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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS I A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S I t DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER I ' COUNTRIES I Important Events of the Last Seven I Dayi Reporter by Wire and Pre- I v pared for the Benefit of the I Busy Reader I ' WESTERN I Mrs. Kennie Solomon Adler of I San Francisco voluntarily relinquish- I ed her claim to the $100,000 estate I of her late husband, John S. Adler, I In order that it might go to his sis- I ter, Miss Clara Adler of the Elms I hotel, Chicago, when Adler's will I came up for probate in superior I court. I Mrs. Henry Landes, wife of the I dean of science in the University of I Washington and acting mayor of I Seattle in the absence of Dr. Edwin j J. Brown, mayor, at the Democratic I national convention in New York I City, has taken personal charge of I the police department. Mrs. Landes I removed William B. Severyne from I the office of chief of police, after j she had given him twenty-four hours I to effect reforms in the city and in I his department, and he defied her. I Fresno, Calif. General Grant na- I tlonal park, with its' towering sequoias, sequo-ias, has been saved from the flames which for three days have swept menacingly toward it. A battle at the county road leading into the park and along Mill Creek, several miles from the park, has s-ucceeded It was declared by . fighters. The main effort is now being made to save the $1,000,000 grove of giant redwoods' on Redwood mountain on the eastern side of the fire. Gearhart, Ore. Taxation of electric, elec-tric, light and power companies in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Utah has increased 42 per cent in the last three years', according to statistics assembled by George L. Mvers. resident of the Northwest I'lans for the evacuation of the Hominiran republic by the United States marines, who hare been stu tinned there fur almost sev;n years have been completed w.'ih the assV-'n. ment of the naval transports Henderson, Hender-son, Klttery, Beaufort and Jason tithe ti-the task of removlrg tho 1S0U men now on tho island. The evacuation will start as soon as possible aftei July 10. Suit for $25,000 damages was file'! in supreme court at New York by -Mrs. Mary Carey of New Rochelle against the manufacturer and sellei of u "hot cross bun" that last April caused her she says, to lose all her front teeth, injure her jaw and gums, and permantently impaired her per. sonal appearance. She says the bun contained a wire) nail. Bishop Levi L. Coppin of tho Afri. can Methodist Episcopal church is dead at Philadelphia of pneumonia He was 70 years old. . Hishop Copping Cop-ping had supervision over the Fourth Episcopal district, which comprises the states of Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. Definite assurance that the premier's pre-mier's conference in London will be restricted to a discussion of the Dawes plan for reparation settlement and that the subject of interallied debts will not be permitted to come forward has reached the Washington government. A violent windstorm which reached reach-ed a velocity of fifty-two miles an hour, swept the southern section of Omaha, unroofing buildings, leveling light and telephone wires and wrecking wreck-ing a number of houses. Several persons per-sons were hurt. Property damage was heavy. There was some loss of livestock. Many persons were reported injured in-jured at New York by an explosion of undetermined origin on board the British freighter Egremont Castle at her dock in Brooklyn. Two alarms of fire were sounded and half a dozen doz-en ambulances summoned. H. H. Biglow, millionaire president of Brown and Bigelow, St. Paul advertising ad-vertising concern, was sentenced to two years in Leavenworth penitentiary peniten-tiary and fined $10,000 in federal court at St. Paul, Minn., when he pleaded guilty to attempting to defraud de-fraud the government of income tax l , A run Hi,-' -m tfi.ilrt ii.-i It! ill,il,i,rS-Hinnnnimlff-'-'J Electric Light and Power association and presented at Thursday night's session of the association's annual convention. This percentage of tax Increase, President Myers declared, is greater than the combined increase in the amount of money invested, the gross revenues, expense of operation net revenue and fixed charges of all the companies in this geographic division. di-vision. Twenty-two of the thirty-three .nurses in Nevada are employed at St. Mary's hospital in Reno, according accord-ing to a list of registered Nevada nurses received by Secretary of State W. G. Greathouse. Altogether there are niety-eight nurses registered in this state, but only thirty-three have Nevada addresses. Report from Cheyenne is that State Treasurer John Snyder will draw a check for $400,000 July 1st tr "! apply it on the state highway bonds. This makes a total paid on these bonds which were floated several sev-eral years ago of $1,650,000, and leaves a balance due of $2,950,000. Of the apportionment among states for federal highway construction for the coming year, beginning July 1, Wyoming will receive $936,372. This announcement comes from Secretary Wallace. Lieutenant Russel L. Maughan succeeded on his third attempt In crossing the continent between daylight day-light and dark, making the trip from New York to San Francisco with an average speed of more than 156 miles an hour. Burglars ransacked the home of Jack Fickford, motion picture actor, at Los Angeles and escaped with jewelry valued at between $37,000 and $40,000, according to the police. The loss was discovered by a maid upon her return to the house after a Sunday Sun-day off. H A. Cunard Cummins, charge de archives of the British legation at the City of Mexico has crossed the border into the United States at Laredo, Texas, and left for San Antonio. He refused to comment as to whether or not his retirement from Mexico was voluntary. GENERAL. Cyrus E. Woods, ambassador to Japan has formally presented his resignation re-signation to President Coolidge and It was accepted with an expression of appreciation for his services.. Referring Refer-ring to the. Japanese exclusion provision provi-sion in the immigration law, Mr. Woods declared Japan was conducting conduct-ing herself in the situation "with the dignity of a great nation." Geo. Pressley's ill feeling against his mother-in-law, who had twice made a refuge for his wife after quarrels, was given by his neighbors in the Iron county hills west of Bismarck, Bis-marck, Mo., as the cause of the deaths of his wife, son and himself. Both the state and the defense actively ac-tively resumed preparation for the trial of Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Ixieh, millionaires' sons, who killed Robert Franks for excitement according to their confessions. The trial is scheduled to begin August 4 returns. Andrew Mellons, secretary of the treasury, and Arthur Sixsmith, his secretary, have been subpoenaed to appear at witnesses for the defense in the trial of Gaston Means and Elmer- Jarnecke, who are charged with violation of the prohibition laws. FOREIGN Roald Amundsen, the explorer, who has been preparing for an airplane expedition to the North Pole, has announced an-nounced that the trip has been postponed post-poned because of economic difficulties, difficul-ties, according to a dispatch from Pisa, Italy. Captain Amundsen de-clered de-clered it would be out of the question for his expedition to start this year. A free for all fight between American Amer-ican and Filipino sailors from American Amer-ican warships at Torquay was reported re-ported by the Press Association. The Filipinos are reported to have used knives, wounding two Yankee sailors. The fight started in a dance hall. The chief of the Yokohoma customs force has apologized to United States Consul Kemper for the discourteous treatment to whiah American passengers passen-gers of the President Madison were subjected by members of his staff. Some of the American passengers of the President Madison were forced to undergo an unusually rigorous examination ex-amination when the vessel arrived here on June 24, including the removal re-moval of their shoes. Superior officers offi-cers intervened and apologized to the passengers. Since that ; incident American passengers arriving here have been treated most courteously, The United States will be invited to send a representative to the proposed pro-posed allied conference in London in July in any capacity the American government thinks fit. Japan will be included among the nations invited. in-vited. About $750,000,000 of private Japanese Jap-anese capital is invested in Manchuria Manchur-ia and Mongolia, according to statistics sta-tistics published by the colonial affairs af-fairs bureau of the Japanese government. govern-ment. These figures do not include in-clude the vast enterprises of the South Manchurian Railway company, in which the Japanese government is the principle shareholder. The British prime minister, Ramsey Ram-sey MacDonald, and M. Herriot, the French premier, have agreed provided provid-ed there is no objection from the other allies, than an allied conference conferen-ce shall be held in London not later than mid-July for the purpose of definitely deciding on the procedure to be adopted for putting the Dawes report into execution. General Jame3 Hartzog, leader of the victorious parties in Uie recent elections in the Union of South Africa, accepted the premiership of South Africa, succeeding General Jan Christian Smutz. General Hertzog has begun the formation of a cabinet. cabin-et. Floods in the Ladoga region have engulfed sixty-one villages. The water rose fourteen feet, causing enormous damage. Many lives are reported to have been lost and many are homeless. Gen. James A. Drain. and was at one time its president. He was also made chairman of the executive execu-tive committee of the National Guard Association of the United States. He served in that capacity from 1903 to 1910. When the AVorld war broke out the general took his place in the front rank of duty. He was assigned as a major in the ordnance officers' reserve corps and was No. 1 on that list. Foi a few months he served as assistanl chief of the division of small arms in the office of the chief of ordnance al Washington. On June G, 1917, he was assigned to the First division of the A. E. F. He went with that division to France in that memorable June when the arrival of the first small units of the American Ameri-can forces was hailed with such acclaim ac-claim by the war-woary allies. Immediately upon his arrival, General Gen-eral Drain was assigned as one of thai group whose important duty it was tc study the methods of warfare as they had been evoived In the long, snaillike snail-like progress of trench warfare. He went to British and French armies tc study ordnance repair and supply. New things In warfare continued tc occupy his attention. On October 1 1917, he was called to the headquarters headquar-ters of the A. E. F. as chief of the small arms and machine gun division Tanks, helmets, grenades and the lik occupied him here. He became chief of the tank division In November, 1917. He was the American Amer-ican member of the Anglo-Americnr tank commission, which co-ordinated the activities of the allies in the design, de-sign, manufacture and issue of manj large tanks. He was also ordnance officer of the tank corps. He returned home in May, 1919, anc was discharged in June following, He won the high distinction of the Distin gulsbed Service medal, the Legior d'Honneur and the Cross of the Crowi of Italy. He at once resumed tlx practice of law in Washington anc has given unstintingly of his time t( the American Legion and the manj movements which it has fostered fo' the upbuilding of the nation. |