The Holbrook news., 1921-07-29

WESTERN
 A $1,000 silver trophy has been of fered by the Los Angeles speedway management to the first aviator mak- ing nonstop flight from Los Angeles to the Atlantic coast.
 Charles F. Robinson, 2S, fireman on the G. H. & S. A. train on which Will liam Bohlman, engineer, was myster- iously killed July near Sanderson, Texas, committed suicide at Fl Paso.
 Fire destroyed the refinery of the California-Fresno Oil Company at Fresno, Calif., together with ten tanks containing 50,0OO gallons of fuel oil, causing damage estimated at between $25O,OOO and $5OO,OOO. A distillate ex- plosion started the fire.
 Home preserved fish affected with botulinus germs caused the death of Mrs. Lida Lemens of San Jacinto at the county hospital at Riverside, Calif., according to health authorities. Sev- enty-five chickens out of flock of POO to which contents of the can were thrown, also died.
 In spite of prohibition, the number of criminal cases involving alleged in toxication on the part of automobile drivers is increasing, said a statement by three Superior Court judges at Los Angeles, announcing that hereafter persons convicted of driving a car while intoxicated would be given Jail sentences instead of fines.
 Bewteen forty and fifty employees of the Utah Gas and Coke Company at Salt Lake City, left their places upon the expiration of the agreement with the company. The company offered the men a 20 per cent wage reduction and the men voted to accept 10 per cent wage decrease. This the com pany refused and as a result the men walked out. The places of all the men leaving were immediately filled.
 Mrs. Paul Tacina shot and killed Fred Beckwich, a beet tender, near Miniature, Neb., she admitted, when she saw that Beckwich was getting the bet ter of an argument with her husband over some hay, according to dispatch from Miniature Beckwich had been drinking intoxicating liquor before he came to the farm where Tacina was employed, according to Mrs. Tacina, who said she fired four times at him with a rifle.
 WASHINGTON
 The Dial bill, to require federal judges to devote their entire time to court duties, failed to get Senate con sideration on a tie vote of % to %. Passage of the bill would prevent Judge K. NJ. Landis from officiating both as a federal judge and big league baseball arbiter.
 Estimates of the amount of wheat statistics are available show an acre age of 151,000,0O0 acres this year, against 155,OOO,O0O last year, accord ing to a summary of foreign crop prospects made public by the Depart ment of Agriculture. The estimates were based upon reports from Bel gium, Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania, Czecho- -Slovakia, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, France, England, Italy, Luxem- burg, Norway, Tunis, Canada, India and the United States.
 By a vote of ten to five the House postOffice committee voted to lay on the table the resolution of Represen- increase in second-class rates. "There Is no more hope of obtaining this leg islation," said Hardy.
 Idle freight cars on the railroads of the United States numbered 369, ,525 on July 8, a decrease of 4,266 from the previous week, according to state ment by the American Railway Asso- citation. A brisk demand for box cars to meet grain car shortages in the West reduced the surplus in that class to 145,112 which was 1, ,186 fewer than the excess of box cars at the end of the preceding week.
 The administration has opened nego- tiations for the resumption of diplo matic relations with Germany, it has been announced at the White House. At the direction of the administration, Ellis LOring Dresel, American commis- sioner in Berlin, has been carrying on informal discussions with the German foreign office looking toward formal negotiations for the resumption of peace-time relations with the German nation.
 The House agreed to a Senate to the bill authorizing an increase from $15,OOO,OOO to S30,OOO- 900 in the bonded indebtedness of the Philippines. The amendment would | permit the insular government to is sue temporary certificates of indebted | ness to the extent of $20,000,000. The | present maximum is $10,000,000.
 Two Chinese were shot and killed on a truck farm a mile and one-quarter | south of Phoenix -Nnder circumstances | which attaches or the sheriff's office say point to a struggle between two tongs.
 Thirty thousand sacks of onions stored by commission merchants in at Stockton, Cal, have been dumped during the past week on ac- count of no market for the onions, which were in good condition. The loss