The Dolores star., 1924-02-29
FOREIGN


amen.
DIR. Won Kahr, the Bavarian military
dictator, has resigned and General
Won Lossow, commander of tho
Bavarian reichswehr. has rendered his
resignation.
The Polncare government weathered
the long-expected crisis in the Senate
when in a test vote on the electoral
bill the French premier was sustained
by vote of $50 against 1874.
Lieut. Eugenio Mendes and eight
constabulary soldiers under his com
mand, and thirty-five religious fanatics,
including two of their leaders, were
killed in a fIght at Balete Agusan
province, according to constabulary
report received in Manila. Several
other fanatics We're wounded.
The London Evening News prints
vague story that "A scheme is being
prepared" for an all-British flight to
the north pole 1t says the moving spir-
1t is Commander F. NJ Boothby. a
British air expert, and that the diriGi-
BILE R-S6 will be used. The cost OF the
project is estimated at 5000.
Fires in four sugar plantations in
Camaguey province, Cuba. caused an
estimated loss OF 100000 pounds of
sugar cane as 1t stood in the fields.
While cane fields burn easily at this
season and accidental fires are com
mon, Investigations are being made on
the theory that some of these fires
were of lncendiary origin.
The dock workers strike in England
is considered virtually ended, although
final negotiations may he protracted.
The employers have agreed to advance
the mems wages l shilling now and
another shilling June l, and there will
be what is termed satisfactory in
qulry" into the question of decasuaI-
ization and an agreement for no re-
prisals.
\ decree prohibiting expectation
from France of cotton and wool has
Just been published in Paris. Most of
the combed wool produced is sold
abroad, and it is feared several fac
tories will be forced 10 close. The
Lille Woolen Trade Association has
telegraphed to Premier Poincare de
ciaring the measure is likely to throw
1900 persons out of employment.
GENERAL
A dock strike has been declared in
London and will affect 10000 men in
ports of the United Kingdom accord
ing to officials of the Transport and
General Workers Union.
Funeral services for the Rt. Rev. Al
eXander c. Garrett. presiding bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
America, who died at his home in DaI-
las, Tex, were held last Friday.
Frank \. Vanderlip, retired banker,
in a reply to the 100000 libel suit
filed against him by the owners of the
Marion Star, declared he welcomed the
suit and expressed the hope that it
would be the forerunner OF court pro-
ceedings that would make public some
of the news that the great newspapers
did not see fit to print"
Judge William NJ Morning of the
Court of Domestic Relations and Wal
lace G. Walllck, well digger, are dead
and Minor Bacon, court reporter, is
suffering from slight wound under
the right arm, the sequel to a tragedy
enacted in Judge Morn,ngs court at
Lincoln. when Wallick. appearing TO
answer a charge of nonpayment Of all
mony, drew revolver and began
shooting.
James J. McGrath, a promoter, was
fined 81 900 in Chicago by Federal
Judge CHffe on Il plea of guilty to
transporting motion picture films of
the Dempsy-Gibbons fight at Shelby,
Mont, in iuterstaS commerce. The
pictures We're brought to Chicago from
Shelby and shown there, the federal
statute providing for penalties for
transportation of fight films between
the states, but not for showing the pic
lures
Mrs. Myrtle Schoude Of Whitewater,
Wis, was sentenced to twenty Years
in the state prison at EIkhorn, Wis,
on her plea of guilty to the charge Of
poisoning her husband and attempting
to poison her four children.
Lieut. Corliss Hooven Griffis, the
Ohio boy who went into Germany
after Grover Cleveland BergdOll,
draft dodger, and was imprisoned for
six months and deported as an un-
desirable for his pains. couldn't have
received Il more rousing welcome if
he had succeeded than the one given
him in Chicago. Travelling from New
I RI in al h,
corded the honOrs of conquering
hero.
Sale Of the Armour interests in the
stockyards at South Omaha is about
to be completed between j. Ogden
Armour and a syndicate composed Of
present stockholders in the yards
headed by w. Earnam Smith of Oma.