Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-12-07
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service has been obtained, Accord
to federal officials. from Herman
KS Davis. He is at liberty under 500
bond.
Full information as to the exa
situation with reference to the Fren,
9" war debt to the United States of nea
ly $4,000 100000 is requested by Sc
ator Borah, Republican, Idaho. in
letter addressed to Secretary Mello
as chairman of the American del
funding commission
Deaths from automobile accident
&c numbered II ,666 last year in the cen
- sus registration area of the Unite
" States, which contains 50 per cent O
u the total population, an increase o
'e 1893 over the previous year.
l. Adjustment of the federal trade
# commission and the transfer of It.
|, useful activities to the department Of
= commerce is proposed in a bill to be
introduced in the house by Represen-
, tative Johnson, of Washington, repub
lican.
The Sixty-eighth session of Con-
gress convened at noon Monday Dec
ember 3.
Pardoned by President Coolidge
and freed from a life sentence at
Leavenworth, Lothar Witzke the only
German spy convicted in the United
States during the World war was
deported on the Hamburg American
liner Albert Balm.
President Coolidge and Attorney
General Daughertya decided in confer
ence Wednesday to delay pardon
for Comptroller Charles L. Craig,
under sentence for contempt of court.
while the cease follows the regurar
channels fixed by law. !.
Senator Hiram Johnson in his first
public address since announcing his
candidacy for the Republican nomin.
alton for president, Tuesday con-
demned the foreign policy at WASH
ington which he said had been at.
tempting to commit America to "un.
disclosed European adventures"
FOREIGN
Premier Poncares plan for a COM
mission of experts to examine into
lie question of Germany's ability to
oay reparations is considered to have
'eceived a distinct setback through
he reported refusal of Secretary OF
state Hughes to have the American
government take part. But the dis ,
position in French government circles 6
vas to go ahead.
A flood OF divorce suits filed by
ierman school teachers has swamp.
d the German courts. The suits are
he result OF government order that
II married women officials must be =
ismissed as part of the sweeping :,
eduction in governmental machinery -
the new economic program. n
the Pas Manitoba dog derby billed ''
) the worlds greatest 200-mile non
OPP dog race, will be run on March
!, 1924, according to the decision of
e executive committee under the
lairmanship Of President r. o. Orak.
Upon hearing himself sentenced to fl
5enty months in the penitentiary for re
ceiying stolen property the manager sv
cotton company shot himself yc
'ad before the court at Bremen. la
Mile. Clio Chaigneau, a popular W,
ncer, of Paris, was sentenced tc ca
ison for stealing a $4,000 necklace, IS
Floods caused by the bursting of a ~
m rushed through the valleys of e.
monica and Dezzo Sunday drown. 20
, more than 300 persons and COM -.
stely inundating a number of vii
res, according to reports received do,
Rome. ~
Six bandits overturned the rickisha pe'
messenger of the Tung yin Trust ~
npany in the business district at s .se
angnal ana escaped with more than A..
10000 worth of negotiable securi- A..
del
The beginning of an age of tireless ami
n is believed to be forshadowed by seq
announcement of the discovery whl
a vaccine to render human beings per
nune of fatigue by London pny. ,r,.
an. WI
Am
IN undisturbed tomb dating from, wor
time Of Christ has been discover OF
in the valley Of Kedron, near Jes- of
lem, according to word received
n DIR. W. +. Albright, director OF q
American school Of oriental re-
rch In Jerusalem, DIR. James Alan
'tgomery, president of the school ''s
ounced. ing
hooc
eeording 10 = message from Hal ship
fors, an explosion Ia the red q. a