Williams news., 1921-07-29

WESTERN
 4 $1,OOO silver trophy has been of
 fered by the Los Angeles speedway
 management to the first aviator mak-
 ing a nonstop flight from Los Angeles
 to the Atlantic coast.
 Fire destroyed the refinery of the
 California Fresno Oil Company at
 Fresno, Calif., together with ten tanks
 containing 5O,OOO gallons of fuel oil,
 causing damage estimated at between
 $25O,OO and $5OO,OOO. A distillate ex-
 plosion started the fire.
 Home preserved fish affected with
 botulinus germs caused the death of
 Mrs. Lida Lemens of San Jacinto at
 the county hospital at Riverside, Calff,
 according to health authorities. ~Sev-
 enty-five chickens out of a flock of 200
 to which contents of the can were
 thrown, also died.
 A resolution endorsing the policy of
 a general strike of organized labor in
 the San Francisco bay region as 'the only effective means of carrying on the fight was adopted by 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 20 per cent wage reduction and the men voted to accept a 10 per cent wage decrease. This the com pany refused and as a result the men walked out. The places of all the men leaving were immediately filled.
 The steamer Roosevelt, on which Admiral Robert B. Perry penetrated the Arctic in his successful expedition to the North Pole, has been chartered to go into Boring sea to the relief of Capt. Roald Amundsen's disabled ex- p1oring 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 a 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 report by the Panama canal office. The number of commercial vessels was 193. as compared with 21O in the preceding month and POI in June, 1920, while tolls collected were $751, ,967, against $S35, 300 in May, and $711,26S 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 5000, 900 last year, accord ing to a 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 DOT lions of the cotton belt indicate there ( is an unusually severe boil weevil in festation this year in nearly all sec ( tions of the South, according to the l of Agriculture The in- l this year is the heaviest ex- i perienced in seven years, except 1916.
 Idle freight cars on the railroads of T the United States numbered 369, ,525 on i July s, decrease of 4,266 from the z previous week, according to a state ment by the American Railway Asso- y ciation. A brisk demand for box cars C to meet grain car shortages in the I West reduced the surplus in that class l to 145,112, which was 1,1S6 fewer than V the excess of box cars at the end of g the preceding week.
 The administration has opened nego- 2 -iations for the resumption of diplo- i natic relations with Germany, it has l been announced at the White House. b At the direction of the administra tion, g Ellis Loring Dresel, American commis- sioner in Berlin, has been carrying on t discussions with the German c foreign office looking toward formal t negotiations for the resumption of V relations with the German O nation. Ii
 The House agreed to Senate amendment to the bill authorizing an r increase from $15, ,OOO, ,OOO to $50, ,OOO,- W 100 in the bonded indebtedness of the D The amendment would H permit the insular government to is- a ue temporary certificates of indebted t' less to the extent of 10000, ,OOO The il present. maximum is $1O,OOO,OOO. IT Two Chinese were shot and killed on
 truck farm a mile and one-quarter a outh of Phoenix under circumstances Ii which attaches of the sheriff's office st