The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-09-14
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
4 RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oOiNGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events OF the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit of tho
Busy Reader
WESTERN


almost priceless was stolen from e.
H. Croker art gallery at Sacramento.
Caiif, Saturday, it became known
Wednesday. A nationwide search
IS in progress to recover it.
The Standard OIL company will
maintain the 16c gallon price OF
gasoline in South Dakota for the pre-
sent, Governor w. III. McMaster an
n1unced late Wednesday after a con-
ference with Colonel Robert w. Stew
art, chairman of the directorate of
the Standard OIL company of Indiana
and other officials of that company.
The Illinois team. representing the
United States Mine Workers of
America from Benton, Illinois. won
flrst prize in the third international
FIRST aid and mine rescue meet held
At Salt Lake City, Wednesday.
The destruction by hammer and
torch Of what many nations in the
world might consider fair sized
navy has been begun In two Pacific
coast shipyards Monday in com
pliance with orders predicating the
armament conference in Washington.
. Seven ships OF the line" six of them
outworn in service, and the seventh
The greatest of all, still less than half |
completed on the launching ways. |
are being fairly overrun by stripping
crews"
million dollars damage was caus-
ed Tuesday by the worst electrical |
storm TO strike Alameda and Contra
Costa counties, California in 80 years,
Several persons were injured, hun
oreds were imperiled. Two tanks
containing thousands of gallons of
naptha were fired by lightning which
Struck the Standard Oil tank farm at
Sanpahlo. Damage was estimated
at 100000. Scores of nearby tanks
are endangered by the huge blaze.
The editorial rooms of the news
paper Excelsior at Mexico City were
the scene OF gun fight late Monday
between members of the editorial
s,aff and two men alleged to be
members OF the Ku Klux Khan.
0ENEHAL
More than dozen persons were
named Wednesday in the first in
dictment returned by the federal
grand jury at Houston, Texas investi- I
gazing the alleged misuse of the
mails. Bonds set by Judge ]. O.
Hutcheson, Jr., ranged from $1,000 to {
$4,000.
Six persons were drowned shortly {
AFTER midnight Wednesday night
when an automobile in which they
We're riding from Myrtle Beach. :
where they had been spending the
day. plunged through partly opened
drawbridge over the Waccamaw riv r
er, near Conway, S. C. Ono member {
of the party of seven escaped. 5
The battleship Colorado, most pow =
erful sea fighter in the U. S. Navy.
went into commission Thursday at
the Camden, n. j. Shipyards. o
One nun was overcome by smoke
and 90 nuns at ST. Mary's Convent at
Pittsburg were hastily driven out of
the building by fire which ragged in c
the building Thursday. a
One negro was killed and one !,
early Monday wien a band
Of white men dashed thru east Sa.
Tannah, Georgia, land fired into the ri
homes in the negro colony. NJ
Play turned into tragedy, Spring. =, -
axe, n. Y. when Charles Spindler. :,
ase II, and William Hubbard, I6. =
lied after being virtually roasted
live. The lads with companions 20
we're playing Indian, and the fire e
With which the captives were to be 1t
burned at the stake got beyond their st
control.
Fire of undetermined origin broke pa
mt in the basement of the Urited WI
'tates Capitol Tuesday but was extin- lis
.Iished before it spread to other pl
'Irts of the building. m
First Lieutenant Walter II. Hirsch- ="
miller, service officer in the army -
ir service, was killed and eighteen ~,
Their reserve officers in training at -
amp Mead, Md, were injured Thurs 80
ay in the collapse of an old barn M,
a which they had sought shelter from 90
he rain -,
Two marine officers were instantly
He'd and another probably fatally in on
lrsd when two planes in which they nc
ere fly n, collided at an altitude of ro
p3- .imately 5000 feet, plunged to ST
ie ground. al.
fi 1t men were buried beneath 80
"a els of tons Of sand and dirt
i-n al emhankment at Baltimore. DR.
} ne e~cavati n of the colored high FRS
= tied in shortly before noon 90
.5day. Five Of the men buried N,
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