The Dolores star., 1921-10-21
FOREIGN

agency. 1t will include most OF Rus
sia's big paper mills.
Wholesale suspension of business by
stores and factories in the city OF
Puebla, Mexico, was reported In pro-
test against alleged excessive taxation
by the state government.
According to the latest statistics the
German casualties in the war We're l.
sos, 545 killed and 4,247. .l43 wounded,
including cases returned on the
wounded list more than once.
A Spanish cabinet council has ap-
proved new naval program for The
construction of fifty-eight warcraft of
various classes during the next six
years. The vessels TO he built are four
fast cruisers, six destroyers. twenty
gunboats and twenty-eight submarines,
The feature of the reichstag bank
statement for the week ending Sept.
30, issued at Berlin, is an increase in
the paper currency circulation by A.
205 300, 900 marks to S6,3S4 800 600
marks. During the week ending Sept.
30 new bank notes and loan bank notes
to the amount of 4.2l3,T00,OO0 marks
were issued.
The American freighter West
Comak, bound with cargo from San
Francisco for Glasgow, rammed the
Laini liner Rowan, GlasgowDublin
night passenger boat, in a thick fog
off Corsewallpoint, Scotland, near the
mouth of the river Clyde. While the
Comak was lowering its boats to aid
the stricken ship. a third steamer, the
Clan liner Clan Malcolm, from Glas-
Cow for Natal, South Africa, sped out
of the fog in answer to an s. o. 5. call
and crashed amidships of the Rowan.
which sank minute later. Thirteen
members of the Rowan's crew and
three passengers We're lost.
GENERAL
Mrs Myrtle Greenlee fell dead in re-
vival meeting in Paris, ILL.,, while plead
ing with her husband to join a church
The cause of death was described by
physicians as heart disease aggravated
| by religious excitement.
The State Bank of Muncie, Kansas,
was robbed recently, and in an eN-
change of shots between the robbers
and bank officials, 1t is reported, L. E.
Worthington, cashier of the bank, was
shot Telephone wires between Kan
sas City and Muncie We're cut, pre-
sumably by the robbers.
Ray v McGraw, formerly vice pres
ident and general manager of the Mis-
souri, Valley Cattle Loan Company Of
Omaha, which was declared bankrupt
some time ago, has surrendered to the
sheriff on indictments, one of which
charged embeZzlement of 100000 Of
the company's funds.
One person is known to have been
killed and two were injured seriously
by an explosion that wrecked a whole
sale grocery in Detroit. Police began
search of the debris in the belief
some of the occupants of apartments
in the upper floor might have per-
ished. Joseph Caruso, proprietor of
the grocery, was unable to explain the
explosion or give the police a clue.
Directors of the Associated Dress
Industries of America bowed to the
decision of Partisan designers and in
dorsed the longer skirts. This means
that manufacturers OF dresses over
the country will take up the matter in
their respective organizations for indi-
vidual action" said David ]. Moses
sohn, executive director. at is be-
lieved that by spring thc new length
will be considered established and pub
licity approved"
Mrs. r. ]. Rocker, 33, has been ar
rested in Memphis by federal officers
on charge of being n fugitive from
! justice, she being under Indictment in
Dallas, Texas, the officers said, in con-
nection with the embezZlement of S10,-
600 from the West Side National Bank
in that city. According to the officers,
Mrs. Rocker, for whom search has
been under way for six months, was
a friend of James Lyons, now serving
a seven-year sentence in bank fraud.
More than S1,OOO,OOO week was
spent on the highways in Ohio during
the past summer, beginning the later
part of June. Vouchers for total of
T-,Ipl'Dof Ntlt pdIh pul DS lHe Nhip
Highway Department for work dore
between June Il and July l. This Is
the largest amount ever spent in thar
short period of time since the depart
ment was organized.
A broken engagement and the an
nouncement that her promised fiance
was preparing to marry another girl
led to the fatal shooting of Boyd Rid.
niger, 27, farmer, of Bradley's Ferry
near Lead Hill, Ark. Miss Allie Stin,
nett, 81, his former sweetheart, in the
scuffle for the gun, was shot in the
thigh. Ridinger died four hours after
the shooting Miss Stinnett surren
dered to the police.
: Capt. A. B. Randall, master of the
steamship Hudson, has been cleared OF
a charge of violating one of the most
; sacred laws of Inc seas in that he