The Colorado statesman., 1924-02-02
CONDENSED RE RD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN

and Mary, operating twelve schools in
Oregon with an enrolment of 1000,
recently filed brief in an attack on
the compulsory public school attend
ance law, now before the Federal
Court.
A startling assertion by Clarence
Conlin, attorney for Horace A. Greer,
chauffeur for Mabel Normand charged
with having shot and wounded Court
land S. Dimes, that Greer may not have
done the shooting, despite his confes-
sion to police, Injected a new sensa-
ton into the Los Angeles case.
The Sinclair OIL Company's pipe for
conveying oil from the Wyoming
fields through Nebraska was COM
pleted at Kearney when link across
the Platte river there was finished.
The line runs south from Kearney,
finally connecting at Fremont, Mo-,
with the Oklahoma-Ch Chicago pipe line.
Millions of barrels of crude oil would
be required to develop power equaling
that going to waste every year through
failure to develop the power resources
of the Colorado river, Harry Chandler,
publisher of the Los Angeles Times,
opment Association convention in Cor
OnadO, near San Diego.
Three banks in Silver City, N. NJ,
closed their doors last week. They
were the Silver City National, the Sill
yer City Savings bank and the Ameri-
can National bank. Soon after the
close of the banks the state bank ex-
aminer was asked to take charge of
the Bank of Tyrone, N. NJ. The insti-
tutons, all in Grant county, had COM
bined liabilities estimated at S3,000,-
600, according to their statements of
Dec. 81 last.
Opening to homestead and desert
land entry of 4,455 acres of public
land in Washakie and Big Horn coun-
ties, Wyoming beginning Feb. 20, has
been announced at the Interior De
partment at Washington. Adjoining
entrymen and patentees have pre-
ference right on the tracts within the
area and ex-service men of the World
war have a ninety-one day preference,
after which unentered land will be
thrown open to the general public.
The champion eater of Lander
county, Nevada, Leon Battalago, is
dead. The only patient in the Lander
county hospital for a year, Battalago
seemed to think that every meal was
his last one. A breakfast OF eight or
ten eggs, half loaf of bread, four or
five cups of coffee, topped off with
fifteen to twenty hot cakes, was COM
mon. The heavy eater also was
heavyweight, tipping the scales at 300
pounds. The county physician said
death was due to overeating.
WASHINGTON
Nearly $75O,OOOO0O is carried in the
annual supply bill for the Treasury
and POstoffice Departments. reported
by the House appropriation commit
tee. The exact amount is $729,S5S ,451,
an increase of 1S,4T6,SS9 over total
appropriations for the two depart
ments for the current fiscal year, but
$5,447, ,696 less than budget estimates.
President Coolidge for the first time
affixed his signature to a bill passed
by Congress. 1t was an act giving Mrs
Florence King Harding, widow of the
late President, the congressional
franlling privilege-so that she can
use the United States mails without
the payment of postage.
The right of a state to prevent ma
tional banks within its borders from
establishing branch banking establish
ments was upheld by the Supreme
Court, which at the same time ruled
that the same prohibition was con-
tained in the federal statutes tnem-
selves The courts decision, which
settles controversy that has shaken
the banking world for many months,
was handed down in the case of the
First National Bank of st. Louis. The
bank had demurred from a Missouri
state law prohibiting 1t from establish
Ing branches, and, losing in the lower
Federal Court, had appealed. The de-
cision of the lower court was affirmed.
A rate of % per cent for the reduc-
ton in earned income taxes was defi-
, nitely decided upon by the House ways
and means committee. Recognition OF
earned income taxes for special reduc-
ton, as suggested by Secretary Mellon,
was approved yesterday by the COM
mittee. Representative Garner of
, Texas, author of the Democratic tax
plan, proposed that the reduction rate
be placed at 33 1-3 per cent.
: Federal agents in their efforts last
year to enforce the prohibition and
narcotic laws spent $205,65S of gov
ernment funds in buying "evidence."
This total was given by Assistant Pro
hibition Commissioner Jones in testi-
mony before the House appropriation
committee, which recommended that
S1O,628,7 ,770 be set aside for prohibition
enforcement during the coming fiscal
year.