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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOING8 IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Eventt of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pro-pared Pro-pared for the Benefit of the ! , Busy Reader WE8TERN The scout cruiser Milwaukee, stationed sta-tioned at San Diego, received radio orders to proceed at full speed to Amapala, Honduras, to protect American lives said to be endangered endanger-ed in the revolution of the Central American republic. Fire of an undetermined origin did damage estimated at $100,000, Saturday Satur-day to buildings, automobiles and equipment at Astoria, Oregon. It was the fourth major fire in a comparatively com-paratively small area within the last few months, and was situated but a ehort distance from the scene of the conflagration a year ago. Prohibition officers and the police seized the motor boat, Ernie, off the coasrt at Santa Monica, Cal., Monday and confiscated $50,000 worth of liq-nor. liq-nor. Eight men were arrested. Charged with stealing a street car end Joy riding in It around Salt Lake, Harold Stevens 20, and Ilobert Henderson, Hen-derson, 19, two University of Utah tudents are held in jail on open charges. The two youths stole the car from the barns and attributed that attack to "engineering wine." Both were slightly intoxirated when they deserted the car on Main street with officers hot on their trail. Edwin L. Johnson, 30, of Spokane, Wash., completed a 20 day fast Friday Fri-day and declared that rheumatic trouble of long standing apparently has been cured. He lost 20 pounds In weight. After the first weeek he said, the absence of food was not uncomfortable. un-comfortable. Addison T. Smith representatiive from Idaho, has introduced a bill in congress, which according to a letter received from him by It. T. Ilurtt, secretary of the Caldwell, Idaho, Commercial, club will lighten the tax burden on reclamation project water users Are the Wyoming Indians to become be-come as wealthy as the Cherokee tribe In Oklahoma? At any rate, they are making a good start, for during dur-ing 1023 the Shoshone Indians in Fremont county, Wyoming received $48,o49 In royalty on 75,192 barrels of oil developed on their reservation near Lander. GENERAL In a campaign to "clean up the city," which was started by the police po-lice at St. Louis, Mo., Monday morning, morn-ing, over a thousand persons have been arrested, ninety of whom are women. Walter Neuber, assistant in the lursar's office at the University of Minnesota, was arrested at Minneapolis Minneap-olis on a charge of embezzlement trowing out of an alleged shortage of $7000 in his accounts at the university. uni-versity. Charles E. Warren, former ambassador ambas-sador to Japan and one of the commissioners com-missioners who represented the United Uni-ted States at the negotiations that led to the recognition of Mexico, declined de-clined to comment while in New York on a report that he was to be appointed ambassador to Mexico. Hudson Maxim, scientist and inventor in-ventor of New York, believes tea and coffee to be intoxicants within tfie meaning of the Volstead act, and threatens to bring suit to close cafes ca-fes in which these beverages are served unless the enforcement authorities au-thorities do something about it. The worm turned at Detroit and Mike Devito, 18, Leonard Timpa, 18, and Frank Munchelli, 19, each paid a fine of $5 and costs in JuiTge Christopher E. Stein's court for reading read-ing movie subtitles out loud. Six fans testified against the youths. . President Coolidge Tuesday paid his first visit to New York since he became President, except for his passage pas-sage through the city to Washington on the morning of President Harding's death. Mayor Edward J. Woodhouse of Northampton, Mass., issued a pro-cramation pro-cramation calling upon citizens of Northampton to "assist in combatting the systematic violation of the laws In the illegal sale of liquor and the maintenance of gambling 'dens' in I the home town of President Coolidge." Thomas Edison, with the dawning of his seventy-seventh birthday Monday : paused long enough from labors at J Ills laboratory in Menlo Park to hold his annual interview with the press, to answer a questionnaire quite as intricate and lengthy us any he him-eslf him-eslf has devised and finally to leave !iis instruments long enough to attend a testimonial dinner given him by more than ICO members of the Edison pioneer association, veterans of his service. WASHINGTON The name of the late President Harding and the circumstances surrounding sur-rounding the sale of his newspaper the Marion Star has been brought into the oil lease scandal by Frank A. Vanderlip, the New York banker. Attorney General Daugherty acquainted ac-quainted the president and the senate sen-ate with what the department of justice jus-tice is doing with respect to disposition disposi-tion of the many "war fraud" cases. Simultaneously there was a formal move in the senate to provide for a broad inquiry into department of justice jus-tice affairs, the attorney general being be-ing charged in a resolution with failure fail-ure to perform properly the duties of his office. Making his first speech in the Senate, Sen-ate, Senator Rals-ton, Democrat, Indiana In-diana suggested that all income un-rier un-rier $5000 be exempt from income tax levies. The cost of producing hard spring wheat in the United States last year ranged from 85 cents to $2.19 a bushel, bush-el, while in Canada it ranged from 53 cents to $1.19, the tariff commission commis-sion found in its investigation in connection con-nection with the application for an increase in the wheall tariff . t Recommendation that the senate adopt a resolution directing the secretary sec-retary of the treasury to - report the profits of all bakink and milling companies as disclosed by their tax returns from 1918 to the present time is made in a report submitted by Basil M. Manly, director of the people's legislative service, to Senator Sena-tor LaFollette of Wisconsin, chairman chair-man of the orginazation. An unfavorable report was ordered by the senate Immigration committee upon the resolution of Senator Harris Democrat, Georgia, proposing a 5-year 5-year suspension of all immigration. Active negotiations with various foreign governments looking to the adoption of liquor treaties similar to the one aimed at rum smuggling recently re-cently signed with Great Britain will he deferred pending senate action on ratification of the British-American pact. Constitutional phases are expected ex-pected to enter prominently into the senr.te discussion of the pact. An organization fight in the senate against confirmation of Silas II. Strawn and Atlee Pomerene as special government counsel In the oil cases, promises to furnish another dramatic chapter to the rapidly unfolding story of the naval oil leases. FOREIGN ' A plan has been officially inaugurated inaugu-rated to rename as "Quai Wilson" the important section of the famous Quai Mount Elanc on which the palace pal-ace of the league of nations is situated situa-ted . The inmates of Prussian prisons have been put on reduced rations to save expense. They now get only 125 grams of meat weekly, sacchar-. ine is substituted for sugar, and baths are provided only one in four weeks. Clean linen is issued fortnightly. fort-nightly. Berlin newspapers denounce denoun-ce this saving and contend prisoners will leave the jails worse than when they entered. Beer consumption as a barometer of business is used by the official Prussian press bureau in making up its report on commercial conditions generally. The quantity of. beer consumed con-sumed in Germany last November was only about half that of other months, says the bureau. The greatest discovery in the history his-tory of Egyptalogy, even, many claim in archaelogy, was made this week in the sepulchral chamber of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings. In the prtsence of a gathering gather-ing representing the lights of Egyptology, Egypt-ology, the lid of Tutankhamen's great pink sarcophagus was raised and a stupenduously magnificent mummy case covered with plates or solid gold was brought to light. ' In a calm atmosphere, though not devoid of excitement and in circumstances circum-stances which a few months ago would have been regarded as impossible, impos-sible, the new Labor prime minister, J. Ramsey MacDonald, of England, announced the policy of his government govern-ment to a crowded and interested house. His speech was characterizea as able and well reasoned, and it earned compliments from two former form-er premiers, Stanley Baldwin and H. H. Asquith, leaders, respectively, of the Conservative and Liberal parties. par-ties. Polygamy ana the harem may disappear dis-appear from Turkey,, if the recommendations recom-mendations made by the Turkish parliamentary par-liamentary commission are adopted by the national assembly. On the grounds of economy, and because of the growing scarcity of marriageable marriage-able women, members of the commission commis-sion believe that the modern Turk should be content with one wife. When James Clarke completes a six year sentence for burglary at Guilford, England, he will find a-waiting a-waiting him a fund raised by the victims vic-tims who appreciated his consideration considera-tion and politeness when he invaded their homes. Col. Alexander Rontas at Athens, dropped dead as he finished reading a message from the exiled king of Greece thanking him for his courtesy when the royal pair went to Rumania. |