Williams news., 1921-04-29
AN EPITOME OF
 LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED R cORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

(Wostern Newspaper Union News Service.)
 WESTERN
 | Frosts in California have caused the
 loss of 6, ,0OO tons of the OO,00O tons prospective crop of raisin grapes, ac
 cording to estimates made in Fresno
 One report, estimated that 60 per cent
 of the Malaga grape crop has been
 ruined by the frosts.
 The Canadian government May 1 | will resume dispatch of its mails on the Canadian Pacific railroad vessels sailing for the Far East, according to
 advfces received in Seattle by Edward McGrath, superintendent of the rail- way mail service for the Northwest. One hundred and fifty men, all job less wanderers, were driven from the Salvation Army industrial home when fire destroyed the building in San Francisco. The men were marched in orderly style from the burning build ing. Each man carried a little bundle in his hands, representing, in most cases, all of his worldly belongings.
 Former Mayor Edmond A. Book of Salt Lake City, sentenced last Decem- Der to an indeterminate term in the state prison, the trial judge recon mendfng a term of seven years, on charges of embezzlement involving a total of S12,OOO, has been paroled by the State Board of Pardons. Prior to his trial Book made restitution of the amount.
 P. s. Crawley, Siberian exporter and importer, was detained in custody aboard the Japanese liner Siberia Ma ru for a time soon after the vessel ar rived in San Francisco bay recently as a result of an alleged attack on a stew ard. Crawley said the steward had ripped him and declared the act was concerning Japanese activities in Si- beria which he intended to present to the United States government.
 Three officers of the steamship Gov ernor, rammed and sunk by the ship ping board freighter West Hartland off Point Wilson April l, are held to blame by United States steamboat in- spectors for the collision that resulted in total loss of the passenger vessel and the snuffing out of five lives. | Captain Harry Marden, pilot; Ernest second mate, and Arne | Haze, third mate, all of the Governor, | are accused in the report of '.inatten-
 
 l result of which the fatal collision oc- 
 WASHINGTON
 Curtailment of property rights is ustifiable in case of public exigency, he Supreme Court held in deciding wo cases involving the validity of avs affecting leases on apartments md business property. Dividing five o four, the court upheld the Ball act ng laws. The Ball act prohibits dis possession of a tenant at the expira- ions of his lease on any ground ex- ept undesirability. The New York avs make it obligatory on landlords o furnish certain service to tenants 1 nd prohibit the filing of disposess ; uits. Nominations of George Harvey of lew York, to be ambassador to Great t ritain and Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, c , be ambassador to France, have been I ent to the Senate by President Hard c lg. l Rigid restriction of immigration has il cen recommended by Secretary Il IugheS in official documents trans D
 
 reted by congressional leaders as re- t ecting increased need for immediate d lssage of the immigration bill report tl l by the House committee, limiting fl mission of aliens for fourteen a onths beginning May 10 to per cent n
 each nationality resident in the W nited States in 1919. W Secretary Wallace has written let o rs to the governors of all states ask g their cooperation in the nation ir idle observance of forest protection st eek, May p to 2S, recently pro- ss aimed by President Harding. "Ade- ii ate provision for the safeguarding o1 d renewal of our forests is of vital hi portance to the nation,'' the secre- 's1 ry said in his letter, adding that the ta gnitude of the area burned over the b1 st five years represents a territory Ia ger than the state of Utah. "C Honduras and Salvador, ,mbers of the new Central American te lion, are pledged to declare war sim Fl with Costa Rica against MI mama, if Costa Rica deems such ac- if II necessary in view of the present N 1ndary dispute with Panama, ac- lie ding to official advice received in he arlington. TT resolution authorizing an investi- ga Ion or the escape Of Grover c. Berg cis l, Philadelphia draft evader, who is I'll v in Germany, was adopted by the up use without opposition after brief an