The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-04


ganized with an agreement to burn
corn this coming winter instead OF
coal, on account of the difference in
price between these two commodities.
Four armed bandits robbed the HO-
dIamOnt Bank, just outside of st.
Louis. of 81. .180 Six employees and one
customer were compelled to lay face
downward while the men scooped the
money into sacks. The robbers es-
capped in an automobile
packing house employees OF Des
Moines, Iowa. voted to accept per
cent wage cut declared recently by the
packing companies. Officers Of the
Union said that there will be no strike
by the employees unless it is declared
by the national officers.
A twenty-year courtShip eliminated
In the marriage of William Coburn, 90
years DID, and Mrs. Edith r. Wood, 80,
In tle chapel of the Soldiers Home at
SwatelIe. suburb of Los Angeles.
Bride and bridegroom declared they
never felt younger
! c. MacSpadden, 81 years old, a
former partner OF John ID. ROckefel-
Ter in the oil business, and Minneap-
oils pioneer. died az N'ascO, Calf Mr..
MacSpadlen, who has devoted the last
few years OF his life to fruit ranches,
and eucalyptus groves in southern Cal
ifOrnia, was stricken with apOplexy
several days ago.
The body of John E. Tordiff, SO, a
repair shop owner, was found in his
shop at Globe, AriZ. His clothing had
caught in the machinery in such a
manner that he strangled to death. Of
eiciaIs said the machinery apparently
had frightened the clothing about his
neck and kept on running until the
gasoline which furnished the power
was exhausted.
Seventy-year-Old Carl Rueble, a re-
tired Iowa farmer, shot and slightly
wounded Mrs. Gabe OiesOn, the wife
Of neighbor and then turned the gun
on himself and committed suicide. Rue
bIe's attention to the 55-year-old wife
of his younger neighbOr has been the
subject of jest for some time Mrs.
OlesOn, according to her husband, paid
40 attention to his advances.
WASHINGTON
The governments annual report on
mortality statistics for 1920, soon TO be
issued. shows 1.142,578 deaths within
the death registration area, represent
eng a rate of 1871 per thousand, as
compared with 1919 In 1919 Fatalities
from automobile accidents and injuries
Increased from 94 to 10.4 per hundred
thousand.
The outlook is favorable for the
passage of the federal aid road bill by
Congress In time to help relieve un-
employment I'm the building Of high
ways. The amount asked, $100,000,O0O,
when doubled by like sum from the
states would go tong ways toward
helping out things. England has start
ed Il movement of this kind.
The War Department announced
that 1000 seats, about one-fifth of the
total seating capacity of the memorial
amphitheater, at Arlington Armistice
day had been reserved for gold star
mothers or other nearest relatives of
men who died in the World war. Not
more than two seats will be given any
application.
Director Dawes of the budget an
nOunced the creation of two addition
al boards which he declared would put
more business efficiency In govern
mental affairs and result In savings to
the government of several hundred
million dollars year. The new bod
les set up are the federal specifica-
lions and federal traffic boards.
A resolution by Senator Overman,
Democrat, North Carolina, adopted by
the Senate. directs the federal reserve
hoaEtf to report as to the salaries paid
by, reserve banks and other expenses
Of these banks. The resolution recited
that it had been charged that salaries
ia the New York bank had bees in
creased more than $1,OO0,OOO since the
war
The new revenue law to be enacted
next year to take the place of the one
which Congress will soon pass, will
contain the chief provisions of the
SmOat, sbill, providing for manufacture
ing or sales tax on commodities.
Agreement to this effect has been
reached among Senate leaders of the
eastern bloc. representing the indus
trial sections of the country.
Twenty million dollars annually is to
be expended for the next few years
IN the United States for American
rolling stock, machinery, rails and sup
plies In connection with the expansion
Of the South Manchuria railway, ac-
C0rding to Yozo Tamura, who is in
San Francisco from the Orient.
A petition filed in equity court by
the Commercial Solvents Company for
an injunction restraining the secretary
OF the treasury from releasing large
quantities of fusei oil held In Atlantic
coast custom warehouses has been dis
missed.