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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH uFORTY AND EIGHT WASHINGTON TELEGRAPHIC TALES A RESUME DOINGS IN THE OF THIS WEEKS AND OTHER COUNTRIES I' Important Event of the Last Seven Day Reporter by Wire and for the Benefit of the li Busy Reader Pre-par- ed The amazing discovery has been made that the Daugherty investigating committee had lost, through theft and forgery vital papers and records belonging to Gaston P. Means, investigator extraordinary and principal aide to Senator Wheeler of Montana in the prosecuting" of the former attorney general. The world court controversy flared up in the senate when Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman of tne foreign relations committee, and Senator Shipstead of Minnesota laid before the senate a large bundle of petitions in favor of American participation in the court. Negotiations to continue the Taft Panama canal agreement in effect until June 1, have been opened between the Washington and Panama government. The agreement was to expire May 1 by arrangement entered upon by the two governments when they began negotiations looking toward the construction of a treaty to supplant it. At that time it was thought a treaty could be drafted, ratified and put into effect by May I, but that was found impossible. A flat statement that if by any chance the nomination for the vice presidency should be offered to me, I should decline to accept it, was made by General John J.. Pershing. Any statement that has been made that I would be a candidate for vice president has been made without my authority, said the general in a formal statement. I am not a candidate, and if, by any chance the nomination should be offered to me, 1 should decline to accept it. House Republican leaders informed President Coolidge that the house was aproaching conclusion of consideration of constructive legislation, and that, so far as that body was concerned, congress would be able to adjourn June 1. The Mexican embassy announced AIDS LEGION POSTS REBEL LEADERS jefican O c$0ti (Copy (or Thl Department Supplied by the American Lesion News Service.) ESSAY CONTEST IS NOW IN PROGRESS The third annual essay contest of the American Legion began April 1 with the chosen subject, Why ComWESTERN munism Is a Menace to Americanism. This contest, conducted by the AmeriCharles West, 85, of Bridgeport, canism commission of the Legion, Is Neb., was shot and almost instantly held annually with a view of enlisting killed in a raid on an alleged gamb a majority of thought in the direction e at forty-fivmiles ling game Lavoye, of some vital question facing Americas north of Casper, Wyo., in the Salt citizenship. Creek oil field. John Newell, roomHeretofore the contest has closed In ing house proprietor of Lavoye, one the fall, but in order to coincide the of the two deputized to assist deputy work with that of the school year Garsheriff C. G. Vance in making the land W. Iowell, director of the Leraid, is said to have admitted firing gions Americanism commission, decidthe shot and to have claimed it was to open the contest in the spring and ed accidental. close It with the completion of school No farmer of Nevada hesitates to terms. hire a California laborer who shows According to Mr. Powell, 300,000 a certificate that he has been fumt school children participated In the last contest held by the Legion, which took gated at Gerlach, the most western division point of the Western-Pacifias Its subject, Why America Should In Nevada. Prohibit Immigration for Five Years. Gerlach possesses the A previous contest conducted by the best facilities for bathing and fumi Legion enlisted efforts of 200,000 chilgating of any town along the line. dren, who submitted essays on the subThe old General Thomas mine at ject How the American Legion Can Lone Mountain has been leased to Best Serve the Nation. Tonapah parties and will be reopen Each of the subjects chosen reflects d and operated for the attractive some phuse of American Legion activlead-silvores that once made the ity and the Legion view of such polin cies. The Legion believes that by property one of the shippers in the southern district. The bringing the subject before the chilmine has not been worked for ten dren of the nation It can cause a discussion in many American homes that years, owing to the decline in lead and the advance in freight rates. will he of vital import to the welfare of America. Rabbi William Rice, formerly oi Prizes aggregating $1,500 are awardSalt Lake, where he was connected ed the winners. The best essayist rewith the congregation of BNai Israel ceives $750 In cash, to be applied as a was one of the four persons indicted receipt of advices from Mexico which in any school, college or said with the occupation of the scholarship that, by the Los Angeles county grand he may designate. Second university rebellion receives jury, in connection with the suicide southeastern states, that $500 and third $250, each for of Theodore Beaver, wealthy manu- started last December has come to scholarships. The essnys are chosen an end and the authority of the gov facturer. by elimination. Beginning with the ernment reestablished over the whole of schools in county superintendent Inspection and disinfection of all of the republic. each county, who selects local judges, railroad passengers from California A fourfold attack on the revenue the three most representative essays bound for Arizona points became affective April 23 as a further safe- bill sent to the senate by the finance are sent on to judges designated by the guard against spread of the foot and committee was outlined in the minor- state superintendents,or superintendents school commisof public instruction mouth disease to Arizna, under an ity report of the committee filed by sion. on the three These pass judges MexSenator Jones, Democrat, New executive proclamation issued by best essays submitted in the state. ico. Governor Hunt of Arizona. The winning essay from each state Is Mrs. Sara E. Ashurst, The first move toward carrying out sent Into national competition, from mother of the recommendations of the reclamUnited States Senator Henry F. which are chosen the three winners by g was a committee of Judges selected by the of Arizona is dead committee at Azusa, ation California. She had been critically made In congress when RepresentaLegion. Posts frequently give medals HI for several days. tive Leatherwood of Utah introduced and awards to winners In their own The city commissioners of Baker, the bill authorizing the construction counties, state departments of the LeOregon have levied a license fee of of five new projects and Represen- gion provide medals for the three essayists there and the cash $250 per year upon private automo- tative Smith of Idaho, chairman of winning introduced awards are made by the national bile camp touring grounds and fixed the Irrigation committe, a maximum fee of 50 cents a night to the general bill proposing Important Judges. of practically every The changes In the reclamation law. be charged by the owners. educational official In the country has FOREIGN GENERAL been afforded the Legion since these In adcontests have been Instituted. Two aviators, J. II. Green and II. Dr. Carl Helferich, eminent Gerand bodies educational organidition, R. Cruickshank, were killed at the man financial authority, and his have accorded the Legion a Great Lakes naval training station aunt were among those killed in the zations amount help. Efforts have great at Waudegan, 111., when their sea- collission of two express trains near been made this ofyear through some of plane crashed into a tree from a Bellinzona, Switzerland. the nations largest fraternal bodies to height of 1000 or 1500 feet. Cniick-ahan- k concentrate the efforts of school childe jure recogHolland will formerly lived in Cedar Rap- nition to Russia grant dren In the contest. within a short time, ids, Iowa. Both were married. it was forecast at authoritatively Charles Peter of Salt Lake City, Amsterdam. Russia, according to this Winter Outing Club president of the Consolidated Mascot information, has made recognition by New Legion Enterprise Mining Company pleaded not guilty the Dutch government a condition for to an indictment charging grand larA Winter Outing club is the latest relations resumption of commercial ceny, in New York. Peter Roeder between the two nations and Holland enterprise of the American Legion and complained that he had paid $10000 has the Forty and Eight voiture in Keen, agreed. for 1000 shares in a mine at Hailey, N. H. Imagine, if you can, the thrill Resolutions appealing to President of a slide far up on a Idaho, on Peters representation that there was $6,000,000 worth of ore Coolidge to veto immigration legis- hillside, to the landing chute in the lation which would exclude Japanese valley, many feet below. at the mine ready for shipment. For a long time, the chamber of Suit for divorce brought by Jack from the United States were adopted commerce In Keen had been endeavora held at under the mas's meeting Nes-bit, Clifford, dancer, against Evelyn an Interest in winter former wife of Harry K. Thaw, auspices of newspapers of the Feder- ing to build up without great success. Prebut atation of Guilds Mercantile and sports, was restored to the trial calendar of vious attempts to construct a tobogthe Supreme Court of New York. tended by several thousand Japangan slide had failed. But when the ese. Clifford had moved originally to have Legion men took up the proposition, the case stricken from the calendar, Two international de luxe tourist the busy ring of hammers of carpenbut was said to have changed hrs trains coming from Zurich and Milan ters was soon heard and the slide soon mind. The dancer alleged infideli- respectively crashed in head-o- n colbecame a matter of fact. One of the ty in his complaint. His wife has lision shortly before dawn, killing first to make the trip down the long filed a counter claim against him, thirty and injuring fifty, of which slide was Fast National Commander Iso alleging unfaithfulness. twenty are probably fatally injured. Owsley who got a perfectly good thrill millianaire trains were car- shooting down the hillside through the Walter F. Daly, 55, for eighteen Both pine-claa country. The slide was confirst United rying heavy quota of starving assistant years States under direction of Prof structed leavdistrict attorney of Colorado, was German spendthrifts, who were found dead In an alley In South Den- ing the gay resorts of Paris and Charles Proctor of Dartmouth college, ver. Death was due to natural seeking new pleasures in other ex- an expert. causes. pensive tourist Meccas. Miss Dorothy If the present immigration bill be- Iowa Post Plans to Dalton, 28, of the Render Civic Service llent drama and Arthur Hammer, fore the American congress, restricttein, 51, son of the late Oscar to 2000 Russias Tama, la., is but a small city, hut ing quota annually, and himself a theatrical Im- becomes a law, a number of Britisn the Legionnaires there, sensing a need this week at steamship companies specializing in for definite performance of some civic presario were married The ceremony was Chicago. d transportation of Russian settlers to duty, have hit on a fourfold plan which very quietly, performed by the United States and Canada will they believe will bring their town into Itabbi lllrshfield and attended by be forced to abandon their business, national prominence. The first undertaking of Tama Leit is declared. only a few relatives and friends. will he to establish a free gionnaires Harry K. Thaw was declared sane J. Sloat Fassett of Elmira, N, Y dental clinic In the public schools. t Philadelphia by the Jury that had former congressman of the United Next, the post proposes the opening been hearing testimony to determine States died at Vancouver, It. C. Boon of a series of playgrounds In the city. bis mental condition. The jury de- after going ashore from the steamThe third move of the Legion men clared him fully capable of looking ship Empress of Russia, after a visit will he to a tourist park near after his estate. The jury deliber-ate- d to the Far East. He became ill sud- Lake Cherry,open a favored spot with au- seven hours. denly after landing. tomobilists, and the last, but not the least important to the community will A1 Jolson, comedian, was sued for More than 17,000 persons have he safeguarding of the milk supply of $560.00 for alleged breach of con- died of the plague which has beer the city, which community loaders de- - j tract by D. W. Griffith, .motion pic- ravaging the Punjab since the firsl clare will he of greatest assistance. ture producer at New York. The of the year, according to statistics complaint filed in federal district made public at Allahabad, India. Department Headquarters In an effort to secure department court, alleged that Jolson, after havResolutions protesting against th ing agreed to appear in several pic- proposed exclusion of Japanese iron headquarters of the American Legion for Columbia, Mo., much aid was given tures for Griffiths concern, haa the United States and tc appealing to the Legion men by the Commercial abandoned the job in the middle of the American people not to permit club of that city, which undertook to what was to have been his first film enactment of the immigration meas provide suitable quarters should the play. He was said to have quit be- ure Into law was passed at mass offices he moved there. Estimates of cause he: had decided he was "no meetings held at Asaka and Nagoya the cost exceeded $2 500, which was moving picture actor." Japan, arranged for by the club members. er best-know- As-bur- st fact-findin- tenth-of-a-ml- d Ilam-merstel- The Forty and Eight the playground of the American Legion, is proving a valuable adjunct to the parent organization In many Instanced. Certain problems arise in Legion posts or departmental organizations that the Legion may not always consistently handle. Then the Forty and Eight for the Lesteps to ba and plnch-hlt- s gion, usually successfully. This has been true of the organization practically since Its formation by Joseph tV. Breen, a Philadelphian, In 1921. Originally Intended to express the Joyousness of the veteran, the society has taken over many arduous duties to perforin that the Legion has been unable to meet on .account of Its more cumbersome organization. In recent months this has been seen in a national way. In addition to playing a prominent- part In the child welfare program outlined by the Legion, - Robert J. Murphy. the Forty and Eight is extending contact for the national officers of the Legion by personal visits to many sections that the organization leaders will be unable to reach during the ; . and appetite aide GOVERNMENTS MOPPING UP CAMPAIGN MARKED BY SERIES OF SUBMISSIONS digestion. It makes yon n lood do yon more good. Note how It relieves that s tolly feeling Taken niter hearty eating. General Cross Said to Have Refuse in United States; De la Huerta Reported Leavi'ng San Antonio teeth. Tfrv Whiten wee e breath a it the goody that Mexico City, General Juan Alom subordinate offizo, and forty-tw- o cers, captured by the federal troops near the town of Ixtapan, state of a summary Chiapas, were given courtmartial and immediately executed, according to an official report received at the war office from General Agapito Lastra. In addition to the officers captured and executed, General Lastras forces took more than 190 soldiers prisoner. The remainder of Alonzos band of 300 were killed in battle. Among the officers executed were two colonels, five lieutenant colonels and six majors. The remainder were captains and lieutenants. The governments mopping up scattered campaign against the bands of revolutionists which still exist in various parts of the republic, is being marked by a steady series of submissions and flight or defeat of those bands which attempt to offer resistence when overtaken by the federal columns, according to a summary of the latest official advices received by the war department. According to confidential reports from the United General States, Francisco Coss, who revolted in the state of Coahuila, has sought refuge in the United States, entering Texas. The latest confidential reports received from official sources state that De la Huerta, accompanied by several of his chief lieutenants left San Antonio, Texas, Friday for Tucson, Ariz. Mother and Son Found Dead Portland, Ore., With their throats cut from ear to ear, bodies of Mrs. her son, George May Post, 67, and George Post, 35, were found in their home. Beside each lay a razor. Two notes, relative to the disposition of property, were found. One was signed Mother, a signature which another son told was not police genuine, in his opinion. Police susa double suicide or a pect either murder and suicide. year. Robert J. Murphy, chef chemln de fer, or principal officer of the society, has had outlined for him a seven months tour which takes him Into practically every state. Murphy, with a Legion spirit born of association with organization affairs in Iowa, where Interest Is usually at flood tide, has responded cheerfully to the task and Is meeting with a splendid reception wherever he has gone. Choosing as his subject The Unpardonable Sugar Firm Enters Big Suit Sin, which he says is just a way of Ogden. The Amalgamated Sugai telling the veterans that you can't company has brought suit in the distake anything out of the Legion with- trict court against the David Eccles out putting something in, the Forty company, David C. Eccles, former and Eight head Is speaking before of the sugar company, and manager large groups of Legionnaires. Ernest R. Woolley of Salt Lake City, Following a trip through the Cento recover $124,492.09 alleged seeking tral West, after niffional headquarters to be due the The comcompany. of the society had been opened In Inrecites that the defendant plaint dianapolis, Murphy has been visiting a total of $538,500 for their Legionnaires on this extensive tour. procured use and benefit, and the personal He went into the South, covered ten states thoroughly, and In addition to amount sued for remains unpaid, toboosting his own organization was the gether with interest. The complaint center of much real Legion activity. goes into no details. Next he journeys to New England and Retrial of Thaw Asked will wind up his tour and term of office with a long trip through the West, A formal motion Philadelphia. ending at St. Paul, the convention city, asking a new sanity trial for Harry in the fall. K. Thaw was filed in common pleas He has been closely associated with court here for Evelyn by counsel Legion affairs since his return from Nesbit, Thaws former wife. In adservice. lie organized a post In his dition to filing the motion William home town, Nora Springs, la., and A. Gray, her counsel, obtained from served as county commander of all presiding Judge J. Willis Martin, a posts there. He was named to the offive days extension in which to file fice In the Forty and Eight, and received national recognition at San additional reasons. Inability to obtain a full transcript of the testiFrancisco because of his advancement mony was the reason given for th of the societys alms. During the war Murphy served as request. an Instructor in the Officers Training school at Camp Pike, Ark. He was Cheaper Gas in South Dakota discharged from service with the rank Sioux Falls, S. D., Independent of a first lieutenant of infantry. oil dealers of South Dakota will make adjustments in the price of gasoGive a Town a Bad Name line which will bring it to a lower level unless their large Where do we fight next, boss? competitors asked the reduce prices within the next few png, who generally woke up kissing the canvas. days, it was announced by the InKokomo, replied his manager. dependent Oil Dealers Association of Nuttln doin, boss. Too ninny k. South Dakota, through its president, o.s In dat place ter suit me. Ameri- J. II. Cumbow, of Sioux Fals. can Legion Weekly. Fresh Salads and CHT(up JtfewStyle SALAD DRESSING What is better than fresh spring salads made with new greens or young, tender vegetables? Such salads are good and good for you especially when made with New Style Club Salad Yacht Dressing. get the You can 35-ye- old ar favorite at all good grocery stores. Order today! St 314 N. Clark Chicago, IU. Dunkards Increase On Christmas day, 1723, two persons were baptized In the Icy waters of the river at Germantown, Ia. These were the first Dunkard converts in America, says the Detroit News. Since then the communion has grown to include over 100,000 persons. It was originally a celibate order whose members ate meat only once a year and held property In common. These strict rules have been abated and now a Dunkard may even marry outside the faith and still hold membership In the church. They hold church property valued at $5,000,000. The states where they are strongest are Tennessee and Texas. Relief Sure FOR INDIGESTION 6 Bell-an-s Hot water Sure Relief EU.-AN-S 25$ AND 75$ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Reduces Bnrsal Enlarge ments. Thickened. Swollen Tissues, Curbs, Filled Tendons Soreness from Bruises or Strains; etops Spavin Lameness, allays pain. not blister, remove the hair or lay up the horse. Only a few drop required at each application. $2.50 a bottle at druggists or delivered. Book 1 A free. W. F. TOUNC, he., 5M Lina St, SpriBffi.U, Min. Doe ham-and-eg- g Bomb Damages cele-brate- ' Chew it after every meal It timulateM ARE EXECUTED H ill-'H-l-H-- ,. Compliments Veterans Governor Austin Peay of Ten-1nessee recently greeted National Commander John It. Quinn of " the American Legion with the statement that responsibility of I! the World war veterans on the field of battle won the war. and I! that present responsibilities of the Americun Legion will win issues of that war in the forums of the people. lie snid: . . As time goes on people will cease to forget those who com-- . . posed this mightiest army of all history. The people of this are not sufficiently nation grateful for these services. In you. I recognize the po- tential citizenship of our state. I want you to he Interested in of government and problems realize responsibilities of our " citizenship. 1 H-HH--H 'M I 1 I H I 'H"H"I"I"I-- M Reformers Home Chicago, The home of the Rev. Elmer L. Williams, director of law enforcement of the Better Government association of Chicago, was bombed Monday. The front of the house was damaged, but the immates were unharmed. I have received threatening letters at various limes, and this probably is the result of my efforts to enforce the dry laws, Mr. Williams said. Stock Promoter Sint to Prison Milwaukee, Wis., Edwin C. Kingsbury, Fort Worth, Tex., attorney; Charles II. Kreigh, Pasadena, Cal., and Isaac C. Howard, Des Moines, Phyiicians etrongly discourage the use of poisonous, irritating or burning solutions for personal hygiene. Zonite is and It may be used regularly strong enough to destroy germs without harm to the sensitive tissue of the s, non-burnin- g g. body. Clear ThePores Of Impurities With stock promoters and officers la., of the Consolidated Producers Refining company, were sentenced to Sop, Ointment. Talettm gold everywhere. two years an six months in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, EYEWATER Kan., by Judge F. A. Geiger in the ThfvnpMnns HELPFUL EYE WASH United States district court here on UM Hirer. Troy, N. T. Booklet charges of conspiracy to use the mail w. N. U., Balt Lake City, No. to defraud. oil Cuticura Soap 18-1- 92 |