Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-22
NEWS OF TEE DAY

Elmer Dwicglns. forlrer New ork !
manager Of the Bankers Life Com |
many. of Des Moines, was indicted by
a Federal grand jury yesterday on
charge of using The mails to 'defr"ud
purchasers Of Liberty bonds. D"lg- |
Gins was arrestc.. in Montgomery, |
Ain on Federal warrant, having |
f,cd from New York after he IS al
Jared to have collected $4,000 on the
second issue of the loan. HIS en-
tire shortage is said to aggregate
Sl50,O00
Three automobile bandits yesterday
stepped into jeweiry store on the
! principal downtown street IN MINNIE
apolis, drove three clerks into back
room. forced another TO open the
safe and escaped with diamonds ana
othel. gems valued ut between Sl''oco
and $4,000.
! The convention Of the American
/; Federation of Labor adopted yester-
day in Buffalo, N. Y, resolution
condcmning Postmaster GcneEai
! RurIcscn for his "autocratic policy TO-
ward postal employees" and instructed
tnc executive council Of the Fedora
ton to obtain an audience WIN
President Wilson and place BEFORE
! him facts concerning the oppressive
labor policy Of the Postmas'er-''ch-
clal.
s! Martial law was declared thrugh-
out the state of Sac Paulo, Brazil,
Yesterday. Censorship was imposed
upon press dispatches and the high
WAYS were closed 10 automobile traf-
f;c. There is big German colony
IN Sac Paulo and German uprising
occurred there before Brazil broke
off relations with Germany.
Carrying cut his threat to Kill her
I If he found out about her. Charles
! Howard. % years old, Of Baltimore,
shot his wife, Lula Howard, 80 years
old, through the head yesterday al
ternoon, killing her almost instantly,
anj then turned the pistol on him
self. infl!cting a wound in his tenn
pic that caused his death two hours
later.
Practically complete returns on.
Tuesdays election showed in Los
!; Angeles, CAL, voted for the ellmma-
| ton of saloons and severe rcStric-
tions on the liquor traffic by a ma
ior:ty Of nearly 10000 Effective
after March 81, 1913. the initiative
ordinance will make Los Angeles the
largest. city in the United States with
out saloons. according to present rec
| CrJ>
Bishop John Gardner Murray, Of
the Diocese OF Maryland was re-
elected president OF the Protestant
Episcopal Province of Washington
yesterday 1T the opening Of the Prov
incial Synod in Philadelphia Other
officers elected were: Treasurer.
! William West Frazier, Jr., Pcnnsyl-
vania: member of the General Board
OF Missions, 10 succeed Bishop
Thompson, Rev. Dr. Wycth Brown,
Pittsburgh; lay member; Of the cxecu-
tive committee, John Stewart Bryan.
Diocese Of Virginia; Bishop Ethel
bert "albot, Of the Diocese of Beth
!ehem, Pa, was, among thosc elected
, to n" Court Of Reviews.
Sustained pursuit of the. remain
ing German forces in German East
Africa, during which nearly 1000 |
prisoners were captured, importart
positions occupied and the last heavy
gun remaining to the Germans in the |
colony taken intact, Is reported IN an
official statement.
A bill has been submitted to the
German rcichstag authorizing the
chancellor TO dispose Of credit OF
- ,00Q, 100000 marks for oxtraordi- |
nary EXPENSES. says Berlin dis
patch The bill has been placed first
en- the order Of the day for the reich
stag session of November 90.