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Show NEWS STORY OF MJ5T WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout die World WESTERN A coroner's jury decided that Albert Al-bert Boone of Omaha, who was found lying beside a road shot to deaui, died from a self-inflicted wound, despite de-spite testimony by Muidie Cubertson, lu ye.r old school girl, that he was killed by highwaymen who held them Ui) while tney were out riding in a rented automobile. Boone was said to have been despondent but the reason lor his despondency has not been disclosed. dis-closed. Captain Itoald Amundsen, Norwe ian explorer, lias abandoned his plan for an air flight from New York to Seattle and le.t New York by rail for Seattle to supervise the outfit-ing outfit-ing of his exploration ship, the Maud, Ms representative announced. . Capt. Amundsen expects to resume his attempt at-tempt to drift past the North Pole early in June. ' An ordinance providing a fine of ?1W for any person appearing in public in a eosume that conceals his identity, was enacted by the city comm.ss. oners on-ers of Kansas Cty, Kan. Mayor Bur-tun Bur-tun introduced the ordinance in support sup-port of his open letter in which he called on all employees of the city who belong to the Ku Klux Klan, to resign from thu organization. Forty-six persons are dead or missing mis-sing in the Trinity river flood at Kurt Yv'orth, Texas, a revised list indicates. Port Worth was surrounded on three sides by a sheet of water extending over an area estimated at 2o to 50 Bipiare miles. The property damage will be about $1,000,000, according to estimates. Two St Paul women, both grandmothers grand-mothers and each 60 years old, plan to start at once on the first lap of a 200-mile walk to Sioux City. Approximatetly $7,000,000 is to be spent for refrigerator cars by the Denver Den-ver & Itlo Grande Western Kailway company, according to an announcement announce-ment made by officials of the road. ProBpects for bumper crops of fruits -and vegetables on the western slope of Colorado have caused railway officials offi-cials to believe business will be unusually un-usually large this year. Every citizen who cannot read, write and speak, the American language, should be disfranchised, Thomas M. Marshall, former vice president, declared de-clared in an address at St. Louis. GENERAL Nearly .$200,000 worth of imported whiskies, loaded aboard a big oceangoing ocean-going steam lighter, was captured by the New York police after a thrilling two-mile chase down the hay. A flurry flur-ry of shooting and personal encounters encount-ers between the boarding police and the crew of the lighter figured at the end of the chase. Six men were arrested. ar-rested. Trim and athletic, attired in a soldier sol-dier uniform, and declaring she was heating her way to New York, where she expected to find more journalistic journal-istic atmosphere, a 20-year-old University Uni-versity of .Missouri co-ed, detainaod at Chicago by the police, said she was the daughter of Dr. Ben Keitmiin, writer and sociological worker for the Chicago health department. Darktown's Over the lilvcr Burying Bury-ing Society and its Sons and Daughters Daugh-ters of I will Arise have a competitor in the newest negro social organization organiza-tion of record the Grand tinier of Turtles and Turtle Doves. It is a "marriage society" and holds forth in the Harlem "black belt" of New York Cityt. The officials of the society are in court charged with fraud. The union mine workers of Illinois do not want government intervention in the toal strike, but prefer to deal directly with operators, and tho time when a conference can be held is 'not very far off," Frank Furringt-w, president of the Illinois miners, declared. de-clared. The strike vote taken by the International Inter-national Brotherhood of Paper Makers was overwhelmingly against acceptance accept-ance of wage reductions proposed hy manufacturers of news print paper, Jeremiah T. Carey, president of the brotherhood, announced at a confer-', confer-', . ence with the manufacturers, l'ro- '1 posed reductions which the workers refused to accept included a 10 per cent cut from the present scale for skilled men of all crafts and the elimination elim-ination of all overtime tor Sundays and holidays. WASHINGTON Annual losses of approximately $750,000 are being caused by accidents acci-dents in Utah coal mines, and the death rate and disability among JJtah coal miners is steadily' increasing, accortling to a survey just completed by the United States Bureau of Mines, and the statement is made that :n some other coal producing states the losses are relatively greater. This loss, stated in dollars and cents, represents rep-resents wage losses of employees in the mines, the value of coal not produced pro-duced due to accident, disability of the men, and accident insurance premiums prem-iums paid. Strike ballots are being sent out by chiefs of the various shop crafts on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. rail-roads. The Wisconsin Automobile Dealers association, organized for the purpose of fixing prices for used curs through dissemination of trade information, was held to be in restraint of trade and illegal under the state anti-trust law. Sale of surplus agricultural products to foreign countries was suggested as ' a means of bringing higher prices to farmers by Carl Vrooman, former Assistant As-sistant Secretary of Agriculture in an address before the convention of the Mississippi Valley association. The speaker urged his auditors to "find foreign markets for the farmers' surplus sur-plus crops by the skillful use of credits." cred-its." August Probst, the Swiss waiter, who lias charged that he was "kidnapped" "kid-napped" because of his romantic interest inter-est in the daughter of a wealthy member mem-ber of the fashionable liolling Rock Country club, near Pittsburg, will be deported from the United States under un-der an order issued by Assistant Secretary Sec-retary Henning of the labor department. depart-ment. "Don't worry, sweetheart, I'll escape inside of two years," Joseph Lauzon, charged with 200 burglaries in the last eighteen months, replied to the warm embrace of the woman who had gone into his cell to bid him goodbye. good-bye. Arrested with him, but later released, re-leased, Miss Virginia 'Betty Carroll told Lauzon, "If they give you fifty years I'll still he waiting for you when you're free." Lauzon told the police on his arrest, they said, that he had already escaped from prison twice. Owing to the immense potash resources re-sources of Utah and the fact that the producing plants in this state are closed, a petition presented to congress con-gress a few days ago lby American potash producers from ruinous German Ger-man competition is of much interest. The petition, a copy of which has been received, charges that the German government, through the Deutsches Kali Syndikat, has, to all intents and purposes, destroyed property owned by American citizens to the extent of about $30,000,000 during the past twelve months. Declaring that there has "finally been a man elected to the presidency of the Mexican republic who promises to be a true savior to his country," the Colorado senate, in special session ses-sion ,adopted a resolution calling on the United States to recognize President Presi-dent Obregan and Mexico. The previous existence on this continent con-tinent of a new genus and species of primate "much more closely resembling re-sembling the human type than it does any known species of ape," although distinct from either, is -believed to have been established by the recent discovery of a small tiKith in the faun-al faun-al deposits of Nebraska, according to a paper read at the concluding session here of the national academy of sciences scien-ces by Dr. Henry F. Osborne of the American museum of natural history. FOREIGN Thirty-two lives were lost when the French steamer Deputy Albert Tail-landier, Tail-landier, a vessel of 3000 tons, bound from ltotterdam for Brest with a cargo car-go of coal, foundered off the northern coast of Brittany during a violent storm. The captain of the ship, the sole survivor, was picked up hy the Greek steamer Pelagia. Voluntary economic readjustment or f!nancial intervention by the United States." is, according to La Prenza, the basis of a report which has been submitted to tho Cuban government by Carlos Manuel DeCespedes, Cuban min'sier to the United States. Germany has finaally agreed to re. sumo the sale of dyes to the Textile Alliance of America without reserve, following a three manths- peri:d during dur-ing which she had first refused to soil any dyes to the alliance and tliea consented to sell a limited amount. This decision resulted from a recent conference in Germany between an official of the alliance and the head of the German Dye alliance. It is regarded re-garded by the American alliance officials offi-cials hs & distinct victory for the textile tex-tile industry of America. It will soon, In their belief, normalize the shipment ship-ment of dyes from Germany to thu United States. |