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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS 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 tho 1 Busy Reader , WESTERN Mayor B. F. Stapleton, Wednesday authorized an investigation of the alleged al-leged Ku Klux Klan display of -burning crosses which startled Denver residents Saturday night. Eleven big crosses blazed simultaneously in .various parts of the city, one on the tate capltol steps. By locking their arms together Lewis and Frank Pierce, brothers, broke the fall of Wilbur Wolfe, an oil worker, after he had toppled SO feet from the head of an oil derrick at Lodi, California. Lewis Pierce suffered suf-fered a sprained wrist and a crushed leg, but Wolfe escaped unhurt. Traffic was halted on a busy street corner at San Francisco while the Rev. A. R. Dratham, a Catholic priest, knelt in the middle of the treet and prayed over John S. Edwards, Ed-wards, 13, who a moment before had been struck and fatally injured by a street car. A state charge of contributing to the delinquency of his 15-year-old on, Roger B. Laswell, has been filed against Beecher Laswell, capitalist of Los Angeles, in addition to a city complaint charging he and his son with assault and battery, in connection connec-tion with an alleged attack last week by young Laswell upon Rev. R. B. Gooden, head master of Harvard school. A complaint charging delinquency de-linquency also has been issued against the boy. One woman died of injuries, two Others are in a serious condition and a third is suffering from a broken ankle as the result of an auto striking a group of pedestrians on the highway high-way north of Sandy, Utah Sunday evening. Mrs. Christina Hanson, 55, wife of Andrew Hanson died at her home from a fracture at the base of the skull. Mrs. Annie Egbert, 48, is in a serious condition with a double . fracture of the left arm, five broken ribs and a cut beneath the jaw from which her tongue protruded when she was picked up. The United States had authority, the supreme court held Monday to condemn land for a new site for that part of American Falls, Idaho, which had to be re-located because of flooding flood-ing resulting from the construction of a dam across the Snake river. GENERAL Twenty-five girls in the Juvenile Detention Home at Chicago, attempted attempt-ed to escape with knotter sheets while four men in a motor car circled again and again outside the building. The men drove away when the uprising upris-ing squelched. Two bandits Wednesday shot and tilled two bank messengers in an elevated station of the West End eubw-ay line at Fifty-fifth street and New Utrecht avenue, Brooklyn, snatched a leather bag containing $43,607 from one of their victims and fled through an awed crowd in an automobile driven by a confederate. The Oklahoma senate Wednesday afternoon refused to grant the prosecution pro-secution the right to dodge martial law courts of the indictment, in the Impeachment trial of Governor J. C. Walton. This was a big victory for Walton and apparently gives him the tight to bring In evidence on alleged Ku Klux Klan floggings in justification justifica-tion of martiul law and In the effort to show that a conspiracy has been formed to remove him from office. A bomb Wednesday killed J. A. Barnes, prominent Texas real estate dealer; mangled Jessie, his 32-year-old son, who died twenty minutes later; wrecked the Barnes dwelling and shattered every window in the block. Mrs. Barnes was cut by flying fly-ing glass. The bomb was In a box about ten inces long and five inches wide. It was sent by express from San Antonio. Three passengers and a colored porter were Injured when Great We. tern passenger train No. 1, southbound left the track Monday one mile east of Murshalltown, Iowa, The anticipated pre-Christmas gift to stockholders of the William Wrlg-ley, Wrlg-ley, Jr., oompnny, was announced Monday in the form of stock melon and an exchange of one share of old stock for three now with maintenance of the present dividend of $0 a share or $.'! n year on each share of new 8tck payable monthly. Th(. British government has notified noti-fied tho treasury that its next payment pay-ment on the war debt, due Itocembor f, will lo made In Liberty ,ondH. The payment will Include $2.'!, 000. 000 on the principal of the obligation and ?.), 0O0, 000 Interest. Federal tar revision under u pro-ynirri pro-ynirri applying reductions to the entire rangir of personal Incomes and estimated esti-mated lo cut tin nation's tsi bill next yenr by $.'!2.'!, 000,000, will lie recommended recom-mended to congress by Secretary Mel-Jon Mel-Jon It was onnounctd Monday. PERSONAL Lambros A. Coromilas, former Greek minister to the United States and later minister of finance under Premier Venizelos, died at the Hotel Sevilel at New York. He was about 70 years old and had been in ill health for some time. General Aquileo Juarez Rodriguez, former governor of the state of Yucatan, Yu-catan, was killed, Leon Martinez, a companion, fatally Injured, and Ferdinand Fer-dinand Romero, said to be a cousin of the widow of Porforio Diaz, is in jail at San Antonio, Texas, as the result of a political feud which began in Mexico several years ago. Commenting on a statement made in Chicago Thursday by David L. Rockwell of Ravenna, O., that friends of William G. McAdoo intend to nominate nom-inate him as a Democratic candidate for the presidency, Mr. McAdoo said at Omaha that "Mr. Rockwell has stated the situation accurately. Robert J. Grant, superintendent of the Denver mint, was appointed by President Coolidge Monday to be director di-rector of the mint. He will succeed F E. Scobey, who resigned recently. Broken in health, Li Yuan-Hung, former president of China, twice deposed by militarists, has arrived at Nagasaki and is proceeding to Beppu hot springs, in southwestern Japan, to recuperate, acording to advices. William Hohenzollern, former emperor em-peror of Germany, was again a figure commanding world attention Tuesday as the governments of the powers made efforts to learn more of his reported re-ported plans for returning to the fatherland. Equipped with passports for himself and members of his suite, he is said by a newspaper to be prepared pre-pared to establish either himself or his son, former Crown Trince Frederick Freder-ick William, on the throne on December Decem-ber 4. A new sensation broke Tuesday at the senate investigation of the United States Veterans' Bureau when Col. Charles R. Forbes, on the witness stand branded as a forgery a document, docu-ment, bearing his name, introduced in evidence. Arising from a sick bed, Forbes took the witness stand in his own defense before the senatorial investigating committee and entered a "general sweeping, and absolute denial" of all accusations against his integrity. He charged his enemies with fomenting a conspiracy to destroy des-troy him through "perjury, subordin. ation and suppression of material facts." Frederick William, former German crown prince, having received permission per-mission to proceed to his castle at Oels, Upper Silesia, left the island of Wieringen, where he spent five years of exile Saturday morning to reenter the fatherland. Mary Pick ford will retire from the screen if conditions in the motion picture industry grow any worse, she testified Saturday at Los Angele3 during dur-ing the federal trade commission's hearing into charges of unfair and 6tifling competition on the part of the Famous Players La sky corporation. At the conclusion of the testimony the hearing was adjourned to Jacksonville, Jack-sonville, Fla., until next January. FOREIGN A bitter struggle In defense of Canton, Can-ton, his stronghold, apparently confronts con-fronts Sun Yat 'Sen, south China loader. General Chen-Ming, commander com-mander of north China forces in Kwangtung province, Is reported advancing ad-vancing on the city, with the vanguard van-guard of his army twenty-five miles away ; Waichow, captured by Sun through a strategic coup Sunday, has been isolated, rail traffic has been interrupted in-terrupted between Canton and Shak-lung, Shak-lung, and more rigid application ol martial law in Canton has been ordered. or-dered. Reports from London state the recent re-cent signature of several agreements between the Russian trade delegation In London and big British firms. One of the contracts is for the rebuilding of railroad stations of Russia. Pirates boanled the Japanese collier col-lier Taite Maru when the vessels was ground eight miles oft Whampod, south of Canton, according to a wire, less message intercepted by the British Brit-ish gunboat Tarantula, now at Canton. Can-ton. The strike of seamen employed by the Nippon Yusen Kainha which tied up more than a dozen of the company's com-pany's ships last week, virtually has ended, according to advices from Kobe. The Philippine senate at an execu. tlve session Tuesday disapproved tha appointment of Etiiyogio Itodrlguoz as mayor of Manila. The disapproval however, will not affect the Rodriguez Rodri-guez status as his nomination as mayor has not been formally submit-ted submit-ted to the senate by Governor Genor. al Leonard Wood. Belgium Monday sent an ultimatum declaring tlnrt unless tho Reich pays Indemnity, demanded for tho assas. Hinntlon of Lieutenant Graff, Belgium, within the specified time, "Belgium wll take, action In tho Ruhr." Sun Yat-cSen, South China leador, has captured Waichow, which him been held by North OhlneHe, forces In Kwangtung province, under (lenoral (!lien Clilung-MIng, according to dliipiitcli received by nlrplano Novum. Iier 11, at Canton, Sun's stronghold unofficial odvlcos Blato. |