February 8, 1925

Test suit filed in Federal Court in St Louis to collect $1.60 alleged due for transportation of two soldiers from St Paul to Seattle; basis of suits rests on land grants for roadbed on condition that road be a post road and military route, subject to regulation by Cong regarding restriction of charges, under which soldiers have been transported in peace time for half fare

Sp art by R F Dibble, Deflating the Great Napoleon (on new evidence)

ONCE more we have from the eager yet erudite pen of Dr. MacNicol a fascinating book on India. It is, perhaps, wrongly titled. What Dr. MacNicol unveils to us materialists of the busy West is not "the making of modern India," but the mysticism of that ancient India which modern methods would undermine.

Crazed with drink, fires bullets into doors of 3 apts

THERE were, as some one must remember, "Elsie on the Mississippi," "Elsie on a Gunboat," "Elsie at Home," "Elsie on the Plains," "Elsie at Yale" and ever so many other titles. It is high time -- it is herewith officially declared high time -- that the volume on "Elsie Abroad" be written.

Judge Winslow gets thousands of lrs praising action in leniency to poorly paid postmen who defrauded mails in N Y C

MONTREAL, Feb. 7. -- American squash racquet stars were victorious today over Canada in the annual team match for the Lapham Trophy. The Americans won eight matches and the Canadians three.

The location of the proposed Queens Borough Hall will be one of the chief questions in the coming city election, so far as it concerns that borough. Communities will unite for or against sertain candidates according to the locations these candidates favor for the Borough Hall.

The work of the Special Committee appointed by the Executive Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association was brought to a successful ending yesterday when the delegates to the forty-fourth annual meeting of the national governing body in session at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, by a unanimous vote, adopted the new amateur rule formulated by the committee.

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 7. -- In an exciting finish the Island Farm Stable's Corinth beat Clarence Buxton's Missionary by a nose in the Miami Shores Handicap, the main attraction at Hialeah Park this afternoon. The winner carried 119 pounds and ran the mile and a sixteenth to a new track record of 1:46 4-5, clipping one and two-fifth seconds off the mark set last Saturday.

Contest expected in filling place vacated by Taft

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 7. -- After taking a commanding lead at the end of the first half and the opening of the second, the Navy basketball team had to withstand a threatening rally by New York University in the closing minutes of play here today.