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f 'flf^T#P" 5W1"P"t * V^1" ,;|. - v < * * *m •- ' , * *'* "• J. I , : ' \ . ^ „ > >. . 1 \ * ' ' V TH^ McHENRT PLAINDKALBR* McHENRY, ILL. iinr«»miwimg ILLINOIS News Notes WllllllilillllllllHIItllilllllUlllllllllllllllR Urbana.--Three Whiteside county farm hoys, E!wyn Foikers nnd Donald Williams of Sterling and Harold Gaulrtpp of Rock Falls, seventeen and eighteen years old, njembers of the Junior championship dairy cattle Judging team of the United States, will sail from Montreal June 7 for a tour of Europe. They will compete In an international judging contest to' be held in England the week of June 22. ' 'Springfield.--April building contracts * ttt Illinois amounted to $37,029,000, according to F. W. Dodge corporation Of Springfield. This was an increase of 2 per cent over March nnd 11 per cent over April, 1923. Construction started in Illinois during the first four months of this year, amounting to $131,130,000, shows an increase of 10 per cent over the corresponding period of last year. Springfield.--The state of - Illinois Will take Immediate steps for the purchase of the great Cahokhi Mound and Its most Important neighboring mounds, located in Madison county 'Six miles east Of St. Louis, says a Springfield dispatch. This action by the state will preserve for the world the most important work left by a prehistoric race on the American continent. Bloomington.--Blank forms, petitioning hoards Of education to establish kindergartens under the kindergarten law enacted In 1923, are being mailed, at Bloomington to every address on the mailing list of the Illinois department of the American Region. The blank petitions are being furnished and mailed by the National Kindergarten association. Springfield.--Creosote* oil and mosquitoes will not mix. T*he odor of the oil Is sufficient ttf prevent tht- presence /of mosquitoes, says the Department "of Public Health at Springfield. Mosqoitoes will not breed in water barrels that have been painted with creosote oil. If mosquitoes bother you, try creosote oil In some practical manner.* Springfield.--Soldier bonus claims Calling for a total of $40,013,751 have been approved by the service recognition board at Springfield and sent through the proper channels for payment The high claim number that has been delivered to State Auditor Andrew Kussel 221,991, and the high claim number that has been mailed It 212,636. " Toulon.--Under the leadership of W. P. Flint of the natural history survey, a campaign against groundhogs has been launched at Toulon. The burrows of the animals are damaging to farm land. It Is proposed to place calcium cyanide into each burrow. Many counties of Illinois offer a bounty for the scalps. . Mt. Pulaski.--Frank Pribbett, slxty- Ave, prominent resident of this com- Hlllsboro.--Mr. and Mra. Ralph Bost of Fillmore, southeast of here, were eating dinner at their home when they saw several cows, which had escaped pasture boundaries, wander across = i their lawn. One bovine promenade* strolled close to the dining-room win» dow and saw her reflection in the glass. Tossing her head in defiance, she sent glass crashing all around, as she thrust a horn through the window* pane, in an attempt to lock horns with Use shadow of herself. Champaign.--Benjamin Koehler, candidate for a doctor's degree In plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin, has been made an associate in crop pathology on the staff of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, and will take up his new work June 15, Dr. W. L. Burlison, head of the college agronomy department, announced. He will give special attention to the diseases of corn and wheat. Chicago.--John ("Johnny") Torrlo, Dean O'Bannlon and Louis Alterie, reputed gunmen and beer runners de luxe, with 27 of their henchmen, were arrested by a score of policemen, armed with riot guns, as they were preparing, the police assert, to run a caravan of nine loaded beer trucks from the old Sieben brewery. Urbana.--The cost of producing corn on Illinois farms this year probably will average about $30 an acre wPh a range of from $25 to $35, according to estimates made by Emil Rauchenstein, a member of the farm management department of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. ' Clinton.--President James A. Me- Conaughy of Knox college, Galesburg, will deliver the commencement address for the Clinton community high school this year. Commencement will he held at the Presbyterian church May 39. Bunker Hill.--"AccJiental death" was the verdict returner! here; in the Inquest into the deaths of Ada and Lester Heal, fourteen-year-old daughter and twenty-two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Heal, Centerville, who were killed by a freight train. - Chicago.--A switch engine was pressed into service by officers chasing three men who Had held tip and robbed a store In Burr Oak and were attempting to escape along the railroad tracks. The robbers were captured after a race between them and the engine. Kankakee.--The seventh annual convention of the northwestern district of the Illinois Christian Missionary society was called to order at Kankakee by Rev. T. W. Bowers, Farmer City, president- The principal address was by Rev. H. H. Peters of Bloomington, state secretary. Chicago.--Ten thousand brty scouts of Chicago and Cook county \sill earn thirty-five cents to buy an^elephant to replace Duchess, the ninety-flveyear- old pachyderm of the Lincoln park zoo, who dropped dead last week. Chicago.--More than one thousand head of cattle and sheep were burned and a number of pens destroyed In the heart of the Chicago stock yards district by a fire which threatened for a time the entire* district. munity for years, committed sul- Bloomin~g ton.--Little Georg~ ia Pry- or, dde at hi^^iome by shootinn himself 1nlh®, was s^ot in trie right leg •--1*^,, ..•"nh r'in Mr. Pribbett bad '^h a shotgun in the hands of a boy FOTT'suffering Intense pain, according playniate, submitted to an operation to relatives, for several days with cancer of the lip. Bloomington.--Dr. E. A. Stelner, head of the department of sociology St Grinnell college, will be the principal Speaker at the 1924 commencement of Illinois Wesleyan university at Bloomington. Dr. Fred W. Burn- . bam, president of the United Christian Missionary society of St. Louis, will Uellver the baccalaureate sermon. Decatur.--What is thought to be a record run on the Wabash railroad between Chicago and St. Louis was made when a special train carrying President J. E. Taussig from Chicago to the bedside of his sick wife required hut five hours and forty-three minutes for the distance, which is 286 miles. Springfield.--Breast-fed babies stand a two-to-one chance over bottle-fed babies In physical excellence contests. This, at least, is indicated by the experience of the state department of •public health at Springfield In the examination of thousands „ of babies In Illinois. Rock Island.--The Modern Woodmen of America will consider the proposition to increase the amount of insurance written on individual members from $3,000 to $5,000 when the head camp meets at Milwaukee in August, it was announced at the order's general headquarters at Rock Island Chicago.--Salvaged packing boxes and tin containers, usually a problem In disposal for the family, are worked into substantial pieces of furniture and household utilities In the missionary manual training department of Moody Bible Institute at Chicago. Jollet.--Bids for the construction of the proposed Will county tuberculosis sanitarium at Jollet will be advertised for soon. The hospital, to cost about $125,000, will be provided with the latest scientific equipment for treatment of the disease. Springfield. -- Approximately 115 poultry owners are entered In the Illinois egg-laying contest, held at Qulncy and Murphysboro, according to B. M. Davidson, director of the state department of agriculture. Highest scores in three classes were made by H. B. Hammer, Wever, la., 115 eggs; W. C.Rolley, Pleasant Hill, 111 ; Lyndale farm, Hickman Mills, Mo., 101; R. E. Walsh, Frederickstown, Mo., 112; Ward L. Hull of lloodbouse, 111., two records, 134 and 114 eggs. Elgin.--The state convention of Lions' 'iubs was held in this city. v Rock Island.--Prof. Cyril Graham, for the paBt four years head of the organ department of the Aujjurtana Conservatory of Music, was appointed acting director of4 the conservatory for 1024-1925 by the college board. Professor Graham succeeds Arvld Samuelson, Bloomington.--Mgr. Michael F. Weldon, one of the older and l-known Catholic priests In the Peoria diocese, died suddenly at the rectory of Holy Trinity, which church he bad served S. GLENN YOUNG AND WIFE SHOT Attempt to Assassinate , Southern Illinois Klan 27" Dry Leader. Belleville, 111.--S. Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klnn dry leader, and his wife, Mrs. Maude Young, who were wounded by shots fired by gunmen while they .were motoring to St. Louis, were reported resting easy In St. Elisabeth's hospital here. Mrs. Young received wounds In the right side of her j face from a charge from a shotgun. The wounds are not considered serlouk Other bullets fired by the gunmen, one of which wounded Young In the right leg, breaking the bone, were metal cased bullets of .45 caliber. The automobile was pierced in fifteen places by bullets. The attempted assassination was staged on the Atlantic-Pacific highway Just as Y'oung's car.reached the Okaw river bottoms near Okawville, 111. Young said about twenty shots were fired at his automobile from automatic pistols of large caliber by four men In a sedan, who sped by his car and escaped down the road before he could return the fire. Two of the men he believes he can Identify. Young has been conducting a series of talks or "klantauguas" In cities in southern Illinois. "My wife and I observed a sedan 'following us," said Yeung. "I think •there were four men In It. When I arrived at the embankment near the Okaw river bottoms the driver of the sedan speeded up his car and passed my machine on the left. "Just as the two cars were abreast three of the men In the sedan poured •a volley of shots at us. My wife and I both ducked and escaped being killed, bullets passing through the coach work of the automobile right over our heads. "I had no chance to get my two i45- callber automatics or my submachine ,gun, which I had in the automobile." Senator Walsh Asks Cash Bonus in New Measure Washington--Senator Walsh of Massachusetts has started a drive for a cash bonus In the senate. With the bonus bill, providing for endowment insurance certificates just enacted Into law, Senator Walsh Introduced a bill giving t6 every soldier who Is entitled to an Insurance bonus certificate under the new law the option of taking the full amount In cash if he prefers cash to Insurance. at Bloomington for amputation of the limb just below the hip. Urbana.--Miss Mildred June Goelltz, Ravinia, has been elected president of Sigma Delta Phi , woman's honorary public speaking fraternity at the University of Illinois. Lebanon.--By the will of the late Benjamin H. Hyde of St. Louis, Mc- Kendree college here, secured $50,000 for the establishment of a chair of hygiene and physical culture. Jacksonville.--State and national officers, and officials of the Post Office department will he present at the annual state convention of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks, which will beheld here May 30. Chicago.--Thomas S. Kearney, former president of the Building Trades council, left an estate valued at $200,- 000, according to an inventory filed in the Probate court by his widow, Mrs. Leotla J. Kearney. Anna. -- Announcement has been made of the appointment of J. P. Armentroute, Republican, as postmaster at Dongola to succeed J. P. Hllboldt, Democrat, whose term has expired. * Danville.--Safe robbers burned a hole In the safe of the Claytonvllle State bank, Claytonvllle, and escaped with $1,700 and approximately $10,000 In Liberty bonds. Carlinvllle. -- The First Baptist church of Carlinvllle will have a vacation school. It will commence June 9 and will Inst four weeks. Jacksonville.--It has been decided to stage automobile races at the Jacksonville fair grounds May 30. C. P. Joy Is general manager of the event. Jacksonville.--airs. Jennie Capps was elected regent of Rev. James R. Caldwell chapter of the D. A. R. at a meeting held here. . Savanna--Knights of Columbus of Savanna and vicinity organized a council here May 26. Springfield. -- Former' service men who have not yet filed their claims for the Illinois bonus "need not fear that there will be money lacking with which to pay their claims," as the $55,000,000 bond issue will more than pay every claim now on file, according Senate Gives Wheeler , a Clean Bill 56 to 5 " Washington.--By a vote of 56 to 5, the senate adopted the Borah resolution, approving the majority report of the special committee of investigation, exonerating Senator Burton K. WTheeler of Montana of charges of practicing before the Interior department. It was on these charges Senator Wheeler, "prosecutor" of Daugherty, was indicted some weeks ag<^ by a federal grand jury In Montana. British Liners Load With Booze for U. S. Trip Southampton.--British liners are taking Immediate advantage of the privilege accorded under the liquor treaty to carry liquor Into American ports under seal. The Pittsburgh and Berengarla already have ordered a full supply of liquor refreshments to be put aboard for their forthcoming Ground trip. Scarlet Fever Serum Cures 25 of 26 Cases New Haven, Conn.--Experimental use of an antl-scarlatlna serum, Dochez serum, has been made at New Haven hospital, which Is a part of Yale school of medicine, with complete success in twenty-five but of twenty-six extreme cases of scarlet fever, It was announced here. •French Newspaper Objects to the American Bonus Paris.--The Journal attacked the American soldier bonus bill, declaring It will obstruct the Dawes reparations plan. "The Americans will attempt to collect the soldiers' bonus from the allies Instead of the Germans," commented the Journal. "President Coolldge well knew America can never collect from the debtors, anythlnk like the 30,000.000,000 francs required by the bonus." GEORGE SHERMAN KIDNAPERS SLAY RICH CHIGAGOAN "Uncle" George Sherman of Gogglnsvllle, Ga., who has b&in famous In th« South for his long walks to the annual Confederate reunions and who last year Walked from his home In Georgia to New Orleans and twice to Richmond, finds that his legs are unable J Franks pay $10,CW_for the, safety <)f this year to make the walk to Mem- Nude Body of 14-Year-Old Heir to $4,000,000 Found in Marsh* - rj,- ______ ' » «*' Chicago.--Along a grass-grown Indian trail near the Indiana state Una the nude and crumpled-up body of a fourteen-year-old heir to $4,000,000, stuffed into the drain pipe of a railroad culvert, brought to light the strangest and' most baffling homicide in Illinois criminology. The victim was Robert Franks, son of Jacob Franks, millionairle manufacturer, living at 5052 «Ellls avenue. His body, bearing slight wounds about the head, bruises of constriction about the neck and an injury to a lung that puzzled physicians, was found at 9:15 a. m. At just about theft moment his father was tearing open a special-delivery letter from a writer who clothed his anonymity in ^ the signature "George Johnson.*' Written with as much regard for its diction and literary value as it* clarity, the letter demanded that Mr, A v • ' COOUDGE PAYS HONOR TO GRAY LADY GLADSTONE 4^ "• phis where the reunion Is to be held. FORD SUPPORTERS r^- GIVEN A SETBACK Move in Senate to Speed Shoals Bill Fails. Washington.--Henry Ford's supporters in the senate agriculture committee were touted in the first test on the plan to give him Muscle Shoals. The committee, by a vote of 11 to 6, turned down a motion of Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.) to report out the Ford bill, and thus bring It before the senate for action. The committee also voted down a motion to report out the bill of Senator Norris (Itep., Neb.) for government control of the power site. After these votes it was decided to finish the hearings Monday. The committee then will go into executive session to decide what kind'of a report to make. The vote on tlie Ford bill brought one surprise. Senator Ralston (Dem5., Ind.), who Is prominently mentioned as a Presidential possibility, voted for Ford. His attitude during committee hearings had strongly Indicated that he would oppose the Eord offer. Voting with Ralston were Harrison, Beflln (Dem., Ala.), Caraway (Dem., ATk.), Smith (Dem., S. C.), and Ladd (Rep., N. D.). Against the Ford bill were JJorris (Rep., Neb.), McNary (Rep., Ore.), Capper (Rep., Kan.), Gooding (Rep., Idaho), Norbeck (Rep., S. D.), Harreld (Rep., Okla.), McKinle. v (Itep., 111.), Ransdell (Dem.r La.), Kendrlck (Dem., Wyo.), Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Labor, Minn) and Keyes (Rep., N. II.). his son, kidnaped, the letter said, the night before. But when that letter was received the lad was dead. Seven hours after his body had been found--three o'clock In the afternoon--the anonymous kidnapers made an attempt to collect the money, by sending a Yellow taxicab to the Frafiks home for the father. That Inexplicable fact, with others of a similar nature, and the patently amateurish modus operandi of the kidnapers and slayers, tended to cause police to minimize the kidnaping Malaria and Other Ills Spreading in Russia Leningrad:--Malaria and other diseases are spreading alarmingly throughout Russia. There Is an acute shortage of quinine and other essential drugs, and the authorities are finding it difficult to combat epidemics. According to a report presented to'the epidemiological congress here, there were more than 6,000,000 cases of malaria In Russia last year, also 300,000' cases of spotted typhus, 250,000 of recurrent typhus and 50,000 of scurvy. I*ady Gladstone, daughter-in-lalf ,df England's famous statesman, the late Prime Minister Gladstone, has been In Washington attending the world's committee meeting of the T. W. C. A. V. S. GOVERNMENT MARKET QUOTATIONS Washington.--For the week ended May 21.--FRUITS'AND VEGETABLES ^--Northern sacked round white potatoes, $1.20 @1.35 in Chicago; Florida 8paulding Rose potatoes, $8.00@9.00 per barrel In city market, $7.25 @7.50 f. o. b.; Alabama Bliss Triumphs. $3.75@4.25 theory as a hastily conceived bit of | sacked per 100 lbs. In midwestern cities. $2.75 @3.00 f. o. b. Texas yellow Bermuda onions, $1.75@>2.00 per standard crate In consuming centers, $1.15 f. o. b. Alabama pointed type cabbage, $3,750 4.00 In Chicago. Tennessee Klondike strawberries, $2.75 @3.00 per 24-quart Cf*a tIm,,, nerves, «Dre*p,nsm up \ crate in Cincinnati and Chicago, $2.25@ 3 60 f 0 b. Arkansa8 Kiondikes, $3.00 camouflage to hide tlie real motive for the crime. M. 4 Lets Bees Sting Him to Mount Vernon, 111.--Bee stings as a remedy for nervous trouble proved successful with Alva N. Turner qf Ina," nine miles from here, according to re- @4.00 In midwestern markets, $2,250 8.35 f. o. b. LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs. $7.65 for the top and $7.3007.60 to# the bulk. Medium and good beef stders, ports. Turner is said to have captured i $8.35@il.60; butcher cows and heifers, ' $4.00@10.25; feeder steers, $5.75@9.25; 20 ordinary honey bees and, holding light and medium weight veal calves. their heads in a tweezer, allowed them to sting his naked back. He took 20 stings at one treatment, declaring It gave him more pep than he had for some time. Mellon Urges President to Veto Income Tax Washington. -- Secretary of the Treasury Mellon went to the White House and urged President Coolldge to veto the tax bill when it reaches him next week. The secretary regards the bill as "unfortunate" In that all of the administration proposals for revenue reforms have been disregarded. Mexico City Gives Cash to Obregon to Pay Mexico City.--The city council of Mexico contributed a million pesos ($500,000) to the treasury of the federal government with which to help pay the back salaries q£ the government employees. < to Palmer G*1 Edmunds, chief clerk of the service recognition board. Freeport.--Aaron P. Lattlg, nln'etyone. Civil war veteran, Is dead here, the father of 11 children. The eldest son is seventy. Mr. Lattlg had 31 crnndchlldren and 41 great-grandchildren. Urbana.--Accredited delegates to the foiirth annual convention of the American Legion auxiliary, department of Illinois, here, September 1, 2 and 3, will be chosen by various units o state in June, according to Mrs. W. H. Morgan of Edwardsvilie, president of the Illinois department. Chicago.--S. II. Thompson, president of the Illinois Agriculturid asso~ rlation, left Chicago for Washington, carrying a petition with 75,000 names of Illinois farmers requesting I'resl- New Loan Board Aidt Washington.--The senate confirmed the nominations of four new members of the farm loan board. They are: L. J. Pettijohn of Kansas, E. S. Landes of Ohio, M. L. Corey, Nebraska, and E. E. Jones, Pennsylvania. Farrington Lose* Fight Peoria, 111.--The fight over the appointive powers of President Farrington of the Illinois Mine Workers came to an end when the appointive system was abolished by 265 to 220. Reprieve Lets Slayer Complete Serial Yarns Lincoln, Neb.--Gov. C. W. Bryan granted an 18-day reprieve to Walter Ray Simmons, sentenced to die In the electric chair here for the hammer murder of Frank Pahl In the spring of 1022 In Boyd- county, Nebraska. "I'm^glad,". Simmons said. "Maybe now I can finish a couple of tinued stories I'm reading," Japanese Boom Grand Greeting to U. S. Flyers Kasumlgaura.--Amid loud banzals of 1,000 officers and bluejackets, the treble .cheers of several hundred school children waving American flags, and the booming of daylight fireworks, the American round-the-world flyers boomed in a great S over Japan's main naval air base cominjg to a rest on the lake. HSk Revolt in Worth Mexico Grows} 50 Chinese Slain Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.--Unconfirmed reports of the slaying of 50 Chinese In a clash at Cananea, Sonora, were received by Mexican officials here. Rumors of minor revolutionary movements in northern Sonora. are current coincident with reports of the burping of three railroad bridges between Nogales, Sonora and Cananea. U. 5. to Serve Reindeer Meat on Alaska Trains Seattle, Wash.--Between 60,000 and 70,000 pounds of reindeer meat soon will be purchased by the government to be served in the dining cars of the Alaska railroad, according to word received by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. This was said to be the first time that a large market for reindeer meat has been created within Alaska. $8.00@11.25. Fat lambs. $12.50O16.2S; yearlings,' $10.75@ J 3.75; fat ewes. $6.00 @8.65. DAIRY PRODUCES--Butter, 92 score, 19c in Chicago. Cheese at Wisconsin primary markets: Single daisies, 18%c; longhorns, 18Hc; square prints, 19c. HAY--No. 1 timothy, $24.50 In Cincinnati, $26.00 in Chicago. $25.50 in St. Louis; No. 1 prairie, $19.00 in St. Louis. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wheat, $1.16@1.S3 in Minneapolis; No. S hard winter wheat, $1.06 @1.18 In Chicago; No. 2 red winter wheat. $1.12 ^ In St.\Louls; No. 2 yellow corn, 78 78Ho 1* Chicago. 71%@72c in Minneapolis; No. 8 white corn. 78%@79c In St. Louis; No. 8 white oats, 48@48%o in Chicago, 49%@49fco In ixmi* 44%o In Minneapolis. Senate Grants Large Sum in Fifteen Minutes Washington.--Ln the record-breaking time of fifteen minutes the senate passed the annual agricultural appropriation bill, carrying a total of 000,000. Several Items cut by ,tha house below the budget estimates wers restored. R. B. Smith Gets Life Term Plymouth, Ind.--Raymond B. Smith, poultry farmer, charged with the murder of his grandmother, Mrs. Frances Sweet, In February, 1922, was found guilty by a Jury ln Circuit court here and sentenced to life Imprisonment. k: fb' ' V mi uiri a r^ijUcaUllK I r*?olfor 45 years. Father WeldQtt .Wus I dent Coolldge to approve the McpArybora in New Orleans la 1847. ^ „ | Haugen agricultural bill. Mrs. F. W. Woolworth Dies ftew York.--Mrs. F. W. Woolworth, widow of the founder of the chain of 5 and 10 cent stores bearing his name, died at her home on Long ,.Island. Mrs. Woolworth leaves an estate estimated at $00,000,000. Predicts 2% Hour Work-Day " Moline, 111.--Dudley C. Watson of the Chicago Institute of Art, told the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs that new machinery will lead to, an average working day of 2% hours. Italians Fire on Jugo-Slavs Rome.--Italian carbiners and Jugoslav customs agents engaged in a brisk skirmish after the Italians had opened fire, according to a dispntch from Zara. There were no casualties. Coolidge Is Ready to Call New Arms Parley Washington.--President Coolldge definitely has determined to call another conference on limitation of naval armaments this fall If the Dawes report on reparations is adopted and If congress passes the naval construction bill. Leaders ln congress who have been ln consultation with the President stated positively that he Is committed to another parley. Cincinnati Tailor to Give $600,000 to Employees Cincinnati, Ohio--Arthur'Nash, president of the A. Nash Tailoring company, announced a plan for distributing $600,000 of the stock of the company among his employees. Nash received the stock through a 100 pel cent dividend voted last Tuesday. He said that If he kept the stock his conscience would condemn him as thl greatest robber that ever walked." U. S. Navy Second t- Washington.--The American navy is given second place In fighting strength as compared with those of Great Britain and Japan in an analysis submitted to the house naval committee by Secretary Wilbur. v Tennessee for McAdoo 7 Nashville. Tenn.--The Democratic state convention Instructed Its twentyfour delegates to the national convention to vote for W. G. McAdoo. The vote was 1,300 to 743. Nab Remus' Wife as Queen of Great Bootleg Ring Cincinnati, Ohio.--Mrs. Imogene Remus, wife of George Remus, alleged "king of the bootleggers," now serving two years' sentence ln Atlanta federal penitentiary, was arrested at her mansion here" on a capias issued by the United States District court at St. Louis, Mo., under a sealed indictment returned there. In this indictment Mrs. Remus is charged with having conspired with 16 others to violate the Volstead act In connection with purchase of the Jack Daniel distillery warehouse, St. Louis, and withdrawal therefrom of 30,000 gallons of whisky between June 1, 1923, and Jan. 1, 1924. * • ^ Fear Volcanic Ttdal Wave in Hawaiian Island Honolulu.--The sides of Kilauea volcano are falling ln and the fire pit has been greatly enlarged, according to reports received here. Earth temblors continue in the vicinity of Kilauea. Roy Finch, volcanologist, believes that the conditions in Kau district, where earthquakes are occurring, Indicate that a tidal wave Is possible. President Gives Praise die Confederate Dead in , ; Arlington Cemetery, Washington. --- President Coolidfa paid high tribute to soldiers of those gray-clad armies against which his fortsbears, uniformed in blue, battle^l sixty years ago. Standing beside the great Confederate memorial in Arlington Na- , tlonal cemetery, the President delivered perhaps the moHt effective ad- •dress of his career, from the stand* point of sentiment, and one of the briefest. Men and women who come, annually to decorate the graves of those who fell In the "lost causa/* were Ms listeners. , •. r "If I am correctly inforpied by his-51 tory," Mr. Coolidge said, "it is fitting that the Sabbath should be your memorial day. This follows from the belief that except for the forces of Oliver Cromwell, no army was ever made more thoroughly religious thaH. that which was commanded by, &»•. • era! Lee. ' "Moreover, these ceremonies nece#v .y' sarlly are expressive of a hope and 'a belief that rise above the things of this life. It was Lincoln who pointed out that both sides prayed to the same God. When that Is the case, It Is only a matter of time when each will seek a common end. "We can now see clearly what that end Is. It Is the maintenance of onr American form of government, of our American Institutions, and of our \tnerican ideals, beneath a common flag, under the blessing* of Almighty , God. r "The bitterness of conflict is passed. Time has" softened; discretion has changed it. Your country respects you for cherishing the memory of those who wore the gray. Yon respect others who ch^y&hed the memory of those who wore the blue. In that mutual .respect may there be a firmer friendsship and a stronger and more glorious union." ; Kilauea Throws Rocks Two Miles in New. Outbreak Hllo, T. H.--Another outburst occurred at Kilauea volcano following a sharp earthquake which shook the Volcano house. Dust and rocks were thrown up two miles. Privates Hinnian and Simmons have been missing since the explosion last Sunday. ° Father and Son to Die. Greenville, S. C.^-Alexander and Holland I'lttman, father and son. forty and twenty-two years of age. respectively, were sentenced to die it the electric chair June 27 for the slaying of Constable J. H. Howard. Frost Damages Crops Paris, 111.--Fruit, truck and earfj corn crops, which already are backward, received a further setback when they were nipped hy a late frost, so cording to reports from farmers. » Eruption in New Mexico Walsenburg, Colo. -- Flames and smoke are belching from the crater of, a volcano, supposedly extinct for centuries, near the Colorado line In New Mexico, according to automobile travelers coming from the South. Many Wounded as Ruhr Police Battle Riotera Berlin.--Many were wounded at Gelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr district, when the strike situation took such a serious turn that Belgian troops and German police Intervened, the former occupying mines and the latter charging Crowds, which Included many women. Senator Gets $7£00 Bonus Washington.--The senate passed a bill authorizing appropriation of $7,- 500 to defray expenses incident to the Injury to Senator Green (Rep., Vt.), who was shot down ln a bootlegger chase. Mrs. Wilson Injured Washington.--Mrs. Wood row Wilson fell and fractured slightly a small bone ln one of her shoulders while on her recent visit to friends in the country ln Virginia. McAdoo Gets South Carolina Columbia, S. C.--William G. McAdoo received South Carolina's eighteen votes in the Democratic national convention. The state convention's vote, Instructing the delegates for McAdoo, was 198 to 128. Idaho Indorses McAdoo St. Maries, Idaho.--The Idaho Democratic stn#e convention adopted a resolution indorsing the candidacy Pershing Inspects Camp Oofomhus, Ga.--(Jen. John J. Pershing Inspected the*' infantry school at Camp llenfllng, Ga. The trip io Ben-i William Gibbs McAdoo for the Dem-1 wgs a p£Ct af ^ tour the geaocratlc Presidential nomination. | ^ making. German General Fears U. S. War Gas Discovery* Berlin.--Gen. Berthold von de In?) HnJt a German army commander during the World war, paints a gloomy picture of the next war in articles contributed to the German press. "The next war will be made on the hinter^ land rather than on front lines," said. "In America a gas has beea discovered which may destroy big cities in a few minutes when used Ilk bombing planes. The next war will not be ended by a peace, treaty, bbt by the utetr destruction of the vanquished nation." * Tax Reduction Bill Wins in 60 to 6; Goes to House Washington.--By a vote of 60 to 0, the senate approved the conference report on the tax reduction bill. Of the six senators voting to sejid the bill back to conference, four were progressives, " who believe the bill represents art Improvement over present law, but who desired the restoration of the senate amendments for full publicity of tax returns and for * tax on undistributed earnings of corporations. which were eliminated te conference. # Jap Reservists Denounce U. S. at Shrine of Dead Tokyo.--Denouncing America as a second Germany and the exclusion act as unjustifiable. 7,000 Japanese reserv* Ists assembled on the wrestling grounds connected with Kudan' shrine, wherein are enshrined the spirits of the Japanese who have died in battle. The speakers were mainly reservist officers. The police were conspicuous by their absence, which In It self was extraordinary. There was much cheering, but the meeting was not marked by any ugly expressions. _ 2 Killed in Auto Crash; I Dies at Sight of Wreck Minneapolis, Minn.--Three men died when an automobile rolled over a tenfoot embankment and caught fire three miles west of St. Paul, on the Jefferson highway. Two of the victims were„ in the auto. Herman Abrau), fiftytwo, a farmer, who went to their assistance, dropped dead when he viewed tlie wreck. • 33,000 Volts Don't Hurt, but He Dies From Fall Logansport, Ind.--Although only slightly burned when 33,000 volts of electricity passed through his body, Charles A. Fox, thirty-one, power house employee, died from a fracture of the skull received ln the fall caused by the electric shock. Washington Plasterers Strike Washington.--More than 500 union plasterers went on strike here as a result of the refusal of building operators to grant them a 514 day and a five-day week instead of the present $1- day- Host to Spanish King Madrid.--A. P. MoOre, the American ambassador, gave a dinner in honor of King Alfonso, Queen Victoria and Gen. Primo de Rivera, head of the mllltipf directorate. Mother and Six Bam 1 Canton, Mass.--Seven persons wfl(jp. burned to death in a fire which destroyed the home of Vincent D'Annastaclo. Mrs. D'Annastacio and her six children, the youngest, two, and" the oldest twelve, were trapped. Mother and Three Sons Dim' Pocatello, Idaho.--Mrs. Isa:tc Ko-- vene and her three young sons died in the fire which destroyed ' their home at Georgetown, Idaho. A babjr girl w«f saved.