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•' '.-tAg 4. wrTTrwwr'T,f - '• ^'Iff '»'•! •' '•' f "Hffil1 mm McHBNRT PLAQAUIA^ ILL l£llitt Senate Passes Bill for Relief of Tornado Sufferers. Jnlngfield.--The senate, without rence, advanced to a .second" reading a bill that appropriates $500,000 for relief for the storm sufferers. The bill provides that the money •hall be appropriated to the governor and that it shall be distributed by a commission made up. of four senators •nd three representatives. The governor's office has been flooded with telegrams concerning the storm. Some proffered help, some asking help and others sought information as to missing persons. One1 telegram was from Mayor Hoffman of Lorain, Ohio, the scene of the last big storm. Sympathy and aid were offered. Governor's Message. /, Following 1$ the text of Governor femAII's message: . "An appalling calamity has fallen upon our citizens tn the southern portion of the state, and reports which I am. receiving from public and private Sources indicate widespread destruction of life and property, unparqjleled Jn the history of the state of Illinois. "Every resource at tlie disposal of the executive will be utilized to ameliorate the distressing conditions now existing as a result of the tornado which visited our southern' counties, •nd I commend the situation to the careful consideration of your honorable body to the end that wise and effective measures may be promptly authorized U> relieve our suffering people." -- ' For Repeal of Ory Laws. The license and miscellany committee of the house by a vote of 10 to 1 recommended repeal of the search and seizure and prohibition laws. The Roberts bill appropriating $30,- 000 for monument to the Three Hundred and Seventieth infantry at Twenty- fifth street and Grand boulevard. Chicago, was passed by the senate. The Jewell bill reducing to one-year minimum period of county residence fbr eligihles under mother's pension act was also pawed by the senate. The Judiciary committee of the house began hearings on gun-toting bills. The house committee on agriculture continued its fight on bovine tuberculin tests. , The Judiciary committee of the house killed pay increase for municipal court judges, but kept increased pay for bailiffs and clerks under consideration. Gas Tax Talk Revived. Agitation for a state gasoline tax bill, five of which already have been presented to the general assembly, was revived with the announcement by the Illinois Agricultural association that it would seek the passage of such a measure. Three gasoline tax bills have been introduced in the senate and two in the house. The latest senate measure, sponsored by Senator Andrew S. Cuthbertson, Bunker Hill, has "the indorsement of the Illinois Agricultural association. .ILLINOIS STATE NEWS URGES AID FOR STORM SUFFERERS Springfield.--An appeal to the citizens of Illinois for the relief of the stricken in the towns which have suffered loss of life and property as a result of the tornado which .swept the southern part of Illinois was issued by Gov. Len Small. The governor urges that all contributions be sent to_WHUam M. Baxter, Jr., assistant to the vice chairman of tfie American Red Cross branch at St. Louis, Mo. The appeal of the governor follows: "Early advices would indicate that an appalling disaster has been visited upon several communities in Jackson and Franklin counties in this state. "Reports received by me are to the effect that many of our people have been killed and maimed, and hundreds, perhaps thousands made homeless from the effects of a tornado which descended upon the southern part of Illinois. "The American Red Cross branch at St. I<ouis has volunteered to act as the agency for the receipt and disbursement of emergency relief funds in aid of the suffering communities, and its offer has been accepted. "Every means at the command of the executive for the amelioration of the distressing conditions in the devastated area will be employed and units of the National Guard of Illinois will be mobilized and moved where necessary as the need develops. "I hereby appeal to our citizens for funds for the relief of these stricken peoples and request that contributions be forwarded direct to William M. Baxter, Jr., assistant to the vice chairman of the American Red Cross branch, St. Louis, Mo." •Y* Chicago.--More than 23.1.000 M.'hlcagoans'pnid income taxes aggravating $28,152,155 for - the first quarter of 1925, it was announced by Mr>W\Iabel G. Reinecke, collector of internal revenue for the northern Illinois district. This year's returns exceed last year's 1" payments by $4,242,379. and when av-<lic checks are counted last year's figures may be doubled. The increase due to the great number of business men who disposed of their entire \_Jw24 tax in one payment tliis year. Mrs. Reinecke estimates that three times as umny individuals and corporations paid in full this year as last. And more than 49.) MM) more returns than last year's record of 1S2.000 have already been counted. Springfield.--Five hundred missionaries of better citizenship among business men of the state and better cooperation between legislators and their constituents invaded Springfield. There was a. luncheon at the Elks' dub at which state officials were the guests *of honor and in the evening there was a dinner to which each delegate invited one of his home-town legislators. The complete program as pre sehted during the flay is as follows: .1. S*»te police: 2. Prompt distribution of public funds; 3. Collection of interest upon idle funds; 4. Full publicity for state expenditures5. Recodification of the school laws; 6.~ A comprehensive state plan. i| rank fort. Twelve hundred men were thrown oaf of work when the -'Chicago Wilmington & Franklin Coal 'company indefinitely suspended operations here. . Dixon. -- Dixon chapter of the Walton league, at its annual nieeti^ indorsed the proposal that the state purchase the Ogle county pine forest, located near l-olo. Robert Hallenher was elected president. A. I.. Wll_«»n, executive secretary, and .!•' I.. Davles treasurer. » hieago-- Sixteen prohibition agents tjlder Chief Enforcement Officer Ckarlos W. Vursell raided the' gg. toons and roadhouses of Joliet and Cbannahon, n>?ar Joliet. seizing large quantities of beer, wine, alcohol and fioonsliice. ^Jjkloljne.-Losses totaling mm* than ^W>,000 gallons of water a day were discovered in the Moline water system after a series of tests, continued over • period of four months, it was foupd consumption of water in the city averaged 2,5500W) gallons a day and about .1^3723,000 gallons each night. - Rock for J.--The Swedish Evangelical Siisslon Covenant of America will hold Its national convention here June 10 <0 15, icclUKive, in connection with fbe celebration of the gold Jubilee of Swedish Mission Tabernacle cburcli of JBockford. <1 •BS' ."liiVti. Urbana.--Members of the Illinois Automotive Trade association assembled here in annual convention. The program Is made up of talks on trad* topics and impending legislation. The nominating committee made the following report on new officers for the coming year: President, H. A. Amer man, Urbana; vice president, W. E. Butler, Chicago; treasurer, VV. W. Ingrain, Peoria; secretary, Wilbui Coons. Peoria; directors, R. Haas, Springfield; Jameg,(Levy, Chicago; R. Tenny, Decatur, and E. T. Byram, Galesburg. Springfield.--School teachers In Illinois will devote at least two days of this spring to their own education, according to a schedule of sectional educational meetings announced by thr Illinois State Teachers' association. Teachers in the southern part of the state #111 meet at Carbondale Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27; it the central division at Bloomington, March 20 and 21; in the southwestern division at East St. Louis, April 2 and 3; of the Lake Shore division at Rvanston, April 20. Urbana.--A series of experiments in producing smokeless domestic fuel from Illinois coal, are being made by Prof. S. W. Parr of the University of Illinois. Results are expect ed to make for "smokeless cities.' The fuel is now being manufactured at the university in such quantities that It can be tried out in several house furnaces and grates. Only Illinois coal is used. It Is carbonized in vertical retorts made of special iron, nickel and chromium alloy, which are heated externally by gas. Wilmington.--The will of the late Alfred Richardson of this city just admitted to probate distributes an estate of $3.1,000. The following residents of Chicago are remembered Hattie La Vole. $4,000; George A. Rich ardson. $1,000; Levi Richardson, $1,- 000; Mrs. Jennie Richardson and two children, Olive and Laura, each $1,- 000, and Gladys Richardson, $500. Similar sums are left to other relatives in Wilmington, Joliet, Lockporf and El wood. Waukegan.--Love may laagh right out loud at locksmiths et **etera. but when a mother of a girl-bride not yet seventeen takes a hand, hilarity seemr amiss. At least, Lawrence Venturl, twenty, of Milwaukee, who eloped to Waukegan with Adele Taylor, also of Milwaukee, isn't laughing. Neither Ir Adele. although she was released frorc. the detention home when her husband was freed from Ja.J. Beverly Hills.--Mrs. Helen Haacall Woodward, ninety-four years old. a real daughter of the War of 1812. died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Burt W. Pierce, 1057 West One Hundred an<l Second street. Mrs. Woodward's father, William Huscall, fought with honor throughout the battles with the British In the War of 1812. Cairo.--The routherii Illinois peach crop escaped injury during the weekend cold wave, orchard experts announced. Evanston.--Samuel Harrison, seventy- one, for 40 years a resident of this city and for 2f years a justice of the peace, was probably fatally injured when hit by a iaxlcab. Fred N. Lutger, twenty, driver, was arrested. Air. Harrison for several years was president of the Cook County Justices' :J»d Constables' association. Noknmis.--Mrs. Henry Bongoni eu tered a plea of guilty and was Hne4 S200 and costs when officers raided tier premises and found 90 gallons of wine and white mule. She had takes, no' precaution to conceal it. ' Sprlngfierd.--An application fofr. a rehearing of the case of the city ol Aurora vs. Robert Burns and All»ert W. TIe Latour. in which the Supreme <ourt. by a decision last month, declared the Aurora zoning ordlnmci invalid, was filed in the Supremi court here. . • - • t Sterling.--The torso of a large mas was found In a bayou west of Prophetstow- i. It evidently had drifted down Hock river when the ice went out a short time ago. indications an the body had been frozen in the river since last fall.. * FLOOD FOllOWS GALE AT GRIFFIN Relief Work Handicapped by Waters--More . Nurses Needed. r Griffin, Ind.--In thld little hamlft, torn by the tornado which, last Wednesday killed 58 persons and Injured most of the 'other inhabitants, nature has further handicapped relief work by sending the flood waters of the Wabash and Black rivers across the surrounding lowlands, making Impossible automobile travel to and froti^ the village. With the exception of the Illinois Central railroad. Griffin was cut off from the outside vtorld. Waters of the Wabash and Black rivers backed tip over all the highways leading into the town, covered the bridge approaches, and even threatened -to carry off the bridge Itself. John T. Nolan, Red Cross official in charge of the relief work here, said the road to Graysville also had been submerged and caused temporary abandonment of the carrying of -supplies to the town. No sightseers were allowed within a radius of five miles of the town. Carbondale, 111.--Henry M. Baker, national director of the Red Cross disaster relief, in Charge of the Red Cross operations in the tornado zone, announced that an emergency unit has been established In every stricken area and all Injured have received medicul attention and all the homeless have been temporarily sheltered. The total number of persons killed is now put at 811, with 2,939 in jured. With the most pressing rei^^work out of the way, plans we^^wing made to establish peVmanent rnief headquarters where the loci! Ked Cross activities are already centered, along with the medical units, the army distribution units and other relief agencies. From here the rehabilitation work will be directed, and Mr. Baker said that the permanent rehabilitation of every family affected by the tornado will get under way In a few days. Chicago.--Fear that pestilence or plague may .follow the tornado brought a call for more nurses from stricken southern Illinois. Many of the city's\ leading hospitals were asked by military medical men and Red Cross officials to send every available nurse. Murphysboro, 111. -- Murphysboro's tornado death list was raised to 103 while 31 of. the more seriously injured, \all of them in desperate need of expert surgicul attention, were taken to St. Louis on a special train. Between thirty and fifty victims of the wind were buried during the day. At the cemetery busy grave diggers laid aside their picks and spades to act as pallbearers and the hearse itself was hurried away for another body. A minister who remained at the cemetery read the burial service if no minister accompanied the funeral party and the body .was lowered into the grave. ^ / ' J , ' . ' MRS. WM. D. SHEPHERD Five Person* Perish (n Gotham Tenement Fire New York.--Five persons, including two women and two children, lost their lives in a fire that destroyed an East Forty-eeventh -Street tenement house occupied by 11 families. Four persons were injured. Fire department officials said the blaze was started by a pyromanlac, who set fire to a baby carriage in the ground hallway. The police redoubled their efforts to find the "baby «*arriage" pyromaniac believed responsible for other recent fires in the fame neighborhood. The fire was one of seven apparently Incendiary biases within a period of twenty-four hours, according to police records. Portrait of Mrs. William D. Shepherd, wife of the man who Is accused by I>r. C. C. Kuiit.itli of Chicago, and the Cook county grand Jury, as having caused the death of Shepherd's foster son, William N. M<-Clitock,- by isterfng t yphoid germs. * . MARQUIS CURZON, STATESMAN, DEAD Held Moat Every High Office of British Empire. London.--Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, lord president of the council, died here. He was sixty-six years old. The marquis collapsed on March 5 at Cambridge, while dressing to attend a public dinner. It was said at the time that he hud suffered from a hemorrhage. When the necessity for an operation was announced his friends recognized that it would be serious for a man of his age._ Nevertheless, Lord Curzon stood the ordeal better than had been expected. The Marquis Curzon (George Nathaniel Curzon), from the cTadle to the tomb, exemplified In every detail the type of superior personality known as the ruling aristocrat. He was bred for public life and followed the career of politics and government with such success that, he held almost every great office under the crown except the highest of all--the post of prime minister. Lord Curzon was born at Kedleston January 11, 1859, the eldest son of Rev. Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, the fourth Baron Scarsdale* He married twice, taking an American as his wife on both occasions. In 1895 he married Miss Mary Victoria Letter, daughter of L. Z. Lelter of Chicago. She died.In 1900, the year after they returned from India, leaving three daughters. His second wife, whom he married in 1917, was Mrs. Grace Elvina Hinds Duggan, widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. His barony of Ravensdale, In the peerage of -Ireland, passes to Lady Irene Curzon, a daughter by his first wife, who was Mary Lelter of Chicago. 2,000 Phonea Wrecked by Storm in Lower Michigan Detroit. -- Demoralization of communications was the chief effect of the storm that touched lower Michigan, skirting the edges of the tornado. Hundreds of telephone poles were down, and wire communication was paralyzed In many parts of the lower peninsula. Two thousand telephones were put out of commission by the wind in Detroit. There were no casualties SO far 41 a Is known. Train service was not affected, but street car service In Flint an dDetroit was handicapped for hours. Program of Fleet's Trip to Australia, New Zealand Washington.--The Navy department made public the revised schedule for the proposed cruise of the United States fleet to Australia and New Zealand. The fleet will be Split In two parts, one half of the ships visiting Melbourne and Wellington and the other half going to Sydney and Auckland. When "the scouting fleet returns to the west coast, June 8, after conducting maneuvers around Hawaii, the U. S. S. Seattle, the battle fleet, certain units of train squadron No. 2, the aircraft squadrons of the scouting fleet, and one light cruiser division will continue in Hawaiian waters until July 1. Sea operations will be conducted between June 8 and 10 by the forces, while from June 19 to July 1, they will base on Pearl Harbor. Doris Deane, Film Actress Becomes Arbuckle's Bride Beverly Hills, Cal.--Roscoe Arbuckle, former film comedian, and Doris Deane, motion picture actress, were married at the home of the bride's mother in San Marino, near Pasadena, it was announced by Arbuckle here. Admit They're«Engaged Hollywood, Cal.--John Bowers and Marguerite de la Motte admitted on their arrival here from New York that they are, engaged to be married, but said they bad not act tlM wedding date. •Three Drown in Pond Presho, S. D.--Three persons were drowned In a pond near Lyman when the automobile In which they were riding Jeft the rdad and went into the water. " " ;;'**"•» 1 1 '• J »«»>.• ' ftilth Redeem^tlonda London.--Irish Free State govern* ment job .s Issued to finance the re^ publican struggle are to be redeemed In 1927, it is learned here. The bon is amount *0 £3.000,000. Most of the amount wi subscribed In the United 8tatea, It i« ^ald. Parachute 5ave§ Pilot Dayton, Ohio.--Jumping when Ms airplane became disabled, Lieut. F. O. gunter of Selfrldge field saved bla life .by using his parachute. Motor Racer Badly Hart as Car Goes Into Fence San Francisco. -- Ralph Johnson, twenty-seven, of Philadelphia, a driver of racing automobiles, was Injured seriously when a racing automobile in wh'.ch he was practicing at Tanforan park left the track and plunged through a fence. Surgeons expressed the belief Johnson would die from his injuries. New Hampshire Rejects ' Child Labor Amendment Concord, N. H.--The New Hampshire house of representatives voted tiguinst ratification of the federal child labjr amendment. The amendment will not be referred to ttfe state senate. Canada Ha* Jobletm Army Calgary, Alta.--Canada has a Cox's army In a troop of 123 jobless men who left here Saturday for Edmonton, capital of Alberta, a distance of 200 miles, to demand relief from unemployment. Women Die in Food Riota Serlin.--Twenty-three persons, mostly women, were killed and many were wounded In food riots occurlng itt Leningrad on March 17 an<yL§. Police arrested 1,000 persona. l - . Poland Bars Chinese Warsaw.--In the belief that the via- Its to ibis country of orientals presaged a Chinese Invasion, the Polish government has declftnd to admit no more Chinese until their applications have been passed upon by Warsaw. Qaake and Fire Raze Town Shanghai.--Tlfe town of Tallfu In western Yunnan province has been destroyed by an earthquake^ A disastrous fire followed, says a message received here calling for beta (4,000,000 FIRE AT PALM BEACH Five Missing After Breakers Hotel Is Destroyed--Martial L&u' Declared. Palm Bcach, Fla.--Fire destroyed the famous Breakers hotel, wiped oat the smaller Palm Beach hotel, and for lours bei < a threat of destruction over the entire northern section of this celebrated winter playground of the .vealthy. Four cottages belonging to the Breakers were also burned, as were several pJvuu homes and shops near he razed structures. The damage by fire along with the jersonal valuables lost by hundreds of Aealthy guests Is estimated at $4,000,- )00. Martini law was pot Into effect by 3overno Martin at the . request of ocal authorities after police in West I'alm iieacii had captured two motor trucks and several automobiles loaded ivlth valuables stolen from the ruins, irrestlng eight negroes and one white nan. Troops were Immediately placed on ?uard at all bridges between the resort md West Palm Beacb. An elderly man and woman were -eported burned to death in the Breakers. and two small children and their lurse nrtre said to be missing from the same hotel. Parents of the chlljren were searching frnntically for rhem, but would not give their names. A young girl was run over and billed in West Palm Beach by an automobile speeding to the fire. For a time the Royal Poinclana, anstber famous hostelry, and the almost equally celebrated Bradley's qlub' appeared certain to burn, and the guests were ordered to leave. The structures were saved, however, although a number of shops were destroyed. Fire-fighting forces from Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Miami a-'.d several other towns fought 1 he flames, and other firemen were on the way when the upper hand was gained by those on the scene about nine o'clock. The fire started late In the afternoon In an upper floor of the south wing of the Breakers, which had nearly 4)00 rooms and provided accommodations for nearly 2.000 persons. The cause of the fire was variously reported as a carelessly handled cigaret. a plumber's torch and a woman guest using an electric appliance. Flames broke through the roof and smoke almost immediately spread throughout the hotel. Guests hurriedly left the burning structure, many not waiting to save their personal belongings, and the toss of valuables of persons residing in the hotel Is expected to be great. The hotel, constructed of highly inflammable pine wood, barned rapidly. Hogs Reach $14.60; Cattle, Lambs Down By Bureau of Agricultural Economic*, U. S Department of Agriculture. Chicago Union Stockyards.--In sympathy with a sluggish dressed beef trade, even moderate receipts were In excess of trade requirements so far as fed fteerS were concerned. This class predominated. At the low time, after fut steers had received the sharpest slap registered so far this year, values were r»0 to 75 cents under the high time a week earlier, but curtailed country loadings which placed receipts on a hand-to-mouth basis maneuvered an upturn, leaving net looses of 25 to 35 cents. Killing quality was relatively high and fat steers averaged considerably lower than the buoyant close suggested. The extreme top on weighty steers was $11.50 paid for 1,441-pound averages. Under the impetus of extremely urgent buying, hog values sought higher lewis and the top was pushed from $13.85 on Saturday to $14.00 on Wednesday. Late declines all bat wiped out the earlier advances, leaving a net gain of about 10 to 15 cents for the rank and file of offerings, with packing sow8 showing slightly more advance. Slaughter pig supplies exceeded demand and these suffered a 25 to 5J cent break. Lamo Prioea Decline 8harply. With Colorado feed Jots disgorgltlg Increasing numbers of lambs that were weighty and generally unattractive kinds, together with a badl4v congested and sharply lower eastern dressed trade, the local trade on fat lambs broke sharply and values were precipitated downward $1.00 to $1.25. On closing rounds best handy-wa^gbt lambs made $16.25 to $16.50. Negro Taken From Jail in Virginia and Lynched Norfolk, Va.--An unidentified negro, charged with attacking a white woman. was taken from the Sussex county jail at Waverly, Va., and lynched by mob of 2.000 persons. 1 Kitted, 1 Hurt in Plane Crash Ardmore, otcla.--F. S. Bennett, oil man, was fatally Injured and William Krohn, newspaper roan and oil writer, bruised and lacerated when their airplane fell at Springer. Bennett died almost immediately. Noted Political Writer Dies Milwaukee.--George P. Matties, for two score years a member of the Sentinel staff and for many years one of the best-known political writers in Wisconsin, died at his home here. Biahop Blah*'a Wife Diem Chicago.--Mrs. Charlotte Woodman Blake, wife* of Bishop Edgar Blake of the Methodist Episcopal area of Paris, France, died at Wilson, N. C.. according to n telegram received here. She had been spending the winter with her son, Everett. $28,731JS0€ Income Tax Paid Chicago.--Collections of Income tlx payments raised the total In the Chicago district to $25,731,506, Mrs. Mabel Reinecke,"collector, announced. WILLIAM BERNSHOVSE TAX NEXT YEA! Surplus Assured by Total ^430,000,000, Mellon . Declares^ T ^ William Bernshouse, aged ninety-one years, of Hammonton, New Jersey, is the oldest living Odd Fellow In the world, with a record of 67 years contiiwous membership. -_J - • - V. S. GOVERNMENT MARKET QUOTATIONS Washington.--For th« week endlcs March 19.---HAY--Quoted March It: No. 1 timothy: Chicago, $22.00. No. 1 alfalfa: Kansas City, flS.BO. No. 1 prairie: Chicago, $16.00. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Northern sacked ruund White potatoes, $L00 © 1.06 on Chicago carlot market; 789 90c f. o. b. Northwestern extra fancy wlnesap apples, $3.5003.76 per box. GRAIN--Quoted March 19: No. 2 hard winter wheat: St. Louis, ~$1.86® 1.66. No. S hard winter wheat: Chicago, $1.66. No. 3 mixed corn: Chicago, $1.1$. No. 2 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.18©1.30. No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.14© 1.17%; St. Louis, fl.12@1.16. No. S white corn: Chicago, $1.16; St. Louis, $1.13. No. 3 white oats: Chicago, 44% ©47%c; St. Louis. 47Vfc©48Uc. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing wholesale prices of 92-score butter: New York. 48%c; Chicago, 48%c; Philadelphia, 49 %c; Boston, 48 %c. Wholesale prices on Wisconsin primary cheese markets March 18: Single daisies, 23c; double daisies, 22%c; longhorns, 23c; square prints, 23c. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $14.50 for top and $14.00© 14.30 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $8.85©11.25; butcher cows and heifers, $4.26©11.00; feeder steers, $6.26 ©8.76; light and medium weight veal calves, $9.00© 12.00. Fat lambs. $14.60© 16.60; feeding lambs, $16.00#14.96; tet •wea, $6.26©9.76. President Wants Help to Enforce Prohibition Washington.--Adequate enforcement of* the Volstead act never will be attained unless munclpal, county and state authorities accord the federal government full and active co-operation, Is the belief of President Coolidge. The President's views were made known officially at the White House. Their expression was prompted in part by the findings of a special grand jury in Philadelphia which met to consider ways and means to make the dry lawa effective in operation. The President's spokesman made It known thut Mr. Coolidge no longer Is Inclined to favor transfer of all federal activities under the irj aet to the Department of Justice. Vice President to VUit Ancestor's Home in East , Boston.--Vice President Charles G. Dawes will come to Concord and Lexington on April 20 for the celebration of the outbreak of the American Revolution In which, bis ancestor, William Dawes, Jr., shared responsibility with Paul Revere in rousing the countryside to arms. It is expected the vice president will reach Boston (in time to witness the unveiling of a basrelief of bis ancestor on a bronze tablet to bt- placed in North square. If possible he will ride by automobile through the towns through which his ancestor or Revere galloped on horseback. „... ^ Thirteen Killed When : Trains Crash in Mist New Orleans, La.--Thirteen persons lost their lives In a wreck when two fast mall trains of the Southern Pacific railroad collided during a fog at Ricohoc. La., between Franklin and Patterson. Four of the dead were white men. The others were negro passengers. Five were seriously injured. t The official report said that Engineer Mathews of the eastbound San Antonio express came througli the fog and passed the switch signal at lticohoc, where he was scheduled to have put in for the westbound i«a% About nine hundred feet past the pjjHtch the two trains came together. Couple Drown When Auto Plunges Off Lake Bridge Forrest City, Arte--Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schwart of 8740 Winthrop avenue, Chicago, were drowned when a closed car In which they were driving plunged off a bridge over Burnt Cane lake on the Bankhead .highway about eleven miles east of this Kanaaa Trade Board to Fight Topeka, Kana.--Boards of trade are planning to challenge the privilege of membership extended by the state leg Islature to more than 550 co-operative grain marketing asjociatloQS, In nay Kansfs board of trade. It la said. Firat-Degree Robbera to Die Jeffens i City. Mo.--By a unanimous viva vcce vote the house of the legislature ordered engrossed the bill providing the death penalty for firstrobbers. * Poultry Embargo Lifted ; New York.--The embargo on live poultry from North and South Dakota, Missouri. Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska was lifted by the board of health on Thursday. The embargo continues on poultry from Illinois, Indians* Ohio and Pennsylvania. ... Submarine la Refloated Washington.--The submarine S-19 Is being towed to Provlncetown, Masa~, following the successful floating of the boat which has been aground. Washington.--Reduction of taxes I®", the next congress along the lin?s lai®*' down by the administration is shadowed in the tax receipts from th|F' March 15 payments, as announced bft the ^treasury. 3g£V Secretary Mellon said that these receipts would total more than 000,000, which siiows that the surplt^T at the end of the present fiscal yeajf will be fully as large as estiinateilL, Nothing at present indicates interfef^ ence with the larger surplus in pro|i» . pect for the next fiscal period. Secretary Mellon and his aggt3tai|t. conferred with Representative (>ree% chairman of the house ways and meuik$ committee, and the latest reports <j£ the receipts were gone over. Prelim?^ nary plans for the revision of the revf« nue laws were discussed. | The chairman said that hearings of| the new tax bill probably would com nien-e October 19. The secretary sal the treasury would have Its suggf tions ready for submission at ths time. In the .meantime the chairtmi will make a study of the. European taxing laws. £ Senator Smoot of Utah also cor#* mented upon the proposed reduction of taxes during the day when lie calletf upon the President at the Whit# House. Senator Smoot is chairman W': the senate finance committee. The senator announced himself a#' in favor of a reduction of the maxf§ inum surtax rate to 25 per cent or leslj ns Secretary Mellon has advised. Tit# senator also suggested some sort or mutual arrangement between the fed* eral government and the states under which the income tax field would In^' left to the federal government ttnd thrt| of taxation on Inheritances and ef|. tates be left to the states. > These views tire in accord with tlioiMi of Mr. Mellon, wHo lias intimated thflj^ he believes-the federal estate t«if. should be gradually reduced and linal^ eliminated. The secretary said thi|£ he believes the previous estimates a $68.00tM*xf surplus in the current fiscal year will be borne out. Dr. Fullerton, Educator, U Ends Life by Hangings Poughkeepsle, N. Y. -- Professor- George Stuart Fullerton, famed uuthoi^ ity on the philosophy of life, decided that all the philosophy he had learned and taught for 25 years was futile. He hanged himself with a ciotheslitpT In the closet adjoining his study. For several years the professor, wlil^ had occupied the chair of philosophy1 at Columbia and had lectured at Va»^ sar during the last two years, had heett ill. Doctor Fullerton's collapse followed his internment in a German prisutt camp during the war. -- Professor Fullerton was born.» ill Fatehgarb, India, in 1859. He taug)|£ at Pennsylvania and In 1003 went Columbia, where he remained 13 yearfc, A year later he was exchange professor of philosophy in the Austrian universities and Emperor Francis Joseph made him honorary pco|e3B(W 9t the University of Vienna. | ' . " : I States May Site U. S. for Guard Drill Pay Washington.--Stoppage by President Coolidge of the expenditure of 000 appropriated for National GuaAfr drill pay may result in several of th# states resorting to the courts to cote test the right of the executive to withheld this money authorised by congress, it was indicated. The National Guard association and several of the state governors, towhom Instructions have been sent by the militia bureau of the War depai#- ment to cease the holding of armoi^ drilts, are understood to be considering an appeal to the courts. Practically all the state National Guard organizations are, affectfj[ by the President's orders. Pershing is Named Chief .. ys Arbiter of Tacna-Aricet Washington.--«»n. John J. Pershinfc was formally designated by President Coolidge as president of the Tacnt- Arlca plebiscite commission which tl# executive relies on to end the forty; rear-old dispute between ChII«K alift eru under his recent award us arl|r' trator. « . The t'oiupr commander of the Amei» lean ej®edltion*y forced thus w#. called once more to active, patriotfcr service , flor (an undertaking he knoWa will inovive heavy responsibilities and much labour deferring indefinitely the retirement > he has enjoyed in name only since he relinquished his 4>o«t f» chjef of Staff *>f the army. J: ' f -• : Cigarette Tex Refund Washington. -- Tobacco manufacturers who paid the additional tax <p 95 cents on the $1,000 on imported cigarettes under the revenue act <tf 1918 are to get a refund of that tax on cigarettes that were expoijtedp Six Killed by Nffro Expld^iom Monticello, Ky.--Peter Franklin and- Ills five young children, Ira, Charlift Cecil, Beatrice, and liar, were MlMV at Fraaler, Ky., when a Qin of ni glycerin exploded in the yard. Seymour in Farewell Call Washington.--A. T. Seymour called On President Coolidge on Monday t#* pay his respects preliminary to ro* linquishing his post as assistant to th# attorney general, which he has bei® since. November of 1922. ? Oeterhaus in Navy Yard Washington.--Capt. Hugo W. Ostep* iiaus, now at the naval war college at Newport, has been designated captain of the Portsmouth navy yard, accor<£ ing to an announcement made here.