The Dolores star., 1922-06-23
FOREIGN

NOV. 4.
Admiral Baron Tomosaburo Kato,
head of Japan's delegation to the
Washington arms conference and min
lister of the navy in the recently re-
signed Takahashi cabinet. has accept
ed the premiership of Japan.
Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, has
been taken by the revolutionary forces,
according to n dispatch from Posades,
an the ACCOMPLISHMENTS border.
The report, which has not been con
firmed, was received ut Posadas from
villa Encarnacion. Paraguay.
Londonderry Is facing famine as the
result of the cutting off of the usual
lines of food supplies for the city.
Supplies are being sent there from
Glasgow, but these are insufficient.
Incendiaries were again active in Bel
fast and large factory was destroyed
by fire.
Reports circulated in Europe and
America regarding the condition of
Nikolai Lenine's health have been eN-
ag.erated, according TO adyices from
Moscow. The rumor that Lenine has
been compelled to resign as president
of the council of peoples commisSaries
on account of his health was denied.
Serious disorders with some casual
ties occurred ut Agran, Croatia, when
Croat anti-Serbans and monarchists
| clashed during public celebration of
| the wedding of King Alexander of
Jugo-Slavia and Princess Marie of Ru-
mania. Nleager censored dispatches
say that the fighting, in which shots
were exchanged, lasted for three
| hours, but details are suppressed.
Royal Canadian mounted police re.
| Gently raded farmhouse on st. The
rese Island. near Montreal, and seized
nearly 100000 worth of forged United
States Federal Reserve Bank notes.
| Phillip Briere, alias DedrOcker, and
Alfred Jean We're arrested 4 large
modern printing press was discovered
| in the house. The bogus bills were
clever limitations of American curren,
cy, officials said.
Wealthy Chinese with their families
and valuables are fleeing from Nan.
chang, capital of Kiangsi province, as
the army of DR.. sun Yat-Sen, the
South China leader, advances north
ward. Looting mt the hands of the
southern troops is feared American
missionaries mt Nanchang are also pre-.
for the forces of Wu Pei-Fu. the mill.
tnry power of the Picking government
to evacuate Nan-chang.
GENERAL
Fire originating from an explosion
in the engine room of the Mineral
Lake Lumber Company plant at Min,
eral, forty miles southeast of Tacoma
destroyed the mill and lumber stored
in the yards, at an estimated loss OF
100000.
While additional wage cuts swung
over the heads OF 35OOOO more railway
employees and awaited only formal re
lease by the railroad labor board tc
slash another SiO,0OJOOO from the pay
rolls of the carriers, it was rumored
in Chicago that any rail strike grow
ing out of present threats may be d
rected and financed from Canada as
Il means of evading the recent dec
sion of the United States Supreme
Court holding unions liable for dam.
ages caused by their members.
Lashed and whipped about by Il 100
mile gale more than four and half
miles above earth, on the verge of suf
location, caused b. loss of his oxyger
tank, and compelled to cling to ropes
and straps attached 10 parachute TO,
fear that whirIing cross current
might weaken and cause them to break
are several of the mere" details relat
ed by Capt. y. w. Stevens. aerial pho
tographer, McCook field, Dayton. Ohio
who recently broke the worlds para.
chute jump record when he descended
24,206 feet.
Vice President James Starr of the
United Textile Workers, who has beeI
in charge of the textile strike in Man.
chester, n. H., since it began Feb. 10
will not be permitted hereafter to adj
dress open-air meetings in Manchester
| lbe pain 'DllliIllSSibH uttlutu. IbtneI
nonresident union leaders are also
barred
Establishment of national agencies
to eliminate strikes and solve other
troubles of the building industry was
favored by John Donlin, president CT
the building trades department or Il.
American Federation of Labor. who
told the department annual meeting al
Cincinnati that the ''whOle nation is
tired of strikes and lOck0uts and dis.
susted with such institutions that
make them possible"
Properties Of the Willis corporation
mt Elizabeth, n. J., were bid in at auc.
ton by the Durant Motor Corporation
for $5,525,0O0. TIE second highest bid
was made by the Maxwell Motor Car
Company and was Sj.5O0OOO Sale of
the Willis plant, which covers thirty.
seven acres and had an estimated value