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Show NEWS STORY OF THEPA8T WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World. INTERMOUNTAIN Glendlve, Mont. A poultry show was iield here recently., where over 200 birds were shewn. "While the display was confined largely to the American breed, so enthusiastic have grown a cumber of exhibitors over the prospects pros-pects of next year that they will invest in-vest considerable amounts to procure chickens of other strains in order to broaden the display for next year. G. H. Ford, poultry expert from the State Agricultural college, was greatly surprised at the quality of the birds on display. In fact, he stated, it was one of the highest in quality in the state. Some of the poultry had pre-riously pre-riously been shown at Minneapolis and other eastern points, and offers had been received as high as $100 for single birds. Omaha, Neb. James F. McMillan, police officer with four months experience, ex-perience, turned jester and thereby averted what apparently would have been a panic in a downtown theater. The crowd in the playhouse had started start-ed for the exit when smoke poured into in-to the place, but stopped when McMillan McMil-lan shouted "Wait!" mounted the stage and began entertaining his audience. aud-ience. "There's no danger from fire," said he. "If there was I wouldn't be here." The crowd laughed. "If I was fond of fire I'd be a fireman, not a patrolman," he continued. Twice thereafter his auditors tried to rush out, but the patrolman succeeded in getting them to leave in an orderly manner. Tacoma. Three men were killed when one of the buildings of a powder pow-der manufacturing company of Du-pont, Du-pont, near Camp Lewis, exploded. Chicago. A national antiblue law conference will be held at St. Louis Tune 23, 24 and 25, the Antiblue Law League of America, Inc., announces, ft is expected at this conference, it vas said, to "settle the question of whether or not the people of the United States want blue laws and interference in-terference with the rights as to the tfbser'-ance of Sunday." ChAeago. Federal authorities are in-rest'tgating in-rest'tgating the story told by Madame Elizabeth Girenka, who said she was a Russian noblewoman, who was foand employed in the barber shop of r. large down-town hotel here. She laid that she had accepted einploy-nent einploy-nent in the barber shop as a scrubwoman scrub-woman to support herself when she found herself penniless here. GENERAL Bonds and other negotiable securities securi-ties valued at more than $150,000 were stolen from the strong box of the Dr. Thomas W. Evans dental school and museum fund of the University of Pennsylvania, 'it became knolwn. Wal-ser Wal-ser A. Unger, assistant treasurer of she fund, is being sought in connection with the -case. TJnger, who is 27 years Dflcl, disappeared from his home in Philadelphia a few days ago. Seeking data for his book "The Here-jfter," Here-jfter," Thomas W. Weggielus of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, a 23-year-old chemist, swallowed fi'hat he thought was just enough anaesthetic an-aesthetic to take him to death's por-ials. por-ials. The book will never be finished, tor young Weggielus miscalculated the flose and the portals swung wide for him. The Lanslng-Ishii agreement has Oeen completely superseded by the fllne-power treaty relating to China now before the senate, President Harding Hard-ing Informed the senate in response lo the recently adopted Borah resolution. resolu-tion. The executive added that the four-power treaty did nqt refer to China and does not directly bear upon the TJansing-isD.il notes. WASHINGTON Concurrently with Representative Fordney's introduction in the house ol the revlsedt Republican soldier bonus plan, President Harding expressed in vigorous manner his disapproval of the new proposal. The bill undei which the former soldiers would receive re-ceive deferred adjusted compensation or Immediate relief through bank loans, with taxation to meet the cost deferred, defer-red, does not appeal to the president. He has not changed his mind on the bonus question, and reasserts his position posi-tion in his previous letter to Mr. Ford-ney Ford-ney that, unless the bonus can be financed fi-nanced by a sales tax, bonus legislation legisla-tion shofcild be postponed. The McNary bill appropriation, ?350,-000,000 ?350,-000,000 for development of irrigation and reclamation, including swamp lands drainage, was reported favorably by the senate irrigation committee. The committee vote for the bill was unanimous. unani-mous. The measure has the indorsement indorse-ment of the administration, having been recommended by President Harding, Hard-ing, approved by Secretary A. B. Fall of the interior department, and promised prom-ised a place on the Republican legislative legis-lative program. Six persons were killed and scares injured in a tornado which swept the mill town of Warrenville, S. C, and the village of Stlfleton, S. C, a few days ago. Chairman McNary of the senate committee com-mittee on irrigation and reclamation has formally presented to the senate flie new federal cooperative reclamation reclama-tion act with a report from the committee com-mittee which described the measure as having been designed as " a permanent perman-ent and constructive policy on reclamation." reclam-ation." The report declared the measure, mea-sure, which would open uncalculated thousands of acres for agriculture production, to be legislation "filling a long felt want," and predicted that it would prove to be true initiation of federal aid in reclamation. Under the program outlined by the bill, it is provided pro-vided that reclamation districts may be formed and, upon approval of the project, may issue bonds against the assets thereby to be created. Such bonds are deposited with the federal farm loan board, which holds them until un-til the property against which they were issued has twice the value of the securities. They may then be sold, the money thus arising being turned over to the treasury for use in financing financ-ing further projects. This arrangement, arrange-ment, it was claimed, makes the fund practically a perpetual means of financing fi-nancing reclamation development The bill provides that ex service men shall have prior rights tor sixty days to entry on the excess lands, and gives them further privileges as to preference prefer-ence of employment when labor is required re-quired on the irrigation or reclamation construction work. Fifty additional destroyers and fifty-one other miscejlaneous vessels have been ordered out of service in line with the intention of the navy department de-partment to reduce the navy personnel person-nel by '10,000 men, Secretary Denby has announced. FOREIGN Great crowds, like hungry birds pick- Ing up falling grains, followed behind every leaky sack that was unloaded from the first train bringing American corn to the stricken country of Russia. These red kerneled cobs were unfamiliar unfam-iliar but welcome manna to starving peasants life-long accustomed to rye, wheat and barley. The news spread rapidly and hungry folk gathered from all directions. "Tlie United States which decided the war and shaped the peace of Versailles, Ver-sailles, alone can save the Genoa conference con-ference from becoming a futile attempt at-tempt at solving the problems of European Eu-ropean reconstruction." This opinion was expressed by Dr. Walter Rathenau, the minister of foreign affairs, before the reichstag's budget committee. He" was discussing reparations and Germany's Ger-many's foreign problems. Lord Lee of Fareham, first lord of the admiralty, addressing the English-speaking English-speaking union, welcoming him home from the Washington conference, said he had not planned to mention Ameri- The United States has declined the Invitation of the allied powers to participate par-ticipate in the European conference which is to meet In Genoa April 10. While taking a deep interest In measures mea-sures trt promote the recuperation of Europe, the United States could not participate helpfully in the Genoa conference con-ference because It is to be not primarily primari-ly an economic, but a political confer-3nce. confer-3nce. Men students at the University of Chicago spend SOfi.000 for books In throe months and $17o,000 for dances, according to a survey made by The Phoenix, a campus magazine. The survey also says that they spend $8,658 for cosmetics every quarter and $323,-000 $323,-000 for suits and overcoats. Sir Auckland Oeddes, the British ambassador, accompanied by Lady Geddcs and his personal secretary, Hugh Tonnant, will visit the Pacific coast this month. Mary Louise Lester, a pretty art student, swallowed twenty-five poison tablets In a cabaret at Chicago. Before Be-fore the poison sent her writhing to the floor she wrote a farewell hotter to hor sweetheart. At the hospital It was sulil th gVcl wmild die. ton can prohibition or the English coalition. In view, however, of the reported utterances ut-terances of one of his famous countrywomen country-women in New York to the effect that drunkenness was prevalent among both sexes of young Americans, he desired to state, he said, that after thirty years of observation in America, including tlie preprohlbiUon as well as the prohibition pro-hibition era, the English woman's statement was "as ludicrous as it was cruel and untrue." Prime Minister Llyod George announced an-nounced in the house of commons that the British protectorate over Egypt has been terminated and that Egypt was free to work (tut such national institutions institu-tions as might be suited to the aspirations aspira-tions of her people. The revolt among the Limerick and TIpperary brigades of the Irish republican repub-lican army is growing serious, but it ia the firm belief of the members of the general headquarters of the army thai the danger of a clash will be overcome. over-come. The German government Informed the reparations commission in Paris that the fifth- ten-day payment of 31,000,000 gold marks was made in accordance with the temporary schedule sche-dule recently adopted by the commls |