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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSTREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reports by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WE8TERN Four persons were killed almost instantly when the new cabin monoplane mono-plane California crashed to the ground at a commercial airport at Los Angeles after beginning an exhibition ex-hibition in the presence of hundreds of spectators. Charles Jackson, 5, died at Rock Springs, Wyo., two hours after he was struck by an automobile driven by Victor Nurmi. The boy was horribly hor-ribly mangled. Nurmi was drunk when arrested after attending a picnic pic-nic at Green River, officers say. Feeling Feel-ing is running high, both against Nurmi and against existing liquor conditions. In a packed auditorium at Albuquerque, Albu-querque, N. M., Carl S. Magee, editor of the State Tribune, delivered an address ad-dress in which he brought in his trials and convictions for libel and contempt of court and reiterated his challenge to Judge David J. Leahy to meet him "any time, anywhere on neutral grounds." California is now ahead of every other state in the union in number of motor vehicles registered. The state division of motor vehicles has figures showing a gain in registration registra-tion in California of 84,000, while New York shows a reported loss of about 45,000. Since July 1 Calfor-nia's Calfor-nia's registrations have jumped to 1,197,077, and the fall months are expected ex-pected to bring heavier gains. Coal dust explosions of unusual size and importance are being planned plan-ned for August 9 at Rock Springs, the date the Wyoming's first-aid and mine-reascue contest and the final day of the summer meeting of the Rock Mountain Coal Mining institute, insti-tute, according to K. L. Marshall, bureau of mines safety engineer, who is planning these demonstrations. D. A. Randall and C. D. Zimmerman, Zimmer-man, respectfully president and vice-president vice-president of the closed First National Na-tional bank at Douglas, Wyo., were convicted by a jury in federal court at Cheyenen, Wyo., of falsification of statements to the comptroller of the currency concerning the condition condi-tion of the four courts of an indictment indict-ment returned by the May grand jury. Dr. Wiley M. Cragun, Ogden, Utah physician, was arrested upon a warrant war-rant charging him with performing an illegal operation upon a woman. He was released upon $2000 bond, fixed by City Judge D. R. Roberts. The bail bond was signed by Charles T. Jones and H. S. Ensign. GENERAL For the first time in history of the city of New York a woman-Magistrate woman-Magistrate Jean H. Norris presided in homicide court. She disposed ol three cases, holding one man for the grand jury and dismissing two others. oth-ers. She indicated after the session that she was being considered as the successor to Judge George W. Olvany recently elected Tammany chieftian, in the court of general sessions. Supreme Court Justice Burr denied a motion of Eamon de Valera and Stephen O'Mara as trustees of $2,-500,000 $2,-500,000 received at New York from the sale of Irish Republican bonds, for an order enjoining the Irish Free State from proceeding with the trial of a suit for that amount before the high court of justice in Ireland. A statement declaring that the $20,000,000 farmers' grain and elevator eleva-tor corporation, with headquarters in Chicago, which was recently incorporated incor-porated in Illinois is a "gigantic attempt at-tempt to fool the farmer" was issued at Oklahoma City by Carl Williams, vice president of the National Council Coun-cil of Farmers' Cooperative Marketing Market-ing Associations. Pierrepont B. Noyes, who was Rhineland commissioner for the United Uni-ted States has predicted the doom of the Dawes report and continued deadlock dead-lock between France and Germany unices the United States representative representa-tive at the C"inin; conference of premiers pre-miers in London is instructed by the government to inform France that the United States desires that coun try to give up its "independent poli-:y" poli-:y" in the Ruhr. A judgment of $1,026,004.33 against the Sinclair Oil company, the Garfield Oil Company and the Exchange Ex-change Oil company was awarded the six children of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Crews, deceased, by Judge J. B. Cullison in the district court at Enid, Okla. The suit, which had been pending for nearly three years, was filed by Miss Laura Crews, guardian guard-ian of the minor Crews children. Intimation by Mayor Hylan, who is in California with William Randolph Ran-dolph Hearst, that he may run for the Democratic nomination for governor gov-ernor if the progressives demand it caused a flury in political circles of New York. Fourteen men were injured, seven serious-ly in a fall of slate in the La-mont La-mont mine of the H. C. Frick Coke company, three miles north of Union-town, Union-town, Pa. Three of the men suffered suffer-ed fractured backs and their condition condi-tion at the Uniontown hospital is said to be critical. Seven officials of the Municipal Savings and Loan company, Representative Repre-sentative Realty company, and five local allied companies were indicted at Clevelend, Ohio, by a grand jury The indictments charged embezzlement, embezzle-ment, certification to false financial statements and perjury. Canon William S. Chase, head oi the New York Civic league, who is behind the movement to have a formal for-mal investigation made of circumstances circum-stances surrounding the arrival at New York of Luis Angel Firpo and Blanca Lourdes, has instructed his Attorney Bernard H. Sandler, to demand de-mand of Immigration Commissioner Curran a copy of the testimony of Firpo and the woman before the immigration im-migration authorities at Ellis Island. The first legal step in a war on gasoline prices in Missouri was tak-v tak-v Attorney General Jesse W. Barrett when he filed an application with the Missouri supreme court asking ask-ing that a special commission be appointed ap-pointed to take testimony regarding the Standard Oil company of Indiana. The thanks of the Chinese people for remission by the United States of the Chinese Boxer indemnity payments pay-ments was expressed to President Coolidge by Liang Shih-Yi, former-iremier former-iremier of China, who called on the president, accompanied by Chinese Charge d'Affaires Kwai. The right of federal prohibition agents to serve search warrants has een upheld by the United States circuit cir-cuit court of appeals througn a decision de-cision by Judge H. Bingham, with Judge Charles F. Johnson concurring but it was denied in a dissenting opinion by Judge George W. Anderson. Ander-son. FOREIGN Thomas I.ee Woolwine of Los Angeles An-geles is slightly better at his hotel in Paris. His physicians report his general condition improved but he remains re-mains extremely weak. The doctors stated that no more blood transfusions transfu-sions will be resorted to, and that unless another relapse occurs his recovery re-covery is confidently expected. Ferruccio Busoni, pian'st and com poser, died at Berlin from weakening weaken-ing of the heart muscles. Although he had amasseil a fortune through the sale of compositions and concert tours over the world, lie died in poverty. pov-erty. The fall of German currency wiped out his fortune. Popularity and superiority of American films have dealt a death blow to English made movies within the last six months. Eng.ish theatre owners are buying the cheaper and better American films and the British producers are reported to be on the verge of bankruptcy. Tombs of warriors that are believed be-lieved to have fallen in battle about r,00 A. D. have been discovered in connection with excavation work undertaken un-dertaken at Heuden, near Haile, Germany. The warriors were buried with their weapons. and the arms are well preserved and are to be brought to the provincial museum of Halle. Governor General Leonard Wood has presented to the legislature the Philippine government's budget for 1023. including estimated revenues nt (7.1(il.!S7 pesos and estimated expenditures ex-penditures of 67.04."i,24f) pesos, with an indicated surplus of over ll.'i.OOO pesos. The ministry of commerce reports marked increase in the number of bankruptcies in Germany, especially f unlimited partnerships. During 'une the number of such failures was three times that of the May figures. A constant decline in the labor mar- t here is reported by the Berlin labor office. The total number of memployed registered in Berlin is i .early 93,000. I |