The Snowflake herald., 1921-09-23

Lightning struck 50,OOO-Darrel oil
tank at Redel, Kan. The tank explod-
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 unanimous deci-
sion which held that the measure was
i'll violation of the fourteenth amend
ment to the United States Constitution
and to the treaty between the United
States and japan.
The old saying that 'wOman's place
is i'm the home," was given another
figmative slap on the wrist when A.
FL. Brill of Emporia, Kan, won the
Nue ribbon at the fair at Topeka for
baking the best angel food cake. Brill
and his wife both entered cakes and
the husband won.
A $5,000.0O0 dam, erected seven
miles above San Antonio, would af-
ford protection from q repetition of
the recent disastrous flood. The prop
csition of building such dam will be
placed before the taxpayers within the
next month, city officials stated. 1t
is believed it will be carried over
whelmingly.
After eating breakfast of fried
chicken. John w. Carroll of Fair
chance, a'a., was hanged in the Jail
yard at Union, Mo-, for completely in
the murder of Benjamin SchObe, who
was slain last Nov. 20. Carroll went
TO his death stOically. Charles JacOy
convicted for the same crime, was
hanged last month.
Heavy importation of Chinese eggs
was predicted at San Francisco fol
lowing discovery of 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 of Chinese
eggs have doubled since 1919.
The toll of a twister which wrecked
the countryside near Sioux Falls, S. d..
was placed at three dead tonight with
score of persons injured. Damages
will total more than 100000 to farms
and crops Two of the dead, Taylor
Woods and George Fenelon, were cleo
lrOcuted when they were blown against
live wire. The third man was Killed
by a collapsing barn.
WASHINGTON
Appointment of Jewish Fl. -Carris, for
merIy 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
have 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 modifi-
cation of the recent court decree
which divorced the big packing con-
Germs from their grocery interests. To
allow the packing interest to re-engage
i'm 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 a slit i'm the bottom of
the coat skirt and to permit hook on
the coat that will hold the revived Sam
Browne belts in place.
Plans for a nationwide demOnstra-
ton armistice day under the leadership
of. organized labor ''in support of the
purpose underlying the international
conference on the limitation of arma-
ment," were announced by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. Central
unions 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 3,149 illiterate persons ten
years of age or over in Wyoming in
1920, illiterate as used meaning un-
able to read or write in any language.
Only 800 were natives whites of native
parentage, the remainder being of for
eign or mixed parentage or of foreign
birth. The percentage of illiteracy de-
creased from 33 in 1910 to 81 in 1920.
Those who are disturbed over the
6,735,000 unemployed of today over
look that in 1914 there were 1000, 600
out of work, larger percentage of
whom were men and actual bread win
ners than among the present unem-
plOyed, Secretary Davis said in state
ment. Mr.. Davis said present employ
ment figures included great number
of persons upon whose earnings no
one actually is dependent
Representative Samuel M. Taylor of
Arkansas died at his home i'm Wash
lngton. after an illness of several