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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 With damage from the overflow of the North Canadian river already running run-ning Into hundreds of thousands of dollars, the crisis lias been reached In Oklahoma City In the flood situation. situa-tion. Hundreds of houses and stores in tho southern bottoms of the city had hoen washed away or flooded this morning More than 1,000 persons are homeless. A serious forest fire menace still exists In the north woods, according to W. T. Cox, Minnesota state forester, forest-er, but all reports received indicate that the flames are well under control and tlire is no Immediate danger of their spreading unless a hlgih wind develops. More than 100 fires are burning In the northern timber, tim-ber, Mr. Cox said. The shipping hoard will investigate thoroughly the offer of more than $1,000,000,000 received for the entire government merchant fleet, Chairman Lasker said. The offer was presented by John W. Black, president of the Columbia Postal Supply company of Silver Creek N. Y. George Gardner, sentenced to be hot at Salt Lake City for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stewart and Joseph W. Irvine, April 15, 1922, gained a new lease of life as a result of an investigation made as to his sanity. Tests conducted show Gardner Gard-ner to be only 60 per cent normal. Charges which have hung over the heads of thirteen Salt Lake citizens for the past three months because of alleged violation of Utah's recently-repealed recently-repealed anticigaret law were dismissed dismiss-ed last week by City Judge Noel S. Pratt, on the motion of County Attorney At-torney Arthur E. Moreton. Idaho's "lazy husband" law, passed at the last session, of the state legislature, legis-lature, was applied for the first time in Twin Falls county when Ivan Cobb of Filer, Idaho, pleaded guilty in probate pro-bate court here to a charge of deserting desert-ing his family and agreed to pay $30 a month for the support of his wife and children. GENERAL Charging that a student masked niob kidnapped him, beat him with paddles and then applied a coat of molasses, glue and feathers, Gordon Heller, Omaha freshman at Des Moines university is seeking to invoke in-voke Iowa's antimask law against two of his alleged assailants. 3irs. Clara Phillips, Los Angeles "hammer murderess," recently arrested ar-rested in rionduras after her escape when she was being detained pending her appeal from a prison sentence of ten years, for the slaying of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, arrived in New Orleans Or-leans aboard the Cuyamel Fruit company's com-pany's steamship Copan from Puerto Cortez. Accompanying the convicted woman was an undersheriff of Los Angeles. Five men were reported killed and three injured in an explosion at the Hercules Towder company at Fay-ville, Fay-ville, 111. The explosion was in a gelatin packing plant, in which the five men were working. The cause of the blast has not been determined. In a decision made public the United States railroad labor board increased the hourly wage of approximately ap-proximately 1.S50 members of the Chicago local of the Railway Express Drivers, Chauffeurs, Conductors and Helpers' union 2Vs cents. The increase in-crease is estimated to involve an additional ad-ditional annual expenditure of about 5200,000. Tommy Milton of St. Paul, Wednesday Wed-nesday won the 5O0 mile automobile race at the Indianaplis Speedway, repeating re-peating his victory of 1D21. Harry Hart-:, second in the 1022 race was second again this year. Five armed men heldup G. A. Roberts, postmaster of Stant, 111. and a postal clerk in the heart of the city and escaped with approximately $50,-000. $50,-000. the payroll of the Mount Olive & Staunton Coal company mines. Detectives at Montreal arrested on the street a man believed to be one of the band involved in the big Denver mint robbery several months ago. The suspect is being held for identification identifica-tion by the Colorado authorities. PERSONAL Senator Ladd, Republican, North Dakota, Senator King, Democrat, Utah, and Representative Frear, Republican, Re-publican, Wisconsin, are planning to sail for Europe in July to study conditions in Russia. Emerson Dunlap, said to be the inventor in-ventor of an electrically operated railroad switching device, was shot at Chicago, and probably fatally wounded wound-ed by George Fisher, his financial supporter sup-porter and partner in the invention. Herr Schoene, a landrat of the Essen Es-sen district, was reported sentenced nt Werden to five years imprisonment imprison-ment and a fine of 10,000,000 marks for writing an Insulting letter to General Gen-eral Degouette. Attorney General Harry M. Daugh-erty Daugh-erty returned to Washington from a long rest in Ohio. His health, he said, was getting steadily better. As the principal speaker at Memorial Me-morial Day exercises in Alington National Na-tional cemetery. President Harding led the nation Wednesday in paying tribute to the dead heroes of its wars. The ceremonies in the Memorial amphitheatre am-phitheatre at Arlington, with national officers of the Grand Army of the Republic Re-public and the American Legion participating par-ticipating and other patriotic organizations organ-izations represented, formed the principal prin-cipal feature of the capital's obser. vance of the day. Bert S. Haney of Oregon was appointed ap-pointed by President Harding to be a member of the shipping board. He will succeed former Senator Chamberlain Chamber-lain of the same state, who recently resigned, effective June 30. Former President and Mrs. Wood-row Wood-row Wilson will pass the greater part of the coming summer at Santa Bar-abra, Bar-abra, as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Sayre, son-in-law and daughter daugh-ter of the ex-president, it was announced. an-nounced. Mr. Wilson's doctor is said to have recommended the trip west. The Chinese government notified American legation of its acceptnace of the American demand for nn indemnity indem-nity of $25,000 for the killing of Charles Coltman, an American citizen, at Kalgan, December 11, 1922. The government notification added that two adjutants concerned in the killing had been dismissed from the service. Otto B. Halvorsen, premier of Norway, Nor-way, died at Copenhagen. He was leader of the conservative party and assumed the premiership for the second time in March of this year, when complications over the proposed propos-ed commercial treaty with Portugal regarding the admission of Portuguese wines to Norway had forced the Blehr ministry out of office. FOREIGN Eamonn de Valera, leader of the Irish Republicans, proclaimed in a letter to the Republican irregular commandment of the Dublin area that "it is no longer possible to defend de-fend the Irish republic by fighting." This was de Vaiera's first formal admission ad-mission of defeat Germanys new reparations program, as now outlined, will literally be constructed con-structed from "the ground up" for it will rest primarily on a nationwide real estate mortgage. What promises to become the greatest hypothecation of land in the history of economics will eventually encompass every square inch of German soil which will be made to pay tribute to Germany's former foes for thirty years. Advices from Teheran state that 1.000 persons have been killed by an earthquake at Turbat-I-Haidari. The earth shocks covered a period of several sev-eral hours. Many villages are said to have been devastated. Turbat-I-Haidari is a small Persian town in Khorassan, a north central province which forms part of the great Iranian desert plateau. The strike in the Ruhr inaugurated by the communists is gaining in numbers num-bers and includes thousands of iron and steel workers, besides the miners previously out. The latest to join were 20,000 employees of the steel works at Remscheid, near Elberfeld, whose demand for a 50 per cent increase in-crease in pay was refused. Peace instead of war in the Near East was the welcome result of adramatic session of the Lausanne conference held Saturday at Ouchy chateau to settle the Turko-Greek reparation re-paration controversy. Complete agreement agree-ment was reached, and as this was the only remaining problem between the Greeks and the Turks, hostilities, which it was feared might involve the Balkan countries, have been averted. Albert Schlageter was executed by French troops for sabotage on railroads rail-roads in the occupied region and other offenses. He was shot in a stone quarry near a cemetery and his body was delivered fortwith to the cemetery authorities. This is the first execu tion in the occupied zone. |