The Dolores star., 1921-12-23
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Sr-,psp-r Unioo Sss, ssr,io-
WESTERN

Four lumbermen lost their lives
when the automobile in which they
were travelling crashed through an
open drawbridge at Aberdeen, Wash.
One bandit was slain. another prob
ably fatally wounded and third es
capped as they were leaving the Cardin
State Bank at Tar River, Okla. after
robbing the bank of 5000 in cash.
Miss Jeanne Lemore. 26, shot and
instantly killed Ras Cooksey, 40, a ne
gro. in the federal building at Dallas,
Texas, when he attempted to attack
her in the women's rest room Of the
building
Jack Howard, the convict who shot
and killed Tom Slaughter, leader in
the spectacular prison delivery at Lit
tie Rock. Ark, has been arrested by
Sheriff J. J. Crow and taken back
from Benton to stand trial.
Mrs. Elias Michael and Mrs. f. II.
Steedman of st. Louis are the first
women directors of bank. Their
names are contained in the list of di-
rectorate of the Security National
Bank Savings and Trust Company, an
nounced recently. The bank opened
Dec. 20.
A fight with an enraged HOlstein
bull came near to being fatal to W. II.
Baker, farmer OF Bridger, Wyo., who is
nursing numerous bruises, sprained
ankle and a sprained hand as result
thereof The animals horns also
punctured his hip and loosened two
of his teeth. Exhausted, he was lying
on the ground with the bull standing
over him when his wife and C. l..
Drefson, n neighbor, came to his res
cue.
Portland has accomplished the first
step in plans for holding a world fair
in Reimbursement by the voters of
S2,OOo,n20 tax levy to be spread over
three years-and attention IL now di-
rected to the second effort in the H.
nancing of the project, approval by the
people of the state of a S3OOO,OOO tax,
which, added to the amount Portland
will raise and S1,OOOO0O to he obtained
by public subscription, will complete
the financing.
WASHINGTON
Representative hoOTe, democrat,
Virginia, announced he would offer an
amendment to the Walsh judicial bill
limiting the activities of federal
judges to judicial duties. Such an
amendment would prevent Judge Ian
dis from acting as baseball commits
sioner without resigning the judge
ship.
Thirteen recommendations, includ-
ing legalization of cooperative mar
keting combinations. lowering of
freight rates on agricultural products
and establishment of agricultural at
taches in European capitals, are set
forth in report of the Joint congress
sional commission of agricultural in
quiry filed in the Senate.
Prohibition Commissioner HAYNES
announced that he will seek Jail terms
for brewers who violate the volstead
law. The commissioner stated that
he has instructed his counsel to in
stitute proceedings against several
breweries in eastern Pennsylvania and
to ask the courts to inflict maximum
penalties, including Jail sentences.
One of the men rescued from the
submarine S-4S, which sank in Long
Island Sound, charged that some per
son or persons at the plant of the
Lake Torpedo Boat Company blum
dered in not properly clamping the
lid of a manhole and that the sub
merging OF the boat was followed by
an thrush of water. As a result fifty
one men faced death for eleven hours
The House ways and means com
mittee with the tariff and tax revision
off its hands for the present will take
up the soldier bonus question mmedi-
ately after the Christmas recess
Chairman Fordney announced that the
committees first order Of business for
the new year would be consideration
of adjusted compensation legislation
Funding Of the S11 900 100000 debt
owed the United States by foreign
governments into obligations maturing
not later than June Is, 194T, and bear
ing interest at not less than per cent
would be authorized under the funding
bill as approved by the senate finance
committee. Interest on the new obli-
cations would be paid semi annually
and the minimum rate which would be
permitted-5 per CENTS the rate on
the existing obligations.
Celebration of the 169th Masonic
birthday of George Washington by the
Masonic clubs of the District of Co
lumbia, recently, was made memora-
BILE by the presentation of the Bible
on which Washington took the oath as
4 member of the fraternity This vol
ume is more than IT'S years old
Around $500 employees of the War
Risk Insurance Bureau, now known
as the U. 8. Veterans Bureau, will
shortly be transferred to different
ones Of the thirteen outlying districts
of the organization or be dismissed