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W. -. ttSkeTu, prosecuting uttOTucy
of Pierce County, Washington, was
called to the door of his home at Ta
coma and shot. His wounds are re-
ported serious.
Swan Odgaard, his wife and an un-
identified man We're killed when
snowslide carried away the house in
which they We're living in Little Cot
tonwood canon, north of Salt Lake
City.
Approximately 100000 individual in
come tax returns were made in the in
ternal revenue district embracing
northern California and Nevada, an in
crease of 10000 over last year, the in
ternal revenue collector announced at
San Francisco.
Now comes Arizona as cotton
state. The last of the 1919-1920 Egyp-
tian cotton crop has been picked re-
Gently. 1t will bring $20,O00,000 at
average market price. The cotton was
raised for the most part in the Salt
River valley, which surrounds Phoe-
nix. Nearly $1,000 acres were planted
to cotton in that district
Even the air isn't free any more, at
least as far as war tax is concerned,
according to Justus Wardell, collector
of internal revenue of San Francisco,
who announced the receipt of a ruling
from Washington that airplanes en-
gaded in commercial passenger, freight
and express traffic over established
routes in competition with other meth
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their traffic.
Prohibition agents have been asked
by the Washington officials to keep
sharp lookout for mysterious air.
plane which flies over the Canadian
border every night into Montana and
drops paraschute. The information
is that the parachute carries a guam
tity of whisky which is disposed of by
bootleggers. After dropping the para
chute, the airplane goes back into Can
ada without landing. -
The report Of the finding of
two prevOlcanic skeletons in
prehistoric house in Valencia county.
which aroused intense interest among
scientists all over the country, was a
gigantic April Fool day hoax. Amado
Chaves of Santa Fe, former state
school superintendent wealthy capital
ist and one of the best known men in
the state, who gave out the story to
the newspapers, today admitted that
he had been victimized and innocently |
victimized the public.
WASHINGTON.
Seaplanes able to fly across the Pa
cific ocean will be developed within |
Two to five years, Secretary of the |
Navy Daniels told the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee.
Mrs. Edward Bell, wife of the sec
retary of the American embassy at
Toxic, has been appointed counselor of
the embassy. She is the first woman
to be named for this position.
Nationwide reports from federal re-
serve bank officials, made public at
Washington disclose their opinion that
the postwar era of 'extravagance and
reckless buying by the public is near
ing its end"
House and Senate conferees on the
bill providing increased pay for en-
listed and commissioned personnel of
of the army and navy failed to reach
an agreement and the House managers
will ask the House for further instruc-
tons. The House conferees object to
including increased pay for soldiers in
the measure.
The government expenditures have
exceeded the revenues ''from all sourc-
Ia
the first nine months of this fiscal
year, and the reduction of $706,O 100000
in the floating debt last month is but
temporary" condition, Representa-
tive Mondell, Wyoming, Republican
leader, declares in a prepared state
ment. Economy alone, he says, can
avert a ''calamitous crisis"
Governors of Federal Reserve banks
were warned by the Treasury Depart
ment that the government would be a
heavy borrower in April and May de-
spite the March reduction of $705, $780,
900 in the public debt. The amount Of
treasury certificates of indebtedness
which would be necessary to meet the
nations needs was not disclosed, but
another issue of such obligations is ex-
pected sOOn
Print paper costing not more than
8 cents a pound would be admitted
tax free under bill amending the
revenue act, passed unanimously by
the House and sent to the Senate
The present law fixed 5 cents as the
limit, but members said none at that
price was obtainable for import
Senator McNary's bill enIarging the
Oregon National Forest by adding H.
600 acres of its northern and western
boundaries, including Larch mountain
and scenic gorges Of the Columbia riv-
er, has been passed by the Senate and
sent to the House.