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Show "NEWS of A WEEK 111 A CONDENSED H RECORt? 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 Frank G. Tentzer, the Ogden Unlnn Rflilway and Depot compuny, was fatally Injured when a piece of sandstone sand-stone coping on the west wall of the depot, recently partially destroyed by fire, was Jarred loose hy a passing train, falling fifty feet, crashed through a skylight upon Yentzer. Nine armed sailors, plotting with 20 stowaways, held the voy:ige of the 6,000 ton freighter Tailm Maru under a virtual reign of terror during her voyage from Kobe, Japan to Vancouver. Van-couver. Everett Washington police are seeking two men who were seen In the rear of Norm-anna Hall as the result of finding there a huge bomb. Advisability of purchasing a powerful power-ful airplane with which to combat aerial bootleggers or smugglers is being be-ing considered by Sheriff Clarence Long of Spokane county. All but one of 17 Industrial Workers Of the Word, arrested at Centralia, Wash., on vagrancy charges, began a 80-day grind of eight hours hard labor la-bor daily on a diet of .bread and wa-. wa-. ter, choosing this in preference to the alternative offered them in police po-lice court of leaving town within an hour. The seventeenth defendant decided de-cided to leave Centralia. After bein; out for more than forty-eight hours the jury in the case of the United States against James Tingree, former president of the Pingree Natonal banic of Ogcien, returned re-turned a verdict of guilty on the ixth count. I I WASHINGTON Secrsi ry of Agriculture Wallace on behalf of the government, lias served notice on the Armour anil Morr.'s packing interests that the amalgamation of their properties will be in violation of the packers nnd stock yards act, It was announced at the department of agriculture. A federal investigation of alleged lrregulart'es In the sale of anthracite coal in communities stricken by a fuel famine was ordered by the senate. Speaker Gillett of the house is suffering from an attack of influenza at his home. His condition is said not to be serious. j The supreme court refused to hold up the mandate of lower courts or. dering the imprisonment at Leavenworth Leaven-worth of "Big Tim" Murphy, Chicago labor leader, cn charges of robbing the mails in that city. ' I McKenie Moss of Kentucky has been nominated to the assistant secretary sec-retary of the treasury. Selection of rostmaster General Work to succeed Albert Fall as secretary sec-retary of the Interior, and of H. S. New ( f Indiana to become postmas- I ter General was announced from the White House. The cause of the great American straphanger is to be championed anew in congress. Cities that have been trying ever since the war to get car fares back to something like the prewar level are watching with much interest the light that is being waged in congress to bring back 5-cent 5-cent fare in the District of Columbia. The naval scrapping program under un-der the Washington treaty will entail en-tail a direct cost to the government of about $.-5,00(),0UU according to a report by the house appropriations committee. Senator Underwood of Alabama has closed his service ns Democratic floor leader of the senate. Accompanied Accom-panied by Mrs. Underwood, he has left here for a four months' Ktirop-ean Ktirop-ean tour, following the completion of all the regular appropriation bills nf the session and assurance from President Pres-ident Harding that there would be "Smoky" Gaston, won the American Ameri-can dog derby held at Ashton, Idaho, Ida-ho, Washington's Birthday, running one of the fastest races ever run in that event, Tud Kent winner of last Tears' race finished with second money, and Lyd Hutchinson the only woman entry finished lii'th. An Organization to be known as the Liberty League of Utah, was founded Saturday at Salt Lake City, t a mass meeting of several hundred hun-dred citizens. The purpose of the League is to combat so cnled "freak legislation," and to have such laws now in force repealed. Three vigilant detectives at Chicago Chi-cago who saw a black heurse drawn op in front of a house stopped to offer their symphaty and assistance. They came away with f-'OO quarts of "embalming fluid," smelling iusplc-lously iusplc-lously like old rye and bearing "Cedar "Ce-dar Brook" labels. GENERAL Trapped In her apartment on the third floor of a burning New York tenement while flames roared through the rooms, cutting off every means of exit, Mrs. John Henly threw her twin ba";les from a win. dow and jumped after them. Theft of thousands of dollars of registered mail from a New York Central train between Syracuse and Albany sveral days ago was reported by authoritative sources. Legislative action on the bill to prohibit commercialized sports in Indiana In-diana on Memorial day, Including the annuil fiOO-mile race at the Indianapolis Indianap-olis motor speedway, was completed when the house of representatives passed the measure. no early call, at least, for an extra session of the new congress. President Harding has asked the Senate to make the United States a full fledged member of the permanent perman-ent court of international Justice at The Hague which was established under the league of nations covenant. Tentative agreement wag reached by the house banking committee ou a rural credits bill which both Chairman Chair-man McFadden and Kepresentutive Wingo of Arkansas, ranking Demn. crat, said they believed would be approved ap-proved by the various groups In the congressional row which has attended attend-ed consideration of the subject. FOREIGN (Scores of Greek Christian and Ot. toman refugees in the detention camp at Scutari are dying in the plagues of typhus and smallpox which are ravaging rav-aging the fugitives. Two hundred and ninety-seven refugees died In this camp within the past seven days. j Tutankhamen's tomb was finally ! closed to visitors. Several hundreds of persons have inspected the tomb since the inner chamber was opened. Carpenters are busy sawing lengths of heavy timber with which the whole shaft will be filled. The first official execution .by the Irish Free State since expiration of the government's amnesty offer came when Thomas Gibson former soldier in the national army was shot for treason. Tope Pius has appointed the Pt. Rev. Sofronlo Hacbang y Gabornl, titular bishop of Ansmurio, as bishop of the diocese of Calbayog, Phillip-pine Phillip-pine islands. Chic-go's lahor war claimed Its twenty-sixth victim when "Red" Ken-seila, Ken-seila, notorious ganster was shot to death in a pitched battle at a meeting meet-ing of the butchers' union. The bones or an unknown soldier who gave his life a century and a half ago in the struggle for American Amer-ican Independence, we:-e entombed with honors in the Tuckaboe New York town hall as the nation celebrated cele-brated the birthday of the unknown's great commander in chief. Andy Vesosky was captured nt Cambridge. Ohio by a posse alter a long chase. It is alleged that Ves-oke.y Ves-oke.y sliot Charles Moss a mine paymaster anil then robbed .Moss of 8 pay-oil of .flfi.OOU. Cutting their way Into the vault of the I-lrst National ban'; of Kod-moml, Kod-moml, Wasbingten, yeggrnen opened the lar-'fir of two safes and escaped with practically nil of the banks store of cash. roH'-.Ibl'lty that. Henry Ford might be Inilo sed us tho party's presidential president-ial ci n liila-e In l'.)-l, overshadowed ol other business before Michigan 1 lemoerat s when they met In state conenton nt Detroit to adopt a platform and nominate candidates for minor siato offices to bo filled nt the sptlng election. Storming a house In Went Philadelphia Philadel-phia poll-n shot nnd lilted "l'.1g Fran':" Punter, nld to be wanted In PtttuJmrg on a tnurdnr charge. Ixjrd Desborough, president of tba-British tba-British imperial council of commerce, will go to Itome shorty to propose to the congress of International chambers cham-bers of commerce a resolution favoring favor-ing a fixed date for Faster. Suggesting Suggest-ing the second Sunday in April as a permanent Faster day. Plood has again been shed in the course of a French "digging In ' pro. cess. One German clvill m was I: ill. ed and two others seriously wounded wound-ed at Poehtim Friday when two French soldiers fired upon a crowd. Farth shocks eharaeterl'ed ns o. tremely severe were recorded Sun. day liy the University of Hawaii seismograph at Honolulu. An organized attack was made Wednesday afternoon on various gov. eminent ofl'bes in Dublin. An at. tempt also was made to set the Income In-come tax office on flro. National troops, guarding tho local government board off ce, fired and killer! one Irregular Ir-regular and captured three others. Senator I'.orab oT Idaho will visit Russia during bis proposed tour to study conditions In Furopo as tbo guest of M. I.ltvlnorr, according to a dispatch to the Stoel lnltn ''ornmtin. 1st newspaper, Folketsdagblat. A demand Unit tin; league of nations na-tions apply all possible penalties to Lithuania, Including exclusion r-om tbo league, for her open aggressions In the neutral district ol Ilia, is rnado by Poland In u note forwarded to the league heaippiarters. |
