Williams news., 1921-07-08

1Q recognition O1 Cu6
 and skill displayed by this astute de
 tective in clearing up the Denton mys-
 tery, Mayor-e1ect George E. Crye has
 appointed Charles A. Jones chief of
 police of Los Angeles. Detective Jones
 has accepted the post ond succeeds
 Lyle Pendegast as chief.
 Ralph Groves, former California
 state prohibition director, has been
 sentenced to one year in the county
 jail; F. Ray Groves, his brother, and
 former secretary of the Democratic
 state central committee, was fined $2,-
 800, and George c. Groves, another
 brother, was fined $500 in the United
 States District Court of Los Angeles,
 following their pleas of guilty to con
 spiracy to violate the prohibition
 enforcement law.
 Gov. Charles R. Mahey of Utah, who
 has returned to Salt Lake from a trip
 to San Juan county, where he held a
 -'pow-wow' with Indians relative to
 clashes between Flutes and white set
 tiers recently, said the Indian spokes-
 men had agreed to observe the white
 mems laws, and would surrender for
 trial two members of the tribe, who
 were recently arrested and who eS
 capped from jail while being held on charges involving attacks on settlers.
 Word reached Eureka, Calif., that a Sixteen-fOOt octopus was killed at Samoa, Humboldt county, recently after it had seized in it's tentacleS g. year-old George Peterson, son of a Eureka tug captain. According to the 1 reports, the boy was standing in shal- | low water at the beach while two older | sisters were padding about in a boat. | When the octopus attacked the boy | kxf o1o %I,n i,-1c md fhoxy attacked the sea monster with their | oars.
 Two men have been arrested on manslaughter charges in connection with the death in San Francisco of Linn Lip Chung, Chinaman, from beating received after he had acci- dentally jostled against a party of men and women in a downtown street, the police declared The attack on Linn Lip Chung occurred after he had apologized and turned away from the party, the police said. He died at a hospital Of fractured skull and other injuries.
 WASHINGTON
 Establishment in New York of an international banking institution to be , known as 1.-The Bank of Nations" with $2,OOO,OOO,OOO capital, to act as the ifs { cal agent of the United States and such other governments might be I admitted as stockholders, is proposed $ in a bill introduced by Senator Hitch I cock, Democrat, Nebraska.
 Representative Hardy of Colorado. $ has introduced bill to postpone the in- ( crease in the rates of postage, effec- I tive July l, 1921, on publications en- f tered as second-class matter under t ela of Sl1h R nf 1 1 11O1 of the revenue act of 1917. The ( bill provides for an investigation of a postal costs and postal rates on pub c ncations entered as second class mat | ter. S
 Giving assurance to businessmen of the country that there will be no de O lay in the enactment of revised tax b law at this session of Congress Repre- t sentative Fordney of Michigan, chair h man of the House ways and means T committee has announced that hear n ings would be begun by the committee J soon after the middle of July. f
 Acceptance of German bonds as sub- stftutes for the obligations of Euro q 2ean nations debtor to the United O States is not at present contemplated n by the treasury, Secretary Mellon told V the Senate finance committee in urg- Il ing favorable action on the admins t tration bill to enable the refunding of ii the S11 ,OOO, ,OOO, ,OOO which Europe owes V the United States. il
 A billion dollar cut in government expenditures during the year begin D ing July l is the hope of the Harding Il administration. Congress has appro- a priated about $4,OOO, 900, 900 for the s year beginning July-1. By putting the D new federal budget into operation i'm A mediately instead of waiting year il as originally planned, President Hard c ing and Charles G. Dawes, budget di- W rector, hope to make a 25 per cent D saving. c
 The fight among the prohibition leaders over the supplementary en- IT forcement legislation ended when ts Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the An z tt-Saloon League, yielded to the advo- Q cates of a straight anti-prescription r; beer bill without any of the other u tightening up endorsements amend S. ments proposed by Representative Vol n stead
 Woodrow Wilson appeared in person c In the chamber of Chief Justice Me y Coy of the District of Columbia Su- a preme Court to be admitted to the rs practice of law In that court. k