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Show BUlTEfjli FROM WIRE NEW YORK, March 17. Champion Johnny Wilson and for-mer for-mer titleholder, Mike O'Dowd, were both in the specified limit when they weighed in this afternoon preparatory to the midcUe-weight midcUe-weight titular battle tonight Wilson weighed 158 pound3 and O'Dowd 159 1-4. The conditions called for 160 pounds at 2 p. m. and a forfeit of $3000 if overweight. ! WASHINGTON, March 17 -Creation by congress of an interstate inter-state motion picture commission as a substitute for federal censorship cen-sorship of films was proposed in letters from Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, of the International Reform Bureau to film producers made-public today. WASHINGTON, March 17. Action of army and navy offi- cers in refusing to permit American troops to participate in an Evacuation day parade at Boston of which Irish freedom advocates are in charge, was formally approved today by President Harding after a conference with Secretary Hughes of the state department and Secretary Weeks of the war department. WASHINGTON, March 17 The American consul at Tampico advised the state department today that an urgent request had been made to tho authorities at Tampico to affect the arrest and punishment of the masked men who killed three American sailors from a merchant snip when the sailors were entering a small boat ' to return to their vessel. TACOMA, Wash , MaTh 17. The body of C. D. Danaher, one o'f the leading timbermen in the northwest, was washed up by the tide today at the dock cf his mill. The body was attached to a piling by a rope. WASHINGTON. March 17 Wholesale prices of commodities continued to decrease in February with a drop of 54 per cent for the month or a total decrease of 38.5 per cent from the high i peal; prices of May, 1920, said the monthly bulletin issued today by the bureau of labor statistics. i - |