Cheyenne record., 1921-06-30
the WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
a pIRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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VT TIE A0Gs
(wa,sn Neuspap~ Union News servios)
WESTERN
Mexican federal troops and about fifty
alleged bandits near Huisachito. south
of Nuevo Laredo, give the number Of
soldiers dead as eight and 200 wound
ed. Bandit casualties are unknown
and no further trace Of the band has
been found by pursuing federal troops,
reports at Laredo, Texas, said.
Because, he said, John Schnier.
farmer, couldn't or wouldn't" pay
him $115 he claimed was due him, VIII
Maddox, farm hand, shot and killed
the former at his farm near Pender,
Neb. Maddox then forced George
Koin, Schnier's uncle, who was visiting
the farm, to drive him toward West
Point, but posse overlook them near
Pender and Maddox surrendered.
Four hundred men will enjoy a
months free vacation, all expenses
paid, as guests of Uncle Sam, at Fort
Logan, Aug. 1 to 50. Men between the
oges Of 16 and IS years, from Colo
RADIO and various parts Of New Mexico.
Arizona and Oklahoma, will comprise
the citizens military training camp.
which will be established at Fort LO-
gan during August, under command Of
Col. Paul A. Wolf, commanding Of
ncer of the Ninth infantry, who is at
present In charge of the reserve off,
GERS training camp at Fort Logan.
Protests of the Japanese Exclusion
League of California against the re-
Gently announced census bureau fig
ures as to the japanese population Of
California have been forwarded to the
director Of the census at Washington
by Senator Johnson of that state. The
protests were embodied In a telegram
received In Washington by Senator
johnson from John H. Chambers
chairman of the leagues executive
committee, who asserted that the fig
ures of the bureau of vital statistics
showed 100000 Japanese In California
as compared with 71,O42 shown In the
census bureau report.
WASHINGTON
Congress will be virtually on sum-
mer vacation schedule soon, taking
three-day recesses under agreement
that no important business shall be
transacted until fiscal Legislation Is
ready. Meanwhile work on perfecting
the tariff and taxation measures will
continue In committee rooms.
The fight among the prohibition
leaders over the supplementary en-
forcement legislation ended when
Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the An
ti.Saloon League, yielded to the advo-
Gates of straight anti-prescription
beer bill without any of the other
Tightening up endorsements amend
ments proposed by Representative Vol
stead
The new Volstead bill designated to
make the eighteenth amendment air.
tight, appears to be blocked by an ar
ray Of opposition composed largely of
"dry" congressional leaders who are
fearful that prohibition enforcement, II
carried to extreme, may defeat Its own
ends. The bill not only would prohibit
the prescription of beer us medicine
but would lay down new and drastic
regulations for the use of industrial
alcohol.
Giving assurance to businessmen of
the country that there will be no de-
lay in the enactment of revised tax
law at this session of Congress Repre-
sentative Fordney of Michigan, chair
man Of the House ways and means
committee, has announced that hear
ings would be begun by the committee
soon after the middle of July.
At least $4,000 will be required for
the ''relIef and rehabilitation" of the
stricken people Of Pueblo, Governor
ShOup of Colorado declared in tele-
gram to Secretary Weeks, made public
in Washington. He protested against
the erroneous impression which, he
said, had been created by recent
statement OF Mr.. Weeks summarizing
activities of the War Department In
the flood area.
instructions have been sent to nil
federal prohibition directors to rein
state all reliable and trustworthy en-
forcement agents, 1t has been an
nounced by the prohibition bureau Be-
cause of lack Of funds about 700
agents were laid off in May, but with
the deficiency appropriation Of $780,
600 made available by Congress. 1t was
explained that the bureau would be
able to fill out Its force.
Austria has signed the protocol of
the permanent court Of international
Justice under the League of Nations.
She was the thIrty-eighth signatory.
Seven have accepted the clause for
compulsory Jurisdiction Of an arbitra-
tion Of International disputes by the
court.
President Harding In a message to
he Colorado Springs Chamber of Com
merce, sustained Secretary Of War
weeks in his contention that he
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