Williams news., 1922-07-21
NEWS TO DATE
 IN PARAGRAPHS
WIRES ROUND ABOUT. THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
 Harry Steinholdt, under arrest in l Tacoma, Wash, Thursday, is charged l with having purchased a Bible and a | rosary with a bogus check. The com | blaming witness, the proprietor of a | shop, told the police he accepted the check without question because of the
 nature of the purchase.
 Sheriff George White of Santa
 Cruz county was killed and Manuel
 Martinez and Placido Silvas, convicted murderers, escaped when an automO-
 bile in which the prisoners were being taken to the state penitentiary at Florence, Ariz, overturned on the No
 gales-Tucson highway near Continen-
 tal, eighteen miles south of Tucson.
 A lone bandit held up the Commer-
 cia1 State Bank of Florence, Neb., near
 Omaha, locked the cashier in the vault
 and escaped with about $1, 800 in cash.
 Cashier R. A. Johnson and one GUS
 toner were the only persons in the
 bank when the bandit entered. John
 son freed himself with a screwdriver.
 This is the second time the bank has
 been robbed this year.
 The effect of illicit liquor upon coun-
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 sion of the joint convention of Pacific and the Idaho State Association at Occur D'Alene, Ida, and resolutions later were passed advocating strict regulation of the rural dances and leg islatfon giving county sheriffs author ity to grant and cancel licenses for public dances.
 'For gallant service,'' Harry D. Stewart, agent for the American Rail way Express Company, has been pre- scented in Los Angeles with a check for $1 GOO, an engraved gold watch and letter of appreciation from George O. Taylor, president of the company. Stewart, who resides in Los Angeles, killed one bandit and drove off eight more during an attempted holdup of a train near Tucson, Ariz., several weeks ago.
 WASHINGTON
 United Mine Workers representa- lives after considering the coal strike arbitration plan presented by Presi- dent Harding summoned the general policy committee of the union to Wash ington to pass finally upon the pro posal.
 Clerks employed in postofhces throughout the United States will, dur ing the remainder of the summer sea son, be permitted to enjoy half holi day each Saturday, providing the work assigned to them has been completed by noon on that day. under an order issued by First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett
 The Republican agriculturaltarfn bloc got another setback in the Sen ate, losing 33 to 24, it's fight to make l dudable imported vegetable oils, used | n the manufacture of uonedibIe pro- | ducts. The Senate then, without a roll | call, approved rates of 3 cents a pound | on cottonseed oil and soya bean oil, | and cents pound on coconut oil and | peanut oil, where such oils enter into he manufacture of edible commodi- ies.
 While optimism as to the outcome | )f the railroad strike was reflected at l he White House, there was further evidence that the administration in ends to keep a firm grasp on the sit 1ation and that every force at the | command of the government will be Utilized to insure maintenance of necessary interstate transportation.
 Complaint has been filed with the Department of Justice in Washington l n behalf of producers and shippers of he Pacific coast against the alleged activities of the Southern Pacific rail- way in endeavoring to create sentf- nent and action against the decision if the Supreme Court ordering disso- ution of the partnership of that road with the Central Pacific
 The Court of Appeals has denied the pplication of Charles w. Morse, his hree sons and eight others jointly in | icted for conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with war ontracts, for a special appeal from | he decision of the District Supreme | ,ourt everything demurrers filed l gainst the indictment. The Court of . -ppeals held that no emergency ex- sted for granting a special appeal in , he case.
 Urging Congress to enact new Iegis- atfon to destroy an alleged Standard $ il monopoly in the gasoline trade, the | ederal trade commission charged the , with ''perpetuatfng the i cry monopolistic control which the nited States Supreme Court sought I terminate." (
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