FORTY PERSONS KILLED IN EXPLOSION me axpmm wwrK at 11:S0 s. tat th# ordinance salvage plant. The nitration works M been leaped to the Awwlw company for lraa> mant of army TNT to bo naed aa agricultural fertiliser. Kg Building »«w« Up Tha building, two atoriaa high, >00 feet Ion* and of hollow tile construc tion. was literally blown from tha earth along with tbe men belie red to have been within tt. Tha shock was felt for 80 miles, shattering win dows. lifting roofs and toppling chim ney* in many cities. On Staten Is land buildings rocked aa if In aa earth- j quake. pony's celluloid novelties manufac turing works which wnrnifcd tha TNT plant and rased aa if by shell firs the encircling dwellings of M employees whoso little settlement waa known aa the town af Nixon. T*V, |U'L « I IB Vl ukaflASAfl amjI MBMH I nroJljfn WlllXcrrQ FOOTS •TK1 C f UUI - plod aili upon piles of flimsy cel luloid ahsfti hi every one of the Ninaa buildings—showered eariiers, biasing TNT and boiling arid broadcasted by the fere* of the explosion. The bhue flames of the highly inflammable ceL luloid with which all the structures wore filled, burst forth on tha hoela of the Mast like a huge blowtorch, cutting down everyone and everything within a radius of several hu-wired feet. Tin screams of man and girts |ia n®0 wwii try IIMI Jflnlc!», v«ulflM Oj falling walla of tOe, or caught be neath aorara] pipe Unas which show ered fhem with nitric arid, mingled HI - _# 1- 1„.„ — _ J wiin rnw or nouNwirHi inn cniiurfii whose dwellings only a few feet fM the celluloid works, came tumbling down upon them. WnJZZZZZ among"mt" WiU mi'i daughters iwh article* of cbtk lift ptlVOMl MMMIltMfl Mid irt works that may lun tiilwuiJ to their mother. the tnt wife of the former president. Under the will, Mr*. Wilson is to retain the estate during her Ufa, and the unexpended portion at bar death la to ha distributed among Mr. W(U •on'i daughters. The will waa op wad February It, according to a notation on the snrel »pe, in the presence of Mrs. Wilson, Margarvt Wflsoa. Eleanor Wilaon Me \doo, W. G. McAdoo and N. W. White, the attorney* who Mad it. The will reads: "I will and dseiae my pieyity, real ■ay debts that may constitute a data jpon it at the thite of my death, to ■y beloved wife. Edith, for her life time, with the rsquaat that aha distri ct te amon^ my daMghten each articles of clothing. Jewelry, personal urnament or art material aa may Imee been the peAonal belongings of their mother, and with the direction that my daughter, Margaret. shaO re tain out of the faitnma of nay estate w long as she lesaahts unmarried the mm of $2,560 annually unleae that amount ahoold at any time exceed one third of the entire annual incsmi of ny eats to; hi which ease rim shall re -eire one-third of the tncoaaa. "Upon the death of my beloved wife, Edith, it ia my will and diietllen iheuld she die without iaaae that the whole of my eetate, real and personal, >r so much of it aa shall remain tmqx sended or undtapereed, shall taeart to ■y children, share and share alike, and if aha should die leaving laana. liar child shall inherit share and share alike with my daughter*." The document waa dated May >1, 1917. It waa witneesed by Helen ffoodrow Bonae. a cousin of the tista, tor, I. H. Hoover. chief usher at tta White House, and Ralph M. Rogera. formerly an aahsr there. Mr*. Wilaon I* named aa aaacutiU. On the envelope which contained the ■rW to written hi the handwriting of Mr. Wilm the worfci Taut will and tetawit of Wood row WitooK." U first in* Fotfcas by giving In its special report tit* Grand Jury stated much in tha hursaa lequiiad further tnrmtigation, but ilnra this was outside the jurisdiction of tJtfs Federal Court tt suggested the Gov -mment push the investigation where ft had jariadiction. Th«*Grand Jury (aid: "Incidental to the investigation of matter* of which this Grand Jury had iurisdietioa certain other fiaeta not directly pertaining to tha Veterans' Bureaa wars developed by counasl for the Goven»ent which wa regard of groat importance. "Thar* is no jurisdiction of than in tha Northern District of Illinois, M w» an assured by Mr. Ota ha will lay thsai before tha «»ration. friend* to him to explain that I could not treat him any differently than I hare treated others. Me has aeen fit te decline renmn ination on thoae terms. So far Mian concerned, that nettlee H. Be may have his place yet, bat only ea that condition." Got. Phdnt explained that %ia decision to exact soch made known in his maogaral i "I found that all over the State ofieials, sworn to obey the lew. were breaking K ooenly ant •aid he. "Therefore, to hrhtr to them the fact tha} obedience te the law la not an academic hot a very Hen, pe -sonal pled;rs. What is man than that f wW eenthwe to baft anon H and will apoloyise to nobody for do World News Briefly Told FLAPPER BANDIT JAILED— Dorothy Koftn, bobed-hair flappei hutft, after a four day carnival «J rr in wttfc Iwr lover Paul Wortlj sobbed oat bar bitter story k> Phila delphia's central police station. 81m was captured whan ah* and bar com pan ion attempted to hold «p a afcx store. Worth shot a politsmsn aa hi DANIELS WRITING BIOCRAPH1 OF WILSON—Jooophoa Daniels whe ia bain« carried aa Democracy1! dart •toad to" ramp in the Praaidaetial met ia now hi Philadelphia writtof a lift of Woodiow Wilson." Daniel's friendi confidently hope to sea him captun the Democratic convention. Bat tlx North seams to bo mm than the 8ooth wKh hia COURT ACTION IN OIL LEASH - Special counsel in the oil lease scan, dsls announce that court action vfll he taken this weak to prevent tlx further drainage of oil from naval reserve oil lands leased under tionable title. AnnuUment of made by Albert B. Pall as Secretary of the Interior to the Doheny and Sinclair interests wfH bo naked foe. Criminal action sgainst ths prtaci Ms In the oil scandal must a wail < DID MElHtSELAM MB PRE MATURELTT—The yearly cm* at sickness ia the If 8. slants to ovw two bim«M, s< curding to Dr. DarHnr too ef New Ysak. one skeald Hva 1M : ed that «d W the oM . nutted in a bill tw before the HOUSING AND HANDLING FARM.FLOCKS «d by ' ' m a i Tide woo til to It* after the how by • Vote of Ml to IBS to rsinaert In the bill the « tt.000 and to »i* per cent above I* • 099. It bIm «ooU rat bj ma fourth the present aorta* rate. 87 1-2 par cent on S200.000. Me tecnaae in prsonal tax exemption* will be allowed. far a flat reduction at tt on all peraonal Hi iwi taxea payable tbia year. Two uneuceeeofal efforta were Bade to eliminate tbia previe rate chance* carried in the bill will aot tii an effective utfl tax paymenta are wade next inrom* and profit* of 1*14, thoee m4) h the rariae ieviee which woold |C n'o affect >0 day* nftor raacttaenl of the law. la addition to the now iacoase tox major provision* of the bill A » per cent earned hwotcii. all incomes miAr fS.MO beinjr defined m earned for pni|o*M of this r*di»-t