The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-14
CONDENSED REC coRD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERlNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN
Harry Leroy Parker, Derby, Iowa, a
student at the State University at Iowa
City, Iowa, was drowned while canoe
ing on the Iowa river. The body was
recovered an hour later.
A new kind of "crop" was unearthed
near Idaho Falls, Idaho, when deputy
sheriffs dug twenty-four gallons of
!"moonshine" out of plowed field
near the city. The fields owner pro-
tests ignorance and innocence of how
1t was planted"
Production of an alleged German
made film in Los Angeles theater
was stopped by the management after
crowd, including about score of
sailors, had attempted to force an en-
trance to the building, protesting
against the performance. The sailors
were stopped by a squad of police
Three women and two men were Sc
riously injured in an explosion that
wrecked a cleaning establishment at
st. Louis The police are investigating
report that the blast was caused by
bomb. William Allen of Des Moines,
Iowa, was the most severely injured.
He suffered a fracture of the left arm
and right hip.
Four thousands pounds of ammuni-
tion were seized and the engine crew
on the Mexican Central passenger train
which left Juarez was arrested near
Chihuahua City, according to Rafael
d. Davila, commander of customs
guards in Chihuahua. The ammunition,
Mr. Davila said he had been privately
informed, was intended for rebels in
central chihuahua. The ammunition
was hidden in the tender of the engine
under the coal, he said.
WASHINGTON
The War Department Stacker lists as
issued from time to time Will be pub
lished in the Congressional Record. Re
quest for such publication was made In
the House by Representative Johnson
Republican, South Dakota, a former
service man, and there was no objec
ton.
Reform organizations of various
kinds have dsclaimed the parentage
of an anti-tobacco drive which goi
some attention in Washington recent
iy. There was a question of just who
was sponsoring it, but news of the ar
rival of the movement in the capita
caused much alarm in many quarters
The Townsend bill for the establish
ment of p0st-rOad and interstate
highway system, and the creation OF
federal highway commission, has
been introduced in the Senate, ant
hearings on it are to be held soon. This
measure differs from the Origina
Townsend bill in several particulars
and it recognizes the federal aid prin
ciple, but with reservations.
A bill said to be designed to carry
out President Harding's desires fol
the curbing of demands from execu
tive departments for deficiency appro
rriations has been introduced in the
House. 1t would create board II
which the chairman of the House
and Senate appropriations committee
would sit, to pass on applications fol
deficiency appropriations before they
could be transmitted to Congress.
Between 100000 and 6,000,0OC
pounds of wool will be sold by the Wal
Department at public auction to be
held in Boston about May 20, Secretary
Weeks has announced. Additional
sales may be authorized if the first are
satisfactory to reduce the SOOO0,Oo
pounds the army has on nand.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has granted the Butte, Anaconda
& Pacific Railway Company in Mon
tana permission to increase its passen
ger and excess baggage rates to the
level in effect in interstate commerce
tariffs to be filed upon five days no
tice. The carrier is an electric roao
and on that account was omitted from
the last rate order issued by the com
mission.
William Fl. Stevenson, vice director
of the experiment station of the Iowa
State Agricultural College, has been
named permanent delegation of the
United States to the international In
stitute of Agriculture at Rome, the De
partment of Agriculture announced
The appointment fills the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Dean L
F. Hunt, president of the California
State Agricultural College.
Twenty million acres of arid lands
In the West could be reclaimed under
the McNary bill to develop homestead
ing projects through federal aid, Il. +
p,o;na of Seattle. chairman of the