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Show Decision to terminate the army around-the-world flight at Seattle im.s been announced definitely, at the war department. The terminating point had been left open, pending consideration of claims of other Pa- j cific coast cities to secure the designation. desig-nation. Lucian C. San Souci reporter on the Tribune, a French publication of 1 Woonsocket, R. I., was branded with a large letter K on the forehead ana the left wrist when he was "listening "listen-ing in" on a secret meeting near Blackstone, Mass., according to a story published in the paper. San Souci was lying in a field when three men, wearing flowing white robes', overpowered him. In a few minutes he ws surrounded by a score of the hooded figures. The fashionable Le Paridis and hotel roofs were raided again in the polite, almost noiseless manner recently re-cently adopted by Washington pro-ihbition pro-ihbition agents. Two arrests were made, the man in each case, as usual, usu-al, being invited to accompany the raider to the nearest police station, where he was allowed to post collateral col-lateral for appearance. This was the third raid within the last few weeks at the Le Paradis. Three persons were killed and eighteen injured, some critically, when a wood train on the elevated division of the Brighton line of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit company com-pany ran into the rear end of a steel subway train at Ocean Parkway station. sta-tion. Herbert Barr Griggs, navy air pilot pi-lot of New York, paid the first penalty pen-alty for violation of a city ordinance which prohibits low airplane flights over crowded thoroughfares or beaches. beach-es. Charged with flying his machine only 125 feet above the heads of bathers at Rockway beach last week, he was fined $25 by Magistrate Goodman at Far Rockaway. James G. Freed, 60, president of the International Sterotypers' union, died suddenly at Caldwell,, N. J., following fol-lowing as illness which came upon him while returning from Savannah, Gr., by boat with his wife. Two physicians phy-sicians were unable to diagnose the cause of his death. Mr. Freel came here five years ago from Brooklyn. Attorney General Stone has ordered order-ed a further inquiry into the gasoline price situation. The report of the federal trade commission on the subject sub-ject made at the request of the president, pres-ident, contains information, Mr. Stone said which warranted a further investigation of the several phases of the problem. Waving a knitting needle he picked up off the floor, 16months-old Edward Ed-ward Gould, of St. Louis, Mo., plunged plung-ed it into his eye and pierced the brain, dying instantly. Sam Allen, waiter on the Steamer Cincinnati, Ohio river boat, had a toothache. He tied a string to the painful molar, fastened the other end to the ship's anchor and cast it into the river. With it went the tooth and likewise part of Sam's jaw. Allen Al-len thought the wound superficial and retired. During the night ha bled to death. Henry Ford may enter the race foi the Republican nomination for United Uni-ted States senator from Michigan, according to a report received from Washington in a semi-official way by a high state official, says a special dispatch from Lansing to the Detroit Free Press. FOREIGN The British-American liquor traffic convention signed in Washington in January has been filed with the League of Nations for registration The painting of Lady Astor, the introduction of which ino the House of Commons raised such a hubbub recently, will be removed from the staircase where it hangs, during the parlimentary vacation, according to lobby reports. The Westminster Ga zette says the removal is at the re-qutst re-qutst of the donor, Lady Astor. Samuel H. Chapin, 25-years old, ol iTELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSTREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Dayt Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN For the first time since the Indians .forsook the bow for the breachload-ing breachload-ing title, an American deer was kill-Ad kill-Ad with an arrow. The animal fell to Miss Virginia Ayres of San Fran-daeo, Fran-daeo, who uses a 52 pound bow, nearly double the strength of the ordinary or-dinary weapon, and Bteel-headed arrows. ar-rows. Chlorine gas will be forced into the Palisade mine, near Palisade, Colo., in the hope of driving the three wen who are alleged to have robbed the Palisade postoffice of more than $16,000 in stamps and cash from the property. In Montana, home state of Senatot Burton K. Wheeler, selected by Senator Sen-ator Robert M. La Follette as the letter's running mate in the presidential presi-dential campaign, the La Follette Progressive party will endeavor to have the name of Governor Charles Bryan put on the ballot as candidate for vice president. Eight youths and a trio of bobbed haired girls, all of the eleven under El years old are in custody at Los Angeles as bandit suspects. Police alleged they participated in more than forty holdups and robberies, including in-cluding the robbery of Betty Blythe, motion picture actress, who lost several sev-eral diamond rings and a fur. The Bonanza, Jumbo and Mother Lode mines of the Kennecott Copper Company at Cordova, Alaska, will be closed for two or three months as the result of a fire 'that destroyed their power house, a storage house and a residence at Kennecott, northeast north-east of Cordova. The loss is estimated estimat-ed at $150,000. William Wrigley Jr., of chewing gum fame, baseball and steamship magnate, and owner of Catalina island, is-land, has arrived at Los Angeles, en-route en-route to Avalon. Awaiting only the owner's approval, it was stated, the construction of a new ball park lor the Angeles may be started at once as the result of Wrigley's visit. He is also expected to pass on certain, projected improvements on Catalina Island. H. A. Lieverson, alias C. C. Barton, Bar-ton, declared by authorities to be wanted in Green River, Neb., for alleged al-leged embezzlement of $12,000 from lumber firms, was arrested at Seattle. Seat-tle. Breaking into the postoffice in Palisade, Colo., bandits carried away a safe containing more than $15,000 which included cash and stamps, and escaped on a handcar stolen from the railroad yards, accordng to repbrts received at Grand Junction. Reports of the robbery also said the bandits obtained a small sum from the Grand Valley postoffice. The fourth successful ascent of the Grand Teton, the most difficult peak in the United States to climb, and located in Jackson's Hole, was accomplished July 25 by Ralph Her-ron, Her-ron, of Newton, Iowa, and Paul Pet-zolt Pet-zolt of Twin Falls, Idaho, two college col-lege boys possessed of a passion for mountaineering and the necessary amount of courage and daring. The body of William Jones, negro, who lost his life in the quicksand of the Colorado river near Zuma, Ariz., July 20 while attempting to escape from Arizona officers, was recovered on an intake boom at Hanlon's heading, head-ing, California, six miles south of the point where he disappeared. GENERAL William C. Pelky, chairman of the Republican state central committee; John T. Toomey of Johnston and William Wil-liam (Toots) Murray of Boston were indicted by the grand jury at Providence, Provi-dence, R. I., on charges of conspiracy in connection with the ovolosion of a "gas bomb" in the Rhode Island 6tate senate June 19. Postmaster General New has ordered or-dered the continuous transcontinental air mail service operated on schedules sched-ules now in effect, until further notice. no-tice. The service was originally authorized au-thorized for a thirty-day trial beginning begin-ning on July 1. President Coolidge has accepted the formal resignation of Charles B. Warren, as ambasador to Mexico. Proposed new scheules to establish joint through rates on cedar lumber and shingles from north Pacific coast group points from the southern destinations des-tinations were ordered suspended by the interstate commerce commission from August 5 to December 3. The proposed new rates would be generally gener-ally higher than the existing combination combin-ation rates. San Francisco, ended his life at a Paris hotel by cutting his throat and wrist with a safety razor blade. Police investigation disclosed that Chapin had abundant funds, although he had recently acted strangely. The American consulate notified his mother, Mrs. C. H. Wolcott of New York. Masar.ao Hanihara, Japanese ambassador am-bassador to the United States, on his return to Tokio from America said he did not know whether he would return to Washington. He declared that he was not recalled, but came to Japan to discuss the situation arising out of the passage of the American exclusion act with Baron Kijuro Shidehara, minister of foreign affairs. A lively row has broken out be tween Austri? and the "succession states" over some "saven miles of Austro-Hungarian vorld history" which are included in the former archives ar-chives at Vienna. The archives are probably the most voluminous in the world. Divorce is steadily on the increase in Germany according to recent statistics, sta-tistics, which show that the number of legal separations being granted now is virtually double the numbei ten years ago. |