Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-04-29


New developments In the recent
shooting at Oklahoma CITY of Lieu
tenant Colonel Paul w. Beck. which
may result In possible re-trlal of
judge Jean z. Day. were predicted by
war department officials.
Sale of British bonds to provide
FUNDS for the soldiers bonus again Is
being discussed by Republican leaders
IN the senate and house, with this
program In mind, efforts will be made
10 postpone consideration of bonus
legislation In the senate until the tar
iff bill is passed.
More than 1000 guests attended the
reception to the army and navy given
last week at the White House by the
president and Mrs. Harding, who were
assisted In receiving In the blue room
Dy Marshal and Madame Joffre of
France. the secretary of war and Mrs.
Weeks and the secretary of the navy
and Mrs. DENLY.
ii. e. Van Norman, president of the
Worlds Dairy Congress association,
has been appointed commissioner of
agriculture and delegate of the United
States to the general assembly of the
International Institute of Agriculture,
which is to be held from May s to 10
at Rome, italy,
Attacking the governments recent
injunction against the great meat
packers as "a highly disastrous econo-
mic mistake and wholly unfounded In
law or fact" the California O0cpera.
tive Canneries of San Francisco has
asked the district supreme court to
vacate the decree or radically modify
it.
Urging extension of $4,000 900
loan to liberia, promised In 1918, as
point of honor" Secretary Hughes
told the house ways and means com.
mittee there was no foundation for
reports that American banking inter.
ests would benefit mostly from the
transaction. Such reports had arisen
at previous hearings of the committee
on the legislation.
Delay in the seeding of spring
grains in the Lower Missouri and Ohio
valleys, due to continued rains, Is be,
coming serious, the weather bureau
states in its weather and crop review.
Reports to the bureau, 1t was said,
stated that large areas of farm land
were flooded in the Ohio and central
and lower Mississippi calleys.
FOREIGN
Nancy Langborne Astor, the Virgin.
la girl who married a British noble.
man, became the mother of six chill.
dren and afterward won the first seat
in the house of commons ever held
by woman, Is back in Amrica for a
short visit. Lady Astor urges all
women to take an interest in politics
Former Premier Delacroix reports
that ]. Pierpont Morgan has accepted
the invitation to be one of four bank.
ers who will meet in Europe to study
the question of arranging an interna-
tional loan for Germany. The object
of the loan will be to help the recon.
struction Of Germany, to improve her
exchange and to assist her in paying
war reparations.
Formation of an official wheat
board by the Canadian government.
with the same powers enjoyed by the
emergency board during the war, was
declared illegal by the royal commits.
sion which has been investigating the
situation. The commission declared
however. that voluntary board, or one
constituted by parliament, could have
authority to buy and sell wheat.
The Portuguese aviators who are a..
tempting flight from Portugal to
Brazil will be unable to proceed in
their hydroplane from st. Paul Rocks
few hundred miles short of their
goal on the American continent, where
they landed, because of the damage
to their machine, according to the dis.
patch from Pernambuco.
All danger of famine in Russia has
passed, asserted James f. Goodrich,
former governor of Indiana, who ar.
rived on the steamer Olympic,
after six months, tour of the strick-
en- regions of Europe In behalf of the
American relief comission.
Police have redoubled their search
for religious pyromaniac, following
the burning Of the historic Notre Dame
convent at Montreal-the third i'm
portant aCtholic edifice ir Canada to
be destroyed by fire in less than a
month.
Operations of the federal farm loan
system We're declared to have reached
record proportions during March.
A heavy oversubscrlption Of the new