The St. Johns herald., 1922-09-07
4 CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
 Luther Burbank, plant wizard, has created six new peaches, a new pIu1n' a new prune and a nectarine. The new creations will be given to the world next year, Burbank stated.
 Burglars blew open the safe in the postoffice at Corbin, Jefferson county, Mont, recently, and escaped with $ll4 h cash and stamps and money-order blanks, according to reports received fn Helena.
 Isaac Crespin and John Haynes, a4ed ranchers in a remote section of Mendocino county, Calif., and enemies in feud of years, "shot it out" with high-powered rifles few days ago. Both are dead.
 A youth shot dead at Los Angeles as a bandit has been identified as Jesse Willis, IS, of St. Joseph, Mo. John Grieve, a dishwasher, shot Willis m what was said to be the fifth hold up in two months of a restaurant in an outlying district.
 Ava E. Smith, wanted in Arizona, Oklahoma and Nebraska on bank wreclzing charges, arrived in San Diego recently on the power schooner Marian, from Mazatlan, Mexico, and immediately was arrested by San Diego deputy sherfffs and lodged in jail
 To avoid striking two small children who had been hanging onto the rear end of an automobile truck ahead of him, the driver of a mail stage at Hopland, Cal1f, turned his heavy Ve- hscle into the end of barn beside the highway. The end of the barn caHed in and Manuel &osseti, age 8, who was playing inside with his baby sis ter. Emma, and Angelina CiesSi, was killed and the other children suffered injuries from which they are expected to die.
 Increased demand for cargo space to the Orient out of Puget sound has resulted in assurances to the Pacific Steamship Company that another ship ping board freighter will be available for loading at Seattle by Sept. 12. A vessel now idle at some Pacific coast port is to be put into commission, se- lection being governed by the amount e4 repairs necessary. Need for addi- tfonal cargo space to the Orient was emphasized when a consignment of only POO measurement tons was re 5ected for the President Mckinley, Ed more and President Jackson
 WASHINGTON
 The State Department confirmed re- ports from Mexico City that A. Bruce BfelasHd is to be permitted to return to the United States. He is expected either in Washington or New York soon.
 Latin-American trade is clearly on the upward trend, despite the sharr decline in the flow of commerce be tween this country and the Southern republics during the past fiscal year according to a survey of the situation made by Dr. Julius Klein, director oi the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. of the Commerce Deparr rlent.
 Declaring that the law providing fo the reduction of officers of the arm! "struck a vital blow at our nationa defense" Representative Charles Curry of New York stated he woult effeP a bill to prevent the reduction
 Warning against establishment O branch factories in Germany by Amer lean firms was contained in a repOr to Secretary Hoover by special com mfttse of business men appointed t, handle economic problems relating t, western Europe. The report assertet any temporary advantage to be gainet by location of branches in German, by American firms would be nor than offset when stabilizatiOn in tha country brings on further violent dis location.
 The trials and tribulations of sen atOrs are not so much concerned witt the tariff, the soldiers bonus and tn ship subsidy as they are with the in dustrial crisis that completely over shadowed the legislative program. Sen atOrs are being bOmbarded with tele graphic appeals from their cOnstitu ents for relief from actual or impend ing fuel shortages due to the coa strike, or from transportation O freight tieups resulting from the rail road walkOut.