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Show NEWS HISTOHToT THE WST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WE8TERN Thi' Kins James version of the Bible "is the accepted Protestant version" ver-sion" anr therefore sectarian, the supreme su-preme court hag decieded in an opinion opin-ion made public in San Francisco reversing re-versing a Judgment of a superior court in King's county, permitting the Bolina Union high school district to purchase twelve copies of the Bible for the school library. The court helxl the acquisition of the Bibles by the school would be in direct violation viola-tion of the school law. Ir. J. Walter I'ewkes, who has recently re-cently returned from a season of ar-cheologlcal ar-cheologlcal field work on the Mesa Verde national park, Colorado, reports the unexpected unearthing of n most Interesting and instructive prehistoric ruin to which he has given the name "Pipe Shrine house," because of the large number of tobacco pipes which were found scattered in a circular shrine Just as they had been thrown there during ceremonial rites, untold Centuries ago. Conditions in the sugar industry in Utah and Idaho, have reached normal more quickly than In other states, because be-cause of excellent weather conditions and good farming, according to Horace Hor-ace Havemeyer of New York, who was In Suit Lake recently. w a i: ; 1 1 . : j r o n Tci:il net riiyii!t s ii-cniii.g to the rcilerul -01 crinm-iH :is tin- result m' flu- I'lodii. ti n ..f oil, natural g-ts. cas-ihno cas-ihno li-asud public lanus in i!n- yf-ar to Oilulmr I. amounted to ?77'.i,-'hi'-K according to figures made puhli.-by puhli.-by tiie bureau of mines. The American government, in notes delivered to the British, I-'rencli and Italian embassies here, formally rie-ine rie-ine to puticipate in the Near Kast peace conference scheduled to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, next month. The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the commerce department. Millions of dollars a month are being be-ing collected hy the government through the liquidation of pending tax claims and the payment of back taxes, revenue officials declared. The world production of all kinds of commercial cotton for the current year will approach 1G,750,000 bales, according ac-cording to figures compiled by the census bureau and made public. From present indications, a statement hy the bureau add, the world crop will be about the same as last year. American Ameri-can production for this year has been figured by the department of agriculture agri-culture at 10,13:3,000 bales. Congress is certain to split on the moot question of what constitutes a "living wage" just as did the railroad labor board, according to a canvass of opinion obtained in Congessional circles. General Council Bluffs A partial report of the federal grand jury was made to Federal Judge M. B. Wade in which indictments were returned against 15 recently arrested terminal mail clerks here. The fuel situation, so far as assuring assur-ing an adequate supply has become "fairly satisfactory throughout the country with the possible exception of the northwest." Charles Golde, Sr., a business man ff Los Angeles, has turned his 21-year-ld son, Charles Golde, Jr., over to the police of 'San Francisco on a charge of burglarly. A large quantity f dynamite, with blasting caps and fuse, was found ' under the floor of a small building rear the international line at Calexi-co, Calexi-co, Oalif. Sir Beilby Altson, the new British minister to the Argentine, has sailed from Yokohama, Japan on the steamer steam-er President Lincoln and will proceed pro-ceed to his post by way of Washington. Washing-ton. Trade at retail stores in the Twelfth federal reserve district continues Creater in dollar value than in 1921. Sales of thirty-one representative department de-partment stores in September, 1922, were 3.7 per cent larger than in September, Sep-tember, 1921. Nineteen of the thirty-ene thirty-ene stores, situated in all parts of the district, participated in this increase in sales. Following the usual season-si season-si trend, the value of September, 1922, dales of reporting stores was 5.6 per cent lees than the value of sales in August, 1922. GENERAL Fifty years ago, to the minute, the chimes in a little Belgium church summoned the countryside to the marriage mar-riage of Charles De vitte and Angela Clays. At dawn in South Bend Ind., & parish priest administered the last sacrament to Ue Witt just half a century to the minute. Every person in the United States will have to eat forty-eight pounds more of potatoes this year if the present pres-ent crop is to be consumed, the Wisconsin Wis-consin department of markets estimated esti-mated in a survey of production. Thomas Nelson Page, former ambassador am-bassador to Italy and noted author, died of heart disease in Richmond Va., at his home near Beaver Dam, in Has over county. Growing scarcity of wool leads conservative con-servative dealers who think prices are high enough to say that they expect to get even higher prices for their remnants according to the Boston market. Assortments of all grades of terrltorie and fleeces are badly broken and i soma grades many dealers have SPtuing to offer. Mora delaine and pther fine wool Is available than medium med-ium wool Practically ali the wool loft la leirrral awHJoas has been twrajbt or consigned. The Association Against the Prohibition Prohi-bition Amendment announced in a statement that it would support 249 candidates for the senate and house who stand for a modification of the v olstead act to permit the manufacture manufact-ure and sale of light wines and beer. A series of "best laws" dealing witn all weman's rights, including marriage, divorce, guardianship of children, married mar-ried woman's property rights, jury service and women in industry, is now being drafted hy the legislative department de-partment of the National Woman's party for presentation to all state legislatures. FOREIGN The fifth anniversary of the i revolution revo-lution which swept the Soviets into power will be celebrated throughout Russia on a larger scale and with greater splendor than anything of the kind yet attempted by the Bolsheviks. The price of lead has advanced from 6.50 to 6.75 per pound. The Turkish nationalist government at Angora has passed sentence of death upon the Turkih signatories of the Sevres treaty and the members of the cabinet of former Premier Damad Ferid Pasha, whom it accuses of being Anglophile. Father Bernard Vaughn, one ot the most prominent Jesuit priests in the world and a brother of the late Cerd-inal Cerd-inal Vaughan, died in London. Several Sev-eral years ago he toured through the United States and parts of Canada and Alaska, and later toured Japan, where he addressed the house of peers. The London-Berlin airway, the first j section of which was opened recently, completes and aireal service of seven planes leaving London daily for the Continent. British Columbia cities will receive for the last fiscal year $1,300,000 as their share of the profits from the sale of liquor by the province. Patricia Treacy, 2 years and 4 months of age, has been given the title of "Australia's Air Baby," as the result re-sult of her total travels of more than twenty hours in the air. Prince Andrew of Greece, brother of former King Constatine, arrived on the destroyer Aspis and was put under un-der arrest and placed In solitary confinement. con-finement. The unemployment situation in Japan Jap-an is getting very bad, according to a report made by the metropolitan police bureau of Tokio, and in this capital alone an average of 400 people a day are applicants to the police for public alms and assistance. Thomas de Witt Ouyler, a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad company and chairman of the Railroad Kxe-cntlves' Kxe-cntlves' association, was found dead In tha private ear of President Re of tb Pennsylvania in Brood street station, Philadeptiia. Tae brotherhod 0 locomotive Engineers En-gineers expects to establish a bank In New York City within ninetr days. A rifle bullet fired as the result of an alleged 50-cent holdup took the lives of two men in Umoetown Pa. tha man that fired tha shot waa tracad bj bloodhounds, and is now to jail. After playlnc the steUnr role of "Llghtnin'," the play which he has made famous, almost 2008 times Fran Bacon, author and star saw the first vrafcontstion of the piec from in front of tha footlights. He sat in a box will) hi wifs and party a Thomaa Jeforaen took tha leading role in Ua road pouipan.T playing in I'tHTla, 111. A message from Helsingors states that a most serious epidemic of plague at Batum is menacing Russian Black a ports. TJJie soviet government has sent a well known specialist, Professor Profes-sor Vazlonlgi, to Batum. All la quiet in Italy. Rumors of revolution rev-olution are false, according to diplomatic diplo-matic dispatches received. Two unions of a rather unusual nature na-ture have just been formed at Mexico City Bullfighters' syndicate and the Union of playwrights. The former has at its member all men who appear in the corridas from the monosabios, or helpers, to the highest salaried matador. mata-dor. Chief of Police Dickaon of Toronto Canada, advocated the appointment of a public spanker, to punish unrul.1 boys. He believes that corporal punlst ment is more aCfeetive then imprison meat for brtajriag repentance to tb |