The Holbrook news., 1921-03-18
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIeN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

(Western NeuEpaper Union News serTice)
 WESTERN
 The anti-cigarette bill failed of pas sage in the Kansas Legislature It pro- hibited smoking or possessing cigar cites as well as selling or giving them away.
 While attempting to side slip to a landing field from an altitude of 1000 feet, Walter c. Reams, a flying cadet at Kelly field, was killed at San An tonic, Texas.
 The Texas State Senate has passed a House bill prohibiting hotel and eat ing housekeepers from using cracked dishes; requiring sterilization of table ware and preventing the employment of persons with infectious diseases. The bill also applies to dairies.
 Ferdinand Miehelena, once famed as a grand opera tenor, is dead following an attack of apoplexy in San Fran cisco His daughter, Beatrice Michel ena, is famous as a movie star, and another daughter, Vera Michelena, is noted in vaudeville and comic opera.
 Mrs. Kenneth Thornock of Brigham City, Utah, wrapped her baby son in a quilt and put him on the oven door of the kitchen stove while she went across the street to call upon neigh for. When she returned thirty minutes later she found the baby burned to death.
 Mrs. Kenneth Tharnock of Brig T,ov, ho1, in quilt and put him on the oven door of her kitchen stove while she went acrehs the street to call upon a neighbor When she returned thirty minutes later she found the baby burned to death.
 Governor Mabey of Utah, after hold ing the SOuthwick anti-cigarette bill the lawful five days, signed the meas ure and at the same time made an an nOuncement to the effect that he would send a special message to the Legisla- ture requesting repeal and substitute a new one in its place.
 Claiming possession under a patent land grant to Moses Butler, hero of the battle of San Jacinto, which gave Texas its freedom from Mexico, rela- tives in the United States District Court at Wichita Falls, Texas, filed suit in trespass to quiet title to prop erty in the oil field district of Young county, said to be worth $1,OOO,OOO.
 The word of Epigmenio Ybarra, Jr., governor-elect of the northern district of Lower California, twill be absolute law in the district, according to a statement at Calexico, Calif., by Senor Ybarra's private secretary, Captain Jose M. Davila, quoting President Obregon. The federal governments only demand, the officer declared, was that the governor prohibit all gambling in the district
 WASHINGTON
 Deductions from income taxes of persons whose businesses were ended with the enactment of federal prohibit tion legislation will be approximately $1,0O0,O00, the bureau of internal rev enue announced. The estimate was made public as a result of a statement in the Senate which placed such losses at $1,OO0,OO0OO0 to $4,OOO,OOO,OOO.
 The nomination of Col. Theodore Roosevelt to be assistant secretary of the navy has been confirmed by the Senate.
 American women now are consum- ing nearly 20,OO0OOOOOO cigarettes year, receipts of the internal revenue bureau indicate. Women were blamed for an increase of 66 per cent in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in 1 the United States.
 Authority of former Postmaster Gen. eral Burleson, to withdraw second | class mail privileges from any publi- cation which violated the espionage | act through printing articles tending to create insubordination or disloy- alty" in the military or naval forces, | was upheld by the Supreme Court.
 The Mexican bean beetle is the only | bad little girl of the "lady bug" family, | government farm experts have decreed | in announcing reprisal warfare against | the new crop destroyer, active particu- larly in Alabama, Colorado and New | Mexico. All other "Iady bugs" are classed as beneficial insects" but the |
 
 der feeds on plant fertilizer and the | government has $1OO,OOO to spend in running it out of the country.
 ''The United States can prepare for a 6OOO,OO0-bale cotton crop next year with whatever price that size crop may demand" says Ellis NJ. Whitaker of Memphis. "The South is determined | that the cotton acreage for 1921 shall be not more than half of what it was last year, which will produce a crop of about 6,OOO,OOO bales.''
 One member of the House, Represen- tative Ricketts, Republican, Ohio, an- swered all of the 592 roll calls of the Sixty-sixth Congress, equalling his own record in the Sixty-fourth Congress, never before achieved.
 The nomination of Brig. Gen. Frank Mcintyre to be chief of the War De partment bureau of insular affairs was confirmed by the Senate in open ses- sion. The nominations of several hun dred majors, lieutenant colOnels and colonels also were confirmed before adjournment.