Gunnison news-champion., 1923-01-05
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Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
the large hall housing n moving picture
theAter and confectionery AZ Grand
view. Idaho. forty miles south Of
Boise
William T. Dixon liked Long Beach
He often said he hated to dl. and
leave 1t and he made funeral plans &C
cUrdingly. In compliance with his re
quest, his ashes were taken In an air
plane 2,pcD feet above the business dis
trict and cast into the air.
The automobile Of John Danz, who
operates several Seattle motion pic
tUre houses, was wrecked by = bomb
that was thrown in II while II was
standing empty in front OF his home.
buHZ attributed the explosion to labor
controversies be has had recently.
Discovery OF "a cabin in lonely
cuh0n near Los Angeles" where Mrs.
Clara Phillips. hammer murderess,"
who escaped from the Los Angeles
county jail Dec. .. concealed herself
FOR at least four days" after the Jail
break. WAS announced at the sheriffs
office recently.
detection OF his advances toward
Helen Engel, IL years old and pretty.
last spring, is believed TO have So
crazed Emil Neuriter, 30. ferTyboat
proprietor. that he entered her home
In Seattle and tgrned Christmas JOY
into tragedy by killing her two sisters
and one Of her brothers and then end
ing his own life.
Sheriff Larry Duggan has offered a
reward OF 500 for Information leading
to the arrest and conviction OF who
ever placed dynamite ON window sill
at Hlbernia hall, Butte, Mont, while
a New Year eve dance was in prograss,
warning 50 the bomb was hurled from
the building before explosion
report was received by the sher-
ifs office nj Marshfleld. Ore, that
Mrs. l.. A. Perrie, 40. was choked TO
death at her home near Myrtle Point,
ore, BY her husband. a rancher, who
then killed James Culver, u neIghbor.
who had attempted TO interfere in Mrs.
Ferries behalf Perrie, said to have
been crazed by liquor, is reported to
have fought off another nelghbor who
sought to overpower him. killed three
dogs and fed from the ranch.
WASHINGTON
Appointment OF Francis II. wadleigh
as federal fuel distributor to succeed
Conrad +. Spens, who retired Jan. L,
WAS announced At the White House.
The nomination of Walter l. Cohen,
New Orleans negro, to be comptroller
Of the port of New Orleans. which has
been opposed by Senators Ransdell
and Broussard Of Louisiana was con-
sid&red briefly by the Senate COM
merce committee. No action was
taken.
Senate warfare over the Borah pro-
posal for world economic conference
reached dramatic turning point re-
Gently when President Harding threw
the full force Of the administration
against Senator Borah's plan as con-
tanned In an amendment to the naval
appropriations bill and, in letter read
in the Senate. virtually asked for Its
defeat.
In the course Of debate In the Sen
ate, Senator Lodge announced to the
Senate that he WAS authorized to say"
On behalf of Presidedt Harding that
the administration IL stanchly opposed
to any cancellation q war debts
The first Llow to reach the capitol
Of alleged bootieSgers was struck By
Senator Curtis, Republican. Kansas
chairman Of the Senate rules commit
tee. when he ordered a negro waiter
discharged from the Senate restaurant.
The waiter. Curtis said, had dropped a
bottle of strong smelling hooch % the
floor Of the restaurant.
A challenge to opponents Of Henry
Fords proposal to take over the Mus
Gle Shoals project to put forward
better offer was made by Representa-
tive Mckenzie, Republican, Illinois,
acting chairman of the military affairs
committee, which considered the plan
in an extension Of remarks inserted in
the Congress onal Record. Mr.. Nc
Kenzie insisted that the Ford offer
Nouiu iOs kAe
er, and denied that acceptance would
sean that only one-tenth Of the power
developed 1t Muscle Shoals would be
used for manufacturing fertilizer pro-
ducts.
Former Premier Ciemenceau's Amer
lean visit added 10000 to the Ameri-
can field service fund feilowships, Ste
phen Bonsal. who managed the tour.
announces The amount Is the surplus
of money received from lectures and
newspaper articles by the Tiger after
defraying the expenses Of his trip.
The nomination Of Earl E. Ewing to
be postmaster At Colorado Springs
was sent to the Senate by the Presi-
dent. Other nominations are those Of
william d. 4.sbury to be postmaster
It Montrose. and Ira r weod at Ra-