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Show TELEGRAPHIC TILES fob Brails 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 Damages of $126, GG1 are asked by the Pacific Mail Steamship company of New York from the Rethlehem 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. Four persons were killed and a fifth probably was fatally injured near Pomona, Calif., when a Southern South-ern Pacific express train struck an automobile believed to have been driven by Frank S. Davidson, 57, of Los Angeles. Davidson, his son, George F. Davidson, an unidentified boy and an unidentified woman were instantly killed, and Miss Irene Davidson Dav-idson was taken to a hispital with critical injuries. Nullification of the Oregon state gasoline tax is sought by a group of automobile freight bus operators in a suit filed in the United States district dis-trict court at Portland, Oregon. An injunction is asked to prevent the secretary of state from further enforcement en-forcement of the law. A refund of approximately $6,000,000 collected by the state under the present gasoline tax law is demanded. The steamer Maud, which has returned re-turned to Seattle, Wash., after a three year attempt to drift across the north pole, was attached for debts of $5000. At the instance of Armour & Co. and other supply houses, a United Statse marshal seized the Maud under a li. bel. The conference of national park superintendents, in session at Mesa Verde National park, Colorado, passed pass-ed a resolution condemning the erection erec-tion of signboards along public highways high-ways and congratulating business interests in-terests that have ordered a discontinuance discontin-uance of the practice. Colorado Stockgrowers advocated to the senate subcommittee on public lands that grazing permits in national nation-al forests be issued to establish stock men for a period of ten years. They also recommended that grazing fees be turned over to the states in which the forests are located. A 20 per cent reduction in the U. P. and O. S. L. railroad forces at Green River, Wyoming, ordered for October 1, has been canceled, it was announ-ed announ-ed at railway headquarters. A heavy increase in railroad business is given as the reason for the change of plans. GENERAL 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 the present state of mind of the war department; but it is subject to change at any moment. Eleven members of a party of tourists tour-ists are known to have drowned when the pleasure boat Clara B. capsized while attempting to turn in a rough sea, just outside Sebastian inlet, Florida. The remainder of the party which numbered twenty-five were rescued. Personal income tax collections in 1923 decreased $197,405,803 or 22.93 per cent as compared with 1922, according ac-cording to revised statistics made public by the internal revenue bureau at Washington. Records show that 7,G9S,321 persons filed income tax returns re-turns for 1923. The aggregate net income in-come was $24,S40,134,3u4 and the tax $663,651,505. School teachers of Shabrona. 111., will be required to spend at least three week-ends of every month within the confines of the village, according ac-cording to an edict cf the school board. J. 13. Stout, superintendent of schools declared aboin half the teachers teach-ers have been spending their weekends week-ends out of town and did not attend the local community functions. A phrase hitherto absent from America's international debt funding negotiations a sharp controversy over the amount of the obligation stands out as the chief problem confronting con-fronting the American debt commission commis-sion and representatives of the Cze-cho-Slovakian government in their forthcoming funding discussions at Washington. Imprisonment for life was the sentence sen-tence given Everett Adams, 17, of Wilmington, Ohio, a schoolboy. He confessed killing his "good Samaritan," Samari-tan," Adam R. Clawson, Lodi, N. Y. school teacher. The jury was out five hours. It's only question was to fix the punishment for the youthful youth-ful murderer. The first pension award growing out of the Shenandoah disaster has been made by the pension bureau to Mrs. Alice B. Lawrence of Washington, Washing-ton, widow of Lieutenant John Bollard Bol-lard Lawrence. She was allotted $50 per month under the 1925 pension act. James B. Duke, milionaire tobacco manufacturer is dead at his home in New York. The millionaire, known throughout the country for his financial finan-cial and philanthropic eccentricities, had been ill for eleven weeks, beginning be-ginning with a nervous breakdown, which he suffered while at Newport, R. I. Beatrica Fenner, a 20-year-old blind girl of Los Angeles, whose compositions composi-tions have been sung by Madame Amelita Galli-Curci, has been awarded award-ed a scholarship by the Julliard Musical Mus-ical foundation of New York, it was announced. The anthracite coal situation in New York state has not reached a critical stage and is not likely to do so as a result of the strike in the hard coal mines, the recently appointed appoint-ed commission announced in its first official statement. Because women's stockings have become under garments instead of under un-der garments, Chicago manufacturers manufactur-ers have had to change their dyes tc resist fading by sunlight. The American Legion in session at Omaha, Neb., accorded Colonel William Wil-liam Mitchell, the army's outspoken critic of the nation's aeronautical policy, pol-icy, a measure of commendation when it unanimously adopted a resolution recommending one of his plans for rehabilitation re-habilitation of the national defense by creating a separate cabinet office to have control of three equal branches army, navy and air. Postal receipts in Boise and Cheyenne Chey-enne for the past month are reported materially lower than receipts for September 1924. Boise's receipts last month- were $17,100, where they were $18,995 a year ago, while Cheyenne's receipts were $8548, as compared with $S748 in September last year. The Camp 'Fire Girls of New York, 160,000 strong, have' organized a crusade cru-sade against the use of the term flapper- as "odious and unfair." Females of tender years must be called "moderns "mod-erns instead of flappers, and organization organi-zation has decreed, and has drafted Colleen Moore, known as the "perfect flapper" of fildom, to lead the crusade. cru-sade. FOREIGN The Rumanian ambassador to Bulgaria, Bul-garia, with his wife, was , fired on while automobile riding in the capital. Men using automatics opened fire on the ambassador's auto. The assailant's assail-ant's escaped. Domizio Torringiana, grand master of the Masonic order in Italy has issued is-sued an order to all lodges to hold no meetings and cease all work until further notice. His action follows the recent facist-Mason clashes at Florence, Flor-ence, in which several persons were killed. The Communist transport workers of the Paris region were called out in what is regarded as a curtain-riser curtain-riser for the general strike arranged by '.he reds as a protest against the French policy in Morocco. The French finance commission of the chamber of deputies has pruned the war ministry's budget appropriations appropria-tions by another $50,000,000 francs. The Belgian government has opened open-ed negotiations with the United States for an agreement similar to those concluded by the Washington government with other countries extending ex-tending the zone of search for contraband contra-band liquor to an hour's sailing distance dis-tance from shore. In return Belgian ships would be granted permission to carry liquor stores under seal into American ports. The newspapers of Rome published a report that the grand master of Free Masonry in Italy is considering the dissolution cf all Masonic lodges throughout Italy, as he has already dissolved those of Florence where clashes between Masons and Fascists recently resulted in the death of four persons and the wounding of a score more. Ten cardinals from Italy alone will attend the Eucharistic conference to be held in Chicago beginning June 20, 1926. it h;'s neen announced by Cardinal Car-dinal Giovanni Bonzano, former apostolic apos-tolic delegate to the United States, is considered the probable choice of the pope as papal legate to the conference, confer-ence, which is considered here to be of unusual importance, not only for American Catholics, but for the entire church. |