The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-18
FOREIGN

l Work will be started this autumn on buildings for St Luke's International hospital at Tokio, established and for many years maintained by the Protest ant Episcopal church of the United States.
 Forcing his employers safe and finding only about $20 worth of crowns, Rudolph Twrdik hanged himself at Vienna, leaving a note that the disap- pOintment after so hard job was more than he could stand.
 The homes of 15,OOO inhabitants in the state of San Luis POtOsi, Mexico, were inundated by a terrific cloud burst. No idea of the death toll is available, as the railroad connecting the stricken area with the nearest city has been swept away.
 Australia wants 100000 immigrants within a year, according to the new immigration department of the com mOnwealth government. Immigrants 'of the right sort" are desired and an organization is to be set up to provide employment for them. Many from the British Isles are expected.
 Provisions for reducing the produc- tiOn of sugar, and for sending a com mercial mission to Washington to se- cure a revision of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Cuba, are included among nine meas ures constituting an urgent legislative program drafted by congressional leaders and President Zayas of Cuba.
 The discovery of a process of smelt- ing magnetic sand whereby Japan will be rendered independent of outside sources for its iron supply, and will become an extensive producer, has just been announced by GOro Matsu- kata and Dr. Asobu Natio. The pro- cess, which has been thoroughly tested, permits the production of pig iron for twenty-five yen (normally about $12.50) a ton.
 GENERAL
 Robert Doll of Lancaster, Wis. was seriously hurt and probably will be permanently blind as the result of the explosion of an automobile tire.
 State Treasurer Read of New Jer- sey received from Tex Rickard a check for $144,866.70 in payment of the state tax on the Dempsey-C -Carpen- tier fight. This is 10 per cent of the gross receipts.
 Engineer Al Moody was fatally scalded and Brakeman Dave Slater of Manley was killed, and four other trainmen were seriously injured in a head-On collision of two Rock Island freight trains at Clear Junction, Ia.
 Louis Judelovitz, the first man named in the government; stacker lists to be tried at New York by court martial, was sentenced to serve one year in military prison and forfeit all pay and allowances from the date of induction, May, 1918.
 The New York Americans announced the signing of Earl Jamieson, a full blooded Indian pitcher on a semi-pro- fessional team. Jamieson is 20 years of age, and left-handed. His father, who was Carlisle graduate, pitched for the Philadelphia Nationals in 1898 and 1899.
 Ripping open a small bag found sewn in coat lining, federal investi- gaters at Chicago said they found smuggled unset diamonds and jewelry valued at $70,OOO. The coat, they said, belonged to Hyman Finerman, a Los Angeles jeweler, who was arrested, charged with smuggling.
 Frank SOules, who murdered h!5 chum, Harry A. Robinson, at Hastings, Mich, to gain possession of RObinsOn's entered the state peniten- tiary at Jackson to begin a life sen tence for his crime, exactly one week after the killing, one of the most bru- tai in Barry county criminal records.
 A precedent in politics was set at Media, Pa, when the allied organiZa- tions of women of Delaware county summoned all candidates, regardless of party, to declare their plans and policies in event of election. The can didates sat on one bench on the court house lawn, and the women listened as each one made his promises.
 The charges that Judge Lucien B. Wright of the District Court of Creek county accepted a bribe of $10,000 in connection with his decision for the Sallie Atkins interests in the Tommy Atkins $2,OOO,0O0 oil lands controversy was dismissed twenty minutes after Justice Court convened at Sapulpa, Okla, for the third day of the hearing.
 Samuel Hamilton, 35, former spe- ioI of honi4o,, CoIo