, 1920-04-08
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANps.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

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WESLEYAN
Inc United Shoe Machinery Company
or ~achus was enjoined by
Judge irieher IN the United States DIS
tfict court III 81 LOUIS from enforcing
any Oh the tease clauses Ill coi'iracts
MADE before the passage OF the Gay
ION antitrust act in 1914.
Alice True Gentle, grand opera sing
er, filed suit ut Santa Cruz for divorce
from DIR. Robert Bruce Gentle, New
York dentist. The complaint charges
desertioh. 1he couple were married III
Seattle in l3oo ana have one son,
Bruce Gentle, II years Ola.
A German revolver he had captured
overseas was used by Harold Wood,
Soul Bend, Ind, world war veteran,
in an attempt to commit suicide. little
" .W" rs n't tna ,or VI, IN" tnis ,et sa,a
nat. oIdrosSod to his neither ,t south
Hend
c,Io or ,,o uor,o ou por;rinr Gam.
an. .a un ,nn,a ,n,a,In., nI Co,,
many of Inndnn has h..i c,mnla,.d al
Fori Worth. Texas The sum involved
in the transaction wus $40 OOOOOO. il
was said. The Home ompun was
placed in the hands of n receiver two
months ago.
Jhc first unre n.tition tried before
the new Kansas Industrial Relations
Court resulted in Il victory for the
workers. Decision No. l was handed
down by the court mt Topeka granting
an Increase in wages 10 linemen of
the Topeka Edison Company from GO
10 6Ih cents AN hour.
Harold HalStead of San Francisco
wa shot and killed on the road to ST
ezra Blanca, Texas, sixty-nine miles
east of El PaSo, according to informi-
tion received mt Ell Paso, texas He
WAS in an automobile with G. L. Craw-
ford, a business associate of FL Pasu
and Topeka, Kan, at the time.
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Na''oh-wiue Reports ir"ui ieuerh' re-
serve hi'lN oiticialS' nau punlIc al
Washington disclose iheir ol'iilioh iilat
The postwar era OF eNtraNaSahce ana
reckless buying by the pubic Is near
ing its end.
An airplane mail service operating
between New York and San Francisco
by way of Chicago was authorized by
the Senate in adopting an amendment
ia the p~ostoffice appropriation bill.
The sum of S1,4jO,000 is set aside by
the bill to he used by the postmaster
general in purchasing, equipping and
operating the mail planes.
The Supreme Court, at the request
of the has taken a hand
I'm the boundary ~controversy between
Texas and Oklahoma, involving the
Red River valley oil lands, and issued
two injunctions, to remain in effect
pending final decision in proceedings
instituted by Oklahoma. The first
prohibits Texas from issuing permits
affecting contested lands. Under the
second, both states are enjoined from
removal of oil or gas well machinery.
with the navy pay bill stalled in
Congress. desertions increasing Mt an
alarming rate and enlistments averag-
ing only 500 a week, the navy is now
nearly 10000 men short of the num-
Der required to man the fleets. accord
ing to reports at Washington.
Charges of delay, incompetency and
misplacement of former service men
in vocational training by the federal
board for vocational education were