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Two flying cadets. Sigmund 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
proved at Los Angeles at meeting
of the International Cotton League
of tho 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
81 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-
sisslppi, New York, Arkansas, Wyo-
ming and Texas, have sailed for San
Francisco waters, where they will Join
practice. The repair ship. vestal, sew
eral destroyers, mine sweepers and
small craft accompanied the dread
noughts.
Attaches of the district attorneys
office at Los Angeles plan nation
wide search for Mrs. Sarah Devlin,
former maid In the residence of Jacob
O. Denton, for whose murder Mrs
Louise r. Peete is to be tried in Janu-
ary. 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 q meeting
celebrating Mr.. Vandewater's election
According to reports to the police OF
Pomona, where the meeting had been
he'll d, the Vandewater automobile
crashed into trailer standing by the
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 eas,
to obtain lucrative employment In civi
life, says the annual report of Brig
Gen. S. d. Rockenbach, chief of the
corps. Although the corps possessed
more than 800 tanks when 1t lef
France, all were in poor repair ant
none ready for battle.
Army and society circles are buz
zIng with excitement over the case O
Capt Beverly Chew and Mrs. Chew
who have been arrested on a charg,
of having stolen $4,000 worth of cloth
ing, linen and other articles from
furnished apartment they rented in I
fashionable apartment house In Wash
ington Friends Of Captain Chew, VIII,
claims to have been gassed and shel
shocked In the war. declared the of
ficer and his wife will prove their in
nocence. Both were released on 81, 5OI
bond.
Unless immediate financial relief Il
afforded the New England railroads
"all or most of them will very short
ly be driven into receiverships," tn,
Interstate commerce commission hal
been notified by Charles f. Choate
Jr., and Wilbur La Roe, Jr., counse
for the lines.
Investigation by the Department o
Justice into an alleged "bribe" In con
nection with which II. w. Boiling
brother-in-law of President Wilson
was mentioned in the shipping boar,
investigation hearing In New York, hai
disclosed that nothing incriminatn,
against Boiling could be found, Rear
Admiral Benson, chairman of tn,
board, declared.
Despite the loss of seventy-fou
members of the country's 81, ,OOO, 900 1
year income class, the taxable lncom,
of the United States increased In 191,
by over s2,272, 100000. as compare,
with 1917, according to the income
statistics issued by the bureau of In
ternal revenue. Income reported 70
1918 amounted to S15,924, ,639, ,35'
against about S13,7OO,OOO 5000 in 1917
though 141 persons filed returns fo
incomes of s1,OO0,OO0 or over In 191,
and only sfxty-seven in 1913.
Determination of the Washington
prohibition enforcement officials t.
stop fragrant violations of the Eight
eenth amendment has resulted II
their sending to Miami, Fla, n spe
! cially trimmed prOuD of prOhIbItfoT
sleuths who have been instructed t,
stop the traffic and get the men higher
up. Miamis proximity to Bimini, the
little Bahama Island, only forty miles
AWAY. makes this port an advantageous