, 1922-01-26
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
J. d. Mizener, night city marshal,
died at B~rookfield, Mo-, of bullet
wounds incurred in a fight with auto
mobile thieves. The thieves abandoned
M automobile and escaped in the
marshal's car.
San Francisco was awarded the 1922
convention of the American Bal Asso-
citation by the executive committee of
that organization in session at Tampa,
Fla. The convention will be held dur
ing the week beginning Aug. g..
Arthur o. Meininger, cashier of the
Night and Day Bank of st. Louis, who
disappeared after the closing of the
bank by the state bank examiner, who
discovered a shortage of $754,000, was
arrested in Belleville, III. He was re-
leased on $4,000 bond
Cutting two valuable spruce trees On
the property OF Magnus Swenson, pres
ident of the Observation-Disclosures
Christmas dance, cost members of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity of Madison,
Wis, $3.50, when settlement vas made.
Emil Imam, assistant manager of
a downtown theater in Kansas City,
was held up in the play house by two
armed men and robbed of $4,000 in
cash, part of the theater's payroll, he
reported to the police. In escaping,
one of the bandits dropped a satchel
containing $500.
Fifteen minutes after Henry L. Tien-
ken of Dallas, s. D., and Miss Julia
Drumming of Omaha were married in
Council Bluffs, Iowa, the automobile
in which they were riding to Omaha,
plunged yer an embankment, causing
injuries from which Tienken died. His
bride suffered minor bruises.
Mont Berg, former banker of Loyal
ton. Quincy and Greenville, Calf,
charged with embezzlement of funds of
the proposed First National Bank of
Quincy, pleaded guilty in Superior
Court and was sentenced to from one
to ten years in San Quentin penite-
tiary. He was arrested recently at
Terrell, Texas.
The charred body of an unidentified
man was found by a veteran of the
Soldiers Home in a ravine zeal a rail
road south of the home at Leaven-
worth, Kan. County authorities be-
lleve the man was murdered. A bank
book bearing the name of Walter Lar
sen and issued by the State Bank of
Omaha, was found on the body.
WASHINGTON
President Harding by executive or
der has removed from civil service re-
quirements the office of deputy COM
missioner of internal revenue, it was
said al the treasury. There are five
deputy commissioners, each office pay
ing a salary of $4,000 a year.
Boies Penrose, late United States
senator from Pennsylvania, had 1926
100 in cash in a safe deposit box of the
American Security and Trust Company
in Washington, 1t became known
through h filing of n report by The
odore Cogswell, deputy registrar of
wills. According to the deputy regis
trar, the money includes five $4,000
notes, with the balance In bills OF ST.
900. $500 and 500.
The House has passed a bill author
izing the President to turn over sur
plus army medical supplies not to ex-
coed $4,0O0.0O0 in value to the Amer
lean relief organizations at work In
Russia. The Senate passed a similar
measure.
Lew Wallace, Jr., of Cra~wfordville,
Ind, was appointed by Secretary Mel
Ion to be director Of savings in the
Treasury Department. He is a grand
son of the late General Lew Wallace,
and himself served In the World War
as captain OF artillery.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ap-
peared before the House ways and
means committee to urge favorable ac-
tion on the resolution to amend the
constitution so as TO prohibit the issu-
ance OF tax exempt securities by state,
city and county governments.
A tour unique In the history of the
United States army will be undertake
en- In the course OF the next few days
when Capt. John II. Axton, chief of
chaplnins, Will visit many posts and
hold conferences with chaplnins of the
regular army, the officers reserve
corps and the National Guard. The
itinerary viii cover approximately
10000 miles.
A fight TO repeal the volstead act
and permit the sale Of 40 per cent
beer and light wines win be carried to
tho voters Of Ohio this fall, under the
terms of the referendum law, accord
ing to Capt. William II. Stayton, man
aging vice president Of the National
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment.
American trade with Europe was
greater by $775.000,0O0 In 1921 than
during the last prewar year. 1913, ac-
cording TO an estimate based on eleven
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