Arizona state miner., 1919-11-21
FOREIGN

reaching a 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, 2,2OO
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 a dispatch from For
mosa. The Peking left Kobe on Oct. II.
The American delegation to the
peace conference has informed the
Supreme Council of it's intention to
leave France during the first days of
December, according to semi-official
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 quartermaster, is
expected to materially reduce the al
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
as secondary wives.
GENERAL
Edgar S. Paxson, Montana pioneer,
Indian fighter and distinguished as
painter of Western life, died at his
home in Missoula, Mont, after an ex-
tended Illness He was 81 years old.
1t was officially announced in Tor
onot, that Canada's $30O000,00O Vict-
ory loan has been Oversubscribed.
More than $294,OOO,OOO 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. f. W. Woolworth, widow of the
late head of the chain of 5 and TO-
cent stores, will receive an income o.
$443, 1000 a year from her husbands es-
tate This was revealed whet Su-
preme Court Justice Geigerich signed
an, order requiring H. T. Parsons,
head of a committee of Mrs. Wool
worth's property, to file an additional
bond of $2,6O0,0O0 His original bond
was $4,000.
With a woman and two men under
arrest on charges of promoting an
archy through distribution of inflam-
matory literature, the Boston police be-
lieved they have broken up a well-or-
ganized red campaign in Boston.
Mrs Marion e. Sproul, secretary Of
the Communist party in Massachusetts
Israel ROssman, owner of a small peri
odical store, and Max Andelman of
Roxbury are the three alleged reds un-
der arrest.
Former service men were 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 Oar
aga The offender was given a scath-
iv1C Ti, hu CNo orc,tn 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 $500000 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, were seized Allie
cations made to the states 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. Carty, vice