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Show I HSWOF I PAST Iffl I. . ; Bfla Happcninj Tbougtwi WESTCRN Qrfanized Into the "California Com. .. aaun,' and furnished with resources M "baae" capitalistic - cash totaling ore than '$100,000 as a result of pool. Ing their accumulated savings, over 400 Russians now residing on the Pa-i Pa-i dflc Coast are preapring to 'leave ror soviet Russia during , the next six months. Honeymooners bent on flying in- ' Buced a pilot t Chicago to take them : up after he bad protested because of dangerous rinds. The plane reach-ad reach-ad a height of 300 feet, then crashed to the ground. The groom, C. Wheel, ock of Zlon City, was killed, his bride badly Injured, and Jbhnnoy Metzger, the pilot stunned and bruised. ASHINQ TON , Large croi.s. due principally to splen-Hd splen-Hd growing conditions thus far this "ason, promise more abundant pro-Juct.cn pro-Juct.cn thl, year than harvested . 8mal'er acreage8' esPec- Jiy In wheat and oats, according to government reports. Immigration ottidaTs expressed re-uef re-uef on reading dispatches from Toron-to Toron-to saying that Gregorie Semeoff, the MtLbolabevIk leader, had concluded his stormy and unlvited stay on Ameri-can Ameri-can soil and now was en route to Vancouver, B. C to sail for the Far East The Smithsonian institution, in an. nounclng that Dr. C. O. Abbot, assist-ant assist-ant secretary of the institution, would leave Washington for Mt Wilson Cal., where a solar observing station Is maintained, said Dr. Abbot would dur. ing the summer, make further experiments experi-ments with his Bolar cooker. o'Thls device for cooking, using only the heat of the sun as fuel," said the instltu-tion's instltu-tion's announcement, "was brought to a considerable degree of perfection last year, all of the cooking for the field party for the whole season being dona with It - Sweeping regulations for publicity State and federal prohibition officials offic-ials recently swooped down on the Charles Bruno fann, a short distance south of South Sioux City, Neb., expecting ex-pecting to locate a still. The whole farm, buildings and all, were carefully searched and there was no evidence of wrongdoing. However, a vicious bulldog attached to his kennel attarc ted tl attent of the officers as he charged about in an effort, to reach the Invaders. After a battle with the dog, in which one of the officers was badly bitten, the kennel was removed and revealed an opening In the ground. Descending the steps into a large un. derground room, the officers found a large stHL , Mrs. Mary Edwards, 42, was found enveloped in flames In a park at Portland Port-land and died soon afterward. Her clothing had been saturated with kerosene. ker-osene. She gave no explanation of the affair. Persons attracted by her cries said she apparently had deliberately delib-erately saturated her clothing with the inflammable fluid and touched a match to It William F. Mackay, editor of the Suburban Citltaen, at Miramonte, near Lob Anegels, and Bell Valentine, piht, were seriously injured Sunday when an areoplane In which they were riding rid-ing fell at Bell Station, another suburb. Hugh Bingham, also an occupant of tha plane, escaped with slight Injuries Tha airplane collided with a telephone pole. GENERAL. Approximately 8000 quarts of liquor, nrtued at more than $40,000, were tald to have been seized by marine guards at the navy yard Sunday In a tald on the naval transport Sirlus under un-der orders of Rear Admiral Ralph Andrews, commandant of the Norfolk avy yard. Solution of the European economic problems, In so far aa they depend for their solution upon an International Internation-al loan to Germany in which the American Amer-ican Investor would take part, Is not possible without a general statement of the reparations question, and only as a part of such settlement, declared J. Fierpont Morgan, New York banker, in a statement mude public several days ago. oi campaign contributions are provided for in a bill introduced by Chairman Andrews of the house committee on election of president, vice president and members of congress. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa-chusetts, Massa-chusetts, in a statement declared that a congressional investigation would be made and indictment of bituminous coal operators who have used the Hoover Hoo-ver price fixing agreement to raise prices would be demanded unless Secretary Sec-retary Hoover obtains reduction of prices of rant-act coals "in a few days." The Webb mine and underground workings and the washing plant of the Shenango Furanc company at Hib-burg, Hib-burg, Mich, has reentered the list of producing iron mines. About 150 men were employed. The mine has been closed since March, 1920. i Secretary Hoover (commerce), in a report to the senate disclosed that he ! and Secretary Davis (labor) had sought to present recently suggestions which it had been hoped would lend jto a settlement of the coal strike, but their efforts had been without result FOREIGN Police authorities of Sydney N. S. W. have in custody a girl who says she is Rosa Miguel of Norfolk, ra., and who declares she has been a captive cap-tive of a band of gypsies near here. The young woman asserts that at the hge of 12 she was kidnapped from her home in Norfolk and later forced to marry the son of the chief of the gypsy band. The government of Cuba is virtually in the control of the United States. Intervention, while still unofifcial and Indirect, is a potent and effective as if Internal Cuban affairs were being personally directed from Washington. The entire cabinet of President Zayns Is now In the course of change. France will have to keep 400,000 soldiers on the Rlilne for a year or "until Germany ge!s over her mill, tary ideas," General Eintl Adolf Tanf. flieb of Alsace Lorraine, who commanded com-manded a French division during the war, declared on his arrival at New York. Reversing the' code of love litigation litiga-tion John R. Roberts, Texas rancher and oilman, whose wealth is reputed to be $3,000,000, has filed the praecipe prae-cipe of a $50,000 breach of prouii.-o suit against Miss Gladys Wells, an actress now living In Chicago. Arthur Garfield Hays, an attorney associated with the American Civil Liberties Irnlon, who recently went to the nonunion soft coal fields In Fenn sylvanla to make a "free speech test' has brought suit for $.'jr,000 against the Vinton Colliery company, Vinton, dale, Pa In the New York supreme court The complaint charges mall, clous seizure and arrest and brutal assault. In accordance with a request issued hy Leininanuel Boles, national adjutani of the American legion, that American flags on alt legion buildings he lowered to hnlfmast on July 9, In honor of E. W. Galbrata, nutional commander, 'ho wns killed in an automobile accident acci-dent on that date lant year, the flag top of the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake ' ill be flown at hnlfmast cn that day. Construction of 8 ralhvn-, a refinery n"d pipeline to extend from Casper to Ksnsiis City will probably be begun In the near future as preliminary to development of the Teapot dome by j Hm Mammoth Oil company. j A photograph transmitted by wire less telegraphy from Rom, Itlay, to Har Harbor, Me., is reproduced In the ..w yorj World. The process by h'h the feat of modern science wns Iimonii.Ml was Invented by Dr. Arthur Korn, professor of eletro-phj sics at the Berlin i,, ,-U)() 0f technology. l)pliiBd of Its bcor, St. Louis bus d"U'loi,o a taste for water. Consumption Con-sumption of aqua pura has increased OiMinotisly hIiho prohibition, accord-toz accord-toz tu Wnter (intiilsiorior Small. Four thoroughbred race stallions and five mares have been shipped from England by the Prince of Wales t his ranch near High River, Alta., which he purchased when, he vls'ted Canada In 1919. One or the stallions was purchased In England recently by his royal highness for f!W,000. The other animals are said to represent sons of the best racing lines in the British is'es. The consignment of liursua airlved la c'urgo of n .; erhl staff sent over from one of the prince's English farms. The animals will be used for breeding purposes. The minister of finance of Jugoslavs Jugo-slavs has signed a contract with the Blair syndicate of New York for a $1,000,KX loan at 8 per cent on bonds to he Issued at 8G. The loan is understood un-derstood to be for the construction of ports on the Adriatic rnilrod line there to and repairs. Juan Francisco, a dapper Brazilian arrested at .Madrid, Spain, for defrauding defraud-ing a woman, boasted that In 2) years he bad marri-d 80 women. He declared de-clared that women "Just couldn't help loving him" tnd showered him with gifts and attentions. The steamer Villa Franca sank Sun-,My Sun-,My off Ilosnau, Paraguy, following un explosion and It Is lel!ved 80 persons per-sons perished according to a dispatch. Applications for allotments on land in the rehabilitation settlement on the lshmd of Molokai were made by sev. enty-four Hawaiian or part-Hnwsliaa families before the time limit expired, according to sanuunctinent by the homes cowminslon. which has charge of the attempts to rehabilitate the Hawaiian racs. Unable to obtain government pr to.-tion ngalnut pirates, several Chines shipping companies have armed their crews and hlrsd soldiers cs guards. |