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Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Sept. IA liberal
supply of light hogs resulted IN q
bad market for that class of swine
today with prices mostly Is to Is
cents lower. Good quality light
sold so to IS cents lower than at
the recent high time. Top in the
early session was $14.10. Heavy
hogs sold steady to is cents lower.
Good fat corn fed steers were
steady and grassers lower. Grass
cows and heffers also sold lower.
Lambs were reported steady to
Is cents lower.
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts, $4,000. Market 1926 lower.
Top, S14.1O; bulk, $10.50@13.90i
heavyweight, $11.75013.25; medium
weight, $13.25@14; lightweight.
$13.25014.10; lightlights, $13014i
packing sows, $9.5OQ11.5O; pigs
CattIe-Receipts, $4,000. Market
steady, 15c lower. Calves, receipts
1000; market steady. Beef steers,
good and choice, $9.50@11.60; com.
mon and medium, $7@9; yearlings,
$750011.75. Butcher cattle, heif-
ers, S5@11; cows, s4.50@S; bulls,
S4.5067 calves, $11.5O@13.50; feed.
err steers, $6@S.40; stocker steers,
s5.5O0S; stocker COWS and heifers,
$4@6. Western range cattle, oeef
steers, $6Q9.25; cows and heifers,
$4.5007.75.
Sheep-Receipts, $4,000; market
steady; medium and choice lambs
$14015.70; culls and common, SIC
I'll; yearIings, $10@12.50; common
and choice ewes, $3@7.25;i feeder
lambs, $13.50@14.75.
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New York Cotton
nteraatIonaI News Service

International News Service
NEW YORK, Sept 1.-THE cot.
ton market was firm At the opeie
ing today Initial prices we're irons
/ point lower to point higheE,
October opened 1t 1896. UP .0l
December 17.14. unchanged. sat
January 1871, down .01.
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~. fond Autnorized

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission today authorized the Gray.
sonia. Nashville and %sl1doWn IA
issue 1000 shares Of common capt.
tai stock of 500 par value. and
500, 900 Of general mortgage bonds.
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Road Would Issue Bonds

The Gulf, Mobile and Northern
railroad today applied to the Inter
state Commerce Commission Tor
permission to issue 100000 OF 61s
per cent first mortgage gold bonds,
the proceeds to be used to reim-
burse the roads treasury for ad'
ditions and betterments.
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Clearing House Statement

NEW YORK. Sept. 14-C Clearing
house statement Exchanges. 81
O42 ,000, 900; balances, sos, 900 600
Federal Reserve Banks credit bal
ance. $S5, 900 900.
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RaiIwaY Extension Asked

The Ardmore, Vernon and Lub-
book railroad today applied to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
for authority to construct 2E5.
mile line from Ardmore. Okla. to
Lubbock. Texag.
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HyattsviIle, Nd. and G. r. Schatz
Mt. Rainier National Bank.

Assistant Secretary w. s. Lyons.
of the Union Trust Company, Is
back at his desk after months
vacation spent in New England.
At a meeting Of the board Of ii.
rectors of Riggs Bank, the regular
semi-annual dividend of 71s per
cent was declared payable October
Is. to stockholders OF record Sep.
TENDER 30. The dividend rate CT
the Riggs National Bank was raised
from Is to Is per cent at the last
meeting of the board Of directors.
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New York Coffee

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Pricea
in the coffee futures market We're
higher today. September opened
at $17.4O, UP 10; December. $16.S4'
up 90, and March, $16.25, up OF.
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Libertv Bonds

fFurnished ~ w. 3. Hibbs & ca
gus. due 1871 .........$ 1u0.1f
First aus due 1g47 101 2e
Second 4Ha. due f942. ........ 100.zt
Third AS, due 1928 8. =. g. ..... l0I-g4
Fourth 1Is. due 1925 112.0s
u s Treasury Ctf.. due 19S2ss.. I01.1s
u Treasury Ctf.. due 195tss.- 10sszS
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Local stocks

FURNISHED BY w. b. Hibbss & Cob
SALES.
Potomac Electric Power, pfd.
@107ss, d at 1O7ss, 10@1O7ss.
Riggs National Bank, 10@450 (as
Of yesterday.
AFTER CALL
washington Gas 6s-33. $1,000
1921.
washington Railway and Elec-
trio, pfd., 10@90H. 1009OA.
washington Gas 6s, $5001O1.
MONEY
Call loans. sos per cent.
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society DESERVING Iayfair

LONDON, June 30.-AAlas lair Ha-
.vin become synonymous with the
home Of fashion, is now being de-
serted by fashionable Londoners.
Many Of the elite are moving to
Westminster and : Bayswater. re-
storing the old glory Of these dis
strieEs.
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NJ 0 n I c emery
BRE: WTIES

ROCKVILLE, Nd, June 3d.
Frederick M. Null. ~, Of Ashe.
ville, n. G., and Miss Alice E.
the license bureau here closed Mon.
day night, Inotored to Gaitersburg,
aroused Clayton X. Watkins,
deputy clerk Of the circuit court,
and persuaded him to, accompany
them to the courthouse here and
issue them q license to wed. The
Rev. s. j.. Goode, pastor Of the
Christian Church, performed the
ceremony in the presencs OF several
friends.
Licenses have been issued here
for the marriage Of ". Robert Bot
tlennay. "a, of Greenville, Tenn, and
Miss Elizabeth r.. Neall, %, OF
Takoma Park, Nd, and Arthur
Wilbur Croker. "a. Of Lyon Park,
Va, and Miss Beatrice KinsmLn
Woodford, "a, Of Burnt Mills, Nd.
Former Sheriff Alvie A. Monkey
was appointed yesterday by the
county commissioners as chief Of
police for Montgomery county In
place Of William L. Aud, whose
term expires tonight. Aud IS q
candidate for sheriff.
The commission reappointeds
George T. WindIlan, Roy, Bpdmer.
Andrew Phillips, Joseph OldfieId.
Earl H. Burdine, Guy Jones and u.
Leroy Snyder members of the police
force. Sergt. Charles T. Cooley and
policeman q. G. Orne were NOT. re-.
appointed.
ssTrujean II. Aud. of Rockville, was
appointed - the commissioners
clerk OF the police court Of the
county. It Is Understood, however,.
that he win Serve only for two
months and then resume his duties
as d public school teacher.
The commissioners reappDinted Al.
Hempstone Griffith county tax 49,
SCISSOR.
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800 ENGINEERS.
|. CD On STRIKE
BY international News Service

CHICAGO. June s0.-six hundred
technical engineers employed by the
City of Chicago failed to report for
work this morning as a result OF
tha citv council finance committees
refusal to grant them an increase
The strike has threatened for
weeks. Mayor Dever and several
aldermen are said to have favored
the wage boost, but the guardians
Of the of the city's finances are
quoted as saying: 1--WE can't spend
money we haven't got"
The strike will practically halt
work on the new Wacker drive,
where 100 engineers and craftsmen
walked off the job last midnight
Fifty caisson workers, members OF
the laborers' union, quit work also,
in sympathy with the technical
unionists.
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may FINBSHA(K
Or EVANGEt

LOS ANGELES, June so.--Ainee
Semple Mcpherson may be asked
to accompany Los Angeles officers
to Douglas, Ariz., within q few
day. in q final effort 10 locate and
identity the shack from which she
declares she escaped rom kidnap-
ers a week ago.
{ Acting on what ~ said to be the
most definite repnrt SO far re-
ceived, Arizona authorities today
are making a thorough search OF
the region to the east OF Douglas.
Information that a shack answer
ing in every detail the description
of the one named by Mrs. McPher-
son could be found near dry
wash on a ranch near Douglas
was in the hands of investigators.
1t was said the shack was not
visible from q the highway ana
searchers would be unable 70 Iin9
it unless they went, down the bed
of the dry wash.
Mrs. Mcpherson, practically re-
covered from her six weeks ordeal
after q short rest at the beach
today, was back in the full swing
OF her duties az the pastor OF
AuSGluG 1E11p1S lUu4Snks
Nothing OF q definite nature as
to the identity Of her alleged kid
napers was uncovered by ir1vestl-
gators today.
The theory that Mrs. Mcpherson
had. been seen in I'll Centre or
Calexico was abandoned today
when Chief OF Police Oswalt, Of Fl
Centre, declared he had not identi-
fled the woman seen there on june
III as Mrs. Mcpherson.
''The woman bore some resen.-
blance to the evangelist, but she mad
dark hair and was q confirmed
drug addict" Chief Oswald declared.
The report that an abandoned
car, believed to have been used
BY Rose and Steve" the man
and woman named BY Mrs. Nc
Pherson as her abductors, had been
located in Douglas was denied BY
Chief OF Police Bowden.
The police chief also denied any
knowledge Of q man and woman.
believed to be Rose" and Steve
being held under surveillance at
Nacozari, Mexico.
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With the
Abb Artists
IA Cross Section Of the
|, Daily Grind in Judge
MacdonaId's Court
Read EN- and Wees
Nv DONALD McDOUGAIs
yfSYAn Fnv,sa .EfAfN

#8XN EJANNNE AG4k0 skShGMS0%N
The Cops Job
"a few minutes after 3 o'clock
this morning, your honor, l
paced MIN down Georgia avenue
at 65Hmiles an hohr, trying 70
edge him in to the curb. he
saws he didn't see me and my
motor was making such racket
he didn't hear me call TO MIN,
AT Quincy Street e fire engine,
answering an alarm down toward
the bal park, got in his way.
and he had to slow up. He was
running from some hold-up men
that had tried to rob him at the
District line, he said. He was.
so worried about 800 he had on
him that I took him over TO
No. 10. He didn't have any
got through with him.
BOObs That Pass in the Night
Next cop: I'VE were In front
OF Walter Reed Hospital in q
Ford roadster when we heard
him coming, and we ran along
with him at IS miles an hour.
curb. He ha.haed at us and
pulled away so quick / thought
I must have got my feet mixed
Up and pushed In the reverse.
Then we saw another red
streak in the darkness and we
figured it was either a motor
the defendant in sight, or boys
shooting off Roman candles, and
we went down there to investi.
gate. We charged him with
speeding, and the motorcycle man
charges him with reckless driv-
Boob: ''They ran up alongside
of me and threw a flash in my
face. I didn't know WHO they
were so / pulled away. II I'd
known they were officers"
Never Thought Of That.
Didn't you suspect that some
one might be after you for speed.
ing?'' @
mo. sir. It was so early in the
morning
"The speed regulations work the
"a hours around. What business
are you in?'
I'm a scene-painter."
"How do you know what
scenery looks like, travelling at
that speed?"
II was only running As. I was
a little worried out in that lonely
section I had 800"
You can keep Is of II"
Mailing 'Em
There's a flock of motor cycles
running up and down M Street
evenings out Georgetown way,
your honor"
Eyes. I've noticed people jump
ing out Of their road"
when they see US coming they
slow down to 20 or so, and we
never have been able to get the
speed on them until last night |
slipped up on four of them and
paced them for two blocks at 81. /
A Blind Date
Two of 'em went around to
No. z with me, and the otheY two
are going some morning about
4:30. We want to break up this
chariot racing on M Street bfore
someone gets killed"
First boob: 1T was thoughtless-
ness, your honor
Second boob: 1--WE won't do 1t
again. i.
"Not without considerable ex.
pense, you won't. SO each
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70 ARE KILLED
IN Q0AEES

/ AMSTERDAM, June sO.- Further
earthquakes were felt ia sunatra
last night, according to advices
from Batavia today.
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r. y
The only harm
lss wa J to nlec
the skin white II
mix the iuic n
two lemons Will
tnr@e ounces et
Orchard Whit
which any drug list
win supply Tor IL
few cents Slsa Ike
well In q bcttl
and you have )
whole quart pint
49, Il 49, 9 & ssSS,as Z &
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MISS SlBYL BAKER MADE
COMMUNITY CENTER HEAD
Photo by international

Miss Sibyl Baker, teacher of Eng
fish and instructor in dramatics at
Central High School, has been non1i.
mated by the personnel committee Of
the Board OF Education to be direc-
tor of the community center DEPART
nent Of the public schools. The
nomination is to fill 4 vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mrs.
Cecil Norton Broy.
The nomination will be presented
to the Board of Education at its
meeting tomorrow. The board will
elect new president ana super
|intendent OF schools. 1t is antici-
pated that e. G. Graham will be re-
elected president, and that DR.. Frank
w. Ballou again will be chosen SUI
perintendent.
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IMMIGRATION QUOTAS
CLOSED: SOC. 600 WAIT

with the closing of the Govern
ment,s fiscal year today, iflanaigrai
ton quotas were exhausted ana
more than half million foreigners
were vainly seeking admission to
the United states.
Under the present quota law
many must wait three years or
more before making legal entry.
OF the larger countries, 1t was in
dicated that the Irish Free State
alone would fail to exhaust its
QUOTA The number allowed Ger
many. Great Britain. Norway, Po-
land, France ana other larse eoun-
tries had been reached some time
ago.
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VALUE or BLACK EYE
IS 500. COURT RyL Es

sACRAMENTO, Calf. June 50.--
The fixed value of black eye IN
sacramento police court Is 500.
Acting Police Judge SiIas Orr. 30
Jdecreed In settling the fair of
Wong On, restaurant proprietor.
whose left critic accidentally stopped
sturdy punches delivered by Two
battling patrons Of his establish
nlent.
IA new wan bracket for tele-
phone slides up ana down several
inches to suit persons Of different
statures.
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Fifty Europeans and 20 ns il
were killed IN the earthquakes
Monday. ssszss
The property danage was heay
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OFFICIAL SONG FOR
DISTRICT is WANTED

Have you = song somewhere in
pour
The Federation OF Music Clubs
be the District OF Columbia wants
YOU to write an official song for
The District.
The District Commissioners are
hacking the contest and viii appoint
the judges. The contest lasts until
september Is. Manuscripts should
be- sent to Miss Beatrice S. Good
win, West Lenox ST., Chevy
Chase, Nd.
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derful skin whitener, softener and
beautifier.
Massage this sweetiy fragrant
lemon bleach into the face, neck.
arms and hands. ii can not irri-
tate. Famous stage beauties use
III % bring that clear, youthful
skin ana rosy.wElite complexion:
also IS . freckle. sunburn ana tan
bleach. You must mix this re.
Iaarkable lotion yourself. III car
not be bought ready to use Decatise
It acts best iISlslG eiately after Il n
prepared.
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LONDON, June So Eleven PEI
sons were killed ana many injured
ii d mine explosion az Chuduica
naata. Chile. dispatch from Santi-
ago said today.
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KENTUCKY NOODLES

One pint of flour, two eggs, one
half teaspoon of salt. enough water
to make n stiff dough. Mix and
roll out in small strips. Let dry
one hour. Cut and boil in sailed
water thirty minutes. Drain, pour
cold water over the noodles to
separate and drain again. Dice two
slices of bacon and let fry out. Cut
one slice Of bread into small cubes
and brown in the bacon grease.
Take out the bread, add noodles to
grease, and fry slowly until we'll
Drowned . about thirty minutes).
Serve hot with the bacon and bread
cubes on top.
Bernice Thompson, 1117 S. Rich
land ST., indianapolis.
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CRUM TATTA

One pound of dates cut in small
pieces, one cup nut meats chopped,
one cup bread crumbs dry and fine.
one cup sugar one-half teaspoon
baking powder and three eggs. Mix
the egg yolks with sugar, bread and
nuts. add beaten whites to which
the baking powder has been added.
Put in creased pan and set in a
hot oven for 25 or 30 minutes. Do
not remove from pan until ready
to serve. Cut in squares, serve with
sauce. whipped cream or plain cream.
Make a sauce with one cup of brown
sugar, two tablespoons of flour, IA
lump of butter size of walnut, two
cups of water. Flavor with vanilla
or to suit taste, Cook until it boils.
Mrs. ii. w. Summers, 966 More
land Ave-, City.
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Tomato Catsup, large 131a-oz bottle LOG
Corn, Peas or Tomatoes, 8 No. 2 cans. .2oc
Hersheys Cocoa, 12-lb. can ....... l21Z2c
Macaroni or Spaghetti, big 7-oz. pkg. sc
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GRAPE JUICE PUDDING

Boil two cups OF grape juice until
two eggs beaten until light, one and
one-half cups sugar and enough
bread to make a batter after it has
soaked up we'll; one-half cup soft
butter mot melted. Mix well and
spread in pudding pan. Bake till
light brown. Remove from oven and
when cool cut in squares. Serve
with whipped cream, garnlshed with
cherries.
Mrs. X. W.~Orr, r. r. I, Green
castle, Ind.
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SOAP RECIPE

Two cans of I've, cents worth of
rosln, cents worth of BoraX, nine
pounds of lard or grease, sixteen
quarts of rain water. Put in a
kettle of iron or porcelain. Boil one
hour. Put I've, grease and water in
vessel and let stand three or four
days before making. Rosin and
borax may be added any time while
boiling. When cold but not set,
pour into a cloth lined box. When
set mark into bars.
Mrs. Mildred Showalter, II. Il. D,
No. 1l3, indianapolis.
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sugar, egg yolks and lemon together.
Add milk and stir well. Lastly fold
beaten to a stiff froth. Pour into
a deep pie plate lined with pastry
(uncooked) Bake in moderate
oven until golden brown.
Mrs. f. Mayo, 2224 Spann Ave-,
INDIANAPOLIS.
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SULPHUR APPLES

Grimes Golden apples are best)
One tablespoon OF sulphur to one
gallon Of apples. Put sulphur in old
cups and put a coal Of fire In it.
Put the apples in a tight box and
set cup of sulphur in center of APP
pies. Smoke until the sulphur is
all burned up. One bushel Of APP
plies will make five gallons after they
are smoked. Put them in a jar and
put a plate over them and set away
for winter use.
Mrs. Alex MeMIains, X. X. 2,
Greencastle, Ind.
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TO FRY ROUND STEAK

Cut steak in small pieces. about
one and one-half inches square, and
chop we'll with a knife. Dip in water,
then in flour; salt and pepper. Have
lard hot in skillet and fry COW
cred. Turn often until brown. This
will be tender and contain all the
strength of good steak.
Mrs. Anna Mack, 1902 \. New
Jersey St., indianapolis.
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SWEET POTATO PONE

Peel and slice five medium sized
sweet potatoes and cook until
tender. Drain, mash, and add one
pint Of sugar, one pint Of cooked
puffed raisins (omitting juice) and
one pint Of sweet milk, one-fourth
teaspoon Of nutmeg. Mix well and
make until, brown in well creased
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gether. Take the juice from pine
apple. a little sugar and the juice
from a bottle of MaraschiEo cherries.
Cook until IL forms a syrup. Pour
this over the pineapple and cake put
a cherry on top. A spoonful of
whipped cream is an improvement.
Mrs. William f. Surber, 900 n.
Dearborn ST., Indianapolis.
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MARKET BASKET

baking dish. Take from oven and
cover the top with rshmallows;
return to oven and brown. Serve
at once.
Mrs. Harvey Henson, 4418 f..
Twenty-First ST.. indianapolis.
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LEMON SPONGE PIE

Two tablespoons flour. one table
spoon butter, one cup sugar, one cup
milk, rind and juice of one lemon,
two eggs, whites and yolks sep
arated, pastry. Beat -four, butter,
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PINEAPPLE ANGEL DESSERT

Place a slice of angel food cake
In a sherbet glass. over this put
a slice of pineapple which has been
cut a little. but Is still holding to-
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Miss Hanna McCOrd, 441S e.
Twenty First ST., Indianapolis.
SWEET CUCUMBER PICKLES
WITH RAISINS

Mix one quart of vinegar, two and
one-half pints of water two pints
of sugar, one heaping tablespoon of
mixed spices and heat. Take enough
large green cucumbers to fill three
one-half gallon jars. Peel and cut
in halves taking out seeds. Cook
one package of pulled raisins
separately when cucumbers are
done drain and mix with the cooked
raisins and vinegar mixture. Bring
TO the boiling point, then can.
Mrs. Lottie Nolen, 441S e.
Twenty First ST., Indianapolis.
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Table Peaches, large No. 212
Free Running Table Salt, pkg
Dill Pickles, large 20-oz. jar
Scrap Tobacco, all brands, 3 !
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III 4NIBURGER LOAF WITH NEW
POTATOES

Two pounds hamburger, one large
onion chopped, salt and pepper to
taste. Mix well and form into loaf.
Flour wet on both sides. Fry in
hot fat. When brown turn and
brown the other side, making a
crust on outside while the inside is
juicy Boil new potatoes in salt wa
ter until tender; drain and fry in
the hamburger grease until brown,
leaving them whole. Serve the po-
tatoes around the meat loaf. Pour
chilli SAUCE over the meat.
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VETERANS SONS ELIGIBLE
40 Whose Fathers Died of World
War Wounds to Enter West Point.

The class entering West Point In
July. 1927, will include some Of the
40 additional cadets provided for by
an act Of the Sixty.ninth> Congress.
Under the act of 1916 the number OF
cadets authorized MAS set at 1884.
The recent act authorizes the 40 add
.tional to be appointed by the Presi-
dent from among the sons of officers,
soldiers, sailors and marines of the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps who
were killed in action during the World
war. or who died prior to July =.
1891. of wounds or injuries received
or disease contracted in line of duty
during the World War 1t is further
provided that one half Of this number
is to be appointed from among the
sons of officers and one-half from
among the sons of warrant officers
and enlisted men.
Candidates appointed under this act
must meet the usual requirements as
to age and physical condition and
will be required to undergo the regu-
lar competitive entrance examination,
the vacancies being awarded to those
physically qualified who make the
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over the attitude taken by France that
Turkish courts were not qualified to
try Lieut.. Desmons of the French
steamer Lotus, which collided some
time ago with the Turkish cargo boat
Bozcourt but now that Desmons and
the Turkish skipper have been con-
victed and sentenced. Turkey would
welcome Frances acceptance of the
proposal to carry the case before The
Hague tribunal.
The Turkish minister Of justice is
prepared to defend Turkeys viewpoint
of the right Of her courts to try the
French lieutenant.
Sentenced to Prison.
Lieut.. Desmons was sentenced to
so days imprisonment and fined q
Turkish pounds, while the Turkish
master was sentenced to four months
and given fine of 80
Turkish pounds. The owners OF the
TWO vessels each were sentenced to
pay 5000 pounds damages to. families
of the victims Of the collision.
AS Desmons already had been in
Jail 40 days prior TO his release on
bond, it Is understood this time is to
be deducted from his sentence.