Cheyenne record., 1921-02-10
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES.
i'm LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN
western N..p.p.r u.lon s.-, serio..)

WOIldH III Otdn lOT HaNihS h4uoA ~
her. possession was meted out to Mrs.
G. r. Jones, proprietor of rooming
house, when Judge Fred Crockett of
the Municipal Court in Salt Lake SEN
fenced her to six months imprison-
ment with the option Of fine.
An arson plot to destroy the Long
Beach auditorium and which, IL sue
| cessful, might have caused. the death
of many persons who We're attending
the home products exhibition, was re-
| vealed by Los Angeles authorities. Ac-
cording to police, there were 1000 per-
sons in the building at the time the
plot was discovered.
Des Moines, Iowa, has raised $751;
GAO for entertainment of the Imperial
| Conclave Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine,
June IA, 10 and 16, the first day OF the
solicitation. Business men pledged
$4,000, Sea-GazZig temple added $685.
900 and individual Shriners contributed
an additional $12,64O. Sea-Ga-zig tenn
pie plans total fund of $125,OOO.
Because it was charged, newspaper
men abused privileges accorded them
for obtaining news in the Mare Island
navy yard ut Vallejo, Calf, an execu-
tive order has been issued reviving war
time provision for news censorship at
the island. Correspondents must sub
nit their news stories to the command
ants office for approval before pub
| licatiOn.
Charles Leslie Bune, grain sam
pier employed by n milling and eleva-
tor company in Ogden, Utah, is dead
and Ward A. Dunn, an electrician, is in
serious condition from the effects of
gas, caused, it is said, by the fermen-
tation of moist grain in an elevator.
Bune toppled over shortly after he
went for Ssample and Dunn collapsed
in trying to drag Bune from the dam
ger spot.
l.. w. BOehmer of Malvern, Iowa,
wealthy citizen convicted in the Fed
eral Court at Council Bluffs, Ia, of in
terfering with the draft law and at
tacking the Red Cross, and whose sem
tence of three years was recently COM
muted by President Wilson to one year
and one day, is given thirty days in
which to put his house in order in n
mandate received at the Federal Court.
At the end of that time BOehmer Is di-
rected to report to the United States
marshal for the southern Iowa district
and will be taken to the federal prison
at Fort LeavenwOrth.
WASHINGTON
The joint resolutions directing the
stopping of enlistments until the regu-
lar army is reduced to 175,OOO men was
passed by the House over President
| Wilson's veto. The vote was 2I1 to 16.
Staunch defense of the work accomp-
lished by the American liquidation
commission in disposing of millions of
dollars of war supplies to France and
other European governments after the
armistice was made by Edwin B..
Parker, New York lawyer. former
chairman of the board, in testifying
before the House committee, investi-
eating the conduct Of the war
The Treasury Departments inability
to collect either principal or interest
on the $1O,O0O,OOO 900 loaned to the al
lied governments has stirred the Sen
ate to demand n strict accounting of
the vast sums advanced to foreign
countries, along with information
about the prospects of getting some of
it back.
American steam locomotives export
ed last year totaled LII and were val
ued at $53,629, SAT, the federal trade
commission has announced. This was
an increase of $50 locomotives over
| D,e &ho ri 70; ~,
and Germany controlled the European
locomotive market, but recently the
United States has been the only coun-
try prepared to ship locomotives in
quantity"
Railway owners and workers are
verging on wage fight that may
throw the roads back under govern
ment control. Labor heads, including
Samuel Gompers, fear q strike If the
railroad labor board at Chicago grants
demands of the managers for wage re-
ductions. 1.-The railroad workers will
resist to the bitter end." warned Will
liam l.. Johnston, head of the Interna-
tional Association Of Machinists.
Turning sharply upon House war in
vestigating committees rs whole,
Charles G. Dawes, former head OF the
army supply procurement service in
France, told one of them that the val
ue of their work had been rendered
useless through injection of partisan
politics.
Benefits of vocational training for
the rehabilitation q disabled soldiers
would be extended to Americans who
served in the allied armies. and to the
widows and children of deceased SOL
diers, under bill passed by the Sen
ate.