The Dolores star., 1924-02-22
CONDENSED RE ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
: HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, Dol NG S, ACHIEVE
MENTs, SuFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN


ington by b. Russell Shaw, vice
chairman of the contest committee Of
the National Aerouautic Association.
DR.. Richard G. De Gilady, recently
of Budapest, promoter OF a. charity
musical sponsored by number of San
Francisco social leaders, is being held
in the county Jail in San Francisco for
federal authorities after his arrest in
San Francisco on charge of posing
us an agent OF a foreign government.
\ cablegram from President Ebert
OF Germany expressing regret at the
"deplorable misinterpretation" of the
German embassy flag incident and ex-
tending to the American people deep
sympathy on the death of former
President Wilson was made public by
Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, chairman
OF the American committee for re-
lief OF German children.
Mexicali. the Mexican town facing
CaleNicn, Calf, across the interria-
tional boundary, within the last few
days has been made the clearing house
for opium by the issuance of special
licenses TO two opium smoking dens
and narcotic supply houses there, ac-
cordinG to information sent to the
State Department nj Washington by
American Consul Won Strub at Mexi-
call.
\ party of officers and men OF the
United States navy arrived in Seattle
en- route to Alaska to prepare for the
flight Of the dirigible Shenandoah over
polar regions next summer. The ad-
vance party left for Nenana or Fair
banks, in the interior of Alaska. From
Nenana, its chief, Lieut.. b. II. Wyatt,
accompanied by two men, will fly by
aIrplane to Nome, several hundred
miles
Resolutions urging Congress to en-
act the American Legion program for
adjusted compensation for world war
veterans and demanding congress
sionaI investigation of an alleged
powerful campaign by big business
interests to defent the measure by
methods of misinformation and init
midatfon" were adopted at a mass
meeting in Seattle of western Wash
ington eX-service men. Virtually all
the thirty-two American Legion posts
of western Washington were repre-
sented nj the gathering.
WASHINGTON
Chief Justice Taft has recovered
from his recent. attack of indigestion.
]. Leo Stack, Denver oil man, who
has contractural rights in claims in
Teapot dome. told the Senate oil com
mittee today that he became con
WINGED soon after Harry f. Sinclair
got the lease that there had been
dad faith. fraud and secret dealings"
in the matter Stack said information
had come TO him that Sinclair, Robert
w. Stewart of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, and II. NJ Black
mer of the Midwest Refining Com
pany. Standard OIL subsidiary. had
gotten together at AIexia on the Tea
pot dome subject in December, 1921.
At the direction of President Cool
idge, Secretary OF the Treasury Mel
lon accepted the resignation of Louis
A. Hill as director of the bureau of
engraving and printing, and named
Maj. Wallace w Kirby of sthe army
engineer corps as acting director.
Developments in the oil scandal tum-
bled over each other so rapidly and
went so far afieId that the national
capital has not recovered from the
shock. President Harding's name and
the circumstances surrounding the sale
of his newspaper, the Marion Star,
were brought in by Frank A. Wander
lip, New York banker. VINO promptly
was subpoenaed by the oil committee.
Secretary of the Interior Work has
recommended to Congress that the
annual cost of the Washington office
of the reclamation bureau no longer
be charged against the water users
of reclamation projects of Colorado
and other Western states. Secretary
Work believes such legislation would
tighten the burdens of the water
users. This is one of several plans
Secretary Work is proposing in the
interest of farmers of the reclamma-
tiOn projects
Diplomatic relations between the
United States and the government of
Honduras have been severed by the
State Department The step was TAX
en- because of the failure of three pol
itical factions il Honduras to reach an
agreement under which constitutional
government can be restored by peace
full means.
The House defeated a resolution
proposing constitutional amendment
to prohibit issuance of tax-exempt Sc
curit:cs. The vote. which came after
two debates, was 247 to 1873, or seven
less than the required two-tbirds.