The Holbrook news., 1921-07-15
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.
WESTERN
(wes,ern Newspaper Union News ser,ice.)

The entire of Marysville, Calif., wa
 threatened with destruction by fir
 recently. Twelve city blocks were de
 strOyed with the flames raging out o
 control The loss will be more thar
 $2,000,000 More than 100 residences
 were burned, many of them among th'
 finest homes in the city.
 Mrs. Charles F. Wiley, 59, of Lo
 Angeles is reported near death at ; l hospital in San Francisco from an un
 usual injury in an accident. A mOtOl i bus in which she was riding brushed
 against the side of bridge. Her arm i which was resting on the outside O. l the car, was severed at q point neal the shoulder The arm dropped into
 the river below.
 The motor gig of Commander Percy
 to the waters edge in San Francisco bay recently, severely burning the of
 ficer and two of the five men with him. They were returning to the
 Salem from shore at the time. Com
 mander Foote and the sailors jumped
 overheard from the gig when it started
 to burn and they were picked up some
 time later by boat from the U. S. S. Tennessee.
 Admiral E. w. Eberle assumed com
 mand of the United States Pacific fleet to the booming of a double ad- miral's salute on the U. $. s. New Mexico, flagship, in San Francisco bay. Admiral Eberle succeeds Admiral Hugh Rodman, who was detached after a two-year tour of sea duty to com mand the navy yard at Norfolk, Va. The ceremony of changing command was simple, consisting of lowering the previous cOmmander-in-c chiefs flag. raising Admiral Eberle's ensign and the formal reading of his orders to take command of the armada.
 WASHINGTON
 By three votes the Senate rejected a resolution by Senator Lodge, Repub- lican leader, providing for a four weeks recess from July to Aug. 8. The vote was 24 to 27. Sixteen Re publican Senators voted against the recess and five Democrats voted for it.
 A system of model airways, covering the entire continent, is planned by the army air service for the use of all operators or owners of aircraft. It contemplates various chains of we'll organized landing fields, supplemented by frequent emergency fields and iden- tification markers connecting the prin- cipal cities.
 Alien Property Custodian Miller has been ordered by Justice HitZ of the District of Columbia Supreme Court to return to Countess vOn BernstOrff, wife of the former German ambassa- dor to the United States, stocks, bonds and cash amounting to $1,000,0O0, which was seized under the trading with the enemy act.
 Establishment in New York of an banking institution to be known as "The Bank of Nations" with $2, ,000,0 100000 capital, to act as the ifs cal agent of the United States and such other governments as might be as stockholders, is proposed in a bill introduced by Senator Hitch cock, Democrat, Nebraska.
 The cost of running the United States government during the fiscal year which ended June 30 was $5, 5,115,- OPT ,6S9, according to the Treasury De statement. The figures are subject to final adjustment. Revenues from all sources, although showing a drop of billion under the previous year, amounted to $5,624, ,932. .960
 Baron Shidehara, the Japanese am in formal statement in in discussing the Anglo Japanese alliance, declared that "by no stretch of the imagination can it honestly be stated that the alliance was ever designed or remotely in- tended as an instrument of hostility or even defense against the United States"
 The United States shipping board has announced that the entire fleet of 2S7 vessels, constructed during the war and aggregating 900,000 tons 1eadweight, will be sold as speedily as possible. Bids will be opened July 30 | The sale of the wooden vessels, which | now are anchored and deteriOrating in | various ports, is the first step in the | out of the administrations | policy to "get the government out of | he shipping business"
 Acceptance of German bonds as sub ;titutes for the obligations of Euro )ean nations debtor to the United | States is not at present contemplated | ,y the treasury, Secretary Mellon told he Senate finance committee in urg- ng favorable action on the admins ration bill to enable the refunding of he $11.OOO, O,O0O,OOO which Europe owes he United States.
 Governors of thirteen western states Ire expected to meet in Salt Lake July IS to discuss the future progress If activities of the Western States Reclamation Association.
 Centralized purchase of foodstuffs n American markets by European which has been consid- red by some as one factor in the fall if grain prices during the past twelve months, will be practically abandoned y Aug. l, according to information 'iven Secretary of Commerce Hoover England, France and Belgium by that hne will have decontrolled food pur-