The Holly chieftain., 1923-04-05
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINes AND HAPPENINGS TINT
HARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

LAVAAc oAC aSaiihS SolipiSt'o' ~ "oeSI--
Schenck, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fair
banks and Sid Grammar.
A public market in San Francisco
has Installed Community scales" in or
der that customers may weigh their
purchases. This, the management
says, eliminates weight shortages.
Gloria Swanson, motion picture
actress, was made defendant In d.
vorce suit filed by Herbert X. Som
born, her husband. The complaint
charges desertion. Miss Swanson was
married to her present husband in
December, 1915, just year after her
first husband, Wallace Beery, film
actor, obtained decree Of divorce on
the ground Of desertion.
A dog owned by A. V. Sastian, Van
Nuys, Calf, lost Its life while search
ing burning barn for Its masters
baby, safe In the house at the time.
The dog had been taught to search for
the child when asked the question,
where is the baby?" Someone asked
that question while the flames were
destroying the barn, and the dog
dashed into the burning building.
Assessment of the per cent license
tax on oil production will be put on
value of the oil at the well, according
to decision by the Montana State
Board Of Equalization. Payment of
the ] per cent tax, in effect until the
last meeting of the Legislature, in
some cases deducted from the field
price the cost Of pipe transmission and
Of railroad freight on the oil to refin-
cries.
A married man cannot be sued for
breach of promise, 1t was ruled in the
Superior Court ut Los Angeles, in find
ing for the defendant In suit for
damages Of $4,000 brought by Katie
Rudon against Sam Kapper. The
court announced the decision after
Kapper's attorney had argued that
"the promise to marry Of man al
ready married was void and against
public policy"
All street beggars In Los Angeles
are professional mendicants and there
Is not single case of need among
them, according to the Los Angeles
social service commission, which has
opened Its drive against begging on the
streets with an appeal to the public
to inject them with jobs" Sixteen
large charitable institutions and num-
erous small relief organizations, ac-
cording to the commission, make 1t un-
necessary for those in distress to beg
on the street, but the professional
mendicants prefer the easier and more
profitable method of appealing to pub
lie sympathy on the sidewalks.
WASHINGTON
Collections of income tax up to
March Is, exceed $3.50, 100000, 1t was
shown recently upon receipt Of final
returns from internal revenue cOllec-
tors over the country. Collections to
March Is, last year, were 1886, ,0O0, 900,
showing an Increase Of more than one
third, which treasury officials regard
as striking evidence of business pros
perity throughout the United States.
Tom Chidsey, deputy sheriff, and E.
E. Notson, district attorney Of Morrow
county, Oregon, battled with band
of moonshiners in the wilds Of Juni-
per caiion, twenty miles north Of Lex
ington, but were driven back by the
outlaws, according to reports.
Whether there were any casualties Is
not known here.
Assistant Secretary Moss called on
Deputy Collector Stuart of the GUS
toms house at New York for a full
explanation Of the order Issued March
10 by Thomas w. Whittle. surveyor of
that port, permitting passengers on in
coming steamships to land with one
quart Of liquor for medicinal purposes.
Mr.. Moss Indicated that the order
probably later would be materially
altered.
The United States Ship Operators
Association, second of the organiza-
tions representing interests Identified
with the American merchant marine to
respond to the shipping board request
for cooperation In formulating a
policy, recommended that the board
scrap all unserviceable tonnage, sell
Its good tonnage to American opernt-
ors and strictly withhold any tonnage
from aliens.
Extension of vocational training
and medical rehabilitation to the
$4,000 veterans Of the world war serv-
ing sentence in federal and state penal
institutions Is planned by Director
Hines of the Veterans bureau, who
conferred on the subject with officials
Of the department Of Justice and rep
resentatives Of the American Legion
and Disabled Veterans Of the World
War.
William G, Deming Of Cheyenne,
Wyo., has been sworn In as president
If the civil service commission.