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Show ! I TELEGRAPH BREVITIES 1 I 4- SAN FRANCISCO. Mar. 6. A se-! se-! rles of wage rato reductions, ranging as high os 50 per cent on some Items. , was announced by tho Southern Pacific Paci-fic today for tho territory between Chicago and the Pacific coast for a group ol foodstuffs and other commodities. com-modities. Including cgjcs, shelled nuts. , alcohol, coke and wooden automobile wheels. I I Al II I', PROBE WASHINGTON. Mar. 6. The de-' de-' partmcnts of commerce and labor I have received from the garment Industry In-dustry and workers two lists of suggested sug-gested names from which will bo appointed ap-pointed a commission to make a study j uf tho "economic functioning" of the ' women's garment industry Jn New , York City, It was stataed today at the department of commerce. HUGHES is BACK 1 NEW YORK, Mar 6 Secretary .and Mrj. Charles Evans lliiKho; returned re-turned on tho steamer Fort Hamilton today from a ucution in Kormudu j driving immediately to the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania terminal to- take tho 1.10 train for Washington. The secretary, his face wreathed In i smiles, rode up the rharbor on the ! steamer's bridge with tho captain. CHINESE MYSTERY I CIIICAGi i. Mar. 6 Mystery follow -j ed today In the wake of the fatal I shooting here last night of one Chl-I Chl-I nesc and the wounding of two others. niie probably fatally, in u basement j rendezvous uf W ing Hlng Iung In Chinatown Rumors of a war of tonps w ere nun-I nun-I pant and police wore Inclined to the , belief that it may have been an outbreak out-break of the Hip Sing-On Leong feud. A year ago the police found three dead 'Chinese In a basement Just two doors -4 south of the place in which last night's shooting occurred. CARUSO BODY INTACT NAPLES. Mar. 6. ( By the Assoc I- ated Press) Oavonil Caruso, brother of the late Enrico Caruso, Who has. Just arrived from the I'nlled Stattcs. i asserts that the body Ol the tenor was hurled Intact. Dr. Salvia, who eni-1 eni-1 halmed the body, had wanted to n-I n-I move the vocal organs. QlVOnnl added, but the family of the singer refused I permission. (Note The foregoing dlsp :Ui h con-' firms the statement of Mrs. CslTUBO, widow of the tenor, who declared 1 there was no truth In the report printed in a Rome newspajjer last week that the vocal orgarus of the singer had been kept for medical Examination. Ex-amination. ) MILIjIONS WANmED WASHINGTON, Mar 0 An appropriation appro-priation of $34, 878. 033 to meet expenses ex-penses o fthe agriculture department during the coming wyear. Is recommended recom-mended In a bill reported today by the house appropriations committee. The total Is $3,710,020 less than the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year and 1,554,8S6 less than the budget. CRIME IN BELFAS1 BELFAST. March 6 (By the A.9SO-! A.9SO-! elated Press.) Belfast was quiet to-uay to-uay after weekend disorders In which two persons were killed und 21 were wounded. The killing u( Oweji Hughes j who was shut while riding in a street I car In the York street district on Sat -I urday night. Is described by the au-I au-I thorlties as premeditated Four men qtlMtloned Owen about his religious 'convictions Thr-y shot him dead and ' escaped. A bomb was thrown this af-1 af-1 ternoon. The explosion injured a child A youth named Kldd was call ed outside by three men and was i H shot and seriously wounded. I. H WORK'S SUCCESSOR WASHINGTON, March ti. John H, Bartlelt of New Hampvhire was nom -d today by President Harding tf be first assistant postmaster general. h jH Mr. Bartiett, who at present is chair- !H man of the civil sari ice commission. f H will succeed Dr. Hubert Work, who on Saturday succeeded Will Hays as t 'f postmaster general- 1 H |