The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1924-05-01
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Washington


Westinghouse joint resolution was
adopted by the senate authorizing
changing the name of Mount Rainier,
Washington, to Mount Tacoma.
Washington President Coolidge
enjoyed Sunday of complete rest, at
tending church in the morning and
cruising on the Mayflower later in the
day.
Westinghouse resolution authoriz.
ing investigations by a SPECIAL con-
gressonal committee of all land grants
to the Northern Pacific railway com.
pany was reported to the house by the
public lands committee.
Observation-Disclosures Command
er Louis c. Sheibla OF the navy was
drowned in the Potomac river near the
Dahlgren proving grounds when an
irplane In which he had landed turned
over.
Observation-Disclosures General II.
s. New said his department was not
trying to kill any attempt to raise
postal salaries, but did not agree with
what is called for in bills now before
congress.
Westinghouse separate investiga-
ton into the leases granted to the
Honolulu Oil company on land within
naval reserve NO. 2 in California Is to
be made by the senate oil committee,
by Senator Walsh, prosecutor for the
committee said.
Domestic
Boston-The emergency board Of
the United Textile Workers of Amer
lea. voted to instruct all affiliated
unions to fight IL any attempt is
made to reduce wages or lengthen
working hours"
Fort Smith, Ark-Mr. and Mrs. At
las Harper Of Greenwood, Ark, were
instantly killed when their automo-
bile was struck by an engine on a
Missouri Pacific railroad grade cross
ing near here.
Fort Wayne, Ind.-Clara Kimball
Young, the actress, who underwent an
operation in a hospital here for the
removal Of an abdominal tumor, was
resting easily and her ultimate recov-
cry is looked for, according to DR., B..
T. Weaver, her physician
San Francisco - Lieutenant John
w. Benton. U. s. Army aviator, and a
young woman passenger in a CONNER
cial airplane, fell 1000 feet into San
Francisco bay but escaped uninjured
A coast guard life saving crew rescued
Benton and his companion and the
plane was towed ashore.
Corvallis. Ore.-Two supposedly pre-
historic elephant skeletons have been
found on the Willamette river, Is
miles above Corvallis The shape Of
the remains is well preserved. The
discovery was reported to DR.. John B.
Horner, director of historical research
at Oregon Agricultural college
New York-Four persons were in
jured when a bomb exploded on the
first floor Of a lower east side tene-
ment house. The neighborhood was
thrown into panic by the explosion,
which shattered hundreds of windows
In nearby houses, and police reserves
were rushed to the scene,
Cannon City, Colo. - Lou Blonger,
aged "A. alleged king of an interna-
tional ring Of confidence men, who
were convicted in Denver last sum.
mer, died in the state penitentiary
here after long Illness He was serv-
ing sentence OF to 10 years.
Philadelphia - One of the most
delicate and unusual operations known
to surgery was performed in the Hah-
nemann hospital here. when a mans
windpipe was patched" with skin
grated from his thigh. The operation
is the first Of it's kind ever to be per-
formed in this country, physicians
said.
New York-CaptS'n Felix Murass of
the French liner Paris announced the
discovery of a new method for dispos-
ing of liquors in excess of the medicin-
al allotment which his vessel had
brought to the II mile limit Instead
of dumping it to the fish, as has been
TIC practice, he "stood treat" to all
the second and third class passengers.
New York-Mary Garden, prima
donna, who sailed on the Aquitania,
was accompanied to the pier by Will
lin H. (Big Bill Edwards, former col.
lector Of internal revenue, who recent.
ly sponsored her application for first
American citizenship papers. Miss
Garden made her departure the occa-
sion for another denial that she and
big Bill were engaged.
New York-The letter of Secretary
of the Navy Curtis Wilbur to the SEN
ate declaring William G. McAdoo
came before the navy department with
claim for $3S5,000 is neither the
whole truth nor the important truth"
Gordon Woodbury., who was assistant
secretary of the navy the last seven
months Of President Wilson's admins
tration, announced. The claim was
brought by Albert c. Burrage, Boston,
for damages done to his steam yacht,
Cincinnati - Clarence Saunders,
& Memnhia Tam former nrouidon< ~