The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-30
NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPH HIS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
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 Police Captain Harry Phoenix was shot and killed, and Sergt. S. c. Hous- ton seriously wounded in Fl Paso, Tex. One of two Mexicans whom the of .dcers stopped to question as suspici- ous characters did the shooting. The tragedy occurred in East Fl PasO on a well lighted suburban business street.
 A bandit who held up E. F. Smith, cashier of the First State Bank of St. Joe, Idaho, forced Smith to give him S3,992 and escaped to the hills afoot after locking the cashier in the vault. The man, who was unmasked, had the appearance of a woodsman, according to Smith, who released himself with a screwdriver. Officers are in pursuit
 Inability to disguise his voice when he ordered four clerks of the Pacific Oil & Lead Company of San Francisco to throw up their hands resulted in the capture of Paul Towney, former em- ploye of the company, as the bandit who held up and robbed the cashiers office of a pay roll amounting to $2,- 6e5. Towney confessed and the loot was recovered.
 The United States has had bad case of nerves and its people should know that the country is simply pass ing through a period of recuperatiOn from a period of gross mistakes and almost indecent things in business" Secretary J. H. Tregoe of the National Association of Credit Men declared in a statement in San Francisco prelim- mary to the opening of the twenty sixth annual convention of the organ ization.
 A total of fifty-one suits to recover "strike benefits" paid out during the general strike in Tacoma, Wash, in 1919 has been filed in a Justices Court. The suits were entered by the boilermakers, iron ship builders and helpers, local No. 568, and demand re payment of money advanced to union members on strike more than two years ago. The informations filed by the union allege that money advanced to destitute workmen was in the form of temporary loans, and was not to be considered as a strike benefit gift. WASHINGTON
 Cyrus E. Wood of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has been selected by President Harding as ambassador to Spain, succeeding Joseph E. Willard.
 An estate tax is an allowable de frO,,o fvooy,ao Of tate in computing net income, the Su- preme Court ruled. The court af- firmed a decision of the Court of Claims in the case brought by execu- tors of the Alan H. Woodward estate, in Alabama, which held that the gov ernment erred in refusing to approve such a deduction from that estates in- come in 1918.
 Plans to increase acreage used for military purposes in the Hawaiian isl ands were approved by Secretary Weeks at a conference with Chairman Kahn of the House military commit tee. MT. Kahn said he regarded the military posts in Hawaii as the "most important in the system of national defense" It is proposed to add about 1000 acres to the military res ervations and make possible the train ing of soldiers by divisions.
 Harris Lipschitz, an American citi- zen, has been murdered in Haiti, ac- cording to advices received at the of flee of Representative Siegel in Wash ipofOo TiDcobi+z vroc oyooorod fin b,,o; ness on the island, it was said. Inves- tigation has been ordered by Major General Lejeune, commandant of the marine corps.
 The Porter peace resolution has been sent to conference by the Senate for adjustment of the differences be- tween that measure and the Knox reso- lution adopted recently by the Senate The Senate voted formally to disagree with the amendment of the House, which struck out the Knox draft and substituted the Porter draft
 Strong Democratic opposition to Senate investigation of the fighting in the Mingo county, West Virginia, coal fields developed in the Senate, and Senator Johnson's resolution proposing an inquiry went over. Senator Myers, Democrat, Montana, led the fight, de claring the matter was purely a state one. Congress has gone mad-it has a perfect uania-for Investigating and regulating everything under the sun" |" said he.