Williams news., 1921-06-03
FOREIGN

asked for his passports at Rome
 4 number of persons are reported to
 have been killed or wounded during fighting at Buenos Aires in the port
 zone when union laborers attempted to
 prevent non-union workers from un-
 loading ships.
 The secretary general of the league
 of nations has called an international
 conference to be held in Geneva, June
 30, to bring together the views of the
 various governments on the question | of repression of white slavery | Electrically operated trains on the
 mountain lines at Gotthard and
 Loetschberg are making part of the
 current they consume. On down grades
 where gravity is the motive force. cleo
 tricity is generated so successfully that there is an estimated saving of 25 to 30 per cent in current.
 There is a great increase in the
 number of bankruptcies which lave been gazetted by the Board of Trade during the last three months, 753 hay
 ing been listed against BIO for the cor responding period in 1920. For years before 1910 the number of bankruptcies never dropped below 1000 annually.
 According to reports in labor circles, Bunji Suzuki, the president of the Yuai-Kai, Japan's labor confederation, will soon resign from his office. Among the various rumors, that which stands out prominently is that Mir. Su- zuki is not in harmony with the more. radical elements in his organization.
 Pursuit of the mirage of religious freedom has been taken up again by 30,O0O Mennonites. For four centuries the sect has followed the phantom. Ar engagements were completed for the transportation of the colony now resid- ing in Canada to land in Mexico, pur- chased from the Obregon government for $5,OOO,OOO.
 American forms of spelling have been barred from official documents in the high court at Melbourne. The federal chief justice has announced that he will not allow their introduc- tion and ordered the spelling of the words program and "center'' changed to programme and centre He remarked that English spelling was good enough for him.
 Sudden death claimed Theodore Lut- tof. the "Cossack Hercules after per forming feats of strength in the Ma tionaI theater at Havana during q carnival the other day. He had twisted iron bars and supported upon his shoulders a steel rail to which eighteen persons were hanging by their hands, without apparent ill effects, but after the performance he dropped dead while emerging from a | shower bath. 
 Cleveland Tut, a negro was beaten | to death by mob of negroes at | La, after he had shot to | leath negro and negress at d dance.
 MT. and Mrs. Ton Christian of Can ou, Mo-, are happy again. Their 'ourth set of twins arrived to greet | i've singles. wen welcome the fifth pair of twins,' says MT. Christian, who S a Christian.
 State police headquarters at Will iamSOn, w. Va, received reports that West Virginia state trooper and d national guardsman were tiled at Nolan, when fighting in the Tug river battle zone was resumed
 It was announced at the Union Ma ional bank in Newcastle, Pa, that the i've bandits who held up fhe bank had ecured S6O, O,3OO It was also stated hat the bandits failed to take S41S,- OO in securities which was within heir reach.
 City council at Lima, Ohio, has been sked by Mayor Burkhardt to place a an on bare knees for women or girls | yer II years of age. Rolled stockings, Ogether with short skirts, are indiS- rect, to say the least, Burkhardt said, O matter what the sightseeing male r. nay think of the practice.
 Louis c. Lewis. @ years old, law CT, died in New York hospital. :; ,eath was due to shock which he suf- : cred when his left thigh was frac- lred by a revolving door.
 Two steamships have been chartered transport 2,OO0 American and Cana ian Rotarians to Edinburgh, Scotland IT the annual convention of the h. .rnationaI Association of Rotary lubS, to be held June 13 to 16. They ill sail June l from New York on the eamers Cameronia and Caronia.
 Washington.-The Washington-New Ork air mail route was abandoned ay 31 by Postmaster General Hays. rgent necessity for economy and the ct that means of continuing the de- lrtments experiments with air mails ould be afforded by the New York m Francisco route were given as the aSonS for the decision.
 A. s. Embree, self acknowledged I.
 ten years in the stare penIten tiary