The Holly chieftain., 1924-02-07
The WORLD IN
PA RA C R A P H s
A BRIEF RECORD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
oo!hes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

WESTERN
Five prisoners escaped from the Col.
rax county Jail at Ration, N. NJ. by
saving their way out
The little tent colony at Oak Grove
near Monterey, Calf, was thrown into
panic when Ralph Washburn, tourist
from the San Joaquin valley. shot his
wife and then turned the gun upon
himself. Police declared the couple
had been quarreling for the past three
months of their sojourn here. Both
died instantly.
Many Catholic dignitaries, including
the Most Rev. Pietro Fmansoni- -Biondi,
apostolic delegate to the United States,
and prelates from practically every
diocese in the West, participated in
.he formal re0pening in Las Angeles
Of st. Vibiana's cathedral. built in
1876, but closed last yenr for extern
sive repairs and enlargements.
The principals of six high schools in
Oakland. Calf, sent out n Joint letter
to the parents or guardians or all high
school students warning them against
"joy-rides, the perversion of modern
dancing, the illegality of smoking by
minors and the danger of an over-sup-
ply of spending money! and asking
them to impose modest dress on the
girls at all times. The letter was ap-
proved by Fred NJ. Hunter, city super
intendent of schools
Opening to homestead and desert
land entry of 14,455 acres of. public
land In Washable and Big Horn coun-
ties, Wyoming, beginning Feb. 20, has
been announced Mt the Interior De-
partment at Washington. Adjoining
entrymen and patentees have pre-
ference right on the tracts within the
area and ex-service men of the World
war have ninety-one day preference,
after which unentered land will be
thrown open to the general public.
| Though fire. blown by sweeping
gale, was almost upon him, Ensign
Thomas John Ryan of New Orleans,
knelt by the side of an American woni-
an pinned beneath the wreckage of Il
hotel room in Yokohama during the
Japanese earthquake and vowed he
would save her or die. Hours Inter he
delivered the Injured woman to the
doctor aboard the steamship Empress
Of Australia. For this Ryan was hon
Ored by Congress and the Navy De-
partment on his arrival in San Fran
cisco aboard the transport Thomas. A
medal of honor for valor was be-
slowed upon him by Rear Admiral
Simpson, commandant of the twelfth
naval district, and a lieutenant's COM
mission was awarded him.
WASHINGTON
Magnus johnson, Farmer-L Labor SEN
ator from Minnesota, invaded the Sen
ate press galleries last week to make
personal but verbal attack on cor
respondent of a Minnesota newspaper.
Federal agents in their efforts last
year to enforce the prohibition and
narcotic laws spent $2O5, 1858 of gov
ernment funds in buying "evidence."
This total was given by Assistant Pro-
hibition Commissioner Jones In testi-
mony before the House appropriation
committee which recommended that
$1O,62s,770 be set aside for prohibition
enforcement during the coming fiscal
year.
Increase Of equipment and personnel
of the coast guard to fight the rum
runners and smugglers along the coast
lines were recommended by President
Coolidge in n message to Congress. The
President asks total appropriation of
| $13,853,9S9.
Adopting the Walsh oil lease annul-
ment by the unanimous vote of the
eighty-nine senators present, the SEN
ate plunged into what promises to be
n historic and extremely bitter fight
over the Robinson resolution request
ing the President to call Immediately
for the resignation of Secretary DENLY.
The right of state to prevent ma
tional banks within Its borders from
establishing branch banking establish
ments was upheld by the Supreme
Court. which at the same time ruled
that the same prohibition was con-
tained in the federal statutes tnem-
selves. The courts decision, which
settles controversy that has shaken
the banking world for many months,
was handed down in the case of the
Fir. National Bank of ST. Louis. The
bank had demurred from n Missouri
state law prohibiting 1t from establish
ing branches, and. losing in the lower
Federal Court, had appealed. The de-
cision of the lower court was affirmed.
Senator Walsh of Montana will try
| to send Albert B. Fall to Jail unless
| Fall agrees to tell the Senate public
lands committee the full story of the
| naval oil reserve leases. Walsh flung
| this challenge ut Fall after the former
secretary of the interior had fatty re-
| fused to answer any questions before
| the committee, which seeks more light
| on the unpaid loans aggreguting 125,-
| 900, made to him by Il. l.. Doheny and
Harry +. Sinclair, whose oil companies
obtained lenses of naval oil reserves