The Winslow mail., 1923-03-09
CONDENSED ECoRD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING S, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
ANDFEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

WESTERN
The whole West is right happy over
President Harding's selection of Or.
Hubert Work for secretary of interior,
judging from the number of kilograms
and letters of congratulations pouring
in on him.
Carlson Buzelli shot and killed his
wife, seriously wounded his son, Har-
ry, % years old, and then ended his
own life after barricading himself in
his residence and engaging in pistol
battle with police reserves at Port
land, Ore.
Bert Walls, who served in France
with the Ninety-first division, was shot
and killed at Butte, Mont, by his
friend, Bill jenkins. The shooting fol-
| lowed an argument over the SimOniSh-
Bross boxing bout at Helena. When
arrested, Jenkins said: Take ME out
and hang me. I'm sorry it happened" $"
Sale to the port of Seattle commits
sion of the water front property known
as the Skinner and Eddy plant No. 2,
twenty-acre tract adjacent to the
Seattle, Wash, business district, has
been announced by the shipping board
at Washington, d. c. The sale is sub
ject to the approval of Seattle voters
at an election to be held in May.
Acting as her own attorney, Mar
garet Jean Ramey, 1S-year-old Fresno
State College coed addressed a COM
bination letter-petition to the Superior
Court, seeking annulment of her mar
riage to William Earl Swaney of
Sparks, New. In her letter the girl de-
clares that while on her honeymoon,
she discovered she was No. 6 in a
chain of brides.
Permission has been given the Utah
Central l<Railroad Company, a new cor
poration with $1,O00,000 in authorized
capital stock, to proceed with con-
struction of fifty miles of railroad in
| Utah, by terms of an Interstate Com
merce Commission order issued in
| Washington. The new line will ex-
tend from Wellington to Huntington,
with branch to Utah junction and
| will make available for operation of
1 a large coal mining area.
WASHINGTON
The administration shipping bill was
finally killed in the Senate.
Hale Holden, president of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy, laid before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
a plan for consolidation of all the rail
roads west of Chicago into four sys-
TENS.
Appropriations aggregating $2O,95O,-
| 600 for modernization of battleShipS
and reimbursement of contractors as
| result of the naval Scrapping pro-
gram under the Washington arms con-
| ference treaty were approved by the
Senate. The House previously had APP
proved the items.
Possibility of Senate action before
Congress adjourned on the administra-
ton request for authority to partici-
pate in The Hague international court
! of justice, under the League of Ma
tions, was removed through confer
ences between Senate leaders, Leaders
of all Senate factions exchanged
views and, it was said, all were of the
opinion that the matter would have to
90 over until the next Congress.
Mrs. Harding, wife of the President,
has made such progress in her recu-
peration from the severe illness of last
year that she recently received infOr-
mally at tea a group of more than
thirty women in her private drawing
room at the White House. The guests,
with one or two exceptions, were
newspaper or magazine writer's.
President Harding signed the SmOot-
Burton bill under which Congress ap-
proved the plan by which Great Brit
ain will pay her $4,600,O0O,00O war
debt to the United States during the
next siXty-twO years. The Presidents
signature was the concluding act in
the long string of official actions nee
essary to the settlement of the great
est single war debt.
Continental American membership in
the international court set up by the
league of nations was proposed by
President Harding. In a message to
the Senate, asking that it advise and
consent to such step, the President
declared participation in the tribunal
offered an opportunity through which
the United States could demonstrate
it's willingness to aid in preserving
world stability without in any manner
assuming "any legal relation to the
| league"
Failure of the Administrations ship
subsidy bill in Congress will result in
the establishment of radical and un-
expected policy for the operation of
the American merchant marine, A. D.
Lasker, chairman of the United States
Shipping Board, declared after a con-
ference with President Harding at the
White House.
Selection of Postmaster General
! Work to succeed Albert Fall as secre-
tary of the interior, and of Senator