The Tomahawk., 1923-05-10
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Washington-Bishop Alfred Harding
Of the Protestant Episcopal church,
Washington diocese, diedtat his home
here after several weeks illness.
Washington-Chemi warfare ser.
vice demonstrate that poison gases
are effective in preventing and some
times curing tuberculosis, influenza,
paresis and other diseases.
Washington Announcement at
White Houes that president will not
make aggressive campaign for world
court, being content to let people de-
eide issue, pleases republican leaders
Northumberland government Is
prepared through her representatives
on mixed claims commission to admit
that cash assets confscated from
American interests in Germany shall
be repaid dollar for dollar.
Washington-Ameri and Next
can commissioners who are to discuss
adjustment of international differences
are to include disposition Of sovereig-
nty of Saraalz, near Ell Paso.
Washington-United States army
chaplain, courtmartialed for disloyalty
during war and later pardoned, seeks
to clear his record through habeas
corpus proceedings.
Observation-Disclosures given
to women leaders in efforts to boycott
sugar to force down price by President
Harding, who lets it be known, how
ever, that government cannot official
ly sanction boycott.
Washington - The administration
proposal for American membership in
the permanent Court Of International
Justice was discussed by President
Harding with Henry Lane Wilson,
former ambassador to Mexico.
Washington-The cost Of living in
the United States last March was 6S.8
per cent higher than the average OF
the year 1913, according to a compu-
tation announced by the federal bu-
reau of labor statistics based on retail
commodity prices and housing costs in
80 cities.
Washington - The debt funding
agreement with the government OF
Finland was formally executed and,
pending ratification by congress, be-
comes tentatively operative. The set
Element is the first negotiated with
foreign nations which borrowed money
from the United States during the war
to be placed in actual effect. Pay
ments under the agreement Will be-
gin June Is.
Washington-A campaign for the
erection here of a Memorial Monu-
ment to Our Mothers" will be launch
ed. In making this announcement
the Federal Council of Churches said
the Mothers Day International associa-
ton which has adopted Mothers day
button was sponsoring the move
ment.
MISUNDERSTANDING to his desk
after an absence Of nearly two months
in Florida and North Carolina recuper.
ating from illness, Attorney General
H. M. Daugherty was prepared to take
up President Harding's request for a
ruling as to the executives authority
to order the use of naval vessels in
combating rum runners, and the gov
ernment's sugar suit, filed recently In
New York.
Washington-A general reorganiza.
ton of the plan of handling parcel
post packages which would revolution.
lie the whole service is under investi.
CATION by the postoffice department.
It would provide for the sorting and
distributing of the larger packages at
warehouses adjacent to railroad sta.
tions and possibly for special types OF
railway cars to carry them.
Neutrality-suspicious. General H.
M. Daugherty says law as Interpreted
by supreme court barring foreign
ships from United States with liquor
will be vigorously enforced at end OF
80 day period prescribed in ruling.
President and cabinet discuss compli-
cations; may ask congress to permit
foreign ships to bring in liquor under
seal.
Domestic
New York-Heralded as "the last
watch on the Rhine" q American SOL
diers and four German war brides ar.
rived on the u. s. s. President Fill
more.
Chicago-Over 900 arrests were
made by the police in a series of raids
on alleged disorderly resorts. Several
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