The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-14
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNes AND HAPPENINGS TpAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

ably fatally Injured In an alrplane ac-
cident at Los Angeles, recently. Inc
men attempted a flight in a plane
owned by a commercial aviation COM
pany.
Benton Stables, Carson City Nevada,
q historic landmark, best known as
the starting place Of Horace Greeley
on his famous stagecoach ride with
Hank" Monk, is about to pass. In
late years the building has fallen into
decay and was recently condemned.
Six months in the county jail is the
punishment meted out to Miss Ella
Wolfe, IS years old, Of Salem, Ore
gon, who was driver of an automobile
that ran down and fatally injured
woman. Miss Wolfe applied for
parole, but the court refused to con-
slider Ii.
A dispute over a land deal at Tur-
lock, Calf, resulted in the probably
fatal shooting of Mrs. Joseph Curtner
Meyer, and the suicide of Benjamin
Morgan, who shot her. Morgan is al
legged to have set fire to Mrs. Meyers
home and then laid in wait until she
came to the door.
william ]. Gloria has resigned as
legal adviser to Samuel f. Rutter, fed
eral prohibition director for California.
as a protest against recent alleged
trough house" methods of prohibition
agents and what he terms Rutter's
failure to punish agents guilty of un-
warranted offenses, according to a
in hA
Examiner.
Investigation of the circumstances
surrounding the Staying of Benjamin
G. Ballantyne, son of prominent Salt
Lake City family and formerly teller
ut n Salt Lake City bank, was contin-
ued by the police following their an
nouncement that Mariner +. Browning,
nephew of John NJ. Browning, noted
gun inventor, had admitted he killed
Ballantyne in self-defense.
Famed as the Rose City," Portland,
Ore, is in danger Of losing that title
unless greater activity is taken by the
people in cultivation of the flower, ac-
cording to organizations which have
started a movement to stimulate in
terest. The Chamber Of Commerce and
the Portland Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton are back of this effort, one of the
first steps being the formation Of rose
clubs among the children.
WASHINGTON
President Harding says political
campaign talk is premature and threat
ems to abandon plans for Alaska trip
because of 1t.
President Harding believes that If a
reduction is made in federal taxes 1t
should apply all along the line and not
solely to surtaxes.
Appealing to the Republican mem
bers of Congress for unity of action
and to the administration for cooper
alton, Senator Wesley l.. Jones of
Washington, who led the administra-
tion fight for the shipping bill recent
ly, Issued "a statement declaring that
unless the majority functions in the
next Congress it will be discredited.
Oil companies wholesaling gasoline
can furnish retailers tank and pump
equipment under an agreement that
the equipment be used exclusively for
handling the gasoline of the company
owning the equipment, the Supreme
Court recently held in cases brought
by the federal trade commission.
The radical tax revision program as
outlined by Representative Frear, Re
publican, Wisconsin, was assalled by
Representative Hawley, Republican,
Oregon, member of the house ways
and means committee. IF 1t is desired
to help the farmer and lnboring man,
an Increase in the tax burden on busi-
ness certainly will not do 1t" said Haw-
ley. II cannot figure just what the
theory is on which these proposals are
based"
About S100000,000 in War Savings
Stamps and certificates due and pay
able on Jan. 1. 1923, are still outstand-
ing" according to Lew Wallace, Jr,
director of the United States govern
ment savings system. "That means
loss of interest for more than three
months, although the government has
done everything possible to induce the
people to exchange those stamps for
the new treasury savings certificates"
His vacation ended, President Hard
ing has returned to Washington and
has turned his mind toward the cares
of problems of state. The departure
of the presidential party from Angus
TIA, Ga, brought to close vacation
of five weeks for the chief executive,
four weeks of which were spent in
Florida and one in Augusta.
President Harding's Forthcoming
tour of the Middle West and Pacific
coast will start about June 30, when he
plans to leave Washington for Alaska,
n has been announced officially at the
White House.