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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 The name of Wm. G. McAdoo, Jr., son of the former secretary of the treasury, was among those against whom Income tax liens were filed by Income Tax Collector Rex B. Good-cell, Good-cell, of Los Angeles. The government claims there is $58.93 due on young McAdoo's 1924 tax. E-Dah-Ho II, grand champion shorthorn short-horn steer of the Pacific International Internation-al Livestock Exposition at Portland, Oregon, shown by the University of Idaho and purchased by Easton & Ward of the Blackhawk ranch, Diablo, Diab-lo, Cal., will be taken to Chicago to compete in the International Livestock Live-stock show there. This was announced announ-ced by representatives of the firm. They said they wanted the middle-west middle-west to "see what the Pacific slope could do." A recommendation that work begin at once on the task of putting pedestrians pedes-trians of Los Angeles underground was agreed upon by the city council's coun-cil's tunnels, bridges and viaducts committee. Sites for 26 pedestrian tunnels under some of the busiest boulevards already have been select ed by traffic commission and a $350,-000 $350,-000 bond issue to finance the project was authorized by voters last May. Arizona has stamped indelibly upon up-on the record of the United States senate subcommittee on irrigation and reclamation the state's claims to the power potentialities of the Colorado Colo-rado river. Arizona contends that any use of this resource must produce pro-duce revenue for the state. The Montana supreme court denied an application by Richard Ringling, circus man, for a rehearing of a damage dam-age suit in which he was held liable for a judgment of approximately $22,000. The judgment was awarded by the lower court to Diering and Cunningham, a cattle firm with which Ringling was a partner in the Taylor Fork Cattle company. They alleged Ringling's handling of the interests left them without resources. The cutter Algonquin of the United States coast guard reported at Seattle Seat-tle the greatest volcanic activity in the Alaska peninsula and in the Aleu-thian Aleu-thian islands since Mount Katmai, on the peninsula, 300 miles east from the Aleuthians, erupted in 1912. GENERAL A crisis threatens corn farmers due to a smash in, prices to 50 cents a bushel on the farm, and unless quick steps are taken by the government to remedy the situation, bank failures fail-ures in the middle west will increase on a large scale, was the warning sounded by Senator Henrick Ship-stead Ship-stead of Minnestoa, upon receipt of news that President Coolidge had dispatched Nils A. Olsen of the department de-partment of agriculture and Albert C. Williams of the farm loan board to Iowa and other corn-producing states to find out the facts. Five women, hotel employes of Hib- bing, Minn., are dead as the result of poisoning or asphyxiation. A gas jet found open in the kitchen of one of them is believed to have caused the deaths, although a coroner's inquest in-quest has been called to determine if wine contained in small glasses, found before each of them contained poison. Material conditions of living for the American people during the last year have been the "highest in all history." Secretary Hoover said in an economic review made public as part of the annual report of the commerce department. I Mrs. Marie Maxfield, 19, and Mrs. I Violet Hammond, 17, confessed robbers rob-bers who made a speciality of rob-i rob-i bing taxicab chauffeurs, were held to the grand jury in bonds of $200,000 each by municipal Judge Live of Chicago. Chi-cago. Vernon Maxfield. husband of Marie, has been arrested in Denver and is charged with participating in one of the robberies. The Democrats scored an overwhelming over-whelming victory over the Republicans Republi-cans in the city election of New York electing a mayor, all five borough presidents, a president of the board of aldermen, comptroller, all four district dis-trict attorneys and a long list of minor min-or officers. Senator James J. Walker Walk-er defeated Frank D. Waterman for mayor by more than 37S.00 votes. William J. Burke, general chairman of the Order of Railway Conductors of the Baltimore & Ohio system and former congressman-at-Iarge, died suddenly sud-denly at his Pittsburg home. Contracts for air mail service between be-tween Boston and New York, Chicago and St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, and Dallas, Forth Worth and Chicago have been signed by Postmaster General New. Twenty leaders of the dry froces, meeting at the Prince Goerge hotel, in New York, expressed in turn their disapproval of the attitude on prohibition pro-hibition shown by President Coolidge, Secretary Mellon, Governor Smith of New York, Mayor-elect James Walker of New York, and the Republican leaders in the country. Two suits for $100,000 damages each, brought against Benjamin Pur-nell, Pur-nell, fuitive "king" of the House of David, by Mrs. Ruth Mumford Reed and her sister, Mrs. Gladys Bambord Rubel, have been automatically dis missed in circuit court at St. Joseph, Michigan. A flood of beer of high alcoholic content is sweeping the country, General Gen-eral Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant secretary of the Treasury told the house ways and means committee in asking taxes on nearbeer and denatured dena-tured alcohol to aid in prohibition enforcement. en-forcement. Arnold J. Hellmich, collector of internal in-ternal reveuue in St. Louis, Mrs. Geo. Remus, wife of the millionaire bootlegger boot-legger of Cincinnati and a number of prominent Republican politicians in St. Louis have been indicted in connection con-nection with violations of the Volstead Vol-stead law in Indianapolis, according to announcement at St. Louis, Mo. The board' of directors, Standard Oil company of Indiana, declared a cash dividend of 62 cents on each share of its capital stock. The dividend divi-dend will be paid December 15 to stockholders of record November 16. Marking the close of his first year as an inmate of the federal pentiten-tary pentiten-tary at Atlanta, Ga., Warren T. Mc-Cray, Mc-Cray, former governor of Indiana has written an editorial in Good Words, the prison paper he had edited since his arrival, in which he declared he believes he has done his duty since entering the institution. The former Hoosier governor also touches optimistically opti-mistically on the outcome of the prison pri-son management upheaval some months ago, which resulted in the conviction of former Warden Sartain and the acquittal of former Deputy Warden Fletcher .on charges of bribery. brib-ery. FOREIGN At Bellevue zoological gardens in Manchester, England, a woman keeper, keep-er, Mrs. Ambert, entered a section of the tigers' den to clean it, but forgot to close the trap door shutting off the section containing the tiger. The beast pounced upon her and killed her with one blow of his paw. Customs reprisals and attacks on the franc are the only two weapons available to the United States to force France to pay the war debt, and both of these are boomerangs, which would injure America, is the conclusion conclu-sion of Monsieur Robert Castex, who has completed a study on what will happen if France doesn't pay. Clement Voroshiloff, commander of the Moscow military district and member of the revolutionary war council has been appointed minister of war and navy to succeed the late General Frunz. M. Lashevitch, governmental gov-ernmental commissar for the Siberian fop-inn Vine lippn nnnnintpd first assist ant to the ne.w minister. Seven persons are reported to have been drowned and seventeen, including includ-ing women and nine children, are missing as a result of the bursting of a dam and the destruction of the village of Dolgarrog, Wales. A government flier has had an unwonted un-wonted thrill. Attacked suddenly up in the air by an insane passenger, he fought with one hand and with the other guided the plane safely to earth near Prague. Priemier Painleve of France and American Ambassador Herrick had a conference on the question of French debts to America, but details were withheld. It was indicated, however, that the French cabinet sono will take up the problem which was left unsettled un-settled by the former finance minister, minis-ter, Caillaux, at Washington. A popular referendum on how much the former kaiser is to get in final j settlement of his property claims against Prussia is advocated by the j Morgenpost of Berlin. The paper estimates es-timates that the former ruler has a chance to get a billion marks if the present negotiations are continued. While most Germans lost money through the inflation period, the Morgenpost Mor-genpost points out that the kaiser would become the "only full valorized valoriz-ed German." |