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Show NEWS HISTORY of THE WSf WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN People of the Sew England, N. D, district will join in a community Thankafrlvin' prayer meeting "to pay homage to the divine providence which heard their prayers of -May 28 end gent the greatest wheat and grain crops In the history of farming in that nrea." Prevalence of holdups In Kansas Olty has made the night pedestrian so wary of currying valuables that the holdup business has become demoralised, demoral-ised, forcing haiHllts to - adopt new tactics. This is the explnnuti-m given giv-en by police to the new type of holdup hold-up which has Invaded this city clothing cloth-ing robberies. John Spencer of I'ope county and Harry Spencer of Conway county, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, halfbrothers, met for the first time In forty years when they were both plncod In the same cell in the county Jail bore. Roth were arrested on liquor charges. Nine tragedies stand out as dramatic dramat-ic spectacles in the news of America and all of them present women in the leading roles. They have their setting In six sections of the country. Unconfined reports to the New-World, New-World, a Japanese publication here, from Japan Thursday stated that Mas-anno Mas-anno Hanihara a prominent figure in the Japanese delegation to the disarmament disarm-ament conference will succeed Ambassador Ambas-sador Shi'dihara to the Washington post. The interstate commerce commis-eion commis-eion at Washington held that the proposed pro-posed advance in rates on Iron and eteel in carloads from Jlidvale, TJ-tah, to points in California, from 75 cents to $1.08 per hundred pounds, is not Justified, and canceled the proposed new schedules which would have gone Into effect November 22. About 200,000 acres of land in New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming were classified under the stock-raising homestead law and were designated designa-ted for entry in tracts of 6-10 acres or less through the geological survey in September, the interior department has announced. GENERAL A cargo of GG.767 boxes of dates, the first big importation of the year In Christmas goods arrived in New l'ork on the Umzunbi from Bombay. The greatest building boom in the history of the United States is now In progress, according to figues obtained ob-tained in Chicago. Five sets of triplets and two sets I of twins have been born to Mr. and i Mrs. Frank Scott, of Warsaw, Ind. in ten years of married life. After thieves finished working on a drug store In Minneopolis the only think left was the building and the lot -It occupied. They backed an auto- I mobile truck up to the store and clean- ed out the entire stock. 1 Attorney T. C. Townsend, chief of counsel for C. Frank Keeney, district 1 president of the United Mine Workers, reiterated his charge thnt Governor 1 Morgan had conspired to "crush union activities In West Virginia," and he ( challenged the governor to permit an investigation of contributions to his campaign fund. I Trincess Newana Gayfish, Winne- ( bago Indian beauty of Hatfield, Wis., upset a thousand years of tradition and her own domestic life when she bobbed her hair and introduced ner fellow red men to flnpperism. Her father. Chief Running Wolf, and her I husband, Dan Gayfish, put on a war ' dance that made the silent forests 1 sound like a reunion of boilermakers. '' Tile special grand jury, which re- ; eumed its investigation of the Herrin mine killings after a month's recess, returned an indictment for murder. ' naming forty-seven persons, announ- ' ced it had completed its work and ad- Journed. "Bob" Wilcox, widely known auto- ' mobile race driver, has retired from ' the speed game owing to the dangers 8 that have developed from the use of r high-power motors in light racing machines, ma-chines, he announced at his home here Thursday. The Harvard committee on economic r research has no exieetathn of a drop 1 In prices to the prewar level during the next ten years. 1 A plan to raise a fund of not h-ss than ?..0OO,lXJ from firms md corpor- 1 atlons that profited most du'-ing the a war fai- til e relief of needy ex-service men and their lamilios during the .. coming winter was announced Monday c by a theatrical manager in Chicago. William (Jlcep.n Voliva, overseer of r toe Christian Catholic church in Zion. in a sermon advocated that the women 1 of li s church horsewhip men whs ! s B-r.-Ke ia tlitiir presence 1e Zln. t I WASHINGTON j The first stamp of i he new five cent ! denomination I. earing the likeness of I ' inner 1'iv.siiU-nt Ito. ,: i-it w aspre-j aspre-j s.-nte.l io Mrs. Tl.e...re Umwvelt. Ten thousand miles Here added to jtlie completed federal aid highways of I the nation during the t';a-i.-l jear ending end-ing last June, acconllu- to the United States department of agneulture. The addition brings the mileage in completed com-pleted federal aid Toads up to 17.700. The highest loss in freight claims In any yeur before government control became effective was ?3.itW,Qoij and for each of the past three years this figured had been increased to approximately approx-imately $l)O,O0O,OOO. An enormous increase of crime in the Cnited States during the second year of prohibition enforcement legislation, legis-lation, as compared with the first year's record, is reported. Commissi mer Thompson of the shipping ship-ping board notfied Chairman Lnsker of his intention to place his resignation resigna-tion In the hands of the president, but has agreed to c -ntinue as a member of the board until congress has disposed of the pending merchant marine leg. .station. Tentative plans for an attempted flight of army airplanes around the world have been under consideration for some months by air serivce officials, offi-cials, it was learned. A campaign to discourage the use of small sized cards and envelopes, it is declared are responsible for incalueu-able incalueu-able delay during the Christmas rush of postal business. There are twenty-three women seeking seek-ing seats in congress at the elections next month. Twenty-one are candidates candi-dates for the house of representatives and two for the senate. All have men opopsed to them tuiii all are making an active campaign. Ocean steamers which sailed from foreign ports Monday for the United States faced the necessity of carefully computing the amount of alcoholic beverages on board against the mileage mile-age show by the ship's daily log. The last .stein and decanter must be emptied emp-tied before the ship crosses the three-mile three-mile line. The state department made public Monday plans for the evacuation of the Dominican republic by American military forces and announced that a proclamation had been agreed to by which a provisional government would be established. FOREIGN A warrant for the arrest of Bela Kun, former head of the Hungarian soviet government, which was dominant domi-nant in Hungary for a short time after the war, has been issued by the federal fed-eral police department. Bela Kun is reported to be in hiding in Switzerland Switzer-land with a false Swijs passport. According to the lastest report, the former governmental officers and military mili-tary chiefs of Greece arrested by the revolutionists at the time of the dethronement de-thronement of King Constantino will be tried by an extraordinary court-martial. court-martial. The speech of Colonel Harvey, Aniercan ambassador to the court of St. James, on "have women souls," caused an uproad in the London press. Great Brtiain's new Tory cabinet, leaded by Premier Andrew Bonar Law have formally taken office and jegan to function. At the same time die privy council issued a proclama-:ion proclama-:ion dissolving parliament. The new Irish constitution passed its third and final reading in the Dail Eireann. Deputy John Milroy describ-3d describ-3d the documents as the greatest rlumph for Ireland since the battle of sale. Several regretable incidents have jeeurred in eastern Thrace despite the presence of allied military detach-nents, detach-nents, says a statement by ShaKir iey, the first made public since his ippointment as civil governor of Thrace for the Turkish nationalist government. Four Free Staters were killed and hree wounded in a bomb attack on a notor car at Ferry Carrig, County .Vexford, Ireland. Serious property damage and the oss of at least one life by forest fires vas reported from Holdar, Canada, ibut seventy miles northwest of Ed-nonton. Ed-nonton. No general election for many years las presented such unpredictable prob-ems prob-ems for solution. One of the weekly eviews declares that it will turn upon he simple question oi for or against ..loyd George, and therefore will be a i mre'.y personal contest. In the near future every shift of coal niners will take down into the mine md hang up in the level where they vork an instrument which can be set o sound an alarm, by hell or horn, at my percentage figure of admixture of oal gas nr firedamp. Wing Ty, a Chinese girl 17 years ' Id. committed suicled by drowning ' vhen her mother spanked her for lobbing her hair and cutting her ,kkrts to the height In vogue among he flappers of America. I |