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AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD. FROM ALL SOURCES SAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE. MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND. Western Newspaper Union News Service WESTERN The fifty-fifth annual encampment of the G. A. R. will be held in Port reland, Me., according to advices ceived from Sioux Falls, S. D. While skating on the Milwaukee river in Wisconsin, the three sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Hecker of West Bend, Clarence, 12: Leo, 10. and Lawrence, 6, were drowned. The minimum charge for an automobile license in Texas is $7.50, which includes any motor from one horsepower up to twenty-one horsepower. From twenty-two horsepower on up, there is a charge of 35 cents per horsepower. Traveling at a rate faster than seventy-two miles an hour, seaplanes Nos. 5 and 6 of the N-C division in the San Diego to Panama flight, reached Banderas bay on the Mexican mainland, ending a successful dash from Magdalena bay. Two women were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Lone Star hotel at Desdemonda, an oil town in Eastland county, Texas. The victims were Mrs. Bantell and her nineteenyear-old daughter, members of a vaudeville company. Brick masons employed by the Utah Fire Clay Company of Salt Lake City, which employs several hundred men, have asked the company to reduce their wages from $10 to $8 a day, according to announcement made by Lawrence Greene, manager. Yeggmen who blew the safe in the plant of the American Laundry Company at Sioux Falls, S. D., used so much nitro-glycerin that the building was badly damaged. They obtained $335 in cash and checks, and damage to the building was estimated at $1,000. Fire losses in Nebraska since Dec. 1,1919, up to Nov. 1. 1920, totaled $2. 320,151.71, according to statistics given out by C. E. Hartford, state fire marshal. During this eleven-month period seven persons lost their lives as results of fires. Almost half the loss was sustained in Omaha, where there were 442 fires causing damage estimated at $650,521.26. WASHINGTON All proposals advanced by the "big five" meat packers for divesting themselves of their stockyard interests were rejected by Justice Stafford in the District Supreme Court. The companies were given thirty days to submit new plans. Wholesale charges of wilful discrimination against negroes at the polls in the southern states were made by representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before the House census committee, and brought forth vigorous objections from committee members from the South. A decrease of $192,932,075 in the public debt during the last month of 1920 has been announced by the treasury. On Dec. 31 the total gross debt was $23,982,224,168, as compared with $24,175,156,244 on Nov. 30. The decrease during the last quarter of the year amounted to $105,131,196 from the Sept. 30 total of $24,087,356,128. A total of 2.325.000 workers are out of employment in the country, accord ing to a survey of the industrial situation made by Clint C. Houston for the current issue of Labor, official organ of the Plumb Plan League. Mr. Hous ton asserts that his inquiry disclosed the greatest industrial slump since the money panic of 1907. Parents of minor children of the sage Indian tribe won their suit in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for a-mandamus to compel the secretary of the interior to pay them moneys due their children as accumulated bonuses on the sale of Osage oil lands. The decision affects withheld bonuses of more than $33,000,000. A $50,000,000 item for army post permanent construction, submitted by the War Department and refused by the House appropriations committee in reporting out the sundry civil supply bill, was the initial step in a new army housing project contemplating expenditures of more than $300,000,000 over a period of ten or twelve years. The federal government is planning an increase of 50 cents a horsepower on motor vehicles, 2 cents a gallon on gasoline and extra sales taxes to raise $290,000,000 more from motor car owners, which would make the total taxation from the industry practically $500,000,000. The People's Bank of De Soto, Mo. has been closed pending completion of an examination of the institution's books. A number of overdrafts were put through the bank, it was said. Ros coe B. Jones, cashier, committed suicide by shooting in St. Louis. are More than 20,000 ex-service men receiving medical care, 12,000 in govI ernment hospitals and 8,400 in private it hospitals at government expense, was stated at the war, risk bureau These figures show the disposition of the men up to Dec. 16. The Seventh Day Adventists' denom-
