The Colorado statesman., 1921-12-03


cave dug by children when the sides
caved in, burying her under two tons
of earth, at SCOTS Bluff, Neb.
Three unmasked men entered the
Northwestern Loan office, block
from the police station in Omaha. held
up Sam Cohn and Ben Morris, propri-
etors. and escaped with $1,000 In dia-
monds, iewelry and cash.
Damages of $21 400 for the death of
Charles F. van de Water, congressman
elect OF Long Beach, on Nov. 20, 1920,
against the owners of the truck into
which his automobile crashed. have
been entered by stipulation in the Los
Angeles Superior Court.
Emery Rogers, former lieutenant in
the aviation corps and an instructor at
various Eastern flying fields, was in
jured fatally in q crash at field near
Los Angeles maintained by CONNER
cial flying company he organized.
Spectators said his monoplane was
about forty feet up and travelling rap
idly when Rodgers attempted turn.
The plane crashed sidewise.
Gus Branch, n pool hall proprietor
of Truckee, Calf, was placed in the
county jail to await preliminary hear
ing on n charge that he murdered An
ME Boyle, whose body recently waG
disInterred at Ogden. The dlsinter-
ment is said to have disclosed that the
woman was beaten severely. An in
quest soon after death held she had
committed suicide by poisoning.
III I'll 90 nrt
Worth, Texas, was taken three miles
west of town by masked men and
whipped, he Informed the police. He
said the men took him to the county
jail following the whipping and re-
leased him. Police say Hollis told them
that he was informed by the masked
men that he was whipped because he
possessed n quantity of liquor.
The Union Pacific railroad system
has decided to begin Its conferences
between company officials and repre-
sentatives of the workers on the Ques-
ton of lower wages on Dec. 81, it was
stated at headquarters of the system
in Omaha. All classes of employees
would be affected, it was said. Some
of the conferences will be held in Oma-
ha, while others probably will be con-
Quoted in Salt Lake City, Portland
and Los Angeles,
WASHINGTON
The back to the farm movement is
progressing satisfactorily, according
to the Department of Agriculture, de-
spite the fact the farmer is having a
hard row to hoe these days, and the
unemployment situation Is being re-
lieved as a result.
Workers in the New York navy yard
passed resolutions asking Congress to
give a years salary to all employees
who have been in the yard more than
a year should they lose their jobs
through suspension of work on agree
ment of the arms conference.
Secretary OF War Weeks estimated
that about 1000 of the American
forces on the Rhine will be at home be-
fore Christmas. The Cantigny, one of
the two vessels engaged to transport
the forces home, is already on the way
TO New York with the first contingent.
Louis Gillot, historical painter, has
been commissioned by the French gov
ernment to make a picture of the arms
conference, to be hung in one of the
national galleries of France.
The Chinese and Japanese delegates
to the conference on disarmament con-
tinue to hold the center of the stage
in Washington so far as interest in
the personality of the personnel of the
various delegations is concerned. To
the average American the evidences
of familiarity with American customs
and practices of those from the Orient
has been a matter of surprise.
Values of the merchandise exported
during October fell to fractional parts
of the totals for the same month last
year, while decided drops in imports
were noted by the commerce depart
ment In its monthly summary. Exports
TO Europe aggregated $196,000, 900 COM
pared with $423,000,000 in October
last year, while imports amounted to
$67 100000 against $SS,000,OO0. Dur
ing the ten months ended with Octo-
Der exports to Europe were $2,O56,0O0,-
900 against $3,720,000,000 the corre-
spending months of 1920, while imports
aggregated $622, 100000 compared with
$1,07S,00OO00.
Fifteen ships of the old navy will be
put on the auction block soon, is was
announced by the Navy Department.
Among them are the cruiser Brooklyn,
flagship of Rear Admiral Schley dur
ing the battle of Santiago. Others are
the cruiser Columbia, the battleshlp
Maine which replaced the battleshlp
of that name destroyed at Havana, the
battleship Missouri, launched in 1901,
the cruiser Memphis, now wreck on
the San Dominican coast, and the tor
pedo boat Dale. recently known az the
Ortole