The Dolores star., 1921-10-28
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WESTERN
Tons of baked potatoes were served
ffss when Idaho celebrated her bump
sr potato crop with Spud Harvest
week. which festival was held at
Idaho Falls.
Walter Hammond, 2S years cid, of
Bellevills, H.. driver of 4 racing au-
Pred. escaped serious injury when the
ear overturned on the Belleville race
track at ST. Louis.
A twenty-year courtship eliminated
n the marriage of william Coburn, 90
years old, and Mrs. Edith r. Wood, 50,
In the chapel of the Soldiers Home at
swntelle, a suburb Of Los Angeles.
Bride and bridegroom declared they
never felt younger"
DR.. X. N. Brumfield, facing sentence
Of death by hanging for the murder Of
Dennis Russell at Roseburg. Ore. at
tempted suicide by slashing his throat.
Sheriff Starmer found DR.. Brumfield
lying on his cot in the Jail cell with
his throat cut. He was semi-con-
sciom.
Twenty million dollars annually Is to
be expended for the next few years
in the United States for American
rolling stock, machinery, rails and sup
plies in connection with the expansion
of the South Manchuria railway, ac-
cording to Yozo Tamura, who is in
San Francisco from the Orient.
Mrs. Emma Depointer was found
unconscious with her skull crushed
and powder burns on her face, and her
l0-year-old daughter, Gladys May
Trowbridge Of Miami. Okla, was
found dead with two bullet holes In
her body. by motorists, mile west Of
Tyro, Kan.
Governor Joseph II. Dixon of Mon
tana, In answer to message from the
national unemployment congress, has
wired 4. F. Blaine, representative Of
the western governors reclamation
congress. suggesting that 1,50O men
could be used on the different recla-
nation projects which have already
been started in Montana. Besides the
use Of unemployed on Montana pro-
Jecrs, the governor stated that many
vantage in other big western recla-
nation projects.
WASHINGTON
A petition filed in equity court by
the Commercial Solvents 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.
The American Lutheran mission at
Saujbulak, West Persia, has been at
tackled and looted by Kurds. accord
ing to official advices to the State De-
partment from the American charge
d'affaires at Teheran. who said he had
been informed of the attack Of the
French and British consuls at Tabriz.
The outlook is favorable for the
passage of the federal aid road bill by
Congress In time to help relieve un-
employment in the building of high
ways. The amount asked, $1OO, O,OOO, 600,
when doubled by like sum from the
states, would go long ways toward
helping out things. England has start
ed a movement of this kind.
Director Dawes of the budget an
nounced the creation of two addition
al boards which he declared would put
more business efficiency In govern
mental affairs and result In savings to
the government Of several hundred
million dollars year. The new bod
les set up are the federal specifica-
tions and federal traffic boards.
resolution by Senator Overman,
Democrat, North Carolina, adopted by
the Senate, directs the federal reserve
board to report as to the salaries paid
by reserve banks and other expenses
Of these banks. The resolution recited
that it had been charged that salaries
In the New York bank had been in
creased more than S1,OOO,OOO since the
war.
Second failure Of the House within
year to increase its membership be-
gond 435 virtually means there will be
no addition, according to the view ex-
pressed by leaders of the fight to keep
the number at it's present total. Hay.
ing rejected proposal to increase the
total to 483, the House refused to
make 1t AGO, sending the bill back to
committee with the certainty that 1t
sould not be reported again this ses-
sion.
The Standard OIL Co. of New Jer-
sey announced that the bonus of 10
Der cent to its employees at its various
tefineries in New Jersey would be re-
moved Oct. Is, but that 1t would en-
1eavOr to create as much additional
work as possible to increase the hours
II employment for men now working
part time or laid off entirely
A message from the president of the
Chinese republic to President Hard
ng, thanking him for remembering
That country on its tenth national an
liversary, has been made public BY