The Colorado statesman., 1921-09-17
FOREIGN

Star Line, the Columbus, n new $4,000
ton ex-German liner now lying at Dan
zig, Is to be rename,i the Homerlc and
viii be employed on the company's
Southampton New York service.
The governor of the state of Vera
Cruz threatened penalties for any man
ufacturers who close their plants be-
cause of the new profit-sharing law
which compels them 10 give one-half OF
their profits to the workers. In Mexico
Marshal Foch has received AMI ac-
cepted an invitation from Elbert ii.
Gary, chairman of the board of the
United States Steel corporation, To be
II guest at dinner given by the Iron
and Steel Institute in New York City
at which, 1t is understood, there will
he great gathering OF finnnclers and
industriallsts.
Baden authorities announced that
they had ascertained the names of the
murderers of Matthias Erzberger. They
are Heinrich Tillessen, "A student, and
Heinrich Schulz, Il merchant. Both
men We're members of the brigade Of
General Erhardt, which was promin
ent in the Kapp insurrection. Neither
has been arrested
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood announced
his acceptance of the post Of governor
general Of the Philippines offered him
by President Hnrdng. He notified
Secretary of War Weeks that he would
retire from the army TO accept the gov
ernorship. He said he believed it To
be his patriotic duty to accept the posi-
tion, owing to the seriousness of the
situation in the Philippines.
Payments made by various oil com
panies in compliance with President
Obregon's export tax decree of June I
last were returned by the government
In accordance with an agreement said
to have been reached with the five
American oil company heads. Such
taxes as We're paid were proportionate-
ly small as compared with the usual
payments. as the larger companies had
postponed payments.
GENERAL
Two persons We're killed, three
seriously hurt, and many others slight
~ injured in an accident to IL car in
the Rubin and Cherry carnival train
over the New York, New Haven x
Hartford railroad at Noroton, Conn.
Two through Florida passenger
trains, the Dixie Flyer and Seminole
Limited, running between Jackson
vile and Chicago, met in n renr-end |
collision at Sumner, Ga, on the Allan
tic Coast Line railroad. Several pas
sengers were injured.
Three armed bandits held up the |
Beech Grove State Bank ut Beech |
Grove, n suburb of Indianapolis, forced |
three employees and two customers of |
the bank into back room and escaped |
in an automobile with approximately |
$4,000. A fourth bandit remained at |
the wheel of the automobile while the
holdup was committed.
A mine three feet in diameter, coat
ed with barnacles and oysters and pro-
vided with an electrical firing device,
washed ashore at Ocean View, and has
given rise in marine circles TO the the
DRY that number of ships reported
lost off the Virginia coast might have
been struck by one of these derelicts.
The mine bore the letters K-l.
If either of the two sons Of the late
f. ii. Atwood, Chicago attorney, use
tobacco or alcoholic drinks during the
life of their mother they will forfeit
an inheritance of 100000 under their
fathers will. If the widow remarries,
she will be deprived of her bequest,
according to the will. No restrictions
were placed on daughter.
The German mark fell TO the lowest
price in its history. Its value on the
foreign exchange market at New
York was less than l cent-S.O093, to
be exact Disquieting, unconfirmed |
rumors of the possibility of IA morator-
ium being declared in Germany was
responsible for the decline. The pre-
war value of the mark was about "a |
cents.
Gilmon Holmes, negro, arrested |
on charge of numbering Sidney Man
helm, station agent at Columbia, La,
was hanged by II mob, the body then
being riddled with bullets and set
afire. Holmes vas alleged to have
confessed to the posse that captured
him.
Masked men numbering more than
one hundred overpowered the night
iniler at Collinsville, Okla, and after
taking from Jail Il. Scott, charged
with automobile theft, and Roy Hol-
lingsworth, who attempted to secure
Scott's release, conveyed the pair by
automobile TO a lonely spot eight miles
east of Tulsa and dashed them with
whips.
A thug went to the home of A. ].
Peterson, postmaster at Tornillo, Tex,