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Show PERSONAL Sensational testimony against Col. onel Charles It. Forbes, former director direc-tor of the veterans' bureau, involving charges of conspiracy and graft on a large scale, dope and rum plots and wild drinking orgies with women was heard by the senate committee investigating inves-tigating the veterans' bureau Wednesday. Wednes-day. The testimony was given by Elias H. Mortimer of Philadelphia, agent for construction companies seeking contracts for the building oi hospitals for ex-service men. Thursday, Washington extended the official welcome to David Lloyd George, Great Britain's war premier. A call upon the President was follew-ed follew-ed by a luncheon at the White House at which members of the cabinet were invited to meet the former premier. Assurance was given by President Coolidge in a letter to the organization organiza-tion of the disabled American veterans, veter-ans, made public Thursday, tnat "those in places pf national responsibility responsi-bility are striving to the utmost to aid and compensate as far as compensation compen-sation is possible," the former service men disabled in the World War. David Lloyd George came near death during his parade of welcome at Indianopolis Monday, wnen a fire truck answering a downtown alarm broke through ttie line directly in back of the former premier's car. TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS 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 y" WESTERN ' Twelve people miraculously escaped 'death or serious injury Tuesday night at Salt Lake City, when the Ninth avenue street car, in charge of Vlotorman John Smullen, became uncontrollable un-controllable between Sixth and Seventh Sev-enth avenues on B street, and ran wild down to First avenue, where it came to a stop after crashing into twr automobiles, injuring six people wno were in the automobile. Eleven naval officers among whom rests responsibility for the wreck of even destroyers at Point Honda, Calif., on September S, have been ordered or-dered tried by general court martial the navy department was advised Wednesday. Only the presence of mind of the chauffeur who heard the fire siren above the din of the cheering people and swerved prevented a crash which might have been fatal. Formation of a new national political politi-cal party with Henry Ford as its standard bearer will be undertaken at a national organization conference of all Ford-for-president clubs, at Detroit. The call for the conference was decided upon at a meeting Monday Mon-day of several Michigan Ford clubs. The prohibition party's nomination for president in 1924 is Henry Ford if he wants it, according to a state, ment issued at Los Angeles by Virgil G. Hinshaw, of Washington, D. C, chairman of the prohibition national committee. Edmund A. Bock, who resigned aa mayor of Salt Lake three years ago after he had confessed to embezzling city funds while serving as auditor some years before, was accidentally shot and killed Sunday forenoon while hunting ducks on Stockton lake, about two and one-half miles south of Stockton, Stock-ton, Utah. FOREIGN Fourteen police are dead and 108 wounded and thirty communists are known to be dead and 2o0 wounded as a result of Wednesday's fighting in the .streets of Hamburg. Work was resumed Thursday at the docks at Vera Cruz after a strike of twelve days. A controversy hetueen the Maritime worker's union and the railway employes led to the strike which had virtually tied up the port. Six persons including Dhanna Singh, the notorious leader of the Pa-bar Pa-bar Akalis, Sikh Zealots, were killed by the explosion of a bomb near llos-hiarpux llos-hiarpux a Pritish colony in India. While Supt. of Police Ilorton and his assistant, Jenkyn, were arresting Dhanna Singh, a bomb which the hit-ter hit-ter was carrying exploded blowing Dianna and five policemen to pieces and injuring Superintendent Ilorton, his assistant and another policeman. With the former crown prince re-ported re-ported negotiating to return to Ger-many Ger-many to aid in "reorganization of the fatherland," Chancellor Stresemann Wednesday was arranging to reorganize reorgan-ize the reich into a federation like the United States to ward off dismemberment dismember-ment threatened by the separtist move In the Rhineland, the breach between be-tween Jiavaria and the central gov. ernment and socialist and communist unrest in Saxony. Disorders in Hunan, China, have forced the consuls at Chansha, capl-tol capl-tol of the province and other foreigners foreign-ers able to reach the city to take refuge re-fuge aboard American gunboats anchored an-chored in midstream. The fate of those in the Interior of the province Is not known. Publication Saturday of reports in Tokyo that more than WM) Korean residents or Japan were killed by vigilantes and troops during the excitement ex-citement following the' earthquake brought forth, nn authoritative statement state-ment detailing alleged Instances of looting, incendiarism and other outrages out-rages committed by Koreans individually indivi-dually or In groups. The Separatists led by Leo Deckers and Dr. Gutliardt proclaimed a Rhino-land Rhino-land republic, at Alx-La-Chapollo Snndny. Not a drop of blood was shod, although the Separatists took possession of the city hall and various var-ious public buildings and control of the police forces. The regular police pol-ice finally ranged themselves on tho sidy of the republic. Republican head0nrtorH at Dub. Iln Issued a Ktatemen'. Tuesday after, noon claiming there ore (i.HNlJ Sinn Fein prisoners on hunger Btrlluj In Free States Jail. Demobilization oi thi Free Slate army Is proceeding al the rale of M)0 men weekly. A illnpatrh from Mukden, received here at Shanghai, says five .Inpamw mid Hlvly ''hlncHo were killed In nn oxploitlon In ii coal mine at LoliuVul. The pit Is iillll filled with gnu and relief workers are unable to enter, tin dinpal.ch uayH. Seized witli a sudden fit of insanity on 'board Santa Fe train No. 7, westbound, west-bound, at Thatcher, early Thursday inorning, Telesforo Candelaria of Monrovia, Cal., ran amuck with a knife, stabbed and seriously wounded wound-ed Conductor M. C. Boubler of Albue-querque Albue-querque and three passengers and himself was killed. Candelaria was shot twice by Otto G. Palmer, negro porter, of Albuequerque. A blow over the head with a stove poker by another an-other passenger on the train was fatal to the Mexican. Two new government hospitals for tubercular former ex-service men will be built in Livermore, Calif., and Los Angeles, Calif., it was announced Monday by Director Hines of the United States Veterans' Bureau. Each hospital will contain 250 beds but will be enlarged as conditions justify. A special election to pass on the question of dividing the territory of Alaska of which the late President Harding suggested the ooutnern portion por-tion might well be admitted soon as a state, was called Saturday by the Juneau council for November. GENERAL Two bandits captured by police at Indianapolis following the holdup of a gasoline filling station, confessed, police said, that they held up a bank in Belvedere Gardens, a suburb of Los Angeles, Calif., on August 21 last and escaped with money, bonds and other securties worth S14.000. The men arrested are Jack Holloway. alius Donvan, and Thomas Drangmis. William Kelly, a messenger for the Manufacturers' Trust company, at New York was shot and seriously wounded by four armed bandits, who accosted him as he was delivering $20,000 to a concern in the upper side, and who forced the money from his hands when he refused to surrender it. The British tank steamer San .Manuel, .Man-uel, from Cardiff, Wales for New York, reported by wireless Wednesday Wednes-day that the schooner William S. McDonald Mc-Donald was on fare sixteen miles east of Ambrose lightship and that she liad rescued the crew. Rusty snow shovels were brought out of the cellars in the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain and Middle western states Thursday Thurs-day to clean off sidewalks already enow covered, or in preparation for the flurries forecast. Snow from one to five incites deep covers Colorado and parts of Wyoming and South Da-iota, Da-iota, and rain and snow accompanied ty a gale which swept east over the Great Lakes and the Northwest region. re-gion. Five persons were killed and two injured, one perhaps fatally, when an automobile was struck by a Frisco railroad passenger train near Win-field, Win-field, Alabama, Sunday according to advices received at Memphis. Wage Increases totalling .$.'!,2."0,00O, it year and affecting approximately 100,00') railroad employes were granted grant-ed to clerks, storekeepers, train and engine crews, callers, station employes employ-es in general, truckers and common laborers in a decision just made public pub-lic by the United States railroad labor board. A report charging Governor J. C. Walton with "wilful neglect of duty, lncorneptency, corruption in office, and offenses involving moral turpitude," turpi-tude," was submitted Monday to the lower house of the Oklahoma legislature legisla-ture by Kb committee on investigation and Impeachment. The report sets out 22 specific charges In support of tlie general accusation. Six persons were burned to death a wile and a half north of Dos ('hiitcs, Oregon, early Tuesday when the borne of Kll Chamie was destroyed In a fire of undetermined origin. Murder Mur-der and iiiilclde are (inspected following follow-ing the finding of a revolver near Channel body In tin; kitchen. Four armed bandits held up Ken neily brothers pawn uliop in the bu:.l. Hen i ilhilricf, nf Philadelphia and eii-mped eii-mped with Jewelry and ceih exl limited limit-ed at. '-.'","''". The holdup occurred pti block for u police iil.nt.lon. |