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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BMOERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader. WESTERN EPITOME Fred L. Talmadge, father of Norma and Constance Talmadge, film stars, and Natalie Keaton, died in the Chase Banitarlum at Hollywood, Calif., after an Illness of several years. Gerald P. Nye, 33 years old, publisher pub-lisher of the GriHS county Sentinel-Courier Sentinel-Courier at Cooperstowu, N. D., has been appointed by Governor A. O. Sorlie to fill t lie vacancy in the United Uni-ted States senate caused by the death of the late E. F. Ladd. The federal circuit court at San Francisco affirmed the decree of the Idaho district court which awarded the Idaho Grimm Alfalfa Seed Growers' Grow-ers' association about $32,000 in a damage suit against the federal reserve re-serve bank for recovery on drafts deposited with the defunct Standrod Bank of Idaho. Edward F. Feickert, president of the State Trust company of Plain-field, Plain-field, N. J., was granted a decree of divorce in the district court at Reno, Nevada, from Lillian E. Feickert, Republican Re-publican state vice-chairman of New Jersey. Feickert told the court political po-litical activity on the part of his wife had broken up his home life. and that she had intimated she cared more for that career than she did for him. Chief of Police James T. Drew has Issued an order barring the Charleston Charles-ton dance from public dance halls in Oakland, Calif. The order was issued on recommendation of Mrs. Anna Ryan, city danco hall supervisor, who claims that the Charleston as danced in Oakland dance halls is indecent. Mrs. Ryan said, however, . that the Charleston if properly executed is not indecent. While court actions in other states are pending regarding collection of inheritance and income tax on the estate es-tate of former Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, the state board of equalization equal-ization will take no immediate action to collect the amount due Montana It has been announced. Art Acord, motion picture actor, was brought to the receiving hospital in Los Angeles with two broken ribs and other minor injuries received in an automobile accident. The actor stated he had wrecked his car by swerving it off the street and onto a lawn in order to avoid a collision with another machine. GENERAL T. J. Carroll, engineer of the Mercantile Mer-cantile Express of the Pennsylvania lines, which killed ten men in a collision col-lision with a Washington-New York train at New Brunswick, N. J., was arrainged on ten warrants charging manslaughter. He pleaded not guilty waived examination and was held in $10,000 bail to await action of the grand jury. Representatives of the railroad arranged bond. The treasury holds a signed agree-i agree-i ment for the funding of Italy's $2,-; $2,-; 042.000.000 war debt to the United States, and an order on the Italian treasury for $5,000,000 as the first payment. Life imprisonment in the Indiana state prison at Michigan city is the price which a jury determined that D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon drag-on of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan shall pay for the death of Madge Oberhalt-zer. Oberhalt-zer. Leading the nation in observance of the seventh anniversary of the world war armistice, President Cool-idge Cool-idge made pilgrimage to Arlington cemetery and laid a wreath on the unknown soldier's tomb. Motorists started hauling away large gasoline supplies with a new I low price record for the community j of S'-i cents per gallon in the latest development of a "gas war" at Chippewa Chip-pewa Falls. Wisconsin. The price is the lowest of a steady decline during the last three weeks, during which times the price has dropped from 19 cents a gallon. Shawsheen village. Mass., model industrial in-dustrial settlement planned and built at a cost of $21,000,000 by William M. Wood, when he was head of the American Woolen company, is to be abandoned. The announcement that the American Woolen company would move its executive offices to Boston, was interpreted as sounding the knell of an experiment to which the former president of the company devoted years of thought and effort. Fort Dodge, Iowa, residents repend solely on bus and "jitney" transportation transpor-tation now the first time the city has been without street car transportation. transporta-tion. The discontinuance of the street service was the result of tho inability inabil-ity of the company to meet operating expenses. The joy that the Christmas tree brings to children far outweighs any damage that the cutting of these small trees does to the forests, the United States forest service stated in indorsing the tinsel-bearer of the Yuletide. As a matter of fact, the service pointed out, the annual harvest har-vest of Christmas trees is exceeded many times by those used in the manufacture of toothpicks. "Never again!" is Mrs. Winifred Hudnut Valintino's attitude toward further matrimonial ventures. All artists ar-tists should be unmarried, she said, and added, "Children and domesticity are incompatible with a career, that's all." The house ways and means committee com-mittee voted to slash about $114,000,- 000 more from the annual federal tax burden by repealing most of the excess ex-cess and special taxes now in effect and cutting substantially the levy on automobiles. The president, on recommendation of the secretary of the interior, has withdrawn from entry 11,828 acres of public land in Gooding county, Idaho, locally known as the "City of Rocks," a weird region said to rival the Garden Gar-den of the Gods in Colorado. A reservation res-ervation of this area was the request of the Chamber of Commerce of Gooding. There are many basaltic formations for-mations from fifty to one hundred feet high in this area, which have long attracted tourists. Ultimately the area may be made a national mon-ment mon-ment if congress so directs. The Union Pacific railroad will at once start work to close the gap in the double track of the line between Omaha and Ogden, Utah, according to an announcement from President Gray's office. The cost will be about $2,500,000, as nearly as engineers can estimate. Labor will be recruited from Salt Lake, Ogden, Denver, Omaha Oma-ha and the country between. Work will start immediately and will continue con-tinue all through the winter and to an early completion. FOREIGN Princess Burhan Eddin, the former Lady Sholto Douglas, is apparently determined to press her . charges against her husband, the son of the late Turkish sultan, Abdul " Hamid. The belongings of the prince have been attached in Vienna by the sheriff's sher-iff's office. English moving picture producers are attempting to gain a place in the movie sun with the aid of American experience, directors and actors. The producers of England are about ready to admit that British films cannot successfully compete with American productions, principally because England Eng-land lacks movie "names." A wedding was held at Northants, England, recently which the bride and bridegroom the best man, the bridesmain and clergyman were all deaf and dumb. This is said to be the most unique of weddings held in England. Eggs are being used as currency in the Kara Kala district of Armenia, Armen-ia, where the American near east relief re-lief is operating. Twelve of the eggs are accepted on the "face value" as equivalent to one ruble, or fifty cents in American currency. If any of the eggs prove bad they may be returned as "illegal tender." The eighth birthday anniversary of the battle on the Neva when victory was assured the bolshevist revolution was celebrated in Berlin. The Berlin ambassador of the United Socialist Soviet republics invited guests to help celebrate the day. American pipe smokers will have to give up their French briar for a corncob or old clay pipe if the French manufactures carry out their threat to force the government to forbid exportation ex-portation of the briar root to the United Uni-ted States. A resolution which passed both houses of the legislature of Manila, just before the final adjournment provides pro-vides for the sending of a special legislative committee to the United States for the purpose of en'-'ghten-ing the American people's opinion on conditions in the Philippines and the 1 capacity and preparation of the Fil-i Fil-i ipino reople to assume the responsibilities respon-sibilities of a tree and independent government. Officials of the 200-mile dog derby at the Pas. Manitoba, are considering consider-ing shorter races this winter to lessen the hardships to dogs and drivers. It is proposed to stage races on three or four separate days over fifty-mile courses instead of a straight 200-mile dash. |