Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-10-27
FOREIGN

manian arsenal and fortificatlon.
Prime Minister Lloyd George has de-
cided definitely to leave for Washing
ton Nov. 3 on the liner Aquitania, ar
irving In time, 1t Is expected, for the
afternoon session of the armamehts
conference on It's opening day, Nov. II.
The International relief committee
of COnstantinople sent wireless ap-
peal to the civilized world on behalf of
thousands of destitute and homeless
Russian refugees who have been absO-
lutely helpless since the recent with
drawal Of the American Red Cross
unit
Regular white slave auctions have
been discovered and ended by the
Vienna police. In one instance a ID
year.old girl was sold by her mother
for the equivalent of one dollar. The
girl got a pair of stockings. The
mother was sentenced to three months
at hard labor.
Philip Scheideman. former secre-
tary of foreign affairs, was fired upon
during meeting of the German PeO-
ple's party In Ludenscheid. Westpha-
Lin. The bullet went wild, and Herr
Scheideman was uninjured. Five per-
sons were arrested for the attempted
assassination.
The Munich correspondent of the
London Times Is informed that the
Germans have perfected triple-bar-
relied machine gun, electrically Oper-
ated, weighing twenty-five pounds and
capable of spreading 1900 rounds per
minute In IL circle. The three barrels
could be operated by u gunner Il half
mile distant.
The government at Peking has APP
pointed u commission to investigate
the opium situation In the Fukien
province. An appeal has been made to
fort to stop poppy planting In the
province. An appeal has been made to
DIR. X Wellington kOO, minister to
Great Britain, for foreign assistance
and cooperation.
A British mission will soon proceed
to AnatOlIa to sound the NatiOnalists
regarding peace. The Angora govern
ment has already advised the British
embassy that the delegates would he
welcome. The feeling in Constantine
pie is that the cessation of the long
drawn out conflict In Asia Minor may
passibly be In sight.
The yacht Lucullus, on which Gen.
Baron Wrangel, former head Of the
anti -BOlshevist government In South
Russia, was making his home In Con-
stantinople, was struck at the en-.
trance Of the harbor by the British
steamer Adria and sunk with the loss
of two lives. General Wrangel and
Baroness Wrangel were ashore.
GENERAL
John Christmas. negro, of Cham
paign, was hanged ut Urbana. III. 1t
was the first hanging in this county
for more than forty years. Christman
killed his wife with a razor last sum-
mer.
Thirty-five horses and mules and
three motor trucks of the garbage and
street cleaning departments of the city
OF Little Rock were lost in a fire that
swept the city stables, in the east part
of the city. The loss Is estimated Mt
$4,000. Only one Of the thIrty.six
animals In the stable was saved.
The railroad brotherhoods have
strike fund of $2,OOO,OOO, which is In
sufficient for general strike of any
length, John Grunau, president Of the
United Association of Railway En-
ployes Of North America and leader
of the so-called OUTLAW" strike Of
last year, declared In Chicago.
Decisions Of lower courts holding
that irrigation companies can fore
close on farmers for failure to pay
water rent were In effect upheld when
the Supreme Court declined to review
appeals of John H. Martens and 9TH
ers of Idaho against the Twin Falls
Oakley Land and Water Company.
A resolution calling upon Congress
and President Harding to enact legis-
lation and amend the national prohi-
bition enforcement act to permit the
manufacture Of light wines and beer.
in order that the breweries might be
reopened, thereby relieving the unem-
ployment situation, was presented in
the meeting Of the city Unemployment
commission at st. Louis.
Nathan Loar, Mexican war veteran,
celebrated his one hundredth birth
day at Leavenworth, Kan. He was
born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper court
house, Virginia. His wife, with whom
he lived seventy-two years, died six
years ago. They were parents Of ten
children. Loar has forty grnndchild-
ren, fifty-three great-grandchildren
and five reat-grandchildren.
Mrs. II. G. Rocker, arrested Mt Mem
phls, Tenn, several days ago on fu-
gitive from justice warrant issued In
Dallas, Texas, where it is alleged by
federal officials she Is under indict-
ment In connection with the embezzle-
ment Of $4,000 from the Southwest