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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSHEADEIIS RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THI8 AND OTHER COUNTRIES nporUnt Events of the Last Seven Dy. Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the i Busy Reader WESTERN The estate of Congressman Julius Xahn, who died in San Francisco last December 18, was bequeather to his widow, Mrs. Florece P. Kahn under the terms of the will filed for probate pro-bate here. The will, which was drawn at Washington, D. C, January 17, 1912, named Mrs. Kahn as executrix exe-cutrix and expressed confidence she would properly care for their two sons. The value of the estate was not disclosed. Kid McCoy, ex-prizefighter, convicted con-victed of manslaughter in Los Angeles, Ange-les, last week with the death last August of Mrs. Theresa W. Mors, was sentenced to from one to ten years in San Quentin prison. Superior Judge Charles S. Crain, before passing pass-ing entence, denied the defense motion mo-tion for a new trial, which contained charges of fifteen counts of error during the trial. The most prominent promi-nent of the charges was directed at the "compromise verdict" of man- A resolution proposing enfry of this nation into the world court was introduced by Senator Wills, Republican, Repub-lican, Ohio. It carries a provision embodying em-bodying the recommendation of President Pres-ident Coolidge that the United States not be bound by any advisory opinions opin-ions of the court. Records of American fliers indicate that the United States air service is technically and in personal equal to any in the world, Dwight W. Davis, assistant secretary of war, testified tes-tified to before the house aircraft committee. America's weakness, he said is due to lack of material and the smaller number of fliers. Lieutenants Lieu-tenants Wade and Harding, two of the world fliers, were called to testify. tes-tify. A budget amounting to approximately approxi-mately $18,000,000 will be recommended recom-mended to the triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church at New Orleans this summer according to program plans presented by Lewis B. Franklin, vice president and treasurer treas-urer of the national church council. The budget, Mr. Franklin stated, has been adopted by the national bishop and council. If carired out, it will involve increased expenditures of nearly $6,000,000 over the present triennial. Bernard Grant of Chicago has been given another lease of life. Grant was under sentence to hang January 16th. Governor Len Small granted a reprieve to April 17. The case of Grant came to notice when Nathan Leopald and Richard Loeb, slayers of a little boy, escaped with life sentences. sen-tences. Grant killed a policeman in a holdup. A monster petition was sent the governor asking his life be slaughter. The Western Pacific Railroad company com-pany has effected a new wage agreement agree-ment with its firemen, engineers and hostlers, it was announced at San Francisco by E. W. Mason, vice president and general manager. The men were granted a conference recently re-cently to settle wage differences. Under Un-der the agreement, the firement and engineers in passenger service will get an increase of 24 cents a day and in freight service of 36 cents a day. The hostlers will be given 32 cents a day increase. Several hundred hun-dred men are affected. Dictating from stck room In the Red Cross Hospital at Salida, Colo., where he has been confined since New Year's- day Thomas J. Tynan, warden of the. Colorado penitentiary issued a statement in refutation of charges lodged against him by Governor Gov-ernor Sweet Suit brought against the government govern-ment by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad to render void a valuation of $45,000,000 placed upon the railroad's rail-road's property has opened in federal court at Los Angeles with Judge Erskine M. Ross, United States court of appeals, and Federal Judge Paul McCormick ami Benjamin F. Bledsoe sitting en banc. The body of George Turner, who for two years had boasted of his title "King of Bootleggers" in Santa Barbara Bar-bara county, was found shot through the heart in a field borering the coast highway a mile south of Sum-merland Sum-merland grim evidence, sheriff and 'police say, that a rival successfully disputed his reign. GENERAL Leo Koretz, promoter of the Bay-ano Bay-ano oil bubble, who fleeced scores of friends and relatives out of millions mil-lions of dollars, died at Stateville, 111., in the state penitentiary. The promoter, who for years conducted his phantom financial ventures so quietly and effectively that trusting relatives and friends begged him to take their money, declared when he went to prison a few weeks ago that he did not expect to come out alive. Government operation of Muscle Shoales was disapproved by the senate, sen-ate, 48 to 37, but the whole question ques-tion of the final disposition of the great power and nitrate plant was left in the air. Chicago's enonomic loss in 1924 from smoke, aside from injury to health and resultant deaths, was placed at 142,500,000 in a report of the smoke abatement commission. On the basis of that estimate the report re-port said, the city's laundry bill per capita was $3.25 larger than that of the ten leading cities of the country except New York. Legislation reducing the time limit for World war veterans to apply for their bonus from January 1, 1928, to January 1, 1926, has been recommended recom-mended to congress by Major General Gen-eral Robert C. Davis, adjutant general gen-eral of the army. Davis submitted his proposal at the suggestion of the house appropriations committee, which believes that the work of administering ad-ministering the bonus can be speeded up if the time limit is shortened. What is said to be the oldest necklace neck-lace m the world, 75,000 years old, adornment of a cave woman of southern south-ern France, is in the custody of Frank G. Logan, vice president of the Art Institute of Chicago. "As far as is known, the beads are the oldest objects ob-jects fashioned by man," said Walter Wal-ter J. Sherwood of the Art Institute, Insti-tute, "ever unearthed in the history of archeological excavations." Professor Pro-fessor Alonzo W. Pond of Beloit eollege, Beloit, Wis., brought them here. , spared and pointing out that while Leopold and Loeb, rich youths, escaped es-caped the gallows, Grant, a poor boy was being sent to his doom without a legal chance. Purchase of 1000 steel coal cars and thirty-eight all steel passenger cars has been announced by President Presi-dent L. W. Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific Railroad company. This large order is in addition to that announced announ-ced last month which included fifty heavy locomotives and 3000 freight cars, and this purchase brings the total expended for new equipment by the Missouri Pacific in the last thirty days to approximately $12,000,000. The house public lands committee expects to report next week and bring to early consideration in the house an administration bill which provides for the development of government gov-ernment owned potash lands In accordance ac-cordance with the general provisions of the coal, oil and gas leasing law, save that the royalty is to be fixed at 2 per cent. President Coolidge's veto of the postal pay bill has been sustained by the senate. The vote was 55 to 29, or one less than the two-thirds majority ma-jority necessary to pass the measure over executive approval. With the veto sustained, salary increases now are dependent upon the enactment of the pending administration measure to advance pay and rates simultaneously. simultane-ously. Many senators predict that this measure will fail of passage at this session. FOREIGN The reorganized argicultural commission com-mission after its first meeting in Mexico City has announced that it wil continue the land diivsion policy, making careful study, however, before be-fore dividing large estates among the peasants, and giving facilities to land owners for voluntary division of their estates, if done within the provisions of the law. What is believed to be an important import-ant development in the war on opium came in a formal notification by the British government to the league of nations that the Marquis of Salisbury Salis-bury had been appointed chief British representative to the international interna-tional opium conference now in recess. re-cess. General Guillaumat, who took over command of the Ruhr and Rhineland forces from General Degoutte at May-ence May-ence some time ago, made his official entry at Dusseldorf, Germany, in the presence of French troops presented arms and crowds of Germans. General Gen-eral Guillaumat later held a reception for his officers and will inspect the Ruhr. Commander Richard R. Mann, U. S. N., superintendent of the Asiatic naval na-val communication service, who died in Manila, P. I., was buried at sea with military honors. After a requiem re-quiem mass was said over his flag-draped flag-draped casket in the San Ignacio church, a destroyer carried the mourners to a point off Corregidor island, at the entrance to Manila bay, where the body was lowered Into the sea in accordance with the commander's com-mander's wish. Canada's purchases from the United Uni-ted States were $258,000,000 last year, a decrease of $86,000,000 from the corresponding period, the government govern-ment announced. The Canadian exports ex-ports to the United States were $408,000,000, approximately $11,000,-000 $11,000,-000 less. Dr. Trendelenburg, head of the German delegation negotiating for renewal of the Franco-German trade treaty, has gone to Berlin, being summoned home by his government to explain fully the modus vivendi proposed by the French. |