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i?t>OLUliE THIRTY-SIX

GREENCASTLK, INDIAN^X, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928

No. 238.

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AX BOARD TO 4EAR PLEAS OF GILL-MASHALL

CONFIDENCE MERITED

IOWA CITY, la., Jul> 20 (UP)— If efliifiiience counts for anything, George H. Baird, star Univer.-ity o’ Iowa quarter-miler, should In- a hig help to the United States in winning the 1,600-meter relay at the Olympic games at Amsterdam. At no time in

OUTING PLANS ARE COMPLETED BY ROTARIANS

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fDITOR AND URGE THAT

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unty ORitial* Are la Horiionlal Increase

j T» Set Forth Sfatistics.

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POOR XT PROPHEC Y

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. (UP) —Seated in a darkened apartment here five persons strained to voice:

from the - pint world.'

Instead they heardtuhis gruff- command: “Stick ’em up Toys and gill !”

AS8F"'‘«IK TO 1 !!.'! " : "' k l “”‘ B “‘ r ' 1 BOTA«V ( U'BS (IF CROUP FIVE 1 "i' ,v! n' 1 ,!'.iou'.l'.-iTLv't'v.,!i'i'v- Md

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IIII RSDAV. Police reported the seance was conducted by Mrs. P. Limhey and Mrs. MEETING THI’RSDAX NIGH I La Vern Rutler. Mr: Huller lu>t two

j diamond rings and Mis. Lindsey, $!>0. (iilbert Bennett and his wife and

Wives of Members Are Guests At ,, . .

.Michael Ru sell wele the spiritual \< eehly Session. Expect Many

Visitors Next Week.

UNITED MINE HEADS AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS

CIO.

University of |owa friends tell a story of Baird’s first race. When a ; boy of 10 at Grand Island, Nell.,

ext Wednesday, July 25, W. E. county auditor and (Tiarles Marfill, county assessor, will appear heTf e the Indiana State Tax Board at ", ianapolis to show cause why the ,f sent assessments in Putnam coun- |. ;hould not be changed by the State

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here is a feeling here that because assessments have been reduced roximately $3,000,000 that the ~~^te Board will place a heavy hori- j tat increase on all lands in the

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hose who have made a careful ii ly of the situation, are of the honi!i, opinion that property, especially lay, aa lauds are assessed about right, •east they are sufficiently high. ^ E. Gill, county auditor, has on a f>wi some affidavits showing land is e-n^ing for less than its assessed valve ion. He wants many more of them, i brii asks people throughout the coun--nii who know of properties selling for than their assessed valuations,

CSTIMONI ALS j George one day heard that there u i--

going to be a 100 yard dash for boys.

Against An> A '“kbit was to go to the winner, in Putnam. Straight home went little Geoige to

start building a pen for the rabbit. George won the race and the bunnie. j o ——

Several Plan Daring Feats Over Niagara

POLICE OPPOSITION TO DE ATH DEFYING A ITEM PIS IS NO DETERRENT.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.. July 20 (UP)—A crop of deathdefying attempts at navigating Niagara Falls is looked for this summer as a result of the success which crowned the attempt of Jean Lussier, Springfield, Mass., who recently went over the cataract in a rubber ball. The ease of which Lussier successfully completed his feat, and his almost complete lark of body injuries has instilled into many u desire to at-

The weekly meeting of the Rotary (lull was held Thursday evening at the Christian church. It was the final meeting before the Group Five outing of Rotary clubs here next Thursday and final plans were made for the entertainment of three hundred or more visiting Rotarians and their wives at the Country Club next*week. i The city is expected to be at its 1 ! best when the visitors come next \ week, Mayor McGaughey told the club j members. He said Washington street’s eighteen hole golf course was in good shape now, and that it was to be made as good as possible for the visitors. He asked that citizens generally clean up, because the visitors will be shown over the city. The mayor asked everyone to cut their j weeds, because in some places they have grown quite rank during the I wet weather of the past month. Mrs. A. G. Brown, who is chairman of the Woman’s entertainment committee announced her general com

Russell were (he

customers. I he Benneti paited with two diamond lings uini $102, while Russell’s contribution was $20. Police are seeking the holdup men. FISHING CREW FINDS BODY OF L0EWENSTEIN

ATTEND ST! NK ARD II N KRAI. Mr. and Mi Otto Lakin, Mi R A. Opg, Mi 1! i.ry krehl, Mi Frances Che-k ,-l tins, city, and AD H. A. Gobin, M Lilian Southard, Miss Kate Hammond, Mi- i Lillian Brownfield and Airs. W. Al. McGau-

- — I ghey, were in Brazil Friday afterXllt OF SILENCE SI KROUNDS "oon where tk. attendeo the fun MINERS’ HEADQUARTERS AT , ,:l1 ,lf Ml '' ’ Ri'lnatli Stunk

INDIANAPOLIS. anl.

______ The last five ladies are members of

the Theta Alumnae Club of which | Mrs. Slunkard had been a member for the pa-1 twenty-five it thirty

Is Believed Action Taken Wednea-i years. The funeral n ; . were day XXill Result In Many Mines held at the Fir.it AL b t lunch in

Resuming Operations. 'Brazil.

FIRING SQUAD WILL AVENGE GEN. 0BREG0N

ASSASSIN Ol MEXICO’S PRESI-DENT-KLE< I TO BE EXECUTED IMMEDI X I'l l X.

XX XGI SCALE POLK X ( II XNGKD

RELATIVES IDEM 11 X CORPSE AS THA I OF MISSING BELGIAN ITNANt H R.

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INDIANAPOLIS, July 20. (UP)—j An air of silence surrounded the | United Mini* Workers of America Headquarter.- today, as developments were awaited in the changing of the j policy of the miners regarding a min-

imum daily wage scale.

Wednesday the policy committee of the union decided to allow district | unions to negotiate for their own wage scales. The decision followed a i months’ long fight of miners to obtain the old Jacksonville scale of ;

$7.50 per day minimum.

It was thought today that many : unions may soon begin to negotiate for a new wage scale which will al- |

Railrcads Will Absorb Express Oflkes Next Year

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FIRMS KEI’OKT. EXPRESS OFFH ES XT DEPOTS.

RL A XI ES ( HI R( 11 FOR (RIME thief of Police Says “Catholic Clergy" XX as Responsible For Murder of Xlvaro Ohregon.

NAVOJOA, SONORA, Mexico, July 20. (UP) The body of General Alvura llbregon, a-sa.-sinated President eleet of Mexico is che.filled to arrive li0:r from Mexico City at 1:20 P. M. today. Many Americans and Mexican notables are enroute here ui attend the funeral services which probably will be held Saturday or Sunday.

MEXICO CITY, July 20 (UP) — | Investigation of the a sassination of

The railroad I. * ^Alvaro Obregon already of-

taking over the ownet iiip of the

Cap!. Alfred l.oewenstoin ( ommitted Suicide XX hile Plan:* XX as Passing Over English Channel.

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fe has some cases of land assessed I t, ? n8,dere<i ’ but th^ commerc.al f )rt )f thp

The Greencastle members will be

$40 per acre, selling for as low offpr ' that are sure to follow, appar-

$32, and some town "i. r .*ity a-*- J j |,' l> i| ^ lnP| , ,, k , ( .|,j r registered the day before the outing,! which were the initial “A I

^h,, 1 giving the registration committee all *aid then »* * ti 1

sed at $'100 selling for as low _

i» fO. More of the«p eases is what lives in attempting to travel -. Thursday for those ■'''■wants. If the people of the county Perilous upper rapids, crash against lhp t,m ; rhursday for those warn II IN. peopu or m. louniy ^ j ^ ,k„ r.,... r ,i... out of town. John Cannon

' • deeply interested, ami they should

CALAIS, France, July 20. (CP)Two bfothers-iri-lnw of Captain Al fre.l l.oeweo: tein toda> identified the body of a man, found lloating in the English Channel, as that of the Bel-

gian financier.

They came here from Brussels and looked fir t at the dead man’s teeth aod then ai a wrist watch upon

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American Railv. \ I xpr. Company it is stated by II. R. Kurrie, presi-

b.w thousands of miners, now out of llent „,* who haH

• rk * •” return *" ‘ h< ' »* it Bit

I . fief prevailed despite some critic- 1 Th ,. re %vi |, „„ chanBe in

imi of tin* new ruling from district'

heads.

The new ruling makes possible dis- I parity in wage scales, anil decentralized power in that it allows district j heads to negotiate for their own ' scales, whereas, in former days, they, were forced to wage all wage negot n.tam on the Jacksonville -calc

-they will turn in as many of these

»s as they know about.

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from identity.

the jagged rocks at the foot of the " uk l " w "- reported The linunci.. widow was pros Falls and survive the whirlpool in the thp “"'l banquet details are ’.rated and to ...me to Calais

i all worked out. The luncheon will be | as -he had planned.

! at the Countiy Club and the banquet I Police are ro lling tlu-ir official inat six o’clock at Longden Hall. i quiry so that tin* body may he trails

C. C. Gillen who has attended con- ported immediately to Bin .*1

ferences, says the acquaintances one Phe two broth, rs-in law of the tin-

KI BBER ROADS POPULAR WASHINGTON, July 2b (UP)— A plan for widespread promotion of lubber roads in Great Britain lias ' been reported to tile commerce department h\ its I.ondan office.

lower river.

A Pittsburgh woman, whosename

run* m ' m jLjj. was not revealed, has written to poV ER H. ULAUKLIDGK, authorities at Niagara I alls a-k PROMINENT MASON, DIES j |1B permission to make a barrel trip

_____— over the roaring catara* t

diver Blaekli.lge, 81 years old, Authorities on both the American i

meets there always adds interest to Lin* Rotary woik, and once one get.

long f. sij.un 4,/ ,ml and Canadian sides ha-. * ade it plain j tw » ? " iu » r ’ l '“ ma,,> ' in “ ^ mneiit Mason and worthy patron j that they will attempt to thwart any | b 1 *" be wants to keep on going, ami

ancier visited th.* crew of tin* fishing stcamei that foutnl tie body and a: u*vd tbem they wo^ 1 ^e ti-wai.b'd.

the

management of the . xpr. companies, it i slated, in.I tli.ie will be no changes in th. offii*. -: of the conipanies in i-iti.* where the Ini incss is such that it .'ainiot be handled from

the railroad depot*.

In Greenca tb*. the office will remain the same as at pie. ent, it i

understood, but in many of the . ninllI er towns, the evpre -s will hereafter

be handlr.l from the tatinns,

LAW is XHEAD.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 2b (UP)— Five to three in favor of the force of ' the law wa the ore today in the

For durability, cleanliness and free-, war again-t b n.iitry in Marion coun

ty since tin* “Shoot To Kill’’ ordet i became effective !:i I December. Against the nine lunulit- who havt been slain bj citi/.'ii:, deputy bei riffs ami police heie, tb.n* have been I killed by outlaw , two Indinnspoli

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Eastern Star, dide at Ur* Methodist attempt to go over the Fulls. Not once i ll '' I’ 1 ‘'diet.*.I that if <■ wry one will d" | pital Wednesday night of paralys- has the police given permission, ami j *‘' s be ‘ st nPX< ’be visitors will j ollowing an illness of eight weeks, j all persons who went over did so only | *" nwav t.ieen astle with a fin i

j leral services will be held at 2 o’- by stealing a march on the police and l/k tomorrow afternoon at the Meth and starting from ome rnmote sec |it Episcopal Church of Anderson, tinn ofthe upper rapid-, pal will be in Maplewood cemetery James Hardy, case-hardened athlete I .-ei vie.will be in charge of the from Toronto, has an idea that he cah

nnic and EoptFrff Star lodges. plunge into the limelight by walking J h \. ' V A"l!*''

Blacklidge Was a graduate of amiss the Falls on a tight rope. Siry University, now IM’auw Uni- Manly will not att. mpt the f. at, In* ty, and was the lost surviving says, unless some commercial firm der of the DePauw chapter of makes him an offer to do so. a Tau Delta Fraternity. Follow- A man and wife from Kansas, ibis cnliege course be taught for identity unknown, also have u^ke.l [|y years in county schools of Mar- permission to try the feat -ometime county. Sinre his retirement from in August. They pi m to use a rubber lie school teaching h.* bn . b.*.*ii ball built on the •'> I* a- tb.* ..n. i, |ing as an instructor in Masonie' ed by Lussier, but which will have a at Anderson. j compartment for two persons. In this,

feeling towards the city. HEAT KILLS MANY

NEW YORK, July 20. (UP)—Up-| | wards of a score of deaths were re- j

i a result

of the four day heat wave.

I No immediate relief win in sight for New York City where the death toll mounted to !tK within the last 21 hours. Three deaths were reported from Connecticut where cooling breezes were believed to have broken the hot spell. Washington reported .five prostrations and the prospect of

showers.

jrviving are a sister, Mrs. Eliza- strapped side by side, they hope to Goodykoontz of Los Angeles, ! brave death. a son, Clarence, and a grand And Lus-ier, who says he is not

Five Perish In

G.O.P. EDITORS VISIT C0RYD0N

MEMBERS ol III PI'HI.H XN EDI loKI XL ASSOCIATION X LSI I

FORMER CXPITXL.

ilom from vibration, roads made from rubber blocks are said to be un-

equalled.

A British rubber paving block company has been formed, with the idea of selling such roads for special “quiet

areas” uch as urromul hospital:, policemen and one citi/.en. historic buildings, amlnriilges. i <, e PH '.ii IN \UGI i "BAHE’’ ADAMS IN POLI1ICS —o— BETHANY, Mo., July 20 (UP)—^ It wa. atiiiounct'd Friday that a Charles (“Babe”) Adams, one one of picnic is planned in Xugu-t by the the brightest stars in baseball, now former pupils of the old Bruner town want to wear an even brighter star. 1 school, \v>* t of the city The exact rl..* venerable “Babe”, who wa date has not been deci.led hut the out "through” with the lug leagues in ing will be held about tb.* middle of 1!I17, only to find his way back to the month. Among the well known

ficially blamed to the “Catholic Clergy" may end today and young Jose He Leon Toral mat he executed

momcntairly.

Ten persons, in adition to tin* con-fe-sod murderer, are held and chief of police Rica Bertuche aid the genernl inspection of the crime almost

was concluded.

Zertuehe blamed the church for the ,i; a -illation Tuesday of the popular former president, recently iv-eleeted. "Police headquarters now is in a po ition to make public that responsibility' for the crime rests w’itli th" Catholic Clergy.” Zertuche’s state-

ment said.

Previously President Plutargo Calles had blamed the murder of his friend and political adviser to a “religious fanatic."

Small Crowd At Concert ihursday

M XNX XHSS ENJOY XRLE PROtilt XM f»l I TO OIHHR Lot AL X FI R At HONS.

Hu* Pittsburgh Pirates, where In* was; graduate- of tin rh >*d

————— 1 .igain one of the National League’.. State Senator Elm. : Thotna WEST BADEN, fi d., July :'0. (UP 'ea.ling pitchei , has announeed hi Oklahi.in *. Oscar Thom:. , Ro

United . of 'I l.om ]

Youth Darts In Front Of Auto

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lierlock Holmes

t^iAgain Wins Case

jhter, Miss Mildred

of Indianapolis.

Blacklidg.*,. content in safely going over once, will

attempt the trick again, probably on | Labor Day. This time he will use an

improved rubber ball.

Lussier made his leap Tn a nineply rubber bail, eonstructed with a steel

__ ____ f rarnf ‘ an, l a covering of canvas, with

32 air holes. A weight was attacked

. to the bottom to keep the spheroid in sons were killed and many thousands PONAN DOYLE AIDS MURD- an upright position. "f dollars of damage done in the

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SUSPECT IN REGAINING

HIS FREEDOM.

./IdNMCglGH, Scotland, July 20. * <! lht|lock Holmes won his last llllliilftory ovw hi « ’t"’ police toV when the Court of Criminal apals unanimously set aside the con(ion of murder! us the result of I |S, ich Oscag Slater had spent 12 1-2

, prioon.

He was strapped in a sitting post- heaviest rain and lightning dorm

tion when released in the upper rap- f‘ v *‘ years here,

ids.

Meiubf i ..f th. I l.ana R.-public.'.ii Editorial A - .inti todav were to vi it Corydon, it.- ..I' Indiana’s first Capital, today. A hai quet opened the organization’ annual meeting her" la-t night. Hany (. I.eslie, gubernatorial candidate, was t.. address t.Kla'

session at Corydon.

Henry W. Marsh a I, Lafayette, and Senator Arthur R. Ifitbinsmi were

ri. a . ■ principal speakers at last night’s

Morm At Umaha' ——

Marshall cliaract. . /.‘d tin* action of <.R XNItSON t)l AIRS. II. A. LOj the platform committue at the Kan- BIN H AS ( LOSE CALL

RAIN AND LIGHTNING DO -us city regarding urm relief of THURSDAY. HEAVY DAMAGE IN NE- i “Courageous” beeau-.-, he said, the . RR ASK A FRIDAY. Republicang had “reused to make a; p au l Bintz, son of Mrs. Alma Gobin * political football out of the Mc.Nary- Qjp^, who recently removed to this'

OMAHA, July 20. fUP)—Five per-1 Haugen Bill.’ c j^y was .slightly injured Thursday

Marshall blamed the farm organiz- afternoon about 3:00 o’clock when 1 ■tion leaders in th.* lobby at Wash- s truck and thrown a short distance by ington for the failur. of congress to a car ( |,.iv,. n by Reese Matson, enact “sound, constructive legisla- Th) . h „ yi a |,; )Ut M j n ,. y ,. urs „f

b.-riff of Ilarri onja ami Sam H'.rii , nil toim.-i emintx

chool uperintendelit

candidacy for

' eoulily.

Adam quit ha . ball last y.-ar and returned to Bethany, wheie he own . on-idernble real e tute.

I HE GREAT XX AR I EN YEARS

AGO TOD.W July 20, ]!)18.

Allies smash enemy from Soisons to Rheimb and drive three miles. Big guns flute up all along the British line as they join the attack. Twenty thousand pii oners and

400 guns, it Is reported, have been j posed $2,000,00(1 bond issue for a taken hy tin* alii, in pn t tin. .* day I municipal airport to 1..* considered by

One of the smallest crowds of the easnii enjoyed the concert by the Greencastle Hand on Thursday evening. The carnival in the west part of the city: the skating link in the ..nth section, and the theatres drew heavily on the n nalfi large throng that* ha been attending the programs

each week.

Fridav morning the band stand was moved from the south : nle of ttle court lion e lawn to the north side of the public square. Concerts will he given at tin ; location for the next two

week it is said.

To ASK LINDBERGH’S AID ST. LOUIS, July 20 (UP)—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will be asked to assist in the campaign for the prn-

Italians press on, cutting into enemy's line at I’ourcy,

deepei • votei m the primary election, Tues-

! day, August 7.

Mexico Mourns Loss of Leader

double head Wabash Freight train |tt e olso assailed were killed at Mineola, la., when the many program ’’

Two engineers and two firemen on |’■■'m’ ' n connection v th Farm reli. i. was playing with other children in

th.- “Smith-Pam- f r -„ n f ( ,f th,. new Second Ward School -s. rtlng Indiana is Building now under construction on i

rush of water washed out the trestle 1 ""t ready for "Bo” 71 * Boosters in Ander-on Street. Mr. Matson was go ami the two engines crashed through. ! fubtic Office." j nB east on the street, when the boy | _ 0 | Senator Robinson in his address, I aU( |,| en |y darted fiom behind the tool

] eulogized Republican figures, princi-j house , directly in front of the car. 1

TWO MEN DROWNED

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Special Service Sunday Morning A special service will he held Sun-

' the murder day morning at 10:.'{0 at the First .

innoncerI8r^Xf£|» V ^f a S n J n * intain r < ^ I Christian chur <'h interest o( nml five olher s were rescued today, —— _ . ... find if he was ba.tty nurt an.t ne xne, • eib d In wfaSie u" , ’ P y0UnK ,H ' 01 ar ; tw atten l When Coast Guard patrol boat No. 113 Mrs. George Akers of Rcelsv.lle, took him to th( . office of Dr. W. M hr- demand thatl* b7 r Tr "" * "Conference this was run down and sunU by the freigh- who fell Friday and hit her head on a McGaughey where * ' ’

fe sentence ^ fr ° m sum,T,er - an,, who have bppn act,VP ; ter Culbertson near th trance to PPmP " t * tp lb s,il1 unconscious. Dr. r* i in tbp wor k of the Bible School and .. . .. Lerue Carter, noted nerve specialist BfiBSK* ,..l y]P \ enatn : thp ( hristian Endeavor Societies this j T ‘he‘..ccident occurred in a .tense from Indianapolis, waa called into

consultation and stated that her state

CAPE MAY, N. J., July 20 (UP)— Two coast gaidsmen were drowned five others were rescued today ,

s and a.hievem-i ts..

UNCONSCIOUS ONE W EEK.

The hoy was hit by the ear and

thrown about five feet.

Mr. Matson stopped the car im-1 j mediately and examined the child to find if he was badly hurt and he then

Iherlock Holmes, took charge of case and spent many months inignting it. He reached the conon that Slater whs innocent, and m.d up his reasons in a book, veral months ago the government red Slater’s release. Not satis-

, tl t t _ , Tho uccident occurred in a d«

last year, will have a part in the pro- ^

gram. Stanley Sears will read the (|ea(1; John R HaineB( lnach in- Probably resulted fn-m a skull frac-

Scripture lesson. Kathryn Atkinson.^ mate of p, easan tvill e , N. J„, Ufrp -

will offer the prayer, and John Tat- Df . wiu T Haie, machinist’s mate, of

bott will give a short talk. Washington, Ga. The five men res-

Kev. B. H. Bruner, pastor of the

cued were taken aboard by the pilot

dual apireal— which did not exvhen he was convicted—so that stain on his character might he

JAPAN ACCEPTS

At J h * ing for tile hollies of Haines and Hale. |-W^R PA d

it was found that I

he was uninjured other than u lnuis-

ed and skinned back.

The family just recently came to this city from their home in Michi-1 gall to make theii home here with Mrs. H. A. Gobin, the child’s grand mother. They live at the corner of Seminary and Bloomington Streets.

slater appealed to the Court „f 1 71' s P Puk at f thia 1 . se 7 icp an boat, Lewes, which continued search-

KIDS SHOt I D LIKE THIS

Church.” Rev. and Mrs. Bruner have been very much interested in the

wed. Today’s decision leaves him Work f " r tbe •«in«'e com-

•e he was before the crime was

lilted, legally.

FUNERAL TRAIN IN TEXAS

THE WEATHER

rstly unsettled tonight and Saty. Probably local -bowers or

4erstorrhs. Slightly cooler I and in north portion.

ing to Greencastle. Both of them have

s» rve,| on the faculty in recent years, TEXARKANA, Tex., July 20 (UP) at the Young People’s Conference- —The funeral train liearing the body at Bethany Paik. During their two of Captain Emilio Carranza, Mexi yeai.- with the Greencastle Church can flyer, who fell to his death in the young people’s work has grown New Jersey shortly after starting a or in a splendid way, and plans are he- New Y’ork to Mexico City flight a to- ing made for a great piogram of .week ago, was enroute aero:;.- Texas

1 work next year. today.

AGREE TO NOTE BY U. S. SE< HETARY S I ATE KI l.l-OGG.

PETOSKEY, July 20 (UP)—Petos key’- boy* this year believe they are

PRESENTED the luckiest in the nation. A large bus

has been provided to transport them ! to and from swimming beach at Wa!

——• loon lake, here free swimming instruc TOKIO, July 20. (UP)—Japan to-! tions are offered them,

day unconditionally accepted the

anti-war pact a- pr* sented in a note William McGaughey has gone to by United States ecietary of State Buttle Ground where he will attend Kellogg. the Epworth League Institute.

A recent portrait of Gen. Alvarg Obregon, President elect U ftltf tco, assassinated in Baa Angelo,.