The Dolores star., 1924-09-05
FOREIGN

according to reports reaching Manila
Chief Petty Officer Epgle was killed
and Seaman Moratk seriously injured.
Rain. which recently has peen pour
ing relentlessly over Belgium, is de-
scribed as almost disaster for Bel
GUM wheat and oats, particularly as
the wheat crop is short. Official sta
tistics show the sowing this year only
one-fourth of what II was in 1892. Bel
GUM farmer have turned from grain to
sugar beets and other export crops.
Recent floods covered 10000 square
miles in the province of Chill and
caused crop loss of 100000 900
| (Chinese), II was estimated in Peking
by w. II. Mallory. executive secretary
of the International Famine Relief
Commission. Because of the nature
of the terrain, water still is standing
on majority of the flooded lands.
The entire region between Paotingfu
and Tientsin and northward to the
Wenan dyke has been converted into
great lake, according TO o. ]. Todd,
an engineer in the employ of the Inter
national Famine Relief committee, who
returned to Peking few days ago
from trip of investigation. Crops in
this region have been entirely de-
stroyed by the flood waters, he re-
ported.
The French Chamber OF Deputies
voted confidence in the Herriot gov
ernment by 1856 to 2O4, following the
long debate in the chamber on the
governments action at the London
conference. Premier Herriot defend
ed the Dawes plan and the London
agreement in two-hour reply to his
critics during the course of the de-
bate over parliamentary approval nec-
essary to final signature of the ac-
cords.
No sooner had the German govern
ment rescinded the order by which
German citizens who desire TO leave
the country on pleasure trips must pay
a tax of 800 gold marks, than the
tourist bureaus We're again overrun
with prospective travellers. Denmark,
Norway and Sweden are the countries
now preferred, while in spring Italy
was the mecca of the Germans. Even
Finland has developed into "most
favored nation"
The French Chamber of Deputies
recently ratified the Lausanne treaty
after a fourteen-hour debate. The
vote was 1i0 to III. The treaty of
| Lausanne was signed at Lausanne,
Switzerland, July "A, 1923, by repre-
| I...r Ns4tf ft-lg. s.fT
Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan,
Greece and Rumania on the other The
treaty re-established peace in the
Near East. 1t required eight months
of tedious, dramatic negotiations.
GENERAL
President Doumergue of France has
named Lou Holland of Kansas City,
| Mo-, chevalier of the Legion of
| Honor. Mr.. Holland is president of
the Associated Advertising Clubs of
the World. The decoration was con-
ferred upon the suggestion of Premier
Herriot.
A storm of near hurricane proper
tions, moving up the seaboard from the
| West Indies in a 30O-mile path, threw
itself against New York IN a way that
crippled traffic, caused heavy damage
and brought injury to forty persons in
| New York city alone within few
hours. A furious wind accompanied
the storm.
| Commissioner Edward Maxson of
the Department of Banking and In
surance, was appointed as temporary
receiver for Wilson & Co, Inc, in
bonds of $4,000. The appointment
was made by Vice Chancellor Backes
at Trenton, N. j., on application of
Maurice l. Klein of Newark, owner of
twenty-five shares of stock, with a
total par value of S2,5OO He alleges
the corporation, which is engaged in
the general packing business is insol-
vent.
Fire destroyed the Union Furniture
Exchange store, Otis grocery and the
Walker block, all in the same build
ing, in Butte, Mont. causing n loss
estimated at $4,000. Prompt work
by the firemen and absence of wind
prevented what might have been the
most serious blaze in years.
American agriculture has just turn
ed corner. DR.. David Friday, Wash
ington, d. c., economist and former
president of the Michigan Agricultural
college, declared in an address in Chi
cagO before the American Association
of Joint Stock Land Banks. "It is the
final turn to the right that leads out
OF the slough of depression onto the
high road of prosperity" he asserted.
Roland G. Parvin Of Denver was
elected president of the Western AS
sociation of Game Commissioners at
Portland, Ore, at the closing session
Of the association convention, accord.
ing to word received in Denver. ]. A.
Kenny, Washington state game com.
missioner, was named vice president