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Show WASHINGTON William Jennings Bryan had a ten-minute ten-minute talk with President Coolidge. He said he called merely to pay his respects. Utah's exact center of population, as determined by the fourteenth census, cen-sus, was locatd In latitude 40 degrees, 22 minutes and 19 seconds north and longitude 111 degrees, 47 minutes and 4 second west, the census bureau an-nouncs. an-nouncs. The 1924 Republican national convention con-vention will be held at Cleveland, as favored by administration leaders and will assemble on June 10. President Cooidge In accepting the letters of credence of Dr. Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's first diplomatic representative to the United States of ambassadorial rank, declared that, although al-though differences had arisen regarding regard-ing the position of the United States to Cuba, he was sure that "as regards the fundamental aspects of this position posi-tion our statesmen are in accord." Exports from the United States dur. ing November were valued at $40,000, compared with imports for the same period of $292,000,000 leaving a balance bal-ance of international trade favorable to this country of $112,000,000. The United States shipping board would be wiped out under a bill introduced intro-duced in the senate by Senator King, Democrat of Utah. A reduction of $275,000,000 in the operating expenses of the federal government gov-ernment during the next fiscal year is proposed In the annual budget transmitted trans-mitted to congress by President Coolidge. Coo-lidge. Total expenditures are estimated estimat-ed at $3,2SS,0SO,444 and receipts at $3,693,762,078 leaving a surplus of 393,681,634. TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSjJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of th Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Five persons, three women and two children, were found frozen to death at Blue ranch springs about fifty miles southeast of Albuquerque, according to word received at Albuquerque. Sirs. Sadie E. Pritchard of Denver has laid claim to a "grubstake partnership" part-nership" in the $300,000 estate of Fred G. King, whom she alleges she staked to $30,000 in 1S92, when he was a poor mining engineer, in a" case on trial in federal court at San B'ran-cisco. B'ran-cisco. The suit is being contested by Mrs. Hazel Hubbard King of Berkeley, Berk-eley, widow of the deceased and executrix exe-cutrix of his state. Pinned beneath an automobile which had overturned and loosened a gas main, Igniting a stream of gas which set fire to the machine three persons were burned probably fatally, at Exeter, in Tulare county, California. Califor-nia. Telephone reports from Socorro and San Marcial to the Morning Journal of Albuquerque state that seventy-two tourist automobiles are stalled at Nogal canyon, on the highway to Hot Springs, N. M., and that eighteen cars unable to make their way through the canyon have turned back to San Marcial and Socorro for shelter. The United States will continue to exert all practical efforts in every way to procure the payment of the $4,000,000,000 French war debt. Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Mellon declared in a letter to Senator Borah, Republican Repub-lican of Idaho. A resolution to place the senate on record as opposed to presumption of diplomatic relations with Turkey until un-til the rights of Armenia have been adequately protected, was offered by Senator King, Democrat, Utah. President Coolidge formally opened the way Tuesday to cooperation by American economic experts in the double Inquiry proposed by the reparation repar-ation commission into Germany's financial situation. A formal White House statement said the Washington government would "view with favor the acceptance by American experts" of an Invitation to sit upon the Inquiry In-quiry committees. A victory for the freedom of speech will be President Coolidge's Christmas gift to the so-called war prisoners. It was officially announced Sunday. Pour University of Colorado students stu-dents were killed and two possibly , fatally injured when an automobile crashed Into a bobsled they were riding rid-ing four miles east of Boulder. A young eagle, probably strayed from somewhere in the high Sierras, descended on the automobile of Dr. M. B. Mooslin, in a street at San Francisco and began a vicious attack at-tack on the windshield. The bird shattered the windshield and injured one of its wings on the broken glass. Dr. Mooslin captured the eagle and dressed its wing. He said he will offer it to the Golden Gate park aviary. 'There wag happiness In one Hollywood Holly-wood home Tuesday. James Kirk-wood, Kirk-wood, picture actor, was back with his bride, Lila Lee, following an accident pome weeks ago which put Kirkwood In a hospital. Kirkwood was thrown from a horse and suffered a skull fracture, which for a time was feared might prove fatal. GENERAL ft . : Seeking desperately to land before Christmas the stock of liquor t tat awaited them on Rum Row, Jersey runners are working at top speed to get into the water the racing boats of ever-increasing swiftness that are being built for them along the coast. Rodolph Valentino will be back in the films a year ahead of general expectations. ex-pectations. The eastern moving picture pict-ure realm learned that the most famous fam-ous of all the make believe sheiks and the Famous Players-Lasky corporation cor-poration had patched up their differences. differ-ences. Light wines and beer and a modification modifi-cation of the Volstead act to make their sale and manufacture permissible permissi-ble were indorsed by the Chicago city council. FOREIGN Two- large crevices are admitting 2,000,000 cubic feet of molten lava every hour from the Kilausa volcano, said a wireless message received by th department of the interior from Thomas Boles, superintendent of tha Hawaiia national park, in which tTie volcano 13 located, The Portuguese cabinet has resigned. re-signed. The ministry was formed Nov. ember 13, with Antonio Maehado as premier. Five destroyers of the American Asiatic fleet left here recently bound for Hong Kong. The vessels were or. dered to the Chinese port in connection connec-tion with the situation at Canton and vicinity. Rebel forces at Munzanillo, Mex., have captured and executed General Miguel I'ima of the federal army, who was returning to Mexico City from Lower California, where he had been on a mission for President Obregon, according to advices received In official offi-cial circles. If. G. Wells, the novelist, was again defeated for a seat In parliament at last Thursday's election. Running as a Labor candidate for London university, univer-sity, he received 1420 votes, against 10.'i7 for Sir Sydney It. Wells, Conservative, Con-servative, and 'SiYl for Professor Bollard, Bol-lard, Liberal. Lord Shaughnessy, chairman of the hoard of director's of the Canadian Pacific railway, died Tuesday in his 70th year. Ho was taken 111 suddenly. sudden-ly. Death was due to heart disease and complications. Lord Shaughnessy Shaughnes-sy was born In Milwaukee and livod In Montreal. The postulate that "once a knisor always a kiilser," which Wlllholm I lohcn.nllern's friends never tire of emphasizing although ho Is a kaiser without a country, has been fimilly disposed of by a Prussian ministerial decree which gives William the designation desig-nation of "I'rlneo of Prussia," on flie ground that he was that when ho was horn. The title Is tho same for tho ex-crown prince. Tho German government has officially offi-cially announced Its Intention to Initiate Initi-ate direct negotiations wflh the French concerning tho Khlnebind and Ruhr, according to a Ilavas dispatch from Berlin to Paris. The business of tho loaguo of nations na-tions Is to ma 1(0 It possible for governments gov-ernments to net In unity In accomplishing accom-plishing things and not to take gov-nrnmnnlal gov-nrnmnnlal machinery Into lis own hands, Ionl Itobort Cecil told the lugue oouncll. 1 All known means of communication Including radio, were employed by state and federal authorities In following fol-lowing two clues which they hope will enable them to locate Leo Koretz, who Is missing from Chicago after an alleged swindle said to be the most amazing ever accomplished in the middle west. Theodore Roberts, veteran screen and stage actor, is confined to his room in a hotel at Pittsburg under the care of two physicians after having been taken suddenly ill at the conclusion conclu-sion of his appearance at a vaudeville vaude-ville theater. Physicians declined to discuss the nature of Mr. Robert's Illness. Ill-ness. Disagreement over a thirty-second part of an inch in the thickness of nn ordinary board is the obstacle that may block a nation-wide lumber standardization with a resultant snv. Ing of nearly $250,000,000 annually to the American homo building public, according to C. P. Wlnslow, director of the United States forest products laboratory at Madison, Wis. A socond force of nrmed guards was placed on tho trail Tuesday of four prisoners who Monday night scaled tho wall of the Kansas state penitentiary. Chicago and Cook county have adopted the unit valvo assessment pleii ns s step toward equalization of taxes It Is reported to tho Salt Lake rl enlat.) board through tho national board which with 2.') other clvh; organizations or-ganizations Indorsed the system It Is thoiiKbt the plan will become na-tlonwldo. |