The Snowflake herald., 1921-07-01
FOREIGN

his home, was set afire Earl Ban
don's whereabouts is unknown.
Indications at Athens point to ac-
ceptanee by Greece, in principle at
least, of the offer of Great Britain,
France and Italy to mediate between
the Greeks and Turkish Nationalists
in an effort to forestall warfare in
Asia Minor.
Sixty-eight men were killed and
seventy-three others injured through
the explosion, due to fire damp, which
destroyed the greater part of the Mont
Gents mine, near Herne, Westphalia.
Three hundred men were in the mine
when the disaster occurred.
General Guadalupe Sanchez, chief of
military operations in the state Of
Vera Cruz, has left for Minatitlan, in
the southern part of the state, to put
down revolt reported to have been
started by General Perez General
Sanchez took with him 1,5OO soldiers,
and it is feared that fighting has be-
gun with the rebels.
After having spent forty days on
starvation diet in the Tcheka prison
at Moscow, most of the time under
ground, Capt. Emmett fitzpatrick, mem
Der of the American Red Cross, who
was captured by the BOlshevists last
November, has been moved to prison
hospital. Early in June he was in
serious condition American and Hun
garian prisoners, according to reports,
are the worst treated of all persons un-
der detention in Moscow.
Sulgrave manor, ancestral home of
the Washingtons, was rededicated at
Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, with
elaborate ceremonies after its restora-
ton, at cost of f5O,O0O, to the state
in which it existed three centuries
ago. The marquis of Cambridge, broth
er of Queen Mary, gave the principal
address. He asserted the fundamental
solidarity of the peoples of the en-
pire and the republic and declaring
the days event good augury for the
future. The exercises were arranged
by the Sulgrave institution, organized
to foster friendship between Great
Britain and the United States
GENERAL
Roy Sheriff., a convicted train rob-
Der serving a twenty-five-year SEN
tence, with Joe Davis, also convicted
train robber, has escaped from the
federal penitentiary at LeavenwOrth,
Kan. Roy Sheriff. Is, with the excep-
ton of Eva Lewis, who is serving
prison term at Kansas City, the sole
survivor of the Dales Jones-Frank
Lewis gang of train bandits who Gre
ated reign of terror in Denver and
Colorado Springs from Sept. 13 to 15,
1918.
Uncle Tom Adkisson, So, illiterate
of Arkansas draft registers,
at Little Rock to complete a two-and-
term for manslaughter,
Governor McRae recently paroled the
aged mountaineer for good behavior,
but following protestations of former
service men and citizens, the governor
Cancelled the parole. Adkisson was
the leader of a determined band of
who staged ten-day bat
tie in the hills near Hober Springs in
July, 1918, when federal authorities
began roundup of this states 10000
alleged draft evaders
Disappearance at sea of several
American ships within the last few
months is linked by the New York po
lice with plans revealed in raids on
radical headquarters year and half
ago for the seizure of these vessels at
sea and their diversion to Russian So
Wet ports. Police said they were in
formed Through certain confidential
sources" that officials of the Union of
Russian Workers of the United States
and Canada, an organization since
broken up, had urged its employed
members to seek employment on
American ships, overpower other mem
bers of the crew and direct the yes
sells to Russia.
Nelson Kelly, aviator, of Chicago, re-
tains possession of his airplane, but
he was forced to summon the police
to do it. He made forced landing on
the land of an Evanston farmer, who
laid claim to the plane as ''gift from
the heavens"
Two submarines flying the Irish re
publican flag maintain an undersea
passenger service between this country
and Ireland for officials and agents of
the Irish republic, according to Capt.
B. j. Stanley, wounded veteran of the
Sixty-ninth regiment of New York. He
is also secretary of the New York
council of the American Association
for the Recognition of the Irish Re-
public.
The Pullman Company lost it's open
shop fight before the United States
Railroad Labor Board in Chicago
when the board upheld the contention
of union labor that the company had
not obeyed "the letter and spirit OF