IDE WEEK'S EVENTS IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA? TION AND THE WORLD ?RIEFLY TOLD HOUND ABOUT rHE WORLD A Cond?n??d Record Of Happ?ninf? Of IntarMt From All Points Of T)m World Foreign ? Dr. Walter Simons was definitely designated as acting president of the 'German republic byvthe passing in the reichstag on its third reading of the bill so appointing hini. Dr. Sun Vat Sen. the South China leader, died i;i Peking recently. The surgeons who operated on Doctor Sun at the Rockefeller hospittal January 26 declared his case was hopeless and gave him only ten days to live. The aged Chinaman clung to life, however, the ten days passing. leaving him weaker, but still alive. Reports from the seven constituen cies which voted recently tor nine members of the Irish dail eireann to fill seats made vacant by Nationalist resignations show the Free State can didates winning all along the line | with the exception of the Sligo-Lei- 1 trim district. The Italian chamber of deputies re- j cently voted overwhelming confi- { dence in Premier Benito .Mussolini's internal policy. The majority of the opposition members of the chamber were not present during the voting, as they have been on strike against the Fascist machine-controlled parlia ment for several months. An agency dispatch from Cadiz. Spain, to Paris newspapers says that Osborne C. Wood, former American army offiecr. who left Paris and IJi arritz-last month for Spain and whose ! financial affairs and travels have since j been followed with much interest, has i sailed on board the steamer West Che- j tac. bound for Tampa. Fla. Former Premier Zagloul Pasha of .Egypt was elected to parliament for the Said Azenab district of Cairo in the Egyptian elects. The vote was ! 173 to 10. Zagloul was the candidate ' of the Wafd. or executive committee ' i>f the Egyptian naitonaiist organiza- j tion. The crew of the sealing steamer Stella Marsi. which was reported at St. Johns. F. as crushed ir. ice. floes and sinking, was rescued. A water famine menaces Tokio. Ja pan. The situation has become acute. : forcing the population to go to ponds and private wells for their supplies. The foreign population has a supply j Of water ample for the present. Dr. John Logan of Gainesville. Ga.. ! C. S. A.-. was shot through the right lung recently at Athens. Greece, by : bandits who were holding up the au- 1 tomobile in which he and three other ! Americans, all students of the Anter- ! ican School of Archaeology, were trav- \ cling in southern Epirus. Greece Ten thousand Roman coins. pottery, jewelry and two stone dice have been [ unearthed at Richborough < :ist.!e at . Sandwich. County of Kent. *!-tnd. j Washington ? Senate Republicans in conf> :n ? de cided against a- proposal for reduc tion of the patronage of four insur gents. read out of the party councils i and removed from their former ranks 1 i on the s-anui::g committees. Little Miss Paulina, the month-old Nicholas. Longworth. sror a vlimp.se of the white house, where her parents were married, and the home at rh-a time of her grandfather. Th.-odorti Roosevelt. Col. John Cooidige. father of the president, left the white house a ; wee': after the inauguration ? xercises for his home at Plymouth. Vt. President Coolidige. in filling vacant federal judgeships, will t?ffr ambassador to Ger many. By h absence from the senate j chamber at a critical moment. Vice President Dawes permitted the sen ate to reject the nomination of Charles P. Warren .to be attorney general of the I'rired States. Had Dawes been in the chair when the vote came, he ! could have cast the deciding vote In favor of Warren, and thus he would j have saved Pres'.der.t, Coo! id-ze from the almost unprecedented fate of hav ing a cabinet appointment rej?c>ed by a senat * presumably controlled by the administration. President Cooidige fully supports the action of senate Republicans in re placing insurgents in important com mittee places with regulars atid con siders that the question at issue Is one of making it possible for his par ty to govern the country. j Representative Tucker. Democrat. Virginia, has refused to accept the $2,300 increase in congressional sala ries on the ground that members of the last congress who are re-elected 1o the next should not accept the In crease. as they were chosen to a po' r j tion carrying $7,500. j The farmers of the United States are now using $60,835,421 of government money loaned them through the federal immediate credit banks, it was disclosed, recently in figures made public at the treasury. All fears of German secretly arm ing herself were discounted the other day by B. Houghton, newly appointed American ambassador to Great Britain. Germany has no arms of considerable extent, Mr. Houghton declared, and neither has she any real surplus of war materials or productive reserves. The state police, he said, although . stationed in barracks, are poorly equipped, and on ly about one in three is armed. Prompt action has been taken b.v (he senate to reward two of the army world flyers. Sergeant Henry H. Og den of the regular army, and Second Lieut. John Harding, Jr., of the offi cers' reserve corps. Fears of some "alarmists" that this country ultimately will be unable to supply its own cotton requirements be cause of the boll weevil are "unwar ranted," the department of agriculture announced in a recent statement. Domestic ? Federal Judge Hand. New ^ ork City., filed a decision recently under which "his royal highness lTince Zcrdeclie 110 Mohammed Said." styled bv him self "The Emir Of Kurdestan. must leaive this country under a previous government order for his deportation. Lieut. Col. F. I'chida. Capt. K. Abe and Colonel Fukui of the Japanese mil itary commission in, the I nited States, were recent honor guests at. Langley field. Newport News, Va. More than two hundred million dol lars worth of oil properties in the Cntied States and Mexico, controlled by the Pan-American and other com panies headed by Edward L. Dohen>. will be segregated into two separate organizations? the Pan-American West ern and Pan-American Eastern Petro leum companies ? if negotiations now under way are completed. The Michigan house of representa tives adopted a resolution favoring the confirmation of Charles B. Warren as United States attorney general, refut ing the stand taken by Senator James Couzens. senator from that state. The board of directors of the Good year Tire and Rubber company have decided to abandon the proposed plan, for financing the company due to their laiiure to secure the nccessary co-op ration from all members. Demurrage claims aggregating over a hundred thousand dollars were al lowed Solleweld 'Van dor Meer and T. H. Huttum's Stoom Vaart Maatschappij Oostdijk. in a decision by Judge D. Lawrence Groner in fed oral district court at Norfolk. Va. in the Dutch company's suit against the Berwin White Coal Mining company Of Pennsylvania. N. H. Anspach, wealthy vice presi- j dent of the Chicago Railway Printing company, who has. .been missing from his home near Chicago, was taken to the Presbyterian hospital at New Or leans for treatment. Physcians say lie is in a very nervous condition. He telegraphed his wifo. lie was in New Orleans. The Kansas senate has passed a Jap anese exclusion blW. which has been sent to the governor, prohibiting Jap anese from owning or le asing land in j Kansas. Rev. F. O. Holler, who resigned as pastor of the Bessemer. Ala.. Presby terian church, was found dead ivcent ly in the church building said to have been from the effects of suffocation caused by gas. He had been in ill health for some time. A senate hi!!, which grants, fill! I amnesty to all persons impeached in j Texas, was passed by the lower house ; of the state legislature the other day. j 77 to 51. The measure was designed especially to restore civil rights to James E. Ferguson, who. as governor, was impeached in 1917.. J. V. Glynn, switchman, was arrested recently, charged with t lie murder of | Miss Mamie Herbert, who died from ! burns received Mardi Gras night dur ing a dance at Moose hall. Glynn is charged with having set fire to the paper costume worn by Miss Herbert, inflicting wounds from which she died. Despite efforts to handle the case i out of court. Rabbi B. M. Browne, 72 j ? ears old. appeared before Magistrate j Mc And rows. New York City, charged with writing annoying letters to Pres ident Coolidge and various govern ment officials. Frank Richards, sheriff of Glades j county, Florida, was robbed of $95, a 1 gold watch .and two wallets containing 1 important legal papers, while asleep i in a Miami hotel at night recently. Lieutenant McAlroy. reserve officer training at Langley field. Newport News, Va.. is believed to have been \ drowned when a plane in which he and j Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer were fly ing fell into the Potomac river. A mistrial was entered in the case of John Thompson, Mobile, Ala., for mer prohibition agent, tried in the fed eral court on the charge of falsifying his accounts for the purpose of in creasing his compensation. Fred C. Alexander of Newtonville. | Mass.. was the first ex-service man | in the. United States to contribute his cash bonus from the government to the American legion five million dol ! lar endowment fund, his bonus check for $46 being received by Robert Tyn ; dall, legion treasurer, at Indianapo lis, Ind. JANUARY FIRE LOSS IS HEAVY FLAMES DO ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE IN N. C. IN FIRST MONTH 1925. Raleigh. North Carolina got off to a bod start in fire prevention in the first month of 1925 anil the loss for January as coin piled by the State Insurance Depart ment was close to one million dollars ? $979. 6S5 to be exact. This figure is more than $300,000 greater than the fire loss during January. 1924. when the loss was but $668,55:5. Property at risk during January, 1925, was $4,423,702 as against $2,382. 356 for 1924. Hires were less numerous but more costly, only 164 being reported as against 276 for the previous January. Twenty-seven rural fires cost $232,428, while 137 town lireS cost $547,257. Twenty-six did most of the damage, among them being the garage and livery stable blaze at Raleigh which caused an official loss of $209,000; a hotel and business block lire at Troy, which destroyed $100, 000 worth of property; a store lire at Wilmington that did $75,000 damage: two store tires at High l'oint that burned up $67, 500; a theatre and store fire that did j $S0.100 damage in Greensboro, and a i $7.2,000 garage fire at Greenville. Schools were heavy losers. Gaston county lost a $55,000 rural plant by flames, Union county lost a $65,000 school,- two blazes at the State Normal School for Colored did $35,000 damage, j and the co-ed dormintory at the Uni- , versitv of North Carolina went up in $17,000 worth of smoke. Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Durham, Asheville. Salisbury. Elizabeth City and Rocky Mount were among the lar ger North Carolina cities having low fire losses during January. Towns getting on the Insurance De partment's honor roll by reporting no fires during the month or no damage ; exceeding four dollars were: Hickory, Clinton, Statesville, Mt. Airy, Graham. Wadesboro. Waynes- j ville, Rockingham. Middlesex, Kern ersvilie, Selina, Warsaw, Franklinton, ; Jefferson, Pinetops. lluntersville, \ Black 'Mountain, rinehurst. Handle- i man. Granite Falls, Bonlee, Littleton and Belmont. Single roofs and defective flues caused the greatest number of fires | with 50 starting from this source, the; causes of 43 of the iires were listed as unknown, oil stoves started 11 blazes overhot stoves and furnaces started 10, gasoline blew up and caused nine j alarms, careless smokers were resppn sihlo for seven fires, burning trash, , short circuits, rats, mice, children and loose matches were also popular causes. .j One thousand fires took place in residence, 16 stores had blazes, flames ran wild in 11 garages. 10 schools suf fered from flames, industrial plants and apartments each bad live fires, while hotels and churches suffered equally with three fires apiece. New Senate Bills Passed. S. B. 5 "M 11. B. 531. To amend the charter of Lucaina. S. 15. 9"1 II. B. 974: To amend the charter of Lumberiou, S. B. 1035 11. B. 11)46: To construct and maintain a public hospital in Co lumbus county. S. B. 1101-.II B. 123S: To authorize ; I'askuotank county to acquire a site for and maintain a detention home. S. 15. 11S0-II. B. 1324: ; To amend ; the charier of Siier City. S. B. 1210-11. B. 1302; To empower ; Polk county to issue bonds for school buildings. j S. B. 1217-H. B. 12S9: To authorize j Harnett county to issue bonds to fund its debt ! S. B. 67-H. B. SS3. To amend the laws relating to fish and fisheries. S. B. llin-H. B. 1255; To prescribe' | the duties of the Madison county '< board of commissioners. S. B. 1191-H. B. 13S2. To establish a game (ioinmissiOn for Hay wood county. S. B. 1297-11. B. 1411: To require the Dare county officers to make a j settlement at." each regular meeting ! of t ho board of commissioners. S. B. 1272-H. B. 1453: To regulate i bunting in Catawba and Lincoln coun- i ties. S. B. 1296 H. B. 1447: To regulate the fees of the solicitor of the Bladen j county recorder's court. S. B. 1271: To regulate the regis tration of plants in Scitland county. S. B. 1273: To amend tlie laws rela tive to the commissions of the sheriff of Wake county for the collection of j taxes. i Dan Boney Gets Insurance Job. Dan Boney, Goldsboro attorney and j on?- of North Carolina's best known ! wounded veterans of the World War, was appointed chief deputy of the State Department of Insurance by Commissioner Stacey Wade to succeed Silas F. Campbell, who recently re signed as a result of charges made against him and a pending investiga tion by Attorney Geneal Dennis G Brummit. ordered by Governor Angus Wilton McLean. Mr. Boney will as sume office immediately Diving for Pearls at Thursday Island. (Prepared by the NnMonal f the town. Pearl tisheries of minor importance are found in the Dutch Indies, the Sulu Archipelago of the 1'hilippines, and on the shore of New Guinea. The fish eries of New Caledonia, too, are be coming Increasingly important. In Japan a few natural pearls are taken but more important there are the '?cul ture pearls" of less value, produced by introducing a foreign substance into an oyster and leaving it until it is covered with nacre. All over the South Sea pearl oysters are found among the atolls. In only a few places, however, do they occur in suflicient quantities to make or ganized. capitalized fishing profitable. One of the most important of the South Sea fishing grounds is in the French Paumotus. Each year govern nient oflicials at Papeete, Tahiti, des ignate the place at which pearling is to be permitted for the current sea son. A heterogeneous collection of men of many races gather at Papeete awaiting the announcement : pearl buy ers and shell buyers from America and Europe: British East Indian and Chinese traders; and bench combers from islands far and near. When the announcement Is made there Is a ?'pearl rush" comparable to the "gold rushes" of pioneer America and Aus tralia. The South Pacific "Pearl j Towns" become a sort of tawdry Coney j Island with merry-go-rounds, "movie . palaces," and all the rest of the lures for easy money. To the eastward Mexico's Gulf of California Is the next important pearl ing ground, and La Paz, near the tip of Lower California, is the market place. An interesting thing about the Mexican pearls Is that so many of them are of unusual colors: black, gray, brown, gold and many another delight ful tint. Such pearls cannot be coun terfeited easily by the makers of arti ficial pearls. ACHES AND PAINS ALL OVER BODY Mrs. Proctor Reports Great Benefit by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham'8 Vegetable Compound Sharpsburg, Pa. ? "I re con mem} Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound to all p.ulTering women. I have taken four bottles of it and 1 feel 100 per cent better. I was dizzy and weak with no appetite, no ambition and with a tired feel ing all the time. I had aches iand pains ail over my body and had the headache a good deal. 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