The St. Johns herald., 1921-05-19

WESTERN
 Harry Leroy Parker, Derby, Iowa, student at the State University at Iowa City, Iowa, was drowned while canoe ing on the Iowa river. The body was recovered an hour later.
 A new kind of "crOp" was unearthed near Idaho Falls, Idaho, when deputy sheriffs dug twenty-four gallons of "moonshine" out of a plOwed field near the city. The fields owner pro- tests ignorance and innocence of how 1t was planted"
 Production of an alleged German made film in a Los Angeles theater was stopped by the management after a crowd, including about a score of sailors, had attempted to force an en- trance to the building, protesting against the performance. The sailors were stopped by a squad of police
 Three women and two men were se-, riously injured in an explosion that wrecked a cleaning establishment at St. Louis. The police are Investigating a report that the blast was caused by a bomb. William Allen of Des Moines, Iowa, was the most severely injured. He suffered a fracture of the left arm and right hip.
 Four thousands pounds of ammuni- ton were seized and the engine crew on the Mexican Central passenger train which left Juarez was arrested near Chihuahua City, according to Rafael D. Davila, commander of customs guards in Chihuahua. The ammunition, MT. Davila said he had been privately informed, was intended for rebels in central Chihuahua. The ammunition was hidden in the tender of the engine under the coal, he said.
 WASHINGTON
 The War Department stacker lists as issued from time to tune will be pub lished in the Congressional Record. Re quest for such publication was made in the House by Representative Johnson, Republican, South Dakota, a former service man, and there was no Objec- tion.
 Reform organizations of various kinds have disclaimed the parentage of an anti-tobacco drive which got some attention in Washington recent ly. There was a question of just who was sponsoring it, but news of the ar rival of the movement in the capital caused much alarm in many quarters.
 The Townsend bill for the establish ment of a pOst-road and interstate highway system, and the creation of a federal highway commission, has been introduced in the Senate, and hearings on it are to be held soon. This measure differs from the original Townsend bill in several particulars, and it recognizes the federal aid prin- ciple, but with reservations.
 A bill said to be designed to carry out President Harding's desires for the curbing of demands from execu- tive departments for deficiency appro- priations has been introduced in the House. It would create a board, in which the chairman of the House and Senate appropriations committee would sit, to pass on applications for deficiency appropriations before they could be transmitted to Congress.
 Between 5,OO0,OOO and 6,OOO,OOO pounds of wool will be sold by the War Department at public auction to be held in Boston about May 20, Secretary Weeks has announced. Additional sales may be authorized if the first are satisfactory to reduce the S0,0O0,00O pounds the army has on hand.
 The Interstate Commerce Commits sion has granted the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company in Mon tana permission to increase its passen ger and excess baggage rates to the level in effect in interstate commerce tariffs to be filed upon five days no. tice. The carrier is an electric road and on that account was omitted iron the last rate order issued by the com mission.
 William H. Stevenson, vice director of the experiment station of the Iows State Agricultural College, has beer named permanent delegation of thu United States to the International In stltute of Agriculture at Rome, the De partment of Agriculture announced The appointment fills the vacanc! caused by the resignation of Dean T ?. Hunt, president of the California State Agricultural COlIeRe-