The Dolores star., 1921-02-04
FOREIGN

climbed down the pier and rescued the
sailor
The ex-kniser is suffering from ex-
aggerated absent mindedness at his
home in Doom and is often unable TO
recognize his visitors or 10 write with
n pen, according to Berne dispatch to
Paris.
A loan of S3O, 1000. 600 has been nego-
tiated by the Belgian government with
the Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, and the contract for II has been
signed. The loan will be issued in the
United States and will be at nn inter-
est rate of s per cent.
The Supreme Court upheld the au-
thority of the alien property custodian
to seize securities deposited in this
country by the German insurance, COM
panies TO protect American policy
holders. The court said there could
be no doubt that the trading with the
enemy act authorized such seizure.
Thirty thousand refugees from
Crimea in the Caucasus, among whom
are twenty generals, seventy colonels
and a nephew of the novelist, Tolstoy,
face starvation unless aid is sent by
the allied governments, 1t is learned.
Typhus and other diseases are ram
pant and scores of deaths are being re-
ported daily.
Sunday passed without recurrence
Of the food riots by former soldiers
and the unemployed in Montreal. The
three soldiers arrested as the alleged
leaders of the raids on restaurants
have been freed on bail or given sus-
pended sentences. Groceries are being
distributed among married men in
cases of destitution.
Europe's debt to the United States
will be increased to 10000, 100000 by
1924, George f. Warren. professor of
economics at Cornell University, de-
clared at tariff revision hearings by
the House ways and means committee
This sum, he said, will include the So
600, O,0OO,OOO war time borrowings from
the American treasury
The States Department at Washing
ton has sent an emphatic note to Mex
leo protesting against encroachments
on the rights of American oil produc-
ers. Mexicans are alleged to have
taken advantage of announcement
system put in effect in Mexico when
claims are contested to take American
oil claims and reap profits from
them, it was learned. and ii is this
practice which the State Department
has protested against.
GENERAL
| Four bandits entered the Daniels
jewelry store at Toledo, Ohio, bound
the proprietor and customers hand and
foot, and escaped in an automobile
with jewelry valued at $4,000.
A bin making refusal Of landlord
to rent his property to families with
children a misdemeanor, punishable
by 500 fine and ninety days impris-
onment has been introduced in the
lower house of the Michigan Legisla-
| ture.
The sexton in the Eighteenth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church of New
York pulled the bell rope before morn
| ing services but no sound came. He
climbed to the steeple and found Tim.
othy Jones, "a, lying over the rope In
semi-delirTous condition. After being
revived, Jones said he climbed to the
belfry a week ago to escape the cold
and had lain there a week trying to
forget his hunger.
The navy yards on the Atlantic coast
should be sold and the money used for
the building of one big base on Nara
gansett bay, in the opinion Of Rear Ad-
miral William S. Sims, president of, the
naval war college. Speaking at New
port, Il. l., he said he believed Nara
gansett bay should be developed by the
erection of repair plants capable of
caring for whole fleet In the event
of the navy requiring repairs after an
engagement with an enemy force, he
said the fleet would be forced to scat
ter to several yards for the necessary
work.
The American Bonding and Casualty
Company with headquarters at Sioux
City, Iowa, capitalized at 100000 and
with s1OOOOO,000 worth of policies on
its books was declared insOlvent at Chi.
cago. Albert SABBATH, an attorney, was
appointed receiver. Liabilities were
said to be $3,OOO,OOO and assets "con-
siderably less"
That masked burglar with an
automatic pistol is no match for
woman armed with a painful of hot,
soapy dishwater was proved by Mrs.
Elsie Waite at Chelsea, Mass. The in
truder poked his head and pistol
through the kitchen doorway and de-
manded all the money in the house.
He got about gallon of boiling suds.
The speed artists that drive their
typewriters through the sprints at the
business schools at sixty miles an hour
or thereabouts, never tried an endur-
ance test, says Miss Agnes X. Clay,
New York typist, who turns out 100
sheets Of $50 words every day. Miss
| Clay issued challenge to any New