The Winslow mail., 1923-06-01
CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, NGS, ACHIEVE
MENTs, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN

A man who said he was James NJ.
Clark was arrested in Los Angeles on
charges of having defrauded many
persons in a number Of American
cities by the alleged sale Of land in
the Peace River district Of Canada.
In response to a telegram from Hous-
ton, Texas, officers asking If James G..
Durham was wanted In San Jose, Cal,
Police Chief ]. N. Black Of San Jose
replied that Durham was wanted in
connection with the deaths Of his wife
and five other persons May 20, 1896,
at Campbell, seven miles west of San
Jose.
That a prehistoric race Of people
giants, in fact-lived in California and
Arizona, 997, 900 years before King
Tutankhamen of Egypt, Is conclusively
proven, Samuel Hubbard, Oakland
archaeologist, declared recently in tell
ing of evidence he has found In the
Grand Canon Of Arizona to support
such belief.
The War Department was requested
to place the monoplane To, in which
Lieut. Oakley G. Kelly and John A.
MacCready made their recent nonstop
transcontinental flight in the war me-
mortal building at San Diego, as per-
manent historical exhibit, in resOlu-
ton adopted at Riverside, Calf, at the
state convention of United Spanish
War Veterans.
Miss Wilma Ruth Rayburn, a mem
Der of the graduating class at the Uni
versity of California, was presented
with her degree at the university in
Urinary at Berkeley and died a half
hour later Miss Reyburn, % years
old, a daughter of the Rev. Clinton Fl.
Reyburn of San Francisco, collapsed
during the final examinations and was
removed to the infirmary.
Stephen H. Love, of Salt Lake
City, president of the United
States Sugar Manufacturers Asso-
citation, sent notice to members in
Twenty-Five states that a conference
would be held at Colorado Springs,
Colo, on May 90 The general sugar
situation and the federal probe of SUI
gar sales will be among the questions
discussed, Mr.. Love said.
WASHINGTON
Fifty thousand American business
concerns, representing total invest
ment of at least $2,500,0OO,OO0 are af-
fected by federal decision holding
void the purchase of stock through per-
sonal notes in all corporations organ
lied under the laws of the state of
Delaware
Public lands in three states were
opened to entry by ex-service men I'M
der an order issued recently by the In
terror Department. The tracts include
2S7 acres in Baca county, Colorado ;
100 acres in Fergus county, Montana,
and 100 acres in the Salt Lake land
district, Utah.
The remains of two men found near
the wreckage of an airplane on Cuya-
maca mountain, east of San Diego,
were positively identified as those of
Col Francis Marshall and Lieut.. Chas.
Weber of the aviation corps of the U.
S. army. The discovery of the bodies
ends a search for the missing aviatOrs
which has been carried on for months.
Free on $500 bail and his trial set
for June 10, Upton Sinclair, author
and socialist, arrested at San Pedro on
a charge of unlawful assemblage and
suspicion of violation of the criminal
syndicalism law, declared in Los An
geles he would take no further part in
the existing longshoremen's strike and
devote his entire efforts toward win
ming his own case.
Intensive drives against all forms of
tobacco have been inaugurated in all
parts of the country, with the avowed
object of ''burying tobacco in the same
grave with John BarIeycorn," Jess
Bloch of Wheeling, w. Va, president
of the Tobacco Merchants Association
of the United States, told the 400 mem
bers of the association who met in
Washington recently.
Great Britain alone of the allied
powers has replied to the American
suggestion of April last for concerted
action to bring about a permanent So
luton of the relief problem in the
Near East The British, 1t was said at
the State Department, expressed will
ingness to participate in any sound
plan for permanent relief measures,
but advanced no suggestion as to the
| form such measures might take.
George Harvey, American ambassa-
| dor to Great Britain, declared upon
| his arrival in New York City on the
| steamship George Washington that he
| knew nothing about reports that he
had resigned, or planned to resign, in
order to direct a campaign for the re-