The Colorado statesman., 1922-01-21

died at Brookfield, No, of bullet
wounds incurred in fight with auto
mobile thieves. The thieves abandoned
one automobile and escaped in the
marshals car.
San Francisco was awarded the 1922
convention of the American Bar Asso-
citation by the executive committee of
that organization in session at Tampa,
Fla. The convention will be held dur
ing the week beginning Aug. 6.
Arthur o. Meininger, cashier of the
Night and Day Bank of st. Louis, who
disappeared after the closing of the
bank by the state bank examiner, who
discovered a shortage of $754,OO0, was
arrested in Belleville, Ill. He was re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
Cutting two valuable spruce trees on
the property of Magnus Swenson, pres
ident of the Norweglan-American
steamship line, to decorate for
Christmas dance, cost members of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity of Madison,
Wis, $3.50, when settlement was made.
At a special meeting of the State
Board of Examiners at Helena, Mont,
it was announced that the record book
containing the minutes of the board
during the years 1918, 1919 and 1920
had strangely disappeared from the
vaults In the office of Clerk A. f. Nc
Partridge.
Fifty pounds of brass passed a gold
test applied by John Miller, assayer
and pawpbroker at st. Louis, and was
bought by him for $1,000, according to
his report to police. Miller said the
chemicals he used evidently had been
tampered with. Two men asked $13,-
600 for the metal, he said.
Mont Berg, former banker of Loyal
ton, Quincy and Greenville, Calf,
charged with embezzlement of funds of
the proposed First National Bank of
Quincy, pleaded guilty in Superior
Court and was sentenced to from one
TO ten years in San Quentin penite-
tiary He was arrested recently at
Terrell, Texas.
The charred body of an unidentified
man was found by veteran of the
Soldiers Home in a ravine near n rail
road south of the home at Leaven-
worth, Kan. County authorities be-
lieve the man was murdered. a bank
book bearing the name of Walter Lar
sen and issued by the State Bank of
Omaha, was found on the body.
WASHINGTON
The House has passed bill author
izing the President to turn over sur
plus army medical supplies not to ex-
ceed $4,0000G0 in value to the Amer
lean relief organizations at work in
Russia. The Senate passed a similar
measure.
A tour unique in the history of the
United States army will be undertake
en- in the course of the next few days
when Capt. John II. Axton, chief of
chaplains, will visit many posts and
hold conferences with chaplains of the
regular army, the officers reserve
corps and the National Guard. The
itinerary will cover approximately
10000 miles.
Lew Wallace, Jr., of Crawfordville,
Ind, was appointed by Secretary Mel
lon 20 be director OF savings in the
Treasury Department. He is a grand
son of the late General Lew Wallace,
and himself served in the World War
as captain of artillery.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ap-
peared before the House ways and
means committee to urge favorable ac-
ton on the resolution to amend the
constitution so as to prohibit the issu-
ance of tax exempt securities by state,
city and county governments.
President Harding by executive or
der has removed from civil service re-
quirements the office of deputy COM
missioner of internal revenue, it was
said at the TREASURY. There are five
deputy commissioners, each office pay
ing a salary of $4,000 year.
A tax of 3 cents a gallon on gaso-
line, to be paid by the producer, the
proceeds of which would be used for
soldiers bonus, is proposed in bill
introduced by Representative Bacha-
rach, New Jersey, Republican. The
tax, he estimated, would yield from
S24O, 200, 600 to $250,000,O00 annually
sufficient revenue, he said, to meet
cash payments to former service men.
The American government has noti-
fled Cuba that she may not negotiate
a loan of S5,oOo,000 in the United
States, but that the conclusion of the
further loan of $5o,O00,0o0, suggested
by Cuba, will depend upon the ability
of the island authorities to reduce fur
ther the Cuban budget, it was said at
the State Department.
Trade between the United States
and Latin-America increased by 100
per cent in value during 1921, as com
pared with 1913, the last normal pre-
war year, according to summary is
sued by the Commerce Department.