The Dolores star., 1921-07-29

WESTERN
A $1,000 silver trophy has been Of
fered by the Los Angeles speedway
management to the first aviator max
ing a nonstop flight from Los Angeles
to the Atlantic coast.
Fire destroyed the refinery of the
California Fresno Oil Company at
Fresno, Calf, together with ten tanks
containing $4,000 gallons of fuel oil,
causing damage estimated at between
$25O,0OO and 100000. A distillate ex-
plosion started the fire.
Home preserved fish affected with
botulinus germs caused the death of
Mrs. Ida Lemens of San Jacinto at
the county hospital at Riverside, Calf,
according to health authorities. Sew
enty-five chickens out of flock of 200
to which contents of the can were
thrown, also died.
A resolution endorsing the policy of
n general strike of organized labor in
the San Francisco bay region as the
only effective means of carrying on the
fight" was adopted by n conference of
about 400 building trade workers in
that city. The conference had been
called in an effort to settle differences
which have tied up building operations
since May l.
Bewteen forty and fifty employees of
the Utah Gas and Coke Company at
Salt Lake City, left their places upon
the expiration of the agreement with
the company. The company offered
the men a 20 per cent wage reduction
and the men voted to accept 10 per
cent wage decrease. This the COM
pany refused and as result the men
walked out. The places of all the men
leaving were Immediately filled.
The steamer Roosevelt, on which
Admiral Robert E. Perry penetrated
the Arctic in his successful expedition
TO the North Pole, has been chartered
TO go into Bering sea to the relief of
Capt. Roald Amundsen's disabled eX-
ploring ship Maud, Captain Amund-
sen has announced in Seattle. The
Roosevelt, now in Seattle harbor, will
be ready to leave before the end of
the month and will tow the Maud to
Seattle. This vessel will be manned
by volunteer crew.
WASHINGTON
Commercial traffic through the
Panama canal during June was the
lowest for any month in the last fiscal
year in tonnage, number of vessels and
tolls collected, according to a report
by the Panama canal office. The
number of commercial vessels was 1913
as compared with 21O in the preceding
month and 2O1 in June, 1920. while
tolls collected were S7jl ,961, against
SS35,9O0 in May, and S711,2GS in the
preceding June.
Estimates of the amount of wheat
sown in seventeen countries for which
statistics are available show an acre
age of 151,OOO,OOO acres this year,
against 155,0OO,000 last year, accord
ing to summary of foreign crop
prospects made public by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The estimates
were based upon reports from Bel
gium, Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania,
Czecho- Slovakia, Algeria, Morocco,
Spain, France, England, Italy, Luxem-
burg, Norway. Tunis, Canada, India
and the United States.
Reports from practically all por-
tions Of the cotton belt indicate there
is an unusually severe boil weevi in
festation this year in nearly all sec
tions of the South, according to the
Department of Agriculture. The in
festation this year is the heaviest ex-
perienced in seven years, except 1916.
Idle freight cars on the railroads of
the United States numbered 369 525 on
July s, a decrease of 4,266 from the
previous week, according to state
ment by the American Railway AssO-
citation. A brisk demand for box cars
to meet grain car shortages in the
West reduced the surplus in that class
to 145,112, which was 1,1S6 fewer than
the excess of box cars at the end of
the preceding week.
The administration has opened nego-
tiations for the resumption of diplo-
matte relations with Germany, it has
been announced at the White House.
At the direction of the administration,
Ellis Loring Dresel, American commits
sioner in Berlin, has been carrying on
informal discussions with the German
foreign office looking toward formal
negotiations for the resumption of
peace-time relations with the German
nation.
The House agreed to Senate
amendment to the bill authorizing an
increase from S15,OOO,OOO to $3O,OOO,-
900 in the bonded Indebtedness of the
Philippines. The amendment would
permit the insular government to is
sue temporary certificates of indebted
ness to the extent of S2O,OOOOOO The
present maximum is $10OOO,OOO.
Two Chinese were shot and killed on
truck farm a mile and one-quarter
south of Phoenix under circumstances
which attaches of the sheriffs office
say point to struggle between two