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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Payment
of a soldiers’ bonus with funds rais
ed by a poll tax of $250 on each im
# migrant and $50 of every alien resi
ident, a tax of 2 per cent on gross
income of foreign corporations in the
United States, an increase in the in
heritance tax and an excess profits
tax, is proposed in a bill drafted by
Representative Watkins, democrat, of
Oregon.
The bill provides for compensation
to former service men at the rate of
$1.25 a day for foreign service and $1
for home service, the maximum cash
payment being $625. Six methods of
receiving the bonus are provided as
follows:
Adjusted service may be made by
certificates, credits on any form of
government insurance held by the vet
erans, vocational training, form or
home settlement aid.
ENGLAND DOES NOT DENY
U. S. RIGHTS IN MEXICO
LONDON Jan. 2.—'While it is but
a step toward de facto American pro
tectorship over Mexico, there is noth
ing for us to criticise, comments the
London Chronicle referring to the de_
cision of the American government to
sell war supplies to the Obregon gov
ernment.
THREE THOUSAND IN LINE
AT PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION
WASHINGTON, Jan . 2.— Three
thousand eight hundred and ninety
persons were in line at President
and Mrs. Coolidge’s New Year’s recep
tion at the Whitehcuse it was said
yesterday, about half of the crowd of
former years, indicating that the cus
tom is waning.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan 2.—For
the first time in the history of the
fourth division there is growing inter
est in territorial politics. Heretofore
everyone was apparently willing to
allow anyone who wanted Juneau po
sitions to take them and cliques have
flashed and dwindled untii the Tuneau
representations from L *re have be
come a very negligible quantity.
The next two years will evidently
*' see increased activity at Juueau, and
fourth division investors are trying to
force better material onto the ticket
than formerly. W. F. Thompson, pub
lisher of the Fairbanks News-Miner, is
so far the only senatorial candidate in
the field. Attempt* are bein^ made to
induce Mrs. Thomas P. Aiiken, Mrs
Luther Hess, Geo. Hutchinson, pres
ident of the First National Bank, E. H
Mack, Rev. Vernon, George Hunter
Robert Bloom and other men and wo.
men of their class to run for veprostn
taiivos in the effort to send at. entir
delegation of competent officials iron
tue fourth division who canno b
foaled or used in any way
POWER PUN MAY CARRY
IN ABERDEEN ELECTIONS
a ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 2.—Incom
plete reports in the municipal election
here in the Wynochie river power
project tonight gave 723 for and 579
votes against the proposal.
Mayor H. D. Bailey, unopposed, was
re-elected by the voters here today.
W. J. Patterson, of this city, candi
date for commissioner of the port of
Grays Harbor, embracing all of Grays ,
Harbor county, was also unopposed
and re-elected.
Hoquiam Election.
HOQUIAM, Wash , Jan. 2.—Mayor
H. B. Fisher wras re-elected by a large
majority, according to returns in to
day’s municipal election. With three
precincts mising out of twelve, Fisher
polled 1430 votes and Smith 440.
The same precincts gave a majori
ty vote for the proposed $250,000
bridge bond issue and also for the
four-mill special school levy.
** Port Plan Doubtful.
EVERETT, Jan. 2.—Returns from a
majority of the city’s forty precincts
in today’s municipal election indicated
the defeat of two incumbent city com
missioners seeking re-election, the
•> probable defeat of the comprehensive
port plan and a close result on the 1
proposed additional tax levies for «
parks.
The Odd Fellows will give another r
of their famous danoes Saturday «ve. {
All Are Invited. t
Delegate Sutherland Introduces
Bill Defining Areas
CHANGE IN LAWS WILL ALLOW
PLACER CLAIMS TO BE LIMI_
ITED SMALLER AREAS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Delegate
Dan Sutherland introduced a bill in
'Congress today seeking to amend the
Alaska mining laws by providing that
“No placer claim hereafter located in
Alaska shall be patented which shall
contain a greater area than is fixed by
'law now in force, which is longer than
three times its greatest width provid
ed where any isolated parcel of placet
ground lies between and ad.ioins pat
i ented claims on all its sides and is
not over 1320 feet in length this di
minution restriction shall not apply."
RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT BE
MADE PUBLIC BY GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Promulga |
tion of the reciprocal agreement be
tween the United Slates and Canada
was announced tonight by the State!
department.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 2.—Gov
ernor Warren T. McNary who was
named in eight indictments, charging!
forgery, embezzlement, larceny and
false pretenses returned by the Marion!
County grand jury yesterday, had notj
given bona when the courthouse was
closed tonight, until next Monday. The
governor’s bond had been fixed at $25,
000 by Judge James A. Collins of the
criminal court, and George Snider,,
county sheriff, was instructed not to«
serve the capias on the grand jury in-i
dictment before Monday, although
many believed that the bond would
be given today.
No statement was forthcoming from
the executive today although it was
said he still was very much chagrin
ed because he was not permitted to
appear before the grand jury before
the indictment was returned, as he had
requested in a letter to the foreman of
the jury.
KNUTSON RELEASED ON BAIL
SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—Ole Knudson,
driver of the auto which ran over and
killed Ilene Bradshaw, a cripple, the
day before Christmas, was released on
$5 000 cash bail.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 2.—Four
men, thought to be responsible for ten
bank robberies in Utah and Montana,
have been taken into custody by offi
cers here. A total of $40,000 is alleged
to have been stolen.
BELITTLE CELEHTE5
OESPIIE BITTER COLD
SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—Despite a ther
mometer pointing to only IS above,
and Seattle shivering in the biting
blasts, the New Year uTas greeted joy
fully with watch parties in churches,
clubs, restaurants and cabarets.
ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS LAUD
NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
LONDON, Jan. 2.—London newspa
pers describe Ambassador William N
Kellogg as a man of distinguished ap
pearance and of friendly mien.
WOOD TAKES HEAVY TOLL
WITH FOUR OIL COMPANIES
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—Assistant State
Attorneys S. Milton D. Smith, and
Berthold Crosman announced this aft
ernoon that there are four oil com
panies in which Leonard Wood, jr.,
was an officer, and each of wrhich is
alleged to have taken a heavy toil
from exseivice men and then gone
out of business. The concerns are
under investigation by them.
A WET NEW YEAR’S DAY
GREETS CITY PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2—Two hun
dred and fifty New Year’s arrests for
irunkenness and hundreds treated at
local hospitals for alcoholic poisonim?
marked the opening of the new year
in this city.
-RANCE MAKES ALLIANCE
WITH CZECHOSLOVAKIA
PARIS, Jan. 2.—France is conclud
ng a defensive alliance with Czecho
slovakia and Jugo-Slavia.
BREMERTON, Wn , Jan. 2.—The
iew eight million dollar scout cruiser
Incinnati was placed in commission
Ms afternoon.
MRS. ARBUCKLE GRANTED
A DIVORCE FROM ROSCOE
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 2 —Mrs.
Miuto Durfee Arbuckit was granted a
divorce from Roscoe (Party,• Ar
buckle today
SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—John Harwell
>46, a city light employe, ended his life
last night by stabbing himself to
death. This was his second attempt
on his own life.
In November, 1922, Harwell became
piqued at his wife and took a room
down town, and the following day his
wife shot and killed their daughter,
Lola aged 16, and took her own life.
The affair so preyed on the mind of
Harwell that he suicided.
KELLOGG TAKES OVER
FORMER LORD’S HOUSEj
LONDON, Jan. 3.—Wm. Kellogg,
the new American ambassador to Bri
tain, has taken over Lord Crewe’s
house in Mayfair, the most fashion,
able district in London.
PEORIA, Jau. 3.—TweiPy-tlm-e .ire!
dead and more than 100 injured, a j
a result of a dust explosion it; a
starch plant of the Corn Product
Company at Peoria, 111., this morning
Shortly after 8 o’clock without warn
| ing the whole plant went up into th
I air, the thunder of the falling timber
being the first intimation the city had
; of the accident. Up to noon 23 bod
ies had been taken from the ruins
and it is believed a dozen more are,
buried under the debris.
WANT TWO CENT DUTY
ON HALIBUT REMOVED
PRINCE RUPERT, Jan. 3.—Th j
\ fish packers union passed a resolution
> urging that British Columbia negotiat !
i with the United States for the remova
of the two cent duty on halibut. Th
! organization also opposed the propo
j sal to close the port of Prince Ruper
to American fishermen.
MINNESOTA IS FLOATED
HAMBURG, Germany, Jan. 3.—Th
freighter Minnesota, ashore in Jad
Bay has been floated.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Presiden
Coolidge plans ultimately through ne
cessary legislation to bring about a
one-man management of the shipping
board, under control of either the de
partment of commerce or the treas
ury.
SPECIALIST IN GOITRE
DEAD IN SEATTLI
SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—Dr. John Hunt,
an internationally known surgeon and
medical authority, specializing on goi
tre, died suddenly in his office this
afternoon of cardiac heart trouble.
QUAKE INJURES
SCORES I ROM!
ROME, Italy, Jan. 3.—A score were
killed, hundreds injured and houses
demolished in a series of earthquake
shocks which wrecked the district be
tween Monpotfo and San Costanaso
yesterday. The shocks started at
daybreak Monday and lasted thirty
six hours.
BRIDGE CLUB
The Seward Bridge Club will meet
at 1:45 tomorrow afternoon at the S
home of Mrs. Alvah Eames. j
WASHING ION, Jan. 2- Rilles. am
munition and aeroplanes to the value
of a million dollais, from the surplus
stocks held in army posts of the
Eighth and Ninth Corps areas are be
ir.g forwarded to Obregon for use by
the Mexican government.
Situation Has Improved
MEXICO CITY, Jan 2.—The situa
tion in Mexico has imporved eighty
per ceut v: bia the pa d ton days,
President Obrt gou said upon liis re
turn from a week-end inspection at
the front.
Mexico Wants Warships
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.— Mexico
has made a request of the United
States government for the use of four
war ships with which to bombard the
city of Vera Cruz, now in the hands of
the revolutionists, but with no likeli
hood of its being granted, despite the
fact that great quantities or arms and
munitions are being supplied by the
Wa” department for shipment to the
Obregon government
Ten Thousand Rifles Shipped
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2.—The iirst
shipment of United States arms con
stituting ten thousand rifles and a
large quantity of munitions were re
ceived here today and are being lor
warded to the western from.
BRITISH DRUGS IMPURE
AND INACCURATE, CLAIM
LONDON, Jan. 2.—That one pre-j
scription in every five made up byi
stores in England is inaccurate is the
charge made by the Ministry of Health
aaatvsis experts in their annual rep-i
port just issued.
“Of tiie 429 prescriptions analyzed.
96, or about one in five, were found to
he inaccurate, as compared with 29 outi
of 178 in 1921,’ ’says the report.
Coupled with this statement of
the apparent carelessness of the Eng
lish drug store clerk is the disquiet
ing information to the Britisher that
the percentage ot adulteration of drugs
increased from 6.7 per cent to 7..3 per
cent during 1922. Adverse reports!
wTere made on 423 samples out. of 5,
863 samples taken.
THINKS DRY LAW WILL
FINALLY BE A SUCCESS
DES MOINES, la., Jan. 2.—Nation
wide support of the prohibition law
will finally make it a complete success,!
according to Mrs. Ida B Wise Smith,
State president of the W. C. T. U. fol-|
lowing her return from the national
citizenship conference in Washington.!
The change in public opinion from;
a tax view on prohibition to strict ad-!
herence to the lawT will come as the'
result of the national conference, Mrs.
Smith declared.
LEONARD WOOD CAPITALIZED
HIS FATHER’S REPUTATIOt
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—It is being
charged here that Leonard Wood, Jr
under investigation on account of his
numerous oil operations, in which he
is said to have cleaned up a fortune,
capitalized his father’s reputation and
standing among army men to sell oil
stock to war veterans.
TO FORM NEW CABINET
TOKIO, Jan. 2.—Viscount Kiogo Ki
yura, of the privy council, was today
summoned by the prince regent to
form a new cabinet
MINNESOTA WRECKED IN
JADE BAY, GERMANY
LONDON, Jan. 2.—The former Se
attle steamship Minnesota, the larg
est freighter in the wrorld, was wreck
ed in Jade Bay, Germany today. The
vessel was recently purchased from
the Great Northern railway by Ger
man interests.
KEROSENE TO START FIRE;
ADDITION HEAVENLY CHOIR
SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—Anthony Pet
tinnichi and two children, Evelyn 8,
and Joseph 6, is dead, and his wife
and another child are near death as a
result of his having used kerosene on
the kitchen fire, which caused an ex
plosion which wrecked the house.
THIRTY EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
FELT AT BRAWLEY, CALIF.
BRAWLEY, Calif., Jan. 2.—Thirty
earthquake shocks, some of them of
several minutes duration, were felt
aere last night. The shocks were ac
companied by a thunder-like rumbling
vith lightning flashes.
BOTH HOUSES RECESS
WASHINGTON, Ja». 4.—Both the ■]
lenate and the House recessed late
esterday afternoon until Monday.
Notorious Screen Artist Mixes
Booze With Bullets
FIRST AIRPLANE FLIGHT
MADE ACROSS ANDES MTS.
MENDOZA, Argentic-*, Jan. 2 -J.
P. Honsen a Dane, made the first air
plane flight with a passenger across
the Andes mountains.
MURDER OF DEPUTY
RESULTS IN 5 KILLINGS
HAZARD, Ky., Jan. 3.—Three dep
uty sheriffs who were returning on
Christmas Day from the home of Den
nis Phillips, after placing the latter
under arrest, exploded a fire cracker
by stepping on it Thinking the shot
was from a rifle, and believing them
selves attacked in an effort to free
their prisoner, they opened fire on
the store of Jerry Dunn, Killing J.
D Matthews and another man named
Hays. In the fusillade the storekeeper
Dunn, was critically wounded. Phil
lips had mevicusly shot and killed
D-pnt> FheriC William Smith. In
the excitement the officers let their
prisoner go and he quietly returned
to his home.
TLVZaRD, Ky., Jan. 3.—Of the nine
principals who took part in the Per
ry county shooting on Christmas day
five are dead and one is dying The
three others escaped scot free. Jerry
Dunn, the storekeeper, was found
dead.
H \ZARD, Ky., Dec. 31—J. D Rich
mond who had ut.en forbid ini •' on
or tile home of James v'orman was
ks 'ed yesterday when ne attempted
to do so. Workman opened fire wPh
a shotgun as Richmond crossed his
doorstep.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The White
house indicated today that President
Coolidge has virtually decided on L.
C. Palmer, of Missouri, former chief
of the Bureau of Navigation, Depart
ment of the Navy, for chairman of the
U. S. Shipping Board.
WILL SOON RECOGNIZE RUSSIA
MOSCOW, Jan. 3.—Commissioner
of Foreign Affairs Tchitcherin said to
day that Britain and Italy would soon
recognize Russia.
CHAUFFEUR DID SHOOTING WITH
REVOLVER BELONGING TO
NOTED ACTRESS
—
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31.—Courtlan*
! S.. Dines a wealthy clubman and oM
jioperator of Denver, Colorado, was
I shot and seriously wounded in hi»
| apartments last night in the presence
j of Mabel Normand, and Edna Pur
Viance, also a film star It is alleged
by Dines that Joseph Kelly, alias H.
A. Greer, Mabel’s chauffeur, did th*
| shooting with Miss Normand’s revol
ver. The chauffeur when arrested flai
\ that the party had been drinking heav
ily and that Miss Normand was in am
intoxicated condition and the chauf
feur sought to take her home. He al
leged that Dines interfered and tried
to smash him over the head with a
whiskey bottle, when he pulled the re
volver and fired to save himself from
injury. It is said that Dines will re
cover.
This is the second shooting affray
Mabel Normand has been involved in,
she being the mystery woman in the
William Desmond Taylor murder case
at Los Angeles a year or so ago. It
will be remembered that Desmond
was shot and killed at his bungalow
in a lonely spot in the hills near this
city at which time he was in com
pany with Mabel Normand. The iden
tity of the assassin was never reveal
ed. it w-as stated some time after
ward that Desmond Taylor was en
gaged to the movie actress and that
the engagement had been broken off
Hollywood movie circles are much
agitated over the recent affair, realiz,
ing the unpleasant notoriety accruing
from an affair of this kind.
The infatuation of Kelly for Miss
Normand, his employer, and his jeal
ousy of her wealthy Denver acquain
tance are said by the police to be th®
motives that prompted him to shoot
Dines. It is alleged that Dines is an
admirer of Miss Purviance. He has
been twice divorced though only 33.
WASHINGTON U PLAYS TIE
WITH ANNAPOLIS ELEVEN
PASADENA, Jan. 2.—The Univer
sity of Washington and Naval Acad
emy team of Annapolis, Dattled des
peratel yto a draw in the New Year’s
game befoi'e 15,000 spectators yester
da yafteraoon. The score was 14-14.
The game was witnessed by a large
number of viting notables, including
several prominent army men.
NINE PERISH IN FLAMES
WHEN RESIDENCE BURNS
TYLERSBURG, Pa., Jan. 2.—Jas.
Mentzer and his eight grandchildren
perished today when their home was
destroyed by fire.
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