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Show TlHS STORY OF THEJSI WEEK A Complete History of What Ho Been Happening Throughout the World INTERMOUNTAIN Spokane, Wash. Direct transcontinental transcontin-ental passenger and freight ulr .service .ser-vice within two years wns predicted 1y Murle Thorp of Montana, Journalist end magazine editor on u visit to iHpokuno. A company nlroudy hua been formed with a capitalisation of $-50,-000,000 to finance onu vein uro, ho told Clio members of the Spokane chamber of commerce. Large planes have been ordered, by the company, he said, and iwlthln four years, brunch nir Hues will operate from Spokane to nearby cities. Seattle, Wash. Five men 'held for lepwrtatlon ' by federal immigration authorities, escaped from the United States immigration detention station In Seattio recently. They pried apart tho burn of a window leading to a tire e.scapo. None of more than forty Japanese who were In the rowm witli t'ho men attempted to escape. Billings, Mont. Robert I'M ward Manan, aged H, was ilrowned when he foil into a basement near Ids home. The basement bad been built preliminary prelimin-ary to tbo erection of a residence, and melting snow hail Idled the pit with water to a depth of 18 or 20 Inches. It Is presumed the boy was stunned when he fell Into the pit nnd drowned without regaining consciousness. Twin Iills, Ida. Through Its civic liuioaii the Twin Falls Chamber of Commerce will lend its active support and cooperation to Hepresentative Addison T. Smith In a nonewed effort to obtain Inclusion of southern und southeastern Idaho In the mountain time zone. Klamath Iiills, Ore Miss Lydia 1'Yieke, Klamath county 'health nurse, Is recovering from u hazardous trip of ,'!.'! hours on skis through a blinding snowstorm which she undertook recently. re-cently. When news of the plight of a destitute family of six reach Klamath Kla-math Falls, Miss Frlcke went by train to Kirk, where she found that owing to four feet of snow the roads were impassable to lurdinnry traffic. Hiring lour men and equipping them and herself her-self with food and clothing, she buttled but-tled the 'way through a blizzard until compelled to make camp for the night In a deserted cabin. The party resumed re-sumed the task the next day and reached the ranch in time to bring the relief. They found four children sick, with no food except a few beans, and with little clothing. I GENERAL A bequest of ?350,000 to the Little brothers' Aid association for maintenance mainten-ance of summer home for children, wns included in the will of Mitss Anita Bliss, of New York, filed for probate. Miss Bliss died at her summer home In Manchester, Vt., several months ago, leaving an estate valued at about $500,000. Three bandits held up Marcus Nier-man Nier-man in his pawnshop In Chicago, nnd escaped with virtually every bit of jewelry lit it. Nlerman said the loot was worth "between $250,000 and $100,-000." WASHINGTON Distribution f the $1,.00,000 provided pro-vided In the eed loan act Just signed by President Harding for relieving the acute stress of fanners in tne crop failure area of the Northwest, will begin be-gin Immediately, the department of agrieluture announced. The house naval committer agreed to report a bill fixing the maximum uulhurixed enlisted strength of the navy at 80,000 plus tS.000 apprentices Or 10,000 less then the number Secretary Secre-tary Denny said was needed to operate the treaty fleet. The bill also provides pro-vides that not more than 200 members mem-bers nf each graduating class nt tha navy academy shall be commissioned this year, in 102.1, and 1024. There are fill members of the first class at the academy to be graduated in June. Approximately 2fi00 aliens admitted into the United States under temporary permits which would expire March 23 and leave them liable to immediate deportation de-portation have been given an Indefinite extension of time for their stay. Commissioner Com-missioner General Husband of the immigration im-migration bureau announces. President Harding asked congress for an appropriation of $100,000 for the care, cusb.xly and operation of the naval na-val petroleum reserves in California, Wyoming and Oklahoma. An item for this undertaking, formerly carried in the interior department bill, was eliminated, elim-inated, making It necessary for tha navy to provide the funds. Senate committee changes resulting from the resignation of William S. kenyon as senator from Iowa, as decided de-cided upon by the senate Republican committee on committees, nnd ratified by the senate elevate Senator Borah of Idahir to the chairmanship of tin education and labor committee. Mr Borah retires as chairman of the in teroceanlc canals committee. Between $170,000 and $200,000 In negotiable Liberty bonds are missing from the Liberty bond brancli of the treasury, W. H. Moron, chief of the secret sendee, recently stated. Secret service operatives have been sent to Richmond, Va., and Charlottesville, Va., where two employees of the branch, wanted In connection wlrn tha investigation of the loss were reported report-ed to be. Preliminary reports, received by the treasury, of collections of March 13 installments of income and taxes, showed show-ed a total of $280,000,000 on deposit in federal reserve banks. On the basis of the amount received so far, officials declared it was impossible as yet to determine whether Secretary Mellon's estimate of $400,000,000 in tax receipts for the quarter would be obtained. Receipts from March payments lust year aggregated $272,000,000. FOREIGN The allied foreign ministers,, convened con-vened in Paris for consideration of the near eastern situation, sent telegrams reecntly to Constantinople,. Angora and Atens proposing an armistice between be-tween the Greeks and the Turk Nationalist Na-tionalist armies, facing each other in Asia Minor. The fight ftor heavy reductions in tne Japanese army has been abandoned in the diet until the summer session, leaders announced. In tbe meantime, it was stated, small reductions- in the strength of the army will be made in accordance with promises of army authorities. au-thorities. Provisions worth 18,000,000,000 rubles ru-bles will be sent into the drouth-stricken provinces of the Ukraine by the American Mennonites Famine Relief organization under an agreement iust The World, a fifty-ton lugger, loaded with liquors said to be worth $80,000 and manned by a skipper and crew of nine, all heavily armed, was seized by prohibition officers half a mile off nhore from New Orleans, La., In Lake Vontchartrain a few days ago. "Blue Koy" Gainsborough's masterpiece master-piece which Henry E. Huntington is paid to have paid $S50,000 arrived at Us new owner's ln-ine at San Marion, near Ixds Angeles, recently. The painting was guarded night and day on its trip West and was accompanied by Sir Joseph Dueveen, a member of the firm which purchased the painting from the-Duke of Westminster. concluded, says a Moscow dispatch to the Russian trade delegation in London. Lon-don. The legislative assembly, fn India, considering the budget, rejected the proposal to tax Imported silver, with an equal bonnty on exported silver, "roposed Increases In the levies on spirits snd cigars were allowed. The budget deficit not covered by fresh taxation tax-ation totals twelve crores of rupees. (A crore Is 10,000,000 rupees, normally normal-ly $3,240,000.) Drastic reductions for the estimates for the air forces for the coming year were recently aimounced. The estimates esti-mates provide 0,935,fi0O for normal District Attorney .Toab Ranton o! New York, announced that he had a communication from the police department depart-ment informing him that Anthony Cesshtr, drug vendor, had confessed that he had suppl'dl drugs t'i Mabe' Norma mi, movie actress mentioned in the William Desmond Taylor murder case. ITuable t re:ich an agreement, the Jury in the Madalynne Obencbain inn --der --der trial was discharged by the judge. The vote from beginning to end remained re-mained nine to three in favor of conviction con-viction of the woman. Twenty stars of the American film world arrived in Jorusaleum recently tr prepare for the filming of the Old Testament story of King David. About five thousand person are to be eiuploy-de eiuploy-de in the filming of tbe play. Five thousand sVec-p, i,(XX camels and 2,001 goats are also to be used. liecause he was afraid he would be killed if he voted for a verdict of guilty guil-ty In a murrter case in Chicago, Frank Ixidarek, a mechanical engineer, was excused fro-:: jury service. services and 9"0.50O for war liabilities.. liabili-ties.. Last year's figures were 15,-SOft.000 15,-SOft.000 for normal sendees and 1.-171,000 1.-171,000 for war liabilities. A reduction reduc-tion in force equal to two squum-ons :s proposed. All letters and parcel post packages coming nut ol Russia are being heh' :n Berlin untouched. The Oermai1 'instal employees, following n physician's physi-cian's announcement that employees in the Reval poatoffice had been infected r'rom handl'ng Russian mail, refused :o handle such mail there until ti.j minister of posts has given orders for its disinfoot-on against typhus. Leading Swedish banks are understood under-stood to be attempting to form a piol vith a capital stock of 8,00O,00O to iroiuote Swedish trade with Russia by the purchase of Ru.ssian natural prod- icts. Attacked oy a bull, Otto Schrodel of Dresden, Germany, grasped the ani-tial's ani-tial's horns and lea ed on bis back. Finally thrown off, lie landed at the foot of a tree, which he climbed, ne j was finally rescued after a three-hour 1 3iete. |