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AT Kelly field. San Antonio, tex..
Lieutenant John H. Wilson suc
cessfully landed .after leap'n;
from an airplane at an elevation ot
19.800 feet. The descent was ma.le with
a parachute in each hand and In the 17
minutes of elapsed time In the de
scent he drifted about ten miles. The
former American record was 8000
feet and the world's record, made by
a Frenchman. 14,000 feet.
. Frank Lyon Volk, assistant secre
tary of state, recently resigned and
retired from government service.' Hs
has been succeeded by Norman H.
t Davis of Tullahoma, Tenn., -who had
entered the executive departments as
assistant secretary of the treasury,
where he succeeded L. W. Eowe.
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Robert T. Meads of Chicago, is said
to have shot and killed Henry E. Ma
roney of Medford. Mass., in the Theta
Delta Chi fraternity . house at Dart
mouth college, following: quarrel
over a quart of whisky. Meads is said
to have confessed to having: smug
gled whisky into the United States
from Canada and to have sold it in
various parts of the country.
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Bainbridge Colby, secretary of
state, journeyed to San Francisco to
lead the administration fight for
plank in the platform of the demo
cratic party for the league of nations
without reservation. He was the
choice of President Wilson for perma-i-ent
chairman, say Washington dis
patches. ,
. Captain Stanford W. Hoffman of
New York, formerly of the marine
corps, has been singled out for a
signal honor in appreciation of his
efficiency in handling the organiza
tion and direction of the military po
lice. It is the only decoration of the
kind awarded to an American and Is
the ."Cheveller de l'ordre de l'etoille
Noire." The medal was presented by
Lieutenant Miller, officer in charge
of the New York marine recruiting
station.
Warren O. Harding, republican
nominee for president, will celebrate
his 65th birthday November 2. election
day. He was born in the village of
Bloominggrove, Morrow county, Ohio,
and it is reported that citizens of the
county have secured an option on the
house and grounds with the purpose
of restoring it to its original condi
tion. Brigadier-General George John Sos
lowski, formerly chief of the Polish
Red Cross division with the Russian
limy, now at Warsaw directing th
aid of the American committee, de
clares that unless the United States
comes to, assistance of Poland tha
republic's army will be dissipated by
the typhus eoidemic. Ho estimat.es
that $10 000,000 is needed.
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