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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 ' Voters of San Francisco elected James Rolph, Jr., mayor for the fourth consecutive time, returned District Attorney Thomas F. Finn to office, reelected two incumbents, Llle T. Jacks, and Sylvester J. McAtee as police judges and retained in office five out of nine members of the board of supervisors. :Law enforcement officials including peace officers, prosecutors, justices of the peace, city judges and judges of Utah, met with state and federal officials of-ficials at Salt Lake City, Tuesday, to map out policies and measures looking look-ing to the strict enforcement of the prohibiton laws of the state and nation. na-tion. Eight counts of embezzlement were returned Tuesday by the federal grand jury at Salt Lake City, against Francis N. Cope, former bank clerk, niio was arrested in California by state authorities. The indictment is based on the alleged ' defalcations of sums ranging from 5100 to $4,S10.50 Dver a period of two years, dating from Sept. 22, 1920. Andrew Anderson, shot and instanly killed his wife, Josie Anderson, then turned the gun on himself shortly - after noon Thursday at Ogden, Utah. The bullett pierced Anderson's head. He is not expectd to live. Three of the couple's children, Merle, 13, Ila, 5, and Billy, 2, were in the kitchen ivhen the mother was killed. Their screams and the shots soon drew a crowd. The most pronounced earthquake Bhock felt in recent years in. the Imperial Im-perial valley was recorded Monday. The Virginia hotel at Calexico was shifted several inches on its foundations, founda-tions, and damage was done to other buildings. The Wells-Fargo Xevada bank and the Union Trust company, two of San Francisco's oldest financial institutions, institu-tions, are to be consolidated, it was announced Monday. The new institution insti-tution will be known as the Wells Fargo bank and Union Trust Company Com-pany and will have deposits in excess of 5100,000,000 and resources of $120,-000,000. $120,-000,000. Lee Cordes of Lankershim, Calif., was arrested by a posse at Los Angeles Angel-es and charged with having robbed the Eurbank State bank at Burbank, a short time before. Under the carpet car-pet of his car was found ?2T00 which officers said was taken from the bank. GENERAL Democrats were elected Tuesday in all three states where there were gubernatorial . elections Kentucky, Maryland and Mississippi. Vermont, where the only senatorial contest was held, returned a Republican Porter H. Dale, who defated Park II. Pollard, cousin of President Coolidge. The bodies of 27 miners, killed Tuesday in a gas explosion at the mine of the Raleigh-Wyoming Coal company, near Glen Rogers, West Va. are in undertaking establishments In Mullens. The last body was brought to the surface late Tuesday night. While hundreds were passing the New York's busy corner at .Broadway and Forty-seventh street Wednesday, three well-dressed men entered the Jewelry store of Julius Howard, forced forc-ed the proprietor and a clerk into a rear room and rifled showcases of Jewelry valued at 575,000. The bandits ban-dits escaped. Holding the townsmen at Ogden, Kans.'is at bay for two hours early Thursday bandits blew the safe of the Ogden State bank and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash, liberty bonds and other valuables. The robbers numbered from 8 to 10 .men. With in a few hours of each other, two passenger trains of the Gulf Coast lines, tho first from Houston and the second from Prownvllle, were wrecked n few mlloB west of Corpa, Christi. Texas, Monday morning. In both cruses the wheels of the tender left the tracks, derailing the coaches and, in the case of tho first train, overturning tho locomotive. Francis Turpin, a railway engineer and Haz'jl M. Coniird, were found dead In an en-lowed automobile at Or'-nton, Iowa. Physicians said they apparently had been overcome by fumes from the exhaust, finding their way Into tho machine. Two convP-H cHeaped, third was fliot. arid a fourth was knocked down during a Jall-bp-ak at the eastern p nit Hilary at Philadelphia. The criminal;! all i! them long-tenners. ;n:.d.. a break t.hroii::li the front gate or the .ni',ori. A triple drowning occurred at Snooper Snoo-per hal ', win n Vernon IiI'age, 2.0, Mm brother, Jlillie. I J, and Harry Cnd-illng, Cnd-illng, .'!!, lout lb' lr live when the hoa,l In which Ih'-y were duel: liuntlng cai-nl.-i. PERSONAL Harold Lloyd, motion picture com. edian, sustained injuries Tuesday which h'is physicians said would keep him away from the camera for two week, when a fire nozzle he was using in the filming of a comic "thriller" swung around and hit him in the "ace, cutting his forehead and knocking him oft a rapidly moving truck. President Coolidge is insisting that reductions ordered by President Harding Hard-ing in the expenditures of the federal government shall stand despite the protests of cabinet officers whose quotas have been pared down by the budget bureau. The budget for next year, now nearing completion, is expected ex-pected to following out strictly Mr. Harding's stipulation that the total, exclusive of postal operations and public debt transactions shall not exceed ex-ceed $1,700,000,000. For the current year the total of 51,S26,0O0,000. The allied council of ambassadors decided Thursday to request the Dutch government not to allow former for-mer Crown I'rince Frederick William to leave Dutch territory, where he has been in exile since the war, and also to ask the German government not to allow him to enter Germany as he is in the list of persons charged with war crimes whose arrest is sought by the allied governments. Philip E. Fox, publicity man for the Ku Klux Klan, late Monday shot and killed W. S. Coburn, Atlanta, Georgia, attorney and counsel for the faction fighting Imoprial Wizard II. W. Evans and other officials of the order. Fox is held at police headquarters, without with-out bond, under a charge of murder. With impressive and solemn ceremony cere-mony the ashes of former Bonar Law one of Britain's most beloved statesmen, states-men, were buried Monday in Westminister West-minister Abbey, near the grave of England's "unknown warrior." George Harvey, the American ambassador, am-bassador, and Mrs. Harvey, with their little granddaughter, Dorothy Thompson, Thomp-son, were given an exceptionally warm farewell party previous to their departure for Southampton, whence they will sail on the Aquitania for home. David Lloyd George former premier of Great Britain sailed for home on the steamship Majestic Saturday af. ter a triumphant tour of America-cities America-cities with his wife, Dame Margaret and daughter, Miss Megan. Before the ancient royal chapel in St. James Palace, Crown I'rince Gus-tave Gus-tave Adolph of Sweden took as his bride, Saturday, Lady Louise Mount-batten, Mount-batten, niece of the reigning sovereigns sover-eigns of Britain. Senator Hiram Johnson will probably prob-ably announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination within tlie next week, according to a statement issued by Ralph B. Strass-burged, Strass-burged, who was Johnsons chief financial fi-nancial backer in the 1020 primary campaign. FOREIGN The British steamship Koranna reported re-ported by wireless Wednesday that fire had broken out in her coal bunkers bunk-ers and that her position was perilous. The Koranna was 24 hours distant from Sydney when she reported her trouble. The eight leading foreign legations Wednesday sent a note to the Chinese government backing France in her demand de-mand that payment of the French Boxer indemnity be made in gold francs. The note based the claim on the Boxer protocol of 1001. Twenty-one persons have been killed kill-ed and three score wounded in riots and bombings growing out of the strike of the railway workers at Warsaw. War-saw. One man was killed and thirty-five wounded in demonstrations by unemployed unem-ployed in the Bonifaius mine d'strict of Kray, Germany, delayed dispatches from Gelskirchen said Thursday. Unemployed Un-employed seized the local inspector of police as a hostage complain'ng of trifling unemployment doles. After heavy fighting, police rescued him and broke up the demonstrations. Thirty to forty Scottish towns go to tlie pel's tills week to decide tho prohibition issue for their localities. The campaign has been intense. The drys hope to reverse the decision given giv-en In 1020 when only two towns Kirkintilloch and Kilsyth abolished liquor licenses. A mob of rowdies Monday attacked a body of special constables, placed on duty in (lie northern part of Melbourne, Mel-bourne, Australia to maintain order during tlie police strike and In tho subsequent fighting two of tho constables con-stables and several riiters were injured. in-jured. Conditions aro unsettled in other outlying districts. Alberta was In that list of Canadian provinces that has thrown prohibition Into tlie discard, having voted Monday Mon-day to permit sale of liquors under control and regulation of tho govern, ment and to allow tho salo and consumption con-sumption of beer on licensed promises and In the home. Tho British htearner Domino In stranded off Chrlstlanla, according to advices received at London. Tho crew of IS men was saved. Another earthquake shock, the fourth In three days, laatlng about 10 seconds was felt at. Manila at 2 :4.'i o'clock Saturday afternoon. No dam. iigo has been reported. Tho origin of the temblor Is believed to have been near Tafil volcano, wlilcb In located on a hmiii.II Island In I'.oinbon lake, Bal.angns province, Luzon. |