OCR Text |
Show HEWS HISTORY OF THE MSI WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN from nimsboy to universi'y president presi-dent at the age of .'i.'i is tlie record of Cloy (J Hock Marvin, M. A., I'h. I)., Tor more than tliree years dean and Hflbtant director of the University of California, southern brnch, who was 'Slven a farewell luncheon by the I.os Angeles chamber of commerce prior to Ms departure for Tucson, Arizona to lecnine president of the University of Arizona. Thomas Miles "t Los Angeles, president presi-dent of the Inte-national Boys' League tins been invited to uttend the session of the commission of labor of tlie league of Nations In Geneva, Switzerland, Switzer-land, Oct. 25-30, as an adviser on matters mat-ters relatirg to child labor and has Accepted, iccording to an announcement announce-ment from the offices of the Boys' League. Miles was eloted to office nt meeting of the Hoys' League in Chicago Chi-cago -T (iL.v 15. 'J'he organization Is said to have about 250,000 members. Vark-Utah Mining company is making mak-ing k grout mine in its property on he east side of the famous I'ark City district. With n bonanza mine already-opened already-opened the company's property has hardly been scratched and the two main objectives for exploration have Bot yet been reached. Reductions in freight rates on a variety of commodities shipped under class rates by way of the Southern r'acific from Suit Lake and Ogden to western Utah sod Nevada points to range approximately 26 per cent, have lieen announced at the Salt Lake office of-fice of the road, to become effective November 1. The tariffs applying to stations from the summit of tlie Sierra Nevada range eastward to Utah points will be completely revised as a result of the announcement. The establishment of Victory highway high-way through Steamboat Springs, in Jioutt county, Colorado has increased motor tourist travel through that city by 100 per cent, and has resulted in the construction of one of the most enticing tourist camps to be found along the entire highway at that place. James I. Fureell, 30 of Louisville, 111., shot and killed Mrs. Anna D. Baines, Bain-es, 28 and then killed himself at Clifton, Clif-ton, eight miles east of Grand June-lion, June-lion, Colorado. The tragedy occured in hotel where Pureell went to see Mrs. Baines on his return from Illinois. It was reported that Purcell's attentions were resented by Mrs. Baines, who is survived by a husband and three children. child-ren. GENERAL The anthracite wage agreement Ben-ling the miners back to work at "once, after more than five months of idleness ratified by the tri-district convention of tlie hard coal diggers of Pennsylvania, Under tlie agreement 355,000 mine workers return to work et the rate of wages they received when they suspended mining on March 31st. Sleeping cars constructed with seven twins to each car, each room accommodating accom-modating five persons, will be placed in tlie Chicago-California service of the Santa Fe railway for fall and winter travel, road officials announced. There will be eighteen of the new style "family accomodation'' cars. Bach room will contain a lower and upper double berth, a day lounge and bed, wih full lavatory and toilet equipment. Walter Matthews, attorney, who was defeated in the recent primary in his race for nomination as state representative, was seized by thirty masked men and given a coat of tar and feathers after a severe lashing at dishing, Okla. His assailants, Matthews told the police, advised him "not to talk any more against the Ku Klux Klan." Prison sentences as the only effective ef-fective means of checking accidents due to the carelessness of motorists were advocated for traffic law violators vio-lators by .lames W. Inches, Detroit commissioner of police, in an address at the International Police conference. "About 12,500 persons are killed in automobile accidents yearly in this country." said Commissioner Inches, "and about 300,000 are injured. Prison Pris-on sentences are being given in Detroit for traffic violations and we are finding find-ing that it is actually checking the Joy riding and reckless drivers." WASHINGTON Beer branding is planned by tlie prohibition pro-hibition forces as part of its campaign against brewers violating the dry hiws, it reported at the treasury. At present, pres-ent, it was explained, manufacturers of near beer are permitted to sell their j products in kegs or bottles without i any distinguishing markings, but regulations reg-ulations are under consideration which would require all kegs to be branded with the name of the manufacturer and all bottles to have the name blown into the glass so that beverage products can be identified. Virtual settlement of the .rail strike as affecting from 35 to 40 per cent of the railroads of tlie country was announced an-nounced by Secretary of Labor Davis, on the basis of reports from the meeting meet-ing In Chicago on the general policy committee of the striking shop crafts unions. Mr. Davis added that lie was informed that the settlement would affect between G5,000 and S5,O00 miles of track and in a formal statement of the strike f 400,000 railway shop craftsmen assured, the whole industrial indus-trial machinery of the country is ready for a forward movement unprecedented unprecedent-ed in our history." The twenty-third annual convention of tlie American Roentgen Hay society so-ciety is in session at Los Angeles with more than 300 physicians from all parts of the country in attendance. Investigation of the veterans' bureau bu-reau to determine whether laws relating re-lating to treatment and care of disabled dis-abled former service men are being adminstered properly and promptly would be ordered by the senate under the terms of a resolution introduced by Senator King, Democrat of Utah. The recolution sets forth it has been charged that unreasonable delays had characterized the functioning of the bureau, that its dealings with the former service men had been slowed up and tangled by multitudinous correspondence, cor-respondence, and thut excessive amounts had been expended by the bureau in overhead charges at the ex-pens ex-pens of the former esrvice men. Fublic spooning has reached the limit lim-it when the spooners pick out Arlington Arling-ton cemetery for their activities, army officers have decided. Upon protest of indignant residents adjacent to the cemetery, raids have been instituted to clear tlie roads around Arlington of midnight parties, llobert Dye, superintendent sup-erintendent of the cemetery said today to-day that "tin horn gamblers," had even spread their blankets on the cemetery walls and that scores of automobiles parked beside the inclos-ure inclos-ure every night within a stone's throw of the graves of American soldiers. They will be kept moving hereafter, he said. FOREIGN The moot question of how many Jews shall be allowed to matriculate in Hungarian universities has brought about a challenge for a duel between two prominent Hungarian educators. A controversy has been raging between be-tween the Universities of Budapest and Szegedin, the point at issue being whether the law restricting the number num-ber applies to the Jewish refugees from the lost provinces. Hope that many of the lepers assembled as-sembled in the largest leper colony in the world on Culion island, Philippines, will be materially benefited and many completely cured by the new process of treatment recently worked out is expressed in a circular letter signed by Governor General Leonard Wood, honorary president of the Philippine Antileprosy society, made public at the war department. There are now more than 5100 lepers in the colony, General Gener-al Wood said, and In the cooperative efforts of the insular government and the society all lepers in the Philip-pnes Philip-pnes are t be concentrated at this point. An eyewitnes report of the typhoon that caused the loss of 60,000 lives at Swatow, China, August 2 was brought to San Francisco by Captain T. H. Dob-s-.m of the liner Nanking, who said the storm at sea was so great that he was unable to respond to on S. O. S. all sent out by the British steamer Gondia, which went down in the hurricane. hur-ricane. Two Indo-China steamers, the Choy Chang and Tung Shing, were picked up by immense waves and dashed ashore, many of the crew and psissenters perishing, he said. According Ac-cording t. Captain Dobson, the decks of the Nnnkng were half submerged, life lines were out and passengers experienced ex-perienced a terrible shaking up. Miss Tarhta Kiraru, who says she is the daughter of the Sultan of Sulu, is one of the passengers aboard the ! steamer President Lincoln, en route j to the mainland from Honolulu. Miss Kiram will enter the University of California. She is one of a group of "Pensionades," students sent to us by the Philippine government. |