North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. 40. T News Review of Current Events the World Over Test Vote in House Entourages Wets—Sales Tax Meets Strong Opposition—Twr Famous Men Take Their Own Lives. - ' By EDWARD W. RICKARD '■■■*' leaders In congress, greatly T * encouraged by the test vote In the house, havo started a vigorous campaign to compel the major parties to place In their plat forms planks declar ing for resubmission '■'Of- the prohibition question to the people. The motion # before the house was to dis charge the judiciary committee from juris diction over the Beck linthicum resolution for amendment of the Eighteenth amend- J. M. Sack. raen t, which had been defeated In the com mittee by a vote of 14 to 6. The test vote was forced under the liberalized rules by 145 petitioners. On call of the roll, 227 members ▼oted against the motion, 187 for it, and there were 18 not voting. Follow ing the custom, Speaker Garner did not vote. The strength shown by tbe wets was greater even than many of them had expected and they were cor respondingly jubilant. Their cause had gained 59 votes since tbe house voted December 17, 1917, to submit the Eighteenth amendment Beck., and Linthicum, co-authors of the resolution, declared the fight was - all but won and that all that was needed was one more election. Mr. Daal. ..is . um, . Beck said: *Thls vote makes It plain that If the Republican party adopts a dry platform in June It will court disaster. N He predicted it would not be necessary to wait for. tjm' meeting of the next congress for action to modify the dry law, believing that this congress at the session next win tor. as a direct result of the Novem ber election, will submit the anti-pro hibition amendment Leaders of the drys. for their part, though admitting wet gains, declared they were undismayed, calling atten tion to tbe fact that t** wot. stßl far from having tlm necessarf two-thirds majority. Both sides. In the Republican party, have been hoping that President Hoo ver would declare himself, but there was nothing to indicate that he wonld depart from his neutrality tn tbe pre convention contest. A close associate of the President was quoted as saying " TJrr~Hoover has not changed his be lief that the country is still preponder antly dry. Representative Fred Britten of Illi nois introduced in the house a bill for repeal of the Jones “five and ten” law which stiffened the penalties for. violation of the Volstead act. DEBATE on the billion dollar rev enue bill continued lq the house throughout the week, and the op ponents of the sales tax sought to form themselves into a bloc. Their determined fight against this big fea ture of the measure at least resulted In changes, for the ways and means committee agreed to accept an amend ment omitting certain canned goods and press telegrams from the list of articles upon which a 2.25 per cent sales tax Is proposed. The committee also was considering amendments exempting cheap clothing, electricity used for ir rigation projects and radio company leased wires. Prospects for adoption of the sales tax were lessened In mid-week when leaders of organized labor and of the farmers came out in opposition to it. William Green, president of the Amer ican Federation, of Labor, 'declared “labor will call on its friends In eon ;■> gHns to defeat that section of the ■7 taxation measure”; and Fred Brenck man of the National Grange said im position of the sales., tax would meet "the unqualified disapproval of the £7,000,000 people upon the farms of this country,” Should the bill substantially os It stands get through the house. Its sates tax feature will face strong opposition in the senate. A group of senators U ready to junk it, these including the men who are classed as progressive Republicans. Some of the more lib eral Democrats want a substitute biU providing for selective sales taxation and pofihiy for’ Increased surtaxes on incomes above $190,000. The house surtax la 40 per cent from SIOO,- 000 up. TWO sf the world’s famous men de rided that life was ns longer worth Using and so committed suicide. George Eastman, internationally known as the developer of the ' camera and the pho- Rgj&r" tographlc film and kT also as one of the |F country’s greatest philanthropists, put a bullet through his heart at his home In Bl \ Rochester, N. Y., be cause he was in ill health and. as his ■MM ~ farewell note said: ■gggJ "My work ia done. Why watt!” Mr. East- q #o Eastman man, whs founded the Eastman Kodak company and was chairman of its board, had made a vast fortune but had given away all kul about $20,000,000. His pbilhnthro theburnsville t Pies, estimated at 00, were i scattered over the wßrtd, the -recip- J louts Including univeitiiHes and schools J and dental clinics in many cities in ' this and other countries. He was • seventy-seven years old, a bachelor i and a lover of music and art. Mr. i Eastman’s many friends mourned his death but none was found to criticise ! his decision that it was time for him tO gO. ;\-- ivqr Kreuger, head of the great Swedish match trust and one of the I I world’s most noted in dustrialists, was the other notable suicide. For months his nu merous interests had been hqmmet-ed on the exchanges of Europe and his losses were supposed to have been mainlng fortune was very large u e had Just failed to obtain Ivar Kreuger a 10 ’ 000 ’ 000 lo nn In . . New York, where he had always been able to obtain vast sums for the asking, so he sailed to Paris and there ended his life with a revolver. Like Eastman, Kreuger was unmarried. His death created a sensation in financial circles, espe cially in Europe, and the shares in his companies declined sharply. The Swedish government obtained from il UUI parliament in special session permis sicm to declare a moratorium on the debts of those concerns to prevent a raid by creditors, and the Stockholm exchange was closed for a time. Jk/f ANAGBRS of the Republican Party are busy making the ar rangements for tbe national conven tion in Chicago, and m«ny of them in their informal talk in which would serve to fa * without outraging the li of the national com- I selecting the presiding officers of the , con-i _ vent i o n at firstj- - - 8 "* 11 - thought it would be Well to have -Charles G. Dawes for temporary chair man and “keynoter," lut it was said he was unwilling to acept the honor. For permanent chain an Itwas vir tually agreed that Be trand H. Snell, congressman from'N Sr York, would be tbe best man aval; hie. He is one of the party’s strong i en and a skilled parliamentarian. He ever, both posts ■ were left unfilled, 1 e final choices to be made at a me ting in Chicago on April 9. I v The arrangements twnmittee decided | that four radio brojacasting booths { should be put In the thlcago Stadium. , It also named Dr. | M. Harvey si ’ , Chicago chief of the iaff of physicians , and nur.ies, and Gerge L. Hart as , official stenographer. •"* Democratic manag s also are slow ly completing the stalls for their convention, bnt ha made no an nouncenienrs. In g eral, they will take over the Stadli i as the Repub licans leave It. «*> ...»ii—' . RUMORS, rumors, ’d more rumors, all proving fats Clews leading nowhere. Theories MfHy, exploded. Investigations and neotiations that have no result Suclbas been the . ..course of the Llndberi.,baby kidnap ing, case up to the tie this Is writ ten. Toward the clo: of the week the authorities were iflitring Into a story told by Chariest liver, a pris oner on Welfare lslamKew York, to the effect that the ptj to steal the child was hatched In nil, being pro posed to him by onqujiliam Otouson Os Cllffslde, N. J. \tlfi litfer was taken Into custody am den led every thing Oliver said. An lenious theory originated In Plißelphla that henchmen of A1 Capomstole the baby for use as a lever tin that gang leader out of lall- T>AUL VON HINDfBURG raaln -1 talned his pIa«L idol of the German people In pi time as well aa In war In the Asldential elec tion he soundly bfcais chief rlyyl, Adolf Hitler, lea* I the Naalr or Fascists. But Ufied -President failed by one-halfl {per cent to get a majority of thaw votes cast, so there must be afiJoft election on April 10. At thalni It Is admitted by nearly everycf In will triumph. As against ne§ 19,000,000 votes for Vta Hlndentm tore were about 11,600,000 for A; Ernest Thael* m.»«, OommunlAfcd almost 6,000,- 000; Duesterba Rationalist, got - 2,000,000, and i«r, Independent, 111,000 odd. Hps vote was so fat ahead of the Nwote in the relchs tag elections oA) that he decided to remain In tpnfest. 7“ - Toward the I of the week the i Prussian goveAt claimed It had i discovered pla* a civil war and I therefore rald|fazl headquarters . throughout th^fe. E'RANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT anti 1 Gov. \V. H. Murray of Oklahon/ were the contenders in tbe Democ/y !c primaries of North Dakota. S returns from the rural districts /ere slow in coming in. but on the b» of partial returns it appeared Oy lain that the state’s delegation woysd be instructed for the New York governor. However. Alfalfa BUI had captivated the imagination of many of the farm ers and was making a fair contest - On the Republican side those seek ing the preference of the voters were Dr. Joseph L France of Maryland and Jacob S. Coxey of Ohio. France was well In the lead. Mr. Hoover’s name m had not been entered but he received some votes. • elected a new congress man to flu out the term of the late Percy B. Qutn. He Is L. Russell Ellzey, Democrat, superintendent of a college at Wesson. between Japan and China for the withdrawal of Jap anese troops from the Shanghai area were reported about to open, After conversations engineered by the rep resentatives of the United States and Great Britain. It was understood the Japanese forces should be withdrawn gradually and that the Chinese should not enter the evacuated territory un- Ul final agreement was reached. The operation will be supervised by a com mission’ with neutral members. tJnder this agreement China aban dons the point that Manchuria must be considered simultaneously with the Shanghai problem, and Japan aban dons the point that the status of Shanghai must be fixed prior to her withdrawal. Meanwhile the Lytton commission sent to “Shanghai by the League of Nations, with Maj. Gen. Frank Mc- Coy representing the United States, 1 begbn Investigating the doings of the Japanese in and about Shanghai. 1 Mayor Wu Teh-chen of the Chinese municipality was guide and chief in- 1 formant of the members and after telling them of the outrages commit ted by the Invade;*, he took them on a tour of lnspection through many miles of devastated areas where, as he said, “you can see for yourselves how thoroughly the Japanese war machine has accomplished Its mission of wanton destruction.” That new Manchurian state of Man choukuo, established by the Japanese and headed by Hedry Pu-yi, is in trou ble already. Dispatches from Tokyo said there was revolt In the province of U„,r,nm S»j to transfer their allegiance. From Changchun, capital of the new state, word came that a strong Chinese force, equipped with artillery, had captured Fu-yu, a city of 80,000 people 100 miles southwest of Harbin. A djournment untit April it was taken by the International disarmament conference at Geneva. Correspondents there relate &n inter esting Incident during the discussions In the naval commission. Vice Admiral D. P. R. Pound of Great Bri- If | tain naively proposed that they eliminate from the draft con- Efe*/ vention of the con- I ■. ferenee nn article in I the Washington treaty providing that a na- I - - tlon engaged in war ■MIISSSa shall Jiot seize a war vessel ... of another ® en - Swanson country being constructed in its own yards. He said it was not logical to expect a country at a moment when it is Straining to the utmost not to lay Its hands on all available mate rial. But our own Senator Swanson was on the alert at once, declaring this would not do at all. Ships constructed In time of peace for another 5 power should not possibly be considered available to the builders In time of war, he said. (Otherwise, there would never be a u chance for the govern ments to agree on their relative strengths, Mr. SwaffSon exclaimed. Other delegates supported Senator Swanson’s argument, and later the British admiral smilingly Intimated that his proposition had been misun derstood, and withdrew It POSTMASTER GENERAL W. F. Brown, in a memorandum submit ted to the special economy committee of the house of representatives, pointed out many ways in which the cost of the postal service can be re dflced, but said all of them require legislation. T ' He admitted that the postal service Is overmanned for the handling of the present reduced volume of busi ness due to the depression. He sug gested that econonffifca could be achieved by reducing the force, reduc ing pay, consolidating rural free de livery routes and providing govern ment buildings for post office stations, branch post offices and garages which under the law are now leased. Such economics, however, said Mr. Brown, would not balance the Post Of fice department budget which can be effected only by Increasing postal rates also. Mr. Brown submitted for “careful ' consideration” the .proposal of Sen ator W. H. King that rural free de livery routes be let to the lowest bidders, although the postinaster, gen eral recorded himself as opposed to such change because "It would be likely to result In a substantial Im pairment of the general excellent serv ice which Is now rendered to rural patrons.” (h IMS, Western Newspaper Union.) ' FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1932. SWETS ARE JUBILANT OVER LIQfOR VOTE fr j, /V Technically DepU, They Count Largi* Gains. ■Washington.—The jjpise of repre sentatives, by a votej|227 to 187, re jected the proposal lithe wet blocs to force action on thlleck-Linthieum proposal for amending of the Consti tution to turn liquorSntrol back to the states. M- This was the flrstj»l call vote on Constitutional prohippn Since the Eighteenth amendmtpfwas put into force, and only is fmiad to cast ballots. Although,technically de feated, the wet leaden were jubilant over the 187 votes cad for their mo ■ tion to discharge the judiciary com- j mittee from consideration of the Beck- Linthicum resolution aid bring It be fore the house, the strongest showing they have been able to |ake since pro hiblrmn was put into tbfe Constitution. They predicted victory for resub mission at the next sossion of con gress. The drys, meanshile, expressed satisfaction over As evidence of the trend away from pro hibition, the wet leaden pointed to the significance of a tabulation of the votes cast by state delations, which showed that those of 17 states fa vored immediate consldoration of the resubmission proposal, tfith 28 against it and three tied. One hundred and twelve Republicans and 114 Democrats and one Farmer- Labor representative toted against the, motion to dlschargi the bone-dry Judiciary committee froiconsideration of the resolution, while If Republicans and 90 Democrats votedfor immediate action. Although the test indented the In ability of the to drive their project to accessful con clusion in the present their showing In the house vfc, larger than the previous predlctlo||of the most sanguine of wet quickly ' followed by announcelKnts h«h m the house and senate that an issue be forced on beer resolntions pendijll in both chambers. How party lines disintegrated as the roll was called was Illustrated by the ballots cast by the leaders on both sides. Recording themselves against the motion were Uep^sentatires Jo- acting chairman of the ways and means com mittee ; Representative Willis C. Haw ley (Rep., Ore.), ranking minority member of the ways a»d means com mittee, and Bertrand H. Snell (Rep., N. T.) t Republican floor leader. On the other hand tie motion was supported by Representitive Heiiry T. Ratney, nttaolß, Democntic floor lead er; John McDuflde, Alabama, Demo cratic whip; Representitive John Q. Tilson, Connecticut, Repifclican leader In the last session of theijongress, and Representative William it Wood, Re publican, Indiana, raiding minority member of the appropriitlons commit tee. Mr. Garner, as is the custom of the speaker, did not vole. WASHINGTON BRIEFS - ■ - -f The Republican party’s committee on arrangements for tin national con vention has put off until April 9 the selection of a keynoter for the Chi- v cago June 14 iheeting. The State department announced the appointment of Stuart J. JPaller, as sistant chief of the division of Fat Eastern affairs, to attend the fifteenth session of the opium advisory com mittee as an expert in, in advisory ca pacity. Denyingthe petition of Ugo Ferronl, convicted Peru (111.) lootlegger, the United - States Supreme court ruled that the government la empowered to collect taxes on lllejplly distilled liquors. The senate passed a house bill al lowing free entry only to those mu sicians wh,o possess "distinguished merit" and "superior talent." President Hoover attended the fu neral services for his Second cousin, George CL Hoover, at) the Quaker church. More than 20,060 women are at wrdrk at the present time In stockyards throughout the country, receiving an average of only sld.Bfi » week, accord ing to a survey announced by the. womr en’s bureau of the Department of Labor. t." - -y , - • _ Senator Wagner of New York Intro duced In the senate a bill for a 61.100, 000,000 bond issue to finance public works already authorised by congress but not appropriated for. Earthquakes, Volcanoes Wreck East Indies Isle The Hague.—An.enormous death toll and almost complete destruction of thq Isle of Banda Neira, one of the mo 4 Important of the Banda.group In the Dutch East Indies, resulted from earth quake* and numerous new volcanoes have appeared throughout the Island, according to reports from Batavia, Javii. Banda Islands supply most of the world’s nutmegs and gome other •Pices. . [kidnap clews all LEAD TO NOTHING Search for Lindbergh Baby Covers the World, -y 11 \ v —Hopewell, N. J.-—Xhe international search for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby moved along three widely scat tered fronts. - There was the underworld search which is being pursued separately by Coi. Charles A. Lindbergh and the po lice. In England, France, and Ger many ocean liners occupied the atten tion of the authorities, and finally there was the half-hearted hunt in .the - . Suurland hills surrounding the Linrt bergh home. Clews continued to blossom Jcouijill parts of the nation and fade with be wildering unanimity. Tips came from as far flung places as Seattle, Jackson, Ky., and Hamburg, Germany, but all proved worthless.- The Information that New Jersey troopers were endeavoring to trace a brown blanket overcoat found near Featherbed road, down which the kid napers are supposed to have fled with the twenty-month-old child, was denied almost as soon as It became known. The Hopewell police chief,. Charles Williamson, reported had re ceived a communication advising him to be in front of the post office at York, Pa., where he would receive a communication from the kidnapers. The ‘ kidnaper” said he would wear a white handkerchief in his coat pocket. Chief Williamson appeared to be the only person interested tn the letter. Latpr it became known nn osteopath at York, M. B. Shellenberger, had told police that a man, woman, and baby came Into his office and forced him to make a telephone call' to the Lind berghs, giving terms and place of the ransom. The story is doubted. The underworld search, so far as the police were concerned; centered on a new group of “suspicious characters,” -the Roma gang from Denver* said to be operating in or about New York city. That also blew up and Col. Nor man Schwarzkopf, head of the state police, announced vindication of the that Fran§ c fe-- rtrzko P f also announced I » —rr -JSs Secrecy surrounded the movements of Morris Rosner, undercover agent of the Lindberghs, who reported the baby was alive and well and would be re turned. . In Seattle detectives tried to run .down the statement of a Jobless paper hanger, who said two bank robbers -had Invited hliri to joln in kidnaping the baby, when he was in Billings, Mont., last June. His Billings employ er reported the main had “delusions of'grandeur.” \ The attorney of Salvy Spitale and Irving Bitz, first underworld charac ters chosen to act as go-betweens, said the pair had been In indirect contact with the kidnapers and lyould make a trip to Detroit in connection with their negotiations. From Jackson, Ky„ and other places came stories 'Of persons seized with blond babies, but in every case the lead was found to be due primarily to overzealousness on the part of some officer. Senators See Propaganda i -.Against Muscle Shoals Washington.—The senate agriculture committee charged a nation-wide prop -1 aganda campaign has been conducted to secure the power at Muscle Shoals for private gain under the guise of cheapening fertilizer for the farmer. In recommending enactment of the Norris bill for government operation of the plant, the committee challenged those who have been seeking private production of fertilizer at Muscle Shoals to show good faith- by accept ing the alternate leasing provisions of this measure. - —* , The committee contended the recom mendations of President Hoover’s Muscle Shoals commission for opera tion of the plants by a farmer-owned corporation could be carried out under the terms of the Norris bill, and It offered to liberalize ics lease provision as far as necessary "without giving the lessee an outright bonus from the federal treasury.” 7 ' ~ ■&% ..- .... Auto Burns After Wedding Party; One Man Is Killed New York.—An automobile In which four young man and two young women were returning , from a wedding party in Sea Gate, Coney Island, swerved from the road on a sharp turn In Pros pect park, Brooklyn, crashed .Into a i ; . tree, turned over, and burst into-flames. i One of the men was killed. The oth--* , ers were injured or burned. i Dime-a-Dance Girl Weds f Harvard Student Secretly New York.—The wedding of a dhhe a-dunce girl to the spp of a wealthy , broker has been revealed 1 . Allan P. j Carlisle,“twenty-year-old Harvard stu- , dent, and -Miss Romaine Fleming, twenty, who for two years has been a ' hostess at a Broadway dance hall, were married last December 23 when young Carlisle \vas home for the t Christmas holiday)). The wedding be- l came known when a classmate let the c word out to young Carlisle’s father. 1 — GEORGE EASTMAN 1 t affirafirli It* i h George Eastman, founder and chair man of the board of the Eastman Ko dak company, committed suicide in his home in Rocheste*. N. Y„ because of ill health. He was celebrated as a developer of the camera and film in dustries and as a philanthropist. HINDENBURG BEATS HITLER AT POLLS German However, Is Short of Majority. Berlin.—President Paul von Hinden burg emerged as victor In the German presidential election by soundly beat ing Adolf Hitler, but failed by the narrow margin of 108,000 votes of getting the absolute majority over all other candidates necessary to obtain re-election. His impressive total of 18,061,736 votes—a plurality of 7,333,165 over, the National Socialist (Fascist) lead er’s count of 11,328^71—makes it vlr tually certain that the elghty-fonr year-old field marshal will be returned to office on April 10, when a run-off election will be held in which the candidate will win who recetye.s the greatest number of ballots, whether ter, who, although ia jail, ran for the “League df Creditors of the Reichsbank” on. a platform calling for redemption of the Inflated post war marks, obtained 181,115. The most surprising feature of the election was the relative weakness of Hitler. His lleutenanti were conflv dent his strength would, ran from 15,- 000,000 to 18,000,000. Hitler said, how ever, he would try agalb/ Hitler received only slightly less than a million votes more than his party polled in the 1830 relchstag election. The Communists, with their 4,900,000 votes, made a less notice able gain over their 1930 figures. In 1930 they polled 4,590,000 votes. / \ ; r ; Hiram Johnson Scores International Bankers Washington.— Summarising the sen ate finance committee’s investigation of foreign loans Senator Hiram John O - MWUUkV* W vuu son told the senate that American losses were &he to the "greed” of In ternational banks and “smug compla cency and supine indifference” on the part of the government » ’’ The gray-haired California Repub- I lican, who sponsored the Investigation of American losses In foreign bond Is sues, startled the senate with, the fe- > rocity of his attacks on intematonal bankers. " . , ' 1 .In a scathing denunciation of their activities, he said they had given “no | thought to the impoverishment of i American citizens who trusted them ( and acted apparently only for the profits.” i f — , ? ] Gets License; Shoots His Bride-to-Be, Kills Himself * Fort Lauderdale, Fi. —The bodies of Harold Neb*. tliljnflsV*" of Quincy, 111., and Miss Frances Ferriera, twen ty-three, were found In a quarry pit 1 near here a short while after they had | applied for a marriage license. Cor- j oner Hugh Lester expressed the opin- | 100- Nebe shot her and committed sul- | clde. | Voter for Eighteen Presidents Dies at 98 Jamestown, R. I. —Samuel smith, ninety-eight, who voted for 18 Presl- f d-nts, celebrated two silver wedding j anniversaries and was the oldest for- t mer member of .the Newport city coun- „ ell and the Rhode Island legislature, , died here, . » . 'r, 1 Boy .Skaters Drown < Lima, Ohio. Three boys were drowned when they fell through the Ice on McCullough Park here. The victims were Hrnest Line, twelve, 1 and Clarence Line, ten, and Junior 1 Woods. * , . ' * « Canadian Pilot Killod , Winnipeg, Man.—Godfrey W; Dean t of Grand Mere Quebec; was killed as i his airplane burst Into flames and t crashed while he was flying over t GEORGE EASTMAN COMMITS SUICIDE "Work" Done," Sick Kodak King End* Hi* Life. ; Rochester, N. Y. —George Eastman, chairman of the board of the $200,- 000.000 Eastman Kodak company and philanthropist whose benefactions had passed the $75,000,000 mark, ended his life home here. He was seventy-seven years old, and had been In ill health for- many years. The manufacturer shot himself, aft er asking servants and attendants to leave his room. He left a note which . said: -■ ;"53^gaiL r “To my friends: “ * ’ "My work Is done. Why wait?" Mr. Eastman was a bachelor) and had no close relatives. Beside his many benefactions, he was well known as the leader and pioneer of the photographic industry " and as an art collector and big game hunter. He began his business career at the age of fourteen at a salary of $3 a week. He developed the Eastman Kodak company from a small beginning and on Aprils 7. 1925, retired from the presidency, which was assumed by William G. Stuber. Mr. Eastman re mained as chairman of the-, board, however. The company has factories In many pa its of the world, the one here employing 20,000 men normally, Mr. Eastman had been a close friend of Thomas A. Edison, with whom he contributed much toward the development of the modern mo tion picture. Mr. Edison invented the first machine to reproduce motion visually, using a film that had been devised by Mr. Eastman after many years of experimentation. Mr. Eastman was probably the country’s best known philanthropist since the death, of the late Julius Rosenwald, and was reputed to have given about $90,000,000 to charity. He began life as a poor boy, and eventually through popularization ot the camera became one of the na tion’s wealthiest men. He not only contributed more than liberally of his wealth,, .but. gave his time, energy and ability to many public causes, especially on behalf of physical well being and culture. Under his direction, the camera was simplified. He manufactured both dry plates and films and got them to the public as the use of the kodak spread throughout the world. Ready sensitized films, "daylight loading” of kodaks with, roils of Aim and the easier methods of developing prints without returning negatives to the fac tory were other developments in his career. Dr. Andley D. Stewart, the indus trialist’s personal physician'and close friend, said Eastman feared invalid ism. He had been ill a long time, and. Doctor Stewart said, had been thinking for several months of ending" his life. ; From a collection of firearms he had made over a period of years East man selected a pistol of high velocity, one of the most powerful of all small arms in use, with which to end his life. " *5 D. C. Cook, Publisher of Church Books, Is Dead Elgin, 111. —David C. Cook It, na tionally known publisher of church books, died at his home of pneumonia. He had been 111 for two weeks. Mr. Cook was president of the Da- ‘ vid C. Cook Publishing company, which was founded in Elgin by his father, the late David C. Cook. He was born in 1881 and had always lived in Elgin, although he traveled exten sively and had a winter home at Pasa dena, Calif. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances Kerr Cook, and three children, Lois, Frances and David C. Cobk 111. 6,000-Mile Odyssey Ends in Yacht Wreck Buenos Aires, Argentina.—The 6,000- niiie odyssey of Vito Dumas, Argen tine sportsman, from Arcachon, France, to Buenos.Aires ended when his 28- foot yacht- struck a sandbar of Mos targfty, Brazfl, fiOO mites from Dumas' home haven, fie strain half a mile to shore to keep from drowning. 3 Saw Way Out of Jail; One Slain, Others Caught Kingston,-N. Y.—Sannjel Kline was shot and killed and two of his fellow fugitives from the Ulster county jail here were recaptured by a police posse an hour after {hey had sawed their way out of their ceils, slugged a jailer into unconsciousness and escaped. Canadian Vessel Sinks v on Reef Near Bermuda r Hamilton, Bermuda.—The Canadian national steamship. Prince David, on the way from Boston to Bermuda, struck a reef ten miles off the north east breakers and sank. ; > rj - Ayy the 84 passengers and the crew wer taken off in life bqajk and picked H up by the Canadian PacMc steamship, . Lady Somers, which T — NO. 2.