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Show WASHINGTON Chief Justice Taft is reported recovering re-covering from the minor operation he underwent this week. The annual supply bill for various branches of the. government service tinder the Interior department carry-ins carry-ins $274,215,300 was reported to tno house. The total is $2,U!K1,7(15 less than last year and $1, 142,052 below the budget estimate. The United States senate was dub-bod dub-bod an Arcadian body by Senator Mosos of New Hampshire, spaaivlng at the 117th anniversary dinner of tne New England society and the 802nd anniversary of the landing or tho Pilgrims. "I speak of it deliberately aa tnat Arcadian body," he said, "because "be-cause it is ruled by an agricultural bloc, a group made up of eighteen lawyers, one editor and a well-digger." Favorable report was ordered by the senate interstate commerce committee com-mittee on the Capper ' '"truth in fatv rlcs" bill to require manufacturers of woolen cloth or garments to martt the percentage of wool and other materials ma-terials contained (in their product. Bootleggers must confine their activities ac-tivities to other places than the cor- IIEI'S HISTORY OF THE WT WEEK A Complete History of What Has -. Been Happening Throughout the World ' WESTERN The charred bodies of the two viators, Colonel Marshall and Lieut. Webber, who have been missing from Rockwell field were found 75 miles south of Tucson, by two cowboys, it Is believed that the flyers must have fallen and met death la the flames of their machine which had cought fire. - Henry Ford has announced his intention in-tention to construct a f (5,000,000 plant near Chicago, for the building of automobiles auto-mobiles and bodies, the plant will . give employment to 10,000 men. Fire at Universal City, destroyed 1.100,000 feet of film at the Universal studios, gutted one building and re- ridors of the Capitol building,' was the order Issued to, capitol police tnd custodians by Senator Curtis. Albert B. Fall, secretary of the Interior, In-terior, It became definitely known will leave President Harding s cabinet before be-fore spring. Veterans of the civil war, widows ff veterans and civil war nurses probably prob-ably will receive Christmas presents from the government in the form of increased pensions as tho result of an igreement reached by conferees on the Bursunl pension bill. The administration hopes to have every police officer in the United States act as a dry agent in a new irive to enforce the Volstead act. This Is the plan which was revealed it a conference the president held md will be submitted at a later date io a nutlon-wide conference on law en-orcement, en-orcement, it was stated. Bankers acceptances of six months maturity drawn by growers of staple agricultural products or cooierative marketing associations are elighle for purchuae or rediscount by the federal reserve banks, under a ruling promulgated promul-gated by the federal reserve board as a step in the direction of longer term credits for agriculture. FOREIGN General SIkorslcl, who took over the premiership after the assassination of President Gabriel Narutowicz, presented pre-sented his resignation to President Stanlaa Wojclechowskl, Poland's new chief executive, in conformity with constitutional practice. The new president pres-ident refused to accept the resignation resigna-tion and General Sikorski's cabinet remains la power. The former German' emperor now exiled at Doone, has sold, to a lxn-don lxn-don and New York company the world rights in what he describes as the first official photograph of his recent re-cent wedding. The price paid was $10,000. suited in the Injury of one man. Damage Dam-age was estimated at $350,000, including includ-ing the value of the motion picture film. An 'excess of Christmas good win landed one Gus ttaliackas, aged 4H, who says he is an Idaho farmer, in the psychopathic hospital. En route to Chicago on a Chicago & Northwestern Northwest-ern train, Mallacks, carrying ?ltlL'0 In cash and two suitcases, each secured with a huge padlock, began distributing distribut-ing his money among the passengers and crew. The conductor, after receiving re-ceiving a $050 present, collected the funds again and turned the . farmer over to the police. Eleanor Boardman a movie actress ' at Los Angeles may iose her arm as a result of being bitten by a camel used in an East India Picture. A petition has been filed in the Salt Lake district court demanding a recount re-count of the votes of the last election. elec-tion. The recount is asked to ... made on the votes cast for one state senatorship. - GENERAL The schooner Rosa Ferlita, battered batter-ed by wind and wave for eighty-six days, was towed Into New York har-, har-, ( bor and her crew of nine, shipped on the African Gold Coast, lenped ashore to race for the nearest restaurant Governor John M. Tarker's drive against the Ku Klux Klan brought Its first results when the bodies of i two men, said to have been slain by klansmen, were recovered by state trai8 sent to Moorhouse, La., parish by the governor. They were identified identi-fied as Major Watt Daniels ami Thomas Richards. One man Is dead and an " entire , family of five Is seriously ill and many others are affected by what chemists and health officials declare to be monoxide gas, produced from a smouldering fire In aa old swamp In the heart of the residence section ef the village of Soyre, Pa. Chemists and mine experts tiave been sent for In an effort to locate and extinguish the , deadly fire. Nearly 1000 miles off the Atlantic roast, the freighter Menominee, plowing plow-ing its way through heavy seas toward to-ward New York, found a lifeboat con-talnlng con-talnlng six men half dead Jrom fatigue fati-gue and lack of food, according to a wireless message received from the Menominee. A long search by federal agents and private detectives for counterfeiters who have been flooding the country with forged American Railway Express Ex-press money orders has been ended with the arrest at New York of Giles M. Ranney, an tngraver, and the arrests ar-rests In New Orleans of James Wot on and Walter R. Nolun, it was dls closed. Declaring that United States prohibition pro-hibition agents violated the fourth amendment of the constiution In making mak-ing raids without proper search war-. war-. rants, Judge Thompson in the United States district court at Philadelphia dismissed two liquor cases Involving several hundred thousand dollars. New York police have learned that Alexander Rechnitzer, whom they burled as a pauper Inst June, wan an Austrian inventor of note nnd a director di-rector of a prominent Vlenmi firm. The discovery was made when the Anstraln consul- general's office asked the police to search for the man, missing miss-ing since June 28. Heartbroken because she could not five her 6-year-old son any Christ-Bias Christ-Bias gifts, Mrs. Florence Fenn Golden, a young mother, lashed the boy to her body and then Jumped Into the Desplalnes river ot Chicago., Five bandits at St. Louis held up a pollceifnn nnd two employees of the Ftix, Banor & Fuller Dry Goods com jnny and cs'niw)d with a .watrhol containing con-taining fMKftof the collections of the conp-'n.v. Tho holdup occurred In the Tn.Tl section of tho cl;y. . Dr. Riza Nur Bey and the other members of the Turkish delegation to the near east conference adopted a somewhat more conciliatory attitude at last week's session of the sub-corn-mission on minorities, but the meeting meet-ing was tedious and unsatisfactory from the allied viewpoint The world's largest floating dock Is now being constructed in Scotland for an English railway company, and will be moored In the harbor at Southhampton South-hampton in tino for use next spring. The dock Is made entirely of reinforced reinforc-ed concrete and will cost about if.'.OUO,-000. if.'.OUO,-000. The Polish government In its et ions to determine whether a plot existed ex-isted for the murder of President Narutowicz Nar-utowicz is continuting to effect "cardies nnd arrests among the Na-.loniillsts, Na-.loniillsts, and many bigh officers and officials have been arrested or dls-inls-ied. Extra precautions against possible disorders are being taken .n Warsaw In the mining regions. A disturbing discovery was made at .he rear of Buckingham palace when t grenade bomb was found In an ush art, which had Just arrived to remove re-move the palace refuse. How the mis-tie mis-tie got Into the curt is a mystery and he police are exumining It to see If the charge had been removed. Seven republlcim irregular prisoner? were executed at IMountJoy prison v the Irish Free State government 1'he men executed were former rail way workers. Tbey were arrested near Klldare a fotrnlght ago for tear-ng tear-ng up rails and threatening to wreck trulns. James Dwyer who was secretary of 'he peace committee appointed by the second Dail Eireann to arrange a truce between the r ree Stater and the party of Earn on de Valors, was diot tle.'id In his shop at Rathmlnes. Eleven members or the Viscaya regiment reg-iment were killed, at Valencia, SP..IU, including the comviander, whin the military train, being used by the reu'imnet, got out or control In ties-rending ties-rending a steep grade, to ears vero wrcc-i t.d. |