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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY CHICAGO III March AVeat her Forecast JHuwis Generally fair tonight and Tuesday some ¬ what warmer Tuesday Missouri Fair tonight and jirolmlily Tuesday warmer Tuesday and in west portion tonight General Forecast Generally fair weather will prevail throughout this forecast dis ¬ trict from l ike Michigan and Illinois westward to the northern Rockies until Tuesday night with mure or less variable temperatures temperaturesCHICAGO CHICAGO III March Reports today from tin six central western stales swept by tornadoes yes ¬ terday indicate 300 persons lost their lives while thousands were rendered homeless and millions of dollars worth f damage done About sixty lives were lo t in Georgia and western Alabama AlabamaThe The death list is as follows followsChicago Chicago and vicinity 30 30Northern Northern Indiana 7 7Toledo Toledo and vicinity 3J 3JRut Rut lli Creek Mich and vicinity Kast Trov Wis 1 1St St Louis Mo 1 1Georgia Georgia and western Alabama ill illTotal Total l o oA A dozen or more Michigan cities were cut off from the rest of the world and it was reported they were in the path of the twister which swept northeastward across the state from Lake Michi ¬ gan The storm was said to have been particularly severe in the vicinities of Kalamazoo Rattle Creek Lansing Ray City and Saginaw Property loss in I he Chicago district alone may reach the total of SCdGOOUO according to some estimates while in the eight states affected the material loss is believed to have been enormous Many villages and hamlets directly in the path of the devastating wind cut off from telegraphic or telephonic communicatiin with the rest of the country may swell the list of dead and injured much more wlren their reports are known knownCHICAGO CHICAGO 111 March 1 Nine hundred stock handlers cleaners and unloading men employed by the Iliiou Stock Yards and Transit Company today walked out thereby lying up all shipments to and from Packingtown If the strike continues for many days officials of the big packing companies admit they will be crippled to such an extent that ihey will have gradually to close down If this is dciie 50000 workers at the stock yards will be laid off and the meat supply to the city imperiled imperiledAVAS1I1NGTON AVAS1I1NGTON 1 C March The eighteenth amendment to the constitution known as the prohi ¬ bition amendment is legislative in nature and revo ¬ lutionary in character according to Attorney Gen ¬ eral Thomas F McCran of New Jersey in opening his argument before the Tniled States Supreme court in New Jerseys suit to liave the amendment declared void and the Aolstead act unconstitutional Eight points were raised and discussed in the ar ¬ gument WASHINGTON D C March Ill The State De ¬ partment this afternoon made public documents which were taken from an alleged courier from Soviet Russia to the Tinted States which urged armed insurrection in the Fnited States the esta ¬ blishment of a dictatorship and formation of an organization for the distribution of revolutionary propaganda The information was cabled to the State Department from Riga RigaAVASHINGTON AVASHINGTON D C March li Tho St Louis rrewing Association today filed a brief in the Su ¬ preme Court on the constitutionality of the ATol slead enforcement law specially the clause fixing alcoholic coiiicnls of beverages at onehalf of one per rent in volume Thr rontcst is an appeal from H decision of the Missouri Federal District Court su tiining tht validity of the act actAVASHINGTON AVASHINGTON D C March Rallots cast bv wompn In the coming presidential election will fall Miort of the potential inejis vote by over 500000 provided the suffrage amendment is ratified and state registration laws enacted in time to permit woriipn all over the country to participate accord ¬ ing to estimates by the national womans party partyAVASHINGTON AVASHINGTON I March 0 Secretary of State Colby was taken ill upon his rctum from New York and today is under a physicians care at his apartments in a hotel here II was stated that the secretary i unite ill although nut danger ¬ ously to1
