, 1921-04-28

dtlhch VI IL GerHndn crowd on James
e. Tobinson and his wife of Chicago.
Soviet Russia's debt to Switzerland,
according to statistics of the Swiss
federal government, amounts to 1885,
100000 rubles, 100, 1000 Swiss
francs, 100000 French francs, a.
5000 and 100000 marks.
Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk has re-
signed as president of Czecho-Slovakia,
according to a Prague dispatch. III
health is given as the reason. DIR. Ed
ward Benes, foreign minister, will be-
come premier and acting president.
General tightening of the conscrip-
ton laws by Japan, including extern
sion for the first time of the applica-
ton of universal military training to
Japanese residents in the Philippines,
East Indies and the South Sea islands,
has been reported to official circles in
Washington.
The allies have sent a demand to the
German government for the transfer
of LOCO, 100000 gold marks (normally
$3.50, 000,000), constituting German gold
reserve, from Berlin to Cologne banks
for safer keeping" Cologne is the
center of the British army of u
ton OF the Rhine.
Honest efforts are being made to
devise arrangements for immediate
payments on the interest on Mexico's
foreign debt and to that end repre-
s%entatives of foreign banking houses
have been asked to come to Mexico to
offer advice and suggestions. Presi-
dent Obregon told n gathering of
newspaper correspondents in Mexico
City.
An indemnity of $4,000. 10000 o was
the penalty" which the Kaiser pro-
posed to impose upon the United
States if Germany had won the war
in 1917. 1t was included in his
peace terms written by himself in
the spring of that year and just dis
covered in the archives of the German
foreign office, according 10 II Berlin
correspondent.
The imminent collapse of the Con
stantine government i'm Greece is fore
see in receipt of news on the deplor-
able condition of the Greek army in
Asia Minor and h destitute condition
of the treasury at Athens. Seven
Greek divisions used In the last often
sive We're smashed and their morale
weakened. The 5000 troops, sent as
reinforcements, are being used to for
tify Smyrna, thus Indicating that the
forces around Ushak and Brussa are
preparing to retire.
GENERAL
For stealing 40 cents worth of soap.
Louise Cody, n young girl, was fined
$40 and costs in Police Court of Du-
luth, MINI. She pleaded guilty.
To offset the wiles of Mrs. Cora Isa-
bella Orthweln 1t was proposed by
Lloyd Heth, assistant states attorney,
in Chicago, that she be tried by IA jury
of women on the charge of Staying
Herbert =. Zeigler, tire sales man
ger. The plan was agreed to by Mrs.
Orthwein's attorneys and a venire of
women viii be drawn If there are no
legal obstacles.
Twenty-six thousand persons are at
the point of starvation in the Goa
fields of Northern Alabama, Governor
Thomas Il. Kilby was told in an APP
peal by the Salvation Army, South
eastern division. with headquarters in
Birmingham. The organization said it
was helping to the limit of its re
sources, but hat additional aid must
come from other sources.
The Illinois Supreme Court has
r,,lnl tIat IJanry Anthnnu March son
of Peggy Marsh, London actress, is
not the legitimate son of Henry Field,
and therefore is not entitled to "A share
in the Field millions. Peggy Marsh
claimed a part of the vast Field for
tune for her son. but the Superior
Court of Cook county ruled against
her contention and the higher court
here upheld this decision.
Mrs. Adah Bishop, Il farmers wife,
was painfully injured when n tornado
demolished the three-room house in
which the family resided near Boone,
thirty miles east of Pueblo. Consider
able damage was lone TO small build
ings in the vicinity, and II lumber yard
shed $50 feet long was demolished In
Boone. Several barns were unroofed.
United states secret service opera
tives of Chicago revealed what they
declared was II plot to flood the CEN
trail West with struggled diamonds
from Canada, after arresting |. Gittler,
n furrier, and his wife. The govern
ment agents said they had information
which led them to believe the couple
were the Chicago representatives, Of AN
organized band of ~smugglers.
Captain Harry W. Devore is serv.
ing a five-year term In the Oklahomn
state penitentiary all because, Harry
says, he has n double" brother who
likes the ladies. Devore was convicted
of bigamy when three wives Identified
him in open court in Sapulpa, Okla.
"They got me wrong alibied the cap