The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-09-01
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of New York, as director of the bu-
reau of investigation of the depart
ment of justice has been announced
by Attorney General Daugherty. Mr..
Burns succeeds William j. Flynn.
10000
At standstill for the last five
years, the railroads of the country
have now turned the corner and
should show aggregate net earnings
of $5OO,OOO,OOO for 1921, Thomas De
Witt Cuyler, chairman of the Associa-
ton of Railway Executives, says.
10000
a Japanese envoy has been sent to
Vladivostok to work out an agreement
which would include as one of its pro-
visions the withdrawal of the Japan
csc army for that part of Siberia.
10000
All the American prisoners are now
out of Russia, say advices received by
the London headquarters of the Rus
sian relief organization from Riga.
10000
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, million
aire draft dodger, has disappeared
from his home in Eberbach, Baden,
Germany. 1t is believed there that
Bergdoll has fled the country.
10000
Michigan state police are making
raids to check the. flow of Canadian
beer and liquor across the Detroit
river from Windsor. One raid Melted
$500 pints of beer and ale in addi-
ton to a quantity of home brew.
10000
Receivers in equity have been APP
pointed for McClure's Magazine, Inc,
on complaint of Marcus 3. Behrman,
who claims SIP, 1856 due on notes. The
complaint states the company's liabil-
titles exceeded $780, 600 and that the
assets were in excess of this amount
but that the company was short of
funds for expenses.
10000
J. S. Crowell, former owner of the
CrowelI Publishing Co., Springfield,
Ohio, publisher of the Woman's Home
Companion and Farm and Fireside,
died in a Cincinnati hospital after be-
ing i'll of cancer for many months.
10000
The federal highway bill, intro
duced in the senate by Senator Town
send of Michigan, would have been
passed by that body last week had not
Senator Pomerene of Ohio objected
to its disposal without further con-
sideration.
Formal acceptance by the British
government of the invitation to par
ticipate in the Washington conference
on limitation of armament has been
received by Secretary of State
Hughes.
A masked mob forced its way to
the University hospital at Augusta,
Ga, took the body of Walter Smalley,
colored, who ran amuck and killed
two white men and injured four
others, and carrying it beyond the
city limits, burned it to a crisp.
10000
Demand for open sessions of the
coming conference on disarmament
and Far Eastern problems is growing
among both Republican AMI Demo
cratic senators.
10000
A steel theft ring, whose operations
extend into four states, was discover
ed in Detroit with the arrest there of
seven men. The ring is charged
with stealing metals valued at several
hundred thousand dollars from De-
troit and Cleveland steel concerns and
selling them in competition with the
firms from which they were stolen.
10000
University of Pennsylvania board
of trustees has made it possible fol
Major General Leonard Wood to be
come governor general of the Philip
pine islands for one year by granting
him leave of absence from scholastic
duties until September l, 1922.
10000
Captain William L. Curry Of To
ronto, Ont, six other men and foul
women were captured by Cleveland
police in a raid on large steam yachi
believed to be used by a whisky rims
running booze TO this country from
Canada.
10000
German-American peace negotla
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