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Show NEWS OF A WEEK !fl CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hippenlngt That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and GJven In Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. More than $22,600,000 in credit has Deen extended farmers and stockmen during the two and one-half months since congress authorized the war finance fi-nance corporation to make advances tor agricultural and livestock purposes, purpos-es, according to figures announced. Announcement has been made of the closing of a deal between Utah and California capitalists which involves i $25,000,000 iron, coal and steel merger, mer-ger, the primary aim of which, it was ?aid will be to make the west independent inde-pendent of eastern steel and iron. Approval of advances for agricultural agricul-tural and livestock purposes a"hd to fi-oance fi-oance sugar beet growing aggregating more than $7,000,000 was announced oy the war finance corporation. Of this total $4,150,000 will be advanced at once in the Utah" and Idaho sugar oeet growing districts. For the first time in the history of the American Railway Development association, an organization composed of heads of the industrial colonization and agricultural agencies of the prin-- prin-- cipal railroads in the United States, will hold its nest annual convention in a Western city. The convention is to be held in Denver, May 10 to 12, L922. V w A transaction involving more than a million dollars was completed when the delivery of one thousand $1,000 funding bonds to purchasers of the municipal bond issue, in return brought a. check for $1,024,000 to Butte, Mont. The check covers the entire principal of the million-dollar funding issue, allows (22.50 as tnfeiest to date on each bond and also makes provisions for the payment pay-ment of $1,500, the bonus offered by the bank at the time of its purchase of the issue. GENERAL The government's case against Rose Pastor Stokes, noted millionaire socialist, social-ist, charged with utterances in violation viola-tion of the espionage act during the war, has been dismissed. " County authorities will not permit Ralph (Jbenchain to remarry his former for-mer wife, Madalynne, under indictment with Arthur C. Burch for the murder Df J. Belton Kennedy. Existence of greater stars than Be-telgnese, Be-telgnese, the galnt star whose diameter was measured as 300,000.000 miles, was announced by Trof. Albert A. Michel-son Michel-son in an address before the National Academy of Sciences. The price of turkey and other Thanksgiving foodstuffs are being run up by food profiteers, the produce exchange ex-change charges. Prices are advancing steadily, due to the manipulations of these profiteers. At least nine persons are believed to have been burned to death in a tenement tene-ment house fire in Now York recently, five budies, all unidentified, were found huddled together near n doorway door-way on Hie f if ih floor of the building, and firemen later found three more bodies, none of which was identified. Seventy-five million dollars becomes available as federal aid for road construction con-struction in the various States, the money to be spent under the supervision supervi-sion of the bureau of public roads, department de-partment of agriculture, under the federal fed-eral highway act. V Managers of 52 railroads, covering the territory east of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio river, began be-gan mailing notices to the various classes of railroad employes, calling for conference to consider readjustments readjust-ments in wages. The otTor of $2,100 each for the 200 wooden ships built at an average cost to the American public of JTOO.OdO apiece, dovs not comiuire- very favorably favor-ably with the $22,500 paid by a junk dealer for the old Civil War Frigate Richmond, which was burned recently lo that the copper and brass in her hull might be salvaged WASHINGTON. The government still owes the railroads rail-roads a balance of $2SO,OO0,000 for the use of the roads and equipment during the period of government control, according ac-cording to Senator Cummins, o" Iowa. Article five of the Chinese proposal provides that all monopolies, privileges and special interests which have been limiting her political jurisdiction and hampering her administrative freedom shall be removed as soon as circumstances circum-stances permit. Eight members of the World War Veterans' association and others who won congressional medals of honor or distinguished service awards during the Kite war, are to present memorials askng the pardon of Eugene V. Debs, now serving sentence in Atlanta penitentiary. peni-tentiary. The senate passed a resolution providing pro-viding funds to bring back from Siberia Si-beria discharged American soldiers, their wives and families, who are destitute des-titute there. Senator Wadsworth, republican, re-publican, of New York, estimated about $140,000 would be needed. The United States does not contemplate contem-plate offering any definite program for limitation of land forces during the conference and, so far as the American Ameri-can delegates have been able to ascertain, ascer-tain, no foreign delegation has prepared pre-pared any proposals. As many public sessions as possible are desired by the Japanese in the discussion dis-cussion of Pacific and far eastern questions, ques-tions, Japanese delegates declare. They added that the Japanese would welcome wel-come open discussions because they wanted the world to examine Japanese Japan-ese policies in the far east. m m Actual cost of the United States of the scrapping of the present naval building program, naval officials estimate, esti-mate, would be between four hundred million dollars and five hundred million mil-lion dollars, exclusive of any salvage plan." When the house of representatives agreed to the senate amendment to the emergency tariff bill and sent that measure to the president, it put an end to all prospects for any more free wool, and marked the beginning of a certain rise in the price of American wool that not only will affect wool still in the growers' hands, but more particularly par-ticularly the 1922 clip. A bill providing an extension of from three to six years, the time in which the department of justice may prosecute prose-cute "war profiteers," was passed by the senate without a dissenting vote. Senator Robert N. Stanfield of Oregon Ore-gon has offered a resolution authorizing author-izing the Secretary of State to invite all delegates to the Arms Conference to tour the United States as guests of the government, the invitation also to include foreign correspondents. FOREIGN. Considerable speculation is being indulged in-dulged in Tokio, Japan, as to what will be the attitude of the United States toward demands which it is anticipated an-ticipated Japan will make at the Washington Wash-ington conference on fortification of the Pacific islands. The council of ambassadors discussed discus-sed the amount of the money allowance allow-ance to be given former Emporer Charles of Austria-Hungary and his family. A sum between 300,000 and 500,000 gold marks yearly has been mentioned as the probable amount. 3 Ten persons were buried alive in the ruins and five others were injured in a terrific explosion in an oil refinery at Otzheitn, Oermany, according to advices ad-vices received. Damage was estimated at 25.iKiO.tHtO marks. Cause of the explosion ex-plosion was unknown. The plight of some of the landed proprietors of England was illustrated when tiie Marquis of Northampton, in returning thanks for a wedding present from the tenantry on his estate, said that at the present time lie was living on borrowed money. The British government, it: is announced an-nounced has handed the soviet government govern-ment as Moscow a firmly worded note absolutely denying the allegations of Foreign Minister Chitcberin that the British evidence of hostile Bolshevist propaganda in central Asia and Af. ghanistan was founded on forged documents, docu-ments, German or otherwise. Hungarian generals and statesmen, and a majority of the nobility who played brilliant roles during the war and at the court of the ex-Emporer, are following the example of Field Marshal von Koevess. the conqueror cf Ivangorod, who recently opened a cigar shop in Budapest, by setting up in business as shopkeepers, tailors, car pouters and clerks. |