The Winslow mail., 1923-07-20
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

WESTERN
The Los Angeles store of the
SchOltZ-NIutual Drug Company, closed
| through a court attachment obtained
by the Bank of Italy, was reOpened
after creditors had agreed to release
the store from the court order, accord
| ing to statements from the creditors
attorney.
| When the transport Henderson,
carrying President Harding and his
party, steamed into Taku bay en-
route to Juneau, the capital of Alaska,
prepared to afford the party the rare
sight of navy guns firing into the ice
| of a huge glacier, a heavy fog settled
| down and the bombardment was aban-
| doned at the last minute.
Although no funds were provided
| for the summer term at the San Fran
cisco Teachers College in the budget
passed by the last Legislature, the
summer term at the school beagn with
| 500 students in attendance. The term
was made possible when the regular
| teaching staff donated it's services and
| the students assumed responsibility for
all expenses.
United States Senator William E.
Borah, Republican, of Idaho, came to
the defense Of President Harding in a
reply to United States Senator Will
liam H. King, Democrat, of Utah, who
| in a speech at Salt Lake City, had
called the nations chief executive Gin
| sincere" and declared that in his ad
vocacy of the world court the presi
dent chad deceived the people"
"Just for fun 11-year-old Arthur
Macarthur of Whitehall, Mont, broke
open the switch lock at Blackstone
| Spur, thirty-three miles east of Butte,
causing the wrecking of westbOund
Burlington No. Al on the Northern Pa
cific, in which four persons were
killed and many injured, he confessed,
according to County Attorney Howard
| Johnson and railway officials of
Butte.
Loganberries sold in Portland, Ore,
at 81 a crate at special stalls arranged
in the public market by city officials
to aid growers in the vicinity of Port
land to dispose Of their crops. Can
| neries have refused to accept logan
berries IN this state, reporting they
still have on hand part Of last years
pack and do not feel disposed to take
on more stock with sugar at the pres
ent price Growers said they were
taking a loss in selling at 81, but were
selling at that price rather than let
the berries rot on the vines.
WASHINGTON
Distribution of air squadrOnS at
| tached to the battle fleet to points
along the Pacific coast and in Hawaii
| for summer practice has been ordered
| by the Navy Department with view
| to enabling the units to acquaint them
selves thoroughly with the topography
| of those areas while the fleet is idle.
Smaller crops than last year were
| indicated in the July, forecasts of the
| Department of Agriculture, issued a
| few days ago, for wheat, corn, rye,
white and sweet potatoes, rice, hay,
apples and peaches. A tobacco crop
| 1OO,OOO,OO0 pounds larger than last
years and a larger production of OATS
| barley and flax seed were Indicated
While officials of the American
| Federation of Labor deprecated the
progress claimed by President Hard
| ing in his campaign to eliminate the
| twelve-hour work day in American in
| dustry as revealed by his announce
| ment before sailing for Alaska, the
| feeling prevailed in government circles
| that the president had at least won a
moral victory.
Reports of consumption of private
| IiuuOr stock by passengers on board
government ships have brought before
the shipping board the question of its
| jurisdiction in the matter, with the
resulting decision that it's authority,
as exercised through the ships cap
| tain, does not run to the extent which
would permit any interference with
| the passengers actions.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany filed suit in the District Supreme
| Court for an injunction against the
Secretary of the Interior to prevent
| the threatened cancellation of a grant
| for eighteen sections of land in Wyo-
ming. The contention is made that
even if the sections are mineral, the
government failed to make the dis
cOvery in time and may not now take
them from the railroad company.
| THE United States District Court in
San Francisco denied a motion asking
for the dismissal of a petition by
| Charles Lockard, an owner of the Sc
attic Club in the Pacific Coast Base
ball League, that w. II. Mccarthy,
president of the league, be compelled
to seat him as a director of the par
ent organization. Mccarthy has re-
fused to permit the participation of
the Seattle Club in the regular league