The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-24
AN EP|TOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED ACCORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoINes, ACHIEVE MENTs, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

 W. J. Hoggatt of Cowlitz county, Wash, raided the ranch house of Ja- cob Tulskus, two miles north of Kala- ma, and interrupted a meeting of dele gates of the Workers Party of Amer lea.
 Miss Elizabeth Jones, 17-year-old daughter of Prof. l.. w. Jones, head of the department of chemistry of Prince ton University, met a tragic death in Yosemite valley recently when she slipped and fell over a cliff into the swirling waters of the Merced river
 Eight of the sixty members of the United States Naval Academy of 1881, who have been attending reunion of the class in TOkio, returned to this country a few days ago on the United States transport Logan. Secretary of the Navy Denby, a member of the class, and the rest of the party are ex- pected to arrive on the transport Hen derson about Sept. 1.
 But for her presence of mind, Mary Miles Minter might have suffered se- nous disfigurements recently when she was thrown into a window in the vestibule of her private railroad car by the jar of a switch engine. at Vic tor, Idaho. Throwing up her arms, the petite blonde star escaped with a se were cut on her left arm and numer- ous scratches and brushes about her Eody.
 The public of the United States and the world at large has been "deliber- ately misinformed as to the results of prohibition in San Francisco" and "there has been a decided increase in the number of inmates in state cor rective institutions since prohibition began" the Grain Trade Association of the San Francisco Chamber of Com merce said in resolutions made public recently. The total monthly arrests in the city for intoxicatiOn have steadily and rapidly increased since the first month of prohibition" the resolution said. They continued that not only has there been an increase in the number of inmates in state prisons, insane asylums and institu- tions for the Predetermined, but a decided increase in serious crime. WASHINGTON
 Robert s. Kerr has been nominated to be postmaster at North Grosvenor Dale, Colo.
 Representative Lemuel P. Padgett of Tennessee died at his home in Washington.
 Denial that he had ever engaged in cotton speculation on the New York exchange, as charged recently in the Senate by Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, was made by W. P. G. Hard ing, governor of the federal reserve board, in a letter to Senator Mclean, Republican, Connecticut.
 American citizens sending parcel post packages to Mexico no longer need worry about them being lost Elf fective July l, a regular registered in- 1 demnity will be paid by the Postoffice l Department for packages sent to the | Central American republic that disap- | pear while in transit. This notice was | sent to all postmasters by Third As sstant Postmaster General Glover.
 Brig. Gen. Oliver Lyman Spaulding, former assistant secretary of the treas ury and for many years prominent In | public affairs in Michigan, died recent 1 Iy at his home in Washington, aged 89 years. General Spaulding served throughout the Civil war with the Twenty-third Michigan infantry.
 Retail food prices in fifteen out of twenty-four representative cities in the | United States showed an increase dur ing the month from June 15 to July 15, the Department of Labor's bureau of labor statistics announced. A 2 per cent increase was noted at Denver and a 1 per cent increase at Salt Lake City.
 Indictments were returned recently by the special grand jury investigating alleged war frauds against Ernest 0. Morse, former director of sales of the War Department; Everly NJ. Davis, president of the B. M. Davis Chemical Company of New York, and Alexander w. Phillips, associated with Davis. The three men, all of whom live in New York, were charged in the indict- ment with having defrauded the gov ernment out of more than $1, 100000. The alleged fraud was in connection with the sale of the war-built plant of the Old Hickory Powder Company