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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES 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. WESTERN EPITOME Petitions on behalf of the Norwegian Norwe-gian government, the Carnegie Institution Insti-tution of Washington, D. C, and the Bio Film company of Oslo, Norway, were filed in federal court at Seattle, Washington, when efforts were begun be-gun to free the Maud, Amundsen's polar exploration vessel, from the maze of debt litigation which en-massed en-massed the ship on its return from the Arctic ice pack. Liabilities of $296,838 and assets of $198,336 were listed in a schedule filed in federal court at Los Angeles by the Charles Ray Productions, Inc. Organized to produce films featuring the actor, Charles Ray. The corporation corpora-tion was adjudged bankrupt last month after an involuntary petition had been filed. Scott C. Bone, former governor of Alaska and former publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Washington (D. G.) Post, and once president of the Gridiron club, Washington, Wash-ington, has allied himself with the Western Publishers, Inc., at Ataseero, California. The officials of the company com-pany announced that Mr. Bone had been elected vice president of the company, which publishes several magazines, including the Americanization American-ization Magazine. Colliding while flying at an altitude of 100 feet, two planes dropped into the sea off Oceanside, Calif. Two men swan ashore from the wreckage, but a third man could be seen clinging to the plane, apparently unable to swim. A boat immediately put off from shore to rescue him. Election-day closing of all golf links used by San Francisco voters is being urged by the Downtown Merchant Mer-chant association. Experience has revealed, re-vealed, the merchants say, that persons per-sons excused from their regular employment em-ployment in election day to vote forget for-get all about the polls and make for their favorite links to get in their best licks in a full day's play. The Rev. Father Walter A. Grace, former pastor of the Shrine of St. Anne at Arvada, near Denver, Colorado, Colo-rado, who is serving a two-year term In Leavenworth federal prison for the alleged forging of a government liquor liq-uor permlit, became eligible for parole pa-role when Federal Judge Foster Sym-es Sym-es dismissed an indictment pending against him. Although Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney, California social worker sentenced to prison for violation of the California criminal syndicalism law, has made known that she will make no attempt to escape imprisonment, imprison-ment, plans to aid her are in the process pro-cess of formation in various parts of the state. GENERAL "Unless the treasurey department extends the time for paying the national na-tional debt, so as to afford greater relief in the annual tax levy, manufacturers manu-facturers of automobiles and others clamoring for repeal of the war excise ex-cise taxles are sure to be disappointed.'' disap-pointed.'' This notice was served by Representative Garner, Texas, ranking rank-ing Democrat of the house ways and means committee. James Leroy Asher, "Lone Wolf" of prohibition enforcements agents, died s-uddenly at Chicago of a cerebral cere-bral hemorrhage. News of the death of Asher created a stir in official circles. cir-cles. First reports indicated death might have been due to poison. E. C. Yellowley. prohibition administrator for Illinois, ordered an investigation. Charges filed against Major General Gen-eral William H. Kart by Major General Gen-eral Harry L. Rogers, retired, have disclosed to the investigating officer at Washington no basis for further procedeings. "Cateye Annie." wanted by the police po-lice in a score of cities escaped from jail in Buffalo. N. Y. She was to have been sentenced for the theft of $75,000 worth of jewels from a home where she was employed as a maid. She was arrested recently In Miilwaukee. The tripple lock of steel-screened and barred cell wbere Annie was confined was open. The woman used a steel letter opener she found on the sheriff's sher-iff's desk in forcing a window from which she leaped to liberty. Gloiia Swanson, film actress, was fined $250 by Referee Robert M. Marsh of New York in federal court when she failed to appear as a witness wit-ness in the separation suit brought by Janet Beecher, actress, against her hus-band, Dr. Richard H. Hoff. Miss Swanson had been subpoenaed to appear, ap-pear, but sailed for Europe. She will be called upon to pay the $250 fine when she returns, and also to present pre-sent a satisfactory explanation of her absence. Bud Fisher, the cartoonist, and the Countess Adeita de Beaumont were, married at sea by Captain Herbert Hartley of the Leviathan. The couple will make an indefinite stay in England Eng-land and on the continent. Resignation of Carl F. Egge, general gen-eral superintendent of the air mail service, and appointment of S. A. Cis'ler, general superintendent of the Omaha division of the railway mail service, to succeed him has been announced an-nounced at Omaha. A. N. Barney, last known survivor of the Little meeting in Ripon, Wis., where the Republican party was born, died at Minneapolis. He was 96 years old and had lived in Minneapolis thirty thir-ty years. Declaring thy.t if France would adopt a sound fiscal policy and stop spending money to carry on war she could pay her debt to the United States, Senator Borah answered charges that Americans who propose cancellation are merely "playing politics.'' poli-tics.'' Levi Morrill, far famed as "Uncle Ike," in Harold Bell Wright's. "Shepherd "Shep-herd of the Hills" and for thirty-two years postmaster at Notche, near Brano, Mo., has been asked to resign by the government. No cause, other than the old man's age has been assigned, as-signed, so far as is known here. An amendment to the municipal code providing for a fine of from $5 to $25 for a radio broadcasting station which disturbs its neighbors will be submitted at an early council meeting meet-ing in Chicago. An average reduction of $29 on all passenger automobiles and lower delivered de-livered prices on all commercial ve-hciles ve-hciles are promised by spokesmen for the automobile industry if the federal fed-eral war excess taxes on motor products pro-ducts are repealed, according to an announcement by the National Automobile Auto-mobile Chamber of Commerce. An artificial larnyx, invented for persons whose speech organ has been removed for pathological reasons rea-sons is enabling about 500 dumb persons per-sons in the United States to speak. The device was described by Dr. Harvey A. Fletcher of the Bell Telephone Tele-phone laboratores of New York, its inventor, before the convention of the American Academy o Opithalmology and Oto-Laryngogogy. FOREIGN Roque Jaranilla, who was found guilty of securing Filipino passports for the purpose of supplying them to Chinese emigrating to the United States, has been sentenced to five years in Billibid prison. The Japanese government is gradually grad-ually getting the best of the very prevalent habit of opium smoking in Formosa, which is one of the very few places in the world where one may see a shop window making a display dis-play of opium pipes for sale and where dealers in the prepared juice of the forbidden fruit of the poppy hang out street signs to let the world know about it. Greek and Bulgarian soldiers are engaged in battle on the Macedonian frontier. The Greek command is making mak-ing an encircling movement on the heights around the town of Petrich, about twenty miles to the northwest of Demirhissar, where the first clash between Green and Bulgarian patrols occurred. This is the official information infor-mation given out, and it is further announced an-nounced that the Bulgarians have received re-ceived reinforcements at Demi-Kapu William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson has arrived at Constantinople to confer with the Turkish prohibition leaders and to attend the convention of the Green Crescent. Turkey's antialco-hol antialco-hol organization. Mr. Johnson said tho membership of the Green Crescent Cres-cent had doubled in a year. He will remain three weeks in Constantinople, Constantino-ple, lecturing on the subject of prohibition pro-hibition in the United States. The French budget for 1D26, as submitted sub-mitted by the general report of the finance fi-nance committee of the chamber, shows an increase in estimater expenses ex-penses of 902.000,000 francs as compared com-pared with 1925. The increase is attributed to the rise in prices and the fall in the value of the franc. Revenues are estimated at 36,172,000,-000 36,172,000,-000 francs, with surplus revenue of 795,000,000 francs due to the enforcement enforce-ment of new fiscal measures. |