The Dolores star., 1924-02-15
GENERAL

Three persons are dead. dozen in
jured >lnd property damage estimated
at Sl,0OO0OO rs the result of the most
paralyzing snow storm in forty years
in Milwaukee, Wis.
Dr. Charles Herbert Levermore of
New York City, former college profes-
sOr and student of international af-
fairs. has been announced as the win
ner of the SlOOOOp prize offered by
Edward w. Box, publisher of Philudel-
phia, for the best plan to Insure an
end of war in the world. Dr. Leyer-
more was born at Mansfield, Conn,
oct. 1j, 1886. He was granted an A..
L. degree at Yale University in 1879
and the Phi. d. degree ut Johns Hop
kins in 1856.
The Indiahoma Refining Company. a
S5.OOOOOO oil corporation, with its
principal office in ST. Louis and
branches at Tulsa. Okla. ana other
southwestern cities, filed n voluntary
petition in bankruptcy in Federal
Court at st. Louis. The petition,
signed by w. o. Shock. president.
scheduled liabilities of $2.73O.37S and
assets of $4.351 ,2j7. of which Sl34.3O is
cash on hand The petition admits the
company owes considerable sums
which it is unable to pay.
A defect in diphtheria antltoxin
caused, the authorities believe bv eX-
posure to freezing weather. has caused
Illness to nine boys and girl, students
in the Concord Academy, at Concord.
Mass. who were inoculatcd. They
We're in bed with swollen limbs, sore
eyes, nausea and other ailments. Dr.
Charles Hutchinson, who injected the
antitoXin, said that the serum had
been tested in Washington and Boston,
but had been submitted to terrific cold
in coming from Boston to Concord
one man is knwn to have been killed
and eight injured, one dangerously. in
a gas explosion at Kansas City. Mo-,
which shook the entire downtown dis
trict and wrecked the fOur-story build
ing of the Bailey-Reynolds Chandelier
Company. The loss was estimated be-
tween 100000 and $15O,OOO.
William Sacks, wealthy st Louis oil
operator, and defeated candidate for
the Republican nomination for United
States senator, pleaded not guilty
when arraigned in indianapolis before
United States District Judge \. h. An
ders0n on an Indictment charging him
with conspiracy to use the mails 20 de-
fraud, and the use of the mails III fur
Il erance of n sChs5n1 to defruud,
Trial date will be set later.
Conservative trade unionism has
scored Il marked triumph over "the de-
structive influences of communism" +"
international President John L. Lewis
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, declared after adjournment of the
miners biennial convention mt Indian
apolis. He spoke of the conventions
work as a whole, and of the repudla-
ton for the second tiroa of Alexander
HOwat, deposed Kansas district prest-
dent
Gen. AdolfO de la Huerta has moved
the capital of the revolutionary gov
ernment to Tuxpam, Vera Cruz. going
TO that port accompanied by his staff
on the Aguila Oil Company's boat, ac-
cording to a radiogram received in
Brownsville, Texas. All revolutionary
forces have left Vera Cruz city, going
by way of the Isthmus railway
| a verdict in favor of the defendant
| was returned by a jury in Federal
| Court at Atlanta, Ga, in the half
million-dollar heart balm suit of Mrs.
Onezima de Bouchel against Asa G.
| Gambler