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CHRONICLE PE KALB, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934 TIllKTY-rOURTH YEAR NO. 185 PKICK TIIKEE CENTS IV! iMJ THE BE KALB DA TIM I ffl uu -i- Fire Starts After Bus Crash; 16 Killed FURNACE HEAT TO COST HEAVY HEAT WAVE MAY BE ENDED SOON CHICAGO COPS GET VERY BUSY AUSTRIAN NAZI ATTEMPT COUP Baseball May Be Planned For The Centennial If a diamond can be built and the interest warrants the activity, base- ball games will be arranged for the four dnvs of trip llek'iith rmiiitv Joseph Strong: Dies Today At Home Of A Son In falling- health for the pant tw years because of heart trouble, becoming critical about three wfks ago, Joseph Strong, ace 82 and former resident of Sycamore, passed anay jit ":40 o'clock this morninc at ttie home of a son. Kr- Take Dillinger Nemesis Only To Have Federals Balk Them. FREE THE WOMEN Chicago. July 25 (U.R John DU-'in linker's "woman in rod" his com- panton when government agents him Sunday was restored to federal protection today after' a brief appearance In the hands of city police.

Department of Justice agents who angrily took her from police hands refused to reveal her whereabouts or to discuss her part If any In Dillinger's death. She had (rone. far to clear up details of the outlaw's last days, however, before the government men learned that police had found and questioned her. She is Mrs. Anna Saf, 43.

buxom keeper of a disorderly house. From hr police learned that she and Dillinger were accompanied Sunday to the Pdogruph Theatre, where Dillinger was shot, by Mrs. Hoy KepJe. divorced wife of a Gary. policeman.

Mrs. Keele was Dillinger's last sweetheart. Mrs. Saere identified her its the woman hoso photograph Dillinger carried In his watchcase when he died. Police said they learned that Mrs.

KeeU was hustled from Chicago to the home of her parents. In Fargo, ST. Immediately after the ambush of Dillinger, by agents of the partment of Justice. Trace History Tracing Mrs. Sage's history, police said they learned all they wanted to know of the means by which Dillinger was trapped.

She was discovered to le an alien a Rumanian whom the tnent had planned to der-ort. She formerly operated a resort -In Terrific Heat Wave Approaches The Proportions Of A National Disaster. WATEJU JS LOW Kansas City. Mo, 'July 25. (LP) Almost two-thirds of the United States today entered another day torture comparable to existence within a -blast furnace.

ittle relief was promised from an unrecedelit-! drought and heat wave that has caused more than f0 deaths, cost millions, and interfered; -with the lives of thousands of Air.ieticiuia. ull within a fourteen-day period. The ht-at area extended from Wyoming and Niw Mexico east to the Alleghenies, taking in the southwest and a great part of 'he south. Tetn-iwratures exceeding l'Oo degrees were the usual thing. Complicating the suffering was an acute water shortage in parts of the middle west and the southwest from a long drought that has reduced thousands of acres of otherwise fertile farm acres to desert -like stretches.

A United press tabulation of deaths, carefully compiled each day the heat has persisted, at flS early: today and increasing almost hourly as additional victims died in hospitals In St. Louis, Chi-i ago. Kansas City and smaller places throughout the area. Markets Jammed. Cattle here, at Chicago, and other places were jammed with thousands of heads sii)pcd by dis tressed farn.ers unable to obtain food or water for them.

The animals looked like famine brunts and many were so jweak they could not keep up with the. herds. These stragglers were sjhot. A United Press survey of the drought and heat an ax showed an alarming increase in the costs foodstuffs of hoi.s' ives. Grocers and wholesalers, with an eye to thei thousands of acres of destroyed crops, predicted prices ould con tlnue to increase.

Since 1 they! "i- r- iti Dallas and 20 to 25 per ceJU In Omaha. I Acute shortage of water for hu-: man consumption was reorted in many sections and throughout Ok-j lahoma and Kansas, where river beds are practically dry. a frenzied Ufe an(1 tlath hUnt for vater was under way. Hundreds of wells have lieen dug in the la-st week and crews of diggers scattered over the pra-i-ries were reminiscent of oil boom days when wildcat wells reputedly were sunk in every township. Need a D-luge.

A deluge would be needed to put water back into rivers streams' and revitalize farm acroa. Slightly lower tcmoratures r.iay give a little I Hi(k -A mm Two square blocks of lumber yards, coal yards and docks were leveled by fire caused by blazing gasoline shot from the exploding tank of a bus that crashed killing 16 persons and Injuring 27 at Osslnlng, N. Y. Firemen from Ossining and adjacent towns fought for hours to conquer the OFFER IS MADE TO ARBITRATE Gary, and was an acquaint-; nee of Serpt. Martin Zarkovich of Indianapolis, July 23 (U.Ri the East Chicago, police.

Zark-i The wax like body of John Dilhn-ovich was credited by Capt. Timothy; per lay In a cheap pine casket toduy O'Nell of East Chicago with plan- at the home of his sister In suburb- Seize A Radio Station Bui Are Driven Out By The Police. LIVES ARE LOST! BULLETIN cue. 1 zechnMovaMa. July Austrian legation announced today that Chancellor Kneelbert Doll fuss had been killed in today's Nazi uprisinic in Vienna.

The announcement was not confirmed by olher sources. BULLETIN London, Kneland, July II I') A dispatch to the Evening News from Vienna said Chancellor Dollfds and his raptured companions had been released after troops, using machine guns snd tear gas. had stormed and recaptured the" chancellory from the Naiis. BULLETIN Vienna, July U.Rv Atis-trisn Nazis executed a hold coup todsy captured Chancellor En-gelbert Dollfuss and members his cabinet and apparently forced compromise which may result In at least the temporary rrmor al of Ihillfuss as chancellor. After Ihe Nazis had withstood a siege for hours in the chancellory which they had captured.

Major Emil Fey. director of security, announced that the ministers were free. He asked government forces which were about to attack the building to hold oft. The Nazis had threatened to harm their prisoners If attacked. It was understood Dollfu had agreed to withdraw as chancellor and that President Willi dm Miklas had asked Or.

Kurt Schuftchnigg. minister of Justice, to form a temporary overtime nt. 1 BULLETIN Vienna, uo- 25. 2 j- tn. (By wireless to United press) The telephone operators announced that all communication with foreign countries had been suspended.

It was reported from Steinz tonight that Nazis had attacked the Gendarmerie and several had been killed. Linz reported an unsuccessful atteffrpt on the life of Court Kor-ek, lleimwehr commander there. Vienna, Austria, July 25. CIP 1 Austrian Nazis struck swiftly at th Dollfuss dictatorship in a dramatU putsch today in which they seized the chancellory and made prisoner of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and members of his cabinet Martial law was dcela-e and th streets were filled, with roops, po (Turn to Page 7, Please) Hurricane Is Raging Along Coast Of Gulf Houston. Tex.

July 25 U.R) Hurricane winds lettered the Texaai coastline from Galveston Island to points west otf Port O'Connor today. Many persons were reported ma-; rooned. Including eighteen in th coast guard station at Ean Lui Pass. At 5:15 a. m.

the Port O'Connor coast guard station communication' lines were severed, urther reporta auoui me wind velocity mere couia not be obtained. i The last report from the station" was that the barometer waa falling "teadily. jugn noes ana rtrcaitrrs oegani pounding the coastline late ester- day. Two campers on Galveston Beach, seeking relief from heat before blgbi tides began rolling over the lower island, were missing today. The storm proper was expected to strike near the mouth of the Grande about noon today.

RIO A heavy rain at Corpus Christ! centennial celebration. It was an nounced today. Many have exprwed i a desire that the program Include baseball games and Martin Donnelly. I who la In charge of the DeKalh county farm bureau baball activ-! ities, has consented to supervise the baseball games for the county cen- i tennlal celebration. Tho prer-ent athletic field at Hop- i kins Iark, where the centennial celebration will be held, is not lare enough for a baseball diamond, i About 80 trees in the north east jeorn re of the wooded area would have to le removed to make possible a diamond.

As trees will have to be i cut down to build the log cabins inns the i which are to 1 constructed for historical setting, it may be that thr trees which need to removed fori the ball diamond can be used for the cabins. Th matter rests with the Hopkins park association. PAYNE CASE IS GIVEN TO JURY Talesmen Are Considering The Fate Of Slayer Of His Mother. Ios Angeles. July 25 (U.R Amid scenes of ojen sobbing in thc court room, a Jury of seven women and five men today prepared to consider the fate of Louis Payne.

21. charged with the brutal ax slaying of his mother and younger brother last May 20. Payne, a picture of despair, awaited the final ordeal after having collapsed In court yesterday as Bates Booth, young assistant district attorney, demanded the death penalty. Court was recessed when the youth slipped into a Jibbertng hysteria which gradually gave way to a fatalistic calm. At the boy'S side was his sobbing father.

Louis Rude Pa ne. St. Louis utilities executive, his head bowed 1 iin grief. Plead With Jury Defense attorneys pleaded with the jury not to bring further grief upon the father hose home already was shattered by the deaths of Mrs. Carrie Payne and her son, Robert, 14.

"Neither my colleague, nor the boy's father expect a verdict of not guilty, but I do ask you to te merciful." Defense Attorney Leonard Wilson told the jurors. His arguments were contrasted by Booth's demand that personal sym-lathy be forgotten. "Young Payne slt-ughter of his mother and brother grew out of a sadistic impulse" the prosecutor argued. If a verdict of guilty is returned, Payne will then be tried on claims of insanity. Two Killed In Gun Fighting In Windy City Chicago.

July 23 (U.R) Patrolman William Penney, 3S, and Arthur Butcher, 45. ere killed and a third man was wounded in a mysterious shooting at a south side tavern last night. Police arrived at the scene to find Penney's body lying on the sidewalk and Butcher slumped in the doorway. Martin O'Neill, 33. was slightly wounded.

Leonard Debendo, owner of an other tavern, said he had accom-! Iinled the three others to the tav-; iern and sat In his car while they tried to enter. Suddenly, the door! oa ned, he said, and a man he could not see fired two blasts from a shotgun. l'olice learned that Penney naa yon j.aten by four men In the tav-1 em parlier in the day after a quar- woman. Suitcase Is Found On West Lincoln Highway Police were today endeavoring to liwatr the owner of a suitcase found at 1..10 o'clock this morning on the West Lincoln Highway near the arch by Sidney Liebauer and vm Lund. The suitcase contains women wearing ppu--i uui uwa not contain any name that may be of assistance in locating the owner.

1 i OWlie RAlXOmey VOUITney IS Wiuuig T6Help Settle Strike. Chicago. Ill, July 23. LPX Tho- hluxe shown in the air view above, 4 CONFESSES TO KILLING BABE A1 AcXaS falncr SlliUlgieu L4Ilie Daughter In Water Of Creek. BULLETIN Houston-, Tex, July Elijah 11.

Stuart. 28. was indicted today by Harris County-grand jury for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, Dortha, The grand jury' found that the girl died from choking and drowning. Houston. July 25.

(LP) Eli- Jah H. Stuart, murdered his 1'S. who confessed he daughter, I)ortha, a. that he might collect a $400 insur- Stuart only other child was Dor' tha's twin sister. He drowned the reported ner Kidnaped.

to bury her ith the insumnce money and use the rest wmer riuttn tiu oLiicers luestioning late ye.iterd:.y. He will lie tried early next month, the district attorney said. The slain child, neighlors said. mas J. Courtney, state's record.

The record of 107.1 degrees today offered to act as mediator in I was established In July. 1901. the strike of livestock handlers that I Mrs. William Miller, 75. Green-has paralysed the Union Stockyards I view Mrs.

Mahala J. Eawson, 86 and liuperUed thousands of head of and Mrs. Martha Woodward. Jack-cattle, sonville; and an inmate of the Jack-Courtney called upon representa-1 sonville state hospital were the lat-tives of all taction meet ith eBt v'ctims of the Intense heat. Their him and attempt ft.

M-edy settle-; brought the total fatalities to ment of the wage controversy which; twelxe- has reacted uinn shippers already Hot Time hard hit by the drought. Yesterday was the thirteenth day Meanwhile, a semblance of Springfield has seen the ther-was achieved at the yards today as' 8oar aboJe the 100 r.mrt white col-! mark thls "eftr. The mean temper- Break In The Burning Spell Is Expected Within A Day. MAY END TODAY Springfield, July 2. Oi.PX-X break in a heat wave that has en veloped central Illinois and taken a i known toll of twelve lives was fore- cast for today, tonight and tomor- row.

by the United States Weather Pui-caii here today th the predl tlon of showers and cooler weather Heavy clouds generally experienc- ed throughout the central section of the state started temperatures downward shortly after nine, previous to which a sun hail run the mercury up here and at other points to well up in the nineties. "A high pressure from ihe northwest is headed this way and win bring relief In the form of cooler weather from the heat," forecaster W. K. Holcomb said. Clouds Help "Meanwhile heavy clouds which were pretty general throughout this section this morning afforded cooW weather although in some places thej sun ill break through during the day and run up temperatures of ckise to 100 or better." I Holcomb In forecasting westher for the state as a whole said that "proliably some locaj showers or thunderstorms would be experienced tonight or tomorrow." In.

the northern part of the state, he ssld. it will not be quite so warm tonight. In' southern Illinois, he said, relief will be afforded this afternoon. "Cooler tomorrow In tne central and north portions and noi so warm In the extreme south portion this afternoon or tonl-ht. was the reading of the official forecast.

Four Were Dead Springfield 111, July 2o UP.) Four more Uesths and numerous prostrations throughout this section were charged today to the longest hot spell in. central Illinois' history. Jt 1 ne "earns nrougni xne ioai num. "t-r ui in mil i ie lannuira to in heat to twelve in the past five days Reaching an official mark of 106.7 degrees yesterday the mercury was recorded here within four tenths of a degree of the all time local heat ature yesterday was It marked the third successive -day that the mean temperature has reached that figure. While weather bureau officials predicted that the heat wave would continue today they forecast probable thunderstorms for tomorrow.

Temperatures in many places In central Illinois were the highest on record. Carllnville had an official reading of 113 degrees which breaks the all time record of 44 years standing for that community. Beardstown reported a maximum of 112 degrees. Other places reported readings nearly as high. Summarizing effects of the heat wave up to today, the weather bureau said domestic and stock water Is low in some places, one of the driest areas being at Carllnville which reports that "water shortage is Incoming desperate." A number of communities with low water reserves have put citizens on voluntary rations.

In forecasting cooler weather the reau said "A well developed field of high pressure now overspreads western Canada, extending southward to virMilii'iu, men ir uiui 1UK "Oil! eastward and bringing ooler ther." wea- Many Loans By Land Bank For Nearby State St. Louis. July U.R The Federal Land 5ank of St. Louis closed 31.033 loans for a total of $92,902,400 during the test fifteen months, or since passage of the farm mortgage act last year, it was revealed in a report today by Walter L. Rust, president of the bank.

Rust pointed out the financing dnn A hv tVio Kanl- a i 1 xri1rt tiiii kan Blm business handled by the bank tn Its previous sixteen years of existence. On May 1. 1933. after the bank had been making loans for sixteen years, the total business transacted had been 31,020 loana for a total of Ruat reported. "ij-d uv VTlllI I For DeKalh: Probably a showei or thunderstorm tonight or Thursday, followed by cooler; winds be coming moderate nortbarlz, WEATHER i ll i nest, near Cortland.

Mr. and" Mr. Strong had been making their home with the since 1919. Joseph Strong whs born In Somerset, Kngland on February 21, iOn 174. he Was Unltivl marriage to Klennor Goddard of Somerset and In Itfll they came to this country.

locating Immediately In Sycamore. AfW a residence of eight years In Sycamore mcy movei to the home of their son near Cortland. Mr. Strong Is survive'! by lii.s widow, two sons, Krnest of near Cortland and Sidney of Howdon, 1 and one daughter. Mrs.

C. W. Sibley of New York. Funeral arrangements had nor been completed nt late hour today and an announcement will le made tomorrow. DILLINGER AT SISTER'S HOME Remains Of Criminal Are Viewed By Horde Of Morbidly Curious BULLETIN Indianapolis.

July 53 U.R Police vigilance over the funeral site and burial place of John DIHineer was increased today In anticipation of the arrival of nine members of the outlaw's ang. The funeral will be held at 2: (Ml p. m. at the home of his sister. Mrs.

Audrey Hancock. Maywood. and burial will be at the Crown Hill cemetery here. an Maywood. Xo longer was the naXioi's ace) criminal.

Except to relatives and close friends he was Just an object of friends he was Just an object (curiosity waiting to be buried. Confidants were told the funeral woulJ at P-m. to.lay. Thc Public, on -advice of police, was i informed that final rites would not be held until tomorrow. Dillinger was killed in bunuay nignt oy icacral agents as he walked cut of a moving picture theatre.

His father. John W. Dillinger. Quaker farmer from Mooresville, claimed the body yesterday. It was whisked back to Moores-j ville in an antiquated hearse today.

taken to the funeral parlors of E. -j F. Harvey and viewed by-more than1 C.000 persons. At Home of Sister After the curious had been satis-: fied. Dillinger's body was placed in the hearse again ami brought to the home 'of Mrs.

Audrey Hancock. his sister, at Maywood. She and the elder Dillinger were waitintr. a 4 state noli.ee car siren screaming, arrived the hearse dertakers carried the body into Mrs. Hancock's bungalow.

Kmpty box cars lay on an alutdoncd railroad siding across the vople milled around the streoL Tolice stx)d io Keep away intruders. Jire. Hancock waited until the eover had been raised on the casket. i She buried her face in her arms and wa" I'd to the front por h. -7 Um" 1 "aW a lag smile on nis race and said: "Ixm'j Mrs.

Hancock sobiied. Miss Kinder cried, too. and moaned, "Oh my God, Johnnie." Father Is Exhausted The father, meanwhile, had gone to lied, exhausted from his Irvine- He Is 70 years old. When Dillinger's body first was placed on view" at Mooresville he was on a sjab with wheels, covered only with a white sh-t. At hi- (Turn to Page 7, Please) sion of Dillinger and his delivers to a designated peace officer.

The death of Dillinger at the hands of federal agents as he emerged from a Chicago neighborhood theatre prohibited delivery of his body to any place but the morgue. It is contended however, that the Information given authorities by Mw. Sage was an advantage in trap-phg Dillinger and that she should participate in the reward. Kerner said however, that the persons who gave the Information that resulted In the killing of Dillinger must show conclusively that they are no ieace officers of snv state or munkipiiiiH. llnola tew a reward.

sn officer cannot accept nlng- the banded. Ijiillnger ambush single- A. letter found lu her room, not ifying her Ukat an appeal from a de- i nortation order had been, denied- led Capt. Thomas Duffy to ask: "WmiM vcii have rx travel nil- linger into police or government hands ff that would have gained con- i sideration for your appeal?" Mrs. Sage refused to answer.

ne said. I She dehied that she had any recent contact with Zarkovii or that he ever had talked to the federal gents. She even denied that she knew the man with whom she had associated for weeks was Dillinger. Was Jint Lawrence twas known to her and Mrs. she said, as Jim Lawreiice, clerk, who liked a good time pent money freely.

4art Mrs. Sage axid Mrs. played in Dillmger's easy sending days was revealed through 'newspaper reproductions of the photograph In his. watch. The owner of the restaurant where both women worked.

Wil liam Hertenstein, and another wait-! ress in the place. Miss Muxine Dunn recognized the picture as that, of Mrs Keele and notified Captain Duffy. Sunday night. Miss Dunn recalled. Mrs Keele lashed into the restaurant gasping: "Dillinger was just killed: "How do you know," Miss Dunn asked.

'I can't 'teU. hut you read the pa- i I i relief to Iowa, Illinois, South Dako- ance policy, showed no remorse to-ti, Minnesota, Wyoming. Ohio. Wis-! day. cNnsin.

Nebraska and Missouri. "I decided I had too many chil-In addition to the more than ilno dren," the widower told police. bore a remarkable resemblance to today. Shirley Temple, young movie Twenty-five thousand head of cat-The Idea of killing her came to tie starving, thirsting dying by him while he was fitting a pair of the hundreds waited dumbly in the new shoes on her late Monday. stockvurds for 00 striking men and pcrs In a tew mlsutcs." she said he sat In the swing Inside Mary1 Mrs.

Keele answered. Kinder, a sweetheart of tin Dillin- The next day. ahe wild, ho hi41 remained loyal. Keele telephoned her, asking her to'fndwh Just arrived from view, Stuart said. "I Just got tired of spending mon-' ey on the children all of a Stimrt told police.

"I didn't have nny particular rea-1 son for deciding to kill Dortha. It 1 would have leen Dorth. the other! twin, had she been with me. Iortha just hapcned to be along when decided to kill one of Miom." 1 After Idling around for several dead from causes directly to heat, deatlus by drownirg weret far beyond normal In all sections, More than 10S drownings have been rcfiorted within the last weeks Cattle ranges in Kansas, Oklaho-' ma. Wyoming and other states were: scenes of poignaVit suffering.

Dying' animate bawled pityingly; for water man Was unable to suppiy. Itallroad! shipping points and trucking faclll-j tjw, overtaxed by herds Iwing! rllsn4Hl to market. ILinchmen with: emled the sufferings of vast numbers. Many ranchers hoped to (Turn to I'age 7, Please) -Mill ROGEIIS 1934 McN'nngbt Syndlcnte. Inc.

(Special to The Chronicle.) Aboard S. S. Malolo. The bi thuifj you 'about on the Pacitic side bfj world is the jireat exposi-! tion at Melbourne. Australia, in October.

It's the tourists next prreat round-up. It's where that greatest of all air races is to end. Fifty thousand dollar prize from London to Melbourne, 12.000 miles. We have over a dozen of our crack flyers and over half the ships in it will be American made. Wish the army and navy would put a ley apiece in there.

Wiley Post hopes to make it in 50 hours keeping tne cham pionship in Oklahoma 1 Tulv'an hours thinking over the manner Inland Commission Men's Union, voted which to slay his daughter, Stuart, employes of the Harris county go to her apartment hotel and od- i tain some of her clothes. She re- fused. Qtiizz Manager Police visited the apartment and questioned Kdward Miller, the hotel manager. Miller said that Monday, the day after Dillinger was killed, two government agents ransacked her room but departed without appareinij taking anything. Police round in a ciosei a scanei 1 silk dress.

They concluded that Keele was the "woman in red" Whom a nail uozen wunesaes 01 (Turn to Page 7. Please) I lur workers found themselves better! able to care for the fast dwindling stock on hand. With all shipping halted "until further officials expected to clear the pens by tomorrow and open the way for arbitration before the strike spread to thousands of other union men at the yards. No Federal Word. Nf word of federal intervention, requested by the Livestock Marketing Association, had leen received their employer to settle their dls-: pute.

Thousands more of the suffering animals were doomed to death un-j less the striko is settled within hours. All over the crowded yards they bawled and iK-llowed until thirst, starvation and the torture if! a 100-degree sun brought cleat n. More thar. 1,000 other atock yards 1 employees, meuiliere of the Livestock to strike at 3:00 p. m.

todry. Are Not Striking. Fifty thousand head of government owned cattle probably would le unaffected, as employees of the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation arc not striking. Police were stationed throughout; the huge maze of pens and chutes today to prevent a recurrence of attacks on "white collar'' workers who attempted to feed and water the animals last night. A truckload of hay wa3 overturned and its driver beaten by pickets who said he was a strike-breaker employed since the walkout yesterday.

Fire department squads stayed at the yards all night, spraying hose, streams over the dying cattle, but were unable to give them water to drink. The striking handlers charged in their strike call that th ir employer has violated wage ternn of contract under which they-returned to work after a strike last winter. Washington. D. July 23.

IP) Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced today she had directed William F. White and Robert PUklngton, labor department concll-latora at Chicago, to cooperate with the regional labor board in negotiations to settle the stockyards work-era strike. She had no further brought immediate reliti rrora awel temperatures, sending thei thermometer there down from 104 to relief commissary, said he drove to I 1 I. -I. Utf)k her Jn my nrmii," stuart said, "she was asleep." "I walked down the to the side of the creek.

"Suddenly I clamped my hand over my little girl's throat and pushed her head in the water. "She struggled and kicked. When she stopped kicking I let the body drop into the water and left." Sprains Foot In Fall From Small Ladder William Runnells. past district commander of the American Legion, was most painfully injured on Monday when he fell off a step ladder while engaged In some Interior dec Woman May Qet Reward For Death of Dillinger Farmers to Attend the Cattle Feeders Meeting 84 degrees. Showers fell at Galveston.

Brownsville and several otheC Texas cities. of animal husbandry, and R. Snapp, of the beef cattle division. Results will be available on fat tening steers In dry lot. on grazing' aha leeding yearling heifers on paa- ture and on maintaining the breed ing herd.

In all, there are 200 cattl on feed in eight different experiments that will be closed the day of the meeting. Is Large Factor 1 Farmers in DeKalb and other counties get about eleven per cent of their cash Income from beef cattle and calves. New finding In this phase of farm operations which th college baa to present this year ara laration work at the T. El Courtney would sho love to be with Wi-j nome South Third street. The In-W I could be hi Jury did not become painful until Record gams that have been made tn cattle feeding experiments at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture In spite of an otherwise unfavorable farming year are ex- pected to heighten the interest of DeKalb county farmers in the annual cattle feeders' meeting which will be held at the college on Friday.

August 3. It is- announced by Farm Adviser R.tsmuten. It is probable that a number of farmers ai cattle feeders from this county will attend, although the list Is not complete at the present time. Not for 20 years have cattle of similar age and weigm gainea as Springfield, 111, July 25 U.R Be-, lief that there is a possibility that Mrs. Anna Sage.

Chicago, identified! as the "woman in red" who alleged- ly led John Dillinger into his death trap. Is entitled to participate in a 1 reward of $5,000 offered by fiv states was. expressed today by At- torney General Otto Kerner. Although Kerner has not been asked for an opinion on the question he believes there la a possibility that the reward offered by the states of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota, can be collected. The official proclamation offering the rwsrd was suggested by Gov.

nry Horner. It says that the ro- I ahaJJ be paid for Um pprhan. i Closed that the foot had been disclosed that sprained. As a result of the Injury the young man was today forced to use crutches In getting about. Due to the excessive hee.t tha injury Is proving most, painful aud BUI has been spending much of the time in aeek- 1 nave iiu inai very samel route, 1U.UUU of the 12,000 miles from Singapore to London on the Dutch line.

Hope to sec lots of aviation on this trip. 1 well as some or tnose mat are to be more Interesting and feed thU year. It Is reported by Prof. H. P.

Rusk, bead of the department Turn, To Pc 2 fl 1 U'llr DrirfDcl1" "wat place possioie in KUULRSj which to reat A.