The Dolores star., 1920-06-11
GENERAL.

i'al!, 10 beneVa IN TWO nOlrS.
GENERAL.
A hydro-airplanc marked "No. S26,'
was picked up ut sea off Scotland light
ship by the steam pilot boat New York.
The hydr0-airplane was upside down
and there were no traces of any occl-
pants.
Ten leaders of the railroad strike in
New Jersey We're indicted by the fed
eral grand jury ut Newark under the
Lever act. They We're charged with
conspring to obstruct interstate com
mcrcc.
Franklin X. Lane. former secretary
of the interior. was elected director
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. Mr.. Lane retired from the
cabinet March |. after twcnty-one
years of public life.
Wildair, owned by Harry Payhc
Whitney, won the historic MetrOpul-
itan handicap at Belmont park, at New
York. Thundcrclap was second and
On Watch THIRD. The time was
| :3S A..
Sweeping denial that Great Britain
| was seeking to mOnOpOliZe the worlds
fuel oil supply was made in New York
by Sir Auckland GeddcS, British am
bnssador, speaking at the Pilgrims
dinner.
Fifty persons saved themselves by
| jumping into life net spreud by po'
lice and firemen when fire broke OUT
| in the Hotel Manhattan, at Paterson,
| y. j., II fOur-stOry structure in the bus
mess section. The loss is estimated at
S5OO,OOO.
Indictments against seven persons.
including three women. charging that
they violated the income tax law by
| the alleged failure to mark prices on
| theater tickets which they sold, were
returned ut Chicago by the fedora.
grand jury.
Herbert Hoover is being considered
by the executive committee of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| Corporation for president of that in
| stitution. 10 succeed the late Richard
G.. MacI.auren. it has been reported al
Boston.
A fund of half million dollars was
pledged by more than 1000 business
men Mt n luncheon of the merchants
nssocintion TO finance an independent
trucking corporation in an effort to re-
lieye the tieup of freight IN New York
resulting from strikes of various labor
organizations.
The United States is in no danger OF
exhausting its coal supplies in the near
future. for about 1000 yenrs' supply
is available, 5. NJ. Darling of the bu-
reau of mines told the twelfth annual
convention of the international Rail
way Fuel Association. He estimates
the supply of minnbie cohl at 3,153,'
G37, lOO, 900 tons. Last years consump-
tion. he said, was 530,OOO,OOO tons.
The u. $. super-dreadnaugh Mary
land is soon to 90 in commission. This
huge ship will have a displacement OF
33. 100 tons. The Maryland is electric
alIy propelled and electrical through
out Approximately 2S,OOO horsepower
is available, enough to supply power to
n city of over 100000 population. She
Inns fuel capacity of l.OOO,OOO gallons
OF oil. She will be the first U. $. navy
ship to mount lG-inch guns. OF which
she will carry eight.
Kansas City dealers of wearing ap'
parel are quoting prices In their adver'
Using mt reductions ranging from lO to
90 per cent. One department store
which sold women's silk hose formerly
Mt 81 to SO, lowered It's price to $l.0''
and shoes formerly priced at SIG went
for $7.75.
The American WOOlen Company oi
New York, the American WOODEN Com
pany Of Massachusetts and william NJ
wood, president of both companies
were charged with profiteer'hS II.
woolen cloth in an indictment returned
at New York by the federal grand jury