The Raymer enterprise., 1921-11-17
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIoN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
oolNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN


WESTERN
The locking out Of 800 employees
In the mill work industry In Chicago
Is intended as a step toward establish.
Ing the open shop In the carpenter
trade, union officials declared. The
mills include sash, door and window
and fixture mills, employing approx.
mately 1000 carpenters.
Corncob, ridden by his owner, l. Jar
Wis Of Edmonton, Alberta, set a new
world record for the high jump by
horses under 14.2 hands high at the
horse show at Portland, Ore, topping
the bar at six feet two inches. The
Tank, former holder Of the record,
dropped out with the bar at five feet
six inches.
Miss Lucy Stebbins, dean Of women
at the University Of California, will d.
rect activities Of deans Of women Of
western colleges for the coming year
as the result Of election Of officers at
Berkeley. Women students Of western
colleges, also In session, adjourned
after selecting the University Of Utah
for next years meeting.
Clubbing Sheriff George S. Bassett
into lnsensibIlity with piece Of gas
pipe, six prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Fort Dodge. la. Sheriff
Bassett had entered the Jail to bring
the prisoners extra blankets which
they had requested as the result of a
sudden drop In temperature. Bassett
was seriously hurt, but is expected to
recover.
Hipolito villa, brother Of Francisco
Villa, former bandit leader Of Mexico,
said that he had his two children, Ma.
ria Louisa, 9, and Abton. 4, whom his
former wife, Mabel Silva, accused him
of kidnapping, In private school on his
ranch at Torreon, that he intended to
give them a good education and then
release them and permit them to re.
turn to their mother II they SO de-
sired.
WASHINGTON
President Harding has signed the
good roads bill, carrying an appropria.
tion Of $75O0O,O0O for road building
and sl5,00O,OO0 for forestry projects.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader,
now serving ten-year term at Allan.
tn prison for 0bstructing the draft,
may. walk the streets a free man on
Thanksgiving day, through the Presi.
dents executive clemency, 1t was
learned In an authoritative quarter.
!. Charges that Haitian natives were
killed or inhumanly treated by
gendarmes, acting on order of Ameri
can marine officers. were challenged
before the special Senate investigating
committee by Lieut.. Col. Alexander s
Williams. who acted as assistant com.
mander and later as commander OF
the gendarmes between August 1915
and July, 1919.
Expenditure Of $3,669, ,25O on the dis
abled former service man and his
family and a total Of $19,381 $50 fol
all purposes is proposed by the Ameri.
can Red Cross during the current fIs.
cal year, It was announced at the or
ganizatlon's national headquarters
This represents a reduction Of more
than 100000 from the s24. .492, TAO
total spent during the last fiscal
year. -
Retail food prices decreased between
Sept. 10 and Oct. Is In nine of the
eleven principal cities from which re
ports were received, the department Of
labor announced. In Milwaukee there
was q decrease Of 8 per cent and in
Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis q
decrease Of 2 per cent.
The United States shipping board
has gone into the junk business on q
tremendous scale In an effort to dis.
pose Of $3500O,OOO worth Of surplus
materials and supplies on hand after
building and fitting out the emery.
ency fleet. Within a few days, 1t was
said today, advertisements will appear
offering everything for sale from
slightly used" steam locomotives to
drugs and tobacco.
Americas unknown soldier received
the last congressional medal of honor
and the last distinguished service
cross which can be bestowed for deeds
performed In the war, the War De.
partment announced. The act OF Con-
gress authorizing the President to
make these awards, as well as to be.
stow the distinguished service medal
prescribed In effect, 1t was explained
that the awards must be made within
three years after the act justifying the
award. The time limit has expired.
A bill appropriating S250.000 to be
used In refundlng losses by Liberty
Loap subscribers through failure Of
five banks in which they had placed
partial payments has been passed by
the house and sent to the senate. The
banks were located In Pennsylvania,
California, Ohio. Minnesota and North
Dakota.