Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-08-26
FOREIGN

lnnd Tar eastern conference
Mustapha Kemal Pnsha. leader OF
the Turkish Nationaiists In Asia Minor
has ordered the evacuation OF the
whole region between Sivri-Hissar and
Angora. says n dispatch to London
from Smyrna.
The German government has ap-
pealed 10 the German residents Of Up
per Silcsia to keep cool and not start
anything pending solution of the Up
lper Silesian Issue by the council Of
the League of Nations.
Cooperation In the interest of their
common motherland'' was pledged in
an agreement signed at Knttowitz. Up
per Silesla, by representative German
industrial and political leaders and la
parties In Silesia.
Twenty-four Poles were killed and
many wounded In a figh; between Ger
t.ians and regular Polish troops near
the frontier villages of Sternalitz and
Kostellitz, in Upper. Silesla. The Ger
mans drove the Poles across the bor-
der
i districts of Russia, but there is a de-
crease In the cholera epidemic there,
says the Moscow correspondent OF the
Daily Herald. During July 22,O0O
caes were reported as against ~, 900 In
June.
Whisky valued at several thousand
dollars was seized at the mouth OF
the Fraser river, near Vancouver, B.
c., when provincial police Officers
seized a party of men who had dellv-
cred two truckloads of liquor to be
the whisky was to have been exported
to the United States
Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
the northern hemisphere, issued by
the international Institute of Agricul-
ture, show that It will be approximate
ly 5O,2O0,O0O tons, compared to 51,3OO,-
900 tons in 1920. The crop In Europe,
leaving out of consideration Great
Britain. France and Germany, is estl-
mated at 100000 tons, compared to
l0,500,0O0 last year. The United States
and Canada are expected to produce
2S,500,0O0 tons, against 2S.600,000 tons
in 1920, and India, Japan, Algeria, Mo
rocco and Tunis WILL 1t is said, yield
! 100000 tons, against 100000 tons
harvested last year.
GENERAL
Judge James e. Boyd, in federal
court at Greenboro, n. c., held the new
federal child labor law unconstitution-
al. The Overwhelming child labor law
was also held unconstitutional by
Judge Boyd two years ago and that
ruling was upheld by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Chief of Police Fitzmorris has of
ficially barred public exhibition of the
Dempsey Carpenter fight pictures in
Chicago. -Fitzmorris announced that
police would stop any attempt of Tex
RicSard. the New York promoter, or
any other person to exhibit the pic
lures before paid audience He said
he would not interfere with exhibi-
tions before wounded soldiers.
Two steam yachts, the Venice and
the Tranquillo, confiscated by local
authorities for alleged whisky run
ming between Canada ana Cleveland,
Ohio, will be sold as soon as legal
formallties can be arranged, Federal
Prohibition Agent Fred Counts an
nounced upon his return from n secret
mission in connection with the ships.
The estimated value of the crafts was
placed at $4,000 each.
Information which the police believe
will clear up seventeen gang murders
which have occurred In New York, De-
troit and Avon-by-the-Sea. n. J., was
given to New York detectives by Bar
follow Fontano, Italian barber. Terri.
fled by secret threats of "being baked
in an oven." Fontano gave himself up
to the police and was charged with
homicide Six other men We're arrest
ed on Fontano's information.
Bud Bridgens of Chicago was in
siantly killed at Rockford, ILL.,, when
his parachute failed to open in leap
from an airplane. Bridgens was prac
tic,ng for an aerial circus. He for
merly was n moving picture actor.
The first day OF the John Bailey
murder trial at Mount Vernon, Ky.
growing out of the Bailey-White noun
! tain feud, was productive of nothing
more thrilling than the searching fol-
weapons of every person who entered
the courtroom. Soldiers and deputy
sheriffs stopped each clansman as he
entered the doorway. None resisted
the search and no weapons except a
few pocket knives were found. Even
the women were not exempt.
Mrs. Rosa Cowan, who was operat
ed on at Hopkinsville, Ky. about 9
month ago when five full-sized tea
{ spoons were removed from her stom
, ach, has so far recovered that she ha:
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