of promise, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Blazer has filed suit against W. C. Clement for $25,000 damages. She avers that Clement Induced her to Invest in an enterprise he was promoting, after a promise to marry her. Later, she says, he stated that he had a wife In North Carolina, but was unable to obtain a divorce. Mrs. Blazer says that she found that he was unmarried. Aurora.--ZIon and Salem Evangelical churches at Aurora have voted to merge, reuniting a congregation that split 81 years ago when the United Evangelical church was formed by dissenters from the Evangelical association. Ninety per cent of the members of both churches ratified the merger. Freeport.--Emerson Flynn, farmer, was arrested at Freeport, charged with having obtained money from a physician under false pretenses. It is alleged he paid a bill he owed the physician, whose sight Is very poor, with phony paper money, receiving real money In change. The "bills" afterward were found to be worthless. Beardstown.--In order to learn what congress is doing in relation to settlement of claims for damages caused by floods along the Illinois river, a series of meetings has been arranged by the Drainage and Levee District Association of Illinois. J. P. Kerr of Versailles Is president of the association. o Duquoln.--Following repeated raids at Dowell, the mining town of the Union Colliery company, south of Duquoln, citizens there have succeeded In obtaining an Injunction against all soft drink places In that town. Sheriff White of Murphysboro has closed the doors and placarded the windows. Tiskllwa.--Eighty-one years young and still "sticking type" Is the remarkable record of Mrs. Tlllle Hodge, octogenarian compositor, who Is believed to be the oldest of her sex working every day at the case. She has been employed by the TIskilwa Chief since 1912. Rockford--?<3. J. Boehland, clothing merchant, will present to every school child. In Winnebago county an apple tree, to be planted on Arbor day, April 1L Boehland has given away trees on every Arbor day for many years. Moline.--Cora Harlter, administrator for the estate of Silas Harker, who was instantly killed on March 5, 1923, when his auto was struck by a Rock Island train at the Colona crossing, filed suit for $10,000 damages against the railroad In the City court. Lincoln.--William Henry Jackson, centenarian, died at the home of Ills son. He passed his one hundredth birthday November 11, 1923. He Is survived by 120 descendants representing five generations. Aurora.--Rev. Charles A. Aldan, former Unlversallst pastor, has been appointed Protestant chaplain at Moosehart, an Institution maintained by the Loyal Order of Moose for tbe care of orphan children. * Freeport.--Voters of Freeport on April 1 will pass on the proposition t« abandon the election commission plan and return to the old method of conducting elections. Freeport.--Having served continuously for fifty years as pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church of Freeport, the Rt. Rev. Clemens Kalvelage marked his golden anniversary. Wfttseka.--Climbing a 40-foot windmill to make repairs, John Herd, forty, a farmer, of Woodland, lost his footing and fell onto the concrete foundation. His neck was broken. Elgin.--Special attorneys, hired by the Elgin Motor club, will aid thestate's attorney's office In prosecuting persons arrested for driving automobiles while intoxicated. \ Chlcago.-r-Indorsement of the Me- Nary-Hogan bill, called the "Wallace plan," now before congress, was voted at a meeting of 75 presidents of county farm bureaus of Illinois at a meeting. The "Wallace plau" Is an effort to establish prices of farm produce proportionate to the prices of supplies and machinery the farmer buyi- Rockford.--A skunk, marooned on an ice caKe, in the river, warned In his own "sweet" way the citizenry of Rockford living along, the banks, that the Ice Jam was breaking up, * Bis fate is unknown. Danvlllfe.--Surgical, hospital, ambulance, pharmacists and undertaker's bills, aggregating $2,185, were presented, to the city council of Danvllie for payment by T. A. Swisher. His wife was killed when the automobile In which-she was, riding wus struck by a fire truck responding to an alurm. Pana.--Max Luptpn, a young farmer northeast of. Pana, Bhot and killed a gray timber wolf, the first seen In thlg section In many years. The animal; had played havoc with farmers' sheep and fowls. Lupton received a $7? •TBH- - GEN. OWEN CTDUFFY SLAYER OF WIFE MISS MARY MALONE Owen O'Duffy, former chief of tbe civilian'guards of the Irish Free State, who has been appointed general of the Free Stats army. There Is a mutiny ! he wrapped both bodies In sheets and ryoming Realtor Shoots It <^©ut With Sheriff at Douglat, Wyo. 2| Casper, Wyo.--Fred Van Gorden, forty-two, Caspar real estate and Insurance agent, was shot to debth In ag jluel with Sheriff Albert Peyton of Converse county at Douglas, Wyo*. When the ofllcer entered a hotel where? Vuu Gorden hacT taken a. room to arrest him on u charge of slaying his wife and twelve-year-old son Arthur. The body of Mrs. Pearl Van Gorden, the wife, prominent society woman, Was found floating In Dump Bridge creek, two miles east of Casper, at neon Sunday. The son's body was recovered'at the same spot a short time later. ' Police believe Van Gorden shot and killed his wife and his son in the Van Gorden home, in the city's best residential district. Then, police believe, In the army, and this appointment increased the dissatisfaction, i 4 U. S. GOVERNMENT MARKET REPORT Washington.--For the weak ending March 14. -- LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs, $7.65 for th« top and $7.35@7.60 for the bulk. Medium and good beef steers, }7.86(g) 11.40; butcher cows and heifers, |3.90<jj)10.60; feeder steers, $5.00@8.50; light and medium weight veal calves, $7.75 @11.25. Fat lambs, |13.7&@ 16.00; feeding lambs, 914.00 @ 15.60; yearlings. 111.00©14.00; fat ewes, $6.75@ 10.75. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Northern Hacked round white potatoes, $1.20 & 1.40 in Chicago, I1.00&1.05 at shipping points. Tellow varieties onions. $2.00@2.60 sacked per 100 lbs. In consuming- centers. Cabbage, Texas flat type, $50{jp65 In midwestern cities, mostly $28 >. b. Baldwin apples, $4.26 per bbL In Cincinnati, $3.65 f. o. b.; northwestern extra fancy wlnesaps, $2.0092.60 per box leading markets. HAY--No. 1 timothy, $24.60 Cincinnati, $26.00 Chicago, 419.00 Minneapolis, $25.50 St. Louis; No. 2 timothy, $22.00 Chicago, $17.60 Minneapolis; No. 1 alfalfa, $28.00 Chicago, $22.00 Minneapolis; No. 1 prairie. $19.00 Chicago, $16.60 Minneapolis, $18.50 St. Louis. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wheat. $1.13^4 @1.2814 Minneapolis; No. I hard winter wheat, $1.05% @1.09% Chicago; No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.09 % @ 1.10 St. Louis; No. 2 yellow corn, 79Vfc@ 7994c Chicago, 73%@73%c Minneapolis; No. 2 yellow corn, 76*4®77c St. Louts; No. 3 white oats, 48 @ 46c Chicago, 47@ 47toe St. Louis, 42c Minneapolis. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score, 47c Chicago. Cheese at Wisconsin primary markets; . Twins, 20%c; single daisies, 2114c; double daisies,. 21c; young Americas, 21Vic; longhOrns, 21c; square prints. 21 %c. smuggled them directly into the rage built onto the house. Ther^ he placed them In the rear seat of a large touring car. Fearing the barking, of his dog might attract the attention of his neighbors, Van Gorden shot and killed the animal near the front door of* his house. Then, leaving the home and garage locked up to make things appear all right to neighbors, police believe Van Gorden started for Douglas, fifty miles east of here, after dark. Arriving In Douglas about midnight, be went to the La Bonte hotel, the leading hotel .In Douglas. Sheriff Peyton, on tip from Casper officers, took a room across the hAll from the room occupied by Van Gorden. • Early this morning Van Gorden left bis room and started down the hall. SherifT Peyton called to him to halt. Van Gorden sought shelter In a curve In the hallway and opened fire on the sheriff. The sheriff declared Van Gorden fired twice. Then the sheriff killed him, three shots taking effect* Walsh Attacks Navy for Sending Marines to Dome Washington.--Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt and MaJ. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine corps, told the senate public lands committee that they sent marines to the Teapot Dome naval oil resarve to eject trespassers at the request of former Secretary of the Interior Fall, with the approval of President Harding. Senator Walsh sharply criticized the action of the Navy end Interior departments in using armed forces to compel the squatters to vacate when the matter could have been settled Just as well In the courts. * 200J000 Rail Shopmen to Ask Pay Increase Chicago.--Official demands are now In process of preparation at the Chicago headquarters of Bert M. Jewell, head of the Railway Employees' Department j)f the American Federation of Labor, for increases that will benefit the wage rates of 200,000 shopmen to the extent of 4 cents an hour each, or a yearly total of approximately $23,- 000,000. Information to this effect was disclosed by reliable Sburces closely affiliated with the local offlea «C tha shop crafts' head. February Employment at Highest Peak of 1924 Washington.--The first general increase since June, 1923, In employment In manufacturing industries in the United States was registered in February, It was shown in statistics compiled by the Department of Labor. Based on reports from 8,222 establishments in 52 industries there was "an Increase of 6.7 per cpnt in payroll totals, an Increase of 5.4 per cent i^ per capita earnings and an Increase of 1.2 per cent In the number of persons employed.'r " 1922 Fire Losses Were $506,541,001; Smoker Hit New York.--Fire Iohnpm In the United States In 1022, iotallng $500,541,001, exceeded by millions the amount of the nation's personal Income tax receipts for the year, said a report Issued by the national board of fire underwriters. The careless smoker again was found to be tlie cause of the greater number of fires, the board holding him responsible for a toll of $25,776,- 951. Defective chimneys and flues caused the next greatest loss, $18,550,- 433. ' ' - ... 'Washington Drunker Than Paris, Rep. Tinkham Says Washington.--The District of Columbia is 300 per cent more drunken than Paris and 2,000 per cent more murderous than Lomlon, Rep. G. H. Tinkham (Rep., Massif declared in a statement giving comparative figures. Statistics on arrest here, reported by the police department, Mr. Tinkham said, "disclose a civic depravity and social disintegration under present conditions and laws which are both appalling and unbelievable." Miss Mary Rice Malone of Atlanta. Ga., whose engagement to "Bobby" Jones, youthful national open golf champion, has been announced by her parents, M* and Mrs, J<*n Norton Malone. v „. .' /: -- • -- p . . . . -- MEANS TEiLS OF IWHOIESALE GRAFT tjb Secret Agent Unfold* Amazing Tale. Wash!ngton.-~Gaston B. Means, former agent of the Department of Justice, told the senate committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty that he bad collected money for the late Jesse W. Smith, Mr. Daugherty's "bumper and friend," in connection with the plot to check prosecutions In flght-filra cases. Mr. Means dwelt at length upon tbe "aircraft cases." He said that be had received $100,000 from a Japanese representative of Mitsui & Co., a Japanese firm, which he turned over to Mr. Smith. The money, he declared, was for the purpose of stopping government prosecution of the Standard Aircraft compauy, against which the government had a claim for overpayment amounting to $6,000,000. Other large sums of money were received by Mr. Means and turned over to Mr. Smith In connection with 'liquor permits." In all of these cases Mr. Means referred to himself as "the U. S. COURT HALTS DRILLING AT DOME Injunction Against Mam• moth Oil Co. Granted. Cheyenne, Wyo.--All drilling operations of the Mammoth Oil company on the Teapot Dome oil reserve are halted and the operation of existing wells Is reduced to the minimum deemed "necessary to prevent loss or damage" under the terras of a temporary Injunction granted by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy at tthe request of the United States government. Judge Kennedy appointed Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss of the United States navy and A. E. • Watts, vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation, as joint receivers to take charge of the properties and sell oil from producing wells pending the suit for annulment of the lease of the reserve to Harry F. Sinclair and the Mammoth Oil company. The injunction and receivership were granted by Judge Kennedy after a preliminary heading which followed the filing of the bill of equity in which the government alleges false representations in the transfer of the Teapot Dome reserve from the Navy to the- Interior department and also charges fraud In the execution of the lease to the Sinclair Interests. Besides the temporary injunction and recelvarshlp, the government In Its complaint asks that the court enter a final decree canceling the leases and contracts, returning the properties to the government, and enforcing accounting. The complaint was filed by Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special government counsel, and Albert L. Walton, United States district attorney for Wyoming. Charges, Are False, - Says Attorney General Washington -- Attorney General Dauglierty pronounced as "false and untrue" the statements of Miss Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of Jesse W. Smith, before the senate committee investigating him. Mr. Daugherty asserted he had never participated with Jesse Smith or any one else in any dishonorable undertaking for any purpose. Dougherty Gives Bribery Charges to Grand Jury Washington.--Acting on the resolution of the house of representatives adopted Tuesday, urging him to hasten Investigation into charges made before the Chicago grand jury that two members of congress accepted money Improperly, Attorney General Daugherty rushed the case before a grand jury of the District of Columbia. Filipinos Kill 48 Moros, but the Chief Escape* Manila. -- Forty-eight Moros were killed and six Philippine constabulary soldiers and one officer were wounded In a battle, at Cotabato, Mindanao, when the constabulary surrounded the notorious Datu (Chief) Santiago. The latter escaped with five at jtts men during the fighting. Georgian Court Sold Lakewood, N. J.--Georgian court, the palatial home of the late George Jay Gould, built twenty-five years ago at a cost said to be close to $2,000,- 000, has been sold to Mount St. Mary's college of Plalnfield. League Appeals for Albania Geneva.--The League of Nations has appropriated 50,0^p Swiss francs fot the relief of Albania and has issued an appeal to the nations of the world to give relief. German Reichstag Dissolved Berlin.--Insistence by the socialists for revision of tbe special emergency ordinances promulgated by the gov emment last October resulted In the dissolution Thursday of the relchstag by President Ebert. Detroit Gives Denby Ovation Detroit.--A fcreot ovation was ac corded Kdwln Denby when he returned to Detroit from Washington. Cheering crowds escorted the former navy aaeretary to his residence. Three Die; Three Hurt as Interurban Smashes Auto Chicago.--A man and two women were killed and three other persons Injured when a westbound limited train on the Chicago, Aurora & E'gln Interurban line, traveling at a speed of fifty miles an hour, crashed Into a touring car at the Wolf road crossing In Hillside. The dead: Anthony J. Pell, Miss Irene Williams and Miss Cecelia Klepepko. Negroes, Threatened, Will Leave Illinois Mine Town Hfirrlsburg, III.--Five of eight colored families, residents of» Muddy, a mining town, who received threatening letters supposedly from the Ku Klux Klan are making arrangements tp leave town. Local klan leaders declare the letters w^re not written with the authority of that otganizaffaxu • ' Says Guilt Proven Washington.--Senator Wheeler of Montana declared that the senate committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty had proven Mr. Daugherty guilty of "conspiracy" In the fight film and aircraft cases. King Gets Ovation Rome--King Victor Emmanuel received a great ovation when he arrived In Flume. The formal annexation of the newly acquired Italian city was delayed until the king's arrival. ,v AP«nn. Men Get Raisp rtrHadelphla. -- Conductors, brake* *men, baggagemen and swltchtenders employed on the Pennsylvania Rail road system have been granted a 0.2 per cent wage Increase, It was official ly announced here. Holder Pleads Not Guilty New York.--Colonel Thomas B, Felder, indicted jointly with Gaston B. Means for an alleged conspiracy to bribe Attorney General Dautftwrty entered a plea of not guilty. itlM' U. S. Sells $1,000,000 War Supplies to Mexico Washington.--More than $1,000,000 worth of surplus war materials have been sold to the Obregon government by the United States since January. These include 2,900 bombs, 33 machine guns, 20,100 rifles, 5,010,000 rounds of rifle ammunition and 11 DH-4 airplanes. •e Collections for the suppression of prosecution In the Dempsey-Carpentler light pictures amounted to $50,000, Mr. Means explained. In answer to pressing questions of Senator Moses. He declared that this sum was the amount Which passed through his hands and that there might have been more. Tlie money was turned over to Mr. Means by messengers In sums ranging around $8,000 to $6,000, he declared. Mr. Means told of Investigations ba bad made Into official actions of several public officers. Including Senator Caraway of Arkansas, Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin and Secretary Mellon. He said that he had made the Investigations "in search of something damaging." The rifling of Senator LaFollette's -office took place shortly after the Wisconsin senator had Instigated the oil Investigation, be declared. When asked who was back of the Investigation, Means was a little hazy, but he said he understood tAey were initiated by President HardlBg. The Mellon investigation, he said, was in connection wlt£ the granting oi <U$uer permits. /* WRIGLEYS MAKE MONEY IN YOUR SPARt TIMfc > ">• alogs among your friends. No selling, no investment. Emt> ihnple way to add Co your bcoms ia your ipaf* time. Jum WRITE for full dtmth. CRESCENT PRODUCTS CO BMkC) Ml »i I MM Twt Prohibition Director Accused in Rum Steal Chicago -- The Chicago Tribune says: "Federal Indictments charging $800,000 illicit booze transactions are being prepared, it became known Friday night, based on evidence in the hands of State's Attorney Crowe and federal agents with whom he has been co-operating. More than twenty-five persons will be -named. Sensational evidence has been adduced aguinst two prominent men, one of them a high prohibition official. These two are: Leon Brook, former first assistant prohibition director for the Illlnols-Iowa- Wlsconslu region. Brook now is general prohibition director for California. Sachet H. Verrall, general manager and a stockholder of the Sibley Warehouse and Storage company." T China's Speeding Up Many of Peking (China's) fleet-fool* ed rickshaw met--some 40,000 In nuniber-- will be driving trolley cars dowfft her narrow streets and ringing* uf» • fares and'keeping up the tracks by tto» spring of 1924, If all goes well. The world's Forbidden city bdfeS: raised by popular subscription the ca|»» ltal for financing a tramway systeil - and only tlie objections of the rldfc» I" , Shitw men who would he forcpd ttt ;*;, meet tbe competition of cheap electric transportation has to be overcom4r* This can be done, It Is thought, b§L l" employing most of them on the tramt. "DANDELION BUTTER COLOR* A harmless vegetable butter cold? used by millions for 50 years. Drqg stores and general stores sell bottles 9f "Dandelion" lor 35. cents.--Adv. Taxpayers Sure of Slice on 1923 Rate June 15 Washington.--Assurances were given by both Republicans and Democrats in congress that taxpayers might rest assured that notwithstanding the failure to give a reduction in taxes on 1923 Income before Saturday's filtng of returns, the retroactive cut wtn^a certainty. r Audit of Income Tax Is Still Seven Years Behind Washington.--More than 8.50Q Income tax return cases for 1917 still sre awaiting settlement In the Internal revenue bureau, the select senate committee investigating the administration of that bureau was toldJ** £om' mlsaloner David H. Blair, Graft on Fight Films in Twenty-Five States Shown Washington.--Jesse Smith, "bumper and friend" of Attorney General Daugherty, and his associates In the deal received $65,060 as their share of the profits from the illegal exhibition of the Dempsey-Carpentler prise fight motion pictures in twenty-five states, according to testimony before the senate investigating committee. The transportation of the pictures from one state to another In contravention of the federal law could have been stopped by an injunction, according to the testimony, had the attorney general, it is charged, Invoked this remedy. House Gets $254,000,000., Army Bill; Small Force Washington.--The army approprlqtton bill, carrying a total of $254,224,- S65, was reported to the house from the appropriations committee. It provides for an army of 12,000 officers and 125,000 men, as at present. There is an appropriation of $37,250,000 for rivers and harbors, the distribution being left to the rivers aad harbors engineers. Must Be Understood by All • Chinaman was worried by £h vicious-looking dog who barked at hUI in an angry manner. " "Don't be afraid of him," said a friend. "You know the proverb, 'A barking dog never bites.'" "Yes," said the Chinaman, "yon know tlie proverb. I know tbe proverb, but does the dog know the proverb f Nothing Better for Constipation than one or two Brandreth Pills at bedtime. They cleanse the system, purify the blood and keep you well.--Adv. ^ Couldn't Eat While Squeezing- "Hermann, see how that lawyer |if • squeezing daughter's hand under tfy^ tableI" "Let him! While he's squeezing he can't be eating!"--Fliegendfe . Blaetter. Thousand* afflicted with •al catarrh have found Zcpp_ ite highly efficacious as treat* ment for it. Spray the nose morning and night acco*d* • ing to directions on bottl®.. Tones up the mucous mem* branes and kills germs without injuring body tissues. Doesn't irritate or burn**Ad la positively •on-fuMHWiol" TomKKIILLLLbSS GG ERMS Relict coughs lUsaPIKys-chls preeedption quickly I relieves children and adults. J Egypt Has First Parliament Cairo.--King Fuad opened the first Egyptian parliament Saturday under the new regime. The king said that the first duty of the parliament was to realize complete Independence, for Egypt. < •' ^ Dr.W.Ct. StiUman Dties Albany, N. Y--Dr. W. O. Stillman, known throughout the country for Ms work In humane organizations as head of the American Humane association, died here Friday. ^ Dawes Report Delayed ' A Parts.--Completion of the Dawei committee's report to the reparation commission will be delayed by new obstacles which have arisen In connection with the plan for the establishment of a gold bank of issue. ° 17. S. in Boundary Dispute Dublin.--The Ulster boundary question directly Involves the American Immigration law. At present all Ireland is viewed aa oap.tMtt. the tinited State*. - ^ v ^ Mexican Rebels Give Up in State of Guerrero Mexico City.--A landslide of rebel troops towards the government from the state of Guerrero began when 400, Including a number of prominent generals, surrendered at Toluca, 800 at Cuernavaca, and 800 at Puente da Ixtla. Gen. Romulo Figueroa Is reported dangerously -ill §t Iguala^. the Insurgent headquarters. *" S. Africa Gets U. & iRadio Johannesburg, South Africa.--The owner of a three-tube radio set here had the unprecedented experience the other day of receiving music and talks over the air from both Scheneftadjr •nd London. Afliiniitrrrap. Nooptetsa. . 35c«a460cste»se3 onfghf Ibmorrow Alrfglit Only 8 Soldiers at fferriti. llerrln. 111.--All of the soldiers who were called here last month, with the exception of -one squad of Company C of the One Hundred and Thirtieth infantry, have returned to their homes. Clear Your Skin With Cuticura Soap to Clcanea Ointment to Heal Afc«o<ot«ty Notbl«t |«uw Bomb British Legation*^- Athens.--A bomb was exploded tff tbe entrance of the British legation, rausing material damage, hut injuring no one. Greek officials expressed belief that the incident was staged in an effort to discredit the government. Radio Speed Measured Washington.--Experts of the Ksdlo Corporation of America testej the relocity of radio and found that impulses travel at the rate (A. otfiea In XH5 of a second. KEMP'S BALSAM Dvn't Kri* Gfcruugh! cough! 2 ' Ccru,gh ! «• '-*• %