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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY s : The McSwain anti-war profits bill was passed by the house Tuesday by a vote of 367 to 15. The measure would put 100 per cent tax on excess earnings, give the president power to commandeer the nations money, public services and industrial and material resources to prosecute war. The section permitting conscription of man power in war time was eliminated. An automobile smashed into the rear of a freight train crossing Clark and Addison streets in Chicago early Tuesday and the driver, John Gustaff, was killed and his two companions, Albert Johnson and Louis Grikovich, were taken to the American hospital in a serious condition. Berlins demands were made known to the house of commons in London Tuesday by Sir John Simon, foreign secretary. He said Germany wants land, air and arms equality, a navy thirty-five per cent the size of Great Britain, non-aggression instead of mutual assistance pact in eastern Europe, and willingness to discuss non-interference in Austria. Adolph S. Ochs, owner and publisher of the New York Times, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., Monday afternoon. Mr. Ochs suffered a stroke in a restaurant across the street s from the office of the Chattanooga Times, which he owned. He was seventy-seven years old. From Calgary comes word that six to eight inches of snow covers Alberta. Ten persons are reported dead in California floods, with damage heavy in the central and southern sections. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, former collector of internal revenue in Chicago, was returned to jail for failure to pay ,500 judgment in an alienation case. Eva Knisel, a twenty-eight year old Jugoslavian woman, is slowly bleeding to death in Toronto, Ont., hospital. The malady is a rare one, causing the blood to lose its coagulating power and remain liquid, slowly seeping through the mucous membranes of the womans body. Mrs. May H. Carey and a son, Howard, were convicted Tuesday of murder in the first degree, and another son, James, of murder in the second degree for the slaying of Robert Hitchens, brother of Mrs. Carey, in an insurance plot at Georgetown, Dela. Two children perished and four were injured in a fire which destroyed a dwelling at Onalaska, Wis., early Tuesday morning. Three young "pants robbers," who used a bright idea while it worked, were sentenced to the penitentiary Tuesday for from one year to life by Chief Justice Denis E. Sullivan. They were identified in robberies wherein the victims were disrobed and left unable to pursue them.
