Williams news., 1922-10-13

T. Michael Sherman, New 4orh newspaper writer, lecturer and labor advocate, was drowned in the Colum- bia river near Priest Rapids, Wash
 William S. -CBnD Hart, motion picture actor, who was reported ser fously Ill in Los Angeles with typhoid fever and complications, is recover ing.
 Doors of the Commercial National National Bank, at Great Falls, Mont-' are closed, suspension having been an nounced by the board of directors inc suspension announcement gave the banks deposits at 1902, 900 and its loans S1 1,5O5,OOO.
 M w. Frfedell. former president of an oil refining corporation in Phila- delphia, was taken into custody in Los Angeles at the request of the author tties of that city or charge that ne had embedded $3O.OOO. "I am not guilty" declared Friedell. "and can prove it."
 ProposaI of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad to put into effect a reduction of z cents a hunureu pounds on the freight rates on wheat shipped from Montana points to PuSet sound terminals for export is opposed by the millers of Montana and by the state railroad commission
 James Thomas, If, student at the Inglewood High school in Los An geles, in trying to prevent a door Wlth a glass panel from slamming. thrust his hand through the panel ana silver of glass pierced his heart AS if nothing had happened. he walked down the steps of the building. linen he collapsed and death came quickly.
 Joe Dieker, while sitting on the steps of a church in Los Angeles, was arrested for the police or DenVer' where he is wanted to answer charge of murdering William Hanlon. Deker, according to the arresting officers, de clared his willingness to return to Denver to tell what he knew of the affair, but declared he was "ltness and not a principal.
 Frank W. Roach, alias Frank Frantz, 50 years old, formerly post master at Calexico, Calif., was taken into custody in Sterling, Colo, by Postoffice Inspector F. B. Jarvis and K. McKean, who stated that Roach was wanted in connection with a shortage of approximately S7,OOO in accounts of the postoffice at Calex1co- The inspectors had trailed Roach for several thousand miles, visiting cities in Texas, Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, since he left Calexico on Sept. l.
 WASHINGTON
 A woman from Georgia won the dis tinction of being the first of her sex to obtain appointment to the United States Senate, when Mrs. w. H. Eel ton of Gainesville. Ga. long known as the grand old woman of Georgia. was named by Governor Thomas w. Hardwick as senator to succeed the late Thomas E. Watson, until the No vember elections, when a successor will be chosen at the polls. Mrs. Eel ton is ST years old and has been prominent in Georgia politics for nearly half a century
 Vice Consul Barnes, at SmyrnaS re- ported to the state department that evacuation of refugees from smyrna had been completed except for 5Oo who are to embark soon. Since the fire, the report said, 222,OOO refugees had embarked from Smyrna and neighboring ports, and of these 1SO,- GOO were cared for by American naval forces and American relief workers
 The peace agreement between forty nine railroads in the western area and trainmen and conductors was formal Iy signed in Chicago. The agreement calls for the continuance of the pres ent rate of pay to conductors and trainmen for one year. the eight-hour day basis to be. maintained and time and a half for overtime after eight hours.
 Declaring labor to be partisan to a principle rather than to a party, Pres ident Gompers of the American Feder- ation of Labor, in a formal statement in Washington, predicted that no jim portant reactionary legislation" would be enacted by the next Congress, be- cause of Iabor's activities. The fed eration head asserted that labor has stunned the reactionists in Congress effectively
 Railroads of the southeastern sec ton of the United States and brother hood organizations of conductors and trainmen signed an agreement in Washington settling all outstanding differences between them and extend ing present wages and working regula- tions until Oct. 31, 1923.
 One of the following three will be named for postmaster at Brush, Colo They are Charles F. McMullen, David P. Saunders and Cecil P. Lamb. They are on the eligible list certified to the postoffice department by the civil service commisSi