The Dolores star., 1922-05-12
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DURING THE PAST week
NGcCR0 or IMPORTANT EVENTS
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WESTERN

Walter r Thode, former assistant
cashier of the defunct Overland Ma
tional Bank of Boise, Idaho, has been
arrested by Department Of Justice op-
srstives. charged with embezzlement of
0l1,eS6 OF the banks funds.
Three children, Mildred and Eunice
Bergstrom, aged 13 and 10, and George
Ilvesly, their cousin, aged 4, were
burned to death at the ranch home OF
". L. Bergstrom, near Bend, Ore. in
q fire that started in an incubator.
ak armed and unmasked automobile
bandits held up messenger for the
Central Bank of Oakland in 4 resi-
denes district and robbed him Of S12,-
DOO which he was taking In an automo-
bile TO n branch of the bank in North
Oakland.
Two unmasked bandits held up
Frank Webster, office manager, and
Wilma Meyer, cashier, of the Seattle
Star. MS they descended from an auto
mobile with the newspapers weekly
pay roll fund, secured the entire fund
of 4,4O0 and escaped in u waiting
automobile.
The tank steamer Whittier of the
Union OIL Company, which went on the
rocks at a point ten miles south of
Point Arena. near San Francisco, Is
total loss. the company was advised by
radio. The steamers cargo of 10000
barrels of oil was lost. The crew of
twenty-six was saved.
tod, tn hr hnan
of the cieverest dice experts in the
country. is dead in San Bernnrdino by
his own hand-the 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 pennlless.
WASHINGTON
A request for a special appropria-
tion of S50O,0O0 to be used in prosecu-
tion 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-
tleation or prosecuting all cases, whe-
ther civil or commercial, growing out
of the war.
August Probst, the Swiss waiter who
has charged that he was "kidnaped"
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
the United States under an order Is
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 me--
chants, declared that commission mer-
chants, traders and dealers who buy
and cell livestock after its arrival at
Chicago stockyards are engaged in in
terstate commerce.
President Harding has given his ap-
provaI to an appropriation of S2OO,OOO
to aid various southern states in pre-
venting breaking Of levees along the
Mississippi river. The appropriation
In to be used on levees not under the
supervision of the Mississippi river
commission, S1,OOO,0OO having already
been set aside for the levees over
which the commission has Jurisdiction.
Another plea for immediate terml-
nation of the military occupation of
Haiti met with refusal at the State
Department. A committee of lawyers
who brought to the department brle.
declaring the occupation to be out of
harmony with American principles,
we're plainly told by Secretary Hughes
that their arguments appeared to him
most inadequate and one-sided.
The charge that by leasing the Tea,
Dot dome, Wyoming naval oil reserve
to the Mammoth Oil Company, headed
by HarryeF. Sinclair millionaire oil
promoter. the Interior Department In
reality turned one of the most vaiun.
BILE oil structures In the country over
TO the Standard OIL, was made by for.
mer Governor Brooks Of Wyoming in
q 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 thir.
ty-ssven strong on behalf of ia wal
law yioiators now serving prison
terms. got little encouragement from
Attorney General Daugherty as to rec
pmmendation for executive clemency
Tho American government stands
unshaken in its determination that
Busota must put her own house In or
Ass before she can expect political rec
eSnltion by the United States, Secre-
SAyy Hughes recently told delegation
- wesnsn at the State Department.