The Holly chieftain., 1924-01-17
The WORLD IN
PARA c R APP HIS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

WESTERN
With street car accidents In Los An
seles averaging more than 1000 II
month and the Los Angeles Railway
Company's claim department paying
more than $3OO,OOO in the last year,
| the traction company has started a
series of meetings to promote effective
accident prevention among its train
| men
Glenn Abraham. -, and Richard
Bayldone, 16, were drowned at Hood
River, Ore, when they plunged
through ice of Il slough while skat
ing. Arch and Cad Williams, Two
other boys, narrowly escaped while
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Kclr. and a
neighbor playmate OF young AbrnnaIh
broke through the Ice In aiding the
Williams boys to shore
w. B. Ward. negro, charged with the
murder of Ted Grosh, University Of
Arizona student, was spirited from
the state penitentiary Mt Florence
Ariz., to Globe under heavy guard, ar-
raigned before justice of. the peace
and returned to prison before news of
the arrangement reached two mobs at
Globe, who threatened violence to the
prisoner. Ward is held In the prison
for safe keeping.
Percy l.. Sinclair,-a state senator
and president of the former South
western Washington Bank of nwuce
Wash. was found guilty by Jury in
Superior Court mt Chehalis. Wash, of
knowingly signing false report con-
cerning the condition of his bank to
the state banking department The
verdict contained no recommendation.
Sinclairs attorneys announced they
would appeal the case.
The Utah State Board of Partions,
meeting in special session at Salt
Lake City, again denied appeal of
Omer II. Weods convicted wife murder
er, for clemency and accordingly his
execution On Jan. 1S will be carried
out With this adverse action the con-
demned man, according to officials,
has lost absolutely every avenue by
which he could hope to escape paying
the supreme penalty before firing
squad which method he himself chose
Instead of hanging.
WASHINGTON
The United States Supreme Court
has held constitutional the excess
earnings clause of the transportation
act of 1920 The clause in question
was the much disputed one which pro-
vides one-half of railroads Income
over and aboxe per cent on Its val
uation shall be placed in fund within
the control of the government and the
other half retained by the railroad in
trust fund.
Gold production in the United States
in 1923 totaled $51 1875 700, an Increase
of S25,5S5 600 over 1922 and the larg.
est annual output since 1919, the bu-
reau of the mint announced few
days ago. The silver production was
valued at s59,541,1 ,1s4, a 20 per cent
Increase over 1922. The figure has
been exceeded only in 1915 and 1916
The country's record gold production
was mined in 1915, with a value of
! s101. .O35,7O
Under satisfactory economic condi-
tons sugar production in the United
States could be expanded more nearly
to meet domestic needs. declared the
department of agriculture In re-
view of the sugar industry issued in
Washington. Market conditions rather
than conditions of soil and climate are
the obstacles to present development
The Federal Farm Loan Board. pre-
pairing to meet the late winter and
spring demand for money expected to
be made u the federal loan banks has
issued S60,OOO0O in federal farm
foan bonds. The bonds will be offered
through federal land banks, national
farm loan associations and other dis
tributors at 1904 with accrued Inter
est from Jan. l, the date of issue.
The economic condition of the farm
er has improved considerably. accord
ing to the committee on statistics of
the Chamber OF Commerce of the
United States and his outlook for 1924
is even more hopeful. The commit
tee, in semi-annual review of bust
ness conditions, attributes the agricut.
tural Improvement chiefly to the di-
minished spread between prices for
farm products and for manufactured
articles.
Appropriations aggregating approx
imately Sl0,oO0,O0O for the develop-
ment of irrigation projects in western
states We've contained in the 1924-l9
Interior Department appropriation bill
laid before the House by the appropri-
ations committee. The bill carried n
total of S26l, ,727 ,965, rs compared with
S29i, 10000 for the current year.
Senator Phipps, Re publican, Colo
RADIO, presented to the Senate a pe,i.
ton signed by several thousand Colo
rado residents urging modification of