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Evening star., 1924-03-30

uated in a rolling scenic country and
is located near the village of viii.
mington. President Coolidge is ia.
miliar with this section of New Eng
land and is known to have be en
greatly interested in the photographs
of the Brown home and the immedi-
ate grounds and surrounding coun-
try. However, no intimation was
made that the President will accept
this offer.
1t is the opinion of those close to
the President that. no matter what
his longings may he when summers.
time comes, he is going to maintaIn
the summer White House and seat cot
government right here in Washing-
ton-that is, he will remain in tha
Capital, with the probable exceptiua
of one or two short trips
Evening star., 1924-03-30

frail boats were dashed against the
buildings and they were glad enough
to join the prisoners whose rescue
they were seeking. More than one
missed death by a hairs breadth.
Mayor koon just telephoned that
he would try to get boat down TO
us so some OF us could make the
break for liberty if we cared to take
the chance l am going if that boat
arrives and if you don't hear from
me again you will know the boat got
here and that l started, at least. As
soon as get to safety l Will get more
definite confirmation of conditions
elsewhere and let you know.
Stan Men mt Scene.
That was the last message The
Star received last night from it's
Cumberland correspondent. Two st aft
correspondents who had been sent
from Washington by automobile yes
terday afternoon. however. arrived
in Cumbe rland shortly before mid
night and more than confirmed the
reports Carl had given earlier. The
flood had reached it's peak, they said,
and showed no disposition of retirin &
quickly.
Seven hundred homes in C1mber-
land alone, they found, have been
inundated. The famous Fort Cum
berland Hotel is surrounded and its
guests and employees are trapped,
without prospect of escape for an
other day. Two dams up the Poto-
mac river had burst. and should the
Ebbitt dam give way the city would
be deprived OF it's supply of water
for drinking and sanitary purposes.
Wherever the waters do not cover
the streets Cumberland is q city of
men and women running around in
wild disorder, carrying lanterns and
flashlights, looking for friends or
relatives. Motorists have donated
their cars for lighting purposes and
here and there machines may be
found park ed, their headlights turn
I'd down the flooded streets. Weeping
mothers look for lost children; shiv-
ering little ones search vainly for
parents.
New Emergency Waited.
Every policeman and fireman in the
city has been on duty since morn
ing and fifty special policemen have
been sworn in to prevent looting.
Fears are opening expressed by the
authorities that the foundations of
some of the marooned buildings
cannot much longer withstand the
strain of the flood and corps of doc
tors and nurses wait at emergency
depots for duty on a minutes notice
Some of the moro important city
streets that are surrounded by the
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Man Nearly Drowned in Futile
Effort at Rescue.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, March 2s.-High
water caused one death here today
when Chester Spackman, four, fell into
the Elk river and was carried down
believed to have been carried through
culvert into the Conemaugh river.
Joseph Rowan. who was watching the
group of children play, .dived after the
child but was carried away by the
swiftly moving current and had diff
hculty reaching the bank
a section of the city was without
gas service tonight, a main having
been broken when n derrick loosed
from its moorings was washed against
it. Both Stoney creek and the Cone
mangh river have overflowed their
banks, flooding easements in the lower
sections. Street car traffic was sus-
pended in the flooded districts. The
rivers continued rising.
SIX ARE DEAD I'M OTTO
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MIDWEST STORM TOLL
Is rs DEAD HUNDREDS
INJURED; DAMAGE HEAVY

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the streets into snow canyons;
throughout the residential districts
in the Twin Cities, stranded auto
mobiles and exhausted pedestrians
showed other effects of the storm.
Most of this section of the north
west went to bed last night with
snow fiurries blowing; it awoke to
find mountainous drifts blocking
doorWays and blanketing streets.
Two Deaths Reported.
Hardy pedestrians started for
downtown offices and stores, and
many motorists, tightening tire
chains. set out in the same direction.
Invariably the pedestrians arrived
several hours late; sometimes the
motorists did, too, but frequently
on foot, leaving automobiles stalled
in impenetrable drifts.
Two deaths due indirectly to the
storm were reported in Minneapolis.
where leaky gas heater killed one
and IA motorist another. Several in
JurIcS Were reported. and a number
were exhausted from long plodding
through the snow
The snow still was falling here
early tonight with somewhat dimin
ished intensity with the official pre-
diction that II would continue sew
cral hours longer. The temperature
OF slightly below freezing was ex-
pccted to continue unchanged.
Valuable for Wheat
While the difficulties apd hardships
of the storm were being recounted
another phase was brought out in
from official sources, that
1t would result in immense benefit to
mo grain growers OF the northwest
The most wonderful thing that
could have happened in the north
west" was the characterization given
the storm by Dean w. c. Coffey of
the Minnesota Farm School. 1T is
much better than any rain could be,
1t viii put the soil in condition for
one OF the finest grain crops in the
history of the state"
Evening star., 1924-03-30
1.-TWO POETS OF SOUTH"
TO BE LECTURE TOPIC
Prof. Arthur Deering to Speak at
Knights of Columbus
Evening School.

Prof. Arthur Deering OF the Catholic
University Will lecture on Two Poets
of the South-Sidney Lanier and John
Bannister Tabb,' Tuesday night at 8
o'clock at the Knights of Columbus
Evening School.
Mrs. Frank O'Hara discussed Joseph
Conrad's The Rover in her current
fiction lecture Tuesday.
The first try-out for the oratorical
contest took place Thursday evening.
The first meeting OF the student
council was held Tuesday evening.
committees we're appointed as fol-
lows: organization and aims, J. r.
IyrreIl, Leroy Valentine. 0. L. Carl
ton ". "A. Creveling and Miss Mary
CraWley; student publications, Fran
cls Brassor. ID. +. Murphy and John
A. Orerholt The next meeting will
be held Tuesday.
Rev. DR.. John A Ryan will lecture
on Socialism" Friday evening at )
O'Clock. The public is invited
Harry F. Flynn of the typewriting
department was awarded a gold pin
e.. hiitN an average OF lOrty-
HSe words a minute for fifteen min
utes, with only three errors Mr.
FIynn also received a bronze medal
ior writing hfty-four words a minute
Tor hfteen minutes, with five errors.
IN the beginners typewriting class
j. y. storm was awarded a bronze
medal for writing forty-fou words
a minute for fifteen minutes, with
three errors, and Miss Leona Decker
received a certificate for thirty-one
words minute for fifteen minutes,
with one error.
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Gets Notre Dame Medal.

NoTRE DAME. Ind March 2s.--
Charles D. Maginnis, prominent Bos-
ton architect, was today named to
receive the Isaelare medal for 1924,
presented annually by the University
of Notre Dame to a. Catholic layman
in the United States in recognition of
distinctive service to his country and
b Is faith. MI. Maginnis is the forty
first recipient of the honor.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
ONE KILLED IN HURRICANE
Heavy Damage Caused by Wind in
Ohio County.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, March 29.-At
least one man was killed, another was
severely injured and thousands of
dollars of damage was caused this
afternoon by a hurricane that swept
diaSonally across Defiance county,
Ohio, approximately forty miles east
of here, according to information
available tonight
The dead man is Clinton ColwelI
aged thirty-four years, of RichIand
township, who was crushed under a
concrete block wall.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
SIX ARE DEAD IN OHIO.
Cold Weather Expected to halt
Floods in State.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March ss-with
colder weather predicted for tonight
and Sunday and no more rainfall ex-
pected, flood dangers in Ohio are be-
lleved to have passed tonight.
AT least six persons are known to
be dead in the state as result of
the high water and high winds, and
damage will run into thousands of
dollars, Many cities reported the
heaviest rainfall in years.
Ohio river are filled to overf1owing
as a result of heavy rains last night
and today, food dangers to Ohio cities
bordering on the river are considered
remote by w. C. Devereaux, weather
forecaster at Cincinnati
-Four Trainmen Drowned.
Flood waters in Hog Run creek,
south of Newark, caused a Baltimore
and Ohio freight train to crash
members of the crew to their death
in the water.
The Cincinnati and Dayton Traction
Company discontinued through serv-
ice at Hamilton because of the weak
ness of bridges. Thirteen feet of
river nearest to flood stage since
1913.
Heavy damage was done at Spring
field, where the waters from Buck
creek seeped into the powerhouse OF
tn Springfield Street Railway Com
pany, causing halt in stret car
service throughout the city. Low
lands were flooded, and more than
twoscore homes were under water.
Police and .firemen worked with boats
to rescue the occupants.
Bridges Are Submerged.
Swan creek, at Versailles, over
flowed it's banks and caused the
- Ice H.
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Bridges Are Submerged.

Swan creek, at Versailles, over
flowed it's banks and caused the
greatest food in the history of the
city with the exception of 1913.
Bridges to the east and west of towns
were submerged and traffic suspend
ed. Rescuers in boats removed fam.
lilies from near the stream.
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Evening star., 1924-03-30

Mrs. Frank O1Hara. discussed Joseph
conrads S The Rover" in her current
fiction lecture Tuesday.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
u. S. Bankers Stand
BY France in Crisis

New York-Reports that Germany
would reject the recommendation OF
the Dawes committee has had the eff
feet of aligning American bankers
more strongly than ever behind the
policies of the French government.
The first fear of American bankers
was that France would find it difficult
to accept the terms of the approach
ing report
During the past week this feeling
has been completely changed. The
belief now is that Germany will be
compelled by world opinion to accept
any terms regarded by the interna-
tional commission as workable and
bankers are carrying on preliminary
discussion of contemplated loan to
Germany.
This loan, it was said. would Of
course depend entirely upon Germany
and her attitude toward the plan.
Should she lose a step, as in the Viii
son flag incident, it was said, the in
ternational American houses would
feel that the chances for successful
flotation of loan here had been jeop-
ardized.
The German chancellor, DR.. Wilhelm
Marx, has declared in an address, that
the German government would con-
scientiously examine the report of the
experts committee to ascertain wheth-
er the obligations devolving upon the
German people embodied in the find
ings of the committee were within
Germany's capacity.
The government, he added, would
assent to undertaking only such obli-
cations as were within the capacity Of
the German people, though requiring
all their economic strength.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
II. f. STONE is NEW
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Former Columbia LGlD Dear,
Chosen by President.

Washington.-Ha Fiske Stone,
former dean of Columbia UniVer-
sity Law school, was nominated by
President Coolidge to fill the vacancy
in the cabinet through the resignation
of Attorney General Daugherty.
Mr.. Stone received his education at
Amherst and Columbia and was a
schoolmate of Coolidge at the former
college. He received his degree just
one year after Mr.. Coolidge.
President Coolidge told his political
advisers that by naming Mr.. Stone ne
was obtaining a $4,000 or $1OO,OOO-a-
year man for a $4,000 job.
Mr.. Stone has been on leave of abb
sence from Columbia for more than a
year. During that time he has been
with the New York law firm Of Satter-
lee, Garfield & Stone. He is direc-
tor Of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air
Line railroad and several other cor
porations. He is a Republican, but
never has taken an active part in
politics.
The selection of Mr.. Stone doubles
the representation of New York in the
cabinet, the other member being Sec
rotary of State Hughes.
Mr.. Stones resignation from Column
bia, which was submitted when he OBJ
tanned his leave of absence, was to
have taken effect in June, at the end
Of the present scholastic year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
u. S. GOVERNMENT
MARKET REPORT

Neutrality-suspicious. the week ending
April 2.-FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Northern sacked round white pota-
toess S125@1.35 in Chicago mostly
$1.05@1.15 at shipping points. Florida
Spaulding Rose, $13.50@l5.00 per dou-
ble-head barrel: Florida Bliss Tri-
umphs, $4.50@4.75 per bushel crate in
Cincinnati. Yellow varieties of onions,
$1.5002.25 sacked per 100 lbs. In con-
Stunning centers. Texas fiat and round
types cabbage. $5O.0O@70.00 bulk per
ton leading city markets. $500 @ 1900
(. o. b. Florida Golden self-bunching
celery. 1O-inch crates of 4-S dozen
stalks. 1918 @4.50 city markets Louis
lana Klondike strawberries. 24-pint
crates. $7.5O@s.0o in Chicago North
western extra fancy winesap apples
$2.O0@2.5O per box
LIVE STOCK-Chicag prices: Hogs,
$7.46 @7.50. Medium and good beef
steers, $8.10@11.75; butcher cows and
heifers, $390@1025; feeder steers. $5.25
@850: light and medium weight veal
calves. $7.25@11.75. Fat lambs. S14.lo
@16.50; feeding lambs, $14.00 Is: 70 !:
yearlings $12.00Q15.00; fat ewes. 1915
@11.75.
HAY-No. / timothy, $500 Cincin-
natl, $1,000 Chicago. $3.50 Minneapolis.
5000 St. Louis; No. 2 timothy. $24OO
Chicago, $16.5O Minneapolis; No. ! all
falfa, $500 Chicago, $3.50 Minneap-
oils; No. / prairie. $500 Minneapolis
$3.50 st. Louis.
GRAIN-No. 2 hard winter wheat,
$1.02 ST. Louis; No. red winter wheat
$114@1.15 st. Louis; No. 3 yellow corn,
75kc Chicago, 7Sc St Louis: No. 8
white oats. ASH 0467sc Chicago. 47Ac
st. Louis
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter. 80 score.
40hc in Chicago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
TAX Bill RATES
CUT BY SENATE
Finance Committee Decides
Upon SeueraL Import
ant Changes.

Washington, d. c.. Slashing the big
inheritance tax almost in half, the
senate finance committee in last min
ute changes remolded the tax bill to-
conform more closely with suggestions
Of Treasury Secretary Mellon.
The committee completed tenta-
tive draft Of the bill, but will hold an
other session later in the day to hear
senators who desire to revise some of
the provisions already accepted.
The final draft of the bill will go to-
the printers Saturday night and be.
ready for reporting to the senate on
Monday. 1t will not be made public
until reported.
Cutting the inheritance tax from the
40 per cent provided for in the house
bill. to 25 per cent, as under the exist
ing law, will deprive the government
of an estimated revenue of $4,000, 900.
This inheritance tax applies only to-
estates of more than $1O,000,000 and is
in complete accord with the Mellon.
proposals.
Inc committee voted to place D per
cent tax on musical instruments, eye
glasses, and spectacles which were
exempt under the house bill. 1t also
cut the exemption on jewelry from $40s
in the house bill to $25. This will in
crease revenue $1,500,0OO or $4,000, 900.
Articles used for religious purposes
were exempted by the committee The
committee raised the exemption on
radio sets SOC that 10 per cent tax will
apply on sets with wholesale price of
more than $50.
A provision in the house bill tight
ening up the administration of the law
was adopted. Under this provision
taxpayers may not deduct interest
from tax exempt securities in their re-
turns.
The committee rejected the plea of
physicians for a reduction of the cost
of narcotic licenses and left the fee at
SO instead OF 81, as physicians asked.
The new bill. when it is reported to-
the senate next week, probably will be
modified in the ensuing debate.
The new BILL as finally passed, prob
ably will provide for a 40 per cent
maximum surtax instead of the A per
cent of the house BILL.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
CALLS WEEKS in
AIRCRAFT FRAUD
Witness Hints at $5O,OOO,-
600 Graft; Committee
Asks for Documents

Washington.-Secr of War Jonn
w. Weeks injected himself into the re-
juvenated aircraft scandal in man
ner that has caused amazement IN the
capital and has raised the question OF
broadening the powers OF the Brook
hart committee to include an lnvestl-
cation Of the War department.
Mr.. Weeks was requested to present
to the committee certain reports Wnlcn
were taken two weeks ago from the
brief case and desk of Thomas +.
Lane, former legal adviser to the ar
craft division of the War department.
These papers, Mr.. Lane testlhed'
were his private papers, copies OF re-
ports made by him in aircraft FRAUDS
during the last five years-frauus
which he estimates at $5OO,OOO,OoO'-
and they form, he stated, the flnal
fulcrum to open the lid and turn the
light on some darkness in the war
department"
Capt w. F. Volandt of the air serv-
ice, who was accused by Mr.. Lane OF
having "stolen" the documents, ad-
mitted on the stand that he had taken
them, but claimed they were Official
files, and that, as Mr. Lane had been
fired by orders of Secretary Weeks
the papers were government papers.
Where are the papers?" Captain
Volandt was asked.
"The secretary of war;" he said,
''has directed me to inform the COM
mittee that the papers are in his pos
session and that subpoena will have
to be served on him."
The committee ordered the papers
submitted to its inspection. at once.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
BANKERS REVEAL
M'CRAY DEBTS
81, 100000 Charged Against
Books on March 1, 1928,
Witnesses Testify.

indianapolis, Ind.-Seventy Indiana
bankers testified that Gov. Warren T.
McCray had banking Indebtedness OF
$1,250,00O on March 1, 1923. Attor-
neys for the state declared that this
amount would be raised appreciably
when other bankers take the stand.
e. w. Opman, representing the Har..
ris Trust and Savings bank of Chi
cago, was one of the witnesses. Mr..
Opman testified that the governor
owed his bank 100000 on March 1,
last year.
The examination of the bankers
consumed all of a morning session
and practically all of an afternoon. A
long procession of bankers passed to
and from the witness stand, to be ex-
amined briefly on the paper their in
stitutiOns held against the governor,
who is on trial for grand larceny and
embezzlement.
The governors financial statement
for the March period upon which the
bankers were asked to testify showed
liabilities at S53700O.
It had been understood that the
state would rest its case, but the pros
ecutor announced that more witnesses
had been summoned. They will ap-
pear later. The new witnesses will be
handwriting experts, who will examine
notes which are alleged to have been
forged.
Several additional debts of Governor
McCray were revealed. They follow :
Gary State bank, $4,000, direct.
First National, First Trust and Saw
ings, First Calumet Trust and Savings
and the Indiana Harbor National
bank, all of Chicago, $4,000, direct.
Peoples Trust and Savings bank,
Bonneville, $1,000, direct.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
William, J. Burns Tells
of Big Cabinet RouD

Washington. - William ]. Burns,
chief Of the federal secret service,
moved into the center Of the great
gold mirror before which the Brook
hart investigating committee sits. He
gave evidence alleging interference
with his department by Secretary An
drew w. Mellon in prohibition matters
and Heber Votaw,' superintendent
of federal prisons and brother-in-law
Of the late President Harding, in stop
ping an investigation of the narcotic
traffic in Atlanta prison before higher
ups" were caught. Mr.. Burns told of a
clash in the cabinet which led former
Attorney General Daugherty to order
him to fire CASTOR B. Means and keep
his own hands off the enforcement of
the dry law. He said Mr.. Daugherty
was very angry following the cabinet
disagreement
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
Earth Shift in Spain
Big Puzzle to Scientists

Granada, Spain SPANS greatest
scientists have been attracted to the
situation at the village of Monachils
where the earth still is moving, carry
ing everything in its path, and in some
instances swallowing up entire olive
groves and houses. The center of the
disturbance is about $500 meters long
and 500 meters wide. The movement
of the earth is gradual, but hardly per-
ceptible to the eye. Thus far there
has been great loss to crops in the
affected district. In one instance a
cottage has been slid along by the
earths movement without damage q
distance of about 200 meters.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
January Inauguration
Bill Reported tc House

Washington-The Norris resolution,
already approved by the senate, pro-
posing a constitutional amendment
which would provide for the inaugu-
ration of the president and the vice
president in January and for the con
vening of congress on the first Mon
day in January following election was
reported by house committee. A
house committee had already approved
a similar resolution presented by Rep
'resentative White (Rep., Kan.).
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
Says One Estate GrOlOing
Rate 100 Million a Year

Washington One estate in the
United States is increasing at the rate
of nearly S1Oo.Oo0,OO0 a year, Chair
man Green of the house ways and
means committee asserted in formal
statement replying to Secretary of the
Treasury Melons attack on the in
creased estate taxes written into the
tax bill by the house. Chairman
Green declined to name the owner
of the fortune which, he said. was ris-
ing sc rapidly, but there was no doubt
he had reference to Henry Ford.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
Wills 500, 900 to Mrs.
Wilson, Cuts of Family

Richmond, Va.-Henry Bergheimer,
aged Swiss matchmaker and reputed
to be one of the most adept of his
craft In America, died recently in
Washington, leaving will in which
he cut off without penny his son
and daughter, and bequeathed to Mrs.
woodrow Wilson his entire estate
The estate, including life insurance,
is said to be valued at almost 100000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
French Troops Seize 81
as Agitdtors IN Ruhr

Paris.-French secret military police,
reinforced by troops from the army of
occupation, effected wholesale raids
throughout the entire Rhineland and
Ruhr, except the British zone at the
Cologne bridgehead. They rounded up
81 alleged leaders Of recruiting organ
izations who have been secretly giving
youths and men military training.
Large amounts of hidden firearms and
munitions were seized, as well as much
literature melting the German civilian
populace to enroll, train, and prepare
for war of revenge against France.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-10
Secretary Hughes to
Visit England in July

Washington. Secretary Of State
Hughes plans to go to England with
the American Bar association in July
as guest of the British Bar associa-
ton. Whether he goes will depend
wholly on the exigencies of the period,
he said. AS matters now stand, Secre-
tary Hughes expects to be able to
make the journey and is looking for
ward to it with much anticipation.