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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reportei' by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN A camera which can photograph by Moonlight and starlight has been perfected per-fected by James YVorthington, Car-mel Car-mel sicentist, Oxford graduate and fellow in the Koyal Astronomical society, it was announced by Worthington Worth-ington at Monterey, Cal. A woman believed to be Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Bloodgood, 40, former wife of Harry E. Bloodgood of Buffalo, N. Y., was found dead in her apartment at Long Beach, apparently of natural causes. Police who investigated said they found in the apartment upwards of $50,000 in stocks, bonds and jewelry. Twenty thousand dollars of this amount they said, was represented by Buiffallo Transit company securities. Judgment of $3000 against the Famous Players-Lasky corporation was obtained in superior court at Los Angeles by Ernest Stunt for the death of his 6 year old daughter Velma, who, according to testimony introduced intro-duced in court, was killed last September Sep-tember by a bear belonging to the film company. Because, she says, he put a dimple in her nose where the bridge ought to be, Mrs. Minnie Chaplin, wife of the motion picture actor, Sydney Chaplin, filed suit for $100,000 against Dr! Robert Griffith, plastic surgeon in the superior court at Los Angeles. According Ac-cording to the complaint, Mrs. Chap-Mn's Chap-Mn's nose was permanently disfigured by tlie defendant's attempt to beautify it. The West End Mining company ha3 filed an nmended answer and cross complaint in the district court at Tonopah, Nev., claiming that the Tonopah Extension Mining company has extracted more than 51,000,000 worth of ore from apexing veins of the California claim of the plaintiff. General Baoul Madero, who recently recent-ly renounced his candidacy for the presidency, declared in a statement at Nogales, Ariz., that there was "little doubt as to the outcome of the asserting Governor Angel Flores of Sinaloa is "leading the republic in popularity." Raymond Gonzales, Jesus Gonzales and Francisco Garza of Los Angeles have began serving jail sentences of eight, two and four months, respectively respec-tively for using an El Paso-Los Angeles An-geles stage line operated by them as a means of smuggling aliens into the United States. They pleaded guilty. GENERAL. President Coolidge has commuted from one year and one day to one one year the sentences of Dr Edward A. Rumely, former owner of the New York Evening Mail; S. Walter Kauf-mann Kauf-mann and Norvin R. Lindhim,' who were sentenced after conviction for defrauding the alien property custodian custo-dian during the war. Charles Peter of Salt Lake City, president of the International Mascot Mining company, with properties near Hailey, Ida., was held in $25,000 bail at New York on a charge of grand larceny in connection witli alleged stock swindles. His operations were said by witnesses to have covered a period of nine years, to have extended extend-ed from New York to California and to have caused suicides, insanity and destiute homes. Upon default of bail I'eter was locked up in the Raymond street jail. A chain of forty "speak easies," controlled by one man who recruits his bartenders from a secret society bound by oath not to reveal the name of the "Maestro" if they are arrested, exists in New York, it was charged by Assistant United States District Attorney Siege during the arraignment arraign-ment of Michael Brutto, a bartender. Thirty to forty persons were reported report-ed seriously injured in a wreck of a Worcester to Providence express train at Whitesville, Muss. Ninety-nine indictments were returned re-turned by a grand jury which has been investigating conditions in Her-rin, Her-rin, Illinois. The jury's report made a number of recommendations to linn,' about conditions that would avoid recurrence of riots in Williamson William-son county. Plans for a comprimise to avert an actors' strike June 3 are under consideration con-sideration at New York. The Actors' Equity association has threatened the strike June 1 for the "closed shop." Henry Gairz, Jr., of Chicago claims to be the tiniest baby in the world. He weighs only twelve ounces and stretches himself out to a hare eight inches. Henry was born Saturday to Mrs. Henry (ianz of Melrose Park. Ivan Parke, the Koclo, Ida., lad who forged his way to the front rank of American Jockeys last season, lost his five-pound apprentice allowance at midnight Sunday night and when he doned his riding togs at Jefferson park recently it was as a full fledged Jockey. |