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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSVREADERS 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 EPITOME Game hunters in the Pacific northwest north-west have appealed to State Game Warden Robert H. Hill of Montana, for permission to kill off elk in the Sun river and Spotted Bear game preserves, where, they claim, the animals ani-mals are facing starvation or death in the winter snows. The Arizona state permit granted to James B. Girand and the Colorado River Engineering & Development company in 1922 for the construction of a power dam at the Diamond creek site on the Colorado river, was ordered order-ed cancelled by State Water Com-misioner Com-misioner Frank P. Trout. A plan i"br the formation of a new company to take over and operate the Denver & Salt Lake (Moffat) railroad under the reorganization plan, probably will be ready for action ac-tion by the reorganization committee commit-tee when it meets in New York City early next month. Three former San Francisco policemen, police-men, a lieutenant and two patrolmen, convicted of landing liquor from a boat at South San Francisco in January, Jan-uary, 1923, were ordered to prison by a ruling of the United States circuit cir-cuit of appeals at San Francisco. The three, who must serve terms ranging from twelve to eighteen months in the federal penitentiary at Leven-worth, Leven-worth, Kansas, and pay fines of $500 to $1,000 each are D. Herschel Bras-field, Bras-field, former lieutenant; Mark Willi-ver Willi-ver and William Barton. Word that E. P. Erckenbrack, director di-rector of the United States shipping board emergency fleet corporation for Europe, with headquarters in London, and formerly north Pacific coast district director of the corporation corpor-ation in Seattle, has asked to be relieved re-lieved of his duties by January, was received at Seattle. Erckenbrack said he wanted to return to the United States. United States Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada has appealed directly direct-ly to President Coolidge for executive action in behalf of the white settlers on the Pyramid Indian reservation, near Reno, Nevada, who have been compelled to pay for the lands some of them have occupied since the '60s at their full value, after the settlers had devoted years to their improvement improve-ment and cultivation. Damages of $125,661 are asked by the Pacific Mall Steamship company of New York from the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., of Wilmington, Delaware, for alleged faulty repairs to the Pacific Mail steamship Ecuador in October, 1923, in a libed action filed in federal court at San Francisco. The libelant states that claims for damaged cargo amounting to $120,631 and that the salvage amounted to only $14,777. GENERAL The first formidable move in the two years battle planned by liberals and the beer industry for a modification modifica-tion of the Volstead act will be v;ag-ed v;ag-ed with vigor in the next congress. Traveling at eighty miles an hour, I a terrific windstorm swept over four counties in the south central part of Kentucky severely injuring many persons, per-sons, one perhaps fatally, uprooting trees, demolishing houses and farm buildings, and completely destroying telephone cummunication. The big Liberty motor of the mail plane on which Pilot Charles H. Ames of Cleveland rode to his death will be allowed to lie in its rocky bed on j one of the highest points in the Nit- tany mountain range as a monument j to the air mail man, whose disappear-I disappear-I ance attracted nation-wide attention, i and whose fate wasr,revealed October 10, after ten days of intensive search. John Wingate Weeks has regretfully regret-fully stepped out of public life, relinquishing re-linquishing his office as secretary of war to Dwight F. Davis, assistant secretary, sec-retary, world war veteran and holder hold-er of the distinguished service cross for gallantry in action. A reprimand for Colonel William T. Mitchell; an increased appropriation for the army air service. This, according ac-cording to reports confirmed in several sev-eral quarters is th present state of mind of th;' war department; but it is subject ..'u::i.-e i.i any moment. An operation may be necessary to return to consciousness an unidentified unidenti-fied woman at Superior, Wis., who suffered a stroke of paralysis while being used as a subject for a hypnotist hypno-tist at a local theatre. The hypnotist hypno-tist was unable to awaken the woman wo-man from her trance. Her condition is critical. Ralph Cheever Dunning, an Ameri can poet now residing in Paris, has been awarded the twelfth annual Helen Haire Levinson $200 prize for the best poem by a citizen of the United States. The award was made public by Poetry, published by Har-iet Har-iet Monroe. 1 The "Cowboy gang," New York underworld un-derworld gunmen, held responsible for scores of crimes before the alleged alleg-ed leaders, including one woman, were rounded up last week, employed employ-ed a special agent to provide stolen automobiles for use in committing crimes the police said. The gang had special silencers for their revolvers and a shooting gallery where they practiced marksmanship. The churches of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, completed their task of copying copy-ing the new testament, producing what official of the Ministerial association asso-ciation say is the only book of its kind in the world. A total1 of 7959 persons copied one verse each and signed his name to it. The work was done in a uniform manner, ministers said. The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, with a total membership of 91,200, has been suspended from the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, unless within with-in the next ninety days, it transfers to the International Brotherhool of Teamsters all drivers, chauffeurs, stablemen and garage employes heretofore here-tofore under the jurisdiction of the clerks. Vote to suspend was on a roll call, 23,846 to 3895. President Coolidge expects soon to fill the vacancy on the shipping board caused by the resignation of Frederick Freder-ick I. Thompson. He is going ahead with his plans to examine the entire shipping board situation, an investi-, gaon which may result in his recommending recom-mending congress abolish the body. A resolution scoring the evolution theory was passed by the council of the Seventh-day Adventists In annual session at Des Moines, Iowa. The resolution reiterates the belief of the Adventists in the Bible account of the world's beginning. FOREIGN An attack by Italian fascists on a French journalist at Locarno, Switzerland Swit-zerland marred the atmosphere of good will inaugurated by the signing of the treaty of Locarno. Enraged by aritcles written by Henri Barde, correspondent cor-respondent for the Paris newspaper L'Oeuvre, the fascists assaulted and injured the writer, who has been attacking at-tacking the polices of fascism. William T. Cosgrave, president of the Irish free state cabinet arriving in Rome as a simple holy year pilgrim pil-grim was accorded honors as the head of a government by the Italian authorities. author-ities. He was accompanied by Mrs. Cosgrave, members of the free state senate and the dail eireann, a number num-ber of high Irish prelates and 1000 pilgrims. In consequene of constantly increasing in-creasing stocks of residue from the rapidly rising crude oil production, the Rumanian government has removed remov-ed all restrictions on the export of fuel oil.. Henceforth, only an export tax, amounting to approximately 30 cents per ton, will have to be paid. War between the provinces of Che-kiang Che-kiang and Kiawgsu, China, is considered consid-ered inevitable, following upon the taking of Shanghai by General Sun Chuan-Fang, the Chekiang commander, command-er, while troops of Goneral Chang Tso-Kin withdrew toward central China. The officials are hopeful that the conflict between the provinces, it it does start, will not spread elsewhere else-where or affect the opening of the custom's conference, which is set for November 5th. The Manila house adopted the senate's sen-ate's resolution instructing Sergio Osmena. president of the house and the Philippine resident commissioner in Washington to oppose any attempt by congress to amend the Jones law with respect to the disposition of lands id the Philippines. The present pres-ent law limits the amount of land any individual or corporation may own to 2500 acres. Nikolai Lenin, of Mosco, father of bqlshevism, is to be given one of tha most elaborate tombs in hte world. Plans for the erection of a marble mausoleum to replace the temporary wooden structure in which his body now rests were announced by the soviet so-viet government. A resolution was introduced in the Manila senate asking congress and the people of the United States to grant the Philippines complete independence. |