The Holbrook news., 1920-12-31
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIeN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN


 Several persons were injured in g fire on the recreation pier at Venice Calif The injured were members O1 q party cut off in a dance hall and were struck by falling timbers.
 Nine officers and men flying from San Pedro to San Diego in F-5-L sea plane No. Il were rescued from theiI disabled plane by destroyer off Del Mar. 9 miles north of San Diego.
 Six nurses were seriously injured and thirty-nine others narrowly es- capped death when fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the nurses home at the University of Nebraska hospital at Omaha.
 A thief snatched a satchel contain ing $75,0O0 in checks and $6,5OO cash from two bank messengers in Los Angeles, California, on a street crowded with thousands of Christmas shoppers, and escaped.
 George A. Merriam, mayor of Sew ard Neb., was shot and instantly killed by Arthur Andrews, alias Patrick Me Farland, his son-in-law. Mrs. Mer-
 
 twice and seriously wounded by An drews, who, following the shooting, cut his throat.
 Sixty thousand applications for tick cts for the California Ohio State foot ball game at Pasadena Jan. 1 have been received by the Tournament of Roses Association. This is apprOxi- mately 24,OO0 more applications than seats, and the association is experience ing difficulties in making equitable al lOtments of tickets.
 Charged by federal indictment with having conspired with other persons to set on foot on United States soil a movement for a military expedition into Mexico, and with having furnished money thereto, Francisco Vasquez Go meg and Leon J. Taurel have been ar rested at San Antonio, Texas, by Unit ed State Deputy Marshal John L. Bib rell.
 Capt. William A. Moffett, formerly commandant of the Great Lakes train ing station and later commander of the battleship Mississippi of the Pa cific fleet, has been appointed director of naval aviation, it has been an- nounced by Secretary Daniels. Cap tain Moffett succeeds Capt. Thomas Craven, who will be sent to sea, prob ably in command of a battleship. WASHINGTON
 Bainbridge Colby, the American sec retary of state, has arrived in Rio de JaneirO on board the battleship Flor ida from the United States. An en- thusiastic welcome was given Mir. Col by when he landed from the Florida.
 Authority was granted by the Inter state Commerce Commission for per manent consolidation of the transpor tation business and properties of the Adams, American, Wells Fargo & Co. and Southern Express companies into the American Railway Express Com pany. The commission said that it was their belief that the public would best be served by one consolidated company serving all lines with equal rates.
 Counsel for Swift & Co. and Armour x Co. have asked Justice Stafford in
  a plan for disposition of their stock yard interests similar to that proposed | by F. H. Prince & Co.,, Boston bank CTS, and to give the companies time in which to find a new buyer in place of the Boston company, which has with drawn it's offer.
 State railway commissions of Arkan- sas and Minnesota have been ordered | by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to increase state passenger rates | and excess baggage charges to the lev el now prevailing in interstate com merce. The commission held that the | present charge in the two states | amounted to a discrimination against | interstate traffic
 American business men are now free to trade with Russia, 'at their own | risk" This means, according to gov ernment officials, that, while no re- strictiOns will be placed on trade with | the sOviets, neither will any aid be given to such trade; and that any American who suffers losses or con- fiscatiOn of his goods will get no help from this government.
 An example of the exploration and research work which the United States Department of Agriculture is doing in it's search for new plants available for cultivation in this country is fur nished by the recent 9,OOO-mile expIor- ing trip taken by Dr. H. L. Shantz, agricultural explorer, botanist of the office of foreign seed and plant intro ductiOn, with the Smithsonian African Exploration.
 A tax of 14 of per cent on all bank deposits is proposed in a bill intro duced in the House by Representative Treadway of Massachusetts.
 Senate and House leaders have prac- tically agreed at a conference on a program for the enactment of an emergency tariff measure to serve as an embargo on the importation of wheat, cotton, wool, beans, potatoes and livestock and meats.
 Joseph Tumulty, secretary to Pres ident Wilson, has announced that he had declined the appointment as a chief justice of the Court of Custom Appeals, which had been offered him by the President, and that he would begin the practice of law in Washing ton after March 4.