The Dolores star., 1923-11-02
The WORLD IN
PAR A C R AP H S
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

WESTERN
Michael J. Boyle, Chicago labor leader,
and Ben Newmark, We're released from
Jail recently when combinations of
their six months jail sentences for
contempt of court granted by Coy. Len
Small were delivered TO Sheriff Edwin
Ahlstrom
Mangled and crushed by tons of rock
and wedged under heavy timbers the
bodies of Two miners still are held in
the clutches of stOpe No. 20 of the
Utah-Apex metal mine. while Supt.
Joseph Norden and Jose Rataza,
saved by the choice of fate, are now
basking in Utah's sunlight.
Fifty-siN cars of California grapes
and two cars of Northwestern apples
went under the hammer in unique
coast-to-coast auction conducted over
private telegraph wire connecting
Las Angeles with Chicago, Pittsburgh,
New York and Boston markets Buy
ers in each city bid on each car as 1t
was offered and the sale was over in
ninety minutes.
Representatives of the live stock in
dustry, headed by Fred H. Blxby of
Long Beach, Calf. president of the
National Live Stock Association. CON
ferred in San Francisco recently with
Eugene Meyer. Jr., managing director,
and Frank W. Mondcll, director of the
war finance corporation, who we're as
signed by President Coolidge to study
wheat and live stock conditions in the
Northwest.
The municipality of Oakland has
entered upon an avowed campaign to
put the One-man street cars out of
business" Big city-owned motor
busses have appeared with the an
nouncement that they would take pas
sengers anywhere a one-man street car
would take them, and for ! cent less
fare In addition the penalties against
jitney busSes using the main streets
were dropped from the jltney ordln-
unce.
By the end of the present year oil
production Of the three great pools in
the Los Angeles district, Signal Hill.
Huntington Beach and Santa Fe
Springs, will commence to register
marked decrease and during 1924 mo.
torists will pay for the cheap gasoline
they now are burning freely at low
prices, according to findings Of experts,
reported to the Petroleum institute
and the Southern California Oil Pro
ducers' executive committee.
WASHINGTON
Two new government hospitals foT
tubercular ex-se"vice men will be built
In Livermore, Calf, and Los Angeles.
Calf, 1t WAS announced in Washington
few dIys ago by Director Hines of
the United States veterans bureau.
Each hospital will contain 80 beds,
but will be enlarged us conditions JUS
tify. Bids will he asked within thirty
days, said Hines.
John ]. Pershing, who a little over
six years ago secretly left Washington
for France, again has slipped quietly
away from the capital for sojOurn
on French soil. He sailed aboard the
liner Leviathan from New York few
days age. and it will be three months
before he returns again from the land
where his leadership helped to write
history during the great war.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
has launched a new campaign against
home brew. In order to stamp out
what he characterized as the menace"
OF trafficking in home brew ingredi-
ents he announced a few days ago that
he would revoke the permits of all
breweries which continue the practice
of making malt syrups, now widely
used as a base for homemade beers.
Cooperation between the western
states and those of the South in seek
Ing expansion of the governments rec
lamation policy to embrace all sections
of the country will be the object of the
forestry, reclamation and home-mak-
ing conference to be conducted at New
Orleans, Nov. 1922, it was announced
in correspondence made public in
Washington Il few days ago.
American exports of animal products
and meats showed marked increase
during September as compared with
September year ago, while the eX-
ports of products in the grain, fruit
and vegetable divisions decreased.
Figures prepared by the Commerce De
partment gave the September total of
meats exported at 95.356921 pounds,
valued at $500 ,4S9, against S66O45,-
5S3 pounds, valued at S10,S19,159 a
year ago.
A sweeping program of federal and
state cooperation and education-de-
signed to dry up America and stop the
leakages of the Volstead act and the
eighteenth amendment-was adopted
by President Cooiidge's ''law and or
der conference" ut the White House,
attended by the governors of thirty six
states and territories.
Decision to investigate each Of the
major federal irrigation projects from
Its inception to the present state of de-
velopment has been reached by the
special advisory committee on recla-
nation.