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Show Historv of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed a -a Jnmos 1'Yeemnn of Omalin lms a bullet bul-let in his heart unci is still alive. lie was shot by his wife, from whom lie hail been separated, when lie returned home after he is said to have threatened1 threat-ened1 her. The coal crisis has passed, in the judgment of the interstate commerce commission, which has issued an order vacating all remaining priority orders affecting preference for open top cars in the movement of conl. Senator and Mrs. Warren G. Harding Hard-ing observed Thanksgiving quietly at Ancon, C. Z. Although gray sides may have prevailed over much of the United States, a scorching tropical sun bathed Ancon, the Pacific terminus of the Panama canal, while the presidentelect president-elect had dinner. WASHINGTON. Senator Underwood of Alabama, Democratic leader of the senate, predicted pre-dicted on his return to Washington that the proposed resolution declaring a state of peace with Germany would not be adopted at the December session ses-sion of congress. If congress at the coming session is unable to enact legislation to restrict immigration, it probably will be urged by the house immigration committee to bar all aliens from the United States temporarily. The next congress may be confronted with the necessity of either increasing tax rates or providing for another issue is-sue of long term bonds, according to preliminary surveys of the financial situation made for members of the house ways and means committee by treasury officials. Creation of a department of social welfare to "safeguard and promote the social welfare of the people of the United States" is' provided for in a bill prepared by Senator Kenyon of Iowa for introduction at the coming com-ing session of congress. The head of the department would be a member of the cabinet. Secretary Colby is expected to make known before his departure for South America the nature of his reply to the 1 .tcent letter of R. V. Pesquiera, con-t.dential con-t.dential agent here of the provisional government of Mexico, setting forth the claims of that government to recognition re-cognition by the United States. FOREIGN. British government agents are reported re-ported to have discovered evidence in the series of raids now under way which link up Sinn Fein leaders with officers of the "republican army in the murder campaign." Optimists at the meeting of the assembly as-sembly of the league of nations are counting, upon finishing the work of the session ten days earlier than was calculated cal-culated by league officials. Six persons were killed and twenty twen-ty injured in an explosion of a former shellmaking plant at Vergato, thirty-five thirty-five miles from Milan, Italy. An attempt was made to assassinate General Cameron at Limerick, Ireland. Bullets struck his carriage as he was leaving the barracks. He was not injured. in-jured. ; The league of nations committee on disarmament has authorized Sir Cecil Hurst to draw up a tentative plan permitting per-mitting the league to exercise the most effective control over traffic in war materials. According to Warsaw dispatches, Poland has pledged the league of nations na-tions that General Zellgoushi's campaign cam-paign against Lithuania will be halted. Sweeping down on the leaders of the Sinn Fein movement, British police forces at Dublin arrested Arthur Griffith, "acting president of the Irish Republic," on November 26, as well as Professor John MacNeill, founder of the Irish volunteers, and several other high officials of the republican organization. It has been learned authoritatively that Viscount Ishii of Japan will present pre-sent the question of racial equality informally to the league of nations assembly at this session. Continued fall in cotton prices is helping to paralyze Egyptian business, says a Cairo dispatch. Banks are faced with a large deficit on merchandise merchan-dise and the situation has been aggravated ag-gravated by unsettled conditions in the cotton industry in America. Co-operative marketing of Canada's wheat crop through a farmers' pool was proposed at Calgary in an outline out-line drawn up by a committee of the Canadian Council of Agriculture. All Britain has been startled by the charges made by Sir Hamar Greenwood, Green-wood, chief secretary for Ireland, that the Sinn Feiners had plotted to blowup blow-up the Liverpool docks and the Manchester Man-chester power and water plants. Government terms of 20 per cent increase in wages have been accepted by striking miners in the Coahuila, Mexico, coal regions and the men have returned to work. Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin, minister at Windsor, Out., charged with "killing "kill-ing and slaying" Beverly Trumble, has been remanded under bail of $20,000 until December 2, when he will appear to answer to the charge. Former King Constantine of Greece has officially notified England, France and Italy that he plans no change in the foreign policy of Greece and that any possible government govern-ment of Greece will continue the friendly attitude of the country toward to-ward the allies. Great Britain has already taken steps to inform former King Constantine Constan-tine of Greece and George Rhallis. the new Greek premier, that she is absolutely abso-lutely opposed to ihe return of Constantine Con-stantine to the Greek throne, says the , Petit Parisien. w INTERMOUNTAIN. A mass meeting of members of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen Lumber-men at Marshfield, Ore., adopted a recommendation that the present wage scale of $5.50 a day and upward for mill employes be reduced to $4.S0 and upward. Merchants of the community told the meeting that the cost of living liv-ing had come down at least 15 per cent and offered their full co-operation In lowering prices to meet the proposed cut in wages. Mary Pickford, the motion picture X :star, through her lawyers at Mindeu, Nev., on November 27, made an effort to quash the suit brought by the state of Nevada to annul her divorce from Owen Moore. Pleading guilty to twenty-three charges of misappropriation of funds, E. A. Bock, former mayor of Salt Lake City has been sentenced to an indeterminate inde-terminate term in the state prison. Bock admitted the appropriation of $12,000 during his term as auditor, and has made restitution of the amount taken. It is understood his prison term will begin immediately. His attorneys are making a strenuous effort to secure clemency for their client. John Kobler, a well to do farmer living near Sterling, Colo., shot and killed his wife, using a shotgun with which he shattered her head, and then suicided. Unhappiness in family affairs af-fairs is believed to have been the cause. DOMESTIC. A message of greeting from King George and an address by General Eobert George Neville, French war hero, featured commemorative services iield in Carnegie hall, New York, Friday Fri-day night, by the American Mayflower council to mark the Pilgrim tercentenary. tercen-tenary. With a bullet hole through his heart, the body of J. E. Lamb, prominent oil operator was found by the Santa Fe railroad tracks near Ardmore, Okla. Fifteen hundred boy scouts, under the leadership of National Scout Commissioner Com-missioner Daniel Carter Beard, inarched to the grave of Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on November 27, on a memorial pilgrimage. The tooys were from New York City and its environs. Gaston Chevrolet, and Eddie O'Don-nell, O'Don-nell, racing drivers, and Lyall Jolls, a mechanician, were killed during the auto races at Los Angeles Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing day, the accident occurring near the finish, when Chevrolet had won the race. Flying at a speed of virtually three miles a minute, Lieutenant C. C. Mose-i Mose-i ley, piloting an American made Ver- 1 ville-ackard army plane, won the first I Pulitzer trophy aeronautical race Thanksgiving day, against a field of I thirty-four starters. He covered the ! course of slightly more than 132 miles in 44 minutes, 29.57 seconds, an average aver-age speed of approximately 178 miles an hour. The Citizens State bank of Coalgate, Okla., was closed following discovery of an alleged shortage of more than $300,000 in the bank's funds. It is announced that John D. Rockefeller Rock-efeller has provided $03,763,357 towards to-wards the Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial, established in memory of his wife, who died In 1915. The announcement announce-ment also revealed that Mr. Rockefeller's Rockefel-ler's total benefactions have reached the enormous total of close to half a billion dollars. Although officially the beer stein and the mug of ale are a thing of the past, not so with pretzels, byproduct by-product of the brewer. One hundred and one million pretzels were turned out by St. Louis baking companies duf-ing the past year, i One ton of grain, vegetables and i fruits for each of the 107,000.000 ln- habitants of the United States is the . response of farmers to the popular : appeal of the country for more and cheaper food, reports to the agricultural agricul-tural department indicate. The bolshevlst government will dominate dom-inate every Inch of Russia and then It will collapse, according to Dr. It. j A. Lutick, a Russian physician and formerly a Near East relief worker, who has just arrived at New York. Douglas Cruikslutnk flirted with a middle-aged woman on an L train at Chicago. Later he discovered she was the wife he deserted fourteen years ago. Now he is paying $10 a week back alimony to her and their daughter. daugh-ter. Additional reinforcements arrived at Miami, Fin., from Key West early Thursday to aid the crew of sub-chaser 154 in guarding employes of the Western West-ern Union Telegraph company and to prevent them from connecting the 1 cables across Biscayne bay between I Miami and Miami beach. ( The age-old story of wine, woman I and song, is the story of the downfall f I of Arthur II. W. Cay hue, who faces a sentence of from throe to five years j L in prison for embezzlement of .IO.CmO. i I He was sentenced Wednesday at Den- l ver. |