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Wrss wm DR. 5. PARKES CADM AH ISABEL Tiews Nuggets From Illinois », -V , Springfield.--Schools to Illinois have T^iiever been In better condition than ... sre at preseiii m far as the instructional force Is concerned, according to Francis O. Blair, state superintendent of public Instruction. "Before the war school officials were hopeful that within the next decade every fohool in the state would be supplied >ith properly prepared teachers," Mr. §*lalr Raid. "But the war took many " |jf the best teachers and much contusion in the school system resulted. This condition, however, has gradually worn away; colleges for the training of teachers are again running at full capacity, and are adding equipment to ofheir faculty and plant as fast as appropriations by the legislature provide the means." , St. Charles.--A $150,000 motion picture theater, an 18-hole golf course, '? Snd a clubhouse, all for St. Charles, £ 'Ihelr home town, and a motion picture V 'theater for West Chicago, the home /'town of their home folks, are the ways . fester Norris and his wife, formerly ,*$>ellortf Angell, heiress to the $38,000,- Gates fortune, take of showing ^ ,?thelr civic pride. Mr. and Mrs. Nor- *>ljpls, in their St. Charles home, adinitj^ ted that they were the donors of the ' 8t. Charles Golf club, as well as of the Arcade theater, now being erected at the Intersection of Main and Second streets in the town. They also told of a similar, but smaller, theater to be built in West Chicago. Mount Vernon.--The selection of a Jury is nearlng completion at the trial of Lawrence M. Hight, deposed pastor of Ina, and Mrs. Elsie Sweetln. charged with poisoning Mrs. Anna Hight and Wilford Sweetln. It had been intimated that the defense of Mrs. Sweetln would be that she Is little more than an unsophisticated girl, who married at an early age and has lived In an Isolated rural community Action toward like punishment for both the man and the woman was Indicated by questions asked prospective Jurors by the state, all who replied that they would not vote the death penalty for a woman being excused. Springfield.--The grand total of the equalized assessed valuation of all property in Illinois Is $4,079,682,014, a net decrease of $10,882,796 from the previous year, according to the final report of the state tax commission, pnnounced. The total for 1923 was ^ $4,090,509,594. The decrease of more 0ian $10,000,000 was caused by lower assessments made in many counties of the state, according to the announcement, particularly In personal property and farm lands. The report shows decrease of $18,913,345 in personal property assessment and a decrease of $9,722,100 in la/ids. ; i Springfield.--Pneumonia Is bitting • Chicago much harder than downstate communities this winter, Judging from the report of the state department of , health. Of the 195 new cases of the disease reported In the state Chicago J|ad 150, leaving the rest of the state comparatively free from It. Chicago also has eight of the seventeen influenza cases reported. Scarlet fever prevalence continued high during the week, 325 new cases being reported. "Of these Chicago had 138: Adams county, 5; Du Page, 8; Jefferson, 8; La Salle, 6; McLain, 5; Madison, 7; Monroe, 10; St. Cialr, 19; Sangamon, «, and Will, 9. Springfield.--A balance of $20,900,- 555 on December 1 Is shown by the report of State Treasurer Oscar Nel- Bon, Just issued. Interest earned and credited to the revenue fund since the last report amounts to $65,917, bring tng Nelson's total of interest earned since January, 1923, to $1,543,829. The cash account shows cash and monies in state depositories: Inactive, $15,- 267,700; active reserve or outstanding $5,644,319; cash In vault, $31,808; coupons, $4,569; federal funds, $12. 858. The outstanding bonded indebtedness of the state December 1 amounted to $112,071,100. Buda.--The community of Buda I* the original home of good roads boosters. At an election held at the schoolbouse In French Grove precinct. Bureau county, on August 4, 1845, the original copy t>f the-poll book shows there were 25 votes cast. Votes were cast for county commissioner, school commissioner, county surveyor, and "for or against the road at Hennepin." All 25 votes cast on the "road at Hennepin" were cast for the road and the result is SO noted on the original copy. Chicago.--William B. Sackett, state superintendent of waterways, suffering from lung trouble, Is better. * Mr. Sackett was brought to St. Luke's hospital three weeks ago. Dr. A. E. Halsted, attending physician, said be expects a speedy recovery. Springfield.--An unusual number of requests from automobile owners for reassignment of their state license for 1925 has all but snowed under the 1 force in the office of the ieo of state. mer.--E. C. Robman, wire chief lie Tuscola Telephone company, was killed when he came In contact with a high-tension wire on a telephone pole. Robman was still alive when he fell to the ground, but his head struck on the curbing and he died while being rushed to a hospital. .? Springfield.--Work of erecting the gallows and wall around the Jail yard at Carlinville for the hanging of Lester Kahl, confessed wife slayer. December 22, has started. The gallows is to be surrounded by a fence 20 feet high and will be roofed with canvas. Alton.--Rev. Frederick D. Butler rector of SL Paul's Episcopal church', for seven years, has accepted a call to the Church of St. John the Evangelist at St Paul. Mlip.. effective the first of tbe year. Elizabeth. -- Bringing down elgtit ducks with one shot was the feat of R E. Bryant, huntsman of Elizabeth. He fired again and brought down the ninth bird before the flock got out of range. Lake Forest.--Mlsa Catherln Bradley, fifty-six. superintendent for 22 years of the Alice Home hospital In Lake Forest, died of pneumonia after 4|Jasss #£ :»4Ss6,. JTotlet.--Reformation of prisoners b* providing a decent environment and by teaching them a means of earning a livelihood honestly will be the function of the new Illinois state prison at stateville, witich was formally opened This* the "Illinois idea," was the key note of the s(»eech of Warden Jofn L. Whitman^ before a distinguished gathering of Jurists, welfare workers, prison officials and reformers who were invited to the opening exercises. The new prison Is three and a half miles northwest of Joliet and covers 64 acres. The concrete wall, dotted with observation towers, which surrounds ]t !s one and a quarter miles long. Of particular Interest to most of the guests were the modern facill ties for sanitation and comfort. The kitchen Is a model, with all the most improved devices for the preparation of wholesome food. Each prisoner 1s to have a cell to himself. Springfield.--Candle-lighted Christmas trees will not be sanctioned under any circumstances this year. State Fire Marshal John G. Ganiber has announced. Particularly the state fire department will withhold approval from lighted candles on a tree at a public gathering or at school or church programs, as a fire might result In panic and loss of life. The department's attitude toward candles on trees in private homes Is an appeal to the sense of the parents. "The same advice," Mr. Gamber said, "goes for lighted candles in wiiu^ws. They are too likely to 4gnite curtains or other Inflammable - material. Electricity is available almost everywhere and there is little excuse fog using candles. Electrical tree-lighting sets are comparatively safe." Springfield.--While the November, report of the Illinois department of labor Is gloomy on employment, ^there is much that is hopeful in the report, which was prepared by R. D. Cahn, chief •statistician. "Optimism in the business community is a source of hope for larger operations in the future, the4 report says, Illinois industries generally react In December" and January, and this period of perennial' slowing down we now face with many thousands already out of work. The wood products group of Industries was the only one to show a unanimous upward trend. All five of these industries have more employees than one month ago." Harrlsburg.--Pledged to support all legislation that will assist the farmer in regaining his economic poise, Claude L. Rew of Harrlsburg, state representative from the Fifty-first senatorial district, has announced he will introduce and push a bill In the coming session of the general assembly which provides for state manufacture and sale at cost of agricultural limestone. This region is rich In deposits of limestone, suitable for the purpose, and Mr. Rew hopes to make a large, cheap supply of the commodity available to all Illinois farmers, through hl/i proposed act. Aurora.--Peculiar circumstances surrounding the disappearance of their daughter, Elizabeth, have aroused the parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Augustine of Auroru. Just before the day of a trial five .weeks ago in which she was the complainant against Joseph Wlngie, garage owner of St Charles, she disappeared. She had charged that VVIngie, through an employee, James Warren, had sold her a stolen automobile. Warren disappeared at the same time. Miss Augustine Is secretary of the audifkg department of Mooseheart the orphanage of tbe Loyal Order of Moose. Bloomlngton.--Illinois' first woman senator will assume her chair in the deliberations of the general assembly at Springfield "with an open mind, always conscious of the fact that she Is representing men and women of the entire Twenty-sixth district, not Just one group or one sex in this district." Mrs. Florence Flfer Bohrer of Bloomlngton, who holds that distinction, said she made no election promises and consequently is free to follow the dictation of her Judgment. Springfield.--Convicted for contempt of court In applying the term "traitors' to two union men who returned to work In the Vulcan Detinnlng company plant at Streator after their local had gone on strike. J. N. St. Clair, president of the union and former Streator chief of police, has appealed to tli« Supreme court. Should the higher court uphold the decision of the Lit Salle county Circuit Judge, St. Clair will face a $500 Ope or .serve atf. months In Jail. ' Belvidere. -- Two farmers vera wounded In the milk war which ha* been raging as the result of the demand for a better price than tbe $3 a hundred poqncls of milk containing 3.5 per cent of butterfat offered by the Gilford Milk Products company. One of the wounded is Richard Saun ders. He is in a critical condition with a bullet In his abdomen. The other is Charles Carlson of Herbert He was beaten with a revolver. Chicago.--Increase of more than $1,- 000,000 In the total resources of the city pension board is shown in the annual report, despite the payment of $443,213.34 in pensions Sad annuities this year. Lake Forest.--Chief of Police James Gordon of Lake Forest, who enjoys the confidence of more millionaire*, probably, than any other police officer in the Middle West, Is going to retire- December 31. He plans to sail from New York January 20 for a three months' voyage that will take him to Havana, Bermuda and tbe eastern ports of South America. Washington, D. C.--Campaign contributions of $8,960 and expenditures of $2,612 were reported to the secretary of the senate by Charles S. De neen, senator-elect from Illinois. , Kankakee.--Suffering intense pais from an Ihjured hip, covered from head to foot with cuts and bruises. sustained in an auto crash near Pontiac; Gov. Len Small will be confined to bed for ten days, Dr. W. A. Spoker, attending physician, announced. Neither Leslie Small, the governor's son, nor Mrs. A. E. Inglesh, his daughter, who were in the coach, is severely injured. Greenview. -- Flood protection for Beardstown, which is menaced in blgb water time by the Illinois river, is one of the chief legislative proposals favored by State Representative Hornet J. Ttee of ttajs city. Department of Agriculture Report Absolves "Middle- , man" of Profiteering* -- j'» • Washington.--Distribution costs eat up approximately 95 per cent of the spread between what the (firmer gets for his product and what Is paid for it by the consumer, according to a report made by the Department of Agriculture on a series of studies of the subject Just completed. "Middlemen," commonly believed by farmers and others to be profiteers, get only about 5 per cent of the conr sumer's price. It was found. Of course there are cases where the middlemen get more than 5 per cent, but the department says their profits "generally are less" than that amount. In the past radicals have described farmers as the helpless victims of the middlemen. Similarly tbe consumer has been told that profiteering after the food product left the farm was responsible for high prices. For the past decade the "spread" has Increased, with the result that the wrath at the middleman has increased. The Department of Agriculture btnmes distribution cost; and gives the middleman generally a clean bill of health, saying the profits tbey take "are an insignificant part of tbe total spread." Having found the real cause, the department has set ^bout in search for relief. Here Is what it says on tbe subject: "Service costs are the important point of attack in any study of price spreads. The line of advance would seem to be In the direction of improvement in handling facilities, speeding up sales processes and effecting economies in packing and transportation. Greater efficiency at each stage In the marketing process offers a better prospect of increased returns to the grower than a lessening of the net profits of wholesale Jobbers and retailers, since these profits are only a fraction of the total price spread." The department's study covered several commodities. It made public the results of one covering Washington apples marketed in the New York district - . . The department found that the price was affected by the efficiency of the methods used in handling commodities. An important influence is the business environment in which any particluar distributing process is done. Another factor is the adequacy of the facilities used. It has been figured, for example, that about 25 per cent of the trucking charge for handling fruits and vegetables in New York city Is due to idle time occasioned by the use of unsuitable facilities. Service costs, says the department, are the Important point of attack In any study of price spreads. The line of advance would seem to be In the direction of Improvement In handling facilities and speeding up sales processes. m 5, .> Shell-Shocked Veteran Kills Father With Sword Oak Park, 111.--Bruce A. Shaw, wealthy Oak Park inventor and manufacturer, was fatally stabbed with a saber by his son George, a shellshocked veteran of the World-^war. The wound, which resulted in Mr. Shaw's death, was Inflicted after a struggle between father and son at their home, 522 Bellefort avenue, Oak Park, in a bedroom occupied by Shaw's daughter, Mrs. Marie Ayers, and shared by her with Miss Hazel Brady of Bloomlngton, 111., who has been staying at 112 Home avenue, Oak Park. The young folks had been drinking at a roadhouse in Melrose Park, called the Playground, and the stabbing occurred soon after their arrival home. The elder Shaw, though dying, sought to shield his son, then minimized his responsibility in these words: "He Is crazy, shell shocked. He has been a psycho-neurotic since tbe war and his been in many sanitariums." A. Belmont, Financier and Sportsman, Is Dead New York.--August Belmont financier and sportsman, and one of New York's wealthiest men, died in his apartment at 550 Park avenue, less than 86 hours after he bad' been taken ill. Mr. Belmont, who was seventy-one years old, died of blood poisoning following a sudden Inflammation of the right arm, described by the physicians as cellulitis. At the bedside when the end came were Mrs. Belmont, once famdus on the stage as Eleanor Robson; Morgan Belmont, bis son, and Mrs. Morgun Belmont Dr. S. Parkes Cadraan of New York has been made president of the Federal Council of Churches which has been in session In Atlanta. Doctbr Cadman was born In Wellington, Shropshire, England, ill 1884 and was educated at the London university. In 1899 he became pastor ol the Metropolitan temple. New York, and since 1901 has held the pastorate of the Central Congregational church * of Brooklyn. U. S. SENATE VOTES EIGHT NEW CRUISERS $140#00flOO BiU to Rebuild Navy. Washington.--The first step of the present congress toward bringing the United States navy up to a parity with that of Great Britain under the 5-5-3 arms limitation treaty was taken when the senate passed tbe cruiser and battleship rehabilitation bill calling for a* construction and alteration program, carrying approximately $140,- 000,000. The bill, which was held up at the last session on an eleventh-hour motion by Senator William H. King (Dem., Utah; to reconsider, was whisked through by Senator Frederick Hale (Rep., Maine) through the simple expedient of tabling Senator King's motion. The motion to table was carried by viva voce vote without opposition. The measure authorizes an appropriation of f?8,§fttMK)0 for the Installation of anti-air deck armor and torpedo protective "blisters" on the battleships New York, Texas, Florida, Utah, Arkansas and Wyoming, the conversion of certain of the capital ships to the oil-burning type and the installation of new fire control systems on the New York and Texas. It also provides for the construction of eight new scout cruiser® "of the highest practicable speed and the greatest desirable radius of action" to cost $11,100,000 each, exclusive of armor plate. The measure also authorizes construction of six river gunboats, costing $700,000 each exclusive of armor, to be used principally la Chinese waters. Veteran Labor Leader Dies ^ jp Hospital at Sm- Antonio, Ex-Governor Glynn of New York Is Dead Albany, N. Y.--Martin H. Glynn, former governor of New York, died suddenly at his home here. Death was pronounced due to heart trouble, probably an outcome of a spinal disease of long standing. Although best known In his home state as editor, lawyer, controller, lieutenant governor, and governor, Mr. Glynn believed his greatest services were his efforts in behalf of Ireland. Former Governor Glynn was also credited with having done much to bring about the election of President Wilson in 1916 through his eloquent speech before the Democratic national convention in which he ^originated the phrase,*"he kept us out.of war." I nee Leaves $4,000,000; Estate Goes to Family Los Angeles.--Thomas H. lnce, motion- picture producer, who died here last month after falling ill aboard a yacht in San Diego harbor, left an estate of approximately $4,000,000, It was revealed by Charles Fourl of counsel for the executors. Virtually all of the estate goes to the producer's widow and three children under the terms of the will, which Fourl says will be iiled for probate in a few days. U. S. Customs Agent Held on Chcnrge of Smuggling JJonolulu.--Gilbert McNIcoil, former chief United States customs inspector here, was* arrested on a charge of smuggling merchandise ashore from the steamship President Cleveland on June 6. The Indictment also charged that McNicoll ordered his subordinate* to pass goods without inspection. Two Babies Die in Fire Olean, N. Y.--Two babies of Mr. and Mrs. William Baker were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home here. Tbe parents and another child are in a hospital in g critical condition. -! Siam to End "Privilege** Paris.--Siam is planning to rid Itself of the last vestiges of special privileges for foreigners by treaties now nearlng completion. It la announced here. Stoncham Linked to Fraud New York.--Federal Judge Hand granted a motion to include Charles A. Stoneham, part owner of the New York Giants, in the proceedings against E. M. Fuller & Co., convicted "bucket shop" operators. Offer More Oil Leases Washington--Secretary Work has authorized a sale at public auction of oil leases on 25,000 acres of the Osage Indian reservation la. Oklahoma, to bo helO December 18, New Helicopter Mark Set Madrid.--Using a special type of helicopter, a Spanish inventor has set a record for machines distinct from airplanes when lie flew 12 kilometers In 8 minutes and 12 seconds ml jpt average altitude of 50 meters. ' Paris Approved as " Rome.--The council of the League of Nations has approved Paris as the world center for all nations In furtherance of the irian for "Intellectual co-operation." German JEnooy Backs Dawes Berlin.--Baron von Maltzau. newly anointed ambassador to the United States announced here on Friday that he would take up the taak assigned with tbe aim of carrying out the Dawes plan. Halts Forty Shift Brussels.--An intense fog has paralyzed navigation along the coast and on the Rlvef Scheldt for three days, forty ships reporting that they bad anchored because of it - San Antonio, 'Texas.--Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, died here at 4:10 o'clock Saturday morning. At that time all the members of the executive council of the Federation ot Labor were called to his room. The primary cause of death was acute heart trouble with pulmonary oedema, complicated by advanced nephritis and arterial hypertension. Mr. Gompers' last Illness began In Mexico City, where he wsa attending the Pan-American labor congress."Because of the high altitude in Mexico City he was hurried to the United States and to a hospital at San Antonio in the hope that lower altitudes would aid his recovery. Samuel Gompers was bom in London on January 21, 1850. His father was a dgnrmaker and Samuel was tbe eldest of eight children. He came to America in 1863. Interested In local labor movements. Gompers became the head and forefront of the American organized labor movement. In 1881 he organized the American Federation of Labor as a national association of labor unions, and with the exception of one year he was Its president continuously from that time. He saw it grow from a coterie of small locals to a national organization with a membership of more than 3.000,000. He spent several of the later years of his life in fighting autocracy abroad and radicalism in organized labor at home. The conflict ended, he went to Paris, where be helped to organise tbe International labor congress. The world-wide unrest which followed the conclusion of the World war did not spare American industry. Bolshevism early lifted its head. Explaining its menace, he said: "There has always been a radical element In the labor movement that' has tried to destroy the very forces which have protected it all these years. It is this element which makes it so hdrd for organized labor to make Its demands effective. The American Bolshevikl have earned for labor countless enemies and have represented us In an unfavorable light. Six months after these words were spoken, of more than "300 strikes in various parts of the United States, It was reported -that only 62 were "authorized" oy the American Federation of Labor. He charged German labor with having helped precipitate the world struggle, blamed prohibition for causing "unrest" in the United States, urged a labor union of the two Americas, denounced a United States senatorial investigation of Llexico as "Prussianism," supported the League of Nations, assailed the open shop platform of the United States Chamber of Commerce, demanded that Asiatics be kept out of the United States, pleaded for the release of all "political" and wartime prisoners, including Debs, opposed the establishment by the Washington administration of a department of welfare, praised President Harding's world disarmament efforts, and approved America's plan to aid famine-stricken Russia. Among the laws Gompers framed, supported or originated were the eighthour law for government employees; the various state laws fixing hours of labor; laws establishing Labor day as the workingmen's holiday; the federal workingmen's compensation law; the law limiting the use of injunctions In labor disputes; the law exempting labor unions from prosecution as combinations in restraint of trade, and the law regulating punishment, for contempt of court He belonged to the Masons, Odd Fellows and Elks. He was the author of numerous small pamphlets In the nature of tracts on labor questions, wrote a book on the world labor movement, and edited the American Federationlst, the official organ of the American federation. Throughout his career Mr. Gompers refused to become identified with any political party, taking the position that he could be of more service to the cause of labor by holding himself aloof from Identification with any single political organization. Mr. Gompers was twice married. His first wife, Sophia Julian of New York, died in 1919, shortly after the celebration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They had three sons and a uaughter, the latter, a nurse In France, died during the war. On April 15, 1921, the labor leader, then seventy- one years old, married Mrs. Gertrude A. G. NeiAcheler, thirty-eight years old, a music teacher. 40 Perish on Jap Ship Tokyo.--The number of known dead of the Kwanto, special service ship which sank during a storm off Tsuruga, has reached 40. Is it believed that the total loss of life will be 100 out of 208 aboard. Rep. T. F. Appleby Dies Baltimore, Md.--Theodore Frank Appleby, representative In congress from the Third district of New Jersey, died here at Johns Hopkins hospital following an operation. Baseball Player Kills Self Memphis. Tenn.--Jack Wakefield, preparatory school football player and former member of the St. Louis National league baseball team, shot and killed himself. He had quarreled with Us fiance. New World Speed Record ^Marseilles, France.--Adjutant Bonnet, the French aviator, broke tbe world's speed record for one kilometer at the Ba Istres airdrome with aa average of 280 miles an hour. Miss Isabel Rockefeller, one of America's wealthiest young women, It has-just become known is now an instructor in bioloscy in the teachers' col'ege of Columbia university. She never has devoted much time to social activities, preferring to study and look after her mother's many charities. Miss Rockefeller is -a daughter of Percy A. Rockefeller and of Mrs. Rockefeller, formerly Isabel G. Stillman ; a grandniece of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and a niece of James A. Stlllman, former president Of the National City bank. » V. S. GOVERNMENT ~ MARKET QUOTATIONS Washington.--For the week ending December 11.--FRUITS AND VKtJETABLBS-- Northern sacked round white potatoes mostly |1.10@1.16 in city markets, 90c@$1.00 carlot sales in Chicago, 66^75c f. o. b. Midwestern yellow onions mostly »2.&0@3.00 In consuming ce'nters; midwestern white varieties, |3.50@3 76 in Chicago. Northwestern extra fancy wlnesap apples, $3.2&W3.50 per box in Chicago. HAY--Quoted December 10: No. 1 timothy: Chicago, 1)4.00. No. 1 alfalfa: Kansas City, $22.50. No. 1 prairie: Chicago, (17.00. GRAIN--Quoted December 11: No. 1 dark northern wheat: Minneapolis. $1.60@1.82. No. 2 red winter wheat: Chicago, *1.73St. Louis, $1.78@1.80; Kansas City, |1.73. No. 2 hard winter wheat: Chicago, $1.63; St. Louis, $1.61; Kansas City, $1.55 @1.64. No. 2 mixed corn: Chtcag-o, $1.28%<3H.25; Mlnneapolis. $1.10% @1.18%; Kansas City, $1.14 @1.15. No, 2 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.25@1.26%; Minneapolis, $1.23%@ 1.24%; St Louis. $1.22%; Kansas City, $1.15@1 15H. No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago $1.24 @1.25; Minneapolis, $1.18% @ 1.21*. No. 2 white corn: Chicago, $1.24% @1.25; St. Louis, $1.22; Kansas Ctty, $1.16@1.17. No. 2 white oats: Kansas City. 68MiC. No. > white oats: Chicago, 56%@>58c; Minneapolis, 53HO 63%c; St. Louis, 58Vi@69c. " DAIRT PRODUCTS--Closing wholesale prices of 92-score butter: New Tork, 43%c; Chicago, 41c; Philadelphia, 44%c; Bosto i, 43c. Wholesale prices on Wisconsin primary cheese markets December 10: Single daisies, 21%c; double daisies, 21 %e: young Americas, 22c; longhorna, 21%c; square prints, 22%c. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $9.90 for top aQd $8.80@9.60 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $6.50@12.75; butcher cows and heifers, $3.15@11.50; feeder steers, $4.60@7.50; light and medium weight veal calves, $8.25® 10.25. Fat lambs, $14.00@ 16.00; feeding"lambs. $15.00@16.60; yearlings, $10.2$© 13.60; fat ewes. «&.60e».S6. Cubcux Memorial to "T. R.9* Is Unveiled by Widow Santiago,- Cuba.--President Zayas, speaking at the dedication of the memorial erected in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, said: "The love and devotion of the Cuban people for Theodore Roosevelt will live in the hearts longer than the bronze bust and tbe granite base unveiled in bis honor here/can possibly last." ^ * The monument is erected to Roosevelt as colonel of the First United States Volunteer cavalry, otherwise known as the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American war. It stands on a site provided by the municipality of Santiago leading to San Juan bill, where the most noted exploits of the Rough Riders were enacted. Mrs. Roosevelt, widow of the Rough Riderp' colonel, drew aside the flag which enshrouded the monument, while army and navy officers stood at salute and the government officials and civilians uncovered. Harry Thaw Gives Evdfn $5,000 for New Home New York.--Ilarry K. Thaw, In » telegram to his attorney here, denied a statement attributed to his former wife that he had bought a $15,000 home for her and her son, "the boy called Russell," Ventnor, N. J., but admitted that hi had given $5,000 toward the»purchase of a house at tbe Instance of friends. Thaw also said that he had offered to pay the former Evelyn Nesblt Thaw $10 a day because he "wanted to do the right and proper thing by her la spite of all she has done." Cars Stop at Belmont Rites New York.--Subway and elevated rail service in New York halted for one minute on Friday In respect to the memory of Maj. August Belmont, who financed the first New York subway system. Car Men Oppose Offer St LoulSj-- Striking St. Louis mloa trainmen of the Illinois Traction sys-" tem unofficially voted against acceptance of a compromise agreement it lb announced. ^ 1 Heavy Snow at' Ashlasifi Ashland, Wis.--This city is digging itself out of one of the worst snowstorms experienced in years. Snow Is drifted to a height of six and seven feet and exhibitors at the grain uhow were forced to truve) by snowsboes. Coolidfe tad Former Ajti ciales of War President^ Join in Services. Washington. -- Congress and fluni who had intimate connection with the private and public life of WoodfW# Wilson paid tribute to his memory in the chamber of the house uf representatives. Former cabinet officers, members ff the Supreme court and envoys of foreign governments, with Mrs. Wilson and member:; of his family and special guests, sat with the senators and representatives as Or. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia and a lifelong friend of the war President, delivered the formal oration. President Coolldge and his entire cabinet participated irf the exerdan. as did Chief Justice Taft and ofrer members of the Supreme court. Uva. <Jooli#ge was in the executive galle-y. Speaking from the same rostrum where Wilson delivered his messages to congress, Doctor Alderman denied there could be anything of, "failustf*, in his great attempt as President, .t-, "If there was failure. It-was humanity's failure," he - - "I envisage hidMniter as a victor and a conqueror. To make him the one undaunted advocate ^f the world's hopes, the scapegoat of a world collapse, is to visit upon him an injustice so cruel that it must perish of its own reason." Mrs. Wilson, clad in black, occupied a front seat directly in front of the speaker's stand. She sat quietly, her eyes continually on Doctor Alderman. The services were broadcast through a specially arranged system of radio stations, which those in charge estimated made them audible to more than half the population of the UnUMft States. . Hoover for Strict Laws ' to Curb Auto Death* Washington.--The automobile stahds as the only source of accidental deaths that have not been reduced by modern methods in industry and commerceand policing. Secretary Hoover declared in an address opening the national conference on street and hlgh~ way safety. Automobile operation has doubled the rate of accidents in tbe last ten years, the secretary said. While the automobile has been established as a. necessity in American economic lllte, it is now necessary to devise const motive measures fhat will preclude the possibility of tens of thousands of automobile deaths annually and hundreds of thousands df personal Injuries as well as a staggering economic IOSS attending. While the automobile is the greataft social and economic development of the last twenty years, he said, v» must reduce its terrors If we are to* wish for its fullest development. Secretary Hoover indicated ..three broad methods of approach to a remedy. These would be^th rough prevention and safeguard, through much more rigid punishment for violation of the rights of others and through public education as to the responsibilities of motor vehicle driving, Soviet Objects to U. £. Sign on Russian Soii Moscow.--An American sign on Russian soil, announcing In bold letters that anyone who molested the tablet would be fined $250 or imprisoned, has riled the Soviet foreign office »»< caused the dispatch of a sharp note to the United States forbidding further violation of Soviet territory, j/' The object ot discussion is a br^M# tablet inscribed: 'United States Geodetic SurvejMMagnetic Station--Disturbance Pqfe*-' lshable by a Fine of $250, or ImptfcK onment." This tablet, with Its warning, is la the possession of the Soviet union government. It was found on Thcukot^k peninsula in Emma ba^, Cape IMsiao. The peninsula is a little-frequented region. The tablet was placed there in 1920 by the officers of the Bear, a U. S. coast guard vessel which annually sails the northern seas, relieving' distress and gathering geodetic information. George Tchitcherln, Soviet foreign minister, has been exercised over the visit of the Bear to the northern shore of his country. Mob in Tennessee Hangs Wounded Negro to Tram Nashville, Tenn.--Samuel Smith, fitV feen-year-old negro, who shot Ike Eastwood, a grocer, and was shot by the wounded man. was taken from the general hospital by masked men hanged to a tree near his victim's homk Asks $SfiOO tor Mrs. WiUo* Washington. -- Representative tA Guardia, Republican, New York, Introduced a resolution in the house of representatives to authorise the payment of a $5,000 annuity W F ilMl ~ Boiling Wilson. " Sf. Peter Bank Closed St. Paul, Minn.--The Citizens' SUitl Bank of St. Peter, with deposits Of about $470,000, was closed because of slow Montana paper," it is announced. School Honors Mrs. CooUdge Boston. -- Mrs. Calvin Coolldge re celved an honorary degree from Boston university when she came here Friday to attend the installation of the first dean of women. Jack Johnson Jmilm Chicago.--Deputy sheriffs arrested Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, on i charge of stealing his own automobile on which he was behind in his payments. He was sent to tbe jail. Warden at Atlanta Qmts Atlanta, Ga. A. E. Sartain, warden of the federal penitentiary here, has resigned and is succeeded for the at least, by T. B. White, special partmentf of Justice operator. V