, 1920-04-22
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STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANps.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

WESTERN.
Lieut.. d. NJ. HanselI and Sergt. w.
T. Maxwell, both of the Goth Aero
squadron, were instantly killed when
their %aeroplane fell at Sanderson, Tex.
Both were on border patrol duty.
Percy T. Morgan, trustee of Stan
ford University and a director in a
San Francisco bank, shot n killed
himself at his home at Los Altos, be-
cause of dependency over i'll health.
Fire of undetermined origin at Kan
Sas City destroyed the garage n
barn of the City Ice Company, burr
ing to death 11S horses and three mo-
tor trucks and resulting in damage
estimated at 100000.
Mr.. and Mrs. George n. Searle have
been acquitted of charges of killing
Mrs. Hilda Neamy, whose body was
found in the furnace of her home in
Lead, S. D., last January. Mrs. Neamy
was Mrs. Searle's mother.
The Elk Hills, Kern county, Calf,
oil district are reported to be covered
with army worms, which are making
their way towards the alfalfa INT
grain fields OF the Buena Vista Lake
section. Efforts are being made to pre-
vent their further progress.
Arizona had its first hanging since
capital punishment was restored to the
state statutes by an election in 1918.
Simplicio Torres was hanged at the
state prison in Florence after having
been convicted or a charge of having
murdered Victor L. Melick, a peace Of
ficer of Williams, Ariz., May 1, 1919.
Hundreds of head of cattle have been
rushed to the border by both Ameri-
can and Mexican owners of ranches
in northern Sonora and many of them
already have been crossed into the
United States. Efforts will be made
to place the livestock on grazing
ground on this side of the inc until
the situation in Sonora is stabilized.
Residents of Sitka SAY that the
herds of seal migrating northward to-
ward Boring sea this spring are great
err than they have seen in years and
that the migration is three weeks
ahead of it's usual time. Countless
thousands of the seal have been pass
ing Sitka. Government officials say
the great size of the migratory herd
is evidence it pays to protect.
Edna P%urviance, former leading
woman for Charlie Chaplin, was seri-
ously injured when the automobile in
which she was riding "a str Ick by
another machine at Los Angeles. Miss
Purviance was the only person in
jured. She sustained a deep lacera-
ton on the right side of her face, ex-
tending from the nose to the cheek.
The injury, it is said, may end her ca
reer as a screen star.
WASHINGTON.
II. G. Leffingwell, assistant secretary
of the treasury, has resigned and his
resignation has been accepted by Pres
ident Wilson.
House leaders are planning three-day
recesses, beginning about May Is, I'M
der gentlemen's agreement that no bus
mess will be transacted until the Sem
ate is ready to recess for the summer.
This is expected to be early in June
and under present plans the recess will
continue until Sept. 1
Government financial aid for COM
panies purchasing shipping board YES
sells to enable them to compete uc-
c~essfully with foreign lines was rec
commended by business men and mem
bers of Congress. who advised with
the board on methods of transferring
into private hands the government
owned merchant marine.
Enactment of the S482, 500, 900 post
office appropriation bill, the largest
amount ever granted for the mail serv-
Ice, was completed by Congress when
the House adopted the conference re-
port and sent the measure to the Pres
ident. The bill provided $1,250,000 for
a transcontinental air mail route be-
tween New York and San Francisco,
via Chicago and Omaha, next July 1.
A bill to re-enact the law imposing
a tax of 80 per cent on excess war
profits has been introduced by Rep
resentative johnson, Republican, South
Dakota, as a means Of raising rev.
enue for a soldier bonus. There also
would be a levy on the privilege of
issuing stock dividends. Thu bill would
be made applicable to profits of 1919,
1920 and 1921, and Mr.. Johnson fig
ured 1t would raise $ 1,0OO.OO0. 600.
A cash bonus of 81 for each days
service would be given to approx
mately 100000 of the 4,S0O,OOO men
in the army, navy and marine corps
during the var under a plan that has
been approved by the bonus subcom-
mittee of the House Ways and Means
Committee.
All German cargo vessels taken over
by the government have been disposed
of to private interests, the weekly
sales report of the Shipping Board,
mazda nuhlic. shows During tho waak