The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-19
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

In response to n telegram from Hous-
ton, Texas, officers asking If James c.
Dunham was wanted in San Jose, Cal,
Police Chief ]. N. Black of San Jose
replied that Dunham was wanted in
connection with the deaths of his wife
and five other persons May 20, 1895,
at Campbell, seven miles west OF San
Jose.
That prehistoric race of people
giants, in fact-iived in California and
Arizona, $4,000 years before King
Tutankhamen of Egypt, is conclusively
proven, Samuel Hubbard, Oakland
archaeologist, declared recently In tell
ing of evidence he has found in the
Grand Canon of Arizona to support
such belief.
man who said he was James NJ.
Clark, was arrested in Los Angeles on
charges of having defrauded many
persons in a number of American
cities by the alleged sale of land in
the Peace River district of Canada.
He was held to answer grand larceny
charges. Police declared Clark's op-
erations had netted him in excess of
100000
Refusing to eat food prepared in a
non-union restaurant, 100 asserted l.
w. w. strikers held in the jail at Los
Angeles harbor went on hunger
strike The prisoners informed Desk
Sergeant A. H. Castleberry they would
eat no food unless 1t came from a
union restaurant. The police have a
contract with a restaurant to prepare
all meals for prisoners.
Miss Wilma Ruth Rayburn, mem
ber of the graduating class at the Uni
versity of California, was presented
with her degree at the university In
firmary at Berkeley and died half
hour later. Miss Reyburn, % years
old, daughter of the Rev. Clinton II.
Reyburn of San Francisco, collapsed
during the final examinations and was
removed to the infirmary.
The San Francisco grand jury has
refused to indict Caldwell G. Richard
Son, n sailor, on a charge of murder
in connection with the killing of
Rabbi Alfred G. Lafee in a hotel in
San Francisco Action by the grand
jury was taken in order to hear
Richardson's story. The grand jury
held that Richardson "was justified
In defending himself under the cir
cumstances."
WASHINGTON
The remains of two men found near
the wreckage of an airplane on Cuya-
maca mountain, east of San Diego,
were positively Identified as those of
Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut.. Chas.
Webber of the aviation corps of the U.
S. army. The discovery of the bodies
ends a search for the missing aviators
which has been carried on for months.
Charges that the government is vio-
lating the spirit of the Pittman act in
using silver dollars to make smaller
coins instead of buying raw silver at
dollar an ounce were made by Sen
ator Key Pittman, Democrat, of Neva
da, in a letter to Under Secretary of
the Treasury Gilbert. The use of sill
yer dollars Pittman said, had run the
price of silver down to 81 cents an
ounce.
George Harvey, American ambassa
dor to Great Britain, declared upon
his arrival in New York City on the
steamship George Washington that he
knew nothing about reports that he
had resigned, or planned to resign, in
order to direct campaign for the re-
nomination and reelection of President
Harding
Great Britain alone of the allied
powers has replied to the American
suggestion of April 2 last for concerted
action to bring about a permanent So
luton of the relief problem in the
Near East. The British, 1t was said at
the State Department, expressed will
ingness to participate in any sound
plan for permanent relief measures,
but advanced no suggestion as to the
form such measures might take.
Neglect by parents of their homes
and children is largely the result of
mental difficulty and as such should
be treated as n physiological prob
lem, DIR. Nellie L. Perkins, director
Of the Wayne county physicolophic
clinic, of Detroit, declared in Wash
ington, before the annual conference
of the National Probation Association.
Detroit, she said, showed that 4S per
cent of them were feeble minded.
State Department advices from the
American legation Mt Picking said the
Peking authorities had ordered the
Chinese troops ito desist from meas
ures against bandits" and adopt
pacific MEANS" which would insure
the liberation of the captured Ameri-
cans without injury.
President Harding has informed the
Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teacher Association that Its members
In program adopted at the recent
Louisville convention have "pretty