The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-24

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 Judge Robert E. Lewis of Colorado has been named by President Hard ing as federal circuit judge for the eighth judicial circuit, to succeed the late Judge Hook.
 Rafael Olquin, 109 years old, was found dead in his bed at his residence at SandOval, N M He had not been ill and had led an active life despite his age. He is survived by six sons and four daughters.
 The Farmers State Bank of Win side, Neb., is closed and ill the hands of Paul Zuelow, state bank examiner. Bad loans and constant withdrawals are given by the examiner as the cause of the failure. He estimated the loss at about $20O,000.
 Four armed bandits held up the cashier of the Liberty theater at Port land, Ore, and escaped with between S7,OO0 and $10,OOO, the receipts from Saturday night and Sunday shows. Three of the robbers Overpowered the ! cashier and made quick job of the inside work.
 Without candidates there can be no | election, the village trustees of Pal mer, H., decided. That little town of 450 inhabitants will fOrego all election joys Nov. 8, because none of them are anxious for office, although their mayor, the city clerk and one of the trustees have left their village
 The locking out of 3,700 employees in the mill work industry in Chicago is intended as a step toward establish ing the open shop in the carpenter trade, union officials declared The mills include sash, door and window and fixture mills, employing apprOxi- mately 1000 carpenters.
 The memory of the late Franklin K Lane, for nearly eight years secretary of the interior, is to be perpetuated thru one of the lOftiest peaks in the TatOosh range within Mount Rainier National park. The department of the interior has announced that the geo. graphic board had decided to name the peak Mount Lane. It has an altitude of 5000 feet, rising One-third of a mile northwest of Cliff lake, in Pierce county, Washington.
 WASHINGTON
 A bill appropriating $250,0O0 to be used in refunding losses by Liberty Loan subscribers through failure of five banks in which they had placed partial payments has been passed by the house and sent to the senate. The banks were located in Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, Minnesota and North Dakota
 Returns from more than 600 mutual savings banks for the year ended June 30 reveal unanticipated conditions" according to a statement issued by Comptroller Crissinger. "NOtwithstand ing 'unfavOrable conditions, he said, these savings institutions gained both in number of depositors and volume of deposits"
 Advances aggregating $553,750 to finance institutions for agricultural and livestock purposes have been an- nOunced by the war finance corpora tiOn. Seventeen advances were made to institutions in Nevada, Iowa, Ne braska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Georgia in amounts ranging from $500 to $S5,OOO.
 Charges that Haitian natives were killed or inhumanly treated by, gendarmes, acting on order of Ameri- can marine officers, were challenged before the special Senate Investigating committee by Lieut.. Col. Alexander S. Williams, who acted as assistant com mander and later as commander of the gendarmes between August 1916, and July, 1919.
 Y. Bryan Yamashita, representing the Japanese peace society, has ar rived in Washington to attend the con- ference on limitation of armament MT. Yamashita came to the United States at the age of 19 and, he said, received his education lat the hands of former Secretary of State William J. Bryan, then an instructor at the University of Nebraska.
 Expenditure of $3,669, ,25O on the dis abled former service man and his family and a total of $19,361 $50 for all purposes is proposed by the Ameri- can Red Cross during the current ifs cal year, it was announced at the or ganization's national headquarters. This represents a reduction of more than $5,000,000 from the SPA, ,492, TAO total spent during the last fiscal year.