The Ordway new era., 1919-10-10
FOREIGN

Wales.
Members of the German delegation
called on Foreign Minister Pueyrredon
and discussed the proposed loan OF
S1OO, 200, 600 by Argentina to Germany.
Interest on Russa's state liabilities
amounts annually to approximately
S643, 500 900, according to a statement,
issued from Omsk by the minister of
finance of the Kolchak government.
The troops under the nationalist
leader, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who
Inent in Asia Minor. have occupied the
city Of Konieh. in southern Asia Minor,
and expelled the authorities.
Economic negotiations between Lux
emburg and Belgium have been broken
off by Belgium as result of the refer
endum In Luxembourg. under which
France became Luxemburg's financial
ally. The Belgian minister in Luxem-
burg has been recalled.
The Chamber of Deputies mt Paris,
ratified the German peace treaty by y
vote OF 372 to 53. The chamber then
took up the treaties between France
and the United States and France and
Great Britain. The Franco American
and French-British treaties were un-
animously ratified.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 2
Dr. yictorino de la Plaza, former
president of the Argentine, is dead at
Buenos Aires. DR. de In Plaza as
sumed the presidency of the republic
on the death of President Penaf in
1914, succeeded to the office from the
vice presidency, and resumed In the
presidency until the expiration of his
term in 1916.
Germany has n new escutcheon,
from which the Hohenzollern arms
have been eliminated. 1t consists of a
black one-headed eagle on golden yell
low field. The new" eagle, which has
shed its erstwhile imperial crown and
collar, Is not rampant bird, and
would look sedate enough in its sit
ting posture but for the color of its
beak, tongue and talons, which are red.
Art treasures valued at more than
S10OO00.OOO which belonged TO Gather
Inc ii of Russia, who died in 1896, have
been discovered by the Bolshevik com
mission charged with classifying the
property of the late Car Nicholas in
the winter palace and in the palace of
Tsarkoe Selo. The cases containing
these treasures had never been opened
since they were sent to Catherine from
Rome. The find includes more than
1000 paintings and sculptures by some
of the greatest French and Italian mas
ters, including Terpolo, Rough, Latour,
Lancret and Fragonard.
GENERAL
Herman Smith, Buffalo's feather
weight, outpointed Joe Leonard of New
York before the Queensbery Athletic
Club at buffalo.
The estate of Anna Held, the actress,
totared s2Ts.26O, according TO an ac-
counting filed by Charles f. HanlOn of
San Francisco, executor, with petit
tion asking that his duties as executor
be wound up
Seymour Cox, Jr.. II years old, made
an airplane flight from Houston, Tex,
to New York to get an education With
his mother. Mrs. =. +. ]. Cox, wife of a
Houston oil operator, and Pilot Harold
Block, Seymour arrived in New York,
making the trip without incident.
Mark tShorty) Thornton. arrested Mt
York, Pa, for alleged participation in
holding up and robbing Garden City,
San Jose, Calf, bank clerk of $500,
has been taken back to San Jose.
Thornton, who has stoutly denied his
part in the h0ldup, confessed.
Investigation shows that the forest
fires which ragged over the week end
along the line of the Pacific Great
Eastern railway above the Squamish
we're so intense that steel rails We're
melted Thousands of huge trees fell.
A train with forty-five passengers was
held up for two days by the fire, which,
driven by ii heavy wind, swept through
the Cheakamus valley.
Chemist shops at Archangei are open
ly selling poison TO many young wom-
en- who are buying 1t with the ex-
pressed intention of killing themselves
rnther than fall into the hands of the
Bolsheviki, according to an American
officer who has just returned from
there
The clocks of the country will be
turned back one hour, under the provi-
sions of the daylight saving law, Oct.
20, the last Sunday in October. at .
o'clock In the morning. The law, which
was passed In 1918 and repealed in the
summer of this year, says that the
clocks shall be turned forward one
hnur an tho last Sunday iu March and
turned back to normal time again on
the last Sunday in October.
Acting, ii is said on one of Broad
ways famous .rumors' that within
week President Wilson would east war
time prohibition into the discard by
Iroclaiming rehabilitation completed,
New York liquor dealers began stock
ing nm for u hrinf .Mnt" nerinl until