Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-07-22

OO0,000, of which $35,OO0,OO0 repre-
sents projects which were postponed
to later date" and $40,00O,0OO il
funds which will be returned to the
unappropriated balance in the treas
ury. In July, 1921, the war department
reported probable saving of $2i,.
100000 as indicated for the fiscal
year 1922.
Lieutenant James H. Doolittle is
authorized by the chief of the army
air service to undertake a transcon-
tinental airplane flight from Jackson
vile, Fla, to Rockwell field, San Die
go, Calf.
Clerks employed in postoffices
throughout the United States will,
during the remainder of the summer
season, be permitted to enjoy a half
holiday each Saturday providing the
work assigned to them has been COM
pleted by noon on that day, under an
order issued by First Assistant Post
master General Bartlett.
Low-flying over crowds or trick fly
ing over any populous area will be
prohibited In any parts of the United
States by an aeronautic safety code
being drafted by experts of the bureau
of standards the national aeronatuic
association, and the Society of Auto.
motive Engineers. Pending passage
of the redrafted Wadsworth- Hicks
bill providing for bureau of CONNER
cial aviation in the department of COM
merce, and which now provides for I'M
flied air CONTROL the draft of the safe
ty code is tentative, but its principal
provisions will include: Inspection
of aviators and aircraft in connection
with the granting of license to pilots
and air transportation prohibiting of
dangerous proximity of aircraft in
flight: rules governing personnel and
equipment of airdromes, including
medical and signal equipment; air.
craft radio regulation rules for landing
fields; lighthouses for night flying
and landing.
<hltSA SOol SuopChoiou, lSSi Utilize
for the navy, under orders published
will be resumed. Sixty-five thousand
men will have to enlist or reenlist in
the coming year in order to keep the
navy up to the $4,000 men authorized
under the naval appropriation bill.
Senator Bursum, Republican, New
Mexico, has been directed by the SEN
ate reclamation and irrigation com
mittee to report favorably to the SEN
ate the house bill authorizing the
sale of surplus power developed under
the Salt river reclamation project in
Arizona. The measure would author
ize the secretary of the interior when
ever surplus power Is created to en-.
ter into contracts not exceeding fifty
years in duration for it's sale.
FOREIGN
The expedition to climb Mount Ev-
crest has been abandoned as result
of an avalanche in which seven por-
tiers were killed. Three members OF
the expedition, G. L. Mallory, r. H.
Somervell and G. A. Crawford, had
narrow escapes.
-Four persons were killed and more
than fifty injured when passenger
train jumped the tracks as it was en-
tering the Care du Nord, Paris,
France, and smashed into the stone
wall which lines the approaches to
the station.
President Obregon, who is at Cuel
navaca, Mexico, ostensibly for rest, is
understood to be conducting a per.
sonal investigation of the recent kid.
mapping of A. Bruce Blelaski.
Armand Naudin, newly appointed
police perfect of Paris, was fired at
as he was returning from the Long.
champs Bastile day celebration, the
assailant, an anarchist named Gustav
BOuvet, installing him for President
Millerand. The poor aim of Bouvet
saved M. Naudin, all three bullets
fired missing their mark President
Milerand, riding in the carriage OF
state, was just behind the perfect'a
automobile.
Despairing of finding an American
wife for King Boris, Premier STAIN.
5ouisky is understood to have asked
David Lloyd George to suggest a suit
able mate for the lonely monarch.
Maria del Phar Moreno, the 15-year.
old daughter of the editor of the
Herald of Mexico City, who was MUIR
dered few weeks ago by Deputy
Llorica, shot and killed the slayer of
her father as he was leaving his home
on Tonala street.
Twentythree persons were killed
md thirty injured when an express
train collided with mail train in the
vicinity of Palencia. Entire families
are reported to have been wiped out
as the trains were crowded with holi.
lay folks. In one case a mother and
three daughters We're killed, while in
another father and baby were the
only ones who escaped out of a fam