Gilpin observer., 1920-11-25

Western Newspaper Union News servssa.
WESTERN
Two flying cadets, Slgmund Szyman-
ski Of San Antonio and James A.
Turney Of Berkeley, CAL, were killed
when their plane crashed at Kelly
Field No. 2, near San Antonio, Texas.
The ship caught fire and was de-
stroyed.
Resolutions protesting against in
reference with importation of Mex
lean labor to work on the cotton
lands of the Southwest were ap-
proved at Los Angeles at meeting
of the International Cotton League
of the West.
The Wilson Telephone Company at
Topeka asked permission of the In
dustrial Court at Topeka to lower
rates on business phones from $3.50 to
So per month. This Is the first time
any utility concern has asked this
court for permission to decrease its
service charges.
The United States battleships, Mis-
sissippi, New York, Arkansas, Wyo-
ming and Texas, have sailed for San
Francisco waters, where they will Join
the flagship, New Mexico, for battle
practice. The repair ship, Vestal, sew
eral destrOyers, mine sweepers and
small craft accompanied the dread
n0ughts.
Attaches Of the district attorneys
office at Los Angeles plan a nation
wide search for Mrs. Sarah Devlin,
former maid in the residence of Jacob
G. Denton, for whose murder Mrs.
Louise II. Peete is to be tried in Janu-
AIRY. No trace has been found of Mrs.
Devlin since the day Denton's body
was discovered in the basement crypt
of his house, officers said
Charles f. Vandewater Republican
cOngressman-elect from the Ninth Call
fOrnia District, and his secretary were
killed twenty miles east of Los An
geles in an automobile wreck while
they were returning from meeting
celebrating Mr.. Vandewater's election.
According 20 reports to the police of
Pomona, where the meeting had been
held. the Vandewater automobile
roadside with unlighted lamps.
WASHINGTON
The army tank corps has suffered
from many designations and few re-
enlistments because soldiers trained
In this arm of the service find 1t easy
to obtain lucrative employment in civil
life, says the annual report of Brig.
Gen. s. d. Rockenbach, chief of the
corps. Although the corps possessed
more than 800 tanks when it left
France. all were in poor repair and
none ready for battle.
Army and society circles are buzz
xing with excitement over the case Of
Capt. Beverly Chew and Mrs. Chew,
who have been arrested OH charge
OF having stolen $4,000 worth of cloth
ing. linen and other articles from a
furnished apartment they rented in a
fashionable apartment house In Wash.
ington. Friends Of Captain Chew, who
claims to have been gassed and shell
shocked in the war. declared the Of.
flcer and his wife will prove their In
nocence. Both were released on $500
bond.
Unless immediate financial relief is
afforded the New England railroads,
"all or most of them will very short
ly be driven into recelverships," the
Interstate commerce commission has
been notified by Charles f. Choate,
Jr.. and Wilbur La Roe, Jr., counsel
FOR the lines.
Investigation by the Department of
Justice Into an alleged "bribe" In con-
nectlon with which Il. w. Boiling,
brother-in-law of President Wilson,
was mentioned In the shipping board
Investigation hearing In New York, has
disclosed that nothing discriminating
against Boiling could be found, Rear
Admiral Benson, chairman Of the
board, declared.
Despite the loss Of seventy.four
members of the country's 81, ,0OO, 600 q
year Income class, the taxable income
Of the United States increased In 191t
BY over e2,272. 100000, as compared
with 1917. according to the income
statistics issued by the bureau OF in
ternai revenue. Income reported fol
iUio utnouhteu u @lo,1<f,Oob,oo,
sgainst about $18,7O0, 100000 in 1917
though 14l persons filed returns foi
incomes OF s1,OO00OO or over In 1911
and only sixty-seven In 1918.
Determination Of the Washington
prohibition enforcement officials (,
stop fragrant violations OF the Eight
eenth amendment has resulted II
their sending to Miami, Fla, n spe
clally trained group of prohibition
sleuths who have been instructed I,
stop the traffic and get the men hlghe
up. MIami's proximity to Bimini, tn,
Iltfla Rahnma Island nnly forty milnl