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Show NEWS BRIEFS PITTSBURG. Oct E Western Pennsyl anla's drought entered Itl twenty-fourth day and authorities expressed ex-pressed alarm today as the reserve water supply was rapidly diminishing. River transportation has be. h prac-tieallj prac-tieallj paralysed and farmers Had severe se-vere damage- to crops. The reservoir Is dry and residents are haulln? water from private wells. Othei i ountry communities are alarmed. schools sT v idll:. HELENA, Mont Several hundred rural schools In Montana haw failed to open this fall for lack of funds or lack of teachers, according to Miss stay Trumper, state superintendent of public instruction. PRINTERS1 HOME ENLARGED. COLOR AH SPRINGS. "ulo With the construction of a $ 1 1 6 , 0 0 0 addl-J tlon to the Union Printers' norm- authorized au-thorized by the board of trustees in i session here this week, the home will be enabled to care for sufferers from I locomotor ataxia, paralysis and itlto ailments Superintendent John A. , Daley of the home announced today. Heretofore the institution, which Is maintained by the International Typographical Typo-graphical union, has barred such easel The addition will be three; stories In height and will provide 60 beds WOULD "MUG" PUBLIC. NEW YORK--Tho finger printing of every person In the United Stat:s; Is recommended In a report prepared by the executive committee of the I New York phamber of commerce fori submission at a meeting today of the organization. The plan was designed SS a protective measure to make dlf-l flcult "the evasion of clever and dangerous dan-gerous aliens nent here for the pur-! pose of spreading discontent among, the unasslmllated portion of our population." popu-lation." LETTER FROM HARDING. WASHINGTON A letter from President Harding expressing sincere ! appreciation "for the efforts of the I newlv forme,! .Vntlonul A imm nl sociatlon In developing aviation" and conveying his best wishes for success suc-cess of the Pulitzer cup races to begin be-gin In Detroit on October 11 was made public at association headquarters headquar-ters today PAPKR MONET FLOOD. BERLIN New currency issued dur-I dur-I lng the last week In September to-I to-I taled ,26.200,000,000 paper marks, it I Is announced. JEWELRY RAFF BLOWN. TOLEDO, Ohio Robbers early to-I to-I day blew a safe In the office of Mar-vet Mar-vet & Kimmeiman, manufacturing jewelers. and escape l with uncut stones and jewelry valued at 000. a , ordlng to a police report DUELIST DROWNED, CHICAGO An unidentified man fought a revolver duel with a police-man police-man In Washington park Wednesday night and after being wounded stug-gered stug-gered and f!l Into a lagoon and was drowned. TRAIN CREW CONTRACTS. WASHINGTON Officials of railroads rail-roads In the sout hoastorn section ol the United States and officers of the trainmen and conductors' brotherhoods brother-hoods began a conference here toduy to consider the drafting of possible contracts covering wages and working conditions IjENIJTF wantb silence MOSCOW The walls of M. L-nine . sboplng room in the Kremlin have been lined with cork In order that he may be immune to noises. oo |