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Show BilOfTISfS! V7AfiHINOT0N, Aprii 14. The 'bill authorizing in additional appro-iprlation appro-iprlation of $1 7,000,000, for hospital faclht.es for di-jJi lcd former serict nu-ii jjns..ed unanimously today by the 1 m ;iai.e and now goes to I'resklent Har-i Har-i ding lor final approval ROBBERS TOILED GRANITE CITY, III,. April 14 I Vigilantes of police anil post office inspectors in-spectors today prevented a $53,000 payroll robbery and resulted in the arrest ar-rest of a lone bandit, who attempted to rob the driver of an automobile 'truck carrying tru money to the post office In it. A juiii ui $'J0.0U0 wo also to be received here today. ONLY RUMOR BELIEF Washington, April 14 Reports 1 from Paris thai American drivers uf I relief administration sagons huu been killed in Russia by famini stricken strick-en populace who wanted the horses for food were treated with reserve today to-day by Secretary HooVer No Americans are driving relief wagons in Russia, he .'sikl. and the American relief administration has received re-ceived no reports of any Americans belni; killed in Russia. U. S. TAKES PITY PHIfcADKL.PHlA, April 14. The United states government has taken p.ty on a deienjunt in federal court who had been seriously burned by the explosion of n still in his liome and who was charged 1th violating the prohibition law. The prisoner Hugh West, nearly lost his 11 fo in the ex-ploslon, ex-ploslon, Aft r viewing the tnan scars on his face, neck and hands. United BtaAtes Attorney Wade yesterday asked ask-ed for his discharge. "1 think the ends of lustlce have been met.' said the prose utor "The defendant surely has had sufflclont punishment." He was released. IN FOLDING BED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 11. Neighbors cliscoveied last rw&ht the bods ( Mrs Catherine Fowler, a widow. wid-ow. 70 years old, w ho had been caught and strangled by a folding bed In her apartment here, it was tnougnt mat -ihe h.'td been dead IS hours. DA1TGHERTX SECRETIVE VSHI.NG'L ( N April 11 Attorney General laughtrt, leaving the White House today after reporting to President Pres-ident Harding on 1i1h recent trip to Indianapolis said ho had received the impression that "preliminary and local lo-cal conferences" were going on among the operators and union officials but that no progress has yet been made. He declined to elaborate on the statement. state-ment. NO ( ONFEKENCES. SPRINGFIELD, 111.. April 14. I Commenting on the statement of At- torney General Daugherty. given our. I In Washington, that preliminary and local conferences arc going on among operators and miners. President John I L. Lewis of the United Mine. Workers, Work-ers, at his home -iere: declared p$d-tlvely p$d-tlvely that "no conferences at all are in progress." "Please say for me," Mr. Lewis repeated, "that no conferences ore !n progre.-vS and hoik In prospect." TOPIC OP AGAIN. PARIS. April 14 If the question of disarmament is brought up again at the Genoa economic conference, says the Temps, in an editorial toda , the French government will recommend recom-mend that lt bo brought before the league of nations. Tho Temps adds that the French cabinet at its meeting meet-ing yesterday was unanimous In making mak-ing this decision. |