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Show telegraphig tales i for bmaders A RESUME OF THE - WEEK'S I DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last 8even Diyt Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of tha Busy Reader WESTERN Presenca of a large school of whales off Magdalena bay near San Diego, Calif, gave crews of the Atlantic Atlan-tic scouting fleet, which is en route to San Diego for the general fleet mobilization, mo-bilization, an opportunity for submarine submar-ine firing practice that they did not overlook, according to reports to the hydrographic office here. The postcard size will of Alexander Alexan-der H. Kerr of Los Angeles, written on a bit of pasteboard and disposing of a $3,000,000 estate, has been filed for probate. In about 100 words the testator directs how the estate shall be divided among nine heirs-at-law, Including Mrs. Jean E. Kerr Hol-brook Hol-brook of Newtonville, Mass., and expresses ex-presses the hope that one of his sons may be "an evangelist like Gypsy Smith and Moody." Kerr died February Feb-ruary 9, last. The quota of men to be trained at the cltiens' military training camp to be held at Fort Douglas, Utah, from June 12 to July 11, has been set at, 720 men, according to Information received re-ceived at the headquarters of the Thirty-eighth infantry. In order to obtain this number of selected candidates, candi-dates, it will be necessary to obtain 1080 applications for admission to the camps. The courses to be conducted will consist of the basic, and infantry, infan-try, engineer and signal corps, red, white and blue courses. A wage increase agreement averting avert-ing the threatened strike of engine-men engine-men on the Santa Fe coast lines was signed at Los Angeles by company officials and representatives of the railroad brotherhoods. Fire of an unknown origin destroyed destroy-ed the quartermaster stable of Fort D. A. Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo. The loss was approximately $75,000. An explosion of kerosene oil used to start a fire in a heating stove resulted re-sulted In the deaths of Mrs. James W. Shelts and her three small children chil-dren at Lostine, Oregon. Shelts was painfully burned and his wife's brother, bro-ther, Theodore Frost, was perhaps fatally burned. Mrs. Laura M. Pierce, wife of Governor Gov-ernor Walter M. Pierce cf Oregon, died at the family home at Salem, Oregon, after a long Illness. All state departments were closed during the funeral hour. No marriage license may be issued In California until the expiration of five days after the application for It has been made, under the terms of a bill passed by the senate. The amendment proposed to the state's marriage laws also would provide that consent for the marriage of a minor given by the parents or guardian guar-dian must be approved by the judges of the superior court of such county. Applications for a license would be posted in a conspicuous place in the marriage license department and kept posted for at least three days. GENERAL Authority and funds for the senate elections committee to begin investigations investi-gations this summer of the contests invoicing the seats of Senators Brook-hart, Brook-hart, Iowa; Schall, Minnesota, and Bratton, New Mexico, were voted by the senate. Chairman Spencer expects to have the work of recounting ballots bal-lots put uiider way during the recess and to hold hearings after congress assembles. Publishers of newspapers and periodicals peri-odicals in the United States had an output in 1923 valued at $1,15S.501.-566, $1,15S.501.-566, an increase of 12:9 per cent over 1921, the last preceding census year. The census bureau figures, just made public, showed that $793.-S98.584 $793.-S98.584 of the total was contributed by receipts from advertising, and $361,178,329 came from subscriptions and sales. Edmund D. Barbour who ctalmed relationship with every president of the United States, with the exception excep-tion of Buchanan, and whose family was one of the oldest In America, died at his home at Boston in his eighty-fourth year. H. 0. Fowler, father of Glenn Fowler, Fow-ler, one of the principals in the klan and antiklan fighting at Herrin. Illinois, Illin-ois, and his wife were injured by an explosion which tore out a corner of Fowler's butcher shop. Fowler md his wife were sleeping in the rooms I above the store. Glenn Fowler, who j was bodyguard for the late S. Glenn I Young, was not at home at the time The Flutiron building, one of the best known sky scrapers in New York City, has been sold to a syndicate rep-I rep-I resenllng banking and real estate Interests. President Coolidge still has under consideration several names for ambassador am-bassador to Germany. Jacob G. Schur-man, Schur-man, now minister to China, Is believed be-lieved to be the outstanding candidate, candi-date, but no final decision has been reached. A survey of the foreign service is being made to determine what other changes should be made In personnel. Some shifts are expected expect-ed Bhortly. Rabbi E. B. M. Browne, head of the American Jewish seventy elders aud pastor of Temple Zion in the Bronx, was arrested at New York on a warrant war-rant in which the complainants, Calvin Cal-vin Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and Frank Stearns, charged him with annoying the president. The rabbi is 70 years old. Mrs. Hannah Chaplin, mother of Charlie Chaplin, the motion picture star, must leave the country by March 26, under a ruling by immigration officials of-ficials at Washington. Attorneys for Chaplin were Informed that the extension ex-tension granted Mrs. Chaplin a j'ear ago to remain here until March 23 will not be renewed. She came to this country several years ago from England to undergo- medicii treatment, treat-ment, and has been held inadmissible as an alien under the requirements of the immigration law. A cable received by Dr. George A. Reisner, professor of Egyptology at Harvard and director of the Harvard university-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian expedition, definitely establishes the tomb just discovered by the expedition near the Giza pyramids py-ramids as being some 1700 years older than the tomb of Tutankhamen and of a period in which little has been discovered heretofore. The Blue Sky Oil Protective association, asso-ciation, which was formed at Pana, Illinois, to protect persons against ir-. responsible operators who violate the securities law of Illinois and cause a needless waste of money to investors, invest-ors, is said to be the first organization organiza-tion of its kind in the United States. It will also assist in assigning legal leases of land owners. After announcing that the United States airship Los Angeles would carry car-ry mail on a second trip from Lake-hurst, Lake-hurst, N. J., to Bermuda, sailing about March 16,' the postofflce department canceled its notice having received word that the Los Angeles would not make the trip to Bermuda for at least a month. W. C. Wright, Putnam county school superintendent, died at Eaton-ton, Eaton-ton, Ga., from injuries suffered .when he was assaulted by two young men to whom he had given a "lift" in his car near Eatouton. Three men held In jail in Atlanta are charged with the assault on the educator of forty years connected with the Georgia school system. FOREIGN The first levee of the season was held at St. James palace by the Prince of Wales. Great crowds lined the Mall, eager to get a glimpse of the prince as he passed from lork House to St. James palace, where for the first time on such an occasion he represented the king of England. Dr. Walter Simons was definitely designated as acting president of the German republic by the passage in the relchstag at Berlin on its third reading of the bill so appointing him. Reports from Paris, the Riviera, London and other centers of fashion fash-ion that skirts this year are to be still shorter have caused gloom to pass over workers in tne textile trades of Manchester, England. The shorter the skirts, the less work there is in the textile districts, where there is already much unemployment. An extensive program of festivities festivi-ties is being arranged in honor of the officers and men of the American fleet on their arrival in Australia during dur-ing the summer. The program embraces em-braces excursions, luncheons, dinners, sports and various other entertainments. entertain-ments. Gabiele d'Annunzio has leased for nine years the former kaiser's villa, "Falconieri," near Rome. It was first reported that the beautiful estate had been given to him. British army doctors are rejecting eighty-two out of every 100 men who apply for enlistment. Two years ago the percentage rejected was 58 per cent. The silent marching of thousands of Catholfcs in protest against what they call the government's policy of "religious persecution," has- been given giv-en added significance to the tradion-sl tradion-sl Sunday political meetings In France. Sunday always has been the hardest day for cabinet members, for often most of them are at provincial provin-cial dedications or other affairs fixing the government's political fences Heavy fighting has occurred In the vicinity of Diarbekr, Kurdistan. It is reported the Kurdish rebels have been repulsed by the Turkish government govern-ment forces with heavy losses to the Insurgent troops. Fran Ehert, widow or the first German Ger-man president, is entitled to a pension pen-sion of only 592 marks, or $141 a month under the present law, which makes no provision for her other than as a widow of a government employee. employ-ee. Efforts will be made by friends to have a special law passed assuring assur-ing Frau Ebert an adequate Income. |