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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS League of Nations Recommends Limitation of Armaments by Mutual Agreement. COURT OF JUSTICE ADOPTED • — 3 , Obligatory Clause, However, Is Omitted—Austria and Bulgaria Admitted to League—Progress of Efforts for an Irish Settlement. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. If. as George Nlcoll Barnes of England asserts, disarmament is the real acid test of the success of the League of Natjons, the league cannot yet be said to be wholly successful. The assembly at Geneva last week received the report of the disarmament committee, and though it proved to be a rather flabby production, it was adoptedg.The limitations clause was amended so that it was merely a recommendation that limitation of armaments be established for the next two years through mutual agreement among the powers. With respect to mis France made the reservation that she was obliged to restore her armaments that had been worn out by the war, and Belgium and Spain made similar reservations. Then seven nations voted against the limitation clause. These were France, Greece, Poland, Roumanian Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. ~..•,. The committee explained that, though it was in favor of the speedtest possible disarmament, it was forced to the conclusion that this could not ,yet be accomplished. “There are countries with the most powerful armament building facilities outside the league,” said Delegate Fisher, “and disarmament can begin only when it is universal.” When the Austrian peace treaty was .signed at St. Germain, there was also signed a convention for the control of the traffic in arms and ammunition, but this has not been ratified and no steps have been taken to make it effective. The committee suggested that the council urge'the signatories to ratify the treaty at once,, though there will be no authority to control the export of arms from the United States. - So far as navy building goes,' Sena- . tor Borah, one of the “irreconcilable§,” has a plan whereby the United States can join in its reduction. He has introduced in the senate a resolution requesting the President to propose to Great Britain and Japan an Agreement with the United States for the curtailment of navy building by the three powers, the program of each of them to be reduced annually during the next five years 50 per cent of the present estimates or figures. In the preamble it is pointed out that the Japanese governmerit has declared to the world that It could not consent even to consider a program of disarmament on account of the building program of the United States. “By this statement,” the resolution continues, “the world is informed and expected to believe that Japan sincerely desires to support a program of disarmament, but cannot do so in safety to herself jn account of the attitude and building program of this government.” An indication of thl I possible attitude of Great Britain In this matter is found in the report t bat the cabinet has decided that it is impossible for the nation longer to mt intain the twopower standard which has been Its policy for many years The British program is halted just now by a dispute as to the relative ’ alue of capital ships, and submarines land airplanes. The general board ol the American navy is not at present In accord with any of the plans for reduction, for it still urges on congres;; the need of a “navy second to rimle,” as recommended In 1915. It Is Convinced that battleships remain . pre-eminent sac-

DECLARES CHINA IS UNITED President Country on the Reunion of NoHhern and Southern Factions. Peking.—A proclamation of the reunioh of north and south China has just been issued by President Hsu Bhih-chang. The mandate orders the. rarious provincial authorities to . exert themselves to the end that the democratic government may be promoted, .and Announces that the re-

tos in national defense. Os these we have 11 ready for service and 21 building, and the 6 board recommends that three more be built for delivery by 1927. One more battle cruiser. 30 cruisers, 18 submarines and four air-plane-carrying ships are asked, and a one-year program of naval airplane construction is recommended,* In a sentence, what the board advises is a combatant navy equal to the most powerful maintained by any other nation, Supporting and protecting a great merchant fleet. To return to thb League of Nations: Several Important things were accomplished last week by the assembly. First of these was the adoption of a statute for a permanent international court of justice. The plan now goes to the member states for ratification. If It Is approved by 22, or a majority, before the next meeting of the assembly, the Judges will be chosen and the court will come into existence in September, 1921. In the debate on the project there was a hot contest between Europe on one side and Latin-America on the other over the question whether the jurisdiction of the court should be obligatory or Voluntary. Europe won out, and the statute as adopted does not make obligatory the appearance of both parties to a dispute, and provides no [penalty for non-compliance with the’court’s decisions. The European delegates defended the scheme as the best beginning that can be made, but the Latin-Americans were very skeptical as to the value of optional jurjsdictiop. . , w ; . Austria, first of the former enemy states to be admitted to the league, was voted in Wednesday without opposition, fbur members refraining from voting. Next day Bulgaria was admitted, Franke and Australia jiot voting. The action on Austria brought on a lively passage between Motta of Switzerland and Vivian! of France. The former took occasion to say that his country had always regretted the rejection of Germany’s application for admission, whereupon Vivian!' leaped to the tribune and in a fiery speech defended the French position in opposing Germany’s admission. Most of the assembly was with him and he was enthusiastically applauded. Luxemburg, Finland and Costa Rica also were admitted to the league. Spain, Brazil, Belgium and China were chosen as the four elective members of the council. China takes the place of Greece, and her victory was said to be due timlnly to the personal strength sind popularity of Dr; Wellington Koo among the delegates. Armenia, together with Georgia and the Baltic states, was refused admission to the league, but a resolution was adopted expressing the hope that President Wilson’s efforts would result In the saving of Armenia and the establishment of a stable government so that she could be’ taken into the fold. Mr. Wilson has named Henry Morgenthau as his representative in the mediation, but just what he can do is puzzling many observers. Already Armenia has yielded to the behests of the Red Russians and established a soviet government at Erivan, and the Turkish nationalists, called off by Lenine, have signed a peace treaty with the Armenians by which the latter hand back to Turkey most of h'er former territory in that region. If this suits the majority of the Armenians, what are the powers going to do about s it? And w][iat is Mr. Morgenthau going to try to mediate? One genuinely constructive accomplishment of the league assembly last week was the establishment of an international commission to be a banker for European nations without credit or with very diminished credit The nations meant are Poland, Roumania, Bulgaria, .Tugo-Slavia, Czechoslovakia, and possibly Turkey. Nations desiring to take advantage of the facilities offered will notify the commission what assets, etc., they wish to pledge with it —for instance, customs duties, railroads or monopolies. The commission-will then set a fair value thereon for whatever period the assets are pledged and authorize the government in question to issue gold bonds to that amount. Then individual business men belonging to

public under the present constitution “will henceforth be united.” The proclamation is practically coincident with a declaration from Canton by Tsen Chun-hsuan and others of the "executive committee of the southern military government,” announcing the dissolution of that government and cancellation of the “independence” of the southwest provinces. The reunion mandate loses much of its force, due to the fact that another independent faction is in control of the territory which th;# guveru-

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that country, or its government, cai make purchases in richer countries such as the United States, and througt the commission an amount of golc bonds amply covering the credit fqi such purchases will be forwarded t< the exporter with whom the order is placed. [ The plan, devised Ijy the economlt section of the assembly, has the ap proval of leading European bankers: an American banker probably will b» asked to serve on the commission. With the utmost difficulty the Amer lean government has convinced the European and Japanese delegates tc the international communications con gress that it means Business when 11 deniands a restoration of its pre-wai rights in connection with the allocation of the former Gepnan cables. A modus vivendi has been adopted covering the situation until a final agree ment can be reached, It puts intc writing, hn acknowledgment by the allied powers that thei United States government, as a result of the war shares in the ownership of the 18.1XK miles of German cables throughout the world. For the time being the cables are to be operated as at present, but for the financial account ol the five powers—the i United States Great Britain, France[ Italy and Japan. I Constantine has gonl back to Greece to resume his throne, and before he left Switzerland he said he had nol the slightest Intention bf abdicating. He was due to arrive in Athens on Suhdfiy 1 and erabbratjl ” 'a’rrarigements were made for his reception. It was said that as soon as he reached the capital the diplomatic representatives of the allied powers would leave for their homes. | Despite certain concessions granted by Premier Lloyd George, nothing definite has yet come out of the efforts to bring about a trube in the Irist “war.” In response to the request o! Father O’Flanagan, acting head of th« Sinn Fein, that he might be permittee td confer with Arthur Griffith anc Eamonn De Valera regarding a set tlement, the premier said: “The Irist governmental authorities will afford you the necessary facilities for see ing Mr. Arthur Griffith, and, as re gards Mr. De Valera the ordinarj methods of communication witt America fully are open to ybu.” At about the same lime it was re ported that De Valera was ons his waj from America to Ireland, and in Lon don it was understood tacit permissior for his return had been given bj Lloyd George. The dispatches said he would be met at Liverpool and per mltted to go to London for a confer ence or would be given safe conductto Ireland, as he preferred. Meanwhile the rank and file on both sides seem to be doing their best- tc keep the contest going. The Worst happening of the week was the burn ing of the city hall, library and othei buildings in the business center oi Cork. Presumably this was done bj the auxiliary police in reprisal for th< ambushing of some of their members though this .was denied by the Englist officials. The property damage was immense and the affair caused sucl an outcry that the government "or dered Immediate investigation by th< military authorities and the punish ment of the guilty. Another exasper ating incident was the killing of t priest at Durmanway while he wa’ trying to save the life of a young mar who also was slain. A uniformed man accused of these murders was ar rested. The Sinn Feiners were noidle, waylaying and assassinating English officers in various places. Here in the United States the self constituted committee op Ireland con tinued the hearing of stories by Irish men and women, doing its part li keeping alive the controversy undei the pretense of helping to bring peace Ten of our senators took it upor themselves to send to Secretary o: State Colby a protest against the re fusal of the British a nibassy to vis( the passports of four emissaries o: the commission of Inquiry. The? asked Mr. Colby to call on the Britisi government for an explanation, whicl he probably will have sense enougl not to do.

ment” relinquishes, and that the sign ers of the declaration imme diately boarded a British steamer t< escape the incoming troops of the op position. faction. Also leaders of the Cantonese sac tloh deny the right of‘ Tsen Chun hsuan, Gen. Lu-Yung-tlng and .Mu ¥ung-hsien of the Kwangsl party, t< dissolve the military government The Peking government however appears to have hopes that in the nea future these other factions can b<

Important News Events of the World

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Sporting t Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world* knocked otft Bill Brennan of Chicago in the, twelfth round at Madisbn.JSquare garden in New York. Brenhitn said he intended to ask for another, snatch. ’k * • Washington American shipbuilders broke the world’s .prewar record of launchings during the last yefift a’cbordlng to figures given in the annual report of the: commissioner of navigation made public at Washington. • • • The area sown to winter wheat this fall is 40,605,000 acres, which is 2.8 per cent less than the revised area sown last fall. The condition of the crop on December 1 was 87.9 per cent of a normal, according to Washington reports. g • • • " tS> . Repeal of the Underwood tariff law and re-enactment of the Payne-Al-drich tariff schedules, abolished in 1913, is proposed in a resolution introduced at Washington by Representative Begg (Rep4(df Ohio. The deportation of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, unrecognized ambassador from soviet Russia to the United States, was ordered by William B. Wilson, secretary of labor at Washington. • • * The Poindexter antistrike bill was passed by the senate at Washington without debate or a record vote. The measure provides that interferences with interstate commerce shall be a * * * > ■ The negro population of Chicago Increased 65,491 in the last decade and now Is the census bureau announced at Washington. • • • The cost of inaugurating a President has increased from 50 to 100 per •ent, it was estimated at the first§sesdon of the joint congrejssienal’commlt•ee in charge of the- fnaugm4tion of Harding at Washington. s t. Deaths from automobile accidents continued to show an increase during 1919.’with totaj. of 7..909 for the \Vashingfon*sM>sflk bureaus registration area t eompzhdna ahopt 8Q per cent ..of —rr- »r ,- •-Nearly one-half of the nation’s rec-ord-breaking overseas commerce for the last fiscal year was carried in American ships, Secretary of Commerce Alexander, shows in his annual report at Washington. * * * • ' The Treasury department at Washington estimates that “more than sl,900,000,000” is outstanding in unpaid taxes because of gdvernmeni’s inability to audit the returns. Foreign The chamber of ‘deputies at Paris voted confidence in the government, 493 to. 65, after discussiiig the resignation of Andre Lefevre, the war minister. • • • The Hungarian authorities are takng steps to intern all alien Jews, *ays a dispatch from Budapest. Dur-, ing the last few nights, the dispatch adds; 500 Jewish families were moved io an internment camp. *♦ . * The plan for an International court which was submitted,to the assembly it Geneva by" the which had It in charge, was unanimously adopted by the league assembly. ♦ * * Diplomatie';; between Germany and Brazil, which were broken iff in April, 1917, were resumed when George Alfred Plehn, German minister to Brazil, arrived at Rio Janeiro. Concentration Soviet troops oc•urred in the of Vilna, consequent on the aHnv4l of troops of the allies and neutral powers in Vilna, says a dispatch from that city. • • « The central portion, of Cork was burned to the gr<Si|ryi following an ambush of the military at Pllions Cross Saturday night, in which four persons were killed and'tnftfl&y wounded. * * ♦ A Mexico 1 City J dispatch says telegraphers and station agents on the National railways have ordered a general which it is feared will paralyze all the lines. Austria was a member of the Leagub of Nations by'the assembly of the league at The election was without opposition. Thirty-five votes were cast in favor of her admission. Two members were absent and four abstained from voting. • • • A Rome dispatch says that 400 Hunzarian subjects against whom the po-’ lice have sufficient' evidence to show they have been-conspiring against public order in Italy have been arrested' it — ./ Four Americans and seven Filipinos were killed at Manila during a riot within the walled city between enlisted men of the Filipino constabulary and the Manila police. • . The strike of railway telegraphers and agents which be§an (Wednesday Mas been wnM announced at Mexico City. • • • The entire business section of Dublin was raided by the police following rhe shooting of District Inspector

Hugh C. Wallace, the Amerlcai ambassador at Paris, refused to mee Wilhelm Mayer von Kaufbeuron, th< German ambassador, becaus£__th< United States still is technically in » state of war with Germany. . • ♦ Eight policemen were ambushed bj 100 • armed men at Kilcommon, it County Tipperary, according to re ports received at London. Four ol the police are said to have been shoi dead. ‘ * Personal Mr. and Mrs. J. Ogden Armour of Chicago announce the engagement of their daughter Lolita to John J. Mitchell, Jr. This announcement heralds the union of two of the largest fortunes in the United States. • • • Cyrus Beard, chief justice of the Wyopaing Supreme court, died at Cheyenne of neuralgia of the heart • • • Horatio Winslow Seymour, editorial writer tor the New York World, and formerly connected with Chicago and other western newspapers, died at New York. He was sixty-six years old. • • • Former United States Senator Paris Gibson, founder of the city of Great Falls, died at Great Falls, Mont, aged ninety. He was elected to the United States senate in 1900 to fill a vacancy. ,* • • Gen. Benjamin Hill, the Mexican secretary of war, died at Mexico City. He had been critically ill for several days. E. A. Williams, seventy-three, supreme president of the Equitable Fraternal union, died at Neenah, Wis. • • * Mrs. Muriel MacSwincy, widow of the late lord mayor of Cork, visited congress and met many senators and representatives. • • ♦ George Gipp, Notre Dame’s allAmerican fullback, died at South Bend, Ind., of streptococcus infection of the throat, which followed ap at. tack of pneumonia. Domestic Twenty-nine cut-stone contractors Indicted for violation of the Connelly state anti-trust act pleaded guilty before Justice John B. McAvoy in the criminal branch of the Supreme court at New York. • • • William Jennings Bryan, former secretary of state under President Wilson, was called into consultation by President-elect Harding at Marion, 0., regarding the plan for an association of nations. • • • Three men ■ and girl were killed when the dredge Beaver blew up at the mouth of the North rivet at South ’Bend, Wash. The dead are: Eagle Christensen. John Jarve, Frank Behnke and Blanche Behnke. ♦ * • One white man is known to have been killed and thjee wounded, possibly fatally. In a race riot at Independence, Kan. ’Jwo negroes were killed. ' ' f Heads of independent steel plants at Youngstown, 0., indicated that the mills will be practically idle from the end of this week until the first of the year, owing to lack: of orders. It affects 20,000 workers. x • « * Pilot James F. Moore of the air ’mail service made the first round trip between Cheyenne and Salt Lake City ever completed. by an airplane between dawn and darkness. ♦ ' ♦ A Charleston (W. Va.) dispatch says 28 moonshine stills and 21 moonshiners have been taken in Logan county by federal and state prohibition officers. • • * Abilene (Tex.) officers are searching for robbers who forced the safe of: the First State bank at Hawley and escaped with $1,200 cash and $2,000 in Liberty bonds. • * • More than a score of New York millionaires, whose 1919 incomes called for federal tax payments ranging from SIOO,OOO to $2,800,000, were unable to meet the last quarterly payment due Wednesday. • * • A 20 per cent reduction In the retail price of lumber was announced by dealers at Spokane, Wash. An oversupply of lumber was said to be the reason. • • • Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, was fined $25 for speeding on Staten Island. He pleaded guilty, explaining that his speedometer was broken. ♦ • ♦ Two persons were burned to death and heavy property damage resulted from a fire which destroyed a hotel at Hamilton, Tex. The dead are W. W. Trimble and Robert Nichols. . • • • . Emil Serdlngianz, an attorney, who pleaded guilty to perjury, was sentenced to one year at Waupum by Circuit Court Judge Grace at Kewaunee, Wis. , ' " Eugene E. Moore, engineer at the American Strawboard plant at Quincy, 111., was killed when a large flywheel burst. • * * It was decided at Marion, 0., that the next vice president shall have a chhir at the cabinet table in the White House after March 4. • * ♦ Reductions, of wages for farm labor of from 25 to 50 cents a day were put into effect by the Valley Fruit Growers’ association, a large farmers’ organization at Fresno, Cal. Fire destroyed the plant of the Helmbacher Forge and Rolling Mill company at Madison, HU causing a property loss of $1,000,000, * • * About $7,000 was taken by a lone masked bandit, who held up the State Bank of Carney, about fifteen miles «rs Chandler. Okla. ‘

INDIANA > STATE NEWS

Lafayette. 4- Twenty-one thousand, three hundred aud forty-nine boys and girls in Indiana, who were members of agricultural clubs in‘ the state this year, grew products worth $441,867 and earned a profit of $218,411, says the annual report: of Z. M. Smith of this city, state club leader supervisor of agricultural education. Os the 26,869 children enrolled at the beginning of the season, just 80 per cent, or more than 21,000, carried their work through th® summer. Practically every county in the state was represented with one ,or more clubs; a total of 776 haying been organized; Petersburg.—The board of Pike county commissioners granted a franchise to the H. C- Cummins & Co. Coal company of Cleveland, 0., to cross ? highways in Pike county with the new railroad being built by this company from Oakland City to the town of Spurgeon in Pike county. The new railroad pierces the big coal fields in southern Pike county, where the Cummins Coal company has purchased options on 10,900 acres. The new railroad will be eight toiles long and for five miles will follow the survey of the old south fork drainage ditch. • The cost will be about 5125,000. South Bend. —Transfer men of South Bend and Northern Indiana cities are responsible for a new movement for the improvement of highways, and special legislation will be from- the next Indiana general assembly. It is the plan of the transfer men to urge taxation for road improvement in order that highways may be put in condition so that trucks may move from city to city without trouWe. A greater part of this tax, it is explained, will come from the truck owners. Noblesville.—For the first time in four years, coal dealers are running “Coal for Sale” advertisements in Noblesville newspapers, and they promise delivery on the day the orders are received. For the first time since some of the war orders went into effect three and four years ago, this city has plenty, of fuel. From fifteen to twenty cars are arriving daily and wholesale men have promised to forward any amount desired as quickly as it is needed. ’ Noblesville.—One of the largest minks that was ever caught (n Indiana was killed recently in the vicinity of Cannel, by Allen Harold, after the animal had killed nine hens, two ducks and scalped a number of ducks. The skin measured 83;-inches from tip to tip, the body was 21 inches by 6% inches at the hips, 4 inches at the shoulders and 3- inches at the ears. The value of the skin now is sls. Harold says S4O would have been paid for it a. yeijr ago. ; Laporte.—William Forney, sheriff of Porter county, has received a for SI,OOO, a reward offered by Laporte county commissioners for information leading to the arrest of the murderers of Carl Cook, whose death occurred in Laporte to December, 1918. Walter Baker has been sentenced to death for the shooting. Steve Bartak and Ernest (Frenchy) Garriepy received sentences of life and twenty years’ imprisonment respectively. Hammond.—Six suits orj promissory notes, filed in the Lake Superior court at Hammond, show that the Hammond board of education ha§ borrowed a tprkeep the city schools In operation. The notes are held by banks, and the judgments, requested range from $5,000 to $29,000. It is said that sharp cuts In levies by the state board of "tax commissioners forced board of education to borrow money. Peru.4-Fire of undetermined origin caused damage estimated at $40,000 In the town of Macy, north of Peru. The fire broke out in the Edward Wood grist mill and spread rapidly to adjacent buildings. The Macy fire department was unable to cope with the lames and a call was made on the Peru department for assistance. The toss to the Wood mill is estimated at F 35.000. , Indianapolis—New York and Chicago financiers, said to be among the largest developers of hydro-electric oower in the world, and several citizens of Indiana are planning to begin work in the spring on a number of lams and power units along the Tippecanoe river to develop current for several of the larger towns in northern Indiana. Columbia City.—Vocational pupils tn i class in the Columbia City schools have substantial results to show for their Whitley county club work. They raised everything from corn to cattle and the costs of the different investments totaled $2,774.93. The total value was $5,263.89. The profits were 52,528.96 for the year’s work. Goshen. —More than 600 Elkhart county farmers have formed an organization to act in conjunction with the Indiana’State Federation of Farmers. Elwood. —The Elwood board of commissioners Increased the salaries of the captain, night sergeant and patrolmen of the police force S2O a month, beginning January 1. Noblesville. — Schools at Fishers save been closed on account of scarlet fever. Several cases of scarlet fever have also been reported in Noflesville. Fort. Wayne.—The leading corporations of Fort Wayne have organized what they call the Employers’ association, and have declared for the open ffiop. Indianapolis.—Muncie will be the neetlng place of the Indiana Federa:ion ot Clubs in. its annual convention aext October. The place was'selected ay the board of directors after an, urgent invitation had been extended by Muncie women. • Indianapolis.—At the request of Herbert HooVer, national chairman’ of :he 'European relief council, and of 2aieb S. Denny, state chairman, Warren T. McCray, governor-elect, has a<S repted the chairmanship of the advisory committee td the council In IndlMw ? < '

Washington, D. C.—All appoint ments of postmasters in Indiana, at wfell as other states, sent to the senate at this session will be rejected ' according to Republican leaders, whe • asserted that the Incoming adminls-’ tration ought to have the right to make these appointments. A number of In > diana appointments were sent to tbt I senate recently, none of which will be confirmed, according to Senator New 1 of Indiana. Indiana postmasters nomI inated were: Mary W. Lawrence ’ Earlham; Nelson W. Mapel, Gaston; > Stephen F. Rogers, Greensburg; Millard Crane, Winamac; Jeannette It ■ Winkelmann, Austin; Lola F. Dolen : Avilla; Theodore W. Englehart, Bra- ! zll; Silas R. Chaney, Bryant; Har l vey R. Mills, Camden; George W. Stout, Hamilton; Herman Doyle “ Montezuma; John R. Kelley, Marlof : National Shnitorium; Claude L. Can {tenter. Pleasant Lake; Joseph » Kistler, Rbyal Center; William G ■ Moss, Spencer; Grover C. Spahr, WsfikI erton; John D. Holland. Waveland; ; May W. Wood, West Lebanon; Pris- ■ cilia M. McDade, Clarkshill; Drussa ■ D. Pruitt, Cqatesvllle; Robert E - Maggert, Cromwell; John H. Witz [ North Salem; Harrison D. Houser, i Parker; John L. Busse, Reynolds: I Otto W. Hipskend. Urbana; Willlan G. Umbarger, Walton; William - H ■ McCully, Brookston; Virgil S. Wat I son, Brownsburg; William C. Hile : Dale; Charles E. Miller, Elnora; Fre<} : C. Kennedy, Whiting. Indianapolis'.—State officials are won i rying over means to pay expenses ol > administering the “blue sky” law. Tht • last special session of the legislature I' passed the law, but made no proviI sion for money to finance its opera- - tion. The law was to be administered : by two clerks for a commission, con- - stituted of officials drawing salaries ■ from the regularly elected offices. r Salaries of the clerks and stenog- ■ raphers were fixed in the statute, but ’ no appropriation made. : Indianapolis.—The Indiana department of the American Legion will have 1 a bill ready to present to the legislaI ture in January, permitting all former,. ■ service men to have their honorable " discharge papers recorded by county f recorders without charge. If the serv- ( ice men record the discharge papers ■ they - will have no difficulty in obtain- ’ ing the benefit of such war relief as 1 may be given by the congress even it I the discharge papers should be lost. ’ , Warsaw.—Contracts for the con r struction of 33 miles of roads at a cosi totaling $1,031,984 were awarded ai t Warsaw by the Kosciusko county com 1 mtssioners. More than 100 contrac f tors and material .men attended tto ‘ meeting, and bids weje submitted by 3 “eleven contractors. Thirteen roads ? were Jn the list, six»betog county unit 5 roads and seven to be paid for by i the various townships. Thirty miles oi roads will be of concrete. . ? Aurora.?—The Aurora Loose Leal Tobacco Warehouse company, Is pre 4 paring Its warehouses for the openlnj of the annual loose leaf tobacco mar kets during the first week In January 1 Many tobacco growers report having done a great deal of stripping and are getting crops ready for the market 5 Tobacco brokers have been buying « 1 few yields of good tobacco in tht • barn, paying 25 cents to 40 cents £ J pound for the entire crop. c Indianapolis,—Organization of sb new units of the Woman’s Auxiliary, r Indiana Department of the American Legion, was announced by the departr ment adjutant. The new units are ai t Hobart, Seymour, Kouts, Peru, Dan--1 ville and Lagrange. Women are showi ing interest in the state convention 5 of the auxiliary to be held at Indian- - apolis, January 18. Each unit is t< ‘ send two delegates and two alternates. > Indianapolis.—Butler college stu- ’ dents are making final plans for tto : adoption of a new system of student ■ council that will give them control ol the majority of campus student asI fairs. The proposed constitution has • been ratified by the faculty, which last year blocked the plans for a similat I system. The students refuse to as- • sume control over classroom examinations. > A ‘ South Bend. —George Gipp, Notrt ' Dame’s All-American football player, ’ Is dead. The great athlete, nationally acclaimed as one of the most sensational performers of the collegiati gridiron season, died at St. Joseph’s 1 hospital in South Bend, where he hac been confined for nearly three weeks with pneumonia and streptococcic infection of the throat.) ’ Valparaiso. —Farmers in Porter county have plowed their fields for ths ' spring planting of crops. The warn: weather of the last several weeks and the rainfall made the ground soft i and pliable. It is the first time in i scores of years that this work has evet ■ been done by the farmers at this tims of the year. , • Union City.—Several parents and guardians of school children in Union City, who have not been vaccinated ? for smallpox, were arrested by Ulysses Davisson of Winchester, sheriff ol Randolph county. The sheriff announced that his list of persons to be taken in charge included approximately 45. t 4 Logansport.^ —A permanent organization of the county agricultural agents ’ of the Logansport district was formed at a meeting held at Logansport. I. J. Mathews, Pulaski county agent, was named chairman. L. B. Binding. Fulton county agent, was elected vice chairman, and W. R. Zechiel of Cass county will act as secretary. Monthly meetings will be held to discuss problems of the county agricultural agents. Valparaiso.—A movement has been started at Valparaiso to put in a boulevard,,.lighting system in the business district. Columbus. — Christmas savings checks to the value of approximately SBO,OOO were sent out by the four banks "bf Columbus. Kokomo.—One faction in the First Baptist church at Kokomo wished motion pictures .displayed in the church at different times. One didn’t. The pasto;, to avoid friction, submitted the question to a debating team. Tto side which opposed the plan won. It was contended that the use of films tn religious institutions would commercialize them. Prominent citizens were Judges.