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X ILLINOIS Springfield.--In the official canvass of the November 4 vote, completed here, it Is shown that the proposal to lease the right of way of the Ml-1 nols and Michigan canat and the gateway amendment to the constitution, have been defeated. The proposal on the canal lease failed by 259.000 votes, while the constitutional amendment fuiled of ratification by 585,000 votes. The $100.1RX>,000 road bond issue waJ3 carried by a majority of 465,- 572. A net gain of one vote was made by the Democrats In the two houses of the general assembly. In the next state senate they will have 14 members, a gain of Ave, while their representation in the house will be 59, r loss of four members in that body. The Republicans will have 37 senators and 94 representatives. The Illinois delegation in congress will consist of 22 Republicans and 5 Democrats. In the vote for President, Coolidge came within 10,000 votes of the record plurality achieved by President Harding. The President's plurality over John W. Davis was 870,364. Marion.--State s Attorney Arlie Boswell and Coroner George Bell, assumed office In Williamson county and promised an administration of Impartial law enforcement. With the exception of Sheriff George Galligan, who has two years to serve, virtually a new corps of officers went into power. Boswell denied he would nolle prosse Indictments growing out of the rioting in Herrin last February, when the hospital was riddled with bullets by alleged klansinen. Peoria.--Elopement has been made an offense punishable by expulsion at Bradley Polytechnic institute here, under new regulations laid down by the faculty. Students who desire to marry must' not only obtain the consent of their parents, but must announce their intentions to their deans or the director of the institute. The new regulations were made as a result of difficulties encountered when several students eloped and were married last year. Chicago.--A woman was killed1 and 25 other persons, including children, were hurt when two passenger trains of the Pennsylvania railroad collided. One of the trains. No. 109, known as an "immigrant train," was coming from Columbus and the other. No. 205, was arriving from Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. The engine of the Cincinnati train plowed half way through the rear coach of the stalled train before it could be stopped. Chicago.--No further fees should be allowed to Hiram T. Gilbert, attorney In charge of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank receivership, who already has received fees aggregating $275,000 in the last ten years. It was argued before Circuit Judge Hugo M. Friend. Mr. Gilbert's plea for an additional $35,000 should not be allowed, the court was tbld by counsel for the bank's receiver, the Chicago Title and Trust company. Chicago.--Only one person In every three arraigned In the municipal court on criminal charges In the year ended November 30, was convicted, according to figures made public by Charles H. KrimbiU, clerk of the municipal criminal courts. Of the 279,960 cases disposed of 156,161 were dismissed. Thfere were 56,017 fined, 14,186 were sent to the bridewell, 74 to the county jail, 4,768 placed on probation and 3,686 held to the grand jury. Lincoln.--Lincoln college here and Mlllikin university, Decatur, will receive equal shares in a $74,000 real estate gift presented to them Jointly by United States Senator William B. McKinley. The proj>ertie8 Include 40 town lots and 261 acred of farm land near Westvllle, valued,at $36,993, and . land In and around Danville worth \ about $37,049. \ Eureka.--Construction of an athfctlc field near the campus of Eureka college Is one of the items in the program of improvement which President Wilson has placed before the board of trustees. Amboy.--Lem B. Searls, seventy, was fined $500 on each of two counts for the manufacture and sale of liquor. Because of Searls' age the state's attorney recommended the waiver of a Jail sentence. Springfield.--John E. George! Springfield's barfker-chlef of police, sent his resignation to Mayor P.ullard. Chief George has served for a year without pay. Mattoon.--Capt. C. E: Henneke was installed as commander of the American Legion post here. He has been in military service 29 years. Mode.--Waverly Brown, seventeen, died In the hospital from wounds from his shotgun. It was accidentally discharged while he was hunting. Seward.--A. A. Jones, local nlmrod, killed a snowy owl in tlmberland near bare. It is an arctic bird rarely found la this region. Havana.--The new gymnasium of the Havana high school was dedicated. The structure ccst $40,000. , Lincoln. -- Thirty scantily attired hotel guests were forced to flee for their lives when fire caused by a clga rette butt carelessly thrown In an ad joining dance hall destroyed the Home > hotel building and for a time threatened the heart of the business section. Total loss was estimated at $40,000. Cairo.--Charles Walker, thirty-eight, president of the Walker Coal company! and F. R. Morris, thirty-nine, pro^ prietor of the Morris hat shop here, were Instantly killed when their car', which was being towed by a truck, was struck by the Panama limited. Chicago.--Chicago suburbs, with the exception of those along the north abore, are planning to move on the general assembly In January with a request for enabling legislation per Bitting them to biJ'd a water tunnel from Riverside to an Intake crib In the lake, off Twenty-second street. Chicago.--Strict examination of all applicants for auto drivers' licenses and the rejection of those who might be a menace, is embodied In a law for waicb a fight will be launched at a aseetlng of the wmmb'i organizations etChicago. •-» Springfield. -- The relative Importance of community "aathetic" rights its against private proi>erty *igbts Is one of the problems facing the Illinois Supreme court, as the court convened here for Its December term. 1 he question is raised in an attack oa the state law, authorising municipal zoning laws, from the city court of Aurora, and grew out of the attempted location of a grocery store In a district classified under the city zoning law as a residential district. Most of the important cases which have been (tending for some time were cleared away at the October term of the court, but a number of Important ones In which school laws are attacked and several Involving labor troubles are still before the justices. The court is expected to adjourn about December 17. The court will have almost 400 cases to corJiider when It convenes, 252 of them being on the advisement docket for final action. Springfield.--Money «9ed by Governor Small in purchasing Armour de». bentures and stock in the Ridgely Fanners' bank in Springfield came from legitimate sources and not from Interest on state, funds. Attorney Werner W. Scliroeder declared before Judge Frank W. Burton in the Sangamon 'Circuit court. Schroeder, arguing In support of the bill of exceptions to the report of Master of Chancery Charles G. Brlggle, cited varloua sources from which the governor obtained the money to make the purchases, lind said that entries on the bank books favorable to the governor came from sales and lucky investments. The amount Involved was approximately $200,000. Urbana.--The world comes In the form1 of a cross-word puzzle and It is up to us to find where two lines of endeavor intersect, said Edwin E. Slosson, Washington, D. C., speaking on the "development of the scientific mind," before a University of Illinois group here. "Every fact fills In a square and all Is interwoven,*' he asserted. "No idea belongs "st^jme science. An analytic rather tha»x a synthetic point of view Is needed in science. The boy needs to learn to put the clock back together after he has taken it apart." Mount Vernon.--The Joint trial of Lawrence M. Hlght, deposed pastor of Ina, and Mrs. Wilford Sweetln, member of his former congregation, for the alleged poisoning of Mrs. Anna Hlght and Wilford Sweetin, began here. Holding, that, despite widespread publicity that had familiarized the county with the case, .as fair a trial could be had In Jefferson county as In any county in Illinois, the court denied Hight's petition for a change of venue. Mrs. Sweetin did not Join in the plea. Urbana.--More than one-seventh of the 2,502 women enrolled at the University of Illinois will live in dormitory buildings under the supervision of the university when the new women's residence hall,- bids for which have just been opened., Is completed. The new hall will be ready next September and will house 150 students. Seven hundred and sixty-two of th« undergraduate women live In sorority or organized houses at the university. Sterling. -- Clifford Teach, twelve years old, of Morrison, is dead as the result of being struck below the eye Ijy a horse weed. Inflicting a flesh wound. He and several playmates were throwing the weeds into the air and one struck him, the poison causing his death. Kewanee.--Street cars run again In Kewanee and between Kewanee and Galva. Service was resumed by the Public Service company after a suspension of more than a year, due to the sale of the holdings, then belonging to the Galesburg & Kewanee Electric Railway company to a junk man. Rochelle.--Mrs. Bertha Hendrlckson has asked $10,000 in a suit filed against Matilda Wood for alienation of the affections of her husband, Lester. The bill follows a suit for divorce recently filed by the husband against the wife. Miss Wood is a resident of DeKalb. f Itockford.--Contract has been let for an addition to the Home for the Aged maintained here by the Order of the Eastern Star. It is to cost $50,- 000 and will provide accommodations for 30 additional persons^ making the capacity 110. Chicago.--The city of Chicago will receive an average of about 2.5 per cent on its bank' deposits during 1925, as compared with an average of 3 Pont Ivt 1Q*M i i * « FIGHTS FULL IU HOLE OVER RADIO Hoover Says Any Regulation Drafted! Now Woulc^ ; Become Obsolete. Washington.--Full federal regulation of radio will not receive the support of Secretary of Commerce Hoover In the legislation pending in congress, it was announced. Secretary Hoover suggested in a letter to Chairman White of the house merchant marine committee thut at the present time congress should amend only the present statutes, giving the Department of Commerce a degree of control over wireless communication The house calendar now contains a general measure regulating radio, in the preparation of which Mr. Hoover and other Commerce department offl cials co-operated. Mr. Hoover strongly urged Its enactment during the last session of congress. Later, however, he wroto to Chairman White, saying that the rapid change in radio communication and the probability of more changes in the future make it undesirable that federal regulation be established until the pioneering period is over. v "I am inclosing herewith a suggestion of a very short bill clarifying the powers of this department as to radio regulation as to interference,' said Mr. Hoover's letter. "It does not pretend to confer complete regulatory authority, nor does it cover many matters which must sooner or later receive legislative attention. It is intended only to enable the department to retain firm control of a situation which is very rapidly changing, in which there are some elements of danger. If such a bill is passed it will give time for more consideration of the whole subject. "The short bill proposed will reinforce the fundamental situation so that no public damage can result from delay, when so much public advantage might result in a further clarity of our knowledge as to the application of this new system of communication. "As you are aware, there is no monopoly in the radio world at fhe present time, there being over 500 broadcasting stations of which not more than four are the property of any one institution. "With oaly limited numbers of wave lengths and 500 stations--rapidly increasing-- we are forced tcday to certain duplication of waves or to the division of time between stations. Any attempt to give preference among stations in the allotment of wave lengths on the basis of quality of r rogram raises the question of censorship, the implication of which I cannot at present accept. "The public Interest in radio broadcasting Is rapidly widening. It Is rapidly becoming a necessity and our people rightfully feel that since the public medium of the ether Is used to reach the^i, they have a direct and justifiable Interest in the manner in which it is conducted. "I hope that another year's experience will show the direction of the legislative course that must ba parsued.". C. S1MOPOULOS \ Gov. Small, Son, Daughter Hurt in Automobile Crash Pontiac, 111.--Gov. Len Small was cut about the head and bruised; his son, Leslie, suffered a broken collar bone, and his daughter, Mrs. A. E. Inglesh and A1 Bothfuhr of the atate highway department were slightly injured when their automobile overturned after a collision. Leslie Small was driving the governor's automobile, a sedan, when another automobile, occupied by a young farmer named Fosdick and his sister, came out of a side road and skidded on the slippery pavement into the governor's car. per cent in 1924, bids received from national and state banks indicate. Chicago.--Stopping of all trafficwithin a block of every school during the opening and closing hours is advocated In a public letter sent to officials by Hugo Meyer, manager of the Illinois Athletic club. Chicago.--Eleven hundred boys and girls, members of junior farm clube from 46 states, visited the Chicago board of trade and marched past the grain tables and futures pits. Washington, D. C.--The Fourteenth congressional district of Illinois will be without representation In the house this winter as a result of the resignation of William J. Graham. Normal. -- Approximately one-tenth of all the girls attending the Normal university here are working their way through,, either wholly or In part, according to Miss Lillian Barton, dean of women. They work as stenographers, clerks, seamstresses, waitresses, in offices, dormitories or the library, and as domestics. Chicago.--War, to tie death If necessary, was opened in earnest against every class of criminals, particularly the "higher ups" of the underworli. by the reorganized and rejuvenated detective bureau. Rock Island.--Preparation of the upper Mississippi river for river traffic ail far north as St. Paul Is 60 per cent complete, and the river Is In better condition than It has been for many years, according to Ma J. B. C. Dunn of the corps of engineers at work or the river. Chicago.--A squad of county highway police arrested two alleged moonshiners after a, revolver battle at a farmhouse on a lonely road south' of Chicago Heights. A 100-gallon still 20,000 gallons of mash and 400 gallon* of alleged moonshine were confiscated. Three Officers Executed for Egyptian Mutiny Cairo.--After a summary court-martiaj at Khartum, following the recent mutiny of the Sudanese battalion, four officers were sentenced to death and three of them were executed by shooting at dawn. The sentence of the fourth was commuted to 15 years' imprisonment. News of the executions caused a sensation in Cairo, and the general vieyr is that the political effect will be most serious. World's Best-Dressed , Woman Dies in London " 'London.--Mrs. Smith Wilkinson, the Nottingham woman who a year or so ago caused a world-wide sensation as the "world's best-dressed woman," boasting that she had a thousand dresses and never wore the same one twice, died In a nursing home in London. Mrs. Smith-Wilkinson made her fortune speculating In hotel shares. Charalambous Slmopoulos, Greek minister to the United States,' who baa just arrived In Washington. CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S BRIDE IS ONLY IS Law • Says She Must Keep Up With Her Lessons. Los Angeles, Cal.--A photographic copy of the sixteen-year-old birth certificate of Lillian Louisa McMurray, who several years ago became Llta Grey of the movies and who severul days ago became Mrs. Charles Chaplin of Beverly Hills, was tossed onto the Chaplin lawn about the time the motning milk was delivered. It beamed from a prominent pag^ of the Los Angeles Times, where the activities of inquisitive reporters had conspired to place It for coinparison with the Mexican marriage records which depicted Miss Grey as a nineteen- year-old bride and gave Chaplin's age as thlrty-flve. According to the certificate published by the newspaper, Miss Grey was -born near Hollywood, April 15, 1908. She later attended two schools in Los Angeles, records of which reveal the same date. Thus she was a lass of thirteen summers when Chaplin "discovered" lier three years ago and set her on the ladder of film fame, and a maiden of sixteen wlien he letF he* to the altar, or rather, Into a civil magistrate's office at Emplame, Mexico. This, according to the compulsory schooling law in California, makes Mrs. Chaplin subject to the requirements of educational authorities, whose duty it Is to see that no minor escapes schooling until after his or her eighteenth birthday anniversary! Troops Battle Rebels in Peru; Two Leaders Shot Buenos Aires.--Belated news of an unsuccessful revolutionary movement in Peru was made public by the official newspaper La Prenzn of Lima, says a dispatch to the Naclon from Lima. The movement started In the town of Chota on November 20 and was suppressed by government forces after fighting on November 27 and 28. The revolutionaries were Andean mountaineers who suddenly swept down and seized Chota in northern Peru. The account does not give the number of rebels, but says the government forces recaptured Chota after a "big battle" lasting twq days, taking as prisoners the two leaders, Col. Samuel Alcazar and Lieutenant Barreda, who were court-martialed and shot in the Chota public square. Liquor Valued at $800,000 Stolen From U. S, Depot Chicago.--Robbers have raided the $3,000,000 hoard of fine llquorB stored in the United States army warehouse at Thirty-ninth and Wood streets and removed a fortune in booze, according to information revealed by United States Marshal Robert R. Levy, custodian of seized liquors for this federal district. All the while armed soldiers patrolled, or were supposed to be patrolling, the premises. Since the discovery more than eighty soldiers and other government employees have been grilled. While it was said no arrests had been made. It Is said to liftve been virtually determined that the raid was planned and directed by a notorious band of hijackers. The liquor stolen was estimated in value at $800,000. .. British Cabinet Guarded London.--The British cabinet mialsters and many other state officials went about their duties accompanied by bodyguards as a precaution against any violence by Egyptian sympathizers. Senator Borah Chosen to Head Foreign Body Washington.--At a meeting of the Republican senate committee on committees informal selections were made for important chairmanships made vacant by recent deaths of senators. Senator William E. Borah was chosen to be chairman of the committee on foreign relations to succeed Henry Cabot Lodge. Three Die in Red Fight Reval, Esthonla.--Three Communists were killed and three policemen wounded during a selge of a house In Reval In which participants In a recent Communist outbreak took refuge. Banker's Wife in Customa Net New York.--Jewelry and gowns, the appraised value of which was $17,000, were seized from Mrs. Florence Orr Bache, wife of Jules S. Bache, New York banker, for alleged failure to declflre the articles. Crossing Deaths Decrease Washington.--A marked decrease in the number of fatalities In grade crossing accidents has been reported for the first two months of the safety cam- To Mark, Battle Lines Washington.--Battle lines of all American units In Europe will be accurately marked by monuments, the batiifk monument commission reported oir Friday to congress in session here. ~' Length of Life Increases^ Washington.--The average length of life In the United States has Increased 15 years since 1870, making the average span now fifty-six years, £h$ public health service reports. Woman Mayor by One Vote Edmonds, Wash.--Mrs. J. H. Kerr, running on a "clean-up-the-town" platform," was elected mayor here by one vote over her opponent, M. C. Engels. Mrs. Kerr is |the first woman* to hold the office of mayor here. \ 1 . V' Snow Halts Rati Trotitis Sioux City, Iowa.--Rail traffic is being delayed in various sections on account of a snow that Is varying from three to ten Inches in depth and con- FAIR DEAL FOR FARMER-CQOLIDGE Put Farm* on Business Basis aiid Prosperity Will Follow, Says President Chicago.--Two plain and practical business messages were delivered by President Coolidge on his vfslt to Chl> cago. In the first address before the Chi* cago Commercial club at the Drake hotel he pointed to the necessity of elevating agriculture to the standard, of other business that it might enjoy relatively the same prosperity. He also called attention to the necessity of co-operating with other nations that they might enjoy the same economic standards thut America has been able to preserve In the interest of a sefcured prosperity and peace. Before a gathering at the Stock Yards inn, where he was the guest of officers and directors of the International Live Stock exposition, the President paid a high tribute to the farmer, declaring that his experience with them was that they represented a class that sought only a fair deal; did not want or demand special treatment and class favoritism. The business of farming, he said, had become a profoundly skillful profession. In regard to the farmers' ideals as to legislation, the President said: "There is altogether too much disposition in some quarters to assume that the farmer is peculiarly given to wild ideas and unsound notions about business finance and economics. On the one hapd, every distinct test in these respects has resulted in an overwhelming verdict for the farmers in favor of sanity, soundness, moderation, sense and reason in dealing with all their problems. "Nobody Is going to advance his own interests by playing upon the presumption of the farmer's ignorance, or selfishness, or his incapacity to think accurately. The visionary and the demagogue invariably discover that the farmer does not want their unsound proposals or panaceas. He does not want special treatment and class favoritism. He wai.ts a fail show, and when he gets it he can be relied upon to take good care of himself and to contribute substantially toward taking care of the rest of us." Economy, co-operation, fairer taxel and proper government aid were important subjects discussed by the President and declared by him to be the means of agricultural prosperity "The principle of co-operation in producing, financing, buying and marketing must be encouraged to the utmost practicable development," he said. ' "We must help the farmer to reduce his taxes, broaden his foreign market and keep freight rates as low as possible while keeping the railroads efficient. This should be supplemented by the development of navigation in the Mississippi valley add in the St. Lawrence river. "I can think of nothing that will surely help the farmer as much as et-onomy--economy In local and national governments. These remedies have been efficient at last. What we want now Is the assurance of'stability and continuing prosperity." The government must aid generously in developing a national agricultural policy on broadly constructive lines, the President declared. "It will support any sound program to release the farmer from the individualistic competitive conditions under which agriculture has been conducted," he said. "It must encourage orderly and centralized marketing as a substitute for the haphazard and wasteful distribution methods of the past." Millionaire Orphan Dieg While Girl Waits to Wed Chicago.--A marriage license, never used and never to be used, will remain in the memory chest of Miss Isabelle Pope, a Northwestern university sophomore, who was to have been the bride of William Nelson McClintock, the "millionaire orphan," a Dartmouth college junior, of Kenilworth. He died on Thursday while tne weeping girl waited beside his bed, and while a clergyman waited there, teo, ready to. perform the ceremony if there had been an interval of lucid mind and sufficient strength. The story of Billle McClintock is the story of an elaborate preparation for a life that he never really tasted. ^He was five wtfien his father, retired f-apitallst, was killed in an automobile accident. Two years later his mother died,v leaving him the whole family fortune. He was a lonesome boy with $6,000,000. Mr. William Shepherd, an attorney with whom McClintock lived, said he had drafted the boy's will shortly after he became of age this year. Mr. Shepherd hinted that Miss Pope, Mrs. Shepherd anrf Attorney Carl Slgfrld of Omaha had been remembered in the will. • P&?F' G. MURRAY Bit VICTORY FOR GERMAN REPUBLIC $ Minor Parties Lose Grora^ ^ in Reich Election--Com- 'i , munists Hit. Prof. Gilbert Murray, reglus professor of Greek at Oxford university, has been made president of the Students International union, a new body formed at Geneva for the promotion of mutual understanding and co-operation In the study of world affairs by students of different nations. MARKET QUOTATIONS BY U. S. GOVERNMENT Washington.--For the week ending December 4.--HAY--Quoted December 4: No 1 timothy: Chicago, <24.00. No. 1 alfalfa: Kansas City, $22.75. No. 1 prairie: Chicago, $17.00. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing wholesale prices of 92-sc6re butter: New York, 46c; Chicago, 4B^4c; Philadelphia, 46c; Boston, 45c. Wholesale prides on Wisconsin primary cheese markets December 3: Single daisies, 21c; double daisies, 20%c; longhorns, 21>4c; square prints, 21%c. GRAIN--Quoted December 4: No. 1 dark northern wheat: Minneapolis, 11.64@1.77. No. 2 red winter wheat: Chicago, |1.63 H; St. Louis, $1.71. No. 3 hard winter wheat: St. Lculs, $1.54® 1.54 %. No. 2 mixed corn: Chicago, $1.17% @ 1.18% ; Minneapolis, $1.13@ 1.15; St. Louis, $1.14. No. 2 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.19 @1.18%; Minneapolis, $1.19@ 1.20; St. Louis, $1.16ft. No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.18® 1.18%; Minneapolis, $1.15@1.18. No. 3 white oats: Chicago, 52@55c; Minneapolis, 49% <§?50c; St. Louis, 54Vi@56c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Wisconsin sacked round white potatoes, ordinary quality, 90@95c carlot sales in Chicago, 70@75c f. o. b. Waupaca. Midwestern yellow onions, $1.50^2.00 in Chicago, ?2.25@2.75 in other leading marketrf, $1.80 @1.90 f. o. b. western Michigan points. Northern Danish type cabbage, $25.00® 28.00 in Chicago. Northwestern extra fancy Stayman wine^aps, $2.60® 2.7 5 per box in eastern cities. • LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $9.65 for top and $8.75<g>9.40 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $7.2612.50; butcher cows and heifers, $3.40@U.75; feeder steers,' $4.50@7.50; liglft and medium weight veal calves, $8.75@10.75. Koretz Given One to Ten Years; Said to Be Dying Chicngo. -- Leo Koretz, arch-swindler, must serve from one to ten years at Jollet for the $2,000,000 Bayano fraud. Sentenced to imprisonment from one to ten years on three charges, Koretz will be eligible for parole at the end of eleven months, as Judge Jacob H. Hopkins ruled the terms should run concurrently. After hearing physicians testify that Koretz was suffering from chronic diabetes, Judge Hopkins said: 'The court believes the ends of justice will be met by letting these sentences run concurrently. It Is so ordered." According ; to medical testimony Koretz' death is likely soap. . Five Burned to Death When Car Hits Oil Truck Detroit.--Five persons were burned to death here when an lnterurban car en route to Toldeo and Cleveland crashed into a truck loaded with turpentine at Wyandotte, a suburb. The dead are: E. B. Callahan, motorman; Mrs. Garrett Kisseberth, Toledo; unidentified woman; unidentified woman and girl, found together and believed to be-mother and daughter. V The Wyandotte jflre department rescued more than' a score of Injured from the burning wreckage. Postmaster Appeals for " Early Christmas Mailing Washington, D. C.--An appeal for everyone to do his share In mailing Christmas gifts and greetings early to permit the faithful letter carriers and the thousands of other poetal employees, 360,000 in all, to go home to wife and children at 11 a. m. Christmas day was made by Postmaster General New in a radio address broadcast from station WCAP. I Would Pay World Flyers Washington.--The army world flyers would be promoted and each given $10,000 reward and a congressional medal of honor, under legislation introduced on Friday by Representative Itathbone^ of Illinois. Price of Coal increased Scrapton, fa.--An increase of 28 cents a ton in the wholesale price of virtually all sizes of prepared anthracite coal has been announced a majority of coal companies. ^^*7" Plan Dawn-to-Dusk Flight Mount Clemens, Mich.--Twelve airplanes pllbted by members of the first pursuit group of the army air service will attempt a dawn-to-dusk flight from Selfrldge field, near bara** to Miami, Fla., in Februarys s ' Coolidge*, N. Y. Plurality 2 Albany, N. T.--Calvin Coolidge'B plurality over J£hn W. Davis, the Democratic candidate for President, in November, was 860,262, according to offlcial canvass figures for New York. "/V V,; Bank Caahier Arrested " tos Angeles, Cal.--Waldo R. Cltfppman, former cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Mutual, Okta., was arrested by deputy sheriffs here on a fugitive warrant, charging him with absconding with $50,000 of the bank's funds. Berlin.--In the general elections oil*. Sunday the German republic gained a big victory. Parties that hai pledged tliemselves to support tha honest fulfillment of the Dawes plai^. uf' against the return of the monarch^: , and for co-operation In the restoration of sanity in Europe gained substatfr-^s tially in their representation In par? liament and In the popular vote. ' v At the same time the German N*- '.'i tlonr' party, which is pledged to th| .• return of the monarchy, also madp • substantial gains. Other planks in thf^-V: Nationalist platform are the sabotage V of the Dawes plan and a revenge wa^?c f Admiral von Tlrpltz was elected tf * the relchstag from Bavaria, where thf, Voelklsche lost about 75 per cent oiP j its strength. : The question at Issue was lndireetl|i > whether the people should have a «(»••••:, public or monarchy. The return*-*" show large republican gains; it is lij* " dicated that the Nationalist party 1^ f not losing ground. Most of the gainf -- by the republicans are at the expense of the Voelklsche and Stresemann'i People's party. It appears thaf German politics iif; .gradually forming two great partie|. Instead of the seven great and fifteetf . small ones. The Communist party suffered the heaviest losses in its history, from 40 to 50 per cent of Its voting strength, thus relegating It from fourth into sixth place. Although General Ludendorff lost his own district, his name was first on the Voelklsche list and he was sleeted to the relchstag. Friends believe the war leader will resign. Catholics of . Bavaria openly fought tha election of Ludendorff, who mada ) many wild speeches against them. Others elected included Foreign Mii%. istec Streseipann, Chancellor Mar and Joseph WIrth. , Socialists electe every district parity leader. Ruf_ Fisher, leader of the Communist party, was the only woman reported elected. Social Democrafs are claiming 140 seats instead of the present 100 In the relchstag. Hamburg was carried by the Socialists, Frankfurt by the Democrats. Both these, parties made a gain of 50 per cent in the Munich vote, but the Nationalist followers of Tirpitz still have the majority. ' , K: Bandits Kill 2, Wound S in Raid on South Bend South Bend, Ind.--Two men were killed, and five others were shot and wounded in and near South Bend, Ind., when two young gunmen, foiled In an attempt to hold up a saloon, shot their way out of that city.' In their flight the bandits seized an automobile and headed for Chicago. After a thrilling chase by Chief of Police Lawrence Lane and a posse, one of the bandits was captured at a roadhouse on the Division street highway, eight miles from South Bend.' The dead are: Frank Rathfon, sixtyfive years old. South Bi>nd, shot through stomach; Elmer J. Kauffiran, fifty-nine years old, Lydick, Ind., farmer, killed when he resisted bandits at Grapevine creek. The captured youth said he is Raymond L. Moseley and claimed his home Is on Hillsdale road, Boston, is twenty-two years old. ; : Strike Ties Up Cars on Illinois Traction Springfield, 111.--Freight and passenger service along the main line offthe Illinois Traction system, controlled " by United States Senator McKinley, is tied up as the result of the strike orv der Issued here. Three hundred and fifty tralnmep, Including motormen, conductors and brakemen, deserted their posts when the sleepers and freight trains reached their terminals. Officials said no effort would be made to run trains until the strike was set-~ tied. Freight is tied,up In terminals at several points along the line. Mall handled by the road will be turned* over to steam lines. Tl(e trainmen ask a wage increase of appKurimately Hi, cents an hour. M $124,637,715 Total ol Agricultural Appropriation*-* yc Washington.--Thq house itppropria*"$$/'%.• ~ tions committee reported the aigricul^""* v tural appropriation blU .for the yeaigg^p^l beginning July 1. 1925. It carries ' •> "r total of $124<«ft!715, of whieh $80,000, 000 Is for road construction. * ^ This total Is an *lncr&se o^r-w appropriations ffir the current year of $59,928,*279, but Is a decrease over the' budget allowance of $Jl,li4,000. Th total provided for ordlnffry .roads 1 $76,000,000. Forest roads and traila^ are allowed $4,000,000. ^ *: Davis Cuts Trip Short Washington.--Secretary of Labor Davis has cancelled a portion of his South American tour, and will return to Washington December to announced here. * 7 ^ -i Minnesota Bank Closed St. Paul--The Farmers' State bank of Claremont, with $10,000 capital and deposits of $240,000, was closed because of "depleted reserve and questionable paper" by the state tendent of banka. v. Lake Freighter Goes Down Sturgeon Bay, Wis.--The freighter Lakeland, owned by the Transit company of Cleveland, sank with a load of automobiles on Wednesday six miles from the harbor here. t Ax Slayer Gets Seven Years Holland, Mich-- Egbtrt ft('lfappy>S&g "fryke, who killed Miss Molly Fleming.^* pretty school teacher, with an ax, was sentenced by Judge Cross to frona seven to fifteen years in Jaclrson State prison at hard labor. " * » New Honduras Revolt Managua, Nicaragua.--Gen, Jul^o Peralta, with 500 troops, Is near the? frontier preparing for a new Invasion of Honduras from Nicaragua, according to reports received here. r- Three Autos Crash; Three Die Virginia. Minn.--Three members of one family were killed, and Jour men were severely injured when three aw tomobiles collided on a state highway east of here. The Injured men were arrested. Five Years for Abducting Girl Nowata, Okla.--Joseph E. Yeats, unfrocked minister, convicted by jury on a charge of abducting fourteen-year-old Georgia Field, was sentenced te' live years In penitentiary.