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Show TELEGilAPHiG TALES FOR BUSM1EADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DCINCS IM THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Tin; battleship Texas, bound from Sa I'nin.-isn, i,, San Pedro collided the steamer Steel Seafarer, of the Isthmian lino, I I miles north of 1'oint Arguello Wednesday, according to word reaching San 1'edro. The collision occurred in the vicinity where seven destroyers went on the rocks last Saturday. Frost cut n path thru eastern Montana, Mon-tana, Tuesday night. Temperatures are reported low enough to do some crop damage, Havre reported 3d. Southern Utah paid its tribute to the late president of the I'nited States, Stat-es, W arren ;. Harding, Tuesday with impressive ceremonies, including lay-in,' lay-in,' of tlie Harding memorial golden raj I. The section of the track which "is replaced by a rail of cold was nt the exact spot on which President llardings car was stopped on his visit to Zion National park in June. The celebration held at that time was in honor of the laying of the final rail the road. The golden rail was laid of the Cedar C,ity-to-Lund branch cf ns a lasting memorial from the citizens of southern I'tah to the dead president, who wns their guest but a few weeks before. Information on the destruction by tjdal wave Tuesday of San Jose de (-',-i'bo, a fishing pueblo at the southernmost south-ernmost end of the peninsula of Lower Low-er California, as reported in wireless mes-Jiges, was lucking early Thursday. Thurs-day. The town, located on the pacific paci-fic side of Cape iSan Lucas, had a populatfon of about 500 and officials here expressed the belief that most of tli em .If not all, had escaped to high ground. The only successful photographs of the sun's corona made in southern California during the eclipse of the sun Monday are believed to be ones made by Professor James Worthing-ten Worthing-ten of London and Dr. Alfred E. liurton, professor emeritus of astronomy as-tronomy in the Massachusetts Institute Insti-tute of Technology, near Santa Barbara. Bar-bara. Professor Worthington stated that four of the negatives developed by him were almost perfect and would take rank with the best ever made during a solar eclipse. GENERAL A resolution urging the state department de-partment to demand of the government govern-ment tlie return of G rover Cleveland Jlergdoll, American draft evader, to the United States was adopted by the Kansas department of the American Legion in convention at Hayes, Kansas, Kan-sas, Tuesday. Hopes of local business men for the lifting of martial law in Tulsa county coun-ty were raised Tuesday when it was learned that Governor J. C. Walton was on his way here to make a survey sur-vey of conditions. Dixon Anderson a 14 year old student stu-dent was arrested a Kansas City, Thursday, charged with attempting to blackmail three of Kansas City's wealthiest residents, Anderson says lie wrote the letters in fun" Six men including sheriff Whlt-taker Whlt-taker were under indictment at Aim. rillo, Texas, in connection with the flogging of E. T. McDonald. With all the formality of the regular regu-lar I'nited States army, the officers of the national G. A. K. elected late Friday were installed at Milwaukee. Last Commander in Chief Willett banded the gravel to tlie new commander com-mander in chief, Gaylord M. Salt.-gaher, Salt.-gaher, n'ter a brief speech iin which he retold his comrades tlie pleasure which had been his during tlie year he had been their leader and wished his successor all the good fortune possible. The installation of officers offi-cers required virtually an hour, fallowing fal-lowing which the delegates turned their attention to locating the 1024 encampment. Boston was unanimously unanimous-ly sclei-ted as the lf24 cenvention -city at the closing session of the encampment. en-campment. Sale of about 170 ships designate'" "unserviceable" by the board of survey, sur-vey, may be undertaken soon by the shipping board. The ships will be disposed of for scrapping, It was indicated, in-dicated, and probably will be offered In lots. PERSONAL Traveling as the Karon of lb nfew, The I'rin.e of Wales arrived in ()iie-bec, ()iie-bec, Wednesday tnroute to a ranch in Alberta whore he intends an extended ex-tended visit. Kepresentative Young of North Dakota arranged, Wednesday, for President Coolidge to see a c'.nmit-toe c'.nmit-toe of western bankers to discuss the wheat crop situation. Kepresentative Kepresenta-tive Young said the committee wouid favor the reviving of tile United States Stat-es Grain Corporation to take over and handle tlie entire wheat crops. John J. Pershing celebrated Thursday Thurs-day Ids sixty-third birthday, lie began his last year of active service in the army, to which his life has been devoted, at his desk in the war department, de-partment, performing the triple duties of acting secretary of war, general of the army and chief of staff. A year from Thursday which also is the anniversary of the open-of open-of the battle of St. Mihiel. the man who commanded the American irmy then in its first great drive against the Germans lines in France w;ill pass automatically to the retired life. Lieu. II. J. Brown, U. S. N., piloting pilot-ing a Curtiss navy biplane, in preparation pre-paration for the airplane races at St. Louis, Thursday established n new world's speed record of 245 miles an hour. Dr. Epitacio Tesso of Brazil was elected to the permanent court of international justice a The Hague by the asemldy and council of the league of nations, voting concurrently Monday. Mon-day. He succeeded the late Kuy Karbosa of Brazil. F. Vance, special trade commis-sioner, commis-sioner, and John P. Bushman, assistant assist-ant trade commissioner, sailed Tuesday Tues-day for the Philippine islands to in. vestjigate the possibilities of rubber growing In the islands. Alex M. Muzzall and Mark Baldwin, soil experts ex-perts accompanied them. The survey sur-vey of rubber possibilities in the Philippines is part of a world wide survey authorized by congress. Richard Roelson, prominent Alaskan Alas-kan and a member of the territorial legislature died at Nome, Monday after a three days' illness. He leaves a widow and two children in Chicago. George Harvey, American ambassador ambass-ador to Great Britain, sailed Saturday Satur-day on the Leviathan to return to his post, and declared he would stay 15 England "until I am finished." "I have not resigned," he added. Accompanying Ambassador Harvey was Will Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors, Distri-butors, who will be the ambassador's guest for several weeks, returning in October. FOREIGN The Balkan war cloud loomed lower low-er Thursday as a result of depredations depreda-tions by Bulgarian irregulars upon Jugo-Slav territory. The Bulgarians crossed the frontier Tuesday night and raided villages. The irregulars or Comitadjis, as they are known in the Balkans, are chiefly of the bandit type. At present, the Macedonia irregulars ir-regulars are demanding autonomy. Bulgarian officials have announced they may be unable to restrain the irregulars ir-regulars owing to thear armed strength. Beginning with a garrison mutiny at Barcelona a revolt began in Spain Thursday. The cabinet defied the leaders. A special note was issued by the ministers dealing with the situation and asking the people to remain re-main calm. The revolutionaries demanded de-manded the cabinet's resignation. The potato squad is the latest unit of the Berlin police force. It has i been assigned to deal with hordes of city dwellers who have been invading the suburban districts and digging up all the potatoes. Before an unusually crowded assembly, as-sembly, Ireland Monday was unanimously unani-mously elected as tlie fifty third member of the League of Nations. President Torriente welcomed Ireland Ire-land as a member. Fifty persons are reported killed or injured in an earthquake which shook Calcutta Monday, says a dispatch dis-patch from that British Indian city. The reported casualties occurred in the Nymensinght district, where many collapsed. Six are reported killed and ten wounded when police fired on unemployed un-employed demonstrators outside the city hull at Dresden, Tuesday. Persistent efforts are being made I in Turkey to restore the harem as a national institutional. Polybamy was abolished more than a year ago by a resolution passed by the national assembly, but since then several unsuccessful efforts have been made to restore U to a legal status. |