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1Wvr * "• ,fr AT ,*• S£fP* "" SPPff^fPfff^^ im ivv 'i,$r" THE McHKNRY PLAINDEALER, McHENRY, HA. COLLINS DEM ilieroic Efforts to Save Ken- ^ ^ ^ tttrlrmn From Undefwr^ |; •.• ground Prison Fail. / .;;S _ >•"* ^ Gave City, Ky --"If the men doat ..^/•jfcet'me out the angels will." X- ' These last words of Floyd Collins •i.t<> his brother Homer, the last time •V, , " . t5 ^.Homer descended Into the tortuous ••••'iiilepths of Sand cave In a heroic but ,,r , futile effort to effect his rescue, came K i5 • i&fM W-i %rue. y Workmen finally fought tlieir way 'ff'i^ltlown to Floyd through the muck and .^|J£j£*lline and boulders and solid linie- *. stone of his tomb, but they were too Oa\ $V' i»te. He was dead. Stavation.t hirst, VI ~ • Exposure and acute physical exhausf#, on had t!one thoir workf^' V ; : Ri«or mort,s hail set in, and doctors "m * w^° went within ten feet of him and made their observations through Ed- ' "ward Brenner, catlike little miner, hanging head down in a manhole cut . in a limestone ledge, agreed that the >end had come more than twea&-lour • hours before, ' Body Cased Iti ftttt. - ^ r ' ; And Nature, whose forces Flojrfl (let- \ fled time and again in his continual search for the beautiful cavern which might draw sightseers from the ends of the earth and make him rich, had been day by day tightening the unbreakable clutch in which she seized him. Only his foot was fast at first, but when they reached him mud and silt and small boulders had filtered through the crevioes above him and formed a solid sheath about his lifeless form. Electric Bulb Was Cold. There are no sounds from the patient, no respiration, no movement of any kind. The electric light that was placed by the early rescuers on Collins' neck was found around at the top of..his chest. The bulb was out. "What was the cause of death, doctor?" someone asked Doctor Hazlitt. "He died from exhaustion; acute physical exhaustion, exposure, starvation and thirst," Doctor Hazlitt replied, .-and Doctor Francis continued The opinion with a nod. Explored Caves From Boyhood. Floyd Collins had been a cave explorer since he was a little hoy. He was born on a farm five miles from Sand cave, where the Collins family still lives, and as nearly as his father can remember Floyd has seldom been away from the cave country. ( MRS. O. D. OLIPHANT NEW SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE W. ML Jardine of Kansas > College to Take Cabinet Post March 4. WILLIAM M. JARDINE "Mrs. O. D. Oiij.hanr, national president of the American legion auxiliary, has called a conference to be known as the "Women's Conference on National Defense as Peace Insurance," to meet at American Red Cross headquarters in Washington from February 22 to 25, with women from patriotic organizations of the country. It Is intended, to show that women In these groups support the national defense act MARKET QUOTATIONS BY V. S. GOVERNMENT Washington.--For the week ending February IS.--DAIRY PRODUCTS-- Closing prices of 92-score butter: New York. 40%c; Chicago, 40c; Philadelphia, 41^4c; Boston 40%c. Wholesale prices at. Wisconsin primary cheese markets F e b r u a r y 1 1 : S i n g l e d a i s i e s , 2 Z % c \ longhorns, 23Vfcc; square prints, 23%c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Northern sacked round white potatoes, $1.00 @1.15 on the Chicago carlot market, $1.35^1.40 in other mldwestern cities, 80&90c f. o. b. Midwestern yellow onions, $2.75@3.25 per 100-pound sack in consuming centers, $2.75®2.85 f. o. b. Rochester and 42.75 f. o. b. west Michigan points. Northwestern extra fancy winesaps, (3.65@3.75 per box In the Middle West. GRAIN--Quoted February 13: No. 1 dark northern wheat: Minneapolis, $1.71% @2.04 y%. No~ 1 red winter wheat: Chicago, $1.90 V4- No. 2 red winter wheat: St. Louis, $1.96; Kansas City, $1.90Sr 1.93. No. 2 hard winter wheat: St. Louis, $1.77; Kansas City, $1.69 @ 1.77. No. 3 hard winter wheat: Chicago, .74. No. 2 mixed corn: Kansas City, $1.08@1.09^4. No. 3 mixed corn: Chicago, $1.12^4 @1.14V4. No. 2 yellow corn: Kansas City, $1.10@1.12. No. 3 yellow When just big enough to handle a | corn: 1.15. No. 3 white corn: Chicago, $1.10%; St. Louis, $1.13@1.14. No. 2 white corn: Washington.--William M. Jardine, president of the Kansas State Agricultural college, was selected as secretary of agriculture by President Coolidge. His appointment, to take effect March 4, when Howard M. Gore, the present secretary, resigns to become governor of. West Virginia, was sent 'o the senate. It was the first time 'hat a man from Kansas had been Milled to a cabinet position. Now that the post of agriculture has jeen filled, the personnel of President ^oolidge's new cabinet Is virtually settled. This Is, of course, contingent >n the final confirmation of Charles B. Warren and Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota by the senate, either during this session or at a later date. It s not believed there will be any iiange In any of the other posts. Mr. Kellogg's nomination as secretary of state, which had not been sent to the senate, was included tn the nomlnaions, which also designated George \lexahder Parks to be governor of Alaska. It is believed that Cecil Creel of [Jtah, the youngest director of an experimental station in the United States, will be named assistant secre- :ary 'of agriculture. Doctor Jardine, himself a member >f the President's agricultural confer- ?nce and a power in agriculture for nany years, has a thorough knowledge of farm marketing and is beieved by the President's advisers to 511 all the requirements which Presi lent Coolidge has demanded for his aext secretary of agriculture. Doctor Jardine began his career as i "cattle puncher" in the famous Big Hole basin of Montana. At the age if twenty he forsook the lariat and :he saddle for a degree at theUtah Agricultural college. f.. -M'-' {ACTS HUSHED Flyer Says Admiral Edited * . Statement--"Feascd ^ fluin of Navy." • % William M. Jardine, president of the Kansas State Agricultural college, who was selected as secretary of agriculture by President Coolidge. JU. S. NEEDS MORE OF LINCOLN TYPE Dawes Says Emancipator Was No Pussyfooterl plow, his mule one day sank to his knees in what has since been' known as Mole cave and Floyd's cave en-1 Kansas City. $1.10@1.11. No. 2 white oats: Chicago, 46^4@49c; Minneapolis, 45% <g'46',4c; St. Louis, 50^ @51c; Kansas Wk': ' Sp?-: thusiasm was started. A few years after Mule cave was discovered Ed Turner, a civil engineer from New York, spent eight or ten | months exploring the cave country, and tanght Floyd the elementary ge- j ology he found useful. Between them they located an onyx cave, which also I City, 51c. HAY--Quoted February 13; No. 1 timothy: Chicago, $22.00. No. 1 alfalfa: Kansas City, $19/50. No. 1 prairie: Chicago, $17.00. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $11.30 for top and $10.70@ 11.25 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $7:00^11.50; butcher cows and was Inconsequential, and in Salt cave I heifers, $3.75fia 10.50; feeder steers, $5.00 they found an Indian moccasin, one of ©8.25; light and medium weight veal tthnee nprmizeead ssoouuv\eenniirrss oofi ttnhee rreegeiioonn . calves, $10.00«I 13.75. Fat lambs. $15.50 @1U5; feeding lambs. $15.50® 17.75; Discovery of Crystal Cave. yearlings. $U.25@16.SS; fat ewM, $«.©0 By this time he had started spend-1 @9.75. lag his spare time after farm duties in cave hunting. Lee Collins had taken up trapping and In the bitter I winter of 1917 Floyd saw a ground- ! hog disappear Into a "sink" on his father's farm. This led to the discov- Flames Sweep Auto Show; Loss Put at $2,250,000 Kansas City, Mo.--Fire destroyed approximately $1,500,000 worth of the s. ery of Crystal cave, one of the popu- iatest creations of automobile manular lesser caves of the region. facturers at the Kansas City motor "Floyd kept me scared stiff all the 8how in the American Royal Live time," his father says. "I told him stock pavilion here. that some day he would be buried The pavilion, valued at $750,000, was deeper than ever I could bury him, declared a total loss by firemen one bat lie kept on 'exploring." hour and a half after the fire was dls- I*>r three weeks Floyd had been covered in the annex of the main working on Sand cave, his father building. This brought the total lews say*. At first there was nothing but to $2,250,000. a crevice, but Floyd enlarged Gasoline tanks on the motor cars on it Into the present entrance, about six I display exploded and added to the infeet high. tensity of the flames. The knowledge that he was work- Three hundred passenger cars, replug on Sand cave led to his discovery resenting fifty manufacturers, were on about 24 hours after he was trapped display, in addition to 100 motor trucks Ag the fall of a boulder on his foot, and 20 motor busses. There were 250 ' Fall to Find His Rope. accessories booths. The exhibits also ^n his last trip down Sand cave he included two airplanes and a motor had taken 72 feet of rope with which J boat. to lower himself Into the huge cavern ; T*' v he had said lay behind him. This rope Daughter Is Bom was not found by the "early rescue I F nnamnrth parties and may be lying behind him Mrs. Nicholas Long Worth or fallen into the pit. I Chicago.--A baby girl was born to Some of those among the early res- J Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife eaers who talked with Floyd said he I Qf Representative Nicholas Longdsscribe- 1 his new-found cavern as worth, at the Chicago Lying-in hos- *®e most beautiful I have ever seen." pjtal. She arrived ten days ahead of <With the finding of Collins* lifeless time. form it was realized that Collin's 1 "She weighs six pounds, four and dream of three weeks ago was a pre-1 one-quarter ounces," announced the •entment which had come true. J nurse In charge. I dreamed I was caught in rock ..s,)e |(K)k8 „ke the colonel," added *fcd the angels came and took me Dr Jogeph B ^ Lee, attending speaway," he had toli his stepmother, J War Game in Pacific Is Approved by the President Washington.--President Coolidge, it ivas learned, has formally authorized the War and Navy departments to proceed with the great war game at the Hawaiian islands in April and May. This war gfeune, officially entitled the "grand joint exercises" of 1925, ivill consist of an "attack" by the greater part of the United States navy »n the Hawaiian islands, with the intent, to "capture" the archipelago. Our military and naval forces stationed there will strive to prevent the islands [rom falling into "enemy" hands. The army and navy have beeif pro« -eeding with their program for these maneuvers, which was mapped out three years ago, but on account of the agitation in Japan against the holding jf the exercises no public announcement of the plans was made, pending Presidential approval. The agitation waned after the head of the Japanese navy officially justl- 9ed America in holding these maneuvers. The maneuvers will furnish a test of the fitness of our navy for war and of the adequacy of the defenses )f the Hawaiian islands. Mts. Jane Collins, three weeks ago. after having announced to her that lie had before him two day* ft the Inost dangerous cave exploring he J»ad ever attempted. Mrs. Cotlin* bad urged Floyd to abandon his intention* to explore Sand cave. .' ' Threaten* Ftxrm Bitt Washington. -- If the agricultural Committee does not asree ^within a "Very reasonable time" on a farm bill, . Renator Curtis of Kansas warned that lie would move to take up one of the measure* placed on the calendar last session. 1 A . &Zr - • Anthreuc Fund Approved * Washington.--The senate 'authorized the appropriation of $10(1.000 to complete the fight in Mississippi and Arkansas against anthrax. Mrs. Longworth, the Princess Alice of the Roosevelt administration, who is in her forty-first year, came to Chi cago several weeks ago to await the eveflt. Although the baby has not been mined, R is believed she will be sa ipM after her mother. Chicago. -- Vice President-Elect Charles G. Dawes, speaking on Abraham Lincoln at the Lions club banquet at the Congress hotel on the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the Civil war President's birth, said the trait of Lincoln that appealed to him most was the great American's quality of leadership. "In my younger days I had always heard of Lincoln's generosity, his honesty and his mercy, the latter exemplified In his pardoning of men sentenced to be shot for some infraction of military rules during the progress of the Civil war, but I neved got the picture of him that I wanted until 2!> years ago. Former Gov. Richard J. Oglesby, speaking on Lincoln at the Auditorium hotel at that time, gave it to me. After describing the conditions under which Lincoln grew to manhood, he said that despite the fact that Lincoln In his youth lived in a log hut, In which some of the cracks had not been chinked up, he never recognized superiority. That in my belief exemplified his quality of leadership. "That in him which was Supreme yielded to no detracting influence, however powerful. No one could ever Imagine Lincoln pussyfooting around in an effort to straddle or stand on both sides of a question like sbme of our cowardly politicians do today. That is what has been the matter with the country today. The trouble has not lain with the American people. The people are all right. We need men who will not lie down, but men who will stand up. I have no respect whatever for the mat. whatever political views he ma/ hold, If lie won't stand up and fight for his convictions if they are on the side of. the Constitution. "Lincoln possessed the unadulterated pride of American citizenship which remains as an example for us today." i7. W. Upham, Noted Figure in Republican Party, Dies Palm Peach, Fla.--Frederic W, Upham of Chicago, financial genius of the Republican party, of which he tvas national treasurer until last June, iied here. Mr. Upham came here in November hoping to recover his health, which had been failing for several years. Four days ago he suffered a hemorrhage of the brain. He was sixtyfour years old. Mr. Upham was president and chair man of the board of the Consumers company, dealers In ice, coal and building materials in Chicago. Although Mr. Upham had resigned the treasureship of the Republican national committee, he still was committeeman from Illinois. Washington. -- Rear Admiral William R. Shoemaker of the navy's bufeau of operations was chai*ged before the house aircraft investigating committee with suppressing facts on the bombing of the U. S. 8. Virginia by army airmen. W. C. Shauffler, Ju lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Service Reserve corps, in making this charge, told the committee that when the original report of the test was submitted to Admiral Shoemaker, that officer exclaimed: "It's true, every bit of it, bnt we can't let this get oat or It would ruin the n»vy." The recounting of the Incident, which occurred daring the bombing experiments off Cape Hatteras about two years ago, was presented by Colonel Shauffler in the form of a letter he had sent February *6 to the house military affairs committee, bat which r,-as not made pnbllc by that body. "After the Virginia had b£en sunk, within a few minutes after being struck by heavy bombs dropped from the airplanes flown by army pilots, Mr. Gardner of the Aviation Magazine wrote a statement to be Issued by General Pershing concerning this bombing," said the letter as read to the investigating committee. Mr. Gardner, it was declared, submitted this statement first to General Patrick for his O. K. The statement was read over very carefully by General Patrick and O. K.'d by hlm.'Then it was submitted to General Pershing, who stated that if the navy would O. K. it be would issue the statement over his signature. "I happened to be sitting on the upper deck on a life-preserver box In civilian clothes when this statement was brought to Admiral Shoemaker by a junior officer of the navy construction corps, and I happened to overhear the following conversation, which I will give to you as nearly as possible, after such a long lafse of time. "Junior Officer: 'Sir, here is a statement written by Mr. Gardner of the Aviatlou Magazine, O. K.'d by General Patrick and to be O. K.'d by the navy for General Pershing's signature. I would like to have you read it over and sea what you think of it/ f j "Admiral Shoemaker read the statement and exclaimed: 'It's true, every bit of it, but we can't let this get out or it would ruin the navy. We will have change this some, and see if it can be put out under the general's signature the way we want it.' "During the next fifteen minutes Admiral Shoemaker and his Junior officer went over this statement, word by word, blue penciled whole lines and paragraphs, and changed the wording so that upon completion of their job there was absolutely no resemblance to the original statement written by Mr. Gardner." Admiral Shoemaker branded Colonel Shauffler's story as "ridiculous," and announced he will ask to go before the committee. \ Slayer of Five Confesses Before Going to Gallows Wheaton, 111.--John Kammerer, who was hanged in the Du Page county jail at Wheaton, left his body to Dr. H. S. Hulbert for tests that might determine what led him to murder his friend. Otto Bder, and four other members of the Eder family. The slayer's last act, as Sheriff John Hesterman was adjusting the noose about his neck, was to hand a bulky document to Assistant State's Attorney W. G. Knoch. It proved to be Kammerer's confession, made for the first time, that be slew Eder, Sder's young wife, and the three Eder children in their home. Twenty Acquitted of Fraud Greensboro, N. C.--Twenty officials and stock salesmen - of Bailey Bros., inc., defunct Salem tobacco manufacturing concern, were acquitted in Federal District court here of charges of naing the malls to defraud. None Indicted in Herrin Marlon. 111.--The 57 indictments r^ turned by the Williamson county grand jury, included none in Herrin's two latest battles, in which five were killed. Mayort Kills Son-in-Lau) IWchlta Falls, Texas.--Frank Collier, mayor of this city, nhot and killed his son-in-law, E. L. Robertson. A suit for annullment of marriage was pending between Mrs. Robertson and her husband. . Addison G. Proctor Dies PT, Chicago.--Exhaustion due to giving 7 jpublic speeches during and before Lin- ' coin's birthday caused the death of J' V Addison G. Proctor, eighty-seven, who a member of the natioffirtsfiepub- T ^ 1 iican convention which nominateJKLin- J?;,; coin for the Presidency. \ Southern Waterway Favored Washington.--An appropriation of , ,$0,000,000 for the Louisiana and Texas * intercostal waterway was approved t»y the senate commerce committee. Hungarians Arm in Secret Vienna.--A secret Hungarian military organization has been formed along the Austrian border with the object of reconquering German Burgenland, according to a police report to the chamber on Thursday. Urges Bonds for Dry Agents Washington.--Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts Introduced a bill to require prohibition agents to file bonds of $10,000 eaifc ' flpfffty against damage suite. Judge McGee of Minnesota, Bootleggers' Foe, Ends Life Minneapolis, Minn.--John F. McGee, United States district judge for the Minnesota district, shot and killed himself in his chambers in the Federal building here. He left a note declaring that his memory had failed him in the course of his work on the bench and that he feared his health was be- • coming affected seriously. Ills body was found by his daughter. Judge McGee had added to the reputation he gained during the war as a member of the Minnesota Safety commission by his severe sentences in liquor and dope cases. Russell Scott, Former Head of Corporation, to Hang Chit ago.--Russell T. Scott, once an official of a $30,000,000 corporation that failed, but now the convicted slayer of a seventeen-year-old drug clerk, was sentenced to hang April 17. He was denied a new trial by Judge Thomas J. Lvnch and the date of his execution was set. Scott was convicted for shooting to death Joseph Maurer, a clerk in the City Hall pharmacy, on the night of April 2, 1924. Grain Men's $300,000 Indebtedness Fixed Cliicago.--The $300,000 indebtedness of the United States < J rain Growers, Inc., will be liquidated through an jugreement with the newly formed Grain Marketing company, it was announced by Eugene Funk of Blooiuington, 111,, who engineered the deal iowa Senate for Repeal of Federal Road Law Des Moines, Iowa.--A resolution adopted by the senate asking congress to repeal the federal road law was taken to mean that Iowa will reject the annual federal aid allotment of $2,000,000. The necessity of meeting federal requirements was given as the cause. The vote was 30 to 16. The first of banking bills, providing liqaidatlon and distribution of closed bank's funds on agreement of a majority of the depositors, • If their holdings equal 75 per cent of the total deposits, was unanimously passed by the house. STATE BUDGET -- Judiciary Body of House * Defeat* Reapportionment Resolution. Springfield.--Governor Len Small completed the state budget for presentation to the General Assembly, asking a total appropriation for all purposes of $273,395,989, as against the total of $331,681,215 asked two years ago. According to his analysis, this shows a reduction of $58,235,317, or more than $3,000,000 after eliminating the appropriation of $55,000,000 for soldiers' compensation bonds, "Requested increases" in appropriations contained in the budget over amounts of two years ago, the analysis said, "are found almost entirely in those asked for the charitable Institutions. Increases in the cost of commodities going into these institutions average 10 per cent. •The building program, as reflected In the budget requests, with few exceptions, is confined to additions and betterments in welfare institutions and reapproprlation of funds for the state fair grounds improvements. "The problem of housing the everincreasing population of unfortunates in state institutions is being, met. Appropriations asked contemplate increased bed capacity and provide for a resultant increase in the number of employees In institutions." Reapportionment Rejected. Led by John T. Fergus, Chicago forces here went down to defeat when the judiciary committee of the house decisively rejected Elmer J. Schnackenberg's reapportionment resolution The Chicago member's proposal called for an immediate redisricting of the state In accordance with the constitution. Lee O'Neil Browne, who has been Democratic representative from Ottawa for a quarter of a century, led the fight against the "bill.. A bill providing for the. submission of the proposed child-labor amendment to the Constitution to a referendum vote at the general election in November, 1926, was presented in the house by Representative La Porte of Peoria. The referendum would be advisory, the result to be submitted to the Fifty-fifth general assembly in 1927, Estimates prepared bjr Adjutant General Black Indicate the probability that a supplementary bond lssne will be necessary to finance the state soldiers' bonus fund. The committee on appropriations recommended for passage a bill that would extend the time limit for filing bonus applications to July 1. According to General Black's report, the state has paid out $52,754,109 In bonuses to 255,594 claimants. This leaves In the bonus fund $2,296,000, while there are 13,455 claims, estimated to involve $6,395,888, still unpaid by the state. The appointment of Representatives Bippus, Steinert, Overlandj Mitchell and Coia, all of Chicago, as a committee to investigate housing conditions at Dunning, was announced by Speaker Scholes. Two measures designed to take from justices of the peace the power t(f issue permits to cary firearms were introduced by Representative Cheynowith of Macon and Representative Thon of Chicago. The first would place the power to issue such permits In the hands of the county judge. The second measure carries the same provision with the addition that In large cities the chief i of police would be given such power as well. A bill placing taxlcabs and other motor vehicles for hire under the Jurisdiction of the Illinois commerce commission was Introduced by Representative Hosa of Elgin, ILLINOIS 1924 fj LOSS SETS NEW Springfield.--As shown! annual report of State Fire •hal John G. Gamber, the largest fire loss suffered by Illinois during any tweve-month perlodt since the keeping of fire loss records was begun by the state fire marshal's office in 1912, was • that of last year. The property loss by fire in Illinois in 1924 amounted to $24,187,649, the largest previous annual loss being in 1920, when the total* reached $20,175,422. The year opened with a $4.*J 462,332 loss in January and' closed with a $3,111,268 loss In December, the report of Mr. Gamber showing that these were the months most largely responsible for the record-breaking total. The report shows that dwellings were hardest hit during 1924, with 7,109 fires, causing a property loss amounting to $5,012,165. Stores were next,, with 1,563 fires and a loss of $4,505,339; followed by factories, with 486 fires and a $3,922074 loss. Cook county has the unenviable record of heading the list with the largest loss during the year--$7,486,640; followed by Macon county, with $1,239,323, and Tazewell county, with $1,- 053,579; losses in all other counties of the state being under $1,000,000 each. The records of the state fire marshal's office show that 214, persons lost their lives through fire or burns in Illinois last year, while 218 others were more or less seriously injured. Congress Honors Dead Washington.--Congress paid a twohour memorial to its three dead Republican New England senators. Lodge }f Massachusetts, Brandegee of Connecticut, and Colt of Rhode Island. t9-Year-Old Negro Hanged Baltimore, Md. -- Carroll Gibson, nineteen-year-old negro, was hanged at the Maryland penitentiary for assaulting a white woman August 27 last Gibson was tried and convicted November 22 at Trappe, Md. Catholic Prelate Better Milwaukee, Wis.--Archbishop Sebastian G. Messiner of th*. Catholic diocese of Milwaukee is recovering from an attack of heart ailment which caused his removal to a hospital early last week. Maine Memorial SerOides Havana.--Informal memorial services were held here Sunday afternoon at the uncompleted monument to the battleship Maine, sank 27 years ago Sunday. U. S. Schooner Seised Anchorage, T. A.--It is reported here that Canadian customs officials have seized the American-owned schooner Maid of Orleans at Herschel Island for alleged non-payment of du- ^ • • Defense Now in Air gan Francisco.--Lord Thompson, New Bulgar Envoy to U. S. Killed by Assassins Sofia, Bulgaria.--Prof., Nicola MUefT, who recently was appointed Bulgarian minister to the United States, was assassinated here. M. Mileff was a Journalist and president of the association of Journalists in Sofia. As sucli he was able to direct the policy of the 20 newspapers published In Sofia. Certain of these newspapers are reported to have aroused the wrath of the Moscow authorities by their attacks upon the Soviet. President Orders'Specif Session of Senate March 4 Washington. -- President Coolidge issued a call for a special session of the new senate at noon on March 4. The senate. In accordance with custom, will confirm cabinet and other appointments which the President may desire to make on beginning his new term. Will Attend Inaugural Cheyenne, Wyo.--Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross will occupy a pluce in the Inaugural parade on March 4, and will attend the Inaugural ball to be held that night. It was announced from the executive office*. Army Provides 250,000 Meids ' Chicago.--More than 250.000 meals were furnished the poor of Chicago by the Salvation Army during 1924, according to the annual report of the organization. Indian Moslems Aroused London.--A Peshawar dispatch says unrest among Moslems along the northwest frontier has been caused by icports from Afghanistan that tw« reformed Moslems we$e stoned to de^th February 10. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS Marion--Mayo.- Anderson at th meeting of the Herrin city council assured the appointment of 25 special policemen for Herrin, and trial in open court of Chief of Police Walker and Officers Llsenby and Walker for neglect of duty. The special policemen will be selected by a committee of eight business men selected by the mayor. The committee will represent all factions. Randall Parks became acting sheriff with the departure of Sheriff George Galligan, according to agreement. Chicago. -- United States Senator Charles S. Deneen caused suits for $20,000 each to be filed against the Yellow Cab company jand the Chicago Railways company for injuries sustained by his sister. Miss Florence Deneen, following an automobile ae cident which oce,u*sred about two years ago. Kankakee.--Five bandits held up the Bradley State bank and escaped with between $5,000 and $6,000. Chicago.--United States Marshal Robert R. Levy, who has returned to Chicago from Washington, said that the attorney general attaches no blame to him for the recent robbery of whisky stored at a government warehouse but "that some of my depu ties might be involved." Chicago. -- Corporation Counsel Busch and City Prosecutor Plitcus selected Elliot H. Evans, chief assistant city prosecutor, to assist State street and Wabash avenue men In eliminating numerous auctioneers alleged to be operating illegally.. Miami, Fla.--William Hector Cochrane, one of Chicago's leading real estate operators before his retirement, died here. The body will be sent to Chicago for burial, accompanied by the widow and son, Albert Cochrane. Dixon.--The great field of ice in Rock river has broken up and is moving out in solid cakes 14 to 16 Inches thick. This is the earliest in 30 years that heavy ice has gone out In Rock river. The river rose three feet in the last 24 hours. Chicago.--Judge John R. Caverly i* leading a move to create sentiment for a repeal of the present Illinois statute governing the carrying of concealed weapons and the substitution of a new measure based on the Sullivan law now in effect in New York. The substitute is to be introduced irf the general assembly within the next few weeks. Springfield.--Another list of pavement, ' grading, and bridge building * awards was issued by the division of highways. The contracts come to more that $1,(500,000. The biggest award was $604,320.43 and went to the McCarthy Improvement company of Davenport, Iowa, for paving 31.12 miles on route 2, between Rockford and Dixon. Three sections in DeKalb county will be paved by the Harrison Engineering and Construction company of Kansas City, Mo. The distance of 18.47 miles, on route 28 between Marengo and Sycamore, pays the contractors $372,- 324.25. ' Springfield.--Automobile Investigators were sent out by the secretary of state's office to see that the rules regarding the use of automobile headlights are complied with. They were given instructions to work With local authorities both in the cities and on the highways in an effort to check the wave of disregard for law which Is sweeping the state. "Improper lighting Is one of the greatest menaces t<» public safety," Secretary of State Louis Ii. Emmerson said in an urgent appeal to every automobile driver in the state to assist in enforcing the auto lighting law. He cautioned the drivers against improper rear lamps, running with but one headlight, and lights which are not of the right color or size. Springfield.--Declaring that cancer is now a health problem of the first magnitude, Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health director, in a bulletin Issued. points out that the number of victims of this malady have tripled l-i Illinois during the last 20 years. From 2,680 inl903, the cancer fatalities Jumped to 6.666 In 1923. The death rate per 100,000 population grew from 51 to 98 during the two decades. Similar rises in fiiortailty from this cause have been reported throughout the country. "Cancer has risen in 20 years from seventh to third place among the most fatal of diseases," said the bulletin. , Gatesburg.--Four hoars after the grand jury had returned indictments against Theodore Edwards, Walter Parker,, and Carl Herrington, the men were arraigned before Judge Hillyer of the Circuit coyrt and were sentenced to terms in the state penitentiary of from one to twenty years. I rinsing.--Six armed bandits interrupted the merrymaking of a dozen revelers in the Forest garden*, a roadhouse on the Thornton road, about two miles south of Lansing, locked them, members of the Jazz orchestra and employees in a checkroom and escaped ten minntes- later with $600 and • valuable collection of jewelry. „ Chicago.--Vacani Kosner, a clerk in the office of the Czecho-Slovak consulate here, was found shot to death in his bedroom at 2750 South Central Park avenue. His wife said ill health had made him despondent. North Dakota O. K.'s Cigarette Bismarck, N. D--Sale of cigarette* ^ , in this state will be permitted after former British air minister, declared April 1 under a house bill passed by I here thai Britain s first line. of desenate and MM to the governor <en«e moved from the mm to tl* on Friday. l«i*. Bank Cashier Robbed Kansas City.--Four or five men robbed the bank of Martin City, south of here, of $1,200 and kidnaped thr cashtot, They released Miu in Kansa* City* Chicago.--An Increase of $25,000,000 In assessed valuation of property in Cook county over 1923 is shown in the report of tlie Board of Review made public here. The total for 1924 was $1,839,521,386. as compared with $1.- 813,896,723 in 1923. Sterling.--Ambushed on a lonely road near Sterling, B. LeVle, salesman for the Fox House, Chicago Jewelry dealers, was beaten Into Insensibility and robbed of $50,000 in diamonds by two bandits. The holdup occurred two miles outside Sterling, In a ii# road off the Lincoln highway. . Urbana.--Few Illinois cities "want or need an Increase 1n the tax rate ^ limitation for municipalities," according to information gathered here* the Illinois Municipal league fron questionnaire which was sent practically every city, village and In the state. Only 45 of the 1.1( swers received Indicated a dc an Increase In the tax rate lit The remainder, coroorislng mol 96 per cent, express the belj they could get along with thej .rate, which is 1.33 per cent of] valne of any given property.