The Colorado statesman., 1922-05-06
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tional Bank of Boise, Idaho has been
arrested by Department of Justice op-
sratives, charged with embezzlement OF
I'll, ESQ of the banks funds.
Three children, Mildred and Eunice
Bergstrom, aged 1S and 10, and George
Livesly, their cousin, aged 4, were
burned to death at the ranch home of
W. L. Bergstrom, near Bend, Ore, in
a fire that started in an incubator.
Six armed and unmasked automobile
bandits held up messenger for the
Central Bank of Oakland in a resi-
dence district and robbed him Of $12,-
900 which he was taking in an nutomo-
bile to a branch OF the bank in North
Oakland.
Two unmarked bandits held up
Prank Webster, office manager, and
Wilma Meyer, cashier, of the Seattle
Star, as they descended from an auto
mobile with the newspapers weekly
pay roll fund. secured the entire fund
Of S4,400 and escaped in a waiting
automobile.
The tank steamer Whittier of the
Union OIL Company, which went on the
rocks Mt a point ten miles south Of
Point Arena, near San Francisco, is
total loss, the company was advised by
radio. The steamers cargo Of 1o.OOO
barrels Of oil was lost. The crew of
twenty-siX was saved.
Low Friedman, said to have been one
Of the cleverest dice experts in the
country, Is dead in San Bernardino by
his own hand-ths hand that rolled
seven" and eleven" for nearly $780,
900 in the last twenty years. Fried
man cheated for the first time in his
life, his friends say, when he beat the
specter of tuberculosis by shooting
himself as fate was shaking the dice.
He could have lived but a few days
longer. Friedman died penniless.
WASHINGTON
A request for a special appropria-
ton Of 100000 to be used in prosecu-
ton of war fraud cases has been sent
to the House by President Harding.
The budget communication explained
that the fund would be used for inves-
ther civil or commercial, growing out
of the war.
August Probst, the Swiss waiter who
has charged that he was kidnapped"
because of his romantic interest in the
daughter of a wealthy member of the
fashionable Rolling Rock Country Club
near Pittsburgh, will be deported from
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sued by Assistant Secretary Henning
of the Labor Department.
The packers and stockyards act of
1921 has been declared constitutional
by the Supreme Court. The court, in
dlsposIng Of cases brought by James e..
Burton, and others representing CHI
cago traders, and Stafford Brothers in
behalf of the Chicago commission mer-
chants, declared that commission mer-
chants, traders and dealers who buy
and sell livestock after its arrival at
Chicago stockyards are engaged in in
terstate commerce.
President Harding has given his ap-
proval to an appropriation of 100000
to aid various southern states in pre-
venting breaking of levees along the
Mississippi river The appropriation
10 to be used on levees not under the
supervision of the Mississippi river
commission, $1,ooo,0O0 having already
been set aside for the levees over
which the commission has Jurisdiction.
Another plea for immediate tsrmi-
nation of the military occupation of
Haiti met with a refusal at the State
Department. A committee of lawyers
who brought TO the department brief
declaring the occupation to be out of
harmony with American principles,
were plainly told by Secretary Hughes
that their arguments appeared to him
most inadequate and one-sided.
The charge that by leasing the Tea
pot dome, Wyoming naval oil reserve,
TO the Mammoth Oil Company, headed
by Harry f. Sinclair, millionaire oil
promoter, the Interior Department in
reality turned one of the most vaiua-
BILE oil structures In the country over
to the Standard Oil, was made by for.
mer Governor Brooks of Wyoming In
n telegram received from him by Sen
ator Kendrick, Democrat, of that state
Checked somewhat by failure to see
President Harding, the "children's cru
sade," which invaded the capitol thlr
ty-seven strong on behalf of ia wal
law vlolators now serving prison
terms, got little encouragement from
Attorney General Daugherty as to rec
ommendatlon for executive clemency
The American government stands
unshaken in its determination that
Russia must put her own house in or.
der before she can expect political rec
ognition by the United States, Secre
tary Hughes recently told delegation
nf women at the State Department.