Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-08-11
Happenings
of the World
Tersely Told
Washington


of Cuba financially are in progress at
the State department at Washington,
but it was stated that they have not
!, reached the point where announce
ment may be made.
!, Regulations eliminating wholesale
! liquor dealers from distribution of al
/ coholic beverages were issued at,
Washington by Internal Revenue Com
missioner Blair.
& Governor Harding defended the acts
: of the federal reserve board before the
joint congressional commission hear
ing at Washington on the boards pol
3 icy.
The cost Of running the United
States government for the fiscal year
of 1922 will be $4,550, GOO, 600, accord
ing to revised estimates placed before
! the house ways and means committee
at Washington by Secretary Mellon.
President Harding won another vic
tory in the senate at Washington
when it passed the McNay bill ex-
tending the powers Of the War Finance
corporation to assist in marketing sur
plus farm products abroad.
A Washington dispatch says Great
Britain has notified the United States
that any date agreeable to the United
: States for the conference for the elm
/ ination of ornaments will be agree
!. able.
The conference agreement on the
packer control bill wa, adopted by the
senate at Washington, 48 to 10, and
after approval by the house the bill
\ goes to the President.
= It Is reported unof1icially at Wash
ington that arrangements for the re-
4 turn of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll to
the United States have been included
in the recent negotiations for peace
treaty with Germany.
Charges that "Sid" Hatfield, the pic
was murdered in cold blood without a
chance to defend himself were lodged
with Senator Kenyon Of Iowa at
I, washington.
Former Controller Of Currency John
Shelton Williams scored the policy of
(, the federal reserve board In making
loans, before the Joint congressional
commission at Washington, saying the
farmers complaint of discrimination
was justified.
Intoxicating beverages imported in
70 the United States during the fiscal
year were valued at more than So
100000, as compared with about $780,
600 in the previous year, says Wash
ington report.
The Sweet bill, for consolidation
under one head Of government relief
agencies for disabled soldiers, was
passed by the house at Washington,
,254 to 4.
Domestic
Mrs. Stephen j. Prenati, now resi-
dent of Oakland, Cal has arrived at
Butte, Mont, TO witness the execution
of Steve Bryan and Theodore Chronos,
convicted Of numbering her husband.
The county prosecutors office at
Hackensack N. j., was notified that
six armed bandits had held up the pay
master of the Barrett Manufacturing
company at Shadyside and escaped
with a pay roll of $4,000.
President Harding interrupted his
vacation at the top Of Mount Prospect
to go on an errand of mercy to the
army tubercular hospital at Gorham,
N H., 25 miles away.
Flood waters of the Arkansas river
swept down upon South Canon, a
suburb, and the lower part of Canon
City, Colo, leaving nearly a score of
families homeless and causing $780,
600 damage.
A Sault Ste Marie (Mich.) dispatch
says freight passing through the
American and Canadian canals during
July totaled approximately 100000
tons less than for the same month last
year.
A wage reduction affecting 1900
employees of the General Electric
company's plant at Lynn, Mass. was
announced. The cut will vary In
amount with the several classes of
employees.
Plymouth Rock, for three centuries
a, landmark of American freedom, was
rededicated by President Harding at
plymouth, Mass, as symbol of real
human brotherhood" for all the world.
Iowa's population in 1920 was 1913
Z per cent native white and 9.4 foreign