The Dolores star., 1924-02-01
GENERAL

iacto regime mas Indefinitely post
poned its blockade of the port.
GENERAL
Following announcement that the
Standard OIL Company increased its
price of gasoline > cents gallon, max
ing the cost ~ cents. Gov. W. II. Nc
Master of South Dakota instructed the
state highway supply station at Mitch
ell, S. D., to sell the fuel ut I6 cents II
gallon.
Nlncenzo Pompilio, the 22-year-old
baker boy who DOTTED his white apron
to start II foreign exchange bank" in
the rear of his fathers bakery in Chi
cago three years ago, confessed to As
siStant States Attorneys CrOnSOn and
Smith that he was approximately
100000 short in his accounts.
Seven men were drowned in oil, two
captains and five hosemen of the fire
department, while fighting a fire at
the Butler street plant of the Atlantic
Refining Company at Pittsburg, Pa
The bodies We're recovered after the
fire had been brought under control.
with the monetary loss unestimated.
y wage agreement for term of
years, effectuated without strike or
suspension Of production, would be of
constructive help in restoring stability
to the industry and would be Il boon to
the coal-wearied public, John l.. Lew
is, international president of the
United Mine Workers of America
biennial convention at Indianapolis
The present wage agreement with the
operators expires March 81.
Acting Governor r. w. Davidson Of
Texas, acqulesced in the request Of
President Obregon of Mexico for per
mission to transport troops across
Texas soil, reversing his first de
cision at the urgent request of Sec
retary of State Hughes. In tele-
gram to Washington, Acting Governor
Davidson said 1000 Mexican federal
troops would be permitted to enter
Texas at El Paso, provided the Ameri-
can government assumed all response
bility for any damages resulting
The resignation of DIR. John w.
Laird, president of Albion College ut
Albion, Mich. and for several days
storm center of charges, counter
charges and rumors, has been accept
ed by the board of trustees of the col
lege. f. II. Goodrich, senior professor
mt Albion, was named as acting presi-
dent.
A special train carrying approx
imately / 800 Mexican federal troops
passed through Ell PasO few DAYS
ago, and was Immediately routed To
JuareZ. Special guards of the United
States troops and Ell Paso police ac-
companied the train through the lower
part of the city. The troops were
from Naro, AriZ., and will be sent To
the interior
Mrs. Warren G. Harding widow oi
the late President Harding is to be
come an associate editor of the Ma,
rion Star and plans to write over her
own signature for the newspaper
which her husband conducted for thir
ty-five years. This was revealed In
Marion in letter received from Mrs
Harding at Washington accepting her
election as director of the Harding
Publishing Company. publishers of the
Star.
An agency of the War Finance Cor
poration began operations in Sioux
Falls II few days ago as part of tht
plan of national and state officials Il
alleviate The financial situation result
ing from the recent closing Of Il mum
/ ber of banks in South Dakota.
I More than 100 school boys were in
| jured, fifty seriously, when balloon,
J collapsed in the Thrice Regimen
armory in Brooklyn. when $4,000 per
sons were watching II school tracl
meet and field meet. All the injuret
" ere boys, except one, n man, GO year.
old.