The Ordway new era., 1921-06-24
FOREIGN

| ice, have asked the government TOT
tracts of land for small farming.
Greece is opening hostilities against
the Turkish Nationalists in Asia Minor
by land and sea. Already the Greek
fleet has been concentrated at full war
strength in Turkish waters and has
bombarded Turkish positions and sunk
several small transports. according to
Information from Constantinople.
Prince Chamyl, head of the Daghis-
tan insurgent mountaineers of the
northern Caucasus, has taken arms
against the Bolshevists in the Cau-
casus and declares he will not surren-
der until liberty has been re-estab-
lished in the Caucasus. He has de-
feated soviet detachments in several
fights recently.
Three Italian cardinals We're added
TO the Sacred College when Pope Ben
edict, in secret consistory, raised to
the purple Monsignor Giovanni Tacci
Poroelli. the papal major domo; Mon
signor Camille laurent, secretary of
the Congregation of the Propaganda,
and Monsignor Achille Ratti, papal
nuncio to Poland.
The council of ambassadors in Paris
has demanded that Germany surrender
all the airplanes and dirigible bal
looms constructed since the Boulogne
agreement was enacted. Germany also
was warned not TO build any more air
craft for a specified period of time.
Germany was accused of violating the
Boulogne agreement, which was drawn
up about Il year ago.
GENERAL
Brother Batch, owned by G. T. Ar
mold and ridden by NJ. Garner. won
the thirty-ninth Latonia derby, beating
e. K. Bradley's Kentucky Derby Win
ner. Behave Yourself, by a length
Uncle Velo was third, two lengths
away. The time for the mile and
half was 2:4T 80.
The Porter peace resolution has
been sent to conference by the Senate
for adjustment of the differences be-
tween that measure and the Knox reso-
luton adopted recently by the Senate.
The Senate voted formally to disagree
with the amendment of the House,
which struck out the Knox draft and
substituted the Porter draft.
Seven firemen were killed and fif-
teen were injured in collision be-
tween fire apparatus and Jersey
Central railroad train at Perth Amboy,
New Jersey. The accident occurred
at the Market street crossing. The
fire apparatus had reached the center
The fifteen injured were taken to
hospital.
John Falls, Frankfort, KY. grocer,
who shot six persons while resisting
arrest for interfering in an alteration
between a policeman and Falls son,
escaped during the night from the
combination grocery store and dwell
ing where it was believed he had bar
ricaded himself Falls apparently left
the building before the officers had an
opportunity to surround it..
With his head almost severed by a
was found near Ringgold, Ga. Near
by the body of Earl Williams was
found hanging from the limb of tree.
A coroner's jury found that Williams
slew Smitherman and then hung him.
self. Williams was said to have been
jealous of the attention paid a young
woman of the vicinity by Smitherman.
Thousands of person in Cincinnati,
o., paid tribute to the memory of Col
F. w. Galbraith, Jr., national COM
mander of the American Legion, who
was killed in an automobile accident.
The funeral services were held in
Music hall, with each of the 1000
seats taken. The obsequies were un-
der the auspices of the American Le-
gion and were marked by great SIM
plicity.
John D. Emery. newly elected ma
gion, in statement at Indianapolis.
advocated continuance by the legion.
of its program of instilling in the
hearts of former service men and wom-
en- sense of individual obligation to
community, state and nation.
Mrs. Bessie Mitchell, widow, pub
licly flogged a man known as Happy"
Brennan, whom she accused of at
tempting to mistreat her 4-year-old
son, Harry, according to report she
made to the police in Omaha, Neb. She
used riding whip. "If more mothers
would administer that kind of treat
ment the town would be much safer
for themselves and their children"
she said.
The new shipping board steamship
Buckeye State, which sailed for San
Francisco was forced to return to
Baltimore because of fire in the for
ward boiler room. Officials of the
MatsOn line which Operntes the veg