The Holly chieftain., 1923-04-26
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EleN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINes AND HAPPENINGS T:'sT
t.ARk THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.

WESTERN
Clara Phillips, Los Angeles 'ham-
mer murderess," who escaped from
Jail few months ago, passed through
San Salvador en- route to Honduras,
according to statement by the
foreign relations department of that
country.
Pending investigation by California
officers of his alleged connection with
the Staying of FRITZ Mann, dancer at
San Diego, Calf, on Jan. II, young
man, giving his name, as Lewis
Franks, is being held at Miami, Texas,
by Sheriff L. A. Coffee.
Marshall Kent, alias Kent Marshall,
alleged to be the head of national
organization of confidence men, is un-
der arrest in Los Angeles on a federal
charge of using the mails to defraud.
Kent was arrested at the request of
federal authorities in New York.
Practically every spinach field in
the Imperial Valley has been pros
pected for gold since receipt Of dis.
patches from Tacoma, WASH, last
week telling of rich gold deposits on
the roots of spinach shipped there
from that district. The verdict of
prospectors reaching Calexico after
weeks hunt was mot a chance"
In cooperation with the federal gov
ernment's drive against fake oil pro-
moters in Texas. the district attorneys
office in Los Angeles announced that
widespread investigation will be be-
gun into the operations of mushroom"
oil promotion companies in southern
California, which are alleged to have
mulcted the public out of millions of
dollars
Spokane, WASH, police are seeking
man whose advances caused young
girl to leap from his speeding car, and
who, when pursued, shot and wounded
the motorcycle officer pursuing him.
The girl, Gladys Homer, is in hos
pital with fractured skull, possibly
dying. The motorcycle officer, j. Il.
Cashatt, Is in another hospital, with
a bullet In his right lung.
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 by w. c.
Ruegnitz, an investigator for the Al
organization.
WASHINGTON
1t has been officially announced at
the Treasury Department that Henry
NJ. Dawes of Chicago would become
Comptroller of the Currency on May 1.
He will succeed D. R. Crissinger of
Marion, Ohio, who will become COVER
nor of the Federal Reserve Board.
Harry B. Morse, indicted with his
father and two brothers for alleged
frauds perpetrated on the government
in the construction Of wartime ships,
has been arrested and refused read
mittance to bail. Morse's arrest fol-
lowed the forfeiture of his $4,000
bond few days ago and the issuance
Of a bench warrant for him, after his
trial had been postponed sixteen
times.
Numerous applications for the job
as prohibition director for Colorado
have been sent to the United States
Treasury Department at Washington.
The office was left vacant when the
resignation of Emmett H. McClena-
han was accepted by David A. Blair,
commissioner of internal revenue in
Washington. Recommendation by
United States Senator Lawrence C.
Phipps will be awaited before an ap-
pointment is made
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
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
degree of federal control had been
gradually modified until the only di-
rect routing requirement remained.
Hereafter shippers and railroad Off
cials may exercise an unhampered dis
cretion in routing freight.
President Harding has signed an ex-
ecutive order permitting the appoint
ment of Miss Alice Robertson, former
congresswoman from Oklahoma, as a
welfare worker" in the United States
veterans bureau. Miss Robertson was
defeated for reelection last year.
The grain futures trading act was
declared valid and constitutional by
the Supreme Court. 1t was the second
time the court had passed on the val
ldity of grain future trading law, a
previous statute based on the taxing
mower Of the federal government hav.