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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE W WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN A combination of delivery by three of Seattle's bakeries is estimated to eavo consumers of that city $.'!000 a day. A cenoral reduction ot 3 cents a loaf on broad Is expected. liecause of the meeting of the Colorado Colo-rado river commission requiring the attendance of the Governors of 10 western states, the date set for the gasoline tax conference called by governor gov-ernor Hart to meet at San Francisco has been postponed to November 2ii. Ex-soldiers, sailors and marines hve received from the state of Ore-i;on, Ore-i;on, since the enactment of the so-CAlled so-CAlled educational aid dill in 1919 a total of $1,208,100.54 according to a report completed by the secretary of slate. WASHIN3TC.N I President Harding, Secretary of AVer' Weeks and Secretary of the Navy Den-by Den-by with military escort, went to ttie grave of the unknown soldier on Armistice Ar-mistice day and left a wreath there, aft. r a brief ceremony. Xo national holiday was claimed bj the president or Armistice day, whe is said to feel that simple exercises al the grave are preferable in express ing official government recognition oi the day. President Harding has decided to call a special session of the Sixty-seventh Congress to meet in Washington on November 20 It was announced officially at the ' White House Tuesday. Tues-day. The ship subsidy bill will be the most importantpiece of legislation to be considered at the new session, but it is said that a number of 1023-24 appropriation bills also will be taken up and passed. Secretary Hughes and the Brazilian ambassador have signed the contract under the terms of which the U. S. will send a naval mission to Brazil. The purpose of the mission is to assist the Brazilian navy in matters that pertain per-tain to improvement of their naval service. Four persons are known to have been killed, fifty were injured, some seriously, and many are missing as the result of a tornado which struck in the oil fields just southwest of Drumright, Okla. Dragged from his rowboat by a giant devil fish which he had speared, Albert Garness, 19, oi Sunrise Beach, lost his life in the swift waters of the narrows, near Gig harbor. The crew of a fishing trawl near by saw the accident, ac-cident, and spread a purse seine oround the spot, recovering the lad's body within half an hour, but efforts at resuscitation failed. The top of the market on the opening open-ing day of the new Union stockyards at Los Angeles was 9 cents for cattle, cat-tle, 13.25 cents for lambs and 11.50 cents for hogs. Receipts were seventy-six ears the first day and forty-two cars the second day of trading. Snowfall generally throughout the Rocky Mountain states brings with it pronounced lower temperatures in some districts and relieving drouth stricken areas which menaced farmers of several states, particularly New-Mexico. New-Mexico. . Caught in the grasp of one of the greatest storms in this section of the country, all Wyoming and country East and South through Nebraska and neighboring states, is struggling blindly blind-ly to re-establish communication with the outside -world, which was cut off. Favorable prospects for anothei large sugar crop in Cuba according to a report to the commerce department from Trade Commissioner Livengood at Havana. President Harding's recent proclamation proclama-tion creating a national monumet embracing em-bracing the newly discovered Timpan-ogos Timpan-ogos cave in American Fork canyon, seven miles east of American Fork, Utah, marks a new step in public recognition rec-ognition and use of a region rich in natural beauty and attracti.cn, says the forest service, United States department de-partment of agriculture. The death rate from automobile accidents ac-cidents in Salt Lake City is lower than the average of the six largest cities of the United States, according to statistics gathered by the census bureau. bu-reau. The death rate from such accidents acci-dents in Salt Lake City in 1921 was 14.8 per 300,000 of population; the general avrage rate for all large cities was 15.S. A great out-of-doors shrine for all denominations in full view of the huge snow cross on Holy Cross mountain moun-tain in western Colorado is created in an order of Secretary Wallace oi the department of agriculture, setting aside 350 acres of the Holy Cross national na-tional forest for devotional purposes. A railroad twenty-one, miles in length will be constructed in the The Horned Frogs a foot ball team of the Christian University, Waco, Texas, recently pledged themselves not to shave until they win a game. The co-eds agreed to comb their bobbed bob-bed hair back and expose their ears until the tonm registers a victory. GENERAL It is reported that the Japanese freighter Toni Maru is drifting with a broken rudder about 1500 rriles west of Seattle. Rescuers are unable to give any help because of high winds. An opening day attendance of nearly 2G,0 persons, the greatest in the history his-tory of the Pacific International Livestock Live-stock exposition, greeted the initial showing of the finest bred stock that the west can produce at Portland last Saturday. Charles P. Steinmetz, electrical wizard wiz-ard of Schenectary N. Y. has Invented and perfected a new type of electric motor car which his associates say will revolutionize the automobile industry. Three members of the fourth class U. S. naval academy were on the stand Tuesday at the court martial, which is trying Midshipman John P. Gilmer, Jr. of San Diego, California, on charges of hazing. The great volcano of Kilauea, Hawaii, Ha-waii, which has been dormant tempor-ily tempor-ily following a sensational explosive eruption in March 1921, has resumed activity, according to T. A. Jaggor, government volcanologist, whose observatory ob-servatory is at the brink of the volcano's vol-cano's abyss. Negligence was responsible for the gas explosion in the Reilly coal mine, at Spangler, Pa., Monday morning according ac-cording to a statement given out Wednesday Wed-nesday by Chief Mine Inspector Sewn Se-wn Button of Ilrrisburg. A verdict for ?1.iOO damages in favor of George Carter, 45, who charged charg-ed Miss Alice Peel, -11, with breach of promise to wed hiai, was returned hy a jury in superior court in Cincinnati. The Service Star l.egi m, at the clot!" of the national convention at the Hotel Drake adopted for its national na-tional emblem the flag designed by Mrs. SeMon I. Clawson of Salt I.ake, presented by the Utah delegates. heart of the Sierra mountains in California Cali-fornia to provide an outlet for 167,-000,000 167,-000,000 feet of lumber in the Plumas National forest, recently sold by the government to a lumber company. The number of civil service employes em-ployes on the government rolls (exclusive (ex-clusive of army, navy, marine corps and legislative employes) is now 550,-G63, 550,-G63, the smallest number since the United States entered the war. FOREIGN It is reported from Haiti that this season's coffee crop which is now being picked will be the largest in Haiti's history. The "flapper" is rapidly disappearing in London, the first signs of waning popularity is the discarding of bobbed hair and the return of medium length skirts. In South America, Brazil has one motor vehicle for every 1497 persons, Argentina, one for every 296, Chil one for every 455. The British government has directed the further payment of $50,000,000 to the United States on November 15 to apply on the interest due in he war debt. An insurrection has broken out on the island of Sam-os. off the Smyrna coast of Asia Minor, accordin; to advices ad-vices received in Paris the rebels demanding de-manding an autonomous government for the island. Greek troops have been called out to suppress the outbreak. The rainbow is well represented in the veritable flood of taxicabs that has descended on the capital during the past few weeks. Displacing the small cars which hitherto have been the only means of motor transportation, transporta-tion, one may now ride in a taxi of almost any hue yellow, blue, white, brown, green and varigated. Tli slaying of two mounted policemen police-men by Eskimos and the worst ice in the memory of inhabitants of the far n irth are reported by the steamer Lady Kindersley, just back from a tour of the company's stations on the Artie ocean. The price of lead litis advanced from (j.."0 to G.T.") lie-.- pound. The former Herman emperor, once all-hiuest of the empire, and Princess lierniione of Itetiss were married at the house of Doom, Holland where the lord chides in exile. This second venture v.cs in slrtintre contrast wilh that day in 1X1 when, as crown prince, he wedded Autrusta ictoria, datitxltie: of ( i rami Duke Frederick of Schieswitt ilolstein. The. iioosex elt memorial tree, which htt heen the. stih.ieet -if controversy sinco planted on tire Alabama cttpi'ol lawn hy Montgomery l'oy Scouts, mys-teriosnly mys-teriosnly disappeared and officials si ill w ere without identity of the miscreants. mis-creants. latutrnants .1. A. MacKeady and Oaltley Kelly, army aviators were forced to land near Indianapolis after f-omplcti 3:.' '.'0 iO miles on an attempted nonstop flight from San Dieo to New VorK. |