The Dolores star., 1922-01-27
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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WESTERN

wounds incurred in fight with auto
mobile thieves. The thieves abandoned
one automobile and escaped In the
marshaTs car.
San Francisco was awarded the 1922
Convention of the American Bar Asso-
citation by the executive committee of
that organization in session ut Tampa,
Fla. The convention will be held dur
ing the week beginning Aug. 8.
Arthur q. 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 SI54, 600, was
arrested in Belleville, III. He was re
leased on 10000 bond.
Cutting two valuable spruce trees on
the property of Magnus Swenson, pres
ident OF the NOrwegian-American
steamship line, TO decorate for a
Christmas dance, cost members of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity of Madison,
Wis, $3.50, when settlement was made.
Emil Umann, assistant manager of
a downtown theater in Kansas City,
was held up in the play house by two
armed men and robbed of 5000 in
cash, part of the theater's payroll, he
reported to the police. In escaping,
one Of the bandits dropped satchel
containing $500.
Fifteen minutes after Henry L. Tien-
ken of Dallas, S. D., and Miss Julia
Drumming of Omaha were married in
Council Bluffs, Iowa, the automobile
in which they were riding to Omaha,
plunged over an embankment, causing
injuries from which Tienken died. His
bride suffered minor bruises
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
sThe charred body of an unidentified
man was found by a veteran of the
Soldiers Home in a ravine near 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
President Harding by executive or
der has removed from civil service re-
quirements the office of deputy com
80 i,,ta
said at the treasury. There are five
deputy commissioners, each office pay
ing a salary of $4,000 year.
Boies Penrose, Late United States
senator from Pennsylvania, had $685.
100 in cash in a safe deposit box of the
American Security and Trust Company
in Washington, it became known
through the filing of a report by The
odOre Cogsweil, deputy registrar of
wills. According to the deputy regis
trar, the money includes five $4,000
notes, with the balance In bills OF ST.
600, $500 and S1Ns0.
The House has passed bill author
izing the President to turn over sur
plus army medical supplies not to ex-
StNu 2f.DVD,poO III value 10 IIlb Amer
ican relief organizations at work in
Russia. The Senate passed a similar
measure.
Lew Wallace, Jr., of CrawfordyiIle,
Ind, was appointed by Secretary Mel
lon to be director of savings la the
Treasury Department. He is a grand
son of the late,General Lew Wallace,
l., -,
as captain of artillery.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ap-
peared before the HOuEe 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.
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 T. 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.
A fight to repeal the Volstead act
and permit the sale of 2.75 per cent
beer and light wines will be carried to
the voters of Ohio this fall, under the
terms of the referendum law, accord
Ing to Capt William Fl. Stayton, man
aging vice president of the National
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment.
American trade with Europe was
greater by s775,OOO,OOO in 1921 than
during the last prewar year, 1913, ac-
cording to an estimate based on eleven
months statistics, made public by the |
Commerce Department.