, 1920-03-25

fall, instead of $500 previously agreed
upon, by the Board of Education.
A demand for resubmission of the
eighteenth amendment is made in a
resolution adopted by the license COM
mittee of the Milwaukee common coun-
Gil. Coupled with the resolution is
also a request for the repeal of the
Folstead enforcement act.
David n John Goertzen, cousins of
Henderson, Neb., are held at Fort
Omaha as deserters. 1t is alleged they
obtained permission to visit Canada in
1918, before being called in the draft,
and didn't return until recently. They
are members of Il Mennonite colony.
Damage in California from incen-
diary fires and other forms of sabo-
tage attributed to radicals and advo-
Gates of "direct action" was estimated
at S50.0OO,OOO by S. j. Shannon, dep
uty United States marshal at Fresno,
testifying at Los Angeles, at the trial
of Nicholas Steelink, alleged Indus
trial Worker of the World.
AS n result of charges made in Su-
perior Court at Spokane by two pros
pective jurors in the case of James
Stevens and Charles Butts, alleged In
dustrial Workers of the World, on trial
there charged with criminal Syndical-
ism, that efforts had been made to in
fiuence their opinions regarding the
case, an entire special venire was dis
missed n the case was continued.
The annual meeting of the National
Education Association will be held at
Salt 7 ala Cffry Tr1u A IN IN ,,I ILL H.
featured by extended discussions on
the shortage of teachers and the neces-
sity for the profession to unite for leg
islation to obtain wage increases. The
council of state school superintendent
will hold a two days conference pre-
ceding the general meeting. All ses-
sions will be held in the tabernacle of
the Mormon church.
A skeleton, believed to be that of a
mastodon, has been unearthed at PEN
awawa on the Snake river near Spo-
kane, Wash, it is announced by the
Rev. M. w. Fink of Penawawa. The
gigantic bones We're discovered by a
road construction crew. The skull of
the animal is reported to be two and
a half feet between the eye sockets,
lic luShS " ue tlSuI lDCltS III uldIf
eter at the base and the teeth four
to five inches across. An effort will
be made Wednesday to unearth the
headquarters of the skeleton.
WASHINGTON
The population of Hawaii is 249,-
1872, the Census Bureau at Washing
ton announced this week. This is an
- Eo 200 -. % 81
compared with 1910.
The Pacific and Atlantic fleets will
meet off the Pacific coast of Panama
next January In their first joint man
~euvers, designed to keep the navy ION
its toes" during peace time.
A peace-time army of 10000 en-
listed men and 1880 officers has been
approved by the House, in passing III
army reorganization bill by a vote of
246 to 90. The measure now goes to
the Senate.
Fuel oil bids opened by the Navy De-
partment covered less than one-fifth
OF the 100000 barrels asked for and
prices quoted were more than 100 per
cent above those in current contracts.
Living costs in February were six
tenths of 1 per cent less in January,
according to figures made public by
the Labor Department. The figures
are based on reports from retail food
dealers in fifty-one cities.
Wholesale cancellations of deporta-
ton warrants against Communists ana
anarchists have beer ordered by the
Department of Labor. More THAI 100
~ TIM ouffnfnrC arrragtnA d,rsnx tha
recent raids conducted by the Depart
ment of Justice ave been turned loose
during the last few days.
Decided decrease in exports is shown
by the February foreign trade state
ment issued by the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, exports for
the month amounting to $645, 600, 900,
the smallest monthly total since Octo-
Der, 1919. Imports also decreased
from $474,000.000 in January TO $467,-
600, ZOO. Imports of gold during Feb
ruary were unusually small, amount
ing to $4,473,000 against exports of
$43, 100000.
Seeing in increased production a
means of restoring normal business
and price conditions, the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, it was
announced, will make its eighth an
nual meeting, to be held at Atlantic
City, April 81 to 20. an Increased pro-
duction convention"
Mexican federal troops have brought
about the release of Peter w. Sum-
mers, American ranch owner, who was
kidnapped and held for ransom by reb-
els in the vicinity of Salina Cruz, Mex
leo, according to adyices reaching
Washington.