The Ordway new era., 1922-11-24
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIoN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
The Initiated measure to permit pari-
mutuel betting at state and county
fairs in Montana, was defeated by ap-
proximately 1000 votes.
The prohibition enforcement meas
ure on the California ballot, providing
for making the Eighteenth amendment
and the Yolstead act the law of Cali
fornia, was defeated.
Clarence C. Dill, Democrat, of Spo-
kane, whose election to the United
States Senate Is indicated, will be the
youngest member when he takes his
seat March 4, it is said ut Seattle.
Convicted of murder in the second
degree for having beaten Mrs. Alberta
Meadows to death with hammer last
July in Monticello drive, Mrs. Clara
Phillips, former chorus girl, faces
term of from ten years to life in San
Quentin penltentary.
Voters of Island county, in Puget
sound, north of Seattle, chose Nils An
derson of Nahana, running on the
Democratic ticket, for seat In the
Legislature, and his daughter, Pearl
Anderson, Republican nominee to be
superintendent of schools, in the re
cent election.
George McMullin, house detective of
the FuirmOunt hotel In San francisco,
was shot and seriously wounded when
three masked bandits held up Frank
Perry, hotel cashier, and robbed him
of handbag containing $2,400 which
the cashier was taking to the hotel
from the Anglo-Parls bank.
A coroner's jury returned verdict
that James f. Melvin, e. years old, ed
itor of the Salmon, Idaho, Recorder,
died of excitement and over-eXertion."
Testimony at the inquest was to the
effect that Melvin and committee
of ex-service men had scuffle after
the ex-service men had visited Melvin,
who had refused to join the Red Cross.
Melvin escaped from the ex-soldiers,
ran to his office and died soon after.
WASHINGTON
japanese are not white, within the
not entitled to citizenship in the Unit
ed States, the Supreme Court has held
The Mexican embassy has made rep
reservations to the State Department
against the alleged lynching of Mex
lean, Elias Villareal Zarate, in Wesla-
co, Texas, and asking guarantees for
the Mexican consul in Hldalgo, Texas,
Nphnoa ITO iS aath to haay,
ened.
Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney. widow of
Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of
Cork, who died in prison on a hunger
strike, and two others of nine women
arrested for plcketing the British en-
bassy in Washington, refused bond for
their appearance at a hearing before
United States commissioner.
The cases against Mrs. Muriel Mac
Swiney and eight other women, mem
bers of the American Association for
Recognition of the Irish Republic, ar
rested for picketing the British embas-
sy, were dismissed after a short hear
ing by United States Commissioner
George H. Macdonald, because the
proof did not measure up to the in
tent of the law
Government officials have reserved
decision with regard to the proposed
consolidation of Armour and Company
and Morris and Company, two of the
big five" Chicago meat packing con
Germs, which was placed before them
by ]. Ogden Armour. 1t was Indicated
there would be no final opinion fol
some days.
Pennsylvania, with seven, will tor
all the states in big House committee
heads in the new Congress, unless the
seniority rule is abrogated. All told
there are sixty standing committees
but some of them have little to do with
important legislation. The seven i'm
portant chairmanships, Pennsylvania /.
expected to have. Banking, claims
foreign affairs, judiciary, naval, post
office and printing, gain of two.
Eleven noncommissioned officers II
the Philippine constabulary will bt
hanged unless Governor General WOOD
pardons them, since the Supreme
Court Of the United States declined tC
review their case. Sixty-six privates
will serve life sentences. The Philip
pine Supreme Court will await the Of
hcial mandate of the United States
court before fixing the date for carry
ing out the sentences.
With Congress called by President
Harding to convene in extra session
Nov. 20, members Of the House appro-
priations committee aim to have sew
eral Of the appropriation bills ready
for the House by the beginning Of the
regular session immediesely following
ON Dec. 4. During the two weeks Of