, 1921-09-22
AN EPIT0ME OF
LATE LIVE news
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiNGs, ACHIEVE
hENTs. SUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.


ed and the column of smoke could be
seen from Kansas City. No one was
injured. At Carrolton, Mo, another oil
tank was struck and destroyed.
The California alien poll tax law was
declared unconstitutional by the State
Supreme Court in n unanimous deci-
sion which held that the measure was
in violation of the fourteenth amend
ment to the United States Constitution
and to h treaty between the United
States and Japan.
The old saying that "woman's place
is in the home,' was given another
~figurative slap on the wrist when A..
II. Brill of Emporia, Kan. won the
blue ribbon at the fair ut Topeka for
baking the best angel food cake. Brill
and his wife both entered cakes and
the husband won.
A S~5,000,000 dam, erected seven
miles above San Antonio, would af-
ford protection from Il repetition of
the recent disastrous flood. The prop
osition of building such II dam will be
placed before the taxpayers within the
next month, city officials stated. 1t
II DtiltNtu II VIII Dt NiIEltu over
w~hclmingly.
After eating a breakfast of fried
chicken. John w. Carroll of Fair
chance. Pa, was hanged in the Jail
yard mt Union, Mo-. for completely in
the murder of Benjamin Schobe, who
was slain last Nov. 20. Carroll went
to his death s%toically. Charles Jacoy,
eAnx-fats1 fa. fkn as... 1900.
hanged last month.
Heavy Importation of Chinese eggs
was predicted at San Francisco fol
lowing discovery of n crate of eggs
aboard the Japanese trans Pacific
liner Persia, every third egg in which
contained Scotch whisky. Officers
thought they may have discovered the
reason why importations If Chinese
eggs have doubled since 1919.
The toll of n twister which wrecked
the countryside near Sioux Falls, s. D.,
was placed at three dead tonight with
a score of persons injured. Damages
will total more than 500, 900 to farms
and crops. Two of the dead, Taylor
Woods and George Fenelon. were cleo
~ nv ntlt hloN dEulilN
a live wire. The third mar was killed
by a c%ollapsing barn.
WASHINGTON
Appointment of Jewish ii. -Carris, for
merly of Newark, n. j., as director of
the federal board for vocational educa-
ton was announced by the board. Mr..
Carris, who formerly was chief of the
Industrial rehabilitation division, will
n charge of all educational activi-
ties of the board and supervision over
allotment OF federal funds to the
states.
The National Wholesale Grocers' As
sociation filed a protest with the de-
partment of justice against any modifl-
cation of the recent court decree
which divorced the big packing con-
Germs from their grocery interests. To
allow the packing interest to
in the grocery business would be
against the public interests the pro-
test set forth.
The War Department, in an official
announcement, disposed of the rumor
that the olive drab uniform was going
TO give way to the blue uniform of old.
However, the department stated that
regulations would be changed TO permit
the wearing of IA slit in The bottom of
the coat skirt and TO permit n hook on
the IA that will hold the revived Sam
Browne belts in place.
Plans for a nationwide demonstra-
tion armistice day under the leadership
of organized labor lin support of the
purpose underlying the international
conference IN the limitation of nrma-
ment." were announced by the Ameri.
can Federation of Labor. Central
Mo have been asked TO organize
parades and mass meetings on that day
when the international conference be.
gins.
Census figures made public show
there were 3,140 illiternte persons ten
years of age or over In Wyoming In
1920, illiterute as used meaning I'M
able TO read or write in any language.
Only 320 were natives whites of native
parentage, the remainder being of for
eign or mixed %parcntage or of foreign
birth. The percentage OF illltcrucy de-
creased from 3.3 in 1910 TO 81 In 1920.
Those who are disturbed over the
5.735.000 unemployed Of today over.
look that in 1914 there were 1000. 900
out of work. a larger percentage OF
whom were men n actual bread win
ners than among the present unem-
ployed, Secretary Davis said In n state
mcnt. MIR. Davis said present employ
ment figures included a grpat nuubor
OF persons upon whose earnings no
u actually is dependent.
Representative Samuel NJ. Taylor of
Arkansas died at his home in Wash
lngton, after an Illness Of several
week, of %pleurisy and pneumonia.