The Winslow mail., 1923-11-30
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
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THE WORLD
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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~SSAN
1homas j. Ryan, president of the
American Oil Company, was arrested
IN Los Angeles by federal officers ac-
cused OF misuse of the mails in con-
nectlon with the affairs of the Ryan
Process of oil refinery at Pioneer, Tex.
Gouverneur Morris, the author, had
claimed place in the front rank Of
amateur golfers with a sensational
slxty-eight on the Del Monte, Calf,
course, equaling the record set last
summer by Francis Brown, Honolulu
champion. Par for the course is
seventy-one.
Gov. James G. Scrugham of Nevada
and former Gov. Emmett D. Boyle mar
rowly escaped death or serious injury
In Reno when the car in which they
were riding sideswiped another
machine and overturned in a ditch,
hurting the two governors onto the
pavement through the roof of the car.
Neither was seriously hurt.
DR.. Robert A. Millikan of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology at Pas
adena, and recent winner of the Nobel
prize for physics, has been notified of
T the award to him of the Hughes medal
by the Royal Society Of London. The
award was made for DR.. Millikan's de-
termination of the electronic charge
and other physical contents, the nOtifi-
cation stated.
Tearing off his linen collar while
lying under his overturned automo-
bile, suffering from injuries that later
proved fatal, Hugo Fullterer, a Mon
terey county, California, rancher,
wrote his will on the bit of cloth and
also a last message saying that he be-
lieved himself responsible for the ac-
cident, in which his niece, Erna Voge-
lie, also was fatally hurt.
George Sanders, himself only 21
years old and facing a life sentence
in Folsom prison, pleaded before a
San Francisco court, so successfully
for his kid brother" Roy, 10 years
old, that Roy escaped with a sentence
to Preston reformatory. The brothers
were convicted of robbery. "Give this
kid a chance" George pleaded. "He
wouldn't do a thing like this if l
didn't make him do it,
WASHINGTON
Charges of barbarous cruelty, prac-
ticed upon helpless Koreans by order
Of japanese officials during the recent
earthquake disaster in Japan have
been filed with the State Department
by DR.. Floyd w. Tomkins, president
of the Friends of Korea in America.
Americans were among the eyewitness
es when $50 Koreans, bound hand and
foot were covered with oil and burned
alive, according to the report filed
with Secretary Hughes.
AS a result of their refusal to work,
after they had demanded the release
Of J. B. Childs, their reputed leader
confined to the dungeon for striking,
seventy-one convicts, sentenced to San
Quentin prison for criminal syndical-
ism, are in solitary confinement ON a
diet of bread and water according to
an unofficial announcement by prison
authorities. All Of the prisoners are
said to be members of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
The next major war ''will be won or
lost on the sufficiency of munitions re-
serves" Maj. Gen. Clarence c. VIII
liams, chief of army ordnance, pre-
dicted in his annual report, made
10 or of hn ri
ment.
Former President Wilson made a
brief address from the bay window of
his residence to several hundred mem
bers of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy who went to the Wilson
home during their annual convention in
Washington. Mr. Wilson confined his
remarks to an exchange Of greetings
and made no reference to public ques-
tiOns.
A counter claim seeking recovery of
nearly $2,000,000 is the governments
answer to Swift and Co.'S allegation
that the government owes it about
81 100000 on a wartime contract for
army bacon. A brief prepared by the
Department of Justice says the ex-
istence of such a contract has not been
proved and accuses the company of
fraud, violation of its food admins
tration license by taking greater
profits than permitted and other Of
fenses.
Retail druggists of twenty-seven
states, the District of Columbia, Porto
Rico and Hawaii, where the law per-
mits prescription of liquor for medic
inal use filled 11,268,469 such pre-
scriptiOns during the fiscal year ended
June 80, according to the first sum-
mary of this kind issued by the pro-
hibition bureau. A total of 1,400,6145
gallons were thus sold, divided as fol-
lows: Whiskey, 1,347,573 gallons;
wine, 3O,752; brandy, 9.945; gin, S,173;
alcohol 21569: rum, 2,015 New