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raflßSKgagroa J&KftN x « sk' _. "* l^WßtfigagSß^^*iW ' *• : *'* : f * ■•tiAn-i-i """ '" " IX-Opening of the first meeting of the League of Nations assembly In Geneva. 2—Dr. Alejandro Cesar, new minister to the United States from Nicaragua. 3—Boy scouts on pilgrimage to grave of Col. Theodore Roosevelt.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Ruling on Unanimity Clause May Cause Argentina to Quit League of Nations. WILSON WILL HELP ARMENIA Entente Warns Greece Not to Restore Constantine to Throne—D’Annunzio Declares War on Italy—Pres-ident-Elect Harding Home. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Comparative harmony, forced by stress of circumstances, marked the doings of the League of Nations assembly during the early part of the work, and then came discord that threatened to result in the withdrawal of at least one important member nation —Argentina. Certain amendments to the covenant had been proposed by the Scandinavian delegates and the commission on amendments had reported against them and any other amendments at this J time. In the assembly there was a motion to refer the amendments to a special committee for a report next Sep- • tember. Delegate Pueyrredon of Argentina alone opposed 3 this, and since the covenant requires a unanimous vote for the carrying of any motion, apparently the proposition was blocked.’ But Vivian! of France at once asserted that this was a “question of procedure” and that the unanimity rule did not apply. President Hymans supported the contention; declared the resolution carried and ajdjourned the meeting. I Dispatches from Buenos Aires said the government was momentarily expecting a cablegram from Pueyrredon, who Is foreign minister of Argentina, and that the withdrawal of the nation from the league was likely to follow. The league members thought they had found the way to save what remains of the Armenian people, for President Wilson, asked by the league council to mediate for Armenia with Mustapha Kemal Pasha, consented to undertake the task through a representative to be named by him. He made it plain that his effort must be personal and that he would have to rely, in determining the method of approaching the problem, on the advice of those nearer the scene of action. Such advice will be supplied by the commissioners of the allied nations in Turkey. Spain and Brazil have offered to co-operate with the United States in the matter. When, and if, the Armenian affair is settled, Greece evidently must pay the price. Kemal must be placated, and tills can. be done only by a radical revision of the treaty of Sevres. At this writing the plans for such revision are being, arranged in London by Premiers Lloyd George of Great Britain and Leygues of France. The most important changes in the pact doubtless will be made at the expense of. Greece’s newly acquired territory in Asia Minor and Thrace. Since the Greeks ousted Venizelos and prepared to restore Constantine to the throne their ambitions have received smaller consideration by the great powers. Already, it is understood, Great Britain, France and Italy have agreed that the Smyrna region shall be internationalized and policed by locally recruited gendarmes officered by an international officers’ corps. It is certain that Kemal will hot be satisfied with this Smyrna concession, for his growing power is causing his demands to increase. Newspapers of Angora, where he makes his headquarters, say he asks that Thrace be given autonomy, Constantinople be evacuated by the allies and the allied and interallied zones of control and Influence in Syria and other parts of the Turkish empire be abandoned. It is probable some of these demands will be rejected, and equally probable that some of them will be granted. Kemal’s military strength is worth consideration and his popular support is widespread. Sixty German officers have been making over his bands of N£W PRESIDENT IN OFFICE Alvaro Obregon Installed as the Chief Executive of the Republic of Mexico. Mexico City. — Gen. Alvaro Obregon was inaugurated President of Mexico. The simple ceremony of taking the oath of office marked the fourth time in the republic’s history of 99 years that the executive power has been transferred peacefully. George T. Summerlin,

fighters into regular army units, and he recently added to his equipment a quantity of artillery obtained from the soviet Russians. From Geneva came a story that the league committee on Armenia, of which Lord Robert Cecil is chairman, probably would appoint Gen. Leonard Wood commander of the Armenian expeditionary force with the title of high commissioner. The choice, it was added, was on the recommendation of Sir Frederick Morris and Gen. Weygand. Officials in Washington did not take this report seriously, but it may turn out to be true. By unanimous vote the league commission on new members decided that Austria should be admitted, and there was no doubt that the assembly would ratify the action. Bulgaria also wants to get in at once, but Greece, Serbia and Roumanla all are opposed to her admission and may prevent it There was reason to believe they would ,be supported in this by France, which seeks to gain strength in central European friendships. For the present, at least, France has her way In barring Germany from immediate membership in the leagub. The commis-» sion has decided against the admission of Lichtenstein and Azerbaijan, but recommended that Costa Rica be made a member. Gustav Ador of Switzerland, backed by the delegates of several other nations, tried to have the economic Commission instructed to study means of preventing monopolies of raw materials and measures to insure their distribution throughout the world, the argument being that raw materials belong not to the nation in which they are produced, but to the world. This was blocked by Sir George E. Foster of Canada, who said his country and the United States never would subscribe to that principle. A futile effort to have Spanish adopted as the third official language of the league brought out the statement by the foreign minister of Panama that the 15 states of Central and South America are united around Spain as their leader. If the Greeks recall to the throne, they will forfeit the good will and support of Great Britain, France and Italy. These three powers, It was decided at a conference in London, should so warn the new Greek government, and a note to that effect was drafted. The restoration of the former king, says the warning, “could only be regarded’as ratification of his hostile acts” during the war. This decision by the entente is a victory for the French point of view. D’Annunzio having refused to accept the agreement between Italy and Jugo-Slavia, the Italian government sent General Cavlglia to Invest Fluipe. This he did, and sent to the poet warrior by airplane a proclamation announcing the Intention of the government to enforce the conditions of the Rapallo treaty delay and calling on the regency of Flume to withdraw all its forces behind .the frontiers. He next invited D’Annunzio's troops to leave him and reenroll in (heir old units, and threatened a severe blockade of the city. D’Annunzio, seemingly undaunted, responded in a declaration of a state of war with Italy, effective December 3. General Cavlglia Is doing all he car- to avoid bloodshed and his troops wxtld hate to fire on their brother Italians, but if it comes to actual warfare the result cannot be in doubt D’Annunzio would soon be crushed. The warning Issued by the British government that the Irish were about to carry the “war” to England, was justified. To date the chief weapon used in this new development of the conflict is arson. A large number of incendiary fires were started simultaneously along the Liverpool waterfront and several big cotton warehouses were destroyed. The incendiaries worked in small groups and some of them, being Interrupted by the police, killed one officer and a civilian. About the «ame time the London police said t- y had foiled a plot to start fires tn the metropolis on a large scale. Elabbrate precautions were taken In all the large cities of’ England. Sunday night two motortrucks full of black and tan recruits, all former charge d’affaires for the United States, was among those present. Provisional President De la Huerta, who sat at General Obre >n’s right as he was sworn in in the amber of deputies, was the first to e, ibrace'the new President, and as the succession of retiring and newly appointed cabinet ministers, congress and other officials greeted President Obregon moving picture machines clicked and photographers kept up a fusillade of flashlights. It is understood Mr. Summerlin at-

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officers in the war, were ambushed near Kilmichael, Ireland, and 15 of them murdered. Reprisals continued in Ireland unchecked. The town hall and other buildings in Cork were set on fire and five Sinn Fein clubs were destroyed. Raids by the military and police were frequent, there and elsewhere. Uniformed men entered Killarney and smashed all the windows in the business section of the city. The British government met with defeat in the house of lords when the home rule bill came up. Baron Oranmore and Brown offered an amendment providing for the establishment of a senate for southern Ireland, and It was adopted against the government by a vote of 120 to 36. Another amendment, bestowing a second chamber on the Ulster parliament, also was carried. , It is reported that the government has decided that all members of the Irish republican army who have been or may be rounded up shall be interned in camps in Ireland and held without trial unless they are charged with some penal offense. Gen. Alvaro Obregon was inaugurated President of Mexico at midnight Tuesday, and at about the same time officials of the American Department of Justice .made wholesale raids at various points along the border. These agents captured a mass of documentary evidence proving the existence of a plot, organized on this side of the border, to start a new revolution and overthrow the Obregon government jit was said that Lucio Blanco, a former officer in Carranza’s army, was at the head of the conspiracy. Just before his inauguration Obregon stated in an interview that article 27 In the Mexican constitution, restricting ownership of oil lands, would not be abrogated, but he was sure the application of the article would soon be regulated to the satisfaction of the United States by a commission to be appointed. He said Mexico would not ask admission to the League of Nations, but would give consideration to an invitation to join the league. President-elect Harding has returned from his trip to the Canal Zone, presumably with enlarged views on the building up of trade with the } Latin-American republics and the cultivation of better relations with them. Also it may be assumed that he has learned a lot about the need of stronger defenses for the Panama canal. Mr. Harding made a brief stop last week in Jamaica where he was received as royalty would have been. It was announced that he would be in Washington Monday and would occupy his seat in the senate for a day or two, and it was certain that his colleagues would call on him for an address. * The senate and house committees on agriculture began a joint session on Friday to consider emergency measures for the relief of American farmers who are said to face a loss of $7,000,000,000 through sale of their products at ’ less than cost Among the suggestions discussed were the imposition of a tariff on Canadian wheat the reylval of the war finance corporation, and extensions of credit to Russia and Germany to enable them to purchase American farm products. According to Senator Capper, the farmers demand, in addition to those remedies, the following: “Adequate credit for farmers through short time and long-time loans adapted fairly and practically to the peculiar conditions of the farming business. ’’Afford farmers the same credit accommodations now afforded other lines of business. “Abolish gambling in wheat, cotton, corn, and all farm produce. “Full legal authority for nation-wide co-operative marketing by farmers. “Regulation of the packers. “A national marketing board, in which the producer will be- represented, with power to the board to regulate the rate of marketing and to advise and assist in’stabilising prices. “Broaden and strengthen the federal farm loan system. “Tariff revision to protect American agriculture. / “Protection for wool growers and the public from the unfair competition of shoddy goods.” tended the ceremony in his personal capacity. Prior to the inaugural ceremonies the aidermen of Mexico City tendered General Obregon a banquet in the municipal building, at which the' new minister of industry and commerce, Rafael Zubaran Capmany, welcomed on behalf of the government the American and other visitors, his address being replied to by Governor Larrazolo, New Mexico. Mexico City made cardtval for the remainder of the night.

Happenings of the World Tersely Told Personal Baron Desborough died suddenly while making a Speech at a dinner at Birmingham, Englund. • « • Washington A Washington special says all records for flying -between Chicago ami New York were beaten by the inr mail service. J. T. Christensen made the distance of 742 miles in 5 hours and 31 minutes, actual flying time. • • • State department officers at Washington said , that President Wilson would act personally in naming a mediator to act for him in an effort to settle the trouble between the Armenians and Turkish nationalists. • • Authority to continue its investigation into campaign expenditures until next March 4 will be asked of the senate at Washington by the committee headed by Senator Kenyon of lowa. , • • • The negro population of East St. Louis, 111., was announced by the census bureau at Washington as 7,433, an increase of 1.551. The white population' numbered 59,306, an increase of 6,660, or 12.7 per cent • • * President Wilson at Washington has accepted the invitation of the League of Nations to act as mediator in the Armenian situation. • • • The government petitioned the district Supreme court at Washington to appoint a trustee to take possession of and sell the stock yards property of the big five packers. • * * Domestic Five armed auto, bandits, in a daylight robbery, secured $5,000 in cash, $3,000 in Liberty bonds and nonnegotlable notes valued at about $169,000 at the First National bank of Grove City, O. • • • St. Louis officials of the American Railway Express company announced that $36,400 of Liberty bonds disappeared , October 11. • * • Stubbing his toe in crossing railway tracks cost Erastus Kennedy of Washbum, 111., his life. Infection developed lockjaw, which proved fatal. * * * Four armed men boarded the Southern north-bound train from Chattanooga to Cincinnati near Oneida, Tenn., rifled the mail car and escaped. The post office at Oneida had previously been robbed. ♦ * * Lumber prices took another tumble when Milwaukee dealers announced a cut ranging from 7 to 11 per cent The total reduction from the top price now reaches 25 per cent. • « * Four bags containing $24,000 In Liberty bonds and $500,000 in notes and mortgages, stolen from a Clifton (Ill.) bank two weeks ago, have been recovered beneath a section shanty at Huntington, Ind. The first scout cruiser for the navy will be launched by the Todd Shipbuilding company at T&coma, Wash., December 14, • * « Fifteen million men, women and children of all social and economic classifications, representing every nationality in Europe, are fighting for passage to the United States, according to reports submitted by seventeen transatlantic steamship company representatives to Frederick A. Wallis, commissioner of immigration at Ellis island, New York. • • • Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon, fugitive secretary of the late Jake L. Haipon, Oklahoma oil millionaire and politician, confessed that she fired the shot that caused Hamon’s death, according to a sworn statement made at Dallas, Tex., by the man to whom she talked. ** * \ A jury of ten men and two women, which heard the case of Mrs. Maybelle Roe, charged with the murder of McCullough Graydon, at Los Angeles, Cal., was locked up all night after reporting disagreement * * » Henry Krokner, owner of a furrier’s shop at 30 East Thirty-fifth street, Chicago, was shot and killed when he sought to halt bandits making away with approximately $4,000 worth of his stock. • • • ‘ J. P. Harris, a nineteen-year-old' negro, was lynched by a mob near Princeton, Fla., following an alleged attack upon a white woman. He was identified by the victim. ♦ • * Word has been received from Monroe, Wls., of the finding in their new ' Home Os the bodies of a young farmer, his wife, two children and his wife’s brother. Death resulted from asphyxiation, due probably to ignorance regarding operation of the furnace. The dead are Henry Butts and wife, two boys and Otto Pahl. • • • A. M. Meadowfield, retired farmer, was gored to death by a bull near Edgerton, Mo. ? • Eugene W. Chafin, sixty-eight, Prohibition candidate for President in 1908 and 1912, died at his home at Long Beach, Cal;, from burns received on November 20. *« • « Frederick W. French, assistant cashier of the City Trust and Savings bank of Grand Rapids, Mich., confessed that he had embezzled between $300,000 and $500,000 of the bank’s funds. k

Three young masked bandits held up and robbed the mail car on. the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train No. 6, near Minneapolis, Minn, and after binding and gagging three mall clerks, escaped with a pouch of registered mail and other packages, estimated to contain currency and papers worth between $50,000 and $75,000. • • • Four bandits held up two messengers of the Manhattan brokerage firm of Kean, Taylor & Co. N. Y„ seized a package contain $467,000 in Liberty bontß, fired a fusillade and escaped. * * * Postal Inspector W. H. Coble of Omaha, Neb., announced there that Keith Collins, returned from Oklahoma in connection with the mail car robbery, led federal officers to a cache where $23,800 of the loot was found. Governor Cox of Ohio, defeated Democratic nominee for President, accepted a life membership in the National Democratic club at New York. “I feel highly complimented,’* said Governor Cox. Foreign The first group of Sinn Fein prisoners to be Interned under the government’s recently announced plan left Dublin for Ballykinler, County Down. Their number was not made public. Countess Markleyicz, M. P., prominent Sinn Fein leader, was found guilty at Dublin by 3 court-martial of conspiring to spread sedition and cause murder in Ireland. Sentence will be Imposed later. The cabinet at Budapest, headed by Count Paul Teleky as premier, has resigned. The ministry was formed on July 20 last. ~ Six policemen were ambushed at Youghai, Ireland. One was' wounded and one is missing. At Random the bodies of three volunteers, who were shot near that town, were discovered lying near the road, says a London dispatch. • • • Presentation and adoption of a resolution eliminating article 10 from the covenant of -the League of Nations before the end of the present session of the assembly at Geneva would occasion no surprise here, it was de-, dared in some quarters. • • * - Reports that Baron Desborough died suddenly at Birmingham, which were published by a London newspaper, proved to be incorrect. The baron is in the best of health. •* • • Uniformed men visited Killarney, Ireland, and smashed nearly all the windows in the business section of the city. • * • The Dutch cabinet has resigned as a result of the second chamber of parliament’s proposal for higher salaries for teachers, says a dispatch from The Hague. • • * The Rome Messagero says that the D’Annunzio naval squadron at Flume was under orders to leave Flume when it was learned D’Annunzio had blocked the port by sinking the cruiser Cortellanzo. The allied premiers in conference at London agreed to send a note to the Greek government declaring that restoration of Constantine to the throne of Greece would be regarded as ratification by that country of Constantine’s hostile acts. ♦♦ ♦ . No less than 1.206 persons, an average of 40 a day, were sentenced to death by Moscow revolutionary tribunals and executed during September, according to the official soviet organ Isvestia. . —. • • • Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik minister of trade and commerce, already has been handed the British trade agreement. which has been signed, says a wireless message from Moscow. Negotiations have been perfected for the lease of the Roumanian state railways to a British syndicate for 25 years, according to dispatches from Bucharest. • * • The government promulgated the law recently adopted which authorized purchase bf a building to be presented to the American embassy at Lima, Peru. ♦ * • The League of Nations commission of control has arranged an armistice between Lithuanians and General Zeligowskl, the “insurgent” Polish commander at Vilna,' according to a Kovno (Lithuania) dispatch. • • • Three youths of Ardeo, County Louth. Ireland, said to have been connected with the Sinn Fein movement, were taken from their beds during the night and shot dead, says a dispatch from Ardee. r A gigantic simultaneous offensive by Poland. Hungary and Roumanla, commanded by Kerensky, will be started against soviet Russia about the middle of March, according to a decision taken at a meeting behind locked doors in the Russian embassy at Paris. ** • • • Increasing ffbsffltty towardcans and American relief interests is being shown by the Turkish nationalists, says a letter from IlAry Riggs, director for the Near East Relief atKharput. • ♦ • The Armenian commission of the League of Nations assembly at Geneva announced that it had decided to send an army of volunteers, headed by Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A., “to assist in the arbitration by the United States between the Armenian republic and Mustapha Kemal.” , • • • Austria was unanimously voted a member of the League of Nations by the commission for the admission of new states at Geneva. It is expected the assembly of the league will ratify this action-

; Seen and Heard : : In Indiana 4- I ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦»♦»♦♦♦♦♦ » ♦♦♦♦♦ Chicago, 11l. —C. E. Troyer of Lfi i Fontaln. Ind., was crowned as the 1920 I corn king at the grain and hay show held in connection with the Interna- . tional Live Stock exposition. He w-on the sweepstakes with a ten ear sample I of Johnson county white corn. This j is the second time that a Hoosier has i been declared king of corn. Peter Lux • of Indiana won the honor last year. “I | haven’t any hobbies about corn,” Mr. Troyer said. “I have always picked for seed and show the type of corn that has proved the most/ profitable.” He has been a consistent winner of county, state-and national grain shows for several years. Theyten winning ears came from a 17-acre field with an official yield of 109 bushels an acre. Deep plowing, thorough cultivation and the free use of the hoe is the secret of Mr. Troyer’s success. Petersburg.—The condition ,of the late planted wheat in Pike county, is considerably improved, the mild weather giving the wheat opportunity to take root, and it is in good condition to stand hard freezing weather during the winter. The in Pike county was planted late in an effort to keep it free from fly. Only a small acreage of early planted wheat was put in. Farmers decline to sell wheat at the present price. Rather than take chances of cribbing corn, many farmers have quit shucking, and will let it, cure on the stalk. Little corn is being sold here at the prevailing market prices, as farmers decline to sell at 50 to 60 cents a bushel. Indianapolis.—The contest for the speakership of the next Indiana house of representatives has now reached a lively stage, with three avowed candidates who ha\e aggressive workers behind them. • Clinton H. Glvan of Indianapolis, whom the Marion county delegation has agreed to support; Jacob D. Miltenberger of Muncie, who took a prominent part in committee work at the last session of the legislature, and John F. McClure of Anderson, formerly a member of the Indiana public service commission, are the leading candidates. Lafayette.—Purdue university won grand championship honors in the fat steer class, the most coveted prize of the International Live Stock exposition* and grain show, held in Chicago, 111. This honor was won by Black Ruler, a purebred Angus steer, calved October 18, 1918. He was chosen by Judge Walter Biggar of Scotland, over a Hereford steer owned by E. H. Taylor, Frankfort, Ky. ~ About the same time grand championship honors in the fat wether class went to a Southdown shown by J. C. Andrews of West Point. Scipio.—The fur season has opened at Scipio with fur buyers paying from one-third to one-half the price pelts brought last year. Buyers are offering $3 to $5 for prime mink, 30 cents for oppossums, 50 cents for muskrats. Red fox pelts are quoted at from $3 to $5, against S2O to $25 last year. “Star” skunks have been bought so far this season at from $2 to $3. Only a fair catch is being taken this season. The fur has not thickened up yet, owing to the continued mild weather, Indianapolis^—Opposition to the reenactment of the law creating the special coal and food commission, which expires March 31, 1921, is expressed by Warren T. McCray, gov-ernor-elect of Indiana, in an interview printed in the Black Diamond, one of the leading organs of the coal trade. Mr. McCray, in the interview, declared himself a's opposed to any attempt to standardize values throughout a state by legislation. - Franklin. —George T. Shuck, a Johnson county farmer of the Hopewell neighborhood, has madq an assignment of his property in favor of the Farmers Trust company, Franklin. His assets will total $100,060. Investment in stocks is said to be partly responsible for Mr. Shuck’s difficulties. It is believed all obligations will be met w’hen the case is adjusted. None of the Franklin banks is seriously involved. Evansville. —J. S. Johnson of Evansville was elected president of the Southwestern Indiana Teachers’ association for the coming year at the session of the organization’s annual convention, held in Evansville. He had been vice president of the association the last year, and takes the place of Robert E. Eckert of Jasper, who has served during the last year. Fort Wayne. —Members of the Fort Wayne city council voted unanimously to appropriate $5,000 for an emergency fuel fund. The plan is for the city to buy coal and sell it to residents for cost to relieve a shortage from which the city has been suffering. Laporte.—Mrs. Katherine Spore was appointed auditor of Laporte county to succeed the late Alfred H. Kimble. She is the first woman to hold a county office in Laporte county. Mrs. Spore was deputy under Mr. Kimble. Huntington. — Four bags containing $24,000 worth of Liberty bonds and $500,000 in notes and mortgages, stolen from a Clifton (Hl.) bank two weeks ago, have been recovered from beneath a section shanty at Highland, Lake county. Indianapolis.—The Indiana free emplovment commission in the state fls- ’ W year ended September 30, placed 33,381 persons in employment, a report by Fred Kleinsmith, chairman of the 'Commission, shows. Os the total, 24,275 were male civilians, 5,426 were soldiers, and ?,680 were women. Logansport. —A new high mark for Christmas savers in Logansport was made this year. The six banks will pay out within two weeks approximately $126,500 in Christmas savings checks, according to figures given out by the officials of the different institutions. Michigan City.—lt has been a pleasnt task for ■ the legislative visiting ommittee to investigate conditions tnd needs of the Indiana state prison t Michigan City, for this is an instiution that is not only self-supporting, ,but actually returns a surplus to the ‘tfate.

Chicago, Hi.—a carload" of fat Hampshire hogs, entered by J. M. Ballard of Marion, Ind., won gruml championship honors at the International I Live*" Stbck exnosition at Chicago, bringing to the state of Indiana adi ditional recognition of its ability to j produce top quality in livestock. In t the Hereford classes, Frank P. Fox, Indianapolis, won third and fifth on | aged bull and Warren T. McCray capi tured seventh place. McCray's two-year-old bull took eighth place in a j big field, and one belonging to Smith , Brothers of Medaryville won fourth ■in the saroe classes. In the Hereford | steer classes, Shadeland stock farm, | Lafayette, took second on senior yearling, fourth on senior calf aud fourth on junior calf. Indianapolis.—Minor political parties in Indiana—the Socialists, the Farm-er-Labor and the Prohlbitionisrs-Hlid not profit much from the big increase in the Hoosier vote resulting from woman suffrage. Two women, however, led the tickets of the minor parties —Madge Patton Stephens, for secretary of state, leading the Socialists with 28,404 votes, and Culla J. Vayhinger, for United States senator, topping the with 13,323. Francis J. Dillon, for senator, led the Farmer-Labor party with 16,804 votes. The combined vote of these candidates was 53,531, according to the official figures, while in 1916 the minor political parties got a combined vote of 44.939. Anderson. —John S. Alldredge of Anderson, joint senator from Madison, Henry and Tipton counties, has announced he will introduce in the Indiana legislature a bill to amend the present primary law. He says he is not iii favor of repealing the primary law and that the measure he will introduce 'is intended l to strengthen it> Mr. Alldredge explained he would propose the elimination of the convention provision, making a plurality vote sufficient to nominate. Under the present law, unless one candidate for a certain office obtains a majority, the contest goes before the state convention. Valparaiso. — Porter county once more leads the state in the milk production. The report of the state association for the month of September by Purdue university, shows that of the ten highest cows, Porter county took the first, second, fourth, eighth, ninth and tenth positions. The ten highest cows produced 8,750. pounds of milk, 429 pounds of fat. valued at $265.32, with feed that cost $135.90. The ten lowest cows produced 3,671 pounds of milk, 130.7 pounds of fat, valued at $76.83, with feed that cost $58.28. Indianapolis.—Forty-seven carloads* of coal were distributed by the state special coal and food commission one day the past week, making a new record for the commission, it is announced. The commission distributes on an average of 1,200 to 2,000 tons of coal a day. It receives orders from communities where coal is scant, and. gets in touch with coal operators who are co-operating" with it. The coal thus sold is produced and sold at prices and margins established by thecommission. Hammd^fil. —Outside of the steel companies, Calumet region industries which have been working at capacity to (the present are beginning to lay off men in large numbers. The Leon- ' ard Construction company, which has a huge contract for the Indiana Oil company at Indiana Harbor, laid off 1,000 men. The Edwards Valve company, at East Chicago, dispensed with several hundred. The F. S. Betz plant, at Hammond, and the United Organic Chemical company of West Hammand also reduced their forces. Goshen. —The Elkhart county fair ground, comprising 50 acres and many buildings was sold at auction to H. V. D. King of Goshen, secretary of the chamber of commerce and secretary of a recently organized fair association, and Charles H. Method, a Goshen horseman, for $13,500. This amount is about sufficient to pay all secured claims. Stockholders will not receive anything, it is said. Lafayette. —Indiana’s first government school for disabled soldiers and sailors of the World war was opened in West Lafayette under the direction of the federal board of vocational education. Applications for admission have already been received. Within two weeks it is expected to have from 50 to 100 men at work in the school.. Anderson. — The Madison county council and board of commissioners, in joint session to consider road improvements outlined next year, and which will cosfapproximately $1,000,000, decided not to cancel any contracts for improvements. It was decided, however, to retrench as far as possible in regard to Improvement projects for 1921. Fort Wayne—Eight hundred of the* 3,000 employees of the Wayne knitting mills at Fort Wayne went on strike in protest against suspension of prof-it-sharing bonuses that have been paid to the workers for some time. No cut has been made in the regular wage scales. / Bloomington.—Bloomington is to have a new waterworks system costing from $500,000 to $750,000. L Hartford City—lnability to get operators caused the telephone exchangeat Roll, operated by the Indiana Bell Telephone company, to be closed temporarily. Wabash. —Mrs. Emma Farr of Wabash and Mrs. Katherine Ramsey of Lagro are thought to be the first women named in Indiana to serve as jury commissioners. They were named in Circuit court recently by .Judge Hunter and met recently at the courthouseto begin selecting names of those who f will be called to serve on juries in the court in the next year. Vincennes.—Fire destroyed 3,400 tons of baled straw and a new $1,500 shed at the plant of the Fort Wayne corrugated paper box plant at 1 in—cennes, causing a loss of $45,000. Indianapolis—The Indiana State Teachers’ association constitutional convention will be held, in Indianapolis January 18, according to a call the >ssociation’s executive committee has sent out. The call requires the selection of county delegates before December 18, and reports of the county selections must be placed with the executive committee before gg.