The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-10

Farmers of Stockton, Kan, have or Eanized with an agreement to burn corn this coming winter instead of coal, on account of the difference in price between these two commodities.
 Four armed bandits robbed the HO- diamOnt Bank, just outside of St. Louis, of $7,1S0. Six employees and one customer were compelled to lay face downward while the men scOOped the money into sacks. The robbers es- capped in an automobile.
 Packing house employees of Des Hoines, Iowa, voted to accept 5 per cent wage cut declared recently by the packing companies. Officers of the union said that there will be no strike by the employees unless 1t is declared by the national officers.
 A twenty-year courtship eliminated In the marriage of William COburn, 90 years old, and Mrs. Edith R. Wood, S9, in the chapel of the Soldiers Home at Swatelle, a suburb of Los Angeles. Bride and bridegroom declared they never felt younger"
 J. c. MacSpadden, S2 years old, a former partner of John D. ROckefEE- Ter in the oil business, and Minneap- Oiis pioneer, died at WascO, Calf. MT. MacSpadden, who has devoted the last few years of his life to fruit ranches, end eucalyptus groves in southern Cal HorniR, was stricken with apOplexy several days ago.
 The body of John B. Tordiff, 56, a repair shop owner, was found in his shop at Globe, Ariz. His clothing had caught in the machinery in such a manner that he strangled to death. Of deials said the machinery apparently had frightened the clothing about his neck and kept on running until the gasoline which furnished the power was exhausted.
 Beventy-year-old Carl Rueble, a re- tred Iowa farmer, shot and slightly wounded Mrs. Gabe OlesOn, the wife Oe neighbor and then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Rue- ble's attention to the 55-year-Old wife of his younger neighbOr has been the subject of jest for some time. Mrs. Olsson, according to her husband, paid no attention to his advances.
 WASHINGTON
 The governments annual report on mortality statistics for 1920, soon to be issued, shows 1,142,578 deaths within oroa ing a rate of 1S.1 per thousand, as compared with 129 in 1919. Fatalities from automobile accidents and injuries increased from 9.4 to 10.4 per hundred thousand.
 The outlook Is favorable for the passage of the federal aid road bill by Congress in time to help relieve un- employment in the building of high ways. The amount asked, $100,O00,OOO, when doubled by like sum from the states, would go a long ways toward helping out things. England has start cd movement of this kind.
 The War Department announced that 1000 seats, about one-fifth of the total seating capacity of the memorial amphitheater, at Arlington Armistice day had been reserved for gold star mothers or other nearest relatives of men who died in the World war. Not more than two seats will be given any application.
 Director Dawes of the budget an- nOunced the creation of two addition al boards which he declared would put more business efficiency In govern mental affairs and result in savings to the government of several hundred million dollars 8 year. The new bod les set up are the federal specified tiOns and federal traffic boards.
 A resolution by Senator Overman, Democrat, North Carolina, adopted by the Senate, directs the federal reserve board to report as to the salaries paid by reserve banks and other expenses of these banks. The resolution recited that 1t had been charged that salaries fin tine New York bank had been in- creased more than s1,OOO,OOO since the war.
 The new revenue law to be enacted next year to take the place of the one which Congress will soon pass, will contain the chief provisions of the Shoot bill, providing for manufactur- Ing or sales tax on commodities. Agreement to this effect has been reached among Senate leaders of the eastern bloc, representing the indus trial sections of the country.