The Ordway new era., 1920-09-10
FOREIGN

through window. The assassins
escaped.
An attempt has been made to as
sassinate Mustapha Kemal Pasha,
leader OF the Turkish Nationalists,
near Tokat. a town fffty-eight miles
northwest of Sivas, according 10 an
unconfirmed report.
Bolshevlst officers taken prisoner by
the Poles say that the Polish army
will not meet serious resistance until
it reaches the line running through ne
railroad points Of Wilma, Lida, Baran-
ovichy and Luniniets.
| Dispatches from Constantinople re-
port the massacre of 400 Armeninns by
Kurds In Anatolin. The Kurds shot
the men, but the women and children
were locked in church and burned to
death the dispatches, say
NJ Ramadana, rebel chief in the dis
trict Of Mesureata, Tripoli. has been de-
feated and killed by government forces,
says telegram from Tripoii Two
| thousand of the followers OF the rebel
leader also were killed or captured.
Five hundred and eighty-one follow
ers of Francisco villa have been de-
moblllzed, completing the operation,
the men receiving six months pay.
Via is now on his way to Canutillo,
| Durango, where farm has been
placed at his disposal.
Miss Marion G. Parsons, an Amer
lean Red Cross nurse of Berkeley,
Calf, has been appointed by the
Czecho Slovak Red Cross to be direc-
tor of the state school of nursing. ac-
cording to advices. 1t was stated she
will remain in Prague for two years.
All oil companies operating in
Mexico have paid their back taxes for
the months from March to June, in
elusive, the total amount paid to the
treasury being 100000 pesos. The
last concerns making payment put in
an appearance at the treasury depart
ment In the past few days.
The bolshevIsts already have stolen
n march on the allies, sending a di-
vision of Azerbeidjan troops under
Colonel Markoff to Anatolan, accord
ing to Angora newspapers. Although
the number of troops is said not to
exceed 10000 they are separate
contingent from the $1,000 Tartars re-
ported at the Smyrna front.
GENERAL
No more good Samaritan stuff for
Richard Oracle of Lorain. Ohio. He
stopped his machine to give tired"
man ride and was promptly tied to
a tree and robbed of 5000.
The fast mail plane bound from
New York to Cleveland and Chicago,
caught fire over Morristown, n. j.,
plunged TO the ground and there ex-
pioded, instantly killing Max Miller
pilot, and Gustav Rierson, mecha-
nician.
Forty-two steamship companies and
freight brokers, including virtually all
the big transatlantic lines, have been
indicted by the federal grand jury at
New York on charges of conspiracy
| and restraint of trade in violation Of
the Sherman antitrust law.
The marquis of Blanford and Lord
Ivor Churchill have been left 81 1,OOO,-
600 each by their grandfather, William
X. Vanderbilt, 1t became known when
summary Of Mr.. vanderbilt's will
was made public. Both are sons of the
Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Con-
suelo Vanderbilt
Clarence Coombs. alternate pilot of
the Texas Wildcat" one of three
American entries in the international
airplane race, has sailed en- route for
Paris to assist Roland Rohlfs, former
holder of the worlds altitude record, in
his attempt to lift the Gordon Bennett
aviation cup.
A call for all italians and friends of
Italy" to celebrate "Fiume day." on
September 18th, anniversary of the oc-
cupation of Fiume by D'Annunzio and
his forces, was issued at New York by
Whitney Warren, newly appointed rep
resentative of the D'Annunzio govern
ment in the United states.
A misstep caused Mrs. Philomena
Mustaci to fall to her death at Chi
cago in the huge bread mixer in her
husbands bakery. The police worked
two hours extracting the body,
Plans for making Honduras "dry"
are being made by Gen. Lopez Quit
terel president of the republic, ac-
cording to an announcement received
by DIR. Eusebio Toledo, Honduran con-
sui general at New Orleans.
Samuel Lehman, well-known musl-
cal conductor and author of Every
body Works but Father" was killed
in New York by an automobile. Leh-
man was 3S years old and brother of
Assistant District Attorney Alexander
Lehman. The driver of the car was
held on manslaughter charge.
Columbus, Neb.-Work of copying
the longest mortgage ever recorded in
Nebraska made TO enable the issuance
of bonds which will mature May l,
203T, was just completed at the court