The Dolores star., 1922-01-27
FOREIGN

dNaiHECnes.
Freight loss and damage claims In
Canada and the United States during
1920 totaled sl25,s36,94S, Joe Marshall,
special representative of the freight
claim prevention committee of the
American Railway Association, told
the Canadian Railway Club at Mont
real
With only approximately S2so.ooa.-
coo in notes, backed up by one of the
biggest gold reserves in the world.
Australia occupies one Of the strong
est financial positions in the world, ac-
cording to Sir Henry Brnddon, former
commissioner for Australia 70 the
United States.
The campaign in Mexico against
breweries is reaching ITS climax ]; Is
stated in official circles that the pres
ent tax on beer is TO he raised 100 per
cent. 1t is contended TINT Mexican
beer is chemically Injurious ana the
government has appointed commits
sion TO study the question.
The Paris police are using wireless
equipped automobiles to rid the city
of bandits and highwaymen and are
ready TO use nirplancs in time of riots
or demonstrations. They plan TO en-
ploy airplanes primarily for the study
of traffic problems, but also, when
needed, TO cope with rioters.
An ecclesiastical court presided over
by the metropolitan of Athens, found
the Most Rev. Meletois Metaxukis, re-
Gently elected patriarch of CONSTANT
nopie, guilty of attempting to cause Il
schism in the church. II ordered that
secluded as monk in the monastery
at Zante
The fingerprint system has been
adopted by a leading drcssmaker of
Paris TO prevent her customers from
copying her models and selling them
Every model that she produces will
hereafter bear her signature, her fin
Serprint and n number that will enable
the model to be traced to the person
who purchased it.
A nurse in the employ OF the Amer
lean Red Cross at Goldingen, Latvia.
lost ten sons in the war, her husband
was shot by the Bolsheviki and her
three daughters died last year. Still
she goes about her work with smile.
"Nitchevo," is her consolation, which
means, among million other things,
1T can't be helped
GENERAL
Total expenditure for building
throughout the country for the year
1921 was 81, ,595. le5, 1872, n gain of l4.9
per cent over the record year of 1920,
Bradstreet's announced. Reports from
$50 cities showed that Sl20, 1894, $50 had
been expended for building in Decem-
ber, a gain Of 1l2:S per cent over De
eember, 1920.
Tony May of Chicago, who told
Judge Friend he was n newsboy, was
ordered to pay $500 a month to his
wife as alimony. Questioning by the
judge brought out that while Tony for
merly sold papers on the street he now
owned string of news stands, quite
bit of real estate and interests in
several business enterprises.
Convicted of annoying women, but
saved from straight jail sentence by
the pleadings of his wife and children,
August Shomeberger of West Hoboken,
n. j., was sentenced to spend the next
twenty week-ends in Il cell Re
corder Walter arranged for the mash
,er TO be locked up every Saturday ut
noon and released on Monday.
Railroad rates are being slowly but
steadily forced downward by economic
laws, Daniel Willard, president of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, argued be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion when that body resumed its in
1uiry into the general level of trans
portation charges. There is no need,
but considerable danger, he added, in
forcibly decreasing them by govern
ment edict ut present.
Construction projects aggregating
$50, 0,OOo, 100000 have been planned for
the United States in 1922, w. o. Win
ston, president declared AT the opening
of three-day conference OF the Cen
eral Contractors of America at Clere-
land, Ohio.
George BALDWIN Selden, inventor of
the first gasoline propelled vehicle, and
a pioneer in the present automotive in
dustry, died at his home in Rochester.
n. Y. He was president of the SeIden
Motor Company of this city and was
II years old.
Asserting that they had been wrong
~ advised to 90 on strike and were
eager to return to their old jobs. about
800 milk wagon drivers of local union
No. 5S4, who have been on strike since
Nov. ], unanimously voted the union
officials out of office at an Indignation
meeting in New York.
When a teller momentarily left his
cage in the Union Trust Company at
Providence, II. l., an unidentified man
reached through the wicket, stole a
$4,000 Liberty bone, bill of lading
cnyartnU carload of ro,tnp md 9, b,,