, 1920-02-19

Tangled ropes prevented a pack"
parachute from opening and caused
Mrs. Ethel Broadwick to fall 1000 feet
to her death near Los Angeles.
Ratification of the woman suffrage
amendment to the federal constitution
by a special session of the Arizona
Legislature has been completed. Both
branches made 1t unanimous. Arizona
is the thirty-first state to ratify the
amendment.
Miss Ruth Searcy of Durango, Colo,
has been elected president of The Or
ganized Women of Stanford Univer-
sity. The position carries with 1t the
office of chairman of the wOmen's con-
ference, the student disciplinary body
of the university.
A distinguished service medal was
conferred on D.. G. Jackling, copper
magnate and head of the bureau of
explosives during the war, at San
Francisco by L!eu.. Gen. Hunter Lig-
gett, commanding the western depart
ment of the army.
Idaho's Legislature, called together
by Governor Davis for that special
purpose, ratified the suffrage amend
ment to the national constitution by n
large majority in both Houses. In the
senate the vote was 20 to 6, 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
---l k.o., ~ ,.~,.o tI,ny en- nnl
in worthless checks, and for similar
transactions in the amount of about
$4,000.
Warming that If vice conditions in Ell
Paso are not eliminated by the citi-
zens themselves, the United States
army will have to do it has been given
by Maj. Gen. Robert l.. Howe, COM
mander OF the Ell Paso military dis
trict, in a speech before the Ell Paso
Ad Club.
Retail druggists are take advant-
x of the influenza epidemic to
charge exorbitant prices for whisky
prescribed by physicians, selling 1t for
$25 to $50 a gallon, according to re-
ports which Justus s.. Wardell, collec-
tor of internal revenue at San Fran
cisco, said were reaching him.
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 as they sped
away in an automobile. Abandoning
their car, they escaped by fleeing in
different directions. The money was
taken from Henry Rodts, manager of
the hotel.
WASHINGTON
Completing the task of mailing out
December checks totalling $23, 562 ,420,
the bureau of wal risk insurance an
nounced that issuance of compensa-
ton checks to disabled former service
men had been placed on a current
basis. The December checks, which
averaged $26S.93 per recipient, con
tanned retroactive adjustments due to
the Sweet law raising the cOmpensa-
tion rate.
A bill by Senator Fernall, Republi-
can, of Maine, abolishing the housing
corporation and transferring its af-
fairs to the Treasury Department on
June 80 next, has been passed by the
Senate.
President Wilson is seriously con
sidering the appointment of former
Senator John F. ShafrOth of Colorado
to succeed Franklin X. Lane as secre-
tary of the Interior, according to re-
ports in political circles.
The mortality rate due to the influ-
enza epidemic this year was about
half of that in 1918, said a statement
from Washington by the public health
service, announcing that the present
epidemic apparently had reached its
peak.
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 und~er-developed territory
was advocated by Secretary Meredith,
speaking before highway representa-
tives from Western states. Appropria-
ton of S1OO,O 00, 900 annually for four
years was suggested.
Telegraphic orders have been sent
by the Department of Agriculture pro-
hibiting sale of canned olives from
certain lots which department inspec-
tors believe have cause recent deaths
in various cities. The tracing of these
shipments from factories to whole
salers and retailers is being continued,
and embargoes will be placed as fast
rs suspected lots are located.
Frank L. Polk, under-secretary of
state, has been made secretary ad in
term to act until President Wilson APP
points a successor to Robert Lansing,