The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-04
FOREIGN

Sixty-five thousand Ukralnian imml- grants have settled in Brazil, where they have been given every assistance by the Brazilian government.
 The 1921 Nova Scotia apple crop will be between 1,5O0,OO0 and 20O0 900 bar rels, according to estimates made by the United Fruit Company of Nova Scotia.
 There are approximately 5000 Americans in Mexico, and of this number 5000 live in Mexico City, ae- cording to a recent estimate by the Department of Immigration.
 Underground passages are to be lO- cated at twenty of the principal street crossings in Mexico City to relieve the traffic situation, which has become serious. It is planned to have the cost of digging the tunnels covered by rent als from various concessions which are to be located underground.
 A 7O-year-old German major general has been forced by poverty to become horse groom in a Munich Hding academy, testified members of a rent- ers' meeting in Munich. The general paid half of his pension for the rent and heat, and went to work in the stalls to prevent starvation.
 Jewel thefts to the value of more than $3OO0,OOO, which have puzzled the French police throughout the seq sons on the Riviera and at Paris, have now been traced by the famous surety general to a band of expert interna tional thieves led by Spanlard named YoQuez, who claims American nation ality.
 All countries whose nationals have suffered damages from Mexican revo- lutiOns have been invited by President Obregon to appoint delegates, who will meet Mexican representatives and form a permanent commission to pass upon claims. The invitation was is- sued in the form of a presidential de cree at Mexico City.
 Following the lead of American, French and Austrian scientists and doctors, in grating a portion of an ami nal gland into the interstitial gland of the human body to produce renewed vitality, the Imperial University in Fukuoka, Japan, will soon start ex- periments of that nature. The work by the school will be a departure from precedent, however, as it will be the first institution in the world to ere ate department for such work.
 Lieutenant Kirsch, French aviator, is declared to have reached an altitude of 10,600 meters (abOut 34,768 feet) Friday in an unofficial attempt to break the worlds altitude record. AL though the official record, made by Capt. R. W. Schroeder of the United States army at Dayton, Ohio, on Feb. 27, 1920, is only 33,000 feet, it is thought probable that the Aero Club of France will not certify Lieutenant KirSch's record.
 GENERAL
 Albert J. Erlerston of Lisbon swan across the Fox river at Sheridan, H., and then fell exhauted in a foot of water and drowned.
 Two men who robbed the First State Bank, Terlton, Okla, of $1,200 were found dead in a cOrnfield by sheriff's posse. It is believed that the men shot themselves.
 Mike Hastings of Cheyenne, Wyo., came within two-fifths of a second of the worlds record for the time taken to bulldog a steer at the annual cow boy championship contests at Chicago, his time being g 4-5 seconds.
 ChicagO's holdup men Haunted the trade in the face of the police depart ment. Two armed bandits held up and robbed Joseph Biehl of $10 in the lobby of City Hall while scores of de- tectives sauntered within call. The bandits escaped.
 The theft from his room in hotel in Chicago of several hundred watches, including POO diamOnd-studded wrist watches, valued in all at $65,000, was reported to the police by Harry Pres ton, New York jewelry salesman. Ac- cording to Preston, he left the watches in a suitcase in his hotel, and when he returned found them gone.
 Forrest Higgins was acquitted of a charge of having murdered his fiancee, Lucy Wittum, by jury in Circuit Court at Corunna, Mich. The jury de- liberated on the evidence less than two hours and took but two ballots, the first being ten to two for acquittal.
 Capt. Beverly Grayson Chew, court martialed on fifty-odd charges, includ- ing forgery and desertion, was found guilty at New York by an army trial