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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS 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 the Busy Reader WESTERN A telegram calling off the strike of Pie Marine Transport Workers' branch of the Industrial Workers of the World at Los Angeles harbor was received from the international headquarters head-quarters of the organization in New Tork. The body of Alva Gray, 7-year-old Salt Lake City lad who disappeared on May 7, was discovered in the Jordan Jor-dan river, exploded by the police. 6inc9 the boy's disappearance a constant con-stant search had been conducted for him. Two distinct earth tremors were felt in Helena, Montana Tuesday. The tremblers were about one minute apart, the second being sufficiently severe to make heavily constructed buildings to tremble Fruit and other crops in northern Colorado suffered heavy damage when e severe hailstorm swept that section of the state late Monday. A heavy downpour of rain, wrhich caused many creeks to overflow, inundated lowland crops. Four men are known to be dead and one injured in an explosion which partially par-tially wrecked the Apache Powder company, six miles south of Benson, Arizona. Three mix houses were destroyed des-troyed and other damage was caused. A bomb was exploded in an office occupied by a Mexican legal firm at Mexico City, in the buildng containing the United States consulate. Part of the wall was torn away, furniture was emashed and window's shattered. No one was hurt. Flying Cadet Robert E7 MacAdams, and Private S. Hall, of Brooks field were killed and their bodies burned when their plane crashed about five miles from Brooks field. The cause of the accident was not determined. Cadet MacAdams had just completed the course at the primary flying Bchool and was rated as one of the best in the class. Miss Roylance Fitzgerald, 20-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fitzgerald of Draper, Utah who "was ehot by two bandits on the state road at Draper on the night of December 10, 1922, died Friday evening at the home of her parents. GENERAL Melvin Stoecker, a Charles City, Iowa high school boy, who was shot by deputies who mistook him and a companion for rum runners, died as a result of his wounds. A -bullet had entered his spine, Twenty-seven members of the crew of the steamer Edward U. Demmer, which sank in Lake Huron 40 miles off Thunder bay Monday, after having beea struck by the steamer Saturn of the Interlake Steamship company, arrived ar-rived at Sault St. Maru. The crew barely had time to take to the boats before the Demmer went down. Discovery that poppies bought to sell on '"poppy day", at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were made in Germany caused the ladies of the American Legion Auxiliary to voice a vehement protest pro-test and voted almost unanimously to burn the poppies in public. In a gun duel with Frank Sayes whom they had gone to question regarding re-garding a holdup, two Jersey City policemen were killed and two injured. in-jured. Damage to crops amounting to millions mil-lions of dollars is believed to have resulted from a series of virtual cloudbursts that descended on western west-ern Oklahoma Monday. All rivers in the district are flooding lowlands and thousands of acres are under water. The Canadian Pacific steamship, Empress of Britain, en route from Liverpool Liv-erpool to Quebec, reported by wireless wire-less that she bad picked up .'i.'!0 persons per-sons from the 11,000 ton steamer Mar-vale Mar-vale which sank in the St. Lawrence river. A demand for the Impeachment of William II. Tart, cbier Justice of the United States, for accepting an el-leged el-leged annuity of $10,000 from the Carnegie corporation, and an attack on the Lenlne and Trotzky brand of Russian communism by Alexander Caban, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, featured the opening of the national convention of the Socialist party at New York. After a bearing extending over an eight weeks' period and a Jury do-llobration do-llobration of over twonly-Hlx hours, all liut one or the thirteen defendants In the Guaranty Seciirll Inn mail fraud cam; In federal court at Omaha wore found guilty Wednesday afternoon. Due to the prominence of ihe defendants defend-ants the trial attracted nation-wide attention, while the Jury'ii verdict came aa an 1 1 ri - -. -peel ed blow, which li ft a majority of the defendant H ino-Tnenlan'l ino-Tnenlan'l t:-il;ssi. PERSONAL Patrick F. GUI, 56 years old, former for-mer Democratic congressman from the Eleventh Missouri district (St. Louis), died of pneumonia fit a St. Louis hospital. hos-pital. He was brought to the hospital from his home at Omaha, Neb., for treatment. A bill to provide for a nationwide medical survey to determine bow many war veterans require government govern-ment rehabilitation and medical assistance, as-sistance, will be introduced at the next session of congress, Senator William Wil-liam II. King of Utah announced in an address in New York. Under a contract signed at Chicago, Larry Semon, motion picture comedian come-dian will receive a salary of ?1, 000,000 a year for a period of three years, said to be the largest individual contract con-tract ever closed in the movie world. William Jennings Bryan won his fight for a demand that every Presbyterian Pres-byterian minister, church official, church member, and the facilities and students of the denominational schools sign a total abstinence pledge. An effort to limit the pledge signing sign-ing to church members and students was rejected by the general assembly, held in Indianapolis. Stanley Baldwin is great Britain's new prime minister. He accepted the premiership offered him by King George. Stanley Baldwin, the new British prime minister, played a comparatively com-paratively minor part in British politics poli-tics until the advent of the Bonar Law regime following the resignation of Tremier Lloyd George and the break up of the coalition which guided guid-ed British destinies during the war. Former Premier Clemenceau has just refused a senatorship which would have been his for the asking. Representatives of the different parties par-ties offered to make him their common com-mon choice as successor to the late Senator Leroux in the "Tiger's birthplace, birth-place, the region of La Yendes, where he still retains a seaside home. Clemenceau refused, saying he was determined not to enter parliament and would not accept the seat if he was elected to it-Major it-Major Thomas Scott Baldwin, originator orig-inator of the parachute and the first man to jamp from a balloon with the device, was buried in Arlington National Na-tional cemetery Saturday, with military mili-tary honors, nigh officials of the army, partcicularly of the air service, attended the funeral and witnessed the firing of the final salute over the grave. FOREIGN Twenty-four Moro religious fanatics fana-tics on the island of Pata, near Jolo (Sula) were killed by a detachment of insular constabulary, according to a dispatch received at the office of Governor General Leonard Wood at Manila. The dispatch said that Ak-bara, Ak-bara, who styles himself a prophet and his followers attacked a constabulary detachment under Lieutenant Angeles at the village of Kiput. Karl Radek and other high Soviet officials at Berlin think that Great Britain will reject Russia's last note and that the British mission in Moscow Mos-cow shall have received orders to return re-turn to London and that the Russian mission in London, including Commissioner Com-missioner Krassin wll received their passports. The declaration of foreign Minister Alexandris of Greece that his nation, having decided to pay no indemnity to Turkey, would withdraw fromtheNcar East conference this week If the Angora An-gora delegates persist in their demand for reparations, lias created a fresh crisis in the peace negotiations. The sentences imposed by the recent re-cent court martial upon Dr. Krupp von Bohlen and the other Krupp directors di-rectors tried for instigating opposition opposi-tion to the French at the Krupp plant at the time of tho shooting on March 31 were confirmed by tho court of revision. The convicted men will bo transferred to prisons in France while their counsel appeals to tho court of cassation. That China's war lords anticipate real civil war soon and desire to conduct con-duct it on modern principles may bo Inferred from an inoury recently made for prices on poison gas in quantities and for prompt delivery. The representative of an American concern doing business In China was asked to supply quotations on the various kinds of deadly gas employed in the late World war. General Ho Fung-Yu, commander of tho Chinese government troops surrounding sur-rounding the mountain retreats of the Shantung bandits, no longer is the dreaded foe of the outlaws, but through the present situation has "lost his face" and Is menaced by a revolt of his 10,000 or lfi.ffOO soldiers, according to a private report unpublished unpub-lished In China, but received from an authoritative source. Damages totaling $"0,000 against the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Train, men were awarded It. F. Jones, conductor con-ductor on the Denver oi Iriterurban railroad, by a Jury In dialrlct court at Denver. Of this amount, $:',(), 000 Is actual damagea. Jones claimed that tho railway unions had been In-atrumorit.nl In-atrumorit.nl la obtaining bis discharge from bis nin tin tho Colorado 1 Southern railway i-Ichf. yearn ago ami had prevented him from oblaJuUti: regular employment glin-o. |