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Show 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 EPITOME Three former San Francisco policemen, police-men, a lieutenant and two patrolmen, convicted ot landing liquor from a boat at South San Francisco in January, Jan-uary, 1923, were ordered to prison by a ruling of the United States circuit cir-cuit of appeals at San Francisco. The three, who must serve terms ranging from twelve to eighteen months in the federal penitentiary at Leven-worth, Leven-worth, Kansas, and pay fines of $500 to $1,000 each are D. Herschel Bras-field, Bras-field, former lieutenant; Mark Willi-ver Willi-ver and William Barton. Word that E. P. Erckenbrack, director di-rector of the United States shipping board emergency fleet corporation for Europe, with headquarters in London, and formerly north Pacific coast district director of the corporation corpor-ation in Seattle, has asked to be relieved re-lieved of his duties by January, was received at Seattle. Erckenbrack said he wanted to return to the United States. Tlnitcrl Cfo fri r kJLaica OCIlclLUI 1 ctSKUI Ij. Oddie of Nevada has appealed directly direct-ly to President Coolidge for executive action in behalf of the white settlers on the Pyramid Indian reservatien, near Reno, Nevada, who have been compelled to pay for the lands some ot them have occupied since the '60s at their full value, after the settlers had devoted years to their improvement improve-ment and cultivation. Damages of $126,661 are asked by the Pacific Mail Steamship company of New York from the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., - i Wilmington, Delaware, for alleged f 1-Wty repairs to the Pacific Mail steamship Ecuador in October, 1923, in a libed action filed in federal court at San Francisco. The libelant states that claims for damaged cargo amounting to $120,C31 and that the salvage amounted to only $14,777. Four persons were killed and a fifth probably was fatally injured near Pomona, Calif., when a Southern South-ern Pacific express train struck an automobile believed to have been driven by Frank S. Davidson, 57, of Los Angeles. Davidson, his son, George F. Davidson, an unidentified boy and an unidentified woman were Instantly killed, and Miss Irene Davidson Dav-idson was taken to a hispital with critical injuries. Nullification of the Oregon state gasoline tax is sought by a group of automobile freight bus operators in a suit filed in the United States district dis-trict court at Portland, Oregon. An injunction is asked to prevent the secretary of state from further enforcement en-forcement of the law.l A refund of approximately $6,000,000 collected by the state under the present gasoline tax law is demanded. GENERAL John Wingate Weeks has regretfully regret-fully stepped out of public life, relinquishing re-linquishing his office as secretary of war to Dwight F. Dcvis, assistant secretary, sec-retary, world war veteran and holder hold-er of the distinguished service cross for gallantry in action. A reprimand for Colonel William T. Mitchell; an increased appropriation for the army air service. This, according ac-cording to reports confirmed in several sev-eral quarters is the present state of mind of the war department; but it is subject to change at any moment. Eleven members of a party of tourists tour-ists are known to have drowned when the pleasure boat Clara B. capsized while attempting to turn in a rough sea, just outside Sebastian inlet, Florida. The remainder of the party which numbered twenty-five were rescued. Personal income tax collections in 1923 decreased $197,405.S03 or 22.93 per cent as compared with 1922, according ac-cording to revised statistics made public by the internal revenue bureau at Washington. Records show that 7,093,321 persons filed income tax returns re-turns for 1923. The aggregate net income in-come was $24, S40, 134,364 and the tax $663,651,505. School teachers of Shabroua. III., will be required to spend at least three week-ends of every month within the confines of the village, according ac-cording to an edict of the school board. J. B. Stout, superintendent of schools declared about half the teachers teach-ers have been spending their weekends week-ends out of town and did not attend the locaJ community functions. The churches of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, completed their task of copying copy-ing the new testament, producing what official of the Ministerial association asso-ciation say is the only book of its kind in the world. A total of 7959 persons copied one verse each and signed his name to it. The work was done in a uniform manner, ministers said. The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, with a total membership of 91,200, has been suspended from the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, unless within with-in the next ninety days, It transfers to the International Brotherhool of Teamsters all drivers, chauffeurs, stablemen and garage employes heretofore here-tofore under the jurisdiction of the clerks. Vote to suspend was on a roll call, 23,815 to 3S95 President Coolidge expects soon to fill the vacancy on the shipping board caused by the resignation of Frederick Freder-ick I. Thompson. He is going ahead with his plans to examine the entire shipping board situation, an investigation investi-gation which may result in his recommending recom-mending congress abolish the body. A resolution scoring the evolution theory was passed by the council of the Seventh-day Adventists in annual session at Des Moines, Iowa. The resolution reiterates the belief of the Adventists in the Bible account of the world's beginning. Imprisonment for life was the sentence sen-tence given Everett Adams, 17, of Wilmington, Ohio, a schoolboy. He confessed killing his "good Samaritan," Samari-tan," Adam R. Clawson, Lodi, N. Y. school teacher. The jury was out five hours. It's only question was to fix the punishment for the youth ful murderer. The first pension award growing out of the Shenandoah disaster has been made by the pension bureau to Mrs. Alice B. Lawience of Washington, Washing-ton, widow of Lieutenant John Bollard Bol-lard Lawrence. She was allotted $50 per month under the 1925 pension act. James B. Duke, milionaire tobacco manufacturer is dead at his home in New York. The millionaire, known throughout the country for his financial finan-cial and philanthropic eccentricities, hatieen ill for eleven weeks, beginning be-ginning with a nervous breakdown, which he suffered while at Newport, R. I. Beatrice Fenner, a 20-year-old blind girl of Los Angeles, whose compositions composi-tions have been sung by Madame Amelita Galli-Curci, has been awarded award-ed a scholarship by the Julliard Musical Mus-ical foundation of New York, it was announced. FOREIGN The Manila house adopted the senate's sen-ate's resolution instructing Sergio Osmena, president of the house and the, Philippine resident commissioner in Washington to oppose any attempt by congress to amend the Jones law with respect to the disposition or lands in the Philippines. The present pres-ent law limits the amount of land any individual or corporation may own to 2500 acres. M. Caillaux, newly returned from his debt funding labors at Washington Washing-ton presented his report to the cab-'net cab-'net council and at the conclusion of the three-hour discussion, Premier Painleve said. "The project M. Caillaux Cail-laux brough back from America will be thoroughly studied. Negotiations with the United States will continue." Nikolai Lenin, of Mosco, father of bolshevism, is to be given one of the most elaborate tombs in hte world. Plans for the erection of a marble mausoleum to replace the temporary wooden structure in which his body now rests were announced by the soviet so-viet government. A resolution was introduced in the Manila senate asking congress and the people of the United States to grant the Philippines complete independence. in-dependence. The first years' experience of the Utah-Idaho sugar company In Southern South-ern Alberta, Canada, is promising, according ac-cording to W. H. Wattis, vice president presi-dent and general manager of the Canadian Can-adian Sugar Factories, Ltd. The Canadian Can-adian branch, which has this year built a factory, will be ready for operation op-eration before November, he says. The Rumanian ambassador to Bulgaria, Bul-garia, with his wife, was fired on while automobile riding in the capital. Men using automatics opened fire on the ambassador's auto. The assailant's assail-ant's escaped. Domizio Torringiana, grand master ot the Masonic order in Italy has issued is-sued an order to all lodges to hold no meetings and cease all work until further notice. His" action follows the recent facist-Mason clashes at Florence, Flor-ence, in which several persons were killed. The Communist transport workers of the Paris region were called out In what is regarded as a curtain-riser curtain-riser for the general strike arranged by the reds as a protest against the French policy In Morocco. |