The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1924-01-31
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Washington Representative Vic
tor Berger of Wisconsin, only socialist
In congress, cabled congratulations to
Ramsay Macdonald, Great Britain
new premier
Washington-A message expressing
his sympathy and that of the Off
GERS Of the state department in the
death of Maurice Francis Egan, form
er minister to Denmark, has been
sent by Secretary C. E. Hughes to
Gerald D. Egan, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
son of the late diplomat.
Washington - One thousand Ameri-
can delegates to the Associated Adj
vertising Clubs of the World conven-
ton in Condor next July. will travel
on three shipping board vessels.
Lhigh c. Palmer, president Of the
Emergency Fleet corporation, an
nounced that arrangements had been
made to carry 600 of the delegates
on the steamship Republic, sailing
July 2; 100 on the George Washing
ton, sailing July 4, and 300 on the
Leviathan, leaving New York July s..
Washington-A slight decline in
wholesale prices in December was in
Dictated in labor department reports
The wholesale price index maintained
by the department, which represents
the composite price level Of 404 COM
modities entering into living expen-
ses, was ISL at the month end, as
compared with 152 for November
The price level shown was 81 per
cent less than that Of December a
year ago. Food building materials
and fuel were included in the list Of
commodities showing declines. Cloth
ing increased slightly in price.
Domestic
Boston-Rear Admiral William 8.
Sims. retired, operated on, was re-
ported in an entirely satisfactory con-
dition.
New York-Discovery of a serum
for scarlet fever was announced by
DR.. A. r. Dochez, associate professor
Of medicine at Columbia university.
Beaufort. N. C.-The four masted
schooner Anna NJ. Records, was aban-
doned by its crew off Cape Lookout
Shoals, because of its waterlogged
condition and was towed into Cape
Lookout cove by wrecking tug
which had taken the crew off.
Columbia, Mo.-David Sarnoff, vice.
president and general manager Of
the Radio Corporation of America
sent a message to Iwaki station, jap
an, and received his answer by tele-
phone. the message travelling $4,000
miles in minute, As seconds.
elphia-Pistols for this city's
1000 firemen, and 100 additional mo-
torcycles for the police force we're an
nounced by Director of Public SAT-
ETY. Smedley D. Butler as his latest
plan for the suppression of banditry,
following an appeal to the firemen to
pitch in and help the police"
Dayton, Ohio - Fifty thousand dol
lars will be given as prizes in the in
ternational air races to be conducted
this fall, it was announced by Freder-
lex B. Patterson, president Of the Ma
tional Aeronautic association. This
amount, it was said, is four times as
much as has ever been given in this
event heretofore.
Chicago-Remarking that, having
been reared in a small town where
the railroad pay roll was the only
pay roll he appreciated the impor-
lance of his new task, former Cover.
nor Edwin P. Morrow, of Kentucky,
took office as a public representative
on the United States rail labor board.
He succeeded Judge r. NJ. Barton.
Memphis, Tenn, resigned.
Cincinnati-Benjami Franklin Pur-
nell and others of the House Of David
in Michigan lost a motion filed in
United States circuit court of appeals
for summary reversal of their con-
viction in United States district court
at Grand Rapids. Reversal was
sought on the ground that John w.
Hansel and others had failed to file
their brief within the time limit APP
pellate court granted the appellees
until Jan. % to file their brief
Los Angeles-Vilkjalmur Stefann-
son. arctic explorer, has decided to
turn his attention to the little known
areas of Australia, he announced at a
banquet given in his honor here by
the Adventures club of Los Angeles.
1t is his intention to devote six
months to exploration and research
on the continent with a view to writ
ing a suitable geography of that part
Of the world, he said.
Muskogee, Okla. - Five thousand
dollars daily from oil raised Dixie
Fife, 10 year old Creek Indian girl,
from poverty to riches, but it has not
brougt her happiness. Last week she
agreed to pay $4,000 as a divorce set.
Element to Berlin Jackson, the farmer
boy sweetheart she married soon after
oil was discovered on her allotment,
and she left a sod house on the prairie
for a modern home with three ex-
pensive automobiles in her garage.
Denver - Overpowering three sen.
tries who stood guard over them with