Cheyenne record., 1920-02-19
CONDENSATION .
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATGsr IMPORTANT Dis
pATcHGs PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PRooREss OF
EvENTs IN OUR OWN AND
FoREIoN LANDS.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Tangled ropes prevented q pack"
parachute from opening and caused
Mrs. Ethel Broadwick to fall 1900 feet
10 her death near Los Angeles.
Miss Ruth Searcy Of Durango, Colo,
has been elected president Of the Or
ganized Women of Stanford Univer-
eity. The position carries with 1t the
office of chairman Of the women's con-
ference, the student disciplinary body
of the university.
Idaho's Legislature, called together
by Governor Davis for that special
purpose, ratified the suffrage amend
ment to the national constitution by
large majority In both Houses. In the
Senate the vote was 20 to 8. with six
members absent or not voting.
Miss Jessie L. Spitz and Joe Parzen
were arrested by the police in Los An
geles, who charged that Miss Spitz was
wanted in Cleveland, Ohio, for the al
legged circulation Of more than $4,000
in worthless checks, and for similar
transactions in the amount Of about
5000.
Warning that II vice conditions in Ell
Paso are not eliminated by the citi-
zens themselves, the United States
army will have to do 1t has been given
by Maj Gen. Robert L. Howe, COM
mandcr of the Ell Paso military dis.
trict, in q speech before the Ell PasO
Ad Club.
Nationwide search for 12-year-old
Paul Hopping Of Batavia. Ohio, ended
when his father, Charles Hopping, was
notified that the boy had been found
in Los Angeles, Calf, and that Apollo
Belvedere Murphy, former United
States marine, who, It is alleged, en-
ticed the boy from home, is under ar
rest.
Four bandits robbed the Arno hotel
at San Francisco Of $500 and escaped
after an exciting chase through the
mission district, in which Patrolman
James Kirby fired more than twenty
shots at the quartet MS they sped
away in an automobile. Abandoning
their car, they escaped by fleeing In
taken from Henry ROdts, manager Of
the hotel.
Jackson Barnett Of Muskogee, Okla,
rsputed to be the richest Indian in the
world, has given $1.5OO.OOO to charity,
and the donations have been approved
by federal officials. Most of the insti-
kutions benefiting are in Oklahoma. An
Sven million dollars Of his gift will be
hsed in the establishment and mainten-
hnce Of a hospital at Henryetta, OKLA,
which will be open exclusively to those
pf Indian blood.
WASHINGTON
Poland needs 100000 tons of Amer
lean grain to avert starvation until her
harvests next September, according to
Stanilas J. ArnOt, newly arrived in
New York from Warsaw, to act as
plenipotentiary of the Polish govern
ment In food matters.
Robert Underwood johnson Of New
York, author and editor and one Of the
founders Of the League to Enforce
Peace, has been selected by President
Wilson as ambassador to Rome to sue
ceed Thomas Nelson Page Of Virginia,
who resigned several months ago.
Frank L. Polk, under-secretary Of
state, has been made secretary I'D in
terim to act until President Wilson ap-
points successor to Robert Lansing,
who resigned.
More liberal financial cooperation
by the federal government In road
building in Western states where large
areas Of public lands are located than
in other states where the government
controls no under developed territory
was advocated by Secretary Meredith,
speaking before highway representa-
tives from Western states. Appropria-
ton of $1OO,OOO,OOO annually for four
years was suggested.
Extension Of the air mail service to
include distribution Of newspapers and
second-class matter Is practical, Brig.
Gen. william Mitchell of the army air
service told the Senate postoffice COM
mittee. He urged retention of the aer-
oplane mail service and declared 1t
great aid to military preparedness In
aircraft development. Mail could be
delivered between New York and San
Francisco on a regular thirty-six-hOur
schedule, he said. Actual flying time
could be reduced to twenty-five hours
much Of the time.
President Wilson has revoked the
wartime emergency regulation permit
ting foreign-born ships officers to hold
licenses for American vessels, excep-
tion being made in the case Of those
becoming American citizens. A period
Of three years and three months grace
IL allowed to complete naturalization.
A hil1 nv Senator Fernall ReDubli.