The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-31
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
 Mrs. R. L. Brittan, proprietor of a general store at Soap lake, Wash, re- gently identified Cecile Lenighen, em- ployed by local hotel, as the son who was kidnapped from her in the Blue mountains, near Walla Walla, Wash, sixteen years ago.
 William s. Hart, known to movie fans as Big Bill, hero of many wild West" screen pictures, and his wife, formerly Miss Winifred WestOver, have separated and divorce proceed ings are in contemplation on the part of the wife, it has been reported.
 w. R. Bean, who arrived at Pasade- na, Calif., recently, from Carnegie, Pa, shot and killed his wife, Aliene, and then committed suicide, leaving several notes of explanation. The two bodies were found In a locked bath room in the home of Mrs. Beans sis ter.
 Confronted by the first airplane theft in this country's annals when J. c. Johnson discovered someone had flown his plane away, officers at San MateO, Calif., resorted to the radio as a means of capturing the thief, broad casting a description of the stolen plane.
 Sam Protien, the 98-year-old police man whose love affair with 64-year- old former circus rider brought him to public attention recently, died in Butte a few days ago. He was born at Bar negat, N. J., and claimed to have been a body guard for President Lincoln during the war.
 The Intermediate kate Association, composed of representatives of cham bers of commerce and trade bodies in eight western states, decided to at once inaugurate a vigorous campaign to have the present Congress enact an absolute short and long haul law. Members of the association meeting at Salt Lake City declined to take any part in the discussion of the proposed legislation, which would place the in- ternatiOnal steamship carriers under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Com merce Commission for rate fixing pur- poses.
 The American Bar Association con- ventiOn closed recently in San Fran cisco with a dinner at which John w. Davis of West Virginia, former ann bassadOr to Great Britain, who was elected president of the association, was welcomed to his new office. Other speakers were Chief Justice Taft, Lord Thomas Shaw, M. Henri Aubepin and J. B. M. Baxter, representing the Brit ish, French and Canadian bars, and Cornelius Cole, centenarian who once represented California in the United States Senate.
 WASHINGTON
 Secretary Hoover a few days ago celebrated his 18th birthday. Com merce Department officials declared the only notice he took of the anniver- sary was to be "busier than ever."
 Guy Marks of Columbus, Ohio, was killed and G. F. Martin of San An tonic, Texas, was wounded by ban dits near Mapimi, in the state of Du- rango, Mexico, recently, according to a dispatch to the State Department from Consul Donaldson at TorreOn.
 George Currey, former governor of New Mexico, was appointed by Presi- dent Harding to be the American con- missioner on the United States Mexico international boundary commission.
 Announcement that an agreement be- tween the United States and Germany providing for the determination of the amount of claims against Germany was signed in Berlin was made by the State Department. The agreement provides for a claims commission to be composed of two commissioners and an umpire.
 Formal announcement that recent oil land decisions of the Mexican Su- preme Court do not, in the opinion of officials at Washington, effectively protect the rights of American land owners, was made recently in a state ment issued by the State Department. The five court opinions upon which some Mexican officials have based a hope of recognition for the Obregon regime, were said in a statement to apparently establish a precedent pro- tecting improved oil lands from con- fiscatiOn, without furnishing the same guarantee for land in which mining operations had not been actually be-