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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES 1 FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader. WASHINGTON Action on the reappointment of Charles W. Hunt of Iowa as a member mem-ber of the federal trade commission has been deferred by the senate Interstate In-terstate commerce committee, at the request of Senator Wheeler, (Democrat) (Demo-crat) Montana. There was less sickness In the navy during the calendar year 1924 than I in any year since the World war, 1 while the death rate from disease was vory low, 1.78 per 1000 of personnel. Vigorous protest against any federal fed-eral aid for construction of the pro-i pro-i poHed Iloulder Canyon dam until the compact between the seven states of the Colorado River basin for division of the river's waters has been signed, was presented before the senate committee com-mittee on Irrigation and reclamation. ' Senate lnsurgonts have promised j their support to pe Borah world court proposal, while President Cool- ! 1 Idge consulted with Colonel Edward j M. House, close adviser of the late President Wilson, at the White ; House, I ' i - ' A $750,000 federal building for Og- i den was asked in a bill Introduced In I i the house by Representative Don B. i Colton, Republican of Utah. Colton I also Introduced bills for a $100,000 f h federal building at Ephralm and for P I one costing $50,000 at Price. ! , The war debt settlements with i Italy, Belgium, Rumania, Esthonia, .1 Latvia und Czecho-Slovakla were ap- proved by the senate finance com- , mittee, and Chairman Smoot will ask I fur their approval In the senate. j Senator Schnll, Republican, Minnes- X- ota has branded as a "damned die," v statements by counsel for his farmer- Si. ' labor predecessor, Magnus Johnson, j i; who is contesting his election, that bootleggers had been approached for . contributions to his campaign fund 1 and that he had asked a prohibition officer not to prosecute a violator of I the prohibtion act. ' Defining forestry as "use and tim-t tim-t ber cropping, not abstention from use i , and tree worship," Chief Forester W. ! B. Greeley declared in his annual re- ;' port submitted recently that forestry I . In the United States was at last mak- 1 lng real headway In the shape of a gradual evolution of industrial practice prac-tice and land management. There is evidence, he states, that the possibility possibil-ity of growing successive crops of timber tim-ber on the same land Is reoeiving the marked attention of forest Industries. GENERAL Billy Sunday, evangelist, laid down a barrage against old enemies, modernists mod-ernists and demon rum. He spoke from the platform of the Moody cliurch in Chicago to an audience of more than 2000. It was the evenge- list's first address in Chicago since his illness of a year ago. Nearly one-fourth of the student fraternities at the University of Minnesota Min-nesota have been placed on probation for the remainder of the current year for failure to maintain a minimum "C" average during the winter and spring terms of the last college year. j E. E. Nicholson, dean of student af fairs, announced. Vice President Dawes, who once composed a melody that won critical approval, has a musical rival in his own family. Dana, his youthful adopted adopt-ed 6on, who admits he is not all bad on the saxaphone, is out to win honors hon-ors with the harmonica. He is an entrant en-trant iu the annual harmonica con' test staged by the bureau of recreation recrea-tion of Evanston, north shore suburb sub-urb of Chicago. The New Mexico state prohibition ' lew of 1923. which adopted the penal provisions of the Volstead act as state law was held unconstitutional by the state supreme court at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The law was declared unconstitutional un-constitutional in an opinion of the court, freeing eight men convicted of prohibilion offenses, who had appeal-, appeal-, ed their cases. All refreence to evolution has been eliminated by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson from a textbook on biology used in Texas. One of the deleted passages states: "With an egotism j' Which is entirely unwarranted, we are accustomed to speak of 'man and animals,' ani-mals,' whereas we ought to say 'man end other animals,' for certainly man Is an animal Just as truly as the beast Of the field." ir Death from heart disease In a tax-leab tax-leab ended the flight of Edward F. Keller, with approximately $40,000 taken from the Corn Exchange National Na-tional bank of Philadelphia, whore he was employed at a watchman. Nearly $14,000 of the loot was in cash and the remainder In checks. By official ruling, Princeton university univer-sity musical club members must wear garters on their annual Bermuda trip this year. It is the front row men the announcement said, who made it necessary that a ban be placed upon the prevalent college custom. When they sit down they show the lack of garters. Eighteen men convicted of conspiracy conspir-acy to "milk" the Jack Daniel distil-ery distil-ery at St. Louis of $30,000 worth of pre-war whisky are at liberty ot bonds of $5000 to $10,000, and five more are held In Jail at Indianapolis, Ind., in lieu of bond, waiting sentence in the federal court. Charles Robert Keyes, 71, who recently re-cently was sent home from Montana State College, where he failed to meet grade requirements, ended his life in his parents' home by shooting himself him-self through the head with a rifle. It Is believed despondency over his failure fail-ure at school caused him to take his life. Roald Amundsen's Arctic exploration ship Maud, which started out seven and a half years ago to drift across the North Pole, probably will end Its career as a herring boat, Captain Oscar Os-car Wlstlng, who Is leaving shortly for Norway, Baid at Seattle. The Maud freed itself from three years In the Ice pack north of Siberia, to be entangled In a legal maze when she returned to civilization, and has been at anchor In Lake Union here until debts totaling more than $6000 shall have been paid. Battling Slkl, the Senegalese pugilist, pugil-ist, never one to confine his love of combat to the squared circle has fought hlg last fight Ih a "hell's kitchen" kit-chen" sidewalk, In New York. Twelve hours after discovery of his body with two bullet wounds In the back, the former barroom boy, decorated world war vetern and participant in countless street and barroom brawls, lay in a morgue, while police combed haunts of the underworld for his slayer. slay-er. FOREIGN Broadcasting movies by wireless will be the eventual application of a new invention by Professor Edourd Belin, France's Edison. Professor Be-lin, Be-lin, extending the principles of his inventions in-ventions permitting the telegraphing of photographs, now hopes to enable two speakers to see each other through his apparatus during long distance dis-tance telephone conversations, though he refuses to divulge his secret. "Rubber is wiping out England's debt to the United States," is the gleeful glee-ful headline on a review of the situation situ-ation brought about by the Stevenson restriction plan, appearing in Lord Riddell's "news of the world." "By one of the most amazing transformations transforma-tions which even the world today has witnessed," says the newspaper, "Britain "Brit-ain and America are rapidly changing chang-ing places as debator and creditor nations." Although it Is reported that August-in August-in Edwards, head of the Chilean delegation dele-gation to the Tcna-Arica plebiscitary commission, has resigned, the Chilean government has not received the resignation. res-ignation. The foreign minister, Senor Barros-Jarpa, said that the government govern-ment gave full support to the stand taken by the head of the Chilean delegation del-egation at Arica. Millions of dollars worth of Mexico's Mexi-co's banana, cotton and tomato crops are reported to have been entirely destroyed by floods. In the state of Nayarit the rivers are overflowing, drowning thousands of cattle and causing an epidemic of malaria which has recently been bringing an average of ten deaths daily. To he sorrow of all ar lovers, London Lon-don is to lose its famous Waterloo bridge across the Thames. The fate of the structure was sealed by the decision de-cision of the London council to build a new bridge with not more than five arches and sufficient width to take six lines of vehicular traffic. French and Russian delegations will soon meet In Paris to resume negotiations ne-gotiations for settlement of the Russian Rus-sian debt to France. Chief Justice Peters and Circuit Judge O'Brien of Honolulu have forwarded for-warded their resignations to the attorney attor-ney general. They intend to form a partnership and enter private practice prac-tice The United States has been invited by the league of nations council to share in the work of framing an arms conference under the league auspices for next year. This invitation followed follow-ed council ratification ot similar requests re-quests to Russia, Germany and a group of lesser nations to sit with ten council members on the disarmament conference preparation commission, which will convene in Geneva Febru ary 15th. |