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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSjJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Eventi of the Last Seven Dyi Reporter by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of ttie Busy Reader WE8TERN Indictments against nineteen physl. clHns Involving allegations that they operated "diploma mills" or were beneficiaries of such operations were voted by the San Francisco grand jury. Among them was Dr. Robert Adcox, now under sentence for brtb. ry In Missouri. The Rev. Joseph W. Phelps, Methodist Metho-dist Eacopal clergyman and former district superintendent of that church In North Carolina is dead at his home at Alameda, Cal. He was 82 years old and is survived by his widow and seven children. Dr. Phelps retired in 1911. Feasibility of aerial mail service in Alaska haa been fully demonstrated according to Carl B. Nielson, the territory's first air mail pilot en route to Washington, D. C. Neilson plans to urge government authorities to extend ex-tend and make permanent transportation transpor-tation of mail by airplane in Alaska. Ten times at fortnightly Intervals, Nielson has made the Fairbanks-Mc-Grath flight without mishap making In a few hours a trip that would require re-quire three days by dog team. Frank Yager of Cheyenne, Wyoming Wyom-ing piloting the eastbound night air mail, was severely shaken and bruised bruis-ed and his airplane was wrecked when he was compelled by a hurricane hurri-cane to make a forced landing at Chnppell, Neb. sixty miles east of Cheyenne. Twenty-five stowaways, two-Americans and twenty-three Filipinos, arrived ar-rived at San Francisco on the United States army transport Thomas from the Philippines and established what local shipping men said was a record for the number of stowaways on one ship arriving here. Military precedent was modified at Fort D. A. Russell that military hon-on; hon-on; miorht be paid to Mme. Ernestine Schumanh-Heink, who was here for eight hours while en route from Douglas, Wyo., to Vancouver, B C. By order of Brigadier General John M. Jenkins, Commander of the fort the Thirteenth cavalry paraded before be-fore Mme. Schumann-Heink and then engaged in a musical drill. After the parade a reception in the visitor's honor was had in. a tent on the parade pa-rade ground. ( An enormous sperme whale, part of a large school playing about the - ship, was struck by the Panama, Pacific Pa-cific liner Finland and cut in half while the liner was off the Mexican coast recently, it was reported on the arrival of the Finland at San Pedro, Cal. An elaborate volume of tribute to the memory of the late President Harding has been published by the Seattle Press club. The volume contains con-tains a memorial of his last public appearance in Seattle, his last public utterance and his last handwriting. There is a message from his Widow, Mrs. Florence Kling Harding. The book also contains a number of articles arti-cles by contributors, including Governor Gov-ernor Scott C. Bone of Alaska. GENERAL Jack Daugherty, director and Bar-- Bar-- burn La Ma it screen vamp are definitely defin-itely separated again. Jack has told his.frieinls in New York that he expects ex-pects Barbara to file a bill for annulment annul-ment of their marriage the preliminary prelimin-ary articles having been signed. "We will be great friends, however," he is quoted as having said "We make better friends than sweethearts." An earthquake shock of moderate intensity, lasting from 9:25 to 10:15 a. m., with maximum intensity from - 9:36 to 9:42 o'clock, occuring about 2200 miles south of Washington, was reported by Father Tondorf of the Georgetown University observatory. Dr. James Whitney Hall, alienist retained by the defense for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, confessed con-fessed kidnapers and slayers of 13-year 13-year old Robert Franks of Chicago, started an examination of the youths at the county jail. After examining the ymiths he announced that important import-ant facts advantageous to the defense had been revealed. Charles N. Filcoxen, 68, former president of the Chicago Lake & South Bend Railway company, operating oper-ating between South Bend and Chicago, Chica-go, killed his wife, 70 years old, with an axe, a razor and a potato' masher, and then hung himself at their home at Long Beach, Indiana, their bodies being discovered recently. P.. G. Iamme, who helped harness Niagara Falls for the generation of election power, died at his home at East Liberty, Pa. He was In his sixtieth year. A reception for a few intimate friends without even a birthday cake, was the sole celebration of the eighty-fifth eighty-fifth birthday of John L. Rockefeller, Sr. Eugene V. Debs was elected national na-tional chairman of the Socialist party of America, a new office, by the na-1 na-1 tional convention of the party. Too ill to continue his activities with the national execuive committee, Debs was given the new place by acclama-i acclama-i tion after Morris Hillquit, New York, had explained the federal election laws required election of such an officer. of-ficer. Walter B. Allman, 42, creator of the newspaper comic strip, "The Doings of the Duffs," died at his home at . Cleveland, Ohio, after a long illness. Edward L. Doheny and Edward L. ; Doheny, Jr., two of the principals in i tiie naval reserve oil scandal filed ; a motion in the district supreme court ; of Washington to quash the lndict-. lndict-. ments against them on the grounds that unauthorized persons were present pre-sent in the grand jury room when the indictments were returned. Natural gas experts and users of . the product who have felt apprehen-, apprehen-, &ion over the possible failure of sand gas wells, see in the development of , the shale gas industry hope that perhaps for another generation or longer the supply will be bountiful. The St. Louis American, morning newspaper first issued last May 23, indefinitely suspended publication. ! The board of directors decided the paper was losing too much money. An attempt to revive the paper will be made in a month or so, it was announced. an-nounced. J. D. Flynn, formerly of Oklahoma, was editor. Luis Angel Firpo evidently has learned a great lesson. Having refused re-fused a $240,000 guaranty to box Harry Willis prior to the negro's recent failure to stop Madden, the Wild Bull is compelled to accept a percentage or a flat offer of $100,000. Firpo's greed for gold will bring him back to this country to fight Wills in August. He may haggle over the date, but Tex Richard holds the whip hand. Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury; his daughter, Miss Ail-sa, Ail-sa, and a party of friends have left for Cherbourg on the Olympic. Mr. Mellon is going for a vacation in England and Scotland, returning August 26. Herbert A. Commings, until recently in charge of the British Brit-ish legation at Mexico City, was another an-other passenger. FOREIGN Twenty-three alleged leaders of n secret clique formed among the Philippine Philip-pine scouts to advance demands for allowances and pay equal to those given white soldiers were arrested at Fort McKinley. Eight were arrested arrest-ed previously. The twenty-three were held for investigation. The heaviest liquor license on record, re-cord, G2,500, was paid for the ex. elusive rights at the British empire exhibition. What is regarded as one of the most singular works of art in existence exist-ence is now in the possession of a Berlin dealer. It is a painting, 6x4 inches, executed on a spider web and preserved by being clamped between two plates of glass so that one can examine it on both sides. The scene depicted is that of a happy family sitting together. Chinese customs officials raided the American sailing vessel Talbot in port at Shanghai and seized arms and munitions valued at $50,000. The seizure was made on the ground that the munitions were to be landed in China, in violation of the arms convention. con-vention. A Warsaw to Paris one day air service ser-vice wa3 inaugurated last week and the early riser in the Polish capital, according to the new line's schedule may leave his home city at 4 o'clock in the morning and arrive in Paris at 5:15 o"cIock in the afternoon. The schedule calls for an average of 130 kilometers an hour. Owing to the present high cost of living there are now 80,000 less butlers employed in England than there were ten years ago. Wearing of horn-rimmed spectacles was characterized as an "atrocity" by Clement Jeffery, eminent eye diagnostician in a lecture at London recently. lie explains that the rims were in no way harmful to the sight of the wearer but were "a terrible sight" to others. The Irish Free State, by virtue of Its membership in the league of nations, na-tions, has become a member of the international labor office at Geneva. As documents are printed in the languages lan-guages of all countries which are members, copies have now been issued is-sued printed in the Irish language. Everybody in Dublin is anxious to ride with William Brown, 63 year old cabby who recently inherited an estate es-tate worth $400,000. Brown Is plying ply-ing for hire as usual. He has driven a cab on the streets of Dublin for forty-two years. His father was in the business before him. Two hundred and fifty persons were killed and 20O injured during the insurrection which broke out at Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to re-liable re-liable Information received at Buenos Aires |