The Dolores star., 1924-12-05
FOREIGN


fishing boats have been reported lost
In severe storm which swept the Cas-
plan sea.
The London foreign office an
nounced few days ago that Ii gave
credence to reports first received by
London newspapers that plot was
afoot for the assassination of General
Allenby, British high commissioner in
Egypt
An improved atmosphere prevailed
at Cairo following the sensational po-
litical developments resulting from
the course taken by Great Britain in
consequence of the assassination last
week of the sirdar. Maj. Gen. Sir Lee
Stack.
\ telegram of protest against the
British action in Egypt. following the
assassination of the sirdar, Sir Lee
Stack, has been received in Geneva by
the secretariat of the League Of Ma
tlons from the Egyptian parliament.
under the signature of the president
of the body
Paris wants mayor like the other
cities have, "a real governing city hall
symbol of communal autonomy" ac-
cording To resolutions adopted unanl-
mously by seventy-five city council
lors. They added that they We're de-
sirous that the capital of France he
placed on an equal footing, So far as
city government is concerned with pro-
vinciul towns.
The Dutch airman vanderhoop. who
started from Amsterdam on oct. !, has
arrived in Weltevreden, Java, com
pleting flight of more than $500
miles. Accompanied by meChanician
and an observer, he undertook the
journey to test the possibilities of com
mercial aviation between Holland and
his flight were Constantn"ple, Cal
cutta, Rangoon and Singapore.
\ new government, headed by Ziwar
Pashu, president of the senate. has
taken control in Egypt, Zagloul Pasha.
having complied with the British de-
an apology, the payment of indemn-
ity, and the promise TO punish the as
sassins of Sir Lee Stack. sirdar of the
Egyptian urmy-withdrew from the
premiership and his resignation was
Immediately accepted by King Fuad.
GENERAL
Leo Koretz. alias Lou Keyte. con-
fessed. according to Halifax. y. f., po-
Iicn tn par,,ntrutinn nf mail fruuIS
which netted him approximately S.
100000 and for which he was indicted
in Chicago a year ago. He disappeared
at the time of his Indictment and no
trace of him was found until he was
arrested here last night.
Plans for muneuvers of the United
States navy in the Pacific base ut
Hawaii next year "can only be taken
as frank admission that japan. and
Japan only, is the potential enemy in
the minds of the American naval
authorities" declares the Osaka Main
ichi, one of Japan's most influential
journals. in an outspoken editorial.
The Rev. DR. Percy Stickney Grant.
former rector of the fashionable Fifth
Avenue Protestant Episcopal Church
of the Ascension, has been discharged
from New York hospital. His physi-
clans said he had been unable to sleep
in the hospital and planned to go to
his country home near Bedford Hills,
\. Y, to recuperate. DIR. Grant was
taken to the hospital last week. Nerve
SnppiD said no Was uffaripp from
a severe attack of anaemiu
Alice Jones Rhinelander. bride of
Leonard Kip Rhinelander of the
"Rhinelanders of New York" will
flight to a finish" the annulmsnt suit
started in White Plains by her hus-
band, counsel and family of young Mrs.
Rhinelander declared in New York.
Attorneys for Leonard Kip Rhine
lander said the action begun on the
ground that his wife falsely repre-
sented herself to be white and denied
she was of colored blood" was insti-
tuted by young Rhinelander on his own
Initiative.
Samuel GOmDers, completing sixty.
three years of service in the Ameri.
can labor movement, was unanimously
reelected president of the American
Federation of Labor at the FL Paso
convention, post he has held every
year but one since the organization
of the federation in 1881.
Major criminal depredations con-
tinued in Chicago as States Attorney
Robert +. Grove announced that he
would end "all violations and wipe this
country and city clean" He made his
statement before opening grand jury
joint inquiry into the murder of Eddie
Tanel Cicero roadhouse owner, and
the Staying of Dion O'Bunnion. florist
gunman, three weeks ago.
The publication of income tax re-
turns in his newspapers was an at
tempt to arouse public opinion against
law believed detrimental to the well
fare of the country. Walter S. Dckey,
owner and editor of the Kansas City