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:U^^W4*'^^v'VW THE M«jffBICBT PLAJlfrpEALER, McHENRY, ILL. (» " :•" ^'.f.'. '>•• • >.^. • •"'. V^'.- • s^ "'V?;"j -»*" :1 '"• - - ! fHGOK«e«MaeOQQflS»99aeK ILLINOIS] STATE 9*ifWS j >rOT<*T<«ICOICO>X^XOtSKKK*I! Eureka.--Fire fighters of Eureka -|MY« assured dtixens of the town adequate protection by the construction of a home-made emergency fire truck which has proved as efficient as the Struck purchased by the city. When tlfc fire company 4s called upon to answer two calls at once the emergency truck will be used. It is equipped with a large chemical tank, 1,000 feet of hose and other apparatus. Oreana*--A wild flower preserve has ••en opened by Richard Kirby and J. J. Richardson of native wild flowers In this state. Due to the Indiscriminate picking by motorists, the Oreana conservationists will endeavor to propagate, oh a tract of several acres, all species of wild flowers common to llil- ; ;«ois. - •"% Springfield;--Nine hundred and one iUlnolsans have been taken ill with , measles In the past week, the weekly re]x>rt of the state department of public health shows. This is the largest . number in months. New pneumonia kases numbered 343. a decrease from L ,/the previous week. Scarlet fever cases reported numbered 241. ... *-'Springfield.--Planting of it young White birch in memory'of. mother Was suggested &s the most fitting observance of Mothers' day by Governor Sjpall in a proclamation. He requested that May 11, 'designated as Mothers' day by the legislature, be observed throughout the state. " . "Mason City.--After sounding flre alarms for more than fifty years and warning the youth of Mason City to go home at the curfew hour, the old Pflire bell at the local flre department has fallen before modern improvements and yielded its place to aa electric whistle. . Harrisburg.--More thdn a hundred Bien swarmed the county jail in an apparent attempt to lynch Norman jKeys (negro), • confessed attacker of Gal Lewis, aged Harrisburg: business man. Keys, however, had been removed secretly by Sheriff Small to a Jail outside the county. Waukegan.--Removal of the shops and offices of the Chicago, North Shore it Milwaukee electric railroad from Hlghwood to a 65-acre tract in 'Waukegan will soon be Btarted. Work has been started on the construction of Its new paint shop and garage on the new 5 Ate. • Pana.--Nels Reed, fifty-four, engiseer at the Shelbyvllle municipal lighting plant, was electrocuted when he attempted to connect what he thought 'sWas "dead" wire. Three thousand j volts of electricity passed through his -Cfcody. Galesburg.--George Cook, son; of Judge George Cook. Of Chicago, has been awarded the Scabbard and Blade loving cup for proficiency in the Knox R. O. T. C. unit. Cook's work ranked Jhtlghe8t among the 200 men In the ' Corps, the award Indicates, -rr*--Evanston.--Capital punishment for tiOgs that forget to wear their muzzles was ordained in Evanston by a vote of 8'to 6. And to make, sure of enforcement of the new law an appropriation lot $50 was made to repair the dog catcher's wagon. . Urbana.--"The economic conditions ft agriculture not only are improving fcnt the fundamental factors are such that further improvement is certain," Ivan Wright, professor of agricultural r economics in the University of Illinois, declared. SpH n frflolri---Antomoblle tours, a Harrisburg.--A woman In Harrisburg, who had been bitten by a mad dog late last year, died of hydrophobia. Local reports state that this woman took "mad stones" treatment for three weeks prior to her demise while two children, who were bitten by the samd dog under similar conditions, but who, had taken the pasteur trijjment, haw shown no signs of illness. Springfield.--Out of 3,151 students^ examined last year at the University of Illinois, 1,234 were called back totJ re-examination and advice concerning the care and treatment of minor ailments. This means that one out of every three students examined had some remediable form of physical defect Sipringfield.--A record of 45 consecutive years for school attendance at the same school by the same family ended at Bluffs when Ruth Rockwood, twelve, was graduated from the eighth grade of the Apple Pie Ridge school. George Rockwood, father of Ruth entered the school in 1879. Waukegan.--Faithfulness and trained instinct of Spot, a famous buUdog. probably saved the life of John Mc- Elro.v, sixty-five, well-known Waukegan resident. The dog made a trip to the police station from the outskirts of the city when his master suffered n paralytic stroke and fell to the sidewalk. Bloomington,--A resolution express- MAIL R0BBEHS SEIZE $35,000 Gel Bank Cash in Holdup in sp-- the Calumet District ^ - 'and Escape. Indiana Harbor, Ind.--Another successful mall robbery in the Calumet district--the second within a few weeks--was staged here. The loot was $35,000 in cash and other valuable property which has not been checked with government records thus far. The iioldup was committed to the rear of the Indiana Harbor post office and the money was taken from a contract truck which had just boftie four registered mail sacks from a railway station. One of the bags contained two packages of money from the Chicago Federal Reserve bank. One of the packages included $20,- 00Q for the United States National bank here, and the other $15,000 "for the East Chicago State bank. Postal Inspectors Fahy, Jackson and McWhorter were rushed here as soon as news of the robbery was flashed to Ing belief in peace but not in pacifl- Chfef Inspeotor A E Germer at ChinatJ flat M r» A C3 Mat CAfn D origo. After a hurried survey the men reported the "technique" used by the cism and deploring the efforts "of some religious leaders to influence the youth of this country to pacificism," presented at the closing session of the Illinois conference of United Brethren churches* was unanimously adopted. Danville.--Winter freezing has killed •at least 20 per cent of the wheat near Danville, farmers estimate, and many other fields may have to be plowed up and replanted to some other crop, owing to the weakened condition of the plants. Many fields have been plowed and sowed to oats. Charleston.--Young men's thoughts a|re not the only ones that turn to love in the spring. James Powers, seventynine, Edgar county farmer, hasytaken robbers was identical to that employed by the men who robbed a mail truck |n Harvey of $100,000 on March 25. Orders Immediately were sent out to "check up" the whereabouts of Carlo Fontano and his gang, who were arrested in connection with the Harvery robbery. Fontano was released from federal custody ten days ago, when his bonds were reduced from $35,000 to $15,000. According to the statement of Harry H. Spencfir, postmaster here, the mall had been picked up at the Pennsylvania station by Hugh Pierce, a truck driver, and five clerks. They were three bandits .who jumped out of a big Cadillac touring car. While two of the robbers stood guard, the third loaded the pouches Into their auto. Thirty Die When German Fascisti Storm Red Town Halle, Saxony.--The German Fascist!, joined by scores of war veteran societies and secret military organizations, 70,000 strong, descended on the Red town.of Halle, In Saxony, completely overwhelming all communistic opposition. On the highroads, however, in a series of running battles, the communists and militia fought intermittently. Militia headquarters estimated the dead at between 20 and 30, with 50 wounded and 10 missing. The police report that 11 communists were killed and a number of others wounded at Baelleberg, • * bowling contest and clinics are on the program for the annual convention of the Illinois State Dental society May 13, 14 and 15. More than 800 dentists are expected. Sterling.--Rev. D. E. Cruea has resigned the pastorate of. the First Methodist Episcopal church, effective May 25, to become superintendent of Madison district of the Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin. Decatur.--More than 400 students of James Miliikin university voted to pin their hopes of "academic freedom" on 1§ student strike until their compromise proposal to the board of managers was 'accepted. ,j La Harpe.--A large wolf was shot and killed north of here by Sheldon = Hurdle. Hurdle had noticed the wolf |n the hog peiri several times previously, °r"1 was on the lookout for the anliual. Peoria. -- Approximately $30,000, over $5,000 of which was in cash, was taken by thieves who cracked a Bafe In the Block & Kuhl department store, ^hree employees, one a watchman, were bou-ad. « Rock Island.--Burglars, who evidently were familiar with the practices of the head of the household, entered the *' home of William Childress, tore open It mattress and stole $75 that had been hidden in it. Springfield.--Out of 6,860 natives of the State university 925, or more than 13 per cent have enlarged thyroid glands, a condition known as goiter. Catlfca.--More than 1.200 farm boys In Illinois have enrolled in,the state live-stock Judging contest conducted for the purpose of maintaining a higher degree of efficiency in the Judging of cattle, according to Carl Colvin, superintendent of agricultural education, who will attend the fourth sectional contest at Catlln. Urbana.--A new and unidentfled mushroom, which grows in the woods, attaching itself to burled nuts, has been foun^, according to Prof. W. B McDougoll of the University of 1111 aols. Dixota.--Vivian Pearl Cook, fourteen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cook, died unexpectedly of an infected tooth. Springfield.--The antlers of an Irish Elk, measuring 12 feet from tip to tip, have been mounted in the . State Natural museum here. Kankakee.--Gov. Len Small left for the south for a few weeks with friends y on plantations ln^ Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Peoria.--Oliver Wilson, sevetity-flve, past-master of the National Farm Granee, died here. Mrs. Catherine Crawford, sixty-five, to j preparing to carry the mall into the his home near Metcalf as a bride j pQg^ when they found themselves Powers had escaped matrimony until j covered by revolvers In the hands of his seventy-ninth spring. Danville.--"Uncle Joe" Cannon, former speaker of the house of representatives, eighty-eight years old Wednesday, spent the anniversary of his birth quietly at home with ids family. His daughter, Miss Helen Cannon, is home after several months In Europe. Mount Carmel.--A meeting held here by the board of county commissioners and Drs. C. H. Diehl and T. B. Shanks, representatives of the Illinois department of public health, resulted in the establishment of a Wabash county health unit. Rockford.--Sylvester Welch, who shot his wife, mother of six children, then escaped to the woods, where he lived like a hunted animal for 21 days, returned to his home to be arrested, only toflgul bis wife recovered and overjoyeoto see him again. r Pana.--Faunrose, thirteen, son of Logan Bathe, northeast of Findlay, was killed accidentally when he seized a shotgun of his father's standing against a shed and the gun was discharged, the full force of the charge striking the boy Just above his heart. Lemont.--State Representative John W. McCarthy, sixty-four, who was completing his fourth consecutive term as assemblyman from the Seventh district, died in his home at Lemont shortly after collapsing during a political conference In his office. Decatur.--Rare editions of old English books, published on Paternoster Row, London, as early as 1578, have been brought to Decatur by Sylvester Judd, who inherited the books from his father, the late James Walker Judd, a publisher of Hartford, Conn. Springfield.--A reunion of all units trained at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., during the World war, will be held on the site of the camp. Thousands of Illinois soldiers were trained at Camp Taylor. Carbondale--There will be no more "bootlegging" of groceries In Carbondale. Complaints of grocers selling goods on Sundays/Have reached" the city council and the city fathers have taken a stem stand against this method. , Springfield.--A freak twister lasting Just half a minute hit the town of Whitehall, Greene county, causing damage of $1,000. No one was injured. Pekin.--A special election is to be held May 20, at which time the voters \tflll pass on the proposition to establish a system of supervised playgrounds. Elizabeth.--Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges of a score of northern Illinois towns have been invited to attetvd the dedication on May 13 of a newly-erected Odd Fellow temple. Harrisburg.--More than 100 shots were fired in a gun fight between fedmoonshtners in the Colonel Rogers Pays Count $100,000 to Quit Bride Paris.--A $40,000,000 International romance was smashed when Col. H. H. Rogers of New York and his daughter, Milllcent, sailed for New York aboard the steamship France and Count Salm von Hoogstrateten left Paris. The Salm family Is reported to be richer by $100,000-- 7,500,000,000 Austrian crowns--as a result of the sudden "marriage of Milllcent Rogers in New York on January 9. The deal was negotiated by Count Salm's father, who was summoned to Paris from the family estate at Mlenta, and Colonel Rogers. DR. HERN AN VELARDE New photographic study of. Dr. Hernan Velarde, new ambassador ftom Peru to the United States. SENATOR LODGE HAS WORLD COURT PLAN Propose9 Tribunal to Which U. S. Would Adhere. Washington. -- Senator Lodge,' Republican, of Massachusetts, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, introduced a resolution in the senate proposing the establishment of a wotfd court at The Hague to which the United States would adhere. Under the resolution President Coolidge is requested to propose the calling of a third Hague conference for the purpose of creating the new tribunal, which would be composed of sixteen judges--four of them deputies, who would be elected by an electoral commission. The commission would consist of "a general committee composed of representatives designated by the signatory powers, and a special committee composed of representatives designated by the United States, British empire, France, Italy and Japan, together with representatives of five other signatory powers, which powers shall be selected by the signatory powers by a majority vote from time to time." - A list of persons nominated by the national groups in the permanent court of arbitration would form the candidates from which the electoral commission would select members of the court. The court would sit once a year, but the President is empowered to call extraordinary sessions. U. S. Flyers, Missing It Days in Alaska, Safe Cordova, Alaska.--54aj. Frederick L. Martin and his mechanic. Staff Sergeant Alva L. Harvey, missing since they took the air at Chignik, Alaska, April 30, have arrived unhurt at Port Moller, 100 miles west of Chignik on the Alaska peninsula. Their plane, the Seattle, the flagship on the army air cruise around the world, struck a mountain near Port Moller and was wrecked an hour and a half after they left Chignik. $500,000,000 Fraud Proof in Burns' Stolen File Washington.--The papers mysteriously missing or stolen in 1921 from William J. Burns in the Department of Justice Involved more than $500,- 000,000 of war contracts with the government, It became known here. They contained Important evidence on which the government was being asked to start criminal prosecution of persons and corporations alleged to have defrauded the government out .of many millions of dollars In airplane construction. Two Men Hold Up 30 Crap Players in Chicago Hotel Chicago.--Two dapper young men stepped briskly into the elevator at the Astor hotel, 172 North Clark street, rode to the fourth floor, entered room 435, and, Interrupting a dice game, gobbed 30 men of some $1,000 In cash and ail their jewelry. Then they backed out, took the elevator to the lobby, and disappeared. end officers and hills southeast of Harrisburg. Sterling.--The question of Sunday theaters will be submitted to voters on June 3. Urbana.--That most of the industrial progress of this century will be bettering the working conditions and the human relationships between employer and employee, instead of in perfecting machinery, Is the belief of Dr. Gordon S. Watkias of the department of economics at the University of Illinois. Highland Park.--Several hundred parishioners of Trinity* Episcopal church celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the parish's founding with a reception. Bishop Charles P. Anderson was one of the speakers. Urbana.--Treasurers, business managers, bursars and similar business and financial officers of Illinois colleges wjill meet at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on Wednesday, May 21. The meeting will be devoted to a discussion of problems of business procedure, accounting, purchasing, etc., connected with these Institutions, Peoria.--Demand for trained veterinarians is becoming steadily weaker, and the number of veterinary surgeOha aad horse doctors is becoming steadily smaller, according to Dr. W. F. Dixon of Peoria Chicago Greets Cardinal Mundelein in Home-Coming Chicago.--Wearing the robes rarely seen except, at the consistory In Rome, Cardinal Mundelein arrived in Chicago Sunday afternoon on a special train from New York. From the corner of Garfield boulevard and Leavitt street, where the prince of the church left his train, a crowd lined both Sides of the route all the way to the Holy Name cathedral, a distance of 15 miles. The cardinal gave his blessing to all citizens of Chicago, Catholic and Protestant alike. Aguinaldo Host to Wood Manila.--General Aguinaldo gave a luncheon party to Gov. Gen. and Mrs Leonard Wood at his country home, Kawit, Cavite. A numhgr ..of Filipino officials and American army and navy officers were present. Opens Better Hague Week Washington.--Nhtion-wide celebra tion of "better homes week" was opened by President Coolidge with an address broadcast by radio from the White House. Boosts Bpnus Estimate Washington.--Uncle Sam's bill for the soldier bonus, if the present measure now in President Coolidge's hands ' becomes a law, will be $6,700,000,000 1 over a period of sixty years, treasury ! experts estimate. t Canada to Get U, S. Bees Clemson College, S. C.--Believed to be the first carload of bees ever sent from the South for market purposes, 40,000,000 of the insects will be Htlpped to Canada from . Senate Passes Tax Bill by a Vote of 69 to IS Washington.--With the coalition of Democrats and Republican insurgents in unshaken control, the tax reduction bill, as revised by the Democratic leaders, was passed by the senate and sent to a conference committee of the two chambers for reconciliation with the house bill, by a vote of 69 to 15. W. J. Burns Quits Office After a Stormy Career Washington. -- William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, forwarded his resignation, effective Immediately, to Attorney General Stone. -It was accepted. Mr. Burns, who Was appointed to office three years ago by Attorney General Daugherty, has been a target of criticism since his in duction. ' Will Aids Felon*? Babies Detroit, Mich.--A perpetual trust fund, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the establishment of a home for children whose parents are prison inmates, is created under the will of Sophie Lyons Burke. France . Orders War Supplies Vienna.--Quantities of munitions, to be manufactured with the greatest speed, have been ordered by the French government from the Skoda works in Czechoslovakia. "Flu" Kills 12,604 in England London.--Deaths from influenza In England and Wales for the first quarter of this year numbered 12.G04, according to official statistics. The total deaths from all causes for the quarter were 160,279. SIX MEN HANGED FOR SLAYING ONE Sent to Their Deaths in Pairs Jby Aged Cowled -v Hangmaau Amite, La.--Six men who three years ago attempted to rob a bank, resulting In the murder of a man, went to their deaths at the end of the hangman's loose in the Tangipahoa parish Jail. They were executed in pairs, the aged copied hangman running from th<? improvised platform Immediately after each pair had dropped, only <o return after their bodies had been cut down to prepare for the noosea for those next. The executioner brought his total to thirteen. The men were hanged on the double gallows in thirty minute intervals with clocklike regularity, four dying calmly and the other two, one as a result of an attempt at suicide and the other of nervous collapse, realizing little of what was In progress. The executions began at noon. Lamantia, while Leona and Deamore, the first pair to hang, wefre swaying from the gallows and Rini and Giglio were waiting to begin their walk to the scaffold, obtained a small pocketknife he had secreted and stabbed and gashed himself in the chest several times. Rini and Giglio were returned to their cell and Lamantia was taken Into the corridor for an examination by physicians. They pronounced the woulnds superficial, and those in chargc of the executions sent Lamantia and Bocchio to the scaffold. Bocchio had to be carried to the scaffold. Lamantia, with his shirt stained with blood from the Belf-infllcted wounds, could not stand and he was seated in r chair on the trap and went to his death in that manner. Lodge Fails to Move Coolidge on Court Plan Washington.--President Coolidge let lit be known that he was not directly consulted about the details of the new world court plans submitted to the senate by Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee. The President, it was officially declared, has no other position on the world court Issue except that stated In his message to congress last December and reiterated In his address last month at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in New York. John Dietz of Cameron Dam Fame Is Dead Milwaukee, Wis.--The career of one of Wisconsin's most romantic characters ended here with the death ol John Dietz, defender of Cameron dam, who died after a long illness. His wife and family, from whom he had been estranged since his release from Waupun, were at his bedside when he died. Dietz gained his fame in 1904 when, with his family, he barricaded himself in his north woods cabin and fought a whole state. Methodist Vote Admiit v , Women to the Ministry Springfield, Mass.--Methodist women registered victory at the Methodist general conference where they battled for recognition as ministers. The victory was won when the report of the commission appointed four years ago to consider the matter reported unanimously in favor of granting to women the right of ordination as local preachers, which means one who is licensed to preach without being a member of an annual conference. Farmer, Attacked by Wolf Pack, Kills 1; Gets 9 Cubt Freeport, 111.--Attacked by a pack of six timber wolves In a sparsely settled section of Jo Daviess county, Merile Casper, a farmer, shot and killed one and wounded two others. The others escaped but he captured nine cubs of a big female wolf, the one slain. C. W. MIDDLEKAVFP PLANE RAGES TO HALT BANK' O. W. MlddiekaufT, assistant attorney general at Chicago, who told#the senate Daugherty committee that former Judge Landis gave testimony that was "untruthful, misleading anqf unwarranted." , v . U. 5. GOVERNMENT MARKET QUOTATIONS , Washington.--For the week ended May 10.--LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs, $7.70 for the top and $7.40@7.G5 for the bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $8.25(f?11.65: butcher cows and heifers, $3.75(0)10.25; feeder steers, $5.75 @9.75; light and medium weight vec.1 calves, $7.50@10.75. Fat lambs, $14.75 @17.00; yearlings. $12.00® 15.00; fat ewes, $5.75@9.50. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Northern sacked round white potatoes. $1.10 @1.25 in Chicago; Florida Spaulding roae potatoes. $8.00 @9.00 per doubleiiead barrel In city markets; Texa* Bliss Triumphs, $4.75@5.50 sacked per 100 lbs. In midwestern markets. Florida tomatoes, turning, wrapped, $6.00 @ 6.50 per G-basket carrier, repacked stock $9.00@9.50 in Chlcagw. Texas yellow Bermuda onions, Jl.30® 1.60 per standard orate. Cabbage, Alabama pointed type. $5.00 @6.00 ,per barrel crate. Louisiana Klondike strawberries. $3.75 @4.25 per 24-pint crate In city markets; Arkansas Klondikes, $6.00 @7.00 per 24-quart crate in midwestern markets. Northwestern extra fancy wlnesap apples, $2.00@2?35 per box. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score, 36o in Chicago. Cheese at Wisconsin primary markets: Longhorns, 17%c; twins, 17%c; single daisies, 17%c; young Americas, 17%c; square prints, 18c. HAT--No. 1 timothy. $24.00 in Cincinnati. $26.00 In Chicago, $19.00 in Minneapolis, $24.50 in St. Louis; No. 1 prairie. $17.00 In St. LOUIB, $20.00 in Chicago, $17.00 in Minneapolis. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wheat, $1.14% @1.32% in Minneapolis; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.06% @1.12^ in Chicago. $1.06® 1.09 in St. Louis; No. ,2 yellow corn, 78%@79c In Chicago. 78% @72 %c In Minneapolis; No. 3 yellow jorn, 77%@78c in St. Louis; No. 3 white corn, 77c in St. Louis; No. 3 .white oata, 48%@49c tn Chicago, 49c In St. 'Louto, 44% @44% in Minneapolis. Express and Mail Also Use£ Save a Springfield, ,5-' Mo., Institution, Springfield, Mo.--With more th|ar one million dollars received by afc plane, registered mall and express, the Union National bank has overcome a run" which started late Saturday afternoon and continued at night, bat which dwindled and died before i*> creasing confidence Monday. There was a good-sized crowd- In front of the bank when it opened att/ hour before time Monday morning. It slowly dispersed when it was learned that art airplane from St. Louis carry- ; ing $400,(^00 in currency from the First National bank of St. Louis had reached the city. The bank also sent $100,000 currency by registered ni#lt j in addition to $75,000 Sent last Frit (fay. # I Kansas City banks sent $2W,000 ts»' I the bank, to be used in case of ai'X emergency. - j The money from Kansas pity wild 'nearly all the currency that ..-could ,tM»\ found Saturday night, as time locles on most of the hank vaults were Set for Jfonda.v morning. ' Of the amount sent, two theaters furnished $12,IKK), the Union station' $30,000, a large restaurant $7,."00, and ; savings banks $30,">00. ' I Although the hank's regular cloto» Ing hour is 4 o'clock, the doors re> mained open until after 6 o'clock Motih ' day night to give any depositor A j chance to withdraw. / . Bank officials announced that tliece . j had been only scattering withdrawals ! during the day; in fact, no greater than any Monday morning, while the ! deposits were heavier than any day In | history. One corporation deposited , | $50,000, brought from another city, to' show its confidence in the institution. Doctor Eliot Insists 9 . the Dry Law Is Good ltew York.--Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, has re-r | plied to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, | president of Columbia, taking the opi posite view of the prohibition enforcement question from that expound* | ed by his New York colleague in the latter's recent speech at the Missouri society dinner. Dr. Eliot says, that prohibition is being better and better^ enforced and "Its complete enforcement will follow after a time upon the appointment of enforcing officers on the merit system instead of the 'spolla* system." Coolidge for Loyalty of Voters to Party Washington. -- Rigid adherence to party organization was urged by President Coolidge in an address to the "political campaign school" of the League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia. "It Is necessary to have party organization if we are to have an effective and efficient government," Mr. Coolidge said. The President said the difference between party organization and ft'lack of it was as great as that betweep a mob and a trained army. World Is Not Fit for Peace, Says Lady Astor London.--Speaking in the house of commons in the course of discussion of. armament, Lady Astor declared the world was not ready for peace, saying: "The people who talk most about it are often the most quarrelsome. When you get among them they talk about a better world, and they knock you down when they get you In the lobby. The greatest enemies of peace are the pacifists. If we had had the peace some of them wanted we would all be doing the gooBestep." French Radicals Beat Poincare; Must'Get Out Paris.--The complete returns in the French election accentuate the smashing victory of the left parties and the tremendous losses of the Poincare- Milierand "national bloc," which has dominated the chamber of deputies during the last four years. Already the left newspapers are calling on President Millerand to "go to Versailles," meaning to sumuion the senate and chamber to the historic chateau to select a new president. | Congressman Langley Is v Convicted of Rum Plot Covington, Ky.--A Jury in federal court here found Congressman John W. Langley (Rep., Ky.) guilty of conspiracy in connection with a whisky transaction in 1921. The jury returned Its verdict after deliberating three hours and forty .minutes. The maximum sentence for conviction is two years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine. Mexican Gunboat Drives U. S. Steamship From Port Norfolk, Va.--Driven out of Mexican waters by a federal gunboat without her ship's papers and before she could load a cargo of bananas consigned to this port, the steamship Gaston has reached Norfolk. The Gaston p-it in at New Orleans, where her skipper, Capt. F. C. Iludgins, reported the attack. U» S. Honors Widow of Admiral Who Fought Us Cadiz, Spain.--The Infante Carloa formally welcomed Admiral Andrews of the American cruiser Pittsburgh, who came from Gibraltar to pay his respects to the widow of Admiral Cervera, who fought the Americans in 1898. Conferees Ignore Coolidge Washington.--Faced by unalterable opposition of the house to any delay In operation In the Japanese exclusion provisions, conferees upon the measure again agreed to make the exclusion section effective July 1, 1924. Mrs. Hubert Work Dies Washington.--Mrs. Hubert Work, wife of the secretary of the interior, died suddenly while taking a short au* tomoblle ride. Death was the result «K angina pectoris. Dedicates School Bridgeport, Conn.--Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, with a silver trowel, laid the cornerstone of the new $1,- 000,000 Warren Harding high school here before a gathering of 5,000. Landslide Kills Fourteen Vera Cruz, Mexico.--Fourteen persons were buried under a huge landslide in the village of Misantla, near Jalapa, according to reports received here. The slide occurred on a steep hill" known as El Pilon. V. S. Envoy Host to Eberts Berlin.--The American ambassador, A. B. Houghton, gave a dinner in honor of President and Frau Ebert. The guests Included the foreign min- !st«r and Mrs. Stresenann. Spanish Planes Drop 500 ' Bombs on Moor Troops Madrid. -- Sixteen Spanish ^planes bombed the Benl Urlaglel district, the center of the RifBan rebel forces and the hiding place of Abdel Krlm, revolutionary chief, Inflicting heavy losses on the Moroccan troops, the war ministry announced. The aviators, swooping low over the Moroccan troops, caused severe casualties among the rebels with a raking spray of machine gun flre. They also dropped more than 500 big bombs on the rebels' camp. Finds Offset to Deadly v Gas of the Automobile Npw York.--Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson announced that lie had discovered a chemical compound, the use of which in combination with commercial gasoline, virtually eliminates ail danger from toxic discharges of the deadly carbon monoxide from the exhausts of autbmoblles. Charles F. Murphy Left 3 High School Students Die in Auto-Train Crash Martinsville, 111.--Irene Shafer, sixteen ; Carlton Payne, seventeen, and Helen Fraker, sixteen, local high school students, were killed when an automobile In which they were riding was struck by -a Pennsylvania Hf§*. senger train at a crossing near. hern. $450,000 Estate to Family Wisconsin U. Student ~ New York.--Charles F. Murphy, late 1 I.™ P-f-' -- leader of Tammany Hall, left an es- I JVttlea Oy roltceman tate valued at approxlmatley $450,000, j Madison,--Wls» --- Peter--L'osapney, it was revealed with the filing of his tWenty-one years old, of Two Rivers, will. With the exception of one small bequest the entire state was left to Mr. Murphy's widow and members of his family. Jordan River to Be Harnessed New York.--The Jordan river In Palestine 1s to be harnessed for the creation of electric power and light. Work will start this year, according to an announcement by the Palestine development council. . • - 1 •- -- ' jy' North Has Cold Wave St. Paul, Minn.--Snow was general over the Northwest Friday. Temperatures were around the freezing mark tn the Twin Cities and in North and South Dakota. Wis., a student at the University of Wisconsin, was shot and killed by Patrick P. Powers, a Madison policeman. Powers is said to have mistaken Posapney for a burglar. « Democrats Ban Smoking New York.--Joseph P. Day, chairman of the New York committee, an Duel With Axes Groton, Mass.--As a result of a duel with axes in a Groton wood lot. Donat Fontaine, thirty-five, of Loweli is dead, and his opponent, Joseph vGagnoa, Bixty, also u£ tpweW, is not exyected to l i v w r ~ ' - • > . Engineers to Meet San Francisco.--Ttfe American Association of Engineers will hold it* annual convention here June 11 to 14. The convention will he one of the largest to be held here this year. Alton Post Office Robbed Alton, 111.--The Alton post office nounced that smoking would be re-1 was robbed, the safe being blown to strlcted at the Democratic national j pieces and all the stamps, post cards convention In Madison Square garden, owing to the presence of women. Nip Plot in Nicaragua San Salvador.--Two plots, one to capture military barracks in Managua and the other to kidnap President Martinez, Nicaraguen president, have been foiled by authorities. and <ash taken. Assistant Postmas-. tef Findley reports between $50,000 and $00,000 of stamps taken. Cholera Breaks Out in India • London.-*An epidemic of cholera is raging in f^everal sections of India, according to dispatches received here, it is estimated tbwf 1 perfirofnralready have perished.