, 1919-12-18
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Fire of undetermined origin COM
pletely destroyed the Catholic church
in Charles City, Iowa. The loss of the
edifice, which includes costly interior
decorations, is estimated at $4,000.
Burned to death, presumably through
an explosion of gasoline, the bodies
of Fideli Ambrosini and Antonio Gay,
wood haulers, were found in the cab of
their motor truck near Tonopah, New.
A hundred dollar bonus is paid by
Samuel Phillipson & Co. OF Chicago to
any employee who car show proof of
the birth of u new baby in his family.
The idea is to encourage marriages.
Coal production in Mckinley and
COlfax counties, the principal coal pro-
ducing localities in New Mexico, is
within 10 per cent of normal, depart
ment of Justice officials have an
nounced.
An airplane mail service between
San Diego and the port of Los Angeles
for men of the Pacific fleet stationed
at those points has been inaugurate1.
The flights will be made by navy arr
planes.
Clever hundred American soldiers
arrived from Siberia on the transport
Sheridan. A sign on the ships side
read: ~Bolshevists, beware! We are
coming home to join the American
Legion.
A man identified by the police as Lee
land w. Zierick of Seattle escaped
from a jewelry store at Los Angeles
with diamonds vo1lnI nt mora than
$4,000, after he had held up the mana
ger and a clerk with u revolver. The
man was caught later.
Mexican immigration officials have
been ordered to watch closely the bor-
ders of that country to prevent entry
or departure of radicals, by Aguirre
Berlanga, secretary of the interior, ac-
cording to advices received at Ell Paso
by Andres G. Garcia, consul general
for Mexico.
S. w. Forester, a wealthy resident
of Wichita, Kan, has bought a 100000
acre ranch at Gregory, Tex, and pro-
poses to raise deer for market con-
sumption. He will build wire fences
twelve feet high around the entire
property. He expects to send 10000
deer to the slaughter house each year
to aid in combating the high cost of
living.
WASHINGTON
Five American aces, credited with
having brought down more than fifty
German a%irplanes, advocated before a
House subcommittee the creation of an
aeronautical department of the govern
ment to coordinate all aerial activi-
ties.
Prices charged by coal operators
since government control was restored
because of the strike are being scrutin-
zed closely by officials of the railroad
administration n probably will be
submitted to the Department of JUS
tice.
An official investigation will be Or
dered by the War Department into
statements attributed to Lieut.. Belvin
w. Maynard of the army air service
that the secret of the failure of some
of the pilots in the recent transconti-
mental army air race "can be attri-
buted to too much booze"
The total value of the country's i'm
portant farm crops this year aggre-
gates 1909, 74O, 900, the Department
of Agriculture estimated in its final re-
port. Tha compares with SO, 600, $685.
600, the aggregate value of last years
crops as finally revised. The total
area planted in these principal crops is
placed at 359, 124,473 acres, compared
with 356, 407, 1852 last year.
Omissions in submitted estimates
for the coming fiscal year bring the
proposed expenditures of the govern
ment up to $5,249,470,O31 instead of
$4,S65, 400, 900, Representative Good,
Republican, Iowa, chairman of the APP
preparations committee, told the
House. Items omitted from the esti-
mates, Mr.. Good said, included $751;
100000 for road construction, already
authorized; $150,300,000 for redemp-
ton of War Savings certificates, re-
serve notes and miscellaneous public
debts, proposed by Secretary Glass in
his report; $50, 100000 to continue the
$40 annual bonus to government
workers, $40,O00,0O0 for salary in
creases of postoffice employees, $685.
100000 for supplemental estimates
anu $oO,uVu,ooo lor ueliciehcieS.
A peace-time regular army of 300,-
600 men and $4,000 officers has peer
decided on by the louise Military Sub
committee, headed by Representative
Anthony, Republican, Kansas, framing
the army reorganization bill. The
number OF combat troops was fixed at
100000.
julius H. Barnes, Federal Wheat Di-
rector has announced the purchase of
the Washington Herald by Herbert
Hoover, Charles Il. Crane of Chicago,