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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJREADERS A RESUME 0,F THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reporte ' by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Paralyzed anil unable to call for aid, Mrs. Susie Cowan, 72, was burned burn-ed to death in her little cottage at Portland, Oregon. Dr. Herbert It. Bolton, professor of history at tl.e University of California Califor-nia said he had received an offer of the presidency of the University of Texas, but he has not accepted nor rejected it. The subject, he said, is being considered. A sentence of twenty days in jail was pronounced on Mrs. Marie Tom-blin, Tom-blin, formerly prominent in Los Angeles An-geles social circles, arrested on a charge of defrauding two local hotels. A similar charge preferred by a Pasadena hotel was recently dropped. "If you were a younger woman I would make an example of you," said Judge Pope in pronouncing sentence. Women are no more liable to return re-turn to long hair than men are to grow full beards, according to Seattle barbers, who held their first annual barbers' "style shows" and clinic at Seattle under the supervision of the Master Barbers' association. Models displayed the latest tpyes of bobbed hair from the straight to the newest wrinkle in King Tuts and curled styles. Yellows-tone national park will open op-en for tourist campers two weeks earlier this year than ever before, Superintendent Horace M. Albright announces. Tourists with camping outfits will be admitted to the park June 1, the unofficial opening day, it was announced. Reports from Wallowa county received re-ceived at Le Grande, Oregon, are to the effect' that scores of deer hav& been found dead in the vicinity of Enterprise lately. Examination of the carcasses revealed that some unknown un-known disease of the throat was the cause of the deaths. A forest ranger rang-er states that the only part affected affect-ed in the dead deer was found to be the glands of the neck, which In every instance were swollen to such an extent that the animals' were unable un-able to partake of food. Claiming a constant loss under the present service, officials of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line have asked the public pub-lic service commission for permission to reduce the service from Ontario to Brogan, Oregon, to three times a week. A large delegation from the Willow Creek valley protested at a meeting held at Ontario. GENERAL. Decision to go. ahead . with the Fanner-Labor-Progressive national convention June 17 was reached at a meeting at St. Taul of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor federation's state committee. com-mittee. Three bandits held up Joseph N. Altringer, cashier and Avery R. Kier, paying teller, of the Argentine State bank at Kansas City, Kansas, and robbed thorn of $20,000 in $10 and ?20 bills. The bank officials were taking the money in an automobile to pay off workmen in the Argentine Industrial Indus-trial district. Mrs. Grinsteail. Liberal, Kan., member mem-ber of the Kansas legislature has accepted ac-cepted the offer of the Republican national committee to second the nomination of President Coolidge here, David ". Mulvane, Kansas, chairman of the committee on arrangements, ar-rangements, announced at Cleveland. Tha nU,,v):.h 'lion o in 11 c t.. mcnts except those which cannot be used "in the name of the Lord Jesus" was lifted by five to one vote of the Methodist Episcopal general conference confer-ence at Springfield, Mass. A minority minor-ity forbidding theatre attendance on Sundays and specifying dancing and immoral theatre performances' was tabled by 400 votes to 295. John D. Gregory, of Milwaukee. Wis., trial judge in the case of Joe Jackson, against the Chicago clut) of the American league, in which the jury awarded Jackson $10,000 damages, dam-ages, sot aside the verdict and dismissed dis-missed the casx; on the ground that Jackson and Oscar ("Happy") Felscti a witness, had committed perjury during the trial. WASHINGTON The senate has confirmed the noni. ination of Charles W. Hunt of Des Moines, Iowa, to be a member of the federal trade commission. He succeeds suc-ceeds Victor Murdock, resigned. The "solemn protest" of the Japanese Japan-ese government against the exclusion provision of the immigration bill was handed to Secretary Hughes Monday by Ambassador Hanihara. With Senator La Follette, Republican, Repub-lican, of Wisconsin, again taking the leadership of the radical group after his long illness, his forces succeeded in obtaining favorable action by the senate committee on interstate commerce com-merce on the Howell-Barkley bill abolishing the railroad labor board. The treaty with Great Britain for the preservation of the halibut fisheries fish-eries of the north Pacific ocean, including the Bering sea, which was approved by the senate March 4, 1923, with a reservation has been reconsidered recon-sidered and ratified without reservations. reserva-tions. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau has announced that the auditing and closing up on community com-munity property basis of estate taxes arising in California will be held in abeyance pending further consideration consider-ation of the law. Government ownership and operation opera-tion of Muscle Shoals was endorsed by the senate agriculture committee after Henry Ford's bid had been rejected. Former Representative Mondell ot Wyoming and officers of the internal revenue bureau and two Washington banks were among the witnesses this week before the special oil grand jury in the District of Columbia supreme su-preme court. Income tax returns of Albert B. Fall and other central figures fig-ures in the naval oil lease scandal were inquired into, as were certain bank transactions. Carrying the Borah amendment for full publicity of political contributions contribu-tions during progress of campaigns, the postal salary increase hill was passed this week by the senate. The vote was 73 to 3, those opposing being be-ing Senators Borah, Idaho, and Fess and Willis, Ohio, all republicans. Notice has been given to the senate sen-ate by Senator Frazic.r, of North Dakota, Da-kota, a republican c" the farm bloc, that there would be r.' vong opposition to adjournment of c 'gress June 7, unless farm relief h iilation is enacted en-acted in the meantime. Agricultural relief legislation will be the storm center in the deliberations deliber-ations of both houses of congress during the two weeks remaining before be-fore the tentative date of adjournment. adjourn-ment. FOREIGN "Right or Wrong, my party." In these words Leon Trotzky after Lenin the strongest man in the bolshevik government summarized his political confession of faith in a speech before be-fore the congress of the Russian Communist party at Moscow. The official garroter in Barcelonia, who executed condemned men throughout Catalina has been assassinated. assas-sinated. The police have arrested sixty members of the workers' syndicate syn-dicate accused of the crime. China has recognized soviet Russia, Rus-sia, and the recognition Is unconditional uncondi-tional the soviet foreign office announced an-nounced without giving any details as to the manner in which the recognition re-cognition was accorded. Mrs. Katherine Grey Taintor of Xew York and San Francisco committed com-mitted suicide by hanging herself in the Zurich, Switzerland jail, where she had been confined for several months on a charge of swindling. Raymond Foineare, wo has held the premiership ot France for two and a half years has tendered his resigna. tion and that of his ministry to President Presi-dent Millerand. An earthquake "shock at Port Au Prince, Haiti, wrecked a building at Port de Paix, killing three persona and injuring several others. A church steeple was demolished and the gendarmerie gen-darmerie barracks were badly damaged. dam-aged. The shock, of ten seconds durations, du-rations, was distinctly felt at the capitol, from which the high commissioner com-missioner sent airplanes to the affected af-fected city. The Prince of Wales, walking suTo by side with Princess Mafalda of Italy at the head of the procession of the British and Italian royal ram-ilies ram-ilies through the ancient Guildhall of London to the great luncheon board where the lord mayor was host to the royal visitors, was one of the rare occasions when the British heir to the throne has appeared in public pub-lic with a young woman of age and rank equal to his own. |