Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-10-06
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
Washington

Washington
The interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington announced tenta-
tive plans for the consolidation of all
major railroads Of the United States
into 10 systems, and gave notice that
hearings would be called on the
project in the near future.
Democratic opposition to the Ger
man, Austrian and Hungarian peace
treaties is such that the Republican
leaders at Washington decided to lay
the treaties aside temporarily to Or
ganize a drive for ratification.
Aversion of labor to accepting work
at reduced wages was assigned as a
cause of some unemployment by Ros-
well F. Phelps, director Of labor statis-
tics, the first witness heard by the
national employment conference at
Washington.
Idle freight cars on American rail-
roads numbered 17,267 less on Sep
TENDER Is than they did one week pre-
viously, the Association Of Railway Ex-
ecutives at Washington reported.
Approximately $1,000 100000 was
paid bootleggers and rum-runners for
whisky, wines and home-distilled
liquor last year, it is indicated by
records Of the internal revenue bu-
reau and the prohibition unit at
Washington.
The railroads cannot be operated
efficiently and economically while they
are controlled by two distinct govern
mental agencies, according to Repre-
sentative Sydney Anderson of Mime
sofa at Washington.
Chief Justice Taft, after a summer
vacation in Canada, arrived in Wash
ington, preparatory to the converting
of the Supreme court, October 8, for
Its fall term.
The anti-beer bill in the senate
was showed into the parliamentary
pigeonhole by the combined pressure
for ratification of peace treaties and
the passage of the tax bill.
Domestic
Claude Sharrar, carpenter shot and
killed his wife and then killed him
self at Hereford, Colo. Two Of their
four small children witnessed the
tragedy.
Sheriff SiZemore and deputies To-
Gated and destroyed four mash watts
and two large stills in Hunter town
ship, near the Indiana line at Paris,
Ill. 1t is believed the two plants have
been working for two years.
Craig Sheban, member of promi-
nent Georgia family, concentrated
on the charge of evading provisions
of the draft law, was found guilty and
sentenced to serve year at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ga.
Frequent fits of ungovernable tenn
per, during which her husband slapped
her face and once wrenched her wrist,
are the grounds upon which Mrs. Ell
vira M. Dewey asks divorce from
Chauncey Dewey of Chicago.
-Four school children were killed al
Kingston, Mass, when trolley pole
came off a car which was carrying
them to their homes, broke the feed
wire and caused their electrocution.
Two men lost their lives when the
submarine R-6 sank in San Pedro
CAL, harbor, it was officially an.
nounced by Rear Admiral Herman o
Stickney, commander Of the Pacific
fleet.
Within two hours Tilman Montgom
cry, negro, charged with an attack or
q young white woman at Inverness
lGuT 1hlSS., was lAulSlCd
tried, found guilty by jury and sen
| fenced to be hanged.
The number of men out of employ
ment in Iowa is decreasing, according
to A. L. Urick, state labor commits
sioner. Building operations and gen
eral construction are on the increase
he states.
A campaign to obtain national ant
state legislation removing political
civil and legal Determinations agains
women has been launched at Wash
ington by the National Women's party
| The right of the United States rail
way labor board to 'invade the domain
of management" is challenged in {
statement presented to the board a
Chicago by the Pennsylvania system