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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSfpERS 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. WASHINGTON Secretary of Commerce Hoover has Indignantly asserted that he was not seeking the radio broadcasting dictatorship dic-tatorship of tho United States. He issued is-sued a formal statement denying a morning newspaper report that "old guard" politicians were becoming alarmed at his control in view of his possible candidacy for the White House. The administration's farm relief program will be broadened to provide tor some machinery for handling surplus sur-plus crops. Just what form this new aid will take has not been determined determin-ed but both President Coolidge and Secretary Jardine have reached the conclusion that surplus crops present one of the dominating problems of agriculture and that some governmental govern-mental step must be taken to afford relief. Aid of the federal government for commercial production of sugar from artichokes has been urged by Senator Howell, Republican, Nebraska, during a conference with President Coolidge. He said that experiments conducted by the bureau of standards have demonstrated dem-onstrated that levulose, sweeter than sugar and more soluble than beet and cane sugar can be made from Jerusalem Jeru-salem artichokes. Announcement of the names of three scientists to receive medals from the American Geographical society so-ciety was made by Isiah Bowman, director di-rector of the society. Three gold medals were given to Harvey Hayes of the navy research department at Philadelphia. Pedro Sanchez, distinguished distin-guished Mexican geographer and Lu-cien Lu-cien Gallois of the University of Paris. Declaring immediate independence of the Philippine islands out of the question, Representative Bacon, Republican, Re-publican, New York, announced he would draft a bill to strengthen the powers of the American governor general gen-eral of the islands. Vice President Dawes requested President Coolidge to withdraw his nomination to continue as a brigadier general In the officers' reserve corps, taking the view that the vice president presi-dent should not hold such high rank. The president acceded the nomination nomina-tion be withdrawn. Declaring "fascism and communism have the same fangs and the same poison which it is intended to inject into the political life of our nation," William Green, president of the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor, has issued a circular warning to the wage earners earn-ers and people generally of the United Uni-ted States against the dangers of; these doctrines. The warning was made public at the direction of the federation's executive council and it will be sent to 110 national and International In-ternational unions, 1000 city central bodies, 4S states federation of labor and 35,000 local unions. GENERAL The Edward J. Lawrence, the last six-master on the seven seas, was destroyed de-stroyed by fire while at anchor at Portland. Maine, harbor. The craft became 1st own funeral pyre as she lay flaming aground off Fort Georges reef. John D. Rockefeller. Harold McCor-mick, McCor-mick, Edith Rockefeller McCormick and a bit over eight million dollars are some of the principals in a court suit which Is scheduled to be heard at Indianapolis, Ind. An ordinance has been passed at Lincoln. Neb., setting aside a block in the downtown district where only teams can be parked. Motor cars are not allowed in the block, and a big sign advises motorists: "This space reserved for horses." Plans as daring and ambitious as any ever made by men to conquer the Arctic were outlined in New York by Vilhjalmar Stefansson in confirming confirm-ing reports that a nonstop flight is to be attempted next spring from Point Barrow, Alaska, over the top of the world to Spitzbergen. Frank A. Munsey, who rose from farmer boy to one of the leading newspaper and magazine publishers of the country, died in New York in the Lenox Hill hospital after a stubborn fight to recover from peritonitis, peri-tonitis, which followed an operation for appendicitis. 1 Three boys, two of them brothers were killed instantly at Bridgeville, near Pittsburg, Penn., when they were struck by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad while returning re-turning from Sunday school. The dead are Isaca Hanna, 14; George Deep, 12; and Joseph Deep, 9. A 5-year-old brother of the Deep boys, who was also in the group, had a narrow nar-row escape. Chicago gunmen, hired to do the killing for $75 and "expenses," are being searched for in connection with the slaying of Richard (Peg Leg) Lonergan, Brooklyn leader, and two of his aids. Two men, the police believe, be-lieve, who were associated with James Durkin in Chicago, were imported for the special purpose of "doing the job" when a gang known as the "Lushers" found paying tribute to Lonergan's gang too expensive and heavy a financial burden. The wrestling title has been held by exactly four mat artists this year. They were Lewis, Munn, Zbyszko and Steelier. All but Munn had won the honors on other occasions, too. Mayor J. A. Tower of Fort Madison, Iowa, in a hurry to open his court for offenders of a traffic enforcement campaign, ran his car past a boulevard boule-vard without stopping, and then fined himself $1 along with thirty other persons arrainged for similar offenses. offen-ses. Blaming his arrest on California politics, "Big Hutch" Hutchings, well known western character, announced through counsel that he would fight attempts to extridate him from New York. Arrainged before Magistrate Levine in West Side court, "Big Hutch" was held in $1000 bail for further fur-ther hearing. The bond was raised at once. A succession of embargoes forcing shippers to advance their means of moving merchandise in and out of the state from freight to express and then to mail has caused one of , the most serious traffic congestions in Florida ever suffered in the United States, traffic experts declare. Death from heart disease in a tax-icab tax-icab ended the flight of Edward F. Keller, with approximately $40,000 taken from the Corn Exchange National Na-tional bank of Philadelphia, where he was employed at a watchman. Nearly $14,000 of the loot was in cash and the remainder in checks. FOREIGN Britain's oldest married couple has completed celebrating the Christmas holiday. They are Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor of Hillside Green, Kent. He is 102 and she is 101. Taylor registered regis-tered Yuletide cheer by singing old-time old-time songs to his wife. The church of Santa Susanna in Rome was crowded to the doors with Americans when Cardinal Hayes celebrated cele-brated high mass and in an eloquent sermon paid tribute to the pope. The New York cardinal, taking advantage of the fact that he was preaching in the titular church of Cardinal Bon-zana Bon-zana also expressed his personal affection af-fection for the prelate, who is apostolic apos-tolic delegate to Washington. The Austrain consul has obtained the release of Mrs. lsa Briggs, who was taken into custody by the Italian authorities early in December because of an irregularity in her passport. He intervened when he learned that she was the daughter of a Vienna attorney attor-ney named Maumfeld and not an American as was first reported. She left for Vienna immediately. Mme. Henry Brenger, wife of the new French ambassador to the United Uni-ted States has her answer ready for American reporters who will ask her what she thinks of French finances, she told the Associated Press. "I am a woman, not a politician," is the answer. ans-wer. . ' The British treasury is preparing to discuss the debt settlement with Italy. The Italian" debt funding commission com-mission is due here at the end of the week. The departure of the commission commis-sion is already being heralded by expressions ex-pressions of fear that England will make repayment demands which it will be impossible for Italy to meet. The British treasury states, however, that all that Britain asks is that Italy pay proportonately what she has undertaken un-dertaken to pay to the United States. Nine passengers were drowned when, during a raging storm, a ferry boat crossing the Seine, six miles above Sopen, in France, capsized. The ferryman alone was saved. All victims vic-tims were working men. Extensive arrests were made in To-kio To-kio of ringleaders in a clash between two groups of 1500 workers at Tsur-uml, Tsur-uml, between Tokio and Yokohama, who had battled with swords, rifles and revolvers. More than 100 were reported killed and wounded in the action, which grew out of friction between be-tween laborers employed by rival contractors. |