Taiban Valley news., 1921-07-01
FOREIGN

dOnS Whereabouts is unknown.
Indications at Athens point to ac-
ceptance by Greece, in principle at
least, of the offer of Great Britain,
France and Italy to mediate between
the Greeks and Turkish Natlonalists
in an effort to forestall warfare in
Asia Minor.
Sixty-eight men were killed and
seventy-three others injured through
the explosion, due to fire damp, which
destroyed the greater part of the Mont
Gents mine, near Herne, Westphalia.
Three hundred men were in the mine
when the disaster occurred.
General Guadalupe Sanchez, chief of
military operations in the state of
Vera Cruz, has left for Minatitlan, in
the southern part of the state, to put
down a revolt reported to have been
started by General Perez. General
Sanchez took with him 1900 soldiers,
and it is feared that fighting has be-
gun with the rebels.
After having spent forty days on a
starvation diet in the Tcheka prison
at Moscow, most of the time under
ground, Capt. Emmett Fitzpatrick, mem
Der of the American Red Cross, who
was captured by the Bolshevists last
November, has been moved to a prison
hospital. Early in June he was in a
serious condition. American and Hun
garian prisoners, according to reports,
are the worst treated of all persons un-
der detention in Moscow.
Sulgrave manor, ancestral home of
the Washingtons, was rededicated at
Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, with
elaborate ceremonies after its restora-
ton, at a cost of f50000, to the state
in which it existed three centuries
ago. The marquis of Cambridge, broth
er of Queen Mary, gave the principal
address. He asserted the fundamental
solidarity of the peoples of the en-
pire and the republic and declaring
the days event a good augury for the
future. The exercises were arranged
by the Sulgrave institution, organized
to foster friendship between Great
Britain and the United States.
GENERAL
Roy Sheriff., a convicted train rob-
Der serving twenty-five-year SEN
tence, with Joe Davis, also a convicted
train robber, has escaped from the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan. Roy Sheriff. Is, with the excep-
ton of Eva Lewis, who is serving a
prison term at Kansas City, the sole
survivor of the Dales Jones-Frank
Lewis gang of train bandits who Gre
ated a reign of terror In Denver and
Colorado Springs from Sept. 13 to 10,
1918.
Uncle Tom Adkisson, SO, illiterate
ringleader of Arkansas draft registers,
has been returned to the state prison
at Little Rock to complete a two-and-
a-half-year term for manslaughter,
Governor McRae recently parOled the
aged mountaineer for good behavior,
but following protestations of former
service men and citizens, the governor
Cancelled the parole. Adkisson was
the leader of Il determined band of
mountaineers who staged ten-day bat
tie in the hills near Hober Springs in
July, 1918, when federal authorities
began roundup of this states 10000
alleged draft evaders.
Disappearance at sea of several
American ships within the last few
months is linked by the New York po-
lice with plans revealed in raids on
radical headquarters year and half
ago for the seizure of these vessels at
sea and their diversion to Russian So
Wet ports. Police said they were in
formed Through certain confidential
sources" that officials of the Union of
Russian Workers of the United States
and Canada, an organization since
broken up, had urged its employed
members to seek employment on
American ships overpower other mem.
bers of the crew and direct the yes.
sells to Russia.
Nelson Kelly, aviator of Chicago, re-
tains possession of his airplane, but
he was forced to summon the police
to do it. He made forced landing on
the land of an Evanston farmer, who
laid claim to the plane as gift from
the heavens"
Two submarines flying the Irish re
publican flag maintain an underses
passenger service between this country
and Ireland for officials and agents Of
the Irish republic, according to Capt
B. J. Stanley, wounded veteran Of tht
Slxty-ninth regiment of New York. H'
is also secretary of the New Yorl
council Of the American Association
for the Recognition of the Irish Re
public.
The Pullman Company lost its oper
shop fight before the United States
Railroad Labor Board in Chicago
= when the board upheld the contention
of union labor that the company hat
not obeyed "the letter and spirit" o
the transportation act when it con
} ferred with its employees in mass meet
/ ings. The board threw out the CON
pany's petition for cut in the wage