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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSY READERS 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 Non-stop long-distance dancing flights are under ban in the large Pacific coast cities, the authorities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., have announced. "Tne first couple that starts it," said Sheriff Matt Star-wich Star-wich of Seattle, "I will put in jail on charges of Insanity." Herman Leaf, of Los Angeles through his father, J. Leaf, has filed a suit against the Hoffman Candy company' asking damages of 2,500 on the allegation he was disfigured for life when he broke a front tootH on a nail in a piece of candy he as"-erted as"-erted had been rflade by the defendant defend-ant company. With all highway communication to the north cut off and the steel bridges washed away, flood waters of the Neuches and Sabine rivers continued con-tinued to rise in what promised to be the worst flood in the history of outhern Texas. Waterspouts were added to the list of unusual phenomena occurring in the Pacific, beginning with Saturday's tidal wave and disturbances. The British steamer Marivi reported to the United States hydrographlc office at San Francisco by radio that in the north Pacific she sighted two enormous enorm-ous spouts, each reaching a height estimated at 1000 feet. The Marivi was approximately four miles away from them, but was pitched and twisted twist-ed about helplessly by the swirling waters. Armed posses at Spokane are seeking seek-ing a man whose advances caused a young girl to lep from his speeding car, and who, when pursued, shot and wounded the motorcycle officer pursuing pur-suing him. The girl, Gladys Homer, aged 18, is in a hospital with a fractured frac-tured skull, possibly dying. The motorcycle mo-torcycle officer, J. R. Cashatt, is in another hospital, with a bullet in his right lung. Because she would not give on automobile au-tomobile ride to three boys she passed pass-ed on the road near Denver, Miss Kellie Garrell was fired on by the youths and seriously wounded. Instead of people going to church on Sunday, the church .will be brought to them by radio under a plan proposed by the Radio church of America which was incorporated last week at Sacramento, California. There is virtually no "good" whisky on sale In Seattle today liquor being eold is ''the vilest kind of stuff virtually poison," Roy C. Lyle, federal feder-al prohibition director for Washington, Washing-ton, declared in a statement. GENERAL Solitary confinement in the Eastern State penitentiary for not lesg than six, nor more than ten years, was the sentence given to Henry G. Brock, wealthy Philadelphia clubman, for killing three persons with his automobile auto-mobile while he was intoxicated and speeding away. A bill recently passed by the Michigan Mich-igan legislature Imposing a tax of two cents a gallon on all gasoline eold within the state, was vetoed by Governor Alex J. Groesbeck. The governor, gov-ernor, in his veto message, charged the bill unjust In that it would be a tax not only upon automobile owners, own-ers, but upon all other users of gasoline. gaso-line. Sheriff J. R. Jones ml Tallahasse, Florida made a personal profit of $23 on each prisoner leased by Leon county to the Putnam Lumber company, com-pany, he testified before the legislative legisla-tive committee Investigating prison conditions In Florida. The Right Rev. D. S. Tuttle, presiding pre-siding bishop of the Episcopal church in the United States died at higlome in St. Louis, following an Illness of several weeks. Bishop Tuttle was 80, and the oldest Anglican Bishop in the world from point of service. The grain futures trading act wns declared valid and constitutional at Washington by the supreme court. It was the second time the court had passed on the validity of n grain future fu-ture trading law, a previous .tatut9 based on the taxing power of tbe federal government having tren held uncomititntlonal. President Jlardlrxg probably will n.ik congr;K at Its next session to reduce the Income tax. wek's disclosure that the treasury will receive this year $200,000,000 In Income lux. Last wee.k'ii disclosure that the treasury will receive this year $200,000,000 In Ineonm taxes more than bad been expected ex-pected has placed the subject before be-fore him In a decidWy different light from what. It. Ht.ood In when every dollar available wan spent before It tain! into the tax collector's bandii. PERSONAL For the first time in his c;ireer, Charles F. Murphy, "boss" of Tammany Tam-many Hall, Tuesday took the witness stand in a New York court and submitted sub-mitted himself to cross examination. He testified in his suit for the return of 175,000 which he claims he advanced ad-vanced to Louis N. Partof when they became associated in the war time glucose deal. The engagement of Colonef Bent-ley Bent-ley Mott of the American embassy staff and Mile. Georgette St. Paul, daughter of M. and Mme. Georges Elie St. Paul, was announced. M. St. Paul is a state councillor, while his wife is a member of the celebrated Russian family Poliakoff. Laurence Ginnell, who called himself him-self the envoy to this country of the de Valera party In Ireland, was found dead in his hotel room at WashTnton, Physicians said death resulted from natural causes. GENERAL According to the News of the World, former Premier Lloyd George will visit the United States and Canada Can-ada next September, and deliver speeches in New York, Chicago, Washington, Montreal and Toronto. With the exception of Lord Balfour, Lloyd George will be the first of Eng-lands Eng-lands premiers to cross the Atlantic. Edward M. Fullington, insular auditor, au-ditor, Is being mentioned as a probable prob-able successor to E. W. Wilson, who resigned recently as manager of the Phillippine National bank when the board of directors withdrew its support sup-port of his loan policy. Fullington was appointed insular auditor by President Harding more than a year and a half ago. His home is in Co- I lumbus, Ohio. Commissioner Haynes Saturday announced an-nounced acceptance of the resignation resigna-tion of E. H. McClanahan as prohibition prohibi-tion director for Colorado and appointed ap-pointed R. A. Kohless, new divisional chief for Colorado, Utah and Wyoming Wyom-ing to succeed him temporarily John W. Madden was made divisional chief. The first social function of any Importance Im-portance since Mrs Harding's illness last fall was held Saturday at the White House, the president and Mrs. Harding entertaining informally about 100 friends In official and unofficial un-official life. John Gilmour Rodgers, vice president presi-dent of the Pennsylvania railroad, in charge of the northwestern region, with headquarters in Chicago, died suddenly while on the golf links at Camden, S. C. Eamonn de Valera, self-proclaimed , "persident of the Irish Republic" and Dan Breen, his chief aide, have been captured near Clonmel acording to a report from Dublin. American Ambassador Harvey and Mrs. Harvey, together with their daughter, Mrs. Marcellus H. Thompson, Thomp-son, and thier granddaughter, Dorothy, Doro-thy, are planning to leave London shortly for a trip to the United States it was said at the embassy. FOREIGN Only a silent tribute to the memory of the dead marked the opening at Paris, Monday of the new ''Hall in honor of the allied armies. "OfTicIals from all the allied nations were In attendance. at-tendance. Nine additional coal mines in the Ruhr have been seized by the French and the Belgians, it was announced, making a total of 31 mines and coke plants now in the hands of the occupational oc-cupational forces. The municipality of Muanay, province pro-vince of Tayabas, is being terrorized by a gang of 30 bandits who are committing com-mitting depredations over a large area, according to official advices at Manilla. A force of Phillippine constabulary con-stabulary has one on the trail of the murauders. Attempts were made to wreck two trains on which members of the French and Balglan cabinets were supposed to be passengers. Both attempts at-tempts were unsuccessful, Two bombs were placed on the rails in front of a train proceeding from Duesseldorf to Essen on which Yves Le Trocquer, French minister of public works was expected to travel. M. Le Trocquer, however, was not on board. Marchioness Maeda, member of one of the oldest and most distinguished distin-guished families in Japan, died at her hotel In Toklo. Mathllde McCormick, lR-year-old daughter of Harold V McCormick and Kdith Rockefeller McCormick, and an heiress to the McCormick and Rockefeller Rocke-feller millions, was married secretly to Major Max Obit, 40 years old, SwIhh riding maMter, in the registry office at Lxklaham, a suburb of London, Lon-don, at 11 :M0 o'clock Thursday room, lug, th unnoiicomot was conformed by the bride's father. The French and Belgian governments govern-ments decided at the conference of ttiair mlnintffrs at Purls, to reimburse themselves for thu Ruhr occupation expenses out of merchandise and money stined from tho (Jermnnn. The two allies ajaln emphasized their determination de-termination to evacuate (be Ruhr only on-ly as Germany pays. Any balanco left after tb'i military mid engineering engineer-ing expenses are paid will be turned Into the reparations fund for thu ben. efll ot all tho allien. |