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Show 1 Twelve pallbearers were required at ' the funeral of Joseph Kreberk. In -It I aat Sacramento. Krobeck, who claimed to be the champion fat nuiu of the world, weighed 040 pounds. He died when doctors attempted to remove re-move fat from his abdomen to save his life. Chris Levang, state .senator, in an address ad-dress a; a fanners' meeting at Lung-don, Lung-don, N. D., asserted that A. C. Town-ley, Town-ley, president of the National Nonpartisan Non-partisan league, would ''retire" from league activities in North Dakota and J would devote his time to organizing fanners in states outside of North Da- : kola. Uncle Sam's federal building in ' Toledo will help to cut down the country's coun-try's war debt through a sale of dilapi-' dilapi-' dated furniture that's been stored away for many years. The sale netr ' ted $1S.-10 and the war debt Is only about $7,882,-12,015.08. WASHINGTON. Final decision against any legisla-1 legisla-1 tion looking to deferment of the income and other tax payments due December Ifi, has been reached by the senate : finance committee. The full conimit-' conimit-' tee thus ratified an earlier decision of the Republican members. A resolution requesting President Wilson to appoint an American representative repre-sentative to meet with the league of nations commission considering disarmament disar-mament was presented and advocated In the senate by Senator Walsh (Dem.), Montana. Under a special rule reported out by the rules committee, the Volstead Vol-stead resolution repealing most of the wartime laws would be given right of way in the house after the Johnson John-son Immigration bill is disposed of. Debate, on the resolution would be limited to two hours. Frank Bianco, accused murderer of two boys at West Frankfort, 111., whose trial was In progress, committed commit-ted suicide by hanging himself in jail at Marion, 111. The murder of the two youths was the cause of riots which broke out in West Frankfort last summer, sum-mer, resulting in the deaths of several sev-eral persons and looting of many places of business. FOREIGN. The authorities, in closing the in quest in the case of Olive Thomas, American film star; who died from poisoning at Paris several months ago, announced that accidental death had been proved. All the villages in the Pepelem district, dis-trict, southern Albania, have been destroyed de-stroyed by a violent earthquake, ac-, cording to an Avlona message to Rome. Two hundred persons are reported killed, while 15,000 have been made homeless. Resolutions have been passed by the labor federation of Arica, Chile, placing on1 record the refusal of its members to load or unload all classes of alcoholic beverages excepting liquors from foreign countries consigned con-signed to residents of Bolivia. A dispute between Chile and Bolivia, in the league of nations assembly has raised the possibility of the withdrawal of one country or the other from the league. Natives of Borneo are bereft of their favorite food rice because of the famine fa-mine in China and India, where most of the cereal consumed in the orieni is grown. Rubber land, ordinarily ten times as valuable as that used for rice, is being planted in rice. Bucharest is under martial law, say an official announcement at the Rumanian Ru-manian legation at Paris. This step was a result of disorders which culminated cul-minated Thursday in an explosion of a bomb beneath the speaker's tribune of the Rumanian senate. Japan cannot reduce her armaments as long as the United States is increasing in-creasing hers, Viscount Kikujiro Ishii of me Japanese delegation declared at a meeting of the armaments committee com-mittee at Geneva, when the question of disarmament was under discussion. A plant for the manufacture of bombs was discovered during an early morning raid on a bicycle repair shop in Parneil street, in the center of Dublin. Dub-lin. Large quantities of arms, ammunition, ammuni-tion, bombs and gelignite were seized. Terrific earthquakes have occurred in Choluteca, southern Honduras, according ac-cording to reports received at San Salvador, but details are lacking. Martial (aw was proclaimed from Dublin castle on December 10, in the city and county of Cork, the city and county of Limerick and in the counties of Tipperary and Kerry. Thirty Moros were killed in the Sulu islands in a battle with the Philippine Philip-pine constabulary growing out of efforts ef-forts to encourage education of chil-dhen, chil-dhen, it was learned in official advices from the governor of Jolo, the Phil- rn c History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Flames from a candle burning ai her bedside where he death momi'ii tarlly haif been expert e, set fire U the bedding and fatally burned Mrs Anna Cancarcik, aged 70, It was disclosed dis-closed at a coroner's Inquest at Sberi dan, Wyo. George P.o.sko, confessed slayer of K C. Parks and Will Hunter, was hanged December 10 at the state prison at 'anon (Illy, Colo. Before it was generally known that his victim bad met with foul play, George W. Howard confessed to the murder of George VV. Sweeney, whom In? says he killed on the afternoon of September 15 while Ihey were riding In an automobile near Vale, Ore. Daniel Goldstein, 87, second-hand clothing dealer, died at Denver from njurles received when a negro customer cus-tomer struck him over the head with a hammer after refusing to pay for a purchase. The negro fled. Captain Roy L. Noggle, formerly of Ogden, Utah, was killed at the March field, near Riverside, Cal., when an army airplane he was piloting, fell 400 feet. George Boyd, wounded In a pistol rlght at Santa Rosa, Cal., in which Sheriff Petray of Sonoma county and Detectives Miles M. Jackson and Lester Les-ter Dorman of San Francisco wre killed on December 6, was under arrest ar-rest in Salt Lake on September 10. George Bosco, confessed slayer of Hlton C. Parks, automobile dealer of Pueblo, and of William T. Hunter, rancher of Rye, Colo., will be hanged lit the state prison at Canton City before be-fore midnight Saturday, December 11. DOMESTIC. rians for a nation-wide campaign to promote co-operation between business busi-ness and farming interests for the advancement ad-vancement of the country were launched at the first annual conven-' conven-' tion of the National Association of Community Development Service at St. Louis on December 11. American children have prepared S7,-000 S7,-000 Christmas bags for distribution among suffering children of Vienna and Budapest, it is announced by the American Red Cross. The Farmers and Merchants' National Nation-al bank of Blytlie, Cal., which was closed Wednesday for a new hours, was reopened Saturday and is conducting conduct-ing its business as usual. More tin 70,000 negro laborers in Chicago and vicinity, anticipating possible pos-sible loss of work by lessened production, produc-tion, have agreed voluntarily to present pre-sent their employers an offer to accept a reduction in wages. Lower prices for spring clothing will result from action of New' York manufacturers manu-facturers in placing their shops on the piece work system, William Ban-ler, Ban-ler, president of the New York Clothing Cloth-ing Manufacturers' association, predicted. pre-dicted. Betsy Tevis, 18-year-old society girl of New York, who shot herself following follow-ing a mysterious telephone conversation conversa-tion with an unidentified man, committed commit-ted suicide in a fit of temporary aberration, aber-ration, her sister lias announced. 1 Working forces of the American Railway Express company are being reduced throughout the country because be-cause of a general slump in business, it is announced at the company's headquarters head-quarters in New York. Nicholas Viana, former choir hoy, was hanged in the county jail at Chi-wigo Chi-wigo on December 10, his nineteenth birthday. He was the second member of the "Cardinella gang" of robbers to died on the gallows in the county jail. Samuel Cardinella, the leader, is also under sentence of death. Viana was entenced for the murder of a saloonkeeper. saloon-keeper. Prison officials at Joliet, 111., are seeking J. Frank Williams, who, with a sense of humor and a world of nerve, broke out of the new prison, stole the warden's clothes from his home and entered the old prison and picked the packets of several guards who were sleeping. He then escaped from the old prison. Six men have died as a result of ,angster outrages on women at San Francisco, prize fighting has come under un-der the ban in California cities, and a round-up of criminals and vagrants throughout the state has begun. Thirty thousand extra mail carriers, clerks and helpers now are beginning night and day shifts to handle the biggest big-gest Christmas mail rush in the history of the postoffice. One of the first acts of the new administration will be to make peace with Germany and repeal the wartime powers of the president. Senator Len-root Len-root of Wisconsin declared in an address ad-dress before the annual convention of the International Garment Manufacturers Manu-facturers at New York. Making good on his campaign promises, prom-ises, President-elect Warren G. Harding Har-ding is working on a list of representative represen-tative women and prominent Democrats Demo-crats he intends to call to Marion to advise him on the league at nations uuestion. .; ippiue province embracing the Sulu islands. is-lands. Twenty-five villages in Albania, Jugo-Slavia, have been destroyed by earthquakes, according to American Red Cross reports from Valena. The tremors occurred in the Tepeline district. dis-trict. The Belgian rumors of a German coup d'etat are unsuppcrted by advice from any other quarter, and lacking these and in view of the Belgian foreign for-eign ministry's denial of knowledge of any such occurrence, the reports are received with reserve. An infernal machine was exploded in the Rumanian semue, killing one and wounding several others. Bishop Oradiaradu was killed instantly. Others Oth-ers wounded hy flying fragments of furniture and fittings Were the minister min-ister of justice, the president of the senate, -a senator and other oflVials. i |