Williams news., 1921-06-03
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
(western Newspaper Union News ser,Ice.)
WESTERN

Eleven persons were injured, one ia | tally, when an auto stage en route to | Grants Pass, Ore, from Klamath Falls | struck a cow and upset in a ditch three miles south of the GrantS Pass city | limits.
 Mrs. Edith Johnston, for twelve | years head of the lip language depart | ment of the Nebraska school for deaf at Omaha, Ieaped to her death from | the seventh floor of hotel. She had
 been in ill health for some time- Governor Stephens of California
 signed a bill which provides that all
 male alien residents of California over 21 years of age shall be registered and shall pay an annual poll tax of $1O into
 the school fund of the county in which
 they reside.
 The Board of Regents of the Univer-
 Sity of Oklahoma adopted resolution
 prohibiting students from maintaining
 automobiles while attending the inSti-
 tuition. Possession of motor cars was
 declared to be detrimental to the best
 interests of the students.
 District Attorney Matthew Brady an
 nounced in court in San Francisco that
 he was preparing new evidence in the
 
 governor, which he believed would
 leave little alternative other than par
 doning Thomas Mooney. Mooney is
 serving life sentence for alleged com
 plicity in the San Francisco prepared
 ness parade dynamitings in 1916.
 The United States Public Health Service, the Indian Medical Service and the New Mexico Public Health Service are cooperating in combating the typhus epidemic on the Navajo In- dian Reservation, in San Juan County, New Mexico. A spacious hospital has been provided for delousing purposes. It is situated at Shiprock, on the res ervation. Arrangements are also being made for corps of nurses to be sent by the government to the stricken area, and army trucks will be provided to carry the Indians to the hospital. WASHINGTON The man whose net income does not exceed $5,OO0 would be allowed tax de- ductions up to $1,OOO, for all medical | hospital, surgical and funeral expenses | under a bill introduced in the House.
 Admiral A. S. Fletcher, commandant | of the Fifth naval district, died at | Hampton Roads. The admiral had been ill for some time. During the war Admiral Fletcher was commandant of the Norfolk navy yard and directed part of the plans of defending the coast from Maryland to Florida. He was made commandant of the Fifth district early in 1918.
 Sale of 5 per cent beer and wine with a 14 per cent alcoholic content xl voters approved such liberalizing of prohibition enforcement if a bill intro 1uced by Representative Ryan, Repub- ican, of New York, became law. The measure provides for a popular refer andum in each state on petition of 15 per cent of qualified voters.
 Isaac H. Smith was nominated by President Harding to be superinten- lent of the United States assay office It New York. Harry H. Stewart was nominated to be assayer in charge of he United States assay office at Dead wood, s. Oak. t
 Funds for airpIane mail service from ( New York to San Francisco are almost i Postmaster General Hays t rdvised Congress, and service must be ( May 31, lacking a deficien- ' y appropriation of $125, ,O0O. Under s reasury ruling appropriations for rail- way mail service cannot be used for } he air service, MT. Hays said, and cur } ent appropriations of S1,250, ,000 for [ ranscontinental air route will not last f eyond this month. | aShington.-Conflict of military in ereStS in the eastern part of the Far : Eastern republic appear to have be- r ome so serious that the intervention f Japanese forces at Vladivostok is Y according to advices to t he State Department. Maritime prov a nee authorities in Vladivostok were il eported to have appealed for protec- l ion in the outlying districts to the q apaneSe, who were said to have dis I atched 600 troops to Anuchino. I
 The ''twO-bit'' piece came back into ts Dwn at Idaho Falls, Ida, when the [ lrgeSt restaurant in the city an " ollnced ''ham and eggs back at the y Id pre-war price, The price cuts that s trracted the hungry ones at the two I lt'' price were beef and gravy and n ork chops. Prices for all these have u cen 50 cents.
 A resolution proposing that Oct. 12, e le anniversary of Columbus dfscov- D ry of America be made a legal holi- N ay, has been introduced by Represen- fC ative Perlman, Republican, New D ork c