Williams news., 1921-04-29
FOREIGN

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 leader of the recent communist up-
 rising in middle Germany, has been ar | rested.
 A Revolutionary court in Scolensk
 has pronounced sentence on 32O peas ants accused of having participated in an uprising, according to advfces in
 Stockholm
 Soviet Russia's debt to Switzerland,
 according to statistics of the Swiss federal government, amounts to 466,- 100000 rubles, 129,00O,0OO Swiss
 francs, 6,0O0,000 French francs, f4,-
 5OO,OO0 and 3,OOO,OOO marks.
 General tightening of the conscrip-
 ton laws by Japan, including exten-
 sion for the first time of the applica-
 tion of universal military training to
 Japanese residents in the Philippines, East Indies and the South Sea islands, has been reported to official circles in Washington.
 The allies have sent a demand to the German government for the transfer of 1,OOO,OOO,OOO gold marks (normally 5O,0O0,O0O), constituting German gold reserve, from Berlin to Cologne banks for ''safer keeping" Cologne is the center of the British army of occupa- ton on the Rhine.
 The first execution of a woman in the strife in Ireland has been an- nounced in Dublin. She was taken from her home in the Scotstown dis trict of Monagh and shot and killed on the bank of the river. The wom- an, who was Kitty MacCarron, be- longed to the farming class.
 The imminent collapse of the Con- stantine government in Greece is fore seen in receipt of news on the depIor- able condition of the Greek army in Asia Minor and the destitute condition of the treasury at Athens. Seven Greek divisions used in the last offen- sive were smashed and their morale weakened. The 5000 troops, sent as endorsements, are being used to for tify Smyrna, thus indicating that the forces around Ushak and Brussa are to retire.
 GENERAL
 An argument for more municipal ten his courts in Philadelphia by William T. Tilden II, worlds singles champion, moved the city councils committee on and service to report favora- ply an ordinance authorizing the spend ing of $5O,OOO for building new city courts and for repairing thirty-two old | ones.
 Penalties for men and women guilty | ,f crimes violating the moral code, | 'trict enforcement of prohibition laws, equal citizenship rights for women and | standardization of American schools lnder federal supervision were among he issues before the League of Wom- n Voters, in it's second annual con- -ention, in session in Cleveland.
 Mrs. Adah Bishop, a farmers wife, vas painfully injured when a tornado the three-room house in which the family resided near Boone, hirty miles east of Pueblo. Consider lble damage was done to small build ngs in the vicinity, and lumber yard he'd 15O feet long was demolished in Boone. Several barns were unroofed.
 Because she ate oysters with her fin CTS and couldn't tell brown from blue, IrS. Eliza Climer was of unSound lind, according to testimony of her ister, Mrs. Eloise Von Schrader, who contesting the will of the dead wom- n in the St. Louis courts. Mrs. Clf- ler's estate, valued at approximately , 300, 900, was left to her nephew, Dana ' on Schrader. E Reports in Memphis from six states xept by recent storms showed ninety even deaths, with twenty seriously ljured and nearly 13O suffering sser injuries. Property damage, it 4 as estimated, will run into the mill ons and when reports come from iSo- Q ted sections it is feared that the F cath toll will be higher AS compiled S le death list was: Texas g, Arkansas D }, Mississippi 8, Alabama IA. In Ar lnsas the injured totaled 66. Concealed in wadS of chewing gum, a n diamonds, valued at more than $S.> 0, were removed from their hiding ace behind a lock on an inside door
 his home by Virgil Helm, former ock Island night baggageman, who r. under arrest charged with compile , in the recent $51 ,OOO jewelry rob- " in Topeka.
 United States secret service opera res of Chicago revealed what they , clared was plot to flood the cen Il West with smuggled diamonds ,m Canada, after arreSting l. Gittler, furrier and his wife. The govern mt agents said they had information lich led them to believe the couple re the Chicago representatives of an ,anized band of smugglers. Captain Harry w. OevOre is serv- , a five-year term in the Oklahoma te penitentiary all because. Harry IS, he has a double" brother who
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