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GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY According to Dun and Bradstreet of New York, the sharpest boom in business in twenty-five years was forecast for the near future. Berlin has sent word to the represents tives of England, France and Italy that Germany was ready to enter an eastern European peace pact. Gem thieves got a haul of 5,000 in jewels and 00 in cash in a holdup of a jewelry store in Springfield, 111., Thursday morning. University of Chicago radicals were under fire and brought into the limelight as a result of Charles R. Walgreen, head of the national chain of drug stores bearing his name, having his niece withdraw as a student on account of "communistic" influences. About 200 members of the American Legion, holding a meeting by invitation in the University of Chicago field house Thursday night, forcibly expelled a group of students who attempted to protest that the university was being maligned by the speakers, who described it as a hotbed of Reds. Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York declared in a speech in Thome Hall of Northwestern University that "crackpot" disloyal professors are spreading communism in the universities and attempting to destroy American institutions. As a result of a train smashing into a bus at Rockville, Md., Friday, fourteen high school pupils are dead and a number seriously injured. Three men collapsed after drinking whisky out of the same bottle in a tavern on the northwest side of Chicago Thursday evening. One of the men, Alfred Hanke, died and the other two, Walter Munson and William Simpson, are seriously ill. Liquor at the saloon and the contents of the mens stomachs will be analyzed to discover the cause of the tragedy. Seven shoe plants at Haverhill, Mass., were destroyed by fire Thursday morning, causing a damage of about 00,000. Twenty-eight prisoners, mostly "reds," began a hunger strike protesting against confinement in two Amsterdam prisons. is
