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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH The die proof of the new Woodrow Wilson stamp was completed by the bureau of engraving and printing and Postmaster General New an nounced that work .will be rushed to haye the first issue placed on sale December 28, the birth date of the TELEGRAPHIC TALES IE A RESUME OF THE war president. WEEK'S this and other doings in COUNTRIES Important Events of the Lart Seven Pro- - Days Reported by Wire and pared to the Benefit of the . Busy Reader. WESTERN EPITOME The financial affairs of the PanamaTacific International exposition, held In San Francisco In 1915, have finally closed when the three surviving trus- tees were discharged bv Superior Judgb Ward. All the assets of the epositionfompany have been liquidated and distributed among the stockholders except $10,000 in bonds, $6,50b in cash and some objects of art. 1500 feet above Colliding head-oSan Diego bay, while their Voi&bt airplanes were traveling faster than 100 miles an hour, .Captain Harry H. Shepherd and Lieutenant John D. Christian, attached to marine corps aviation squadron No. 1 at North Island, were killed. The two airplanes their ldcked, wings and fusilages part- ing after dropping J000 feet, plunged into the bay about four miles south of Coronado Tent city. The war department has ordered Dr. David C. .Silverberg, Seattle physician, to- attend court martial as a suspected world war draft evader. Silverberg has been undeV arrest since November 24, at Fort Lawton. . The exact wording of the changes will be determined by the judge advocate of the ninth corps area, headquarters at - n . -- - . San Francisco. A delegation of mothers, represen- ting the California , as- Parent-Teacher- s Jake Schafer broke all, worlds records for a championship billiard match with a run of 432 points at Orchestra hall, Chicago, in the final block of his match with Edouard Hor emans for the 18.2 balkline title, but nevertheless, lost hi3 championship to the Belgian. Schaefers dazzling indisplay came in the thirty-firs- t ning of the match, after he had floundered miserably all evening. When he started his spectacular effort to retain his title he was 366 points behipd the challenger. When he finished he was nine points from running out. Former United States Senator Car-ro- ll Smalley Page died at his home at Hyde Park, Vermont, at the age of 82 years from a stroke of paralysis suffered November 24. He was governor of Vermont'fTOm 1890 to 1892, and served in the senate at Washington from 1908 to 1923. Mark Ham, aged Chinese tongman, at Cleveland, Ohio, hanged himself in the county jail a few hours before a white manjs Jury was to say whether he was to die in .the electric chair for the murder of Yee Chock in war. The prisoner used a . rope made from a blanket. . On the same day that Governor Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas issued her proclamation .offering a $500 re- ward for liquor conviction of any person worth $5000, George Brady, her negro butler at the executive mansion was arrested by Travis county authorities on a charge of possessing liquor for sale. A car in which Brady and another negro were found was searched, and officers reported finding sevof liquor. The neenteen half-pint- s gro said he had been under sentence to hang, but his sentence was commuted by former Governor F. P. Hobby and that he was afterward furloughed by Governor Pat M. Neff and given a conditional pardon by Gov- sociation, has fileda protest against the widespread circulation of salacious magazines with United Stptes Attorney George Hatfield. Indecent publications were criticised as being ruinous to the morals of the present d4y youth," and the mothefs urged ernor Ferguson. that they fie denied the use of-- the R. A. Chase, a farmer near Quincy,. . United States mails. 111., W a patient at the Pasteur InAVith all the daring and aplomb of stitute., at St. Louis, having been bit seasoned bandits, two women walked hy a rabid mule. About three weeks into the First State bank at Renner, ago a dog went mad and it is suspected S. D., held up the cashier, picked up that the mule was bitten while in the $500 in silver and disappeared in a pasture. When Mr. Chase went to decrepf touring car. look after the needs of the mule, it The Southern Pacific 'railroad has sprang up on him and bit his right refused to acceut an increase in rates hand. authorized by the interstate com- Battered by land and btfmbed from inerce commission of California. The the sky, Navy struck its colors to Increase authorized applies to butter, in a farewell eastern gridiron Army eggs and cheese shipments between classic which climaxed a season of The California and Oregon points. upsets by running strickly true to present rail rate was made to meet form, 10 to 3. water competition. The commission has ruled 4he failroads should not FOREIGN make long haul rates to meet water Growing surprise is expressed in competition with a charge less than the tariff for an intermediate short both official and unofficial Chilean circles atArica, Chile, that Washinghaul ton has not reacted in any way to Los Angeles welcomed the greatest Augustin Edwards speech accusing piece of coast defense armament that General Pershing, as chairman of the had ever moved into the west, the big Tacna-Aric- a plebiscitary commission, railway gun, enroute to Fort of partiality toward the Peruvians. MacArthur, San Pedro, to the harbor The London colonial office, offithere. The" special train with the mon- - h ster rifle'pulled into the Southern Pa- cially announced that the percentage cific freight yards at Los Angeles and of standard rubber production which wAs greeted by a throng of sightseers. may be exported from Ceylon and Malaya for the quarter beginningFeb GENERAL ruray 1 will be raised from 85 to 100 . The name of Henry 'C. Wallace of per cent. at the Iowa, secretary of It was reported at Geneva that the time of his death last year, has been subcommittee appointed by the league honored by the United States geoof nations to Investigate Greek and t a in board graphic naming conflict has .found that peak in Park county, Montana, in the Bulgarian BulPalmark range, as Mount Wallace. Greece was at fault by invading submitting garian territory yithout The decision was made on the of .the forest board re- the matter to the league. The .committee also recommends that Greece ef ntly. be fined $225,000. Property damage upwards- of Winston Churchill, chancellor of the was caused and two persons seriously injured by a disastrous fire exchequor, replying to questioners in v. inch, swept one block of Council the house of commons; said that if Great Britains debt to the United Liuifs, Iowa, business district." had been funded on the same States Secretary Davis of the war depart-- . terms as Italys the amount which ir'nt has the unique distinction of the British government would pay having before him for approval a re- during the present year would be apport signed by himself on his own ac- proximately $11,000,000 instead of tivities as assistant secretary of war. $160,000,000. The document is his annual report . as assistant secretary to the secretary Not Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, but and was signed by Mr. Davis before Professor Reis, a German teacher was Mr. Weeks resignation, although the the inventor of the modern telephone, former secretary did not act upon according to claims advanced in the any of its recommendations, leaving Die Umsbau on the occasion of the that to his successor. fiftieth anniversary of the telephone.. to Andrew. Fletcher, 62, president of Documents have been produced the American Locomotive company show that Reis advertised instrudisand prominent in the iron and steel ments to reproduce the voice at instrucalled He stations. the tant died on at his residence industries, ment the telephone. Park avenue, New York. 9 e 10,600-foo- , recom-r.rndctio- - . E 17-ee- $1,-Ou- n j, Establishment of a permanent international court 9f justice through the agency of a third Hague conference to be called by President Cool idge was suggested by Representative Tlnkham, Republican, Massachusetts, who announced that he would embody the proposal in a resolution to be introduced in the house. Representatives of the United Mine Workers acerted as a basis of settlement the plan submitted to them by Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania ending the present suspension of hard coal mining. They agreed to meet the operators representatives in joint conference at any time to negotiate an agreement covering the proposals submitted by Mr. Pinchot and announced that promptly after such an agreement on the part of the operators they would arrange to resume mining at the earliest possible date. AMERICAN IJiGlOH FOR BUSY SESSION SIXTY-NINT" (Copy for This Department Supplied by American Legion New Service ) th UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IN LEGION RANKS The greatest year in membership the Americun Legion lias ever known with a goal of a million members is the plan of Legion leaders for 1920 that seems likely of realizsitioxu memberUnprecedented all in is parts up Haring ship activity of the country in response to Commander John R. McQuiggs slogan, Start 1920 with 1925 strength." Membership contests, derides, races and battles are raging between posts, departments and cities at a pace that portends tlisit by the first of the year the flame of membership activity will be sweeping the entire country. We want to reach the "million murk this year and present competition, evidencing Itself In lively , contests between departments and posts, indicates that a million members will be enrolled before the year Is done." So declared Frank E. Samuel, national director of organization and membership, in summing up membership prospects for the year. Minnesota and Michigan were first off in a series of contests that are expected to do much to boost the membership. The Gophers challenged the Wolverines to a memcontest to enroll more paid-ubers for the year 1920 by December The challenge was immedi31, 1923. ately accepted by Michigan. .Iowa and Ohio, departments that have long glared at each .other when the subject of membership is mentioned, have closed In a membership bnttle. These scrapping departments are going to settle their dispute by December 31, 1925. An Innovation in membership contests was introduced by the department of. Illinois for the year 1920 in their City Membership Derby, now under way. Forty-tw- o cities are entered In a great membership race. The plan of the city derby is to place cities of the same approximate population In membership competition. On November 1, 1925, Illinois had more than 1,01)0 paid-umembers for 1926, leading the Legion In that respect. The Irrepressible department of Florida has hurled a challenge that as yet has not been accepted : The defl of Florida Is: The Florida department challenges any and all departments having five thousand members or more to any kind of a membership contest. Also any department to have as many 100 per cent posts compared to the number of posts in the department. We will accept any kind of fAir rules and will put up any kind of a prize." .The departments of New York and Pennsylvania have both accepted a challenge to do membership battle with Illinois. Illinois hopes to down two big birds with one stone in this contest. South Caiolina and Mississippi are . sparring with each other to arrange terms fo a membership tear. y p p Child Welfare Service Making Good Progress Actual work of setting up the American Legion child 'welfare service in all the states of the 'Union Is being pushed rapidly, according to John W. Gorby, director of the Children's welfare division of national headquarters. e Orders to complete the set-uat the earliest, possible moment were issued by the national convention nt Omaha. " This state which is the active working force out in thC field through which the Legion plans to carry on the actual work of contacting the children of veterans who are in need of assistance, has already .been completed Ir state-by-stat- p set-up,- 12 states. Preliminary conferences are being held in a number of states. Mr. Gorby has recently held such conferences Ir Missouri. Illinois. Ohio, Pennsylvania New Jersey. New York, Connecticut Rhode Island, Massachusetts. Ver mont. Delaware. Virginia and Indiana The groundwork for" "a state organ ization is laid at these meetings. A check-u- p meeting was also held recently in New Hampshire, the first of the states to complete the child welfare organization. - A. Central News dispatch from PeThe plan of organization calls for communking states that a "group of state committees, district committees, ist students rioted throughout the cencommittees and port commitcounty tral portion of the city, fired the tees. These cofnmttees will make surhouse of the chief of police and to. locate needy children, will give veys wrecked the homes of the ministers them whatever first assistance may he of finance and education. The rioters will for hillet care necessary, were dispersed before further dam- where no other arrange plan can be worked was done. age out, will inspect horites in which adopCloser cooperation among 90 per tions are desired, and will supervls cent of the newspapers of the Brit- children who are being cared for loish Isles is Insured by an arrange- cally or who have been adopted. A site of 169 acres near Pressmen's ment just announced whereby the has been accep'ed press association of the United King- home. Tenne-JS'-e- , dom and the proprietors of Reuters for a Legion billet, subject to Its being Limited become joint owners of the needed. The site was offered by Post National Vice Commander and Mrs. Reuters agency. L. Berry. in George Three American destroyers The national children's welfare com Shanghai harbor have been ordered to stand in readiness by Admiral Wil- mittoe will be reduced as vacancies liams owing to reports of disturban- develop, to true members Three memces in various Yangtzet ports, likely bers each of Forty and Light and of to menace the lives and interests of the legion Anxiliarv will scree ns ex ifhclo members of the committee. American citizens. ... DAWES CALLS CONGRESS TO ORDER PRESIDENT VICE . Qiildren Cry for Many Distinguished Persons are Pres-- . ent and Fill Galleries to Look Down on First Act of Law Body MOTHER- :- Fletcheri Marked by insurgent Washington. strife even before it started, the inth congress, elected with President Coolidge in 1924, went through the brilliant ritual of its opening ceremonies, December seventh. Both house and senate convened promptly at noon. A distinguished audience looked down upon the pits of the senate anl the house of representatives as Vice President Charles G. Dawes and William Tyler Page, clerk of the house, ascended the presiding rostrums at noon and tapped their gavels, summoning the new congress to .the naSixty-n- Castoria is especially prepared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food ; giving natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Absolutely Harmless - No Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend Lift Railroad section of the Valley railroad Is being rebuilt at a higher elevation to prevent It from being drowned by water Ima social pounded by a big dam now being built of the on the Merced river in California. A seventeen-mil- e te tion's business. The scene more resembled function than a convention country's delegates met to legislate for national ills. Fashionable women and beplumed foreign ambassadors crowded the galleries, and senators and congressmen were garbed in their official morning coats. The crack of the gavels hushed a buzz of conversation and a general round of handshaking among the aS' sembiing members, and the big show was auspiciously opened. In the house I)r. Shera Montgomery Intoned a prayer and in the senate Rev. J. J. Muir asked divine guidance. Then. the formal business was set un- it A Weak Fish "Im sure Jack never proposed to a girl before. put of water. "How ao? He acted like a fish ne actually gasped. Boston der way. The Democrats went throubh the routine of organizing in a brfi?f con ference before the opening. They selected C. E. A. Halsey, Lynchburg, Va., as confidential secretary to succeed the late Thomas W. Keller. " L. L. Biffle, Arkansas, was named to succeed IlalSey as chief of pages. The body authorized Senator Hod Robinson, Arkansas, Democratis leader, to name the Democrats nominee for secretary of the senate. Robinson chose J. J. Byrnes, Monticello, N. Y. Prospects of a bitter fight over the plans of Republican leaders to repeal the committee discharge provision of Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for house rules appeared shortly before the lowrer body convened. Headache Colds Representative Finis Garrett, TenNeuralgia Lumbago nessee, Democratic leader, announced Toothache Neuritis Pain Rheumatism in a speech he was in favor of retention of the rule which permits a motion to discharge a committee from consideration of a bill upon petition of 150 members, and indicated that the minority would present a united front against the proposed changes. .Accept only Bayer" package The discharge provision was incorwhich contains proven directions. porated in the rules of the last conHandy "Bayer boxea of 12 tablets gress at the insistance of the InsurAlso bottles of 24 and 100 Druggists. e Republicans joingents. Seventy-onAspirin ia th trad mark of Bayer Uasofactoro of Moooaeetlcactdester of BaUcylleaeld ed with the Democrats in effecting the change. Should this number of Defined Way He Felt, Anyway majority members vote with the DemShe What did you Bee on your voy"Can you .tell me what a grass ocrats, it is likely 'that the proposal age? widow Is? of Republican leaders will be turned . He Sick. Cincinnati "The widow of a vegetarian." Enquirer. down. DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Matrimony worries a woman less Reopen Allen Property Probe she gets Into It than before. after New York. Grand jury investigafraud tion into the alleged $7,000,000 involving Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, is to be reopened, according to well defined reports in the federal building. Miller, along with several German anil Swiss firms, recently was indicted upon charges that the assets of the Amerwere misican Metals corporation Smith the Jesse late handled. Miller, and John T. King, Republican na-- , tlonal committeeman from Connecticut, were said to have been involved but no Indictment was returned gaainst King, although he had waived immunity when he gave testimony. Will Ohio Man Is New Speaker Washington. Nicholas - Longworth, of Ohio, was elected Republican new house. Longworth of the speaker received 229 of the 420 votes cast. The vote for Garret was 173 and for Cooper 13. Five voted present. He received the necessary majority of all votes cast' in the first ballot .despite the refusal of the Republican insurgents to support him. Two Killed In Southern Gale Jackson, Miss. Two persons were han .9. 9ror injured killed,' more and from fifty to one hundred families made homeless by a tornado at Yazoo City according to a message received by state headquarters of tbs' Red Cross from Mrs. R. G. Thornton, representative at Yazoo City. The tornado swept into the city from the northwest, blowing down houses and buildings. Hill Opens VrA and Dry Fight Washington. The first blow in the annual battle of the wets and drys in congress was struck by Representative Hill, Republican of Maryland, who proposed what he said would amount to a popular referendum on He presented a resoluprohibition. tion for repeal of (be eighteenth amendment, with a provision that the action of each state on the proposa be taken through a state conventio of delegates elected by popular vot Epicures are people who dislike to wnste good hunger on poor victuals. They haven't missed a single day at school ! well all the time. The doctor says they are the healthiest children he knows. He told me constipation is what makes so many growing children sickly. Poisons from the waste matter spread through the little bpdies, and lower their resistance to disease. So Im very careful to guard against constipation. I simply give them a little Nujol every night. Nujol isnt a laxative at all, you know, but it keeps them just as regular as clockwork. They like it, and the doctor says its just the thing for them. Nujol helps Nature in Natures own way Mothers are the best friends matter and thus permits of Nujol. When their chithorough and regular elimis stake health at ldrens ination, without overtaxing they the intestinal muscles. seek the remedy that medical authorities approve beNujol can be taken for an v cause it is so safe, so gentle, of time without ill length so natural in its action. effects. To insure internal 1, Constipation is dangerous cleanliness, itshould be taken for anybody. Nujol is safe regularly in accordance with for everybody. It does not the directions on each bottle. affect tne stomach and is Unlike laxatives, it does not not absorbed by the body. form a habit and can be disfor makes continued at any time. up Nujol simply Theyre a deficiency temporary or chronic in the supply of natural lubricant in th intestines. Itsoftensthewastc . Ask vour druggist for Nujoi today and let your childrenenjoy the perfect health that ia possible only when their elimination is normal and regular. i |