The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-05-12
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Walter F. Thode, former assistant
cashier of the defunct Overland Ma
tienal Bank of Boise, Idaho, has been
arrested by Department Of Justice OPP
sratives, charged with embezzlement OF
el1,o8o Of the banks funds.
Three children, Mildred and Eunice
Bergstrom, aged Is and 10. and George
Lvesly, their cousin, aged 4, were
burned to death at the ranch home of
w. L. Bergstrom, near Bend, Ore, in
fire that started in an incubator.
Six armed and unmasked automobile
bandits held up messenger FOR the
Central Bank of Oakland In q resi-
dence district and robbed him Of $12,-
900 which he was taking In an automo-
bile to a branch Of the bank in North
Oakland.
Two unmasked bandits held up
Frank Webster, office manager, and
Wilma Meyer, cashier, Of the Seattle
Star, as they descended from an auto
mobile with the newspapers weekly
pay roll fund, secured the entire fund
Of e4,400 and escaped In q waiting
automobile
The tank steamer Whittier Of the
Union Oil Company, which went on the
rocks at a point ten miles south of
Point Arena, near San Francisco, Is
total loss, the company was advised by
radio. The steamers cargo Of 10000
barrels of oil was lost. The crew OF
twenty-six was saved.
Lew Friedman, said to have been one
Of the cleverest dice experts In the
country, is dead in San Bernardino by
his own hand-the hand that rolled
seven" and eleven" for nearly $780,
600 in the last twenty years. Fried
man cheated for the first time in his
life, his friends say, when he beat the
specter of tuberculosis by shooting
himself as fate was shaking the dice.
He could have lived but a few days
longer Friedman died penniless.
WASHINGTON
A request for a special appropria
ton of 100000 to be used in prosecu-
ton of war fraud cases has been sent
to the House by President Harding
The budget communication explained
that the fund would be used for inves-
tigation or prosecuting all cases, whe-
Their civil or commercial, growing out
of the war.
August Probst, the Swiss waiter who
has charged that he was kidnapped"
because of his romantic interest in the
daughter Of a wealthy member of the
fashionable Rolling Rock Country Club
near Pittsburgh, will be deported from
the United States under an order is
sued by Assistant Secretary Henning
Of the Labor Department.
The packers and stockyards act of
1921 has been declared constitutional
by the Supreme Court. The court, in
disposing Of cases brought by James e.
Burton, and others representing Chi
cago traders, and Stafford Brothers in
behalf of the Chicago commission mer-
chants, declared that commission mer-
chants, traders and dealers who buy
and sell livestock after it's arrival at
Chicago stockyards are engaged in in
terstate commerce.
President Harding has given his APP
proval to an appropriation Of 100000
to aid various southern states in pre-
venting breaking Of levees along the
Mississippi river. The appropriation
is to be used on levees not under the
supervision Of the Mississippi river
c1tfhmission, 100000 having already
been set aside for the levees over
which the commission has Jurisdiction
Another plea for immediate termi-
nation of the military occupation of
Haiti met with refusal at the State
Department. A committee of lawyers
who brought to the department brief
declaring the occupation to be out of
harmony with American principles,
were plainly told by Secretary Hughes
that their arguments appeared to him
most inadequate and one-sided.
The charge that by leasing the Tea
pot dome, Wyoming naval oil reserve,
to the Mammoth Oil Company, headed
by Harry r. Sinclair, millionaire oil
promoter, the Interior Department in
reality turned one of the most vafla-
BILE oil structures in the country over
to the Standard OIL, was made by for
mer Governor Brooks of Wyoming in
a telegram received from him by Sen
ator Kendrick, Democrat, of that state.
Checked somewhat by failure to see
President Harding, the "children's cru
sade," which invaded the capitol thir-
ty-seven strong on behalf of Ia war
law viOlators now serving prison
terms, got little encouragement from
Attorney General Daugherty as to rec
ommendation for executive clemency.
The American government stands
mistaken in it's determination that