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pr "^.w^ * ,««'*y ^ , • " . , ' p ' y . p / - • ' • : ., . " " ' -v '~ T " H . ' \ t \ T - ^ 7 - / ^ ^ "$i .< --^• if^-^g^i^-ftXnhjEAtkR, '"mchettrt, nZ ~ ;W' :,'1J *'" n £ P-s •(i; '.: STATEMENT ON•." NATION'S EOOH ADMIRAL HILARY P. JONES "Comptroller of Currency Dawes Makes Public Report on Bank!*' INDUSTRY NEAR CREST OF 1920 United State# Riding on High Tide of Prosperity! According to Offldll Figures--Resources At# Enormous. i*4' Washington, May 14.--Henry MDawes, the new comptroller of the cur- , rency, conferred with President Harding and later made public a report > noting marked .Improvement'in commercial activities as shown by reports from national banks up to April 3. 'On April 3, 1923," Mr. Dawes said, *iitsourceS of 8,229 reporting national banks were $21,G12,713,000; the reduo tlon since Dec. 21), 1922, was $362,244,- 000, while an increase of $1,7(52,311,000 ; to shown Since March 10, 1922. i "Loans and discounts, including reflit; counts of $290,467,000. amounted to $11,667,959,000, an increase since date of prior call of $68,291,000, and an increase during the year of $3ST>,380.000. Of the total psper rediscounted §215,- 191,000 was with federal reserve hanks, and $455,000 with the war finance coiporation. "The amount of paper rediscounted with federal reserve banks Dec. 29, 1©22, was $180,512,000, and with the war finance corporation $342,000; the amount rediscounted with federal re- - serve banks March 10, 1922, was $269,- 818,000, and with the war finance corporation is $1,639,000. "United States government securities owned by national banks amounted to $2,694,207,000, an increase over Dec. 29, 1922, of $37,647,000, and an increase since March 10,1922, of $662,- 643,000. Other banks, stocks and securities show a reduction since Dec. 29, 1922, of $564,000, but the amount April 8, 1923, $2,346,915,000, was $260,319,- '000 greater than on March 10, 1922. "Balances due from other banks and bankers, including lawful reserve with federal reserve banks, and items in process of collections, amounted to |2,938,S95,000, or $120,566,000 less than on Dec. 29,1922, but an increase in the fear of $264,858,000. "The capital stock was $1,319,144,- . ,000, and shows an increase since Dec. 29, 1922, of $2,134,000, and an increase In the year of $29,616,000. Surplus and undivided profits amounting to $1,553,- £42,000, were $50,645,000 below the amount Dec. 29, 1922, and $9,080,000 greater than on March 10, 1922." N.Y. POISON PEN WRITES TRAGEDY Sctirttiis Letters Rock Gothim Society; Prominent Publisher Indicted. WIDESPREAD SCANDAL BARB) Admiral Hilary P. Jones, wno arrived at Honolulu aboard the cruiser Seattle Wednesday, announced that he intended to remain three weeks in Hawaii on an official inspection of possibilities for greater naval facilities in the islands. • ' 1 -> SOVIET ENVOY Swiss Officer Shoots Down Russian at Lausanne. Premier of China Flees, in Fear of Foreign Army Honolulu, May 11.--A cable from Tokyo to the Nippu Jijl, a local Japanese newspaper, reports that Premier Chang of China has fled from Peking as a result of a fear of foreign complications from the recent kldnapings by bandits. It says the premier applied to parliament for leave of absence, but ran out without waiting for an answer. It reports the American and British garrisons at Tientsin are being mobilized. Willard Knocks Out Johnson; Firpo Puts "K. 0." on McAuliffe New York, May 14.--Two giants of the prize ring, Jess ^Willard of Kansas and Luis Firpo of Argentine, stand out as challengers for the fistic throne at Jack Derapsey. Willard knocked out Floyd Johnsoa of Iowa In the eleventh round. Firpo put the "K. O." on Jack McAuliffe II of Detroit iir tne third session. A crowd of 70,000 witnessed the fights in the Yankee stadium. t Delegate's Two Secretaries Are Wound, ed--Assassin Claims Act Avenged Father and Uncle. * Lattsanoe, May 1L--M. Vorowsky, Bolshevik delegate to the Near East peace conference, was assassinated at 9:30 Thursday night as he sat at dinner with two of his secretaries in the Hotel Cecil restaurant. The assassin is Maurice Alexandre Conradi, aged thirty-eight, a Swiss officer, formerly a captain in the imperial Russian army. Conradi entered the hotel at 8 p. m, sat at a table, and waited. M. Vorowsky, who was fifty-five years old, accompanied by a press secretary, John Ahrens, who is thirty-five, and Ahrens' secretary, Didrikowsky, thirty, descended to the dinner table after they were assured there were few people about the hotel. The Swiss officer rose after the Russians had ordered their meal, turned on M. Vorowsky, and fired three shots at the diplomat. One bullet went through his heart, one through his throat, and the third in his leg. Ahrens, on M. Vorowsky's far side, rose in an effort to defend the Bolshevik chief, but before lie could draw his revolver Conradi shot him twice. Then the Swiss turned swiftly and fired at Didrikowsky, the young secretary. M. Vorowsky was instantly killed, M. Didrikowsky was shot through the lungs, and M. Ahrens was shot through the leg. After seeing the Russians fall, Conradh walked calmly to the door, where the head waiter of the luxurious hotel, approached him. Putting the revelver on the fiat of his palm, Conradi said: **I have killed him. Call the police." Conradi after handing ^tfae gun to the head waiter in the hall of the hotel lighted a cigarette. Waiters and attendants rushed hi and out. of the dining roon^ -aJiile^the assassin stood calmly smoking, awaiting the police. The police arrived five minutes later and took him to the station, where he gave the only statement: "1 have avenged my father and my uncle, who were tortured to death by the Bolshevik! in Russia. I have saved the world from Bolshevism." death and Divorce In Walee of Notw •••Allan A. Ryan Starts Invettlga. tlon--Names Famous In Smart ; x, Set Mentioned. I New Tort, May 12.--Existence In this city of a vicious band of well-to-do clubmen Who have specialized for nearly ten years in sending to wealthy and socially prominent persons scurrilous letters attacking their relatives and friends was disclosed by District Attorney Banton, after news of the indictment of George Muxwell, president of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, had leaked out. Activities o/ the band--or of Maxwell alone, assisted by men who may unwittingly have aided him by posting his letters, Mr. Banton is not yet sure--have resulted in one or more suicides, the disruption of at least nine homes, and the Incarceration in private Insane asylums or the banishment of several persons whose families were misled by the circumstantial nature of the stories concerning them. The district attorney's office already has obtained possession of 157 of the scurrilous letters, and more than 100 persons have been Questioned by the grand Jury, which indicted Maxwell, and which is still being held for further developments. The Investigators say one of the greatest scandals of years Is Impending and that £fie revelation of the names of thoseTn "the gang" and of Its victims will startle the country. A number of witnesses whose stories Mr. Banton was eager to lay before the grand jury have departed for the Bermudas and other foreign places, nnwllllng to face the publicity their connection with the case would be. sure to bring. Mr. Banton said he feared publicity given the matter, despite his efforts to keep it secret, would result In the departure of other witnesses. Investigation of the "poison-pen** .plot began when Allan A. Ryan, financier and son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, went to Mr. Banton with letters he had received connecting the name of Mrs. Ryan with that of Maxwell. Declaring he had full confidence in his wife, and was willing to face any amount of publicity necessary to bring the writer to Justice, he urged Mr. Banton to push an investigation. Rules U. S. Must Return^ Miss Helen Grata, daughter of a well-known St. Louis capitalist, whose engagement has been announced to Godfrey Rockefeller, son of Mrs. William Rockefeller of New York and a grand-nephew of J. D. Rockefeller, Miss Gratz is one o< the most popular and charming girls of St, Louis society. U. S. MARKET REPORT Millions in Income Tax Washington, May 14.--Millions of dollars In Income tax collected on earnings for profits of subsidiary companies accumulated prior to March 1, 1913, aud distributed through* holding corporations will have to be refunded by the treasury under a decision by Commissioner IjJlair of the internal revenue bureau. Weekly Markptgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Washington.--For the week ending May 12--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES-- Florida Spaulding rose potatoes, $7.00® 8.00 per bbl. In city markets, $5.75 at shipping points; Texas sacked Bliss Triumphs, $6.00@8.00 per 100 lbs.; northern round whites, $1.06 in Chicago, 85c @$1.05 at shipping points. South Carolina Wakefleld cabbage and Alabama flat type, $3.25@4.00 per bbl. crate; Louisiana and Mississippi pointed stock sells at the same range. North Carolina Klondike Btrawberries, $5.00 @8.25 per 32-quart crate wagonloads, 22 @300 quart basis in most cities; Tennessee and Arkansas Klondlkes, $4.50 @6.50 per 24-quart crate, $4.50@4.85 f. o. b. Texas yellow Bermuda onions, $2.00(9 2.75 per standard crate in leading cities, J1.65 f. o. b. shipping .'points. HAY--No. 1 timothy, $20.00 Cincinnati, $23.00 Chicago, <18.00 Minneapolis, $23.50 St. Louis; No. 1 prairie. $16.50 Minneapolis. FEED -- Bran. 127.50; middlings, $28.75; flour middlings. 930.00 Minneapolis; gluten feed, July shipment, $37.15 Chicago; white hominy feed, $33.00 St Louis, 134.00 Chicago; 32 per cent linseed meat, $41.00 Minneapolis. LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $9.75; bulk of sales, $7.35@7.85; medium and good beef steers, $8.40® 10.00; butcher cows and heifers, $4.85® 9.85; feeder steers, $6.50@8.50; light and medium weight veal calves, $8.00(g) 10.25; fat lambs, $12.00@13.75; yearlings, $8.0 @12.00; fat ewes, $4.50@7.75. GRAIN--Chicago cash market: No. 3 red winter wheat, $1.29; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.20; No. 2 mixed corn, 81c; No. 2 yellow corn, 82c| No. 3 white oatBi 46c. Average farm prices: No. 8 mixed corn in central Iowa, 69c; No. S hard winter wheat in central Kansas, 91.03. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score, 42c Chicago. Cheese at Wisconsin primary markets: Single daisies, 21V&C! double daisies, 21%c; young Americas, 21c; longhorns, 21fcc; square print* 23%c. FIRE AND FLOOD HIT HOT SPRINGS Water and Flames Unite in Devastation of Arkansas , City. \ HEAVY LOSS OF LIVES, FEAR Flood la Rssult of Cloudburst In thi . Mills Back of the Health Reeort-- Water Nine Foot Deep in Places. • Hot Springs, Ark., May 15.--Hot 8prings, city of many disasters, was stricken Monday night as never before when water and flames united in a general devastation that left death and disaster in Its wake. The number killed is unknown. Es-. timates run all the way from seventeen to fifty. Water, raging like mad, split the city into three sections. The city of 12,000 lies in three valleys. It Is built along three boulevards, which follow the course of the valleys. It was Into these sections that flood split the town. Flames followed in the path of the flood and at nightfall covered all sections before a survey of the damage could be made. The flood originated in the upper basin of the mountains north of Hot Springs from a cloudburst. About 4:30 o'clock, after terrific rains for about eighteen hours, there came a slight flow of water down through Central avenue from its Junction with Whlttlngton park at the north end of the valley. In a few minutes the waters began to rush down the valley. The water coursing through Central avenue was four to nine feet in depth, and it rushed down with such speed that fronts of stores were smashed in and even the ashphalt paving was torn up. Thousands of dollars' worth of merchandlst floated in the waves. Little Rock, Ark., May 15.--Hot Springs is reported to have suffered a heavy loss by flood and fire late Monday night. One telephone message said that at least seventeen lives were lost. The flood was the result of a cloudburst In the hills back of the city, following a deluge of rain and a heavy windstorm which broke upon the city shortly after 6 o'clock. £*999005 i BILL AMENDED Senate Adopts Provision to Safeguard taxpayers in $100,- 000,000 Bond Issue. Thirty Russians Seized in Plot to Kill Marshal Foch Paris, May 14.--Accused of complicity In an alleged plot to assassinate Marshal Foch, who went to Poland to attend the army maneuvers, thirty Russian Communists have beeft arrested in Poland. According to a dispatch received from Cracow, the Communists, all of them young, planned to kill the marshal with dynamite. One Billion Subscribed to New U. S. Bond Issue Washington, May 14.--The treasury's call for $400,000,000 to complete refunding of Victory notes has brought subscriptions in excess of a billion dollars in cash and offers td exchange old securities for new. The books have been closed to further subscriptions to the Issue of 4% per cent bonds, maturing March 16, 1927. A further flotation of short-term obligations will take place In June, but this Issue may not exceed $2,500,000. Chicago Garment Workers Get 10 to 16 Per Cent Raise Chicago, May 12.--Thirty-five thousand Chicago members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America were granted wage increases ranging from 10 to 10 per cent In a decision handed down by a board of arbitration which has been considering the workers' demands for several weeka. Cabinet Members to Travel With President Harding Washington, May 14.--When President Harding visits Alaska this sumjner, with a view to developing the latent resourced of -that territory, he will be accompanied by three cabinet members. Hoover, Work and Wallace, and lesser officials who have to do with the administration of^the affairs Of the territory. Pennsylvania to Pay Pension to Persons Over Seventy Harrlshurg, Pa., May 11.--Gov. Gilford Pinchot signed the bill providing for old-age pensions. Applicants for pensions under the act must be at least seventy years old and possess other qualifications. The limit of the pension to be drawn is $1 each day. Dies at 103; Had Started to Read Bible for 72d Time Marion, Ind., May 12.--At the age of one hundred aud three years Mrs. Gabrlella Havens, raid to be the oldest woman In Indiana, died at the home of a daughter in Eaton. She had started to read the Bible for the seventy- second time. Rockefeller's Gift to Health Now Amounts to $76,757,404 New York, May 14.--The Rockefeller Foundation spent $76,757,404 during the first ten years of its existence, according to a statement made public by Secretary Edwin R. Embree. The work has centered 011 public health and medical education. Chicagoan Offers to Pay $15,000 for Dodging Taxes Chicago, May 12.--Harry C Moir, president of the Morrison Hotel company, one of the first wealthy Chicagoans to be ID dieted as an incometax dodger, is peeking a compromise in Washington to avoid trial on criminal charges. Attorneys representing Moir told Judge Cliffe that Commissioner of Internal Revenue David H. Blair and Attorney General Harry Daugherty had consented to a compromise providing Moir pays $15,000 in addition to the taxes he is charged with evading in 1918 and 1919. This Moir has agreed to do, the court was told. ' Engineer Dead at Throttle; Train With 100 Runs Wild Central Isllp, L. I., May 15.--While more than a hundred passengers sat unconcerned on a Long Island train and the fireman was too busy stoking his fires to notice anything wrong, Engineer George B. Cunningham dropped over In his seat dead and the train ran wild. When it kept up its mlle-amlnute clip past the station at Central Isllp, Conductor McKeever stopped the train with the emergency brake. 88 Families Burned Out of Homes. •Newport, Ky., May 14.--More than twenty families were made homeless and property damage estimated at $125,000 was caused by fire which destroyed an entire city block here on -Sunday. V 46 Girl Graduates to Wed. ' Herkeley, Cal., May 14.--Forty-six women members of the graduating Raid In Wall Street Blast Cat*. New York, May 14.--Noah Leenair, an electrician and formerly a member of William D. Haywood's communist colony in Kuzbas, Siberia, Is held on a charge of causing tbe Wall street bomb explosions September 16, 1920. Great Britain Dispatcher Warship Harebell to Russia London, May 1L--Interference with English vessels outside the three-mile limit by soviet gunboats has caused the British government to dispatch the warship Harebell to the Murrnan coast. This information was given to the house of commons by Undersecretary Roland McNeill. 29 Are Kiilled as French Train Plunges Into Rhine Berlin, May 11.--A telegram from St. Goar, Rhenish Prussia,* says that a train operated by the French plunged into tbe Rhine and that 2S bodies have been recovered from the water. President Acts to Hold Tariff Rates Under Control Washington, May 11. -- President Harding Is determined that there shall be no general upsetting of tariff rates fixed by the Fordney-McCumber act. In a letter^o W. F. Wakemun, treasurer and general secretary of the American Protective Tariff league, the President sets at rest the fears of certain elements in the business world that prosperity might be interfered with through tariff changes under the flexible provisions of the law. English Channel Plane in Crash; Six People Killed Paris, May 15.--Six persons, including an American and an English woman, were killed when a French Goliath airplane in the Paris-London passenger service crashed at Monsures, half way between Beauvais and Amiens. The smash ignited the gasoline tanks, setting fire to the wreckage, and the bodies were burned to a crisp. Premier Mussolini to Give Vote to Certain Women Rome, May 15.--Premier Mussolini promised that his government would accord the vote to certain categories of women, thereby winning hearty approval from the delegates to the ninth congress of the International Suffrage Alliance, which opened Its sessions here. • Rum Pirates Seize Sugar. New York, May 14.--Large quantities of sugar are being looted from class of the University of California lighters in the East and Hudson rivers, at the annua senior women's banquet I '\,iice say the thieves are river pihere announced their intention to give rates who confined their activities to tup the classroom for matrimony. Daylight Robbery in New York. Jffew York. May 12.--Holding at bay tirtnty employees of Ostermoor & Co., mattres manufacturers, three armed bandits Friday robbed the treasurer of $1,500. They escaped in an auto- •iblle. stealing liquor until sugar prices rose. Too MuOti Like batch injJ Doge. St. Louis, Mo., May 12.--That his foh wan "t°° much like that of a dog catcher" wn« one reason given by Prohibition Ettfonemrat Agent 'Louis H. Gaiter in explanation of. his resfrom federal service. . Poles Blockade Danzig. Warsaw, May 32.--A Polish decree ••uttlng off the free city of Danzig from its food supply went Into effect as a result of military aggression alleged to have had its inspiration in Berlin. U. 8. Commissioners to Meet Obregon. Mexico City, May 14.--Hope for the restorations between the United States and Mexico was expressed by President Obregon, who received the American commissioners, Charles B. Warren and John B. Payne. Auto Turtles, Rights Self; Two Injured, Two Escape Aurora, 111., May 12.--Thomas Kane of Evanston and his sister-in-law, Miss Mabel McDermott, were slightly hurt and Mr. Kane's wife and three-yearold daughter escaped Injury in a peculiar automobile accident on tbe Lincoln highway near De Kalb. Their machine skidded on a slippery road and turned turtle, but landed right side np. Illinois Mail Robbers Seize $15,000 Pay Roll at Marion Marion, 111., May 15--Two men robbed the Marion and Eastern train on the outskirts of Marion and escaped with between $15,000 and $20,000. The money was being taken to the Pittsburg State bank to meet mine pay rolls. Two suspects are in jn», but no trace of the money has been found. 2 Six Persons Leap ^ to Death in the Mississippi River Mollne, 111., May 15.--The bodies of four persons who leaped into the Mississippi river from a trestle at Campbell's Island to avoid being struck by a street car had been recovered, and search was being continued for two others believed to have been drowned. GOES TO THIRD READING i Approval by House Is Expected--Pay Rolls of Four Governors Up for State Quiz--Judges' Salaries Raised. --_ ! • Springfield.--An Important change in Governor Small's $190,000,000 good roads bill was offered by Senator Dunlap (Rep.) of Champaign, and adopted by the senate by a viva voce vote. The amendment restricts road building to 700 miles a year, and provides that none of the bonds provided for in the bill shall be sold until after all money received from current automobile license fe^es has been exhausted, "and then only such an amount in any such year as shall be necessary to complete the building of 700 miles of the roads provided for in this act." Meents Accepts Amendment. Senator Meents (Rep.) of Iroquois county, who introduced the bill in the senate, accepted Senator Dunlap's amendment after prolonged debate. The most ardent supporters of the governor wanted Senator Meents to stand out against the amendment to the end, but he accepted the Dunlap provision as finally worded. In its original form, the Dunlap amendment would have limited road building to 500 miles a year. In the end the limit was revised upward by 200 miles. Senator Glenn (Rep.) of Jackson, who has opposed many of the governor's policies, vigorously supported the amendment. An amendment by Senator Searcy (Rep.) of Springfield, to add $10,000,- 000 to the $100,000,000 for use in building branch rofds as feeders to the main highways was rejected by the senate. Advanced to Third Reading, The entire session of the senate was spent on the roads bill. At the end of the session the measure was advanced to third reading. The Dunlap amendment was said by many supporters of the bill to deprive the bill's opponents of one of their chief arguments and to weaken any hope that the measure will be defeated. It was asserted by many senators that the Dunlap amendment makes It probable that the roads will be paid for entirely out of automobile license fees. Opposition to the measure has been largely based on the belief that it would require additional general taxation to eke out the Insufficient funds derived from the fees. Consequently some of the former enemies of the bill intend to support it now. The" bill is expected to be voted on In the senate by the middle of the week, possibly as early as Tuesday. Senator Dunlap hopes that the house will concur in his amendment. The governor is weaker in the house than in the senate, and it is considered probable that the house will approve the Dunlap amendment as limiting the expenditures of the executive department of the state. Pay Rolls Up for Quiz. By a vote of 73 to 64, a legislative investigation of all state pay-rollers ex tending back and including the last two years of the Deneen administration was authorized by the house of representatives. The Inquiry Is to embrace the two administrations of Gov ernors Dunne and Lowden, as well as the Deneen and Small regimes. Advises Taking Camp Grant. Acceptance of the War department's offer of Camp Grant and an appropriation to put it in shape an a state camp for the training of the Illinois National Guard, were recommended to the gen eral assembly by Governor Small. MA survey shows that Illinois is practically the major state in the Union to which a division of the National Guard has been assigned which has no state camp where troops can be properly and adequately trained," says the gDvernor's message. "The government is offering to our state, subject to certain conditions, what is represented to* be practically" a perpetual license for the exclusive use and occupancy of Camp Grant." Judges' Salaries Raised. Salaries of Supreme court judges were raised from $10,000 to $15,000 a year in a bill passed by the senate by a vote of 32 to 18, after a debate which lasted three hours. Opposition came from senators who are opposed to all forms of Increase in taxation or anything which would add to the burden of state expense. The bill probably would have failed but for the fact that the senate voted to give Circuit court judges in <!oolr county $15,000 a year. Belgium Mobilizes Rail Employees. Brussels, May 14.--In order to break the railway, telegraph and telephone strike, the government has ordered mobilization of railroad employees. Those who do not resrond Will be charged with desertion. Many Killed by Trolleys, New York, May 12. -- Eighty-nine persons were killed and 2,227 Injured in street car accidents In New York in April, Special Deputy Police Commissioner Collier- announced. Carelessness was blamed for most of them. Big Callfornis (Srape* Croff. ^ San Francisco, Cal., May 12.--The wine grape crop in California will approximate 400,000 tons this season, it was announced by H. F. Stoli, Secretary of the California Grape Protective associaUoa. 8ult Against Gompers Dismissed. Washington, May 11.--The $25,00C suit brought by P. J. Ryan, for met editor of the Plate Printer, against Samuel Gompers, president of tin American Federation of Labor, an£ other union officials, was dismissed. Lionel Barrymorf to Wed. New York, May 11.--Lionel Barrymore, actor, soon will wed Miss Irene Fen wick, who appeared with him lr "The Claw," Miss Fenwlck said. Mr Barrymore was divorced by Doris Me Kee~ Ranktn last December. New Member of 1. C. C. Washington, May 12. -- Announcement was made at the White House of the appointment of Frank McManamy of Washington as a member of the Interstate' commerce commission, succeeding W. M. Daniels of New Jersey. Farley Ship Board Chairman. Washington, May 11.--The appointment of Edward K. Farley of Chicago as chairman of the United States shipping board, to succeed Albert D. Lasker upon the latter's retirement June 12, was announced at the White House; Quake 8hakes Dalmatian Town. ' Rome, May 11.--A telegram from Zara says that the town of Sebenlco, Dalmatla, has suffered from a number of severe earth shocks during the last week. Many houses have been wrecked and Inhabitants are fleaias- Plane Goes 120 Miles an Hour. Washington, May 15.--An average speed of 120 miles an hour from Mitchell field, N. Y, to Langley field, Va., was recorded by Lieut. Charles B. Austin, flying a new type of army seaplane. Russ Reply Is Lengthy. London, May 15.--The Russian reply to the British ultimatum was received by the foreign office. It Is a document of more than eight thousand words and will take some time to decode and study. i \ Henry Woodland Dies 8uddSM^> Milwaukee, Wis., May 15.--Henry Woodland, secretary and treasurer of the Allis-Chalmers company and widely known Milwaukee business man, died at his home after an illness of less than twelve hours. * Widow of Senator Watson Dies. Thomson, Ga., May 15.--Mrs. Thomas E. Watson, widow of the late Senator Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, died at her home here at eleven o'clock Monday night from an attack of acute diabetes. Illinois News In Brief. Rock Island.--Mayor Walter A. Rosenfeld, declaring that It is small town stuff to have the city hall closed afternoons, as has been the/ custom, has Inaugurated an eight-hour day. The city hall will be open to the public six days of the week and during the noon hour. Jcrseyville.--The record for the longest continuous service as executive head of a community in Illinois 1# claimed by T. B. Aydelott of Fidelity. Mr. Aydelott recently completed 20 years' service as village president. Pekln.--Between 3,000 and 5,000 black bass, averaging twelve Inched in length, seined from Thompson's lake, will be placed in Spring lake. The former lake is being drained and the fish are being transferred to other lakes and creeks by the state game and fish commission. Urbana.--R. M. Pearsall, Elgin, has been elected president of the Men's Gleo club of the University of Illinois for next year. G. Y. Dodson, Moweaqua, is vice president; A. M. Howard, Chicago, secretary-treasurer, aad l'aul Markman, Benton, manager. ILLINOIS STATE "tiEWS SSBBSSSlZZZW Springfield.--Figures on the ten counties of Dllnois richest In the value of agricultural products have been compiled by the federal-state crop reporting service in answer to many requests from over the state. The ten counties ranking highest in the total value of prlhclpal crops and live stock combined are: McLean, $16,778,461; La Salle, $16,558,245; Bureau, $15,389,-' 345; Champaign, $15,334,500; Iroquois, $14,655,154; Henry, $14,486,453; Livingston, $14495,844; Lee, $12,446,453; DeKalb, $12,052,570; Will, $11,879,040. Rockford.--The second annual state convention of the business and professional women's clubs of Illinois was held here Friday and Saturday. Among the prominent speakers were Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Nell, member of the Illinois legislature; Miss Jeanette Rankin, ex-member of congress; Georgie Hacket, state president of the organization, and Miss Ida K. Patterson, state vice president. Miss Julia Lathrop of Chicago, nationally known In child-welfare work, also spoke. - Springfield.--Salaries of all county school superintendents In Illinois last year totaled $269,197.81, according to state school statistics. Of this amount $258,300 was paid by the state and $10,897.81 by the counties. With Incidental and traveling expenses and the salaries of assistants, the total expense of county superintendents for the state Is given as $442,951,31. The public schools of Illinois own 4£27 acres of land and 23 city lots, valued at $12,914,268. Decatur.--Dr. Arthur G. Smith of Peoria was elected president of the Illinois State Dental association ' at the , fifty-ninth annual convention of the association. Dr. Hugh A. Vaughn, De^ catur, was named vice president, Dr. Albert E. Converse, Springfield, secretary, and Dr. T. L. Grizainore, Chicago, treasurer. Springfield was choseh sa the 1924 convention city. Tremont.--Although rain Is badly needed, oats are thriving and fields are displaying .a tinge of green, and ranging in height from two to three inches. The stand is uniformly excellent. Wheat fields are also In fine condition and will do even better with a few warm showers. All other crop prospects are satisfactory^ In this section. Springfield.--The city of Rockford ranks first In the United States as a consumer of walnut lumber, with Chicago second by a very fair margin, according to statistics furnished State Forester R. B. Miller by the American Walnut Manufacturers' association. Lincoln.--To stimulate summer buying, a coal mine is offering bituminous fuel at the shaft at the low price of $2.75, $3 and $3.50 per ton, according to size. This is said to be the lowest quotation made in Illinois and is $1 less than the April figures. Urbana.--Black's orchestra, composed of students attending the University of Illinois, will play on the steamship President Grant on a twomonths' trip to Japan and the Philippine islands. They will sail from Seattle on June 7. Pana.--The Christian county board of supervisors by unanimous vote appointed Mrs. Mancel L. Danford coroner to succeed her husband, who died two weeks ago. She will serve nineteen months. Urbana.--Miss Georgie Hilgard of Belleville has accepted the position of director of physical education for girls at the Urbana high school for next year. Miss Hilgard will graduate at Illinois in June. Danville.--Dillon J. Jones, foremaa of the power house of the Danville Electric Light company, in some unaccountable manner fell against a high tension wire at the plant and his bodywas burned to a crisp. Elgin.--The great-granddaughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee of Civil war fame. Miss Ima Marion Phelps, aged seventeen, was married at Crown Point, Ind., to Wilson Wright Freeport.--Mrs. Herman, Reiter, sixty-one, blind and deaf, mistaking an open second-story window for the door of her bedroom, fell to the ground below and was fatally nnjured. Mount Vernon.--Bandits blew the safe in the State Bank of Bonnie, eight miles south of here, and escaped with $2,100 in cash and $28,000 in securities. Champaign.--Raymond Fox, eighteen, Champaign high school athlete, died from a revolver wound which was Inflicted accidentally. Urbana.--Miss Josephine Pigall. of Chicago, was named May Queen and was crowned at the annual May fete at the University of Illinois. Central ia.--The next annual meeting of the Egyptian Hustlers will be held at Central ia June 7, 8 and 9. \ Springfield--Dr. Edward P. Bartlett. Illinois commander of the Grand! Army of the Republic, died here. Paha.--Fire in the heart of the business section caused a loss estimated at $25,000. Mount Morris.--Mount Morris college will close its doors at the close of the present school yfar, June 1. Decision to take such action was taken by the board of trustees following a statement showing that during the present term the college added $17,- 000 to its $20,000 deficit, making the total obligations $37,000. Rock Island.--The board of education has increased the maximum salaryof teachers In the grade schools from $1,300 to $1,500, and in the high school from $l,S00 to $2,000. The resignation of 27 teachers were accepted. Decatur.--There wfil be no Sunday funerals in Decatur after May 15, as the Cemetery Association of Decatur has decided to close all cemeteries to all funerals on Sunday after that date. Only extremely urgent cases will be the exception. The move was taken ut the request of Decatur ministers. Clinton.--Improvements to cost about $1,500,000 are to be made by the Illinois Central Railroad company in central Illinois. Double-tracking of the main line from Clinton south to Salt Creek bridge, at a Cost of $215,000, ia eluded. in