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announced at Omaha the system had
bought S600O.0O0 worth of locomotives
and S4,0O0,00O of refrigerator cars.
Two armed men robbed the Amer-
can State Bank at Harrisburg, Texas,
of ali available money and Liberty
bonds, something less than 5000, and
made their escape
Three Eskimo hunters came into
Nome over the sea ice and reported
they had been drifting for fifteen days
on an ices cake in the Bering sea, out
of sight of land They said they had
suffered from sold and hunger.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Blanchard of Ne
vada, Mo-, were convicted at Miami,
Okla, on charge of murder in con-
nection with the killing of Police Chief
Charles Stricker of Commerce, Okla,
Oct. Do, 1919, and were sentenced TO
life imprisonment
Alimony, like wages, is subject to
revision of the high cost of living, the
Kansas Supreme Court holds. 1t af
firmed a decision of the Shawnee coun-
~ District Court in which Mrs. Grace
Nixon brought suit for an increase in
alimony from her former husband, Ira
Nixon.
Emil Saegusser. an airplane pilot,
and Miss Claris Hart, and j. d. Rat
cliff, the latter IL years old, We're
killed when an airplane in which they
were riding caught fire 800 feet in the
air, near Cunningham, Kan. and fell
TO earth. The cause of the accident
is unknown.
Fire which has been smoldering for
over year in the Argonaut mine at
Jackson, Calf, has broken through in
to the Kennedy mine, one of the great
est gold producers in California Work
is suspended. A bulkhead is being
built across d communicating tunnel at
the $500 foot level in the hope of
checking the flames
The high cost of flying has gone up
notch at San Francisco. Companies
engaged in commercial aviation pub
lished tariff Increasing the price OF
ten-minute sightseeing" flights % per
cent to $3.50 and fixing the price of
the same period of stunt" flying at
$50. Increased cost of aeroplane
parts, operation and upkeep was given
as the reason. 4
As Il measure looking toward stabil-
ization of the lumber market, price re-
ductions, which, it was declared, would
amount to 10 to 30 per cent under pres
ent prices, were recently announced by
the Weyerhauser Sales Company at
Spokane, Wash, distributing agency
for eleven lumber mills controlled by
duced prices, it was declared, would
remain effective at least until June /.
WASHINGTON
Unless provision is made to maintain
the efficiency of the present naval re-
serve force by systematic training, the
navy within few years will be faced
with the same lack of potential man
power as when the country entered the
war, Secretary Daniels told the House
naval affairs committee. In another
war, the secretary said, there probably
would not be the same opportunity
for preparation"
New Mexico has been authorized by
the War Department at Washington to
organize battalion Of infantry, bat
talon of field artillery, squadron of
cavalry and machine gun troop as its
National Guard quota.
Enactment of legislation authorizing
the secretary of war to turn over sur
plus motor vehicles to the agriculture
.postoffice and other government de-
partments has been completed with the
adoption by the Senate of the confer
ence report.
The will of Rear Admiral Robert
f. Peary, U. S. n, retired, filed for
probate in Washington, directs that all
medals, trophies and books and Eagle
Island, near South Harpswell, Me-, be
given to his 16-year-old son, Robert
i. Peary Jr.
Pensions of $4,000 yearly were
granted by the Territorial Legislature
in Manila to Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo,
leader of the Filipino insurgents
against the Spaniards in 1896, and
Cayetano S. Arellano formerly chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Philippines.
Former service men soon will get
real letters instead of mimeograph
copies from the war risk bureau. D-
rector Cholmeley Johns said that the
insurance division of the bureau was
VIRTUALLY at the end of its period of
congestion" and that in a few weeks
it would be able to answer every let
ter four days after its receipt.
The President has received the resig-
nation of Daniel C. Roper, commission
err of internal revenue. Mr.. Roper
asked to be relieved April 1, or as soon
thereafter as a successor could be
named