The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-04-07
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

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WESTERN
Loss estimated from $225,O00 to
$25O,000 was caused by fire which
swept the upper floors OF the Olympic
cereal mills at Portland, Oregon
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 tcic-
graph and radio telephone.
Seattle police are investigating an
explosion which wrecked the real es-
tate office Of Frank Atwood in Carrie
ton Park, a Seattle suburb, and did
considerable damage to neighboring
buildings, declare a deliberate attempt
had been made to destroy the proper
ty. The explosion shook the entire
northwest part Of the city.
To the growing list OF radio fans
add Mary Garden. The grand opera
manager and singer, who has to bring
the Chicago Grand 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 we'll
Two-year-Old Veama Anderson's par
ents consider training her for some
future Olympiad. Recently the baby
fell into a pond three feet deep near
her home in Sacramento. She came
to the surface and swan. She had
swum nearly half way across the pond
when her mother caught her and I'M
dressed her. The mother, brother
and a sister, who witnessed the spec
tacle, reported that little Velma
kicked her little feet and swung her
arms in a natural unison, propelling
herself sturdily.
WASHINGTON
Plans for early establishment of an
q measure of national defense are be-
ing made by the War Department, Sec
rotary Weeks announced recently.
When landing places have been sur
veyed and selected, he said, army
planes will be sent to the zone under
their own power.
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 a 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 American government has sent
TO the allied powers another note sup
elemental to that recently dispatched
and designed to support it's 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 a deficit in the French ac-
of May 1, 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 at Wash
ington has requested the State De-
partment to have all proper facilities
extended to Sirs Ross and Keith
Smith, British aviators, when they
reach the United States on their at
tempted aerial circumnavigarion of
the world, which starts April 20.
Approval Of 121 advances for agri-
cultural and live stock purposes, ag
gregating $3,324,0OO, have been an
nOunced by the War Finance corpora
tion. The loans included Arizona, $780,
900; Colorado, $2S8, 900; Iowa, $63, 900 !;
Montana, $4,000; Nebraska, $4,000;
New Mexico, $4,000; Oregon, S112,-
600; South Dakota, $173,0O0 Texas,
$36S,0O0; Utah, $4,000, and Wyoming,
$104,O0O
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
$50,O00000, according to the plans sub
mitted will develop 100000 horsepower
and $4,000 kilowatts.
Disregarding recommendations of
the budget bureau of the appropria-
tions committee, the House by three
to one vote, added $15,000,0OO to the
amount carried in the army appropria-
ton bill for river and harbOr improve
ments.
One man was killed and five injured
In the third explosion of the last
seventeen days at the E.. I. Dupont De
Nemours and Company plant at Du-
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