The Winslow mail., 1923-12-07
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WESTERN

Lincoln Hutchinson of Berkeley,
Callf., has been appointed by Secre-
tary Hoover to take charge of the in
Vesugat1On recently authorized by the
department of Commerce into the
transportation difficulties confronting
shippers of perishable products in the
West.
JEWISH synagogues Of Los Angeles
have banded together to stop alleged
trafficking In "sacramental vines by
canceling their permits to purchase
and hold wine for sacramental pur-
poses and by instructing their rabbis
to sign no wine permits" or "dele-
gate any one else to sign permits"
}. G. Potter was killed and A. F..
Richardson of Seal Beach and A. t..
Barnes of Compton were seriously in
Jured In an automobile crash near the
state hospital at Norwalk, California,
when the automobile in which the
three men were riding and a stage col
lided, according to brief reports re-
cetved in Los Angeles.
The Japanese freighter, Shinkoku,
went ashore near Montague island,
Prince William sound, Alaska, and
was expected to be a total loss, ac-
cording to dispatch received in
Seattle from Cordova, Alaska. The
dispatch said nothing of the fate of
more than thirty men who were
aboard the Shinkoku.
The police of Vancouver, B. c., have
positively identified a young woman in
the general hospital there as Miss Nell
Austin, 23-year-old Seattle school
teacher who disappeared from Seattle
recently. The woman, who is delirious
and talks incoherently, was identified
by photographs of Miss Austin sent to
Vancouver and by two of Miss Aus
tins friends who called at the hospi-
tai.
Efforts of the Montana Bankers AS
ISOLATION to trace robberies of a num-
ber of Montana, Dakota and Canadian
banks, resulted,in the arrest at Havre,
Mont, of two women and six men, and
the recovery of a large number Of
bonds. Among the men taken into Gus
tody were Florian Carnal, former mem
ber of the Montana Legislature, and
Chouteau county attorney, and Henry
Loranger, former sheriff of Hill coun-
ty, Mont.
WASHINGTON
The federal government will under
take an investigation of the drainage
problems in the San Luis valley of
Colorado. Secretary of the Interior
Work has authorized an allotment of
$4,000 from reclamation funds to be
used in an engineering survey of the
valley for the purpose of determining
the amount of water being used in the
irrigation of some 10000 acres of land.
Needless continuation of bread-sav-
ing habits formed in wartime, Depart
ment of Agriculture officials declared
in statement issued in Washington,
is limiting American wheat consump-
ton to the disadvantage of both pro-
ducer and consumer. A return to pre-
war food habits in the use of wheat
by the public and the feeding of low
grade wheat to livestock, department
experts assert, would help greatly to-
ward solving the wheat problem.
A man must be "hard boiled" to stay
or get anywhere in public life, Brig.
Gen. Charles e. Sawyer, President
Harding's personal physician and
central figure in the veterans bureau
investigation, said recently in address
ing the Southern Homeopathic Med
ical Associations convention.
Informed that the administration de-
cision to abandon consolidation of the
railroads into few great systems is
final and conclusive. the United States
Chamber of Commerce served notice
that Congress would be asked to null
lily such parts Of the federal antitrust
laws which now make large amalga-
nations of capital illegal and schedule
to dissolution.
Retailers who represent themselves
as selling army-navy surplus supplies
from the United States government.
when in fact they are not so doing.
will encounter opposition from the
Federal Trade Commission. An order
in the matter was issued by the COM
mission against H. Mailender, an op-
orator of stores in Indiana, West Vir-
glnia and Ohio, under the names of
Army-Navy stores and Army Goods
stores, requiring him to desist
Tobacco co-operatives did big bust
ness with last years crop, eight pro-
ducer-Owned and controlled associa-
tions marketing nearly 60O,O0O,OO0
pounds of tobacco, or nearly one-half
of the total crop produced, the Depart
ment of Agriculture reports.
Opening of more than 100000 acres
of public lands in the states of Colo
radO Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming
and Utah was announced by the De
partment of the Interior last week
World war veterans arn tO have q