The Tomahawk., 1923-08-30
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Washington-Senator Reed Smoot
predicts passage of soldier bonus bill.
Washington-Secret OF Treasury
Mellon returns from Europe and lays
European situation before president.
Washington - President Coolidge
mystifies opponents and halts rush to
toss hats in the ring for 1924 renom.
iIation.
Washington-General aspect of in.
dustrial employment situation encour.
aging, according to labor departments
monthly review.
Neutrality-suspicious. department
announces that Europe is still Amer
ica's largest buyer, despite falling of
of exports.
Washington-Mexican commission
ers, accompanied by Secretary Of State
Hughes, visited the White House and
reported to president on results OF
recognition conference.
Washington-Attitude OF American
business on important economic ques-
tlOu6 uClOlo W
tees representing the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
Washington President Coolidge
confers with Chairman Hammond of
United States coal commission and
keeps in close touch with Atlantic City
conference.
Washington-The retail cost Of food
averages 2 per cent higher in July than
in June, while during the year ending
July Is the general advance amounted
to 4 per cent. The average family ex-
penditure for food increased during
the month in As representative cities
and decreased in six. Milwaukee had
a 5 per cent increase.
Observation-Disclosures by Senator
Smith w. Brookhart OF Iowa, that E.
T. Meredith, while occupying the Of
fee of secretary of agriculture, sat
in the Wall street game and helped
produce the greatest panic In farm
prices in the history Of agriculture"
prompted Mr.. Meredith to instruct his
attorneys to file suit against the SEN
ator, asking damages of 80 cents, Mr..
Meredith declared in a statement.
Domestic
New York-Captain Fred Walters,
aged 60, internationally known as the
"blue man" exhibited by Barnum and
Ringing brothers, died in Bellevue
hospital of heart disease. An autopsy
revealed his brain, heart and other
organs and tissues as blue as his skin.
Burlington, Vt.-Park H. Pollard, a
first cousin of President Coolidge,
who was Endorsed by the democratic
state committee as the party candidate
for senator to succeed the late Sena-
tor William P. Dillingham;. has been
chairman of the state committee since
1914. He Is a merchant In Proctors-
Vile.
Topeka, Kan.-The Kansas House
refused to take up the bill appropriate
ing 100000 additional bonds to
cover the shortage in the bonus fund,
pending receipt Of more detailed re-
ports from the bonus director and
commission as to just what the short
age may be. The Senate passed the
bill.
Lakehurst, ". 1.-THE giant navy
dirigible Fri, largest craft Of its kind
in the world, under construction at
the naval station here, rose from its
cradle within the immense hangar for
few minutes. The final touches are
being put on the huge craft and the
ascension was confined to the limits
of the house IN which the ship was
built.
Omaha-A plan will be submitted
to the Omaha city council for the es-
tablishment Of a municipal bakery un-
less prompt action is taken by local
bakers toward a reduction in the re-
tail prices of bread, John Hopkins,
city commissioner, stated. Commits
sioner Hopkins declared his action
was precipitated by the exorbitant
price of bread in Omaha.
Huntsville, Ont.-Bodies of eight
persons, all women, including that OF
the wife Of James McNally, Of Rand,
McNally & Co., Chicago publishers,
have been recovered from the ashes
of the Wawa hotel, in Muskoka, which
was destroyed by fire. Two persons
are reported as missing. Five persons
suffered injuries from which they may
die, while 20 who are being cared for
in hospitals are said to be out Of dan.
ger.
Miami, Fla.-A strange sea monster
drifted ashore on Kew Biscayne, a few
miles southeast Of Miami. Weighing
about 1000 pounds and dead less than
"a hours, 1t presented sight never
before duplicated in these waters,
fishermen who saw it said. The mon.
ster is about eight feet long, four feet
in depth and only one foot across. 1t
has a head, II 1t can be called that.
shaped in a semicircle measuring from
back to belly across the face.
Tulsa-Declaring that the military
cannot supersede civil authority while