, 1920-05-20
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service. .
WESTERN.
The family of J. B. Henderson of
Hutchinson, Kan, has established q
new moving record. 1t has moved
thirty-fOur times In the last thirty
years.
Miss Camille A. Bosch, society ed
itor of h Portland Oregonian, is dead
from injuries received in a collision of
two electric trains neal Portland. Her
death swells the fatality list of the acT
cident to nine. Miss BOSCH was d sis
ter of Arno Dosch-Fieurot, a war cor
respondent.
One man Is dead and four critically
Ill at Florence, Ariz., after having
eaten preserved string beans and pre-
served beets, according to County Ply
stefan w. G. Small of Florence. DIR.
Randall said the men were infected
with the bacilli of botulism, like re-
cent ripe olive poisoning cases in
various parts of the country.
Council Bluffs was confronted by a
mystery a few days 6 The nude
body of a man with both legs off at
the knees and both arms Topped off
at the elbows was found In the Mis-
rouri river, a few miles below there.
From the condition Of the body 1t ap-
parently had been in the water for
some time. There was no clue t o its
identity.
nn-Oh GO 80 &h4 Nr,,- 80
fourteen miles northwest of Phoenix,
and 5000 acres of and adjacent for
81. 900, 900 has been announced by the
Southwest Cotton Company, a cotton
producing subsidiary Of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company of Akron.
Ohio. Officials of the cotton company
said the purchase increased the COM
pany's holdings in that vicinity to 49,
600 acres.
The American Association of Ec
gineers in convention at st. Louis APP
proved n plan to raise $780, 900 to
construct a national engineering build
ing In Chicago. 1t was recommended
that deans OF engineering schools be
paid from $1,000 to $4,000 a year, ac-
cOrding to the size of the institution,
and that assistant instructors be paid
a minimum of $500, and professors a
maximum of $4,000.
Births in the registration area of the
United States, which covers about 81
per cent Of the country's estimated
population, during the year 1913 *
panNad doofho hr "a a mar sonnf Gto
tistics for that year just completed by
the census bureau show q total of l.
S83, 649 births in the territory. which Is
a small decrease compared to 1917,
while the deaths, 1,014,620, show a
slight increase.
Among o than $4,000 burials OF
American soldier dead In Europe, the
raves registration service has reduced
to 2 per cent the number of cases in
which Identification is Incomplete, and
this number will be still further re-
duced by the checking up of all pro-
durable evidence at the European head
quarters, Ralph Hayes, private secre-
tary of Secretary Baker, reported to
Chairman Porter of the House foreign
affairS committee.
BY q vote Of 80 to 1O1 the House
refused to give up the free seed dis
tribution perquisite which attaches to
the office of congressman. Instruc-
lions were given the conferees on the
agricultural appropriation bill to in
sist on the restoration Of the S24O,O OO
item for free seeds stricken from the.
bill In the Senate.
Legislation designed to aid the rail-
roads and shippers in the car short
age situation by extending the use of
the $300,O0O,000 revolving fund pro-
vided In the transportation act from
five to fifteen years, and also amend
ing the law in other respects. has been
agreed upon by the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee.
Establishment of paper mills In Alas
ka was recommended as a means of re-
Iieving the paper shortage by Secre-
tary Meredith of the Department of
Agriculture. ALASKA is destined to
become a second Norway" Secretary
Meredith said. With her enormous for
ests of rapidly growing species suita-
bic for pulp, her water power, and her
tidewater shipment of manufactured
products, Alaska will undoubtedly be-
come one of the principal paper
sources of the United States.
The family food budget In February
was exactly twice the sum expended
for the same articles Of food In Febru-
airy, 1913, according to Department of
Labor statistics. During approximate
ly the same period in Great Britain,
the Increase was only 100 per cent.
while In Italy IL was 1877 per cent. Ger
many outranked ALI Countries enumer
ated with an Increase OF 224 per cent.
Walker ID. Hines, who has retired
m di.ontaE nanaEaI of 4ha .oII.oaa II