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Show Viscount Morley of Blackburn, eminent writer and Liberal statesman, states-man, died Sunday night at his residence resi-dence in Wimbledon, England of heart disease. Suggestions, of the federal coal commission for enactment of legislation legis-lation to deal with the nation's fuel problem will be recommended to Congress Con-gress by I'resident Coolidge. An increase in the tariff duty on wheat as a means of assisting Western Wes-tern producers of that commodity was suggested Saturday by Representative Repre-sentative Anderson, Republican, Minnesota, who discussed the agricultural agri-cultural situation with I'resident Coolidge at the White House. Mr. Anderson declined to talk about his conference with the executive, but said he would lay his proposal before be-fore the tariff commission. Clyde W. Warburton was appointed appoint-ed Saturday by Secretary Wallace as director of the newly created office of-fice of extension work of the department de-partment of agriculture, which coordinates co-ordinates all the extension activities now being carried on by the government. govern-ment. The government communist leaders, lead-ers, Heinrich Brandler and Herr Tal-meyer, Tal-meyer, have arrived, in Moscow and informed the Rusians that the time for a revolution in Germany Is ripe. They express themselves as confident confi-dent of their ability to obtain control within the German state, but need' the help of the international proletariat prole-tariat against outside capitalistic enemies. John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general and former governor gov-ernor of New Hampshire, was taken to a hospital Monday because oi injuries he received when his automobile auto-mobile was struck by a street car. Althougii he received a cut on the head, physicians who examined him said his injuries did not appear serious. Salas Barrazas, confessed slayer of Francisco Villa, who . was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary was brought to Chihuahua, Mexico, under heavy guard by a large contingent con-tingent of soldiers. Thousands crowded crowd-ed about the station to see him. He is to serve his sentence in prison in this city. Petitions with hundreds of signatures are being circulated In several states to obtain his pardon. Under the title "he was 'Just Folks,' " the late President Warren G. Harding will be commemorated in a compilation now in press on edif.o'--ials from American newspapers. Tio compiler, Cash Asher, a Cnlifornls newspaper man, has devoted ap-nroximatelv ap-nroximatelv 100 editorials dealing TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSjfJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINCS 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 More than 300 friends and relatives crowded the pier at San Francisco, Monday, as the President Pierce arrived ar-rived bringing 75 refugees of the .Tapanese earthquake. Most the refugees re-fugees were destitude but this was f.ngotten in the joy of their reunion with friends and relatives. The state Arizona is unalterably opiK)sed to ratification of the Colorado Colo-rado river pact in its present form, the federal power commission was informed Monday by a committee headed by Governor Hunt. Charles S. Fee, general passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Paci-fic lines and one of the best known railroad officials in the west, died at San Francisco Tuesday after an illness of a month. Rain which fell generally through northern Calif ornia, Friday night, delivered the state from the fii'e peril which during the last seven days has done damages estimated at $13 000,-C00. 000,-C00. Embers of fires in eight counties coun-ties of the state which threatened to break out once more in disastrous conflagrations were extinguished. An inquiry from John Oliver, premier of British Columbia, why there should be such a disparity as there Is between gasoline prices in the United States and those in Canada Can-ada was before Oil companies Saturday. Sat-urday. Reports say gasoline was being be-ing s.ild in Washington state at 16 cents a gallon, and in Victoria at 31 cents. Six masked men bound and gagged G. W. Robinson, night watchman of the southern branch, University of California, and carried away a small safe containing S22SS, collected by students for the students at tne state university at Berkeley who had suffered suf-fered as a result of the fire there. The men, who used a truck to carry away the loot, also tried for half an hour to make away with a larger safe containing approximately $3000, but were unable to lift it through a doorway. J ' GENERAL The United States army ballon S-6, which started in the international race for the James Gordon Bennett sup, was struck by lightning near Nistelrode, Holland, killing the pilot, Lieu. Olmstead and his assistant, Lieu. Shoptaw, said a dispatch received re-ceived at race headquarters Monday. The ballon fell in flames. with Harding's career and Ideals. - FOREIGN A dispatch from Constantinople quotes an Angora message as stating that the Turkish government has decided de-cided to press for the withdrawal from the straits of the flotilla of American torpedo boats stationed at Constantinople and Adnan bay. What has become a regular weekly ceremony in the Rhiineland was enacted at Gladback, Sunday, when members of the Rhenish republican party for miles around gathered for a" meeting to demand the immediate proclamation of a seperate republic. Germany has decided to end unconditionally un-conditionally tier weaponless and mural fight against the occupation of her economic sronghold, the Itunr and an immediate resumption of work activity affected by the policy of passive resistence. Seventy lives are believed to have been lost Tuesday when a deep pit at the James Nimmo company's col-Very, col-Very, near Falkirk, Scotland, was flooded. The water which flooded the pit broke through the walls of an adjoining pit which had not been used for years. The active pit was flooded so quickly that there was no opportunity to warn the miners. Spanish forces resumed operations The government Monday sold tne Gcrgas Steam Power Plant, part of the Muscle Shoals property, to the Alabama Power Company for approximately approxi-mately $3,500,000. This will necessitate neces-sitate a complete revision of Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals. The official closing of the United States postal agency at Shanghai, China, under the agreement of the four power treaty signed in Washington, Washing-ton, was reported Tuesday to the pos toff ice department 'by Clyde S. Ford. He was the last of the representatives repre-sentatives to leave China. Because It Is now Impossible to get enough German postage stamps on n envelope the German government govern-ment has given up the use of stamps. Officials of the postoffice department depart-ment were notified Saturday that the cost of printing the stamps also Is greater than their face value and that letters coming from Germany hereafter will bear only a cancellation cancella-tion indicating the necessary postage has been paid. Fire of undetermined origin Saturday Satur-day wrecked the storage and packing plant of Swift A Company, In the heart of Birmingham's wholesale ' ddstriet. The third and fourth floors were gutted and their contents consume. The reflrgerator plant Is believed ruined. Governor J. C. Walton, fighting to o finish In his crusade against the Ki- KIux Klan In Oklahoma, carried his war Into the citadel of the in-vlHlble in-vlHlble empire Friday and caused J. Jewett. grand dragon of the realm, to be charged with riot la connection with alleged masked disorders and teiTor. The charge was preferred by County Attorney J. K. Wright himself him-self an admitted klansmnn. Washington was suggested at Wed-n--vlay'n LfLgue of Nations dlseinmlon of the opium problem an the heat to hold the proposed conference In the fli'M to be wared agnlmit opium and narcotic drugs. l aliin.- to reach a. settlement, by nc-.-nt.'af en, !.he chlppla:' hoard ban ) ,' i n-le, t i c;-al department to jirp-n-.. milt, aralnut tin r.eihlchern '; 1 1 i' . n 1 1 'I : ri r l 'oipnral Inn for recovery recov-ery of about r,!,.,0'J,li'HI allege, to li.iw l,e, ri o-. erpal'l under that firm's war conlra'"n. agajnst the Moroccan rebels Monday shelling several enemy concentra. Hons. The new government in Ma-drW Ma-drW has ordered preparations for strong operations against the Moors under Abdel Krlm. Members of the International mission mis-sion Investigating the assassination of General Telllni and bjH suite are understood to be convinced tbat the Greeks are Innocent of the crime Imputed Im-puted to them by Italy. The report of their Investigation will be forwarded for-warded to the Interallied council of ambossadors. Twelve persons wero killed and many wounded at Sorau, province of Brandenhurg, on Saturday, when po. Ilco reinforcements who had been called to tho town because of fond demonstrators fired into a crowd In tho market place. A Vladivostok dispatch says the steamer l.enlne, the first Russian relief re-lief vessel sent, to aid the Japanese earthquake sufferers was expelled j from Yokohama harbor by the Japan-o'-i) ant hoiil: leu who aiao declined In I permit, any or the. novlet. relief work. i .-t-4 to land. j Negotiations were In progress be-j be-j twecn Spain and England to '"i- change Spanhih Morocco for Glbraltcr I when !h,. Spanish military revolution took plan, according to a report from j Madrid. |