The St. Johns herald., 1922-11-23
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIcN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
0oiNcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
 Hugh Sydenham, former chief of po-
 lice of Sacramento; Clyde Simmons,
 painter, and Merle Moran, all alleged
 members of the Ku Klux KIan, were
 arrested on warrants charging grand
 larceny.
 Five men are dead, another injured
 and another being held pending the
 filing of charges as the result of a
 fire which destroyed rooming house
 at Westwood, Calif. Edward Swane,
 whom officers say caused the blaze by
 inadvertently setting fire to his bed
 was arrested.
 A convention of the former mem-
 bers of the Ku Klux Klan was held in
 Los Angeles recently, with the avOwed
 objective, according to G. w. Price,
 former king kleagle for the klan in
 California, of bringing about the for
 nation of the National Association of
 the Ku Klux Klan, a rival organiza- tion. ''The meeting was in no way con- nected with the old klan," declared MT. Price
 John H. Dozier, of Augusta, Mont, for many years a resident of the north end of Lewis and Clark county, is dead, and Carl Shiffer, an overseas veteran of the World War, is in the county jail, as a result of a shooting affray which took place about midway between Gilman and Augusta Dozier was shot through the abdomen with a bullet from a pistol and died in an automobile iH which he was being hur- ried to Augusta. Marital troubles are understood to have led up to the shooting.
 A large shipment of wild animals and birds, destined for geological gar dens and circuses throughout the United States and Europe, was unload ed recently at Los Angeles from the steamer Bearport, from the Orient, 76 days in crOssing-t the Pacific. The car go is the property of Frank H. Beck, dealer in wild creatures, who gathered it in various parts of the Far East and shipped it from Singapore and Cal cutta. It is said to be the largest sin gle shipment of wild animals ever brought to the United States. It in- cludes elephants, tigers, lions, leopards, ciyet cats, anteaters, monkeys, pythons, cObraS and other large reptiles, and 4,000 birds of varied species. WASHINGTON
 November 2 was Warren G. Hard l ing's fifty-seventh birthday and the 1 second anniversary of his election as president of the United States
 Several more sO-called political pris- oners probably will be freed this month, including number who are | eligible for parole, it has been learned. of justice officials said | pardon attorneys are expediting this class of cases as fast as possible, espe- cially those in which formal applica- tiOns foE cIemency were filed.
 The American government has no objection to the Notation Of a new 50,0O0,OOO Cuban loan in this country, according to an official announcement by the State Department A note set ting forth the position of this govern ment was delivered to the Cuban charge daffaires by the State Depart ment, the announcement said.
 George Boos, once associated with Russell B. Harrison, son of former President Benjamin Harrison, in pub fishing the Montana Journal, at Hell ena, Mont, was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment with bull let through his head
 Classified government tax receipts for September showed a decrease of more than $276,OOO0O0, as compared with the same month last year, the In ternal Revenue Bureau announced. For the month of September the total re- ceipts from taxes were $354, ,284, ,246, as against $630,758,713 for the same month year ago. For the three months ended with September, tax re- ceipts amounted to $6O0,746,974, a de- crease of more than $366,000,0O0
 Postal saving deposits continue to shrink, but the decrease during the quarter ended Sept. 30 was smaller than in any three months period since March, 1919, when deposits reached the peak. Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Glover declared in a statement which said erroneous unofficial re- ports as to the postal savings decline had been published. Deposits in March, 1919, reached the unprecedented fig ure of $176,S28,524, declining gradually since to $135, ,625,0O0 on Sept. 30.