The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1924-08-14
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Washington - The shipping board
adopted a resolution directing the
Emergency Fleet Corporation to ap-
ply at once a rate of 20 cents for 100
pounds on -four from gulf to United
Kingdom ports.
Washington-Attorney General H. F.
Stone has ordered a further inquiry
into the gasoline price situation. The
report Of the federal trade commission
on the subject, made at the request OF
the president, contains the informa-
ton, Mr.. Stone said which warrants a
further investigation of the several
phases of the problem.
Washington-War department re-
ports made public from the q civilian
military training camps, conducted in
July and which opened again this
month, show a total enrolment of 3d.
544 as compared to an original esti-
mated attendance Of $4,000. The at.
tendance at the camps conducted in
1921 was 11,000; in 1922, $4,000 and in
1923, $4,000. In this years camps the
Seventh Corps Area with headquarters
at Omaha, stood first in attendance
with 4,74S.
Domestic
New York-Nine persons were in
5ured, three seriously, when a stopper
flew from can Of what was marked
"denatured alcohol in the lap of a
subway patron.
Jackson, Mich.-Funeral services Of
Charles e. Townsend, former United
States senator from this state were
held here.
Miami, Fla. - William ]. Bryan an
nounced that he had placed his es-
tate, Villa Serena, on the market and
purchased a more modest place in Co.
coannut Grove, as his future home. be-
cause Of upkeep and taxes.
Niles, Ohio-Scores of persons are
believed to have been bruised and
beaten in pitched battle in the street
between about TAO men, said to be
members Of the knights of the Flam-
ing Circle, an anti-klan order, and
some 500 klansmen.
Lansing, Mich.-Appointment Of DR..
c. M. Carson, as acting president of
the Michigan College of Mines, Hough-
ton, Mich, was approved by the state
administrative board. He will be in
office until a successor to DR.. F. w.
McNair is named.
Danville, Ill.-Eight labor union To-
calls, some of their officials and other
individuals were named as defendants
in 100000 damage suit filed in the
federal court here by Miss Isabel Rus
sell, Cape Girardeau, Mo-, as an after
math of the Herrin trials.
Lapeer, Mich. - Sheriff's posses led
by E. F. Hackman Of Dowagiac, are
searching for the man believed to be
responsible for the murder of his
daughter, Mrs. Blanche Burke, 2S-year-
old widow, whose body was found
here.
Cleveland-Harold A. Kullberg, %
years old, one Of the best known air
plane pilots in the country and who
during the World war, as lieutenant
in the British Royal Flying corps, bag
ged IA German planes, and Henry
bunker, "a years old, Hudson, Ohio,
were killed when a commercial air.
plane in which they were flying went
into nose dive and crashed 1000 feet.
Fort Worth-Although an applica-
tion for a writ Of habeas corpus was
denied DR.. Frederick A. Cook by Fed
eral District Judge James C.. Wilson
here, attorneys for the former explor-
er and oil promoter, said they would
not abandon their efforts to obtain lis
release on bail bond pending final &C
ton on his appeal from a prison SEN
tence of IA years and nine months.
Cheyenne, Wyo. - The air mail
service is proving its value in a fire
fighting emergency. Asbestos suits
for the protection OF workmen attempt
ing to extinguish the burning gas we'll
Of the Union Oil Company near We'll
lington, Colo, 80 miles south of Chey-
enne, were rushed from Chicago
to Cheyenne by air mail and from here
to the west by automobile.
New York-Twenty-fiv thousand
dollars were appropriated at the pre-
convention meeting of the supreme
board Of directors of the Knights of
Columbus, to the disabled American
veterans of the World war The money
is to be used by the veterans organiza-
ton in maintaining its compensation
liaison service. The convention prop
er opened with solemn high mass at
st. Patrick's cathedral.
Chicago-The twenty-fourtn arrest
in the $1,50O,000- Union station mail
robbery of 1921, was announced here,
when postal inspector left for De-
troit, Mich, where Samuel H. Dodson,
former Chicago bond salesman, is be-
ing held for the robbery. Only one
more person is wanted in connection
with the theft and trial of tho Ok sus-