Drentsche District a Raging Furnace: Flames Spreading Amsterdam, May 4.
Extensive fires are raging in the low marshy districts of Drentsche, 'a frontier province in northeast Holland, It is feared that only a cessation of the wind, combined with heavy rain, can end the con-flag ration, which is spreading, owing tothe inadequacy of fire-fighting facilities in the - sparsely round Emimen, on frontier, is now raging furnace, Many houses are burning and an area several miles in extent has been evacuated. mospheric conditions there resemble fan eclipse of the sun. Dense, galfocating, smoke-clouds are visible Washington, May 6.
'The House of Representatives to-eay passed the Jones-" te. Shi ping Bill, whi ied to develop the privately-owned American, merchant marine, The Bill comines the Jones Bill—which' has alsady passed the Senate and which would continue the operation of the Shipping Board—and the Bill drafted by Mx, White, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee; which is described as a compromise. The: Bill provides, inter lia, for the granting, of long-term contracts and for the entering to the provisions of the Bill increases the Constrfction Fund. from $125,000,000 to $250,000,000.
Tt is reported that Presiden' Coolidge is opposed to one of the features of the Bill, as passod by the House of Representatives, which enables the Shipping Board to auth-erizo the sale of any Governme vessel on an afrmative vote by five for seven members, whereas" the original Bill, as passed by the Senate, require! a unanimous votey but the Congressmen responsible fur piloting the Bill through the Hous of Representatives doubt whether the Bill will be vetoed, The cost to the Government for operation of the Bill, they declare, will mot exceed $10,000,000 a yer
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