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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY s President Roosevelt, spurred on by the crash of the bus and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train in which fourteen school children were killed and thirteen others injured, has announced that the federal government will assume the entire cost of the 200 million dollar railroad grade crossing program. Britain intends to speed up its air mail schedule bringing England within two days of India, two and a half days of East Africa, four days of Singapore, and seven days of Australia. The latest is that Hitler will sign an antiwar pact after viewing the show of solidarity by Great Britain, France and Italy, raising hopes for peace in Europe. Charles R. Walgreen, head of the Walgreen drug chain stores, has asked for a public hearing on the charges he has made of "Red" influence at the University of Chicago. Pacifist students parading on the University of Chicago campus were dispersed by other students unsympathetic with the so-called "student strike against war," originating in New York. Barrages of eggs and fists were laid down by the combatants. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the states right to dissolve corporations that are involved in criminal violations of law. The ruling came in the case of the Blue Rose Oil Company, 5820 Ogden Avenue, whose president, Charles D. Duncan, of Hinsdale, last November was fined 6,000 and sentenced to one to five years in prison on a charge of defrauding the state of 0,000 in gasoline taxes. The queen of Belgium has been reported seriously ill with influenza and has cancelled all her engagements. Marion Talley, the Kansas City girl who abandoned an operatic career for a Kansas wheat farm, was secretly married in New York, March 23, to Adolph Eckstrom, voice teacher, with whom she studied, it was revealed Saturday. Four men, captured in Chicago Thursday night m and charged by postal inspectors with being the ringleaders in a lottery syndicate, were started back to Kansas City to stand trial for using the mails to defraud. The prisoners are Joseph Berkowitz, 44 years old, who has been fined on two previous occasion for similar operations; Al Thomas, 32 years old; Jay Reynolds, 26 years old, and Sam Wiley, 34 years old.
