The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-26
FOREIGN

VILE, Tenn, into the foundation.
The Australian government is reduc-
ing Its expenditures for defense by ap-
proxlmately $1,250,000, the acting min
lister OF defense announced In the
house of representatives nt Melbourne.
A bronze turkey, mounted on mar
BILE pedestal from the Cathedral of MI
Ian, the Thanksgiving gift of the ltal-
Inn-American Society OF Italy 10 Presi-
dent Harding, arrived in New York on
the steamer Taormlna from Genoa.
Jesse II. Johnson of Berryville, Ark,
prohibition enforcement agent, was
shot while he and c. Il. Thompson, an
other prohibition officer, were attempt
ing to arrest several moonshiners near
Bland, Saline county, Ark. All the
suspects escaped.
DIR. Amable Jones, governor of the
province of San Juan, was assassinat-
ed by men armed with rifles mt Buenos
Aires as he was alighting from an au-
tomobile. A friend who was with him
also was killed. The assassination is
attributed to politics.
Hungary has decided TO send H.
to raise loan, says the Innsbruck
Nachrichten. Count Lazzio Szechenyi,
whose wife was formerly Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt OF New York, the paper
adds, will be head of the mission.
Egypt this season will have 5S2,9l5,-
600 pounds of lint cotton for market,
according to figures furnished by the
American consul stationed at Alexan-
dria. This amount is about Il normal
supply. In 1920 the supply amounted
TO 556O27 900 pounds, and in 1919 to
542, ,962 600 pounds.
Convictlng home brewers is a costly
job for Uncle Sam Twenty-Five per-
sons were fined SO to SO each by
Federal Judge Carpenter in Chicago
for violations of the dry law. II was
estimated that 1t cost the government
$50 for each case. This amount is used
in marshal's fees grand jurors pay.
overhead expenses and commissioners
fees. Fines OF $25 cover about half
the cost, il was stated.
GENERAL
Excavations at Ephesus have result
ed In the discovery of considerable
portions of the Church of st. John the
Evangelist, notably the crypt, which,
according to tradition, is the tomb of
the apostle John.
Hugh Campbell Wallace, former
American ambassador to France, has
received from NJ. Jusserand, French
ambassador, the order of the grand
cross of the Legion of Honor, the high
est decoration in the gift of France.
Although wholesale prices have
dropped 40 per cent since 1920, the re-
tail cost of living has decreased only
IS per cent, said Prof. VIM. Ogburn
of Columbia university before the sec
ond conference on christian Princi
pies in Industry" at New York.
Officials of the Association of Rail-
way Executives announced in New
York that further freight rate reduc-
tions amounting to $30O,000,0OO would
be put into effect in the event the rail-
way labor board accedes to the re-
quests of the roads for lower wage
scale.
OF the 1926 passenger automo-
biles exported from the United States
during the first ten months of 1920,
the United Kingdom is listed with 49,
154 cars British India, 10,S4S Canada,
1860; British South Africa, 800; Gu
ba, 5,2S6: New Zealand, 5000; Brazil,
1865; Sweden, 4,SS7; Dutch East In
dies, 3,499; Argentina, 1872; Uru-
quay, 3,2S7; Norway. 5000.
Chicago.-Scores of families in the
Garfield park district were frightened
by the explosion of a bomb in n saloon
run by Gus McCarten and John Gill
feather, former policemen. Consider
able damage was done to the building
and McCarten was cut by flying debris.
An investigation of reports that dis
agreement between bootleggers was re-
sponsible for the bombing is being
made by police.
X. Matsukata, Japanese shipping
magnate, has made gigantic art raid
on Europe. In the last few years he
has bought about 1000 works of art
and now proposes to found gallery
on the famous plateau of Toxic for the
benefit of the japanese people, mt q
cost of about $5,000,000.
Governor Thomas L. Campbell is-
sued proclamation of emergency, au-
thorizing the board of directors of
state institutions to expend $3.50 in
repairing damage done to the capitol
building and grounds by the Cave
creek flood. Parties interested in the
control of Cave creek met in the gov
ernor's office and agreed to steps to
be taken to prevent future floods sim
liar to that of last August
Conservative estimates of motor
vehicle production for 1921 forecast
total of 100000 passenger cars and
trucks. This compares with 1,92s,O0o
for 1920. Inasmuch as 1t was predict