The Colorado statesman., 1922-04-22
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN coUNTRiEs-
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN

WESTERN
Three of the convicts who escaped
from the state prison at San Quentin,
Calf, were captured near Knoxville,
Calf, after revolver battle lasting
several minutes.
Seventeen persons are reported dead
and more than eighty injured as re-
suit of tornadoes and rainstorms which
swept from west Texas east into Okla
homa toward Arkansas.
The defense of Roscoe c. (Fatty)
Arbuckle in the three manslaughter
trials in connection with the death of
Miss Virginia Rappe cost more than
$4,000, not including attorneys fees.
Gus Erickson, section foreman for
the Northern Pacific railway at Per-
ma, Mont, was robbed of checks, cur
rency and Liberty bonds estimated at
between $4,000 and $4,000, accord
ing to messages received at Missoula,
Mont.
Two persons died of exposure and
three others were reported drowned
when the overladen rowboat, in which
a party of seven was returning from
a picnic, was capsized by a wave on
the Oakland Estuary near Alameda,
Calf.
Cancellation of all contracts for the
showing of films in which Roscoe
("Fatty") Arbuckle appears, has been
announced by VIII II. Hays, head of
the Motion Picture Producers Associa-
ton. This ction, he said, affected
nearly 10000 contracts.
In a pitched battle between three
members of the japanese crew of the
steamer Kaiau Maru and three depu-
ty sheriffs at ST. Helens, Ore, Shima-
tani, engineer of the vessel, and a sec
ond member of the crew were shot and
perhaps fatally wounded and another
japanese was less seriously wounded.
AS a protest against 10 per cent
wage cut union trades workmen, vari-
ously estimated at from 200 to 1000,
are on strike in the San Francisco bay
district. The strike affected the Po-
tero and Alameda plants of the Bethle-
hem Ship Building Corporation and a
few machine shops and foundries
known as "outside shops"
Joseph Studer, formerly a physician
of Peoria, ILL.,, was sentenced in the
Superior Court at Los Angeles to serve
an indeterminate sentence of one to
ten years in San Quentin prison. The
sentence followed Studer's conviction
on charge of manslaughter, based on
the death of his mother, Elizabeth Stu
der, last September
WASHINGTON
The recording of accredited dele
above 1900 when the thirty-first con-
tinental congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution convened in
Continental hall, thereby assuring,
general officers said, thel argest meet
ing in the history of the society. The
first session of the congress was CIV
en- over largely to the formalites of
the opening with the exception of the
annual address of Mrs. George May
nard Minor, president general.
Two officers and an enlisted man
were killed recently in an airplane col
lislon at the War Department aviation
field at Quantico, Va.
Great Britain has informed the State
Department that she is ready to begin
immediate negotiations looking toward
the funding of the $1,000, 100000 al
lied debt to the United States.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has recently decided that no
person could be imprisoned at hard
labor without presentment and indict-
ment by grand jury, because the
punishment brought the offense under
the category of infamous crimes.
Wage rates in the packing industry
during 1922, according to Department
of Labor statistics, issued recently
dropped sharply from levels estab.
lished during employment peaks OF
1920, but remained at the end of the
year well above standards of 1917.
Senate Republicans meeting in par
ty conference. voted 20 to. 8 in favor OF
the passage of a tspidiers' bonus bill al
this session of Congress. The finance
majority was requested in u formal res
olution to report such measure
within q reasonable time," which wa.
construed by some leaders as three OIL
four weeks.
Woodrow Wilson's blunt and unqual
ified reputation of the so-called "Wil
son message" delivered to the Nation
al Democratic Club banquet in New
York by his ex-secretary, Joseph p
Tumulty, brought open confirmation
of the fact known to inside Democrat
ic circles in the capital for months
that DECIDED coolness exists between
Wilson and his former aide.
ReopenIng of Greek banks, including
The National Rank of Greece has hear