Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-04

WESTERN
Intoxicated hogs so interested Tex
arkana, Texas, police officers and fed
eral enforcement agents that an inves-
tlgation resulted In the finding OF II
still on farm two miles from the city.
Mrs. Antoine Gasici, 26 years old,
was held up, beaten and robbed of 81
0l8 by three bandits, who accosted her
at n busy South Side business corner
in st. Louis. She was taking the
money to her husbands soft drink par.
lor when assaulted.
A demand for hair bleach among
young men In Oakland looking for
jobs, has been predicted. II. $. Nc
Cormack, New York business psy-
chologist," told the Oakland Ad Club
luncheon that blond men think faster
than their dark-halred brothers.
Raymond Burnette Pease, professor
of English at the University of Wyo-
ming. who has been on years abb
sence, doing special work at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin at Madison. has
rendered his resignation to the trus-
tees and president of the university
here and will not return to Laramie.
A bill providing for II special poll
tax of SO annually on all bachelors re-
siding In Montana was passed by the
Senate. 1t now goes to the governor.
A Senate committee amendment to
make the law applicable also to spin
sters was killed by the Senate. The
proceeds of the tax would he paid into
the widows pension fund.
Warren Frederick Lewis, associate
editor of 1.-THE Cardinal" of Stanford
University, was elected president of
the Western Intercollegiate Press AS
sociation at its concluding meeting at
Salt Lake. ]. S. Rietsoper, editor of
the Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colo
RADIO, was elected vice president.
Stanford University was selected as
the place for the 1922 meeting.
Formation OF "Forty-elght Hour
Per Week League" was announced at
Fresno, Calf, following the annual
meeting of the Pacific Const Employ
ing Printers and Allied Trades Coun-
ell. Announcement was made the
league will launch an "open shop
campaign In the printing industry aft
er May 1 II the unions continue to
make demands for forty-four-hour
week.
WASHINGTON
Rear Admiral Cary r. Grayson,
President Wilson's personal physician,
was ordered by the Navy Department
to duty as officer in charge of the
naval dispensary in Washington.
The United States marines who raid
ed newspaper office at Mangua, Mic
aragua, have been found guilty by
court-martial and have been given SEN
tences of two years and dishonorable
discharge, the Navy Department was
Informed In message from Rear Ad-
mral ii. /. Bryan. The men all plead
ed guilty, the message said. The rated
men also were reduced.
Work In some government depart
ments moves so leisurely that girl en-
ployes have been known to make their
trousseaus during working hours"
the Senate was told by Senator Smoot,
Republican. of Utah. The senator said
he personally had investigated the sit
uation in the offices. why" he add
ed, ut has got so that when start
for an office word is telephoned ahead
that Senator Smoot Is coming and for
everyone to get busy on their type
writer's"
Official figures compiled by the
American Automobile Association in
dicate that there were 9,1S0,3l6 pas
senger and commercial motor vehicles
registered in the United States during
1920, of which approximately S,234, 400
were for passenger use and about e45,-
S26 were commercially employed. Dur
Ing the same period 2T1, ,230 motorcy-
cles were also registered The total
receipts from registrations amounted
to 800, ,141 ,097.
Agitation against infected shaving
brushes has resulted in virtually para.
lying the Japanese brlstle industry,
and, that the government Is taking
steps to open national disinfection
office at Kobe to remedy the situation
the Department of Commerce was in
formed from Toxic. Anthrax is dis.
ease usually peculiar to cattle, ad
vices to the department said, and has
been widely distributed through I'm
properly sterilized brushes
Washington. - The population OF
Petrograd and Moscow In soviet Rus
sia has greatly decreased, according to
Russian newspaper dispatches to the
State Department in Washington. The
population of Petrograd is 100000, II
per cent less than in 1917, and in Mos
COW the population has dropped to l.
O15,OOO, about 80 per cent less.
The Senate provision of $4,000, ,O00
In the agriculture appropriation bill
for the purchase of seed grain for
farmers in drought stricken areas OF