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Fall Associated Press by Leased Wire Central Press THE EMPORIA GAZETTE Today's Forecast Cloudy, Colder VOLUME XXXV TEN PAGES KANSAS. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1927 NUMBER 23S MISSISSIPPI Caravans of Refugees Are Moving in Advance of Spreading Waters. CREST MOVES SOUTHWARD Many Towns Are Abandoned and Desperate Battle Is Waged Along Levees. BUUJETIX. New Orleans, May 3 in the open of reparations inhabitants of flooded St.

Bernard and Plaquemines par- COOL AND CLOUDY The weatherman failed in his prediction Monday, but Emporians lauded him instead of finding fault. Rain was predicted for Monday evening and night but none fell. Karly this morning the shy still looked like rain, but the sun came-out and the dark clouds passed over. The temperature rose from a minimum of 5S during the night to 70 degrees at noon today. Tonight and Wednesday -will he partly cloudy and cool weather will continue, but no more rain is predicted.

Today's Foi-ecast. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday: somewhat colder tonight; frost probable in northwest portion. Partly cloudy to- ishes was demanded here today ght and Wednesday: probably "by their spokesman at the initial jshowers in east portion; also in meeting of the committee southwest portion tonight; some- 33 to assess damages for the sacri- what cooler. fices by these people so New it ho Orleans might be saved from the flood. New Orleans, May 3 While caravans of refugees moved out to places of safety, the flood and back-waters from the Mississippi and it srushing tributaries sippi and its rushing tributaries of the lowlands in half a dozen parishes in northeastern and eastern Louisiana today.

towns, were reported under" water, with others threatened and a fleet of rescue- craft 'was erating over the funnel-shaped area between the Red river taking out the marooned and sending warnings to many residents have' placed their reliance in thi surrounding thunder showers in east portion, colder; Wednesday fair, colder in east portion. Weather and Roads. (10 a. roads good. Kansas cloudy, roads good.

Coffeyville Partly cloudy, roads good. Arkansas roads good. roads good. Cloudy, roads good, roads good. roads soft, to good.

roads good. roads good. rooued groups and speeding supplies to advanced posts In the protective lerees some of the small these waters claim newj newl flooded areas areas, the battle to hold the levee from below the four crevasses 25 miles south of Vidalia to New Orleans goes forward on both sines of ths river. Weak spots are being bolstered and embankments LYOX COVXT1' ASKED raised against the coming ot the GIVE record crest now slightly, south of Yicksburg. Improved flood conditions were reported from southeastern Arkansas and the Mississippi delta, QUOTA TO Red Cross in Emporia Has Received Only Church Gives $65.

the worst is over and the -Additional funds for'the relief waters are gradually falling as j. 0 £'the Mississippi, valley flood suf- that from the Arkansas, overflow I ferers wer asked of the Lyon moves into chapter ot the Red Cross ana and the flood the Stops this morning in a telegram to Landing brc-ak above Greenville (C of tie coun- finds its way back, to the main'- The flood the Red and. Mississippi rivers, streaming from- breaches in the levee systems, continued their "invasion, their territory northward ana westward as they moved to meet the coming flood from: the Arkansas river. The dike flaht oeeanie descer- on. tho west bank of the Mic in oi and a v.oAed throughout the -nsat on elec The Lyon county quota" -was doubled in view tiie increasing losses, and John Hilton; treasurer of th 6 county, chapter, said this afternoon the county quota would be $1,200.

donations, had been received for the Mr. 'Hilton urged that contributions irom ail parts of the conntv lie tie te egrson -ask ing tor 'Upon recommenaation of rically IighteJ embankments rr 0 er following the completion Newelton also the situation a survey in the disaster area, critical 'waten slopped over dike tfl 'Red Cross committee and emergency measures decided in of increase- of taken to stop the flo-w. Thti I Hooded area, that emergency, situ- crisis -n-as expected between Delta ation now demands minimum of Point and Deer Park in the same 10 million Tais doubles within oays. Crest Near the next two Vicksbure. With thousands, of persons already driven from their in northeastern Louisiana, the already assigned your -If, you -have already 'raised double, your quota, continue efforts.

Secure as large amount as possible. Extend appeal to all communities under your chapter crest was but we-can de- burg. Miss. Many towns Pend -upon continuation of your cordia. Catahoula, Avoyelles and r.eighboring parishes in Louisiana already had baen deserted, loyal and devoted efforts in this crisis-" The.message was signed by William M.

Baxter, chairman ot aot Tevee7. St Louis di ion the Red Cross. Here is a list of donations re- but in others, reli was placer! strengthened their defense fore the coining flood. be- A rescue fleet, headed byjceived today: the Fiad as £lagship, and com-'Sacred Heart Church posert of sis steamboats, four Miss R. Clabbey 1.0.0 coast guard natrol boats and half 5.00 .1 dozen surf launches left Nat- p-A- Smith.

Dunlap 10.00 cher. today to comb the area S- A. Smith. 5.00 ered by water. Meanwhile, the Allegheny, naval tug, with a targe in tow.

to St. Joseph W. G. Smith, Danlap 2.50 Arthur Smith. Dunlap 2.50 Mr.

and Mrs. F. P. Day 5.00 to stand by to remove-citizens in J. 10.00 the way of a crevasse break there.

Engineers said the safety of New Orleans was assured as the Robert Inglis Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Condit.

E. C- Clarkson 3.00 5.00 3.00 i0 lin Meeker R. N. Suliivan 5.00 Mrs. Carl Ballweg 5.00 Alma W.

Finley 5-00 Nellie A. Newman 25.00 RELIEF FUND JS GROWING. Voydras break, neiow the city was widened to 1.000 feet re-' leasing a su'ficient amount of water to lower the level at New Orleans from 1 to 2.5 feet. More Breaks Kspected. Residents of Bunkie and Marksviile.in the path of the expected break at Echo and Big Bend fti Bayour D.es Glaise, hoped that they be able to repel the invasions should the levees crumple.

Melville and other sections of Avoyelles parish, however, were not expected to escape unscathed. The rep-. srations committee designated to tributed midwestern. Kansas Supreme Court Member Lapses into Not Awaken. SICK MANY WEEKS No New Note to China, Is Stand Taken by Coolidge Justice Was Unable- To Attend April Follow Tonsilar Infection.

Topeka, May 3 Iff) Justice Henry F. Masoa is dying. The venerable member of the Kansas supreme court has lapsed into coma from which physicians do not expect him awaken, although they say "he might liager for several days. Justice Mason, who is 67 years old, became a hospital patient three weeks ago, after a month's illness because of tonsilar infection. Complications followed the throat trouble.

The court is holding its May term this week and Justice Mason is off the bench for tbe second time since he became a member of the court nearly 25 years ago. His kept him away during the AprilNerm. Washington, May 3 (if) Coolidge sees ho advantage, EO far as the United States is concerned, in sending another note to Use Cantonese government China, upon which demands were made by the powers after tb.9 Nanking.outrages. While America is ready to con- 'sider any suggestions from other powers in relation to further correspondence with tne Chinese government, it was said today at the White House that there been no information that these governments desired to send another note. It was also denied at the White House that John Van A.

MacMurray, American minister to China was considering resigning. Accompanying the denial was a word of warning, that reports originating abroad, respecting this nation's attitude in foreign affairs it was explained, considered possible should be regarded with Mr. Coolidge" has" seen reports emanating from foreign sources which were entirely without foundation, While it is representatives of the powers iu Peking may have agreed upon a new note, Mr. Coolidge does not understand that this note has been! approved by the various govern- KcHogg IV-clares Official iHs- ments. There may comea time, he yMchcs Coiiinin No Intimation U.

S. Minister to China Net Accord with New Policy. DENFAL TODAY'S RESULTS I LEAGUE. At Boston: Philadelphia 000 030 JO Boston Batteries: Pruett, Decatur. loushby and Wilson; Smith and At New York: Brooklyn ...000 00124 York .302 000 01 Batteries: McWeeney ,3.

Barnes and Uoberry; Barnes, and i Ftainby. of Such Action. i Chicago: I Ciuciauati ....020000 London. May An ex-1 ciiicago 000:01 The president recognizes that change ilispatcU from! Batteries: l.uque and Hargrave; TP ninor- wni'ii i believes it will be advantageous to send another note but he does not thick that time has arrived. the other governments have different interests in China although there are common fundamental interests in the protection of life end the security of property, it was said, arid it was because these interests were ia jeopardy that American forces were now in Chi- Switches "Mike" on Pacifist Talk, Music Drowns Out Speech! New York, May 3 casting of an after-dinner, speech by Mrs.

Mary H. Ford in praise of Millie Gade Corson was interrupted when the speaker launched into a pacifist argument. Charles Isaacson, studio manager at station WCL explained today. tion at the Hotel Majestic Mrs. Ford praised Mrs.

Corson, who English channel again, and then Isaacson said, began a pacifist plea, using as her approach the fact that Denmark. Sirs'. Cordon's native country, had been pacifistic during the war. When this point, i Mr. Isaacson said, he cut out the' microphone through which she was speaking- and substituted one in the studio through which an orchestra selection was broadcast.

KAXSAS A HEALTH!" STATE. Has Low Rate of Disease. Cases, Medical Society Reports. Hutchinson," 3 (J 1 Kansas is one ot the healthiest states in leading the Staterm saiu tatioa and low rate cTc disease cases and deaths his was the assertion phjsi cians here today for the state convention ot the Kansas Medical so ciety which convened here this morning. Kansas has the lowest diphtheria death rate in the'TJnit- ed States, Dr.

R. Brown, president of the state medical society declared, typhoid fever has decreased, -smallpox is almost unknown and: there is a decrease in the tuberculosis death rate. BUILD MORE AIRPLANES. Production in II. S.

last Tear Increased 65.8 Per Cent. Washington. May 3 craft production showed 65.S per cent increase last year, as compared with 1925. the census bureau announces in connection "tth the openlns of the aitcraft exhibition here. Airplanes numbering I.I TJ wer produced and in addition, seven seaplanes as against 711 airplanes and 7.S seaplanes manufactured in 1925.

value of the airplane output was 077 and the seap'aaes compared with $5,908,335 and in 1525. BOOTHE LOSIXG GROUND. Paralyzed Youth Takes No Inter- in rronniings Today. The Red Cross Has $5,381.929 Ten Million Is Goal. Washington, May Red Cross Mississippi flood relief fund today totaled The minimum set 10 million dollars.

Eastern states have con- assess damages caused citizens of St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes when the raging waters were released upon their homes and fields to save New Orleans to meet today. Before them ihe members had a message from Gov. O. H.

Simpson, terming the voluntary surrender of their homes by residents of the two parishes "one of the most patriotic sacrifices the world ever has beheld." Refugee Camps Growing-, Population of refugee camps swelled hourly as riving on foot, in $1,470,0130, and Pacific, $424,000. FOP itching scalp or dandruff try our Fitch shampoo. Recreation Barber Shop. Chas. Schoeck, Roanoke, May Roland Boothe continued to lose ground today said a report from the hospital where he has been kept alive by artificial respiration for almost 12 days.

"He has a grip on the drowning mail's straw," said one of the coterie bedside workers, "and he won't shake off." It was now necessary to speed up respiration for the paralyzed youth. Doctors said the end is near. Boothe no longer smiles at his predicament and ha takes no interest'in his surroundings. Saddle, horses for rent. Barn, phone Steamboat Captain Rescues Hundreds of Lowland Negroes Vicksburg, May 3 from exposure and a automobiles or were ferried to safety in flooded sections by the relief boats concentrated in the area.

The task of rushing food and other, supplies tased the immense facilities ot the Red Cross. Two great rescue 'fleets plied the waters of the lower Mississippi, roamed the swollen, reaches of the Red, Ouchlata, Black ana ether tributaries, and sent great of small skiffs and motor boats across the. flooded fields to take off marooned-persons. Overhead droned airplanes and seaplanes, observing the-trend of the pouring torrents, locating ma- battle with flood waters for four days and nights, Captain Harris Clifford, 31, of the steamer Vicksburg, has landed his second boatload of refugees here. The Vicksburg left here Friday morning moving up the Ya- 200 and Sunflower rivers ia response to reports that hundreds of residents oi the lowlands were marooned and Jn danger of Captain Clifford who bore a deep flesh wound in one hand, inflicted by an insane negress he forcibly rescued, said today that conditions in the areas were bad.

At Cnoetaw. Landins, i The the Vicksburg loaded 585 persons who had fled from their homes. At Onward. 200 stood in the water waiting for rescue. Nearly LET GARAGE CONTRACT DOUGHERTY-M'CLASKBr JOB TO AV1CHITA FIRM.

Building 75x150 Feet "Will Cost Approximately 575,000 Work Begins at Once. A contract for the construction' of a new garage building at Siitlx and Market street "was awarded Monday to the Underbill Construction company of Wichita, by the Dougherty-McClaskey Motor company. The Wichita company made the lowest bid. The' contract calls for completion of the building in 90 working days and work -will start at once. The contract price was not Excavation on tiie new location has not been completed, but is expected to be completed Saturday or Monday.

About half the has been completed which will enable the' Underbill company to start work immediately." approximate cost of the building for which the permit was issued will be $75 000 The new building will be by 75 feet, of brick-and concrete construction and-- There- will bo two stories and a basement. Italian architecture will be stressed in the construction of the building according to the plans -which were drawn by Brink- CLOSE TOURIST PARK BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT ARE BIT CITY. Municipal Park's pkeep Too Kx- pensive. Commissioners Decide Fees Insufficient. Emporia has no municipal tourist park today, for the first time for about six park near Old East lake, in the east part 'of the fourth has been closed.

Three small buildings in the store, a kitchen and a shower batbJ and toilet building were this mo'rning by the city commission to Ed Collins, who owns a'-tourist park east of Emporia. With several private tourist parks on the main highways near Emporia, the city could not afford to keep its park. The small fee charged did not pay for maintaining the park. Water fixtures owned by the city will be taken out of the park. COOLIDGE SPEAKS TONIGHT President Will Address Sleeting of U.

S. Chamber of Commerce. Washington, May 3 The fifteenth annual meeting the Tokyo says that dispatches from Blake and liartnett. Peking state that Jolm Van A. At Pittsburgh: MaeMurray.

American minister to 1ouis China, The dispatch, which with Batteries: ooo 13 H. Bell and the relations of the powers grow-i ing out of sttituue to is as follows: "Opinion iu Japan is puzzled by reports frr-m Peking indicating that the United States has completely from co-operating witii the powers in f'ina and will follow an entirely independent "Dispatches from Pehinj O'Farrell; Songer and A.MEItlfAN LEAGUE. At Philadelphia; Boston 000 000 110-2 73. PhUndolphia 204 001 OOx-T 1 I 3 Batteries: Harris Mogridge. HcFatiden and Hoffman; Ehmke and Cochrano.

that American minister MacMurray has resigned, indicating that lie is not in agreement with the policy-, annouaccd from Washington. "The Japanese point out that America's decision draws and Japan closer, because At St. Louis: state Cleveland St. Louis -i Batteries: Buckeye and L. Sewell: Ballou and Scnang.

At Detroit: Chicago 00 i Detroit 002 0 Batteries: Fa her and McCurdy; Japan throughout has been op- jj ew York Collins and Wnadall. At Washington: posed to aggression or the imposing of penalties for the Nanking and Hankow incident. government unequivocally repudiates reports from China an approaching Anglo-Japanese offensive alliance in China directed against Russia." man and United States chamber corn- Washington. May 3 (JP) retary Kellogg authorized totTay i a flat denial reports Cronl Tokyo vi a London that American minister John A. MacMurray at Pek- i ing had resigned and it was added at the state department: that there had been no intimation in any official dispatches that Mr.

MacMurray was contemplating rucii action. Reiterated reports from various foreign sources of disagreement between MaeMur- ARREST A WOMAN SPY Scotland Yard Officials' Call Russian Agent Dangerous. London Gussfeldt. i Ethel Chiles. May 3 i 1 Blazer, alias uesan a two months term st at end- ot -which -will be de usen Botina of to obtain passport under false pretenses Scotland -iard official however claim engaged in espionage aeainet "a friendly foreign, power while The.

Daily Mail describes as a international spy" and. says that although she Is of 'German nationality, she in Great Britain one of -Moscow's most active Her baggage, according to tha rclice. contained araons other things, a supply of invisible ink aTid documents written -with this ink. all accounts the pretty 28-year-old "typist" seems to have, been closely associated with British Communists, and it is stated that on one occasion In 1924. she exchanged clothing.

Mrs. Helen Crawford, jecre- tarv of the internattona! workers' relief committee to elude the po- Hce. Kate Gussfelflt is a woman of athletic build, who has been familiar to the British police since February. 3324. when -was given a conditional permit to attend a conference of the international workers.

relief committee at TO TRY MME. BORODIN Wife of Cantonese' Government's Advisor Faces Conspiracy Chareer. Peking, May 3 Borodin, wife of the Russian, Michael Borodin, advisor to the Cantonese government at Hankow, is enroute from Tsinanfu to Peking where she will be tried shortly on a charge of conspiracy against Ihe northern government of China. Mme. Borodin is being escorted by a detail of police- and was expected to arrive in Peking tonight.

Mme. Borodin formerly was a teacher in Chicago where her husband at one time lived, was captured by Shantung troops of the northern government on the Soviet steamer pamat Lenina early in Three Soviet also aboard the ship, were seized with her. PUNISH HOBBER BAND. Mexican Bandits Are Dispersed by Federal Troops. Mexico City, May 3 punishment has been inflict- all of these were women and ed on the band which attacked children.

At Holland's landing t.ridge where Captain Clifford had rescued -200 negroes on his previous trip, farm animals were standing, in three feet of water bridge, he reported. "They are sending out all women. and children from Fork," Captain Clifford "And all -of them are coming out wh'en their private levee breaks that -won't be long. The (own is covered with -water al- the Guadalajara train two weeks ago. Secretary of War Amaro announced today.

The rebels, divided into groups of 150 each, were overtaken by-, federa! forces at Los Pastores and La Culebra 39 being killed and more than 30 being wounded. The troops captured 126 horses as well as guns and ammunition. Rummage Sale. The 'First M. E.

church will ready but not so deep as It will a rummajre sale Friday and he -when their levee gives way. Saturday at 420 I adv. uutbcu ijteiLt-a UL merce- a a the admin' I-1 inr, nf Washington i UNDER. Gray on Stand, Tells Story of His Relations witii Woman. TWO ATTORNEYS CLASH When FroscTUtnr Tangled t'p.

Her Counsel Grows Belligerent. Queens Con my New York, May 3 Heary- Judd Gray testified today that tried to "break 08 wish Mrs. Snyder sevea months before her husband was killed. "I went to her home in he said, "and found her ire .1 faint. 1 discovered Iwr caused by news that her baiid had been investigatinp: her: whereabouts oue day when had been wiUi "I worked aver her for an hour and then, puftgested that we breas off our relationship.

Shs said sha would never let me go-" Cou with Gray stiil on stand. Prior to his tailing the stand, the defense had rested for Mrs. Snyder. A brief examination following the noon recess closed Mrs. Snyder's testimony.

Batteries: Pipjrass and iius; Marbary and EMPORIA GIRL WINS Lorraine. 3-year-old daughter of Mrs. Snydtr was also on ths stand 'or a moment. She said; she "got JUiHiausers" if she got aid for her moth- As Gray testified. Mrs.

Ruth: SnyUcr. his former sweetheart and his co-defendant, the murder LOUISE nAWUEXCK CHAMPION" OKATOtt OF KANSAS. C. of E. Student Takes Honors in State Oratorical Contest for Women.

Louise Lawrence, of the College of Emporia, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lawrence, Emporia.

won first place in the Kansas collegiate- oratorical contest for women Monday night in Memorial Chapel, was "Democracy Her oration for Today," with a full program of diMussion of the nation's businass. Tonight thu chamber will hold a joint session with the Pan-Americaa commercial conference to hear an address by President Coolidge. The executive is scheduled to at about a ni Washington-; auditorhim. in ife His ad- broadcast 30 or ntyrfr belore the tawa. which also won place ia the istratiou the question of the Kappe- Delta.tournament in Ot- action to be taken hi regards to demands were ascribed by some Washington officials either to misunderstanding or lack of information or to in effort to create the appear- WOMA X'S StAKES SURE New York, May 3 (fp) Mrs.

liiith Snyder if acquitted will receive the $96,000 insurance which she took out for her husband, Albert Snyder. some time before he was murdered. If the jury finds her responsible for her husband's death and renders a verdict murder in the first or second degree or homicide- tile insurance money -will go to her daughter Lorraine. Others who placed in the con-! 0 her husband, sat. in her st were: Miss Pearl Anna aln ost a of collapse.

chair Ctembe of ivorfd-wide organiza tion- of 'industries was bv' Koy Chapiri, president of the National Automobile Cham bar of" Commerce. Declaring that American" production facilities has outrun domestic consumption, he "The time now has arrived! ance of. i i ultips foi the as, 1 ngtou so eninif-at in it Landl i an ing situation. to ihe recommenda the department th" powers to demands, but no actioni'hasvTet been taken hero due to the split in the Nationalist, party and uncertainty of the. present itical situation at Hankow Nanking.

Poland international viewpoint for the long range feature export: trade. The I next will see our Ainer-' iean and' European manufacturers in a great struggle for world markets." ME' HAXT)IT KSCAPES. Edna Murray, 27, Sups Fi-om Prison Kai-m. Many Engagements Result from Cruise, Jefferson City, May Murray. 27.

known as the "kiss nie" bandit in Kansas City, serving 25 years in the state penitentiary hero for highway robbery, escaped last night by slipping away from the vomen's quarters on prison farm. No. 1. Woman Dean Asserts I prison officials announced today. test of Friends, second; Miss Geraldine Reboul, of the Kansas State Agricultural college, third ne of StTlmg i- Fnnz of the Emporio.

Teachers. College, hfth She finished more than 12 hours on the stand just before Gray was called, and her eyes red from suppressed weeping. Gray told corset saK-sman and of his- riage and the I 'th or two ers McEachron rrofessor -Ras the critic jjdge ot the contest. Student's Sweetheart Offers Her Blood To Save Creighton Youti Omaha, May 3 (fP) condition of Edwin J. Cutshaw, Creighton university student, remains unchanged today following the second transfusion ot blootl yesterday.

Cutshaw is critically il! from blood poisoning. Dozens of hia classmates, including his sweetheart, offered during the past, few days, to submit to a His ue said, -was all of New England. New York state. Pennsylvania and part of Newv Jersey. Mrs.

Snyder occasionally put her hand to her fot'ohead as he' spoke, as though suffering irota IContlnnec ca T-wo) CONVICT'TWO HI-TACKERS. New Tork, May Mrs. Murray was sent to the transfusion. Cushaw's Kura- penitentiary in March, 1925, to-1 in philiipHburg, Kan. home is Oki.ilioma Youth Pinil Hnnl-Hcad-r cd Kansas Their Undoing.

Wellington, May 3 inoiicl and Lewis Burdick,) two IS-year-oid hi-jackers from. Enid, were found guilty in district court this morning ot- striking au Argonia tarmer, Sanii romances and engagements sether with Her husband, Jack Physicians developed among the 500 students Murray, who tvns given a like sen- I whether further aboard Holland-American tence. Botli were alleged to be be performed. liner Ryndam first American-edit- members of a gnng responsible for cational floating university, while I a 5arge number of holdups in Kan- was on its seven months! sft City. The oaueii tour of the world.

The New York tile 'ss me" bandit because ot Sun today quotes Mrs. P. M. Fogg. lter Iial)it inviting her victims dean of the women students, as kiss her after she had taken their valuables.

saying. "Of course manv of our stu-j aents became engag'ed on the voy-j CALIFORNIA EDUCATOH DfES. age," said Mrs. Fogg. "It was i only a perfectly natural outgrowth Wr Benjamin Wheeler AVas Pi-csi- of propinquity and attachments Kmcritiis of State Cuivcrsity.

formed long voyage. "None of them have announced London, May 3 E.r- their engagements formally, butj cuan se Telegraph dispatch from know several of them to bc.P' lenna sa that. Dr. Benjamin aged. But aside from wheeler President Emeritus of better, including can the University, of engaged, or bette state quite positively that the coeducational aspect of tiie cruise was a success every way." Chicago Is Millions "In the Red," Consider last night.

The story of the great, physical growth of ihe Dnivfirsity of California is the story of the principal achievement, in tho life of Dr. Ben- jjamir, Ide who for 20 as president guided the des- jtinies of the institution. He was Economy Measures president of the university occupying the chair Wooley, over the heart with an 'refused to sav iron pipe Jart Thursday Tha, reiu.ea io yoiuhs tUelr nctlm when he: transfusions offerad them a ride nween Cald well and Perth. Kan. They not knock Wooley and the farmer knocked one out of the car.

They becama frightened and ran into a wheat field but were caught by peopls; in the neighoorhood. Briley Burdick were sentenced to a term, of from one to 1Q years in thu state reformatory at Hutchinson. ARTICLE OX PI1UXES A $50 PRIZE Pittsburgh, May .3 Prunes! of folks take the name of this famous standby of the boarding house in vain. But Miss Zoe Wolcott, director of the cafeteria at the Kansas State Teachers college- here, took it, wrote an article about it and won a prize of $50. A California organization of prune producers gave the prize.

Miss explained how a prune can be made- so popular that cafeteria patrons, who select their own, will demand Chicaso's I Grcfiil all( comparative philology ith the proba- at Cornell "in 3S99. At that time will IIR nearlv lhe California, then young among tho universities of the countrj-, had an enrollment of 2,439 students. When he retired Chicago, Kay 3 ppcketbook is flat with bility, that the city wilt be nearly "in tho red" by the end of the year, Alayor Thompson thu had an enrollment of has informed the city council. ,2,439 students. When he retired sa ar the active head of the univorsi- EXPEDITE FLOOD REPORT Coolidge Wants Prevention Plun at Earliest Possible Moment.

Washington, May 3 President Coolidge has directed Secretary Davis of the war department to accompany Secretary Hoover tomorrow when Mr. Hoover returns to the Mississippi flood I KING GEORGE SYMPATHETIC. Cablegram to Coolidpo Sorrow Over Flood Disaster. Washington. May 3 (fp) Coolidge received a cablegram today from King George England expressing sympathy for the flood sufferers in the Mississippi vaMey- "I have heard with profound' sorrow," King George said.

"o3 the serious loss of ufe and dam-. ago to property fay tha floods in tiie Mississippi valley, and 1 hasten to offer my hearfelt sympathy both t.o yourself and to ail those who are suffering from the result of the present disaster." Bl'UDV ROGERS MAKES GOOD; area in order that the engineer Clathc Boy 7s President of the army and the Missis- i sippi river commission may expe- a report on flood prevention even the closing of the schools for ty m9 and Acarno a month, together with possible p-menfus. the enrollment failure to'meet the city's payroll reached nearly 20,000. were pictured by Alderman John Dr heeler was the author Clark, chairman of the finance of scientific and educa- CTTl committee, unless more moneyl llonal works and contributed TO INSPECT SITKS Man fo? j- T'ickfortl. ITollywood.

May 3 -Charles Rogers, 23. born in Olalhe. and well ES. Known in Kansas Cuy. to- was forthcoming.

SCHQDIi CODE BODY MEETS. Commission's Purpose Is To Revise Educational Laws. largoiy to dictionaries and ency- I dny picked oft" one of i rlopedias on philology, philosophy Secret Service Man Will Report cf scrcendom whon. he was named, i ami psychology. Back to Coolidge.

leading man for Mary rickfo'd. He was born at "Randolph, July 15, and in I SSI, married Arciey Webb ot Providence, R. I. REQUEST FEDERAL AID. Topeka, -May 3 The new stat school code commission, created -by tiie last legislature toj Fivc Counties Ask Help Higli- make suggestions for revision of educational- laws, held its first way Programs.

meeting-today. G. H. Lamb of I Tope-ka, May 3 Commis- laua. center, elected chair-! oners ot Iieno Republic.

Kcsr- man and-Robert; B. Spilman Washington, and Jefferson' was maoe secretary, today presented requests Yon can; coOE Better wltn pis; Emporia Gag Enroll; Monday at E. B. adv. for federal aid to the stato highway commission.

The' requests were taken under advisement. For rent: ornee rooms. Kansas Electric Power Rogers entered the filsns two Ed--years ago via a studio training ward W. Starling, White House! s-chool. Ife formerly studied at secret service man, will leave in University of Ksssas.

a day or two to inspect sites in the west -which have been offered BOARP for a summer White House, aft will, go as far test as Colorado i Charles W. Is Sauted' Springs at least. Chairman of Stato Body. Beginning Tuesday night, May i Topeka, May 3 t.ip) The' nev- give our regular three building aad loan board (lances week, Tuesdays, Thurs- today, electing Charles days and Saturdays. Come out Thompson, oi Topeka as cfeairtusn, and have a good time.

The Daisy and Joseph W. Park Farm. adv. Mr. and Mrs.

Roland E. Boynton, of Topeka, are visltins today with friends in Emporia. baildicg and loan lioa supsnrlsor as Ba photostapne-a nr jiriv.