The Colorado statesman., 1924-03-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN S, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN

She Antelope fdlley DanK, at LancaS-
ter, Calf, locked four employees and
a customer in vault, and escaped
with $500 cash.
Detective Lieut.. F. L. Pratt of the
Los Angeles police department was
shot and killed by Mrs. Mildred Pearl
Lloyd, divorced wife Of L. p. Schultz,
who then ended her life by drinking
poison, according to Los Angeles po-
lice.
Removal orders for Kenneth B. An
derson and John Graham, held in Chi
cago in connection with the $1,000,000
Los Angeles mail robbery March 8,
1921, were signed in Federal Court at
Chicago by United States Commission
er Glass. Bond of $4,000 each was
furnished by the defendants.
Charles Peter of Salt Lake City,
Utah, arrested recently charged with
grand larceny in connection with his
alleged promotion of stock in silver
mine at Pocatello, Idaho, succeeded in
causing several hundred persons to in
vest 81, 100000 in the stock, Assistant
District Attorney Hart of New York
City said.
Customs Collector Schwaebe has re-
ceived explicit Geographic instructions
from the Treasury Department at
Washington to close the Mexican
border at Mexicali and Tia Juana to
both pedestrian and vehicular traffic
from a. m. each night to a. m.
Schwaebe said he had issued instruc-
lions accordingly to his officers at
the boundary line. de added that
with his present force of officers, the
order will be difficult to carry out.
A total of 10,2S4 animals have been
killed in the campaign against Cali
fornia's epidemic of the hoof and
mouth disease. The epidemic is the
first in the history of the state and
the worst on record in the country
since 1915, when the disease spread to
twenty-five states. So treacherous is
the disease that it may be weeks or
even months before the epidemic is
stamped out and fresh outbreaks may
be expected at any moment, said DIR.
J. P. Iverson, chief of the division of
animal industry of the State Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON
The Mckenzie bill providing for ac-
ceptance of Henry Ford's offer for
Muscle Shoals, passed by the House,
Is now in the hands of the Senate.
Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin has
resigned as chairman and member of
the public lands committee, which is
investigating oil deals involving gov
eminent lands.
The Senate refused by vote of "a
to % to approve an appropriation of
S5,OOO,OOO to be loaned to farmers to
finance purchases of fertilizers. 1t
was the first record vote of the ses-
sion upon farm relief measure.
The House passed the Senate bill
which would authorize coinage of .
100000 50-cent pieces to commemor-
ate the beginning of work in 1918 of
the carving of memorial to Southern
soldiers on Stone mountain, Georgia.
With a five-word message to Alnav-
the whole naval establishment-Sec
rotary of the Navy DENLY stepped out
of office and back to private life. His
farewell to the navy was: "Goodby
and God bless you" 1t was broad
cast to every ship at sea and in port,
to all American naval stations through
out the world.
President Coolidge declined to turn
over to the oil committee the tax re-
turns of individuals and corporations
prominently mentioned in the oil inves-
tigation. Replying to Senate reso-
luton making the request, the Presi-
dent said ne had been advised by the
acting attorney general that he was
without authority to comply.
Attorney General Daugherty adj
vised the Senate that the packer dis
solution consent decree" of 1920 had
been fully carried out except for the
clauses dealing with unrelated COM
modities and to the stockyards, and
that these provisions had been carried
out "in spirit" Only one of the big
five" group has not discontinued dis
tribution of unrelated lines, he said,
while considerable progress has been
made in disposing of stockyard mar
keting companies.
Machinery has been set in motion
in Congress to remove from the
revenue bill the provisions for u
twenty-five per cent reduction on per-
sonal income taxes payable this year
and incorporate it in joint resolution
which could be adopted before March
is, when first installments are due.
Special government counsel in the
oil lease cases have left Washington
for wyoming and California to in
itiate the long court fights looking to
kb, ro,ovarv Of the naval fuel reserves
in those states from the Sinclair and
Doheny interests.