The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1923-05-04
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS Tl'AT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

| Roy Hill, fireman, third class, and
Harold S. Maupin, seaman, second
class, were badly scalded when
steam pipe burst on the destroyer
Woods, at anchor in the San Diego
| harbor.
BY mounting battery of 16-inch
naval guns 1000 feet above sea level,
| the United States will have the most
powerful fortress in the world at Ha-
wall, Secretary of War Weeks an
nounced.
Nine-year-old Eldon Jensen Of Cor,
| nish, Utah, shot and killed his mother,
Josephine Jensen, 46, while playing
with a rifle. The youth told authOri
ties he did not know the gun was load
| ed, and he is not being held.
A bandit wearing white handker-
chief over his face entered the Cliff, a
San Francisco hotel, and robbed Miss
Margaret McDades, the auditor, and
Miss Lima Lund, the cashier, of $4,000
in currency and $4,000 in checks be-
longing to the hotel.
The scent car fare in effect on Seat
ties municipal street railway system
since March l, will be abandoned and
the S1a-cent token" fare restored, the
city council decided when 1t unani-
mOuSly adopted the report of a special
committee recommending the increase
Reports received at headquarters Of
the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum-
bermen at Portland, Ore, indicate that
from 10 to so per cent Of the workers
in various logging camps in Oregon
and Washington are preparing to
strike at the call Of the Industrial
Workers of the World, according to
announcement made Saturday
The Industrial Workers of the World
| general strike in the Pacific Coast
states spread to longshOremen and
transport workers at San Pedro, Calf,
and it was reported 1000 men had quit
work there. In Oregon it was said the
strike had not gained new adherents,
| but in Washington indications were
that it had caused additional workers
to leave their jobs.
WASHINGTON
Portugal has ratified all of the
Washington conference treaties to
which she was a party, according to
official advices to the state depart
ment. France now remains the only
country that has not ratified the
treaty.
Opposing the picketing of the White
House by representatives of the World
war veterans in behalf of imprisoned
war violators the District of Columbia
department of the American Legion
presented to President Harding a me-
mortal declaring the legion stands I'M
changeable in it's opposition to the re-
lease Of the seditionists."
A long list Of appeals taking excep-
ton to the rulings Of lower courts
were thrown out by the Supreme
Court Among the questions which
| the court announced 1t would not re-
view was the extent to which automo-
bilists are guilty of contributory negli-
gence when injured at a railroad grade
| crossing as presented in case brought
at Colorado Springs, Colo, by LaVera
NJ McNulty against the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe.
President Harding has decided to
| permit transportation to the United
States of the 500 Russian refugees
who recently landed in the Philippines
after a stormy voyage in their own
ships from Vladivostok. Plans for
bringing the refugees to the United
States on an army transport were
mapped out at the conference of the
President, Secretary Weeks and John
Barton Payne, chairman Of the Amer
! lean Red Cross.
Railroads will no longer be required
| by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to route freight shipments over
the most direct lines from their points
OF origin to their destination. The or
ders requiring such routing, vacated by
| a decision recently, the the only rem
nants Of the emergency measures tax
| en- during the coal and rail strikes of
| 1912 to avert transportation tieup.
| The original emergency orders by
which car supply, railroad routing and
priorities in service were put under a
degree Of federal control had been
gradually modified until the only dl-
rect routing requirement remained.
Hereafter shippers and railroad Off
Gals may exercise an unhampered dis
erection in routing freight.
More than a quarter Of a million
acres of land In five Western states
has been thrown open to veterans of
the World war by the Interior Depart
ment. The land includes DO, 7O0 acres
In Owyhee county, Idaho; $4,000 acres
| n Beaverhead county, Montana $4,000
lcres in Elko and Eureka counties,
| Nevada; $500 acres in Rio Arriba
county, New Mexico and 1900 acres in
Mesa county, Colorado.
Five men were killed when seat
! fold on which they were working fell
from the roof of the Hotel Monticello,