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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINCS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Dayt Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WE8TERN Calvin Coolide was conceded victor In the .Republican presldental preference prefer-ence primary in North Dakota, in u Btatoment issued by state headquarters headquar-ters of Senator Hiram Johnson one of the president's primary opponents. Curtis II. Wilbur, former chief justice jus-tice of the California supreme court, who was sworn in as secretary of the navy haa left for Washington. He was taken to the depot In a naval automobile auto-mobile a naval guard accompanying- Two men, armed and masked, entered en-tered McOougall-Southwlck's one of the ltNidlnt? department stores of Seattle, Wash., before the opening hour locked two employees in a vault and escaped with pay roll envelopes estimated to contain $10,000. Officials of the Moffat tunnel commission com-mission announced that an unsuccessful unsuccess-ful attempt was made last week to blow up the west portal of the Moffat tunnel now being built under the continental con-tinental divide. Dan Sullivan, an alleged al-leged I. W. W. was taken to Denver where charges will be filed against him officials said. Bert Barey, vice president of the defunct Hardin State bank of Hardin, Alont., was sentenced to from three to six years in the state penitentiary by Judge liobert C. Strong in district court. He was charged with having misappropriated $1500 from the bank, the proceeds of a note given by J. B. Boyd of Wyola in September, 1022. Jason L. Read, former publisher and editor of the Masonic Chronicle of Chicago, died at Pasadena, Calif. He was born in San Francisco in 1803 and was prominent In newspaper circles in Chicago. it is planned to have a faculty vocational voca-tional committee at the University of Nevada to conduct psychological tests with a view of suggesting to students the vocations for which they seem best fitted. Strict economy by all light and power consumers in southern California Califor-nia and tlie San Joaquin valley is recommended re-commended by a special committee surveying the field to offset a "very serious situation" due to drought, according ac-cording to a statement issued by L. S. Ready engineer for the state railroad rail-road commission. GENERAL nenry Ford's railroad, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, operated as a "plant facility,' ha3 lost its owner ?OS,207 in the four years of its operation, oper-ation, it was declared In a report by the committee on public relations of the eastern railroads The New York report declared there had been a preat deal of misinformation printed about the railroad and many "false conclusions editorials and otherwise t " have been drawn. Automobiles and trucks totaling 15,222,1S were registered in all states of the country in 1023, according accord-ing to a bulletin issued recently by Automobile Industries a statistical gathering publication of New York city. William Jennings Bryan is not a candidate for the presidency but is anxious to see a younger man take leadership of the Democratic party, lie said at Omaha in commenting on the recent action by members of the OKlahoma legislature who indorsed him for president. Howard Ross, Arthur Toinby and Herbert Gilbert, each eight years old, were' drowned at Mason City, Iowa when the ice on Willow creek gave way with them and plunged them into water eight feet deep. Lyle Rassmus-sen, Rassmus-sen, 13, also went through but was saved by Martin Mortensen, standing on a bridge above, lowering a rope Into the water. All of the victims were trapped under the ice. The bodies were recovered. Thomas Kane of New York, who recently underwent what he said was his fifty-ninth blood transfusion, has asserted lie could produce a pint of blood a week by eating eighteen to twenty-four raw onions a day. He has puzzled surgeons by being able repeatedly to give up a pint of "blood without draining his system. He gets from $.-.0 to $ir,o for a transfusion. Besides onions, he eats carrots, celery and rice. WASHINGTON A recommendation that 10. W. Cole, Democrat, be denied a S'.at as re-prcacntative-at-largi; from Texas was made to the house by one of its elections committee. The quest of the senate inquisitors for more light on political intrigues relating to oil and money has led to the issuance of a subpoena for Al Jennings, Jen-nings, reformed bandit evangelist nd politician in Oklahoma who it is said can give much interesting testimony concerning the part played by the late Jake llamon, oil magnate and politician politi-cian boss, in thu VJ-0 Republican convention con-vention at Chicago. Plans of the navy department for a naval base at Alameda, Cal., were disapproved dis-approved by the house naval committee. commit-tee. The vote was G to 13. Boys under 21 years of age would be barred from enlisting in the navy without the written consent of their parents or guardians, under an amendment offered to the naval appropriation ap-propriation bill by Representative Connally, Democrat, Texas. Republican members of the senate finance committee indicated that they would seek to give priority to the soldier bonus bill over the re-venue re-venue measure. Attorney General Daugherty held that the federal government can im. pose no inheritance tax in California on that portion of a community estate which passes to the wife upon the death of her husband. Extensive refunds re-funds to California residents may result. re-sult. The house for the third time in four years has passed a soldier bonus bill. The vote was 355 to 54, and was taken after forty minutes' debate. Selection of Curtis D. Wilbur chief justice of the supreme court of California, Cal-ifornia, to succeed Edwin Denby as secretary of the navy, was approved by the senate in an executive session of less than ten minutes. There was said to have been no debate on the nomination and no roll call asked when the motion that he be confirmed confirm-ed was made by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republican leader. Threading its way through a bewildering be-wildering maze of charges and suspicions, sus-picions, the senate committee investigating investi-gating Attorney General Dnugherty heard testimony about deals in liquor, lotteries and motion picture films ; subpoenaed two cabinet officers to appear before it, and was again rebuked re-buked by Mr. Daugherty for the character of the evidence it has admitted ad-mitted to its officials records. Representatives Harold Knutson of Minnesota and Leroy A. Hull, 29 year old government employee will be held for tile grand jury to face serious charges made against them by two Arlington county, Virginia police officers. of-ficers. In spite of the protests of Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Mellon, the senate appears likely to approve an increase in inheritance taxes. FOREIGN Winston Churchill of London standing stand-ing as an independent and anti-socialist anti-socialist candidate, lost his fight in the parliamentary election for the Abbey Ab-bey division of Westminister to Otho Nicholson conservative by forty-three forty-three votes. King Albert of Brussels was the only state funcitonary who refused the recent increase in salary, Premier Theunis said in a speech in the chamber of deputies. The Polish diet has ratified the international in-ternational white slave traffic agreement. agree-ment. When ratified many women made speeches in the died, an unusual event. Premier Bruce of Australia has cabled Premier MacDonald urging the British government to reconsider its decision not to proceed further with the development of the Singapore naval base. Sir Frederick Bridge, noted organist organ-ist of London, is dead, aged 79. He had been professor of music in Lon don university since 1902 and was formerly organist of Westminister Abbey for many years. The Japanese government, in the face of a threatened shortage in the nation's rice supply for 1924, has decided de-cided to encourage imports of Japan's staple food by admitting rice free ol duty until July 31, 1924. Barring of surveyors representing Sinclair oil interests from the island of Saghalien has focused official and public attention on the contest between be-tween the Sinclair corporation and the Japanese for rich oil lands in what nominally is the Russian halt of the island. The opinion is general in official circles that eventual exploitation ex-ploitation will be by Japanese and not by American. The Fronch senate has adopted the section of Premier Toincare's financial finan-cial reform measures which provides for a 2(1 per cent Increase in French taxes. |