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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY Great Britain, France and Italy began consultations Thursday to see if they cannot unite in a common policy to be adopted toward German rearmament in defiance of the Versailles treaty. Dust storms continue to play havoc in seven states, namely Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas. More than 100 families have deserted Cimarron and Texas counties in northwestern Oklahoma. Many schools and stores were closed in Colorado and western Kansas. Canada has placed a ban on beauty queen contests in connection with the celebration of King Georges silver jubilee. The program committee vetoed the plan because "it gives the girls a false idea of good looks and importance." Hit and run drivers left two men dying in the streets of Chicago, Wednesday, both victims being unidentified. Mrs. Maude Musick of Los Angeles is asking for a divorce because her husband, a wealthy patent medicine manufacturer, kept a skunk in their home, besides several chattering monkeys. Max Perrot, father of the missing boy, Richard Max Perrot, is certain that his son is alive and in the hands of kidnapers. The four-year-old boy has been missing since, last Thursday, April 4. The kidnaper, it is said, has promised to return the boy on the payment of a small sum of money. More than seventy-five scientists will as- semble at Beloit College, Friday and .Saturday, for a joint meeting of the Wisconsin ; sections of the American Chemical Society and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 1 The lower house of the Illinois Legisla- ture on Thursday rejected Governor Horn- ers bill to increase the sales tax from 2 to 3 per cent. j The Aquitania, after being grounded oh a ; mudbank near Southampton, England, since Wednesday afternoon, was refloated Thurs- day and proceeded to the Southampton dock. Vandals have taken bronze tombstone tablets valued at more than 4,000 from the graves of soldiers in a Pittsburg ceme-; tery. Police are making a search for the perpetrators of this dastardly crime. Anna Katharine Green, author of many detective stories, died Thursday at her home in Buffalo, N. Y., at the age of 88. "The . Leavenworth Case," her first novel, was , written 56 years ago. Don Covin, an ex-convict on parole, was arrested and accused of murdering Mrs. Emma Sage in a Galveston, Texas, coffee shop early Thursday morning. Twenty-nine officers and civilians were sentenced to prison after court martials in Athens and Salonika for participation in the recent Greek rebellion. More than 250 more persons are to go on trial before a navy i court martial next Monday. Seventy persons died and thirty are reported missing after the typhoon wrought destruction in the Philippines last Saturday,
