Williams news., 1921-07-15
CONDENSED REG ORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINGS, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
twes,ern Newspaper Uaion News Service. :,
WESTERN

recently. Twelve city blocks were de | stroyed with the flames raging out of control. The loss will be more than $2, 100000. More than 100 residences were burned, many of them among the finest homes in the city.
 Flying in battle formation nine navy seaplanes came from Mare Island, on San Francisco Ray, to the North Is- land air station at San Diego in six hours and fOrty-five minutes without a stop. The distance is about 5o9 miles. For nearly 400 miles the avi- ators were unable to see the ocean be- l meath, because of the fog.
 | : Mrs. Charles F. Wiley, 5Y, of los | Angeles is reported near death at hospital in San Francisco from an un- usual injury in an accident. A motor bus in which she was riding brushed against the side of bridge. Her arm. which was resting on the outside of the car, was severed at point near the shoulder. The arm dropped into the river below.
 A woman and 13-year-old son have reached Provo, Utah, as an express package, following consignment from Constantinople, Turkey. Mrs. Thero Sarad and son were, expressed to the formers husband, who is farmer. Saran left his native land few months before his son was born. The "express package" was detained at Ellis Island for a month, but the "con- tents'' were released through the in- tercession of Senator Reed Shoot of Utah.
 Admiral E. w. Eberle assumed com mand of the United States Pacific fleet to the booming of double ad- mirals salute on the U. s. S. New Mexico, flagship, in San Francisco bay. Admiral Eberle succeeds Admiral Hugh Rodman, who was detached after a two-year tour of duty to com mand the navy yard at Norfolk, Va 1 The ceremony of changing command | was simple, consisting of lowering the previous commander-in-chie flag | raising Admiral Eberle's ensign and | the formal reading of his orders to take command of the armada. WASHINGTON
 Senator Kenyon has announced the of subcommittee of the Senate labor committee to investigate the Mingo mine war which consists of Phipps, Colorado; Shortridge, Mcclellan, Tennessee, and Walsh, Massachusetts.
 
 a resolution by Senator Lodge, Repub- lican leader, providing for four weeks recess from July 9 to Aug. 8. The vote was 24 to 27. Sixteen Re publican Senators voted against the recess and five Democrats voted for it.
 A system of model airways, covering the entire continent, is planned by the army air service for the use of all operators or owners of aircraft. It various chains of we'll landing fields, supplemented oy frequent emergency fields and iden- -ification markers connecting the prin- i cipal cities. Alien Property Custodian Miller has been ordered by Justice Hitz of the l District of Columbia Supreme Court ( o return to Countess von Bernstorff | wife of the former German ambassa- V Tor to the United States, stocks. bonds md cash amounting to $1,OOO, 900, 7 which was seized under the trading with the enemy act.
 The cost of running the United T States government during the fiscal !, ear which ended June 30 was S5,115,- t 27 ,6S9, according to the Treasury De E arement's statement. The figures are f
 
 rom all sources, although showing a h rop of billion under the previous T ear, amounted to $5,e24, ,S32. .96o b Grove L. Johnson, nominated by resident Harding to be- receiver off V ublic moneys at Sacramento, is the a ather of United States Senator Hiram ,T ohnson of California. He represented n California district in the House of h representatives for one term, and for s- lany years was a member of the low b r House of the California Legislature. n IT, Johnson's home is Sacramento, ft alif Q, Baron Shidehara, the Japanese am aSSadOr, in formal statement in m in discussing the Anglo ta apanese alliance, declared that "'by 7- 0 stretch of the magination can it l. onestly be stated that the alliance Ia as ever designed or remotely in tt ,nded as an instrument of hostility SC r even defense against the United nj tates."
 Governors of thirteen western states tv -e expected to meet in Salt Lake TO lily IS to discuss the future progress F, activities of the Western States w Association. r: