The Dolores star., 1924-10-24
FOREIGN

officer of the Legion OF Honor. died
In his home In~Paris.
Premier Ramsay Macdonald escaped
serious injury ut Clark Heaton. Eng
land, when the platform from which
he was addressing an audience col
lapsed and spilled the premier and
200 of his listeners. None was in
jured. The premier rose, smiling. and
continued his address.
Naval guards around the foreign
settlements In Shanghai, China, We're
strengthened as an additional precau-
ton, to balance the influx of soldiers
from the defeated Chekiang armies
into Shanghai and environs. Such sol
diers are estimated to number fully
10000 Many of them are armed and
almost all are unofficered and undisci-
plined.
Elimination of the national anthem.
which is customarily played whenever
the king is present. was ordered by
the Socialist woman minister of fine
arts at gala jubilee performance in
lIt lNbNul III N'ltliht-'h
Most of the Socialist ministers oh
jected to their colleagues order and
the public showed its resentment by
rising and singing all the stanzas of
the anthem, concluding with loud
cheering for the king.
The fur has begun to fly in the
British election campaign, which Is
sure TO be short and almost certain to
be snappy. 1t may have been the
dropping OF the case against Editor
Campbell of the Workers Weekly on
which the government decided to ac-
cept defeat and go to the country, but
it has already become plain that the
thing the voters are going TO hear most
about from all sides in this campaign
is the Anglo-Russian treaty.
President Ebert of Germany sent the
following telegram to DR.. Hugo Eek
ener, commander of the IRIS, at
Lakehurst. n. J.: After your sue
cessful transatlantic flight, l, together
with the entire German people and tho
government. congratulate you and your
brave crew most heartily. Your
achievement will live in history as n
great event. Let us hope that the
IRIS in the course Of further flights
will proclaim Germany's genius and
challenge all nations to free and
peaceful rivalry
GENERAL
William G. McAdoo Is convalesc.nG
from an operation for the removal of
gravel from the bladder at Johns Hop
kins hospital, Baltimore.
The S2OO,OOO,OOO German loan under
the Dawes plan, of which more than
half will be launched in the United
States, has been oversubscrbed by 81.
OOO,OOO,OOO.
Assembling of n complete automobile
ut the Highland Park pIanthof the
Ford Motor Company was one of the
features arranged for the entertain
ment of the Prince of Wales, who
visited at Highland Park, a suburb Of
Detroit
With America's S11O,0OOOOO portion
of the S2OOOOO,000 German loan about
five times oversubscribed, the banking
synScate headed by ]. 2. Morgan *
Co, which underworld the issue, has
been busily engaged in scaling down
the allotments of subscribers.
A suit for 100000 damages for mu-
/ tllation alleged to have been Incurred
at the hands of Nathan Leopold, Jr.,
and Richard Loeb was filed in Circuit
| Court in Chicago by Charles Ream, Il
| taxicab driver Ream was attacked by
two men last Nov. 81, blindfolded.
drugged and mutilated
The night force at police headquar-
| ters in Washington. ID. c., received -
shock when Willard Centilever, escaped
leper from the federal colony at Carr
| Vile, La, walked in and said he had
been commissioned by the $50 inmates
there to come to Washington and pro,
test against conditions in the colony.
| A leap or fall from second-story
window of her home in New York City
took the life of Mrs Helen xSmitl
/ Woodruff, author and playwright, de
clared by Penrhyn Stanlaws, the artist
to have been one of the most beautiful
women in the world. Lewis b. Wood
ruff, her husband, is noted lawyer
and scientist.
Official representatives of twenty
eight Protestant communons viii
gather at ATLANTA. Dec 80, for tbs
! quadrennial meeting Of the Fedora
Council of the Churches of Christ II
America. Leaders say that it will b,
the most representative gathering OF
churchmen in years, and that its delib
1 erations will have far-reaching effect.
in all denominations.
President Coolidge was the first O
official Washington to congratulate,
the commander of the ZR-3 on the sue
cessful completion of his record break
ing flight from Frledrichshafen t,
Lakehurst. Word of the landing wal
given to the president within a few
minutes after she had landed at tn,
! Iakehurst airdrome and tho provid.n