Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-25
FOREIGN

md far eastern conference.
The national assembly at Budapest
ratified organization of the Hungarian
army In conformity with the TrIanon
peace treaty. The strength will be 85s-
600 men, including volunteers.
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of
the Turkish Nationalists in Asia Minor
has ordered the evacuation OF the
whole region between Sivrl-Hissar and
Angora, says dispatch to London
from Smyrna.
The German government has ap-
pealed to the German residents of Up
per Silesia to keep cool and not start
anything pending solution of the Up
per Silesian issue by the council of
the League of Nations.
In his annual report the chief med
ical officer to the ministry of health
states that consumption in England
is declining by over 10000 cases dur
ing 1920, and that there were 10000
fewer deaths from the disease.
Twenty.four Poles were killed and
many wounded In fight between Ger
mans and regular Polish troops near
the frontier villages of Sternalitz and
Kostellitz. In Upper Silesia. The Ger
mans drove the Poles across the Dor.
der.
Famine still Is ravaging the Nolga
districts of Russia. but there is Il de-
crease in the cholera epidemic there,
says the Moscow correspondent Of the
Daily Herald. During July 22,00O
caes were reported as against $4,000 In
June.
Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
the northern hemisphere, issued by
the International Institute Of Agricul-
ture, show that 1t will be approximate
ly 5O,2OO,OOO tons. compared to 1,3OO,-
600 tons In 1920. The crop In Europe,
leaving out of consideration Great
Britain, France and Germany, is esti.
mated at 100000 tons, compared to
II, SOC, 900 last year. The United States
and Canada are expected to produce
2S, SOC, 900 tons, against 28.8OO,OOO tons
| in 1920, and India, Japan, Algeria, Mo-
rocco and Tunis will, 1t is said, yield
Q, 10000 tons, against 12,OOO,OW tons
harvested last year.
0ENERAL
Charges that Mrs. WInnlfred Bag
ley, a nurse. was killed by electricity
during an X.ray demonstration at the
Pageant Of Progress at Chicago. were
made by detective agency which In.
vestigated the case.
Bud Bridgens Of Chicago was In
siantly killed at Rockford, ILL.,, when
his parachute failed to open In leap
from an airplane. Bridgens was prac-
tlcing for an aerial circus. He for
incrly was moving picture actor.
Forty.five seamen are believed to
have been drowned following the
wreck Of the freight steamer Shoshu
Aaru, which was disabled by ty-
phoon and battered to pieces on the
rocks off the Loochoo islands. Only
one Of the ships personnel Is known to
have survived.
Information which the police believe
will clear up seventeen gang murders
which have occurred in New York. De-
troit and AvOn.by.the-Sea. N. j.. was
given to New York detectives by Bar
follow FOntano, Italian barber. Terri.
fled by secret threats Of "belng baked
In an oven." Fontano gave himself up
to the police and was charged with
homicide. Six other men were arrest
ed on FOntanO's Information.
Mrs. Rosa COwan, who was operat-
ed on at HOpkinsville, KY, about a
month ago when five full.sized tea
spoons were removed from her stOm-
ach, has so far recovered that she has
been returned to her home near Kirk
mansville In Todd county. She took
the spoons home with her. Her COM
plete recovery seems assured and her
mental condition. which caused her to
be sent to the state hospital for treat
ment, where she Is supposed to have
swallowed the spoons, is normal again.
Nine men were seriously injured and
about fifty others bruised when James
Urban fell from a motor speeder be-
meath the wheels of two trailers and
overturned the three cars, which were
carrying foreign labOrers to work on
the Big Four tracks west of Green
castle. Ind. Urban was taken to
Terre Haute hospital suffering from
probable fatal injuries.
Chief Of Police FitzmOrris has Of
ficially barred public exhibition Of the
Dempsey. Carpenter fight pictures In
Chicago. Fitzmorris announced that
police would stop any attempt Of Tex
Rlckard, the New York promoter, or
any other person to exhibit the pic
lures before q paid audience. He said
he would not interfere with exhibi-
tions before wounded soldiers.
Two steam yachts. the Venice and
the Tranquillo, confiscated by local
authorities for alleged whisky run
ming between Canada and Cleveland,
Ohio, will be sold as soon as legal
formalities can be arranged. Federal
Prohibition Agent Fred Counts an
nounced upon his return from a secret