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GERMANY FACING GREAT CRISIS
SKJlHTK WELL COMES M OK COM PMPERTV
FIVE MILUON FOOT
6ASSER STRUCK ON
COOK PROPERTY
FORT WORTH, Dec. 1—Doctor Cook. Arctic explorer who was
recently convicted of promotion fake oil deals and the misuse of th>>
mails, and his chief confederate, H. E. J. Cox, of Houston were routed
from their steel cots yesterday afternoon to be Informed that a five mil
lion foot gasser at a depth of 1,350 feet, ten foot in the sand, had been
brought in on the Hughes Craig O'Neil ground -near Mineral Wells, Texas
“It means much to me,” Cook said, "and 1 am thankful, doubly so. be
cause 1 did not get fifty instead of fourteen years.”
NOTICI* PROSPECTOR AND MINER DKAD IN MEDFORD, OREGON
MEDFORD. OREGON, Dee. 1—Doctor J. S. Pearce, who went to
Jacksonville., Oregon in 1867 and led prospectors from there to the gold
mines in the Boise Basin, in Idaho in 1862 and discovered gold on Mc
Clellan Creek in Montana in 1864., is dead in Medford, Oregon. The <",i
prospector and miner was 88 years of age at the time of bis death
BANKING C1IH IKS GET 8HAKEIT
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1—Banking circles bad a shakeup y
day, following a gun squad raid at 1:00 a. m., by the police on a vamt f
the Minneapolis Trust Company where the .ian tor reported yep. m
work. The police arrested four men connected with the company, wb n
is a subsiderary of the First National Bank The men arrested v.-re
playing poker in the vault surrounded by a large part of the resoi ri.-s of
the twin cities. All four of the incn were discharged by President Wood
worth of the Trust Company.
PARSONS ELECTED PRESIDENT DEXTER MORTON
SEATTLE, Dee. 1—W. H. Parsons has been elected President of
the Dexter Horton National Bank, according to a dispatch received : -day
JOHNSON FLAYS
FOREIGN POLICY
AT WASHINGTON
CHICAGO, Dec. 1—A two-fisted denunciation of the administra
tion’s foreign policy, and with a merciless flaying of Secretary Hughes*
reparations proposal, were the outstanding features of a speech hy Hiram
Johnson before the Cook County Real Estate Board. Formally opening
his campaign for the Presidency, Johnson gave, approval for the soldiers
bonus demanding immediate tax reduction, aid for the farmers and the
enactmentof a child labor law and a minimum wage scale with constitu
tional amendments. The California Senator tore into Hughes' latest
effort to get the United States, he charged, into a cockpit in Europe, and
deplored the lack of genuine American policy at Washington.
PRES. AND MRS. COOL I DOE ENJOY OLD FASHIONED DINNER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the
Congregational Church and returned to the White House and had an old
fashioned turkey dinner alone. A pumpkin pie which measured three
feet in diameter was donated, that being the only gift accepted by the
President and Mrs. Coolidge for Thanksgiving.
PLAYS CLARINET SOLO THEN SHOOTS SELF IN THE HEAD
SEATTLE, Dec. 1—After playing a Clarinet Solo at an afternoon
Musicale in the home of Doctor F. B. Whiting. Doctor Albert Mattice, an
Occulist shot himself in the head before the guests and died a few min
utes after. Mattice was unmarried and leaves a brother. Doctor Clyde
Mattice, to mourn his death.
DELEGATES TO RUM SMUGGLING CONFERENCE RETURN TO U. S.
OTTAWA, Dec. 1—The American delegates to the International
Rum Smuggling Conference between the United States and Canadian
offlcials left Ottawa for Washington yesterday. Both groups of the
Delegates declined to state what. If anything, had been accomplished.
VICTIM OF SHELL i
SHOCK LOST FOR
PEROID FIVE YEARS
_
MARSHFIELD, WI8. Dec 1- James Christensen and wife from j
Spencer returned from Fergus Mills, Minnesota, where they found their
«ou Willard a victim of shell shock in an asylum, clearing up a mystery
i of five years’ duration. Willard was sent, back from France in 11)18 j
as an instructor and assigned to Tamp Lewis. He was last seen boarding’
, a trolley en route from Camp Lewis to Seattle. He was seized with a
j mental lapse while enroute to the latter place and wandered into Min
' nesota where he was committed to un asylum
1 IIIGHKS AM) WARE KILLER AT STAKT OF AI TO IUCK
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1—Russel IlugheR, a photographer, and
' GeorgeL. Wade of Kansas City, are dead as t result of an accident which
* occurred as the drivers were wheeling their cars into place for the start
.if a 250 mile automobile classic yeste rday afternoon.. Benny Hill later
ITALY AYI) SOUTH AMERICAN < OI NTKIKS MAY WITHDRAW
FROM LEAtU K OF N ATIONS
• PARIS, Dec. 1—Spain, Italy and several South American CuUDlr.es
may withdraw front the League of Nations and form . Latin Bloc ac
cording to a Madrid dispatch to Matin.
HAS MENTAL LAPSE
WANDERS FOR
FOUR DAYS
SEATTLE. Dec. 1 Null
pi. k'Ml up on the streets of Van
di-lir.ous and suffering from hall
night for Church. The identit
Thursday afternoon. Although In
fleers whose information led to tin
say that the young lady left home
ysteriously missing for four days, was
nations. She left home last Sunday
• •I the young woman was established
■r two sisters de-ny ii. Seattle police of
discovery of Miss Austin’s whereabouts
because of a family quarrel.
I&t SiNESS KMTION TAM
TAMPICO. Mexico. Dec. 1
I been destroyed by a fire which was
• a rate of speed that it was impossih
j until the business section was wii»•
| million dollars were sustained.
’ICO DKSTKOVKI) It! FIRE
1'he business section of Tampico has
driven before a terrific wind at such
•* for the fire fighters to gain control
out. Damage-, amounting to three
THANKSGIVING LIQUOR Kll «.S FOUR AND WOI VDS SKVK.N
NEW YORK, Dec. 1—Thanksgiving liquor caused the death of
three men and one woman and pit; several in the Hellevue hospital
SON OF AMERIC AN AND PILIIMNO PARENTS IIEll; TO 915.000,000 I
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 1- Gregorio Carmichel tHo 13 year old J
son of an American soldier and Filipino mother, will arrive in Seattle i
on the President Madison December 7th, to claim half of bis father’s
$30,000,000 estate in the Tonkawa, Oklahoma ..il field. P. Mason who
has been appointed guardian of the boy left yesterday for Seattle to meet
Gregorio who is accompanied by his mother.
ONLY GERMAN SPY’ CONVICTED IN U. S. DEPORTED
NEW YORK, Dec. 1—Pardoned by President Coolidge and freed
from a life sentence at Leavenworth, Kansas. Luther Witzke. the only
German spy who was convicted in the United States during the world
J was was deported yesterday.
| NOTED FILM STAR NOT ALLOWED APPEAR IN CHURCH CONCERT
ATLANTA, Dec. 1—Geraldine Farrar was not allowed to appear
| in the concert at Wesley Memorial Church last night as was advertised
| by Reverand W. H. Laprande. Jr., who is the presiding Elder of the
I Methodist Church of the North Atlanta District, it was announced today
IS ON VERGE OF
RESIGNING OFFICE
BERLIN, Dec. 1—Germany is immediately confronted with bank
ruptcy and will no longer b.- able to meet her public payrolls, Doctor
George Gothein. the Reichstag Democratic leader declared yesterday.
President Ebert is on the verge of resign.ng, it is reported, having de
spairs of Germany's chanc- under tm* present Democratic system.
PRESIDENT oi TURKEY DANGEROUSLY ILL
CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. l -Mustapba Hemal Tasha. President
of Turkey, is dangerously til. according to a dispatch received today
-o\ IET EDITOR SAYS NO REVOLUTION IN AMERICA
MOSCOW. Doc. 1—Nicolai Buchann, Editor of the Pravada and
bead of thfWfcontra! Soviet Committee, said that it Is evident that Ameri
can capital .as consolidated and - growing stronger and that there Is no
chance for revolution here for a long tint*-. Y
BOOZE MEANT FOR THANKSGIVING SEIZED
S :a FTLE, Dec. i One hundred and twenty five cases of whiskey
wh«:h wa i meant for th* Than .sgivine trade have fallen into the hands
of the aurb.>:;»at Woodmo.r B» oh. a suburb of Seattle, according to
a dispat-’b c cei\ed jodaj
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THROWS SEVERING WATER IT HUSBAND, HITS CHILD
SEATTLE. Dec. l An innocent victim of a quarrel between its
parents, two-year-old Jacob Benezra died n agony at the City Hospital
from scalds. Last night, in the midst <>f a quarrel, Mrs. Benezra hurled
a bucketful of boiling water at Isaac, her husband, who dodged and th«*
contents landed on the partially dressed child, scalding it fatally. The
parents are Turkish Jews.
PROGRESSIVESS AND
DEMOCRATS FIGHT
MELLON TAX PLAN
WASHINGTON. !)'■( . 1 Oppo-n on «»f the Progressives organiza
tion plans to the Republican leaders of the House and Senate, began to
take definite form, also increasing evidence that the Progressives and
many Democrats are determined that any tax revision shall depart ma
terially from Mellon’s program. The Progressives in conference said
that they “had found nothing in Mellon's program which tends to stimu
late legitimate business or reduce tl.o cost of living.” the Progressives
declared that a taxation plan sh. uld l»*• proposed which v.oulil reduce the
burden of the small taxpayers. In .■ formal statement attacking Mel
lon and the publishers of th- Washing! ..1 Star and Washington Post, the
Progressives declared that the Mellon program would reduce his own
income tax from a half million d-dlars to one hundred thousand dollars
per year. • \ ■
PHILIPPINES NOT READY FOR INDEPENDENCE—COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 President Coolidge does not yet consider
the time ripe for independence to In- granted to the Philippines, although
be believes that the Filipinos are making satisfactory progress in tho
lesson of self-government, the White House announced yesterday.
COOLIDGE PI TS FINISHING TOUCHES ON MESSAGE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1—President Coolidge put the finishing
touches <cn his message to Congress and the document was sent to the
printer. The message is shorter than the average length of those sent
to Congress.
IRENE CASTLE WEDS COFFEE MERCHANT
CHICAGO. Dec. 1—Irene Castle, the dancer, and Fred McLaughlin
a wealthy coffee merchant of Chicago was married at the latter place
yesterday, according to a dispatch received this morning.
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