The Holbrook news., 1921-04-01
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 Clara Smith Hamon has signed a contract with a motion picture com pany to produce pictures for the. nex two years. A reception was held fO her at the First Christian church where she was baptized.
 Governor Boyle has announced i was his intention to sign the bill pro giding that ali persons condemned tC death in Nevada should be executed with lethal gas. He said he would not sign immediately in order to al low any persons who might object tC present their reasons.
 Harold Jones, a 12-year-old schoo boy, isSdead at AIuskogee, Okla Ht drowned in an effort to save his ' year-old brother, Samuel, when the latter fell into a creek near their home the boys mother, Mrs. w. J. Jones dove into the creek and saved the younger boy, but was unable to reacf the older child.
 Governor Louis F. Hart, of Washing ton, signed the poll tax bill passed by the last Legislature. The bill becomes effective at once, and under it every man and woman in the, state be tween the ages of 21 and 50 mus pay poll tax of S5 before May l of each year. The first years tax is due May l, next.
 An underground dope route" be tween Salt Lake and Ogden, which has served to carry $43, ,6SO worth of drugs to Ogden victims in the last three years, has been exposed, according to the police in the arrest of Henry Bankhead. Bankhead, the police said confessed to making two trips daily for three years to ogden, carrying $50 worth of drugs on each trip.
 Richard Dunkle held three aces in a poker game and thought that was enough to win the pot. Ross Wicker sham, however, laid down a pat flush and raked in the winnings. Dunkle was so enraged, a witness at Fremont, Neb., testified at the trial of Dunkle for the staying of Wickersham, that he started an argument which resulted in the fatal shooting of the winner. WASHINGTON
 President Harding has accepted an invitation to attend ceremonies to be held April 19 at New York in connec- ton with the unveiling of statue to Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan patriot
 Ambassador Ricci has referred to the secretary of fine arts at Rome the reported discovery in an obscure cafe in New York of the genuine Francia Madonna, stolen in 1919 from the fam ous gallery in Bologna, Italy.
 At a meeting of the board of direc tors of the United States Chamber of Commerce at Chicago, it was an- nOunced that the national chamber consists of 1,429 commercial and indus trial organizations with a combined membership of more than 75O,OO0 per sons.s
 The average American is a great milk drinker, and consumes twice as much as former generations, accord ing to the Department of Agriculture The consumption of milk last year was estimated forty-four gallons per cap ita, not including that used in ice cream, cheese and butter.
 An urgent demand that the govern ment of Panama immediately settle its boundary dispute with Costa Rica is made by the United States in a note dispatched to Panama and made pub lie by the State Department. The note insists that Panama abide by the boundary decision of Chief Justice White.
 April Il was selected for the special session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, the first under President Harding's administration. The announcement was received with general satisfaction by Senate leaders Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Republican leader, mo- tified the Senate of the Presidents de- cision.
 The Agricultural Department an nOunced that the average price of blow land in the United States decreased about per cent in the past year, due to drop in crop prices. However, the Western states show the least decline in land prices, and in Colorado, Ore gon and California there is even a slight increase over last year. South ern states, due to the cotton situa- tion, show the greatest decline in land values.
 President Harding suggested to Chairman FOrdney that the House ways and means committee sound out the Senate Republicans as to the feasibil- ity of early passage of an emergency tariff that would take care of farmers. The proposal was discussed at length, and it has been determined to pass the emergency tariff at the special session of Congress in April.
 House and Senate leaders have an- nOunced agreement on a plan to push | soldier bonus legislation during the early weeks of the special session of | Congress, to meet April Il.
 Resumption of trade with Russia is until Bolshevism is aban- doned or Overthrown, Secretary of Commerce Hoover stated. The return | of economic stability in Europe de pends on the repudiation of Bolshev- ism by Russia, he added.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has suspended until July IA pro- posed cancellation of rates on grain and grain products from shfDDin0