Taiban Valley news., 1921-10-14
CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, NGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERiNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Thomas H. Matters, Omaha attor-
ney. was arrested by deputy sheriffs
on a charge of aiding and abetting a
felony in connection with the alleged
smbezzlement of 5000, 900 from the now
iefunct Pioneer State bank.
Women are not eligible for jury
service in Missouri, despite the adop-
tion of the recent amendment to the
state constitution giving them the
right to hold public offices, Circuit
Judge Ralph S. Latshaw held in an
opinion ut Kansas City.
A pearl weighing 351z grains and
declared to be worth $1,000 was
found in the Black river at Poplar
Bluff. Mo-, by e. f. Adams, a pearl
hunter The gem is considered the
most perfect as well as the largest
found in this section of the state.
Girl students of the high school of
Commerce in San Francisco, about l.
900 in number, voted to l in favor of
abolishing the wearing of silk stock
ings, transparent waists, fancy frocks
and pyramid hair dressing, and to sub
stitute cotton stockings, middle
biOuses and wash dresses.
Jewels valued at $4,000, stolen from
Mr. and Mrs. f. L. GOss of Paris,
France, while en- route from Dallas,
Texas, to st. Louis, aboard the Mis-
souri, Pacific Sunshine special were
found on the railroad track at De So
to. Mo. Officers believe that the jew
els were dropped from a car window
by the thief whe feared detection.
Two unmasked bandits entered the
Sierra Valley Bank at Loyalton, Calf,
forced the cashier and his assistant
down on the floor and got away with
$4,000 in coin and currency, all the
,>ank had. In escaping in an automo-
'tie a tire went flat, so they held up a
l.Oyalton physician five miles from
own and took his machine away from
hlm.
The percentage of illiteracy In the
state of Washington, according to cen
sus bureau figures announced are II
per cent in 1920, compared to 9 per
cent In 1910, there being total of 49,
526 persons ten years of age and over
in the state in 1920 unable to write in
any language. OF this number, 1928
were native whites of native parent
age, T51 of mixed parentage. and H.
630 of foreign birth; 2, 127 Indians, 472
Chinese and 1905 Japanese.
WASHINGTON
Motor transport is responsible for
153, 100000 tons of farm products car
ried annually over the highways to the
railroads, according to the United
States Bureau of Market Crop.
The Senate has agreed to a commit
tee amendment to the tax bill provid-
ing that debts ascertained to be worth
less and charged off within the taxable
year shall be allowed as a deduction
TO individual taxpayers.
The question of parole or pardon for
Eugene V. Debs has been 'laid aside
for a WHILE" by the Department of
Justice, according to Attorney General
Daugherty, who said that such recon-
mendation as he had prepared would
be changed "in phraseOlogy." before
going to the President.
Retail prices in ten cities showed
tendency to decrease during Septem-
ber, according to a report made by
the Labor Department. In the cities
where figures were obtained Sept. Is
only one, Richmond, Va, had an in
crease over August prices, and this
amounted to but per cent.
The chair used by Theodore Roose-
Veit at his desk at the White House
was formally presented by President
Harding to the Roosevelt Memorial
Association. The gift was received by
a committee headed by William Boyce
Thompson, president of the associa-
tion, and will be placed in collection
Of Roosevelt mementoes now being as
sembled.
The deadly poison gas developed by
the chemical warfare service has
been turned to the most peaceful of
peace-time service. Experiments com
pleted by the chemical warfare serv-
ice have developed from the deadly
gas a violet scent that they assert is
more delicate and more lasting than
the original woodland article. Benzyl
acetate, another Of the war gas pro-
ducts, has proved the source of a
tasmin scent.
English cotton men so far have not
been disturbed by reports of an Amer
ican cotton shortage. Manager John
RyIand, connected with one of the
biggest Lancashire spinning companies
said ne was not worried as all English
spinners hold big stocks and are not
buying because the cotton goods export
trade is dead.
Former King William II. Of Wurt-
temberg is dead. William l., reigning
King of the monarchy Of Wurttemberg,
abdlcated in November, 1918, as di-
rect outcome of the war. He had
reIgRed since 1901.