The Dolores star., 1921-11-25
FOREIGN

Vital d'Arzac, Toulouz newspaper
man, covering the Landru trial at Yer
sailles, left the court room, telling his
comrades that the case was driving
him crazy. He went TO his hotel and
killed himself with revolver.
A bomb plot directed against Sophia
Of Greece. who is en- route TO Saloniki.
was frustrated, according TO news
dispatch from Vienna. An inspector
attached to the queens party was
killed when the plot was discovered.
Canadian customs officials are in
vestignting reports that more than
600 automobiles stolen in the United
States have been smuggled into Can
ada and sold in cities from Winnipeg
TO the Pacific Coast. Farmers are said
10 have bought hundreds OF the stolen
cars.
A member OF the Russian social rev
olutionary party fired two shots at
Foreign Minister Tchitcherln, who was
in his reception room at the Kremlin
In Moscow, according to authentic dis
patches Both shots missed. The as
sailant and 1900 members OF the Men
shevik party were arrested
While a religious ceremony was in
progress at the Guadalupe cathedral.
Mexico City, a bomb was exploded on
the altar below the image of the Quad
alupe virgin. There were no casualties
though the church was crowded, and
no serious damage was done. The au-
Thor ~ thU la
police saving him from being lynched.
Japan's governmental budget for
next year, as unoffically reported,
carries an expenditure estimate of l.
i63,oeo,0o0 yen, being decrease OF
l20,Oo0,po0 from last years budget.
The naval estimate, said to lave been
decided by the budget COUNCIL. carries
a reduction of about s0,0O00OO yen.
The army estimates showed reduc-
tion OF about 10,0OO,OoO.
Important documents were seized
and millions of Romanoff rubles with
considerable French and British mon
ey were discovered at Constantinople
by interallied police in Il raid on the
office OF the Russian trade mission at
The police hauled
down huge red flag which the Boil
shevist representatives had raised
over their headquarters in celebration
of the fourth anniversary Of the soviet
revolution.
GENERAL
President Harding has signed the
good roads bill. carrying an appropria-
ton of s75.O0O,OO0 for road building,
and s15,OOO,OOO for forestry projects.
Although wholesale prices have
dropped - per cent since 1920, the re-
tail cost of living has decreased only
Is per cent, said Prof. VIM. Ogburn
OF Columbia university before the sec
ond conference on Christian Princi-
pies in Industry at New York.
Women may be ordained as deacons,
under a decision of the Presbyterian
General Assembly announced at Pres
byterian headquarters at Philadelphia.
The decision follows vote by Presby-
teries, majority fnvoring the admis-
sion Of women to the ministry.
Wishing one and all happy New
Year, the western Gamers beg to ad-
wise that the price of canned goods of
every description will be sharply ad-
about Jan. 1-perhaps an aver
age Of 20 per cent. The canners In
convention In Chicago say the pack
this year, principally of beans. peas,
corn, tomatoes, fruits and salmon, will
be about 100000 cases short.
Commodore Ellsworth Price Bert
holt, retired cOmmandant of the
United States Coast Guard. died In
New York at the age OF 50. In 1898 he
received gold medal and the thanks
of Congress for heroism In saving the
lives of 200 American sailors frozen In
on fleet Of whalers at Point Barrow.
To accomplish this feat, he led party
of three LOO miles overland in the
frozen Arctic country. He retired as
coast guard commandant in 1919.
Charles Wilson. lS years old, a high
school student, was found hanging in
the bath room at his home by his
mother. Willison, she told police, had
gone to the bathroom two hours before
~ butii'. hC IVY Is 'It lhIIu ' HIGH
go school student who has committed
suicide by hanging in recent weeks.
Governor Thomas Z. Campbell is
sued proclamation of emergency, au-
thorizing the board of directors of
state institutions to eXpend $3,T5O in
repairing damage done to the capitol
building and grounds by the Cave
creek flood. Parties interested in the
control of Cave creek met In the gov
ernor's office and agreed to steps to
be taken to prevent future floods sim
iliar to that of last August.
At Watertown, Mass, is being built
a sixteen-inch howitzer which will re-
volve In a complete circle, fires at a
depression of degrees to a 65-degree
elevation, and is fired by compressed
air. The rifle weighs seventy eight
tons, shoots twenty-eight miles, using
shells weighing 2,340 pounds. The gun
Is thirty-five feet long and the total
weight Of Qun carria 90 and oil ts o5o