The St. Johns herald., 1921-05-12
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WESTERN
(Westsrn Ne1UaDsr Union News service.l )

WESTERN
 Francis Nj. Goodwin of Spokane, Washington, has been nominated by President Harding to be assistant sec retary of the interior.
 "He spanked me so hard that for a long time couldn't sit down." testified Mrs. Irene Gerstad, known on the screen as Irene DeVoss. She was granted a divorce in Los Angeles from Harry W. Gerstad, wielder of the hefty palm. ID addition, Gerstad, a motion picture camera-man, was ordered to pay her $50 a week.
 Dancing in the cafes of San Fran cisco's once-famed uptown tenderlOin ceases May by an order promulgated by the police commission. The order forbidS further dancing in the Pup and Black Cat cafes, the last two of a score of establishments in the once-nOted diStIict, and leaves only a few resorts, all in the Barbary Coast, where dane ing is permitted.
 SdAl 4NOA AulohlC1s 4O , yCdlS O4u anu eAAl orphan, was found asphyxiated in his room in San Francisco. The police version of his death was that he lost his life through his devotion to art. Lacking the prepared charcoal which artists use for drawings, he apparently had been charring in gas jet splinterS of wood to finish a drawing which was found uncOmpleted in the room, but had retired without turning the jet en- tirely off
 Tagged for a journey of several thousand miles by boat and rail, Tommy Bradford, g, and his sister, Margie, 5, are on their way to theiI father in Calgary, Alberta. They were shipped by the prosecuting attorney of Seattle, Wash. Held as security for a board bill, according to information reaching the prosecutor from the father and the American consul at Calgary, the children had been with Mrs. Fl. E. Sloan at Roy since she brought them from Calgary last sum- mer. Mrs. Sloan gave them up as soon as an officer called. A collection was taken up to aid the children in their Journey.
 WASHINGTON
 Secretary Denby has asked for $25,- 900 for use in obtaining historical pictorial record of the American fleet in foreign waters during the war Should the money be provided, the secretary said, Burnell Poole, an artist would be engaged to do the work.
 By direction of President Harding the federal reserve board has under taken a special inquiry into the prob. lem of deflating industrial values with out serious injury to the agricultural interests. It is understood that some steps to aid agriculture in connection with the deflatiOn trend may be taken by the board in the near future.
 After having reposed with moth balls for a number of years, the principal articles of dress uniform formerly wOrE in the navy have been restored to ust by an order of Secretary Denby. 1 authorizes the wearing, on stated occa sions, of the frock coat, full dress trousers, cooked hat, dress sword anG sword belt and epaulets. Special fhl dress dinner dress and mess dress uni forms were not restored.
 The House Judiciary committed ordered a favorable report on the Vol stead bill permitting organization by farmers, ranchmen, dairymen and fFuit growers for purposes of collective marketing The secretary of agricul ture would have supervisory powers.
 A brigade of railroad artillery" Ina: been sent to the Hawaiian islands fol the better protection of that distant post. This force has in large part al ready arrived and as its name Endi cates, is intended for instant mobtliza tion in case of emergency. The esreat problem of the army so far as the island of Oahu and Pearl Harbor art concerned is to safeguard them iron sudden attack in the event of war.
 A vacation trip to the Pacific coas . for President Harding late this fall is being urged by some of his friends, ant is understood to be receiving favorable |. consideration. The President is saiC to have indicated that if he finds op portunity for a vacation this v Gar ht will spend it in the Northwest The : northwestern trip first was suggested as part of trip to Alaska, but it ha: been indicated that the President has little hope of getting that far away dur ing the present summer.