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Show TELEGRAPHIC EES FOR BUSYJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES ; Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reporter' by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WE8TERN Mrs. Th(ima3 G. Winter, president of the General Federation of Women's flubs in biennial session at Los Angeles An-geles announced she would ask the convention to petition President (U. lidgo to call a new "international conference of world forces to further limit armament. William P. Lyman, 05, millionaire retired banker of Boston, died suddenly sud-denly on the golf links of the Monti-c-Ho Country club of Santa Barbara, Calif., while engaging in a twosome with a friend. lie had been a winter win-ter resident of Santa Barbara for a number of years. The house at a recent session passed pass-ed more than forty bills, among them one authorizing construction of a bridge across the Itio Grande river at Alamo Alto, Texas, measures authorizing author-izing the Denver & Itio Grande Western West-ern railroad to construct a line across the southwest portion of Fort Logan military reservation in Colorado, and the city of Los Angeles to construct and operate a railroad across Fort MacArthur military reservation, and a bill to make unlawful the discharge of oil in any form from floating craft into the coastalwaters of the United States. With electrically operated clippers, 12,000 head of sheep were sheared in less than nine days on a ranch near Dixon, California recently. The crew sheared at the rate of from 1400 to 1500 sheep daily. A donation .of appproximately $700,000 has heen made to the University Uni-versity of Nevada by Clarence H. Mackay. This last bequest of Mr. Mackay's, who gave the university its present fine athletic building, brings his total gifts to the Nevada school to more than $1,000,000. Death sntence was pronounced upon A. F. Champion, convicted of the murder of K. E. Goldy in a dice game at Los Angeles two years ago. Superior Judge Hardy fixed August 15 as the date of execution. Champion Cham-pion took the sentence calmly. Paralyzed and unable to call for aid, Mrs. Susie Cowan, 72, was burned burn-ed to death in her little cottage at Portland, Oregon. GENERAL. President Coolidge has passed the word that former Governor Lowden of Illinois will be acceptable to him as his running mate. There is every reason to believe that Mr. Lowder, who was the choice of the old line-party line-party leaders for first place in 1020, will not resist a draft. Announcement of the retirement of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren, O., as vice chairman of the executive committee of the Republican national committee, wras made at Cleveland, Ohio, by William M. Butler, manager of President Coolidge's preconvention campaign. The Rev. Michael G. Gilbride, pastor of St. Mary's church, in the Collinsville Collins-ville district of Dracut, Mass., was shot to death at the home of John King, Sr., Captain Petrie of the Lowell police was seriously wounded while pursuing John King, Jr. who was arrested ar-rested and charged with the slaying. The mangled body of Dr. C. Leroy Meisinger of the United States weather bureau, Washington, and Lieutenant James T. Neeley of Phil-delphia, Phil-delphia, who left scott field, near Belleville, 111., ls.te Monday in the army balloon S-3, for the north on a series of air test flights, were found near Beament, 111. The balloon had exploded and was destroyed by fire. Officials of the International Ladies' Garment Workers union, claiming a membership of 50,000 in New York City has ordered a strike vote taken as a result of the refusal of employers to incorporate The union's demands in new contracts to supplant those that expired June 1. Because his wife bobbed her hair, Sanley Czajoksky, East Chicago, committed suicide. Testifying at the inquest, Mrs. Czajowsky said she had her hair bobbed and was cooking supper when her husband came home. "He loked at me and said, 'My God, you've gone crazy, too,' and went in the bedroom and shot himself," him-self," Mrs. Czajowsky told the coroner. coron-er. A plan by two rich youths, both brilliant students to kill for excitement excite-ment and to kidnap for a ransom which they did not need, was revealed In the detailed confession of Nathan Leopold, Jr., who with his boon companion, com-panion, Richard Loeb, was named in true bills charging murder and kidnaping kid-naping for ransom of 33 year old Robert Franks of Chicago. The confession which was presented to the grand Jury was made public by Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney. WASHINGTON The' senate h:is adopted the conference confer-ence report on the postal salaries increase in-crease bill, which carries a provision requiring periodical reports from political parties on campaign expenditures. expen-ditures. The new Indian citizenship act recently re-cently signed by President Coolidge will make every native-born Indian in the country a citizen of the United Stati'S, Indinn Commissioner Burke said. The granting of citizenship, however ho said, would not remove the restrictions on Indian lands under government ownership, the supreme court having hel .1 that wardship is not Inconsistent with citizenship. Indians' rights to tribal or other property are not affected. Expenditure of 105,000,000 by the federal government for highway construction con-struction would be authorized under a bill passed by the house and sent to the senate. Dry forces showed themselves to he in complete control of the house, when a vote of 275 to DO they were able to rush through under a suspension suspen-sion of the rules the Cramton bill creting a prohibition . bureau in the treasury department, separate from the internal revenue bureau. A two-thirds two-thirds vote wras required. A report charging serious irregularities irregular-ities in connection witli the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases was approved by the senate oil committee as a sequel to its long and colorful investigation. inves-tigation. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana Mon-tana has submitted a draft of the oil investigation report to the senate oil committee for approval. It probably will be made public within a day or two. Senator Spencer, Republican, Missouri, may submit a minority report. re-port. The conferees of the interior department de-partment appropriation' bill has accepted ac-cepted the house amendment authorizing author-izing appropriation of $100,000 for the purchase of the Bright Angel trail in Arizona. This item has been in controversy since March 18 and has prevented enactment of the bill. The Pan-American highway commission com-mission representing nineteen Latin-American Latin-American countries confronted its first actual work of its conference Monday, when inspection of the experimental ex-perimental station of the offices of public roads at Arlington, Va. A bill designed to afford relief to settlers on reclamation projects and to provide sweeping changes in the reclamation laws was reported by the house irrigation committee. The measure is in line with the recommendations recom-mendations of Secretary Work's fact finding commission on reclamation, which have been approved by President Pres-ident Coolidge. The vote was 12 to 1- FOREIGN Denial of sensational rumors regarding regard-ing the internal situation in Rumania is made in a semiofficial statement which attributes the stories to persons per-sons seeking to affect the stock market. mar-ket. Perfect order prevails, it was said. One of the rumors was that General Averesco former premier was marching on Bucharest at the head of 50,000 peasants. A corps of the best undertakers in Russia, who have been embalming Nicolai Lenine's body, report their success and announce that the corpse is ready to be displayed to the public. The "deadly power of the death ray" failed to materialize in recent governmental tests, the English house of commons was told by AVilliam Leach, under secretary of the air ministry. min-istry. During the tests he said, one of the ministry's experts placed himself him-self in the path of the ray only ten yards distant from the point of emanation. eman-ation. If the inventor's claim had been borne out the expert ought to have disappeared, but the undersecretary undersecre-tary was pleased to report that he was doing very nicely, and when last seen showed no sign of having suffered. suffer-ed. Prime Minister MacDonald, of London Lon-don announced in the house of commons com-mons that Justice Feetham of the Union of South Africa would be chairman chair-man of the Irish boundary commission. commis-sion. Resolutions condemning the exclusion exclu-sion clause of the new American im-miration im-miration law were passed at a meeting meet-ing of representatives of all Tokio and Osaka newspapers. Floods described as the worst in forty years have followed the heavy week-end rains in England, the midlands mid-lands and the north of England suffering suf-fering the most. Several persons are reported drowned, much livestock has been destroyed and the property damage is heavy, many farms having been jnundated. The forecasters predict pre-dict more rain. One hundred and twenty-two sen-tors sen-tors of the Democratic left, which is the most important group in the senate, adopted a resolution declaring declar-ing that M. Millerand must resign from the presidency of France. The senate numbers 300. Two Japanese professors, Dr. Tak-ayanagi Tak-ayanagi and Dr. Ucno, have arrived in Germany to purchase books for the Imperial library in Tokio which was destroyed by the great earthquake earth-quake and fire. |