The St. Johns herald., 1922-11-16
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAVINGS, DoINes, ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN


 shot and instantly killed at Camp Lewis, Wash, when he attempted to escape from military guards.
 One fireman was killed and several others were injured by a falling wall when the Washington High School at Portland was destroyed by fire. The building was valued at $500,O0O.
 Leland Tucker, 21 years old, is in the county jail at MissOula, Mont, as a result of a shooting affair on a ranch. The young man gave himself up to a justice of the peace at AlbertOn, saying that he had killed his father.
 M. G. Craig, former general passen- ger agent of the Louisville Nashville railroad, shot himself while seated on the rail of the Puget Sound passenger steamer BremertOn, according to of ficers of the steamer. The body top pied into Puget sound and was not re- covered.
 Miss Blanche Adella Hawkins, uni verSity student at Berkeley, Calif., holds the distinction of being the first person in the United States to be granted license for teaching whist ling in the public schools. She be lieves whistling a real musical ac- cOmpliShment.
 After having been clOseted for nearly four hours the jury in the case of ten Industrial Workers of the World, at Sacramento, Calif., charged with viO- lating the California criminal syndi- calism act, disagreed and was dis charged. The vote was reported to have stood g to 8 for conviction.
 Charged with grand larceny for the alleged defrauding of Seattle investors of thousands of dollars through prom ises of returns from a secret process for the transmutation of common lead into silver, Frank Anderson, vice pres ident of the Aero Metal Company, and F. M VOgelsOn, secretary, were ar rested a few days ago.
 Madame" Edith Maida Lassing, charged with having advocated over throw of "capitaIistic" government and civil marriage, was sentenced by Judge Benjamin F. BledsOe of the United States District Court at Los Angeles to serve two years in the state refOrma- tory for women at Leeds, Mo-, after a jury found her guilty of sending inde- cent matter through the mails.
 The first stamp of the new 5-cent denomination bearing the likeness of former President Roosevelt, was pre- sented to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt re- gently, and the issue placed on sale at Oyster Bay, N. Y, ROOsevelt's home; at New York City, his birthplace, and at the Washington Philatelic agency. Five stamps each from the first sheet will be given to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, assistant secretary of the navy, and Mrs. Alice LongwOrth, son and daughter of the former president. Ex- cept at the three offices named, the stamps will not be placed on sale else where until the present supply of g. cent stamps is exhausted.
 WASHINGTON
 DlSnL LhOuOClhu OoLAClS OA fine old whisky remains in bond guard ed by the government.
 Senator Sheppard, of Texas, has left Washington for Atlantic City, where he will enter a sanitarium for treat ment to prevent physical breakdown.
 The national council of the Wom- ans party drafted an "equal rights, amendment to the constitution at called meeting recently, it was an nounced by Mrs. O H. P. Belmont, president, at Washington.
 Enactment of legislation adjusting the overtime pay of pOstOffice clerks and other pOstOffice employees was urged by Postmaster General Work in communications to Senator Townsend, Michigan, and Representative Steener- son, Minnesota, chairman of the Sen- ate and House committees on post offices and post roads, respectively.
 A campaign to discourage the use of small-sized Christmas cards and envel- Opes has been inaugurated by the Post office Department. Small sized cards and envelopes, it is declared, are re- sponsible for incalculable delay during the Christmas rush of postal business. Because of their miniature size they cannot be run through the cancelling machines, making it necessary to do this work by hand, as well as requir- ing extra handling in facing and dis tributiOn.