The Snowflake herald., 1921-09-23
FOREIGN

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Recruits of the class of 1922, have
been called to the cOlors. All who
have acquired Greek citizenship since
1921 and have not passed the age of
forty, were also directed to report for
military duty.
The governor of the state of Vera
Cruz threatened penalties for any man.
ufacturers who close their plants be-
cause of the new profit sharing law
which compels them to give one-half Of
| their profits to the workers in Mexico.
Marshal Foch has received and ac-
cepted an invitation from Elbert ii.
Gary, chairman of the board of the
| United States Steel corporation, to be
a guest at q dinner given by the Iron
and Steel institute in New York City
at which, it is understood, there will
be great gathering of financiers and
industrialists.
Baden authorities announced that
they had ascertained the names of the
murderers of Matthias Erzberger. They
are Heinrich Tillessen, student, and
Heinrich Schulz, merchant. Both
men were members of the brigade of
General Erhardt, which was prOmin-
ent in the Kapp insurrection. Neither
has been arrested.
Occupation by the Spanish forces Of
the Rasquiviana-Z -ZOcO-Arbas line in
| their new offensive against the Riffian
| tribesmen has given them point of
departure for fresh forward move
ment The Moroccans have destroyed
the railroad running from Nador to
the south of Melilla to Batel 1t be-
longed to French mining company
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood announced
his acceptance of the post of governor
general of the Philippines offered him
by President Harding. He notified
Secretary of War Weeks that ne would
retire from the army to accept the gov
ernorship. He said he believed it to
he his patriotic duty to accept the posi-
ton, owing to the seriousness of the
situation in the Philippines.
Payments made by various oil COM
Ipanies in compliance with President
Obregon's export tax decree of June Z
last were returned by the government
in accordance with an agreement said
| to have been reached with the five
American oil company heads. Such
| ly small as compared with the usual
1
payments, as the larger companies had
postponed payments.
GENERAL
| GilmOn Holmes, a negro, arrested
on charge of numbering Sidney Man
helm, station agent at Columbia, La,
was hanged by a mob, the body then
being riddled with bullets and set
afire. Holmes was alleged to have
confessed to the posse that captured
| him.
If either of the two sons of the late
/ f. FL. Atwood, Chicago attorney, use
tobacco or alcoholic drinks during the
! life of their mother they will forfeit
an inheritance of $4,000 under their
fathers WILL If the widow remarries.
she will be deprived of her bequest,
according to the will No restrictions
were placed on daughter
The German mark fell to the lowest
price in its history. Its value on the
| foreign exchange market at New
York was less than 1 cent-S.O093, to
be exact. Disquieting, unconfirmed
rumOrs of the possibility of mOrator-
ium being declared in Germany was
responsible for the decline. The pre-
war value of the mark was about "a
cents.
The charred body of one man, who
could not be identified, has been re-
covered, and bodies of two others re-
porte missing after a fire which de-
stroyed three square blocks of build
ings at ROckaway beach, a Long Is
| land resort. The damage is estimated
at $1,000,O00. The fire is believed to
have started by gay season's-end
party in a frame cottage.
Having been bought by the White
! Star Line, the Columbus, new $4,000
ton eX-German liner now lying at DAN
zig, is to be renamed the Homeric and
will be employed on the company's
SOuthamptOn-New York service
Five bullets were fired into the back
of Frank Demarlo as he stood on a
crowded street corner in the Nine
teenth ward in Chicago, scene of thr-
teen feud murders in the last few
months. He died later. The shots
were fired by one of two men in an au-
tomObile which sped away.
The military order of the Cootie of
the United States of America, was in
corporated in New Jersey in the office
of Secretary of State Martin. The OBJ
ject of the order is to foster ties of
cOmradeship formed during the world
war among men who saw service on
| foreign soil.
The committee of forty-eight an
nOunced it is organizing a new polti-