The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-10
The WORLD IN
PAR A G RAP H S
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK TIL PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

train, was derailed at Ulmoris, five
miles west of Lordsburg, N. NJ, ac-
cording to Southern Pacific officials.
Forty-flve motion picture cowboys
awaited Justice Court hearing after
having been disarmed by the city mar-
shal at Newhall. north of Los Angeles,
and arrested on charges Of carrying
concealed weapons. Forty-five revolv-
ers loaded with blank cartridges were
held as evidence while their owners
were ut liberty on bond.
Roy Walsh, fugitive from Montana,
where he Is under sentence of death
for murder, has been found in the
Missouri prison at Jefferson City, serv-
ing n two-year sentence for burglarq
under the name of Donald Stewart.
Announcement of the Identification
was made by prison officials. The dis
covery of Walsh came about through
the flnger-print system.
The owners of Tillle Alcartre, fam
GUS Yolo county dairy COW, killed by
a firing squad in Los Angeles because
she had the foot and mouth disease,
will receive $3.50 in compensation for
her death, 1t was stated by G. II.
Hecke, director of the state depart
ment of agriculture. Tillie was
known as the greatest milk COW in the
world and was at one time worth more
than $4,000.
Capt ]. 2. Donnelly, federal dlrec-
tor of prohibition for the district of
Eevada, submitted his resignation to
Commissioner Haynes with the under
standing that it become effective after
he has been given an opportunity to
vtndicate himself of charges reflecting
on his official conduct made in re-
port by the United States grand jury.
Last week the grand jury adopted a
resolution demanding Donnelly's i'm
mediate removal.
although at times the efforts of
government experts, assisted by state
workers In attempting to stamp out
the hoof and mouth disease in Cali
fornia, seem on the way to success,
at other times there seemed to be no
progress. 1t took n year and n half
to eradicate the last epidemic of this
disease in the United States. 1t may
take this long to get rid of this one
These statements were made in Den
yer by DIR. George w. Stiles, bacterl-
ologist In charge Of the pathological
division of the Denver office of the
Bureau of Animal Industry.
WASHINGTON
The Democratic income tax schedule
has been approved by the Senate. 1t
calls for Il maximum surtaX rate of 40
per cent and 80 per cent cut in nor
NAL taxes on incomes under $4,000.
C. w. Middlekauf, assistant United
States attorney at Chicago told the
Senate Daugherty investigating COM
mittee that former Judge Lands had
made "unuuthful and unwarranted"
statements in his recent testimony
about the conviction and pardon of
Philip Grossman, a former Chicago
saloonkeeper, accused of violating the
prohibition law.
Fifty-five additional government ex-
perts are being sent to California to
combat the foot and mouth disease, ac-
cordlng to Il telegram received in Sac
ramento The augmented government
staff will give DR.. U. G.. Houck nearly
200 trained workers.
Responsibility for spread OF the foot
and mouth disease among cattle in
California was placed by Secretary
Wallace in a statement in Washington
on thoughtless persons who travel
from infected farms TO non-infected
areas. The secretary said that If that
was stopped, the joint efforts of the
Department of. Agriculture and the
authorities of California would stamp
out the disease in n very short time
A preliminary agreement under
which Gen. Vincente Tosta was elect
ed provisional president of Honduras
was reported to the State Department
In u dispatch from Sumner Welles,
American delegate to the five-power
mediation conference at Amalpa. The
message said that the agreement had
been signed by representative of the
disputlng Honduran factions and that
Mr.. Welles hoped further disorder and
bloodshed would be prevented.
A search in the records of the In
terror Department has failed to dis
close that President Harding author
ized Albert b. Fall, as interior secre-
tary to lease more than 5000 acres of
land in California naval oil reserve
No. to the Honolulu Oil Company. e.
@. Finney. assistant secretary of the
interior, testified before the Senate oil
committee.
Allegations of serious deterioration
in American naval strength are re-
garded us generally unfounded by
President Coolidge