The Holbrook news., 1921-05-20
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(Western Newspaper Union News SerTice.)
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 4 new kind of "crOp'' was unearthed near Idaho Falls, Idaho, when deputy sheriffs dug twenty-fOur gallons of "moOnshine" out of plowed field near the city. The fields owner pro- tests ignorance and innocence of how it was planted"
 About 100 wheat growers of Wash ington and northern Idaho, conferring al Spokane, Wash, with representa- tives of the United States grain grow CTS incorporated, voted unanimously in favor of compulsory pooling of wheat for marketing.
 Clara Smith Hamon, acquitted of the murder of Jake L. HamOn, Okla homa oil king and Republican politi- clan, has agreed to $10,O00 settlement of her claim to a share of HamOn's SS, 100000 estate, according to infOrma- ton from authentic sources.
 Production of an alleged German made film in Los Angeles theater was stopped by the management after crowd, including about a score of sailors had attempted to force an en- trance to the building, protesting against the performance. The sailors were stopped by a squad of police
 Notice of orders of withdrawal from homestead entry of thirty townships, located in the area to be affected by the proposed Green River reclamation project in Utah, has been received by Register Gould BlakeIey of the federal land office at Salt Lake. This is said to be the first official action of the de partment of the interior in preparing for the survey to be made of the Green River territory to determine the feasi- bility of the project.
 Four thousands pounds of ammuni- tion were seized and the engine crew on the Mexican Central passenger train which left Juarez was arrested near Chihuahua City, according to Rafael D. Davila, commander of customs guards in Chihuahua The ammunition, MT. Davila said he had been privately informed, was intended for rebels in central Chihuahua. The ammunition was hidden in the tender of the engine under the coal, he said.
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 Enforcement of the prohibition amendment in the United States con sulate districts of China and other for eign countries where treaties do not prevent is proposed ill bill introduced by Representative Lineberger, Repub- Ican, of California.
 Between 100000 and 6,OOOOOO pounds of wool will be sold by the War Department at public auction to be held in Boston about May 20, Secretary Weeks has announced. Additional sales may be authorized if the first are satisfactory to reduce the S0O0000O pounds the army has on hand.
 The Townsend bill for the establish ment of pOst-rOad and interstate highway system, and the creation of a federal highway commission, has been introduced in the Senate, and hearings on it are to be held soon. This measure differs from the original Townsend bill in several particulars, and it recognizes the federal aid prin- ciple, but with reservations.
 Reform organizations of various kinds have disclaimed the percentage of an anti-tObaccO drive which got some attention in Washington recent ly There was a question of just who was sponsoring it, but news of the ar rival of the movement in the capital caused much alarm in many quarters.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has granted the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company in Mon- tana permission to increase it's passen- ger and excess baggage rates to the level in effect in interstate commerce tariffs to be filed upon five days mo- tice. The carrier is an electric road and on that account was omitted from the last rate order issued by the com mission.
 William II. Stevenson, vice director of the experiment station of the Iowa State Agricultural College, has been named permanent delegation of the United States to the international In- stitute of Agriculture at Rome, the De- partment of Agriculture announced. The appointment fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dean T. F. Hunt, president of the California State Agricultural College
 The War Department stacker lists as issued from time to tune Will be pub lished in the Congressional Record Re quest for such publication was made in the House by Representative Johnson, Republican, South Dakota, a former service man, and there was no objec- tion.
 The national geographic board voted unanimously to retain the name Mount Rainier for the peak in Washington state that has been so known for 130 years A proposal to change it to Mount Lincoln has been under consid- eration for some time.
 A winter wheat crop of 629, PSI, ,OO0 bushels has been forecast by the De- partment of Agriculture, passing it's es- timate on the condition of the crop May l, which averaged S8S per cent of a normal, and the revised area to be har fod ic