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1 " . 1 " : 1 1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY s Thomas McFarland, thirty-nine, of Brooklyn, is said to have confessed slaying his sixty-eight-year-old mother-in-law and also her grand-daughter, eighteen. Andrew W. Mellon says he followed the income tax law and didnt evade it, but its "strange law." England, France and Italy sent a warning to Lithuania against violating the Me-mel autonomy. It was reported that Britains peace envoys got a gloomy reception on arrival in the Polish capital. A note to the League of Nations cites I Italian intent to dominate Ethiopia. Germany has revealed existence of antiaircraft artillery which is forbidden by the Versailles treaty. A dispatch from Moscow says: Vera Fed-oroffa, the wife of a Red army officer, claimed the womans parachute jumping record after an asserted leap of 6,350 meters 20,853 feet from an airplane near Leningrad Monday, April 1. She made the jump without oxygen apparatus. The Supreme Court has ruled that the RFC and banks cannot sell collateral held for loan to Rock Island road. -
