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The Weather mjjON: Toaisht w-d Ilila fair anwf east portion; gvmk fmte. mostly easterly. LOOM" Min temperature 4, max rt. mean ' x iuran- Kin .8 siaiiimnry. c Awraj for Six Months eodinf March SI, 1920 5259 Member of Audit Bureau of Circeisdkm Associated Pre Full Leased Wu "torTY-THIRD YEAR. NO. Saturday Is Closing Day Of Congress Washington. June l.--Congreas will end Its present session Saturday un itt resolution of adjournment adopt ti today by the senate after assur ances had been received from thi white house that President Wilson did not Intend to call a special session during the summer unless a grave wnergency arose, -j The vote on the resolution w 44 to :4. K came after two attempts to mnd the measure so as to provide for a recess in the one case to July U and in the other to August 2 lud failed. ' .. ' No Kxtra Session Washington, June t. President Wilson has assured senate democrats that if the present session is ended Saturday he will not call an extra ses sion during the coming summer Unless there is a grave emergency. Announcement of the presidents decision was made in the senate today hv Senator Underwood of Alabama, the democratic leader, who said .ie had been authorized to deny any re ports that an extra session was con templated. Sharp criticism greeted an adjourn meat resolution already adopted by the house when it came up for debate. Senator Kenyon, republican, Iowa, moved to amend it so that the ad journment would be to August 38. An effort by Senator Kenyon, re . publican, Iowa, to amend the reso lution so that congress would recon vene July 12 failed. . Republicans to Make Platform cf Fundamentals Chicago, June S The republican platform, Chairman Hays of the na tional committee declared in a state- ; ment today, will be a "sacred contrac . ual obligation between the party and the people." Fulf opportunity for hearings before the resolutions committee, Mr. Hays said, will be accorded in all pertinent subjects. . "The platform will deal, of course, with the great fundamentals," said .Mr. Hays. Arrangements to hear representa tives of women, labor arid agricultural interests already have been made and Mr. Hays is distributing voluminous Information compiled by the republl " can committee on platform and poli cies. There will be five and possibly six wcondlng speeches following the plac ing of the name of General Wood in ' nomination by Governor Allen of Kan sas, but none of them will last more than five or six minutes, according to General Wood made at his daily con- ' ference with newspapermen today. ."Former Governor Runyan of New Jersey will deliver a seconding speech" said General Wood. "It is nrobable that men from Ohio, Colorado, North , uanota and the south will also second ..Governor Allen's speech." Senator Miles Poindexter of Wash ington will arrive on, the scene of the convenilon tomorrow, thus bringing th total number of announced candi- - dates who will be here at that tim up to five, Governor Lowden and General Wood having 1been in town several days and Senator Johnson and Senator Harding being due to arrive here to1 day. 83,332 Autos In Oregon Now Receipts of the automobile regis tration department of the secretary of ate office for the month of May ag legated $99,696, according to statis tics on file In the. of flee, which Bhow the registration of 4294 during the onth. Receipts for the year to date JBgregate 11,852,741 with a total of ",28 automobiles registered, as Wlnst 83,832 for the entire year of IMS. . Olcott To Hand Out Diplomas At Chemawa Tonight Commencement week exercises at Chemawa Indian school will close nursday evening with the presenta 0" of diplomas. Governor Ben W. icott will present the graduates with w certificates, and Fred Lockley ofj "Ttland will civ .v.. . ..,, I s. During the afternoon Govern- nd Mrs. Olcott and Mr. and Mrs. r?y will be the guests of Superin tendent and Mrs. Harwood Hall of th school. The entire week has been one of ih! .mOSt uccf Mful ,n the history o! " institution. Chief among the many "actions was the operetta "The Em 's Daughter" given Tuesday eve nL Popularity of which was ri- ed only by the performance of the i"T Cla play "Sylvia" Wednesday ,., The students played to ca '"y nues both evenings, inursday's festivities began with a nipetitive military drill by the boys i " : on the tampus. A tol7.parde y the entire school fol t, J the dri nd closed the morn Srt.anCtivltU: Lawn Prt toT the It "nd elrl were held at V a"d a fean"' concet is scheduled r P. m. 133, Tennessee, Largest Battleship Afloat, Is Commissioned today " The ! areaanaugnt Tennessee, the lamxi and most formidable battleship afloat goes into commission today at the Brooklyn navy yard. Formal cert-ion-ies were set for 1:30 o'clock. Con structed here at a cost of !0,800,000 she represents the last word in bat tleship architecture. She is S25 feet long, and has a beam of 98 feet and a displacement of 32,500 tons. She is the next thing tq a pleasure yacht in the comfort of her appoint ments for. officers and men. and Is the first battleship to recruit her en tire personnel from the state from which it takes Its name. The . special feature which - distin guishes the Tennessee from all other units of the United States navy, Is the highly organized "fighting brain" en closed in a steel fort near the -top of the forward mast. Here are concen trated devices for observing enemy ships, enabling the crew to quickly ascertain the position of enemy craft. Speciar devices enable the crew to quickly train the fourteen inch guns on the enemy before the crew of any Kozer and Olcott Clash; Secretary Wins Contention Completely upsetting all "rubs.r stamp" predictions and providing the first real clash of opinions at a meet ing of the state board of control since the death of Governor ' Withycombe more than a year ago mad? that body a two-man organization, Secretary of the secretary declared, "o others it is Stte Kozer at his first session of the a star in the firmament, a light to the board Thursday morning took, issue' Pathway; wings on which to mount for with Governor Olcott on the price of' c'a vision and wiser action, to win , . . , , L.- , i the goal .not by precent or rule, but by state prison-made brick this morning ;an mumination that is snlrlt and M and won. , The brick plant, which began oper ations about a week ago is about ready to put its product on the market. Sev- eral state institutions are clamoring for brick, he Oregon Agricultural col lege desiring practically the entire season's output. Warden Compton Thursday morning appeared before the board with a request that a selling price to state institutions be estab lished'. Other state Institutions In the sale of any' surplus preducs to state Institutions receive the market price. Warden Compton Insisted that the state prison should be accorded the same privilege, especially since the In come from the sale ot the brick goes Into the institution's repair fund which is now very much in demand. Governor Olcott wai Inclined to agree with Compton, but both Secre tary of State Kozer and State Treat urer Hoff objected on the ground that a state' institution should have the ad- that they must discontinue holding vantage of a lower price. Putting his local conventions for election of ma contention Into expression Kozer. tional delegates, in plaoes where "It moved that the price of the prison- ' the pustom and practice to refuse made brick be set at actual cost of aumlMton to negroes." . - - manufacture plus - thirty-three and1 one-third per cent. The motion wa ln ce issue out taiieq. Aroused br seconded bv Hoff and carried. . I the number of contests from the south This price, it is explained will makej.e tate which it was shown that the prison product cost the state instl-1 district conventions were, held in ho tutions approximately only one-half of ,tels and other places where negroes the market price of brick. Important Meeting OfCherrians To Be Held Next Tuesday The regular monthly meeting of the Salem Cherrlans the last one to be'giur on the south and contended that held before the Portland Rose Festival specific mention of the southern states when the boosters are to participate in should ge eliminated and its terms the grand celebration In the metropo- broadened to refer to the entire com 11s will be held In the auditorium of mittee. Colonel Warren accepted an Hie Salem Commercial club at eight amendment to that effect and it was o'clock next Tuesday evening, It was unanimously adopted by a viva voce announced Thursday by King BIng vote. In support of his resolution, Col Clancey. ' I nel Warren told the. committee tha' Because no other general meeting it might as well face the race issue will be held before the Rose Festival in that way for the good of the par and all members should be on hand ty. Committeeman Hert of Kentucky to be admonished ot their duties on supports dthe motion and declared that occasion the King Is very deslr- that since Kentucky of its own act ous of having all of his followers pres- ion had admitted negro voters and rnt , delegates freely, the republican elec- "I am not even asking the Cherrlans torate had teen ; greatly increased, to attend this meeting," King Blng The southern committeemen made no Clancey said, "their presence Tuesday objection to the resolution as It wat night is demanded." Final detail, of the participation of the Cherrians In the gala festivities In Portland during the festival will be discussed and arrangements will be completed at this meeting. Bubonic Plagne Gains Washington, June S. A radio mes sage from the destroyer tender Black Hawk at Vera Cruz said that four new cases of bubonic plague, with one ad ditional death, had been reported at that port. Two Directors Will Be Elected In June . . t r.t! hQf SCtlOOl Jjaa JOU ' nthitiwh nnlv IT davs remain In I .hih tr, filo declarations qf candt-1 dacv for directorship in the Salem ! school district, no interest in in school election of June 21. has been shown. Except for the election of fwo di rectors to succeed Walter C. Wlnslow and E. T. Barnes, whose terms have expired. Neither directors have ex pressed themselves as to whether they will seek reelection. Salem school di rectors are chosen for three year term The election is held in sccordance the the first Monday in June as tora! dates. SALEM, ,r battleship known could even sight the Tennessee. This new 'device consists or three decks and their fighting complement is 25 men. By special signaling devices, reports from this fighting top can be flashed Instantly to all parts of the ship. This righting brain" Is filled with deli cate Instruments never before used on a battleship. Another important feature is her electrical control -of speed, enabling her to quickly change from her ca pacity speed of 21 knots to an almost Imperceptible motion. Her size makes possible spacious lockers, baths and recreation quarters. She has a handsomely furnished club room and library , for enlisted men. She has a printing shop with a lino type machine and presses on which a dally newspaper will be printed. The Tennessee is the first battleship to be equipped with a motion picture cam era. She will not actually be put into service until Augyst 1 when she will sail on a practice cruise to Cuba. Her present crew of Tennesseeans num ber 31. Navy Graduates Advised To Cast Off Traditions Annapolis, Md., June S. Upon the spirit and will of Its officers to cast off "slavery to tradition" and venture In to the realm of things new and untried depends the future strength and effN clency of the American navy, Secre tary Daniels told the graduating class of midshipmen at the naval academy here today in presenting diplomas te its 89 members. - - ."To some men tradition Is s task master, a hard rule. a. hetn nuth deed. "No two wars were ever won by the same tactics and a few by the earns weapons. The military leader oi (fit future may navigate his ships by rdlo and the day- may even come when all his fighting craft may be 'airj naviei battling in the central mlue.' Negro Rights Recognized by Republicans Chicago, June 3. By unanimous, resolution today the republican na tiorial committee directed Chairman Hays to notify all state organizations The committee attempted to avoid are not admitted. Charles B. Warren, fnnimlltumDn fmm HJii Icra n rv, ... .a1 ,v, .,,. l Ing to the south,"' that contests on similar grounds must not be permit ted to come up at. the next national convention. Southern committeemen headed by W. H. Jackson of Georgia Drotes--d that the resolution as formed was a .amenaea 10 eliminate specinc reter to the southern states. Home Coming Day Here Is June 11 Salem Home Coming -day, an annual occasion when old time Salem resi dents return to the city from their present homes and bask for a time In the shadows of the state capital and In the memories of days spent here, will be held Frldav, June 11, It was an nounced Thursday. Committees of Sa lem ladies have been working diligent ly for some time arranging a program for the day. which has just been com pleted. The The celebration will center around a basket social under the trees of Wilson park. Those attending are asked to brine their baskets and luncheons Tables will be arranged and coffee j erved. Governor Olcott will address! the assemblage, as will other speak ers. Musical and singing numbers are included in the program. Portland Banker Advanced San Francisco, June . Announce ment that he had been elected first z-irm nmident of the Wells Fargo Ne vada National bank of this city was: negro sailors clashed In street fight sent to Harry B. Ainsworth, director ! ing last night and early this morning of the United States National bank ofj ln this city. Several revolver shots Portland. He succeeds F. W. Lipp- were fired, but resulted in. no casual- elei-Uian. recently elected president of the j 'bank. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE Investigation of Campaigns Nearly Over Washington, June 8. Horace & Stebbins of New' Torkj first treasurer of the Lincoln-Wood league. - and sought by subpoena servers of the sen ate investigating committee- for sev eral days,, wired the committee today rroro Montreal that he had just heard of the search for him and desired to testify. He will be heard tomorrow. Tw Witnesses Remain. ' Washington, June t. With only two witnesses of the; subpoenaed list re maining to- be heard, the senate' com. mittee investigating - pre -convention campaign expenditures expected today to suspend temporarily Its activities. One of the two witnesses to be hearu was Warren Gregory, named aa the leader, in. the Herbert Hoover cam paign In the California primary. W. B. Burtt, assistant to Colonel William - Cooper Proctor, national chairman of the Wood campaign com mute, was the first witness called to day. In business life, he said, he was "assistant and confidential man for" Ambrose Monell of New York, who, it has ben testified, was a heavy con tributor to the Wood campaign fund. Evidence Voluminous. Mr. Burtt said he had brought pa pers from the Wood national commit tee, and produced a suitcase and two bundles, from which he took a set ot formidable looking ledgers. Mr. Burtt said one ot the volumes contained all the requests for funds fil- ed with the national Wood commutes , by state and district managers and no- tation of the action taken. "In order to carry out your work In ' a business Ilka way," Chairman- Ken yon observed, "your committee found it necessary ttS have printed a blank form headed 'requests for funds, " AH are Asked to Assist Shrine rs Here on Visit Day A rather unusual situation has de veloped In regard to the stores closing on Shrlner day, Wednesday, June 23. The Business Men's league', In voting to close stores that day, did so for the express purpose of niacins: at liberty all those who work In stores ,ln order! , Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt watch that all-might help in the entertain- ed today' proceedings from the -ros-ment of the 6000 Shriners and 'their trum as an assistant to Secretary Mil wives, , , I ler. v . It developed Thursday that, taking Women's Pari Considered, advantage of the holiday given by the I The national committee's sub-com-stone owners, a number of clerks and mittee to consider the part women are others were planning to leave the city to play ln the government of this party on picnics. That Instead of staying In held a pre-breakfaat session todav but the city to aid ln entertaining the vis- I "u inciuBiiuuiy giving me cijy a live appearance many were planning '. to leave the city. In a discussion of the situation, &' prominent business man said that the ' women and to advise the sub-commlt-stores were, to close, not that people tee so that a definite plan may be rec- might run away from the visitors, but that all might be given an opportunity to assist. There will be thousands to serve with luncheon at the state house grounds and this will require organized effort. But the main feature of the holiday granted by stores, Is that everyone In town should remain In the city that day. While each may not be asked to take a prominent part, It I to be tin- uersiuuu miner uihi uie nouaay was given, not for picnics, but that each ! may remain in the city ready to render anv service if caJed UDon. Wednesday, June 23, Is not a holl- j can women, havs been invited to at day ln any sense but just a time when tend. About 300 are expected to take the business Interests of the city feel part In the deliberations, that from a community Intereet, clerks i , Williams on Committee, should not be obliged to stay In stores The sub-committee which mot this but should be given the opportunity to at least remain subject to calL And incidentally give tne capital city the appearance of being the liveliest cap!- , tal city In the United Btates. Pest Infected Houses Will Be Burned. Report Mexico City, June 3. One-third of the houses of Vera Cruz will be burn led because of the bubonic plague In- I 1 1 I. Uaa KaAH tiMaj4 ka, Ik. aHI. zens or inai cur, awsormog ly iut k. celsior today. Japanese Sugar May Be Imported At Big Reduction Seattle, Wash., June 3. Japanese centrifugal sugar, a crystallized sugar product, can be laid down In Seattle for approximately 117 per hundred pounds, according to Information re ceived from Kobe by a Seattle export ing and Importing company ,and made public today. The Information said be ttween 80,0 and 90,000 tons of the Japanese product are now available for export. Another Importing firm announced 55,000 tons of Japanese, formosa .nu - about 6000 tons to San Francisco. White And Negro Sailors Clash Newport, Va., June 3. White and ties. The encounter was csuned by quarrsi over a woman. 3, 1920. LATE BULLETINS , Washington, June. 3. The postal pay increase bill was passed today by the house by the unanimous vote of the 343 members present. Washington, June 3. The senate was asked today by Sen ator Pomerene, democrat, Ohio, to authorize the committee inves tigating pre-convention political financing to extend its inquiry to the presidential and senatorial the elections in November. Washington, June 3.-r-The grant President Wilson's request date over. Armenia was ordered affairs committee. Chairman Porter said he di dnot expect to i ftsk house action until tomorrow. Constantinople, June 8. The ceived a dispatch saying that the the capital of Persia. Washington. June 3. Return of the proposed treaty with Colombia to the senate for final tto the senate foreign relations appointed to draft an amendment on Seats Still Being Heard Chicago, June 8. Hearings on the contests for seats In the republican national convention, which opens here next week are still being heard the national committee today. One Contest Withdrawn. by 'In the sixth Tennessee district it was announced that Harry A. Luck of Nashville had withdrawn his contest. J. C. R. McCall of Nashville, untn. structed. was seated. He was olalmed for Wood. The first contest taken up today was the suspended Florida case, the dis pute between the. Wood faction head ed by National Committeeman Bean and that led by H. L. Anderson of Jacksonville, reported to favor John son. Jacob L. Babler of St. Louis, the Missouri national committee man who ed the senate investigating oommlt-, tee of receiving Lowdan funds, arrived today and took his seat in the com- I mittee. . failed to reach definite conclusions. victor Heintx or Cincinnati, mm-west region director for the national com- mittee, was commissioned to nresent certain views to leading republican ommended to the full national com- mittee next Monday. The committee Is confronted with the task of harmonizing the views of twd schools of thought among the wo men. One asks dual control of the party with parallel organization of men and women. The other said that "adequate representation" of the Contests men on the governing bodies of thel0PPortunlty 1 that the 1000 or more parties would be wiser. j cars neded for June 23 will be forth- A meeting of women has been called ; coming. t for Sundav afternoon and all feminine delegates and alternates to the eonven- It inn nth luu,llna morning consists of Coleman DuPpnt, Delaware; Rudolph Hvnlcka, uiru. John T. Adams, Iowa: R. B. Howell, Nebraska: Ralph E. Williams, Oregon. Robert Taft, son of former Presi-1 dict William Howard Ta and a Hoo-'tlve to the eastern boundary of Ju ver worker, was among the early ar-.llan Venetta has been followed, with rivals today. Mr. Taft has been pay-1 a few slight modifications. Abbaslu Ing particular attention to tha Ohio Just' west of FJume, would be under situation as It concerns the Hoover Italian sovereignty. The harbor how- movement and reports that he finds all of the delegates from that state, with one exception, In a favorable frame of mind toward Hoover after Wood and Harding have ceased to be contenders. Another arrival was H. H, Motter, state chairman of the party ln Kansas, Mr. Motter applauded yesterday's de - - . . . . . . to , -..,, tr, City, Mo., district. The More head delegates were seat ed. One contestant appeared to press the claim against them. The commit tee then passed to the Oklahoma con test. After the rehesring, the Florida ease got another postponement, decision being put over to I p. m. Meanwhile the committee took up the North Carolina - congest where a contesting delegation was asking for the seats to which the Morehead fac tion had been certified. The white delegates from the second Oklahoma district, L, G. Disney of Muskoge and O. O. Grant of Stillwater were seated. The negro contestants argued unsuccessfully that they were debarred from the Muskogee conven tion. Gas Thieves In Dallas Dallas, June I Walter Young, a mechanic In the Dallas garage was the first one in Dallas to learn of gaso line petty larcenists. His car was In its usual place In the garage last night and contained four gallons of gas. On attempting to start It this a. m. it would not go and upon Investi gation found that the gas had been drawn off. The Impossibility to gt the commodity for pleasure cars now Instigated the theft, no doubt. a campaign which will end with 1 senate resolution declining to for authority to accept a man out today by the house foreign Persian legation here has re bolsheviki had entered Teheran, . " action was recommended today committee by the sub-committee to the document. ' . ity F f A WOmeTl Delegates t m 1 . . . ASKed .. " Wear Small . Hats Chicago, June S. Women attending the republican national convention are 'standing on the side lines and malt asked by Mrs. Raymond Robins to! In P their slates have found no . . . . , reason for changing their opinion thW wear pjaln small hats and to take them L .orne . c.ndldate. aav. off as soon as they are seated in the conveniion nan. jars, nooins is ine.aoie rigniing eirengin in mo '- wlfe of the chlrman of the last pro gressive party convention and a prona lnent worker for the betterment of women's Industrial conditions. ' W. M. Bounds, a delegate to the re- publican national ' convention from Collins, Mass., appeared today adorned with a plaoard announcing;- . "I am waarins out m old clothes." Towns North of Salem to Lend f . CI I As the delegates begin to gather I ntQ fft hrinP there Is a foerrunner of discussion or vaio iu uauiuuth(j conventlon l8Bue, whCh win fia m expression In the party platform, and vThe people of Gervais, Brooks, Hub- tho wh0 ar, interested In having bard, Woodburn, Aurora and Canby ,hA 1(,kg . DOslt(on on various r fully alive to the Importance of bringing 6000 Shriners Into this part of the Willamette valley June 23, ac- ooraing to c. b. uiancey. wno spent Wednesday discussing snrine aay mat-j Ag a, the members of the ma ters with carowners north of the city, tional committee are freed from con In fact, all along the routs and In deration of ,bei (Matins of delega these towns,. car owners recognise the contesting foe seats, they will great advertising possibilities for tnn be free to give attention to the coa part of the valley and expressed Will- vent0n Issues. While the contests are Ingness to use thsir ears that day' in 0Q discussion of candidates, platform bringing Shrlners and their wive an(j prospects is to them left hand from Portland to Salem and return. work. T At all towns visited, car owners spoken to recognized the great oppor tunity offered of showing eastern vis itors the beauties of the Willamette , va"ey n1 calling attention to sum ! "e' conditions here that make this valley the Ideal summer touring grounds of the entire United Btates. With the completion of the, Paclfio highway through to California, thou-1 ;ands of tourists during the summer; months, it Is thought, will hereafter, tour the northwest Including the .Wil- lamette valley if climatlo conditions , ftre known, Mr Clancey Is of the opinion that wo-.8alem f11 awaken to the sTreat Ni11 Off 'fit 'C U W J I I H w Compromise To 'Jugo-Slav? Paris, June 1, Premier Nlttl of Italy has made to Jugo-Slavla new compromise proposals Intended to solve the Adriatic question, soys a Ilbach dispatch to the Matin. President Wilson's stipulations rein ever would be placed under the ad ministration of the league of nations and the suburb of Bussak would be given to the Jugo-Slavs. With the ex ception of Lussln and Cherso sltuat ed In the Gulf of Oarnere, southwest of Flume, all the Islands along the coast would go to Jugo-Slavla. which country would also receive all of Dal- . . a mail except the port of Zara, for planned. Flood Damage) Big Homer, Neb., June 1. Property damage to Homer and surrounding towns by flood waters from" Omaha creek Tuesday Is estimated at more than 11.000.000. The flood followed a cloudburst hear here. Sinitur Johnsing one ot the dark horsea . 'Is ' PRICE TWO CENTS: John icn Harding A re First Inline Chicago, June 8. Two republican presidential candidates, Senator John son of California and Senator Hard ing of Ohio arrived in Chicago to day and their coming marks the lw- ginning ot the active days of the t re- convention period. Five days remain before the repub lican party assembles in the Colise um to pick its candidate and those five days are expected to contala crowds dhours of conferences, la minute alignment of forces, and final decisions among the campaign man agers. Every one of the candidates! except Herbert Hoover Is expected ihere at some time I TiZZ Tthe fgate, are beginning to arrive, roe majority of them are technically un Pledged but most of them have tnmr leanings and very few of them are claimed by less than three campaign manager Some of the chairmen ot the Incoming delegations are announa ,inet. the,.r. 'rr.?. -JSEZl of success, but the political manage J enough delegates to give them formtdV tion. It Is going to take more thaw two or three ballots to show whew the forces of conciliation ana cow promise mustj be applied to brinar forth a candidate who will commaad a majority. If the realm ot speculation were ta be entered It would be necessary to mention practically every candidate who has announced nimseii every one of those candidates has a manager who advances a set of reas ons why his principal Is the logical choice for a convention which will not be prepared to give a majority ot Its votes to any one at the outset. Issues Make Appearance -uhionu are busy lining up Influenc M whon they expect to be effective ln tne deliberations of the resolution commiuee. Government Urged To Back Business i r-mMnniti. o.. June I. Sneaking t .the Cincinnati chamber of com merc(, Harry Ai wheeler, president ot I th chllmuer 0 commerce of the Unl M Bllltel ur((ed that.the government i. ., ,Mt ltgl)lt unaerneath business In helpful way. experlitlly In the expo fiM ,ugt M England and other cou" ,,. 'hn , j Mr Wheeler Insisted that America t desiring to operate In toreig . j countrle to given charters from tt United Btates government. British Flag Is Burned By Irish Sympathizers Washington, June 8, -The state de partment today asked the District ot -Columbia commissioners for a state ment of fact as to the burning of a British flag yesterday In front of tha treasury by women sympathizers with ' Irish freedom. Mrs. Nancy Wiggins Claimed By Deathi Nancy Elizabeth Wiggins, age si, , wife of H. G. Wiggins. Salem Heights, . Idled at the family residence ther Wednesday. The funeral will be held ' from the Baptist church under di rection ot tne ierwiumer num.. burial will be in the sftery at Weeping Water. Nebraska. The funer- al will be at 10 a. m. Friday. Hfr- VL'teraXnm I'll A tfelo Mrs. Wiggins was a life long mem ber of the Baptist ehurch. and member of the Eastern Star In IIU nois. Besides her husband she is sur vived by one son, Don W. Wiggins, of Salem Helghtsj The city council of Hillsboro ham passed a resolution that no penomt 'shall conduct dances In the Shute park pavilion. " Abe Martin will report both the republican and democrat ic conventions for the Car ttal Journal. Abe is the foremost hu morist of America and hia convention" reports will be a scream. Don't miss 'em. ' Abe is now among the pol iticians at Chicago and wires: "What we want in this country is an elastic currency that'll stretch from one Sat urday t' another." v