Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-28
Sporting

Everybody was double-crossed in
the 1919 worlds baseball series, If the
testimony given in Chicago by Will.
liam Burns against the indicted play
ers and alleged gamblers Is accurate.
Personal
COL John b. Peters, last survivor of
Iowa's 1857 constitutional convention
and reputed ranking officer of Union
cavalry in the Civil war, died at Man.
chester, Ia, in his ninetythird year.
Foreign
The German government at Berlin
is sending physicians and medicines
into Russia for relief Of the plague
sufferers, 1t was announced.
Inc great fire in the Mexican oil
fields south of Tampico is still burn.
Ing, but Is under control, according
to information from Tampico. Thou
sands of soldiers are aiding the fire
| fighting crews.
The Reichsbank at Berlin has Sc
cured new credit of 100000 gold
marks through the Amsterdam branch
OF the Mendelsohn bank, and is negoti-
ating for an additional credit.
The Greeks in taking Eski-Shehr
captured KAHN Kara Bekir, Turkish
nationalist commander in the city, and
all his generals and other officers, saws
the Central News Athens correspond
| ent.
The parleys between Mr.. LLOYD
George and Eamonn De Valera have
adjourned and basis for peace con-
, ference has not yet been found. De
Valera left London to present the
British proposals to Dali Eireann in
Dublin.
Ambush attacks and conflicts be-
tween members of the Fascist and
communists near Salzana are report
ed at Rome. Dispatches state that IA
were killed and so wounded.
Reports that the Vatican was in
vited by President Harding to partici-
pate in the disarmament conference,
or that the Vatican had sought such
an invitation were formally denied by
the Vatican at Rome.
Morris Hillquit, the American So
cialist temporarily detained at Dover,
will be allowed to enter Great Britain,
the home Office at London said. Hill.
quit agreed not to disseminate any
revolutionary propaganda.
| A fight between Socialists and Fas-
cisti on the floor of the chamber of
deputies at Rome resulted in sus-
pension Of the sitting. Chairs, ink
wells and other missiles were thrown
by the members.
A Belgrade dispatch says Minister
of the Interior Drashkovics of Jugo-
Slavia was shot dead by young Bos-
MAN communist. The assassin was
arrested.
The Hungarian government at Buda-
pest has reduced the electives of the
army tc $4,000 men, the number pro-
vided for under the Trianon treaty.
| Joseph Fabel, an American seaman
from the American steamship Cotati,
was arrested at London charged with
attempted murder following quarrel
in which he shot an Englishman in
the leg.
1t is announced at London that Pre-
mier Lloyd George will attend the
Washington conference on limitation
of ornaments. 1t will be the pre-
mier's first visit to America.
A dispatch from Athens says that
the Greeks have occupied Kutahia,
and captured 10000 prisoners The
enemy is reported In flight toward
Eski-Shehr.
1t was stated in authoritative quar-
tiers at London that informal sugges-
lions had been made for American in
PREVENTION in the Upper Silesian trou-
ble which, it is feared, will threaten
open hostilities.
Speaking at the American Luncheon
club at London, Premier Hughes of
Australia served notice that the
United States must agree with japan
to reduce competitive naval building,
or Great Britain would join in the race
in order to maintain her position and
protect her interests in the Pacific.
Japan has decided to attend the
Forthcoming international conference
and to discuss all matters "of mutual
interest" according to a report gen.