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w ^THJES HeHENBT PLAINDEALER, McHENRY, MAXQU1S DE MAGAZ PA1 DEBT TO U. S; miMftig Hews Brevities I of Illinois | imnmimttHiiHiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiii? "•Chicago.--Contending that, despite *fce fact that there are only 67 federal iKgents in the state to keep 4,100,000, tfftostly hostile persons out of liquor, #rt»hlbition is becoming more effective, Ifaj. Percy Owen, federal prohibition jtllrector fojr Illinois, revealed in his ^annual report, issue*i at Chicago. The •tint 1st Irs contained In the report fol- : Arrests made by federal agents, 1<|900; stills seized, 158; vehicles 58; gallons distilled spirits, *!lne, et<\, 29,078; total value of property seized and not destroyed, including automobiles, $52.848.41; brewijfies closed by injunction, 18; other premises closed by injunction, 1,400. Pekln.--Upon th.« question of whether the death of John E. Schleicher of I^ekin was due to natural causes or . tie effect of gas administered to him t»y a dentist before extracting a tooth depends the payment of $7,500. An Insurance company declined to pay a policy, claiming that death was due to natural causes. Ther widow maintained that death was an accident. A J»ry decided in favor of the widow. $ j£n appeal was died. Evans!on.--One of Evanston's Grand Army veterans died on Sunday. He . J»as R. H. Peterson, an attorney, living ft 637 Ilinman avenues Two children, - George P. of Detroit, and Jeanette of Bvanston, survive. Mr. Peterson was fcorn in Williamsburg, Ohio, and served through the Civil war as a private. He came here after the war and Was graduated from a laW school, establishing an office in Evanston shortly afterward. ' Rock Island.--Completion of the Illinois wnterway, which, according to *. G. Barnes of Chicago, chief en- *•- State Building a* Monument to Medicine Springfield.--Another building for the state group at Spring Held, which forms a cluster about the state capitoi, has been proposed by Dr. Isaac D. Raw lings, director of the state department of health. He asks It as a monument to progress of scientific medicine, and completion in 1025 of a half century since Ills department was founded. Improvement In public health in Illinois makes such a monument very fitting. Doctor Ruwllngs said. He suggests that it be a modern office building, with commodious quarters designed especially for the peculiar needs of a modern state department of health and spacious enough to relieve overcrowding of office room common among most departments in the eapltoh MS" .if?" * * . •ife t gjneer of the state division of waterways, is expected during the next four pears, is looked forward to with anticipation not only by those communities touched bjr the Illinois river, but » also by that part of the state traversed •V,.-* •rw the Hennepin canal ~ Chicago.--Ted Newberry, a former Superintendent for a taxicab company. 'Was arrested by a detective bureau . jfquad as a suspected member of a |)ang of hijackers whom the federal Authorities blame for the murder of ' rllomer Finch, a dealer in bootleg al- ;$|ohol, killed in his roadhouse at One -f^JHundred and Third street and Itidge- . -land avenue, December 11. Sterling.--Whiteside county hunters : ; ;Ueport a scarcity,of rabbity. Two rea- • #ons are given in accounting for the Shortage, one being that frequent and ie:fceav.v rains during the last summer Jj*'••*:: frowned thousands of baby bunnies in their burrows and the other that ferret Jlsers have ruined the sport for legitimate huntsmen. Danville. -- Allen Hanratty, alias Jprank Harrison, was sentenced in Jfjnlted States district court at Danville by Judge Llndley to serve ten ^ears In the Federal peintentiary at JLeavenworth, following his plea of - £uilty to robbery of the post office at " ""Vaiier, and the cashing of money or- T.Pers stolen from there. f Galesburg.--Knox cotfnty has adopt- #d the photograph system of recording public records, instead of tran- . Scribing them by hand. *A machine Jias been ordered which will copy 300 |>ages of records a day. It is claimed fhat the saving in salaries will pay tor the new system in a year, v Peoria.--Peoria county may secure • )i new courthouse. The present building is forty years old. It has been that a modern building would cost $1,250,000. The board of ttui>ervl8ors voted to submit the question of a bond Issue at the election on April 7. ^ ; Danville.--Robert Maine Tldmarsh, I* *. ^oungest son of Lord Eric Maine of v' .Oxfordshire, England, a resident of -'-this country since 1861, died at Dan- ' vllle at the home of his niece, Mrs. * plizabeth Wilder, aged ninety-two. > Tldmarsh had been a successful grain I dealer. * Chicago.--Herbert Holltday, last of " tho participants in the Rondout $2,000,000 mall train robbery to go to jprison was taken to Leavenworth Federal penitentiary. Holliday went :l * to prison without turning over $105,000 of the loot of the Rondout robbery he v eached. Chicago.--Because It would set up regulations for aviation that governland and water navigation and theretore would be Impracticable and prevent pioneering, Charles Dickinson, "father" of aviation in Illinois, is opposing the Winslow bill now before the lower house of congress. Mattoon.--This city will adopt the commission form ot government. The dty has been unable to raise money to meet Its expenses. Business men have levied a tax of one cent on all .gasoline sold there for the purpose of -financing the city. Chicago.--Ch lea goons paid $22,890.- !)9 Income tax for the Inst quarter bout $2,000,000 less, than for the i>urtii quarter of the preceding year he collector of internal revenue an nounced. . Joliet.--The population of Joliet will be increased by more than 10,000 if the annexation projects to be voted December 80 are approved by the pie. The last federal census gave a population of 38,000. IMxon.--A three-year-old boy acci- ,lly discharged his father's shot- Instantly killing his ten-year-old r, Edward Smith, eldest son of and Mrs. George Smith of South The father, returning from hunting, placed the gun in a corner, where the baby tugged at.it, pulling it «ver and discharging it. Beards town.--Dedication ceremonies lor Beardstown's new gymnasium will be held January 9, when the Beardstown high school team meets the Bath five. The gymnasium, which has a floor space 60 by 80 feet, has been completed and ia now being equipped for use. Champaign.--Legislation to compel aH cattle owners hi 111 loot* to test their herds for tuberculosis, and ef!mthose that are badly diseased, be proposed In the fifty-fourth t»ly by state Represent a- *0. • . Springfield. -- Saving $801,823.68. school children numbering 107,079 In Illinois were* enrolled in school savings bank organizations during the school year 1923-24, figures compiled by the savings bank division of the American Bankers' association show. A total of 480 schools, located In 54 cities and towns of the state, had school savings organizations. Interest credited on this and previous amounts saved totaled $10,280.26, the report showed, and the total bank balances at the end of the school year amounted to $923,989.87. The total enrollment of the-.schools numbered 166,833. Decatur.--John Clark of this city, recently elected to the lower house of the Illinois legislature, has prepared a bill, which he will introduce at the coming session, which provides for the appointment of a non-salaried commission to consist of three workingmen. two manufacturers, the chairmen of the educational committee In both houses of the legislature and also one member from each branch, to conduct an investigation of a proposed correspondence course In vocational education for wage earners, to be supplied by the state without charge. Chicago.-^^ysical and mental ex aminations for drivers of automobiles, urged by Coroner Oscar \yolff as a means of checking the number of accidents, were discussed at a meeting of the Cook county safety council by members of the legislature, automobile clubs and otliers.* I>r. A. J. Snow of Northwestern university gave a practical demonstration of apparatus required for psychological tests. He said it was practicable to give the examination to every motorist in Illinois within a month if a hill authorising It Is passed by the legislature. (ieneva.--An order was entered In the Kane county Circuit court at Geneva, by Judge William Fulton, requiring Miss Ellda I'iza, twenty-six, of New York to appear in the court January 10 to answer a petition of her former husband. Herbert P. Crane, sixty-four, St. Charles, millionaire, asking that Miss Piza be compelled to remain in the Jurisdiction of Illinois courts if she is to retain custody of their child, Anthony Raphael Crane, aged five. The Cranes were divorced November 15, 1920. Chicago.--Thomas Dent, at one time one of the foremost members of the Chicago bar, died, aged ninety-three, at the John C. Kin^ home in Chicago. Mr. Dent was born in Putnam county and went to the village school near his home. He married MISK Susan Strawn in 1857 and they had one child, a daughter, who died in 1882. He was at one time president of the Illinois and the Chicago Bar associations. Oak Park.--Oak Park will, spend $129,000 to construct a 5,000,000-gallon reservoir beneath the Pyott playground, Lombard avenue and Lake street. . Contracts were let at a meeting of the village board. Oak Park obtains Its present water supply from Chicago. Low pressure In the morning and evening, when Chicago uses a heavy flow, was the reason for the determination to build the reservoir. Chicago.--The lure of literature added new recruits to Its list of book readers In Chicago In 1924. During the year the city supplied 617,428 more books to 43,000 more persons than hi 1923, with 9,741,446 books circulated during tfie period. The city library owns 1,416*317 volumes and lif 1924 spent $1342,750. De Kalb.--The annual exhibition of the DeKalb County Poultry association, including fowls and eggs, will be held at DeKalb January 14 to 17, inclusive. The egg exhibit Is a new feature of the show. Scoring will be based on size, inte'ir, shell texture and uniformity of size, shape and color. La Grange.--The Acacia Country clubhouse at La Grange burned to the ground, entailing a loss of $35,000 to the 285 members of1 that Masonic club. Chicago.--Six hundred motion picture operators met and voted to demand a pay raise when their agreement expires Januarv 10. Marion.--The severe weather has put a stop to the championship croquet tournament which has been in progress at Creal Springs, the haver, of forty Civil war veterans, near Mar Ion. The veterans will resume tlrfeir contest as soon as the weather rnod- Wntes, Rockford.--By the will of the late t August Nllson, th<» Swedish-American hospital at Rockford is left $5,000, while the Jenny Llnd Society for the Aged, the Swedish Ladles' Aid society and the Rockford Children's home are left $1,000 each. Springfield,--Vocational courses In agriculture, industrial work and home economics were given by 205 cities in Illinois to a total enrollment of 46,810 students last year, according to the annual report of the state board of vocational agriculture. Schools giving these" courses were reimbursed by state and federal boards to the amount of $485,185.25. _ „ • ak Park.--William N. Brown, su- Col urn b AWARD TO CECIL Recipient of $25,000 and Me>rinl Revieart Arrnnfu plishments of League. ! New York.--Before a distinguished gathering, which Included Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood was presented with the $25,000 peace award and medal given under the Woodrow Wilson foundation for meritorious service in the cause of international co-operation and peace. The presentation was made at a dinner at the Hotel Astor. In accepting the award. Viscount Cecil asserted the advance in the past five years in the direction of international co-operation had been "little short of marvelous." Praising the United States for having consistently stood for peace, Viscount Cecil said he would not utter a word of criticism of the attitude of America toward the League of Nations. He stressed, however, the accomplishments of the* league since its inception under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson, whom he characterized as "a great American and a great citizen of the world," adding: "There is no title to fame higher than that." Mr. Wilson's contribution, he said, was the Idea that peace was base<l. on unity and solidarity of mankind, an idea contrary to that motivating the prewar system, which Viscount Cecil called "international anarchy diversified by war." ^ He asserted that, although the Dawes plan was devised entirely without the sphere of the league, it was founded on principles similar to those advocated by the league. "To my mind," he said, "what I hope will be the great success of the Dawes scheme is just as much a result of the new international conception for which Woodrow Wilson stood as anything that has been done by the league itself." Disarmament, Viscount Cecil said, Was one of the outstanding problems yet to be solved. "LMsarmanient is the goal to which all intelligent lovers of peace must desire to tend," he said, "but the difficulties In the way are prodigious and It will need all the new spirit of which I have spoken to secure success." Viscount Cecil was presented with the award and medal by Norman H. Davis, who presided at the dlimefC * Chicago Prosecutor to Probe McClintock's Death Chicago.--William Nelson McCllntock's body was ordered lifted from its nearly fresh gave In Oakwoods cemetery by State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe and Coroner Oscar Wolff. An exhaustive inquiry was begun, prompted, the officials said, by a chain of seeming peculiarities which ended with the young millionaire orphan's death on December 4 last. Thus again is singled out for emphasis the legend of the McCllntocl: fortune, whose holders have been short lived In its possession. Billy McCllntock, the last of his line, was holder of the $1,000,000 fortune just eight months when he died, a few hours before he was to have become the husband of Miss Isahelle Pope of 910 Lake aveque, Wllniette. Mr. Shepherd, to whom the bulk of the McCllntock fortune, was willed, when reached by long-distance telephone at Albuquerque, N.M., stated that the boy "died a natural death and there is no reason for an- investigation." Gran?* Granddaughter Found Dead at Hospital San Francisco, Cal.--A young woman, identified as Mrs. Fanny G. Purdy, said to be a granddaughter of Gen. U. S. Grant and a daughter of II. S. Grant, Jr., of San Diego, was found dead in the court of the St. Francis hospital here. She had been occupying a room on the sixth floor of the hctepital Above where she Was found and had been closely guarded for several days, it was said. W. OLMSTEAD . John Whipple Olmstead of Alham? bra, Cal., a senior in the University of California . at Berkeley, who was awarded the Cecil Rhodes scholarship by the California committee of selection. He will spend three years In residence at Oxford university, England, with an allowance _of $1,700 a SEAPLANE SWAMPED; four ws&uygs Naodt Jftnbutance WrecttH at Hampton Roads. Norfolk, Va.--Three navy men and a civilian met death here when a naval ambulance seaplane returning from off the North Carolina coast with a hospital patient was swamped at the Hampton Boats naval air station landing. The dead are: E. M. Keyser and A. S. Manwarlng, chief petty officers; P. S. Gavin, a hospital apprentice, and Landrew Williams of Buxton, N. C. Williams was being brought to a Norfolk hospital for treatment tor pneumonia. U. B. Williams, father, of the civilian victim of tile wreck; Lieut. W. B. Gwin, pilot, a radio operator and a mechanic escaped. The wreck was attributed to the probable existence of n hole In the 'bow of the plane, which allowed the water to rush into the forward part of the airship when It glided to the water at the landing station. Only the.forward portion of the plane .vas inundated. Two of the navy men. trying to escape aft. were strpek by tlur propellers and killed. The bther victims were drowned. The plane's nose dive beneatll the surface was witnessed from shore. At the pier a motorboat was waiting to assist in landing the sick man and the crew of the plane. :v Find 13 Bodies, Hunt 108, in Asylum Fire Tokyo.--Fire swept a private institution for the insane here. Out of 343 reported inmates of the Institution 108 are reported missing. Thirteen bodies have been recovered. Fifty residences in the vicinity of the asylum were burned. Hight and Mrs. Sweetiift Guilty of Poisoning Spouse Mount Vernon, 111.--Rev. Lawrence M. Hight and Mrs. Elsie Sweetin were found guilty by a jury of poisoning Mrs. Sweetin's husband. Hight was sentenced 'to prison for life and Mrs. Sweetin was given 35 years In prison. Britain .Fight* Plant Ditetue . Washington.--Great Britain has not placed any embargo on imported pota toes, but requires that certificates from state agriculture departments showing the potatoes to be free «t plant disease. ^ 33 PEMSHIN FIRE SANTA STARTED Score Also Injured at Chritt- ~mas Entertainmentai > Hobart, Okla. Hobart, Okla.--With the identification of the last victim established, the death list In the Christmas eve fire at the Babb Switch rural school stands at thirty-three. /Twenty injured persons are still confined in two hospitals. One is expected to die and two others are In a critical condition. "Death entered the Christmas celebration suddenly, cutting off at Its height the program rendered by the children of the neighborhood. The last little girl had spoken her "piece" and a jolly Santa In red suit and furs had distributed to eagh chubby pair of eager hands a little sack of candy, while parents and friends who packed the small one-room structure to capacity looked on. ~ Santa reached for one of therfew remaining candy sacks. His arm struck a candle on the Christmas tree. The blazing candle fell from Its meager perch, and in an instant a ball of cotton on the tree burst into flame. A rush to put out the fire, and the tree fell over, scattering blazing twigs. In an Instant the room was In a panic. Men and women sprang fcr the single exit at the rear and to the windows, beating out the panes, only to find the openings covered by a heavy wire netting. The windows shattered, a brisk wind blq»' through the room, fanning the flames, and tha flimsy structure caught like kindling. Many were crushed In the Jam be? fore the door and it is believed that most of those who perished had been injured before the flumes found them. The dead are: Perry BIggers, Bud Biggers, Dowell Bolding, seventeen; Mattie Bolding, thirteen; Edward Bolding, ten; Mrs. lthoda Bradshow, Mattie May Bryan, T. C. Coffee, Mrs. T. C. Coffee, Maud Coffee, Audrey Coffee, Orley Coffee, Ethel Coffee, William Curtis, thirty-four; Mrs. W. Curtis, thirty-two; Lo'.s Elements, twentythree; Gladys Clements, twenty-two; John Duke, Jr. (child), Mary E. Eden (child), J. T. Goforth, John Hetzenberger, Mrs. Florence Hill, teacher of Babb Switch school; Vesta Jackson, Opal Peek, Cyril Peck (child), Paul Peck (child), Curtis Peterson, Lynn Reville, Lllla Reville, Mrs. Juanita Stevenson of Fort Worth, Texas; Mary Stevenson, daughter of Juanita May Wheat Crosses $1.91 ^ Mark at Chicago Market Chicago.--Tlie $1.81 line was surpassed by wheat on Friday with May selling at $1.8l1 /4 and December at $1.77%. This was a jump of more than 4 cents from the close Wednesday. The rise was the highest price at this season In years and under normal conditions has seldom been exceeded at any time. During the war It sold as high as $3.18 to a settlement price In 1917 when trading was stopped, while cash wheat In December, 1919, and In January of 1920 sold at $3.50, which was the highest on record. Wheat at Winnipeg went to $1.89 for May, while recently It was selling below the Chicago prices. Leaders in trade forecast a price of $2 for wheat within a short time unless the foreign situation changes decidedly. - Frgpch and Yanks Hon** Heroes of Belleau Wood Paris.--A combined Franco-American service was held In Belleau Wood on Christmas in memory of the Americans who fell during the war. Dr. Julian S. Wadsworth, director of the Assoclutlon for Preserving the Memory of Chateau Thierry, made an address as did also the Catholic vicar of Belleau. The French government was represented and many members of tbe clergy were present. Washington University Gets $1,000,000 Gift St. Louis.--The Chase apartments building here, which, with the site Is valued at $1,000,000, has been turned Ofrer to Washington university by W. K. Bixby. prominent capitalist. It was announced. The annual rente}^ totals $72,000. Qry Law Cost to U. S. Government Is Growing Washington.--More than $60,000,OOC will be the cost of enforcing the prohibition law since the United States officially went on the' water wagon if congress authorizes the, proposed $11,000,000 appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926. gvery year since 1920, when the dry laws went into effect, the bill for prohibition enforcement has steadily increased until now It has practically tripled, as is illustratel by the following .appropriations during the fiscal y^ars: 1920, $3,750,000; 1§21, $5,500,000; 1922, $7,500,006; 1923, $9,250,000; 1924, $9,(MMi.(KK>; 1925, $10,000,000; .1926, $11,000,<K»0. These appropriations total $55,000,- 000, but to them must be added the bonus for salaries allowed soon after the war and continuing until the present time. These bonuses totaled $8,652,488. The coast guard has asked for $9,648,257 of its regular appropriation of .1*20,597,835 for its fight against the runt Heet. . Adding this sum to the $11,000,000 would mean a total of nearly $26,000,- 000 for the year. Admiral Marquis de Magaz, temporary president of the military directorate in Spain during the absence of Primo de Rivera, ipay be the new premier. His superior does not accept the responsibility of the Moroccan defeats, and If a new , cabinet is formed, authentic reports state that Admiral Magaz will be premier. MARKET QUOTATIONS BY V. S. GOVERNMENT Washing-ton.--For the week ending December 20.--GRAIN--Quoted December 20: No. 2 red winter wheat: Chicago, $1.88. No. 1 dark northern spring wheat: Minneapolis. |1.75@2.00. No. 3 white corn: Chicago, $1.21%. No. 3 yellow corn, $1.21 %c; No. 3 white oats, 57%©57%c. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing wholesale prices of 92-score butter: New York, 44c; Chicago, l0@40Hc; Philadelphia. 44%c; Boston, 43 %c. Cheese markets firm, at advances averaging 1 cent or more over previous week. 1 VEGETABLES -- Northern round white potatoes, 95c@$1.05 carlot sales in Chicago. Eastern and mldwestern yellow onions steady to firm in earftern cities, at $2.7S@3.00 sacked per 100 pounds; best stock, $2.GO f. o. b. Rochester. New York Danish type cabbage, $14.ftO@lff.OO bulk per ton in eastern markets, $11.00013.00 f. o. b. Rochester. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $10.30 for top and $9.00@ 10.10 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $7.00<fi 13.25; butcher cows and heifers. $3.00<al0.75; feeder steers, $4.40®T.25; light and medium weight veal calves, $8.00© 10.50. Fat lambs, $14.25© 16.85; feeding lambs, $13.25(0)16.00; yearlings, $10.50@14.00; fat ewes, $5.-45®8.50. Woman in Auto Crash 0 Carried on Engine Pilot Indianapolis, Ind.--Thrown onto the pilot of the Knickerbocker special, fast Big Four passenger train, when the engine crashed into an automobile In which she was riding ot a crossing, Mrs. Kenneth Clark, eighteen, of this city, was carried 12 miles until she fell Into a ditch near Oaklandon, Ind. She was not seriously Injured, but suffered from exposure to the subzero weather. Mrs. Clyde Clark, her mother-in-law, was killed and Kenneth Clark, twentyt\ Vo, her husband, and Clyde Clark, her brother-in-law, were Injured when the train struck the automobile. A baby twenty months -old was hurled anhurt from the automobile. The engine crew did not know the automobile had been struck. "I've thanked God a thousand times that I'm alive," Mrs. Clark said as she lay on a hospital cot. 600 Escape From Flames • Woonsocket, R. I.--More than 500 persons, „ three-quarters of them children. marched in safety from Sacred Heart church here just before fire In the church basement broke through the floor. Chinese Execute 1.06$ Looters Peking.--The greatest militury execution in China's history has been completed at Kalgan, where in three days a Christian brigade under General Chang executed 1,065 soldiers for looting. Brindell in Federal Crip Comstock, N. Y.--Robert P. Brindell, former dictator of the New York city building trade organizations, was arrested by federal officers on his release on parole from the Great Meadow prison here. Coolidge Thanked for Stand Washington A memorial thanking .ji'dge and Secretary and on the Japafrom the Youth Dies in Fire Cleveland.--Returning to shut off valves to prevent an explosion, Abraham Neuman, twenty-one, was burned to death when fire destroyed a bakery here. Canadian Officials Accused Montreal.--The chief of the local customs police and the Montreal harbor master are declared by the Dominion officials to have attempted to smuggle $500,000 worth of liquor Into Canada. • " 11 • ;-- ' Dice far L&si Treasul€^ London.--An effort is about made to salvage the vessels Turkish fleet by allied ve&el? said a treasure of $10,000,C down with them. be Appeal for Troops in Vera Crux Strike ^lexlco City.--It Is believed that only orders for military protection of members of the Maritime league desiring to work will protect that body from a clash with members of the Railwaymen's confederation in the serious labor troubles at Vera Cruz. It was recently decided by Labor Minister Morones that the league workers should be reinstated In their employment, and a note was sent the Vera Cruz Terminal company that all railway men, stevedores and other workers who were let out last year In accordance with Uie pact settling the long conflict wotnd return to employment. This means that about 500 members of the confederntfon would lose their jobs, and the confederation decided upon a strike. An appeal for troops was sent to the military commandant at Vera Crux, but he has refused to act until he receive* orders from President Cailes. Finds Reds in Garrison Lille, France.--A Communist proclamation posted inside the garrison walls caused the authorities to search the soldiers. Two men in whose bags Communist" tracts were found"* we held for disciplinary action. J_. Britain Swept by Gttle London.--Parts of London and villages and hamlets generally throughout south England are In a flooded condition as the result of heavy rains •gtended hy a gale of 50-mile velocity. Auto Skids; Two Killed Birmingham, Ala.--Mr. and Mrs. A. R, Lanham were Instantly killed when their automobile turned over, according to news received here. Four others are reported to have escaped injury. ^, Signs Omnibus BUI Washington.--President Coolidge has omnibus pension bill grantnumber of Indlvldh% a ruled Cornell Professor Killed in Automobile Accident New York.--Dr. Ernest Fluegel, professor of German at Cornell university, was killed when an automobile, owned by Frederick R. Coudert, the lawyer, toppled over on him after hav lng been struck by a taxicab. Doctor Fluegel, who was sixty-seven years old. had just stepped from the curb when the taxi struck the Coudert landautet.. William Archer, Dramatic Critic, Is Dead London. W illiam Archer, sixty' eight, noted dramatic critic and author, Is dead. He was born at Perth, Scotland, and called to the bar in 1883 His career as a journalist and critic was varied. He edited Ibsen's prose dramas, five volumes, and the collected works of Ibsen, eleven Volumes, and wrote many books relating to the theater. Boy's Btdlet Cuts Wire; 3 Children Electrocuted Hamlet, N. C.--Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Martin of Hamlet were electrocuted when a high-power electric transmission wire fell on Arthur, sixteen, after being severed by a bullet from his rifle fired at a target. Ethel, eleven, and Willie, nine, went to bis rescue and all were killed. Coolidge Praise« Gift Washington.--President Coolidge In a letter highly praised William R. Rltter, lumber man of Washington and Columbus, Ohio, for his Christmas gift of nfaftjr. 4* - M* < ployees. ' . Astronomers to Study Moon New Haven.--A world enmpuign to observe the path of the moon is being carried on by astronomers all over the globe In connection with the sun eclipse January 24. Garage, SO Autos Destroyed Dallas, Texas.--Fire wrecked the building occupied by an automobile renting companv and destroyed between forty and flfty automobiles, with loss estimated at $100,000. Three men were hurt. iReed Say# Credit I* ed Unless Settlement Is Made. c Washing >n.--American officialdom has moved lefinitely toward a "showdown" wit] i France over the $4,00Qr 000.000 del r owed the United Stat«# governmem. "~i Stirred i > action by reports fro» Paris revea ing that the French finane* . minister li; pi practically ignored tli» obligation V' the preparation of hl» government! I balance sheet, officiate here repeated their declaration thai the debt be settled in good faith. %•/ Outstanding developments of the dajr - were: , ;<tv- The revolution . that, while Fran^» talks cancellation and repudiation at: home, her! official representatives to the United States have been inter*- preted as Acknowledging the $4,00<Sr 000,000 debt and indicating an intel* tlon to pay. The declaration by Senator Reed 0t" Pennsylvania, intimate adviser of Chairman ift lon of the American debt commission, that it would be "fe«!*- France's owfi good to pay her debt to us." ; The advaO ing of the suggestion that congress act to prevent the floating of addi(i-»nal private credits t<> France until| stepa be^token towapdl an honorable! settlement of the $4,00^« 000,000 debt." r" Senator Read's speech was receivftfwith the grej est attention. After if brief reference to the fact that tl» money loaned to France "was borrowed from our own people by giviajf our Indorsement on the French obligation," Senator Reed emphasized tho point that "France has not paid one penny of interest or principal." - "I make ho threats," continued ator Reed, "but France must be t by her friends that her inaction in fills' matter has puzzled those of us W)M> look toward ln'r most affectionately. France must 1 made to see that h§r present course can only chill that affection she hat found to exist in Am#*> ica throughout the .past decades. |- "France must be told that each di^ - of delay In achieving a refunding that debt maki s it more difficult for those who would grant her leniency* And, finally, sin- must be told by her friends that future French loans bfe America are made Impossible by sgpirepudiation of the existing debt." • Jury Finds Kid McCoy <; Guilty of Manslaughter Los Angeles. Cal.--The "hanging Jury" of Los Angeles county ended 78 hours of deliberation by convicts lng Kid McCo\ (Norman Selby) of manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Theresa Welnsteln Mors. The ver- " diet ended the most protracted jury session of modern Los Angeles court history. The verdict carries a penalty of one to ten years' imprisonment. .. - ~ Three members of the Jury gave th# . panel the name of "hanging jury.* ; Four weeks ago they helped vote th» death penalty against Harry Garb oft, an Illinois ex-convict, in another miff* der case. "The verdict was reached only fifteen minutes before the case ended,"" Mrs. Hunt said. "The very first ballot stood 6 to 6. The last to hold out" against a unanimous verdict was on» of the three men. Forty-four ballot* were taken.** H. L. Giesler, chief counsel for Hifr defense, announ ed that be will an appeal for McCoy. , ^ -T--- « Indiana Widow Kills Parents, Brother and Ba&0 ' & Logansport, Ind.--Four members of one family, ranging from a grandfather to a three-year-old baby, wer> found murdered with a shotgun In their home iear the village of Metea, eight and one-hulf miles from here. A young widow, daughter of t«r». of the victims, mother of the bah* and sister of th«> fourth victim. Is flfc the Cass county Jail here. Those who were killed were Henry1 Bassler, sixty-nine; Catherine Bamler, sixty, his wife; John Bassler, twenty-two, and Viola HoboughP three. The widow who was afreste<f Is Airs. Emma Ilobough, thirty. She talks volubly of alleged 111 treatment at the hands of tier family. Mrs. Hobough was arrested by Sheriff Walter Bowjer at the home of Thomas Sheets. ! She said the fan^ly did not get her any Christmas presents and refused t« let her have a tree for Viola. This, She told the sheriff, was the climax of many indignities suffered since sh»* was forced by the death of her hSstand t" make bar h <ie with her p«rents. Among other things, she asserted she was "forced to do field work 'in the farm njfhont wages. . ' ...; White, Ex-Ball Ptayer, tkes BelluIre, Ohio.--William White, sixty- four, former m;ijor league ball player, died here after a three days' illness. White played ball with Charles A. Comiskey when the later was captain, of the St. Louis Browns. " • • •>> •• Hotel Bums, Loss $200j000 - Huntsville. Ala.--The McGee hotel and several business houses adjoining were destroyed by fire, causing an estimated loss of $200,000. Hotel guests were driven Into the street. Plane Great Lakes Hospital Washington.--Construction of five hospitals for World war veterans, one of which is to be erected at Great Lakes. 111., will soon be undertaken by the veterans' bureau. S ^ Veteran Poet Dies *erae, Switzerland.--Carl Friedrftli , Georg Spltteler, veteran epic poet and essayist of Switzerland, died In his eightieth year at his home in Lm-erae. He won the Noble prise for literature ' In 1919. Blame* Crime on Idle .Chicago.--"Crime Is prevalent in (MA* cago because there are Jk"»,000 men of work and 2.006 are homeless." declared Chief of Police Collins io.ii dismission on crime.