The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-13
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Roald Amundsen, polar explorer,
will make arrangements for another
attempt to fly over the North Pole
next summer after arriving in Europe,
he stated in Seattle, before departing
with II. II. Hammer, his American
representative, for New York City.
One convict was killed and another
fatally injured at the state peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla, Wash, by Thorn
as Walton, who leaped from the line
emerging from chapel and drove a
knife into the heart of s. p. Burt, q,
his former pal. He fatally wounded
another convict.
Decision to raise S75O,O00 for the
founding at San Francisco of a hospi-
tai for Chinese in the United States
was reached by the Pip Sing Laborers
and Merchants Association in annual
convention in Philadelphia. Each state
and Alaska were represented by del
egate and each pledged his district to
raise $4,000. The convention will con-
tinue for one month.
President Coolidge, in the presence
of Secretary DENLY, Assistant Secre-
tary Roosevelt and ranking officers of
the navy, presented congressional
medal of honor to George Bradley,
chief gunner, United States navy, for
merltorious service under fire during
the landing of American naval forces
at Vera Cruz in 1914. Bradley, at
tached to the battleship Utah as the
chief gunner's mate, was in charge of
the ammunition party and special de-
tails at Vera Cruz.
Harry Lacalle, a publicity and ad-
vertising director, was shot and fatal
ly wounded in roadhOuse on the
Bothell highway, a short distance out
side the city limits of Seattle, Wash.
He died ten hours later in a hospital
in Seattle as he was about to be placed
on the operating table. County author
tiles are holding Miss Winifred Glib
bons, 21-year-old divorcee, Lacelle in
a dying statement having charged her
with the shooting, according to Dep
uty Prosecutor John D. Carmody.
WASHINGTON
After being out seventeen hours,
the jury at Phoenix, Ariz., which heard
the evidence in the trial Of Mrs. Leila
Crandall for the killing of w. L. Rem
ington, former state legislator, re-
turned a verdict of acquittal.
Accidents at coal mines in the
United States during the month of
August killed 295 employees, according
to reports from state mining depart
In 10 ~ of ba Int
ior Included in this number are nine
ty-nine deaths in gas explosion at
Kemmerer, Wyo., on Aug. ii. The out
put of coal during August was 57,732,-
600 tons; thus the fatality rate per
million tons was Oil.
Hope that Hawaii would obtain
from the federal government an "ordi-
nary garden variety of square DEAL"
was expressed by Governor Earring
ton after a conference with President
Coolidge. The governor, who came to
Washington for conference with Sec
retary Work, discussed Hawaiian
problems with the President in n gen.
eral way only the details being left
for discussion with Secretary Work.
Although not desiring to pose as a
prophet, President Coolidge regards
the business future of the country as
promising, and looks for a continual
ton of present conditions, which he be-
lleves on the whole are good.
The Supreme Court refused to con-
slider the appeal of sixty-two insurance
companies from fines laid upon them
by the courts of Mississippi for al
legged combination in restraint of
trade. The fines totaled more than
eight million dollars.
A maximum increase of per cent
in the retail cost of food in the month
ending Sept. 10 was shown in COM
pleted compilations announced in
Washington for twenty cities out of
flfty-one for which the bureau of labor
statistics receives reports.
Friends of Mrs. Florence King
Harding have been informed that she
has decided definitely to spend the
coming winter in Washington, but is
still undetermined as to where she will
make her future home. George Chris
tan, the former presidents private
secretary, has returned to Washington
from Marion, where he discussed set
tlement of some of Mrs. Harding's
personal affairs.
Washington will be the home of the
National War Mothers Association, it
was decided by the annual convention
in session in Kansas City, Mo. Head
quarters will be moved to the national
capital from Indianapolis Immediately
to eradicate state prejudice.
Gen. George ii. Harris, Chicago, was
elected commander-in-chief at an cleo
ton of officers conducted by the Mill
tary Order of the World War In Wash