WORLD HAPPENINES
OF CURRENT WEEK
TREASURY TO REDUCE BANKS
GLEYS
Reduction in Number of Depositories
Tian To Save Interest.
Washington, D. C.—Drastic reduc
tion in the number of national banks
designated as government depositories
y ?
Brief Resume Most Important is being made by the treasury depart M. A. Houser, Herbert Hoover
ment with the result that less than
Daily News Items.
and Others Involved.
■100 of 1341 such institutions holding
federal funds on June 30, 1919, are
expected to escape the pruning knife.
Changes in the government's finan
cial situation, brought about by war's
fiscal operations, it was said officially
here, have made it necessary to abol
Events of Noted People, Governments ish hundreds of the depositories and
Advantage Said to Have Been Taken
revise the plan for distribution of gov
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
of Government Position to
ernment monies among banks employ
Things Worth Knowing.
ed since prior to 1912.
After a hearty
Boost Grain Prices.
While the treasury is cutting off
the inactive accounts, it also is re
meal, you’ll
Formation of a tribunal by the soviet ducing the balances carried by many
of Irkutsk to try Admiral Kolchak, other banks—in all, in fact, where Spokane.—Wholesale speculation in
avoid that
ex head of the all-Russian government government transactions do not re grain by milling companies of the Pa
cific northwest, among them three
stuffy feeling
in Siberia, was reported in a dispatch quire the use of large sums.
Portland
concerns
in
which
Max
11.
to the London Daily Mail from the
Scientific apportionments,” It is
if you chew
town of Manchuria, near the border said, “will be the basis in the future Houser, vice-president of the United
\
States
Grain
corporation
for
the
north
between Siberia and northern China. for disposition
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_________
of surplus
funds." Of- west, Is declared by the report to be
a stick of
Dispatches to Buenos Aires from the Ticials explained the new policy as to interested, is charged in a return made
state of Minas Geraes, Brazil, report depositories
1 would
'■* operate
------- so that by a United States grand jury here
that an earthquake Sunday shook down each bank would be able to realize Saturday afternoon.
a number of houses in the country equal returns on the basis of business Purchases of grain at the govern
districts, creating great panic among done for the government.
ment fixed price, estimated by the re
Included in the list of national banks port to total 85 per cent of the Wash
the inhabitants. The dispatches say
that in intensity the earth shock is already'struck off are 566 banks which ington state crop of 42.000,000 bushels
Other benefits: to teeth,
had accounts of only >1000 and which in 1919, by about half a dozen large
without precedent in that region.
were designated as government deposi
Barbers in Modesto, Cal., increased tories during the administration of grain concerns is charged by the re
breath, appetite, nerves.
the price of haircuts to 65 cents and Franklin McYeagh as secretary of the port, which declares that by purported
sales of grain to each other and
That’s a good deal to-
shaves to 35 cents. One reason given treasury under President Taft.
through -“manipulation of the grain
is that prohibition has sent the price
Practically half of the banks to be market centered at Minneapolis,” and
fiet for 5 cental
of hair tonics so high that customers
deprived of government balances al by other methods, they have advanced
prefer to grow bald rather than pay
ready have been eliminated from the
for treatments, and the rises on hair rolls and outstanding balances thus the price to about >1 a bushel above
cuts and shaves are expected to take have been reduced from >52,000,000 the government price.
The report charges also that the
care of the loss.
to >27,000,000. Officials were reticent proposed plan for an appropriation by
New low records for British, F ren ch ,____
as to the geographical location of the congress of >150,000,000 for European
Belgian, Italian and Danish exchange | depositories canceled,
famine relief is for the purchase of
were established in the New York
wheat "now owned largely by speculat
market Monday on a resumption of
ors
and in some cases by interests di
recent pressure to sell. The pound
rectly
and Indirectly connected with
sterling at >3.43% was 4% cents un
some
of
the officers of the United
der its previous minimum for a dis
States
Grain
corporation.”
count of about 29 per cent from the
Reference
is
made to the reported
normal of >4.86%.
AU
New York.—The possibility of car purchase by Herbert Hoover, former
The purchase of 17,000 caskets at a rying on wireless telephone conversa federal food administrator, and Julius
cost of >1,104,508 to be used for the tions at any distance is believed to Barnes, president of the United States
return of army dead from Europe has have been brought within reach by ex grain corporation, of an interest in a
been completed by the war depart periments conducted by Robert F. newspaper at Washington, D. C., and
ment, in accordance with its announc Gowen, engineer in charge of the De the report continues:
ed policy to return as soon as practic Forest Radio company station on Over-
We now note daily newspaper ar
able the bodies of American soldiers ton road, Ossining, the results of which ticles which seem to indicate that a
buried in France to the next of kin were made public Sunday. Employing propaganda is being carried on through
for interment in this country.
small aerial, a wave length of only the newspaper by Mr. Hoover urging
If a cow could (peak (he would talk about her health
Secretary Glass has asked congress 375 meters and one-third kilowatt of the financing on a huge scale of wheat
aa people do—became cowi suffer from ailments, little
for two million dollars for use in stop power, Mr. Gowen has talked to Chi and flour shipments to European coun
and big, same as human beings.
ping the smuggling of liquors into the cago and other western cities in ordin tries.”
The most common cow ailments, such s s Abortion, Retained
Aftarblrth, Lo»t ApprtlU, Hunch«, Heoura. etc., m u lt from s
United States. Mounted inspectors ary tones and been heard without dif The report opposes such a plan, de
diseased
condition of the digwtlvs or genital onrans. Any of
claring "sales to Europe will benefit
will be placed on duty along the Mexi ficulty.
these diseases and many others can bo successfully treated or
prevented by using Kow-Kure, tho great cow medicine.
can and Canadian borders in sufficient His apparatus is a development of only individuals, and the consumer will
Feed dealers and druggists sell It—40c. and 11.20
numbers “to patrol hundreds of high that used during the war, but his pay the bills.”
cksges. Ereo book, "Tho Uotuo Cow
K ctor,”
sent on request.
ways, paths and streams that afford achievement goes far ahead of any
easy means of egress for smugglers.” thing accomplished then. During the President Wilson Accepts
Three months’ bickering and an al war conversations were engaged in
LYNDONVILLE. V T .
Sec. Lane’s Resignation
most unbreakable deadlock on the oil between airplanes and the ground or
land leasing bill were ended late Mon by ships a few miles distant from one
Washington, D. C.—President Wilson
A Lady of Distinction.
day through agreement by house and another. In Mr. Gowen’s experiments Saturday accepted, effective March 1.
which
have
been
carried
on
during
Is
recognized
by the delicate fascinat
senate conferees. Senator Smoot
the resignation of Franklin K. Lane, ing Influence of the perfume she uses.
the
last
30
days,
he
has
talked
over
a
LISTEN TO THIS!
Utah chairman of the senate manag
for nearly seven years secretary of the A bath with Cutlcura Sonp and hot
distance of 90 miles.
ers, announced the conference report
water
to
thoroughly
cleanse
the
pores;
We have reached the commercial interior. The necessity that after 21
would be submitted to the house and
SAYS CORNS LIFT
developtaent
of the wireless telephone years of public life he must “think of followed by n dusting with Cutlcura
an effort made to obtain immediate
Talcum
Powder
usunliy
means
a
Clear,
other
duties”
was
the
reason
assigned
should say,” he stated, “for a dis
consideration.
aweet, healthy skin.—Adv.
RIGHT OUT NOW
tance of at least 300 miles—a service by Mr. Lane for his .withdrawal, and
Elimination of useless employes in that is identical with the long-distance in reply Mr. Wilson wrote his hope
Files Seldom Crawl Downward.
“that your future career will be as full
non productive business, the speeding telephone.”
You corn-pestered men and women
A
fly on a windowpane will crawl need
up of all lines of industry commensur An important phase of the work is of honorable success as your past.”
suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
ate with the present activity of the that it has progressed during great
Mr. Lane’s resignation was submit to the top, fly back to the bottom that nearly killed you before, says
this Cincinnati authority, because a
farmers and determination of retailers static and atmospheric disturbance ted last Thursday, hfs letter shows, but and crawl up again. This order Is few
drops of freezono applied directly
seldom
reversed.
It
is
on
record
that
and jobbers to exact only a reasonable and interference from other stations. It had been known for many weeks he
on
a
tender, aching corn or callous
profit were recommended as a solu "In spite of all this," said Mr. Gowen, intended this action as soon as Presi a fly crawled up a windowpane thirty- stops soreness at once and soon the
two
times,
returning
each
time
to
the
corn or hardened callous loosens so it
tion for the high cost of living prob “when I picked up the telephone trans dent Wilson could spare him. In dis
can be lifted out, root and all, with
lem by Edwin T. Meredith on taking mitting apparatus at Ossining and cussion of his probable successor, Mr. same place.
out pain.
the oath of office as secretary of agri spoke into it, just as anyone might Alexander T. Vogelsang, also of Cali
A small bottle of freezone costa
There Is nothing heavenly about
fornia, was mentioned.
culture.
little at any drug store, but will
speak into the ordinary telephone,
war, or dyspepsia. The world is out very
positively take off every hard or soft
discovered
that
my
voice
was
being
growing
the
first
and
Garfield
Tea
More than >4,000,000 worth of furs
corn or callous. This should be tried
H avana Haa Big Fire.
will conquer dyspepsia.—Adv.
were sold Monday in St. Louis at the distinctly heard, first of all, in the
as it is inexpensive and Is said not
Havana.—Fire
destroyed
the
princi
to Irritate the surrounding akin.
opening of the winter auction of the little town of St. Mary’s, O. The radio
Divinity in Friendship.
If your druggist hasn’t any freezone
international fur exchange. Price ad amateur at St. Mary’s, it seems, was pal buildings of the American Agricul
tell him to get a small bottle for you
tural
&
Chemical
company
and
their
The
most
I
can
do
for
my
friend
is
at
that
time
picking
up
the
local
dots
vances were recorded in virtually
from his wholesale drug house. It le
every lot sold. Nine thousand govern and dashes, and when he beard this contents at Regia, near here, Friday, simply to be his friend. I have no fine stuff and acta like a charm every
with
a
loss
estimated
at
more
than
wealth to bestow on him. If he knows time.—Adv.
ment sealskins brought >1,282,000 and voice from out of the air, the sending >10,000,000.
that I am happy in loving him, he will
4000 for the Canadian government net locater of which was reported to be
Better general health is sure to fol
ted >572,000. The top price on seal Ossining, N. Y., he was, to say the The flames are said to have origin want no other reward. Is‘not friend low the use of the natural Herb laxa
ated
on
board
the
American
wooden
ship
divine
in'
this?—Henry
D.
Thor
least,
somewhat
startled.
was >177 a pelt, a 55 per cent increase
tive, Garfield Tea. It corrects consti
“He Immediately answered by send freighter Brookland, laden with ni eau.
pation.—Adv.
over last September.
trate, which was moored at the Regia
ing me a telegraph Inquiry which
Rural mall carriers are now resign distinctly heard in my own receiving docks, in Havana harbor. The Brook Garfield Tea keeps the liver nor
Here’s a Genlua.
ing at the rate of 50 a day, W. D. apparatus. I then repeated my con land Is a total loss. Numerous explo mal.—Adv.
Adv.—“I offer my services to the
Brown, representing the National Rur versation to him and asked him to sions spread panic among the inhabi
Public as Literary Writer on all sub
Getting It Straight.
al Mail Carriers’ association, told the confirm the conversation immediately tants of the village of Regia. Several
jects, whether solium or joyfull. Alsoe,
senate postal committee, adding that by letter. This he did.
firemen are reported to have been In- Np, girlie, the court crier is not re Obituarst, giving Departed Friends
the service faced serious difficulties
sponsible for the sob stuff.—Louisville Glorious welcome to tho Halrafter.”—
, ured.
Courier-Journal.
unless financial relief was accorded
Honorary certificates will be pre
Boston Transcript.
Virginia Hits Suffrage.
the employes soon. He asked a per sented to the next of kin of the Amer
manent increase of approximately 60 ican soldiers, sailors and marines who Richmond, Va.—Virginia Friday re
Skin Tortured Babies Sleep
per cent over the present base pay of died In the war, by the French gov acted the federal suffrage amendment
by
a
vote
of
2-4
to
10.
The
action
fol
>1200 per annum, with a minimum ernment, through the posts of the
Sixth xnd Everett Sto.. PortUnd. Ore
lowed an all-day session marked by
base of >1920. The increased annual American Legion on Washington’s stormy
Foor Moska from Union Docwt Two bloeki
debal*. This makes the sec
expense would be about >58,000,000, birthday, it was announced at legion ond defeat of the suffrage question in
OvmlOOi
« •too 7lo to ■.00.
h e said.
headquarters in Indianapolis.
Soap 25c, Qjatamat 2 5 sad 50e,Tslcom 25c.
the Virginia legislature.
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