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Show NEWS STORY OF THEPASI WEEK A Complete History of What Ha Been Happening Throughout the World f WESTERN Kodolpli Valentino moving picture actor, arrested on a charge of bigamy at Lob Angeles is released on ball. Winifred Shaughnessy Salt Lake Oitj actress married Valentino In Mexico and left for New York, when California Californ-ia authorities questioned the legality of the marriage account of Valentino divorce not having been confirmed. The secretary of agriculture has approved ap-proved the Lolo I'ass highway in Montana, Mon-tana, which is to form an important link in a federal-aid road connecting Missoula, Mont., with f.ewlston, Ida-Jio. Ida-Jio. The work of the next two years will be entirely within forest reserves in botli states, lying west of Missoula the road crossing the Hitter Hoot mountains through Lolo pass and following fol-lowing the Clearwater vallley. This will ultimately be a short cut from Missoula to the Pacific coast. WASHINGTON Establishment of the eight-hour day for employees in the executive branches' branch-es' of the government Is being considered con-sidered by the afuntn titration. The thousands of clerks Stenographers ami other minor employees In the various departments in Washington almost without exception work seven hours a day. Acting .Secretary of the Navy Boose- j velt announced he had declined BPPli-Cotton BPPli-Cotton of the national women's party for use of naval facilities in broadcast- Ing addresses. President Harding told twenty representatives repre-sentatives of the largest railroads that they must expect a considerable reduction reduc-tion in freight rates on basic commodities. commod-ities. The railway executives were guests of the executive at dinner. They represented directly or indirectly practically every transportation system sys-tem in the country. W ireless fans warned by the commerce com-merce department to beware of the activities of "the three summertime radio imps.'- Summertime disturbances, the department said, called strays, static and atmospheric, are in evidence from about April 1 to October 1, caus-ind caus-ind radio sets to give forth " a first class lmmltation of a boiler shop in full operation instead of an anticipated lecture on the culture of silkworms." Some relief, the department said, might be Obtained from these disturbances distur-bances by using a coil antenna instead of the usual elevated antenna or by using ground antenna." The United States Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, Which has concluded its annual convention in Washington, passed resolutions res-olutions on sixteen subjects, mostly before congress, but took no action whatever with refernece to land reclamation rec-lamation legislation. Sunday golf, movies, baseball, window win-dow displays, airplane flights and the Seventh Day Adventists were all targets tar-gets lor a vigorous attack In the annual report of the committee on Sabbath observance, submitted to the general assembly of the Presbyterian Presbyter-ian church in Hie United States of America, tit Des Moines. California and the Pacific coast in general will be the scone of the next clean-up campaign cam-paign of the Lord's Day alliance and the Presbyterian committee for the closing of all dispensable Sunday enterprises. enter-prises. Three girls from Pasadena, Oal., went to an automobile establishment in Los Angeles, rented a small touring car and after leaving their parents and relatives a note to the effect that they were "gone for good," started out on a tour of the west. According to W. M. Hughes, chief of the auto theft bureau of the Salt Lake police department, depart-ment, he has learned that the girls completed a three-day sojourn in Salt Lake and are now supposed to be somewhere on Che road between Salt Lake and Denver. The girls are Barbara Bar-bara Moore, Maude Munneston and Georgia Corrington, pretty, all about 17 years of age, and with bobbed hair, according to a circular sent out by the Automobile Ulub of 'Southern California. Secretary Weeks, after a conference With President Harding, senl a cablegram cable-gram to Major General Wood, urging him to remain as governor-general of the iPhillipines until December, las "manifestly" a leave until that time would lie granted by the University of Pennsylvania, which a year ago selected the general as its provost. Governors of the various states are urged by President Harding, in a telegram tele-gram sent out from the White House and made public to call attention to the opportunities presented for young men to obtain military training during dur-ing Hie coming summer at tiie citizens' training camp. A resolution Is to be introduced in the Semite calling for sweeping investigation inves-tigation into the alleged attempt of certain American officials during the past winter to curtail the sugar output of Cuba. Confidnece that the hilean-Peruvian conference here will meet successfully its paramount issue, involving validity of the Tacna-Arica clause of the treaty of Aneon, was expressed by both sides after the two delegations had talked over their differences behind closed doors. FOREIGN Amidst showers of confetti and streamers, with bells ringing and song singing, led by Sir Harry Lauder, a party of Britisli Botarians left London for Southampton to hoard the steamer Berengaria en route, to Los Angeles to attend the International Rotary club's conference. GENERAL Charles E. Cash, once a hetting commissioner, com-missioner, tipped his barber to "lay off the ponies" and threw himself under un-der the wheels of a New- York subway express. Hundreds of passengers saw Cash make his fatal leap at Lenox avenue and 110th street, and a score of women fainted. Five cars passed over his body. Cash was said to have inherited a fortune and to have lost it all on the races. After being shaved, he said to bis barber: 'Tf you ever want to piny the horses take a tip from me and don't. Leave them alone. I lost my wife, my home and $100,000 trying to beat them. So long ; remember remem-ber that tip." Joe Winters, negro, 25 years old, was burned at the stake in the courthouse court-house yard at Couroe, Texas. Thousands Thous-ands of persons, including women and children, witnessed the lynching. Winters, Win-ters, just before the match was touched to his oil-saturated clothing, admitted an attack upon a 14-year old white girl near Leonidas. David N. Mossesohn, executive director di-rector of the Associated Dress Industries Indus-tries of America, plans to leave the American flapper high and dry with her knee length skirts. Garments that hang to within eight inches of the ground will be "the thing" in fall styles for the "fashionably dressed woman," wo-man," he said. Acting Postmaster General Rartlett arrived here for the purpose, of attempting at-tempting to riil the New York post-office post-office of every dishonest man and woman wo-man in its employ. Mr. Bartlett's visit was made in view of the arrest of a number of postofflce employes said to have been involved in schemes for looting the mails. Thomas A. Edison testified before tlhe senate agriculture committee in executive session that he was convinced convinc-ed fertilizers cheaper than those being be-ing manufactured by present processes process-es and existing interests could be manufactured at Muscle Shoals, Ala. Full grass butter is appearing on the market and many operators are turning turn-ing their attention fo the storing for winter demand. Pya. to a late season sea-son and higher prices tnan were expected, ex-pected, the storing demand has been considerably retarded. Japanese military control in Shantung Shan-tung already is being withdrawn in accordance with the agreement between be-tween China and Japan. France declared Premier Poincaire, "will endeavor to come to an tinder-standing tinder-standing with the allies regarding the action to be taken against Germany if she defaults in payments of her reparations, repar-ations, but if France is unable to secure se-cure an agreement she will insist on her right to act separately." The hulk of General 'Chang Tso-Lin's army, defeated in the recent campaign about Pekin by the forces of General j Wu Pei-Fu. has retreated northward from the vicinity of Lanchow, where Chang's forces had been concentrated after their defeat. Amid the shouting and cheering crowd of peers and peeresses, including includ-ing many of Great Britain's most distinguished dis-tinguished political figures of all parties, par-ties, Premier Lloyd George made a triumphant return to London from the Genoa economic conference. At the sale of the Burdett-Coutts library nt London, O. R Barrett of Chicago paid 2150 for a collection of OOo. letters written by Charles Dickens to the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The socialist newspaper Lavoro of Genoa sums up the results in the Genoa Ge-noa conference as follows : The creation crea-tion of an eastern triple alliance between be-tween Germany. Russia and Turkey. The weakening of the western entente, which now exists only In name, owing to the antagonisms among its members. mem-bers. The growth of suspicion in America, which from the other side of the Atlantic looks with diffidence upon the problems tind miseries of Europe. A communistic revolution lias bro'.ec out in Sofia, according to reports received re-ceived in diplomatic circles at Vienna. King Boris and his government npe declared to have fled to Verna Bed flags, it is said, are flying over the Bulgar capltol. Street fighting is in progress. A book written by former Empet-.e William dealing with ,the world war, ia understood to hnve oeen acquired for publication by an American group un , tier nn option covering world rights. |