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Autos Take Twelve Lives in Indiana; Two Die Here

MOVE AGAINST STECK ROUSES INTEREST HERE Prediction Regarding Unseating Recalls Reed Quiz in St. Louis. Prediction in a dispatch from Des Moines, lowa, that Senator H. D. Stephens (Dem.) of Mississippi, would introduce a resolution in Congress for the unseating of Senator Dan Steck (Dem.) of lowa, was viewed with interest by Hoosier politicians today. Steck was given the Senatorship last spring when Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Rep.) of lowa, was unseated in a Senate contest. Illegal Fund, Charge According to the report from Des Moines the Mississippi Senator will charge “an alleged improper distribution of funds given Senator ' Steck by the Senate for attorney’s fees in the election contest decided in his favor last spring.” It was recalled here that during the investigation of Indiana elections by Senator James A. Reed in October, Milton Elrod, Indianapolis, former editor of the Fiery Cross and Klan publications in thirty-two States, testified that he had been sent into lowa by Hiram W. Evans, Klan Imperial Wizard, and William H. Zumbrunn, Washington political and legal adviser of the Klan, to gather data to be used in the unseating of Brookhart. Klan Interested According to Elrod, who testified while Reed was at St. Louis, Klan officials were greatly interested in the seating of Steck. Zumbrunn was active in the seating of Senator Mayfield of Texas, on whom a contest was waged because of his avowed Klan connection. Introduced Watson In one of the sessions of Reed’s Indiana investigation Walter F. Bossert, former grand dragon of the Klan in Indiana, who was deposed because he refused to “ go down the line” for Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, admitted that he had introduced Zumbrunn to Watsan. The Des Moines dispatch stated that of $15,000 received by Steck for attorney fees $5,000 went to Zumbrunn, according to the Mississippi Senator. DALE TO FIGHT IT CUT, HE SAYS S Home Fired on a Second Time—Faces 90-Day Sentence. Bu Times Soecial MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 6. —George R. Dale, Muncie’s fighting editor, who announced several days ago he was ready to quit, today declared he will fight it out with his enemies to the finish. Dale laughed Saturday when Judge Clarence W. Dearth sentenced him to ninety days at the Indiana State farm and fined him S4OO on a criminal libel charge. He said he would appeal to the State Supreme Court. A few minutes after he returned home a bullet was fired through the front window, the second assassination attempt within ten days and the sixth attack within a month. Police Chief Arthur Jones announced a guard would be established at the Dale home. The criminal libel charges resulted from a published story in Dale’s paper in which Raymond Warner was characterized as "having been mixed up in liquor law violations and the theft of an automobile and that because of his Ku-Klux Klan mem bership he escaped prosecution.” Proposes Curb on *Kidding * Ministers Bu United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 6. The fun that is made at Ihe expense of Protestant ministers on the stage and movie screen will lie curbed if some of the cle’rgy have their way. Dr. George Reid Andrews, chairman of the committee on drama of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, will read a report when the executive council of that body meets here next Wednesday calling upon managements of the stage and screen to delete all caricatures of the clergy, some of which are considered offensive and "out of place.” Dr. Andrews will recommend cooperation with Will Hays, the movie czar, in a campaign to remove the caricatures from movies and similar steps will be taken with directors of legitimate theaters. PHONE PETITION FILED Similar in Respects to Requests for Electric Light Merger. Another merger petition, similar in some respects to the on? involving the Indianapolis electric utilities, has been filed with tlie Indiana public service commission. It calls for the joining of seven telephone companies in western Indiana into the Associated Telephone Company. Carl H. Mote, Indianapolis attorney who represents the Insull interests in the pending electric merger here, is given as president of the Associated Company. Financing is to be brought about in a somewhat similar manner as that desired in the local petition. Companies involved in the telephone merger include the Wolcott Telephone Company, Wolcott; Western Indiana Company, Goodland; Starke County, North Judson and San Pierre Company, Mt. Ayr; Klondike, St. Joseph; , Lapaz and Lakeville, Lapaz; Bremen Home, Bremen, and Tyner. Tyner.

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Bu SEA Sir rice LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 6.—ls you take the word of Dr. iMdlred Harris for it, the trouble with Patient Charlie Chaplin—he of the unfortunate romances—is too much sweet 16. Mildred, who was Mrs. Chaplin No. 1, prescribed as follows for Char lie, in connection with the prospect that his break with Mrs. Chaplin No. 2, the former Lita Grey, will lead to divorce and again make the philosopher-comedian one of the country’s outstanding eligible bachelors: Frequent doses of reflection and cogitation. Avoid youth and beauty. Choose as Mrs. Chaplin No. 8 a woman of maturity,, and of mental brilliance to match his own. Bargain for the quiet moods of 30. say. Don’t marry Merna Kennedy. Briefly, as Mildred sees it, the clown who laughs through tears whose humor is tinged with the gray of that sadness which the true philosopher ever has, must stop, look and listen, and apply some of this same philosophy to the business of mating as well as the business of clowning. Mildred, too, was in the “sweet 16“ class when she married Charlie; a girl in what the story writers delight to call “the dewy, budding time of life”—the wine of youth tingling within her, sparkle in her eye, a lilt in her feet. Youth, youth, youth! A few months of marriage, a baby son who died, then came the crash and divorce. “It is not strange that Lita couldn’t understand Charlie,” said Mildred. “I doubt if any young girl could understand Charlie Chaplin I know that I did not. "I am very sorry about the break between them, because I know what it must mean to Charlie to be without his babies. I feel sorry for Lita, too, although I never have met her. “I have heard that if Lita divorces Charlie, he may marry Merna Kennedy, his present leading lady. I sincerely hope that he doesn’t. I know that more dismal unhappiness would come of it.” Mildred Harris is older now. Almost a decade has gone by since her blonde youth captured the millionaire movie star. It’s from the wisdom she has culled from this near-decade more GILIIOM RULES OH GUARD FOND Tells Kershner, Who Will Get Doughboy’s Dough. What to do with the doughboy’s dough, when he is fined for missing drill and similar infractions of discipline, was the problem faced by Adjt. Gen. William H. Kershner, who In turn “passed the buck,” according to Army parlance, to Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. Gilliom settled the question in an opiinion sent to the adjutant general’s office. The question arose from a query of Cary Forkner, Madison County auditor, who wanted to know how to handle the money from fines from Batttery B. 150th, F. A., Elwood, Ind. It was ruled that the money from enlisted men should be held by the county for the battery or company fund, and that from officers sent to the adjutant general for general use by the Indiana National Guard. Takes Poison; Ditto Taxicab to Hospital Bu Times Sveclal , BOSTON, Dec. 6.—After writing three letters, including one entitled “My Last Will and Wishes,” Lydia Lindgren. grand opera star, swallowed poison in her suite at the Copley Plaza here today. She then called a taxicab and rode to the city hospital, where her name is on the danger list. Hospital physicians said she was comfortable, however, and that she piobably would recover. Her husband, Raoul Quirze, operatic tenor, who is now at the Hotel St. Andrew, New York, was notified. Police stated that one of the three letters which Miss Lindgren wrote before taking the poison was to Otto IT. " f "T

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of living that she pictures the type of woman Charlie should wed: a black velvet and sequins type of woman, poised, controlled, wise with knowledge of human nature, particularly the human nature, that ac companies exceptional minds. “Charlie has been picking violets; he should turn to chrysanthemums," ‘his first wife said. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service. Inc.) COUNCIL JOINS MOVE TO SAVE WOMENPOLICE $30,000 Salary Ordinance to Be Drawn —Moore Blames Buser. Majority faction city councilmen will move to prevent discharge of policewomen, threatened by the Duvall administration, Boynton J Moore, council president, announced today. An ordinance to appropriate approximately $30,000 to defray salaries will be introduced. Shifts Blame Moore threw blame for elimination of salaries for' policewomen in the 1927 budget upon City Controller William C. Buser and Leonard V. Harrison, civic affairs committee secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. “Public opinion demands the retention of these efficient womsn whose work cannot be done by others,” Moore said. Crucial Battle See* The last and most crucial battle of the filling station war probably will take place when the council attempts to pass the ordinance to rezone for oil stations the south approaches of the Delawre Stfl bridge over Fall Creek. The measure to rezone Forty Sixth St. and College Ave. for a business block also is scheduled for final consideration. Enraged property owners have battled against the two maneuvers for many weeks. CHURCH BODY TO MEET Federation Executives to Receive Reports on 1927 Program. The executive committee of the Church Federation of Indianapolis will receive final reports from committees which are working on the 1927 program, at a luncheon meeting Tuesday at the Y, M. C. A. Th? program includes the Dr. Guy H. Black evangelistic campaipn to be held Jan. 9 to Feb. 12. The city has been divided into districts and arrangements have been made for a city-wade campaign of personal visits by ministers and laymen. i FEAR HUM WILL DO HARM Watch Wife’s Home After Escape at Home. Police continued to watch the home of Mrs. Irma Hack Comstock. 23, at 702 N. Euclid Ave., today, expecting that her husband, Everett Comstock, who escaped from the In diana State Farm at PutnamvilJe, Ind., Saturday night might attack her. Comstock was sentenced to serve six months and pay a heavy fine by Judge Paid C. Wetter, who declared the evidence that Comstock seized their 5-months-old baby from the arms of his wife and then beat her, was the most brutal he ever had heard. Police say Comstock also was married to a Mrs. Viola Comstock. Franklin, Ind. Authorities at the Indiana State Farm notified local police that Perry Aroma 35. and Flair Denerett, 19. ‘ "l r -

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RITES WILL BE HELD TODAY FOR ELIZAAIAKER Hundreds View Body of Veteran Educator at Teachers College. Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Blaker, 72, president of Teachers College of Indianapolis and pioneer In kindergarten education here, will be held at the residence, 2327 N. Ala bama St., this afternoon. They are to be private and in charge of the Rev. Jean S. Milner, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church. Burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Blaker died at her home Saturday afternoon. Her body lay in state Sunday afternoon and evening in the lower hall of the college building, Twenty-Third and Alabama Sts. Hundreds of friends filed through to pay their last respects to her unselfish service and the place was banked high with floral tributes. Bronchitis Attack Suffering from an attack of bron chitis, Mrs. Blaker left her work at the school last Thursday. Friday the attack became severe, but she rallied, only to suffer fatal relapse late Saturday afternoon. Born In Philadelphia, March 5. 1854, she was educated in the public and normal schools of that city. She Immediately specialized In kindergarten work, which became her life-

Eliza A. Blaker

long Interest. Free kindergartens of the city are closed today to honor what she has accomplished. First Kindergarten Coming to Indianapolis, upon invitation of a citizens’ committee interested in kindergarten education, she opened tho first kindergarten in the city in the Handley & Robert’s Academy, now the site of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The work was extended and a college for kindergarten teacher training established. In 1893 this became the Teachers’ College and during its forty-four years, 22.000 women have registered there. The degree of LL.D was confered on Mrs. Blaker, by Hanover College in 1917. National recognition of her standing in the educational field was accorded her in 1893. when she was chosen a judge of the educational exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair. Her husband, L. J. Blaker. died here about ten years ago. Survivors ere a nephew, Gilbert H. Blaker, Anderson, Ind., and a niece, Mrs. Elwin Bolling, Ridgewood, N. J. SEVERIN HOTEL" RECEIVER ASKED Gardner Says Suit Filed to Hurt Business. Augustus Jennings, holder of SI,OOO worth of preferred stock in the Severin Hotel Company which operates the Severin, today filed suit in Superior Court asking a receiver for the Severin. The suit charged mismanagement, fraud, and that no dividends have been paid on preferred stock since 1921. Fred C. Gardner, company president, declared there had been no mismanagement but profits had been used to build up the hotel In the last few years. Garner charged that Jennings is interested in the proposed $3,000,000 Riley Hotel to be erected at Illinois St. and Kentucky Ave., and filed the suit “to hurt the Severin." Arrange Parley on German Disarmament Bu United Press GENEVA. Dec. 6.—After a public session of unsual brevity, the opening session of the council of the League of Nations today adjourned until Tuesday afternoon to give the “Big Three” of the council, time to privately discuss German disarmament. A delegation of the Chinese Kuaomintang to Europe has arrrived and sen ta memorandum to the league government considers all unequal traties abolished because they were negotiated by the north China government which, the delegation insists, no longer represents the Chin ese people. The delegation Insists that the Canton government alone is c'Y’vvy-nt to begin negotiations

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A merry bunch of Tinymites were surely seeing all the sights. They’d climbed upon the back end of a great big touring car. Said Scouty, “Gee. I’m getting cold. Hang on, you fellows. Don’t lose hold. The speed the man is driving at, he must be going far." Along the county road dust flies. It flew up in their little eyes, and made It rather hard for them to really have much fun. And then the auto swerved about and, as it stopped the man jumped out. and

YOUNG HOOSIER WRITES PAGEANT FORjHRISIAS Special Committee Will Direct Cast of 156 in Big Event. C. Norris Houghton, president of the Senior high school class of Shortridge, has written a Christmas pageant which will be presented before Christmas at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. This young author wrote last year’s pageant and was so successful that he was chosen by the board of directors of the church to write this year’s edition. Houghton will have charge of the rehearsals and will be assisted by a committee composed of members of various representatives of churen organizations. Fred Newell Morris has aranged the musical score and he will be in charge of this part of the pageant. The scenic part of the production will be In charge of Miss Wllouise Woodbridge of the Herron Art Institute. Two dates has been set aside for the presentation of the pageant at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. It will be presented on the nights of Dec. 19 and 26. IdLI/VDE CHURCH MEETS Triple Services and Banquet Held at Church Sunday. Three services and a noon banquet marked the program of the Hillside Christian Church, 1737 Ingram St., Sunday. The Rev. Homer Dale, pastor of the church, spoke on “Why We Love The Church,” at the morning service, and “Forty Days To Live,” at the evening services. An Informal service in the afternoon was directed by Carl A. Rush, superintendent of the Bible school. Short talks were also given by a number of guests. PLEADS FOR TOLERANCE Christinas Must Change Attitude Toward .Jesus, Says Speaker. That the Jewish people cannot be brought to Christ until the attitude of Christmas toward them is Changed was the contention of the Rev. Elias Zimmerman of the American board of missions to the Jews at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Sunday. The Rev. Zimmerman, born in Russia and educated to be a rabbi, abandoned his faith to become a Christian. “To say that God has cast off the Jews would be to say that he is un faithful,” the Rev. Zimmerman said. “With that statement you would de stroy the foundation of your own religion.” NORTON ACCEPTS POST Bell Special Agent to Manage Phone Association. Charles F. Norton, 1305 Gladstone Ave., special agent of Indiana Bell Telephone Company, lias resigned to become secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Telephone Association, 24 Stokes Bldg. Norton succeeds F. O. Coppey, Lafayette, as secretary and Max T. Hosea as treasurer and manager. Hosea resigned to devote his entire time to telephone properties recently acquired by himself and associates. Norton was the first secretary of the association, serving from 1905 to 1908. He was born In Columbus, and attended De Pauw University, graduin 1295.

shouted to another man, “I’m glad that trip is done.” "Now, all be quiet,” Scouty said, “I think the man’s gone up ahead. As soon as it is good and safe we’ll hide behind a tree.” For quite a while they watched the man and then all jumped up and ran, and shortly found a hiding place, as safe as it could be. They hoped for thrills, and not in vain, for soon they saw an airplane and then they heard the man exclaim, “My trip will sure be grand. I’ll soon be flying through the sky, and through the clouds. Then, by and by, I’ll land up near the north pole, for I’m bound for Santa Land.” And then the man went after gas, and when the Tinies saw him pass on out of sight, they scrambled forth and cried. “We’ll go along.” Said Ukey, “Let’s climb in the ship. This ought to be a dandy trip. Os course, we ll have to trust to luck that nothing will go wrong.” And so, behind the driver’s seat they found a place that sure was neat. The man was now returning so they rushed to beat the band. The next thing that the Tinies knew 7 , the man was in the airplane, too, and in an instant they were bound for good old Santa Land. (To Bp Continued.) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Tho Tinies sail through the clouds in tlie next story. ul AGENT W~ AID POISON QUIZ Investigator to Look Itno School Well Case. L. J. Rail, United States public health service investigator In the office of Dr. William F. King, State board of health secretary, left today for Warsaw, Ind., where he will aid in the Investigation of the poison well at Mt. Tabor school, near Leesburg. King was asked to send an investigator by Prosecutor Morrison Rockhill of Kosciusco County, who may take the case before the grand jury. Thirteen pupils suffered severely from the poisoned well. Anaylsis of the water sent to the State board of health here showed that it contained arsenic “in sufficient quantity to be dangerous.” It is thought that a huge quantity of Paris green was dumped into the water. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Robert A. Keller, 720 E. Pratt St„ Studebaker, 673-473, from Fortville, Ind. Elmer Ilarrah, 357 N. Addison St., Ford, 554-716, from Michigan and Pennsylvania Sts. Paul H. Bynum, 82t N. Bradley Ave., Chevrolet, 527-836, from 733 E. Fifteenth St. Leland P. Davis, 1430 N. New Jersey St., Ford, 536-220, from above address. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Thomas Hall, 2825 N. Ruckle St„ Ford, found at 541 E. Washington St, Buick, Ohio license 487-597, found at 1138 S. Richland St. Jacob Schaffer, 1934 Hoyt Ave., Ford, found at Sherman Dr. and Washington St. Gusta Weber, 2559 S. Meridian St.. Ford, found at 2569 Prospect St. Martin Stianka, 1867 Pleasant Run Blvd., Chandler, found at Walnut St. and Holmes Ave.

Matches Pennies; Loses Dollars Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—Visitors in this city, known as the "capital of crime,” would do well to avoid strangers who want to “match pennies." M. W. Muhsam, who says he is a doctor of law from the University of Berlin, complained to police that two strangers enticed him to a penny matching game and relieved him of SIOO —one penny at a time.

One Indianapolis Man Killed When Train Hits Machine —Pedestrian Is Struck. THREE NEAR LOGANSPORT Motorist Drowns When Car Plunges Into Ditch. Automobile accidents tcok a toll of twelve lives in Indiana over the week-end, a check showed today. Icy roads were blamed for most of the fatalities. Two were killed in Indianapolis, three near Logansport, two at Anderson, two at Michigan City, one at Muncie, one at Mishawaka, and one near Richmond. Harry McAnineh, 43, of 2047 Park Ave., was killed instantly Sunday night when a machine in which he was returning from Edgewood, Ind.. with his family was struck by a train at Madison Ave. and the Belt Railroad. Mrs. Olive McAnineh, his wife, was critically injured and their two children, Robert, 16, and John, 14, were seriously hurt. They are in Methodist Hospital. Pedestrian Fatally Hurt An accident at Warman Ave, and Morris St. Sunday afternoon was fatal to Duke Howard, 45, of 2406 W. Wilkins St. He was crossing the street when he was struck by a machine driven by Nle Turner, 1106 Belle Vieu PI. Turner, who said his windshield was covered with Ice, which prevented his seeing Howard, was slated on an Involuntary manslaughter charge following the death. Mrs. Everett Gronlnger, 35; her father, Theodore Dock, 71, and her daughter Edith Marie, 5, were killed when Mrs. Groninger jammed on the brakes an<s skidded her automobile In the path of a Wabash interurban near Logafisport Sunday morning. Another daughter, Alice, 3, was in a serious condition at a local hospital. Horton Lyle, 24, Muncie, was drowned near Petroleum Sunday night when the car in which he was riding skidded and overturned in a ditch containing about three feet of water. Lyle was pinned beneath the car and was unable to free himself. Paul Norris, 36, a companion, Is in the Wells County Hospital at Muncie, only slightly injured. Snow Blamed Blinded by falling snow, Frank Sassadeck, 46, drove his auto in front of a passenger train at Michigan City, Saturday night. He and Otto Rtidniek, 65, who was riding with him, were instantly killed. Charles Davis, 35, formerly a camera man in the Charlie Chaplin studios was Instantly killed at Mishawaka, Saturday night, when his auto was struck by a taxi cab. Charles Ward, 48, and John Coburn, 10, were killed at Anderson, Saturday, when a train hit a milk truck Ward was driving. It was the fifth fatal 1 crossing ’accident at Anderson for the week. Elbert Foster of Richmond was crushed to death behind the wheel of hia auto when his machine skidded off the road near the OhioIndiana line. His body was not found until several hours later and was frozen stiff. Autos Crash Charles L. Wright of Lima, Ohio, sustained injuries which may prove fatal Sunday evening when a Terre Haute automobile crashed into Wright’s car six miles east of Greencastle on the National Rd. Wright and W. E. Albrecht, who was found hiding under a bridge by passing motorists, were taken to a hospital here. Albrecht was only slightly injured. Albrecht is believed to have benn riding in the car that crashed into Wright’s car. Perry Coffman of Terre Haute is believed to have been the driver of tlie Terre Haute car and Is being sought by pofice. Waited at Crossing Witnesses said the McAnineh machine had waited at the crossing for an east-bound machine to pass. When it had gone by, McAnineh started across and his auto was struck by a west-bound Big Four freight train. Dragged about one hundred feet, it was wedged between the freight train and an east-bound Pennsylvania Railroad engine, McAninch was thrown under the wheels of the engine, his body being badly mangled. Funeral arrangements are incom plete. A coroner’s Inquest was to be held this morning. The crossing watchman, Charles C Baugh, said he was flagging the crossing when both trains crossed, and that he tried to keep McAnineh from crossing. On the Big Four train were Ray Smith, 2365 N. Gale St., engineer: Henry Stone, 129 W. Twenty-Ninth St., conductor, and Enos Sunderman, 2746 N. Gale St., fireman. Duncan Puett, engineer; Harold "White, fireman, nnd R issell Ijames, conductor, all of Logans port, were In charge of the Pennsylvania engine. Severely Burned Ray Adams, 22, of 2028 W. Morris St., and Miss Margaret Lyons, 23, of 2173 Hillside Ave., were severely burned when their machine caught on fire after leaving the road and overturning in the 2500 block on Morris St. Adams said a car coming from the opposite direction, driven by Henry Rousch, R. R. C, Box 625, was crowded Into his car when a machine going at a high rate of speed, cut around in front of the Rousch car. Other Injuries over the week-end in Indianapolis Included; Miss Esther LeMay, 22, of 125 N. Liberty St., Injured about the back and chest; Leo Lenchesky. 38, Linton. Ind., several broken ribs, and Harold Foltzenlogel, 1450 Union St., injured about the head. M’KINLEY LOSES GROUND Bu United Press MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 6. Little change was noted in th condition of Senator William McKinley of Illinois today, according to Dr. Robert H. Egbert, attending physician. The Senator is gradually growing weaker. Egbert said, hut no "rr-nt (thnnnn p-ir Holed.

DEC. 6, 1926

FARMERS GATHER* UNITED IN STAND TO SEEK RELIEF Three Thousand Attend Meeting of American Bureau Federation. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—'Three thousand farmers gathered here today for the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, hoping to devise some means of obtaining satisfactory farm relief legislation. “There will be no wavering In the demands of organized agriculture," stated Sam H. Thompson, president of the federation. “We are firmly united and know what we want and need. The only debate question is how to best gain our needs.” No one section Is to receive preferred treatment. Gathered here today are grain farmers of the Middle Western' States, cotton growers from the South, and stockmen from the Western Plains. The needs of nil groups will be given a hearing. ißttj group will then assist tho otherSß obtain relief. It is a coincident that the old Congress Is convening in Washington simultaneously with this gathering of farmers, but leaders of the farm legislation bloc have indicated that they will not press their proposed legislation on this session. They are more Interested In obtaining laws of more lasting benefit, laws which they believe would have little chance of passage in the old Congress. One of the high points of the convention will be the address of Frank O. Lowden, former Governor of Illinois and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Lowden Is looked upon as one of the strongest champions of farm relief and his speech will be closely followed, especially in view of the fact lie is looked upon as a possible presidential candidate In 1928.

Far and Near

ARLON, LUXEMBOURG This village on Sunday held Its annual “love-lorn Fair," which is an outgrowth of the ancient St. Nicholas fair at which mating animals were traded. Cases of Arlon were reserved exclusively for marriageable swains and maidens and their families, amongst whom bustled busy “hclligsmaenner,” or introducers. These earned fat fees if they succeeded in mating any of the various couples whom brought together. The streetUlf the town were crowded throughout the day. NEW YORK—A royal Persian animal rug lias been bought by J’arisli Watson, connoiseur, for the record sum of .SIOO,OOO. LONDON—A highly developed raspberry plant which produced fruit out of season has been named “the Lloyd George.” The London society which named the raspberry had no idea of American slang, Its secretary said when the application of the word was pointed out to him. NEW YORK Dr. Charles Bodeker of tho Columbia School of Dentistry has discovered that tlie cave man of prehistoric times had practically the same teeth as man of today, hut never a toothache. Soft foodls are blamed for present woes. LONDON—Because he was bitten by a mosquito and suffered from blood poisoning. Vice Admiral Philip Dumas, R. N., retired, is suing the Surrey county council for breach of agreement. The council was constructing a highway and the Admiral alleges that draining operations attracted mosquitos, one of which bit him. He had been promised damages for any harm dona his propetry. DES MOINES, lowa—lra Wall, assistant Scout master, is believed to be the highest ranking merit kre Scout in the world, having ty-nine. The national council offers only seventy-one. CHICAGO—The radio is responsible for (lie engagement of Annabelle March! and Charles BertolL She sang from several Chicago stations recently. He liked her voice so well that lie wrote her about it.. They met. Tlie wedding is scheduled for June. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Jim Pontiac, who claims to be a descendant of the famous Chief Pontiac, has a complaint against civilization. He stopped at a Grand Rapids hotel and found the beds too soft and springy. Unrolling his blanket, he slept on the floor. Two Drown as Auto Plunges Into Fond Bu United Press PLYMOUTH, Mass.. Doc. Mystery in the death of Miss Sarah Swift, 22-year-old public stenographer, whose body was found Saturday in Little pond, has been cleared here with the discovery ot the body of Antonio Thomas, also 22, with whom she disappeared a week ago. The coupe in which they were riding also has been the pond, into which it was after going over a ten foot embankment from the main highway. Cuts on Thomas’ left arm Indicated he had shattered the glass in the coupe's windows in an effort to free Miss Swift and himself. The car was found about 150 feet from the shore. Thomas was believed to have lost control of the car when It Skidded.