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Show HEWS HISTORY OF THE M WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN S. S. Ward, president of the First (National flank of Hope, N. M., aflor investigating the nlTiiirs of tin- bank of Hope, which closed recently, following fol-lowing the disappearance of Hugh jr. Oage, cashier, said more than $IU0,-000, $IU0,-000, or prattlically all of the bank's cash Hnd securities, is missing- He eald only $ 1 OH has been counted in the hank. Officials have heen unable to find any trace of (lage. Adam Hlaszyk, 19 years of age, lias been sentenced U) life imprisonment la Sun Quentln penitentiary for the murder of Mrs. Nancy JI. YVheelock, his landlady who was strangled for her Jewels at I-os Angeles. John Sho-lost, Sho-lost, who stood trial with lilaszyk, anil also was convicted, had his sentence sen-tence deferred pending the court's ruling rul-ing on a motion for a new trial A third defendant, who pleaded guilty, already is serving a life sentence. Railroads of the country are moving the largest volume of business in their history except in the month of October, Octo-ber, l!r.!0, It was announced at the western offices of the Association of Railway Executives. The latest figures fig-ures on shop employees now at work on the roads, including those which have made separate settlement with the tinion shop crafts who struck .July 1 last, showed that 8f per cent of the normal forces were at work on western lines, 8(i.4 per cent on eastern east-ern lines and 85 per cenc on the southern lines. The agricultural bloc is the only bloc at Wahingl-on which was' worked In the open and for the benefit of the people, according to William Jennings Uryan, former secretary of state, in an address before the I-os Angeles City club. "It is the only bloc which has accontplished anything whatsoever at the present session of congress," said Jlr. Bryan. He said he favored cancellation of European debts in return re-turn for guarantee of disarmament and peace. Eight persons were injured, seven neriously, when n Burlington train struck and demolished a taxicab on a grade crossing near Denver. According Ac-cording to the engineer of the tvain, the automobile tried to beat the train to the crossing. Keports received at the office of Claron Nelson, at Salt Lake, superintendent superin-tendent of the western division of the air mail service show that the western west-ern division leads in efficiency for the month of August. The local division has an average of 97 per cent. The performance report for the month of August shows 100 per cent for the western division. This is the second consecutive month for this division. GENERAL A national department of education with representation in President Harding's Hard-ing's cabinet, the establishment of a national university at Washington, and compulsory education for all children of the nation through the eighth grade was advocated by John H. Cowles of Washington, sovereign grand commander com-mander of the southern jurisdiction of he United States of America, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, in an address ad-dress at Cleveland, O., before members mem-bers of the 110th supreme council of the northern masonic jurisdiction. Walking into Christ church at Glen-dale, Glen-dale, Ky., while prayer meeting was in progress, S. M. Bond approached D. V. Rider, prominent Glendale merchant mer-chant and shot Rider, who died instantly. in-stantly. Ill feeling had existed between be-tween the two for several months, it is said. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed destroy-ed the Box company plant at Jlil-waukee. Jlil-waukee. Wis., causing a loss estimated estimat-ed at close to $.'500,000. The building burst into flames shortly after the workmen had left for the day and burned till the structure was practically prac-tically razed. One wall of the building build-ing fell into the river, endangering the lives of a score of fire-fighters. Seven brewery warehouses were sealed up at Windsor, Ont., by Ontario Ontar-io provincial police, who conducted the biggest liquor raid ever made on the border. Seizure of the liquors was out of the question, owing to the large quantity involved, and it was decided j to seal the storehouses instead. Of- ficers said the stocks affected amount- ' e to v!b'.4'JG pints of beer and ale. A new chapter to the usual annals of mine disasters was written for the Argonaut mine fire at Jackson, Calif., as a result of the part played by the airplane. So vital did flying become in the work of attempted rescue that machines were constantly whirring between be-tween San Francisco and Jackson. Becausa he claimed exemption during dur-ing the world war, Christian Hansen, native of Denmark, was denied TJnlted State citizenship by Judge F. 6. Dietrich, federal Judife of Idaho. - - i WASHINGTON C Jling of congress in spei-iul . sion ;ibout November to consider the administration ship subsidy bill, amendments to the iransportation a -t and certain appropriation bills as considered at a conference between I President Harding and Speaker (li'lett ' of the bouse, Senator Lodge of Jlas. sachusetts, Republican senate leader, and Itepresentatice Mondell of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Republican house leader. The three congressional leaders were understood un-derstood to favor reconvening of eon. I gress immediately after the Novembei I election, and President Harding has J I indicated that he has such a step tin. ! der consideration. An extraordinary conclave of the supreme council of the thirty-third de gree of the Northern .Masonic juris diction, Lnited States of America, An. cient Accepted Scottish Itite, will be held in Cleveland one day this yeai for the 'spec-ific purpose of investing invest-ing President Harding with the Unity-third degree, the highest degree o mansonry,'' it was decided at t he sex sions of the supreme council. Schedules filed by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad company to in. crease rates on coal from Kentucky. Tennessee and Virginia lo various parts of Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, were suspended by the interestate commerce commission until January IS. The commisson also suspended until un-til January IS schedules proposing to increase rates on coal from mines in crease rates on coal from mines in Kentucky of the Cumberland & JIan-Chester JIan-Chester railroad to numerous points in the North, Northwest and Southeast. South-east. A resolution authorizing the secre-tary secre-tary of war to lettse nitrate plants numbers 1 and '1 and Waco quarry near JIuscle Shoals, Ala., at !fl a yeai each on condition that they shall pro duce fertilizer components for sale tc the public at a price not to exceed J per cent profit, was introduced in the house by Representative Hull, Republican Repub-lican of Iowa. The resolution also provides that the plants are to be kept in condition to produce nitrates and other components of ammunitions and proposes sale to the Alabama Power cmpany of the government owned steam plant at Gorgas, Ala, together wth the transmission line to Sheffield. 6 Information that President Harding had made up his mind definitely to veto the soldiers bonus bill has reached senate leaders from some of his close advisers. .After receiving this word the majority leaders made an informal preliminary canvass of the senate which was said to have shown 84 votes against overriding a veto, or two more than the number necessary to prevent final enactment of the bonus legislation. FOREIGN That the medical' world has won its battle against "sleeping sickness" was announced to 3,000 German physicists and physicians attending the centennial centen-nial of the Physicists association of Germany. Prof. Martin Jlayer announced an-nounced that a preparation which had proved successful had been discovered in a Saboratory near Cologne. The British government has established estab-lished ample credits' in the United States upon which to draw to pay interest in-terest falling due on October 15 on the $15,000,000,000 British debt to this government, it has been stated officially offi-cially at the treasury department. An alarming picture of internal conditions con-ditions in Germany in consequence of the poor harvest and the "unfilfillable demands" of her late enemies is drawn by Dr. Karl Wirth, German chancellor, chancel-lor, in an interview with the Berlin correspondent of the Westminsted Gazette. Ga-zette. Germany's only hope, he intimated, in-timated, lay in America. Certain changes in the . cabinet, which have been under consideration by the Pekin government for some time have been announced, and are believed to have an important bearing bear-ing on the relations existing between the northern and southern republics. "Stop the war!" was the slogan of reresentatives of 6,000,000 British laborers la-borers as the general council of the trades union congress met in London. Leaders' of the congress stated their constituents were decidedly opposed to military action against the Kemal-ists Kemal-ists in the Near East. Smyrna no longer exists. Fire which raged for three days with unabated un-abated fury has swept the city. Only blackening masonry and a small vestige ves-tige of the Turkish quarter remain. German potash prices will be raised three per cent on October 1 ; to meet the rising costs of coal and j labor, the commerce department was ' advised by Trade Commissioner Alfred Al-fred Dennis at Berlin. The international committee for Russian relief has decided to continue work under the direction of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen of Norway. The organization or-ganization will bear Dr. Nansen's name, its title in French being "Action "Ac-tion Nansen." Parliament lias unanimously confirmed con-firmed the action of Premier Massey In announcing that New Zealand will send a contingent of men to defend the Daraanelle pjfainst th Turks M necessary. |