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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE AST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Itev. Jnaepli Molser, Catholic parish priest at Olfin, Runnulls county, Tex., wus tnki'n from his parish liouse by-tan by-tan unmasked men and flogged. l'e waa accused of being un-Ameriran and opposed the public schools. Four persons were Instantly killed ami three others injured, one perhaps fatally when a Green Bay & Western passenger train struck an automobile at a crossing near Milwaukee. The flapper of today found a defender de-fender in the Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Syl-vester Tuttle, bishop of Missouri and presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, who is at Portland for the forty-seventh triennal convention con-vention of the church. "The young women of today do not differ greatly great-ly from those of fifty years ago," aid Bishop Tuttle. "The young are not nil going astray. Not a few of them are trying to make the world Letter for their living in it." Hoy P. Wilmot, federal prohibition agent, was Indicted by the federal grand jury at San Francisco on a charge of perjury growing out of a warrant obtained by him for the arrest ar-rest of William P. Crowley for alleged alleg-ed violation of the national prohibition law. Wilmot caused the arrest of Crowley and the latter's 15-year-old eon after the prohibition agent had purchased eleven bottles of champagne cham-pagne from the boy while the elder Crowley was in Oregon. The budget committee of the Denver Den-ver council has voted to turn over to District Attorney Philip Van Cise $15,-000 $15,-000 for the further investigation and prosecution of more than thirty members mem-bers of an alleged "million dollar, bunco ring," arrested here last month. The committee of western senators Boleeted to make a study of the silver situation with a view of evolving some plun for the stabilization of the prices of sliver after the Pittman act expires, ex-pires, met and selected Senator Pitt-man Pitt-man of Nevada, chairman, named Secretary Sec-retary Callbreath of jthe American Mining congresa as secretary. It was decided to make no immediate action on the plan of stabilizing silver by international agreement, pending tlie return and report of Professor Jenks of Cornell university, who is now investlating the European silver situation for tlie department of commerce. com-merce. GENERAL Henry Ford will manufacture about 13 hundred thousand cars this year and his Income is estimated at 75 million mil-lion dollars. Prohibition has forced Mount Sinair hospital at New Tork to inaurgtirate a new medical treatment for diabetes, It was announced by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. The withdrawal with-drawal of alcoholic drinks, the federation feder-ation quoted Dr. Emanuel Bonbeiser as saying, has caused people to turn to sweets as a substitute and has caused an enormous increase in diabetes. dia-betes. Corporal Albert Hoom of West Point Academy, Hyland, Falls N. Y. will always take a look under the veil when he offers to escort a girl home in the future if he has learned anything any-thing from his experience with Police Po-lice Chief Fred Chrishoff.. Chrishoff told Judge Nelson that he had received re-ceived complaints from women who said they have been accosted by a soldier on the streets. Ordinary methods me-thods of sleuthing failed and Chrishoff then donned the latest in girls' colthos and took a stroll. Hoom came up and asked to escort him home, Chrishoff told the judge, and continued con-tinued his advances even after the police po-lice official said he was married and had three children. After that he put his arm around my waist," said the chief, "and then I hung one on his jaw and brought him in. The judge held Hoom in $1000 ball for trail. Preventing of disease through the establishment of a better and more vital "public health consciousness" is one of the direct aims of the American Ameri-can College of Surgeons which is spon-s spon-s r;ng a series of muss meetings in all the important cities of the United States. This national organization, working through the Salt Lake representatives, repre-sentatives, has completed arrangements arrange-ments for the open meeting to be held At Salt Lake, WASHINGTON A referendum on the question whether wheth-er the collection of checks by banks at par should be made a universal practice thruout the country has begun among 14U0 business organizations con-net-ted with the chamber of commerce of the United States. A special committee com-mittee recommended that the practice tie made universal "from an conomic standpoint," without "further legislation," legisla-tion," if possible. Count de Chambruni, minister plenipotentiary plen-ipotentiary and charge d'affaires of France, who is a great-grandson of the Marquis Lafayette, voiced his nation's true love of America In an address here at tlie celebration of Lafayette's birthday conducted by tlie Sons of the Revolution. Members of the farm bloc of the house of representatives are circulating circulat-ing petitions among members to be presented to the conference committee on the tariff bill asking the conference to accept senate rates on agricultural products. Unless the conference committee com-mittee is swayed by these petitions, tlie house conferees will force reductions reduc-tions in many of the senate rates, especially es-pecially tlie rate on wool. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has received applications from carriers asking for authority on one day's notice temporarily to lower rates on potatoes from Utah and Colorado points to destinations east of the Missouri Mis-souri river G cents a hundred pounds. The authority will be granted promptly prompt-ly and when this reduction is made emergency rates on potatoes from Idaho Ida-ho will be lowered 20 cents below existing ex-isting permanent rates. All these emergency rates will cease when the movement of the present potato crop is concluded. A new class of radio-telephone broadcasting broad-casting station license has been authorized author-ized by the department of commerce which would establish a special 400-meter 400-meter wave length system to permit those fans who desire to "listen in" to the best stations with less interference inter-ference from some of the lesser lights in radio broadcasting. As one effect of the coal strike, fuel imports during August advanced sharply sharp-ly over tlie previous month, according to foreign trade reports issued by the eommerce department. An increase of $S5,O00,0OO in the public debt during August is announced announc-ed by the treasury. FOREIGN Twenty-five bodies had been recovered recov-ered Thursday from the coal pit in which forty men were entombed by an explosion at Whitehover, England. Heavy falls of rock and tlie presence of much gas are hompering tlie rescue squads and it is feared the pit will have to be sealed, as was the case when 136 workers were lost in a neighboring mine in 1910. General opinion in well-informed quarters in London is that the disaster to the Greek army in Asia Minor is tomplete. There seemed little prospect that anything could now save it from a total debacle. The Greek government has appealed to the powers to obtain ao armistice with the Turkish Nationalists, who have virtually driven the Greeks from the battlefield. A plot to kill the Rumanian royal family while attending the races during dur-ing a festival has been uncovered and a number of former Hungarian army officers are under arrest. They are declared to have had in their possession posses-sion explosives which they intended to plant in the grandstand at the race track. A new grain elevator is to be built at Tarte Pier, Montreal, costing $2,-374,000 $2,-374,000 with an initial capacity of 2,-000,000 2,-000,000 bushels to be ultimately increased in-creased to 8,000,000 bushels, accarding to the announcement of the minister of marines and fisheries. Secretary Hughes, the third Ameri-can Ameri-can secretary of state to visit Brazil has arrived at Rij Janerio tlie Maryland Mary-land as President Harding's representative repre-sentative and tho chief of the American Ameri-can diplomatic mission to the Brazilian Brazil-ian centennial ceremonies. A British delegation headed by Sir ! Charles Wakefield and organized by j the Sulgrave institution have sail for I an American tour, the principal purpose pur-pose of which is to take a statue of Burke and busts of Chatham and Bryce, as gifts to the American people. peo-ple. The Pomerene bill regulating campaign cam-paign expenditures of candidates for j eie ,-tii'n t the senate and house has I pas -ed the senate. The measure takes the place of tiie law held unconstitu j ti-nal in the Newberry esse.. It now j goes to the house. |