The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-10-04
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leaders mystified and disappointed by
Henry Ford's apparent loss of inter
est in Muscle Shoals project.
Washington-Report on wheat sit
uation made public by Secretary Of
Agriculture H. C. Wallace after cabi-
net meeting, in which were discussed
proposals for decrease in export rate
and increase Of duty on wheat.
Washington-Dr. Edward w. Ryan,
internationally known for his work
in combating epidemics, is dead in
| Teheran, Persia, Of heart disease,
according to a cablegram received by
the state department.
Washington Government control
legislation for coal industry as pro-
posed by United States coal commits
sion to be recommended by President
Coolidge. Coal shortage for consum-
ers urged by commission inspecial re-
port giving estimates Of costs.
Is unalterably opposed to ratification
/ Of the Colorado river pact in its pre-
sent form, but Is willing to assist in
eral power commission was informed
by a committee headed by Governor
George H. p. Hunt.
Washington-The soviet government
Is willing to liquidate the 1926, 000, 900
Russian debt to the United States,
President Coolidge was told by Sena-
tor Burton X. Wheeler (dem., Mont J.,
who has just returned from Russia
| Wheeler said he had received assur-
ances to this effect from government
officials at Moscow.
Washington-The American Red
Cross has authorized the additional
purchases Of approximately $4,000, 900
worth Of clothing and other necessities
for Japanese earthquake victims. Am
bassador Woods at Toxic requested
the action, stating that more than
100000 persons in four provinces
were destitute and homeless.
Domestic
st. Louis-The vanguard of more
than 100 army, navy and civilian
planes entered in the international air
races here, Oct. to 3, began to ar
rive.
st. Louis-Chauncey Ives Filley. a
delegate at large to the republican ma
tional convention which nominated
Abraham Lincoln for president in
1864 died at the age of SO.
Aurora, Ill.-Mrs. Mary Vermett,
said to be the oldest woman in the
state of Illinois, is dead at the home
Of her son, Richard, in Hebron, ILL.,,
aged 112 years and 9 months.
New York-The people of the Uni
ted States pay more than $1,000,000 a
week for their chewing gum, accord
ing to statistics brought together by
the National City bank. The habit
of chewing gum evidently is growing,
for the output has doubled since 1914.
Los Angeles-Paul v. Southland, a
sailor, failed to obtain divorce
from Lydia Southland, accused of hav-
ing poisoned five husbands and con-
victed in a case for which she is
serving a sentence Of 10 years to life
in Idaho.
Denver The Moffatt tunnel COM
mission awarded the contract to con-
struct the Moffatt tunnel through the
continental divide west of Denver, to
Hitchcock & Tinker, of San Fran
cisco and New York. The considera-
ton is to be $5,25O,OOO for the sos
mile bore.
Nashville, Tenn.-A hymn and
hnnn6iofinn hn ho,
grave Of Mary Doe" unidentified
woman whose body lay in a mortuary
here for five days following the find
ing Of it on the Murfreesboro road,
wrote perhaps the final chapter to
the mysterious death Of the woman.
Pensacola, Fla.-Sheriff A. Cary FL
lis of Escambia county, was shot and
killed here by Susie McLane, aged
so, when the officer attempted to ar
rest her on charges of contempt of
court, and the woman, in turn, was
shot to death when two city police
men, who accompanied the sheriff, fired
into the house.
Chicago-The American Train Dis
patchers association filed with the
United States railroad labor board a
request for an increase of wages on
the Chicago & North Western railway
The association asks that the rate Of
1925 a month be established for as
sistant chief dispatchers and $500 a
month for trick dispatchers.
Tallahassee, Fla.-The state su-
preme court has extended until Nov
81 the time limit allowed counsel to
file a petition for a new trial in the
case Of Thomas w. Higginbotham, who
was convicted in July of second degree
murder in connection with the death
of Martin Tabert, in a Dixie county
lumber camp, in February, 1922. Hig-
ginbotham was charged with causing
the death by excessive flogging of Tab
ert. North Dakota boy.
Texarkana, Ark.-Receivership pro-
ceedings were fled in federal district
court here against Pat MARI, as trus
tee for the Double Barrel Gusher syn