, 1920-07-08
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 New. Service.
WESTERN

the DOT obtained by five bandits who
neld up the Great Northern State Bank
at st. Paul.
Ten persons were killed and nine
injured, probably fatally, when a truck
carrying a load of picnickers was
struck by a passenger train one mile
west of Huntingburg, Ind.
Passenger train No. 81 on the Great
Northern railroad, running between
Sioux Falls, s.. D., and st. Paul, Mimi,
was totally destroyed by fire near
Pipestone. Mimi, the seventy-five per
sons aboard escaping with only minor
injuries.
Governor LarraZOlo of New Mexico,
decided against the plea of Ebert w.
Blancett for executive clemency and
Blancett will be hanged on July 0.
Blancett soht and killed Clyde Ar.
mOur of Sioux City, Iowa, in Santa Fe
county in the fall of 1916.
Following a rejection of his proposal
of marriage, william +. Smith sho and
killed Miss Thelma Gutke, II years old,
at Douglas, AriZ. AS the girl fell Smith
turned the weapon on himself. A bull
let entered his heart and he fell dead
on the pavement beside his companion.
His home is in West Virginia.
Frank Hanson, a parachute jumper,
jumped 400 feet to his death from an
nirplane at Casper. Wyo.. when a de-
fective snap on his harness released
him from his parachute. A large
crowd was given n thrill as Aviator
Bert Cole attempted to dive his plane
beneath the man and break his fall.
Cole missed him.
Lieut.. Stanley NJ. Ames, commanding
the Ninety-four aero pursuit group at
Kelly field, is held by Mexican author
tiles at Matamoras, just across the Rio
Grande river from Brownsville, Tex,
according to reports at San Antonio.
Ames was forced to land on accOunt of
running out of gasoline. The landing
was made safely.
The Navajo Indian tribe in north
eastern Arizona numbers 1874, said t.
be the largest single tribe of Indians
remaining in the United States, ac-
cording to an announcement at the dis
trict census office, Phoenix. With this
enumeration completed, District Super
visor Sam Brander said his task was
finished and his office closed.
Detective William G%oodenbour was
Instantly killed in a pistol battle with
a bandit In the Fl. Marx clothing store
at Waterloo. Iowa, and the bandit was
killed by Officer William Wilson, who
rushed to the detectives assistance.
The bandit was attempting to cash an
American Express money order, stolen
In Bertha, MIMI, when the officer APP
peared on the scene.
WASHINGTON
Brig. Gems. ]. NJ. McAndrew, John
/. Pines, Henry II. Allen and David c..
Shanks have been given recess commits
sions as major generals in the regular
army by President Wilson, it has been
announced by Secretary Baker. Seven
major generals are yet to be appointed
under the army reorganization act.
Increased passport rates. authorized
under n bill passed at the end of last
session of Congress, providing for a
charge of 50 instead of 81, is now In
effect. Representative Porter of Penn
%sylvania, chairman of the House for
eign affairs committee, who drafted
the original measure, was the first
person to pay the increased rate.
That 81, 191, 100 was loaned to 204
farmers of the United States by the
Federal Land Banks on long time
first mortgages during the month
of May. 1920, is shown by n report re-
Gently made public by the Federal
Farm Loan Bureau. OF these the Fed
eral Land Bank of Omaha leads in the
amount of loans. This bank reported
S269,200. Loans closed by other banks
In May are as follows: st. Paul, $243,-
100; Berkeley, $40. 700; Wichita, &c.,
800; Spokane, $75,200; Springfield,
$5S.300; Baltimore, $4,000; Houston,
$3,4O0. On the last day of May there
were operating in the United States g.
9S3 farm loan associations and the to-
tai mortgage loans made by the FEEDER
al Land banks through these ~associa-
lions to 12.29S farm borrowers amount
ed to $347, 39O.941.
The War Department has availa-
BILE a quantity of condemned guns,
moxtars and hOwitzers for donation to
municipal corporations, posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic and Sol
diers' Monument associations, Col. A.
w. Maish, ordnance officer of the east
ern department has announced. Appli-
cations may be made to the office of
chief Of ordnance, War Department,
Washington.
The 1920 population Of Delaware is
222.013, an increase of 20,6S1 since
1910, OF 10.2 per cent, the census bu-
reau has announced / n Washington.