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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BOSyEADEHS 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 WESTERN The firing of a presidential salute on the Fourth of July by a British warship in an American port was a feature at Portland of the -celebration in honor of President Harding. Captain Cap-tain Stanley L. Holbrook of H. 51. S. Curley, which arrived for the celebration, cele-bration, conceived the idea and it was at once accepted by the celebration celebra-tion committee. Five rigs at the TJnion Oil company's com-pany's North Burnett street lease at Long Beach, were in flames and other nearby rigs were endangered. A quantity of crude oil stored nearby is threatened. The local fire depart, ment, aided by several hundred volunteers, vol-unteers, is attempting to bring the tire under control. The origin of the fire has not been discovered. One child was killed and 62 persons suffered hurts as a result of the collapse col-lapse of a spectators' stand at Salt Lake City, during a fourth of July Pageant. Before a meager crowd at Shelby, Montana, Jack Dempsey won a fifteen fif-teen round contest from Tommy Gibbons Gib-bons of St. Paul for the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. In all but 3 of the 15 rounds Dempsey hat! a wide margin over the challenger. chal-lenger. At least five trainmen were killed and several passengers wer injured, some of them possibly seriously, when Santa Fe train No. 9, westbound, west-bound, Chicago to Los Angeles, was derailed near Domingo, N. M. Jimmy Duffy, being held on the charge of a car theft; Jimmy Doyle, charged with possession of liquor, Vera McBride, alleged holdup, escap-, ed from the Power county jail at Anierican Falls, Idaho. Delegates from fifty countries 5f the world and every state in the union have gathered at San Francisco for the opening session of the world conference con-ference on education. GENERAL The number of immigrants who have been examined and allowed to enter the United States since the new alien quota opened .Sunday passed the 3000 mark. Tuesday. Some 9000 others still are heing held at the immigration station, or are awaiting aboard ships for their examinations. Forty persons were injured, several probably fatally, when a two car train on the Niagara Falls high speed line of the Internatonal Railway company ran into a open switch at the northern city limits of Tonawanda. Both cars went into the ditch, the first turning completely over. One man was shot and instanly killed, another was wounded in four places and then kidnapped and several sev-eral other men are believed to have been wounded in a mysterious gang light Wednesday in the village of Sag, a Chicago suburb. Rifles, revolvers and clubs figured in the bloody battle bat-tle in which a hundred or more shots were fired. Rival rum runners are blamed by police. Confirmation of the purchase by the Lester strip mine at Herrin, Til., scene of the riots of June, 1922, from the Southern Illinois Coal company, of whkh AVilliam J. Lester is the principal stockhoder, was made by officials of the union at Springfield. The purchase price was reported as $720,000. The property was bought, it was understood t satisfy heavy damage suits brought by Mr. Lester against the miners' union. PERSONAL France at the present time is fighting fight-ing for the same principls as are upheld by the American !Legion, Marshal Foch declared in a Independence Inde-pendence day message received at national headquarters of the legion at Indianapolis. Captain Donald B. MacMillan, Artie Ar-tie explorer, and his picked crew of six sailed for the far north on the Bowdoin on another long cruise, the primary object of which is to determine, deter-mine, if possible, whether another "ice age" is id the process of formation. forma-tion. The advance of glaciers the last seventy years has indicated this, and MacMillan hopes to bring back the scientific proof. Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle gave up command of the battle fleet of the United States navy Saturday to Rear Admiral S. S. Robison with imposing ceremonies aboard the 'battleship 'bat-tleship California, now in San Francisco Fran-cisco bay. Rear Admiral Eberle will depart for Washington to become chief of naval operations. General J. C. Gomez frrst vice president presi-dent of Venezuela was assassinated in bed Saturday nrght says a bulletin from Caracas. Walter Warwick, of Cincinnati, has resigned as assistant secretary of the budget, to become financial agent of the Panama government, it was announced an-nounced at the treasury department. Warwick was formerly comptroller of the treasury. Dr. Geirge Ellery Hale, director of the Mount Wilson observatory, California, Cali-fornia, has been relieved at his own request of active duties and appointed honorary director, and. Dr. Walter Sidney Adamas, his assistant has been made director in charge of operations. oper-ations. Matthew S. Browning, 63 years of age, former mayor of Ogden and prominent capitalist and industrial builder, dropped dead in his law offices of-fices of heart failure. President Masaryk of Czecho-Slo-vakia was taken suddenly ill in Ageria while touring northern Africa for his health. Because of his age, his condition is regarded as serious. Former Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who has been seriously ill with dibetes, his responded favorable to insulin treatment, it was learned. Lansing was treated by Dr. Sterling Kuffin, one of former president Wood-drow Wood-drow Wilson's physicians. FOREIGN A monument in honor of American volunteers in the Fiench army who lost their lives in the world war was unveiled Wednesday in the Place des Etats Unis at Paris. The metal workers' union at Berlin Ber-lin repecting a wage award of the minister of labor, has proclaimed a general strike. The carpenters have also decided to cease work, thus holding hold-ing up building operations. All passengers and crew 'of the steamer Advance, which went ashore on Shut-In island near Halifax in a dense fog, were taken off safely by tug boats. The vessel later broke in half. The first seizures under General DeGoutte's decree giving the occupation occupa-tion forces power to take over private pri-vate property fur reparation purposes were announced Monday. Three plants were taken over by the French, the first being a branch of the Krupp locomotive works at Segeroth, a lit tie station near Essen. Fifteen persons were injured when the Devisonya car, in the automobile grand prix at Toures France failed to make the hairpin turn on the first round. The car hooked its Tear wheel on a poet, swung against a fence and then ran into a tree meantime mean-time sldeswiping the crowd. Japan has decided to approach America and Great Britain with a view of reaching a triparly agreement to enforce the provisins of the Washington naval treaty, without awaiting ratifieaion by France, it was asserted confidently in Japanese newspapers, which print statements believed to le reliable. A number of Belgium soldiers were killed Saturday by the explosion of a time bomb in a passenger car of a train carrying Belgian Soldiers on leave back to Belgian from the Ruhr. The constitutionalist army of Sun Yet-Sen on the Xorth river front Is advancing and has ocupled Ylnglnk from which the Kwangsl troops retreated, re-treated, according to advices received In Peking. Three persons were killed outright, two probably fataly Injured and 41 others were more or loss seriously injured when the crack Sarta Fe west bound Navajo Flyer No. 9 left the tracks and rolled down a steep embankment, one mile and a half west of Domingo, X. M. A score of deaths and over 100 injuries in-juries resulted from fireworks, explosions explo-sions and othr accidents incidental to the nation's observance of Independence Inde-pendence day, av-ordlng to reports from various sections of the country. coun-try. Although efforts to prevent the usual casualties were practically universal uni-versal fatalities occurred In all the principal cities of the country, added to numerous minor Injuries Most of those killed were children. After leaping from the twelfth floor of the Masonic tornple at Nw York, Mario ridel was astounded and disappointed disap-pointed to fin'd himself alive. lie was removed to a honpltal In a sor. Ioum condition, refusing to give any r'-aon for his act. An echo of New York's repeal of tin; state prohibition law was heard In the Georcla. bouse of represent,-!. 1lv-i, Thursday, when reprcitcnfailvo Arnold Introduced a bill recommending recommend-ing a repeal of the Gcorria liquor r"it rlct loan Bands of masked men at Sydney, X. S. made several raids on steel plants where a strike Is In progress. TIiu raids followed several clashes with the police nd the stoning of n magistrate who attempted to read tho riot act In Whitney I'ler. lire that destroyed several minor buildings In tho Imperial city of I'ekln, near the north gate Is said to have consumed a quniillty 'if valuable val-uable ancpnt rords of the deposed Manchu dynasty. Firemen from tho Italian legation tried to help put out tho fire, but were hampered by regulations regula-tions of the republican government, prohibiting the opening or the gates to the forbidden city of China's over. thrown monarchy. Tho momentary j Carnage was small. |