The Colorado statesman., 1924-03-29
The WORLD IN
PAR A C R AP H S
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK TIL PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN


with the Montana secretary of state as
candidate for delegate at large to the
Republican national convention.
By a decision of two to one, the
University of Wyoming won a debate
from Willamette University at Salem,
Ore, Monday night on the question,
Resolved, That the United States
Should Enter the World Court"
Wyoming upheld the affirmative and
Willamette the negative.
Hume NJ. Frost, mining operator,
vas fatally injured near Silver City,
n. NJ, in an automobile accident. He
med in the emergency hospital at
fort Bayard, N. NJ, three hours after
the accident. Frost was changing n
Dire on rear wheel of his car when a
car following crashed into him,
crushing him against his own car.
Charges that California lobbyists"
and representatives, "as well as power
trust officials seem to consider Ari-
gona's interests in the Colorado river
as unworthy of consideration" in hear
ings before the House committee on
arid lands were made in a telegram
sent by Governor Hunt of Arizona to
Chairman Addison L. Smith or the
committee
Men, supplies and equipment were
rushed to Mariposa and Merced cOun-
ties in California, and the slaughtering
of cattle affected with the foot and
mouth disease in that district was
started by authorities in a drastic eff
fort to check new outbreak of the
malady, considered the worst since the
epidemic began in California more than
a month ago.
Armed guards have been placed at
the stockyards in San Francisco and
Los Angeles to prevent all but inspect
ed cattle and swine shipments because
Of new outbreaks in the state of the
foot and mouth disease, the authori-
hes announced in San Francisco. The
police who were placed at the stock
yards when the disease was discov-
cred were replaced by guards paid by
the state and federal governments.
Four fossilized human skeletons, es-
timated to be from 10000 to 25,OOo
years old, have been unearthed in ex-
cavations near Los Angeles which re-
Gently gave up skull classified by
some paleontologists as possibly one
of the earliest relics of primitive man
yea brought to light. The skeletons
were examined by DIR. Chester Stock,
head of the department of paleontol-
ogy Of the University of California.
WASHINGTON
Harry f. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot
dome, was certified to the federal
courts by the Senate for contempt pro-
ceedings because of his refusal to an
swer any further questions put by the
oil Investigators.
Under the caption, "What Every
body Should Know Abaut Senator
Wheeler and His Montana Gang" the
Republican national news bureau Is
sued a detailed attack on the prose-
cutor of the Daugherty Investigating
committee.
The Roosevelt brothers-Theodore
and Archie-who dramatically ap-
peared before the Senate public lands
committee weeks ago and told of their
suspicious of wrongdoing in connection
with Harry f. Sinclair's lease of Tea
Dot dome, came in for a sarcastic de-
nunciation at the hands of Sinclair.
Representative Lampert, Republican
Insurgent, Wisconsin, was selected
head of the House committee which
will investigate the aircraft industry,
while Representative McFadden, Re
chairman of the committee which will
conduct an inquiry into charges of du-
plication of government bonds at the
bureau of engraving and printing.
The country's first helium reserve,
comprising 7,10O acres of gas-bearing
lands in Emery county, Utah, has been
created by President Coolidge on
recommendation of Secretary work
The land will be known as Helium
Reserve No. l and will be closed to
public settlement, location, sale or
entry. Except for few prospecting
permits, issued about three years ago,
full mineral title to the land is vested
in the government.
resolution providing for the i'm
peachment of G. c. Chase, collector OF
customs at El Paso, on charges OF con-
spiracy, was introduced in the Sen
ate by Senator Walsh Democrat. Mon
tana, and was adopted unanimously
seventy senators voting. Reciting the
refusal of Chase to testify before the
oil committee and the previous testi-
monv that he attempted to get Price
Mckinney, Cleveland banker to give
false testimony, the resolution brings
the situation to the attention OF the
house "for appropriate action"