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The Washington times., 1932-08-27
WILL DIRECT
MAIN WORK
FROM D. c.
subcommittee Picked for
Assuring Recovery Under
Henry M. Robinson

It's oratorical fervor ended
the Presidents business con.
ference settled down today to
routine committee meetings at
which plans to aid industry
and stimulate employment
were discussed.
Some of the several hundred
captains of business and finance
were en- route home after a
general session at which the
President declared the crisis in
the long fight against adverse
industrial conditions was past.
Coordination Planned
Others remained, however, to
perfect a nationwide organiza.
ton designed to coordinate Gov.
ernmental and private efforts in
behalf of better times.
Henry M. Robinson, Of Los
Angeles, chairman of the new
central banking and industrial
committee formed to direct these
efforts, declared he was more
than satisfied with the results of
the conference.
Robinson, a personal friend to
the President, planned to have
his headquarters in Washington
Everett Case. of New York, son.
in-law to Owen D. Young, and
James Douglas, of the Treasury
Department, were named as his
assistants.
Six subcommittee
Under the direction of the
central committee, the IL regional
banking and industrial COM
mittees were ready to launch
upon a vigorous program to slim
ulate trade.
Six subcommittee created at
the conference sought to com
plete their organization work.
One, under leadership of Owen
D. Young, tackled the problem
of making credit available and
useful to business.
A program for expanding the
maintenance and equipment ex'
penditures of the railroads was
mapped out by another Subcom'
mittee, headed by Daniel Willard,
president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
Funds for this purpose, with
the interest payments deferred
were offered by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation.
Plans to increase capital re
placements by other industries
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$I6O,OOO Allotted
For RiUer Projects

An allotment approximating
100000 for rivers, harbors, ships
and flood control was approved
today by Secretary of War
Hurley.
For emergency levee repairs
near Blytheville, Ark, 100000
was set aside; $4,000 was ap-
proved to finish Transforming the
S. S. Detroit Wayne, anchored
in the James River, into a
dredge; $4,000 for dredging the
Pawcatuck River, Connecticut.
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ROGERS SAYS:

BISHOP, Calf, Aug. 27-I guess there are nc
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convinced the Americans were
down, still held out hopes for
their safety. There was the
possibility they had landed ut
some remote point in the British
Isles or on the continent, or, if
they had come down on the sea,
that they still might be picked up.
Their cabin monoplane, the
Green Mountain Boy" was
sealed at the doors and windows
so that the fuSelage would serve
as a pontoon if they were forced
down on the water. Lee and
Bochkon estimated they could re-
main aflot several days.
They charted their course over
the Great Circle shipping route,
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Ocean Liners Hunt Filters
Feared Lost at Sea

LONDON, Aug. II GN.SJ.
More than a dozen ocean liners
between Europe and North Amer
lea scanned the seas closely to-
day for a trace of Clyde A. Lee
and John Bochkon, youthful
American aviators. lost on an at
tempt to fly nonstop from Har-
Dor Grace, Newfoundland, to
Oslo, Norway.
The filters, who took off at SOC
a. m. Thursday, Washington
time, were due in Oslo around
II a. m. yesterday, Washington
time. They allowed themselves
extra fuel for seven hours flying.
British air ministry officials,
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two kinds of people in worse
repute with everybody than the
international bankers and the
folks who put all those pins in
new shirts.
Owing to this Wall Street
boom having reached us only
by newspaper reports, I've been
buying some 5O-cent blue work
shirts. You know, l found out
something. They haven't got
any pins in 'em. No sir, they
are made so solid they don't
have to pin 'em up so you can
get 'em home.
Pins in shirts have caused
n putting. But now you know
keep 'em from falling apart.
ssI by Mcknight Syndicate,
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Hoover Names 2 Here
To West Point List

Two young Washingtonians
have been named by President
Hoover as candidates-at-large for
admission to West Point next
July, the entrance examination
taking place March 7.
The candidates are Arthur
Henry Marsh and Richard Marsh,
both of the 1900 block of Bel
mont Rd.
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CuLbertsOns Sail;
Challenge BritOnS

LONDON, Aug. 81 QN.SD-Mr.
and Mrs. Ely Culbertson sailed
for New York today aboard the
Empress of Britain, leaving with
Col. Walter Butler, British bridge
expert, a challenge for a team
match of 400 deals of duplicate
contract bridge. Culbertson would
wager $31,140 against $10,3S0.
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KRENN RENOUNCES LEGACY FROM MRS. MCCORMICK
THE WEATHER

ocal thundershowers this afternoon or tonight;
lot much change in temperature moderate
I.
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"OLd Main" Razed
Blu Fire at BuckneU

LEWIsBURG, Pa, Aug. 81
G.N.S0.-"Old Main" original
and principal building of Buck
nell University, was destroyed by
fire early today with loss esti-
mated at 100000.
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OFFICIALS TRY LEARN IDENTIFY MYSTERIOUS
 BLONDE BEAUTY, CASE

SAN JOSE, Calf, Aug, 4, The identity of the mysterious blonde held as a material witness in the sensational case of George Douglas Templeton, Jr., 20 year old Univer- sity of California student charged with the knife murder of his aunt and with savagely hacking her husband in an alleged crime for re- venge, was sought by authorities.
 They admit they are seeking at least two young women in the case. The police said the woman who gave her age as 28 and name as Claire Brunette, is also known as DiXiani Chaplin. She declared she was graduate of Vassar College and the daughter of a retired ban ker in New York.
 Investigation into the blondes identity was started when advices from Vassar said no such girl ever attended the school.
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COMMUNISTS ACCEPT
 RESPONSIBILITY RIOTS

NEW YORK, Aug, 4, The New York Times says responsibility for the demonstration that eliminated in the bonus army riots at Wash ington was accepted by the com munist party at it's headquarters here.
 At the same time it was announce ed plans are rapidly being made for a new bonus march on Wash ington when Congress reconvenes in December.
 The march is planned under the auspices of the workers ex-servlce mems league, which numbers many communist among members and which were active in the recent demonstrations at the capital.
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STATE TROOPERS RAISE
 SIEGE AT INDIANA MINE

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug, 4, F) The siege at the Billebo mine was raised by armed state forces and 65 besieged miners were freed from the union picket line whose snip ing held the men prisoners two days.
 The snipers faded away as 800 state guardsmen, heavily armed, marched to the mine.
 Four wounded miners were given medical care and are recovering. The survivors reported that the ar rival of a squadron of six airplanes saved a battle with the pickets for the besieged were prepared to rush the picketers.
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BOLIVIA AND PARACUAY
 TELL LEAGUE THEY ARE
 WILLING ID ARb|TRATE [

UNDATED-Aug., 4, P-Bollvla and Paraguay gave approval fol international moves toward peace full settlement of the Chaco boun- diary disputes, but continued pre- pairing for war.
 Dispatches from Perico, a border town, reported 11,000 Bolivian SOL diers would be there in few days.
 It is said the government raises serious objections to several claus es in the note sent by the United States to the South American na- tions, warning that any territorial gains made by force, will not be recognized.
 Paraguay informed the League of Nations that it was willing to ar bitrate; Bolivia, also.
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BONUS SEEKERS ARE MAKING PREPARATIONS
 ID LEAVE F0R HOMES

JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug, 4, - The bonus expeditionary force, on Wednesday, was packing in pre- paration to go back to their homes. Huge groups of soldiers left the camp at all hours of the day until it was estimated that at least 800 had departed. More are expected to leave today.
 The unsuccessful bonus seekers are being escorted out of the state by troopers.
 Some opposition developed We'd nesday in the bonus camp among the soldiers when it was learned that they were to break camp. However, Mayor Eddie McCloskey, former prize-fighter and pants presser, was there and he quickly quieted all opposition by threat ening to punch the man who did not pack up," in the nose.
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HUNDREDS OF JQBLEss
 STAGE R|0T sT. JOHNS

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug, 3, (P)- Several hundred unemployed men rioted in the streets pillaging shops and smashing windows before po- lice could get the disorder in hand.
 Two policemen were injured and Is rioters were arrested. The trou- ble began after several hundred unemployed went to the residence of Acting Premier H. A. Winter, de- manding work.
 Last April 10000 persons stormed the Newfoundland House of As sembly breaking windows and des- troying official records. They also forced the resignation of Prime Minister Sir Richard Squires, who was attacked and handled roughly as he escaped from the Parliament building.
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ALASKA ITEMS IF INTEREST: AT THE
 NATION CAPITAL

On June 1St Donald Sutherland born in Alaska, was graduated from school in Washington and has made application for entry in Princeton College. In order to do some preliminary study in France Donald, accompanied by his moth CT, sailed on the City of Hamburg, from Baltimore, on July 13, ex- pecting to be absent about two months and to visit France, Scot land and London. Dan Suther- land, who is spending the summer in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, at Lisbon, came to see the family off and spend a couple ot days in Washington and Phila- delphia.
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UNAMERCAN DECISION |S MADE BY OLYMPIC
 GAMES COMMITTEE:

LOS ANGELES, Aug, 4, There was quite a furore raised in this city Wednesday when the Olympic Games committee decided to pro- hibit the appearance of Clarence News, colored, a noted singer and radio artist, to entertain Olympic Games athletes.
 It was pointed out that the of ficials allowed such negro stars as Tolan and Metcalfe to run winning races, despite their color, but that when News appeared on the list of entertainers, the color line was drawn
 Prominent Los Angeles citizens stated afterwards that they thot the decision of the games commit tee was not the decision of the committee, as whole, but rather the verdict of one or two members.
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STORY SLAIN B. E.F.
 MEMBER TOLD BROTHER

CHICAGO, Aug, 4, The story of William HuShka, member of the bonus army who was slain in Wash ington, was revealed by his broth CT Charles.
 The slain veteran entered the army in 1917, a butcher by trade He sold the small meat shop he owned to give his family money while he went to war. He was mus tered out in 1919.
 Returning home he tried to buy back his meat shop but was un- able to raise the funds so left his wife and came to Chicago seeking work.
 Several years ago his wife left him and obtained custody of their child. He gave up a good job to join the army" said Charles. Ever since then he had tough luck"
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FAMOUS SHIPPERS TRADE
 SHIPS, SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 4, When the SS California clears Saturday a new name will appear on the Shipping Commissioners Register as master, the old familiar Capt. George Richardson, who has com- manded the vessel the SS Virginia, the California's sister-ship.
 And Capt. Robert A. Smith, for mer chief officer and relief cap- tain of the lines, will be in com- mand of the first turbo-electric ship to be operated in the inter- coastal trade.
 When his ship sails it will take a large list of Western tourists and some returning Eastward, via the water route, from the Olympic Games.
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RECORDS SMASHED RIGHT AND LEFT AT
 THE 1882 0LYMP|CS

LOS ANGELES, Aug, 4, The year of 1882 should go down as the year of the 'big push" in athletics and Olympic competition as near ly all former records are being showed off the board by better marks.
 The third day of the Olympic Games was similar to the first two in that records were betetred in in that records were bettered in world records, aside from Olympic records, are being shattered.
 Californians attribute these re- cord-smashing performances to the fact California's climate is res ponSible for the new marks while others say that in addition to the climate, that the human race ap- pears to be getting more speed, strength and courage.
 Not only the athletes are setting marks but the crowds in attend ance are greater; record crowds depicting interest and enthusiasm. Officials are making a record, too, in the manner in which they are handling the vast crowds.
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UNITED STATES |s
 FAR LEAD OVER OTHER
 NATIONS AT OLMP|Cs

LOS ANGELES, Aug, 4, (P- American track men continued their triumphal march in the 18th Olympiad Wednesday.
 William Miller pole-vaulted 14 feet, one and seventh-eighths in ches, a new Olympic record, bet tering the accepted worlds record of IA feet, one and one-eighths in- ches.
 Anderson hurled the javelin 162 feet, one and one-half inches, for new Olympic record.
 George Haling won the no meter hurdles in IA and six-tenths sec- ondS.
 Eddie Tolad, Negro sprinter, stepped the 200 meters in 21 and two-tenths seconds, clipping near ly second off tn eOlympic record.
 The United States is far out in the lead over others with 152 points, Great Britain is the closest com petitor with 28; Ireland has 25; Canada 19; Germany 18; Finland 16; Japan IA; Poland 10; Sweden and France ' each; other nations are trailing four to one points.
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WASHINGTON sOL0Ns
 BEGIN CAMPAIGNS SOON

SEATTLE, Aug, I, Senator Wesley L. Jones, author of the in famous five and 10 law" return ed to Washington State this week from the nations capital He left for a brief rest at a mountain re- sort Wednesday and said that when he returned he would make a state ment on the prohibition question as it effected the nation.
 Meanwhile, Congressman Ralph Horr, returning from his first ses- sion of Congress, also returned. He evaded any statement on pohibi- tion by stating that before the dry laws went into effect you couldn't go to a certain university dance if ones breath smelled of liquor. But now," Congressman Horr said, you can't get in unless you have a bottle on your hip"
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.RECLUSE CONFESsEs HE
 KILLED YOUNG GIRL

LUDINGTON, Mich, Aug, 4, (R Frances Nash, the strange re- cluse, covered in his cell after con- fesing to having strangled pretty IT year-old Evelyn Sanford.
 The community was stirred by the discovery of her bruised body in a shallow grave and residents voiced lynching threats.
 Police waited for the hostility to subside before proceeding with his arraignment.
 Scratches on his face led to his arrest; his confession followed, in which he said he met the girl on a lonely road and killed her when she repulsed his advances. He de- nied he assaulted her.
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SEEK LOWER IMPORTS

OTTAWA, Aug, 4, Reduced Canadian imports of chemicals from the United States is the la test reported goal of the British in the great trade conference here. According to reports the British plan to ask a 10 per cent reduction III imports from the United States With the provision that the chemi- calls so banned be brought into this country come from Great Brit ain.
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MEX|CO'S STRONG MAN
 HAS RESIGNED POSITION

MEXICO CITY, Aug, 4, Gen eral Plutarco Ellias Gales resigned as Secretary of War and President Ortiz Rubio, accepted his resigna- tion, confirming the reports of re- cent days that the strong man of Mexico would soon step out.
 General Gales resigned, it was said, to care for his personal af- fairs. He did not mention his wife's illness which recently took the couple to Boston for a delicate brain operation but the wording of the resignation indicated that this was the prime motive.
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G. O. P. FREE-FOR-ALL

DALLAS, Texas, Aug, 4, The Dallas county Republican conven- tion broke up in free -for-all fight and a riot call for police. Each fac tion charged the other with using brass knuckles and producing six guns. Hostilities began between a couple of 60 year-old men and spread so fast that police inter vention was required.
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Yukon Territory is weathering the present depression we'll, declar- ed George Black of Dawson, who IS Speaker of the Canadian House Of Parliament, and who recently passed thru Juneau enroute to Dawson from Ottawa. In Caanda, as in the United States, he said, the government is curtailing ap- propriations. While grants for Yu- kon Territory were reduced, still their decrease was not so propor- tionally large as some of the pro- vinceS.
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GETTING READY FOR HOP

SEATTLE, Aug, 4, Matt c. Browne, who was unsuccessful in his trans-Pacific flight attempt re- gently, is preparing for another at tempt. He says he has obtained a plane and is planning to make the try in a couple of weeks. Browne has been flying out of Seattle since the crash, earning cash with which to finance the hop.
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The large government hospital at kanakanak was completely destroy ed by fire some weeks ago and Delegate Wickersham has received wires from Alaska Associated Fish ermen of Nushagak and Igloo 2S, Pioneers of Alaska, volunteering to furnish whatever labor is neces- sary to make the required changes Tn remodeling whatever building is decided upon for use in establish ing a new hospital. The matter was taken up with the Indian Bu- reau officials in Washington and gratitude was expressed for the kindly offer of assistance. Assur- ance was given that a hospital would be maintained at Kanakanak and that possibly the present school building would be utilized for the erection of a new building. for which an appropriation will be asked from Congress at it's Decem- Der session.
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TENSE SITUATION

TOKYO, Aug, 4, The Sino-Jap- anese tension in Jehol province, Manchuria, which recently appear ed to be lessening, grew tense again when Chinese military authorities failed to fulfill their pledge to se- cure the liberation of Gonshiro Ishimoto, Japanese army repre- sentative who was kidnapped July 19.
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CREDIT RESERVOIR HAS
 BEEN PLACED OPERATION

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 4, (P) The mighty credit reservoir of the Federal reserve system is now open for the first time and is cau- tiously and under severe restrict ions, leaning money to private bus mess.
 Authorization of the 12 reserve banks throughout the country to make loans directly for the next six months by discounting notes, drafts and bills of exchange, was made public by the general board.
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CONSIDER APPOINTMENTS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 4, = President Hoover held series of conferences in the executive man. sion Wednesday for the purpose of considering appointments of direc- tors to the banking board. It was expected that the President would make known three appointments today.
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TRANSPORT AMERICANS

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug, 4, The Ministry of Marines in response to request from Walter Thurson, charge d'Affairs at the American embassy, has begun arranging transportation for American res ldents at Santos, Brazil, in case their evacuation is made necessary by the San Paulo revolt.
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HEAVY LOSSES

SHANGHAI, Aug, 4, Heavy losses on both sides are reported in a battle between Kwantung provincial forces and horde of brigands along the northern bor- der of Kwangtung. The provincial forces assert they have scattered the outlaws and prevented an ad- vance through the province.
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LAMONT ASSIGNING

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 4, - The resignation of Secretary of Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont was announced here Wed- nesday. The resignation is being made so that he can give his full time to his business interests. No successor has been selected yet.
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FOUR WILL BE SHOT

CHEL1ABINSK, USSR., Aug, A. Four young men were sentenced to be shot and eight others received prison terms after conviction for mass attack on a girl in a local park. Three of the defendants are members of the young communist organization.
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TAKING LOTS OF TIME

PARIS, Aug, 4, (P)-France has committed herself to allow debt re- vision negotiations with the United States to lie dormant until senti- ment in America is more favorable and possibly until the presidential election is over, it was learned on high authority.
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AvIATORS ARE IGNORED

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 4, - Russell Boardman and John Po- lando, who flew from New York to 1stanbul, Turkey, year ago, were given the Distinguished Flying Cross here.
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TRAIN CRASH

PEORIA, H., Aug, 4, "A Bur- llngton railway passenger train crashed into a freight train here Wednesday. One person was killed and several injured. A number of the coaches burst into flames af- ter the crash.
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A. R. Bates, 32, and Frank Han son, 16, were arrested last week at Skagway charged with contributing to the delinquincy of minor chil- dren.
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EAST SIDERS PARADE

NEW YORK, Aug, 4, -Flaunt- ing banners demanding cash relief for unemployed, repeal of the 18th amendment and bread and milk for children, 800 men, women and children marched through the low CT East Side to the district home re- lief station in a public school.
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RAISING WAR" CHEST

NEW YORK, Aug, 4, PJ-The task of raising a war" chest for the Democratic national campaign and putting the party on a sound financial footing" by financiers and close friends of Governor F. Roosevelt, has started.
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The U. s. Geological Survey has completed manuscript of Eureka and vicinity, in the Kantishna dis trict, by Francis G. Wells. This mining district is about 90 miles west of Mckinley Park station on the Alaska Railroad. The part of the district covered by this report comprises an area of about 72 square miles in form of strip six miles wide and 12 miles long. Some years ago about 1900 tons of sul- phide ore, most of which assaved better than $175 a ton with the major value in silver, then worth $1.oo an ounce, was mined and shipped. The workings from which this ore was taken are now inaccessible. Of 104 samples taken from accessible quartz veins thru out the district the highest assay was $3.4O ounces of gold and 1.6O ounces of silver to the ton, and the average was 0.21 ounces of gold and 6.41 ounces of silver.
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Ten to IS men are reported to have recently been hired at An chorage for work on the McDougal property in the Willow Creek min- ing region.
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PLANES DROPPED BOMBS

ASCUNSION, Paraguay, Aug, 4, The Minister of War informed the press that Bolivian airplanes had bombarded Paraguayan forts, 1slapii, Coronel and Martinez in Gran Chaco.
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FOREST FIRE

SONORA, Calif., Aug, 4, A for est fire swept through 4,OOO acres of timber in Calivaras county, des- troying a ranch home before it was brought under control; 100 men batttled the blaez.
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ACCEPTS POST

CHANG KUNG, Manchuria, Aug, 4, George Req, publisher of the Far Eastern Review at Shanghai, accepted the post of advisor to the government of the independent state of ManchukuO.