The Benson signal., 1920-03-27

Western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN
New deep water salmon banks have
been discovered off Cape Spencer,
ninety miles east of Juneau, at the en-
trance to Cross sound. Heavy hauls
Of salmon have been made in the vi
cinity, it was said.
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
VOlstead enforcement act.
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 $5O,O0O,OO0 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.
A young farmer named Swanson was
instantaneOusly killed and Lieut..
Frank Button fatally injured at the
town of Ogallala, Neb., when during
an exhibition flight the airplane of
which Lieutenant Button was pilot
and Swanson a passenger took tail
spin and fell several hundred feet. The
machine was almost smashed to pieces,
and when the men were taken from
the wreckage Swanson was dead and
Button unconscious.
Bank robbers burned their way
through the outer door of the vault in
the First National Bank at Crows
Landing, near Modesto, Calf, rifled
fifty safe deposit boxes and carried
away several thousand dollars worth
of negotiable Liberty bonds. The ex-
act loss could not be estimated. No
attempt was made to secure an en-
trance to the money vault The rob-
bers used an acetylene gas tank to
burn their way through the outer door
of the big vault.
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. NJ w. Fink Of PenawaWa. The
gigantic bones were discovered by a
road construction crew. The skull of
the animal is reported to be two and
half feet between the eye sockets,
the tusks to be eight inches in diam
to five inches across. An effort will
be made Wednesday to unearth the
hindquarters of the skeleton.
WASHINGTON
The population Of Hawaii is 249,-
992, the Census Bureau at Washing
ton announced this week. This is an
increase of 5S,0S3, or 3O.3 per cent as
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
it's toes" during peace time.
A peace-time army of $4,000 en-
listed men and 1890 officers has been
approved by the House, in passing the
army reorganization bill by vote Of
246 to 90. The measure now goes to
the Senate.
Wholesale cancellations of depGrta-
tlon warrants against Communists ana
anarchists have been ordered by the
Department of Labor. More than 100
of the agitatOrs arrested during the
recent raids conducted by the Depart
ment of Justice have been turned loose
during the last few days
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has announced that it has re-
ceived acceptances from more than
500 railroad corporations declaring
:heir intention to operate under the
guarantee provisions of the transpOrta-
tion act Fewer than dozen lines
have thus far refused the income
guarantee, and many of these, Off
clals said, were small corporations.
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 $640, 0,OOO,OOO,
the smallest monthly total since Octo-
Der, 1919 Imports also decreased
from 100000 in January to $407,-
100000. Imports of gold during Feb
ruary were unusually small, amount
ing to $4,473,OOO against exports of
$43,000,O00.