The St. Johns herald., 1921-07-28


 Florida, while about 100000 crates have been shipped to New York.
 Lieut.. Gen. Karl Stenger, charged by the French government with hay ing ordered troops under his command to take no prisoners and kill wounded men during the fighting of August, 1914, has been acquitted by the Ger man Supreme Court at Leipsic, en- gagged in the trial of cases against al- legged war criminals. Mai Bruno Crusius, tried on similar charge, was given a sentence of two years in prison and forbidden to wear the Ger man uniform.
 GENERAL
 John Collins is under arrest in Chi cago because he is alleged to have stood by while Annie Holdt, 10 years old, drowned in shallow water with out offering assistance.
 The celluloid collar has been ban ished from the Chicago police force in an edict by Chief Fitzmorris that de- clared the Chicago police must be the best dressed in the world. A we'll dressed man does not wear a celluloid collar, the chief said.
 Cancer is neither hereditary, infec- tiOuS, contagious nor communicable, ac- cOrding to Dr. Frederick Bryant of Worcester, Mass. He declared there is no need for isolation of cancer pa- tients. He attributed the disease to some form of chronic stimulative irri- tation which could be prevented.
 Proclaiming a strike against the high price of ice cream sodas, more than 1000 Bronx boys and girls pa raded in New York with the hope of bringing their favorite drink down to the old-time nickel price. They marched to the office of Borough President Bruckner, who operates a large soda water plant.
 New York police have requested the arrest on a charge of forgery of Mrs. Emma Burkett of Hillsdale, Ind, who presented a claim to the estate of the late Theodore Roosevelt for $69,O00 on q note which, she declared, the former President endorsed. Mrs. Burkett has admitted that she has no claim on the estate. The complaint against Mrs. Burkett was made by George E. Roose- welt, an executor.
 Pelham A. Barrows, national com mander of the Sons of Veterans, of Lincoln, Neb., forwarded a letter to President Harding asking that he or der monument, reported to be in | Troy, Ala, which contains an inscrip- | tiOn honoring Wilkes Booth for the | murder of Abraham Lincoln, destroyed. | Mir. BarrOws stated that this was in | accordance with resolutions passed by a number of veterans posts.
 George Johnson, 40, and Jerry Elan nagan, 9, coal miners at RivertOn, seven miles northwest of Springfield, H., were killed when they fell POO feet down the shaft of the mine when the scaffolding on which they were gave way.
 Harry Woodland, a good swimmer, drowned, while Roy Rhodda, minus his two cork legs, which became loosened when boat occupied by five men over turned in Ely lake, near Gilbert, Minn., swan 300 yards to shore The others in the boat also reached shore safely. Rhodda told friends that two )f his companions utilized the floating cork legs to aid them to reach the shore.
 w. H. Bailey is believed to have set I worlds record at Louisville, Ky, whnn he leaped 300 feer into the Ohio 'iver from an airplane. The feat may cost him his life. Bailey shot through he air in a beautiful dive until about hirty feet from the water. He turned slowly and struck on his back. De- ;pite the internal injuries, he was when a boat reached, him. Before leaping he asked that a photo yraph be given to his mother "if ] lOn't make it.'