Williams news., 1921-07-29
FOREIGN


 be between 1,5OO,OO and 100000 bar
 rels, according to estimates made by
 the United Fruit Company of Nova
 Scotia.
 | Underground passages are to be To-
 cated at twenty of the principal street
 crossings in Mexico City to relieve the
 traffic situation, which has become serious. It is planned to have the cost of digging the tunnels covered by rent als from various concessions which are to be located underground.
 A 7O-year-oId German major general has been forced by poverty to become horse groom in Munich riding academy, testified members of a rent CTS meeting in Munich The general paid half of his pension for the rent and heat, and went to work in the stalls to prevent starvation.
 The capture of Eski-Shehr, the i'm portant railway Junction in Asia Min or, by the Greek army, was celebrated enthusiastically in Athens. A great crowd, after holding a demonstration at the home of Premier Gournaris, marched through the streets acclaim ing King Constantine and the Greek nation.
 Myron T. Herrick, the American Am bassador in Paris, is likely to find him. self homeless after Oct. 1, unless he has the good fortune in the meantime to find house such as he needs. His son searched a long time before the ambassador arrived, but found only the small villa garches, ten miles from the embassy, which is just large enough to hold MT. Herrick's family, with no room for guests.
 Lieutenant Kirsch, French aviator, is declared to have reached an altitude of 10,6OO meters (about 4,76S feet) Friday in an unofficial attempt to break the worlds altitude record. AL though the official record, made by Capt. R. W. Schroeder of the United States army at Dayton, Ohio, on Feb. 27, 1920, is only 33,OOO feet, it is thought probable that the Aero Club of France will not certify Lieutenant record.
 Following the lead of American, French and Austrian scientists and doctors, in grating portion of an ani- nal gland into the interstitial gland | of the human body to produce renewed | vitality, the Imperial University in | Fukuoka, Japan, will soon start ex- periments of that nature. The work | by the school will be a departure from | precedent, however, as it will be the | first institution in the world to ere | ate a department for such work. 
 Albert J. Erlerston of Lisbon swan across the Fox river at Sheridan, H., and then fell eXhauted in a foot of | water and drowned.
 Mike Hastings of Cheyenne, Wyo.. came within two-fifths of a second of I,o frt. fIn t.,l- | o bulldog a steer at the annual cow )oy championship contests at Chicago, lis time being 9 4-5 seconds.
 For four days, Roy McNIillen, 29 ,ears old, struggled at the bottom of m abandoned cistern just outside of he business district of Kansas City n an attempt to release himself. He vas rescued in a dazed, starved, de- irious condition, following his discov- ny by two negro boys.
 Thomas D. Randolph, a business nan of Sharon, Pa, who was believed o have been kidnapped and held for 50,OOO ransom but who returned to is home and was accused of having Tanned the proceeding himself, | leaded not guilty to four charges. When bail of $7 ,OO0 was not produced e was returned to his cell. The harges preferred were: Attempt to btain money under false pretenseS, | tempted blackmai1 and eXtOrtion, nd statutory charge against Ran olph, while a postal inspector pre- erred a charge of using the mails in scheme to defraud. Forrest Higgins was acquitted of a narge of having murdered his fiancee, l ucy Wittum, by jury in Circuit ourt at Corunna, Mich. The jury de I berated on the evidence less than two ours and took but two ballots, the I rst being ten to two for acquittal. i Capt. Beverly Grayson Chew, court artialed on fifty-odd charges, includ- z g forgery and deSertion, was found lilty at New York by an army trial z bard. He was sentenced to seven ears at hard labor, involving dishon- ad defended his acts on the plea of sanity caused by wounds in the : orld war. Fifty-one specific for 4 cries were shown. il Purchase of food and clothing az a 'egating more than S1 3OO,OOO,O ,OO0 dur g the six years from September, IA, to September, 1920, were made 7 the committee for relief in Bel um, according to the statement of n erbert c. Hoover, it's chairman, in is now in liquidation and .