Cheyenne record., 1921-03-31
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiaM COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
oolNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE. '-.-E-
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Union carpenters of Tacoma, Wash,
announced voluntary wage reduction
from $S to 81 day, to become effec-
tive at once. The purpose OF the cut
is to stimulate building, 1t was said.
Organization of a pool for the mar
keting of the 1921 clip of Utah wool
was perfected at Salt. Lake when the
mountaineering committee of the State
Farm Bureau and the directors Of the
Utah Wool Growers Association
agreed upon the general outlines Of u
plan to be followed.
Three hundred cows which had been
gathered together at Scotland, s. D.,
for the purpose Of shipment to Ger
many were turned loose and are now
on their way, not to Germany, but to
their former homes, generally In
Hutchinson county. Anti-Germans are
supposed to have released the COWS.
Accused of numbering a st. Paul,
AIinn., railway postal clerk and OF
holding two others at bay with pistol
while he robbed a mail car on the
Northern Pacific railroad Of more than
$4,000 in currency, Delbert Smith,
alias ]. p. Sommers, 20 years Of age.
was arrested In Salt Lake City.
Two patrolmen armed with shotguns
will accompany all mail trucks In the
streets of San Francisco after dark
hereafter. 1t was announced by Cap
tain Of Detectives Duncan Matheson.
The step was taken as result OF re-
cent mall robbery In Oakland. The po.
lice are under orders to shoot to Kill
In the event of an attempted hOldup.
Jack Rathie is to hang, but first, he
insisted, he wants bonus for twenty
five months war service. II want my
money for my mother" explained Ra-
THE. Rathle Is under conviction for
the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor OF
Pendleton, Oregon. He has written the
Washington state auditor for the bO-
nus which Is due him from that state.
The Democrats lone representative
In the lower house Of the State Legls-
lature, Clyde Asbury Hammond, died
Mt Salt Lake after several transfusions
Of blood had proved futile. Represen.
tative Hammond, who wAs IS years
old, was a Mormon bishop at Moab,
Utah. State Senator J. w. knight and
others gave Of their blood In an effort
to save his life. Death was due to ul.
Ger Of the stomach.
WARRINGTON
President Harding has accepted an
Invitation to attend ceremonies to be
held April 10 at New York in connec
ton with the unwilling of statue to
Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan patriot
Ambassador. Ricef has referred to
the secretary OF fine arts Mt Rome the
reported discovery In an obscure cafe
in New York OF the genuine Francia
Madonna, stolen In 1910 from the fam
GUS gallery In Bologna, Italy.
Difficulty Is being encountered by
the War Department In getting ex-serv.
Ice men to take victory medals. An Of.
ficlal notice said that twenty-fOur Of.
ficers have been detailed to the task
of canvassing the ex-service men and
facilitating the distribution Of the
medals.
The governments total revenue from
Income and excess profits taxes for the
fiscal year ending June 30 next, will be
approximately $3,O5O. .OOO,O 900, according
to estimates based on the returns for
the first quarter Of the year, II was an
nounced by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon. This amount is considerably
In excess of what the treasury experts
had anticipated from these sources.
President Harding suggested ia
Chairman Fortlney that the House ways
and means committee sound out the
Senate Republicans as. to the feasibil'
ity Of early passage Of an emergency
tariff that would take care Of farmers
The proposal was discussed at length
and 1t has been determined to pass
the emergency tariff at the special
session Of Congress In April.
Notification Of his election to hon
orary membership In the Long Beach
Horseshoe Club, the largest organiza-
tion Of horseshoe pitchers in the world.
was mailed to President Warren G.
Harding by officers Of the club. Pres
ident Harding Is horseshoe enthusl-
asst, and a movement Is afoot among
horseshoe clubs throughout the coun-
try to present him with a pair Of sill
yer horseshoes.
At q meeting Of the board of direc-
tors of the United States Chamber Of
Commerce at Chicago, 1t was an
nounced that the national chamber
consists Of 1,429 commercial and indus.
trial organizations with combined
membership Of more than 10000 per-
sons.
President Harding has appointed
Washington Gardiner Of Albion, Mich,
q former member Of the House of Rep.
resentatives and a union veteran Of the
Civil war, as commissioner Of pensions.
He was commander-in-chief of the G..
A. r. In 1894.