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Show TELEGRAPH BREVITIES j PORTl,ANT. Ore.. Jan SB. The Jury trying John AN". Todd, runner superintendent sup-erintendent of schools of Salem, Ore . on a charge of fraudulent uso of tho malls In promotion of a timber land scheme disagreed today and was dismissed. dis-missed. This was the second trial 01 Todd on practlc illy the game charges, the first trial resulted in a disagreement. disagree-ment. Todd pleaded in hit own defense de-fense that ho had been duped by Car-1"9 Car-1"9 I Ltvron. promoter of lite scheme-Byron scheme-Byron was Jointly Indicted with Tdd and is a fugitive. WANTS GRAIN Gl kRANTEE l'AKQO, N, D., Jan. 25 A. A Uod-erbach, Uod-erbach, chairman of tho Non-Paf tlsan league, state executive committee !;ist night sent a telegram to North Dakota Da-kota senators and repfosoniatlvcj at Washinicton asking that congNBN enact legislation reviving the United States Grain corporation with powers to bUJ the 1922 crop and fix a $2.20 basic price for No 1 dark northern spring wheat, it was announced today. t INADIAHi WHEAT I HOI" OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 25- Can.idj's 1921 wheat crop was 300.S68.100 bushels, bush-els, aa compnr. d with, -OA. 189, 300 bushels In 1920. the bureau of statistics statis-tics said In a bulletin Issued today. Tho potato crop was 107.246.000 bushels bush-els as compared with 143.831.400 bush-in bush-in 1920. The aggrcKate value of all field crops was $931,863,670, a decline of approximately $500,000,000. Ul K I OJLD WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. Official reports from the San Francisco weather weath-er bureau to the department of agriculture agri-culture saya that the cold spell prevailing pre-vailing there for the last week brought tho moist severe freeze since 1913. The forecaster's dispatch said: "Most severe freeze since 1912. Groat damage to citrus fruit especially whvo unprotected. Extent can no I I c estimated for a week or r,ore. Considerable Con-siderable nursery stock, young fig trees and winter gardens aleo injured." i l Id Dl l CHICAGO. Jan- 25. Miss Geiuvieve Reynolds, :t member of Robert Li. Man-toll's Man-toll's Shakespearean company for 30 years, died today of pneumonia after a few hours' Illness. Lynn Pratt, Lamb's club. New York, and a brother broth-er In California have been notified Miss Reynolds has been on the stage for nearly a half century, according to Mr. Mantel). . I RNOft ( CF.PTS OLYM PI A, Wah.. Governor Hart has accepted the invitation of Governor Gover-nor Ben W. Olcott of uregon to attend a conference of governors from tho western state.s on the suppression of narcotics traffic. SACLT BTE MARIE, Mich.. Jan 25. The thermometer dropped to 20 below zero this morning, and with the straits of Mackinac icebound, Sault Ste. Marie and the surrounding territory terri-tory la virtually isolated from the rest of the stale, The Duluth. South Shore and Atlantic Atlan-tic car ferries Chief Wawatam and St. Marie, which attempted to negotiate nego-tiate the straits yesterday are stuck In the Ice with no prospects of being able to move VOTE DOWN DRAFT CHICAGO, Jan 26. The American Association today voted down the proposal pro-posal of the baseball advisory council for restoration of the draft. The vote was unanimous. SPENCER NOMIN ITED WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 Walter I Spencer of Craig. Colo., wafl nominated todav by President Harding to be registrar reg-istrar of tho land office at Glenwood Springs. Colo IRISH STILL l IGHT IWUIS, Jan. (By the Associated Associat-ed Press.) The International Irish league, organised hero today by the I world congress of tin- Irish race, decided de-cided the principal obfrct f the leacufl I must be to help Ireland gain full ln-' ln-' dependence. |