, 1923-04-12
The WORLD IN
P A C HIS
A BRIEF REcoRD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNGS AND HAPPENINGS TAT
rARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

ClhoI VI lOWu, ulu SlTODs tOultIlutT
for the presidential nomination at the
Democratic national convention of
1896, died at his home in Long Beach,
Calf, aged 90. His health had been
failing for several years.
Arr objects valued ut hundreds of
l"usandS of dollars were destroyed
recently when a fire of unknown
origin destroyed the home of Mrs. Oil
yer Dwight Norton in Montecito, Calf.
The home, II of the new places of
Southern California, was built ut Il
cost of 100000.
Rabbi Alfred q. Lafee, of the Bush
street temple, lies in the Mount Zion
hospital, in San Francisco, near death
from ii crushed skull and other in
turies, HI resu of Il beating given
him by n stranger dressed in u navy
seaman's uniform, while they were
gione in II hotel room.
Mrs. Esther Grant, said to be the
wife of a Chicago broker, was found
dead in her room in n hotel in San
Francisco. Police say that Mrs. Grant
committed suicide. Friends declared
that she had said repeatedly that she
would commit suicide when her re
sources were exhausted rather than nc
cept employment.
Assessment of the > per cent license
tax on oil production will be put on
value of the oil at the well, according
to n decision by the Montana State
Board of Equalization. Payment of
the l per cent tax, in effect until the
last meeting of the Legislature, in
some cases deducted from the field
price the cost of pipe transmission and
of railroad freight On the oil to refin-
cries.
All street beggars in Los Angeles
are professional mendlcants and there
is not Il single case OF need among
them, according to the Los Angeles
social service commission, which has
opened its drive against begging on the
streets with an appeal to the public
to meet them with jobs" Sixteen
large charitable institutions and num-
erous small relief organizations, ac-
cording to the commission, make 1t I'M
necessary for those in distress to beg
on the street. but the professional
III INT tuSltl II llOI
profitable method of appealing to pub
lie sympathy on the sidewalks.
WASHINGTON
A warrant was issued for the arrest
of John w. Clifton. prominent WASH
ington attorney In connection with the
case OF Thomas Craven and Frank
Dorian of Boston, arrested in New
York for conspiracy to violate the Vol
stead act,
The radical tax revision program as
outlined by Representative Frear, re-
publican, Wisconsin, was ~assalled by
Representative Hawley, Republican,
Oregon, a member of the house ways
and means committee. 1T it is desired
to help the farmer and laboring man.
an Increase in the tax burden on bust
ness certainly will not do it, said Haw.
ley. y cannot figure just what the
theory is on which these proposals are
based"
After months of a~ntagOnism and the
delay caused by the test of its consti-
nationality, the packers and stockyards
act is now established ON u solid basis
and its administration is contributing
directly and effectively to the good of
the live stock industry, Secretary Wal
lace OF the department Of agriculture,
in a statement just made
public.
Federal Prohibition Commissioner
HAYNES has made tentative plans to
visit Denver early next month to slim
ulate enforcement work in the inter
mountain country. 1t is probable that
he will be accompanied by II. q. Vel
lowley, chief of the prohibition agents,
and one of the headquarters legal
staff, and will hold conferences with
state officials and prohibition agents.
Charles W. Morse, New York ship
builder. recently carried to the Dis
trict OF Columbia Court of Appeals his
fight 10 prevent the trial in Washing
ton on charges OF conspiracy to de
fraud the government OF himself,
three sons and four others. Counsel
for Morse filed a petition for a writ Of
prohibition, which, IL granted. would
prevent n Judge In the District Of
Columbia Supreme Court from pro-
ceedlng with the trial.
Collections of income tax up to
March 10, exceed S450,0O0,O00, It was
shown recently upon receipt of final
returns from Internal revenue collec-
tors over the country. Collections to
March 10, last year, were 1885, 100000,
showing an Increase Of more than @
third, which treasury officials regard
Us striking evidence Of business pros
perity throughout the United States.
A public market in san Francisco
has Installed community scales" in or
der hat customers may weigh their
purchases. This, the management
says eliminates weight shortages.