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Show NEWS UF A WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORI RECORC OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from all Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines WESTERN 'Six firemen were injured and over-come over-come by smoke in a fire which prac-tlcally prac-tlcally destroyed the number 3 store of the .Schramn-Johnson Drug Company Com-pany and the Up-Stairs Clothes shop at Salt Lnke City. Kansas City police are searching for a dapper bandit youth who held up employees of a motion picture theatre here and got away with approximately ap-proximately ten thousand dollars. Conviction and sentence to death of George Gardner is affirmed by the Utah state supreme court in a decision de-cision handed down. The case was appealed to the supreme court following fol-lowing conviction of murder in the first degree by a jury in the district court of Salt Lake county. Gardner .. was sentenced to death In the dis- ' trlct court for killing Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stuart at the Gardner farm at AVelby, April 15, 1922. Appeal was taken to the supreme ocurt on the ground that sufficient proof was not established, to show that the killing kill-ing was not accidental. E. Goss and A. Polski, building contractors, fell eight stories to the pavement at Los Angeles. Goss escaped es-caped without injury. Police surgeons sur-geons said Polski probably would die. Goss' fall was broken by an awning. r Bruce Hinkins, of Standardville, Utah wag killed Thursday night in a fight with Ted Owens when their two automobiles met at a narow portion por-tion of the road near that coal camp and each refused to back up. Prisoners at the Salt Lake county jail participated in a food riot, refusing re-fusing to eat their supper meal, according ac-cording to Sheriff Benjamin B. Harries. Har-ries. The sheriff has received a petition pe-tition signed by fifty-nine inmates in which complaint is made to the quantity quan-tity of food received at the institution. institu-tion. H. H. Kitchen, organizer of the Ku Klux Klan, formerly of Oklahoma City, was placed in the Shawnee county jail on a writ issued by the state supreme court holding him in contempt of that court for refusal to answer questions. Impeachment proceedings brought against Governor McMaster of South Dakota, and several other state officials, offi-cials, were dismissed by the house judiciary committee to which the pe tition was referred. GENERAL y.- Death of six persons by a deadly gas U6ed in the extermination of roaches in a South Chicago restaurant restaur-ant will be investigated at a coroner's inquest The deadly gas seeped through an opening In the walls up to the second floor and killed the victims as they slept or attemtped to stagger to windows for fresh air. In the presence of only a handful of spectators the state began presentation presen-tation of its evidence in the second Uerrin massacre trial. Albert Storm, an undertaker of Herrin, was the first witness called to the stand. With a Broadway crowd standing agape and movie machines clicking f" out their yards of celluloid ribbon, jllarry F. Young self-styled "spider," plunged ten stories to his death Monday Mon-day while attempting to scale the side of the Hotel Martinique. Attorney General A. V. Coco appeared ap-peared before the Morehouse parish grand jury to submit evidence obtained ob-tained at the recent open hearing in- fto black hooded mob atrocities. Patrolman John Dale, a world war hero rescued six children and two women from a burning tenement in Brooklyn. He made three trips from the building, the last time throwing his coat over his head and crawling along the floor of tiie third story to reach a helpless woman. Sheriffs forces at the I'utnan county coun-ty Jail as I'alatka, Florida repulsed a party of men who stormed the place in an effort to get Aruthur Johnson, negro, who It la alleged shot and killed F. L. Cross. The bodies of four victims of the dust explosion of 'the Woyunoke Mine at Arista, W. V' were brought to the surface, shortly aTter Lloyd Lipscomb was rescued ulive. The death toll was ten men. Two women and a mn were killed when an automobile, traveling lit a lilt;h rale of speed, crushed Into them ns they were alighting from a trolley car in West. Philadelphia. The dlrv-cr dlrv-cr of the machine did not slacken hiH Hpeed, but rushed nw;iy ns his tietiiriM were hurled .ri0 feel.. U'Jltiln ex:icly nix iiiinulen after they had held up the Conoco oil Hln-tlon Hln-tlon at Sail. Lake, I'.eniind Williams, )il ye:nH of nee, mid Frank .Mil.ehell, 1!), were eiiplured hy the police. V WASHING! in With the adjournment, Sunday, the sixty-seventh session of Congress has passed into history and incidentally, with its four sessions, set a new record in the extent of time actually spent in the legislative halls. A record for congressional service was established by Theodore F. Shuey, civil war veteran and dean of. the senate short hand reporters, with the adjournment of Congress. It was the twenty-seventh Congress whose adjournment was witnessed by Mr. Suey, who is 78 years old and began work at the senate in 1SOS. Freed from the cares of state more completely than at any time since his administration began two years ago, President Harding with Mrs. Harding Hard-ing and a party of friends are in the Southland en route to Florida and a month's vacation. The chief executive execu-tive relaxed immediately after the special train carrying the presidential president-ial party left Washington shortly after af-ter noon Monday. One of President Harding's last acts before his departure for Florida was to direct the civil service commission com-mission to give certain preference to veterans of the world war in their examinations for positions under the civil service. President Harding has informed officials of the Railway Shopcrafts that he can see no adequate question of principle which warrants a further fur-ther delay in setlement in all districts dis-tricts of last summer's shopmen's strike. Investigation by the senate manu-fatcurers' manu-fatcurers' committee, headed by Senator Lafollette, of the recent advances ad-vances in the price of sugar was proposed in a resolution introduced by Senator Brookhart of Iowa. On motion of Representative Smith, the house of representatives passed without amendment the senate bill placing southern Idaho and extreme eastern Oregon, as far as Huntington Hunting-ton on mountain time. A vigorous attack on Representative Representa-tive Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican Repub-lican leader, and Chairman Campbell of the rules committee, for their al-ledged al-ledged failure to allow the house to have a vote at this session on Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals, was made in the house by Representative Jeffers (Dem.) of Alabama. Intention of the shipping board to continue the operation of all its lines without change until detniled plans are completed for transfer of its merchant fleet into private hands was Announced by Chairman Dasker. The Senate has passed a bill under which the property of aliens seized during the war and valued at $10,000 or less will be returned to its owners. own-ers. FOREIGN The Russian trade unions have telegraphed to the German ship committees com-mittees at Berlin, offering to ship 0000 tons of foodstuffs to the workers work-ers in the Ruhr. There can be no negotiations with France for a settlement of the Ruhr pro. lem until that district is evacuated evac-uated by the French and Belgian armies. Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno announced in a special session of the Reichstag. A telegram received from Moscow states that the hangman Ioukoff, who has been in the service of the political secret police for the last two years and is said to have hanged hang-ed 2,000 persons, has committed suicide sui-cide by hanging himself in his room at Moscow. The French cabinet has decided not to demobilize the military class of 1921 reservists until the end of May, tlfe foreign office stated. Under government regulations this class automatically would have been demobilized de-mobilized the first of April. Prohibition in Constantinople has been postponed because the authorities authori-ties recognize the difficulty of enforcing en-forcing anti-liquor measures while large allied military and naval forces are here. Prohibition was to have gone into effect here last week. Although the National assembly violated precedents by holding a session ses-sion on the Moslem .Sunday, It Is believed be-lieved that decision with reference to a settlement will not be reached for another week. Angora authorities assert as-sert that there "is as much probability probabil-ity of pence as there is of war." Owners of small Bulling craft at Bermuda are finding plenly of profitable profit-able use for their boats If they nro willing to take the chances involved in running rum. Durng tho last three vv-ok.s of January approximately K.000 cs of whisky were exported from "enniida, and Iho boat owners do not Hesitate to say It Is destined for the United States. Reports from tho neutral zone state that the Lithuanians broke Iho truce agreed upon between the Polish local lo-cal a ul.horltien and reproHentatlveH of the Lithuanian foreeH. Lithuanian bands lire reported to have resumed their attacks against tho the Polish police, entering the territory assigned to Poland. Cetivrnl Crowder linn presented bin creilenifalH tin ninhiiMHador of Iho United HIiiIoh to lubu to President .a vim. |