The Holbrook news., 1921-08-12
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOlNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
twsstern Newspaper Union News Service,


Losses that total $16O,OOO were an
 nounced to have been caused by fire
 of unknown origin, which started in a
 street car barn at Kansas City anC spread to adjoining buildings.
 Lewis H. Harding, secretary of the Salt Lake Rotary Club, prominent il
 Masonic circles, and reported to be a
 distant relative of President Harding
 was drowned while on a fishing trir at Jackson's lake, near Moran, Wyo.
 according to a telegram received by
 his business partner.
 In blowing the sGfe of the Charity
 State bank at Charity, H., the rob.
 bers used so much explosive that the
 safe was blown out through the rear
 of the building. The safe door was
 blown out through the front of the
 building, and the structure was set on fire, burning to the ground. Officials
 of the bank said there was no clew to the identity of the robbers, and that it was impossible to say how much they obtained, as everything in the build ing was destroyed.
 Reports that J. Henry Albers. Port land capitalist, convicted of violation of the espionage act, whose conviction was set aside by the United States Supreme Court and a new trial or dered, was blind and had become para lyzed on the left side, have been con firmed by a government physician, ac- cording to announcement by the Unit ed States district attorney in Portland, Ore. The district attorney said he would transmit the doctors request to Attorney General Daugherty at Wash ington, D. C., with a request for post ponement of the retrial. Should Al i bers' disability prove permanent, said the district attorney, dismissal of the charges would be asked.
 WASHINGTON
 Postmaster General Hays has an- nounced appointment of Mrs Mary K. McCarty as assistant superintendent of foreign mails. She is the second woman to be appointed to an executive position in the department, and entered the service in 1900 as a clerk
 The Senate adopted a resolution by Senator Mccormick, Republican, Hi nois, providing for an investigation of American occupation and administra- ton of Haiti and Santo Domingo. A special committee of five senators will conduct the inquiry.
 Arming of postal AeInployes since May l, and the standing reward of $5,0O0 offered by the Postoffice De partment to anyone bringing about the detention and arrest of a mail robber, has served to reduce the number of depredations against the service to a remarkable extent, according to pos tai bulletin from Postmaster General Will H. Hays.
 Exports to Europe fell off nearly S1, 800, 100000, while those to South America increased more than S3O,OOO- 900 during the fiscal year ending June 30, last, as compared with the previous year, Commerce Department figures disclosed. In June there was a sharp decline in both directions compared to the same month year ago. The years exports to Europe were s, 3,40S, 100000 against $4, ,S63, 100000 in 1920; imports were $937, 100000 against $1,179,OOO,- 900.
 Legislation authorizing payments to Liberia under the $5,OOO,OOO loan to that country previously arranged for, was asked by President Harding in letter transmitted to the Senate. An accompanying letter from Secretary Hughes said moral obligation" rested on the United States to make this loan.
 Intoxicating beverages imported in to the United States during the fiscal year were valued at more than $5,OO0,- GOO, as compared with about $5OOO0O in the previous year, according to re- ports issued by the Commerce Depart- ment. Wine was the largest item in | the list of intoxicants entering during the year, amounting to more than g. GOO, 1000 gallons, as compared with 2S,- | GOO in 1920.
 The steamship President, assigned by the government to the Postoffice | has inaugurated it's twen- tyfour-hour service of runs to Quaran- tine to rush in the mails from inbound | steamers. Postmaster General Hays and members of the congressional post office committees were aboard. The service is expected to eliminate nearly hours delay in getting for eign mails ashore.
 E. F. Bishop, president of the Ha- waiian Sugar Planters Association, as absolute falsehoods the report of the legislative commit tee of the American Federation of La. DOT, made public at Washington, inso- far as it charged conspiracy on the part of Hawaiian planters to provide for admission of Chinese coolies into -he United States.
 The House passed a bill changing he period for doing annual assessment work on unpatented mineral claims rom the calendar to the fiscal year. The measure now goes to the Senate.
 Total resources of all state banks md private banking institutions under tate control in the United States ex- ] eed by Se,OOO, 100000 the aggregate re- oCrces of all the national banks in the { country, according to a compilation of i igures made by R. N. Sims, secretary ' reasurer of the National Association ( if Supervisors of State Banks.
 Eugene Roberts of Seattle, Wash, t nd Harry Myers of Pawnee, Okla, ( stunt aviators, were instantly killed |