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WESTERN
Granted 40 per cent increase In
salary, moving picture theater musi-
clans, who have been on strike since
July 9th, went back to work in Chica-
10. Ninety per cent Of the city's the
aters were affected by the strike.
Alison i. Cole and Vincent Crammer
condemned Nebraska murderers, have
been reprieved by Governor McKelvie
until Nov. IL in order to allow time
for disposal OF applications which
were filed In Federal Court. Cole has
received fourteen reprieves and Cram
mer twelve.
Eighty pupils in the printing class
at the Central High school ut st. Louis
went on strike" because II non-union
man was appointed instructor, II posi-
tion formerly held by union printer.
The board of education recently ruled
that no one connected with organized
labor would be employed In the public
schools.
Mrs. LuZe Corral de villa, wife of
Francisco villa, who has resided in
San Antonio, Texas, four years, has
departed for Parral, Mexico, to join
her husband. There were twenty
others In Mrs. Villas party. The
Villas will be established on the Ha-
clenda del Canutllo, one of the
ranches set aside for demobilized
Villlstas
Dog fanciers of San Francisco
learned of the death in Alexandria,
La, of Bllmer Bingo, champion Aire-
dale, who won many blue ribbons at
Frisco bench shows. Bilmer Blngo,
owned by DIR. w. @. Billings, formerly
of the government health service in
San Francisco, was killed by n dia-
mond-head moccasln snake In the
grounds Of the Billings home.
Utah, forty-first state In population
ten years ago, and the 1920 population
of which was announced by the census
bureau rs 449,446, has shown the larg-
est percentage of growth of any state
thus far announced In the fourteenth
census. Its rate of growth, 204 per
cent, was almost us large as that for
the decade ending with 1910, but Its
numerical Increase was exceeded In
that decade.
WASHINGTON
The United States Shipping Board
has announced the sale of five Hog
Island-built ships for $7,23S, 1913 to the
American Fuel and Transportation Cor
poraton.
Approval of n loan of S6,703,4 400 to
the Senboard Air Line Railroad Com
pany and SS96,025 to the Terminal
Railroad Association of st. Louis, has
been announced by the interstate COM
merce commission.
President Wilson, In II telegram to
representatives of the anthracite mine
workers In Pennsylvania, refused to
grant their request to reconvcne the
joint scale committee of operators and
miners for the purpose OF considering
u new wage award.
Controller OF the Currency Williams
asserted that the records of his office
confirm Senator Owens recent charges
that certain New York banks have
loaned $500,000,0OO at extortlonate
AID burdens0me interest rates, run
ming MS high ns 30 per cent.
That the shortage of newsprint will
be overcome by new paper mills In Al
nska, has been predicted by Col w. Il.
Greeley. chief of the forest service,
who has just returned from months
Inspection of timber and water power
on the Tongass national forest
ri hpt IL
tentlon TO fight union labor, but to
stop union domination" of their
plants, seven OF the largest shipbulld-
ing plants and ship repair plants OF
Mobile have announced an "open shop
policy. The company officials In Il
public notice announced that all union
men In their employ desiring to remain
would be kept ut work.
An injunction restraining the ship
ping board from foreclosing n S5,O00,-
900 mortgage on the plant OF the Pusey
& Jones Co., Wilmington. Del. was
granted by Justice Siddons In the Dis.
trict OF Columbia Supreme Court The
action was designed TO give the com
pany opportunity to file suit against
the board with the Court of Claims In
connection with counter claims arising
out of the communicating OF the plant
by the government Mt the outbreak of
the war.
An ultimate settlement Of the pc
troleum controversy between the
Mexican and United States govern
ment satisfactory to both countries is
expected by DIR. A. Tore Dlax, recent.
iy appointed Mexican minister to Bra.
ell, now In Washington on his way to
his new post.
Attorney General Palmer has begun