, 1923-03-22
THE WORLD IN
PARAC A HIS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGS AND HAPPENINGS T.,AT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

uohdi Dunk OF SPOKANE is expected 10
be completed soon.
Damage resulting from a blaze in
the business district of Ogden, Utah.
is estimated at approximately $780,
900.
Two armed highwaymen bound the
proprietor and W employees, n a
young woman, in the g. Cramer jewel
ry store on an upper floor of a down
town office building in Portland, Ore.
and escaped with several thousand dol
lars in jewelry and watches.
A charge of first degree murder has
been filed in Vancouver, Wash,
against George Edward Whitfield, in
an attempt to establish his alleged
connection with the murder of 11-year-
old Anna Nosko while the child was
on her way home from school.
Three members of the California
Legislature and one former member
were among those held up by five
masked bandits and robbed of several
thousand dollars in cash and jewelry at
the Dreamland Cafe, II road house
t~wenty-four miles from Sacramento.
The boots of O. A. jacobson, 81
years old, formerly of Brigham City,
Utah, have been found in the desert
hear the California-Nevada line, ac-
cording to word received in Los An
eeles from Tonopah. New. jacobson
has been missing since he left Los
Angeles in company with a man named
Nelson, in an automobile last October
for Salt Lake City.
tn Inconvenience tho troNplfn1 nttb-
lie through neglecting to post in rail-
way stations the exact time each pas
senger train is due to arrive is in vio-
lation of the Montana state law and
is punishable by II fine of $50 to $500,
according to u communication which
has been sent all Montana counties by
Wellington b. Rankin, state attorney
general.
Protest against the advancing price
of sugar Is voiced in u telegram sem
TO Herbert Hoover, secretary of COM
merce, by DIR. Z. S. Barnes, president
of the Northwest States Federated Co.
operative Fruit Growers. rs u result
of a four-day conference of the grow
ers recently ended In Tacoma. In
creased cost of sugar for canning, the
telegram asserts, results seriously to
the fruit growers interests.
WASHINGTON
Charles f. Cramer of San francisco,
who retired last month as general
counsel for the veterans bureau ut a
time when the conduct of the bureau
was under fire in Congress, committed
suicide in Washington by shooting
himself through the head.
Meetings now in progress among
ship operators in the west coast CON
ference, with the reported purpose of
agreeing ON rates ON dried and canned
fruits from Pacific ports to Europe
hold only an academic interest" for
the shipping board, 1t was said Off
clally ut Washington. The emergency
fleet corporation withdrew Il year ago
from the traffic which would be af-
fected. it was explained, N will not
re-enter IL SO long as adequate Amer
can tonnage is assured to shippers.
A decline of 26 per cent in the av-
erage value of plowed lands through
out the country is shown in u statis-
teal survey made by the Department
VI AhiA3AAAhA1H "a hNAAHt NAANR
per acre on March l this year was
S66.53, the department reported, as
compared with $69.S9 on the same date
last year, $S3.7S in 1921, and S90.01 in
1920.
The first operation under the Anglo
American debt funding agreement
took place, when Great Britain made
a payment of $4,02S,0O o to the United
states treasury through the federal re-
serve bank of New York. This first
payment was made to reduce the total
British debt to S4,600,0OO,0O 0 the
amount upon which the funding agree
ment was predicated.
Modification of the national defense
plans resulting from agreements
reached by the arms conference ere to
receive their first practical tryout in
The Panama area. Carefully analysed
in theory by the navy and army war
colleges, the operations are expected
to develop the enhanced Importance of
the canal ms u prime link In the de-
Tense chain which includes the navy,
army. merchant marine and the ma
tional Industrial machine.
The names OF twenty-one women
have been approved by Acting Secre-
iary Davis of the war department and
officially will be noted on the army's
roll of honor for distinguished and ex-
c~eptlonally meritorious service during
the war. Approval OF the new list
brings the total number OF names to
thirty.three.
Claudius Ii. Huston, assistant secre-
tary OF commerce, has resigned to be-
come president Of the World Com
merce Corporation, a new oil company
in process OF organization. which win
operate In South and Central America.