Gilpin observer., 1920-03-11
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYlNos, NOS, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERiNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Two armed men robbed the Ameri-
can State Bank at Harrisburg, Texas,
of all available money and Liberty
bonds, something less than $5,0OO and
made their escape.
Three men were killed and seven Sc
riously injured in st. Louis when II
scaffolding on which they were work
ing at the plant of the General Motors
Company collapsed.
Three Eskimo hunters came into
Nome over the sea ice and reported
they had been drifting for fifteen days
on an ice 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-, We're convicted at Miami,
Okla, on n charge of murder in con
nection with the killing of Police Chief
Charles Stricken of Commerce, Okla,
Oct. %, 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 decision of the Shawnee coun-
ty District Court in which Mrs. Grace
Nixon brought suit for an increase in
alimony from her former husband, Ira
Nixon.
Roy Dickerson, alias George Lynch,
former vaudeville "handcuff' king,
charged with robbing the Phoenix Cir
nT phnaniX
from the city Jail ut Los Angeles after
picking the "burglar-proof lock- on his
cell door and climbing TO the roof of
the building through the ventilator
shaft.
The high cost of flying has gone up
notch at San Francisco. Companies
engaged in commercial aviation pub
lished n 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 mt
$50. Increased cost of aeroplane
parts, operation and upkeep was given
as the reason.
As measure looking toward stabil-
iZation of the lumber market, price re-
ductions, which, 1t was declared, would
amount to 10 to 80 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
the Weyerhauser interests. The re-
duced prices, it was declared, would
remain effective at least until June l.
WASHINGTON
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
Five million barrels of federal grain
corporation soft wheat flour will be
sold on credit in Europe soon unless
Congress authorizes $50,000000 loans
to finance the sales, Julius Barnes,
head of the corporation, told the House
rules committee. He said he now had
authority to make the sales on credit,
but hoped the loans would be author
ized.
New Mexico has been authorized by
the War Department at Washington to
organize battalion Of infantry, II bat
talon of field artillery, squadron OF
cavalry and machine gun troop as its
National Guard quota.
Douglas Fairbanks, well known
screen actor, broke the forefinger of
his right hand and sustained painful
cuts while roping horse for Il film
play in the painted desert, twenty-five
miles north of Holbrook, Ariz.
Senator Reed. Democrat of Missouri,
has introduced u resolution calling up
on the Senate manufactures committee
to Investigate the alleged dealings"
operations and Speculation" of the
United States Grain Corporation and
the alleged wheat pool.
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"
Former service men soon will get
''real letters" instead of mimeograph
copies from the war risk bureau. Di.
rector Cholmeley Johns said that the
insurance division Of the bureau was
virtually at the end OF its period OF
congestion" and that in Il 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 G. Roper, commission