The Snowflake herald., 1922-08-04
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT.
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

six floors of the PaulsOa building IN
Spokane, Wash, and stole IN excess Of
100000. This is the largest burglary
ever committed IN Spokane, according
to local police.
Chris ChfoIfs, q, was instantly killed
and Charles v. Herman, SO, was tn
tured, possibly fatally, when the auto
mobile they had entered in the races at
Lagoon, an amusement resort near
Salt Lake City, plunged through the
fence
Jeffrey Hfldreth and hts slayer,
Monte P. Rose, sleep together IN Fail
River cemetery at Reddfng, Calf They
had been friends for several score
years until law. suit estFanGed them
and led to a quarrel as a result Of
which Rose slew Hfldreth and then
himself.
Spreading over an area that totals
between 1000 and 5000 acres. the Mar
BILE creek forest fire, near Avery, Ida,
about eighty miles east Of Spokane,
Wash, has developed under brisk
wind into what forestry officials con-
slider to be the largest fire I'm the Idaho
territory since 1919.
Thomas Lynch, his wife, Mary, their
daughter, Katherine, aged A, and
nephew, Philip, aged 8, were killed and
four other members of the Lynch fam
ily and another woman suffered burns
which are expected to prove fatal IN
a collision between the Lynch automo-
bile and a street car I'm San Francisco.
Report was confirmed by W. ].
O'ConnOr, assistant manager of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
panys smeIter at East Helena, Mont,
that the wage scale at the plant would
be increased so cents day. The
emelter will thus be paying the same
scale which will prevail in other places
In Montana for similar work, said Mr..
O'Oonnor.
WASHINGTON
Operators from the coal-producing
districts of six states have been asked
by Secretary Hoover to cooperate
with the government and the railroads
in a plan to insure the distribution Of
fuel ito the carriers and public utfl-
tiles and to prevent proffteering dur
ing the strike emergency.
Republican and Democratic senator's
Joined in demands for prompt payment
of American damage claims against
Germany and Austria but differed as
to procedure during three hours debate
on the bill of Senator Underwood of
Alabama, the Democratic leader, which
proposed an American claims commits
sion.
In q comprehensive report submit
ted to the Senate by Chairman Norris
of the Senate agricultural committee,
Henry Ford's offer for the purchase
and lease of the governments warm
itiated projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala,
is condemned in unusually strong lam
guage, while the Nebraska senator's
bill, proposing development Of the
properties under a government-owned
and controlled corporation, is de-
scribed as "the most wonderful plan"
that has ever been proposed in the his
tory of the country.
Secretary Hughes has been author
lied by President Harding to enter in
to negotiations with the principal mar
thine nations of the world with the
view to holding a conference in the
United States for a discussion of
means of preventing oil pollution of
navigable waters, especially in import
ant harbors.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has declared that an emergency
exists in transportation in territory
east of the Mississippi river, which re-
quired it to direct the routing of ship
ments of all essential commodities and
to fix preference and priority for the
movement of food, perishable products,
coal and other fuel, and live stock.
Failing to get action from the Sen
ate finance committee majority, Sen
ator Lenroot, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin, launched his fight in the Senate to
limit to go per cent ad valorem the du-
ties in the pending bill on coarse woods.
both in the raw and the manufactured
state. His proposal met with sharp CD
position from spokesman for the com
mittee and senators engaged in the
production of wool, and there were fire.
quent and, at times, sharp exchanges.
President Harding has accepted the
invitation of the Flathead Indians of
Montana to become an honorary mem
Der of their tribe. President Harding.
in his reply of acceptance, said he had
no objection to a proposal to have a
mountain peak on the Indian reserva-
ton named Mount Harding.
Three Japanese cruisers, the Iwate,
Isume and Asama, making a world
tours visited at Los Angeles harbor.
the only American port at which the
squadron will stop. Officials of the
japanese association entertained the
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