Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1919 — NEWS ITEM IN PATAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

NEWS ITEM IN PATAGRAPHS

New Utah National Path Favored. —A /favorable report was ordered yesterday by the senate public lands ■committee on a bill by Senator Smoot, of Utah, to establish Zion National park, comprising 76,000 acres, in southern Utah. Grasshoppers Hurt Crops.—Great clouds of grasshoppers have damaged grain crops in the Cuyama district and orchards in Paso Robles, and have traveled to the Foxen Canon ■bean fields, In California. Ranchers are poisoning them, and new hordes •continue to arrive. Sets Wire Rate for Six Months.— Telegraph rates, fixed by the government under federal control, would be extended for a “reasonable period not exceeding six months” under an amendment adopted tentatively last night by the house during consideration'of legislation to fepeal the control act. Enlistments in Army Slow Up.— Despite the educational advantages and the opportunity for travel offered by the army, the enlistments show only a negligible increase over those in 1916 and 1917, before the war. Then the average number of recruits in one day was twenty-five; now it is thirty, although yesterday it jumped to forty-one. T. N. V»H Quite Presidency.Theodore N. Vail, president of the Almerican Telephone and Telegraph company, has resigned as president, but will continue as chairman of the board of directors, it was announced yesterday. H. F. Thayer, for forty years identified with the operation of the telephone system, has been made president of the company. U. S. Department Nearly “Broke.” —ls President Wilson doesn’t get home before July 1, many departments of the government will find themselves penniless and forced to suspend operations. On that date, the current appropriations will lapse and the president must be on hand to sign the new supply bills to make the money for the next fiscal year available. Communication by Cable Resumed. —Cable communication with Germany has been partially resumed. The war trade board announced yesterday that all cable companies and censors had received instructions to accept and transmit cablegrams relating to the supply of foodstuffs to Germany under the Brussels agreement, When the messages were otherwise unobjectionable. Senate Upholds Dry Law. —Any possibility of congress repealing or modifying the war-time prohibition, which goes into effect July 1, went glimmering yesterday. The senate, by a vote of fifty-five to eleven, refused to sanction a modification of the law permitting the manufacture and sale of beer and wine from July } mnsfcbtoijft&a) pr&Z&ca&on comes effective in January, 1920. Bomb Throwers Traced.—William J. Flynn, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice and radical hunter for the government, said yesterday at Washington, D. C., that the source of recent bomb outrages is known and the eilement fostering the red outbreaks has been traced. He insisted that the whole group would be cleaned out in time, but probably not before other bomb outrages have been committed. U. S. Sells War Airplanes.—The government has received twelve per cent of the original cost in airplane sales, according to an official report published yesterday. Eleven hundred standard J-l planes were sold for S2OO each, about four per cent of the initial cost; 1,616 IN-4 planes ■brought S4OO each, or eight per cent, and 4,608 Curtiss were sold for S4OO each, or nineteen per cent. The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor ooinpany purchased the entire lot.