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The tax would be collected from the wholesalers, on the basis of monthly sales statements submitted'by them. Wholesalers violating the measure would be fined 1 cent a gallon additional. ' It Is understood that the measure lias the approval of Governor Small, being in line with his announced plan for a gasoline tax for the purpose indicated. The bill was referred to the Judiciary committee. Representative Tom Ileilly of Chicago, a member of this committee, announced that lie would launch a vigorous offensive against it. The length of the impending session of the legislature will depend largely upon the speed with which the appropriations committees do their work, an assembly leader said. With more than 150 bills, representing only the first crop, ulready being drafted by the legislative reference bureau, the outlook for a short session is distinctly unfavorable. ' 600 BOY SCOUTS TO SEE LINCOLN TOMB ILLINOIS STATE NEWS Springfield.--Boy scouts of nearly every council' in the state will go on a pilgrimage in the week of February 8 to 14 to the shrine of some historical figure near their city, according to A. J. Davis, Springfield, scout executive. The pilgrimages are an anpuiil observance held in conection with anniversary week celebrations. Lincoln's tomb in Springfield will be the goal of the largest single pilgrimage, Davis said. About 000 scouts from Springfield and vicinity and from nearby cities. Including Jacksonville, Peoria, Pekin. Champaign- Urbana, Kankakee, Lincoln, Ottawa, Waukegan, Wheaton, Princeton, Bloomington and Decatur, are expected to be In the Une of march to the tomb. While In Springfield the boys, will visit Lincoln's home, the centennial building and other places of interest. Mrtyor Bullard will welcome them to the city it a gathering preceding the trip to the tomb. Rev. John T. Thomas will deliver a short address prior to the placing of wreaths on the sarcophagus by the various councils. Scouts from Moiine-Rock Island will journey „ to the tomb of William (Buffalo Bill) Cody a: Le Clair, Iowa, while councils from Hannibal and the vicinity will visit the Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) shrine. Next year scout officials are planning to make the pilgrimage to- Lincoln's tomb statewide. v Herrin.--Declaring that nothing but personal religion can save Herrin, Rev. John Meeker, Presbyterian minister, said the last rites over Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, two-gun leader of the anti-klan forces in the county, while the coroner's jury took up the task of unraveling the shooting whiclr claimed the lives of Thomas, S. Glenn Young and two others. All of .the eleven witnesses give testimony which tended to support the version of the shooting related by Young's friends. Those witnesses who saw the shooting asserted that Thomas fired first and that it was his bullet that killed Young. Another testified that Thomas earlier in the day "appeared to have been drinking." Springfield.--Illinois sheriffs want a state hangman whose duty it would be to officiate at the executions of all persons convicted of capital crimes and condemned to die in the state. The movement was launched by the State Sheriffs' association, of which Ora Lemon, Springfield, sheriff of Sangamon county, is president. It will result in presentation to the Fifty- fourth general assembly of a bill to relieve sheriffs of the duty of hangingcondemned offenders. The measure will be presented by Senator Earl B. Searcy, Springfield, who is preparing it for introduction. Peoria.--Drawing a 210-year sentence in the penitentiary at Leavenworth took all the court fight out of William Johnson, a Galeshurg negro found guilty of violating the narcoticlaw on 42 counts. Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry sentenced him to serve five years in the penitentiary on each count. Since 37 of the five-year sentences run concurrently the sentence is cut down 185 years, making it 25 years. Johnson is fifty-six years of age, so that the complete sentence will probably never be served by him. Chicago.--Two bills which would create a state police force and which would Insure the prompt distribution of collected taxes headed the list of measures which John H. Cumlin of Rockford, president of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce told the City club his association would recommend to the legislature at its coming session. The growth of transportation during the last twenty years, which has created an actual itinerant population on our roads, spells the need of state police, the speaker declared. Champaign--Success of the noncarrier wave system of broadcasting, which was developed by H. A. Brown and C. A. Keener, members of the Mectrlcal engineering staff of the University of, Illinois, Is announced as positlve^rfrter another series of tests, Dore.out the result of numerous tests held over a period of more than i year. Canton.--More than $80,000 In tonds and other securities stolen from the People's State Bank of Vermont Dy two unmasked bandits on November 24, was found hidden in a corn field near Bushnell, Sheriff J. K. Kennedy announced at Canton. This brings the estimated total loot to approximately $150,000. Two suspects are being held. Mason City.--Howard LWengood, a fanner living near Mason City, 8'hot and billed a wolf which weighed 34 pounds. He was paid the $10 bounty allowed by the county for the scalp. Virginia.--Mayor Jacob Davis and Night Watchman Harvey Saltee of Virginia have been sued for $10,000 damages by Hugh H. Breeden. who was accidentally shot by Bailee when the officer sought to arrest Ben Darland. Mayor Davis Is said to have tBJtructed the village officers to shoot to-kill. Springfield.--Polluted water supplies* are again in the limelight in Illinois. At Greenville, in Bond county, nearly 300 people are down with dysentery. At Sterling and Rock Falls over a dozen patients are convalescing or have recently died from typhoid' fever. The epidemic conditions in all three places resulted from defective construction of the public water supply systems, declared Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health director. "In Greenville the water mains from the supply wells are made of sewer tiles instead of iron. They pass under a sewer main at two or three points. The sewer main sprang a-leak recently and the seepage found its way into the city water supply. The result is nearly 3,000 cases of illness throughout the entire community." Chicago.--Doors of one home were padlocked and household goods were being removed from another, following the Issuance of Injunctions for violations of the Volstead act oy Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago. Deputy marshals were ordered to seal the door of the John P. Jones home at 4239 North Western avenue at once. Kate Antonuccl was granted a stay of ten days to. remove household goods from her home at 6745 South Lincoln street. Peoria.--His threats to kill himself if bis sweetheart, Mary Eitenmiller, victim of a suicide pact, died, has caused Tazewell county authorities to double the guard around the oedside NO MORE WORLD WAR-WILBUR Secretary of Navy Calls Predictions of New Conflict "Extravagant." Washington.--Future wars will be comparatively local affairs and there" is unlikely to be another world war* according to the prediction made by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Those who prophesy that in the "next war" cities will be wiped out and whole imputations exterminated by gas and disease germs were placed by Wilbur in the same class as the author of the warning that "the bogy man will get you if you don't watch out." "My own judgment is that the next war will be like most of the wars in history, sporadic and local, involving' comparatively few people, and will be\: relatively quickly over," the secretary said. "The chances are that the judgment of mankind will oppose any war which has for its purpose the extermination or annihilation of nations or peoples. "I believe that a reasonable preparation, balanced with the resources arid responsibilities of the nation, Is the best way to prevent war when diplomacy and judicial processes would otherwise fail to do so.* Those who seek to terrorize the people by painting awful pictures of the "next war," said Wilbur, overlook "the one fundamental principle of war, that to have a war one must have a defense and that the means of defense should be commensurate with the offense." As to the terrible possibilities of poison gas, the navy secretary continued, even if the treaties against its use are not lived up to, "it is impossible to transport or to apply sufficient quantities of such poison gas to poison the whole population of cities or of countries, even if It cduld be produced." The picture of airships dropping bombs on sleeping cities were disposed of by Wilbur with the remark: "You can kill anybody when he is asleep." The secretary continued: "While it would be disastrous for a nation to go to sleep in view of all the potentialities of modernwarfare, it is certainly wrong to publish and proclaim these extravagant predictions as to the possible effects of future war. "We have seen enough of war. We have suffered great privations', great losses of men and wealth, as has every other nation In the world. "We may not be able to prevent all little wars, we cannot prevent all local disturbances, but the nations of the world should be able to forestall and prevent another world war." PRINCE H. LOTFALLAH Gunman Who Tried to "Shoot Up" Herrin Slain Herrin, III.--Another pistol fight stirred Herrin and when the smoke had cleared,wvay it was found a man, representing himself as an officer, seeking to arrest a klansman, had been shot to death in the Lymar hotel by Policeman Rufus Whitson nfter the alleged officer had wounded Policeman Sim Stephens and terrorof Fred Lichtenberger. The girl died^"^Zf>d hotel employees. but Lichtenberger has not yet been informed of her death'. He probably will recover. Lichtenberger repeated his confession he shot the girl and himself, adding that she told him her father had threatened to kill himself if they were to be married. Rockford.--Although Mrs. Ruth Oestrich-Webber-Wightman of Rockford is credited with three husbands, the courts are endeavoring to determine whether any of the marriages were legal. Her marriage with Albert Oestricb when she was fourteen was annulled. Within a year she married Charles Webber of Woodstock. Records of her divorce are uncertain, but she later married Roy Wightman of Rockford. Duquoin.--Three bandits from Zeigler met disaster when they attempted to hold up the restaurant of Sam Fiantico, located on the hard road in the northwest part of Duquoin. Two of the robbers, later identified as Richard L. Smith and Orval McKissick, both aged twenty, were killed and a tWrd member of their party who escaped is believed to have been badly wounded. Peoria.--Sentences of guilty, wltl from ten years to life in the state prison, were returned agnlnst Ralph Hackett and Elmer Bell, found guilty of robbing the Peoria street car hams of more than $1,500. a day's receipts. Joseph Daugherty, a third man. eri> tered a plea of guilty and wa« paroled. He fled Immediately and efforts to locate him failed "Chicago.--Leo Nledzwleckl hat been appointed group chief of the Illinois prohibition department. It Is announced from the office of Prohibition Director Percy Owen at Chicago. He has been a member of the department for two years. . Bloornington.--Depositors of the Farmers' State bank of Chenoa, looted of $180,000 by bandits, posing as bank exhminers, will be fully protected, according fo J. Lyle Northrop, state bank examiner. The fuli depositor's liability wii; he r.ssumed by the State Bank of Chenoa. in an agreement whereby the State bank takes over the buslnesp of the ruined institution. Pana.--Mines In Christian County district broke all hoisting and producing records In January 22, when four of the five hoisted 21,200 tons. Galesburg.--One of the oldest bands In the section around Galeshurg fs the organization at Prulrie City, which, with t^ie resumption of practice within the next few weeks, will start its fifty-fourth year. The band gave Its first concert In 1871 and has never missed a season since. The man slain by Whitson had given his name as Joseph Phillips and also as Johnson, and once said he came from Springfield, 111. He was accompanied by two men when he was slain, but they escaped. He was later identified as "Bill" Howard of Bicknell, Ind., by Robert Corgnl of Johnston1 City, III., after a coroner's jury had exonerated Policeman Whitson, his slayer. Seven Bandits Rob Car Barns in Chicago of $8,000 Chicago.--The spectacular exploits of the car barn bandits of 1003 were revived here when seven armed men in an automobile held up and robbed the barns of the Chicago Surface.lines at Twenty-fifth and Leavltt streets, fleeing with $8,000. The robbery at the Leavltt street bnrns was the first from which the traction lines had suffered since the famous crime of August 30, 1903, when Marx, Neldermeier and Van Dine, all of whom afterwards paid for their crime on the gallows, held up the car barns of the Chicago City Railway company at Sixty-first and State streets. In the holdup two employees of. the traction company were killed and two others were wounded. 13 Killed in Apartment Building Fire in Chicago Chicago. -- Thirteen persons lost their lives when fire early in the morning destroyed a four-story apartment building at 5830 Blackstone avenue. The building housed 32 families. Numerous persons were rescued by firemen. ' Several University of Chicago students lived in the building. , Lepers Flee Hospital Los Angeles, Cal.--Three lepers who were being held In an isolation ward of the general. hospital here pending transportation to a leper colony, escaped. A dozen deputy sheriffs are bunting for the trio. Zogu Heads Republic Rfjme--Ahmed Zogu, who headed the recent revolt In Albania, has been elected president of the republic for seven years by the Albanian constituent assembly, Tirana advices asset.. ~ |£ount Vernon.--William Edward Dabe. fifty-eight, a blind broom ped- Indianola.-j-Alleging alienation of the affections of her husband. Mrs. II - . . . . i Mary Winkler of Indl&nola has tiled dler an the father of 16 children, 18Ult aKa\nst Hortense and Lillian died at Mount Vernon. Only ieven | for $25,000 damages. Aa children and his widow survive. I guj( flf j^elr Interference, she Says been married thre0 time* J k uinkior left h«r. Brokers Back Arbitration Cincinnati.--Support of the tederal arbitration bill for settlement of commercial disputes outside of legal chan nels was, urged by the National Food Brokers' assoclatlou La session In this city. Prince Hablb Lotfalloh, minister of the king of Iraq sit ikane, visiting the United States in un uflrofHcial capacity, scores the movement 'for a Jewish homeland In Palestine, declaring that It is a political movement fostered by diplomats. He is more Interested In a Pan-Semitic kingdom in the Near East and believes that Is ^the only method of establishing peace there. 25,000 AT YOUNG'S FUNERAL IN HERRIN Slain Dry Klan Leader Buried-- Troops Leave. " Herrin, III.--Preceded by a guard of honor, consisting of 100 members of the Ku Klux Klan, fully robed, wearing closely drawn masks and bearing several huge American fiags, the funeral cortege of S. Klenn Young, klan dry leader, passed through the business center of Herrin on its way to the cemetery. ' Six mounted and hooded klansmen, their horses rolled in white, also preceded the hearse. The elaborate rites at the grave followed services "at "the First Baptist church, where the body had lain in state since Sunday. Nine ministers, led by Rev. P. R. Glotfelty, joined in eulogizing the slain klan chieftain in sermon and prayer. Wlien the last strains of "Somewhere a Voice Is Calling" had ended the church services, more than 1,000 of the estimated crowd of 25,<X>0 which had thronged about the church and on the streets since early morning filed past the flag-draped Bier of the slain klan gunman. Through it all a slight, pitifully drooped figure of a woman In deep mourning sat beside the coffin. She was Mrs. Maude Young, the youthful widow. Seated by her side was her sister. In the ministerial tributes to the slain klan leader lie was pictured as the embodiment of every virtue--physical and spiritual. "Young unquestionably was called by God to Williamson county," declared Reverend Stickney of Marion; 'he was not afraid to die. He was prepared at all times to face death if need be." * The troops which have been patrol- Ing Herrin since the fatal riot departed for home upon orders from Adjutant General Black at Springfield. 2 CONVICTED OF SOLDIER FRAOD Col. Forbes, ex-Head of Veterans' Bureau, and J* > W. Thompson Guilty Chicago.--Col Charles R. Forbes, ttermer director of the United States Veterans' bureau and John W. Thompson, millionaire contractor of St. Louis, were found guilty by a jury In Judge George A. Carpenter's court of having conspired to defraud the government lu contracts for soldiers' hospitals'. This dramatic and unexpected end to one of the longest and most bitterly fought cases In recent history came at the end of nearly five hours' deliberation by the Jury. Defendants and their attorneys were stunned as "guilty" caraefrora the lips of the foreman, Frank W. Hadlock of Elgin. Attorney Eiwood Godman of Forbes* counsel moved at once for a new trial. Judge Carpenter set the hearing on thut motion for February 4. The maximum sentence under the federal conspiracy law is two years in the penitentiary and a fine of $10,- 000. Forbes once was high ih political standing. In 1921 he was offered the governorship of Alaska by President Harding. He refused and later was named as director of the war risk bureau, which later was merged with other bureaus to form the veterans" bureau, an organization with 30,000 employees, the expenditure of billions, and the welfare of 30,000 wounded soldiers on its hands. Forbes had more power than ever was conferred before on a bureau head. His only check was the President. A year later Forbes' resignation began to be rumored, following inquiry and charges by the American legion. This was while be was on a trip of hospital site Inspection in the West with Mortimer and others. Forbes resigned. The senate appointed a committee to Investigate the bureau. In this report he was denounced and prosecution was recommended. President Coolidge personally ordered the prosecution of this case. There was evidence Forbes took money in .letting at least one contract for a hospital,for wounded soldier*. WSS CORA BAR^Xt Greek Crowds Demand Vengeance Against Turks Athens.-r-The tide of public indignation is lapldly rising throughout the country. Associations, of public bodies, religious and lay, are passing resolutions assuring the Greek government of the support of the entire nation in demanding satisfaction for the expulsion of the Greek patriarch from Turkey. Whether the Greek representative at Angora will be recalled depends on Turkey's reply to the (»reek note. An Imposing mass meeting was held at the ruins of Jupiter's temple. The crowds paraded the streets shouting for vengeance against the Turks. Special police measures were taken to protect the Turkish legation. Slayer of Indiana Girl Dies in Electric Chair Michigan City, Ind.--Exactly 129 days after the murder of little Anna Totnlcich, nine years old, in Gary, Ind., Peter Bergolini, the confessed slayer, was executed In the state penitentiary here. He was sleeping at 11:45 when jailers came to escort him to the death chambeA and he maintained his stoical attitude as he was strapped Into the 'electric chair. Twenty-one minutes later lie was dead. The child was buried in the dunes in the suburbs of Gary after she had been outraged and mutilated. Davit Denies Guilt Topeka, Kans.--Jonathan M. DavlS. former governor of Kansas, has pleaded not guilty to a Joint indictment "charging him and Carl J. Peterson, former bank commissioner,'With accepting a bribe. Lita Gray Chaplin Seeks Settlement With Husband Los Angeles, Cal.--Llta Gray Chaplin, through attorneys, has begun negotiations for a financial settlement with the comedian, whom she married in Mexico two months ago. Negotiations were admitted by her attorney during a family conclave in Hollywood while the husband, Charlie Chaplin, was at home in Beverly Hills. Edv.in McMurrSy, a San Francisco attorney, rnd an uncle of the sixteenyear- old bride, Is conducting the financial negotiations, aided by George Beebe, a local lawyer. It is understood that the negotlaations contemplate an eventual separation. The couple have not been living In the same house for some time. Chaplin and Llta Gray, his most youthiul leading lady, were married on November 25 last, hurriedly and unexpectedly, in a village near Guaymas on the Gulf of California, in Mexico. Milwaukee Men Confess Killing Express Messenger Chicago.--Two Milwaukee men confessed at the detective bureau the holdup th~ night of December 30 of the "Viking Express" of the Chicago & Northwestern road, and the killing of the express messenger, Russell S. Dickey. Dickey was shot to death as the train, Chicago-bound, passed Waukegan, when he resisted the bandits His death battle saved the $200,000 in valuables and currency In the express car. The confession of the pair means that they will go on trial for murder. Bernhard Mylin, twenty-eight, a cigar clerk, married pnd living at 206 Michigan street, Milwaukee, admits he fired t^e shot that killed Dickey. His associate in the crime Is Edward J. Smith, brakeman, who lives with his wife and three children at 7432 National avenue, Milwaukee. Means and FelderxGuilty of Plot to Bribe Officials New York.--Gaston B. Means and Col. Thomas B. Felder were convicted in Federal court of conspiracy to bribe public officials. The verdict was reached by the Jury after six hours' deliberation. The maximum penalty under the conviction is two years' Imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. A recommendation of mercy was made by the jury. Bulgarian Minister Quits Washington.--Stephen Panaretoff, for nearly ten years Bulgarian minister to the United States, has requested his own recall. His resignation has been accepted, to take effect March 10- 1 Bandits Hold Up Plane * Mexico City.--Arthur Wesley, paymaster of the Transcontinental Oil company, was robbed of $19,000 by six bandit on the Tamplco aviation field. The pay roll was Intended for the oil camp. Start $10,000,000 Building New York.--Work preliminary to the construction of a $10,000,000 14-story building which Is to form the nucleus pf the New York Medical center has. t«en started. New York Prosecutor Named Washington.--Emory R. Buckner of New York will b« appointed by Preslicnt Cooildge to succeed William Clayward as district attorney of the Southern district of New York. Gibbons Stops "Tiny Kid*' Oetroit. Mich.--Tommy Gibbons, 8t. Paul, stopped "Tiny Kid" Herman. Omaha, in the third of their scheduled ten-round fight here. Herman was so completely out the referee did not have to count. Banker's Wife Atks Divorce Cleveland. O.--Mrs. Margaret Huntington Forgan. divorced wife of A l bert Y. Gowen of Speejacks fame, filed a suit for divorce from her second husband, Robert R. Forgan of Chicago. V . " . " V. S. Exports $128000,000 NeW York.--The export movement of gold from the United States wa«- swelled more than $17,000,000 by consignments to India and Australia. The gold stores here have been reduced by $128,000,000. Pastor Is Ousted Rome.--The Conslstorlal congregation decided to suspend from the prac tice of his holy offices Rev. Fathei Adama Graclzewskl of the Oklahoma diocese. Miss Cora Barry, daughter of tlje sergeant at arms of the United States senate, is one of the handsomest and most popular young women In Washington. MARKET QUOTATIONS BY V. S. GOVERNMENT Washington.--For the week ending January 29.--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES-- Northern sacked round white potatoes, $1.10@1.15 on the Chicago carlot market, 85@90c t. o. b. Midwestern yellow onions, $3.00®3.25 per 100-pound sack in consuming centers, $2.75@2.85 f. o. b. western Michigan points. • Virginia and West Virginia Stayman winesap apples, $6.00@7.00 barrel; New York Baldwins, $6.75@7.00 In Chicago; New York and Michigan Kings, $6.00(g)6.50. HAY--Quoted January 29; No. 1 timothy: Chicago, $23.00. No. 1- alfalfa: Omaha, $18.00. No. 1 prairie: Kansas Qity, $11.00; Chicago, $18.00; Minneapolis. $16.00. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $10.10 for top and $10.30^) 11.00 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $7.75@12.25, butcher cows and heifers, $4.00(g)11.00; feeder steers, $4.90(^)8.00; light and medium weight veal calves, $9.25(g) 13.50. Fat lambs, $16.50® 18.76; feeding lambs, $15.50® 18.25; yearlings, $14.00® 17.00; fat ewes, $6.75@11.00. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing wholesale prices of 92'score butter: New York, 39c; Chicago, 38c; Philadelphia, 40c; Boston, 39Vic. Wholesale prices at Wisconsin primary cheese markets January 28: Twins, 23%c; Cheddars, 23Vic; single daisies, 24Vic; double daisies, 23V£c; longhorns 25Vic. GRAIN--Quoted January 29: No. 1 dark northern wheat: Minneapolis, $1.96@2.26. No. 2 red winter wheat: St. Louis, $2.14 @2.21; Kansas City, $2.14®2.19. No. 4 red winter wheat: Chicago, $2.15. No. 2 hard winter wheat: Chicago, $1.98; St. Louis, $1.99; Kansas City, $1.91@2.02. No. 3 mixed corn: Chicago, $1.18. No. 2 mixed corn: Kansas City, $1.21® 1.22. No. "2 yellow corn: Kansas City, $1.25. No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.21 ® 1.22V6 ; Minneapolis. $1.24%® 1.25%; St. Louis, $1.21® 1.26V4- No. 2 white corn: Kansas City. $1.22%. No. 3 white corn: Chicago, $1.20® 1.21. No. 2 white oats: Kansas City, 69®60V4c; Minneapolis, 55%0 65%c; St. Louis, 58®59c. Three More Indictments in Atlanta Prison Graft Atlanta, Ga. -- New Indictments charging conspiracy and bribery were returned by a special grand Jury investigating conditions at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. A. E. Sartain, former warden, and L. J. Fletcher," former deputy warden, who were Indicted in December on charges of accepting bribes, were named, together with an unnamed third person. It Is charged that Sartain, Fletcher and the third person conspired with Father Thomas Hayden, prison chaplain, to "accept and receive bribes" of $1,- 500 each from wealthy convicted bootleggers in exchange for use of the officials' Influence in having the prisoners assigned to easy tasks. George Cable, Southern Writer, Dies in Florida St. Petersburg, Fla.--George W. Cable, well-known southern author and man of letters, died at his winter home, where he had been living quietly. His bride of a year was with htm at his death. Mr. Cable was in his eighty-first year, having been -born In New Orleans, October 12, 1844. He served in the Mississippi cavalry of the Confederate army. He was a member of the fAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Cable was the last of the old school of writers that flourished following the close of the Civil war. Submarine Crew Rescued After Craft Goes on Rocks Portsmouth, N. H.--No attempt will be made at present to dislodge the submarine S-48, which Is fast on a niud bank li. Little Harbor, where sfie was driven after striking on the rocks near Portsmouth harbor entrance. Lieut. Com. Stewart K. Brny, In command of the S-48. and his crew are at the navy : ard here recovering from exposure and chlorine gas fumes. They were taken off by coast guardsmen when the fore part of their vessel was flooded and chlorine' fumes from tlas batteries bad driven them to the deck. Tchit c her in, Russian Chief, III Riga.--Foreign Minister Tchitclierin of Russia is suffering from » complete physical collapse, and because of the cold weather he has been advised to visit the French Rivierv for several months. Raisuli Captured by Rills Madrid.--The Moroccan bandit leader, Raisuli, is a prisoner of the Rifiian tribesmen, who have captured his home city of Tazajtut, says an official announcement. ' Ex-Governor 'Bourn Dead Bristol, It. I.--Former Gov. Augustus O. Bourn of Rhode Island died at his home here in his ninety-third year He was governor from 1883 to 1885 and. in 1880 was appointed counsel gen eral at Rome. « •- To Try Slayer of Mother San Francisco, Cay.--Dorothy Ellingson, sixteen-year-old slayer of hei mother, is to be tried by the Criminal and not the Juvenile courts, it was decided by Sui>erior Judge Murasky. DOGS BRING SERUM TO RELIEVE NOME Thrilling Race Staged In Ai « i ii i . •• I&BKa uy muduci m w; Diphtheria Victim#, Nome, Alaska.--Stricken • Nome's long awaited diphtheria seruitf has arrived. * Out of a howling bllxzard at 5:30 o'clock in the morning, a great team of strong-hearted Siberian huskies, goaded on to the last measure of their strength by one ,of the Northland's best dog drivers, dragged the lifesaving antitoxin Into the settlement. The serum, frozen solid in its containers, despite Its layers of {Kicking, was turned over to Dr. Curtis Welch, Nome's lone physician, who Immediately began the task of thawing It out and testing its strength. It is expected the serum will save the lives of many diphtheria victims and check the spread of the scourge, which is claiming new victims at the rate of one a day. Tliev1iiaLJtfp of the race with death was made by Gunnar Kasson, hero of hundreds of dog derbies in the old days, who mushed 00 miles through the death of night with the temperature ranging from 25 to 40 belo^v zero. Pulling out of Bluff at 10 o'clock at night with his champion team of Siberian wolves, Kasson encountered a blizzard, but he didn't turn buck. Unaware of the fact that relays had been established every ten or fifteen miles for the last dash into Nome,. Ue kept on, passing through Solomon and later through Safety, where fresh teams and mushers were waiting. When he pulled into Nome in tlie morning, four of his dogs were badly frozen and it was with difficulty that his hands were freed from the handles of the sled. Despite this, Kasson brought the serum into the city far ahead of time, closing a test of bravery on the part of men who comprise this American outpost that lias held the rapt attention of tlie entire United States for days. a ne 665 miles of trail over which the relays of dog teams sped had never been covered before in less than nine days. In this test the distance was done in five days. . Kasson made his 60 miles in seven hours and forty minutes. He got tlie package from Musher Olson, who in turn had picked up the serum from the wearied team of Hafiimon, another famed dog driver, who had driven the huskies 130 miles fron^ Nome to meet Leonard Seppalla, champion musher of the north country. It was Seppalla who bore the brunt of the most viciously winter-ridden stretch 'of tlie entire 665-mile race-- scores of miles deep In fresli fallen snow and with temperatures far below zero, where not another human was alive to help him. From Seppalla's dogs, exhausted and with ice-torn feet, Hammon took the Antitoxin and sped 40 miles to where Olson waited. - With five already dead, 25 stricken and more than 100 persons remlered liable to the disease by contact with sufferers, Nome faced a horrible condition because its last drop of serum had been used up days ago. Stone Reports Gain in Battle On Rum Runners Washington.--Although stunnn that much progress has been made toward the solution of the liquor smuggiiug problem, Attorney General Stone admitted that 332 vessels flying foreign fiags were now engaged iu, carding liquor to this country and tliat a large amount of "booze" was being Illegally Introduced from Canada. As an evidence of the good work, being done by the coast guard in fighting rum smugglers, the attorney general, in an authorized report, said that between May 22, 1924, aud tlie end of the calendar year, 16 foreign rum-running vessels had been seized.. Thirteen were British, one Norwegian, one French, aud one Italian. Tlie report sayfc that of the 332 rum runners, 307 fly tlie British Hag, ten are Norwegian, four French, and the remainder have fiags of various other nations. A great many of these, the reports says, do nothing but smuggle liquor. Others are engaged in tlie traffic only . casually. Practically ail of them sail on fraudulent clearance papers. Etiate of Mrt. Harding U Valued at f334,884 Marion, Ohio.--Tlie estate of the late Mrs. Warren G. Harding, who died November 21 last, was appraised at $334,884, according to a statement filed for probate with Judge L. B. Mc- Neal here. The bulk of the estate was left' to Jean and George" De Wolfe, aged fifteen and twelve, respectively, her grandcfiiidrelL Injuries Fated to Jockey Havana.--Jockey I'. Hum died from injuries received When he was thrown Tram Irish Frieze «t Oriental park. The horse was coming into the home stretch when he stumbled ajUi , threw his rider. Morris May Be IinvoyL , Washington.--Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago may become a candidate foi1- appointment as American ambassador to Germany, It became known here on. Monday, Utah Kills Amendment Salt Lake City, Utah.--The i"t«h legislature rejected the proposed clilkt labor amendment to the United States Constitution. The house voted 43 to 8 aguiust the amendment and thesenate 18 against. May field to Retail| Seat Washington.--Tlie senate committee on privileges and elections on Monday 'ecommend^d that the contest against the seat of Knrte-Be Mayfleld be dismissed. V '• ' ^ t