The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26
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L at Cambridge, Mass.
y The New York health departing
has decided that combing bobbed ha
20 in public places is unheathful al
theater programs now bear this n
tice: Patrons will please not CON
bobbed hair outside the dressin
rooms. This is unhealthy and
IN deprecated by the health depar
ment."
Clyde Newman, 35, a motorist {
Philadelphia, was shot and kille
during pursuit by police who sough
to stof him from speeding. Newman
% machine ended it's career against
IS telephone pole. Recently Director o
q Public Safety Butler ordered polio
O to "get the motor speed maniacs."
S The name of Frank Evans of Sal
Lake was presented to president
j Coolidge by Senator Smooth for con
sideration as secretary of agriculture
Mr.. Evans is a member of the ma
tional executive committee of the
. American Farm Bureau federation
I and chief counsel of the Utah State
Farm bureau.
Secretary Davis of the labor de-
partment informed President Cool
dge he wishes to retire from the cab.
met after next March 4. Mr. Davis
is the only cabinet member who has
indicated he desires TO retire, it was
announced at the White House.
Two persons were fatally burned
md two others seriously burned, all
being members of the same family,
yhen a tank containing 1000 gallons
of gasoline exploded at the plant of
he Pure Oil compay, located twenty
miles from Sisterville, N. Va.
A program approved by congress
to modernize fifty vessels of the gov
ernment's cargo fleet at a cost of
S25,000,000 got under way with the
ranting by the shipping board of au-
thority for the installation Of inter
nal combustion engines in eighteen
ships.
Hearing in respect of the tentative
valuation of the properties of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
way company, assigned for Deem
Der 1, was postponed by the interstate
commerce commission until Deem
Der 8.
Recovered somewhat from the
defeat at the polls, Demo
ratio leaders at Washington have
'egan 10 gather up the remnants Of
heir party with view of rehabilitat-
ng the old machine for future con
ests.
The interstate commerce commits
ion held that the Oregon Short Line
ate of 87.5 cents per hundred on
.asoline from Salt Lake City to ,
'aker, Ore, shipped in 1920, was $
to the extent that it ex- Q
eeded 70 cents per hundred, the lat
sr rate being the aggregate of in v
rates based on Weiser. k
he Standard Oil company is awarded r
'paration to cover the overcharge. s.
There will be fewer sheep and II
mbs fed for market in the corn belt -
I'd western feeding regions combined y
lring the coming winter than were 10
d last year, according to a state .,
ent issued at Chicago by the de- oil
lrtment of agriculture. The de- q,
ease is due to reduced feeding oper- d1
ions in the west. This estimate is br
sed on comparative figures of ship 70
ents of feeder stock into the corn tn
1t and upon reports of special in mi
stigations made in the west.
by
roHS'oN tn
"Florie All Alone" is the name ="
1T has been given to a pretty 20 -.
ar-old girl who lives by herself in az
cave in the Shipley Glen Ravine 70,
ar Bradford, England. Her only nm
npanion is black cat. The rea N.
| for here hermitage is mystery.
Tie Mexican foreign secretary, sis
neral Aaron Saenz, is unofficially enc
ormed that preliminary steps have wv
n taken to bring about resump- =
I of diplomatic relations between r
,at Britain and Mexico through
friendly offices of the United
tes government.
cunt Saim Won Hoogstraeten, hus- =
d Of hillicent Rogers, New York d
-ess, has arrived in Paris and ga, 4
he lobby Of the Ritz hotsl. osten. 4
ously reading a letter with an p
erican postmark. The count re- 4
ID to reply t. questions as to
Their he is on his way to America
whether n reconciliation with
icent and her parents, Colonel
Mrs. H. II. Rogers, is imminent.
exico City, General Plutarco
$ Gales, president elect of Mex
arrived home after nearly four
tbs absence in Germany, France IL