, 1923-02-08
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
VIII Hays, arbiter of the movies, re-
fused TO discuss the report from Los
Angeles thai he has reversed himself
on his recent stand that Fatty" Ar
buckle be allowed to return to moving
pictures. A spokesman for Mr.. Hays
said: The report is untrue and
Mr.. Hays wishes 1t denied.
Charles Gleason of Butte. a student
in the University of Montana ut Mis-
soula, Mont, was taken from n frater-
nifty house by u band of masked men.
Gleeson, the second university student
kidnapped by masked men within five
days, refused to make any statement
regarding the occurrence.
The Kansas Senate passed a moi bill,
designed to put due portion of respon-
sibility for mob activities on the par
Elephants and the peace officials who
fail to suppress such activities, and
provides as penalties, terms in the
state penitentiary of from two to five
years. 1t defines a mob as three or
more persons"
The Nevada Senate adopted the
State Assembly resolution approving
the Colorado river compact and the
resolution has been signed by the gov
ernor The resolution pledges Ne
vada TO work with the federal govern
ment and the other western states
concerned along the lines recon-
mended by the commission headed by
Secretary Hoover.
The marriage ceremony of n. NJ.
Howes, 40 years old, and Cora Greg
DRY VIII, AZ, was performed in the Lit
tie Church of the Flowers, IA funeral
chapel in Forest Lawn cemetery, at
Glendale, n suburb of Los Angeles, be-
cause the bridegroom wished TO EN-
phasize the seriousness of matrimony,
he said. The bride smiled and said
nothing when asked what she thought
about II.
The storm which recently visited
Southern California, bringing cold,
rain, hail and snow to Los Angeles
and nearby cities, conferred in the Los
Angeles harbor district, where II for
ty-five-mile gale worked havoc among
the shipping. The naval seaplane F-5-
L-1,moored in the outer harbor, broke
away under the lash of the south
wester and piled up on u reef near
the breakwater.
WASHINGTON
Acceptance of Henry Ford's offer
for Muscle Shoals. provided no better
offer is available and conditions on
the actual production of nitrogen for
fertilizer at the rate of 10000 tons a
year, is recommended in u special re-
port made to the American Farm Blu
reau Federation by Bernard NJ.
Baruch, war time chairman of the
war Industries board.
The entire cost of the allied occu-
patton of the left bank of the Rhine
from the armistlce to Dec. 81, 1922,
mounts to 4,500,000,000 gold marks,
or 81, 125, 100000 at the pre-war rate of
exchange, according to figures COM
piled by the German government and
made public in Washington recently.
OF this moun Germany has paid 9O0,-
100000 gold marks, or $225, 10000, ac-
cording to the German governments
figures.
DR.. Hubert Work of Colorado, who
came into government service twn
years & as nm assistant postmaster
general, later succeeding VIII Hays in
the cabinet, will be the successor to
Albert Il. Fail as secretary of the in
terlor, II was learned authoritatlvely
In Washington.
Losses to the government through
mall bandits in major mail robberies
have been materially reduced by the
Postoffice Department. They have ag-
gregated only $24,553 for the last nine
months, compared with $1,129.3S6 for
the year ending March 81. Two years
ngo S6,346,407 was stolen from the
mails, of which S3,2S6,017 wns recoy-
cred, leaving a net loss Of $3.06o.390.
Work of army experts since the war
has produced a new rifle bullet known
as n "boat-tnil," because OF n six-de-
gree taper at the tail. Exhaustive
testsf by the army have shown that
the change in shape has added 1,50O
yards to the maximum n attained
and f%lattening the trajectory or are of
flight at 1000 yards approximately 80
per cent. In addition. the army ex-
perts have worked out n new jacket for
the bullets hat virtually eliminates
fouling in the CUR barrels.
The %repnrations question again was
brought up In the Senate, Senator
owen, Democrat, Oklahoma, crit
clsing the French invasion OF the
Ruhr and declaring that the United
States, before II Is too late" should
Join In guaranteeing France from In
vasion and In guaranteeing also the
rights of the German people.
The federal radio control bill, vest