, 1921-04-07
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union New, ser,ic..)

WESTERN
Union carpenters of Tacoma, Wash,
announced a voluntary wage reduction
from So to 81 a day, to become effec-
live Mt once. The purpose of the cut
is to stimulate building, it was said.
Jennie S%cardino, II years old, who
shot and killed Mike Termain In her
home in February, 1920, was acquitted
of manslaughter ut Ogden, Utah. Miss
Scardino said that she shot Termaln
after he attacked her.
Two patrolmen armed with shotguns
viii accompany all mail trucks In the
streets of San Francisco after dark
hereafter, it was by Cap
tain of Detectives Duncan Matheson.
The step was taken as n result of a re-
cent mai robbery In Oakland.
breckenridge, Texas, has lost anoth.
er business block by fire. Three hotels,
seven cafes and lodging houses were
destroyed at a loss estimated Mt be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. 1t was
B~reckenridge's sixth disastrout fire
during h last two months.
A man identified ms ]. Elton Moran,
OF Chicago, entered the private office
OF X. A. Crothers, publisher IF the San
Francisco Bulletin, demanded $ 5000
and then committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head when the
police arrived to arrest him
An order has been received Mt Coun-
ell Bluffs directing that l.. W. Boeh-
ner of Malvern, Ia, to report at once
for transportation to federal prison at
Fort L~eavenworth to begin serving n
three-year term on conviction of OBJ
structing the draft and for s%landering
the Red Cross. Boehner is wealthy.
A $4,000 mail robbery ut Stuart,
Neb., Jan. 20, has just been made pub
lie. The securities were In n first
class mail pouch dropped off Mt the
Stuart station at midnight. When the
station agent looked for the pouch it
was missing. When abstracts, mort
cages and other instruments involved
in March settlements consigned from
OfNeil, Neb., failed to arrive the value
OF the pouch was made known. Cur
rency from the Treasury Department
was also included In the loss.
WASHINGTON
Hubert Work of Pueblo, president of
the American Medical Association and
former Republican national committee
man from Colorado, has beer given a
recess appointment by President Hard
ing as first assistant postmaster gen
eral.
Postmasters ut New York, Chicago,
ST. Louis, Detroit, Washington, Balti-
more, Cleveland. Boston and Phlladel-
phia ave been called In by Postmas-
ter General Hays to attend the first of
the departmental conferences on mail
service conditions.
Notification of his election to hon
nrnry membership In the Long Beach
Horseshoe Club. the largest %organiza-
ton of horseshoe pitchers In the world.
was mailed to President Warren G..
Harding by officers of the club. Pres
ident Harding is n horseshoe enthusl-
asst, and n movement Is afoot among
horseshoe clubs throughout the coun-
try to present him with n pair of sill
yer h~orseshoes.
Three hundred breweries are clam
oring for permits to brew medicinal
beer under the recent ruling of the De-
partment of Justice, according to Fed
eral Prohibition Commissioner Kramer.
One or two breweries could manufnc
ture enough beer to meet the legiti-
mate medicinal needs of the entire
United States" Kramer said.
Ten legislative proposals designed to
relieve the housing shortage are set
forth In the final report of the Sen
ate committee In reconstruction, made
public. The chief necessity is that of
providing new capital for home con
struction the committee found and sew
eral bills suggested. it added. would re-
lleve housing Investments and Incomes
derived therefore of federal InxntIon.
In whole or in part.
The executive council OF the Amerl-
eau Federation OF Labor. In a call is
sued at Washington for the forty-flrst
annual convention of the organization,
to open In Denver June 13,
the convention OF 5000 workers will
take steps TO withstand and overcome
the bitter %antagonism now so rampant
to undermine and to destroy the great
constructive force In our republic, the
American labor movement"
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor. de-
nounced as 'unpntrlotic Americans
those labor leaders who have criticized