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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY s j Two of the ten defendants on trial in St. Paul for the kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer, admitted to Bremer early this year that they participated in his abduction, the SU. Paul ianker testified, and identified Harold Alderton and Elmer Farmer as the two men. Mayor Edward Kelly of Chicago, accom- -panied by his wife, are on their way west for the longest vacation they have enjoyed since the mayor took office. They will be joined in San Francisco by Mayor and Mrs. Frank Hague of Jersey City, The party plans to visit the Hawaiian Islands and be gone for a month. All but seventy-eight of the 1,056 convicts who went on a strike in the Ohio penitentiary Monday returned to their posts in the prison shops and mills Wednesday. Solitary confinement will be the punishment of the holdouts. The Illinois highway department has submitted to the United States bureau of public roads a list of 107 proposed viaducts and subways for the intersections of railroads and highways. These projects are suggested for construction as part of President Roosevelts program to spend on such improvements 00,000,000 of his ,880,000,000 work relief appropriation. The federal administration threatens to stop all relief cash for Illinois on April 30 unless the state guarantees to carry its ,000,000 share. Four high army off icials. and a number of Germans were nabbed in Czech round-up of spies. The report of the Chicago board of education shows debt reduction of 0,654,497 In three months. The Isle of Guernsey sentenced a woman to death for murder for the first time in its history. Insull attorneys and government prosecutors are ready for orders on third trial of ex-magnate.
