The Dolores star., 1922-03-24
FOREIGN

N'NN IA is'hhoh lt'tilys
\ Georges Carpenter Will be confine,
to his room for several days in Purii
as result of an operation For an in
fected condition OF the throat.
A campaign is being carried on II
certain French newspapers against an.
program by the United States to col
lect its war debts from France.
Between 100000 and 100000 British
engineers and machlnists are idle n.
result of the employers lockout
About 5000 workshops were said to b,
closed.
The first Swiss hospital train for
Russian children started for Volgu
district few days ago. 1t consisted
of thirty-fiye cars OF food and medical
supplies, with which it is hoped to sup
port 10000 children for three months.
Gen. Ataman Gregorieff Semenoff.
Siberian anti-Bolshevist leader, hopes
to unite the people OF Siberia under a
new Siberian republic, he declared up
on his arrival at Victoria, r. C., from
the Far East on the liner Empress OF
Russia.
Accompanying the Fifth American
infantry regiment for Antwerp on the
first stage of the voyage 10 the Unit
ed States were thIrty-one German
brides of soldiers, and eight babies
born under the protection of the Stars
and Stripes on the Rhine
Commenting on the American gov
ernment'S decision not to participate
in the Genoa conference, the Tempo.
Rome. says the American note might
seem TO be "a premedltated act Of ma
tIonal egotlsm, by which, under the
pretext of checking the ambitions OF
others. the United States tries To
make its own political and financial
interests predominant"
A provisional settlement of the
strike of officers on the vessels OPP
Grated by the Mexican Steamship
Company, which is controlled by the
Mexican government. has been reached.
The officers will perform their duties
for the next ten days during which
an attempt will be made 10 bring
about definite settlement The ships
which We're tied up In the port ut Vera
Cruz by the strike have already salcd.
Asserting that agents cf the United
States are IN Canada studying the
Quebec system Of liquor distribution
under police supervision. L. \. Tas-
chereau, prime minister of the prov
ince, predicted in House debate that
the example OF Quebec will he fol-
lowed not only throughout Cunadn,
but also in the United States" In Que
bee liquors are sold directly to the in
dividual from bonded warehouses.
Beer Of moderate alcoholic content is
sold over public bars.
William d. C'Big Bnl") Haywood
heads Il group of American l. w. W to
whom Premier Lenin has granted IA
concession to operate the big Nadejd-
iDsky iron works in the Ural mountain
region. part of the coal mines in the
kOsnetZ basin and auxiliary factories,
Haywood disappeared from the United
States last year while under S6J 900
bail after he and about ninety other l.
/ w. w. had been convicted of espionage
and conspiracy against the government
in the war. He has since taken some
part In the deliberations of the Third
| lnternationale at Moscow.
GENERAL
1t was announced at general offices
Of the Missouri Pacific railroad at st.
Louis recently that LOO men laid off
in November have been ordered to re-
port for work.
Harry Kellar, world famous mngi-
clan, died at his home in Los Angeles,
after two years OF i'll health and II Sc
we're illness OF several weeks He was
7S years old.
| William Dalton, II years old, former
bank clerk, has been placed on trial
for the second time on charge of rob.
bing the Northwestern Trust Com,
pany. Chicago, Of approximately $780,,
900 in Liberty bonds
The problem of quarterng mixed
juries of men and women when un
able 10 agree was settled by Judge A
C. Hoppmann in Dane county Superior
Court in Madison, Wis, recently, wher
he ordered the sexes segregated ant
given lodging in different rooms of {
hotel.
Women are to hold the pursestring:
of more than a dozen Michigan vii
lagos that held elections recently. Re
turns completed show that women can
didates for treasurer We're successful
in five villages in Van Buren county
five in Lenawee county and one ii
Kalamazoo county.
The arrest for intoxication of Fred
erick r. Wedge, student at the Har
ward graduate school of education, wa
matter of formal record in the Dis
trict Court at Watertown, Mass, re
Gently. The police blotter containin
the latest entry in the spectacular ca
reer of kid" Wedge, Wisconsin lun
berjack, prize fighter, University O