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' f) ' ' •mn jp.- ” -w. •o THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE BURNSVILLE, I^. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1932. News Review of Current Events the World Over Dawes Named Head of Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion—Laval’s Blow to Reparations Conference —-“Alfalfa Bill” in Washington. By EDWARD W. PICKARD G«n. Dawes I NTO the lap ot Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, or rather onto his shoulders, has fallen another big job. and the country seems to feel confident that this Strong Man of f business, finance and I diplomacy will be able I to handle It compe- I tently. He has been appointed by Presl- ! dent Hoover as pres- I ident of the Recon- I stniction Finance cor- I poration which is to 1 go to the rescue of I hanks, railroads and ^ other interests whose assets and operations have been “frozen” by the depression. Two billion dollars supplied by the government will be at the disposal of the corporation and it is fondly hoped and expected that this great piece of machinery will, un der the direction of General Dawes, extricate the country from the eco nomic morass. President Hoover in announcing the selection of Dawes added that Eu gene Meyer, gevernor of the federal reserve board, would be chairman of the board of the new corporation. In a second statement the President announced that Secretary of State Stimson would replace Dawes as chairman of the American delegation to the disarmament conference In Geneva but would not attend the open ing sessions, at which Ambassador Hugh Gibson would be acting chair man. Other members of the delega tion sailed for Europe Wednesday, and the delay in the departure of Mr. Stimson was construed in Washington as meaning that Mr. Hoover does not expect a great deal from the confer ence. Of course Mr. Dawe.s’ resigna tion as ambassador to Great Britain was promptly offered and accepted. S ENATOR SWANSON and Dr, Mary Emma Woollof sailed on the liner aiiO*-«ni V.e JoKicU In Geneva by Ambassadors Gibson and Wilson, who are already in Europe, and by Nerma^ H. Davis, who pre ceded them on' another ship. Our delegates have been instructed not to agree to further reduction of Ameri can laud forces. As for naval arm.a- raeiits, American officials see little chance that any other powers will be willing to make armament cuts which would materially affect this nation’s naval forces. The French government, through Premier Laval, has plainly indicated that its stand at the conference in Geneva will be unchanged. It will In sist on what France considers guar antees of security before consenting >0 disarmament. At the same time Laval, submitting the foreign policy of his new govern- ■menc to the chamber of deputies, vir tually doomed the reparations con ference at Lausanne. He declared, in effect, that France would not give up her right to reparations, adding that all France could offer was to try to adapt existing International accords to the present crisis. Great Britain thereupon announced the conference opening had .been postponed from January 25 and that further conversa tions were in progress. It appeared evident the parley, if held at all, would be only a meeting of experts. C ONGRESSMEN and other inhabit ants of the National Capital heard a lot about the liquor issue during the week—rather more than usual. Sena tor Royal S. Cope land of New York, who is a Democrat and a physician, intro- _ duced in the senate a bill which would amend the prohibition act to enable patients who need liquor for medicinal purposes to obtain it iu any neces sary quantities on physicians' prescrip tions. It also would Sen. Copeland I-' enable physicians prescribe such liquor without record ing in governmental olfices the disease from which their patients are suffer ing. "The Eighteenth amendment does not limit the medicinal use of liquor,” Senator Copeland said. "The national prohibition act and related acts rec ognize Its use as proper, but they lay down certain conditions with which a physician must comply when he pre scribes and they prohibit absolutely the prescribing of liquor in excess of certain arbitrarily fixed quantities, for individual patients, except such as are inmates of hospitals for inebriates. “The conditions long have offended the professional instincts of the great mass of the medical profession. The Wickersham commission iinanlmousJy recommended that these grounds for compialnt be removed.” The senate manufactures subcom mittee continued intermittently its hearings on the Bingham 4 per cent beer bill. One of the interesting wit nesses was David Burnet, commission er of Internal revenue. lie declined to predict whether legalization of beer would increase consumption over pre- prohibition days, but said beer taxes would create a “substantial Increase' in revenues. Representative Dyer of Missouri tes tified that states refused to enforce the dry law because the people garded the definition of intoxicants as unscientific .ind dishonest. As a re sult Dyer said, federal judges have be come reai police judges. ■js^ EWTON D. BAKER having h V fused to seek the Democratic Presidential nomination, besides hav ing made himself almost out of the question by reiterating his advocacy of American membership in League of Nations, the'party leaders of Ohio agreed to support Gov. George White as Ohio’s favorite son. The state’s delegates, however, will be “free from any sort of control.” which means they can switch to any other candidate. South Dakota Democrats have de clared for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in Minnesota a movement has been started to secure that state's delega tion for A1 Smith. Washington In behalf of a bill to re move the 10 per cent tax on state bank note Issues, ad dressed the biennial convention of the Anti-Saloon league and rather staggered his bearers by arguing for a “zone control” system for liquor traf fic. Though known as a prohibitionist, the governor said that prohibition “possibly is not the final solu tion of the problem of control of the liquor traffic.” Dr. A. J, Barton, chairman of the league’s executive committee, replied iw iJui i-a/'iiit/iiWiij-'hy ao.5erung ulat ’ the South will not be misled by the hue and cry about state’s rights," and will aiot support any candidate far tlie Presidency who is either person ally wet or runs on a wet platform. The league went on record as oppos ing anything that might weaken prohibition—referenda, resubmission, state control, modification and beer proposals, as well as repeal attempts. . Murray T WO or three weeks may elapse be fore Secretary of the Treasury Mel lon knows whether the house judiciary committee favors his impeachment as demanded by Representative Wright Patman of Texas. The hearings were adjourned Tuesday until the official transcript of the testimony is complet ed and printed. Just before this Alex ander Gregg, counsel for Mr. Mellon, read to the committee a cabled denial from President Olaya of Columbia that he and Mellon had ever discussed the Barco oil concession. “This is the roost damaging evi dence yet introduced,” declared Repre sentative La Guardia. “Mr. F’atman has heen working for days here to show us that the oil concession was discussed by Mr. Stimson and Presi dent Olaya. Why did you get this cabled denial and why was It sent? Why should President Olaya show so much solicitude for Mr. Mellon and the State department?" Mr. Gregg replied that he was cer tain no one in the State department as asked for the denial. Mr. Patman read to the committee a list of stocks he declared Secretary Mellon had put up as collateral with a Pittsburgh bank for a SGn.000,000 bond issue made by the Gulf Oil cor poration. O NE of the State department’s best “career men,” .Joseph C. Grew, ambassador to Turkey, has been selected by ttie President to succeed W. Cameron Forbes as ambassador to Ja pan, and the choice Is said to please the mikado’s government. ; J. C. Grew Mr. Cameron is fous to quit Tokyo but may be persuad ed to remain there for a time because of the complications of the Manchurian situa tion. Mr. Grew, who was born in Boston, has spent many years in the diplomatic service. He has held several impor tant posts and attended various inter national conferences, and In 1923 he negotiated a valuable treaty with Turkey. He has been ambassador at Angora since 1927. Jefferson Caffery, minister to Colombia, may succeed him there. For the London ambassadorship va- vated by General Dawes, Lawrence C. Phipps, former senator from Colorado, Is being urged by his friends. As was predicted, James R. Beverly of Texas was appointed governor of Porto Rico to succeed Theodora Roosevelt, promoted to the governor generalship of the Philippines. Mr. Beverly Is now attorney general of the Island. ^ONGRBSS received a thorough ^ scolding for the way it has been squandering billions of dollars, bring ing the nation to the verge of bank ruptcy, In a memor.al addressed to it by the Federation of American Busi ness, a national organization with headquarters In Chicago. The docu ment was presented to the senate by Senator .James E. Watson of Indiana, and he asked that it be read from the desk instead of being merely filed. “The very existence of the nation is at stake and your constituents, alive to your every action in this crisis, will accept no excuses and no extenu ations," was the conclusion of the de mand voiced in the memorial for re duction of government expenditures and reduction of taxation. “The tremendous increase in the cost of government is the result of three major causes,” the memorial contend ed. “First, government competition di rectly or indirectly with the business activities of its citizens, and the ab sorption by Increased taxation of losses thus incurred; second, new regulatory or social services not contemplated in our scheme of political administration, but taken on in increasing volume In recent years, and. third. Independent boards and commissions, under direc tion of no established executive depart ment and frequently financed with re volving funds that free them of United States treasury supervision. The whole pattern of government is being changed without approval or even discussion by onr citizenship.” Next day a representative of indus try, James A. Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, appeared before a house committee to warn members that a sure way to de lay restoration of the opportunity to work is to divert too great a portion of private funds to public purposes. Public expenditures—national, state, and local—now total some thirteen bil lion dollars annually, Mr. Emery re minded the congressmen who have be fore them the task of drawing up the new tax bill with its Inevitably higher rates. Of that huge total, Mr. Emery pointed out, only ten billion is met by Immediate taxation, the remainder be ing met by continuous borrowing. "Nearly one-fifth of the national in come Is taken for public purposes," he explained, “and we thus face a rising taxation with declining incomes.” L ord WJLLINODON, viceroy of In dia, Is not taking half measures in suppressing the Nationalist revolt against British rule. Having jailed .Gduatu iV. most of ills chief lieutenants, he fol lowed this up by put ting In prison Mrs. Gandhi, the mahat ma’s wife, and their youngest son. Mrs. Gandhi, a little wom an sixty years old, was given six weeks in jail because she had undertaken to carry on her hus band's campaign. She asked a longer sentence, promising to resume the independence work as soon as she got out. The judge refusing, she picked up her Hindu Bible and her spinning wheel and entered her cell. DAWES IS MADE HEAD OF CREDIT PROGRAM Stimson to Replace Him on Arms Parley Delegation. W.ashington.—President Hoover an nounced Ambassador Dawes would re tire as chairman of the American arms delegation to become president of the reconstruction finance corporation, and that Secretary Stimson would replace him at Geneva. At the same time the President stat ed Eugene Meyer, governor of the fed eral reserve board, would be chairman of the board of the proposed $2,000.- 000,000 finance corporation. Secretary Stimson did not sail with the remainder of the American dele- g.ition to the general arms conference coming next month at Geneva. His place as chairman of the ^dele- gation at the opening sessions will be taken by Ambassador Hugh Gibson, one of the American delegates. President Hoover said these sudden changes in plans were necessitated by the fact that unless Dawes was named to and accepted the position as head of the new corporation, he would have had to sail from the United States Wednesday. The President is keenly desirous to have the corporation start functioning immediately. The President, announcing the selec tions at his regular press conference, said he was gratified to state that Dawes had accepted the important as signment. The former vice president, who now is ambassador to Great Brit ain hut soon will resign, had been a guest at the White House. Presumably, the President had con ferred with him at length about plans for throwing $2,000,000,000 into the na tion’s credit structure. Other members of the directorate of the corporation will not be named at this time, the President said. He wislies to preserve a nonpartisan char acter on the- directorate. He ex plained protracted conference with leaders of both parties would be nec essary before a final choice is made. Mrs. Gandhi G ENERAJ. HON.'O. commander of the Japanese in Manchuria, thor oughly avenged the recent killing of a number of his soldiers by Chinese troops. He sent out three well equipped expeditions which retaliated by slaying several hundred soldiers and "ban dits” in engagements at Yentai, Tung-, liao and Yingkow. Heavy artillery and bombing planes were freely used by the Japanese with terrible effect. The Japanese plans for establishing an independent government In Man churia—that is. independent of all but Japan—went forward with speed. Tl^re were renewed reports that Hsuan Tung, former boy emperor, would be set up as ruler of Man churia, and so the Chinese govern ment issued warrants for his arrest. D uring the debate in the house on the Agriculture department’s .$175,000,000 supply bill for tlie next fiscal year, Representative Wood of Indiana. Republican, made a demand for a reduction in salaries of govern ment employees. Mr. Shannon of Mis souri asked whether President Hoover would approve a cut in his salary and liat was the extent of Mr, Hoover’s private fortune. Mr. Wood replied: He has made a lot of money, but he has given it away. My informa tion, from a reliable source, is that the President today is not worth $1,000,- 000. I have faith- enough to believe that if tlie salaries of the feder.al em ployees are reduced President Hoover will reduce his own salary.” D emocratic primaries in r.ouisi- ana were captured by Gov. Huey Long's hand-picked candidates headed by O. K. Allen for governor, despite the vigorous efforts of Long’s brother and other relatives on behalf of George Guion. There were' many stories about violence and intimidation by Huey’s henchmen, but that states man, who Is also a senator-elect, laughed them off and said the election was quiet. F lood conditions In the Mississippi delta region grew worse dally throughout the week, and the Red Cross and coast guard worked hard to relieve the Inhabitants of the inun dated area. One after another the es of the smaller rivcj-s gave way and the waters spread over many counties. :®, Ut2. WejUra News[i&oer Union.) Colombian President Denies the Charges Against Mellon Washington.—In a cablegram volun tarily sent to his legation here and read before the house judiciary comrnit- tee, President Enriqim Olnv^K^rera of Colomuia absolved Ahdrewv^lSlfjl- lon, secretary of the treasury, of the charge that he influenced the settle ment of a Colombian oil concession in which he was financially interested. President Olaya denied also the inti mations of Senator Hiram .Johnson, California, that the e.xtension of an American hanking loan was bartered for a settlement of the disputed Barco oil concession. BUSINESS MEN SPEAK SHARPLY TO CONGRESS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Federation Demands Waste at Washington Cease. Washington.—Waste at Washington must end and political spending of bil lions be stopped, the American Feder ation of Business, with headquarters in Cliicago, asserted in a memorial to congress read in the senate. ,Xhe demand for an end of federal folly and of political spoliation of the tax funds was hear^_at the request of Senator James B. Watson, of Indiana, the Republican leader, who said it was the first time in his long years in the senate that he had asked that a morial be read from the desk. Some of the more pungent charges of congressional shortcomings and of governmental financial folly in the me morial were: “You have balanced your books by borrowing.’’ “Deliberate overappropriation in ex pectation of recourse to borrowing for payment of ordinary and recurring ei penses is to invite financial disaster. “It is perfectly obvious that your credit is burning up.” “Recovery through government squandering is and always was Im possible.” "You cannot cure unemployment by precipitating national bankruptcy. “Your farm board, with a reckless squandering of millions, has disrupted agricultural unity, narrowed the mar ket for farm products, and producers have watched prices sink to the low est levels in modern history.” “Taxes must come down if agricul ture, industry and commerce are to recover.” “To think of political advantage at such a time as this is political mad- Minnesotan Starts Drive to Swing State to Smith St. Paul.—James R. Bennett, Jr., of St. Cloud, for half a century active Democratic politics in Minnesota, has started a campaign to obtain a Min nesota delegation instructed for Alfred E. Smith of New York for the Demo- cratical Presidential nomination. Ben nett said he had conferred in New York and Washington with Smith and Roosevelt forces and Democratic con gressional members. The senate approved the appoint ment of Charles G. Dawes, of Chicago, as a member of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The senate judiciary committee ap proved the nomination of Federal Judge John B. Sanborn of Minnesota to be a judge of the Eighth Appeals circuit. There will be 5,460 additional beds in veterans’ hospitals by the end of this year. Gen. Frank T. Hines re ported to President Hoover. The work will cost $13,000,000. Former Senator Lawrence C. Phipps, of Denver, was recommended to Presi dent Hoover hy Senator Oddie, Repub lican, Nevada, for ambassador to I/on- don to succeed Geu. Charles G. Dawes, who has resigned. The Chinese government, in a note received by the State department, promised to make no treaty with Ja pan that would violate the nine-power open-door or Ivellogg anti-war treaties. It was disclosed recently. Amendment of the Constitution to give “equal rights” to women is to be urged before congress by the national council of the woman’s party as the only way in which the women of the United States can obtain that objec tive. Conner Is Mississippi Governor Jackson, Miss.—Thousands thronged the capital for the inauguration of Martin Sennett Conner, who has prom ised, with the aid of a friendly legis lature, to find means of balancing the state budget. Kills Baby, Wounds Girl Los Angeles.—Breaking into sudden maniacal frenzy, N. Kabayashi, Japan ese gardener, killed liis six-year-old son with a butcher knife, and wounded his two-year-old daughter. The declaration of rights of citizens and business men as issued by the fed eration in the name of Charles A. Wil son, chairman of the board of direc tors of the association, was brought to Washington by Bernard W. Snow, grain crop statistical expert and chair man of the Cook County Republican committee at Chicago. The memorial began with the dec laration that the burden of federal, state and. local taxes had brought the business and Industrial machinery of the nation to a breakdown and con cluded With a demnrul that taxes be re- dUtOd under pain of bringing the coun try to bankruptcy. “The very existence of the nation Is at stake,” the memorial stated in con clusion, “and your constituents, alive to your every action in this crisis, will accept no excuses and no extenua tions.” It is believed to be the first time that an organization of American busi ness men has spoken directly to the members of congress or to the govern ment in a demand for sane and con servative conduct of governmental affairs. Army Planes Drop Food to Snowbound Indians Winslow, Ariz. — Six huge army bombing planes, carrying cargoes of provisions in place of explosives, sought remote Zuni and Navajo vil lages in the canyons and on the mesas of western New Mexico as targets for their “.food bombardment.” Sixteen Jarger snowbound villages already had been provisioned hy the bombers. The planes, flying at the dangerously low altitude of fifty feet, dropped moret than five tons of food in snow banks near the villages. It had been estimated more than 20,000 Indians, isolated by one of the heavi est snows this section has ever known, faced starvation. Indian department officials in Washington ordei'ed relief sent the tribesmen by air. Coast Guards Capture Two Cargoes of Liquor Boston.—The Mary, reputed speedy rum runner of New Bedford, was seized after a two-raile chase in Dor chester bay. Her cargo of SOO cases of liquor was confiscated by coast guards. It was the second seizure in Boston waters within a few hours. Earlier in the morning the power-boat Buddy was captured with a load of liquor estimated by officials to be worth $20,- 000. The crews of both boats es caped. John W. Langley, Former Congressman, Is Dead Pikevllle, Ky.—John W. Langley, when the ear stopped, and Mr. South- was about to inquire the extent of her injuries, a uative policeman ran up and arrested the minister’s chauf feur. Mr. Southard protested and there was an agrument. Bever.'il other po licemen arrived and in the scuffle Mr. Southard was knocked down. Saves Ship at Home Burns Norfolk.—Coast Guard Capt. G. G. Suow of the Paul Gamiel station on the North Carolina coast, stuck to his post, salvaging the wrecked fishing trawler, Strita, while Lis home burned 200 yards away. Raising a Palestine Fund New York.—To maintain Jewish re construction work in Palestine 500 del egates to the national conference on Palestine launched a $2,500,000 cam paign here. Theodore Roosevelt, who has been governor of Porto Rico, was appointed governor general of the Philippines, and the senate confirmed the appoint ment without discussion. RAIL AGREEMENT MAY BE SLOW IN COMING .Union Heads Striving for Job ^ Stabilization. Chicago.—Extended discussion of the PKELOsals exchanged by the com mittee of nine railroad presidents and union representatives of the country’s rail workers in an effort to reach an amicable settlement of wage and em ployment problems indicated that the conference may continue for some time. A proposal of the brotherhood rep resentatives for assurance of employ ment for their members for at least one year, during which the roads have asked them to accept a voluntary 10 per cent wage cut, was before the con ference at the Palmer house. As actually worded by the spokes men of labor the proposal asked for the. same total of man hours as pre vailed in 1930. This total was 10 per cent greater than in 1931, labor chiefs said, and was used because it repre sented an average ^between 1929, ** peak year, and 1931, a low year. Labor contends a guaranty of jobs would accelerate business recovery be cause ft would restore confidence and release $2,000,000,000 in purchasing power now held back by fear. The workmen’s barter proposal was an answer to the request of the rail committee for a more detailed sugges tion on stabilization of employment, the cornerstone of the union program in the conference. The rail presidents had said In a general way that the wage reduction would stimulate employment but ex pressed doubt they could gtiarantea jobs to a fixed mimber of workmen. An agreement was reached on one of the union demands—that an emer gency employment bureau be estab lished. The branches will be in charge of E, .1. McClees at New York, J. W. Higgins at Chicago and C. P. Neill at Washington. JAPANESE ARMY GETS VENGEANCE FOR DEAD Hundreds of Chinese Troops Slain in Retaliation. Mukden, Manchuria.—The Japaneaei army has avenged its dead. OffleiaU communiques said that hundreds of Chinese have been killed lii a series' of offensives undertaken in retaliation: for the Chinese victories of the pre vious week, in which the Japanese cas ualties were heavy. Supported by heavy artillery air planes, the avenging columns of .lapan killed at least 220 Chinese in engage ments at Yentai and Tungliao, the com muniques said, and near Yingkow. where a force of 500 Chinese was en countered, “a considerable number” of casualties was inflicted. These were the three major engage ments, but there were many others. Larger units were employed than In previous activities of this sort, and jnore imposing auxiliary arms. While the .Japanese pressed on with their work of revenge, new groups of Chinese war lords arrived in Mukden to take part in negotiations looking toward the establishment of a new Manchurian state, wholly free of Chi nese control. Gen. Shigeru Honjo, Japanese high, commander, explained the fierceness of his new offensives by saying it was necessary to rid South Manchuria of “the curse of banditry” in order to permit the Chinese farmers to sow their spring crops “in assurance of safety and peace.” In the battle at Yentai, a coal min ing center 25 miles south of Mukden, a .Japanese Infantry battalion, equipped with macliine guns and backed by air planes and artillery, fought forty min utes with about 500 Chinese. A com munique said the Chinese were “al most completely annihilated.” The battalion returned to Mukden and a gang of coolies was hired to dispose of the bodies on the battlefield. Nu merous enemy wounded were taken to Japanese hospitals. A .Japanese column was sent to the Tungliao district after reports had been received that 1,000 Chinese were looting a nearby village. The Chinese lost 22 prisoners in addition to 90 dead in this battle, headquarters announced., A brigade sent to the Clilnsi district to smash irregular Chinese troops re turned to its Chinchow base, reporting its mission accomplished. Among the war lords arriving In Mukden for the negotiations about the establishment of a new government for Manchuria was Chang Hai-peng. who failed in an attempt to oust Gen. Ma Chan-shan from Tsitsihar before Gen. •Tiro Tamon accomplished that task in November. American Envoy Beaten by Abyssinian Police Addis Ababa, Abyssinia.—Addison Southard, United States minister to Abyssinia, was knocked down during an altercation with several policemen after an automobile accident. Reports of the incident said Mr. Southard’s car, with the minister driv ing, ran over an Abyssinian woman’s foot. She was only slightly hurt, but sixty-nine, whose career took him from a mountain cabin in Kentucky to con gress, and then into a federal peniten tiary, died of pneumonia. Langley was elected representative from the Tenth Kentucky district ten times, once while his appeal on a conviction of viol.aling prohibition laws was pending. Wiien he finally stepped out of public life he was succeeded by his ■ife, Mrs. Katherine Langley. Irish Free State Gets Its New Great Seal Sandringham. — During a historic ceremony King George V. handed the new great seal of the Irish Free State to High Commissioner John Dulanty. The seal will be affixed to all docu ments involving the appointment of Free State representatives abroad. Hitherto the great seal was kept in England and used for this purpose. The last imperial conference gave the right to the dominions to have their own great seals, and the Free State the first dominion to exercise the right The seal is silver and bears on one side a large harp, and on the oth-. er the head of King George. Lone Nurse Battles Epidemic Bayfield, Wls.—Singlehanded, Miss Elvira Brewer, county nurse, was at tempting to check a threatened diph theria epidemic sweeping this town, which lacks a doctor. Twelve new cases were reported. Miss Brewer In oculated all parochial pupils. Sol Metzger Is Dead Atlantic City, N. J.—Sol Metzger, eteran sports writer and former foot ball coach, died at his home here from complications following an operation. 4 Nab Postoffice Robber With Guns, Explosives Boston.—“Pawtucket .Johnny" Con ley, alias “The Parson,” notorious post office robber and safe blower, was ar rested in Pawtucket when police found, two loaded .45 automatic pistols and a bottle of nitroglycerin in the back seat of a car in which he was sitting. Con' ley was crouched down in the front seat of the car, which was parked with out lights. A companion, who said he was Elmer S. Thurber, was also ar rested. Father, 89, Slays Son; He Pleads Self-Defense Bethany, Mo.—Wounded by his fa ther, an eighty-nlne-year-old veteran of the Civil war, Alexander Smothers, forty-seven, is dead. The father. .Toahua Smothers, pleaded self-defense and has not been arrested. The shoot ing occurred at the home of the father. The home was in a state of siege for thirty minutes before the father fired. Inside the home. Mrs. Smothers sat in an invalid’s chair and heard the threats of her son. Roosevelt Indorsed by South Dakotans Huron, S. D.—South Dakota Demo crats, meeting here, unanimously in dorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor of New York, for the Democratic Pres idential nomination. A slate of delegates, headed by Sen ator W. J. Bulow as delegate at large, was instructed to support Roosevelt as long as his name is presented to the national convention as a Presidential candidate. Urbana Business Is Halted for One Week Urbana, Ill.—A business moratorium under which stores, shops and plants, except essentia! services, were closed for one week, was proclaimed by May or Reginald Harmon as a method of calming the fears of the people after the closing of two banks in Champaign and one here. Schmeling to Meet Sharkey New York.—Max Schmeling, world's heavyweight champion, will meet Jack Sharkey, of Boston, in June for the title, Joe Jacobs, Schmeling’s manager, announced. Fake Dollars in Australia Sydney, Australia.—Depreciation of Australian and English currency hav ing made American money desirable, counterfeiters have taken advantage of the situation to pass spurious $10 and $20 bills. J -Jv;;/:;;- iS" J.