Williams news., 1922-08-04
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR-
 EIGN COU, TRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
 Three small boys, the children of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Ajax, were drowned
 when the automobile in which they were passengers with their parents, backed off the St. Johns ferry at the
 east side of the Willamette river at
 Portland, Ore.
 Mrs. R. W. Noyer, a nurse, was fa-
 tally burned in attempting to rescue Mrs. Lincoln Wilson, a patient, when
 the San Francisco city hospital at
 Groveland, maintained in connection
 with the construction of the Hetch Hetchy water project, burned to the ground recently
 Lives of scores were imperiled re- gently as the Japanese steamer Hawaii Maru collided during a dense fog with the Puget Sound passenger steamer Calista off West Point, eight miles from Seattle. The Calista sank with in ten minutes after the accident. All the Calista's passengers and crew were saved.
 Union printers will return to their former positions in the newspaper and job departments of the Billings Ga zette, according to an announcement.
 
 have been on strike since May l, while those in the job office have been out for more than year. The press rooms are included in the settlement.
 Report was confirmed by w. J. O'Connor, assistant manager of the American Smelling and Refining Com pany's shelter at East Helena, Mont, that the wage scale at the plant would be increased 50 cents a day The shelter will thus be paying the same scale which will prevail in other places in Montana for similar work, said MT. O'Connor.
 Isadore R. Eidelstein, alleged by To- cal police to be a notorious safe bur glar, with a long criminal record, is accused of having burglarized, single handed, eighty vaults in the Paulsen building at Spokane in a firSt-degree burglary warrant sworn out by Detec- tive Chester Edwards There are now out for the arrest of the vault robber and the recovery of stolen bonds, re- wards aggregating $9,5OO.
 WASHINGTON
 While industries are now crippled by the lack of coal, the average domes- tic consumer will not feel the pinch of shortage for at least thirty days, it was said by Secretary of Commerce Hoover after a survey of available supplies.
 Former President Wilson, ''as an citizen and as a native of has written Commonwealth Attorney Thomas H. Lyon of Manas- sas, Va, thanking him for the part | he took recently in saving Alvin Har- 1 ris, a negro, from a mob.
 Secretary Hughes has been author | ized by President Harding to enter in | to negotiations with the principal mar time nations of the world with the | view to holding a conference in the United States for a discussion of | means of preventing oil pollution of navigable waters, especially in import ant harbors.
 Carrying orders to eject forcibly if necessary representatives of the Mu- -ual Oil Company from the Teapot lome naval oil reserve in Wyoming, Capt. George Shuler and four enlisted men of the marine corps left Wash ngton recently for point forty miles rom Casper, where the company is drilling a well.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- I exists in transportation in territory ,ast of the Mississippi river, which re- luired it to direct the routing of ship nentS of all essential commodities and 1 o fix preference and priority for the movement of food, perishable products, oa1 and other fuel, and live stock.
 Vice President Coolidge left Wash ngton recently for Boston, starting a rip that will occupy two or three weeks and take him to the Pacific oast. The vice president plans to cave soon for San Francisco, where le will address the American Bar As ociation convention Aug. 10. The | present. itinerary of MT. Coolidge calls or visits to Portland, Ore, and Seat le, but no speeches are planned. He , will return east through Canada with ut making any stops.
 Whether the administration tariff | ill will be enacted before the Novem- er elections has again become the | ' ubject of private discussion at the apitol. There is a more or less gen | i ral belief now in the Senate that the I 1easure cannot be brought to a final T ote in that body before Sept. 15, and z here are those who believe the iron I 1g out of differences between the Sen te and the House in conference will { e such a slow and tedious process ( hat it cannot be completed before ( congress goes home for the fall cam r aign. C