The Dolores star., 1922-10-20
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
po.NGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

]. Michael Sherman, New York
newspaper writer. lecturer and labor
advocate, WIS drowned in the Column
bia river near Priest Rapids, Wash.
William S. (BIlD Hart, motion
picture actor. who wus reported ser
lously ill in Los Angeles with typhoid
fever and complications, is recover
ing.
Judge William J. Kerr, T5 years
old. former prominent attorney of Pu-
ebIo. Colo. died at the home Of his son
in Pocatello, Idaho. He had been an
invalid for twelve years.
Doors of the Commercial National
National Bank AT Great Falls, Mont.
are closed, suspension having been an
nOunced by the board of directors. The
suspension announcement gave the
banks deposits at Sl,2O2,OoU and Its
loans Sl.j05,OO0.
Misleading and fraudulent advertis-
Ing, including that done by reliable
promoters and "fly by night" flnan-
ciers, received Il major part of the at
tention of the session of the American
Association of Investment Bankers in
convention at Del Monte, Calf.
Gen. Leonard Wood, governor of the
Philippines, will return to the United
States about the first of next year and
assume the presidency OF The Univcr-
sity of Pennsylvania, reported John
w. Ziegler of Philadelphia, who is TO
leave Seattle soon for his home after
visit to the islands.
A score of persons was injured, sew
eral seriously. when two ear roller
coaster on the Lincoln Park Scenic
railway, Los Angeles. jumped the track
in tunnel. The passengers, including
three women and several sailors of the
Pacific fleet. were hurled against the
tunnels wooden sides.
Proposal of the Chicago, Milwaukee
< St Paul railroad to put into effect
IA reduction of cents hundred
pounds on the freight rates on wheat
shipped from Montana points to Puget
sound terminals for export is opposed
by the millers of Montana and by the
state railroad commission.
Travel across the Utah desert is
sixty years ago-sixty times as fast,
TO be exact. In 1862, If the trip were
negotiated with a mule team in ten
hours 1t as considered fast time, but,
according to a recent air mail report,
the trip is now made by airplane in
about ten minutes.
WASHINGTON
The English plan of dispatching lit
igation brought to the highest court
with least possible delay is to be fol-
lowed by the United States Supreme
Court, 1t was disclosed recently.
Fifteen to twenty years of building
good roads lie ahead of the United
States. Under the program which the
country has adopted, there will be
built during that time, 10000 miles of
improved highways, which will consti-
tute the federal aid highway system,
and an equal or greater mileage of
state and local roads When the great
job is done, the transportation facili-
ties of the country will far exceed
those of any other nation.
Vice Consul Barnes, at Smyrna, re-
ported to the state department that
evacuation of refugees from Smyrna
had been completed except for 500
who are to embark soon. Since the
fire, the report said. 222,OO0 refugees
had embarked from Smyrna and
neighboring ports, and of these $780,
600 were cared for by American naval
forces and American relief workers.
Declaring labor to be partisan to a
principle rather than to party. Pres
ident Gompers Of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor. in a formal statement
in Washington. predicted that no "im-
portant reactionary legislation" would
be enacted by the next Congress, be-
cause of labOr's activities. The fed
GRAFTON head asserted that labor has
stunned the reactionists in Congress
effectively"
To expedite the movement of coal,
Conroad Spens, federal coal distrib-
utor, made an urgent appeal TO cuSI
operators andsshippers to confine their
operations us far as possible to their
normal spheres Of shipment to reduce
the amount of transportation service
now required. Consumers were asked
to confine their purchases to the
grades of coal to which they have been
accustomed.
The United States Supreme Court
decree diss0lvins the Southern Pacific
railroad will stand, 1t was decided re-
Gently. the court refusing rehearing
asked by the railroad company. Under
the decree issued last spring the court
ordered the Southern Pacific to dis
solve. Itself from the Central Pacific
compulIy.
Restaurant cooking has become
profession and the National Restau-
rant Association purposes to give its
votaries the best university training
to raise th" standard of American eat
lag