The Dolores star., 1922-02-03
FOREIGN

mend a cut of f40,O0O. 600 in army and
navy expenditures, according TO the
Westminster Gazette In London.
The pearl market of Paris, which
considers itself the market of the
world, has suffered n slump. A neck
lace OF Oriental pearls, valued by the
experts at 100000 francs, has just
been sold by public auction for only
100000 francs.
Gen. Bramweil Booth has just an
nounced that the Salvation Army in
tends almost Immediately to put into
operation a scheme for the early trans
fer of 10000 British women TO the
dominions Every one of them Will be
going to assured employment.
While the War Department of Mexi-
co Is struggling for budget Of 125,-
100000 pesos and the Department OF
Public Education for 50.0O0,OOO. the
Department of the Interior has to de-
fend its budget of only 2.oO0.oO0, the
most modest that any Of the cabinet
officers has, as yet. presented to the
consideration of Congress.
| Elsa Anderson, the only Swedish
woman to hold an aviator's certificate,
was Killed at Askersund. Four thou
sand spectators were watching her
make flight. and were Mortified when
Miss Anderson, in attempting "A para
chute descent from the machine. fell
| like a plummet TO the earth. The
parachute failed to open and she
plunged 1000 feet to death.
An ounce of gold purchases 1922
hours Of labor in the United States;
50.l6 hours in Britain: $3.50 hours in
Japan; llI.3l hours in France and
2Ol .6G hours in Germany, said c. J.
Harmon, member of Parliament for the
Moseley division OF Birmingham, quot
ing statistics in the course of an ad-
dress to the members of the National
Union of Manufacturers at Birming-
ham, England.
| What appears to be n world record
for taXi-riding-a 5oO-mile jaunt from
Montreal to New York-was disclosed
in court when Frank Valentine, man
ager of n local club, appeared as de-
fendant in suit for S45375 taxi bills
at Montreal. 1t is alleged that when
at
paying n $1,000 fine for violating the
Quebec prohibition law, she jumped
into n taxi which Valentine had hired
and started for New York.
GENERAL
Col. Henry S. Graves, former chief
forester of the United States, is to re-
turn as dean of the Yale forest school,
it has been announced. Dean James
William Tourney is to resume his more
purely scientific work.
The family of George Harbisch, a
teacher, consisting of himself, his wife,
Mrs. Mary Harbisch, and an 1S-months-
old child. were found dead in their
home at McKees Rock, Pa. An exam
ination revealed gas escaping from a
stove.
| Miss Genevieve Reynolds, a member
of Robert b. Mantells Shakespearean
Company for thirty years, died Of
pneumonia after few hours illness at
Chicago. Lynn Pratt, Lambs Club,
New York, and brother in Califor-
mia have been notified. Miss Reynolds
had been on the stage for nearly half
a century, according to Mr.. Mantell.
Three persons We're killed and four
injured at Newark, Ohio, when their
bob sled was struck by an automobile.
They had almost reached the foot of
mile-long hill when they crashed
head-on into an automobile coming up
the hill. The sled was said to have
been on the wrong side of the road.
Only one member of the coasting par
ty was uninjured.
Archibald Birse, a Chicago tailor, is
$4,000 richer for having taken a few
stitches in a pair of torn trousers
thirty-four years ago. Ernest De st
Giles, insurance expert and author, left
this amount to Birse, who befriended
| him when De st. Giles came to Chi.
cago thirty-four years ago, penniless
BirSe Sewed the insurance mans
trousers and trusted him for the so
cent charge
Part of his shinbone transferred to
his jaw 10 correct an Imperrection in
his chin, Henry f. Mally, Jr., of Brook
lyn recently fell on the Ice, cracking
the shin from which the fragment had
been removed. His death from shock
was announced after he had been made
ready for a second operation needed
to mend his leg and perfect his chin.
n. c. Newmark, actuary of the
American Fur Dealers Association OF
New York, was arrested by federal
agents on a complaint charging him
with being implicated in Il conspiracy
to defraud the federal government out
of fur sales taxes said to approximate
S2.OO0,0O0. Morris ROsenblum, for
mer deputy collector OF internal rev
enue, and Herman Schuss were ar
rested on similar charges.
His skull fractured when he wa!
playfully tipped out of bed by fra
ternity brother at Hamilton College
| William Duncan Saunders son of DR.