The Colorado statesman., 1923-06-09
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WESTERN

Mont, was smOthered, when trench
which he was digging for plumbing in
stallation, caved in on him.
His love which had blossomed at
first sight spurned Juan Verzell, 80,
San Francisco, shot and killed Miss
Maria Acuna, %, pretty Spanish mil
liner, and then shot and killed him
self.
Jean Acker, motion picture actress,
former wife of Rodolph Valentino,
screen star, returned to Los Angeles
from the East and announced her en-
gagement to marry Marquis Luis de
Bazan Sandoval of Spain, whom she
met in New York.
Melvin Blackburn, 10, was charged
with first degree murder in an infor-
nation filed by Prosecuting Attorney
]. w. Taylor of Twin Falls in connec-
ton with the death of his 1S-year-old
wife. Mrs. Blackburn, it is explained,
died after taking a dose of poison she
believed to be medicine, which she had
received through the mail.
Sheriff Charles G. Gragg and
posse were searching the hills near
Mariss, Idaho, for Frank Strand,
bachelor homesteader who is alleged
to have shot and killed w. w. Wedel,
neighbor, in the yard of the Wedel
home. The killing was witnessed by
Mrs. Wedel and four of their five chill
dren.
Three surf bathers, members of
party of picnickers, were caught In
rip tide and drowned at RedOndo
Beach, Calf, a few days ago. They
were Ernest Goodpasture, 80 years
old, and his brother, Victor, 40, of
Huntington Park, and William Lyons,
30, of Inglewood. Laurette and Dor
othy Cline, sisters, of Huntington
Park, were caught in the same tide,
but were rescued by life guards.
Theft of jewel box containing
more than $4,000 in valuables was
reported to the police at Los Angeles
by Mrs. ]. NJ. Engle, who said the box
disappeared several days ago while
being moved to her new home in Bev-
erly Hills. Mrs. Engle delayed re-
porting the loss, she told authorities,
in the belief that careful check of
articles received at the new residence
would reveal the missing gems.
WASHINGTON
The resignation of Charles E. Lob
dell as head of the Farm Loan Board
was accepted by President Harding,
who simultaneously announced the ap-
pointment of l.. j. Pettyjohn of Dodge
City, Kan, as Mr.. Lobdell's successor.
President Harding intervened to
save the job of George l.. Williams, 81
years old, hero of n mail robbery at
jefferson City, Mo-, in 1921, where he
is a laborer in the postoffice. VIII
liams was injured by the robbers,
whom he later helped to convict, and
was left jobless by a change in the
contract for mail messengers. Because
of his age, he was eligible only for
temporary appointments and would
have been succeeded by a younger
man had it not been for the Presidents
action.
Lieut.. Wendell X. Phillips, army
aviator, was killed at Aberdeen, Md,
when his plane crashed as he was
taking off for a flight.
State statutes prohibiting the use
of foreign languages in public, private
and parochial schools in Iowa, Ne
braska and Ohio, and eighteen other
states, instructing pupils below the
eighth grade, were held invalid by the
Supreme Court.
Deportation proceedings against
James Dale, an English actor now in
New York, were cancelled by the
labor department. Investigation of
charges made against Dale by an Eng
lish woman, authorities at Ellis Island
reparted, showed no evidence to JUS
tify the proceedings and warrant is
sued for him was withdrawn.
In statement criticizing the ad-
ministration of the packer and stock
yards act by Secretary Wallace, the
Peoples Reconstruction League an
hounced that at the next session of
Congress it would propose an investi-
cation and seek a transfer of the ad-
ministration from the Department Of
Agriculture to the Federal Trade
Commission.
The Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago
and st. Louis railroad was absolved
from blame for the derailing of a pas
senger train on March 80, when it
struck an automobile at crossing
near Columbus, Ohio, in a report to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
by w. Z. Borland, director of the COM
missions bureau of safety. Eight
persons were killed and forty-eisht in
jured in the accident.
President Harding has personally or
dered that the lid be clamped down
tight on Washington during the Shrine