, 1922-11-23
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
Do.NGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

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The initiated measure to permit pari-
mutuel betting at state and county
fairs in Montana, was defeated by APP
proximately 1000 votes.
The prohibition enforcement meas
ure on the California ballot, providing
and the Volstead act the law Of Cali
fornla, was defeated.
Clarence G. Dill, Democrat, of Spo-
kane, who's election to the United
States Senate is Indicated, will be the
youngest member when he takes his
seat March 4, 1t is said at Seattle.
Convicted of murder in the second
degree for having beaten Mrs. Alberta
Meadows to death with u hammer last
July in Monticello drive, Mrs. Clara
Phillips, former chorus girl, faces a
term of from ter years to life in San
Quentin p~enitentlary.
Voters of Island county, in Puget
sound, north of Seattle, chose Nils An
derson of Nahana, running on the
Democratic ticket, for n 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 Fairmount hotel in San Francisco,
was shot n seriously wounded when
three masked bandits held up Frank
Perry, hotel cashier, and robbed him
of "A handbag containing $2,400 which
the cashier was taking TO the hotel
from the Anglo-Paris bank.
A %coroner's jury returned n verdict
that James +. Melvin, 81 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 a committee
of e~x-service men had n 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
meaning of the American law, and are
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 lynchlng of a Mex
lean, Elias Villareal Zarate, in Wesla-
co, Texas, n asking guarantees for
the Mexican consul in Hidalgo, Texas,
whose life Is said to have been threat
ened.
Ms. Mnriel 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 ut n hearing before
a United States commissioner,
The cases against Mrs. Muriel Mac
Swlney and eight other women, mem
bers of the American Association for
Recognition of the Irish Republic, ar
rested for plcketing the British embas-
sy, were dismissed after II short hear
ing by United States Commissioner
George II. 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 j. ogden Armour. 1t was indicated
there would be no final opinion for
some days.
Pennsylvania. with seven, Will top
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 chalrmanshlps, Pennsylvania is
expected to have. Banking. claims,
foreign affairs, judiciary. naval. post
office and printing, a gnln of two.
Eleven noncommissloned officers In
the Philippine constabulary will be
hanged unless Governor General Wood
pardons them, since the Supreme
Court Of the United States declined to
review their case. Sixty-six prlvates
will serve life sentences. The Philip
pine Supreme Court will await the of
fetal 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-
priationA committee aim Ia have sew
ernl OF the appropriation bills ready
for the House by the beginning OF the
regular session Immediately following
on Dec. 4. During the two weeks OF
the extra session the House is ex-
pected to devote It's attention to the
ship subsidy bill while subcommittee
OF its appropriations committee work
on the supply bills, which form the
most important task Of the regular SEES