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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY " S 2 Mayor Kelly was warmly welcomed in Washington Friday where he laid groundwork for Chicago to obtain United States cash for public works. The House of Representatives at Washington Friday decided to extend old age pensions to millions of white collar workers and reversed its previous stand and voted to bar war time conscription of labor. Both houses of Congress passed the conference report on five billion work relief bill and a plane may carry measure to President Roosevelt for signature. The Cook County hospital was stricken from American Medical Societys list of accredited hospitals flor interns. It was intimated that because graduates from the Chicago Medical School were accepted as interns the above action resulted. The Maine senate has passed an old age pension bill providing for payments of 5 a month to persons over 70 years of age ! who are "in distress." The measure now goes to the house. Edwin Arlington Robinson, 66 years old, famous poet, died in a hospital in New York early Saturday. He had been ill since January 17 of a chronic ailment and recently underwent "an operation. The size of the French army has been increased by delaying the discharge of conscript soldiers. The North Western railroad finds faster trains increase the total travel. Austria decides to continue private political armies despite increase in its national army. The emperor of Japan leaves his palace for the first time in history to greet a guest, Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo. England investigates hint that two women, refugees from Germany, may have been poisoned by Nazis. Raymond Hamilton, 22 year-old Texas desperado, who had boasted he never would be captured alive, was arrested Friday night in Fort Worth without the firing of a shot. Andrew W. Mellons art gift was declared mere transfer and, as such, subject to taxation. Transfers between the Chicago street car lines and the elevated system will be ordered by the Illinois Commerce Commission within a few days, it was learned Saturday. Thomas M. Cronin, president of local 704, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was ordered held to the grand jury today on a charge of murdering William Bahm-fleth, 43 years old, 2052 Irving Park Boulevard, Chicago. A coroners jury found that Bahmfleth came to his death from bullet wounds inflicted by Cronin in the Cronin home, 4856 North Kenneth Avenue, Friday night.
