The Dolores star., 1921-08-26
FOREIGN

and far eastern conference.
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of
tine Turkish NatiOnalists in Asia Minor
has ordered the evacuation OF the
whole region between Siyri-Hissar and
Angora. says dispatch to London
from Smyrna.
The German government has ap-
pealed to the German residents of Up
per Slesia 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 10 the ministry of health
states that consumption in England
is declining by over 10000 cases dur
ing 1920. and that there were 1900
fewer deaths from the disease.
Twenty-four Poles were killed and
many wounded in n 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 bor
der.
Forty-five seamen are believed to
have been drowned following the
wreck of the freight steamer Shoshu
Maru. which was disabled by n ty-
phoon and battered TO pieces on the
rocks off the Loochoo islands. Only
one of the ships personnel is known TO
have survived.
Robert StolZ, Vienna composer, has
broken the worlds record for the in
come received from single piece of
dance music. according to the Neue
Berliner His "Salome FoXtrot" has
netted him 32,0OO,O00 kronen in royal
ties. To figure out the wealth of the
foxtrot millionaire in real money: an
Austrian krone is worth about one
tenth of Il cent.
Frontier restrictions We're carried to
an extreme when they prevented an
Austrian fire brigade from crossing
the Italian border to fight blaze
Some buildings on the Italian side of
the Premier Pass railway station
caught fire and the Austrian towns
| firemen turned out. Italian gendarmes
demanded their vises, and having none
| they were forced to watch the ware
houses burn.
GENERAL
Clarence NJ. Williams of Madison. a
student, and Mss Minnie Boiles of
| Baraboo. Wis. were drowned when u
steel rowboat capsiZed in Devils Lake.
at Madison, Wis.
Charges that Mrs. Winnifred Bag.
ley, nurse, was killed by electricity
during an N-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 a leap
from an airplane. Bridgens was prNc
| ticing for an aerial circus He for.
merly was moving picture actor
Nine men We're 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 ears, which were
carrying foreign laborers to work on
the Big -Four tracks west of Green
CdStle, Ind. Urban was taken to q
Terre Haute hospital suffering from
probable fatal injuries.
Wasps on business bent may be
pests, but two women here owe their
lives to wasp stingS. Mrs. J. f. Nit
chum, who lives near Hickman, Ky.
was awakened by the stings, discOv
cred her home was on fire and about
TO collapse upon her and adopted
daughter Mrs. Mitchum rushed to the
girls room, aroused her and assisted
her to safety in the yard just as the
house fell in, The waSps had built
their nests in the attic of the house
and the heat and smoke drove then
out. One sting on Mrs. Mitchum',
attack.
Bootleggers are blamed for a bOmt
explosion that wrecked the residence
of Ashbel w. Smith, states attorney
for Lake county, at Waukegan, III
Smith has been exceptionally active il
prosecuting violators of the prohibi
ton laws.
Information which the police believ,
will clear up seventeen gang murder
!, which have occurred in New York, De
trOit and Avon-by-the-Sea, n. J., wa
given to New York detectives by Bar
follow Fontano, Italian barber. Terri
fled by secret threats of 'beng baket
| L
to the police and was charged will
homicide. Six other men We're arrest
ed on Fontano's information.
Mrs. Rosa COwan, who was operat
, ed on at Hopkinsville, Ky, about
month ago when five full-siZed tea
| spoons We're removed from her stom
ach, has so far recovered that she ha
been returned to her home near Kirk
Evansville in Todd county. She tool