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Show NEWS STORY OF THEPASI WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN I Dr. S. L. Joshi, an East Iadlnn educator edu-cator and lecturer has been given an appointment as professor at the Uni-.verslfy Uni-.verslfy f Nebraska. Dr. Joshl states only one Indian woman out of a hundred hun-dred can read. Hallway mechanics at Winnipeg, Canada, have asked for a 44 hour work week. The federal reserve agent at San Francisco, 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 surfs having Interfered with the catch. The Columbia river highway has been repaired a'nd is again open for travel. Six hundred high school pupils are expected to attend the conference of etudents? presidents and editors at Eugene, Eu-gene, Oregon, about April 18th. The state of Oregon is now paying every six months interest aggregating $1,021,004.46 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 bonds. Duchesne, Utah. The United States geological survey Is preparing a surrey sur-rey of the Uintah basin. The report will Include a summary of the geology of the basin and cllmatological features. fea-tures. Including average amount of precipitation, frost reeords and stream (low. 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 operators. The governor gove-rnor urges all citizens to work for law enforcement. There is little hope that former Em-pror Em-pror Charles of Austria-Hungary will surrlve his present Illness, according to advices received here from the Island Is-land of iladeria. 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 whs ot by Judge Morgan after Miss Alice Jonas reuged 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, Maim!, Fla. electrical engineer. en-gineer. In a suit Initiated litre. Huff claims that he orignated the magneto now In use on motor cars manufactured by Ford and claims that ford has not paid him In full for the Invention. Thirteen world war veterans secured secur-ed farms In tie land drawing at the White BufT's-IIanfonl soldier land settlement set-tlement area In Washington near Olyrnphla. Even though she sh-wcrcd prodigious prodigi-ous gifts of diamonds and money upon hlin, Mrs. Josle Knrey, .Vi-ycar-old widow, of Portland Ore., failod in her efforts' to win the love of Albert Earl Illghley, 27-yenr-oM ex-con vlct. And when Illghley eloed to San Francisco Fran-cisco with a bride of his own choosing, Mrs. Kim-y, in a .spirit of revenge, dinned ids arrest for the alleged theft of the diamonds wliidi she had presented pre-sented to him as gifts. At n party hold at "'onim, Img Island, old fashioned kissing games were Indulged. Later 40 out of the 11 per-j'tis present had Influenza. The WIM Life league of Amerlea was formed at Pittsburg, with representatives rep-resentatives from twenty-five slates attending. at-tending. Organization of sportsman and lovers of outdoor life In every state and territory of the 1,'nltwl fUatea, Canada mid Mexico was planned plan-ned and will be carried out In Hie rx-or future. Meredith It. Mnrshnll of Pittsburg Is president. 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 exam, ination of the commissioned personnel. person-nel. Under special Instructions issued to army doctors by Surgeon General Ireland at Washington, when the January Jan-uary physical examinations began, efforts ef-forts are being made to locate "definitely "defi-nitely any focal Infections (abscessed teeth, diseased tonsils, etc.) or other conditions which may be responsible for chronic degenerative changes." Utah ranks thirty-ninth among the states of the union, rated according to the value of farm property on January Jan-uary 1, 1920; ranks thirty-eighth on the value of cpjps 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 S5S,0C7,000, and her livestock live-stock at $13,730,000. 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, 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 $25S,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 corporation, corpor-ation, just sent to congress, shows that total sugar beet loans have readied readi-ed $0,99C.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, $10,651,101 (Including sugar loans) ; Idaho, $4,070,372 (including (in-cluding guitar loans) ; Wyoming, $7,-2(55.744; $7,-2(55.744; NTada, $248,000; Montana, $9,538,402. Familiarity with hospital work Is making the world safe from diseases Surgeon General Cumming of the public pub-lic health service declared at Washington Wash-ington in a statement showing 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 to be one to eradicate diseases, conserve health and lengthen life. Preliminary reports, received by tho treasury, of collections of March 15 Instalments of Income and taxes, show-id show-id a total of $20,000,000 on deposit In federal reserve banks. On the basis of the amount received in far, official! declared It was Impossible as yet to determine whether Secretary Mellon's year aggregatad $272,000,000. FOREIGN The league of nations la likely to be asked to take control of die Dardanelles, Dar-danelles, It has 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-la Par-la before the meeting of the Genoa economic conference. It will assert that 00,000,000,000 marks supplementary supplemen-tary tax levy Is a financial and technical tech-nical Impossibility and also will reject re-ject the prot..Bed financial control by the commissions. Presents of wood, broad or meat are more welcome than flowers to Odessa, Russia's grand otwrn singers. Among tho gifts to the orchestra conductor con-ductor of the famous plnyhouso at a recent benefit In honor of his twenty-five twenty-five years service was twenty-five pounds of firewood. The sltiL-ors receive re-ceive salaries the best of which, .-5iX, .-5iX, (H0 rubles mnntliy, will pay for only a und and a half of bread dally. Many of the bent singers have left, but there still are thirty-five principals, with n chorus nod ballet. Several performances a week are given, giv-en, . "India iniift have self-govo.rnmo.nt. She has gone too far, and unless England Eng-land sees fit to give It, there Is going to be trouble f"r her. There are more than 2-'!,0oO.'o0 people In India ready to die for tills eawM and nlready England Eng-land Is inlng force In trying to suppress sup-press public sentiment In India." It. !'. I,. .lohl, bend of one of the aristocratic aristo-cratic Hindu families of P.oinbay and dean of the department of English at fiurorln rolle:o In that city, thus ex-pressed ex-pressed himself nt Salt I.nke City meeting regarding the present political situation In tils native land. |