The Dolores star., 1924-08-01
FOREIGN

luSt Wtth.
Three robbers escaped from
branch of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce at Vancouver, II. c., with Sl9,-
900 after one of them had laid open
the head of G. A. Bonallie, manager.
A budget OF S24.2IO,OOO has been
drawn up for the reconstruction Of the
Imperial University of Toxic. The
buildings were largely destroyed by the
earthquake and fire of Sept. /.
1t is reported in London that Prime
riot have made personal agreement
not to allow the conference on the
Dawes plan TO break up until full
accord has been reached.
The United States by completing Its
tennis triumph. not only made clean
sweep of all of the major branches
of the Olympic competition. but rolled
up point total which clinches the
nll-around championship of the games.
Baron Evence Coppee, one of the
wealthiest manufacturers in Belgium,
was acquitted of the charge OF having
supplied coal and other goods to the
Germans during the occupation of Bel
GUM in the war. The trial began May
21 and the baron, because Of poor
health, was allowed to reside in n
clinic under police guard during the
proceedings.
The ministry of commerce reports
marked increase in the number of
bankruptcies in Germany. especially
of unlimited partnerships During
June the number of such failures was
three times that of the May figures.
A constant decline in the labor market
in Berlin is reported by the Berlin
labor office. The total number of un-
employed registered in Berlin is
nearly $4,000.
AS the fighting between Brazilian
government and revolutionary forces
at Sac Paulo continues, conflicting
reports as TO the number of persons
killed or injured us result of the
battle are being received in official
advices reaching the State Department
at Washington, n. c. \ summary Of
the reports issued by the department
says sit is believed that the rumors
overestlmate the casualties"
The MacLaren party of British round
world aviators is winging its way
northward through the Kuriles. Forced
down a week ago on Uruppu island.
near the southern end of the Kurile
chain, by fog, and for time feared
to have perished, the flyers left To.
kotan bay, on Uruppu, for Murakami
bay, on Paramishiru, the most north
erly of the larger Kuriles, and their
last stop in the japanese empire.
GENERAL
Gray Silver Of West Virginia, Wash
ington representative of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, was elected
president Of the S26,0OO,000 Grain
Marketing Company, representing
merger of five of the largest grain
companies in the country, which even
tually is to be farmer-owned and con-
trolled, according to plans.
Carl C. Magee, editor of the New
Mexico State Tribune at Albuquerque.
was found guilty of contempt of court
before Judge d. J. Leahy and SEN
fenced to from three to six months in
the county jail. Magee was immedi.
ately taken to the jail, where he start.
ed serving his sentence. Magee was
adjudged guilty on three citations.
Governor Hinkle Immediately par.
doned Magee.
Eight alleged rum runners, 1000
gallons of alcohol, flve-ton truck
and power boat We're captured nj
South Boston by detail of marines
under Capt. Archibald Young. The ar.
rests were made at the point Of rifles
and the prisoners did not submit until
three shots had been fired. When
seized, two gallons of alcohol remained
aboard the boat, the remainder having
been transferred to the truck.
Col. Bernard Eckhart of Chicago has
been appointed assistant treasurer OF
the Republican national committee.
William NJ. Butler, chairman of the
committee, announced in Chicago
Colonel Eckhart is president of a Chi
cago flour milling concern and direct
or of ten financial enterprises. Born
in Alsace in 1852, he came to this
country in infancy with his parents
who were settlers in Wisconsin. He
was educated in Milwaukee.
The offer of thirty-six leading grain
firms of the Northwest to sell l,Oe2
country elevators, twenty-five Mime
apolis terminals and twelve Duluth
terminals to the American YARN Bu-
reau Federation has been formally
submitted to the directors of the new
s26,OO0,0O0 grain sales corporation at
Chicago. The proposal of the old line
elevator companies which contem.
plates turning over the entire hold.
ing OF the biggest grain firms in the
Northwest to the farm organization
cannot be considered by the farm bu-
reau federation, as such, according to
word received at Minneapolis from