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Show WAbrtiNG I O.N The packer and stockyard regulation u-t of 1021, which was put through (undress largely through tins e!Torts ui! the agricultural bioc, has been declared de-clared unconstitutional tjy ttie su-Ijreme su-Ijreme court. Thi C'nirel States will protest against any monopolistic plan which may be evolved ut the Genoa conference confer-ence for the exploitations of oil or other resources of soviet .Russia. The Green resolurion proposing an umeiidmcnt to the constitution which would prohibit Issuance of tax-exempt securities by the federal government and by or under authority of the states was formally reported by the house ways and means committee. Estimates obtained by the committee the report said, showed tax-free securities secur-ities between ten billion and eighteen eight-een billions dollars, and that the right to issue was "a constant temptation to issue in larger amounts than is necessary." ne-cessary." Two battalions of the Eighth infantry, infan-try, now at Cobleuz, on the Rhine, are being delayed at least one month in their return to the United States, Sec relary Weeks said, because of re- NEWS STORY OF THE PAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World. WESTERN Fanned by a stiff breeze that drove pillows of dense smoke upon firemen, hindering their efforts, and sent showers show-ers of burning embers through the air, menacing nearby structures, fire at Omaha destroyed a three-Htory brick building in the heart of the downtown business section. Loss from the fire, origin of which has not been determined, deter-mined, is estimated at $100,000. Francisco Saragosa was Justified in killing his brother-in-law, Fernando Garcia, according to the findings of a coroner's Jury, and the police of Los Angeles are trying to fiud him to let him know about It Charging Hawk, a full-blooded Sioux Indian, told Judge Adams of Ihe Chicago Chi-cago court of domestic .relations he Imd been in the army four years and served as a policeman on the Sioux reservation for three years, but he had never had so much excitement in his life as the time since he got married. mar-ried. "My wife liked variety too much for me," he told (he judge. "She had boen married four times to a German, a Mexican, a Chinaman, and then me. I can't keep up with her. She had too much experience." Mrs. Ethel Charging Hawk declared she had not received a dollar for the support of horself or her two children -both by former marriages, since she married the Sioux. Judge Adams took their domestic difficulties under advisement. advise-ment. Flans for the organization of 100,000 persons in Chicago pledged to observe the laws themselves and to report suspected violators to the headqimrers of the organization, were announced by Arthur Burrage Farwell, president of the Law and order league. Inauguration of a nation-wide campaign cam-paign against physicians and druggists drug-gists who have been over-prescribing and supplying liquor for imaginary-ilia imaginary-ilia was announced at Washington by Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Nine year old Mubel Lindberg walked into the settlement of Wah-klacus Wah-klacus station at Washington, with her three-year-old brother, Clarence, in her arms and informed residents that her father, Ellas P. Lindberg, widely known Washington timber operator, had been hurt in an automobile accident. acci-dent. Investigators found Lindberg dead beneath his car at the bottom of the Big Klickitat river canyon. E. A. Abbott, a plumber, was arrested ar-rested at Bakersfield, Calif., on a charge of contempt of court when he refused to testify before the grand Jury in his invstigation of alleged Kuklus Klan activities. He said that to answer questions of District Attorney Attor-ney Dorsey would be "a violation of the oath of the Kuklux Klan." Abbott is a teacher in a Sunday school. ) GENErlAL quests received from various countries, coun-tries, Including Germany, that American Ameri-can troops be retained on the occupied occu-pied German territory beyond July 1, the date now set by the war department depart-ment for complete evacuation by American forces on German soil. Mr. Weeks said the requests were under consideration and that no decision had been reached. Formal complaint issued by the fed-oral fed-oral trade commission against the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export company and 107 stockholders and officers of-ficers in the respondent association who are lumber manufacturers in the states of Oregon, California and Washington. Wash-ington. The complaint charges conspiracy con-spiracy to hinder and obstruct competition. com-petition. Charges that the Roessler Haslacher Chemical company of New York, a former German-owned concern, made "unconscionable profits" during the world war, were made In the senate by Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, during a general cross-fire of debate, as to whether the company should be given a tariff protection ef 10 per cent ad valorem on its production of cyanide. Secret service agents made a searching search-ing ivestigatlon into the fire that caused $75,000 to $100,000 damage to the treasury building and contents. No evidence of incendiarism was found. American financial conceptions need revision to provide longer term financing financ-ing for agriculture, Eugene Meyer, ' managing director of the war finance corporation, declared before the house banking and currency committee, which is conducting hearings on pending pend-ing agricultural relief legislation. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has decided to reopen the western grain and hay rate ease in so far aa those rates apply to Interstate ship ments of grain and hay in the mountain moun-tain and Pacific group of states. Hear ings will be conducted by Examinei H. C. Keene at the principal western cities, beginning at Butte, May 19 ; Portland, May 27; San Francisco and Carson early in June and Salt Lake City, June 12. The hearings will eon- elude in Arizona and New Mexico. FOREIGN Dr. Friedtjof Hansen, head of the International Russian relief organization, organiza-tion, received a letter from Captain Quisling, his representative in the Ukraine, asking that aid for the district dis-trict be expedited. The letter said that 5,000,000 persons were foodless aixl that deaths from hunger reached more than 10,000 daily. Cannibilism is increasing by leaps and bounds. Efforts are being made by American Ameri-can relief organizations in Europe, in conjunction with the British government, govern-ment, to evacuate the thousands of starving refugees who for three years have been such an affliction upon Constantinople Con-stantinople and the near east. The Rockefeller foundation' had offered to give $150,000 for the purpose provided the league of nations advances an equal sum. The British government has pledged $50,000 as its share. Myron T. Herrick, the American ambassador at Paris,, again miraculously miracul-ously escaped death when a taxicab in the Avenue de l'Opera crushed into in-to his automobile, badly smashing the car. Mr. Herrick luckily escaped without with-out a scratch. His other narrow escape es-cape was when a bomb exploded in his residence October 10 of last year, only a few minutes before he arrived. The menace hanging over Greece in her fight with the Turkish National- ists in Asia Minor is tending toward i the unification of all Greeks, who are sinking party difference in tho face of the common danger, it is reported in Greek quarters at New Y'ork. Samuel Gompers, veteran president of the American Federation of Labor, speaking to a crowd that jammed Madison Mad-ison Square Garden in a mass meeting meet-ing called by the New Y'ork branch of the Association Against the Prohibition Prohibi-tion Amendment, declared that "labor must make the fight now and we will never stop fighting until the rights of the people have been restored to them." "I and the federation I represent," rep-resent," Mr. Gompers said, "are in favor fa-vor of beer and light wines and against any attempt to enforce sumptuary sump-tuary laws aimed at the personal liberty lib-erty of our people." Walter J. Pierce, stock broker, was arreeted at New Y'ork, on a charge of having in his possession $7500 worth of Liberty bonds stolen in March, 1921. from a mail wagon in Los Angeles, Pierce claimed he got the bonds in a lefitimate transaction and did not know they were stolen. More than $250,000 will be required to make good the losses caused in Illinois Il-linois by the recent floods, it was reported re-ported my Walter Davidson, manager of the central division of the Red Cross, on the central division of the Red Cross, on his return from Chicago, Chica-go, from Springfield, where he received re-ceived reports from all of the stricken districts. Mr. Davidson reported that 200,000 acres still remain under water wa-ter and that the winter wheat, alfalfa and potato crops have been destroyed i and thousands of bushels of corn stor-1 ed for stock feeding has either been lost or waterlogged. Sis hundred families fam-ilies of tenant farmers, he estimated, would need assistance. Because, he alleged, they insulted the memory of his dog, Rev. Dr. Arthur Ar-thur M. Hyde, a dentist in Hoboken, filed a 6V5,000 suit against the Pathe company for taking and showing motion mo-tion pictures of the dead pet's funeral. fun-eral. He also announced his intention of suing every individual theater that showed the pictures, and, if he carries car-ries this out, the amount of the suit3 will total $2-5,000,000. Ex-Senator Albert J. F.evoridge has won the Republican nomination for anator in In&Una primary election. W. L. MacKenzie King, prime minister, min-ister, announced that the domlnian government was considering the ap-pointment ap-pointment of a Canadian minister to Washington. His announcement was made in reply to E. MacDonald, Liberal Liber-al member of the house of commons for Picton, N. S. W., who declared that there should be a more direct method of handling diplomatic questions ques-tions rising between Canada and the United States than the presen one of going through th British embaaay at Washington. |