The Colorado statesman., 1921-10-22
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
Do'Nos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN
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er potato crop with Spud Harvest
week, which festival was held at
Idaho Falls.
Walter Hammond, % years old, OF
Bslleville, ILL.,, driver of Il racing au-
tornoblle, was killed and his brother,
Fred, escaped serious injury when the
car overturned on the Belleville race
track at ST. Louis.
A twenty-year courtship eliminated
in the marriage of William Coburn, 90
years old, and Mrs. Edith r. Wood, 80,
in the chapel of the Soldiers Home at
Swatelle, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Bride and bridegroom declared they
''never felt younger"
Mrs. Emma Depointer was found
unconscious with her skull crushed
and powder burns on her face, and her
10-year-old daughter, Gladys May
Trowbridge of Miami, Okla, was
found dead with two bullet holes in
her body, by motorists, a mile west of
Tyro, Kan.
The Kansas district of the United
Mine Workers of America, district No.
Ia, has been suspended by John L.
Lewis, international president. Alex
ander Howatt and all other district of
ficers are summarily removed and
George l.. Peck, until the districts sus
pension the international board mem
Der, has been appointed acting presI-
dent of n provisional district.
Nathan Loar, Mexican war veteran,
celebrated his one hundredth birth
day at Leavenworth. Kan. He was
born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper court
house, Virginia. His wife, with whom
he lived seventy-two years, died six
years ago. They were parents of ten
children. Loar has forty grandchild-
ren, fifty-three at-grandchildren
and five great-great- grandchildren.
The submarine re, attached to the
Pacific fleet which sank in San Pedro
harbor Sept. 26 with the loss of two of
her crew, has been brought to the sur.
face, ii was announced at the sub
marine base Mt the harbor at Los An
geles The hull was in apparent good
condition, although 1t was thought
that the engine and batteries had been
damaged by salt water. The vessel
was raised by means of large tube
secured to the coming tower, through
which air was pumped into the hull.
Governor Joseph NJ. Dixon of Mon
national unemployment congress, has
wired r. F. Blaine, representative of
the western governors reclamation
congress, suggesting. that 1,500 men
could be used on the different recla-
nation projects which have already
been started in Montana. Besides the
use of unemployed on Montana pro-
jects, the governor stated that many
vantage in other big western recla
nation projects.
: WASHINGTON
The American Lutheran mission at
Saujbulak, West Persia, has been at
tackled and looted by Kurds, accord
ing to official advices to the State De
partment from the American charge
d'affaires at Teheran, who said he had
been informed of the attack of the
French and British consuls at Tabriz
Director Dawes of the budget an
nounced the creation of two addition
al boards which he declared would put
more business efficiency In govern
mental affairs and result In savings to
the government of several hundred
million dollars year. The new bod
les set up are the federal specifica-
tions and federal traffic boards.
A resolution by Senator Overman,
Democrat, North Carolina, adopted by
the Senate, directs the federal reserve
board to report as TO the salaries paid
by reserve banks and other expenses
of these banks. The resolution recited
that 1t had been charged that salaries
In the New York bank had been in
creased more than $1,000 900 since the
war.
Second failure of the House within
year to increase its membership be-
yond 435 virtually means there will be
no addition, according to the view eX-
pressed by leaders of the fight to keep
the number at its present total. Hav-
ing rejected proposal to increase the
total to 4S3, the House refused to
make 1t 460, sending the bill back to
committee with the certainty that II
could not be reported again this ses
sion.
The Standard Oil Co. of New Jer-
sey announced that the bonus of 10
per cent to its employees at its various
refineries In New Jersey would be re-
moved Oct. Is, but that 1t would en-
deavor to create as much additional
work as possible to increase the hours
of employment for men now working
part time or laid off entirely.
A message from the president of the
Chinese republic to President Hard
ing, thanking him for remembering
that country on its tenth national an
adversary, has been made public by
the State Department.