The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-02-21
WASHINGTON

American government to build a
other waterway across the Isthmus
Il Panama was expressed at the Whit
House after the subject had bee
touched ON ut the cabinet meeting.
The Collier trophy, awarded to tn
air mail service for the creates
achievement in American aviation 70
the year 1922, was presented to Pos
y master General Work by G. w. Levi
for the National Aeronautic associa
ton, who brou~ht the trophy Il
Washington from New York by Off
cial mail plane. The award wa
made in recognition of the air mai
services record of years operation
, on the transcontinental route withou
a fatal accident on q mail trip. Dur
ing the year air mail planes Travelled
100000 miles.
President Harding urged enactment
of legislation for the conservation OF
forests in letter to Representative
Clark. New York, Republican mem
Der Of the house agriculture commit
tee which has been conducting hear
ings on the subject. Cooperation be-
tween the federal government and
states in a comprehensive policy OF
reforestatfon and timber conservation
is proposed in Q tentative Dill before
the committee.
The senate foreign relations COM
rnittee decided to refer to Secretary
Hughes the request made by Senator
Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas, au-
thor OF resolution for appointment
Of official American representatives
on the reparation commi sion. that
Mr.. Hughes appear before the CON-
mittee. Chairman Lodge said he
would send Senator Kobinson's re-
quest to Secretary Hughes without
comment.
The treasury department has ac-
quiesced officers for the elimination
and examination OF the coffin OF
James Jones, nm American seaman,
buried In Cypress Hill cemetery,
Brooklyn, to determine whether SNUG
gled Russian crown Jewels were bur-
led with the body.
Washington police conducted the
greatest liquor raid in the national
capital since the advent of prohibit
ton. 1t covered the entire city and
by early afternoon more than fifty
arrests had been made and contra
band liquor was being carted into |
the police stations by wagonloads.
The senate had passed along to the
house the second and last of the
measures on its program OF farm
credit legislation In approving by
unanimous vote the Lenroot-Ander-
son bill. Passage OF this measure
was without material amendment.
Losses sustained by the government
from war time operation of railroads
and its aftermath OF earnings guar
antees and damage settlements will
otal approximately $780, 900. 00U. ac-
,ordlng to data made available for
he first time.
Two distinct earthquakes. one of
tremendous and unusual proportions,
he other of moderate intensity, &C.
urred Saturday but their exact To-
ations could not be determined from
he records OF delicate seismographs,
nd scientists differed widely in their
pinions as to the regions affected.
foaEicN :
Menacing clouds OF war we're hang
ig low over the Near East as a re- ,
ult of the collapse of the Lausanne :
eace conference through refusal of
he Turks to sign the treaty. Ad-
Ices from Athens and Constantinople
nd that both Greece and Turkey
nve renewed war preparations and
re moving troops.
New orders from berlin to the rail !
,ads in the Rhineland and the Ruhr
I'd the effect of stiffening the strike
yainst the French and dispelled the
,pes Of a settlement that had been
,rvalent the last few days. f
Sixty-six thousand workmen en- |.
Dyed in the various Thyssen plants
Hamborn, Muelneim, Duisburg ald
mistaken are working full time
rec eight-hour shifts a day-and v
I've not been effected either by the
ilroad or lack of fuel.
Two Germans we're killed by C
'ench troops in the newly occupied o
rritory, according to reports from
eisbaden. r.
Another hate inspired vicious attack e
as made by mob of frenzied Ma p
onalists in Koenigberg, East Prussia, v
the French members of the inter-
lied disarmament commission Thurs h,
". in
According to a disptach from Chita, s.
new attack is being prepared III
ainst Vladivostok by the Siberian
strict dunn, the former anti-bol- tn
evist controlling in the Far East, Ia