The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-23

fered by the Los Angeles speedway
management TO the first aviator max
ing a nonstop flight from Los Angeles
to the Atlantic coast.
Charles r. Robinson, Is, fireman on
the G. II. & s. A. train on which VIII
liam Bohlman, engineer, was myster-
Iously killed July near Sanderson,
Texas, committed suicide at El Paso.
Fire destroyed the refinery OF the
CalifOrnia-Fresno OIL Company at
Fresno, Calf, together with ten tanks
containing $4,000 gallons Of fuel oil,
causing damage estimated at between
s250OOO and 100000. A distillate ex-
plosion started the fire.
Home preserved fish affected with
botulinus germs caused the death OF
Mrs. Ida Lemens of San Jacinto at
the county hospital at Riverside, Calf,
according to health authorities. Sew
enty-five chickens out of flock of 200
10 which contents of the can were
thrown, also died.
In spite of prohibition, the number
of criminal cases involving alleged in
toxlcation on the part of automobile
OTlNCTh 10 oeAh a
by three Superior Court judges at Los
Angeles, announcing that hereafter
persons convicted of driving car
while intoxicated would be given jail
sentences instead of fines.
Bewteen forty and fifty employees of
the Utah Gas and Coke Company at
Salt Lake City, left their places upon
the expiration of the agreement with
the company. The company offered
the men a 20 per cent wage reduction
and the men voted to accept 10 per
cent wage decrease. This the com
pany refused and as a result the men
walked out The places of all the men
leaving were Immediately filled.
Mrs. Paul Tacina shot and killed
Fred Beckwich, beet tender, near
Mlnatare, Neb., she admitted, when she
saw that Beckwich was getting the bet
ter of an argument with her husband
over some hay, according to dispatch
from Mlnatare. Beckwlch had been
drinking intoxicating liquor before he
came to the farm where Tacina was
employed, according to Mrs. Tacina,
who said she fired four times at him
with a rifle.
WASHINGTON
The Dial bill, to require federal
Judges to devote their entire time TO
court duties, failed to get Senate con-
sideration on tie vote Of 20 to %,
Passage of the bill would prevent
Judge X. M. Landis from officiating
both as federal Judge and big league
baseball arbiter.
Estimates of the amount of wheat
sown in seventeen countries for which
statistics are available show an acre
age of 151 100000 acres this year,
against 155,OO0,O00 last year, accord
ing to summary of foreign crop
prospects made public by the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. The estimates
were based upon reports from Bel
gium, Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania,
Czecho- -Slovakia, Algeria, Morocco,
Spain, France, England. Italy, Luxem-
burg, Norway, Tunls, Canada, India
and the United States.
By a vote of ten to five the House
postoffice committee voted to lay on
the table the resolution OF Represen-
tative Hardy OF Colorado to postpone
increase in second-class rates. ''There
is NO more hope Of obtaining this leg
,slntion," said Hardy, %GYg'
Idle freight cars on the railroads Of
the United States numbered 3oe,6 on
July s, a decrease of 1926 from the
previous week, according to state
ment by the American Railway Asso-
citation. A brisk demand for box cars
10 meet grain car shortages in the
West reduced the surplus in that class
to 145, ,112, which was l,1Se fewer than
the excess of box cars at the end of
the preceding week.
The administration has opened nego-
tiations for the resumption of diplo-
matte relations with Germany, it has
been announced at the White House
AT the direction of the administrations
Ellis Loring Dresel, American commits
sioner in Berlin. has been carrying on
informal discussions with the German
foreign office looking toward forma
negotiations for the resumption o1
peace-time relations with the German
nation.
The House agreed to Senate
amendment to the bill authorizing al
increase from s15,ooo,ooo to $4,000,
900 in the bonded Indebtedness of the
Philippines. The amendment woult
permit the insular government to Is
sue temporary certificates of indebted
ness to the extent of $20,oO0,OOO. Th'
cresent maximum is S10000,000.
Two Chinese were shot and killed oi
a truck farm mile and one-quarte
south of Phoenix under circumstance
which attaches Of the sheriff's offic'
say point to a struggle between tw'