The Holbrook news., 1921-05-27
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
,w..,.,0 S.v,D,D., Union New, Service,


 in restaurant in San Francisco when a piece of steak which he was eating became lodged in his throat.
 Jake Schaefer of San Francisco won 4,OOO-point match at 1S.2 billiards from Edouard Horemans, Belgian champion, at San Francisco, 1000 to 2,352. He made new grand average record for the match and set a mark believed to be new record for high total for three innings
 Joseph Alexander is being held at San Antonio, Texas, on charge of al Ieged attempt to smuggle ammunition and firearms into Mexico following the seizure of 10000 rounds of ammu- milton and 15,00O pistols, said to be the largest amount of seized ammuni- ton to come into the hanGs of the de partlnent of justice.
 Rev Guy Kyle was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment and fined $3,OOO in Federal Court at St. Louis when he pleaded guilty of rob ping the mails of S189,OOO. Loren Williamson, partner in a garage busi- ness at Mount Vernon, H., was found guilty by a jury previously and given the same sentence.
 The board Of bishops of the Metho- dist Episcopal church discussed at Portland, Ore, session courses of study for Methodist ministers. Twen- ty-two bishops from all parts of the United States attended the meeting. The problem of finding enough men to fill up the ranks of the ministry is on the program. Washington, D. C., was selected as the next meeting place and October 26th was fixed as the date.
 The number of Canadians resident in the United States during 'fhe last ten years has decreased by S7,501, compared with an increase of 27,000 in the previous decade, according to sta- tistics just given out by the United States census bureau. The report gives the total number of Canadians in the United States as 1,117, ,136 French-Canadians number BOT ,6S1, and show a loss of 7,4O2 in the ten years, while Canadians of other origin num- Der SO9,455 and show loss of 10,O99 WASHINGTON
 Chief Justice White of the United States supreme court is recovering from a minor operation. The an nouncement followed the non-appear- ance of the chief justice in the su- preme court.
 The export trade of the big packers slumped S526,OOO,OOO during the last year, Thomas E. Wilson of Wilson & Co. told the House agriculture commit tee in opposing packer control legisla- tion. Meat producers, he declared, re- ceive S7 cents of each dollar the pack CTS receive for meat and the decrease in exports resulted in a loss to the livestock raisers of $450,OOOOOO. "In the year 1920 there was exported from the United States 1,2OO,O00,OOO fewer pounds of meat products than during the previous year." he said. Tt was this decrease that caused the lower prices to the producer"
 The Senate bill authorizing presi- dential control over cable landings was ordered favorably reported without
  committee.
 Uncle Sam has $SS,OO0OOO of some peoples money waiting in the treasury for them to come and get it, according to the latest official figures of out standing temporary Liberty bonds
 Allowing but S1Oo,6sO, ,427 of the $22O. .2S6,765 estimated by department heads as necessary in deficiency ap- propriations to run the government for the year ending July l, the house ap- propriations committee completed the second and final deficiency appropria- tion bill for the fiscal year 1921.
 Resolutions of the Hawaiian Legis- lature requesting legislation by Con- gress to. permit immigration of suffi- cient persons to remedy an acute la bor shortage" in the islands have been presented to the Senate and referred to the territories committed They pro- posed that alien immigrants admitted should not exceed 9 per cent of the total insular population, restriction designed, it was understood, to ex- clude Japanese.
 Establishment of noncOtton zones in pink boil worm infected areas in west Texas and New Mexico was recon- mended to Secretary Wallace by the conference of representatives from the cotton growing states, who met in Washington to devise the best meth ods of stamping out the menace to the cotton crop.
 An army of 175,OOO men has been decided on by the senate military af- fairs subcommittee considering the army appropriation bill. The measure as passed by the house, provided for an army of 10000.
 House leaders have decided to turn deaf ear to pleas for passage at this session of a rivers and harbors bill. Representative Mondell, Republican leader, announced that in the inter- ests of economy no new authorization for river Improvements would be voted.
 D The national geographic board voted unanimously to retain the name Mount Rainier for the peak in Washington state that has been so known for 13O years. A proposal to change it to