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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BORDERS 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 Thirty persons were Injured near Snpulpa, Okla. when two interiirhan cars collided. Both ours crowded with passengers were badly wrecked. Cutnlina Turantun, 21 years old hell-boy hell-boy at the lintel Sorrento in the residence resi-dence district at Seattle was killed when he went down an elevator shaft to recover n hall for Suzanne Reid, little lit-tle daughter of Ju.df.-e George T. Iteid, lice president of the Northern Tactic Ta-ctic railway. The hall had fallen into in-to a light well while Suzanne was playing with another child. The counterweight coun-terweight of the elevator descended upon Tarantan ns he was leaving the shaft to enter the well. Members of the crew of the steamer Mayfalr walked out when It was learned learn-ed that the vessel was scheduled to return to San Pedro. The men declared de-clared that If they returned they feared that Industrial Workers of the World strikers would Inflict personal person-al injuries on them. As the beginning of a campaign by the postoffice department against wildcat oil promoters, Postmaster General New has issued a fraud order against the General Lee Development Interests of Fort Worth, Texas, and directed that all mail received nt Fort Worth addressed to that company be returned to the senders. The first fatality of the woodsmen's and marine workers' strikes called by the Industrial Workers of the World In the Pacific coast states occurred when William Kay, 40, a logger, was fatally wounded by K. I. Green, watchman watch-man at a lumber mill at Aberdeen, Wash., when according to Green, a group of men attempted to enter the mill gates without authority and attacked at-tacked him when he resisted them. Two army aviators Lieutenants, Kelly and MacReady have just completed com-pleted the first non-stop trancon-tinental trancon-tinental flight. Thev flew from New York to San Diago In 20 hours and 40 minutes without a landing or mishap mis-hap enroute. The distances Is 2,G2o miles. Nine miners caught by an explosion In the north slope of the Southwestern Southwest-ern mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company near Trindad, Colo, are still entombed and three men working in the upper seam of the mine when the blast occurred came out unhurt. GENERAL Tostoffice inspector, police and private detectives have joined hands to run down the authors of a widespread wide-spread plot to upset the New York stock market by dumping on it hundreds hun-dreds of orders to buy, backed by worthless checks running into the millions. All Memphis is buying stock in Plggly Wiggly to help Clarence Saunders Saun-ders "beat Wall street" a check of the first (lav's s.'llpa in tho "hnmotnTi" subscription campaign showed. The rank and file of the city was reported solidly behind the former grocery clerk who recently fought Wall street to a standstill. The City Firemen's Belief association bought twenty shares and paid 51,100 cash. The Memphis Teachers association and other organizations bought stock. Two men were seriously injured and over 100 girls made a hurried flight from the II. O. Cereal com-, pany's plant at Buffalo, N. T. when a dust explosion wrecked the feed building. Fire followed the exposion. Suit for $7,000,000 against the government gov-ernment was filed by the Great Sioux-nation. Sioux-nation. Involving the largest sum ever sought through judicial action, the suit, filed in the court of claims, specifies forty counts dating from the treaties of 1S51 to 1SCS, declaring millions of acres of land had been illegally taken from the Indians. The marthon dishwnshing record is claimed by Miss Susie Iletiock of the village of Covode. Pa., Using only the old time methods a dishcloth. p:tn, hot water, and soap Miss Iletiock Ilet-iock continued her operations for thirty-one hours without stopping. Payment of the 000, 000 state bonus to 111 nois soldiers and sailors of the world war will begin on July 1. after a conference between Governor Gover-nor Len Small and Chicago bankers PERSONAL "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the veterai legislator, Monday received an official "welcome home" from his fellow townsmen on the occasion of his eighty-seventh birthday. It was his home-coming from his final session of congress. From early morning until un-til afternoon, when the celebration officially of-ficially begun, the man who made Danville and black cigars famous, was tho recipient of greetings and congratulations. Hundreds of messages mes-sages came by wire from throughout the nation, nearly all the governers offering their best wishes. Suit for $100,000 damages was begun be-gun by William J. "Hill" Brennan against the Mail Express company, publishers of the Evening Mail, for an article it published entitled "Evening "Eve-ning Mail Staff Unanimous in Declaring De-claring Firpo-Hrennan Fight Queer," following Brennan's knockout by Luis Angel Firpo, South American heavyweight. heavy-weight. Brennan was treated for concussion 'of the brain in a hospital after the fight. D. C. Jackling was elected president of the Utah Copper company and the Bingham & Garfield railroad at a meeting of the board of directors in New York, according to information received at the Salt Lake offices. He succeeds the late C. M. McNeill, who recently died. An advance in wages amounting to 52,500,000 a year, and affecting 22,-000 22,-000 employes of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, granted by the board of directors of the company on the theory that the existing econo.nic situation warranted it, was announced announc-ed by the oil company officials. Ziang Sun Wan, the young Chinese student found guilty, early in 1920, of the murder of Ben Sen Wu, under secretary of the Chinese educational mission in Washington, must pay the penalty by hanging, the district court of appeals held in affirming the conviction. con-viction. The execution will take place May 18. Henry Ford thinks his present Job is as big as President Harding's and has no desire to be president, Dr. William Etidger of St. Mark's Methodist Metho-dist church, Detroit told a church audience. au-dience. Dr. Stidger said he recently talked with Ford about his reported presidential aspirations.- Samuel Gompers has launched what labor leaders interpreted as a fight to drive from the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor the radical movement move-ment represented by the Trade Union Education league, including W. Z. Fncta- nnA H 17. T?nlli onhnrtr King Albert whose favorite method of travel is by air, has piloted his own airplane for the first time at Brussels. He took the air in a new student machine with his personal pilot as instructor. The king is said to have been delighted with the experince. FOREIGN Approximately twenty foreigners many of them Americans, including a prominent newespaper publisher and two American army majors, Monday were in the hands of a daring gang of Chinese brigands, who raided the Peking express early Sunday morning at Suchow, province of Kiangsu, shot dead one English passenger named Rothman, and drove scores of others, white and natives, off like a herd of cattle in their midst. Dr. Krupp Von Bohlen, head of the Krupp works, was sentenced to 15 years in jail and to pay a fine of $100,000,000 marks as a result of the ti-inl dftiirtm a rtial of- Worrlon Germany growing out of the shooting at the Krupp plant last March. Fifteen hundred rebels were defeated de-feated and 200 killed by the Italians in their latest operations in Tripoli, involving the occupation of an advanced ad-vanced point. A lengthy note reveiwing the numerous numer-ous British complaints against Soviet Russia and couched in such strong terms that it may bring the Russo-British Russo-British relations to an issue was handed to Maxim Litvinoff , assistant assist-ant commissioner for foreign affairs, this afternoon, by the British representative, rep-resentative, Robert M. Hodgeson. The Free State government continues contin-ues to proceed as though Eamonn de Valera, the republican chief, had never made his proposal of peace. Austin Stack, who, up to the time of his capture last month, was De Yal-era's Yal-era's principal aide, was tried by a military tribunal Saturday. The attempt in the all-Russian church conclave to force through a declaration abolishing all sacred relics rel-ics on the ground that they served to foster superstition has failed through the efforts of Bishop Antonin. The conclave, which originally had been expected to adopt such a resolution, finally compromised by allowing the relics to be retained, but providing that they be kept open to view, in- j stead of in caskets ' |