The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-12-09
News Of the Week
Told in Paragraphs With Notes and Comments

France has developed to the point
where tentative treaty draft is un-
der consideration in some quarters
although it has not been formally
presented to the conference.
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Lands
placed a fine on Babe Ruth, base
ball champion, for transforming, of
$3,362.26 and suspended him until
May 20 from participating in the 1922
season.
Chas. w. Moore is in trouble again.
He is being brought back from Paris
to answer charge in connection with
the shipping board.
Twenty-Five girls were overcome and
one hundred others made i'll when
fumes OF ether, apparently original
ing from saturated rags found in an
ash can. spread through the work
rooms of the Utica Boys Clothing
Company at Utica, New York. A
strike is in. progress.
Steps toward settlement of the
Shantung constroversy were taken at
the resumption OF conversations be-
tween the Japanese and Chinese dele
cations to the Washington conference
when Japan agreed to renounce in
the leasehold "all preferential rights
with regard to foreign assistance in
persons. capital, and materials stipu
lated in the Sino-German treaty of
March 6, 1885,
Railroad Head-On Collision
twenty-five persons were killed and
a score injured when two trains of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
crashed head-on at full speed on
curve near Bryn Athyn. early Mon
day. The impact caused one engine
to almost loop the loop. The explos-
ion of the boilers was heard for miles
while the blaze of the burning coach
es lit up the countryside OF the TWEEN
ty-five passengers trapped by the
flames in the forward car of one train,
only FIVE escaped. The others were
burned to death while many stood by
powerless to help. Five dead have
been removed from the wreck of the
first car of the other train.
Ford and Edison at Muscle Shoals
Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison
inspected the great Wilson dam, which,
constitutes the nucleus around which
Ford proposes to build an industrial
empire in the south.
On arrival here Mr.. Ford and Mr..
Edison proceeded to Wilson's dam,
driving through the streets of Flor
ence where they were accorded ire
mendous ovations En- route to Flor
ence Mr.. Ford talked to newspaper
men who were on his special train.
He emphasized the fact that he had
not, in any way, changed his origi-
nal bid for the Muscle Shoals pro-
ject and that his visit was mainly to
allow Mr. Edison to visualize the
project in its entirely and to verify
the original figures submitted by
Ford's engineers.
The main point of difference be-
tween him and the government, Mr..
Ford said. lay in the cost of compile
ton Of Wilson dam.
Philip X C. Tyau, secretary general
Of the Chinese delegation to the Wash
iington conference and ministers to
Cuba. today cabled to Peking his resig-
nation as a member of the delegation
il protest against the negative re
suits thus far achieved concerning
.Chinas demands DR.. Tyau told the
Associated Press tonight that in re.
signing he acted without consulting
the three Chinese delegates and his
action represented his personal views;
The delegation was notified after the.
caoIegran had been sent to the
Chinese government.
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