The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-02-06
WASHINGTON

methods of basing freight rates, In
troduced resolution under whicl
congress would order rates on farm
products and implements reduced t,
substantial prewar levels.
Senator Gooding intends to fine
out how much the railroads of the
country are spending annually fol
propaganda and advertising in news
papers magazines and other medi
ums. He has introduced a resolu.
ton calling on the interstate com
merce commission to require all car
riers within sixty days to report
their expenditures of this nature.
The resolution also requires reports
on expenditures for propaganda and
advertising conducted through other
organizations, as well as by the car
riers, and calls for a list of salaries
paid publicity men.
| The Democratic national conven-
ton will be held at New York City
beginning Tuesday, June "a, follow
ing the Republican convention at
Cleveland June 10.
Lieutenant Commander George T.
Swazey, who was attached to the
Pacific fleet, has been dismissed
from the naval service after court
martial on charges of drunkenness,
assault and conduct unbecomming
an officer, the navy department said
Wednesday.
Edward N. Hurley, Chicago, bust
ness man and former chairman of
the shipping board, was nominated
by President Coolidge to the Demo-
cratic vacancy on the debt funding
commission.
Creation of a federal agency to
utilize in productive enterprise the
enemy funds on deposit in the treas
ury to the credit of the alien prop
erty custodian was proposed in the
annual report of Colonel Thomas w.
Miller, the custodian.
Justice Bailey of the District of |
Columbia supreme court has granted |
he Morris group of meat packers an
additional year in which to dispose of
abroad terminals and unallied in
erests under the governments pack
r consent decree.
Delegates attending the National
conference met in groups
aturday to consider various aspects
f the problem of teaching the 5,0OO,-
90 illiterates in the United States
ow to read and write.
Criticisms of the American Falls,
laho reclamation project made by
representative Cramlon, Michigan, I
lring consideration of the interior I
apartment appropriation bill were !
lswered in the house by Represen-
tive Smith, Idaho.
FOREIGN
Ramsay Macdonald, parliamentary Q
lbor leader and probably the next
ime minister, in remarkable .
eech in the house of commons at I
,ndon declared for foreign policy "
at will restore the Influence of e
eat Britain in Europe in favor of 9
ace and order.
A number of lives were lost, many o
rsons seriously injured and heavy Ii
Dperty damage caused by the second Id
sat earthquake which has stricken iii
pan within five months. The VIC Ia
IS of the shock, so far as is known, e,
re all Japanese. Most of the casual s(
8, it is believed were confined to al
, vicinities of Toxic and Yokohama, al
ere the temblor expended its las
latest force. The death list may Itr
ch fifty. IoI
treat Britain has recognized the
sek government, the British charge !.
Athens was officially advised by H.
London foreign office. ~,
'rench troops have evacuated |C,
hum and Wattenschied, on the ds
thern edge of the Ruhr district, al
wing only the gendarmes behind.
s is the third decisive step in the iwl
of soldiers as a part of lon
noes policy of invisible occupa- lbr
/. Ife
Toward Carter is said to be dis q,
ragged by the quite unexpected Ia
rble encountered in dismantling
shrines of the tomb of Tuten- 'rI,
len. 1t had been his original in o.,
lion to reach the lid of the sar- 10,
hagus by removing in succession or,
roofs of the four inclosing shrines. lon
the toughness of the second roof lon
led him already to modify his Ian
| after wrestling with the cor lhir
IS of the outer canopy. me,
mir Ali, governor of Medina and the
st son Of King Hussein of Hedjas, AN
eported by "Mokattam,' local lsia
b newspaper to have been SER wa
ly wounded in an encounter be- nc