The Holbrook news., 1921-01-28
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS 4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN
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Representative Warren of Butte,
 Mont, has given notice in the state
 House of Representatives of a bill making picketing in strikes unlawful. The measure conforms to the Colorado
 statute, it was declared.
 Burglars dug through a twenty-inch brick wall of the First National bank at College Springs, Iowa, and plund- cred sixty safety deposit boxes of Lib erty bonds, war savings stamps and s249 worth of stamps and money.
 A temporary dormitory is being in stalled in one of the shops of the Ne braska state penitentiary at Lincoln to provide sleeping quarters for the overflow population of the institution. The temporary dormitory will contain fifty beds.
 The reported recovery of nearly $25O,OOO in Liberty bonds and currency and the death of one of the bandits, were features of the police investiga tion into the robbery by six bandits of a sub-postoffice station at Dallas, Tex The amount of loot taken was not known and four of the band remain at liberty.
 Feeling was intense over the murder of MT. and Mrs. James B. Willard, both aged about 65, in their farm home near Kaufman, Texas. Officers said they had no clew as to the identity of the assailant. The bodies were found in bed, the heads crushed with blows from an iron rod which was found in the house.
 Japanese would not be permitted to own land in Nevada, provision would be made for eScheat to the state of property and leasehOlds acquired in violation of the law and heavy penal ties provided for conspiracy, accord ing to the terms of a bill introduced into the Nevada Legislature by As Semblyman Arnold.
 William J. Bryan and his brother, Charles W. Bryan, are going to reOr- ganize the national Democratic party along Bryanite lines. Charles W. Bryan made the announcement in Lin coin, Nebr Intensive work in every part and division of the country lead ing from the national capital down through the state and into each county
  plan is to be one of education.
 IF. L. Cook, 55 years old. formerly a. wealthy oil operators of Casper, Wyo., was found dead in a hotel room in El PasO, Texas, with the rubber hose dis connected from a gas heater in his mouth. Cook registered at the hotel, telling the clerk he was without funds. Being well known he was provided with accommodations and small sum of money This was the last seen of him until when his body was found. WASHINGTON
 All records for the passports issued by the state department went by the board in 1920, 164, ,354 such documents being issued to American citizens.
 Convictions of crime should not also carry loss of civil rights, unless the crime warrants such deprivation of cit izenship, a committee representing the American Bar Association advised a | Senate judiciary committee consider ing legal reform legislation
 The automobile industry is paying | S143, 100000 annually to the federal | government, with state fees of $64,- 100000, and personal property taxes | and other fees of s50,OOO,OOO.
 Inaction by the Senate on the thous- ands of nominations submitted by President Wilson has been broken and the way paved for confirmation before March 4, of emergency appointments.
 A resolution requesting President Wilson to inform Congress why and by what authority he sent Major Gen. eral CrOwder to Cuba to investigate conditions there was introduced by Representative Emerson, Republican, of Ohio.
 A bill to repeal the excess profits tax and to substitute for it flat tax of 15 per cent on the profits of corpor- ations has been introduced in the House. Abolition of the $2,OOO exemp- tiOn now granted business concerns also is proposed.
 The anual fund for free distribu- tiOn of seed by Senators and Repre- was eliminated from the agricultural bill by the House subcom- mittee on appropriations, but sharp fight for the retention was expected to be made in the House and Senate.
 The Supreme Court has refused to review a Judgment of the Supreme Court of California holding that the United States Railway Administration was not immune from damage suits arising from the operation of a com mon carrier in that state.
 The level of retail prices declined 10 per cent during 1920, according to a Labor Department announcement. De { cember retail prices declined 8 per l cent, compared with November, the { statement said. Wholesale prices dur { ing the same period dropped off s.75 l Ter cent. ' Approximately S,5OOOOO automobiles. are registered in the United States to- l lay. This is the amazing figure just | by Alfred Reeves, general manager of the National Automobile I Chamber of Commerce, in a report on ( Facts and Figures of the Automobile ( in 1920.' I A resolution authorizing the accept ance of the offer of J. P. Morgan to t give to the government his home in S London as a permanent American em- c ,assy building has been approved by c he Senate foreign relations commit f