Williams news., 1921-05-20
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RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
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WESTERN
Cwes,ern Newspaper Union News service)

WESTERN
 Branches Of the Knights of the KI
 Klux Klan are being organized in Mis-
 sOuri, Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa, Mime
 sota and North and South Dakota
 Madge Anne Sawyer. accused of thu
 staying of her husband, was acquitted
 by jury in less than one minute a | Seattle Wash. It was her second trial
 the first having resulted in her con | victiOn of murder in the second de
 gree.
 A new kind of "crop'' was unearthed
 near Idaho Falls, Idaho, when deputy
 sheriffs dug twenty-four gallons ot | "mOonShine" out of plOwed field near the city. The fields owner pro- tests ignorance and innocence of how
 it was planted"
 Clara Smith Hamon, acquitted of i the murder of Jake l.. Hamon, Okla homa oil king and Republican pOliti- | clan, has agreed to $10,O0O settlement
 of her claim to a share of Hamon's $S,-
 100000 estate, according to informa- ton from authentic sources
 Sixteen hundred and fifty-one sen iors, comprising the largest class ever graduated from any university in the | world, received their diplomas and
 were awarded degrees and honors at the annual commencement exercises
 of the University of California in the Greek theater in Oakland.
 Production of an alleged German
 made film in a Los Angeles theater
 was stopped by the management after . crowd, including about a 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
 Four thousands pounds of ammuni- ton were seized and the engine crew on the Mexican Central passenger train which left Juarez was arrested near Chihuahua City, according to Rafael D. Davfla, commander of customs guards in Chihuahua. The ammunition, MT. 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 Townsend bill for the establish ment of post-road and interstate highway system, and the creation of a federal highway commission, has been introduced in the Senate, and hearings on it are to be held soon. This measure differs from the original Townsend bill in several particulars, l and it recognizes the federal aid prin- l ciple, but with reservations.
 The export trade of the big packers | slumped $526, 100000 during the last | year, Thomas E. Wilson of Wilson & | Go. told the House agriculture commit l 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 l In exports resulted in Aoss to the | livestock raisers of $45O,OOO,OOO. 'In the year 1920 there was exported from the United States 2OO,OOO,OOO fewer pounds of meat products than during the previous year," he said. 'It was this decrease that caused the lower prices to the producer"
 Reform organizations of various kinds have disclaimed the percentage of an anti-tobacco drive which got some attention in Washington recent ly. There was a question of just who was sponsoring it, but news of the ar rival of the movement in the capital much alarm in many quarters.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- @ & Pacific Railway Company in Mon -ana permission to increase its passen- ger and excess baggage rates to the evel in effect in interstate commerce -ariffs to be filed upon five days no ice. The carrier is an electric road and on that account was omitted from he last rate order issued by the com mission.
 William H. 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- 'titute of Agriculture at Rome, the De- l oartment of Agriculture announced. The appointment fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dean T. 2. Hunt, president of the California l State Agricultural College.
 The War Department stacker lists as ssued from time to tfme will be pub ished in the Congressional Record. Re l Iuest for such publication was made in | ( he House by Representative Johnson, t South Dakota, a former 'ervfce man, and there was no obtec- ! ion.
 The national geographic board voted unanimously to retain the name Mount | Rainier for the peak in Washington 6 tate that has been so known for 19O ( no A1 FA <