The Winslow mail., 1923-03-02
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
One hundred Los Angeles business
men faced death as the yacht Eloise,
out of fuel, was tossed about helpless
ly in a storm 100 miles out at sea.
Governor Moore of Idaho vetoed the
statewide direct primary bill, for the
passage of which Senator William E.
Borah made a spectacular campaign
last fall.
George w. West and his mechanic
Shy Thomas, were injured seriously,
perhaps fatally, in the second lap Of
the first 25-mile race at the state
fair grounds at Phoenix, Ariz., when
their car left the track and turned
over several times.
Mucking crews which have been
working in the ruins of Dawson mine
No. 1 of the Phelps-Dodge Corpora
ton at Dawson, New Mex, demol-
ished in a coal dust explosion Feb. 8
have found the body of the last of the
120 miners who were killed when the
blast occurred.
After a two-day session in Chicago
devoted principally to discussion of a
1923 schedule, owners of the Western
League adjourned without accepting
one. Two schedules were submitted,
but neither proved satisfactory to a
majority of the members, who ad
journed to meet in Kansas City on
March to further consider the mat
ter.
Wage schedules for skilled building
trades in Spokane will be increased
from 80 cents to $1OO day, effective
by officials of the unions concerned.
Lathers and painters will receive an
increase of 80 cents a day and hOd
carriers, plasterers carpenters, brick
layers and plumbers will each receive
a $1-a-day increase, according to the
union officials.
Word that the United States army
air service will make a systematic at
tempt this year to break every worlds
record not already held by an Ameri-
can aviator was received in San Diego
from Washington. Orders for special
training of airmen have been pre-
pared. The War Department has sent
word that there now Is in building a
plane which is expected to eclipse by
more than forty miles an hour the
fastest time ever made over meas
ured course.
WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court held that high
caste Hindu is not free white per-
son." within the meaning of the natur-
alization law, and therefore is not en-
titled to citizenship.
The British debt funding arrange
ment is one step nearer completion,
congressional approval of the act rati-
flying the recently negotiated settle
ment with Great Britain having been
completed.
Passenger fares to and from points
on the principal lines traversing these
states are unduly high and prejudiced
to the extent that they expected SINH
lar fares to and from points in other
states, report submitted to the Inter
state Commerce Commission by Henry
G. Keene, one of its examiners, de-
clared.
A universal calamity resulting
from a worldwide shortage Of textile
fabrics is threatened by the rapid
u - haI tn,
ern cotton fields, President Harding
declared recently.
The nomination of Senator Poindex-
ter, Republican, Washington, to be am
bassador to Peru, was sent by Presi-
dent Harding to the Senate, which
quickly confirmed it by unanimous
vote in open session.
Associate Justice Edward T. Sanford
of Tennessee took the judicial oatn
upon the reconvening of the Supreme
Court after a three weeks recess.
Chief Justice Taft administered the
oath Immediately after the court met,
the new justice wearing his judicial
robes, repeating it after him while the
The controversy over the Ku Klux
Kan was brought into the United
States Senate with the filing of pro-
ceedings contesting the right Of Earle
B. Mayfield to become senator from
Texas. The contest was brought by
George E. B. Peddy, Republican and
independent Democratic" candidate
for senator in the election last Novem-
her
Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of the
general who at one time during the
Civil war commanded the Union army
of the TeDnessee and later was a
United States senator from Illinois,
died in Washington of influenza after
a ten days illness. She was "a years
old
The bill of Senator McNary, Repub-
lican, Oregon, providing for govern
ment advances of 81, 1,065, 600 to the city