Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-11-17
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Washington.
Temporary lease Of power plant
NO. 2 Of the Muscle Shoals, Alabama,
project to the Alabama Power CON-
pany, was announced by Secretary
Weeks at Washington.
About 1,15O,OOO,OOO people will be
represented in the armament confer
ence at Washington. -Four republics,
two empires and three kingdoms will
gather in council.
President Harding at Washington
signed the good-roads bill, appropriate
Ing $75,O0O,OOO for road building and
$15. 100000 for forestry projects.
Favorable report on the house bill
appropriating 100000 additional to
complete the government railroads in
Alaska has been ordered by the SEN
ate territories committee at Washing
ton.
United States marines to the num-
Der Of 1000 or more, If necessary, will
be ordered out at once to protect the
mails from robbers. This decision
was reached by the President and his
cabinet at Washington.
The administration at Washington,
after period Of uncertainty, has set
tied upon "the City of Washington" as
the official designation Of the capital.
The tax revision bill now faces its
third rewriting, this time by the house
and senate conferees. The measure
finally was passed by the senate at
Washington, 38 to "a.
Another effort to write the soldiers
bonus bill into the tax revision meas
ure failed, the senate ut Washington
rejecting the Simmons amendment
proposing to pay the bonus out of in
terest on the foreign debt.
The senate, after short but snap
,py debate, voted to ask the United
States delegates to the armament con-
ference at Washington to use their en-
deavors to have newspaper reporters
admitted to all sessions and to have
the proceedings published.
The sheppard-Towner bill for the
protection of maternity and infancy,
already passed by the senate, was fa-
vorably reported by the house inter-
state commerce committee at Wash
ington.
Domestic
Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler of
New York was elected president gen.
eral of the United Daughters Of the
Confederacy, in convention at st.
Louis. Her election was by acclama-
ton.
The Security bank Of Lawton, Okla.
capital, 500, 900, did not open, and an
announcement signed by the board Of
directors stated that the institution had
been closed for liquidation.
The board of education at New York
learned that 1856 school teachers had
taken husbands during the summer va
cation, the secret being revealed when
notices of changes were filed.
hov hnl fhn nc
of the s. Plan Jewelry company store
at st. Louis, looted the safe and es-
capped with jewels said to be valued
at 5000.
Frank Ligregni, former student at
the Moody Bible institute, grimly
silent, his eyes closed and head bowed
In prayer, was hanged in the county
Jail at Chicago at $3.50 p. m. for the
mur{er of his wife.
Gasoline prices were boosted TX
cents a gallon at Chicago by the
Standard OIL company. The tank
wagon price was raised from 1S to
1917 cents gallon and the filing sta
tion price from 20 to 21h cents.
The Federal Court of Appeals at
Chicago set aside the temporary in
Junction issued by Federal Judge A. B.
Anderson, at Indianapolis, which for
babe operators to check off miners
dues and wages.
Japan faces a deficit of 8O,OOO,OOO
yen for the present fiscal year, the
cabinet has been told by Baron Kore-
kiyo, minister of finance at Tokyo.
He said the figure might be even
greater.
-Four armed bandits held up the
cashier of the Liberty moving picture
theater at Portland, Ore, and escaped
with between $1,000 and $4,000.
A reduction in wages in the big
stock yards packing plants at Chicago
was announced