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-■/I -. TT V- ^ &-'Hy THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932 News Review of Current Events the World Over Efforts to Bring Insull Back From Greece for Trial- Canada Tariff in Effect—Big Political Guns Are in Action. -New By EDWARD W. PICKARD W HEN Samuel Insull, the former utilities magnate under indict ment in Chicago, was about to take a plane from Italy to Greece in his flight from Justice,, he wrote to his wife; “I am feeling as if I were going on a real adventure.” He was. • ^ From Saioniki he hus- * down to Athens and within a few hours of his arrival a at the Grand Bre tagne hotel he was taken into custody by the Athens police. At Samuel Insull. first he was merely detained on a ques tion as to his passport; then, at the formal request of the American con sul, he was arrested and taken to Jail, where he was given a comfortable room. By the next morning his legal representatives had got to Premier Venizelos, at whose instance the at torney general examined the affair, found there was no legal basis for In- sull’s detention and ordered his re lease. The convention of extradition between the United States and Greece was not in force, the instruments of ratification not having been ex changed. Twenty-four hour later In sull was told he was free to go where he pleased, so far as Greece was con cerned. There was a possibility of Insull’s being handed over to the United States on the strength of a former treaty, and the whole matter was to be laid before the court of appeals in Athens. Of course the American government was determined to try in every legal way to bring him back for trial. Consul Morris in Athens was instructed to keep close track of him. Developments in the Insull affair, far too numerous to be detailed here, i dPci.'glQD of the bankini committee of the senate to Investigate the collapse of the Insull utilities sys tem. James E, Stewart, federal oper ative who had charge of the commit tee’s Inquiry into the New York Stock Exchange last summer, went to Chica go vested with broad powers to In quire into all phases of the situation. Martin J. Insull, indicted with his brother and who was arrested in Oril lia, Ontario, was released under bail pending extradition proceedings. U NCLE SAM is now getting a large dose of the tariff medicine he has been giving the rest of the world for many years. At midnight of Wednes day the new Canadian tariff increases against United States products went into effect in accordance with the trade agreement between Canada and the United Kingdom, Southern Rho desia, the Irish Free State and South Africa, reached at the recent Imperial conference. The principal items on which Canada has raised the tariff against the United States are; 1. Iron and steel products. Includes steel plates, steel sheets and also structural shapes. 2. Anthracite. 3. Leather products of all kinds. 4. Gums of many varieties. 5. Chemicals of all kinds. 6. Toilet accessories, including per fumes, soaps and bath salts, in which there has been a huge trade between the United States and Canada. 7. Cotton goods. 8. Processed and fabricated steels, such as cutlery, machinery and wire products. Previously these and all other Amer ican products had been entering the Dominion under Canada’s general tar iff rate. Canada has been the best customer of the United States, but now much more of her trade will go to Great Britain. A S THE Presidential camp.algn drew toward its close major par ties unlimbered their biggest guns and the oratorical battle grew loud and fierce. For the Republicans Calvin Coolidge opened the week with an ad dress at a rally in Madison Square garden. New York city. He came out squarely and forcibly for the policies of President Hoover and said he was convinced the public welfare required that gentleman’s re-election. The for mer President attacked the Demo cratic leadership in congress for at tempted raids on the federal treasury, assailed Franklin Roosevelt for fail ing to announce his stand on the sol dier bonus question, and warmly praised Mr. Hoover for his moves to maintain “sound money.” Former Senator Jim Reed of .Mis souri, selected by the Democrats to reply to Mr. Hoover’s Dea Moines speech, went to that Iowa city and at tacked the President in his well- known scathing manner, dwelling at length on both his policies and his personality. He declared the Chief Executive’s address was “a series of Incorrect statements and unjustifiable deductions," and especially contradict ed Mr. Hoover’s statement that only the steps taken by the administration kept the country from going off the gold standard. Senator L. J. Dickinsou of Iowa, himself no mean orator and denouncer, answered Reed on that gold standard matter, accusing the Missourian of flagrantly misstatiug the facts and cit ing figures that he said upheld the as sertions made by Mr. Hoover. The President himself, still In his new fighting mood, made his second l)ig speech Saturday evening in Cleve land, and there was a chance that he would yield to the iuP.Wrtunities of his followers la the Middle and Far West and deliver several more addresses be fore election day. His opponent. Gov ernor Roosevelt, was busy In his own state during the week but found time to make a radio address over a na tion-wide hookup In reply to a ques tlonnalre on the subject of federal re lief to those In distress, increased ap propriations for public works as an aid to employment, unemployment in surance, and child welfare. It was announced that Governor Roosevelt’s next trip would be through the South and Middle West, though why be should go into the southern states ia a puzzle. S ENATOR DAVID A. REED of Pennsylvania, who went to Europe In the summer at the direction of President Hoover principally to find out the attitude of Great Britain and France on the Man- churiau question, re turned and immediate ly reported at the White Douse. To the press he denied cate gorically that any bar gain or secret agi ^ ments had been made -Jfj by the United States with either Great Brit ain or France on the Senator Reed course to be taken in handling the Lytton report and other developments In Japan and Manchuria. The Ghiiiese Nij^Hi^^^vcrnnieDt . annourSped that if accepts the Lyt ton report a basis for negotiations, but a large group of Influential and powerful Chinese has declared against it, asserting that “it is suicidal for China to place further reliance in the League of Nations, which is exposed to Impotence and Inability to uphold right and Justice.” D ictator josef stalin has taken steps to scotch the plot to bring about his downfall, which was mentioned In this column some weeks ago. The Communist party of Russia' has expelled from its ranks as trai tors Leo Kamenev and Gregory Zino viev, two once powerful friends of Lenin, and they were locked op in Lubianka prison. Twenty other Bol sheviks were ousted along with them. Kamenev was formerly commissar of the Moscow district and president of the people’s commissar and is a broth- er-ln-law of Leon Trotzky, the foe of Stalin. Zinoviev used to.be commissar of the Leningrad district and presi dent of the Communist Internationale. Both were accused of plotting against Stalin in 1927 but were forgiven when they abjectly apologized. The decree of the central executive committee of the Communist party says that both commissars were discovered by the Gaypayou or secret police to be falsi fying documents In order to compro mise the work of the party’s control committee. E UROPE.4N powers are still intent on bringing about disarmament— each for the other fellows—and their various i^ans seem as far apart as ^ ever. Norman H. Da vis, American delegate , \ to the disarmament ? , conference in Geneva, is striving to recon cile the various de- ^ . mauds as applied to ^ naval strength, and 4 was in London during ^ week trying to find a compromise between the British thesis of many and small ships N. H. Davis within global tonnage figures and America's desire for fewer and bigger ships. Mr. Davis, however, did not confine him self to naval matters, but discussed disarmament generally with Prime Minister MacDonald and Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, first lord of the ad miralty. He also met Sir Walter Lay- ton, England’s leading economist, and talked about the coming world eco nomic conference. Premier Herriot of France also In London, conferring with Mr. Mac Donald on Germany’s demands for arms equality. He has devised a dis armament plan providing for a consul tative pact which would Include the United States, and he consulted Mr. Davis about this. OAPT. WOLFGANG VON GRONAU ^ and his three companions who were making a round-the-world flight came to grief In the Indian ocean. But their radio was woriring after their plane was forced down by a broken water pump, and the British steamer Karagola responded to their call and rescued them, taking them and their flying boat to Rangoon. N orthern Ireland is having seri ous trouble with its unemployed. For two days a mob of ten thousand jobless men raged through Belfast, fighting the police and setting fire to many large buildings. After one man had been killed and more than thirty seriously wounded, the disorder was quelled. But in a few hours the riot ing was resumed with increased fury and it was necessary to call on Brit ish troops. The Enniskillen Fusiliers and the king’s royal rifles were sent in a hurry. T WO years ago the American Bar association appointed a committee on criminology to study gangsters and their operations. The committee has now made its report, stating that or ganized crime by gangsters is based largely on supply and demand and that prohibition “brought about a demand Cor the services of outlaws such as we never had in this or any other country prior to prohibition.” The committee consists of George A. Bowman of Milwaukee, chairman; Herbert Munro of Detroit and William D. Knight of Rockford, Ill.; all prose cuting officers. A nnouncement was made by the Reconstruction Finance cor poration that it had deposited $6,000,- 000 with the Treasury department as capital for its agricultural credit cor porations at Minneapolis, Minn., and Wichita, Kan. Both these regional concerns were expected to start Im mediately making loans to farmers and stock raisers in their respective districts. The loan agencies in Co lumbus, Sioux City, Spokane and Salt Lake City already had their funds. A ll candidates for the house and senate are being polled as to their views on prohibition by the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. The replies so far tabulated show that 347 candi dates of all parties are for straight re peal, 42 are evasive and 28 are op posed to repeaL Out of 228 replies from Democratic candidates, only one was opposed to straight repeal. Out of 170 replies from Republican candi dates, on the other hand, 105 were for repeal, 42 evasive, and 23 opposed to repeal. D r. ALEXANDER FLEXNER. di rector of the new Institute for Advanced Study which is to open In a year and will be located i; nounces that Prof. Al bert Einstein, discov erer of the relativity theory, has accepted i a life appointment as head of the school of mathematics. The em inent scientist will oc cupy a home in Prince ton with Mrs. Eiu- stein; will be In reei- dence at the institute annually from Octo- Prof. Einstein, her 1 to April 15, and will make a yearly visit to Germany. Announcement w’as made also of the appointment of Prof. Oswald Veblen, generally recognized as one of the leading American mathematicians and until now professor of mathematics at Princeton university, as a professor in the in.stitute’s school of mathematics. The institute. It is announced, will be exclusively a postgraduate univer sity. entirely separated from the “col legiate” activities of existing Ameri can higher education. It will be de voted to scholarship and research in the spirit of pure science without out side distractions. I N THE presence of high govern ment officials and Communist party leaders, soviet Russia formally opened at Dueiprostroy the largest hydro-elec tric plant in the world. The develop ment represents an investment of 220,- 000.000 rubles (nominally $110,000.- 000) and will have an ultimate ca pacity of 756,000 horsepower with an annual production of 2,500,000,000 kilo watt hours of electricity. It will sup ply electricity for 16,000.000 people in an area of 70,000 square miles, includ ing Che Donetz coal basin and the huge Dueipropetrovsk metal works. During the ceremonies Col. Hugh L. Cooper of New York, who designed and supervised the construction, and six members of his staff were decorat ed by the government. H ungary has a new premier, Julius Qoemboes, and there is not a count or a baron in his cabinet. In his first address to parliament he promised to restore liberty for the peo ple, freedom of the press and the se cret ballot. What was more remark able, this man who has been notorious as Hungary’s greatest Jew-baiter, re nounced his anti-Semite views. “I want to tell the Jews I have re vised my opinion of them,” he said. “I realize now that they showed the same heroism and patriotism during the war and after as other Hungar ians. Those Jews who are willing to share the fate ahd responsibilities of Hungary I welcome as Magyar broth- V OKWAERTS, the Social Demo cratic newspaper of Berlin, accases former Crown Prince Friedrich Wil helm of plotting to overthrow the Ger man republic and restore the mon archy with the help of Chancellor Von Papen, General Von Schleicher and President Von Hlndenberg. It says the prince Is to be proclaimed regent of Germany at a propitious moment, and that at the same time former Crown Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria will be proclaimed head of a Danubian king dom. “A product of pure phantasy,^ says the government at Berlin. ®, 1932. Western Nevrspaper Ua'an. BIG FUND READY FOR FARM LOANS R. F. C. Announces 18 Mil lions Now Available. Washington. — The Reconstruction Finance corporation announced that $6,000,000 has been deposited with the Treasury department as capital for its agricultural credit corporations at Minneapolis, Minn., and Wichita, Kan. Both regionals are expected to start making loans to farmers and stock men in their respective districts iminedlateiy. The corporation has now placed a total of $18,000,000 in the treasury subject to call of the regioual agri cultural loan agencies, $12,000,000 having been deposited for the corpora tions in Columbus, Ohio; Sioux City, Iowa; Spokane, Wash., and Salt Lake City, Utah. Under the law, each of the regional credit offices must have an Initial capitalization of $3,000,000. The Agricultural Credit corporation at Minneapolis will serve farmers and stock men in Wisconsin. Michigan, North Dakota, and Minnesota, while the corporation at Wichita will serve the district comprising the states of Oklahoma, Kansas. Colorado, and New Mexico. The board of directors of the cor poration approved a loan of $19,300 to the state of Te.-cas to meet the emergency relief needs in Brewster county until the end of this year. Most of the fund, the corporation said, will be used in providing work relief, as much construction work has been made necessary by September floods which ravaged highways and bridges in Brewster county. New York.—Acting Mayor Joseph V. McGee denied the appeals of civic and business organizations asking the city to seek a loan from the Recon struction E'inance corporation to build the tri-borough bridge and the pro posed Thirty-eighth street tunnel. He announced his opposition to asking Washington to help the city with these projects. WASHINGTON BRIEFS The United States Supreme court refused to review the contention of the Pan-.Ainerican I’et^ileum company that three leases^^^lHd it in naval petroieurii re^efv^xW^ln California, were legal. Three pedigree blcpdhounds have been added to the crig|o detection de partment of the Washington police force. They were the gift of Senator Harry B. Hawes of Missouri. The Reconstruction Finance corpor ation agreed to buy $62,000,000 worth of California 5 per cent bonds to finance construction of the bridge be tween San Francisco and Oakland. A uniform law for controlling nar cotics in the United States was ap proved by the national conference of commissioners on state laws. The new home loan^banks will han dle no cash. FrankliiJ W. B'ort. chair man of the board, explained he want ed tlds information broadcast so ma chine gunners will feel no temptation to shoot up the new institutions. Even in a summer of depression the American public spent $2,000,000,000 on motor vacation expenditures, ac cording to an estimate by the Amer ican Automobile association. Michigan to Ask Loan to Relieve the Jobless Lansing, Mich.—Acute need of Mich igan municipalities for funds to meet growing welfare demands upon de pleted city resources was recognized by Gov. Wilber M. Brucker and other administration leaders when it was de cided that the state will borrow In be half of cities from the Reconstruction Finance corporation. The Detroit situation is considered the most desperate, with continuance of welfare relief to thousands of fam ilies dependent upon an Immediate loan. Clarence E. Page, assistant cor poration counsel, and William B. (2ur- ran, budget director, informed the state that $3,525,000 Is needed for 1932. Kentucky Good Roads Leader Weille Is Dead Paducah, Ky.—Ben Weille, seventy- five, merchant and former member of the Kentucky state highway commis sion, and an outstanding “good roads” advocate since 1900, died at his home here after a brief illness. Ex-Senator W. A. Smith Die Grand Rapids, Mich.—Former Unit ed States Senator. William Alden Smith, whose quarter of a century of service In congress included both the Spanish-American and World war pe riods, died at his home here. He was seventy-three years old. China Accepts Lytton Report Geneva.—It ' was announced that China has accepted the Lytton report on Manchuria as a basis of discussion in the League of Nations council of a settlement of the Manchurian situa tion in which Japan sponsored an In dependent state. Candidate for Governor Dies Kansas City, Mo.—Francis M. Wil son, Democratic nominee for governot of Missouri at the November 8 elec tion, died at his home. INSULL ARRESTED AND THEN FREED Greek Officials Decided He Couldn’t Be Held. Athens-—Samuel Insull, Indicted at Cliicago for embezzlement and lar ceny in the collapse of liis financial empire, was formally placed under arrest here by request of the United States government. It was the first move in the govern ment’s fight to extradite him and re turn him to the United States. After being detained over night in a comfortable room in the prison build ing, Insull was freed from police de tention and given his unconditional liberty. He cannot, however, leave the country without further passport visa. This action was taken notwithstand ing the request of the United States consulate that he be held pending extradition, when the Greek officials decided there was no legal ground for holding him longer since the docu ments of ratification of the recently- negotiated extradition treaty between Greece and the United States have not been exchanged. The order for Mr. insull’s release was given by Minister of the interior Bacopoulos after he had conferred with Prime Minister Venizelos. The public prosecutor also studied the case and decided that no legal grounds for holding Insull existed. It was understood th.'it application for extradition would have to be made by American aut.lioritie.s in the usual way. This would moan tliat. unless ne should agree to return to tlie United States without objection. Mr. InsuH’s rights would be (lassed on by the Greek courts which would determine whether the new treaty, in the ad- sence of the exchange of instruments of ratification, is effective. Insull is reported to have told the police that he was willing to return to Chicago "after tlie election’’ to answer to grand jury indiciments. Russian Reds Expel Score as “Traitors” Moscow.—The central control com mittee of the Communist party expelled twenty of its members, some of them prominent leaders of the Soviet regime srtice Che ulijs-/!'■ Cih; i-eooVmLir. ow r charge of having organized a counter revolutionary movement advocating dissolution of the collective and state farms. The groii]) included Gregory Zino viev. former head of the Comintern, and Leo Kamenev, hrotlier-in-iaw of Leon Trotzky, military leader of the revolution, who is now in exile in Turkey. Other members of the group were former followers of Trotzky and mem bers of the right wing of the party. They were charged with circulating anti-party literature opposing the pres ent policy of collectivization. Three Alleged Bandits Escape Waukegan Jail Waukegan, III.—Three bandits held for the robbery of the Lake County State bank at North Chicago, in which they wounded and permanently dis figured a woman employee, overpow ered a guard and escaiuul from the Lake county Jail here. 'Hiey lied into a ravine traversing the city. The men. ali Chicagoans, are: Ernest Riipprecht, twenty-four, an ex-convict: Clifford Heaney, twenty- one, paroled from I’lyitiac recently, who is said to linve admitted wound ing the bank employee, and Joseph Beck, twenty. Three on Way to Funeral in Auto Killed by Train Wyaconda, Mo.—Three [lersons, fa ther, mother and son. en route to Ot tumwa. Iowa, from Lewiston, Mo., to attend a funeral, were killed when their automobile was struck by a Santa Fe fast train at a crossing near here. The dead are Wiley Shoemnker, fifty; Mrs. Shoemaker, forty-four, and their son, Harold, twenty-one. Answers Midnight Doorbell; Is Slain Los Angeles,—Answering the front doorbell at his home shortly after mid night, Charles H. Scull, fifty-one, su perintendent of an engraving company, was shot and killed by an unidentified man, who escaped. Managers of Fairs to Convene Chicago.—The 1932 convention of the International Association of Fairs and E.xpositions will be held at the Hotel Sherman in this city. November 29 and 30. P. W. Abbott, manager Edmonton (Alberta) exhibition, is president of the International, and A. R, Corey, secretary Iowa State fair. Des Moines, is vice president. Ralph T. Hemphill, Oklahom.a City, is secre tary. Mary Anderson’s Husband Dies Warwick, England.—Antonio de Na varro, husband of Mary Anderson, American actress, died here. He and Miss Anderson were married in 1890. a year after her retirement from the stage. Belgian Steamer Sinks Brest, E'rance.—The Belgian steam er Scheldestad sank in a storm 240 miles off Bordeaux. The crew were rescued by the Cunard liner Lancas- tria. SAMUEL INSULL Recent photograph of Samuel Insull of Cliicago, former utilities magnate, who lied to Athens, Greece, to avoid extradition and trial on charges of em bezzlement and larceny. BROOKLYN HOUSEWIFE TAKES FATAL “RIDE” Mother of Five Is Murdered With a Dagger. New York.—The ride murder of a housewife,' slain mysteriously with a red-handled dagger, puzzled Brooklyn authorities. Mrs. Gemma Pignataro, thirty-six- year-old mother of five children, was killed some time after she set out to care for a neighbor’s sick child. Her body was found in an automo bile that had smashed against a tree at Dyker heights. At her feet lay the knife that had severed her jugular vein. Detectives questioned her husband and two other men, one of them the owner of the wrecked car. All denied knowledge of the killing. Delving into the woman's history, the police ob tained information that led them to suspect gangsters. The detectives said she had a broth er, Louis Ribis, who was right-hand man for the late Frankie Uala, Brook lyn gang Cihfefi'anu’osjrVimtf aiiy Capone. This brother was murdered ten years ago in New Jersey, The dead woman’s husband, Fii^i, was ounded in 1914 by an unldentK.ed foe. Fie recovered. Scratched hands indicated that Mr.s. Pignataro struggled against death. The police believe that in the struggle the killers lost control of the car, which hit a tree. Two men were seen to flee from it after the crash. Chicago.—Norman B. Collins, presi dent of two Chicago banks, who was kidnaped near his home in Wilmette and held for $5,000 ransom, was re leased by his captors on the North west side. He is thirty-nine years old and head of the Security State and Second Security State banks, both on Milwaukee avenue. No ransom was paid for his release, although the kidnapers gave explicit directions as to the manner in which the money was to be turned over to them. Any effort on their part to collect it would probably have been met with machine gun fire, for police had laid a careful trap for their ar rest on the basis of the instructions In the abductors’ note. Collins, somewhat nervous and hun gry, but otherwise none the worse for his 11 hours of captivity, said that he left his home in Wilmette in the family car with his wife, Alice, bound for the North Western railroad sta tion, At Seventh street and Lake avenue, he said, three men in a “wreck of a car” forced them to the curb, and ordered him and bis wife into their car. There they taped their eyes with adhesive. Then one got out and drove Collins’ car behind. “Dp to this time I thought the men were robbers,” said Mr. Collins. “On the way they said they were kidnap ers and wanted $100,000. Not having any money on me, or any immediate ly available, much less the amount they asked, I told them their demand was impossible. They scaled down their demands finally to $5,000. I told them to allow my wife to see James R. Forgan, Jr., vice president of the First National bank, and they agreed. They let her go,” Mrs. Collins was driven, still blind folded, to her car about six miles from Wilmette and released. She notified the authorities. Alexander Jamie, chief investigator for the Secret Six, was notified. Ha laid the trap. Detective Louis Nich ols dressed Id Mrs. Collins’ clothes and started out in her car. Crouched In the rear were Lieut. Leo Carr and SergL William Knowles. They reached the designated Intersection and for two hours cTPcled the squar'e mile. Three blocks behind, In another car. rode Jamie. Mrs. Collins, and Mr. For gan. The trap proved unnecessary. Milwaukee’s Mayor Is Warring on Bombers Milwaukee.—With three members of a motion picture operators’ union in jail. Mayor Daniel W. Hoan declared he would close all motion picture the aters in Milwaukee unless the unions agreed to suppress all forms of vio lence. While the three union men were be ing held in Jail, police continued their investigation of the bombing of the Parkway theater, in which six peo ple in an audience of 800 were in jured. Tlie men held are Chester Miliis, forty-one, business agent of the Motion Picture Operators’ union, 164, and a former operator at the theater; Raymond Koenig and Harry Morris, operators. Although lie declared none of the men was involved in the throwing of the bomb, Inspector John Bouschek declared their detention and union records will lead to the arrest of the actual bombers. Slays His Friend by Accident; Kills Self International Fails, Minn. — Carl Lang, seventeen, shot and killed him self in remorse after accidentally kill ing Amos Anyder, twenty, while the two were hunting in the woods on the Minnesota side of the border near Eiuo, Ont. Korean Executed for Attempt on Mikado Tokyo.—LI Hosho, the Korean who recently was convicted of an attempt to bomb the carriage of Emperor Hir- hohito last January 3, was e.xecuted at Ichigaya prison. Mention of the method of execution used was forbidden. Farm Pickets Halt Twin Cities Produce Miuneapolis, Minn,—Farmers’ holi day pickets at Coon Rapids, near here, were turning back truckloads of farm produce headed for Twin Cities mar kets. Planks studded with nails en forced the pickets’ demands. Former College Head a Suicide Washington, Fa.—Returning to tha scene of his joys and triumphs. Dr. Simon S. Baker, sixty-five, former president of Washington and Jefferson college, sent a bullet into his brain and died. Sterling Deserts “Ma” Ferguson Dallas, Texas.—Governor Sterling went on record as refusing to support Mrs. Miriam (“Ma”) Ferguson, former governor, wlio defeated him for tha Democratic gubernatorial nomiaation. KIDNAPERS SEIZE BANKER AND WIFE Bold Plan to Obtain Ransom Is Foiled. Big Wet Majority in Congress Is Predicted New York.—The woman’s organiza tion for national prohibition reform made public a preliminary report on questionnaires sent candidates for the United States senate and house with the comment by Mrs. Charles H. Sa bin, national chairman, that “a large wet Democratic majority in the Sev enty-third congress” was Indicated. The organization, which set out to query all candidates for congress, an nounced R had received 228 replies from Democrats thus far and 170 from Republicans; that 227 of the Demo crats favored outright repeal and one opposed it; that 105 Repiiblicaus fa vored repeal, twenty-three were op posed to it and forty-two gave answers which the organization statement list ed as “evasive-” Earthquake and Storm Hit California Towns Brawley. Calif.—A severe earth quake shock, the eighth in two days, shook Brawley and El Centro at the height of an intense rainstorm which resulted In the derailment of a South ern Pacific passenger train, flooding of highways, and damage to irrigation canals. The earth tremor, most distinct of the 48 hour series, sent residents of the two towns rushing into the down pour. Insecure buildings were desert ed for shelter In substantial structures. Fire in 2 Montana Towns Cause $300,000 Damage Missoula, Mont.—Business district fires in Butte, Mont., and Missoula caused damage estimated at .$300,000. Four Butte business establishments were destroyed by fire which swept a three story building. The loss was es timated at about $100,000. In Mis soula the Hammond block, a city land mark, was destroyed in a $200,000 fire, the origin of which had not been as certained. Start Work Nov. 1 on Locks for Mississippi Channel Quincy, 111.—The dam and locks for the nine foot channel in the Missis sippi at Canton, Mo., will be started by November 1, when 300 men will be employed. The dam will extend across the river to Meyer, a distance of about 4,000 feet. It is expected the project will be finished In about two years. Einstein Takes Life Post in U. S. New York.—Prof. Albert Einstein, famous German scientist, has accept ed for life the position as professor of mathematical and theoretical phys ics at the new Institute for Advanced Study which will open at Princeton, N. J., Abraham Flexner, director, an nounced. Veteran Editor Dead Bozeman, Mont.—William McClure Bole, seventy-four, veteran Montana newspaper editor, died here.
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