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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE fAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN The mfin who shot Union C. James, In n Salt Luke City drug store a few weeks ago h;is been arrested, according accord-ing t,) a telegram from W. II. Wood chief of police of Richmond, Calir. William A. Farr, of Midvale, and Rex Aylrtt, of West .Ionian, have confessed con-fessed that they were the two bandits who shot and probaady fatally wounded wound-ed MHs Itoylanre Fitzgerald on a road near Sandy, Utah .Saturday night us the culmination of a series of h.ghway robberies thai have terrorized motor-lets motor-lets In tlio south part of county for months past. Four persons were instantly killed and another was slightly injured at Tort Arthur, Texas when a street car slnirk the truck in which they were riding. All of the party were en route to their work. 'Five men, said to be daring bandits and responsible for at least 100 robberies rob-beries and holdups near Los Angeles, were under arrest her awiting further fur-ther investigation. J. D. Harris, a movie cowboy, declared declar-ed to he the ringleader, is said to have confessed the Pirn bank robbery, claiming he had been paving off the mortgage on his "old floks" home in Okhuioma. F. H. tiillett, another of the alleged bandits, is said to have lieen a police officer in pictures. Eight union trainmen leaders were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct Interstate commerce for their activities activi-ties in connection with a strike last August aga nst the Santa Fe by verdict ver-dict of a jury in the United Stnes district dis-trict court at Los Angeles. In this strike some twenty trains were abandoned aban-doned in the Cu'ifornia-Arizona desert, des-ert, leaving the passengers stranded. Fifty additional federal prohibition enforcement officers are en route to California from Eastern points to assist as-sist in a renewed campagn against bootlegging, aecord-ng to word received receiv-ed at the office of the prohibition director. di-rector. Two attorneys, William L. Wood of Kansas City, Kan., and Kay Tinder of Wichita, Wednesday appeared before Richard J. Hopkins, attorney general of Kansas, as legal representatives of the Kuklux Klan. Wood an 1 Tinder asked that the time be extended for the filing of a denial by .the klan of the charges set forth - in the ouster suit filed in the supreme court against the klan by Mr. Hopkins. SENEGAL Declaring that United States prohibition pro-hibition agents violated the fourth intendment of the constlution in making mak-ing raids without proper search warrants. war-rants. Judge Thompson in the United States district court at Philadelphia dismissed two liquor cases involving ruverai Hundred thousand dollars. New York police have learned that Alexander Rechnitzer, whom they buried as a pauper last June, was an Austrian inventor of note and a director di-rector of a prominent Vienna firm. The discovery was made when the Atmtrain consul- general's office asked the police to search for the man, missing miss-ing since June 28. Mrs. Alice Emily Sharp, and her Xronddaughter, both of Omaha died from burns received when a can of fasoline exploded when tliey were cloanlng clothes near a stove. Twenly-twii civilian employees at the Brookyln navy base were arrested on indictments returned several months ago by a federal grand jury, Charging that governuient property to the value of more than Jl, 000. 000 had feoen stolen since the war. report" were current throughout llonroe. La., that the bod:es of Watt Ianiels and Thomas Richard had been located either in Copper or La Kniiche lake weighted down with n wagon wheel, said to have ben ta-'en from a farmer's vehic1 by the hand ft masked men who kidnaped five Mar Umrc citb.-ens on Aug 24. - Ppso.-m! ,, Mttemn's of the rum run- i land liquor In New ork for Christmas trad I -i the rnTi-cri nr a sl-ip ! earryln- S"flO DIM worth n" wh sky. it was announced by Prohibition I'i- ; rectors. WASHINGTON Veterans of the civil war, widows of veterans and civil war nurses prob-aily prob-aily will receive Christmas presents from the government in the form of m-n'.ased pensions as the result of an au-reemcnt reached by conferees on the liursum pension bill. The administration hopes to have every police officer in the United States act as a dry agent in a new drive to enforce the Volstead act. This Is the plan which was revealed at a conference the president held and will be submitted at a later date to a nation-wide conference on law enforcement, en-forcement, it was stated. Hankers acceptances of six months maturity drawn by growers of staple agricultural products or cooieiative marketing associations are elighle for purchase or reilis "ount by the federal reserve banks, under a ruling promulgated promul-gated by the federal reserve board as a step in the direction of longer term credits for agriculture. A final settlement of claims growing grow-ing out of government operation of the Southern Pacific railroad system has been completed, it was announced by Director General Davis and the railroad administration. The corporation corpor-ation and its subsdiaries received from "overnment a total oi $0,250,00 covering cover-ing all outstanding accounts including those aris'ng from the guarantee against losses in earnings during the l months after federal control terminated. term-inated. All the high officials of the federal and state governments were called upon by Representative Upshaw, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, Georg:a, in a speech in the house, to secredly declare "that they 1 ill not themselves 'build up a iboot-lecgers' iboot-lecgers' bus'ness by drinking illicit liquor" at the privilege to "the poor (evils among the masses." Newton D. Baker,. secretary of war :n President Wilson's wartime cabinet, appeared before the special grand iury which is in session here investigating investi-gating wur funds. The purpose for which Mr. Baker went before the grand jury was not revealed, but it is known that recently the investigation ad centered about alleged irregularities irregulari-ties In the building of army cantonment. canton-ment. Several civil suits to recover millions of dol'ars from contractors already al-ready have been filed, and department of justice officials have announced that criminal action also would be sought. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador will be the guest of Secretary Sec-retary of Labor Davis at Ellis island soon plans will be discussed for rebuilding re-building the New liork immigration station, it was announced at the labor la-bor department. The naval appropriations bill, carrying car-rying a request tnat the president negotiate ne-gotiate with foreign powers relative to limiting construction of war craft under 10,000 tons, was passed late by the house. An appropriation of $32,300,000 for construction of forest roads and trail and rural post roads as authorized under ttie federal highway acts recommended rec-ommended in the agricultural bill for next fiscal year as reported to the house. FOREIGN The Polish government, in its e. forts to deterunne whether a plot existed ex-isted for the murder of President JN'ar-utowicz JN'ar-utowicz is continuing to effect searches and arrests among the Nationalists, Na-tionalists, and many high officers and officials have been arrested or dismissed. dis-missed. Extra precautions against possible disorders are being taken in Warsaw in the mining regions. A disturbing discovery was made at the rear of Buckingham palace when a grenade bomb was found in an ash art, which had Just arrived to remove re-move the pa'ace refuse. How the mis-sle mis-sle got into the cart is a mystery and he police are examining It to see if the charge had been removed. S?ven republican irregular prisoners were executed at Mountjoy prison by tho Irish Free State government, i'ka men executed were former ra:l-wa-- worVors. Thev were arrested near Kildare a fotrnlght ago for tear- ing up rails and threatening to wreck tra ins. James Pwyer who was secretary of the peace committee appointed by the second Dail Fireann to arrange a Tuce between the Free Stater and the party of Kamon de Yftlera. was !ot 'o-'d in his shop at Rathmines. t'eo'-izps Cle'rienceau arrived home from h!s Ame-i an nl'grimare In n tvpi.-a,,v via-:'-'s mood, but ap-aaren-I-. c-Fv-.'n. fr0n- f't'-rn. 'Pie "Tiger" received representatives of the press ;n Irs st ,;oi-rm rs the liner Paris wai entering the port. |