The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1924-04-03
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Fred A.
Britten, (rep., Ill.), returned from
Cuba and said 'hysterical congressio-
nal Investigations" had caused loss
Of American prestige there.
Washington-The democratic ma
tional committee announced it had Or
ganized a series Of meetings for wo-
men throughout the country in the
next two weeks for discussing the
tariff.
Neutrality-suspicious. champions hope
full Of presidential approval of bonus
bill in form passed by the house. Sub
stitute bill introduced lin senate by
Senator Reed Smoot, providing for in
surance certificates payable only at
death.
Neutrality-suspicious. that republican
national committee deficit was made
good by Sinclair oil stock turned over
to Attorney General H. NJ. Daugherty
and Will Hays for the purpose by
Harry Sinclair, leads to issuing Of
subpoena for Mr.. Hays to appear before
senate oil investigating committee.
Observation-Disclosures of persons
engaged in church and institutional
work in central Europe are suffering
hunger and hardest privation and more
than 80 institutions of pihlanthropic
character in Germany alone have
closed lately, according to a report
from the Rev. De Adolf Keller af Zu-
rich, Switzerland, European represen-
tative Of the federal council Of
churches.
Washington-An invitation is being
conducted into the administration Of
the district office of the Veterans bu-
reau at San Francisco, in charge of
Major Louis T. Grant, Director Hines
announced. The director said certain
newspaper articles rejecting on the
reputation of Grant in connection with
alleged Smuggling operations" had
been looked into and it has been found
he had been given an unconditional
pardon" for certain offenses.
Washington-Mrs. Coolidge will be
one Of the honorary sponsors for the
Women's Law Enforcement conven-
ton which will open here April 10. AS
ISOLATED, as sponsors, will be Mrs.
Harding, Mrs. William H. Taft and,
Mrs. Thomas A. Preston. Jr., widow
Of Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Herbert
Hoover will be president of the con-
vention, which will attempt to mobo-
lie sentiment among women for law
enforcement through club work and
other local means.
Domestic
Indianapolis-The rank and file of
the United Mine Workers of America
ratified the new wage scale agree
ment. assuring peace in the bitumin-
Gus industry for three years by an
overwhelming vote. The vote was
164,858 to 26,253.
Chicago-Pacifiism at Northwestern
university Is confined to 3S students,
less than one-half Of 1 per cent of a
student body of 5000 or 10000. Briga-
dier General Nathan William Mac
Chesney, president of the university's
general Alumni association, declared.
CHARACTERISTIC supply Of oil will
not meet expected requirements and
four new fields capable Of producing
100000 barrels a day must be devel-
oped, say arrivals for the annual con-
vention Of the American Oil Mems as
ISOLATION which opened here. Six hun
dred oil men are expected at the meet
ing.
Norfolk, Va. - Wireless operators
were baffled by the mysterious SOS.
calls flashed out on low wave length
apparently from ship in distress
somewhere off the Atlantic coast be-
tween Hatteras and New York. Frag-
ments of the distress calls picked up
at naval communication stations could
not be deciphered.
Eastview, N. Y.-Dr. Edward e. Ru-
mely, former publisher of the New
York Evening Mail, and his attorneys
Norvin r. Lindheim and s. Walter
Kaufman, all found guilty of conceal
ing German interests in the Mail in
the World war, have been assigned to
farm labor at the state penitentiary
The three were sentenced to serve one
year each.
New York-Insulin, the cure for
diabetes discovered by Dr. F.. G..
Banting of Toronto, already is check
ing the death rate caused by the dis
ease, according to figures made pub
" lie by the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company. Among nearly 100000
industrial policy holders Of the COM
pany, the decline in the diabetes
death rate for 1923. <
Peoria, nl-When an electric curl.
ing iron fell into bathtub on the edge
of which she sat, Mrs. Clarence e.
Smith, wife of a manufacturer, was
shocked into insensibility and nearly
drowned. She was unconscious for
two hours. Those who heard her
scream and rushed to her aid found
her gasping for breath in the over
flowing tub. .-,s "..
Jacksonville, Fla. - Mabel CODY,
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