The Ordway new era., 1922-04-07
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
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THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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WESTERN

Loss estimated from S225,O0O to
S250,000 was caused by a fire which
swept the upper floors of the Olympic
cereal mills at Portland, Oregon.
Alfred Hertz, conductor of the San
Francisco symphony orchestra for sew
en- years, has offered his resignation.
Lack of finances made the board of
governors of the Musical Association
of San Francisco unable to offer him
another contract. President j. D. Nc
Kee said.
The Amundsen Arctic expedition,
which will leave Seattle, Wash. on
June 1 TO drift through the northern
seas past the North pole, will be the
first dash of its kind IN history that
will keep constantly in touch with The
outside world through wireless tclc-
graph and radio telephone.
To the growing list OF radio fans
add Mary Garden. The grand opera
manager and singer, who has 10 bring
the Chicago Gsand Opera Company to
San Francisco for the annual engage
ment, telegraphed ahead to the hotel
and requested that her suite be
equipped not only with radio receiv
ing set, but with a high-power broad
casting set as well.
A committee Of women vigilantes
called on Chief of Police O'Brien of
San Francisco to demand rigid enforce
ment of the law against selling cigar
cites TO minors, following reports TO
the organization that cigarette smoking
is increasing in San Francisco schools.
so prevalent is the habit among
young girls that notices reading
Please do not smoke here have been
posted in some school buildings"
WASHINGTON
1t was learned at the White House
recently that the President and his
cabinet had discussed the Colorado
river project in its various phases and
had determined that, pending settle
ment of the water rights matter, there
shall be no more grants of water pow
er franchises. Further grants will be
withheld until the commission now
considering the subject shall have re-
ported and congressional action taken.
The killing of DR.. Leroy Shelton,
medical missionary of the Disciples of
Christ (Christian church,, by bandits
in Tibet last month followed the doc
tors refusal Ito accept the advice of
local authorities against proceeding
into a disturbed area, according to cor
respondence between the State Depart
ment and the Chinese government.
copies of which have been transmitted
TO and were made public in Washing
ton by Senator Spencer of Missouri
The American government has sent
to- the allied powers another note sup
plen entail TO that recently dispatched
and designed to support its claim for
equality with those powers in the
payment of costs arising from the
Rhineland occupation. The new note
declared that whether or not there
should be deficit in the French ac-
count for its occupation army costs as
of May l, 1921, the claim for equality
on the part of the United States would
not thereby be affected.
By direction of the foreign office in
London the British embassy al Wash
ington has requested the State De-
partment TO have all proper facilities
extended TO Sirs Ross AMI Keith
Smith, British aviators, when they
reach the United States on their at
tempted aerial circumnayigarion of
the world, which starts April 30.
Approval of 121 advances for agri-
cultural and live stock purposes, Gg-
gregating s3,324.OOO, have been an
nounced by the War Finance corpora
tion. The loans included Arizona, $780,
600; Colorado, s2ss, 900; Iowa, s63, 900
Montana, $4,000; Nebraska, $4,000;
New Mexico, ses, 600; Oregon, S1I2,-
600; South Dakota, s173OO0; Texas,
$685., 900; Utah, $4,000, and Wyoming,
S1O4 900.
The federal power commission has
approved the issuance of a final IL
cense to the San Joaquin Light and
Power Corporation of Fresno Calf,
for the construction of a hydraulic
power plant on the north and west
forks of the Kings river in California
The project will cost approximately
S50,0O00OO, according to the plans sub
mitted will develop 100000 horsepower
and 35O,OOO kilowatts.
One man was killed and five injured
in the third explosion of the last
seventeen days at the E. l. DUPONT De
Nemours and Company plant at Du-
Pont, near Tacoma, Wash. A deni-
trating recovery building was wrecked.
The explosion resulted from the igni-
tion Of several pounds of nitroglycerin
Disregarding recommendations of
the budget bureau of the appropria-
tions committee, the House by three
to one vote, added $15,O0O.0 900 to the
amount carried in the army appropria-
tion bill for river and harbor improve
ments.