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U. s., BRITAIN, JAPAN FAVOR 3-POWER PACT MOTHER JONES NEAR 100 Agreement W ill Cut Am eri can Navy 200,000 Tons. London. — An agreement between America, Great Britain and Japan on the basis ot a three-power navy limita tion treaty was formally recorded at a meeting of delegation chiefs from those nations to the London naval con ference. This trl-party agreement, putting an end to competition In navy building among the principal naval powers, will be concluded In the event a failure to reach a compromise on the differences between Great Britain. France and Italy makes a five-power treaty an Impossible achievement. A fter Aristide Brland, French for eign minister, conferred with Secre tary ot State Henry L. Stlmson and Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow at the American headquarters, however, mem bers of the American delegation pre dicted that a five-power agreement would be announced at the next plenary session. M. Brland, It was officially stated, had called to report to the Americans the progress of the Anglo-French nego tiations on the security guarantees France Is demanding and the reduc tion In French tonnage claims Great Britain Is calling for. W ith the approval of the Anglo- American-Japanese agreement mem bers of the American delegation con sider their navy limitation objectives virtually accomplished. Mr. Stlmson still maintains this three-power agree ment represents a reduction of 200,000 tons In the American navy built, build ing, or provided for. The American delegates point out that Anglo-American agreements have now been reached on a lower tonnage basis for cruisers than Great Britain would consider at the 1027 Geneva conference, and on what they regard as a substantial parity in combat strength. The British demanded 70 cruisers ag gregating 400,000 tons at Geneva. They now accept 50 cruisers aggre gating 330,000 tons. America, which wanted a limitation of 250,000 tons at Geneva, now agrees on 827,000 tons. America must build a great cruiser fleet to approximate a parity with Great Britain. This In crease will be offset by a reduction, of battleship fleets, now assured by Ja pan's agreement to scrap Its oldest capital ship,the battlecruiser Kongo. America Is to scrap three and Great Britain five. America withdraws its demand for the right to build a super-dreadnought the equal of Great Britain’s Rodney, which Mr. Stlmson proposed because of the American Inferiority In battle ship strength. As a result ot this scrapping. Great Britain and America will have 15 battleships each, and Ja pan nine. Great Britain Is to be allowed the same privilege for the same reason. America, having fallen behind Great Britain and Japan In navy building, will be fully occupied In all available yards for the next five years. The American delegates are confi dent the senate will ratify the treaty, Including the consultative pact. They believe the American people will re gard the ending of navy building com petition as outweighing the conces sions made. The principal concession to Great Britain was the acceptance of the lim itation to 18 eight-inch gun cruisers for the American navy Instead of the 21 President Hoover originally de clared essential to parity establish ment. Japun, demanding 70 per cent of America’s big cruiser strength and total auxiliary tonnage, was given 60 per cent of the tonnage of America's 18 big cruisers, but, by virtue of Amer ica's agreement to complete only 15 by 1030, gets in reullty a 72 per cent ratio during the life of the treaty. Japan Is also given 00 per cent of the aux iliary tonnage and a parity In subma rines. Senate Passe* * Measure to Increase Pension* Washington. — The senate passed bills to provide pensions of *50 a month for soldiers and sailors of the regular establishments and their de pendents for disability Incurred In service, *30 a month to all who served in the wnr against Spain, the Philip pine insurrection and the China re lief expedition, and *72 a month to anyone who served In the Civil, Mex ican or 1812 wars. A dm iral Byrd and Four Companion* Delay Return Dunedin, New Zealand.—Hear Ad miral Richard E. Byrd and four of his men are the only members of the Antarctic expedition remaining here, the other 23 having set sail for the United States on the Eleanor Rolling. Byrd desires to accept numerons Invi tations to visit New Zealand cities and he and four companions probably will not leave here until April 24. Thursday, April 10, 1930 THE HERMISTON HERALD Page 4 OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERALJNTEREST Principal Events of the Week Assembled for Information of Our Readers. Central Oregon’s first forest fire ot 1*30 blacked a small strip of land on the Fremont highway right of way. Ancient automobiles that have been on vacant lota and streets In Bend for many years are to be gathered up by the city authorities and made Into • huge bonfire. A special election In the Cove school district has been called to vote on floating an *8000 bond Issue to build and equip a new gymnasium and re creation halL Raymond Turnldge, 8-year-oId son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Turnldge, was burned to death when the explosion of * kerosene lamp set fire to the family home near Willamina. Mother Mary Jonas. Upper Marlboro, Md.— Hundreds of 'pilgrims" will Journey here on May 1 to greet "Mother” Jones, famous labor leader, on the one hundredth anniver sary of her birth. 11 K IL L E D IN B L A S T A T F IR E W O R K S P L A N T Many Employees Injured; 200 Dwellings Are Wrecked. Philadelphia.—Eleven persons lost their lives and more than thirty were Injured when a series of explosions virtually wiped out the plant of the Pennsylvania Fireworks Display Com pany, Inc., at Devon, 16 miles west of Philadelphia. Most of the dead were employees of the plant, which was comprised of ten small buildings on a seven-acre tract near the main line of the Penn aylvanla railroad. Although hospitals reported treat ing only about twenty Injured persons, many more were treated on the scene by emergency ambulances. Many others In the 200 homes which state police reported were damaged, were treated by family physicians. The explosions were terrific. The shock of the heavier explosions were felt 30 miles away. Heavy damage was done to houses nearby tenanted by workers. Roofs were caved in, porch roofs wrecked and window» blown out. There was extensive minor oamnge over a large area, some places more than a mile away being affected. At times the exploding fireworks sounded like machine guns. Rescuers were forced to remain at a distance until the explosions ceased, when hun dreds of persons rushed Into the scene Planting Season Keep* Pace Despite M arket* Washington.—Farmers are going Into the new season with production pro gram similar to that of recent years despite declining commodity markets and a general feeling of economic un certainty, says the bureau of agricul tural economics of the Department of Agriculture In its April report on the farm situation. "The new season," the bureau says, "appears to be opening up favorably and spring work la- fairly well ad vanced over most of the country. A large proportion of the oats are In ground, spring wheat sowing la under way and coni planting Is alreudy progressing northward toward the corn belt proper. “The general commodity price level during recent weeks has fallen In this country to a point some 8 or 10 per cent below a year ago and to the low est levels since 1021-22. hut the same thing. In decree, has been happening all over the world. M i»* O rc n tt W ia* Tourney Southern I'lnea, N. C —Miss Mauren Orcutt, eustern and metropolitan wom en’s golf champion, won the raid-south tournament for women wttli a score of 240 for the 54 holes. Glenna Collett, national champion, was second with 244. M * * * * « h n * * *t t* Back* D ry L aw Boston. Mass.—The Massacliusetta senate defeated by 20 votes to 11 an Initiative petition for Hie rejieul of the state prohibition enforcement act. Pre viously the house of representatives defeated the petition 123 to 110. Rasa Plank in S ta te P la tfo rm Jamestown, N. D.—lte|>eal of the Eighteenth amendment and the Vol stead act was urged In a plank In the platform adopted by the North Dakota state Democratic convention. 43 H ead e f Steell B e n i Preston, Iowa.—Twent.v-one milk cows. I t horses and I I calves were burned to death In a fire which de stroyed a large ban» on the farm of William Wllcke. The total loss Is estimated at »Ift.OOft Norfolk, Va.—With the area in the Richmond district developing a,on« Industrial lines, ocean-going steamers now are plying np and down the James river between Norfolk and the capital city. 10 Deed e f B eer Trlcbiaoal* Seek Sakaal BIM o Cearaa S team er* P ly R iver Stuttgart, Germany.—The proprietor Memphis. Tenn.—A resolution ask of the restaurant which a few days Ing establishment of special courae« ago served bear meat to Its patrons to of Blble study In llemphla puhlh deed of trichinosis. He was tbs tenth schoolt has been adopted hy thè Victim. Protesi snt Pastora’ associa tlon bere The state land department turned over to the state treasurer during the month of March a total of *129,171.0», according to a report prepared by ■George G. Brown, clerk of the state land office. Committees from Medford, Bend, Ashland and Phoenix will meet with the baseball committee of the. Kla math Falls Elks Sunday at Klamath Falls to form a Southern Oregon base ball league. Selection of timbered land on both ■ides of the Salmon river near Grand Ronde aa a site for the establishment of a national forest by state and na tional authorities was announced at McMinnville. The 16,000-pound load lim it signs ot the Old Oregon trail between Baker and North Powder were taken down and the regular lim it of 22,000 pounds re-established. The road is said to be In good condition. Lorraln Laxon won the Malheur county declamatory contest for On tario. Marjorie Humphrey took sec ond place for Vale. Third place went to Valley View, Edith Brown being the champion of rural schools. A dividond of 2.8 per cent baa been declared by the state bank examiner on claims growing out of the defunct Jacksonville bank, which closed Its doors a number of years ago. The present dividend w ill close the matter Indefinitely. Ole B. Olson. 40, fishing crew super intendent for the Columbia River Packers’ association, was killed In stantly on the Astoria-Seaslde high way when he was struck by an auto mobile driven by L. S. Leach, deputy dairy and food commissioner. Lebanon’s annual strawberry fair la to be financed thia year by direct sub scription by business men. This will obviate the need ot a queen contest to raise funds. Enough money baa already been pledged to cars for the financial needs of the festival. Klamath Falla’ water aupply was In creased 1000 gallons per minute re cently with the completion of a larger well near Link river by the California- Oregon Power company. Thto means E000 gallons per minnte dally w ill be pumped into tanks for civic use. Announcement has been made by R. J. Hubbard, manager of the W in chester Bay Lumber company, that the mill, closed for the past three months, resumed operations with a toros approximately of 250 men. Thto means a payroll of about *20,000 a month. Word haa Just been received at the Owyhee Irrigation district office at Nysaa that the contracts for ths two large tunnels of the Owyhee project have been awarded by the bureau ot reclamation. Tnnnel No. 1 to to be SH miles long, and tunnel No. 5 to to be four miles long. W ith these awards more than *10.000,000 worth ot work Is under contract on ths Owy hee project T H R MARKRTS Portland Wheat—Big Bend blueatem, *1.23; soft white and western white, *1.13; hard winter, northern spring and west ern red, *1.10. Hay—Alfalfa, *1 * per ton; valley timothy, *20.50 0 3 1 ; eastern Oregon timothy, *23.50024; clover, *17; oal hay. *17; oats and vetch, *17.50013. Butterfat—37041c. Eggs— Ranch. 21024c. Cattle— Steers, good. *11011.75. Hogs—Good to choice, ,9.75010.75 Lambs—Good to choice, *9.25010. Seattle Wheat—Soft white, western white, *1.11; hard winter, northern spring *1.10; western red, *1.0*; bluestem »1.31. Egg«—Ranch, 25029c. Butterfat—40c. Cattle—Choice steers. *11015. Hopa— Prime light. 510 80O10.75. Lari be— Choice, *»010. •pokana Cattle— Steers, good, *10.26011. Hex«—Good to choice, *10.60. Lambs—Medium to good, *9.50015 The board of trustees of Albany col lege has voted to build ■ modern gym naslum to be ready for use next tall Including equipment, the coat ot th* structure to estimated at *50,000. COSGRAVE IS RE-ELECTED WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS Poetofflce receipts In Eugene during Br C E O *G £ DORSKV, Ph. D . L t. B. the Brat quarter of 1930 amounted tc *41,99*.11, according to D. E. Toran, f t - ................................................ postmaster. Tbto to aa increase oi Death Rate I* Declining mors than 12 per cent over the re H ER E to every reason to believe celpta of the first quarter in 1929 and that we may look forward to a to taken as an indication ot the growth greatly Increased control over evolu tionary processes. Why not! Think of the city. Alpine, a small school on upper But of the already enormously Increased ability to control growth In living or ter creek, took the three first prise* ganisms. Thto control haa only come at ths divisional declamatory contest with an understanding of the nature for high school students. The same of the stuff or organisms In which en school won three out of four of the ergy to transformed, and of the rela Bret prizes In the grade contest tion of organisms to the external Boardman won nearly all of the see world. W ith wider understanding will come wider control. But progress ond places. A total of *101,170 wae reached dur must be slow, because, as Child warns us, we deal with Internal conditions lng March by the city of Klamath which are the result of millions of Falla for building permits. Of thia to years of alternating change. tal 68 permits were Issued for resi I t to all so new. There are today dences, further evidence, according to a half-dozen flourishing sciences de realtors, of the rapid growth, not only voted to the study of life where a few In the business section, but through years ago there waa not one. For the first time In human history man out the city. W illiam T . Coaqrava. Unusually warm March weather at has trained his new-found Instruments of precision on newly conceived prob Dublin, Irish Free State.—W illiam Roseburg has caused much damage to lems. He can at last ask questions broccoli, with temperatures ranging about himself and about life In gen T . Coagrave waa re-elected president of the executive council of the Irish dally from 76 to 82 degrees maximum. eral. Direct questioning haa replaced Free State parliament by a vote ol The heads have spread out Instead ol vague and childish speculation. Prob- 80 to 65. President Coegrave returns to maturing smoothly, and also have lews have been formulated and solved. power after only a five day lapse. Hia been sunburned and discolored, mak And every problem solved has opened ministry, having held on since 1022, wider vistas—and more problems. But fell a few days ago by a two vote ing them unfit for shipment. no problem waa ever solved by propa margin on extending old age pensions. For the first time In the history of ganda. Nor to disease checked by Masonry In Oregon, so far as grand mere optimism—though digestion can President Coagrave opposed the ex tension aa being too great a financial lodge officials know, a public cere be checked by a bill collector and a burden. mony for conferring life memberships mouse’s heartbeat Increased from 175 upon veteran members was held re to 600 per minute by a mouse trap. cently by Cottage Grove Masonic The death rate to declining; lt haa T A R IF F M E A S U R E IS Lodge. Milton L. Myers, Salem, grand been declining for centuries. Men SENT T O CONFERENCE born today can expect longer life than master, represented the grand lodge. men born twenty— fifty— five hundred, Marion Cox, 43, sought a refund of or five thousand years ago. Why thia *3 at Oregon City tor the marriage li to so to not at all well understood. Bill May Be Ready in Three cense he didn’t use, but the Clacka The decline In death rate In modern Weeks for Final Vote. mas county clerk refused him. Cox times Is as true of “backward” coun didn't use the marriage license be tries as It Is of Germany, England, Washington. — The Smoot-Hawley cause Ella Strucken, 20, changed her the United States. The drop Is aleo tariff bill waa aent to conference aa mind Just as the minister was about as true of the non-preventable dis the house settled the question by a eases as of those which are supposed record vote of 221 to 153 and both the ready to tie the matrimonial knot. to be subject to control. senate and house appointed conferees. A packrat gnawing on matches ft I t to estimated that the conferees The part that health officers, etc., had carried into a nest In a store play In this decline to uncertain. W ar may take from three to six weeks to room caused a Bre at Bend which re haa been Increasingly waged against adjust the differences In the rates and sulted In considerable damage to a tuberculosis for nearly a century; the other sections of the bills passed by local grocery store. When the place ' tuberculosis rate has dropped less the two chambers. The house members of the confer where the fire originated was examin I tlian that for diphtheria, croup, ence are Representatives W lllla C. ed, the packrat was found burned to ' typhoid, and dysentery. The cause of many diseases to yet Hawley, of Oregon, chairman of the death In its nest, with blackened unknown, of others only partially sur house ways and means committee; matches nearby. Allen T. Treadway, of Massachusetts mised. W ith the enrollment of 89 new stu Startling facta come from phyaio- and Isaac Bachrach, of New Jersey, dents, the University of Oregon has i logical- laboratories, They force na to Republicans, and John N. Garner, of reached a new high campus figure of , revise our conceptions of life and Texas, and James W . Collier of Mia 3262 at the close of the second day death, of yonth and old age. All alsslppl, Democrats. The senate conferees are Senators of the spring term, ft was announced protoplasm to potentially immortal. by Earl M- Pallett, registrar. Thto Man to protoplasm. H ence. . . But Reed Smoot, of Utah, chairman of exceeds the entire total for 1929, when man to highly complex protoplasm— an the senate finance committee; James E. Watson, of Indiana, and Samuel 3242 were enrolled. A tew more are organism of Infinite complexity, of j Shortridge, of California, Republicans, tissues and organa and systems great expected to enter. ly differentiated, some more, some and F. M. Simmons, of North Carolina Word was received at Roseburg re less. This mass of protoplasm func and Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, Dem cently that the senate has approved tions, lives, because these parts work ocrats. Senator Smoot said he expected the Senator McNary’s bill appropriating a together for a common end. They are tract ot 160 acres on Little river, 26 marvelously balanced. Upset the bal bill to come out of conference for a miles east of Roseburg, for public park ance: disease; i f the balance cannot final vote In about three weeks, ami added that the senate conferees would purposes. The county recently ap be restored, the machine to broken. come back t<r the senate for Instruc A few minor parts may be restored; plied for thto land, which to in the tions on the flexible provisions and Oregon and California grant, and will a few many be dispensed with. The the debenture amendment. The house machine breaks when a vital part open It for park uses. leaders have an agreement with cer breaks. I t never runs again. tain western Republicans that votes Lake county sheepmen have or Isolate the liver or one brain cell ganised the Lakeview Woolgroweiw’ and study lt a lifetim e: liver as func w ill be bad on cement, sugar, lumber Co-operative association and will co tion and cell as behavior are as mean and shingle* before the house con ferees are permitted to settle the dif operate with California woolgrowers' ingless and aa lifeless aa a last year’s ference in rates on those Items. The association In marketing thto season's blrdneat The parts of the human house action In sending the bill to con clip. About one million pounds of body are meaningless In and by them ference was taken on a roll call vote wool In Lake, Klamath and Modoc selves. Put some cell» In a glass Jar on the rule brought in for that pur and watch them grow. Where does counties w ill he handled through the this land net Those cells are Im pose. newly formed corporation. mortal—In "proper medium." Organization of the dairymen of Each of the billions of cella In the I. C. R. R. A d d * $2,000,000 Linn county for the advancement of human body must also be kept In in Orders for Equipment Those cells them the industry was effected at a coun proper medium. Chicago.—Expenditures for equip ty-wide meeting held In Albany re selves are the medium. On their own ment by the Illinois Central railroad cently. D. O. Woodworth, Albany, re shoulders rests the harden of keeping for 1930 w ill top snch appropriations that medium proper; they and they tiring president of the Oregon Jersey alone can right the machine, they and for 1929 by *2,000,000. The road Cattle club, was elected county chair they alone know the levers. I f they spent »8,000,000 In 1929 for new loco man to carry out plans outlined by cannot reverse, there cornea a crash. motives, cars and other Improvements, P. M. Brandt, state chairman. but thto year the equipment appropria The machine to broken. As a result of the increased federal Nothing yet haa come from the tions w ill total *10,000,000, it was an appropriation for the benefit-of feder- laboratory to give ns hope that the nounced In a statement Issued by L. al-alded highways la the various states crash to not Inevitable. All vital A. Downs, president. Ths road soon will ask for bids on Oregon will receive, beginning thto processes are reveralble; they mdat year, *600.000 la excess of Its previous 'be. To live to to keep making com 2,330 units of equipment to cost abont *9,000,000, In addition to orders total federal allowance, ft to announced by pensations: changes, backward and ing 51,000,000 which already have been forward. Simple organisms have It In Roy Klein, state highway engineer. themselves to make these compensa placed. For several years the federal appro Included In the new equipment will tions; they have their dynamic priation has been approximately *75,- be 9 electric locomotives, 1,000 auto- equilibrium In their own hands. 000,000, of which Oregon received *1 / Man does not: it to the price he furniture cars, 1,000 gondola cars, 200 200,000. Oregon w ill receive *2.000,- pays for hands. Hands wear o u t flat cars. 15 mall, baggage and ex 000 nnder the new apportionment Even brain cella We cannot grow press cars, 15 passenger cars. 20 elec The state treasurer sent to tho new hands or new brains They grow tric suburban cars, 65 cabooses, 2 rail state's fiscal bank la New Tork city up together, though of different herit motor cars and 4 diners. a check for *2,190,768.2», covering the age, the brain being far mors ancient, retirement of *887,500 of state high hence more enduring. They live to Federal T a x Collection way bonds, *711.514.64 Interest on out gether, a pin-prick on the finger may be the death of the brain. Show* M arked Increase standing highway bonds and »691,- Tlie break may come from within, Washington.—Total federal tax col 753.75 Interest on Oregon veteran*’ or from without, or from anyone of a lections for the current fiscal year, state aid bonds. Outstanding highway vast number of causes which began last July L to April 1, bonds In Oregon now aggregate *80.- Pearson In his Chances of Death reached 51,812,137,800, an Increase of 004,250 aa compared with the original pictures a Bridge of L ife across 5128,000.000 over the same period a laanea of *38.700,000. The total bonded which to a trickle of humanity. They year ago, according to treasury fig indebtedness of the state haa been re are under the fire of the five marks ures. Income tax collection» for March, men. oae for each age. They fire with however, total 5550,508,700, a decreta* duced to *59,877.010. different weapons. apeeda, and degrees of *42,000,000. New wealth brought to Oregon by of precision. The first marksman famines locating during the Brat three concentrates a deadly firs upon In- C « M | . B ays * 4 0 ,0 0 0 Estate months ot 1930 to estimated at *557/ fancy—before as well as after birth; Northampton, Maaa.— Former I ’real 414. aaya W. G. Id», manager of the "heating down young Hvm with tlw ■Ute chamber ot commerce. Thto to Mines of their ancestors." The second dent Calvin Coolidge has purchased an estate known as "The Beeches." more than twice the 1939 figure foi ' marksman alma a machine gun at valued at *40,000, In a well aeculded the same period, which was *393.426 i childhood; his fire to concentrated, the section of thto city and will occupy According to the Bagley Caaala» ' loss la leas appalling. The third It within a few weeks shoots at youth with a bow and a r company, with plants at Ashland sad row; there Is no great losa. The Talent, the tomato acreage w ill he In C *■*»*■ C abin et T a b ** O atb fourth Brea slowly at maturity with creased 50 per cent In Rogue rivet ‘ a blunderbuss: bis hits are scattered. Berlin.—Chancellor Otto Kruenlng valley. The company to making prep The fifth marksman of death to a and hto coalition cabinet took the oath aret Iona to put np the largest pack sharpshooter; no one can escape the of office recently, which wae admin of tomxtuea la ita history thia yaar death of senility. istered by President ven Hlndenbnrg HE kr O«»t s * A. Drnmr-9 at hto residence. T CENSUS WILL BRING HOUSE ROLL CHANGE 28 State* M ay Be Affected, in Representation. Washington.—Important changes ft» the membership of the house w ill auto matically follow the fifteenth decen nial census, the taking of which 1* now In progress. A reapportionment of representation In conformity with the growth and shifting of the nation's popnlatio* w ill be made for the first time In 20 years and will become effective with the congress elected In 1932. Under the terms of the reapportlon- ment bill, passed last year, the census bureau estimates that 17 widely scat tered states w ill lose an aggregate of 23 members of the house and that 11 states w ill gain by the same number. I t to expected that the representa tion of the larger cities w ill be In creased, and, »Ince these are usually regarded as opposed to prohibition, a careful watch to being kept fo r the effect of the reapportionment upon the liquor Ijsue. In the bitter contest that preceded the passage of the reapportionment bill by the house, members from met ropolitan areas charged that repre sentatives of rural districts were at- tem-ftlng to defeat tho measure In an effort to prevent an Increase In the size of the house wet bloc. The wets hailed the passage of the bill as n victory. Although the Constitution provide* for reafiporilonment every ten years, the last took place In 1911 on t h * basis of the 1910 census. The law passed last year provides that In t h * futnre a reapportionment be made by every fifth congress, with congress re taining, to meet emergencies, the pre rogative of changing representation a t any time. Tlie cenaua bureau estimates that the states to gain In representation, are Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Wash ington, one each; California, s ix ; Michigan, four; Ohio, three, and New Jersey and Texas, two each. The states which probably will lose representation are: Alabama, Kan sas. Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts. Nebraska, New Tork, North Dakota. Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia, one each; Missouri, three; Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky an<3 Mississippi, two each. Senate to A ct on B ill* to Reduce Unem ploym ent Washington. — Legislative remedies, for unemployment. Including ■ stabil ization agency with authorization for- a *160,000.000 federal appropriation, are slated for final discussion on th e floor of the senate on Tuesday. April 15. • The senate agreed to take np t h * meaaurea hy Senator Wagner ( b e m . N. T .) after Ita commerce committee- had approved them. The committee action followed In tensive Investigation of present condi tions hy a subcommittee that heard- W illiam Green, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, and other» iden titled with labor paint dismal pic tures of the existing situation. Witnesses unanimously Indorsed t h * three Wagner measures. These would- expand government machinery for col lecting unemployment Information. Provision would be made that on t h * basls of thto Information a federal sta bilization board could accelerate or’t * - tard public construction to meet chang ing conditions. Lindy and W ife to Fly at Loftiest A ltitude» Burbank, C a llt—CoL Charles A. Lindbergh to watching the construc tion In an airplane factory of a new speed wing for hto private a ir speed ster. The wing was designed with re cesses to receive the landing wheels while the plane to In flight The snug shape of the plane with the wheels drawn Into the wing 1» expected to add twenty miles an hour to Its top speed. When the colonel and hto wife fly East at the conclusion of their w inter visit here, they w ill wear newly de signed electrically heated flying salts. Their Pacific and Atlantic sea coast flight to to be made at the loftiest al titudes ever used for such a trip. Coast A rtillery School Planned fo r F t M onroe Washington.— The moot complete const artillery establishment in t h * service will be soon assigned to F o rt Monroe, guarding the entrance t * Chesapeake bay. It was announced by the W ar department Anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, searchlights, rail way and tractor-drawn artillery and fixed harbor defense guns are being concentrateti at the post and will be used In practical demonstration and Instruction of coast artillery school students. T a Give Dog* T ria l la Coart Frankfurt. Ky.— Any dog In Ken tucky accused of sheep killing or oth er crimes will be entitled to a tria l In court, nnder the provisions of a bill passed by the general assembly which to now law. W a rn e d to C o t T e b a c* » A creage Washington.—The federal fa n * hoard haa sent a telegram to tha sta t* agricultural extension directors o t Kentucky warning fanners against increasing tobacco acreage for 1900.
