The Ordway new era., 1922-02-03
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, poINes, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.

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WESTERN
Women of Kenosha, Wis, cast
majority OF the ballots which changed
the aidermanlc form OF municipal gov
ernment TO the city manager plan oy
a majority Of ~ votes.
E. w. Robb, sherift-peacher 7f
Polk county, Iowa, has resigned a.
pastor Of the Federated church 10
avoid criticism when I execute Orrle
Gross and Eugene Weeks" Cross and
Weeks viii he hanged in April
The Pine lawn Bank, on the out
skirts OF St. Louis, was robbed OF s.
800 By three bandits VINO escaped in
an automobile. Three employes were
compelled to lay on the loor, face
downward, while the money was
scooped into 4 sack
Fire Of undetermined origin partly
destroyed the Turner building, one Of
the older business structures az Mus
Logee, Okla causing damage esti-
mated at $4,000 The Melton hotel
occupied a large part Of the building.
The clothing stock Of Max Davidson,
which is valued at $4,000, was de
stroyed.
Two women, giving their names as
Fay Foster and Marian Leonzal, were
taken from the blind baggage Of tie
Northern Pacific's easCJound North
Coast Limited az Forsyth Mont and
are being held In the Rosebud county
jail, pending advices from Seattle,
where IL IS said they are wanted In
connection with a big 5eweirT robbery.
WASHINGTON
Miss Garland johnson OF Bridge
port, W. Va, has just been awarded a
$4,000 university scholarship for hav-
ing written the best essay on Good
Roads and Highway Transport" The
contest was conducted by the good
roads and highway transport education
committee Of Washington, .. C., and
the contest was open to all high school
pupils.
The hope Of the late Henry Stead,
Australian publisher and Journalist,
that each nation touching on the Pa
eific ocean establish ministry Of
Friendship was conveyed TO Secre-
tary Hughes by Alexander Hume Ford,
director Of the Pan-Pacific Union. Mr..
Ford said the hope was expressed by
3lr. Stead in his last written message
Just prior 10 his death.
The treasury appropriation bill, the
first Of the annual appropriation meas
ures, was passed by the Senate, carry
ing 120,272,Oo0 as compared with
S11s, $4,000 authorized by the House.
Included was s9,2J000O for enforce
ment of prohibition and new proyi-
concentrate bonded liquor IN a few
warehouses, 10 save expense of guard
ing. The bill goes TO conference.
There is no parallel in the records
of the bureau Of markets and crop
estimates TO the fall Of S2L22, or 50
per cent in the average value an acre
OF the ten crops constituting nine
tenths Of all crop production, which
occurred in the two years from 1919
to 1921, it was announced by the De-
partment of Agriculture. The decline
was found by the department to have
been from S35.74 In 1919 10 S14.j2 in
1921.
President Harding will 90 before
Congress within few days with a
plan for the establishment Of an Amer
ican merchant marine subsidy, it was
stated at the White House by Chair
man Lasker Of the United States ship
ping board. Lasker conferred with the
President more than an hour concern
ing various plans for ship subsidy
and submitted the plans agreed upon
by the shipping board after consulta-
tion with various shipping interests.
Censorship or control by the federal
government over the motion picture in
dustry was urged upon a Senate ju-
dietary subcommittee by Rev William
8 Chase, Brooklyn pastor, who
brought into the discussion the name
Of Postmaster General Hays. The
hearing was on resolution introduced
by Senator Myers, Democrat, Mon
tana, proposing an investigation of the
motion picture Industry based on
charges that It has entered politics and
has passed within the control Of Lasky,
Fox, ZukOr, Laemmle and Loew, and
that its influence is to be exerted to
obtain the repeal of censorship laws
already enacted and prevent enact
ment Of further legislation to super
wise the pictures.
Exports of manufactures fell off by
$4,000, 100000, shipments out of the
country Of raw materials dropped by
nearly $1,000, 100000, and foodstuffs ex-
ports declined by about 100000, 600
during 1921, the Commerce Department
announced. Imports showed similar
declines in the various groups of com
modities.
Railroads and public utilities
throughout the country have been ad
vised by government officials to stock