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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE AST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World f" ! WESTERN From newsboy to university president presi-dent at the age of 33 Is the record of Cloyd Heck Marvin, M. A., Ph. D., for more than three years dean and esslstant director of the University of California, southern branch, who was Siven a farewell luncheon by the Los Angeles chamber of commerce prior to his departure for Tucson, Arizona to become president of the University of Arizona. Thomas Miles of Los Angeles, president presi-dent of the International Boys' League has been invited to attend the session of the commission of labor of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Switzer-land, Oct. 25-30, as an adviser on matters mat-ters relating to child labor and has Accepted, according to an announcement announce-ment from the offices of the Boys' League. Miles was elected to office at a meeting of the Boys' League in Chicago Chi-cago July 15. The organization is aid to have about 250,000 members. Park-Utah Mining company is making mak-ing a great mine in its property ou the east side of the famous Park City district. With a bonanza mine already opened the company's property has hardly been scratched and the two main objectives for exploration have not yet been reached. WASHINGTON Beer branding is planned by the prohibition pro-hibition fo-ces as part of its campaign against brewers violating the dry laws, it reported at the treasury. At present, pres-ent, it was explained, manufacturer? of near beer are permitted to sell their products in kegs or bottles without any distinguishing markings, but regulations reg-ulations are under consideration which would require all kegs to be branded with the name of the manufacturer and all bottles to have the name blown into the glass so that beverage products can be identified. Virtual settlement of the rail strike as affecting from 35 to 40 per cent of the railroads of the country was announced an-nounced by Secretary of Labor Davis, on the basis of reports from the meeting meet-ing in Chicago on the general policy committee of the striking shop crafts unions. Mr. Davis added that he was informed that the settlement would affect between 65,000 and 85,000 miles of track and in a formal statement of the strike of 400,000 railway shop craftsmen assured, the whole industrial indus-trial machinery of the country is ready for a forward movement unprecedented unprecedent-ed in our history." The twenty-third annual convention of the American Roentgen Ray society so-ciety is in session at Los Angeles with more than 300 physicians from all parts of the country in attendance. Investigation of the veterans' bureau bu-reau to determine whether laws reflating ref-lating to treatment and care of disabled dis-abled former service men are being adminstered properly and promptly would be ordered by the senate under the. terms of a resolution introduced by Senator King, Democrat of Utah. The recolution sets forth it has been charged that unreasonable delays had characterized the functioning of the bureau, that its dealings with the former service men had been slowed up and tangled by multitudinous correspondence, cor-respondence, and that excessive amounts had been expended by the bureau in overhead charges at the ex-pens ex-pens of the former esrvice men. Public spooning has reached the limit lim-it when the spooners pick out Arlington Arling-ton cemetery for their activities, army officers have decided. Upon protest of indignant residents adjacent to the cemetery, raids have been instituted to clear the roads around Arlington Reductions in freight rates on a variety of commodities shipped under class rates by way of the Southern Pacific from Salt Lake and Ogden to western Utah and Nevada points to range approximately 25 per cent, have been announced at the Salt Lake office of-fice of the road, to become effective (November 1. The tariffs applying to stations from the summit of the Sierra (Nevada range eastward to Utah points will be completely revised as a result cf the announcement. The establishment of Victory highway high-way through Steamboat Springs, in Routt county, Colorado has increased motor tourist travel through that city by 100 per cent, and has resulted in the construction of one of the most enticing tourist camps to be found along the entire highway at that place. James L. Purcell, GO of Louisville, 111., shot and killed Mrs. Anna D. Bain-es, Bain-es, 28 and then killed himself at Clifton, Clif-ton, eight miles east of Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colorado. The tragedy occured In a hotel where Purcell went to see Mrs. Baines on his return from Illinois. It was reported that Pureell's attentions were resented by Mrs. Baines, who is Burvlved by a husband and three children. child-ren. GENERAL The anthracite wage agreement sending the miners back to work at once, after more than five months of idleness ratified by the tri-district convention of the hard coal diggers of Pennsylvania. Under the agreement 155,000 mine workers return to work at the rate of wages they received when they suspended mining on March Slst. Sleeping cars constructed with seven rooms to each car, each room accommodating accom-modating five persons, will be placed in the Chicago-California service of the Santa Fe railway for fall and winter travel, road officials announced. There will be eighteen of the new style "family accomodation"' cars. Each room will contain a lower and upper double berth, a day lounge and bed, wih full lavatory and toilet equipment. Walter Matthews, attorney, who was defeated In the recent primary of midnight parties. Robert Dye, superintendent sup-erintendent of the cemetery said today to-day that "tin horn gamblers," had even spread their blankets on the cemetery walls and that scores of automobiles parked beside the inclos-ure inclos-ure every night within a stone's throw of the graves of American soldiers. They will be kept moving hereafter, he said. FOREIGN The moot question of how many Jews shall be allowed to matriculate in Hungarian universities has brought about a challenge for a duel between two prominent Hungarian educators. A controversy has been raging between be-tween the Universities of Budapest and Szegedin, the point at issue being whether the-law restricting the number num-ber applies to the Jewish refugees from the lost provinces. Hope that many of the lepers assembled as-sembled in the largest leper colony in the world on Culion island, Philippines, will be materially benefited and many completely cured by the new process of treatment recently worked out is expressed in a circular letter signed by Governor General Leonard Wood, honorary president of the Philippine Antileprosy society, made public at the war department. There are now more than 5100 lepers in the colony, General Gener-al Wood said, and in the cooperative efforts of the insular government and the society all lepers in the Philip-pnes Philip-pnes are to be concentrated at this point. An eyewitnes report of the typhoon that caused the loss of 60,000 lives at Swatow, China, August 2 was brought to Snn Francisco bv Carjtaln T. H. Dob- in his race for nomination as state representative, was seized by thirty masked men and given a coat of tar and feathers after a severe lashing at Cushing, Okla. His assailants, Matthews told the police, advised him "not to talk any more against the Ku Klux Klan." Prison sentences as the only effective ef-fective means of checking accidents due to the carelessness of motorists were advocated for traffic law violators vio-lators by James W. Inches, Detroit commissioner of police, in an address at the International Police conference. "About 12,500 persons are killed in automobile accidents yearly in this country," said Commissioner Inches, "and about 300,000 are injured. Prison Pris-on sentences are being given in Detroit for traffic violations and we are finding find-ing that it is actually checking the Joy riding and reckless drivers." Henry Ford has Issued a formal statement attacking the interstate commerce commission for its failure to see that coal wag delivered to the public. Hno men, trapped by fire which destroyed the Georgian gardens at Kansas City, leaped from second story windows to escape the flames. Benjamin Ben-jamin Crane, aslstant manager, and Nick M.muff, a cook were Injured. The othera were uninjured. The property Joss wus esllmated t $75,000. son of the liner Kanking, who said the storm at sea was so great that he was unable to respond to on S. O. S. all sent out by the British steamer Gondia, which went down in the hurricane. hur-ricane. Two Indo-China steamers, the Choy Chang and Tung Shing, were picked up by immense waves and dashed ashore, many of the crew and passengers' 'perishing,- he saul. Ad-cording Ad-cording to Captain Dobson, the decks of the Nankng were half submerged, life lines were out and passengers experienced ex-perienced a terrible shaking up. Miss Tarhta Kiram, who says she is the daughter of the Sultan of Sulu, is one of the passengers aboard the steamer President Lincoln, en route to the mainland from Honolulu. Miss Kiram will enter the University of California. She is one of a group of "Pensionades," students sent to us by the Philippine government. An American woman the formei Mrs. William D. Leeds, widow of the tin plate king may become the queen of Greece in case King Constantine, whose throne Is tottering because of Turkish victories, abdicates. In high Greek circles it was believed that Ormstantine, who is blamed for the disastrous war In which the Greeks have been driven from large portions of Asia Minor, will abdicate in favor of hi i brother, Prince Christopher, husband of Mis. Leeds. |