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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY 3 From Paris comes the news that France and Russia have made a gentlemens agreement for mutual support in case either is attacked by Germany .or any other power. The Chicago Park Board plans to ask for 0,000,000 from federal works funds for construction of bridges, subways and park buildings. The Bronx cheer and bedroom scene were ruled off the stage by an English judge. He declared the "Bronx cheer" an unpleasant noise and un-British. The bedroom scene was classed as shocking and unfit for staid British theatergoers. The first official act of president Roosevelt after returning to Washington after hi3 two weeks fishing cruise was to sign the 400-million dollar war department appropriation bill, which adds 46,000 men to the army. Relief workers in Welland, Ontario, fought with the police in their demand for shorter hours and larger relief vouchers. Peggy and Nacky Scripps, respectively 14 and 11 years old, the daughters of Robert P. Scripps, newspaper publisher, were critically injured in an automobile accident in Honolulu Tuesday. Eleven more people were reported dead in the record breaking rain storms and floods in California. The dust storms ranging over southwestern Kansas and northwestern Oklahoma in force since Monday have increased the highway hazards due to poor visibility, limited to about 100 yards. Salesmen were forced to postpone their business trips and the roads were more or less deserted.
