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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY S : s Two men, Thomas J. Lehne, of Venice, 111., and Fred Blink, a Whiteside County farmer, convicted of murder, were executed Tuesday in the electric chairs of Illinois pen-itentaries. The first mentioned was executed at Menard, and the other at the Stateville prison near Joliet. One hundred professional and business men, ,of Racine, Wis., forced William J. Swoboda, mayor of that city, to curb and maintain order among the strikers picketing the J. I. Case plant there. President Cardenas, of Mexico, was host to the American woman flyer, Amelia Ear-hart, Monday evening at a garden party in her honor at Mexico City. King Boris, of Bulgaria, forestalled an eleventh hour attempted coup and rebellion by military leaders, and immediately proclaimed himself dictator. It is reported that his nation was greatly relieved, as it was feared the country was on the verge of a revolution. President Roosevelt has virtually completed his plans for spending the 4 billion 880 million dollar relief appropriation, despite a continued barrage of charges that he will use the money to play politics and help his cause in 1936. The President will announce his plans soon, perhaps on Wednesday, having already sketched out his entire spending organization and program. Fear that the Roosevelt administration has a desire to hamper or limit the freedom of the American press was dismissed as "without substance" by Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, speaking at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press. He expressed doubt that "those other equally precious rights," free speech and free assemblage, were on as firm a footing as the freedom of the press, and he called on the press to uphold them. A notable flying feat was recorded when making the iate night run from Washington to the West with six passengers, J. H. "Slim" Carmichael, pilot for Central Airlines, early Tuesday turned his Ford plane back to the capital after one of its Wasp motors had dropped out eighty-five miles away. He negotiated the landing without damage, despite a disabled landing gear. A cablegram from Athens, Greece, brings news of death sentences being inflicted Tuesday upon Generals Papoulas and Kim-isis, leaders of the Republican Defense League, for alleged participation in the recent revolt. The body of John J. Brosius, seventy-nine years old, who died on January 27, was ordered exhumed from St. Marys Cemetery Monday by Judge Albert H. Manus, of Free-port, sitting in the Cook County Circuit Court. The judge acted on the petition of two of Brosius sons, who said they suspected there might be strychnine in the body. Brosius death was originally diagnosed as caused from heart disease and no inquest was held. Ivor P. Jones, fifty-four years old, 5200 Sheridan Road, a salesman, was fatally in-injured Monday night when he fell or was pushed from an automobile in front of 6821 Stony Island Avenue, Chicago. He died in the Jackson Park Hospital.
