The Ordway new era., 1920-03-05
FOREIGN

1 Il
In the Bosphorus.
a sapphire eight inches long and
| weighing more than five pounds Is re
| ported to have been found at Mogok,
| india. by Burmese. Its value Is esti-
mated ut between f35,0OO and 10000
| One hundred and ninety thousand
prisoners of war, including 43,110 of
ficers, have been repatriatcd from
French camps since Jan. 10, according
to an announcement from the French
war office.
| Ignace Padcrewski. who recently re-
signed as premier of Poland. will re-
turn to America soon and resume his
mnslcul tours. according 10 William
| Hemphill, manager of Padcrewski's $
ranch and other properties at Paso Ro-
bies.
| Lieutenant Brakpnra of the Iialian
army established what was said to be
IA new worlds record when he arrived
| ut Turin in an acropane. Brakpara s
machine, carrying four passengers. al
tanned a maximum speed of l62 miles
| an hour.
| Forty-One political and other organ
izations in Japan are planning pa
rade of $1,000 persons in Toxic on
March l in support of the universal
| suffrage movement. according TO
Toxic advlces to The Hochi, II .Iapa-
nese language newspaper at Honolulu.
The Mexican government has or
dered the release of the American
army aviators, q. l.. Usher and NJ. l..
Wolff, held with their planes below
the border, the State Department has
been advised. The order said the avi-
ators with their planes would he re-
turned 10 the United States Immediate
ly.
\ Moscow wireless dispatch says
| General Tolstoy's army. defeated nj
Guriev, in the government of Uralsk,
| southeast Russin, has fled TO the Cas-
plan sea, retreatng under terrible con
ditions. The dispatch adds that 1000
of the men lay down to die in the wa
terless steppes beside their horses and
camels, and that nothing remains OF
the white army.
The Excelsior of Mexico City de
clares that Dr. Y. Takabatake, lap
anese physician, for ten years resi-
dent of Mexico city, has been arrested
and taken to Sulinn Cruz where n Jap
ancse warship awaited him. The
newspaper says sit was learned that
years ago the physician was inter
csted in the Korean Independence
movement, and it is believed he is he
ing taken back TO Japan for trial and
| punishment
GENERAL
Memorial certificates from the
| French government have been present.
ed ut Philadelphia to the next of kin
of more than 1000 soldiers who gave
their lives in the world war.
Whisky for medicinal purposes will
he placed ON the federal fair price list
for Illinois along with butter, eggs.
flour and other nccessaries of life, ii
has been announced by Harry Mayer,
collector of internal revenue.
New York will be shown by the 1920
census to be indisputably the biggest
city in the world. Results of the cen
sus, which will be available in WASH
ingtOn about March II, will, according
to census officials, give to the metro
poltan district of New York II popI-
lation of S,5O0,OO0, as compared to an
estimated population of 100000 for
the metropolitan district of London
an excess of 1,000,OO0 in favor of New
| York
Seven armed bandits entered the
headquarters of the United States
navy food supply bureau in New York.
while DIR. Jonathan c. Day and his
seven assistants were preparing to
place $1,000 in bag preparatory to
taking the days receipts to bank.
The workers obeyed the command to
stand against the wall, and the intrud-
ers took the money and sped away in
an automobile.
Ten persons were held for deport;-
tion at Cleveland following II radical
raid In which twcnty-six persons were
rounded up. Sixteen We're released
large amount Of radical literature was
confiscated.
Chapel cars, each equipped with liv-
ing quarters for II minister and his
family, and with seating accommodate
tions for ninety persons, will he built
'"' ''N's i"i''""" WV VI Nihe"S" as
money is available" according to an
announcement made by the Northern
Baptists. Seven such cars already
are operating across the continent, the
announcement said, and 1900 men and
women have profcssed conversion in
them. and S,437 We're baptized.
A pipe line to carry oil from the Kan
| sas, Oklahoma and northern Texas
fields TO Chicago, with distributing
center at st. Louis, will be constructed
aud in operation in the next twelve
months, two petroleum journals an.
nounced in Chicago. An organization