The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-28
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Roy Hill, fireman, third class, and
Harold s. Maupin, seaman, second
class, were badly scalded when
steam pipe burst on the destroyer
Woods, at anchor in the San Diego
harbor.
Clara Phillips, Los Angeles "ham-
mer murderess," who escaped from
Jail a few months ago, passed through
San Salvador en- route to Honduras,
according to statement by the
foreign relations department Of that
country.
A bandit wearing a white handker-
chief over his face entered the Cliff,
San Francisco hotel, and robbed Miss
Margaret McDades, the auditor, and
Miss Lima Lund, the cashier, of $4,000
In currency and $1,000 In checks be-
longing to the hotel.
Pending Investigation by California
officers of his alleged connection with
the Staying of FRITZ Mann, dancer at
San Diego, Calf, on Jan. IA, a young
man, giving his name as Lewis
Franks, is being held at Miami. Texas,
by Sheriff L. A. Coffee.
The 5-cent car fare in effect on Seat
ties municipal street railway system
since March l, will be abandoned and
the S1a-cent token" fare restored, the
city council decided when it unani-
mously adopted the report of special
committee recommending the increase.
Reports received at headquarters of
the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum-
bermen at Portland, Ore, indicate that
from 10 to 90 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
WASHINGTON
Portugal has ratified all Of The
Washington conference treaties to
which she was party, according to
official advices to the state depart
ment France now remains the only
country that has not ratified the
treaty.
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 +. 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.
More than a quarter of million
acres of land in five Western states
has been thrown open to veterans of
the World war by the Interior Depart
ment. The land includes 222, 700 acres
In Owyhee county, Idaho; 24,000 acres
In Beaverhead county, Montana; 1S,900
acres in Elko and Eureka counties,
Nevada; $500 acres in Rio Arriba
county, New Mexico and 4,500 acres in
Mesa county, Colorado.
A long list of appeals taking excep-
ton TO the rulings of lower courts
were thrown out by the Supreme
Court Among the questions which
the court announced 1t would not re-
view was the extent to which automo-
bilists are guilty of contributory negli-
gence when injured at a railroad grade
crossing us presented in a case brought
at Colorado Springs, Colo, by Lavera
NJ. McNulty against the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe.
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 a transportation ueup.
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 d.
rect routing requirement remained
Hereafter shippers and railroad Off
clals may exercise an unhampered dis
cretion in routing freight.
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.
Injunction proceedings to shut off
trading in sugar futures, unless
hackad nv actunl ownership or control