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•>'M Mi? L6B i 3 liliiiiillillill? ,sporty y towns, one® Ities In Illinois, have BUCto the grow th ofr the metropolis OdU^rily known only by graap mom--Chicago. As listed the JftlfcoU Historical society, these Himw lndade: Argyle Park, Auburn patk, Avondaie, Beverly Hills, BOWmjiw- as- , . lining" Bridgeport. Brighton Park, BrooUlae, Buena Park, Burnside, , •*>* Cfcaalport, Chicago Lawn, Cleaver- Cragin, Dauphin Park, East ;,1 J IttMfclngton Heights, Edgebrook, ' •' ®dgewater, Rgandale, Eggleston, Engleynrtfui. Forest Glen, Gale wood, Garfield, Grand Crossing, High Ridge, Holstein, Iron dale, Irving Park, Kensington, Lake view, Lawndale, Norwood Park, Jtavenswood, Rogers Park, Washlng- ;;Vvion Heights, West Ridge, Woodlawn -t. J ,' Bnd Lake town. Si}; " Springfield,--Four persons in Illinois t>-U' , _ JKad Incomes In excess of $1,000,000 ;•» during the calendar year 1919. Two <; felinois taxpayers had incomes of bet r Jhveen $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 each. ' . %helr combined net income was $6,807,- £ , •01. Their normal taxes aggregated ',fB88,4flO, their surtaxes $4^92,064, and g"* x their total income tax, $4,680,524. *T<>V About two-thirds of their net incomes Tr i ' " " were paid to the government in .Cr taxes. Two other Illinois taxpayers i bad incomes of between $1,500,000 X i "' ind $2,000,000. Their net income „"#as $3,179,843 and their combined gfi/ normal taxes amounted to $101,328, ff ' »< jjnd surtaxes to $1,933,917. Their total *• -i aggregated $2,035,243. > Springfield.--A barred Plymouth - ' ifcock hen in the pen of Jules Francois j§s^ t #f West Hampton Beach, was the individual champion during January In -®e Blinols egg-laying contest. In a 4*vt - yen at Murphysbore this hen laid 29 eggs. Second honors went to a White ?: X-eghorn pallet with 28 eggs, belong- J&"~., ,Jhg to A. E. Davidson at Mount Ster- ^ Jlng, 111. This bird is entered in the ^ j Contest at Qunicy. The contest, unv der the direction of the state division J. ; «f poultry husbandry, has run three i" ' • fnonths and will continue until Novem >*/*;> >1. . . ; r Jacksonville.--Illinois Is caring for Vv \ 400 of Its blind citizens. Of these, -J < V #jj27 are inmates of the school for the i&fL'i- blind in Jacksonville, and are taught C ^ •>{?' various trades, such as rug weaving, ' y basket, broom, brush and fiber furnijg'ture manufacture; piano tuning, tele- ;f>hone and switchboard operating, utenograpliy, dictaphone operating and *"**' occupations. Last year seven lfc£, ^ blind inmates of the county poorhouses >were transferred to the state institutions and Instructed in the operation jbf machines for making carpets. Urbana.--Catholic students at the "University of Illinois are planning to jjralse $50,000 as their snare toward !huilding Columbus Foundation for r .^Catholic students attending the state £ 1 ^ 1" Institution. The Columbus Foundation, C " as is now planned, will Include not i*""1 * I ,on'y a ®bapei and social center buildbut also two residence halls, one l„<stJ !for women students and one for men. :i i'^These halls should relieve some of the :J "S^Jroomlng congestion that haa prevailed ^.'t^in the university district. .j Vji Chicago.--Insurgents in the Milk producers' association. repBPSenting v.i |lair>* farmers in Wisconsin, Illinois and ^ f lndiana. were defeated at a meeting _ several hundred delegates at Chi- *^i|ago a few days ago. when Frank f\ Holt, of Kenfjsha, Wis., and E. C. ltockwell, erf Chicago, were re-elected president and secretary, respectively. "Joseph Kreiler, Crown Point, Ind., was *j_.- fleeted a vice-president. Peoria.--Three resignations among -the teachers of the Peoria public \V* Vfcchools to get married were the sub- -Jject of discussion at a recent meet '0;-§.'X of the hoard of education. In each ' irase the pedagogue was notified that -jS^he resignation was regarded as a ' * preach of contract. It was suggeste<l 'll 4 ' fhat whenever a teacher wished to k,' " :^be married the date should be set I3».. ' *"Rafter the school term. C,* •/ . Springfield.--Population of Illinois 'fjM E^, I.r'? ^increased 8,170 in the month ending J ^ January 15, according to figures Just an- J. I^nounced by the director of the state f||department of public health. The lncrease was due to 15,355 babies reft,' 5 ported born, from which is deducted ..^•^•. the 7,176 deaths. There were 5,660 ; i babies of Chicago and 9,805 downstate; 2,477 deaths In Chicago and 4,099 downstate. _ . Chicago.--The city "dead beat" ordinance, passed by the Chicago city council two years ago in an attempt , ^ , to prevent citizens from escaping the & t collector by moving, was declared fts-' '* nnreaKona^),« and invalid In a decision l$V" banded down by the State Supreme ^ ' court at sPrin8fleld. Springfield.--State department of l > health rules In regard to quarantining must be obeyed by the persons quarantined under a ruling of the state Supreme court which adjourned the February term a few days ago. Decatur.--The Illinois state encampment 6t the G. A. R. and allied organizations will be held in Alton May 16, 17 and 18. Rock Inland.--One farmer out of every ten is said to own a tractor in Rock Island county, which stretches along the Mississippi river for 70 miles in the northwestern part of the state. The farm adviser In the county said conditions among the farmers were better In this part of the stare than they have been in 14 months. Bock laland.--Trustees of Heddlng j^SiPge at Abingdon have been offered an endowment of $800,000 and spa clous site in this city by the Hock Is land Chamber of Commerce, bl an €®ort to procure the college. Springfield.--Provision for a state Income tax with a maximum exemptaAimj'Ci, <11«U luc vcstowal of full power uopn the legislature to spend this proposed levy as it eees fit were the two outstanding features of this past week's work of the Illinois constitutional convention. Springfield.--The State of Illinois Employee's league, to promote efiiclency and amalgamation in matters pertaining to service to the state, has been Incorporated by Secretary of State £muieraoii. Tlie headquarters S3S If,,?, Sj the htbi^1rt&rti* reversed the " first conviction obtained In the state under the new dry law. None of the salary increases allowed state department heads by the Fifty-second general assembly can be palu during the terms ot the present officials, according to a decision by the court. The court also ordered a permanent injunction restraining State Auditor f-ussel and State Treasurer Miller from Issuing " warrants against at\y part of the $500,000 department emergency fund created by the legisture. Upsetting the practice of thousands of corporations in Illinois, the Supreme court held that preferred stock shall have the same voting privilege in corporations as common stock. The constitution of the state, the court ruled, provides that no corporation stock shall be denied the right to vote. Frequette Pursley, convicted of murdering Eugene Watson at Duquoin December 8, 1920, and sentenced to hang, was granted a new trial by the Supreme court Instructions of the judgd in the trial court were held to be improper, the Supreme court Tiolding that the trial should have been for manslaughter, not for murder. Pursley U a negro and Watson was a white man. They quarreled while at work. Doctors of chiropractic In Illinois lost their legal fight to evade state regulation when the Supreme court, upholding a ruling of the Itock Islatia county Circuit court, held that the overturning of the medical practice act of 1917 reinstated the previous act of 1899. It was the chiropractors' contention that there was no law regulating them since the act of 1917 was held unconstitutional. Chicago.--Organized fanners In the state of Illinois who voted at their annual meeting on January 13 to reduce the state's corn acreage, will make the cut In the various counties on the basis of corn surplus In each county, it was announced. A scale of reduction is being prepared at the Chicago office of the Illinois Agricultural association, basing the apportionment upon the most recent government figures of production. While no official statement has yet been issued, it is predicted that some central Illinois counties will be asked to reduce their corn acreage as much as 25 per cent. Many southern Illinois counties, on the other hand, will raise their usual acreage of corn. Springfield.--Upon the motion of Attorney Frank P. Quinn of Peoria, representing tne defendant, the conspiracy case against Lieut. Gov. Fred E. Sterling was continued until the March term of court. State's Attorney C. F. Mortimer made no objection to the continuance as he has planned to let the Sterling case go until the outcome of the prosecutions In Lake county-- the cases of Gov. Len Small and Vernon S. Curtis, the ('rant Park banker-- is known. In conspiracy there must be at least two persons convicted so that the Sterling case to some degree is dependent upon the results of the two others that precede It. Carbondale.--Sam T. Brush, eighty years old, former superintendent of the Illinois Anti-Saloon league, and one of the first coal operators in southern Illinois, is dead at his home in Boulder, Colo.. In 1889 he organized the St. Louis and Big Muddy Coal company, having former Vice President Charles E. Fairbanks and E. C. Daws of Cincinnati among his associates. His contributions to prohibition activities made It possible for the dry forces to take the Illinois local option act to the state Supreme court a numl>er of years ago. Decatur.--Revival services are in progress at the First United Brethren church at Decatur, In charge of three brothers, Rev. O. J. Todd of Decatur, Rev. C. T. Todd of Freeport and Rev. W. H. Todd of Terre Haute, Ind. Their father has been a minister hi the United Brethren church for 38 years, and one other brother is a Y. M. C. A. secretary. Chicago.--Police Sergt. Henry D. Kellogg killed himself by swallowing cyanide of sodium In the hospital of the Cook county Jail. Kellogg, who slew Attorney Lemuel M. Aekley during bis own trial before Judge Charles A. McDonald last July, had been In the hospital since then recovering from wounds which he inflicted upon himself. Cbillicotlie.--When the will of the late Joseph Carroll of Chilllcothe was admitted to probate, it was discovered that he had made liberal provision for his horse, Don, and his dog, Mickey. He stlplated that both animals be given the best possible care as long as they live, and he inserted a clause which provided that said care should b»» a lien upon his real estate. Freeport.--The first co-operative milk marketing organization to be established In Illinois In 1921 Is averaging more than $30,000 business monthly, according to its report preparatory to the first annual meeting in March. The Stephenson County Co-operative Milk Marketing company was the first of five similar organizations established. Moline.--A bond Issue to provide for tlto construction of a 10,000,OOO^al Ion water reservoir will be voted on at the Moline city election April 18. Milder.--Private gas wells have become almost as common as water wells In ~ this Tazewell county village, where every householder is possessed of the prospect of striking natural beneath his own back yard, and becoming his own gas man. A pocket of natural gas was struck 76 feet beneath the surface. New Miliord.--Workmen digging tn a gravel pit near here unearthed several huiuan skulls and other hones. It is believed they were those of Indians and that the site was obM an Indian burial -ground. Dixon.--The Lee county hoard of supervisors has voted to expend $75,- uuu on ruuu uupivYcujcutB thin year. Half of that sum will be used on what ia known as the "Chicago road" from a point west of Paw Paw village, and the remainder will be expended oh the Harmon-Dixou road. Springfield.--Lieut. Gov. Frank E. Sterling, one of tli«- five former state treasurers named by Attorney General Brundage in bHIs for accounting, alleging shortages of more than $2,000,- 000 during their terms, asked that the WtM ^ -at# PMge ««§ and FkiSncial Aid, |DmUfl MfflfHli lHlnOLI iWftf8aaIlKls _ ^ : / f r * m./ " •Mi OPBMTORS STATE Deetare Checkoff ttystsm Eliminated and Scale of Wagsa Corresponding to Present Condi* tlona Must Be Recognized. Chicago, Feb. 24.--Sixteen railway brotherhoods refused to enter into a sympathetic strike agreemeA with the United Mine Workers' of America, but entered into a "protective alliance" with the miners, pledging them their "full moral support." The action came after President John L. Lewis of the miners pleaded before officials of the brotherhoods in executive session. I do not ask you to strike," he said, "but I believe the miners should have your moral support." The support tendered the miners, It Is understood, does not call for a refusal on the part of the railway men to handle coal produced in nonunion mines. The delegates unanimously adopted the resolution to form the protective alliance and appointed a committee of five to draw up the agreement. No specific recommendations were given. The members of the conference are: H. E. Wells, assistant grand chief of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers; Martin F. Ryan, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers; Secretary Ross of the International Railway Telegraphers; Phillip Murray, vice president of the International Mine Workers of America, and Vice President Dempsey of the Longshoremen's union. President Lewis said the mine strike was Inevitable as a result of the refusal of the Pittsburgh Coal Producers* association refusing to Join other operators in the central competitive field In a conference with the mine union officials. The operators, he has maintained, must be unanimous in attendance or the union officials would not confer with them? The Pittsburgh operators' refnsal was contained In this ieietrram: "Answering your message of this date we will not again enter into a four states agreement. Therefore It is not necessary to meet to fix a date for such a conference. When the men of the Pittsburgh district are willing to meet with us to negotiate n scale of wages which recognises present conditions and eliminates the checkoff, we will meet with them." Members of the association employ •bout 45.000 bituminous miners in the western Pennsylvania district. The miners originally had sought an alliance with the rail unions In an effort to have them declare a sympathetic strike to tie up all coal production and delivery in case of a strike. When the walkout first was threatened the operators retaliated by assuring the public that its wants would be served out of the nonunion fields. It was to keep the railroads from hauling nonunion mined coal from the area supplied by the central competitive Held that the miners sought the alliance. ivy-* k OH MHPtnt 2bi> * -.V 1 It Is _ Vietfipr ntConflwlifc: 0. K.'S TREATY CLAUSE MISS NQRMAND IS BETTER Fields "Confession" on Taylor Murder Mysteriously Regarded as PrinoL , P«lly "Bunk." Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 27.--<3ontinued Improvement of Mabel Normand, film actress, who is suffering from influenza and nervous breakdown, was predicted by her physician. He said Miss Normand was seriously ill with influenza, which was aggravated by a nervous breakdown as a result of the murder of William Desmond Taylor, one of her closest friends. Excitement resulting from the "confession" of Harry N. Fields In Detroit, as to certain alleged details of the murder of Taylor, was subsiding with outspoken expressions by officials of their disbelief in Fields' statements. They called it bunk" and declared they had been unable to substantiate any of the allegations Fields made to the Detroit authorities. The investigation resolved itself locally largely Into a resumption by the police of running to ground the "tips" on the mystery that were said to be reaching the various officials as frequently as during the days Immediately after the discovery of Taylor's body. New Reservation in Pacific Pact Debated in Senate. ^ if* !*; N President Harding Agrees te Compromise-- Early Settlement of Con- - V . ^irpWrsy 8mhT _ ^ Feb. foreign relations committee agreed to a final vote on the four-power Pacific treaty. This action followed acceptance of p compromise reservation, aimed at safeguarding American rights, by President Harding. The agreeinert resulted from a conference between the President and Senator Brandegee, Republican irreconcilable. The ne4v reservation is Intended as a substitute for the one offered by Senator Brandegee and objected to by the President. The draft «t the rsfcrvation follows: "The United States understands that under the statement in the preamble, or under the terms of this treaty, there is no commitment to armed force or 'or an alliance and no obligation to join in any defense." It was first proposed the final action on the treaty should be taken yesterday, but Senator Johnson urged that it be deferred until today. The compromise reservation waa regarded by administration senators as promising an early settlement of the controversy over the Pacific pact. It was pointed out by them that the reservation merely expressed what the President and administration spokesmen had contended all along, that the treaty does not commit the United States to employ armed force, or to alliance, or to an obligation to join In defense of Pacific possessions. U. S. MARKET REPORT VOTE FOfl STATE INCOME TAX Illinois Constitutional Convention Springfield Adopts a Clause to This End, at BprtngOeld, HI., Feb. 2S.--Without a single vote to spare the constitutional convention adopted on second reading the third section of the new compromise plan for taxation recommended by Its special committee. The votes stood 52 to 0. The third section allows the legislature to substitute an Income tax. "uniform and substantial," for all taxes by valuation on intangible property In the state. A further provision that all such Income taxes on intangible property must also be reasonably proportioned to the tax levied on property by valuation was stricken out. TREATY ORDERED REPORTED Pacific Pact, With Compromise Reservation, Approved by Senate Body by Vote of 13 te 8. Washington, Feb. 27.--The Fourpower Pacific treaty, with the compromise reservation, was ordered favorably reported by the senate foreign relations committee by a vote of 13 to 8* Jap to Be Electrocuted. New York, Feb. 27.--Snito Talzo, twenty-three, the only Japanese ever convicted of murder In New York city, was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison the week of April 3. IOWA SENATORS SEE HARDING Kenyon and "His Successor, C. A. Raw- '«•%. Call at the House. •.v. Washington, Feb. 27.--Former Senator Kenyon of Iowa and his successor, Cnnrles A. Rawson, called at the White House and Mr. Rawson, was preseuted to President Harding. Mr. Kenyon. who resigned from the senate to accept the appointment as a judge of the Eighth federal circuit, planned te leave to assume his new duties. Weekly Marketgram of Bureau . of Markets and Reports. - ' Washington, S^sb. 27.--Fer the week ending Feb. a-LIV* 8TOCK-~Chl*f«o hog prices advance# IMGe during the week; beef steets practically enchanted; butcher cows and heifers up 10c to 26c. February 23 Chicago priciM: Hogs, top, bulk of sales U0.K-tO.lS; medium and good beef steere. 9f.n-a.tt; butcher oows and heifers, R00-7.85; feeder steers. I6.0M.M; Ufkt and medium weight veal calves, fLft-I&SQ; fat lambs, 113.50-16.26; feeding lamMi, gl.60- 13.60; yearling*, tlO.TI-14.Bt); fata ewes,"t6.75- 9.25. stoeker and feeder shipments from twelve important markets for week ending February It we*e as follows: Cattle and calvee, 61 ,£77; hogs, 12,708; sheep, 22,644. GRAIN--Wheat market unsettled, but prices averaged higher; Chicago May wheat up 8c, cloeing at $1.44%; Chicago May Corn up 2c, closing at 66c. Advances Influenced by bulliab crop reports, improvement in milling, export and flour demand. and higher foreign markets. World's available wheat sapply Increased- 1.642.M0 for week and IS bushels as compared with 1S6,769,000 bushels same time tauit year. Export demand for corn continues fair with country offerings to arrive light and firmly held. Closing prices In Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.41; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.®: No. 2 mixed corn, 66c; No. S yellow corn, 60c; No. I white oata, 86c. Average farm prices: No. 3 mlexd corn in central Iowa about 46c; No. X hard winter wheat in central Kansas, $1.28. Closing prices in Chicago future markets: Kansas City May wheat, $1.80; Chicafo July wheat, $1-2494; Chicago July corn. 67c; Kansas City July wheat, tl.lTtfc. FEED--Quoted February 28: Bran, $24.80, middlings, $2S.60, Minneapolis; No. 1 alfalfa m#»i ti7 * Kansas City; linseed meal, $48.00, Minneapolis, $61.00 Buffalo; 36 per cent cottonseed meal. $37.00; white hominy feed, $22.00, St. Louis. $22.60 Chicago; gluten feed. $32.15. Chicago. FRUITS AND VEGETAD LES-Potato markets were nearly steady, although tone slightly weaker. Northern sacked round whites firm In Cnicago at $1.70-2.00; slightly weaker f. o. b. shipping points at $1.60-1.65. Markets fairly steady for barreled apples, steady to strong for western boxed fruit. New York Baldwins, A2%. steady f. o. b. at $7.26 per bbl. Northwestern extra fancy wlnesaps firm at season's top, f. o. b., Washington shipping points, at $2.60-2.66 per box; steady in Chicago at $2.7G-3.26. Onions steady in most markets. Choice eastern and middle western stock slightly lower in leading cities at $7.60-8.60 per 100 lbs.; steady in Chicago at f6.76-7.26; middle western reds, $7.00-7.60. Celery continues dull and weak. Florida down 60c In consuming markets at $2.75- 8-60 per crate; down 10-16c at shipping points at $2.26-2.86. DAIRY PRODUCTS -- Butter markets barely steady. Supplies of all grades liberal and buyers operating cautiously. Closing prices, 92 score: New York, Chicago and Boston, 86c; Philadelphia, 86H& CHICAGO ROCKED BY BUST 8tone Quarry Explosion of 800 Caasa of Dynamite Near Argo, III, Shakea City. Chicago, Feb. 25.--An explosion» ®bf quarry near Argo, 111., was felt within a radius of 50 miles. One mau was Injured. The property damage was estimated at gl,000,000. The quarry is operated by the Consumers company." Approximately 800 eases of dynamite of 50 pounds each were stored In a magazine three-quarters of a mile from the nearest building. The magazine building was demolished. No one «vas in the vicinity. A workman, three-quarters of a mile away, was thrown to the ground with such force his leg was broken. The cause of the explosion !s not known. Window lights in Argo and other Chicago suburbs were broken. . Admits Writing Plot Letts** Washington, Feb, 27.---Oeor^ fe Long, forty, a War department clerk, confessed that lie was tne author of the "threat letters" sent to a number of prominent Washiugton society matrons. • Vassar Girls Protsst. Poughkeepsle, N. Y., Fell. 28.--The Vassar Miscellany News contains a protest signed by 6l Vassar students against the wearing of "knickers" about the college campus, in the dining room and upon the streets. zmPi'.. j msm Auto Goes in Lake; Three Die. Mwkuk, Is., rsb, 2.5--Joseph Hss= bert, sixteen, and Mae and Ida Prlnty were drowned in Lake Keokuk when the auto In which they were riding plunged off a ferryboat dock at Naovoo, IIL 8everal Statea Hit by Flooda. Chicago, Feb. 25.--Several states north and west of Chicago are floodbound, with damage rejKJrted amounting to millions of dollars, as a result ^J>f one of the most uiiusual atoms and weather changes ever recorded. Harding Wins Pact Fight. Washington, Feb. 28.--President Harding won a victory in his fight with senate "irreconcilables" when the foreign relations committee reported the four-power Pacific pact without drastic reservations. Press News by Wlrelssa. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 27.--8tom> bound newspapers, unable io obtain the telegraph news by wire or telephone because of the blizzard, got the news by wireless. It was the first time this had been done to this region. V ¥ ' ' ' mm ma Vast Military Parade in Red Squars «f «f»e Kremlin My In Good Cen- < dltion, Well IftHftormed ar*l% . •>; Saluted «K»pplly. Moscow, Feb. 28.--Leon Trotxky, soviet minister of war, speaking before Hie Moscow seytst ja cifrimtiOB wttli the Bed amy'« jB«rtk ftotitvenary here, declared WuasfS's "aorie of fate Is now balancing over Qenoa." If the coming Genoa conference should not result satisfactorily for liussia, he declared, it might be necesfeary to tip the balance with blood, perhaps this coming spring. "It is necessary," he declared, "for the proletariat to be ready, then, to face a blow in the spring If such a situation shou'd be force i upon as. Each week of postponement of the Genoa conference must be a week of fortifying the Red army. The time we may lose on the fiefd of diplomacy we must atod shall gain !u t>.e held of activity in fortlfjlng and enlarging the army. "We are fully decided, on our fourth anniversary, to prepare oursefves for a new struggle, bemuse the finish fight between capital and labor Is ffcr from a decision." - In the Red square of the Kremlin Trotzky reviewed the Moscow garrison In what was probably the largest military assemblage since the days of the emperor. For two hours infantry, lancers, Cossacks, gunners, engineers, motor corps, tanks and airplanes passed in the bright sunshine. The men appeared to be in good condition, were well uniformed, and saluted in snappy fashion as they filed past the stand. A little more precision In alignment, gayer uniforms, better horses, and older soldiers and they might have been the regiments of the old guard passing before. Emperor Nicholas. Near the reviewing stand were Clara Zetkin, German socialist; William D. Haywood of the American I. W. W.; Katayama; the Hungarian socialist leader, Bela Kun, and members of the Third Internationale. The predominance of communists among the spectators was the only reminder that it was not a pre-war spectacle. The illusion that It might have been the old Russian army coming back to life was heightened by the predominance of old regime officers at the heads of companies and the little group of staff men - about Trotsky, most of them bearded generals and colonels of many years' service. Trotzky wore a gray overcoat ot military cut. Plump and smiling, he stood sharply at salute and reviewed the passing soldiers like a general. "Within a year the army will be stronger and more united," he told the troops. He promised that the year would be one of education for the army; that not a single soldier would be illiterate by Kay 1. Herr Wolcke, German communist, told the troops the revolution in Germany was still alive and the time was not distant when the German Red army would unite with Russia's; then would come the world revolution. the Constitute * British RUm Runner Seiaed. 1' Portsmouth, Va., Feb. 28.--The motor schooner Emerald of Dlgby, Nova Scotia, flying the British flhg, was seized by the coast guard cutter Manning nine miles -sonumHft of Cape Charles lighthouse as a rum runner. National Branga at WicMta, Kan. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 28.---The next annual meeting ^»f the National Grange association will be held tft Wichita. Announcement to that effect was made by Barton Needham of Lane, Kan., national lecturer. French "Bluebeard" Executed. Parts, Feb. 27.--The French "Bluebeard," Heury Landru, the man of 288 sweethearts, who was sentenced to - -- ^ death for the murder of ten women I IfUilty to manslaughter In the first deand a boy, was decapitated on thelgfet' and was sentenced to 20 years la SBtUotinrat daybraak Saturday, |A**«rn prtso* *- Bales Tax la Rejected. Washington. Feb. 27.--A proposal to finance the soldiers' b«r»n- by a sales tax has been rejected by the special subcommittee of the Republican members of the house wajra and moans committee. f Kicks Son, Two, to Death. ^ Buffalo, N. Y„ Feb. 27.--Rlchard Davis of Hornby, under indictment for ticking his son, two, tc death, pleaded HARDING WARNS HOUSE BODY Don't Scuttle the Navy, the President TeHt the Naval Affairs^. Committee. Washington, Feb. 28.--President Harding warned the house naval affairs committee against scuttling the tiavy. Indications coming from the committee in its consideration of naval personnel so alarmed the President that he sent for Republican members to talk matters over. The conference was held at the White House and the Prestdent frankly voiced his uneasiness over the announced determination of the majority to reduce naval enlisted personnel to 60,000 men. \ The President said that such a reduction would cripple the navy and endanger the national defense. Baees Finding on around That Attiafc »n Law Uasound--Jonest Uwr Bari tfoe of Cansdlantii*.. iyt# Washington, March I.--The wotnea'e suffrage amendment, the nineteenth tt the United States Cufeatittttlon, waa upheld as valid by thCltofisme court of the United 8t«tea, 'ttnTtlhjcieioc <qf the court was iin^fred Brandeis in the Spp--I of Osif^Xlaer aad other citizens of lB|lf tgnd. ~ The court dismissed #* want oil Jurisdiction the test CBft- filed by Charles S. Fairchild of New York on. the specific ground that he had no standing to bring seen a proceeding mid did not present a eaee wltitto the JurlsdJrtSnn of the court. ,v The auiend.ucnt was challenged bfr Mr. B'aht'hUd, for JMmself and tn" behalf of the American Con&tfMitoal league, to enjoin the seclt&tyry of state from issuing' and the Httorttey general from enforcing a proelajBatlOB decl«rt»g the ratiflcttleft of the amendment, and by (>ecar Leser and other cktfcens of Maryland, constituting an organization kXK&ra as the Maryland League for Stite Defense. The former proeeedlc#^ Were baaed on the ground that the amendment had not been validly adopted, and the latter that the amendment waa ab» eonstitutloual. ;•* The power of congress to propose this amendment {to the State legislatures for ratification wa» assailed by Its opponents on the gffPUttd that the people reserved to themselves In their state constitutions the right* to regulate suffrage. "The people were not setting up an amending agency for their own destruction," the opponents contended, asserting that in limiting federal jurisdiction the "sovereign people" did not intend that their agents conducting the federal government should have the power to destroy them. Following this line of argument it was argued that the people alone by amendments to their state constitutions or by a constitutional convention called for the purpose could extend or abridge their sovereignty. The fifteenth, or race-suffrage amendment, adopted after the war between the states, was not a precedent, It was asserted by the opponents, b£-- inuse it was an expression of the "results of revolution," acquiesced In t»y all the people, for the 'reconstruction" of the nation, by extending-to the negro race freedom and equality, "for which the war was fought." Should it be held, notwithstanding these objections, that congress had constitutional power to submit the amendment for ratification by state legislatures, the prescribed- threefourths .of the legislatures, required for constitutional ratification, did not give their approval, the opponents of woman suffrage insisted, naming Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia, counted among the 36 states necessary for ratification, as not to have legally acted. Declaring the Issues presented were "political," seeking to obtain from the :ourt an "opinion" or "construction" on the contentions raised, the government asserted that the Supreme court consistently had refused to deliver an "Interpretation" of the law because It was beyond its power. It took this position when requested for an ^opinion" by George Washington and has on repeated Occasions adhered to It ' The merchant marine act of 1990, known as the Jones la\*, prohibits transportation of merchandise between Alaskan ports and continental United States by Canadian rail and water lines, the Supreme court announced In a case brought by the territory of Alaska and the Juneau Hardware company against the collector of customs for Alaska. .*r 3 lit > m w M" 7 RED CROSS HELPS VETERANS $9,762,000 in Awisttftf . tfce Disablsd Victims of the World's "War. . .WMftilngton, Feb. 28.--The American Red Cross spent $9,762,000 In assistance to disabled veterans of the World war during 1921, according to a report made public here by Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the organisation. ir down Robbed f47,00flfe^^ St. Louis, Feb, 28.--Louis *fll»e of Brooklyn, salesman for the Michael Levy Jewelry company of New York, reported that his room at a hotel here was entered and Jewelry valued at $47,000 stolen, _ j. b. 8heehan Pies. Orlando, Fla., Feb. 28.--Janmi B. Sheehan, a lawyer and active in political life of New York city, died at his winter home at Winter Park, near hers, of pneumonia U# was .flftyssven years old. Would Recsll Harvey. Washington, Feb. 255.--The recall at Ambassador George H«r\*ey because of his utterances at the Pilgrim society dinner in London recently Is demandin a resolution introduced iji the Inning by Representatives RyaB.^ • ^ Death Notes at Capital*, ^ Washington, Feb. 25.--Threats of death unless large sums of money, ranging from $15,000 to $25,000, are paid are said by Washington police to hive been received within the last few OPPOSE EQUAL RIGHTS MOVE fe Trade Union Women Against ; ket A>»endm«nt to the Co*-. . . stitution. ' ,4 WRShfngton, March 1.--The confer ence of trade union women, In session here, adopted a resolution expressing opposition to the blanket amendment, proposed by the National Woman's party, to the federal Constitution Pr securing equal rights for women. The action of the conference was .based, the resolution declared, on the belief that the amendment would be litter* preted as invalidating laws now, in fprce which apply t > laboring wemffD* ' ' , V*-; : Former Crown Prinee Busy. J Berlin, March 1.--A campaign to pttt the German ex-crown prince up as a candidate for the presidency of the German republic in the forthcoming general election was quietly launched here by his friends snd adherents. Wilson 8ess Democrats Wis. iPort Wayne, Ind., March I.--OobI* dence that "the time is st hand when the Democrats will have an opportunity to serve the country" was expressed by former President WflpB In s letter to Claude B. Bowers., Orders Pullman Car Released. J?ashingt;on, Mareb l -*-Attorney (ieft- Brai uaugherty has instructed federal authorities at Boise, Idaho, to release a Pullman car seised thi*re by prohibition enforcement officers, it wt at the Department of Justice. Harding Demands Salsa Tax.. Washington. March 1.--Presldsnt Hard ills reiterated his demand for a bonus measure to be financed through a sales tax. He informed house lenders that lie would veto any othyr ad- *:".A m I ijik": :.v*' life- & • ' 4', V" " . ' ' •>