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Show WASHINGTON William S. Hill, of Mitchell S. D., a banker and farmer, was nominated by President Coolidge for the in-terior in-terior state's vacancy on the shipping ship-ping board and the nomination of Frederick L. Thompson of Mobile, Ala., and Bert E .Haney of Portland, Port-land, Ore., whicli were withdrawn several weeks ago, were returned to the senate. Expressions of apology and regret for the search by police and proiiibi. tion agents on December 0 of the apartment occupied by an attache of the Hungarian legation are mads in letters to Secretary Hughes from Mu jor Daniel Sullivan of the District of Columbia police and Assistant Secretary Secre-tary Moss of the treasury department depart-ment which the secretary lias transmitted trans-mitted to tlie legation. A joint congressional session is planned for Wednesday, February 27, as a memorial service for President Harding. A resolution passed by the house provided that Secretary Hughes be requested to deliver the principal address and that Former Presidents Taft and Wilson, the supreme court justices, members of the cabinet and governors of the slates' be invited to attend. The senate committee on interstate commerce will open hearings February Feb-ruary 18 on Senator Good's bill making mak-ing the provisions of the long and short haul clause mandatory and taking tak-ing from tlie commission its present power to grant exceptions from the rule. President Coolidge will leave Washington Wash-ington for the first time since he entered en-tered the White House last August when he goes to .New York on Lincoln's Lin-coln's birthday to speak at the anniversary an-niversary dinner of the National Republican Re-publican club. The address is expected expect-ed to be the first of a political nature he has made since he became president. presi-dent. Refusal of the federal district court for Utah to prohibit the interstate commerce commission from consenting consent-ing to the ' control of the Central Pacific railroad by the Southern Pacific company will not be reviewed review-ed by the supreme court, it was announced an-nounced recently. Representative Addison T. Smith of Idaho has been confined to his home for several days with a serious attack at-tack of influenza. His condition Tuesday Tues-day was regarded ?,s unfavorable, and two specialists were called in consultation ; but they reported after examination, that Mr. Smith would probably be out again in a week. George B. Christian, Jr., of Ohio, formerly secretary to President Harding Hard-ing was nominated by President Coolidge Coo-lidge to be a member of the federal trade commission. FOREIGN Disorders are occurring in connection connec-tion with the strike of the textile workers in the Elberfield-Barmen region of Berlin, involving rriore than 60,000 employees. Conflicts between the strikers and the police have occurred oc-curred at Werden, Lennep and Barmen, Bar-men, with some firing by 'both sides, resulting in the wounding of numerous numer-ous persons and many arrests. Trial by jury, except in first-degree murder cases, is to be abandoned throughout Germany for three months as a measure of economy to cut down state expenses. The decree has raised a storm of protest in political circles, and especially among leaders of the parties of the left. In the ordinary cases at law formerly heard by a jury, the judge will be assisted by one or two professional jurors. Leon Trotzky, war minister of Rus. sia, has telegraphed from Tiflis, paying pay-ing tribute to Lenine and expressing the hope that the Communist party will unite to carry on its dead leaders' lead-ers' work. Since cold weather came in witn a blast many Berliners have found it much cheaper to ride back and forth in the suburban trains than to sit at home in the evening. Holders of monthly tickets may ride as often as they care to on the government owned own-ed steam lines which run all about the city. The Labor government goes into action ahead of all expectations J. Ramsay MacDonald kissed the hand of the king of Buckingham palace Tuesday afternoon, thus sealing his entrance upon the high office of prime minister, and the exchange of seals between the ministers of the old cabinet and the new which took placv at the premier's official residence ir Downing street. Nicolai Lenine, premier uf soviet Russia, is dead. Tlie end cajne at 5 :50 o'clock Monday, but the death was not announced for some time afterward. after-ward. Lenine's death occurred at his country villa near Gorky, where h had been living in retirement. It came after a sudden turn for the worse culminating in a stroke which paralyzed par-alyzed his respiratory organism. Men Ling, a Chinese ship steward, has been ordered deported from England Eng-land following charges that be mar. ried at least' three white women and courted several others. The proposed conference between the railway managers and the engine-men engine-men for discussion of tlie issue involved in-volved in the present strike at Lon-don Lon-don has fallen through and J. Bromley, Brom-ley, secretary of tlie Associated Society So-ciety of Locomotive Enginoers and Firemen, announced that he "regretted" "regret-ted" that the strike must continue. |