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Show - -H History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E3 B WASHINGTON. Tentative agreement for an investigation investi-gation of wholesale and retail prices, to be carried on by the department of agriculture, commerce department and department of labor, has been reached. The educational program for disabled former service men, as worked out by the veterans' bureau, will be submitted to President Harding for approval, several hours after Judge Robert S. Marx, national commander of tlie Disabled Dis-abled American Veterans of the World War, had protested before a houso appropriations ap-propriations subcommittee against use of abandoned army cantonments for such training. The senate seat held by Truman n. Newberry shonl-d bo derlnred vacant, Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, declared de-clared In the senate, on the ground that Itie Michigan election in 1018, "being "be-ing tainted with corruption and controlled con-trolled through the wa of money, is void." Cooperation of the federal government govern-ment with states and private Interests in Hie cwyservation of timber, ns proposed pro-posed in I he Snell-McCormlck forestry policy bill, was advocated before tlie house agriculture committee. A tax of ;? cents a gallon on gflso-line, gflso-line, to be pHl by the producer, the proceeds of which would be used for a soldiers' bonus, is proposed In a bill introduced by Representative Bach-rach, Bach-rach, Republican, New Jersey. The tax, ha estimated, would yield from $240,000,000 to $250,000,000 annually sufficient revenue, he said, to meet easii payments to former service men provided for In the bill. An appropriation of $50,000,000 for settlement of claims was requested of congress by the shipping board. The amount is needed In addition to $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 already sought for expenses during the coming fiscal year, a communication com-munication forwarded to Speaker Gll-lett Gll-lett by President Harding from the budget bureau stated. 9 With provisions for the air mail service eliminated, the animal postof-fice postof-fice appropriation bill earning approximately approxi-mately $554,000,000 was favorably imported im-ported by the house appropriations committee. As drafted by a subcommittee, subcom-mittee, the measure provides $1,035,000 for the air mail service during the fiscal fis-cal year beginning next July 1. The full committee, however, in approving the bill, struck out this section. Railroad rates are being slowly but steadily forced downwards by econ. omic lows, the president of an Eastern railroad, argued before the interstate commerce commission, when that body resumed its inquiry Into the genera) level of transportation charges. There is no need, but considerable danger he added, in forcibly decreasing them by government edict at present. Foreign Perfumes at any price is the demand of the women folk of Russia's speculators. specu-lators. French perfumes ithat sold in Moscow a few weeks ago, -when the stores first opened, at 000,000 rubles ($6 to $7) for a tiny flask, are now quoted retail at twice that figure, and he price is soaring as the speculators in stolen sugar, In furs, in boot and shoes, make more money. FOREIGN Richard Busby, aged 77, and Sophia Burton, of Leamington, England, aged 7S, are thrlifty. They became -on. gaged 54 years, but put off marrying until they had "saved -enough." They have just been wedded and have a bank account of $25,000. A bomb exploded in West Belfast, injuring a little girl. Windows in the neighborhood were shattered. An outburst out-burst of shooting followed, but was quickly quelled by the police. The same evening two mare bombs were ex. ploded in a sM-ee where a number or children wore playiag. Six of them were injured by splinter The coal It km cabinet, at Madrid. Spain. Headed by Antonio Maua as prenrier and mli4ster of justice, re signed as a result of ttw bitter political poli-tical srife which hs been prevalent in Spain fer a long time. Marked opposition lately 1ms been shown to the conduct of the mlnlMd of wiu by Senor de ia Cierva, and the ministry of finance by Senator Cambo. m v m Premier Briand, hearing the text of the lon sousht British alliance will face the French parllment, which, although hostile, may nevertheless, in tlie opinion of many observers, gVve him a vote of confidence because it dare not refuse a concrete pact owing to difference of opinion c oncoming some clauses and concessions. m The struggle for food and clothing In Russia, is all absorbing. They are the only things that count. Home family ties and obligations, friendship art, polities, public and private nmbi tions all are subjugated to these two elemental needs. Doors of the hotels In Vienna, wer closed and the principal shops shuttered shut-tered as a result of unemployment demonstrations. The afternoon, how. ever, passed without serious trouble or disorder. INTERMOUtfTAIN. Farm women of Montana will have their own special program daring the annual Farmers' Week at Montana State college this month. Special lectures, lec-tures, demonstrations and classes have Oeon provided for eacli of the six days of this homo makers' conference. Sirty-etght candidates for naturali-tatlon naturali-tatlon as American citizens will have their preliminary examination in Salt Lake before Judge Hphralm Hansen of the Third district court, according to an announcement made by Bell L. (Sullivan, United states naturalization inspector. Teachers of vocational education In Utah are advised by L B. Bail, state supervisor of s-gricultural education, that all schools that receive federal aid as also state aid In 1921 are required re-quired to report projects and to also tabulate them. The contract for the construction of the new Lander county high school at Cuttle Mountain has been awarded by the eommUsionors. The bid of $02,000 was the lowest of six presented. That the owners of the Thompson smelter near Wnbusk.i, Nev., expect to ro-open the plant within tlie next few months and add some more equipment is Indicated by the activities of the company In its efforts to secure favorable favor-able ore, coal and other freight rates, though no definite announcement that tlie company will reopen the plant in the near future Is forthcoming. With a vlow to increasing the capacity ca-pacity of pier No. 1 at Tacoma, Wash., the Tacoma port commissioners have voted to fill In the outer end of the pier. This covers a distance of about 600 feet by 60 feet wide. Charged with participating in a $12,-000 $12,-000 robbery of a bank in Macomb counly. Mich., recently, Alger Lutes, BS, was arrested at the farm of his father-in-law, William F. Blue, near renlno, Wash., and held in the Thurston Thurs-ton county jail. The arrest was made on a telegraphic warrant. Tlie geology department of the Uni-vers'ty- of Oregon recently has received re-ceived a collection of remarkably fine specimens among them being a Tollec battle-ax more than 3000 years old, which was found in New Mexico. Among the original collection was same old pewter ware, willow ware, a Poinpoilan mourner's vase, old Roman and French coins, Mexican and reru- vlan pottery and a fac-simile Alaskan monument with Norse inscriptions. Organization of a free night school at Laurel, Mont., for the purpose of teaching mechanical drawing, a'r brake work and kindred practical subjects for the benefit of railway shopmen mid any other person who desires to take up the work. GENERAL Women in twenty-eight states have accepted appointment as chairmen of state women's committees in the plan to perpetuate Woodrow Wilson's ideals through the Woodrow Wilson foundation, founda-tion, according to an announcement by Hamilton Holt, executive director of the foundation. In addition, women prominiuii througjliout the country nre members of Uis executive and national committuss of the foundation. An-nouncoaiettt An-nouncoaiettt had been previously made that wimen will be eligible for the awards tkai ars to be made periodically- Amoricam business houses exported $4,1SU.343.000 in merchandise in the first 11 liionths of last year, according to figures made public by the department depart-ment at OMunerce, which also gave Imports as valued at $2,271,797,000. In the saiie 11 mouths, in 1920, exports totalled $7,507,729,000 and imports $5, 012,12-1,000. William J- La Varre, formerly engaged en-gaged la exploration for the Smithsonian Smith-sonian Institution and Harvard university, uni-versity, arrived from South America with a thirty-karat sto'ne, which he claims Is British Guinea's largest diamond. dia-mond. The stone will have to bo halved because of a flaw. Five men died at Hoboken, N. J., from drinking poisoned liquor. The authorities believe the liquor had been obtained from sailors on an incoming Steamship. Two hundred cocoanuts which contained con-tained not their own natural milk but B pint each of strong Jamaica rum. pere seized by federal agents at a Minneapolis, Minn., railroad station. Each cocoanut was plugged with a cork. |