The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-02
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
Cwestern Newspaper Union News ser,ice.l )
WESTERN

NNeSIeFn NeHspdpeT OulOu NEWS
 WESTERN
 Patrick Hurley, A, choked to death in a restaurant in San Francisco when a piece of steak which he was eating became lodged in his throat.
 Jake Schaefer of San Francisco won a 4,000-point match at 1S.2 billiards from EdOuard Horemans, Belgian champion, at San Francisco, 4,000 to 2,352. He made new grand average record for the match and set a mark believed to be a new record for high total for three innings.
 Joseph Alexander is being held at San Antonio, Texas on a charge of al- legged attempt to smuggle ammunition and firearms into Mexico following the seizure of 10000 rounds of ammu hilton and 15,000 pistols, said to be the largest amount of seized ammuni- tion to come into NAe hands of the de partment of justice.
 Rev. Guy Kyle was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment and fined $3,000 in Federal Court at St. Louis when he pleaded guilty of rob ping the mails of $1S9,000. Loren Williamson, partner in a garage busi- ness at Mount Vernon, H., was found guilty by 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 the 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. number 307,681, and show a loss of 7,402 in the ten years, while Canadians of other origin num- Der 809,4 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 $526,OOOOOO during the last year, Thomas B. Wilson of Wilson & Go. told the House agriculture commit tee in opposing packer control legisla- tion. Meat producers, he declared, re- ceive ST 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,OOO,O00. "In the year 1920 there was exported from the United States 1,200,000,O00 fewer pounds of meat products than during the previous year," he said. "It 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 amendments by the House commerce committee.
 Uncle Sam has $83,OOOOOO 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,68O,427 of the $220, ,2S6,765 estimated by department heads as necessary in deficiency ap- propriations to run the government for the year ending July 1, the house ap-i propriations committee completed the second and final deficiency appropria- 'tion bill for the fiscal year 1921.
 heSOluIlOuS OI IHe hdWdlldn Legs 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 committee. They pro- posed that alien immigrants admitted should not exceed 9 per cent of the total insular population, a restriction designed, it was understood, to ex- clude Japanese.