The St. Johns herald., 1921-12-22
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
(westeru Newspaper Union News ser1ics.l
WESTERN

WESTERN
 Frank Parmelee, "A years old, for merly president of an omnibus com pany in Chicago bearing his name, died in Los Angeles after an illness of many months. His philanthropy identified him with many charity work interests.
 Running away from the Security State Bank at Robbinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis, with rolls of currency under either arm, a bandit who few minutes before had robbed that insti- tuition, was shot and killed by the jus tice of the peace at Robbinsdale, Minn.
 Six persons were killed in headOn collision between the eastbound Port land-SpOkane limited and westbound Oregon-W Washington limited trains of the Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, two miles east of Cello. Twenty-twO persons were in- jured.
 A jury in the District Court at ScOttsbluff, Nebr, rendered a verdict acquitting Mrs Paul Tacina of the charge of first degree murder. Mrs. Tacina admitted shooting and killing Fred Reisbeck, July r last, but said she did so to protect her husband from attack
 Jack Sankey, prominent oil man, formerly of Tulsa and Los Angeles, was found dead in his apartments at a local hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. Police said he had killed himself by shooting. He was one of the success ful operators in the west Texas oil fields.
 Davis Sandles, 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fl. Sandles, who had a needle removed from his heart on Nov. 2, in what surgeons said was one of the most remarkable operations ever performed in the Northwest, died at a hospital in Minneapolis. The needle pierced his heart when he fell on sewing basket.
 While playing with roller towel at his farm home, ten miles north of Huron, S. D., Everett Mediger, 12 years old, twisted the towel about his neck, slipped On the bathroom floor and fell, breaking his neck. He was dead when his sister, the only other person in the house at the time, reached him.
 WASHINGTON
 The net imports of peanuts during the first eight months of 1921 were only 39,640,O00 pounds, as compared with IF, ,656,000 pounds during the same period of 1920, according to sta tistics compiled by the Bureau of For eign and Domestic Commerce. (Net imports are total imports minus re- eXpOrts.)
 Patrons of the foreign money order service will be saved in the aggregate large sums of money through a plan adopted by the POstoffice Department, which will enable all of the interna- tiOnal money order offices in the United States to be advised daily, if necessary, as to the fluctuation in for eign exchange. Third Assistant Post master General Glover, who has made a special study of this subject, has worked out a combined conversion ta- ble for use in issuing money orders 1 payable in European countries, a copy of which has been placed in every in- ternational money order office in the country.
 The greatest need in education in | the United States today is "a square deal for the country child," John J. Iii | gert, commissioner of education, de- | clared in a statement issued in connec- ton with the opening of American | Education Week" While no child is denied an education in America, he | said, "the opportunity is by no means equal"
 The Russian famine is spreading and | now threatens 25,OO0,OOO people, ex- Governor James P. Goodrich of Indi- | ana reported to Secretary Hoover in | Washington. After the conference, it | was indicated that Congress would be asked by Mir. Hoover to provide funds by which large quantities of grain and l food supplies can be sent to the strick- en territory.
 A petition more than mile in length | and containing around 100000 individ- ual signatures as we'll as the signatures 1 of presidents of women's organizations with a total membership of more than 100000, was presented to Secretary of State Hughes recently, approving the objects of the conference on disar- mament and urging continued work to | the end that peace throughout the world be assured for the future.