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Show i r .v ' - ..' - ,, . , - . . . ; , , ( A Complete History of What Hu Iken Happening Tbouiota A . the World. .; , ' ,s WE8TERN , ,;i The Ku Klux Klan has Mvoked the commission of every kleagle in Cali-''fornla'from Cali-''fornla'from the king kleaglS down,' After Af-ter a preliminary inquiry into alleged lawlessness in that state, and has appointed ap-pointed William S. Coburn as king " kleagle In charge of the klan's interests inter-ests in California, it was announced by E. Y. Clarke, Imperial klallff, or supreme vice president of the order, i Forty-five special trains carrying more than 10,000 Shrtners and Itotar-ians Itotar-ians to their convention In Los Angeles An-geles and San Francisco, will be used on the Santa Fe system, according to an announcement by officials. Passenger Pas-senger and sleeping car fares will S aggregate $1,000,000. When Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, joins citizens of San Diego at a luncheon arranged In his honor on June 8.' hA will tltut n-hnt thn mm. WASHSNSrOrl , I An alien woman who married a" eltl- ten of the United States wol!d not become be-come a citizen herself by virtue of f such marriage under a Mil Introduced i by Representative Cable, Republican, Ohio, providing for the naturllzation of women aliens. The bill also provides pro-vides that a woman shall not become a citizen by reason of the naturalization, naturaliza-tion, of her husband.' The right .of a woman to become: naturalized also, would not be denied because of her sex or because she, was ..married. A straight 10 per cent 'reduction In' Existing freight rates to be effective July 1, was ordered" by the interstate commerce comimsslon, this reduction to be applicable throughout the United States, except as to a few special rates, such as hny and grain, livestock and some ore rates which have already been reduced by special orders of the commission. The lntennouuntain states took a strong stand for a reduction reduc-tion in rates at the general hearings conducted before the -commission early ear-ly this year, at which H. W. PrlcKett, manager of the Utah Traffic Service bureau, represented the 'governors of eight western states, various commercial commer-cial bodies of Salt Lake and other Utah cities as well as industrial organizations, or-ganizations, v The senate has passed the house amendment providing for the appointment appoint-ment of a sucalled "dirt rarmer" to 1 mittee in charge believes will be the longest . table on record. It will ex- , tend the entire length of the marine J barracks, about 2.100 feet. I E.J. Burke has purchased the I Robert N. Staufield wool clip at 35 I ' cents a pound at Portland, a figure j 100 per cent higher than the price puld 1 t for wool one year ago. The deal In- for wool one year ago. The deal in- -'; volves approximately $000,000 and calls for wool in various sections of j Idaho and Oregon. Louis Babe of Grldley, Calif, is defendant de-fendant In a civil court suit which he believes Is out of the usual run he I has been sued by his former wire for I , $2,000 he received as damages In a : suit against a man who he cnarged f alienated the affections of his wife. The wife, who subsequently obtained 4 fx diveorce, now seeks the $2,000 on the ground that the damage award I was made prior to the divorce pro- I codings and was part of the communl- ty property, title to which was granted ' her with the divorce decree. The Dallas office of the Missouri, 1 Kansas & Texas railroad has announc- ed the purchase of new equipment val- 'J ued at $5,500,000. The equipment con- .1 slsts, of thirty steel passenger couches I and 200 freight cars. - J The Rev. Father Domlnc Pantanella, founder and builder of Regis college j of Denver and said to be one of Uie oldest Jesuit priests in the west is ; dead at 90 years -of age, Five members of an alleged $500,000 fradulent oil lease gang, Indicted by Representatives of five of the Independent Inde-pendent steel companies considering a merger, were understood to have Informed In-formed Attorney General Daugnerty at a conference that the projected consolidation con-solidation Would not be consummated until the department of justice had been fully advised. Complete arrangements for receiving receiv-ing and caring for the Philippine mrs-sion, mrs-sion, due to arrive In this country shortly to .plead for Philippine independence, inde-pendence, were made at the Wtilte House in a conference betwen President Presi-dent Harding and Representative Towner, Iowa, chairman of the house committee on Insular affairs. Louis Borno the new president oi Haiti, in a message to President Harding, Hard-ing, sent upon the former's lnstallat'on in office, declared his "desire of devoting de-voting my constant care to rendering each day more efficacious and more fruitful the loyal cooperation of our two countries." War time frauds on government officials of-ficials are to he investigated by a special grand jury. All , Indictments an to be given special rush attention by the courts. FOREIGN Mayor W. T. Blake and two companions com-panions are engaged in a 3,000 mite airplane, fight around Jhe world. . ( The Polish foreign minster,, Constan-tine Constan-tine Sklrmut, was pelted with rotten eggs at Vienna as he was going into a dinner he had arranged for. the representatives of the foreign press. His face was bruised and his clothes tne April .recieral grana jury on ; charges of using the mails with Intent J to defraud, have been placed under i arrest at Chicago. r GENERAL Self-government in American indus- I ' try in preference to bureaucratic gov ernmental control was urged at Washington Wash-ington by Secretary Hoover speaking to representatives of lumber manufacturer's manu-facturer's associations from various parti of the country meeting at the commerce department to (Mseuss means of standardizing grading of lumber and other economy problems. Approval of 23 advances for agricultural agri-cultural and livestock purposes, aggregating ag-gregating $985,000, was announced by the war finance corporation. Distribution Distri-bution of the loan Included : Arizona, $79,000; California, $250,000; Colorado, Colora-do, $71,000 and Idaho $10,000. Considerable property damage was done by a tornado which swept' Walnut Wal-nut Springs, 62 miles north of Waco, Texas. " Slaay strsngo. fatSents have ftcen , brought into Bellevue hospital, New York in the years it has existed, but the strangest of all is General, a fat, squat, ugly and inarticulate turtle. The turtle was brought In" to gratify earnest plea of Ike Brown, 80 a Civil war veteran, whose pal and pet the turtle has been for eight years. ruined by the attack. The Austrian cabinet, headed by .Tohannnn Schober, chancellor, resigned resign-ed owing to parliament having reduced credits asked for by the government. Budget proposals put before the Canadian house by W. S. Fielding, mm-ister mm-ister of finance, carry substantial re-ductlona re-ductlona in tariff duties on many articles ar-ticles imported from the United States. Duties on mowing machines, binders and reapers, seed drills and plows are reduced 2l per cent. There is 5 per cent reduction on practically all other agricultural implements. Implements and materials used In dairying, lumbering lum-bering and mining are listed for reductions re-ductions ranging from 2 to 5 per cent. The conference of the socalled committee com-mittee of nine, composed of delegates from the three Internationales, at Ber-lin Ber-lin has ended without arranging for a worlds congress, one of the main purposes for which it was recently appointed. " Scores of royal guards and fascist! were wounded In a street battle tn the crowded San Lorenzo quarter of Rome. American farming machinery companies com-panies again are doing business ro Siberia after a lapse or five years, during which .business generally has been at a standstill. Warehouses are being restocked with farm machinery A regular system of radio warnings of the sudden and terrifflc storms on the Great Lakes which every season cause loss of life ind shipping Is nn-J nn-J nounced by the department of agricul ture.' Radio reports from the weather bureau- twice a day will ke ep mariners j bn lakes constantly Informed of lm- ! pending changes of wind and baromet ric pressure. . '. i " A reduction of from A cents "to 2 j cents an ounce on mail to. Argentina, i Spain and the Cnynian Islands of the British West Indies is announced by the postoffice department. 1 Immigration authorities are invest-''igrttiiig invest-''igrttiiig the condlfons niou which Hannah Chaplin,, the aged and shell-shocked shell-shocked mother of Charles.. Chaplin, motion picture iw tor, ; ; and .Sidney Chaplin, ' Is allowed to renin in in the -United States." ; J-i,! -- from the United States, and agents are seeking trade throughout Manchuria, Man-churia, Korea and the maritime province, pro-vince, in parts of which modern machinery mach-inery heretofore has noj been seen. Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt Roose-velt announced he had declined application appli-cation of the national women's party for use Of naval facilities in broadcasting broadcast-ing addre8e :"' A conference between the Irish leaders lead-ers and the English government is being hold at London.- The allied military occupation of Upper Silesia is likely to come to an end by the last of July, according to the report of the allied commission for the district, which was considered by the council of ambassadors. Fourteen j thousand men of the allied forces ars still in Upper Silesia. Of these ltW are French; ';..; " ' ; V ., |
