The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-06-01


residence in Chicago.
Dwight +. Davis of Missouri W;
renominated Saturday by Presidel
Harding to be director of the W;
finance corporation. He previous
l. was appointed to fill out an unexpire
- term
"Tackhamner' Charley is the nam
secretary OF state Chas. U. Becke
earned for himself when he opcne
the constitutional convention with
carpenters hammer, when regula
gavel could not be found.
Jack Dempsey has gone across thu
Atlantic to whip Europe" notes tl'
Monltcau County Herald, but he vii
hardly say at the tomb: Here VIC
are, Lafayette. No, he saved that
to say to Peggy, didn't he:
Federal Judge Van Fleet sustained
the demurrer Of United States Senator
Ralph II. Cameron, Republican OF
Arizona to an indictment which &C
cuscd the senator Of perjury The in
dictment was ordered dismissed.
| Two men were killed and another
probably fatally injured when St.
Louis-San Francisco freight train
plunged through the bridge over
Boggy River near Sopher, Okla,
about fifty miles east of Ardmore, at
midnight Thursday night. Five cars,
with the engine and tender, dropped
from an embankment twenty-five feet
high.
Miss Irene Gaul was held by police
at Des Moines Wednesday charged
with impersonating man and mar
rying' Mrs. Janette Simmons. The
two women, police claimed, lived to-
gether as man and wife for -
months. The strange alliance becln.e
known when Mrs. Simmons called
police during a quarrel.
Representatives of the anthracite
coal operators Thursday proposed I
that the miners accept wage reduc
tons averaging 81 per cent in settle
nent OF the strike called last April 1,
The offer was refused point blank by
leaders of the miners organization,
headed by Philip Murray, vice-presi-
dent OF the United Mine. Workers of
America.
Mabel Donovan, II years old, menu
Der OF we'll known Mercer County,
Kentucky, family, has appealed to the
governor Of Indiana and his pardon
'oard. that her father. William p.
Donovan, should not be saved from
legal execution OF a death sentence.
Donovan is charged with having slain
H. vile, Mabels mother, at their
'ome in Ind ana some time ago.
Replying 10 tonEr ssional critics
10 are dl'na"i.l: secretary OF Tia,
'reasury McIIyn t. move him irp.1
iiicc, Prohibition Commissi p1tr
haynes charged "lni,chievous and
pccious propaganda was being used
ganst him. Haynes ,a:d he was not
icouraged and declared he would
Jntinue his aggressive administration
i the prohibition law.
Members OF mob at TeXarkana,
'cx., Friday, battering down the Jail
DOR with All iron beam, took from
le Miller County Jail, Arkansas, a
cgro, liullen Owens, who late Fri
ay shot and fatally wounded R. {.
hoate. on the Arkansas side. The
ob dragged the negro at the end of
rope until he was dead, and alter
ard burned the body, at the down.
WIN section of the city.
orking day i'll the steel industry
as discussed at a dinner conference
the White House Thursday night,
which President Harding had in
ted iorty-one representatives of the
IN and steel industry and Secretaries
elton, Hoover and Davis. The
tests were told that there was no
tention OF government interference
private business. but that the Unit
States was about to witness great
dustrial revival, and that the one
pc OF doing away with the excess
ely long work day was to do it be-
re the full swing of business was
.umed.
Rodolph Valentino motion picture
n, was arrested on bigamy charge