The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-07-25
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FOR BUSY READERS
A RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DOlNGS IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
Important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reportel by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit OF tho
Busy Reader
WESTERN

Private Frank C. Black of Provo
Utah, member Of @ battery OF thu
10th field artillery narrowly escapet
serious injury at Camp Lewis, Wash.
when horses drawing a gun Timber
became scared and he fell, the whee
of the timber passing over his chest
Although unconscious for some time
following the accident he was revived
In the camp base hospital, and physi.
clans after hours of examination
failed to find any serious injuries.
Fire OF undetermined origin des-
troyed the warehouse of the Basche
Sage Hardware company at Baker
Oregon with loss estimated at $780,.
900. The warehouse was filled with
heavy hardware, farming implements
and paint.
Rudolph Spreckles, San Francisco
banker and political reformer has is
sued a statement indorsing the can
didacy OF Senator Robert La Toilette
for the presidency on an Independent
ticket, and called upon all progress
aves to give tie Wisconsin senator
their support.
Sheriff's records of Portland, Ore
gon show that Ernest Rohlfing held
in Boise, Ida. on a murder charge, is
wanted there on warrant charging
larceny of registered letter. Rohlf-
ing was porter at the Campbell
Hill hotel. He is alleged to have
taken letter containing $3.50 In
Liberty bonds given for delivery to
4 guest.
Indictments against nineteen physi-
clans involving allegations that they
operated diploma mills" or were
beneficiaries of such operations were
voted by the San Francisco grand
Jury. Among them was DIR. Robert |
Adcox, now under sentence for brib-
cry in Missouri.
The Rev. Joseph w. Phelps, Metho-
dist Escopal clergyman and former
district superintendent OF that church
in North Carolina is dead at his
home at Alameda, Cal. He was 81
years old and is survived by his
widow and seven children. DIR. Phelps
retired In 1911.
Feasibility of aerial mail service in
Alaska has been fully demonstrated
according to Carl B. Nelson, the
territory's first air mail pilot EN- route
to Washington, ID. G. Nelson plans to
urge government authorities to ex-
tend and make permanent transport
tation of mail by airplane in Alaska.
Ten times at fortnightly intervals,
Nelson has made the Fairbanks-M Nc
Grath flight without mishap making
in few hours trip that would re-
Quire three days by dog team.
Frank Yager of Cheyenne Wyom-
Ing plotting the eastbound night air [
mail, was severely shaken and bruis-
ed and his airplane was wrecked
when he was compelled by a hurri-
cane to make a forced landing at
Chappell, Neb. sixty miles east of
Cheyenne.
Twenty-Five stowaways, two-Amer- I
cans and twenty-three Filipinos, ar I
rived at San Francisco on the United 8
States army transport Thomas from |
he Philippines and established what
ocal shipping men said was a record
'or the number of stowaways on one c
hip arriving here. {
GENERAL \
Parents of Nathan Leopold, Jr., I
md Richard Loeb of Chicago admit t
heir sons are guilty of kidnapping
md numbering little Robert Franks
md attorneys for the defense have
the parents would not
eek acquittal for the murderers on !.
hat account. What they hope to ac-
omplish through the employment of :
Ugh priced attorneys and ailenists
5 to save their sons from ignomin-
ous death on the gallows. L
John W. Davis, Democratic nomin- o
e for the presidency, will make an .
Intensive campaign for election, in Y
luding a speechmaking tour which Il
nil take him into practically every u
lrge city in the country. b
Jack Daugherty, director and Bar 7
ara La Mari screen vamp are defin-
ely separated again. Jack has told
is friends in New York that lie ex- sc
ects Barbara to file bill for annul- p
lent of their marriage the prelimin- a
ry articles having been signed. eve q
i'll be great friends, however" he is al
loted as having said "We make e'
stter friends than sweethearts." Ii
An earthquake shock of moderate
tensity, lasting from 9;25 to 10:15 &C
M, with maximum intensity from cl
SO to GAP o'clock, occurring about e.
100 miles south of Washington, was
ported by Father Tondorf of the m
georgetown University observatory. Ell
Clarence o. Barring, accused of try b
e to murder his wife by putting in
sease germs and poison into her pr
cd was committed to the Mantle tv
IN state hospital at White Plains, eS
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