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Show TELEGRAPH BREVITIES I I WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 7 Concerted propnganda for and against legislation ' has become at national menace und I should be checked, Scntor King, Democrat, lTtah. declared today In the1 courae of fil testimony before the-'nntc the-'nntc committee Investigating actlv- ' ltlea of alleged dye monopolies and I lobbes. nrriAM. WORK halted TOKlo. Feb 27 (By the A&ao-' A&ao-' elated Press.) The foreign office an-! an-! nounced today that the Japanese gov- ernment had decided to discontinue I forthwith the work on fortifications I In the Bonln and Amaml Oshlme Islands Is-lands and to maintain the existing fortifications for-tifications and naval bases at For-1 For-1 tnosa and In the Pescalorcs. Ordera have been Issued to carry out this decision de-cision In conformity with decisions reached nt the Washington confer-j confer-j ence. rOKTl RK C'lIARfwKI) NEW YORK Feb 27 j Fer-1 Fer-1 nandez, who arrived here from South America today, announced he would ask government officials at Washington Washing-ton to Inveatlgate the death of William Young of Phoenix, Ariz . who ho assorts as-sorts was thrown into a Venezulan I prison tind tortured and beaten to Icith by the police of that country, t Young wan In Maracalbo, Venezuela on business according to Fernandez when he was charged with conspiring to overthrow tho government nnd Jailed under the name of "Romarez." TREATIES APPROVED i WASHINGTON. Feb 27. Com-Ynltee Com-Ynltee consideration of the arms conference con-ference treaties was completed today, when the senate foreign relation! committee com-mittee ordered faor.ibl reported without reservations tho general' Far Eastern nnd Chinese tariff treaties. In both cases the action was unanimous. unani-mous. CRIME SCENE VISITED LOS ANGELES, Calif , Fob, 27 The tcene of the murder last August of J Belton Kennedy, local broker, was visited today by Mr.?. Madalynna C. Obenchaln of Chicago and the jury, Judge, attorneys and witnesses In tho trial on the charge of murder against her The murder scene was at Bev- erlj Glen, a suburb several miles from ' the court room W I LKLY PAY DWS WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 The postal post-al aervlce would be required lo provide pro-vide weekly pay days for all employes under a bill Introduced today by Sen-Jt'ir Sen-Jt'ir Iyodge, Republican, Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. 00 MEET POSTPONED WASHINGTON Feb. 27. Anothor postponement of the International communications conference was Issued by Acting Secretary Fletcher of the j state department. GRAIN LAW INVALID WASHINGTON. Feb 27. The I North Dakota law regulating rraln 1 Inspection and purchase was today declared de-clared Invalid by the supreme court. In an opinion rendered by Justice Day. IMPERSONATION VICTIM GRAND RAPIDS, Mlon . Feb. 27. George L. Warren, wealthy president of the Central Michigan Paper company. com-pany. In n wire to George S Clark, secretary of the company, denied thn he and his wife were tho persons convicted con-victed in Ixs Angeles Saturday of I shoplifting In a department store. "I ; am the victim of a false lmperaona-I lmperaona-I tlon," the message read Not tho I person referred to In the news Item." . rr |