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Show After an till-day discussion at ChU oago by heads of the parkin;; industry, a I il i -irr-:t m was sent Secretary of Labor La-bor Davis at Washington by tin- packers pack-ers accepting Lis SIL';T-Iin t ! : 1 1 iIm'J son. I i wo repivsontatives lo eonf'-r will) him ami ln represent a 1 i vi o!' the employees em-ployees regarding ill.- siiuaiion in the imlit -t ry. ! e-'l ue; ions in wages of common labor, put into effect by lb,- Erie raib roail on January "1. have boon wiped out ami ilio fanner wage schedule I reMoreil. History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed j If any railroad redm-es wages with-I with-I "in referr'ng tin- question lo i In labor board, il will "ne illegally anil itnad-I itnad-I viscdl.'.." Sonnlor I'-immins, Iowa, chairman of the si'iian- interstate commerce com-merce comniiliee and pari author of I be Eseh-( 'iiminins railroad law, has announced. WASHINGTON. An appeal for "every good citizen" lo do what In' can to help farmers through tiie period of depression ''for .the sake of helping himself" was made March 12 by Sen-clary of Agriculture Wallace in a statement. President Harding shortly will take action lo establish diplomatic relations with Mexico. Several informal and purely unofficial exchanges have been made between representatives of President Presi-dent Harding and officials of the Obre-gon Obre-gon government. Colonel George Harvey has been named ambassador to London, it is said, although official announcement of the appointment will not be made until other diplomatic posts are tilled. The special session of congress will meet April 4, Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee announced following a conference wibh President Harding. President Harding has appointed Dr. C. 10. Sawyer of Marion, Ohio, the Harding family physician, his personal physician, and expects to nominate 'him in the near future for the rank of brigadier general in the army medical medi-cal corps. When the new members of the federal fed-eral power commission hold their first meeting they will find before them applications ap-plications for water power permits proposing to generate about 5,000,000 horsepower, or about five times as much as is generated on the American side of Niagara Falls. FOREIGN. 1 The governor of Hawaii, the chief: justice of the suprejne court, his associates as-sociates and the judges of the circuit courts are all due for salary increases, if bills introduced in the territorial legislature are made law. I NTERM OUNTA I N. The I'lah b'gisla I ii re adjourned March ll" after being in session sixl.v-t sixl.v-t wo days. All freak legislation, except the cigarette measure, was defeated. Mrs. Helen A. Piltmau, wife of a wealthy retired business man, is under un-der conviction in the municipal court al Portland for tin- Ibel't of NO cents worth of groceries from a suburban grocery. She ha served no! ice of appeal from the fine of $25. The Nevada slate assembly has adopted a concurrent resolution providing pro-viding for the removal of District' Judge Frank P. Langan for alleged failure to render decisions within the legally specified time and lo demand periodical returns in a banking receivership receiv-ership nisr, The engineer, fireman and head brakenian were overcome by smoke while a train passed through Hermosa tunnel, forty miles east, of Cheyenne. The conductor discovered their plight anil ran the train to the nearest station, sta-tion, where tbe three were revived. Mrs. James Watters, wife of a prominent rancher near Lovell, Wyo., shot and killed three of her chilflren, wounded three others and, reloading Ihe revolver, killed herself. One of the wounded children died. The other two may live. Officials of the Denver & Rio Grande Kailroad company on Friday announced a further layoff of 700 shopmen. The road has Jaid off more than 2700 employes since January 1. Formal incorporation of the Atlantic-Pacific Atlantic-Pacific highways and electrical expositions exposi-tions to be held in Portland in 1925, has been announced by the newly appointed ap-pointed executive board. The pwpject is incorporated for ,$5,000,000. DOMESTIC. Three persons are dead, about thirty others are injured, several of them seriously and property damage -estimated at between $500,000 and $1,000,-(100 $1,000,-(100 is reported as the result or a ter-. ter-. rific windstorm which swept over northwestern Louisiana, especially in Claiborne and Caddo 'parishes late Saturday. Sat-urday. Seveml persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Grnce hotel, a four-story brick building at, Clinton, Okla. The national conference Qf State Manufacturers' associations, in session at Chicago, sent, a questionaire to its members in eleven states Urging support sup-port for the railways in their effort to abrogate the wartime agreements and declaring that this was essential to obtain ob-tain lower freight rates. After an absence of nearly two weeks, A. D. Pollock, alleged absconding abscond-ing vice president of the Bank of Han-en, Han-en, Idaho, strolled into the office of the county sheriff at Twin Falls, March 12. Two men battled for eight hours with a giant ray or devil fish ' that towed two boats forty miles from Palm Beach and seventeen miles to sea and-then and-then escaped when the cables broke, although its body bore four harpoons, eight rifle bullets and fifteen wounds from lances. Fritzi Scheff, light opera singer, in private life Mrs. George Anderson, was granted a divorce in superior court at Waterbury, Conn. She charged intol- Ten million dollars damage was done at Shanghai when fire, which burned for, twenty-four hours, destroyed six warehouses filled with silk. Four sailors, said to be Americans, were killed in Tampico. The men who were part of the crew of the Norwegian Norweg-ian ship Sazon were attacked as they were boarding a launch by five masked men in another launch. Former Emperor William of Germany Ger-many has written for private distribution distri-bution a book by which he attempts to show that England was responsible responsi-ble for the World war. American forces on the Rhine will take no part in the collection of customs, cus-toms, but no objection will be made to such action by the allies within the territory occupied by them, it was learned at the state department. President Porras of Panama will demand de-mand an indemnity of $1,000,000 from Costa Rica, he has announced. The claim will be based on the charge that the recent invasion of disputed territory was unwarranted. The Monroe doctrine will take precedence pre-cedence in the western hemisphere, it was stated unofficially at the league of nations headquarters at Geneva, following fol-lowing Panama's appeal to the league erable cruelty. With his hands tied tightly together with wire and a sack of cement fastened fasten-ed about his neck, the body of Seth Stanley, a local business man, was found at the bottom of a well in the rear of his place of business at Bethany, Mo. By a vote of 51 to 3J the lower house of the Nebraska legislature passed the bill repealing the present non-partisan election law. It restores to the same satus as other elective offices those of justices of the supreme court, district judges, state and county school superintendents super-intendents and regents of the university. univer-sity. A reprimand by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, for what he termed support of the Russian Soviets by the Detroit Federation of Labor, received at Detroit, De-troit, was followed by a vote that a representative of the local federation . be sent to Moscow to attend a soviet labor congress on May 1. , The eight-hour day and arbitration agreements on wages of packing house employees are expected to be the principal prin-cipal recommendations drafted by the executive committee of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America, in session at Omaha. John Berg, aged 54, farmer, living near Omaha, was shot and instantly killed when he walked into a gun trap set in his hen coop, forgetting that he had set the trap for chicken thieves. An annual tax of $10 on bachelors over 25 years of age, to be applied to the general school fund is provided by a bill introduced in the Missouri legislature. legis-lature. A bill to place private and parochial schools of the state under the supervision super-vision of the department of public Instruction has been introduced in the Michigan legislature. to settle its dispute with Costa Rica. Premier Oliver's resolution to memorialize me-morialize the federal government for a provincial monopoly of the right to jmport liquor was adopted by the Canadian legislature by a vote of 32 to 14. A demand for immediate delivery of all the military matter not yet surrendered sur-rendered under the treaty of St. Germain Ger-main ihas been made by the allied representatives at Vienna, and it is understood the cabinet agreed to comply com-ply with the demand unreservedly. A pan-American trade conference is to be held in Mexico for four days, beginning June 12. A Geneva dispatch announces that the republic of Panama, through Foreign For-eign Minister Garay, has appealed to the league of nations against the demand de-mand of the United States that site accept the territorial award of Chief Justice White. A naval lieutenant has been arrested arrest-ed at Tokio and handed over to court martial in connection with an alleged attempt to sell Japanese naval secrets to Captain Edward Howe Watson, naval attache at the United States embassy em-bassy at Tokio, who turned the letters let-ters received from the lieutenant over to naval department authorities. Four Filipinos were killed and eleven elev-en wounded by a band of Filipino mountaineers armed with bolos, who raided a cockpit in Iloilo province, three hundred miles southeast of Manila. Surrender of all German arms in the occupied areas has been demanded by General Gaucher, commanding the allied forces. Strict search of all houses will follow failure to deliver weapons. Immigration of thinese to Salvador has been prohibited by the government under the terms of the alien law. |