The St. Johns herald., 1921-12-08
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
(vssteru Newspaper Union News Service,
WESTERN

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 Sixteen children were injured when an Oregon Short Line freight train, carrying beets, backed into a motor bus conveying the children to school at a crossing at TremOnton, Utah.
 An attempt to rob the mail car on train No. ITO of the Atcheson, Topeka X Santa Fe railway while the train was standing at the station at Phoe- nix, was frustrated when Herman In- derlied of Phoenix, mail clerk in charge of the car, overpowered the wOuld-be robber.
 Mexico will be represented by com mission at the meeting of the League of the Southwest at Riverside, Calif., in December, it was announced by Ar hold Kruckman, secretary of the league. He said he had received let ter from Gen. AlvarO ObregOn, preSi- dent of Mexico, to this effect.
 Relics of the pioneer California days of 1S49 were stolen from the mu- scum of the Association of Pioneer Women of California in Golden Gate park at San Francisco, according to reports to the police. Many of the most valuable of the antiques in the collection, which had taken years to gather, were reported missing.
 AdOlph Lunic, groceryman in Sioux City, Iowa, was murdered in cold blood in his store by a negro bandit, who fired three shots and escaped with bag containing $500, the receipts of the days business. Mrs Lunic, who had come to the store to get the money, was threatened by a second negro, but was not injured. She was the only wit ness of the crime.
 William BOuck of Sedro WOolley, Wash, former master of the Washing ton State Grange; c. R. Cottren, J. R. Wrage and R. A. Briggs, all of Washington state, were expelled from the National Grange at it's convention at Portland, Ore, and forever barred from re-entering the order. BOuck and his associates were accused of radical and dislOyal actions.
 WASHINGTON
 Notices have been sent out from the Navy Department to all naval districts and stations that the time limit for applications for transfer to the volunteer naval reserve list had been extended to Jan. 1.
 
 Construction of highways to the to- tai value of $76,4OOOOO, covering G. 261 miles and employing more than 15O,0O0 workers, is about to be under taken by thirty states as the direct result of the recent passage of the federal highway act.
 Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, returning from survey of liquor con- ditions in Michigan and along the Canadian border, declared in a state ment he was more optimistic as to of the Eighteenth amend ment than any time since assuming of flee"
 Expenditure of $53O,OOO to provide channel forty feet deep and 2,OOO feet wide through the bar outside of San Francisco harbOr was recommended to Congress by Major General Beach, chief of army engineers. Additional of $100,000 annually for aIso was urged.
 Uncle Sam is quite a capitalist and investor. He holds securities, which, | of course in his possession are tax free, amounting to a grand total of | S11, 1926, 731, ,6S0. At least he had in- vestments of this sum at the close of | the last fiscal year. Since then there have been some changes, but the gross total is about the same.
 Removal of a war savings stamp | from the certificate upon which it was issued constitutes a crime under the | laws, according to the | court The question arose in the federal District Court at New York | where the government failed in it's eff fort to convict Paul Sacks of purchas- | ing certificates and removing the 
 The proposals of the United States for ten-year naval holiday will have | no effect on the present status of the | American naval building program, Secretary of the Navy Denby said. The present building program will con- tinue until some definite agreement | has been reached and there will not be even an effort to slow down or curtail the building operations pending the final agreement on the matter, the said.