Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-09-29
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. Washington
. Proposal for elimination of cabi-
! net member is made In the plan for re-
. organization of executive departments
/. at Washington, which will be submit
. ted to the President and his cabinet on
!. September 80 by the joint congression-
. nj committee on reorganization. The
reorganization plan contemplates
!. merging the War and Navy depart
/. ments
!. Administration efforts at Washing
!. ton to hasten ratification Of the peace
/, treaties with Germany, Austria and
!. Hungary were halted by the "irrecon-
!. eilables.''
The government at Washington has
disposed of additional railroad equip
. ment trust certificates to the amount
/; OF $S0,29S,5OC through the War FL
nance corporation. This makes the
). total disposed of S63, 1926
!. Final enactment of tariff legislation
: before the winter season appeared an
impossibility when Senator Penrose
Mt Washington said that 60 days would
be required by treasury experts to col
!, lect the information desired in connec-
tiOn with the American valuation plan.
I.
:. High officials of the Ku Klux Khan
:. may be summoned to Washington for
!: interrogation by the Department OF
!. Justice, Attorney General Daugherty
: Indicated
!. The treaties with Germany, Austria
:. and Hungary We're sent to the senate
i mt Washington for ratification by
|; President Harding. The treaties were
!. accompanied only by brief formal
;. note of transmittal
!: With SO members present the house
!. Mt Washington reconvened Wednesday.
After the opening prayer, adjournment
!. was taken until Saturday.
!. Senator Penrose reported the house
!. tax bill as amended by the senate
: finance committee to the senate at
!, !. Washington. The Democrats were
. given permission to file minority re-
:. port within seven days, and Senator
!, La Toilette obtained the same priv
I. lege.
!:
President Harding will spend Octo.
!: Der Is in Atlanta as guest of the city
!. on his way back to Washington from
Birmingham, Ala, where he is to speak
son the preceding day.
)
J. Participation of army flyers or army
). flying machines in exhibition flights
except as may be arranged by the
government has been prohibited by the
: War department at Washington.
Transcontinental carriers will re
duee rates Is per cent on Pacific coast
vegetables to territory east of the
Rocky mountains and as far as Chi
!. cago and the Mississippi, it was an
! nounced by the interstate commerce
commission at Washington.
Skilled workers among immigrants
!. arriving in this country during the ifs
cal year ending last June numbered
131,774, against 69,967 during the pre-
yious fiscal year, according to Wash
ingt0n figures.
Domestic
William McLachlin, eight, has van,
ished at Spokane, Wash. Playmates
said he fell into sandpit. Thousands
OF tons of sand have been excavated
and pond dragged in the search fol
the body, but to no avail.
William Graver eighteen years old
only son of w. F.. Graver of Beverly
Hills, treasurer of the Graver Tank
company, was killed in an automobile
accident four miles north of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich.
A bloody finger print cleared Her
bert Smith, half-breed Indian, of com
plicity in Dowagiac's triple murder
mystery. Testimony of two experts
proved conclusively that he is limo
cent.
The body Of Mrs. Norah johnson
Kettele of Union, Conn.,, who, as .
bride Of few days, disappeared from
camp Mt Lake Mashapaug, where sht
was on her honeymoon, on September
10. was found in the lake.
Robert L. Bean, cashier of the
Megunticook National bank of Cam
den. was arraigned at Portland, Me.
ms defaulter to the amount of 1857,
COO on a secret indictment returned
by the grand jury.
One finger print, stamped in blood
ny = the only clue to the murder of VII
liam Monroe, forty-eiGht, his wife,
Mary, forty7four and their daughter