, 1920-10-28
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

WESTERN
w. Il. Vanderbrake, a druggist of
Rock Valley, Iowa, was murdered in
his store. A man, believed to be his
slayer, was seen to run from the store
after the shooting.
Five firemen were burned by explod-
ing paint and turpentine and property
valued at 100000 was destroyed when
fire wrecked the plant of the Texas
Wheel and Body Company at Dallas,
Texas.
Angered because Miss Rosalind 1.
Reynolds, n chool teacher in Chicago,
had reprimanded hen son, Mrs. Car
mila Rindoni visited the school n
shot the teacher twice. She will re-
cover. Mrs. Rindoni was arrested.
A telephone conversation, over 400
miles of wire and wireless, establish
ing what was said to be u worlds
record, was held between Avalon,
Santa Catalina Island, thirty miles off
Los Angeles harbor, and the steamer
Gloucester, 200 miles off Philadelphia,
according to statement made at Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Covington, o., is
dead at Ogden, Utah, the result, physl-
clans say, of shock sustained when she
found her son lying in n pool of blood
from a self-inflicted wound. The
mother became unconscious a few min
utes after she found her son dying,
her death taking place a few hours
after her sons.
Charles Rowan, under Indictment for
fraudulent use of the mails at Mil
waukee, In an alleged "get-rich-quick"
scheme, in which he advertised that
fortunes could be made In deals
through hin in guinea pigs and rab>
bits, was refused bail of $4,000 by
United States Judge Il. E. Geiger,
When he rendered the amount in cur
rency.
Fearing to leave any question as to
the citizenship of their expected child,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Byam came
from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Omaha,
and little Jocann first blinked her
eyes in an American hospital in that
city. Mr.. Byam is manager of the
Morris Packing Company plant In
Uruguay and accompanied his wife on
the 8,O00-mile trip.
The twenty-five-cent haircut has re-
appeared at Los Angeles. 1t has been
absent for some time, while those
costing 30 n so cents took its place.
Its temperance was noted only in q
few of those shops which had been
charging higher prices, but there 1t
was predicted it o would become
general again. With 1t reappeared
tho fiftapp-Rnnt Ghnun |
WASHINGTON
Attorney General Palmer has ap-
pealed to the bituminous coal oper-
ators of the country to reduce prices,
and a conference OF the 1000 oper-
ators of the country to consider the re-
quirements has been called to be held
at Cleveland, Ohio.
Members of the National woman's
party will hold their annual conven-
ton in Washington, beginning Feb. 10,
and continuing six days. Miss Alice
Paul. national chairman, announced.
Approximately 500 delegates will be
called, the statement said.
Approval OF n proposal to organize
o 500, 100000 corporation to finance
the nations foreign trade was given
by the American Bankers Association
In convention at Washington.
Brig. Gen. John Biddle will be re
tired at his W request on Dec. 1,
when he will have served forty-three
years in the army and be eligible for
retirement, the Wal Department an
nounced at Washington.
The se~lf-propelllng steel barge Blrm-
Iogham has been accepted by the gov
eminent representatives following n
trial trip n will leave on Its first
trip in the st. LouIs-New Orleans
service. The vessel is of 1000 tons
capacity.
The United States, according to tax
returns, spent 500, zoo, 100000 in 1919
on luxuries. Eight hundred million
dollars went up In cigarette smoke.
Cigars burned up $50. 1000. 900. Jewelry
cost $500, 100000. A round billion dol
lars disappeared down the Great Amer
lean aesophagus In the form OF candy.
Pianos, organs and monographs enter
tnined the people to the tune OF $780,
100000. Automobiles cost 1000 O0,-
900.
Issuance of treasury certificates of
Indebtedness to the amount of at lenst
s250,000 for the purpose OF facilitating
Toms to farmers was advocated to-
day by George r. Hampton, managing
director OF the Farmers National
Council, who said he had written 70
President Wilson seeking his co-opera-
ton.
Sweeping investigation Of the con
duct of marines In Haiti. with refer
ence to charges Of illegal killings, is
ordered In Secretary Daniels precept