, 1922-02-02
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE LIVE news
CONDENSED o OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FR0M ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoINGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News Seriee.)
WESTERN
Women of Kenosha, Wis, cast II
majority of the ballots which changed
the aldermanic form of municipal gov
rnmen to the city manager plan Dy
a majority of 772 votes.
e. w. Robb, sheriff-preacher of
Polk county, Iowa, has resigned as
pastor of the Federated church, "to
avoid criticism when l execute Orrie
Cross and Eugene Weeks" Cross and
Weeks will be hanged in April.
The Pine Lawn Bank, on the out
skirts of st. Louis. was robbed of So
500 by three bandits who escaped in
an automobile. Three employees were
compelled TO lay on the floor, face
downward, while the money was
scooped into a sack.
Fire of undetermined origin partly
destroyed the Turner building, one of
the older business structures at Mus
kogee, Okla, causing damage esti-
mated at $250,000. The Melton hotel
occupied a large part of the building.
The clothing stock of Max Davidson,
which is valued at S150,000, was de-
stroyed.
Two women, giving their names as
Fay Foster and Marian Leonzal, were
taken from the blind baggage of the
Northern Pacific's %eastbound North
Coast Limited at Forsyth, Mont, and
nre being held in the Rosebud county
Jail, pending advices from Seattle,
where it is said they are wanted in
connection with a big jewelry robbery.
WASHINGTON
Miss Garland johnson of Bridge
port, w. Va, has just been awarded Il
$1,000 university scholarship for hav-
ing written the best essay OF Good
Roads and Highway Transport" The
contest was conducted by the good
roads and highway transport education
committee of Washington, ID. 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
cific ocean establish a 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
Mr.. Stead in his last written message
Just prior to his death.
The treasury appropriation bill, the
first of the nnual appropriation meas
ures, was passed by the Senate, carry
ing S120,2T2,000 as compared with
Sis, 100000 authorized by the House.
Included was S~9,250,000 Tor enforce
ment of prohibition and a new provi-
sion authorizing the government TO
concentrate bonded liquor In "A few
warehouses. to 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 S21.22, or 30
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, 1t was announced by the De
partment of Agriculture. The decline
was found by the department to have
been from 1854 in 1919 to S14.52 In
1921.
President Harding will go before
Congress within n few days with a
plan for the establishment of an Amer
lean merchant marine subsidy, 1t was
stated at the White House by Chair
nan Lasker Of the United States ship
ping board. Lasker conferred with the
President more than an hour concern
ing various plans for n ship subsidy
and submitted the plans agreed upon
by the shipping board after consular
ton 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
S. Chase, Brooklyn pastor, who
brought INTO the discussion the name
Of Postmaster General Hays. The
hearing was On n resolution introduced
BY Senator Myers, Democrat. Mon
tnna, proposing an investigation OF the
motion picture industry based ON
charges that II has entered politics and
has passed within the control OF Lasky.
Fox, Zukor, Laemmle and Loew, and
that Its influence is 10 be exerted 10
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
2,O0O,0OO,OO0, shipments out OF the
country OF raw materials dropped by
yearly 81 600, 0O,0Oo, and f~oodstuffs ex-
ports declined by nbout S5OO,OOO.OOO
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