The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-04-21

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WESTERN
Four babies, each weighing less than
one pound, were born to Mrs. G. Tabbi
at the Bakersfield, Calf, emergency
hospital Mother and babies are rest
ing nicely.
Seventeen persons are reported dead
and more than eighty injured as re-
suit of tornadoes and transforms which
swept from west Texas east into Okla
hOma toward Arkansas.
The shipwrecked crew of the steam
schooner Fairhaven, which sank off the
west coast of Mexico have arrived in
San Francisco on the steamer San
Juan. 1t consisted Of Capt. A. L. Laur,
four other officers and twenty men.
Approximately 100000 will be spent
by the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany on additions and betterments of
its property in Billings, Mont, and vi
cinity this year, according to announce
ment of executives of the company.
Pilot B. II. Winslow, driving a
heavily-laden mail plane, set a new
flight record for the trip between San
Francisco and Reno recently by max
ing the distance In one hour and twen-
ty-four minutes. The old record was
one hour and thirty minutes.
While her husband, Homer Samuels,
placed the value of jewelry stolen from
Nine. Amelita Galli-Curci at Los An
geles at $4,000, L. e. Behymer, under
whose direction she is appearing in
concerts in this section, said proper
figure would be nearer 100000"
Herbert Wilson, formerly a minister
of the Gospel in Oregon and Canada,
held in the county Jail pending trial
for the robbery of the mails at Los An
geles of nearly $1,OO0O00 the night of
March 3, 1921, shot and killed his al
legged accOmplce, Herbert r. Cox, just
tempted jailbreak.
The efforts being made by Mrs.
Angela Kaufman of Los Angeles to
aid Mrs. Louise Peete, serving a life
sentence in San Quentin penitentiary
for the murder Of Jacob c.. Denton,
wealthy mining man, probably will be
halted. Inability to verify the new
statement made at the prison by Mrs.
Peete concerning the Staying, it was
said, may result in Mrs. Kaufman
giving up her campaign in Mrs. Peete's
behalf.
WASHINGTON
A government-owned and operated
corporation to be conducted under the
supervision of three directors appoint
ed by the President for development of
the nitrate and water power projects
at Muscle Shoals, Ala, was proposed
in a congressional resolution made pub
lie by Senator Norris of Nebraska,
chairman of the Senate agricultural
committee.
Disregarding the demands and insist
ent appeals of President Harding and
Secretary of the Navy DENLY, the
House appropriations committee in a
bill laid before the House recommend
ed a slash of nearly $200,000,000 in the
Navy Departments estimates for the
coming fiscal year and provided for a
reduction in the navy's enlisted person
mel from 101, 900 to $1,000.
A memorial to Rear Admiral Robert
E. Peary, diScOverer of the North Pole,
was dedicated in Arlington National
cemetery when a huge spheroid made
of white granite from his native state
of Maine was unveiled at his last rest
ing place.
BY vote of 103 to &c the House ap-
proved the amendment added in com
mittee of the whole to the bill provid-
ing appropriations for the Department
Of Justice expressly forbidding the use
of funds in the prosecution of labor
unions for agreements relative to
wages or conditions of labor. The
amendment also prohibits the prosecu.
ton of agricultural producers for CO.
operative marketing of their products
An accounting of the $350,000,0O0
worth of enemy property held by the
government was given the Senate in a
report filed by Thomas w. Miller, alien
property custodian, in response to a
resolution by Senator King of Utah.
'The final disposition of this proper
ty," Miller said, will, undoubtedly,
have a direct bearing on the economic
relations between this country and
Europe, with particular reference to
the late enemy powers"
Secretary Fall has left Washington
for an extended trip through western
states which have large public lands,
to make a personal investigation of
Indian reservations, reclamation pro-
jects and other field activities of the
Interior Department. Before begin
ming his trip of inspection, Secretary
Fall will first go to his home at Three
Rivers, n. NJ, to attend to some per-
sOnal business. After two or three