The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21
FOREIGN

A military pilot named Liert has
broken the speed record for altitude,
reaching height of 5000 meters In
eleven minutes in Italy.
The southern provinces of China are
in the market for arms, ammunition,
tanks. airplanes and other munitions
to be used against the provinces of the
north, according to Capt. Herbert Ling
of the southern Chinese army.
The Swedish steamer Peking, 2,200
tons. foundered in a typhoon in the
Pacific with a loss OF all on board,
while on her way to Gothenburg from
Kobe, Japan, says n dispatch from For
mosa. The Peking left Kobe on Oct. u.
The American delegation TO the
peace conference has Informed the
Supreme Council of its intention to
| leave France during the first days of
December. according 10 semi-officiai
| information from the French foreign
office.
Flooding of the French shoe market
with 100000 pairs of American army
| shoes, bought from surplus stocks of
the United States quartermnster, Is
| most prohibitive cost of footwear now
prevailing In France.
| The increasing number of marriages
between French girls and Chinese la-
borers in France has resulted in the
minister of the interior warning
French women that most of the cool
les already have wives in China,
| where, upon arrival with their hus-
| bands, they would be regarded merely
MS secondary wives.
GENERAL
Edgar S. Paxson, Montana pioneer,
| Indian fighter and distinguished as Il
painter of Western life, died at his
home In Missouln, Mont, after an ex-
tended illness. He was 67 years old.
1t was officially announced in Tor
onot, that Canada's S300,000,0O0 Wet
ory loan has been oversubscrlbed.
More than S294,OOO,000 has been re-
ported, with some provinces not yet
heard from.
Seven alleged swindlers, including
| Mayor Rollin II. Bunch of MuncIe,
Ind, and Prosecuting Attorney Horace
G. Morphy of Delaware county, were
| found guilty in Federal Court of con
spring to use the mails to defraud.
Mrs. Il. W. Woolworth, widow of the
| late head of the chain of , and 10
| cent stores, will receive an income os
| $443OOO year from her husbands es-
tate This was revealed whe, SUI
preme Court Justice Geigerich signed
| an order requiring ii. Il. Parsons,
.f AI,...
| worth's property, to file an additional
bond of $2.GOO,OO0. His original bond
was $4,000.
With n woman and two men under
arrest on charges of promoting an
archy through distribution of inflam-
matory literature, the Boston police be-
lievcd they have broken up well-or-
ganized red campaign in Boston.
Mrs. Marion T.. Sproul, secretary of
the Communist party in Massachusetts;
Israel Rossman, owner of small peri
odical store. and Max Andelman of
Roxbury are the three alleged reds un-
der arrest.
Former service men We're with diff
Guilty prevented by the police from Sc
verely beating Meyer Fayerman at Ho-
boken. N. j., after he had been caught
searching the baggage of soldier dead
brought from Russia on the Lake Dar-
aga. The offender was given a scath
ing reprimand by Recorder Carsten In
Police Court and fined $40, which he
paid. The police had to escort the man
to the ferry which took him to Manhat-
tan to protect him from an angry
crowd.
Charges that agents of the Amalga-
mted Clothing Workers of America
have obtained more than S50O,0O0 from
clothing manufacturers in Chicago and
other cities, led to raids on the Chicago
headquarters of the union by detec-
tives from the states attorneys office.
Books and records of the organization,
including bankbooks of the union and
individual officials, We're seized. Allie
cations made to the state's attorney
were TO the effect that union agents,
for their own profit, called strikes
against manufacturers and threatened
and cOerced them into payment of
sums ranging from $500 to $4,000.
Two German submarines cut the
cable between this country and Eng
land just outside New York harbor in
the spring of 1918, but the break was
spliced by experts within twelve
hours. This fact was made known for
the first time by Col. J. J. Carly, vice
president of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, in an adj
dress at n luncheon of the New York
Electric Lengue.
Announcement was made at Douglas,
Arizona, by the copper smelters of that
city that about 100000 pounds of
copper were produced mt the two smell
ters during last month OF this the