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Show FIRSONAL Deputy Marcel Cachin, leader ol the Communist party In Franoe, was sentenced Friday to six months in Jail and fined 2000 francs on a charge of Inciting soldiers to disobedience. ?A sailor named Cruse, held In Ber-Un Ber-Un on a charge of seeking to assassinate assas-sinate Maximillian Harden, commit-ted commit-ted suicide,' Saturday by hanging himself Id his cell. Cruse was found in Hardens' residence, his explanation ex-planation was that he was a great admirer of Harden. Alex A. Kels, wealthy butcher, un-til un-til recently believed to have been foully murdered on his ranch near Lodl, Calif., confessed Wednesday to Sheriff W. F. Riecks, of Stockton, Californa, IJbat he hired a stranger from an employment agency Sept. 12, killed him, burned the body and ar-ranged ar-ranged for it to be identified as Kels so that the supposed widow of Kels could collect insurance approximating approximat-ing $100,000. TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN 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 Forty stolen motor cars have been recovered, federal officials reported Flrday since the arrest at Denver of Stanley M. Earp, president of the chamber of commerce of Klngslsy, Kans., who Is held by the government govern-ment officers as a suspected leader of an alleged nation-wide automobile theft ring. More thiin 500 police were thrown out In a cordon about the residence in Lob Angeles, Saturday in an effort to intercept a car containing liquor runners who shot and probable fatal, ly wounded one federal prohibition officer after engaging in a fifteen, mile battle with them. Two railroad men were killed and three seriously Injured as a result of a head on collision of two Oregon Short Line freight trains Saturday, five miles east of Kemmerer, Wyo. Nearly four days -behind their ex-pected ex-pected arrival at Diamond Creek, Arizona the ten members of a gov. rnment survey party emerged from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado at that point Wednesday, ISecause of flood waters which have been sweeping sweep-ing through the gorge, it was feared that the small boats on which the party is making its way down the river would be dashed to pieces agalst the canyon walls. The shifting sands of Cole creek, scene of a Burlington passenger train Complete returns from Manila and partial returns from the provinces indicated that Manuel Quezon's can-didate, can-didate, Senor Fernandez, defeated Senor Sumulong, the Democrat can-didate, can-didate, in the fourth senatorial district dis-trict election Tuesday, The former German crown prince who is living in exile upon the Is-land Is-land of Wleringen, departed Wednes. day for the unknown and mysterious destination. The ex-crown prince was accompanied by the burgomaster of Wieringen as he crossed to the mainland. George Harvey, American ambassador ambassa-dor to the Court of St. Johns, has re-signed re-signed and will return to this country coun-try January 1, it was learned officially offi-cially at Washington, Thursday. Fred G. Thompson, who for 14 years has posed alternately as a man and woman, was acquitted, Wednes. day of the murder of U. C. Tesman, Chicago insurance broker, who was slain last June, by a smiling woman bandit. wreck last Thursday night near Cas. per, Wyo., Wednesday gave up the bodies of five persons who lost their lives when the train crashed through a bridge. Four of them were men and the other a woman. More than 1200 persons are Invol. ved directly in the lock out against retail union clerks at Butte, Montana, which became effective Wednesday, and by the strike of drug clerks and theatre employes which have practically practic-ally stopped all retail business GENERAL Five men were killed Friday after, noon when the last automobile in a funeral procession was struck by an Interurban car on Graitlot road, north of Detroit. Four hotels, a number of stores and an open-air theatre were In ruins as a result of a fire that destroyed an entire waterfront block at Asbury Park, N. Y. Two men were report-ed report-ed missing in the .Bristol hotel, where the fire started. All the hotels were closed for the season and no guests were in them. Birmingham, Alabama, Sunday faced fac-ed the bluest Sundny in its his-tory. his-tory. Chief of police McDuff an. nounced a ban on golf, pool, cards and domino playing on Sundny. The action was taken following com-plaints com-plaints regarding Sunday amusements amuse-ments and was based on a state law banning all outdoor and Inr! nnr FOREIGN The new Turkish constitution will provide that Turkey be proclaimed a republic, with a president elected for a period of four or five years, it was announced Friday. Nine persons were killed and fourteen four-teen wounded in the recent rioting In the town of Hindenburg, in the German district of Upper Silesia, ac. cording to messages received at War-saw. War-saw. The fatalities occurred during a clash between the police and demonstrators de-monstrators against the high cost of living. larshall Tsao Kun, political and military leader of North China and once an enthusiastic supporter of the old Manchu government, Friday emerged from bis stronghold at Poa. tlngfu and became president of the Chinese republic. The new Turkish state confirmed by the treaty of Lausanne will carry the official title of the "Republic of Turkey." Angora will continue as the capital. These decisions were reached Saturday by a conference of the Turkey majority party, wit!. Mustapha Kernel presiding. Sidney V. Alwes, indicted in Hou. ston, Texas, by a federal grand Jury on a charge of using the malls to defraud de-fraud In connection with the sale of oil stock, was arrested at San Francisco Saturday and held In de. j fault of $2T.OO bail. i amusements on Sunday. Trapped by poHce In the act of un-loading un-loading a cargo of whisky, Saturday at Toronto, Ontario, one man was killed and another wounded by the police as they attempted to make a getaway In their boat. Four convicts at the stute penlten. ttary at Eddyville, Ky., shot and kill, ed one guard, seriously wounded three othre guards and an employe of the penitentiary kitchen, and barricaded barri-caded themselves In the kitchen Wednesday morning where, a consld. erable time after the outbreak, they were shooting at everybody within sight. , Late returns from country district in Oklahoma's special election held Tuesday emphasized the overwhelm. Ing victory of opponents of Governor J. C. Walton, who sponsored a constitution amendment authorizing the state legislature to convene by Its own call to consider the officii! 1 acts I of state officers. A new Inquiry from New York shipping Interests lookinc tn tha nor. Irish women republican sympathizers sympathi-zers staged a demonstration at New York, Friday, during the landing of Lloyd George, former British Pre-, Pre-, mler. Policemen quickly routed the demonstrators and destroyed the banners and placards exhibited, one woman was arrested. The Stressmann cabinet has resigned re-signed Wednesday after the Socialist section of the German relchstag re. Jected, by 61 to 54, the compromise solution proposed by the government. President Ebert has charged Dr. Stresemann to form a new cabinet. Burled alive for nine days, rive or the forty-one miners entombed by an explosion In a coal pit near Falkirk were rescued Thursday. They were In fairly good condition and their remarkable escape from death has raised hopes of the relatives of the others Imprisoned. The searched redoubled their efforts. The city Vratza, fourteen miles northeast of Sofia with a population of 50,000 Monday was set on fire by a mysterious explosion popularly t. chase of at lenst part of the govern, menfs passenger fleet was reported to the shipping board at Its regular weekly meeting Tuesday. Active negotiations are in progress although they have not reached the point where terms have been submitted. Forty persons were overcome by chlorine gas at I'hihidelpliia, Thursday Thurs-day when ' tiinka containing loo y-i. Ions of polMon Hprang a leak In tlx? paper muniifiicluiln,' plant 0f Dill Collins. ! The t'nlted States navy's :,ir. ' slilp the .111 laro.t iir,-i-:,f. ) th world, doeked at St. I.oui.s fi,M T'i.v-i 1 day after luuiti.- ti:I.;. ..,! Sf Louis f..r sevt ml li mrs ,-, ,v s r n ' arrival (,f day l,:)t. ., KiWe D on I's fir- p.n- ,hs- v . . r from ,al;e;iii-"', s V trlbuted to the communists who havo been opposing the government. Minister Min-ister of the Interior Kusseff took charge of the situation and sent the entire Sofia fire department to tna scene together with medical and re. lief expeditions. Measures for regulating the liquor truffle in the Irisu Free states will he put before the Dull K'ireann for enactment, Governor General Timothy Tim-othy Ilejiy announced Thursday In his opening addivsn to that body. Four hundred nationalists and t'dvt. rln.i?ead-r uli.i seled tie) forties at Kiie-oHn Sunday nteht iia' e all hei ii arrest ! by th,. Hoich- ' it W;iB tfieiiiHy Jinilolineeil i'!a.". After being disarmed they iv !o,-!.," up n i;.,. t. U:, they ! He -. |