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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJREADERS 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 Three young men who the police believe murdered Patrolman David H. Crowther late Friday afternoon and left his body near the west bank of the Jordan river at Salt Lake were arrested Monday in Ludlow, Cal., 655 miles from Salt Lake, by Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Gruver of San Bernardino. Robert Sanders, 20, one of the trio has confessed con-fessed according to reports. Legionnaires from every side in ths Union gathered at San Francisco Monday for the opening of the fifth annual convention of the American Legion. A sea of flags, a riot of color and music Indian bands, navy bands, army bands, cowboy bands greeted the delegates and visitors. Three men, armed, who arrived at Sacramento in automobiles Wednesday Wednes-day from nothern counties of California, Califor-nia, were arrested on suspicion of implication in the daylight holdup of a Southern Pacific train near the Oregon line, October 11. The engineer, fireman and brakeman were shot to death, and the mail clerk to bits, by a bomb explosion in the mail car in the holdup. Dan Eden, 50 years of age, foreman oi the Utah-Apex mine in Bingham, was crushed to death and five other men, including Superintendent Joseph Norden, are believed to have lost iheir lives in a cave-in, which occur--reil in a stope on the 1500-foot level of the mine at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The Yuma, Arizona city jail housed Its first alleged airplane thief Thursday Thurs-day when Paul Sparks aviator, was booked on a charge of stealing a flying fly-ing machine from a Los Angeles air port- According to the police Sparks stole the plane and flew it to Yuma, Arizona, where he was arrested. GENERAL ,SLx foreigners in a rowboat, being smuggled across the Detroit river at Ecorse, twelve miles down the river from Detroit, were drowned early Monday morning when a lake steamer steam-er hit the boat and upset It. Aled-es Gudoshian, 40, said to be an Armenian, Armen-ian, was the only one saved- A catastrophie flood gripped Oklahoma Okla-homa City Tuesday. With virtually the entire south side inundated, flood waters of the North Canadian river rising rapidly and creeping relentlessly relentless-ly upward from the lowlands, already literly are lapping at the very threshold thresh-old of the retail business center of the city, with ever prospect that the crest of the high water will not be readied for some time. The itinerary of a six weeks' tour of the Northwest with thirteen carloads of prize winning dairy cows from the International Dairy show at Syracuse, Is'. Y., was announced from Chicago. Tho cows valued at .$."00,000 started from Chicago Wednesday on their trip to Portland, Oregon and return. Prohibition Thursday split wide open the governors' conference held at West Baden, Ind. In spirited discussion dis-cussion shoving aside those listed in the regular schedule for the meeting taxation and agricultural relief lines were drawn sharply between the so-called so-called dry and liberal state executives on the liquor law issues. This subject sub-ject became the paramount theme of the conference. On all sides, especially especial-ly the national dry act and the "law and order" conference witr. President Coolidge at the White II,-.;se Saturday Satur-day were the leading topics of debate-Wide debate-Wide confusion existed among the state chiefs on the challenge of Governor Gov-ernor Pindhot of Pennsylvania, charging charg-ing President Coolidge pe-rsoniilly with full responsibility for the enforcement en-forcement of the dry law. PERSONAL Edmund A. Bock, who resigned as mayor of Salt Lake three years ago after he had confessed to embezzling city funds while serving as auditor some years before, was accidentally shot and killed Sunday forenoon while hunting ducks on Stockton lake, about two and one-half miles south of Stockton, Stock-ton, Utah. A fund of one million dollars was left for charity by Jacob L. Loose, chairman of the board of directors of the Loose-Willes Biscuit company, through his will, which was filed for probate Tuesday. The money is to be used in relieving personal distress and sickness among the needy in Kansas City. Having been advised by the attorney attor-ney general that vacancies on the federal fed-eral bench existing at the adjournment adjourn-ment of congress cannot be filled during dur-ing a congressional recess, President Coolidge has decided to withhold the appointment of new federal judges, including two in California, until Congress Con-gress convenes in December. Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo has tendered to President Tsao Kun his resignation as foreign minister. Although Al-though no official reason has been assigned for Minister Koo's desire to vacate his portfolio it is unofficially reported to be the result of China's replies to the foreign diplomats regarding re-garding the Lincheng bandit episode, and of events that have transpired in connection therewith. Sheriff B. B. Rogers and Constable W. R. Proctor met on one the main streets of Jefferson, Marion county, Texas, Wednesday evening and shot each other to death. No words were exchanged as the two officers met in front of a store in the business section, sec-tion, according to witnesses, and both men died immediately without making mak-ing a statement. Samuel Gompers was Friday unanimously unani-mously re-elected president ' of the American Federation of Labor at the convention in Portland, Oregon. Word was received at Washington of the death of Diego Manuel Chamor-ro, Chamor-ro, President of Nicaragua, Saturday night. President Chamorro was a member of the famous Chamorro family fam-ily which has governed Nicaragua almost al-most without break since 1910. FOREIGN One person was killed and ten wounded in a clash between unemployed unem-ployed demonstrators and police at Berlin Tuesday. AVilhelm-Strasse (the street where the government buildings are located) was closed and guarded by army forces. Lorries filled with troops whirled through the streets. An atmosphere of utmost tension prevailed. pre-vailed. Five thousand unemployed gathered in front of the Rathaus (city hall) demanding food. When charged by police some of the younger hot. heads re-formed in the neighborhood to give battle. There were several minor tilts when the police tried to scatter them. The English battleships Hood and Repulse, with a light cruiser squadron, squad-ron, will sail about the middle of next month on a tour of the empire. They will proceed by way of South Africa to Singapore, thence by way of Australia and New Zealand to British Columbia, where they will arrive probably prob-ably about June. From British Columbia Colum-bia they will proceed through the Panama canal to Halifax and Quebec, while the light cruisers will visit South America. It is expected that calls will be made at several United States ports. Another sanguinary outbreak of Moros in Lanao province, Island ol Mindanao, was reported at Manila Thursday, and the aid of United States troops was asked by the provincial pro-vincial authorities. Tho advices said the Moros, charging on a school-house school-house at Lake Buluan last Sunday, killed three teachers and ten members mem-bers of the Philippine constabulary. The troops slain included a lieutenant, lieuten-ant, a sergeant and eight privates- From six to eight persons are re-ported re-ported dead and many others wounded wound-ed In Wednesdays food riots in Mann-helm, Mann-helm, Germany during which frequent clashes occurred between the do- A senaational aftermath of a firo wbieb destroyed a I'.rooklyn borne and caused tbe death of six persons carne Thursday with the arreBt of W. A. Ford, a real estate broker, and son-In-bnv of one of the victims and Raymond Ray-mond Anderson on charges of murder and arHon. I)amae In excess of $5000 waB caused by the explosion of a dynamite time bomb nt the entrance of the Cub's Irascball stiidlum at Chicago. I'oli'e attributed tho act to members of unions allowed to be opposed to the Jyftndls Isibor award, under which the tadulm was erected last year. Conductors, trainmen and ysirdmcn f,f the ;ull Colorado fic Siinla Ko railway rail-way presented demands to officials of the railroad at Galveston, Friday, for wat'e Increases averaiut; 2) per cent above the present H'.'ile. Kni'lnemen also ani ':onl.emplal.i(i a demand for en Inefase, It, wnfl t.ald. 'I hrcc, m ined men early Monday leld up the nh'ht manager and dev. ernl oilier em.loyo( or the fa'diloa-nl, fa'diloa-nl, !ilz Carllon hotel at Now Vorl: f,nd robbed n Jewelry H'ore In the lob fry hi '.V'i.'i')') worth of ;;emn. monstrators and fcbo police. Tho trouble was the outgrowth f)f tho hl'h prices of food, resulting In a Kcne-ral strike and tlie cutting off of the wator, gas, tdeetric and street car services. A state of seigo was declared by tho police. At least twelve persons were killed and several score Injured by a terrific explosion Thursday in a hunting goods store on the Negliannl I'rospekt, one of the principal streets of Moscow. Two buildings were shattered and debris de-bris and exploding cartridges and cartridge cart-ridge belts were burled among pas. sersby. A terrlblo explosion attributed to communistic organizations occurred Saturday In the citadel nt Warsaw, ac-cording ac-cording to reports received at I'.orlln, and the dead are estimated at twenty, while the wounded are Bald to number Tlie fourth fort of the Warsaw citadel, cita-del, in which explosives were stored blew up Saturday causing great, dam. nice In the city. Twenty-eight iieriionn are Immvn to have been killed by tin1 evploslon, forty eight are severely wounded and 100 slightly Injured. |