The Ordway new era., 1921-04-22

guilty in the District Court at Ere
mont, Neb., of forgery and sentenced
to serve from one to twenty years in
the penitentiary.
Charred bones, identified as those of
human being, found in the Ambas-
sador hotel ruins in Santa Barbara,
Calf, indicate that at least one life
was lost in the fire that destroyed the
big hotel Firemen reported they saw
a man run into the hotel, and did not
see him come out.
Mrs. Frances Ernest Tuesday con-
feSsed before the Idaho State Pardons
Board that she, and not her husband,
who is serving time at the state peni-
tentiary, is guilty of the murder of f.
A. Rehberg The murder took place
two years ago at Rehberg's cabin in
the mountain fastness of Lemhi coun-
ty, Idaho.
A committee of the California State
Senate tabled all the mildly wet
resolutions before the committee. Au-
thors of the resolutions, all asking
Congress for modification of the pro-
hibition enforcement, failed to agree
on which should be reported to the
floor. The House had adopted one of
the resolutions.
Secretary Mellon has announced the
reappointment of Col. r. G. Cholmely-
Jones of New York as director of the
bureau of war risk insurance, who re-
entered upon the duties of his office
at once. He was returned to the de-
partment at the request of the secre-
tary to assist in carrying out the rec
concentrations of the special commit
tee appointed by the President of
which Gen. Chas. G. Dawes was chair
man.
Interest in the murder of Mrs. Fay
Sudow, whose mutilated body was
found in an Edendale eucalyptus grove
last December, was revived when
Deputy Sheriffs Bell and Couts of Los
Angeles announced the belief that ar
rests are imminent in connection with
the unsolved crime. New facts un-
earthed by the deputies direct suspi-
cion, the officers said, on three men
who are believed to have defrauded the
wealthy woman of property and
money. This evidence gives rise to a
theory that the three, whose names
are withheld, may have killed her to
conceal the swindle.
WASHINGTON
Nominations of George Harvey of
New York, to be ambassador to Great
Britain and Myron 7. Herrick of Ohio,
to be ambassador to France, have been
sent to the Senate by President Hard
ing.
Declarations that the Navy Depart
ment is ready to take what Congress
will appropriate and keep the fleet
'ready and fit to fight" and that the
War Department is pursuing policy
of retrenchment in an effort to get
down to "normalcy" were made by Sec
retaries DENLY and Weeks before the
American Legion post of the National
Press Club at Washington, d. C.
One of the new reporters in the
House press gallery is former Repre-
sentative Sherwood, Republican, Ohio,
who at the age of S5 began to watch
congressional proceedings for a To-
ledo newspaper.
Secretary of the Interior Fall has of
fered for lease, under the provisions
of the oil land leasing act, 6,OOO acres
of all land in the Salt Creek fields in
Wyoming. The leases will be given to
those offering the highest cash bonus
and no single person or corporation
will be permitted to secure more than
$40 acres.
Senator Phipps today introduced in
the Senate an amendment to the Dill
lingham immigration bill to provide
that the secretary of labor, when an
emergency exists, may admit farm la
borers from Mexico, Canada, Cuba or
the Bahama islands without regard to
the illiteracy test Such admissions
may be made only at times when there
is no unemployment in the country
among agricultural workers. The
amendment is designed primarily to
permit the beet sugar growers of Colo
RADIO and other Western states to OBJ
tain temporary labor from Mexico.
Unless courts intervene, Donal O'Cal-
1aehan, lord mayor of Cork, who came
here last January as stowaway and
without passport, must depart on or
before June s. Orders that immigra-
tion inspectors take O'Callaghan into
! custody, should he be found in the
United States after that date, have
been issued BY Secretary Of Labor
= r1.vfA II aIuo ,wan diacloaed that fho
! Ge1tt Department had denied his petit
f1c1 e6ut6n1ln6 th4t he was entitled
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