The Ordway new era., 1921-02-11


manufacture and sale of cigarettes IN
Utah has passed the Senate Fourteen
voted aye and three no The bil
also prohibited smoking of cigarettes
cigars and pipes in any public place
Suit to escheat to the state forty-one
acres of land comprising farm for
rneriy owed by ]. ]. GIedhill and lat
er sold TO the L. y. Farms Company.
alleged TO be japanese concern. has
been filed at Yuba, Calf, in the name
of the state.
Sale of thrift stamps and other treas
ury securities was greater per capita
in Alaska during 1920 than in any
state, the Treasury Department has
announced. The average investment in
Alaska by every man, woman and
child was 500 Ohio led the states
with per capita of s1Jo.
The heaviest sentence passed upon
a woman in Utah for having liquor in
her possession was meted out TO Mrs
c. r Jones, proprietor OF rooming
house, when Judge Fred Crockett Of
the Municipal Court in Salt Lake sen
fenced her to six months imprison-
ment with the option OF a nne.
In one Of the most gigantic frauds
ever perpetrated in the history OF the
industry in California, the 1920 rice
crop was 50 manipulated by rice mill
men that northern California rice grow
ers were swindled out of approximately
s1,5OO.OO0, it was charged by a special
committee of the Pacific Rice Growers
Association.
An arson plot to destroy the Long
Beach auditorium and which, IL sue
cessful, might have caused the death
OF many persons who were attending
the home products exhibition. was re-
vealed by Los Angeles authorities. Ac-
cording to police, there were 2,0OO per
sons in the building at the time the
plot was discovered.
L. w. Boehmer of Malvern, Iowa,
wealthy citizen convicted in the Fed
eral Court at Council Bluffs, Ia. of in
terfering with the draft law and at
tacking the Red Cross, and whose sen
tence Of three years was recently COM
muted by President Wilson to one year
and one day, is given thirty days in
which to put his house in order in
mandate received at the Federal Court.
At the end of that time Boehmer is di-
rected TO report to the United States
marshal for the southern Iowa district
and will be taken to the federal prison
at Fort Leayenworth.
WASHINGTON
II Japan persists in her opposition
to the internationalization of the IS
nd of Yap, the United States will re-
Use to recognize Japan's mandate
= over that island, approved by the
League of Nations Council, it was
stated officially in Washington.
Walter W. Warick of Ohio, now
comptroller Of the treasury, and Ey-
aris A. Hayes, former Republican
member of the House Of Representa-
tives from California, were nominated
by President Wilson to fill the yacan-
cies existing in the directorate of the
War Finance Corporation.
The Treasury Departments inability
to collect either principal or interest
Ou Tic rlOyDDO,DJc.DyJ iDohtb " luc
lied governments has stirred the Sen
ate to demand a strict accounting of
the vast sums advanced to foreign
countries, along with information
about the prospects of getting some of
1t back.
Staunch defense Of the work accomp-
lished by the American liquidation
commission in disposing of millions of
dollars Of war supplies to France and
other European governments after the
armistice was made by Edwin B..
Parker, New York lawyer. former
chairman of the board, in testifying
before the House committee, investi-
eating the conduct Of the war.
Railway owners and workers are
yerging on a wage fight that may
throw the roads back under govern
ment control. Labor heads, including
Samuel Gompers, fear a strike IL the
railroad labor board at Chicago grants
demands Of the managers for wage re-
ducfions. -The railroad workers will
resist to the bitter end" warned VIII
liam L. Johnston, head Of the Interna-
tional Association Of Machinists.
Turning sharply upon House war In
vestgating committees as whole,
Charles @. Dawes, former head Of the
army supply procurement service in
France, told one Of them that the val
- Of their work had been rendered
ugloess threugh injection 81 partisan
Eolitics
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