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Show NEWS STORY OF THEPAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Dr. S. L. Joshl, an East Indian educator edu-cator and lecturer has been given an appointment as professor at the University Uni-versity wf Nebraska. Dr. Joshl states only one Indian woman out of a hnn-dred hnn-dred can read. Itullway mechanics at Winnipeg, Canada, have asked for a 44 hour work week. The federal reserve agent at San Frunclsoo, John Perrin, states credit conditions are easier throughout the twelfth federal reserve district. Clam digging at Grays Harbor has been discontinued on account of high aurfs leaving Interfered with the catdi. The Columbia river highway has been repaired and Is again open for travel Six hundred high school pupils are expected to attend the conference of students, presidents and editors at Eugene, Eu-gene, Oregon, abtout April 18th. The state of Oregon Is now paying very six months Interest aggregating $1,021,004.40 on outstanding bonds, O. P. Hoff, state treasurer, announced. These bonds are divided Into four classes, Including highway bonds, farm credit bonds, Irrigation district Interest Inter-est bonds and ex-service men's state aid bunds. Duchesne, Utah. The United States geological survey Is preparing a survey sur-vey of the Uintah basin. The report will Include a ttT.xdry of the geology of the basin and climatological features. fea-tures. Including average amount of precipitation, frost records and stream fljw. Water rights and the storage required to take care of Irrigation projects pro-jects and possible future power development devel-opment will be taken up in detail. GENERAL The governor of Louisiana scores Klu Klux Klan oiierabors. The governor gove-rnor urges all citizens to work for law-enforcement. law-enforcement. There is little hope that former Emperor Em-peror Charles of Austria-Hungary will survive his present illness, according to advices received here from the Island Is-land of Maderta. In addition to pneumonia, pneu-monia, there are cerebral complications. complica-tions. The White Salmon, Wash, schools have been closed on account of an epidemic. A price of $101 a mile for kisses was set by Judge Morgan after Miss Alice Jonas refused to apologize to Mrs. Is-abelle Is-abelle Matteson, wife of Gerald Mat-teson, Mat-teson, of Chicago for the mile-long kiss the wife said she saw her husband hus-band give Miss Jonas. Damages in the sum of $11,000,000 are sought from Henry Ford by Edwards Ed-wards Huff, Maimi, Fla. electrical engineer, en-gineer, in a suit Initiated here. Huff claims that he orignated the magneto now in use on motor cars manufactured by Ford and claims that Ford has not paid him m full far the Invention. Thirteen world war veterans secured secur-ed farms In the land drawing at the White Buff s-Hanford soldier land settlement set-tlement area in Washington hear Olymphia. WASHINGTON Army doctors are hopeful that a "very appreciable prolongation of life" among regular army officers will result from steps being taken as a result of the annual physical examination exam-ination of the commissioned personnel. person-nel. Under special Instructions Issued to army doctors by Surgeon Genertl Ireland at Washington, when the January Jan-uary physical examinations began, ef forts are being made to locate "definitely "defi-nitely any focal infections (abscessed teeth, diseased tonsils, etc.) or other conditio. is which may be responsible for chronic degenerative changes." Utah ranks thirty-ninth among the states of the union, rated according to Che value of farm property on January Jan-uary 1, 1920; ranks thirty-eighth on the value of crops produced in 1919, and forty-first on the value of livestock live-stock products for that same year. These figures are compiled by the census bureau, and show Utah's farm property to be valued at $311,275,000; her crops at $58,007,000, and her livestock live-stock at $13,736,000. Wyoming ranks thirty-fifth in value of farm property, rated at $334,411,-000; $334,411,-000; is forty-fourth in value of crops produced, the value being $30,271,000, and is fortieth In value of livestock. Which was $14,004,000, The war finance corporation to date has made agricultural and livestock live-stock loans exceeding $258,000,000, but in its allocations has dealt none too generously with the states of the Rocky mountain and Pacific coast regions, re-gions, save with respect to special loans on sugar beets In Utah and Idaho alone. . ,A report by the-porpor-ation, Just sent to congress, shows bhat total sugar beet loans have reached reach-ed $9,990,000, out of $10,000,000 set apart for this purpose, and the greater great-er part of this sum has been loaned in Utah. What did not go to Utah went into Idaho, the corporation not being able to segregate the loans by states. The report of the corporation shows that the aggregate of agricultural agricul-tural and livestock loans to the various vari-ous western states, to date, total as follows: Utah, $10,653,101 (Including sugar loans) ; Idaho, $4,079,372 (including (in-cluding sugar loans) ; Wyoming, $7,-265,744; $7,-265,744; Nevada, $248,000; Montana, $9,533,402. Familiarity with hospital work Is making the world safe from diseases. Surgeon General dimming of the public pub-lic health service declared nt Washington Wash-ington in a statement Bhowlng the decreases de-creases in deaths from various ma-ladles. ma-ladles. The surgeon general asserted that the great war to be waged during dur-ing the next half-century is bo be one to eradicate diseases, conserve health and lengthen life. Preliminary reports, received by the .reasury, of collections of 3f arch, 15 instu'Jments of Income and taxeS 'show-d 'show-d a total of $286,000,000 on deposit ir. ederal reserve banks. On the basie of the amount received so far, official declared it was impossible as yet to determine whether Secretary Mellon's year aggregated $272,000,000. FOREIGN The league of nations is likely to be asked to take control of the Dardanelles, Dar-danelles, It lias become known, despite de-spite the secrecy with the allied foreign for-eign ministers have veiled their deliberations de-liberations at Paris. The German government's reply to the recent demands of the reparations commission will be forwarded to Par-Is Par-Is before the meeting of the Genoa economic conference. It will assert that 60,000,000,000 marks supplementary supplemen-tary tax levy is a financial and technical tech-nical Impossibility and also will reject re-ject the proposed financial control by the commissions. Presents of wood, bread or meat are more welcome than flowers to Odessa, Russia's grand opera singers-Among singers-Among the gifts Do the orchestra con- Even though she showered prodigious prodigi-ous gifts of diamonds and money upon him, Mrs. Josle Karey, 55-year-old widow, of Portland Ore., failed in her efforts to win the love of Albert Earl Hlghley, 27-year-old ex-convlct. And when Hlghley eloped to San Francisco Fran-cisco with a bride of his own choosing, Mrs. Karey, in a spirit of revenge, caused his arrest for the alleged theft of the diamonds which she had presented pre-sented to him as gifts. At a party held at Coram, Long Island, old fashioned kissing games were Indulged. Later 40 out of the 51 persons present had influenza. The Wild Life league of America was formed at Pittsburg, with representatives rep-resentatives from twenty-five states attending. at-tending. Organization of sportsman and levers of outdoor life in every state and territory of the United States, Canada and Mexico was planned plan-ned and will be carried out in the near future. Meredith H. Marshall of Pittsburg is president Chicago alderman introduces resolution res-olution to prevent women smoking In that city. The resolution was laughed down and not voted upon. The Engineering Employers' Feder- j otion of London posted notices lock- I lng out the members of forty-seven unions, in addition to the Amalgamated I Engineers' union. The lockout is to i take effect In one week nnd will affect ! 600,000 additional men. The grand I total of the workers affected Is 850.- I 000. ductor of the famous playhouse at a recent benefit in honor of his twenty-five twenty-five years service was twenty-five pounds of firewood. The singers receive re-ceive salaries the best of which, 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 rubles monthy, will pay for only a pound and a half of bread daily. Mviny of the best singers have left, but there still are thirty-five principals, with a chorus and ballet. Several performances a week are given. giv-en. "India must have self-government. She has gwie too far, and unless England Eng-land sees fit to give it there is going to be trouble for her. There are more than 23,000,000 people In India ready to die for this cause, nnd already England Eng-land is using force in trying to suppress sup-press public sentiment in India." Dr . F. L Johi, head of one of the aristocratic aristo-cratic Hindu families of Bombay and dean of the dopartment of English at Baroda college in that city, thus ex pressed himself at Salt Lake City meeting regarding Hie present political situation in his native land. A foodless ship carrying 3000 starving star-ving Greeks from the famine raging In the Russian town of Novorossik on the Black sea arrived last week at Constantinople. The allied council of ambassadors has decided that the international troops occupying Scutari, Albania, should be withdrawn. These forces are entirely Italian, although they are occupying the town in the names of the allies. The decision to withdraw the troops Is understood to be due to civil sirife existing in Albania. |