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Police Captain Harry Phoenix was
shot and killed, and Sergt. s. G. Hous-
ton seriously wounded in FL Paso, Tex.
One of two Mexicans whom the of
ficers stopped TO question as suspici-
Gus characters did the shooting. The
tragedy occurred in East FL Paso on a
well lighted suburban business street.
bandit who held up Il. F. Smith,
cashier of the First State Bank of St
Joe. Idaho, forced Smith to give him
S3992 and escaped to the hills afoot
after locking the cashier in the vault.
The man, who was unmasked, had the
appearance of woodsman, according
to Smith, who released himself with
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 en-
plOye of the company, as the bandit
who held up and robbed the cashiers
office of a pay roll amounting to 81
865. Towney confessed and the loot
was recovered.
The United States has had bad
case of nerves anu its people should
know that the country is simply pass
ing through period of recuperation
from a period of gross mistakes and
almost indecent things In business"
Secretary ]. II. Tregoe of the National
Association of Credit Men declared in
cfo tor IN Lrran
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 Justices
Court. The suits were entered by the
boiermakers. iron ship builders and
helpers, local No. 56S and demand re-
, payment of money advanced to union
members on strike more than two
years ago. The informations filed by
she union allege that money advanced
destitute workmen was in the form
= 81 temporary loans, and was not to be
considered as strike benefit gift
WASHINGTON
Cyrus f. 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.
duction" from the income of an es-
tate in computing net income, the Su-
preme Court ruled. The court af
Claims in the case brought by execu
tors of the Alan Fl. 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 fol
military purposes In the Hawaiian isl
ands were approved by Secretary
Weeks at a conference with Chairman
Kahn of the House military commit
tee Mr. Kahn said he regarded the
military posts in Hawaii as the "mosi
important in the system of national
defense" 1t is proposed to ado
about LOCO 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
ington. Lipschitz was engaged in busi
ness on the island, it was said Inves
tigation has been ordered by Majol
General Leieune, commandant of tn,
marine corps
The Porter peace resolution ha:
been sent to conference by the Senat,
for adjustment of the differences be
tween that measure and the Knox reso
luton adopted recently by the Senate
The Senate voted formally to disagree
with the amendment of the House
which struck out the Knox draft ant
substituted the Porter draft.
Strong Democratic opposition tc
Senate investigation of the fighting il
the Mingo county, West Virginia, Goa
fields developed in the Senate, ant
Senator Johnson's resolution proposing
an inquiry went over. Senator Myers
Democrat, Montana, led the fight, de
cIaring the matter was purely a state
one. Congress has gone mad-it has
a perfect mania-for investigating ant
regulating everything under the sum-
said he.
The Sims case has kicked up fine
row in Congress. Messages from in
dignant members of Irish societies an(
others have been received by congress
men. Not all of them are of the SAINT
tenor - the majority demand thai
prompt punishment be meted out tC
the loquacious officer, but there are
many indorsing the sentiments he ex
pressed and praising him for his can
dor and outspollenness.
Governor Cox of Massachusetts de
clined to take action toward reinstate'
ment of Boston policemen. who went
out on strike in September 1919.