The Holly chieftain., 1921-10-27


WKSrERN
Tons of baked potatoes were served
free when Idnho celebrated her bump
er potato crop with Spud Harvest
week, which festival WAS held at
Idaho FaIls.
Walter Hammond, % years old, of
BellevilIe, ILL.,. driver of a racing au-
tomobile, WAS killed and his brother,
Fred, escaped serious injury when the
car overturned on the Belleville race
track at st. Louis.
Packing house employees OF Des
Moines, Iowa. voted to accept Il 5 per
cent wage cut declared recently by the
packing companies. Officers Of the
union said that there will be no strike
by the employees unless II is declared
by the national officers.
A twenty-year courtshlp eliminated
In the marriage Of William COburn, 80
years old, and Mrs. Edith II. Wood. 80,
In the chapel of the Soldiers Home at
Swntellc, suburb of Los Angeles.
Bride and bridegroom declared they
never felt younger"
DIR. II. NJ. Brumfield, facing sentence
of death by hanging for the murder OF
Dennis Russell at Hoseburg, Ore, at
tempted suicide by slashing his throat
Sheriff Starmer found DR.. Brumfield
lying on his cot in the jail cell Will
his throat cut. lie was semi-con
scious.
Mrs. Emma Depoiiiter was fount
unconscious with her skull crushed
and powder burns on her face, and hel
10-year-old daughter, Gladys Ma,
Trowbridge Of Miami, Okla. wa.
found dead with two bullet holes II
her body, by motorists, n mile west O
Tyro, Kan.
]. G. MacSpaddcn, 80 years. old. ,
former partner of John ID. RockefeI
Ter In the oil business, and IL Minneap
oils pioneer, died at Wasco, Calf. Mr.
MacSpadden, who has devoted the las
few years of his life TO fruit ranches
and eucalyptus groves in southern CID
ifornia, was stricken with apoplex.
several days ago.
The body of John B. Tordiff, 30,
repair shop owner was found in hi
shop at Globe, Ariz. His clothing ha,
caught in the machinery in such /
manner that he strangled to death. OF
fIcials said the machinery apparentl.
had frightened the clothing about hi.
neck and kept on running until tn,
soil f,,r ,tul,a IL,
was exhausted.
WASHINGTON
A resolution by Sen,Hor Ovcrman
Democrat. North Carolina, adopted b.
the Senate, directs the federal reserv,
board to report as to the salaries pait
by reserve banks and other expense:
OF these banks. The resolution recitet
that 1t had been charged that salnrie,
In the New York bank had been in
creased more than $l,O0O,OOO since tn,
war.
The new revenue law to be enacte,
next year to take the place of the on
which Congress will soon pass, vii
contain the chief provisions of TIN
Smoot bill, providing for mannfactur
ing or sales tax on commodities
Agreement to this effect has beel
reached among Senate lenders of tn
eastern bloc, representing the indus
trial sections of the country.
The outlook Is favorable for tn
passage of the federal aid road bill b
Congress In time to help relieve III
employment in the building of higf
ways. The amount asked, $lOO, 1000, ,OO(
when doubled by a like sum from tn
states, would go long ways towar
helping out things. England has star
ed movement Of this kind.
Director Dawes OF the budget ar
nOunced the creation of two addition
nj boards which he declared would pu
more business efficiency IN govern
mental affairs and result in savings (
the government Of several hundre
million dollars year. The new bod
ies set up are the federal specificu
tions and federal traffic boards.
Governor Joseph NJ. Dixon Of Nor
tana, in answer to message from tn
national unemployment congress. ha
wired Il. f. Blaine, representative o
the western governors reclamatio
congress, suggesting that 1900 me
could be used on the different recli
nation projects which have alread
been started in Montana. Besides tn
use Of unemployed on Montana pro
iects, the governor stated that man
thousands could be employed to az
vantage In other big western recla
nation projects.
The American Lutheran mission a
SanJbulak, West Persla, has been at
tackled and looted by Kurds, accord
Ing to official advlces to the State De
partment from the American charg,
d'affaires at Teieran, who said he hnt
been informed of the attack of the
French and British consuls at Tabriz
Approval of a loan of $l,OOO,OOO to
a financial institution for credit e1-
tensions on live stock In Montana and
Wyoming, was announced by the War
Finance Corporation. The corporation
did NOT make public the name of the
institution nor the terms OF the loan.
A petitiop filed In equity court ~
the ccmmsrciai sosvents Company for.
an injunction restraining the secretary
OF the treasury from releasing large
quantities OF fusel oil held in Atlantic
coast custom warehouses has been dis
missed.
Twenty million dollars annually is t,
he expended for the next few year
in the United States for American