The Dolores star., 1924-02-08
FOREIGN

stored through Great Britain, follow
ing settlement OF the strike Of locomo-
tive engineers and firemen-
Great Britain has decided to recog-
nize the Russian soviet government
first and to settle outstanding ques-
tions such as debts, reparations and
trade rights, afterward, the foreign Of
flee announced recently. Officials said
that formal recognition by the British
government might be expected any
time now.
The Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals announced in Lon
don recently that 1t will spend $4,000
in the erection of "cenotaph" ut
Hyde Park corner in memory of the
Birds, Beasts and Fishes" who gave
their lives for the empire during the
war. The fish referred to are gold
fish killed in the gas tests.
News of an alarming state of affairs
at Batang, western SZechwan province,
where, mt latest reports, ten American
missionaries We're stationed. has just
reached Picking. Conditions described
existed rs far back as November. The
isolated position Of Batang. which is
only thirty miles from the Tibetan
frontier.
English visitors in the leading hotels
of ST. Moritz, Switzerland, aroused at
the profligacy of German visitors, who
reserve the best suites and spend
| money ike water. have forced the
| management OF the two leading hotels
to affiN signs In the lobbies reading:
"Germans-Pay your debts and nour-
ish your children first. Afterwards
you can enter here"
Robert Sperber, French detective,
and Prince Gagarln, Russian refugee,
who We're imprisoned In connection
with the attempt to kIdnap Grover
Cleveland Bergdull, wealthy American
draft dodger, were released from pris-
on, said II dispatch received in Berlin
from MOsbach. They we're released
upon the same pardon which liberated
Lieut.. COrlss IL Griffis Of Canton, o.
GrIffIs is on his way back to the
United Statcs
Theophile Braga, So former Presi-
dent of Portugal, was found dead in
his residence in Lisbon few days ago.
DIR. Bragu was one of the leaders in
the Republican movement which re-
suited in the revolution of 1910 and the
| dethrunement of King Manuel. and
was the first man to head the Portu-
guese Republican government. He
| served as proslvional president from
October ), 1910, TO Aug. I of the next
nj M 4 ,Vr,lR-
elected pfeslde-. succeeding Dr.
MamUel de Arriaga, in May, 1915.
GENERAL
Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate and
lessee of the Teapot dome denied in
cablegram from Paris to the Senate
public lands committee In Washington
that he had ever given money to ex-
| Secretary of the Interior Fail. Col.
J. w. Zcyely, SincIuir's counsel, prey
| iously testified he had loaned Fall
| $4,000 in Liberty bonds which he re
| ceived from Sinclair
Bert T. Chapman of Boston surrpn-
dered to the federal authorities in Bos-
| ton on an Indictment returned by the
federal grand jury in Los Angeles last
| October charging him and twenty-five
| others with conspiracy in connection
with IA millon-dolnr mail truck rob-
| berry In the California city in March.
| 1921 Chapman's arrest revealed that
| 100000 worth Of bonds stolen from
the mails AT that time have been re-
covered here.
Agricultural production in the fed
| states Of the Pacific slope Increased
IN volume substantially during 1928, 1t
| was stated in San Francisco. in the re-
| port of Federal Reserve Agent John
! Perrin to the Federal Reserve Board.
| The report says the year was marked
| by STEADY employment of practically
| all kinds Of workers, lower rate of
! labor turnover and improved industrial
| relations. Employment in most of the
major Industries Of the district In
creased MS compared with 1922"
Forces Of the United Mine Workers
| Of America were pledged by their del
| cgates in convention at Indianapolis to
| fight against any wage reduction. but
| elected at the same time 10 defer their
| demand for II shorter workday. The
| vote was overwhelming
Mrs. Blanche Tiernan, figure In the
sensational paternity case ut South
| Bend, Ind, and second wife for tIme
| of Professor John Tiernan, escaped
| prosecution on ii bad check charge ut
| Marble Rock, Iowa, by the simple ex-
| pedient Of paying cash Sheriff RuhI,
upon returning To Nintun. Ind, from
| Marble Rock, said he had dropped the
| charge against Mrs. Tiernan when size
paid for the alleged bad check and
costs, amounting to SGST5.
Fifteen persons met death in ter
rifle gas and dynamite explosion that
| demolished double house owned by
| the Manvile mills at Cumberland,
| r. J. An entire family-iiother,