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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 21 May 1925, p. 2

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'I Measure Beaton ||y Four Votes--U. of L . .fiuilding Program Cut. tngflekL--Tb« hoBN killed, the 3>il bill which would restrict women's hours of labor In Illinois to eight In any calendar day and to six days a veet The vole was 73 to 58, four Short of a constitutional majority. ^ Representative Lottie Holman O Nell St Ikmut Grave introduced the bilL •ill Aimed at Klan. ' After bitter debate the hoasa ad «aaced r» third reading, without • Mil offered by Vi Ullam SL King. ne*m Chicago, aimed at the Va Ktxa. klan. It would require all urt y -T7T- rt organisations. except labor unices and benevolent societies, to file list* of membership, a copy of consti- ; tution and by-laws, and the prescribed oath, with the secretary of state. By a vote of 68 to 65 the house rejected an amendment offered by the Judiciary committee which would brln# labor unions and benevolent societies . f^bla the scope of the bill. U. of I. Building Cut. She house appropriations committee slashed $1,425,000 from the building program of the University of Illinois. The items eliminated were a new library unit $500,000, additions to the armory $425,000 and a school of architecture $500,000. Administration leaden stated that other state institutions, such r.s the normal schools, were in need of funds and In view of the program of economy to which the assembly Is pledged It was judged wise to cut expenditures wherever possible. tv CuthbertVon Bill Passed. The Cuthbertson bill was passed by tbe senate. The bill is a companion to the recently passed Deck bill making robbery or burglary with a deadly weapon punishable by a minimum imprisonment of 14 years and fixing hanging as the maximum penalty. The Cuthbertson measure Includes robbery, arson, and burglary with explosives In the class of crime with treason, murder, rape, and kidnaping, in which the Jury Axes the punishment with a determinate sentence, during which there can be no parole. Taken together with the Deck bill, lawyers say, the senate now has declared In favor of sending the armed holdup man or safeblower to the penitentiary for at least 14 years and allowing the Jury to determine whether he should be locked up for life or hanged. 8enator James J. Barbour contended that the theory that increasing penalties decreases crime is a fallacy, but .the bill was passed, 28 to 8. O. K. Gambling House Padlocks. The senate passed, 26 to 6, Senator John Dalley's bill, which was prepared by the Rev. Thomas R. Quayle of Lake county. It provides that premises used fbr gambling purposes may be closed by injunction for one year, thereby putting them in a class with blind pigs * Sad houses of prostitution. Auto Drivers Must Read. Senators Barr, Dailey and other leaders of the upper house of the assembly sitting as members of the com mittee on license and miscellany agreed on the outlines of a bill for the licensing of automobile drivers. One change was that a licensee must be able to read English--in other ffords, be able to understand what are all about. ILUNOIS CROPS IN GOOD CONDITION ILUNOIS STATE NEWS ;;!W• -Af St. Petersburg, Fla.--Mrs. Zeley Glrdley, pretty twenty-nine-year-old wife of the former cashier of the LI bartyvllle, III., First National bank, is recovering from two bullet wounds, alleged to have been inflicted by her husband, who is sixty. She told police of previous attempts to kill her by Chloroform. Mrs. Girdley was formerly Miss Helen Kohnle of Liberty TBle. Jollet.--Dolls are rivals of night School classes for the favor of women prisoners at the state penitentiary at Jollet, according to Mrs. C. Elinor Rulien, matron. The women are permitted to sew for dolls or for cbil dren outside the prison. Chicago.--Fire, which caused dam •ge of $25,000, threatened to destroy the old Union station at Canal and . Adams street, which has been abandoned for the imposing new structtire adjoining. Peoria.--Suit to recover alleged fees thought by Mrs. Clara Fort, Lacon illlonalre widow, against the law ;rm of Barnes, Magono & Black was withdrawn. Terms of the settlement were not made public. Chicago. -- Charles Cramer, alias Charles Conway, thirty-nine, a lifer with an artificial 1 leg, escaped from tbe honor farm at Juliet, and Chicago erflce were asked to search for him e was sentenced for1' murder. Tuscola.--Tempted by the warm Weather In April, about half of the farmers planted corn. The young plants made a healthy growth. Reports show that in many cases entire fields have been frozen and must be replanted. It la also stated that 'heat ftelds have been seriously damped by frost and freezing. i Galesburg.--Rev. Frederick F. Shanntm ot Chic**°- Pastor of the Central r( >V"j3!L „ church to Orchestra hall, will speak at tbe graduating exercises of the nurses' training school of the Galeaburg Cottage hospital. Springfield.--A banner spring season for advancing ail term work, a very moderate loss of wheat acreage from winterkill and a winter wheat crop outlook up to average or better over most of the state on an Increased acreage are reported by Federal Statistician A. J. Surratt, In the May crop survey for Illinois. The report also points out that corn planting ranges from Hearing completion in the southern to starting in moat of the northern counties. Spring-sown small grains were sown very early iu an unusually well-prepared seed bed and got off to a favorable start, but during the last week of April these crops were beginning to show effects of deficient soil moisture especially In many of the central and southern counties. Grass crop prospects are only fair. They are in need of a good soaking rain quite extensively In the state. Live stock health condition is reported the most satisfactory In recent years and looses of all classes of stock from disease during the past year have been less than usuaL Farm labor supply is now reported slightly In excess of demand. Farm wage reports show about the same rate as paid a year ago. The acreage of winter wheat abandoned in Illinois is small and estimated at 8.7 per cent of the fall planted acreage of 2,- 678,000 acres. The state winter wheat condition of 85 per cent on May 1 compares with 70 per cent a year ago and a 10-year average for this date of 81 per cent. The state production prospect based on this condition is for 44,930,000 bushels. Illinois rye acreage for this season is estimated, at 155,000 acres or 10 per cent less than for last season. State condition of 88 per cent indicates a production of 2,442,000 bushels. U. S. Dry Navy Plant Death ; -Blow to Contraba«4 ' ' Smugglers. Sir' Marion.--Exiled since shortly after last February 5, when he signed an agreement with Governor Small to leave the county, George Galllgan Is again in the sheriff's office in the Williamson county Jail. Homesickness urged him back, he said. Leaving In the Interests of peace in strife-torn Williamson county, Sheriff Galllgan returned, talking of harmony and good will toward all factions. Sheriff Galllgan said he had consulted Governor Small, who made no serious objection to his return. He contemplated no radical changes with resumption of office. Sheriff Galllgan said. He declared Randall Parks, acting sheriff, would resume bis former position of office deputy. Sheriff Galligan's term of office expires In 1926. Aurora.--Neither age nor thinning ranks depressed Illinois veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, gathered here for their fifty-ninth annual encampment. Their first move upon arrival was to veto an arrangement made by a local parade committee to have them ride In automobiles. "We have marched," C. V. Johnson, Champaign, vice commander, said, "for 60 years and before. Neither the enemy nor nature has been able to stop us. We will carry on to the last" Only a few of the veterans were unable to keep up with the parade. Springfield.---Tbe appointment «f a commission to Investigate reapportionment of the state was approved by the senate committee on reapportionment, when the bill Introduced by Senator H. S. Hicks of Rockford was reported on favorably. The Hicks bill provides for the appointment of a Joint commission to investigate public sentiment on reapportionment, and report back to the next general assembly the most feasible method of accomplishing redistricting. Springfield.--A complete record of the civil suits against Gov. Len Small, New York.--A billion-dollar rumrunning combine is being combated by the United States coast guard with ^30,000,000 equipment, government officials announced at the completion of a four-day official and newspaper Inspection cruise of the Mid-Atlantic rum smuggling area. There are 385 foreign rum-Tunning boats of all descriptions, said Lieut- Commander S. S. Yeandle, aid to the coast guard's commandant, Rear Admiral Billard. These craft have been pouring contraband liquor Intothe United States with the assistance of a large and far-reaching shore organisation. Against this array, the coast guard's entire force consists of sixteen cutters, whose primary duty is the safeguarding of ships and lives at sea; an authorized fleet of twenty converted destroyers, not yet completed; 20ft patrol boats, each 75 feet long, and 108 86-foot picket boats. It Is under these conditions, Commander Yeandle said, the coast guard has entered its first great drive, the Mid-Atlantic rum blackade, which In less than two weeks has sent more than seventy smuggling craft scuttling to sea and has so tightly ringed the remaining smugglers as to put a virtually complete stop to the once copious quantities of liquor that flowed through Long island. New Jersey, New York and New England sea coast channels. The plan calls for the continued picketing St every rum boat that comes within striking distance of shore and the continued patrolling of all waterways leading from the sea to the shore bootlegger bases. After the foreign liquor carriers have been held off shore weeks or months, as the case may be, the coast guardsmen believe that the shore liquor organization-- a vast army of men who operate under a huge complication of details-- will rust with disuse. Pope Proclaims Sister a Saint; Many at Rita Rome.--The Catholic church has a new saint, solemnly proclaimed by the pope amid the prayers of all the cardinals and high dignitaries, as well as 32,000 of the faithful thronging 8t. Peter's. Before Sunday the beatified virgin Sister Therese, the newest to be admitted to sainthood, already was popular as the "Little Flower of Jesus," and was venerated by many of the faithful, who were charmed by the sweetness of her teaching that everybody can do good by throwing flowers to Jesus in the shape of small sacrifices. She is called a "homelike saint, charming and fragrant." The church • was resplendent, with 18,000 lights shining from 600 candelabra. Among the assistants were 20,000 French pilgrims, including the bishop of Lisieux of the Normandy town In which Therese lived. Also present was Madame Guerin, a cousin of Therese, and Madame Guerard, who held Therese In her arms as a child. W. Frank McClure of Chicago was elected chairman of tbe National Advertising commission at the convention of the Advertising CI aba of. the World in Houston, Texas. FRENCH DRIVE MOORS FROM BIBANE HEIGHT Fighting Continue$--Heavy Lotte* on Both Side< Paris. -- General de Chambrun's men. In cleaning out a strong pisitlon of the RIffian8 on the heights of Blbane, in Morrocco, In one day, are declared to have administered a "salutary lesson" to the Invaders. It was said that it required close fighting with cold steel to dislodge Abd-El- Krim's followers. Through the capture of Bibane the French may proceed to a flanking move against a series of Rifflan fortifications threatening the Ouergha passages over a thirty-mile front. With this line of defense gone there Is no further safety for the Riffians except within the Riff mountain chain, twenty- five miles to their rear and within the Spanish zone. This reveals the significance of General de Chambrun's strategy in striking an immediate blow at- the pivot of the whole Rlffian defense, which is likely to oblige Abd-El-Krlm's forces to retreat within the Spanish zone. Tetuan, Spanish Morrocco.--Advices received from the French zone are to the effect that fighting between the French forces and the rebel tribesmen continues, with heavy losses on both sides. The French military hospitals are reported filled to capacity, making necessary the evacuation of wounded to other hospltala. - Fatty Arbuckle Weds Doris Deane at Pasadena Los Angeles, Cal.--Friends who saw Fatty Arbuckle wed to Miss Doris Deane (Anita Dibble) in the Pasadena home of her mother were informed of a $100,000 wedding present. The present was delivered JPlth a few strokes of a fountain penf when Arbuckle signed a contract to draw that sum from his chum, Roland West. Fatty will direct ten movie comedies and will begin work on them when he and Mrs. Arbuckle return from a honeymoon trip to New York. mony. SOjOOO See Flying Ebony Win the Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky.-- Flying Ebony won the Kentucky Derby's classic mile and a quarter by a length and a half In two minutes and seven and three-fifth seconds to tbe heroic accompaniment of crashing thunder and forked lightning.^"' Within ten minutes after lie %as led to triumph past 80,000 cheering men and women sunshine crowned the colt's victory and the evening sky was radiant. Earl Sande rode Flying Ebony. He rode a great race, the outstanding attributes of his generalship being excellent Judgment of pace at the start and fine maneuvering at the head of the stretch. -In honor of Dr. Dean Lewis of Chicago, professor elect of the daoartment of surgery of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, phy si clans and surgeons of western Illi nols tendered him a banquet Kewanefcv is the old home of Doctor Lewis,' whose parents reside here. Speakers included Dr. Allen B. Kana- Td and Dr. Charles Elliott. ' Mattoon.--Tbe Hessian fly has been found In some wheat fields of Coles county by Farm Adviser Melvin Tbomaa. The fly-free date for this |ut of Bllnois la after October 2. Arbuckle has signed a legal agreea work of 27 huge volumes, most of l^eut to pay Ms former wife, Mlnta them the size of a newspaper file, was | Durfee, $200 a week permanent allformally filed with the clerk of the Supreme court. An abstract of the record Is still to be filed. It will be a 12-volume work. Chicago.--The board of education indorsed the school revenue Mil before the legislature which would add $12,000,000 to the present $18,000,000 construction budget of the Chicago school system. Decatur.--Le Roy Baker, thirty-one, shot and killed his seventeen-year-old wife as she slept In bed. He gave himself up, saying his wife had left him once and threatened to do so ag&ln Aurora.--Orrln R. McKenney of the George H. Thomas post, Chicago, was elected commander of the Illinois department, Grand Army of the Republic, at the reunion held here. He la eighty-one years old. Centralla.--An automobile occupied by Mrs. S. Glenn Young, blind widow of tbe late Williamson county Klan raider, was taken after a hot chase by Chief of Police E. C. Kaelln on a charge of speeding. The fine was $13.40. Mrs. Young explained she was in a hurry to see her doctor. Peoria.--An automobile and an airplane narrowly missed colliding on the hard road near here, when a huge black plane, rising out of a field, taxied at great speed across the road five feet In froot of the car driven by Haskell H. Armstrong. Chicago.--Nelson P. Blgelow, sixty three years old, formerly prominent In the lumber business here and well known in Lake Forest society, died in Los Angeles, it was learned. Mi Blgelow took up a residence in Calf. fornla some years ago. Mr. Bigelov was a member of the OnwentsU, University and other clubs. He wai active In tbe lumber business for Si years. Chicago.--Assistant State's Attorney Frank Peska of Chicago filed bll/i f«fc Injunctions orderly bouses. Live Stock Arrivals t Lose Price Ground By Bureau of Agricultural Economies U. 8. Department of Agriculture. Chicago, Union Stock Yards, for week ending May 15.--The fat steer trade lacked stability, liberal recent and hand-to-mouth buying being reflected in foot markets. Too many weighty steers arrived, many 1,300 to 1,500-pound offerings coming from Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois feedlots, These lost 25c during the week, selling sluggishly 75c to $1.00 under tbe season's high time. Exceptionally sharp rises and long declines alternating in rapid succession continued to feature swine trade. Six days of wild buying culminated Tuesday in a $1.75 to $1.90 total advance. This was followed by a quick reaction and prices suffered a $1.25 to $1.30 break in the next three days. At the close of the week, values rested on a 35c to 50c lower baals than during the final days of the previous of Dute Fait Dead During Show vf-p./ oft Washington. iTaihlngton.--Lieut. Gen. Nefiiir^S. Miles, retired, famous Americas soldier, dropped dead of heart fflassso here Death occurred while General Mllea was attending a circus performance, •t which Mrs. Coolldge also was present His old foes, the Indians, were Juat entering the arena as he was stricken. The general had apparently been in the best of health. Ha was eightysix years old. Tbe old Indian lighter was "sitting on the tbird row of the circus stands when he fainted, failing Into the arms of Dr. Arthur W. Craig, who was Immediately behind him. Doctor Cralg4 and others removed him to a position under tbe seats and then to a point outside the tents, where he died. The general was accompanied by Mrs. W. B. Noble, mother of his daughter- in-law, and several of his grandchildren. The opening of the pageant of the clrcua had Just begun when be collapsed. Tbe body was removed to the Casualty hospital, where Acting Coroner tanaka Tokichl Tanaka Is the first Japanese ambassador to Soviet Russia. He has been In the Japanese diplomatic service for many years/serving for a time as counsellor and charge d'affaires at the embasy in Washington Later he was vice president of foreign affairs In the cabinet of Admiral Kato. He Is president of the Japan Times, the only afternoon paper to Tokyo printed in English. rma- Rejects Jurors Are Opposed to the Death Penalty. " 8 Lieut. Qen. Nelson A. Mllea. Martyn issued a certificate of death due to myo-cardltla and acute dilation of the heart 1 shall never miss a circus," be told one of tbe owners, an old friend, as be entered. General Mllea left a clerical job to join the army In the Civil war at the age of twenty-two. At twenty-five be was a general commanding 25,000 men. He fought Indians on the plains for twenty years, led the army of occupation into Porto Rico during the Spanish-American war. His greatest disappointment was when he was not permitted a part In. the World war. He had been retired for age in 1008. He was born In Westminster, Mass* April 8, 1889, of an old American family. He was made lieutenant general at the age of sixty. MARKET QUOTATIONS BY V. S. GOVERNMENT Washington.--For the week ending May 14.--HAT--Quoted Hay 14: No. 1 timothy: Cincinnati, f 19.00; Chicago, $24.00. No. 1 alfalfa: Omaha, $16.60. No. 1 prairie: Chicago, $18.40. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--New Tork sacked round white potatoes, $1.85® 1.60 per 100 pounda in eastern terminals; northern atock, fl.2091.4S on the Chicago carlot market. Texas yellow Bermuda onions, $3.60® 3.75 per crate In consuming centers. Virginia and Maryland strawberries, 16922c quart basis in eastern markets. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing prices of 92-score butter: New Tork, 44e; Chicago, 41c; Philadelphia, 46c; Boston, 4834c. Wholesale prices on Wisconsin primary markets May It: Single daisies, 21ftc; longhorns, 2134c; square prints, 21%c. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed $12.30 for the top, $11.90911.16 for the bulk. Medium and good beef steers, f8.76@ll.25, butcher cows and heifers, f4.66911.36; feeder steers, $6.00 9$9.00; light and medium weight veal calves, f7.76911.26. Fat lambs, $12.00 918.70; spring lambs, $14.00916.60; yearlings, ft.60912.00; tat ewes, f6.26 0<-86. GRAIN--Quoted May 14: No. 1 dark northern wheat: Minneapolis, f! 60V49 1.8636. ~No. 2 red winter wheat: St. Louis, f1.8691-87. No. 2 hard winter wheat: St. Louis, $1.6791-68. No. 8 hard winter wheat*. Chicago, $1.66%. No. S mixed corn: Kansas City, 11.08%. No $ mixed corn: Chicago, fl.18; Minneapolis, fl.06%91.06%. No. S yellow corn: Chicago, $1.1091-21; St. Louis, fl.1791-1736; Kansas City, $1.12. No. 8 yellow corn: Chicago, fl.1491.16: Minneapolis, $1.09% 91.12*. No. 2 white corn: Chicago, $1.16%; St. Louis, $1.16H 91 1634; Kansas City. $1.1091-11- No. 8 white oats: Chicago, 4434 94634c; Minneapolis, 4S%'OM34c; St. Loula, 4? 948c. Ho. S white oats: Kansas City, 48% 949c. Iowa "Gas Tax Marshall' Try to Halt Law Evaders Dee Moines, Iowa.--Wholesale evasion of the gasoline tax law on the Iowa-Illlnots border led State Treasurer Ray B. Johnson to take steps ti break up tbe practice of numerous rea- Idents cf border cities, particularly Davenport, of purchasing their motor fuel in Illinois, where it Is not taxed. Tbe activities of tbe gas tax collection division .of tbe state treasury were confined to collection of license numbers of Iowans who drove across the free uridge at Daveaport, filled their~taBks and returned to this state. week, pest butchers 1^^^^^ SUmyer* of Messenger sold around $12.00. Glenn Frank Selected to Head Wisconsin University Madison, Wis.--Glenn Frank of New York, editor of tbe Century magaslne, has been selected as president of. the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Frank is thirty-eight years old. He was born In Queen City, Mo., October 1, 1887, and received his bachelor of arts degree from Northwestern university In 1912 and a doctor's degree from Lincoln Memorial university la 1922. Vote Against Prohibition Brisbane, Australia.--In the polling on the question of local option In Queensland not one of the electorates voted In favor of prohibition. A majority for prohibition was obtained t Ipswich, Bremer and Oxley, but not an effective majority. 42 Kitted in Ruhr Mine Blast; 200 Are Rescued Berlin.--Forty-two miners lost their lives and eighteen were injured In the Dorstfeld mine explosion near Dortmund, according to the latest checkop. Panic spread to Dortmund and surrounding districts when two tons of dynamite exploded and entombed more than 250 men, of whom 200 were rescued. Women and children tried to storm the mine, but were held back by strong detachments of police. Following an explosion of coal dust a room 8,000 feet from the dynamite blast, a fire broke out, burning to death and asphyxiating more than the powder explosion itself. The mystery of how the dynamite exploded will never be solved because the boss In charge and bis assistants were killed. In Senator Spencer Dies Washington.--Senator Selden Spencer of Missouri died suddenly at the Walter Reed hospital here on Saturday. J. D, Dort, Auto Magnate Drops Dead on Golf Links Flint, Mich.--J. D. Dort, sixty-four, former president of the Dort Motor Car company, .fell dead while playing golf on the Flint Country club course here. Death was due to heart disease. He had Just completed 18 holes and was standing talking with his friends when he staggered and fell to tbf ground.. Gmard Aviator Killed N4»w York.--Injuries received when the airplane he was piloting struck an air pocket and fell 900 feet Into the bay caused the death of Lieut. James Jordan, of tbe New York National Guard air "service. Count Tolstoi Divorces Wife - Paris.--Count Leo Tolstoi has been granted a divorce from his wife, who was Marianne Solsky, by the Paris courts. Tolstoi charged her with abandonment. 6JSOO Killed in Chimess Quake Peking.--The earthquake at Tallfu, Yunnan province, on March 10, killed 6,500 persons, according to an estimate received by the famine relief commission. The number of persons destitute is placed at 100,000. Three Killed in Powder Blast Faversham, England.--Three persons were killed and many others were Injured on Friday afternoon In two explosions at the powder works In thta place. y Funeral ot Gen. Mangin fMd Paris.--The funeral of Gen. Charles Mangin, the hero of Verdun, who died, was held here. Marshal Joffre and many of the highest military officials, government heads, members of the diplomatic corps and of the American Legion formed a part of the funeral procession. Oil Strike Threatened Mexico City.--Labor headquarters report that a general, strike la jfrreat ened In the oil regiona. Get 2S Years in Prison Waukegan, III. -- Bernhardt Myltn and Edward P. 8mlth, both of Milwaukee, to whom a Jury at Waukegan gave twenty-five years' Imprisonment for murder, will accept the penalty without making a further fight, their attorneys sold. They were taken to Jollet by Sheriff Kdwin Ahlstrom. The two were convicted of slaying Russell Sage Dickey, express messenger on the Viking, fast train of the Chclago & Northwestern railway. In an jj^npted holdup. 4 _____ * Mrs. Day, Acid TKrmi&f, Gets I to 14 Years in Prison Los Angeles.--Bernice Day, recent ly convicted of disfiguring, with acid, the face of her husband. Darby Day, Jr., son of a Chicago capitalist, was sentenced to serve from one to fourteen years in San Quentin prison after Judge Carlos Hardy bad denied the motion of her attorneys for a new trial. The defense served jmOv* ot appssl. ^ Airplanes Bomb Moors Tangier, North Africa.--Heavy lot have been Inflicted on the Rifflan troops and the villages in the district of Mount Conico by Spanish bombing airplanes, according to dlapatches received here. 5 Wedding Guests Killed Moecow.--During a Georgian wedding ceremony In tbe village of Dubdlddy a house in which 400 guests had assembled collapsed. Five were killed n«ii a hundred injured. Stock Death a Farm Problem Washington.--The problem of cutting down the high and costly death rate among live stock la one that the farmers of the United States must solve for themselves, according to officials of the Department of Agriculture^ To Vote on Dry Repeal Oslo*- Norway. -- the government nftxt year will introduce a '>111 In the Norwegian parliament calling for a vot« of the people to Indicate whether tfe« present dry law shall be kept. cago.--Scruples and oplntolfl^e^^-.- ^ empted eleven men from Jury service^ ^ ",_1 lb the trial of William D. Shepherd,:^,: •' the trial which has been impending*^;., since William McClintock died of ty-- ^ phoid fever and left his $1,000,000 Shepherd. The state would not accept thosss&^g, >j having conscientious scruples against Inflicting the death penalty, for the? charge against Shepherd Is murder--r murder by the use of typhoid germ*Jr; : Neither state nor defense \vanted|- thoae who had a fixed opinion as to|g Shepherd's guilt or innocence. Several veniremen had opinion* «•' which, they said, sworn evidencewould not change, and they were alsnjy*^, opposed to capital punishment, even*.-/ in a "proper case." . I' The defense wanted to be sure Jurymen accepted would give wth«|^ closest scrutiny .to the testimony ofej, • an accomplice"--reject it If thejM'>;- didn't believe It--and they mentloneqr Charles C. Falman, who confessed t(^j being an accomplice of Bhepherd Fifteen men were examined a when the cmirt day was over fou were still under consideration. Th state had accepted three tentatlv and the defense had pasted aArmaj tlvely upon one. ^ The Apposing attorneys were cau] tious enough and they even wi chummy with the prospective Juroi as they led them along with question The state desired a Jury that woul<pi not hesitate to vote death for Shep$2S herd If Its twelve members are con» vlnced the defendant Is guilty. Want* ed also were those who would not shy at circumstantial evidence nor at" the testimony of an accomplice. Attorneys William Scott Stewart and W. W. O'Brien, speaking for Shepherd, required Jurymen wh#" would give him the benefit of all laws that protect an accused person. y Stewart asked a prospective Juror , If he had ever been In a conflict over a great estate where a will was In- - volved, giving the inference that thfj; contest started by McCllntock's nlnj|.: cousins upon Shepherd's claim to hip;" $1,000,000 inheritance would figure in. : the trial. First Assistant State's Attorney George E. Gorman did all of the questioning In behalf of the state. Statel" Attorney Robert E. Crowe and hip*; two other assistants, Joseph P. Sa\j^"„' age and John Sbarbaro, were present Attorney O'Brien began the day bp~ soothing the rumpled feelings of Mrs* Julie M. Shepherd when she was ii||C formed she might not sit at the d#» fendant's table beside her husban^ She had greeted Shepherd with a kisp and an embrace, but the court rule& •he must sit apart from him so tha|. my susceptible Jurymen might not b# Influenced. Not once waa Judge Thomas J.;.. Lynch, who la presiding at. the trial* compelled to rule on j ;s} wnteated point. H. Rider Haggard, Author, Dies in London Hospitm LondOh.--Sir H. Rider Haggard, author, died here. Sir Rider had been ill for four months, and recently was taken to a private hospital In London, where he died. Although he achieved worid reputa tlon as a maker of fiction, it was known to but a few that the real work of Sir H. Rider Haggard was In the field of practical* agriculture. In which" ha gained the highest reputation among experts. Coolidge Would Limit: Sale of Poison Gas Washington.--President Coolidge Is flrmly in fRvor of some limitations on the sale of poison gases, a question now being discussed at the Geneva conference on control of traffic In arms. It was stated at tbe White House. While the President Is not sure as te just what plan should be adopted, he believes It can be arranged without interference with, lafittfligf* bualneas. Ford Invades Wall Street; Opens Big Bond House New York.--The entrance of Henfy Ford Into Wall street was seen hf gome bankers In the announcement that the Guardian Detroit company had been established as the New York investment branch of the Guardi# Trust Company of Detroit, of whl<#i Edsel Ford Is a director. Ernest Kanxeler, vice president at the Ford Motor company. Is named § director of the Guardian Detroit coqft» pany. Ju The Guardian Trust Company of B§* trolt, believed to have the backing of tbe Ford mllllona, obtained Its foothold in New York by the acquisition of Keane, lligble & Co., Inc., an Investment firm which has specialised for many years in high-grade secuf$» ties. M : The New York office of the ilrm,J| was announced, had been reorganize® as the nucleus of the Guardian Detroit company, of which Jerome E. J. Keana will be made chairman ^and Jofea (X Grter, Jr., president Roads Move to New Station Chicago.--Railroads occupying the Union station moved into. the n $80,000,000 structure that has been building for several years. As soon aa everything la out af the old It will be raaad. ^ ; Women Get Limited Vofa Rome.--The bill granting the vote to wometf ln municipal elections received unanimous approval in the chamber of rh-nutles. The measure was backed by the Fascist 1 and Mussolini. Fleieehmann Left $2&fi0Qfi00 Cincinnati.--Estimates made following the death of Julius Fleischmann, that his estate would amount to $75,- 000,000, were greatly exaggerated. His total estate amounted to $20,016,017, it was shown when a detailed copy ot his property was filed. Secretary ot War Weeks ^ til Again; May OperaU(•• Washington.--Secretary of War John W. Weeks, who has been convalescing at his home here from an attack of thrombosis since early In April, haa suffered an acutc attack of gallbladder colic. attending physicians are hopeful that the new complication will yleM to treatment, as have similar attacka In the past. If be Is threatened with prolonged severing on account of the colic, however, it Is possible that an operation to afford him relief will be given serious consideration. - Ernst to Get Spencer's Pest Washington.--The chairmanship of the elections committee of the United States senate, made vacant Dy the death of Senator Spencer of Missouri, wil go to Senator Ernst of Kentucky. If was announced hare. ; '•} : itM Btdgar Troops KtU Sofia--Bulgarian troops have killed seven brigands in the search for those responsible tor tbe recent raid en tbe town of Etosaiilk. Plans Highway Program - Pierre, S. D.--South Dakota Is making plans for the launching of a program of road paving this summer, uaing cement from the state plant and labor from the penitentiary. Warns of Bogua $10 Note- Washlngton.--Warning against a counterfeit $10 federal reserve note was Issued by the United States secret service. The note is drawn on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, check letter G, face plate No. 228, with signature of D. F. Houston and John and a portrait of Jackson. ' '•'S'i Danish Striker* Stop Copenhagen.--All agricultural export wttl cess* as * gyJi* the Danish striksra* r'i,1 Jb r.-' ?£:' v.;\ .

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