The St. Johns herald., 1921-09-29
FOREIGN


 Southampton-New York service.
 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 Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation, to be a guest at a dinner given by the Iron and Steel institute in New York City at which, it is understood, there will be a 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, a student, and Heinrich Schulz, a merchant. Both men were members of the brigade of General Erhardt, which was prOmin- ent in the Kapp insurrectiOn. Neither has been arrested.
 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 he would retire from the army to accept the gov ernorship. He said he believed it to be his patriotic duty to accept the posi- ton, owing to the seriousness of the situation in the Philippines
 Payments made by various oil com panies in compliance with President Obregon's export tax decree of June 2 last were returned by the government in accordance with an agreement said to have been reached with the five American oil company heads Such taxes as were paid were proportiOnate- ly small as compared with the usual payments, as the larger companies had postponed payments.
 GENERAL
 Two persons were killed, three seriously hurt, and many others slight ly injured in an accident to a car in the Rubin and Cherry carnival train over the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at Noroton, Conn.
 Two through Florida passenger trains, the Dixie Flyer and Seminole Limited, running between Jackson vile and Chicago, met in a rear-end collision at Sumner, Ga, on the Allan tic Coast Line railroad. Several pas sengers were injured.
 Three armed bandits held up the Beech Grove State Bank at Beech Grove, a suburb of Indianapolis, forced three employees and two customers of the bank into back room and escaped in an automobile with approximately $25,O00 A fourth bandit remained at the wheel of the automobile while the holdup was committed.
 A mine three feet in diameter, coat ed with barnaces and oysters and pro- vided with an electrical firing device, washed ashore at Ocean View, and has given rise in marine circles to the the ory that a number of ships reported lost off the Virginia coast might have been struck by one of these derelicts. The mine bore the letters K-1.
 If either of the two sons of the late F. H. Atwood, Chicago attorney, use tobacco or alcoholic drinks during the life of their mother they will forfeit an inheritance of $400,000 under their fathers will. If the widow remarries, she will be deprived of her bequest, according to the will. No restrictions were placed on a daughter.
 The German mark fell to the lowest price in its history. Its value on the foreign exchange market at New York was less than 1 cent-$.0093, to be exact Disquieting, uncOnfirmed rumors of the possibility of a morator- ium being declared in Germany was responsible for the decline. The pre- war value of the mark was about 24 cents.
 GilmOn Holmes, a negro, arrested on a charge of murdering 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.
 Masked men numbering more than one hundred overpowered the night jailer at COllinsville, Okla, and after taking from jail B. Scott, charged with automobile theft, and Roy Hol- lingswOrth, who attempted to secure Scott's release, conveyed the pair by automobile to a lonely spot eight miles