The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 7

Full Associated Press Report by Leased Wire Central Press EMPORIA EMFORIA, KANSAS. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25. 1927 Today's Forecast Fair, Warmer Tnesaa I GOOD WEATHER COMING Emporia will have good weather this week for the Kansas music festival and contests, when several uiiu inousands More Are Imperilled i thousand high school pupils are As Mississippi Flood Sweeps Southward. (guests ia Emporia. The weather- iman has arranged warm weather 'and sunshine for the occasion.

To- ANOTHER TOWN BURIED Water Is Five Feet Deep in Arkansas City, Bottoms Inundated. BULLETIN. Washington, April tu (IP) Contributions of $926.000 had befrn made today to the Red Cross drive for a $5,000,000 fund to relieve the Mississippi valley flood sufferers. The eastern, states contributed $556,000 and the mid-western stages $270,000. Returns from the Pacific coast had not r9- ceived.

night and Tuesday will be warmer thau today. The rainfall Saturday night and Sunday amounted to only .25 inch, but that was a quarter of an inch more than Eniporiaus wanted and the sunshine today was wel- Scome. The temperature at noon today was 6S degrees. The mini- Memphis, April 25 (JP) Testimony Begins Following Opening Statement of District Attorney TELLS OF MURDER PLOT Plans Were Completed and Death Instruments Purchased March 7, Jury Is Told. Queens County Courthouse, Aimee New 'Starts Row that Splits Church Los Angeles, April 25 bobbed bead of hair contributed to resent wide open split in temple, religious headquarters of Aimee Sample McPherson.

The bob was Mrs. ilcPher- son's. Gladwyn Xichcls, band, and mum during tiie night was -JO de- Xew York, The the maximum Sunday (rial before a Jury of" Mrs. Ruth a a. Today's Forecast.

Kansas Fair tonight Tuesday: slightly warmer tonight today Snyder and Henry Judd Gray, for the murder the woman's bus- and Danti way at full speed in southern portion. In the two hours of the morn- tonight and ins session. District Attorney Tuesday, except unsettled tonight N'iwcQmbe completed his opening in extreme east portion; slightly statement and six witnesses for choir leader of the temple until a few days ago, when he led a to a new religious center, last night charged "worldliness" against the temple leaders. Today he amplified his statement as follows: "Mrs. McPherson hurt her followers beyoud endurance, when she had her hair bobbed recently." Mrs.

McPherson was reticent today 011 the subject of the just one of th-se things," i said. "I merely had my hair trimmed short to keep it from fall- warmer tonight in east and south portion. and dark record of Mississippi da £air somewhat warmer, valley desolation was continued today as flood waters extended to new towns and farming communities. Ths death list known to em- trace at least 100 mounted as news trickled in from disstricts. Official estimates AVcather and Roads.

(10 a. roads good. roads fair. Kansas City Clear, good. Arkansas roads good.

the state were examined. Albert Snyder, Queens Village art editor, was "siated for death" on March 7. last, District Attorney Newcombe told the jury in his opening statement today. "Mrs. Ruth Snyder and her lover, Henry Judd Gray, met in roads Manhattan that day," he said, "after Gray had bought a sash weight and chloroform in Kings- Discord among followers Aimee Semple McPherson, which Louis reached a climax last week pun thuan Fang Wishes 10 fie- revold within her for- is attributed by Gladwyu Nichols, the evangelist's former musical director and leader the'dissenting congregation, and the matiori of a new church tire to Private Life, He Says.

MEN faction, to a "spirit of worldliness ar A iwiiu-iit lornis ill Ifrmovo Hut Louis llames and Siiydor. At Cincinnati: Chicago iOl'OOl 0 Cincinnati OC'O 100 Uauerios: Rush. Kaufman and Neve York Governor Will Take Sif.R-d for fien, Friends Say. STATES SHOULD DECIDE Nichols has been elected pastor of the independent church formed at Gtendale Saturday night by former members oi the temple band and choir, who "walked out ia a bodv following the direc- i tr nal rtnett: Itixey and Margrave. jiupuriam Obstarlo in i At I'hitaUelphia: Chiang's 1'ath.

rtilO Olft 4 I'hibdplphla .150 12 Shanghai. April (if) Koborison. Knight. Sun Chuau Faim. one of the! Mills and Taylor.

Kegau; I'ruett northern commanders and oriri- Wilson. Jounard. 'ciitivn mi A YA'islim F.wli On! Limi tor's resignation. AMKR1CAX LKAGIK. the morning services.

attcn- tang (Cantonese political party I dance was doubled at the night meeting. 000 100 001 003 uiittories: liellou and O'N placed the probable death toll in! 3 I cloudy, roads roads good. roads good. the Mississippi delta area at 200. The fats of many others in the far flung sectors was Thousands have been rescued from perilous situations while I Kf ARETBt ether thousands were reported 1 8 6 nnsm a SMS.

stiil marocued. Throughout thi flooded valley fleets of boats were Tile Kansas Electric Power "That day the death of Albert NATURAL MAINS WOUNDS MAY BE FATAL i EMPOBIA WILL TRY JflBW fXTIL FEBRUARY. Asked for in Defeated Franchise Will Be Effective During Trial. Emporia is burning natur- implements of murder were procured. "Prior to thai two insurance for S30.000 had been tak- ca out On the ufe of Albert Snyder, with a double indemnity clause, for death by violence.

taking refusees from levee company has acted magnanimous- "Albert Snyder knew tree and house tops, knolls, Indi- I In giving Emporia a chance at an mounds, and upper stories of cheaper gas than the people in dwellings. Fivft hundred persons were tak- their wisdom voted for. -The city commission has acted wisely in I Grey knew of them, for he hoped en irotn a top at Wayside accepting as a (rial rate i to benefit through his mistress." the offer of the Kansas i tlectric power company. The re- r'iiils in a danserons "ascent" of a drainage canal to reach lovernment boat laualnh i ce th power eoirpw voet I suit of the franchise ele'cfion early car ticket broke rtown tho "per' this month might have been a i fect alibi len 7 Jlldd Ora revealed lor the urst tima rt-scticcl eight persons, including and high-hatly with I lo Kct the date Bnt tus coin an r.nd the train "on ho. had Snyder was decided on and the al gas today.

The gas was turned into the mains--at noon today.by the Kansas Electric Power company, which recently bought the Emporia. Gas company. The rate to he charged is that asked for by the company in the proposed franchise, which -was voted down at the April election. The city commission this morn- Ing gave the gas company permission to distribute natural gas in Emporia, charging each month WATCH BCRXERS TILL THEY'RE ADJUSTED about those policies, gentlemen, hut Mrs. Snyder.

knew of them for she had taken them out and Judd "Perfect Alibi'' How the stub of Broken. a Pullman More than 100 rt-io persono al- lhan 5t fe la ved a decent bany a iter the slaying of Albert ready homeless and reEugea camps maenanimity. In. the last lojSnyfier. husband of Mrs.

Ruth swelling lion grave fears for inh country, between Greenville "this 'recent attitude it" has dis-j Sy CUSe hotel oora Samuel L. Sillier, his attorney. said AHE ACRES WATER police Sismphis. April 25 f.jpi—The eope of tbe destructive flood of the Mississippi river and its tributaries in Arkansas and Mi the garden rcg'oj graphically shown estimates 1 'of r.rmv showing' million i prcirtirnstely 9.400 sonare 'i tinVr water The flooded constitutes some of the richest farming iand in the 1 States. government agricultural experts said, and the devastation and damage amount to many millions.

The government officials would not make any estimate of the loss because of the lack of opportunity for surveys. In Arkansas alone, and excluding the Texarkana district, engineers said 4,064,4 SO acres had been inundated. The flooded regions in- clurHrg the St. Francis basin, one of the ieaaing timber growing sections of the country with dense tracts of cypress, oak, hickory and sycamore trees. Played a meekness to- ward tne community in view of vit nheld thelr in ormatioc frora die community's expression at the Gray nt after hs uad rela ted ballot box.

But it is a Christian alibi he had framed. Then! meekness which will not os with-j they flashed'the ticket and Gray! OIL 1 ORKER SHOT THREE IDLES BV TVIPE. John Wise Is Xcar Death as Result of Quarrel Home in lifrrekiu Officials of the Kansas Electric Power company today asked gas consumers to watch their gas burners until adjustments for natural gas are If the burners not work properly, notify the power company's office. Three crews adjusters gan work this afternoon. for the first 1.000 feet- used by each consumer and SO cents for each additional; 1.000} out profit.

-Jecency pays: kind-j may always be 'Blessed are the meek Uh-il inht.nl tie confessed. at this trial rate, running a risk Interest the trial of getting a -franchise at the-enff period Citv commission- 1 today with Start of rnpr after a vfeek a ju.y ary a of the- Chief su-roundefl be csds an ers that alter Febru- company Body Tolin urg js Found Railway. Pittsburs. April 25 Hess, day clerk at a local hotel, was.found dead this morning on the Missouri Pacific right of way, risar the business tectioa of the city, -with a .45 calibre buKet through his head. Authorities expressed the belief Hess took ow life.

A calibre revolver was found reside the body. His hat was several feet away, a bullet hole through it wherr- the missile had from the ion of his head. Ko motive for the act has been ascertained. Hess formerly was a clerk in hotels at McPherson and Ottawa. His father ana ster.mother.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Hess live in Lancaster, Pa. -St year old to her friencis as "Tom- Snider wns i-tich a good She is a Monde of almost proportions.

to ceter an of all-black cos- mourning for the 45 year old husband she is accused of killing in their Queeas She wears turne, a sign MASON IMPROVED. Vicksburg. Despite warnings to evacuate their hornes tefore the flood waters from the Stops Land- ing crevasse arrived reported to the national guard ofiSials 'Topeka. April 25 Greenville last night indicated a Henry F. Mason of the Kansas Supreme Court Member Is Critically Sick in Topeka.

few had left. supreme court, who has been ill Urgent appeals from Arkansas for severSl weeks, ivas declared City, related that the flood I somewhat improved tfiis morn- ge home'a month ago. Her however, are the latcFt mode. Gray, the 34-year-old corset salesman. East Oragne.

S. who -was the woman's paramour for three rears, js less than the mine it the rate is GilBert Fritn attornev and H. manager for the Kansas. Electric Power company, appeared Before the commission this- -They asked it the city would he willing to let the company gas as a trial. When the.

commissioners agreed, the officials communicated- with Kansas officials at La-wrence and their head in New; York City and the natural gas was turned into the mains an hour later. Employes of the gas company began immediately burners to use the natural gas as average height, has dark crinkly! fuel. Several days -will be re- hair, and wears horn riramed quired until all burners cart be classes that continually slip his unimpressive nose. He keeps his mouth tightly closed, hut the chin gives aa impression of weakness, and he continually fingers his lower Each of the defendants has an aged mother and the 'mothers have boih been in court. The jury is composed of middle aged artisans and tradesmen all of whom haxe said that no sympathy for fcanhood could sway them frohr arriving at a just and impartial verdict.

had swept five feet into the town jand that 500 persons in addition to many refugees from the surrounding lowlands were homeless. Engineers discounted rumors of new break in the Arkansas river and believed the Arkansas City on rage Two) SELECT 1026 HOXOR MAX. Slalcolm "Wcl'y, Bnttlesville Leader at K. 17. ing.

Tonsil trouble paused him to go to a hospital. Later a mas- Students Conduct Church Serviros. toid and kidney ailments brought about complications which made liis condition critical for the last few days. Jjr.v'.ce Mason is 67 years old. College Student Volunteers were in charge of a service at 6:30 o'clock Sunday night at the Pres Methodist church.

Jitsuichi Masuoki and Miss Edna Johnson adjusted. Artificial gas rates that have, been in effect in Emporia were S2.70 for tL. first 1,000 feet and $2.20 for each additional thousand. The new rates trill become effective immediately. June' 1 consumers will pay the new rate for gas consumed between meter readings April 16 and May ivlr.

Weddle said. Special to T6e Gazette: Eureka, April" "Wise, 30 years old, an oil-rig builder. RTobably will die as a result wounds he received about o'clock this i-oraing when he was shot three times by his wife. Mrs. Wise is being held in the Greenwood county jail, pending the outcome of Wise's condition.

Mrs. Wise admitted to officers that she shot her husband, but said he was drunk and she shot in self-defense after he had attacked her. The shooting occurred at the Wise home. Mr. and Mrs.

Wise had quarreled freo the woman told officers. Wise was shot through one wrist and twice in the body. Doctors said he couid not live. Mr. Wise came to Eureka 11 years ago f-om Illinois.

and eommamln- of the Canioucse Karr L. Sewi-ll. army. Sun is declared to York: be ready to retire to private life, 010 000 His actual it ro- Jl'urrlvV Braxtou and ported, has beni delayed because I 0 'Xuil. Berger; Hoy't mid generals under him are ski.

holding out for better terms. Sun At Chicago: troops niter lighting months are tirfd aim hungry. I General Chiang's soldinrs have rounded up another batch of ratl- I icals. They sougth to arrest Ling Chuan, radical labor leader, but he learned of their plans and es- caned. A score ot his lieutenants'; were captured, and much litera- ture was seized at headquarters.

Xow York. Aprt; i York say of Suiish ara fircuhititiK the try excerpts frorti his public papers and in which ho tho Volsttad law un.i tho UStli aiiifiuhiiont. Thi? World, oiK-i! tho is ro.tdy waitins; for oppor- repressntsd as bating that his i Detroit 020 oo iops after liKhting for Chicago ..21002 Batteries: Stoners. Doyle and and a ex- viows or. prohibi- of thosp di' pression of tion.

This iuformiuioji. savs Tho i'runi suf'h a high. source that it can lie regarded as The World those on inside as saying the governor wilt offer tin? following program: Tceuogniii'm ihat the ISrh has tu and I that attempts rcpoal are both unwise and futilo. ot circulating notes issued by the The sun, which failed ap- central. bank.

but. in reality to pear during (he Kansas Fedcra- tinance Communist propaganda, tiou of Women's Clubs conven- especially in the Shanghai area. oii last week, is out today to do Chaos prevails outside the city honor to Kansas high school pu- pf Swatow, in Kwanstung. nils, who are arriving to roholtc within limit 2.75 por re.m. FOR CATHOLIC PRESIDENT ing upon an ou(brpak red pate in fourteenth annual all- FIRST CHECKS ARE IN diers are to have turned jmerce are meeting trains and Uanfllts I transporting the visitors to tliu Dispatches from Swatow say i music hall for registration.

Ac- the red peasant troops commodatlons for more than SOO i that Says Chmvh Align- incut, Musii'r Factor. An urgent appeal to the people troops and former students of propaganda corps. The Can- day by. the Teachers College. -T 1 UK VOllllC Til 11 ot Lyon county for money to help- tonose retaliated field guns, sentiug 110 homeless and suffering i but tbe peasants eventuullv gained mice the first people-in the flooded districts of control.

Many house? were hurneiS. UisooOOFranl' A tna Mississippi river tras mase tcr- The United states rtpstrnvsr ,11 Al The treasurer of -oc the Red Cross "These people they need now," Mr. Hilton. ing. county has been asked thYTirV tor $100.

At nbpn today Mr. Hil-1 ton. had received three checks musicians, schools, will of the new nc 1 Washington, April 23 Nellie. Koss, v'ormor governor of Wyoming declared today that nil hough she is a Protestant, she would lure to sue a Catholic elected president "just to prove that this, in reality, is a republic I in which we live and one I name only." repre- i lieforo tho Jvational Women's t-inli. airs, lioss denounced as unworthy of the precious heritage ot American day br J.

M. Hilton, treasurer of for storing- isiaterials, Uemouratic inirly to baclc "her up the lobby, rooms and auditorium hi this stand. and -Bnrtoa, $2 -Hushes, tbe Red Cross lor Lvon countrv, re ceii ed the following telegram, this Central -committee Joins witii cabinet officers named-, by -President Coolidge to assist Red Cross- Estimates minimum required Red will be opened to the cont.slants. This year's I AWAITG TU5? AW Alld IKS. i lar cst CoiJ fand She said was not: referring to.any particular potimUal jtvesi- held at.

tho Teachers ll maa'it. hall the iuj tilt- miitiK, nan i lie was ons Girl Cvrtis make ioiiduct eon- "that cannot, be dodged! or evad- 31cCormick AViH De Social test, events in the two buildings etl simultaneously ami competition "There are factors" lo will last from until 5:30 o'- consideration in the Leader. Chicago, April 23 When the bride of Cyrus H. returns from liar European honey- clock each the four days of the nomination of festival. The Instrumental trio and string quartet events which Cross relief in Mississippi floods.

nioon with the chairman of the ere initiated last vear hare National campaign being launched toara of tbe International Harves-j gained popularity- and event immediately. Your quota $100.1 ter company, sh 6 will step into a or grade school orchestras lias Need as 100,000 refu-i Place of paramount, social impor-i )eei! established Fifteen liree look', to- us for tanca in mistress ot orchestras will compete Th-redav in greatest' the McCormick residence on an(1 ridaVi al)( no 'elee'ciubs Confident your people -will "Gold Coast' and otthe million- orchestras will participate iu spond quickly, generously. Sug-', aire summer estate "Wamen' gest campaign with -widest pos- at Lake Forest. I The most popular event is the piano section. sible publicity.

Impractical ac-j So successfully were plans for which has-17'entrants' cept local donations clothing or their marriage last Friday at Dub- FELONS MUST WATCH STEP Previous Convictions Count ig New State Law. in Topeka, April 25 Coavjc tions for feloay before the new Kansas habit ca! criminal act takes effect be counted in made talks, and Miss Gladys applying" the provision of the" new rvEOSHO IX ITS BANKS. rouc 'v- wa -V" charge aw that every person convicted a River at Ma Had Keen Out for a Week. Tola. April 25 (JP) rising 5 inches Saturday night, and Man Miss Johnson and Miss Mar- 'I' second time for a felony shall be 'dred Bowman presided.

Is your Washing Small? April "5 Mai- Sunday the Xeoslm river today For delivery on Thursday, fcolm William A "'26, i back into its banks. It as Friday or Saturday we have re' today declared the "honor out of its banks for a week. 'lnced the minimum charge on JTlOOu I Good Cigar. man" of the class of 1926, in damage in the county was Oamp Wash to pound: annual honors convocation at the estimated at $50,000 by the coun-; i'c a pound with flat work ironed University Kansas. Welly's i ty agent.

New Process Laundry, phone 127. home is at Eartlesville, adv he is now employed by the Miss Hurt, who i Phillips Petroleum company. At i home economics in the EUinwood You can buy Whittails rugs 5n the university he majored in high sr-hcol, is visiting with her! locality at Rorahaugh-Pax- ogy and in English. In his senior Mr. and Mrs.

LeRoy Hurt, year he was president of the inter- fraternity council, member of the Good Cigar Wm. Good Cigar. men's glee club, division head of the Y. M. C.

A. drive; member of the Kansan board and sport edi-! tot of the University Daily Kan- san, member of Sachem, men's senior society, member of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity, and Sigma Gamma Ep- Bilon, honorary geology fratp.rnity; member of tho executive committees of the corporation student drive and of the Christmas program. The honor award carries a small- stipend, tlic gift of an unnamed friend of the university, and is awarded annually to (he senior man of the preceding year, whose influence on the student, life of the university is declared most helpful and beneficial. Previous "honor men" have been Paul Endacott of Lawrence, Howard Firehangh. of St.

John, end 'Wallace James of Pratt. Miss Mil- confined i the penitentiary at least double the time of the first conviction and that every person convicted a third time i.li.nll he imprisoned for life. This was the ruling today of William A. Smith, attorney in a letter sent to all coun- iy attorneys. Smith based his ruling on a decision of the Kansas supremo court, which held in 1313 that conviction for viola- Atop Boxcars and uon of the prohibitory befo: ot tne persistent the law should L-e whether violator was of a felony because of a second offense, "It is not Necessary," the court ruled, "that the former conviction -which aggravates the second offense shall occur subse- the Memphis, April 23 that were flooded, others were cf Toptka.

picture of hardships and Perched on an-1 and want among the 100,000 I reedica! suppleis were scanty The court made the decision in the case state vs F. M. Adams supplies." Can we count on. you I to raise quota?" The Gazette irili print names of contributors to the Checks may he addressed to Mr. Hilton.

N. guardad that not brothers and sisters -Miss I-loit, living with her, knew of her in- The high voice solo division is a close second with 43 entrants. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings the will MEXICO ROUNDS UP 'REBELLIOUS' PRIESTS i flood fund. tentions, and the first word that president," do though. she in- continued.

"I sist that one factor cannot be taken hiio consideration church alignment. COOLIDGE TO NEW YORK President "Wiii ninrter of t'nitfiil Washinston, April fip) toiiii'v- nt the White Jlotife with f'resfdent Coolidge prepared to abotir. noon for York wboro speak tonight at a dinner of tho United I'ress cotu- memoratins the twentieth anniversary of the iouniiins ot organization. Official AVashiugion Is awaitins with the address of the Government Starts ing Despite Denials Doing Mexico City. April 25 (IP) Having deported eight archbishops and bishops and executed a priest On the charge, the government was engaged today in seeking out other priests to be.

implicated raent. in a revolutionary Despite vehement move- ing to be married soon, but saiU. she would write him who the lucky man was after th-j Ceremony. Miss Dj' til 6 iiiiuiuiltll 't company eight or nine years, solwst whom Emporians When Mr. McCormick shifted I contralto, and T.

C. Owen, tenor! Kbit been emploved College facul- International Harvester c.tannini, soprano soloists will be Miss Maren Johan- Tho dinner will at the Bilt- sen. sopsrano; Miga Mabel Jacobs, more hotel where extensive commodutions for radio tvansmis-. sion of the address have lieea is expectCM! the ties of all connection with the rebellion, the government places responsibility for tbe outbreaks of the Catholic Episcopate, priests and some laymen. Archhishop Pedro Vera Zuria of Puebla and Bishop Jose Manrique Zarate, of Huejutla, were put aboard a train bound for Laredo from the presidency to chairman I to take heard ago aud who cou- sidered one of the outstanding svera charge Of his personal affairs.

She is the youngest, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Hoit, who came to Chicago as pioneers in 1S4S. Probably no "working girl" in truth or fiction ever wed recital at 8:15 o'clock Thursday evening ri Albert Taylor hall. The- annual contestants" night, when the young musicians will perform for each anrl when prizes will be awarded, will be held Friday evening at 7 o'clock.

wealthy a man as Mr. Contest judges this year will ho Even the most conservative- fin.in- (1 iir Gordon, of tho university Friday night, shortly after six cia experts here estimated the Wilcox, of prelates, including Archbishop i 1 1 6 at University ot Iowa, and Miss SoO.000.000— or more." cn McBrule, supervisor of Mr. McCormick's name has boon milK in the Louisvillp, linked with "big'business'' since and voral will start speaking about 3 o'clock, flay light saving time. Mora Del Rio, had left the coun- ry.rateasgured pminent- in the controversy began with the promulgation the religious laws last summer. After the -withdrawal of the priests from the churches aa a protest against the laws, he was arrested, charged with engaging in subversive and rebellious activities, but was after a period Dispatches frora Monterey, in the stats of Nuevo Leon, say the authorities have ordered the de- portation ot Archbishop Juan Jose Herrera Pina, of Monterey, His whereabouts is not known he was graduated from Princeton so Fiad No Trace of Bodies of Three Boys WTio Drown in Neosno Tola.

April loin citizens, vivur. have no tlie bodies of LaxvroiK'o Ralph Riehura" current, turned iha f'jurth hoy, 1 14, escaped by whcu over. will, lie given on Tuesday, a tree in 1879. He is a son of Cyrus i a-'-'l Wednesday quartets and i The ooys were Hall McCormick, inventor or the Class ploe chtbs and choruses timo of" the acciilcnt reaper and founder ot the great will perform. Thursday will be Person- on McCormick fortune.

In 1SS! his Devoted to Class glee clubs, points south of Ihf father died and McCtirmick, only choruses and orchestras, Class fceen asked to S3. was vote prc-sirtent the i orchestras, grade orchestras, bodies. McCormick reaper company, I sight-singing and music apprecia- In 1302 when the International tion. Friday the Class A glee; MAKE BI.UK LA1V Harvester company was formed. clubs, choruses, hands and or- Cyrus H.

McCormick, II. was I chestras will comppte, and the in- Officers of rittsbin-li Swvhonv elected president and he held that itrumental trio and string quartet I post until 1918. events will be held. Judges and I harvester chairman's supervisors -wall confel- at 4:30 o'- wife, who was Harriet clock Wednesday, at 11 and Arc After The habitual criminal act 1 are to Tb 8 day. and at 4:30 Friday.

In Mississippi two towns had Hood refugees i the I neir refugees colonies housed in r-ver states was depicted today in i tent cities, while in one corn- terse reports of relief workers I munity, food and clothing sup- the Red Cross headquarters here. I plies were running low and Henry M. Baker, national i peratively needed. Mississippi and Arkansas pre- the and disasfer director of Cross saw a "slight and en-i sented the greatest relief need. cpnraEing improvement'' in the Louisiana was threatened as the situation which he said would flood crest moved southward, be greatly accelerated within the i Kentucky.

Oklahoma, Tones- nest few days, with increased re- see and Kansas apparently had lief resources. solved their flood Mis- Many Arkansas refugees were souri was caring fnr some crowdcd into box cars towns 1 000 refugees satisfactorily. wll taiie effect upon publication locate him. of Chicago society and her init-r-j of the statute booX in May or An official account of the exe- Tune. cution of.the priest at Rio De! "The vigorous use ot this ha-1 Cuale in 't he state say he wa captured with others in an engagement with governmen; He was killed according to the government, because he was involved with another priest bftual criminal law by the iew Ile was with others enforcement officers ot thr i an en state will go a lone ways in re- troo )s lievir.g Kansas from 1 tions of habitual the opera- criminals, Smith said in his letter to the county attorneys.

Miss Overman, of Augusta, is spending the week-mid with Mirs Helen Ellerick, a College student. Th commiupe requests in the organization of a rebellion? Country club members movement 7ou can Detter -wirtt fttt; Gss nit. Wra, Good Cigar. PitisbuTgb. Ajfl-iU Warrants of (he Sunday of i were issuo'! acainst nlr.o were wide and numerous.

RETURNS TO OFFICE, i tfficers and miiiioitu Two years ago Mr. McCormir-lc I'itishurgh and his sons, Cyrus, and Gor- Death of Mother in Frcdo- cnniicotiou. wiih a co-HorC Is Imminent, by the society last night. patvons aiter.ded concert, wUScli was arranged at'cer M. CtarS, t.

of that the society's pisa for. was it-sal. nd ciO. not conitisute a Tjoia- don, donated to the Chicago Y. M.

A. for a building to be erected in her memory. Topeka, April 25 Govor- tli.r. nor Paulen returned to his office today after spending several days the bcdsUio of his aged mother reservations at once for the Mrs. Jacob W.

Paulen of Fredor.iü opening party Thursday night, al He iottnd his mother it a iritlcal the club house. Phone Mri. condition and expects death at tion of Dickey, No. any time. ins "emuloyiHflit ior on Sunday.

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