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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSlfjlEADEIlS V RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN M. M. Upson of New York, head of the Upson Contracting company, wnicn will construct the Carquinez Straits bridge, at San Francisco is to make a detailed study as to the building and financing of the project. The bridge, when completed, will connect con-nect Solano and Contra Costa counties coun-ties across the bay from San Francisco Fran-cisco to the north and east. . Iver B. Sandbeck, brakeman, was killed and four passengers suffered minor injuries when the day coacn on Great Northern passenger train No. 238, northbound from Butte, split a switch and was derailed in the passenger station yards at Helena, Montana. W. M. Amos, 53, former Kansas state senator, died at Long Beach, Cal., of carbon monoxide poisoning, the ninth victim in Los Angeles county coun-ty within a week to succumb to fumes generated by ventless gas heaters. Wesley L. Sischo, former United States customs agent at Seattle, Wash, was sentenced to six years in McNeil Island penitential and fined $1,000, after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of violating a federal anti-narcotic act. Nine young women who won honors hon-ors in a beauty contest at a "movie jungle ball" in the municipal auditorium auditor-ium at Oakland, Calif., three weeks ago have started suit in an effort to learn why they have not received $1700 in prize money which they allege, al-lege, they were told they had won along with their honors. A writ of attachment was filed on "King Wran-gel" Wran-gel" a polar bear recently presented to the Oakland municipal zoo, to enforce en-force the girls' claims. The Rev. W; H. Bliss of Seattle Wash., who is ill in a New York hospital hos-pital following his attendance at an international antinarcotic conference, held at Geneva, Switzerland, was re elected president of the White Cross International Narcotic society. Mr. Bliss sent telegraphic greetings to the organization saying his health was improved. Disappointment over his failure to dispose of an old portrait of George Washington, which he valued at $50,-000 $50,-000 and with which he hoped to reestablish re-establish his family fortune, led Colonel Col-onel Clay B. Steele, 75-year old civil war veteran to shoot and kill himself, him-self, at Los Angeles, Calif., according to deputy sheriffs who investigated the case. GENERAL Legislation reducing the time limit for World war veterans to apply for their bonus from January 1, 1928, to January 1, 1926, has been recom mended to congress by Major General Gen-eral Robert C. Davis, adjutant general gen-eral of the army. Davis submitted his proposal at the suggestion of the house appropriations committee, which believes that the work of administering ad-ministering the bonus can be speeded up if the time limit is shortened. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion investigation into wool rates from the Pacific coast and intermediate intermedi-ate territory will begin at a hearing in the Great Northern hotel, Chicago, Chica-go, February 19, before Commissioner Commission-er Campbell. The commission originally orig-inally voted the date of January 15 for hearings to begin before an examiner, ex-aminer, but in view of the importance import-ance of the rate schedule detailed one of its own members. Six responsible postal officials in as many cities throughout the country coun-try have been suspended from duty, an employe" of the senate postoffice committee nas been discharged and the clerk of the house postoffice committee com-mittee has resigned as a result of an official investigation into the use of money to influence postal pay legislation. legis-lation. A quarantine on poultry against all states was announced by J. E. Bogg-Scott, Bogg-Scott, chairman of the Texas livestock live-stock sanitary commission.. The quarantine quar-antine calls for disinfection oi all poultry cars returned by railroads into in-to Texas. One woman was suffocated and three other persons a patient, a nurse and a fireman suffered severe burns or injuries when fire swept through both buildings of the Scho-bey Scho-bey hospital, a private institution of Boston. On recommendation of the navy department, Chairman Butler of the house naval committee introduced a bill to increase the limit of cost of the airplane . carriers Lexington and Saratoga, now under construction, from $23,000,000 to $34,000,000. After having dictated his obituary, Adolph Myer, prominent Omaha business bus-iness man and well-known writer for Germany's cause in the World war, committed suicide. At first it was thought Myer died on account of heart trouble, but Coroner Paul Steinwender declared it was a case ot suicide. The national capital's celebration New Year's eve was distinctly wet. More damp parties than usual were reported. Prohibition officers apparently appar-ently taking the night off or joining with the revelers. Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the university uni-versity of Kansas was removed from office by the state board of administration adminis-tration of which Governor J. M. Davis is ex-officio chairman. After the board had been in executive session ses-sion for an hour Cancellor Lindley was called before it and his resignation resig-nation demanded. He requested time for consideration. , This was denied him and the motion vacating the office of-fice was adopted. Because a British ship transported the Philadelphia lodge of Elks to Boston for a convention last summer, the owners of the vessel must pay a fine of $200,000. Attorney General Stone has issued an opinion upholding uphold-ing the contention of the department of commerce that the transportation of the Elks between the two American Ameri-can ports on the Lamport & Holt steamer Voltaire was in violation of the law prohibiting foreign ships from carrying on coastwise traffic. Throwing open the doors of the White House to all who cared to call, President and Mrs. Coolidge, New Year's day, received 4000 visitors at their New Year's reception. Alfred E. Smith was inaugurated New Year's day as governor of New York for his third term. Faced by a politically hostile legislature, surrounded sur-rounded by six state officials of opposite op-posite political faith, the governor in his brief inaugural address pledged pledg-ed himself to conduct a nonpartisan administration and he sought the cooperation co-operation of his colleagues in making mak-ing the ensuing year "a government for all the people." FOREIGN It was announced at Pekin, China, that a so-called rehabilitation conference confer-ence for the purpose of readjusting pressing financial and military affairs af-fairs would bring together more than 250 leaders of the country before February Feb-ruary 1st. A decision to settle not less than 100,000 families principally Jewish on the land has been made by the agricultural agri-cultural department of the soviet government gov-ernment according to information obtained ob-tained by the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic agency from authoritative au-thoritative sources. Measures wifl be taken to procure the necessary Russian Rus-sian land for this huge colonization project. Owing to the indisposition of Queen victoria, an audience at wnicn tne new French ambassador was to have presented his wife to the king and queen had to be countermanded. The dinner to the king and queen in honor of the diplomatic corps, also had to be cancelled. Dr. Sun Yai-Sen, leader in the government gov-ernment of southern China, who has been in Pekin in conference with the victorious Chang Tso-Lin wing of the central government, is seriously ill. The Portuguese cabinet council has decided to recognize the Russian soviet government. General Director Aeidlitz of the middle Europe travel bureau and Maximillian Krauss, chief of the governmental gov-ernmental bureau for the promotion of tourist traffic will leave for New York from Bremerhaven on the steamer Stuttgart to repay the visit of the several score of American railway rail-way and steamship traffic managers to Germany last summer. They will establish a bureau in New York to supply travelers with information regarding re-garding central Europe. The allied council of ambassadors meeting in Paris approved the text of an identical note to Germany regarding re-garding the postponement of the Cologne Col-ogne evacuation which was to have taken place January 10 under the Versailles treaty. It was decided not to publish the text until the communication com-munication had been delivered tj the German government. |
