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Show Charles E. Lobdel, fiscal agent for the farm loan board and federal intermediate in-termediate credit baiiks, haj concluded con-cluded the sale and delivery of elev en million dollars of a new issue of credit bank debentures. The ocean's greatest known depth 32,6:;G feet has just been discovered discov-ered about 154 miles southeast of To-kio, To-kio, Captain F. B. Bassett, chief United States navy hydrographer, revealed re-vealed in a radio address here. This depth, equivalent to 6.18 miles, Captain Bassett pointed out, is greater great-er than the greatest height on land Mt. Everest which rises 29,002 feet above sea-level. A jury of six men and six women, at Evansville, Indiana, which had been locked up for the greater part of the night while attempting to reach i verdict in a liquor law violation 'a:-3, was discharged when three of 'he women became hysterical when .hey were told that they would be 'ocked up for further deliberations. Judge Philip C. Gould dismissed the jury because of the condition of the women. More than $1,600,000 persons visited vis-ited national parks and monuments during the 1924 season. This total, the interior department announced, was an increase of 160,000 over 1923, in spite of forest fires and the hoof and mouth disease, which caused a decided drop in travel to two California Califor-nia parks. Warren J. Lincoln, who killed his wife and her brother, John Shoup, was found sane by a jury in Aurora, Illinois. Lincoln will now be tried for murder in the first degree. The trial is expected to start in November. President Coolidge does not contemplate contem-plate the appointment of any com-nisf-'ion to take up the Muscle Shoals question, it was said at the White House in connection with the reported report-ed withdrawal of Her.ry Ford as a bidder for the properties. Ten persons were injured, two seriously, and damage estimated at $10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed two tanks of gasoline at the tank farm and warehouse of the Clayco Gasoline company near Dallas, Texas. Approximately 25,000 gallons of gasoline was destroyed officials of the company estimated. A fire in the municipal building at Philipsburg, Pa., caused the death of Frederick Beam, 20, and the serious injury of Walter Ralston, 18. Both youths were in the borough lockup under a charge of drunkenness. Jake Schaefer, San Francisco billiard bil-liard star, and former world's champion, cham-pion, has challenged Willie Hoppe, the present titleholder, to a four thousand point match at the 18.2 balk line game. Hoppe's crown, however, would not be at stake if he accepts .is he cannot formally be challenged until after the title tournament in November. Senator Smoot of Utah has arrived :n Washington to be at the bedside of Mrs. Smoot, who is seriously ill here. H cancelled a number of speaking sngagements in the weft. FOREIGN Spain's first women mayor has tak-3n tak-3n office at Guatre Tondeta, district jf Concentaina. She is Maria Perez y Moya, 40 years old, a widow and a school teacher. Her appointment is regarded as significant, since Spain las no law giving suffrage to women. wo-men. It is asserted in dispatches' reaching San Salvador from Guatemala City hat 50 per cent of the houses there iave been rendered uninhabitable by arth shocks. The center of the disturbance dis-turbance is believed to be about fif-een fif-een miles from Guatemala City, near he town of Amatitlan. The executive assembly has passed i bill providing for a compulsory wheat pool. According to the latest estimates of the Australian wheat rop, the yield will be approximately 119,000,000 bushels, or about 4,000,000 bushels les.'3 than last year's crop. President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State appeared before the Dail Eireann and moved a boundary bill 'dentical with the measure which has llready been adpoted by the British parliament and assented to by the :rown, providing for the creation of in Irish boundry commission. Seven persons were killed and twen-'y twen-'y seriosuly injured in an encounter between police and citizens of Car-tapo, Car-tapo, 150 miles west of Bogota, Columbia, Col-umbia, when police dispersed a demonstration dem-onstration requesting construction of a railway from Cartago to Armniac. The army has taken charge of the TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOB BUSJfJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven , Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the BuEy Reader WESTERN Two men were instantly killed and third had a miraculous escape from death in a midair collision LiOO feet above Coronado, California, in two naval Vought airplanes. At the conclusion of a brief hearing at Olympia, Washington, the Washington Wash-ington supreme court issued a peremptory per-emptory writ of mandate, directed at the secretary of state, ordering him to withdraw the "rtification of the electors of the Independent Progressive Progres-sive party. An action brought by Miss Evan Burrowes Fontaine, New York pro fessional dancer, to obtain $1,000,000 from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, young New York and San Francisco capitalist, was decided against Miss Fontaine in the United States district court at San Francisco, the plaintiff making no showing in her own be half. The Arizona state Republican executive ex-ecutive committee has unanimously eclccted W. J. Galbraith of Phoenix, former slate attorney general, as the Republican candidate for congress from the district of Arizona, to oppose Carl Hayden, the Democratic nominee, nomin-ee, in the election November 4. A woman has became the Democratic Demo-cratic nominee for governor of Wyoming. Wy-oming. The party's convention named Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, wi dow of the late Governor ' William Bradford Ross, as a candidate to succeed suc-ceed her husband. In an effort to curb the inroads of predatory animals upon the sheep and cattle fed on the Wyoming ranges, the United States biological survey has stationed several of its crack predatory pre-datory animal hunters? in districts of Lincoln and Sweetwater counties. This is the first time in several years that much has been done to curb the rapidly increasing menace of the sheep growers. James Cruze, motion picture director, di-rector, and Betty Compson, actress, were married at the former's home in Flint Ridge, a suburb, near Los Angeles. An-geles. It was filmdom's second wedding wed-ding celebration of the day, the marriage mar-riage of Kenneth Harlan and Marie Provost, both screen players, having taken place a few hours previous. The entire business district of Bay Center, the pioneer Willapa Harbor town at Washington, was wiped out by fire, with a loss of $15,000. GENERAL The death of Senator Brandegee, Connecticut, has reduced the margin of the republican majority in the senate, sen-ate, a situation which would become all important in the event of an election elec-tion deadlock. Before the deaths of Senators Colt of Rhoda Island and Brandegee there were 51 republicans, 3 democrats and two farmer-laborites in the senate. A jury for the trial of Violet Dick-erson, Dick-erson, 19-year-old "flapper bandit," charged with first degree murder in the killing of Louis Hirsch during a holdup in his store, has been completed, com-pleted, after the examination of 150 veniremen at Philadelphia. The jury is composed entirely of men, all women wo-men having been excused or peremptorily peremp-torily challenged. A suit for $100,000 damages for mutilation alleged to have been incurred in-curred at the hands of Nathan Leopold, Leo-pold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, was filed in circuit court at Chicago by Charles Ream, a taxicab driver. Senator Frank Brandegee of Connecticut, Con-necticut, prominent for years among the Republican leaders of congress, committed suicide at his home at Washington. Worried and distracted, his friend said, over financial difficulties, diffi-culties, he went to an unused bathroom bath-room on the thrd floor of his house and just before dawn look his own life by inhaling gas. Subscriptions for the United States' $100,000,000 share of the $200,-000,000 $200,-000,000 German loan exceeded $500,-000.000, $500,-000.000, according to official announcement, an-nouncement, within twelve minutes after the books were opened at New York. The subscription was more than four and one-half times as large as the total available and thousands of orders were still unfilled when the books closed. Secretary Wilbur has characterized character-ized the projected Australian cruise of the American navy as another an-other step "cementing the bonds of friendship between the two countries." The ZR-3 was' declared by Secretary Wi bur, speaking in behalf of the navy, to be a "symbol of peace and friendship between her builders, her owners and other nations." To further fur-ther define her role, he said the ship would be rechristened 'Los Angeles-" when the government formally takes possession. ituation to prevent fresh disturbances. disturb-ances. An all-metal airship which he claims will be even lighter than the ZR-3 type and at the same time much stronger in construction and more independent in-dependent of wind and weather is proposed by Dr. Arnold Rahtien, chemist and engineer of Berlin. The German winners of the peace plan award offered by Edward A. Fiiene of Boston, have been announced. announ-ced. The first prize of $5000 is divided di-vided between Dr. Eduard David of Darmstadt, Socialist reichstag member mem-ber and former minister of the interior, in-terior, and Dr. Wilhelm Reider of Solin, near Munich. The second prize of $1500 went to Dr. Gustay Jodie-der Jodie-der of Berlin. The third prize was divided among thirty-five contestants, each receiving ?100. |