The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-07-07
CLIPPINGS

President Harding took a hand in
the legislative program last week in
an effort to speed up enactment of
tariff and tax legislation by calling
Chairman FOrdney of the house ways
and means committee to discuss the
possibilities of early passage of such
laws
Selling orders from a mysterious
source last week forced the price of
stocks on the New York stock ex-
change down to the lowest level since
the peace break in 1917. The shrink
age in stock value mounted into bill
lions of dollars. All classes of secur-
tiles were hammered relentlessly.
10000
Masses of early Artic ice last Aug
ust locked in a rigid grip the vessel
Maude, on which Amundsen, discover
er of the South Pole, hoped to drift
past the North Pole and a terrific
storm swept the ship ashore and
smashed her propeller; the explorer
reported at Nome, Alaska, last week.
10000
Additional beds numbering 1900
at seven rehabilitation centers- will
be provided for former soldiers by a
program of new construction and ex-
. tension approved recently by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mellon.
10000
The American Federation of Labor
convention went on record as favor
ing total exclusion TO japanese and
other orientals from the United
States. The "gentleman's agree
ment" with Japan was called a fail
ure
A great cholera plague which has
already caused many deaths, is rag
ing in Southeastern Russia. Huge
swarms of flies and gnats are spread
ing the disease.
First annual convention of the Dis
abled American Veterans of the
World War was opened in Detroit on
June 81. A blind hero, Michael Aar-
onson, rabbi and student of the Heb
rev Union college in Cincinnati, de-
livered the invocation at the first
days session.
The senate has accepted the pro-
posal of the house cOnferees for re
duction of the army to 100000 en-
listed men by October l, already ap-
proved by the house.
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Japan has decided to yield ground |
to the United States, not only in the |
disputes over zap Island, but in other
questions involving Shnatung PENN
sula and Manchuria, reports the Toxic /
correspondent of a Paris newspaper
He said that japan knows she will
get aid from neither France nor Eng |
land in an encounter with the United |
States.
10000
Two of the leading fiiers of the
army air service, Captain Howard T.
Douglas and Lieutenant Marl j.
Plumb, were drowned in Chesapeake
bay last week after a collision of /
their planes in the course of bomb /
ing raid directed at the hulk of the
old battleship San Marcos off Tangier
Island.
Two miners, both foreigners, are
dead and others were severely in
iured as a result of burns suffered
during a terrific explosion of the
Knickerbocker colliery of the Phila-
delphia & Reading Coal and Iron
Co. at Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
10000
President Harding is understood to
have chosen as ambassador to Japan
a man whose name has not been men
toned in public discussion of possible
appointees.
The nationwide strike of the at
filiated marine unions called May l
has been declared at an end. A vote
showed the men in favor of return
ing to work without an agreement
with the owners.
10000
After curving along the Texas
coast for more than 200 miles, from
the mouth of the Rio Grande to Port
Arthur, the gulf hurricane which
ragged for two days passed inland,
leaving comparatively little damage
in its path
10000
John C. Rooms soeciaI assistaD1 tol