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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSfREAOERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader. WESTERN EPITOME Klaction-day closing of all golf links used by San Francisco voters 1h being urged by the Downtown Merchant Mer-chant association. Experience has revealed, re-vealed, the merchants say, that pernors per-nors excused from their regular employment, em-ployment, in election day to vote for-Kt for-Kt all about the polls and make for their favorite links to get in their best licks in a full day's play. The Rev. Father Walter A. Grace, former pastor of the Shrine of St. Anno at Arvada, near Denver, Colorado, Colo-rado, who is serving a two-year term in Leavenworth federal prison for the alleged forging of u government liquor liq-uor permlit, became eligible for parole pa-role when Federal Judge Foster Sym-es Sym-es dismissed an Indictment pending against him. Although Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney, California social worker sentenced to prison for violation of the California criminal syndicalism law, has made known that she will make no attempt to escape imprisonment, imprison-ment, Jlans to aid her are in the process pro-cess of formation in various parts of the state. Samuel F. Burch and Isaac H. Miller, Mil-ler, former federal prohibition agents at Los Angeles were sentenced in federal court to jail terms of twelve and seven months, respectively, following fol-lowing their pleas of guilty to charges of extortion. They admitted taking JS50 from Rabbi Jacob Tovil in 1923. The pair will serve their terms in the Riverside county jail. Burch's wife collapsed when he was sentenced. senten-ced. The Colorado state supreme court upheld the validity o the state cooperative co-operative marketing act, one of the administrative measures of former Govrenor Sweet. The law was up- Levi Morrill, far famed as "Uncla Ike," in Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd "Shep-herd of the Hills" and for thirty-two years postmaster at Notche, near Brano, Mo., has been asked to resign by the government. No cause, other than the old man's age has been assigned, as-signed, so far as is known here. An amendment to the municipal code providing for a fine of from $5 to $25 for a radio broadcasting station which disturbs its neighbors will be submitted at an early council meeting meet-ing In Chicago. An average reduction of $29 on all passenger automobiles and lower delivered de-livered prices on all commercial ve-hciles ve-hciles are promised by spokesmen for the automobile industry if the federal fed-eral war excess taxes on motor products pro-ducts are repealed, according to an announcement by the National Automobile Auto-mobile Chamber of Commerce. An artificial larnyx, invented for persons whose siech organ has been removed for pathological reasons rea-sons is enabling about 500 dumb persons per-sons in the United States to speak. The device was described by Dr. Harvey A. Fletcher of the Bell Telephone Tele-phone laboratores of New York, its inventor, before the convention of the American Academy of Opithalmology and Oto-Laryngogogy. After a 13,000 mile chase since last June, leading through Boston, Washington, Wash-ington, New York and Chicago, Miss Charlotte Lehman, 32 years of age was lodged in a Brooklyn police station sta-tion charged with robbing a church poor box. Police say she faces a similar sim-ilar charge in Chicago. Wha tis believed to be the highest ranking court martial ever essembled for trial of an army officer in the grade of colonel was ordered by direction di-rection of President Coolidge to convene con-vene in Washington. Colonel William Mitchell, storm center of the air service ser-vice controversy, will be brough before be-fore the court on charges specifying violation of the ninety-sixth article of war. t An operation may be necessary to return to consciousness an unidentified unidenti-fied woman at Superior, Wis., who suffered a stroke of paralysis while being used as a subject for a hypnotist hypno-tist at a local theatre. The hypnotist hypno-tist was unable to awaken the woman wo-man from her trance. Her condition is critical. held when the court reversed a lower low-er court's action in refusing an Injunction In-junction to restrain a member of the Rifle Potato Growers' Cooperative association as-sociation from selling his potato crop to an agency other than the association. associa-tion. The San Diego city council decided at a recent conference to set aside smoking rooms for women, as well as men in public dance halls. The step was taken on the advice of Police Po-lice Judge Chambers, who said that many women had taken up smoking. Smoking is limited by the present ordinance or-dinance to the men's dressing rooms. GENERAL AH public schools in Louisville, Ky., were ordered closed in an effort to stamp out an epidemic of infantile paralysis. It is expected the parochial paroch-ial schools will likewise be closed. Charges filed against Major General Gen-eral William II. Hart by Major General Gen-eral Harry L. Rogers, retired, have disclosed to the investigating officer at Washington no basis for further procedeings. "Cateye Annie," wanted by the police po-lice in a score of cities escaped from jail in Buffalo, N. Y. She was to have been sentenced for the theft of $75,000 worth of jewels from a home where she was employed as a maid. She was arrested recently in Miilwaukee. The tripple lock of steel-screened and barred cell where Annie was confined was open. The woman used a steel FOREIGN Greek and Bulgarian soldiers are engaged in battle on the Macedonian frontier. The Greek command is making mak-ing an encircling movement on the heights around the town of Petrich, about twenty miles to the northwest of Demirhissar, where the first clash between Green and Bulgarian patrols occurred. This is the official information infor-mation given out,.and it is further announced an-nounced that the Bulgarians have received re-ceived reinforcements at Demi-Kapu. William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson has arrived at Constantinople to confer with the Turkish prohibition leaders and to attend the convention of the Green Crescent. Turkey's antialco-hol antialco-hol organization. Mr. Johnson said the membership of the Green Crescent Cres-cent had doubled in a year. He will remain three weeks in Constantinople, Constantino-ple, lecturing on the subject of prohibition pro-hibition in the United States. The French budget for 1926, as submitted sub-mitted by the general report of the finance fi-nance committee of the chamber, shows an increase in estimator expenses ex-penses of 902,000,000 francs as compared com-pared with 1925. The increase is attributed to the rise in prices and the fall in the value of the franc. Revenues are estimated at 36,172,000,-000 36,172,000,-000 francs, with surplus revenue of 795.000,000 francs due to the enforcement enforce-ment of new fiscal measures. letter opener she found on the sheriff's sher-iff's desk in forcing a window from which she leaped to liberty. The Arizona minimum wage law for women was held to be unconstitutional unconsti-tutional by the supreme court at Washington. The court's position was set forth by its action in affirming the decision of the lower courts on the issue. The attack upon the law-was law-was made by A. Sardell, owner of two stores at Nogales, who employed four women clerks and contended j that if compelled to pay them each a minimum of $16 a week, as required requir-ed by the state statutes, his business would be ruined. A reduction of the maximum income in-come surtax to 20 per cent, with corresponding cor-responding decreases all along the line, was proposed to the house ways and means committee by Secretary Mellon. The proposal carries a tax reduction of $250,000,000 to $300,000,-000. $300,000,-000. Mutt and Jeff now appear in the role of matchmakers. Their creator, "Bud" Fisher, is going to get married next week in Europe and he says Mutt and Jeff are partly responsible. At least two of Europe's kings plan to visit Chicago next June to participate in the international Eu-charistic Eu-charistic congress to be held there. This became known when hotel suits were engaged by the housing committee com-mittee appointed to take care of the million pilgrims expected from all parts of the world. King Alfonso of Spain and King Albert of Belgium with their queens and a large retinue of nobles and servants, have signified their Intention of taking part in the devotions. Jugoslavia is rushing concentration concentra-tion of her troops as a "precautionary measure," in view of the fighting being be-ing between Bulgaria and Greece, according ac-cording to Belgrade advices. Troop concentration in Jugoslavia has been under way for a week, but has suddenly sud-denly been increased with a rush the dispatches stated. Gunnar Gunarsson, considered the greatest living Icelandic poet, an or-dent or-dent champion of close co-operation among the Scandinavian countries, which would include Denmark, Norway, Nor-way, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, joined on lines similar to the union of the United States, proposes that this republic be headed by a president presi-dent elected by popular vote. Prof. Wilhelm Doerfeld, German archaeologist, has arrived at Corfu, Cor-fu, Island of Corfu, from Doom, to prepare a report for the former German emperor, on the condition of the famous Achilleion castle on the island of Corfu, where William was wont to go for periods of recreation recre-ation when he held sway in Germany. Ger-many. Boald Amundsen will again attempt to fly to the North Pole early next year. This time he will use an Italian-built dirigible instead of heavier-than-air craft such as he used this summer in his unsuccessful attemp. Ralph Cheever Dunning, an Ameri can poet now residing in Paris, has been awarded the twelfth annual Helen Haire Levinson $200 prize for the best poem by a citizen of the United States. The award was made public by Poetry, published by Harlot Har-lot Monroe. |