The Dolores star., 1924-01-11
GENERAL

GENERAL
As result of recent examination
Zlna \. Cleveland and Mrs. Helen T.
Carlson are eligible for the appoint
ment as postmaster at Julcsburg. Colo,
it was announced by the Civil Service
Commission.
The Geological Survey announced
that the daily average production Of
crude petroleum in the United States
in November amounted to 2,15O.S6
barrels. an increase of D. .3T6 barrels
over the daily average for October.
Every candidate for the legislature
in the primaries this spring will be
called upon by the state administra-
tiOn to announce his or her position
upon prohibition enforcement bills
which We're defeated by the 1929 leg
islature. Governor Pinchot of Penn,
sylvania declared in an address.
Joseph NJ. Dean, chairman of the
Memphis, (Tenn) board of motion
picture censors. stated that films in
which Mabel Nornand appears will he
barred permanently from local screens
as a result of the connection OF her
name with the shooting of Courtland
$. Dimes, son of Il Denver capitalist,
who was seriously wounded by Miss
Normand's chauffeur.
Billy Miske, St Paul heavyweight
pugilist, died mt a Minneapolis hospi-
tai after a weeks illness from an
,F
was 20 years old. Although Miske had
suffered from "A chronic condition of
the disease for four years, he did not
become seriously i'll until recently. He
spent Christmas with his family in ST
Paul but collapsed the next day and
was taken to the hospital. Saturday he
became unconscious and remained so
until his death. AIiske's ring career
was full of action. He had engaged in
ia ring battles and has been knocked
out but once. His illness had twice
forced him to retire from the pugilis
tic arena.
Two stockholders of the Doris
Motor Car Company of st. Louis filed
suit to enjOin the company from pro
ceeding with the liquidation of the
company. They also asked for a re-.
ceiver
The Columbia Graphophane Manu-
featuring Company, which went into
bankruptcy October IL, filed a SEIZED.
ule in Federal Court in New York list
ing S23,910,405 liabilities and SIS, 1867 :
931 assets.
Four special trains carrying Sl2,-
100000 worth of silk, the largest and
most valuable shipment ever to cross
the continent, arrived in Chicago over
the burlington railroad few days
ago The consignment comes from the
Orient by way of Seattle and will be
run through to New York intact. The
silk is being transported in baggage
cars and the trains are being operated
on faster than regular passenger train
time, the run from Seattle to Chicago
being scheduled ut siXty-eight and one
half hours. There are forty-siX cars
in all, two trains of eleven cars each
and two of twelve each Each train is
accompanied by twenty-five armeG q
guards. Canadian. railroads hereto
fore have carried much of the silk
shipments.
Dissolution of the Copper Export
Association, formed soon after the war
to dispose of surplus copper stocks.
will take place early in January. Ma.
jOr producing interests will be segre-
gated into the original selling units.
with foreign sales conducted independ-
emily by the companies. Dissolution
was agreed upon when certain mem
bers announced they would Withdraw
the first of the new year. 1t was
said remaining producers felt that the
remnant of the association would he
open to attack by the government as
| price-fixing organization.