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see * Mews Brevities I of Illinois tuamwimiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitui; millillllMl Washington, D. C- 5 f L. G. Nutt, former < liKes 2 cotic section of the •s & • •! S'iV ' Hock Island.--John Yolk, eightytkree years old, one of the pioneer building contractors of northwestern Illinois, is dead at his home. He had imilt more than 400 stations for the 8*ck Island railway system. Springfield.--The stork held op the *8(>rlngfield-bound C., I. & St. L. train at Centralia for 40 minutes while it delivered a baby daughter to Mrs. Lyman Owen of Petersburg. Mrs. Owen and daughter were brought to a Hospital here. Effingham.--The Effingham county board of supervisors will encourage the boys and girls of the county to grow corn. A prize of $50 will be given to each boy or each girl who gets the best yield. Certified seed will be furnished to each contestant free. Monmouth.--Falling to Indorse a proposed bond issue to provide funds for the city schools, the board of education here has been compelled to make a drastic reduction in finances. The sum of $27,000 mast be saved. The athletic coach will be discharged, aa will the nurse. Other departments Will be curtailed. Marion.--Despite the fact that the mines in and near Marlon have been closed six weeks, the bank deposits have increased over a half-million dollars since March 15. The bank deposits in Marion on March 15 were $4,652,264.90. In the last half report made after a month and a half of coal strike the total deposits were $5,239,354.48, giving an increase of $687,089.(59. Urbana.--The Y. M. C. A. employment department at the University of Illinois filed 1,827 temporary jobs and 486 permanent jobs, and supplied 615 men with work in the last year. In the same period 947 men applied for work. The work supplied consisted chiefly of waiting on tables, washing dishes, janitor work, clerical work, clerking in stores, tending furnaces, washing automobiles, cooking and garden work. Alton.--A "sinking farm" near Medora has attracted wide attention in Jersey county. The farm owned by John T. Ryan has sunk 12 feet since the flood waters of the Mississippi river passed down the stream. F. W. DeWolf, chief of the state geological survey, gave the following explanation of the unusual occurrence:* "The case suggests the slumping of some underground caserns which is the resalt of ground water working on soluble limestone." Alton.--Officers of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Illinois, and allied organizations were elected recently. Peoria was named as tile next convention city. Dr. E. P. Bartlett of Springfield was named for department commander without opposition. Heads of affiliated organizations are: Women's Relief corps, Jessie B. Schroeder, department president ; Daughters of Veterans, Lotta M. Cawrey. Peoria, president; Ladies of G. A. R., Ruby G. Taylor, Geneseo, president; Sons of Veterans, W. F. Jenkins, Chicago, division commander, and Sons of Veterans' auxiliary, Malmie Coleman, Chicago, division president. Springfield.--The weekly health report issued by Dr. L D. Rawlings, state director of public health, shows a decrease in the number of contagious Oseases in the state. Only 157 cases of -diphtheria, 170 cases of scarlet ftfver and 46 cases of smallpox were reported. The detailed report follows: Diphtheria, 157, of which Chicago had 103; scarlet fever, 170, of which Chicago had 83, Oak Park 12, Aurora 6, Bockford 10; smallpox, 46, of which Chilli co the <fead 5, Peoria 14, Mollne 4, Pekin 5; typhoid fever, 43, of which ' Marshall had 5, Kewanee 18; epidemic meningitis, Chicago 1; influenza, 15, of Which Chicago had 10; pneumonia, 813, of which Chicago had 820; whooplag cough, 97. Springfield.--Eighteen thousand dollars was appropriated from the flood Relief funds at a recent meeting of _ > the Illinois Red Cross relief committee for the immediate pur- 2- ^hase and distribution of seed grains lnd foodstuffs to the farmers whose j situation.' lands have been submerged along the j i i : • -Appointment of chief of the narinternal revenue bureau, as associate federal prohibition director of Illinois, was ant nounced by Commissioner Haynes. Peoria.--Guy A. Bryan of Princeton, head of the Bryant nursery, was fined $50 and costs in the United States District court on charges of shipping diseased plants Into Kansas, He was the first person to be tried here under the new federal nursery law. Chicago.--The seventy-second an* nual convention of the Illinois State medical society came to an end after Dr. C. E. Humiston, Chicago, retiring president, presented the gavel to Dr. E. P. Sloan of Bloomington, the incoming official. It was the most successful convention in the history of the society, there being a greater attendance, greater interest and more work accomplished. Springfield.--Reports from Wabash^ Lawrence and Randolph counties show much larger losses in the recent floods than were first shown. Along the Illinois river, in Greene county, back waters have not subsided and two years of bad crops and the ruining of the corn In storage have put the farmer badly In debt, so that he will be unable to recuperate financially even with good crops this year. East St. Louis.--Exploration of the Sahokia mounds near here has stopped, but will be resumed next fall under present plans. The work of excavating the mounds was abandoned temporarily because of the innability of Warren K. Moorehead, archaeloglst of Phillips college, Andover, Mass., and Clinton Cowan, a Cincinnati engineer, to remain on the ground during the summer. Professor Moorebead and Mr* Cowan directed the exploration. Urbana.--Success has attended the campaign to encourage strawberry planting among children in Illinois, according to an announcement from the junior extension and the horticultural department of the state university. These departments which conducted the campaign announced that 725 boys and girls from 78 counties In the state have set out more than 225,000 strawberry plants. Enrollment varies from one in some counties to forty-nine in Vermilion county, which has the largest enrollment. Chicago.--Seventy-five thousand persons have been made homeless and 3,500 square miles have been innudated in the Mississippi valley floods, according to telegrams received by the American Red Cross fi'om its workers in that section, states Marquis Eaton, chairman of the Chicago Association of Commerce committee on flood relief, and also chairman of the Chicago chapter, American Red Cross. The plans of-the Association of Commerce for raising $100,000 in Chicago, and for assisting in securing $150,000 for the quota of Illinois outside of Chicago are being rapidly pushed. Springfield.--Yields of both winter wheat and rye this year will exceed those of last year, with wheat estimated at 54,000,000 bushels and rye at 3,615,000 bushels, according to the May report of the State Federal Crop Reporting Service for Illinois. Five per cent or 139,000 acres of the wheat sown last fall have been abandoned In the state, the report says. This leaves 2,636,000 acres for harvest season compared with 2,632,000 acres harvested last season, and the ten year average of 2,338,000 acres, the report says. Reports from correspondents of the service show a decline of four points from the April 1 condition of winter wheat in the state. Springfield.--End of the seven weeks' nation-wide coal strike loomed when it became known that first overtures toward this end were made by the Illinois mine operators. Although there were no hints of concessions granted or meditated in an open letter sent to Frank L. Farrington, president of district No. 12 of the United Mine Workers of America, the operators nevertheless called upon him, in the name of the men he represented, to state what he intended to do with regard to ending the strike or opening of negotiations .to flx a new wage scale. "Mines are being kept idle," read the communication, "and not only the Illinois operators, but consumers in Illinois would like to know where you stand with regard to the present mina Ships ColWe in H«?wy Fog Off the Coaf t if. v* •• Brittan# PROMINENT OFFHMLS LOST Illinois, Mississippi and Wabash rivers. Instructions were given to the subcommittee on the purchase of seeds, fnd representing all of the agricultural groups of the state, to forward grain In carload lots at once to Jackson, fjnion and Alexander counties on the llississippl where the Immediate requirements are most urgent. The-local Red Cross committee will In each case take care of the distribution of the grain as It arrives on the tracks and .pass it out on requisition. The resident farm owners requiring feed stock, the tenant farmers who are often liv- |'J 4 jng In relief tents and need to be re- Established in homes, the householders : and farm laborers who should have ref| ' Jliet furniture, clothing and food, are ^ - the principal problem of the relief committee. Champaign.--By a vote of 789 to 639, Champaign voted against adopt- ^ , Ing the daylight saving plan. Rockford.--Formation of a new Ju- ,, idlcial circuit to include Winnebago County and not more than one other county is advocated in a resolution "r V Adopted by the Winnebago County ||£, iBar association. The present Seventeenth judicial circuit includes Boone, H;-, Mctlenry, Lake and Winnebago counp| - ties. Winnebago lawyers would make fe" % -Winnebago and Boone a separate district. Congestion of business is the reason for the proposed change. Springfield.--Violators of the law respecting the Canada thistle are liable to prosecution and the law will be enforced In the state, Albert C. Twenty Bodies Recovered--Confusion te 8lgnals Causes Crash Off Brest--British Army Offioara Among the Victims. Paris, Hay 23--The British steamship Egypt of the Peninsular At Oriental line, London to Bombay, was sunk with heavy less of life. It coll'^ed in a dense fog with the French freighter Seine off the coast of Brittany, between the Island of Usliant and the port of Brest. The Egypt carried 290 persons, of whom only 192 so far as known wem rescued. These survivors were brought to Brest by the Seine, which also brought 20 bodies. The Seine was not badly damaged. The heavy mist is blamed for the mixup In signals. The fog prevented ttie rescue of more than the 29 taken aboard the Seine. * Half a dozen lifeboats were lowered hy the Seine and they circled for hours near th$ scene of the collision, but the thick fog cloud badly Impeded the rescue work and the Seine finally turned towai 6 Brest, giving up as hopeless the task of further rescues in the prevailing weather. The Seine sped toward Brest after receiving wireless messages that other craft were hastening to the scene and would sarch for other' possible survivors and for other bodies. In the steamer- first cabin were many prominent government officials and British army officers going to their posts. Many of these are thonghr to have been, drowned. The passenger list contained the names of women end children of the families of these government officials and army officers, some of whom are among the dead. Reports thus far received ars vague as to how the collision occurred, as the area in which it happened has always had terror for seamen. The treacherous character of the coast and the almost constant succession of heavy fogs have made the ocean in that space a hazardous course. Ushant, near which the crash occurred. is 15 miles from the mainland. The coast nearby is strewn, with wrecks that have pounded on the rocks or have been victims of collisions similar lo this catastropl e. Marine men say that the Egypt must have suffered a tremendous wrenching in the collision and probably went down so quickly that there was little, if any, opportunity for the launching of her own lifeboats. The Egypt had a tonnage of 7.491 and was regarded as one of the beauty ships of the Peninsular & Oriental line. She carried In her career many thousands of officials and officers and their families to and from England and India. The Egypt was a steel boat built by Calrd & Co. in 1897 at Greenock. It was owned bjj the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation company and registered under the British flag. The vessel was 500 feet long and 54 feet wide and has a draft of 24 feet. The Seine is also steel built and registered 1,888 tons. It was built In 1899 by W. Dobson & Co., Newcastle, and registered under the French flag. Its length Is 236 feet, width 34 feet and depth 16 feet. Beth vesselB were equipped with electric lights and wireless outfits. A little over two years ago the American steamship Rock Island Bridge collided with another vessel within a few miles of the place where the Egypt and the Seine came together. No loss of life was reported. Both vessels made port. yjr ML Vital MIKES SPEECH WESTERN WORLD COMPLETED Washington, D. C.--The Department of Commerce announces that the total mortgage debt on owned homes , and farms in the state of Illinois, according to the census of 1920, was $692,. 840,986 and the total value of these mortgaged homes and farms was J 977,834,647, the mortgage debt thus representing 35.0 per cent of the total value. Rented homes, tenant tarms, and farms that are partly owned and partly rented, it should be noted, am not included in this report. The total number of homes in the state othef than farm homes was 1,287,328 ol Which 538,065 or 41.8 per cent were owned by the occupants; and of these owned homes 234,070 or 43.5 per cent were mortgaged. The average mortgage debt of the homes for which mortgage reports were secured was $2* 117 and the average value was $5,137 Springfield.--Spring plowing and planting in Illinois are the most backward in years, according to the monthly c®op report Issued my A. J. Surratt, federal agricultural statistician for Illinois. "Reports of correspondents," Mr. Surratt's statement says, "show only 35 per cent of plowing for spring planting completed on May 1, compared with 75 per cent last year and the ten-year average of 60 per cent. Spring planting was only 31 per cent completed on May 1, compared with 55 per cent last year and the ten-year average of 47 per cent. Chicago.--One thousand additional men were put to work In the main) tenance of ways, roadbed and bridge department of the Chicago, Burlington Frederick TruDee Davison, twentysix years, old, son of the late Henry P. Davison, noted financier of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., to whom the bulk of his father's estate will go. Upon his mother's death he will receive $4,500,000, together with all the stock of the Peacock Point corporation. The great fortune will enable young Davison to follow a political career, as was his choice, Instead of following his father's footsteps. He Is a member of the New York assembly, serving his first term from the Second district of Nassau, N. Y., where he succeeded Theodore Roosevelt. He Is a graduate from Yale, entered the World war as a naval aviator, and was badly Injured in a fall with his airplane at Huntington, L. I., and has never fully recovered. PREMIER ASSAILS RUSS Lloyd George Warns Reds II They Want Loan. Greatest Shipbuilding Undertaking in History Brought to a 8ucaaesftil Cud. Washington, May 28.--liftman Lasker of the United States shipping board announced the completion of the greatest shipbuilding undertaking in history. The last one of the ships America ordered built to bridge the Atlantic and help win the war has been completed by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation, Ltd., at the Sparrows Point (Md.) yard, and turned over by the shipping board to the Munson line for operation in the South American service. The ship is the "535" passenger and cargo steamer Western, World. 'X. * Tells Bolshevik! If They De*ire to Win Success at The Hague Not to Par* < aist in Repudiating Debts.-1 Genoa, May 22.--Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain, in his valedictory speech to the international economic conference, which adjourned finally at 1:15 p. m., said the conference had gathered "fine crops," namely, the meeting to be held at'The Hague, the nonaggression pact and the reports of the finance, transport and economic committees which he asserted justified the holding of the congress. These results must be incorporated into living practice, however, the premier added, in order to aid In restoring European vigor and prosperity. We are now at the end of the most remarkable conference' ever held in the history of the world," he said. The Genoa conference will forever be an inspiring landmark in the pathway of peace." Mr. Lloyd George called attention to the bad effect the Russian memorandum had on the world, and he warned the Russians that, if they desired to win success at The Hague, it would be better for them not to enter eloquent presentations - of < the doctrine of repudiation of debts. Such a course was unwise when one wanted to borrow more money, he remarked. Europe, he said, was anxious to help Russia, but Russia must accept the code of honor which Europe had as an inheritance from centuries of hardworking, honest people. The British premier warned Russia that Europe was gradually filling up the gap left by Russia's decline, but was sad to see millions of Russians in despair and starving. "Wheh a man sells goods," declared Mr. Lloyd George, "he expects the buyer to pay for them; when a man lends money he expects the borrower to repay, and when a man asks a second loan he must repay the first one." * He argued that *'the Russian tornado" had not uprooted these basic laws of the world's business, and declared the Russians must accept them if they wished the world's co-operation. The last session of the Genoa conference, after 39 days of effort to solve Europe's problems, was called to order by the chairman, Premier :F«ofcfcOl itaiy. Ha Doubts If the Conflict Would Have . Dome If the United States Had Possessed a Large Commercial Fleet. Washington, May 20*--Pleading for the development of an adequate merchant marine in an address before the convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce, President Harding expressed the belief that the World war could haw been averted If the United States had possessed a merchant fleet commensurate with its position in the world. "I am glad to come to you because it is merchant marine day on your prograin," the President said. "There Is not one constructive thought in the mind of the administration at the present time that takes rank over a desire to firmly and successfully establish an American merchant marine. I do not know of any nation in the world that ever maintained eminence in trade that was not eminent as a carrier of trade." The President called attention to the vast ship tonnage owned by the government at the close of the var, making it necessary for the government to go into the commercial shipping business. "Now," he said, **we are asking congress to give lis a merchant marina law that will serve to take the government ont of the marine business." The President urged the Chamber of Commerce to support the ship subsidy plan now pending in congress, the provisions of which were explained to the convention earlier In the day by Chairman Lasker of the shipping board. Chairman A. D. Lasker of the shipping board asked American business men to help the administration place the American merchant marine on a parity with that of Great Britain through the establishment of a go ernrcent subsidy. Lasker dwelt upon the problems confronting the shipping board In providing facilities for carrying the oveiseas commerce of the United States and : i liquidating the fleet which the government now owns. -'f^ • ° % HARDING WINS 8-H0UR DAY Steel Kings at White Housa Dinner Agree to Cut Hours for Workers. Washington, May -»Forty-one leaders of the American steel industry. at dinner with President Jarding in the White House, unanimously adopted the suggestion pf the President that the 12-hour day be abolished in the industry. By unanimous consent a resolution was adopted, authorizing Elbert H. Gary, head of the United States Steel corporation and president of the American Steel and Wire Institute, to name a committee of five Institute members to investigate and report to the industry. Abolition of the 12-hour working day was the main topic discussed at the dinner called by the President. SUE MINERS FOR $1,000,000 West Virginia Coal Company Seeks - Damages for Destuctlon of Property During Strike. •' Charleston, W. Va., May 20.--An echo of the 1919 coal strike, and subsequent disturbances in the southern West Virginia came when a civil suit against the United Mine Workers of America, asking $1,000,000 damages growing put of the shooting up of Willis Branch Coal company properties. was fifed with the clerk of the federal court. Intentions were expressed also attaching property of the union, in Beckley and Charleston, which, the plaintiff's attorneys said. "W'llson, chief seed analyst in the state, & Quincy railroad, it was announced declared In a statement explaining the at the road's headquarters. law's provisions. I Chicago.--An army of police, with Rockford.--Athletic director* oif th orders to kill any suspicious-appearing person that failed to comply promptly with all police orders, was spread through Chicago to combat what is described by officials tjr : te attempts of convict labor leadep 9 through murder, ut '3 Middle Western universities s»d representatives of prominent boat clubs at a conference made tentative plans for holding a big regatta on Rock river under the auspices of the Rockford Chamber of Commerce rule the city about June 1, 1922. Other acboolf "•^rroriaak 1 have indorsed the project. Haynes to VIsK Mllwatlfcet. Washington, May 20.--Prohibition Commissioner Haynes plans a visit to Milwaukee next Wednesday to study Wisconsin liquor conditions and to confer with State Director James A. Stone, it was announced. U. S. NEARLY A GYNEC0CRACY Representative Alice Robertson Clashes With League of Women Voters--Look in Dictionary. Washington, May 22.--Representative Alice Robertson (Okla.), who has been having a lively clash of views with the National League of Women Voters, declared the league Is Rutting the country into a gynecocracy. ^ Duke to 8el> 00,000 Aenta. ' fh London, May 20.--Owing to Increased taxation and other burdens, the duke of Richmond offers for sale his estates in Aberdeenshire, Including the town ol Huntly and sis parishes, comprising 60,000 a^res. Prance Moves to Pay U. 8. Paris. May 19.--The French government has Informed the America?) war debt funding commission that It Is ready to send a special mission to the United States to confer regarding the payment of the Freoch debt. feaptist Women Qet MonejM^ Jacksonville, Fla., May 23.--The Women's Missionary union contributed $3,488,000 to the general work of the Southern Baptist convention in the last 12 months, as against $30,000 received la 1088, it was announced hero.^ ? > * •M; f~>V' Beuret Going Up. j ,i f ^ Washington, May 23.--Capt. John Beuret was nominated by President Harding to be chief naval constructor and chief of the bureau of construction and repair of the Navy department with the rank of rear admiral Texas Dry Agent Killed. Houston. Tex.. May 19.--Federal Prohibition Enforcement Agent J. W. Floyd was shot and killed as he was about to search a garage in the rear of a residence. The police said a fusillade of shots was fired. Tries to Slay Bebe. :-|Ai Angeles, Cal.. May 22.--A" to assassinate Bebe Daniels, movtng picture star, was thwarted by the arrest of a drug-erased man In the drawing room of the Daniels borne here. The man gave his name as Caprice. SI,000,000 IN RUM SEIZED Haynes. Says Large Amount of Liquar Haa Been Confiscated by Prohibition Agenta. Washington, May 20.--More than $1,000,000 worth of liquor was seized during 'the last week by the recently organized federal agents' prohibition forces operating' in various district* throughout the country, Commissioner Haynes announced. Selzqres were made,, he said, In Ohio, New York, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota and Kentucky, and were In addition to seizures made by agents of state directors and local authorltiea. Prof. Arthur Korn, inventor of the system by which pictdres are sent by wireless. Professor Korn uses three methods. First Is the telautognaphic, by which he sends pictures through telegfaphlc or telephonic lines, then by special wireless apparatus, transforming any picture automatically to a letter or telegram. The second Is the direct method by selenium, a method Which can be used through long submarine cables and telegraphic wires of any length. Both have been patented in the United States. Third is the wireless method. Only a apeeial wrtt- Ing machine is needed. WW Make No Move to duce RaMMMV Pay I s Lowered. May Reduce Rail Rates. Washington, May 23.--Railroad presidents of the country agreed with President Harding to do all In their power to bring about voluntary railroad freight rate reductions, particularly on basic commodities. Collins and De Valera Agree. Dublin, May 23.--An agreement making possible the holding of Irish elections In June and the formation of a coalition cabinet was reached by the leaders of the two political factions in southern Ireland. -i. Twenty Die In Rome Fire. Rome, May 20.--A fire s#ept the historic hospital of Santo Splrlto, one of the oldest and most picturesque charitable instltmtlons in Rome. Twenty bodies have beeir taken from the bnrning ruins. Georgia Mob Burn* Negro. Jftttisboro, Gn., May 22.--Charlea Atkins, a negro, eighteen years old. one of four taken Into custody In connection with the klliing oi Mrs. Elizabeth Kitchens, twenty years eld, was burned at the staka. Killed by Bees' Sting. - ; Brooklyn, Conn., May 20.--John M. BennettC a farmer, went Into the woods and hived a swarm of wild bees, being stung while doing so. Later be coliapasd, and tn aa boor waa U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bticeajl of Markets and Crop$* > Washington, May 22.--For the week ending May IS--HAY--Quoted May 17: No. 1 timothy--New York, $32.60; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, $25.00: Cincinnati, $24.00; Chicago, $26.00; Minneapolis, $21.60; Memphis. $2T.00; Atlanta, $30.00. No. 1 alfalfa- Chicago, $24.00; Kansas City. $22.00; Atlanta. $32.00. Standard--Memphis, S&00L No. 1 prairie--Minneapolis, $18.00; Chicago, $18.00; Kansas City, $13.00. FEED--Quoted May 17: Spring bran, Minneapolis $20.00. Philadelphia $27.60; standard middlings, same as bran; gluten, 32.85 Chicago; hominy, $27.60 Cincinnati, *23.70 St. Louis, $23.00 Chicago; cottonseed meal, $43.50 Memphis; Unseed tneal, $57.00 New York, $49.60 Minneapolis, $61.60 Chicago. LIVE STOCK -- Chicago hog, prices ranged 15 to 35c higher. Cattle prices also showed slight increases, beef steers ranging 10 to 15c higher, butchers cows andi heifers firm to 15c higher and veal calves up TEc; feeder steers unchanged. Sheep and lamb prices decreased materially, fat lambs 1.25@1.60 lower, spring lambs 50c to $1.00, yearlings TCo io $1.60, fat ewes $1.00@1.25. May 18, Chicago price: Hogs, top, $11.00, bulk of sales, $10.65611.00; medium and good beef steers. $7.7B#8.S6; butcher cows and heifers, $4.9ee&H>: feeder steers, $fl.2E@7.86; light and medium weight veal calves. $7.50@10.26; fat lambs, $10.00(0:12.76: spring lambs, $18.00@14.75; yearlings, $8.25®10.60; fat ewes, $7.2S. Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 Important live stock markets during the week ending May 12 were: Cattle and calves, 55,192; hogs, 10,885; sheep, 16.604. VEGETABLES--Potato markets weakened. Northern sacked round white car-' lot sales down 30c per 100 lbs. In Chicago, at $1.20@1.35: down 30 to 35c in Minnesota •hipping points, at $1.20@1.25. Texas yellow onions, standard crates, down 60c In most eastern markets, at $l.75@2.00. GRAIN--Wheat prices unsettled and lower early In week, followed by strength on 16th, account strong cash market and good export demand. Market weakened again on 17th and 18th, with lack of support and weakness in foreign markets. Closing prices in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $L42: No. 2 hard winter wheat. $1.42; No. 2 mixed c-orn, S2c; No. 2 yellow corn, 62c; No. S white oats, 18c. Average farm prices: .No. 2 mixed eorn in central Iowa, 48c; No. 1 dark northern wheat.in central North Dakota, H.40; No. 2 hard winter wheat In central Kansas. $1.2G. For the week Chicago July wheat down S4c. closing at $1.26^4: Chicago July corn down lc, at 64^4c; Minneapolis July wheat down lc, at $1.44V&; Kansas City July wheat down lc, at $1.17ti; Winnipeg July wheat down U4c. at $1.36^4. DAIRY PRODUCTS -- Closing butter prices. 92 score: New York, 36%c; Philadelphia and Boston, 37c: Chicago, 35c. Prices at Wisconsin primary cheese markets May 17: Twins. 17c; daisies, 17c; double daisies, 16%c; young Americas aad longhorns, 17c: square prints. 18^4c. MAYO AND WALTHALL TARGET More Movie Weddings Looked Into at Los Angeles Following Probe Into Valentino's Marriage. Los Angeles, Cal., May 19.--Investigation of the marriages of Frank Mayo and of Henry B. Walthall, motion picture actors, is under way by the office of the district attorney here, it was announced, following the probe Into the marriage of Rudolph Valentino to Miss Winifred Hudnut. Mayo married Miss Dagniar Godowsky. daughter qf Leopold Godowsky, pianist. In Mexico after obtaining an interlocutory decree of divorce from his first wife, the district attora«^ announced. " Ukraine Offers Amnesty. Constantinople. May 28. The Ukraine soviet government has published a proclamation of amnesty for the soldiers of Baron Wrangel and many of them are reported to be r^ turning to Russia. \ „ " # 'I. I 8lew Mother-ln-Law; Oullt^^ : Brainerd, Minn.. May 23.--Eniesf M. Brandt of Brainerd was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to first degree murdfer .for the killing of Mrs. J. 8. MePherson, his motherin- law. " , To Decorate Yank Graven PaHs, May 22.--The graves of 40.000 American soldiers will he decorated by the Paris post of the American Legion Memorial day. This number is 24.000 fewer than the number decorated last year, due to the return of bodies. Rulee4or British Women. , London. May 22.--Kngllsh women, are eligible to hold high court Judgeships. according to a ruling by the attorney general here. The decision is the result of the admlxsten eC waman 1 aa members of the bar. OP TO MIL LABOR . - / - ;K , :--v Interstate Commerce Comm!s«lij»> Jggq Withholds Decision on Question Until Wage Body Completes Ite Hearing. V * Washington, May 24.--There wfll ao move on the part of the railway *' managers to reduce rates until wages are lowered. The railway tabor board, which haa the sole power to adjust railway wages, has practically completed Its hearings in Chicago. A decision reducing wages of railway workers Ig expepted from the beard within a month. Not until the extent of this expected reduction is definitely made known will the railway executives' move to lower their freight rate. In the ipeantime, the decision pre* pared by the Interstate commerce commission ordering rate reductions will be withheld, 'jrhis action Is necessitated by the promise made to President Harding by railway executives last week, for a careful Investigation of the rate situation to d*> termine whether It is possible to lovgpr freight tariffs. Before the study Is completed. It is probable that the labor board's decision will be handed down. It is now evident that President Harding has been unable to do what he expected in bringing about voluntary reductions by the railway, managers. Control of the situation, however, still remains in the hands of the administration. If at any time It li convinced that the railroad managers are "stalling" it can immediately release the interstate commerce commission's decision. The belief prevails, however, that the situation will undergo little change until the labor board has acted. An official statement issued by the railway presidents stated that th* committee meeting with the rate fixing body was appointed as a result of the meeting with President Harding and that the conference was for the purpose of "discussing the railroad situation." But from a reliable source it was learned that the conference of the rail executives at the White House and the subsequent cohferences .all were brought about as a result of the nature of the proposed rate-reducthm decision on which the interstate commerce commission has been working several months. This decision, It was stated, W«a complete on Friday of last week, bnt it was decided that it would be unwise to make the announcement without first determining the attitude of the railway officials. This resulted In President Harding inviting a selected group to dine with him. They could not then agree to a voluntary reduction and asked to be permitted to confer with the commerce commissioners. The whole situation from the viewpoint of the railway officials lilngea on whether the roads would earn a fair return on their Investment under the proposed reductions. They contend that they cannot do so without cot-responding reductions in labor costs and are understood to have declared that they would tak* advantage of the transportation act, which guarantees a fair return for the railroads. This would result in court action and the decision, it is said, is helng h$ld up in an effort to reach a comproni)ji$ that would be acceptable. GERMANY NEEDS FOODSTUFFS Government's Official Organ > Question of Feeding the People Is Serious One. Berlin, May 24.--Vorwaerts, the o£> flclal organ of the government, commenting on the debate of the question of feeding Germany's population, which opened in the relchstag, says that the result Is awaited with great-, est tension. "The outlook for the futtlre," continues Vorwaerts, "is anything bnt rosy, and this applies both to foodstuffs raised at home and those to b# Imported." Prolongation of winter weather far into the spring has caused incalculable Injury to the crops and it is futile to expect sufficient quantities of foodstuffs from the home harvest to come anywhere near appeasing the hunger of the population. On the other' hand, a new crisis la threatened In breadstuffs, owing to the steady depreciation of the mark and Germany's misplaced hopes in the Genoa conference, which closed without tangible results. Yeggs Take $11,150. •{'* J . » Chicago, May 24.--While on Ms way ' to the Lawndale State bank at 8206 West Twenty-second street, James Hanley, assistant cashier of the Sinclair OH Refining company, was held up and robbed of |11,150 by three men. Two of Crew Killed In Wreck. '-Mp Muskogee, Okla., May 24.--The as» -' gineer and fireman of Missouri, Kansas ft Texas passenger train No. 8 were killed in a,wreck south of Van* lta, it was announced at the rallWity division headquarters here. v-: r Split on Tariff BUI. Washington, May 24.--Senator NaC* rls (Rep., Neb.) appealed for a new tariff measure drafted on a nobpartisan basis. His action grew oat of the insurgent movement among W& publican senators. 1 P '• V-* ' n*.1 Vl L .ryst?-.' -V- ^ • Heir to Riehee Kills Man. White Plains. N. Y.. May 24.--Wat ter S. Ward, son of George S. Ward, well-known baker, surrendered ts Sheriff Werner and confessed that be ahot and klUedr ffiaBgncp Haverhill, Mass. j : - ' / - * "\,~f -k, Ifw £ L