Show telegraphic A S FOR BUSY S A RESUME OF THE WEEKS DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES I important events event of the lat last seven days day Re reporter portet by wire e and prepared for the benefit of the busy reader WESTERN bert barey vice president ot of the defunct alardin state bank of alardin hai aln mont was sentenced to from three to six years in the state penitentiary by judge robert C strong in district court ile he was charged with having misappropriated appropriated mis 1500 from the bank the proceeds of a note gi given ven by J it boyd of wyola in september 1922 2 jason L read former publisher and editor ot of the masonic chronicle of chicago Clil cago died at pasadena calif ile he vas i as born in san francisco in and was prominent in newspaper circles in chicago Clil cago it la is planned to have a faculty facility vocational committee at the university of nevada to conduct psychological tests with a view of suggesting to students the vocations tor for which they seem best fitted strict economy by all light and power consumers in southern california and the san joaquin vall valley ey is recommended by a special committee surveying the field to offset a very serious situation due to drought according to a statement issued ti by L S ready engineer tor for the state railroad commission A suit tor for the recovery of from the shell oil company tor for alleged patent infringement in the recovery of oil from oil sands and shale have been filed in the united states district court at san francisco by frank navin av in a resident of los ios angeles but formerly of salt lake according to philip S ehrlich Ehrlic li attorney tor for navin the suit ts is the first of or more 1 in the country on like grounds and which will demand the return of hundreds of millions of dollars to navin Is alln strict economy by all light and power consumers in southern california 0 and the san joaquin valley is recommended by a special committee surveying the field to offset a very serious situation due to drought according to a statement issued by L S ready engineer for the state railroad commission angered because charles Fish bacic the railroad telegraph operator at adrian N D ordered him off a train a tramp shot and killed fishback GENERAL howard ross arthur and herbert gilbert each eight years old were drowned nt at mason city iowa when the ice fee on willow creek gave way with them and plunged them into water eight feet deep lyle 13 also went through but was saved by martin standing on a bridge above lowering a rope into the water all of the victims were vere trapped under the ice the bodies were recovered thomas nalle kane of new york who recently underwent what he sail said iva wag s his fifty ninth mood transfusion has asserted lie could produce a pint of blood ft a week by eating eighteen to twenty four raw mw onions a flay day Us ile has puzzled surgeons burgeons by being able repeatedly to give up a pint of cf blood without draining his system lie pets gets from k SO 50 to tor or a transfusion besides onions he be eats carrots celery and rice frank A munsey who has been baing and consolidating new york newspapers with considerable rapidity in recent years has turned around and sold one ile he disposed of the new york herald to osden reid held president of the new blew york tribune company the two papers will bo be combined and published under title of the ner tribune joseph french of chelmsford mass was awarded the 1000 offered by mrs rose scott of saugatuck atuck conn for a general word to appy apply to all advocating restriction of various rights and privileges Bang bug was the word suggested the case of frederick gump ST jr of kansas city mo against harry K thaw for damages was settled out of court for mrs mr mary thaw mother of the defendant defend an announced at pittsburg the trustees of thaws estate paid oooo i while she paid mrs thaw said paid one of the highest bids ever made tor for asago oil land was recorded at the annual lease sale at A okla when the prarie oil company offered on a quarter section tract near burbank Cur bank it walter leigh of new york vice vibe president ot of the th american beet suoi sligo company was elected chairman of 0 the board and president of tile the company at a meeting of the directors at new york to succeed 11 II relman duval avat who died at st augustine fla WASHINGTO rw A constitutional amendment provid lag ing that pint newly elected presidents and cortesses shall take office in january following their election was approved by tha ali senate the alie house ifor for the third time it tour four years has passed a soldier bonus bill the vote vota aras SOS to im and ne was taken after forty minutes debate selection of curtis D wllbur wilbur chief justice of the supreme court of california tf to succeed edwin denby its as secretory secretary of the tha navy was wag approved by the senate in in an executive session of less than ten minutes there wa was said to have been no debate on the nomination and no roll call asked when the motion that he be confirmed was made by senator lodge of massachusetts tha republican leader threading its way through a bewildering maze of charges and suspicions pic ions lons the senate committee investigating attorney general daugherty heard testimony about deals in liquor lotteries and motion picture films subpoenaed two cabinet officers to appear before it and was again rebuked by mr daugherty daugharty ifor for tho the character of the evidence it has admitted to its officials records representatives harold knutson of and leroy A hull 29 year old goern government ment employee will be held bold for tile the grand jury to face serious 1 larres arges made against them by two arlin arlington ton county virginia police officers in spite of the protests of secretary of the treasury mellon the sena senate t e appears likely to approve an increase in inheritance taxes the special army board investigating c cases ases of military prisoners has indicated in a preliminary report that it would recommend clemency for a considerable number senator cameron Cam cron republican arizona anzona told the senate that if there were any more attacks upon him lor opposing gover government rim ent purchase of 0 bright angel trail in the grand canyon he would demand a senate investigation the resignation of theodore roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy was demanded in the house by representative stevenson democrat south carolina representative byrnes of south carolina ranking democrat on the subcommittee that framed the naval appropriation bill told the house h ha would offer an amendment re requesting president coolidge to call a conference on further limitation of naval armament legislation to encourage new re cla matlon mation projects in the west was prop proposed to congress by secretary work IV rr FOREIGN sir frederick bridge noted organ of london is dead aged to 70 he had bad been professor of music in london university since 1902 1000 2 and was wa formerly organist of abbey tor for many years the japanese government la in the th face of a threatened shortage in the th nations rice supply for 1924 has decided to encourage imports of japart staple food ty by admitting TICO rice tree free ol 01 duty until july 31 1924 earring barring of surveyors representing sinclair oil interests from the island of Sag halien has haa focused official and public attention on the contest be tween the sinclair corporation and the japanese for rich oil lands in what nominally Is the russian halt ot of the island the opinion Is general in official circles that eventual exploitation will be by japanese and not by americal Amori Ameri cap the french senate has adopted the section of premier ares financial reform measures which provides to for a 20 per cent increase in french taxes nearly eight million yen realized from the sale of former enemy properties seized by the japanese government during the great war var lies unclaimed in the bink bank of japan A number of soviet documents ants whose disappearance caused numerous arrests just before lenins beatri have been found in a cabinet where they were put by error at moscow an edict against the wearing of silk stockings and other finery by women employees of the war department has been issued by general minister of war at warsaw A counteroffensive counter offensive against general ladendorff Luden dorff has been started by the german catholic clergy at munich the episcopate has forbidden any activity by clergymen with the nationalistic young german order the Catho catholics liis of munich are planning huge demonstrations of protest against ladendorff Luden dorff when the verdict is announced prom from 40 to 50 natives are believed to have been killed more than CO 60 injured and one european seriously hurt when a mixed train on all the kumkun railway in british india was struck by a tornado while crossing a bridge near bareille Rare Ba reilly llly coal miners of alberta canada will strike on april 1 negotiations between officials of district no la it of the united mine workers or america and the operators having been definitely broken oft off here saturday |