The Winslow mail., 1923-07-13


ment was intently preocupied with
how to terminate a situation in which,
to it's sorrow, it found itself still hold
ing 10000 Irishmen as prisoners.
GENERAL
The Farmers Union of Canada re-
Gently voted to form a voluntary wheat
pool for the 1928 crop, and communi-
Gated with other farmer organizations
in the western provinces seeking re-
cognition.
The st. Louis unit of Piggly Wiggly
Stores, Inc, including forty-nine gro
Gerry stores and a bakery, has been
purchased by a syndicate of st. Louis
financiers, headed by Mark G. Stein
berg & Co. The announcement stated
that the price was more than $780,
OOO."
In the midst of the blaring of bands
and the farewell cheers of thousands
of Tacoma citizens, President Harding
sailed from Tacoma, Wash, for Alas
ka, the first chief executive Of the ma
ton to visit that territory since it
came under the American flag fifty-Six
years ago.
Adjt. Gen. Carlos e. Black Of the Il
Iinois National Guard is declared
"derelict in duty and primarily to
blame" for not sending troops to Will
hanson county at the time of the Her
rim ,.in in fhn of tho lnpi SlD-
tive investigating committee which
made it's report to the Legislature at
Springfield.
Lives of passengers on the Southern
Pacific's Sunset Limited were i'm
periIed recently when the train
smashed into an automobile containing
large quantity of dynamite near
Glendale, Calf, killing the cars driver
and seriously injuring another occu-
pant. Though hurled in all directions,
the dynamite failed to explode.
Eighteen federal prohibition en-
forcement agents, most of them sta
toned in Manhattan and Brooklyn,
were dropped from the staff of II. @.
Merrick, divisional chief for New
York and northern New Jersey. The
dismissals were said to have been
made necessary by the looping of $780,
900 from the governments appropria-
ton for enforcement in the fiscal year.
One infant is dead and another is in
a serious condition in a Schenectady,
n. Y, hospital, in consequence, charity
officials say, of an all-night ride of 165
miles with seventeen other children in
a hired automobile from Brooklyn. The
children, seven of them five months old
or under, were brought to Science
tady by Mrs. Anna SieWers, the party
arriving after trip Of twelve hours.
John 2. DAWN, a junior teller in the
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, one
of the largest financial institutions in
Philadelphia, Pa, shot and killed him
self while standing in the teller's cage
of the bank. A few depositors were in
the place at the time. A statement
issued by the bank said that DAWN had
been suffering from melancholia due to
i'll health, the result of worry over the
death of his child six months ago.
At least thirty-tWo persons were
killed and more than 100 injured in
accidents attributed to Fourth of July
celebrations throughout the country,
marking an upward trend in Independ-
ence day casualties which had been on
the decrease for many years since the
safe and sane" Fourth idea took eff
feet. Ten more of the thirty-two
deaths reported were caused by fire
works or explosives used for that pur-
pose, the others resulting from fire
arms, automobile accidents, drowning
and similar accidents traceable to
Fourth celebrations.