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y^VUT'j r~^wn^p*;?<z? gyr? , ' " ' .^ - ' . ' *•» /* ' > - k \ , « THIS MoHBNTtr PLAINDBALBR, McHKNB^IWU ^ , w - A ^ - , * 1 v » * « < „ „ * . . . ' v , • „ • > « * . ILLINOIS BREVITIES Chicago.--Illinois is expected to get wider way this month iu the preliminary work of taking the agricultural censns for 1925, it was Indicated at the office of the department of agriculture. The census will begin In December and will be the first of its kind for five years. Every farmer in the state will receive a questionnaire to be filled out for the use of the official census taker. The purpose of the census is to check up on post-war production since 1920. Agricultural experts believe the 1920 census was taken under unfavorable conditions and Is not at present applicable Chicago.--Maj. Rufus W. Putnam, federal district engineer, told members of the Illinois chamber of commerce at their luncheon in the Morrison hotel that local opposition and the cupidity of politicians have held up attempts to complete waterway plan*. "So much buncombe and poppycock has been broadcast about the waterways thnt nothing has been done," he declared. "We must know what we are going to do with the waterway when we get It. The type of boats and the manner of loading should be studied." * Chicago>-Coroner Wolff announced that he is preparing for submission to the next legislature a measure calling for compulsory examination, physical and mental, of all persons who wish to drive automobiles in Illinois. When the legislature opens in January his hill will be presented by Senator Edward J. Glackin, he said. It will be similar to a law enacted by the Massachusetts legislature when President Coolidge was governor of that state. A similar bill was before the last legislature but was killed in the house Judiciary committee. Chicago.--At the first session of the annual meeting which was held here Richard C. Davenport of Harrisburg was elected grand master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. M. David D. King of Chicago was elected deputy grand master and Leroy A. Coddard was selected grand treasurer. Other officers elected were: Senior grand warden, Louis L. Emmersnn of Mt. Vernon, secretary of the state of Illinois; junior grand warden, Emmett Howard of Quincy, and grand secretary, Owen Scott of Decatur. Chicago.--One man was killed and Irving H. Hartman, a Chicago furnitwre dealer and father of one of the little boys marked for death by Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb before they kidnaped Bobby Franks, was severely injured when a machine in which they were riding crashed into the rear end of a truck on the Dixie highway near Evansvllle. Ind. R. H. Norman, a furniture buyer, suffered a fractured skull and died a few minutes after the collision. Mendota.--As a precautionary measure against daylight holdups, the banks of Mendota will be closed from noon until 1:30 p. m., each day. It has been found most country bank holdups occurred during the lunch hour, presumably because there would be fewer people in the hank then than at any . other time of day. Andover.--A pageant depicting the history of Augustana synod of the batheran church will be given here on October 27. It will mark the seventyfifth anniversary of the coming of the first pastor. Rev. Lars P. Eskjorn. The pageant was written by Rev. L. EL Jones, pastor of Grace church, Davenport, Iowa. Urban a.--Illinois faces a serious pastare shortage this year, according to W. J. Fraser, dairy farming specialist at the college of agriculture. Despite an abundance of fall rains, dairymen \ win be forced to start their regular fall barn feeding much earlier than >«fual, he said. Geneseo.--Farmers of this vicinity . «et to discuss plans to prevent hunt- Ms from trespassing upon rural property. Last year many landowners filed reports of damaged fences and in- ' fared stock. Warning signs will be Pasted. ' -Bloomlngton.--Stephen A. Wilson of Danvers, grieving over the death of Ms wife, which occurred three months • ago, committed suicide by -shooting .himself while kneeling beside her "He was founds by his son-in- Ifw. ' Springfield.--Charles L. Bartlette of , Quincy was reappointed a member of ffce State board of law examiners for a term of three years. Edwin C. Austin of Chicago was named as a new Member of the board to succeed Laired flell of Chicago, whose term expired. Chicago.--In a test case over the validity of licensing the sale of malt and vinous liquors, the <"ity of Chicago won a victory when the Supreme court at Springfield denied the motion of Patrick Murphy asking a rehearing on his case. Springfield.--Smallpox Is tin the Increase In Illinois, according to reports to the state department of public health. Springfield.--Prizes totaling 70 'ribbons and $811 were awarded five boys, members of the agricultural classes of Oblong township high school, who exhibited pigs at various Illinois fairs • this year, reports from the office of the state supervisor of vocational education show. Roscoe.--Wild dogs, which keep to the hills during the day, and at night raid flocks of sheep, are being sought by farmers. In most cases the tendons in the legs of the sheep are bitten in two. The dogs are of the collie species. Bloomington.--Louis Buescher, farmer of Danvers, who was the victim of a confidence game by Cliicagb swindlers last spring went to Indianapolis, where he positively Identified Chappie Moran, under arrest there for a similar crime as one of tlie men who swindled him out of a large sum of money Rock Island.--Fraud bnd misrepresentation are charged against officers . .of the International Life and Trust company, an insurance concern whose head offices are in Moline, in a blli Chicago.--The Illinois chamber of commerce will ask full publicity of state expenditures, including pay rolls, it was Indicated by a legislative pro ^rara adopted by the chamber, meeting in annual convention at the Morrison hotel. Collection of interest on idle money, adequate state police, reorganization and recodification of the state school law, adoption of a plan for state development such as Is used In the cities, and the distribution of state funds among the departments every 30 days, are points in the program adopted by the association. Chicago.--An upward tendency in employment is apparent in Illinois, says the tnonthly survey of the Third District Employment Service of the United States Department of Labor, made public at Chicago at the headquarters of the division. The outlook is distinctly brighter in the Chicgao district, the survey points out. Many plants in this district, which Includes Cicero and Chicago Heights, have Increased their forces. A surplus of labor continues to exist, according to the survey, in the East St. Louis Industrial district. Springfield.--Small boys who spend their Saturdays "shinning" hickory nut trees, and who measure the season's success by the amount of walnut stain on their fingers, will find pickings only fair this fall, according to A. J. Surratt, federal agricultural statistician. The crop of some nuts Is good in localities, reports made to Mr. Surratt indicate, but the crops of all varieties are spotted. Wild nuts have not fully matured as yet, and the pecan crop will not be ready for harvesting before the last of October or the first of November. Carllnvllle.--Lester Kahl, twentyfour- year-old farmer, who resides on a farm near Shipman, Macoupin county, has confessed that he killed his second wife, Margaret, September 15, 13 days after their marriage, after a quarrel with her over a girl with whom he had kept company before his marriage. Sheriff Resell said in making public the signed confession of the prisoner. He shot her twice, he said in his confession, after he had induced her to step on the other side of a hedge to drive out some doves which he" wanted to shoot Eureka.--One-third of the student body at Eureka college Is working its way through. One of the popular football heroes on the campus thinks nothing of peeling two bushels of potatoes a day. Another does the weekly washing at a place where there are also 14 boys and 24 girls employed. There are 14 janitors who take care of all the college buildings, as well as two sorority houses. Springfield.--R>ebekahs of Illinois will gather here in connection with the meeting of the grand lodge of Illinois, International Order of Odd Fellows. October 21 to 23. Nine hundred and fifty-two subordinate Odd Fellows' lodges in Illinois and 770 Itebekah lodges will be represented, E. W. Bradford of Washington, deputy grand sire of the international organization, will be present. Marion.--Robert Tate, who confessed to poisoning Jodie Harrington in order to marry his widow, attempted to end his life in jail here. Tate had sharpened a piece of wire bed spring and sought to cut his throat. He succeeded in cutting a deep gash. Tate, according to jail officials, has been feigning insanity since his arrest. Eureka.--Whether Woodford county will continue to maintain a county tuberculosis sanitarium or join with other counties in the building and maintenance of an institution to be jointly owned and operated will be decided by. the voters on November 4. The county sanitarium Is situated In Minonk. Kewanee.--Mary MUesvich Is under arrest facing the charge of murdering her husband, John Milesvich, in March. 1923: The coroner's jury at that time returned a verdict of suicide, but a former boarder now says Mrs. Milesvich shot her husband, put the revolver beside him. and ran into the yard calling neighbors. Murphysboro.--Active steps for the eradication of field mice, which h$ve been causing extensive damage to orchards and young trees, have been outlined by C. J. Thomas, Jackson county farm adviser. A demonstration was conducted at Makanda under the supervision of United States Department of Agriculture officials. Freeport.--The day has passed when a fanner can buy cheap land, wait for its value to increase and make a fortune for him. William Webb, Will county farm expert, told a farmer's Institute. Instead he must learn to make his land produce big crops by soil-building. Bloomington.--Ten per cent of members of the freshman class at Illinois Wesleyan university this year were honor students In their high schools. Twenty-seven of the freshmen were valedictorians in high school. Chicago.--More than 150 Illinois mayors and practically the whole town of I)es I'laines attended the Illinois Products exposition. Mayor Dever welcomed the visiting mayors at luncheon In the exposition palace. Urhana.--Mounting prices for mill feeds, and an abundance of hay and small grains in the state. Will bring home-grown feeds into their own in the dairy bnrn tills winter, according W. B. Newns, assistant chief of dairy cattle feeding at the college of agriculture. University of Illinois. Springfield.--Governor Small announced the appointment of Michael J. Finii, Peoria, as a member of the state civil service commission, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Michael F. Walsh of Harvard, who resigned almost two years ago. Mr. Finn will assume his duties at once. > Paris.--Edgar county farmers are alarmed at the progress of hog cholera which has broken out with unusual virulence in several communities. Reports received by the farm adviser state that several growers have lost all their hogs and the disease seems to be spreading despite all efforts to combat the plague. Urbana.--H. E. Wessman of Rock ford and E. C. Hartman of Decatur, who were graduated In civil engineer- Ing at the University of Illinois, have RUSSIANS CARRY OFF «• S, COLONY Men Who Intended to Establish Title to Wrangell Island Kidnaped. Nome, Alaska.--A colony intended to establish American title to Wran* gell Island, in the Arctic ocean, nprth of Siberia, was carried off 6y the Russian armed transport Red October, which raised the Russian flag there August 20, it was learned here. The news came from Whalen,' by which name Alaskans call that part of Siberia extending inland and north and south from Bering strait. The Red October, which was sent to claim Wrangell island for Russia, bucked the Ice 32 days to reach Its destination, to which the coast guard cutter Bear and the gasoline schooners Herman and Silver Wave, three American vessels, tried in vain to penetrate this summer. The colony carried away by *he Red October is to be landted at Indian point, in Whalen, or at Vladivostok. 1,000 miles south, according to advices from Whalen. This colony, consisting of 13 Eskimos, with Charles Wells, an American of Nome, In charge of them, was taken to Wrangell island by Harold Nolce of Seattle, who found that an expedition led there In 1921 by Alan Crawford of Toronto had perished with the exception of an Eskimo seamstress. Ada Blackjack. New York.--Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who a year ago founded the colony on Wrangell island which is reported from Nome to hnve been carried off by a Russian transport, said that the colony comprised 13 Eskimos and Charles Wells of Unlontown, Pa. The colony was not founded In behalf c f Great Britain, but of the United States, through an American corporation in Nome, Mr. Stefansson declared. Washington.--While official silence remains unbroken with respect to recent developments on Wrangell Island, there Is little reason to believe the connection of an American citizen with the colonization plan will alter the Washington government's attitude of noninterference In the question of the island. MORTIMER E. COOJLHY Illinois Dedicates New $1 £00,000 Stadium Champaign, 111.--The University of Illinois annual homecoming program opened officially on Friday when all university classes and offices were closed for dedication of the new $1,- 500,000 memorial stadium to the Illlnl war dead. Fifteen thousand students, graduates and visitors attended the exercises, which opened with a parade to the Btadium, headed by former service men. Robert F. Carr of Chicago acted as master of ceremonies and addresses were made by President David Klnley and General Huff, director cf athletics. Dedication of the stadium is "our eternal rejection of the philosophy of brute strength," President Klnley said. "This strdium is a memorial to those of the university who died in the World war. We are dedicating it to them. We cannot hallow it by our woids, but they have nallowed It by their deaths In defense of Ideals and principles In which they believed. It Is for us to keep it hallowed by living those principles. The uses to which this great structure are put must be uses which exemplify those principles." Mortimer fcj. Cooley, dean of the schools of engineering of the University of Michigan, is making the race for the United States senute In opposition to Senator Couzens. He was nominated by the Democrats and claims the backing of the "dry" organizations. ZR-3 REACHES U. S IN 81-HOUR FLIGHT Huge Airship Safely Crones Atlantic From Germany. Following are outstanding facts In the ZR-3 flight frum Germany to Lakehurst, N. J.: Smashed all flight endurance and long-distance nonstop speed records. Flew from Frledrlchshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J., in 81 hours. Total over-land-and-sea distance covered 5,066 miles. Crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of the fastest ocean liner. Is second dirigible to cross the Atlantic ocean. , First sighted American soil at almost exact spot where Pilgrims found first refuge. Had aboard more persons than were ever carried across this Atlantic by airship before. Propose to List Alt Who Fail to Cast Vote Washington.--A well-defined movement, backed, seemingly, .by members oi all parties, has developed looking toward the listing of all voters wLu fall to vote at national elections. It Is thought that the preparation lists of nonvoters, and the publication of those in local communities, WOUM! create a greater interest in the vaiua of the suffrage privilege to every cli'* zen, and make for a better and more intelligent citizenship. Lakehurst N. J.--The glimmering bulk of the ZR-3 hove Into sight at the naval air station at Lakehurst at 9:16 a. m. It was 80 hours and 45 .minutes since she sailed from Frledrichshafeiv Germany, bound for this country, with 28 Germans and 4 Americans und destined for delivery at this station as the largest dirigible ever constructed and flown. Her nonstop flight was estimated by officers of this station at 5,000 miles. The previous record was about 3,500 miles, set by the Zeppelin L-59 during the World war. Four hundred sailors and marines equipped with landing tackle matched onto the field with their officers ready to deploy along the drag ropes. Motorcars laden with heavy tackle and heroic letters In blue and canvas were made reaiy to indicate the spot chosen for the landing. The cabin of the ZR-3 came lightly to rest upon the earth at 9:55 a. m. She ma<]e a beautiful landing, appearing over the northern edge of this naval air station at 9:16 a. m. She drove straight over the airdrome to the far edge of the field, where she headed around and skirted the station for a quarter of its circumference, before nosing downward into the breeze and coming to a stop before the airdrome. 1(H) Injured When Stand Ftdls at Football Game Chicago.--More than a hundred men, women and children packed into a wooden grandstand and in Roseland Panthers' football park, (Jne Hundred and Sixteenth and Halsted streets, were injured when a section of thti seating collapse'cT. Plunges to Death When Parachute Fails to Open Houston, Texas.--Miss Montie Le May of St. Puul, Minn., parachute jumper, was killed here when she leaped from a balloon over a local amusement park and her parachute failed to open. Planes Crash in Clouds; Two Navy Men Killed San Diego, Cal.--Two men were instantly killed and a third had a miraculous escape from death In a miduir collision 1,300 feet above Coronado of two navnl Vought airplanes. The de-d are: Ensign Merrltt J. Flanders, twentyfour years old, attached to the transport Vega. _____ Robert H. Kerr, aviation chief machinist's mate, navnl air station. Gunner William Cole escaped with his life when he walked out on the wing of his Vought and plunged head first to the ground, his parachute opening after he had fallen 500 feet. He Is suffering frcm shock, but Is otherwise uninjured, according to naval physicians. i juif , "i 1 ii .. H. H. Kohtsaal, Publisher, . Dies at Hoover Home Washington.--President Coolidge and leading figures In public life at the nation's capital paid their last respects to Herman Henry Kohlsaat, former Chicago newspaper publisher, who died as a result of a paralytic stroke at the home of Herbert C. Hoover, secretary of commerce, here. Girl Awarded $26£00 Des Moines, Iowa.--Miss Lucile Hosklns of Earlham, who was injured when an elevator in the Randolph hotel here fell eight stories, was awarded damages of $26,500 by. a jury In district court France Gets Japs* Plana Paris. -- Confidential repors on the Japanese air and naval forces for 1924, which indicate great building plans, have been received by the French war ministry. [°r receiversMplBled ln^Circuit court I been chosen as the first two met toy B. A. Shearer, a stockholder. Who r whose names will appear on the In s receiver be appointed. | Q Baker- scholarship trophy. Shoal9 Issue to Congress Washington.--Withdrawal of his offer to purchase Muscle Shoals by Henry Ford clears the way for the disposition of the plant through a commission as suggested by President Coolidge In his message to congress last December. Holland to Reclaim Swamp The Hague.--Besides draining the Zuyder zee, the Dutch are preparing to undertake another great land reclamation project, conversion of the reed forest district Into arable land. STILLMAN CASE '4ELIEVED ENDED Family Reunion Follow* ^ilarriage of Daughter ' to H. P. Davison^ Pleasantville, N. Y.--The Stlilman divorce case Is at an end. An informal truce, which may eventually pave the way to a complete reconciliation, has been agreed to by-James A. Stillman and his wife, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman. All • legal proceedings uguinst his wife have been withdrawn from the courts by the banker, it was said by a close friend of the family, and it is doubtful If any others will be pressed. # The sensatlona. complications In the lives bf the h«nker and his wife, the former Anne Urquhart Potter, are. said to be moving to u reasonably happy ending. ^ This culmination has been brought about by the memory of a little child over whose tiny iot'm both the banker and his wife bent in mutual love in the happier days of long ago. This child was Anne Stillman. It w.is her wedding to young Heary Pomeroy Davison which eliminated the bitterness from the hearts of her parents. The wedding, it was learned, was preceded by the picture of Mr. and Mrs. StiHman having breakfast together with their daughter and their sons, the first complete reunion" of the family in three years. This breakfast ww served in the Manor house of the Stillmans at Mondanne, the home which the banker built for his wife and named in her honor. It was a buffet service. Upon Stillman's entry Mrs. Stillman and her husband shook hands. .,V Mr. Stillman began to thaw several weeks before the wedding, it was said. He supervised the preparation of his wedding gift to his daughter--a string of pearls. He and his. wife agreed--for the first time they have agieed on anything since they agreed four years ago to disagree and indulged In bitter accusations and recriminations, he naming Fred Beauvals, Quebec Indian guide, and co-respondent, and she naming Flo Leeds, former roof show beauty. This time they agreed that "Anne must be happy on her wedding day." It Is understood Stillman remained with the honeyniooners and his wife at Mondanne over nigh*. There Mrs. Stillman remained and relaxed during the day as the bridal pair journeyed to Canada on their hooeymoon after being dinner guests of the banker in his town house in Manhattan. President Coolidge O. K.'s Navy Day Program Washington.--President Coolidge, in a letter made public here to Commander Marion Epley, national chairman of the Navy League of the United States, congratulated the organization on its plan to observe again this year, October 27, the birthday of President Roosevelt, as Navy day. "It Is particularly fitting to observe Navy day," Mr. Coolidge wrote, "on the anniversary of the great President, who was so long devoted to the interests of the naval establishment, and I am, therefore, gratified to know .that the same day in this year Is to be observed once more as Navy day. Mr. Coolidge said that under the terms of the Washington arms conference treaty "we are assured of a naval rank second to none" without engaging in a competition of maritime construction" and it "is the earnest hope of all who desire the abolition of war" that this step "will prove only the beginning of an international program involving the continuing reduction of ^rmaiuent by land and by $ea and In the air." ? WILLIAM H. JOHUSJON fc1 Filipinos Clash Chinese; Troops Called Manila.--Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood, after touring the city to observe the situation created by clashes between Chinese and Filipinos, ordered four companies of constabulary held in readiness to suppress any outbreak beyond the control of the police. Sporadic cases of attacks on Chinese continued. Two Chinese were stabbed and mortally wounded by Filipinos when a crowd gathered near a railway station. Police, armed with riot guns, however, so fur have been able to disperse the crowds before concerted action could' be taken by the mojta. Anatole France Buried Purls.--More than 300.000 persons stood all day along the line of march from the birthplace of the late Anatole France to the little cemetery eight miles away where he was laid to rest. Court Upholds Mrs. Ferguson . Austin, Texas.--The si ate Supretne court of Texas on Saturday held that Mrs. Miriam Ferguson and all other women of the state are qualified to hold public office. League Council Called Geneva.--An extra session of the council of the league of nations will be convoked to consider the differences between Turkey and Great Britain in the dispute over the Irak boundary. ' U will 4>s beld.Ja #<Mrte October 27. ;• •. False Alarm Causes Movie Panic; 25 Dead Athens.--Twenty-five persons were killed and eighteen Injured in a stampede in a njoving picture house In Athens caused by a false alarm of fire. Most of the victims were children. It is believed the alarm was raised by pickpockets. Mimic Naval War Washington.--An attack on a submarine chaser by six t. rpedo-launchlng seaplanes will be one of the feature events of the mimic naval warfare during the aerial maneuvers over Chesapeake bay, October 25. Turks Arrest 1,000 Greeks London.--A dispatch from Constantinople says 1.000 Greeks have been arrested for expulsion frcm Turkish territory under the agreement for the exchange of populations. Actors Entertain President Washington. D. C.--Jtohn Drew. A1 Jolson and forty other members of the Coolidge and Dawes Stage club, entertained President and Mrs. Coolidge on Friday morning at the White House. William H. Johnstons president of the International Association of Machinists, charges that taxpayers are losing $1,000,000 a week because the shipping board permits private interests to control government shipping and to shunt cargoes into foreign hulls. V. S. GOVERNMENT MARKET QUOTATIONS • Washington.--For the week ending OctobdV 16.--HAY--Quoted October No. 1 timothy: Chicago, $24.00. No. I alfalfa: Kansaa City, $11.00. No. 1 prairie: Chicago, $16.00. GRAIN--Quoted October 1$: No, 1 dark northern spring wheat: Minneapolis, $1.48V6@ 1.67H. No. 2 red winter wheat: St. Louis, *1.62; Kansas City, $1.53 01.56. No. 4 red winter wheat: Chicago, $1.51 @1.53. No. 2 hard winter wheat: St. Louis, $1.4701.48; Kansas City, $1.39® 1.54. No. 3 hard winter wheat: Chicago, $1.49. No. 2 mixed corn: Chicago, $1.13%; Minneapolis. $1.04% © 1.05%. No. 2 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.13 % ©1.14%; Minneapolis, $1.07 %@ 1.08 V4; Kansas City, $1.12. No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.12%@l-13tt; Minneapolis, $1.06@1.07; St. Louis, $1.13%© 1.14V4. No. 2 white corn: Kansas City, $1.13. No. 3 white corn: Chicago, $1.12% @1.14; St. Louis, $1.14@1.14%. No. 3 white oats: Chicago, 51%@52%c; Minneapolis, 47%9 47%c; St. Louis. 52@52%c. No. 3 white oats: Kansas City, 52Vic. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing prices on 92 score butter: New York, 39 %c; Chicago, 38c; Philadelphia, 40c; Boston, 39c. Closing prices at Wisconsin primary markets October 15: Singl* daisies, 19c; longhorns, 19%c; square prints. 21c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Northern sack£d round white potatoes, 750 90c carlot sales In Chicago, 60Q70e f. o. b. New York domestic round type cabbage, $10.00® 12.00 bulk per ton In leading eastern cities; Danish type ranged $15.00@>20.00 in city markets. Yellow onions from Middle West, $1.25 @1.75 sacked per 100 pounds In consuming centers, $1.30© 1.40 at western Michigan points. Northwestern greening apples, $5.00@5.50 per barrel in New York: Illinois Jonathans, $7,000 7.25 In midwestern markets. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $11.00 for top, $9.75©10.75 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $6.85@11.45; butcher cows and heifers, $3.25® 11.00; feeder steers, $4.65@7.7S; light and medium weight veal calves, $8.75@ 10.50. Fat lambs, $12.00013.50; feeding lambs, $11.00@13.40; yearlings, $8.00© 10.75; fat ewes. $4.00©7.25. U. 5. Gunboats to Aid Foreigners in Canton Washington.--The gunboats Sacramento and Pampaugo of the South China patrol have been ordered to Canton owing to disturbances there, the State department heard from Consul General Douglas Jenkins in Canton. Mr. Jenkins reported that there had been fighting in Canton between Sun troops and merchant volunteers, followed by many disastrous fires. All Americans are safe, though one has been wounded. He said the situation in Canton Is critical. Casualties are estimated at 1.000, Including those who perished In the fires which destroyed three-quarters of a square mile and those killed by soldiers sniping fron% housetops. VOTE! Retail Food Costs Rite Washington.--An increase of about 2 per cent in the retail cost of food between August 15 aad September 15, was reported by Department of Labor. British Bomb Irak Border Paris.--English airplanes patrolling the frontier hftween Irak and Turkey flew over CheramI October 14. dropped bombs and Injured two wom«,.a dispatch from Angora declares.-^ Vote on Election Day* Twosday, November 41 Vote u you please--but'voteJ The suffrage is not your inherent, God-given right. The suffrage is a privilege given you by your country, the United States of America, the richest, the most powerful, the freest nation of earth and of all lands the most desirable. It is m privilege that carries with it the responsibility of the good American citisen to carry on the work of the patriots who gave as the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln, fifty-nine years ago, asked For renewed TOWS of fealty "--that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." How •hall that government live if the people do not vote? . Don't he a slacker --la thit duty of citizenship. Vote or shut upl • Arrange to Pay U. 5. Debts Washington.--Negotiations for the funding of the Polish and Lithuanian debts to the United States are approaching a conclusion. It Is understood that the agreement will follow the terms made with other countries. -- t 9 Bank Robbed of $110,000 Jackson, Mich.--Currency and securities that may aggregate $110,000 were obtained by five bandits who Friday held up the Springfield State Saving* bank near here. _ Warships Shell Pert Peklug.--A successful attack was made upqn the port of Hulutso by warships of the Central government, partially destroying fortifications there. It was announced. The port Is held by Gen. Chang Tso Lin. Canal Pays f24£90f€3 Washington.--Traffic through the Panama canal during the fiscal year 1024. amounted to 26,994,710 tons of cargo, carried In 5,290 vessels, and paid tolls amounting to $24,290,963. 5 KILLED, 15 HURT ON U. S. WARSHIP Explosion Occur» «i» Scouit Cruiser Trenton During Target Practice. Norfolk, Va. -- Flvfc persons wes* killed and fifteen others Injured in us explosion on the scout cruiser Treriton during target practive off the Vie* glnia capes. , , The Trenton arrived at the nava£\ base and eight of the injured wen placed aboard a ttffe and sent to th* navy yard and to the naval hospital at Portsmouth. The dead: Kusign Henry Clay Drexler, Essex Beach, Del.; George K. OhoMster, boatswain's mate, Me£n% . chantsville, N. J.; Row I und Phiilp Hanson, sen'man, first class, Soidie^V, Iowa; William Alfred Walker, aei^vS man, first class, Mayo, S. C.; -Bernar^ Beverly Byam, seaman, second clasafcv Bristol, Conn. < Critically injured :v Franklin B. Je$f fery, seaman, first class, IS5 Bellevugt, - road, Lynn, Mass.; Bennett WlliiamM^ seaman, second class. Depot streets South Easton, Mass.; Mervin Frankll|fc>< Seaman, seaman, second class, Brook* ' lyn, N. Y. The cause of the explosion, according to word from the Trenton, bad not been determined. "The forward twin mount was • trained to the beam, with guns at an extreme elevation," said the message, "No shot had been fired. Powder and shell were being hoisted into the turret and all safety precautions had been observed. "Unusual and exacting care had been* taken at every step, and at present it is believed the accident cannot be attributed to electrical trouble. Immediately after the explosion the access door in the rear of the turret was opened and four men fell overboard because of the overhang. Three were rescued, one apparently was badly burned,, and drowned, but the body wus not recovered." The cruiser was said to have been but a few miles from Norfolk whea the accident occurred. It is in command of Capt. E. C. Kalbfus. Standard Oil Company Denies "Pool" Charge Chicago.--Th«; Standard Oil company, of Indiana, filed In United States District court here, through • Chauncey W. Martyn, its general, counsel, a complete denial of charge!^, contained in the suit brought by th|jf:, government last June. ~ The federal . government's suit charged the Standard Oil company, of Indiana, and 50 other oil companies, with having effectively pooled various United States patents owned by them, which, the government contended, cover only minor processes in the production of "cracked" gasoline; and it was further charged that, by virtue of the alleged pooling, other refiners are prohibited from producing "cracked" gasoline except by tlie payment of huge royalties, i»nd that, through a system of licensing, trade and commerce are being restrained in violation of the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law. Michigan Man Charged With Murder of Teacher Grand Haven, Mich.--A gaunt, rawboned man sits in a ceil in th$v Ottawa county jail here, his wrist and throat slashed, closely guarded for fear that he will make another attempt on his life. He is Egbert "Happy" Dyke, thirty-four years old, who rather than see his sweetheart of four years, Miss Molly Fleming, pretty * twenty-three-year-old school teacher, marry Edwurd Knauf, a rival, beat her to death with an ar just after the school had been dismissed and the children had started on their way to their homes. Dyke wus arraigned before Justice H. R. Lillie charged with first degree murder. He demanded examination and this was fixed f(t October 28 In Circuit court. Right pf Labor to Jury Tried Upheld -•Washington.--It was held by the Supreme court that railroad employees who Joined the shopmen's strike in 1922 were entitled to jury trial when charged with contempt of court. In its decision the court declared that part of the Clayton act which provides that employees In such circumstances may demand a trial bjr jury, is constitutional. The action had been brought before the court by Sam Michaelsoa, et al., employed by the Chicago. St. Paul and Omaha Railway company, who went out on strike and were adjudged in contempt of the federal court for certain acts In connection with the strike. Tags Sold in Four Hoar a Chicago.--Chicago's tag girls sold out their entire stock of tags for the first time in history. They had worked only four hours Wnen more of the tags for the Chicago Children's Benefit league had to be ordered.) Polish Officials Beaten Warsaw.--The Polish charge d'affaires in Moscow has protested to the Soviet government against attacks alleged to have been made upon four Polish officials In Russia. Many Ships Lost in Storm Batum, Georgian Republic.--A vto^ l«ut storm has swept the Black sea and numerous small vessels have been lost. Batum is inundated as the result of heavy rains for the last four days. The water is still rising. Stock Exchange Strikes Berlin.--The stock exchange committee, as a protest against the high taxes on stock transactions, decided to close the exchange and there wete a* quotations on any shares^-