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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Swift termination of the hysterical strike of 00 Chicago switchmen leel by John Griiuail was forecast today with the arrival of COO union switch ¬ men from out of town tet break the outlaw strike Switchmen are coming into town in such numbers that the bae kboue of the strike will be hrokin to ¬ night said A F Whitney vice president of the Hrotherhood of Itailreiail Trainmen who is ceinduct hig the fight to save the contracts of his union from violation Every carload of stock that eu ters the stockyards will be handled promptly by i reserve crew of union switchmen he saiel and we expect to have the COO idle locomotives going in short order orderFloods Floods of dangerous volu appeared HkeIv ves vesterday terday throughout the dozen midwest states which were covered with snow and ice by the Easler blizzard as the thermometer started to rise with the prospect of returning to a springtime point before night All weather bureau records for April snowfalls were broken to smithereens In the storm area the Easter day fall was measured at from six inches to three feet with elrifts piled up let leu feet A sudden thaw sueh as is in prospect would pom into the streams in a day more water than in normal seasons is drained off in a month monthChinese Chinese of future generations will write in phonetic script and use a typewriter with olilv thirtynine eharacters instead of plying a brush to draw 10000 or more hieroglyphics if mission workers sueceed in an effort they are making lo revolutionize handwriting in use in China for more than IOItO years The work of the missionaries is at last beginning to rrceive official sanction and they entertain hopes that eventually tin Chinese brush ink block and ink tablet will have to go to give plaee to more niodern methods of com ¬ municating ideas ideasWeather Weather Forecast Illinois Fair tonight prob ¬ ably followed bv rain Tuesday or Tuesday night slowly rising temperature General forecast The northwestern disturbance will probably move south ¬ eastward so that conditions will not yet become settled in this forecast elistrict from Like Michigan and Illinois westwanl over the middle west The temperatures will moderate slowlv in the middle states statesAn An cneoimter resulting in a number of casualties in wounded occurred early yesterday outside the fonign offiee betweeii extreme Socialists and the police A police motor car was overturned anil eiistnyod and two policemen were badly beaten Itevolvei wemnds were sustained by a few of the demonstraters This is virtually the only instance so far of apparently premeditated violence during the crisis in Copenhagen CopenhagenA A huge bundle represcntiiig the resignations of 12iS Cliiengo fire fighters intended to go Into ef ¬ fect Sntiird y lay unopened Monday on the desk of fire marshal OConnor lit and John F Cullerton imuiiigcr tif properties in the department who has hrt charge of itgot iat inn with ll e men declared the slip of p nr turned in by the men lute Satur elity would not b eemsidered as resignations resignationsThe The Hritis Sminlist pnrty Ims adopted a resolu ¬ tion that the time is opiHtrtune to organize Soviets in every town it was announce bv the organi ¬ zation yesterday It was decided to arm the workers for the coming trugglc which is in ¬ evitable The Socialist leaders said that the work ¬ men must arise as a result of the European A traniatlaiitic aerial liner with capacity for 100 or TliO passHiigers propelled by entrines of 12 000 horsepower was described Sunday by Gianni Caproni as a probability of the near future at an Aero Club dinmr in New York Signor Capremi announced the invention of selfadjusting motors and pro ¬ pellers for machines ued in altitude flights flightsA A Canadian air fom is to be formed immediately The personnel will be drawn from volunteers from tin ranks of men formerly in the royal air force resilient in Canada The foree wiUprobably be lim ited in the beginning to about 000 men and the training centers will not number more than one or two to begin with withA A 1 M02 M0 pension bill was presented te day in the House Theie biuefitiug under it number Cl1427 Representative Cannon Itep of Illinois stated adding that this was lIvlCS less than this year The total appropriation however was only 1110001 less than that for the present fiscal year yearMany Many square mills of country has been buried fathoms deop by the tremendous lava flows from Kilaiieatt voleaao thirtytwo miles from Hilu Island in Hawaii which began spectacular erup ¬ tions luring the latter part of October 1U19 and are still eontiuuiiig eontiuuiiigAn An eniergeney appropriation of 42tiUUO000 was asked of Congress yesterday by S wager Sherley director of finance of the Itailroad Administration to meet payments of standard returns ami either claims due to railreuids or becoming due before Septembei 1 1President President AVilson is having difficulty in finding men willing to give up their business to serve em the railroad labor board as representatives of the public AVhite House officials said today in explain ¬ ing the delay in nominating the members e f the board boardCharges Charges eif perjured testimony and a doctored rec ¬ ord in the trial of the five Socialists expelled last week from the New York assembly were coiitaineel iu a stateincut isMieel today by the national execu ¬ tive committee of the Socialist party partyLike Like Michigan roeked bv the Easter blizzard today gave up the body etf Jeanne Anna DeKay the missing heiress whose disappearance from Hull House December SO caused a nationwide search that held public interest for weeks weeksEstablishment Establishment eif a transcontinental air mail serv iee at the ceist of lliOtMl is provided in the annual posteiffiee appropriation bill agreed to yes terdav afterneioii by House and Senate conferees at AYashiugton AYashiugtonOne One hundred and eightyeight easualties mostly slight oecurred as a result of a conflict in Jeru ¬ salem on Easter Sunday The military is in centred of the situation situationThe The French foreign office adheivs to the belief that the Utilir qtustieiu will not result iu a renewal of hostilities betweeii Germany and the allies the opinion being expressed that Germany is about to back down
