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sage in the Kansas Legislature. 1t pro
hibited smoking or possessing cigar
cites as well as selling or giving them
away. ! F@ @tH'7g
While attempting to side slip to a
landing field from an altitude of 2,00G
feet, Walter c. Reams, a flying cadet
at Kelly field, was killed at San An
tonic, Texas. f '.H',
The Texas State Senate has passed
a House bill prohibiting hotel and eat
ing housekeepers from using cracked
dishes ;sreQuiring sterilization of table
ware and preventing the employment
of persons with infectious diseases.
The bill also applies to dairies.
Ferdinand Michelena, once famed as
a grand opera tenor, is dead following
an attack iof apoplexy in San Fran
cisco, His daughter, Beatrice Michel
ena, is famous as. a movie star, and
another daughter, Vera Nlichelena, is
noted in vaudeville and comic opera,
The first consignment of German su-
gar beet seed to be received since the
outbreak of the World was reached
Galveston, Tex, aboard the American
steamship Westland from, Hamburg
and Bremen. The aWestland also
brought hops, toys, skulls and tusks,
| together with 500 rolls of print paper.
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 a neigh
for. When she returned, thirty minutes
later she found the baby burned to
death. s',
Approximately 5000 Mexicans will
be returned home from Texas, accord!
ing to the estimate of Immigration In
spector O. H. Smith at Fort Worth,
Texas. He said he had received orders
from Washington directing that all
Mexicans in the United States Under
special permit, such as agricultural or
Industrial, return home. -
The word of Epigmenio Ybarra, 1r.,
governor-elect of the northern district
Of Lower California, twill be absolute
law" in the district, according to
statement at Calexico, Calf; by Senior
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.
The special session of Congress viii |
meet April 4, Chairman Fordney of the |
House ways and means committee, an
nounced following a conference with
President Harding. ,,.,,
Lieutenant J. T. Lawson, "a, of Hart
ford, Conn, and Private. Joseph Read,
81, of Norwood, N. j., were dashed to
death at Camp Knox when an army
which failed to right itself
during tail spin, fell nearly 5000
feet. o.
American women now are consum-
ing nearly 20,OO0,OOO,00O cigarettes
year, receipts of the internal revenue
bureau indicate. Women were blamed
for an increase of GO per cent in the
and sale of cigarettes in
the United States.
Ratification of. the long-pending
treaty with Colombia is urged by Pres
ident Harding in his first formal mes
sage sent to the Senate. Immediately
upon receiving the message the Senate
went into executive session, the usual
procedure in taking up. treaties. The
text of the message was not made
public at the White House.
Deductions from income taxes of
persons whose businesses We're ended
With the enactment of federal prohibi- |
ion legislation will be approximately
i, 100000, the bureau of internal rev.
,nue announced The estimate was :
made public as result of statement
n the Senate which placed such losses
It $1,000,000,000 to $4,O0O,OO0,00O.
The Mexican bean beetle is the only h
'ad little girl of the LADY bug" family,
government farm experts have decreed 7
n announcing reprisal warfare against !,
he new crop destroyer, active particu- d
lrly in Alabama, Colorado and New @
IeXico All other "lady bugs" are S
lassed as beneficial insects" hut the Il
can beetle from the south Of the bor- b
er feeds on plant fertilizer and the c
overnment has 100000 to spend in a
unning 1t out of the country. .7.| fl
1.-The United States can prepare for a
000,000-bale cotton crop next year p
18th whatever price that size crop may ri
says Ellis M. Whitaker of In
-emphis. "The South is determined tC
lat the cotton acreage for 1921 shall 81
; not more than half of what it was ST
st year, which will produce crop dl
about 100000 bales"
One member of the House, Represen. &C
tive Ricketts,, Republican, Ohio, an s.
vered all Of the 592 roll calls of the W
xty-sxth Congress, equalling his own W
cord in the Slxty-fourth Congress- fr
,ver before achieved. II