PAGE TWO PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL MONDAY, MAR 18, 1929 Alvo News Edward Nelson was tome business matters last Wednesday. looking after in Lincoln on C. D. Foreman was looking after some business matters in Alvo on last Wednesday, driving from his home in Lincoln. Art Dinges was a visitor with the folks and accompanied by the good wife, drove to Syracuse for the day last Sunday and sure they had a very good time. James Friend was over to Lincoln ne day last week and as the road from the O street to Alvo was not f o goon ne declares ne was compeneu to push the car the entire four miles. Attorney C. D. Ganz and family were guests for the day last Sunday and at an excellent dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Coat man, where all enjoyed the visit very much. Frank Daugherty was over to the Fale of Henry Irons southeast of Elmwood last Wednesday, where he purchased two very fine cows that were trucked to the farm by R. M. Coatman. On Thursday afternoon of last week the members of the Woman's Reading club, of Alvo, met with Mrs. Lyle Miller, where they had one of the very best programs and an ex cellent afternoon as well. Winfield Scott Jourdan. of Lin coln was a visitor in Alvo on Wed nesday of last week, coming to look after some business matters and at the same time visit with his host of friends in and about Alvo. Mrs. F. E. Dickerson. who has been at the hnsnital for some time, where hl'.o underwent an operation, is re-j ported as getting much better at this time aim nopes to De ame 10 reium to her home in Alvo in a short time. The Coatnian-Skinner truck moved the effects or Koy uenneii 10 -nu( last Monday, and he will make his 1m. me there in the future, continuing i to conduct the school truck, carry ing the scholars to and from school. Otto Reichmann and the family were over to Lincoln on last Wednes day, where they were visiting with friends as well as looking after some trading, they making the trip in their car and were surprised at the way tne roads had improved. Misses Dorothea and Doris Coat i.ian responded to an invitation from the Methodist church of Elmwood-to favor them with a number of songs at the morning service on last Sun day, which they did, and pleased the audience with their fine singing. Mrs. A. T. Snedgen, wife of the superintendent of the Alvo schools. who lias not been in the best of health for some time past, was at Omaha last week, where she went to take a clinic and to ascertain re cardinc hr health and the best'meth- ods for its restoration. ' Cn laH VTed'nesJTay, 'John B. "Skin - nr. who is a rustler when it conies t'. work, was a visitor, in Oniaua, taking with him a load of stock for Frank L. Edwards and W. E. Heier, ar-d on the return trip brought home a iriifk load of machinery for the Coatman Hardware company. Believing in the very best. Dr. L. Muier lias purchased one of the new est of automobiles, the new Model A Universal, and getting one of the coach patterns is well pleased with the new acquisition, knowing that it will go any place any other car will go and in as little time. Louis Herman has a new car, this time a Chevrolet coach and one of the late models, which is just about th- last word in economical trans portation. The car was purchased through the agency of the Dowler Brothers of Weeping Water and sure will please Mr. Herman and family. Mrs. Soren Petersen was over to Lincoln, accompanied by Soren, and while there she underwent an opera tion for the removal of her tonsils, '-hich had been giving her trouble f r some time. She is getting along nit fly since the operation and is in hopes of soon being entirely well attain. Ivan Althouse. who lives on the Charles Godbey place, was shelling and delivering corn to the Rehmeyer elevator on last Wednesday, and he found the roads not so bad as they nisht be. and a good time to get the cereal off before the coming of the rush season for the planting of coming crops. The school program, which srivm on Friday of last week. the was was one which was greatly enjoyed by all the larce crowd which was present and was one of the winning numbers of the lyceum course which was put on by the enterprising people of Alvo. The last number will be the Parent Teachers' association program which will be held on the coming Wednes day evening. Mr. and Mis. John Banning re ceived the sad news of the death of their nephew, John Eagan. who died in Omaha, but who has all his life made his home in Plattsmouth and to which place the remains were taken Tor burial. Mr. and Mrs. Ken ning were over to Plattsmouth on T;ist Sunday morning, where they went to attend the funeral. Follow ing the funeral they stopped in 1'nion for a time, returning home during the late afternoon. True Neighbors Last Monday, while Walter Collins was still at the hospital, where he had to have one of his legs re-broken and set again, and which has caus ed him much suffering and the loss of time to say nothing of the ex pense, the neighbors moved and put in order the household goods and im plements at the new place where he Is to farm this year, which is the Maggie Greer place. This was cer tainly a very kindly act. Grandmother Snavely Gi andmotber Snaveley. been niakini: her home Siclj who with has her .lighter, Mrs. Edith Kitzel, for a number of years, is very poorly at the home of- the daughter, where all ! possible is being done for the com-! fort of the aged lady. Mrs. Snaveley jis well along in years and with tne I advanced age her malady is all the more hard to combat. Her many rpiends are hooine that she may soon in beUer health. Mrs. Caroline Strong Dies Mrs Caroline Strong, who has re sided in Alvo for the past nearly twenty years, and who last fall went to a sajiitarium in Lincoln,1 where she was given treatment for her health, passed ' away at that place last week and the funeral was held at the undertaking ' establish-j ment in Lincoln, the funeral being, conducted by a minister of the ( Methodist church. Mesdames Perry; iRushlow and C. D. Foreman sang at ; the services. The body was taken to' Vesta, where interment was made, j Mrs. Strong was nearly seventy years of age. and was one or me Desi cm zens of Alvo. Says Business Was Good One of the merchants of Alvo claims business was something extra good on last Saturday, for after us ing all the cars to come to town mey I wanted to use. the farmers also had to ty put into teams. the harness some twen- Ladies Enjoy Meeting The members of the Pythian Sis ters entertained for the members of the Knights at the Stewart hall on last Thursday night, when they had a very fine time and good eats, as well as the card parly, which was the feature of the evening. Farmers Union Meets The Farmers Union of the vicinity nf Alvo cave a dinner for the mem- ibers of the order and their families i at the basement of the Methodist : church in Alvo on last Monday, I . -, . i . : . : . .1 va u-npre inev met anu visuru mi iuc day and as many- had a splendid time, as well good things to eat. Mrs. Snaveley Died Wednesday Mrs. Hannah Snaveley. mother of L. M. Snaveley and Mrs. Edith Kit zel, who has been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edith Kit zel, for the past six years, since her husband, Mr. John Snaveley. died, passed away as the evening shadows came, and as the day was ushered out also the spirit of this aged and estimable lady floated to the etherial realms,, where sickness, sorrow, pain and death never come. Miss Hannah Lyon was born in West Virginia on the I9th of De cember, 18 48. and made her home there until a young woman, coming with the parents to Illinois, where she was united in marriage to John Snaveley. on New Years day, 1870. There they continued to make their home until in 1885, when they came fo Nebraska to reside and found a home a" few miles west of ElmwoodT where for many years they farmed and a fine family grew up around them. One son. Oscar, died some twentv years ago. while another, Charles Snaveley, makes his home in Wisconsin. There remains here an other son. L. M. Snaveley and a daughter. Mrs. Edith Kitzel. Mrs Kitzel has made a home for the aged narents for the past six years, and has done all possible for the mother in the matter of kindly nursing and care. Mrs. Snaveley is a devoted and consisted member of the Church of the Brethren, and continued a faith ful disciple of her Lord and Master until the end. The funeral was held on last Friday and interment was in the Brethren cemetery one mile south of Alvo. SOME BAD ROADS From Thursday's Dally Travelers from the west report that the condition of the east and west roads near this city are very bad, a larse washout being on the Louis ville road near the Wiles farm and which has been there for some little time and had diverted the traffic to the north along the Cedar Creek road from the county farm on east. The last few days has brought a bad condition of this road and this morn ing several cars were stuck in the mud and mire caused by the snow drifts melting and practically shut ting off travel from that section. A truck driver from Louisville was here today and had come as far as the road near the county farm with out chains and there ran into the mud barrier and had to drive back and finally come into the city by way of Murray and the Red Ball highway from the west. LONG ROUTE FOR EAKER San Antonio. Tex. Capt. Ira C. Eaker, army air corps pilot, who will attempt a dawn to dusk flight from Brownsville. Tex., to France filed, Panama Canal zone, Saturday, plans to make a return flight to Browns ville to Washington, D. C, Monday. He made this announcement here late Thursday on the eve of his de parture from Kelly field for Browns ville, whence he will hop off at 4 o'clock Saturday morning for his Panama destination. "I am confident that I can main tain the schedule arranged," Cap tain Eaker said. "I hope that I will be able to leave Panama early Sun day night, leave Brownsville early Monday morning and reach Washing ton Monday afternoon. Only two factors will interfere with this pro gram, namely, weather or engine trouble, and I am not looking for such interference." RED CLOVED SEED Red Clover seed $15.50, $16.50 per bushel at the Marquardt Ele vator, Avoca, Nebraska. - Send your order to Bestor & Swatek for Nursery Stock, Shrubbery, etc. ABOUT Three Bushels of Extra Nice Home Grown Red Clov- r Seed. er H. E. WARDEN UNION, NEBR. Democratic City Ticket is Nominated Present Councilmen All Renamed for the Positions They Have So Well Filled in Past From Friday's Daily Last evening the democratic city convention was held at the city hall and with many counter attractions there was a small outpouring of the representatives of the party. The meeting was presided over by J. A. Capwell. city chairman, with Hillard Grassman as the secretary and both carried on their work most efficiently and with dispatch. As the only city offices to be fill ed this year were those of the coun cilmen from the various wards, there was no delay in the convention pro ceedings and the councilmen whose terms are now expiring were all re nominated, they being as follows: First ward Phillip A. Horn Second ward Claude C. Smith Third ward William H. Puis Fourth ward R. W. Clement Fifth ward Arthur Blunt. Fifth ward (to fill vacancy) Henry F. Lutz. For the office of police judge there was no opposition to the naming of Judge Charles L. Graves, present occupant of the office and whose services have been of a high order and earning him the confidence and esteem of the community inthe dis charge, pfthe duties-pf the 6&ce. - The convention' named "the mem bers of the city central committee as follows: First ward Frank M. Best or and Mrs. L. W. Lorenz. Second ward W. A. Swatek and Mrs. John Gorder. Third ward H. A. Lightbody and Mrs. Rose Bookmeyer. Fourth ward C. A. Johnson and Mrs. Lena Droege. Fifth ward William Kief and Mrs. C. L. Pittman. The matter of the filling of any vacancies that might exist was left to the city committee to cover the withdrawal of candidates or the final outcome of the decision as to the naming of members of the Board of Education, as in the event that a school caucus Is not called the old order of selecting the members may be followed by both of the political parties. These matters being the only sub jects to come before the meeting, the body adjourned well satisfied Willi ; . i . i me wurn iiiui nau uetu lainai vui by the convention MEMBERS OF JURY PANEL The following members of the petit jury panel for the spring term of the district court which opens in April have been drawn and are now- being notified to appear and serve at the session of the court: Will Hoffman, Eagle; Harry Ap pieman. Alvo: A. J. Dietrich, Louis ville; W. H. Grassman, Plattsmouth; J. R. Noyes, Louisville; Albert Funk, Plattsmouth; H. J. Hohman, Wa bash; W. T. Richard, Wabash; Chas Edwards, Elmwood; O. M. Kintz, Plattsmouth; Wm. iiummel, Platts mouth; S. A. Wiles, Plattsmouth; J. F. Wplff Plattsmouth: J. E. Klei ser, South Bend; P. A. Hild, Murray; Marion Tucker, Nehawka; M. I. Hall. Murray; W. II. Lohnes. Cedar Creek; Ivan J. Balfour, Union; J. F. Stander, Plattsmouth; John C. Born- emeier, Murdock; August Oehlerk- mg, Manley; Artnur jeffery, ureen wood; Michael Bajeck, Plattsmouth BRIDGE IS OUT OF DANGER Fremont A large sand bar that threatened to change the course of the Platte river at the Cornhusker highway bridge here was blasted out late Thursday by state highway work ers and the river forced back into its regular channel by riprapping the banks with old auto bodies, trees and logs. A grove of cottonwoods along the roadside near the river were cut down to use for riprapping. Work of replacing the fifty foot approach to the highway bridge, which was washed out Wednesday and immediately started and officials expect to have it ready for traffic by Sunday. Temporary diversion of the river current cut a chasm twenty-five feet deep into the roadway. More than 500 tons more will be used. A crew of thirty workmen with seven trucks remained on duty through the night and expect to have the approach jready for a clay fill by Friday nioiu-ling- Weaver Code Bill Wins by a Close Margin House Approves Merger of Game and State Park Departments by One Vote. j Lincoln, March 14. Another bill of Governor Weaver's, embracing a part of his code-consolidation pro gram, was atacked by republican leaders in the house today, but de spite their determined efforts to kill the measure, it was advanced to third reading by a one-vote margin. The bill proposes to merge the state fish and game department with the state park board as one organization, to be known as the state, game, forestation and park commission, appointive by the governor. ! One feature of the bill which was pointed out in the debate was that 'it iWill reduce taxpayers' burdens by providing for maintenance and oper ation of state parks out of revenues derived from fish and game adminis- ! tration and from the parks them selves. j Intangible Tax Up. ! Upon a motion of representative Rundle of Aurora, the Rundle-Adams intangible tax bill, levying a 10-mill assessment on practically all intang ibles, was fixed as a special order of business next Wednesday at 10 a. m. by the house. This measure will fol low the Ashton income tax bill, which is a special order Tuesday morning. i An attempt to raise the salary of the reporter of the Nebraska supreme court from $4,000 a year to $5,000 was made Thursday by the judiciary committee of the house by tacking that provision as an amendment to S. F. 115. a bill already passed by the upper chamber boosting the pay of district court reporters. The finance committee filed a re port recommending indefinite post ponement of H. R. 61, to appropriate $25,000 for the establishment and operation of a nautomobile number plate factory at the penitentiary or the men's reformatory. Cut Farm Fund. H. R. 177, for the establishment of an agricultural experiment sta tion at Brownville, to test crops on the soil of southeastern Nebraska, was brought out to the general file, but the finance committee cut the appropriation down from $30,000 to , $5,000. A concession to banks which are carrying deposits of state money on time certificates, is provided as an amendment to II. R. 7, by the bank ing committee. If. R. 527. creating a state ana tomical board to allot unclaimed hu man bodies among the different medi cal and dental colleges of Nebraska was placed ou general file with the endorsement of the committee on miscellaneous subjects, j The same committee also reported out II. R. 278. requiring theaters and J motion picture houses to be located on the ground floor, and No. 219, ! giving legal recognition to "Inde- ' pendence Sunday" on or preceding !the Fourth of July. Omaha Bee- News. FOUND DEAD BY HIS CAR i George Ledgeway of Tabor died suddenly Monday afternoon from a heart attack. For many months he suffered from this trouble and on Sunday night, had a slight attack. Monday afternoon he had done some repair work and seemed as well as usual but when lifting his tools into the Davis car. fell. Mr. Davis found him when he returned to the car !to take him to the carpenter shop. ,The doctor pronounced the death in stantaneous. flenrp-p f,prl(i-ii'av was of English hii-th and came to Tabor in 1SS2. He was an architect and cabinet maker, well established in this com munity which he served well in all phases of its life. He served on the school board, was a member of the town council, deacon and trustee of tne Congregational church and was the senior member of Volunteer Lodge A. F & A. M. His widow, Mrs. May Ledgway, a son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Ledgway and Joan of Red Oak and relatives in Kansas survive him. Fu neral services were held at Tabor Wednesday afternoon . Glenwood Tribune. FACTS ABOUT NEBRASKA For the year ended June 30, 1928, Nebraska citizen sand corporations paid the federal government $5,332. 713 and in miscellaneous taxes $399. 955. Thirty-five states paid more. Three-fourths of the seedling ever green trees that are planted in the sandhills of Nebraska live and thrive. After ten years they make an aver-'h age growth of 18 inches per year.; Seedling are furnished free upon ap- ' plication to the Agricultural College,' Liincoin. At the close 61 1928 there were 24 million automobiles in the United States and with an average value of $420, or a total worth of nine billion dollars. Nebraska had 400,000 cars worth $165,000,000, or a per capita investment of more than $125. Nebraska's vote has increased more than thirty-one thousand ner cent in her 63 years of Ktatehood. TO FIGHT CORN BORER Des Moines An anurooriation of $1,400 for corn borer control for the biennial beginning July 1 is asked in a bill introduced Thursday by the senate appropriations committee. The state entomologist is directed to uti lize the funds in preventing intro duction ot the tpfest into Iowa. Phone us the news. No. 6. FOCH WANTS TO BE ACTIVE Paris Idleness, mental and phy sical. Is Marshal Foch's most dan gerous enemy, as he lies on the sick bed where, since Jan. 14, the great est military captain of the World's war, has been fighting what many believe and fear will be his last bat tle. Attacked by a coalition of disease in which heart, kidneys and lungs joined forces, anyone of which sep arately has proven fatal to countless mortals, Foch has rebelled against one general order namely, the com plete repose. "You tell me the Americans are worried about me." Foch once shouted at Dr. Daveniere, engaged in reading to his patient clippings from overseas publications, "L,ez me see those papers, I want to read them myself." It was done once but the size of 'the headlines "in the American news papers, capitioning despatches from j Paris referring to his illness dimply ' staggered the marshal. Half of People in Flooded Town Taken to Safety 15,000 in Stricken Area Are Still Marooned; Nine Known Dead Are Listed. Montgomery, Ala., March 15. More than half the population of Elba, flood stricken Coffee county town, had been evacuated late tonight and conditions were rapidly improv ing as flood waters of Pea river and White water subsided. Sergeant Long, representing Col onel William M. Persons, at the na tional guard rescue base below Troy, said approximately nine hundred persons had ben brought from Elba and at the present rate of fall of the flood waters, trucks could enter the town tomorrow afternoon. While conditions improved at El ba, the fate of the inhabitants of Geneva, 40 miles south at the con fluence of Pea and Choctawhatchee rivers, remained in doubt, as com munication with the town had been severed. Last reports placed water in the streets there ranging to 16 feet in depth and still rising. Gen eva is a town of approximately 2,500 population. Rivers Leave Banks. Both the Warrior river at Selma, in western Alabama, and the Alabama river here, tonight left their banks and were rising rapidly, with indi cations that the estimated total of 15 thousand marooned would be in creased. As to the loss of life, no one would hazard a guess, but nine known dead were listed tonight in Alabama, and and there were unconfirmed reports of others. While the rain had ceased, larger livers in south Alabama were still rising, though smaller streams in the central portion of the state had be gun falling. How long it will take to restore railway and highway communication in the stricken area is problematical. and hundreds will be unable to re turn to their homes for several days. Greatly in Need of Food. The stricken communities. of which Elba, with its four thousand inhabitants, suffered most, were in need of food, and the prospects of immediate adequate relief seemed slight, although detachments of na tional guardsmen and others were pushing the work of rescue. Rescue workers at S o'clock to night estimated that five hundred persons had been rescued from Elba, and that 1,500 were still marooned in the town. 1 bey reported tnat res cue efforts were being carried on chiefly oh the outskirts, svvirt cur rents and eddies in the heart of the town making it difficult to man the small craft there. The advices received from the res cue workers did not mention the re- mainder of the town's approximately four thousand population, but it is believed the others were saved by other rescue parties or were on high er ground out of reach of the flood waters. Eight Reported Dead. Rescue workers reported to a cor respondent of the Birmingham Age Herald that five persons, including three white men, are known to be dead and two others are missing in Elba. The two reported missing are Mayor R. L. Copper and Chief of Po lice Russ Paul. World-Herald. "SLAYER'S" TALE DOUBTED Jamesville, Wis. District Attor ney Geoige Garrigan Tuesday an nounced that he was almost posi- tive" the girl buried in a potter s fieM ,. P1 ave at Elkhorn, victim of a hammer slayer, is not Mary Laverty, Janesville domestic, to whose slay ing Robert Cone, reformatory in mate, confessed Sunday. j The district attorney told the As sociated press Tuesday that this be-! lief was based on the discrepancies disclosed in the story of Cone thru out forty-eight hours investigation and the evidence that the culvert' victim had perfect natural teeth. I .while three persons including the' dentist who performed the work posi tively stated Miss Laverty had false ones. CORDOVA MAN IS KILLED Beaver Crossing, Neb. Nels Stef- fenson. seventy-seven. Cordova farm-! er, was instantly killed late Thurs day when his automobile was struck by a Northwestern railroad motor car at a crossing near here. Motorman E. E. Fay of Fremont said he sounded the usual warning signal for the crossing but Steffen son, who was deaf, could not hear it. Sttffenson had lived iu the commun ity for forty years. He leaves his wife and seven children. Abandon Hunt for Boy Lost in Big Snow Storm Hunt Given Up After Hundreds Fail to Find Any Trace Indians Return Home. Gordon. Neb., March 14. Hope ofi finding 6-year-old Melvin Reeves alive has been abandoned and the' search which has been pushed through a blinding snowstorm for nearly 60 hours has been given up.' Hunt for the body will be renewed when the snow melts. Mr. and Mrs. William Reeves, par ents of the boy. are near collapse. Mr. Reeves has remained doggedly on the search, ever since the lad was first missed. He had searched night and day, without food or sleep, hoping to find his boy alive. j Indians Lend Aid. Two hundred Indians from the Pine Ridge reservation, and from Kyle, S. D., joined the search yester day. They came by truck and wagon loads. They returned to their camps when told by the boy's father that further search would be futile. Melvin left home Tuesday morning with his 8-year-old brother, Dwight, to look for a mitten he had lost on his way home from school. The lost mitten was found and the two chil dren started home. Melvin was play ing with a hoop and it rolled down a canyon. Melvin pursued It, the older brother walking on ahead thinking the younger brother would soon catch up with him. When Dwight arrived home he could see no sign of Melvin. After waiting a short while, the father grew anxious and began a search. It was quite foggy and in a short while started to rain. After search ing until noon the father became alarmed and telephoned to Gordon, for men to help with the searh. 1 Saw Lad on Road. The Gordon volunteer fire depart ment soon had several truck loads of men on the way to help. The rain turned to snow and before' the party had arrived at the place where the boy had disappeared the ground was covered with about three inches of snow. Mr. Whitman, a rancher, liv ing a few miles from the Reeves place, said he saw a boy going north about , 10 o'clock Tuesday morning but no j trace could be found of him later in , the day when they followed up the path. The news soon spread through the country and at dark five hundred searchers were on the grounds look ing for the boy. They were equipped jwith lanterns, flash lights, and some with just matches. They searched all night long for the boy. ? Morning came and with it more men to relieve the tired searchers. jThe snow kept falling and with it came wind which drifted the snow. The snow blocked all highways and the parties which left Gordon could jget only about 10 miles out. j Men from Rushville and Clinton, . were able to reach the Reeves home, i Ride All Night. I Men mounted on horses rode through the canyons all night long and some through the next morning Searchers this morning could not leave the Reeves ranch on account of the snow. A few cars plowed their way through about four or five miles and were marooned. A large cater pillar road tractor was sent out from uorcion early tnis morning and is 'plowing its way through to the i Reeves ranch with food and supplies. Four of five cars will be hooked to the rear of the tractor and break the road back to Gordon and Rushville so the parties who took part in the hunt may get to their homes and 'obtain rest. AVIATORS GIVEN FREEDOM Douglas, Ariz. R. L. Andrews and A. J. Bourdreaux. aviators, were freed by customs officials here Thurs- lday after being questioned in con nection with their distribution of Mexican federalist literature over Agua Prieta. Sonora, Wednesday. They had been arrested on a tech nical charge of crossing the border without a permit. ine niers made tnree trips over Agua Prieta, dropping handbills which called on rebel soldiers to lay down their arms. Their plane which they said belonged either to the Mex ican government or the Mexican con sulate at EI Paso, Tex., was held by customs officials. COMPANY WILL BACK LADY HEATH'S FLYING New York, March 10. Formation of a company to be known as Aerial Activities, with Lady Mary Heath as president, was announced Sunday. The company will handle all aviation activities in which Lady Heath is in terested. Read Journal Want-Ads, the I I II If If v u f 1 DOUBLE ACTION First In the dough Tfcen In tne oren Gaiase Pirice for over 38 years 25 ounces for Use less than of high priced brands MILLIONS OF POUNDS U3ED BY OUR GOVERNMENT CUBA ASKS CUT IN SUGAR TAX Washington, March 14. Fighting to prevent a boost in the tariff on sugar, the Cuban government has proposed to strike a bargain with the United States under which Cuba would abolish most tariffs on Amer ican farm products in exchange fol lower sugar duties. The details of the proposal, trans mitted to the house ways and means committee, revealed anxiety with which Cuba has followed demands of American sugar producer, for a sharp boost in the Cuban tariff. Under the proposed agreement the United States is asked to cut the Cu ban sugar tariff from 1.76 to 1.32 cents a pound, reduce the trriff gra dually on 3.300.000 pounds a year until it is abolished, and to restrict free sugar imports from the Phil ippines to 300,000 tons a year. In return Cuba would increase tlx' American preferential on all products entering Cuba about 50 per cent and remove the tariff on many American products. The proposal contemplates the drafting and ratification of a n commereial treaty. LINDY MAY LEAVE FIANCEE Mexico City Col. Charles A. L.ind- i bergli was said Tuesday night m well informed circles to be planning ,to fly back to the Unite j Slates wih- in a few days. lie has now been hen j visiting the family of his fiancee. .Miss Anne S. Morrow for more than ;. i fore nigh t , with the exception f tw-i days. spent in inaugurating the air I' mail scrvi e to Brownsville. Tuesday afternoon he wen for an automobile ricl with Mi.;; Morrr v. At the United States embassy it was said nothing was known or his plans but other sources disclosed" that an airplane new is being flown h r from the United States for use on his homeward flight. Tie machine in which he came here is no: vet re paired after the crackup in which the colonel injured his risrht shoulder. AIS TOURIST IN HOSPITAL Broken Hili. Northern Rhodesia The air touring party of Van Lear Black. Baltimore publisher, u, strand ed here, the two pilots are in th" hospital with influenza and a torren tial rain is falling on the unshelter ed machine. The three man staff of the plane became ill during a rough nine hour flight from Pretoria, col lapsing when they landed h ?re Tues day afternoon. Physicians .said tha' all were prosressinsr favoiabiv ;.:it that they would not be able to" leave for at least a week. For four hours, thru the worst weather yet encountered on the trip, the pilots controlled the hie: nlane altho they scarcely were alle to sit at the controls. They both were gid dy with a raging fever. Meanwhile the mechanic had collapsed in the cabin. DAKOTA SNOWFALL IS ABOUT NORMAL Brookings. S. 1)., March 12. The snowfall here this winter was sur passed only seven times -in the Ia?t two decades in the last two decades. Matthew Fawlds. official weather ob server at State colleee. said T.i.i iv after reviewing experiment station records for the last 20 ye.rs. The snow tms winter squalled approx imately one and one-half rainfall. MARSHAL FOCH RALLIES Paris Marshal Ferdinand Vnrh rallied so strongly from his lllne Tuesday that his physicians' said no further crisis was exneeted for ev. ?! weeks- His temperature was 100.8 and his culse !