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252. Ill East (fourth Street Publication Office JOPLIN, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 30, PAGES. t'ubllbhcd Every Morning Except Monday PRICE FIVE CENTS SOLDIER GRAVES THIS AFTERNOON 300 MOTOR CARS MIRED ON DETOUR Tractor and Two Teams Are Used to Pull Cars Out of Mud North of Lamar. Veterans of Wars Will Gather at Fairview Cemetery to Pay Tribute to Departed Comrades. PROGRAM ARRANGED Services Will Be Preceded by Procession Through the Downtown District Suspend Business.

Flag and flower bedecked graves today will be mute witnesses of the tribute which Joplin will pay to her soldier dead on Decoration day. Decoration of graves by members of the G. A. Spanish-American War Veterans, Sons of Veterans and members of the American Le gion will take place late this afternoon at Fairview cemetery, following Decoration day services. Each organization will hold separate services at their burial plots.

As the last notes of taps dies away, flowers and flags will be placed, on the graves. A squad of soldiers will fire a last salute of farewell. Mead to Speak. James P. Mead, United States commissioner, will be the principal speaker at the services at the cemetery.

W. H. Osbdrn, G. A. R.

chaplain, will invoke the Divine blessing, and W. B. Porneroy, commander of P. Morton post, No. 14, G.

A. will announce the duty of the day, a ritual pertaining to Decoration day observance. Preceding the services, a parade of all patriotic organizations of the city will proceed through the business district at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The parade will form at 1:30 o'clock in the vicinity of Memorial hall, and will take the following route: South on Wall street to Tenth street; east on- Tenth street to Main street; north on Main street to First street; west on First street to Joplin street, and south on Joplin street to Memorial hallj where the group wil ldlsband before going to the cemetery. Color bearers with colors of ail local patriotic organizations will lead the parade.

These, with the American Legion drum corps, city officials, members of the G. A. the G. A. R.

auxiliary arid War Mothers, will form on Wall street from Eighth to Ninth streets. On Ninth street, between Main and Wall streets, will be the Eagle- Picher Lead Company band and members of the Knights of Pythias, Security Benefit Association, Woodmen of the World and Odd Fellows lodges. On Ninth street, between Wall street and' Pearl avenue, will be the United Spanish War Veterans and its auxiliary, members of the American Legion and Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Legion junior baseball teams. These two groups will follow the group placed on Wall street between Eighth and Ninth streets. Other organizations also are expected to participate.

Public Offices to Close. All public offices, banks and most- of business establishments of the city will be closed today. The post- office will make three collections In the downtown district during the day. If the weather is fair, many residents are expected to take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy outings in the Ozarks, or visit friends in other cities. Golf courses and swimming pools at the various parks throughout the city also arc expected to attract many residents.

A Decoration day dance will be held tonight at Schifferdecker park. Prominent Oil Man and Wife Shot to Death Fort Worth, May Sayers, prominent oil man of Houston, and his wife, were shot to death early this morning at the home here of Mrs. Sayers' brother, Roger G. Williams. It was not known who fired the shots.

Mrs. Sayers had been visiting at her brother's home for some time. Her husband arrived here last night. Williams is secretary of an oil company. OTTAWA RESIDENTS ARE FRIGHTENED BY BLASTS Ottawa, May OP) second series of explosions in the city's sewer system occurred this afternoon.

The residents of the sec' tion where the blasts, came, still frightened from the previous explosions, were thrown into a fresh panic, many deserting their homes and fleeing to outlying sections of the city. Mrs. Anna Hayden, injured in. the first series of blasts, died Approximately 300 motor, cars were stuck in the mud late yesterday afternoon on an 11-mile detour from highway No. 71 between Sheldon and Lamar, George L.

Clark, division highway engineer, announced last night. Clark said the highway department had a tractor and two teams on the detour yesterday afternoon pulling the cars out of the mud, but progress necessarily was slow. The roadway was softened by rains Tuesday night, Clrfrk said. An 8-mile detour south of Harrisonville also Is in bad shape because of recent rains, Clark said. There is one other detour north of Nevada, but it is only three- quarters of a mile long, and is not in such bad condition.

The detours were put into effect recently after contracts were awarded for forty-five miles of paving on highway No. 71. Highway officials warned motorists the detours would be in bad shape during rainy weather, and requested them to take other routes in traveling between Kansas City and Lamar. INQUEST HELD IN YOUTH'S DEATH DRIVER OF CAR THAT KILLED APPELGATE FACES MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. Cloyd Dossett Appelgate, 18 years old, 502 McKinley avenue, who was killed instantly early yesterday morning near Seventh street and Roosevelt avenue, came to his death as the result of being struck by a motor car being driven by Carl Ammerman of Miami, a coroner's jury found last night following an inquest at -the Frank- Sievers chapel.

Ammerman was arraigned yesterday before Justice Reed Wright on charges of manslaughter and driving a motor car while intoxicated. Preliminary hearing was set for June 5, and he was committed to jail in default of $1,500 bond. i $10,000 Suit Is Filed. Prosecuting Attorney Russell Mallet said last night a quantity of alcohol had been found in the car driven by Ammerman. Mrs.

Ethel Appelgate yesterday filed suit in circuit' court here against Ammerman asking $10,000 for the death of her son, whom she alleges was her only means of support. The petition charges that Ammerman was driving "negligently and carelessly" and "at a high, reckless and dangerous rate of speed," and that he failed to make any warning sound before his'car hit Appelgate. Ammercan did not testify at the inquest last night, but Bob Gooden, 18, Emmett Kennedy, 17, and Beatrice Murphy, 17, his companions, did. All three were held in jail yesterday. Miss Murphy was released last night, and the two other youths were turned over to city authorities on charges of drunkenness.

Cecil Weston, 418 McKinley avenue, who was with Appelgate when he was killed, testified last night that he and Appelgate were walking west on Seventh street near Roosevelt avenue off the highway. He said he heard a motor car coming from behind them, al3o going west, and he said to Appelgate, "better look out, they're coming pretty fast." He said the next thing he knew the car struck his foot and he was hurled into a ditch. He found Appelgate's body off the side of the highway some distance west. Ammerman's car had careened off the left side of the highway, turning completely around. He estimated the motor car was traveling the rate of 40 to 45 miles an hour.

Girl Gives Testimony. Miss Murphy told the jury she had been wiih Ammerman and the two other youths at a sister's home East Joplin. She was sitting'in the front seat with Ammerman, and said she saw Appelgate and Weston at the side of the road. "Look out, there's some boys," she said she told Ammerman. When asked if she thought Ammerman had been drinking, she said, "I didn't see him drink, but I imagine he had been drinking." She also said she did not see the other two youths drinking.

Gooden admitted he. had been drinking "more than I could take care of." He said he was asleep in the back seat of the sedan, and did not remember anything about the accident until late yesterday morning when he woke up in the city jail. Kennedy also said he was asleep in the back seat of the car. Motorcycle Patrolman Charles Foster and Detectives Alex Lachman and Sam Martin testified that Ammerman was intoxicated. Lachman said Ammerman was "talking wild." R.

E. Adams, who resides near the scene of the accident, also testified at the inquest. He told on page SENATE PASSES CENSUS BILL BY VOTE OF 57 TO 26 Measure Would Provide for Automatic Reapportionment of House Members Each 10 Years. EMBRACES SURVEY Similar Action Was Taken by House at Last Session and Final Enactment Is Expected. Washington, May Automatic reapportionment of the house of representatives on the basis of a census taken every ten years would be provided in a bill passed by the senate today, 57 to 26, and sent to the house.

A similar proposal, which has stirred, up nearly ten years of controversy between states likely to lose and those which would gain representation, was approved by the house last session and final enactment of the present measure has been decided upon beforp the summer recess. To Survey Unemployment. In addition to an enumeration of persons living In the United States, the census' would embrace a survey of unemployment. It would be taken in November, 1929, by enumerators and experts employed under civil service regulations. The bill, which had administration approval, would direct the president to submit to congress next December two sets of computations showing the number of representatives each state would be entitled to upon the basis of the new census, under-both the system known as equal proportions and that known as major fractions.

If congress failed to enact a reapportionment bill by the end of the then current session, the major fractions computation of the president would become effective. PROSPECTIVE EFFECTS OUTLINED BY SENATOR Washington, May UP) prospective effects of the reapportionment bill passed today by the senate, as outlined in a speech by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, one of the sponsors of the measure, would be to take representation from seventeen states and give additional representatives to eleven. Twenty would be unaffected. Those states which stand to gain and the additional number of representatives they would be given upon the basis of present estimates are: California, six; Michigan, four; Ohio, three; New Jersey and Texas, two; Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington, one each. States losing representatives would be: Missouri, three; Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Mississippi, two each; Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia, one each.

The forthcoming census, however, may show a. material shift in population which would change these estimates: WOMAN IS ACQUITTED IN DEATH OF HER HUSBAND Fayette, May Fannie Ballew was acquitted of a charge, of murdering her husband, Earl Ballew, by a circuit court jury of farmers here today. Ballew was slain at their farm home near here last February 15. Testimony in the trial was heard at a night session of court last night and was concluded this morning. The case went to the jury shortly before noon and the verdict was returned two hours later.

$75,000 RECOMMENDED FOR COLLEGE AT MIAMI Oklahoma City, May UP) appropriation of $50,000 for a new building at Northeastern Oklahoma junior college at Miami, together with an item of $15,000 for completion of wings of the present building, and $10,000 for new equipment, has been approved by the appropriations committee of the house of representatives. The three items make a total in the institutional bill of $75,000 for the Miami school. Four Men Die When Steel Caisson Sinks Jersey City, N. May OP) men went to their deaths tonight and ten others were rescued when compressed air escaped and allowed a steel caisson to sink 75 feet into the bed of the Hackensack river at the Newark turnpike bridge. Four bodies were forced ten feet below the bottom of the river by air, which escaped from the tube when one of three air locks broke.

LINDBERGHS STILL EVADE REPORTERS Lone Eagle and Bride Disappear as Completely as Did Flier on New York-Paris Hop. New York, May The Lone Eagle was still the Lost Eagle tonight. Driving out of the driveway of the Dwight W. Morrow estate at Englewood, N. Monday "after -i noon Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh, the former Anne Spencer Morrow, disappeared as completely as did the flier when he soared into the mists above Roosevelt Field for France that May morning two years ago. The colonel's own speedy Falcon plane, equipped with enough gasoline for a thousand-mile flight and two parachutes, stands in the hangar at Schenectady, N. where it was flown yesterday, but its master has so far failed to appear and claim it.

A vigil on the Morrow summer home at North Haven, also has failed to bring any sight of the Lindberghs. Those who know' Lindbergh believe that he is away somewhere on an aerial honeymoon, probably landing on private fields or impromptu ones, thus evading the wave of publicity which, for two years, has rolled unceasingly over him. But that's conjecture. DRIVERS AND CARS READY FOR ANNUAL 500-MILE CLASSIC Officials and Participants Predict Today's Race WiU See Old Records Smashed. EXPECT CLEAR SKY Thirty-Three Daring Drivers Qualified for Meet, Which Will Be the Last for Tiny Motors.

SUNDAY REVIVAL HERE IS OPPOSED CHEST BOARD SEES PROPOSED MEETINGS AS HANDICAP TO FUND DRIVE. A resolution to the effect that "proposed meetings of the Rev. Billy Sunday in Joplin next fall will seriously handicap the Community Chest campaign and will reduce the funds to be raised" was adopted unanimously by the board of directors of the chest at a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce offices. The chest campaignjs set for the week preceding the opening of Mr. Sunday's revival.

Adoption of the resolution followed a general discussion of the plan of Joplin churches to bring the noted evangelist here for a six weeks' revival campaign beginning November 3. Text of Resolution. The text of the resolution follows: "It is the sense of the Community Chest board that the proposed meetings of the Rev. Billy Sunday here in the fall will seriously handicap the Community Cheat campaign and reduce the funds to be raised; that the secretary communicate this action to the chest agencies, and that a committee of three members headed by Felix K. Eberlein, chest president, wait upon the Ministerial Alliance." Members of the board who voted for the resolution were Eberlein, Frank C.

Ralston, Albert Junge, F. W. Christman, Julius A. Becker, Bruce Williams, C. W.

Arbuthnot, J. E. Garm, John Garrett, Harry Pate and W. H. Landreth.

Ten other members of the board were not present. "It is the opinion of many business men in the city that Joplin does not need the revival campaign at this time," Eberlein declared. "Its coming would take out of the town $10,000 or more and would cut into the funds available for social service purposes in Joplin. There is only so much money in this community to be given away for charity work, social service work and for character ing, and Mr. Sunday's campaign undoubtedly would take a portion of this.

Agencies Lack Funds. "The Community Chest campaign raises around $52,000 a year for the social service organizations and even that amount is not sufficient to carry on their work. During the past year, many of the agencies have been forced to. slash their programs mercilessly because funds were lacking to finance all the features of their service. "While there is no doubt that Mr.

Sunday has done a wonderful lot of good in his preaching, there remains the fact that our social service agencies, supported by the chest, are twelve-month organizations. They serve twelve months out of each year. Mr. Sunday's uplifting work would continue only six weeks." Eberlein and two other members of the chest board will confer with the Ministerial Alliance soon and seek to get the participating churches to reconsider their action, the chest president said. The annual chest campaign has been set for the week of October 27 to November 2, provided for in the constitution by a clause stating: "The campaign shall be held in that week, beginning not earlier than October 24 and not later than October 30." Albert J.

Peterson, advance man for the evangelist, will be here Monday, June 10, for a conference with the pastors of the participating churches, it was announced last night by the Rev. William M. Gardner, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. The eleven co-operating churches are the First Presbyterian, Beth- (Cpntinued on page 2), Indianapolis, May OP) record smashing 500-mile automobile race at the Indianapolis motor speedway tomorrow was the prediction of drivers and officials here tonight when the weather bureau said clear skies would prevail through the seventeenth running of the classic. Thirty-three daring drivers, satisfied that they had tuned their mounts to their greatest speed and endurance, went to bed early tonight to rest their bodies for the bruising they will receive tomorrow on the roughest race course in the country.

Fastest Field in History. An equal number' of tiny only ninety-one and one- half cubic inches piston displacement and the last of their were under guard in the speedway garages. Excepting for a last minute checking in the morning, they were ready to be rolled to the starting line. The race, following precedent, will begin at 10 o'clock (central standard time). The field is the fastest ever to win places in the contest.

Not an entry averaged less than 103 miles an hour for the ten-mile qualifying trials with Cliff Woodbury, Chicago, hitting the peak at 120J4 miles per hour. There were far more entries than are permitted to participate and it was a case of the survival of the speediest in the qualifying rounds. Several things united to make the seventeenth running of the race more interesting than in other years. The. injection of a truly international aspect for the first time In several years, has added to its importance.

France has sent Louis Chiron, European racing champion in 1928, to show America how speed is handled over there. With him will be Jules Mericeau, another Frenchman, who will pilot an English car. Drivers Listed. The tiny single seaters, powered by their miniature motors, will pass into speedway history with tomorrow's race. For four years the baby creations have dominated the American tracks, but, after this year, they will be succeded by two- seated cars propelled by motors four times' as large as the present type.

Superchargers, which came into being with the tiny motors, also will be dispensed with along with the use of more than two carburetors. Phil Pardee of Los Angeles, who qualified the car originally prepared for Ralph DePalma in twenty-third position, was definitely put out of the race tonight when he hit the wall on the northeast turn of the track while practicing. Pardee, slightly injured, was taken to the city hospital. As a result of the accident, all drivers from twenty-fourth position on will move up one place, and Bill Lindau, Pittsburgh, will take the thirty-third position. Lindau qualified his car in thirty-fourth position, just out of the original starting list.

Drivers who qualified for the event are Cliff Woodbury, Leon Duray, Ralph Hepburn, Babe Stapp, Pete De Poala, Ray Keech, Billy Arnold, Louis Meyer, Deacon Litz, Russell Snowberger, Tony Gulotta, Bill Spence, Lou Moore, Louis Chiron, Jules Moriceau, Johnny Seymour, Pete Kreis, Phil Shafer, Bob Donogh, Ernie Triplett, Freddie Winnai, Fred Frame, Jimmy Gleason, Wesley Crawford, Carl Mafchese, Frank Farmer, Harman Schurch, Speed Gardner, Frank Brisko, Rickliffe, Decker, Bert Karnatz, Cilff Berge and Bill Lindau. DETROIT WOMAN TO FACE TRIAL ON ASSAULT CHARGE Detroit, May Mrs. Grace M. Wood, William Thompson and Taylor Pierce were bound over to the Wayne county circuit court for trial on a charge of assault with intent to kill Ralph A. Wood, Wyandotte real estate dealer, January 9, following their examination in justice court today.

Mrs. Wood, who is charged with having hired Pierce, Thompson and the late Ambrose L. Hagerty to take her husband for a ride," was freed on', continuance of $50,000 bonds. Bail for Pierce and Thompson, set at $10,000 each, also was continued. John Gillespie, former Detroit police commissioner, is bondsman for the accused trio.

Score of Students and Two Bystanders Hurt in Rioting Onlookers Struck by Bullets During Skirmishes Between Freshmen and Police Following Necktie Burning Ceremonies at Brown Injured by Night Sticks of Officers. Providence, R. May More than a score of Brown university freshmen were injured by policemen's night sticks tonight and two bystanders were sent to hospitals suffering from bullet wounds as the aftermath of skirmishes between police and students following the annual necktie burning ceremonies of the class. The condition of one of the victims at the hospital is serious. The other suffered two shots in the arm.

Store Fronts Damaged. Fronts of several stores and a theater were damaged in the business section of the city by the rioting students. Carrying red lights and clad in pajamas, the celebrators stormed through the principal streets of the city. Police, armed with night sticks, and students clashed frequently. Spectators looked on while clubs flailed and fists flew at the height of the celebration.

William Berrarducci of this city, a state house page, was shot in the eye by a stray bullet. He was watching the fighting from in front of a cigar store. Whether the bullet was fired by police or a student could not be determined. The name of the other victim was not known. Among the students struck down by police is Sam Flora, football star.

His scalp was split open with a night stick. He was taken to police headquarters in an unconscious condition. 5,000 Witness Celebration. John E. Kreps, of Cleveland, student at Brown, was admitted to Homeopathic hospital late tonight with a bullet in his right arm.

He also suffered a scalp wound from a police club. Five thousand persons were gathered in or around the campus watching the bonfire into which freshmen tossed their black ties in celebration of their release from bondage. EXPERTS AGREE ON FOR GERMAN DEBT Was Major Task Confronting Second Dawes Committee on Reparations Settlements. PROPOSED BY YOUNG Agreement Explained as No One's Victory Since Both Sides Gave Way to Make It Possible. CONFEREES WILL MEET ON FRIDAY HOUSE MEMBERS OF FARM RELIEF COMMITTEE HOPEFUL FOR AGREEMENT.

Washington, May members of the farm relief conference committee agreed today to resume negotiations Friday, hopeful that the senate representatives on the committee ultimately would agree to eliminate the export "debenture plan'. After several days of discussion, in which a wray out of the deadlock between the house and senate over this provision had been sought, Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the conference, announced the forthcoming resumption of meetings. House members said they would be glad to resume discussions after being assured that debentures would be eliminated. Petitioned by Kansans. Senator.

McNary said he expected the conference to agree to take up general differences in the two farm bills passed separately by the house and senate, leaving the debenture controversy to the last. While there has been no concrete decision reached by the senate conferees, there is an understanding among congressional leaders that in the end the senate conferees will agree to report to the senate suggesting the elimination of the debenture section. The house members of the conference committee were petitioned by the Kansas house delegation today to compromise all difference in the two farm bills but to insist on the elimination of the debenture section. The delegation announced through Representative Hoch that the members considered a farm bill with the debenture plan meant no relief legislation at all in view of President Hoover's opposition. Bobby Jones Finds His Golf Clubs in Garage; Boys Tried to Sell Them New York, May UP) New York American today says that Bobby Jones' missing golf clubs have been found in a New York garage, where they were left by three small boys who had tried to sell them to the garage foreman.

The boys carried the clubs into the garage Tuesday afternoon a short time after they were taken from a car parked" a few blocks away. The boys disappeared when someone came into the garage and the clubs lay In a corner forgotten until the foreman, John Hope, read In an early edition of the American that Jones had lost his valuable clubs and reported the discovery to the paper. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE DEFICIT BEING REDUCED New York, May OP) $1,500,000 deficit of the democratic national committee, which resulted from last year's presidential campaign, has been reduced to about $350,000, It was learned today after a conference on party plans In the office of John J. Raskob, national chairman. The conference was attended by Jouett Shouse of Kansas, recently named chairman of the executive committee, with headquarters in Washington; former Senator Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island, and Parker Corning of Albany.

A SOLO ENDURANCE CALIFORNIA FLLER LANDS AFTER VIRTUALLY 37 HOURS IN AIR. monoplane, broke the record of fifty-three Los Angeles, May J. Fahy, test pilot for the Lockheed Aircraft Company, today broke all records, official and unofficial, for solo endurance flying. Flying a single motored cabin Fahy late today official solo endurance thirty-four hours and minutes established by Royal Thoma3, and continued in the air with his remaining few gallons of gasoline until he topped the unofficial record of thirty-five hours, thirty-three minutes and twenty-one seconds made by Martin Jensen. The flier took off at 4:43:05 o'clock Tuesday morning.

Circling over San Fernando valley at 4:33:05 o'clock this afternoon, Fahy surpassed by the required one hour the official record. At 5:16:26 o'clock, he had flown continuously one hour longer than Jensen. Fahy landed his ship at 5:39:41 o'clock. He had been aloft thirty- six hours, fifty-six minutes, thirty- six seconds. COMMISSION TO TAKE NO ACTION IN GAS BLASTS Jefferson City, May Missouri public service commission will issue no order concerning the gas explosion in St.

Joseph in March, Milton R. Stahl, chairman, said today. As a result of the investigation of the explosion by engineers for the commission, a standing order will be issued by the commission to require inspection of all gas systems when they are changed to accommodate natural instead of artificial gas, Stahl said. The commission engineers revealed that artificial gas flowing through the mains coats the pipes with tar and other compounds while natural gas dissolves this substance and opens any leaks that may have been stopped by the tar. The gas system at St.

Joseph was changed to natural gas recently. The St. Joseph gas mains are being carefully inspected by the gas company there, Stahl said, and there appears no need for an order from the commission. COURT-MARTIAL ORDERED FOR FORMER CORPS CHIEF Washington, May (A 3 The war department has ordered a court-martial to convene June 3 for Col. Berkeley Enochs, former chief of staff of the second corps area, Governors Island, N.

on charges preferred by Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, commanding general of the area. Officials of the war department refused to disclose the nature of the charges and Said the court had been summoned by the department instead erf by General Ely, since the latter was a party to the case.

THE WEATHER Paris, May on revised annuities of German world war reparations, the major task that has engaged the experts in Paris for nearly sixteen weeks, was reached by the Germans and creditors tonight. There remain for discussion conditions and reservations as to application of these general figures, some of which may be referred to the governments concerned for later negotiations, but are not expected to occupy the delegates long. Agreement Was Compromise. The final agreement was a compromise, reached on the basis of proposals by Owen D. Young, American chairman of the conference, who more than once earlier had drawn his associates Out seeming deadlock.

His proposal has been altered only by adjusting it to special conditions. These annuities average 2,050,000,000 gold marks (about $492,000,000) for thirty-seven years; 1,700,000,000 marks ($408,000,000) for twenty-one years, and 900,000,000 marks ($216,000,000) for the final year. Under the agreement as concluded these annuities will run from September next. Instead of from April 1 last, as originally calculated. The Dawes-, plan- offipajfc; ments will meanwhile continue in force.

The situation was explained tonight by Thomas W. Lamont, American alternate, as follows: No One's Victory. "Both creditor and German experts have heretofore declared themselves willing to accept the annuity figures of 2,050,000,000 marks as suggested by the chairman, although a difference existed on the question of interpretation. "This difference has now been removed and a common basis for interpretation acceptable to both the creditors and to Germany has been found, subject, however, to' agreement on the outstanding conditions which still remain for discussion and settlement." It was further explained that this agreement was no one's victory, for both Germans and creditors gave way to make it possible. ELECTION TODAY TO BE LANDMARK IN ENGLAND London, May day tomorrow is a landmark in the political history of Britain.

For the first time the whole adult population of the United Kingdom, women as well as men, is entitled to go to the polls to make what Premier Baldwin describes as "the greatest experiment in democracy," namely to select the kind of government under which it desires to live. Man is no' longer the sole arbiter of this great duty. It has become a woman's for women are in a great majority in the electorate. The "riddle of the election," as it is popularly termed, depended on. two factors.

The first was the addition of some five million new women voters to the electorate, and the second the unprecedented number of three-cornered contests, which may send victory to some candidate with a minority of the votes. BLAST TRAPS 14 MEN WORKING IN CAISSON FORECAST fair con- Missouri: Generally Thursday and. Friday; tinued warm. Kansas: Fair Thursday, day; continued warm. Arkansas and Oklahoma: -b Partly cloudy Thursday and 4- Friday.

Jersey City, N. May Fourteen men were trapped -tonight when a caisson in which they were working sank in the Hackensack river, off Newark avenue, due to the explosion of an air reservoir. Ten were taken out alive and rescuers were making frantic efforts to reach the remaining four who were said -to have been buried in the muck. Two of the rescued men were taken unconscious to Jersey City hospital. Two others were blown clear.

Heads Student Body. St Charles, May Miss Mary Sue Wisdom of Lincoln, has been selected head of the student body at Llndenwood college for next year, It was announced today. She has been junior class president, the past year. She succeeds Miss Mary Elizabeth Sawtolle of Omaha, who graduates next week,.