The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-04

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 A $1,OO0 silver trophy has been of fered by the Los Angeles speedway management to the first aviator mak- ing a 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 El Paso.
 Fire destroyed the refinery of the California-F Fresno Oil Company at Fresno, Calif., together with ten tanks containing 5000 gallons of fuel oil, causing damage estimated at between $2500O0 and $500,000. 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, Calf, according to health authorities. Sev- enty-five chickens out of a flock of 200 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 a 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 29 to %. Passage of the bill would prevent Judge K. M. Landis from officiating both as federal judge and big league baseball arbiter.
 Estimates of the amount of wheat sown in seventeen countries for which statistics are available show an acre age of 151,O00,0OO acres this year, against 155,000,000 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-S -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- tative Hardy of Colorado to postpone 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 69,525 on July 8, a decrease of 4,266 from the previous week, according to a state ment by the American Railway Asso- citation. A brisk demand for box cars to meet grain car shortages in the to 145,1 ,112, which was 1,1S6 fewer than the excess of box cars at the end of the preceding week.
 The administration has opened nego- tiatiOns for the resumption of dipIo- matic relations with Germany, it has been announced at the White House. At ihe direction of the administration, Ellis Loring Dresel, American commis- sioner in Berlin, mas 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.