Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-08-25
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Large sums will be spent immedi-
ately in the United States for cereals
and other foods, soon to be shipped
TO soviet Russia by the American re
lief administration, under plans an
nounced at Washington by Secretary
Hoover.
The Townsend bill, appropriating
S7b,OOO,000 for federal aid In construc-
ton and development of good roads,
was passed by the United States SEN
ate by a viva voce vote, % to %. 1t
now goes to conference, where an
agreement with the house is expected
before congress recesses.
The National Federation Of Bust
ness and Professional Women's Clubs,
Inc, representing 10000 women in 4S
states, has wired President Harding
requesting him to appoint a business
woman on the commission to repre-
sent the United States at the coming
international disarmament conference.
William j. Burns Of New York, head
Of the Burns Detective agency, was
appointed by Attorney General Daugh-
erty as director Of the bureau Of in
yestigation Of the Department Of JUS
t1ce.
The decrease of over $3,0OO.OOO,OOO
In the value of the country's foreign
trade during the last fiscal year was
ascribed by the Commerce department
at Washington to the worldwide trade
depression coming as an aftermath
Of the war,
Samuel Tilden Ansell, former acting
judge advocate general of the army
and of the prisoners legal counsel;
Col. John 3. Hunt, and Col. G. @. Cres-
son were charged with conspiracy in
connection with the escape Of Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft evader,
In report signed by three Of the five
members of special investigating
committee. Aled with the house at
Washington. A minority report held,
however, that there was no testimony
to support the charge that Ansell
"conspired to effectuate the prison
er's escape"
The bill providing for federal regu-
lation of the meat-packing industry
has been signed by President Harding,
1t is announced at the White House
in Washington. Under the law broad
powers of control and supervision of
the industry are given the secretary
Of agriculture.
There are no serious obstacles In
the way of the informal negotiations
for q peace treaty with Germany,
which are now being carried on in
Berlin by American Commissioner
Dresel the State department an
nounced at Washington.
The unemployment has reached
such proportions that it constitutes
grave menace to the nation unless
checked before winter sets in, admin
istration officials assert. Aroused by
the report Of Secretary of Labor Da-
Wis, that there are 5,735,0OO unem-
ployed in the United States, cabinet
officials have begun consideration of
measures to alleviate this condition.
The administration bill, giving the
War Finance corporation authority to
\ extend S50O,000OO0 credits to the rail-
roads was ordered favorably reported
by the senate interstate commerce
committee by vote of to 2.
Domestic
strike vote" conference of rail-
road labor leaders will be held at Chi
cago beginning Monday, August 90.
The union chiefs, at this conference,
will decide on the attitude of union
rail labor toward acceptance of wage
cuts and abolition of overtime pay as
ordered July 1 by the railroad labor
board.
Mrs, Fiji Potter Stillman, visiting
at the Harold It. Mccormick home in
Lake Forest, ILL.,, is under guard fol-
lowing revelations of an alleged plot
to murder her for S250,O0O.
bud" Bridgens of Chicago was in
stantly killed when his parachute
failed to open after he leaped from an
airplane at Rockford, Ill. Bridgens
was practicing for an aerial circus.
George L. Flanagan, advertising
manager of the Chicago Herald and
Examiner. was drowned at Diamond
lake, near Cassopolis, Mich, when a
rowboat overturned.
William Fl. Jennings of Chicago was