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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BMDEtlS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seva.l Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Eusy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Japan's consumption of gasoline has Increased at a rapid rate during the last two years when reconstruction reconstruc-tion needs have opened the way for the introduction of automotive transportation trans-portation on an important scale with a resulting demand for the necessary motor fuel, according to reports of shipments from Los Angeles harbor. Elias Marsters, prohibition administrator admin-istrator for Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, Wyo-ming, announced the appointment . of George W. Oylear for the district of Idaho, with headquarters at Boise. The Idaho field force will be continued contin-ued intact, Mr. Marsters said. O. K. Nickerson, formerly of Boise and assistant as-sistant administrator in charge of permit per-mit work, and Albert A. White, formerly for-merly administrator in charge of enforcement, en-forcement, will both be stationed in Helena in the future, it was stated. Five persons were killed and another an-other fatally injured when their automobile au-tomobile was struck by a Great Northern Nor-thern mail train at Shelby, Montana. William F. Durand, of Hollywood, Calif., named by President Coolidge on his air service investigation committee, com-mittee, has had a varied experience in engineering and aviation problems. He graduated from the Naval academy acad-emy In 18S0, served with the navy en-ginering en-ginering corps for seven years and then became a professor of mechanical mechani-cal engiaeering at Cornell and later at Stanford. Sam Fujii, a Japanese, was shot and killed by a federal narcotic officer of-ficer and narcotics valued by the officers of-ficers at $23,000 were seized in a raid of federal and city officers near the Great Northern station at Spokane, Washington. Henry Vaudgris, white, and K. Hayshi, a Japanese, were arrested. ar-rested. Four-year-old John Riddle, Jr., son of John Riddle, well known Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad conductor met death at Rock Springs, Wyo., when he fell into an excavation being made for a private pri-vate sewer. His fall into the hole caused earth to cave in and he was buried. It was several hours before the body was recovered. Zack Wilcox, 7S, who lays claim to fame by reason of his twenty-two foot beard which won him second place in the whiskerino competition at Sacramento several years, ago was seriously injured at Carson City, Nevada, Ne-vada, when he was struck by an automobile auto-mobile while riding his bicycle down the main thoroughfare of that city. One leg was broken in two places and his shoulder was sprained. Because Be-cause of his advanced age it is feared that his injuries may be fatal. GENERAL The Rev. Carl D. Case, for seven and one-half years pastor of the First Baptist shurch of Oak Park, Chicago, and for the past twenty months the protesting focal figure in the Leland divorce case, has resigned his pastorate. pastor-ate. The third attempt in five months on the life of M. R. Smith, liquor investigator investi-gator for the state's attorney of La-salle La-salle county, Illinois, was made when a bomb exploded in the basement of his home here. Smith and his assistant, assist-ant, Virgil Holland, were thrown from their beds, but not injured. Frank recognition of a change for the worse in the popular "attitude toward to-ward law enforcement and respect for laws in general" since the enactment enact-ment of national prohibition is contained con-tained in the first chapter of a study of prohibition by the Federal Council of Churches just made public at Washington. N. L. Green, 65. of Michigan City, Ind., was killed outright and his wife was seriously injured when a Burlington Burl-ington passenger train struck their automobile. J. V. Howe, Mrs. Green's son. escaped uninjured. An inquest will be held. I i A landing platform for mail planes on the roof is included in plans for a new $15,000,000 Chicago post office which congress will be asked to approve ap-prove at its forthcoming session. ! Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder has disclosed. dis-closed. The platform would be two city blocks long. It's use would trim the air mail time between Chicago and eastern points by nearly an hour I which is required now to transfer ' mail from t'je field at Maywood, 111. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has announced the personnel of the court of inquiry which is to investigate the Shenandoah disaster. The board will meet at Lakehurst as soon as possible. possi-ble. Captain John Rodgers. of the PN-9-1 notified Secretary of the Navy Wilbur Wil-bur that he would prefer to remain on active duty with airplanes rather than accept the post as assistant chief of the navy bureau of aernoaut-ics aernoaut-ics which Wilbur appointed him. In a radio message from Honolulu, Rodgers Rod-gers told Wilbur he appreciated the honor of the appointment but that he would prefer to stay with the seaplane sea-plane forces "unless, in your opinion, my services will be more valuable in the department." Leonard Wood, Jr., son of the governor gov-ernor general of the Philippines filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in Brooklyn. He estimated his liabilities liabili-ties at $14,585 and assets at $742, divided di-vided as follows: Ninety-one dollars cash; $1 in bank; $300 in open accounts, ac-counts, and an I. O. U. for $350. A sweeping modification of the Sullivan Sul-livan law, to permit citizens to carry revolvers "to compete on even terms wiht crooks," was recommended to the joint legislative commission on the coordination of civil and criminal practice, by Judge Mulqueen of general gen-eral sessions when the commission held its first hearing at the bar association asso-ciation at New York. Detroit was selected for next year's convention city of the Independent and Benevolent Order of Moose. David Da-vid McDaniels of New York was reelected re-elected supreme dictator, and in the auxiliary body Octavia Washington, M. D., was installed as supreme noble queen. Former Governor William T. Mc-Cray Mc-Cray of Indiana, who is serving a ten year sentence in the federal penitentiary peniten-tiary at Atlanta, was discharged from bankruptcy by Federal Judge Robert C. B. Baltzell. With the discharge of the trustees, the former governor was placed in a position to resume his position po-sition in the business world without fear of former creditors and to start rebuilding his shattered fortune. Mc-Cray Mc-Cray is now seeking to be paroled from prison. FOREIGN Mrs. Robert W. Chambers, wife of the famous American novelist, was the heroine of a dramatic rescue at Bray, England, while out in a motorized motor-ized canoe with Oscar M. Sheridan, who is collaborating with her on a new play. The canoe got caught in rought water and Sheridan lost his balance and fell overboard. Mrs. Chambers stopped the motor and held Sheridan above water until assistance arrived. The note to Germany inviting the German government to send a representative repre-sentative to the conference of allied foreign ministers on the proposed security se-curity pact has been dispatched to Berlin. Premier Mussolini has signified sig-nified Italy's acceptance of the invitation invita-tion to the conference, which will be held next month at Lausanne. Four persons lost their lives in an immense wine vat at Vaireas, France. Marius Chambon, a vineyard owner, was overcome by fumes while cleaning clean-ing the vat. His son descended into the vat to rescue him, but was himself him-self overcome, as were two employees employ-ees who entered the vat. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon has pledged Joseph Caillaux and all the members of the French debt funding delegation to the strict secrecy during the debt funding negotiations. nego-tiations. M. Caillaux submitted a proposal to the cabinet which directed direct-ed ths finance minister to advise Mr. Mellon of his readiness to observe secrecy. se-crecy. Two Americans, father and son, alleged al-leged to be behind the recent organization organ-ization at Berlin of the "Knights of the Fiery Cross" patterned after tha Ku Klux Klan have been arrested by the German police in Silesia. They are Otto Strohschein, 54 and Gotthard Strohschein, 30, both German born, but now American citizens, and recently re-cently residents of Chicago. A third American, Don Burton Gray, 21, of Hillsborough, III., is said to have left. Germany three weeks ago and to b in Chicago now. Oliver Henry Wallop, Sr., of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, who has announced that he will assume the title of Earl of Porth-mouth Porth-mouth in succession to his elder brother, bro-ther, recently deceased, may do so without foregoing his American citizenship, citi-zenship, which he acquired by natur alization in 1904. Publication of the agreement reached reach-ed at Washington for the funding of Belgium's debt to the United States is to be hastened to quiet erroneous interpretations circulated at Brussels. The American ambassador, William Phillips, and Minister of Finance Jan-j Jan-j ssen have agreed upon this as the I wisest course and have arranged for simultaneous publication of the text in Brussels and Washington. |