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Show I It would he a grave mistake for I United Stairs marines to h ave Haiti, says Mrs. Margaret E. Prieger, who lias just returned to Kau Francisco after seven years spent in studying the mi-I mi-I lives of Haiti. An advance in the price of coffee next year is forecast' by present conditions, con-ditions, according to T. Langgaard Menezes of Sao Taulo, Brazil, who addressed the opening session of the tenth annual convention of the National Na-tional Coffee Boasters' association at St. Louis. Lincoln, Neb., has been chosen as the meeting place of the next conference con-ference of mid-west farm bureaus, which will be held early next January. Bear Admiral Thomas B. Howard, 60 years old, retired, died suddenly at his apartments in Annapolis. He was found unconscious in the bathtub and died within a few minutes. WASHINGTON. Mrs. Muriel MucSwiney, widow of the late lord ma or of Cork, has offered of-fered to come to Washington to testify before the American commission on Ireland, and her offer has been accepted, accept-ed, it was announced Friday by tiie commission. Christinas packages for American troops on the Rhine must reach Hobo-ken Hobo-ken by December 5 to insure delivery before Christmas day, the war department depart-ment has announced. Suit to test the recent ruling of prohibition pro-hibition enforcement bureau prohibiting prohibit-ing the sale of malt extract and hops to anyone except confectioners and bakers has been filed in federal court at Columbus, 0., by a local distributing distribut-ing company. The Graeco-Roman baths of the senate, installed nearly eight years ago, but never put into service, are now being cleared of cobwebs and stains of time, and will be in shape to offer their luxuries of steam, plunge, shower and electricity to the members mem-bers of the new senate when it assembles. as-sembles. Charges that actions of the shipping ship-ping board have resulted in enromous waste of government funds are contained con-tained In a report submitted to the house committee on shipping board operations by two former employes of the board, who for more than a year have conducted an investigation. FOREIGN. The hunger strike of the nine Irish prisoners in the Cork jail was called off on November 12, the ninety-fourth Jay of the strike. Two of the strikers have already died, while nine are in a serious condition and may not recover re-cover even if they are fed. Hostilities between Armenia and Turkey have ceased, Armenian representatives repre-sentatives announced Friday. An armistice was agreed upon Sunday by which the Turks will retain Alexan-dropol Alexan-dropol pending negotiations, they said. The French government is unalterably unalter-ably opposed to the admission of Germany Ger-many to the league of nations at this time, it was stated at the foreign office of-fice at Paris. Some "drastic action" would be the consequence if the league voted to admit Germany, it was intimated. inti-mated. The Italian "and Jugo-Slava delegations delega-tions who have been conferring at Santa Margherita concerning the Adriatic problem have reached a complete com-plete agreement on the text of a treaty between the two countries, says a Rome dispatch. Serious rioting has occurred at Genano, Italy. A priest is said to nave been severely beaten during a church ceremony at which he praised Italian soldiers and a general strike followed the arrest of 200 persons accused of NEWS OF A WEEK II CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from AU Quarters of tha Globe ana Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. The Rev. D. L. McGowan, Valley, Wash., was instantly killed when he drove his car over a 200-foot embankment embank-ment near Spokane. Y. E. Korous, half-brother of Miss Frances Korous, murdered Salt Lake nurse, was taken into custody by the police on Friday and will be held pending pend-ing further investigation of the mysterious mys-terious death of Miss Korous. Among the 3064 students registered at the Oregon Agricultural college, at Corvalis, Ore., 1274 are attending college col-lege for the first time. Of these, the greater part are freshmen. Cheaper hotel rates in the west were predicted by President Calvin H. Morse at the opening session of the twentieth annual convention of the Rocky Mountain Hotel Men's association, associa-tion, at Denver. Because of the recent drop in the price of flour, the bakers of Salt Lake City have decided to increase the sine of the bread loaf which sells for 15 cents, and to continue this policy as the price o'f four decreases from time to time. Unemployment conditions are worse than usual at Seattle. Men having employment em-ployment are showing a tendency to stick to tW'ir jobs. As a result the thousands of men who have dYlfted to Seattle from Alaska, Idaho and Montana, have difficulty in finding jobs. Many of them are leaving for points in Oregon and California. Because of the depreciation of the British pound sterling, the Union Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company and the Oregon, Ore-gon, Washington Railroad & Navigation Naviga-tion company have applied to the interstate in-terstate commerce commission for authority to substitute bonds payable In American dollars for those heretofore hereto-fore issued payable in pounds. DOMESTIC. Four automobile bandits held up the First National bank at Kingston, Ohio, and escaped with $4000 in currency, between be-tween $150,000 and $200,000 in stocks and bonds and a quantity of Liberty bonds, the value of which was uncertain. uncer-tain. A receiver has been appointed for the Kansas City Journal, which has been published as a morning newspaper newspa-per since 1834. The California anti-alien law amendment amend-ment authorized at the recent election by an overwhelming vote and prepared with the view of excluding Japanese from choice farming sections of the state will become effective probably the first of next month. A bride weighing 725 pounds was brought home by John H. Hamilton, employed by a Los Angeles machinery company, who weighs 155. The bride, formerly Miss Alma Emily Selm of Venice, Cal., was attended at the wedding, wed-ding, which took place at Santa Ana, Cal., by her sister, Mrs. L. C. King, who weighs -120 pounds. The John L. Roper Lumber company, com-pany, operating one of the largest sawmills saw-mills in the south, announced that its plant at Newbern, N. C, will be closed for an indefinite period because of a lack of demand for lumber. More than 1000 men will be affected. Chairman Benson and other officials of the shipping board probably will be called before the house subcommittee Investigating shipping board activities now holding hearings in New York. Mrs. Cla"a V. Russell, widow of a former University of Chicago football star, wanted her S-year-oId son Bryan always to remember her as a beautiful woman, relatives said when her body was found in Lake Michigan, at Chicago. Chi-cago. Quarterly dividends declared at New York by the American Sugar Refining Re-fining company were on the basis of 7 per cent per annum, omitting the extra quarterly dividend of three-quarters of 1 per cent, which the company has paid regularly since 1918. C. II. WKilson, who shot and dangerously dan-gerously wounded his wife in a quarrel at Mason City, Iowa, ".nvolving a lodger in their rooming ''ouse, is said to have declared to the police that he intended to also kill himself, but "got a cramp in his finger." Sixty-one undesirable aliens, traveling trav-eling in two special cars, heavily guarded, guard-ed, arrived at New York, October 10. from Chicago and the far west, and were taken to Ellis island for deportation. depor-tation. The Clothing Manufacturers' association associ-ation of New York has announced its shops could not be reponed until employees, em-ployees, who are members of the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Clothing Workers' union, agreed to new working and wage conditions con-ditions "necessary to the life of the industry." Nine men employed as checkers and clerks at the Southern Tacific docks at Galveston, Texas, are in a local hospital suffering from burns received when the launch Ouida, on which they were to go to the docks for their day's work, caught fire. having participated in the disorders. General Baron Wrangel, head of the south Russian anti-bolshevik government, govern-ment, is withdrawing his forces in northern Crimea toward the main defense de-fense line, which runs through the village of Lushun, about nineteen miles south of the town of Perekop. Crime in Ireland increased largely immediately after the funeral of Lord Mayor MacSwiney, according to latest statistics, which record ninety-nine serious se-rious crimes in the week ended November Novem-ber 6, as compared with sixty-nine the previous week and eighty for the week ended Octouei" -:3. The Emigration society of Japan, an influential body, held a meeting at Tokio in protest against the California land law adopted at the recent election. elec-tion. The fifty members present heard from Marquis Okuma, former premier, the chief speaker, a deprecation of what he called "jingo" talk. He insisted, in-sisted, however, upon the necessity of defending Japanese rights. Abdul Wahad, reputed leader of the Mesopotamia insurgents, has surrendered surren-dered unconditionally and is under Rritish guard at Kufa, 100 miles south of Bagdad, according to a Bagdad dispatch. dis-patch. The city magistrate and the chief of police of the native city in Shanghai, Shang-hai, have issued an edict against the extravagant styles now being worn by Chinese women. It warns against ailing foreign styles, with the display of ankles and bare arms. Resolutions authorizing the General Federation of Labor to take measures against extremists obeying instructions instruc-tions from the third Internationale (Moscow) outside of the ranks of the federation, were adopted &t a meeting meet-ing of the general council of the or- I ganization. Geneva is beginning to feel Its honors hon-ors as the headquarters of the world, and its residents are being vi- lontly elbowed to make room for the league of nations, with all its appurtenances. The housing problem Is becomu.3 a most acute one |