The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-31

AstANltNANs--NIH the eve OF Ills dt@
parture for America on vacation. Am
bassador John w. Davis, was given a
farewell luncheon yesterday by the
American Luncheon club. The lord
chancellor, in proposing the health of
Ambassador Davis, paid him a high
tribute.
BERLIN-Bela Kun. former commun-
list dictator of Hungary, and his COM
munist companions. who recently were
detained at Stettin while en- route to
Russia are to be allowed to depart to
"a destination abroad to be chosen by
themselves" according to an official
statement yesterday.
RICHMOND. Va.-Approximately l.
236. zoe gallons of beer was seized and
destroyed in the Southern division of
federal prohibition agents from Deem
Der J, 1919, to July l, 1920. accord
Brame, supervising federal prohibition
agent for the southern division, COM
prising the states Of Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Tennessee and
Kentucky.
ST. PAuL.-,Mrs. Lake Lena. For.
rest, of Detroit, Mich, was elected
president OF the National Federation
OF Business and Professional Women's
clubs at the closing days session of
the federation's annual convention late
yesterday.
NEW YORK.-Senor Don Balbino Da-
valos, newly appointed Mexican min
lister to Germany. sailed yesterday for
Harve with several attaches.
THE HAGUE.-The first chamber of
parliament yesterday unanimously rati-
fled the loan of zoo, 000,0 600 guilders
NORMALLY about $SO,O00,OO0) to Ger
many.
OSAKA, Japan.-The chamber of
commerce adopted resolution yester-
day declaring the American shipping
law to be economic imperialism under
which foreign steamers. and especially
japanese are treated unfairly. The reso-
luton says the law is tantamount to
a proclamation Of economic war on
Japan.
NEW YORK.--Mrs. Elma Campbell.
widow Of DR.. Harry E. Campbell, for
merly a prominent Pittsburgh, Pa, ply
sician who was found dead in a room
ing house here Sunday, where he had
dishwasher in a local restaurant, yes
terday identified his body at the
morgue. She came here from Canada.
COLUMBIA, Mo.-The bodies OF Mr..
and Mrs. Orville Allison were found
bors. Jimson weed seeds were found
in coffee pot, and Coroner Baker ex-
pressed the belief that the couple APP
parently had drunk some of the cof-
fee. The coroner said Allison and his
wife had been dead about 10 days,
Each was SO years old.
ARCADIA, Fla.-Bernard Whidden,
young farmer who was to have been
hanged yesterday escaped the death
thntuh hn
fused to issue stay of execution Of
sentence. Whidden's attorney upon re-
fusal Of the governor to intervene, sued
out writ of error returnable in the
state supreme court and this auto
matically acted as stay OF execution.
MANILA, P. Linotype operators
OF Manila's three American newspa-
pers, the Bulletin Gable News and
Times, refused to work yesterday in
protest against alleged slanderous as
sertions the newspapers printed against
Filipinos and their aspirations for in
dependence. AS result the papers will
appear today abbreviated and without
advertisements.
PARIS.-Mrs. George Ogilvy Haig,
Of London. who before her marriage
was Miss Charlotte Astor, died in the
American hospital at Neuilly yesterday.
Mrs. Marshall Orme Wilson, of New
York city, her sister, was at the bed
side.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah.--John
Bonnell, a sheep herder, was shot and
more than 1000 sheep were killed yes
terday in a clash between men said to
represent Colorado cattle interests and
Utah sheep men, just across the state
line in Northwestern Colorado, accord
ing to a telephone message from Yer
nal, Uintah county, Utah.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Former United
States Senator James Hamilton Lewis
was drafted at a caucus of Democrats
from every county in the state here
yesterday to be their candidate for gov
ernor. His name, which heads COM
plete state ticket selected by the con-
ference was greeted by prolonged ap-
plause.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-Reversing the
verdict of the circuit court of Escam-
ba county, the supreme court yester-
day upheld the validity of the state
law enforcing compulsory dipping of
cattle for eradication of the cattle
fever tick.