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t GENERAL NEWS OF DAY f $, ; The appointment of Brig. Gen. Walter G. . Kilner assistant chief of the Air Corps Ivas announced at Washington by the War Department. Brigadier General Kilner, who "has been chief of staff of the GHQ airforce at Langley Field, Va., succeeds Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, named to succeed the late Gen. Oscar Westover as chief of the Air Corps. Sheriffs of Williamson, Franklin and Jackson Counties have offered a ,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the dynamiters of two Central Illinois Public Service Company power line towers near Murphysboro. Frederick B. Snite, Jr., and his iron lung ,will go to Florida again for the winter. A special observation car was ordered for the infantile paralysis victim, to be attached to I a Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad train for Miami on October 25. I I Advocates of parking meters in Aurora Monday night won their two-year fight for a six-month trial of the devices. The city council voted, 9 to 5, to ask the corporation counsel to draw up an ordinance authorizing the meters in downtown streets on a trial basis. Final vote on the ordinance will be next week. Helen Oehler, 7619 East End Avenue, Chicago, was chosen Miss Illinois of the Big I Ten court of honor, a feature of the remaining home football games of the University of Illinois. Nine other Chicago girls are included in the fourteen coeds composing the court. Agreement to end the month-old labor dispute which closed Kenosha, Racine and Mil-.waukee plants of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation was reached early Tuesday. Fifty thousand dollars worth of diamonds and jewels were stolen from Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, wife of the noted opera and radio-baritone, by a thief who early Monday en-, tered the Tibbett stateroom aboard the liner Monterey as the ship neared Los Angeles harbor. Charles "Buddy" Rogers, noted band leader and husband of Mary Pickford, was injured Monday when an automobile over-! turned near Delaware. The orchestra leader . suffered a dislocated right shoulder, torn , ligaments in his right arm and body bruises. The injuries, it was said, will prevent Buddy from going to Chicago for his scheduled opening at the College Inn Saturday. f j A heat wave swept eastern Nebraska Mon-. day. At Omaha the temperature reached 96 I degrees, and at Lincoln it was 96.3. It was the hottest day on record for this date, i
