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WESTERN
Granted a 40 per cent Increase In
salary. moving picture theater musi-
clans, who have been on strike since
July 5th, went back to work in Chica-
go. Ninety per cent of the city's the
aters were affected by the strike.
Alison b. Cole and Vincent Crammer
condemned Nebraska murderers, have
been reprieveG by Governor McKelvie
until Nov. II 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
MT the Central High school at St. Louis
went on strike" because non-union
man was appointed Instructor n posi-
tion formerly held by a 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-
cienda del Canutilo, one of the
ranches set aside for demobilized
Villlstas.
Dog fanciers of San Francisco
learned of the denth in Alexandria,
La, of Bllmer Bingo, champion Aire-
dale, who won many blue ribbons at
Frisco bench shows. Bilmer BIngo,
owned by DR.. w. G. Billings, formerly
OF the government health service In
San Francisco, was killed by a dia-
mond-head moccasin snake In the
grounds of the Billings home.
Utah, forty-flrst state In population
ten years ago, and the 1920 population
Of which was announced by the census
bureau as 449,446, has shown the larg-
est percentage of growth of any state
thus far announced In the fourteenth
census. Its rate of growth, 20.4 per
cent, was almost as large MS that for
the decade ending with 1910, but it's
numerical increase was exceeded in
that decade.
WASHINGTON
The United States Shipping Board
has announced the sale of five Hog
Tsland-built ships for 81 7,23S, 1913 to the
American Fuel and Transportation Cor
poration.
Approval of loan of $6,703, 400 to |
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Com |
pany and SS96,925 to the Terminal |
Railroad Association of st. Louis, has
been announced by the interstate COM
merce commission.
President Wilson, in telegram to
representatives of the anthracite mine |
workers in Pennsylvania, refused to
grant their request to reconvene the |
joint scale committee of operators and
miners for the purpose of considering
\ 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 $5OO,OOO,OOO at extortionate
and burdensome interest rates, run
ming as high as 30 per cent.
That the shortage of newsprint will
be overcome by new paper mills in Al
aska, has been predicted by Col. w. B.
Greeley. chief Of the forest service,
who has just returned from months
inspection of timber and water power
on the Tongass national forest.
Declaring that it was not their in
tention to fight union labor, but to |
"stop union domination" of their |
plants, seven of the largest shipbuild- |
ing plants and ship repair plants of |
Mobile have announced an "open shop |
policy. The company officials in a |
public notice announced that all union |
men in their employ desiring to remain |
would be kept at work.
An injunction restraining the ship
ping board from foreclosing a S5,OOO,-
600 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 at 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 Diaz, recent
ly appointed Mexican minister to Bra
I'll, now in Washington on his way to
his new post.
Attorney General Palmer has begun
collecting evidence against several as
sociations of California fruit growers,
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