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4 GENERAL NEWS OF DAY f 8 Using sacks of flour instead of explosives, fliers on Sunday gave 50,000 Chicagoans a graphic demonstration of bombing at the International Air Thrill Circus and Air Races at Lansing Airport, 190th street and Burn-ham Avenue. HARRISBURG, 111., Oct. 3. Three youths confessed at Harrisburg, 111., Sunday that they took part in an attempted holdup in Texas City on Friday when Mrs. Samuel Burns, wife of a filling station owner, was shot dead. At least 6,500 men will return to work in tractor plants of the International Harvester Company in Chicago, Milwaukee and Rock Island during the next few weeks, the company announced Monday. Police Chief J. T. Speak, 45, and Clyde Horton, 50, of Courtland, Ala., were killed late Sunday night when they engaged in an old-fashioned gun duel on the grounds of the Lawrence County Fair. Horton collapsed with three bullets in the heart and arm, and Speak had two bullets through the heart. A cheap automobile, the last one owned by Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt, widow of the millionaire inventor, was sold at public auction today as part of her efforts to free herself from a 00,000 bankruptcy. Captured after an attempt to hold up the Trianon Ballroom, 6201 Cottage Grove Avenue, Frank Cherne, 22, of 10210 Eving Avenue confessed holding up over ten South Side theaters, police said. Three dozen children narrowly escaped serious injury when a bus in which they were riding was struck by a fire department hook and ladder truck at Monroe Street and Ogden Avenue Sunday. The fall musical season opened Monday night, marking the beginning of a three weeks repertoire of grand opera by the San Carlo Opera company in the Auditorium theater. The initial bill was Rossinis "The Bar ber of Seville." Ivan Petroff, Bulgarian baritone, made his Chicago debut as Figaro in a cast including Lucille Meusel, Dimitri Onofrei, Harold Kravitt and Natale Cervi. Carlo Peroni conducted. The irony of fate played a fatal trick on Steeplejack Theodore Rejewski, 35, of Cicero, 111., who has seldom worked less than ten stories in the air during the last few years, fell twelve feet Sunday and was killed at Buffalo. Greta Nissen, the Norwegian actress and movie star, on her arrival in New York from London explained that she left England because she could no longer stand the horror of hearing the continual talk about air raids. "It was just terrible," Miss Nissen said. "Everybody in England is talking about nothing else but A. R. P. Air Raid Precautions. The English women just love it." Judge Oscar S. Caplan of the Municipal court has been appointed by the American Bar association to . its department of real property, probate and trust, law, it was announced Monday. The steamship American Banker of the United States Lines reported the rescue at sea of the crew of five from the burning schooner Pioneer, loaded with lumber and bound for the Barbados. Arthur Horner, president of the South Wales Miners Federation, announced that British miners would support 1,000 destitute children, victims of the civil war in government Spain, for seven years. The miners have subscribed 00,000 to maintain homes and provide food. From Oslo, Norway, comes word that thirty-one lives have been lost in two recent shipwrecks in the Arctic.
