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M n;:r .. - State TresSWe*; MI1- '*• ,.v *t annemced that Internet-MJ*s collected <m-p«tilio funds Mrtftg (Hfe first & ."-"CC- "J1 months of the yew totals $764,190. > . Sterling.--Mr. Ground Hog has not '•„? *4 ffone to bed this winter. Sterling jfrj.i.'.-- -,a ll'inters shot one recently wad they "Noticed several holes where the anj,*-" • anals had been working to bring oat - • . * .rdlrt. Sign of open winter. C j t ... Urbana.--Results of big-ten basket- ^ " > ^jall games will be exchanged by wir-e- ^ss between Michigan, Chicago, Wisa vie of HI iit as 3K3Mtl«ge J _ . jwRith, w»* found Frankte Banner, "<W*«ei?d girt, by a jury tn circuit court at Danville, and sentenced to 15 years. lielleville.--Twenty-seven cot! mines In this vicinity are working on an average of one and one-half days ft week. Several others have been forced to shut down entirely, and others report only an occasional day of work. Lack of a market for coal, due to the activity of European mines, is the chief cause assigned for the general f"yi 'Mr-- ' >: & • x. - Ctmsln, Purdue, Minnesota, Ohio State IjJnd Illinois this winter If plans under <Sbns(deratlon work out Flora.--Five men, believed to be e robbers who escaped from the Utate Bank of Iuka with $15,000 In ' dash and negotiable paper, were suriiwnded In a woods by two posses, iWht made their escape. J . Chicago.--Elght-ceat bread was demanded for Chicago households by the v Council cenjiyittee on the high cost of jjving. Bakery prices which cause bread to retail at a price higher than fight cents a pound are unjustified under present conditions, according to Nile secretary of the committee. . Lincoln.--The Logan cbunty board supervisors has appropriated $800 " to purchase markers to be placed along the Lincoln trail through the county. The roads Lincoln traveled In going : Jtt> the courts of central Illinois during his career as a lawyer will be designated by these symbols. During the antebellum period Logan county iiad three county seats, Postville, now •xtinct \ Mount Pulaski, and later Lin- . ooln. Lincoln argued cases at all three ,;<$fraees. Springfield.--The Illinois Blue Book Ifcr 1921-222, which has been In course of preparation since the adjournment of the general assembly last June, Is Bow ready for distribution. Secretary State Louis L. Emmerson announced. It is the largest and most comprehensive Blue Book ever Issued, "'containing about three hundred pages . SB ore than the last one, and comprising statistics and data on a wide variety of subjects relative to the state <nd the state government never includ- ,;;fd In previous Issues.' ' Springfield.--Illinois "blue sky" law, Which Secretary of State Emmerson ibid has annually prevented the sale <|f $100,000,000 in fraudulent and doubtful stocks, was upheld by the Supreme court. The test of the constitutionality of the law was made in a ease involving a $300 oil stock transaction In Rock Island brought by a stock salesman. A purchaser, after Investing in some stock, refused to accept the certificates and demanded his iponey back, claiming that the state securities act had been violated. The fjuyer won the judgment in the county * tnurt of Rock- Island. Springfield.--When the state constitutional convention reconvenes on January 8, indications are that they will •Sjptay in session until the new consti- • futlon is placed in definite shape for ' presentation to the people for referendum. According to several members f the convention who have visited at capital during the past week, the vention will stay In session for two %r three months, and it is hoped that f luring that time questions at issue may Jbe amicably settled. Whether the contention will plunge immediately into lithe work at hand or mark time until * Ihe six existing vacancies are frHed has Aot been made known. The election jvlll be held on January 23. j Springfield.--Five of the six Illinois .guardsmen named by Governor Small for, appointment to West Point were v jjiotlfled by the War department to Uppear at Jefferson barracks, Mo., on #larch 7 for mental examination. The live notified that their applications ivere acceptable were: Private Leroy I'ltzer, Headquarters company, Secite-.'^. 4.,,,iiir').,.,';,,.,4>nd battalion, Fourth infantry, Peoria; torporal William H. Ruten, Company Fourth infantry, Quincy; Private ' r i'lifford B. McKelvey, Headquarters jtompany, Fourth Infantry, Decatur; *rivate Carl Leby, Battery B, One undred and Twenty-third Field artillery, Monmouth, and Private Clyde Jl. Layton, Battery A, One Hundred » Twenty-third Field artillery, s&v- j^jGalesburg. Chicago.--Praecipe in a $100,000 libel suit against the Illinois Staatz- '^eitung, a German language daily inewspayer published at Chicago, 'was filed by Blackhawk Post No. -107, of the American Legion. The suit yj-; alleges the paper printed an editorial ^^j&December 13 saying the American Legion was "an instrument bought with British gold to suppress truth, to gag freedom of conscience, to beat down free expression of opinion and to betray American organized labor. The editorial also is said to have asserted the majority of American volunteers "were tramps, vagabonds and bums % ?•! who Place(1 the American uniform ® shade higher than the gub of "Sthe prison,house.". £'i Urbana--More than one-third of the Y'-/ 'ft'"""4,.®- 2»0&7 woman students at the Univer- K S,ty Illinois are wholly or partially » self-supporting, according to an estl- 1mate made public by the dean of the »30." Mk- '>• women. Clerical and stenographic ' work the university offices is one of the most common methods adopted by girls to work their way through ; ^ college. Washington.--Manufacture of BOTghaiH molasses amcng the farmers of this section is Increasing. Samuel Lecomte grew the largest crop and boiled out 1,500 gallons this season. ^iogfield.--Gov. Len Small announced the appointment of O. T. Olsen of Chicago as superintendent of plant Industry under the Department ef Agriculture. The position is pro- {_ (Vided for in the administrative code, 'M was not under the former administration. Blcomlngton.--Central Illinois farmers ask hunters not to kill quail, claiming these birds are the only certalR means of destroying the chinch bugs. Every bird killed adds to the devastation of grain crops by the pests, de- Hf** farmers. t ^ Chicago.--A teovement which. If soff cessful, will save 200 lfw« annually, was begun with the Introduction of a resolution to the Cool? county board which seeks to establish safety devices, gates and flagmen at all railroad grade crossings in the county. Coroner Peter M. Hoffman indorsed the idea. According to the coroner, ther« were approximately 245 fatalities last year due to automobiles being struck by railroad trains. Springfield.--The state Supreme court upheld the building ordinances of Zion City, and, therefore, the Grace Missionary church, rival of the followers of Wilbur Glenn Voliva, loses its right to proceed with the erection of a new church. Work on the edifice was stopped last May by order of the mayor of Zion City. The circuit court of Lake county denied a petition for injunction restraining the officials of Zion from Interfering, with work ^.on the church, and the casa went to Utt Supreme court. , ; „ v; Springfield.--Smallpox has beett bo the increase steadily for the past five years, and In 1920 reached its peak, the State department reports. In 1920, the number of cases reported were practically twice that for the preceding year, and equal to more than half the total number of cases for the preceding four years. The death rate taken for the past four fiscal years, which brings the records more up to date, show that during the fiscal period of 1920-21, 10,928 cases of smallpox were reported, resulting in 29 deaths, a mortality _ rate of 0.4 per 100,000 population. Chicago.--Reduction of the corn acreage in Illinois has been voted by the executive committee of thfe Illinois Agricultural association, headquarters of the association announced at Chicago. A special committee representing the state farm bureau federations of Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Kansus, as well as of Illinois, took similar action, it was also stated. The resolution advises that the acreage of corn, which is Illinois' greatest crop, be "reasonably reduced" and asks a proportional increase in the acreage of alfalfa, clover, soy beans and other legume crops to improve the soil. Springfield--Awarding within the next few days of contracts for 50 miles of cement roads, as a result of recent bidding will bring the total mileage of hard roads placed under contract to over 717 miles since last February, according to an announcement from the governor's office. • A new low price record of $27,181 a mile was established, the announcement said. Additional contracts to be let In 1D22 will place over 1,000 miles of highway under contract for the coming year, highway officials said. The total cost of the 50 miles upon which bids were received will be $1,362,841, according to the figures compiled by the governor's office. Chicago.--Authorization to employ guards to hold the Ottawa Brewing company plant, at Ottawa, 111., was received from Washington by Prohibition Director Charles A. Gregory, who aelzed the plant on orders from the capital. Three agents were left In charge temporarily and a new detail of permanent guards will be dispatched to Ottawa. Although the plant has been temporarily closed down, the company may be permitted to operate long enough to use raw materlols which might deteriorate. Officers of the company may ask a hearing Id Washington, at which they would be allowed to present witnesses in support of n petition for temporary permit to operate. Springfield.--A 12% per cent raise in state taxes for the year 1922 was ordered by Governor Small, State Treasurer Russet and Secretary of State Emerson. The three state officials met In Chicago and fixed the state tax rate at 45 cents per $100 of assessed property valuation. The rate last year was 40 cents. The raise will bring an increase of approximately $2,000,000 in state revenues collected by direct taxation. The added rate is necessary because of increased appropriations for educational purposes voted by the recent legislature. Other Items of state expenditure. It Is said, show a slight decrease. Governor Small in his veto messages having slashed $7,000,000 from legislative appropriations, Including $700,000 from Attorney General Brundage's appropriation. Springfield.--Execution of death sentence upon John Savant of Benton for the murder of Fritz Heick on January 2, 1921 ,was set by the Supreme court for February 24, 1922. Judgment of Ihe Franklin county circuit court for the conviction of Savant was apheld. His pica was self-uefeuse. Springfield--Seeking to stop professional begging on the streets of Springfield, the commissioner of public safety opened a "municipal mess" at the city prison, where hot soup, coffee and bread will be- supplied the unemployed throughout the winter. Refuses to Commit Unftetf States * tovernment to Any Armed Pottey. ?i,; >*.£.. - ' Zn.r % •• i , v '•»* Executive's Voice Throbs With Feet- Ins When He Repliee to His Sen- Critics of the'Fpb% ' v: Power Treaty. -,r Washington, Dec. 24.--His voice throbbing with feeling, President Hnr ling replied to This senate critics of the four-power Pacific treaty. He made two statements, one prepared, the other extemporaneous. In the former he declared: "Differing constructions are unimportant ; no alliance or entanglement Is thought of or will be nogotfated." He challeng^cl the "unjustified charge" that the United States delegates are withholding information from him. This important presidential statement was deemed to be necessary because of the sensational divergence of views between Mr. Harding and the four American delegates last Tuesday. The President then said that in his interpretation of the treaty the Japanese homeland Is not covered by article 2. Previously Secretary Hughes and Senator Lodge had made definite statements to the contrary. In his extemporaneous speech, President Harding made the following points: "I believe with all my heart that 1921 has witnessed great progress toward peace and understandings. In this conference is found expression for a righteous adjustment of disputes without appeal to slaughter. Mankind has become wise enough to sit down and talk whenever the peace of the world Is menaced. "If there were a menace of peace to Japan, what objection could there be to the United States sitting down, say In New York, with our friends in the Orient, and seeking a way to avoid a conflict?" It was also learned at the White house that President Harding does .not consider necessary a reservation to the four-power treaty forbidding the employment of force under it unless congress should*so direct. In this connection, the attitude of the President is that his record in the senate answers the question; that it Is Inconceivable that any President should think of employing the military forces of the United States in warfare except with the consent of congress. President Harding's prepared statement in part follows: "The President will offer no comment on the disputes which attempt to magnify the differing constructions on the four-power treaty. To him these are unimportant. The big*things aimed at are understandings for peace and an agreement to meet and discuss the preservation of peace whenever it Is threatened. No alliance or entanglement is thought of, none will be negotiated. "The President Is unwilling that the unjustified charge that the United States delegates are withholding Information shall go unchallenged. He has full confldehce, else be had not chosen them. And he has full confidence now and Is more than gratified over their efforts, because they are working out the greatest contribution to peace and good will which has ever marked the Christmas time In all the Christian era. "It is one thing to talk about the Ideals of peace, but the bigger thing is to seek the actuality. This the conference is doing, iu harmony with an overwhelming American sentiment, and a world sentiment, too, and in full accord with cherished American traditions." In an unprepared reply to a question regarding the League of Nations, President Harding said: "I do not think that the ieague has anything to do with the four-power treaty or with anything else that is transpiring at this conference,.except, of course, that the League of Nations was manifestly inspired and organized to promote peace and this conference Is aimed In the same direction. There is no connection between the League of Nations and the alms of this conference except hi the imagination." Soldier. J but Fought Against North The duke of Atholl, who has succeeded the, late Lord Sandhurst m tord chamberlain and therefore beci>me« censor of the drama, Is the eighth Murray to hold the dukedom, though he sits in the house of lords as Earl Strange. The duke, who will be fifty next month, has been interested in soldiering all his life, raising a regiment in South Africa which still wears his tartan, and also the Scottish Horse. $400000 FIRE IN MICHIGAN flames Destroy the Rogers Dam Plant of the Consumers' Powtr Company Near Big ftapids. Big Rapids, Mich., Dec. £4--Fire which destroyed the Rogers Dam plant of the Consumers' Power company, six miles south of here, did damage estimated at $400,000, it was declared. HARDIN6 FREES DEBS Socialist Leader Pardoned by $e President* ave to Serve Ten-Year Sentence for Violation of the Espionage Law. r Washington, Dec. 2!4.--Eugene Debs "Is a free man again. President Harding announced that he has commuted to expire at once 'the remainder of the ten-year sentence which the noted Socialist leader Is serving in federal penitentiary for violation of the wartime . espionage laws. The noted Socialist leader can now spend Christmas and New Tear with his family at Terre Haute, Ind., from which he has been long separated. KIDNAPING BANDIT IS SLAIN Policeman Kills One Outlaw and Captures Another in Chicago--Ctepp Up Utah Train Robbery. Chicago, Dec. 24.--Earl Tlmmons, alias Carl Gilbert, the holdup man who'was slain by Policeman William F. MacNaughton after kidnaping and robbing the wife, daughter and brother- in-law of James J. Callahan, former manager of the White Sox, was the lone bandit who held up a card game at the home of Jacob Loeb, former school board head, 4860 Kimbark avenue, last June. The confession came from Clyde Tlmmons, a cousin and companion of the slain man, who was with him in the robbery attempt, made while the three victims were in a taxicab which had been commandeered by the holdup men. The chauffeur was shot when he resisted. Tlmmons also Involved himself and his companion in the robbery of a train in Utah last August and the robbery of the home of J. F. Walsh, 1280 Ardmore avenue. Patrolman MacNaughton, dlxty years old, on the force for 35 years, will be made a sergeant by Chief of Police Fitzmorris. MacNaughton killed one of the men and arrested the other. Life Suspended Fifty-Three Days. Moline, I1L, Dec. 24.--Eleanor Settle has been In a state of "suspended animation" for 58 days. Her ailment Is a puzzle to the physicians. She recognizes none, but constantly murmurs "mamma." RAIL DIRECTORS MUST QUIT Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Baker te Quit Board by December 31, Com- V mission Rules. "r-... Waihington, Dec. 22.--WIHlarn Rockefeller. Harold S. Vanderbilt and George F. Bafter will have to give up by December 31 certain places they now hold on boards of directors of railroad corporations, under a ruling Tuesday by the Interstate commerce commission. • ' Mr. Rockefeller, the commission said, In passing upon his application to retain a number of the places, may be an officer of the Chicago, Milwaukee h St. Paul railroad, but must drop out of either the New York Central board or the Delaware, ^ackuwanna h Western board. Mr. Vanderbilt may hold positions as officer on two western railroads, the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and the Chicago & Northwestern, but must retire either from the New York Central or the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and Mr. Baker must choose with which of three competing railroud systems he desires to remain. 1„ , ., : Reds to .Form Party, '• York, Dec. 24.--UnlfleirMNfH! ef all revolutionary elements In the ranks of America's workers was contemplated by radical delegates gathered here for a convention called for that' an nounced purpose. Springfield.--The Andrew coal mine near Cantrall, employing 150 men, closed Indefinitely. The mine Is owned and operated by the Springfield District Coal Mining company. Lack of demand for coal was given by the president of the company as the reason for the closing of the mine. Springfield.--Former State Senator Orville F. Berry of Carthage, prominent In politics In the state, is dead at the Norbury sanitarium at Jacksonville. Berry bad "been ill for the pari few weeks and succumb* d to a heart Emma Goldman Leaves Riga. Riga, Latvia, Dec. 24.--Emma Goldiiiuu hiio Alexander Berkman, deported from America, left Riga for Rev«l. Esthonia. Berkman told a. correspondent they were going Stockholm. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 24 He#r» Watterson, one of the country's known journalists and former o and publisher of the Courier-Journal, died at a Mr. Watterson was old, having been born iu Washington, D; C., February 16, 1840. The first appearance of the Courier-Journal, which he organized by a combination of three papers, was November 9,1868. Colonel Wattejrson'o death Wfta da* to heart failure. He was conscious far a few minutes at intervals, and 30 minutes before- his death called his wife Into the room and conversed- with her. After a few words with Mrs. Watterson, the son and daughter were summoned. Members of the family said his death was peaceful, Colonel Watterson having lapsed Into unconsciousness again a few minutes before he passed away. Mr. Watterson was one of the last of the old-time personal Journalists. Besides his power of molding public opinion through his editorials he is credited with having shaped the platform of the Democratic party in more than one presidential campaign. He began newspaper work in Washington, D. C., and when the Civil war broke out, although opposed to secession, returned to his Tennessee home and Joined the Confederate army. He served as aid on the staffs of General Forrest and General Polk. During the campaign between Generals Sherman and Johnston, Watterson was chief of scouts of the Confederate army. Abraham Lincoln was said to be the great passion of Watterson's life. His lecture on "Lincoln" was delivered in hundreds of cities and it was his pride to tell of calling on Lincoln the morning of .the inauguration and of standing beside him at the ceremony. r 'Let no Southern man point his finger at me," Mr. Wattersen said, "because I canonize Lincoln, for he was one friend we had at court when friends were most in need." When Watterson founded the Journal he made a plea for harmony in the South. Thoroughly reconstructed himself, he urged all to follow his course in complete submission to the federal government. Mr. Watterson always advocated a "tariff for revenue only," a phrase which he coined, and which finally was adopted by the Democratic party. He was an ardent friend of Grover Cleveland during the latter's first administration as President, - but opposed Cleveland's third nomination. His service as a public official was confined to a fractional term tn congress. He accepted a seat there In 1876-77 at the wishes of Samuel J. Tllden, with whom he was closely al lied. Mr. Watterson refused reuouilaatlon for the full term. From 1872 to 1892, however, he sat at all national conventions of the Democratic party as delegate-at-large from Kentucky. He presided over the convention that nominated Tilden in 1876 and was chairman of the platform committee*in those of 1880 and 1888. / Mr. Watterson opposed William Jenplngs Bryan in his candidtmy for President in 1806, but in 1000 the Courier- Journal gave him lukewarm support. In 1908, however, what Mr. Watterson deiu>minated as the "free silver heres/' being "as dead as African slavery" in the United Staifss, he became a warm supporter of Bryan. SENATE VOTES RUSS RELIEF House Appropriation of $20,000,000 te Aid the 8tarvlng People of Ressla. Washington, Dec. 22.--The senate passed the house bill appropriating $20,000,000 for relief of the starving In Russia, with two amendments, one appropriating $500,000 to be used for the hospitalization of former service men In Arizona and tho other setting aside $100,000 for the use of the government In relieving unemployment. "I regard Leuln," Senator Borah said, "as one of the two or three great intellects uncovered by the war. I may say, too, that the government there Is better than the czar's government. If I had my way I'd recognise that government." $3,000,000 fee Improve Railroad Yards. Denison, Te*., Dec. 24.--The Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad will spend more than $3,000,000 In Improvements on Us yasds her$, which will be the largest west of the Mississippi river. Bogey Brig. Oen. H. M. Lord, chief of & nance, U. S. A.,' w&c say take the place of General Dawes «s director of the budget. ? ,r ?,'v,,, •'1 Idaho Senator si one ef the 'i Mat of Weekly Marketgram of Bureau of Markets arid Crept. Washington, Des. a.--For the week ending Dec. IT. -- GRAIN--Prices trended downward during Um week on lack of suftpttt Md JoMkcttTe dMnttkd. Tl»ere a better undertone on the ttth ted Mth. lnltoeaced tar hlaber torelsii onrfcets sad KjitiSM etate wheat crop report showing -a. ftft . aoocHABt i»fru2 •BOW M# oorn Offeruw to arrive small, exjwrt com demand slew. Cloebts prime ln Chlcaco cash matfctt; No. t red winter wtftpCN0. 2 hard winter ii«; *9. * jfctxed com, «e; jfoT* corn. No. 3 white bat* *c. 4 price to faittttr* in aeatml lonsa tor 2 mixed cava about S2c; to farmers ta central Jtortti Dakota for No. 1 dark northern wheat. 8W&; to farmers In central Kaaaak for No. 2 hard winter wheat, com down ljte, cloetA* at wjfcc; Mlagf Fa Winnipeg May wheat up l%c, at FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Potato to It 14. Bbtopln« points down Me? at pill but steady In •ales Arm at HM to fLM; Jl aales down Mc. at ttJS ... , --_ Ktver Ohloe stronewr at shipping points; up Me la mart m ' ' ^ Apple marieta show little o! Northwestern boxed appiea, extra" Jonathans, steady at SZJO to S.W tn 1 weetern markets. DAIRY PRODUCTS -- Cloelng butter 1, New York, 44Mtc; Chicago, phia, 46c: Boston* tfc. prices at WiseHnsiB primary markets. December 11; Twins, ]S%c, Dairies, J8%c; Double Daisies, lOe; Long- MianjMpoHa, ^ gJ>; Atlanta, HMO; Kan* riCiCl^-Quoted ' December *: ttrk« bran, |2LW: standard middlings, pjft linseed meal, MURft, ifloaaaMlsI Winter bran. ».«; gray sharSfcjBEr Cttjr. Cottonseed meal cake, 9M.00. Kansas City. White feed, WA Chicago. Medium slQUOl meaL IBM. Chicago. UVK WOCK--Chicago hog prices shoW net declines ranging from Se to Mte per M# lbs. compared with p ' Beef steer* down ISc to lnstancee as much as fLN. and heifers ranged from lOe to while feeder steers were ZSe to Me higher. Pat lambs Show the greatest decline, the dpreclatlon ranging from fl.00 to KLK per 100 lbs. Fat ewee lost 75c; yearlmga, 3»c to 75c. Feeding lambs generally Me higher. December 17 Chicago price*;. Hogs, top, $7 30; bulk of sales, alt U 17.00; medium and good beef to n.N; butcher cows and ' It-M: feeder steere*. IMP to T.._, medium Wright veal oUves, |IJ» to 9M4*i fat lambs, J».S to f&GO; feeding; Iambi, 8.71 to 910.00; yearllags, l7.OFteW.60; fat 75o, and year] feeder from twelve Irrtportaht marksts firing the week ending December > were: Cattle and calves, 81,807; hogs. MM; sheep, 41,610. RUSS FAMINE DEATHS QBOW Americans May Be Feeding 1,000^. 400 Children by Christmas Says Report. Moscow, Dec. 24.--The death rate in the famine districts of liustfa. Is rising rapidly. " More than 200 victims are buried every day in the Saratov region. The American relief administration Is now feeding more than 800,000 children and the number is expected to pass the 1,000,000 mark by Christmas. All the European relief organisations combined are feeding less itiUL- 000 children. ~ Wnman Ijy Msn." Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 28.--Mre. Susie Monteone was killed as she slept and her husband seriously wonnded by tin unidentified "MI man," who attempted to rob Monteone's store and set fire to the building. ' 20 U. S. Destroyers Reach Manila. Manila, P. I., Dec. 23.--Twenty United States destroyers of the Asiatic fleet anchored In the harbor here, permitting *2,000 sailors to pass the holidays lr Manila. The destroyers are to engage in maneuvers. George White Hurt in Blast. ^Marietta, O., Dec. 24.--Former C*M>» grcw^iiin George White, former chairman of the Democratic* national committee, was painfully burned In an explosion of fas at an oil well at Noble county. ° • Year te Sue Alien Custodian. Washington, D$c. 24.--President Harding s^ned the bili extendin# from January 2, 1922. to January 2, 1923, the time In which claims growing out of the war may be the alien property custodian.- -rii-kj Auto Bandit Slain. New York, Dec. 24.--One nrrtomobile .bandit was slain and a second se» rlously wounded In a pistol fljrht that followed an attempt to loot the office of a real estate firm tn West Sixtythird street near Broadway. Two Jail Breakers Shot. Schreiver, La., Dec. 24.--While attcraptlB£ to board ft train h«*re. after breaking jail at Napoleon-vllle, La., two white men were shot by Deputy Sheriff Landry. One Is expected tm die. .Chicago Home Looted. Chicago, Dec. 24v--Binding Mrs. Dora Malato, former assistant state's attorney, to a chair In her home at 1262 Catalpa av«*nue and gagging her, roh Iters ransacked the Malato home •Ml escaped with more than $30,000. De Valera Loaes Test Vote. Dublin, Dec. 24.--Dall Elreann took • recess until January 3, and In doihg so showed the relative strength of the WON'T LET FORD CUT RATES interstate Commerce Commission For* bids Him Slashing Tariff on Coal From Ohio., Washington, Dec. 24.--Proposed reduction by the Detroit, Toledo A Ironton railroad of interstate carload rates on coal from Ohio mines to Toledo, Detroit and other destinations was forbidden by the interstate commerce commission. Hold Up Iowa Bank.. cil Bluffs, Ia„ Dec. 24.-hNt« men held up and robbed the bank at Piagah, Ia„ and escaped with $2,- 100, after forcing the cashier, his assistant and three customers into a rear room of the Institution. 1Franee Demands Equality. Washington, Dec. 24.--France demands a minimum submarine tonnage of 90,000, or an equal with the United States and Great Britain. This was the oatstandlng fact in the ddfeptt en the submarine question. Washington, Dec. 28.--Danger the four-power Pacific treaty being tied up lud#flf4taiK, rft-wrltten or having reser vatlMMt ifcaefced to it tn tfe» senate forilfea .le&tfctois committee |» engaging the attention of Republican ieadiiilldre. . - A /^OMAuiation of "irrecmicllabldir* and Wilssa senators would take .con?, irol out ef the hands of Scmtve Lodge, the coramittes chaiman. Senator Borah, leader of the reconcl!ables,v is one of the most active committee members. He and Senator Lodge will 'meet face to face across the committee table and Borah says he will question Lodgeclosely, not only with regard to the four-power pact, bnt regarding everything that has transpired «t the secret sessions. * It is understood that Borah will also Beek to have the sessions of the foreign* relations committee made public when it is considering the four-power and other treaties negotiated at the armament conference. When the Versailles treaty was be* fore the committee, It held a series at open sessions at which Secretary of State Lansing and other American delegates at Versailles revealed much that had taken place at secret s«f» sions. It Is recalled that the full teg* elgn relations committee visited ,&e White House to interrogate Prerident Wilson regarding the Versailles pact and that what took place between Mm and the committee members was sub' Bequently made public. Secretary Hughes is understood t» have expressed a willingness to appear before the committee when it takes up the decisions of the conference and it is also expected that President Harding will receive the committee at the White House after the fourpower and other conference treaties are submitted to the senate and formally referred to the committee. The lineup' in the committee is expected to foreshadow the lineup in the senate on the decision of the conference. There are 16 members of the con* mlttee through whose handl* all Of the treaties must pass before they can be ratified by the senate. It is recalled that the Versailles treaty emerged from the committee In a form much altered from that in which jfr. Wilson submitted it to the senate. The Republican members number eight besides Lodge and Borah--Me- Cumber, North Dakota; Brandegee* Connecticut; Johnson, California; New, Indiana; Moees, New Hampshire; KeUogg, Minnesota; McOsjft* mick, Illinois, and Wads worth, New York. The six Democratic members are: Hitchcock, Nebraska; Williams, Mississippi; Swan son. Virginia; Pomerene, Ohio; Plttman, Nevada* Md Shields, Tennessee. Shields has said he will vote against the four-power treaty. He was an "irreconcilable" in the League of Nations fight, lining up with Borah, Johnson, Moss and McOermick. McCumber and Kellogg are "mild reservatlonists." All of the Democratio committee members are noncommittal regarding the new treaty exc Shields. r< J •r % •& t 4 DIE IN KENTUCKY BATTLE Another Man Is Seriously Wounded Gun Fight at Elys, Knox ^ % County. . . BarbourviUe, Ky., 1%, Few men were killed and one' serloisiy' wounded In a gun fight at Elys, Knox county. The dead are: Buss Baker, chief of police of Bakervllle; Tim Pine of Barbourvllle, Jim Bodkins and his son. Chick Uojlklns, of Elys. other Bodkins is said to be w o u n d e d . ' 4 . Nine Killed by Storm. ^ Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 28.--Eight eat* ored persons and one white man are known to have been killed and between forty and fifty persons Injured by a storm which struck the town of Clarkdale, Ark., 17 miles norgjWeat of Memphis. Heavy damage is kftOWh to have been caused to a number of lug settlements in the storm area. ' * -> New Honor for Diaz. Rome, Dec. 28.---In New Year's honors to be distributed by King Victor Emmanuel, General Dlas, who commanded the Italian armies In the World war, will be made a title being "Duke of Victory.** ; Three Die In Gas Blast. Jelnmbus, O.. Dec. 23.--As a result of a gas explosion and fire at the Wright store three women are dead, many others are lying In hospital* at the point of death and thirty others injured. •. *•' Will Discuss Ught Wlnee* Washington. Dec. 23.--Feasibility of raising funds for a soldier bonus by a tax on beer and light wines will be forces led by Griffith and Collins for considered by the house ways and the peace treaty and those behind means committee, Chairman Fordner % .Sj&Jfc;.:^Miannowace^ Many Presents for Madelynn. Los Angelas, Cal., Dec. 28.-^One hundred and seven Christmas gifta. ranging from a bottle of imported toilet water to a $1,000 bill, arrived at the county jail ceil occupied by Mrs. Madelynn Obenchaln. Hfe, K While looked 'crushed her skull Michigan Fa Alpena, • J L ' • * 'J& ; Death at Chrtatmae Womble, Ark., Dec. 28.-- burn, forty, well-known plaMtsr* after Buck Outler, a young ftRner, struck him over the bead with a shotgun during a fight at a Christina* trea eel elj ration. ~