The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-04-03
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

The Eel oil situation has become S
desperate in San Antonio, Texas, tina
the fuel committee of the Manufat
turers Association Friday telegraphe
Attorney General Palmer stating tina
it is imperative that the manufactul
ers have immediate relief.
The original position of the Amer
can government that the Turks shoul'
be expelled from Europe is restatet
in note TO the allied supreme coun
ell, which has been prepared at the
state department. and is to be trans
mitted soon. The communication i
in reply to an inquiry from the
French and British governments as t
this countrys views on the Turkish
settlement.
With a warning against profiteering
President Wilson Tuesday ordered
the abandonment of government con
troll over bituminous coal prices and
asked miners and operators to nego
tiate new working agreement on the
basis of tho majority report of the
coal strike settlement commission
The president ordered the termination
of price control on April /. when the
new working agreement becomes eff
fective
A resolution asking President VIII
son for information as to the recent
announcement, by the British foreign
that the island of zap. in the
Pacific ocean, was to be given to
Japan, adopted Monday by the
senate wItnout debate. 1t was offered
by Senator Lodge.
President Wilson's nomination OF
cambridge Colby to be secretary of
state to succeed Robert Lansing, re-
signed, was confirmed by the senate
Monday.
President Wilson posed for more
than five minutes for moving picture
men Saturday as he was leaving the
bile ride. The pictures showed him
thinner than before his i'll
ness.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Unusually high winds, accompanied
by rainfall that was in general fairly
east and South Texas Thursday The
was needed to soften the
ground for corn about ready to sprout
md will make it possible for farmers
planting in much of the area visited.
Spring gardens will be benefited con
;iderably by the moisture, which va
led from heavy downpours to light
Governor Hobby Friday completed
lis plan for controlling the pink boil
worm pest in Texas, and proposes to
Eradicate it by non-cOtton growing
ones, as authorized under the present
aw, and has called upon the pink boil
worm commission to convene to take
he necessary steps to put it into OPP
ration It will meet in the court |
ouse at Houston. Texas. this week |
nd all persons interested are invited |
o attend The call was made by Fred |
V. Davis, commissioner of agriculture |
The Gulf Coast Oil Corporation and |
he Crown Oil and Refining COmpany's |
To- 90 Gaillard well at Goose Creek, |
anne in Thursday flowing 1900 bar
els. Friday the well increased its |
reduction to approximately $500 bar
els a day.
Texas was the eighth state in col
sction of income and excess profits
axes for the first quarter of the year,
S shown by a statement Friday is
Jed by the bureau of internal reve-
ue. The total collections for the
nited States amounted to $908,S29-
70, of which Texas paid S22,097,776
nd Oklahoma paid $6951 1856
Representative w. ]. Browning of
amden, n. j., dropped dead Wednes-
ny in the barber shop at the capitol
Judge Amos L. Beatty of New York
as been elected president of the Tex
; Company to succeed E. c. Lufkin,
so of New York, who becomes chair
an of the executive committee. it
as announced Thursday at Houston,
eXas The change was made at a
Getting of the directors in New York
Statistics made public Monday at
e annual convention of the Illinois
ate Dental Society, Chicago, ILL.,, in
Gated that only Is per cent of the
,ople in America used a tooth brush
i'd that not more than 20 per cent of
e inhabitants took care of their
eth.
o
The thirteenth annual convention of
e Laundry Owners Association of
,xas convened at Houston, Texas,
onday.