The Dolores star., 1922-02-03
CONDENSED REC oRD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, NGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, sUFFERiNGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union s.,, s.r,e.l
WESTERN

WESTERN
Women of Kenosha. Wis, cast Il
majority of the ballots which changed
the aldermanic form of municipal gov
ernment to the city manager plan 0y
a ma iority OF 712 votes.
E. W. Robb, sheriff-preacher Of
Polk county, Iowa, has resigned as
pastor of the Federated church, ito
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 S2,-
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 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 S250,0O0 The Melton hotel
occupied a large part of the building.
The clothing stock of Max Davidson,
WHICH Is NdIutu at SlrO,VNO' was ue-
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
are 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 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, d. 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 annual appropriation meas
ures, was passed by the Senate, carry
ing S120,272,O 600, as compared with
Sl1S,SO6,0O0 authorized by the House.
Included was S9.25O,OO0 for enforce
ment of prohibition and a new provi-
sion authorizing the government to
concentrate bonded liquor In 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 S2122, 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 1918
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 to S1452 in
1921
President Harding will go before
Congress within a few days with a
plan for the establishment of an Amer.
lean 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 a ship subsidy
and submitted the plans agreed upon
by the shipping board after consuta'
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 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 tC
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
0O0,0OO,OOO, shipments out of the
country Of raw materials dropped by
nearly 81, OO,0OO,00O, and foodstuffs ex.
ports declined by about S500,000O0C
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 stocl
up to capacity with coal before Apri
j, in the face of the bituminoIIs strike