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Show NEWS HISTORY OF the m WW A Complete History ofWhatHai Been Happening Throughout the World WE8TERN To combat the present crime wave, Salt Lake City is to have greater police po-lice protection. The present force of 325 men is to be materially increased. Bents In the business districts nre to be shortened, residential districts are to he patrolled and motorcycle patrolmen patrol-men are to be placed on duty at the various outlying fire stations which Will be used as sub-police stations. "Scare 'em stiff then grab the liquor" That is the new slogan of San Francisco federal prohibition agents. It was announced here. The slayer of Rulon C. James, 16 years old, who was shot to death In a drug store, at Salt Lake City, still is at large, although detectives In Salt Lake and adjoining cities have made an exhaustive search for him. Mrs. Clara Philips, under sentence to serve from ten years to life in the state penitentiary for the murder of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, escaped from the Los Angeles county jail. The WASHINjTON The Semite agriculture committer witli the senate judiciary committer In the movement to amend the on-stitution on-stitution so that a n wly elected congress con-gress would meet soon after Congressional Congress-ional election. The amendment al3 ) would change presidential Inauguration Inaugura-tion day from March 4 to the third Monday in January and members of the senate and house would be'.'in their term3 of office the first Monday In January after the biennial elections. elec-tions. Congress would meft in regular reg-ular session annually on the first Monday Mon-day in January. Woodrow Wilson, who has made a game uphill fight for the last three years to regain his health, may recover re-cover completely from the stroke of paralysis which came upon him as the result of arduous labors In h's great battle for the league of nations. Mr. Wlson never will recover the robust health he enjoyed during his presidential presi-dential administration, as liis long Illness has greatly taxed h's strength at an age when vitality cannot be regained re-gained easily. But it is believed that the effect of the paralysis soon may disappear and he may again enjoy free use of his arms, legs and mussles. Pres'-dent Harding broke a precedent prece-dent by permitting the second day of the new session of congress to pass without delivering his annual message reporting on "the state of the union'' and outlining tl'jf! ad.min'stration's recommendations for legislaton. Nine million dollars for enforcement enforce-ment of prohibition, or $250,000 less escape was so well planned and quietly quiet-ly executed that it remained unknown for more than six hours. Election of Samuel J. (Lindsay, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, as county commissioner for a four-year-term, is contested by Joseph Wirthlin, defeated Republican candidate, candi-date, in a statement filed in the Third district court at Salt Lake City. "Misconduct, "Mis-conduct, fraud and corruption" are alleged al-leged in asking for a nullification of tie vote in district 137 Three local men lost their lives and property damage estimated at $75,000 was caused by a fire whih swept the Ben Hur hotel of Portland, a three-etory three-etory frame structure. James E. llahoney was hanged at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla for the murder of is aged wife, Kate Mooers Mahonev, at Seattle in April, 1921. GENERAL Members of the Ku Klux Klan were barred at Chicago from serving on e. Cook county jury. Simeon Shulin, of New York, will recover from the effects of a broken neck, surgeons announced. He passed the crisis after having been kept alive several days by artificial respiration respira-tion administered by sixty volunteers. Heavier fines, jail sentences and trips through morgues and hospitals to view the dead and injured victims of reckless automobilists are becoming effective in many parts of the middle and far West to curb the steadily mounting toll of automobile victims a digest from the report of several state shows. Major Guy' L. Gearhart of Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kas., Captain Benton A. Doyle of St. Louis Mo., and four enlisted than authorized last year, is provided for in the 1923-24 treasury supply bill reported .by the appropriations committee com-mittee to the house. The United States government Thursday officially honored Georges Clemenceau. As a state luncheon guest of President Harding at the White House, the French war -premier sat with the highest officials of the adminstrative and legislative branches of the government. Thn vice president, the chief justice of the supreme court, sven cabinet members, mem-bers, house and senate leaders and ranking officers of the army and navy all combined to honor Clemenceau. , President Harding was not entirely satisfied with the shipping bill as it was passed by the house, it was declared de-clared at the White House, but at this time will not make known his objections, objec-tions, as to do- so, it is felt, would only confuse the issues which are to he met when the measure is taken up inx the senate. There will be no lowering of the immigration im-migration bars to admit refuges from the near East. Chairman Johnson of the house immigration committee said in commenting on the suggestion of former Premier ATenizelos of Greece that a large portion of 1,100,00 pesos from Greece and Asia Minor be given entry to the United States. FOREIGN Reports received say that Chinese bnndts have taken control of Tsing, tao, Shantung, the Kiaochow port whose stormy career in war and diplomacy di-plomacy was to culminate in its return re-turn to China, after twenty-four years of alien rule, the first sixteen under Germany and the last eight under Japan. The population is reported fleeing from the city. Trains from Tsiimtao are said to be crowded with men were killed at Newport News when n Martin bombing plane carrying five of them, and a Fokker .scouting machine ma-chine piloted by Major Gearhart collided col-lided about 250 feet in the air. Both machines crashed in flames. Four children were burned to death and several other children and four grown persons were severely burned nt Eugene, Ore., when a can of gasoline gaso-line used to start a fire at the home of Ivor Johnson exploded. Four of the injured nre expected to die. - William II. Klepper, president of the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league, was forever barred from further fur-ther participation in the affairs of the National Association of Professional Baseball leagues, in a resolution adopted adopt-ed by the board of arbitration of the i organization. The action of the botird j of arbitration in barring Klepper from I nil participation In baseball affairs is I the most drastic ever taken by organ- j ized baseball against any Individual. Klepper's explnsion is result of alleged false statments concerning the paid-in paid-in captal stock of the Tacoma (Washington) (Wash-ington) club which he organized. Madame Oalli-Curot, the grand opera singer, escaped with only slight injuries injur-ies when her automobile struck a pile of building rocks, on the roadway, near Passaic, narrowly missed an open drawbridge over the Passaic river and rolled on its side against the bridge approach. She was returning to New York from a concert at Orange. One trainman was killed nnd another an-other injured when the locomotive of nn ast-'.iound Chesapeake &. Ohio passenger pass-enger train plunged into the new river from a high trestle near Charleston. In a letter bearing the stump of the Kill-: lux K'l.in No. ('..'! of l.ouisanu, the mayor, pollen force, and town marshal of Il.i) nesvllle, tin oil town in north Louisiana w ro ordered to resign. The police were (charged with shielding bootleggers nnd lawbroakers and the town marshal tie a lawbreaker. refugees. Chinese police sent from Peking to take over the city are reported re-ported to have been driven out of their barracks. Ireland has taken her place among the world's commonwealths. The provisional government and parliament parlia-ment ceased to function, their place being taken by the permanent parliament parlia-ment and cabinet of the Irish free state and the new commonwealth being be-ing formally proclaimed as an established es-tablished government. The British steamer Clyne Bock collided with the American steamer George Washington off Dover, according accord-ing to a wireless message from the Clyne Kock to Lloyd's. The stem of the Clyne Bock was badly cracked and the vessel was leaking but did not want immediate assistance. No report re-port has been received ns to what happened hap-pened to the George- Washington, ! which was bound from Plymouth for Bermen. President Cosgrave announced to the parl'ament that Deputy Sean Ha'es had been shot and killed nnd Deputy Pntrick O'Mallle, who was denuty sjeakor, has bem wounded ' while they were on their way to the i parliament session. Bandits are creating a reign of ter-iror ter-iror on the Shantung peninsula. Business Busi-ness is palayzed and foreigners are ! fleeing for their lives, occording to iidvlces. Fifty persons have 'een killed in rioting iu Smyrna, following expulsion of Greeks. previous dispatches from Atlcns declared that Turks and Gre-j'o alike were staging violent demonstra-I demonstra-I linns in favor of return of the Creek exile:!. Civilians clashed with Kemal-lst Kemal-lst troops result in',' in fix casualties, , the Athens dispatches said. Turks 'and Ore-ks protesting explnsion of th latter claim that the policy is wiping i out the social and economic life 'i-f tho ) city and territory. |