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Show TELEGRAPHiG TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Arrested at the state penitentiary when they called to visit their husbands, hus-bands, members of the international confidence men's ring recently broken brok-en up at Denver, Mrs Walter Byland, Mrs. George Kelly and Mrs. Louis Mushnick, were held in the city jail at Cannon City, Colo., for Denver police, in connection with an investigation inves-tigation of the disappearance of $7000 In furs from various Denver business houses (luring the Christmas rush. Wild deer from the foothills above the Santa Clara valley have descended descend-ed to safe pastures adjacent to l'alo Alto and Los Altos about forty-five miles from San Prancisco, and have become so tame that they trot nonchalantly non-chalantly along highways. Green Adams Denham, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Anna I Murphy of San Gabriel a suburb of Los Angeles. He had been ill but a few days. William Wrigley Jr. drove the first rivet at the laying of the keel of the Catalina, a $1,000,000 vessel being built at San 1'edro, Cal., to operate in the tourist trade between the mainland main-land and Catalina island. Otto Crawford, logger, was burned to death in a padhed cell in the police emergency hospital at Portland, Oregon. Ore-gon. The padding apparently was ignited ig-nited by Crawford who had been smoking cigarets. Mrs. Millie Kltehlng, 80, has filed suit in the superior court of Riverside, River-side, Cal., for separate maintenance against her husband, August Caesar Kitching, also SO, on the grounds that he is squandering his money on "a younger woman." Attorney General ltussell W. Fleming Flem-ing of Colorado died at Fort Collins. Death was believed to have resulted from blood poisoning. He is survived by a widow and daughter, 18, now visiting brothers of the attorney general gen-eral at Bainbridge, Ga. Two centenarians, veteran college graduates, were guests at the Alumni Council banquet which was held at Los Angeles Wednesday. They are former United States Senator Cornelius Corn-elius Cole, 101 years of age, and a graduate of Wesieyan university in 18-17, and Lewis B. Reed, 100, who was graduated from New 'York university uni-versity in 1S42. GENERAL AV. McHugh, general counsel for the International Harvester company and who served for a time as a federal judge during the administration of I'resident Cleveland, died at Chicago last week. Bootleggers and moonshiners were declared by authorities to have composed com-posed a band of ten men that stormed storm-ed the Methodist church at Black auoui six mnes trom .Maryland, Christmas night, damaging the edifice and beating up four members of the congregation, including two women. Delegates from all parts of the United States were present at Ann Harbor, Mich., for the opening of the quadrennial or general session of the Modern Language Association of America. Brigham Young, late head of the Mormon church, was made defendant in a lawsuit filed at Omaha to quiet title to property which once stood in I'resident Young's name. Unless Young or his successor in office appears ap-pears in court within the specified time the plaintiff will win the suit. J. F. "Dinty" Moore. North Platte mail pilot killed Monday morning when his mail plane crashed near Burns, Wyo., was buried Friday from the home of his ' wife at Coalville Utah. The body was accompanied from Cheyenne to Coalville by a delegation dele-gation of fellow mail pilots. District Judge George W. Clark of Oklahoma City, disqualified himself to hear the motion of J. C. Walton, former governor, to quash indictments indict-ments pending against him, and Judge C. C. Smith of Logan county was assigned by the state criminal court of appeals to conduct the hearing. hear-ing. The cost of living increased 2.1 per cent between July 13 and November 15, 1023, according to a survey by the national industrial conference board, made public at New York. WASHINGTON General Charles G. Dawes, Chicago, and Owen D. Young, New York, held a conference with .Secretary of State Hughes to receive the views of the United States government of the impending im-pending American-allied expert investigation in-vestigation into Germany's financial condition and capacity to pay repa-artions. repa-artions. Captain Edward II. Watson commander com-mander of the destroyer squadron wrecked on the California coast, near Point Honda, last September, will lose loO numbers, and lieutenant Commander Donald T. Hunter, commander com-mander of the destroyer Delphi, one of the squadron, will lose 100 numbers num-bers as a result of naval court-martial sentences approved by Secretary Denby. A detailed statement of the real estate and cattle investments of Former For-mer Secretary Albert B. Fall, filed with the senate public lands department depart-ment declared that a $100,000 loan advanced to Mr. Fall by E. B. McLean, Mc-Lean, the Washington publisher, enabled en-abled him to purchase additional ranch holdings in recent years in New Mexico. Proposed legislation to create a department de-partment of mines was discussed with I'resident Coolidge by Chairman Oddie of the senate mines committee. commit-tee. The department would have within with-in it a bureau of coal which would have powers simliar to those of the federal coal commission. The president presi-dent promised to consider the proposal pro-posal and consult with cabinet members. mem-bers. ' Secretary Hoover has been named by I'resident Coolidge to represent the federal government on a joint commission which will be created to settle the rights to the use of water of the Itio Grande river, as between the United States and the states of Colorado and New Mexico. Director Hines of the veterans' bureau, wlio has just returned from a visit to New England hospitals, announced an-nounced he had concluded arrangements arrange-ments for increasing by 1G0 beds the capacity of the Chelsea hospital, near Boston, the work to be completed early in January. The advisory committee on reclamation recla-mation which next month will inspect several governments projects in the west, will meet about the middle of January at Salt Lake City with the federated water users, representing practically all of the projects, to gather gath-er information for recommendations to Secretary Work. The itinerary for the trip has not been completed. A war referendum amendment to the constitution was offered Tuesday by Senator Clarence Dill, Democrat, Washington. Under it congress would declare war without a special election only in case of invasion or rebellion. FOREIGN The bandit leader, Kuprenko, one of General Petlura's chief lieutenants has been executed by order of the district court sitting in Kiev. Kuprenko Kupren-ko was tried for the shooting of a Jewish family living in a village of the Kiev district. Ha was executed by a firing squad. The Hondurean government has signed an agreement for the payment of the Llondurean debt. The agreement agree-ment provides that for each bond of 100,000 face value it shall pay only 2000 to holders of bonds issued in 1S6S and 1870. Kumatoro Honda, former Japanese minister at Vienna and Budapest, has been named ambassador to Germany, suceceeding Eki Hioki and will go to Berlin early in February. M. Honda, wiio for many years was attached to the Japanese embassy in London, was with Japan's delegation at the Portsmouth peace conference. It is officially announced that Prince Erik of Denmark on the occasion oc-casion of his betrothal to Miss Lois Frances Booth of Ottawa renounced his right to succession to the throne and his title of prince. King Christian Christ-ian however conferred on 'him the title of Count of Rothenborg. Loufti Fikri Bey, head of the Turkish Turk-ish bar, has been convicted of treason trea-son and sentenced to a term of five years' imprisonment. The sentence carries with it hard labor. The charge of treason was based on an open letter let-ter sent by Fikri to the caliph imploring im-ploring him not to resign because his resignation would be disastrous to the dynasty and the country. Government tax experts who met here recently unanimously recognized tile necessity of international agreements agree-ments to aid in the apprehending of tax dodgers that they might be forced to meet their obligations. Heavy snowstorms and avalanches are reported from several points in Switzerland. One man was killed and several cattle destroyed in the collapse of stables at Ginggenberg, In the Bernese Oberlanil. Two houses were carried off at Diablerets, where an elderly man was buried his body not being recovered. A third man perished in a snowstorm. |